Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BI Owana Orrion No. 914 A¥D 916 Fansan St Nnfi{m Orvion, Roou 8 Trisoxe Buro [ KA. Investigating the railrond quest on, has failed t> receive infoPmation on & cery impertant subject, vamoly, the chief re ason for the long, persistent &nd malevolent attacks om the rail One Year. .....8 210 | way comprrations of Nebenska by & mumber of | U Six Montha . e 1OV oonle calling themeeives anti-menopolists. The Weekly Boe, Published overy Wadnesday L4 o ain oditor has informed them that at Published every woming, Swodey. “he enly Monday morning dally I tho state. k& 8200 . 1% | Pacific and the Byrlington & Missour on the | o 78§ question of pro-r ata, but that editor omitted to state that out of that par#ular contention grew the railrcad pelitics which have been an | b One Year, with premtus. One Year, whhout premium 8ix Months, without premi One Month, on trial, con is All Communioations relating to News and Editoris) one/time there was ‘4 strife batween the Unlon | aulminated In the overthrow of THE DAILY BEE-TIIURSDAY, JUNE 25, 188 e RATLROAD POLITICS YN NEBRA.S. | Omaba tor the Pacific coast traffic, The |it fs not asking too much of them to give Ksansas Pacifio has for years had prorsta, | us a union depot that will be a conven- The Republican has noticed that th,0 sentts | and Kansas city bas had equal facllities committee at prosent engaged in “chis city in { with Omaha ience to the public and our own oltizens. ever alnce that road| With a proper understending among the was swsllowed by the Union Pacific ana- | rallronds that center here, a union passen- conda, suffered by that prorata, who bat the|would accommodate all the roads, If Omaha and Nebracka have|gerdepot conld doubtless be erected which The nlon Paclfic 1« responsible? Unlon Paclfic of course must te the main But we digress from polltical history. | factor, snd that company is more Inter- he pro rata fight of 1876-77, which| ested than any otherinsuch a depot. Jay | The dangerous appronches to the present ould's satraps in the senatorial contest, | depot are in themselves an Incentlve for & o thing of the past. So is Boss Kim-|change of location and reconttruction all's Waterloo In Senator Van Wyck's| Even if the proposed viaduots ars con- watters should be addrossed 4o the Eorron or mis | unmitigated cares to the people and to the | trlumphaut electlon, but the anti-monop- | structed the present depot will alwaye bR FORINESS LETTERS. All Business Letters and Remittanoss shoald be wddressed to Tin BRR PUBLISAING COMPAXY, OMATIA Drafts,Checks and Post offios orders $9 be majle pay ble to the order of the company. THE BER PUBLISHING €0, Praps E. ROSEWATER, Eprron, of this state. The pro-tata|ol n h corporations scheme was the spawn of a railrond com pany which at that time zought to break down the Union Pacifio,;not by open competition, but by unjust avd inkaleal legislation. For the purpose of passing that legislation thy rond secured the wervices of the Nebraska A. H. Fitch, Manager Daily Ciroulation, 6. Box, 488 Omana: Neb, member of the national house of representa- . 0, Box, maha, J tives (who introdnced the pro-ratajbill) and enlisted the editorial and political aesistance Founra of July oralors aro respect: | ¢y jidward Rosewator. Threatened in fally referred to tho proceediogs of the | ghys way the Union Pacific fought in defense 1lilno's legialatare forfipatriotis ammunl- | as best it could, doubtless appropriating to it- self woapons similar to those employed by ita S enemeos. Necessarily the battle was waged Tuens will be a small demooratio pin- | In this state with even more frenzy than in feather In the eagle this yesr for oratorial [ Washington, and “sides” were formed, which, plucking —the first In & quarter of a|to an eminent degrco, remain to this oentury. dey,—Omaha Republican. : & Thera is just enowgh truth injected Now that the olty council hss perma. | into this statement to make it plansible nently located the olty ball, it 1s hoped | to those who are not conversant with al] that all obetractions will cesss and that | tho facts, This chapter of political 'hll- worlk will be begun cnt the building this | tory, inspirod by Mr. Thomas L. Kim- tion. B season. ball, was not, however, Inserted for the ly istues still sucvive. The B. & M. 18| remaln an eye-sore and a sonrce of dis- 0 longer an ally of antl.monopoly, but|comfort and complaint. Itscems to us a8 made common cause with the Unlon |that no better time conld be choson than Pacific on many oceaslons in folst-|now for taklng the preliminary steps ing nors, leglslators and dragon’s teoth which Thomes L. Kimball, |is the practical reduction of the pretent John M. Thurston, Captaln Phillips and other pofitical railroad bosses hr.ve sown | from one-halt to one ounce, upon which broadeast have risen like armies from the | the present rate of two conts will be soll, and men like Adame, who deprecate these methods, | 1883, the letter rate on oach half ounce are now taught to belleve that “‘the long, |or fractfon thereof, was reduced from persletont and malevolent attacks on the | throo cents to two cents, and under the rallway corporations of Nebraska by antl- monopollsts” are chlefly respenaible for|two cents on each cunce or fraction the multitude of enomies which the rall- roads have made, upon Nebraska Imbeclle gover- worthless and incompetent and dlsreputable unpricipled copgressmen. toward a union depot. ond| THE most Important of the postal The | changes that ¢ tnto effect on Jaly 1st, ratoon letters by Increasing the welght Charles Francls | charged. Under the act of March 3, act of March 3 Iast the rate Is fixed at thereof. The loss that will resolt from this change will possibly be made up by the moro general uso of the sealed en- KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.