The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-01
FALL OF WHITE
 IS PREDICTED DurnoyO Now Real Head
 of Affairs. HE IS A REAcTIoyARY
Retirem .nt of Manukhin
 Shows His Power.
Rsemier, 1t is Now Declared, Never Was ConstItutionalist at Heart and reepIe Have No Faith
 in Him.

st. Petersburg, Dee 31.--The report that Count Witte Is booked for retire ment in few days is again being persiatently circulated.
 The Nasha Shisn which declares 1T can guarantee the accuracy of its statement. say that M Durnovo. minis ter of interior, who is worsnipped as an idol by the court Cnmarilla. which believes that his stern policy alone cap nut an- end to the existing anarchy. has accepted the downfall of the count and win be elevated to the premier ship.
 investigation by the Associated Press however. indicates that the report is baeeIees certainly for the moment Neverthe1ess 1t Is true that Mir Durno- vo has powerful cabai ofx re@ac- tfonaries behind him and temporarily seems to dominate the situation.
 M. Manukhin, whose sudden retire. ment from the ministry of justice Gin which he Is succeeded by M. Akynoff. stir. resigned, according to the Molva tRussj. rather than submit to MT. Dur novo's dictations Tn matters which he regarded as being strictly within the sphere of his ministry.
 He insisted that the reports of the Senators who were dispatched to in- vestigafe the Jewish and other rrassa- crts following the Imperial manifesto of October 30 should be made to tho minister of justice. in order that legal proceedings could be begun against the police and other local authorities where found practicable.
 Victory for Durnovo.
 M. Durnovo resisted this declaring that the interior administration belong A t.f~ tained Mir. Manukhin resigned and M Akynoff. who is a brother in law of NJ. Durnovo. was appointed.
 On the other hand Count Witte is be- ing attacked more .ferceIy. than ever on the side of the liberals. who charge that he Is showing the clovenhoof.
 Ms MsBrianchiniaoffi is out witha strong Must Co., in which he asserts that 4.-. victory at Portsmouth has been follow xss hz zssxat at St Petersbuyg. His line of argument is that anarchy has been able ltol make headway because true Liberals doubt whetter Russia is to have constitution or whether the Manifssto is only a tactical move to Hull them to sleep.
 It was witte's first duty. according Co the writer. to remove this doubs, but it is charged that he still main tafns an equivocal role. He has not, the article says. even safeguards the prerogative granted by the ukase creating a responsible cabinet of min istsrs but has allowed M. Durnovo. whose patent purpose is to cut off the heads of anarchy and constitutionalism at the same time, to report daily to the Emperor. and to secure his ma1es- tvs approval of measures without con suIting the premier.
 "A man like M. Gnchkoff. in whom : ruk erAf fr, the head of the government" says M. Brianchininoff
 Never a ConstitutionaIist. :, .Tt is impossible for Count Witte. who never was a constitutionalist at heart, to continue to play the double role. The situation imperatively re- qiires sincerity and we will have less of witte.s dexterity and more honesty"
 The government Is now proceeding on the theory that a victory over the ssreds" Is assured. It is displaying strong front and announces that 1t will no longer tolerate in it's service em- ployes who are plotting against 1t. The ministers have been authorized to dismiss summarily such employees.
 The regulations for the presentation of supplementary lists of those entitled to vote by the law of December 25. were published today.
 The fact that in the cities the elec- tnral departments coincide with the po- lice districts gives rise to the outcry that when the country is 'tranauiliized" it is the purpose of the government to control the elections.
 The Slovo warns the people to quit talking Of revolution and to seriously begin the campaign for the Douma by the selection of the best representa- tives.
 Foreseeing the probability that it L -I the Baltic provinces. the Caucasus and other districts. the government has provided that when the certificates of half the members are received. the Douma will be vonvened immediately.
 Worixmen Hold Meeting.
 At a meeting of the council of work men last night. some delegates. pend ing tho organization of an armed revo- iution advocated a recourse, to the old terrorist plan of instituting Q tribunal to try and condemn officials guilty of tyranny. to publish the reasons for such condemnation and then to exc cute the verdict Of the tribunal This. the delegates said would he preferable to the indiscriminate killing of po- lice and Cossachs. who might be inno- cent.
 Not satisfied with the protection riv- en by the secret police to Count Witte whose life Is in constant danger, off, FeRt- rnent were detailed to guard the prem fer but Friday declined to do further service in this connection, saving if was beneath the dignity of the guard officers to do police duty.
 With the crushing of the revolt at Moscow. interest Is now transferred to other places, where there are armed uprisinRs, especially in South Russia. Practically the entire Black Sea littoral IS under martial law, Ekaterinoslav and the railroad to Crimea are in the hands of the revolutionaries and the troops were ordered today to retake them at any cost.
 The situation is extremely bad at Bachmut,a in white Russia, where the coal fields are located. Berdichefr. the Jewish center of Dvinsk. Kserion. the whole district of Odessa. Drementchue AIexandrovsky and the territory along the railroad between Moscow and NInzi Novgorod. were placed under martial law. The revolt at Samara has been suppressed with much bloodshed, If..l Will Act With vigor. St Petersburg. Jan. 1.-An official