Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 2, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE--MONDAY MARCH 2, 1885 e e ——— NO COMMISSION. which has been used against them, as it " TH E D A I LY B E E i In defiance of the popular will express [has been In Towa, for the purposs of Ouana Orrion No. 914 axp 018 Fannax 81, |ed by a decisive mejority at the seme|staving off proper railrosd regulation na- Niew Yoak Orrion, Roou 65 Taisvsa BUiLD: | election at which the present legislatare { der false protenseai Let no honeat mem- 1KNG, wan elected, the stato sonafe has seen fit | ber of the house who sincerely wants to to pass a blll that creates an advisory | redress the public wrongs deceive him- railroad commieslon, Havirg defeated | self into the belief that by joinlng with 50 |overy rational and honest effort to re- | the railroad cappers and voting for this ay |deem the pledges made to the people be- | commissloner bill he will benefit or satis- fore the clection tbat relief should be |fy his conetltuents, Let no man who ls ¥ 2% | given to the producers and other patrons | playing fast and loose in the legislatare 76 | of railroads by the enactment of lawa to | lmagine that he can blind the people by RTINS reduce tho extortionate tolls that sreim. | throwing commissioner sand Into their 11 Communteations relating to News and Editorial | posed upon them, it Ia now attempred to |eyes, The proposed commission 1s a :fim stould be addressed vo she EDITOR OF TR | 433 i o1t to injury by glving the people ll".mm and & ff.ufi. The people do not a stone when they have asked for bread- | ask forit, but, on the contrary, are de- All Basiness Letters and Remittances should be A B e an Pusianine Couraxt, ouana. | A8 if 1t were not outrageous enough to f cidedly opposed to ita creation, and those Draft e and Pos oricoordrs to bo mads WA | violato solemn pledges and doliberately [ who help to make it will never b able D DIRT AR refose to carry oat the mandate of the | to explain away their action, THE BBE PUBL[SBING cn'l Pflms‘ constitation which makes it the m— L H.F;‘:zgvsn“‘l‘"::_:“‘;;‘f;;"g; dlation, |0ty of the legialature to| VIOLATIONS OF THE CONSTITU- P. O. Box, 488 Omaha, Neb. enact wholesome baws to prevent excesslve exactlons by railroads and OueverAND 1s now engaged in packing [other public carriers, lucrative positions his grip-sack. are eought to ba created for tome of the m———— railroed henchmen at the expenso of the tax.payers, A railroad commission made up of three sate officers—the governor, secrotary of state, and auditor—and three sacretaries to be appointed by the gov- ernor, cach of whom Is to draw $2,000 a year, Is provided for in this eenate bill. This commiseion is to have no power to regulate railroads or fix rates, but merely may, when complaint {s made by ehip- I1 has bacomo a pretty well settled fact | pers, glve its advice to the railroad man- that the (pretent) lcgislature cannot reg- | agers, and it may, in extreme cascs, even ulate the railways, but that the railways|go to far as to make a mild remonstrance, can regulate the leglelature, 1f the railroad magnates see fit to pay ——— any attention to tho commlasion, as they Mixsesora has adopted the New York | probably would in some sample cases penal code. It restores capital punish-|made by the railway cappers for ment, of which there has been no case in|the purpose of hoodwinking ths the state courts of Minuesota since 1855. | people, well and good. If the railroad e —— managers trump up some ingerious ex- Wi venture to say that more than one- | cuse, or flatly rofuse to redress wronge, half of the members of the present legle- | thls hogus commisaton will be powerless lature have never read the slate constitu- | 1o remedy the grievance, except o far as tion. Their flagrant vlolations of the it may assist the complainant In bringing explicit provislons of that document|gsuitin the courte, which he alrcady hes a wouid Indleate as much. right to do without a railroad commis- ——— sion, Beyond this the only ussful thing Very few government officials at|ihe commission may peform is to collect Washington will resign until they ave|rajlroad statistics. Thls duty, however, asked todo eo. It is safe to say, how- | already devolves upon the auditor by the ever, that the lnvitatlon committee Will | constitution, which requires every railroad bilshed avery morning, excopt Sunday. sty Momday moraing aaily published in the stat TRRNN BY MATL One Year..... .810.00 | Thres Months. Six Months I 8.00 | One Month. The Weekly Bes, Publihsed every Wednesd TRRVS, FOSTPAID, One Year, with premium .. One Yoar, without premium Bix Months, without promium The te. 0250 1.00 BUSINESS LETTRRS. The general approprlation bill as put through the houte is recklessly extrava- gant, and the renate has tacked on amendments making it still more out- rageous, There 18 a remarkable disre- gard for tho constltutlon all the way throogh. For instance, the constitution expressly provides, in section 22, of ar- tlcle 3, entitled Legislative, that ‘‘no al- lowance shall bs made for the incldental expentos of any stats officer except the same be made by general appropriation and upon the account specifylng each item.” Section 16 of the same articls says that ‘‘that the legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any pub- lic officer, agent, servant or contractor, after the services shall have been render- ed or the contract enteredinto; nor ehall the compensation to any public officer be iccreased or diminished during