Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 29, 1888, Page 2

faw and during the summer make needed rovements. The principle public work, 1 be & complete system of sewerage. Ap- plication will be made to the governor at once to place Kearney In the list of second- class cities. —e A Board of Trade Organized. FarLs City, Neb,, Feb, 28.—[Special Tele- eram to the Brk.|—The board of trade met 1ast night and adopted articles of incorpora- tion which will be filed with the secretary of state at once. A board of fifteen directors W. J. Faulkner se tary and A. E. Gantt treasures bers of the board mean business and Falls City may be expected to make rapid strides in advance this year. - uel Calderwood. ATKINSON, Neb,, Feb, 28, —[Correspondence of the Bee.]—Samuel Calderwood, father of Mrs. T. L. Owings of this place, died on Sun- day at 1 p. m. Age seventy-six years. Mark the perfeet man and behold the up- Fight, for the end of that man is peace. And 80 passed uway the subject of thisnotic He became a Christian in the morning of life #nd united with the Methodist church. He was much loved by all who knew him and he will be sadly missed. —_— Fall City's Water Work FarLs City, Neb,, Feb, 23, —[Special Tele- gamto the Bre]—The city council sold the water bonds to Spitzer & Co., of Toledo, 1., to-dny for 9335, Work on the water be pushed energetically and the #ystem will be ready for the test’ inside of tiinety days. Al pactias Another Paper for Wymore. Wrmore, Neb., Feb, 23.—[Special to the Bra.]—J. Green Davis, of Beatrice, has lo- cated here and will get out & paper this week. It will be a democratic sheet. ‘Lhis makes the fourth paper here. School Bonds Voted. Crete, Neb., Feb, 28.—[Special Telegram to the Bre.]—Twenty-five thousand dollars in bonds were voted to-day for a new high hool building. The town is jubilant. ——— Water Bonds Tecussen, Neb, Feb, 23, gramto the Bee.}—The water bonds carried here to-day by a vote of 285 to 8. ———— An Omaha Cracksman’s Work. Erk Poixt, Dak., Feb, 28.—[Special to the Bre.]—Tho safe in the office formerly ocou- Pied by Mitchell & Ickert in the Burt block, owned by the A, R. Eckert of this city and the German Insurance company, of Free- port, 11, was burglarized, No money was taken, but a number of valuable papers are missing. The job w evidently done by an expert, who is believed to hail from Omaha. promeb- Suklonies) und Guilty, CuryENNE, Wyo., Feb, 25.—[Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—The trial of Jennie Berry, eharged with being accessory to the murder ichard Rice, wasconcluded to-day, Mrs, was found guilty, us charged in tho ment, Will Vote on the Tax, Stoux Ciry, Ia., Feb. 25.—[Special Tele- mmmthn Bek.]—An election will be held “fo-morrow on the proposition to vote a 3 per “cent tax in aid of the projected Northern railroad. foux City & The road is_intended to connect with the Manitoba system. The con- test over the tax is the hottest which has been JouRlt in Sioux City for years. A large num- “™her of the heaviest lax payers are organized n opposition to the tax and are making reparations for systematic work at all the polling places to-morrow. betinti sl . Struck * »' Masox City, Ia., Feb, 23.—[Special Tele- gram to the Beg.]—The citizens of Charles City are highly elated over the find of what 15 hoped to prove a petroleum well. A short time after heavy dynumite-biasting bubbles of a dark brown color and large as robin’s egus were seen flowing in the waters of Cedar ‘yiver—where pebbles bubbles up. The sur- .«gace is completely covered. One of the bub- bles, which are as thick as tar, was taken out f the water and a match touched to it. It urned readily, giving off an odor much wimilar to vasaline, and left nothung but a black soot. Experts will examine it, and if jtproves to be petroleum, a well will be sunk Bt once. T iy A Prominent Business Man Elopes. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo., Feb. 28.—[Special tel- egram to the Bek.]—Kenneth S, Beaton, a prominent business man of Kansas City, Kan., last night cloped with Mrs. Little, the wife of a lughly respected citizen of the samo place. The town was in a furor to-day over the cvent, as were the relatives of the partics concerned. Beaton is about twenty-cight years of age and_was married to a handsome and accomplished lady, the couple having one !som, a boy of three years, while his partner in guilt is o woman at least ten years his sen- ‘for. Mrs. Little's husband™ is in Illi- ,pois. It is supposed that the ocouple “have gone to Denver. In addition to his_other eccentricities, Beatou has embez- zled some #500 from his brother, which was discovered this morning. Beaton was also a rominent member of the Knights of Pythins. ir, Little has been notified by telegraph ‘his wife's elopement and is on his way me. e ‘Teemer Wins the Champlonship. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb, 28.—The sculling raco for tho championship of America came off this afternoon, on Lake Weir, the con- testunts bemng Teemer, Hamm and McKa Moemer won in 20 minutes, 2 seconds; Me- Kay second in 20 minutes, 5 scconds, and Hawmm third in 20 minutes, 6 seconds ~ s They Must Go to Prison. IxpIANArOLIS, Tud,, Feb. 28.—In the federal court to-day Justice Harlan sustained the sdecisions of Judge Woods in the Coy and Bernhamer cases and refused o new trial. “Thu attorneys, it i t, will apply to “Judge icago for a writ of habeas corpus. e dov Burned to Death «~81. CLoun, Minu, Feb. 25.—News was brought here this morning from Fairhaven, that last night while a farmer, named Miller, and his wife were at church their house was burped down and their three children, aged thirteen, ten and seven, who had been locked im, were burned to deatnh. The plosion of alantern caused the fi Arrested. 'he police have been mndtitied of the capture at Forest, 111, of Zet -fer Davis, the young mulatto who assaulted and murdored little Maggie Gaughan duy' morning and escuped on the Wabash rain, . <Cu10A60, K " Loxnox, Feb. 25, —A desy ‘says the connivance of General -Boulanger with the promoters of his candidacy in the Rlistricts where elections for vacancios for e chamber of deputies were held, Sunday, has been proved. The winisters are consii- ~ermg the question of | hing bim. ok ¢ i The Wabash Train Robbers, Sr. Louis, Mo., Feb, 25.—John H. Twin- ‘mey and Hargrave, the Wabash western train robbers, were arraigned yesterday at Liberty, Mo, Hargrave vlead puilty and Twinuey not guilty. Next Monday was fixed for the trial, Wasmixaroy, Feb, 25.