Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 22, 1882, Page 6

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THE senatorial currycombe are hard at work, but the nags which are groomed the hardest appear te be in the worst condition. OUT OF PILEWIOS. Just before the late election the Omaha IHerald announocod on behalf of General Msoager Clark that the Union Pacific wea out of polities. Just after the elaction the managers of the B. & M. followed suit by announzing they also had draern ont of politios, Within the last twenty-four hours we kave received two lotters that sho how the railronde went out of polities in the late election. One of these let ters from North Platte throws light on the operations along the ltne of the Pacif 0t states: ¢ has been timidating and bulldozing done in the late-slection. One of the chief parties engezed in that kind of business in part of the country war Road- Dudley. T am told he visited all the stations and saction houses be- fore election, burned up all tickets that were not satiafectory, sud inti mated 40 the section hosees thet they would be held responsible for the manner in which their men voted, I am aleo informed that a work gang which belonged in Colorado voted at Lodgepole. There were votere run down from Wyoming snd voted at Antelope, ¢he most westerly veting precinct in this state, It is well kuown that there is no greater naom- ber of veters at Lodgepole than at the other stations adjoining. Now Pot- ter polled 6 votes, Big Spring 9 votes, Oer infor ny amount of in- ‘WE have not heard one word eince the election from the superintendent of the Kearney reform scheol. What has become of Dr. Collios ? Tae St. Louis ¢lobe- Democrat wants some one to preach Herbert Spencer's “‘Giospel of Relaxation” to the fellow who is figuring up Grover Cleveland’s majority in New York. Grorae Fraxcrs Tra1x has written apoem on Ben Butler, and expres- eions of the most sincere sympathy are being extended by tte press to the newly fledged governor. Bur one republican was elected by St. Louis to the state legislature this year, the smallest number in twenty- five years. Chauncey I. Filley's career as a political boss was ended at the last election. TrE questson is very confidentially asked whether J. Sterling Morton has formed a silent partnership with the Kitchen Bros, His grand jury is drawing more patronage to the Paxton house than all their runne=s. SEvERAL heavy weights of tho son- ate expect to retire to private life after March 4th, David Davia will carry his 350 pounds back to Bloom- ington, Illinois, and Alvin Saunders intends to rustjeste in Nebraske un- Jewn he gelsa new lease of his nenator- fal zvow shows, ——— Alkali 9 votes, whilo Antelope poiled 81 votes and Lodgepole 43 votes. I have no doubt that a large portion of the votes at Lodgepole and Antelope are fraudulent.” Another correspondent writes from Culbertson, Neb,, as follows: “‘I hope the United Btates grand jury will investigate the wholesale frauds per- petrated in the Fifty-sixth representa- tive district, in Dundy county, Binkel- wman and Hagiler. The B. & M. rail- road participated in the election by voting thoir men on the gravel train and “‘fence gangs,” headed by the road master, compelled men to vote who had not taken out their papers as citizens of the United States, and others who had not been in the county to exceed twenty days, also others from Kansas. Thero were polled 132 votes in said county, whereas there cannot be over forty legal voters in the county, The election held at Binkelman was held in the B, & M. depot. Damocratic and anti-monop oly tickets were destroyed. The election was carried on by Roadmas- ter Feland, and dispatohes were sent weat from McCook to vote theso men."” Now, hero we have reports concern- ing the conduct of the election along the line of both the U. P, and B. & M., and the methods employed seem to have been inspired by the same master mind, The burning of tickets that were not eatisfactory, the bull- dozing of employes, voting of gravel trains with non-residents and ua- naturaliged foreigners under the pater- NeprAskA farmors insisted upo™!nal direction of roadmasters and sec- taking an interest in politics.at the|tion bosses. But now that the eleo~ late election and in the sesond district | tion is cver we are assured that the alone polled over 10,000 votes for the |railroads in Nebrasks have gone out farmera ficket. We shall have lets | of politics howling trom candidates about *‘igno- rant grangers” in the future. The grangers seem to have the upper hold in the political wrestling match in this state, Mz, Josern Cook is a man of un-|most brazen-faced attempts of the doubted ability, but his overpowering | mouopolies to escape their taxes in egotism is enough to bring a blush to | Califomnia and to secure by fair or the cheek of a bruss monkey. Infgoul means a decision which can be Chicago fow days ago, in referring | used as a precedent in all like cases to the deaths of Longfellow, Emerson throughout the country. and Garfield, he merely remarked that on his return to America he found|lows: After numerous disputes with himself lonely. Mr. Cook should at| yarious counties in California over the once seek the company of George|payment of their taxes, the Central Alfred Townsend and Eli Perkins, | Pacific had itself sued for state and where he would find solace for his | county taxes by tho county of San solitude, Tae outlook for the admission of Dakota into the union is not very|judge prejudiced in favor of Loland Although the territory | Stanford’s monopoly. has perhaps the requisite population |came on for trial, all the essential and by all precedent should be admit- | facts as alleged by the railroad were ted there will be so much partisan op- | admitted by the county and the de- position that the pending bills will |cision of the court was of course promising, THE SAN MATEO CAME. The dispatches from Washington, which announce that the 8an Mateo tax case has been expedited on the supreme court calendar, bring again before public attention one of the Briefly stated, the facts are ns fol- Meateo where the railroad influences were strong, the distriot attorney, a willing corporation tool, and the When the case throw their share of the publie bur- dens on the pocrer parts of the com. | munity. How will it be in Nebraska if ‘the San Mateo case is deol in favor of the corporation The, Union Pacific ra: ad has 455.7 wiles of main line in this state, which is assessed at £11,558 per mile, and which is mortgage something over $60,000 per mile, the mortgage In debtedness of th entire 1,820 milas orted at $82,1 on the o road being r: b, How m would remain for the board of equalization to equal » if the mortgage indebtedneas of the Union Pac was deducted from its nssessed valuation! The consequoncea of an unfavor discision cannot be discounted in ae vauce, but the public will find new meens to fores the corporations to bear their burdens of taxation. This may be secured by changing the basis upon which taxation is levied, or by ralsing the nssessments of cor porations to some approximation to the figures charced private individ- uals. While corporate monopoiies in Nebracka escape with an assessed val- uatlon of 16 per cent of their market value &nd less than the amount of their alleged coat, there is still room for Improvement in our methods of asseasing railroad property, which cannot bo assailed by trumped vp cases in the courts cr unjust decisions from tho bench. Tae legislature of Georgia last week eleted two United States senators, one to fill th unexpired torm of the late Benator iill, ending on the 4th of March next, the other for the long term ending in 1889, It adopted the novel expediont of inviting prominent candidates for senatortal honors to come before it and declare their opin- ions upon the issues of the day in or- der that the representatives of the state might judge of their qualifica- tions for the coveted office, Why wouldn't the expedient be a good one to adopt in Nebraska. Some ten candidates for the senatorship have already entered the raca in this state, aund the people would doubtless be glad to hear from many of them on what grounds of public necessity they base their candidacy. The only difficulty would seem’to be the shortness of the legislative session. If candidates continue to iucrease as they have done in the past three months, life would be too short for them to place themselves on record, In Georgia the soil doest not happen to be #o rich as it is in Nebraska, and the crop of aspirants for the senator- ship is consequently lighter. Still it I8 a good idea for the public to know beforehand something abqut the cali- bre of the men who aspireto tke highest logislative honor within the gift of the le. Reconstructi Philadelphia American, A great deal is beiug said just now a8 to the methods of bringing about ‘‘unity and “harmony” in the repub- lican party. In some quarters ‘re- organization” is demanded, in others ‘‘changes of leadership,” etc, efc. Volumes might be written on these topios wiinout exhausting them, and winout contributing anything ¢f ma- terial value either to the public stock of information, or to the promotion of republican success, What is really needed to promote this is & responie by repablicans who oecupy public places to the demands of the people on the liv- ing fssues of the day. Adherence to ‘‘bossism” and official corruption, re- fusal to 1educe taxation, waste of money by congressional jobbery, are four at least of the great errors of the party in the last year. Reversing such policy is a plain course and easily followed; it will bring success where the other plan brought disaster. And when men are attracted and satisfied, they will bs in truth both united and harmonious, withont artificial efforts to make & mere partisan ‘‘unity” and “‘harmony,” The Congress of Trade Unions. Spoclal Dispatch to Tux Brr, OLevewanp, November 21,—The second session of the Federation Con- gress of organized trades and labor unions began here to-day, Richard Powers, of Chicago, in the chair, The addrees of welcome was made by George A. Collis, of the Cleveland THE DAILY BFE “‘OMAHA. \\_"EDNESDAY NGVEMBER 22 .