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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
PERSONAL NOTES.

President Roosevelt easily surpasses all
former presidents in the matter Of a family
turnout.
refuses to lecture. He seems to have the
singular notion that his time belongs to
his employers.
Booker T.. Washington's advice to the col
ored race is to buy land. raise crops and
save money. This kind of advice is equally
good for whites as we'll as blacks.
The sultan is preparing to transport
troops to the Balkans. He should remem-
Der the maneuvers Of the king Of France
and his 1000 men on a memorable occa-
sion.
Previous to his death. which occurred last
week, Policeman G. W. McNally OF Phila-
delphia obtained from his wife a promise
that she would keep his body in the house
ten days without burial, mourning his loss
meanwhile. Mrs. McNally is religiously
keeping her promise.
With the probably unrivaled record Of
having travelled 1900, 900 miles. Jacob NJ.
Zebley will be placed on the pension roll
Of the Pennsylvania railroad on March /,
after ifty-six years of continuous service
as baggage master. zebley, who is 10 years
old, began his career on the railroad In
1S47.
Several Of those formerly classed as ZEN
ergetic business men OF 81. Louis Just
find the local atmosphere dangerous to
their health and are responding to hurried
calls TO move TO more congenial climate.
The activity OF the grand jury in probing
into fake corporations accelerates the pace
out OF town.
Mrs. w. H.. Bradley. the chief actress in
a sensational deathbed marriage ceremony
at Milwaukee. by which she became the
wife Of the eccentric capitalist whose name
she now bears, has been awarded $500 a
month pending the settlement Of disputes
over her husbands estate. The property
left by deceased Is appraised at 500, 900.
c. S. barrow was lately announced as a
candidate for mayor Of Chicago on account
OF his championship OF labor unionism and
his leanings toward socialism and Henry
Georgeism. In order to head him on Mayer
Harrison is said to have made an alliance
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
CONGRESS- CONTROL OVER COMMERCE.

CONGRESS- CONTROL OVER COMMERCE.
The decision of the supreme court of
the United States in the lottery cases
Is Of the greatest Importance. The
scope of it's effect will not be readily
understood, but it is very great and in
order to a proper understanding of 1t
the character of the cases decided must
be- known. These lottery cases involve
peculiar questions. In the first place
there was the novel proposition that a
person taking a lottery ticket from one
state to another was engaged in a com
~Iuercial transaction and therefore was
subjec, to the power Of congress to
ContrO! and regulate interstate com
meice. This was sustCired by the
court. In the second place the propo.
sitlcu was made that the power of con
gress to regulate interstate is
so nearly unlimited that it can be ap-
piled to anything, regardless of the
rights of the states.
This latter is really the important fact
in the decision. 1t means that the au-
thority Of congress-, under the constitu-
tional provision relating to interstate
commerce, is practically unlimited, so
that congress can exclude from COM
merce among the states and with for
eign nations whatever it may think
proper. 1t follows absolutely that con-
gress can control without restraint the
entire commerce of the country, except
that which is within the states. and it
is needless to say that this is not very
great. In other words. the great bulk
Of our domestic commerce, estimated to
amount to more than two thousand mil
lions of dollars a year, is absolutely
subject to the control Of congress.
That is the inevitable conclusion from
the decision of the supreme court of the
United States In the lottery cases and 1t
opens up a new and much enlarged
view Of the power and authority Of con-
gress In regard to interstate commerce.
In fact it removes all limitations from
that power and makes it absolute.
W neither OF not tnlS IS desirable Is q
question. but the trainers of the con-
stitution probably meant just what the
supreme court of the United States has
decided. The states are not deprived of
their rights in regard to corporations,
They can continue to create corpora
tons and regulate their conduct within
their W boundaries, as they have been
doing, but when those corporations step
over the state lines and undertake to
do business in other states. no matter
what that business may be, they be.
come subject to national supervision.
The Importance of this decision of the
highest judicial tribunal it would not
be possible to ~exaggerate.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
SINCE WE GOT H MORTGAGE PAID

