Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1887, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JANUARY 24, 1897. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly Moentae Bdition) including Sunday B, One Yen oty For 8ix Months. .0 r Throo Months oo ise he Omaha Swnday [iee, o ress, One Yc: viasine ATIA OFPICY, 014 AND 018 FARNAM ®W YORK OFFICE. ROOM 65, TRING ABHINGTON OFFICE, CORRESPONDENCE ! All communiontions relating to news and edi- torial matter shouid be addressed 10 the Eni- TOR OF THE DEk. BUSINESS LETTRAS! ATl businoss lotters and remittancos ah Drafts, checks and postofi 10 be made payable Lo the order of the company, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPAY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Circulation. Biatoof Nebraskn, 14, County of Douglas. Geo. B. Tzsehuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee o1 the week ending Jan. L1st, 1857, Was a3 follows: 18,000 Average....... . GEO. Bubscribed and sworn to in my pr this22a day of January A. D, 187, N. P. Frin, ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. B, Tuschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he 1s secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erace daily cireulation” of the Daily Bee for the month of January, 1856, was 10,378 coples, for February, 16%, 10,595 coples; for March 886, 11,537 copies; for April,’ 185, 12,101 : for May. 1888, 12,439 coples; for June, 13,208 copies: for July, 1856, 1 : for August, 1 12,404 coples 1886, 13,030 copies; for Bcw‘n ", 1886, 12,088 coples; for November, 1886, 18,348 copies; for December, 1856, 13,237 copies, GEo. B. TzSCRUCK. Sworn to and subseribed before me this 1st dn( of January A. D, 1887, SEAL,| N. P. Feirn, Notary Public. nce Tie newest thing day by day is a new addition to the city of Omaha. —_— Mr. PAT GARVEY was nominated as o representative of labor. He was elected as such and pledged as such. Having sold out his constituents, ho must bo sat- isfied with the price received. But he cannot explain away his treachery. Trr battle has just begun. It will be carried on vigorously in spite of the work of sell outs and traitors and the lavish use of Burlington money. The legisiature has placed itself on record on the senatorial s It will now be called upon by an aroused and indignant veople to record its votes on other issues scarcely less important, For *‘palsied hog he roasted’ read “palsied hag" in our yesterday’s cable- gram from London which quoted Gilbert & Sullivan’s new operetta. The refer- ence was to a witch burning and not to a rural barbecue. When the intelligent vroof reader shakes hands with the equally intellizent compositor, poectical canons and ordinary common sense fre- quently fall together by the wa E——— CoN GALLAGER and Hugh Murphy put up the dirty job that fixed Pat Garvey, and induced him to break his verbal and written pledge to support Charles H. Van Wyck. Garvey himself was the mover of a resolution in the democratic caucus to cast the united strength of their men for Van Wyck. After signing a paver to that effect he was roused out of bed by Murphy at half past two on Tharsday morning. What took place can readily be imagined. Tt is more than probable that Murphy & Gallager will have a grading contract from the railroads next summer, A CORRESPOND! writes to know the chances of a second lieutenant in the sig- nal corps for promotion to General Hazen’s shoes. There is absolutely no chance. Sccond lieutenants are never made brigadier generals at one bound any more than first sergeants are elevated tothe coloneley of regiments. The sig- nal service is the only branch of the army in which there is no promotion. It is headed by a brigadier general and jumps down the line to number of second lieu- tenants, who have no opportunity for rising above that rank. If a successor 15 appointed to fill the vacancy left by Gen- eral Hazon's death it will probably be a colonel of the line or Captain Grecley ot the Fifth cavalry. Tae Humphreys court marshal at Washington barracks is a trayesty on military justice and a serious reflection on the common sense of the division com- mander who permitted the case to come to trial. Lieutenant Humphreys is being tried upon the grave charge of permitting his children to skate on an ice pond against the prohibition of the post com- mander, Mr, Humphreys denies that he gave lus girls any such permission and a court is to decide the momentous issuo. Nine officors hayve been summoned to sit in judgment, three from Fort Wayne and the others from New York state, all of whom cre allowed four cents a mile for traveling expenses, besides their hotel bills, and iv will all foot up a consider- able sum. Tue abuse which the demoeratic rail- rogue