Show AS LOYAL RUSSIANS HIS PEOPLE SOUGHT TO PRESENT THEIR PETITION TO THE EMPEROR telegraphing st petersburg jan 23 a correspondent of ane achl cago tribune gives the following ac bount of the causes that led up to the massacre of sunday jan 22 at the last meeting of the insurrect in zionists ts on saturday the erkmen opened their meeting in the absence of father gopon by leading the betl tion to the czar and delivering speeches explaining and supporting the movement one socialist at tempted to mal e a speech but was shouted down the workmen cried to morrow we ourselves may be but to day we are followers aft father gopon and have no other eader but him whereupon the socialists digap feared suddenly two antell gent looking men entered the hall wearing overcoats under which were military uniforms one having asked to be heard said brothers to morrow you are going to pe winter palace perhaps to death ar you really goings we are going at all hazards was the reply do you wish the soldiers to refuse to flie on youa that we do most heartily was the answer very well brothers they will re tube to fire at this moment they are talking it over among themselves they will not shed your blood if or dered to fire they will refuse we have come to tell apu this ihen hearty shouts arose long live our brothers the sold ers the next act of the meeting was to add several clauses to the petition including demands for the separation of church and state it was also re solved unanimously that the workmen would march on sunday as peaceful loyal subjects of the czar trusting to his desire to redress their grievances and armed solely tor the purpose of legitimate defense it was further declared that if they had any preliminary guarantees that the soldiers and police would make no arrests except tor genuine breach of the peace they would go unarmed it was finally resolved that it the czar would merely accept from their hands the petition and say that he would consider it they would return home satisfied and grateful but that it he did not appear they would stay before the palace until he did meanwhile a literary man ot emi nence on the part of various social groups called on M witte president of the council and requested him to throw the weight of his authority on the scale on the side of the people M witte listened and asked what was expected of him the Ve present arlve of liberal russia said tomorrow three hundred thousand men aie going to the winter palace in the hope that the czar who is at selo will come to town to receive their petition they are peaceful leace ful men truly loyal desirous of ao ng things without bloodshed or vio lence what we ask is that the sol diers should not be called against them and that no measures of cepres sion be employed perhaps your ex cel lency would generally disregard formulas at a time when much more than formulas are being swept away and would place the matter before his majesty who surely desires only what is just and fair M witte who displayed lively in terest in what was said showed a genuine desire to cejp he expressed profound regret that the needful ma chinery was beyond his reach he said the matter belonged to the minis ter of the interior he himself was merely president of the committee of minister meanwhile twelve operatives act ing on the advice of father gopon presented a letter composed and signed by the priest at the ministry of the interior the letter declared that the workmen and other residents of st petersburg must see the czar on sunday they would guarantee the inviolability of hia person otherwise the bond hitherto linking the czar and the russ an people might be severed rhe writer urged on prince that it was his moral duty to the em geror and to the nation to lay before the former what the workmen had said and also their petition the let ter concluded A copy of this letter has been ta ken as a justification of the document of a moral kind and will be brought to the cognizance of the whole rus sian people prince acknowledged the re ceist of the letter telephonically at 8 p m an hour after it was delivered A metropolitan delegat lor which failed to see prince called up on M atte who after hearing them said whatever the authorities will do to morrow has been decided upon al ready the ministers of finance and the interior and others have been con berting measures this evening mv were not ed and it I 1 volunteered them they would not be taken I 1 am nothing in the adminis my role is circumscribed by t ie reforms foreshadowed by the czar s recent ukase an those ques alons I 1 may report to his majesty but not on events which tall w thin the sphere of the minister of the interior who knows all the facts to the re urging of the deputation M witte repeated his arguments and advised them to go to prince PRINCIPAL PALACE OF THE CZAR safron SW fRon ahe winter palace ts u bat nu ao e ot the royal structures in ciuro e it sand on the river bank on a point of land that marks the junction 0 the great neva and the little nea it was built by impress anne in 1732 on the site of a palace p resented to peter II 11 the structure was partly destroyed by alre in 1837 but was speedily re stored it Is feet long feet wide and 80 feet in height the interior halts are richly ornamented and priceless paintings adorn the walls one room of the palace Is known as ehfe treasury and contains the costly coll tion of russian crown jewels in the spacious portrait gallery are preserved the likenesses of all sovereigns since michael Feodor the first czar of the house of komanoff Kom anuff on an island la the commanding fortress of st peter and st paul abey replied that they had been there and had not seen him I 1 will telephone him now it you like and perhaps you can see him said M witte the delegates thanked M witte who then called up prince and poke to him energetically As proof of the excellent relations between them they called each other thou M witte besought prince to receive the delegates prince mir sh refused to do so on the ground that he witte knew all the facts and the authorities would reserve action for a suitable moment from time to time M witte s bass voice could be heard asking and have you no fears for ta morrow like the refrain fy song came that fateful question have you then no fear of tomor to mor rowa well ou know best and turning to the delegates M witte remarked prince will not receive you tonight though I 1 have asked him now do you suppose I 1 should be more successful if I 1 asked something more difficulty 7 if you like he will see you at half past 12 tomorrow to morrow the delegates declined and return ed at half past 1 in the morning and reported progress to the meeting it then was received unanimously that everything possible had been done to hinder bloodshed and that it men were killed and wounded on sunday all russia would recognize the ease with which it could have been prevented ANCIENT RUSSIAN CITY OF MOSCOW ity of moscow river markva and a portion of the cremi n the official acty the latter being shown to the left in the d stance |