Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1888, Page 4

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Eworn and subscribed to in m{)pmnnm this 8d day of March, A. D. 188, N.P. FEIL, Notary Publie. for “for OMAHA'S long felt want is a market house, and she must have one before the date of the year is changed to 89, — Tne New York Star’s Grant monu- ment fund now amounts to $7,333.11. This sum would be more than enough to erect a tablet to the memory of Adam Badeau. ©JOSEPT CHAMBERLAIN created alaugh in the house of commons by using an American word which he had picked up over here. It is safe to say the word" was not “free fish.” EETE— Di. MCGLYNN has misnamed his new political organization. He calls it ‘‘the commonwealth party.” If he were true to his colors he would call it ‘‘the common poverty society.” THE mayor of Leadville cast his vote in opposition to enforcing the ordinance against gambling on the ground that 95 per cent of the taxpayers of Leadville favor gambling. There is nothing like sticking to your constiluents when you know their sentiments. b ______] I7 is gratifying to kmow that the press of the country, irrespective of patry,con- demn Adam Badeau for his heartless and mercenary efforts to rob the widow of General Grant and steal the author- ship of the dead hero’s memoirs, THE Burlington route is now filling newspapers that have admired and praised the Dundy decision with large advertisements. A five hundred dollar card in a fifty dollar space will lubricate the elbow joints of the average railroad organ grinder up to the mile a minute speed of a locomotive drive wheel. ‘WHILE Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby is storming the capital at the woman’s council, her husband, the gallant briga- dier, is easing his sore and sin-sick soul by writing gushing poems for the Lin- coln State Journal, the rhythm o fwhich would physic a double-toothed corn- sheller. The Muse, in wild dismay, has taken to the woods. ALTHOUGH Jay Gould is home again ‘Wall street has not revived from the @peculative dullness that has Iasted for #hree or four months. If business does not pick up, brokers will be obliged to swap jack-knives between themselves. Everything else of value, except fu- tures, has been traded off. And it looks as if some of the stock gamblers will be compelled to earn an henest living pretty soon. PROUIBITION laws in Towa are as full of holes as an old leaky tin can. The state legislature is forever trying to plug them up by using soft putty legis- lation. The result is, as may be ex- pected, only temporary relief. All the tinkering in the worid will not make prohibition 3tand on its bottom and hold water, Only afew days ago the suprome court knocked a big hole into the lowa law prohibiting the earriage of intoxicating liquors into the state by railronds. And now the chairman of the house committee on the suppression of intemperance is preparing a bill look- ing to the establishment of a method of inspection of liquors. — CHICAGO has a mayor and eity offi- cials who are determined, They are compelling certain railvoad companies centering in that city to obey to the letter all ordinances affecting puhlie improvements in which railroads are concerned. Thoey insist that the city’s regulations as to the running of trains and protection to the publie be tollowed. But in Omalin ordinauces passed for the welfare of this eity to which all prop- erty owuners are obliged to conform are absolutely ignored by the railroad compamies, The eity council has upon its records ordinances requiring rail- road companies 10 open streets which they have blockaded, to viaduct lower Farnam street, to regulate the speed of trains and require them to ring the bells at crossings. These laws are all a dead letter. 'The railroad corporations hold themselves above municipal con- trol. They do as they please. When publie safety, public convenience, pub- lio improvements conflict with their in- terests, the city is made to suffer. Who is to blame¥ The fault is with city oficials who have not ‘the backbone to euforce & compliance of law upon these corporations. % Blair's Latest Folly. If nothing interposes to prevent it, there will come up in the senate to-day, for a second reading, the bill of Mr. Blair providing that in civil service ap- pointments preference shall be given to wounded confederate soldiers in all cases where ex-confederates ave ap- pointed. When this bill was introducea inst week it maturally created a pro- found surprise among senators on both sides of the senate, Familiar as that body had become with the singular caprices of the Now Hampshire senator, here was something that went beyond anything they could have deemed possible. Republican senators made haste to disavow any previous knowledge of the measure or any suspicion that its author’s mind was drifaing in that direction. The democratic senators were equally ignor- ant. It was speedily made apparent that the extraordinary plan had been evolved by Mr. Blair without aid from any source, and that he had been most careful not to suggest to any living man the surprise he had for the senate and the country. 