Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 30, 1887, Page 4

,THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. / TRRVS OF SUBSORIPTTON . 914 AND 50! qu orriee, 918 PARNAM STREPT, w YoRic OF TRIBUNE BUILDING. ASRINGTON FOURTEENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communieations relating to news andedi- torial matter should be addressed Lo the Evi- TOR OF THE Bxr. BUSINESS LETTERSS All bueiness lctters and remittancoes should be Bddressed to THE BEe PUBLISHING COMPANY. OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffico orders 10 be made payable to the order of the company, THE BEE PUBLISHIG COMPANY, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER, EpiToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, ?* Ly Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Dally Bee for the week ending Mar. 26th 1857, was as 8t nesday, Mar, 22, ednesday, hursda A 'riaay, Mar. 25.. Average. 0 SCHUCK, (x0. B. ‘L7 Bubseribed and sworn;to before me this 26th day of March A. D., 1847, N. P. FrIL., [BEALI Notary Publie. Geo, B, 'lzschuck, belni first duly sworn, deposes and says that he |s secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual av- erage dally circulation of the Daily Bee for themonth of March, 1886, 11,5637 coples; for 1, 1896, 12,191 copies: for for May, 1888, 12,- coples; for June, 1 208 coples; for July, 1886, 12,314 coples; for August, 1856, 12, copies; for September, 1886, 13,030 copies; for October, 1886, 12,989 copies; for November, 188, 13,348 coples; for Deceinber, 1 237 copies; for January, 1887, 16,208 copies; for February, 1887, 4,108 cop! GE0. B, TZ8CHUCK, Subseribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of March, A . D), 1887, (SEAL.| ' "N. P.Fem.. Notarv Publi Ir this style of weather continues, March can go out on a toboggan. ‘TaE Saline land steal has been reported favorably. Those wine suppers have a wonderful effect on scheming legisla- tors. THERE was something very poetic in the vote on the bill to punish wife-beat- ers. The si1x single members of the house voted against 1t. ‘THERE is some good coming out of this logislatare. It has passed alaw which will make every bale of hay weigh ninety-five ponnds. PropasLY Church Howe did not takea receipted bill from the United States $1.50 per pound ink concern. Howe is sometimes awfully reckless. Wrura Cartor Harrison out of polities and our legislature on the eve of adjourn- i ment, as a country we have no right to g complaiu of a backward spring. e———— THE news comes from Washington to the offect that Senator Van Wyck and J. Bterling Morton are likely to be ap- pointed as members of the Pacific rail- ‘Wway commission. em———— It is altogother possible that, owing to the failure of the deficiency appropria- tion bill, the federal courts throughout the country will be closed. The plan of running courts on the credit system was never very successful. b i SEES——— ;L' It is impossible for: the democratic party in Chicago to find a man who will | accept the nomination for mayor. After all Mr. Harrison’s “‘unanimous’” nomina- tion was net such a wonderful recogni- tion as it might have been. — A REFRESRING {tem comes in from pro- hibition Iowa relating the fact that sev- ‘eral books of county records which had . long been missing, were recetly found in a'Davenport saloon, where they had been ~ pawned for liquor by a former official. 3 — . MoRe Chicago boodlers have been in- dicted. It is probable that some twenty i or thirty of them will go to Jolict. And . Yet a newspaper first made the charges L. against the dishonest gang. T1'his shows 5 wlhnz an investigation will sometimes dis- 3 ‘elose. A RECENT cablegram says: ‘“Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone got lost in a fog in Lon. «don the other evening, and were guided ‘home by a policeman.” Many men have ‘been lost in a fog about to 2 o'clock a. i, in thid country. It has been noticed, howover, that their wives did not accom- pany them, ——— DEAD reptiles preserved in alcohol are yery common and may be seen in nearly every museum, Live Kentucky scor- sionl soaked in brandy are more rare. ne of these sonked lizards has been on “exhibition at the low doggeries in Umaha “for the past four months. SEES—— Tae Pennsylvania Railroad company fnterpret the inter-state commerce law their own advantage. They have is- ‘Bued a clrcular in which they state that ‘their solicitor has advised that it will be fllegal to issue passes, after April 1, and necordingly all free transportation will "be called in. Even mewmbers of congress ‘and proesidents and members of the cabi- ; I‘mun notitied to ‘“‘deliver their A RESIDENT of Georgia was looking at * prapidly moving circular saw in a plan- ang mill at Ocean Pond. He carelessly fhrew a piece of wood against it. In an {nstant the stick came back, striking hina Rhetween tib eyes, with force suflicient to yender him insensible. It is thought the experimenter will not recover, Again is iited the beautiful Greek maxim there should be “‘no monkeyin' with the buzz saw while in motion,” em————— Mgi. MoSHANE'S editor says we have to produce eye witnesses who were ut when any member of the legis- re was boodled. Nobody had arightto such proof unless the parties that d the money would so testify on the d. But we have abundant proof that bes were solicited and conferences d by menbers with the gamblers. Any in who solicits bribes is a bribe taker. Mr. MoShane's editor has beeu in with the boodlers and nothiag is expected of bim. . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY MARCH 30, 1887. The New Departure. In the dark ages when a comet made its appearance in the sky, terrible culam- ities were always predicted by charla- tains who professed to be sndowed with supernatural powers and to hold com- munion with the Prince of Evil. Ter- rorized by these omens und prophesies of impending disaster the ignorant and su- perstitious masses of those times natu- rally became victims of designing im- posture, Believing that the world was about to come to an end, credulous and frenzied people were readily induced to part with what little they had of worldly goods and chattels. rophesies of woe, war and disas- ter which designing impostors have been spreading broadcast, as sure to overtake this country when the new inter-state commerce bill comes into effect, are a striking reminder of the charlatan as- trologer who periodically terrorized the veople of Kurope 600 years ago. We do not believe that the intor-state commerce law, which goes into effect April 18t, will plunge the country into chaos and ruin, even if the railroad man- agers should do their worst in misinter- preting the law. The new departure in railway traflic may for a time create some friction. It is but natural that any very radicul change in business methods by public carricrs should, for a time, meet with disfavor among shippers, who have here- tofore enjoyed rebates and special rate privileges, which can no longer be con- ceded. The same, in & measure, is true ot localities that have been favored to the detriment of their rivals. But the great mass of shippers and patrons of railways will find the new departure ad- vantageous, providing the railroads and other public carriers do not conspire to make the law odious by a general raid on the patrons along the line. With all the publicity given by the press to the inter-state commerce law, its proyisions are not generally under- stood and some of them have become subjects of much dispute and varied in- terpretation. From the very outset the railway managers and the railway press have sought to create false impressions about the mtent and scope of the law. The powers of the inter-state commission have been magnitied and distorted, and the attempt to operate railways under congressional regulation has been pro- nounced an absolute impossiblity. The regulation of inter-state railroads is an untried experiment, but it is a re- form that could no longer be put off. The prevailing system of arbitrary rates, rebates and pools had become intoler- able. It must give way to a new system of transportation based upon fair deal- ing and equal tolls for everybody for equal service performed. The main features of the new departure are publicity of rates, abolition of rebates and special rates, and prohibition ot freight pooling, These alone will com- pensate the country for any tomporary derangement of established channels of trade. Publicity of rates and prohibition of rebates and secret concessions doos away with jug-handle favoritism and jugglery among freight agents in the in- terest of favored patrons. This system had become a dangerous source of fayor- itism and corruption, Its abolition emancipates thousands of merchants and manufacturers who have heretofore been degraded by the iron yoke which they were compelled to wear. ‘The breaking up of freight pooling will, in a measure, bring about competition which hereto- fore has always been destroyed by legal- 1zed combination. The commission itself is a mere ap- pendage to railway regulation. Its powers and dutios are very restricted. The cardinal points of the inter-state commerce regulation are firmly imbedded in the vlain lotter of the law, which neither commission nor court can over- turn, To Be Or Not To Be? Our Washington dispatches state that demands are still being made on the president to put in force the retaliatory aw against Canada, and that it is be- lieved he may comply. Indeed it is in- ferred that he is preparing to do so from the fact that the navy department is understood to have rencwed its inquiries regarding the ability of the railways and canals of the country to transport boats and naval material from the séa to In- land waters. On the other hand, Wash- ington advices to the latest New York papers received represent it to be prac- tically settled that there is to be no exe- cution of the retaliatory act. One of these journals states, professedly on the authorigy of an official well informed about the attitude of the president and cabinet on this subject, that the action of congress 1s looked upon by Mr. Cleve- land and h1s advisers as hasty and im- pulsive, and ridiculously inconsistent with the ability of the government to give effect