Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1886, Page 4

. NEW YORK Oprrce, ROOM 65 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, MONDAY, LTHE DAILY BEE. OMATA OFFICR.No.914 AND GIoFARN AN ST TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, 3 FoURTEENTH ST, Publiehed avery morning, oxcept Sunday. The gnly Monday morning puper published n the wla TERME BY WAL o Yoar. $10.00 Three Months.... ix Months. 5.000ne Month. Tre Weexry Dee, Published Evory Wednesday, TERMS, POSTPAID: One Year, with prominm 2.5 1.0 £2.00 Month, on trial B Yenr, without premiurm. .. .. i ix Months, without premiunm @ o e i CORRESPONDENCE: All communioations relating to news and edi- torial matters #hould be addressed 1o tho Eot wON OF "HE lixk. DUSINESS LETTERS: All bu sinces Iotters and remittances shonld be nadressed 10 PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafte, checks and postoffice orders 10 b made payablo t dor of the comprny. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER. Eorron. B0 far tho present congress has done absolutely nothing worth mentioning. As a do-nothing body it has never had an equal. Tur cotton-sced oil manufacturers have formed apool of §20,000,000 to re- strict production and maintain prices. “Pure olive oil” will now be advanced a peg in the market. Jonx R, McLEAN is charged with at- tompted bribery by a brother democrat. ‘When the present condition of democratie politics in Ohio is ta! into conside tion the charge surprises no one. THE report t the Rhode TIsland tex- tile manufacturers have pledged a mil- lion dollars for fighting the Knights of Labor is a little tishy. If it were a fact it would not have been made public. Ir is said that the deadlock between the president and the senate will affect appointments. It will have no effect in Nebraska as Miller and Morton have dead-locked the appointments in this gtate long ago, Tue street car drivers of New York have won a famous and a well deserved victory. Twelve hours work and $2.00 a day pay will hereafter be the rule in that city, mstead of sixteen hours and adollar and three quarters, A PETITION has been presented to con- gross praying that the burean of agricul- ture may be elevated into a cabinet posi- ’fion‘ Had this been done before the change of administration Dr. Miller | would no doubt have accopted the place. Tae report that Miller and Morton have kissed and made up has been re- vived, with the amendment that neither will admit it. The people of Nebraska will not believe that » reconciliation has been brought about until Miller and Mor- ton publish a joint eard to that effect. he papers that Mr. Hayward has notified Governor Dawes of his acceptance of the apnoint- ment of judge of the second district. This was entirely unnecessary, as Mr. Hay- ward no doubt accepted long before the ~ appointment was made publi HoLLAND, the Texan, who went to New York and killed Davis, the sawdust swindler, has been acquitted, Now let the gentleman from Texas clean out the rest of the confidence men in the metro- polis and he will render the fraternity of country suckers a great service. THE assessed valuation of real and per- gonal property in Chicago for the year 1884 was $137,826,080, while that of St. Louis was $211,480,710, showing $74,000,- 000 in favor of St. Lounis. This gives oc- casion for a shout of self-laudation on the part of the Missouri metropoli “'Poor old Chicago! Grand old St. Lou _ But, perhaps, if Chicago haa as honest assessors as St. Louis the showing would be in favor of the city by the lake. TIBBLES is once mors on the tr: . vocating the rights of the Indians and explaining the aching void in his own | pocketbool He has reached Boston, " oalled a meeting of her philanthropists, and has been 50 successful that he will shortly take up his quarters in Washing- ton to represent the needs of the Omahas to the officers of the interior department. ' 8ince his Iast disappearance from public * wview Tibbles has been farming in Ban- . eroft. Farming doesn’t pay as well ~ sometimes as fishing for su THERE i3 no reasonable doubt that the Fitz John Porter bill will pass the senate by a good majority. The favorable re- port of the senate committee on military R affairs was signed by Senators Cameron ' of Pennsylvania, and Sewell of New " Jersey. Tothesolid domocratic vote will be added Hoar of Massachusetts, Pike of New Hampshire, Jones of Nevada, Sabin © of Minnesota, Cameron and Sewell, with " possibly Stanford of California. This ~ will assure a majority of at least four, and with Stanford, five. e ONE of our Nebraska exchanges says ‘that tho salary of the governor should be " made #5,000. Past expoerience in Ne- ~ braska does not justify any raise in the rernor’s sal David Butler, the lary of §1,000, had . more brains and ability, if not so niuch “honosty, than any of the §2,500 governors . who have filled the excentive chair since 75, In fact, the raising of the salary " has brought to the front a number of ood men, and now we have got * down to men of willow. " ACCORDING to the fHerald, Lucifer, Ben- Cedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot are all * embodied in one man and his name 18 Charles H. Brown, who, we are told, has - fallen from grace and ‘“‘couldn’t be ‘elected constable in Douglas county.” " We have known all along that Charley own was a “‘slotter-house democrat, of- ive to the nostrilsof Mr. 8.J. Tilden's gtoral purchasing agent. But we did " not know until now that he had fallen than Lucifer. On one point we the Herald does not speak by the _eard aud that is Brown’s awful unpopu- R y. Brown's last majority in Douglas ty was 8187, while the very popular L demoeratic candidate for sheriff