The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-21
POLICE ARE
 ON THE ALERT Search for Bombs irs,t.
 Petersburg LABOR LEADERS 4 DETAINED Anticipation of Terrorist Attempts
 on Monday. Editor of The Russ Sentenced to Years Imprisonment for Publishing
 Manifesto of the Work
 mems Council.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 20-In sntici- | pating terrorist attempt at bomb | throwing Monday, the police today con- ducted searches in all the large fac- | tories and also a precautionary meas | ure gathered in a large number of
 the leaders of the workingmen whom they will detain over Monday. Heavy guards tonight began patrolling the industrial quarters and rifles have been provided to arm the police in case | there Is an outbreak.
 | It is stated that these special meas
 ures will be in force only until Tues
 day. If Monday passes without dis order the authorities are confident ] that tranquility will reign until the critical period of the elections to the 1 Douma.
 The street railway employees and the I apothecaries have voted for a general strike Monday, but 1t Is believed that
 the decree of the workmen's council
 will be only partly obeyed in the fac tories and commercial houses. The Moscow workmen have not re- covered from the lase strike and prop- ] ably will neglect to observe the day. | Dispatches from that city say that many bombs have been abandoned in
 the streets. the owners apparently be- | inN discouraged and fearing arrest. Editor Given Heavy Sentence. M Alexis Souvarin, editor of The Russ. has been sentenced to a year'c | imprisonment in fortress for publish ing in December, last, the manifesto of the workmen's council. Efforts are | being made to secure a mitigation of the sentence The cases of seven oth-
 CT editors of newspapers are still pend ing.
 The technical accusation against M rf fn in citation nf the pie to high treason by the publishing of proclamations and statements de- signed to instigate riot, sedition and armed revolt and tending to cause the l bankruptcy of the State. The charge
 was based not only on the publication of the manifesto of December 15 in The Russ, but in a series of seditious | proclamations by the postal telegraph | union applying to the revolutionary
 power adJectives additionally sacred
 to the emperor and also the appeal of
 the League of Leagues in which 1t was stated that political liberty of the pco-
 pie was obtainable only through arm ed uprising for a great battle against
 the autocracy.
 Plea of N. SOuvarin.
 M.Souvarin pleaded in his defense l that the communications and proela-
 nations published in his paper gave, in
 his opinion, facts of political life of
 such importance to all circles of society l that 1t was impossible and contrary to l the interests of the government to pass | over them in silence.
 | It is the general opinion that this | feature of his defense merely aggra-
 vated the offense in the eyes of the
 judgs and that without 1t he would
 have escaped with fortnights sem
 tence.
 | The heavy sentence imposed upon the | editor of the most widely circulated | newspaper in Russia and who is also
 a prominent publicist and literaturist, | has caused a great commotion in circles | of society. At the constitution Demo- | cratic convention 1t eclipsed the inter-
 est of the discussion of the agrrian
 question which was the order of the | day. M Hessen and Prof. Milukof were | the centers and agitated groups durlng g
 the evening. Their friends made it no | secret that they believed the same fate
 was overhanging them and the otlIer | editors under indictment. The convic-
 tion will debar them from further
 participation in the new political | realm.
 MIIukOn's Turn Next.
 M. Milukoff said to the Associated
 Press:
 Tt is my turn next"
 It is a veritable panic in the camp
 of the Liberal press after the sentence
 of M. Souvarin was made known. The
 Nashashnin has been refused permis-
 sion absolutely to print the appeal of
 the League of Leagues proclaiming
 Monday as a day of general mourning even though the manifesto expressly
 stated that the demonstration would be confined to the placing of crepe on win I dows and abstaining from labor. The
 Russ, which prominently displayed an identical proclamation of the work
 mems union. prints only harmless | line concerning 1t.
 There Is a strong movement in favor of a direct appeal to the Emperor
 through the Ministry of Justice in favor
 of a reduction of the sentence of NJ. l SouVarin to three months imprison-
 ment This is approved by several | judges of the courts. M. Souvarin is given a month to appeal before being | taken to the fortress to serve his sent ence His attorneys have declared they
 will file a petition with the Senate for
 revision of the sentence and asking | for a new trial,