Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE--TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1885 LEOTION REFORM IN ILLINOIS Nesrasxa Crry feels indignant over|tract employers. The Jaw provides a “ El THE DAIEY B -‘JE- The election reform bill passed by the the effort of Gov. Dawes to delay the|fine of £1,000 for each person thus Im- Onana Orrion No, 914 axp 016 Fanwau St. Naw Yore Orrron, Roox 65 Trisoxs Buiwo- | Iarly for the elty of Chieago, in which so many frauds have been perpetrated at The | every olection for eeveral yoars past, The operations of ballot-box stuffers, re- 0.00 | Three Months 260 | peaters, and perjurers have become so frequent, bold and successfal that the respectable cltizens of Chlcago, enraged at the frauds committed at the last elec- 75 | tlon, resolved to appeal to the leglslatare for some remedial measurer. They gave inl all hope of n - IR KRR | 18 1 0 of e bvln 40 b S e Gl postfio s, The oo Their appeal KNG, Pablished every morning, except Sunday. ealy Monday morning daily published, in the state. THRMS BT MATL One Yoar..... Bix Months ... 5.00 | One Month. 1.00 The Weekly Bee, Published every Wednesday TaRS, FOSTRARD. One Yoar, with premium. .. One Yoar, without promium 1% Bix Mont) B CORRRATONDRN BUBTNRSS LRTTRRS. legislation. Milnols leglslature is intended part.cn. | orection of a government building Inthat | ported under contract. been It will be seen town with the appropristion secured by | that the Iaw prohibiting the importation Senator Van Wyck, Under the act of |of laborers under contract Is produotive congress relative to publie bulldings It 1s | of good results after sll, and If striotly necesssry that the state, whereln such |enforced will not only protect Amerloan bullding Is to be located, shoald cede Its |labor but will prevent much suffering on jarlsdiction over the site. Beoretary |the part of the vlotims of cheap con- Manning, who has control over all gov-|tractors who are endeavoring to continue ernment bulldings, addressed a lotter to | the villalnous system of white slavery. the governor for the purpose of ascer- taining whether the state had ceded such jurisdiction S Tur Portland people threaten to selze In rogard to the Ne-|yy iy whisky come'gmed to the Grand Army of the Republic Inthat clty. While that 1t would |\, bortland prohibitionlsts might possi- n response stated All Businems Letters and Remittances ehould be | vy varod by the passage of law, which, | Fedulre 8 speclal act of the leglslature. bly captare enoogh corn.juloe to start a addressed to THN Bea PUsLisniNG COMPAXY, OMARA. Drafts,Checks and Post ofice orders # be made pay Wble 86 the ordet of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING (O, Props. R ROSEWATER, Epiron r.%.%o:i .";B'o".f.:fl:‘.“:’«.l’.‘“' et this season. Is TuERE no law by which men who by a handsome majcrlty. own property on Farnam street can be stantial victory for the republicans. compelled to pat thelr sldewalksin proper | democrats did not support it, but on the pel 7 other hand attempted to defeat it by an been radly enfeebled. effort to prevent a quorum, GrxERAL GRANT'S momolrs will recelve | working of course under the influence condltion? ——— it 48 hoped, will work a much needed reform. Whether this new law will ac- complish the much desired result remains to be seen. It certalnly will not unless it is strictly enforced and a vigllant watch is kept upon the movements of the Wiri a long pull, & strong pull, and a | “gsng,” which seems to be almost frre- pull altogether, the grade of Harney and [pressible. Naturally enough the “‘gang” Sixteenth streets may be carried through | exerted every possible effort to deieat every election measure towards reform, but happlly the election law was carrled It was a sob- Inasmuch as that body will not convene until January, 1887, unless called by the governor In extra sewslon, the inference would be that nothing could be done towards the erectlon of the postoffice untll 1887. The Nebrarka City Press calls attention to the fact that the legls- latare passed a general law with regard to government buildings by which the state cedes jurlsdiction over any of them wherever they may be located. This law was approved by Governor Dawes him- self, but his memory in this matter, as in the care of the Tom Kennard claim, has In his last mes- sage ho recommended that the leglsla- wholesale liquor house, we venture to ssy that the men who have sipped the liquid from the same canteen will not suffer any sot-back in thelr enjoyment, owing tothe enforcement of the Maine liquor law. They will find “‘forty-rod” llquor lying around somewhere on thepromises. It iss notorlous fact that there never wasa time when liquor could not be obtained in some way In Portland. One thingls certaln, and that Is that there never will be another grand army reunlon in that olty. T e latest rumor concerning ‘‘Chinese” UL uka) ture ehonld settle Konnard’s swamp land | Gordon, whe was generally supposed to and Indian reservation olalms, and abol. | have been killed at Khartoum, {s that he more gratuitous advertlsing than any and directlon of tho Chicago gang. This ish the olalm agency, wheroas the pro- |8 a prisoner In the hands of the mahdi, other book ever P"““"“d;‘ The old ;;7“::' m::im:a ':n::“: ::‘:;::d : vious leglalature had already repealed the | who s keeping