Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1886, Page 4

e e« e Hs A i T T e S N~ R THE DAILY BEE OMANA OFFICE, NO. 014 AND 016 Farsaw 87 NEW VORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILOING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTEENTH ST Published every morr wrerpt Sunday. he onty Monday morning paper pubiished fo the Haie TERAE Y MATE One Vear #10.0 Three Months . 423 Eix Months o One Month 1.0 AR WEEKLY Beg, Published Every Wednesaay. Y with premium 1o Year, without preminm Six Monthe, without preminm One Month, on trial <, POSTPAID e Y CONMESPONDESCE ations relating to news e should be sddressed to 1 By | HUSTNESS LRTTERS smittances shonld be | TOI OF Al rsiness Jetters nnd addreseed (o THE EE PUBLISHING COMPANY ONMATIA. Dynfts, checks setoflice ordoer 10 be made pryuble to the THE BEE PUBLISKING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. HOSEWATER. Eviton. erof the company Tuene is a good opening in Omaha for | one o1 two wholesale elothing lotses reet ven Tue storm <topped the s0 thoroughly that not conrt mandamus could have cars into 1dition. moved the riek's at Washipgton reasonable in with favor The southern | ring from the wyonets in the T are indications that a movement for a erense of the army will me 1 the coming members are by fear of the dang south session vely 1 rs of SoMEBODY i evidently Bean town' some railroad pointers. Com menting upon the remark of the Boston Traveler that the Ames monument at Sherman, Wyo., v filial the Adverti he faet is that the erected by the Union P a vote of stockholders, ten ye: its cost wis §64,773, and this was not charged oft till last year. The Traveler says the road has had to buy off a settler who dis- | covered that the monument was o 1 | government land me seoundrel fately put patent medicine signs on | giving monment was ific railroad hy on MoNTANA proposes to take advantace | | constructing lines in pret The Postal Telograph. For fifteen years the Bee has steadily advocated in its columns the establish ment and operation of the postal tele graph in the United States. By this it nas meant the actual <o | operation of tie telegraph business of the country by the postoflice department, or in other words, the control of the trans mission of intelligence by wire just as the government now controls the transmis on of intell y mail. The expe rience of Great Britain in postal tele aphy afle v gaide which it will safe for us to follow. Time has proved the wisdom of the control of the telegraph service in that eonntry by the govern ment, and ench year has added to the | popularity of the change. Rates haye eadily dropped and the serviee has steadily improved. he public man st ownership of in England who would dar e turn to t days of private the telegraph lines would be considered a8 an wminble lunatie T'he control of the telegraph business of the United States by the government would put n stop to the scandals of stock watering and diseriminating extortion Phe lines would no longer be o) od with the design to inflate eapital vl to exact high rates for the payment of divi dends on fictitious investments. The cost of the lines wonld be the capitalon which alone the government would expeet in terest reimbursement. The practice tion for the sole purpose of selling out the plant to rvivals would also be done wway with, This has been one of the most burdensome features of the tele graph business. In every instante of such consolidations or sales the public been foreed to pay the cost. With government ownership, facilities wonld be Inereased and lines built wherever needed, operated not for the profit of ock jobbers but with a view to make them sclves sustaining only. With the in- crease in population and the consequent n the patronage of the pos! telegraphwould come o decrease in rates just as has proved to be the ease with the muil service and the rvates. But the most important unn'nl for the ereation of the postal telegraph system is the inereased faeilities to the country and the cortainty of lower rates, in ease the lines should be owned incre of the Dakota controversy and demand | exclusively by the government. All tele admission to the union on the ground | yraph compani imized for commer: that, being democratie, she will be | ¢ial purposes aim only to connect stand-ofl to Dakota, and thus remove the polit This i~ about the only wa) 1 will be able to get into the union du the supremacy of the democracy. It is | likely, therefore, that Dake and Mon- | tunn will unite in the effort to secure statehood. Monta 1s 126,000 popula- | tion, and at her present rate of growth | Governor Hanser feels confident that she will © 170,000 within GENERAT an implieation in a1 rer that he e editorial in this how engaged with | WS S0 certain sorchead officers in the east in i diting General Crook’s work in ving dircetly | xllwldim\- ever hs | anything in | done or said tion, He has always consid al Urook a gooi oflicer and an | ible man. General Howard rushes i hono) to defend himself where there is no ne cessity for lis so doing. No one who | Kknows the general believes him ¢ of joining in any such crusade mentioned has Kansas Crry gone about yer | chamber of commerce scheme on a more | The Kansas ‘ practical basis than Omalia City board of trude has organized an Exchange Building