Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 4, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE-~FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1885, e e S e e e THE DAILY BEE. 014 AxD 916 Farvaw S, , Roow 63 Trisoxe Browo Owara Orrics M New Yors Oren NG, Tulyished every morning, except Sunday. The only Monany morning daily published in the state 1 Thr 250 vl Wednesday One Yoar Six Months The Weekly Bee, T P One Year, with premium conurs: All Communiostions relatir tmatters shiould be sddres Bea. s Months M. 2200 12 10 xoR News and Editorial to the EDIToR oF vaR BOSIXRSS LETCRRS, All Business Totters and Remittances #hould be ddressed to Tin Bre PUSLISIING COMPANY, OMATIA Yrafts,Chiecks aod Post office orders £ be made pay- able 1o the ordcr of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING CO, Preps. Proro Prestox, the rebellious fire-bug who destroyed Colon, has had a period put to his existence. Heo has been hargad for his crime. For fear that some one might go thiraty, the ealoons are to bs allowed to ran all night durlng the exposition. There's nothing llke provlding for the people, and at tha sxmo time maklng hay whilo the sun shine Poor old Mlissoarl comes to the front again with a train robbery. Although Jenso James Is under the eod, and Frank is almoat dead with consaumption, their splrit still lingers around the scenes of thelr former exploits. Tae London Times says that Minlster Phelps *'Is treadlng with success in the footsteps of Lowell.” Thls is a high compliment. Mr. Phelps Is evidently taking In all the big dinners, and Is build- fog up a reputation as a post-prandlal talker, All he needs now to become the eqaal of Lowell Is the gout. We do not seek politlcal controveraies or personal quarrels, but we never run away from them when thoy are forced upon uv. Oar caustic article under the head of ‘‘Slinderers, Renogades, snd Traltor {aa forced response to the vil- Iainou - ault upon Seaator Van Wiyck and hi: i jends. If wo bave glven more than was wa, thoss who bave provoked the reply 1ave only themeelves to blame. Ir Judss Crounss could find tima to vislt Omaha, we would suggest thst he take his son-in-law by his elongated ear, and lead him gently to the corner of Six- teenth street and Capitol avenue, where Judge Crounze has bullt a monument to homo talent. The Crounse block was deslgned for a public bullding, but public assemblies in that structure have been for- bidden by the clty nuthoritles because it s uneafe and llavle to tumble down under the welght of a crowdad hall. Count Torstor, the eminent Russfan acholar and aathor, who recently set him- self to laarn the shoe-maker's trade—to more forclbly lmpress upon his country- mon, no matter what thelr rank or sta- tlon, the importance of underatanding soms practical occuprtlon—was ab first pronounced eccentric, and now he is de- clared Insane. The board of Insanity whisch inqulred into hls case was prebably composed of noblemen who thick manual labor isdegrading, and that any one of thelr number who would laara the shoe- maker's trada could not ba otherwiss than Insane. Mg, MENDELSSOHN denies that he In splred the assault upon Me. Myers which this paper has vigorously resented. He emphatically dlsclalms havlog reflected Inany way on Mr. Myera' abllity. On the contrary he says that Mr. Myers did design somo very costly bulldiogs in Dotrott, and other Michlgan citles. Our imprasslon that Mr. Mendelssohn was the only O naha architect who had llved in Datroit 1ad us to balleve that he was the author and instigator of the mean and contemptible flings at Me, Myers. There 13 another archltest in Omaha who camo from Dotrolt, and who has been very busy doing bis stabblog on the sly. OxEeof the most objectionable features of our state falrs has been the doubling of the street ralleoad ratev. It way al- ways ressnted as an attempt to take ad- wvantage of strangsrs, and ex‘ort money at a tlme when thoy are here in large numbers, This practlce should be done away with forever. Flve cents is the legal charge to the street rallway termlnus, 1f any attempt 1s made to collect any more than five cen's the passengers should re- slat the collec:lon asthey would any other roboery. Lot the condustors dare to put them off f they refuse to pay any more than the legal fare, andjthe company will have a bill of damages that will make sach lmpositions nnprofitable, S— Tag Eleventh street viaduct will be relief to thoss perple who reside south of tha tracks, bat it wlll not afford the naaded protecilin to passangars who are crmpolled to traze! to and from the de potr. Travel may decresse oa Tenth streot, bat a large number of teams and pedostrians will contlous to nss that thosoughfare ani by exposed to graat risks sud annoyancs. With the oltfzens of Omaha wio ara not immediately in- terosted the viaduc: on Eleventh sireet catsa vargamall figars, What they wan® and what they will insist on fsa depot with safa appeoachas and (ample accom- modations A [uatoa depot won'd ba preferrad, but i wo esnuot have s ualon dep)t in which all roacs enter, we