Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 18, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSORTPTION : iy, (orniag Baition) fncluding Sunday &e, One Yoar i or Bix Months ‘or Threa Months ... The Omaha Swnday 1iF address, One Year. ATA OPPIeR, No. M W YORK OFFICE, Tt ASHINGTON OFP ,miled to any AvD 018 FARNAM !'rurn %, TRIBCNE BUOILD " 61y FOURTERNTH STHRET. CONNPEPONDENCE: All communications relating to nows and edi- torial matter ehould be addressed 1o the EbL- TOR OF THE BEE. PUSTNESS LETTERS: ATl buisiness letters and romittances should ba addrossod 1o THk BEE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, OMAMA. Drafts, chocks and postoffice orders 10 bo mado pagable 1 the Orderof the ompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS, E. ROSEWATER, Enitor. THE DAILY BER, Sworn Statement of Circulation, State of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, | & ™ Geo. B, Tzsehuck, sccretary of The Tee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual cireulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Feb. 11th, 1857, wus as follows: Baturday. Bunday, Monday. b, Tuesday Feb, 8. Wednesday, Feb, Thursday, Feb. 10, Friday, Feb. 11,.. Average.... Z8CHUCK, Bubsgeribed In my presence and sworn to be- fore me this 15th day of Iel hruNnr)i Ai D. 1557 ISEALI Notary Publie. Geo. 15, Tzschuek, first duly sworn deposes s sccretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tho. Actial av- erace daily circulation of the Daily Beo for the month of February, 1885, was 10,595 coples; for Mngv 1686, 11,587 copies; ' for April 191 copies: for for May, ' 155, ‘13,450 cnm--winr.yune. 846, 12,208 coples: forJ uly, SR8 Toiia” comien: dox - Avgnat, 1666, 1245 copies:for September, 1890, 13,030 copies: for October, 149, 12,089 coples: m \uwmht'r. 185, 1448 copies; for Decel o copies or January, 1587, 16,2 Gro. B. T Bubseribed and sworn to bofore mo this Sth day of February A [SEAL. PR, Notary Publle. It remains to be seen whether the house will do the dirty work of the rail- roads by overruling the will of the people of this city. THERE i8 no v n locking the stuble door when the horse is gone. The con- cession to mine coal has already been granted by the council Tue Lincoln charter has been referred to the committee on cities. The Omaha charter was referred to the committee on Judiciary. ‘Thisis a pretty how o’ ye 5 now agitating nd 15 whether congress cares more for his personal views on | ion legislation than it does for the soldier vote, Tue brilliant and esteemed Republican complaing that the BEE hasn’t attackea Church Howe this session. The Bew fsn’t in the habit of waging war with corpses. _ »CfircaGo counl dealers have again marked up the price of coal 50 cents a ton. Captain Kidd's ghost wrings its hands as it contemvlates the possibility of nineteenth century pirac; —— Periars Omaha business men who have been willing to permit this paper to do their fighting for them and take all fhe abuse may now sen that it is to their interests to bestir themselves to save the sharter, RArLroaD regulation should be secured at the present session of the legislature atall costs. The threats and blarney of Che corporation attorneys should not be permitted to defeat the expressed will of fibe people. — ‘Tue whippersnappers whom the rail- roads feed and kecp alive with their job aflice pap have again been unmasked “They will no longer pretend that the edi- sor of the BEE and the railroad managers are sleeping under one quilt. Tue question is, will the house allow the railroad attorneys to mutilato the Omaha charter? Colby is through with Ais objections to the charter, and now wo shall hear from Ageo. He knows exactly what Omaba requires in the way of muni- 2ipal legislation. Joux M. TrnursroN telegraphed Gen- eral Manager Cullaway, “We have had the Omaha charter bill referred to the :onlnmlou on judiciary.” Now who is W° " and why does John M, Thurston port t:nou Pucilic lmudquuru»rs about the action of the legislature on a matter of purely local int ? Ler there be no *‘tic ups' to save the charter. The representatives of the peo- ple, whether hailing from Douglas county or elsewhere, should let the charter go rather than sacritice one jot or tittle of their manhood or self-respect by making further concessions to the railrogues. Railroad legislation cannot be beaten by threats of oppressing the people of Ne- bruska's metropolis Tur Russian war scare does not prom- is0 to lust long this ime, and the Berlin bureau for the manufacture of ready- made war rumors will be putto it to se- leot countries that are to attack Ger- many. Perchance Switzerlend and Den- mark, situated to the south and to the north of Germany, would be a good themo for a wardky. Ifthese two coun- tries should combine in a hostile league against Germany and should strike simultaneously, that great power would stand a good show of being swept from the map of Europe. This peril alone, if properly placed before the German electors, is enough to secure the passage of the septennate bill, —_—— It was a shameful spectacle to see dis- reputable roustabouts elbowing honest aen on the floor of the house at Lincoln euod cheek by jowl with railvoad attor- meys corrupting members to induce them to sidetrack the Omaha charter into the judiciary committee. The indignant words of Kepresentative Smyth rang clearly through the chamber, charging “the crime