Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1886, Page 4

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ROSEWATER, Enrro ) THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, 1, ¢ uuty of Douglas, | ™ > secretary of The Bee does olemnly swear the Daily Bee Wednediay, e Thursday, De b, Wrriday, Dec, 2 Ay e \ d and sworn to b December, A, D., ISEAL) Geo. B, Tzschuck, being first duly sw deposes and says thiat he is secretary of %, Bee Publishing company, that the actual ay- & erace daily eircutation’ of the Daily Boe for the month of for Fehruary, 185, 11 copie 1858, 12 for Au s, 1 . cople: for March, 185, 13,100 3 for Juin 314 copie ifor Septembe: for_October, for November, 1886, 19 2 @Qro. B, Tzscnvek. Sworn to and subseribed before me this Gth day of Noyember, A . D, 153 (SEAL.] " N.'P Frir, Notary Public. —_— CoLoNEL Criask has been acting as the chorus for Mr. Poppleton in the charter committoe meetings, The key taken by the ex-mayor is not one which will clicit approval from the taxpayers. ONE of the i wets of the legislature should be to do away with the bogus tailway commission. Itisa farce and a laughing stock which has run its course and should give way to something better. Mavacer HeGnrrr should produce his railroad pronosition. Between the intor- vals of real estate investment, Omaha is ready to plant some solid cash in profit- able lines of new conneetions by rail to territory from which she is now excluded. —— EAstery Nebraska will never have large flouring interests until the clevator monopoly which has been built up and muntained by the railroads is broken, {tis a two-cdged sword which cuts down farmers® profits and prevents manufac- ture of the raw material into finished product — activity character the real estate market in Omaha, but it |\ isno less remarkable than the activity which is manifesting itself in every other branch of business in this thriving city. Omaha is growing because Nebraska is flourishing and advancing in population and wealth, Tue fund for Mrs. General Logan 1s rapidly rolling up to figures which will assure the widow of the old soldier from all foars of want in her declining years. The national heart still beats warmly towards the nation's defenders, amonis whom John A. Logan held a prominent and honorable position, — CANADA is joming the procession with & munisterial crisis which means the downfull of the McDonald party in Can- n politics. The result is supposed to have been caused by the government’s treatment of Louis Ricllast year, It takes the average Canadian twelve months to ace the point of any politi issue. / — A rULL and impartial account of the dobate in the charter committee on rail- roud taxation is printed in another col- umn, The atteution of the tax-payers is invited to the subject as dis ed on that occasion, Some points of vital interest to our city were brought into a promin- once which will open the oyes of tax- payers who have notyet fully understood the outrageous tax-shirking which the lporporations have for years been practic- fog i this city A wnrreran the Now York Zines de- clares that he has discovered proofs at Pannma that the Panama Canal company is preparing plans for a eanal with locks, This would secm to indicate that the pur- Ppose is to abandon the idey of a sen-level canal, which would be immensely more costly than one with locks. Cireumstan- tial evidence to the truth of this rtion is found in the fact that DeLesseps do- clares that the canal ean be completed at & furthor outlay of $27,000,000, although over §150,000,000 bave ben expended in doing loss than ove-half the work of making a sea level canal. A canal with locks would probably bo completed with $27,000,000 more money, ahd that 1s, por- haps, the kind of a canal Del.esseps now means, But it is not the kind of a canul he projected, and it will not answes the PUrpose in view. At the first detinite lgn of abandoning the sex leve! schewme, work on the Nicavaugua ennal will cou. menee, Russia is not be suppos: t sho is idlo. contrary there are indications that making steady progress in conty in oxtending her base of operations north of Afghanistan, and is now more strongly ntren pre than she was last year. The new railway | enabled her to anter the provinees north of Cabul and @ashmere, where Russian, Afghan, and claimis are unsett and where British power may be imperiled by in- trigne. If Russia shall undertalk quarrel again with Great Britain in jt sees probable that her of Mevements place in that ve- gion, slthough it will be easy for hor to exert prossure all along the Lne west- om the yicimty of Heral, It i3 { that she has determined to ge- ja as far as the Hindoo oosh mountains, The extension of h ower on the slopes of these mou the subject of eager discu; ersburg. [0 200 | LBt e hud 10 8y | Ti08e speciticd. tha le il Those Paving Contracts. City