want at losst & Unioa Pacific depot of eush di menslons and with sach aporoaches as s o'ty like Onahs is estitled to. When such & depot ls ererted there will be o great deal 1+ ss discontent. SLANDERERS, RENEGADES AND TRAITURS. When a despersdo becomes seriously alafmed and sees the Inevitable staring him In the face he 1s raady to resort to desperate means to save himself. This Is the ritastion in which the manager and editor of the Republican find themselves at this juncture, The general uprlsing among republloans againat their dishonest and tressonable course drew out of Oas- per K, Yost a lotter decllnlng to bo re- elected as chalrman of the republican state commltteo, This was a mere blind to pacify the revolting republicans in Omshs and Douglas ccunty. The railroad faction, of which the Ke- publican 1a the organ and Yost the pliant organlst, does not propose to give up control of the machine, whatever may be the temper of the republican masses. To cover thelr own tracks the desperadoes at the helm of the Republican have con- jured up a conspiracy which they protend to have discovered on the part of Senator Van Wyck and his felonds to got control of the state committee. This ls the motive that Inspires the vindictive edl- torial of which the followlng is an extract: Republicans who have had experience with the Van Wyck aggression in the past, know what would be the result of the success of those politicians in their attempt to control the machinery of the party, Witha Van Wyck chairman and contral committee, no man who had not been a renegade, slanderer and traitor could sccure his rights without struggling for them within an inch of his life. The control of the party by the party would be purchased by the total eacrifice of the ma- chine —its overthrow and demolition. Renegades, slanderers and traitors! Whom do these epithets fit better than Caspar E, Yost and hls assoclate in the Republican? Whose record as a republ(- can is more valnerablo and infamous? At the outbreak of the war when republicans were struggling on the battle field for human freedom and the preservation of the union Oaspar E, Yost was an able- bodled youog man. Did he volunteer his servicos as a soldler? Did he expose himeclf to any danger even a8 » homeguard? Not at all. He was a stay-at-home durlng the war, and then he came out to Ncbraska to takoan oftica Firat he fought for free- dom by shedding red lnok in the Unlted States marshal’s office as a depaty, and at tho close of the war, April Ist, 1865, was promoted for gallautry as a ward sitrlker aond conven- tlon packer to be United States marshal for the territory of Nebrasks. When Andy Johnson turned traitor to the party that elected him, the stal wart Yost turned traltor also, and bzcame a renegade. He joined hands with the copperheads, who wero worss than the rebals, and organized an onslaught upon the republican party at a time when its succees was paramoant to tho life of the unlon. He supported J. Sterling Morton for governor of Ne- braska against the republican candidate. When Ganeral Grant bacame president 1n 1869 he promptly dismlssed the tealtors and renegades from office. Among these was Marshal Caspar E. Yost. Then the renagade became a slanderer, From the day ho was kicked out of office until 1871, whenhe was made postmaster of Omaha, he never ceazed to s'ander Grant and Grant republicans. He hardly ever spoke of Grant without calling him ‘‘a blanked s— of a b—,” and In his venom cursed everybody who upheld Grant. Senator Thayer fared no better. In 1870, when Tasyer was a candidate for re-election, and Thayer was ranked as a Grant senator, this grest stalwart Yost assoclated himself with a gang of traltors and renegades, and delibarately knlfed the republican leglslative ticket and voted the democratic tlcket. Thls Is history which nobody can refate. In 1872 that other stalwari, Fred Nye, wss an opponet of Grant and a renegade among the lberals, When Jadge Crounse was spoken of as a probable can- didate for congress in 1880 thisexpound- er of troe republicanism openly served notlos that he and his papsr would bolt Crounso if tha republicsns nominated him, Last spring both of thsse stal: warts, with their paper, desert- ed the republican party before a gun was fired and dellberately went over to the enemy. They supported James E. Boyd, member of the national demcratlc com- mlttoe, for mayor. This treason was the more odlous because the Kepub- lican assumed to be the losding party organ, and Mr. Yost wes chalrman of the state cen- tral commlttee. Is 16 any wonder that honest republicans have determlined to reorgan'zs and throw the traltors, rene- gades and slanderers overboard Whatever may be thy sent!ment of the par'y as to the fitness of Senator Van Wyek to represent the state In the na. tlonal leglslatare, none bat the most abject of corporation henchmen will jas- tify the wuncalled-for asmsult on the wsenator. The past, with Its dleastrous lessons, will hardly be forgotten, The faci that a state that gave 22,491 majorlty to Garfisld, and two years later elected a democratic