- .. NEW YORK GOSSIP, Model Homes for the Rich and the Poor, ©@ar Oldest Enhabitant- Joclety’s Brilliant Season—Green-itoom Whisyerings. Nrw York, November 17. -The wife of a prominent Berlin manufac- turor, who is on her firat visit to thie country, attempted to toll me a day or two ago of her emazement et the recent magnificent exhibition of autemn foliage in Contral park. She tiad been with difficulty persuaded by her kushand that the garzeous peno a of coloring spwead hefore her was not a apeclal exhibition but an ordinary annual oecurrence, and, like all foreigners who see the park in October for the firat time, she was voluminous in her praise. Thoogt the leaves have lost theic firs: bright-- ness and begun to fell to the ground, a drive or ride through the park is atill moro enjoyable, axd would be more #o but for the vandaliam of for- mer management which awept away acros of graceful underbrush, lopped off tho lower branches of trees and at- tempted to saw out vistas whero noue were needed., The new cich men of the city are rapidly surcounding this pleasant onsis with ® setting of kandsome houses. On the Fifth avenue side of Central Park, where there is & double row of trecs on the western side of the road and a fine front view at all points, thero are some exceedingly handeome buildings in process of con- struction, and the vacant spaces are being rapidly occupied by houses that are a credit to modern architectural eas. One of them, at Seventy- eighth street, is built of granite, and in design it would answer the require- ments of a palace, Its owner is Mr. Cook, who laid the foundation of his fortune in Steuben county, and came here to double and enjoy his money. He has set a f n that 1s likely to be followed. At Sixty-seventh street I notice two new houses of Queen Anne style, built of brick and stone, with stained glass windows and carved stone fronts, and block below are several others which are as tasteful dwellings as can bs found. Such houses as theso have set the example of granite and Queen Annle fronts to whole blocks of houses elaewhere, built for tenants. 8o it may be taken for granted that we grow in taste as we increase in popu- lation. Atany rate people must move up town or be lost to sociaty. Mr. Robert L. Stewart, who has just com- pleted his handsome $350,000 brown stone house at Sixty-eighth street and Fifth avenue, has leased his old resi- dence on Kifth avenue and Twentieth street to a firm of furniture manufac- turers, at e rental ot $20,000 a year, and they are to transform it into a warehouse, One of the most practical experi- ments in the way of cheap homes for the poor has been in operation for six months in the great tenement house on' First .avenue, between Ssventy- second and Seventy-third streets, and ita results are said to be entirely sat- isfactory The building is plain, with stores on the Grs floor and a large court in the interior, and accommo- dates 230 families. It is so large and the regulations are so stringént that it was originally thought that nonebut the very poor would ogoupy the rooms, but it turns out that the majority of cccupants belong to the comfortable class of artisans,” They are compelled to keep their rooms neat, to behave orderly and to sustain good characters, while the occupants of the stores are required to sell their goods on rea- souabla terms. The capital constructed this experimental tene- ment had their work done well, and arranged rents so as to get areturn of & per cent, where common, cheap tene- ment landlords exact 10 or 12 per cent, and they are satisfied with the experience they have gained, and pro- pose to push their reform in other quarters of the ¢ It is noticeable that out of 400 ohildren in this tene- ment there were only three deaths during the entire summer, Only two adults died during the same time of ordinary disesse, though a third died of old age. If capital finds out that this sort of philanthropy pays it may ot be possible for some of the land- ords of Gothem to get to heaven on their merits, Our oldest inhabitant is slowly dying. Almost blind, and with little interest in passing events, old Peter Cooper, at the age of 92 years, is anxioys to close up his ledger , of life, To a friend not long ago he said, with touching pathos, that he sometimes seemed to hear his mother calling to him, as she did when he was a little boy, ‘‘Come, Peter, it is about bed time.” Ho lies now in the past, and Trades assembly. A committee re- not pass during the present session. | in favor of the monopoly. The county The next congrees is less likely to|at