Attorncy €onnell has given an opinion npon the question whether bids for paving in Omaha during 1837 can be let under advert for 1836 Mr. Conr dvises the council against letting contracts for next year's work under bids specifically made for 1844, His opinion, whio! backed and en- the ablust attorneys in our is made the text for a scurrilous assault by the organ of the paving contractors which comments as follows It Is understood that City Attorney Connell has given an opinion advi readvertising for bids for paving in Omaha during the com- ing year, This was not _entirely unexpected since the unsuccesstul attempt to coerce Messrs, Creighiton, Gallagher and Murphy to support Van Wyck. Mr. Connell was and is the pet eandidate of the Van Wyck outiit for congress, ‘The behests of the Van Wyck outiit are therefore honored to the letter, and opinions to fit the oceasion are ouly a matter of the asking, So far as the Creightor pany 1s concerned, not of that outfit has been Van Wyek. They can e him no sup- port and have been solicited for none The question of the legality or illegality of proposed contracts can have no pos- sible connectigauwith the senatorial con- test. The i \v..&;‘ purely the right of t1 city of Omaha to bind themsclves agreements not sanctioned by the law Mayor Boyd knows this we as any other citizen. 1 has de- clared in advance that he would positively refuze to approve the contracts which are being urged so strongly by the contractors and their nds. During his several trips to Chicago on business recently, Mr. Bovd has earnestly hoped that Acting Mayor Bechel would gulled into aflixing his official signature to documents which Mr. Boyd, who is no friend to the acting mayor, felt contident would be his political destruction. Tho opinion of the Creighton-Murphy com- pany to the contrary notwithstanding, Hon. John A. McShane is business man enough to denounce the jobas one entire- ly unwarranted by law. Mayor Boyd and John A. McShane ought to be as good authorities for the democratic organ as the contractors whom it is at- tempting to bolster up with senseless bravado and uncalled-for assaults on honest city officials Regarding Mr. Connell's opinion, we venture the challenge that not a single lawyer of reputation in Omaha will dare to take issue with the decision of the city attorney on the matter in hand. cment do Murphy com a single member ked to support Claimants ana the Government, Citizens of the United States who are wount to feel a greatpriden the liberality of the government, and to cite its gener- ous policy with respect to the people as contrasted with that of other govern- ments, would be surprised and chagrined if a European should tell them that in some directions this government is less liberal and less considerato of justico to- ward (he people than most of the govern- ments of Europe are. ke, for exam- ple, the matter of claims against the gov- ernment, Inarguing the case of a claim- ant before the court of clmms recently, it was declared that the legal redress given to a citizen of the United States agamst the United States is lessthan he can hav against almost any government in ch: tendom. It was shown that of near! governments that of the United St holds itself the least amenable to the laws. The other governments which refuse or obstruct the citizen in obtal ing legal redress asagainst the government are Rus- sia and Spain, The former alone among the governments of Europe does not hold the state amenable in matters of prop- crly to the law. Spain resembles the United States in fettering the judicial proceedings of her courts by restricting and leaving the exccution of theit de- crees dependent upon the legisla- tive will, This ement is sustained by that made by the committee on claims of the house aslong ago as the thirtieth con- ess, which in the course of a report de- 1 that while the governments of irope, with the exceptions noted, never shrink from a full and fair investigation of the claims of citizen agwinst the N, and always submit to an adverse decision by the cou it hus b left to our own government to deny toa citizen who has » demand against it the power to ty the question before its own courts,and ver has furnished no adequute tribu. the purpose.’ Tlio remedy intended to be supplied by the creation of the court of elaims has not effected the object by reason of the limi- ions placed on the jurisdiction of the court. A bill pussed three years ago to remove to the court a vast number of claims that had grown old waiting for congressional action, was defeated of its purpose by an amendment providing that it should not aftect claims barred by the statute of limitations. Tho result is that claimants must go to congress, wheir there is a bare possibility that their claims will be considered and passed upon during their life- time, but with the chances better for their finding permanent burial. In every congress there is a host of these o vrasented, and many of them are ne surily passed along from session to sess the 5 steadily accumulating. It is said that 80 per cont. of the private bills in the forty-eighith congress had been in previous congrosses, some dating back more thun ageneration, The committee simply does not have the time to consider vms, most of which and equitable. At the last session the senste passed a bill enlarging the jurisdiction of the court of elaims, and a simitar mexsure was in- troduced by the judiciary committee of the house, but neither would gre: liove the erowded docket of the house, Another measure is pending, which pro- vides that herenftor all claims shall be fiied in congress merely as petitions, and shall ut once Le sent to the court of claims for regular judicial investigation, the findings of the court to be certified to congress. This would do much to cure the desired relief to congress and prompter justice to claimants, — The Narrow-Guage Policy, The fact that stands out in bold relief in the charter debute on the taxation of railroad property for city revenue is the position in which the Union Pacificis placed by Mr. Poppleton. The only re- form which the committee has songht to incorporate into the new charter is that raflroad companies shall be assessed on their real estate in the same manner and pay city taxesin the same proportion as other corporations or individuals Tius is- resisted . by Mr. - Popple ton as an imposition on his com- So far as he ble or decently pany, when in fact 1tis both moder- ate and fair. There s no snggestion to §s the personal property of the rail- roads for city purposes, although other corporations are compelled to pay a per tax on every species of property. a locomotive, o passenger car, or even the tracks are to be assessed for city purposes proposed is a city levy on the lots and lands which have been wrongfully ex- empted for many years from taxation When Omaha was a mere village the railroad lands were comparatively a small faction of the whole. To-day the exempted property covers 125 squares or fully one-tenth of the entire arca within the city limits. Now is il fair or reasonable to impose on the owners of the remaining property the burden of city government which is growing heavier every year. Is it prodent for the Union Pacific to oppose a purely local eflort to place their real estate on an equal foot ing for taxation purposes with all other property when they must know that such opposttion will mevitably force a fight on the whole railrond taxation system, which can only end in oue way even if it Tasts for several years, A Slight Mistake, gof “A P Herald crowding a large amount of misinforn tionin a small amount of space, It sures Its readers that there is no prece- dent to it congress in allowing Mrs, Logan anything beyond “tho pen- sion allowed the wid of g officers who served duving the war, completes its biv ing tt widow of General Hancock, althongh congress would have been glad to break the precedent, only receives a pension of $50 & month, Mrs. Hancock draws 2,000 A year pension from tne government by reason of house bill 5841, which grants her thatsum annually for life. It is aston- ishing that the J/orald, with the records of congress before it and the debate of last spring fresh in the public mind, should muke sucha blunder, Congress promptly and gladly granted Mrs. Hancock the pension named. The only point raised was the advisability of allowing her the usual pension granted to president's widows, and this alone was debated. General Hancock was one of the ablest, perhaps the ablest of major-generals in the regular ariny during the war, Gen- eral Logan stood in the front rank of major-generals of volunteers. There is the strongest of all procedents for con- gress to follow in giving Mrs, Logan the same pension as Mrs. Hancock mnow draws, which is not $30ca month, as stated by the Herald, but $2,000 a year. 1ts se foundations having gizen way the argument of the Herald falls to the ground, ion ds for suc in ows —— Tie presence of the artist, John Mul- vany, in Omaha, hasstimulated the hope that an exhibition of two of his most famous paintings, now in Chicago, can be secured while the painter s still among us. John Mulvany is one of the greatest of living American artists. His methods in art are peeuliarly his own, though modelled from one of the best masters As a figure painter he has but fow living superiors. As a colorist he holds high rank. Ilis style and execution stamp him as a creative genius inart, Educated abroad as a youth in the Munich school of t he has been a hard student ever since, steadily advancing in his profession and finding fame and profit through the sale of the work of his brush. Mulvany has had little of the commwercial instinct which makes money and