—The senate com- .mittee on fluance ordered o favorable report Jon Senator Sherinan's bill for the invest- ment of cortain funds in the treasury. Ao sibe ¥ Local Option in Michigan, Derrorr, Feb. 23, —Twenty-eight countles dn-Michigan have voted p ition under the local option law, 2 first county to Syvet” was Washtonnw, which voted yester- day against prokivition. MBS woLsh g o ‘Whisky in Bond. « WasmixaroN, Feb. 28.—A delecation of distiilers and whisky dealers from tie west are liere for $he purpose of asking v 10 pass 8 bmrlutln: wn indefinite exte .- of e bonded period. TALK ON THROAT TROUBLES. Interview With Dr. MacDonald, the Throat Specialist. 4 THE CROWN PRINCE WILL LIVE. But His Volce May Be Injured or De- stroyed—Review of British Magazines—Other For eign News, Dr. MacDonald's Views. [Copyright 1888 by James Gordon Bennett.] LoNpox, Feb, 28.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the B -A Herald re- porter to-day interviewed Dr. Greville McDonald, one of the regular staff of the London throat hospital, of which Sir Morell Mackenzie and Dr. Hovell, now at San Remo, are consulting physicians, He was asked: Why have the German docters been s0 positive that the discase was cancer! 1 account for that partly from the fact that the crown prince has been treated by German doctors, some of whom have shown almost a total ignorance of the human throat, and then it'is largely due to the doggedness of the Teutonic character. Great German physicians had declared authoritatively the discase w r, therefore cancer it must be. English doctors, on the other hand, led by Sir Morell Mackenzie, who has probably seen more throats than any man on earth, can only say after carefully observing the symptoms, we sec 10 reason to believe that we have to do with cancer. 1t is the characteristic Anglo-Saxon reserve. Do you consider that the discase may ter- minate fatally? That is not the question at all. Itisno longer the life of the crown prince, but his larynx which is threatened. His voice may. be injured or destroyed, but he will live, because he can breathe. All danger from the operation is now past. By the way, the newspapers have shown a disposition to under-estimate the dangers of tracheotomy, which is really an operation grave enough to make any surgeon hesitate. Besides local complications, there is always to be appre- hiended the shock to the lungs caused by air entering them without having been warmed as is normally the ease in going through the passages of the head. After the healing of the wound those who have suf- fered tracheotomy experience little in- convenience from the tube. The servant who received you is an illustration of this. Hers was one of the most remarkable cases on record. Her throat had gradually become 80 deformed that when I performed the ope- ration she could neither breathe nor swallow. 1 succeeded in clearing these abnormal ob- structions, and now she eats her food with a relish and is talking constantly, although her voico is changed. Yes, I have known the calibre of a singers voice to be entirely altered, say from soprano to alto, by an operation on the throat, and the voice is often much improved by changing the shape of the resonant chambers of the throat. Are people’s throats more sensitive nowa- days than they were formerly ! Say rather that people’s imaginations are more sensitive. The public think too mucit about their bodily ailments, A person gets a bad sore throat and is immediately convinced hehas a cancer. You can't lay down any gen- eral rules. Some men need to bundle up a great deal, and others donot. However, there 1 one supposed precaution which I cannot condemn to strongly. That is these ridiculous mouth covers. They are both silly and mischicvious. If a man wants his mouth shut, let him shut it himself, Do throat discases vary in different coun- tries? Most decidedly. Berlin, for instance, is said to be an exccllont field for throat doctors. Among the thousands of cuses treated annually at the throat hospital here, there are very few whereby life would be endangered. I should consider six cases of tracheotomy in & year an unusually large number. The climate in America would seem favorable to the throat, perhaps from its greater dryness. In visit- ing hospitals in the United States I have learned that certain forms of children's throat troubles very common in England are almost unknown there. On the other hand, America seems pre-cminently the home of nasal catarrh. Might that fact have anythingto do with the traditional twang? Idonot think it just to reproach your countrymen with their so callsd twang. You speak in a higher key than we do. You use milder modulations, In short, you sing more or less in talking. Those are your nat- ural characteristics, but we Englishmen for- get the peculiar throaty character of our own voices when we set oursclves up above our Yankee descendants over in the states. The Crown Prince. [Copyright 1588 by James Gordon Bennett.] Sax Remo, Feb, 25.—|New York Herald Cable—Special to the Brrl—Kaussamann left for Strasburg to-day. Bergmann w to have accompanied him, but at the moment reccived a telegram from the k requesting him to stay here till further notice. This is likely to embarrass thoe Engli#h doctors and cause lively quarrels over the treatment. A new silver tube for the prince’s throat is being made here according to the directions of Sir Morrill, some short than the first but of the same thicknes: Mackenzic 15 dissatisfied with the preserip- tions of his German conferes. Depression reigns in the imperial household. The erown princess, however, still has faith in the Eng- lish advisersand patiently awaits the result of the examinations to be made by Beckling- houser and Waldeyer. The latest official bulletin suys the prince passed a pood day. The cough and expectorations are about the “The weathér is cloudy and chilly. British Magazines. Copuright 1859 by James Gardon Beanett.) Loxvoy, Feb, 28.