1t would seem evident that the New Hampshire senator laid the flattering unction to his soul that he had at last conceived something whose generous and beneficent nature would surely commend it to all men and give him an assured place among the polit- ical benefactors of his time. But Mr. Blair very promptly .discov- ered, much to his surprise and chagrin, doubtless, that he had again ‘“‘put his footiin it.” Senator Hoarbluntly told him that he did not perceive the real effect of his own measure. Senator Platt em- phasized his disapproval of the bill by the unusual parlinmentary proceeding of objecting to the second reading. Senator Manderson, while crediting the measure to the warm sympathy of its author, aniounced that he could not vote for a second rveading. Senafor Hawley charagterized the bill as ‘“‘fun- damentally a mistake.” There was one voice heard in its defense, that of Rid- dleberger. The senators from the south who spoke on it did soto condemn. No confederate soldier, they said, had asked for the bill,and none of them desired it. The kindly spirit that sug- gested it they would appreciate, but confederate soldiers do not ask of the TUnited States government any peculiar right ov privilege. The well known obstinacy of Mr. Blair will undoubtedly lead him to stick to this measure as long as the senate will tolerate it, and it is thereforo to be hoped it will receive final treatment to- day in the refusal of the senate to fur- ther entertain it. If this shall involve a discourvesy to Mr. Blair with all the meaning of a rebuke it will be deserv- edly administered. The generous and ber.evolent spirit which southern sena- tors were pleased to believe prompted the measure is of no consequence beside the fact'that its character is wholly bad if not positively vicious. ‘“‘The basis of the obligation as proposed under this bill,” said Senator Manderson, ‘‘is ser- vice in the confederacy, is active sup- port and armed aid and comfort to the war of the rebellion.” Said Senator Hawley: “I hold that it would be a orime, a dishonor-to the graves of union sol- diers, to say that now we will only regard the question of valor, and that we will give to those men who were the bravest in this attempt to destroy the country the preference in all political honors and preferments.” These opinions suf- ficiently indicate the objectienable char- acter of this latest exhibition of Sen- ator Blair’s folly, which itisto be hoped the senate will to-day summarily dis- pose of, it may also be hoped with the effect of inducing the tedious and troublesome old man to give his inclina~ tion for wild schemes of legislation a long and welcome repose. —— Ex) sive Neglect. When labor was allowed to receive some attention in the house of repre- sentatiyes last week, among the matters considered was a bill providing for an adjustment of the accounts of laborers and mechanics arising under the eight- hour law. This bill has been reported favorably to both branches of congress, and its interest lies in the fact that it involves n drain on the Wreasury the minimum estimate of which is thirty million dollars. The eight-hour law was passed in 1868, but has not been complied with. De- partment officers have permitted labor- ers to work nine and ten hours a day when required to do so by contractors or others, In the twenty years since the law was passed agroat many personshave worked overtime without extra compen- sation. The proposed adjustment would extend to all departments of the gov- ernment, all public works, all navy yards, into everything, in short, in the line of labor that has been done for the government in twenty years, Not all,of course, who have served the govern- ment during that time would derive any benefit from it, but the number that would be bonefifted would constitute qute an army. The bill has encountered vigorous op- position, but it also has strong support. Those who oppose iturge that it is aclaim agent’s bill and that its effect would be to make the eight-hour law odious. Those who defend it insist that it was the intention of congress when the law was passed that laborers in the service of the government should work eight hours a day without reduc- tion of pay, and that consequently those who have been required to work longer hours are justly entitled to additional compensation. This priociple was recognized in the proclamations issued by President Grant on the subjact, which led to the temporary observance of the law in the navy yards, Without reference to the merits of the eight- hour legislation, which eannot properly enter into consideration, although one of the opponemsts of the present bill spoke of it us ereating “an anstocracy of labor,” it will not be questioned that the law should have been observed in good faith, the presumption being that such was the intention of congress in passing it. If there was any doubt re- specting its terms or wmeaning, on the part of heads of depart- ments ‘or others having. jurisdic- tion of the employment of labor for the government, they should have promptly i e SR oo sought it in the quarter where it could be authoritatively given. To go on per- sistently ignoring the law was certainly an indefensible course, and may prove a costly one. There is, however, no very great probability that the adjustment bill will pass. Political considerations may enable its supporters to got it through the house, but its fate in the senate is hardly questionable. Its effect will very likely be to either cause a modification or repeal of the eight-hour law or its observance in future. —— That Packed Meeting. On Friday night & so-called mass meeting of North Omaha tax-payers and property owners was held, at which res- olutions were adopted requesting the city cpuncil to repeal the ordinance by which the city hall was located on upper Farnam street and to submit a proposi- tion to the voters of this city tolocate the city hall on Jefferson square. It is as- serted by the “official organ’ that coun- cilmen Bedford and Burnham who were present at this meetiig have pledged themselves to join Hascall and Ford in their venal and vindictive scheme. ‘While thoy realize that an attempt to re-locate the city hall means a ve- newal