Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1883, Page 4

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E ROSEWATER Editor Lirk insarance companies are doing THAT TELEGRAPH FRAUD, One of the beaatiful specimens of “‘antl-monopoly” legislation that was stolen through the leglslature of this state at the late session, was a tele- graph bili which was composed of two bills, one introduced by Senator Con ner and the other by Mr. Whedon, of Lancaster. Daring the labor which brought forth what is called a lLiw these two bills auderwent the matri- monial process of belng merged into one. The act Is entitled an ‘‘act to prevent extortion and discrimination in the trensmission of dirpatohes,’’ but thin title dbes not express the object of the blll, as its contents clearly show, It would fall and fail on this ground alone {n any covrt not organ- ized to Ignore an eypress provislon cf the constitutlon of the state, which says that *No bill shall contain more than one subjsot, and the same shall bo clearly expressed in the title. We copy the comments of the State Jour- nal upon the contents of thls ‘‘inex- preesibly ridloulous” law, which rid- dles the abortion so completely as to leave nothing to be added, except Mr, Jataes M, Woolworth's legal opinion, whish is said to extesminato it utterly, as the most bungling attempt at legls- Iatton which the mob department of the Iate legis'ature ever undertook.— » heavy business In Earope in anti- clpation of the czw's coronation. The prince of Wales will not attend. He always was afrald of dynamite, — Tar new two cent stamp will have the head of Washington on its face, Even the most rack rooted bourbor does not dare to defend the present Omaha Herald, *480 far m anybody has ever heard, there is no discrimination made in telesraphic dispatehing on public lines, The railroad companies have usually linss of their own THE DAILY BEE--OMAHA MONDAY MARCH 12 news by telogrsph shall submit to established regnlations and restrictions, If they do business in tlokets at popular prices. Protest does no good, The only protest which will make ftself feltis a thin house violation of these restrictions they|and & small advanco sale wiil be subject to certain penalties, |of se The publle hold the Now, what are these rogulations and | matter In their own hands. The rem restriotione? edy takes a little self denial but it will 1st. Telegraph companies ard prees | pay in the long run. A general pro- ansociations are required to file coples | test of the Buffalo stamp would very of their artlclos of incorporation or|soon bring manogers and performers copartnership with the secretary of [to thelr senses. At present there ls a state, prevalont impression that the Amerl 2d. Telegraph companies are re-|oan people enjoy being fleeced and are quired to transmit all dispatohes im- | willing to pay handsomely for the partlally and use due diligencs to 80| privilege, tranamit without wilful delay of mes soges end divulging of their contents is punisiied by fize oz imprisonment. 3d. Telegraph companies are pro- hibited from charging, collectine or recelving a greater sum from any patron than they charge for a like ser- vice to any other patron, and they are prohiblted from charging a greater sum for sending a message containing a given number of words over a cor- taln distance than they charge for sending s messago contalning an equal — PRESIDENT MAKING. Several eastern newepapers have been attacked with the fover of making presidential nominations a year in ad- vanco of the conventlons. The Phil- adelphia Press holsts the name of Sen- ator Edmunds, and a Baltimore dally publisheaa long list of exchanges who favor Mr, Bayard. This is a harmless amusement but it 1s decidedlyjpremature, Presidentlal nominees will not be before number of words over a greater dis-| ¢, publle for at least a year tanco. to come, No well informed 4th, Telegraph companies must af- politiclans of elther party will dare and acsommodate themselves first, and atterwards_carry measages for the public, when they have their wires open. In this private accommodation of the railrond lines we have heard no complainta of die- crimination, however, But these lines are not common carriers, ro far as we are in- formed, and coald not be without defeating atrocity of a portrait of Jackson which the new stamp will replace. Ex Sexator Tanor's performance in Washington suggest to the Boston Herald, Swift’s cynioal remark: *You can eee what the Almighty thinks of money by the men He gives it to.” 8till there are a good many men who wonld be willlng to be made awfal ex- amples like the Hon, Horace Tabor. T —— Omahs is not likely to escape a heavy rise of the river. There Is every indlcation that the Missourt fa preparicg for a firat-class boom. At Fort Buford the river is now six feet above *he low-water mark and rising rapidly, although the joo is still ue- broben, Warm weather will hasten the flood, which promises to be un- comfortably high, Tae prioting