Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 30, 1882, Page 4

S | ! a4 TN ISR .« . waee s e THE DAILY BEE-SATURDAY DEC/AMBER 30 L o “he Omaha Bee. Publighed every morning, except Sun. ay. The only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAIL— One Year,...810 00 | Threo Monthe.$3 00 Bix Months.. 5,00 | One Month.,... 1.00 ¢HE WEEKLY BEE, published every Wo lnesday. TERMS POST PAID— One Ye $2.00 | Three Months, 50 Six Month 100 [ One Month.... 20 AMERIOAN Nrws Company, Sole Agents Newndealers in the United States, CORRESPONDENCUE~AI Communi. atfons relating to News and Editorial matters rhould be addressed to the EpiTor or THr Br BUS 28 LETTERS—AIN Busines Letters and Remittances should be ad dreseed to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY Omana, Drafts, Checks and Postoffico Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. The BER PUBLISHING 00., Props. k. ROSEWATER Editor Waar will become of the country 1f the paymasters are abolished? Mgz, Lairp's home organ clamors fot a republican cancus. 8o does every rallroad organ at Omaha and Lincoln, Lorp Narier, of Magdala, has been appointed a field marshal, but Marshal Angell of Omaha has no hope of pro- motion in or out of the field. e— Tar propcsad action of the German governmont to prevent the Importa. tian of American putk has no visible effect upon the average Omahog. Wayne MoVeaor Ia organizing a new movement on the political cheas board. He wants the poor red man to become as govd as the rich white man, — Tue Oanadian telegraph operator who fell heir to threo quarters of a milllon the other day, has had another wind fall, We shall soon hear of him watering his stocks. ' Trey aro already bnginmufi to in- quire who is to bs mayor of Omaha nex' spring. We would rather lot someb)dy else pouder over that con- undrum for a while, VALENTINE in scouring the E!khorn valley with & telescops after his sena- torial boow. It will never bo visible to the naked eye of tho most keen sighted horse marine Tur cable announced the other day that the bishop of Mefz has declined the honor of the Prassian iron cross, becauso he desires to keep out of poli- * tice, His example ought to be fol- lowed by the sensational preachers in America, who deliver stump speeches from the pulpit. of the Sioux Cily Times reflects groat oredit upon tho publishers, and it is an evidence of enterprise and induatry that cannot fail to be appreciated, not only by the patronsof that paper, but by every resident of the future me- tropolis of the upper Missouri. Ir was thought sometime ago that General Grant had lost his interest en- tirely in St. Louls. It now trans- pires that the general is ono of the in- corporators of the St. Louis elevated railway, which goes to show that the gonoral still hus some affection for, the town where he used to haul wood to market in the good old days before the WAL, —— Ir must not be forgotten by the delegation from Douglas county that thelr constituents demand a material raduction in the number of jus- tloes of tho peace. Twelve justloss of the peace in Omaha are about nine too many, Three first olass men with a falr salary would relieve this com- munity of a great dea! of lmposition aud Injustioe, Tukrg ls to bea very warm fight over the U. B, senatorship in Illnois, and the forses of the principal con- testanta aroalready mustering for the fray at Springfield. The report that David Davis Is to be the compromise candidate is flatly contradicted, It is expooted that the bitter feeling be- tween the leading conteatonts will re- sult in the election of a dark horse, but David Davis is not samong the prob- abilitles. Tae Milwaukee aulhorities have decided to bogin a legal war on the droggists of that olty on, & charge of selling liquor without a license, The drugglets have been driving a very luorative trade in liquor as a medi- oine which was used as a beverage, It will be pretty hard to prove, how- ever, that the patrons f the drug stores were not & filicted with cholera morbue or eome other iniernal dis- @380 of the digestive orgaus, — Oug city charter needs a namber of important amendmentr, and smong these none would be more important for the welfare of the cily than a ma: terial advance in the pay of the city marshal, The present snlary is $1,000 » year, Itooght tobe $2,000, With such a salery wo could inducs a man of nerve anl vigor to accopt the office, and he would be ina position to en- force the lews, while & low salaried man Is almost certain to take hush money from the criminal classcs, TURNING OVER A NEW LEAF With the advent of the new year it is the custom of many people to turn over a now loaf. The Iate bird makes up his mind to eatch the early worm by breaking off the habit of going to bed after midnight and rising at ten in the morning. The punctilions young man who wears a button-hole borquet at breakfast, and scowls farl- ounly at his laundress if his shirt front in not glomsy white, turns over his tobacco leaf and smokes only fragrant Havanas, The mincing miss that wonld not be seen at the opera house without silk slippers is attacked with aspasm of old-fashioned plainness after the New Year's bell has