Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-05-14
QUESTION is UP IN PARLIAMENT
Friends of Ministers and Warriors
Get In Easy.
HOUSE OWNERS AS ROAD AGENTS
People Must Pay Heavily to See COrO-
nation Parade.
WELSH AND IRISH COOPERATE
John Redmond and Ellis Griffith in
Combination to Push Home
Rule TO n Successful Issue
for Both Nations.
by PAIrI, LAMBETH.

England has always prided itself since
civil service became the fixed policy Of
the government that places in the public
service only went to those who won them
by merit. Hence the attention recently
drawn in Parliament to certain methods of
promotion TO higher posts in the civil serv-
Ice has aroused the keenest interest. The
basis of the complaints which are being
made is that men whose only qualification
is that they were with a cabinet minister
in South Africa or at school with a mem
Der OF Parliament are brought in without
examination and appointed to lucrative
!. posts, while the work, for which they are
untitled, has to be done by subordinates.
1t is said that man recently appointed
TO position with salary OF 5000 publicly
admitted that he couldn't do q sum in
fractions.
Holdup Plans IncubatinE.
Many house owners and householders
along the line of the proposed coronation
procession have developed into road
Z, agents" They have apparently made up
their minds to squeeze every dollar they
can get out Of visitors. especially Ameri-
cans who want to see the royal circus.
Arrangements have been made for the
coronation procession to pass through
some of the poorest streets. The tenants
of these houses are largely weekly tenants,
and there is a widespread fear that they
will be turned out OF house and home in
order that the landlords may make a few
extra shillings out OF the royal procession
by renting the house for the day.
Executfons Are Freauent,
Between 1905 and 1903. seventy-four male
prisoners were condemned TO death and
forty-seven executed. Ten women were
sentenced to death, but all were repreved
and given life sentences.
Germany IL Restless.
In Berlin. Paris and Madrid there is
persistent demand for a revision or the
Algeciras act regarding Morocco, and II
events In North Africa do not change for
the better. It Is thought the German For
eign office will approach the powers and
declare Germany's conviction that the act
has failed to meet expectations.
Welsh and Irish CO-Operate.
John Redmond and Ellis Griffith, the
leaders Of the Irish and welsh parties,
spoke a few night ago at Holyhead. Mr..
Griffith said the two Celtic peoples were
united In purpose The Welsh, like the
Irish. could say that their nationality had
survived the suffering OF centuries. The
Welsh and the Irish In the House OF Com
mons we're WOfklnH nlOG DI olQo 10 pass
the veto bill. '@rhe next session of Parlia-
ment win see both Irish homo rule and
Welsh disestablishment through the House
OF Commons" he said.
Mr. Redmond said that the claim for ma
tionalty was the same In Wales as in
Ireland. The Irish struggled for home
rule, and so much of home rule as the
Welsh desired for themselves the Irish
would aid them in getting with all their
hearts.
Colonial Statesmen BuckinE.
The government will take possession OF
all the telephones of the country at the
end OF this year. and influential sugges-
tons have been made that they shall be
controlled not by the poEtoffics. but by a
central body.
According to reports from Melbourne,
the members of the Australian delegation
to the coronation. the imperial conference,
and the invitation of the British PariIa-
mentary committee are IN a somewhat
awkward position. The delegation will be
. a notable one, though there win be two i'm
portant figures absent. namely. Alfred Dea-
kin. leader OF the opposition in the Fed.
eral Parliament. and Mr.. Verran, the labor
premier Of South Australia. The president
and the speaker OF the two federal houses
udN0 NNAhnNa u CAOHo inc seas on the
ground that they should have been spe-
cially invited and not called on to take
their chance.
Rat Pest a Problem.
Alarming figures relating TO the rat pest
were given at meeting OF the council
OF the Central ana Associated Chambers Of
Agriculture and a resolution was passed
expressing the opinion that II is impossi.
BILE In many districts TO deal satisfactorily
with the pest except by systematic meth.
DDS Of determination carried, out over large
areas.
Fitzherbert Brockjoles said II was esti
mated that there were over 100000 rat.
In the British isles. Il was said that il
preserving game samekeepers had killed
the enemy Of the rat and had thus upse
the balance OF nature.
Mosque for London.
Steady progress has been made with tn,
local Mohammedan mosque scheme. Will,
the chief financial support devolve upol
MohRmmedans. the project is evokinl
warm sympathy from all parts OF the Is
lamic world. The sultan OF Turkey ha.
shown his interest by donation OF 5000