association with $208,000 paid up e divided into 416 | shars of §300 ench. wember who signed the articless agreed to take two | shates of stock, one of which was to be | represented by his interest in the old board of trade building which was trans ferred to the new tion. The shares | remaining unsold were taken by gentle men not members of the bourd of trade, | When some of these partics found that | wre not entitled to trading privil- | y joined the board, the stock being inercased to enable them to become members associ Tur rumor that the Chieago & North- western proposes (o lease the Central Pa cific is n very plausible story. The | Northwestern is certainly making v ml strides to a junction with the Central Pa- cific, and no doubt stands ready to cap ture that road and virtually shut out the A Union Pacitic and the Burlington, Wo | question, howey whether the Central Pacitic can be leased so long asitis in any way a governmment rvoad. If $he Northwestern would pay the debt of the Central Pacifie it could then get a lease of that rond without much trouble; but we havdly think the Northwestern will do anything of that kind, as the debt amounts to more than the road is worth, ApouT six years ago an enterprising ry of the old Omaha board of trade statisties for this city compiled a bateh of commercial He computed the t §40,000,000, le trade of Omaba whole: and his ngures on other branches were velinble. During the very same year the Ber's annual review, compiled with the utmost care in conjunction with the comme gencies, showed a total jobbing business of less than eleven mil lions. Now comes the Des Moines statis tican, with a report that the whole trade of that eity amounted, during past year, to §34,000,000,and its ma 4 tured product to §15,500,000. Whoever compiled these fignres must have heen employed as 0 Kansas City cansus taker, prior to his removal to Des Moines Messes. R G Dun & Co. have issued their review of the business of the past year. The showing is not as favorable as might be wished, but it holds out strong hope for the future. The west comes to the front with the smallest ratio of failures and the lowest average of liabili- ties. During the year the number of failuves in the couniry was almost equul to the record of 1884, but the aggregate of liabilities is little more than half us large. Judging by the reports of the various cloaring houses and mercantile exchanges the volume of business tor the year past was smaller t the preceding year, but the production of the leading staples show an inere: in ), iron and coal, with a falling oft in wheat and petroleum. It is a hopeful sign that the year closed with an increase in business and & growing decrease in finuncial embarrassments. 2 | village Howarp, thinking there was | to conduct re not g consequence all ing points. They decline office where the receipts than the expenses, J nd smalle depend for tele; upon the railway w clogged with railroad ing the expedition of the mes outside patrons, The government nnrln wy, could locate tl telegraph in the postoilices, y hamlet L postoflice and few need be without In the ies phic communicati res which are always prevent- es of business cont v A telegraph oflice in- conneetion. larger cities a postal telegraph could be much more cheaply than th commercial lines. Where the compa- nies now pay out large sums for rent, fuel and light the government would oceupy its own building. Carrier coy the messenger service, and the immediate delivery boys wonld find oceupation enough in delivering tele- graph messages as well as letter: Public sentiment has been rapidly erystallizing during the past six years into a general demand for postal tele graphy, but has differed through its congressional spokesmen as to the hest method to be apted in ruring the desived end. The only practic: of the problem is for the govermuent to il itself of the provisions of the ¢ This act gave the telegraph com- use of the public highways, »turn made all whoavailed them- of its provisions subject at any time to the appraisement and purchase of their lines by the government this act the control of the telegraph bus 1866, panies th and in selves ness of the country is assured to the government at any moment— when passe the necessary legislation for the purpose. It would be unjust, unreasonable and im- practicable for the nment to enter into competition with private companics by building lines of its own. Such a scheme, if successful, would destroy mil- | lions of dollars of private capital. Under gove any cirenmstances it would bea premium | to the competing companies to corrupt government oflicials in charge, to in- venim sly foist incompetent telegraph superintendents on the system and to let it fail by reason of mismanagement, or to make the experiment ason of reckless extravay we its abolition on the ground that it has proved a failure. This was the vital obj Senntor munds’ first bill, which pro- posed to conneot the principal cities of the country by four or five through lines operated by the government. Sucha pro. cedure would have foreed a life and death struggle npon the telegraph companies, whose incone is derived ehiefly from the business in the large ci My, Ed- munds’ new bill is drafted with enlarged views of the situation. It provides for an absolute purchase of existing lines