Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1883, Page 4

4 The Oflba Bee Published ever sy, The enly Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL— ’ Yoar. ...$10 00 | Three Montha. §3.00 i bt One Month.... 1,00 Bix Months.. 5.00 *HE WEEXLY BEE, published every We inesday. TERMS POST PAID— One Year......82.00 | Three Months. 50 Gix Months. .. Newsdealers in the United States,; CORRESPONDENCE -All Communi- to News snd Editorial matters should L addressed to the Eniron (atfons relatinj or Tuk Bee, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busine Tetters and Remittances should be ad morning, except Sun. 1.00 | One Month.... 20 AxxRICAN NEWs CoMpaNy, Sole Agents 1S IT OVERWORKED? *| The recent election of a straight re- ublioan senator by the Nebriska ogis/ature proves that the anti-mc- nopoly ory is not near so great a bug- bear when coursgeously faced as it is supposed to be. There is no state in the unlon where it has been more per- asistently used to frighten public men than in Nebraska, and there were grave fears that the republicans would to it. Its defeat, however, should teach the party In other states what a straightforward, courogeous course oau dn, There are already healthy Indica- tions that the ory of monopoly has been overworked and that the people are becoming disgusted with those who have in this way sought to thrust themselves into prominence —New York Tribune. The recent election of a eenator in dressed to THE BEE PuBLISHING COMPANY J¥AHA, Drafts, Checks and Postoffice Jrders to be made payable to the order of the Company. ¥ho BEE PUBLISHING 00., Props. E. ROSEWATER Editor. Nebraeka proved the cfliclency of ‘he antl monopoly movement in prevent- ing the election af any republican can- didate for the senate who was not be- lieved to be sound upen the issus be- tween the corporations and the peo ple. General Manderson, during the compaign last fall, stumped the state a3 an antl-monopoly republican, though notasarepublican anti-monopoltst, He made a namber of strong ant{-monop- oly speeches, notably in Butler county, and though he made no pretentions to afillation with the anti-monopolists outside of the republican ranks, he never could have secared his election without the votes of republicans pledged upen the monopoly issne. Lot General Manderson answer whether 4 the ant!-monopoly cry was only a bug- journs every tms an ex-momber dies, bear in the Infa {:n-’wrhl un{npnlgn, the olerks of the "',‘“' sod house and whether the republican party If it twenty yoars henoo will be kept pretty had not yielded to it in some degree well employed rocording mortuary res- | ), iy ity platform and In the profes- olations. slons of its candidates, could ever have secured its senator, Oatside of Nebraska we fail to see the indications that the people are be- ocoming disgusted with anti-monopoly. Are they disgusted in New York? The present legislature in that state has seen the firat rallroad commission A TR enter upon its duties and steps taken Ir will be an exoellent thing to put to rad:aa the fares on the :leuted the wires undor ground, but The |, ;o4 o The Tribune thinkinglot WL Bl Ll .lngg.!.\. Now Jersoy? Bills have been passed hat & much greater roform will bo ¢& | for tho taxation of the great corpora- s Lists dl d of i g“l"’ tlons, and the legislature has been pu- monopolists aro dlsposed of I Y8 yifiod from the railroad lobby. In the A4 logislatures of ten states during the PENNSYLVANIA reformers ars howl | Paat montb, strivgent anti-monopoly ing lovdly for a civil service coramia. | Measures have been either introduced slon, As the number of clerks in the “’" passed. Theso Instances give no Ponnsylvania olvil service does not | ‘‘indioations that the ory of anti- exceed fifty, a oivil service commis. |mOnopoly has been overworked.” slon would be an expensive farce. The editorial conduct of the New — York Tvibune is enough to make fts Tue Buffalo Express notes that|brave old founder tarn his grave. In ““Sonator-elect Manderson, of Ne- |the days “f Horace Greeley, the voice braska, seoms to be a noble exception [ f the Tribune rang out like a clarlon to the new weatern senators. All the | for évery movement in behalf of popu- others are sharply oritlolsed. He ia|lar rights and sgalnst every com- praised on all hands.” bination opposed to the interests of —— the producers of the United States. Two Jupaxs in the Third judicial H""“" Greeley was the editor of the district would meet the necessities of | 7ribune. and not the mere puppet of a the oounties of 8rpy, Douglas, Wash. | corporation king. It the founder of