Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1883, Page 5

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Tre public debt was decreased by $16,413,000 during December, but taxation still continues at the old war basis, Joux M. TuurstoN will not be as busy in the opening days of the legis- lativo session as he was last year. The wenato has taken in its own hands the appointment of its own committees. — Georae E, SPENCER has been found at last and in an Interview instats that the way in which he hast been treated is an outrage. Steph Dorsey is of the same opinion, Tur number of congressmen and wonators who have been excused from cong! ‘‘on important business” 1s alarming. In nine cases out of ten tho “importantbusiness” will be found t0 be the repair of political fences at the state capital. Wuo is there to fill Gambetta's place? Many asses will attempt to speak from the lion’s skin, but the mantle of the dead statesman is not likely soon to fall upon any French- man hard enough to hurt him, LeapviLLe's boom may have burst, but the ‘“Camp on the Carbonates” eclipsed all previous records last year, rthe outpnt of the distriot bolng over 84,000,000 greater than ever before. Colorado is not yet playing out as a minin; state, in spite of the croakers. Tme buttenhPlhg at Lincoln is at ta height and 1y 'Pe Inying for the sen- -atorial contest \ls the one absorbirg business of nearly a score of candi- dater. This is lhe time when the “‘hay seod grangera” become objects of great interest to the railrond managers, «Conoress will do we!l to thinke twice betore catting off ihe fast mail sorvice, as the postmaster general now thinks will be necessary. The fast mail {8 one of the most vo penditures of the depsriment, and groutly facilitatos business transsc- tions between the east and the west. Thero are other departments in which economy could be practicad to much greater advantage than in the railway mail service. mical ex- RAILROAD transportation is always glven for a consideration, Thisis the decision of the supreme court of Penu- sylvania which holds that when a railroad company parmits a pasmsonger to trayel without paying fare itdoes not avoid its responsibility as a common carrier by giving the passenger a prin- ted pass condition that the person oe- oupying it assumes all risk of accident without claim on the corporation. This deciston is in harmony with many other similar decisions AMONG the many questions which ought to be considered by the legis- lature is an Increasa of the judicial dietriots of the state. Many of the districts and notably the Third, com- prising Douglas, Barpy, Washington and Burt countles, are suff ring with un accumulstion of business which canuot be disposed of as rapidly as lidi- gants have aright to demand. The Douglas county district court is al- ready two years behind its docket with no prospects of relief except what will come from a division of the district, Tue B, Louis Republican calls at- tention to the fact that the immense advantage over other routes porsesse? by the Missiesippl river as u moans by which the produots of this great val ley can reach the markets of Barope has never been more clearly exhibited than durlng the laet twer months, From the latter part of ruary, 1881, when in tion to the south opened from this port, to the prescut timo, there have been cnly eight days during which boa'a could not leave 8t. Los present ludlcatione, it s eafe to eay that po further interraption to nayiga tion isliable to occur until next win- ter. The route by the lakes and canals, on the other hand, s closed for fully three months each year, and s loaded; and, from two | EXIT GOVERNOR NANCE. Governor Nance hae stepped down aud out and his oflicial shoes have fallen to his successor, Of his fare: well message the most that can be sald is that it will occupy thirty-one pamphlet pages of long primer type. Tts best portions are compiled from the officlal reports and ita weakest are those in which the ex-Boy Governor attempts to make use of his own ideas, Mr. Nance's gratuitous insults flored to tho antl-monopoly move- ment and the men who have been fighting for years just auch tools of the corporations ¢s him- self, are not a* all surprising. During his four years' incumbency of the gov- eraorship he played fast and looe with his profestions made before the election, and in every tszus between tho railroads and the pesple took his cues from the moncpoly managers His administration called for lttle exacutive ability. If it had it would hava called in vein, Mr. Nance securcd his election on his shape and complexlon, A ‘“‘boy governor” was a curiosity four years ago. It lost a good deal of its interest after two years of exhibition and the people are not likely to de- mand another specimen, It is timo that Nebraska should hant for better timber than bass wood for her gov- ernors and learn to understand that the local celebrity of a country law- yer is not always the bost guarantee of a wiso and eflicient cxecutive, If Me. Nanco acquires no more distine- tion as a Boy attorney than he has as a Boy governor he will have to fall back on his old friends the railroad managers for remunerative retainers in order to keep