him In a seoret place. commander ls welcome to It, as every TR § T PeO: | 1w creating the agency, and Governor | This is welcome news to the hosts of ad- newspaper {n the land will gladly ald in|Pple a e next regular election, next Dawes himelf slgned the repeal bill, |mirers of the brave man. It is hoped the good work. fall. Tn all probabllity it will be adopted, notwithstanding the efforts of His excellency ought to have athatlt s true, forif such is really the private secretary who knows less about | case his release is only a question of time Tae Cheyennes, now in the Indlan the. democrats and thelr pl‘ofu'elm)ll military tactles, erpeclally cavalry mov o |and money, as the mahdl is no deubt territory, are reported to be uneasy and |strikers. However, thero ts a possibllity ments, and moro about the laws enacted |holding bim for a big ransom. The threatening to go upon the war-path, [of its defeat. 1t s rather unfortunate The regular army may yet b moro use- | that the Dill contalned this provision, than ornamental if these redskins attempt | because it gives the old gang another chance to obetruct and defeat reform in Why this loop-hol - s i :l:! W;:”Fe; cent date asserts that the present troubl avother hair-ralsing expedition. e electlons. Ir the clty council cannot have the [mitted to remain defeated next certainly can glve us botter cross-walks | If on that thoroughfare. in sidewalks on Farnam street improved, it |sowething we can hardly underatand. however, 1t should imme- | it can be re-submitted at each succeeding mshdl, so say the dispatches, discovered ] Gordon in a wounded conditlon, and now THE ARIZONA TROUBLE. that he is recovered it Is but very natural “Argonaut of a re- | for the mahdi to let the fact out, as he s o |anxlous to get the heavy ransom which he well knows the English government during his own administration. in Arizona arises from a plot of thieves | "° g . and rascally contractors to make money | ¥ill be willivg to psy for his release. by the presence of troops In that terri- | NO positive proof has ever been presentod tory, that the Indlans have been abused, that Gordon was killed. It was simply diately put down flat stones 1In place of general election until it is adopted. Thls starved, and deprived of their rights,and taken for granted that he was among the the rough granite blocks, which not only [ makes it pozsible for Its eventual adop- wear out shoe-leather but ara painful to | tlon, as 1t requires only a majority of the votes cast on the proposition, to say that 1t wlll recelve the votes of Ir the visionaries who want to plent |such democrats as belleve in honest elec- the olty hall on Jefferson equare would |tlons, and there certalnly are quite a exort {helr energy and influence towards | number of such persons among the dem- thin.soled pedestria the grading and improving of Sixteenth | ocrats. streat south from Farnam to the clty Sixtoenth street property. =Tne trouble with Omaha {s that she | ghall contaln about three hundred veters, 1t is eafe This bill provides for a board of elec. limits, they would contribute a great deal | tlon commissioners to be appointed from mora tovards incressing the value of [ both parties by the county judge. that the present outbreal fs the attompt | fallen. Tho story of his capture and de- of the Chiricuhus Apaches to esoape | tentlon is very plausible. from a prison reservation, as well as from i e starvation, which latter fact has been LIS EA 0 LA reported from time to time by General Crook, The Argonaut claims that since the organization of Arizora more white Ad Bk iy men have been murdered by white men tas: than have been killed by Indlsns, that ffl:nya.fl ‘;}‘:?‘5‘1‘.?: m:fi] ?;:lt.';:nt‘e;!foz mora horses have been stolen by white | may be rure that Mr. Blaine will never Remarkable Sinilarity of their Oa- reer 10 Politics, The | {hieves than by Indians, that drunken- |agsin be a candldate. He believes that i his chances are exhausted. Do you know,” ness has led to more assassinations and said he, that Blaine has & queor beliet killings then have the Indlan wars, and|ahout his future based upon the marked that nine-tentks of all the stories of In- |similsrity in the career of Henry Clay and has scattered her business over too|and after each presidentlal clection if dian outrages are unadulterated lies de- | his own? Early in life both went from much ground. property greater value. Instead of ecattering. thus prevent frauds. In Denver, Kansas City, | any of the precincts shall have more than Minneapolis and Si Paul the public|450 votes a redlstribution shall be made, bulldings and business blocks are located | This in itself is a commendable featare, closs together, thus making a compact | for this limit'of votes will glve every voter buslness center, and glving busliness | an opportunity to get in his ballot, and From now on |enable the judges and clerks to far- Omsha should centralizs her business |nish the count early In the evening and The Uberately manufastured by whito thioves, | thelr :;g:;lffi;;; 1] PRtk Bok army contractors, speculators and kindred | gtate Legislatures. Mr. Clay was Spesk- planderers, for the purpose of robbing-|er of the Lower Houte in Kentucky. the Indians. In view of this lamentable | Mr. Bllinalt:llsd a nfillla&?"'l“"fl in the Maine Legislature. Mr. Clay was a mem- :;:teh:;.g\:l:z:: ?