on the men who were about to porpetrate it. The charter will not be mutilated to suit the railroad lobby and ‘the allied contractor and scavenger bri- e, ‘That may be set down as certain. way be defeated, but it will not be #sed as 8 counter over which to trade oft for other measures to the people’s disad- © iantage. The Oharter Imperillea, A telegram from the state capital an- noutices that the Omaha charter has been taken ont of its usual channel, the com- mittee on cities, of which Mr. Smyth, of this county, is chairman, and referred to the judiciary committce, of which Mr. tussell, of Colfax county, is chairman. This is unprecedented in the annals of city legislation in this state. Theevident object of side-tracking the bill into the hands of a lot of - attorneys is to mutilate it to snit the railroad and jobbers' lobby. It must now be plain and palpable to the citizens of Omaha that their material in- terest are in jeopardy. It is now time for those most interested to act. Up to the present they have allowed themselves to be hoodwinked and humbugged by railroad organs, charlatans and imypos- tors who have been pooled against the passage of this important measuve, There can be no new charter introduced at this stage and no justifiable pretext can be urged why Omaha should countenance masked enemies who are working against Let Them Dare. The railroad managers, who keep the most villainous lobby at Lincoln that has ever been seen at any state capital, have sidetracked the Omaha charter iuto the committee on judiciary. The andacity of this attempt to defeat the charter and throttle the people of Omaha is without a parallel in this state. It is as high handed 28 the eriminal assault which the railroad managers are making on the law making power. The road agent who commands the wayfaring traveler to hold up his hands is entitled to more res- pect than the men who resort to such means to undermine and destroy popular government, It is only beeause the peo- ple of this section have been patient and forbearing under the greatest provocations that such infamics are still tolerated. There has been a great hue and cry raised by the railroad press of Omaha about a pretended deal and sell out to the railroads by the editor of this paper. This ery was raised only to cover the real design of the railroad bosses to play off the Omaha charter against raii- road regulation and cconomic goyern- ment. They hoped to use the charter as u club with which to beat every honest effort to relieve the people from oppres- sive burdens. The conces: tion of railroad right of w. obtained by thmuq.uulbullduung tactics was made only after a protracted strug- gle on the assurance that no further ob- stacle should be thrown in the way of the passage of the charter, Th ct that the railroads did not call off’ their dogs nor silence their subsidized job-oflice news- papers was proof positive that the char- ter was to be still made a football in the gume which the railrogues are playing at Lincoln. Now, once for all, we will state for the information of citizens of Omaha that we will not advise the Douglas county delo- gation to yield one mch to any further pressure. Their duty as representanves of Omaha will e dis- charged when every honorable effort is made to sccure the passage of the charter. To trade off the whole state and sell out the taxpayers of Nebraska for any ad- vantago whioh Such action m’fi,ht give to the charter would be cowardly, dishonest and disreputable. No honorable repre- sentative from this county in either house will so far degrade himself as to bow to the dictates corrupt, drunken mob which the railronds are keeping at the people’s expense to defeat the people’s will. For our part we dare the railroads to do their worst and defeat the charter. There will be no more concessions coun- tenanced by the Bee, Let them defeat the charter if they dare and take the full responsibility for the resulting disaster to the material interests of Nebraska's motropolis. The people of Omaha may as well know the desperadocs who pass themselves off as gentlemen and good itizens in the high-toned clubs while doing penitentiary practices at the state capital, They and not the v. nts and vagabonds whom they have hired to corrupt the people’s representatives will b held up to scorn, and they must take the consequences of what may take placo when the thousands of men and women who have mvested their little all in this city rise in their might to resent the damn- ing outrages to which they have been subjected, —— = ] The Latest Veto, President Cleveland evidently does not believe in a paternal government, mukes this entirely plain in his m to congress returning with his disap- proval the bill appropriating $10,000 for the distribution of sceds to the farmers of the drought-stricken districts of Texas, His first objection is that he finds no war- rant in the constitution for such an ap- propriation, but it is apparent that this was not so forceful with him as the behef that the power and duty of the govern- ment should not be extended to such a purpose as this bill contemplates, and that the tendency to give them such direction should bo resisted, Mr, Cleve- land’s position is defined in the propo- sition ‘“‘that though the people support the government the government should not support the people.” We don't know but this is good Jeffersonian doe- and it may perhaps be