Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1882, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE: SATURDAY DECEMBER 9 -T»'he Omaha Bee. Published "'H ay. The only Monday morniog daily. TERMS BY MAIL— O e Yoar....810 00 8x Months.. 5.00 One Month.... 1 YHE WEEKLY BEE, published every Wa inesday. TRRMS POST PAID— * Yoar......82.00 | Three Montha. gl?Ml‘::h . 100 | One Month.... 20 x Nw Courany, Sole Agents o lors i the United States. (‘r(!RRHiF(\NlH’u\ E—Alhc;;n;fl'zm?li lating to News and Editorial .n.:"nunr'- -rl:n:lld ge addressed to the Eprror or Tax Bre, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should be rd dressed to THE Ber PuBLISHING COMPANY OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Ocders to be made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00., Props. E. ROSEWATER Editor ; Homestck congressmen who have scarcely warmed their seats are begin- ning to make ready for the holiday recess, — Tug scramble for «flices within the morning, except Sun. Threa Months. $3,00 00 | anti-monopoly whale, in Nebraska, and go untaxed in Kan- ms, Wyoming and Utah. Bat the object of Valentine in jntroducing his bill at thia late day mast bo apparent to everybody. It is a mere tub to the e Tue house has adopted a resolution authorizing the appropriations com mittee to report a clause in the postal appropriaticn bill providing for a re- duction of letter postage from three to two cents for each half ounce. This is in the \lne of Postmaster Gen- eral Howes' suggestion, We should like to mee his other suggestion of postal telegraphy also brought before oongress for debate. With the tele graph in the hands ot the government cheap telegraphy might become a fact. There woula be no necessity every year or two for the purchase of com- peting lines, built by Credit Mobilie» construclion companies, and ihere would be no need of paying tolls to earn dividends for millions upon mil- lions of watered stock. J Unper the present lawa distillers are allowed to place their surplus gift of the legiclaturo has begun ear-| whisky in bond for the term of three lier than usual and even the candidates | yeare—that is, they may atore it ina for firemen and engineer are singing [ bonded warehouse for three years the song of anti-monopoly. without paying the revenue tax. If the liquor is not sold by the end of Coxaness has already passed the | throe years it must be withdrawn and Indian appropriation bill after cutting | payment of tex made. Tho commia- down the estimates a little over a mil- | sloner of internal revenue cfficially I anda hslf. The lesson of the|reported the quantity of spirits in election appears to have been well|bond to be 19,212,470 gallons in 1879, learned. DesmocraTic virtue i 81,363,869 in 1880, 64,648,111 in 1881, while his last report showed always atgq 698 331 gallons in bonded ware- high water mark just after an eleotion | house on November 1st, 1882, The in whioh they got a smell of the spoils | oo mmissioner says that this large afar off. But it has never yot stood |00k oconsists of ‘‘fine grades of tho test of a chance to put it into|whisky ” the tax upon which will practice. Tae best vindioation of the neoes: | quantity will fall and due from month to month, that the last of the have to be with- sity of the movement against the|drawn by the 6th of December, 1885 bostes is found in President Arthur's | Daring the past year the distillers and second meesage. Now that the prosi- | their agents hove infested Washington dent and the people are one, there|for the purpose of baving tho bonded bught to be no delay on the part of [ period extended for a longer period of congress. sm—— SENATOR Brck proposes to offer a resolation providing that congreas, in- stead of the usual three or four weeks recess for the holidays, take only two days, Christmas and Now Years. We would like tolay a small wager with Senator Buck against tho passage of his resolution, Junas Wywik has ireated tho coun- ael for the star route dcfendants to a another wholesome doso of judicial roproof. Mr. Dorsey is beginnivg to belicve that lite-is only worth living several hundrod miles from Washing- ton. Tue prospests for the proposed cot. ton centennial in 1884 are very good. Lettors are being roceived at the head- quarteas of the Nutional Cotton Plan tora asscoiation at Vicksburg which fudisate a great interest in the projent, It will be held cither st Now Orleans, Baltimore or Oincinnatt. Over one million dollars have already been sub- scribed. Taxisa for granted that members of congress intend to vote as they talk, the indications poiut to the re- pesl of internal taxation except upon tobacco and liquors. This will be an excellont start on the road to relief. Our rosources have for years been drawu on at the rate of half a