Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1882, Page 4

s . N— — ——— % L ————— — The Omaha Bee. Pablished every moming, except Sunday, The only Monday morning daily, 4 TERMS BY MAIL:— One Year.....8$10.00 | Three Months,$3,00 8ix Months, 500 | One o 1.00 THE WEEKLY BE BERMS POST PATD:— One Year......$2.00 | ThreeMonths. . Bix Montha, 1.00 | One CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. ations relating to and Editorial mat- gors «hould be addressed to the KDITOR oF published ev- BRITSI‘ ITTERS—AIl Business Letters and mittances should be ad. dressed to Tie Omana Postisning Com. PANY, OMaHA, Drafts, Checks and Post office’ Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company, OMAHA PUBLISHING CO0., Prop'rs Ei ROSEWATER, Editor. WheN we pave we must pave sub- stantially. . Guiteav got cold oomfort Judge Cox's rulings on the law joints of the great trial. — Omto never will be out of office. Even Jim Wilson hails from that highly, favored section. —_— from Evexy time Jay Gould or Sidney Dillon take snuff the editor of the Herald sneezes long and violently. Junce Cox's view of insanity will meet with the approval of every one but the assassin and his connsel. ““FarMERs' associations” mnever flourish in the back rooms of saloons. Tho climato is too moist for good crops. BrookLyN is the city of churches, a whith elephant of a bridge and an enormous debt amounting t» over $42,000,000, EvEN queens are not always in luck. At a late agricultural show in England some of Victoria's calves were awarded only third prizes. the cattle show pre- There is no royal road through aium list. Goverxon GeL, in his annual mes sage, pleads for confressional regula tion of railroads in order to supp ighly offective Iroad commis- ment and render the the work of stato r It is sure to come in time, sions. WirhiN a fow weeks lively dodging on the tariff question will be the order of the day in Washington. A demo- cratic member recently remarked “‘Free trade sounds well in a platform but what 1n thunder has that to do with my district?” BARNEY SHANNON says he ought not to be molested for keeping bar for his wife on Sunday when eighteen other follows who are not getting 8500 a year and bed and board, kept open at the same time. Barney evidently took his cue from the Iate license in- quiry. Mz, Wasunury has introduced a bil' into the house looking to the abo- lition of the pre-emption land law. 90 | has ever represc JAMES F. WILSON, The republican cacus of the Towa legislature have nominated Hon. Jas. F. Wiison for scnator for the long March 4, 1883 A republican caucus nomination in Towa term, beginnine is practically an election and the bal loting next week will be merely a rati fication ot the action of the ueus, iinent Mr. Wilson is a man of ¢ bility, perhaps the ablest man that ted Towa in the na tional legislature. Viewed from our standpoint ahility 1s not the only re and faithful id inter quisite for an efli United State rity and a high moral sense of the ro- ent senator. devolve sponsibilities t! upon & true representative of the people fully are in our Measured by the stand- opinton as essential, ard established by his own public rec- ord, Mr. Wilson falls short of our conception of the kind of that should represent the great agri- cultural state of Towa in the national lifetime senator council. During almost a Mr, Wilson, in and out of has been a corporation attorney or argu- congress, ist and this fact was the od t that this paper has alwags v against his candidaey. Had the op- position in Towa stood platform Mr. Wilson have been nominated. But potitors were simply trying t> head him off on a personal canvass with no principle at the bottom and insuch a contest Mr. Wilson, being the ablest politician, outgencralled thom all. upon that never would his com- Mr. Wilson now goes into the sen- ate as an avowed out and out anti- monopolist. His conversion from the railroad ranks was 80 sudden and so complete that we refused to believe in his this opinion the railroad managers ap- pear to be with us for once, for they did not lay a straw in his way and seem to have cheerfully taken the risk of being ruined by Mr. Wilson, who has proclaime that the railroads do not own anything more than a right- f-way. For the good of the country and of the state of Towa we hope that wo also, We ok~ have sincerity. In have been mistaken hope that there will be no 1 sliding from the anti-monopoly pl form into the railroad camy. James F. Wilson was born in Ne ark, Ohio, received a good education, 1853 he re idly rose to and studied law. Tn moved to Towa, and 006 as prominence, being olected in 1 a member of the Towa constitutional convention. Ho was subsequently elected to both branches of the legis. lature, and in 1861 presided over the Towa e. At the outbrenk of the war he was elected to congress and served four terms, During this pe- riod he held positions on various prominent committees, being chair- man of the judiciary committee of the house. In18G8ho was ono of the man- agors of the impeachment of Andrew Johnson. 