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Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
USING DuMDUM BULLETS.
Great Britain Deliberately Increases
the Horrors of War.

Philadelphia Ledger.
At the outbreak of the war between Eng
land and the Transyaal the former made
public announcement that she would not
use dumdum bullets, but coniine herself to
such as are recognized by the other powers
as proper in conducting civilized warfare.
There was much Indignation expressed
throughout Great Britain when it was
claimed that the Beers occasionally used the
missiles, If report be true, England seems
to forgotten her Indignation against the
Beers for using dumdums, and to be on the
point herself of violating her pledge not to
use them. The report which leads to this
conclusion is that, in consequence of Lee
Metford cartridges running short in the
magazines, the war Office purposes to fall
back temporarily upon 100, 600, 900 Mark
V expanding bullets. 1t is announced that
fifty rounds are to be served to each volun-
teer, but with strict injunction that they are
to be used only in rifle practice, and not to
be taken to South Africa. The force OF this
prohibition is weakened greatly, however, by
the further statement that the greater part
Of the supply of the Mark "" bullets are
already stored in the British magazines in
South Africa.
II is true that England refused in the
Peace conference TO agree TO the abolition
of the dumdum bullet, and therefore would,
under ordinary circumstances, have a tech
meal light to use such missiles If she so
determines; but in this instance their en-
ployment would be a serious breach OF faith,
because she had made public announcement
that she would not DO so, But there is a
graver and stronger reason why such bullets
should not be used, namely, the inhumanlty
OF the act, The Beers are a civilized people,
and waging war on lines approved by the
most civilized nations, For England to treat
them as she would sayages, and employ
the same methods in battle, would place her
in a bad light with the other nations OF the
world and invite a like procedure on the
part Of the Beers. War is at best a terrible
thing, and civilized nations owe it to them
selves to strive their utmost 10 mitigate
its horrors. The use OF dumdum bullets
adds to, does not tighten, the surerings Of
battle. England did not agree at The Hague
conference not to use the missiles, but hui
manity demands that she should not employ
them in the war with the Transyaal.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
AN TASK.
Congress- GrappIes with Question,
"Whnt Does United states Mean {"

IlcNeldIu ram DedlSI.
The house committee on ways and means
took a judicious step in appointing from its
membership a committee of five to report
the authorities and the law as to the mean
ing of the term United States in that
section of the constitution which provides
that ''all duties, imposts and excuses shall
be uniform throughout the United States"
The question to be determined is whether
this means simply the area actually in
cluded within the boundaries of the states,
or whether it cover also the %erritory be-
longing to the United States. Although not
specifically mentioned in the resolution, the
committee will necessarily have also to
consider the eA act meaning of the provisions
in another section of the constitution that
the congress shall have power to dispose
of and make all needed rules and regula-
tions respecting the territory or other prop
erty belonging to the United States"
On these two clauses of the constitution
rests the whole question of the relations
Of our 'island possessions" to the United
States government. If the committee finds
that in the first quoted clause the meaning
of the constitution is that only the area
within the limits of organized states is
meant, then the power of congress to i'm
pose what duties, imposts or excuses it sees
fit in Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Philip
pines is sustained. But that also carries
the construction that special duties, imposts
and excuses may be levied in New Mexico,
Arizona, Oklahoma, Alaska and the District
Of COlumbia-a contention that has not
hitherto been set up.
Should il be determined that by the term
United States is meant both the states
and the territories that may be regarded as
inch ate states and that duties, imposts and
excuses must be uniform throughout that en-
tire area, then will come the question how
the other quoted clause must be construed.
Are the island possessions" so far different
from other territories that congress- can do
as it sees fit with them as territory or
other property" not included in the scope
of the language, throughout the United
States?'
1t will be seen that the task assigned to
the committee Of five is a very important
one. The committee is composed Of three
republicans, Dal2ell of Pennsylvania, Gros-
venor Of Ohio and Hopkins Of Illinois; one
democrat, Richardson of Tennessee, and one
silver republican, Newlands of Nevada. All
are members Of much experience, having
served several terms in congress, and II their
report should be unanimous IT will carry
much weight in congress and with the coun-
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
TMPUDENT PAPER TRUST.
SAMPLE instance OF the Economies
Promised by the Combine.
New York World.

