Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 22, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, APRIL 22. 1887, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TERWA OF SUBSORTPTION AND_ 910 FARNAM STREPY. oM 06, TRIDUNE BUIL oK PP, i Con SIS FOURTEENTH STREET. 8:“" orrice, No. o ASHINGTON OFPICE, N All communications relating to newa anded!- torial mattor should be addressed to the Evi- NERS LETTERS? rs and remittancos should be to Tim BER PUBLIBHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 10 be mado payuble to the order of the cowpany, THE BEE POBLISHING COMPARY, PROPRIETOS, E. ROSEWATER, EniTo] THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of lrculation, Btato of Nevraska Gonnty of Dotiglas, |5 & G 3. ‘Tzschuck, secretar ieo. of The Bee Publishing com pany, does solemnly swear that the actual r.'er ation of the Daily Bee Va8 for the week ending April 15, 18! follows: Saturday, April 9. Sunday, Avril 10. Monday, April 11 "Tuesday, April 12 Wednesday, April 1: Thursday, April 14, Friday, April 15 Average.. HUOK. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 10th day of April, 1887, N. P. Feir, [SEAL.] Notary Public. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he Is secretary of The Boe Publishing company, that tlie actual averago daily circulation ‘of the Dally Bee for the month of April, 189, 12,191 coples; for May, 1544, 12,499 coples; for June, 1856, 12208 coples: for July, 1583, 12,314 copies; for August, 156, 12,464 coples: for Septem- b 30 copies; for October, opies: for November, 1586, ' 1 for Dicember, 1856, 15,337 coples; 'for Ty, 185 A ebriary, 14,195 coples; for March, 1857, 14,400 Gro. B. TZ8CAUCK. Subseribed and flw;l’{ll to before me this 15th Y t April, A, I L. | N Notary Public. Mavor Epwarps, of Fargo, D. T., weighs 400 pounds. When he sits down on a measvre it will have some weight with the council Sroux Crty wants to be a ‘‘great meat center,’’ and that, according to one of her papers, is the sole wish and ambition, AJl she lacks is the meat. It might be a mph of the Kentucky bummer faction to nominate men who are the avowed @ncmies of the Bee. But it is another thing to elect them. — REVIVALIST SAM JONES will shortly be- g&in work in San Francisco. Here will be an opportunity for the hounded Kissane to find eternal rest from General Darr. IN Pittsburg and Philadelphia the au- thorities are clearing outdens and gamb- ling houses. After the fourth of July, according to law, all such places 1 Ne- braska will disappear. UNDER the stringent liquor law of Maine, where a governmeut license is deemed prima facie evidence of yiolation of the law, we suppose it would be 1llegal for a funnel-shaped cloud to make its ap- pearance during a cyclon JEFF DAVIS has written a letter of re- gret, to the committee of the Calhoun monument, in which he conveys the Rratfying intelligence that he cannot at- tend the ceremonies on Tuesday next, at Charleston, South Carolina, That which Jeff regrets the world rejoices to near. EET—————— GeonrGge W. CmLps has accepted the first political position of his life, that of visitor to West Point military academy, tendered by President Cleveland. This also was the first and only political posi- tion tondered by the president, accepted by Dr. Miller. Greatness ends with this appointment. ——— APTER all it is indeed an ill wind that blows no good. The drought in Texas has caused farmers to wlow deep. One man has already plowed up $20,000 in $20 gold pieces, another $5,000 and two men in search of water found twenty teet under ground in an iron pot, $1,000. Fromthe fact that prohibition is liable to be adopted in the Lone Star state, these faots are suggestive. e THE New York dairymen find that un- der the inter-state law the railroads charge about twice as much to carry milk as they do other freight. They also find that to carry milk 200 miles costs as much as to carry it only fifty miles. The pnly hope for the milk men isto water their goods at the other end of the route, and thus reduce the quantity in shipping. EE———8 TrE raliroad conductors rend the air withblue streaks of complaint because the prohibition of passes will not allow rallroad companies to pass their tamilies free. This is the weakest thing yet. The members of a conductor’s family are no moroe entitled to free passes than they are entitled to shares in the company's stock. The pass system was a nuisance, and it is hoped that it has been aolished. Tk Washington () says: “In the course of his remarks in the pulpit last night Dr. Burchard said that he was the oungestof thirteen children. This, then, the key to a mystery. Superstititious people will all say 1t is not surprising that the thirteenth child proved a ‘Jonah’ for the republican ‘whale.’” 1t will be remembered that the new postmaster 'was the thirteenth person at the Mulvany banquet. SE—— PARNELL now threatens to sue the Loadon Times for printing the fac-simile of a letter which it claimed was writton’ by Parnell and which connected him dis- gracefully with the Phenix Park mur- dors. The lettagyit has since developed, was a clumsy, . The libel suit, bowever, will exoverate Parnell, and doubtless assist the cause for which he is laboring. e —— Tae Pennsylvania ralroads are en- deayoring, under their interpretation of the inter-state law, to find out exactly “‘what the traflic will bear.”” The Phila- @elphia Record, on this subject, says: “If .1t be cheaper to walk horses and ocattle to market than to send them by rail, and #f 1t cost less to transport charcoal by teams from the mountains to the mills of the L.ebanon Valley than to send it