million dollars per day, and the drain is felt in every artery of trade. AN effort is to be made next week by the castern truvk lines (o cnmfifil the Unioa and Central Pacific Yo abolish the cntract system by which Pacific coast merchants who dare to ship by water from Now York are put on the railroad rack, Unless this und several otner of the corporation abominations are abolished, there is dauger that tho people will abolish the present system of railroad man- agement. Ir in o serlous question whether our farniera are juetified in holding their oorns in the present stniw of the mar- ko, The corn crop is unusually large and while prices will undoubtedly ad- vai.on somewhat over preseat quota- tlous thore is danger of a still furthor drop in the murket the moment heavy holdiogs find their way to the eastern elevuiors, Borrowing money at coun- try tanks at one per cent w month while the crlbs are full is very likoly t0 be & losipg investment in the long run UroN comparing the Pacific railroad land tax bill introduced in the house last Monday by Congressman Valen- tine, with the bill introduced by Sen- ator Van Wyck during the eatly part of the last session, we find that Val. entine’s bill only covers the uupatent- ed lands of the Union Pacific in Neb razka, whilo the Van Wyck bill in- oludes the land grant of every railroad thatis entitled to patents. The bill fotroduced by Congressman Anderson, of Kapr = which is pending in the house, like that introduced by Sena- tor Van \Vyck, inclades all land years, if not indefinitely, Every ap- pliance has been brought to bear upou congress to securs this_benefit to themsclvee, but thus far their plans have suffered defeat. It is but a short time sgo since thoy were charged with reieivg o large cor. raption fund for the bribery of congrees, aud they were only driven from the ficld by the eenate inves- tigating committee, raised by Sena- tor Windom, of Minnesota, Discour aged by their past defoate, the distil-" lors propose taking an entire new course. We learn from Commissioner Raum's report that they contemplate exporling their whisky to foreign countries and then reimporting it for storage in customs bonded warehouses. The commissioner says that this is practicable under oxisting laws. But he does not think that the owners of the liqucr should be put to this trouble and expense, and therefore recommends that the bonded period should be indefinitely extended, Why need Commisfioner Raum concern himself wo partioularly about this matter? Why does he conetitute himself the agent of the distillery interest? Does he advocato this change in the inter- est of the government. The cost of manufacturing one gailon of whisky is twenty fivo to twenty-seven cents to which the government adds ninety cents by way of tax. If this whisky is kept about six or cight yeors its value is increased to five and six dol- lars a galion, The government allows it to be placed in bond, and then takes oare of it at public expense, paying a large army of store-keepers, gaugors, collectors, clerks, ete., for the cific should pay taxesonits land qrnnll‘ OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Earopean politics, on the surface, have been unusually quiet daring the past week, The Eoglish parliament has adjourned; Freroh diplomacy hes glven no ground for adverse comment, except the question of a protectorate for Madagascar; the German bundes- rath 18 slowly deliterating on a pro- teotive polloy for the empire, and the animosity aroused in some quarters in Italy between the clerlcals and liberals appears to have subsided, 8till there Is an undercurrent of discontent in ail the principal European countries, which causes apprehensions of a com- ing storm, Some go 8o far as to as- sort that a conepiracy has extended among the working clazses of Rus Germany, France, Austria and Italy, which contemplates, not changes in forms of government merely, but some radical changes in recognized principles which will injuriously affact public creditors, In France, a* this time, the people have little cause of complaint, except that which arises from the burdens which the govern. ment is powerles to relievo them cf, There is no complaint of extravagince on the part of the government, or «fa disposition to inour unnecessary ex- penecs. On the contrary, the govern- mont is criticised as being too conser- vative. The only respect in which retrenchment could be made would be sole bonefit of the dlstillers, Anallow- ace of twelve and a half gallons in overy forty s made them for leakage, which, as some contend, is about double what it should be, In 188l the commissioner reported this loakage for the year to be 811,460 gallone, largely a donstion to the owners and u consequont loss to the government. The distlllerashould be made