Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1881, Page 4

e, The Omaha Bee. Published svery morning, except Sunday The oniy Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL:— £10.00 | Three Months $3. . 500|One .. 100 I'HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. TERMS POST PATD:— One Year......$2.00 | ThreeMontha., 5 8ix Months, 1.00 | One SRR CORRESPONDENCE—AIN Communi ostions reloting to News and Fditorial mat ars should be addressed to the Entros o Tuv Ry, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Businew Getters wnt Nemittances should be ad dresced to Tug OmAHA Ponrisiing Com PANY, OuAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. office Orders to he made payable to the order of the Comnpany, OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E:ROSEWATER, Editor. Riporeseroer had the largest pole and knocked down the persimmons. — Nepraska's sheep interests will soon he second only to its cattle in- dustry. ¢ ND) 's peroration on civil ser- vice reform was a good deal more ¢lo- quent than effective. Scork another for Mahone. His man F , Riddleberger, will orna- ment a seat in the United States sen ate. Tur anti-gambling law has been six months in operation in Missouri and there has never been a convietion un- der it, Cororano claims that no move, The Color ado lisv has not yet suceumbed. to Rocky Mountain whis used in its state politics, —— Tur democrais in congress have given up their attempt to badger Spenker Kei that littlo g has the ady. Two can play at and the chaic always g Tck men are beginning to groan over the prospects of a poor harvest and an insufficient supply. Tee consumers will bogin to groan when prices are raised and the bills como i, For the first time in many years the republicans elect a mayor in Boston which affords encouraging evidence that in this off year in politics the re- publican party holds its own, Experience is the only light by which to study the paving question, and oxperience denounces every pave- ment but stone on streets where the traflic is heavy as a temporary and expensive make-shift, THE offical canvass of the votes cast in the Fifth judicial district attor- ney show that Vie Bierbower reccived 77506 votes to 9 scattering. This is ‘what Zach Chandler would call a d —d unanimous sort of election, Tak election of Riddleberger knocks the bottom out of Bourhon schemes to control the United States senate, and affords a fair prospect of Virginia's electoral vote being cast for a ropublican president in 1884, Over 36,000 deaths occurred in New York city during the eleven months of the present year which is greater by 10,000 than the number of births recorded. Dirty streets and neglect of sanitary requirements are largely responsible for this frighttul death rate. Tue 8t. Louis Republican thinks congress ought not to divide the at tention on the river question, by be- stowing appropriations on smaller streams than the Mississipp. St. al, is very hoggish, but FHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WiDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14 ixsd THE NATION'S TRADE Now that the various departmental statistics have been presented for public inspection and approval, it be- comes an easy task to estimate the business and financial condition of our country, the sources of its revenue, the effects of the harvests upon trade and the general outlook for the imme diate future. Tt is generally admitted that the year past has been a most prosperous one for America in_ every branch of trade and commerce, Our manufacturing industries have been pushed to the utmost to supply the orders for their goods. Wholesale trade in all branches has maintained a growing activity, The bank clearings, which are the surest index of the current and amount of business, have been unprecedentedly large, failureshave been eomparatively few in number and small in amount, and a general healthfulness has per- vaded all our commercial relati s, both domestic and foreign. The amount of business transacted by tho peoplo of the United States can roadily be estimated from a study of tho figures presented by Comptrol- ler Knox in his annual report recently presented to congross. On September 17th, 1881, the transactions of all the national banks aggregated $205,- 090,000, of which New York aty banks had 165,000,000 and ninety- five banks in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago only $54,000,000. Other statistics taken into consideration with the above would indicate that thre fths of the entire business ot the nation is transacted through the Now York clearing house asssociation. During the past year the business of New York city, as shown by its bank ing transactions, amounted to forty- eight millions of dollars, Esti- mating this sum as three fifths of the entire business done throughout tho country, and the yearly busmess must be placed at the enormous sum of eighty of the American people thousand millions of dollars, Of course no estimate can bo strictly o ate. The clearings of the banks ¢ no means represent all the busines s tr the proportion of commdteial matters wtions in the country, although which are transacted by chequo is constantly increasing. On the other hand the speculation in- Wall strecs, which cannot bo regarded as having any relation to business proper, must bo deducted from the caleulation. But, taking