Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1887, Page 4

| | v s $A|u OFrIcE, No. 014 AND “torial matter should be add THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMA OF RUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dally Morniag Edition) including Sunday Beg, Ono Yoar.. . .. s 81008 'or Bix Months b 00 e Omahi Sapiay’ B b maha Sunda; ny ‘Wddress, One Year. o8 I FARNAM STREFT. W YORK OFFICR, ROOM @, TRIAUNE BEI10ING ASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 FOURTEENTR 81RERT CORRESPONDENCE! All communieations relating to news and odi. [dressed to the Evi- TOR OF THE Bri Bl NERS LETTERS! All hueinesa lettors and remittancns ahould ba @ddressed to THE Bike PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postofico orders %0 bo made payable t0 the order of the eompang, THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPRIETCRS, E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statemcat of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, t,, . Gounty of, Douelns. {5 Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee . Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circuiation of the Daily Bee for the week ending August 19, 1857, wasas follows: Saturday. August 1 Bunday. August 14 Monday. August 1 Tuesdav, August Wednesday, August Thursaay, August I8, Friday, August 19.. Average.. " Gro, B HUCK. Sworn to and subscribed in my presence this 22d day of August, A, D. 1887, s N, P, Frin, ISEA L Notary Publie. ‘Btate of N ) Douglas County, | 5% Geo. B. 'Tzschuck, belng first duly sworn, deposes and that he is secretary of The Bee Publishing company, that tlie actual average daily cirenlation of the Daily Bee for the month of August, 156, 12,464 copies: for Septem ber, 185, copies: for October, 1 12,980 copies ; for November, 1886, HS coples: for December, 1886, 18,237 copies; for Janua 1857, 16,266 coples; for February, 1857, 14,105 copies: for March. 1857, 14,400 coples; for Aypril, 1887, 14,816 copies: for May, 1867, 14,227 "copies: for' June 1887, 14,147 copies; tor uly, 1857, 14,008 copies. Gro. B. Tzscnvek. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 11th day ot August, A, D, 1857, I8 | P. FrrL, Notary Public. SECRETARY Famrcninp has instructed David Okey, chief of division in his oflice to go to New York and make a thorough examination into the administration of immigration affairs, After this it may bocome possible for immigrants to come here without first being harrassed by the Castle Garden inquisition. SECRETARY BAYARD has been talking to an English ecorrespondent about our relations with Canada. He complained of the present method of negotiating with that country through England. In this roundabout way of dealing with our neighbors long and tedious delay 15 in- evitable and the results are almost in- variably unsati influx of gold from Europe has recently begun, which speaks well for the financial situation this fall. This means that there i3 a counter-current of commodities, stocks and bonds from this country. The cotton crop promises to be one of the largest in recent years, and as the northern crons will also average well, the commercial outlook is favor- able. THE boat that drifted away from tho ill-fated City of Montreal, and was sup- posed to have been lost with allon board, is reported to have been found by a Ge man vessel and the occupants, thirteen in number, rescued. This relieves the Montreal disaster of its most serious fea- ture, while it shows that thirteen 18 not always an unlucky number. Tue dominion authorities seem to have great faith in injunctions. Another has peen 183ued against the company con- strueting the Red River Valley road, but that obdurate corporation, reckless of further provoking the ire of Sir John Macdonald, 1s going right on with the work as if there were no courts to be re- nIncu-nl and no British regulars to be eared, SINCE the recent exposures of the op- pression of their laborers by the coal barons in Pennsylvania, reforms have been instituted which show that the ter- rible condition of the miners there was chiefly due to corporate greed. The first measure is a reduction 1 the price of ocommodities in the company stores. This alone will be a great help to those who are compelled to patronize them. It is only by persistent hammering at monop olies by the press and by intelligent co- overation among the laboring classes, that seifish and soulless comorants can be made to loosen their deadly grip upon the throats of tho impoverished toilers who are compelled to subsist on scanty earnings. — It is all the rage. Every city ofticial now wants more deputies and assistants. Street Commissioner Kent, who gets $1,800 a year, now asks the council for an assistant at $100 per month, What is this assistant to do* Mr. Kent has plenty of leisure, as far as an outsider can ob- serve. He can be met most any hour of the day walking about the streets hob- nobbing with the He doesn't appear hard pressed for time cven this busiest part of the season. be in According to the July appropriation ordinance Com- missioner Kent employs four foremen, each of whom draws 50 per day for fiimself, and two or more of whom also draw $3.50 per day for bossing their own teams. What in the name of conscieace does the commissioner want with a $100 assistant? s the city of Omaha a gold mine? —_— AN investigation is now in progress, by direction of the secrotary of the treasury, into the allegea abuses at Castle Garden, N.Y. Itisnotdoubted that if the in- quiry 1s thoroughly and honestly made some very ugly facts will be disclosed. For years there have been complaints of jobbery on the part of the commission- ors, of which the poor and helpless im- migrants were the viotims, but for seme reason or ot' ., doubtless chiefly wvoliti- oal, the commissioners