The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27
STATE OWNED ROADS COSTLY
RUSSIA'S enormous OUTLAY
LAID TO MILITARISN.
n~rder IAneu Are txpeasiVe and Pay Ne
neNemue- Z Hesolute Ortentnl PelleS
kApected Under We'll lnGsgmed New
Spcaker -PeteruSgFg Fears FiOosi.
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1T. PETTHsBUR0. March -. In justi-
flying before the DSlma the enormous
appropriation Of SS7 s7s IN rIblss for the
working expenses Of Russia . State owned
railway system in 1910 Minister ROukh-
IoG. who directs that department. men
toned before the DSImA this week two
considerations a. having an immediate
bearing on the appropriation. They we're
the Governments MAnchurian policy and
the relations OF Japan and China.
He explained that the enormous cost
Of RnsslA's railroad system in COMPARE
son with other great transportation areas
was due chiefly 20 the fact that her rail
roads toward the border OF her territory
were built mainly for strategic purposes.
and that they have to carry free Of charge
passengers and freight on behalf Of the
Government.
The Minister Indicated that the con-
struction in China OF q railroad leading
TO the Russian frontier would entail q
great increase in the expenditure Of his
department.
Altogether n. ROukhlod sought to
convince the Duma that the immediate
effect Of any intensifying political dim
cultes m the Orient will be To make the
Government railway system more costly
TO the taxpayers than ever. A. u 10 this
years budget 10 IO.tS7 .10s rIblss higher
than that for IOOa.
The election Of Alexander Gutchkod
to the speakership Of the DumA also has
bearing ON the Czar's treatment Of the
situation in the Orient The speaker
has the right Of q personal audience with
the CEar when he wishes TO communI-
cate a statement oG general policy which
he thinks the sovereign should hear
otherwise than through the government
departments.
Gutchkon may ~ depended upon to
exercise this right freely. lie is one 81
the few Russians who visited japan az a
political inquirer and knows MAnchuria
and China After the MAnchuriAn cam
paiRn IN which he was a volunteer IN the
field hospital corps. he went direct to
japan, where he watched the natiOnal
attitude during the Portsmouth peace
negotiations.
Beyond the fact that he represents in
the Duma Moscow industrial interests
which are undersold IN the ORIENT by the
Japanese it ~ known that he does not
believe IN any lasting understs ndIng
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