—[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Mee]—The March mugazines come inlike lons,all scoming unuse ually good. Three different reviews contain papers by Dilkd on army reform, by Beres- ford regarding the navy, and by Gladstone on nome rule. Doubtless the tonthlics most interesting to American roaders will be the Nincteenth Century and Murray’s Magazine, “The former contains the conelusion of Minis ter Phelps' paper on “The Constitution of the United States;” “A Few Words on Revolutionary Models,” by John “A Pleading for the Worth- Cardinal Manning; “The Swurming of Men” by Deputy Speaker Courtney; and “The Tuvasion of Pauper Foreigners,” by ®Arnold White, Dr. Yeo writes about long life, telling how to attain it and gives interesting statistics on long living. Mrs. Emily Aclands entitles an- other articlo, “American Notes,” by a* lady. Swinburne commences the number with an ambitious ode, entitled **March"—referring to the month, instead of the prospective war of this. Tyive a verse, 'y line of the whole effort is equally rich incompressed im- agery: e March, master ‘of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storm, that enkindle the cason they, smite, How shall not t foice in the leader and ford of the yoar that exalts ta be born: S0 strong in thy strength und so glad of thy gladiéss whose laugliter puts, winter and FrOW th seorn st shakon the suows frow thy rings sune, love and the frost. on thy forehead thy lips are aglow As alover's that kindle' with " kissing; and earth with her raiment and tresses yet wasted and torn, Takes breath as she smiles in the grasp of passion to foll through her spirit the e of the flow. Whien the American Notes of Mrs. Acland relate to social matters they are vastly inter- esting, but when she touches upon the fish- eries question or politics she is queerly wide of accuracy. Hera is a specimen of this: Every citizen of the United States must pay a poll tax of #2 hefore’his name is placed on the register. He is not obliged to pay the tax, but unless he does so he is not allowed to vote, and he has been known to take his 82 from one candidate and vote immediately afterwal for his opponent. New York correspondents of London pap- ers are saying that Mrs. Blaine has influ- enced her husband’s declination. Mrs. Ac- land evidently believes Mrs, Cleveland irre- sistible as a factor for her husband’s renomi- nation and election. There is one character- istic of American democracy which should not be passed over and that is its tendency to hero worship. Politics are much morea mat- ter of persons than of principles, and the leader of u political party is a hero to his fol- lowers gand a monster to his opponents. From heroes to heroines is a short step and the president’s charming wife is worshipped and set on a pedestal as . the first lady of the land. " all hero worship took such a harmless form as this latest developement there would be little to be said against it, but it is significant that it should spring up in the oldest and most conservative democracy in the weorld, and is one more progf of the the ineradicable ten- dency of human nature to find some one to 1ook up to and admire, however scrupulously the doors may be shut against an aristoc racy. . Mr. Arnold White draws Jargely, in con- sidering the invasion of pauper foreigners, on American precedents. He is complimen- tary to them and observes: We wish to ex- clude all those who are now excluded by tho Americans. If we cannot recognize their facts, let us hire a few Americans to enable us to do so, and if the intellectual capacity” and technical skill of British lawyers is unequal to the task of drafting an act of parliament, they might be reinforced by the American lawyer who drew act 370 of 1582, Minister Phelps’ paper is principally, in its conclusion, devoted to the dificulties of amending the constitution, but in ending a much needed article for English readers, and with remarkable simplicity and yet fimshed diction, he avows himself no proselyter of its constitutional excellencies. Murray's Magazine for March begmns to shake off its lethargy, and contains poem on the Marlboro house silver wedding by Lewis Morris, best known for his ‘*Song Un- sung,” and “Epic of Hades,” %ho remains next to Tennyson the favorite poet of the English scholal Just now every- thing is silvi Silver scarf pins and hair pins, combs, trimmings, ribbons, furs, ctc., are the temporary rage. His poem is devoted to royalty, although he is a pronounced radical, He thus commem- orates the prince: Its lord an English noble, Strong for public cares, for homely joys, A prince among the courtly throng, A brother with his boys. And his reference to the crown prince is pathetically sweet: Nay, now, by the ansonia sea, Daughter of England, good and wise, Thou watchest with sad, anxious eyes, Thy flower of chivalr molton, The Sullivan-Mitchell Fight. LCopyright 1553 by James Gordon Bennett.| Loxpox, Feb, 28 —[New York Herald Cable—Special to the Bee.]—Last evening the supporters and ? onds of Sullivan and Mitchell, numbering ahout twenty, met at the Blenheim taurant, New Bond street, to make good the final deposit of £400 a side, in accordance with the articles signed in December last Some discussion oceurred as to the appointment of referee, but eventually a gentleman was agreed upon and the balanee of the mor osited in the hands of the stakchoider. The toss for the choice of naming the battle ground fell to Mitehell, whose party have consequently char: f the arrangements, which, as yet, 1 incomplete state, It is rumored he lect the Rouen battle ground. ir, Cox Released. Lamerick, Feb. 28.—Cox, the member of parliament who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for making a speech inciting tenants to conspiracy, was released to-day. He made a specch denouncing Chief Secre- tary Balfour and maintaining that the Na- tional league was strony than ever. He was afterwards presented with numerous addresses, ——— UBIQUITOUS WIGGINS. The Manager of the St. Paul Museum Skips Out. S1. Pavr, Minn.,, Feb. 23.—[Special Tele- eram to the Bee.|—1t'is now said that the sometime ubiquitous Wiggins, of the familiar firm of Suckett & Wiggins, has skipped. “pop was ordered to appear at the district court vesterday to explain to the court just what were his dealings with Joe Smith, with refor > of the St.Paul museum. 1t is said Mr, rizins has colluded with Mr. Smith to dispe of the lease and defraud his creditors. When the time came for the ex- planation yesterday *Pop™ failed to appear, achment ha cen issued for him but vet the sheriff has not succeeded in in 2 him. Suckett is at Omaha watching the battle for the museum from a distance. A prominent atlorney who was in Omaha a few days ago looking up the firm in that place, found him there enjoying himself immensely. - A Romantic Marriage. Prrrsuine, Pa., Feb, 28.—[Special Tele: gram to the Bee.]