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Show REFORM MEASURES PL1ID Bf DUMA Restrictions Placed Upon the Jews in Russia Likely to Be Removed. LONDON. Sept. 9, 2:30 a. m. In a dispatch dis-patch from Petrograd. ihe Daily Telegraph Tele-graph s correspondent says: A u ioiK:ur for Poland, a concilia -t ry pollc y for Fi n land . amncsiy f o r political and religious offenses not of a criminal character, complete cessation cessa-tion of religious persecution, removal of restriction upon Jews and the recognition rec-ognition of the legality of trades unions are among the reforms in the programme adopted by ihe progressive parties of the united duma. which control 300 out of the 429 votes In the house. The programme also calls for an agreement between the government and" the duma -regarding the rapid adoption of MUa relating to the national na-tional defense, care of the wounded and the amelioration of the conditions of refugees, and contains a long list of measures for internal reforms. After the adoption of the programme pro-gramme it was laid before the council coun-cil of ministers, where It is now under consideration. Much depends on the action of the ministers, us their recognition recog-nition of the programme would prevail in the imperial council. In which the reactionaries form the majority. The programme in backed by the bloc composed of the entire center, Octoherist, Progressive and Constitutional Constitu-tional Democratic groups, the radical wing of th Nationalists, a score of, Laborites and Socialists and a score of Moslems, Poles and White Russians. |