state treasurer, and gave Dawes, for givernor, only » plarality, ls still fresh in the memory of thoughtful republicans, Tae republican mashins may be necessary for organizition and success, bu’ it must ba placed in purer sud more loya! hands than those of Yost and hls assoclate, MR. GRAY'S SUCOESSOR. According to the 7Zerald Mayor Boyd has done Omaba a great service In the selectlon of Mr, O, A. Leary to fill the potition vacated by Mr. Gray cn the board of public works. Against Mr. Leary we have nothing to say personally. He ls » ecber and lndustrlous 10echanic, who, if he were not hampered by his rel.uon- to the Unlon Paclfic, would per heps make a vs:ful member of the board, llfin Mr. Leary, lke all other men t!azed as he is, caunot possibly eerve two masters, Mr, Wilson was a very good man, and very Independent, but he was constantly embarrassed while on the board, and had to do many things dam- aging to the public Interest and agalnst his own conviotions. S5 It will be with Mr. Leary If the council confirms him. Had Mr. Leary been a Charles H. Brown democrat, or a democrat whom the Unlon Paclfic coald not use, the Herald would have no endorsement for him, There ls another feature in this appointment which the re publicans of the councll are bound to consider. When Mr, Crelghton went out of the board and Mr. Boyd nominated Mr. House, & demoorat, In his place, the councll confirmed the mayor’s appolnt- ment very promptly. Now that Mr. Gray, & republican, has resigned, 1t ls only proper that he should be succeed- ed by a republican, This is not eimply a question of special fit- ness or mochauiosl skill. There aro just as competent men among the republicans as Mr, Leary. If Mr, Leary {s put forward as a workingman there s even more reason for not confirming him. Mr. Loary Is not the cholce of Omaha workingmen, He has nover been aot- Ively tdentified in any effort of working. men to better their condltlon nor has he been prominent In any labor organization. His position as foreman In the Unlon Pa olfic shops places him on the slde of the employer rather than with the employe. Mr. Boyd makes mno capital among worklngmen by such a cholce, and we question if he would have made it had it not been for pressure from democratic friends who are Identibed with the rail- road factlon. MR. NIMMO TALKS. Jeseph Nimmo, Jr., who was until ve- cently chlef of the burean of statlstics, has been Intervlewed regarding the leas- Ing of the Jands in the Indlan Territory. Mr. Nimmo is writlag a book upon the western live stock Interests, and although he may be naturally influenced in favor of the cattle-kings, and has endeavored to show that they have been unjastly treated, he has given to the public rome Intoresting Information. He makessome statements that will no doubt attract con- slderable attsntion, One is that the army s responslble for the system of leasing lands inthe Indian Territory. This is probably trae to a certaln extent According to Mr. Nimmo, a number of army officers and their friends were for- merly engaged In the herdine cf cattle on the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations without paying a cent for the privilage. Besldes these cattle, hundreds of thourands of others were grazing on the lands without any compensation being pald to the Indlans, These latter were ostensibly passing through the ter- ritory, but In fact belng held thers and fattened for market. Itwas finally de- clded best to leass the lands to responesi- ble partles, and this system was recom- mended by ths army officers at Fort Reno. Mr. Nimmo says that Gen. Pope, commander of the department, made an earnest appzal for the adoption of the system, and that Gen. Sheridan also en- dorsed 1t. Upon such strong recom- mendations as these, Secretary Teller, acsording to Mr, Nimmo, finally consented to permlt the leaslng of the lande. We shall be slow to ba- lieve this defense of Secretary Teller's actlon, so far as Gen. Sheridan Is conceraed, for the reason that the re- cant recommendatlon of Gen. Sheridan— vwhy lately investigated the situation— that the leases be Immedlately declarad vold and the cattle removed is & flat con- tradiction of Mr. Nimmo's assertions. 1t is an amusing feature of this business, #ays Mr. Nlmmo, that seven-elghths of the orlginal lessees wore democrats, and that they secared the appropriation of the sec- retary of the Interlor almost entlrely through the Influence of democratic snators and members of congress. This may be amusing to Mr. Nimmo but it certalnly Is not creditable to Mr. Teller, whom he Is endeavorlng to de- fend, Mr. Teller certalnly should not have yielded to euch Inflaences. He should have vlewed them with grest sus. plelon, Oa the othar hand the action of Grover Cleveland, under the clrcam- stances, 1a very creditable to hlm, He ordered the cattlemen to move, even If they were mostly democrats and although the cattle-leasing system was of demo- cratic origin, Had the cattle-men been mostly republicans snd the leas- jng syatem of republican orlgin, thess bourbon republicans who fly to the defense of John Roach upon every posiible occaslon would have denounced the presldent’s actlon as a8 blow a% the party, and an efflurt would have been exerted to make the removal of the cattle a political {ssne. Ix splte of all thelr protests the people of South Thirteenth street will have to pay for a eandstone pavement. While any pavement Is better than none, the manner in which this materlal has been foreed upon the people is, to say the leas’, not commendatls, Thirteenth street always will be a light traffic thor- oughfare, and with an asphalt pavement it would have made an elegant drive like Sixteenth stroet WEe are much pleased to know that the board of trade will soon have complete plans for the new chamber of commerce, !