have until now escaped aninvestigation. Recently there . has becn more than the usual dissension among themselves, and this, with the in- quiries instituted by some of the news- papors, nnd a repetition of charges from souroes entitlal to regard, have more foreibly impressed the necessity of vostigation that will bring to ligi den Tho seerotary of the troasury has done well in ordering the mvestigation, wd there is every regson to believe that the developuents will justify his action. The Nebraska Cora Crop. It uay be woll to keep it before the people of the country, and especially be- fore the eastern papers that are writing down the “drought-stricken west,” that Nebraska's corn crop, in apite of sun and storm, will be larger this year than last by many hundred thousand bushels. The most sareful inquiry throughout the various counties, and the verdict of the grain men in the largest purchasing cen- ters, coincides in the opinion that the corn which has escaped all the dangers of a most trying season, will be the larg est crop this state has ever pro- duced. There has been considerable damage from drought. Six or seven counties have suffered very severely. But increased acreage will muck more than make up for the loss Six weeks ago the prospects were almost certain for an immense corn crop through- out the west and low prices to the far- mers. The outlook now is for a greatly diminished crop thro: a heavy crop in Nebraska, and handsome returns for our farme The enhanced value of the crop will more than counter- balance the decrease in the average per acre, and the outturn, unless the railroads arbitraril se their rates, bids fair to be the best since fifty cent corn was the cry in this section of the countey. An- other cheerful feature of the sitnation is found in the fact that the corn in erib carried over by Nebraska farmers since last year is ulso reaving the bencfits of the rise. Along a single line of railroad in the state, 4,000,000 bushels of vld cornis reported on hand, which of course par- ticipates in the ance. On such a showing, Nebraska declines to be ¢ sed with the states not blessed with as fertile a soil, retentive of moisture, a salubrious climate and an atmosphere unfricndly to drought. While Kansas, Iliinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin report total or partial farlure of the crops, Nebraska will cheerfully contribute to make up the deficiency with the largest erop of corn she has ever pro- duced. —_— Charities and Correction. The national conference of cha! and correction, which will begin its ses- sion in Omaha to-day, has been so fre- quently and fully referred to in the press that 1t may be supposed all newspaper readers are familiar with its character and object. These are such as should commend the conference to the hearty interest and sympathy of all who have any concern for the unfortunate and the fallen—that portion of humanity which from incapacity or other cause 18 unubic to make its way in the hard and unequal struggle of life, and therefore becomes the care of the state, and that other por- tion which, following the direction of evil predilections, has become the object of penal correction, These elements are not a decreasing quantity. Despite all the reforming and ameliorating in fluences of an advancing civiliza- tion, of the church and the school, the press and the platform, they grow with the growth of the social struc- ture. The army of the indigent finds fresh recruits every day. The cry for charity 15 an unceasing and swelling chorus that must be heeded. Hourly throughout this favored and prosperous land seme one falis hopelessly out of the race and the conflict, and piteously ap- peals for the right to live, which cannot be denied. So, likewise, the host of the victims of erime ie being steadily added to. Every great city is a school with an ample faculty of teachers and a complete curriculum of crimes from which there is continuaily graduating pupils who are certain to find their way into the prisons ot the land. The supply 15 not diminish- ing. There are not many vacancies in the pervitentiary of any state, and some of them are crowded to their full capac- ity. Room for more is the demand in many of the states and is very sure to be- come so0 in all. How to deal most wisely and justly with these classes, having reference at once to the best interests of society and the highest welfare of thg unfortunate ob- jects of state care,is a problem that has been long studied and still awaits a com- plete solution. It is to this task, greatly important and always urgent, that the which will assemble in 1 to-day 1s devoted. The majority of the exceptionally intelligent members of this body have given years of practical experience and careful study to the sub- ject of charities and correction, and the views they will present will have the claim to regard which only such experi- ence and study can give. The conference is mnot a body of mere theorists, but of persons whose opinions are based on accurate knowledge and an extended and diversi- fied observation. It has exerted » most valuable inftuence, and as a means of collecting trustworthy formation aud 1mparting wtelligent opinions on the sub- jects coming under its consideration the conference is a most important and use- ful body. We have no doubt our citizens will show that they fully appreciate the character and heartily sympathise with the purpose of the confereuce, The Virtues of Target Practice, ry few people who have been aware of the fact that in military cireles there was this year a rather more than usual interest in target practice, which found perhaps its largest development in this loeality, have probubly conceived of the necessary duty of the soldier to learn to shoot as having any other than the me: practical