to the aggressive spirit of the act. 1t is said furthermore on the same authority that the secrotary of state hadinformally made explanations to the British minister amounting to an apology for the ‘‘rash and inconsiderate temper displayed by congress,” and as- suring him that nothing would come of it. There Is a good deal more from the same source intended to show that it has never been the intention of the president to enforce the law under present condi- tions, and that he will do 80 only in the event of new ciréiimstanéeés arising which are unmistakable violations of the rights of American vessels, A great part of all this gossip must be taken with allowances. There is indeed some reason. to believe that tho adminis- tration has never regarded the retalia- tion act with favor. It is a republican measure, having its origin in the senate, and it is a matter of record that the ad- ministration put forth its best efforts to aid Mr. Belmont to substitute for it an- other measure far more radical in its character. Whether this movement was designed to defeat all legislation on the subject, or denoted a sincere de- sire to meet the 1ssue in the strongest possible manner, cannat now be determined but having the law, it 1s only fair to believe, until good evidence shall appear to warrant a different opinion, that tho president will enforco it when- ever in his discretion he shall deem its enforcoment nocessary., As to whether he should proceed at once, as scems to be the wish of some, or wait for some new act on the part of the Canadian suthorities in contravention of American rights, is a quostion on which there may perhaps be a fair difference of op!nion, Wao are disposed to think, however, that the wolght of intelligent public opinion, f#reed trom all secticual or Interested mo- the law. when, having tives, would not approve an execution of the law until there is further occasion for it. 1t wasnot the popular expectation that the law was not the popular expecta- tion that tho law was to be put in force in retaliation for what had occurred, and the language and spirit of the act do not indicate that such was the intention. A refusal of the president to now exercise his authority would not, therefore, fairly. be regarded as evidence of hostility to That fact can only be shown conclusive evidence of further acts in clear violation of Ameri- can rights, he shall still decline to use the power devolved upon him by the law. The necessary test 18 not unlikely to oceur at any time, since it is apparent that the Dominion government does not propose to recede from its previous hos- tile position, Did Vandemark's tra Sessfon Pay? This is the first Nebraska legislature which has held a session of sixty days. That was certainly ample time for acting upon every bill that was pending before both houses. At any rate every com- mendable measure should have had a fair chance of being voted upon. But it seems that this legislature has been more wasteful even with its own time than with the people’s money. It hus done less effective work in the sixty days than any preceding legislature did in forty days. Some of the most importiant and desirable bills have been smothered by a select committee which was empowered during the last week of the session to pick out such bills as it regarded 1most bene- ficinl. This committee killed off many meritorious bills, but gave preference to bills like the Saline land grab and kin- dred jobs. The idea that a halt dozen members should have the power to pigeon-hole important and needed legis- lation is certainly a novel one. The first sixty day session has not proved itself worth the $50,000 which the taxpayers of Nebraska will have to grind out of their earnings, Extradition With Russia. What purports to be the draft of a new oxtradition treaty with Russia has been made public. In its general terms this convention follows the ordinary course. It names as extraditable crimes murder and manslaughter, rape, arson, burglary, robbery, larceny when the value of the property shall exceed $200, forgery, coun- terfeiting, embezzlement of public mon- eys and also of private funds when the amount shall exceed $200, piracy or mu- tiny on shipboard, and the malicious de- struction of or attempt to destroy rail- ways, trains, vessels, bridges, dwellings, public edifices or other buildings where the act endangers human lite. It will be seen to be rather more comprehensive than treaties generally are, as in the case of the provision last noted, which refers to criminal practices most common to Russia. The provision, however, which gives this new convention its chief importance und interest is that which, while declar- ing that a person demanded for an of- fense of a political character shall not be surrendered, expressly stipu- lates: that ‘“the murder or man- slaughter comprising the wilful or negligent killing of the sover- eign or chief magistrate of the state, or of any member of his family, as well as an attempt to commit or participate in the said crime, shall not be considered an offeuse of a political character.” The Russian origin of this clause is