to pay their just ducs, and if they engsge in overproduction let them bear the burdea at their own expanse iostead of placing it ou the national tax-payers, At this iime the tax due on whisky in bond emounta to 76,105,497.90, and every penny of it should be collected without rebate, Tug Boston Herald hits the nall on tho head in commonting on the folly Jf paying the national debt when it 7S ‘0 continue the redemption of the publio debt is simply to take moue; from a man to whom money is wort por cent. that you may pay off an obligation which is running at 3 per cent., and can run forever at thay fig- ure. In other words, from & business point of view, it isa borrowing of ut 7 per cent, for the purpose ngitat 3 per cun ould any proceeding be more irrational ? Common seuse and the remorseless logic of arithmetlc call upon congress to reverse its financial policy, Lot the psyment of the debt be stopped, then cut down both the taxes and the expenditures with an unsparing hand, and leave $100,000,000 & year to fractify into the pockets of the tax. payers,” e graut railroads. There 18 no good reason why the Union Pucific should bs singled out, any more than there is » valid reason why the Union Pa- Tue stute of Baatrice may be able to survive the dissppointment, but how will Colby aud Griggs look prac ticing law ln Judge Davideon's court. in & reduction of the army and navy; but the army and navy cannot well be reduced without an understanding with the rest of Europe, The present governments of Germany, Russia, Austria and Ktaly do not seem inclined to come to such understanding. The rule now is for each nation to maintain as large a standing army as the revenues they oan equoeze from the people will pay for. The popular movements which have created so much uneasiness ex- tend throughout the greater part of Earope. There does not appear to be much ides of nationality in them. The supporition i that they propose to eoftact reforms which one nation can not inaugurate of itself. Forinatance, France cannot redace hor army unless Germany will reduce hers. Tho pres- ent German government will listen to po proposition of that nature. The purpose of the revolutionists, there- fore, may be to establish governments all over Europe which will afford the people relief. from the burdensome maintenance which a large standing army entails, Parlisment adjoaracd a week ago. The liberal party comes out of the ses- sion strengthened in public confidence and triumphant over the passage of the new procedure rules, the Egyptian victory, and the partial pacification of Irelaud. Mr. Gladstone is the lion of the hour. The ministry is received everywhere with marks of approval, and even the most conservative of the conservative press are compelled to satisfy themselves with occasional growls, which fail to show specific causes of complaint against the gov- ernment. Whethor the new rules will be as operative in allaying dis- satisfaction as their promoters hope is a question which their trial in the next sesslon alone can answer. The government was succeasful in warding off all debate on the future Egyptian policy, and Eogland must wait further developments before learning the re- sults of Lord Dufforin’s mission, One effect of that misslon was seen in the dropping of the elaborate pro- gramme for Arabi's trial by Lord Dufferin as soon as he saw the ovi- dence which had been collected, There is no question thatit seriously involved both the khoedive and the sultan in tho guilt of Arabi's rebel- lion, and any trisl which brought theso facts out would unquestionably have been a huge farce. Consequently Lord Dafforin concluded that the best way out of the mess was to drop the proceedings on condition that Arabi would plead guilty to rebellion and take a sentcnce of perpetual exile, This he has done, and will go abroad for life, Coylon having been selected us tho place of exile, Lord Dufferin 1 quietly makivg his arrangements for what looks very much like a per- manont of Egypt by Eugland, Geveral 8| Evelyn Wood will commund the troops and ‘“‘premcrve order.” Iu other words, ho will ece to it tint no other inter- oats conflict with those of the queen, Frauce is looking on watchfully, but beyond a hewl from Gambetta's organ that the republio will not consent to bo ignored in the final settlement cf the Egyptlan question, both the press and the government seem inclined to lot matters take their course, occupstion In Germany the prohibition of the Bundosrath againet the importation of American pork has excited much opposition, A number of the chief maritime cities have protested against ita execution as unwise and uacalled for. The truo animus of the prohibit- ory ordinwco is to be found in Pr Bismarck's new protective policy, which avails itself of every possible