value. A casual contempla- tion of the matter suggests that the ob- jeet of instruction and practige in 1 manship being simply to enable the sol- dier to properly handle his weapon and use it to the most deadly advantage, the valuc of the exercise has only this extent. But this is shown by the address of Gen- eral Morrow to the successful marksman at Bellevue to be & narrow and insuflic- ient ostimate of the virtues of ‘arget practi That veteran soldicer, whose address was a wost mer- itorious effort, pointed out in o way en- tirely convincing that targoet practice has a moral force which is by no means to be gnor Speaking from his own observation, General Morrow smd he had found ‘‘that the personal denial, the self-control, and the enforced habitg of regularity in lv- ing in respect to drink, food and rest, requirved on the part of the candidates for hounor in marksmanship, have had a sig- nifica woneficial effect con the dis- eiplin 1l morals of the American | armyg Itis not atall diicult to belicve this to be so when one reflects that the necessary qualificat:ons of the marksman “#re tewperance, patience, persever- ance and Industry. Ilaving these virtue obedience and a respect for necessary discipline. como easily and naturally. The man who has learned to govern himself is the one who submits most cheerfully to proper government. To the extent, therefore, that the practice of military marksmanship is influential inrequiring an observance of the qualities noted it is obyiously a moral factor con- tributing doubtless all that General Mor- row claimed for it in enhancing the value of the individval eoldier and elevating the standard of the army. After such competent testimony to the value of target practice as w moral, in- tellectual and physical benefit, the ex- pediency of continuing it and enlarg- ing its scope will not be questioned. Whatever additional inducements may be necessary to stimulate the sol- diers to greater interest and effort in this direction should not be withheld. What there is of the American army should be made a model of excellence in all those qualities and conditions which are essen- tial toa perfect mulitary establishment. Target practice appears to be one of the most valuable means to that end, and therefore it should be maintained and en- couraged, Co-OPERATIVE insurance is being at- tacked all along the line. It stands con- demned by the insurance superintendents of most of the eastern states, and part ularly by those of New York and Massa- chusctts, and now the Californin com- missioner adds his opinion that co-opera- tive insurance schemes are inigqnitous and deceptive in their character. The New York Star has been giving u good deal'of attention to this ¢ of msur- ance, and from a detailed review of the conditien of tho co- operative associations it reaches the following deductions: *‘First, the mutual benelit plan has in itself neither safety Without adventitious aids companies doing business on this method must soon die of ‘dry rot." Second, it 15 only istent puffing and quack ery, which involve great extr rance in management.that these companies can be kept alive, so that the credulity of the general public may for a time replace a reserve fund and postpone the final set- tling day when all such organisations must succumb to the natural laws of busiess. The only way of prolonging r oxistence is by extravagance in oftering inducements which involve & virtual false pretense.”” A law of New York passed last year provides that no such company shall be organ- ized until at least 200 persons have sub- seribed themselves as desiring to be in- sured in it, with aggregate subscriptions amounting to $40,000, on wmech 2 per cent shall have been paid i and de- posited for a mortuary fund. It pected that under this law co-operative insurance in the state of New York will soon disappear. A system that is so widely and authoritatively condemned it whatever vrofessions make in p IN spite of the refusal of the board of public works to approve the claim of the street sweeping contractors and the pro¢ test of the mayor againstallowing a clann for work not done, the council has or- dered this bogus claim paid. Now, what does this mean? Have connciimen any night to vote away moncy for services not rendered? Have the Chicago or New York boodlers shown a more reck- less disregard of the rights of taxpa) The amount of this claim is very small, but coupled with the $500 ‘‘extr which the street sweepers pulled through the council a foew weeks apo, when under their con- tract they had no right to extra allow- ances, is certamnly an eye-opener. It shows collusion between these contr: tors and councilmen who do their bid- ding. We have for some time suspected that there was crookedness between the street-sweeping contractors and certain councilmen and we are beginning to be- lieve there is a huge darkey in that wood pile. ssed oves 1i T council has py or's veto ordinanc ing of cortamn streets. The ground upon which Mayor Broateh vetoed these ordi- ances was that they contemplat en- ditures that will create an overlap in the general fund, By over-riding the mayor the council assumes the full responsi- bility of an overlap if the general fund falls short of the amount voted for grad- ing. Weare not in position to pass an opinion as to the condition of the general fund, but if the mayor is correct in his conclusions, these grading ordinances are linble to give the council some trouble. While we always have favored public improve- ments, they should be limited to the ex- tent of the public purse. Overriding the mayor's veto may gratify the spleen of councilmen, but it is liable to be carried to a point where the council will over- reach itself, and rouse taxpayers to an active intervention through the courts. the may ing