¢ la to be hoped that we shall see some- thing more substantial than plans before the year Is out, %Jonx M, TaurstoN as a delegate toa waterways couventlon reminds one of a fish oat of water. In that kiad of a crowd he is out of hls element, —_— Tr is one thing to pass & viaduct ordi- nance, and It is another thing to build & visduct. Even if the two rallroads shculd agree and pay their three-ffthr, the question is where will the city ralre the other two-fiftbs without borrowing? Tre clly;wuucll h;u at last passed the viadust ordlnance, ani Mr., Gocdman will now feel relieved of a great burden. As vsvaL the Republican has nothing to say agalnst the selection of a Ualon Pacific boes, even if he 1s a demsorat. STATM J Business lots ia Chadron bring §00. Gas and water mains are being laid in Hast. ing ¥ Custer county has tired of township organ~ iration, . Hebron is promised a first-class normal collage. The gasworks aro progressing rapidly ‘n Fremont. Plattsmouth is hopeful of securing water works at an oarly day. * The noted Coloridge rioters are being tried in & bunch at Hartington. The atate railroad commission interviewed Central City in just five minutes, Asnland has organized a hook and ladder company compoeed of business men, Lavi, the lictle son of 8. G. Gaff of Valen tine’ lost a leg in a collision with a switch en Rine. C D, Clother, Sr., cne of tho early settlers of Plat{e county, who died last woek, was 76 years old, Tho state conclave of the Kaizghts of Pyth. ins will be held in Lincoln the second week in October, One of the construction ganz fell off the cars beyond Oxford station, last Monday, and was instantly killed, The girls of Blosmington have organlzed & base ball club, In this way they will cat h on to the bawls of the future, The body of an uoknown man, evidently a tramp, was found near the railroad track a fow miles west of Harvaed, last Sunday. Five teampe were run in at Grand Island for breaking into a carload of canned goods, The ball and chaia fit their ankles to a dot, W. H. Bolton, an employe of the shops at Grand Island, had a large chunk of flesh gouged out of his arm by a boring machine, Tuesday. August _Rydberg, a workman in Stout's quarry at Louisville, was crushed to death by o mass of falling rock Tuesday, His remains wara taken to Plattemouth. The Republican Valley Press association, to the number of seventeen, lunched on their brethren at Otleans, Monday, and elected officers for the enswing year, Frank E. McUlane, a photograper at Ox ford was arrested last week on the charge of having stolen a gold watch and $23 cash from his room mate, He was given a hearing ana tound over to await tho actlon of tho grand jury, The partisan potitical axe has stiuck the Grind Tsland Jand office, H. O. Hostetter has resigned and editor Higgina of the Colum- bus Democrat has been appointed. This ex- plains the polith and trimmings on the tile of the Democrat, A, H, Sydenham, ths recently appointed West Point Cadet has sucesfully passed his vhysical examination at that institution and is correspondingly happy. Sydenham was ro- fused admittance two years ngo from some claimed defect in his feet. J. Kopeki, a Grand Is'and landlord, placed the muzzle o a double barrelled shot gun to his forehead, Wednesday evening, and scat- tered his brains on the ceiling of the room. Death was painless. The euicide was former- ly & resident of Omata, The citizens of Arapahos have taken ho!i of the proposition of the Methodist Episcopal conference to build an academy there for a bonus of $1,000 and & site. The proposed building will cost $25,000. Committees have been sppointed to canvass the matter. There are an unusual number of inquirios at the Grand Island land office this fall by parties in search of homesteads, Itisa hard matter fo find any unclaimed land of any value within saventy-five or a hundred miles ot Grand Island, and many go considerably further northwest, The Chadron Journal avserts that Union THE GRINDING POOL. —_— Exdctions Precticed by the Railroads Under the Guise ¢f Priendship, The Long and Short Haul ana Its Effect Upon Omaha and tho State—More Stringent Laws Needed, To the Editor of the Bxs, 1 huye been watohing with mach In- terent the development of the stock yard and packing enterprise at Omaha, regard- Ing It as a move towards bringing Into our state labor and