pretext to exclude foreign articles or | %o raise the duties upon them. It is tn the sawe line with the taxing of canned fruit as hardware and of hams in bags av dry goods. Awmerican im- ports have been thus treated in pref- ereuce by way of ‘“‘retaliation” for our high lmport daties, The eftect of the ordinance excluding American pork, if adopted, will be, as to this conntry, a severe blow to an important indus- try, and, as to Germany, to make the people pay more for the food they eat, without making the Iatter more whole- some, It may be that Mexico has some thought of setting up a claim to the Island of Galveston and the city which has grown up thers since the Mexican war, but it will never make any more of an International complieation out of it than the mere avowal of the claim involves. Mexico will never get Gal- vesaton except by fighting for it, and It is, of ocurze, needless to may Bexico will never evonattempt to get 1t that way. There is no veed to go into the details of the Iéndlry question, for, whatever i's merit's, time has made an undisputable title, which the United States cannot, and itis perfoctly safe to say, will never pormit to be brought up for consideration. It han recently been reported that Chili contemplated bringing a claim againet the United States of Columbia for $20,000,000 damages in com- sequence of the latter governments having permitted the shipment of arms and munitions of war across the isthmus for Peran and Bolivia. The raport Is denied, however, and lot of diplomatic correspondence which passed on the occasion of the Chilian anniversary is published to show the good feeling existing between the two nations, The corrospondence grew out of a congratulatory resoultion adopted by the Columbian legtolature, and is about as affectionately fulsome as the Spanish language can make it. If Ohili really wanted to find fault with any nation for furnishivg warlike materlal to her enemics, sho would probably call to task her neighbor, the Argentine confederation, whose oiti- rens havo driven a thriving traffic in arms and ammunition with both Boli- via and Peru. The recent excessive rains aud in- undations in Tyrol caused a damage of $7,000,000, yet all that has been done go far for the relief of the suf- ferora by private charily beside the donation of the imperial family, does not exceed the sum of $110,000. This is a sad commont upon the Purie- Mucio and Szegedin colloctions. Worso than all, tho sluices of heaven have opened a second time over the afflicted district, sweaping awsy all the dykes, ncarcely repaired, and causing uutold additional damage, Ohina’s naval defenses have taken another step forward. In addition to her new Europesn war ehips she has recantly adopted the German system of ordieuos aud torpedoes, and she intends now, it is reported from Ber- lin, to introduce the new German systom of plated fortifications for the defense of her new mnaval forts, Krupp guns will be employed exclu- sively in mounting these forts. Arren the Brooklyn theatre calam- ity a great deal was said about eafety in places of smusement, and it was gonerally expected that the authorities 1n every large city would enforce safe exits in public halls and theatres. A reporc just made by the inspector of buildivgs in the city of New York showa how liltle was done. Out of cighteen theatres recently examined in New York ouly two are beyond dis- pute io safe condition, DrLecATE PerTicREw, of Dikota, has virtually given up hopo ot being able to secure the admission of Dako- ta during the present scssion. He is now trying to pull through the bill dividing Dakota into two territories, This scheme may succead, os there can be no party division as to the pol- icy of carving the proposed new terri- tory out of Northern Dakota. Resls Fow York Tribune, ; The democracy will do well to hard- en its heart and double its outposte, The siege of the Widow Butler will be rather a quiet and stealthy one at firat, but it will wax bolder and more opsnu as the end approsches, Massachu- notts was at first indignant; then dia- gusted; then thoroughly frightened; and then there was s feeblo shriek It would bo an co the national programme dur- b ond final eurrender. immenso joke to democtacy follow ig the noxt e A Dearly Bought Victory. Chicago Herald, Any deal which fastens George C. Gorham cn the eecretaryship of the sonate, as the price for the support of Mahoue and Riddelberger, will injure the republican party far more than the loss of the organization of the senate, There 1s no evil which can befall the democrats wosre than tho accossion to power in the senato hy the votes of theso (wo readjusting spollsmen, Traps for Gudgeons. Chicago Nows, Assistant Attorney General Free. man has made a report to the effoct that all the marriage