—Louis Dow, & wealth, farmer of Nebraska, was wedded to Mis Catherine Bougert in this city last night Quite a romance is conneeted with the m riage. About nin ars ago the couple were betrothed in ‘o man came to America and need business in Chis where he acquired considerable proper and et quite a figure in politics. He afte wards went to Nebraska and began farmin, His afM; d, a year or two later, thourht she would come here and join ker lover unex- pectedly, but lost track of him and finally stopped in McKeesport.© Al scarch failing 1o discover the whereabouts of her lover, the gir! finally beeame disconraged and returned to her old home in Germany.. On her arrival there she was surprised to find that her lover had written to her relatives at home and was himself condueting carch for her. Corre- spondence soon located the lovers and a meet- ing was arranged o take place in Pittsbur, A wedding was the result. The happy couple left for Nebraska. - The Death Record, Loxnoy, Feb, 28, —Jumes Cotter Morrison, the writer, is dead. He was flfty-six years old, Bosroy, Feb, 28 —William O. Haskell, jr., one of the new editors of the Herald, died last evening after a long illuess from con- sumption, at the age of forty-four. e Local Option Bill Vetoed. Trestox, N. J., Feb, 28.—Governor Green sent the legislature to-day a message vetoing the local option high | > bill, i ‘Weather Indications. For Nebraska: Light snow preceded by fair weather in eastern portion, colder, light to fresh northerly winds, becoming variable. For Iowa: Fair weather, followed by light rain or snow f western portion, colder, light to fresh variable winds, VFor Eastern. and Southwestern Dakota: I al snows, followed by colder, fair with cold wave, fresh northerly winds, becoming variable, A ocold ‘wave is indicated for Dakota, Min- nasota, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The temperature will fall 152 to 20 degrees by ‘Lhursday worniug. THE WESTERY MAIL SERVICE. Senator Paddooki Afralgns the Ad- ministration For Tts Parsimony. —— DEMOCRATIC STATE FAVORED. — Dishonest Discrimination Practiced Toward Republica Sections—An Appropriation p£.$400,000 For the Government Building. A Scathing Arraignment. WasHINGTON BUREAU TiE OMARA BER, 518 FOURTEENTIL STRERT, } Wasnixaros, D. C., Feb, 28, In the semate to-day Senator Paddock called for a reconsideration of Senator Plumpo's resolution for an investigation of the railway mail service in Kansas and Ne- braska, which was introduced by the senator from Kansas in response to the overwhelm- ing mass of complaints in reference to the in- adequate condition of the postal administra- tion in the trans-Missouri country, the in- efficiency of the appropriations and the parsi- monious policy of the democratic administra- tion in reference to a great and growing sec- tion of the country. At the outset Mr. Pad- dock stated that the condition of things, which is 80 deplorable—so far, at least, as his state is concerned—is chargeable, not so much to the inefficiency of the local officers connected with the service, as to the total in- adequacy of the clerical force in the railways and in the larger postofMces, and, indeed, to the inefliciency of the postal facilities gener- ally in the state, for all of which, in his opin- ion, the postoftice department is alone respon- sible. He then recapitulated the in- crease of miles of postal service in Kansas and Nebraska during the past year, showing that they aggregate about five thousand and added that granting that the force of postal elerks in those states was adequate to the re- quirements of the sorvice before the 5,000 miles of new railroads were added,—which most decidedly it was not—there would be a demand upon the postofice department for an increase of about €0 per cent on account of this new mileage and the entire increased service on account of the non-construction of railroads n the other states and territories outside of the Sixth and Seventh divisions, was 2,637, wvhile the increase of mileage in the divisions of which the Statesof Nebraska and Kansas are an important part, was 9,824, In the allotment Kansas and Nebraska should have received about 850 instead of the small divide out of 228 allotted to fifteen states and territories, of postal employes. Mr. Paddock then presented tabulated statements showing in detail the increases made in mileage of the railway postal service under the present ad- ministration, the increase of pieces of mail handled and the distribution of the increased forces in the mail service for the purpose of showing that Kansas and Nebraska had re- ceived a disproportionately small per- centage of the jncreased assistance in the service while it had con- tributed the olarger 'sharé of the increase of business, Ho showed that the average of clerks to miles run on al} roads in the sixth and seventh divisions was one clerk to every | 3,309 miles, while the average for the others combined was one 0! everly 2,627 miles, thus discrimmating in a ‘marked degree against the republican states of Kansas and Ne- braska. . The increase in the matter of closed pouches handled daily for the period covered by Mr. Paddock showed that the clerks em- ployed in the sixth and seventh divisions handled 2,505, against 2,730 for all the other divisions. These statements were made: to answer the avgumdnts recently uttered by Mr. Reagan, of Texas, who charged that the northwestern states had received a greater portion of the ncrease in cle force than it had given to the inerease of business throughout the country generally. Mr. Reagan in his speech, to which Mr, Pad- dock replied, dilated at length upon the fact that the postofiice de- partment at expense to overnment, had given Towa and Ne a a fast mail from Chicago. Mr. Pad. nk!y that these st mail mentioned fast in the now in- but he not help theso sections mate the route is sunply a link to the great trans-con- tinental chain beginuing at New York and ending in Nebraska, the primary object of such expedition of the mails being to furnish an expeditious mail transportation for the business of the east to the Pacific coust an that the resulting benefits to Nebraska a purely incidental and were never premedi- tated. In addition the senator stated that the cost of this service was taken from the gencral appropriation and that there no special increased expense to the government on mccount of the fast mail between Chicago and the west. In contrast \vith this he bricfly alluded to the largoe special appropriations which had been for expediting the mail between New nd the southern cities, which, he stated, he did not object to at_all, but simp noted as an evidence of the desire of the a ministration to favor a section to which it was politically