Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 25, 1888, Page 4

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The public has been tired these many years of their uniawful discrimi- nations and bad faith. A dose of their own physic makes even these railroad stomachs siek. —— ‘TIE supreme court has vefused a re- hearing in the driven well patent and that annoying fraud has thus received its quietus. The Green patentis unow permanently invalid and the farmers of the ocountry will be spared further trouble and expense in this matter. E—— HOUSTON, Texas, is just now posing in the role of sad example. The trouble is muuieipal mismanagement which has brought the city to the necessity of de- faulting on its own bonds. KEternal vigilance on the part of our citizens is the only saleguard againet a similar tdte for Omaha. —— ‘TIE net earnings of one hundred and four railroads during 1887, according to areport just made public, were thir- teen per cent greuter than for 1886. This flatly contradicts the prophecies of the railrond magnates that the inter- state commerce law would ruin the transportation busin S———— WE have the city attorney’s opinion on the right of the eopncil to do what it plenses with the trust funds voted by the people for public buildings. We ‘would like to have his opinion about the right of the council to pay $1,500 to W. J. Hahm for making the olty tax-list which the charter expressly provides shall be made by the city clerk. e ] OVER sixty American vessels are en- gaged in the Australian trade, and the shipping is growing in spite of our un- faverable tariff laws. The United Btates sends large shipments of hard- ware, farming implements and other ar- ticles of Amertcan manufacture, but England monopolizes the supply of dry goods and groceries. The discouraging feature of tho Australinn business is that there is no home trade for returning wessels beyond a few oargoes of wool a year. JAY GOULD has been sued im the su- preme court of New York by the stock- holders of the Fort Scott, Wichita & Western railroad, who claim to have lost six and one-half millions by trust- ing to Gould's word. It seems that M. Gould proposed to the stockholders to @l their shares and become united with the Missouri Pacific. The alliance proved most unholy for the stockhold- ers, as the whole scheme was to bank- rvupt the road. Now the stockholders want their road back and want Jay Gould to keep his hands off. SEmseem——— Tue house committee appointed to investigute the Reading strike has got ftsell in hot water on account of its pointed cross-examination of Reading magnates. It is said that the commit- tee unwittingly played into the hands of Wall street speculators, and that the questions which were asked of Presi- dent Corbin and other Reading wit- nesses, contained just the information that Wall street was seeking for, It takes more shrewdness than the aver- age congressman displays to stear clear of Wall streot sharper: SEe—— SENATOR HOAR has long boen dis- satistied with the 4th of March as the day for the presidential inauguration. The senator from Massachusetts introe- duced a bill to lengthen Mr. Cleveland’s term of office and that of the present congress to April 80, 1889, and make that day thereafter the beginning of the presidential and congressional year. But the house unfeelingly rejected Mr, Hoar's plan, and the possibilities are that the next president will deliver his inaugural address on the raw March air, and be laid up the next day with a sore throat.” i A Very Modest Call. . The national democratic committee was evidently not in an inspired mopd when it prepared the call for the national convention. Nothing quite so brief and unpretentious ever before emanated from a similar political or- ganization under like circumstances. It is all embraced in a little more than one hundred words, nol miore than a third of which are in the mature of the appeal which documents of this charac- ter are expected to make. Unless it is the inteniion of the committee to issue a supplementary call, of which no inti- mation is given, the democracy will be without any official inspiration with which to rally and enthuse the party preceding the convention. Tnstead of a bugle call to aetion they are given a penny-whistle appeal ‘““to unite in an effort for pure, economical and constitu- tional government.” Nota word issaid of what the party has done or will do to establish its claim to have its invitation regarded, The robust rhetoric and polished periods that are usuelly brought into requisition in preductions of this character are wanting in this one. itis severcly practical, and the democrat who needs something loud- atory of his party and its principles to stimulate his ardor and strengthen his devotion will go to it in vain. The committee had a rather arduous experience in determining the time and place of holding the convention, and the deliborations were far from being harmonious. The votes on the several cities proposed were ovidence of hos- tile factions each aiming to subscrve a well-defined purpose. It is an open secret that the most active opponents of going to St. Louis were the men who are not friendly to Mr. “Cleveland. These would have . preferred San Fran- cisco