Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1882, Page 4

4 THE DAILY BEE--OMAHA THURSDAY DYCEMBER 14 1882 The Omaha Bee. Pablished "fi morning, ex San. ay. The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL— $10 00 | Three Months. £3.00 5,00 | One Month. ... 1.00 "HE WEEKLY BEE, published overy Wainesday. TERMS POST PAID— One Year..... $2.00 | Three Months. 50 8ix Months 100 | One Month.... 20 AxERICAN NEwa Company, Sole Agents or Newndealers in the United Statos. CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Comruni. atfonn relating to Nows and Editorial mstters shonld be addressed to the Eprron or Tur Brr, BUSINESS LETTERS=AIl Busines Letters snd Remittances should be ad dressed to Tre Bre PunLisniNg CoMpaNy OmMAHA, Drafts, Ohecks and Postoffice Orders to ba made payable to the order of the Company. The BEE PUBLISHING 00., Props. L. ROSEWATER Editor ——eeeeeeeeeeeeee Tae state of Boatrice is atill for Paddock. Waen chain ligh'ning strikes Lin- coln pext January it will have ita choles of twenty-one rods, =o far as has been already reported to the pablic. Have wo any jury fixors hanging around the United States court? Cer- tain parties in town are offering to bst that the Hull jury will never bring in a verdict. Tur sonatorial currycombs aro now on the market for sale at reasonable puices. Experience has proved that there is such a thing as being groomed to death, Onurcn Howe is coming up as a eandidate for doorkeeper of the house, He would sooner be a doorkeeper in the house of the Lord than dwell in tenta of iniquity, Massacrusxrrs, in the langaage of Bob Ingersoll, may bo eatisfied with Benjamin H. Browster, bat the grand old commonwealth is not satisfied with Benjamin F, Batler. THe sonatorial candidate who hasn't always been the simon pure and only original Nebratka anti-monopolist ought to be stuffed snd putin a glass case as a genuins polizical curiosity, As chairman of tho Miasissippi river improvement commitsoe, Senae ator Van Wyck can bezome very use- fal to Nebraeka, as well as the people of the Missouri and Miasissippi val- leys. Mauoxe, Riddleberger and Repu- diation seem to have dropped out of public notice. No party can afford to shoulder dishonosty and go before Jho people handicapped with such o weight, Tuk editor of tho Republican is heavy on the challenge but he isn't particularly anxious to mention that challenge to the oditor of this paper io which the aunti-monopoly question was the subject proposed for dobate, Em——— Tae man at the he'm of the Sioux City Journal is eaid to be tho coming dark horse for United States marshal of the new district of northwestern Towa. That will compensato him for his valisnt efforts on behall of Jim Wilson. Wk are gratitied to learn that Mr, Valentine's garden sass burean at ‘Washington has determined to send out hereafter meeds that will grow. Mr. Valeutine has also induced the commissioner of agricaltore to cut down the tea crop, and the committee has omitted from its appropriztion the amount allotted for tea calture. e In Chicago the electrio light com- SHAM CIV/L $ERVICE RE- FORM. The first stop towards a reform of the ocivil service was the passage by oongress of the tenure of office et in 1867, This act was passed by a con- gross three fvethe republican to pre. vent Andrew Johnson from removing republican office holders at will and appointing in their stead democrats or Adny Johnsonite vepublioans. This was abont the only eubstantial meas- ure to check the unjust exercise of the nppointing power in administer. ing the zoveramont on personal pref. erences and spites rather than on tho Jeflersonian idea of esmpotegey and fi- delity to publie trust, Practically the tenure of office bill was a ‘‘eood enough Morgan” for the opponents ¢f Audy Johnson. They defoated the removal of Stanton as secratary of war, and saved the head of many an offics holder, but in the nsin the apoils ayscem, as it is called, continued and thrived. u exporiment, congress in 1871, civil service commission orge Williara Cartis, who rate system of rules for entrance into the civil service. These rules wero only to apply to thousands of clerks deputies aud po- litieal amall fey, while the positions of finfluence and power were left aubject to the caprice of the chief exacutive and his cabinet, Ia other words, poor devils who applied for a thousand dollar clerkship wore to bo subjected to examinations in political economy and other studies that have no possible relaticn to their daties, while the collectors of the ports, the $4,000 posimasters, the heads cf departments and bureaue, the foreign ministers and oconsule, wero to be removed and appolfited in tho old fashioned way. The civil ser- created & headed by drew up an vico commisston was a failuro and the law becamo a dead letter. Daring the administration that favored and created this commission the arbitrary division of public cffise among the carriod the primarics, and logislatures was more flagrant than at any poriod dur ing the his ory of tho country. The sham civil servico reformers who part their