Omaha daily bee., 1907-05-12
Craik Takes Issue with Prevailing
Tendency Of House of Commons.
SEES LESS PRESTIGE FOR OLD KINGDOM
Northern Members Nay Be sborn Of Power
in the Empire.
GLASGOW CORPORATION CONSIDERS MEAT
Committee in Favor Of Visit 70 Chicago
Packing Houses,
SOME DOUBT EXPRESSED BY MEMBERS
Do Not object 20 Making In
spectIon, but wonder who
is to Foot Bills for
Journey.

House Of Commons, Henry Crails, in an in
| terview. said:
The Scottish standing committee is now
| re-estabished, not as a sessional order
| but as q permanent institution. To II all
Scottish bills will now pass, not by ex-
! press resolution OF the House of Commons,
but automatically. It was not obscurely indi-
Gated that the highly contentious charac-
| ter of such a bill as the small holdings
bill might not prevent it from being rele-
gated to that committee. Scotland may
| therefore find It's whole system Of land
tenure fundamentally altered-the whole
United Kingdom may. find revolutionary
| economical principles introduced by com
| mlttee on which the extreme section OF
Scottish radicals will be absolutely DOM
inant The bill will no doubt come up for
revision by the whole house upon the re-
port stage, but the house will be unfamiliar
with the details Of the bill. 1t Will be
cramped by the new rules even In its re-
vision; and we can easily imagine what
! resentment would be reused were the Scot
tsh contingent Of extreme radicals TO find
Itself checked or corrected by more pru-
dent counsels in the whole house. The
little knot of Scottish home rulers-hitherto
regarded by all thinking scotsmen as an
object of amused astonishment-wouid find
in such an occurrence the very fuel they
desire TO feed the flames of petty dscon-
tent which they have so nssiduously
nursed.
scotland cannot too quickly recognize
! to what It is now committed. Without
discussion a step has been taken which
will surely land 1t into the quicksands OF
an agitation for home rule with all OF its
inevitable rancor. Even as matters have
been arranged It buys the doubtful privi-
/ Np,4 laoIN NTH In a =
upper chamber, and in the obscurity Of
unreported discussions, by a committee
dominated by those who outbid one an
other in the advocacy of the latest ex-
travagances of socialistlc fadsm-and at
what price? That of a necessary and IN
| creasine exclusion OF its representatives
from the larger and more imperial phase
OF parliamentary life. The new arrange
.ment inevitably involves that Scottish
members, confined to the Scottish commit
teo-or even relegated to Edinburgh-will
be precluded from any share in other com
mttees which shape the details OF larger
measures applicable to all parts OF the
kingdom"
American Meat Inspection.
The reports by the veterinary surgeon
concerning the seizure here OF uhsound
American beef were discussed at a recent
meeting of the Glasgow corporation health
committee. The town clerk submitted a
statement by Mr.. Austin, the American
consul In Glasgow, who had prepared an
answer to the complaint, but suggested,
with the view of ending in a satisfactory
manner the controversy on the subject,
further consideration should be deferred
and the deputation representing the cor
poration and consisting Of Bailie Russell
(the convener OF the committee on health)
and the town clerk deputy (Mr. Lindsay
should, as early as possible, proceed to
Chicago and there by themselves, repre-
senting the corporation and the public OF
the city, investigate the methods of in
spection In operation, as also the sanitary
condition OF the stock yards and the pack
ing houses in that city. and report thereon
to the corporation-the whole expense Of
the deputation to be provided by him (the
consuD and that 1t be left to him to make
all of the necessary arrangements for the
deputation The committee has already
| agreed that in the interests of all con-
cerned the suggestion and proposal made
by the American consul should be agreed
to, but the corporation has the anal say
in the matter; and what is puzzllng the
corporation is where the American consul
gets the money for the junket. 1t is
argued that II could not be paid by the
American government since the American
congress prior TO adjournment could not
have foreseen the questions arising in
Glasgow in the present acute form, and
consequently, would not have been able to
arrange for an appropriation for the trip.
II the expense oG the trip is paid for out
OF the treasures of the packing house
companies themselves. the members OF the
Glasgow corporation are arguing that they
might as Will remain this side of the
Atlantic since no man, even in an i'm
portant matter like the matter Of public
health cares to be put in the position OF
critieizing the genelemen who are paying
the bills incidental to the trip.
81. KildR Is Excited.
An extraordinary incident has occurred
at ST. Kilda in connection with the appre-
hension of a trawler for fishing within
the three-mile limit. On a recent Sunday
the fishery cruiser Minna, which was pro-
ceeding to the island on special duty,
sighted the trawler fishing within the limit
as 1t approached the island. The trawIer
continued fishing until the cruiser was al
most alongside. having, as It afterwards
transpired. mistaken the Minna for one OF
the Norwegian whaling vessels. The cap
tain OF the Minna sent one OF his men on
board and ordered the trawler. which
proved to be the Knowsie, into ST. Kilda's
bay. where both vessels dropped anchor.
When the oficers OF the Adinna went
ashore they found the whole population OF
the island assembled on the jetty with their
minister, the Rev. NJ. MacLachlan. On
learning that the trawler had been ordered
IN for illegal fishing the inhabitants became
very much excited to say the least The
minister demanded 10 know by what right
they interfered with Il. II was trawIing
there with their permission, and Il had
their blessing, and they would not permit
tie arrest He dared the captain 10 lay one
finger on the trawler, ana declared that
the action OF the cruiser in arrestins It on
Sunday was much more heinous thing
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