and a later date for the meoting of the convention. The existence of this antagonism in the committee will fur- nish one explanation of the brevity and modesty of the “ecall.” Senator Gor- man and Congressman Beott, for ex- ample, eould hardly be breught into aceord upon any endorsement of demo- cratic history under the present ad- ministration, and with othersat issue on the same grounds doubtless prudence suggested the exceptionally brief and practical announcement that was adopted, But this is not the only explanation, nor the most important, that is sug- gested, It is quite possible that the committee, fully conscious of the paucity of honest material with which to frame a call, wisely concluded that it would not be well at this time to invite an in- vestigation of elaims which at best rest. on very shaky foundations, and to give assurances for the future which might never be fulfilled. Had it commended the civil service policy of the adminis- tration, it could be shown that it has for the most part heen a farce and a humbug. Had it lauded the public land policy of the administration, the reply would be that the most consistent and fearless official in carrying out that policy was sacrificed to the hostility and selfish interests of a superior who has since beeu placed on the bench of the su- preme court by the votesof railroad senators. Had it endorsed the foreign policy of the administration, it would be answe ed thatneverbeforein thenation’ § history has it suffered greater humilia- tion without a single compensating benofit. Had it approved the financial policy of the administration, the re- sponse would be that during most of the time it pursued a course inimical to the public welfare end only receded from it under a great public pressure whena 8 in ‘the business of the country bo- came imminent. As to the past pledges of the party it has failed to keep one ol them, and there is no assurance in preseny indications that the repre- sentatives of the party in congress will accomplish anything toward redeeming its promises to the country. It is seen to be as budly divided ns ever, with lit- tle prospects of harmonizing on the most important question with which it is called upon to deal. It will thus be seen that there are very good reasons why the democratic national committee had so little to say to the party in its call and found it ex- pedient to make that document the briefest on record. S— Indefinitely Postponed. The mountain haslabored and brought forth a mouse. After a month’s agita- tion and deliberation, the county com- missioners have decided net to submit the bond proposition of the Omaha & Yankton railvoad to the people of Doug- las county. The reason given by the commission- ers for their decision is that the propo- sition was not sufficiently guarded. This would be a very satisfactory explanation of their action if it were true. While we believe that one or two members of the board have triell to exercise their best judgment in reaching that conclu- sion, we happen to know, also, that the majority of the board have not acted in good faith. At the outset, when the petition signed by more than six hundred lead- ing prgperty-ownors, representing more than two-thirds of the taxable property of this county, was presented in favor of the Omaha & Yankton propo- sition,the commissioners werc outspoken in its favor under propor vestrictions. But the pressure from the railroadsthat are cuttmg Omaha's throat in northern Nebrasks, and the raflroads that expect to cut behind Omaha with rainbow branches, was too great to be withstood. That Prank Walter dispatch to the edi- tor of the BEE is a sufficient pointer. All the subtle influences by which the board could be reached have been ex- erted to defeat the project. Counditions which no railroad company could accept were sought to be imposed, until the promoters of the ncw road were literally forced out of the field. The main object of Omaha to get a railroad into north- ern Nebraska was purposely made sec- ondary to the question of locating the Omaha depot and shops. In this in- stance, as in their attempt to deleat local railroad taxation through the new charter, the opposing rallroads used the coutractor’s gang with telling effect. The pavers, the graders, the sewer. builders amd street sweep- ers tool a very decided stand against the proposed subsidy. They exert almost 45’ much influence in Y the iy e they do 1a the city { e eomparatively insig- L 86 taxpayers, they oxeM an in- @t the primaries and elections whicH politicians do not cave to antag- onize. And so tHe projected rond to Yankton is once more indefinitely post- poned. o 14 nif ——— Death, of a Philanthropist. There died in Washington city yester- day a man who had done as much in his way for his'country and countrymen as any one of the most useful of his con- temvoraries. W. W. Corcoran was one of the world's great philanthropists. and the sum and value of his beunefactions gives him high rank among the most generous and judicious of those who have given of their wealth for the last- ing good of mankind. In the list of American philanthropists his name will always be honorably associated with those of Peter Cooper and George Pea- body. The three