cheaply acquired newspaper reputation the goal of so many painters’ awbition, He has been content to strive for excellence rather than for favor with “hanging commit- tees™ in the ante-rooms of art exhibition. and has been satisfied to find his re: in the sober praise of lis asso masters in their art, and in the prompt le of his works nas they were reluctantly relinquished from the walls of his studio. Omaha should be given an opportunity to judge of Mul- vany's work. It will be a revelation to the who Lave never been brought' into contact with the results of the patient study and arti mspiration of a re- markable painter and a genial gentle man. d ates, Lorp HarriNcroy has declined to ac cept a position in th Some days ago Mr. . Sm cablegram to the New York said: “If Lord Hartington refuses to form or join a coalition munistry, the hour has struck for an Irish parl nf.1 In this there was doubtless voiced the fear of the tories and the hope of the op- position, and there is great reason for gratification among all friends of Ireland that the latter has been realized. There will be a period of uncertainty and politieal confusion, perha before serious home rule legislation beging, but the course of the tide is in the right di- rection, The feur of home rule has veen used as an iron band to hold together by a most repulsive tension the most stufty tories and the strongest radieals in the liberal party. The band has snapped; that 13 the thing n a nut-shell and any repairs must be but temporary, as the permuanent adjustment can only come by a complete recasting of political parties, and the leader that can present the most mtelligent platform based upon reforms that will relieve the people trom the un- necessary burdens of the day will stand at the head. The friends of Irish home rule and many liberals who are waiting to see parlininent turn to domestic legis- lation in England beheve that William Gladstone is t W I¥ the plans of Stanle not inte fered with, he started for Zanzibar yes- rerday. The general desire thut he should ead the expedition to the relief of Emin Bey, even though so capable and experi- enced o man us Thomson is available, shows the profound faith felt in him. [t has been generally understood that no ex pedition would be organized until the arrival of Dr. Junker in London with the latest information as to the existing obstacles on the various routes proposed But it would be perfeetly practicable for Stanley tp mect Junker on the way, since the famous Russian explorer is to be in Cairo on Saturday week, January 8 Indeed, he has already urged that Stun- ley should be sent in command of a relief expedition, as some fighting must be done, and he has declared that the roads are now practicable. There scems to be o full purpose to burry forward the relief e«pedgion, and hence we may presume that Stanley goes in advance to make the preliminary arvangements . - without further loss of tiwe. - knew, “the | o, vt Alithat is | A T saston Squsre, Sausas, co THE OMAHA DAILY BE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1886 PROMINENT PERSONS, Walt Whitman's Glasgow friends contrib- uted 8500 for his Christmas present, Several grandsons ot John €. Calhoun de big strikes during the recent flurry in all street, Governor Alger of Michizan gave the boy of the state reform school 150 vairs of skat on Christmas, Massachusetts will books 1 the Fiftieth ¢ Lodge and Governor The Italian monument to Garibaldi on the Janie in Rome, to cost 1,000,000 francs, Bonanza Mackay gave every employe of the Commercial Cable company both in this country and Europe half a month's salary as a Christmas gift. ssman Gay, of Loulsiana, sweoto ns 118 labors for the dear people with the clicer- ful reflection that he has $1,500,000 invested in sugar plantations, W. H. Wells of Chicago has one of finest collections of English dictionaries and grammars in the country. Of grammars ho has 1,200, no two being alike. Congresman Ben Le Foyre, of Olio, has abandoned all hope of the Turkish mission, and, as he was not re-elected to congross, fears that hereafter he may be obliged to earn his Living. have two aut gress—1lenry Cabot Long. ors lum, Congressman Glover, of Missourl, is to marry Miss Patten, daughter of M a Patten, a wealthy widow of C nia, who owns a large house near the ington home of Senator Edmunds. s001 An for Wash volume sclis ever published. The Lord Tennyson's new freely than anything he condemnation of the erities s outweighed by the voice of fas vd Lord Tenunyson is as mueh the fashion now as ever, more ha Revo Munefsco Al t in the Omala cooking . Perhaps the students were con pelled to eat what they cooked. - England'a Poor Poet, Chiicago Herald, One would think that the charity of the generous Enelisimen who are raising a fund for Walt Whitman would begiu at honie, s they havea poor poet themsely He Got There All the Same, an Francisco Post ‘The latest New York defaulter is seventy vears old and blind, but Is believed to have reached Canada without mishap. The afflicted always fiud safety in the beaten path. ——— Gould and the Bee. Datlas News. From the way Jay Gould hopped when Giresham rendered his decision on the Wabash rcecivership, 1t looks as it the judge had a “bee,” but he had started it up Jay’s pantaloon legs on the inside. e e Art and Anatomy. Peorta Transeript, The Chicago clergymen who witnessed the ballet disagree as to the moral effect of such performance. 