Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1883, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE-THUR: SDAY JANUARY 11 -h v ay. The only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL— One Year,...810 00 8ix Months.. 5,00 One Month.... 1.0 One Year. Six Months ANERICAN NEws Co. Newsdealers in the U Stater, CORRESPONDENCE~Al Comm atfons relating to News and Editorial tions themeelves, The city has natters should be addressed to the Epitou [ the pover 1o compel them to O s LETTIEIS—All Dasipe | PUild 80d construct such approaches Lo T eances ahld b d|to railrosd strect crossings and to dreseed to ;l"m‘ |‘.r|; P "1: Iil'l.\ihl'""”';;'\'\ maintain such safeguards in the way OMAHA. Jrafts, Checks and Postotfice i Orders to he made payable to the order of [ of gates and barriers as it may deem the Company. fit. The franchise to occupy the v y #he BEE PUBLISHING C0., Props. ¥. ROSEWATER Editor —_—— Tue speaker rules with railroad speed. —_— Forry raliroad bills have alread been iutroduced in the house. The back counties ara still to be heard from, ——— Tar city council have voted to ap- point a captain of police. The coun- cil evidently thinks that the marshal needs watching. Ir there Is any railroad attorney whose grip sack isn’t packed for Lin- ocoln, he will be fouud on the road be- fore next Tuesday. TaE time is approaching for the re- moval of the blankets from the sen- atorial favorites, The start will posi- tively be made on Taesday. THeE ice crop is Immense and the couniry is interested in trying to dia- cover what excuse will be offered by derlors noxt sumwer: for putting up prices. Every Massachusetts republican organ is vigorously cursing Ben But- ler's message. When Bon focuses his eye on literary composition his views 2 Omaha Bee Pablisbed every morning, exoept Bus. Three Monthe, 23,00 | ities of the first class. ¢, published every 0| why the people of Omshs should bo « — A CHEEKY PROPOUSAL, M. Colpetzer, of Douglas, haa in- trodaced & bill in the legislature the atmn of which is said to bo to recure safo crossings for railroad tracks in Ita real object )| to shift upon tax-payers a portion of an expense which in every other community 1s borne by the corpora- tions themsolves, There is no reason )| pormitted to issne bonds fcr the pur- pose of making railroad orossings aafe, That is the duty of the corpora. streets given to the rallrouds by the city, carries withjit the duty of pro. tecting life endangered by the exer- cige of tho franchise, This is every- where recognized outside of O maha, In Chicago the Illinois Central has bulltatits own expenee a granite and iron viaduct over 1te tracks on the lake front, In Baffalo, the New York Central, for the better protection of life at stroot crossings and to save damago suits against the corporation, has constructed an elevated track of over a mile in length, In all large cities the corporations have been forced to erect gates acress the sireets where crossings are on the level and to bulld substantial bridges with ac- oceesible approaches where the tracks are laid below the level of the crossing. Aund why should the citizens of Om- aha who have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to subsidize the corporations, who have recklessly voted away the most valuable portions of tho clty to give every facility for the tranaaction of business by the railroads, now put their hands in their pockets and pay for making the street crossings safe! They might as well be asked to pay for maintaining watch- men at the depots or in the yards, It is the height of cheeky iupudence in the corporations to demand of the people aid in protecting the public are always road if not approved. Warcn the votes, citizens of Ne- braska, on measures affecting your interasts wnd shelve forever political- ly every representative who dares to defy your exprossed will or sells him- self Lo tho monopolics Councruman Corpy voted nay on the final passage f the gas ordinance | snitable Inspection of the means for on the grounds that he was elected in interests of the people of Omaha, Mr. Corby will be gently retired by the next election in thesame Interests, S —— from the dangoer of street occupation by the railroads, aud the lability of damage suits from tho victims of their tatal economy, Tue Milwaukee horror, full details of which appear in our tele- graphic columns, will call renowed attentlon throughout the country to the crlminal neglect of eity governments to provide s