Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-04


ton from the upper house. OF this there Is
no assurance. 1t is fairly certain that no
measure Of home rule, whole or partial
win command serious consideration from
the peers. unless II bears the tory label
or receives the approval OF the country at
general election conducted strictly on
that issue summary Of the home rule
measures of Premier Gladstone. with which
the ministry went down In defeat in 1856
and 1893 will enable the reader to Judge
the coming installment by comparison.
The measure Of 1885 provided for an Irish
Parliament TO sit in Dublin and Irish mem.
bers to cease 10 SIT at Westminster Judges
were to be appointed by the Irish govern
ment and removable by the Irish Parlia-
ment Ireland's contribution to the i'm
pertal treasury was to be reduced from
one-tenth to one7f1fteenth, and power Of
local taxation was vested in the irish Par.
lament. The essence of the measure was
legislative independence similar to that Of
Canada or such as has been granted to
the conquered Boer republics Of South
Africa. division in the liberal party
caused the defeat OF the measure in the
House Of Commons. Restored to power in
1893. Premier Gladstone introduced a modl-
fed measure of home rule. II provided
to sit in Dublin. Irish members were to
remain at Westminster and vote on i'm
perial questions only. Judges were TO be
irremovable and two appointed by the
crown. The third measure, according to
advance accounts, proposes an Irish coun-
ell, partly elective and partly nominative,
which shall deal with purely domestic
affairs, but without legislative powers.
An Irish Parliament" an Irish legisla-
ture' and last, an Irish council" furnish
disheartening proof Of progress backward.
Evidence OF increasing good will be-
tween the Vatican and the Quirinal multi
ply. Recently the Italian government
settled the claim growing out Of the
sequestration of religious houses in 1870
and handed over to the Vatican $1,sOO,OOO In
cash and government bonds More signif-
cant than the settlement Of this long
standing claim is that the Holy See can
no longer rely on France as protection of
Catholic foreign missions, and what is
more natural than that it should turn to
Italy for protection The Stampa OF Turin
remarks: AT the banquet given by Count
FAM in honor of the new Patriarch OF
Jerusalem the subject Of the substitution
of Italy for France as protector of the
missions was openly discussed. Cardinal
Aglisrdi has already indicated his prefer
ence for such change and it is well to
bear in mind that he is a member Of the
congregation of the Propaganda The
Italian minister of foreign affairs has
promised every possible aid to the mission
airy schools"
During the past ten years there has
been a steady increase in the funds voted
4.
of schools in the east and almost the en-
tire sum has been distributed among the
schools conducted by italian missionary
/ priests and nuns. In 1895 the sum of
$4,000 was set aside for this purpose in
the following year it was increased TO
] $4,000 and for the past three yeats the
annual subvention has been $265 900. while
! the sum voted for the French schools last
year fell to $17S,4OO
Mr. E N. Baker, the finance member OF
} the council of the viceroy of India. in a
recent address discussed the consequences
of the loss of the opium trade as result
Of Chinese legislation against the use OF
/ the drug. 1t remained to he seen, he said
whether China would be able to stop the
traffic as it proposed. But 1t was evident
that the trade with India would gradually
decrease and there was at least llkell-
hood that in time It would be totally ex-
! tinguished. This would mean loss of a
revenue Of more than $15.000.OO0 a year
which, a generation ago, would have beer
a most alarming possibility. Even now II
would be serious If 1t happened immedi-
ately, but inasmuch as It would in al
probability come upon them gradually, he
thought that arrangements could be made
to meet II and that there was no great
cause for apprehension The elasticity OF
the Indian revenue had been remarkable
he said, of late years. Since 1903 they had
been able to make remissions In the salt
tax amounting to 100000 100000 or
the land taxation ard another million or
the income tax Nor had this Gaving bee
effected at the cost OF the efficiency OF tho
administration. On the contrary, large ad
ditional sums had been expended upon edu
cational. agricultural. police and other re
forms.
The fertility of the terrorist's ingenuity
in Russia, says a writer in Eyerybody's
magazine, is illustrated by the plan used
in warsaw last summer in an attempt e
execute the sentence passed upon Skallon
governor general of Poland. who was re-
BpOn6tDle TOT lnnuIueIdule uOdNlAS uhNNA N'''
field courts-martial. The governor knew
Of this sentence and neither official duties
nor terrorist wiles could draw him from his
palace Then the terrorists thought deer
and long One day a Russian officer In
full uniform. walked into the ONCE OF the
German consul at Warsaw, slapped thai
gentleman, walked out and made his es'
cane. That slap threatened an afaire In
ternationaIe; Russia had slapped Germany
Nothing but an official apology from the
governor general could atone for the In
SUIT. The ruse worked; the governor, after
waiting eight days rode forth in state &c
administer diplomatic balm. But the plan
as a whole failed, owing to the mistake OF
the nervous woman. worn by constant
watching at a window, who threw the
wrong bomb
The water supply Of Egypt will b.
greatly increased by the long meditatet
raising OF the big dam on the Nile twenty
four feet higher the contracts for which
have Just been let, the sum involved being
s7.5OOOOO The preparatory studies for this
construction, Il may be recalled, brough
out a new theory Of vertical and horizonta
stresses In dams which greatly interested