[n:l(l:z:":i‘lllt E;I::;':: ber of congress afterwards and served as g N | Speaker sixtoen years, Mr. Blalne was eral Crook’s troops a threshing, and thus | also a member of the House and served The judges and |y, onabled to dictate b Speaker six years, Mr. Clay was clerks are to bo taken equally from the A Lol P e a Mz, GERE, the head of the Nobrasks|two partles, and are to be appointed by railway commlesion, officlally announces |the commissloners, who shall also super- that the commisslon will take no notice | vise the registration list of voters. it i first elected to the Senate from Kentucky which their rights and immunlty from to Bl & vacanoy, Mr, Blaine wasap. peuec.utlon will be guaranteed to them. pointed to the Senate, but also to fill a This is certainly taking a very strong|yacancy. Mr. Clay resigned his seat in stand upon this matter. No aoubt there | in the Senate to accept the Secretaryship of charges of exorbitant frelght rates In|doing away of voting by affidavit will no f incy Adi Mr, t d of State from John Quincy ams. % any cases prior to the 6th of June. Mr. |doubt put an-end to wholesale perjury. ‘ll:; t:::li::::h:hml:::.::o:' ::s.:ad:: Blalne resigned the Senatorship to be- Gero Is undoubtedly afrald that the com- | Very strlct rules will govern the count mission would be swamped with work. |of ballots, and a returning board, con- Tt remalns to be eoen whether the com- | sisting of the county judge, clty attorney, ;i i defeated in convention. mission will take notios of avy cases oc-|and election commisalons, shall make | oo % Arizons. In bis anual re- carrlng after the Gth of June, of State under Garfield, of truth in the charges made with ;}:ac?:;r::r{hroa times the candldate regard to the {reatment of the|for the Whig nomination. He was twice He was finally nominated in 1844, but was defeated by port Gen, Orook stated that the Chirlcu- James K. Polk. M. Blaine was beaten the/ sfinal_onurass iwlthia fone Sweck | huss were peaceably Inclined and manl- | 4yie in the National Conventions, nomi- after electlon. Severe penaltios are|festeq s dlsposition to become self-sup- | nated In the third one, and was defeated TrE public has almost lost sight of provided for violations of the law. Dennis Kesrney since he settled down to the reapectsblo and lucrative business of keeplng a ple-stand In San Franclsco, Dennls has evidently tired of ples, and he now aspires to be a candldate for the |y, places, governorship of California. seif-assurance that s characterlstio of the great man, he predicts hils own election commended. in the most magnificent campaign ever t0o common to witnessed In that state, In|porting 1f the proper oncouragement by Grover Cleveland. ~Mr. Olay's letters addition to this election reform bill, an- wero glyen to them. They started in|°% the Texss queetion ara held to be a parallel In their evil effects upon the Sibes A o passed oz Cibe the BunBey well, and made considerable progress In|yriter to some of Mr. Blaine's letters. of voters ina precinct to 450, and re- | yying the goll, although poorly provided | The Abolitionists In New York in 1844 quiring the polls to bo located In respeot- | yith geed and {mplements. That they |throw their vote to Birmey and thereby This s intended to prevent | pave not been treated fairly by the In-|88Ve the State to the Democracy. It s clalmed that last year, if it had not been With a ; u‘le h°ldl:: ';.f :le‘“‘"mhl“ ] or ':'l':' dian department, and that they havebeen | g1 tho votes given to St. John, Blaine (THERTHE ANESOALILYS L1 ® | more or less provoked and plundered by | would bave carried New York, It has -become altogether | whitq thioves and contractors, in order | of New York declded the election in fa- run agin mill in connec- | ¢, make them th th, that tlon with the ballot-box, e s gt The vote vor of the Democrats in 1844, and again in 1884,” Mr. Clay wasnever & candi- and thus 1ot | g0 mantenanco of a largoforce of troops | e afier bis finsl defoat, and la belloved only get tho yoters drank, but also the| gy the territory would continue to be a | by Mr. Bisine's friends tEat ho will never TBZ“]‘{"mt:; no lack o: clomm ttl;h judges and clerks, who, sonson, If nothing occurs to njure the | condltion, aro not able to teo tho frauds |yhas such Is the fact, the (bility | didate. immense crop. Ascording to department | that are perpetrated under thelr very Fox il ’ il eatimates there are 18,000,000 acres of |noges, cotton planted this year. If thereshould |the leglalature to be an average crop the product would be primary electlons, over 7,000,000 bales, So big a supply [of course, ished falth of the southern planter in 1 King Cotton, oa o — WaiLe we are talking about the ne- cesslty of viaducts across the rallroad and fraud, nies enough right of way to compensate ments, and modern dopot bullding. If such a | feature ballding were erected at the foot of Far- nam, Haraey, or Howard street, the an- aonoyance and danger to would be cbviated, is the There 1s probably has suon wretched and Inadequate depot —_— while in that | necossity, is quite probable. Stlll another law was passed by | 1 ensure upon the shoulders of mercenary the| white wrotchos, whase ecalps ought to 1aw, | ornament the belts of Geronimo and his | Shrevepert (La.) Times, depending would certalnly swamp the market. But adoption upon