protection and escape from fire afford- ed by hotels, theatres and other pub- lic buildings within their limits, The Nowhall house, at Milwaukee, was lic opinion lay in the unbending na: ture of his will, his tearlessness In maintaining the laws and the whole- somo dread which his character in- spired in men who were even then The onthasiasm which hoinspired In his supporters in atill echoed by tho Bour bens of to-day who would find in the general, if still alive, opponent of most of the lines of pol- fey to which they stand commitied, ploiting to dlarupt the Union a determined THE YEAR'S FAILURES R. G, Dun & Co.’s annoal circular to the public attributea the increasein failures during the last year almost wholly to the extonsion of credits Six thousand hundred and thirty-eight business difficaltics are reported, with an sggregate liability of §101,000,000. This showing is the worst of any year eince 1878, when 10,478 firms were roported as falling, with liabilities of §234,388,132. For the past three years the list has shown o steady increzss, from 4 735 fallures in 1880 to 6,738 for last year. The mercantlle agency from whom these fig- ures are taken states that during the past two years the lines of credit have been groatly enlarged, owlrg to over- production in manufactaring and an undus anxiety to “dispose of goods without properly scrutinizing the abil- ity to pay for them, Marufacturers made the mistake of supposing that the volume of business for 1882 would be maiutained at a ratio of increase as great as that which marked the recov- ory from years of depression, economy aud restricted business to a state of the higheat prosperity. The anticipa- tions for the year were not realizsd and the country has had the result of Reven increased failures. rapid development business cannot be #0 regulated as to avoid all risks inci- dent to the oredit system, but there can be no doubt that much of the risk may be avolded by a judiclous discrimination on the part of those having guods to sell. Messrs, Dau & Co. express the opinion that “‘it worchants would study tho lessons gleaned from the psst they would, as a rule, iad that a great deal more money Is to be made in the long run by a stringency in credits than by an unwise expamsion on the basis of trust wisely diffused, even al a great sppareut profit,” Notwithstanding the erzora and bian- ders of the year just gone by, Mossrs. Dunn & Co., feel disposed to take a cheerful view of the prospects cou- nected with 1883, They say: ‘A year of unbounded production in almost every department of indus- trial activity has just closed; the ac- cessions to the population by immi- known to be a fire trap. A few days gration have been beyond all preced- ent; the late autumzal season was so Pia Tnox Kriiy's committoe has|before its destruction a local board of | extremely favorable as to add greatly voted to restore the tariff tax on|underwriters had hesitated over tak- [to the value of the flocks and herds quinin in the interests of Powers & |ing riska on itainsurance. Six stories | seattered over the country, while the Weightman, the Philadelpbia monop- | high with narrow and windiug halis, | early winter, thus far, has been ex- olists, Tha house of rcpresentatives ought to make short work with this article of the revised tariff. Tuk telograpn announcos the doath of ex Senstor Lot M. Morril!, of Maino, who dicd at his resldence at Poriland after a lingering illness of several months' duration. Mr, Morrill was born at Belgrade, Maine, May 3, 1813, and was nearly 70 years old at the time of his death. He was edu- cated at Waterville college, studied law, and practiced for twelve years before entering the legislature, where he took his seat in 1864, In 1856 he was made president of the state senate and two years later was olected gover- nor of Maine, resigning the oftice upon his election to the United States senate in 1861, Mr, Morrill was three times elected to the senate, and served until 1876, when he became secretary of the treasury during the concluding months of Grant's adminlstration, Tue Springfield Republican says: “‘Four senators whose methods par- take more or less of bossism are just now trylng to get re-elections by legis- lative caucuses—Eerry of Michigan, Harris of Tennessee, Windom of Minuesota and Saunders of Nobraska, Windom has real popularity to carry him through, and should hardly be classed with the others, but still he has a not altogether comfortable bit of oppoeition