rung out the change, The chronic grambler who never misses a hair in his butter and makes his landlady’s life wretched, forms a resolution that he will swallow a ccckroach in his gravy without a murmur atter New Year's, The baggage smasher who plays base ball with Saratoga trunks is struck with remorse and makes a solemn pledge that he will deal ten- derly with traveling sample rooms after New Year's. The awell who travels upon his cheek is firmly ro- solved he will pay his tailor bill after Now Year's, The old reprcbate who has been a walking distillery resolves that he will sober up and join the sons of temperance after New Year's, Nearly every year abeut this time there is commotion in the ‘‘best” social circles in favor of a new depart- ture in the matter of New Yoars en- tertainments, These New Yoars reso- lutions generally bogin and end in smoke and champsgne. An address has lately been issued by a number of well known clergymen to the ladies of New York,urging them to put no wine or strong drink upon their tables on New Yearsday. Thene clorgymen want the Iadies to tarn over a new leaf by substituting tea and coffee for the stronger drinks that are offered to callers on New Years day. The New York Post thinks that tea and coffee will hardly fill the bill for the class of callers who insist on making an old- fashioned festival of the day. This class of visitors will always find the means of getting fuddled during their rounds, A more effective dovice would be for ladies to do away with New Yea! recoptions. The truth is that thesub- stitation of tea and coffee tor wine al- ways has the alr of casting a reflection upon the habits of the guests, No caller could fail to notice it or feel that hospitality was to a certain de- gree chilled by 1t. It is far slmpler to lock up the front door and hang out & card basket. This is becoming the oustom among the ‘‘best circles” of the large cities of the east, where they have solved the problem of turn- ing over a new leaf aud saving their champagne for home consumption. In the language of the late Mr, Thomas, the accomplished editor of o local contemporary, ‘*Let us be un- stood that we donot want to bs un- derstood,” that we are disposed to discourage anybody who desires to turn over a now leaf next Monday or at any other timo, CORPORATIONS A¥ PERIONE, A very important case is now pend- ing in the supreme court of the United States. £t involves the right of the states to regulate railways and exact local taxes from railway companies in accordauce with the value of their property and franchises. The case is an appeal from the U, S, circutt of California. The laws of Oalifornia provide for the taxation of railroad property by rules not applicable to the property of persons, In taxing the property of the latter, debts are deducted from the assessed value, This is done on the theory that such deduction is necessary to avold double taxation, as the debts of the property owners are taxable as oredits in the hands of the holder. But railroasd property is not allowed such & deduction, because railroads, being generally built with borrowed oapital and covered with mortgages held beyond the tax jurisdiction of the state, would thereby entirely eascape taxatlon, 8o a state board in Cali- fornia assessos a corporatlou’s prep- erty as a» wholo, making no de- duction for mortgages, and apportions the whole valuation among the coon- ties in which the property lies, In attempting to colleot its share of the taxes of the Southern Pacifio rail- road tho county of San Mateo was beaten in the Unlted BStates oirouit court, and, an appeal haviog bsen taken, to the United States suprems court, Mr, Ooukling has made an able argument for the rallroad company in that court, taking the ground that the California diserimination is a violation of the fourteenth amendment, That amendwent, notoriously framed for the single purpose of de- olaring the citizenship aud securing the equal civil rights of all persons born or naturalized In the United States, forbade any state to make or enforce laws abridging the privileges ard immunities of citizens, or deny- ing to ‘‘any person within its juris- diotion the equality of the laws,” This was obviously, and as everybody knows, intended merely to protect negroes and Union men in thetr elvil rights in the south, where it was feared they would be persecuted with hostile class legislation growing out of race prejudice, etc. The ob- jeot was to prevent the enforcemovt of state laws made applicable to the olvil rights of ons class of citizans of the Unlon and not to those of another class, But now comes ex-Senator Conkling, assoclated with Senator Elmunds ss attorney for the road, and argues that, as a corporation is a person in the eye of the law, the fourteenth amendment forbids the en. forcement of any state law which de- nies to corporations the olvil righta and immanitios accorded to other per- sons or which discriminatea against corporations in methods of taxation or otherwise by measures applied to corporations and not to other persons, This strained construction, we are told, will, if adopted by the supreme court, put an end to sll s‘ate regula. tion