over the iron tracks, it must be admitted that 1o these cases at loast the last straw bas been laid on."” The Boodling Epidemie. The corrupting 1nfluences brought to bear upon membera of legislatures in dtfferont states during the past winter, show that Nebraska was not alone at the mercy of boodlers and bribe-giving lobby- ists. From Massachusetts particulars come of an investigation which shows thap Boston lobbyists attempted to secure the passage cf objectionable bills by the lavish use of money. Under oath they have admitted that their business ness was none other than to secure the enactment of certain laws, and further, that they had offered from $200 to %3500 each for votes upon particular measures. The investigation 1s yet in progress, and as the case progresses intercsting de- velopments are looked for. At Harrisburg, Pa., charges of corrup- tion and conspiracy were preferred against many members of the Pennsyl- vania legislature, but like the Nebraska law-makers the majority of the lower house, in which the charges were made, defiantly chailenged justice by refusing to procced with an investigation. krom Albany, N. Y., where the states- men are yet in session, the most shock- ing reports of bare-taced corruption and infamous villany come. A bill authoriz- ing the construction of an elevated rail- road on Broadway, New York City, has been introduced, in which there is a steal of seyeral cool millions, and reliable authority says a sum of at least a million of dollars has been raised to be disbursed among members to secure 1ts passage. The members are being ciosely watched, as it is claimed the ma- Jority of them are not above embracing the golden opportunities attending such acontest. Threo or four other bills in which capitalists ave directly interested have caused large s ums of money to be placed at the disposal of itching palmed members through abandoned and disrep- utable fobbyists, ach winter, during legislative ses- sions at Albany, a drunken lobbyist named “Deacon” Richardson corrupts members and extorts money.from inter- ested parties. Richardson is in many ways after the style ot Vanderbum, Walters, Green and other such ilk who have been the direct cause of defeating honest legislation year after year in Ne- braska. The fact that money is shaping all law-making in many states, that dis- honest bummers and boodlers are becom- ing more bold and brazen, that they do not hesitate to admit in many instances that their business is to thwart just meas- ures, push through jobs and unlawful appropriations, gives cause for serious alarm. If the reckless and dishonest lobby supplied with a corruption fund by bold corporation ofticials and scheming jobbers are allowed to control legislati on through faithless and venal law-makers, the people, asthe BEE before has said, must look to a remedy beyond the pale oflaw. A few necktie sociables would make bribe soliciting and bribe taking an extra hazardous business, — 1n a Dilemma. The commission appointed to investi- gate the Pacific railroad scems to have run against a dilemma. In the first place the mewmbers are represented as saying that they do not know what their duties are or how they aré to proceed and thus far have not been able to find any one who could give them the desired infor- mation. In the second place they have oncountercd an obstruction in the com- missioner of' railroads, General Joe Johuston, who claims that he has all the powers possessed by the commission and can do all that is required by that body, thereby implying thatitis an entirely useless affair. With respect to the tirst difficulty, the commission ean readily overcome 1t by bringing to its assistance some onc with the intelligence to nter- pret the very plain and explicit law of its creation. It wasnot the business of either the president, the secretary of the interior or the commissioner of railroads todo this. With respect to the other difficulties, we can see no reason why the work of the commission should come in conflict with that of the commis- sioner of rairoads, or why the former need have anything whatever to do with the latter in prosccuting its duties. The business of both is clearly detined, and if a part or the -whole of it shall happen to proceed on parallel lines it is not apparent how that should make any trouble or do any harm. It might establish the fact that the commission is a piece of useless additional machinery, a8 we have no doubt it will prove to be, but if the result of this double labor in the same direction shall be corroborative testimony to the facts which congress desires to be informed of, there will be some compensation in that circumstanco. There is certainly no good reason why the commissioner of railioads should be obstreperous. The commission is a tem- porary device, which neither threatens his tenure nor treaches upon his duties. As the servant of the people his duty is to assist and not obstruct it. Meanwhile time is wasting, and the chances of get- ting the required work completed by next December are growing daily less. —ee—— Sublime Insolence! An adventurer who wrecked the lead- 1ng republican paper of Colorado, and has lived in Omaha barely six months, serves notice upon the republicans of this city, that he proposes to knife and help defeat any candidate who is person- ally friendly to the BEE or its editor. This is the sublimity of insolence. The mere faot that this Colorado dead beat and bummer happens to have editorial con- trol of an Omaha sheet that is labelled republican, does not warrant the assump- tion that the destinies of the party are i his hands. The republicans Io( lKil ell; succeeded during the past four years, without the support of the resurrected wreck which this insolent pirate is steer- ing to the depths of political hudes. 