his term of offica.” Now, there are any number of specific appropriations made in the bills now pending, giving {0 contractors extra compensation aud sllowing to officers Incidental ex— penses not epeclfied in the bills, These incldentals to increate tho salaries are nothing more nor less than dellberate and illegal attempts to increase the compen- satlon of atate officers, which is expressly prohibited by the above cltad provislons in the s'ate constitution. For instance, the general bill, containing the silaries Tiur bursting of cabinet boomsreminds one of the reporta of the toy-plstol. R ——— Tuere is nothing like a well regulated loglslature. So emy the railway lobbyiste, —_— Tom Hexpricks has landed in Wash- ington. Like EIl he got there with beth fect. aoon formally fnvito them to step down |t report to him ita earnings, milesgo, and out to make room for the freeh men, extensions, and 80 on. Thera are also lawa already on the statute books requ'r- ing railroads to furnleh very fall reports of thelr transactions to the secretary of state and auditor. The leglslatore of 1881 enacted a law, chapter 67 cf the seseion laws of 1881, which requires rallroad companies dolng bust- nets in Nebraska to establish and maintain public offices In the state, and make report to the auditor concern- ing their operations. Th's law bas never been complied with, simply because our attorney-general and prosecuting attor- neys have not done thelr duty, acd be- cauro the governor haw not exccuted the Tur Joe Hooker post of the Grand Ar- my, of Des Moines, has recelved for its fair a huge package of tobacco from the R. E. Leo camp of volunteers, of Rich- mond. We suppose thls tobacco will be smoked In the pips of peace. Ox St Valentine's dsy the Detroft Times was printed 1in blue ink and writ- ten entirely in rhyme, even including the advertisements, The paper has since suspended at a loss of 15,000 sinca Ofristmas, and Editor Breeze will now endeavor torecuperate his fallen fortunes of state officors, allows the governor $2,000 a year, or a total of $4,000 for the years 1885 and 1886, in addition to his salary. Allowances are also made in the bill for his telegeaph, postage, ex- pressage and freight expenezer, and pro- vislon is made fer the offerlng of rewards for the capture of criminals, and a'l other classes of expenditures that should be legltimately borne by the state, When Sepator Metz asked the commiltee on finance what the §2,000 a year represented he was answered by Church Howe that it was put in at the exprees request of the governor for incidentals, Similar items, probably not so laxge, are in the bill for other officers. by writing epring poetry. The question natarally arlees, does tho leglslature propose to pay any attention to the constitution which it kas sworn to suppest? 14 is rignt and proper that it should give every officer suflicient clerk hire, and allow legitimate expenses astu- ally incurred in the performance of the dutles of office, but the framers of our constitution, foreseelng what would hap- pen, have very wisely prohibited the leg- islature from making any extra allowance without Itemizing what it is for. We are not supposed to be paying for public re- ceptions, carriage hire, excursions to New Orleans and Washington, and other ex- penses which may be *‘Incidental” in the career of tome of our state officers who desire to indulge in the luxury of travel- ing and high living. It certainly does seem strange and ivconslstent for our law- makers to become law-breakers, 1f they do not observe the constitution and the laws, how can they expsct the people to obey them? law aa he was in duty bound to do. But even graating that there is some benefit to be derived from the collection of rail- road statlstics, there cortainly is no use of taxing the people for a powerful com- misslon wlth three secretaries. This board has no more use for thres secra- tarlos than a cat has tor three tails. What then is the object of the com- mission? How can any honorable repre- SenaTor VAN Wyok's bill providing |rentative stultify himself by recording for the sale of the Sac and Fox Indlan [his vote in faver of such a roservation in Nobratka and Kansas has[sham? The only power under our paesed the senate, This will provide for | constitution to regulate rallways is vested more homes for settlors. The senator's [in the logitlature, and the only legal successfal efforts In behalf of the people |remedy for existing abuses is regulation are appreciated by everybody except the [bylaw. If any member of the house, be- monopollste, who are palned to seo him |fore whom this commissioner bill may grow In popular favor. come up for final declslon, deslres to in- form himself as to his duty let him read Dr, Mitier did not get a seat In|carefully article 11 of the constitation Cloveland's cabinet. Ho ascribes his de- | entitled ‘‘Rallroad Corporations.” Sec- foat eolely to tho bitter factional fight in [ticn 4 of that article reads as follows: WNebraska, and thls is probably true. The| ‘Railways heretofore constructed, or that frlendsof Dr. Miller, however, assert |may hereafter bo constructed in this state, are that he is to control the federal patron. | boreby declared public highways, and shall R T reEl Iy el £ :7‘3 freo to all persons for tho transportation of = heir persons and property thereon under such sams position in that respect as & Unlted | 1oy 10600 s may bo proscribed by law. And States senator. How long this political | tho legislature may from time to time pass dictatorship