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Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
personal NOTES.

Having tried palmistry, crystal gazing.
Christian Science, bridge and party politics,
London society is about to study Plato.
Mrs. Hanna has decided to sell Glenmere,
the beautiful country home of the late
Senator Hanna, near Cleveland, o. She
will live in New York with her son.
Jan Kubellk. when In New York, lives
in private car at One Hundred and Six
tieth street, preferring to do so rather than
live at one of the best New York hotels.
Prof. l.. Gaurrigue, a prominent French
physician, who has made recently some
important discoveries in the treatment of
tuberculosis, is soon to be visitor in New
York;
Foon Chook, a naturalized Chinaman in
Mexico, is said to be millionaire. He
went to Mexico from California twenty
years ago to work as cook for a railway
construction company.
Baron Sonnino, the new Italian premier,
is of Jewish extraction on his fathers side
His mother was an English Protestant
The barons writings on agrarian questions
have attracted much attention He was
the founder of the "Giornale d'Italia"
1t is reported from Dresden that Germany
Will witness a public auction that is prob
ably unique. The house at Eisenbach in
which Martin Luther lived from 1898 to
1901, being then youth of from 10 to 49,
Is to be offered for sale together with all
the historical objects and documents asso.
ciated with Luther and his period which
it contains.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
THE RAILROAD CONTENTION.
Significance of the struggle for
Judicial Review.
Minneapolis Journal


The controversy RACES now around that
provision of the Hepburn bill which limits
the courts to passing upon the law and
does not include an invitation to roam over
the whole field of facts in determining
whether the commission did right If the
bill is passed as it stands, there might be
many rates fixed by the commission which
the courts will not interfere with, because
they are not at all confiscatory, and the
proceedings have been regularly taken. AS
a matter of fact, however the commission
would in this realm of discretion, make
very few rates. The railroads knowing that
the commission had the power to make
and enforce reasonable rates, would save
their face by making the reasonable rates
themselves. On the other hand, If the
senate succeeds in emasculatlng the bill so
as to provide that every rate made by the
commission shall start new lawsuit. the
railroads will have no incentive to make
reasonable rates. They will make unreal
sonable or discriminating rates. as they
choose, and figure on reaping the reward
of their industry while their lawyers are
carrying suits through the courts. To
guard this feature of the review business
Mr.. Spooner has suggested an amendment
by a railroad from commission made
rate, the railroad shall put up in court for
each shipper the difference between its rate
and the commission rate. TO be turned back
TO the shipper or the railroad when the
case is finally adjudicated. The weakness
of this scheme is that the complications
would be endless, and the cases of joint
rates beyond human ingenuity to fathom
The significance of all these amendments
Is that the railroads seem to prefer some
sort of court 10 pass upon their matters
than the commission Perhaps this is be-
cause. with the commission, it would be
one short, sharp businesslike decision,
while in court many subsidiary questions
could be lugged in TO prolong the interesting
proceedings and make the shipper wish he
had never gone to law.
Under the court-review plan, II is the
shipper who makes the rate by making the
legal fight. Under the Hepburn bill, II is
the commission which makes the rate by
making It. The railroads seem determined
to shift the burden to the shippers because
they know how to handle them. The essen
tial injustice of the government pretending
to regulate rates and then shunting the
whole burden upon the already dropping
shoulders of the shippers is what sticks
out in all these so-called court-review
amendments
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
PROGRESS OF PRIMARY REFORM