1t is notorious that republicans success in this city and county four years ago and two years ago, was achieved in spite of the lukewarm support of the paper and underhanded opposition of its pro- prictors, “T'wo years ago this soring that paper bolted the republicau candidate for mayor, before the convention was held, and gave no support to the bal- ance of the ticket. The party carried the ity in spite of its cowardly disloyalty. Mr. Murphy was elected mayor but was fraudulently counted out, by the very fellows who are to-day the intimate associstes of the bummer editor. Tho republicaus of Omaha arein no frame of mind to countenance such bra- #n 1mpertinence. No swaggering turn- coat Kentucky democrat will be allowed to dictate whom the party shall or shall not take ae its standard bearers. It would come to a pretty pass'if the man- ds of a genteel rowdy who writes edi- torials betw ¢en drinks, would be respec- ted or obeyed as the party oracle. The astern advices state that the heavy im- portations of iron and steel during the present year have been tha subject of much discussion in the trade. During 1886 the total importation of these metals amounted to 1,000,000 tons, which was a slight increase over the preceding year For the first three months of the present year over 350,000 tons of foreign made iron and steel have found their way into the American markets. Various reasons aro given by members of the trade for this condition of affairs. The high prices for iron and steel during the last months of 1836 gave the English manufacturers an opportunity to dispose of a large amount of their surplus stock. An average ad- vance of 16 per cent. occurred in the iron market from October, 1886, until Janu- ary, 1887, This was the English manfac- turers’ opportunity, and the English pro- duct was immediately poured upon tbe American market. 1f the iron and steel manufacturers of this country dre troubled about this state of affairs they have the remedy in their own hands. The situation is due to their own greed- Not satisfied with the protection afforded them by the tariff, they have combined to put up prices so that purchasers can pay the duty on the foreign product and yet get their iron as cheaply as in the home market. Undoubtedly the foreign iron and steel imported has been laid down in this country, duty paid, at a less price than the home product could be bought for. American manufacturers cannot reasonable expect any different result of a policy of rapacity. There is no patriotism in business, and American consumers of iron and steel will buy in the cheapest market, At present the pro- doction of iron and steel in.this country is very nearly up to tho maximim, Hav- ing orders that assured a season of pros- perity, the manufacturers took advant- age of the favorable situation to advance prices beyond the point at which the duty would protect them. In their greed they overreached, and now complain of the consequences of their own_foolish rapa- city. A continuance of the importations will be & good thing if it shall induce American manufacturers to see their plunder and retreat from it. For the people there is an instructive lesson in the experience —_— Americ pinion in England. Mr, Gladstone has not been deficient in manifestations of regard for American opinion upon the commanding issue of English politics. He has on all oceasions made prompt and cordial acknowledge- ment of the sentiments of approval of his course conveyed from this country, and there can be no doubt that in every case this was sincere. More than this he could not reasonably bo expected to do. As a leading English statesman it would be clearly out of the line of expediency for him to address to America any general communication on the question that di- vides the people of Great Britain. Such a course could not lead to any betier un- derstanding here of that question, and 1t might not benefit the cause which Mr. Gladstone champions. He determines wisely, therefore, in not taking this course. At the same time he shows no abatement of interest in American senti- mentor of desire for 1ts expression. And he has suggested a way to give it more force upon English public opinion by the preparation of a statement of the number and the character of the persons who attend and give countenance and support to the assemblages which in this country endorse Ireland's causec. This excellent suggestion the Irisi leaders in America should act upon. There would undoubtedly be great advantage in laying before English readers some- thing more than general facts rezarding these popular demonstrations. One ad- vantage would certainly be in depriving the tory pross of the opportunity to mis- represent and belittle these assemblages, as it is their habit to do. American opinion on the Irish question has had a very marked influence in England with the people. It can be made to have more, and Mr. Gladstone has pointed out one excellent and sure way of giving it increased power, ——— THE new mayor of Chicago, being a practical man, takes an entirely practical view of how the affairs of the city should be conducted. He would apply to them the same principles which govern ‘‘any large, enterprising, prudent and sucoess- ful business organization.” In his very judicious address on assuming oftice, Mr. Roche said : “There must be competent, honest and faithfnl heads of departments and employes, and responsibihty and accountability to central authority