organd heaps upon honest demo- crats who stood by their convictions and the instructions of their constituents in the late senatorial contest will not ma- terially assist the fortune of the tottering concern whose whole record has been one of treachery to its party and to the com- munity in which it has struggled along on driblets of railroad patronage, 1t will gain nothing by applying the languag of the brothel and bar room to men who had the courage of their honest convictions, and who dared to fuce the malice of the disap- pointed slanderer rather than the rage of an wroused and iudignant con- stituency, Decent citizens everywhere will resent the vile billingsgate which Dr. Miller's moral organ pours out upon men whose character and reputation can- not be successtully assailed from that quarter, And s party which dechined through its representatives to play stool Pigeon to corporate monopoly n the late senatorial canvass will yet hold a reckon- ing with the paper which lampoons men whowm the democracy delighted to honor because it knew them to be beyond and above the influences which have for years gontrolled and moulded the policy of their assailant, Thut Roll of Honor, The hireling and bulldozer who -was brought here by Dr. Miller from Minne- apolis, where he had played out himself and worn out his party, has the impu- dence to admonish the friends of Van Wyck to keep their hands off while be is scalping and knifing the decent and honest legislators who refused to prosti- tute themselves to the railroad gang. He has held up a dozen reprobates to the gaze of the people as the roll of honor and made the most indecent and filthy onslaught upon men whose boots he is not worthy to black. Now, while we have no desire to meddle with democrats and democratic factions, we regard it as our privilege as well as our duty to de- nounce guttersnipe journalism and brand as infamous the scoundrels and hypo- crites, who, under the mask of party, are plying the yocation of the cowardly and venal bravo. It is a credit to the democratic party of Nebraska that only ten out of thirty-seven democrats were 50 base or corrupt or cowardly as to fol- low the dictates of corporate dervishes who were howhng “party” while in fact they were playing the stool pigeon for the republican railrogues. Perhaps two or three out of the ten composing this vaunted ‘‘roll of honor'* were innocently duped, but itis an open secrot that the others were willing tools and bribe-tak- ing wretches who are not fit to i 1f justice were done some of these men, together with the republican conspira- ators who sold out Van Wyck, would never be allowed to go back to Lincoln. At any rate, these villamns ought and will be politically strangled and their names will forever remain a stench in the nos- trils of decent men of all parties. No apology on their part, no explanation or fulsome praise from the railroad org grinders will ever set them right again with the people or resurrect them from political graves. Not a Rebel Claim. We notice thax several of our country exchanges scem to be somewhat agitated over the vote of Congressman Dorsey in favor of the bill passed last month to reimburse the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad for property (the McMinnville & Manchester railroad, now a part of the Nashville & Chattanooga) appropriated by General Thomas during the war. The bill is denounced as a *‘rebel m," and as opening the gate to a flood of legisla- tion of a like character. Nothing of tho kind. The bill as passed is similar to one of the same kind relating to the samo rond recommended by the unanimous vote of the judiciary committee of the Forty-eighth congress, of which committee K. Valentine was a member. The rails of the road were taken by General Thomas un- der an act of congress whose object W to enable the authorities of the United States to take railroads near the scene of conflict but not in the enemy’s country, Under the same law the Baltimore & Ohio and a score of other roads owned and operated by loyal men were taken by the military authorities and their owners compensated after the war by the quar- termaster general. The claim of the roud in question cd upon and approved by Gene. , and would have probably been as promptly paid had it not meantime becn sold to the Nashville & Chattanooga system, which was then in debt to the government for purchased property. Congress wa cordingly ealled upon to adjust the c! The bill was so eminently just and fa and the facts of the ownership of th road by loyal men, its operation at the time in a loyal country and its ap- vropriation under promise of compen: tion, were all so clear that the committee reports were unanimous in its favor and the bill received the support of