who had solid support of the Herald was d under by a little over 2,000 votes. would not be a safe thing just now to on Charley Brown being defeated for ble in Douglas county, unless he something very much more oflensive writing open letlers to slaughter Is Tt a Failure? At & meeting of ministers recently held in New York city the high license law of Nebraska was denounced as a failure. A clergyman presented statistics of its oper- ations in our state, in which Lincoln was quoted as a horrible example of the inad- equacy of the law to restrict liquor sell- ing. Mnch stress was laid upon the al- leged fact that before the law went into operation only scventeen sa- loons were in operation in Lincoln, while twenty-three are now running under the provisions of the Slocumb il Let us nssume that the statistios are cor- reet. What, then? The population of Nebraska has doubled sinee the law went into There is scarcely a city or towr the state which has not propor- tionately increased its population. If the law has proved a failure we would natur- ally expect to find that the growth of the liquor selling industry has kept pace with the growth of the state. Is this the fact? In Omaha, which has more than doubled its population, the number of saloons to-day is smaller than it was five yoars ago. In Lincoln, taking the figures of the speaker at the New York meeting, there is only an increase of fiye. Through- out the state at large, the increase has been proportionately less. Under the local option features of the Nebraska high license law, any county through its board of commissioners can refuse license to all applicants. Wherever public senti- ment in favor of actual prohibition, proliibition ean be put into operation. I'he high license of $500 in the smaller towns has reduced the number of saloons in proportion to the population in all the older scttlements, while it has restricted the traflic n the towns which have sprung up since the law went into eflect to a fow responsiblo dealers, Taking the state as a whole, it is a serious question whether there isan actual inerease in the number of saloons, notwithstanding that the population has increased from less than a half a million to 900,000 within the period covered by the operation of the Slocumb law. High license in Nebraska has not been afailure. It has accomplisted all that its projectors hoped. It has thrown the liquor traflic into respon- sible hands, has cut down the number of groggeries, has made liquor dealers liable for the results of sell- ing to minors and incbriates, has called to its support a class of law-nhjding cit zens who do not believe in absolute prohi- hibition, and has furnished the schools of the state with a handsome income derived from special taxation, with a correspond- mg decrease in the burdens of citizenship. These are actual results, to which the attention of opponents of high license ewhere are directed. The Liberal Victory. The first attempt of the tory leaders to break the alliance of Mr, Gladstone and his party with the Irish nationalists is a failure so humiliating that it is ot likely to be reported until parliament stands face to face with the forthcoming plan for the solution of home rule across the channel. Mr. Holmes' motion to force the premier to disclose his scheme for Irish reform in advance of any discussion of financial measures was the gage of battle. It was promptly accepted. The vote on the question which resulted in the dofeat showed a lberal majority of 160, and the subsequent motion to ad- journ, which was opposed by Mr. Glad- stone, was snowed under by a majority The result is most gratifying to 1leaders. It shows that home gained steadily sinco the open- ing of parlinment. With the nationalist support the premier can now count con- fidently on an overwhelming majority for any measure which he may see fit to introduce. The whigs, with two excep- tions, voted solidly with the govern- ment. The promised revolt of the moderate liberals failed to put in its expected appearance. Mr. Gladstone’s victory is little less than a triumph of personal influence over party prejudice. Inless than two months he has drawn together the various fac- tions of liberalism to a hearty endorse- ment in its policy of justice to Ireland. No one in England doubts that ti:- plan for Irish reform which he is seon to in- troduce, even if it falls short of complete legislative independence, will be a radieal departure from all English traditions of governing that country. The solid adherence of Parnell and his fol- lowing to the liberal leader is proof enough to his foes that the stronghold of caste, oppression and | tyranny behind which English rule in Ireland has been bulwarked for centu- rics are to be vigorously assailed by the measures of lund and legislative reform which Mr. Gladstone is now engaged in drafting. Coercion has already ceased. The police have been ordered mot to in- terferc in cases of eviction, and theland- lords have beon notified to collect their own bills without assistance from the government. These are hopeful begin- nings which promise a future of generous reform, Wanted—A Syndicate, Among the most efl building up St. Paul is a syndicate of heavy property owners, whose business it is to furnish sites at reasonable cost to manufacturing enterprises and to loan them money when such may be required. The $t. Paul syndicate has bought large tracts of land, located near the railroad lines, and it is fast filling up with fac- tories, Omaha is & growing city. She may ex- pend millions of dollars every year in building and in public improvements. But she must have a substantisl basis of employment for workingmen and working-women back of it. Our