once appealed the case to the favor the admission of Dakots than | United States supreme oourt, where the present one because the | it comes on for trial on a false basis, demoorats who will control the house | with the claims of the public mangled are disposed to take no risk of another | and muddled, which is in just the republican state on the eve of & presi- | shape that the company wants it, It dential election, e— is claimed, and not denied, that the attorney of the Central Pacific agreed Amoxa the men whose votes for the | with the county officials that if they river and harbor steal have doomed|would do all this the county taxes to private life, the one sboveall others | should be paid, no matter which whose loss in congress will be regret-|way the suit went before the ted is Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, | supreme court and that according to Of unquestioned integrity and marked | thy agreoment, the very day after the ability his judgment in matters per- | decision of the court in California was taining to public policy was in the [ made public, the railroad handed oyer large majority of instances sound and |to the county authoritics $8,071,47, weighty, and his address and talents | the amount of the county taxes, gave diguity to the delegation he The point ai issue is one which will headed from the old Bay State. The |affoct every state in the Union, It single instance where Benator Hoar |involves the scitlement of the ques- failed to read rightly the signs of the | tion whether in taxing the railroads times and the wishes of his constitu-[of California the amount of their ents was his vote to pass the river and | mortgage harbor steal over the president’s veto, | deducted indebtedness frow their shall be taxable andiv ¢ - sequence Massachusetts now | valuation, *“How much will be loft demand hst his place shall be filled by anoth « to the tax gatherer,” asks the Chicago Frauces A. Walker and | Tribune, “‘if these roads are allowed ex-Governor Long are mentioned for | to dedust the vast total of their swoll- the vacancy. Almost avy other state en mortgage debts from thelr assessed would be satisfied with the worst of | valuation?’ The that own the three, Hoar, Walker or Long, almost the whole of the state will then ported upon labor legislation, which was the chief topic of the afternoon’s discussion, The report reviews the committee's successful work during the year in behalf of the seamen’s bili and the Chinese labor bill before congress; cigar making in tene- ment houses bill before the New York legislature and the con- viot labor bill before the Ohio legislature; also in opposition to the bill in congress to declare combinations of seamen mutiny, and the bill 1n the Ohio legislature “entitled *‘A bill to prevent intimidation of workmen,” which preecribed punishment for ef- forts to persuade men to leave work omy any pretext. A paper read by Frank . Foster, of Cambridge, Mass., “‘Proteotion wages,” which was an elaborste argument in favor of free trade and agsinn high tariff, The congress will be_in session four days. B - -~ The Miners' Strike. Special Dispatch to Tux Bux. Prrrssura, November 21, — The sirlke of coal miners is gradually spreading and winers' officials con- fidently assert that before a week has elnpux all of the pits not paying four cents will be idle, T i s *4*Meon are but sorry witnesses in their own cause.” The praise of Kid- ney-Wort comes from the mouths of those who have been made strong and healthy by it. Listen: “It is curing ovu{‘l;miy," writes & drugglst. *'Kid- ney-Wort is the most popular medi- cine we sell.” It should be by right, for no other medicine has such action on the liver, bowels neys. has ceased to take any interest in pol- itics or electio: d has almost for- monument to his name while the city exists. His son, ex.-Mayor Cooper, and his son-in-law, Abram 8. Hewitt, will, however, keep up the political end of the family, tor both have the presidential “‘bee in their bonnet.” Thurlow Weed who has just had a hard tussel with death, celebrated his 85th birthday on Wednesday, when two of his octo- genarian contemporaries, Gen. James Watson Webb and Mrs. Gen. John A. Dix, called upon kim sud found him comfortable and u‘nnr The most active octogenarian in the city is Bishop Horatio Potter, who looks afler the spiritual needs of two hun. dred parishes, and as yet has no as- sistant. Some very ambitious clergy- men, now dead, who aspired to the episcopate, but wanted time to com- plete their private c.uvasdé of ihe churches, had Dr. Potter nominated and elected thirty years ago, because he was said to be an invalid and looked like & man who could not live & year longer, Bociety asserts that we are to have an unosually gay winter, and the balls and parties in upper tendom are to be plentiful, A still hunt has been inaugurated for the titled European nobility to grace ihese festivities, and the coming