Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 7, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1887, THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERWS OF SUBSCRIPTION ! D‘lr (Morniag Edition) including Sunday I‘, One Yea . X Months. ... . ‘or Three Montha .. Omaha Sunday like, matied to any AWA OPPICE, NO. 914 AND 018 FARNAM STREFT w YORK OPFICE, ROOM ), TRIRUNE BUILDING. ASHINGTON OPFICE, NO. 515 FOURTRENTH STREET. CORRESPONDENCE: Al communiontions relating to news and edi. torial matter should be addressod to the Epr TOR OF THE BEr. BEw PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. fts, chocks and postofice orders 0 be made payable tn the order of the sompany. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. R WATER, Forron. THE DAILY BEE Sworn Statoment of Uirculation, State of Nwrukl' ‘ 58 County of Dourlas. Geo. B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing company, does solemnly swear that the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending Sept 2, 1857, was as follows : Saturday. August 27. ... 14,150 Sunday, August 28 . +14.200 Monday. August 20. 14,625 ‘nesday. August #0. 14,015 ednesday, August 31, 4,010 Thursaay, Sept. 1........ 14,000 Friday, Sept.2........ 13, Nes & sl (}z:’l: Tz8CHUCK. . and subseri n my presence this 3d day of Septewmber, A. b D. 1887, N. P. Fert., [SEAL. Notary Public. Btate of Nebraska, | L)oulln County. ;:l S . B. el ng first duly sworn, deposes and says that he‘ll mmnr’y of The Bee Publishing company, that the actual average daily eirculation of the Dally Bee for themonth of September, 186, 13,030 coples; for October, 1886, 12,089 copies; for Novem- ber, 1888, 13,348 copies; for December, 13,37 coples: for Jnnunry 1887, 16,206 coples; for February, 1857, 14,198 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 les; for April, 1887, 14,316 copies; for May, 1557, 14,227 copies: for June 1 4,147 copies; for July, 1887, 14,- 008 copies: for August, 1887, 14,151 copies. Gro, B Tzscrruck. Sworn_and subseribed in my presence this 5th day ot Sept. A, D., 1887, [SEAL.| N. P. Frit. Notaty Publie. TuE Chicago- sas City rallroads have had a little falling out and the trav- eling public can now reap the benefit of reduced fares. SEE——— IRELAND is still on top. A sanguinary battle was fought yesterday in a little Pennsylvania hamlet between the sons of Erin and sunny Italy, and the latter were obliged to retreat after a red-hot encoun- ter. E———— DEspITE the outrageous conduot of the council the chief of police and his force are doing splendid work 1n checking the confidence men, fakirs and criminals in general, who have been attracted to Omaba by the fair and reunion. More arrests were made Monday than in any one day during any previous fair or pub- lic demonstration, Essssene—— Tie Chinege minister at Washington evidently does not like a blow-hard. Count Mitkewicz's long tongue has not added strength to the great financial un- dertaking of which he clainm to be the head and front, at least that is what the Celestial representatives in this country seem to think. *‘Loud talk showeth not wisdom’’ is an old Chinese proverb. —— AN INDIANA railroad man who is in a Rosition to know, claims that at least 126 persons were killed at Chatsworth. Others who were present until all the bodies were removed, give about the same number. The railroad authorities made out a list of less than one hundred. Of course a railroad company that slaughters its patrons cannot be decent enough t» aunounce the actual number of its victims. S—— A WASHINGTON rumor has it that ex- Governor Robvert E. Pattison, of Penn- sylvania, is to take Lamar’s place in the cabinet, while the latter goes on the su- preme bench. If this is true the voliti- cians will be given another “‘Cleveland surprise,” for no one of the knowing ones had the remotest suspicion of such a move. Patiison is a young reform democrat of the Keystone state and is disposed to be quite independent in politics, Now that the Saturday half holiday season is over in New York city, the business men of the metropolis are quite unanimous in their opinion that this iunovation is imjarious to the interests of the city. It causes inconveniences without end and also aiverts trade to other cities. Labor day is also condemned, both by the in- fluential workingmen and by employes, All work and no play may make Jack a duil boy, but too much play will undoubt- edly make him a poor ¢ HEeNRY VILLARD ias entered the finan- clal field again with a floucish and sev- eral millions in cash. A short time ago he was considerod dead broke as million- aires go, and here he bobs up serenely with eaough money to interest even the Wall street magnates. It seemsto be un- derstood that Mr. Villard t the bhead of the Berlin syndicate of capitalists who will probably have control of the North- ern Pacitic. t Mr. Villard is to be elected a director of that road about the middle of this month is said to bealready a definite arrangement. THE blotting out of the Baltimore & Ohio road as a competitive clement, leaves the Pennsylvania and the New York Central untrammeled in their cor- porate greed, What will those gigantic monopolies do next is the question which the eastern public is Deginning to ask with some anxiety. They have hitherto wielded enormous power, their united strength now, will be almost irresistable. It wiil be felt by the west almost as much a8 by the e Decisive legislative en- actments limiting their encroachments will be our only safeguard. SECRETARY Farrey 15 reported to have held a long conference yesterday with the president and Speaker Carlisle in regard to the reduction of the surplus. The administration is fully alive to the fact that some policy must be agreed on for presentation to the coming session of congress, The presidential campaign is rapidly approaching and the neced of prompt uction to retuin democratic supremacy will force the administration to do its utmost to secure