New-York tribune., 1906-10-01
PEASANTS To GET LAND.
MACHINERY IN MOTION.
More Hope of Peaceful Reform in
Russia NAM Concessions.

ST Petersburg. Sept 3O-The final step 10 SET
in action the machinery of the Government
plan for the distribution Of land to the peas
antry was taken to-day by the publication OF
volumiEous regulations to the local agrarian
commissions under which the sale of II 000
deciatines OF land in European Russia will be-
gin Immediately. These commissions. which
are composed OF delegates elected by the peas
ants, the land owners and the zemstvos and of
representatives of the government. act as in
termediaries in the valuation Of land and the
fixing of conditions OF sale.
These are charged also with arrangements
for emigration The land in Eastern Russia
and the Siberian steppes surrendered by the
Emperor Will be sold on easy terms. The price
is less than 81 an acre, and payments are spread
over fifty years
The commissions have taken especial pains
10 give the widest publicity to their proceed
ings. and hope that the distribution Of LAND VIII
minimize the autumn agrarian disorders which
already have begun.
With the Constitutional Democratic congress
only one week away and, the formation of
formidable new party on Count Heydens plat
form. peaceful regeneration seems fully assured.
The political campaign is becoming animated.
The ban upon the meetings of the Constltu-
tionaI Democrats IN St Petersburg and Moscow
has been removed, and these assemblies have
ex-Premier Whites temporary law.
Encouraged by this concession, the Constitu
tional Democrats contemplated transferring
their congress Of October 6 from Helsingfors to
ST. Petersburg. but they will adhere TO the ar
rangements made to meet liz the Finnish capitaI
unless they are definitely assured of noninter-
ference as they are in wholesome fear of the
regulations of reinforced security" 1t is eX-
pected that about four hundred delegates Will
attend the congress.
Seizures of reactionary literature fomenting
attacks upon Jews and Liberals are reported to-
day to have been made here. in Moscow, Odessa
and elsewhere. Premier Stolypin has expressed
his regret TO the chief rabbi of Kishinef at the
action Of the chief Of police in interfering with
the celebration Of the Jewish New Year there.
The appeal for mitigation Of the death SEN
tence passed upon the assassin Of General Roz-
low who was killed in Peterhof Park last July,
has been Joined by the generals widow AFTER
fruitless intercession with the commander Of the
St. Petersburg garrison, Mime. Kozlov has tele-
graphed the Empress asking that no further
blood be spilled upon the tomb of her husband
There * good reason tonight TO expect the
disclosure of a grave military scandal, colonel
of engineers having been arrested for alleged
connection with the sale Of important frontier
plans 20 The agents of a foreign power.
The newspapers declare to-day that the Minis
ter Of the Interior has instructed the provisional
governors 20 make special provision for the pro-
lection of foreign consuls. in anticipation of a
recrudescence of the lawlessness of last winter.
A private dispatch received here from Toxic
says the Minister of Marine had asked the Jap
anese Parliament for appropriation Of S135,-
0O0oo0 to be distributed over seven years for
the construction and repair Of warshps and the
building OF a dockyard.
T-v-azriLf vladimir proy-;nca
--Agrarian disorders have broken out here and
a number of estates nave been piIlaged.