The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-08-20
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decision that will interest several hum
| nounced by the internal revenue commission
er on Friday. 1t is, in brief, that every
rent receipt that states what premises the
rent is paid for must bear 25-cent stamp.
If it merely acknowledges the receipt of
money for rent no stamp need be used.
but If it contains any phrase clause
which describes the premises or that can
be construed as a contract for the hire, use
or rent" then it must be stamped. AS all
rent receipts in New York are given Tor
rent paid for certain premises, and If in ad-
vance, as is the rue, are contracts for the
use of the premises during the time for
which rent is paid, all tenement and fiat
house receipts to be valid must be stamped.
But no landlord is obliged by law to give a
| receipt, and the enforcement of this stamp
tax will create large amount of dissension.
New York World.
1.-THE suspension of hosilities furnishes
opportune occasion for change at the head
of the war department" says the Phiiadel-
phia Record Oem.). "Unless the president
shall dismiss A.ger he must shoulder Alger
and become responsible to the country for
Algerism.'
The one serious drawback in the conduct
of our brief war with Spain was mismanage
ment in purely administrative work for the
army 1t was wholly due to partisan and
| personal politics, where all attention should
have been given to careful system, and to
capacity and fidelity for the service to be
DONE
The consequences were bad, and were saved
| from being scandalous by the fortunate turn
of events. If we had been in a serious strug-
| gle with a powerful nation, they would have
| been disastrous in cost of life and treasure,
II not in permanent results. 1t was the In
! lection of politics shat did the mischief. The
navy was free from it. Hence its unsullied
| and glorious record in the war. 1t has raised
| the nation in the esteem of the whole world.
| the management of its interests has put US
to shame.-New York Times.
| President Mckinley has lived at perfect
peace with the senate, finding it, on tire
whole, a kind master. Perhaps he has not
perceived however that he has now estab-
lished the senate in the usurpation Of power
at which it has been long aiming. We refer
| to the treatymaking power, which now has
passed away from the executive to the SEN
ate. Under the guise of the ratifying power,
| the senate has at last worked into a posi-
ton where it practically initiates and negoti-
ates treaties. This intention clearly re-
vealed in the debates on the arbitration
| treaty, one Of the favorite amendments being
| that arbitration should not apply to sub
| jects except those to which the Senate might
| have agreed in advance That proposal fell
| with the fall of the whole treaty; but now,
| in practice, the senate sees its contention
granted Mr. Mckinley agrees that no treaty
shall be submitted to it except in such terms
| as it shall have accepted in advance. This
| makes the work of ratification easy, If a
good deal of a farce. 1t would be an OBJ
stinate senate indeed that would not ratify
| what it had dictated.
u. It may be said that this new way of max
spirit of a democracy. The president sounds
| the senate. the senate sounds the country,
and so in slow and foundering way the will
| Of the people is executed. This may be So
but 1t is certainly not the method by which
! a democracy is to be led, in distinction from
| being given its head; it is certainly not the
| way of making treaties which the trainers
of the constitution contemplated.-New York
Post
eff the ideal could be had, not a man In
congress connected with the admnistra-
| ton would be allowed to become pecuniari-
ly benefited by the military occupation Of
conquered territory" the Boston Advertiser
| Rep) says. "Such a condition Is not to be
| expected, but this at least the people Of the
country have reason to expect, that no special
| favors will be granted, directly or indirect.
/ ~. to syndicates of senators. or to those
| having personal connections with the war
department. If this public expectation is not
fulfilled, the suffering of the honest men who
! have lost their lives or their health in bring
| ing freedom to these islands will be stained
by the grasping selfshness Of such men,.
We cannot ''hold" anything which we
neither possess in fact nor claim in our
| protocol. II President Mckinley had desired
to annex the Philippines or to free them for
| Independent government. his terms of peace
icin 70 hot
effect, as they do in regard to Porto Rico
and Cuba to the lesser West Indian islands
and an island Of the Ladrones.
The commissioners will no doubt see that
the treaty of peace provides for the reten-
ton by US Of 1.-THE city, bay and harbor of
Manila" and for just and humane govern
ment for the islands. Beyond this the presi-
dent has shown no disposition to go, and in
this attitude he will be sustained by the
| country.-New York World.