such vet- eran opposers of war claims as Mr. Reed, of Maine, who made an extended speech in its favor and assisted materially in its passage. The bill has not a single clement of the ‘“rebel claim’ about i Its object was simply to securca just debt owed by the government, acknowl- edged by the war department, but so tied up in the technicalities of red tape as to require congressional action., E. The Senator-Elect. General Van Wyck’s speech in con- gratulation of the success of Senator Pad- dock’s caucus was a gruceful and gener- ous tribute to his Iate opponent and sen- atorial predecessor. It wasfree from the bitterness of defeat. There were no traces of the disappointment which must have been keenly felt, no tinge of resent- ment at men and methods which had se- cured a result so unlooked for and unex- pected by the senator, and no disposition manifested to cast a straw in the path which another and not he was to tread toward political honors of which he had been so unjustly deprived. He bespoke for Senator Paddock the confidence and support of his following in every effort for the advancement of the state and the interests of the people and, predicted for him a successful term and the conti- donce and regard of his constituency. Let us assume that General Van Wyck is o true prophet. The BEE has no as- sault to make on Mr. Paddock’s canvass, He made an open and square fight, Ho was the accident of the treachery of others. Without being the candidate ot the monopolies, he occupied a position where their warfare on Van Wyck strengthened the supporters of his own candidacy,and finally drew a majority of republicans over to his standard, rrom- inent in a weak field, he reaped to a great extent where others had sown, largely because he had created fewer antagonisms and had fought his battle on lines of fairness and decency. Mr. Pad- dock will be given every chance by the people of this state to fullill General Van Wyck's predictions of the ability which he will display and the success which awaits him, He is well known and is personally popular. He has had large legislative experience and the training and education of long public life. His mistake in the past has been an apparent disposition to drift with the current of party sentiment rather than to direct it into new aud more useful channels by the excreise of a bold and aggressive personaulity. Useful in the committee room and in the work of securing for Nebraska her share of the attention of the treasury department, his chief failure lay in valuing appropri- tions above economical reforms which he might have adyanced, and at times listening more keculy for the applause of the politicians thau for the faver of the public. Mr. sent years, Paddock from the circulating ab- six fu- been for his has senate among ture constituency, watchung early ‘in- vestments grow into a handsome compe- teney, and, unconsciously perhaps to himseH, feeling the political pulse of the state as it throbbed in sympathy with the work of his suecessor on the floor of the senate. During that time he has seen Nebraska double in population, and has witnessed a remarkable revulsion in sen- timent on questions which were once discussed with Dbitter acrimony among republicans. In a large degree his sena- torial career has been already carved out for him. Inastill larger degree it re- mains for him to shape and mould it for himself. He will be successful in propor- tion as he sees clearly or dimly the needs of the day, the will of the people and the true interests of his party. America's Shipping Intorest, The national board of trade, in session at Washington last week, rejected a reso- lution favorable to the pronosition to encourage the shipping interest of the country by a system of subsidies. The national board is understood to be the representative body of boards of trade and chambers of commerce throughout the country, and is presumably composed of the most intelligent men from these organizations, 1If this view of the charae- ter of the national board is correct, its expression of opinion on this su! 3 which must be regarded as of very con- siderable importanc ificant. Tt shows that & majority of the commercial bodies of the country are not in sympathy with the subsidy plan for restoring the shipping interest of the country. The judgment of these practical business men, who do not view the matier from the politicians’ stapdpoint, 1s worthy of con- sideration. No argument other than the bare state- ment of facts can be needed to prove that semething should be done to improve the shipping 1interest of the United States. Inrespect of this interest we are far behind every other great nation. England, Ger- many, France and Italy are greatly in advance of this country m the