foreigner will himsel! in clover—at least tn boned turkey aud champagne. In the meantime weddings have become a drug. They have been s0 numerous in certain oir- cles that people have contented them- selves with sending flowers to the bride instead of silver, hoping to in- troduce & new aud comparatively in- expensive fashion. This *may disap- point bridegrooms as well as brides; but they oan take their revenge here. after, While waiting for society to open its season-- which # will not do b-fore Docember—coachiag partics of twenty mues or so, followed by a din- ner at Iblmonico’s, form one of the fashionable amusements, Everybody seems to be pleased with the result of the elections. Mr. Conkling remarked a day or two ngo that it was*‘all tight,” but he did not look pleased. By a strange coinci- dence Mr. Biaine made the same re- mark at the Fifth Avenue Hotel a a few hours Iater, and looked no hap pier. Bat Ben Butler, as he walked through the corridor of the.same ho- tel, beamed all over with joy. The Langtry craze is beeoming se- rious, From Fifth avenue to tha Five Points her face, her figure, her feef, her dress, her smiles and hor graces are discussed in tho street, in the cars, on the ferry boats, between dsinks in bar rooms and by irrepressible news gamins and bootblacks, The etaid old Paritans of New England have canght the infection, and five carloads of Jersey Lily worshippers came from New Haven and intermediate towns to gaze upon her Rosalind at Wal- lack’s last Monday night. Yet the Langsry. is not happy. It is whis- pored that Barony pald handsomely for the privilage of monopolizing her beauty in pkotographic form, and of sixty negatives not one pleased the critical eye of the exacting English Venue, It is oven hinted that the final proofs were bedewed with tears of disappointment. According to a savant in the myateries of collodion, Sarony’s camera te too patriotic to dis- relzlrjthn example of Washington's little hatchet; henee it reflects nature too truthfully. Beautyis the rage for the moment, d the local cheap museums are turning an honest penny by prize expositions of its representa- tives. Some of these are made piquant by limited adornment, More muscular acting occupies the Fifth Avenue with John McCullough, who, 80 to speak, hits out at his audi ence straight from the tragedy shoul- der. Lillian Ruseell, the pet of comic opera, who sports a Victoria and team and lots of diamonds, has been ill, and all the old women theater gossips are shrugging their shoalders and elevat- ing their eyes with expectancy as to when she will sing again. Patti had ore big house. Nicolini did not sing, and Madison avenue instantly attested its non-appreciation by turning out in full force. Mapleson at once dunned his autooratic stilts and the subservien. crits were again cut off from the cus- tomary free list. Years ago, when 8ir James Fisk reigned supreme rulor of ballet and opers buffe, he im- ported Katie Lapner, Signor Fran- cesco and sixty London virgtns to give public eclat to his Sardanapalian rev- elries on Eighth avenus, The ven- ture cost more than it realized. The London vestale were acattored through various traveling com- panies, Lanner returned to London and established an ‘“Eaole du Ballet,” d Francesco was captured by Maple- son. Mark how the whirligig of time affects the dancers. The pupils from Lannec’s Ecole du Ballet dance on Irving place, and have employed Tiftany to create a silver ‘‘Homage Orown of Laurel,” with suitable in- cription, which the agile Francesco is to cxpress by first steamer to the great creator of ballet maidens for ex- 1315 DOUCLAS STREET, = - - 204 North Sixteenth 8t, - - OM.AFLA COFFEE AND SPIGE MILLS. Roasters and Grinders of Coffess and fpices, Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDERI Clark’s Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC. H, G. 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Mean- while, society long since reversed the partisan verdict against him and has welcomed him everywhere as an hon- ored guest. M, India foial Figur Special Dispatch to Tis Brx, DIANAPOLIS, November 21.—The cflicial canvass of the state election was completed by the secretary of state to-day. For secretary of state: Hawn, reprblican, 210,234; Myers, demoorat, 220,918; Leonard. green- backer, 18,500; democratic plurality, 10,634 with nervous prostration; who suffer from organic displacement; who have o sense of weariness and a feeling of laseitude; who are languid in the morping: in whom the appetite for food 1is capricious and sleep at proper hours uncertain, should have recourse to Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable com- pound, Passenger Train Wreck: Speclal Dispatch to Tus Brx. Corumpus, November 21, — The Panhandle limited exp: s train leav- ing here for the eas: .:12:60 met with an accident at " oion station, twenty-six miles distant. 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