before him, and he will find the caucus a convenient thing to have. And in every oase the meoting, so far as It does anything at all, serves the bose, and s sgainst the interests both of the people and the party in the msjority. is that that cus in senatorisl and no flre escape for wuse in an omergency like that which happened on Wednesday morning, it offored every facility for a holocaust in whick sixty victims perished. The burning of the Brooklyn theater caused a spasm of activity in all of our large clties, and a rigid inspection of tremely propiticus for numerous in- terests. Legislation in congress promises to be highly advantageous to the futare ease and freedom of business, The possibility of » reduc- tion in taxation by the removal of internal imposts, and the release of vast sums of money hitherto locked The fact|the usual flow of spirlts and cham- | Interests of the people is & sevors blow the logislative cau-|pagne, and an elections is a|windy oratory from men, nine-tenths atripe. places of amusement was tho result. | up for the payment of the rapidly d A few doors were ordered opened, |creasing pablic dobt, must all tend in several corridors were widened, and, | a direction to not only lessen the if wo romember correctly, three thea- | burdens under which business in some tors coudemned 43 unsafe without en- | departmeuts has struggled, but to be- tire reconstruction. With the dying|get ease and activity generally, As out of the excitement over the disas- |yet the farming communtty have rea- ter, died cut also the interest of|lized but a very small portion on the officials, and the last fow years have|vast stores with which the year has aeen a relape into the old indifforence. | replentshed their granarles, and the Itin to be hoped that Wednesday's dis- | exports, which already begin to climb astor will attract attention to the|to very respectable dimensions, must means of fire escape provided by | neceeartly vastly inorease within the hotels in various clties cf the country. | next few months, Rallroad earnings The chiof aim in the construction of [ must grow in proportion, and the most public houses is economy of | whole conditlon of the commerce of space and ventilation at the expense|the country promises a greater safety, of the safety of guests, Every hotel magnitude, and success, than have of over two stories in height ought|ever before been inab) to bo provided with iron fire escapes = = on the outside walls, A rigidly en-| Ir Dr. Miller and his friend of the forced building law should require |lobby, J. Sterling Morton, think that brick partitiors, halls of a width|they carry the democratic party of whose minimum should not be less | Nebraska in their broeches pocket than elght fect and a sufficient num. |they are likely to have thelr eyes ber of stalrcases to empty the hLouse|opened very shortly, The democratic quickly in time of emergency. members of the present leglslature are e not the kind of cattle which Dr, Mil- Tur anniversary of the battle of | ler is in the habit of trading in, The New Orleans, which has been sncor- | crack of the editorial whip has lost its ingly dubbed St. Jackson's day, was | terror and the howlings of the old fish ocelebrated on Monday with great en- | woman of The Herald creatos more thusiasm by hilarious democrats in laughter than fears, The actlon of several of the princlpal cities of tXe|the honest democrats of tha senate In country. There scems to have been | helping to organizs that body ia the unusual amount of |tomen of the Miller and Morton (you know poor men invariably have Iurgo families) moves into an adjoin ing district, in nine cases out of ten he will have to parchase an_entirely now sot ot books for his children. It fs usually the peoror class that move of- ton, and at that patticular time sll their hard carnings are needed for other purposes, The result is they farnish only a part of the neceasary list of text books, and in many cases they keop them out of school for the sole roason that they.can not afiord to buy the neceasary books. Our school laws should be so framed as to faver the poor, as the rich can devise way: and means to take care of themselves Thousands of children in this state to-day are deprived of the advantages of cducation simply becauto their par onts cannot or will not obtain for them the necessary books, God pity them, It istheir misfortuns to be poor. | It ia strango to me that oar echool books cost nearly twice o8 much as our best