1t would seem that one set of vreachers were looking at the artistic move- ments of whe dancers; the others at the limbs. One was studying art; the other anatomy, e L T An Old Man's Soliloquy. Albany Jowrnal. Yes, we're getting old; 'tis almost fifty years Since June and I'set out together, to travel through smiles and tears The journey of life; and now it’s well nigh ended. We've reached the downward slope, And, at last, in our lives content is blended With charity, faith and hope. ‘Cnat form, in bending over her knittir tlie arm chair by my side, (irows dearer to me as life's golden sands in the hour glass downward glid I'mourn not for youth departed, twas only a day dream Tair, Llove best the wrinkled faces, shaded by sil- very hair; We've enjoyed the skies of morning, now comes the sunset west, And, of the two, L think I love life's calmer evening best, , in Youth has its pleasures, I've and know That as the snow however sy leoting That falls in the springtime tearful, and melts as it touches enzth; Or, as the gay bubbles which children blow i their innocent mirth; But, when peaceful age créeps onm, never blighting hearts that are true, ‘Then tho purest joy and peace are felt, witn Leaven just in view, -~ STATE AND TERRITORY. tasted them, et they may be, they're Nebraska Jottings. Stuart marketed $50,000 worth of haled hay during the season Rushville gamblers are paying court alively rate, and the run threatens rupte A strect railroad company with propose to navigate ets of Hastings carly in the spring. Tecumseh is taking a lively interest the proposed Omaha road to” Indian T i ,and wants to get on the main cap- the in ol porker, with a ias been fatfening him pumped dircetly from for on the business, hot milk family cow. A colony of Nebraska Germans have selected land for future homes near Cald- well, Idaho. It 18 said ninety families witl move out therein the next Sixty days. Mrs, Enock Mason. wite of a Platts- mouth shopman, app) blue ointment as asalve to her injured feelings. An emotic weaned her” from the shining shor There are in the State Nat consists of one 1 one company of get. And Brewster has lost the of Blaine county, The “‘seat a quarter of & m where ora was boomers, Even Cheyenne ne ried about the Omah# co the genuine black pugzeets arc brought up, before the end of danu 1 b Soor of cenvious towns will betome dyspentics of the chronic sort, } Monday afternoon, cight miles north east of Dunba rge Ames and Fred Kramm were thrown out of a slejgh. A loadod gun followed and went oft'in the usual way. The shof plowed the right side of Ames’ abdomen eausing death in three bours, He wais twenty-two years of age 1he Creighton T arand jury afte n regard to ex-Treg Kadish's do falcation of nearly $10,000, concluded that a man who steals $10,000 of the p ple’s money is not guilty of embezzle- ment, while the man who holds 8250 for sixty days is a thief, and ought to be prosecuted to the full extenl of the aw."’ The two little boys of R. W. Baird, of Todd Creck, Johmson county, were left at home last Sunday while the balance of the fawily went to church. Soon after they were gone the elder boy, aged 19, took a shotgun that was supposed to have been unloaded, and pointing at his nine-year-old brotuer pulled the trig , when the charge entered the child's :ad, killing hims instantly. The boy re i the sido of his” dead brothe for two hours awaiting the return of the fawmily, and on their he was found speechiless with borror. oflicérs and men enrolled al Guard, The guard giment of infantry and ctillery with guns to onunty seat was carted @ outside the town, vlanted by rival OIS are wor- I'bore. When ‘testimony people are about to erccta | . Ruildeis and Dealers. O RTIRN T L D X at Audubon as soon as the weather will Towa Items, The toral enrollment of s Clear Lake public schools is I'he building improvements of Burling ton for the vear amount to £300,000 4 $20,000 school building will be erected rmit. The number of | wvenport packed to the sea 20th inst fignred it A Union county farmer has age $4.45 an out that it costs on an aver acre to raise corn, The Atlas mine near Des Moines has heen partially al account of an overtlow of w. ) The deposits of the (hree Dbanks of Ottumwa are 862,000, loans and discounts are §750,000. Bentonsport, in