obvious, and its perfectly plain intent and direct application will certainly invite criticism unfavorable to the action of the secretary of state in committing this country to such an agreement. The United States has not hitherto been the favorite asy- lum of the nihilists. A few, fleeing the vigilance of the Russian volice, have come here, but for the most part they have been enabled to find hospitable domicile in countries nearer the scene of their labors. But i1t may happen that they will find it necessary or expedient in the future*to seek these shores for the safety less cortain to be secured else- where, and it 18 a grave question whether we should do what most of the nations of Europe have not yet done with respect to these foes of despotism, render this coun- try a hopeless retreat from the merciless oppression and persecution of the most relentless and brutal government in the world. We do not entertain a shadow of doubt that the great majority of the American people will not approve of this free republic joining hands with the most despotic nation of the earth to hunt dawn within our harbors those who may strike at tyranny in the cause of popular rights, The people of this country de- plore assassination and would offer no encouragement to those who have re- course to it for political ends, but they also understand that there are condi- tions of oppression and wrong which may justify conspiracy, with all that implies, for their removal. Fortunately the sig- nature of the secretary of state is not final. S——— Voting Away Franchises. City Attorney Connell calls attention elsewhere to the necessity of providing proper safeguards in the grant of munici- pal franchises. Mr. Connell pronounces the ordinances rccently passed granting rights of way to various street railway companies as defective in the most es- sential particulars, The council seems to have lost sight of the factthat these fran- chise§ dte granis that covef an unlimited period. The conditions imposed by the ordinances practically leave these com- panies unrestricted and cover every ave- nue and street of any consequence within the present boundaries of the city. Mr. Connell regards such a grant as a dan- gerous precadent which would become the entering wedge for extending the lifo of other corporate franchises, such as gns and water companies. Inview of the fact that these fran- chises require the approval of the people at the coming city election, the question is whether the council will have them submitted iu their present detective form or so amend them as to secure the ap- proval of the tax-payers and voters. Un- less the rights of the city are properly protected it will become a matter of self- preservation with the people to yote them down. e ___} SENATOR MAJORS is quoted by our cor- respondent at Lincoln as saying, regard- ing the expose of the anti-gambling bill conspiracy, ‘‘the reference made to me in the Bz In this matter is not correct. The information came doubtless from Church Howe, who, 1 think, puarposely misin- formed Mr. Rosewater's detective.”” We are very sorry to be ocompelled to con- Nemaha. On the night succeeding the presentation of the charges by Mr. Rose- water, Russell, chairman of the judiciary committee, was sitting on the settee of the landing of the capitol hotel stairs conversing with & newspaper reporter who was obtaining information for pub- lication of a sketch of Russell's war career, which sketch was designed to further his candidacy for the position of department commander of the G. A, R. Senator Majors passed by up stairs with Slater on one side ana Bowman on the other, the three arm in arm. After they had reached the second floor of the hotel Slater came back and told Russell that the latter was wanted in room 28 where “the boys™” were together and awailing him. He added that “Tom’’ bhad told him that they must break up that com- mittee and must insist on open sessions. Church Howe did not impart the infor- mation to *‘Mr. Rosewater's detective.” Mr. Slater did. —— Mg. BRAD SLAUGHTER, chief clerk of the house, claims an alibi at that famous meeting, room 28, Capital hotel,the night after charges had been preferred against the gambling bill conspirators. Mr. Slaughter says he was almost blind at that time, and under medical treatment. Mr. Slaughter is only throwing dust to blind other people. It is true that he was under medical treatment on the night men- tioned. Butas the meeting took place in his own room his bandaged eyes did not prevent him from taking a very act- ive part in the plot to overturn the in- vestigation. That alibi will not clear Mr. Slaughter, much less the members of the judiciary committce who coun- selled with him, and concocted the scheme to reorganize the committee and have no testimony taken unless they were present. —— TnE message of the Minnesota gov- ernor was printed in ten different lan- guages. Three bundred copies of it were printedin Chinese. The state printers of Nebraska have failed so far to print any Chinese documents. While the China- man is not a citizen of this country and not often a taxpayer it does not follow that