literary works of the same binding. The echool text books of to-day are far inferior to many of our literary works, The most of them are but plagiarisms of preceding ef forts, Take for exsmple our readors They are extrocts trom literary works with a few stolen dcflaitions and prin- ciples of reading. Many of the authors have not even the judgment of the common litersry thief as their selecciona are fiimsy and trashy, and their treatise in reading, ate , bear tho ear marks of some author so unmistakably that any ordi- nary school boy can recognizs them at & glance The grammars are o complex and of go different a veriety that to cite any one as authority is to make mat. ters all the more muidled. The other text books are nearly all o sameness, Now for the remedy, we have tried the uniformity of the text book system, and it is a consvmmate failure. It is a failure for several Teasons, The people do not like the list re- ont. It gives the state superintendent mendiog their pet books. Of course such men are honest, but it is wrong to put pie to hungry boy’s month if it iz just to make his mouth water To enforce the adoption of any one listis to create a greater monopely than exists at the present, a3 severa! hoases now have a finger 1n the ple and are jointly resping a rich har veat, The only way in which I see to remedy this evil is for our legislatur: to creats a stato school board, whose duty it shall be to get up a complete liat of text hooks from the primer to the highest used lo our comuon schools, Said school board shall give the publizhing of said books te the low- ost responsible bidder; and when thoy shall have been published seli them to the distriot school boards through- out the state at cost. We can give the achool boards say from one to two years, alter the books are ready for eale, to adopt them. This is not a hard problem to solve. It is but a plain fact; and if it was not for the condemnation it would meet with cases against Kineaid and Bomgardrer have already been taken up, and the committee will be hard at work to- day in hopes of arriving at a definite usion before the election of the senator, THE DEMOCRATS held a caucos last night, and Mr, Franse used the telephone yesterday and invited Dr. Miller to be present, bug it is hardly probable that he was there as it was ovident his presonce was wanted only for the purpose of dresslug him down., Judging from the language of the democratic mem- bers, I am led to think that Dr. Miiler's idea of electing Miilard ia not well received, Hon, Joseph Holl- man, the acknowledged leader of the democrate in the house, is very |emphatic if not particalarly yentesl when he speaks of Miller and his Omaha Herald, THE REYNOLD'S RESOLUTION, which passed the senate yesterday and went to tho house for considera- tion, is creating quite a brevzo and meeting with considerable opposition. This resolution empowers the special committee which it creates to send for persons and papers,. and under it the railroads are beginning to resiize that they may have to show up some of their seccot workings, The tactics will probably be to amend it in the house for the purpose of delay, but if 1 judge of men's actions from what they say, I belleve it will go through, a8 it came from the senate, and then «ho railronds may have to dance to some kind of masic, even though the standing reilroad committee should deotde that the railcoads were right and the people were wrong* One thing is c-rtain and that is that BRAD SLAUGHTER will have to read the bills that are presented in a dlstinet manner, and call the roll of the houee in a gentle- wanly way. ‘This turning from two to ten pages of a bill ata time and } | commended by the state superintend- | pretending to read {t when he does uot, and calling the roll at a lightning the error In stimulated credits and |too good a chance to get a bonus from | rate, without giving members » chance In this country of | #0me one publishing house for recom- | to vote is about played oat. In other words this practice of allowing the chiof clerk to make the records as he thinks best, and report members pres- ent when they are not, and ahsent wheu they are present, if it should be considered necessary, has cpme to an ond. Hereafter we are convinced that there will be a change or there will be war, There are members who aro not disposed to sit atill and ses the conatitution sud the rules of the houre opecly violated every hour of the day and not enter a proteat, SENATORIAL