indebted. % ator Paddock then made a strong argu- ment showing that the sixth and seventh di- visions had_been compelled to do an amount of work entirely disproportionate to the rest of the railway muil service and that the amount of the appropriation which had been granted to this section of the country was entirely disproportionate to the enormous 'lubor which di- volved upon them. He then made a vigorous assault upon Senator Reagan for atement that the postal receipts from 1 did not equal the amount charged for the carriage of the United Nebraska was debited with the cost of the carriage of all the oriental muils and the tremendous volume of mail service from the east to the Pacific t over its 5,000 miles of road, and for this the excess of expenditures over the ipts debited ngainst the state would be greatly reduced. if not altogether wiped out He then showed that Texas had been built up by appropriations from the government, entirely disproportionate to the amount of receipts d from the state for the main- tenauce of the postfil ;administration, and stated that the assesstl “affue of the state would have been many mitions less than it now is and its railroad atifleage would have been insignificant in conrithison to what it 1s at this time if ever; upf‘_\' iff Texas had been réquired to pay for thelr’ business and pri- vate lotters exactly whay % cost to deliver he same to him. £ n Senator Paddock thén cw red upon a vig- orous arraignient of “thefemocratic admin- istration, which he stated had deprived the government of the weckdary means for strong, thorough and;g@icent public servic in any of its departments. ~He charged that the heads of bu Fad been foreed to put in estimates below what they knew was needed for the proper douduct of the govern- ment in grder to justify the.charges mad Gemocrulle orators o -the stump and els where that the republican party had been guilty of criminal extravagance. He de- nounced the administration of Postmaster- General Vilas as one which watched the spigat while iv allowed waste at the bung hole, and said that if the late postmaster general had been a man of unl% ordinary bus iness sagacity he could not have failed to discover the rising tide of indignation which was now at the flood against his policy ,which threatened the business euterprise and the business development of the country. “The average Alnerican citizen,' said the senater, “is a man of broad views, strong in purpose, patriotic, aggressive and enterpris- ing, and he demands of the governing power that it shall bo an_aggregate personification of what he himself is. The party naving the responsibility of tlie adurinistration whic refuses great opportun properly pre- sented, will.severoly come 1o grief when the people who are sutforiug can reach it through he ballot box.’? Senator Paddock: then- entered upon - an eloguent eulogy of the postil seryice, whic lie suid, was sed under reoualican aus i d foste! cessive . republican spoke in glowing terms of t atience, hard work and the skiiled labor of the railroad ‘mnlnl clerks, whom he pronounced the most hard-working employes of the government. “It i & petty spirit of economy,” said the senator, “which would over-work this most skilled and labor-ridden class of go'll‘rumonl employes to make a showing of decreased appropriations. Speakin from sonal knowledge o{ the clerks employed in the sixth and seventh divisions, T assert there is no employe of the national 'government subjected to the long hours, the nervous strain and the constant service, nor is there any other class engaged in the federal service wh compensation is less adequate to the work, responsibility and skill required; a policy which robs alike the peoplo of the east and west of facilities de- manded for the transaction of their business, and wears out brain and muscle in order to save a fow dollars annually for the purposo of showing an economy, whice is falsely designated reform, Would mot," ssid the senator, “receive the sanction of the people of this country.” In conclusion Senator Paddock said: “So far as the west is concerncd, the result, while uflefl.lu’ it only in connection with the patrons of the mails over the country, are brought more dir 1y to its attention, Tt has arisen in protest, irrespective of party, and is voicing its indignation through the llull\ic press and in memorials and letters to ts representatives in congress. The issue is solely whether the development of our great country, the intérest of every scction of which is indissolubly bound up with that of every other, is to be retarded and checked” by a penny-wise-and-pound follish policy. Every interest of trade, of commerce, of manufacturing demands that the United States mails shall be carried safely and surely by the most ex- peditious means of communication, The country will assuradly set its seal of disaj rrn\'ul ‘on any policy, by whomsoever formu- ated, which throws a barrier in the way of the most rapid and best service possible for the dispatch and the distribution of the mails. Measured by this standard the man- agament, of tho postofce department for the past three years has been a failure. This failure is move conspicuous perhaps, than many of.the other shortcomings of the admin- istration because the operations of this de. partment from day to day are more dircetly with the mass of the people and they can more readily observe, investigate and under- stand them, but the indictment against thie present administration conta many counts. ‘The faiture. gon- eral and absolute. I beg to warn our democratic friends that the deluge is at hand, and there will have to be some very lively swiziming on their part or they will go down beneath the waves of popular disap. proval and popular distrust, which their own administration has set in motion by its incom- petency and its blunders.” At the conclusion of his magnificent speech Senator Paddock was heartily congratulated by Senator Ingalls, Plumb and others, POTTER'S CONDITION. The condition of Thomas J. Potter is said to bo improved to-day, owing to a change in the weather, but ne is in a very serious state, and his immediate recovery 1 not expected. As it is the first uime Mr. Potter has ever been 111, he feels it more than one who has been less active and strong than he, and is very much depressed in spirits. No one has been allowed to sce him to-day except Frank Hatton. who came over from New York for that purpose. THE OMATIA RUILDING. It was nearly 3 o'clock this afternoon be- » house got through with the morning hour and resumed consideration of ~the Cmaha public building bill. Mr. McShaue had in the morniug talked to Mr. Bland of Missouri, for sometimejin the hope that he could persuade him to desist_in his demands for amendments. Mr. Bland had moved to amend when the bill was last under consid- eration proposing to cut down_the appropria tion for the site to 0,000, He was to-d: unmovable and persisted in demanding his unreasonable amendment. As soon as the house got to a vote, however, it rejected his proposition, and then he offered a second amendmeht, proposing to fix the cost of the site at #400,000. He fought for his proposi- tion with a_pertinacity that finally won. Chairman Dibble made an effort to cut tho member from Missouri off, The latter suc- ed when it came to a vote by 46 t aha will get a preliminary appropria- , according 1o the expression of the house, of but 400,000 for the purchase of the site for its federal building. 