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THE MORNING OREGON! AN. FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1905. 5 REFUSE TO CONFER Both Sides inTeamsters' Strike Stubborn. DUNNE .WORKING FOR PEACE While' He Negotiates, Mobs Blockade Streets and Beat Nonunion Men Employers' Plan to Break Strike. CHICAGO, April 13. Mayor Edward F. Dunne today again endeavored to effect peace between the contending sides in the present labor trouble In Chicago, but at the ond of the day, after several confer ences with the labor leaders and repre sentatives of the employers, the situation was unchanged. Mr. Dunne tonight, how ever, was more hopeful of peace as the result of his efforts, and the peace nego tiations will be continued tomorrow -with the hope that the barrier now preventing a settlement will be removed and that the two sides to the controversy "will agree to confer together and accept the interven tion of the Mayor. The labor leaders de clared that they were -willing to meet the employers, but the latter declined the proposed conference and the Mayor "was forced to meet the opposing elements separately. Blockades and Riots Continue. "While the peace negotiations -were in progress today, Montgomery "Ward & Co. continued to make deliveries with non onion teamsters. The service was inter rupted, however, by the strikers and their sympathizers, who blocked the streets, making it almost impossible for the cara vans, under the protection of platoons of police, to pass through the streets. In several instances the crowds became so demonstrative that It was necessary for the police to use their clubs, and several of the disturbers were hurt in the clashes with the bluecoats. During one of the attacks on the strike-breakers three of the -non-union men were seriously hurt, and it was necessary for the police to make several arrests before the crowd could be dispersed. A caravan of three wagons bound for the Northwestern freight-house was stopped at Kinzie-street bridge. Heavy planks had been placed across the struc ture at right angles and laced into the trusses in such a manner that the planks could not "be removed except by sawing. While this was being done a wagon broke down near the bridge. A wheel came off and the harness broke. Around this wagon a large "blockade formed, requir ing half an hour to disentangle. Charles Stubner, a non-union driver for a piano-house, was assaulted while deliv ering a load of piano stools to Montgom ery Ward & Co., taken from his wagon and pounced upon. Policemen dispersed the strikers and chased them away. A mob collected in another quarter and blocked the thoroughfare. The crowd surged up and down, trampling each other and knocking down a dozen women, whose screams added to the excitement. Two police officers were Injured, and Will aim Styles, one of the attacking mob, suf fered a fractured skull. Fully 5000 per sons wore In the crowd, many of them women and children. Plan to Break Strike. Should the efforts 'of the Mayor to bring about an amicable settlement of the diffi culty fail and the strike spread, it is stated tonight that the employers will form a comprehensive teaming company df their own In order to carry on their business. The new concern, It Is asserted, will Include most of the "business firms who are threatened by the spread of the strike and will be lor the purpose of presenting a solid and compact oppo sition to the union teamsters, should they decide to extend the sympathetic strike. It was said tonight that this new com pany would be in working order by to morrow night. ITRST PRESIDENT INSTALLED University of Virginia Celebrates Its Founder's Birthday. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 13. In the SOth year of its career and in . anni versary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson, its illustrious foundor, the University of Virginia today inaugurated its first presi dent. Dr. Edward Anderson Alderman. The rector of the institution. Rev. Charles P. Jones, of Monterey, Va,, an nounced that a growing public sentiment in favor of a change in the government of the university had caused the General Assembly of the commonwealth to im pose upon the rector and visitors, as the governing body, the duty of electing a president. It had concluded this duty after patient and anxious thought by electing Dr. Alderman. The date for Inaugurating the change had been se lected (April 33) because it was the an niversary of the birth of the founder of the institution. A prayer, the oath of office, a brief ac ceptance of the trust and a number of speeches, which filled three hours of en thusiastic Interest, climaxed by an in spiring inaugural address by President Alderman, and the installation was ac complished. Then was released the rol licking spirit of the alumni and the students. They all Joined in the torch light procession, which at 9 o'clock led to the rotunda and the banquet tables. Among the many representatives or educational and scientific societies and of the large professions present were Dr. Abbott. Moncurc D. Conway. George Foster