capltal to be em. ployed in a business which would glve us a homs market for a part of our produots, and an Increase of population which would consume farm producs without competing In Its productlon. Batin the inceplion of the enterprise I predicted that Its projectors would meet tho ob stacle they appear to have now en- countered, viz.: The ditcrlmlnation of the pooled rallroads sgalnst the short haul. The organizers of the State Farmers’ Alllance have been hammering at this question for a long tlme without attracting sympathy or attentlon from the commerclal men or the capitalists of our Interlor citles. And yetitlsa ques. tion In which those genulemen are as vitally interested as the farmers them- selver. Let me bricfly summarize the situation: A state has eupreme control, under the constitution and law, of commerce within its borders. An asscclation of capltalists is formed to earry on a busi- ness pecalisrly adapted to the sltuations and productions of this atate, namely, the purchate, slanghtering and packing of its meat products. This business was to be carrled on entirely ‘within thls siate. Properly mansged, it would be greatly to the interest of the farmers, as well as profitable to Its pro- jectors, and 1t promised a new open- ing for labor which would attract popu lstion and wealth to your clty. Now comes an organized commerclal power, of stupendous msgaitude outslde of our atate limits, unknown to the law, and as far as yet tested above the law, which, by its regulations as to the traffic of the counlry, says to the projectors of that enterprise—‘‘Gentlemen, you can go no forther—you are diminishing our throvgh traflic.”” Tt msy be readily teen that this organiz:d power transcends that cf a soverelgn state. Suppoee mome other state, or a forelgn ration, should pat such & ban upon any enterprise within our borders, War, and justly, would at once rerult The people would rlse en masse and in the namo of patriotism repel such a ty- ranical usurpatlon. But here i3 elmple association of private and Insignificant men, who have racelved franchlses and innumerable gifts from the public and in return are imposing upon it regulations and exactlons which would not be a‘- tempted by any Invadlog power unlees it had an army to back it. In your WeekLy Bee of the 20thI have scen your article headed *‘Hostility to Omaha.” 1a my oplnion you aro mls- taken, This discrimination s not cauzed by hostlllty to Omaha, It fs the resul: of a system—an i e and mistaken sye- tem—which impels rallrosds to continu ally strive for through traffic and sacrifice orrob local traffic. You gentlemen of Pacific engineers are viewing the lay of the land in that vicinity and expectations have added twenty per cent to the price of real es- tate. It isasserted that the company will build to that point, and that several employes of the cox pany are inv esting in corner lots in the hope of an early rise. Geand Taslanders will vote on ths water- worka propozition on Thucsday, the 10th. The plans provide for an iron stand pipe twelve foet in diamoter and one hundred feet high, five miles of tev, eight and six-inch mains, and two duplex pumos capabe of pumping two millions of gollons of water per day, and drive wells sufiicient to supply said amount of water, at least fifty-five plugs are provided for in various portions of the city, The people out at Milford have a_summary way of administering justice to wife-beaters, Oae of that class was arrested and fined there a few days ago, but it had no good effoct on him, aud he theeatened to lick heragan, A company of citizens took him in hand, how- ever, and gave him such a whipping as would remind him that it was not a safe plan to abute & woman in Milford, Elaven horses from the corra! of Palmer and Talmage, near Grand Island, were killod by a train on the Unioa Pacific, and saveral others injured, The ongineer not noticing the ob- strustion on the track, until too late to stop his train, as is usually castomary, pulled the thiottle wide open and thus averted what might have been a serious wreck by throwing the animals clear of the track, Loss, $1,000. Fred Fellmaker, who for some time has been in the employ of Ludwig Kraat: farwer near Scribner, attempted to assas nate his employer a few days ago, for which ho was arrested and jailed on Friday. It ap- pears that Fred had becoms enamored of Lud- wig’s daughter, and finding the father bitterly opposed to the match, dotermined to put the old man out of the way by waylsyiog and shooting him. ¥red proved no good with s gun, as he miseed his victim at the short range of two rods, honce the arrest, Tracklaying has been begun on the Black Hills extension of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad and it is expected two miles por day will bo laid, A large force of men and teams are employed on the grade and bridgo work, The tracklayivg is to be contiued until Buffalo G.p, forty-five miles out from Chadron, 18 reached, Where pra tlcable, as in the cate, gradinz will bs contin- ued thorough the winter, The pile driving and bridging will continue