in a well conducted enterprise. Any rules which appty to large, well managed busi- ness organizations should guide the ad- ministration of city affairs,”” Thisis an essentially sound view in all respects, which does not require the last qualifica- tion. Itis also of general application, Very likely ninety-nine men in every hundred who go into office fot the first time entertain a similar view of what ought to be done and a purpose to do it. The fact that the view and the purpose 80 seldom prevail 18 one evidence of human falibility. The new mayor of Chicago may be braver and stronger than the majority, and prove to be an exception to those in public life whose promises are wofully belied in practice. THE promised visit of President Cleve- land to Georgia has thrown the editor of an Atlanta contemporary into a trans- port of delight. He heralds the coming event as incompar ably the most import- ant of the vear m that section, and ex- claims: ‘“I'he train that bears the head of the republic will thunder through dem- ocratic multitndes from Washington to Atlanta, and will find here 150,000 of Georgia's iron-ribbed to give it welcome." It should be a vity if the exuberant as- surances of Mr, Grady should lead the president to change bhis mind. Thunder- mng through democratic multitudes is bearable. 1t is by all means the mostde- sirable way of getting through thom. But the certainty of encountering an army of “iron-ribbed" Georginns is not a pros- pect that any man could look forward to with equanimity. E——— THE reorganized Omaha freight bureau will be a success from the very outset, providing that the bureau secures a man for commissioner who ' is competent und thoroughly devoted to the (nterests of hits employers, A mau cannot serve two masters, and ne ‘man can do justice to the moembers of the bureau who is in any way under the inifjience of the railroads. A cheap man Wil prove of no avail The bureau should engage a man who has been identifttd with the shipping in- terests, or who tx been employed by one of the grnni ilways as manager of its freight businkss, Better pay a com- petent man $5,000 a year than to have a cheap clerk willing to work for §75 a month, ® Mr. Frep GréeY is not a candidate for mayor, and nobody has any right to rep- resent him as sue But if the republi- can party wants a candidate who is sure to be clected, 1t cannot nominate a botter man than Mr., Gray. He would be elected against any democrat. —_— Tug Kentucky bourbon rowdy, whose highest ambition is to make Humphrey Moynihan chiet of police, is altogether too previous when he tells life-long re- publicans that they must not nominate candidates who do not loaf around in the slums with him. Mg, CoLEMAN, of San Francisco, the New York Sun's candidate tor tho presi- dency, has concluded that section 4 of the irnte-state law should be suspended. Mr. Coleman proposes to keep before the people, —— Tne concern run upon the moncy stolen from Uncle Sam, had better kick out or muzzle the swaggering rowdy who wants to play political dictator for the republican party in Om: " THERE is news from St. Petersburg of a ‘‘settloment of the Afghan question.'” The foreign questions which are settied regularly each week furnish interesting and instructive reading. —— REPUBLICANS should not fail to attend the primary elections. Success in the impending city campaign depends upon the character and standing of the candi- dates nominated. ————— AcconrpiNg to the dispatches, it is easier for a camel to thread the postern of a needle’s eye than for a Chicago re- porter to interview James G. Blaine, S—— REPUBLICANS of Omaha cannot afford to make & mistake this time. They must nominate men who can stand the brunt of a ten days’ campaign. WHo wants E. M. Bartlett for mayor? Anybody cxcept Charley Greon? Bart- lett could not be A’!ccted constable in his own ward. k] ——— Ir you want 'Ti"ntegrity in the next council, nominate men who are known to be honest and unpurchasabie. — No turn-cont K:mlucky democrat can play dictator for the republicons of this city. X P PROMINENT PERSONS, (e Miss Ethel Dickens, granddaughter of Charles Dickens, has started a typewriting office tor the copying of parts and prompt books. Deacon White is to purchase Mr. Beecher's Peckskill farm for $100,000 and present it to his son when the latter marries Colonel Beecher’s daughter. Miss Catherine Heathorne, “The Mald of Kent,” celebrated her 103d birthday Monday. She continues to enjoy excellent health, her facultics being unimpaired. Mrs. Beecher, the widow of Henry Ward Beecher, 18 in much better health since her sojourn in Florida. She intends to return to Brooklyn about the 21st instant. Hannibal Hamlin still walks miles dally in all weathers, fishes with angle-worms, smokes a pipe, dances in the ball-room, and is a yeneral favorite with old and young, men and women, at Bangor. Colonel L. C. Galloway has retired from the Mewmphis Appeal after fifty years’ active service, seventeen of it on the Appeal. He founded the Avalanche in 1857, and conduct- ed 1c untll 1870, except during the war, when it was suspended. Henry Villard has telezraphed for his old car, now at Portland, in which he wishes to make a visit to Oregon. . The car, which is one of the firest Is the United States, has not been used since Mr. Villard went home in it for the “lIast-spike” celebration. The president has gone into summer quar- ters at Red-Top. It is now said that he has made absolutely no pians for the summer as yet. It is not improbable that he will take a trip to the northwest late in the sumnmer, but for the present he will pass his time between ‘Washington and Oak View. James H. Marr, chief clerk in the office of the first assistan{ postmaster general, and in lenyth of service the oldest of the govern- ment's employes at the capltal, is lying at the point of death, Mr. Marr was first ap- pointed to a clerkship in the post-ofice de- partment June 1, 1831, and has been connected with the department in one capacity or another ever since. Atlanta Constitution. ‘Tom Keene has recovered from his and is again plaping “Hamlet.” His lot” s as sick as ever. ——— Mighty Near;the Mark. Lincoln Demucrat, ‘The Bre has printed its analysis of the members of the housa of representatives. It comes mighty nessthe mark in a great number of cases, byya large wmajority, The article i3 too long agl salty for the Demo- crat’s columns, but it should be read by every voter in the state. Of course it is not wholly endorsed by this paper, some of its descriptions being #njust and some entirely too flattering, But & is full of meat. The Free List Suspended. Chicago Mail. President of Railroxd Company at the Gate of Heaven: ‘“Allow me to pass in, please.” St. Peter: ‘*The freo list has been entirely suspended and you must pay your fare.” P, of R, R. Co.: *“But I was not aware that the new law affected the roads leadlng into paradisa,” St. P.: “hbe new law aflects everything. You havehad a special car on earth and pald for nothing. Up here we must see your ticket or have the equivalent. Please stand aside and make room for the engineer who was killed on your road a few minutes ago.” —_—— A Missouri Opinign. Kansas Céty T% Speaking of Mr. Ingall's address to the native Irish sons of Toveks, Father Baker feelingly says; “There was no demagogy about it. It was not delivered for bun- combe. It came from & heart that feels for the woes of an oppressed country.” Peo- ple who enjoy the sequaintauce of Mr. In- &alls will easily comprehend how his heart must bave bled. Nothing can be more ex- quisitaly touchiog sean the spectacle of the deeply sympathotic senator, bis voice tremu- lons with emotion, and his warm head . pressed over his bursting heatt. Why didn’t somebody think of an Instantaueous pho- tographic camera, —— No Reflection, Lincotn Democraty Many of our contemporaries take excep- tlons to the recent article in the Omaha B; entitled “Deciine of the County Press.” There is nothing, says the DBeatrice Demo- crat, objectionable in the article that we can see. There 1s no quastion byt many papers throughout the state have n started by land agents, or by politiclans who want an organ, rather than upon a legitimate news- paper basls by newspaper men who depend upon the people for their support. We know of several papers of this class who are con- trolled by politicians, and are used to ad- vance individual interests rather than to give the news. Alleged newspapers that are run as factional organs certainly mark a decline 1n the country press, and many of this kind are founded where the legitimate support given a paper would not sustainit. We think that no reflection is cast upon honest journalism by the Ber article,and publishers who run their business In a legitimate way can but feel the bad influence of papers that are started up either to rake in a few political chestnuts or to enable some politician to lampoon an opponent. ARG S—— Press On, Bayard Taylor, Press on ! surmount the rocky steeps, Climb boldly o'er the torrent’s arch; @ fails alone who feebly creeps, He wins who dares the hero's march, Be thou a hero! Let thy might Tramp on eternal snows its way, And, through the cbon walls of night, Hew down a passage unto day, Press on'! if once and twice thy feet _ Slip back and stumble, havder try; From him who never dreads to meet Danger and death, they'e sure to fly. To coward ranks the bullet speeds, While on their breast who never quail Gleams, guardian of chivalric deeds, Bright courage, like a coat of mail. Press on! if fortino play thee false ‘To-day, to-morrow she'll be true ‘Whom now she sinks, she now exalts— Taking old )ii(hl and granting new. The wisdom of the present hour Makes up for follies past and gone; To weakness strength succeeds, and power From frailty spring—Press on ! press on ! Therefore, press on! and reach the goal, And gain the prize, and wear the crown! Faint not! for to the steadfast soul Come wealth, and honor, and renown. To thine own self be true, 'and keep Thy mind from sloth,thy heart from soil: Press on! and thou shalt surely reap A heavenly harvest for thy toil. by~ adivald OOMMISSIONER GRIFFITHS. He Accepts the Vice Presidency of a ‘Western Road—Notes. It developed yesterday that Freizht Commissioner Griffiths, of the Omaha Freight Bureau, has been tendered the vice presidency of the Or- egon & Washington territory rail- road. He is now on the Pacific coast, making arrangements to accept the po- sition. . It is not known whether he will resign his present position or not. PASSENGER MEETING. A meeting of the passenger represen- tatives of the different eastern roads run- ning into Council Bluffs was held this morning in room 48 at the Paxton hotel. The object of the meeting was to ar- range a new system of time for the dif- ferent roads, which will enable them to work more in harmony. ‘The meeting was called to order Colonel A. C. Dawes, of the Kansas city road. A SENSATIONAL STORY, A Kansas City paper prints a sensa- tional story to the effect that General Superimtendent Smith, of the Union Pa- cific, 18 about to resign to accept a posi- tion in the operating department of the Missouri Pacitic. Iso that Vice Presi- dent Callaway, of the Union Pacific, was about to accept the position