1In 1869, after his retire- ment from congress, he was appointed government director of the Union Pacific railroad, which office he held until March, 1878. ANOTHER OUTRAGE. And now comes Doctor Miller tresh from Jay Gould's mansion in New York and calls upon the Omaha board of This bill does not include the home- stead law, and .is intended to hit the speculator who secures land without improving it and holds for a rise in prices. Ex-Presioenr Hayes will return from Europe in time to speak at the uext re-union of the Grand Army of the Republic next January, Hoe will respond to the toast, “The Rebel We Measure Their Value and Sincer- ity as Friends by Therr Departed Valor as Enemies.” Some personal reminiscence of Judge Key would'be in order. Freo Ny, ot the Union Pacific railroad company’s literary bureau, has been appointed politival observer of the Omaha Republican, at Wash- ington, D, C, The appointment was confirmed by Thos. L. Kimball, and Fred has torn himself away from the Brooks' side and set out for Valen- tine's headquarters. Oh Freddie, what a vacancy you have left behind. —Kearney Pross. Perhaps the writer of the above is shightly prejudiced. Fred held the Union Pacific mortgage on the Kear- ney Press and tried to foreclose when heo found that it didu't pay political dividends. Now we shall see of what great erimo August Arndt is guilty, The government of the United Btates has been put to the expense of importing a judge from Kansas to try this terri ble man for an alleged threat against Judge Dundy. Arndt has already been in_prison. fully one mcnth and justice I bound to have her pound of flesh. If Arndt is convicted we pre- » that he will be sentenced to a of imprsonment. Bul whan that term is up what protection will such treatment guarantee to Judge Dundy if he really belicves that Arndt is disposed to do him bodily harm! The only true remedy would #eem to be to have this “howling ni- hilist, communist and socialist” incar- cerated during the remainder of Judge Dundy’s life, or else to have him executed at once and be done trade to appoint a committee to con- fer with the railroads upon the pav- ing question, The Doctor says: ‘It ishoped that the board of trade, at any meeting that may be held for the purposo of discussing the pavement question, will appoint a strong com mittee to confer with the Union Pacific railroad company, the Burling- ton & Missouri, the Missouri Pacific, and the Omaha & St. Paul, to see what they will do to help us pave our strects. This would bo_practically carrying out Mr. Siduey Dillon's sug- gestion, who seconded the assent of Manager Kimball to the idea that the Union Pacific would do its full share in tho matter. These corporations have an important stake in the proper, permanent and immedieate pavement of every one of our main business stroots,"” The sugrestion did not originate with Mr.gSidnoy Dillon. It originate right hore in Omaha, at a meeting of the board of trade, to consider the paving question, and was made by the editor of Tue Bek, in language that was somewhat plain and emphatic. The suggestion was vigorously de- nounced as an outrage by the Omaha’ Republican, which could not compre- hend by what malign inspiration this man Rosewater couplod the paving question with the Union Pacific rail- road. 8o we take it that it is an out- rage that Dr. Miller should second our motion in this matter, as he does on the grauite question, and go us one better by urging that the assistance of the railroads should extend not only to Tenth street, but also to our principal business streots, For both of these outrages we cor- dially forgive him. Our ¢ ginal sugeestion was that the railroads who blockade Teuth streot with their tracks should pave the rosdway leading to their depots, Un der our systew of jug-havdle law the depot and depot grounds are included in the roadway, and are exempt from taxation, and we thought, consid ering the fact that Omuha has given these grounds to the the road and paid $200,000 for the grounds besides donating a trifle over half a willion on bouds and otle with it. It will be Nebraska justice, of course, lands to Mr. Dillons company, that it would not be unreasonable to ask FHE OMAHA DAI LY_B EE: them to pave the principal thorough fare that leads to their Omaha depot. If the; of our esiro to assist the paving ta by carrying paving ma- terials free of charge or at very iow rates we shall chedrfully join Dr. Miller in commending them for such aid although we have not had the pleasurc o admiring Jay Gould's pic- tures and treading on his Axminster carpet. ROOM FOR REFORM. We have heard a good deal of late Omaha, about good government in and our mayor has complimented the marshal and the police upon the ex- collont manner in which they perform their daties. We have been told also that twe abroad, p detectiyes were here from Whably graduates from some penal institution, who had never se \ verned and where th But there is still a good deal of room for acity as well ¢ laws wero 8o genorally enfore reform for all that, Barring the differ- ences on the manner of enforcing the Slocumb law which has caused somuch commotion here of late, there are still little incid that would indicate a rather ts of frequent occurrence state of affairs in this law abiding, well governed and quiet city. Our former observations on this score have been denounced as malicious, and of ficinls ich