world's carrying trade. Quite four-fifths of the business of American manufacturers and merchants with other lands is done in foreign vessels. Americans going abroad are transported in steamers owned and controlled by European companics. Not less than two hundred millions of dol- ro paid by Americans to® foreign ship-owners. The Amecrican flag is a rare sight in most of the ports of the world, even of those in this hemisphere, These are humiliating fa Necessarily, also, the existence of such a state of things puts this country at some disad- vantage commercially. The shipping in- terests of other countries will naturally diserimiate in favor of the trade of those countrics, and they are enconraged by the governments to do this. All the countries above named, and some others, have a policy of shiv subsidies. Ger- many has within a year increased the government bounty to her vessel owners, and very tavorable results are looked for, Spain is proposing a liberal pol this direction in a measure now before the cortes. The experience of all these countries with the system has justitied its adoption. But public sentiment in this country js not favorable to such a policy, nor is it likely to become so0, at least until all other means for restoring our ship- ping interests shall have been tried and found wanting. Among these the choap cning of materials protected by the tavift is the first and most mmportant to be adopted. The tarifl places the American ship buiider at a disad It costs one-fourth or one-third more to construet a ship of a given class in thjs country than in England. There would be no safety for capital in such a competition even with subsidy, unless the latter should be made so large as to be prac- tically & guarantee against loss. The policy once cntered upon it might be found nccessary to increase the allow ance from year to year to meet the ad- vances of other countries, which would nardly permit us to surpass them in this direction. The proposition that the United States ought to have a mercl gaged in the world's ¢ incontrovertible, The ing commercial inte the 1 require it. They would unquestions be greatly advanced by its possession, would enable them to reach markets from which they arc now nearly or wholly excluded. It would give them an mdependence they cannot otherwise enjoy. It would keep in this country to be expended and invested here for the general good, the millions of money for freights and s that now goes into for- eign pockets. These and other sound reasons support the proposition. But it is certain that the country can never se- cure and maintain such a marine until we can.build ships at least as cheaply as they can be constructed in other coun- tries, and without this ability any eflort on our part to compete m the subsidy policy would be very sure to fail. When- ever the existing disadvantage shall be removed, there will be no lack of Amer- ican enterprise and capital to buld and maintain a merchant marine commensu- rate to the demand, English Opinion on the Dispute. he proposed nction of congress in connection with the lisheries controversy, contemplating a retaliatory policy to- ward Canadian vesscls, has awakened an interest in the subject in England. The press and public of that country are por- haps to be excused for not having hith- erto given much consideration to thig subject, for the reason that very im- portant and urgent questions of supreme home interest have for a year past made a constant and pressing demand on their attention. Moreover, in recent years England has shown little more than a perfunctory econcern regarding 1a- dian policy, it being doubtless thought expedient to permit that people to man- age their affairs about as they willed, with the least possible suggestion or di- cction, except when asked, from the imperial government. Apparently Eng- lish statesmen have become afraid to in- terfere ia the aflairs of the Dominion, or to oppose the will of its government, even when the policy it proposes threat- ens the rupture of friendly interna- tional relations that might involve Eng- land in serious difficulty. Otherwise it is very probable thut the assent of her najesty’s government could not have been secured to the recent law enlarging the powers of the Dominion author- ities for seizing and punishing Amer- ican vessels which they may alicge had violated the law, It may farly rine en- ade is and grow- bo doubted if Lotd Salisbury, ‘acting without constraint, would have coun- selled the approval of this hostile statute, which he must havo'geon. would at least greatly aggravate the situation. But a sense of the necessity of gratifying the loyal sontiment of the Dominion, which demanded this aggrossive law, out- weighed'every other