and their operations in connection with the S0 ¢ postal service, It fails in neglecting to specify definitely the method of ascer ining the value of the plant and f chise of the now working unde private control which it proposes to turn over to the postoftice department, ‘The bill that Seaator Callom has intro- duced is too specific in this particular nes Like his railvoad commissioner hill it is conceived and begotten in the interest of the corporate monopolics. One clause provides that no line shall be purchased until it hus been proved to the satisfaction of | the government commission 't such | line has carned enough during the twelve months prior to the passage of the act to meet necessary expens: 'ufl maintenance, reconstruction and ope tion.”” By the second the commission i directed before purchasing any line “to aseertain its actual value, which is to be computed on the basis of one thousand dollars for every fifty dollars of net carnings, and “no line shall be purehased at a high Ination than that ascertained on the basis thus prescribed.” The com- mission is not prepared to purchase new lines that have paid no dividends as yet, but it may buy out the Western Union Telegraph compuny on u busis of 5 per cent, earnings. The cost of the Western Jnion to the government on the basis of this scheme would be somewhere in the neighborbvod of one hundred million I I — 6 Of 1 e part of theatr ction to | | ¢ ownership and | the , afforded | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE'UN"‘\DAY JA l ARY 5 1886, it is cent f dollars L < purc proposed to issue thirty-ye t 8 per bonds, “which shall not be disposed o for Jes< than par.’ The proper method for sccuring the lines, and a fair one for all parties con eerned, would be for the postmaster gen eral to ascertain the lowest price for which atirst-class set of lines could b erccted and equipped in- variot tions of the country. A board of appraisers wuld be appointed to determine the value of existing lines, and in no case in h valuation to assess them at mc than twenty per cent above the costat | which they could be duplicated. This would be a very liberal margin for the great bulk constructed value of the franchises, The of existing lines are cheaply and equipped. Ata forced sale they would not bring fifty per cent of the t of du plica same if the franchises were taken out of con ion. The value fix e by the appra could not be regard el as a conflseation, even if it was lower than the cost of building new lines where the old now exist Of course, there can arguments be ad vanced against any system of postal tele ing the graph, but no argument which can be wdvaneed in this connection would not be equally foreibl nst a government monopoly of the mail service if we had no postal system in existence False Sentimentality. Dispatelies from Washington announc and al to be si that p clsewher are cirenlating nmemor wed by Union soldiers only asking for the enac ment of a law for the establishment support of a home e veterans fies in the capital conléde muax of This caps the cli vicions sentimentality which would wipe out not only the bitterness of the late civil war, but even the distinetion between the men who fought to e and those who took up arms to destroy the union. T such a thing as elasping hands across the chasm reddencd with the blood of the country’s defenders. To span it with « bridge of loyalty and | quicseence i the results of the | proper. The entire country desives and the north has striven hard to eradic: the feeling that any part of its citizen- ship is debarred from the advantages of national unity. But a movement of this kind is ill-advised and improper. It | involves a principle which the eountry | cannot admit i the prmeiple that the rc valor of disloyaity should be in nowise difterent from the obli; tion which a nation owes to those who risked their lives to preserveits existence. wards for the 1f congress should establish homes for | confeder: erans, there is no good reason why 1t should not also pension the | soldiers of the lost cause. These are the kind of laws that the nation docs not want upon its statute hooks. They are 1 solution | Under | | | | seapege | longer, the product of a false and dangerous sen- timentality, wise they look only to the present and not to the future, and dange be they confound the difference betw nd wrong. se b ous nse New Y rowds to he now ¢ y Anderson at months g in ‘popu- \xer sised the price of tickets the usual not standard. the above nments stecy ene were The: ons considered a star llllw *d other i S8 goers patroniz jucen of the Am ae to long rows of vacant Her first experience in New snot been thrown away. “Popu- lar prices” were announced - Boston, and crowded houses during o long en- gagement were the natural result. Mana- gers in other eities besides New York may learn a lesson from this experience. | “Popular pr mean reasonable pr | There is a tendency all over the west on agers to raise r o troupe ot nd th age York hs the price of seats a star of reputation appears on the local The anxicty of the public is sup- posed to be intense enough to support the increased tavif. This is only another phase of the v im to charge all that the traflic will bear It can only be et as the New Yorkers met the problem by refusing to purchase seats at the vanced