|volopes for overweight inclosurcs, which STATE PRESS COMMENT. Was a sailor for nine years, Between 1861 and 1870 he was edltorlally con- nected with the New York Evening Post, and sabscquontly served as correspond- ent of the Tribune of this city. He has Nebraska City News: The Omaha Re- |baen the Washington corzespondent of publican ts getting childish, Its editor |the Herald for many years He ls the has etarted a five-cent fund to pay the |author of many woll-known books, prin- judgment of K. Roewater, but so far |cipally on marltime subjects. has rocelved no subscriptione, Pay up| Frank G, Carpanter, the chief of the like men, and quit yonr sqealing. Washingion bureau of the OCleveland Papillion Times: The Omaba Repub. | Leader, eomes from Mansfield, 0., and lican has brought eult for 810,000 dam- |18 about 30 yoars of age, He has been In inst Jim Crelgl i t|iurnaliom “elnce hia schosl daye, bas The Oaha board of pibile. worke, for | travelod extonsively in the United Sates, libel. Crefghton is a demoorat, which Europe and North Africa, aud has con- will give & politioal aspect to tho oase, | tributed historical and decrlptive artl- The part; 113} joi i cles to prominent papars in this country wil Brotuly i me1oHty of the Jury | (G4 {0 all tho lenting magaz'nos. Ho s That Libel Salt and the Lesult, Kobraska Oity News: Tho libel auit of E. Rotowater ve, Nye and Yost is onded, and a verdiot of $100 returned in favor of tho plaintiff. Oar fat friond of the Republican will not bs 8o anxions to republith angthing he soes in regard to an enemy. Rosewater made n good well known throughout the west as the writer of tho gossipy *‘Carp” lottors In the Loader, from Washiogton, and is an oceasional contributor to the columns of tho Mall and Express of this city. He has a wide acquaintance with the public men of this country and sn accurate fight and won. Givo the devil hio daes :‘:I‘g’j'g;;‘g"' st oo Humbolt Sentinel: Editor Rosewater, | Edwin Atwell, correspondent of the of the Omaha Brr, some tlme ago.|Graphic, is only in his twenty-sixth yoar, broaght an action of libel agatnst the pro- | bat has had an oxtensive joarnallstic ex- priotors of the Rapubllcan of thet city, [ perience. Bora in Oonnecticut he re- clarging them with oalling him a confed- | selved & colleglate eduostion and his erate apy, and on Friday! last the jury | ¢iprentice hand” was exercitel by edit- gave the {nvincible Bee man a verdle: for ing the monthly sustained by the stu- $100; which refates the charge although|dente. After his graduation he becams it doce not enhanco Rosy’s wealth toany |4 reporter on the New York Exprets, great extent, from which he went to Boston to assume North Platte Telegraph: ‘‘Rosey,” | oditorial charge of the Star. Gravitatiog the Irropressible Omaha Bee man, got a |back to the Empire state he was ap- verdiot of damages in the amount of 8100 | pointed managing editer of tho Albany from Yost and Nye, for libel last week. [ Argus. Next hs saw servica on the New The defendants heve copied an article | York Star, after tho suspenslon of which from a country paper which alluded to | he became 8 membor of the Graphic's Rosowater as a confederate spy and |staff. failed to publish a retraction, hence the Ben. Perley Poore, of the Providence COLD FACTS. Contimnation ¢f Mr. Rosewaler’s State- mint 1o the commerce Committee. He Tells of the Efforts that Have Been Made by Nebraska People to got Legislation, At the sesslon held Monday evening by the United States senate inter-state commerco Investigation committee, Mr., Edward Rosewater, of the Beg, contin. ued his afternoon statements, and eald: 1 have cited ina general way the oauses of complaint here, but I have not dwelt at any length upon the cfforts we have mado to got legislation, Our con- etitution of 1875 contained certain provi- slons which made it obligatory upon the leglelature to enact laws prohibliiog dls- orimination, but the present conatitution mys upjast dlscrimination, and aunthor- ized them to, If necessary, establish maxlmum rater, and required them to prohibit pooling on parallel lines, and authotized them, In the enforcement of all railway regulations, to go so far, If necessary, as to require the forfelture of the franchlscs already granted by the state. While there have been since 1875, I thiok, st least five succeeding legla- latures (we have blenial sesslons) there has been, I think, cnly one practical at- tempt av legislation, that is the first bill over passed and it Is the only one In the statute here; it is called the Doanc law. This was a bill introduced by Stata Sen- ator Doane, of this city, That law in its general provisions was in conformity with The peoplo of Nebraska who have been | havo hitherto boen sent at omo cent atsured that they ara to have rellef from |an ounce unsealed, as fourth.clats rallway abuses thrcugh the rallroad com- | matter, However, the ounce rate mission may as well make up thelr