factories are not keeping pace at present with the jobbing trade. The rapid growth of the eity brought on by building enter- prises and public improvements caunot be maintained for any great length of time unless backed by a wage: population who and yeur out. a dozen first-class factories could have been located here if it had not Meen for the lack of proper sites for the enterprises and the total absence of encouragement offered by our capitalists, What Omala wants is a syndicate to encourage manufaeturing, to furnish sites and to loan capital. We have the capitalists, and there is land in abun- dance. Sucha company would not be a charitable organization. It would be a handsomely-paying investment for all interested. The stimulus it would give to manufucluring in Omaha would stim- ulate the general prosperity of the city. Real estate would feel the impetus; the wholesale and retail markets would in turn be improved by the steadily-increased demand for provisions and clothing. Every steadily-employed workingman added to the population of a city is a val- uable source of income. The wage- earners are the backbone of every com- munity The time has arrived when Omaha can- not afford to lie on her oars any longer in this matter, Noighboring cities all around us are oarrying off manufactur- ing enterprises which if roasonable in- ducements had been offered by our people could have been locatad in our midst. St. Joseph, Kansas City, Cedar Rapids, Sioux City, are all showing a better apprecia- tion of their interests than we are of our own. Mills, agricultural implement fac- tories, stove and plow works, eanneries are belng planted in other cities of half our size, while Omaha, content with what she has, is foolishly expeeting that the present boom will last forever without any further cxertion on the part of her ons. It is o great mistake, and will a costly one, most costly to the viest capitalists, who could reinforce r present great wealth by strengthen- ing the foundations upon which we are building so rapidly, and assuring the per- manency of Omaha's prosperous devel- opment StyveN thousand hills have been intro- duced 1n congress during the present ses- sion. Threo have been passed and signed by the president, and these three are of trifling importance. This is the record of the session. Itison interesting exhibit of democratic imbecility and e of time and money belonging to the public. Six new jobbing houses are secking lo- cations in Omaha, If the present deve opment of the state continues there will be room cnough and to sparo for sixty before another census is taken of Omaha'’s population, PARSON DowNs, of Boston, the hero of anasty scandal, pounded a newspaper re- porter the other day, and now he sues a newspaper for $20,000 for libel. Downs must be preparing the way for his entry to the lecture field CONGRESSMAN Dox: is working hard for his constituents in northwestern Ne- braska. He has personally appeared be- fore the house military committee to ask for increased military protection on tho frontier. THE St. Louls Globe-Democrat says that the selection of Gen. Terry as successor to the late Gen. Hancock is technically unjust. The same sentiment has been expressed by several other leading papers. By the verdict of the Lincoln jury, Lowy, the Chicago loan sharp, gets Smith's $75,000 stock for $40,000, and the Omaha banks get left to the tune of 22,000 and expenses. Bisymarck still insists that the Poles must go. His services ought to be em- ployed against the telegraph’ companies m the cities of this countr; Tur Blair education bill_has passed the senate, but when it gets into the house it will become lost in the shufile. At least itis to be hoped so. The Reagan Bill. The house committee on commerce has reported favorably the Reagan inter- state bill for the regulation of rmlways, and the measure will doubtless come up for discussion in congress at an early date. Mr. Reagan's bill is modified con- siderably from the measure drafted ata vrevious session. It is shorter and more concise, The main and most valuable features are retnined. Thesc include prohibition of diserimination and re- bates, pooling, the charging of a greater sum for a short haul than fora long one in the same direction, and on the same road, and provisions for direct redress by appeal to a United States court with payment of the costs of action Dy the companies if found guilty of viola- tion of the act. The bill as originally in- troduced is as follows: Be it enacted by the Senate and house of representatives “of the United States of America in congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons en- aged alone or associated with others in the slunl:\flon of property by railroad from ono state or territory to or ‘through one or more other states or territories of the United States, or 1o or from any foreign country, di- vectly'or indircetly to’ charge to or receive from any person or persons any greater or less rate or amount of freight, compensation, or reward than is charged to or recelved fro any other person or persons for like and con- temporaneous service in the carrying, receiv- ing, delivering, storing, or handling of the same, All charges for such services shall be reasonable. And all persons engaged a aforesald shall furnish, without discrimina- tion, the same facilities for carriage, receiv- ing, delivery, storage and handling of all proberty of o character carried by him or e, and shall perform with equal expedi- tion ‘the same kind of services connected with the cun(am]mm&eoufl transportation thereof as aforesaid. No break, Stoppage or interruption, nor any contract, agreement, or understanding shall be made to prevent the carringe