right along through ths winter, native pine cut noar the line being used beyoud Buffalo G ————— An Unjust Reflection on the Railway Comn.issioners, The Nebraska rallway commission in making thelr racent trip overthe Unlon Paclfic ralinay traveled in the private car of Charles Francis Adams, They found a very high estimate of Mr. Adaxs' character owlng vo the mottoes or texts which that gentleman his had peinted in conspiclous places in his car. Une of these texts is *‘God hates a Liar,” and another Iy “Trath {s mighty —then why lie?” At one of the statlons o Ne- braska where the car stopped some mis- chlevous grangers invedsd the coach, while the commisslonors wore takiog a weal in the eatlng houss, and took In the situation. They too were impreessd with the sigolficance of the mottocs Not'clog that the commiss'oacrs wera well suppliid with Puollman blankets, each one of which was warked with the word *Pullmsn,” they patuted over it the worde, *'Stolen feom” and uaderneath | it they painted *'God ha thief.” It was rather a severe joke as well ¢s an upjust reflection on the commissloners,as they did not steal the blankets but metely borrowed them, Postmastex Appolnted., WasiiNGTON, Sept. 3.—The actiog post- master-genaral appointed the followiog fourth-cl postmaster: Illilloie —~Briwfield, George C. Paul. Omaha fly ioto a passlon because your corns are just now trodden, while for years the state has Ialn prone and blesd- Ing under this villalnous system. By it not only has pork and beef picklng besn prohlibited, but all kind of manufac- turing has been, and will continue to be kept out of our s'ate. Why, Mr. Editor, the towns of this state cannot manafac- ture thelr waste grease Into soap to sell to the farmers, because under this system they can ba undersold in thelr own kots with soap shipped in car lots 1,500 or 2,000 miles from the eaet. Under this system a proletarlat population {s belng concenirated in our great citles, with no hope of acqulring property and no inter est In coneerving It, constantly on the vorge of starvation, in times of depression a brooding denger to property and order- at elections the tools of the men who buy votes with which to foiet knaves Into cfice, By this system the farmer must bo kept at one end of the longline to produce staples that will bear a 2,000 mlle haul, and the artlsans and laborera who coneume these staples must bo kept at the other end t»> produce the ma- obinery and goods the farmer requires, aud both must bs kept poor; while the beueticent rallroade—‘hose * so-2alled “advenoo guards of civilization’ —are the powerfal go-betweens who exert ell thelr influence to malntaln th's situation in stata quo, while they fetch and carry on tho loug haul, often at a loss, and rob the shor: baul to pay expsnses and dividends and repair losses. Tho gantlemen of Omaha may flinch under vaelr sffliotion—they may treat with the companles, and entreat the rail- road lords—but they will gain no per- manent rellef from evils which are the patural results of a system until thoy destroy that syatem. This can be dove by law only. A law fixing the amount that the roads may earn upon thelr sctual cost, and creating a competent te authorlly to establish falr claesifica- t'ous and adjus rates on the principle of s falr compensation for service 1endered 80 that they would preduce that amount and no more, with the exceptlon of the law made mandatory under the teverest penalties, would be a step In the right direction, and might result In a finsl solutlon of the vexed question, The present comm'ssloner law 1s the ta'dest kind of a fraud, aad the app:Autment of C. H. Gere upon it is one of the moet flsgrant cases of fmposition upon a peo- ple that has ever cowe uuder my notice, The course of the commisslon on fts re cent pleasure trip, wes beneath clvil oriti- clsm, or even contempt. Bu‘ it may be easler to amend this law in the right direction than 1t would be tc pass a new ill, Yours truly, J. Bunrows . e — TONS OF LYTTEHS, Missives Sent to and from the Wash ington Oftices, New York Sun, The Preeident of the Unlied States re- oelves daily an average of 50,000 let'ere, whilch, as u rale, are answered or (helr racelpt acinowledged on the dey of de- livery. L'o enable him to cope with this vast corrsspondence, much of which re- quires not eimply & formal reply but con eiderablo research and epecial knowledge, tbke Ececutive ls farnlshed with about 10,000 clerks, who, for convenience, are divided fnto seven departiwente, rd- ing as their work has to do with our forelgn relations, the srmy or rvavy, ihsl fiscal machinery of the Government, its internal relaticny, the postal service, or the administration of justice. The heads of theso seven principal departments are ssked by the President to meet him onoe or twice a week at the White house, and form what Is knowa at his Osbinet, At these cenfererc:s the more Important business of the departments Is discuysed, 8> that the work may be dono promptly and harmontously; and 8o well regulsted 1s the eystem that it Is not necessary for the Presldent to seo