rate. Just as soon as theat managers learn that exorbitant pri and slim house and in hand, *“popu lar prices” more be hung out. 5" will one Jonx Pore, whose headquarters have not moved materially from the anato- mical position where he located them in 1864, is out with anotli wp against Fitz John Por f The time was when republicans felt it their political duty to denounce this greatly wronged old soldier as a coward and u traitor. The Aign is no it, Titz John Porter, lant, whose blunders and ignorance received as their reward the shoulder straps of a That day has passed. t of the Bull l.uu J in th major general in the regular serviee False maps, false witnesses and the suy pression of vital testimony befor packed court drove Porter in ignominy from the army after he had disproyed cy implication aguinst hine by his Dbrilliant fighting on August 30. But his tory generally corrcets its own ervors, and the force of public sentiment which has visen high as the result of the devel- opments of the past three years will force the present congress to right the erucl wrong of more than twenty years’ stand- Owmana has been indulging itself in self gratulations for the past few days over the results of the past year. It is a curi- ous fact that some of the loudest talker: the men who have done least to ma- terialize the boom or to keep it in motion The money loaners have had a prosper ous year, no doubt, but by far the great est enterprise which has been shown in this city has been by zens of small means who have backed their judgment often with borrowed capital, Our wealthiest men have been content to realize from the g advance in renl estate and to fight Sessments About the only opposition to the public improvements, which as much as any- thing have helped Omaha in her advance, las be.n among the men who have been wost benefitted. Omaha hasagood deal to congratulate herself upon, but she cannot brag much upon the publie spirit of some of her citizens who, having made every dollar they have in the world within her corporate limits, are satisfied to drirt with the current, and to let others work to direct it into the proper channels. WiNTER no longer lingers. It is hare with good prospects of wiaking a long visit in spite of Geu. Huzen's predictions, ¢ poor and disabled | 2o when | Tism in Nebraska, ati lies have \ Nebraska this year, of 1i6. There churches in this were e and are Congregation Twelve Congry wen ni with a new membership i Cor tional In these 411 member cived by profession duving the by letter Seventeen <elf-supy porting and 109 rece During 1935 #1,9 d to the American Hom ary society. New churches dedicated at Beatrice, ( | miinsville, Doniphan. Emanue! | Fr ville. Indianola Mulford, Newe i, Pieree, Richmond W nd Chadron. There ar i wor-hip at ( Ogalalla St congregations nd the Sabbath Ihe total ehurel member 5,011 from 115 ot | | | |4 | | year | churche: ve mission 1 were ¢ M have ary aid tribn n been ambridge, Cum Franklin Lib smont, Glovers Martinshur erty. Omali Valley completed honse Lincoln, Norfolk The average number 743 | contain i <hip is g reporting atton i reported schools ven at churches Vax Wyek thinks that whols on to the president's appoint | [ Sesaw | sale opposi ments will be a foolish waste of time on | the part of the senate The senatoris | right again, but we shall ait with in tore nother yelp from along the line of the anti-Van Wyck press pointing to this, | as another evidenee that Van Wyek is | going over to the encny sorrowfully when since will year bulle the Wall street member 1855 reached their lowest point | Th WS anoaver decline from the ndard of 1881 of 66 points in 60 lead stocks, It wes o “hear ar, and wils of the buls still from the they received. 1880 ing | the | twisti L two weeks recess, 1t will he well ik couneil. aftar meets on Tuesday night. | for that body to remember that we ne 1o | building inspector. As this is the iirst i meeting in the year there will e a good deal of routine busness to be transacted PERSOVALITIES. Stuart Robson's real neme is Robert Stuart. W. G, Couner, Gould's partner, is worth £3,000,000, unyson’s fatune is pat down at W o says joetry doesn’t pay? (. Gov, Oliver Ames, of Massachusetts, Boston residerce of the assessed value 000, Lotta says she things Americ ahiead of vope in culture. She is a perfect little pa- tgiot, and pays taxes on 200 worth of property in Boston. Alexander,tamerly By 1 ctress, is iving in Brooklyn wais once the starof the Mormon {heater Salt Lake City. Mrs. Mary Moranel of Jackson, Miss. state librarian—an oflics ste s held for ten years —is the only woman sver elected to oftice in the state, Roseoe Conkling issnid to give annually mueh legal adviee 1y poor women in distress and to give frequently large sums of more material assistanc snnyson admits it he once tried for reks 10 e a vezetaran, but stipped up on roast pig. 1t must hase been about that time that he wrote that sprivs poenn. gham Young's She in Sai en. Alexander S, Webb, president of the olle ity of Kew York. inherins the vheu ut from ais tather, the late dis tinguished James Waton Webb, Miss Cleveland is vary pronounced in her views on the temperee question, quite as mueh so as Mrs, Haves, and there is a_good deal of euriosity as t whether she will at tempt to enforce them Mrs. John W. Maclay’s religions