On Thursday the joint committee on print
ing cf the house and senate opened the bids
for supplying the government with printing.
writing and other papers for the year be-
ginning July /. 1t was very notifying to
discover that while there was a notable de-
crease in the number Of competing bidders
there was an equally noticeable increase in
the prices charged in the bidG.
This is the plain answer OF fact to the
hypocritical ~pretonse put forward by the
trust organizers that their better methods
Of production reduce cost to the producer
and price to the consumer.
The impudent Paper trust, protected on
one side by an Illegal combination and on
tho other side by a e.upid tariff, increases
prices instead of reducing them, not only
to it's private customers, but even 10 the
government itself, whose bounty protects 1t
and whose legislation II dedes.
Let US hope that the Paper trust will
squeeze the government to the init. Such
an object lesson on trusts would be worth
all it may cost,
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
Personal POINTERS.

In other words, Elihu Root does not feel
called upon to give up a $50, 900 practice in
order to fight for an $4,000 job.
The now lightweight champion pugilist
doesn't drink, chew nor swear. Now If he
would quit fighting he might turn out to be
quite q man.
The Anglican archbishop of the West In
dies has ordered a prayer to be offered in all
the churches under his jurisdiction for the
success of the British arms in South
Africa.
Let the rest of the world wag as it may,
New Jersey is happy. That state is out of
debt, thanks to the big trusts which have
contributed so largely in organization fees
TO its treasury.
The supreme courts of Massachusetts
and Illinois have affirmed the constitution l.
ality of the Torrens land transfer laws.
These presidents should accelerate a de-
sirable reform.
Congressman Berry Of Kentucky has in
troduced a bill providing for the coinage
of Scent pieces with a round hole in the
center. The prospects of getting back to
the wampum of the pure natives is
Frightening.
In haunting scorn the Boston Globe says
the correspondent of one of its contempt
raries didn't know how to spell Chaubuna-
gungamaug. His dispatch says the boy
was drowned lin the big lake near the
pumping station"
Portugal did not jump at Britain's tempt
ing bait in the shape of a loan. Inferior
monarchies occasionally show that a sur
gical operation is not necessary to see as
far as Delagoa bay. Thus is the gaiety of
the world enriched.
Congressman Levy of New York has a
unique way of explaining the proper pro-
nunciation of his name. Says he: Now,
if have a mortgage on your store what do
l do? Do levi on it or do l levy on it?
You can safely bet | don't levi on it. My
name is not Levi"
Fire Chief Swenie of Chicago reports that
there were 1856 fires in that city in 1899 re-
sulting from the use of gasoline, the total
loss amounting to about $2O5, 900. Six per-
sons were killed and thirty-four were burned
by gasoline explosions during the year.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts of the British
army wears honors emitting him to put a
formidable list of initials after his name.
He is Baron Roberts of Kandahar and
Waterford, p. c., X. p, G. c. b." G. c.. S,
l.. G. C. /. E., V. c., d. c. L., Ii. d.
Isidor Cohen of New York City has intro
duced a bill in the New York Legislature
requiring all hacks, cabs and automobiles
licensed for hire by the public to be equipped
with a cyclometer or other automatic device
for measuring and recording the distance
Travelled, the machine to be placed in such a
way to be in plain sight of the passenger.
The purpose of the bill is to prevent hack
men from overcharging their patrons.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
THREE UNHAPPY WOMEN.
Conspicuous i'm the History of France
and Mexico.
M~lnneapolis Tim