popular ap proval. The deeds of the coming winter will count more with the people than fulsome promises in the next national platform. Lower Rallroad Rates The struggle of the business of the country for relief from the exactions of the railroads does not diminish the earn- estness and vigor, aud must not be per- mitted to. Authorative statistics show the railronds are making more money this year than ever before. It is regard- ed as a safe estimate that the aggrogate earning of the railronds of the country for the current year will exceed those of last year by not less than $39,000,000. A considerable part of this gain will rep- resent tho enlarged business of the country, but it will be due in part to the advantages taken by the railroads under the interstate commerce law, of every opportunity offered to increase their de- mands upon the publio, to accomplish which ~ combination continues to be just as effective as ever. The purpose of the corporations to render the law obnoxious has been carried into effect by every means which they could dare to employ under the law, and while the object sought has not been accomplished the results financially to the railroads have added largely to their coffers. The people, however, more strongly believe now in the principle of the law thad they did at the time of its enactment, and i1t will receive such amendments as the experieuce of its trial thus far suggests, doubtless at the next session of congress, as will put arestraint upor. the ability of the railroads to use it chiefly to their own advantage. Meanwhile in a number of states where the exactions and discriminations of the railroads are most severely felt a movement for remedy and relief is being urgently pushed. In [llinois the railroad and warehouse commissioners have just heard the arguments of repre- sentative business men from all parts of the state demanding a readjustment of rates in that state and the abolition of certain unwarrantable discriminations. There are fifty-four railroads m Illinois, and the reply théy make to the demand of the business public for justice and equity is the usual one with the corpora- tions, that they are not earning at pres- ent rates a fair dividend on the capital, soms lines being run at an actual loss, and that it the charges are reduced all the roads must become unprofitable so far aa their Illinois business is concerned. But if the aggregate earnings of the rail- roads in the populous state of lllinois amount to only 2 per cent on the capi- tal, as the figures seem to show, the inevitable conclusion must be that there is a needless extravagance in ex- penditures and probably a great deal of mismanagement. Besides the valuation of these roads at $11,000 a mile is much too high. They did not cost any such amount legitimately, and could be dupli- cated at very much less; Doubtless at a fair valuation, and with & wise economy in management, the net carnings of the railroads of Illinois last year, amounting in round figures to $67,000,000, would have paid fully four per cent.on the capital. But if the rates charged in Illinois are such as to justify the demand of the busi- ness community for reduction, what sort of defense can be offered for the rates in Nebraska, which are very much higber in every class? Compared with the exhorbitant rates that are charged in this state the people of [lli- nois are pecularly favored. Perhaps our people eannot reasonably-expect Iili- nois rates, but there can be no suflicient reason for so wide a difference. and the fact that the people of Illinois are de- manding a reduction of the charges there, makes stronger the conviction that our dgmand for relief is just and should be firmly adhered to. ‘Lhe Nebraska rail- road commission has just shed some new light on this question jn a communica- tion to the general manager of the B. & M. in which the discrimination against this state is shown by authentic figures that tell a plain story which needs no polishing or explanation. The commis- sion chooses to deal in blunt terms in charaoterizing the extortionate policy of the railroads, and 1n doing so has the au- thority of facts and the warrant of pub- lhic sentiment. It will be sustained by the people ip the attitude it has taken, for thisissue has yet to be settled, and it will be settled in the interest of the pub- lic welfare. — No Back Down. Mr. McShane may be satisfied with the denial of his editor that he (the editor) made overtures to the mayor to allow the gumblers to keep open house during the fair and reunion. He may be credulous enough to beheve that the bombastic challenge of his man 18 made in good faith, but if he wants to know the true inwardness of the charge, we will con- vince him verbally that there is more truththan poetry in it. In this connection we only neced to point Mr. McShane to the gauzy declaration of his editor that he ‘‘never had anything to do with the gamblers.” In view of the disclosures during the con- troversy with the house judiciary bood- lers, this is decidedly cool. Only yester- day n member of a late gambling house said in the presence of two persons that every charge made by the Bee against the legislative judiciary boodlers was true and a great deal more could be added that would convict those rogues of delib- erately demanding bribes from the gam- blers. Mr. McShane's editor was very timate with that gang, and certainly knew what was going on. An press Trust. 