Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-10-30
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY !
FOR OLD BELIEVERS
Gar Grants All Russian Subjects
Freedom Of Faith Under
Conditions.
CONSTITUTION ANNIVERSARY.
Day Passed Quietly In st. Petersburg
But Extreme Precautionary Meas
ures We're Taken.

st. Petersburg, Oct 30.--The morn
ing Of the first anniversary OF the
proclamation IF the imperial manfes-
to giving constitution passed in 81.
Petersburg without any disorder be-
ing reported. re Deums We're celeDrat-
ed IN the cathedrals and churches.
and only small crowds of people We're
To- be seen In The flag decorated streets,
many Of the residents deciding TO stay
indoors owing 10 the fear OF beoom-
Ing involved IN trouble. Students IN
Uniform We're conspicuously absent as
the result Of warning issued at the
meeting held In the university yes
terday that bands of reactionary row.
dies had been formed to beat pedes-
TRANS I'm student garb. The garri-
son of the city was distributed in ac-
cordance with the emergency regtla-
lions for preserving order Large
forces of infantry and cavalry were
concentrated IN the vicinity Of the Ka-
IAN cathedral, whose portlco was
guarded by soldiers and large num-
Der of troops We're gathered In the
neighborhood OF the university, but
the military were kept out OF sight.
so far as possible, I'm the interior or
courts and IN buildings Special
guards were stationed at all the rail-
way stations.
There was conflict last night be-
tween detachment of troops and a
large crowd which had gathered at a
fire In the industrial district OF
Schlusselburg. Some rowdies cut the
fire hose, drove the fremen away and
began plundering, whereupon the sol
diers fred volley in the air and dis
persed the crowd without any casual
ties, Otherwise the night passed
quietly.
At noon special edition of the Of
fetal Gazette, containing the i'm
perial ukase granting full religious
freedom to the "Old Believers" was
issued. the preamble OF which follows.
ITO grant all Russian subjects free
dom of faith ana worship according to
the direction OF their conscience. we
issued ukase April 80, 1905. In contin-
uance of this task OF love and peace,
we deem II good to establish rules
and regulations governing the internal
organization Of the Old Believers and
other dissident sects OF the holy ortho-
doy church, charging the ministry OF
the interior at the same time TO elab-
crate a similar law for the sects issuing
from other Christian confessions, With
trust in benefcient providence We be-
lieve that these measures win serve 10
strengthen the ties of loyalty by which
the Old Believers have been bound for
centuries TO the fatheriand and enhance
the greatness of our general mother
the holy orthodox church"
According to law, any dissident sect
numbering so persons, whose aims are
not immoral or having tenets like re-
fusal to do military service, can apply
for and shall receive permission to or
Ranize churches. conduct services, build
schools and elect clergy. who shall be
exempted from military service and
be entitled TO wear vestments and per-
form the baptism, marriage and other
sacraments and keep registers of births.
marriage and deaths OF equal authority
with the official records OF the orthodox
priests.
The new law introduces an Important
innovation in the form of civil mar
riage, designed for the sects having no
clergy, but of which non-members can
easily take advantage, enabling thou
sands OF persons. who on account OF
their objection TO a religious rite and
the absence of civil ceremony. have
lived together until married, to assume
the legal tie and legitimatize their
children.
QUIET AT WARSAW.
Warsaw, Oct 30.--Up to noon this
city has been perfectly quiet. The
streets are patrolled by cavalry and de-
tachments OF artillery are posted at
strategic points rs preparation against
all eventualities.