Pcabody, Dr. Albort Shaw, Edward M. Shepard, Dr. Melville E. Stone, Profes sor Francis G. Peabody, of Harvard; President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Co lumbia, and President James B. Angell, of the University of Michigan. Announcement was made at the ban quot that John D. Rockefeller had given $100,000 to the university to "found a school of education to be called the Curry Memorial School of Education of the University of Vir ginia, In commemoration of the groat and distinguished services of Dr. Curry in behalf of popular education in the South." KILLED BY A- JEALOUS WIFE Widow From India Shot While Re ceiving Husband. COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. April 13. A special to the Telegraph from Cripple Creek. Colo., says: Mrs. W. S. Vidler, the wife of a well-known newspaper man, shot and Instantly killed Mrs. H. C. Douglas, of Colorado .Springs, in the Na tional Hotel today. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause of the crime. Mrs. Vidler. who was very much excited. rapped on the door of a room in which were Mr. vidler and Mrs. Douglas. Mr. Vidler opened the door. His wife entered and Immediately shot Mrs. Douglas in the breast. Mr. and Mrs. Vidler were arrested. Thev have three children, the oldest 11 years of age. but have not been living together of late. After the shooting Mrs. Vidler became hysterical and bewailed her act. She was released on a bond of $5000. No charge was made against her husband, and he was set free this afternoon. Mr. Vidler said this afternoon that Mrs. Douglas had told him she was born in Calcutta, India, was a divorced wife and had two children in New York. She was about 32 years of age. She had lived in Denver and Colorado City dur ing the last eight months and had been in Cripple Creek but a few days. The Coroner's jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Vidler was temporarily insane when she fired the shot. CORRESPONDENCE BEFORE WAR State Department Publishes Dis patches Relating to Japan. WASHINGTON, April .13.-Offlcial cor respondence made public at the State De partment today discloses the fact that the Japanese government in announcing to the American Minister at Tokio on February 6 of last year, the breaking of diplomatic relations with Russia, as sured him that hostilities would not begin until after a declaration had been made. The .correspondence comprises so much of the diplomatic exchanges between Washington and Tokio as the department tljinks it expedient to publish, and among the first is the following official para phrase of a cablegram from Minister Griscom, dated American Legation, Tokio, February 6, 1S04: "Mr. Griscom reports that the Minister of Foreign Affairs stated that a declara tion of war will not be made until after the withdrawal of their legation, which will probably take two or three days, and hostilities will not begin until after the declaration of war." "In an Interview the Minister of For eign Affairs went over the whole course of the negotiations, directed special at tention to the extreme patience and mod eration of the attitude of Japan, and stated that after having asked the Rus sian government five times to expedite a reply, and having waited three weoks without result, no alternative remained but to act." On the following day the correspond ence showed that Minister Griscom reported that the departure of the Russian Minister would take place on February 12. On February 11, subse quent to the receipt of the news of the torpedo attack upon the Russian fleet at Port Arthur of February D, Minis ter Griscom sent a brief telegram to the department, of which this is the official paraphrase: "Mr. Griscom reports that the dec laration of war was issued on the 10th Inst." No other correspondence shedding light on this incident Is contained in the notes published. Of interest Is a note of Secretary Hay. dated May 5 last, to the Japanese Minister at Washington, calling his at tention to the circulation in the Amer ican Navy of a note from the Consul General of Japan at New York, ad dressed to "the Japanese serving in the United States Navy," soliciting subscriptions to Japanese bonds, con tributions to the relief fund for Jap anese soldiers and sailors, and in aid of the Red Cross Society of Japan. While admitting the right of Japan ese in this country to subscribe or contribute to the objects mentioned, the Secretary says in his note to Mr. Takahira: "Yet is is undesirable that such con tributions should be sought through the Naval official channels of this Government," and he therefore "brings the matter to your attention, with the request that you will inform the Con sular officers of Japan in the United States of the attitude of this Govern ment in this matter." The Japanese Minister gave the necessary instruc tions to the Japanese Consul-General in New York. The correspondence includes a cony of a note from the Japanese Minister at Washington, calling the attention of this Government to tho presence of the Rus sian ship Lena at San Francisco, and saying "the imperial government expects