were contemporaries and friends, and they were much alike in their liberality and their methods. All of them wisely gave the greater part of their benefactions dur- ing their lives, chietly for ' the encouragement of lenrnimg and art, and while enjoying the privilege of witness- ing the good accomplished died in the assurance that it would he continuous, helping the generations to come not less than it had those contemporary with the benefactors. The monument that will perpotuate toe fameof W. W. Corcoran is the splendid art gallery at Washington, snid to be the finest in the western world. But there ave other evitences of his great and wise liberality that will cause him to be remembered. The sum of his benefactiong, public and private, has been ostimated at nearly three and a half million dollars, or three-quarters of his fortune. Tt would thus appear that relatively he was the most generous of all Awmerican philunthropists. Mr. Jorcoran was the architect of his own fortune, and he made it by methods so entirely honorable and upright that it Yrought no blemish to his reputation. Noman in Washington was move highly respected for sterling qualities of char- acter, and throughout most of his long life of nearly ninety years it was his privilege to have enjoyed the friend- ship and confidence of the foremost men of the nation. S———— Wg, Us & Co. are doing a smashing business all along the line. We, Us & Co. lay wooden . pavements, build sewers, grade streets and alleys, sweep streets, play capper for railroads, man- ipulaie city charters, hire br band make ourselves numerous at taxpayer and citizens’ meetings, organize gangs of repeaters at primaries and elec- tions, own and control boodling coun- cilmen, tocate, plan and construct eity buitdings, establish hoodlers’ banks, and make ourselves mutually profitable to euch other. — Other Lands Than Ours. There are rocks ahead for the tory ministry which it will take unusual political senmanship on Lord Saligbury’s part to avoid. First, there is an ex- cited state of mind among English voters whose sense of fair play and whose love of personal freedom has beén outraged by the operation of the coercion act. Throwing visiting Englishmen into Irish jaile on trivial charges was bad enough, but the arrest of members of parliament on English soil coupled with a brutal defiance of public opinion has turned resentment into resistunce. More serious still is the opposition which will certainly be aroused by the new local government bill. Under its provisions the rule of the country squiro will give way to that of the people. The lords of the manor and the bavonets aud knights will be divested of their long cherished privileges and a *demo- cratic form of local government will take the place of the oligarchy of landed wealth which has for centuries ruled in boroughs and villages throughout Great Britain. The magistracy will be elee- tive., the constabulary will be chosen by the people and the vote of every workingman will drop in the ballot box with all the weight of that cast by a coroneted head. This radieal concession to liberal ideas comes at a most unfortunate time for the con- servative party. Advocated for years by Gladstone it was bitterly opposed by the opposite party. It is now advanced at atime when its proposers are strain- ing every nerve to prevent the accom- plishment of home rule for Treland and protesting that the control of the con- stabulary by the Irish people would mean the dismemberment of the empive. But a still weightier cause of objection t Lord Salisbury’s local government bill in the eyes of the English brewers and distillers is the clause granting local option and wmaking the issu- ance of license optional with the local boards. The great publican interest of England which before this has several times withdrawn ministries, 15 aroused and prepaving to make itself felt through its parlinmentary repre- sentatives in oppoeition to the measure, Its defeat would mean the downfall of the government. But more dangerous than . all is the wind of an adyerse public sentiment against which the tory ship is beating in vain as it drifts towards the reef of popular disapproval. The bye elections have been disastvous to the ministry. The great heart of the British middie class is throbbing rvesponsive to the throesof Ireland and the cries of her dis- franchised and outraged people. Led by the greatest statesman of his age, whose advauced years only seem to add new vigor to his mental powers, and whose clarion voice sounds with its aforetime ring in the halls of Wesmin- ster, as, like an inspirved prophet of old, he predicts the coming storm of popular disapproval,the British public when next they are afforded the opportunity at the polls of a gen:ral election, will sweep from their seats of power the velics of arvogance, aristocracy and plutocracy who are now posing as the representa- tives of a free people. P ¥ The new education schema proposed in England, which is characterized as nothing less than a clerical conspiracy against the educational system of the country, may prove of the very highest BEit: SATURDAY, importance .and may have very far: reaching effects. As a consequence of the unsatisfactory Jegislation of 1870, the