Minneapolis Times.
The death Of Madame Bazaine in a hos
pital in Mexico a day or two ago removes
the first of three famous and unhappy
women whose histories are closely inter-
twined and whose ambitious schemes have
helped to shape the destiny Of France. The
other two are C%arlotta, the widow of the
ill-starred Emperor Macmillan of Mex
leo, and Eugene, the widow of Napoleon
III, emperor of the French.
Madame Bazaine was a Mexican lady and
the friend of Empress Carlotta. When she
became the wife of General Bazaine, a
marshal of France, Emperor Macmillan
gave her a princely dover. She encouraged
her husbands ambitious projects and re-
NAMED loyal to him through his mis-
fortunes. When he was sentenced to be
degraded and shot for having capitulated
to the m at Metz without having
exhausted all his means of defense, his
wife succeeded in getting his sentence COM
muted to twenty years Imprisonment with
out military degradation. Shortly after
wards she effected his escape from prison
and was his comfort and stay until his death
in 1883.
Madame Bazaine's friend and patroness,
the Empress Carlotta. is still living in an
insane asylum at Brussels. She is the
daughter of King Leopold of Belgium.
When her husband, Macmillan, was COM
PEELED to abandon all hope of succeeding
to the crown of Austria, she encouraged
him to accept the offer of Napoleon III to
make him emperor of Mexico. When Max
imilian was hard pressed by the republican
troops in Mexico, she went to France and
appealed for assistance to Napoleon and Eu-
genie. Her appeal was refused and she be-
came insane. 1t is said that she does not
to this day know that her husband was shot
in Mexico thirty-three years ago.
Eugene de Montijo, the widow of En-
peror Napoleon III, has been no less un-
happy than her two friends, Madame Ba-
zaine and the Empress Carlotta. She lives
a sad and lonely woman at Chiselhurst,
England. The overthrow of the French en-
pire and the eXpatriation and death of her
husband crushed her ambitious spirit, and
her bereavement was completed in 1879
when her only son was killed while fighting
against the Zulus in South Africa.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Springfield lMHSS) kcnubUCan.
The blundor of the war is seen in it's pro-
foundest phase in the fact that it is not
knitting together The English-speaking
races, but rendering their harmony more
difficult and their possible union more pre-
carious. Statesmen like Chamberlain Will
never bring about the reunion of the Eng
disappearing world. The England that all
America loved was the England of Glad
stone, who, in spite of his faults, carried his
country to higher moral planes and to
loftier achievements of magnanimity than
any England the world had known. If that
England is dead beyond resurrection, as they
say, then the worse for the English-speaking
race and its bonds of unity.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
TO PRESS THE CANAL BILL.

The house committee on interstate
Hepburn, to report the Nicaragua canal
bill. 1t is said to be probable that this
measure will be accepted by the senate
committee on interOCeanic canals, in
which event there will be n united move
ment on the part of the Nicaragua route
advocates in both houses to secure the
passage of the bill at this session. not
waiting for the report of the commission
authorized by the last congress to in.
vestigate all the routes. a Washington
dispatch says there is reason for the be
lief that Mr.. Hepburn and others have
been assured by the president that he
earnestly desires the passage Of the ca
nal bill this session, but it is very doubt
full if the president has expressed such
Il desire to any one. He is in favor of
an iSthmian canal, but ii Is safe to as
sumo that he is disposed to wait for the
report of the commission before taking
any action in the matter, doubtless I'M
Outstanding that public sentiment favors
this.
The bill Of the house committee au,
thorizes the president to acquire from
Costa ltica and Nicaragua control of the
territory desirable and necessary for a
canal connecting the Caribbean sea ana
the Pacific, and when this shall have
been secured the secretary of war is dl.
rected to proceed with the construction
of Il canal. The sum of $4,000 900. or
SO much thereof as may be necessary,
is appropriated for the work. This
amount Is a little above the estimate
made by the first commission of engi-
neers, but is a great deal below the
highest estimates that have been made
and doubtless is many millions less than
the canal would cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
LIES UNCERTAINTIES.
Washington Star.

" wa SN'h
When the day is dull and busy and the air
is full of noise
We dream of prospects fair and far away,
Some place whore all the sweetness and the
blooming never clogs
And the silent hours go drifting day by
day.
But a voice-'tis much like conscience
speaks in most emphatic tone
And awakens us anew to diScontents.
1t Interrupts the dreaming and bids all our
hopes be flown
With How about the dollars and the
cents"
OH, the king sat sadly musing OF the Won
drous good he'd do
When he somehow got his royal way at
last.
And the jester vowed he'd wear n garb
which all he world would view
With deep respect. The motley far he'd
cast.
And the tradesman said he'd be a man of
fine and studious wien,
And the scholar said he'd follow chosen
bents;
But they all were set to Flooding through
the old familiar scene
BY How about the dollars and the
Ccnts?'
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
work Ahead for s. wortd-rowcr.