and continuance of the contention and Dbitter strife which have prevailed in this cily ever since the present council has come into power, they labor underthe delusion that the meeting voiced the wishes of their constituents. Now who are the constituents of a councilman at large? They are the voters of the whole city and not merely citizens of one or two wards. Did that meeting in any senso represent the business oommunity and the mass of more than four thousand citizens who voted for the nine members of the council elected at large? Would anyone of these coun- cilmen from Bedford down to Van Camp have stood a ghost of a show of being elegted had they heen committed to the Hascall scheme of spitework and job- bery to put the city hall on wheels? But suppose that Messrs, Bailey, Bed- ford, Burnham and Counsman had been elected as ward councilmen, does an body pretend that the meeting Friday represented the taxpaying citi- zens north of Farnam street? The meeting at Wolf hall was called under false pretenses by parties who have for months been trying to work up a job out of the city hall. The call under which their meeting was held, was an invitation to North Omaha property owners to discuss projected public im- provements for their section of the city. Certain members of the council who have not trained with the bell-wether, were decoyed into this trap by postal card. With few exceptions the parties in attendance were the same old brass band gang that some weeks ago ordered the mayor to remove the chalrman of the board of public works because he would not play into their hands. The secretary of the meeting was a notorious oil room capper who was removed from office for embezzling money in his custody as clerk of Doug- las county. Several othersuch ‘‘rep- resentative citizens” were conspicuous in that remarkable assembly. The question is, will councilmen elected at large obey the behest of a packed ward meeting, or do they propose to respect the known wishes of the leading tax- payers and rank and file of the business community? What do they expect the city to gain by following Hascall’s lead? Suppose they earry the proposition to relocate, how can they possibly carry the bonds to erect the building which requirés a two-thirds vote? Do they im- agine that parties who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and buildings in the vicinity of the court house in good faith will not resist the scheme to depreciate their investments and contest itthrough the courts until Hascall and his pals have been politically buried out of sight? ‘Who Is Adams? Who is R. O. Adams? Ts he the same person that was employed in this city years ago by Willis & Andresen and found wanting in integrity? Is R. O. Adams the same person that acted as insurance agent in Omaha years ago, managed to pocket the premiums of pol- icy holders and finally was held up by the compuny for appropriating funds that did not belong to him? IsR. O, Adams the same person that entered into a conspiracy with one TIsaac S. Hascall about cleven years ago and procured forged and stolen papers from one Flannigan, private secretary of Wm. Irving, superinten- dent of the B, & M. railroad, for which stolen and forged papers they paid six hundred dollars, as testified to by said R. O. Adamsand Isaac S, Hascall,before the legislative investigating committee of 18777 Is R. O. Adams the person that was appointed postmaster at Deadwood, Dakota, and while holding said office embezzled about 15,000, was indicted, convicted and sentenced for said felony, and pardoned out of prison by Ruther- ford B. Hayes? If this R. O. Adams is the identical person who hag put in a bid for paving our strects we would suggest that the mayor and council take proper precautions againsy crookedness if the contract is awarded to ham, S——— Tne influence of the railroads in the United States senate was illustrated in the votes of the inter-stote commerce committee rejecting proposed amend- ments to the law which would have in- creased the checks upon these corpora- tions. One of these was to strike out of the law the words “‘under substantially similar circumstances and conditions,” and the other was to revoke the discre- tionary power given the commission to suspend the long and short haul clause. This power having been exercised at the request o the railroads, and pre- sumably in their interest, may be so again, and in proposing to remove this discretionary authority from the com- mission Senator Wilson was in accord with a seutiment that is general in the west, while the proposition is sound on general principles. There is perbaps no very great danger that the present comm ission will' again freely exercise its power in this direction, -on the solic- 1tation of the railroads, as it did at the outset, but equal security with. its suc- cessors cannot be assured. As the use of this authority is not likely ever to be BEL: TUESDAY, asked for by the,people of any scetion of the country, there can be no sufficient reason for retaining it in a law enacted in the interest and for the protection of the people. The fact that the railroads want it retained is ample argument in favor of rovokl}\g it. The probability is that the law will undergo very little change ot the present session of con- gress, and it is quite certain that, so far as the senate is doncerned,such changes as may be made will not be to the dis- advantage of the tailronds. Turk lowest bidder for cedar block paving for the ensuing year is a person by the name of R. O. Adams. All things being equal the board of public works and council are in duty bound to award the contract to Mr, Adams. It is merely & question whether or not the