Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1887, Page 4

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RO, B, '1Z8CHUCK, Bubscribed and sworn;to be fore e this 26th day of March A. D., 1857, N. P. FRIL, ISEAL| Notary Publle. Geo, B, 'l'zschuck, bc!mi first duly sworn, deposes and says that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- eraze daily eirculation” of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,657 coples; for 3m, 1886, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1688, 12, - coples; for June, 1856, L July, 1886, 12,314 12,464 copies; for coptes; for October, ,398 coples; for coJ-les; for August, 1888, September, 1886, ' 13,030 1886, 12,080 coples; for November, 1886, 13,348 covies; for December, 1886, 13,237 copies; for January, 1587, 16,266 | copies; for Fubruary, 1857, 14,103 coples. 0. B. TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A, D, 1857, BEAL.| N. Notarv Publle. It will be a matter of great interest to see if Mr. Slayter returns in time to vote against the anti-gambling bill. ——— IaNoRING the present snow storm we take the liberty to remark that all mndi- cations point to an early spring. S— ‘TaE Missouri river contiuues bank full. The difference in the Missouri river and the Lincoln railroad lobby when full, is that the river hurries away. | ——— | TuoeNew Jersey legislature passed a law regulating the rentals of telephones. Watson's bill in the Nebraska legis- lation has certainly boen lost. — Wirn Barnum and Colonel Buffalo Bill in Europe this summer, the populace of the old world will gain new knowl- edge of this *‘bloomin’ country." — By the first of July our citizens will have an opportunity to ride in cable cars. Owaha not only keeps apace with its })oom, but in enterprise continues to oad. — ‘Wit Sherman's visit to the south and Blaine’s contemplated visit to Ireland, it is barely possible that a great presiden- tial boom will be worked up for some- body. It is thought that all the discussion about heating cars with stoves will cause the railroad companies to do away with such a heating apparatus during the 1 next five months, i —— THE four days to intorvene before the | legislature adjourns will seem long and | tedious. but the consolation is in the fact ) that the statesmen will not be called | upon for an extra session. i E—— | HAaD the libel law introduced by Snell | become a law, the BEE could not have re- | ferred to Mr. Agee as a jackass without giving that noble animal a chance for redress by suing the Hamilton dado for damages, Tue bill creating a state oil inspector hias passed both houses. The governors' signaturo is all that is required to make ftalaw. Itiesaid that there are over , one hundred applicants for the position | of inspector. —— ! TaE SUNDAY Bui yesterday was an . oxcellent publication, Not filled with page advertisements, but just emough ‘business in it to give variety, it continued 40 confirm the opinion that it is at the head of western newspapers. S— Tas boodling members of the judici- ary committee are respectfully invited to read the columns of this paper. A mo- tion to lay the evidence on the table is not in order. The people, to whom it is submitted, reserve the right to act upon at, SEE——— It would appear from an article else- where this morning that the editor of this paper had returned. It would also ap- pear that it would have been money in the pockets of some members of the Judiciary committee had King Pharaoh pever tried to cross the Red Sea. m———— A REPUTABLE citizen In the western part of the state has sued a country news- paper for libel, for publishing the state- , ment that the gentleman wus a member of the twentieth legislature. If he suc- ceeds In getting a jury of twelve men who have not expressed an opinion on $he subject it is possible that the wronged an will recover heavy damages. Ese——— TrE Denver (Colo.) Rocky Mountain News of March 25 has the following bear- ing upon the insurance company re- eently exposed in these columns: ‘‘State Auditor Kingsley yesterday submatted to ghe legislature a supplemental report based upon his nvestigations into the Beatrice, Neb,, company. He asserts fhat the charges against the company are fulse as to form, because in its poli- eles the company does not agree to pay $0 the beneficiary any definite amount, ‘but agrees to pay only the yield of the as- - @essments. The chargos ~ wwell based, because the agent of the com- ¥ represents to the people that they To the Ronse of Representatives. In preferring charges of conmspiracy and bribery against members of your ju- diciary committee without naming each member implicated I was conscious of the reflection cast by my charge upon members of the committee whose con- duct had been unimpeachable. I felt the stigma cast upon them temporarily as keenly as any member innocent of the charge. On the day on which my com- plaint was made publio 1 gave personal assurance to three members of the com- mittee---namely, Messrs. Andrews, Me- Conaughy and Smyth—that I should at an early day set them right beforethe pub- lic. My motive for withholding from the house the names of members whom I be- lieved to be implicated was becauso the proofs with regard to some were conclu- sive to my mind, while others were merely subject to suspicions which upon thorough investigation might prove un- founded. Any honest and honorable member of the judiciary committee could safcly have trusted his reputation with his colleagues in the investigating com- mittee which was chosen by the speaker from among the most impartial and re- putable men 1 the house. This commit- tee would scarcely haye made a report to blacken any man’s reputation whose conduct had been above reproach. Their