hsir in the middle, raised a tremendous howl all over the land in favor of reform. Their ory was taken up by all political parties in '76, and ational platform mado civil refurm the key note. Presi dens Hayes took up the refrain in his inaugural. He laid down the dce- trine that the president alone was re- sponslble to the people for appoint- mentt, that henceforth congressmen and senators shoull nob inter fere in eppointments and _anunounced that competent and henest public sor- vants would be rotained in cffize, and that dishonest men would be dismizeed without regard to congrossional lnflu- ence. Hs declared that “he who sorved his country best served his par- ty best,” and that fedoral wifices should not ho made the reward of partisan servica to the followers of political leadors. Those magnificent promises were followed by tho cholco of a cabi- net that was known to be committed to the George Willtam Cartis scheme of civil servico reform, Within two weoks after Hayea was seated in the execative chair, Carl Schurz was requested 1o draft & plan of civil service reform that would earry Mr. Hayos' plodges into eftoct, Mr, Sohurz set himself at work, but the plan, if it cver was eompleted, was pigeonholed. The only outcome of tho high sounding professions of Mr, Hayes was Kxecutive Order No, 1, forbidding federal officials from tak- ing part in political conventions Like Curtis’ elaborate scheme of civil sorvice reform, tha! order remaized o dead letter. Tt was dofiantly violated by every oftice holder from the cabinet down to cross roal postmnstera. From the moment Hayes sot foot in the white house toths day he lef: it, his victors who conveations every Ppanies are compolled to lay their wires under ground, In Omaba they are erecting unsightly poles in the busi- ness center that must sooner or later becowe a public nuisance. It would have been greater econcmy to have these wires permanently placed in un- derground pipes, EESee—— Tux next legislature will be called upon to reform our justioe coarts. In the meantime Tue Brks proposes to make it warm for the crowd of shysters and pottifoggers who earn]their living by peddling out justice to the higheat bidder through corrupt collusion with unprivcipled justices. Every day brings to light some new piece of judicial rascality committed under protection of the law and engineered by attorneys whose names are on the rolls of the district court, Of the twelve justices courts in Omaha fully one-half have a bad reputation, Sev- erel are notoriously run for the profits without the slightest regard for de- cency or justics, Thae constables are on a par with the justices whose courts they sorve Thetr disregard of the law in tho makivg of arrests aud the service of papers are as flagrant as that of the ocourt in its decision of cases. Both judge - ud constable are made instru- wment. /. oppressing the poor and the court bee: nes a moro machice for the colleotion vi doubtinl claims and the extortion of money from defendants The whole matter noeds aud sball re welve 8 thorough ventilation, oareer as an oxecutive gave the lie dircet to his professions as an ard:nt advocats of reform in the civil ser- vice. For the most part his appoint. ments were made at the ivstance of congressmen and senators or as a re- ward for personal and partisan ser- vice, Men notoriously incompetent and dishonest were kept in the public service because their backers in con- greas protested against their removal, Biar Route Brady was retained as second assistant postmaster general through Senator Morton's inflaence and because he was a valuable man in carrying Indiana, Scores of prominent officials whose record was notoriously bad continued undisturbed in every section of the country, Carl Schurz, that reformer of reformers, had sur- veying frauds going on under his nose while he was meddling with somo of the pgjty olerks in the interior de- partment. In one breath he de nounced congressional interfarence as an outrage and the next moment daalt oul patronage to senatora and con gresson, Io our own state, Schurz appointed some of the worst frauda to responsible positions in land office bsosuse they were baoked by congress wen aud ho retsined in the offic of eurveyor geuneral a msn who was at the head of a oorrupt ring, because the soustors didn't want him removed. Full of promises aud high sounding professious, tho Hay civil service reforia administ left the civil service in & worea state if snytling than it wae at the oluse of the second term of Grant » Aud now we have another spasm of | feot upon Congress, sham eivil service reform just to ap- pease the popular wrath against boss- ism, corporate monopoly ru'e and other abuses from which the people have suffered. Every leading poli- tictan in and out of congress is clam oriog for civil service reform but no one has as yet presented a rational scheme that will conform with onr system of government and remedy its worst abuses without trammolling the ambition to which overy American citizen has a right, namely that of oooupying positions of honor