Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-21
RESTRICT THE SUFFRAGE
Interpretations Of tho Senate Cover
Number Of Cases.
MONARCHISTS ARE INDIGNANT
Peasants Of Two Russian Villages Arc
Coming to the Land Of the
Free in q Body.

st. PETERSBURG. October 2o.-Ths
government has thrown bomb into the
radical camp In the form Of an interpreta-
ton by the senate Of doubtful points In the
election laws, declaring that only actual
resident house-owners are eligible to be
peasant electore at the coming elections
Persons Of peasant origin who are no
longer residents Of the villages are in
eligible to vote. This will exclude the
educated leaders Of the peasant group.
like Alladin, Anniki6 and Zhi1kin, who,
under the old system, abolished by yester-
days ukase, were considered to be peas
ants, no matter how long they had been
absent from the paternal village. Such edu-
Gated peasants are usually extremely
radical. and often are professional agita-
tors possessed Of great authority among
their former fellows. The senate,s ruling
will restrict the peasant suffrage. dis
franchising sons who are not heads OF
households, even II they have passed the
qualifying age, twenty-five,
Plural Voting.
The interpretations Of the senate cover
a number of cases of plural voting. es-
pecially in the case of workmen. who at
the last election could vote among the
peasantry. and also as city electors by vir-
tue Of their municipal residence It was
apparently decided to promulgate these i'm
portant restrictions In the form of inter-
pretations Of the senate. instead Of as an
actual change In the election laws 80 as
to avoid criticism and give the matter
the appearance of being Of no Importance.
AS a further limitation Of the activity Of
leaders Of the Aladdin type. who travel
from village to village educating the peas
antry. Premier Stolypin has ordered the
local authorities to prohibit nonresldents
from speaking at OF participating in ante
election meetings in the cities and villages,
and he also has declared that persons ad-
Enthusiastically deported are ineligible as
candidates for election to parliament. A
similar measure In the former elections
would have barred Vice President erode
skull and several other prominent members
OF parliament, who were elected while in
exile.
Administrative Control.
An important feature of the peasant
ukase Of October 10 removes the admins
trative control Of zemstvo elections. The
peasants are to be allowed to choose their
representatives freely. Formerly they sub
IHlltSu isis OI twenty CdnOlOate0 rom
which the governor selected five. The
ukase also marks the final abolition of the
communal guarantee Of the payment of
taxes and the exceptional status of the
courts before which peasants are tried in
regard to inficting punishment.
The monarchists. who have been holding
a congress at Kiev, are working them
selves up to high pitch Of indignation
against the Stolypin administration At q
gala performance last night of Glinka' 8
patriotic opera. Life for the Gar" be-
fore the delegates to the congress- the au-
dience interrupted the performance at the
point where the Poles kill the national
hero Susanin, and refused to permit the
representation Of his execution.
Disarmed Because of Mutiny.
1t is reported from Tschita, Transbai-
kaila, that all the members Of a sapper
battalion, officers and men, have been dis
armed and isolated under guard, on ac-
count of a mutiny, and that three of the
ringleaders among the men have been con-
demned to death and others to hard labor.
The officers will be tried later.
May Emigrate in Body.
ZHITOMIR, Russia, October 20.-The
peasants Of two villages, Pukoschefka and
Doretz. in this vicinity, have decided to
emigrate in a body to the United States
The men will leave this month to prepare
homes. and the women and children will