1t is said that the transter to the United States Express company of the Balti- more & Ohio express business is likely to result in the formation of a great ex- press trust, or something equivalent thereto, which shall include the three wealthy express corporations—the Amer- ican, the Adams and the United States. The next step necessary to the accom- plishment of such a purpose, if it 18 in contemplation, would be the purchase of the Erie, and 1t is behieved this will be done by one of the big companic he Eric is an even more annoying rival to the larger companies than was the B, & 0., thoagh with less ability to success- fully compete than was possessed by the latter. It has recently heen catting rates freely, and prob- ably unprofitably to itself, and if it should adhere to this sort of competition the big companies will feel compelled to negoti- ate. These have always worked in har- mony and been united in u poli to maintain ligher rates and freeze out smaller competitors. There is no reason to suppose that there will now be any de- parture from this policy, but rather that the companies will be disposed to pur- sue it more strictly than heretofore. The chief of the smaller competitors having been removed it is exceedingly probable that a united effort will be made to get possession of or destroy the remaining one. This accomplished, the big com- panies would naturally devise means to shut out new competition, and the first essential to this would be a close combi- nation of these companies that would bind all to & specific policy and condi- tions, From this point of view a great express trust is therefore not to be regarded as at all improbable. 1t need not be explained what this would mean for the general public. The competition of the Baltimore & Ohio had a leveling effect upon tariffs which, during the past ten years, has amounted to a vast sum saved to the peo- ple. Italso greatly augmented the ex- press business, so that the companies have made money. The profits of the B. & O. itselt are said to have been half a million dollars a year. But it is not to be supposed or expected that a combination of the big companies, freed from all competition, would continue the rates prevailing under the pressure of competition. That is not what combina- tions are made for. — Discontent in Canada, Some of the Canadian papers are quile outspoken in their opposition to the Can- adian Pacific monopoly. The Toronto Mail says, 1n speaking of the position of the farmers of the northwest: “The set- tler cannot hope to -thrive whilst he is compelled to buy and sell in a market from twelve hundred to two thousand miles distant, The best evidence of this 18 to be found in presence in Dakota and Minnesota of tens of thousands of Cana- dian farmers. All the signs goto show that the fight for an independent railway is but the prelude of a campaign in behalf of freedom of trade between Mani- toba and her nearest markets, 10 which the settlers are sure to win. T'he rents and fissures 1 the fabric of confederation are not to be msunder- stood. ‘The attempt to join together that which nature bhas put asunder by means of huge political railroads has falien completely, leaving us with a disatfected east and west and with a debt of nearly $300,000,000. to be borne in unequal shares by only five millions of people. Those of us who imagine that by the fiat of an act of parlinment a house divided a; itself could be made to stand, are b undeceived. Itisevident that our neighbor is waking up, pnd intends to keen along with the procession. The Canadians have hitherto been a loyal people, but the influence of the times, rapid development and changed conditions are having theiv effects upon them. They scem no longer dtsposed to submut because a monopoly, hoisted upon them, has governmental backing. They will no longer meekly eundure wrongs because they have their origin in high places. These very expressions of sharp criticisms are in themselves sig- nificant. Itis not so very long ago that they would uot have been tolerated. Why the People Marvel, Nobody in Omaha cares a straw whom Mr. McShane employes to run his paper, least of all the Bee. Nobody, so far as we know, has asked Mr. McShane to dis- charge his present editor, But the pub- lic will hold Mr. McShane personally re- sponsible for the policy pursued by the Herald as long as it is owned and con- trolled by him. If that paper advocates and supports dishonest methods in the council and the arrogant assumptions of the conspirators against good order and public safety, Mr. McShane cannot well escape the responsibility or public cen- sure. 1f this anarchist policy is upheld by Mr. Shane for pohtical ends, so much the worse. The attompt to keep the re- publicans who haye two-thirds of the council at outs with the mayor may seem to Mr. MeShaue very smart tactics just asit affords pleasure to James E. Boyd to demonstrate that no- bodv excepting himself is able to hold the reins of government in Omaha, But citizens who have no political schemes to further and no revenges to gratify most emphatically condemn the course which gives Omaha the reputa- tion of a rowdy town and keeps up tur- moil over the police, while boodling contractors and jobbers are preying upon the city and getting away with the bag- gage. The people of Omaha who gave Me- Shane 5,0)) majority last fall, marvel at his lack of local pride which should in- spire him of all others with a desire to suppress and keep down any movement or policy that tend to give Omaha a bad reputation abroad, and whish deprive its citizens of suflicieat police protection, They Will Not Risk Ir, Judge Dundy i3 quoted as interpreting the charter in favor of Hascall and his pals. Judge Dundy did nothing of the sort. He was very carctul not o commit himself on the law, by stating that the charter with its 175 pages was too pon- derous for him to read. And Mr. Poppleton, who sought to bulldoze the meeting at the board of trade hall, was very particular to say that he had not a clear conviction as go the merits of Has- call’s pretensions. No reputable lawyer in the state would risk s reputation in upholding as legal and right the deliber- ate attempt of the council to snuff out a co-ordinate branch of city government by refusing to approve good bonds, and playing the game of starvation and freeze out. A PROMU T Grand Army ofticer in reviewing the pension law from its be- ginning, criticizes its apnleation se- verely. e claims that a great deal.of injustice has been done to meritorious veterans by refusing them pensions which they deserved. He refers espee- ially to men who had seen the longest service and bore most of its hardships and who broke down after the war was oyer in consequence of what they had endured. 