lowest | bidder is responsible, and whether he is in a condition to fulfill the contract in all its requirements as to materials and workmanship and time This naturally leads to the question: Who is R, O. Adams? Is he a responsible contractor, or merely an adventurer with no other capital than a 81,000 check procured tomporarily from some speculator who is willing to divide with him if he can sublet the contract at a bargain, Sm———— Tne taxpayers’ and people’s cham- pion, tho Honorable Councilman Has- call will, of course, be for Dick Adams. Hascall has a warm regard for his nim- ble-fingered ex-pardner who climbed over the transom in the United States court house with him eleven years ago when they hired Flannigan to swear to those forged and stolen Bi & M. docu- ments. Uy coorse. r———— TELEGRAPI and telephone wires in Omaha must go under ground, The blizzard has said so. —— The Apollo, Belva Dear. Duluth Times. Our presidential ticket is Conkling and Lockwood, the Apollo and Belva dear of American poli Ay A Splendid Tdea. Pittsinrg Post. There is 80 much chin music among the pugilists nowadays that it would be a good idea to settle all future prize fights by arbi- tration, —— Arbor Day Planting. Chicago Tribune, ‘“Arbor day” would bea fitting occasion for the planting of gas trusts and the like. Let them he planted about six yards under the surface. BT e Sad News'to Monopolists. Minneapolis Tribune. Ex-Senator Van'Wyck is trotted out as a candidate for president by a Nebraska paper. It will be sad news to the monopolists to hear that Van Wyck s still on earth. ———— Very Homelike. Chicaio. Herald. Jay Gould rwn-dpd to his beloved America just in time to read the”supreme court decis- ion in favor of the Béll telephone monopoly. Taking this into consideration, things must seem quite like home to him, 1Ry —; Cut Them Off Short. New Yarik Journal, The clews of the polar bear in Barnam’s menagerie were cut off on Sunday and the animal is no longer dangerous, so far as seratching is concorned, Now if the tenta- cles of the Titanic trusts could only be cut off short the publio would feel safe, Bring forth the big anti-monopoly saw and let the good work go on. e The Best Course to Pursue. Chicago Mail, . The Fifth Tinois district has contributed its mite to the Gresham boom. The move- ment is growing and Judge Gresham keeps right along in the even tenor of his way as though such a thing as ambition was entirely foreign to his nature, He has never lifted his band to encourage the development of favor- able political sentiment. That is why he is strong, and that is the reason his chances are good. He has before him several living illustrations of the truth of the theory that a presidency pursued 18 rarely overtaken. He may yet poke his nose under the wire ahead of Blaine, H son, Allison, McDonald, Bay- ard, Thurman and all the other seckers, s A Oostly Victory (?) Wall Street Nows. The Burlington & Quincy thihks it is win- ning the fight because it is running more trains, It claims a victory, but it is more ex- pensive than a defeat. . France was th richer for paying the indemnity to Ger: when Germany was the poorer for receiy- ing it. The company has alienated its associates, has lost the support of faithful cmployes, tagonized therailroaa system of the ¢ by trying to involve all other roads in the inevitavle results of the pigheadedness of its managers. It is to-day a borrower of money in which to pay its dividend. And yet they expect, or seem to, that other ronds who are satisfied with fair returns on capital will support them in their insane attempt to keep up 8 per cent dividends by squeczing cm- ployes. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has only begun to seo its mistake, ol s i TE JOTTINGS, Bight saloons are required to irrigate West Point. West Point has levied an occupation tax 1o replenish the treasury The ghost of Bohanan stalks in the corridors of Nebraska City's jmil. Norfolk hus ovganized o gus, oil and coal company, with-8. 5. Couton at the head . STA Evory family ‘&gmfliug county is lowed one dog frée bf tux by the gene OUS ABHEBSOLS. g Crawford clfl.img{-i‘to POSEESS More en- terprising men tothe square inch than any town in the sfufle, Lincoln sighs an ark to float her out of the slou, of Despond, while cedar blocks float"ubout, heedless of the cries for relief. A bean lodged insthe windpipe of the young son of MrFchir at Ainsworth, last weel, and hu“ed nim to the angels before earthly came, “Everything is running smoothly on the Burlington.” Two more engines, mutilated by scabs, have been hauled into the Plattsmouth shops for repairs, The bellos of Hebron were robed in in tissue paper costuwmes ata leap year party Friday night. The purport was s0 transparent that the bachelors took to the woods, Fremeont is going into the hemp busi- ness. The crop of eriminals in the state guarantees a g profit, and in- sures the pretticst a winning hand with the choker to lead, Genoa is rushing to the front as the graveyard of aboriginals, Several sacks of Indians bones have been dug up and commented on, Yorrick-like, by the aceful conjurers of Lo's emerald K:;nn. { Plattsmouth i threatens to' tap the Platte river snd harness its unfettered | MARCH. 