of any property from befng and being treated as one continuous carriage, in the meaning of this lwl' from the place of nt to the pince of destination, unless interruption, contract ar- or understanding was made in good faith tor some practical and necessary Jurpose, without any intent to avold or in- errupt such continiious carriage or to evade any of the lllfl\'l!flnll" of this act Sec, 2, That it shall be unlawful for any person or hersons engaged i the transport tion of property as aforesaid directly or indi- rectly to allow any rebate, drawback, or other advantage, in any form, upon shipments made or services rendered as aforesaid by him or them, Sec, 3, ‘T'hat it shall be unlawful for any persons engaged in the ourriage, receiving, Storage, or handiing of property s wen- tioned in the first section of this act, to enter into any combination, contract, or agree- ment, by ehanges of schedule, carriage in different cars, or by any other means, with intent to prevent the carriage of such property from being continuons fromn the. pliwe of shipment to the place of destination, whether carried on oné or sev- eral railroads, And it shall be unlawful “for any PErson OF PErsONs CAITYIng property as atoresaid to entor Into any contract, agree- ment or combination for the pooling of 1reights, or to pool the freights, of different and competing railroads, by dividing be- twveen thew the aggregate or net proceeds of the earnings of such railroads, or auny por- tion of thewm, See, 4, That it shall be unlawful for any Jerson of persons engaged in the transporti- ion of property, nu{nru\-ldrd in the fust sec- tion of this aet, fo charge or receive any greater compensation for & similar amount and kind of property, for carrying, receiving, storing, forwarding or IIMIIl“IIIfi the same, for a shorter than for a longer distance on any one raitroad; and the road of a corpora- tion shall inelude all the road in use by such corporation, whether owned or operated by it under a contract, agreement or lease by such corporation. See. 5 That all |\“|Sm\:‘engnfed in carry- hh{ property, as proyided in the first section of this act, shali adoptand keep posted up schedules on its Line whigh' shall plainly state: First, ‘l‘”hem ere tkinds and classes of roperty to he cartied. = sfi'-nn’d. flum«mm plices between which sugh property shall be earried. ird. Thé rates of freight and prices of carrlage between such places, and for all services connected witli the receiving, deliv- ery, loading, unloading, storing or handling the'same, And the accounts for such service shall show what part of the charges are for transportation, and what part are for Joad- ing, unionding and other terminal facilitios, el scliedules fay be changed from, ting to time as hereinafter provided. Copies of such scliedules shall be printed in plain large type, at Jeast the size of ondinary pica, and shallbe kept plainly posted for public inspec- tion in at feast two places in_every depot where freights are recelved or delivered: and no such schedule shall be changed in any particular exce, the substitution another schedu aining the i tions above required, which substitut - sehec ule shall plainly state the time when it shall &0 into effect, and copies of which, printed as nforosaid, shall be posted as above provided at least five days before the same shall go into effect; and the same shall temain in force until another sehedule shall as afore. ubstituted. And it shall be unlawful y person or persins engaged in carry- gperty on ratlronds as atoresaid, after thirty days after the passage of this acty to charge or rocelve more or less compensation recelying, delivery, loading, ing or storing of any of the ¢ the tist section of 5| fied in such sched- at the time be it foree. nat each and ali of the provisions ly to all property, and loading, utload: storing or carriage of one actually or substan- arriage or s part of sucli continuous carriage, as provided for in the first section of this act, and the compensation therefor, whether such property be cartied wholly on ohe railrond or partly oi several railroads, and whether such services are performed or compensation pald or re- ceived by or to one person alone or i cons nection with another or other persons. Sec. 7. That each and every act, matter or thing in this act declared to be unlawful is hereby prohibited; and in case any person or ons ns defined in this act, engaged as aid, shall do, suffer or permit to be act, matter or thing in this act pro- forbidden, or shall omit to do any ror thing in this act required to be done, or shall be guilty of any violation of the provisions of this act, such person or per- sons shall forfeit and pay to the person or persons who may sustain damage thereby @ sum equal to thiee times the amount of the damages 5o sustained, to_ be recovered by the Derson or persons so damaged by suit in any state or United States court of competent jurisdiction wlhere the person or persons causing such damage can_be found or may have an agent, office or place of business: and if the court before which any such action 15 tried shall be of opinion that the violation of the law was willful, it shall make an_ al- lowance, by way of additional costs, to the party injured sufiicient tocover all his coun- sel and attorney fees. Any action to be brought as aforesaid to be considered, and if 50 brought shall be regarded, as a_subject of equity jurisdiction and discovery, and aflirm- ative relief may be sought and obtained therein. In any such action 8o brought as a case of equitable cognizance asatoresaid, any director, ofticer, receiver or_trustec of ‘any corporation or company aforesaid, or any re- ceiver, trustee or person