ap his end cf the log. — Ix retiring from office, ex-Governor Nance took occasion to enter into a lengthy and weak apology for the sins of the state board of discrimination, of which he was formerly hoad center He says: “Railroad property has beon listed for taxation by the various companiee under oath, as provided by law, and every means within the power of the board has been employed to oblain a feir and juat valuation of the property so listed, In the judg- ment of the board such property has been assessod at a valuation corre- ponding wish that of other property throughout the state. In fact, if a compwison with assessments of rail- road property, and of other property, ‘mady in other states, may be taken as aguide, it will be found that under the present law the taxation of rail- road property has been higher, com- paratively, in this state than in most others,” No one knows better than ex-Gov. Nance that his whitowash of the board of equalization is a mass of mlsrepre- sontations, Tho wauagers of the rail- roads under the present method assess their own property, whioh, as shown by Tuk Bee, is listed at from one- twelfth to one-soventh of ita market value, while the property of private citizons is atseesed on a basls of sbout one-third, There has beon no attempt mado by tho board of equalization to obey tho mandate of the constitution to asscas the franchives of corpora- tions. Mr. Nance says that no legis- lation hus been passed looking to that end, What logislation was needed more than the revenue bill defining the duties of the board of cqualization under the constitutional provision, There was no lack of power in the board to perform their sworn duty? But there was a lack of inclination, The information avail- able regarding the actual value of the corporations was] in every respect suf- ficient for the carrying cut of the law. Either the cost value, market value or incomo valuation would have af- forded a reliable basis for a fair assess ment, The wstatistios published by Tue Bre have shown conclusive- ly that none of these methods of determining the valum of corporate property was adopted, and that the statements of the railroads in every instance determined the action of the board, The demaad of the people of Nobraska for the abolition of the state board of discrimination is due to the fact that they know that the eva- sion of taxes by the corporations has been assisted by the operation of the law in the hands of the board of equal- ization, aud the attempt of Mr. Nance to pull the wool over the eyes of the legislature will not be successful, Tuere is violent Indignation ex- prossed in New York over the taking off of night trains on the elevated railroads. The gonoral manager of the roads states that the order wus issued by Jay Gould and the local pipers aie drageing the great monop- olist over the coals of a merciless criticimm, Having cleared a cool $7,- | 000,000 by his faraous stock watering ration fn Manhattan, Gould now make the public pay terest on the water and is ocurt cvery expenso to inercase profita, The New York Témes says that *%so long as Jay Gould's railread operations were confined to comparatively dia- tant ficlds, the peoplo of New York city knew very little of his methods, In a general way he was regarded as a spectes of brizand who extorts prop erty from its lawful holders by trick and strategem, rather than with during that time shippers are at the meroy of railroads, bludgeon and horee pistol. But when, THE DAILY BEE-FRIDAY JANUARY § gsined poesession of the elevated railway system of Now York, wo be- gan to have a taste of his quality. Precisely what gamo Gould has now in hand it is possible to tell. But Iway travel is to be squeezad ‘‘for all it is worth.,” “It Is assumed by Gould and his assoclates that the clevated roade, with their valusble and inexpensive the clevated r franchises, 470 to bs ran solely for the benefit of Gonid and company, Hav- ing taken possession of the streets and avenuee, and huving gained without cont tho right to build iron railways, they contemtuously deny that the pab lic hae any right which tha corporation is bound to repect, We must lo«k to the Jegialature fur rclif, The monopolists who control the elevated railroads assume the right to run trains when and how they pleaze, with nothing but their own selfish schemes to cousider. Ejuity requlres that a franchice, to be law- fully occupied, shall bo administered in the public interest. A railroad must be maintained for the reasonable accommodation of the public. If Mr, Gould thinks that the poople of New York have no rights which the mon- opoly that has seiz:d upon its streets is bound to observe, the leglslaturo of the state may undeceive him, DELAYING THE REFORM. The ways and means committee are still tinkerirg over the taritf, Taking the report of the late commission as a basis, they have been busily engaged for the past five weeks in trying to pleaso the manufacturers at the ex- pense of the public by restoring as far as possible the petty reductions in duties suggested in the report of the tarifl commission. The more that re- port is examined the less cause is seen for congratulation on the part of con- sumers, The