that, appropriate measures regarding the matter will be taken by the United States Government without delay." Several days later another note reached the State Department from the Japanese Minister, expressing the desire of his gov ernment that the officers and crew of the Lena be detained In the territory of the United States until the end of hostilities. The Acting Secretary of State, Mr. Aflec, promptly replied, acknowledging the note and saying: "In reply, I have tho honor to state that the President, exercising his preroga tive In carrying out tho neutrality pro claimed by him, had already, before tho receipt of your communication, taken the appropriate steps to detain the officers and crew of the Lena In this country until peace shall have been concluded. unless in the meantime the belligerents shall have concurred In proposing to him other arrangements In this regard." SLEW EIGHT AMERICAN SAILORS Japan Has Difficulty to Make For mosans Understand Their Crime. WASHINGTON, April 13. Botel To bago savages In Formosa causod the death of eight members of the crew of the American ship Benjamin Sewall and treated other members of the crew in a cruel manner when that ship was wrecked in Formosan waters some time ago. Tho story is told in official correspondence, published at tho State Department today. When the Japanese government's at tention was called to tho incident It replied that the government of For mosa would "efficiently and strictly censure the savages and will warn them not to repeat such misconduct" Mr. Loomls, tho acting Secretary of State, promptly directed the American Minister at Tokio to say to the Jap anese government that "something more impressive than censure may suggest itself to the mind of that gov ernment." The Japanese government according ly adopted punitive measures, but found great difficulty in executing them intelligently, because they could not make the natives understand for what they were being punished. This gov ernment then suggested that several of the native chiefs who have been implicated in the incident bo Imprls oned until some of the Formosan of ficials could master their dialect and make them understand why they -were being punished. BOSTON. April 13. The ship Ben lamin Sewall hailed from this port and hor owners, who reside In Boston and vicinity, called the attention of the State Department to the Formosa out rage last year, soon after the captain reported the affair. Bank Robbed in Sight of Crowd. CHURUBUSCO, Ind., April 13. Six men today robbed the private bank of Oscar Gandy & Co. of S500. Mrs. Gandy. wife xf the banker, was shot in the neck by one of the robbers, all of whom escaped. Three explosions set off in wrecking tho safe brought a number of persons to the soene. Two robbers on guard, armed with rifles, warned them not to approach the building, and fired a number of shots to frighten those who came too near. After securing the money, the robbers jumped into a buggy and drove at a gallop toward Huntertown. two of. them firing at their pursuers until out of sight. Mr. Gandy and several others started fn pursuit In an automobile. Surrounding towns were no tuied and posses soon started from several places. Old Believers' Token of Gratitude. ST. PETERSBURG, April 13. The Old Believers, an Immensely wealthy sect, owning the greater part of Moscow, ac cording to the newspapers, are raising $500,000,000 to donate to the Russian war chest as a mark of gratitude for the free dom of .worship extended to them. The stosy is not confirmed. TO BE PARTY OF IDEAS (Continued from First Page) student or observer of economic conditions can question cither the logical development or the necessity of corporations any more than ne can ignore their existence They arc not the result of some blind chance groping about in modem Industry: they are essentia! features In the growth of that real co-operation which has done so much to change conditions. Like all things human, they have their evils, in deed, they have their perils. But. as we cannot be rid or them it we would, and would not if we could. It mimt 1ms our part properly to enforce the laws againt them and. their representatives as we nave done and must continue to do against the individual who, does wrong. We have only to look about us, in our separate communi ties, to see that the great majority of cor porations arc managed with aa much hon esty as we are accustomed to see in mun dane affairs "and the punishment for offenses against law and morals the punishment in separable from failure and lose goes on in these bodies as it does among the-Individuals wno constitute them or others who compete with them. That some of them have taken advantage of partial and inequitable laws, while others have either secretly or openly violated statutes. in order to oppress the community, is Deyona question. some attcmDt has been made even in high places to distinguish between these trusts. As an election was coming on at the time it may be assumed, from the course taken, that the "bad trusts-' were those against the party in power or which might not be Influenced