tke acticn of the executive there aro many contivgencles between | gommittees of the polltical parties, If the sewlng of the sced and picking the adopted by the committee, cotton which are yet to bo encountered. | yand it, 1t is binding upon the party. The heavy acreage shows the undimin- is slmllar to the Colorado primary elec- With all these safeguards thrown around the ballot-box, electlons, especlally those In Chicsy ought to be very free from corrapt It is to be hoped that th il Seacks, w ahould not forgok that Oumahe | iy will ‘be snfor-ad 60 tho latier, ae | s oo huuloation with the trata dis. | ever profts socsue is largo enough to have a unlon depot. everything depends upon that, 8he has pald for the Unlon Pacifio depot m,yhe d:}“: in n,.:]. laws, p grounds and glven the rallroad compa- | gan be remedied by legislative amend- Experlence will show what | thom for the erection of & commodious needed in pm“ direction, it clostng polls at four o'clock In the aftern: This provision was no doubt inserted be- passengers f canep lection day Is to be alegal holiday, purpose, and we may scon look for a|ttate the labor of its convicts, it certain. but as it 1s not ta by \f k o Frops | | t that the state can not another clty of equal population that d:' :;: ru:lt ':u l:o:h::n:::u::;"; lh:ll:' revolutlon In the matter of train dis-|\Y, 814nds to rewn that tho s o There but they for yome appllance that would enable The worst on thousands of voters, especlally among | o1, and transter acoommodations as Omahs. [the working cluss, will be distranchised. |- =0 8¢ The ehops and factorles will not be closed moving traing Granting | agaln be presentod to the public asacon: The parallel between his career and that of Clay’s will probably remain unbroken. e e———— Convict vs, Free Labor, he present trouble rests in a large No sane person will contend that a state should not use the labor of its con. victs to produce at least sufficlent rev- A NEW departure In rallway telegraph- | enue to prevent actual loss, provided the its | followers, ———— aswe under- |y wag dlscussed at the convention of | system does not operate to reduce the wages of free labor, 1;:‘?111“1““"1": 1s hnlw can this be accomplishe o only Donver last week, The present systom |pathod by which it is possible to utilize of traln dlspatching by telegraph Is large- | the convict s> that he will not compete 1) railway telegraph superlntendents In the Illinols ly responsible for accldents which could |direotly with free labor is for the state iteelf to sssume dlireot control of the ol b e s e vk s (175 0 PSTOEIALIS o, pena If convicts are to patcher's office, For more than twenty [ be worked outslde of thaxonlunthq years eleotrloians have racked thelr brafns | they should not be worked for & less sum per day than the same class of free N labor can be employed, The leasing of them to golve this problem, Varlous de- | convlots is wrcng, both In principle and vices bave been gotten up at different | practice, and at no distant day this and i times, but they have proved fallures as Ofl‘l::, 'u:('l'fl:' u dbfl '?im“fi h‘;{: afz“:’rl:: 0] lon e emands o) *® they were too complicated or too costly. | Fborars to cancel thelr contracts with the 00D | At last, however, # simple and economic |lessees. If men can 1:01 immensely device has been perfected for this very | rlch 1n & short while by leasing from the manage and operate that labor so that By this arrangement It is|i¢ will be no burden to the taxpayers. constant communica- R ——— kept up between|Utes Threaten Trouble for Revenge, and the dispatcher’s| Fomr Lewis, Col., June 21~ It is ramored patohing. +|tlon can be Yousa KiNa Auronso, of Spaln, in|on election day, and hance the employes oftice, and also between two or more | this evening that six Ute Indians were killed splte of the protests ot his cabinet and | will be kept at work, and have llttle or moving tralns on the same track. by whites in the Dolores valley, The chief of the tribe to which they helonged is vary el frlends, proposes to follow the example [no opportunity of votlng. Workivgmen | now system will of courze necessitate o | oneaged and demands satisfaction, of King Humbert, of Italy, and person. | vote before going to work, and ally vislt the oholera-lnfected districts of [And when they quit work at bls domaln, His first visit will be to the | o'clock in the evening. o taglog the worst. His minlstry has re- |is not changed, to p algned on account of his determination to | the euspension cf busines: thus expose himself, but he neveriheless | are open, and providiog a heavy penalty peralsts In bis resolution, Whatever may | for any violations, The hour of 4 p.om., be the tate of the brave soverelgn he will | if election day is made a compulsory legal [covered in Castle Garden who were ever live in the hear'sof hls countrymen |hollday, would then be eatfsfactory. It|brought over from Belfast under con. as will also King Humbert of Italy, |strikesus that the election days in this | tract to work in s flax mill In this couniry | 0Pen to whese comforting vlsltations last year |country are of sufficlent lmportance to |for starvation wagzes, rumor proves true there will probably be at 1noon, | telograph operator on esch train, and will trouble in southera Colorado with the Utes, five or six | create a demand for skilled operators, It L ; It will be found | will also save the railroad companies a province of Murcis, where the plague is | necessary, if the closing hour of 4 p, m, great deal of money that Is now pald out law compslling | in compensatlon for damages arlslog from polls | accldents to life, ltmb and property, e ——— Joe Mackin Continucs in Charge, CHicaco, TlL, Jute 22.