1t is believ Mr. Bland's amendment could havs been defeated und any other than the eir- cumstances under which it came to a final house was in a bad mood. The anding the persuasion med to stand solidly to- nd supported the lowest proposition priation. Mr. MeShane pondent to-night, 1l :ver that the confer- ence committee would sustain the bill as it mally came from the senate, appropriat (0,000 for the site and buildin In nt, however, the conference commit- tee should not allow the 81,200,000 appropri- ted by the senate the citizens of Omuha may that finally they will get all that v originally hoped for, and secure not only the site but the magnificent federal building which they have in mind. THE OPERA SQUABBLE. The opera singers who received worthless checks trom Locke, and who were thrown out of court on the ground that the suits should have been brought in Norfolk, where the offense was committed, have had war- rants issued for the arrest of Locke bya police magistrate in the latter city. Sylva, the tenor, says he will remain in_this coun' try till Locke is punished and will spend a thousand dollars to bring that desired end about. It appears that Sylva and Miss Pier- son refused to sing at Norfolk unless their back salaries were paid, and that Locke, to mollify them, gave them these checks on a banlk where he had no funds and did noteven D an account. Sylva and Mr. Pierson take high grounds, and say that their mot prosecuting him is to protect other singers from similar impositions. THE PUBLIC PRINTER AGATN, The public printer had his share of atten- tion from the house again this morning. It is a cold day when some one does not get up and draw attention to his blundi or show evid of his incompetency. To-day it was the delay in the printing of the president’s message. He hus had the eopy since the first of December—three months furnished the copies ordered by congress. The report of the Pacific railway commission is also called for. Nothing can be done in the committee on railvoads till it comes, and the public printer has had it sinc The committee on rivers and harbors, ing for the report of the chief of engi- neors, They have not even got the volume for 1856 and It turns out, too, that the committee on ways and weans did not meet this worning was that the privter could not give them the needed copies of the tariff bill The committee on printing is investigating Benedict's management and about three d in the woek mects 1o hear him tell how el jently and ccouomically he is running his office. It is the funpiest inyestigating that was ever conducted by the house of repre- sentatives. The members of the committee seem Lo think it is their business not to find out haw the office is managed, but to give Benedict & chance to. vindicate himself. Every day or so he sits down with the chair- man of the commitiee, My, Richardson, of Tennessee, and the two pre 's of questions caleulated to show up all the good things Benedict bas ever done, One copy of the questions soprepared is furnished to Ben- edie d another is retained by Richardson- Benedict then goes over to his oftice and pre pares his answor to the inguiries in writing. Then, when he is ready, Richardson « the committee together, Benedict is pl on the stand, and, being asked the pre questions, reads his replies from manuscript. Any attempt to cross-examine hin is arrest- ed and declared out of order. No member of the committee is allowed to ask a question except the chairman, and he never departs from the list preparved in advance. The funny oart will come, however, when the repub- ican members of the committee and Amos Cummings, who is a member, cross-cxamine the witness. THE FRACTIONAL CURRENCY BIL Tt looks as if the people would soon have a currenc be sent through the mai There has been & loud demand for it ev since the old shinplasters were called in, for every one knows how dificult it is to send a silyer coin in the mails, aud how troublesome postage stamps are s @ substitute. When the cheap postal note was adopted it was thought that would take the place of fri tional currency, but the public wants sou thing that will not require them to go to the postoftice or the bank. The greatest demand for. mailable money comes from the coun- try towns, whe pecple are in the Dabit of -shopping through the mails, and from the zewspaper offices where subscribers Lave to send v postuge stamps for fractions trations, He per- of Mr. MeShane, se gothe an absolut of a dolls The committoe on king and curtrency has agreed to the bill providing for the issue of not more than £30,000.000 in de- nominations of 5, 10, 15, 25 and 50 cents, and it is thought it will pass without any ob- jection. POSTAL TELEGRAPH NILLS, T asked Representative Raynor to<luy what his sub-committee were going to do with the soveral postal telegraph bills that they have under consideration. ‘“We shall do something one way or mother, The committec is about evenly divided in sentiment, about half being in favor of u pos- tal telegraph system to be erccted by the government, and the rest favoring the pass- age of o law for the regulation of telegraph by the interstate commerce commission. T am in favor of a postal telegraph and I shall push the bill T have prepared, but whether I can get it through the committee or not is a question,'” TARIFF DISCUSSION. The ways and means committee did not held a mécting to-day and the republican members have reccived no intimation from Mr. Mills as to when his tariff biil will be rumlf‘ for their inspection. The time fixed for tLe next regular meeting is Thursday, and it is expected