in Its favor, while the "sraoA trusts" were fa vorable to its fntercste, or amenable to in- uuence or pressure. The Enforcement of the Laws. However this may be. the evils Inherent in these bodies may be reached In two ways. First, under the existing statute and common law. Little has been heard since the decision in the beef trust case, about the Impotence of the law. as it exists today, to deal with illegal combinations. And there never was a real dought in the mind of any student of' the subject, for the courts of this country have never shown indulgence to great wrongs when the executive branch of the Government, cither Federal or State, has done its duty. ifut what has the executive authority done? It baa fumed and tuesed, it has thundered In the Index and failed, to enforce the law, ex cept in a row cases. At the instance or tne attorney of a foreign railroad with a branch in this country also the representative of a Governor of a state, it has very properly and legally broken up a great railroad combina tion. Was it because of satisfaction with hav ing suppressed a "bad" combination that a dozen others; larger, more flagrant in their violation of the law, each of them affecting tne interests or ten times as many people. have not been punished or even prosecuted? Is this the natural reward ot a "good" trust? we nave seen one department give a char acter to a great and far-reaching combina tion Just as the legal branch of the Govern ment started out to lay the case of the same combination before a. Federal erand Jury. Is this the way of the prosecutor who Is in earnest? in another Instance the managers of a great railroad, having admitted that they nave paia re Dates, the Government, some years after the fact has been avowed, appoints spe cial counsel to prosecute. Meanwhile, the of ficial In power at the time and mainly re sponsible for this admitted infraction of the laws la now a member of the President's Cab inet. .Must we construe this to mean that the trust which was once "good" has now become "bad"? How to Deal With These Great Abuses. The plain truth is that there has been no time during the past eight years, since the abuses alleged became flagrant, when they could not have been eliminated. Nothing has been so much needed as a rigid, honest, ' un yielding enforcement of the law, both civil and criminal. But instead of going on with the enforcement of the law against rebates by putting the railroad officials responsible for them behind prison bars, precisely as we do other malefactors, their misconduct made an excuiK for further concentration ot power in the Federal Government. It Is expected by the Administration and the railroad officials, who openly consent to the movement, as well as by those who are osten sibly opposed to it, that the people. In their Just indignation at the wrongs done to the many ror the benefit of the few, will lose sight of the danger of so vast a centralization of power until It Is too late to check It. But we should never forget that the safety of our institutions is involved in every such move ment, and Instead ot submitting to It should insist that when a trust or a railroad has vio lated the criminal law the place for the guilty official is In Jail or the penitentiary, not in the Cabinet or In tho board rooms of great railroads. We do not defend or excuse any wrongs, but we must Insist upon the truth of the maxim that two wrongs do not make a right. A second effective way of dealing with the trust proper is to take away all tariff duties on articles made by any great combination bo long as it violates the law or while It dis criminates In price against the American cus tomer In favor of the foreigner. The tariff Is the fertile and nursing mother of all the abuses to be found In these trust?, and yet, the very moment the sacred subject Is men tioned, the President of the United States draws a red herring across the trail, all other in Republican authority raise their hands in holy horror, the order to stand pat la passed along the whole line of beneficiaries, and the time-honored process of throwing dust In the eyes of the people is revived. Correction of Well-Known Evils. While we thus take a firm stand against everything that threatens honest thrift. It i not possible to overlook the fact that there is in the public mind an impression that cer tain wrongdoing In going on among those who, in the cynicism Incident to club life, are known as the "criminal rich." It is believed by some that there Is a deliberate disregard of all laws, divine or human, that the frulln of the labor of our people are used to support bad and dangerous policies and for the en richment of mere manipulators. In other words, the conviction Is strong ana is grow ing that there Is a class of men who. wnile their practices are unholy and dishonest, neek to take advantage of our known and settled regard for the rights of property men whore motto Is, "Let those own who will, only let ua control." But It is in nowlo surprWng that such practices should cxtot. For more than -in years we have been raising up and training