The discussions of reform of the pri-
mary and election laws at the second
annual conference under the auspices
of the National Civic federation have
been instructive. President Oscar ;.
Strauss, in his opening remarks, George
Fred Rush of Chicago, who drafted the
first primary law of Illinois, and
Speaker Lenroot of the Wisconsin as
sembly in carefully prepared addresses
gave forceful and cheering accounts of
progress in the movement TO make gov
eminent more directly responsive to
the people by getting rid Of election and
nominating methods which are so no
toriously abused by the manipulations
Of party bosses and representatives of
special interests.
The important fact stands out in these
accounts that experience under the d.
rect primary, so far as it has gone in
Wisconsin, Illinois and elsewhere, is en-
couraging to those who have led In the
arduous struggle with the forces fight
~ Keep lut ulItNAlOh VI phbii' ~
fairs as far as possible from the hands
OF the people. The very adoption OF
the primary reform by legal mandate
has been signal defeat Of those cor
ruptlng forces, for they have invariably
resisted it with all the formidable pow
ers at their command. 1t is not sur
prislng that the evidence Of the neces-
sity of the change thus furnished by its
enemies should he reinforced by the tes-
timony Of its friends as to it's beneficial
results.
Such conferences cannot fail to accel-
crate the movement for free and
cleansed primaries which is going for
ward so rapidly in many of the states
which have not yet embodied the reform
in law. 1t is noteworthy that already
there is nowhere community which
has not been stirred by the agitation
for primary reform and very few indeed
in which the question has not yet be-
come live political issue.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
A sCANDALOUs SUGGESTION.
Opponents of the square Deal shuttle
short Deck.


Ptttsburg Dispatch.
1t is reported in Washington that sena-
tors opposed to the presidents rate regula-
ton policy have made a proposition to him
that if he will accept their amendments to
the rate bill they will see that the Domin-
lean treaty and Philippine tariff bill. now
sidetracked and practically doomed to de-
feat, are extricated and passed. 1t is also
reported that the president has Indignantly
spurned the soandalous suggestion.
One reason for discrediting this story is
the improbability that any senator would
care to incur the vigorous denunciation
which the president would be likely to let
loose upon the proposer of such a dishon-
orable compromise There would be also
the possibility that, as in the beef case and
some others, the president might make the
whole story public. placing the traders in a
most unpleasant predicament. But aside
from that 1t is only too humiliatingly prob
able that the report may be correct. Deals
and trades have not been unknown in the
senate The public is familiar with the use
to which the statehood bill and others have
been put to obstruct legislation obnoxious
to the dominant element. This offer to pass
bills that have been held up and the implied
threat to kill them IL the president does not
accept the deal are in keeping with the
record Of managing senator's
If such an offer has been made the presl-
dent will perform a service by making pub
lie the details of the attempted deal. Men
who would thus misuse public measures for
the furtherance of personal ends should
suffer the reprobation they deserve.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
RIGHT or WAY FOR THE RATE BILL.

What can be accomplished by the
pressure Of public opinion Is again seen
in the fact that the rate bill has practi-
cally been given right-of-way over the
senatorial trunk line to which it was
transferred after emerging from the
house of representatives.
There is no question but that the orig
inal plan of the railroad engineers was
to sidetrack the measure and to break
down its running schedule by sending it
over roundabout routes in hope that 1t
would be stalled on the sidings and
never reach the destination terminal.
The railway conductors in the senate,
however. have not been able to execute
their orders. but on the contrary, have
been compelled to come out in the open
and attempt to flag the rate bill on the
main track.
The result is that the other measures
pending before the senate, although
many of them are of great public i'm
portance, will have to be waved aside
until the rate bill controversy is dis
posed of one way or the other. When 1t
comes to a showdown, unless conditions
change materially in the interval, the
rate bill special will go right through
without stopping more than once or
twice for water or throwing out any
considerable amount of ballast.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
SPELLING REFORM.
Move to Dispense with Useless Letters
In Words.
Washington Star.