r. f. Greene in Wall Street Journal
We've done a lot of scrimpln' an iivin'
hand-to-mouth
We've dreaded, too, wet weather an we've
worried over drouth,
For the thing kept DRAWN int'rest whether
crops were good or bad,
An raisin' much or little, seemed II swal-
lowed all we had.
The women folks were savtn' an there ain'e
a bit of doubt
But that things they really needed lots Of
times they done without,
30 we're breathin' somewhat easy, an
we're feelin' less afraid
OF Providence's workin's, since we got the
mortgage paid.
1 wish ia kept a record of tho things that
mortgage ate,
In principal an ~lnt'rest from b~eginnin'
down to date!-
A hundred dozen chickens, likely fowls with
yellow legs,
A thousand pounds of butter. an twelve
hundred dozen eggs,
Some four or five good wheat crops and at
least one crop Of corn,
An oats an rye-it swallowed IN its life
time sure's your born,
Besides the work an worry. ere Its appe-
So were feelin' more contented since we
got the mortgage paid.
We've reached the point. 1 reckon, where
we've got a right TO rest,
An loaf aroun', an visit. wear our go-to-
Neglectin' nothin' urgent understand.
But simply siowin' down by bits an restin'
in the race!
In time III get p 3ss w'ndmin I've been
The girls can nave their organ. an we'l
all wear better clothes,
For we've always pulled together. while
ws've saved an scrimped an prayed,
An II seems there's more to work for since
we got the mortgage paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
contention Of the United states lie wrong

contention Of the United states is wrong
and that the Canadian claim Is just.
The protest of Canada against the Sc
lection of these senators. who thoroughly
understand the boundary question and
ar, therefore competent to present II
with completeness, is simply a confes-
sion OF the weakness of the Canadian
contention. 1t is virtually an admis-
sion that there is no case so far as Can
ada rs concerned. IL is an unpleasant
fact that some American newspapers
have approved the protest Of the Cana
dian government against Mr.. Lodge and
Mr.. Turner. but it may confidently be
assumed that this will have no effect
upon President Roosevelt. He has APP
pointed those gentlemen with a full re-
a~lization of THEFT capabilities for the
duty and they will serve on the COM
mission If they do not themselves de
cline.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
oHJrcr I'D coMMIsSloNERs.

The objection made by the Canadian
government to two Of the American
commissioners on the Alaskan boundary
court-SenatOr Lodge and Senator Tur-
ner-wlll probably have no effect. 1t
is not at all likely that the British gov
eminent will assume TO give such heed
TO the Canadian protest as TO ask the
president OF the United States to select
other men TO represent this government
on TIL. commission. because to do so
would be obviously an affront to the
president. who must be assumed to have
strictly complied with the treaty in max
ing the appointments. II is true that
both Mr.. Lodge and Mr.. Turner are on
record as opposed to the British cOnten.
ton In regard TO the treaty Of 1925.
Both have expressed themselves In the
strongest possible terms rs believing
that there is not the slightest founda-
Ion foT the Canadian claim In regard 10
territory In Alaska. Yet neither Of these
gentlemen is incapable Of being con
WINGED II the Canadian government or its
representatives on the commission to n
terpret the treaty between Russia and
Great Britain are able to show that the
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The suspension from the New York
Stock exchange of the man supposed to
have been the author and i~nstigatOr Of
the legal attacks on the Northern Pa
clfc railway merger is doubtless in
tended to be an object lesson for those
who might be tempted likewise to inter
fere with the plaus of the great trust
m%agnates, With a penalty like this in
ficted without any way open for re-
dress stock brokers are moved to De
more careful in the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
The Typewriter Trust.
New York Press.

Rev YORK Press.
The Typewriter trust has maintained
prices a long time, and 1t is said that Tim
Woodruff is no trust buster. No hope.
therefore, since he has been elected presi-
dent of a big company. The same old song
800. Manufacturers tell me that while
It may not cost more than s14 to S19 to con-
struct a machine, It costs $50 to sell 1t!
Even at $50 here is an enormous margin for
profit, Great fortunes nave been made in
the business and greater ones are yet to be
made. One company two years ago re-
ceived an offer Of $1,000, 900 to sell out to
the trust and refused. 1t would not sell
today for s., 800, 900. II prices were reduced
80 per cent the machines would sell them
selves. thus doing away with the agent and
his commission. The high prices hurt the
poor clerk and stenogTapher. to whom a
typewriter is as necessary as a saw Is to a
carpenter.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

UnimpOrtHnt Changes I'm individuals
and Politics.