prosent system §s cumbrous and im- perfect, the educatfon expenditures of England being vived from three sources: 1. The lpeal rates made by local authorities; The school fegs paid by the childry 8. The grant from the consolidated fufd, which is u large and increasing sumj and which is dis- tributed under the pery bad system of “payment by resulth.” The elementary schools are of two Ignds in the main: 1. Board schools, undpr elected local au- thorities, in which there are restrictions on sectarian tenching; 2. Voluntary or denominational schools, which belong mostly to the Catholic and Anglican churches. Under the compromise meas- ure of 1870 these latter schools were allowed government grants just the same s the board schools, although obviously there is no public control over them. The watchwords of the reformers have been sinee, ‘‘no grant without pub- lic control,” and “no public money for sectarian purposes.’’ But now the pres- ent reactionary government, having conferred both with Cardinal Mauning on the one hand and with the Anglican primates on the other, are prepared, it is said, to bring about the repeal of the present restrictions on sectarian teach- ing, to divert part of the money ob- tained from rvates to the sectarian schools, and to increase the amount of the present grants to sectarian schools out of the counsolidated fund. 1If the government seriously mean this, there will be a sovere political fight over the question. e Notwithstanding the assurances from Turopean cabinets that peace will be maintained, there is a very genernl feeling of incredulity in view of the as- siduous preparations of these same cabi- nets for war. Iver since Bismarck's great peace speech the powers have been attempting to frighten one another by a show of big army figures. Bis- marck himself wasnotabove this child’s play, for the core of his speech was the statement that Germany could place 1,000,000 men on the I'rench frontier, and 1,000,000 more on the Russian fron- tier, and still have the militia reserves between them. Italy followed next with a statement of her armament— 250,000 rogular troops already under arms, with a capacity to increase the foree to 615,000, und, in case of dire ex- tremity, to 850,000 men. France pro- fesses to be able to bégin a war with 660,000 men thoyoughly drilled and equipped, and to Swwum the number, if need be, to 2.400,000. Russia could begin a war with 800,000 men in the field, with power to augment the num- ber almost indefinitely, since her popu- lation is more than double thatof any other power in Kurope. Austria could begin with 400,000 men, and increase the force to 700,000. The uncertain point in the situation is the attitude of Great Britain. Frhheeand Russia in al- liance against Germany, Austria and Ttaly—this much seems: virtually set- tled, but the part which Great Britain with her comparadjvely small army, but powerful navy, will take is undeter- mined. Both sides are inviting her alliance, but her insular position en- ables her to keep aloof for the present. She will probably await the course of events, She is pledged, however, by a traditional policy to keep the Russians out of Constantinople, and, when the Turkish empire goes to pieces—as it al- most surely will in the hurly-burly—to take that renowned capital for herself if she can get it. Of course the smaller powers, Turkey, Servia, Bulgaria, Bel- gium, Holland and ultimately Spain, Denmark, Norway and Sweden,would be pressed into the field on one side or the other. *x The strengthening by France of her defenses on the southeastern frontier is certainly a patural if not a necessary result of the new alliance formed by Italy with Germany and Austria. Un- doubtedly it is to this triple alliance rather than to the recent strain in the velations of the republic with Ttaly that the beginning of the work so frankly announced hy M. I'lourens at Briancon the other day is to be attributed. Trivial causes of discord arise from time to time without necessitating any special steps in military pol but in the compact of the three great powers of central Europe France is confronted with a permanent warning which she should not and does not . neglect. Briancon, ““the advanced sentinel” on the Ttalian frontier, lies southeast of Grenoble, nearly equally distant from that place and from Turin. It appavently comes within the jurisdiction of the Fourteenth army corps, and is in the .center of the great monntainous disiriet east of the Rhone. That there should be some anxious comment on the declarations of the foreign minister would not be sur- prising. But at least the move for in- creased frontier defense is not furtive, but open, and is couducted in pursuance of the undoubtelt 'rights of France, against which nobedy cau justly take umbrage. % Tt was probably, merely a, groundless rumor that was copveyed in & dispatch from Berlin which stated that it was in contemplation to submit to the reich tag a bill transferving the regency to Prince William, the eldest son of the crown prince, in ¢dse the empevor re- linquishes the throune, Yet such a step is posstble, True there has been no intimation that the aged emperor has any thought of re- linquishing the throne, but it is certain that he cannot