Omaha daily bee., 1911-01-29
DRAFT READY FOR PARLIAMENT
Amy Person Receiving Less Than Tax
able Income is Eligible.
MINIMUM FIVE sHnLINGs A wEEB
Insurance Will Cover the Working
Years of Life.
FUNDS FROM THREE SOURCES
Lord ROsebery In the Role of Con-
firmed Calamity IIOwler Who
Sees Militant Socialism he
hind Budget.
RY PAIL LAMBETH.


The scheme Of state insurance for sickness
and invalidity, which has been drafted
by the chancellor OF the eXchequer, may be
launched this session. The main outlines OF
the scheme as drafted are as follows:
Compulsory Insurance for sickness and
invalidity for the whole OF the working
population OF the country whose incomes
are below the income tax level of fl60 a
year.
The minimum insurance is TO be 5s
week. this to be the limit of the state COM
pulsory scheme; an insurance beyond the
fixed minimum or 81 per week being n
purely voluntary insurance by the member
with the friendly society. The minimum
insurance of 5s week will be guaranteed
by the state.
The period which the state insurance will
cover will be the working years OF life be-
tween 16 and 20. ........
The contribution needed TO provide a sick
ness insurance OF 5s a week will be calcu-
lated by the government actuaries, and the
cost will be met one-half by the workmen
insurer and the remaining half in equal
proportions by the employer and the state.
The proposed scheme OF insurance. being
compulsory and universal in it's application
30 far as the whole Of the working popu-
lation is concerned, will accept the risks
OF all lives. good and bad
The scheme makes provision for the
Enlistment Of central administrative
council composed Of representatives Of the
government, the friendly societies and en-
ployers OF labor to deal with all questions
which arise under the working Of the
scheme.
Graft ia Inktia.
The inquiry made by the privy council on
appeal from the supreme court OF Burmah
has developed the fact that graft in the
shape OF padded payrolls' In the Khedhah'
department elephant hunting) Is rampant,
In fact, as bad as Il Is in the British I'm
diam army. Three OF the principal officers
who were convicted appealed The govern
ment alleged that there were only 2a2 hunt
erg ma certain expedition: The defendants
Il was alleged. had cooked up the accounts
20 as to make II appear $40 men had taken
part. ..,,.
The defendants appealed TO the privy
council which has decided against the
grafters
The government has BEEN advised that
there is a crookedness on a large scale in
other Indian bureaus and departments and
IL is intimated that investigators are at
work in them TO learn the extent Of the
stealing,
AbyssIniA Gets Arms.
England Is much concerned over the re-
6O0O,OOO OF cartridges, part OF JapRns spolis
Of war taken at Port Arthur, have been
sold TO Abyssinia The price paid Is not
stated. but the seller states that he has al
ready been paid. It is not improbable that
good deal more will be heard OF this mat
ter as the British government has been
making anxious inquiry with view OF
finding out why the arms and ammunition
were bought.
PatrOIinE Persian Gulf.
British warships have been patroiling
the waters at the entrance OF the Persian
gulf for more than year 70 prevent Illicit
trade In rifles on the northwest frontier OF
India. Captures have been made, some
times after severe conflicts. an encounter
at Dibai, near IAngah, resulted In the loss
OF four British seamen killed and nine
wounded,
ROsebery . Calamity HOwIer.
Lord Rosebery has become a confirmed
calamity bowler" with bloodshot eyes
haggard face and screaming voice. he pre-.
diets the ruin OF the empire the result
Of the budget He behind Lloyt
George the forces of socialism, the wreck
ers OF the home. the destruction OF Chris
tianity, in a word the end OF all things
And, like Burke. Lord ROsebery stands
alone. His mOnomRnia has cost him no
y only his party, but his friends. Those VIII
chung 10 him to the last are now disguise,
at his attempt TO pose impartia
statesman. while In reality he is In sym
PATTY with the Tories, and would prete
that he would play the man and go straigh
over What a humgllating position for IN
brilliant Lord Rosebery. once the darlinl
Of liberalism, the uncrOWned king OF Scot
land, 20 be reduced 10 the role Of a politi
cal Cinderella. whose chosen task Il is to d
and dirty scuiiery work OF the Tor
party" Is the comment concerning hin
made by one Of his former staunchest sup
porters
Roman Church Gains Converts.
Five Episcopalian cleTgymen and nft
members OF their churches at Brighton re
Gently Joined the Roman Catholic churc
and were confirmed publicly by the blsho
Of Southwark. The Rev David Rhys-Mor
gan. a prominent Welsh psrson. was re-
Gently received in the Roman Catholi
church at Franciscan college, oxford. Ems
land The clergymen are n Rome studyln
for the priesthood.
In connection with the recent sale of whs
is known as the Peddlers Acre in Lam
beth, and the payment OF the proceeds to
body OF trustees. there Is stated TO be
probability OF litigation over the questio
Of whether the money received rightly b,
longs 70 the local authority or 10 the ehurc
authorities. The sum at stake Is abol
$4,000 s.-..-
The estate one acre only. when b,
queathed by a man said to have been
= peddler IN the fifteenth century was "a
OF any great value The land had from
ase on the Thames and was acquired /
the county council The generally aocepts
theory that the poor peddler beQueaths
the land 10 the church In recognition
the Kindness he had received and also upo
the eOnditiOn that he was permitted
bun 49, fa1thful dog in the churchyar