in authority have pronounced our charges concorn- and those ing the doplorablo stato of public morals in Omaha as d—d lies. Tt scems, however, that other people in these parts entertain opinions not at all complimentary to the police system of Omaha, which from the lated Saturday's of the Post German) WHERE ARE OUR POLICE! This is a question wemust ask when the papers a upelled evory day to chronicle nightly assaults, burularies and robber A band of burglars, thugs and vagabonds are revelling in disorder and crime in this city as if to mock our gallant police puppets. These rogues know yery well whom they deal with when they defy our magnifi- cent police corps. If law-nbiding and peaceable citizens, who after o days hard labor sit down to partake of a glass of | y to chat and amuse them- selves i arrcle of friends in respectable resort ¢ not throuch before the ¢k strikes twelve then some of these high and mighty ones on hand to impose their anthority., Wheny however, nightly ries are carried on until early dawn in houses of ill-fame, gambling hells and other disordorly dens, the police pass them by unnoticed and turn the corners like” 8o many sneaks, Tt is about time that the city marshal should wake out of his badger like sloep to rid the city of a dangorous element which at this time is becom- ing & menace to our citizens, Last [Thursday night these desperadoes were in their element. Mr. Gus Phlemmer, who resides on the north side, was followed on his way home by two roughs, In the neighborhood of the wilitary bridge on Cuming street he was overtaken by these garrotters and struck upon the head h o sand bag or some other instrument. Fortunately the blow did not prostrate him, although he saw stars for s fow moments. He set his legs in chain lightning motion and got away from the scoundrols. On the same night a house on Hick- ory street was broken into and a number of valuables carried off. On Thirteeneth street Sam Rommer's family lof t their washing to dry on the line and that night it was carried off by thieves. Lastly a lady of Long Pine station that arrived here that evening was relieved at the depot by pickpockots of her pocket book. The ang of scoundrels furnished amplo evidenco that they are competent to conduct every branch of thievery and all these things happen under the very eyes of our police. We would eall the attention of the marshal to tho fact that this class of individuals have no license and ought to be at- tended to. may be gleaned following editorial trans- from uumber Omaha 801m0 k Tur. Bee speaks about the paving of the Omaha streets in connection with a proclamation of the governor, which it assumes will soon bo issued, Now this is a mattor of a local nature of much mmportance, to be sure, and which should be attended to, but we are surprised thut Tue Ber overlooks a matter of state importance— fully as essential as the pavingof the Omaha streets. We refer to the completion of our astate capitol. The east wing will be cuulrlq-h-tlhy the first of Sep tember, and the sooner the appropri- ation for th central part is secured, the sooner will the building be com: ploted. Wo suggest to Tie Bek that it mention this partioular item of leg- islation, - [ Lincoln Democrat. There is a slight difforence between the proposition to authorize Omaha to pave her strects and a proposition to appropriste money for completing the state capitol. Tn the one case the state isn't asked to contribute a dime; in the other the state is expected to add $200,000 to its tax, of which Omaha would have to pay at least §20,000. But oven in thi case if the state ab solutely needed the central section of the capitol before the regular session of the legislature the Omana Beg would raise no objection to it, It has been the habit of the Lincoln papers at all times to keop up a spirit of an tagonism botween the two cities and to make believe that Lincoln is a rival of Omaha, and Owaha is jealous of the yrowth of Lindolu when in fa there is no more rivaley between theso citios than thero is between the Oma- HA Bk and the Lincoln Demoorat, master of New York--but there was potisin about that. -Globe Democrat, Assistant Postmaster Pearson, of New York, was appointed Mr, James auccesor solely on account of his flt ness for the position, and in response to the petitions of hundreds of New York merchants. The fact that for five years he had filled the position of Assistant postmaster in the largest office in the country made his promo tion directly in the line of civil service reform. Tt is safe to say that it would have followed just as surely if Mr. Pearson had Thomas L. James’ daughter. never married Joux K “hogus anti- v may or may not be a wonopolist,” as charced by some of the New York journals, | but his announcement that his friends will not vote in the the New York legislature for any member who is organization of known to be under the control of very much of the it. A fow such ‘b the monopolies has ‘nuine ring about s monopolists’ are needed in every legislature throughout the country. STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska City i« vaceinating. Blue Sprines built thirty-one houses last coxting 819,205 North Platte jossesses o live emblem of 1i erty carefully caged, The popu ation of Waterloo has doubled durng the last two years. West Point claims_improvements last ar to the amount, of 865,000, . Horse thieves and burglars are fmprov- ing the dark and silent hours in Lincolu. Superior elaimy £650,000 werth of im- provements erected during the past year, 't bukiness men are about to he.