report could not have been an arbitrary verdict, intentionally biased, since it had to be based upon sworn testimony taken down verbatim by a sworn shorthand ro- porter, anda made part of the committee’s findings, The charges of conspiracy, in- volving as they did members and out- siders, could only have been properly in- vestigated by scparating the witnesses implicated fu the plot to defeat the anti- gambling bill. Had this course becn pursued I feel confident that the house would long since have been in full pos- session of the facts. A reactionary policy was, however, adopted through the eofforts of the very parties most concerned in preventing an impartial and thorough inquiry. When the original committee met I promptly placed into its hands all the facts known to me as well as the names of witnesses by whom I expected to substantiate the chuarges. The order of the house to the reorganized committee to receive no tes- timony unless taken in the presence of all members of the judiciary commitcee, ruled out my sworn memoran- dum. To leave it with the committee under the conditions imposed was simply to place the con- spirators in possession of the testimony I expected to produce and give them ample time to drill or spirit away wit- nesses upon. whom I had to rely. As a matter of precaution Irecalled my memo- randum. Its surrender by the. chairman of the investigating committee was emi- nently proper, since it could not be used as testimony until my consent was given to have 1t read before the members charged with misconduct. The discharge by the house of the in- vestigating committee and the implied exoneration of all parties impli- cated 1mpels me now to make public the full particulars as filed with the original investigating com- mittee. Whether the house of represen- tatives sces fit to stultify itself by ignor- inz the charges is to me a matter of su- preme indifterence, excepting so far as it affects the re.utation of the state, which every honorable citizen desires to uphold, If members of the house will take the trouble to carefully read the narrative which 1s presented 1n this paper they will realize the enormity of the con- spiracy which I have considered it my duty to expose. The fact that a large sum of money had been rajsed by intcrested parties at Omaha and Lincoln to defeat the anti- gambling bill, is an open secret. It was not only charged by myself, but admitted by Omaha editors through the columng of their papers the day after my charges were made public. The fact that mem- bers of the judiciary committee - had] solicited bribes from keepers of Omaha gambling houses was made known to me by the parties who had been ap- proached and who had raised funds to meet the demand. Congressman McShane, one of the pro- prietors of the Herald, has corroborated their admissions and in- formed me since the charges were brought that these parties had com- plained to him about the atlempt of mem- bers to bleed them and he had advised against the payment of such bribes. Having done my duty in the light in which I see it, I can afford to rest the case with the public, if the house does not see fit to take further action. E. ROSEWATER. Ee——————— The Saline Land Grab, The persistency with which the Lin- coln Saline land syndicate are log-rolling ther grab through the legislature is worthy of a better cause. At first they asked the legislature to grant them the right to purchase a eection of Saline lands on which the syndicate hold a lease for forty-eight years longer. As they were the only parties that could afford to bid for the land encumbered with such & lease it became a motter of vital impor- tanoce to the state to limit the price at which the land should be sold. With this end in view the house directed the speaker to appoint a committee to in- spect and appraise the land. The com- mittee was duly appointed by the speaker from among the most disinterested and unapproachable members. They viewed the land and brought in a report, placing its value at no less than 300 per acre. ‘The syndicate were equal to the emer- gency. They had the committee dis- charged and a new one appointed, will- ing to do its biddings. The new com- mittee, after partaking of the now fa- mous supper at the Windsor, made a re- port which will meet the approval of the syndicate. lnstead of $500 peracre the lands are appraised at from $100 to $300 —which means, perhaps, $150, or less than one-third of the valuation put upon them by the first co mmittee. As usual with such jobs, the conditions imposed are such as to mislead the unsuspecting, and satisfy the jobbers. Instead of a full soction only 240 acres are to be sold this time, and instead of selling the whole tract to one party, the land is to be} subdivided into forty-acre tracts. ‘This departure from the original plan doesn't in any way mend the matter. 1t still leaves the syn- dicate in position te bid in every forty acre piece, because no other purchaser would risk his money on land covered by \: 'K."mm" the syndioate are to purchase this year, will very naturally be carved out of the most valuable portion 'THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. MARCH 98, 1887. of the scetlon which they mnow occupy. Two years hence the same old syndicate will besiege the legislature with another lobby, and with a much better prospect of acquiring the unsold fraction than they bave this year and purchasing the 240 mcres. Once let the state sell any part of this land, which heretofore has been held in reserve, and the precedent will of course bo followed by disposal of the rest at almost any price the syndicate are willing to pay. At an average of $150 per acre the state will realize $36,000. At 8500 per