by permisston in tho Congressional Record of undelivered speeches s & great rellef to fellow members on the floor and occupants of the galleries. Some of the windi- eat efforts of the session come out in the supplementary lssues of the Record. General Bragg, of Wiscon- sin, perpetrated one of 104 psges, ‘with several maps, on the Fiz: John Porter case, enongh to make sa oo tave volume of 500; and Colambus Upton, of Ohlo, addressed a few re- marks to the tariff question covering 110 pages of the Record. Ii was an awful relief to the hoase and saved several days of preclous time. —— Axp now Dr, Miller has oonolnded that it was Mr. Colpetzer's fault after all and that the senators from Doug- las cannot be held respousible for every mistake of the Douglas county delegation in the house, This is » great relief. The shoul- ders of Charley Brown and Jobn MoShane are not broad enough to oarrysucha load. The fact is that the delegation in the house from this county was below notice as far as ability 1s concerned. The only mem- ber who ocould make himself heard was Mr. Gray, snd his mouth was always opened for the rall- roads. Mr. Olark meant wgll and did not tle up on the capital appropriation bill. Bat Mr, Olark like soveral of his colleagues was a shipper of froight and dared not vote sgainst the wishes of the rallroads. On the contrary he openly avowed himself as a rallroad man, Messrs, Colpetzer, Christoph son and Gray were in the same boat, while Mr. Tartle whose votes ©p to the oclosing part of the session were stralght, allowed himself to be frightened into placing himself on record in favor of the pas- sage of the sham rallroad blll gotten up by the rallroad strikers. Tux Bzs at the opening of the last campaign warned the people against nominating or supporting as candi- dates for the leglalature men either employed by the rallroads or depend- ent upon the corporations for the oon- duct of thelr business. It Inslsted that such men however honest and well meaning, in justice to theigown {nterests dared not oppose the polloy of the rallrosds, The result has proved our position to be a sound one in every respect. The Douglas connty delogation is not the only case in point. A score of other Instances oould be given. *If they expected me to work for antl-monopoly,” sald Mr. Schroeder, of Platte county, to his coostituents, ‘‘they had no business to eend me to Lincoln, They knew that I was & heavy shipper over rallron aud could not oppoee thelr interests,” And Me Sghroeder told the truth. While there can be no excuse for the violation of pledgos to constituents, the voters of, Nebracka who foollshly trusted the ma¥%ing of laws against railrosd - abuses to men dependent upon the railroads for thelr bread and butter have themeelves fo blame if they have been sold oui. - Homan na- ture and personal interests are strong- er with most men than political prom- dses and regard for the general welfare, the object for which they are primarily erected, to-wit: to enable the officers and employes at every point on tho railroad to communicate iustantaneou:ly with each other at an emergency, To attempt to force these lines to become common ear. riers, and ssrve all mesages as & barber serves his customers, each, one in turn, would be to destroy railrosd m ement, u'ln:mducted at present.”— Jour- nal, As usual our amiable contem. poraries have mada themselves inex presatbly ridiculous by an exhibition of malice and ignorance. They affect great contempt for the bungled telo- graph bill whenin fact they are badly soared. Dr. Miller strikes out wildiy in charglog that the bill was composed of two bills which were mergel into one and bungled in the matrimonial process. As & matter of fact the bill in quesifon is word for word the bill Introdgoed by Senator Connor. Not a syllable was changed in it from the time it was introduced to its final pas- sage, Mr. James M. Woolworth’s legal opinion may utterly exterminate thls legislation, bacause as attorney of the Western Union Telegraph company, he way bo expected to realst its en. forcement. But James M. Woolworth while on the floor of the house when ford equal facllities to all aowspaper | {5 hazard an opinion for some months patrons and press ass: to come as to who is or who is not an quired to furnish dispatcher on the|available candidate. same conditions to all papers in any locality where they do business. bth, Telegraph companies are re- quired to recelve dispatches from all patrons and competing telegraph com- panies, a refaasl to receive or failare to transmit subjects them to liability of fines and demagaa, The conduct of congress at the next session will do much to determine the choice of candidates by determining the policies and platforms cf the op- posing partles. The dewmccrats will control tho next houso of representa- tives and the work of the session Is certaln to have astror g Inflaence upon 6th, Telegraph cempanies are made | hoth nominating conventions. 