1t is diflicult for these veterans to prove cither by record or by their comrades that existing disabilities were con inth ry So their pen- on claims are ignored while those who sucenmbed ly wore sent to hospitals and finally dischaged, readily obtain their pensions, The latter saw very little of camp life and may never have been in a battle, but they live comfort- ably now on the public treasury, while the real fighters, broken in health by the long strain they underwent, obtain noth- ing and are quite liable to become public charges. There is, no doubt, a great deal of truth in this criticism, aps2 it is beyond question that wsny deserving soldiers are living in straightened oir- cumstances whe-eught to be taken care of by the government they did so much to preserve. Tue growth of » public sentiment in Great Britain favorable to silver would not be surprisin -l’houxh it might be expected to be sldw. " That a feeling in this direction is nof wholly wanting is shown by a recent interview with the Duke of Marlborough, who was a mem- ber of the royal contussion greated to investigate and repart upon the causes of the dopression 1n e. The duke is re- ported to have sald that the currency quesation is the Most important of the time, and the American attitude regard- ing silver had a most significant bearing on the question. It was given a good deal of attention by the commussion and there is reason to believs made a very de- cidea impression. At all events, so far as the Duke of Marlborough is concerned be found in the European demonetization of silver the chiet cause of all the de- pression in trade since tho Kranco-Ger- man war, and in this respect he concurs with the view of prominent German financiers. ‘Thefe 18 a small party in Great Britain 1n favor of the monetiza- tion of silver, and it is not at all unlikely it will grow. The vossibility of that country accepting bimetalism 1aay be re- mote, but it cannot be regarded as out of the question, and certamnly if the con- summation is contingent upon the United States adhering to silver it can be re- garded as assured, On this point there is not now and is not likelv to be soon again any serious issue ONE of the good results of the large gathering of people in the city this week, is the opportunity afforded for the me- tropolis and the citizens of the state to become still better acquainted. This will be mutually beneficial. It is well the people of this great commonwealth should learn what is going on in their chief city, and that the latter should know direetly from the people how they are prospering everywhere. T'hey can compuare notes over their material prog- ress, over their labors in the past and their plans for the future. City and country are very intimately interested in each other's welfare and whatever in- crenses their mutnal knowledge and re- gard is a mutual help, R = NEW YORK capitalists evidently have faith that the Manitobans will be success- ful in their fighy for the building of the Red River Valley railroad. Premier Nor- quay has announced that he has disposed of the bonds at the metropolis, and it is expected that the'road will be completed w time to compete with the Canadian Pa- cific in wheat carryin@. The news 1s re- ceived with great rejoicing at Winnipeg, as it opens a market in this country for produce which has been confined to Canadian trade centers. THE directors of thespublic library are still pegging away at the Jefferson Square library building project, regardless of the fact that t®a® ¢fity has no money on hand for such a purpose and the building season 1s too far advanced to do much this year even if they had an abundance of money. But the best rea- son why the scheme is not feasible is that nine-tenths of the people of Omaha do not want to cut up Jefferson Square by any buldin THE attempt on the part ot the Ras- callites to represent the speeches made in support of good government, asin- citing anarchy is in keeping with the reckless defiance and downright false- hoods that have characterized all their pretensions. The speech of G. M. Hitch- cock, which was crowded out of our col- umes, is produced in this issue to convict the falsifiers who denounce it as anin- cendiary harangue. ONE of our citizeus said at the board ot trade meeting last Saturday night that he wae tired ot the word *‘boodler.’” He thought it is time to drop it. The only proper time for dropping that term is when there 18 no longer any occasion for its use, but not before, He should re- member that our citizens are still more tired of the thing for which it stands. WiLL the counail let the printing to the lowest biader, as the law requires, or do they propose to play shuttlecock and battledore with it in defiance of law, the courts and public opinion. THE weather this week promises to be all that could be desired, and everything seems to point to the most successful fair and the most pleasant reunion ever held in this eity. Tne presence of some of our citizens at the council meeting Saturday evening, though they did not say much, shows that they are mingling in the pool of local politics. —— THE ostriches in the council are hiding their heads in the sand. still They Have Done Their Worst. Portland (Ore.) News, The powerful friends of Blaine and Sher- man will not permit Mr. Conkling and the mugwumps to dietate to the reputlican party the candidate of 1588, He and-they did their worst in 1884, They eanunt repeat it. Their seneme will fail, 1t will_help either Blaine or Sherman, rather slian do thew harm. Al What, Never. York Times, John M. Thurston is still roaming around over the country repeating his alleged lecture on “Grant” There is nothing about Grant in the harangue that