acre, which tho first committee regarded as a fair valuation, the state would realize $120,000. In other words the syndicate can afford to spend $25,000 in pulling this bill through the legislature and still pocket $59,000. No wonder they have provided sumptuous suppers for the com- mittee, and placed at the disposal of the legislature elegant carriages to wheel them around tho suburbs of the capital city. Why they should have held this deal back until the eleventh hour just when the legislature is about to adjourn, can only be explained on the ground that the measure is not a clean one. It ear- ries the stamp of jobbery plainly on its face. A Reassuring Promise. The country will be very woll satisfied if thes tatement from Washington that Mr. Fairchild is to succeed Mr, Manning as secretary of the treasury proves to be well founded. He has practically admin- istered the affairs of the department for nearly a year past, and whatever success has attended that administration is really due to him, Mr. Fairchild is doubtless not 80 learned in the abstruse theories of finance as Mr. Manning. The country will not get from him such elaborate and polished essays covering the whole range of political economy. But there is rea- son to believe that he is quite as practi- cal as the late secretary, and far more ready to surrender his preconseived opinions when they scem to be in con- flict wikh prevailing conditions. It has been demonstrated within the past year that it was necessary and 2 to depart from the procrustean policy of Mr. Man- ning, and it was well for the country that there was a man in the treasury to as- sume the duties of its administration who had the judgment to sce this and the courago to do it. Otherwise tho business situation in this country at this time might be deplorable. There is still necd of a man at the head of that department who is not merely a theorist. The treasury is likely to have an important part to play before the close of the pres- ent year in conneetion with the financial interests of the country. There was sig- nificance in the remark of Senator Sher- man at Cincinnati on Saturday that he hoped Secretary Fairchild might be able to relieve the businoss world. His ap- pointment would give confidence that whenever “relief shall be required he will atleast be willing to go to the full length of his lawful powers to afford it. Such reassurance would of itself be worth a great deal in dispelling distrust and al- laying apvrehension, which are the germs of panie. ‘Tne power of the corporations is still atrang in tha logislaturs of Ponnoylvanie, and their creatures in that body are as obstinate and defiant as ever. In the course of a discussion recently on an anti-diserimination bill one of the de- fenders of the railroads declared that the policy of these corporations was ‘‘none of the people’s business.” It is of course generally understood that this is the sen- timent by which the corporations in Pennsylvania and elsewhere are guided, but it is only rarely that one of their rep- resenlatives or apologists shows the cour- age to proclaim it. Itis a mistaken view, which the corporations are beginning to adiscover, and which will be made more apparent to them in time. The wrongs that have been done and the injuries that have been wrought through the utterly selfish policy of the corporations will not be allowed to continue unchanged. There is no state in which the destructive effects of this policy are more marked thun in Pennsylvania, for the reason that rail- road domination and abuse of the peo- ple's rights have been carried there to the farthest limit. The corporations yield their grip with obstinate reluctance, but it 18 loosening and must ultimately give way altogethe! CoNaRress failing to make an appro- priation to turnish powder for the salutes on Governor's 1sland, it is thought that this old custom will be dispensed with, It takes about fifteen pounds of powder, or 82 worth, to fire at the sun, which is an expense of $14,600 per year. Spenk- ing of the sunset gun, a New York paper says it gives the shipping in the harbor notice when to vput out their signal lanterns and reminds the lighthouses when to light their lamps. Itshakes the tramps off the Battery benches and wakes them up. People in the lower part of the city wind their watches by it. It is a signal to many people in factories in the seventh and eighth storfes of tall buildings that their day's work is nearly over and that it is about time to return to the earth again, It makes all the tene- ment houses rattle, and furnishes cheap excitement to those who live in Budden- sick flats. — WE cannot comprehend why the county commissioners should meddle with the private concerns of County Clerk Need- ham. He derives his authority as an of- ficer from the same source that they do. He ought to have the right to employ whom he pleascs as deputies and cony- ists, providing they are competent and honest, and do their work faithfully. He is responsible for their conduct and cer- tainly ought to know best what jpersons can work with him in harmony. The less the commissioners meddle the better it will be for them and the public inter- est, n Mr, Neadham neglects his duty or converts funds to his own use that donot belongto nim it will be in order for the commissioners to step in and take possession of the office. e —— THERE is more money for boodlers in sight in the saline land grab than there was in the anu-gambling bill. The gamblers could not raise much over six thousand. The syndicato could see that and raise them twenty or thirty thousand more. ————— WHEN the conspiracy and bribery charges were read to the house two weeks ago Slater rose in his seat to call the Almighty