aforesaid, orany agent of such corporation or company, re- ceiver, trustee or person aforesaid, or any of them, alone or with any other person or per- sons, party or parties, tay and shall be com- pelled to attend, appear and tostify and giv evidence; and o claim that any such te mony or evidence might or not tend to erim- inate tho person testitying or giving, ovic dence shall be of any avail, but such evidence or testimony shall not be used as against such person on the trial of any indictment against him. The attendance and appear- ance of any of_the persons who as aforesaid may be compelled to appear or testify, and the giving of the testimony or evidence by the same, respectively, and the production ot books and papers thereby, may and shall be compelled the samo g 'in_tho case of any other witness; and in case any deposi- tion or evidence, or the production of any books or papers, may be desired_or required © for tie purpose of applying for or sustafnimg any such action, the same, and the production of books and papers, may, and shall.be-had, taken and compelled by or before any United States commissioner, or In any mannr provided or to be provided for as to the taking of other depositions or evidence, or the attendance of witnesses, or the production of other books or papers I or by chipter seventeen of title Ti¥itcen of the Revised Statitos of the United No action_aforesaid shall be sus- of prope this act t ulg as may Sec, 6. T of this nct shall the receiving, ing, handling, the' same, on tially continuous year after (o party complaining shail havé come to & knowledge of his right action. And as many causcs of action as may accrue within the year may be joined in the same suit or comblaint. Sec. 8. That any director or officer of any corporation or company acting or engaged as aforesaid, or any receiver or trustee,lessee, or person acting or engaged as aforesaid, or any agent of any such corporation or company, receiver, trustee, or person aforesaid, or of one of them, alone or with any other corpora- tion, company, person or party, who shall wilfully do, 0F cause, or willingly suffer or permit w be done, any act, matter or thingin his act required to be done, or cause, or will- ingly suffer or permit any act, matter or thing so directed or required by this act to be done not to be so done, or shall aid or abet any such omission or failure, or snall be ility of any Infraction of this act, or aid or fbet therein: shall be guilty of a misdemcanor, and, upon conyietion thereof, shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars. Scc, 0. That nothing in this et shall apply rringe, receiving, storage, handling warding of property wholly within one State, and not shipped from or destined to some foreign country or other state or terri- tory; mor shall it appl topmteny carried for the United States at lower rates of freight and charges than for the general public, or to .the transportation of articles free or'at re- duced rates of freight for charitable purposes, or to and from pufiuc fairs and expositions for exhibition. Sec. 10, That the words ‘‘person or per- sons” as used in this act, except where other- wise provided, shall be construed and held to mean person or persons, officer or officer: corporation or corporations, company or con mxlen. receiver or receivers, trustee or trus- ces, 1essee or lessees, agent or agents, or other person or rsons acting or engaged in any of the mat ers and things mentioned ginal bill is amended in the fol- lowing particulars: “The District of Columbia is included with the states and territories. Lo the third scetion, prohibiting pool- ing, is added a clause making it a sepa- rate offense for every day the pooling ar- rangement continues, Section 7, which fixed the penalty for breaches of tho act at three times the amount ot damage, is changed so as to impose full damages, with the addition of attorney’s fees. 11 Section 8, providing thata fine of $1,000 shall be imposed upon raifroad oflicials violating the act, is changed 50 as to make the fine §2,000. A new paragraph is inserted at the in- stance of Ropresentative Weaver (in- tended to fit the cases of the Grand Trunk railroad), as follows: | Any company recelving treight in the United States for shipment through foreign countries, the ultimate destination of which is some place in the United States shall keen posted in & conspicuous place at the points of shipmenta schedule iving the thiough rates to points in the United ‘States beyond the foreign territory. A falinx to do so shall subject the conipany to t nalties fixed in the bill, and any other shipment into a for- eign counlry and reshibments into the United States the throuxh rates on which Lave not been published as required by this act, shall, on reaching the United subject to eustoms duties as ifhit w production. POINTED PARAGRAPHS, Tho telephone operator has a perpetual hol lor day. A wallet, like a jackknife, is only useful when open. Advertising isa good deal like making love toa widow. It can't be overdone. The pugilist who strikes out quiekly be- lieves in the immediate delivery system. ‘The first flowers of spring—Those which your wite selects for her Easter bounet. The quickest way for @ young man to be- MARCH 8. 