consideration, and this means of making stronger the policy of injustice to the fishing interests of the Umited States was opproved. England may yet have reasofl to regret the weak- ness of its present government in this matter. i Wo noted some ddys ago the avowal of John Bright that thé American claims in connection with this issue are reasonable, and his confession that they would be conceded by Canada were she not backed by England, and would not be denied by England did she not possess Canada The views of the London papers are not favorable to the hostile policy of the Do- minion, and they call upon Lord bury to seek a modification of Canada's attitude. It is questionable whether such appeals will be heeded. The Salisbury government has not the courage to com- bat the dominant sentiment in the Do- miton. The Canadian government will not recede from its position until com- pelled by eircumstances to do so. The proposed policy of congress 18 the one by which those circumstances will be wost surcly and specdily brought about. ANotnER attempt to make men stop drinking liquor by law sccms to have utterly failed. ‘There was never made anywhere o more claborate and desper- blish and maintain pro- hibition than has been carried on for nearly a year past at Atlanta, Georgia, and the effect hus been regarded with the groatest interest. ‘Lhe prohibition paver of that eity is authority for the statement that the e o failnre. Tn a recent issue it said: *“‘As a prohibition paper we now feel 1t our duty to prononuce pro- hibition legislation a dead failure in At lanta.” As a matter of fact there has been quite much liguor drinking in that city since this legislation as there before, and with worse consequences, since if the evils resulting from drinking were nogreater, or even less, a large part of the community has been for months violating the law by every device that in- genuity could under such circumstances suggest.” It is impossible to say how many people in Atlanta have thus lest all the respeet they formerly had for law. It may take a great many more such ex- perienees Lo convince some people of the futility of prohibition legislation, es- pecially in populous towns. THE s thus far received by the United States naval institute, to be read in the competition of: 1887 for a prize for the best paper on “The de,” and said to be not at all flattering either tor wisdom of th y are deseribed_as high-flown s sophomoric, with a great many classi quotations and very little common sense in them. Only one of _them has an Eng- lish title, **Necessitys the Motl vention.” which is quite as far from being inent to the subject as the Latin and nch titles of the other essays. It is cv- ident that the young oflicers who wrote theso papers either did that they were expeeted to tr *t given them seriously as a ve I matter, or wilfully treated the duty quired of them with flippancy. In the first case, those who should have in- structed them as to what was desired may be at fault, while in the latter case it might be advisable to subjec! young gentlemen to a cou pline that would be not to similarly gi How the Boys Who Want Liguor Con- trive to Get it, Chicago Terald nsas, don't your” mquired an actor. **Nor Well, 'l tell you We have to (ill out a blank applicafion for what we want, specifying the nent for which ™ the ‘medi ,and file it with the druggist eps these applications and makes d of them, and at stated times has to submit a report of all sales to the prol judge. Well, when I first went into the state I wasn’t up to and ¢ 1 - ome beer o some friends for over Sunds ticket_on which 1 gave my these items: name and “*One quart of whisky for dyspepsia. One dozen bottles of beer for same,’ ““Phat will never do in the world,’ said the druggist; ‘you're a tendertoot, I guess. Waita minute till T fill_you out +13, and then you sign ‘ém.’ ,and here ‘are the tickets 1 John Smith, 3¢ pint whisky, dyspepsia. Johin Smith, 1 quart beer, indigestion, John Smith, ¢ pint whisky, John Smith, 1 quart beer, malaria. John ith, 1 quart beer, consumption, John Sith, 14 pint whisky, apoplexy. John Swith, Tquart be T, John Smith, 1 quart beer, heart disease, John Suith, 1 pt whisky, 'delirium treniens, John Smith, 1'quart beer, sore throat. ohn Smith, 1 quait beer, pa is, nith, 1 quart beer, 1i omplaint, nith, 1 quart beer, pains in ba John Smith, 1 quart beer, ehilblains, John Smith, 1 quart beer, hives, uart beer, insanity the druggi s he put a basket and gave me n trouble, curing vou of all these troubles I want you to write me a lett -Xul commendation 1o bo printed m tho 1957 alma my brewers and distillers are gotting out,” " A n(.umh Chieago Herald: \)'}u-n John V. - wall and a prominenf foundryman of this city met to square accoants for