the state printer should be deprived of a fat job on such a flimsy excuse. —_— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Oreapolis has opened a new bank—of sand. O'Neill is short on schools and long on children. Hastings expects to pile up an assess- ment roll of 2,000,000 this season. H. R. Bisbee has perpetrated the Times at the new town of Whitney, Dawes county. Y Henry Babcock has the deepest hole in Greeley county. He struck water at a depth of 232 feet. Mr. Henry Shact, an Otoe county farmer, lost a foot by tumbling offa cornstalk cutter. The erll’alne feeding station of the Union acific at Schuyler has been moved to Columbus. The'Journal asserts that Plattsmouth Eeopla are composed of big feet, big earts and big purses. . Plattsgouth wants an, early count of heads to determine Bor.runk among the rising towns of the a{ulo, Culbertson people nrercrnph\ “fi all surplus cash te ’“'*f,‘,q’“\;"‘“"‘ . Kear- ney oan furnish a profitable pointer. Grand Islanders are now rustling around for the wherewith to fulfill the pledges made to secure the soldiers’ bome. Mayor Larsh, of Nebraska City, has de- clured war on_tramps. Bangled anklets and a stone will be employed if neces. sary to give them an apvetite for other towns. The large gang of gradors which filed out of Plattsmouth last week has camped at Ithaca, in Saunders county, with or- ders to move on Fremont with a branch of the B. & M The Western Traveler, ;\Iidfld by John M. Cotton and Albion P. Martin, has settled down in Lincoln. 1t is devoted to the interests of commercial men, und will appear monthly. 3 The biggest part of the population at Norfolk has been engaged the past foew days in fishing below the dam of the mill on the north fork. At one time during the afternoon there were no less than thirty-five baited hooks lying in wait for the hnnfiry and unsuspecting “suckers’ and pickerel. A congealed brute named Wellman, living near Stratton, has been placed under bonds of death by his neighbors to treat his wife decently. The unfortunate who joined hands with him in the bloom- ing days of youth has become totally blind through neglect and abuse. The climax to his brutality was reached when he installed a flash woman as boss of his ranch. This roused the neighborhood, and Wellman saved his neck by bouncing his spring comforter. Mrs. Ferdinand Heinkle, living six miles west of Nebraska City, was struck by lightning during the snow storm Satur- day evening. There is a well on the place with a windmill attachment and a pump. Mrs, Heinkle had hold of this handle when the bolt struck the wind- mill and was terribly shocked, being thrown to the ground in a senacless con - dition and temporarily paralyzed. Her husband and a hired man were a few rods away and the latter also received a nliflhc shock buing whirled around sey- eral times like & op. Mrs, Heinkle will recover. lowa items, Cass county sports an empty jail, T'he reform school at Kldora has 887 in- mates, Eight saloons were corked in Burling- ton last week. Two hundred opinions were delivered by the supreme court ut the last term. ColonefHanburn hagsettled down Q{o?e practice of law at_hig hame at Clarinda. Last week he appeated in the district court as counsel for the defense in acrim- inal action. A handeuffed burglar named Sheldon fimped from a train ee miles from arshalltown last Wedhesday and es- caped. He had broken into stores at Al- bion and Liscomb., ' Ex-Governor Sherman,, it is authorita- tively stated, will remove to Waterloo, and take the presidenoy of a fire insur- ance company that has been organized in that city by leading capitalists. The litle town of Wilton is certain that boring for oil will be successful and is raising a subscription of $2,000, for which s Pennsylvania oil borist will probe the earth to the depth of 8,000 feet. Senator T. E. Clark, author of the famous Clark luw, expects to cross the lains to spend the summer on the moun- rlml. He will go overland in & wagon, camping out for recreation and fun, The fast mail train on the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney road recently made the run from Ottumwa to Creston in two hours and thirty-seven minutes. The dis- tance is 915 miles and the time includes several stops. ‘Two sisters of the name of Skinner, at Dubuque, one of whom is & domestic and the other working in a factory, have re- ceived notice that a fortane of $00,000 has b:icn loft to them by a lately deoeased rel- ative 1n Y. tadlot the honorable senator from | The lows City Odd Vellows will cele- brate the sixty-eighth anniversary of the order on a large scale. They will invite all the brethren in Eastern lowa and have a grand street parade of the uni- formed patriarchs mibtant and subordi- nate members, with an oration and mis- cellancous programme in the evening. Dakota, Reul estate has risen in Bismarck, owing to the deposit of Missouri mud. reet railway and electrio light fran- chises are pending before the city coun- cil of Yankton, . The new opera house in course of erec- tion at Grand Forks will have a seating capacity of 1,000, On some of the ranges in the west part of the territory