MATTERS have not coms to a focus yet, and but very littte can bs said in regard to the voto of members. They are usually sby on this subject, and can tell you more concerning some nther member's vote than theic own, One thing is settled to a certainty in the minds of most ¢f the democratic members, and toatis Dr. Miller is trying to name the maxn, and his name 1s to be Mil- lard, A prominent politician from Platte county i= said to have fixed Schrader all right for Manderson and OM.AFELA COFFEE AND SPICE MILLS. Roasters and Grinders of Coffess and Spices, Manufacturers of IMPERIAL BAKING POWDER Clark’s Double Extracts of BLUEING, INKS, ETC @, CLARK & CO., Propriotors, AL AL ki P L LEE, FRIED & CO. W EL O TN E L a0 HARDWARE, 1108 and 1110 Harney i t., - OMAHA, NEB. SPECI{&L NBTICE 'I'O Growers of Live Stock and Others. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR Ground Oil Cake. It is the beat and cheapest food for stock of any kind. One pound Is equal to three poun s of corn. Stock fed with Greund Uil Cake in the fall and win- ter, instead of running down, will increase in weight and be in good market- able condition in the spring. Dairymen as well as others who use it can tes- tify to its merits. Try it and judge for yourselves. Price $25.00 per ton; no charge for sacks, Address o4-eod-me WOOODMAN LINSEED OIL CO., Omaha, Neb, L. C. HUNTINGTON & SON, DEALERS IN HIDES, FURS, WOOL. PELTS & TALLOW 204 North Sixteenth St., OMAHA, NEB, - - METCALF& left for home, while Fravk Walters is from the publishing honses that are now feeding and fattening off the poor of our state, I know that it would meet with universal approval. Yours for the right, STEPHENS, LEGISLATIVE GRIST. Humphrey’s Tactics and Boss Stout’s Jubtlee Bring “Braa” to Time in the House, Correspondenc of Omaha Bee. Liscony, Neb,, January 9.—The first bills of the session were yeater- day started on their winding way from the house. No bills have yet appeared in the senate, although it is probable that this morning will see a basket fall fntroduced in each house, and it is more than likely that a large sharo of them will pertain to railroads. Some have sald that there are now ready fully FIFTY BILLS of this nature already prepared and ready to be Introduced. Yesterday was an anxious day in the honse as it was known that Speaker Humphrey was to announce the standing committees for that body. At 2:30 the Speaker appeared and the committees were read off aud when we say that there was a vast amount of fdissatisfaction with the ratlroad committee I do mnot half express the real sentimeut in that body. There is no use mincing the matter and hoping against hope. Speaker Humphrey has not dose the fair thing with this committee, and it Awlll be useless for him to try to convince the people of Nobraska that two-thirds of this committee are not IN THE INTEREST OF THE RAILROAD CORPORATIONS, and that he knew this tobea fact when he selected them; and what we have sald concorning the falrness of this one committeo is mgullly true in regard to the others, One would nat- urally suppose that tho railroads made the rallrond committee, and that Boss Stout dictated these that are liable to deal with that portion of the work which might interest him. But, thanks to the senate, the peoplo can yet be haard, and the jobbing is llable mischievous infringement upon the|of whom don’t know the difference constitutional right and independence | between Jacksonism and the jim-jams, of the members, and can never baany- | Jackson was very far from a saint, thing elee. ery of “‘primaries” be used when the |statesman, whole body of voters s throughoutf the boss, the healthy protest is likely He was a good hater, and prosent [ never forgave an enemy. by prejudics, to come from but & minority of his|him early into public view | hraska that ta 1oat al is attracting the most attention. In ost sight of by t! gl- : party, and, with tho caucus, solong|and kept him thore. As 8 |(aiion of the rairross auostr, bo agl*| s caso one of the principal points s jorlt; be controlled he is|soldier he quarreled ith hi question, the fact that Taylor is at present hold- 88 & majorlty can be control o o quarrel w ®| Next In impertance for the consid-|ing the office of county olerk of eafo. In this state there was quite an (superiors and disoboyed their | ration of our Solons convaned at Lin- | Bitchoock county, The contestant effort to enroll Mr, Hoar amoug the |commands at will. As president he boss senators by