Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-03-12
OPPOSE PAY FOR PARLIAMENT
District Councils Begin to Approve
Stand of Nationalist.
WANT ELECTION EXPENSE GIVEN
Dublin street BOY, Arrested for Trad
Ing without n License, ia Found
TO BE Heir to Large For
tune I'm Canada.
IN THOMAS EMMET.

DUBLIN, March 1l.-(Special to The
Bee -There is a gradually growing opposi-
ton to the scheme to pay members Of
Parliament. The trade council adopted
resolution reiterating the demand made by
all the Irish Trade congress and all other
labor bodies in favor Of the payment of
election expenses, and emphatically pro-
testing against the suggestion that Ireland
should be excluded from the provisions
Of the bill about to be introduced to give
effect to those democratic reforms.
The Granard Rural District council unan-
imously passed resolutions expressing APP
prevail of the Irish Party in refusing to
take payment for their services which the
resolutions declared showed that they
could not be bought by British gold.
Election Bribery Admitted.
A sensational development in the North
Louth petition was the admission Of Ser
geant Moriarity Of bribery at the recent
election and his statement that it would
be futile, in view Of the evidence Of James
Dolan, to proceed further with the de-
Tense.
A man named Toner was sent to jail
for three months for intimidating q voter
who had been subpoenaed to give evidence.
wants wire from EO0EhORHNs
The novel request to be allowed to Sc
lect a wife from among the female inmates
Of the workhouse was made by an old age
pensioner named Thomas Smith to the
guardians at Glenamaddy, Mayo.
Il have full and plenty" he pleaded,
but still there is something wanted in
my cottage-a companion to make hte
sweet and agreeable" He assured the
guardians that he would give wife good
home but she must be respectable, and If
she was eligible for the old age pension,
she would be all the better. OIaughter).
The chairman suggested that the master
Of the workhouse who was a good match
maker should take Smith through the in
stitution and help him make a suitable
selection Smith was asked II he had his
eye on any special woman. He replied In
the negative. adding that he came with an
open mind. IF don't get what suits me,
he said. ''Ill take out an old man for a
companion. " course, ord prefer good
sinsible woman, who wasn't young and
giddy an IL she had bit Nv money OF
wouldn't object but she needn't have
money If she has good since
street Boy becomes Rich.
During recent hearing in the children s
court in which lad of Ia years was sum
moned for trading in the street without
license. Il was stated that the boys
grandfather died in Canada, bequeathing
TO his son. the father of the youthful Of
fender, 100000 When the news Of the be.
quest reach him, however, the lads father
was on his death-bed, and the boy became
heir to the money.
AS he was a minor his affairs were
taken charge Of by the Court Of Chancery
pending his reaching his majority. The boy
was miserably clad and bore traces of neg
lect. Instead of renewing his license, the
court suggested that the lad should be
sent to an industrial home or school, or
falling that, that steps should be taken
for obtaining some of the funds for his
up-bringing. A collection was taken up IN
court for the boy.
Count Taaffe Dead.
The death OF Count John Taaffe, County
Louth, a count of the Austrian empire
and formerly an officer of the Imperia
guard, recalls the fascination service under
a foreign power, particularly Austria, has
had for Irishmen of good family. Count
Taaffe unlike most of his countrymen
after earning distinction abroad, returned
home. Taaffe, who died at a very ad
vanced age, had a common ancestor with
Viscount Taaffe. who though an Irish peer
is a member of the nobility Of Austria
where his family have been domiciled fol
generations. The Taaffes have been land
owners in Louth since the sixteenth cen
fury.