benefac- tions are muniticent. Althouzh she has suj- ported astyle of Tiving so splendid as to dazzle the eyes of the Pavisians, all her itios liave bean: condictad on the seriptural principle of not lettinz the left hand know what the right arm deeth. Col. Henry Watterson, speaking of his d\wlluu: experience, admits that he once ran n nobleman trough the body with rof soap. We have somewhere heard, sagathe Philadelphin Press, that on another oceasion Col. Watterson stabbed a Ciunber- wd river pirate (o the heart with an | Prof. Boss, of the Morning Express, Al | bany, was an astronomer, and_tried to be a - | mewspaper man at the sune time. e re s, says the New York Telegraph, because | the incompatibility of the two i tions. In moments of forgetfulness a man who does both is liable to undertake to write ditorials with a te ope, and to search the heavens by looking throngh a lead pencil, Castor's Senatorial Aspirations, Papillion Times. Tobe's political serap-book will refuse to receive the average newspaper comment ip- on hiis proposed clevation. Sl A Yardwide and All Wool. Chicago Herald, Mr, Yardwide is a member of the Nebraska legislature who will compel his associates to pay attention to his measures, - Consumed By a Shower of Sparks. Papillion Times, This painful silence must mean that Stink- ing Water Jini has been entirely consumed by the shower of Sparks that recently fell up on his devoted head. Lo Cheap Notoriety, Central. City Couricr. Wenotice a chap by the name of Castor has been shied into the ring as a candidate forthe U. S, senate, in succession to Van Wy His priveipal notoriety so far seems to be what the punsters have given him, - The Farmers Should Organize, Adams Cornty Free Press, If the farmers of Nebraska would organize in themselves thorougulga this winter, they could capture the legislature of 155 and make the winter's wolk worth directly, two season’s liard workgto#he To Be R Milwaulie Nothing short of ed by Law. Journal. nstitutional amend- nt prescribing lifications and duties of a first lady and geoviding for the contin gencies of death, edfibagy, ete., seems adapted to fit this yawning guifRwi at free people and peace. 7 £ ¢ 4] An “Imported Statesma Central City Courie Senator Van Wyek’s enemies now refer o i as an*imported statesman,” which would seen to imply that the home-made stock is hardly up to the demand. Judging from the general run of samples on hand the state was justitied in importing most anything it could Ket, 1t is no Wond Wood River Gazette Congressman Laird, of Nebraska, seems (0 be an inveterate enemy of Commissioner Sparks of the general land oftice, and declares bimself on the war path in pursuit of that gentleman, who he claims is a shyster and a demagogue, When it is vemembered that Laird was the chief operator in the Stinking Water and swindle and that Commissiouer Sparks has put his foot down upou such trans- actious, it is no wonder that the Nebraska collar ranting statesman Ym:‘»m» m hul under the and with accnstomed cheek londly just for appearance sake, his is - Women Wanted in the Wese, Phitadephia Record The New York Star s that the nu me < murders in the western states grow ing out of love affairs and marital inquictudes are bronght about by the searcity of women o remedy this state of affairs it proposes that 10,000 Massae! tts school-mistresses 11 be <ent into the state of Kunsas to bal ance up the sexual inequality - A Question Answered, Philadeiphin Reemd, o contemporary wishes to know ismonopoly campaien will he e answered in intert ation with the individual finds < under the question can When the sligh by the most powertul rights of the most humble ample andinstantancous redre Law. And not until t - Has Done Some Good. Neligh Leader For some strange reas for a lease of sehool lands isn‘t greeted trom Lincoln this year with the answer, ©Your picee of Tand ‘was leased to another party vesterday, " anda gentleman from Omalia doesn’tfollow that letter up with an offer to subdlease the Tand to the applicant. The school land fraud has done <on fow words every applicant - Too Many Philologists, with the internecine war re in the Missouri valley s use of the Tog-Latin phrase “in status the Kansas City Jout nal refers to o certain thing as being “en reggle.” 1 has begun (o dawn upon us il there ave too many philologists cnployed on the pay-rolls of the Missouri valley pross. - The Production of the Chicago Times, A Louisville paper. alludin of Chicazo s a literary center Not content contly precipitated Dy the Omaha e e Best Pens, to the claims sneeringly at Ch ) is says: CTEmust e admitte It looming up in this re For instance, shie has just Taunched anew 1 zine enti This sareasni s aimed i the wrong direction. The Hog is an inport ant addition to the literary Ch Indeed the hog s t of the best pens in this country. tled The Hog. ductions of + production \ Patents, oill 1o Itissaid that ex-Congressman Valentine expeets to make a fortune ot of the whisky refining patent he obtained while in congress. Fhere may be something in- it and Fred Nye are ealtivating an unusually strong liking for him of Tate. - We'll het you a bar- vel of Val's best budge, Fred; that this whisky patent won't prove halt as luerative as the patent he had on elaim jumping when rezister of the West Point land ofice, o Assurances 1ros