1886 come a millionatfe is to marty & million- airess, A Kansas grocer has been doing a heavy business in bottles labelled “Jeffersonian Stmplicity.” Congressman Springer rofors to the ex- tremely decollete dresses, whieh are so fash- fonable in Washingtoh this winter, as “the low-and-behold style.” An inventive genius at Los Angelos has patented a machine to keep oranges from spoiling. A small boy with one hand tied can beat this machine for keeps. New York boodle aldermen are rusticating in New Jersey, They think it better to risk being struck by Jersey lightning than to be stunned by Conkling's thunder. A German roshed into a drug store on Penn avenue, Pittsburg, and exclaimed, “Mein Gott, young mon, I eat raw pork, and I dink dere vos dose machinery in it.” What Bismal Deserves, Chicago New We are sorry to hear that Prince Bismarck is sufforing with rheumatism ~ What he de- serves is trichiniasis, o Handy With the Scissors. Aflanta Const| ton. Moses Handy declar in the hands of an editor entirely great the scissors are as mighty as the pen, i A Name for “'Olco," Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Germans have entered thelr protest against “artificlal butter,” and demand that itshall bo branded “table fat” That isa good, onest name for | paitie A, President Evarts. Brooklyn Eagle. Senator Ingalls indicates the only presit dency that hie illustrious compatriot, the Hon. William Maxwell Evarts, is likely to attain—the president of a college of politi- cal archwolovy. ——— What Shall We Do With Our Girls? Extelline (Dal) Bell. “Whom shall our girls marry?” asks a New York editor, with considerable anxiety. Out here the expe) being tried of having our girls ma The scheme will certainly bear inv Yos, Americans in Hiding. Chicago Tribune. . ‘The fact that several cases of lepr osy have been discovered in Canada may lead man, people to believe that the terrible malady nothing but a skin disease and that it may have been imported by the Americans who make that country a resort after skinning ronethey can over here. it Prohibition Unreasonable. Richmond State. In the future, asin the past, the State will oppose prohibition, whether local or general, believing that it is as unreasonable for a ma- Jjority of men to claim theright to say what a man shall drink as to sny what he shall wear, whether he shall ride or walk, or shall chew or smoke, or do neither. prs g AT In Training for the Presidential Nom- ination. St. Louls Globe-Democrat. Congressman Wolford, of Kentu thinks the time has come to forgive Jeff Davis, and vote him a pension as a Mexican war vet- eran. The proposition is put upon the ground of common magnanimity to a person who has suffered enough for his sins; but we sus- pect the real motive is to place Jeff Davis in training for the next democratic nomination for the presidency. ————— What High License Would Do For Indiana. Indianapolis News. An advocate of high license makes the point that it would be a comparatively easy thingto pay off the state debt ot Indiana by saloon licen "Ine bona fide indebtedness of the state, exclusive of the non-negotiable school fund bonds, is about §1,700,000, In roundfnumbers there are 6,000 saloons in In diana, which, under high license, would probably bo reduced to 4,000 or even 5,000 If each of these should be taxed $500 annually it would give the state a revenue each year of $1,500,000, which would soon pay the debt and nearly all the state expenses besides, S e Charity Balls. North Bend Flail. Chicago and Omaha and other towns of much significance have been having their charity palls recently. Sam Small, the as- sociate of Sam Jones, who is holding a series of meetings in Chicago, remarked the other day that hell was never more hilarious than when charity was yoked up with a ball. 8am is, evidently, too hide-bound. He has not even the sagacity of the ignorant old lady who was praying for bread. Boys who were passing heard her earnest petition and think- ing to get & joke on her, procured bread and threw it down the chimney. She immediate- ly began to thank God for bread, when the boys desiring to set her right, told her that it was not God, but they that brought the bread, “Idon’teare,” she exclaimed in un- doubted fervor, “God sent it, 1f the devil didbring it.” Prof. Beers, of Yale College, A whale of great porosity And small specific gravity, Dived down with much velosity Beneath the sea’s concavity, But soon the welght of waters Squeezed In his fat immensity, Which varied—as it ought to= Inversely as his density. 1t would have moved to pity An Ogre or n Hessian, To see poor Spermaceti Thus suffering compression, The while he lay a-roaring In agonies gigantic, “The lamp oil out cameé pouring ‘And greased the wide Atlantic. (Would we had been in the navy, And eruising there! lmagine us All in a sea of gravy, With billow oleaginous,) At length old million Low In a bed of cora Gave his lust dving tlotnder, Whereto 1 pen this moral: MORAL. 0 let this tale dramatic Anent this whale Norweglan And pressures I Warn you, my young )mumlur, drostatie collegian, That down compelling forces Inerease as you get deeper; The lower down your course s The upward paih's the steaper, Van Wyck's er Friends, Chic orald Senator Van W, , of Nebr of the few western senators who re sent the people us distinguished from the ilroad, land, silver, cattle and lumber rings. He has been an outspoken oppo- ntof all jobbery, und his efforts as a islator have in most instances been cted to the relief of the people from sive taxation. wasteful expendi- and corrupt combinations. is soon to expire the corpor aresharpening a v large knife to be used on him and no ex- ertion or exvense will be spared to bring about his defeat. i F Since this much is in, it is gratify ing toobserve that the farm thiis state are organizing in Van ¢ fense. Too often citizens,busy with th own private affairs lu-rnm some duty which concerns everybody to go by de- fault, and men united by ‘selfish” ties, nfi- gressive for personal intérest and well Supplied with money, find little difficulty in reaching their own ends. 1f the furm ers of Nebraska will extubit a tith of the