27, power for the general benefit of the city. The scheme 8 up o vast vista of possibilities and sheds » ruddy glow on the industrial future of the city. The prohibs of Nebraska Cll{ are suffering from a freshet of politioal am- bition and a constipation of candidates. To relieve the painful pressure and produce a normal condition of things, n committee has been appointed to scour the town for running material. The distinguished Lucius Warbler Colby sings of his fate with tearful mod- esty, in the Lincoln vress. ‘‘Rough rocks are rolled o'er his deep grave of unrest, and the darkness of death drapes his pillar.” *Tissad to_think that one 80 young, so fair, so frolicsome should give himself away in the springtime. The county seat war has broken out in a new spot in Paerkins county. It is one of the inalienable rights of new com- munitiesas well as individuals to secure by hook or crook, or astuffed ballot-box, the advantages and profits of official power. Grant will again lead its forces agninst rebellious rivals. The council of Nebraska City had seavcely recovered from the cemetery squabble before it was plunged into a cauldron of despair by some officious person questioning the legality of its acts, bocouse a member moved frem the ward from which he was elected. Such a trifle should not disturb the sweet slumbers of the ancient burg, The assault on Donaldson’s sept is likely to provoke an explosion. A suspicionlurks in the vicinity that it is loaded. A fellow named John J. Roberts is cireulating about the state as traveling engineor of the Burlington. He wears a voluminous mouth and a massivegpair of second hand lungs, and scruples not to use both in pumping up his em- ployers and clrculntlni falsehoods about his peers, the striking engineers. Roberts is a fresh importation from Pennsylvania, where his Paul Morton lung power elevated him as a beacon in the ruffied sea of scabs. About four months ago he was released from the service of the state, and his promotion to the society of his equals so enlarged his head that a common every-day smoke-stack could not cover it. Those who desire to obtain his photograph can get it by writing to Division 101, Brotherhood of Engineers, Pennsyl- vania, TSI SRy What the Inter State Act Has Done Chicago Tribune. In the last number of Science Apple- ton Morgan elaborately reviews recent experiments in railroad regulation, and coneludes that the results are asun- satisfactory to the non-railway public as Balnam’s cursing of Israel was to Balak. ““What hast thou done unto me?” cnied the disappointed king. “I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.’’ A strict parallel is presented, Mr. Morgan thinks, by the work of the inter state commerce commission. Created solely in the expectation that it would benefit the public it has steadily and per- sistently raled in favor of the railroads, and in its first report rejoiced ublicly that railroad earnings had been increased under its administration and “no destructive rate wars had oc- curred.” Mr. Mogan reviews the work of the commission with great sarcasm and is particularly severe in dealing with the noted decision in the Louis- ville & Nashville case, where the com- mission *‘seized upon its first opportun- ity to assume that the statute of inter- state commerce was of no practical value to anybody, but_intended to be under- stood in a purely Pickwickian sense.” These striotures are fully deserved. In the case referred to—the first important one taken into consideration—the com- mission exerted itself to strip the short haul rule of all meaning, and it has ever since adhered strictly toa do-noth- ing policy. The commission has done its best to eviscerate the law and con- strue it at all })uints against the public and in favor of the carriers. After the exp co had with this body Mr. Mor- gan asks whether congress will not feel encouraged to establish *‘an inter-state theatrical commission which shall re- view and absorb the early functions of ‘Master of the Revel,’ ‘gtago Censor,’ and Lord Chamberlain.” Mr. Morgan is clearly in error in as- suming because the work of the com- mission has been so wretchedly weak and inadequate that the inter-state act 1f has been of no benefit to the pub- c. Aside from and independent of anything done by the commission the self-operative features of the act have produced good results. Noone is now king the repeal or even any con- siderable amendment of the measure. reight rates on an average in the northwest are 20 per centlower than before the adoption of the act. With pooling prohibited and competition made free the railroads were defeated in their efforts to shove up rates, and were compelled finally to make a ma terial reduction in both state and inte state charges. The annual saving to the farmers and shippers in Illinois and Towa alone can hardly be. estimated at less than $15,000,000. The reduction came fivst on the inter-state hauls, but free competition at last brought the do- mestic tariffs down toa corresponding level. Many of these benefits were ob- tained in spite of the commission, and none of them on account of anything it did In the matter of the drum- mev mileage, for instance, afte the commissi approved the 3-cont rate c forced the railroads to reduce and two and & half—the carricrs being thus unable to hold fast all the commis- sion gave them! No one supposed that the interstate act could work ag well as it has when hampered and opposed by the commission appointed to execute it. Substantial benefits have been realized from the interstate act, and more will come when the commission is reorgan- ized soas to give it vigorous enforce- ment. One of the duties of the next republican president will be to reorgan- ize the commission 50 that it shall not be composed exclusively of democpats and mugwumps and not devoted solely to the service of the railrond corpora- tions, ——— Hard Coal in fowa. Chicago Herald. The Herald has never been able to say many good words for the hard coal combination, but the recent protest of this body to the Towa railroad com- missioners is one that the Iowans can- not afford to reject, The commission- ers