the loss of cattle during the winter is estimated at 20 per cent, Grand Forks has over seven miles of water pipes, mn'y hydrants and a pump- gn{g cupacity of 2/500,000 gallons daily. The works cost $80,000. A Minnesota man will give the peoplie of Brookings a creamery with a capacity of 2,000 to 8,060 pounds of butter daily for o $2,000 bonus. The proposition 18 being considered, Rapid City refuses to drop the smelting works scheme. Mayor Simmons is now in the east negotiating for capital, and it is believed he will be successful. The plant would be of incalculable benefit to the hills. The following from the Farmers' Alli- ance, published at Valley City. shows in what trying positions Dakota newspaper men are sometimes plac “What galls the Alliance force most 1s that we can al- ways hear the tapping of a fresh keg of beer in the ‘Home' and we've no ‘dummy’ connection and no ‘ducats’ to put on the platter even if we had a ‘dummy.’ Con- sequently we adjourn to the corner of the oftice and hit the water pail.” e ‘Wanted, a National Anthem, New Yorlk Sun. ‘Wo have been singing the Enghsh na- tional anthem, “God Save the Queen,” for half a century. On our centennial birthday, when the stroke of midnight ushered in the 1st of January, 1876, we fired guns, rang bells, kindled bonfires, and throughout the length and breadth of the land we sang our national hymn to the music of ‘‘God Save the Queen” be- cause thut tune is called “‘America.’ While we were celebrating the one hun- dredth anniversary of our freedom from the British yoke, we were shouting the British national air, “God Save the Qucen,” from Maine to California. ‘The eause of this ridiculous blunder can be easily explained. In 1836 a Bos- ton music publisher issued a collection of psalm tunes called ‘‘the Boston Acad- emy,” and oo page 220 of this mongrel collection is a tune called “‘America, Na- tional Hymn.” This tune is meéasure for measure and note for note the English national hymn, originally known a8 “God Save the King,” and changed to “‘God Save the Queen’’ when Victoria as- cended the throne, on June 20, 1837. Why the Boston publisher allowed the committee who compiled it to introduce this English national melody into the collection and call it *‘America, National Hymn,” is a problem that no student will ever solve; but the fact that it is so published in the “Boston Academy,’ and in many other catchpenny musical pub- lications since, has led” some ignorant Americans to regard it as the national air of America, George W. Morgan, the English organ- ist, hns composed a *“I'ranscription and Variations on God Save the Quecn,” which for the past thirty years he has played at his organ concerts in almost every city in the union, always announc- ing it in his programmes as ‘‘God Save the Queen.” This fact in itself, one would suppose, oughttoteach Americans that the tune which they sing and call America 18 the British national anthem. Or do they think the British stole the hymn from us? It is attributed to Dr. John Bull, organist of Queen Elizabeth's chapel. About the period of the ais- covery of the gunpowder plot, he com- })osed and played it on a small organ be- ore the king, calling it “God Save Great James Our King.” It was published for the first time in 1742, or thirty-four years before we drove the British from our shores. There was a time when it was the national air of this country, but when our independence was = achieved it ceased to serve that function, until in 1830 it was published in Boston as ‘‘America, National Hymn.” If onr national airs, Hail Colambia, the Star Spanfilod Banner, and the Red, White and Blue are not grand enough for state occasions, and we are obliged to appro- riate a foreign national air as our own, et us take the noble old Marseillaise from the French who were our allies in the Revolution, and not make ourselves supremely ridiculous by slngmf. a8 we did in 1878, the English national anthem while celebrating our crowning victory over the English. When the New York Schutzen Corps visited Germany in 1885, and were re- ceived by Emvesor William on the Fourth of July, they sang the musio of God Save the Queen, which in Germany, and in fact all through Europe, is known as the English national hyma, and is the only tune which brings every Briton to s feet and_causes him to uncover. Again. when James (. Blaine was nomi- nated 1n Chicago, the Associated press announced that ‘‘the nomination was made unanimous and the band played *America’ "’ (God Save the Queen), So when Grover Cleveland was nominated, ‘“the nomination was made unanimous, and the band played ‘America;’” and thus we entwine the British nationel air into our great political events. In view of this lamentable state of facts, we suggest that the next congress should rectify this egregious absurdity by offering a liberal reward for the best national anthem, the merit of it to be de- termined by a competent musical tribu- nal. We have sung “God Save the Queen’’ because the ‘‘Boston Academy” called it **America,” and we have sung it for more than halt a century. We don't care to continue singing it any longer. ASs