Washington Star
The National Educational association is
In session at Louisville. In the course of
an informal discussion of spelling reform
resolution was adopted requesting the
association to order the following twelve
phonetic words used hereafter in all its
publications:
"Bisness' for business, 'enuf' for
enough, "fether for feather "mesure for for
read, ruff for rough, "trauf' for trough,
thru for through, "tuf" for tough,
tung for tongue, "yung' for young.
There is no question of the plain logic of
the spelling reform proposition. 1t ap-
peals to the reason. Its advocates can
talk into silence anyone who undertakes to
defend the present arbitrary, unsystematic
code of symbols on the ground of science.
Yet when all is said and done, the oppo-
nent of the reform has only to say that the
thing cannot be done by law or resolu-
ton, and that ends the debate. Custom is
the determining factor. If the National
Educational association adopts these twelve
phonetic spellings and sticks to them, and
then If the text book publishers agree to
adopt them, and If the teachers strictly
follow the books and the children are not
corrected at home, and if there is no prohi-
generation will probably write somewhat as
follows:
Bisness over for the day, the yung woman
set forth for plesure. She put on a hat
with a red fether and measured her way to-
ward the country, passing thru a tut part
of the town, where the yungsters crowded
about the horse traufs, their lungs send
ing forth ruff words which she had never
red without blushing.
Could we ever get used to such spelling
OF course we could. We can get used to
anything. We acquire a taste for caviare
occasionally, and most of us are now able
to visualize John d. Rockefeller with a
wig instead of a bald pate. But in this
matter of spelling reform 1t is always to be
said that the adoption of the plain and
simple combinations of common sense will,
at one fell swoop, destroy the lines which
now are drawn between certain social
groups No longer can the good spoilers
lift their eyebrows in mute scorn of the
poor spoilers, casting them into outer
darkness. No more will misspeled letters
be joyfully read aloud in newspaper offices
as a diversion from the weary grind of the
days work. Great reforms are always
costly.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
the corporation powers Of resistance in
any one state.
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OMAHA,

WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH OMAHAi
While Omaha has made greater strides
in commercial and industrial growth
during the past two years than during
any period of its history. and while more
buildings of every description are being
erected in Omaha within the past year
than in any other city of its population
in the country, there is an undercurrent
of dissatisfaction with existing condi-
lions in this community that should be
probed.
The recent murderous assault upon
Frank n. Clarke in the very heart of the
city by highwaymen strongly confirms
the prevailing impression that Omaha is
badly policed. just as periodic losses by
fire have created the impression that
Omaha's fire department is lacking in
efficiency. There is chronic complaint
that the streets of Omaha are not as
plants are frequently heard that Omaha
streets are not as well lighted as those
of other cities.
That there is a great deal more truth
conceded by all who are familiar with
existing conditions. The question is,
Who is TO blame and where is the rem
edy? Conceding that other cities much
by highwaymen and their people like
wise subjected to murderous assaults, it
is true nevertheless that Omaha is la
mentally lacking in police protection.
man to every 500 inhabitants; Chicago
one policeman to every 7O3 inhabitants,
while Omaha has but one policeman to
every 1850 inhabitants. The same dis
partment of Omaha and those of other
American cities.
Why cannot Omaha increase its police
force? Why can't it increase its fire
not raise a sufficient amount of taxes to
meet these demands. Why can't Omaha
raise more taxes? Because its property
owners are already bearing their full
proportion of taxes, and, lastly, because
the railroads refuse to pay their due
proportion of the burden of municipal
taxes.
If the railroads were made to pay the
same proportion of taxes in Omaha that
are levied against other property of
equal value, Omaha could add 100 more
men to its police force and still have
$4,000 left in its treasury for other
purposes. If the railroads paid their
just proportion of taxes in Omaha,
Omaha could increase its police force
100 and its fire force 100 and still have
$4,000 to spare for street cleaning.
This is the unvarnished truth. Con-
ceding that the railroads have done
much toward the upbuilding of Omaha
there is no good reason why they should
not pay their just share of the expense
of maintaining police protection fire
protection, street cleaning and street
lighting
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
Good work of n Novice.
Philadelphla Record.

"LaFollette is a forceful resoureeful
man, who needs watching" said Senator
Aldrich at the close of Fridays debate on
the bill relating 10 the five civilized In
dian tribes; and there was truth I'm the
remark. The senator from Wisconsin has
broken through the time-honored custom.
which dooms novitiates TO a period of i'm
potent silence. He has jumped into the
senatorial forum armed cap-a-pie and Is
making his individuality felt He did not
succeed in writing into the bill a prohibit
ton OF the ownership of coal mines by rail-
road companies or their stockholders. but
he did prevent the adoption OF an amend
ment to the bill which would have sane
toned continuance Of the policy of selling
coal lands in the Indian Territory TO trans
portstion companies. A pretty good days
work for a novice
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
A DIMPLE MAKER.