will bo continued remalns to | laws etablishing reasonable maximum rates bo aven, of charges for the transportation of passen- gers and freights on the different railroads in Tur rumor that General Grant Is dyng | this state,” will cause deep regret throughout the en-| Here then is the plaln mandate of the tire country. It is hoped, howover, that | constitutlon, which expreesly requires all his condltion is not so serious as reported. | regulations of rallio:ds to be prescribed Corgress cou'd not do a more graceful [ by Jaw and nct by an order from a rail- thing than to immediately pass the bill | road commisslon, Furthermora, the logis- placing him on the retired list, Such ac- | lature is authorized and required to pass tion would be in acc:rd with the wishes|laws cstablishing maximom rates of of the people, and it would be a great|charger. They are not authorizad to dele- satisfaction to the gallant old hero to|gate that power to anybody else. In no kucyw before his doath that the peoplo’s [case cin the legislature delegats the representatives apprecisted his great sor- | function which is exclusively vested in 1t vices, to other co-ordinate branches of the gov- crmmert, any mora than the supreme AL d‘]‘;fi“fi"}"fl;};";‘f“:‘h“.“h_“; [ eourt could delegate its judiclal authority immigration bureau, has just {ssued a|to the governer, the secratary of state, or special editlon of 7he IWeekly State|the leglslature, Another and more posl- * Journal of 100,000 coples, * * tive mandate with regard torailwa; - ) y regu As tho sole object of tho B. & M. com- | 144101 ig contained In saotlon 7 of the pany {8 the peopling of the state—as h Fheix Iands aro sbout disposed of ~thete | rallzoad artlle, which reads s follows: «ffurts should meet with the moet liberal| *‘The lezlslature shall pass laws to correct abuses, and prevent unjust discrimination and weconding bp everybody iuterested.-— extortion in all charges of exprees, telograph Lincoln Journal, and railroad companies in this state, and en- J. SteruiNG MORTON can congratu- Iats himeelf upon the fact that he will havo a staunch friend, Mr. Bayard, in the oabinet., Mr. Morton was a Bayard man first, 1ast and all the time, and was the only Nebraska delegate that voted for him in the natlonal convention. He laughs best who laughs Jast. Tuz Omaha Repudlican is edited by a boy who will never be anything else. Ho has not brains encugh to comprohend apy subject above a dog fight, and ke is suffering from an overdose of Rose- water. He ls now irying tocreate a hub- bub about Andrew Rosewater, who, he is afrald, will porpetuate himself throogh the new charter. The fact is that Andrew Rosewator hos never bsen an applicant for this or any other municipal position, but was tendered the office of city engi- neer by Mayor Boyd after hehad declined to sign applications, as a number cf others had done, Aundrew Rosewater can earn more in the general practice of his pro fesgion than he can in the employment of the city, and he s not dependent upon that office for a livelibood. The new charter does not in any way increase his income, but it does Increase his work and respensibllity. Under the provision of the charter he 18 to be one of the three engineers 1o monument the clity, and assume the disagreeatle responaibility of adjusting the dlfficulties between lot owners, whoee proverty has been improperly platted, For these sur- veys he will get no extra pay. On the other hand Andrew Rosewater is one of two or three men in this clty who are familiar with the intricate and complica- ted system of clty surveys. If the resur- vey and monumentiog are carrled out the — ‘We are com'ng, Father Abraham, 100,- 000 coples strong. Mr, Randall is to be | force such laws by adequate penaltios to the commended for his liberal effort in adver. | “*vents if necessary for that purpose, of for- teslng Nebrasks, ospecislly when the B, | eiture of thelr propertyaud frauchise,” & M. rallroad has no longer any land nor Oan auything be more swphatlo {n . i i any we for lsnd-boyers, The lnter- the lostruction to the leglslature to enact cily will be placed in a condltion to dis- . laws to prevent corporate abuses? What | penss with tha eervices of Andrew Rose- est which he manifests in ad Lincoln Journal all over A‘,fi:‘m:nf.'::: right has the legislature t evade its|water or any other man that hos this {mmigration dooument shows that all mo- sworn duty snd shift the correction of | special knowledge, and any engineer of nopolles are not ungesteful. That hun- abuses upen a commission? Put the ex- | fair abllity will be able, after the clty has dred thousand odition will probably pay cuse offered by some senators that this | been mapped, racorded, and monumen- the Journal for opposing railroad regula- tlon and favoring a harmless, useloss and powerless railroad commisslon. By the way,!the copies of the Journal sent out by Mr, Randall remind us of the play of Hamlet, with Hamlet left ont, Itis not tho weekly Journal, but simply a lot of stereotype plates with a description of Nebrasks, with the Journal hesd over the collection, ture which they can hope to get out of | proper grades and measurements, this leglslature and rather than | that inetead of mekin, go home without any legislatlon they | himself by favoriog t! indefensible, Do they imagine thelr taxes without deoreasing their bur- | epglneer’s office. dens! Do they not know that they are playing Into the hands cf the rallroad monopoly by creaticg thls commits'on, needed improvements of Omaha, conmision s the