these two elements into consideration, a fair es timato would give us nearly, if not quite, eighty thousand million of dol- lars a3 the amount of business trans- acted by the nation during the past year, a remarkable showing from any point of view as indicating the produc- tive capacity of our country and the general hoalthfulness of our commer- cial relations, THE GARLADD BILL. Senator Garland has 1ntroduced a bill regulating the presidential suc- cession. Its object is to provide against such contingencies as that threatened last summer when there was danger for a time that both presi- dent and vice president might be un- able to perform the duties of their oftico. Mr. Garland’s bill is drafted to settle the question of succession in case of the removal, death, resignation or disability of beth president and vice-president. nder the present law the president pro tem of the sen- ato and the speaker of the house are in the direct ine of suzcession. The Garland bill provides that after the vice-presidency, the right of succes- sion shall be vested in the secrotary of state, secretary ot the treasury, and secrotary of war. The advant- ages of this plan are manifest It has always been a serious question whether the temporary president of the senate or speaker of the house is such an officer within the n hold its own with the Tue systomatic frauds upon lifo in- surance companics which have been carried on with such boldness in Penn- sylvania of lato have received an of- fective check in throngh tho press. exposures made Among the mcst prowiuent death-bed insurance con- ithern Mutual Aid wer, Pennaylvania, cerns was tho society, of Ia which, according to the last report, was carrying policies amounting to thirty million dollars. Recently the attorney genoral of Pennsylvania took acticn toward clozing the concern for alleged fraud, and the charge being backed by ample proof compelled the fraudulent corporation to go out of ex- istence. SENATOR PENDLETON'S resolution giving members of the cabinet seats in senate and the right to participate in debates touching matters connected with their departments, is an imita- tion of the British constitution under which ministers of the crown are pro- sent at all sittings of the parliament 10 spswer questions relating to the policy and conduct of the government. The advautages of this system are sup- posed to lie in the greater and more direct respousibility of the exceutive 1o the law-making branches of the government. Senator Pendloton 1 confident that his resolution will pass without serious opposition, but we imagine we shall hear from Senator Edmnnds on this subject, meaning of the constitution as con- groes may designate to act as presi dent in such an emergency. Some practical objections in addition are urgod by the Noew York Herald. There are wmonths in every second year when no speaker of the house is in existence, and there may happen at the samo time to be no president This ac actually oecurred during the past sum- pro tempore of the senate. mer and for tho third time in our history. Morcover, either of these ay be politically oppos d to the president whom they are liable to ofticers succeed, and not in accord with the principles of his adminis- tration, With the lodged in the cabiuet ministers, there could be no dsnger of an interregnum for want of the desmgna- tud person, and each of these officers would be in full harmony with the president and thoroughly conversant with the policy and aims of his ad- istration. Senator Garland's bill will, if enact. od, insure greater stability to our sys- tem of government, but in view of recent experience it does not reach far enough, It is defoctive in failing to define presidential inability to perform the functions of his office. Mr. Gar- land leaves nntouched the vital ques- tion what, under our constitution, shall constitute inability, by whom it shall be ascertained and what method should be pursued to give official an- nouncement of presidentiul inability. These problems confront congress now succession aud will vequire practical solution at an early day. THE PHILOMATHEAN I CON- CERT The closing concert of the series given by the Philomathean club will take place on Thursday evening at Boyd's Opera House. Tur Bee has had oceasion since the organization of this excellent musical association to commend it's work to the people of Omaha as an important and i terest- ing advance-in musical culture in our city. Such performances and pro- grammes as those which have been given by the Philomathean club in their concerts in this city are natu rally prooner in their tendency. They appeal immediately only to a limited class of the most cultivated of our citizens, At the same time the in- creasing attendance at the concerts has shown that the merit of the perform- ers only nceds to be known. The coming coneert at Boyd's House will be a rare musical treat for which Tue Bee bespeaks a liberal patronage of our citizens. In addi- tion to a carefully selected programme of instrumental pieces, Miss Kate James, of Council Bluffs, a soprano of most promising talents, has beon en- yaged. MissJames, afteryearsof study abroad has been engaged by Maurice Strakosch for his Ttalian opera com- pany, and will be heard for the last time in Omaha, before entering upon She should be greeted by a full house on Thursday evening. Omaha’s