granted that it is abstractly sound and therefore to be generally respected; yet eyery reason- able man must admit that circumstances muy arise which would justify a departure from it. The situation in Texas may not present such a circumstance, though it is certainly a very hard and deplorable one, much more so, we have reason to believe, than Mr. Cleveland is aware of, but there can be no doubt that the concurrence of the president with the action of congress in voting the proposed relief would have been ap proved by the country, not siwply as a matter of charity, but as properly re- lated to the public benetit. Surely no argument can be needed to demonstrate that the restoration of blighted industries in an extended region, without which a large population nught long remd@n de- vendent upon public benevolence, has such a relation. One may agree fully that it is desirable to repress the ten- dency to saddle the government with paternal responsibilities, and yet see s wide distinction between measures of im- wediate and temporary relief and those which propose the creation of perma- ueut obligations. The proposition to es- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18 1887, ~ D - . — tablish a ¢ is of the clas: of paternal measures to which there are sound objections, but more of these could be fairly apolied to the relief measure which the presidenthas just disapproved. We do not believe that Mr. Cleveland will have the reward of general commen- dation for this action, and it is very cer- tain that the people of Toxas will find in it a fair cause of serious and lasting dis- pleasure toward the president. The Trade Doliar, The honse of representatives on Wed- nesday msisted upon its amendments to the senate trade dollar bill, and the mat- ter will go to a conference committee. The causes of difference are somewha! imporiant, the: action of the house being regarded as a signal victory for the friends of silver. he senate bill pro- vided that the coin redeemed should be treated as silver bullion and the amount be deducted from the monthly purchases of bullion for coinage into standard sil- ver dollars under the existing law, there- by preventing any increase of the silver cireulation, A majority of the house coinage commitice reported the bill fuvorably, but the house sustained the position of the minority of the committeo that the trade dollars, now having no legal-tender value, shall be recoined and remonetized independently of the statute requiring the monthly coinage of stand- ard dollars, thus providing for an in- » of the circulation to the extent that the repudiated coin shall be pre- ted for redemption. An amendment to this effect was adopted, ana also an- other amendment fixing six months as the time in which redemption shall be made, and providing that the holders of trade dollars shall receive the standards i ange for them on presentation, These are the amendments upon which the house has insisted, thereby rendering necessary a eonference. How much the circulation will be in- creased by the bill, af it becomes a law cannot be definitely stated, but it is est mated at $7,500,000. The coinage of the trade dollar was ncarly §36,000,000, of which about ,000,000 has been ex- ported, and it is not expected that any part of the Iatter sum will be returned, the theory being thy s all been stamped or othery defaced by the ‘hinese government or people. There would also be really nothing to gain by returning it. The disposal of this que: tion by the present congress is whoily contingent upon the aceeptance by the senate ot the amended bill, for it is ce tain that the house, which passed the bill by a vote of 174 to 36, will not recede from its position. The matter ought to disposed of. It has bobbed up at every session of congress for a number of ars, and will continae to do so until it s gotten vid of by some such legislation as is now proposed. Whether or not the trade dollar can be considered an obligation of the government, it has proved a troublesome annoyance which may as well be removed now as at some time in the futur It is not improbable that the senate will take this view of the question and concur in the house amend- ments. A Practical Remedy. Minnesota has passed 2 high license law modeled after Nebraska's, New Yorkisstruggling with the same pr oblem against the combined assaults of th liquor dealers and brc who an- nounce th preference for prohibition ather than for stringent regulation of the liquor traic. No one knows botter than saloon keepers that prohibition does not prohibit and that no license means free license, In the city of Leavenworth, Kan,, for instance, 120 saloons which o not pay le of tax to the state. The prohibitionists of Kansas are able to pass laws for the enforcement of their policy of a total extinetion of the liquor trathe, but they cannot obtain juries that will conviet oflenders, and the extremists have been forced to radical methods of procedure in a desperate ef- fo rt to carry ont their plans The latest iden ot the Kansas prohibi- tionists is the creation of a “‘metropol police,” which shall attempt to maintain order and to enforee tho law in eyery part of the st They admit that the local authorities are unwilling or unable to carry out the stringent regulations that ve been devised for the abolition of the liquor traflic, and they hope by this expedient of & metropolitan police board