the grad- ‘THE stre been largel the general expense of the city, which should in part, and often entirely, be paid for by private property owners: This way of making donations to favored property owners at the public expense 1s only another name for boodling. At every council meeting instructions are t voted to the commissioner to grade alleys and sidewalks at the general expense, when the charter contemplates that the adjoin- ing property shall bear one-half of the expense of sueh grading. In other words, the favored few who have the in- side can get their grading done at the city's expense, while the great mass of property owners are obliged to pay not only for their own improvements but for those made for parties who have the ear of the council and itsstreets and grades committees. A REVIVAL of the ‘‘Knownothing" party to take active part in the mext presidential campaign is threatened. Twenty or thirty men, called the Amer- ican National committee, have been quietly at work preparing acall for a convention to be held at Philadelphia during the celebration of the constitu- tional centennial, Delogates from thirty- eight states will be present. They claim they have 1,600,000 membars in this organ- 1zation, and the purpose is to restrict im- mgration, Candidates for president and vige- president are to be noniinated, and a state ticket put in the field in Pennsyl- vanin. Powdarly is said to be identified THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1887, with the movoment, but even Powderly eannot galvanize a political corpse into semblance of life Tur. boy that carries the Republican across the river every morning must be a prodigy or Mr. Vaughn slightly exagger- ates when he says that six hundred and eight people at Council Blufls are regu- lar subscribers for the Republican. Six hundred papers would weigh seventy-five pounds, and the two little bundles which the boy carrics across the river daily weigh fifteen pounds at the outside. Vaughn evidently la- bored under a delusion. He would not tell & lie willfully. It isclearly a mistake of the mailing clerx and the fig- ures ought to read 68 instead ot 608, By the way, we will wager a basket of champagne against a bottle of pop that the BEE has a larger bona fide circulation 1n Couneil Bluffs than the Republican has in Omaha, and we will ‘‘go"" two boxes of Havana cigars that the Republican has less than 1,200 bona fide subseribers in Omaha and Council Bluffs together. — “I's somewhat of a liar myself I ex- claims Mr. McShane's editor. nlk about Bluffs circulation, why the Herald as long ago as the last presidential cam- paign, used to scatter whole wagon loads of our dumly across the river to carry Towa for Grover Cleveland. He didn't carry lowa, to be sure, but we still carry the paper. And we claim everything-— not ouly do we ciaim a larger circulation over the river than all the other papers combined, but we claim a age all around. Confidertially s th s w game of bluffin which [ am not if I L owe to Me- owg to let the /orald be worsted That much, can help it Shane. Ovk enterprising democratic contem- porary has added over eight hundred names to its subscription list within the past threc months, but we not in- formed how many names have dropped from the list. The increase certainly has not been made in Omaha, he Herald is still delivered in every part of the city by thirteen carriers, while the Bee em ploys fort rriers to deliver its city circulatiol KINGS AND QUEENS, Queen Kapiolani, on her arrival at Hono- lulu, found King Kalakaua's constitution completely shattered. The empress oy Japan, who will visit this country in October, will travel incognit: and her suite will include two of the impe- rial prin Prine Helen, daughter of the count and counts ot Paris, has been betrothed to young Dom Pedro, of Brazil. Her future fathe -law is alse Ler uncle. ‘The Crown Princess Stephanie, of Aus- tria, has contributed some chapters to her hushand’s great work, “The Astro-Hun- n Monarchy in Word and Picture.” wperor wWilliam has presented to the pove a metre ot: exquisite workmaushin adorned with brilliants, rubies, sapphires and eneralds, in honor of the Papal jubilee. The Kaiser also wrote a letter. King Kalakaua is said to be well posted on Enlish ecelesiastical history and very fond of studving the subject. It has been sup- posed that his principal stady was the His- tory of the Four Kings. Victor Emmanuel, the crown prince ot Italy, has gone to live in Nuples. 1le will attain his majority in November next, and will set up a grand establishment fn the Caserto palace, the home of the old bour- bons. He bias fair to beas popular as his his father and grandfather. ‘The royal family of Portugal is quite capa- ble of earning a living by handicraft in case of necessity, Queen Maria Pia being a skilled Potter, King Dom Luis a sculptor of ac- knowledged wmerrit, and the Crown Prince Dowm Carlos an amateur locksmith. Emperor William received a large mail at Gastein, the letters from the members of his family alone baing vory nimerous. 