that the tarift bill wiil be ready for presentation on that day, The democratic members will say nothing definite about it, although they intimate that the bill will be ready for publication this week. I hear from unofficial sources that the last pe- vision has been completed and is pow with the public printer and that as soon as possible printed copies will be made publie. There is a report that Mr. Mills and his associates con: template separating internal revenue and customs, the latter presenting an independent measure_proposing reductions of internal taxes. This report is given for what it is worth, If the bill is reported to the full committee this week Mr. Mills expects that he will be able to have its consideration con pleted by that body and reported to the hous by March 16, which would give the repub- lican members of the committee three weeks to consider and digest its provisio The minority of the committee are incensed at the manner in which they have been traded by their colleagues of the majority and are not disposed to proceed with the c sideration of the measure under the whip and spur of Mr. Mills and his associates, They will ins on the fullest time for ex- amination of the several schedules and will also insist that they shall have an opportunity to examine the evidence upon which the ma jority reached the conclusion incorporated in the bill. It is very likely, therefore, that be- fore the consideration of the text of the bill is proceeded with there will be a sharp and acrimonious partisan debate that may be transferred from the committec room to the floor of the house. It is now admitted on both sides that the bill to be reported by the ways and means committee will be found lingering with the committee of the whole house when the national democratic conven- tion is in session next June and predictions are freely made by democrats as well as 14 publicans that it will not get through the house this scssion. The democratic mem bers of the ways and means committee are believed to share this apprehension, and their alleged purpose to bring forward a sep- arate bill to secure a reduction in intern: taxes is attributed to this fear. In this con- nection the fact shoula not be ove looked that the present tariff law was talked to a house internal revenue bill by the se , and that the customs made by the scnate was not formally con- sidered by the house in committec of the whole, It is held in the house that the rules preclude an amendment to change _internal taxes from being placed on a tariff vill and vice versa, aud it 18 also held that the senate has no right to origininate revenue measures, that being the constitutionsl prerogative of the lower branch. The senate, however, make no distinction between tariff and in- ternal revenue, and having the constitutional right to amend revenue bills received from the house, the practice has been to deal with both forms of revenue in the same measure. 1f heretofore the hou: should send to the senate & bill con- fined to internal revenue the senate might add provisions changing the tarift schedule, or add provisions to a tariff bill thus received, reducing internal taxes. The reported disposition of the democratic mem. bers of ways and means to separate customs and internal taxes, is interpreted by repub- licans as a tacit admission that the house is not expected to deal successfully with the revenue question, and that an mtérnal reve- nue bill will be sent to the senate in full ex- pectation of a disagrecment between the two branches that will furnish the demo ground for charging the responsibilit the failure of revenue legislation on the re- publican senate. PERSONAL, Hon. Guy C. Barton, of the Omaha Smelt- ing wori®, and J. H. McConuell, of Omaha, and their wives, were in the senate galleries to-day. J. H. N. Patrick and wife and their son Robert left this evening for Omal WASHINGTC to the Bee.l-—-The Telegram following peusions for braskans were granted to-day : Original in- valid—Fred Devantior, Rising City; Oscar Kennedy (deceased), Moran (ending Decem- ber 18, 1886) 3 Daniel C. Vaughan, Fremont. Restoration—George Bowers, York. Reissue Abuer G. Winn, Neligh. Original, widows, avah, mother of Robert T. Hbbst, Cin® Mary S., widow of Oscar Kenny, Moran; Delllah, mother of John Deunis, Hastings. « Patents to Western Inventors. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—[Special Telegram to the Bre.]-—The following patents were is- sued to-day. Henry F. Arnold, Manchester, Ta., blotter bath; David P. Bigelow, Earl- ville, Ia., nail hammer; Solon Corderman, Waveland, Ta., hog trough; David B. Gunn, Red Onk, Ta, glove; Charles M. Parker, Lin- coln, Neb., coupling for vehicles; Weller M, Robinson, Monpelier, Ta., regulating attach- ment. for corn plante William A, J. Thompson, Ottumwa, Ta., drill for mining coal; Willlam T. Vandern, Lincoln, Neb., car coupling; Joseph Twogoods, Superior, Neb., feeding bin and trough, Brilliant and Celebrated Men, such as Prof. Richard A. Proctor, as- tronomer, Mark Twain, humorist, Hon. Willinm Waldorf Astor, late U. S. minister, Henry Guy Carleton, editor and dramatist, Hon. Judah P. 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Davis, Brockport, N. Y. Purifies the Blood Hood's Barsaparilla Is eharacterized bv three peculiarities : 1st, the combination of remedial agents; 2d, the proportion; 3d, the of securing the active medicinal qualities. The result 1s a medicine of unusual strength, effecting cures hitherto unknown. Bend for book coutaining additlonal evidence, “Hood's Sarsaparilla tones up my uyfi(l'rla shiarpeus my suctiic, an seems to make mo over.” J. P, THOMPSON, Register of Decds, Lowell, Mass, *Hood's Barsaparilla beats all others. and 1s worth its welght in gold."" BAKRINGTON, A% Bank Btreet, New York City, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggista. $1; six for 5. Made only by . L. HOOD & CO., Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dcilar. THE SPECULATIVE MARKETS. Very Little Change Noted in the Grain Trade. EFFECT OF THE GREAT STRIKE. 1t Has a Depressing Effect on Pur chasers—Comparatively Little Done in Corn—Oats Dull—Provie stons Somewhat Higher, CHICAGO PRODUCE MARKET. Cicaco, Feb, 28, [Special Telegram to the Bek.]