The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-15
Constitutional Democratic
Executive Committee
May Be Forced to
Meet Abroad.
SWEDEN SELECTED
AS the Place For Holding
This Convention.
CONDITIONS AT SEIDLcE DIES.
cRIsED-NUMsER OF DEAD Ex
AGGERATED-ALL QUIET IN
WARsAW-A GIRL ASSASSIN
ExEcUTED-MoRE JEWS MAS
sAcREo-ExcEssEs BY REvo.
LUTIoNIsTs.


week perhaps will witness the spec
tacle of an organized political party
going abroad to hold a congress and
plan an electoral campaign. The re-
port of the Constitutional Democratic
emissary who was sent to Helsing-
fors to sound the Finnish authorities
on their attitude with regard to the
holding of a party congress there
Sept 81 was of such nature that the
Constitutional Democratic Executive
Committee is altering its plan and
an agent was sent to Stockholm to-
day The committee is arranging to
have a special steamer in readiness
to convey the delegates.
Prof. Mouromtseff, who presided
over the late lower house of Parlia-
ment, will not attend the Congress.
He went to Germany to-day. ostensi-
bly, to visit his son, but it is no Sc
cret that he is out of sympathy with
the Viborg address and unwilling to
further compromise his political FIJI.
ture by participation in an outlaw
congress. The Constitutional Demo
cratic leaders prefer also that his
availability for the presidency of the
coming Parliament shall not be inl-
paired.
The Ministry makes no conceal
ment of it's intention to resort to all
legitimate means to keep the more
radical of the Constitutional Demo
Gratis out of Parliament. A member
of the Cabinet, reiterating Premier
Stolypin's view that the Constitution
al Democrats are undesirable as a
party in Parliament because their
''respectability" was cloak for high
ly dangerous sedition and criticism,
gave additional justification to-day OF
the Premier's prohibition of the Con
gress because of the effect of such
congress upon the universities, which
are on the point of opening.
This Cabinet Minister said II was
inevitable that if the congress were
permitted and should violate the
limitations necessarily imposed upon
1t and entailing it's dispersal it would
precipitate q students strike and pos
sibly a repetition of the general strike,
of last October.
THE government" said the Minis.
ter. may be strong or 1t may be
weak, but it cannot be 80 foolish rs
all that"
Conditions at Siedlce.
st. Petersburg. Sept. 15-Tbe re-
sumption os telegraphic communities
ton with Sledlce has enabled the
press of St Petersburg for the frsE
time to present picture OF the con-
ditions in the ravaged town. As III
the case of the massacre at Biaiy.
stOk, later messages greatly reduce
the number of dead from that given
in earlier reports. The property
losses. however. from the fury and
cupidity of the mob. and the destruc-
tion wrought by bombardment and
subsequent fires. are placed higher,
running to several hundred thousand
dollars. Although II is said officially
that fOrty-four persons were killed.
correspondents enumerate sixty-two
corpses, mostly Jews, which have
been gathered on the streets, In
houses and in various hospitals for
burial. The number OF corpses buried
privately or consumed in burning
buildings may ad1 another score to
this I~mber.
A piHful feature of the excuses
was the death from thirst of many
wounded PERSONS who were aban-
doned by their friends in houses from
which the people were forced to foe
for their lives. Firemen are search
Ing deserted houses for bodies.
There is reason to belive that
this attack on the Jews is traceable
to the murder of an official on Aug.
81, and the events of Saturday sup
piled the necessary spark to inf1ame
the passions Of the soldiers This
view is supported by an article In
the semi-official Russian newspaper
published in Warsaw. which at
tributes the rage shown by the SOL
diers to this cause. The excuses
were aggravated. according to the
of the Novoe Vremya,
by the weakness of the local Cover
nor. Engelke. who was only temper
arily in charge during change in
Governor Generals. and who was I'M.
able to promptly put stop to the dis
orders, which had been a long time In
Quiet at Warsaw.
Warsaw, Sept. 15.-This city Is
quiet. The authorities are suppress
Ing even the slightest attempt TO
start anti-Jewish attacks. On ac