of general manager of the entire Gould system. Mr, Smith 1s not in the city at present and could not be questioned aboutthe matter. Mr. Callaway, however, was seen, and positively denied that there was anything in the story. He said have not re- sl;fincnl my position with the Union Pa- citic and I do uot intend to accept any such position with the Missouri Pacific.” BUSINESS FALLING OFF. ®he west-bound passenger business of the Union Pacific and 8. & M. has fallen off nearly 50 per cent in the past twenty days. This is ascribed to tihe operation of the inter-state commerce law. NOTES. Car Service Agent Thompson and Di- vIs™Bn Superintendent Deuel,of the Union Pacific, have returned from their trip over the Republican Valley branch. B.F. M on, of the general manag- er's office, Union Pacific headquarters, has returned from Detroit with his bride. COURT-MARTIAL TRIALS, Their Alarming Frequency in This Department—A Circular, A circular was 1ssued by General Crook yesterday, calling attention to the alarm ingn umber of court-martial cases in this department. This circular contains a table showing that for four months end- ing March 81, 1887, there were 880 court- martial cases tried, the total number of enlisted men in this department being 8,815, Thatisto say, ncarly 28 per cont of all the suldierain this department were arrested and tried for one offense or an- other. In commenting on this matter, General Crook says, *“The number of trials in A command cannot always be taken as an accurate in- dieation of its state of discipline, but it is found that disciphine is usually bestin £ommands where trials are fewest. “Post and company commanders should use with care and judgment the discretion, placed by the regulations in their hands, in the matter of conlining and trylng the men under them. When other means to discipline have failed, confinement should be used as a last re- sort, “A good soldier is sometimes spoiled by the contamination of a guard house, where he is brought into contact with most worthless and vicious men of a com- mand. Special care should bo exercised in confining men but a short time_in the service. A frequent and indiscriminate use of confinements and trials by courts- martial will not only bring this means to discipline into contempt, but will remove the odium which a self-respceting soldier should attach to such punishment, and true discipline will suffer accordingly.” General Kautz, who was ono of the of;, ficers appointed to make investigation into the case of Paymaster Bash, who was robbed at Antelope Station, is sick. Colonel Morrow will probably succeed him on the board of investigation. ARBOR DAY, How It Will Be Spent in the Oity To- Morrow. To-day will be Arbor day, and through- hout the state there will be a cessation in many lines of business, and quite an amoumt of tree planting in- dulged. In this eity a number of citizens will celebrate the day in an unassuming manner, planting a few trecs around their households. The most demonstra- tive feature of the day in the planting line will be the exercises of the graduat- ing class of the high school, In this class there are forty members, and each of these will plant a larch tree on the campus south- eust of the school, and surrouning the cirele of eatalpus planted on last Arbor day by the graduating class of that year. The holes for the trees will bo prepared under the direction of Mr. Cralg, the hortioulturist. Several recitations and declamations appropriate to the ocoasion togethier with the Arbor day recom. mendation of Mr, Lane, state” superin: tendent of education, will be delivered and read by certain of the pupils, After which the trees will be inserted in the ground, and the loose earth filled in by the members of t lass, These exer- s will commence at 1 o'clock, and nessed hy some new members of the board of " education, Superintendent James, Professor Lowis and others. There will be no cless held in any of the publie schools to-day. The vostotlice will deliver mail only as on Sumlays, All the governwent offices In the cus- tom house building will be closed. The clearing house will transact no business, The first game between the Lincolns and Omahas will take place, and pre- vious to it will be a procession in which the Omahas, Lincolns, and Mayne nines will take part in hacks. BURYING PAUPERS, The Steps Taken to Continue Sepulture of Needy Unes, The county commissioners went out yes- terday to inspect some roads and bridges near the Washington county line. They will be away all day. . - The contract for supplying coffins for and burying the county dead has been 1n the hands of Drexel & Maul for some time, and 1s about to expire. This morn- ing the county commissioners sent anote to this firm. as also to Taggart & Tag- gart, Burkett, Barrett & Heafy,and Riewe asking for bids for the same work the coming year. This includes the plain boarteoflin and conveying the remains to the ccme(vr{;. The cost per body up to the present has been §3, but this was for conveying the remains to the poor farm cemetery. If the commissioners should decide to purchase a potter's field in Forest Lawn cemetery the price would be considerably increased. Commissioner O’Kefte said yesterday morning that if the bids were not as reasonable as they should be the commissioners would have some of the county employes attend to the busi- ness, the A FRIGHTFUL FALL. John Smith Goes Through an Eleva- tor Shaft. At about 2:30 o'clock yesterday after- noon a serious accident occurred at the Millard building now being built on Har- ney between Eleventh and Twelfth. John Smith, a carpenter while carrying