of railroads, and wipe out most of the existing statutes which are, from the necessity of the case, applic: able to corporations alone. If the supreme court should take Mr. Conk. ling's view of the matter and aflirm the decision of Mr. Justice Field and the United States circuit judge of Oal- ifornia, there will be a loud cry for another amendment, erasing so much of the Fourteenth as may be susceptible cf the Conkling construc- tion, Neither its framers nor the legisiatures that adopted 1t ever dreamed of any such application of its provisions, and it does not seem possibje that the supreme court will 80 construe it, or that Mr. Conkling himself, if on the bench, would de. olde in accordance with the argument he has made as an advocate. An incident that followed the close of the argument of this impcrtant case before the supreme court has oreated quite a soandal at the nagional capital, and cannot fail to awaken popular distrust in the (ntegrity of our supreme tribunal, On the night following the submission of the case to the supreme court a costly dinner was tendered by Loland Stanford, presi- dent of the Central Pacific road to the eminent attornoys of that cor- poration, and that dinner was also attended by Justice Field of the supreme court, who 1is notoriously re- gerded as a mere tool of the great Pactfic corporation. His presence at that dinner has only confirmed the scandal and gives riso to merious apprehensions about tte boasted im- partiality of judges of the erupreme court, — OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. In the midst of universal peace there is a significant ripple in diplom- atic circles of Europe. Ever since the Berlin conference Russia has been dissatistied over the way in which she waa robbed of the fruits of her victory in her last war with Turkey. Con- stantinople was at her feet, and $he treaty of San Stefano was about to be consummated when Eogland, Ger- many, Austria and France oried: ‘‘Hands off the Ottoman Empire. That must bs kept intact to preserve the bilance of power in Europe.” Ruzsia regarded the tremendous odds thero were against her and re- linguished her prey, taking only the little that was conceded her. But after being warned that the Osto- man Empire must be preserved in the intercsts of peace, Russia has been treated to the sight of Auatria virtually absorb- ing Turkish provinces in the Balkan, France helping herself to a part of the sultan’s possossions in Africa, and England becomivg practically mistrees of Egypt. Thus three of the parties who informed her that she must leave the Ottoman empire alone for the common good have been slicing up that empire for themselves as fast as circumstances would allow, The con- sequence is that Russia is indignant, If she can only find that Germany will remain neutral, or if one of them even will decline to interfere, she would probably risk trying the issue with Austria and contend for the con- trolling power in the Balkan. With a view to this end Russia has been utting out a feeler to seo how the and really lies, and if there may not be a chance for her to do something to give herself a little more prestige and territory than she is enjoying, Prestige Is what she needs most, but as territory will have to go with it the two may be oonsidered as irseparable, M. de Glers, a shrewd and trusty diplomat, has been sent by the czar on his rounds to the various courts, He has came home with information which will lead Ruseis to conclude that the time has not yet come for aggrossive action. Germany pro. poses to stick to Austria like a brother, while England is not disposed to further the Russian doeaigns, The only froit of M. D:Glers’' mizsion has been a reconciliation batween the czar and the pope. A larga percentage of the Poles ars Roman Catholics, and for some time paet the pontiff has not enjoyed the privilego of filllng the Polish sees. Opposition to hin: has been withdrawn. He will appolnt to the various sees and become the triend of Russla, The reconcliiation thus effooted, it is anpposed, will go far to rémove the Polish disaffoction and ltrenphen the Polish power, M, Gilers' mission, being on the whole a failure, the prespect is that the much talked of war batween Russia and Austris will be indefinitely delayed. Thero is one beiog in this world who thinks that to be a king it is just as well to be the deuce of a king, We rofer to King Kalakaua, the ruler of the Sandwich islands, According to a lotter from an American resident at Honlulu, ““Kalakaua seems to have been dazzled by hls reception by the orowned heads of Europe, and now only thinks of making a figure in the world, regardless of the ocost to the taxpayers. He has put in office a mioistry of no character, which the whole moneyed interest of the islands oannot but ops«u. The revenues are boing scattored broadoast. The king 1s very unpopular with the natives, who generally fivor Queen Emma, widow of Kamehameha IV. Ameri- cans have the largest intereat here, and have opposed Emma on account of her leaning toward England, Bat, as the king now seerns to be opposed to Amerioan interests, the foreigners may hold off and let Emma and her friends