has not been in the newspapers a dozen times since the publica- tion of General Granys Memoirs; but news- paver managers rung the chestnuc bell on them just before Mr. ¥hidiston strung them together with a few antediluvian stories and took the road as a Ifeturer. It is actually painful tosit for an' hofir and listen to his solemn and melancholy 'repetition of pub- lished history and the decayed humor of th past weneration. That “lecture” will ni elect him to the United States senate. — A Relic of Barbarism, Memphis Avalanche, “The convict lease system must go. Traflic in human flesh must cease. There 1s no place in our civilization for fiends In human form such has those who are called to account by Governor Gordon, of Georgia, There is no reason for believing that the system 1n Ten- nessee is as barbarousas that in the New Eng- land of the south, Even the brutality in the camps of Mississivpl, disclosed by the ofticial reports, is overtopped by this awful revela- tion from Georgia. But brutality and cru- elty, and therefore barbarity, are inseparable, in the very nature of things, from the convict lease system —a rélic of the dark ages wholly inconsistent with the spirit of modern civili- zation.” o HERESIES FROM POPPLETON. The Arch Ohampion of Corporations Before the Board of Transportion. SOME STARTLING DOCTRINES He Maintains That Nebraska Law Cannot Affect the Union Pacific— Governor Thayor After the Prize Fighters—Lincoln. [FROM TIE REE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.! The meeting of the attorneys of the different roads in Nebraska with the board of trans- portation, primarily to determine the powers of the board in regulating rates, and second- arily to hear the complaints filed against the Elkhorn road for their exorbitant charges, was attonded by Mr. Poppleton and Mr. Kimball, of the Union Pacitic, Messrs. Mar- quette and Smith, of the B. & M.: Messrs. Hawley and Morehouse, of the Elkhorn and Mr. Orr, of ¢he Missouri Pacitic. In the de- murrers to all the complaints filed against the Unlon Pacitie, the Union Pacific has vleaded “no jurisdiction” to the board, and this question was conceded to be one of the mo st imyortant to come before the meeting. n the ovening of the.meeting, the question was at once made the subject . Prior to the argument Mr. Orr, rquuenllng the Missouri Paclfic, said it was ut rl( impossible for the road to appear at this time in the discussion of rates, He stated that the company desired to co-operate with the board by furnishing any information they might desire. If the board would grant leniency, in a few days t! {. would give the matter all the attention in their power, Judge Mason said that the question of rates had passed beyond discussion and that they must be lowered. He replied to Mr. Orr that tho rates on his road were higher than the B, & M. and were on a par with the Union Pa- citic. He wanted the road to act withouvt in- tervention, if they would; if they would not, there was no excuse for delay. 'I'he question was, he said, if the company would assure a reduction of rates by the 2th, the time Mr. Orr asked, the board would be willing to wait, but if it wnsnr&ucnuon of delay it might as well be attended to to-day. . Mr. Orr replied that the road was honest in its asking for delay. He did not want, how- ever, the Missouri Pacitic to be bound by any precedent that might be established in the nearing of other cases. Mr. Munger said, in reply to Mr. Orr, that his company had had from the 25th of July on their case already and they should not object if by theirdelay precedents should be estaolished. In regard to the complaints of Plumer, Perry & Co. and the complaint of Grand fsland parties, Mr. Poppleton, of the Union Pacitic, said they were questions over which, the Union Pacinc claimed, the board had no jurisdietion. Messrs Munger and Mason said that they would hear first the argument on the flups— tion of jurisdiction. Mr. l’oppemn and Mr. Kelly appeared for the Union Pacitie, Mr. Poppleton, in his argument, held that that the shipment was an inter-state rate, covered in two shipments, one to Omaha and the other to Lincoln. “The shipment, he claimed, was a through one to Lincoln from San Francisco, the rate beinr 60 cents to Omaha and 15 cents from Omaha to Lincoln. The question of the rate from Omah Lincoln being extortionate brought direct the question of jurisdiction. Continuing, the speaker said he could show that the Union Pacilic, in its charter from the government, had the sole rizht to estab- lish aad maintain its own rates and charge them at Its will; that thecharter had in eftect glven the road extraordinary powers. Con- frus has settied the question and the courts have laid down the decision that inter- state commerce—where shipments arose in one state and terminated in another —was wholly —under the control of federal powers and federal courts. Justice Bradley, in summing up in the case of the Baltimore & Olio road and the bridge to Staten Island, had held that in matters of inter-state commerce therc were no states, Mr. Poppleton cited cases in which states had attempted to regulate rules on hauls in which they did not attempt to cover the road out- side the state, These he held had never been negatived by the courts, udge Mason interjectod at this point that while the board agreed with the argument on strictly inter-state rates, the question before the board was one of fact. ‘I'hat what was wished to be ascertained was whether the shipment in question was a pure inter-state shipment, or whether it was nota reship- ment from Omaha to Lincoln over a branch line of the Union Pacitic upon ~which the rate charged was extortionate, AMr. Poppleton returnin, to this fact in issue read from the bill of lad- ing. From this Mr. Poppleton urged that the bill held San Fraucisco and Lincoln as the terminal points. The only clause he claimed in the bill that cited Omaha as the terininus of the shipments was where the Southern