the iron i the dry goods moerchnnt’s big building on Monroe street a dispute arose as to contract price of the iron, ‘The foun- ) held that the price agreed upon 3 cents per pound, while the merchant med that the contract was made on sis of 3t cents per pound, “The dif ference was about 13,000, ‘T'he foundry- man, despairing of coyyincing the mer- chant of his error, sugetsted that the dis pute and all memoranda ing on the question be submitted®o a third party for final decision. “But,” said Farwell, “I'm afraid that the man you would name would be dis- tasteful to'me.” 1 think not,” replied the foundryman; “he is a man whow you know very well.” “Who is he?” “Charley Farwell."" : John V. lookea up in surprise, The proposition to submit 1o & member of his own house a dispute involving #1500 which, if nh-uidml aguinst bim, would prove equally disustrous to the refer was 80 bold and fair thut the old merchant could do nothing else but accept it. The foundryman presented his memoranda to Charley, who, after a searching inves tigation, decided against his brother, his firm and himself Charley has been & good deal of an enigma to John V, Ever since that time IT WAS NOT A REBEL CLAIM. An Exploded Roorback Being Worked Over in Nebraska's Country Press, ONLY A JUST COMPENSATION, History of the Nashville & Chatta« nooga Railrond War Claim and Congressional Action on It— How the Story Started, A Candidate's Canard, TON, Jan. 21.—[Correspond- ence of the Ber.]J—I sea that discussion of the Nashville & Chattanooga war cluim bill has reached Nebraska and that the exploded roorback that the measure was a “rebel claim” is being kneaded over 1 your country press. This is re- freshing, It causes great amusement in congressional circles, where the origin of the story is well known and its cause ap- preciated. The canard was started bya candidate for the Illinois senatorship, who voted agamst the bill and who wished to bring two of lus rivals into bad repute for their votes cast in favor of this just elaim of loyal men for property taken by the government after the seat of war had been transferred from the region through which the railroad ran. Perhaps a detatled history of the matter may prove interesti The claim of the MeMinnville & Man- chester railroad 15 1 no sense a rebel claim. The rond was owned by lo; men, Most of the stock of the company was held by citizens of New York, and all s officers, with the possible exception of one dircetor, were loyal to the union. After the war, while the repubhican party controlled the state of Tennessce, its ident was elected by that party to ious oflices, including that of judge, and also to the congress of the United States, The claim is for iron rails, ete., wken from the railroad by the United ates authorities in 1864, and the follow- ing are the established facts: The Nashyille & Chattanooga railroad runs from Nashville to Chattanooga, a distance of 151 miles. Ahout sixty miles south of Nashville on said raad, at Tulla- Tenn., the McMinnville & Man- or railroad starts, and runs about thirty-two miles to MeMinnyille, Tenn. The government used the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad dur mihtary road for the transportation of s to the army, and in 1864 took MeMinnville & Man- chester road and removed therefrom the rails, spikes and switches for twenty and one-half mi and put them upon the Nashville & Chattanooga road. After the close of the war, the govern- ment, upon restoring the' Nashville & a road 1o its owners, charged airs made thereon, includ- m the estimate these rails, spikes and switches taken from the MeMinnville & Manchester rond. In the scttlement of 1 byille & Chatta- 1y exeeuted to the s for the sum of £1,000,000 at 4 per cent interest, one-half of 'the principal payuble in ten ' ye nd the other half in twenty years. " The first mstallment was paid in 1831, the other is not due until 1891, ‘The government took possession of the MeMimnyilie & Maneb railroad in ' essof January uthorized the president to take possession of any railroad and place it under military control for the use of the army. This act was to cnable nment to take possession of ads when necessary, in the rder nd not at the immediate of 1d which were not liable otherwise to seizure. 