some heavy timbers and walking backwards, fellthrough the elevator shaft and was pre- civitated to the bottom floor, a distance of thirty.eight feet. sFortunately no bones were broken, but itls impossible to say how serious the internal injuries are. Dr. S. P. Ginn attended the unfortunate man and pronounces him not fatally in- jured. Smith was moved to his home in the patrol wagon. A New Hotel Project. It was stated yesterday afternoon upon the authority of the editor of the Council Blufts Nonpariel and a reliable real es- tate map, that negotiations are in progress for the purchase by Joslyn, An- drews, and others, of the Dr. Mercer property, occupied by the present city hall building, and two lots adjoining, for something like $175,000. If the trade,whichinvolves the property now owned by Joslyn, Andrews, and others, on the corner of Farnam and Tenth streets, should be made, it is as- serted that a hotel will be erected there to be patterned after the Palmer house in Chieago. Nothing moré was developed later in the day concerning these reported nego- tiations except a statement of confirma- tion from a gentleman who claimed to know whereof he spoke. Dr. Mercer was not found and it was learned, only, con- cerning his part in the transaction that the deal was not closed. —— CUolorado's Quaranti Overrides Ne- braska's. . Dr. Ramacciotti, deputy state and city veterinarian, told a BEE reporter ye:ter- day morning that.the state of Colorado had established a strict quarantine against cattle which have passed through 1linois. He stated that it had enforced the rules even against cattle which had been shipped from lllinois and allowed to pass through Nebraska after their owner had complied with all the quaran- tine regulations of the state. A case in hoint oceurred yesterday. Cattle from llinois were allowed to enter and pass westward through Nebraska where the owner had shown_lega) papers settling whence the cattle had come and that they had not associated with infeetcd stock. When they reached the Colorado border, they were peremptorily refused admission ‘to that state. The doctor thought it was well that cattle men should be made aware of the new rule. Jewish Confirmation—647. The confirmation exercises in the Jew- ish church arc of an annual occurrence, and set for the Feast of Penticost, which occurs this year on Sunday, May 29. Dr. Benson has under his charge for tuition and preparation, the following named young ladies and gontlemen: Masters Abraham_Kahsh, George Selig- sohn and Moses Miller, and the Misses Ida and Fannie Brown, Augusta Kopold and Rose Levy, of Omaha, and Louis and Wenda Solomon of Plattsmouth. RABBI BENSON'S LECTURE. This evening Dr, Bonson will lecture at the Jewish synagogue upon he following subject: “The Characteristic Traits in the Human Disposition.” Divine services at the synagogue will commence at 7:30 o'clock. ——— Presbyterian Commissloners. Mr. P, L. Perine is in dailv receipt from all parts of the country of the names of commissioners who have been appointed to attend the next Presbytérian genoral assembly which meets in this city on the 19th of May and continues until the 80th At present his list comprises 250 narues. This will be added to until it 18 complete, which will be w local Prosbyteries shall have el commissioners. In this arra will be founa many of the and most distinguished members and divines of the Presbyterian church in this country. Mr. Perine says that this listis open to the inspection ot any per- son who may desire to learn who have been elected to represent a particular part of the country. Police 1tems. A man named Spangenburg, who keeps & bourding house at Twentieth and Lo- cust streats, reported at police headquar- ters yesterday that one of his bourders, & youmg man named Joseph Wachtler, hn’d llig‘npp\mn'il with 'I’w belonging to him ls;mn’pmburm The theft was committed while the entire family was out of the house. There is no clue to Wachtler's whereabonts. E. Peterson yesterday reported that thieves entered his barn at Thirty-second and Sewurd streefw Wednesday night and stole a fine set of double and a single harness. The Krck-Larkin Case, The ease against Ed. Larkin charged by John Erck with malicious destruc- tion of property was continued by Judge Stenburg yesterday afternoon untii th after u jury hawl been drawa. Lumber Merchants Confer, Yesterday afternoon the lumber merch ants of the city are in consultation with the representatives of the Iown and Ne. braska lines at the Paxton hotel, con cerning the readjustment of the tariffs, which, under the new law, threaten to wreck the lumbor trade in Omaha. Besides the local lumber dealers, tho following railroad men are present: J. A, Munroe, general freight agent, and T, L. Kimball, “general traflic manager of the Union Pacitic; Thomas Miller, fin-n.- eral freight agent, represonting tho B. & M. and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; C. V. Lewis, aseistant general freight agont, and W, H, tt, division freight agont of the Missouri Pacitie; H. C.” Wicker, traflic manager, and W. R. MecCulloe general freight agent of the Northw ern; K. C. Morehouse, general froight agent Fremont, Eikhorn & Missouri Val- ley; J. T. Clark, general freight agent Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and Commissioner J. N. Faithorn, repro- senting the Iowa lines, This meeting is of intorest to more than oneclass of Omaha merchants. It will affect, in its results, not only the lumber merchants, but the other classes of Omaha's business men, as well. As one of the lnmber men expressed himself to- day. *“This is but the opening wedgo to- wards secuting concessions which Omaha merchants must obtain, if they want to protect themselves against discrimination in favor of eastern cities.” The new tar- iffs under tho inter-state commerce law, not only discriminate terribly against this city in the lumber business, but in other branches of trade as woll, Reliet must be obtained and that right speedily. “F.