take charge of affairs T affalra are not soon got into shape and the treaty of reciprocity is not re newed, business will bo in a bad way, and wo may find_oursalves an English colony. If the United States govern. ment abrogates the treaty of reclpro city with thess islands, a move will at once be made for a similar treaty with England (to admit Hawaiian sugars into DBritish Columbia, Aus- tralia and Cansda free of duty), and this plan is preferred by many of the king's friends.” The concessions England is willing to offer to France in her Egyptian provinces may flatter French self-love, but can certainly present no compen: sation for the advantages which France will lose, The Patis T'emps, the semi- official organ of the republic, admits that the English have been careful to p'ace theiractions in the least offensive manner, and holds that Gladstone, in pronouncing the deposition of France in Eypt, is merely obeying public opinton. The English are pursuing an egotistical, ambitious and short. sighted policy, but the French cham ber encouraged British ueurpation when it proclaimed its indiffer- ence to the obligations of for- eign policy. The Temps ad- visee the French nation to swallow the bitter pill withcut making any grimace; but declares that the rela. tions of France with England can scarcely issue uncooled from a tran saction in which Eogland has mani- fested a aplrit of rivalry and jealousy which no proceeding on the part of France warrants, Our feeling, it con- tinues, must be tempered by the thought that we ourselves are half to blame for our discomfiture, All this, the article says in conclusion, will prove only half an evil if we profit by it in the future. It is absolutely necessary to convince the Krench|by democracy that 1t must have a foreign policy, and that foreign policy cannot be made to conform with narrow cal- culations and parliamentary caprices. Lord Derby’s echeme of emigration for the Irish is beiog Eu:had by the British government with a good deal of vigor. Major Gaskell haa been in Boston conferring with the Irishmen as to the propriey of establishing a “boarding house” or great caravan- sary there for Irish emigrants under the care of a man” to be prccured for 8400 or €500,” whose duues would also be to procure employment _for hisboarders. A wilder scheme could not be conceived of, and we do not wonder that the Irish are oppozed to it, both here and in Ireland. 1t would be a most shiftless and short sighted poiicy of Eaglaud to gather up the poor- est communities in Ireland en masse and attempt to transplant them to this country. Oaur state department would most certainly object unless the Brit- ish government undertook to buy land for them and see them through to the first harvest, and, if thoy arc going to do that at all, they might as well do it in the unsettled parts of Ire- land. The Irish emigration to this country has been of far higher aver- age than we should get by any such scheme, for we have really drafted off the young men and women of most ambition and push. To transfer a whole community here, with its usual proportion cf aged, decrepit, feeblo, pauperizad and criminal, would be an enterprise to which our government would objact most s‘rennously, In fact, immigration from any guarter of the globe has ceased to be an object of cultlvation by this country. The illness of M. Gambetta is assuming a very serious aspect. It is in fact rapidly becoming a political event «f grave import. While his re- putation has suffered from the col- 1apse of his premiership and from his unfortunate choice of political asso- ciates, he is recognized on every hand as having two things which are very uncommon in France at the present time—original political genius and personal influence over the consti tuencies as a wholo, If he could suc- oeed in having the electoral system modified as it has been in Italy, his personal will would at oncs become an overmastering forces in political life. But even those who deprecate his methods and his ascendancy cannot fail to recognize what a serious lois his death would be to the vepublio. Government would be mcre unstable than it now is, parties would be thrown further out of gear, and the future {of democratic lnstitutions be far more uncertain, if M. Gambetta should be taken away in the prime of life. There are two polnts which indi- oate a storm in Europe One is between Germany and Russls, Prince Bis- marck evidently clings closely to the dual alliance with Austria, a triple imperlal allisnoe having been rendered impoesible since Austria showed her purpose to advance her frontier south. ward at the expense of Slavic autono- my. Asa conscquence, Russia is at outs with Germany, and the senta- tlonal newsmongers exaggerale the prospects of a collision by dispatohes and edltorials, which have some truif behind them, although the best in- formed persons seem to treat them as cavards, Peace nego! ns between Poru and Chill still drag thelr weary levgih along. People of both countries have almost given up the hopeof » satis faotory arrangement with the govern- ment of Bantiago, unless the Peruvian president cumea forward and declaren himself ready to