Pacitic guaranteed a specitic rate to Omaha. The new tariff from Onana to Lin- coln he claimed, had no effect on the ship- ment, and that the latter rate was a pmrt of the inter-state rate and it was preposterous to claim anything else. Mr. Poppleton then returned to his original line of defense, that thie rate was entirely inter-state, Mr. Lambertson, for the tirm of Plummer, Perry & Co,, stated to Mr. Poppleton that he was willing to admit all he was arzuing on lnlmg:xm to what consiitues an inter-state rate. Mr. Poppleton cited a case in Illinois where the state had a right to control the rate on an inter-state shipment that was within the state and that the United States court negatived the action of the state of Illi- nois. **This is the question that the petit- ioners propose to ague,” continued Mr. Pop- vleton, This was promptly denied by Mr. Lambertson. Judge Mason asked that if as in this case the rate was fixed at a certain fizure to Omaha and from that point to Linzoln a new rate was taken, if the latter was not a local domestie rate added to the inter-state rate that expired at Omaha. 1n reply to this Mr. Poppleton held that the new rate, because on an inter-state ship- ment, must be considered an inter-state rate. Continuing, he took the ground that the Union Pacitic road was a federal agency and arguing from that stand he removed the road entirely from state regulation. tle occupied ap hour in citing cases of taxation of corporations under federal control or charter. Mr. Poppleton passed to a discussion of the reserved rights that congress held over the Union Pacllic and cited that one of these res. ervations was that congress held the right to lower the rates on the line of the Union I’a- citic and held from this reservation that Ne- braska or the state board of transportation had no right whatever to interfere with rates on that line of road. He closed his argu- ment with a long dissertation upon the fact, as he elaimed, that Nebraska was attempting to overrule the federal government. From his argument the conclusion that a by- stander would reach was that the govern- ntin its federal powers controlled every of commerce and the Union Pacllic was than “auyfhing outside the government with & reserved power in its tederal relations that made it just about as great as the gov- ernment itsélf, Mr. Poppleton went out of his way to claim that local clamor was seek- g to override the vested powers of the country. ‘The validity of the state law was pronoinced in jeopardy, by Mr. Poppleton, and he held the faw as without power to fix rates. He gave away oil room secrets by stating that it was never intended in the pas- sageof the law that the board should have power 1o fix rates, Judge Mason said, “Perhaps we had better have a Ittlo legislation theny” and he saia it with a grim humor that was readily under- stood. 4 Mr. Poppleton’s view of the state law was in effect that it was without power, and his eutite arcument was one of defiance, and “What can you do about it It was the nanding down of a policy of Do your worst and we will see to it that it is powérless.” Mr. Lambertson, attorney for Plummer, Perry & Co., in_replying to the Union I elfic, confined himseli to the question at issue. He showed that the Union Pacitic’s way bills showed that there were two distance ship- ments, one from San Francisco to Omaha, and the other from Omaha to Lincoln, The road, he claiwed, dealt doubly in the matter, exacting an unreasonable locak rate on @ through shipment. Mr. Lambertson showed that they shipped the goods in question to the extreme boundary of the state for the purpose of reshipping back over the sawe Yoad aud extorting an unreasonable rate. This, he claimed, was an estopple their coming before the board and clatm- ing it an interstate shipment when they had exhausted the inter-state haul, and had added an extortionsate local one In reply to Mr. Poppleton's plea that t nion Pacltic was an agency of the governwent, upon Mr. Lambertson showed that all land grant roads were in the same manner acencies of the governwent, and that the Chieago, Burl- ington & Quincy road eould, fon the say plea, hope to escape state reguiations. He sald that when he read the California decls- fon by Judee Field, he had eause to belleve that © Union Pacitic influence ene tered the highest court In the land. Mr. Lambertson showed that the over the OUmaha Republiean Valley road from Omaba and asked }f that branch of the Unlon Pacific was A fiscal agency for lhg government and xoml state control. He held th ?unlmn lown %o _Its merits—whether & reshipment and rebilling from Omaha did not remove i1t from the inter-stateto a local haul when the company added the local rate. On the ques- tion ot the jurisdiction of the state board over the Unlon Faelfic ronds on shipments in state and the rates charged, the seeretaries of the board decided unanimously that the state board had jurisdiction and authority. This coverod the Grand Island case and the Plummer, Perry & Co. case was held over for futuro di on. It was 5 o'elock when the Unlon Pacific_hearing was_concluded and the decision reached. The board then ourned until morning, when the Elkhorn T e e o Sa4 Lsgcil ot will argue the powers and legality o 3.9 board im the cases brought against the B. & M. railway, . AFTER THF PRIZE FIGRTERS, Governor Thayer yesterday forwarded the following communication to the county at- torney of Washington county: LiNco! Sept. 5, 188 Uoun§ Attor- ney, Washington County, Bimr, Nebraska. Dear Sir: _You havo undoubtedly observed by the papers, that a prize fight oecurred on an island some twenty wiles up the Missour: river from Omaha. Is it possible for you to ascertain whether that island is located on the east or west side of the wain channel of sald river and within the limits of Washington county? If it is possible to brinz the brutes, who were con- cerned in that fight, or who were aiders and abettors, to punishment, it certainly