Sen Grand Istand D ndent, Senator Van W has for several days been in eonference with the land department in the interest of the settlers in Nebraska who, n alarmed at the rulings of the ommissioner, and has written them that there is no occasion for the least anxiety; that no elaims recognized under the previous vuling will be disturbed: that the henest set- ter now has the same faciliti clring a homestead as her that the comm sion has no done no act to re tard settl good fuith, should h tor Van Wy o b or s tore and He said, sin nent attempt to do so, it would encoun ter sudden defeat. - A Demand that is Becoming Universal Holt Connty Peopl ey up. and every day, from all parcts of state for the cetion of Senator Van Wyck to be his . The ery does not go up from any one party, but from hoth nand demoeratic papers, and they sentiments of the masses of the Senator Van Wyek i in sing There has ! proved him- self in the past to be the settlers’ and the peo- ple's friend, and they seem deteriined to say, through their legislator Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” Let our legislators read the writing on the wall, and obey the mandate of the people. - Ldison's New Phonog! Phitadeclphia Time Inventor Thomaus A, Edison has been qui et <o long as to warrant the suspicion that he was at work on something big, and at last the public has heen given an inkling of what it is. He has been work ing on the phonograph, which has her tofore amounted to nothing hut a toy and which he proposes to make usetul, “Ile is building a phonograph with a wheel to be driven by means of funnel thiriy feet oy sound imparted to the phonogrs five-foot by the il be magnificd forty times. Thu will he distanceof two | from th and presidents in the act of delivering theivinaugural addresse an make themselves heard thronghout the erowd that is on such oceasions As the ave other great spec usnally inatttendance gl address or is published almost & soon as the speaker leaves the \l.md the hone ph has not the portuni nsefulness.which it \\nn have if no newspapers v if Mr. Edison and manne i make it reproduce the tones of the orator as exactly as it will rep his words, the d¢ of Amer jean oratory may be arrested, for it will asy for'a city full of people to hear a worite orator without having to crowd ach other and get their pockets picked L order to get within hearing dist The phonograph will, moreover come a valuable assistant wman of national conventions. The permancnt chairman, who now Is and howls himself hoarse smuashes eflorts to stop the uproarous up- that has greeted somebody's | nominating the othe action's candidute, will be able to muke a sug stion Lo the phonograph in an_und toneund have it repeated in a thunde tor As'n queller of mobs the phonograph will al useful. The able f ) P ¢ can stand inside the barvieaded nd tell nmass of rioters in the street, via the phonograph on the station house roof, to go home by two o'clock, sharp, or they will be fived into. Scienee at thing and Mr. Edison is a of pol tion wan of scienee - LLIBERAL “BOJ Decidedly So In Opinions, but Not 8o In Charity. CLEVELAND, Jau. S.—Farly in October the ninth annual congress of the liberal league of Anierica was held in this ¢ity, One of the dvertised attractions was a ecture by Col. RGo1 The colonel came on the last day and delivered his disconrse to a la dience. A short time since the Secular Age, organ of the local league, charged that Colonel Ingersoll liad Ut fairly with the league. 1t declaved wis well understood betore e came here that the proceeds o chure. should be turned inte th the N and it was only on those col he was eng it s v that after the Colon soll's agent took charge of the yeceip ing to the Cleveland league only enoush to pay the expenses of the congress in excess of $240 rajised by the Cleveland league. The remainder, ~ amounting to $5%, was handed over o the colonel and Bot iriied fto e ¢ of the national ¢ n by free thinkers, and towday at a meeting of the Cleveland league, a spivited discussion en At the close the wiee g Were unaning adopted demanding of the secretary of the American Sceular i | fon, the new vae of tie league, ai ieniod | stafement of the expenditures and recci; ot sl (ONGR me Int some inte represent states are nd Sout eight stat Nebn izens in are made o ) are thirty the lavg sule o takes Indiana, i he was t eleeted te also horn Ochiltree There new hon the Irishy There 1 Wisconsi of New Loui Bavaria and Mo 5 Atoo, of Kiehdlien an in ho | the West, the born soni Crisp of York, anc Scotehme have Stey lsen, of Norway of Wi chis del and I sotu and It is inte and pick members In the Al m in Conn ana hus = bers born psentativ in the p delegntion of the recent congress, and also whiat beca Of the profits il auy thery wele, horn congressmen | and Wise the this house thirt NONTE »union, entative th in Lowry, of Induna, M Mormon, eomi W Br mpshir i New Tenness are no 1 who repre rson of Dan ¥ W of Missouri cgute from ESSIONAL -~ DIRECTORY. erosting Facts Gleaned From Advance Sheots How Obio, New York and Pennsyl- vania sh Mombers For Other States — Resume of the New House and Origin of Its Members, From advance sheets of the Congres sional Directory giving the antobiograp! | ies of all the new congressmen, with a ory fow exceptions, the Washington cor- respondent of the