1lable for damages caused to patrons| QOae thing already certaln s by delays, errors and non-dellvery of | that the next president will dispatches, notwithstanding any clause | bo elected by the iadependent vote condition, or agreement in their print- [ which to-day holds the balance of ed blanks. power in the country. Last Novem- 7th. Telegraph companlies are re- | ber it united with the domocrats for quired to notify ell patrons who desire | the purposs of rebuking republican to send dispatches whenlines are down | disregard of the pewple's intereste, and and wires overcrowded—a violation of |the desertion of 1,500,000 votera this provision subjoots them to pen-|changed the majority to a minority. altles, X This floating vote has not lost in num- Whereln doos this act constitute an | bora since the last election. abortion? What Injustice doesit at-| Any estimate of the probable results tempt in ordalning that telegraph |of the next presldential eloction which companies shall treat their patrons|leaves out of calculation the votes of with impartiality and shall be llableto| men upon whom party lines hang them for losses sustained by the neg-|loosely is not worth two strawsa, ligence of employes or mnon-fufill-| The party which bids most sucoess- ment of thelr obligations as common |fully for the confidence of the in- carrlers? dependents will win the day. The Nearly all thote restrictions have | general distrust of republicans by re- been Imposed by the leglslatures 3f|publicans has not been materially de- other states and by congress, Why, | creased by the record of the last con- then, should any honest man object|gress, And onthe other hand ftis this bill was ap, expressed himself de- cldedly in favor of some leglslation that wonld enforce upon telegraph companies accountability to their pat- rons for bungled delayed or lost mes- sages, This is the main purpose of the act, coupled with proper safeguards to prevent extortion, disorimination and favoritism, But the Lincolu Journal riddles the abortion which would deprive it and its assoclates of special privileges by boldly taking the ground that there is no discrimina. tlon In the telegraph business and by the reckless awsertion that the tele- graph linesbelonging to Nebraska rall- roads aro private concerns, man. aged for thelr own oonvenlence. He asserts positively that they are not common oarriers, and any attempt to force them to serve all messages as a barbor serves his customers would be to destroy rallroad mansgement. For the benefit of these monopolists we will quote from the national statutes that relate to the two great trank Itnes, the Unlon Pacificand B, & M., as well as the Sloux City & Paclfio, These corporations were all char- tered under the act of July lat, 1862, entitled ““Anact to ald in the ocon- struction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missourl river to the This act authorized the consolidation of the then existing Pacific Telegraph line from Omaha to San Franclsco with the railroad telograph lines under condition of the original telegraph oharter. That made these llnes common carriers. But the act of 1864, amending the origlnsl charter, contalns the follow- ing proviso: SkorioN 15, And be it farther enacted that the several companies authorized to oconstruct the aforessid roads are hereby required to operate and use said roads and telegraph forall purposes of communioa. tion, &o,, as one continuous line aud in such operation to afford and secure to each equal advantages and facilities as to rates, &c, And it shall not be lawful for the proprietors of any telegravh authorized by this act, or the sct amended by this act, 0 refuse or fail to convey for all persons z'm pu:on Injuru{, for unl: offense the sum of $100 ‘and wsuch other damage as he may have suffered on account of said re- fusal and failure, to be sued in any court of the United States, or any state or terri- tory of competent jurisdiction. How will Mr. James M, Woolworth which relates to nearly all the tele- graph llnes now operated in Nebraska, and compels them to transmit news without discriminatlon under certaln penaltie:? This act of congrass, pass- ed while Nobraska was a territory, has now boen supplemented by the leglslature of ‘‘the state cf Nebraska,” That leglslature is competent to regu- late the railroads originalyy chartered by congress, and it has cqual suthority over the telegraph lines operated withinour own etate. Beyond its boun this act does not attempt to resch, It simply ordalns that tele- graph companies and assoclations en- gaged In the conveyance of utterly wipe out this act of congress, | to thelr enactment in Nebraska? Baut | only fair to say that confidence in de- this 18 not where the shoe pinches. | mocratio professlons cf reform has The would-be ccmpetitors of THE Bk | not increased since the revolution of have for yoars been accorded speclal (1882, Both parties stand practically privileges through a close corporation | where they did two yesrs ago, and which bears the