persenally but a very small part of th Execative corresponds ence. Two or three sacka only out of the tons of mall matter that Is dump:d every morning on the floor of the Wash- Ington City Post Office, goes to the White House. This Post Office Is the third in the country in volume of buslness, though Washington Is only the fourteenth olty fo population. This {8 on account of the enormus cflicls] mall that passes through Postmaster Conger’s hande. Darlng the fiseal year which ended June 80, 1886, the lettera received were In exocess of 25, 000,000, or about 70,000 dally and of this total It {s eatimated about 70 per cent, goes to the departments. The refluent tido 1s even larger, for the cwigolng delivery lncludes all the publications of the Government, Statistlos in this field would be stagger- log. They would be on such a huge scale that the figures would lose thele mean- Ing. On sowme days, for Inatance, during the busy days of Congrass, 2000 large sacks, mostly of Executive documonts will pass through the office, and the average for the summer months 13 20,000 sacks amonth, Much of thisls rcglaterad, for groater safoty, so that the work thrown on the city foroe ls prodiglous. DODGE COUNFY'S FATR. A Brilliant Buccess—Excellent Horse Racing—A Fine Address From Senator Van Wyck, Correspondence of The Bee, Fresoxt, Neb., Sept. 3, 1885.—Te- day is the last day of the Dodge county falr, and if appearances count for any- thing, to-day will prove ay much of a suc- cess a8 the two preceding days. Tho weather 8o far has been all that could be aeked for, and each day the falr ground bas been well filled with visitors, The display In all the departments ls fine, and showa that unusnal pains has been taken by the mavagers and the heads of tha diffsrent depsrimante, Nearly everyone has taken interest in the filr this fall— have worked herd, spen’ both tlme 2nd money—and tho falr has proven 80 much of a success, it /s so much better than anyono antlo'pated, that everyone feels happy, and thote who have done the work focl well repaid. The man- agers ara certalnly to bo congratulated, as this {8 the best feir Dodge county has had for ten years. The floral and art displays are espe- cially worthy of mentloa, It Is sald by a good many who were pratent at the state fair last year that the display In thoso departments could In no way compare with the ditplay at the fafr gronnds yes. terday. Horso rasleg commenced yosterday af- ternoon st about 2:30 and continued untll 6:30. Tho first race was for Dodge county horses that have never trotted for money. Three hors:s were entered— Patey Smith, Rattler and Bashaw. Time, 3:04, 3:07, 3:01. It Isgenerally bellaved that Patsy Smith could have dons much better had his driver given him a chanca. He won the race, nevertheless, Tho next race, also a trotting race, was the 2:40 class. Brown Tim, Robble Duabsr, Bashaw Clay and Spotty were cnterad. The race was won by Robbie Danbar, with Spotty a splendid secord. Best tlme, 2:40. The eatries for ths running race were Bolle K, Matchless and Oregon Boy. The raco was eatily won by Belle K, Match less gotting second money. Thme, 1 and i 1t was expected that their would be a hose racs between the Grand Island, North Bend and Fremont teams, but for some reaton the Grand Islandsaod North Benders failed to materfalize. The J. C. Cleland hose team, however, made an ex- hibitlon run, running over a sandy track, making the excellont time of 43 seconds. Thompson and Barman displayed their usual ekill in mal Ing the coupling. The princepsl attractlon of the after- noon was the speech of Hon, C. H. Van Wyck, who held the audlence in wrapt atiention for over an hour, His epecch was earnest, fu!l of thought, touching upon thoso qaestions which are cecupy- ing the attentlon of the thoughtful of our land. He was frequently applauded, which shows that that vast crowa of peo- ple—4,000 at least fn number—were In perfect eympathy with hls utterances, He was lntroduced by Hen, H. B. Nico- demus, president of the assoofatfov. In the evening the friends of the s3na- tor arranged s serenade for hlm at the New York hotel. The Fremont cornct bind merchid around in front of the hotel whero a large crowd had gathered. After the bind had played saveral fine selaotions the seuator appear panled by several prominent citi after un lutroduction by Dr. Abbott, made a brlef but approprlate speech congraiulating the people upon thelr splendld crops and the besuty of our clty. Poor RicHARD an The Geological Survey Next, To the Editor of the Bre: I enclose an article from the Washlog- Ington Poat of August 12, 1885, 1 notice that the Omaha Herald for several days past bas bzen, through Its Washiogton corraspondent, taking some psins to mention me in an inviduous and usual way of treating even demccrats who seek for honest government, and thus compel them to appeal to the independ- vnce of the Bk to vindicate themselves agaoit the merslloss attacts of the Herald, which was never known to favor h.nssty, where thers was money and power against 1 kaow the Herald correspindent bay had an opportunity (o vindlcate the right, sclence, econcmy and & faithful obsery anuco of the law in themansgemant of the United States geologleal survey, wherein on a fale Investigation by Audltor Cheno- with or Secretary Lamar, it mey be shown that thls bureau hes beeu maun- aged in violation of the plalnes: provi- slons of the law, and almost whol'y lu the iutereafs of & ring of eo-called scientists s “a patlonal academy of sclence,” supported In thelr opera- tis by the fuads of the piople, when appropriated to the gaolog- cul sarvey, snd placed at the diapesal of its director, J. W, Powall, to be expsnd- ed swony these scientists and their ame- teor assdstants in the study of 1he gecl,. 