only rallroad legisla. |ted, o glve owners of property ihe 8o a monopoly for s proposed amend- would support such a measure is utterly | ment, Andrew Rosswater in reality is that | paving the way for anybedy who can do the people will thank them for Increasing | surveying and engiveeriog to fil] the city The fact i3 {hat the editor of the Republican does not know what he is talking about, and has no . knowledge of the vital intercsts and [time—has been devoted to novel writing. His THE gas consumers of Now York are juet beginning to learn how they have been robbed. It hag bosn discovered by the senate h\‘v‘:]galinq committee that in 1874 whilo the gas sold at $2.75 per per thoussnd fect, the cost was $1.00; in 1876-77 the cost was 85 coats, and the selling price was . In 1870, when the price fell to §1 ), the cost was 80 cents. Tu 1880 the price was raised to $2.25, while the cost of manufacturiog was reduced {0 52 cents, and tho follow Ing year to 49 cents, During tho last thirteen years the earnings of the Mu tual company amounted to 7,756,627, of which amount $3,525,000 was paid out in dividends. Of the surplus over the divi- dends It was thown by the investigation nearly 83,600,000 which the Jaw required the company to share with consumers by reducing the prica of gas was ealted down by the company {tself in bonds and stocks. Since the consolidation of the varlous companies, although the price of gas has been romewhat reduced, the con- sumers’ bills era greater than ever, as the meters no doubt have been made to reg- ister fast so as to show a larger quantity of gas consumed. The resultis that the citizons of New York have organized a society to resist the extortions of the gas companles. AX attempt is being made by the legis- Iature to create additional dlstrict judges. In this, as in almost every other eflort in the leglsiatura, no.attention is pald to the state constitution, Upon the subject of district judges the constitution, in section 11 of article 6, saya that “‘the legitlature, whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each house thall concurthercln, may, in cr sfter the year 1880, and not oftener than once in every four years, increase the number of judges of the district courts, and the judicial districts of the etata,” Now, the legislature of 1883 @id increase the number of district judges and courts, and, conseguently, the present legislature cannol legally do so, 1t will be seen, therefore, that the num- ber of judges cannot be legally increased under the constitution until 1887, Tur raid on the state treasury by genu- ine burglars was more bold and manly than the raids that have been attempted by all sorts of clalmants, by means of re- lief bills and other ingenious devices, The burglars took chances of punishment and got it, while the bogus claimants es- caped without afscratch simply because they adopted the polite method of raiding the treasury. The difference between the two kirds of ralds is but very slight, as the object In each 1s to get hold of the people’s money. The burglar pro- ceeds by foroce, while the bozus claimants and lobbylsts employ etratagem, deceit and treschery to acccmplish their ends. One is about a3 honest as the other. Tre Oklahama toomers have reorgan- ized, and will march on the 5th for the ooveted land., Mr. Cleveland, as com- mander-in-chicf of the srmles of the United States, will no doubt be surprised to find a war on his hands at the very start of his administration, HERE AND THERE. ——1I was pleased to learn that Roland Reed, the jovial, rollicking comedian, is meeting with splendid success, and is on the road to fortune, There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, and when Reed secured Gus, Mortimer as his business manager he struck it. Mortimer is an old-time manager, and thoroughly under- stands all the ins and outs of the business. He “discovered” Reed in about the same way that J. M. Hill ‘‘discovered” Denman Thompson, Mortimer eaw tbat Reed had talent, but advised him to travel for a while in a subordinate position as comedian, before attempting to ster. Reed, like a sensiblo fel- low took his advice, and acquired valuable experience, and to-day he stands way up among the funny fellows of the staga, Mortimer and Reed recently divided $20,000 between them as the profits of last year's business, Reed is yet a youvg man, full of life and ambitton, and poeseesed of that per- sonal msgnetism which attracts persons to him whether on or off the stago, and makes a host of friends for him wherever he goes, He has a bright future, Tremember that it was only four or five years ago that he went flat broke on a starrivg trip 1o this part of the country, simply because he was badly man- aged and had no idea of business himself, ~——Mr, Touzalin has resigned the vice- presidency of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Feo road, and will retire from that company on April 1st. 1 hope there isno fooling about this, as Mr, Touzalin will probably re- turn to Omaha and make his future head. quarters and home here. o has large prop- erty interests in Omaho, and has always had the most unbounded confidence in the future of the city, Mr, Touralin is a man of wealth, education, excellent business qualifications, and energy and public spirit, We want more such men as Mr, Touzal in Omaha, o ———Mile, Rhes is said to have made a fwill directing her body at death to be cremated, and half the aches to be deporited 1n her na- tive Belginm and half beside tho remains of & friend burled in Nebraska, Now