Angton and Burt better than a division the T'ribune bad bsen controlled as of the distriot. This is the general Whitelaw Reld {s to-day he would opinton of the bar, which Is respeot. | ROVver have dared to lift his voice at fally submitted to the conalderation of the M‘“"”P""' fair in prophetic the legialatare, warning against the dangerous en- gt ————— oroachments of corporate monopolies A PROMINENT domoorat of national|8pon the liborties of the paople. It reputation, who has been elected to Horace 9“"’1“7 wore allvo to-day the next house, sald the other day: the great journal which he founded on ¢ Fifteon years ago the democratio the anti-siavery issue would bs found party toock a patent for belug gallantly fighting in the front rank as d——d fools, and now they are at |thelosder of the most advancod hosts Washington endeavoring to get a re- | of anti-monopoly. fasue.” B e — — Tapor's diamonds and Bowen's poker playing attract more attention .n Washington than anything else connected with the new Colorado sen- ators. S SeveraL southern states still offer bounties for wolf scalps. It looks as if it would be more in order to offer bountles for the scalps of defaulting treasurers. — Ir the legislature of Nebraska ad- — Dr. Yares, of Shanghai, says the Ohinese pay $164,752,000 annually to quiet the spirits of their ancestors. ‘The people of the United States pay $600,000,000 aunually to put down the spirits of their distilleries. OxNLY teufid;yn of tho legislative ession aro loft and the main measures Or course the ropublicans of Ne- THE DAILY BEE--OMAHA TUFSDAY FEBRUARY 13 French might ba willing to risk the wuillotine, but banlshment from their lovely land, to which they cling with so much tenacity, is tho worst punish. ment that can be inflicted upon them, Boss Srour evidently thinks that ho has an everlas'ing lien on the tax- payers of Nebraska, Every eession of the legislature rees a strong lobby at work in his interests and the ap- propriations committee beseiged for a draft on the public treasury in aid of his schemes, The capitol building has been for several years past Stout’s chief bo- nanza and it has been worked for all that it is worth, Two cf the wings of the structure, which when finished s to consist of a dome and a couple of flies, are already completed and paid for. There are already loud complaints of the way in which the work has been performed and some members are quoted as eaying that that the representatives hall will fall to pleces before the ball on the dome is put into position. But however poorly the work on this architectual braska want to pnt down factionalism, but they will never sucoeed ln thia ambition by attempting to put down Senator Van Wyck. Abuse and sour- rility at the expense of tho only sena- tor of any national prominence that Nebraska has had for years is & poor beginning of the hoped for political milleniom, Ammkp by Benator Van Wyck, who is making a record of which he may be proud, In endeavoring to force tax reduction, the senate has stricken off the duty on books as a tax on intelli- gence, Sosnator Wood Pulp Miller's influence was strong enocugh to pre- vent the removal of tho tax on wood | ©U8ht 8t ouce to be brought belore pulp, from which paper is made, and 1t was accordingly retained. Wiex Mrs. Gougar was stumpiog Nobraska she snnounced her intention of running some day for the United of rolief demanded by the people of Neobaaska remain untouched, What sort of a record does the present legls- lature propose to leave on our statuto books? The trouble is that there has besn too much wind and too little work at Lincoln, The greater part of & month was frittered away In wrang- ling over the senatorship and now that that job has been satisfactorily fin- ished another week has been con- sumed in useless discussion over bills of minor Importance, while the legls- lation demanded by the producers of this state hangs fire in the committee rcoms, The railroad and the revenue bills the senate aud house for discusslon, amendment and passage. wilful delay on the part of some of the attorneys lu the legislature who seem to think that they were eleoted There has been too much trifling and too much States senate, We doubt whether, | % 'fl'° quibbles and to laterpose ob- under present circumatances in Indi. | j°0tions to all leglslation, 1If these ana, Mrs. Gougar would be consldered gentlemen will warm their seats for a an available candidate by any of the few hours at euh.leul.au the leglsla- political parties. She has a libel suit | {97 WaY sucesed in dcing something, of the largest dimensions on her Iris evident