1t 18 re- lated tiat immediately. on his arrival he found on his table a latier addressed in very large characters, which proved to be from tiie hand of his five-year-old great-grandson William, An inclosure by his mother as- sured the emperor that no- one had dictated or even looked at the letter, the tirst produc- tion of the writer fully” believe it,” the emperor smilingly said, “for if she had seen it she would not have allowed it to be sent.” Sl A Biz Job, St, Louis Pest Dispateh. The Kentucky democrats are anxious to have Mr. Cleveland visit their state and re- pair the erevasse in the grand old majority bR Chance F al fnvention, St Louis Post-Dispatch. There is not mueh use in_ inventing ballot boxes that ean’t be stuffed. Lot some genius invent a more expeditious way of putting ballot box stuffers in the penintentiary. — That s the Method. New York World Senator Stanford says he never corrupted any member of the legislature or any mem- ber of congress, but when asked if any of the money secrotly expended was used to n- fluence legislation he refused to answer. Perhaps heonlygave the money to a man who rave it to the lecislator, Of course he never corrupted anybody. ——— Degenerate Politics. Sowth Bend (Ind.) Times, ‘There is to-dav more Insincerity, deceit, bypocrisy and downright humbuggery in pol- itical circles than has been known to exist for thirty years. Things have come to such apass that it is considered the height of 1m- prudence to express an honest opinion, Men say one thing aud wean something quite different, Privately and contidentially they denounca as “‘infernal poppycock™ that which in publie they affect to extol as the essence of political wisdom and patriotism. B L A Grim German Joke. Chicago ‘Tribune, It was recently reported that a few days before the collapse of the Chicago wheat cor- ner Levi Rosenfeld cautioned his son Mau- rice against attempting too much and re cewved the reply, *'1 shall be another 1’hil Ar- mour,” and retorted a week later with the words, **Du bist viel armer”’—*'You are much poorer.” 1f the will of the now deceased parent be construed ' literally the son 1s in- deed mucn poorer, the extent of his depriva- tion being measured by halt a mnllion dol lars, But, a3 Hamlet” remarked about the player queen: “If she should break it now.” okl o i Unrest. All day upon the garden bright ‘The sun shines strong But in my heart there is no light Nor any song. Voices of merry life go by down the street, But I am weary of the cry, And drift of feet. With all dear things that ought to please he hours are blest, And yet my soul is ill at ease And cannot rest, Strange spirit, leave me not too long, Nor stint to %iv H For if my soui have no sweet song t cannot live. BTATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Canvassers are at work preparing a new directory for Nebraska City. Puving and sewer bonds to the amount | ~ Sec. 6. T'he commissioner or his deputy | of $30,000 were voted by Nebraska City on Tuesday. Norfolk has unconditionally sutren- dored to the North Nebraska veterans this week. H, W. Loewens, a former resident ot Beatrice, while on his way home to the old country, died at Berlin on the 2d inst within 200 miles of his destination. remont policemen will now be more careful with their tongues. A judge the other day fined one of the coppers §4.65 for charging a man with being of dog- matic origin, The new machinery is all in place in the Nebraska City distillery ready to hr-gfm operations next Monday, The only fear ot the citizens 18 that the estab- lishment may be sold out to the monopo- listic ‘“‘trust.’’ The Rustler is the name of a paper which made its first appearance last week in the new town of Hendley, in Furnas county., Olmsted & Carpenter are the rustlers in charge and the first 1ssuo makes & most creditable appearance. A gray-haired veteran of sixty years living at Fremont, named Harris, has been arrested on a charge of indecent as- sault on little girls of eleven years of age. If the charges are sustained no respect for hoary locks should prevent the deal- ing out of punishment. lowa. The Swedish Lutheran church at Des Moines, costing §10,000, was dedicated Sunday. Charles Wilsey, of Keokuk, left his wife and new-born babe to elope with a young lady of that vicinity. ‘Twenty-nine states are represented at piritualist camp-meeting being held at Clinton, Over 100 tents are in the grove and nearly 1,200 people on the grounds. M. W. Tanwarmer started with his family down the Crooked Creek railroad on i hand-car on Saturday night, and ran into a ¢ car near Lehigh, Ihs little daughte ged twelve yoears, was an- stantly killed, her neck being broken. The government engineers will be at Dubuque this week to consult with citi- zens relative o the new bridge which the Burlington, Cedar Rapias & Northern Railway company contemplate building across the Mississippi at that point. Jumes Avata, of Davenport, 18 looking for a polecate aroma exterminator. When he went to his store Sunday be found it in possession of a skunk, and although he killed the animal its strong breath haunts him still and is causing custom to full oft. Policemen ;Crowle of Ottumwa, met William Freshour, a railvoad fireman, as he was going to his train Sunday night, and without provocation elubbed Freshour with his billy, knocking him senseless and fracturing his skull. Crowley waus drunk and is now in jail. Great indignation prevails. Dakota, Spencer, the new town on the Omaha road between Mitehell and Salem, is booming,. town, Delbert Buzzle, twelve cidentally shot und Killed ged tour yeats. wland colony has pur- es of land from 1 Pacitic railroad. burglars ransacked three of hotels the other night but only E nall amount of cash. ‘Ihe bricklayers employed on a na- tional bank building at Huron quit work beeause a colored mun~ was put to work with them, ‘aptain Sears, of the engineer depart- ment of the army, is at Yankton insp ing the river front to see what necessary from the government in stop- ping the encronchments of the Big Muddy on the town, ‘The Pacitic Coast. Apaches are killing stock in Arizona. Nevada is earning the name of a fruit- growing state. In Waila Walla, straw is spread on the streets. It prevents dust, 15 cheap and makes an excellent drive. Helena can soon boast the youngest ilway messenger in the country. Frank d cleven years, is to be com- a clerk on the Helena & Butte The New the Northe A duet ol railroad. A one-armed man in Salem lateiy ap- phed for a divorce on the ground that he hand he had given his wife in mar- age was