—According to an atternoon paper considerable indignation has boen expressed by reptusble democrats here shed call for primaries to select — teemen which is sigoed by SEVERAL emigrant girls have been dis- [ osev 1n, a8 secretary of the Cook couaty contral committee, o —— In Teheran, Persia, the tea hcuses are all he public, and even the tchools are exposed like the shops, often having shops on They have been|eachside 'The boys sit on their heels in rows smong the cholera patients won for him {demand that all busineas be suspended [detained, and will no doubt be used ag | 8ud repest the lesson after the master, appar tho admiration of the world, during the hours of voting, i : tly undisturbed by b tinual hub witnesses in the proeecution of their con- ;:h:‘::ln.rz:;d Rl e g AN - e I Ty RELATIVE TO RATES. The_ Serate Committce on Inter-State Commerce at Work, Bome of the Grievances Agairst; Transportation Companies Pro mulgated by Citizens ot Ne- braska — Sa! nce of thelr Testimony, The United States senate inter-state commerce Invest gatlng committee are having & pleasant time in Omahs. At the close of thelr afternoon sesslon yes. terday Senator Manderson bad carrlages at the hotel and took them out driving through the oity. They were much de- lighted at the beautifal sights presented everywhere and greatly surprited to find Omsha such an important metropolis. A reporter for the Brr met Senator Oullom yesterday morning and had a short but very pleasant talk with him. Said be, in response to an inquiry, **We shall re- main in Omaha taking the testimony we need until to-morrow night, when we will go to Minneapolls, and therceto St. Paul, After that, we shall, for a time dlscon- tinue the work, Yes, we hope to have the resalts of the Investigation In such shape that they can be lald before con- | T gross at Its next re-assembling. “‘The committee has met with good success thus far In {ta labors,” continued Senator Cullom. “In one sentence, the object we hope to attaln by this work s that enabling congress to regulate the laws which control Inter-state commerce In such & manner as to remove, as far as possible, all grievances which may now exlst, under present relatlons. To this end we seek the expression of representa- tive business men, professional men and farmera in all sectlons of the couu- try.” s The commlttee commenced the work of taking testimony yesterday morning, TAKING TESTIMONY. The committee met at 10 o'clock in the parlors of the [ Paxton Hotel. Nearly an hour was devoted to reading the Mzmdly morning BEE and waiting for somebody to put in an ap- pearance whe could tell them symething about Inter-state transportation and the relation sustained between the transpor- tatlon companles and the people. In the mean time Senator Manderson, and two or three others, busied themselves hunting up witnesses, and a fow visltors called. Senator Cullom chbatted pleas- antly with the reporters ard gave short accounts of the meetings held at Chlca- go, St. Louls, Springfield Missourl, and Des Moines, Iowa. Finally about 11 o'clock, Senator Man- derson appeared, bringing with him Mr. N. B. Falconer, of thisjcity, who was in- troduced and glven an opportunity of relating his experlence with rallroads to the committee. Senator Cullom stated to him the ob- jects desired for hearing aby complaints he had to make. Mr. Falconer, sald in substance, that the great trouble in Omaha was caused by the pooling system among rallccads. “We think Omaha hss been worse used by the rallroads than any other town in the country. We are a city of 60,000 people, but are practically cut off from the outside world. This is partly caused by the bridge. Until very recently we haven’t had a single/ line rua- ning into Omaha. One resson for this ls that some of the directors owna large amount of 1and in Council Bluffs. The O, B. & Q. built a bridge at Plattsmouth but dién't have to ran trains into Omaha for two or three years, and it would secem seem that this alone was cause for inter- ference. Recently the C., B. & Q. has made rome arrangements to get hera,but they make neither better time nor rates, on account of the puol. This brings up another subject and that is the fast frelght llne business. It seems {o b nothing but an arrangement for the di rectors of the company to bleed the public and the railroad compan- ies. If any company wants to start 8 fast freight line from New York they can’s do it without permlssion from some railroad. The river bridge at. this point 1s owned and controlled by a company on the in- slde of the U, P. railroad company. Mer- chants exparlence great inconveniencs with the thipments over the alleged fast freight lines which /s owing entirely to the affillatlons ex!sting between them. Anocther trouble is the undue length of time ccnsumed in transporling goods from New York to Omahs, often r:quir- Ing fourteen days to get a bill of goods through, To bring euits for dama- gos would be a very expentive matter as the companles all belong in