The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-05-31

The amendment relating to Cuba, as
proposed by Senator Platt, of Connecti-
cut, appended to the general army bill
and adopted in February of this year,
contained the following provisions: %
That Cuba shall never enter into a treaty
or compact with foreign power to i'm
pair her own independence or permit for
eign powers to establish colonies, or to
obtain any military, naval or other con-
troll over the island; % that Cuba shall
not contract any public debt which the
ordinary revenues of the island shall be
Inadequate 60 meet; GO that Cuba con-
sents that the United States shall have
the right to intervene to maintain Cuban
independence If other powers interfere
and also to secure a government at all
times adequate to the protection of life,
property and individual liberty; "a that
all acts of the United States in Cuba
during the military occupation are ratified
and validated; co. that Cuba shall exc
cute and carry on the plans devised and
agreed upon for the sanitation of the ISL
and; 60 that the Isle of Pines shall be
omitted from the constitutional bounda-
ries of Cuba, the title thereto being left
to future adjustment by treaty; "a that
Cuba will sell or lease to the United
State Stands necessary for coaling or
naval stations at certain specified points
to be agreed upon by the President of
the United States, ard 60 that Cuba will
embody the foregoing provisions in a per-
manent treaty with the United States.
There are no restrictions upon immigra-
ton, except as involved in a relating to
military colonies, and in (0 relating to
sanitation and reasonable quarantine reg
ulations.
There are queer ways of making a liv-
ing in this world, says the New York
Post One of them, which seems to have
been extraordinarily lucrative. has just
been revealed in a trial which has been
going on for number of weeks at Elber-
field, in Prussia The accused, a man
named Baumann, conceived an ingenious
plan of turning the Consumption law to
profitable account by enabling recruits to
escape military service. He did not adopt
any of the old and clumsy methods such
as mutiation or the administration of
drugs, which affect, temporarily, the ac-
ton of the heart, but simply made it his
business to know the depots where the
army surgeons were most exacting in the
matter of physical condition, and most
likely to attach Importance to slight phys
ical defects. For this special information,
he was able to get considerable sums
without, apparently, doing anything to
put him within the reach of the law. He
was arrested, nevertheless, and brought
to trial on the charge of intent to procure
fraudulent exemption, a rather vague Of
Tense. 1t served its purpose, however.
Any number of witnesses testified to hav-
ing paid him money, the usual amount
being about $3.50, and he was promptly
convicted. His accommodations must have
been large, for he had been doing thriv-
ing trade for years. He was sentenced
to seven years Imprisonment and five
years deprivation of civil rights. Several
of his customers, including fathers of re-
cruits, who had paid for their sons ex-
emption, were also sent to jail for brief
periods.
During Victoria's reign there were
three royal palaces kept up at public ex-
pense in which the royal family never
lived, and now in King Edwards reign
two will be added to the number, so that
the British taxpayer will have to foot the
bills, not only of Hampton Court, Ken
sington and st. James palace, but Os-
borne and Balmoral as we'll, for the King,
who likes neither of these places, has
said that he would not use them. They
will cost him the neat little sum of $155,
600 a year, which make them, to say the
least, an expensive luxury. 1t has been a
tradition since the commonwealth dealt
with the crown estates that no palaces
! should be demolished or sold. This has
been violated but twice-by the sale of
| Carlton House, the home of the prince
regent, afterward George w, and of the
Pavilion. KensiEgton Palace was bough;
| by William III, because he thought
| Whitehall disagreed with him. Bucking-
ham Palace was bought as a dover house
| for Queen Cha r1Ofta a a, Il
ST. James are used as homes for needy
aristocrats who become pensioners of the
crown and Kensington Palace has been
turned into a sort of museum of Queen
Victoria's dolls and playthings. 1t is hard
| ~ to be wondered at that the British tax
payer grumbles somewhat at having two
big palaces added to the already long list
of costly and useless ones.
What surgeons consider a remarka.
BILE case of fracture and knitting of the
| thigh bone has been experienced by Au.
| gust q. Blimmer, 531 Garfield avenue
says the Chicago Journal. The fracture
was caused by muscular contraction, and
was complete. Within two weeks from the
time his leg was broken the patient was
at his office in the House Insurance
Building, Thursday, walking without
clutches. Mr.. Blimmer, who is prominent
among North Side bowlers, met some
friends in bowling alley near Lincoln
Park on the night of May 1. As he was
about to cast his ball he fell in a twisted
manner, and it was found that his fe.
muir bone had been fractured. He was
taken home in cab and put in board
| splints, with heavy weight attached Il
his foot. This treatment was so painful
that the surgeon put on a modern pneu
matte splint, with the phenomenal result
| that the patient walked down four flight,