Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-01-10
WAITING FOR
JANUARY q.
Witte Will Not Relax Police Or.
ders Against Meetings Till
After That Date.
DETERMINED TO SAVE RUSSIA.
Moscow Revolt More Serious Than
Generally acknowledgements
Captured In 81. Petersburg.

~. Petersburg. Jan. 10, l;i0 p. NJ
Premier Witte today made an interest
ing statement 60 delegation headed
by the mayor of this city which re-
quested a relaxation OF the orders OF
the project of police against meetings
III the Interest OF the electoral cam
plign. The premier could not promise
to DO anything until after January 90.
While personally he did not sympathize
with the harsh measures OF Interior
Minister Durnovo he regarded them as
essential The premier could not as
sumo the responsibility for course
when II II resulted IN bloodshed would
make him scapegoat. He spoke bit
terry OF the failure of the Moderates TO
give the government support saying
mat upon their shoulders largely rests
the burden OF compelling the govern
nenI 10 resort To repression. He add
ed
The emperor in the manifesto OF
oct. 80 at one stroke granted the peo-
pie more rights than any monarch had
ever before given but you know the
attitude which Russian society as
sumed. The governments appeals for
confidence were rejected and every
liberty granted was abused by the rev
olutionists. The permission to hold
meetings was translated into license
FOR street disturbances and assem-
olages 10 plot against the life Of the
government and TO the industrial ruin
OF the country. | have always been
opposed to repression but the attitude
OF the Moderates compelled me TO
adopt harsh measures. | am deter
mined to save Russia"
Nhlie the emperor wanted the ma
tionai assembly to meet as early as
possible, Premier Witte said that those
charged with the election feared It
VIII be impossible for il TO assemble
before April %.
Speaking of the innumerable difficult
Ties with which the government was
confronted the premier openly stated
thht many OF the provincial authorities
continued 10 act Independently. in
stancing Moscow, where before the re
volt neither the governor general. the
governor nor the project Informed him
OF the conditions prevailing there. lie
SAID the MOSCOW revolt was more seri-
out than people generally believed
accounting remarkable incident
that heretofore had escaped notice, tho
premier said:
AT one time all the stations except
the Nicholas depot were in the hands Of
the revolutionlsts. The latter In des-
peration started a train hauling two
cars loaded with dynamite at full speed
for the station with the intention OF
blowing II up. A frightful disaster was
averted by timely warning of the plot
which enabled the authorities to have
military train with steam up ready on
a parallel track. As the dynamite train
arrived soldiers from the military train
running alongside fired at the end and
managed to pierce the boiler of the To-
connective, stopping the train before II
reached its destination.
In st. Petersburg, the premier further
remarked. enough dynamite had bees
captured to destroy the entire city. In
conclusion, he stated that two laws
were being prepared to define the rela-
lions Of the council OF the empire and
the national assembly. The former
would be composed OF l7s members
half OF them appointed by the emperor
and half elected The latter would in
clnde "a zemstyotsts, Is members OF the
nobility and IL representatives of trade
and industry, while the clergy, Poland
the Caucasus and the border provinces
would each have six representatives.
II IL rumored that the revolutionists
are keeping a list Of land owners who
have fed or are tleeing abroad with the
intention II the revolution Is successful
OF confiscatlng their estates. The news
from Trans Caucasia Is that complete
revolution prevails in Mingrelia and
Georgia. The vlceroy Is withdrawing
all the troops attainable north of Vlad-
ikavkaz FOR service In the revolutionary
territory.