_Second_, to point to the necessity of abolishing the present
discriminating legislation concerning the Jews, this abolition being
the only means to regulate the relationship of the Jewish population
to the original inhabitants.

_Third_, to bring to the knowledge of the Government the passive
attitude of the authorities which had clearly manifested itself
during the time of the disorders.

_Fourth_, to petition the Government to find means for compensating
the Jewish population, which had suffered from the pogroms as a
result of inadequate police protection.

At the same time the conference took occasion to refute the old
accusation, which had again been brought up in the gubernatorial
commissions, that the Jews still retained their ancient autonomous Kahal
organization, and that the latter was operating secretly and was
fostering Jewish separatism to the detriment of the other elements of
the population.

The resolution of the conference on this score read as follows:

We, the undersigned, the representatives of various centers of
Jewish settlement in Russia, rabbis, members of religious
organizations and synagogue boards, consider it our sacred duty,
calling to witness God Omniscient, to declare publicly, in the
presence of the whole of Russia, that there exists neither an open
nor a secret Kahal administration among the Russian Jews; that
Jewish life is entirely foreign to any organization of this kind and
to any of the attributes ascribed to such an organization by evil