Van Buren county, has been selected by asyndicate representing acapital of $75,000 as thesite for a cotton goods manufactory. Senator Allison is good author the statement that thore are abont 333,000 families in the state and out of that num ber 310,000 families are enjoying comfort- able homes I'he national nd their ens of Burlington generously ted 5,200 to the Sisters of St. Francis Christmas offering, to be used in a $20,000 hos hood of Rail Scotic rth America, organized at one month’ ago, has re ious for mem- Council Bl ceived about bership sinc About b a numb stroyed court, gamlb A few month hel of ivory chips and ring tables were de- t Des Moines” by order of the ‘Ihat is the way they enjoin tho ng bouses at the capital, go J. M. McCabe, of Davenport, bought the old Eliiott farm near Des Moines, for $30,000, Last woeek it to the Dewey Bros., of Chicago, for £30,000, thus making $20,000 in four wonths W F. Dove, pastor'of the M hoat Beaman, Grandy county, d of heart disease at that plaee on Chri mas d He was forty-cight years of age and had been in the active sery the ministry for twenty-five years, ‘The soldier boys at the state capitol building creeted a'slight tribute to their fallen chicf, Ge Logan, on the nst. They decorated in white and b) arge granite colums n the second story rotu: . Between these they placed atable, on which is an excellent portrait of the dead general surrounded by dra- pery. Joseph Kabot, aged nineteen, of Du bugue, took somnambulistie leave of his I)A-\‘, jumped through a 2lass door on the second floor of his residence, and, de- cending from the porch to the ground below, walked about the streets of the city for some time with no covering to his body but his underwear. When cap- tured blood was streaming from his feet hands and hea There is danger of los- ing his feet from the ettects of being badly frozen, Dakota, The game law will be in full force on and after Januvary 1. Sioux Falls' building improyemonts for 1886 cost over 500,000, 1t tool x men and a policeman to ar. rest two men at Yankwon the other even- ing. By order of Uncle Sam, 860 head of cat- tle were killed and frozen for the use of [’nxlmnh at Lower Brule agency yester- day. Anthracite coul consumers at Yankton are now at the merey of the railroads, th supply being exhausted at the end of last week. A man near Woonsocket raised his own broom corn last summer and this winter will make about 100 dozen brooms from the corn, The ra ilrond taxes paid into_the torri- torial treasury amounts to $323,533.64, ts from ull sources show a total of 66. The Yankton ladies have been publicly notified not to wear such big 3 at the lecture course, The duinty committee in charge of the lecture season cluim the large hats to be a nuisance, Ranchmen in the hills are making prey ions for farming next summer on a much more extensive seale than thoy have heretofore, and sh he season be propitious the crops will distonce pres- cut expectutions, Mr. Midgely on Pool Busincss, “Yes,” said a railroad man yesterday, who attended the meeting of state commissioners at Des Moiues, la., last week, *{ think that great good viill result from that gathering. It enabled the commissioners from one state to interehange views with those from scveral other states, through which about the same em of roads rum and learn directly more ¢ the laws of such state and how they o enforeed. Mr. J. W. Midgely wa there and made n short address before the convention on_the subject of “I’ools and 1 Vaiue to Railroad Busine Awong ¢ things, he said, “that from their first inception, not only in this country, but in 3 pools on ‘ioint purse atran are called there, haye been, y (hose not familiar with them, regarded with more or less aversiou; and yet, aside from what may seem o be the selfishobject seeuring to e L its fixed percentage of tonnage or its equivilent in money, the interests of the public are conserved by the maintonance of reasonable rates which are intended to be alike to all parties under similar conditions. “The intent, he continued, has heen the ) hibit uniust diseriminat ‘That is pr 1y whiat any well regulafed pool aims nd do it niore effectively than ean be complished by law, however strongly forme But equality of treatment is now whiat man Enippers want. Drofessedly they desire that coupetition slionld be free and unrestricted, In other words they want the railroads to b at liberty to bid one agzainst another. 