facilities for hearing really good music have been 8o few, and the Opera her contract. discouragements to be overcome by the missionaries in the musical ficld 8o great that all encouragement ought to be given to every effort for the in- crease of interest and the cultivation of taste in this important branch of education, Tue classitied estimates of the gov ernment for the next fiscal year amount to nearly £340,000,000, an in- crease of forty-two millions over the \ppropriations for the years 1881-82 The largest increase demanded is in the intertor department, which, on account of the arrears-of-pensions swindle, will double the amount of the current appropriation. require The war, state and navy departmonts also call for heavier appropriations, and tho treasury and postoflico aro the only exceptions to the increase. The general reduction in the interest account is responsible for the decrense in the demands from the treasury while in the postoffice the corréction of star route abuses and in- creased business contribute to the favorable showing it presents. The following is a comparative re- capitulation of the cstimates for the coming and the present fiscal year: Objects. Legislative. .. Execut. veprope 1881, 1882, # 5921154 § 5,631,799 109,80 Vepa tmant of State... 1,478,006 1,420,475 Treasury Derartment.. 147,619,618 162,000,878 Wsr Devartment, 45,608,276 44,147,065 Navy Deportm 20,827,806 16,124,172 Interior—pens 112,665,042 60,156,787 Poatoflice Dopartmont. 2,406,257 4,304,549 Department of Agricul- ture Leseseesies 502,080 Deparument of Justice, 2,516,621 Grand totals, . L EBA0462,607 208,202, Stk Epwarp Rexn, the distinguished English na:al constructor, has written a letter rolative to Captain Eads ship railway ovor the Isthmus of Fehuante- pec. Sir Edward expresses the opin- ion, and fortifier it by facts and fig- ures, that such an enterprise is not only perfectly feasible, but will prove much more economical in the end than a canal across the isthmus. He estimates that a ship and her cargo could be transported on the railway and safely launched in the ocean on the other side of the isthmus for seventy-five cents a ton, while vessels carrying grain from San Fraucisco to Liverpool around Cape Horn now re- ceive §20 a ton. Sir Hdward refers to the immense vessels which have been successfully raised and docked in English ship yards without injury and claims that the system of eleva- tion and transportation is exactly as feasiblo when applied to longer dis- tances. The letter is a long one and must prove of grost interest to all students of tr: isthmus transporta- tion. The solution of the problem of cheap freights by water between our eastern and westorn coasts will result in tho annual saving of milhons ef dollavs annually to the merchants of the United States, LITERARY NOTE. GEMS POR THE FIRESIDE.— A Library of Poetry and Verse, edited by Rev. O, H. Titfany, DD.; 1 vol. 8 mo, pp. 727, Phil . delphis, Hubbard Bros,, publishers, Cloth, &5.00, Among the elegant gift books pre- pared for the holiday season, no more beautiful and valuable volume of it's class has boen issued than Gems for the Fireside. The publishers have outdone themselves in presenting the work of the editor in a tasteful and ologant shape. It is illustrated by nearly two hundred elegant engravings by the best artists, and both papers and letter press leave nothing to be desired. Dr Tiffany has brought to his work as editor, a large exper- ience as an author and an intimate ac- quaintance with what is best and most enduring in literature. The so lections, both of prose and poetry, are made with care and discernment from every class. No department of literature has been neglected, and the result is a compendium of interesting, | bank to-day entertaining and instructive miscel- lany, such as can be found in no other volume of ita kind extant, — Tre anti-monopoly platform is the one upon which, not many years hence, every candidate for public office will be compelled to take his stand. The sign now nailed on the door of every railroad passenger coach, “‘All persons are forbidden tc stand on the platform,” will be applied ¥ the people to every party which i ww in the intarests of the monopo lios. POLITICAL NOTES, The South Carolina legislature has or ered to a third reading the bill provid ing for railroad regulation and & commis wion, i B Major Daniel, of Virginia, takes his defeat for tie govertorship very cheer fully, and recent y mnnrkm\ that he had not dluughtnl politic- since the election Senator John Stewart, of Pennaylvauia, is mentioned as a candidate on the repub- lican state ticket for suprems judge, with General Beaver, of Bellefonte, for gov- ernor, Ciungressman S. Hyatt Smith received dixpatch from the Bro klyn L bor ('lub aying, “Your infau ous .ction in entein, lie Republican cancus has arouse | gre.t ndignation here, If yousu s ort cuen no inees on the floor your political cares: is ended.” Congressman Atkins (Dem). of Tennes- wee, ways: “The ~uccess of the Read) ster movement in Virginis has sadly d . ral ized the Den.o ratic party in Tenn sace Thousa: ds of State Credit Dem crats are now in favir of repudiation or of realing the debt.” The principal work before the Louisiana le_ixlature row in scssion is to devise some scheme for raising the reve: ue to carry on th cover the best sys em of assessments ar tax