IL England and Japan are attacked in
Asia we may have to help them out, II
Germany pursues its designs on Brazil we
may have to repel her with words or war
ships. If the Filipinos continue obstreperous
we may have to keep a considerable force
there. If we build an isthmian canal we
shall have to police it. If France proceeds
to occupy Santo Domingo we shall have to
put her out. If Russia closes her Asiatic
ports to us We shall have to demonstrate.
Some show of force may vet be necessary
to secure our Alaska miners their rights
or collect our bills from Turkey.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
INTERSTATE COMMISSION REPoI

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The annual report of the Interstate
Commerce commission rcncws the rec
concentrations of previous reports for
amendments to the interstate com
merce law that will make it more cffcc-
tive. This annual appeal 10 cUngre- $
is familiar to the public and the pres,
ent one offers nothing essentially new
in support of it. 1t is urged that if the
law is permitted to stand rs it is the
best efforts at regulation must be feeble
and disappointing and it is declared
that the existing situation and the Gevel-
opmcnts of the past year render more
imperative than ever before the neces-
sity for speedy and suitable legislation.
The report says that the commission or
any other tribunal or court is powerless
TO limit the charge which n railroad
company may please to make for its
service, so that in this respect the law
is practically worthless.
\ bill prepared by tie commission pro
yiding for the desired amendments ha
been introduced 10y Senator Cullom ana
is now in the hands of a senate commit
tee. This measure has received the en-
| dorsement of many manufacturers, mer-
chants and others, whose Judgment
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

ONE or OMAHA'S PRESSING NEEDS.
Kansas city is celebrating the com
pletiOn of an electric motor line 10 Lcav-
enworth. This. however, is only one
of several suburban electric roads that
connect Kansas city with the surround.
ing villages and towns within the radius
of thirty miles.
In this respect Kansas city is by no
mean the pioneer. Every city of conSe-
Qucncc in the eastern and central states
is making itself the hub of a network Of
suburban railroads by which it Is
brought in close contact with the people
who are the natural patrons of its retail
merchants, amusement places and cdu-
cational institutions. Some OF these sub
urban electric lines and connections cN-
tend IA distance Of over fifty miles. For
example, Cleveland, o., has recently
completed an electric rOad to Ashtabula,
about fifty miles distant. while another
of its lines o goes to Elyria and is
being extended to Norwalk, forty miles
from Cleveland.
1t seems to us the time has come for
Omaha to take active steps looking to-
ward the building of II system of sub
urban electric railroads. \ good open
ing exists for several such lines, which
would be assured of paying patronage
from the outset if honestly capitalized
and economically managed. The cleo
trio line between Omaha and Council
Bluffs has proved a paying investment
even counting the expensive bridge
across the Missouri, which cost more
than all the rest of the line. The outlay
for right of way on such suburban lines
is comparatively insignificant. The
county roads are wide enough to permit
the laying of tracks without seriously
interfering with wagon traffic. The
county bridges for the most part are
strong enough to stand the wear and
tear of electric cars. All that is lacking
is organized capital to invest in the
hands of enterprising business men.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Some of the men who are so free TO
say how they would run IA newspaper If
they had one are reminder that numer-
Gus people have tried the experiment
who are not running newspapers now
because their own cash played out and
the money of others failed TO come in to
make good the deficit.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

The first thing the school board at
torney should do t. prove his efficiency
should he TO secure the dissolution OF
the injunction which keeps $4,000 OF
the peoples money lying idle in loca.
banks instead of being uSeI rs intended
to give employment to wageworkers and
artisans in the construction of Il sadly
needed new High school building.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

The county commissioners are pcram-
bulating the county in Il body on an in
spection tour of county roads with an
eye to the proposed location of new
bridges that will absorb $4,000 Of the
county's money. Planting new bridges
where they are not neeGed Is a rather
expensive pastime.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Kansas City continues to offer special
inducements for holdup artists. They
have given the railways Il rest and
started i'm ON local business houses. If
the ensus enumerator attempts to tabu-
late the returns of this houriShing in
dustry he will find n considerable task
ahead of him.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