trom the reception of hands, Illd. ot latest accounts was the | the Fabre resolution by the senate that under dog in the contest, the French people have begun to re- Ir the recomwendations of the sec. | Ve from their royalist soare. Tue retary of war and the general of the committee to whom the proposition army are adopted by congress, the|¥*® referred consisted for the department o the Platte will recelve |08 Part of lte enemles. It could several hundred thousand dollars for | 20t take long for so lively & people as needed improvements befora the close | 110 Freceh to reallzs the ridicutous of the present session. All of Gen- character of the siiuation, Besides, eral Howard's recommendations for | !f there were real cause for alarm con- the enlargement of Forts Omaha, Nio- | *¢™1U€ the alleged pretenders to the brars and Steele, and the building of government, there is no telling how Fort Thornburgh, have been approved | ¥ 8uch & method as is embodied in at Washington, and it only remains | the Fabre resolation might be carried. for congress to act favorably on them. It would be ueceasary only for a mem- The departwent of the Platte has |DeF of the mujority to denoucs a po- been shamefully neglected in the past litioal enemy as dangercus to the re- on account of the jealousy of the Min- public and move his expulsion. Tiat nesota and Kansas delegations, who would be au lmprovement on the old have secured heavy sppropriations for mothod of the guillotine; but in the the departments of the Dakota and [ ¥arfare of party it might end in the Missourd, depopulation of the country, The monstrosity has been done, the acsom- odations already provided are eufficient for all the preser.t needs of the state, The supreme court, the state cffisers and the law library, in addition to both branches of the legislature, sre now housed. The portion that remalns to be finished is that which is supposed to be the ornamental part of the structure, For the completion of the section of the capitol which includes the rotunda and the dome, the legislature is asked to appropriate a half a million dollars, Frlends of Boas Stout claim that he has lost money in building the two wings, and the inference is that he proposes to reimburse himself from the construction of the $500,000 ro- tunda and dome. The people of Nebraska are opposed to th's reckless expenciturecf money at the present session in the interest ¢f Boss Stout's bonanza, They are already overburdened with taxatlon. Many are struggling to lift the mortgage from their farms and homes. The sentiment of the state at lurge is overwhelmingly against the oapitol appropriation, and members of the legislature who desire to consult the interesia of their constituents will commit a fatal mistake if they register their votea in favor of the biil, Mg, Cuares De Lessers was to have started this week trom Paris to Panama to begin the cutting of the Chagres canal. An impression has prevailed in some quarters that this work began several years ago; but, in point of fact, the expensive opera- tions that have ®en going on for eo many months were preliminary to digeing the waterway proper. How- ever, Mr. Ferdinand Do Lessepe, who has all the buoyancy of youth, prom- ised the Geographical soctety not long ago that the canal would be ready for openirg in 1888 He pointed out, also, the immunity from earthquakes on which a canal in that locality could roly, and was specially struck with the ealubrity of the climale, The health of the employes he reported to be satiofactory, and he further an- nounced that the rate of mortality in Pavama did not oxcced that of France. Who knowa but the invigor- ating climate may enable tha workmen to finish the caual long before the year 18881 Excrasp’s pension list is not as large as our own, but presents some curlous features. Ten thousand pen- sioners draw $25,000,000 (an aversge of $2,6(0 each) snnually for sarvices in Indis, and bestdes them there are 160,250 other pensloners, who draw $35,000,000 more from the public treasury. Some of these draw pen. sions for the reason that public offices that they had filled for years had been abolished. One of these has received $15,000 a year eince 1847, and snother §5,000. These persons while holding office re- ceived salaries which compared with those of the average workingman in England were princely, and from which they should have been able to save enough to live on when retired, as private cltizens are required to do. Yet, solely because they had been 1n the public employ, their salaries are continued continued after they have ceased to render any