minds | wiil be an appreciably convenienco to that they will remain at the mercy of the | the public. Another Important change railway managers for at least two yesrs|is that authorlzlng the issue of a special longer. They need only read the follow- stamp of the face value of ten cents. Ing synopeis of Commissioner Gere's tee- | When In addltlon to tho lawful postage timony befora the United States senate | this apecial stamp Is attached to a lettor Interatate commerce committee as pub-|the delivery of which Is to be at a free lished Fn the Unlon Pacific organ, the delivery office in any place of over 4,000, Lepublican : 1t shall entitle such leter to immediato euit, Journal and Boston Budget, was bora Crelghton Pioneer: Edward Rose- | November 2, 1820, on the parental home- water, the editor of the Omaha Bk, hay |stesd—"Indian Hill farm,” at Newbury- been vindlcated in a recent jury trial ina [ POrt, M He stlil owrs it. Recelved fnet the Omab: lican, In |® parlisl academic education; ran awsy to (B¥ ¢ 5 z:;&%ng:onluiepllx%llc:!‘xlg:!ll{l:’p:b!?;?y m‘: THAFHE® HIEERR 47 (FNBTE WANENGHS 65| %0 the let'er; but they lived up to It with Rosewater served as a confederate epy Paris for education as a lawyer; practiced :;e?‘goi:‘:ekeg’::;y "hx::t:ge 0‘:‘;“‘1?; ::[ during the war, and that he was a man of |8t New Orlcave; became a writer and chl[:"l.' NSRBI S EBHRE Lyr atate fairs no character. Mr, Rosewater appealed |then a journsllst, golng to the eapltal Wlth"[ufi transportation rn‘tyrant the same to the courts and hss been vindicated, |8bout 1844, He was for thirty-five years | o 000 on (fi-ofn ordinary sbippers for and it's enough glory for one doy, . |connected with the Boston Joarnal. [EHCO SRRIG T OFCRATY SDIPD Shelton Clipper: In the case of 1o [Served in the civil war as major of the Q Well, could they? B Rosewater, of tho Omaha Beg, sgainst [ Bighth Massachusctte. He is a prolificf 5 ylpioy they ocould have made a the Omaha Republican for publishing an and able writer, and in addition to Innu- . merable stories and magazine articles has the conatitu'ion, but 1t was assailed as beiog tmpracticable, inoperative, unjust, extravagant, etc. The rallroads declared in a general way they would live up to it S—————— purpose of enlightening the inter-state Presiverr Craveraxy fs evidently a(committee about Nebraska politics, be- very considerate man. He does not wish | cause the committee had left Omaha the to call hir political frionds to Washington [ night before the articla was published. durlng the heated term. It will prob:|It has been manufactared for home con- ably be a ‘‘heated team” all the yesr|sumption ard is designed especlally for round for some of the boya the ears of Chatles Franols Adams. It == was written for the purpose of justifying T petition asking the city coancll to | the conduct of the former administration act with & committeo of citizans to pre-[of the Unfon Paclfic in making that cor- pare a plan for a general Fourth of July [ poration the prime fac in colebration was referred. This means Lor classification. The law does not require that the committee to which 1t was re- ferred will make a report some time after the Fourth of July. SrecuraTiox, like trade, s very aull at present. AWmmercial paper has figured out that the thousand active members of the New York stock exchange did not earn in commissions, week before last, on the racorded transactions In stocks and bonds, an average income cf over $60 each., Isn't it about time for the publication of the laws pasted by the last legislature of Nebraeke? The law requires that they should be published within sixty daya after the edjournment of the legie- lature. Itis now zbout three months since the sesslon was conclnded. There is no excuse for any such delay in this tmportant matter. ——— Tae Saturday half-holidsy is fast be- coming an established fact 1n New York, It Is estimated that on last Saturday at least 30,000 employes In that clty enjoyed 8 half holiday. All the large manufac- turing eatablishments are falling Into line in favor of the new departure. One firm emploging 2,000 persons In its va- rlous factoriis has sdopted the Saturday half holiday, begiaring at 12 o'clcck, and with a commendable liherallty makes no reduction in waces for tie half duy thus glven to the working men asd women. This is a movement thut iy bouad to grow In popularity and extoud to all large cltles. ———— Berore avy paving is dene on Thir- very properly in adopting the report of obstruction {s removed. The B, & M, span is ove hundred feet long, and there | remove the machine shops from Omaha, | fort to dominate over Nebreska politics? Nebraska politios. The trath of history, however, must be vindicated even if it re-opens old sores and has to re-kindle the moldering embers of the politleal fires thet were at a white heat until a very recent perlod. Up to the year 1875 the people of Nebraska were dlvided only vpon party issuca and party lines. With the advent of Jay Gould and hls trasted political alter ego, Mr. Kimball, in the Union Pacific management, a new era began. The Unlon Pacific became not merely a public carrler, but a polltical force that exerted ite perniclous influence upon every quarter of the state. The Burlington’s avtempt to pro-rate for ita traffic at Kearney through congress may bave furnished some pretext for Mr. Gould’s mansgers In forcing the employes of