The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-26
Proposed Strike Hangs
 Fire. PR0LETARIAT HEADERS APPEAR TO BE UP IN AIR Numbness of Exhaustion Seems to Have Seized People.
 - Popuiace Appears to shrink From Terrrors of strike and Leaders Recognize That Psychological Moment nrnst be sei.ed..

St. Petersburg, July 25--Though it ss dif1cuat to obtain true picture of the conditions in the interior. owing to the embargo that has been put on press dipaches. s1i indications point more and more to the pcstponement of the threatened strike until the govern ment has become less and the country more prepared for such an event; un- III the harvest is finished and the revo- iutionary movement develops sponta- neously among the idle peasantry
 What news has been received from the provinces today indicates that the conditions are scarcely ripe, except in the famine districts. for an unheava1 The stragetists of the revolutionary councils are laboring with the hot heads to induce them to defer the call Tor general strike until it can come as a supplement to the move- nent already under way A definite decision will be reached within day or two in the reorsanizsd council of workmen. Democratic deputies, many of whom nave collected the arrears of salary and mileage due them. have started horne ward. and are caucussing industriausiy: but their Importance has gone neither the government nor the revolutionists payinS much attention to the former Dominant party in the lower House of Parliament
 The government indeed has not aban- doned It's efforts to enlist moderates in the cabinet. .3
 Professor Mouromtseff, the president of the dissolved house, for whom Pre- mier Stolypin was vainly searching with an invitation to go to Peterhoff while the former was presiding over the outlaw parliament at Yiborg. was again approached today, but there Is not the slightest prospect that he can be swayed even by an imperial com-
 No further changes in the cabinet have been decided upon, but M Gurlxo. who. is mentioned at M, Gtlrhinsky's successof aS minister Of a6f5eulture. and whose character may be judged hy the fact that he was high iu favor under both Plehve and Prince Sviato- polk-AfIrsky. win be jeftisoncd alto gether by stolypin, his name alone being sucient 10 damn the new gov ornnent. The same fate may overtake Military Procurator Pavloff. who is now engaged In organizing the League of Estate Owners to educate the peasant ry up to his ideas before the new elec-s tions.
 The most urgent problem before the Government In case an immediate out break is proposed is the relief of dis- tress in the interior. The Cabinet meeting Tuesday evening was devoted to consideration of this question and it was voted to extend relief works in the famine districts A commission was appointed to decide where the bud. get could bast be cut to find the ST. Soo,o00 voted by Parliament for famine relief.
 More Cash Needed.
 It will be necessary also to provide more cash for the settlement of claims for damages to estates during the peasant excesees, the committee for Yekaterinosiav province alone de- rnanding $15O.000 in addition to the s200,00o already expended. but this Is capable of being deferred.
 Premier Stolypin announced to the Council of the Empire today that he had obtained from Emperor Nicholas special powers for Admiral SkyrdloR in restoring and maintaining order and discipline in the Black Sea fleet The Admiral who departed today for Se- bastorol, told the Associated Press that his frst task would be to investi- gate the arrests of sailors of the fleet and liberate those who were unjustly sert to prison. He fntimated that he considers the of1cers largely to blame for the mutinous spirit of the various crews. The Admiral took with him a new naval procurator to see that jus tice is done in future court martials. Admiral Skyrdloff said he had learned that Admiral Rojestvensky and Captain Clado probably would be restored to the roster of the navy.
 The Rech will say tomorrow that the recovery on the Bourse today was due to a loan of $2e0.o0o.Oo0 by the Men delssohns to sustain prices,