to witness that be had nat been boodled to mutilate the Omaha charter, but he did not call on high beaven to establish his imnocence of the criminal conspiracy to defeat the ambling bill, Slater is a bold, bad man, ut reckless and corrupt as he is, he lacked the courage to invoke a stroko of paralysis by calling the Almighty as a witness of his entire innocenco. m———— WueN Thurston’s oil rooms at Lin- coln are closed, ‘add Paul Vandervoort drops off the pay-roll of the Union Pacific, that company may be in condition to set aside some of its earning for much needed improvements af Omaha and along its line. Tuk new south is unquestionable en - joying & wonderful boom. Yet after all the settlement and development of the new west surprises the world. Come west, young man, here are the golden opportunities. E———— Tue best thing the pool holder of the gambling fraternity at Lincoln can do is to open another bank and win baock the money that has been advanced to the judieciary boodlers, THE next boom we look for is the boom of the Missouri river. S ———— NEBRASKA JOTTINGS. Ponca 15 a “gem” crow town. Hastings is talking for a union depot. The Cedar Rapids Era has been swal- lowed by the Republican, A flour mill with a capacity of 100 bar- rels a day is to be built at Wisner, Plattsmouth wili celebrate the comple- tion ot her waterworks next week. A son of Farmer Murray, of Blair, lost a leg in a stalk cutter last week. Three miles of street railway will be planted in Grand Island this year. The Dakota City Eagle is now perched on the feed-board of a new power press. A branch of the Burlington & Missouri isto be built from Ravenna to Loup City. Over 11,000 men are now engaged in building the Rock Island extensions in Neuraska and Kansas, Waterworks are a certainty in Fulls City and electric lights are next on the list of improvements. ‘The Missouri river is endeavoring to effect a close alliance with Omaha by cutting & short line from Florence to this city. A burglar raided the Edwards resi- dence in Hastings Thursday night, and cleared a watch and $200 worth of silver- ware. J. Koenigstein offers to build a $20,000 hotel in Norfolk provided the citizens loan him $10,000 for a year without interest. A new game, called ‘‘twelve-and-a- half,” is the latest craze in Grand Island. 1t stimulates enterprise at the rate of two for a quarter. Juniata has appointed a committee to secure the extension of the Elkhorn Val- ley road from Hastings, and will give a bonus for the boon, The evidence of new life and activity in Nebraska City is multiplying. Two shots from a revolver woke up a police- man one night last week. The moment an Omaha man squints at real estate in an interior town nowadays, prices immediately advance. Thisshows the elevating influence of metropolitan activity. Hon. J. Sterling Morton will celebrate Arbor Day, April 22, by planting 1,000 Austrian pine trees and a lot of Saloma apple trees on his homestead in Otoe county. ats want soma ana tn st S M Hhoven ity and notices for Gordon amount to over $100 a month, and are being now printed in a republican paper. Banker Cheney, of Creighton, exer- clse& l;,imsfll after g:r;king hours re- cently by slapping a fistic mortzage on the mug of Edrmr Fry, of the l"‘n’?mcar. He was fined $1 and costs. A skirmishing party in the payofa long-handle corporation, the Omaha, Lincoln, Hartland & El Paso road, are setting stakes 1n the nelfhborhood of Crete, along the Blue river and Salt creek. The company recently orianlzed to prospect for coal in Glen Rock, Nemaha county, has contracted for the necessary machinery to bore. The company pro- claims a determination to strike o or China. The canningindustry at Beatrice prom- ises to be bigger and better than ever. Already 75,000 cans have been made snd by the time the canning season opens it is to have 500,000 cans ready. Prepara- tions are making for an extensive busi- ness this year. Two young track walkers from Box Butte county, who were bounced from a freight.train on the Elkhorn Valley road, revenged themselves by throwing ties along the track. They ‘were caught at the job and jailed in Chadron, & Fremont rejoices on the certainty of early connection with the B. & M. "The company has decided to enter the city on the way to Norfolk. The company 1s also bridging the Platte near Schuyler on the main line of the Umaha & North Platte road. There are now sixteen cities in this state that have or are building a system of water supply—Omaha, Lincoln, West Point, Grand Island, Fremout, Colum- bus, Blair, Albion, Wisner, Ashland, Boftrice, Ilfl. Kaum& Nebraska City, Plattsmouth and Falls City. Two boys were drowned in Big Alkall lake, about eighteen miles south of Val- entine, on last Sunday. The boys, Franx Palmer, aged eighteen, and Alva Carson, aged sixteen, were out hunting ana ven- tured on the lake fora short row. A terrific wind prevailing at the time drove them out into the midst of floating ice, their boat became unmanageable an capsized in fifteen feet of water. A stranger from Blue Snrinw started a lively scandal in DUlysses Wednesday night. During the evening he strolled out with the wife of a man named Crockett. Crockett found it out and walking past the couple turned suddenly around, struck the stranger in the face, knocking him down. The city marshal then arrested him. The stranger claims the woman separated him and his wife. Crockett had previously applied for a divorce. ) The venerable novelist of morth Ne- braska is rapidly :Efirnnehlnxl delicious climax in *“The Contflict, Lova Money." The 429th ehlgler bears external evi- denoce that the tires of youth are still burning in the ‘)llplutmf bosom of Fr. Martin, Here is a modelchunk for am- orous youngsters: “Yes; my unspeak- ably traolmu Ida is am anzel,” and none who know her can dogbt it for one mo- ment. Blessed be hesven! on Christmas she is to be ltl? wife. How can I be m'x“ lcflnutly thankful for such a heavenly i - ‘The editor of the Broken Bow BStates- man is whirling in the vortex of a libel m;l.t.lbm dnr notd I&Mll to -njnauu fit. judge charged the jury in’ the case *‘that the truth of the lila tion must be established,” and the result was a verdict against Editor Martin. *‘1f this be luw,” says the Statesman, “there is not a lso- ntical mmmer i the state of Ne- braska, that publ for five years, whose files will not furnish legal ground for sz criminal libel suits, as strongly based as the one on which R. E. Martin was convicted.” —————— It the liver and kidneys are Hn“‘lli and inactive, Hood's Sarsaparilia will rouse them to prompt and regular action. Take it now. A CRIMINAL ~ CONSPIRACY, The Frosen Trath About fe Anti-Gam- bling Bill Plot. LEGISLATIVE BLACKMAILERS. How the Brazen Boodlers Conspired to Make a Stake Out of Ne« braska Sporting Men, On Saturday, March 6, 1857, two prominent keepers of gambling houses at Omaha held a conference lasting over one hour with Charles J. Green, attorney for the B. & M. railrond in the card room of an Omaha saloon. They thenand therediscussed the anti-gambling bill which had unexpectedly to them been passed by the state senate. For two days thereafter there was much excitement and agitation in Omaha gambling circles, and contributions were solicited from keepers of gambling houses for a fund to be used in defeating the bill, One of the leading keepers of a gambling house in Omaha was the collector of this corruption fund, to _which he, himselt, con- tributed $000. On Wednesday, March 9, this party took to Lincoln a roll of bank bills amounting to between $2,000 and $3,000, which was the total at that time paidin by Omaha gambling houses, It was understood and given out among 'the gamblers that this money was sent to Lincoln to “fix”” members chiefly of the house judiciary committee, which had the bill In charge, More money ‘was to be sent to Lincoln the week following toinsure the defeat of the bill. ‘The first definite knowledge of the criminal conspiracy by members of the judiciary committee to defeat the antl-gambling bill reached the ed- itor of the BEE on Wednesday, March 9. On the preceding day, while going to Lincoln, the editor had noticed Goodly Booker, the keeper of an Omaha gambling houee, and Russell, chairman of the judiclary commit- tee, on the train, While nothing unusual took place on the road between these parties, a suspicion was aroused as to certain invisi- ble links between them. About noon on the next day, Wednesday, Booker was seen to be nervously walking up and down before the Capital hotel, and the editor’s suspicion that he was on “business” was more firmly strengthened. A few werds passed between the editor and Booker, and finally the latter came into the BEE office in the hotel build- ing. Booker appeared agitated and pro- voked. He entered into conversation about the gambling bill and declared that certain members of the judiclary committee of thoe house were trying to bleed the gamblers. He stated that Caidwell, one of the committee, went to Omaha on Sunday, March 6, to see the gamblers and conferred with them about the Snell bill. Caldwell professed to be agalnst the bill, and assured them he did not want any money for himself, but other mem- bers were “‘talking funny” and he would like to see them taken care of, to beat the bill Booker 2ald he thought this was a way Cald- well had of bleeding the sporting men by pretending he wanted their money for some- body else. In the course of further talk Booker sald that he had come to Lincoln to see parties who were interested in defeating the bill; but, meantime, Slater, also of the ju- diciary committee, had gone to Omaha, (on Tuesday, March 8,) and there had called on the gamblers for money. Booker said fur- ther, that Slater’s middle man, Andy Moyn{- han, had called upon some of tho sporting peovleto make up $5,000; as, according to Moynihan, Slater thought it would thake that sum all around to make sure of killing this amblers, said Booker, had directed Slater to return to Lincoln and see him (Booker) about the matter; and Ken- nedy, an Omaha gambler, was coming down with Slater to arrange it. “Meantime,” said Booke! have been notified to look for them.” *‘Slater and Moynihan,” said Booker, *‘are on the way down here, but we don’t propose to give them a cent 1f we can help it We.have put matters into the hands of two or three men at Lin- coln.” “Slater aud Caldwell,” remarked Booker, *‘are working together and they have Rot Moynihan to do the between work,” In the afternoon of the same day, Wednes- day, March 9, the editor of the Ber was in- troduced to Kennedy, who talked very cau- tiously. He said they had put up several hundred dollars with Charley Greene and Lee Estelle, who were attending to their inter- ests, Green had told them that he could handle the bill without paying many mem- bers—only such as he could not conveniently work otherwise. Kennedy sald that up to that time Russell had refused to make a bar- gain. He was afraid that he might be found out. But he, Russell, had assured them he was willing to beat the bill for thesake of his friends. Kennedy’s statements were very evasive on many points and he was evidently hedg- ing. Both Booker and Kennedy said they would return to Omaha the same atternoon at3:50 p. m,, as they had left everything with Charley Greene and thelr Lincoln friends, When they were met in the hotel at 5:30 o’clock the same evening, they sald they had been obliged to stay over because