tho rcad lato the political field, and using them pro- |, miscuouely like to meny Hesslans in |y T i 8l T n o t! fightlog pitched battles in conventlons | cessions over the smaller, but at the sametime and one of the eecretaries of the state’rallway commission, presented his viaws. rogretted that unavoidable circumstances render it impossible to obtain his full testi- mony, were in Nebraska, whether tho railways are paying robates here and showing cther favor- itisms. maintained that it was not. C. H. Gere, editor of the Lincoln Journal, | delivery, Such specially stamped lotters are required to bs dellvored immediately within one mile of any spectal dellvery office between 7 o'clock in the mornlng and midnight, This special stamp wiil Asked by whom he thought railway regula- | no doubt be quite freely used, especially 1t is to be tions should bo fixad, ho replied that the rail- | upon 'mportant letters. roads might do it themselves under the pro- visions of legislation and tho judgment of a ——— THERE are evidently no offensive par- ans among the republican office hold- ors in Omsha, At least they have not yet been disturbed by any charges that ailway commission. Senator Harris inquircd | ;. f tho witness believed tbat a commission hould have potentiary power to ropeal wrong uil exactions, If such a tribunal could not behad, he thought it improbable that the | would lead anybody to suppose that they ailway question could be settled, have been offensive to any one, not even Senator Cullom asked witness how affairs | to the democrats. This s a gratifylng etate of affalrs, and prima facle evidence Ho was doubtful about that; some | 13" they havemade s good record. omplained that such was tke case, and others ——— Asked if he| Goveryor Guick of Kansas, has In- hought the robato system fair and right, he | vited President Cleveland to visit the ex- posltion at Blsmarck, near Lawrence, In September. As the next presidential quivocated and said that he thought it just hat a heavy thipper should be granted con- and at the polls. But the real afm was [ vory phase of rates should be open, Asked | CWPAIgn I8 three years off, it is not to subjugato Nebraska and make 1t a|if this weromot a game of frecze-out against | very likely that President Cleveland will mere province of the Wall street dictator i with his overbearing political satraps domineering over the people through subservient lackeys in office. Ths first tfme that the Union Pacific politicfans showed thelr hand was not in the contest over Bur- lington & Missourl pro rate, but in the historic contest over the narrow-gauge railroad projected from Omaha westward through Saunders, Butler and Polk coun- tles. The projectors of this road were chiefly Omaha capitaliste, desirous of getting an outlet independent of the Unlon Paclfic into central Nebreska. The peo- ple of this county were asked to vote il ti [ ti fe tl Republican followed sulb. to the narrow-gavuge he would|s with the roads, he admitted that this had at L. Kimball s sgain visible in the editorl- als of the Omaha Republican. Mr, teonth etreet, zouth of the railroad |bonds to ald this enterprise, and the|road fight In Nebraska for which he was tracks, tha Unlon Paolfic bridge that|Omaha press unanimouly advocated it|mainly responsible? spans that thoroughfare should be exten- | until Dr. Miller performed his celebrated | that he can decelve Charles Francls | of ded to the full width. The councll acted | flop with the Herald, and the subsidized | Adoms and throw duet Into At this junc- | eyes of the commlttes recommending that no [tare Jay Gould telegraphed his in-|lng paviog be done in that dietrict untilthis | famous threat, tha% if aid was. voted |cerning the conflict which * has he emall dealer he granted the possibility of [ exhiblt himeelf at any Kaneas pumpkin this effect, but maintaincd that it was equit- | show this season, able on the part of the roads. Atked by Senator Platt if he had ever been | GENERAL GRANT'S condi n the railwsy service he replied in the nega- | aril ive, Asked if in political contests in the tate he had taken an attitude in eympathy n is tempor- ly improved by fhe change of atmos- phere. His doctor says he could not have lived until now had he remained in New imes been tha case, but in other instances | YOrk. His removel to the reglon of “‘he had fought the railways.” Asked if he | of pure air at Mt. McGregor may prolong elt now in his own mind that he was free | hls life for several months. from railway bias and obligations he answered hat he was, STATE JOTITINGS, TuE fine 1talian hand ¢f Mr, Thomas| A new brick house is gomg up at Ord. _A negro horse thisf hus been jugged at Doey | Keurmey. 