have recommended ascale of freight rates that would discriminate shame- fully against the transportation of nard coal, For a haul of 500 miles the roads are asked to charge the outrageous fig- ure of 8 a ton, while for a ton of soft coal the tariff is only $1.72. For shorter distances the discrimivation is ot so glaring, but the fact remains that there s no hard coal to be carried *‘five miles” or *'fifty miles.” The Anthra- cite association, as the coal combination, is named, attests that hard coal is shipped in box cars, which will carry return freight, while soft coal goes in open cars, which must be pulled back to the mines without cargo. T'he hand of the soft coal man is to be seen in this schedule. But the people will be foelish to trythe doctrive of protection to home industries at th - pense of their own fuel. Every dollar they add to the price of Hard coal, an article that is already cornered, will be also added to the price of soft coal. And the example which the state may give will not pass unheeded in these days of rivate greed and low public spirit. he way to break down the hard coal ring is not by piling up the price of an- thracite in lowa. ————— The Importance of Indiana, Portiand Oregonian. There is good reason for the growing opinion that the real battle ground of tho coming presidential campaign will be Indiana, It has all along been a matf of grave doubt whether any republiean could carry New York against Cleveland, and the situation will not be changed if instead of Cléve- land the democrats should nominate Hill If New York isto be dismissed from the list of probabilities, the nocessity of carrying Indiana becomes paramount, Very many republicans are now looking at the problem in this way and the fact’ has brought into new prominence the Indiana men who have been suggested as candidates for the presidency. are, as all the country knows, Judge W, Q. Gresham and ex-Senator Ben Har- rison. Both are gentlemen of high character, both have fine war records, both have served in Indiana and the nation in high pnblic offices. Irom the current talk of the day we gather that an active party leader General Har- vison, aided by his friends, has the preference with the politicians, and the entire prestige of what may be called the machinery of the party in Indiana. Judge Gresham’s !)ovmon on the bench and the conservatism befitting a judi- cial position have necessarily kept him out of actiye party warfare for several years. This, however, will prove no detriment to his candidacy, as, while he has not made active friends of the minor Solifluiuns of the state, he has avouded the enmitios ingeparable from aggressive partisanship, and to-day all conservative republicans in Indiana be- lieve he could poll a larger vote than General Harrison. Judge Greshan would, unquestion- ably, be the strongest man before the country, He has long been, in the thought of the party, a man proper for the presidency. Democrats, too, are willing to admit his fitness. Referring to a recent utterance by Judge Gresham respecting the folly of political ambi- tion, the New York Sun remarked that he “‘was wise as he is wont to be in his view of every subject,” adding: ‘“He would be one of the strongest candi~ dates the republicvn party could nomi- nate for president, and if he should be elected he would make an able, upright and most valuable chief magistrate.’ The nomination of Judge Gresham would be a most fortunate thing for the party, independent of the considera- tions involved as to Indiana. He vep- resents the best spirit of the party, and is entirelf free from the practical objec- tions which are sometimes attached to really first-class me OIL, BUT NOT ON THE WATERS. The Latest Phases of the Bricklayers! Strike. There was a meeting of the brick contrac tors yesterday in their room in Paxton block, at which quite an extended discussion took place on the subject of using oil with which to burn brick. It was led by Con- tractor Smith, - who has just returned from Chicago, where the system is in use in # num- ber of yards.and where it is claimed to bo giving great satisfaction. Contractor John- son has already introduced it into his yards in this city, but thus far has not been very successful . in working it. Mr. Smith says that he will commence with it in a short time, placing it in four of his kilns, and bringing an expert from Chicago to work it until his own burners can learn the business, In Chicago the contractors claim they can burn their brick in about thirty-six hours, which is about half the time required by the old process with eoal and wood. If it should be attended with the same velative saving in this city brick could be burned in seven days, whereus they now require between twelve an fourteen days. In tho®ormer city, tho con- tpactors claim that three barrels of crude oil are equivalent to one ton of soft coal of good quality. But to this, for Omaha sbrickmen, would have to be added the freight from Chicago to this city. No action was taken by the contractors, and each will be gov- erned by his own ideas as to whether he adopts the new or still adheres to the old system of burning. APPLICATIONS, One of the gentlemen present, who holds anofficial positionin the association, said that thé mails were particularly heavy yesterday morning with applications from abroad of bricklayers ~ who expressed a desiro to come here to work at the rate of #4.50 for nine hours, Three men, who were willing to do the some thing, had left the office of the association, he cliimed, shortly before the reporter made his appearance, NO BOYCOTT, “The Bee of last Suturday,” said a con- tractor to a reporter yesterday ‘‘reported Hugh Hurphy's