The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-12
EXPULSION OF JEWS
HELD Up IN RUSSIA
Government Will Look Furth-
er Into Situation
REPORT ON THE SUBJECT
Has Sent to Simon Wolf of WASH
ington Statement of the
Present Conditions

Washington, June 11.-Simon Wolf o.
this city, chairman of the board of dele
gates of civil rights Of the Union o.
American Hebrew congregations, is in re
ceipt from the state department of a copy
OF report made to the department BY
the American embassy at St. Petersburg
respecting the threatened expulsion OF
Jews from fiev, Russia.
| The order of expulsion, it is stated
was not carried out, but was held II
akeyance pending further study of the
situation by the Russian government
Subsequent to the receipt of this infor.
nation by the department, the American
embassy at ST. Petersburg, through Pos
Wheeler the charge d'aTaires, submitted
to the department a somewhat elaborate
report concerning the anti-semitic agita-
ton In Russia, which he says is not clear
~ understood in many quarters abroad
In the course of his report Mr.. Wheeler
says:
Before May 22-June 4. 1907. certain
Jews holding certificates of the first guild
were permitted to reside in Kiev. The
amnesty circulars of that date gave the
right of residence also to other Jews who
had been domiciled here, contrary to
law, during the disturbances of 1905-1906
| Upon the Issuance of this circular the
Jews of the first guild ceased taking on,
tfeir certificates, deeming this no longer
necessary They also began to take up
ether lines of trade which had been
fN,l bay tha of fhofy
previous certificates. Under the pressure
of the duma. NJ. stolypin was obliged, In
March of the present year, to repeal the
circular and a strict enforcement of the
law was ordered.
1.-The situation was now adverse, not
only for those Jews who had illegally
established residence, but also for those
who. previously possessing the right of
residence, had failed to take out the re-
quisite certificates and gone into forbid
den lines of business. These latter, under
the law, had thus forfeited the privileges
previously held. It was question, there
fore, of the expulsion of all alike.
1.-THE wholesale order gave rise to sc
many protestants, both from the Jews
affected by it and from commercial or
ganizations which deprecated any dis
turbance of the business conditions of the
section, that a commission was appointed
By the governor geenral OF the district to
consider the situation and at the same
time a commissioner was sent from the
department of commerce and industry for
the same purpose.
1T is this commission which has now
reported. Latest advices give the detailed
results of its examination as follows;
Gases examined. 1880; allowed to re.
main, ITO; expulsions confirmed, $50; case.
still undecided 80.
1.-The total number of cases decided ad-
versely. it will be noted, is considerably
below the number first alleged and 1t is
probable that sufficient number of
those who failed to renew their guild
certificates will be allowed to remain by
paying for the privilege. to materially
lessen the number finally expelled.
There is at present little likelihood
that the carrying out of the order OF
expulsion will be the signal for any act
of violence.
It will be noted from the text of the
state departments official advices that
NJ. Stolypins action in repeating the cir
cular and ordering a strict enforcement
of the law was due to the pressure
brought upon him by the duma.