sign the onerous terms uxuc(u{ by the conquecing na- tion, The plan of Dr. Lozen to make an apparent exchange of Peruvian terri- tory for the war claims held by Obili against Perais the only one sccepta- ble—that s, according to their declar- ations. Bolivia has disappointed Chili in the action of her congruss. It wes hoped by the Chilian goverament thet Bolivis wonld separate herself defi- nitaly from the Peravian allisnce, and leave her generous friend to her ows poor resources, but the resolutions adopted by both chambers of the Bol- ivian legislature slmply suthorizes the exeoutive to make a truce if possible with Ohili, asking beborehand the oo operation and consent of Pern, and to omit no opportunity toward arriving st eome peaceful understanding with Chili. Oampeoo, the preeident of Bolivia, is a stsunch friend of Peru, and from the general expreasion of the Chilian journals their discontent and the national dis- appointment sre clearly indicated Thero is no quession as to the grow- ing weariness of Chili with this pro- longed uncertainty, danger and an. noyance, Although a handsome rev entio is derived from the appropriated territory of Peru and Bolivia, where nitrate of soda snd guano are found, yet having to maintain » large army, keepirg the squadrem snd 1hree vory expensive ironclads, which are the principal factors of the flaet, and at the eame time sending offa formids expedition to subdue the hitherto domitable Arancanians in thesonthern part of the republic taxes the rovenugs, energies and patience of Chili to the extreme. It is not eurpriring that such bi'ter inveotives are hurled againat the government, Prince Krapotkine, arrested recent ly for compticity in revclutionary movements, is now about thirty.nine yeara of sge. He is a membor of one of the oidect families of the Raesian empire, Bredin esseand luxury, he very soon broke with all the tradi- tons of his caste, and devoted him- self from his seventeenth year to the study of natural sciences. Ho atudied at various univeraities in St. Petors- burg, Moscow, Kharkoff and in other citiee, and soon became an authority in the spectalty he had chosen—gecl- ngy. e undertock, with tho help of the imporial Rusaian gecgraphical so- ciety, of which he was secre- tary, variour scientific expeditions throughout Russia. The life he led was 80 retired and seemed so ut- terly engrossed by scientific interests that nobody thought of suspesting him of any revolutionary propaganda. When, in 1877, he was suddenly ar- rested and 1hrown into s dungeon in 8St. Petersburg, public opinion was ut- terly amazed. It was still more so when a few months later Krapotkine eucceeded in encaping from prison and disappeared. He went to Geneva, and elcquent and ably written arti- cles in The Obstchina, contributed greatly to the elucidation and develop. ment of the priaciples and practical policy of the party, He was subae- quently expelled from Genevas, and settled in Thonon, Savoy. *Dr. 8. 8. BRITTAN, mays: ‘As a rule physicians do not, by thoir pro- feesional methods, build up tho female constitution, while they seldom cure tho dissases to which it is always lia- ble in our variable climate and under our imperfect civilization. Special remedies are often required to restore orgavio harmouy and strengthen the enfecbled powers of womanhood; and for most of theee we are indebted to persons outside of the medical pro- fession. Among the very best ot these remedies I assign a prominent placo to Mra. Lydia E. Pinkheam's Vegetable Compound.” *4* ‘One man’s meat is another man's poison.” Kidney-Wort expels the poisonous humors, The first thing to do in the spring is to clean house, For internal cleansing and renovating, no other medicine is equal to Kidnay- Wort. In either dry or liquid form it oures headache, bilious attacks, con. stipation and deranged kidneys, it - BOYD’S OPERA HOUSE Friday and 8a‘urday, AND MATINEE DE3, 20 AND 30. THH STORY OF A WOMAN, BERTHA WELBY In the thrilling American plsy, “One Woman's Life." suthor of *‘Only & Farmer's Daughter, t'd by a company of New York Artists, wecrved veats on sale Thur. day moruiog, tu-wed-fii DexterL. Thomas&hr, WILL BUY AND SELL. TR S e RS A TN AND ALL TRANBACTIONS OCNNEOTED THEREWITH, Pay Taxes, Kent Hovaes, Eto. “JACOB KAUFMAN, REMO /ED TO NO, 611 16TH ST DEALER IN _ALL KINDS OF WINES, TAKE NOTICE, Martin, The Tailor, 1220 Farnham Stroet. 1 palr of pacta for §5.00, $25.00. %6a him end sav ~ OF 9 Matter of Avplication ot Samuel Beatty for Liquor License, NOTICE Not'cs is hereby glven that Tih dav of Dec cation to ths Mayor an , 1o lic Lse to sell Malt, Sphritous and Vi- nous llquors, a8 No. 212 south 12th street, 3 ward, Owahs, Nebraska, from the 10th day of January, 1884, 10 the 11ih ey o April, 1:88. If thore be o ol Joction rewonstrance or pro= Sest flled withln tw weos ‘rom D D, 18:2, the said license will bo granted. SAMURL BEATTY, nuel Boatty did A D, 1852, file City Council of Applicait. T30 Omahs Bee newspaper will publish tho above uo ice once each week for two weeks at the expouse of the applicant. The city of Omaha is not 1o be charged therowiih. D J.3. 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