Cleveland Leader gives rosting matter in rogard to the wtion of the varions states. Some ated entirely by natiy and Kentueky, M I Carolina cons es of California, Colorado, Kan sk, Minnesota, Oregon, Towa onsin have no native-hor cit this house. ‘Their delogations up of pronecrs and. cary rep! ine tate these. The he Pennsylvamans lead. There four of th and enly two of ation are o ont Henderson of Kan -h ted Oshorne’s place, m Ashtabula, Ohio Holmes, of the nd Funstun, 1.1 Kins and ¥ of the former d tion. Van of Mississippi Onioan Wade, of Missou Ohioan, and — Judge of Ohio birth Ohio ‘nomembers rept Alabama and Wi ol and Louisiana 3, / i, Flovida aind Delaware each 2, whichis the largest state in | has only one native-born rep- Tomi Ochiltree used to say we first native horn Texam ever ) congress. His suceessor w in I but he i quiet as was blustering. are nineteen foreigners in the and the das ermans now o nen did in the las ¢ six Germans. Guent n, was born in Prussin; Pulitzer, York, in Hung Huhn, of and Rom nd Lehlhs rill, of New Yo the land of he five Tvishi, Downey, of New Jersey, sey, Kk, took their first wer-keant and cn of this con W York, Me v Colling and wney, whotakes Robinson's place, though he Trish — name first W W York. F m s in Great Britain. Caine, from the Isle of Man, paper box mam, was ] nd, 18 wi f quliar, of 1 Henderson, of Towa, ar n, and in addition to th enson, of Wisconsin, ho unswick, Gallinger, from’ Canada, and Krate i Minnesota, who was born in The foreign delegation of the teved as follows: The states nsin, New Jersey and M ave I two foreigners in their York has five, b JOWI Ohio, Minne New ll:mlir rive have each one rn wealthy ew lie Geor, ¥ eresting to fook over the states out the location of the varions in connection with their ovigin, hama ¢ ation Caldwell was nd Jones in Texus tion we! 11 born ve other Connec ecticut de e, and we in O'Donnell, of Michigan, psvenor, of Ohio, and Scranton, of msylvania, The sohtary member of Delaw sof Delaware birth, and the only other Delaware man in the ehum ber'is Cary, the delegute from Wyoming. The Ilinos delegation consists of twenty members, and ten of these arve put down as heing born ¢l re i states, while Indit its thirteen mem- is men sent other even ont of within its bordors, and ha i, Culifc Hlinois ' son, the tervitory. o8 in 1 from shington Three of the Kunsas delegation w orn in Ohio, and froum this 1s sngges the great Ohio emigration to that : One Kansas member comes from New York, one from Hlinois, and one from Pennyslyania Kentucky has eleven members in - the state delegation. They were all boru in Kentucky, and Hateh, Blind and Stone and MeMillan, of I' are of Kentueky parent he ity of the cougressmen who are eloc from other than their own states eonie | from the north and the ecntral such us Ohio, Pennsylvan 1d Now York, with a fair slice from the states of New England ttle Vermont, with only two members of its state de iy has cleven representatives in Congiess Four New York congressimen wers porn in Vermont, and Wihite, of Missouri ame from that state, and Ranncy M chusetts, ditto. Of the M | setts delogation seyen out of the cleven were born in the state, and its ounlsid members are Douham, of Hlinois, Mus phy, of lowa, and James, of New York Michigan has a dele o of eleven. Six | of th are native born, a s ong the person of Lyman, of \, who h obtuined _prominence away from home Suyers, of Tex 1 horn'in M ppi Ao, of Montuna, in Missouri: Comatock wd Cuteheon, of Michigan, Burleigh, of New York, and 1l of Vieginia, cxane from New Heampshire.” The tervitonal del Avizons, Bean und Ruukin of the V| dee water Lo in | | | \\mnvmu and Lindsey, of New \m] date their birth from New Jersey, non, of Hlinois, and Turner, of C |,.m are North Carolinans: Lanham, of Texas and Herbert, ot Alabama, came from South Carolima, and Payson found Rhode Tsland too small to hold him. The record of Tenmessee shows a remarkable amount of emigration - Regan, Throckmorton and Mi of Texes, came from { tate. Delegate Higley, of Idaho, i« | Tennesseenn, and Morgan, Barry and Barkesdale. of Mississippi, and Hender | son. of THinois, were born in- Tennessc None of the territorial delegates e Antonio Joseph, of New Mexico, wer born in the places which they repr the'e and few of them have grown up in torritories - HOTEL CLERKS' TRIALS. How They are Kept on the damp By Ve the Wants of the Guests, Philadelphia Timg At a little after 6 o'elock Ins a line of men, each car rying a annd bag, stood in front_of the marble counter in the Continental Hotel office, waiting their turn 1o get to th vogistor, Most of the men werg actor thoatriend man wlvimee agent Clork ewes, w a hrond smile, we comed each man as hereached the regis about in every prossod th ter. Bell hoys wero flying direetion and Clork 11 Big silver gong formore boll hoys, wl e worked o trendle widh his 1 communicated with (e porter wes sas, Burrows of Michigan, Waketield and Show thisgentleman t Steait of Minnesota, Weaver of Nebraska, | Clork Hewes, anding the | 1 and Price of Wisconsin, and Anderson, | to the voom, and to the portc 1 | .y, Townsend of Ohio, were all born | “Trunk to 21, make a tive in 41 | in Pennsylvania | and cout of 171 for tl o | o'eloek w York hns twenty-nine nativeborn | Cllere, boy, show My, Barrett to [ ntatives in this congress. 