and trust, The very first thing we must recog niza 2, that the president has the prerogative to make the most import- ant appointments in the civil service This power he cxeroisss inconjancti n with the senate of the United States which sharss in part at least the re. sponstbility. Tn tho next pleco the prosident in tho very nature cf things cannot have a personal acquaintance with every man who aspires to a pres- idential appointment. He must take the advies «f somebody, and it is eminently proper that he should consult the aceredited rep- resentatives of the people rather than outsiders who are not responaible or whe might derire to become a broker- agein patronage. For instance, how it is porsible for the prosident to know whom to appoint as collector of inter- nal revenue for Nobrasks, or as re- oeiver of public moneys, or as United Btates marsha', unless ho consults the accredited represontatives of Nebras- ka? Again, the people of all the states are ¢ 'i'led to their proportion of the public patronage, and they have an abundancs of material competent enough and honest enough to fill it. Any system that would ignore locality and create & civil-offico holding class would be ahbout as dangerous as a standing army. All the proposed reforms, so far, fall to recognizs the practical side of the public servics None of them would rid us «f the worst abuses of the present syatem. This was efoct- wally showa when Mr. Sshuiz was given the powsr to apply his own re- form to his own department. What the country wants is a civil service that will insure tenure durirg a flxed term of years to every honest and competent offirer, and the removal from offico of overy dishon- mpetent men, no oked by the congress aud tbe president himaclf, The country prefers s responsibie giv ornment. The president shouid be held responeible for the appointment of cabinet «flicers, heads of bureaur, foreign ministers, territorial officers and commissioners who are supposed to represent the whole country. Con- greosmen and ssuators should be held rosponsible for federal cffizers tn their dintricts and states. Cabinet (ffizers and heads of burcans should be held responsible for their chiefs of divisions and clerks who are appointed under tham. It 13 all rubbish to waste time in dovising shemes for examining paity employes while ignorance and crime otalks at the head of the column, I5 is an outrageous sham to praie about civil servics reform so long as there is no resposibility anywhere; €0 louy as the president can blame the congressmen, and the co men can hide under the claak imbecile civil servion reform, Jceas. of an ARTHUR'S PRESIDENT suggestion that the constitution ba 8o smeunded as to permit a voto of separato itenm of bills appropriating money, is ro- cdiving a warm approval from the press. It contains the resl remedy against log rolling jobs like tho late and highly flavered river and harbor biils, and it would concentrate the fincl reaponsibility for such frauds in 80 conmspicuous a mauner upon the membera of congress voting for their passage over the veto as to prove an effcctual bave to their success. It would also give an added responsibil- ity to the president himself. He above all other office holders has the whole country for bhis oconstituency. He {8 not only bound to a promotion of the interests of the whole people, but he is amena- ble to their united judgment. He doer not feel tho stress of local de- mands as the members of congresa do, and as & rule, he would only strengthen bimself by a firm exercise of the power entrusted to him, Sev. eral states have tried this plan and proved its efficacy not only In defeat. ing many unwise appropriations, but in making legislative bodles more pru. dent in proposing them. Experience has proved that an amendment to the uational constitu- tlon in any point which involves & radioal diffsrence of opinion upon matters of pablic policy is a diffiou't watter, Prosident Archuc's proposltion, however, is of a kiud tha would not divide and it is 8 question whether it would mect with material opposition out of congress itself, The consent of two. thirds of the wembers of each house politieal opinion, is neceseary, #f or whioh it would b submitted to the legialatures of the states for their approval Therg is little doubt that more than three-fourths of these would rutify the action of congr several THrEE more appropriation bills are ready for the house. The spear of the late election is sbill haying Nebraska and Kansas. #t. Louls Republican, There are such contradictory reports about the operatlon of prohibition in Maine and Vermont that it is not easy to tell, at this distance, what the facts are, except that the weight ot testi. mony indicates an Increased amount of drinking; but iz Kans ern state where the prohi riment bas had its most exhaustive trial, the facts scem plain enongh. Three yoars age a majority of the people of *hat state were undoubtedly in favor of prohibition, now they are not; and the reason probably is that prohibition has not diminished drink- ing, It is stated that in