Salt Lake Tribune | 1907-03-21 | Page 2 | Serious Charge Made

SERIOUS CHARGE MADE Peasant in Russian Parliament Says Famine Relief Funds Are Stolen. ST. PETERSBURG, March 20. Vvithout any further allusion to the ministerial declaration of policy, the lower houso of Parliament; today began the actual work of tho session, with the organization of committees, which, in Russia, aro elected instead of appointed. appoint-ed. The committees on tho budget, audit and on general finance, will be elected tomorrow, indicating that the discussion of the budget will be first in order. Tho proposal to appoint a special committee to organize tamilo relief led to a prolonged and animated dobate in which the various groups participated. A poasant deputy boldly charged the government witli stealing tho monoy intended in-tended for the relief of the famine sufferers.