Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-03 | Page 11 | Signers to be Prosecuted

SIGNERS TO BE prosecuted russian government going after men for V borg manifesto st petersburg the public prose autor has started proceedings against the members of the lower igwe of parliament atho signed the viborg manifesto the charges under which the sign ers of the manifesto will be brought to trial Is violation of article of the criminal code which provides foi attempts to overthrow the existing government this Is virtually high treason and the maximum penalty Is hard labor in the mines no arrests yet have been reported and the constitutional democrats do not anticipate anything approaching punishment of their representatives it Is understood that the arrested will be admitted to ball pending trial the constitutional democrats are chiefly apprehensive that the possibility 0 prosecution held over the heads of will render them ble for re election in the same manner that professor malukoff Ml lukoff and M hes eel and others were excluded from the last lower house socialists and radical members of the late house may have to cool their heels in cells for a long time and thus be prevented from continuing the full fledged revolutionary agitation upon baich they are now embarked