additions to the free liat are few and unimportant. The re- ductions on staples are . small as compared with what was expected, The wealthy capitalists whose concerns have been builtup and thriven through exorbitant duties have been able to bring enongh irflu- ence to boar upan both commission and committee to prevent any such decrease in the custcmy taxes as wouald substantially lighten the bur- dens of the people by materially diminishing the profits of their indus- tries. With the universal cry for a reduction of taxes ringing in their ears, Mr. Kelly's commtttee, organized in vhe interest of monopolies, and backed by four billions of accumu- lated capital, are trifling with the de- mand for tariff reform, and endeavor- iog, in a time of peace, to continue and malntain the most extraordinary system of war taxation that has ever burdenel a government of modern times, Tariff reform was one of tho issues which entered largely in the late elec- tion, Its importance and the demand for a prompt reduction of the worst im positlons of the tariff were clearly rec- ognized by the president in his annual meosage and has been steadily insisted upon by every leadivg journal of both parties tn the country. The Murrill tarifl was put into operation at a time whon the ccuatry was straining every nerve to raise revenues to prosecute a war for the natlonal existence, It was tho boldest, the most comprehensive and wide-reaching scheme of taxation over devised, Nothing but the ur geng need of mouney could have justi- fied its adoption, And congress was profuse in its promises that the con- clusion of the war would sce the re- moval of the groater part of its bur- dens. Eighteen years have gone and the Morrill tariff 1s stiil substantially in operation, An immense surplus rovenue is piling up in the national treasury, aud a score of protected in- dustries pampered by the government iuto a strength which places millions of dollars at their disposal, are clamor- ing agalust any reduction in the taxes which are eating into the prosperity of our pecple while they are fi liog the coffers of the Industrial millionaires. Enormcus protection has built up giant industrivs but it has failed to reduce the prices of the manufactured articles or to incresss the wages of the workmen, The purchasing power of a dollar, by which alone the value of wages can be estimated, is loas to- day than it was before the war., The benefits of overproduction have all gone nto the pockets of the protec- ed while there is no protection offored the public from the rapacity of the men who live off of the coun- try's bouuty, Whilo thero is good round for argument over the policy of protection to American iudustry, there is no question s to the disnstrons resulis of an over taxation suc’h a8 that from which the country is now suffering. A policy which tends to concentrate the wes people in the hands of a f manufacturers whose profi's are enor- y stimulated by ita cperation is a vationsl curs | | industrial protection it is popul. bery. reform, The country does no* de- mand the abolition of the tanfl, It de mands a substantial reduction on all ariisles of domestio consumption and a material oulargemont of the free ltst by placing on it snch articl's of neces- ofty o5 are used alike by th poor and the rich, snd which can be relieved of in an evil bour, this thimble-rigger duty without erippiog iudustry or de- stroying values, Popular confidence in the republican adminintration of national affairs, 0 severely shaken during the last fow years, cannot be regained by a weak and vacillating policy ot temporizing with this import- ant question, 10 country demands, and it will be eatiefied with nothing elso than a radical revision of the whole tariff, the cffects of which will be felt in the cheapening of prices, aud in the correspe orenso of wages by the enhanccment cf thep doilaz, rasing power of the laburers Every railroad lobbyist is In favor of a railroad commission, It le easier to “‘see” a comuwissioner than the ma- jority of tho legislature, Rose Eynisee denounces tho Pas- #lon play ss tending to ivjure public morals, The oplnion of Lydia Thomp- son will bo awaited with interest. Congreasmen make (ery undealrable boarders according to a landlady quoted by the Washington correspon- cent of the Philadelphia Times, *“They keep allsorts of hours,” she complains, ‘‘and want their breskfast and dinner whenever they come in; they burn Congress eannot afford to de'ay the ! ° more gas than anybody else, and re quire more attendance from servanta, 1t takes an extra servant to answer the door bell for them, as for every senator or member there are always at least twenty persons coming every day to see them about something, and the muddy boota of their conatituents and wet umbrellas in falling weather rvia my carpets, The members themeelves mostly smoke and chew, and don’t stop to use spittoons. One who can’t get board any more in any house where he’s once been I cou'd name, who eqnirts his tobacco juice up to the very top of lace cartains in his room, and throws his cigar and pipe ashes all over the furnituro coverings,as well as the carpet. Pacific Rallroad Robbery. Chicago Tribune, Thers has been an animated