Le Temps, 30.IX, also reports on a private meeting at Prince Dolgorukov’s. Milyukov and Kovalevsky argued with Stead, who vouched for the government’s sincerity, and proved that the government cannot be trusted and that the Duma must be used solely as an instrument of struggle.

ibid. “Members of the Constitutional Democratic Party held a special meeting this morning (evidently September 28 or 29).”

Ibid. On Thursday, by all votes against one, the congress voted for the autonomy of Poland.

Agrarian question. The bureau’s draft: the state’s right to expropriate privately-owned lands for distribution among the peasants. Rejected. A resolution was adopted on the need to ensure le morcellement des terres and to reform the conditions of use (jouissance) of privately-owned lands (des propriétés foncières).