Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-13
, lklSH SEEk KELLER
Reform in the System Of Taxation is the
Thing Now Demanded.
PAY TOO MUCH TRIBUTE TO ENGLAND
Eleven Millions Annually in Excess Of
Just Proportion.
RUSSELL-SC0TT CASE MAY SOON END
Retraction Of Statements Looked for on
Resumption of the Trial.
SSELL-SCOTT CASE MAY SOON END
STEAD'S SENSATION FALLS RATHER FLAT
His Exposure of the Inside History of
the jameson Raid Proves
disappointment to
the Public.



LONDON, Dec l2.-(New York World
Cablegram-Special Telegram)-A remark
able movement has begun in ireland, with
the object of obtaining a revision Of the
financial relations between that country and
Great Britain In accordance with a re-
port OF the recent royal commission, the
unionsts and the nationalists are combin-
Ing in the agitation. A leading Irish tory
paper predicts this week that the Irish rep
resentatives will present a solid front to
the British government on this question.
Ireland now pays e. $50 900 ($11 $50, ,OOO) a
year more than in fairness she should, and
the aim of this new Irish commission is to
obtain not only ar immediate reduction of
the Irish contribution, but the restitution
OF at least some part OF the money unfairly
extorted from her since the union.
The death in prison of Kast one of the
four defendants in the Russel-Scott Grim
fnal libel suit. is likely to have an impor-
tant effect on the result of the trial. Lady
Scott now declares that she relied chiefly
on Kas: to Justify the abominabe accusa-
tions she made against her son-in-law, and
that his death greatly weakens her case.
Lady Scot; herself is lying Ill with a COM
plication of bronchitis and threatened brain
fever, the ordeal OF the trial and its serious
possibilities Tor her having undermined her
health. In the first days of his illness Kast
dictated statement concerning the charges
against Earl RUSSELL which will be produced
on the resumption OF the trial after Christ
mas. This statement is reported to be a
retraction, but as 1t remains in the hands
OF the prison authorities, nothing authentic
can be ascertained respecting it's nature.
II 1t is retraction, it will bring the suit
to sudden and sensational end.
sTEAD'S EXPOSE A DISAPPOINTMENT.
Although w. T. Steads promised expos-
nre OF the inside official history of the
jameson raid proves disappointing, it has
1i0An addsd- strenstb 10 tho -s,r1pi ioion hat
Cecil Rhodes had good grounds for belicy-
ing that the Transvaal enterprise, II sue
cessful, would not be distatesful to the
British government. Mr.. Stead was pre-
vented from publishing proofs of this in
MS possession but he now asserts that evi-
dence Will be produced before Parlia-
montary committee at the next session.
proving to demonstration that though
colonial Secretary Chamberlain did not
countenance the actual raid he conveniently
"inked at the arrangements for assembling
Dr. Jamesons force on the Boer frontier
II this accusation were sustained II would
mean Impeachment for Chamberlain but
II is doubted If so singuarly straight a
man would place himself In so compromis-
Ing position. Sir John Willoughby and
other officers under Jameson. who were
tried with him, will testify in support of
these allegations before the committee
Rhodes and jameson also will be on the
witness stand.
The reported opposition in Venezuela
to the arbitration arrangement is not re-
garded here as serious as long as the United
States government gives no countenance to
1t. The Chronicle suggests that the Vene-
zuelan irreconcllabes probably hope to use
the opposition of the treaty as a lever with
which to upset President Crespo. There is
practically unanimous feeling among En-
glish politicians that the British govern
ment has gone to the utmost limit in the
concessions in regard to Venezuela. Lord
Salisbury would get a solid hacking in re-
fusing to accedo TO any further demand by
Venezuela
SYMPATHY FOR SPAIN FALLS.
Nothing that spanards have done
throughout tho Cuban trouble has so thor
oughly alienated English sympathy from
lHcHl as NutiE uuiluulN ADMINISTRATIONS OF
delight over the reported death of General
Macco. The cynical brutality with which
even the Spanish officers have recited the
revolving details of his murder by one of
their soldiers engaged in looting corpses
and the statement made apparently with
gusto, that the bodies OF Macoo and young
Gomez were tied TO horses tails and
dragged for miles, have conveyed to the
spirit which actuated Spanards on the raid
toward thc Cpbans. Hitherto the reports of
Spanish sayagery have been received skep-
ticnlly, but the Spanards have now shown
themselves before the world in worse light
than that in which their enemies had
painted them. BALLARD SMITH.