service, and toward the payment of which salarics the working classes are compelled in- directly to contribute, A weLL kuown Washington broker is reported as saying in an interview, “T can always tell when anything has been done in committee which 1a liable to affect stocks, The orders to buy or sell come streaming in on us from the Capitol, from senators, members of committees, olerks, lobbyists, and cor- respondents who have been let in on the ground floor.” John Sherman and several other senators aud congrees- men who have acoumulated immense fortunes on ealaries of §5,000 a year might be able to throw some light on this subject. PENNSYLVANIA is investigating its agrionltural college. The agricultural ocollege humbug s nearly played out. Experiments on mammoth equashes and Early Rose potatoes at $20 a bushel are expensive luxuries for tax. payers, WESTEAN RAILROAD PROG- RESS. If reports from the east are to Se believed, the Uninn Paclfic is pre- paring itself for a lively competition =n through treffis to the const, which {8 threatened by the combination of the Burlington and Rio Grande sys- tem, the opening of the southern route from New Orleans and the ap- proaching completion of the Northern Paclfio. The Central Pacific has long been anxious to secure other eastern outlats, and, it is claimed, will throw #8 much of their eastern bound traffic 28 possible into the hands of the Den- ver & Rio Gradde as scon as & conncclion is made at Ogden, The avowal of this intention starts afresh the old romor of an ex- tension ‘of the Union Pacific to the oconst, independent cf their Oregon short line, which has already reached the Wood river country. The mana- gors of Mr. Villard's railroads claim that their lines are not likely to be seriously affected in their control of the transportation business of Oregon and Washington by the Union Pacific's Oregon extenslon, They have been recently raccessful in thelr purpose to locate the junctlon of their Blue Mountain branch, ranning down from the Columbia river, which the short line, at the crossing of Snake river, on tke western border of Idaho, in- stead of at Baker City, fifty miles further west, as was at first proposed. This gives them a better command of the field, and since they have con- ceded to the Union Pacitic extension, when it is built, a share in the eastern Oregon business, they are not partic- ularly apprehensive of competition from this source. This through con- nection with Oregon from the Unlon Paclfic will hardly be completed be- fore late in 1884, The Northern Pa- cifie, it 18 now hoped, will be done by September of this year, but it is im- probable that it will be open for busi- ness before December or Janu- ary. The gap between the eastern and western divisions has been re duced to 200 miles, At present track laylng is, of coucse, imposeible, although the work of preparing the road-bed goes on without interruption. In cresting the Rocky Mountains the highest point reached by the track is 5,800 feet, and the sharpest grade ie 116 feet, butit extends over a shor: distance only, as the road approaches the long tunnels near Helena and Bozaman, The branch from the maln line to the borders of the Yeilowstone park is to be finished by August. The managers of this new line to the Pacl fic coast are making extensive prepare ations for the accommodation of travel in accordance with most approved modern atandarde, aud the ease as the epeed of the journey across the continent will be vastly increased by the influence of this competition on the other lines, There is no reason why the trip from New York to San Francisco should not be made inside of five days, by the ordinary traveler as well as by a Vanderbilt, and with a high degree of comfort at that. The Villard steamers, plying between Portland, Oregon, and San Francisco will enable the Northern Pacific to become at once a competitor for the freight business of San Francisco and California, and the monopoly of the Central Pacific should in this way be greatly weakened if not brogen, THE average psy of manufacturing laborers in the United States averages less than a dollar a day, and yet the monopolists demand furihar protec- tlon to advance prices, on the ground that it helps to maintain high wages. High prices and low wages are what the workingmen of this couatry are now complaining, and they will refuse to be gulled much longer by the threadbare arguments of the high tariff barons, Justice demands a liberal pruning of the disreputable justices which in- fost clties like Omaha. Let the num- ber be ovi down at least one-half, the justices to be elected at large, Tom KENNARD 18 still on deck with his llttle claim, but the legislature refuses to see it in the same light as the Lincoln lobby Since the opening of the congres- sional session several democratic prest- denclal booms have strayed or been #olen, Astonishing Growth of Luxury. 