—The ¢ in the grain markets to-day was just about the same as yestorday, and prices fell a littlo more with no other apparent cause than the indifference of buyers, The disposition to press the selle ing scems to be confined to a very fow, but it little more than balances the disposition to buy. The big strike on the Burlington seoms to be having much the same effect as did the anarchist excitement a féw months ago. Nobody is groatly alarmed about this particular strike, but there is uncasiness less it spread and result in rioting and destrue- tion of property. And with the belief that, at such times, money is a better thing to have than other property, the purchasing spirit of speculation is depressed. At least this is the explanation given by thoughtful men for the lack of general trading just now. May wheat opened at 80';¢ and sold down t0 80%e, then advanced slowly and reached the highest point at 801, stood at S03c for & long time, and then declined to 80igw@80%o, which was the 1 o'clock close. June wheaf opened at 80%c, sold at 805c und S0} @03, and closed at 1 o'clock at 80%c bid. The receipts of corn were 467 cars and ale though this was #3 cars less than the oatie mate, it scemed to have o weakening effoct and the first tendency of the speculativ market was decidedly downward, Trade was not large and the market was governed to a great extent by local influences, strong- est of which was free selling by one large operator. Au estimate of but 140 ears to- morrow served to strengthen the market later, and even to cause some advance, but with'a dull trade this was lost later, and the 1t of the morning's business was to lenve just about as they were ut the opening. ned at 5llge and soon fell to 503;¢, but there were very few transactions at that price. Then an advance began which carried the price to 51%c at the outside, fol- lowed by a decline to 51 e, which was the 1 o'clock close. June corn opened at b1%e, sold down to 505¢c and up to 51 ¢ and closed at 1 o'clock at 0% (@5075c. The speculative oats market was dull and fluctuations were v small. ~ May oats opened and closed at 8ic and the range of prices for the session was 207(@S1ie. June oats opened at B¢, sold e and 8030 and closed at 1 o'clock &t 3i@31'ge. Jul Ght weranoming) AT aTand A U iscrennd at 2%c. e provision trade was in_an_uninterest- ing condition. A little pork was bought by & local brokerage house and some wes also s0ld by a firm belicved to be the representa- tive of the long side of that article; but in the general market yesterday's slow moves ment was repeated. ” Operators acted as if they were waiting for somothing to occur and showed no aisposition to tuke hold. Even the usual scalping yas undor the aver- age showing. Still, the feeling was firm and the day’s prices averaged and closed, as arule, sone higher. In pork the advanco amounted to be and in lard 2'ge. Short ribs closed unchanged ArtErNoDN Sessiox—Wheat lower: May closing 80c, June S0ye. Corn close 50J@dle V. s were quiet but steady. K was be lower, closing nt $18.873 for ebrunry and March, $14.05 for May, and 8141215 for June, Lard wus strong; closing 7,721 for February and March, $7.833¢ for and §7.571 for June. Short ribs were At the close buying prices stood at 2 for Fobruary and March, §7.85 for May and #.42!; for June, CHIC Ciicaco, Feb, AGO LIVE STOO! vial Telegram to the Bee. ] —CaT1l Receipts continue very light. Although the supply of cattle is not more than one day's average a week or two ago and the quality not superior, prices showed little or no change as compared with the advance of yesterday. At tho opening there was some strength on the ordinary run of stock, such as the dressed beef trade aund shippers could use, but later on there were some orders countermanded. Fancy, $5.80@ 5.40; shipping steers, 500 1bs., $4.40@ 105 1200 to 1350 1bs., 83 60@4.330 950 to 1200 1bs., §3.20@4.00, Stockers and fooders, $2.45 cows, bulls and mixed, $2.40@8.80. Texas grass cows, §1.90(22.20; corn-fed steers, £3.00@4.20. Hous—Iusiness opened rather active, with the big shippers and the big speculators doing most of the buying. Trading, as & matter of course, was confined to the Rock Island and Northwestean divisions, as there was nothin in the Burlington and ouly eleven cars o hogs in the St. Louis division. The light run and falling off in two days of 17,000 does not seem to have any prices, heavy sold at #nd one or two lots of vrime heavy made $.60; assorted butchers’ 5h. 50, Medium and mixed sold and common mixed, $5.16@5.20, were neglected, selling nominally 30 for 160 to 170 lbs, average, closely assorted, B LIVE STOCK. Chicago, Fob. reports as followi Cattle— R common shippi foeders .~—1he Drover's Journal 500; market steady weak: fancy, & .30@5.40; }@h. 105 stockers al bulls and mixed, @20, stead, 5403 heavy, £.35@b.00¢; light, £3.40004.30, s, 4,000; market “steads; 505,505 ' western, $1.75(¢5.85; Texans, §.60@4.75; lambs, §.00@6.10. “The Drovers' special cablegram from Lon- don quotes @ hie supply of Americun beeves, but moderate general supply ; demand W hest steers, 1254c per 1b; estimated dead weight' Kaugas City, Feb. 25,—Cattle—Receipts, 2,103 shipments, 400; market opeued steady and closed a shade lower for shipping and sed beef steers; good to éhoice corn-fed, V4 S0; common to medium, 3,254,203 stockers, #2.00@250; feeders, $2.900@8.50; cows, § ). Hols — Receipts, 1,000; shipments, 900 arket wealt and 5e lower for mixed; choioe ¢ and pigs, steady; common to ‘choice, skips and pigs, $3.00@5.30. National Stocl Yards, East St. Louis, Icb. 25 — Cattle — Receipts, 800; shipments, 100; market strong; choice heavy native stecrs, $4.45605.50; fair to good native steors, $5U5014.50; butchers' steers, $3.10@ i nd feeders, $2. 104,30, cipts, 1,500; shipments, » and firm; choice hea tions, 540 it grades, #4050 FINANCIAL, natives, New Youk, Feb, 28.—[Special Telegram to the Bee.|—Srocks--Stock operators were more conservative and the volume of trading showed a decided diminution from the prev- jous day. Therc was less disposition to sell d more to buy. Advices from the continent were more assuring and foreign operators re- r position und bought Union Pacific, Kansas & Texas and Northern Pa- cifie moderately. Storts who sold yesterday, also bought, and the market, with a few ex- ceptions developed a steadior tone, advances ranging up to 14 point. News from the west garding the Burlington strike was eagerly sought, but nothing of importance developed, On a system like the Burlington interruption o business for even a few days will mater jally affect its earnings and, as indicatious point tou long struggle, the earuings will show @ large decrease for this month and probably the next. The stock market 1s not a speculative one and therefore is not as - sensitive to influences that affect —other