to suppress the liquor trade. Their complete failure thus far to restrict the salo of intoxicating drinks may ba shown in a strikivg manner by compar- ing the issuc of government licenses to sell liquor in the prohbition state of Kan- sas with that in the high license state of Missours. Though Missouri bas a larger population, Kansas takes out 1206 more licenses than Missouri, and within the Iast eight months more than 2,500 liquor licenses have been issued to dealers in Kansns, Clab houses take the place of snloons and lure into dissipation the young who might shrink from the pub- licity of the open bar. When the saloons of Missouri are closed on Sundays the drinking men who live close to the s line cross over into prohibition Ka got drunk, Unenforeed law breeds disrespect for all law, This has been the ult of pro- hibitory legislation wherever attempted. High license is the only genuine temper- ance reformer. It closes up low grog- geries and places upon every dealer an incentive for inviting the offective super- vision of the traflic by the local authori- ties. It gives every community , where it is believed that prohibition ecan be en- forced the rigat to refuse license and to make the attempt, While prohibition means free rum, the Nebraska high license law means a regulated traflic and a license measure which public sen went will endorse, approve and sustain, to A WASHINGTON correspondent points out that there 1s a curious little question myolved in what is known as the alien Iand bill, which seems not to have oc- curred to the statesmen who have ¢ of that measure. T acquiring title to real es ies. 1t prohibits those who now hold titles from conveying them to other aliens, either for a consideration or by legacy. Itisa clean swoep of all the foreigners from this land of freedom after the preseut generation, and doesn’t con- tribute to the comtort of those who re- main, The District of Colum bia is to all intents and purposes a territory. Gen- eral laws affecting the territories are in force there.. Now it does not appear to have occurred to the commuttees having this bill 1 charge in either branch of ©OnTrads that a atriat construction of its the property rights i the District of Vie- toria aund Kaiser Wilhelm, who own prop- erty there as the heads ot their respective nations, and of the Mexican government, which has recently purchased property and 18 erecting buildings for 1ts legation, Of cou the object of the bill, which is to prevent the absorption of great tracts ofland in the west by aliens, is well un- derstood, but it eannot hurt*the purpose any to put the measure in such form that the property rights of foroign govern- ments at the nation's capital cannot pos- sibly be questioned, S — Tie alleged outrages at nn- clection in Washington county, , last fall, are being muw(u\lmv m i vummilh-(- of the United States senate, and a delegation of witnesses from that region are among the most interesting features of Washing- ton life at this time. The charges to be inyestigated embrace fraud, ballot-box stealing and nssassination. As to the last, it is alleged that W, D. Bolton was, on the day of eleciion, shot down in eold blood by Polk Hill, a negro agitator and republican politician. Bolton, it s claimed, wa! the time of the murder alone, undisguised and unarmed. The assassin eseaped, but was subsequently arrested and is now in Eight ne- groes were also arrested as accomplices of his and lodged in ng to the great excitement in W, m county, the sheriff, fearing for the safety of his prisoners, had them remoyed to Houston, When Hill was arrested, however, they were all vetirned to the jail in Washing- ton county, and shortly afterwards three them were taken trom this prison by a mob of masked men and hanged. It was claimed by the apologists® of this sum- mary proceeding that it had no political m-rln.-:nul was sinmply anact of veng, 7 an atrocions murder., investigation may result in some esting aizclosures, inter- Trere 1s food and to spare in this na- ture-bles: country, Our exports of whent this crop year have heavily ex- ceeded those of last. The quantity wheat exported in January was 8,0 bushels, against only 4,018,805 in uary, 3. F ne four months ending Junua 1 the quantity was 1 round 9,000 bushels, while for the sven months of the pre- 1t was only 24,500,000 If the flour exported be redue lent in wheat it will appe that the quantity of wheat exported in both forms during the seven months end- ing January 381, 1557, was 8047 g bushels. In the!corresponding months of the preceding the quantity w 44,976,502, In other words, for seven months we have, been exporting wheat (including flour) a¢ the rate of 153,000,0¢ bushels a year., THeRE is just about as much sense in the new libel bill, which the senate has passed, as there i3 in 'the anti-gambling bill pending in that body. Both oills, if enacted into law, would be dead letters on the statute books as much as are the no-treat and anti-swearing laws. Nobody has ever heard of single instance of conviction for treating in saloons or drug stores. Nobody could ever be convieted for betting five cents, or five doliars for that matter, on a hor ce or bas ballmateh, No twelve men willever agree to send an editor to the penitentiary for libel. The present laws make gambling and libel indictable as misdemeanors, and punishable by unplflonmunl and fincs. When these offenses aro made