foreman as suying in sub- stanco thagMr. Murphy had bought brick from the members of the brick contractors’ association and. that he had been denied the delivory of his purchases. The reason assigned for the refusal is be- cause Murphy was working union men, I want to say that isnot the case. We have nover refused to deliver bricks to people who work union men. We would be only to glad to scll bricks to whomsoever we could, be- cuause we have more bricks than the neces- sities of the season demand.” Another contractor aftirmed this statement and a third said: ‘“The bricklayers are en- deavoring to creato the impression that we are boycotting them, We are not doing it. That is their game, They ave playing it on us, but i it becomes necessary for us to resort to it we will doit. But we don’t need it.” LAST NIGHT'S MEETING. The Brick Contractors' agsociation was in full session at cheir headquarters in the Pax- ton block last evening, and their action ro- sulted in a declaration of war agamst the de- mands of the dissatisfied bricklayers, All but two members were present, and the meot! ing was distingushed by 4 unanimity ol spirit in all the proceedings, Tho session was probably the most important one held this year, and exactly defines the policy of the contractors for the coming season. There is no mistaking the challenge. They further have guaranteed that all workmen willing to accept their terms shall in every way be pro- tected and the contractors will put up a large sum of money as a forfeit, Frank Murphy, president of the Merchants' National bank, was named as the trustee in this matter, The contractors say they have made all the concessions they iutend to and now they in- tend goiug ahead independently of what the bricklayers ask. They deny the assertion that they are attempting to boycott the union, but claim that whatever they have done has been necessary for their own pro tection. The secretary said he had receive no less than 100 letters from bricklayers in different parts of the country, asking if the report was true that bricklayers could got 50 cents an hour for their services in Omaha and signifying their intention of coming here if contractors would guarantee them such wages. A number of these letters were read by the secretary. The following resolution was presented and unanimously adopted: ‘Whereas, The Bricklayers’ union of this city has declared a strike for higher wages and less hours work and has made other de- mands which we, the brick contractors have refused to consent to, believing as we do that they are unreasonable; and Whereas, We have tried to settle our dif ferences with the said union, having offered them fair and liberal wages and have made them other propositions of & just and busi ness-like character, which they have rejected; and as our business has heretofore been de- moralized and made very uncertamn by our compliances with theiw rules and demands, wo think the time has now arrived to assert our rights and our detrmination to conduct our business in the future w such manuer as shall soewm Just and right to ourseives. Resolved, That we will 0o longer submit They* to the ing demands of tyranieal rules of the Bricklayers' union of this eity, and that henceforth we will be firmly united in resist- ing the samé, and will use all honorable means to counteract their actions in opposition to our interosts, After this the following manifesto was drawn up and signed by all the members present: Know all men by these presents, that we, the undersigned, who are brick contractors of the city of Omaha, having concluded to resume work upon the several contracts under our control and direction, and being willing to pay to competent bricklayers the sum of 50 cents per hour, for nine hours, a day's labor, do, in consideration, agree to employ men competent in their business, who are willing for such wages, to work for us, and enable us to resume business, and whothor they bo union men or otherwise, we hereby Jointly and severally agree to protect ail bricklayers who may be inour employ against the payment of any and all fines, or other penalties that may bé imposed upon them by the bricklayers’ union of the city of Omah: s0 long as they remain in our omploy; an we do further agroo to give to such a8 ' may accept this offer, such employment as the scason and weatbar will permit; we further agreo that Frank Murphy may be designated as o proper and fit person to act as a_trustoo on behalf of all such bricklayers, and to en- forco in their name and for their benefit tha obligations of this contract against us, They Endorse the Bricklayers., At a joint assembly held yesterday aftere noon, composed of committees from each of the assemblies of Knights of Labor in the city, the following resolutions were unani- mously adopted : Resolved, That it is the scnse of the united assemblies of this city that we offer our aid financially and otherwiso to the bricklayers of Omaha now on a strike for the cight hour working day, and that we condemy the action of the building eontract- ors in impeding the building progress of this city, and that a copy of these resolutions bo sent to the bricklayers union, and to the daily papers for publication. gumtonk AMUSEMENTS, Mr. Goodall's Benefit a Glittering g Success. The henefit tendered Mr. W. R. Goodall last evening was a most gratifying success to both beneficiary aud the participants in the cast. Boyd's opora house was well filled with a refinod and enthusinstic audience, and the affair went off with much eclat. Inas- much as the performance was but a rope- tition of tho excollent press club entertain- ment, with the exception of one or two clover foatures, labored