thisis Rheally serving up a great actress on the half-ehell, as it were. Will some one please tell us who Rhea's dead friend is? Perhaps there is some touching romance connected with this grave half-and-hali affair. ——Neally Stevens, so well known in Coun- cil Bluffs and Omaha, gavea concert in San Francisco last evening, It will please her wcany friends to lgarn that the accomplished pianist is makiog ber mark iu the musical world, ——1id, Howe, who used to be a printer in (Omsha, is makiog an enviable reputation. When be left Omaba some seven or eight years ago, he went to Falls City sad pub lished the Little Globe for a while, His next move was to Atchison, where he has eversince remained and flourished, His natural wit, combined with his industiy, perseverance and good habits, made his Atchison Globe a very populsr little paver, appreciated In its local field, and frequently quoted by more pretentious journals abroad, His lewsure time—snd he must have stolen the Grst experiment I this line, “The Story of & Oountey Town, " was refuscd Ly several publish ers but was final'y accepted by oveof the lead. ing book houses of Boston, It has been very favorably raceived—in fast 1t is a provonnced success, it haviog roceived extended and very favorable criticlems at the hands of the most prominent journals and megazines in this country. He has recently put before the pub- lic another work of fiction, “The Mystery of the Locks,” which is attracting agreat deal of attention, Mr, Howe has been given a warm welcome a3 & new writer in the field of Amer- fean fiction, and we predict for him a literary fame that will bring him a fortune. Another newspaper friend of mine, Will D. Eaton, is, as I am told, prospering i Washington, where he is the correspondent of several papers and engaged in other liter ary work, hia income from which amounts to $5,000 a year. I remember when Eaton worked a3 a job printer in Omaha, and_ocons- fonally contributed to the local pross, When- ever a contribution of his appoarad everybody wanted to know ‘‘who wrote that piece”—it was 8o funny, When Eaton lsft Omaha,after he had acquired the art of shorthand in his epare time, he went to Chicago and secured & position on the Inter-Ocean,on which paper he did excellent work. He drifted over tothe Times and soon became dramatic and musical critic of that paper, This gave him an opportunity o make use of his wit in writiog a funny play, “All the Rage,” from which he derived a handsome income whileit ran, But the trouble, as Gus Mor. timer, ono of the oldest theatrical managers inthe country, told me, was that Katon's play was a little ahead of the times, Just at that period peoplo had an appetite for some- thing heavy—thoe “logitimate” —tragedy—and such like, but had Iaton withheld his play until now he wonld have made an immense success of it, Severing his connection with the Times, he took hold of the Herald, but not recelving what he considered fair treat- ment he quit that paper, and finally wont to the nasional capital. ——By the way, Kent—everybody in Oma- ha knows Kent—who started for Alaska some woeks 8go0 to carry out his long-cherished schemo of revolutionizing that odd corner of Uncle Sam’s domain and establishing an inde- pendent republic with himself as chiof execu- tive, is now at Laramie, where ho has hoisted his name as editor of the Boomerang. He proposes to romain thero long enough to re- store to that paper the famo which it acquired under the administration of Bill Nye, who brought it into existence and nureed it through its infancy, Incidentally I am compelled to remark that it will be a cold day when Kent takes possession of Alaska. ——Mondy and Sankey, the tamous evang- elists, are booked for threo daysin Omaha, about the middlo of March, They will hold their meetings 1n the roller skating rink or in the Baptist church. 1t has been a long time since Omaha has had a first class revival—not since the days of Mra, Van Cott—and T hope the advent of Mossra, Moody and Sankey will have beneficial effect not only upon re- ligion but local politics, 1 would suggest that they preach roform among our politici- ans, 5o that we can entertain some hopes of securing a clean-handed administration of our THE FORECAST. The Work 0f Congress far tl Presart Week, Coinage Critioized in Political Circles. and Commerce too Freely, The Democracy that M. §Uicveland save His Opinion so F Sorry oly in Advance. THE FOREOAST, WasHivaTos, March 1. center in the senate committee on appropria tions and in the conference committeo., former have t of the sundry to the renato at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. The bill has been considerably changed as respects the amounts, but no conspicuous featuro has been added. The deficicncy bill will s taken ub by the oub committee to-morrow morning, and it is expectad that it will be reported tothe senate on Tuerday. The fortification bill then will bo_the only romaining rogular anuual approprintion bill untouched by the senate, It contains very fow iteme, aud will be quietly dispoeed of on Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. The bills in conference are, pensions, army, postoffice, Indian and legialative bills, Tao first two contain no conspicuous features of difference, aud the conclusion respecting them will be easily ranched, The conference upon the postoffice bill are holding their first moot ing this ovening, and expect to agreo before the adjournment, upon everything except the wo-called subsidy slause, upon which the sec ondconference