felonies under any and all circumstances the law makers overshoot the mar It is rather amus vle object to the n police commis- sion, as they ceallit. The same parties it the governor to appomt the com- on, That, of course, would make it ly non-partisan. Governor Thayer would appoint mugwumps only. — Tne city anthoritics should at once order the gutters of the principal streets cleared of ice, mud and ashes, If the thaw continues there is hable to be an overflow which will fill the cellars and do preat damage T some peo- A LAW to prevent professional cor- ruptionists from oceunying the loor of the two houses with their disreputuble carcasses would fill o long felt wunt. s i to the ¢ity 2ouncil It is holding its s 1 just now is 2sted, ssions in New Orleans, NT PERSONS, Senator Blanche K. Bruce has turned lecturer, Philip Bourke Marston, the blind poet, is about to publish a volume of stories, Buffalo Bill is to take somo society youths on a hunting expedition in the west, Ex-Governor Hartranft ot Penns about to become a citizen of Ph Right Rev, William Mercer ¢ past forty years bishop of the Episcopal aio- cese o Mississippi, is dead. Ex-Governor Charles Foster, of Olio, has PRIOMNEN Ivania is clphia, , for the made mueh money recently by investuents in the natural gas region of that state, Juy Gould is said to be writing a book on the railway question, which will doubtless conceal what its author knows on the subject to be treated, 4 George W, Childs gave Miss Randall a costly cloak of rare design for a wedding present, Congressman Hosmer gave her set of solid silverware. Captain Francis Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, is an £nglish- man who came o this cohutry in 1551 to help the confederate cause, His paper is a fortune for him. Mr. Parnell's health 18 greatly imoroved, and he expresses regret that the published accounts of his indisposition should Lave D, in many instaaces, so greatly ex- erated, ' Fortune, after so many/knock-down blows, has outdone all previous displays of fickle ness by presenting Sir Charles Dilke with a legaey of $700.000. ‘The fortune comes from the remnants of the Snooke family, of which John Snooke married Dilke's great aunt in 1504, Wattersoi Chicay: An eastern paper says that “Watterson's cheek is as broad as leaven and as hard as adawant.” But, alas! that cheek is no longer kissed by the star-gyed goddess of reforu, Mr. Lincoln's Election Expenses. Ceutury for February. When Lincoln ran for congress some ofthe whigs contributed a purse of $200.to pay his personal expenses in the canvass, After the clection was over the successful candiudate haunded back $199.25. -“I did not need AL be sald; S made tha cALYASS OB MY QWA horse; my entertainment, being at the houses of friends, cost me nothing, and my only ontlay was seventy-five cents for a barrel of cider, which some farm hands insisted I should treat them to,” R — Cousin Ben. St. Pasl Pioncer Press. Itappears that Mrs, Cleveland’s cousin, Ben Folsom, has niot orzanized a base ball elub at Sheffield, England. He has, however, sent to Washington a ratber earnest plea for a substantial Increase in his salary. It s to be feared that Cousin Ben Is not i Jeffersonfan simplicity,” for, on 4500 he certainly ought to make both ends weet in Sheflield, where living is compara- tively cheap. When the Owl is Thinking. London Spectator. Bright gleams from yonder moated nall The ruddy glow that strikes the rafter: Like Dreamland's twilizht echoes fall, The strains of music and the laughter; Sof ponbeams o'er my drowsy pate l\hll‘\\‘\\ ) steal, and set me blink- Yet (|:\1/Iv nnl the thoughts sedate That muster when an owl is thinking. Like jays 1n man's fantastic brood— S0 owls degids 11 mirth and chattery But Wisdom's ¢ Her “happiness no langhine m'm.-\, his tranquil soul ¢ t, present, future, cal The universe in mental seale : 1s balanced when the Owl isthinking! linking; it STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. Hartington 18 recovering from a coal famine. Work has commenced on the eanning factory at Seward.p Seward county issbeing cany aid for the proposed exten slkhorn Valley road. A party of ¢ ssed for on of the 5, boy: , on 11, collided with cow, seriously injuring three of the youngt sters. ‘Lhe large estate this season forty acres immediately grounds tor #7,500. The firc at Arapahoe stroyed Anguish & Co.’s ele 1,600 bushels of corn, 600 of wheat, ley and flux, ‘The total loss was £5.000. A big pa to be built in Nebraska City this y I'he town con- tinues nugging Llwl'hu srful delusion that in ten years it will rival Chicago as o pucking point. Gothenburge gone down into their jeans to r: 000 to build and e a flour mill, with an elevator at- tachment, P. Wigg, of Omaha, 15 one of the subscribers. A social and moral contention is raging on the hilltops and sheltered canons ot The g re with a blush tiiat skiould single deal in Hastings ro'\l was the purch ast of the Lur hay Joys live in gl vout E not throw stones. and There, now! The call for bids for the next Grand Army reunion has been issued by the de- partment commander. Bids will close Larch 12. A tract of 210 acres of lund will be required to accommodate the en npment. City has canght the first joy- of the proposed bridge over that point. The Burlington will build it. This will make the third bridge over the river into Nebraska be- longing to the compan, ‘The Nebraska senate