debate in congress covering two whole days upcn a proposition that the Pacitic railways, built by government subsidy, shall be paid for theirservices in trana- porting troops and supplies for the government only 50 per cent of what they are now collectiug from private individuals for like services. The members, of course, soon became classad as periisans and enemies of the railroads, and the discussion in. cluded the toplea of vested rights, sanctity of contracts, the powers of congress and the consideration of right, justice and cquity. Wo read the debate carefully, and with the hope and expectation that at least one person among the representatives of vhe people would have courage enough to remind congress of its criminal neg- lect in this very business. Congress in 1864 voted to these compAnies §64,000,000 of national bonus as & loan to enable them to build there railways; at the same time it voted to them immense grants of land; subsequently it voted to these companies the power to borrow $64,080.000 additlonal and to give the lien therefor priority over any debt dae the United States, On the first loan of $61,000,000 there are $30,000,000 interest paid by the United S.ates, which interest 13 now due vy tuese roads. Tae money grant was equal to the construction of two roads; one was built, aud the res: of the money stolen; the owners of the road never contributed a dollar to wards lta construction, but ever since it was put in operation have beeu plundering and robbing the public with @ remorselesness that would shame a gang of Bedouins command- ing the routcs over the degert, The tolis demanded from freight and passenzers over the railways from Omaia to San Francisco are now, and have been for mauy years, 50 percent greater thau would be tolerated in any other part of the oiviiiz d world where the government or 'ts cflicers are not sharers of the plunder, During the debate of the present weck mnch was said about the power of the governmen' to makethis redac- tion of 60 per cout on the rates charged for government froights; the extcrtious made by the Pacitic roads were frankly coneeded. While every member of the house was fully awars that congrees had the uunquesiioned power to lix perewptorily & ‘n:ximum rate to be charged over these roads for freight and passongers, we searcted 1n vain for a suggestion or a specch by any member pr.posing that tho rates for the trausportation of froight and paseei gors over the roads between Council Blaffs and San Fraa- should during the yesr 1883 and until altered by law be 50 per cent what they were on the lst of July, 1882, The proposed reduction in the rates of transportation on government bus iness is a trfling aftair, while a like reduction on all the transportation business over these roads would be something substantial. The people of the whole country would be benefitted by the one reduction, while the proposed alteration looks very much like an act ot personal spite gn the part of some defeated candidates for 0 ngress, W are surprised that in the whols house of 203 mambers there was no ue wan with courage aud patriotism enough to apply the Iaw and facts of ho ciuze of the 54,000,000 of peopl sud 10 their belelf demand that t > railroad rohbery shall b forth be reduced 60 per ccnt in it ’ | exactness, Our Junior Seunator. Claveland Lealer. » Wyck, of Nobracks, a republi 53 yaars of age, originally ew York. Mo bas madoe a leal of money o linds and speoulations, and his old Now York frinnds wonder at his wealth, Sena- tor Ven Wyck has a good working liver and he nover gets bilious, He is a good fellow, full of fuuny jokes and strange waya Physicaily and meotally he is atrikiogly angular, The Lord mads him in corvers, and every corner oticks out. One of his possessions, I am told, Is a wheat farm which rums into the thousands of acres. ~ Auothor western man of means is | yoar, PERSON ALITIES, Freddy Gebhardt issatisted th ¢t be isa igger wan thau the prince of Wales, From sll reports it is cusposed that thore who know Herr Mot Iive him tte least, Frank | rayne should go to Falls and shoot the rapids,—[N, O. P yuae, Mrs, Labouchers is & French lady, but it is presumed thit ehe ep.uks Vigeon English, ~ Mr. Justice sara ce that he of creating upremo bench hanging his habits. He invitatiocs to dins and eptions, and is froquently seen in society. n K, Owens, the actor, wheas iv six miles outside of Bultimore, had w reverre in Ajizoan mining specula- tion, but retrieved his losees in another v.uture The Courler. Journal hears Moses any- ing: “Imay hevo made s>me mistakes, tut I don'c remember ever having taken fees for defendivg any of the wildernes star-r uters,” “It is more bleased to give than to re- ceive,” is the aphorism sdo.ted by Amerie 'a's “best woc'ery” regarding Mrs. Lanpg- try. They give the dollars, but do not “receive” the lady, Ex-State Senator Pond, of Massachu. setts, who wes rent to the penitentiary for fifteen years in 1876 for forgery, has been pardoned. It is understood Mr Pond will start & wiiting school. & Miss Kate Fieldisa very bright woman, but there are several things that she has mansged to prove very effectually the last fow years. That she csn't act, lecture, or keep a