a class of favorites and beneficiaries of the law. During all this time we have been so using the taxing power as to allow certain men to collect tribute from every consumer of their goods, u e have known that they used nomo portion of the money thus obtained to pollute every approach to the ballot-box. Is It sur prising with such training that they should seek in addition to foreclose a mortgage upon a Legislature or an official who can further their ends? Sometimes the fact that these contributions have been made has been ac counted an act ot patriotism and virtue. "What wonder, then, that other men should use the same method to command the same power? If those things are true they cannot long be hid. They are unlawful, and no new enact ment Is needed to punish, nor Is it necessary to involve in ruin the l0 honest men who own or manage property or to put their labore in peril In order to punish the one guilty. Our Institutions are not so impotent as that, nor can it be true that. the moral sentiment of our people is so lethargic that it cannot be aroused to a danger like this. What we need Is not new crusades, but vigilant prosecuting officers and honest appeals for popular sup port. The Future Policy of the Party. When analyzed, the Democratic party, in All lie past history, has been true to a few gen eral kleas and policies. They may be enumer ated as follows: 1. A strict Interpretation of the Constitution, which implies resistance to centralization by the Federal Government because it i op)os-d to the fundamental Idea of our system of pop ular government, and for the further reason that all human experience shows that that way danger lies. ". The levy of import duties and other taxes with strict regard to th Industrial Intf-rf-rts of all our people, whether produrera or consumers, whether manufacturers, farmers or workmen, and always at rates which, while Just to all, shall be essentially revenue-producing, thus eliminating monopoly and favor itism. ... Constant, unremitting attention to hon est, economical expenditure of the taxes col lected from the people: and 4. Xon-interference in the political affairs of other nations, thus making entangling al liances as impossible as they are undesirable and un-American. Thfse ideas are as vital as they were In the earliest stages of our National history, and include in their logical ramifications every policy that can como before our people for le gitimate discussion and settlement. If. as a natural corollary, they are supplements by the rigid, unremitting enforcement of the criminal law in both nation and states, there in not much room for the Intrusion of out grown customs, or for new-fangled forms of hysteria and humbug. If, then, we, as Democrats, prove ourselves true to a real and genuine reform of tariff abuses, bringing American common sense to their- fupprcs!on. if we shall only apply our selves to this great and commanding question, with the courage, devotion to principle and regard for the Interests of all tho people which so distinguished Grover Cleveland, we will not only deserve and command the sup port of the great body of consumers, but also invite that of progressive and Intelligent man ufacturers, who. In all historical fiscal agita tions, have finally given up their special priv ileges and attached themselves to a system from which at least some of the manacles had been removed. By so doing we shall eliminate cvlle and abuses from our industrial system and promote ral progress. 'He proceeded to discuss tho reorganiza tion of the Democracy. He condemned the talk on this subject as Ignoring the facts that when a party has a policy which appeals to half the people they will not be long in getting together to promote it, and that organization begins in the smallest political units. He con demned sectionalism in the party, and said all should be welcome, but the party should not adopt a separate set of prin ciples for each. They should not reject a man who had been a Populist, Socialist or Republican, but he must come as a Democrat. Organization was vital, but mlgnt be useless. If viewed as the end rather than the means. He concluded: With us, then, organization to be effective muut He In the state, the county and the dis trict. By the very necessity of our principles and our existence we must protect the Tights and promote the Interests of communities and carry up into Federal politics only that re servo of power properly Incident to our insti tutions and system of government. The am bitions we must foster are Infinite in number and variety. All our later history has shown that it Is far more Important for us to have our full share of Governors, Legislatures, Senators, Members of Congress and of state, county and municipal officials than it Is, by neglecting these, to command a long list of places under the general Government. When we can control once again these training schools for the higher politics, we shall have little need to trouble ourselves overmuch about candidates for President, be cause we ehall have laid, deep and strong In the people's will the