2y and mineralcgy of lands sod mioes owned by private persoasand coporations forbidden by law, and fo propagste Dar. winfsm through thelr reports. f 8 M. jor Powelllis a very Targe man beoaure he made the passage o the 300 mlles of the Grand canon of the Colorado river, DId the dootor ever henr of any other man making that pas- tage Ina boat as Major Powell recounts - his groat feat? 1 muswer that he neve did, nor never will hear of any other man makiog sach paseage alive, ary more than he wiil hesr of such passage of Niag- ara falls, {f the ocatarast that passes though this canon 1s what it i reported to ba [ 16 1 oan help Auditor Chenowith in the disoovery of the {rue lawardness of the maragement of the geologleal burean, after recelving hls earnest reqaest for such assiatanco. I shall feel it my daty to do 80 at the ritk of being by tha Omaha Herald called thy Kiokive Krrrie. THE GEOLOGICAL BURVEY NEXT, Washington Post Judve Cherowith, first auditor of the treas ury department, left by the 10:40 train last night for Texar, to look after his law business. The Investigation of the const eurvey burenu and the report thereon to the secretary of the tronsury are complete, and nothing moro re- maina to bo done in the matter by him, He denies contemplatinga supplementary report on the workings of the bureau, as ho says it is not necessary, Ho expects’ to return to Washington in about threa woeks, when he ds to begin an investigation into the condi tion and workings of the geological survey, which if rumors are correct will roveal a state of affairs nobatter than that exposed by the re- cent investigation of the coast survey. After that, the fish commission is on the list of suc- pecta for searching inquir; — — YIMLate Buprome Court Decisions, o,‘g Cozin vr. Meh}\nln. Hatch, Error from nge county. i Rezne, sonn'y flirmod. Opinion by 1—The provisions of the statu’e re- quirlng the county court to contlnue all cases undirposed of on the third Monday of each month does not prevent tho court from hearing and declding cares by agrece- ment at any time during the month. 2—Whero coets taxed in a ciuse ap- pear to bo exorbitant or cxcessivo the proper remedy s by motlon to retax made to the court where the alleged mls- takes are made. 3—Where the county court lssucd an order of sie for the male of attached property, after judgment, and it is alleged that the court erred in doiog so, the judgment contalning no order appro- priating the attached property to ita pay- ment, the proper practice would be to move the county court for a return and vacatlon of the order of eale, If such motion skould be overruled the declsion theraon might be raviowed. Bu! the lesuance of such order of eale, even ff erroneous, would be no reason why the judgment should be reversed. C. B, & Q R, R, va John Sims, Er- ror from Richardson county. Affiimed, Opinion by Reese, J, 1—Under the act of June 20, 1867, a railroad company is able for stock killed upon its track while running at largs In the niizat time at a polnt where the com- pany was requ'red bat failed to fenco irack notwithatanding stcek is prohibited by statute feom running at large in the night timo. 2—Petitlon examined and held gocd whon assal'ed sfter verdiot. e Fostponement, In order to rccommodate confilcting interests 1t has been declded to postpore the holding of tho Seward county falr unil Wedne:day, Thursday, Frid y snd Snturday, Octob G MonTneAL, Sept. 8.—There woro thirty- five cases of emall-pox roported yestorday, eight of which aro anthenticated. Four deaths ocourred from the disease, Two deaths in th civic hospital up to naon to-day. ——— Railroad Notew, New York, Sept. 3,—The statement of the Chicugo, Milwaukeo & S5, Paul railroad compauy for July shows a decrease in the gross carnings of $58,000, as compared with the same month last year. R.R GROTTE General Westem Agent 710 South 9th St., Omahs, Telephone 602. Corrorpondence walicited G. F. LYMAN, — Doaler 10— GLAZED SASH. DOORS, nds, No 1 Mouldings, Bulldir g{Paper, &., 1001 SOUTH 13TH RIDGE’S FOOD among oblldien o assurcd by the ue af bi i 1t action, is reacily takeu by the 4eBbiVe Orge iated wheu the stomach rejects all else. Imported Beer IN BOTTLES, Erlonger Pllsner.. ... Bavarls | Cu/mbache Bohemlan | Kal DOMESTI Bt. Louls | Anbauser .. ....58 Louls Milwauico | Bohlite P Liner Milwaukes Oumata 1 Ale, Vorter, Domastionnd £D MAURER, 1213 Farnam St