New York.” Mr., Falccner thought that he wou'd es- tablish a rate for freights, of so much per hundred over all distances Jong or short and put railroads as much under govern- ment control as the mails, In additlon to the schedu'e price of haullog he would make a price that could be agreed on for handling at depots, He would not allow the shipper to load and unload his own goods, because the greatest cxpense is created by stopplng cara too long, He would make the same rates for freights apply to all roads In the country, When asked whether this would ot effict a serlous discrimination agalnst roads that cost two .or three tlmes as much to bulld as other roads, Mr. Falconer answered that In almost every such case the expensive road had three or four times as much traffic to carry as the cheaper roads and by reaton of having so much more frelght to move, more than overbalance their profits, in com- parieon with cost of construction as sgainst the cheaper line, Mr. Falconer testified that Omaba, In his opinlon, is not what can be termed a very exteneive dlstributing center, as compared, for in- stance, with St. Joe, Mo, Mr. Falconer stated to the committee that he favorea the publioation of rates, the simploity of rebates and a provielon for classifioa- tlon of trains for haullag the different classes of goods. There is no redress for the wronge done to smsileshippers by reaon of apy injustices heaped upon them, for the reascn that all the freight lines are controled mene- urably, by the pool, therefore every ship- per isin the hands of this stopendous monopoly. A wholesale shlpperis de- terred from sulng for redress, because by eo0 dolng he would meke a mortal enemy of the railroads, and forever be shut off’ from recelving any speclal favors, The fast freight line system, he belleved, 13 the worst monopoly In the country, and thould not be recognized in any way. And, by reason of the pools, there is no competition between Omal ud Ohi- cago. Owing to the war between rail- reads east of Chicago the merchants here ree ive a great benefit from the low rates thas incurred, At the close of Mr. Falconer's falk the committee took a recess untll 2 o'clock. AFTERNOON SESSION, The commlittee met at 2 o'clock, but were compelled to wait half an hour for Witnosses. Charles F. Goodman, was the first man to appear. Mr. Goodm had notloed recently the matter of ola fiestion between eatern and western lires. On account of the changes made in thene classifications at Uhicago It Is not posaible to secure throvgh rates on many classes of goods. Especially is this so in the matter of glassware purchased at Pittsburg and destined for Omaha, He belleved that this ex's'ing state of affalrs fs an avil that should be remedied by government legislation, and that no dit- ference should be allowed to ocntrol vsrious sectlons of the country. The unit of rate thought Mr. Goodman ought to be made on the car load. Whether varlations in rates shovld be made on the number of car loads shipped, he hardly felt Inclined to glve an oplnion. In answer to Senator Culloms inquiry re- garding the system of rebates, and whether it should be allowed to exlst or be abolished, the witness replied that he belleved it would be bettorsu the whole country to have the rebate system abol- ished. The transportation ocompanies ought to make rates that would not re- quire glving rebates. As botween the re. tall and wholesale merchanti, Mr. Good- man could see no reason why one shounld be favored more than the other when their amount of shipments are equal. Mr. Goodman had heard some com- plainta from people in Nebratka that they were not being as well treated by the rall- s other states. This, he thought, came princlpally from merceants through- out the Interlor who are compelled to pay higher ral on goods shipped to them from Omaha than they can get from Chicago. This friction between the followed. In substence, he eaid: *‘¥ have given the question a good many yexrs' study, bat the progress of the coantry natoraily has brought about matiy new vhater, and perhups tome changes, in my own opinlons with regard to the proper course which should be pursued to:relieve the patrons of transportation compantes, and particnlarly the railroads, from the many abuses that are now existing and have existed. 1 take it for granted that congress han jarisdiction over all railronds in Q%m Unlted States, whether loosted within or without the beund- arles of a state, for the resson that any rallread, no matter how short, will assume to be a pabllo carrler for other railroads snd do an interstate busi- ness. To that extent congress will have jurlsdictlon. 