3 0€8| Tho hoys in the Kearney reform school are Kimball propose to re-open the rail- | cultivating ninety acres of corn. ‘The corner atona of a new Mothodist charch in Beatrice will bo laid next Saturdsy: Thieves have been raiding tho freight cars the Sioux City and Pacific at Fremont, The Fairbury echool district has decided to Ctho peoplo by publish. [imue) bouds to the amount of $4,500 for a new tissuo of falschoods ©on-| The ssersed valuation of Gage county is beea | £5,670,000; Beatrico $1,425,000. The total tax levy is 12} mills, “The eleventh annual stato sportsmen’s con- vention and tournament will be held in Sew Does he imagine the of a o dizastrous to the railroads in their ef- is no good reaton why the Union Pacific |and otherwlse cripple the olty. Tocap| Why dces Mr. Kimball reiterate that|ard, June 23, 24, 25 and 26, epan should not be made tho eame |the climax of outrage, a contract was en- | stale and exploded ttory about the thon- length, The understanding was when |tered into with the late Senator Hitch- | eand doilar check when he knows, the Unlon Paclfic ob:tructed Th'rteenth | occk,whereby the Union Pacific purchased | man knowe, that Jay Gould and his com. it would remove the obstructions and |for an enormoys and exorbltant sum the | pany bave tcver been able to silence, glve a clear paseagewny, the full width of | old Herndon house for its headquarters, | much lees to control, this paper! Why the street, whenever travel demanded it, and when the council ordered it. Thir- teenth: street has becomo one of the |entering the political arena as the co-|checks would bave been pald by Mr. buslest thoroughferes In the city, aud is | partner of an odlous political ring, which | Gould and his corporation, hed they been 1t is | then had Its Iron grip upcn the machinery | able to obtain control of the Omaha BEe? | for the naval cadetshi now traversed by the street cers, bigh time that the Union Pacific should | of the republican party. When election [ If this sinister attempt to revive a con- It ought | day came, the citizens of Omaha were | troverey which Las been so unprofitable | recfed b not to walt to be compelled to move by |not only confronted at the polls by the |to thke Union Pacific in the past isin- any actlon which the council might take. | eolid array of railroad employes, but by | terded to bolster up the old ring that |, take tome steys In {his maiter, —— Proressor EDwARD FRANKLAND, pres- and at the ssme {ime acquired a large |d block of Omaba Republican stock, thus the whole host of postal clerks, route sgents, custom officlale, surveying con- Over 500 peovle are said to have signed tho temperance pledge at Kearney, the result of as any | a two weeks’ temperance crusade on the banks of the ‘‘raging canawl],” The house of farmer named Booth, living ar Burnott, was_destroyed by fire 'a fow Mr, Booth attempted smoking docs he Ins'nuate blackmail, when he m:z:rn::“; t::dhw;:; ito to fall —~pound meteorite was scen to fal knows that fifty one-thousard dollar|and strike in the railroad park at Blair, v’l‘hure it was afterward discovered by tbe station agent, 1t struck a tre in its descent, Olver W, Childs, the successful contestant f ip from the “‘bie Third,” is & seventeen-year old ‘‘printer’s devil” n the office of the Plainview Gazette, He bas .hgn;,lng stick and tacked a marlin " ins, of West Union, Custer county, altered a fractious cols to lead him home, ‘The colt leaped into the air and jerked Levi 80 quick that he knew not what happened till he struck the ground headforen the cen- has well nigh wrecked the Union Pacific, and made slmcst every farmer and mer- 1¢ent of the Royal college of chemistry | tractors, and a rabble of hired ronst-|chsnt in Nebraska an enemy, In the|cussion producing death. The deceased was in England, has contributed to the num. |abouts. From that memorable dsy the|eyes of Chsrles Francls Adams we ber of the Popular Seience Monthly s |sntl-monopoly cry spread like a prairle | imagine it will prove futile, Mr, Adams valuable and inferestlog paper on the|fire over the state. There were no longer | can see through & millstone as well as | £econd congressional district open to com Yellowstone park, He does not attempt | democrats, or republicans, or greenback- anybody. to describe the wonders of that wonder- | ers, but the people on one side and the |trouble to Inform himself about the land, but dlscustes Its sdmirable qualities | rallrcad with Ita horde of stilkexs, cap- |oareer of Thomas L, Kimball aa a polit. as(a great winter eanitarlum, He is|pers, and hireling bummers on the other, | ical bull dozer and as the head and front convinced, from his own personal obser- vations during a vislt to the Yellowatone | lingion roads the anti-monopoly elements | packed our conventions and leglalatures reglon last fall, that the ratlonal park |naturally gravitated towsrds the Bur- | with venal miscresats, he will find that | lsudanum. a former resident of Cass county, Congressman Laird has concluded to throw the appointment of a naval cadet from ti- tive examination, desires all candi m‘- in his district to address him personally by letter without delay, and to report in person at Hastigs for examination July 14th at noon, An emigrant pamed B, L., Stanley, on his If he will only take the As between the Unlon Paclfic and Bar. [of our political brigande, who have|¥sy weet with his family, three teams and a hera of cattle, committed suicide at Ariapa- hoo on Saturday by taking four ounces of Intemperste its and more temper than brains seems to ha: poasesses all the essential conditions of & | lIngton, which was then the weaker and |it may be necessary to divorce politics winter climate for Invallds in an even [least offensive of the two corporatlons, | from rallroading more rigldly than he has It {s not trae, as Mr, Kimball Intimates, [done it so far, higher degree than the valley of Davos, in Bwitzerland, at an elevatlon of 5,400 feetabove the level of the sea. The value of & high altitude for patlents suffering from chest diseases has long been recog- | We favored the prorating