- he erection of a brick block of 65 feet ut. George Kaxwell hos perfected arrange- monts for the ercotion of a new foundry buildivg in Fremout. The Blair barler captured his assistant, last week, while on_ his was to Omaha, with all the tools of the shop. Bittenbender, the most. brilliant th ay of suffragists, won her first case in a Polk county court last week, thing in the line of Hebron improye ment is more marked than the appearar of the stores one year ago and at the pres- ent time, The board of trade committee of Ke r- ded to open subseript ve 10,000 toward st canal scheme, Nel'ie Davis, of North Plitte, the un- or unate wom n who received a pi: t wound the head, me four lied last week, e across the Miss uri, « considerably by th tormation of an ice gorge above it, whi h threw the bridge out of line about eight inches, Dr, H, A, Kri s0 suddenly the oth ht that h rewaived in a sitting posture on a ha He was popular and his death is uni Ally regretted, I*, . Vogel, of Osceola, has filed in the offico of the county clerk the articl.s of in- corporatfon _of the Alliance Publishing compuny, Tha capital stock of the com- The shares are offered ng and Island, died new brick court house at Osc completed on the outside, and the work is progre:sing as_rapidly as cire stances will jit. When com: leted i will e one of the finest county court houses in the state, The Polk county agricultural associa- tion met the 7th inst. and elected H, (¢ Bitt nbender, delegate to state awr tural association; J w. M avhlin, v M. sshol ler, secretar tenbender, treasurer, A man naned Rockwell, a_farmer re. siding _between Weeping = Water and Louisville, atteuwpted to get off a train pr N 5 Mrs. H, C, Bit- near Plattsimonth last week, and was | thrown to the ground, falling betwe-n the cars in such o manner that the rear car ran_over his right leg near the knee, cushing aud maugling n a horrible manner, During the decade ending March, 1879 the incre of population in Gage county was from 7,486 to 10,226, ard the increase in the number of acres li-ted for taxation was from 2°0 000 to 415,000, At present the number of population is upward 12,000, and of acres sub, to tax; about 50 ,000, the real valuation of which cannot be under $6,000,(00. ‘Whitelaw Reid’s Stolen Letter. Nationsl Awociated Press. New Yc January 11.—White- law Reid to-day prints a “personal edi- torial, showing that the recent alleged letter of advice to Garfield on the sit- uation of politics in New York, print- ed in the Herald under the claim of the Herald's contributor that Garfield, being a personal friend, ailowed him to make a copy of it, which he fur nished the Herald, was not written to Garfield at all but to John Hay, of Cleveland, and was never scen by Garfield nor never in his possession one instant, It was never intended for him, but was written to guide Hay in his conversation with the pr ident Hay furnished a certificate that the original never left his hands, is still in his possession and has been locked up in his desk ever since its reception. Reid says the letter as published in the Herald is garbled, and thatit was stolen from the telegraph wire, and appeals to Bennott to make kunown the name of the contributor who can be punished, Reid claiming that he 1mposed on the public by printing a stolen copy from the wires of private communieation to anoth er which he palmed off as a lotter to the preident, and that the latter al- lowed him to'copy it for the purpose of making it appear that Garfiold was weak and acted under advice. Reid also ys that instead of epting the alleged advice when friends re- minded him of the trouble Robertson's nomination was making and talked about withdrawal, Garfield's rcply was : “They may take him out of the senate head first or feet first; 1 will never withdraw him. " — Small-Pox National Associated Pross. SAN Fraxcisco, January 11, nd will remain in caso of small-pox, Forty passen- quarantine ten days. gers are aboard Tuk Chicago 1 of nepotism inst Postwaster Gon- | cral Howe bocause he appointed 1is son to a position under him, His predes Y, Mr, Jumgs. appointed his gou-in-Juw to succeed him as post Toreka, January to-day, L. Hiatt, 137 Jetlerson atreef, a brakeman on the Atchison, Topeka & Suuta Fee road. He says he thinks he caught it sitting in enn | graut cars, * | council, as T have saggested. 11.