1n as much as rallronds all pretend to carry on that kind of traffic, and do not confine themselves to the business within their termini, congreas has jorisdlotion over them. There are two classes of railroads In the country. The land grant roads, constructed with the ald of congrees and by its authority; and ordinary railronds which have been chartered by the states. The right of congress to rogulate rates has been par. tlally exercised over the land grant rail- ronds. Wo hahe & great deal more to do here with the land grant rallronds than the cthers, The two principal raiiroads in Nekraska, the U. P.and B. & M. are both land grant rail- roads Inreply toa question from Sen- ator Platt, asking what the Barlington & Missourl river rallroad was, Mr, Rose- water replied: ‘It was chartered by congress as one of the branches to inter- eect with the U, P. at or about the 100th rallronds and people, however, he be- [meridian, running from some point In lleved to be much less than it was a few | the western boundry of lows, across the years ago. The prinaipal trouble about | territory of Nebraska, and the right of this change In the schedule of rates again | way was granted by congrees, and the caueing a raite at Omaha for polnts west | road was bailt from Flattemouth, twenty s from the jaelousy exlsting between | miles below hers, to Kearney, where it t roads which Invade the country, |intersected with the U. P., but the latter against transferring from one to the|rcad denied itsright to prorate and to other. The system of pools he thought | the privileges accorded under the orlg- not a very bad evil, *‘Should a railroad [ inal ast, as Interpreted by that railroad. company be allowed to charge as much or | The Ohicago, Burlington & Qalney built more for delivering a carload of goods|this system from here ana when they at other than competitive points?”|found they could not get proper regula- was asked by Mr. Cullom, to which|tlon In congress to compell the Union the witness answered that he thought | Pacific to give them justico they finally they ought to charge as much. The|consiructed thelr rosd into Colorado greatest trouble arlsing from the brldge |and connected at Denver with the Den- at thls city is the delay it causes some-|ver & Rio Grande rsilwayand other times to recelving gcods. roads to Salt Loske. Now these two A BANKER TALKS. reads are our prineipal thoroughfares. Capt. J. H. Stlckle, a banker from | Wi{th the excaption of one other, all the Hebron, was the next gentleman inter- | other rcads are branches of these two viewed. Mr. Sticklehad his suggestions | rondc—that {s the Elk Horn & Missourl and complaints prepared in manuscript|Valley, owned by the North- to the printed questions sent him a week | westorn, They come cross ago by Senator Manderson. The wit- | the river at Blair and ness In substance answered as follows: ran to Fremont. Really, there are in 1—The people <f this state at the [ Ncbraska only three railroads, viz: the pol's last fall rejected the commlasioner [ U. P., B. & M. acd Northwestern, the system as tho best method of preventlng [ Missouri Pacific belng a part of tho extortion and enjust discrimination, be- | Gould system. The others are all the cause |t doos not work to the advantage)branches of the other aystem and they of the preducers. 3 are all controlled by one of the companies 2—West of the Missourl river, local | named, 8o we are dealing principally with rafes charged for freight are slmply ex—|rallroads subject to the regulation of tortlonate. There is not so much com- | congress. plaint regarding through freights. When they were constracted originally 3-—Publicity of ralesshould berequired | there were no railroads In Iowa within by law; changes of rates wlthout public | 180mlles of the terhinus of Union Pacltic notice should be prohibited. As to the [at Omaha, and of course the change from best method of securing uniformity and | the staging system and overland traflic at stability of rates, the witness had no|twenty-five cents a pound to the rallroad definito suggestions to make. 4—The advleibility of maslmum or minimum rates are unquestlonably de- slrable. 6—The elements of cost should never include one mlll of watered stock. —Rebates and drawbacks ehould be entirely prohibited. 7—Pooling should be entirely pro- hibited by law. 8—Provielons thould by all mesns be mady by law for stcuring toshippera the right to salect the llnes over which to makeo their shipments. 9—I do not know what method can be adopted to secure a uniform system of rates for transportation, but doubtthe efticlency of the commissioner system, 10—Living so far from tide water we could not stand pro rata charges as it would reduce our farms to $2 per acre. 11—Cer'ainly no oconcessions in rates should be allowed to large shippers. The poor man should never be dlscriminated agninst nor the rich man favored. 12—Cannot say whether corporations engsged in Inter-state commerce should be required to adopt a uniferm system of accounts. 13—1t is desirable that ocorporations moke annusl reports to the government. 14—Tt is Important {o have a system of water routes for securing cheap tranepor- tation. 15—Inter-state commerce should be regulated by law and not by a commis- sion, ‘When asked by Senator Callom to give a digast of the Nebraska law, Mr. Stickles sild that it was called the Doan or the Tab law, eo cilled in illustra‘ion of throwing a tub at the monopoly whale, The Jaw, he considercd, was of no benefit, There has never been any prosecutlons for violations under it. The committes was furnished by Sena- tor Mandorson with a copy of the Tub law to examine at their lelsure. The new commirsloner Jaw not having been publichcd yet, Mr, Stickles could not tell wha' results wi'l be obtalned. The rallroads, sald Mr. Stickles, run this state and have for seventeen years. They kave run It through legislation In their favor. The rates charged are sim- ply extortlonate and the common peovle are heartlly slck of 1t. From Omaha to Grand Island the shippers pay b and 6 cents per ton per mlle. The rates In this state, he thought, ought to be in propor- tion to the rates between Omaha and Chicago. One great trouble and impcsition the people experlence 1s & refusal on the part of all rallrcads to travefer frefght from one to the other without back charges aze first pald. Mr. Stickles belleved that the Reagan bill, Introduced In congress, would satlefy the pecple of this state, Mr. Stickles is decidedly in favor of all peol and rebate systems being abolished, and that public system was a deeirable one. Though the rates wero extravsgantly high—soven cents per mile for passengers—Iit seemed to the people who llved here a great reliof. 