is entitled to the the hearty commendation of every grave rin'the land. A bill to encourage inting of husbands has passed that body, providing that widows shall occupy the dwelling of her deceased husband as long as she remains a widow without pay ing rent. This will strike landlords where the bills ave short and increase the dangerous charms of widowhood. Towa ktems, Davenport has twenty-six churches, The State Savings bank of Des Moines, $50.000, ha$ been incorporated, City is promised a packing hnu;u \nlh'\mpauq of 2,000 hogs per The upper ten of Des Moines have nized a club with a capital of 00, The Towa Underwriters' unjon will hold session at Des Moines on Wednesday, l‘ brua The expenses of the public schools of Davenport for the present year arg esti- mated at $79,710, A Cedar Rapids toboggan club has been incorporated under the laws of the state with a capital stock of $1,000., The Knights of Labor at Dubuque, placed a city ticket in nomination, Valker, o dry goods merchent, candidate for g Lyor. Ogden had 1 £40,000 fire Snturday night, supposcd to be thy work of un incendiary Three stor two hotels and sever dwellings were consumed. smith, state mine inspector for ot comprising the northes part of the stule, rewarts g qutput of coal for the past yes district to be 1,086,200 tons, Dakota, Snow is six feet deep in the guiches around Deadwood. The outlook for a building boom in Sioux Falls was never so good as ut the present time. B 1 over the discovery of 1 at that g The find was made while digging the town well. smi-oflicial report of the gold and roduct of the Black Hills for Inst year places the total at %2,850,687. This dovs not include the ores and’ base bul- lion shipped out of the Hills, There is no monotony 1n the climate m the yieinity of Sioux Fails, From Sat- urday morning until Sunduy evening the thermome degr WY g an is known in s climates during the whole year, In a trial before a justice of the peace at Lead Uity, during the temporary ab- sence of the court, “the plaintiff whipped the defendant while the atto s kopt the crowd back so they could tight, The (umll then returned and the trial pro- ceeded —— The Now Judicial Bill r Poinr, Neb., Feb. 15. e of the By We have Judicial apportiony we say emphatieally that it the bigizest frauds on the taxps Wis ever conceived in this as the soventh judicial district 18 con- corned, Just think of it. Our present judge is occupiod but four months in the year attending to the business of eight counties, to wit: Cuming, Stanton, Mudizon, Wayne, Knox, ur, Dixon and Dakota and Bluckbird, To this it is pro- posed to wld Autelope and Pi two thinly populated counties, and give two Judges. What an amposition this is, and how soft a thing for some of our legal schemers, The very essence of cheek is shown i the introduction of such a hiil, und the people here are a unit.in hoping that it will be voted down. P.F. O'SULLIVAN: P.8. The information in regard to the abo till was gleaned from the Omaha Herald, but Isce by the Beg that two counties are added to the seventh, Antelope and Pierce, with only one judge. Thi somewhere near a¢ t should be. With the enlarged district the judge can attend to ull business' in six wonths at the outside. We hope the ' Mnrumnu uunm& QA . ‘To the just read bill and s one of ers that 50 far MORE ABOUT FREIGAT RATES. Additional Facts and Figures Gleanod From Actual Shipping Bills: THEY SHOW THE PEOPLE'S NEED Relief From Exorbitant Charges of the Railroads in the State. SOME VERY SURPRISING FACTS. Furthor Statlstics For Opponents of Railway Regulation to Puzzlo Over—More Hard Nuts For the Omaha Freight Bu- reau to Crack. A Sccond Chapter. Last fall when General Van Wyek made his campaign, he astonished his andiences by reading the statement that the freight on a car of nails from Omaha was considerable over £100, The figures in my letter yesterday, as those follow- ing, exhibit the same rate of robbery, and show that Mr. Van Wyck's claim was only too true. If the legislators will take the time to work a few examples in com- mon multiplicaiion, the result will at least surprise them. Take, for example, this probiem. Crete is 87 miles from Omaha, or was, under the old schedule, Itisnearer now, but doubtless the rate re- mains unchanged. The fourth class rate of freight to that point from Omaly is 81 centg—1 cent 1ass than from Chicago (al- riost 500 miles) to Omaha. Figure on a car load, say fifteen tons. Sometimes twenty tons are put in one car. But fif- teen tunfl the 87 miles, would cost the surprising sum of §021 " Tho railrouds say thisis a “short hanl,” But let us sece about the long haul. T;;k(-lndi:uw 1 for the point. That wonld be 283 miles from Omaha—196 miles further than Crete. We lind by the same simple multiplica- tion that at the fourth class rate—and it must be remembered that there are no 1ot rates given—fifteen tons, one ear load, wonld cost £186. This . shows the advantage (?) of a long haul. If these s will be eracked, as 1 go along, the legislators will have an opportunity to obtain the richest kind of meat from them Up at Wahoo, where the Union Paciic and B. & M. operate together, the rate of freight from Omaha, 58 liloc. is 20 cents, for first-class and 19 for fourth. Coal sells fol ) o rate on corn is 30 cent , 111 miles from Omaha, Rate of freight is 40 (vln 1 t costs 83 lwln\v Dayid re is no n])pw‘ullun, coal $7.50 per ton. The Omaha