renidin on it much longer. The crown prince is not in condition to assume the imperial power, and in all probability never will be. Why should there not be preparation for an exigenoy that may come any day with startling suddenness to the German empire? Does it not scem the part of wisdom, 1n the present situation of Europe, that the succession to the German throne of one physically able to cope with the grave requircments of the time should be as- sured? It is not impossible that Bis- marck may see in the regency of Prince William an oppertunity for Germany to make war witheut in any way édontra- dicting the peaceful . assurances made by the emperor. - A young regent would not necessarily feel himself bound by the declarations of his aged prede- cessor, as he would he entitled to look at the situation of affairs from his own standppint, and to take such measures as he should think right and proper for the honor and safety of the empire, Russian aggression which might not cailse the emperorany uneasiness might appear to the young prince as sufficient reason for.wav, and as regént, eecupying the place and throne of the emperor, his discretion would be very large. After all, though, it is to Bismarck that the world looks for the ultimate deci- sion. So long as he advises peace there will be no war, whether Kaiser Wil- helm or his grandson be on the throne. The peace of Europe depends not so much upon the German regont as upon the German. chancellor, and he knows how to keep his own counsel. - ' It is veported that Mr. Joseph Cham- berlain, with whom Amerieans have be- como somewhat acquainted, will on higreturn to Kngland be made a grand commander of the bath. It is re- marked that a decoration of this kind would not have improved the political prospects of a radical leader five yoars ago, but the condition of things has changed. Mr. Chamberlain was the heir apparent to Mr. Gladstone's leader- ship, when he became too impatient to wait for the succession, and came out in public opposition to his chief on a most important point of party policy. He succeeded in splitting the party, but the fragment of which he took charge has been dimin- ishing ever since,and does not now promise to become formidable. Mean- while Mr. Chamberlain has lost all chance of being chosen when the time comes to select a new leader for the lib- eral party, and any marks of royal or ministerial favor that may be bestowed upon him are not likely cither tohinder or to help him. * «'x Since the year 1815 the neutrality of the little land-locked republic of Swit- zerland has been recogunized by the great powers of Europe. The intima- tion that in the eveunt of war the French would cross the frontier at Basle has, however, aroused the federation to a sense of pessible danger, and measures have been taken looking to the defense of the territory threatened with in- vasion. It is characteristic of the Bwiss that, although in lack of a standing army, they have declined the aid of Germany and will look for protection to the pateiotism of their own people, which has never failed them since as Helvetians they 1,700 years ago routed the Roman legions. PROMINENT PERSONS. “Ossawatomie’” Brown's som, John, pur- poses to turn temperance lecturer, it is said. Lord Tennyson is very feeble and itis thought he will soon resign the poet-laureate- ship. Robert Garrett was tarrying in Yokohama, at last accounts, on his way around the " world. Lord Stanley, the new governor general of Canada, is said to be heir to the greatest: es- tate in ¥ngland. Mr. Walter Besant was educated for the Church of England, but “bolted" on the very eve of ordination. Congressmen Rayner and Leopold Moses are the only members of the Fiftieth con- gress who are of Jewish birth. Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland is going to write a life of St. Augustine. She has been studying his works for many months. First Assistant Postmaster General Steven- son has returned to Washington from a short visit to Cuba, greatly improved in health. A Washington gossip remarks that Sena- tor Hearst, of Californi is not ‘‘a thing of beauty and a joy forever” in a dress suit, The Standard Oil men of Russia are the w0 noble brothers, who are 2aid 0 be worth #400,000,000. Their income is greater than the czar's. Madame Carlotta Patt1's residence, 16 Rue Pierre-Charton in Paris, was destroyed by fire on February 3. Happily, every one in the buildng escaped unhurt. Mrs. Hicks-TLord has been making a sensa- tion in Washington with her diamonds. ‘When she wears them in that city she is al- ways attended by e detective, The committee of physicians appointed to determine the physical condition of Josef Hofmann, the pianist prodigy, agreed that the boy was suffering from no organic trouble. Hon. Wyndham Robertson, ex-governor of Virginia and one of the sages of the old whigparty, is just deceased in the cighty- fourth ycar of his age. He was a descend- ant of the gentle Princess Pocahontas and a Virginia gentleman of the old school. ‘Minister McLean is extremely popularin Paris. F is consulted, it is said, by the member of the Diplomatic corps not only on questions relating to American politics, but on Furopean affairs as well. Mr. McLane is now sev y-two