Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-04
AMERICAS PROTEST
Russia Accused of Warning
 Against Ite Own People.
STRICKEN BY TERRIBLE FAMINE.
Prominent Men Bring Matter Before Congress, Asking Our Government I to Take Part of People HI Used
 by OnRcials and Troops.

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 to Take Part of People HI Used
 by Omcials and Troops.
 WASHINGTON, March 4.-In con nection with the establishment of inn migrant stations at Galveston. Tex. New Orleans and Charleston, s. C., MT. Bennett of New York presented in the house yesterday petition signed by a distinguished list of American citizens, calling upon the congress of the Unit ed States to protest against the per verted use of governmental functions of which the Russian people are the victims"
 The protest recites list of atrocities asserted to be practiced by the Rus sian government in it's prolonged war fare against it's own people,
 !. The arraignment of the Russian gov ernment is as follows: .~
 First.-Thousands of men and wo- men are dragged from their homes solely at the discretion or pleasure Of local, military and police authorities. placed in remote settlements of seml- sayages close to and within the polar circle. where the most loathsome dis eases are chemically epidemic. Second. = Hospitals are deliberately fired upon by the regular troops with out rebuke.
 Third.-The Red Cross is not respect ed. and the wounded are frequently slaughtered or thrown into the sea or buried alive with the dead.
 Fourth Women, children, aged and decrepit men are maimed and killed by sword lashings, torn by bayonets and trampled under hoofs of horses. f5 Fifth.-Girls and young women, m- habitants of districts under military protection, are repeatedly given over to {, violation by officers as we'll as by or dinary soldiers.
 Sixth.-Tortures are applied to pris- oners within fortresses and prisons to elicit information.
 Other charges are also made. Among the names attached to the petition are those of Justice Samuel Greenbaum, 1 R. Fulton Cutting Samuel l.. Clemens, Jacob Schiff, Bishop Henry c. Potter, Edwin R. l.. Gould, Dr. Lyman Ab- ! bolt and William Jay Schieffelin. [ The following appeal from the Rus. sian famine relief committee has been sent to members of congress:
 "A terrible famine, unparalleled in severity and extent, affiicts the people of Russia. Through the utter failure of their crops millions are starving The number of the dead and dying will vastly grow unless immediate re ! lief is furnished. In this emergency appeal is made to the humane instincts of the people of the United States ir behalf of these stricken fellow beings Let the response be prompt and gen erous.''
 The appeal is signed by Right Rev Henry c. Potter, D. D., as president Samuel J. Barrows, as secretary, and Felix Adler, George Foster Peabody Nicholas Murray Butler. William Jay Schieffelin, k. Fulton Cutting, Jacol H. Schiff, J. Pierpont Morgan ant many others.
 The Fifty-ninth congress adjourned at F o'clock today. Both houses wer' in session from an early hour for th' purpose of considering conference re ports and affording the vice presiden and the speaker an opportunity to sigl bills. The appropriation bills have bee' practically disposed of. and there Wal little further legislation of moment.