File No. 861.01/17
The Russian Ambassador (Bakhmeteff) to the Secretary of State
Washington, November 11,
1918.
[Received November
12.]
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Supplementary to my
letter of November 9,1 I have the honor to transmit to you paraphrase
of cable received from Omsk, concerning the formation of the
all-Russian government.
Accept [etc.]
[Page 429]
[Enclosure—Telegram—Paraphrase]
Relations between the All-Russian Government
and the Siberian Government
Omsk, undated.
[Received by the Russian Embassy, November 9,
1918.]
Am transmitting for your information extracts from decree of
November 4 of all-Russian government.
The Siberian government has transferred the plenitude of power to
the provisional all-Russian government.
It has been resolved:
- 1.
- Owing to the creation of central governmental
institutions, all the regional governments and
representative bodies should cease to exist.
- 2.
- The formation anew of regional institutions is only
possible after the all-Russian government will have
recognized the right of certain regions to autonomous
rule and after the supreme power will have in detail
defined limits of competence of the regional
institutions in questions of regional bearing.
- 3.
- The all-Russian government recognizes the already
existing regional legislative acts; the amendment and
annulment of such acts will be effected in the general
legislative order.
- 4.
- In order to organize the all-Russian government with
the greatest expediency, the central governmental bodies
of the Siberian government shall act in the capacity of
all-Russian bodies; alteration of these bodies and of
their personnel will be effected in the general
legislative order.
- 5.
- Establishing the unity of the Russian Army to be
subordinate to a single supreme command, the all-Russian
government grants certain units of this army regional
denominations; such units are also allowed to have
distinctive standards besides the national three-colored
banner.
The Directory is composed of members as previously announced. The
Cabinet consists of the following persons: President, Vologodski; Vice President,
Vinogradov; Minister of War and Navy,
Admiral Kolchak;
temporary chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Klyuchnikov; Minister of Interior,
Gattenberg; Minister of Supplies,
Serebryannikov; Minister of Finance,
Mikhailov; Food Administrator,
Zefirov; Minister of Justice,
Starynkevich; Minister of Ways of
Communication, Ustrugov;
Minister of Public Instruction,
Sapozhnikov; Minister of Labor,
Shumilovski; Minister of Agriculture,
Petrov; Minister of Commerce and
Industry (temporarily) Shchukin; Minister
of Post and Telegraph, Tseslinski; State
Controller, Krasnov;
Manager of the Affairs of the Council of Ministers, Telberg.