1ts | Raymond's room and stop on your w state delogation consists of thirty-four, | hack in 97 and see what's wanted, s but only seventeen of these were hoen in | stop in the dining room and tell the e i New York, and the other twelve New | waiter to serve supper in 121 Yorkers from other states are as follows ‘What is the next train for New Yo Felton and Mavkam, of Culitorniag Law- | plo ngnest asked ler and Plumb, of Tlinois; Eldridge, of | 4520 vlor ears. Through train Michigan, and Luird, of Nebraska. Wil- | from Washington, gets in New York liam Walter Phelps was born in New |10 o'eloek, ™ and Clork Hewes trod on the York. The eolored congressman, O'Hara, | treadle again and another porter oy | first saw light in New York City. Bound, | peared | isylvanin, is o New Yorker, W “Take ha, ¢ o ST and sec if the o, of Ohio,is o New Yorker, and Gif | sample tranks in 203 are ready 1o con | ford, of Dakota, and the brave little | down stairs.’ g of Wisconsin, are both of New Mr, Tlewes, " said one of the hell m York by birth Slady in 419 wants meat for her litt » dog.” Ohio has twenty-fonr 1« ptatives | SWhat! said Mr. Hewes I in the forty-ninth congress. Eieven of its [ <he'll have to send her dog to the port delegation were native born, and its | room. We don't feed dogs o gues's’ other representatives from states ali | vooms. " the union. The red-headed Symes, who | Clerk Hewes stepped on - the treadle again and told the porter, who popped enme frol Ihe noisy | upin front of the counter, to put eoal on Pettibone, of Tennessce, was bornon the | the five in 83 and to build a five in 301, to | outskirts of Cle nd The cultured | gt the baggage out ot G2 and put it in and diplomatic Hitt, of Hlinois, exme | 82 and to tell the gastitter to see what from the cent tion of the state. | was the matter with the gas in #. Kanss A three mem SMr, Hewes, said another bell man, her: who date from | “wentloman in 397 wants his room Ohio K, Hepburn and | ¢ iged. Don't dike the color of his eary sy well; put him in 330, the earpet's nd take a pitcher of Tell the ehambermaid 182 and 192, and tell Mr. vivance agent wants (o see to change in Al onc other states, but leads the list of states in [ SWhat is the hest ehurch 1o go to to- the matter’ of outside representatives, | night " asked an elderly man, New York coming nest and Pennsyl | Fon, 1dow't know, sie hey're all vamia following, good. Messaros and Mangasarian are ¥ | draw big crowds,” replied the clerk. The Indianians in_ this house ave 12, the |+l dward, take this telegram to North Carolinians 13, the “Tennessceans | 231, If the gontleian isn't i hunt for and Virginians 14, the Vermonters 11, | hin till you find him." and Mas ts 10, South Carolina T'hen the big silver eall hell vang 1in has 9 nat entatives, Maryland 8, | and the ne bellman was told 1o awaken Michig, and Kentueky 7, 11 utlen i3 ant el him if he nois, Maine and New Hampshire 6, Mi o din 1 have to hurry up ung man in o loud - the say,” plaid suit rom ny with his Wint 1o s v, you know 0ing 1wy 1o-morrow, you kniow ~Washington. ~ Where can a ). you know, to-night? “Here's i list of prominent churehes,” all 1 cle; “The th iters | the blow the theatry Wi ml to see the town ung e »s ol churehe calla cab. ntleman wants to . bell-hoy, s town “Mr. Sadome,” went on the clerk, 508 wants to e ealied at 6 o'clock; pitcher of | hot water to go along. Ah, how are you, Mr. Dufty: My Siohea 571 with | a hottle of Pommer, please.” SGentleman in 70 suys he's freezing, Mr. Hewes” a bellninn announced, Clerk Hew touched the treadle and ordered a porter 1o make s ved Wl to take the three big sample tranks to 4, rked Q. C. ST mail now | willit be delivered in New York City " od agnest with y beard, - t_oclock tomorrow morning. Stamp?r Yes, siv; two cents. There's the Ietter hox vight back of you.” “Ieve, hoy, show this gentleman to 193 nd take iee waterto 47,796 und 31, See i 125 i in his room and tell himhis ea is ready.” ny lettérs for m who had o what_time asked a sw honrs hefor min Wihat he name, please? Tompkins?® Oh, yes ), sir, no letter. Tel ms? No. Sir, nostelegriims At mail arrives at 820 rom New York; wes 10 o'cloek.”” cf ern mail, ters come for 1est, “send them te ms or e id - depurtin 1o the Gilsey hou w York, up to January er that send them fo Bar- num’s, Baltime I expeet u package by express, 1005 same addr h S M. Brown, on proprictors, asked aman 0. sir—in Chicngo; ek of the next Wed- Any word you wish to leave? ke thisnote to Parlor D answer, '’ at time do you akfust?” asked abig at man With a HSix to 11, sivg luneh, 1 Ty supper, 8to 12, Supper's resdy now, sir S SMr Hewes,! Withts soue “*No, 2-cent bell man und 4 ida fonery stamp. Mr. Stokes, charge 1 with four Qeent stamps and charge 892 with 27 cents for messenger hoy.” Lady in 25 wints s hair deesser right way, " sang a bell n Pell th in the parlor that her hns phs that he will bie detained in New York all night,” suid Clerd Hewes “Gent in 650 wants u doctor,” smd - an other bellaman Gentin 157 wants his laundry taken yand retarned m half an hour SWhal, usked Clerk Hewes, ©*Washed, irone uu'! retwrned in half an hourt in 72 wants a list all trains Philadolphia, Mr. Howoes. " Ler all the time-tables in the Clork Hewe v said Clork Howes, “I'm tired out. 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