will doubtless be required. The legilative bill hay dean_ngread to by the conferenca with the excaption cf the provi jon of clerka for the seuators; and it is ex pected that the house will recede_from its po- sition in this _regard, as it did last year, The Indion ' bill presents difficulties, the solution of which at this time will be foresoen. Amendments relat- ing to the amendments of the various appro- priations have all boen incorporated in the measuro by the house js stilat issue, and neither party as yet manifests any disposition 10| the rates fixed by congre:s consit Cleveland’s letter on the Silver|pr And is the All Absorbing Topic Its Probable Effeot Upon Trade |mgte Skould it be Coined and Issued The important | to restore to its coinage such silver interests during the remaindor of the session | 1egal tender in payment of said bords, Tho y finished the consideration [ Puhlic crevitors, 1 bill, and it will be reported | TiE or1y payable in gold, The silver mon feel it thelr solemu duty to enter their most emphatic dis- sont at the very cutset in thediscussion of the question, No'wuch obligations exist or over did exist, Webster said. *gold and i legal standard of value in this country neitheir congress nor any stato has any an thority to establish any other standard or to displaca this,” e set to strengthen the publis eradit, ap. oved M 3, 1869, wolemnly pledged the United States the i PAYNENT OF THE BONDS IN COIN, The refunding act of July 14, 1870, provid- ed for the payment of all the refunding bonds in coin, of their present standard value, which in the samo as their present value, ‘The re sumption act of January 14, 1875, provides that from and aftee the 1at of \Jannary, 1579, the sceretary of the troasucy sRould redeem in coin the outstanding logal tender By the act of February 28, providiog for the resmmption of the coinage of the standard dollar. Silver dollars were made a legal tender for all debts and dues, public and private, unless other- wire expresaly stipulated I the contract, and there is not a public oMigation outstand- ing and never wascontaining the stipulation of Ma paymontin gold. InJanuary, 1875, congress adopted the following concufrent resclution offered by Stanley Matthewe, then senator, .| now on the suprome beuch, that all bonds of the United States fssued cr autitorized to be isued under said acts of congreas, herein- before recited are payable principal and inter- ost. at tho option of the government of the United ~ States in silver doilars of tha coinage of the United States containing 412} grains, each atandard silver. And that 08 A8 & the violation of principal and interest is not 10 th nor in derogation of the righta of public JON OF THE SECRETARY OF TREAMURY, S down are reforred to s authovity., The opintons of tho secretaries are valusblo, when supported by facts and sound reasont, but ought not ta control unless they are. from 1 o ——— The [B'nai B'rith Charitable Society. Niw Yorg, March 1.—The B'oai B'ritih Chyritable society which meets every seven yenrm, was orgavized ot Tammany hall to day. It is comprised of delegates from eaclt of the nine lodges in Germany and the 825 in tho United States. Philip Stein of Chicago. was made pormanent chair Vico presi- dents and secretarios wore 1 and the metting adjourned ect til to-morros LOUP COUNTY. 1ts Resources, Prospects Towns, and New Correspondence of Tie Bee. Kext, Neb., February 27.—Loup county is located centrally in the great north Loup valley, forty miles from North Loup, the present terminus of the railroad. Loup county is a new county organized two years ago, c:ntalns about to recode. The houso conferences urge the | tWO thousand inhabitants, comparatively merits of the proposed logislation; whilo the |out of debt, is well watered by the North senate stands upon it rule which forbids new ; : s legislation upon appropriation bills, and do. | 1L0UE Tiver, which runs the entirs longth the Calamus claces, moreover, that the house propositions | northwest to soathwest; river runniog parallel with the Loup; involve tho viglation of wlomn_treatios with the Indians. The naval bill has not yet gone [ g+ to the conference, The senate amendments 51’5“"- aroels, G“fi" L) '“ll“)" B}“"‘i’ were discussed by the house committeo on ap- | 80d numerous smaller ones_tributarles to propriations to-day, and the latter, with two | the Loup and Calamus, The valleys of or three niuor exceptions, fuiled to con-|the Loup average from two to eix miles cur with the = sonate.. The differ-|wide, the soil the bast to be found in the erencen will all bo ewily huemonizod |yite! Tho Oalsmus valley is from one except tho provicions for the completion of b the monitors, and that for the armament of | 1O three miles wide, of a rich sandy loam, the new cruisers and gunboats. Very httle | underlald with immenss beds of peat, more bueiness, except the consideration ofthe | eaid to be of the quality for fuel. municipal affairs, —Two legal firms of St. Louis sent in a bill of 100,000 to the gas company for services in a recent suit, which reminds the Globe- Democrat of an incident related of a Ruesian count who was visiting in Paris, Ho went to a restaurant for dinner one day, and, on call- ing for his bill, found, among other itams, & charge of fifteen franca—threo dollars—for two peaches. *‘Peaches must be scarce,” said he, in astonishment, “No, sir,” replied the waiter, ‘‘peaches are not scarce, but Rus- sian counts are.” The G.