—One slight | ribune raises the cry |case of smali-pox was reported here THURSDAY, JoNUARY 12 18x2. GEAR'S MESSAGE. ‘ The Conc'uding Paragraphe of a Voluminous Docu- ment. The Railway Commission and Kts Work -~ Waterways, High way and State In- stitations, The fol owirg sageof Gov, G arageaphs from the mes- rto the Lowa assembly, led ont of yesteor- were unavoidably crowd day's Ber THI. NKW CAPITOL, The report of the capitol commissioners ws that there has leen expended, t two years, 8258 145 38; up 8, Accompiny d estimat s ¢ nount ne These es- 649,446,345 but it n guind they do not in nount necessary to furnish the a partial complation of the not only but led on the o for a ital estimte, whi wound 1 the SRl shows that the | can be n for p hy Januar To expenditure of 5 14, asic nount required tor furniture, There is available for this work, the present 000 of the ay propriation of 1872 an a lditional al lowance of 210,000 for “1882, of 200,000 include the remuinder of the aperopri- atiom of 1872) for 1 and £200,000 for ating 3 000, the buildiny can be partially comploted, and the fin- ished portion furnished, in time for the convening of the twentieth general assem- Vly. The cost of supervision, the large rum already expended, the ¢ archives of the state and. hee library, in the prevent building, and the crowded and uncomfortable condition of the latter, de mand the promut apor priation of suff cient funds to complete the work. In my judgment the healthy condition of the Atate's finances will warrant the appropri- tion without ri<k of embarrassment. BUPPORT OF STATE INSTITUTIONS, ent that the recent heavy advance provisions, clothing, fuel and other necessarios of life will ren- der the support of the state in-titutions impossible on the present statutory al- lowances should the high prices continue during the current biennial period. As a reduction in prices may oceur durirg the period, I would not eonsider it. advisable to increase the presevt monthly or quar- terly allowance. Twoull, however, suggest that whi ever the trustees of any of the state insti tutions, or the wardens ot the 1espe:tive penitentiaries, are sat stied that the insti tution« under ti charge rospectively cannot be supported within th Towe it al. e conneil W upon to such institutio n, for such time be nec at a rate f not e per month for each of the in . If thix policy were aopt. allowance cond be dis the council ~hould sinfon that the nece sity ceased. Section 1 of t of the Sev.nteenth gene s it unlawful forany s L debt for suppert pur- 5 without first of taining the written consent of the exe c It wi'l be difficult, in ¢ s for the creation of a debt of considerable amount. in such emergen W are pro- vided tor in this section, to find persons who willing, and financially able, to a debt nstitution for T therefore suggest a se Le repealed, and the pow- to increase the allowance be left to the TREASURERS OF STATE INSTITUTIONS, If the office of treasurer of the several eleemosynay institutions were" abolished nd tho superinten’ent made the custo- dian of all funds, the sing of books would be much simplif; Asitis now there are two sets of accounts kept for each institution, when one is sufficicnt. As the hills are all audited by the board of trustees, the putlic funds would be fully as secure, and their disbursement as carsfully guarded, as under the present system. CONFERENCE OF CHARITL S, Considering it of importance that the state should be represented at the meet- ing of the National Conference of Char- ities, 1 appointed Miss Margaret A. Cleaves, M. D., of Davenport, as a_dele- gate to that body. Her report will be found printed with the state documents. It is of much interest and value, and is a strong argument iu favor of the estal. lishment by the state at zn early day of a o of charitlos snd. corre ions, duty shall be to supervise the management of our elcemosynary and o TS T e R G L e a board should be com rehensive in their scope, ¥ ax to embrace o full supervisor, power over poot-houses and jails a8 wel as the charit ble and penal instituti ns of the state. ‘T'here are, in the poor-houses o the state, or 1e e aid in counties without poor-louses, 1,364 persons. ‘The statewent of this fact, and the disclosures mide re arding the management of poor- houses in muny of the states, dem rate Al souie sup Tvision is necessary other than wh.t isafforced under the ~present system, AGRICULTURE, The interest «f Town being so largely agricultural, it keemns to mo that the cre- ation of @ buresu of agriculture having N of matters pertaining to trisindu try would be of great value, The chief of this hureau should be a state ofticer, 1t should hive connected with it a department of entomclogy and veteri- ary #ci nee, and should be charced with the duty of examining into th the best methods of | v ment of the disense incident to live stock of all kinds, It should als) gather and disseinate information regarding the soils of the state, their adaptability to the production of grasses and g whatever else is of import ince to th dominant interest of the state, bureau, it proy erly mainta ned, would be of great value to our peop e, and a foun- tan of knowledg to those seeking iofor- i s to the rerources of the state The agricultural products alone of Tow., during the past bi nnial period, eeregate the vast sam of $500 000,00, Surely the cont of maintainings bureau of agriculture would be but a tritle as compared with the lenvfits to acerue to the state through in- terests of such magnitude, NTATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, The tables in this society’s report ing the amcunt and value of th of the soil, and the live stock raised, show a gratifying i © us compared with former years, The crop returns made to the mri.