description would bo supor- fluous, and being a purely local amature per- formance, criticism is utterly uncalled for. Lot it sufico to say that eyory man on tho bill acquitted himself with excceding credit and each was the recepient of unstinted applause. The first part was especially clever and the wvery excellent singing of Messrs. McDonald and Brigham was remem- bered by admiring friends by the prosenta- tlon of boautiful floral tributes. Mr. Goodall was also thus recollccted, his fellow mem- bers of Oriolo lodge, K. of P. presenting to him a beautiful design, embiematic of their order, m cut flowers.' The performance of the Turn Veroin on the parallel bars was woll ~received, while the magical divertis ment at the hands of Oscar Enders_was one of the bost things of thoevening. The “New Adonis” was somewhat of an_improvement over its original form and kept the vast throng screaming with laughter till the cur- tain dropped for the last time. SOUTH OMAHA NEWS, George Mayno is in from Corning, Ia. with two cars of hogs. Judge Reuther is again confined to his room through illness. The proglamation calling for the election to be held on Tyesday, April 3, has been ofi- cially issued, The supporters of John Ennis will meet cither in Hunt's hall or the K. of L. hall ‘Wednesday night. Friends of S. L. Clifton wish to announce him as an_indepondent candidate for the ;fhltird ward. That makes the fourth in the eld, Parrish & Finlayson sue James Tobin for a commission on the sale of real estate, and Justice E, K. Wells will act for the blindfold goddess of justice. . Riley (not the hotel keeper) was run in on the old charge of drunkencss, He was fined 50c and costs, and let out to work out the fine on the streets. Peto Hansen, of Omaha, has the fixtures of the late W. A. Evans’ barroom, and will continue business in the old stand. At pre- sent it is in charge of Johnny Monahan. John O’Rourke is out in the field as a can- didate for Third ward councilman, He is rulmiui on an independent democratic ticket. but the law and order party saw fit to endorse him, Guests at the Exchango Hotel were: J. H. Rosenkraut, Hnl?ler, Neb.; 8. M. Cudlerton, Kearnoy, Neb.: I. 8. Judy, S. A. §ushiro and George Dimmick, Glarks, Neli.: P. E. Frederick, Gibbon, Neb, There was a family reunion at the Glaszow residence lust night, when the return of Miss Blanche from school completed the family circle of Dr. Glaszow. Music, friends and refreshments were in order. Mike O'Hearne had a narrow escape. He had dug a well on his Twenty-second stroet lot and just completed bricking it when the sides caved in and carried everything to the bottom, They didn’t car Mike, however, for he had just come up m the well in time to sec it cavein. Ofiicer Redwond made a clever capture last night, Tim McCarthy was knocked down on Q stréct by two men who went through his pockets, It wasn't his payday, however, and they found nothing—except Redmond, who had them both under in less than five minutes, The names given ave Charles Colwell and John Moore, and they were bound over on a $200 bond, The ‘Jeffersoniun meeting” called by Johnny Donovan in the Third ward for Thursday night promiscs to be a success. The A. O, H, band will help to make it so, for it will be there, as well as a strong dele- gation from North Omaha, Good speakers have been engaged, but Johnny is leavin, room on the programme for his Third war fricnds to have a say as well as the others. There was quite a lively tune in what is known as the Galway Patch Sunday even- ing. Tt was o dog flzht, but the owners of the dogs had it out with each other after the dog fight was over. 1y i fered and the fight was d od a draw, but now challenges are out for both contestants and their wives to fight o a finish, Marquis of Queensbury rules. Sovri Omana, March 24, —Editor Omaha Bee: At a meeting which was held here this ovening it was decided that Pat Rowley should be put up on the independent ticket for treasurer. The reason for doing this was hat on the night of March 11 at the demo- atit meeting when they nominated the ofli- cers it was thought fhen that the office of school treasurer was scparate from that of city treasurer. It was also stated at the same meeting if both came under one head- ing that the nomination of city troasurer was to be reconsidered. And as P, Rowley had ddeided to run for the ofice of school treas- urer when he was offered the nomination for oity treasurer he declined, At the next dem- ocratic meeting, which was held one week later, the question was brought before the house and our chairman said in his opinion it would not be wiso to consider the matter, as we have found out since our last meeting that the city treasurer is also exofticio school treasurer, ete. Our chair- man, through his remarks, had 1t voted down, and sceing that our friend Mr. Row- ley did not receive justice wo hava decided to place his name on the independent ticket for city weasurer and exofficio school treasurer. Yours, Voren. — - Glucose Works Want to Come. A manufacturer of glucose i Illinols with branches in various other parts of the coun- try, is looking about for a central site in which to centralize their interest nd hay turned their attention to Omaha. Mayor Broatch was in receipt of a letter from tne partios yosterday asking what inducaments this city is prepared o offer them W come here. The correspondeuce will be turned over o the bourd of trade to-day. ——r —August Beerman and Miss Sarah Reil, both of Omaka, were last evenin united in marriage by Judge A. C. Reel at 1317 Pacific street. The same accom= modating official has recently doubled up Albert Leing and Miss Auna Peters son, residents of the city.