years.of age and is a most entertaining conversationalist. He 18 now at work on a volume of memoirs and those who know him well say that it will bea most readable and valuable book. Prof. Bell's wife lost, at the Bayard recep- tion in Washington last week, a diamond pin valued at $2,000. A reward of $100 was of- fered for its recovery. A day or two after- ‘wards it was picked up in the dressing-room, where Mrs. Bell had dropped it, by Miss Bayard. On receiving the missing jewel Mrs. Bell sent a check for $100 to Miss Bay- ard, with the request that she would apply it in her own discretion to charity. Congressman Martin, of Texas, who has steutly denied that he blew out the gas s hotel room on reaching Washington, is again in trouble. Since he found an abode of his own at the capital he has had great difi- cully in remembering the number of his house. A number of times he entered houses in which he was looked upon as an intruder. He finally tied a piece of red flannel to his own door knob. Some jocose congressman, who knew the meaning of the red signal re- moved Martin's landmark and placed it on the door knob of a house inhabited by & staid and elderly maiden. She fs now anxious to know what Mr. Martin meant by eatering her house without ringing the bell. - A Pertinent Question, Erehange. Mr. Corbin has backed down. coal go down? want to know. e Not Wholly Lost. Boston Herald, Grain is being carvied from OChicago to Liverpool for $4.60 per ton, while the charge from Chicago to New York is$5 per ton The inter-state commerce law still exisf paper, But will That's one of the things we Not that Kind. Boston Globe. A bull fight was given at Chihuahua, Mex- ico, receatly, in aid of & Sunday school, There may boa suggestion in this for John L. Sullivan, whenovor he fecls benovolontly and religiously inclined. Home Nine Atfention, Boaton_ Glibe. The captain of the Harvard baseball team is determined to have a team worthy of tho great university this season. He has ordered his men to attend morning prayers “in order to secure vegular hov - -— An Old Tric Baltimore Ameriean, Unijon Pacific managers suggest schemess to pay back & pprt of the money owed the government. It goes without saying that their plan is to pay the smatlest possible amount in the longest possible time, puies it} il ‘Will Buy the Tax-Title. Pioneer-Press, Horace Greeley's birthplace is to be sold for taxes. It is in order for the young men who took his advice, came west and acquired riches, to contribute a few dollars and pre- sent the historic farm house to the daughters of the dead philosopher. s . Legislators Will Not Be Left. Chicago Matl, Members of the Virginia logislature havoe been 8o free in loaning their raiiroad passos to their constituents that u law is to be en- acted prohibiting railroad companies from issuing free passes’to any one, except em- ployes or objects of charity. This will hardly cut off,the honest legislators, as most of them are objects of charity at the end of the session. e The Fountain of Avon. The gift of an American citiren, George W, Childs, of Philadelphi U. B. A, to the town of Shakespeare, he jubilec year of Queen Victoria. 1, O fount of Avon! fair memorial shrine, From heart of nature flows thy crystal wine, Nm-d sweeter draught the gods immortal rew, From cup of Ganymede. In thee amew The name of Shakespeare liveth unto men In ministry of need to all, a8 w! ‘The greater fountain of his ge! New life and bloom to arid plains of thought And gave to Engiish verse, in wondrous theme T'he poet great of time—alone supreme. . 1 From year of jubilee thy dials mark O fountain true to heur, mid-day, mid-darl, Reflecting star or dawn'in depths 8o pure 0 long a8 stono and marble shall endure, Thou, constant and impartial as the day, Givest of thine aburnidance; and alway A welcome to each comer, pilgrim, guest, In grace of this half-century bequest, The pledge of him whose name beyond the o I8 inspiration of this legaoy." Iowa City, Ia. ISADORE BAKER. il GENERAL VAN WYCK. He Wants Local Assessment of the Railroads. Nebraska City Press: At a recent meeting of the Wabash (Cass county) Farmer's alliance, that body veplied formally to the comment of the State Journal and Plattsmouth Herald on the rosolution passed January 21, condemn- ing the actien of JudgeField in instruc- ting the jury to render a verdictin favor of the B. & M. railroad company. The secretary, Mr. B. F. Allen, writes to the Plattsmouth Journal as follows, by order of the alliance: Our resolution does not condemn the de- cision, but simply the mauner in waich Judge Field ' instructed the jury. Why have a jury, sworn to hear and de- termine the case according to law and the testimony, when there was nothing for them to docidet ‘The B. gM. railrond company has never returned the west half of the bridge as part of ther right of way, and it hus never been assessed as such, - As to the alliance bel:d‘ ‘‘bamboozled” and wanting.the law repealed, we simply ask for its strict enforcement. In regard to the authorship of the law, we refer the matter to Hon. C. Van Wyck, Itis evident that the cditor of the State Journal has himself “slopped over” in his anxiety to defend the B. & M. railroad com- snn,\‘. A similar case has been