Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-28
TO RESTORE RUSSIA
SLEADER'S HOPE
M. MikhaiIoff Cites Trans
siberian R. R. Losses Dis
cuSsing Rehabilitation.

OMSK, Central Siberia, Wednesday,
January IS (By the Associated Press).
The Transsiberian railroad is los
ing S0.000.000 rubles month. accord
| ing 10 Ivan Mikhaileff; minister of
finance of the ali-Russian government
here, i'll discussing the government s
program for financial rehabilitation
with the Associated Press today.
N. Mikhailoff, who is but twenty
nine years of age, strongly supported
the governments decision to accept
the allied proposal for the manage
ment of the Transsiberian railway.
saying that if sufficient power is put
into the work results will be sure to
follow, '~se ~7T' = s7s-1 s'Ss'sf = -F; s-' =
He pointed out that the reorganiza-
tion of the railway would be imm edi-
a tely beneficial by Increasing custom
receipts. He said that Russia would
furnish money to meet the running
expenses of the work, but the plans
of John F. Stevens, head of the rail-
road commission, will entail the pur-
chase abroad OF a large amount Of
material To make payments on such
purchases, Russia, he said. would re-
quire loan from allied nations.
} Has Striking Personality.
NJ. Mikhailoff has a striking per-
sonality and his life history is interest
ing. His father. Adrian Mikhailoff, was
banished from European Russia and was
sentenced to hard labor in the gold
mines at Karimskaia, near Chita, trans
Raikalia, because of suspicion that he
was involved in the plot which resulted
in the assassination of Emperor Alex
ander II. The present minister of
finance was born at Karimskaia. When
he was two years old his father was
pardoned and returned to Russia
Although wealthy. the elder Mikhailof
believed every man should master
trade. so his son learned typesetting.
He is. therefore, the idol OF the printers
OF the country, a large delegation of
whom went to his Office and extended
greetings on New Year day. After be-
coming a printer the young man entered
the ministry of finance at Petrograd.
NJ. Mikhailoff declared that the boY-
shevists had carried off gold, silver and
currency valued at several million
rubles from Siberian banks, but added
600 rubles in bank. notes and 50Go,-
6oO.eoo ribles in gold and specie, as a
basis for the reconstruction of the coun-
try. He said that the monthly expendi-
lures jumped from i57, 900 600 rubles in
August to 1000. GOO ia December
The receipts in December were 49,
100000 rublss against 20,000,000 in
August Deficiencies are being met,
he said, by the issuance of treasury
bonds. The budget for 1919 calls for
500, DOE. 900 monthly TO meet the ex-
pepses attendant upon charging the
territory under control. He said that
l06, e00.0 600 rubles would be approp-
rated for railroad work
In addition, assistance viii be gener-
ously accorded private industries, he
declared. in the effort to build up the
country. Refuting the statement that
peasants are not paying taxes on their
land he showed that receipts from this
source had mounted from rs, 200 rubles
in July to 100000 in December.
Sees Regeneration of Russia.
These Increases he said. are an
indication of the regeneration of Rus
STA and of the peoples confidence in
the stability of the government"
Adyices received from Tomsk state
that bolshevists began an insurrection
about twenty miles west of that place