a people we are old enough, rich enough, and musical enough to have a national hymn of our own, No such co- lossal fraud has ever been practiced on any country sinea the earth was made as this, pervetrated by the Boston publishers and compilers, when they publicly stole and inserted in their books the accepted English athem, “*God Save the Queen," and called it *'America, National Hymu, " [t et The “‘Stay-at-Home" Vote. New York Herald, A comparison of the total vote east n different states in 1884 with the total male population overtwenty-one ycars of age, returned by the census four yoars before, in 1830, shows that a curiously great number of electors stay at home, even in a presidential election. Immigration puts two states at the head of the lisv for fulness of vote. The vote of Kansas in 1884 was 100 per cent of her voting popu- Intion in 1880; that of Nebraska 104 per cent. Texns oast over 84 per cent in 1884 of her voters in 1880, but Vermont only 62 per cent: Virginia cast 85 per cent, Maine D"I{ 09 per cent and Califor- nia—excluding the Chinese from enum- eration—only about 70 per cent in 1884 of her males over twenty-one yearsin 1880, but thut was because a large part of the population 1s disfranchised. Com| nrlnq' northern with southern states, New York cast 83 per cent, Ten- nessee 78 and North Carolina 01, Pena- l{lnnln cast 83 por cent and Missourl 81; Wisconsin 93 and West Virginia 04; Massachusetts 60 per cent, Maryl and Arkansas 08, ‘Ten million forty-four thousand nine hundred and sighty-five votes were cast for presidential candidates in 1884; and of these only 133,825 were cast for General Butler, and only 151,800 for Mr. St. John. If the Butler "vote is added to the total Cleveland vote and the St. John vote to the total- Blaine vote, the Clove- 1and vote would stand 5,044.832 and the Blaine vote 5,000,143, That is to say, Mr. Cleveland's majority would have been 44,080, By the record his plurality over Mr. Blaine was 62,683, In 1860, when the republicans came mto power, Mr. Lincoln received 1,866,- 852 votes, and the total vote of Douglas, l!rcukinr{dgr and Bell numbered 2,810,- 501 In spite of his large popular vote 157), Mr. Douglas carried only two Missouri and New Jorsey. by Sl Fairbury's Progress, Famsury, Neb, March 20.—[Corre- spondence of the Ber.]—1Two more addi- tions to the city surveyed and put on the market since my letter of last week, and five houses contracted and commenced on these additions alone, besides quite & number in other portions of the city. The greatest activity ever known in real estate is now being experienced. The sales for last week aggrogated, as near as I can find out, between $45,000 and $50,000, and mnch of it is bought to be built on. Three business lots were sold for $6,000 and will be built on soon. The number of residence lots sold 1 am un- able to state, but the number is large and some of them sold at wonderfully ad- vanced prices compared to what was asked a few months ago. Tho city now comprises a space nearly two miles square and no part but what is bu'mtz im- proved. Residences are being built in every part from the \))ublic square to the most remote suburbs. A stock com- any to build a big _hotel a8~ been formed, and ~ $21,000 subscribed already. When spring opens work will be commenced on the building, which is to cost at least $35,000. 1t will fill a long felt want, as our hotel accom- modations have been limited. The Commercial house is to be en- larged and_another story added, which will make it much better. Ira Tearson, the proprietor, keeps a good house, but needs more room, and will undoubtedly improve his business very much by the umlpusud enlargement of the Commer- cial, The Christian church is being much im- proved in appearance and capacity by adding a wing to each side. Several of the ofticials of the Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railroad stayed over night in the city one day last week, and the next morning located stock yards and switches. The Rock Island is doing big things for us, and when the Kansas City & Omaha gets to work on their round house and division buldings things will hum around this nec of woods in a manner to surprise the natives. The contract is let to grade the Kansas City & Omaha and work will commence at once. The city election will be. held the 5th of April, when the 1ssne will be license or no license of the liquor traffic. From present indications the saloons will have to go. The Fairbury Democrat announces that material is ordered and a daily will be issued soon. The Democrat evinces con- siderable enterprise which should be an example to others. The census of the city and also of the school children is being taken this week, and will undoubted show ngreat increase over last spring. The ladies are buying lots for specula- sion. Mrs. Moultor, Mrs. Slocum ana Mrs McDowell have formed a syndicate and have bought during the last week five lots, paying therefor $2,800. There are at least twenty carpenters at work who have come lately and are busy as are all the old ones. More arc needed and could find employment. e i Those Charges. Falls