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Show FOn REFORM IN RUSSIA. Czar's Ministers Said to Favor Granting Grant-ing a Constitution. Dispatches from St. Petersburg State that Finance Minister De Witte and fer-Cfe Win Minister De Witte. . Minister of the Interior Plehwe have reached a settlement of the recent difficulties dif-ficulties between them. The terms of the settlement, however, are not known. Both ministers are now being quoted in the most positive terms as self-confessed constitutionalists,, and as ready to advocate constitutional re forms in Russia as soon as the country shall be ripe for them. Minister De Witte has admitted to President Shipov of the Moscow zemstvo executive committee that the constitutional era is ' approaching ap-proaching rapidly. The Zemstvo people say that Minister von Plehwe has expressed himself in the same sense in private conversations, although somewhat more guardedly. M. von Plehwe is reported to have 'said: "I am convinced that a constitution consti-tution is necessary in Russia, but there is a great deal of preparatory work to be done first." |