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Show WITTE MAKES A I STRAIGHT TALK I Tells a Delegation Why Harsh I Measures Are Deemed Necessary. MODERATES FAILED TO HELP WHEN THEY COULD j Puis Blame Largely on Them tor Excesses of the I Revolutionists. ST. PKTERSfH "RG, Jan 10. 1.40 p m- I Premier AVItte today mad an Interesting I statement to a delegation headed by the Mayor of this city, which requested a re- 1 laxatlon of the orders of the Prefect of I Police against meniings In the Interest of I the electoral camtialgn. The Premier I could not promlif to do anything until after January 'Si I Regards Them Essential. I While personally he did not sympathies 1 with the harsh measures of Interior Mln- ) Inter DUIHOVO, he regarded them as es- I --ntlol The Premier could not nasuni" the reMpon-lhllll y f..r a course which If It I - r.'.ullayd In bloodshed WOUld mak film i I Kcapegoat Me spoke bitterly of the fall- M ure of tin Moderates to gly- the Govern- I mcnt support, saying that upx'ii then- H shoulders largely- rests the burden of mm- I pelllng the Government to fesort to re- 1 pn salon He added Blames the Moderates. 1 "The Emperor. In the manifesto of Goto- ; her 2o at one stroke granted the people more rights than uny monarch had e , I before given, but you kt...w Ihe attitude I I which Russian society assumed. The Gov- j etmmsnfS appeals for confidence were re-lected re-lected and every liberty granted was abused b the revolutionists The pel - m!-sioii to hold meetings was translated I Into llcenso for atrec-t dlsturbancea nnd assemblages to plot against the life of I the Government and to the industrial ruin the H Bound to Save Russia. "1 have always been opposed to rspres-slon. rspres-slon. but th-- attitude of ihe Moderates oinpellcd mo to adopt harsh measures 'in determined lo save Russia W hile the Emperor wanted 'ho National assembly to meet as early as possible I Premier Wltte said that those charged I With the election feated It will be Imp.,- ; Bible for It to assemble before April 28. H Moscow Revolt Serious 1 Bpeaklpg of the innumerable difficulties with which thf Government was con- H fronted the Premier openlj stated that f ' ' of the provincial authorities coi l tluued to act Independently, instancing Moscow, where before the revolt neither ', th.- Governor-General, the Governor nor the Prefei t Informed him of the conditions condi-tions prevailing there II. said the Mos- I cow revolt was rr.ore serlotjs than people jH generally believed. '! Recounting a remarkable Incident that Lmt heretofore had escaped tiutlce. the Pre- mler said. H One Catastrophe Averted. "At one time all the stations except th Nicholas depot were In the hands of th revolutionists. The latter, in desperation, I started a train, hauling two curs loaded with dynamite, at full sped !..r the sta-tlon, sta-tlon, with the Intention of blowing it up A frightful disaster wns averted bv i -fl timet) warning of the plot, which enabled tin- authorities to have a military train with steuni up read on a pamlle.1 track &m As the dynamite train arrived, soldiers from the military train running along-side along-side tired at the end and managed to T pierce the boiler of th" locomotive, stop- ping the train before it reached Its des- f tlnatlon ' Tells of New Laws. In St Petersburg, the Premier further j remarked, enough dynamite had been captured to destroy the entire city In conclusion, ho mated that two laws wer j being prepared to define the relations Of the ( o-uhcii of the empire nnd the National Na-tional Assemblv. The former would be 1 composed of ITS members, half of them appointed by the Emperor and half ei,-t-ed The latter would Include thirty-four &ematvolsts. eighteen members of the nobility and twelve "presentstlves of trade and industry while the clergy, Poland, Po-land, the Caucasus ond th border provinces prov-inces would each huve ntx representatives. Kept List of Land-Ownera. It Is rumored that the revolutionists are keeping a list Of land-owners who havft fled or are fleeing abroad, with the Intention. Inten-tion. If the revolution Is successful, of confiscating their estate. The news from Trans-' 'a ucaela Is that a complete revo- I lutlon prevails In Mlngrelia and Georgin. The Viceroy Is withdrawing all the troops attainable north of Vladlkavkas for ser- , vice m the revolutionary territory |