store are among them, The president has ordered a new piano for the white house, and it does not sur- prise thicking peraons to read that curing Lin recent vicit to Washington Mr, Conk- ling did not call on the head of the nation, Red Cloud has been interviewed in Washington, and the reporter found it ex- ceedingly d feult to stretch the result of his report over & column in length, Mr, R, Clond knows only one English word, “*How.” Miss Nellie Arthur, who is 12 years of age, is & pupil in Miss Burgess' school, on Codnecticut avenue, Washington. She is petted and flattered by the other school girls till there is danger that she will lose her sweet naturalness of manner. Joseph Cook proposes to discuss in his new course of lectures in Boston ‘‘the most blaz'ng and strategio topics in i1he olitical and religious world.” He may mun with his strategic columns, but he f«“fl make any but Bostonians bend the nee, Eli Perkins and Sojourner Truth met the other day for tke first time. Eli was quite overoome, and remarked: *“Is it pos- tible that you have lived to be one hun- yesrs old and never met me before? Where could I have bee “Wanderirg in paths where truth is never found, I reckon!” pointedly returned the centen. arian, When it was known that Ga*hardt had tecured rooms in a Chicago hotel during Langtry’s engagement in that city, local <ilded c.1f of the same species bet $1 000 that he would cut Gebhardt ont and take Mra, Langtry ent riding alone three days after her arrival, Tre het was taken and themoney put up, It's Chicago agninst New Yok, *Ladies of all ages who suffer from loes of appetite, from imperfect diges- tion, low epirits and nervous debility may have life and health renewed and indefinitely extended by the use of Mrs. Lydia E Pinkham’s remedies for ail complaints incident to the female constitution, We have not only a liviog faith in Mvs, Pinkham, but we are sssured that her medicines are at once most agreeable and efticacious, —————————————————————— Mok people have read T Suy during the year just now passing than ever before since it was fir-t printed. No cther nows- paper publisbed on this vide of the earth hs been bought aud read in avy year by 80 mAny men and women. We are credib y intormed that peopls buy, read, and like TH forthe fo'low- ing reasone, among other Becauro its news columns present in at- tractive form and with the greatest pos«ible a:cudacy whatever hos intere t for humon- kind; the events, the decds and misdlecd , he wisdom, the' phi ovopty, the nogable folly, the solid reuss, the imuroving ron- sense—sll the news ot the busiesc world at present rev. Iving in space, Vecanse people have learaed that in its | remirks o it pe sons and affairs | TuE SuX makes a rractie of telling them the exsct truth to the best of it« ability three hundred and sis ive days in the year, hetore election as vell as ufrer, shout the whales as well as about the smali fish, in the face of dissent as plainly and foare lesely a8 when supported by general np- proval, The Sus has absolutely no pur- poses to serve, nava the information of its remlldnl aud the furtherance o f the common verybolv's nawspaper. No man is 8, bumble thot THE SvN is indiffer. ent to his welfare and his rigl Nomin iv o rich that 1t can allow 1rjustice to be done him, No man, no association of men, is powerful enough to Le exemps trom the strict application of its principles of right and wrong, Because in politics it has fought for n dezen years, witheut intermission snd sometinmies almost alone among newspapers, the fight that has resulted in_the receat overwnelming popular verdict ag.inst Robesonism and for honest gove-ument. watter what party is in power, THE N stands and will continus to stand like a rock for the interests of the peoplo againat the ambition of bosses, the en roachments of monopolists, and the dishonest schemes of public rubbers, Al this is what we are told almost dai! by our friends. One man holds that T SUN is the best reiigious newspaper ever published, because its Christianity is une éilutnd with caut. Another holds that it % Rapublican nawspaper printed, because it has a'ready whi half of the ras:als cut of that part; is proceed- ing against the other halt’ with uudimin. ished vigor. A third believes it to be the hest mayazine of general iitaratura in ex- istence, because its readers miss nothing wor thy of notice that is current in the wor ld of thought, 1of The Sux discoves one of its many + paals with particular force to his indi. vidual liking 1f you alrondy know The Suy, 3 sheerve that in 1853 it 1aa listle better ihau ever befwe 1f do not already ! know Tig Sux 1l find it to bea of | genuins | 1 democracy, o scourge for | wof every 8 M ail Sebsoribers, edition TiE Svy are eent | aid, as followe | DAILY -55 cent 26,50 a year; th Sunday edition, §7 70, |8 DAY --Eizht piges, 81 20 a year, WEEKLY—%1 a year, Eight pages of the et m ot the daily iseues; an agricultural department of = unequailed merit, market reports, and licerary, seientific, snd domestic intelligence m.ke | The WERKLY SUN the nawspaper for the farmer's Lousehold. To clubs of tem with $10, an extra copy free Address I W. 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