\'er{ day makes matters worse,” said a lumber man this morning, “‘and if the_roands don't make concessions to us, I for one shall be obliged to go out of business. I cannot stand the pressure, and I.do not believe that the other lumbermen of the city can.' A fow figures will make it plain just what this discrimination against Omaha means. ‘Uhe rate on lumber from eastern or northiern cities to points in Nebraska is less than the sum of the rates from those cities to Omaha and from Omaha to the aforesaid points in Ne braska. To illustrate this, the rate of lumber from St. Paul, Minn., to Norfolk, Neb., i8 25 cents. The rate from St. Paul to Umaha i8 22 cents, und the rate from Omaha to Norfolk 1 ents, makjng the total rate on lumber, if shipped from St. Paul to Omaha and from Omaha to Nor- folk, 37 cents. Again, the rate og soft lumber from Chicago to David City, a oint on the B. & M., is 25 uunug)ur owt. rom Chicago to Omaha it is 20 cents per cewt. and from Omaha to David City 124 cents per cwt. This, of course, is a discrimination of 7 cents per owt. in fayor of the Chioago merchsnts. This discrimination applies to points in North- ern Nebraska reached by the Northwest- ern; also to many points on the Union Pacific and about twenty-tive on the . & M. Inbrief, the demand of the local lumber wnerchants is that this dis- crimination shall be done away with and that the tariffs shall be so adjusted that Omaha will be on an equal footing with other cities in the east, north and north- west. Whether the railroads will meet this demand fairly and squarely, re- mains to be seen, The 1oint "Ilfflti“F concluded at 5:80 p. eflnite understandin; m. without any d being arrived at. A meeting of the rail- road representatives was held at 8 o'clock in the Paxton last night. They decided, it was stated, upon the best con- ditions which they would offer. Another joint meeting of the lumber dealers and reprosentatives of the roads will be held this morning at 10 o'clock. Tho Cable Line Contractor. Mr. James Lillis, of Kansas City, the gentleman who has the contract for the building of the cable line in - this city, arrived here last evening. He had just returned from St. Joe, where the tele- raph of yestorday afternoon stated that fio had gecured a franchise for a oablo company to traverse alltho prinoipal streets of the city. Curiously enough, on the same day, the wires brought the information that Mr. Lillis had been ap- pointed by Governor Marmaduke to the important position of police comunis- sioner. Eleventh Street Viaduct, Inspector O'Donovan, who has had charge of the construction of the Elevs enth street viaduct, says that a few sec- tions of the hand rail remain to be put in place. These, he thinks, will be ad- justed to-doy, and the whole struc- ture thrown open for pedostrians and wagons in & couple of daysat the far- thest. Some time, however, must yot elapse before the iron stevs leading from Jones street and _tho railroad track shall be completed. They will not, however, interfere with the bulk of the traflic. Testimony at Home, A. D.Jones and wife have just con- cluded their testimgny in the case of Mr. Robinson, of Mendocino, Cal, in which he seeks to obtain the procecds of land in Iowa, of which he claims ho was illegally dispossessed. The testimony was taken at the residence of Mr. Jones, by Charles Potter, who is a notary public. It will be presented in court in a few days. Mr. Robinson, the plsintiff, one of the supervisors of his uoun!{. has toqporarily veturned to California, be- eause of hi§ official business. A Crazy Bohemian. One of Sheriff Coburn's deputies yester- day morning attempted to arrest a orazy Boheminn, on Jouglas street. The follow resisted vigorously and would have suc- ceeded in ‘'getting away"' with the deputy, bad not Ofticer Donovan come to the rescue. The two of them pinioned the lunatic and took him to the county jail, where he was placed in temporary cus- tody pending his removal to Lincoln. That Youthful Forger. Every day some new victim of the young forger Wendover turns up ut po- lice headquarters. The latest man to report was 8. Jonasen, the Thirteenth stroot joweler, who oashed one of the young inan $10 checks. It now appears that there were about thirteen of these checks forged, which would make the aggregate amount obtained on them about $130. _—— Ought to be Removed. For somo months there has been o large lump of asphalt on tho alley cross walk on Eleventh street between the Creighton and Paddock buildings. It is nightly mbled over by people who cannot in the dark and ought to be removed. ‘The Mo. Pacific and Northwostern have submitted propositivns for bonds which will be voted sure. J. D). Ri the real estute broker, has great bargaing i busi- ness lots and acre tructs, Dawes & Foss' Addition a specialty. Rooms 4, 5 and 0 Opera House. e Wil Go to Lin The A. O, H.. of this city, and & num- ber of their friends, will join with the Lincoln branch of the order in attending 1g of the corner stone of thenow > ohurch of that place on Sunday The Western Union down-town New York oflice has just opened a pneumatic tube line up to Twenty-third ~street, It takes two minutes and ten saconds (@ send a box of Kirk's “Juvamle” Toile$ Soap the length of the tube,