-D, remarks that in the gas case it may be said that lawyera are not scarce, but gas companies are, This reminds ms of the landlord of & country “hotel,” who had but ono guest in the course of twelve months, and who put 1n an appearance on the last day of the year. The next morning he asked what his bill was, and was told that it was $1,500. *Do you charge all your guests at that rate?” the traveler inquired. *That was my rate per day last year,” said the landlord, “How many guests did you have?” “‘Only one, and that was yourself,” was tho reply. “'Oh, I see,” sald the victim, “you have to averago up in some way, and I suppose I'll have to stand it.” That's about the case with the St. Louls lawyers, They have had but one suit during a long period, and they are obliged to aver- 8go up at the expenso of the gas company, but I am led to remark that as between the legal fraternity and gas companies 1t 18 ahout astand-ofl, Tho customers of the St Louis gas company will have to pay that legal fee, if the company knows how to work the me- ters, and I rather think it does, appropriation billa is to bs expected from the | The valleys of the emaller creeks extend DEs ool Loongren though . the friends of | back into the hills. The valleys fare not several important measures in the House wi e ile, endeavor t‘L’) secure action upon them at this 80 very wide but are YOy, feriile, compos- stage of the session, It practically requires [ed of a rich black loam. The valley the unanimous consent for the passage of an |lands are undulating, and, water can be important messure, since very small mi- (had by digging from eight to thirty feet. nority may, by resorting_to parlinmentary methods delay or exhaust, the remaining time. Among measures likely to bo pressed upon the attention of the hiouse are the GRANT RETIRRMENT DILL, the bankruptcy bill, the educational bill, the ican pension bill and the national library bill, The committee on elections has signified its intention of pre sing the election contests, but there is a determined opposition by the min- ority, and fillbustering will be resorted to if neceesary to defeat their consideration. In the senate such time as is not devoted to the consideration of appropriation bills, will be taken up in disposing of the house bills upon the calendar, preforcnce being given to the pension bills, ~ The bill to forfeit certain lands granted to the state of Iowa to aid in the construction of railroads has already been uuder discussi>n, and will be urged to “action if opportumty cccurs, The $5,000,000 substi- tate for the usual river and harbor bill is in the hands of the senate committee on com- merce, and its future cannot be foretold. The friends of silver in the house, while at firat inclined to make a formal roply to the letter of Cleveland since it has been given to the public, decided at a conference held this evening to reply openly to parts of tho letter with which thiey agree. They say they did not invite controversy, but, on the contrary, were anxious to avoid 15, They also say that it was not until it had become known that a determined etfort was being made TO INDUCE THE PREZIDENT-ELECT TO COMMIT HIMBELY and_his_administration in advanca to the Gould side of the currency question. That they decided merely to ask bim not to com- mit himeelf until his cabinot was formed, and both sides of the queation could ba consider ed. They proposed at firat to send o delega. tion to presont their views to him, but after communicating with him, at his sueges@on, ~——The other day o ropublican in this city made o bot with a democrat that four months from the day of Cloveland’s inauguration ali the banks in the country would bs closed as woll asa larga number of other business houses and that two-thirds of the people would bo idle, This Lconsiderad a good bet, as four months from March 4th will be the dthof July. Dut here is a better story than that, which 1 saw in the Chicago Herald: “It was & bad thivg for the industrial - teresws of the country that Cleveland was elected,” remarked a man in 4 Monros strect saloon yesterda “Oh, that's al bartender, “T'll et you the drinks for the party that in_just four months from Cleveland’s inaugur- ation pineteen out of twenty of the business houses of Chicago will be closed up,” “Do you mean it?" “Of course,’ “Well, Il tako the bet.” “You lose. Cleveland will b Inangurated farsh 4, Four months from that day will be _“July 4, of course, Same old gag. Dut just one-thirteenth of the business houses in Ubicago are saloons, and not a darned one of ‘em wiil ba closed up July 4. Dollarsixty, please. The man that cracks old chestouty around here gets a taste of the worm. Dol- lar-sixty, I said, e —— BETWEEN THIS and INAUGURATION DAY You get pictures and Music Goods at al- most your own price. A. HOSPE MOVES 40 1613 Douglas and before that he offers Engraving at 25 per cent off, Plotures In Frames } off, Frames made up 20 off. Plush Goods 20 off, Artist Materlals at special low prices and pianos at from §50 to §100 less fhan lowest offered, Organs from $25 up. Worth doukle, Small musical instru- men's at cost. Hospe moves March 3rd, to Young's stand and sacrifices his goods to reduce stock, TS your eye,” replied the —— Mocdy marks his bible—it is an Ox- ford, Get one and read it for yourself, Quata Pablishing Co., Crounse block, they sent & paper rigned by neatly oue hun. dred members of the present cougress and members elect, to the next congress, No re- ply was necessary, they assert, and none was expected, They further say that while regiet- ting the step the president-elect has taken; in advance