\tl»\ embracivg #s they do all the counties in the state save one, have been wuthered through the co-operation of o {300 farmers, The expenss conne therewith is quite large an | has been rayed by the society, which is illy p pared to bear it. In order to make this portion of t'e work of the soc manent foature, anappropriati is asked tor. The value to the public of this feature of the report would seemn t warrant such appro, riation, The y&ers on varions topics connected w agriculture, ¢ nivibub'd by our leading agricultur embodying. as they do, o Varie | per expericnee iu the practica affairs o farm lite are of wuch iut rest and well worthy careful per isal, and 1 trust they wmay convey t) you valuable hints as to needed legislation. for the tos gering of that interest whiob, wore than w1 others com ined, augiients the pros- perity of our stat-, BAILWAYS Your attention is called to the report 1| To what extent these lm\\'-lrn have |een of the railtoad commissioners as being of much interest and , espe dally there is at this much disenssion of the t ansportation question, The con. strnetion of railways i in Towa and throughout the country. At peesent there is a mileage in the state of and there is in jw cess of :tion and partially ¢ mpleted fully +' 00 miles more, All of the connties in the state save two have raflway facilitic and these will be reached by lines constriction early in t The business of the r incrensed enormonsly, which uratifying e state he charged for the transportation of and passengers o the groat lines countrv show that for everal years past there has been a ste dy and grodual * de- e therein, and that in t wtion it pidly increasimg noew it i swih of the varticipated, The of wortaticn charges on onr Towa roade on hoth Toe ] and inter. ate traffl: are claborate, covering as they do many of traflic, and these also show lual reduction in the charjes year | Especinlly i this case on traflic e interior points in Towa to the Chic g market. [t is a fact - th ngt shown in the rejiort—that at this tim the raf ¢ products from el ting and unon: points in this ate to the s as low as they are on products from Central N¢ + same markets, This is, of it to the producer, as it renders his land, though over a thousand miles from market, a uable for dairy purposes as if it were wuch ne ror The opinion is freely expressed by prom inent railway men that with reductions of nd curvature on the throngh lines already buiit and in course of construction, with the m nomical methods of op- eration which are being elaborate! and i nd with the usual results of free , the day is not far dist nt lower rates will be the rule, It will also he seen by reference to the report that, while there hava been large luctions in freight charges, the m freight frou points in the interior of the state to points on the Missisappi river are much higher, relatively, than the rates to Chicavo, Competition, the completion of new lines in harmony with river trans- portation, the inexorable laws of trade, and a due regard on the part of the rail- Ways to t 3L CUEHTATOE Btk e mers will, it is hoped, do much towards remedying the existing disparity in rates, atan esrly d The report, is accompa- nied by a wap of the state, showing the railroads built and in course of construe- tion. - Another interesting feature will be found in the profilss of the grade of the leading lines sing the state from enst to west and north to south, the value thercof consistin: in the means furnished for deterniining the relative cost of haul- ing friecht over the d fferent Jines of road. The study of this subject will be n-eful to all having business “relitions with the ay aid materially in arviving conclusions as to the value of 1 these fucts are of great interest, and are impor-ant factors inthe solution of the v xed question which is exciting so n:mch dixen-sion, the *t ation problem.” liscu-sion by the and on the forum s of railw e pub'ic and private rights, the views of the commissioners will be found o valus to the people of lowa, who have so e an intersst in the proper determina. ion of these auestions, 'hat jart of the report that treatsof producing the *‘coal iine” dled lust wintor, and the pos- e same state i this winter, thoir conclusions conce zit, and the injunctions Jaid laid upon e railways I relation toa proper supply of cirs will be found of inverest Duriug the year just closed the o il ave decided upon fift complaints which have been wade tothem. In every caxe the decision of the com sioners has been ac epted by both th porations and the people as an ahsolute settlement of the question at issue. In addition, many informal complaints, em- bracing minor grlevances, have been sat- isfuctorily adjusted by the board simply through their calling the attention of the compunies to the facts, These things show cle.rly that the commissionership syatem, although it is not_yet four yes since its adoytion, is growing in_the con- fidence of the people, and ix relied upon them for protection against the encroach- Toant ohithe railway corporations. It is fast becoming asettied conviction in the public mind, not only of the people of Towa but of other states, that the com- missi'n, acting as it does in_the capacit of a board of arbitration, hefore which complaint may be made, evidence taken, and matters of difference promptly ad- justed, and whose decisions when rendered have all the moral weizht of ju leial de- cress, wth the great saving of fime and expense attendant, gives much hetter re- sults that can be deiived from the more tedious and evpensive processes of the courts, ~ That this is the case is evi- denced in the adoption by other states of the commissionership system. