The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-24
Russian Government Makes a
Bold Bid to Secure Support
Of Peasants.
MILLIONS OF ACRES WILL
BE QUICKLY DISTRIBUTED
Peasants Will Have Opportunity
to Make Easy Payments
on Long Time.

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 23.-An i'm
portant series of conferences began last
night at Peterhof on the question of
immediate distribution Of the crown
lands and appanages TO the peasants,
in an attempt 10 find a partial solu-
ton of the agrarian question by meas
urably appensing the land hunger of
is now in a position 10 announce that
the Government has definitely decided
to proceed with the original plan out
lned IN these dispatches August for
settling the agrarian question, regard
less of Parliament, and to go to the
country upon the issue at the coming
election.
this afternoon by member of the Cab.
met who participated in the Peterhof
conference that the agrarian question Is
no longer open, Within a fortnight m
imperial ukase will be issued directing
the agrarlan commission to begin the
distribution of 100000 desssiatines "a
dessiatlne is about 2i. acres) belonging
to the appanages, 100000 dessiatines
belonging to the crown. and 100000
dessiatines of land offered TO or pur-
chased through the peasants bank.
Only the forests and lands belonging
to the state, the preservation of which
is considered necessary for the future
agricultural prosperity of the country,
will be reserved. The transaction will
be financed through the peasants bank
Little cash will be required. The land
lords and others sellers will be given
marketable land script, eventually re-
deemable by the peasant purchasers in
installment notes designed to meet the
interest and amortization
Not Gift From Emperor.
The Emperor will not give the land
of the imperial family as free gift,
but, like other landlords, he will accept
script Moreover. it is believed that
this temporary law. Nearly all the
present restrictions upon the peasa ts
as class viii also he removed. This
in substance is the Government S bold
bid for the support of the Russian peas
ant millions against the propaganda of
the reyolutionists.
The Associated Press learns by mail
that the strictest censorship is now ex~
ercised over press dispatches in the
Caucasus to conceal the true state of
affairs. both regarding the true inward
ness Of the Tartar-Armenian warfare
aud the fermentation among the Rus
san troops IN the garrisoned towns of
Irans-Caucasia. The correspondent of
the Associated Press has not been per
mitted to telegraph many items of news
and in other cases the censor would only
accept his dispatches when supported
by the official version of the affairs they
represented.
The Armenian Tartar situation is
worse than is known to the outside
world. Almost all the Russian military
units are disaffccted, and then the
Cossacks are rebelling against doing
police duty. The latest mutiny is that
of the Poltava Cossacks, who several
days ago at Tihls formally demanded
to be relieved from police duty and
asked for the discharge of those who
had served over three wears. The entire
regiment was disarmed and confined in
their barracks under guard
Another version of the Dashlaear af-
fa,r IN which a number of officers were
killed, is to the effect that the sailors
of the Black sea fleet implicated In
the knIaz Potemkine mutiuy who were
attached to disciplinary battalion at
the village Of kusar on the Caspian sea,
near Dashlagar, had been in communi-
cation with the Samur regiment which
constituted the garrison OF Samur.