insisting upon a sen- | used the executive power in the most atorial caucus of the republicans who | arbitrary manner and inaugurated the | poo) frand, have mever by that means placed their | spoils system to punish his enemlics, ecnators in nomination In Massachu- [and to reward his sotth, bat the protest agalust it was |strength as a politiclan and his suc 0 that it is likely to be|ocess as president in a time of stormy :& m tho school book ~monopo debate and changing currents of pub- Why should the machin- [and nearly as far removed froma Ho was The device slmply aids |swayed easily by passion and moved Circumstances foroed to recelve a check then, even though it should pass the notice of the house, which we firmly belleve has a majority against such measures, THE CONTESTED CASES in both hous B e — The School Book Monopoly. As Tur Bek s the true expo- nent of the anti-monopoly falth in this state, I will, with yoar consent, offer & few suggestions in re- gord to & monopoly that exists in Ne- this direction will commence at onc against Taylor, of Hitcheock county, oconsideration and remedy of the school I think, in many cases, vever been yccepted, Th persons thaw does the railread munor- (] y ts the poorer olass, one hundred sl votes will consti If a poor man with a large family | tute the have been referred to the proper committees and work in Ia the house the contest of Chambers mation had i.l together RICE §1. L4 ~ with the fac\ that they claim at least (= ithSON & 00, Burll fixing the member from Phelps. W. E. **“Darability is better than show.” Darabulity of health is worth more then the wealth of a Van- derbilt. Kidney-Wort is man’s co-la- borer 1n msiataining health. With healtby liver, bowels and kidneys, men and women will always be in good health. If the bowels are torpid, it piles torment, if the back is fall of pain, get a package of Kidney- Waort and be cured without more suf- fering. L Tho Coptured Treasurer. Special Dispateh to Tus Bea, GavLveszoN, January 10.—A Laredo special says, Polk, the Tennessee treasurer, atter his first arrest was liberated for over $5,000. He was arrosted hiding in the brush several miles from Webb, by United States Marshal Sheely to whom Polk offered $8,000 to releasg, him, It is re- ported that PdW’s nephew aud servant crossed into Mexico with a large amount of money. The de- fanlting treasurer was accompanied by private detective Cameron, whom he bribed to pilot him out cf the coun- try. The detective was also arrested, and in turn attempted to bribe Sheely to allow him to escape, saying he had that he had made a good thing, and could put Sheely in the way of pock- etivg a few thousand dollars. When captured Polk’s hands and clothing were filled with prickley pear thorne, got from wanderlng in the thickets, e *Humanity's great hope for the future is alone to be realized in im- proved conditions of matrimony. What a profound obligation does this fact involve! Those who realize the responsibility can hardly do better than take advice from Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham whose wonderful remedies for the cure of all diseases pecullar to women are 8o justly celebrated. Send for pamphlet. —_——————— Heavy Snow, pecial Dispateh o Tun Lux. FRrEDERICKSBURG, Va., January 10, —A fierce northeast snow storm has been prevatlivg here for twenty-four hours, The snow lies in deep drifts, The trains are obstrncted in all direc- tions. Millions Given Away. Millions of Bottlesof Dr. King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, huve baen given away as Trial Bottles of the large size, This enormous outlay would be disastrous to the pro prietors, were it vot for the rare merit possesed by this wonderful medicine, Call at C. F, Goodman's Drug Store, and get & Trial Bottle free, and try, for yourself, never fails to cure. R’-H-E-U-M-A-T-I-S8-M As it is for all thio painful ofthe |g LIVER AND IOWII\;:; i islati xhibited to your corres- ooln, torallroad logialation, comes the m:g;::ynz affidavit, dn’ted January “aroadtul -] 0, 1883, from the chairmau of that county, setting forth that Taylor had ) [the echool book fraad works a far|never resigned the office of county friends, Mis |greater injury to a cortain class of |clerk, and that his resi, the vio THO! ‘wors! mn!m‘ Olu::“::l % Fonis of thls Lertitls disoase uickly relieved, and f ehort can be seut by el | DNEY - WOR'T : e JOBBES WL OMAHA RS AR s oF || AS NEB. 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