The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-22
SULTAN HAS NO
INTENTION Of
GIVING Up ALL
Insists Upon Remaining Sow
ereign With the Spiritual
Powers Attached.
DEPOSITION MIGHT
CAUSE OPEN REVOLT
YOUNG TURKS GOING SLOW, BUT
APPEAR TO BE IN COMPLETE
CONTROL.

gorstantinople, April 21.-The con-
ffrt between Mussulman piety and the
roIiticaI ideas Of the west has brought
the Turkish people to the verge of civil
wsT.
zeal for the faith has been unloosed
and the adjustment Of the sultan's re-
17tions TO the committee of union and
rrogress viii probably only postpone
he armed struggle between the deliv-
erers of the ancient teachings of the
PROPHETS and those urging the teach
mgs Of western Europe.
The cabinet debated the situation for
four hours today, giving special atten-
ton to the negotiations that the minis
tsrs have taken in hand on behalf of
the sultan with the military members
If the committee.
Demands of the Sultan.
The sultan's primary demand is to
remain the constitutional sovereign.
with all the spiritual powers of the
oaIifate and liberal allowances for his
household.
He also asks for various minor guar
sntees. which it would not be difficult
10 grant
The demand of the committee is that
the sultan offer no resistance whatever
and submit Internationally.
The SaloniH committee, which is the
backbone of the whole progressive
movement, is largely military. and its
most important civilian members are
with the army. Some Of the cabinet
members. including Rifaat Pasha. the
foreign minister. are active constitu-
fuonalists. Tewfik Pasha, the grand
yi1ier. who personally is most agree
able to the sultan and TO military men,
and who is looked upon as both benevo-
lent and honest has undertaken nego-
uatlons for compromise. He has not
been able to proceed very far.
Prepared to Resign.
The grand vizier and his cabinet are
prepared to resign if the committee
asks their withdrawal Indeed. they
are anxious to resign and have only
been held in Office by the feeling that
lney may be able to avert a civil war
OF prevent acts of violence that would
cause foreign Intervention.
The committee is without definite
limits Its adherents are divided among
themselves. The radical faction insists
That there shall be no compromise: that
the sultan must be depOsed and a rea-
S0nable prince, for instance. Yusif Izzo-
aim, named as his successor. that the
whole administration be cleaned. that
no promise of Abdul Hamid's can be
trusted and that to re-establish the svs-
TEN Of ten days ago would be to settle
nothing.
Faithful Might Revolt.
The conservatives declare the deposit
uon Of the sultan would only be posi-
Me after severe fighting; that it is un-
certain whether troops under the con-
uol OF the committee would uphold
such an act with their bayonets, that
VaVeTiug soldiers of the First army
corps 10 the number Of p. 900 or 50. 600
would be inf1amed and break into open
revolt, anO that to demand too much
means the failure Of all.
The sultan has got them to quarrel
-- among themselves said one of the
ambassadors today, and he will have
his own way vet
since the investing army has drawn
nearer TO the city, numerous agents of
'l+ Mohammedan league. ardent young
men, theological students and Junior
mem ers Of the clergy. have penetrated
--t INES. pointing out to the men that
was their duty to Allah to rid them
serves or their officers, who were no
osller than GiaOurs, who scorned the
,alied law of the Koran, and who OPEN
l aTgued that the law devised by one
a-.A-aeVil Napoleon ought to be sub
Slllted foE the sacred law in all the
.-t.- The agitators pointed out that
'- oLHcers had succeeded in imposing
.less wicked laws upon the civil courts
eIl now wanted TO apply them to the
persons Of the faithful
ZeaIots Executed.
.aiee days ago two Of these hedgas
VINO were caught among the troops
we're beaten and turned out of the
eHps- The following day thirty OF
.-e-n we're imprisoned. Yesterday the
cups We're overrun with proselytizing
5-a.ols- Scores were arrested, and to-
martialz.
me demeanor of the soldiers within
Guy is respectful. They salute their
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