New York Sun.
The thirty senators whose terms will eX-
pire next week were elected on or before
1897, and their terms began on March 4,
1897, which was the date Of the first in
auguration OF President Mckinley. The six
years intervening between 1897 and 1908
have been even more remarkable for sweep
ing political and economic changes than
the corresponding period between 1891 and
1897, and the changes in senate member
ship, confidently predicted as likely to oc-
cur this year, were expected to make seri-
Gus alterations in party membership.
Politically, these changes have turned
out unimportant. A majority of the present
senator's have been reelected. In Wiscon-
sin. John C. spooner; in Indiana, Charles
W. Fairbanks; in Ohio. j. b. Foraker; in
Connecticut, Orville H.. Plat: In Iowa,
William B. Allison: in Colorado. Henry NJ.
Teller; in New York, Thomas c. Plat; in
Alabama, p. w. Pettus. and in California,
George c. Perkins have been reelected.
The other states which have reelected
their senator's are Pennsylvania. Mr.. Pen
rose; Georgia, Mr.. Clay; Louisiana, Mr.. Nc
Emery; South Dakota, Mr.. Kittridge; Yer
mont. Mr.. Dillingham;; New Hampshire,
Mr.. Gallinger, and North Dakota, Mr.. Hans
brouBh. Inc flOrida legislature Is com
mitted by the vote at the democratic party
primary Of July TO the reelection OF Sena-
tor Mallory. He had no opposition.
In seventeen OF the thirty states which
will have senatorial vacancies through the
expiration Of the term OF the incumbents
on March 3, the present senators have beer
or will be reelected.
In the eight states, namely. Kentucky
Kansas. Idaho. Nevada. North Carolina
Utah. Maryland and Washington. the legis-
~latures to I'LL vacancies we're. or are. OF
different politics than those of the retiring
senators, In five states only has there beef
a change OF individuals without a change
Of parties, Senator Jones OF Arkansas and
Mason Of Illinois being two OF tine senators
who have as successors men OF their owl
party, Clarke and Hopkins respectively
The three other states are Missouri. South
Carolina and Oregon.
TIL election in Oregon Of Charles W. Full
ton. an Ohio man now resident at Astoria
leaves Delaware as the only state the sena,
torial representation Of which IL unde-
termined
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

BY conforming TO the new water
works purchase law hat repeats the
section of the charter authorizing the
levy of a water tax, the council has
been able to reduce the levy for 1905 to
50 mills. But while this low assess
ment will afford some relief to taxpay-
ers this year, it is sure TO give them a
double dose of taxes next year, when
the water rent has been converted into
a Judgment against the city that will
have to be paid with I per cent interest
added.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
ARE RAILROADS CAREFUL,

That is n question which the great
number of railroad accidents recently
suggests. The New York Sun of last
Monday prints a list Of a score of rail-
road accidents during the previous
week, resulting in n number of deaths
and injuries, and concludes the state
ment by saying: 'It is recorded that
the total number of persons killed on
railroads in this country during the year
ending June 80, 1902, was 2.S19, while
the number injured was 39,SO0. In 1901
the number of the killed and injured
was even greater than this"
1t seems evident from these facts that
the railroads of the United States do
not exercise proper care for the safety
Of passengers aud that there is urgent
need of reform In this respect. Espe-
Cially is this emphasized by the fact
that on all the railroads Of England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales during the
fifteen months ending March 81. 1902,
not a single passenger was killed by a
train accident. II may not be practi-
cable for the railroads of this country
to manage their operations with the
same care as do those Of the United
Kingdom, but it is certainly possible for
them to do better than has been done.
The record of railway casualties during
the last few months is appalling and It
is largely due to the overworking of
employees, a far too common fact with
most OF the railroads.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
Projecting the President.
New York world.