1f sucl Iatitudeis notallowed bacause of pooling resurictions they claim that competition 15 suppressed and monopolp substituted. They o not point the length 10 which unregulated competition surely feads, Wien two or more roads ure free to “compete for a given trafiie the worst kind of discrimination follows. In- stead of the rates then being alike to all par- s they are unequal as the capuice of the atlroad agent or' the selfistiness of ver may diotate, That inequalit until merely nominal ligures are 1 when that result is attained the criminations against dealers and other sections are practiced, Experience has amply demonstrated that no agrecment will sufice to maintain estal- lisbed rates, unless it is supported by a well concelved and firmly established pool, There i5 & cortain amount of taflic in sight. Each road i resolved to have what it is pleased to tern its sh How is it to be had? Simply by bidding for it, ‘Ihe vesult is s scramble, One shipper may be given one rate. while anothor sceures a lower rate fora 1ike sei- viee "The experience of southwestern lines is not exceptional. ~ When the ‘I'ranscoutinental association dissolved last March rates to und from the Pacific const, whether all-rall or by water and rail, immediaiely fell to absurd] low figures, They have not yet been re stored or Very considerably atlvanced, presumably will not be, until another po | fonied,” T like manuer on the disnuption | of theé contracts formerly existing be tween Chicaxo and Owmahn and Chicago and St Paul the rates fell to a fighting level within & week, A similar disas trous record | : dly been wade by the trunk lines. they failed to agree &s o any vital provision of thelr pool vates fell to prices the continuance of which weant bankruptey to the participants, It was, doubtless, 8 knowledge of these facts which impelled Judgo Brady of the ecircuit court of the United States for the distriet of Oregon, when the receiver of the Oreon & California rallway applied to him for inatiio. tious as Lo whebher Le should comply with the new law of the state, which, Among other things, prohibited posling. in’ deliver ing his opiuion to say: “Pooling freights or dividing earnings Is resorted to by conneet- ing lines of railway asa wmeans of avoiding the catting of rates which, it persisted i, miust result in eorporate suielde. It is not apparent bow a division of the earnings of Led, aid ssest dis- shilppers | roads pool a | Wyek has shown him: | upon whitever LWO such roads can concern or atfect the pub- | ol Ketaty, LO0- R lie 80 long s the rate of transportation on | them is reasonable,”~<Omaha Repubiican, To the Editor of the By It would seem from this article that if the railronds were allowed to pool all shippers would be treated alike, Mr. Midgley holds this inducement out to the commissioners How does it work. For years past, we have had good solid {oots. Was all shipy 'u'hln" ted alike® Was there any re ates, special rates, or advance charges® What nssurance have we when the rail ain that it will not be the me old story. It is stated on good Authority that during the short life of the Standard Oil company and its branches the railroads have rebated to them over | sixty million dollars Lhen there are | forty or fifty more lines fo hear from NE ii YEARS n What good, reasonable excuse can the 4 railroads offer for rebating this money y from the stockholders, especially .F' PRESENT 3% L! & when united in a I, for they them " solves clarm that this poo) is the remedy that all may be try I| alike Suppose run on this plan, charging § per all customers and then sclect & favored fow and give them back 4 per cent. Now, Mr. President, why did you do this? Well,we had com 1 petition;” | had to do it, would probably be his reply. How long would the bank stockholders accept such a statement? - \\'nul.\)(lv-'\ took upon such as_a legiti mate business transaction? No, the [ would say that is stealing, and in eithor m cnge could not the oftic be held crimi nally liable by the stockholders Do we not have conipetition in all business® 1f we protect one we shou'd protect all, Mr. Midgley quotes Judge Brady, of Ore con, but Is to quote Judge Baxter, of Ohio, who raled in regard 1o the pools of the roads transporting coal from the Hocking Valley, The receiver of one road accumulated #100,000 of earn- laid Lvery lot a ings which, by the terms of the b agreement, W to go to the beauty. other pooling companies, Hesitating g f bondholders were waiting for their inter- » Archer's add Cotner & ion to South Omala, consisting of 104 of the finest lots ever out, i3 est, he submitted the matter to the courts which had appointed him. Judge Bax- ter, with much mdignation, ordered that he should “‘not only not’ pay ont this mon but to pay no money ‘whatever for any such purpose while the road is in the custody BE N and added: “Such contracts as these are no more to be respected by the lnw than any other gambling contracts. Hudson' says “What prevents the stockholders of any Tailr from instituting eriminal Pro- ceodings against the otticers who pay out funds which have been fairly carncd for dividends to enrich rival companies who have earncd less® It would be an unex- pected and startling result ot these de- vices for the improvement and elevation of the railw interests 1f some of