Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-09
WORK UPON ACRARIAN LAW
Commission Of Lower House Decides Upon
Limited EIprOpriatiOn Of Lands.
FOOD AND FORAGE RIOTS IN INTERIOR
Much of the Disturbance Due to
Efforts of Peasants TO save Them
selves and stock from
Starvation.


peasants by the appropriation of all state
and crown domains and church and mon
astery lands has been accepted By the
commission of the lower house with prac-
tcal unanimity The commissioners nave
now locked horns over the mode OF eXpro-
priaton and the method OF disposal Oh
private estates and the end is not yet In
sight
The determination to appropriate church
lands, which in distinction from the great
estates owned by the monasteries lie scat
tered like the lands Of the common schools
in America in small tracts throughout the
country and support the local clergy, VIII
cause complications. Such action would
deprive the parish priests Of the principal
part OF their scanty emoluments and
necessitate an equivalent from some other
sources.
A correspondent Of the Associated Press
has just completed a tour of the provinces
of Samara and Saratov He reports that
the drouth is finally broken, but the rains
have come too late to save the crop and
! help the peasants, who are in a pitable
condition. Their cattle have either been
! sold or are starving in the fields.
Food and Forage Riots.
The government relief granares were
| famine The present agrarian disorders
which can be expected to grow worse, are
| due largely to the necessity of the peas
/ ants seizing food and forage to preserve
! their lives and save from starvation the
| remainder of their cattle. These disorders
| have reached the highest pitch in the
! province Of Voronezh, where the troops and
| Cossacks, although in considerable force,
are practically helpless and on the de-
| fensive. Many peasants have been killed
or wounded in desperate attacks, on the
military patrols and the rural guards.
According to a telegram received here
| from Tambov peasants on the estate of
| Princess Bariatinsky attacked com
missary and a posse of rural police. In
another section of the province Of 'Tambov
a body of, peasants. armed with pitchforks
and spades, attacked a squadron Of dra-
goons. Because OF this resistance the
troops fired, killing three peasants and
wounding many others. At Kedabey,
southeast of Tihis. a hand-to-hand fight
has occurred between Cossacks and an
armed band OF peasants. with the result
that several men were killed on both sides.
Fight Between Peasants.
There has been a fatal encounter at
Krasnopolsk in the province of Padoolia
The poor men were incensed because the
rich men had sent telegram to the lower
| house protesting against the proposed dis
ftributinn OF land. Ia the fighting Que of
the wealthy, peasants killed four and seri-
ously wounded several of the poorer men.
| There have been grave disorders on the
/ estate of Minister OF Agriculture Stichin-
sky. in Tula province. The representative
OF the Associated Press at RostOv reports
that the crop conditions in the Kuban and
Don districts are above the average.
Agrarian disorders among the Cossack
agricultural population are not expected
although there has been some ferment
among the military levies over having to
do police duty.
New MarseiIIes Under Ban.
The Twentieth Century, formerly the
Russ, has published second poem by NJ
Amfteatreff, one Of Russians brilliant
Journalist poets, entitled, THE New Mar
seilles." The paper has been conhscated
and probably will be suppressed The
verses are dedicated to Maxim Gorky and
are an appeal to armed revolt The re-
frain goes
Rise to your rights, people;
Array yourselves under the red banners
The following is a translation of a typl.
cal stanzs:
Seize the headsmsns axe and pass sen.
tencs 10 slay;
Quit the pillow and grasp the sword snC
budgeon;
The Voiga weeps blood for the wrongs Of
the people;
Seek your salvation In mortal combat witt
the oppressors
The censors have seized an anti-semitt
brochure entitled: Down with Amnesty,
and the authors have been held for trial
This brochure is especially violent sgains
the members Of the lower house. 1t calls
them fools and says they have sold them
selves to the Jews.
Panic at BiaIyHtOk.
News received here from Bialystok is e
the effect that the Jews are in such con
dition Of panic that they selling al
their property and preparing to emgat'
to America.
The testimony in the case OF Vice Ad
miral Rojestvensky, who is being tried b!
court martial for the surrender OF the de
stroyer Bedovi in the hattie of the Ses
OF Japan, has been submitted. and the ad
dress OF the counsel probably will be com
pleted tomorrow.
The testimony has brought out detaiI
OF the oId-blooded way in which Captain
Baranoff OF the Bedovi abandoned tn,
crews OF the battleshps Oslabis, Knis
Suvaroff and Alexander III to drowning. no
/ offering to save a single person. The pres
= ident OF the court virtually called him I
coward in open sitting Rojestvensky q
, the only defendant emerging f,om the tris
with any credit. He has Hbmitted hi
case. I'm lieu OF pleading by counsel, IN tn
, following words: "sirs; Russias fleet ha,
, been humiliated; the people have conn
dence in you. l await my punishment
Z Governor Kuilster Of Grodno. within
whose Jurisdiction the town OF Bialystok 4
situated. has been recalled. II is said al
o. legations regarding the recent massacre
at Bialystok have been brought agains
him.
william 20 Visit Nicholas.
LONDON, July S.-The correspondent Il
p St. Petersburg of the Tribune telegraph
P that a meeting between Emperor william
Z and Emperor Nicholas is expected mex
. month
1 Reunion OF CrOcker Brigade.
/ CLINTON. Ia, July S-(SpeciaI J.
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