Slater had insisted that they must arrange matters be- fore returning to Omaha. At2a. m, Thursday, March 10, the follow- ing report was given the editor of Tur BEE at his hotel room in Lincols At 11:00 p. m., Wednesday, March 9, Slater and A. R, Granam of Wisner, were sitting together In the writing room of the Capital hotel. Slater left Graham at 11:15 to see Bowman, another member ot the judiciary committee, who had just come in the hotel. Slater and Bowman had a brief conferemce and they both went up stairs, At11:30 p. m. Booker, Kennedy and Sheedy, the latter a Lincoln gambler, were seen in conference at the southeast corner of the Intersection of Eleventh and t* streets. They were joined by Herbert Leavitt, ot Omaha, and in a few minutes Leavitt left them, went in the Capi- tal hotel and spoke to Graham, asking him where Slater had gone. Graham repiled that Slater haa gone out in the office to sce Bowman, and would return in a few minutes. Leavitt went into the office and sat down about ten minutes, all the time evidently being on the watch for Slater. Charley Greene came into the of- fice, apparently from the parlor, gnd Leavitt immediately joined him. Then Greene ran up stairs quickly and Leavitt went outside again. Slater and Russell came down stalrs about ten minutes later. Slater went out and Russell remained in the hotel office until 1 o’clock on Thursday morning, March 10, talking with newspaper reporters and Assistant Clerk Cook, of the house. With the latter he had a long and apparently confidentlal conference. At 1 o'clock Rus. sell and Cook left and proceeded southward. At 1:15 o’clock Thursday morning, Slater came from the Windsor hotel to the Capital hotel. At the Windsor hotel I believe he was in room 10. On the register of the hotel the following nmames were found: Andy Moynihan, Omaha, (assigned to room 11); Q. ¥. Brooks, Omaha, (evidently Booker) (assigned to room 10; H. B. Kennedy, Omaba, (assigned to room 10). These names were all registered In one hand. Slater im- mediately went up stairs, after entering the Capital hotel. He was found with Charley Greene and Gurley In a room where liquors 'were sold after the bar was elosed. All mani- fested some confusion as & fourth party entered. They were, evidently, engaged in some conversation which the arrival of the stranger interrupted. The new arrival spoke of the members of the legislature belng up ratber late and remarked that Russell | bad only just gome home. Siater sald: “Then Russell has gono home, has he? Mow long ago did he leave?’ Being an- swered that Russell had gone about ton min- utes before he (Slater) came in, Slater saidy “Well, then I'll go up too.” At 7:30 o'clock on Wednesday morning Kennedy and Booker were met at the depot by the editor of the BEF, just as they were starting for Omaha. They were not very communleative, pretending that they had been unable to meet Slater, but had loft all matters with their Lincoln friends. A party was immediately sent to Sheedy's gambling place with an alleged message from Booker. The messenger reported as follows: Met Sheedy at Quick’s building. Told him had some fimportant information from Booker and Kennedy, and that they wanted him (Sueedy) to keep an eye on Slater, who was liable to go back on them because they had not paid sufticient money, Sheedy ap- poared surprised. He had recelved a note from Booker that morning, which he showed me. It read: “Everything fixed up satisfac- torily. It will be all right, (Signed) Booker."” On Thursday forenoon, March 10, 157, & party went to Slater’s desk, during discussion of the Omaha charter bill in committee of the whole, and said: *I was told by the parties with whom you had a talk last night to say to you that they look to you to see that what was agreed upon should be carried out.” Stater choked up and then said: “What's that?” The other man reitorated his state- ment. Slater asked: “What parties? Who ‘waore they?” The other party replied: 1 don’t know; I was introduced to one of them as & Mr. Adams. Ho is about my size and has a blonde mustache,” ‘Lhen Slater sald: “All right; all right.”” The man add “I sup- posed that it was something that he dldn’t want me to know anything about, and so didn’y any more questions.” Slater re- plied: *‘Yes, that'sright; that’s right.” On Thursday evening, at 6:30 o'clock, March 10, 1887, a party met Goodly Booker in front of Higgins' restaurant, on Douglas street, Omaha. Booker asked him what shape the Omaha charter bill was in. In the conversation which ensued Booker was asked what had been dono about the gambling bill. Booker replied: *‘We've done all we can. It's all left to Sheedy now. We have had three men working hard for several days—Leauitt. Lte Estelle and Charley Green, Estelle came home yester- day. We've paid Green off—he sald he had done allhe could. Leavitt is there yet.” “Can’t you do something toward giving the boys sugar?”’ asked Booker's compan- fon, “Yes,” replied Booker, “that is what we aredoingz.” When asked whom he had made solia among the members, Booker said: “Caldwell is fixed”—then hesitating a mo- ment as if he had said too much, Booker added: *That {s, he has accepted no money," but he says that he will make a strong fight to kill the bill In the judiciary committee.” “Have you soen Russell and Slater?” was asked. Booker replied: *"Sheedy and the boys think they can work those two fellows.” *How much money haveé you ralsed?”’ was inquired. *Well,” said Booker, ‘‘they wanted $5,000. We could not raise quite that amount. We have raised a large amount, but not quite that sum, Bix places in Omaha have con- tributed.” On March 12, 1837, Russell and Slater left Lincoln at 8:50 p, m. and came to Omaha, They went to the Paxton hotel and regis- tered, At the Paxton, also, stopped Jerome Pickerel and Kepresentative Peters. At 9:30 o'clock that evening Russell was found sit- ting in the hotel office, Ile said he was walt- ing for the boys, and then added: “Peters and Slater have gone over to the show; but I concluded 1 was too tired and so stayed here."” Subsequently Peters was seen and stated that Slater had not been with him at the show. Between 10:30 and 11 o'clock that evening Russell loft the hotel office with Slater, who came In from the eastern en- trance of the hotel. Both went to the Omaha Republican office, where they remained short time, Before midnight they went, to- gether, somewhere, At 2 o'clock on Sunday morning they returned to the hotel together and retired, occupying adjoining rooms. During the two hours Russell and Slater 'were not observable the proprietors of the gambling houses were not to be found, and none of them were in their places. Un Sun- day Ruesell loft for Sehuyler at 11195 & m., and Slater at the same time paid his bill at the Paxton hotel and it Was understood that he contamplated going home. He was met late in the afternoon on Farnam street in Omaha, and that evening he returned to Lin- coln, The above s, substantially, the memo- randum of facts submitted to the committee on investigation of the charges made by K. Rosewater against menbers of the judiclary committee. The names of several important witnesses are withheld for the presant. Bucceeding the appointment ot the com- mittee aud the submission of thememo- randum, the following corroborative facts have been obtalned: On the night atter the charges wore mado before the house of representatives, a meeting was held in room 25, ‘Capital hotel. It was attended by Representatives Russell, Slater, Bowman, Brad Slaughter, chief clerk of the house of representatives, Assistant Clerk Cook, of the house, and an- other person. Senator Majors had been in a few minutes and urged the breaking up of the investization as ordered by the house. Previous to this meeting Slater and Caldwell had walked the streets that night arm in arm for several hours, It was decided at the meeting that the investigating committee as apoointed by Speaker Harlan should be changed at all hazards, Becret sessions of the committes would not do, either. It was declded that either Bow- man or Russell should rise to a question of privilege in the morning and should ask for the addition of jthree other members, who were not to be the speaker’s appointees, * The following morning this programme was substantially carried out, through active efforts of the whole lobby of the rallroads and other intcrests ‘This was not so.difficult as might have been thought, as at that time nfty-two members of the house had signed an agreement to stand by each other on any and every question which might need a combination. On the same morning before the house con- vened, Mr, Rosewater went into the house and'walked toward the desk of the BEE re- vorter. As he did so Caldwell who was standing in the entrance to the cloak room said w0 two men: “That — —— —— —— is bound todie with his boots on. He'll die ‘with his boots on, sure. Somebody will put a bullet right through the back of that thick neck, Ifftook a shot at him justasbe stands there he'd never know what hit him. 1sut I've got a family, The —— —— —— —— may ruin me; but 1've got a family, If I was sngleas [once was he wouldn’t have any more show than & prairie chicken it 1 had a shot gun.” When the house adopted the resolutions adding three of “our friends,” as Clerk Slaughter termea it, to the committee ordering the investigation to be conducted openly, Russell, Slater and Caldwell at- tempted to appear unconcerned, but could, in reality, with difeulty restrain emotions of Jjubilance and relfef. On the night suceeeding the presentation of the charges, there was great excitement in the sporting ciroles at Lincoln and the gam- blers then charged freely that the Omaba gamblers had ‘‘civen themn away,” On March 19, after the adoption by the house of the resolutions offered by the in- vestigating commitiee, Slater was talked with in the Capital hotel. He said: 1 went over there and saw those fellows on that night, (Wednesday, March 9,) and they made thelr propositions o me; but [left thom entirely in the dark as to what 1 should do. But then, hell, Rosewater couldn’t prove & d—n thing, even if he should get on to my meeting those fellows, beecause they wouldn't swear to anything they ever told him, if they ever told him nny- thing.” Belng asked about Caldwell, hesald: “Caldwell made a muss of it, protty nearly. He told me that he went up to Omaha and saw those fellows, and read the riot act to them,” J. W. Reld, until recontly a gambler in Lin- coln, stated on March 21, on & passenger train to Hastings, that $5,000 to $7,000 would be raised and part had been ralsed and placed in a bank In Lincoln subject to checks by parties, who had agreed ot any risk to see thatthe gambling bill should not becomo a law, if they were successful, Unless beaten, 1t was to be solen, Of ecourse, said Ried, the chief clork would get his bis Ried also said that Sheody had charge of the money, A repre- sentatlve whose name wo omit said on the 2Ath inst.: “Sullivan wants to be squared. That's the reason he was 80 rabid to make this bill the special order to-morrow. Bow- man wants to be even too. 1le said as much to me. Siater has boen fixed. * ® ® Russell Is too cunning to take any chances, but I think he will be looked after through Slater because ho knows Slater Is In the holo himself and doesn’t dare squeal. Then there are two or three other fellows who are arter stuff. 