lost, and that the contract was theretore void. rizona oflicers now believe that a clue 1o the men who robbed eur ‘Tucson last April. They have succeeded in tracing up some bilis that were stolen from a Wolls, Fargo & Co. safe. LALOR Ci For the Gathering of Industrial and Labor Statigtics. The last Nebraska legislature passed a law creating a labor ceasus bureau for the gathering of industrial and laber sta- tisties. The law also empowers the com- missioner to compel hotel and boarding house keepers and proprietors of fac- tories to provide proper ftir pes. Mr, Jonhn Jenkins, of Omal as recently appointed to fill this oflice. The law is as follows on 1. There is hereby created a 1 of labor census and industrial cs, with headquarters 1n the capi: building, for which statiouery, vostage, expressage, printing and facil ties for U ng business shall be fu mished the sume as for other executive departments, Sce. 2. The hereby made rea See. 3. Smd commissioner shall have the power to appoint a deputy at a sal- ary of $1,500 per annum, who, when sting for or instead of said commis- oner, shall have and may exercise cqual power and authority subject to the approval of the commissiouer. See. 4. The duties of said commis- sioner shall be to collect, collate and publish statistics and fac(s relative to manufacturers, industrial classes, and aterial resources of the state, and es- pecially to examine into the relations be- tween labor and eapi the means of ¢ from tire, and protection of life Ith in fao s and workshops, and other places of industries; the stat tol governor of this state is commissioner of said bu- mine 3 employment of illegal child labor; the f exuction of unlawful hours of lubor from any emvloye; the educational, sanitary moral ana financial conaition of laborers and artisans; the cost of food, fucl, cloth- ing and building material; the causes of strikes and lockouts, as well as kindred subjects und matter pertaini to the are of ipdustrial interests and classes. S¢ 5. The comnussioner or bis deputy shall have power to enter any factory or workshop in which labor is employed, for the prupose of gathering facts and statistics, or examining the means of escape from fire, and the pro- visions made for the health and safety of operators in such factory or workshop; and 1n case the ofcer of the bureau shall discover any violation of, or the neglect to comply with the laws with re- spect to child labor, hours of labor for women and children, fire escapes and similar enactments now or hercinafter to be made, he shall notify the owner or occupant of such factory or workshop in writing of the offense or neglect, and if such offense or neglect is not corrected or remedied within thirty days after the survice of the notice aforesaid, he shall lodge formal complaint with the attor ney in which the offense is committed or the neglect occurs, whereupon that officer shall proceed against the offender necording to law. may examine hotels and lodgine or boarding houses, for the purpose of dis- covering whether they are properly equipped with lawful fire escapes; and he may post in any hotel, lodging or board- ing house o examine the laws upon this matter, together with his official state« ment a8 to whother said laws are fully complied with by said hotel, lodging or boarding house; and any hotel, lodging or boarding house keeper, or other who shall mutilate, destroy or remove from uny building or buildings the said laws or statements 80 posted shall, upon conviction, be fined any sum not to exceed 50, for each and every offens Whenever any hotel lodging or boarding house that has been posted as not having complied with the terms of the law 1n respect to fire es- caves, shail be properly provided and oquipped in the lawful fire escapes, and the burcau shall be notified thereof, the commissioner shall at once order a new statement, setting forth that fact to be posted in gaid hotel, lodging or boardin, house.and the bareau shall keep a record of all buildings so oxamined and posted. See. 7. The commissioner or his deputy may post in any factory or work shop examined by him, the laws now or hereafter to be made in respect to child labor, hours of labor, five escapes, or others pertaining to the health and safety of artisans or cmployes; and if the owner, manager and proprictor of any factory or workshop, or his agent, or uny person whomsover shall remove, destroy or w 80 posted, he shall,upon conviction, be fined in any sum sum, not to ¢ ceed £50 for each offense 8. The suid commissioners shall power to prescribe blank forms and transmit them to ¢ , which shall be tilled out clearly completoly under oath, by the person or persons to whom they are sent. with the facts, sta tisties and statements asked for, and re- to him within such reasonable s he may fix. Incase any owner or occupant, or his agent, shall refuse to admit any ofticer of said bureau to his workshop ot factory when open and in operation, he shall torfeit the sum of §10 for ench and every offense, and 1f he shall, through his agent, or ortherwise. negleet, fail or re- fuse to fill out said blark forms, and verify and return them as required, he shall forfeit the sum of $10 for each and every day said blank 1s de- layed beyond the time fixed by the com- missioners for their return. T'he forfeits named and provided in this act shall be sued for in the name of the state, by the county attorney of the respective county where such offense is committed, upon the complaint of any oflicer of said bureau, or any eitizen, ana shall be paid into the school fund. Sec. 9. There shall be provided a seal of oflice for the use of said bureau, and the commissioner or lus deputy, for the purpose of making any investigation contemplated by this act, shall have vower to administer oaths, take testi- mony