associations of the south are illegal, and that their mail watter should be excluded from tho mails, They were mere traps to catch gudgeone, offering, upon the roceipt of a monthly sssessment fee, to pay their members a certaln sum upon their m: ' Gallant Resoues. can be something heroic in & med- ldig.:l‘ well a8 in individuals, Burdock Blood Bitters have effocted many a gallant rescue among the suffering sick. Thous- ands have escaped the miseries of dyspep- sia and nervous debility through the nse of this wonderful medicive. It is emphati- POLITICAL TABLEAUX. Legislative Groups Posing for Blory and Soforth on a Back- ground of Varied Colors, A Gravel Train Gang Thrusts (Greatness on Birkhauser of Richardson. Dave Btephencon Negotiates for a Prize in the Miilard Benatorial Lottery. Legisiative Committees and the Speakership. To the Editor of Tin Enn. Fauis Ciry, Decomber 7.—Having taken tea with O'Pelt, your corres- d out to hont up a few as you directed, soon struck a fosr, and among them Reavis and Towlo, well known law- yers here. The first irquiry about the contest between Birkhaug- er and Schoenhito over a seat in the atate senate from this dietrict, As near as your correspondent oan learn the contest i oupon a olaim by “'Birk” that illega! votes to the num. bor of near 200 were cast in Falis City whereby Schoenhite was elected: that these was VOTERS WERE SHIPPED in here by both the B. & M., and Missouri Pacific, and it is alleged that many of them are known to bo resi- dents of White Cloud and other points in Kansas, as well as a respectable number from Miseouri. Reavis, when asked what about Birkhouset’s con- test, replicd, ‘‘Oh, Birkhouser be d—d,” but fivally admitted that “Birk"” might make an interesting fight. Both claimants are anti-mon- opolists, (everybody is now, including Valentine,) Schoenhite ran on the republican ticket, and ‘‘Birk” on the democratic, Just who Shoenhite would tavor for senator is not gener- ally known, but he is friendly to both Cowin and Crounte. DAVE STEPHENSON, the republican member of the house, lives hero, as do the clai renatorahip. Davo is y for thn “‘old flag and the approprt tione,” and has managed to coop up a few thousand dollery’ worth of go ernment, surveying cach year, throug tho influence, chicfly, Ciark, of Lincoln. be sst down o bo for “Moenop ve,” of the Omahs, National bank. When Dave reade in Tar Bee that Governor F drawn a $5,000 prize in the * Gift Enterprice,” he will st swear worae than ever; ba to Omaha pretty eoon vo may bo b treckled,” bat will manage to etrike tho winning man about the time the senaterial fair closes, THIS I8 THE NATIVE TOWN of the Dundy’s and Judge Weaver, the latter etill lives here and is pro- paring to take a trip to Washington socn, eo a8 to get a glimpse of cor groeesional life. On the way down loro I tiud soveral conversations with farmers on the train, and a general rejoicing preveils over the complexion of the logisla- ture and some good work may be ex- pected, PETITIONS ARE BEING SIGNED nearly everywhere by farmers to the merabers alect to abstain from caucus, and to vote for no man for speaker of the house who will put the railroad committée in the hauds of the rail- roade, also to senators to not permit the lienienant governor to appoint tho committeo as Carus of bribery wemory did, and if me bezs the legislatr of '8 in his be- half. The K that a dozen of the straight Re: ns aro pledg on tho matter of caucusing except in the anti-monopoly caucus haa lett a lot of candidates for spoaker dangling by the gille, The Lincola Journal start- od out to figure out & majorily for ro- publicans, but has gone out of the businces aluce the returns are all in, W, A, Special Dispatch to Trx Bax, HixtoN, W. 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HUNTINGTON & SON, DEALERS IN HIDES, FURS, WOOL 204 Horth Bixteenth St., PELTS & TALLOW - - OMAHA, NEB. 1006 Farnam, St., Om aha. M. Hellm WH¢e CLOT 1301 and 1208 Far OMAHA HIMEBAUGH, M an & Co. USALE HIERS nam St. Cor. I3th , NEB. ERRIAM & CO,, Proprietors, Wholesale Dealers in i — *[ Westorn Trade (Supplied with Oata prompt shipmente, C-. PLAN! R . NG Hills Supplied With Choioa Varieties of Milling Whaat. THE OT IVIEA TV 'SIV0 % ‘SONINITLOS b 18, with ud Corn at Lowest Quotati Write for priccs. N— o g MILLS. MANUFACTURERS OF Carpenter’s Materials, ALSO SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, STAIRS, Stair Tailings, Baluste:s, Window Door ¥ Manufacture from the co and ESTABLISHED IW 1868. Framres, mptly ited A. MOYER, Proprietur of all kindes Paiutin aatry will be p D. H. McDANELD & CO, HIDES, TALLOW, GREASE, PELTS, WOOL AND FURS, 204 North 16th St., Masonic Block, bore wvenue, Ohicago. Refor Teather Natlona! Main Honee, 46, 48 and 52 Dosr by permission to Hide and Bauk, Chicago,