same relations to the [ the lssues of the next campaign are telegraph company that the Standard | yet to be promulgated. oil monopoly bears to the rallroads,| For this reason slate making at This close corporation is for the first|present is worse than useless, Mr, time to be subjected to the restraint | Edmunds .is a sound man snd Mr. and oontrol of law. And the legisla- | Bayard's record has been in the main tare s just as competent to regulate | excellent, but newspaper nominations and restrain these quasl public con-|at the present time can in no oerns as it 1s to regulate and restriot| way Influence the cholce of parties insurance companies, mutual benefit|much less can it force pub- assoclations or gas companies, lic opinlon to the support of parties or candidates before the lssues are squarely made up, - Gvolno;fi;{mxnm of Nevada, makes & bitter arralgnment of the STRING THEM UP. The two senators from Douglas, Brown and McShane, have committed a grave crime according the editor of the Omaha Herald, “They both worked and voted for a viclous and villalnous bill to reduce freight rates on all railroads 20 per cent. It was not their fault that that bill did not become a law.” They also did another villainous thing which Doctor Miller does not mention. They both worked and voted;for a villainous}bill to reduce passenger rates from four to three cents a mile. It was not their fault that that bill did not pass. They also worked and voted for a bl to compel the railroads to pay.local taxes on about a million dollars worth of prop- erty In Donglas county which is exempt from clty and county taxes and lumped together as a right'of way. In addi- tlon to these villainous bills they also helped to get through the senate a bill that would make railroads responsible for Injuries to employes incurred throngh the negligence of other em- ployes. Bat worst of all they worked for and helped to get through an act to prevent extortion and discrimina. tion In the transmission and dellvery of telegrhph dispatches. Thia last was the crowning crime of all and they aro therefore doomed forever, and politically damned. Under the compact between the railroadsand the would-bs democratic leader no demo- orat in Nebraska will be allowed to hold office who dares to favor the re- duction of transportation tolls and obstructs in any way the despotiem whizh these corporation klugs have eatabllshed in this state. Senators McShane and Brown had better there- fore make their wills, They will be strung up punctually as soon as the death warrant Is eigned by Sldney Dillon and Tom Kimball, COentral Pacific rallroad, and charges them with combining fjto crush the state out of existence, ruin her pro- ductlve oapacity, and drive her citi- zens to seek new homes. He alleges that the company charges the mont outrageous local rates and dellberately maneuvers to strangle manufacturing enterprise which might, for a time, at least, diminish its freight buslness. Rates from Reno to stations near at hand are higher than through to San Franclsco, snd farmers sometimea haul thelr grain in wagons fifty miles by the side of the rail- road track. If a factory Is started to produce on the ground any artiole now brought In, rates are at once lowered to almost nothing so that outside com- petition kill the enterprise out, and then the old charges are reestablished. The result of this is that there is hard- ly a manufactory of any kind in the state, and the great water power of the Truckee river lies entirely ldle. Agaln, there is persoual dizcriminaticn sgainat wholesale merchants, such as absolutely prohibits business of the kind In the state, and all eastern goods are frelghted through to the coast and then back again in parcels, So the people of Nevada sell cheap and,buy dear, all bosiness is depressed, and the process of depopulation goes oa." Burravro entered her protest against the exorbitant prices which Abbey is oharging for the Nillson conoerts, by refusing to secure enough seats in ad- vanoe to make vp the neceesary gusr- aatee. Mr. Abbey in high dudgeon whisked the singer off to Canada, and cancelled the engagement, declaring that the people of Buffalo couldn't ap- preciate good music. The Buffalonians repliod that they knew what they missed, but are opposed to paying fanoy prices fora concert when the house could have _pald handsome- ly at half the figures demanded. Just as long as the amusement-lov- ing public permit themselves to be fleecod by the exorbitant demands of high-toned managers’ fancy prices for every half-way respectable perform- ance will rule. No manager who can get $3 a seat for his house will sell his Tue civil service commlssion which is & body of gentlemen appolated to reform the spelling of privates In the federal brigade has assembled at Wash- {ngton, and decided that there is no harry about beglnning operatlons un. til the several olerks for whom the late congress made positions have been re- ourted Into office, After this import- ant work