and subpana withesses, which witnesses shall receive thesame feesasare ducing oapacity of the distilleries being so far ahead of the demand is found 1n the fact that the Inrfe trade in alcohol which this country formerly carried on with Europe and South America, as well as Australia, has been entirely lost, A fow years siuce our exports of alcohol amounted to from 200,000 to 250,000 bar- rels per annum, Five yeass back we supplied Spain with from 40,000 to 60,000 barrels, and Franco with 50,000 to 75,000 barrels each year, while South America required 20,000 to 25,000 every twelve months, Owing to the commercial treaty between Spain and Germany this immense trade has all been lost to us. The same ap- plies to France, which also enjoys a fa- vorable treaty with Germany. In South America corn is being grown about as cheaply as i the finnml States, and many distillery plants have been ex- ported to that country, where alcohol is now being made as cheap as here. Wo now have to depend upon the domestic markets, and our total exports of alco- hol do not exceed 15,000 Larrels & year. From these facts whisky men infer that immense bencfit is to be derived from the whisky trust, while it is also urged that it 18 very dangerous to the government ~and the people when the distillers are not making a profi the chances for defrauding Incle Sam are thereby largely increased, It is thought that 76 per cent of the spirits to be made under the Trust will be made in Peoria, as it 1s claimed that moy have the fucilities for making whisky cheaper than other sections of the country, it being a large corn producing country, and coal beiug worth about but five centa to six cents a bushel. Some of the Chi- eago distilleries will, of course, be oper- athed as well hose in Cincinnatl, and possibly one in St. Lows, Many of the Peoria distilleries cost from 250,000 to $300,000. There are also valuable plants in other loealities in the wost. Experienced whisky merchants — say the formation” of the Whisky Trust will have no eflect on the market, and they generally favor the proposed trust mainly because it insures a steady narket and uniformity of price, In New York are cight extensive rectify- g establishments, They are the mid- dlemen between the producers and the jobbers. After the spirits are produced at the distilleries they are shipped here, and arc refined and prepared for the requirements of the jobbing trade. I'hese ractifiers have invested in their business over $1,000,000, and transact an annual business of $12.000,000. During the past five or six years these roctifiers mnde n very insignificant profit, owing to the competition here, and the same was the case in other cit Under the trust it is understood that their interests age to bo protected, and they are consequently strongly 1n favor of the new scheme. ——— Taxes Should be Reduced. New York World 1. Because 1t is right. *“‘Unnccessary taxation is unjust taxation.” Itisa mon- strous ijustice that the government should collect from the people §120,000, 000 a year beyond its needs, allowed to any person testifymng in the district courts of this state, to be paid put of the contingent fund of this burean; Provided, however, That no person subpanzed by the said commussioner or his deputy shall be compelled to go out- side the city or town in which he resides to testify in behalf of such investigation. Sce. 10. The commissioner shall report biennially to the governor, accompany= g his report with such suggestions and mmendations as may be deemed se and proper. The said report shall be printed and distributed accord- ing to the provisions of the law govern- ing the printing of otir tate reports. Sce. 11, The commissioner shall be allowed a sum not to exceed $500 per an- num for traveling and contingent ex- venses, and a further sum of ¥100 per annum for the purchase of books and periodicals ou labor and industrial mat- ters for the bureau library. There i herehy appropriated annually out of any y8 in _tho state treasury, not other- appropriated, a sum suflicient to sions of this act. - | THESTUPENDOUS WHISKY TRUST Western Distillers Unite With a Capital of $40,000,000. New York Mail and Express: One of the most stupendous schemes ever under- taken in this country,now interesting the handlers of whiskies in all sections of the United States, and which is attracting wide attention,is known as the Distillers and Cattle-feeders’ Trust. Western men at the head of the movement, and are holding frequent conferences n a view of organizing a ecombination still more powerful than the Standard 0Oil compa and the American Cotton il Trust. The capital stock will not full short of 40,000,000, and dividends of 6 v cent per annum are expected. The majority of léading distillers in the west havealready signifled their intention iliating with the new comb it the success of the ment is assured. S, B, the Monarch Distilling and Woolner Brothers, Jansen, Walsh & Co., and Maddux, Ho- bart & Co., of Terra Haute, and Warren H, Corning, of Cleveland, urc a few of the millionaire distillers who are lending the movement. All of the gentlemen have become convinced of the absolute neces- sity of keeping the production down to the actual demand, ~Heretofore this has been impossible. During the years 1880 move- Greenthut, company of Peoria; and 1883 there was a very large increase the production of highwines, alcohol and spirits in the nortl tern states, and in these larger distilleries were built than had ever vefore been operated in this country, resulting, of course, in an overproduction. Distilleries were then losing largely on the productions, and an association was formed which was know as the Western Export association. This embraced between fifty and sixty, or nearly all, of the distilleries of th northwest. Their ob; to