1t used to take us a month to drive to Fort Kearnoy In wagons, and scmetimes required two and three months to reach the coast, hence when the Union Pacific was constructed It was a grest blessing to the country, even with the rates they charged. Bat ss the yesrs went by people began to think about this matter and compare the rates with rates paid elsewhere, and as the state began to be sottled and travel and traffic kep! in- creasing, thero was a preat deal of talk from time to time about getting some re- llef. Another thing, the U. P. road, after its first establishment, helng the only road to Californls, was mansged by s set of autocrats. They ruled this country, not only by controlling trans- portation rates, but otherwise. There was no one dared to go to congrees, or any other offics from constable up, that they did not direct, We have hed con- s'derablo reduction from time to time on the U. P., both freight and passenger, but these reductions have only come through agitation and through conflict, The quention has beer carrisd irom year to year from one leglelation to another, and from one convention to an- other, until at Jast, on the first day of this month, we got down to the three cent rate on passengers between Omaha and the 100th meridian on the line. Be- yond that it Is four and five cents, and some of the lccal rates are as high ns eeven cents. But up to two yents ago we had thefive.cent rate, and it was only demindingfleglslative reductlon that we have reduced taem. This rcdac- tion to threo cents was made by the last legislature. Nebraska was a territory whnen the B, & M. road was begun to be built. Then they had soma little leglsla- tion regarding the state’s donating to them an edditions] subsidy, They orig- inally gave them MONEY SUBSIDY and the state has 500,000 acres of lands donated for publis Improvement. That land was leglslated by the leglslature of 1he state then as a sub:idy for the last rallroad to be built, or under construc- tion at that time. The Burllngton was not entirely ccmpleted then and they necured their prorata of it, The early rallway from here to Plattemcuth was called the Omaha & Southwestern ani ancther from here north called Omaha & Northwestern, All recetved 3,000 acres per mile, and then, Independ. ent of that, almost every county through which they passsd was induced and bull- d'rzsd fnto voting them bonds 1n eddi- tlon.” “The charters are feom the Unlted States gevernment, so Nebracka has no power to alter thew,” suggested a notice should be given when any changes | member of the committee. are to be made In frelght rates. The corporations In this state, declared Mr, “No," continued Mr, Rozewater, ‘‘but when we adopted the new cocstitution In Stickles, are more powerful than the | 1885 we adopted a gocd many of the lll people, the handsof three men, unequivocally in favor of enforcing It, 15 would give satls- factory rellef With a tribunal that wou'd hear com- plaints from anybody and then prosecute such complalnts honestly and vigorcusly, some good results might be accomplished. In answer to a questlon asto whether congress should fix meximum rates and | the If the law of this state was in |features as to rallways, and no rallway was accorded the right to operate In the state of Nebraska withoutsubjecting itee f 10 all the laws of the state. The Union Paolfic railway, or its attorneys at least, belleved we had full jorhdicton. In 1871, as mansger of the Atlantic & _l’A cific telegeaph lines, which at that time was controlled <r owned in part by Un‘on Vacltie, I was elected to lot them stand, Mr. Siickles thought that | the legislature, and thelr gineral euper the shi] better as the sate cf affalrs are mow. Wh ther the questin of regalation should pers and producers could stand it | Intendent to introduse a bill authorizing the Unlon Gon. Stckle asked me Pacific road to collect and receive tol bo delegated to congress or the people, | over its rallway biilge at Omaha, and its the witneas thought that senators and|wagen bridge, as at that tlme they representatives were engeged too much |thooght it would be a wagon as well as a in looklng after thelr own comfort. rallroad bridge. That bill was intoduced Maximom snd minimum 1ates would |and we made It under one provito. The probably be of such elesticity that tathis|origlnal proviso was that the company factory changes might be made on any |should chrge s:0h toll as they from tlme olaes of r ad, whether expensive or cheay, |to time should fix. c.mpany should cherge such tolls as the mayor and the citv councl of Omsha in its constru:tion. SOME HISTORICAL FAOTS, 1 put In that the Mr, Edward Rosswater, of the Ber;|elold from time tJtime fix, "That bill