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Virginia, na, Georgia, Alalams, Ken- y, Ohi gan, Illinois, Towa, Wikconsin, Minnesota and Cal fornia— thteen states —now have railway com- missions, while New York hus a state en- Pennsylvania a secretary of enh of whom performs many ot the duties of railwa sioners in other states n and severs] of the ¢ mtinen states have like boards, and Australia has ado, ted the systen within the past year. This method f public control s s thoroughly demonstrating its efficienty that at the lnnwlll ratio of its adoption 1t will soon e found on the statute books of every state i the uvion. Furtherwore, no state wfter adopting this system of mtrolof railways hasyet abandoned Tam foced to t nelusion that a proper control of inter-state co merce will necessitate a national board of commissioners 1 am aware that there are many who think that the powers of the commission- ers should b enlarged, or in other words that they shouid be invested with jud powers. . From this view | dissent only boards of commissic I powersthat T am awar of Georgia, Cuifornia and Great Britam. exercised by the boards of the tw first named I am not informed, but in Great B itain, where the supervision embraces nore than three times then of Towa, the powers of the comuissioners = ave been invoked only 101 times d_ring sevin ve rs, and a large numberof the cases were not judicial, but reluted to the ap- proval of rates; while during less than years the Lowa commis ion hes de ) casex, many of them of great impor- 1ce to the people, and every decision has leen ol ‘\.:.l\v the corporations and has hted by the peapl inther- ce the org nizati 1 Towa jon not a suit _has been bronght t an as 1 am informed—involving questions of charges of extortion, while under the law h was in ope a from 1874 to 1878 hundreds of such suit« were institnted, many of which are still pending . Thus is the great economy of the system demon- str . These " results ~ have been achieved because of the knowledge, on the pait ol © rporations, that behind the board of commis sioners, there was a vast moral frce, in the shi) e of an inmense volume of popu- entiment in favor of & just and sper control of corpora which sen. timen' would resens avy r fusa part of the corpora‘ions to accept 1 Jevmituations of the b s an ene went on the rights of tne beopl practical denial of the power of con strenuously insi-ted upou by them WATERWAYS The rapid incre v e in the amount of the | products of the west, the consta ntly grow dem nd for the-e products, the nece v for the lowest rates of trans; ortation attain bl , whereby the i terest« of hoth producer and consumer nay be advau h stimulat.d the people of the Missis- | avoided sippi \nill‘r to look to other and cheaper routes to th ¢ wesboard and foreign m rkets alre dy open, Of the routes at ng attention at the present time one is to be found in the natural hichway of the Mississippi river, the improvement of which is impesatively demanded. \ other may be obtained by a connect the waters of that river with the chain of lakes, the Krie canal, and the St. Lawrence river, Both of these rontes are feasible. The plans for improvement of the one and the con- struction of the other show that the ocost excessive, and when completed < will have an important b i on thequestionof cheap transportatior for it is easy to see that western produets will a5 u consequence b 1 to market at the minimum rate of charges attaina Ve whether by rail or water. The ojen ing of the utes will al«o be a greit factor in the solution of the problem of in er-state commerce. Both of these en- r.d to the same results, and the oth should work in entire har A« the bevefits to be obtained are ngre-s that fed funds 1 these 1« mony. rational in characrer, it is to the people ninst lo with which theref st that y u me congress for an ‘fmmedinte apjroprintion for the furtherance of the<e great enter prises, for the ne } PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, 3 our roads is such at times as almost to forbid travel, and thus bring nearly to a standstill the large wunt of business transicted upon the The ¢ highways, This subject needs your at- tention, The present system of work ng the ronds by a headless and almost aimless army of over ten thowsand supervisors s adically unsound. ‘The intinitesimal road distiicts, with their at- tendant dissipation of respousibility and utter wantof system, along with 1he prac- tico of paying toxes with what is called Iabor on the r oucht to be re . orse lessly annihi . Of the half miilion doilars collected” for rond purposes throughout the state a far larger propor- tion it may, I 1hink be safely said, is wasted than any other amonnt of money collected in this state for any pur- sose whatever. The payment (£ ail taxes