rev YORK WOrlO.
A conference. agreement has been reached
at Washington and accepted by the house
on the bill to protect the president, vice
president and officers in line of succession.
The death penalty is provided for actual
ASSASSINATION death or Imprisonment for
at least ten years will fall to one who
attempts to kill. Protectidh is extended
to ambassadors or ministers accredited to
this government. Penalties are provided
for teaching the duty Of necessity" OF as
sassination. A special section prohibits
the entry of apostles OF anarchy by vio>
lence. or the naturalization OF such apostles
as may be found here. The bill should
become a law without further delay.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

An effort will be made at the Worlds
Congress of Science and Arts, to be held
In conjunction with tie Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition ut st. Louis. to outdo
everything of the kind that has gone be-
fore. Each successive congress Of this
kind becomes more comprehensive be-
cause the field of science and art is
steadily widening. If the congress at
st. Louis dealt only with developments
that have come since the great con
gress in connection with the Chicago
Worlds fair it would still have an i'm
mense scope.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The democrats accuse the republicans
Of playing the statehood bill for politics
and use that as an Gus for not play
ing at the game longer themselves. If
a suspicion existed anywhere that there
was anything but politics in the demo-
cratic position from the first this final
backdOwn makes IL clear.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The p~ostofice authorities have diseon-
tinued, At least temporarily, the rural
mail delivery along a number OF Indiana
routes because of the impossible cOndl-
ton OF the roads as notice to the people
that II they want regular mail service
they must see to It that the roads are
AZ for travel. The rural mail service
promises TO be the most potent factor in
the good roads movement
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Altogether too many bills have been
introduced 'by request" during the
present session of the Nebraska legis-
lature. Why the taxpayers of Nebraska
should be put to the expense of print
ing bills which the lntroducers do not
want to father is a mystery no fellow
can nnd out.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

From now on municipal ownership
will be the slogan in Omaha. II we are
to vote from three to five million dol.
lars in city bonds for the acquisition Of
water works we can readily add half a
million more for the erection of a plant
that will supply Omaha with light and
power at first cost.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Railroad men now declare the Elkins
a%nti-rebate bill will do them little good
unless the anti-pooling clause of the in
terstate law is knocked out. Who said
the Elkins bill was passed to do good to
the railroads?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The revised charter as originally de-
signed would have given Omaha fifteen
councllmen, which is by no means too
many for a city Of omaha's pretensions
and dimensions, but the ~franchlsed cor
porations objected to any increase in
the number OF councilmen, II is so
much easier to hypnotic five council
men than eight.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

If the great pardoner Of Nebraska,
who is detained in Seattle on important
business, could only be induced to re-
turn he might give sOme interesting in
formation concerning the contents of
the BARLEY cigar box.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The BARLEY bOndsmen are liberal.
They offer to pay the costs Of the suits
instituted to secure Judgment on the
forfeited bond. Except for this gen
erosity the taxpayers of Nebraska might
have to pay the costs Ia addition to
losing the stolen money which the
bOndsmen undertook to make good.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
Approach of the Millennium.
st. Louis Republic.

bN' DOuI5 H6puUIIC'
II dreams OF the scientists should ever
be realized death will become only a mem
DRY or a superstition, In order to live
forever it will only be necessary to keep
formalin and s~alicylic solution in the house
and have a surgeon In the neighborhood, SO
that operations for appendicitis may be
performed on demand. 1t will then be ~
to the railways to make this world ap
Elysium. y
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The Douglas delegation to the legis-
lature has thrown some sops TO Omaha
policemen in the charter revision bill,
but Omaha taxpayers will get very lit
tie comfort out Of the reform charter
by the time the revised salary and ex-
pense lists are footed.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
The Discriminating Heather.
Buffalo Express.