8t. Leuls Glote D m> rst, ‘The asscrtion recently made in a leading Now York journal that it costs at least $50,000 anunually to live iu anything like ‘'style” in a fashion- able quarter of that city is pregnaut with meaning. Fifty _thousand dol- lars is equal to the anousl varnings of about 176 American laborers. This amount of the f.uits of labor is con. sumed by a single fimily of probably five persons. It is not productively consumed, but perishes with its use, 1t fixes & social gulf us wide as the eea botween classes in American life, It implies dependencw, hardships aud often degradation among laboring peo- ple. The greater the number of those who may thus use the muecle and brawn of their eo-called fellow-clti- zeps the less there will be of the frults of toil for those who produce. Tn oue section of this country of polit. ical equality the conditions of lfe are altogether slmllar to those of the old states of the world, where olass privileges have existed tor a thousand years, It lsa oondi- tlon of thir g3 it was believed ocould hardly exlst where there are no laws of primogeniture or entall, by which property can be accumulated from generations, But systems of taxation and corporate privileges have given the evil ot andus necumulation in the United States a grow'h not dreamed of elsewhere in any land or age. Many of these fortunes which make possible the expenditure ¢f 850 000 annually are the result of a fow years’ opera- tions under commercial aud indastrial conditions which the financial policy of this country has produced. Cor- porate privileges combine and per- petuate an amount of wealth and power which far surpasses in «ffisacy all the devices of the rich in other Iands, which have taken the form of claes legislation. Tt is not & plessing eiroation, viewed from the standpoiut of republicanisn, —_— At Home After Thirty-three Years Msclins (Me.) Union, Levi Farnaworth, of Jonesboro, who left Machias Nov. 4, 1849, ia ths brig Agate, for the Pacfic const, arrived howme Jan. 9, after an absencs of 33 years. He stcpoed at the home of bis #on, Me, J E. Farnsworth, where his wife and children assembled in lets than two hours after his arrival, one daughter, Mre. Mary A., w T of Jason U, Drieko, absent on account of sick., ness, There wore 20 frivnds at tea — his wife, children, and some of his graudchildren, and Mrs. H. C Hall, a sister of Mra, Farnsworth, and they had a very pleasant meoting. The old gentleman said, ‘‘This is the happiest hour of my life.” Mr. Farnsworth is well known in Vancouver, Washing ton Territory, Ellisburg, and muny other towns on the Pacific coast, and is respected wherever known. He has held many prominent positions lu Vancouver; has baen msyor of the vity; also sheriff several years. He was elected several times member of the Territorial legislature. He is 78 years «f age. The journey home was about 5,000 miler, yet he was but littie fati gued, and s looking younger and smarter than his friends «xpected. When Mr. Farnsworth left home he parted with wifeand six children. On his return all were alive to greet him but one daughter, who died about 20 years ago. The Largest Oat Kanch in America. Cleburre Chronicle Several parues in this city gratified their curiosity this week ina walk haif a mile south of town to vieit perhaps the largest cat ranch in Texas, or, for that matter, in America. The cats, wo preaume, ara the property of Ool. B J. Chambers. Iu the summer ot 1881 the wheat on ihe farm was ttreshed and a cousiderable quantity of struw was left inrall pens. A few cats at once took possession of the pens. They bave multiplied until now at least 5600 cate, black, white, yell w, gray, epotted—in fact every color known to the feline tribe, to eay nothing of kittens—can bs seen with little trounl« hv visiine the pens, Valued Citizens. Chicago Irter-Ocean, ‘Trres f the now senators are worth at the commercial agenclesabout $20 - 009,000 Just what they will be worth on the flor f the United State sen- ate has yet to be determined, Ferry’s Feed. Chicago Times. Senaror Ferry's hotel bill at Lans. ing during the month of February is sald to have been $2 500. The sen- ator mast be an unusually heavy eater. THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY {|[FOR PAIN. 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