 The motion was proposed by General Yevdokimov and supported by Baryatinsky and Miliutin, only Filipson objecting.Tsar Alexander II endorsed the plans, and Milyutin later would become the minister of war in 1861, and from the early 1860s expulsions began occurring in the Caucasus (first in the Northeast and then in the Northwest).The tribes were to be given the choice of emigrating to the Ottoman Empire or of settling north in the Kuban.