of his inauguration, and of the for. mation of his cabinet, they do mot pro- jose to have & controversy, unl t 15 forced upon them, Thoy - believe ever, in the independence of tho le branch of the government, and as will at all times maintain it They furni the following as a statement of their view “In the letter no distinction is made between While it i trae that eilver bullion, which is excluded from coinage and consequently from monetary use, 18 worth less (in ratio 16 %o 1) than 85 por cent of the gold doflar, Silvor coins, which are admitted to monetary use the same a4 gold, nrm-:\uul in value to gold coin. The bilver dollar will _exchage for a8 much as the gold dollar, It will even buy the guld with which the gold dollar may be made. France witha vulation of 46,000,000 and a territory not as arge as Toxas, has in circulation 8600,000,000 of allver with $850,000,000 of gold, where' we have but §200,000,000 of foll tendera of silver to over $600,000,000 of gold, ~ Altogether the $1,500,000,000 of silver coin at the ratio 153 to 1 are held in circulation in Europe, side by side, with $2,600,000,000 of gold of paper and silver together, including thesilver certifi- cntes, we Lavefless than 750,000,000, which shows that in this country there is more gold than paper and nearly three times as much gold as silver, With this provortion in_our currency, and with gold and silver equally a full tender for everybody, it is _difficult to understand why the secrotary of the treasury might not, if ho chose to do so, pay out more silver and less gold, OF cours, if while receiving into the treasury of the United States silver and sil- ver certificatea, gold or gold cor. tificates, ha pays out only gold, bis stock of old would dfu If, on the other haud, £0 ehould pay out more siiver and paper, snd loss gold, the character of the reserve in the treasury would COSTROL THE SECRETARY OF THE THEASURY, There would be no need of legal tender if oue who receives the money would be permit- ted to chose the kind that he will have. That silver and silver certificates displace gold is true, but unly as treasury or bauk netes dis- place it. The withdrawal of a hundred mil- lions of bank notes, or the issuance of & hun- dred millions, has the same efiecs of gold as #0 much in silver or siver certificates, Why s it mever been proposed to withdraw tue national bynk notes us a 1weans of preventing the expulsion of gold tothe proposition that there now exists, or ever have existed, under our copstitution obligations specifically . |to The bhills or divides between the valleys are high table lands and composed f o rich eandy loam and clay subsoll. The valleys in the hills are filled with a varioty of grasses which make the best of hay, and the hills are covered with a lux- uriant growth of grass making it the best grazing for all kinds of atock (n the world. ‘Wheat, corn, oats, in fact any kind of ce— reals grown in any country can be raised here. Corn yields from thirry to ninety bushels per acra; wheat from fifteen to thirty.five; oats, from thirty to seventy; all kinds of vegetables co well here. Loup county is stttled by an_intelligent, hardy, thriving and persevering class of ploneera who have tuined a barren waste into a paradiss. The town of Kent, the center of at- traction, is in the southeast of the coun- ty, containg three stores, ho- tol, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, lumber yard and feed barn, At Kenta magnificent bridge spans the north Sloux river, built by her enterpriewng citizons. This is the first and only bridge built westof Ord on the Sioux river. This bridge opens op direct communieation with sl the country north and west, mak- ing a dlrect route from Broken Bow and Sargent in Cus:er covnty to Ainsworth in Brown, and Valentine and Fort Niobracain Cherry county. Kent is on the great thorougfare from Grand Island 6nd Ord "to the Black Hills and he famoas ca't’'e country of the north, Thero ars many good open'ngs hers for business men, and s good wmill-tite for either arace «r current wheel power. Liter 1 indacemonts in town property will be given by the owpers of the town sito £ auy one locating a good business. A good locating agency is cstablisbed, and parties deeiring further information willeeceive prompt attention by enclos- ig & twocent stamp and sddress A, 8. Moon, A, M. Gurn- sey or D. H., Vanantwerp, The G. A, I. is well represented, 1hero being a good Post No. 96, in flourishing condltion, Almeria, in the center, eact and west, is 8 naw town that Is falrly on the boom and s destived to tako ils rank as a me- tropolis in the near future, and the coun- ty meat of Long county prospective, Ci. W. Steobl is the real estate and locating agent at that pointand will give all infor- mation by addressing bim at Fthuh place, . K, ——— FOR BALE, A RARE CHANCE F¥OR RICH OR POOR. 90 LOTS IN JOHN I. RED- ICK'S SUB DIVISION, Price from $800.00 to $1,250.00 per lot. 20 per cent down balance on long time, 12 MINUTES WALK AND FIVE MINUTES DRIVE FROM COURT HOUSE. These lots witl be torms until April 1st: served, This i the choicest and cheapest prop- erty that can be found so near the centor of business, 30 HOUSES WILL BE BUILT in his sub-division this Spring and_summer. Call at 1511 FARNAM ST and lot will be shown at any time, JOHN |. REDICK & CO, R GRAND SACRED CONCERT, The Musical Union will glve % Grand Concert st Boyd's Opera House to-mor- row (Sunday) afternoon at 3. Admlesion 25 cents TION. bove dinaae by 1 i w11 of fou offered on nbove First come first o T W