Topeka, the capitat of the state, with a population of only 15,000, there aro 170 saloons ~although, if the law wers carried ont there would not be one; and wiat is true of Topeka is true, probably, of all the towns in the state except thuse wherepublicopinionisintolerantly and tively opposed to liquor selling. In obraska prohibition does not pre- vail, but a rigorous high licens tem does, and the eff-ct is v» reduce the amonnt of drinking, secuen orderly and well conducted ealoons, rid the state of a good deal of disorder and turn in a considersble revenue to the sohool funda, The city of Omaha has twico 28 largo a population as Topeka, bat it takes only 90 saloons to eupply its wants, Itis no wonder, in view f these facts, that while the peoplo of Kansas are dlsappointed and dis- matisfied at tho resulta of proh’bition, the poople of Nebraska are more than atiefied with the working of thelr high licenzo system yre The Land Business. 8¢, Louls Globe-Democrat. The continued revelations of the amount of Government bustoess that has been lett at loose ends daring the past fow years indicate that it is high time for & general settling up. The fiest and perhaps most important dis. vovery of the advantage taken of tho prevailing negligence was in the post- office department. Therc, it was as- certained, a sot of rascals had wormed themselves into reaponsible places and were stealing themselves rich right un. der the noses of presumably honest men, who ought to have detected them in months, if not years, before. In this connection the power of Herbert Spencer's remark in respect to the manner in which we regard the con- duct of our political iustitations be- comes cvident, Ho said’ that we are apt to assume that everything is g inc on right until we have discoverbd iv is going on wrong, whereas should as:ume that everything is goi on wrong until we have satisfied our- selves that it 18 going on right. Carelessness was also revenled 1y the conduct of the treasury and navy departments, and petty piiferings had come to be locked on as matters of coursp, snd cven regarded by some as merely the enjoyment of bonest p quisites. The investigations were held and the » sukoring a ing the star routo indictments ot o lits imrravement, The vicion of officials s o titles to property was greatly cleared. And thero was laxity in congress as well as in the executive departments, Things were suffired to nass In on easy-going way wrou,., interested parties worked their little games unperceived and with great euccoss. Ws got no tariff revision, no method of coanting the electoral vote, no relief for the supreme court, no bankrupt bill, no repeal of silver coinage, and no half a dozen other impertant thitgs which good statesmanship woald have pro- vided for us There scercely co have been a more appropriate season far the people to have culled tho s tion of public men to the real situae tion, Io keeping with the condition of other busine:s was that of the gov- ernment sud the land grant railroude, and the report of Secretary Toller con- taina in cous: quence aomo very inter- osung reading. A deciddon of the Fupreme courc some yeara sgo declared that a failure to complete a railroad for which & Jand grant has been con- dittonally given within a spo fied tin e doea not involve a forfeiture of the grant until congre:s declares it for- teited. Now, there are a number of grants which should have been thus declered forfeited lovg ago in order that they wight havo been thrown open to setilement, As it was they remained tied up 8o that they were of no account to auybody, and so they remain now. Cougross totally neg- lected its cuty with: respect to these lands apd to the people who would bave medo valuablo use of some of them. 1t is now asked for legislation which should have been enacted long 8RO, Things are ut loose ends also with respect to the land grants that huve been earned by tho roads, The pat- euts have only beea issued for & swmall part of the amount yiven, the result being that the roads are relieved from paying local taxes which they ought to poay. ‘The secretary's report points out that out of & grant of some 12,- 000,000 acres belonging to the Union Pacific, it has only] taken out patents for 2,000,000, The Oentral Pacific has taken out patents for less than an eighth of what it is entitled to, and 80 with tho Kansas Pacifio, Denver Pacific and other roads, What is needed is a law compelling these own- ers to enter into the legal ownorship of their property if they are going to accept the gifts at all, and assume the burden whieh other prot:n owners assume for the common benefit, The game of the companies is to permit their land to remain vnpatented, and hence untaxable, and to.