TWTITT'OIN NTn0TTV0TT-
The critics who have been accusing the
American eagle OF supineness in not i'm
mcdiately twisting the British lions tail
in bis boak, are d'sagreeobly surprised to
find that, without even a scream, his talons
are firmly fixed in American flour bags,
Acknowledged TO be nnst the lions clutch.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Front seats at the Pretoria race track
appear to be in demand III present. 1t
is announced that the performance will
not be interfered with by parties getting
all finished.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

An amiable contemporary devotes con-
siderable space to the question, "Why
our jack tar wears wide trousers 1t
is evident from the explanation that we
were laboring under the dcluSlon that
Jackie wore them for the same reason
that other people of the same sex wear
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Colonel Maher should give his type
writer a rest from the ouerous duty of
Boer army and buy n ticket for New
York in time to catch The mex South
African steamer. Actions speak louder
thnn words.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

The free silver democrats in the IO1,n
legislature are cOngTatulating them
selves that the gold men We're magnani-
nous enough to allow Fred White to
be named as the party choice for SEN
ator without Il contest. 1t appears that
had Il division been called for Cato
Sells. Il gold man would either have
been selected or come within a very few
votes of it. Some Iowa democrats evil
IDENTIFY know what is the matter with
the party.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

The new street corner waste paper
boxes may not constitute IL thing of
beauty, but they might possibly prove
useful if citizens would wake up to the
duty devolving upon them to refrain
from throwing waste into the streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

In ii formal petition the chairman Of
the p%opulist state committee claims the
entire credit for the fusion victory in Ne
braska during the last campaign. He
forgets the work done by the un-Patri-
otic league Of Omaha in behalf of the
fusion ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

After the naturaliZed Englishman, the
naturalized IriShman and the natural.
lied Dutchwoman have had their say in
the double-ender. why not Interview a
few of the aboriginal Americans, They
would serve just as well as straw men
as any other
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

PARIS1 Jan. I5--EdWard, J0hn j. and
Philip Livingstone, living in New York, have
cabled Consul General Gowdy, claiming TO
be brothers and sole heirs II no viii is
found Of Lady Maria" Livingstone. the
eccentric woman whose death was announced
from here January 10. They requested that
the funeral rites be those Of the Protestant
Episcopal church and that the intermen.
take place in a Protestant cemetery.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Several democrats hiding behind the
name JackSonian are proposing lists of
eligible candidates for the forthcoming
democratic city ticket. From the result
of the contest in the democratic city
committee, by which the J]acksonians
were routed horse, foot and Dragon, it
might be advisable for the ambitious
oiliceseeker to crawl into the County
Democracy tent.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

The school board investigating com
mittee is expected to keep right on with
its work until it finishes the unpleasant
job. 1t cannot hope to strike such rich
leads every day rs were brought out in
the first sessions, but several question
able transactions G. the old board are
still TO be uncovered.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

1t is reported that the British soldiers
at Kimberley engaged in Il game Of
cricket while the bOmbardment was go
ing on. Possibly. But it would take a
really first-class reimbursement 10 make
"A cricket game lively enough to be in
fnrnntinn
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16
serve All Alike.

1t will be a great satisfaction to the pub
lie II the investigation Of the Montana sena-
torial bribery case should result in the equal
punishment and disgrace OF every person
who offered brides and every one who ac-
cepted them.
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16

Our amiable popocratic contemporary
seems to have forgotten 10 howl machine
ut the recent exhibition of the demo
cratic city committee, although no more
beautiful example of machine work has
ever been perpetrated in this commu-
rity
Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-16


The reOrganiZed bar ASSOCIATION can. if
so disposed, do much to expedite the
work of our courts and raise the judi
ciary and the legal fraternity in the csti-
nation of the public. Members of the
bar are supposed to be subject to an
unwritten code which prescrlbes certain
rules of action and fair play, but which
is too seldom enforced. ON the contrary.
of those cited for contempt of court,
~subornation of perjury and jury tamper-
ing in recent years probably three
fourths of them have been lawyers who
ought to have known What the law is.
The local bar association has never &C.
complished anything in this direction in
the past. The question is, Will it do
something now?