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Show CAN Mil AWE UPONITHOK Russian Commissioners Have Serious Time Over Expropriation Ex-propriation of Lands Parish Priests Will Fight (or the Retention Re-tention of Their Lands, Which Is the Principal Part of Their Scanty Emoluments. St. Petersburg. The first paragraph f tho proposed agrarian law, viz., tho jugmentatlon of tho lands of the peasants peas-ants by tho appropriation of all stato nd crown domains and church and nionnstery lands, has been nccepted by tho commission of the low house with practically unanimity. Tho commissioners com-missioners havo now locked horns ovor tho modo of oxproprintlon, and tho method of dlBposnl or private estates, es-tates, and tho end Is not yet In sight. Tho determination to expropriate church lands which, In distinction to the grent estates owned by tho monasteries, mon-asteries, llo scattered like tho lands of tho common schools In Amcrlcn In small tracts throughout tho country nnd support tho local clergy, "will causo complications. Buch action would deprive the parish priests ot tho principal part of their scanty emoluments nnd necessitate nn equivalent equiv-alent from some other source. A correspondent who has Just made a tour of the provinces of Samara and Saratov reports that tho drouth Is finally broken, but the rains havo como too late to savo the crop and help tho peasants, who are In a pitiable pitia-ble condition. Tholr cattlo have either eith-er beon sold or are starving in tho field. |