collection, und to pass the necess.y ppropriation’ ills, The Boston Herald aays: ““There are 300,000 voter- in Massachusetts, and the constitution has just been amended, by the votesof 30,245 of them. We shall have to enact law- for compulsory voting be- frel ngif the people don’t vhow wore interest 1n such important matters. Not'oing the election of Hugh Davis to the State Levislature, the Jackson (Mis- i) O i Mr. vis 18 & nephew of the Hon Davis, It runs in the blo.d to be }a triots.” Lt istole hoied the legis'ator's patriotism is of & diff rent sort from that of his uncle. Cimspicuons g ew K m.u;ky e state 1 gislature, many v was twico speaker of the house, He is past eighty years old, There is a Pennsylvania law that re- quires the numbering of each ballot voted, and the retenti n of a 1 baliots for a cer- tain fixed period; then if any question comes up as to the manipulation of 5, reference can be made to the voter hm. self, who retains his vumber, which 15 als) recorded with his name on the regis- ter, Speaker Keifer was with the west all the way through on the silver question. He voted for the Blind bill Nov. 5, 1877, and ‘or the Matthews slver esolution Jan. 28, 1878, He was not present Feb. 28, 1878, when the house passed the bill, but his colleague, Mr. Jones, stated that if he had been present he would have voted to overrids the veto. Keep it Before e People Nebraska Signal. The farmer who owns $1,000 worth of land or cattle is assessed 8500 and he is very fortunate if his profits upon this investment amount to $100, or 10 per cent. The Union Pacific rail- road is worth in the market $80,000 per mile. It is assessed at one-tenth that amount and yet the net earnings of thut company for the past year were were over eleven million dollars after paying all expenses— including the cost of keeping a large and high priced lobby at the state capital dur- ing the whole session of the legis- lature. Why is this discrepancy in the as-, sessmentand taxation of two different | kinds of property in the same State? Simply because the farmers arb assess- ed by conscientious men who perform their duties in accordance withlaw and justice, while the railroads are assess- ed by the State officers a majority of whom are and have been notoriously the tools of the railroad corporations. Whenever this board of equalization meets to takes a railroad assessment, there may be found closeted with them Messrs. Poppleton and Thurston of Omaha, T. M. Marquette of Lincoln and a number of lesser lights, relp- resenting some of the best legal abili. ty of the State, representing both poli- cal parties, and every man a retained attorney for one of Nebraska's great railroad corporations. Now it matters not whether these men delude our State officials with plausible arguments or purchase them with hard cash and railroad favors —the fact remains that the farmer pays ten times as much tax upon a given amount of property a8 # vailroud company does, What is the remedy? Keep this ciass of men out of office until the experi- ment has been tried, for one year at loast, of requiring as much tax from the railioad mugnate as you do of the homesteader upon an equal value in veal and personal property. When the anti-moenopoly plank is incorporated in the Republican plat- form, when our present corps of State officials has given place to men nomi nated upon such a platform aud pledged to support it, we may hope that in this respect at least the people may have equal rights with the rail- roads. Meanwhile, keep it before the peopls that this is a matter of dollars FOREICN INTELLIGENCE. The Royal Geographical Ssciety on the Jeannette, An Expedition to be Started Out to Find the Ameri- can Explorer. Irish Landlords Intend to Hold an Indignation Meeting at an Early Day To S8how Their Dissatisfaction With the Result of the Land Commission Bill. Miscellaneous News That Came Over the Cable. THE JEANNETTE. National Assoclated Press. ENGLAND TO THE RESCUE, JLoxpoN, December 1. A meeting of the Royal Geographical so- ciety last night, Mr. C. R. Markham, 0. B., read an important paper on the search for the United States Jeannstte expedition. He said, in conclusion; “The Jeannette may be detained somewhere in the direction of Cape Chilluskin. My own strong convic- tion is that Captain DeLong has gone to the westward. Lieutena t How- gurd, who made the northwest pass- age on the Vega with Baron Nor- denskjold, has projected a seurching expedition to the extreme northern Siberiv. He also believes that the Jeannette is to be sought for in that direction. He is now actively en- gaged in collecting funds to enable hin to undertake the search. He pos- sesses experience, health and youth, and T am sure will have the sympathy and best wishes of the Fellows of this society. This project is one deserving encouragement for the scheme for succoring the missing explorer will be incomplete unless the search of Cape Chilluskin and vicinity is provided for. he American people may be assured that notonly do English geog- raphers feel the deep smpathy for the gallant explorers on board the Jean- nette, but that we shall gladly and actively do what lies in our power to make the search complete, and give any aid that may after due considera- tion appear likely to be used. The debt of gratitude which we owe the nation which sert the Rescue and Advance o search for Franklin