raised to 40 and 30 cents per ew And in_ order to draw corn from David City, the Chicugo rate was only 31 cents. At Central City, 03 miles from Omuha, where the B. & M. and Union are supposed to compete, cu'\l costs $7.00 per ton, and the rate of fr ml 40 cents from Omaha, l\t of about 25 miles, all the rates are the sum North Bend is on the Union Pacific 61 miles from Omaha. Rock Springs coal ells at §7.00, while the rate of freight from Omaha is 31 and 25 cents per 160 pounds. Schuyler is from Omuha, price, but the the next town, 71 miles L sells at the sam ght rate in those thir- teen miles 15 inereased 6 conts on first class and 5 cents on fonrth, 1 ference of #15 per car for those miles. The rate on corn to Chi cents, to Omaha 14 ce ation, 121 miles from Omaha, ur 5 milgs beyond Schuyler, coal selis at {he samie price, but the Il_\,lghl) ised 10 cents per hundred, being 50 an cents. The corn rate to Chicago is ised 4 cents, notwithstanding that from Clarks to Chicago is u “longer haul” than from Schuyler! Gibbon 1s the” next Union Pacitic town where I made investigation, [his is 183 miles from Omaha—62 miles further thun Clarks. Coul selis at the same old —§7 per ton—but I found that freight s were a little more than *‘nolding their own.”” In these sixty-two miles tho rate is 20 cents more per hundred, being 70 and 47 e=nts. Plum Creck, 231 miles from Omaha, Here (:unl sells at $7. Rate from Omaha, 7 cents. Corn rate to Chicago, 45 s, and to Omaha, 20 cents. At North Platte, 201 ml and that much nearer th selling at $7. The rate from Um.\h.l on ohi was 86 and 65 geuts, It 1§ seen by this that a eariond of dr; Nmtla weigh- ing fifteen tons, from O 10N rth Platte, would cost the modest sum of . It would be unjust to say that there was any extortion in this, but the conelusion is at once drawn that the Union Pacific folks are doing a safe business. At Columbus, another Union Pacific and B. & M. point, coal was selling at §7. The B. & M. wa on City conl the » sold Rock Spring: was lively competition, I was shown a ghastly freight bill on fifteen tous of hard coal from Omaha to Columbus, 91 miles—$15, te on merchandise from Oma and 80 cents, Corn to Chicago to Omaha 16 cents, Norfolk was my next town. Here we have the Union Pacilic and Elkhorn Val- tey. The freight rate is cording to the number of mile town is 142 miles from Omaha, at § Mr. Eisley, hardware me and . member of the present legistature, showed as n sample } freight rates the followmg: A car of Dlls fEom Whasling. . Va, cost to Chicago, $36; from I Iu(uu_:ulul)nmlll $350; from Omaha to Norfolk, 142 miles, $65. With such an exhibit there is no use to quote the rato. Like the B. & M. company, the Union Pacific has a coal field of " its own. It also places the price— §7 being the figure this yoar; allows its sub-agents 1 per ton for hauling, and allows only the Rock Springs and Carbon coals to be sold on its liné. So much for the Union Pacific. The Elkhorn Valley road is not any be- hind the times in the matter of charges. The town of West Point is 00 unles from Omaha, hard coal was s 1(.“ k Springs Lowa conl at §6. The rate of freight from 18 and 30 cents for 90 miles, rate from Lincoln At Neligh, on the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour] Valley railroad, 177 wiles from Umulm, I found that this company had its “pasture lands” all to itself. The is no Wyoming or Colorado coul out here, Hlinois “soft coal sells at 3, lowa $6.50 | and an UI n coal at #10. Mr. Galaway, d that they could not afford to handle Rock Springs coul at that point, as the Union Pseific would charge $5 per 1 to switeh at Norfolk, and the k rn gompany wanted $2 per car to ship to Norfolk—only 35 miles The rate of freights is 72 and 44 cents from On and Lincoln same. Corn to Chi cents and to Omahu 25 cents, O'Neill, 200 miles from Omaha, Scott coal sells at §4 per ton, At O most of the corn is shipped west rate to Vale 15 is 21 cents on corn. The rate of freight from Omaha 15 85 and 50 cents. Afkinson, 228 miles from Omaha. Rate on corn to Omaha 27 cents. To Chadron 20 cents. ‘T'he freight rave lmm Omaba is 89 and 53 wnln, quite an VANCe on the 25 wiled. From Kremout the freight rato is 75 and 44 conts. This differonoe works serfously against Omaha. Long Pine,- 208 miles from Omaha, Towa coal sells for $5; no other kind can be obtained. Rnlrvnlrrtht(romOmulm £1 first and 00 cents fourt! Valenting, 823 miles from Omaha, is where hard coal sells at $17 per ton and Towa soft coalsells at §0 and 10 por ton— all on account of freights, Rates at this point are $1.24 first and 67 fourth. Thus it will be soen, at this low rate, a oar of dn goods, fiftoen tons, wouhlunl,y cost aht. A FEW NOTES, In southeast Nebraska I failed to find anything cheerful or encouraging. At North and South Auburn the rates w about the same, showing that the Mis souri Pacilic and B. & M. were not com- veting, (At Blue Springs, Wymore and Beat- ! rate was 50 cents for i 5 conts for fourth. Why thero should be more difference in the olasscs at these points than anywhere eise in the state was not explained. wcht bill from a dry goods firm at Tecumsch shows that 2,500 pounds of dry goods from Chieago to Tecumsch cost nun At Nebraska City I found that the freight rate from Omaha is 42 and cents; from Lincoln 83 and 19 cents. rato on corn to Chicago is 80 cents, strange thing 1s that the rate is the same from Unandilla, |I ‘almyra, Syracuse, Dunbar, and all stations between Lin- coln and Nebraska Cit , while out t a little ways I w.