necessary foundations. Then, and only then, may we look with hope fulness and' confidence to the country at large. Then we may go North or South, East orl west xor canaicates. certain or tneir ntness for the work In hand, and of their acccptable cess to our countrymen. Mayor McClellan was somewhat discon certed by the cordial greeting he received. He closed his address by saying: "Opportunism has no place in the Democratic party. Let us cease wor shiping strange gods and go back to the God of our fathers and to the teaching of Thomas Jefferson." New a rids Lands an Unknown. Senator Francis G. Newlands, of Ne vada, said: Will the many-sided Theodore Roosevelt de vote himself during the next four years to the Democratic policy of domestic reform In dicated by his message, or will he continue to engage In activities external to our coun try, which will absorb Its attention and post pone domestic reform? If the former. Democ racy will be triumphant before his adminis tration ends. If, on the other hand, he con tinues to dazzle our people with startling ex hibitions of InternaUonal pyrotechnics, plu tocracy will be as firmly entrenched at ths end of his administration as It was at the beginning, and some other Democrat a Demo crat who Is not an Imperialist abroad, nut who Is a Democrat abroad as well as at home will be called upon to lead the destinies ot the country. The country demands Democ racywhether under Republican or Democratic administration. Democracy Is .triumphant now, if Roosevelt stands by Democratic faith. If not. four years hence Democracy will gird Its loins for another struggle against plu tocracy, which is strengthening in wealth and power every day and every hour. And its standard-bearer will be the man who for years has been pre-eminent for steadfastness, for courage, for patience under defeat, for faith In the ultimate wisdom ami nnwr nf the Dcople; the man who has been' undevlatlng. consistent. courageous; the man whose Integrity nobody doubts and one whose sincerity everybody be lieves In. The question will then be the de velopment of the Republic at home. Tile agency to be employed will be a constructive Democracy, and the leader of this Democracy will be the man who has stood to Its princi ples amidst all the glamor and illusions of Imperial administration." Expose Corrupt Legislators. Ex-Justice Augustus Van Wyck said: The crime of the age most fatal to good government and to- the morality of society is the sale of law by the Legislature granting special privileges and favors to our great cap italists, so often characterized as public-spirited citizens of the nation, but the black horse cavalry or both parties Li found com bined together In this nefarious traffic. The most important work that can be undertaken by the Democratic minority In the National and state Legislatures Is ot drive out of their party the black hors cavalry, and then un selfishly antagonize and expose all dishonest, corrupt and pernicious legislation and keep this up until the public becomes familiar with the, bad bills and the bad legislators. The Democracy should create outside of the machine and disconnected with It throughout the state some force confided vlth the sole duty of pterenrlng. detecting and exposing election frauds and corruption In all public matters and driving out of office bribe-takers of both parties. Congressman Rainey, J. J. Wlllet and John W. Kern, of Indiana, also spoke. In the order named. ATTEMPT TO WRECK WARSHIP Cause Saves the Connecticut From Being Ruined in Drydock. NEW YORK. April 13. During the pro cess of placing the new battleship Con necticut in drydock at the navy-yard here today, what might have proved a serious accident was avoided by the officer in charge sending down a diver to make thorough examination of the hull before the water should be pumped out and the vessel lowered into the keel, blocks. The .diver discovered a heavy timber stuck fact to the hull on the port side of the keel, where it had adhered to the rough plating while the vessel was on the ways and had not been released In launch ing. A failure to discover the timber, it is said, would have resulted in the buck linr or crimping of the keel and lower frames when the vessel settled on the blocks. Several days previous to the launching of the Connecticut' List Fall, divers were sent down to examine the ways and found a large spike placed where it would have pierced the hull, had It not been round. Later, an official Investigation disclosed holes bored in one of the plates. Pioneer Among Cable-Layers. ST. PETERSBURG. April 14 (2 A. M.) Admiral Schwertz. who assisted to build the frigate Niagara for laying tne nrst Atlantic cable in 1S57, is dead. Admiral Schwertz was sent to the United States in 1856 by the Rus sian government to watch the con struction of the frigate. Want to try an experiment? Then take any one of the hundreds of new medicines on the market. They people are relying his old standard fir aiad by tha J. C. Ayer Co., Xxrwell. His J. Hf Aita nsnufaoturers of AYER'S KAIE VIOOfc-For ths hair. ATER'S PILLS-Tcr eorstipation. . s