City Journal. Throughout the whole business, o ma- jority of the members of the committoe have carried themseclves like men with large, aggressive skelotons concealed in different corners of their committee room. If these men are innocent of all wrong doing, why do they not insist up- on the investigation continuing? As the matter stands, while these members may think they have thoroughly downed Rosewater, he undoubtedly has some sort of eyidence in that sworn statement that he submitted to the investigating committee and then withdrew, when the house voted to make the investigation public, and this will furnish amunition for his paver in future political campaigns, when the gentlemen will not have the means of vindicating themselves at the expense of the state, In view of these facts 1t seems improbable that such smart fellows as these members of the judiciary committee should ngree to a simple discharge of the investigating committee and censure of Mr. Rosewater unless they were afraid the Bk man had some mud that would stick. If they had nothing to fear thoy should have re- quested that the committee be continued and that Rosowater be arrested and brought before the committee as soon as he returned to the state. If the gentle- men are perfectly pure, which the cir- cumstances warrant us in doubting, they will regret their course a few years hence, when Rosy publishes his evidence o the ave of some election. in LA s He is Right. O'Nefll Prontier, Whatever may be sald against Mr. Rosewater, personally, there is no doubt in our mind but that he is honestly work- ing for the best interests of the producing classes of Nebraska,and that in his efforts to secure just and equitable legislation upon the railroad question, and to defeat all schemes for robbing the state treasury, he is right. Wo are of the opinion that in his charges made against membners of the legislature he was verfectly justlfi- able, and that if given a proper show he can substantiatc all charges made. Of a!ll legislatures since the state of Nebraska was admitted into the union, the one of 18¥7 is beyond question the most disreputable, dishonest and disgraceful of them all, and 1t has asgomplished the least in the way of usc- ful Jegislation to the people, '()rue they have reduced the railrond fare to three cents amile, but that is not what the people have been firnnnin under, It they would reduce the freight tanff, give us some stringont laws upon the railroad regulation in our state, it would be of some value to the fmu ple, but that this legislature is controlled by the railroads, by corporations, by moneyed men, is & self-evident fact, too plain upon its face to be a mistake, and the people will no doubt draw a sigh ot relief when the leg- islature adjou ——— ek ¥ Here's O ou, Boston Post: I have been struck with the value which Boston_is u.gsuminr the minds of novelists either as a plac to be exploited for its eharacters and lo- calities or as lending an interest to the title of a work of fiction. The latost ex- amplo of this tendenoy is shown by the anonymous writer who has entitled his novel *“Two Gentlemen of Boston.” ‘The Shakespearian nuglgentirenon of thistitle would perhaps be fatal to the ussumption of any other name than that of Hoston as the rosidence of its two heroes, but even Verona has not a spcll to make the me- tropolis of New England dim. Yet, how absurd it would secr to gntitle 8 novel “Two Gontlemen of New York" or “Two Gentlemen of Chicago,"” the implication ‘b‘a‘ln( that there were no more in either y. A CARD. TO THE PUBLIC— With the approach of spring and theincreased interest man- ifested in real estate matters, I am more than ever consult- ed by intending purchasers as to favorable opportunities for investment, and to all such would say: When putting any Proper- ty on the market, and adver- tising it as desirable, I have invariably confined myself to a plain unvarnished statement of facts, never indulging in vague promises for the future, and the result in every case has been that the expectations of purchasers were more than realized. I can refer with pleasure to Albright's Annex and Baker Place, as sample il- lustrations. Lots in the “Annex” have quadrupled in value and are still advancing, while a street car line is already building past Baker Place, adding huns dreds of dollars to the valueof every lot. Albright's Choice was se- lected by me with the greatest care after a thorough study and with the full knowledge of its value, and I can consci— entiously say to those seeking a safe and profitable invest- ment that Albright's Choice offers chances not excelled in this market for a surc thing. Early investorshave already reaped large profits in CASH, and with the many important improvements contemplated, some of which are now under way, every lotin this splen- did addition will prove a bo nanza to first buyers. Further information, plats and prices, will be cheerfully furnished. Buggies ready at all times to show property. Respectfully, W. . ALBRIGHT SOLE OWNER, 218 8. 15th Street. Branch office at South Oma- ha. N. B. Property for sale fnall parts of the city o