ought to be done. Yery truly yours, Jonn M. THAYER. PRGNS Subisosly THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. Notwithstanding the great increase in hosfery manufacturing, a dozen more new mills are projected, on which work will be begun in September. Another wire and wire nail factory is to be built at Wichita, Kan,, at a cost ot 81 ), and a car work is to ba built on seveuty-five acres of land; cost, $500,000, A great many new industrial enterprises, large and small, are announced in northern Alabama, The multitude of these emterprises detracts from the usual interest in their an- nouncement. There is great anxioty to purchase timber lands and ore lands in the south, One of the latest ore-land purchases was In West Vir- ginia, and covered 16,000 acres. The terri- tory will be develoved at once. There are 37 blast furnaces in operation in the United Statns, producing 125,530 tons per weck, and 313 idle with a weekly capacity of 123,042 tons. The anthracite capacity has Increased from 83,703 tons weekly a year ago to 35,278 now. British manufacturers are expecting to profit very largely this fall and winter out of the activity in the United States. An Eng- lish company, called the Moss Bay company, expects to move its entire works to the United States. There is a great demand for frelght boats on western lakes and rivers. A Cleveland compauy has increasad its facilities to en- able it to turn ovt & large freight steamboat every three months. All of the lake ship and boat yards are doing a good business. ‘The prosperity of the farming communities in the west is resulting in the building up of a muttitude of little industries near the mar- kets. The larger concerns In the leading cltles are discovering competition from these new sources, and are putting forth special efforts to protect their futare trade from the little ones. The manufacture of steel sleepers is be- coming quiteau important industry in Great Britain, One East Indian company bas or- dered 27,000 tons. anether line has “ordered 280,600 tles, and other companies are now ne- gullntlnfi. English iron and stcel makers are greatly pleased over the heavy demand for basic steel, rail blooms, ship plates and other products. ‘There is great excitement throughout the natural gas regions, and abundant cavital is flowing in to develop new and promising ter ritory. 'The Standard Oil company 18 taking a hand in the game. I'here 1S great excite- ment in Armatrong county, Pa., and it ex- tends to Jetferson county. ~ Ohio is develop- ing considerable new territory, and, as a consequence, all kinds of drilling and boring machinery and appliances are in great de- mand. New machine shops are apringing up, and old ones are being extended. ————— Cleveland’'s Candidacy Certain. Baltimore Sun. . Mr.-Cleveland will surely be the candidate ot his party for re-electiol L Noblesse OD! Robort Underwoud Johns m in the Century, What is diviner than the peace of foes! He conquers not who does not conquer hate, Or thinkxs‘tho shining wheels of heaven Wal On his forglving. Dimmer the laurel show: s On brows that darken; and war-won repose Is but a trace when heroes abdicate To Huns--unfabling those of elder date ‘Whose every corse a fiercer warrior rose 0O ye that saved the land! Ah yes, and yo Thav blessed 1ts saving! Neither ‘need forget ‘The price our destiny did of both de- man ‘Toil, want, wounds, prison and the lonely sel Of tears at home, Oh, look on these, And ye Before the human fail you—qulck! your hand! —_——— “Windy” Witson’s Title. New York Evening Sun, One of our contemporaries, in alluding to the wordy row between Governor Foraker and Wilson last weck, said that the Governor of West Virgima used to be known as Windy Wilson. He was, - deed, and well did he earn that unique and expressive adjective. Governor Wil- son in 1871 was a member of the West Virgima legislature. A bill was intro- duced at that time known as the James river and Kanawha canal bill, Wilson was “agin the bill,”” while the majority was for it. Thirty-six hours before the legislature adjourned sine die Wilson was recognized by the speaker, and for thirty-six hours he played upon all the keys of the larynx. Not a moment did he stop. Men “slept, and still Wilson talked. Men raved, and Wilson still ground away at his organ, and when the boar for fiual adjournment eame Wil- son's vol¥e still echoed in the chamber. His wind stood him in good stead, for he beat the bill, with bellows-like ca- pacity. he is known as Vindy Wilson. r must have had the temerity of ign ne ————— . Watered at Once. Chieago Herald. The United States Express company has bought the Baltimore & Ohio express outright for two millions. It then in- creases its stock from $7,000.000 to $10,000.000. By e turn of the wrist the two millions has become three. To hold this at par requires one of two things, or both—that expenses be dimin rates increased. ‘The first 18 certain fewer oflices will do the work, But unless the reduction of the expenses equals one-tenth of the net receipts of both compunies, before the purchase, the rates must advance to_keep the stock in place. That the saving should be so great is absurd on its face. Where com- petition does not intervene tben rates will go up, and shippers will pay more expressag make the two millions m}uul_ three in money-getting power. This is a familiar and simple illustration of the watering proc STREET _PAVING. Omaha’s Streets 6-,-"11 With Strects of Other Citles. A Reporter in Search for an_Item Discovers an Interesting Case—Vain Search for Re- lief--Found at Last---A Frank and Interesting Interview, A reporter moandering in search for an itom soveral days sinico, 0verhoaring & conversation in regard to tho street paving of Omuha com- pared with other citios, dotermined to look the ImAttor up, and came to the conclusion that the [aveastrectaof Omaha compared vory favora: ly with the samo_in any city in tho United States. Baltimore, Md., iaa weli-paved