AYEE'S CHERRY PECTORAL For coagfcs. AYER'S AGUE CURE For malaria, and agae. C0NCILIATE7HEPEASANTS CZAR ORDERS COMMISSION TO PROVIDE REFORM. Tenure of Land Chief Subject for Ac tion Revolt in Caucasus Spreads Assassin 'Wounds Official. ST. PETERSBURG. April 13. An im perial rescript addressed to the Minister of the Interior creates a special commis sion under his presidency to discuss ques tions relating to peasant tenure of land, which is described by the rescript as the main foundation of national welfare. Measures will be elaborated, first, to afford peasants better means of working their lands to good advantage; second, to assist emigration between districts, help ing peasants to Increase their holdings through the medium of a peasants' bank; and, third, to devise measures for fixing the boundaries of ail holdings fn order to show their inviolability and to instill more conscientious views on the subject of private property. MIRSKY WILL RESUME OFFICE Ex-Mlnfster Will Draft Constitution for Russia. ST. PETERSBURG, April 13. The re port that ex-Minister of the Interior Prince Svlatopolk-Mirsky will return to. public life as the president of the rescript commission, although not officially con firmed, creates much satisfaction, as his sympathy with the policy of popular rep resentation Is well known. Numberless stories are being printed abroad giving details of the character, composition and date of convocation of the coming Parliament. The Associated Press can state that they are premature. Countless plans have been submitted, the favorite one being a Parliament com posed of two "houses, an upper house of 120 members, half of them to be named by the Emperor and half to be elected by the nobility, and a lower house of 623 mem bers, elected by various classes in all parts of Russia, Including the non-Russian provinces. But the Commission has not decided, even In principle, the nature of composition of the parliamentary body. It Is this delay which has destroyed popular confidence in the sincerity of the Government, and which led the attorneys' congress to undertake an active propa ganda by all the liberal professions in be half of constitutionalism. The press has won a very considerable victory in the decision of the Press Com mission to remove the censorship from foreign press telegrams. The regulations, however, will not go Into effect until the revision of the press laws is complete. CAUCASUS REVOLT SPREADING Peasants Force People to Pillage Women May Hold Congress. ST. PETERSBURG. April (2 A. M.) Dispatches received here from TIflis say the peasant agitation is spreading rapidly and widely through the Caucasus, and that the disturbers arc forcing all peasants to participate In the pillaging and destruction of schools and public buildings by threats of bodily Injury. Troops have been sent to quell the dis orders. Among residents of the cities of the Caucasus a renewal of the ugly feeling between Armenians and Tartars Is be ing manifested, and Armonlans In sever al Instances have been attacked in re venge for alleged assaults upon the- police. .Movements are on foot to call a Pan Russian Congress of Women for the dis cussion of political and Industrial qucsr tions. A number of Russian women are among the leaders of advanced thought and the congress, if held, undoubtedly will give voice to the reform sentiment. POLICE OFFICIAL IS WOUNDED Assassin Fires on Commissary at Odessa and Is Captured ODESSA, April 13. Police Commissary Otechevsky was today wounded In the chest by" a bullet fired from- a revolver. His assassin, who was arrested, refused to disclose his identity. Russian Compliment to Japan. ST. PETERSBURG, April 13. A pecu liar case of a peasant who committed suicide in Japanese fashion Is reported from Yamyshora, near Tsarskoe-Sclo. The peasant referred to became a great admirer of the valiancy of the Japanese. He Informed his family that he was tired of life, and that he preferred to Imitate their methods of suicide and eventually carried out his Intentions. Allow Freedom of Language. ST. PETERSBURG. April 13. Tho spe cial commission ot the Academy of Sci ence, which has been considering tho sub ject, has pronounced in favor of the ab rogation of the restrictions placed upon the use of the "Little Russian" language in scnools, books and the press. Hospital Ship at Saigon. CHICAGO, April 13. The Chicago Daily News special from Saigon. Indo-Chlna, says: Rojestvensky's" hospital ship ar rived here last night to take on board provisions, coal and medicines. It will leave tomorrow at midday to rejoin the main squadron. Japanese Spy Pays Penalty. GUNSHU PASS. April 13. Lieutenant Kobasianl, of the Twenty-third Japanese Dragoons, who was captured disguised as a Chinaman and who confessed he was a spy and was tried by court-martial, was shot today. come, they go, and are soon forgotten. Or want to be cured? Then take a medicine that has been tested and tried, generation after genera tion. A medicine that has been a household remedy for sixty years. Ayer's Sarsaparilla. 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