never be forgotten by England. As- suming that Capt. De Long has reached Franz Josefs Land and is in want of succor, Lintend to search for him in this direction and bring him assistance. If 1 succeed in col- lecting sufficient funds for two win- ters, I will attempt to reach the sup- posed land to the north, and in this case it will be impossible to form any plans before hand. If T, on the other hand, only receive funds for an expedition of a year and a half’s duraticn, I consider it ad- visable after having made a recon- niossance to thenorth to gointo winter quarters in Vega Bay, near Cape Chil- luskin, and then confine my search to making excursions by sledges in a northerly direction. As in the above case I shall only be equipped for a year and a half, and the object of the expedition is to render assistance, it would not be advisable to proceed too far with the ship, for then I should run the risk of fulling short of provis- ions and thus be unable to render any assistance to the Jeannette should we meet her in distress; but even if the expedition is limited to one winter near Cape Chilluskin, there will be plenty of work to do. If no trace of the Jeannette has been found up to that time, I intend to explore the coast eastward with dog sledges in search of her or any documents she may have left.” THE LANDLORDS. National Associated Fress. A PROPOSED IDIGNATION MEETING, Dusniy, December 13.—A project is on foot for a mgeting of the Irish landholders, to be held in Dubln at an early day, for the purpose ofi ex- pressing the indignation and anger with which the property owning classes have witnessed the operation and ad- ministration of the land act. The men engaged in the calling of this meeting say the land act, which dur- ing its Zpassage through parliament, was desoribed as a very inadequate measure of relief to the tenants, has been converted by the land court into a machine for actually robbing land- lords and of briuging absolute ruin and distress upon them and their families. The land court, they say, is absolutely in tho interest of the tenant and is epposed to the landlord, and they propese to hold a great rep: resentative meeti at which they will set forth these facls and sterviy demand from the government peci- niury redress for the legalized plun- derto which they bave by ubject. Loxpon, Ikcember 13, an effort in similar direction to the purpose of the landlordism meeting to be held i Dublin on Trish property defense, a meeting will be held in London at which the lord mayor will preside and at this meeting it is thought 1t will be decided to appoint a committee 1o ob- tain subscriptions for the support and and conts o every man whopays taxes in Nebraska; for every such man pays not only his own tax but a portion of that which should come from the U. P. and B, & M. rai corporations, Found at Last What every one should have, and never be without, is THoMAs' Eneersig O1n. It s thorough and s.fe in its effeots, produ- cing the most wondrous cures of rheumae tisw, neu-alkin, burns, bruises and wounds of every kind, . dll-eodlw — Panic in a Schosl. 8. Louis, December 13,—The ex- l)luliull of a coal stove in the Frank- in school caused a panic among the pupils on the first and second floors, who rushed out frantically, tramplin the smaller ones under toot. Several were severely and dangerously hurt. — Squar 3 National A‘mrul?ul l'llll:. "P Sy Fraxciseo, Decomber 13,-The first dividend of 10 per cent. in liqui- dation is buing paid by the Marysville relief of boycotted persons i Ireland, GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. National Associated Press. THE DANUBE DIFFICULTY. Royg, December 1. In the best informed diplomatic circles it is now believed Austria and Italy are in accord with respect to Roumanian affairs. The Danube navigation dif P ) DEWEY & STONE, FURNITURE! Undons Emve ORCHARD & BEAN, | J. B, FRENCH &CO, CARPETSIGROCERS CARPETS HAVE DECLINED SLIGHLTY AND. J. B. Detwiler Is the first to make the announce- ment to his customers and the general public. MATTINGS, OIL GLOTH AND WINDOW SHADES, Always sold at the lowest Market Prices. We carry the largest stock and make the Lowest Prices. Orders promptly filled and every attention given to patrons. J. B. DETWILER, 1313 Farnham Street. SAXE’'S OPERA HOUSE PHARMACY, Corner |6th and Farnham Sts. (BOYD'S OPERA HOUSE) MOST ELEGANT SELECTION OF Holiday Goods TO BEE FOUND IN THL.. MARK T Now on Exhibition and Selling Very Rapidly. EVERYTHING NEW AND FRESHI Call and See for Yourself. The Russian governmeni through the Journal des St. Petersburg, intimates its firm assent to the appointment of Count Chandorly as French ambassa- dor to St. Petersburg as & guarantee of the policy of peace and loyal accord of the continental powers, ——— Infringement Suit. National Awociatod Covrvnnus, December 13, —Suit was filed in the United States court to- day against the city and board of ed- ucation by John H. Haywood, of Port Richmond, New York, and Aaron Halen, of Boston, for alleged infringe- ment of patent right by the use of certain school desks, Proprietor. J. A. WAKEFIELD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN O NV IELER. Lath, Shingles, Pickets, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOLDINCS, LiME, CEMENT FPLASTEHR, BTO. SWETATE AGENL FOR MILWAUKEE CEMYNT COMPANY Near Union Pacific Depot, - - - OMAHA, NEB /