Find a child with dimples
and chubby arms and legs
and you find a healthy child.
Find one with drawn face
and poor. thin body and you
see one that needs SCOTS
Emulsion. Your doctor will
no doubt tell you the child is
fat-starved-its food is not
nourishing it.
Nothing helps these thin.
pale children like SCOTS
Emulsion. 1t contains the
very element of fat they need.
1t supplies them with a per-
feet and quickly digested
nourishment. SCOTS Emul-
sion brings dimples and
rounded limbs.
SCOTT 4 BOVINE. ~ Pearl Street. New Yast.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
A LOGICAL DEDUCTION.
New Orleans Times.

New Orleans Times.
1.-The day of careless childhood"
SO mortals clamor when
They grow a trifle older.
"Ah. we were happy then"
"When we were youths and maidens,"
These mortals all aver
When they are much mature.
How very glad we were"'
when we were men and women"
Grown older, they agree,
I'm prime of life, how happy,
How happy, happy wet!
And ever backward glance they,
Unto the very end;
The seasons given are seasons
That all do most commend
OF which plain facts the logic
Is patent and sublime;
We're always happy, though We
Don't know 1t at the time!
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
international Game of see-saw


Hope and fear seem to be playing a regu-
lar seesaw game at the conference at Alge-
ciras. One day harmony is assured and the
next war between Germany and France
appears Inevitable. while in the next report
the clouds are clearing away, with indica-
tions of regathering. In the meantime the
Moroccans themselves seem to be much
like the flowers that bloom in the spring
they have nothing to do with the case.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Four hundred of the party leaders of
Nebraska democracy have stated their
position in the irrepressible conflict of
1906. Their keynote is opposition TO
corporation and railroad rule in the
political affairs that interest the people
That suggests an impertinent query
How many of the 400 really paid
their railroad fares to Lincoln in hard
cash?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The proposition to employ as chief of
the Moroccan police force an army off,
Ger from neither France nor Germany
may give an opportunity to some Amer
lean who wants his star to shine under
tropic skies. ...........
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

papers which were picturing the dire con-
sequences certain to result from running
the government with a deficit staring the
country in the face to turn about and d.
late upon the menace to our institutions
contained in an overlooking treasury.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The New York grand jury which
asked advice of a judge regarding the
wisdom of returning indictments
against certain persons presented to
them by the district attorney showed a
disposition 10 be fair, but grand juries
have responsibilities which they must
discharge and which they cannot IN.
load on the court
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The Omaha fakeries should take out
Il patent for increasing their circula-
ton by systematic process Of Blow!
Blow! BLOW! II is so easy to count
four pages for a paper and double chalk
mark the tally.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Governor Mickey is now at the head
of the Methodist Hospital association,
but he keeps discreetly mum about the
campaign now being conducted by his
police commissioner, with headquarters
in gambling house and hind quarters
in the vilest of Omaha's dram shops,
while the police are using their clubs to
make converts. Possibly this is be-
cause the Broatch. campaign is expected
to furnish a goodly number of patients
for the hospital.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

With a Georgia man selected to lead
the democratic congressional campaign,
the country may expect a revival Of
states rights doctrines as opposed to
certain popular demands-but not in the
north until after the votes are counted.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

~ Senator Delivers remark, Every
Iowa man has done his duty" is one
that would also sound well for the Ne
braska congressional delegation when it
is put in the balance.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

South Omaha seems to have poiled
nearly 1900 votes at its municipal
primary under the new direct nominal
ton law. This is a pretty good per-
centage. If Omaha scores as well at
it's coming primary it will poll between
1900 and 10000 votes.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