interest in the approaching contest that Van Wyck's opponents will display, they will have no trouble in re-clecting hi and preventing the seloction of an active agent of monopoly. P — GEN. GRANT'S MEMOIRS. His Widow Rececives a Oheck for $200,000 and 1s Promised as Much More. New York Times: Charl & Cov, the publishers of Goneral Grant's book, sent Mrs. Grant a cheek yesterday | 1 for 200,000 as her portion of the proceeds v derived from the sale of the gen- eral's book. The check is drawn in favor Julia D. Grant on the United ational bank of this city, and the i Mrs. Grant specifios that the check is ‘to apply on ncconnt of Yro!i(l aceruing from the sale of Volume of ‘Personal Memoirs of U. 8. Grant.” In the letter concerning the check writ- ten to Cyrus W, Field, Mr, Webstor says “The contract with General Grant for ilie publication of the Memoirs was signed just a vear ago to-day, since which time the book ias been practically written, published, and at bulk of mioncy for the tirst volume ctod, 1t seome fitting to me on the anniversary of the signing of that contract Lo pay to Mrs, Grant the eheck which you know about, and It will nccordingly be handed her this niorn- g, Mare Is due her and will be pald as soon peted. ect to collect as much agaln when 8, S0 that s, i year from publica: tion will not fall below” $400,000, and will probably reach $500,000,” Both' as ards the time and the amount involved this is the most extraor dinary result of authorship in the histor of English literature. Nor is this all, for on the day the contract was signed, Feb- ruary 27, 1885, Mr. Webster gave to General G check for §1,000, Mr. Webster remarked yesterday that this last was probably the most accept- able cheek that General Grant ever re- ceived, for it went to him at a time when he was broken in health and fortune and gorely in need of money: that time decidedly skepti of his book, and rep: 3 stant: “Do not base too much hope, 1, on what Mr. Webstor says, because he is altogether too sanguine.” How- although he neyer saw a bound of his book he lived long enongh to ize that it would be a financial sue- though he did not even then dream ta splendid venture it would prove. saw the vrinted sheets, and Webster & Co. were hurrying upa bound copy for him, but he died four days before 1t was ready. The largest sum ever rec befe in one lump by an author for a bovk was a_check for £20,000, (§100,000), iven b, publishers to Lord Macaulay as the ment_on his “History of Eng- . Walter Scott made about £500,000 by his pen in something like ten years, but $200,000 in one year and £500,000 in less than two years is alto- gether unprecedented. Nor are th all the remarkable facts connected with the The first edition, ved now remuin in the hands of the pub- lishers. The second volume is in active prepar- ation and will be issued some time during the month of April. Forty presses ave at work on it, and the platesare soarranged that every impression of the presses ints an ontire copy of the book. Th made by M Vobster & Co seneral Grant wi have ne profited selves. They agreed to give him 70 per cent of the net profits derived from the sale of the home edition and 85 per cent of the profits of the an cdi Sampson Low, Marston, § o fon. of London. who publish the foreign edition, give W 2 ) per cent of the net'profits. 3 rg- est pereent; ever an American book abrond o e b The Indian Problem. Boston Advertiser, The passage by the scnate for the see- ond time of the carefully drawn bill for giving Indians titles in soveralty to allot- ments of land on their reservations is a step toward the consummation of a scheme of dealing with the red men which has in it much of hope and encour- agement. For several years it has been under discussion, and the judgment of those who have most unselfishly intor- ested themselves in the welfare of the Indians has constantly urged the measure as a nccessary stage of the process of converting dependent tribes into the con- dition of industrious, self-supporting citi- zens with fixed homes from which they could mot be dr The Indians are now comparatively few who do not know that their former manner of life must be i;i\-cn up. To live by the chase isno onger possible. To live as paupers on vast tracts of land uscless to them, and held by no title which the government peets when sufliciently strong influ- onces urge its s does not tend to their progress or their happiness. Not all the Indians are equally advaneed, but in many of the tribes there is an intelli- gent and earnest desire to own a farm by o secure title, such as the white man has, which every person and the goverument itself is bound to respeci But this i no means all that has to be done. Itis in truth but the beginning a faot which makes it morc necessary that this essential beginning should be made promptly, in order that its privil- eges my availed of promptly by every tribe as fast as its members are ready. One important object of this legislation is to break up the lations and government.” But itis oby ous that the disappearance of this govern- ment, objectionable as it may s judged by the standards of iliza cannot safely be dis) ed with unless another form i3 nment is substi- tuted. The Indian, no more than the white man, will flourish under anarchy. The statute extends the 1 of the state or terr n which the Indian reserva- tion may be over the Indians: but exper- ience shows, as in the case of the Omahas that su brovision is inoperative while the reservation system continues, and particular United States laws enacted for that s are unrepealed. There arve laws forbidding & white man to go upon the re. tion, whichimay be enforced against oflicers going upon reservations 