with thst road | 8nd rapld growth of this clty justify, that the Burlington secured the services of Edward Rosewater or of this paper —_— Tue immense traffic of the rallways for that particular campaign or avy other. | that converge at Omaha and the certaln in nized Jn JEurope, snd the valley of |becaute we believed it to be according to | 0uF opinlon, the demsnd for the erection the act, this being hus fourth attempt the golden stairs, ‘While the democrats of North Platte were holding & mass convention last Sat: 1 indicate b et ballot their prefe, whom President Cloveland should appoint postmaster,” the announcement came like s cyclone, that Mr, Ferguson had *got thar.” An uns ble silence fell upon the assem- bly and muttered oaths and maledictions gl led the air, The gatheriog kicked itself ome, article from an exchange, which stated that Rosewat® was a spy in the confed- erate servlcs, and which has been In the ccarts for some two years, a verdict was found a fow days sgo of $100 agalnst the Republican and the great Sir Edward is vindicated. Sutton Register: Itis seldom that one newspaper brings a suit sgainst another for libel. The fact that the aggrisved party is in posltion to retaliate in kind, would naturally incline & jury to award merely nominal damages in any event, A sult of this kind was trled in Omaba last week with the Ber as plaintiff and the Republican was defeated. The libel- lous artiole stated that Mr. Rosewater, of the Be had been a confederate spy during the early part of the war. The \ jury gave the plalntiff a verdlct, assessing | the damagesat $100. That the state- ment was malicious and false there could be no doubt, but maoy will doubtlees prepared valuable governmental work. Major Poore {s the ‘“Dean” of the corres- pondents, Willtam 0. McBrlde, of the Cincinnati Enrquirer, was born 1844 in Phlladeiphia, and i3 a graduate cf its public schools. At sixteen was a soldler in the ranks of the famous Roundhead Regiment of Penn- sylvanla volunteers, and in 1868 entered journallsm on the Chicago Republican. In 1869 he came to Washington and eerved till 1883 as local reporter, clty editor, and department reporter on the Washlngton paperse. He has been chlef of the Erqalrer bureau eince 1883. Frederick Perry Powers, of the Chi- cago Times, was born In New Englard in 1840, Kducated st Munson Academy and Amherst College, Mastashuset:s. Graduate also of Universlty of Chicago. Commenced journalism at Boston in 1872, and editor of Newport Dally News think that the Bee had held its own pretty well in the matter of compliments. York Times: A Douglas county jary has awarded E. Rozewater a jadgment of one hundred dollars for a libel, pub- lished in the Omaha Republican a couple of years ago. The amount {s small, but the jury probably made a pretty correct estimate of the abillty of the Respublican to damage anybody. It {3 a wholesome lesson to all papers that employ peraonal calumpy and publish rumors as facts. It wae often hinted, In the dsys when the publication was made, that Mr. Rosa. water had been a rebel spy be- fore entering the wunion army; bat the cherge had never been made bya respensible person in a way which admitted of legal prosecution, until the Republican reizad upon an art!- cle published In & country exchange, in a dlrect statement, Mr, Roeewater selzed this earliest opportunlty to vindlcate his loyalty, and though tho case has been pending for some time, he hss succeedod st last in proving the libalous natare of the arlicle, and establishiog hls own loyalty to tho union. The rumor was started during the Hitchcock menatorfal cam-— palgo, for the purpoee of weakecing the inflaence of the Bze, snd was so indu:- triously and judic ly clrculated az to be very annoying to Mr, Rosswater. The North Platte Hendlight: Two yesrs ago last winter, on the eve of the electlon of the United States senator, the Omaba Republican puoblished some dam- agiog evidenca agiirs; Bdward Ross- water, charging him with being a rebel spy during the war, and that he was only saved from stzotehing hemp by his begging for mercy, or something of that sort. Rosewater at once went into court for dsmages, as the only way to stop these lles, end last weesk was awarded exemplary damages after a thoroogh in- vestigation, The U. P, road and its gang of politl- cal strikers will readily pay tho damages —which Rosewater has donated to St. Jozeph’s hoapical—and the costs, but the pablic ate mostly Interested in the signs that posslbly there may be at some time a halt to the wholesale slauder and abuse of those who stand In the way of the corporation giant, that is attempting to break down every cne who will not bow the tnu. Every county in the state has the henchmen of the ssme cloth; doing the dlrty work for the corporations, and thelr deadly blows fall upon the indepen- dent, lau{eu advocates of the cause of humanity In opposltion to the tyranny of the barons; and the men who do not get some scars in the defense of justice are not in the thickest of the fight, e — ‘WASHINGION CORRESPONDENTS, Men Who Make the Echoes in the Natlonal Whispering Gallery. b | New York Graphic, E. B. Wright, of the Chicago Trlbune aod ted in the public schools and Chicago university; graduated at a German uni- versity and an American law school also; wrote for the press and practiced law at Washinglon till 1870; became a corree— pondent of the Tribune at