the respectable pooling ofticials should find themselves lodged 1n the penitentiary for breach of trust, eriminal conspiracy and embezzlement of railway tunds," Dax Pooryan. e A A Straggle With a Lion, s Figaro: A terrible scene oc curred Friday in the menagerie belong- ing to Nouma Hawa (Mme.” Soulet) now performing at Verviers, The rogular rainer of Brutus, a young lion two years old (the mother of which devourcd her trainer at Rowme in 1853), being nws Nouma-Hawa determin to put the animal through a rehearsul of its por- . M. Grenier, one of the attend- ants was in the cage when the lion was dmitted. On the appearance of Mmes. Nouma-Hawa, with her whip, Brutus tlew at her throat, tearing part of her lower ray and otherwise mangling her. amed for help, and Bouvui- Iant, the principal keeper rushed into the and bravely flew to the rescue. gz the brute's jaws he foreed it to let go its hold of Nouma-Hawa, who tound strength to escape from the cage. M. Soulet himself had cutered the e in the meantime and was attacked in his turn, receiving a sove awing., A fearful struggle " th ensued between Bouvillant and the lion, the man fighting and biting in the deadly grapple. At | ] ittt 80 v | Thoy are now onthe Market | i got out, only to swoon . on the menageri — The Nebraska Senatorship. National Pritnne, Dee. 23, We carnestly hope that the senatorial contest in Nebr: will result in the election of General Charl H. Vau Wyck. We hope this becanse we firmly believe that it will be very important to the interest of the veterans to have him re-elected. The soldier needs in congress every active, helpful friend that he can have, and none are at all likely to be of more value to him t nerul 1o be. A soldier himself of exeellent record, Le has the warmest interest in - soldiers, and has been indefatigable in his efforts whereyer he felt that he could render them effective serviee. He sought a place on the pension committee, which many senators shun, for it brings much ed work with little chanee for reputa. ion, and he has since b one’ of its most indust members. He has secured unusta I number of - spe pensions, and libored constantly to enlarge and liberalize the scope of the general pen sion laws, His coergetic support of the bill to incrense the “peusion of widows and minors, and the bill to piace all dis- abled and dependent soldicrs upon the pension roll is well known (o every body who ept o ch of congressional pro. bater, a alwiys pro for wh in the s overestimat Can be seen and the cutire surrounding country is visi- ble. Tt is located ONLY 7 BLOCKS - From the ! PACKING HOUSES. 5 Minutes Walk from the New Brewery. And on aperfectlylevel -®y¥" Piece of Land. e floor. —_— A you By Mail Telegraph, there are no poor lots, can either buy them Or Telephone Do not wait for every lot will be sold by Jan, 1st. ; CONE FARLY -/ AXD AYOID THE RUSH . Lk 4 good , and red for an_ aggressive fight he thinks is vight, lis value to the veterans cannot be waaborn at Fougbs 25 Lots Sold the First Day. , He entered the profession of the law, ind was enjoying a lucrative practice und enviable, profes sional standing when the war broke ouf He raised n regiment among his friends and neighbors, whici: heeame the *“T'enth afterwards the Fifiy-sisih Now and commanded ~ it with sucecss, refusing offers of promotion which — his gallantry and soldiership won for him, because he had promised those who had enlisted with him that he would not leave them durmg the war. He commanded his bri gade during the fast yenr of the war, and was commissioned a brigadier gen’ ] His command had the greatest affection for him, and such was the es- teem in which he was held at home that he was elected to represent his district in four congressos. e emig brasku in 1874, and soon afier duced to accept the position as d to the constitutional conyention ing the aenate in 1876, hoe mended himself so to the people was re-clected twice, and then | us chosen United States senator weed Algernon 8. Paddock 1 course in the sen marked by carnest und inty e conecive n the and | atten- | | Or you will be left. From 100 to 300 PER CENT Madeon money invest- led in these lots in 8 months. 8250 to $500. Enter ler- | Price l"‘ll Terms Easy, Title Perfect, e W g A Tor sale by y aged people cutting o new set of / 1609 FARNAM STREET anguish of catting tecth, | four new leoth 1d seve Room 9, Redick’s Block 'loox. Zerous or injurious to these have attracted w tion to him, A man who has do diers shonld receive the veteran, . New Toeth in Old Age cut, which so iuflamed his gums that he died thercof.” There ure ki stances on record of old people’ wio v more fortunate than this, d w complete sets of tocth X | reached the time of life wher v could | only expect tu be toothless cuses this third set of t the old person had L for Lweuty years or L N duneaw, 1614 Capito] Ave, “grpsmmm e oy