4 2 ‘T'he third section of that act authorized the appointment of three commissioners by the president *“to assess and deter- mine the damages suffered, or the com- jfon to which any rairoad com- ay be entitled by reason of the Land used under the ) d by this act and their account 1 be submitted to congress for their action.” No commissioners were appointed by the president under this act, but General Thomas, upon restoring the MeMinnvitle & Manehester railroad o the company in 1865, directed his engi a os- timate of the damag done. This estima for the itches us which y confe amounting to K After the rails, ete., had been removed from the MeMinny & Manchester railroad the governm com- ount the Unit s on May 24, 1, recovered in United States cireait court for the middle distriet of “Tenne judgment for the sum of 07,71 which 15 still unsatisticd, but is to be eredited on this elaim if allowed In 1560 the MeMmnville & Mancl; T wilroad company sued the Nashville & ailroad company in one of courts, elaiming, among things, payment for this very iron taken from ad placed on that of the Nashville & Chattanooga company. The case went to the statesupreme court, and before a hearing was had there, was settled, the McMinnville and Man- chester railroad company, by a formal instrument in writing, transferring and assigning to the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad company all its clai agamst the United States for the said iron taken i This was donein 1873, des that the balance of the deducting the judgment MeMinnville & Manchester y, shall be eredited on by the Nashville & compuny to the claim, ainst ailroad comp: the bonds exe d Chattanooga railroad Stirtes hviile & Chattanooga railrond company (its ne aving been changed ashyille nooga & St, Louis sed the Minn- ville & Manchester railroad and fran- chiscs, and 18 now the owner of said A bill sim to this the Forty-cighth Congress, and was re- ferred to the judiciary committee for con- sideration. That committee consisted of the following named gentleme i J. Randoiph Tucker of Virgi . Tammond of Georgia, D. B, Culberson of Texus, 5. W. Moulton of lllinois, J. O Broadhead of Missouri, William Dorsheimer of New York A. Collins of Massuchusetts, G. E. »f Ohio, W. C. Maybury of Michigan, Tay- lor of Ohio,” M. A. McCoid of lowa, Thomuas M_ Browne of Indiana, L, P Poland of Vermont, Horatio Bisbee of Flori H r of New York, E, K v raska. hat committee, after earcful eonsid eration, made to the house the following unaninious report “This claim is not what Is usually called a southern war claiw, but arises out of the fol: lowing facts: “During the war the iron upon 25'{ miles of the railroad belonging to the MeMinnville & Maneheeter railroad company, in Tennes- se6, was taken up under an order of General George M. Thomas, and was used in repair- ing the tracks of the Nashville & Chatta- nooga railroad. This se gure aod appropria- n of Uie 1ron were nok acts of war of the spropriation of rebel property, but the seizure was made and (he iron appropriated by the governweut under the act of congress approved January i1, 152 WA fter the war'closed the MeMinuville & voad cowpany made a claim overnment for the value of the 1 wnd for the val of the prop- d in consequenc tha 16 This apolication was re paster general to Major one was before ertles d moval of ferred by the quait Stephens, general supérintendent military railroads, and by him was referréd to H. Hibard, enginecr of repairs, to report at once the valtie of the iron and other property taken under the order. This officer made an estimate of the value of the property and_re- turned it to the quartermaster general, who declined to pay the amount solely upon the nd that under the act of Janunary 81, the value of the property should be as- sessed by a board of officers appointed by the president. No such board was ever ap- pointed by the president, and other claims of similar character were adjusted and_set- tled by the quartermaster general. This will appear from letters addressed to IHon, G. G. Dibrell, of Tennessee, which are_ap- vended to this report and asked to be made a part of it .1t appears to your committeo that the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad company has purchased the McMinnville & Manches- ter road, and that the said rnm?nn)’ 1s largely indebted to the government of the United States for railroad properties, including the iron taken from the McMinnville & Man- chester road, purchased after the war. It also appears that the McMinnville & Man- chester railroad company 18 indebted to the United States for similar property purchased by it afterthe war, The bill provides that the quartermaster general shall ascertain the value of the iron taken and nsed by tne gov- ernment, as above stated, and ehall deduct therefrom the amount due the government from sald company, and_shall pay the re- mainder to the company in the bonds of the ashville & Chattanooga company, which the government holds for the payment of the indebtedness due from said company. ““I'here can be no objection to this mode of settlement, as the government owns these bonds, and the MeMinnville & Manchester compaiy 18 willing to receivo them.” For want of time the bill was not acted on by