The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-17
Sharp Disagreement Arises
Over Administration of
Ukraine
CLAIM TWO MEMBERS
EXCEED AUTHORITY
Premier Will Ask Minis
ters to Withdraw
designations
lRy Associated Press.l }

Petrograd, July 17.-Three men,
bers of the cabinet have resigned
and a special session of the council
of ministers has been convoked to
avert crisis. The names OF those
who resigned are:
A. /. Shingaroffs minister Of
finance; Professor Manuiloff, minis
ter of education, and Prince Sha-
kovsky, head of the department of
public aid.
The designations followed a sharp
disagreement over questions involv-
ing the Ukraine, an extensive region
in Russia embracing part of the ter
ritory of the old kingdom of Poland.
Premier Lvoff has requested the
ministers to meet at his private
residence when the cause of the dis
pute will be considered. 1t is known
he will attempt to prevail on them
to withdraw their designations. The
split in the ministry occurred last
night at a ministerial conference
called to consider q report submitted
by M. Tereschtenko, minister of
foreign affairs, and M. Tseretelh,
minister of posts and telegraph, as
a result of their negotiations con-
corning the Ukraine.
After the report was made the min
listers promptly took exception to the
form of a declaration drawn up by
Tereschtenko and Tseretelli and
agreed to the fact that these minis
ters without the authorization of the
government took it on themselves to
commit the government to definite
policy regarding the Ukraine.
No Power to Commit Government.
Tereschtenko and Tseretelli, it was
maintained, simply had been chosen
delegates to find a possible basis of
an agreement in the Ukraine but had
not been given the power of making
a declaration in the name of the gov
ernment. They insisted that their ad-
verse position in regard to the dec
laration was not to be taken as OBJ
lection to the principle of autonomy
for the Ukraine 'wherewtth their
party is in full sympathy. Their pro-
test, they repeated, was against the
method whereby this declaration was
drawn up by two members of the
government acting without authority
from the council of ministers and
against the wording which was am
biguous and misleading.
Tereschtenko and Tseretelli, on the
other hand, fatty insisted upon the
immediate publication of the dec
laration, adding that the form might
be altered IL the sense were kept in
tact. When the vote was taken, the
two Lvoffs in the cabinet and the
Socialists declared themselves in
favor of the declaration as already
drawn. Opposed by the majority, the
three members then resigned.
M. M. Prokopovitch and Charnous-
ky have been appointed ministers of
commerce and education respectively.
After taking cognizance of the
views of NJ. Tereschtenko and F.
Tseretelli and of a communication
from War Minister Kerensky on the
subject, the provisional government
decided today on the creation of an
executive body to put into execution
measures dealing with the admini-
stration of Ukraine. The personnel
will be decided on by the government
in agreement with the Ukraine on
the basis of equitable representation
of other nationalities, including
Ukraine.
London, July ia Reuter- dis
patch from Petrograd says NJ. Ste
panof, minister of commerce, also has
resigned.