Show WANT representation jan as tb at Tur idaa at its fant meeting ot the year today adopted the following address to the taurma congratulates your majesty as veil as the on the birth of an belr to ibo throne etoia event ia a terrible year of national grief a yar of cruel and bloody war a year ot bitter internal disorder let peace dawn ou russia and her frontiers that in the best elsh russian subjects can express at the cradle ot your son your decree of dec 25 held out to the nation hopes of internal peace in the future which everywhere is dependent on tha preservation and maintain ence of the law and equal rights 0 citizens on freedom of conscience and religion freedom of speech and the press freedom of association and public meeting sire we are strongly convinced that of all our great intentions tor their inviolability can only bo by the of elected representatives of the whole nation in tha power we sincerely believe that in the union of the power of the state with mat of the people can be found the only pledge for the complete development of the productive forces ot the country if you summon i representatives of the nation to take part in legislation finance and administrative control and of the law and the intentions of your imperial majesty you will make russia powerful and invincible from without and flourishing within her borders in the light of right and truth PROMISE BETTER THINGS st petersburg jan 23 the following proclamation issued by governor general and minister of cnance will be posted in the streets tomorrow 1 workmen should assist the government in its tranquilizing task in behalf i of the of their condition thib they can accomplish onty by hold ins themselves aloot from to menters of disturbance who are alien to the workmen true interest and to the count rys wel faer let them return to their ordinary labor which la as needful for the country as for themselves for they their wives and children must suffer distress and returning to work let the people be assured that their needs are as near the emperors heart as those of all his maje true subjects that only recently of his own free will the emperor commanded that tho question of insurance be taken up with the object of securing them against disablement or sickness that this measure does not exhaust his maje anxiety for the well being of the working classes for at the same time the emperor sent an order instructing the ministry ot finance to draft a law shortening the hours of labor and for the elaboration of such measures as will legalize work mens discussions of their needs the proclamation which it Is announced was issued by the emperors order in its preamble recounts the origin of the recent events and declared that evil deposed persons used the workmen as their tools leading them astray by false and impossible promises it says the result of this criminal agitation ha been breaches of the peace involving tho inevitable intervention of armed forces these evil wishers have not been restrained even by the difficulties ia which tho fatherland is involved in a time of trying war while the workmen their blind tools have disregarded the fact that demands were being mado in their name which haa nothing in common with their needs besides forgetting that the government always has shown and ever will abow itself considerate of their needs and la now ready to listen attentively tent ively to their just desires and satisfy ittem wherever possible to this end the government requires above all the restoration of order and the return of workmen because in times of disturbance ane governments well intended efforts satisfaction of the work mens demands however just la out of the question st petersburg jan 25 abo council of the polytechnic institute today adopted the following resolution one of the members of tho family of the polytechnic institute of st petersburg burg tho student died a violent death shot on january 22 in the alexander gardens was one of the victims of the butchery against a peaceful unarmed crowd the council of the institute being revolted and depressed by the acts of january 22 which prove that in russia tho very lives of peaceable bluzena are unsafe expresses profound indignation on account of tho general firing one of the victims of which ws the student the council finds that peace under abo present conditions existing is absolutely and resolves first to inform tho minister of finance of the opinions 0 the council regarding the events of january 22 second to suspend lectures la the institute and third to defray the cost ot the funeral of Sav inkin the students of the institute sent a delegation to the director declaring their agreement with the resolutions fourteen bembera of the of on the volga miles couth southwest of kazan haw adopted the following resolutions during our whole lives we bavo been forced to observe silence in all our new ideal the authorities eee spectres spec tres threatening to destroy the foundations or the state for forty years wa have said all is well been so accustomed to this course that to aay otherwise would have been a political crime this attitude on the part of ohp people debased to flavory has ledi russia to a crisis through which be cannot barely bo brought by palliatives or halt measures russia Is on tho road to complete ruin and the fatherland la threatened with terrible danger not alone by the foreign with whom she Is now struggling but by an internal too against alio bureaucracy haa so conff been fighting with disastrous results the aes ues la the prostration of abo gendal development of the country the had no opportunity 0 fresly and honorably took measures to prevent the president of the proposed an amendment to alila resolution but our duty lo 10 the fatherland and us to refuse to voto iho address in tho form he suggested it la a calmo to shut our eyed to abo condition of the country pree y elected representatives alono can libei alq russia these representatives would point to russia tind the emperor a new path to and glory |