the houso. In the present congrese (the Forty- ninth) another bill was introduced, more rigidly guarding the government’s inter- ests. This bill was referred to the com- mittee on war claims, This committee re-examined the matter thoroughly, and w out all claims except for iron, chairs, spikes and switches actually taken up from the rond bed of the McMinnvilie & Manchester railway, and_put down upon the road bed of the Nashville & Chattanooga, and made to the house the following report: ‘I'he commitiee on war elaims, to whom was referred bill H. R ne considered the same, beg leave to submit the following he whole matter was brought before the housa in the Forty-eighth congress. ‘The bill (1L R 2727) was referred to the judiclary committee, and was_carefully considered. The committee, on February 18, 1885, sub- mitted a fayorable report upon the same to the house, said report being No. 2612, The committee, having carefully consid- ered the bill and all the records in” the case furnished by the secretary of war, have ar- rived at the same conclusion reached by the udiciary committee, as stated in said report. The committee, however, have directed that a new bill be presented which more clearly embodles the principles upon which the think the settlement should bo made with eald railroad company. This bill Is ‘nerewith presented as a substitute for billfil. R, 2840, and the committes recommend its passage. The debt due the United States from the MeMinnville & Manchester railroad com- pany is now In judgment in the cireuit court of the United States at Nashville, Tenn, For further report the committee beg leave to cony literally and submit as their own the report made as aforesaid by the judiclary committee ot the house in the Forty-eighth conzress. This last w house, and is improper to south of the of the war, Mr. Reed, of Maine, in the cours tho argument on the bill, made a and lucid statement of the motiyes h should guide members of congress r action on the floor. Itis as bad to refuse to vote for a just claim, as it is to vote for an unjust one sa bill which pussed the st and proper, unless it is pay any claim, originating hio river, during the years of NEW REPEATING RIFLE, fhe Wonderful fnvention of an Aus- trian Mechanic. ienna Letter: Herr Joseph Schathof, the inventor of n new repeating rifle which was tried recently at Enfield, leaves for England to-night for some final experiments with his ritfe, which he be- licves may be adopted’ by the British goyernment. The ritle was introduced to the notice of Mr, W. H. Smuth and Lord Randolph Churchill while they were in Vienna, and Herr Schulhof was subscquently invited to go to England. ‘The experiments at Enfield were judged to be most satisfactory, but some modifi- cations ted in the calibre of the cartridge, and these have now been effected, w the rifle tried this morn- ing, and to an unprofessional eye 1t cer- tainly looks as if it could not bo excelled implicity andeffectiveness. With- ribing its mechanism, it may be tit combines the two requisites 1for such w for it can s well for the which ean be poured in with ono turn o the hand from a cardboard ecase. The louding of the repeater can be done in four movements—the fourth being the turn of a lever which stops the repeating action, The loading for single-shot firing can be done in three movements, anc the action for reloading throws out the upty cartridge ingle s i lf| a trigger, while the ASHLAND . PARK. Containing one hundred and fourteen acres of beautiful land (with trees) and school house al- ready erected and in use, lies southeast of Armour Park, is near the B. & M.'s Ashland cut- offy SOUTH OMAHA DEPOT, In Section 5, Douglas county, one mile by chain measure west of Fowler's Packing Iouse, on two section line roads. action is worked by a knob hanc the mechanism of the breech can be taken to pieces without the useof a screw driver. The eartridges which are shaped like small claret bottles, are of 74 millimeters dinmes instead of 11 mlli- rs, as in the Martini-Henry. Tho weight'of 150 of them equals sevenity of the Martini Henry cartridges, which 18 the charge usunlly carried by a soldier. The rifle 15 to cost 60f, which is nbout 15s less than the Martim-Henry. The use of tho cardboard cartridizo” boxes is to be noticed, for 1 the Mannlicher system metal boxes are used, and if these get bent or dented as they are liable to do, the cartridges may stiok in them at the moment of loading. 'Chis is impossible with the Schulhof boxes, which are opened by simply tearing off a picoe of paper. Moreover, the Mannlicher boxes only hold five cartrid instead of ten. ol e Syl Hood’s Sarsaparilla has cured thous- ands of cases of rheumatism. 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