1 know them all. Iain’tsucha d—d foolas1look to be. 1 know just the men to touch.” ‘These links in the chain of eviderco and this fragmentary Information corroborating the main points have been gathered by va« rious parties, some of thom expressly em- ployed to ascertain the inside operatious of the lobby and conduct of the legislature. i Towa Items, Along the entire southern tier of coun- ties of the state seeding has begun. Saloon licenses yiclded $14,416.75 dur- ing the fiscal year just ended at Dubuque. l)ru(f stores at Cedar Rapids are re- ported as doing a big business in whisky. The grailroad commission has been asked to condemn a portion of the ground needed for a union depot site at Ot- tumwa, The druggists of Des Moines have formed an organization to protect them- selves against the reckless use recently made of the pharmacy law by irresponsi- ble constables. The G. A. R. boys of Griswold will cele- brate the event of Lee's surrender. Pa- rade, reunion, festivities and a spectacu- lar entertainment in the evening will call for a full holiday of amusement. Des Moines has a woman chicken thief named Lint, who has been _discoyered doing a wholesale business. With the as- sistance of her two sons and team at- tacked to a lumber wagon she would journey through tho country at night de< pleting henroosts with exvert neatness and disvatch, D 'The number of convicts at Fort Madi- son having fallen below that required to fill contracts for labor, the governor has decided that in the future prisoners con- victed of felonies in the counties of Woodbury, Monona, Harrison, 1da, Bac and Calhotin be sent to Fort Madison 1n- stead of Anamosa, as has been the cus- tom heretofore. The numboer of convicts at Fort Madison is now 857, Dakota. From Deadwood comes the report that arrangements are to_be made under which the Merchants’ National bank of that city will shortly resume business. § An assay of ore from the *‘Poisoned 0Ox"' mine, near Rapid City, shows the mineral to be very high grade. The lode i_%lexlcn.sxw and apparently inexhaust- ible. Prairie chickens are so plentiful around Sioux Falls that they crowd each other into the city limits and occasionsl flocks perch on the residences on the hill streets. The opera house block at Fargo was sold last week for $28,000, and again re- sold on the 22d inst. for $35,000. It is rumored the last purchasers were Mar- shall Field & Co., of Chicago, and that they intend establishing a braunch house there. Mrs. John P, Crennan, wife of a proms inent business man of Yankton, died at Toledo, O., the first of the week of soar- lat fover, She left Yankton a few days before with her baby to avold the disease ruFlnF at that place, but the germs wore with her, which caused her death. —— Artis! icomes. New York letter to Inter-Ocean: The earnings of the best artists yary, but not 8o much as might be supposed. E. A, Abbey is suppcsed to make between 15,000 and $20,000 a year. His drawings or “'She Stoops to Conquer” are valued at $20,000, Heis as well liked 1n En- gland as here, and expects to make that country his home. He is building a fine house there. C. S. Reinhart makes about $10,000 & year, Thure de Thul- strup, who is under contract to furnish a page or double page to Harper's Weckly every week, is enrnin‘z about $10,000 a year with his pencil, William Chase must do at least as well, and could make moro 1if he cared to. He has the finest studio in the country, with [3 darkey at the door, and [ wondrous museum of bric-a-brac 1n- side, including a rare colleotion of ola watches. Ho goal to Holland to study Halst or to Madrid to perfect his knowl- edge of Velasquez, every year, Charles Jay Taylor, of Puck and” Harper’s, stud- ies as hard now that he is making $8,000 a year as he did when he began his career. Arthur Burdett Frost, who got a fortune with, as well as in, his wife, is now the strongest man in picturing American con- temporary life. He, too, makes about $8,000, but he has a separate income of $40,000 a year. Harry kenn, a pupil of Birket Foster, used to get $10,000 a year from the Appletons for his work on **Pic- turesque America.’”’ In American scenery drawing no one is his superior. He prob- ably earns $10,000 now by general work, Black and white is now the most profit- able line of artist work' in this country. Water color and oil work are a trifle stagnant, particularly the productions of Aumerican colorists, -—— Materna Loves America, Vienna Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel: A house lying w the middle of a romantic garden, surrounded by charm- ing vinyards, is the abode of Mme. Ma- terna, who bought it immediately after her return from America. Thoughout the house Richard Wagner reigns su- preme. His memorials and ideal charac- ters are to be seen everywhere. Three powerful dogs protect the house and gar. den; they are named after the kg in “Pristan and lsolde,” *‘Marke,” “Wotan” and Mime.” In the music room there 1sa stave, the squares of which represent “Wuhnfried” at Bay- reuth, and there is also an enormous bust of the compozer of the ‘‘Nibelungen Ring."” Mme. Materna ahlnnd her great reputation through Richard Wagneor, whom she never forgets; but she made her fortune in Americs, which she also neyer forgets, Ona table in hor elegant drawing room there is a large casket con- taining all the photographs the eele- brated *‘Watkure' saw and admired on the other side of the Atlantic. When the great artist is surrounded Uy her guests she cannot stop talking of ‘wonders snd splendor of America, st L A POZZONI'S MEDICATED COMPLXIONPOW DER For infant's toilot is un indispensable ar- ticle, healing all excoriations immediate . Mothers_ should use it freely on the ttle ones. It is perfoctly harmless. For ole by druggists.