-;_n-‘n fig- ures above which show that 15 miles made a difference of 4 cents on Chicago corn rates. iness man showed me o freight al from Pittsburg _Ilu”l Chicago to 9, What one ltem ed with ml'nt The Chi- agzo, Burlington & Quiney clanns to run into Nebraska City. I found merchants complaining that they could not buy corn beeause the com- pany would retuse them cars to ship, although thoy were satistied they could pay a better price than clevator men, There could be fifty columns of figures printed showing how n few miles in one ocality se the rates, while in another. 20 miles make no difler- ence. There was food for ealm reflec- tion in yesterday’s article, and the above figures and facts ought certainly moye tic legislature to action. AL FATRBROTHER. fe a nut weil fli allige e The Only Farmer. Chicago Herald, John H. Reagan, of Texas, will be the only farmer in the senate of the United 5 of March next. In there were in thiy country 7,600,000 farmers and 64,000 law- yers, Government by lawyers in a republic which might as well be governed by edi- dentists, or physicians, was well illustrated the other day in the senate when a bill forbidding members of that body from acting as attorneys for land- grants and other subsidized corporations was emasculated so as to mean nothing before it could receiye a majority vote. No reason can be advanced why a law- yer should not have as good a claim on the American people for the honor of holding their oflices as any other man, unless he shall forfeit 1t himself by his acts. The attitude ot the l.nwwrs in the senute respecting Mr. Beck’s attorney bill amounted to such & forfeiture, and” was an announcement to the people that, as now construed, the law- not & fit man to hold all the offices. conclusion is the more bcmuso every red, when the Beck bill was ation, that he thought i T e r T T profess should be prohibited from its p simply beeause they were in the Lovcm- It will be useless to argue 'y He can see nothing wruurv m n erving Jay Gould and Huntington at the same time that he is supposéd to be ng the people, and no amount of tulk \vmm er convinde him that there is anything wrong about 1t. The thing, then, for the people to do is to L ittle mult. care in selecting their repr ntat If it were fcuml that nine-tenths of the ml-mlu-n of congress were druggists and ry act (Iu-v passed resulted in y in increasing the it is altogether likely party would see ion was changed price of mmln-um that the voters of ¢ to it that the represen in some respe Thut is just what must be done with the lawyers. There are too many of them m Washington, They are not necessary there, The government can carried on without them, They have pushed themselves forwg g‘ until the people hgye good: nnlurc‘ come Lo ecnslder them indisj Now Lln takeas advanta, compl nd are attempting to m the world believe that it is a great i tice to deny them th ght to act for the corporations as well as for the pwnm» Wihen a hundred or more of these men been unseated they will discover usefuluess as attorneys for the sub- ed roads grew outof the fact that had seats in congress. Any further nent upon the mornli vice wuuld lw unnceeesss - A Voice from Platte County. Wi e, Neb,, Feb, Editor of the Bee: 1 \nnll to make public my sinc gmuuc jon to the Bee for its un vering course in exposing the despotism and oppression of railronds and other monopolies which tend to ro- duce thousands of citizens of the United Si to a condition akin to abject sla- very., The indomitable pe ance of the Bex i the 150 entitles it to the strongest friendship, not only of the fars mers of Nebraska, but of tillers of the s0il throughout the entire United States, The action of the state legisluture in the recent United States senatorial election fully demonstrates that the people have no voice in the halls of legislation The defeat of man like Senator Van Wyck whose upright course 1n congress has given him & national reputation, very fully illustrates the political degradution of certain law makers, Itis evident that 1 atinte corporations are not satislied ir present extortions from the s of the country, whom they are blecding at every pore, but they are boldly attempting to deprive the masses freo right of suflrage through 'y and corruption. No man with common sense would wish to ignere the worth of capital as long as it keepa within the bounds of propriety, but when it oversteps these bounds and becomes 1, thus endangering popular ty and endeavoring to erush out the rights of the working elasses, then it is high time to sound the nof alarm, Itas high time for every citizen to rise independent of party, to proteet those liberties that have been handed down from the revolution Although the Hon, C. H. Van Wf‘cl senate, the illus. will be retired from thy trioug ‘lnn(-iph-s he hus advoeated so fearlessly in the councils of the nation for the hut six years will continue to live and grow stronger. ime will soon come when the law v terpose and draw a line of demarkation between the rights of capital and iabor. The time will soon come when the agriculturists of the country shall have their wrongs re- dressed; when the mechanics and labor- mg classes shull have their rights recog- nized and receive & just and honest. re« muneration for their labor, Joun H, ErLgx.