tried and ecided in a very different result by Judge Chapman, The alliance is perfectly willing to leave the case in the hands of Judge Maxwell and his associates, as in that case there will be no jury to instruct. By order of the alliance. The above reference to General C. H* Van Wyck was called to the attention of that gentleman by a Press reporter y terday, with the query as to what meant: General Van Wyck replied: “Really, I don’t know. I certainly was never the author of any law which would justify Judge Field or any other judge in arbitrarily wklpfi a case from the jury, particularly wheh the evidence had been submitted to the jury and they were competent to decide.” “But the Lincoln Journal orsome other paper has evidently made some such illusion “Very likely the Lincoln Journal. The very ablé and s@rightly editor is never so happy as when misrepresenting me or serving the B. & M. can better answer the ques know to what law reference is made, T will, however, -u\?' in advance that if T favored or voted for any law, and that law has not been enforced justly and in accordance with its spirit; if the law has been evaded and used as a cloak or shelter for any person or corporation to avoid sll its responsibility and a shicld to protect them from their share of tax- ation, then by all means let it be re- pealed and @ better and stronger law enacted. When you find out what law fs referved to I will answer t‘ully. *That,” said the reporter, “leads to the matter which started the inquiry. now of some local interest; what about Judge Field’s decision?”’ “That question,” replied the general, I would rather propound to you. have, certainly taken no interest, nor interfered with the matter in an Yo Why should I be drawn in? Cass county can certainly take carve of her own in- terests.” “But you know what the papers have said?" “If they reported truly it sccms the assumption of great power on the part of J\u{gl Field, but I prefer to express no opinion, as I donot know all the facts in the case.” The railroad rocovered—"' Nothing strange about that. They claim vo own the legislature and of late have been taking some interest in t election of judges; at least their bughe- man have.” **Wus there anything unusual about the case that it should have been taken from the jur, +Of that I'an not advised. Tt would seem the judge first charged them in favor of the railroad but the jury was obstinate, was out all night, refused to yield their convictions of right and duty, and the judge to get rid of its obstinacy assumed the power and forced or dic- lawdxyx verdict for the B. & M. rail- road.' **What is the result of this, as you un- derstand it?" **Why, that property, worth a half a million of dollars, escapes taxation for several years. That, of course, fs law and honesty according to the railroad catechism. Naturally the question would seem a proper oue for a jury; purely a question of fuct: 1f the road llld never given the bridge as a portion of the right of way to be taxed by the state board; if, by their managers or agents they had agreed as to the value at which if should be taxed by Platts- mouth; if the road had charged more than 8 cents per mile, which is all {t could charge utider the laws of Towa or Nobraska, but had, in fact, charged 25 or 60 cents. All these matters and others made it purely a question of fact whether the bridge was roally a part of the right of way. “If this is so. what remedy have the people of Cass?” “That of upranl o the suprome court of the state. If Field has usurped or nsgrossed his power the people of v can present articles of im- peachment to the legislature.” ‘‘Has such a thing ever been done in this country?" “Certainly it has. When in the Em- q'h-u state ‘and the great city of New ork, some ‘judgen were controlled by Gould and Tweed and were using tho bench for the most infamons purposes in connection with the Evie railroaa, Barnard and Cavdoza, and possibly * others, wore impeached, convieted and deposed from office. If Judge Field was correct, he will, of course, be sus- tained. T trust some good will come of this, viz: the repeal o“ the law which allows a state board to assess and value the property of railvonds. To-day cor- porations are not paying one-half the taxes in the state which they should pay in justice. The true remedy will be to have local assessment and taxation. Let the property of corporations be assessed and taxed a8 is the property of the citi- zen, in e:w')‘\ county through which the runs. it A WIDOW'S PLAINT. Alone and Friendle She Ci Her Parents For Aid. Mrs. Dora Hollons, of Texarkana, Tex., writes to Chief of Police” Seavey for infor. mation about her parents, Mr. and Mus. Henry Cory, who sho says roside kiere apd are in comfortable circumstances. Mrs. Hol- lons represents that she is in a wrétehedly indigent condition, that her husband had suddenly died and left her and her little daughter friendless ‘and penniless. She s written to her parents repeatedly sollciting aid, but as yet has failed to receive any response from them. She feels confident that her lettors never reached her folks, and begs the police here to look them up and aoquaint them with her S0UTy position. 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