We are told by the senior Omaha
fakery that during the month of Feb
ruary IL beat it's own record in lung
expansion and circulation padding by
5000 inches. That beats the census
padder of 1890 out of sight.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Omaha is looking for all the new in
dustries it can get, but 1t has already
built too many air castles on paper.
Every legitimate enterprise whose
promoters mean business will have
respectful consideration, but the hot-air
artists will do us a favor by giving
Omaha a wide berth.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Those Hungarian miners who are re-
turning to their native land to avoid
trouble during the prospective strike in
Pennsylvania may be jumping from the
frying pan into the fire, unless reports
from Budapest exaggerate the situation.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The last time he aspired to nomina-
ton. the local democratic organ bolted
Tom Hector in advance and said he
was not entitled TO the support OF any
true democrat. Wonder what it will
do now that he has corralled the demo
cratic nomination for mayor of South
Omaha?
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The Grain exchange has made a re-
markable showing of business for its
second year, If it can keep up this
pace it will have all the others dis
taneed before it celebrates many more
anniversaries
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

President Sdckney was a potential
factor in the establishment of the
Omaha Grain exchange, but those
promised cereal and -four mills have
not yet materlalized, probably because
the mills of the gods grind slowly.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

The ear is evidently of the opinion
that although he will let the people
chirp at the horses he must continue to
drive the team to save it from destruc-
ton
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Senator Scott has maintained the ira
ditions of West Virginia, but the life of
those traditions may be cut short be-
fore very long.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
InsinuatinE Trouble.

There is a mysterious split In the ranks
of the Chinese imperial commissioners Wis
iting this country. Evidently the American
highball is getting in its work on the tenn
pers of the commissioners in their chats
before breakfast.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
Taking N Tumble.

Chicago ACKNOWLEDGING.
Kansas City people are mad because
man who announced that he was going to
build an eleven-story theater there has
made his building only three stories in
height. They are probably afraid Omaha
will hear about it,
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Wyoming is complaining of the in
crease of predatory animals. II was
supposed the Nebraska wolf bounty had
lured them all over to our side of the
boundary.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Wife said the comical cobbler, you'd
better get, ready for the poorhouse."
''Why?' demanded the good woman.
Because" replied the cobbler, II have
lost my awl."-Phladelphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Great Britain wants equal treatment
with Germany in the matter Of trade
with the United States, but as it has
little more to give il is hard to make a
trade
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Jim Dahlman, the prospective candi-
date for mayor of Omaha, was the shin
ing light of Nebraska democracy at the
Lincoln jamboree which fired off the
keynote of opposition to corporation and
railroad rule. That was enough to
make horse laugh, let alone Jim Dahl
mans groomers, Lee Spratlen and Wal
ter Noise, those rock-rooted. copper
bottomed, granite-buttressed anti-rail-
road democrats.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

In all probability the frontier axiom
that dead men tell no tales" had
something to do with the return of An
drew Hamilton.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

do you think your constituents endorse
your opinions on this bill?"
81 hope not" answered Senator Sorghum.
II have done my best to keep them from
finding out what my opinions are."-Wash-
ington Star.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

While travelling in a Pullman car not
long ago Congressman Hardwick of Geor-
gia, the smallest man in the house, found
himself fellow passenger with a we'll
dressed, quiet-looking negro This was not
agreeable to the Georgian. who was fur
ther riled on seeing the colored man in
the dining car. He and the darby re-
turned to the Pullman about the same
time and then Mr.. Hardwick went to the
conductor and asked that the negro be
put out of the car I'VE can't do that,
sir" the conductor answered. well. II
that fresh niger gets near me I'm going
to wipe up the car with him." declared
the Georgian. 81 won't have him around
me. Who is the black rascal?" That's
Joe Cans champion light weight puRilist,"
answered the conductor, and Mr. Hardwck
concluded not to wipe up the car with
his quiet looking fellow passenger.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

New York boasts $4,000 policemen.
Aud yet even they could not prevent a
boy from being Crowe-naped in mid
day and held for a $4,000 ransom.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Nebraska democracy has stated its
position-outside the pasture and ex-
ceedingly hungry.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State of Nebraska, Douglas County, SIS:
q. G.. Rosewater, secretary OF The Bee
Publishing company being duly sworn,
complete copies OF The Daily, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Bee printed during
the month of February. 1906, was as tol-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-03-08

Chairman Shonts Is playing safe
when he says he viii be governed by
the wishes of President Roosevelt.