TIL representative of a Korean Arm has
just arrived in the United States for the
purpose of placing an order for a large
stock of idols. This, undoubtedly, means
that the Koreans believe American-made
idols can do more and better work than
those of any other make.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Having thrown a few bouquets at Chi
cago in his Washington birthday adj
dress there, Senator Hoar can have him
self enrolled among it's patron saints If
he will only give the word.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The fusionist lawmakers are still
looking for a leader who has the cour-
age and integrity to stand up for what
wrong regardless Of political conse-
quences. The democrats and popullsts
of Nebraska have been securing the
woods for just such a man for. 10, these
many months.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Senator Carmack vouches for nil that
Tillman saws about the %viclousness Of
the presidents negro policy in the south.
When Senator Carmack has a pet pro-
ject he can call on Tillman for It's en-
dorsement,
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Members of the council who voted to
submit the open door power and light
franchise to the vote of the people at
the coming election are simply playing
ostrich. Everybody in the community
knows that the open door scheme was
concocted by the manager of the
Thomson-H Houston Electric Light COM
pany to head of competition. Nobody
knows better than the astute manager
of the electric lighting company that
capitalists will not venture to invest
money in an enterprise that can be
raided by anybody who may see fit to
threaten a competing power canal. The
submission Of the ordinance is an INSULT
to the intelligence of the community
and emphasizes the popular demand
for municipal ownership that will put
an end TO corporation misrule In mu-
nicipal government.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
It's n Way We Have.

st, Louis Post-Dispatch.
An inspired Austrian newspaper remarks
that the United States has gained great
political success In the Venezuelan trouble
Did you ever know the United States to
gain anything but success when 1T buckled
down to business?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

sion was promised to the promoters In
the lobby for her late royal highness.
The clause requires the warrant to be
drawn and paid to the queen in person,
but there is nothing to prevent her be-
ing liberal with her attorneys and agents
after she gets the proceeds in cash.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The proposed new Nebraska revenue
bill is now up to the printer. When the
printer gets through with it the law
makers will have another chance to get
busy.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

John N. Baldwin and his mercenary
cohorts are trying to rub 1t pretty hard
into Omaha, but Omaha is not in a
frame of mind TO turn the other cheek.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
presidents and Their Families.
Boston Herald.

Incidentally. President Roosevelt reflects
on his illustrious predecessors when he
against small families. They
have left either no families or small ones,
or the twenty-five men who have held this
post in ia years. ten have today no de-
scendants, and of them all the Adams line
Is the only prolific one. And yet all our
presidents were msrried men except
Buchanan
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Ii is noted that Queen Lii has landed
with an item for 100000 in the sundry
civil bill as reported by the senate com
mittee on appropriations, No statement
accompanies telling how much commis-
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

These new volcanic eruptions In Mex
leo indicate that the internal affairs of
mother earth are still awry.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
working Overtime.
W~ashinRton Posi-

W~ashlnBtOn Post.
By devoting Sundays to the eulogies on
the dead, the gentlemen in congress are
showing a disposition to work overtime
which will sooner or later attract the at
tention Of the legislature walking dele
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
where smOot is oAt Home"
Baltimore American.

The daring Of Reed Smoot can only be
appreciated when It Is mentioned that
his arrival at Washington was coincident
with the converting OF several woman's
conventions.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

If there is anything at Lincoln the
railroads want that is not in sight all
they have to do is to ask for It.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

That grounding expects to remain
two weeks longer in cold storage.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
srArnMrNr OF CIRCULATION.

STATEMENT OF CIRCUbAIIUN'
State Of Nebraska, Douglas County; SIS:
George 3. Tzschuck, secretary OF IRe bse
Publishing company, being duly sworn, says
that the actual number of full ana complets
copies % The Daily, Morning, Evening any
Sunday Beo printed dutin6 the mohtu VI
Ianianrr IRIl q "a fnllnMa.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

Dusty Daniel-Please, sir, will you lend
me a dime TO get something to eat2
Swell-Why, you've got a quarter in your
hand now! WHAT'S that for?
Dusty Daniel-That's to tip the waiter
Boston Globe.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26

The district commissioners have had a
good deal of fun over a suggestion that
comes all the way from Kalispel, Mont, in
regard to a new hotel for Washington. As
an evidence of good faith the writer sent
his photograph, and in order that his idea
should not be lost entirely he duplicated
his communication to the president.
The suggestion is that the government
erect a national hotel in Washington, to
cover a whole block, and with each side
so constructed Of red. white and blue bricks
as to look like a huge national flag. To
increase the realism Of the scheme, the au-
thor proposes that the outline as shown
in brick should be wavy. as If the flag
were tossed in the breeze.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-26
PASSING PLEAsANTRIEs.


do you keep rubber hose?" t
We'll, madam, we have some in light red
and green which are almost sure to attract
attention" -Princeton Tiger.