that date, and and reporter of Chicago Times from 1876 to 1880. Editorial wrlter till 1882, and Washington correepondent since that @AT. Elbridge G. Duanell, of the New York Times was born in this city In 1845, was educated In the public schools and served his tlme as a printer. He began journal- ism In 1870, and was connected with the Evening Post from 1872 to 1876, Sinse then he has been oa the clty staff of the Times, its Albany correspondent, and, in 1881, was sent to Washington, being In 1883 placed In charge of the Times bureau. v A. W. Lyman, of the New York Sua, is a native of Ohio, about thirty-five yeors of age, a graduate of the public eceoole, who has also served at the *‘cass” and taken ell the steps, as a local re. porter and epecial correspondent. His principal experlence has been on the Sun, He has served as Albany correspondent for several years, and was sent to Wash- ington in the fall of 1884, M. G. Seckendorf, of the New 2York Tribune, Is about 34 years of sge, ot Ger- man birth, His eervices as journallst have maiuly bsen with the Tribune. He has been at Washington for the pastthree years, P. V. DoGraw is the popular msnager of the United Press association. Ho was born February 21, 1853, at Kingston, N. J. Educated in the public schoole; tela- grapher by occupation. In 1875 he en- tered (he service of the New York asso- ciated press, remaining until 1883, when he atsumed his present post, Davld R, McKeo, general agent of the atsoclated press at the capltal, is a native of Wheeling, W, Va. Was born Septem- ber 17, 1842, ho reslded in California from 1863 to 1862, Educated in the pub- lic school aduated at the hish scheol of San Francisco. Has bean enpaged in rallway, surveying, banking, in the United States marshal’s office, and In journalism, Wea correspondent at Waeh- ivgton from 1867 for the San Frauclsco Csll and Bulletin, Has traveled exten- slvely in Europe. Been with the asso- clated press for a number of years, and In entire chargs since 1381, Charles T. Murray, of the Philadel- phia Times and Pittsburg Dispatch, is a native of Indiana, about forty-five years of age. Ho has been a newsboy, printer, union soldier, editor, author and corres- |, pondont, residing In Washington ssa correspondent for nearly ten years, Mr. Murray’s novel, *‘Sub Ross,” s asuc- ocesaful delineatlon of certaln aspects of ngton life. harles M. Ogden, of the Philadelphia and the Callfornla Assoclated s one of the younger school of correspondents, Ho is a native cf New York state, about thirty-three years of age, & public school boy and a practical printer, He has been in Washington for slx years, and has won an excellent place among the correspondents, e ——— Pre Pre any more than that for like shipments over like dlstances the same rate should be exacted; that there should be no dls- criminatlon. They sald no mcre excur- slons could be ruu; they could glve no mors excursion rates, The rates to bas charged should be uniform. The law does no. contemplats anything of the kind, and they have so discovered eince, but it was enough to create great general dis- satiefaction. Thoy also went to work to ralse the ratesin far western localitles, construing this law In rezard to short and long distances, o that the people said, “‘Here this law is no reductlon to our actual transportation. Itis a burden instead of a relief.” In that the thing gradually wore down until the managers found it convenlent to ignore the law entlrely, and I have reason to believe that a great many rebates and drawbacks have been allowed, and, as I have shown this after- noon, higher rates have been charged for short than for long distances. There has bean no leglelature in seesion for tne last eight yesrs in which there has not been a great struggle for railway legisla- tion. The methcds generallypursued by the rallway managers were these: They would get some of their to Introduce multifarious bills, and some' of thess bills are so stringent that no rational man would want to vote for them, and by having a largs lobby at the etate capitol and making all sorts of promises of reward and employment to membars of the legislature, by combining with parties who had jobs to lobby through the legielature, in retarning and exchanglng votes they succceded In de- foating every effort so far to get legisla- tlon, until th's last winter. Thero have been bille passed throvgh one house and murdered and defeated in the other. Q. What addltional leglslation have the people been seckling eince this firet law was passec? A. In the firat place a reductlon in the passenger ra‘e, and it was never obtained until this last wlnter, when it was re- duced to three cente, The general demand was for a law that would defive whet unjust discrimination was, and, If possible, a rate law fixing the meximum and minimum rates with regard to four or five classen of freight, thatis grain, cattle, coal snd Ilumber, and upon the ordinary lines of mer- chaudise, Q. About what proportion of your railioad traffic vegios and ends in the stato of Nebraske. What proportion be- glne in some other state and ends in Nebrasks, and how much begins In Ne- braske and cnds in somoe other states, How much in state and how much Inter- stato commerce, A: Varlousstatemen'shave heen made, Mr, Dillon In his last report made & statement that a large per cent, eome: thing like 60 or 70 per cent of the en- tre traffic of