city,the streets being mostly paved in what is known as the cubble-stone stylo. Washington, D. C., is robably the best paved city in the United tates, tho stroets there, with few exceptions, being paved with the bat asphaitum an 18 known as th what Delgitm block, o red granite blook st. Paul, Minn., i3 known as th s 1 excollont paving but does not last nearly so long a8 nsphaitw or grauite blocks. Omaha strects aro paved with asphaltum and granite blocks, with ono or two strects paved with tho oedar blocks, mak- ink a showing of paved strects seoond to none in the countey, While on this tour of investigation the re- porter eneaged in conversation with MR WILLIAM TELFORD, (Tonth stroet botween Mason and Pacifio streets) astreot paver employed by Coutractor Hugh Murpby. Mr. Talford, n very intclligent gon- tleman, was ovorseoini his gang of men laying the granito biocks on Fourtcenth stroet noar Capitol avenuo, and being accosted by tho re- porter, greeted that individual very pieasantly. “Yos," said Mr. Telford been paving streets now for nearly two years. Itis a fairly #ood business, and pays about as good ns most outdoor jobs.' It being an outdoor job is, in fact, the only objection 1 have toit. A man working on the streets s lluble to be caught in & audden shower and got wet through before ho can roach shelto in the fall of the Jour, with wintor cldso on us, wo must work ko Trojans to got our contracta finished hofore the extreme cold comes to stop us. working &t my busincss about one yer ago took & heavy cold, which brought on a severe hacking cough aud numerous sick hoadnches. 1 wouid be working in the morning, when about 10 o’clock @ severe sick headache ‘wou! on me and 1 would have to stop work day. 1would go home and lie down, when the couigh would assail me aud make life miscrable for ‘me. I triod numerous cough medicines and could get no relfef. Things went on this way for a whilo when for me. | commenced ha would get up in the mor feeling rofreshed us I shoul have feit, 1 would feel more tired than when I weat tobod. I then became seriously alarmed and consulted a doctor, who told mo I had wenk lings. treated me for quite & while, and 1 could obtain 1o relief. I changed dootors, and ohanged sov- oral times, but could get no religt. | could not work more than_one or two &nys ® week: I spont all the_money 1 had, and the mnjor part of my brother's monoy, all for nothing, for T was gotting worse instond of bottor. 1 had about given up all hope of ever getting well agan. After a visit to Kansas of about two weoks in the vain hope of ontaining some re- lief in the change of climate, I returnod to Omaha discouraged. In_looking over the d pirers 1 noticed tiie ivortisemont of . resup Mctoy, nnd concluded I would muke one more attampt 'to regain my health, T visitod his cflico the next day and had him cxamineme when ho told mo | had catarrhal consumption but that he thought he could cure me, ['don’s know why. but | had confidence in’ what he snid and had him piace me on_ troatmont at gnoo. 1 commenced to kot better afior the first traatment. 1 slopt woll the first night; no cough, no_more night 8weats, und got 1p the morning greatly refreshed with my night's slecp. 1 have only been under his trentment for two wooks and feel better (o-dny than | have for n whole year. Why. T 10t 50 pounds welght since inst January, but huve gained about 10 pounds azain sinco being treated by Dr. MoCoy, 1 fully satisflod the T will be as’ woll as wis in & week or two."" Will you huve sny objcction to my publish- fng this intorview?” queried the reporter. “Nono whatever,” naswerod Mr. Telford, 1 am very glud to add my testimony to the many that the doctor has, and If 1 can do anything for poor, sufonnir humanity by tostirying Dy, Mty akill { am vory williui to do s0." The roporter thanked Mr. Telford for his feanknces. und continued on hiy weary way er {nformation. STATE OF NEBRASKA, | g COUNTY OF DOUGLAS, Willim Telford, being first duly sworn, de= poses and says that the forogoing statemenc 18 true and corrcct to the bust of his knowlodge and bollef. WiLL1AM TELPORD. Sworn to and subscribed 0th day of August, A. C. 0. It Mr. Tolford resides on twoen Mason and Pacific whore ho will fully corroborate tho nhove statement to any ono who will call or uddress him thero. Ho B TRIFLED WIT When catarrh has existed in the e upoer part of the throat for any le tro pationt liviug in a district whore people are gubject to caturrhal nficotion- and the dis- b d, the caturrh invarl 0 the bronehial tube Dos o ar to the differ tho lungs. The tubes becom the sweliing und the muc catarrh, and, in some instances, b up. #o thut the alr cannot uld floct hm arising from ome plugged i stage of ire rupid dashes Mo prin which s of a dull character, fol breust bone, or under the shou . The days and then he cough that chiul oatnrrh 18 ymes on_at intervals, hucking in churace nd is usunlly mo: it may be in the 1 tending into the lun, here ure s of coughing induced puRh IMUeLS 50 VIOIeNT 18 Lo cal cus that is cases the patient heeo, and expoctorates before any ¢ Y ATO 8 tween the fingers, émit w bad odor. cascs, particles of a hard, ky naturo aro #pit up. ‘The raising of chéesy or chalky lumpy indicate serious mishief at work in the Tunzs. DOCTOR J.Cresap M'Goy Late of Bellevue Hospital, N.Y AND DOCTOR Golumbus Henry Have Oflices 310311 RANGE BUILDING Cor. 15th and Harney Streets, Omaha, Neb. Where all curabie eases are treated with suo o Modical diseases trented skittully, Con Fumption, Bright s [)ise v Dyspepsia, Kheas natism, dnd sl NRRY DISEARES. Al die BEISER PECIIAT 10 the 8 u speciulty, CA: TARKH CUKED, CONSULTATION at office or by mail $1 Office hours: 9 t01] a.im.; 204 p. m.; 7to ] . Bundays include sceives prompt attention. 18 thus posst. 0 B journey o ol pital treatmont et their Answercd unless aeeompue nied by. 40 in stamps, Address all letters to Dr, J, . McCoy, roons 0 and 311 Ramge Building, Omahs, Nob Kray granito © \ >