Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-03-30
FIRST ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA
Twelve Members Of the Council Chosen BY
Trades and Industry Congress,
ALL CONSERVATIVES or HIGH STANDING
Constitutional Democrats Win sweep
Inns Victories In Gates OF
the 50. PetersburE
District.
an CONSERVATIVES OE MGH sTANDINt


by congress composed Of representative
associations of trade and industry through
out European Russia There was no speech
making. The members chosen are all well
known men of affairs and OF high standing
in their respective communities They are
all conservative Former Minister of Com
merce Timiriazeff, who presided over the
congress, was unanimously elected as one
of the delegation to the counsel of the
empire and he undoubtedly is destined to be
the leader Of the liberals in the upper
chamber The other members elected are:
NJ. Yassouninsky and NJ Glezmer, MEM
bers of the St. Petersburg Council of COM
merce and Industry. r'
NJ. AvdNkon. president of the Industrial
Coal and Metal congress- of KharkOff
M. Goudason, representing the Baku
Bourse committee.
NJ. KhaneHko Of the Kieff Bourse
NJ. Moukhine, director of the Volga
Komma bank of Kharkoff
N. Krestovni, president of the Moscow
NJ. Roehwand OF. the warsaw Bourse
committee.
N. Kramer of the Riga Bourse.
M. Baouline Of the Nizhni Nuvgorod
NJ. Kozell, manufacturer OF Catherine
bourg.
Constitutional Democrats win.
The constitutional democrats have won a
sweeping victory in the municipal elections
in the cities and towns OF the st. Petersburg
district outside OF the capital itself. Their
ticket with Prof. Paul Milukon at its head
and including one of the Hessen brothers,
who were concerned in the movement to
set up a provisional government i'm jan
uary of last year following the massacre Of
workmen in St Petersburg completely
buried the octoberists and other eonserva-
sc 4hot
Milukoff, although the editor Of paper
published here, could not be a candidate in
the capital as an old Plehve decree forbid
ding him to reside either in st. Petersburg
or Moscow on account of his authorship Of
article on Evil Tendencies" still stands
against him. 1t is understood that the dele
cation took solemn pledge TO demand that
the national parliament call Premier witte
and Minister OF the interior Dunovo to
answer for the acts Of,repression committed
since the manifesto of October.
Russian Read for Trouble.
A special commission under the presidency
Of Premier Witte has been created for the
purpose of co-ordaining the work Of troops
and police i'm handling revolutionary and
agrarian outbreaks. The police and rural
guards are being everywhere strengthened,
the st. Petersburg police force having been
increased by 100 officers and 800 men, in
volving an extra expense Of $4,000. a
military train is held IN readiness at the
Nicholas railroad station
The senate has not only decided against
the prosecution of NJ. Neidhardt former
project of police OF Odessa. and General
kourloff,- governor of Minsk, but has re-
quested the minister of Justice to reprl-
msnd the procura torsof AIinsk for bringing
charges against GENERAL KOurloff and to
reprin1and the municipal administration OF
Odessa for lodging the complaint against
Neidhardt and parleylng, with the revolt
tionary committee.TsY Interior Minister
purnovo, who was present nit the meeting
OF the Senate. insisted upon this action,
declaring that such men as Neidhardt and
kourlon must be supported as they rep
resented the authority ofNthe state.
Moderate leaders TaILs.
NJ. Guchkoff, leader of the moderate party
In an Interview published today, expresses
the opinion that the moderates will prove
TO be the salvation Of the country against
reaction. He believed the country and the
government were drifting toward a coun-
ter revolution, but that the moderates are
now standing between the left and the
right parties and that by throwing their
weight against reaction they Will be able
to preserve the balance
NJ. Guchkon further declares thar the
peasants are an unknown factor so far as
Parliament is concerned The priests. he
says are not reactionary and are likely
to be more radical on the agrarian question
than the constitutional democrats them
Selves He fears the latter. whom he con-
siders to be simply revolutionists mas
querading as constitutionalists.
Death Sentences COMMITTED.
CHITA, East Siberia, March Ex-Governor
General Rennenkampn today committed the
sentences of death imposed by a court
martial here March q on thirteen postal
officials who had participated I'm the re-
cent strike. to various terms OF penal
servitude and in some cases to exile.
Present Troubles Increase.
POLTAVA Russia, March 29.-Tle
peasant troubles In the district I'm which
the Bouromkat estate owned by Princess
Cantacuzene is situated. has assumed a
more serious phase. The governor general
has telegTaphed to the officer in command
Of the district to not spare the troops in
suppressing the disorders. q,
The princess is the mother OF Prince
Captacuzene, who married the daughter
VI GtheAdl Gidul OF the United states
army
Firms Are Uneasy.
HELSiNGFORS. Finland. March %
There is increasing fear here that the re-
actionists Of ST. Petersburg are planning to
provoke trouble under the guse OF which
they will withdraw some Of the liberties
granted to the Films and reconlmence the
policy OF the classification OF the country.
The socialists declare that II st. Petersburg
defeats universal suffrage which was prom
ised by the emperor, and II their demand
for one-chamber Diet Is not realized,
they will answer with a general strike
Witte Tries TO Protect Jews
MoCKILEFF, Russia. March 29.-Premier
Witte has telegraphed to the governor gen
eral that the government has received in
formation from the rabbi or Comel 10 the
effect that anti-semitic outrages are emf
nent there In connection with the elections
and instructing the governor general to
prevent an outbreak at all hazards
Schmidts Body sunk in Sea.
ODESSA, March 29.-Acting under the or
ders OF Vice Admiral Choukqin, commander