in money and ' he consolidation and sys- tematization of the work on the roads un der intelligent management. would be as productive of good results here as it has Lvun in other states. CORPOKATIONS, The foreign insurance m“nnim doing business in this state derive their authori- ty from certain statutes which require them to mnke a showing of their fiscal condition to the auditor of the state, the luw in this reguard being complied with, the auditor issues to a company a general Jicense to tran-act bu-iness in the stute. In case of loss occurring to the company, the payment of which is con- tested ot law, it is the aluo t vniversal custom, when the loss exceeds $5, for the company to transfer the cause to the federal conrts, Owing to the delays in dent to these courts, much injustice i many instane s, done the person Lringing the suit ay inst the company, and he is often grea'ly hindered m ot tuiving his rights, “Ihis requir s a remedy at the hands law making power through the r quiring all forcign in- nce con paies to waive all rights to transfer their eral conrts; it o condition it they agree to try all actions instthem in the courts of 1owa. > has the te nce omy er has be court of the I Le considered whether some such lation would not alsy by isab'e i reference to railway, express, and all o'her corporations organ the proy of law in other states but doing business here, COMPENSATION OF PUBLI The governor urges a mere equitable gradimg of the salaries of sher.tFs o that officers in sparcely settled covnties may secure a suflicient salary ¢nuble them to devote his entire attention to the duties of the office. He also urges an in the salaries of deputy tre.surers and clerks of counties. The salaries of execu- tive, auditor, ~ecretary of s'ate and treas- urer of the state ure lower than thuse of surrounding states and shoud be cor- respondingly increased to enalle the in- cumbents to inaintain their josition with credit to the state, ERAL ELECTION, The governor recommends that the day of election be changed from October to November, to correspond with the time fixed for nationzl elections. VACANCIES IN OFFICE. The governor reports having appointed to fill vacancics in the management of the asylum for the feeble minded, viz: Eben- ezer R. 8. Woodrow, of Mills county, Seneca B. Thrall, of Wapello county, aud Fred. O'Donnell, of Dubuque county. On the 14th of July last, he app inted Clinton Orcutt, of the county of Cedar a trustee of the So'diers’ Orphans’ Home, in the room of Charles M. Horton, removed from the state. On the 14th day of Octo- ber, Charles C. Horton, a tru-tee of the #ame institution, rerigned. Hi plice wis supplied by John Mcdugh, of the county of Howard. DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. I cannot close thix message without an allusion to the ealaitous event v hich so Lutely shocked and humiiliae our country- men everywhere. For a second time an American president hax fallen by the hand of an assa-sin; and again_the nation mourns the loss of a chief mazistrate who had endeared himself to the h-arts of the people. Tndeed, it would wlmoxt seem as if the illustrious patriot’s ho'd on the pop- ular_affections had the more excited the murderous hate which rewoved bim from earth. While we 1 m'er with grief and shame his tr gic tate, we cannot but foel a gense of pride as Americans in the life and character of the 1 and the 1 friness of purpose, the inflexible integ- ;, and the fideli'y to duty, which ko minently distinguished the career of James A, Giarfield. CONCLUSION . T'he fact that there are over thirty re- ports to review and that many of the se will not be in print until near the middle of the seskion, and the ne essity « xist ng that norable body shon d be + dvised as xact condition of the state and her instituti ns, constitute my only apology for the length of this message. The tim« h » now arrived for me to lay aside the official position 1 have been hon red with by the people, In retirin- to private life, I give my thanks to every member of the executive council who has contributed, by advice and ¢ -opertion, toward whatever meas- ure of success my administeation of 3 ublic affris h s attained. The pe ple of the state 1 shall ever bear in remembrance for the covfidence placed in me, and the) have my gratitude therefor, coupled with my hearty good wishis for the greutest prosperity of that Iows, which, as terri tory and state has been my home since be- fore its nav e began to designate » politi- cal division of the earth, Jony H. Grax. A MOST CRAZY. How (ki 1 do we see the hard-work- ing father straining every nerve and muscle, and doing his utmost to sup- port his family. Imagine his feelings when returning home from a hard day's labor, to find his family pros- rate with disease, conscious of unpaid doctors’ bills and debts on every hand. It must be enough to drive one almost All this unhappiness could be by usmng Elcctric Bitters, which expel every discase from the system, bringing joy and happiness to thousands. Sold at fifty cents a bot- tle Tsh & McMahon (8) A L SROUGH ON RA The thing desired found at last, Ask druggist for “i-ough on Rats.” 1t clears Ut Tats, mice, roaches, flies, Ded Lugs; 156 boxes, 1 OFFICEKRS, crazy.