limit th production to the requirements of the trade. Of course, it was necessary to close down a large number these distille and as those of the gre operated. Those that e were paid from 12 to 15 cents 1 bushel on their capicity, which was about as much as was earncd by the distilleries that were running, Many of those that we closed received ev cAr #8 much as they were really worth, and it was neces- sary to pay them libe otherwise they AR T A disruption of the pool by resuming overations. en under thése circumstances the was found to e cach year a large su plus, and the only way to get rid of that was by menns of ~ exportation to foreign couptries. During this period the pool paid & bonvs of from 15 to 23cents a gallon on all aleohol thus exported, Which was a heavy drag upon them, amounting as it did” in some years from $200,000 to $100,000. i.ast winter many of the distillers expressed dissatisfaction with the Western ,xrorv, association. Some of the lurge distillers decided that a chunge was nacessary, and since Febru- ary last they have been organizing the | “Trust company ubove referred to So far they have been as successful a3 they expected, and have induced about 80 per cent of the distilleries to join. It is belicved that those still standing out must soon come in. It is the intention of the trust to select from the distillers | those that can make the eheapest spirits, and they will run at their full capacity thus diminishing the cost of production, During the pust six years the distilleries that have ing were doing so upon a reduced capacity, say at 23 to 80 per cent of their full capacity. This nat- urally increased mat the cost of vroduction., REDUCED ALCOR One of the prin M1y 10 EXPONTATIONS, causcs of tho pro | should renounce both the name and 2. Because itis wise. A treusury sur- plus is a standing temptation to extrava- gunce. To enter ufon schemes for spending the surplus is to perpetuate for another generation the already wickedly prolonged war taxes. To make extrava- gance the national policy is to mortgage the future and to discount prosperity that may not continue 3. Because it would be a relief to the taxpaye It is an insult to mtelligence to say that the people » not feel” an increase of 45 per cent in the cost of $400,000,000 of dutiable impo: three- fourths of which are classed as necessa- ries. 4. Because “the best place for every dollar not needed for the legitimate ex- penses of the government is in the pock- cts of the men who earned it."" Stupid Partisanship. Chicago News. So far as the republican state platforras of 1887 go it appears asif that party were content to emulate the stupid-exam- ple set by the democrats when they wera ‘4 the cold shades of opposition.” At its meeting in Harrisburg on Wednosday the Pennsylvania republican convention put the party's real attitude upon all national issues in this single sentence: “We arraign the democratic party and the present national adwinistration for their general imbecility in dunlin‘; with all — gr national auestions. How this must remind the reader of passages in democratic platforms prior to 188 hey alwnys arraigned and de- nounced their rivals in oftice, but tailed to initiate a single practical administ ive reform. The republicans occupy their cold shoes now, and have adopted their phrase of envious misery with stupid unanimity. le Range. Tha next contest at the Bellevue rifie range will be between the four depart- ment teams composing the division of the Missouri, the members of which will commence to arrive on Monday next, Th - - At the Ry I'he contest, including the days of pre- liminary practice, will consume about ten days. This will be followed by the competi- tion botween distinguished marksmen of the army, These men, by reason of their revious succe with the rifle, are de- arred from taking part in department, division and army team comuvetitions, and for theirsake, and to still further ad- vance the cause of marksmanship, this latest spe of competition has been established. It will bring to this city the best shots in tho United States army, and this will be the first time that they will meet for contest. The Humane Socinty, Officer Clark, of this society, has been very busy during the last few days. Tues: day he reported a cuse of glanders had by a horse owned by a man named Moore, residing on Poppleton avenue bo tween Twenty-fourth - and Twenty-fifth streets. To o reported 8. E. Bur dick for working a span of horses hardly able to walk, He also wishes 1t known that the well-known ‘“epileptic fit” woman, who has made so much trouble on the sidewals, is livi it on the bottoms with three little ma destitute condition. Ofli suys the Hur y has no Liction in this ¢ - American Univer Seribner's for Sevtember: 1t is pisin that the development of the universsty in this country involves a marked and per manent diflerentiation into two classen of the higher educational mstitutions now in existence. The vast majority ot the “eolleges,” 80 ealled, in this country should be content to remmn colleges— that 1s, ploces which make no pretence to carry men beyond such secondary education as is preparatory to s genuin university - ed To improve the secondary educ whionn they im- part, and to make it somewhat worthy of 'the idea conn In e minds of our people with the word “eol- legriate, may well satisfy their bigheat ambition. On the other hand, thers can be no doubt that the grast majority of the institutions now owlled “universt : the pretence of the thing, Only those fow institutions that have already sequized large resou of famous 1nen and catub- Lishied course est instructior draw from their own aud fro leges a sufficient constituancy ¢ already trained in a thorough sscondary edueation, should strive to dovelop \hem welves into universities,