10 make ts. There are laws whi forbid making con with on account of which they can lease readily the land they hold in sev alty, or any part of it nol cultivated by themselyes, not purchase stock or im plements necessary to enable them to cultivate it them! s unless they pay I which few of them can do. t need for all Indians who are My co land in sey- is the recognition of their eitizen- ship, W ights and all the res- )um:llvililiufl of any citizen under the law There are thousunds of Indians us well d for such citizenship as the emi- ts who have established themse ms in the vicinity of their resc They arve as intelligent . a8 industrious, as well able to tak o of themselves and their prop erty if they hud the same opportunitics 1t {8 not their capacity,but the law which diseriminates against them and degrades them. It neither protects themnor those who deal with them, but simply pauper izes and enslaves themn, It is a mistako to suppose that the white people living near the Indians in sections where settlements are well es. tablished to not want their Indian neigh- bors to be fairly treated. While they had acts | allotments of | inalienable for twenty-five years. Ws | have lately seen the record of proceed- into the feell viclmty of arket, thero wag a difforent g}‘!\ t‘llt now ex! un’ in the n?l ns who hate received and in severalty which are ings at several meetings in townships ad- acent to the Omaha reservation—mect- ings presided over by clergymen, which gave formal expression to the public opinion of tho best people. They recog: nized that it was tor their own interest | as well as that of the Indians, since they must live in_the neighborhood, that the fians should have the fall protection w in making ull contracts except for the alienation of their land, and should enable to the law in the same man- other citizel pebidd S Stories of Horatio Seymonr. In the bad old days before the war, ymour was eleoted gov- t time—1 think it was in de himself very unpopu- wce people by vetoing the sumptuary laws passed by the logis- lature, About that time he made a pro- longed tour of the west in company with that veteran politician and_ statcsman, who had already cast all his fortunes with the republican party, Hivam Bar- ney. Near los Moinos, fowa, Sey was shot at from the roadside on about dusk. He had got out of the to walk alittle ways when the oceurred, and he hastily returned to his seat, remarking that gamesters were too thick about there. He I the bullot whistle past his ears. This is the fi time the attack has ever been publicly spoken oty though he often told of it to members of his family, He was intensely hated at ¢ time. 1e and Bar- ney, while examining the Fox and Wisconsin river improvement, in which scheme they both beeame interested, stopped one night at Madison at the prin- cipal tavern. ney noticed a man tehing him rather” impudently, and with peculiar interest, in the barroom, which was the sitting room of the place, but thonght little of it. When they came to leave the driver smd to Gen, Barney ““You are Governor Seymour, Ihelie That man on the porch with the slouch hat on hates youlike pizen.” “What does he say of me?” asked Bar- v, with a la h. “Says,” answered the driver, “that you Took jest as a man ought to look who'd veto them temperance laws. Says "re evidently a very hard drinker, and s stamped on every lineament of your countenance.” T'he mistake was a For Seymour was _ aly a pale, blood- less man, who looked as he lived on turnips, while Gencral Barney was of full habit and pink_face, suggesting the bon ant, though he was a very moder- ate drinker indeed. rtired of telling this story In this connection 1 1 a new story of Lin- coln, told me by a distinguished publicist of hiStime at the Century club the other night. In_the early summer of 1863, vernor Morgan, alarnied by tho demo: cratic meetings demanding ilcclullnn's restoration to the command of the army, went to Wushington to lay his fears be- fore the president. Going at once to the White House, he sought and obtained an interview at once. “Mr. Lincoln,” ho Inm of the indignation meetings and the excitement, “if you don’t peen 1an to command, ordo something to mol- ify the democ Horatio Seymour will ho tho next president of the United States.” Mr. Lincoln replied with unusual em- nost natural one. , after telling 't ‘hate’ McClellar he papers port, nor even dislike him, and never ealled him_‘a traitor,” nor thought of him as a traitor; but, gover- slow that I can't stand him?’ brought down his fist on the desk with emphasis as he spoke. “As to_Sey- mour, it's all right. The people of the north are determin that the rebellion shall be put down. They will not choose any man president unless he i determined and does all he can » vigorous proseceution of the war If Seymour proves to be that man, and if he does more than any other man can do, he will be the man who ought to be expectution that the Indians would be ro- moved, sud that their lands would come | i , and Il do all I can to make him president.” Governor Morgan became satisfied that this was the wise view to take of it, and McClelian remained in retirement at Trenton while Hooker pushed on toward Gettysburg. e Thousands of women bless the day on which Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Proserip- tion’” was made known to them. In all those derangements causing backache, dragging-down sensations, nervous an ‘ral debility, it is a sovereign remedy, sothing and healing proporties ren- it of the utmost value to ladies suffer- ing from “internal fever,” congestion, ine flammation, or ulceration. By druggists, - Lay Over, Sal. 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