‘grow val- uable by the lapse oi iime and the scttlement of the country, thus obtain- fog all the advantage of publio pro- tection and the enhavcoment of values” without contributing to the exporsy of improvement. In locali- ries where the roads cwa most of the| Lind, the few suitler, on other iand | have to bear the total cost of all that is done for that partioular seetion. Several raroads thus acting have heen cowplated for twelve yoars, and Mr. Taller thinke it is high time that congress wes doing something to give the complai: yers the relie! they seek, sand it must bs admitted that the request ho makes is reason- able. In the opinion of the secretary of the interior, this whole subjeot of the pubis lands peeds carefal consideration. The lavishness with which the public domsin has been dis- tributed has giveu rise to erroneous ideas respecting public property which ought to be corrected. The abuse of the pre-empion and bomestesd laws d | snd thre calla for their repeal or revision. And #8 to those railroad grants which have not been earned in oconseqaence of & breaking cf the stipalations as to time, it is important that both the roads snd the people should know what is to be done about it. There is such a tre. mendous quantity of unsettled busi- ness « f this nature that we can scarce. ly expect the present congress to make much impression omit. The priveips! value to be derived from the situatic is to impress fature statesmen w, the importance of attending to busi- nees as it comes up, and not to permit it to accumulate as it has been a mulating in this oountry for th: few yoars Combining Againet Oarliale. Special 1o The Cincinnati Commercial, WasmiNotoN, December 10.—A curious report is in circulation to th effict that Randall has withdraw: from the candidacy for the speaker ahip, and propores to lend hisstreng h to Blackburn as egaivst Carlisle. The story goes that Randall, who wants the preeidoncy moro than he does the speakcrship, thinks that he wonld burt bimself by opposing Carliste, and propores to kill two birds with one stone, defating Carlisle with Black- hurn, and at the same timo throug Blackburn shaping the courso of legis lation in the house o s to advanc his own proapects for the presidential nominstion in 1884 This story is constdered rather wild, A friend of Mr. Randall said to-night that while that gentleman would doubtleas be glad to kill off Caclisle with Black- burn, he did not thirk he had any intention of withdrawing from the race in order to bring about this re- sult. This gentleman thoaght Mt Randall's present smbition, whatever hia hopes for the future might be, was to get a good grip on the speaker s gavel again, He acded that Ran- dall's policy was to conduct a very wary still-hunt, saying and doing as little as possible till after the adjourn- ment of the speakership cancus next Dacember. This gentleman did not think that it would hurt Randall in the south to beat Carlisle, and that being conceded; he could not see but what the speakea’s chair brought Mr. Randall nearer to the presidency than 8 seat on the floor of the house. All the men on the democratic side who consider themselves possible candi- dates for the speakership next winter are excreising extraordinary caution 28 to their acts and utterances, There i* an impression among thoughtiul «« v on the democratio side that the “crse who will brash the others A take the prize will bs Rap L o N, J. Hammond, of G ~ quiet member who is gen- eraly ..nsidered ono of the soundest lawyers and finest parliamentarians in the house of representatives. Repre- sentative W, S, Holman stretches bis nsme off the list of candidates tor spenkerabip of the next Hin fiends have heen pressing his vame, but he thinks he can best serve his country as the great objector on the floor Tbe Question Settled. Austin (Texas) Siftings. Peter Tag is one of the most con- ceited men in Austin, although ho has ronlly no excuae for it. He was once a member of tho Texas legislature, and since then he imagines he knows it all, soto speak. A fow evenings ago he was present at a littlo tea party, and tho subject of perpetual motion came up for discussion: “‘Ladies and gentlomen,” said Peter, putiing his thumb in the arm holes of his vest, wing himaelf back on his di 's not worth while for yon to I tricd to ut of it when I was Texas legislate and I failed, so what use is there in you worrgicg vour hesds about it?” *Lydia E. Pi Vegetable Cempound strengthens the stomach aud kidueye and aids digestion, oy, ¢ try to solve that problem, 2thix ham’s Woestorn Union Wealth, Bpecial Dispatch to Tus Bex, New York, D.ocember 13 —At the meoting of direciors of the W Ucion Telegraph company t. quarterly cividends of 1} clared, payeble Jaruary 16th, Re ports show the net revenues for the quarter ending Decem’ 3lst, par. tally estimated, $2,169,000, which, edded t) the surplus on October 1st, given $4 817,097, Dodueting Interest on bouded debt, sikivg funds and fhedividend justdec'ared, loavis s sur- plun of 83,490,447, The resignation of Geo. F, E ras direc'or was ri- ceived and sceopted and Dr. Lowber Welch, of Philadelphia, was clected to his place. 22~For one dimo get a pickags of Diumond Dyjes at the druggist’s, They color auything the simplest end wost degirable colors, *.*‘Better bo wise by the misfor- tunes of cthers than by your own.” Take warping in time. 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