has been concluded under Bill Chandler’s management the com- mission will purchess a Webater's die- tionary and begin operatione. The Dignity of the Senate. Chicago Tim 8. Sonator Van Wyek is an honest man, but he does not know how to reach the Pennaylvania Jdeal of sena- torlal dignity. The hubbub that he created by laying bare the outrageous facts about the fees prid by ‘‘Erew- he signs himself, shows at a at Van Wyck's ideas of pro- priety are very different from those of Don Cameron, ‘‘Browster s a Pennsylvania man, the political discovery of ths Cam- erone, He hes Penusylvania ideas about the propriety of taxing the rest cf the country for individusl benefit, He excuses himself from attending to the star route trials on the ground that he is *‘sick” and ‘‘too buey,” but still finds time and health to go to Penn- sylvania to argue cases for the Wi orn Union. He allows the special counsel $1C0 a day for Sundays as well as other days, and §10a day for hotel expenses, and money for cigars, ‘‘eun- dries,” Pallman. carriages, bathe, Paliman porters, and the like, Senator Van Wyck jumped into the middle of this abuse hike a reform bull into one of Sherman's Ohio potteries, He declared that the people were being robbed in order to punish the star- route robbers. Thia was too mvch for Logsn and Cameron, The latter, with a great deal of spirlt of one kind or another, shouted to Van Wyck: . - Brewster never done Logan, by a skillful question, expose the damaging fact that the figures which Senator Van Wyck was using, and which had been obtained from the department of jus- tice by order of the senate, had never been rcferred to committee, This was all Logan wanted to know about Van Wyck, That a senator should tell the truth without being author. ized to do 8o by a committee ‘‘was so undignified and so wide a dsparture from the usual method of proceeding in the senate,” ete.. etc. What Senator Van Wyck should have done was to have arisen and sol- emnly and digaifiedly moved that the communication from the department of justice be referred to the appre- priation committee, Where it would have been given decent and dlgnified barial, and the pecpls would never have heard a word of these Incendiary disclosures. Bat Van Wyck did not ‘‘stop” when Cameron told him to, and he did not get dignified and dis- honest when Logan rebuked him, but went right on, like thoman he is, and told the people all that he could tell them about how they were being rob- bed under the forms of justice. That the trath had nov been ground over in the senate circamlocution mills made it no less the trath. What the interast of those he represented called for was the facts, not an exhibition of suppression dignity. Would thatthere wore more Van Wycke In congreas. Th:s Must Mean Tabor. Washington Star. Ot all the leglalative bodies in the world the United States Senate is the most exucting of its members as to their deporument., Its ndard of dignity is the very highest, and the senator who falls to maintain it is, un- less he is too thick-skinned to feel anything, made to fael his unworthi- ness; but he who Is gullty of an in- fraction of that dignity commits the unpardonable sin and shrivels beneath scorching contempt. A certain west- ern senator, whose greatne:s was chieved, it is alleged, by a liberable expenditure of the froit of sllver mines, has falled utterly in all that senatorial et/quette exacted of him. His new dignity fitted him as loosely as a $250 night-shirt would a walkiog cane. He carrled his free-and-easy border airs into that chamber sacred to dignity and deportment, and, un- fortunately for him, his term of service was too short for him to learn lessons of senatorial conduct, Saturday night he shocked the senate by golng from desk to desk and requesting his brother senators te enter theirsignatures in an autograph slbum, This is a duty that the senator who appreciates his ele. vated position in'zusts to a page. He would never profane his high cffice by making such an undigrified spectacle of himself. But the new senstor seemed bent on trampling upon sena- torlal decorum, His wife, a bride of fow hours, occupied a seat in one of the gallerice, and this eenator, in the pride of possession, thought there was nothing improper 1n pointing her out to brother senators, and inviting their attention to her e r beauty and elegance of app: Had he done this quletly and in a casualsort of way, the exuberance of his joy might have partially excused him in senatorial eyer; but he pointed out the beautiful wife with oscentation and a degree of famillarity that the senate could never pardon. Much to the rellef of the sticklers for senatorial dignity, this wild western senator is no longer a member of the body. RHEUMATISM, Neuralgla, Sciatics, Lumbago, BACKACHE, ERADACES, YOOTHACHR, SORE THROAT, QUINSY, BWELLINGS, SPRAINS, Soreness, Cuts, Bruises, FROSTBITES, BURNS, SCALDS, And all otber bodily aches and paius. 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