the road was loos!, that is, begin at Ogden and ended at Omaba or vice versa, but that would be inter-state because a great per cent, such a3 coal traflic, begins in Wyomtng and ends here, and large shipments of cattle begin in Wyoming and go through there, In or- der to answer that queation understand- ingly I wouid have to study uy the mat- er. 1 will proceed with rey lation, These bills, 8y, defeated by corrapt influences; and when 1 say corrupt inflences have been used, I mean exactly what I say, and I bave evidence of t. I was travellng last winter on my way down to Lincola, and met & gentleman from Columbus, in this ttate, He sald that the member repre- senting that county in the previous legis- lature of 1881 was sent there under ex- pross instructions to assist in enacting & rallway law, but he voted the other way, and he said that man now has speclal ton Jotrnal, was horo in Chloogo | t0 (1o 184" of New England parents; educs- | started ono of them Inquired: you?” One Ever-Present Quality, facilities and speclal rates over n Post. @ 7 that road for his businees and ¢y occupled the same seat in the|it {s rulnlog my business, (he fs in the moker, and shortly after the traln had | bardware and machivery busines) and he ssys, we cannot begin to compete with him, He has sn annual over the road i to go where he plea nd bestdes that “Smoke!” 1 belleve he has such low rates that we ““Yes,” cannot sell snd compe'e with him. “Then you must have s cigar, hayen't | There are many otber instances which I m'ght cite where members of the legis- Bosto) Th ‘‘Have you got & match?’ “Yen," Davos is the populsr winter resort | the splirit, If not the letter, of the Paclfic | of & unlon depot. Kaneas Clty, Denver, for persons .thus sflicted. The |rallroad charter. And, furthermore, be.|St. Paul, and other citles of much less elovation of the Yellowitone natfonal|[cause It would have glven us|importance than Omaba have elegant|Grand Iuland Independent. park is grestor tian thut of Davos, the |healthy competition between Omaha|and commodious unlon depote, which| Iy a little too funny to see the Omaba season of snow Is 'unger, while the free |and the weat where the | largely facilltate and accommodate traf. [ Republican suo Mr. Creighton of Omaha southern horicea inoreases the dally |rates were then so outrageously high, [fic. Omabs has been very liberal lorllbolTfi)! calling that paper a railroad perlod of supshine by more than two|The pro-rata bugbear which Boss Kiw.| towards the railroads in not only grant- 2£810,000 “bfltp‘;‘; "‘;‘I;'l“:;; :h;?ldi?u;:ng hours, whil, there are numerous sites|ball worked for all It was worth, has long [ 10g them right of way through strests and G rig cov as much as the amount of the well protected from the northerly winds, |since been shown to bo an srrant hum. |8venues, but she has donated large and [ Rosewater libel judgment sgainst the Professor Frankland sees no obstacle to | bug. We were told by Mr. Kimball costly tracts of land in the heart of the :‘BILHI:I}BAHL.I ”Wlllwlllccontl:lbule' 5‘cantl " that fun r. Creighten fs found the early development of the reglon as a | that if the Kansss Pacific demands for | clty to the Union Pacific, which fo day [ ! . jsany MLRIANARTA ¢ Perhiaps some | prorata wero over granted, it would be a | re worth from balt a million to a mjllion | 8%11*7 88 the Republican was, Charlos Nordhoff was born in Weat.| No. 607, W day it will bhecome s grea’t A rascit for calamity to Omaha, because Kaneas City [ dollars, Ocr river front has been given phalls, Pruesta, In 1830, and was brovght o See the Omaha Lumber Co, before buy- ' to this country at the sge of four, When inralide as Colorado fs now, would then have equa! fac!litles with |Up almost entirely to the railroads, and ing bullding material, 18ibst, &U,P.R.R, fourteen yur:o! age hf'em to sea, -:rll has remained so ever since. John M. Carson, of the Philadelphia Ledger, was born In that elty fn 1838, ¥ He fa » graduate of the public schools| “Too bad; I haven't a thing on the and of a printing office, belng sn accom- | face of the earth,’” plished craftsman; was in the unlon| +Op, yes, you have,” army and came out a lleutenant colonel. [ cwypy 7" He began newspsper work before the war, and resumed It after its close. In 1872 he was at Washington as night edl. { The celebrated * Beer” for fam- tor of the National Republican, and from |ily use, Patent cork. Send orders. 1874 to 1883 was the correspundent of | 1214 Farnam St., telephone 292, or Bot- the New York Times. tling works 113 8, 16th st., telephone “Yer.” Clll' you epare 1" lature fouud thelr way to this city, not darin, to go back to thelr constituents, but found emplyment with the railroad company. I don't say t111 has been the general regimie. ‘When the last leglslature convened there was an expr.ssion of the people of this state on the question of railroad legisla- tlon, and a constitutional smendment was submitied providing for the election of a rallway comm'ssion. Our constita- tion prohibits the creation of any new state offices except those named in the act of 1875 inthe constitation {iself, sc Brooklyn has only cne church to every | this rallroad commtesicn could not have 2,624 inhabitants —less than any other city in | been created constitutionally. Therefore United Statee, ‘n constitutional amendment was sub- e — A Contribution to the Orelghton Fund, “