Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1888, Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, ) ng I i X 'm!e Month: e nd: Omaha Su dress, One Year. OMARA Rew BUILDING. FourTrRNTH ®, Nos. ARNAM ST oRK OFFICE, ROOMS 14 AXD 15 TRIDUNE Wasiunoron Orrice, No. 513 STREET. CORRESPONDENCE. ot communications relating to news and edi- i#“ll-l matter ng\fld be lddraluled tothe EpIToR OF TR BER. BUSINESS LETTERS. All bustnoss letters and remittances should be add; to THE BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMANA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Clrculation. g e e 4 sul th day of March, A, D,, 188, _N. P. FEIL, :t-untmhr:: 0 i Geort, “m”%"u‘gk',-’mu}"nm‘ qnly eworn, do- ‘and kays that he 18 of The Bee blishing company, that the actusl aver, dally circulation of the Daily Bee for the mont i 1887, 14400 coples; for M6 cop for i«-{ 87, coples: 1887, 1%1'1 coples} 1687, 14088 es} for Augus coples; for Beztam‘zer. 1887, ‘October, 1681, 1433; for November, coples; ' for December, 1887, 15,041 m: for Jann 2 AE8%, 16,200 copies; for ol "G¥0. B, TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subscribed to in m{,munce this 8d day of March, A. D. 1888, N, P, FEIL, Notary Publie. I o T fes: for TrXAS has a surplus in her treasury of $2,000,000 and the governorhas called a special session of the legislature to cut down taxes. The Texas cowboys will personally divide the surplus. Tae democratic party is likely to have a “‘plumed knight” in the presi- dential race. Governor Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, is pluming his feathers for a vice presidential nomination. —— Tne anti-Cleveland democrats are trying to force the president to show his hand on renomination. But the seeker for a second term is too wily to be caught at this stage of the game. ) THE Willamantic savings bank has || .. B treasurer who doesn’t know what be- L came of $150,000 entrusted to his care. As the treasureraidn’t go off to Canada, the directors are only going to proceed sgainst him for incompetency. ‘‘Honest Tate,” why did you not stay at your old Kentucky home? —— IN Ohio the cause of democracy is not very bright. So much of the party is identified with the tally-sheet forgery €uses now on trial that Allan G. Thur- maf is disgusted with the corruption, and threatens to abandon the party to fate. With the old Roman out of the way Foraker can easily sweep the field with republican victory. DEAR old grandmother Spain is going to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of Amer- ica by establishing in 1892 a big exposi- tion at Madrid. It is going to be a family affairDin which only Spanish blue-blood is to take a part. Latin America is cordially invited, but Uncle Sam got snubbed. He is too much of a Tankee to suit the queen regent. IF the answer of the Rock Island com- pany to the Burlington suit be true, a neat little game to form a great railroad trust has been nipped in the bud. Asa part of this plan the engineers’ strike was encouraged by the Burlington to rid itself of Brotherhood engineers, and by this and other cunning strokes to force other roads into the combine. This is the Rock Island’s story. If the allegations can be proven the Q" will stir up a hornets’ nest over its head. AUTHORITIES who are posted on the subject of the great telephone case agree that the supreme court made a mistake in confirming the validity of the Bell telephone patents. The credit of inventing the telephone should have been given to Drawbaugh and Philip Reis. The question of patent right, however, is of little concern to the public at large. What the patrons of the telephone monopoly want is the best service for the least money. When the yearly earnings of the telephone company amount to about twenty per cent on its enormously inflated stock a reduction in the charges is in order. erp—— MANITOBA is badly bound hand and foot by the Canadian Pacific railroad monopoly, By the terms of the charter the Canadian government has granted €o that company the exclusive right to ‘build railroads through the northwest. The people of Manitoba have for a long time protested against this monopoly and have threatoned to secede from the Dominion government, To prevent nul- lification in Manitoba, the government has swallowed its pride and is trying to buy back its concessions from the Cana- dian Pacific. What a spectacle for a government offering the Canadian Pa- cific ten million dollars and five million ncres of land for the privilege of allow- fng the people of Kmniwbu to build their own railroads! Emm————— PHILADEPHIA merchants have set on foot a scheme to form a national board of trade, and invite our citizens and board to co-operate with them. The object, of this organization is to formu- late for the inter-state commerce com- . mission such grievances as merchantsin &%.common are subjected to. A further object of the national board will be to secure such amendments to the inter- state law as will protect merchants from dmposition. The plan is likely to be earried out, and depends for its success upon the interest taken by merchants #ud boards of wade through the country. A pational board of trade can best voice the wants of merchants,and the citizens [ of Omaha, through their board of trade, ~ #bould join heartily in the project. e The Supreme Oourt Vacancy. The vacant chair of the chiof justice awaits an ocoupant. Death has again given President Cleveland the oppor< tunity of making a high judicial ap- pointment—the most elevated within the gift of the chief executive. Itisa responsibility which rarely falls upon a president. But five judges have pre- sided in the sapreme court since the ap- pointment of John Jay by General Wash- ington. General Grant was the last president to select a chief justice in Mor- rison R. Waite, whose term of office has* just been terminated by death. It is not tobe expected that political considerations will not dictate to & great extent the choice of a successor. The exigencies of an approaching ecampaign are not likely to be overlooked. It isto be presumed that the next chief justico will be a democrat and that he will come from a state where his choice will strengthen the party. New York and Indiana are mentioned by politicians as the probable recip- ients of the honor, without any definite idea as to the names of the lawyers upon whom the silken robe is to be con- ferred. The chief interest df the people of the country, quite irrespective of party, is that the high character of the supreme bench ghall be maintained and that no man of small mental calibre or weak moral fiber shall be called to the chair once occupied by John Marshall. Peculiar in its constitution and in the latitude of its far reaching powers, the United States supreme court has sus- tained the highest rank among the tribunals of the world by reason of the care exercised in the selection of its judges. The opposition to the appoint- ment of Justice Lamar arose from the feeling that he was not in either learn- ing or ability the peer of his fellow jus- @ices. ¢ Mr. Cleveland will make a serious mistake if he overlooks unquestioned legal learning, juridical experience and judicial temper of minds in select- ing a successor to Chief Justice Waite. His professions of non-partisanship where the interests of the entire coun- try are at stake will now be put to a se- vere test. A Proposed Farmers’ Trust. It is reported that a movement has been started by the farmers of Kansas looking to the organization of a trust. The plan as statea is to create a combi- nation of the farmers, stockraisers and feeders of the northwestern states and territories of the Mississippi valley, and to establish central agencies at ten points, among them Omaha, at which shallbedone all the selling for the members of the association. A mass convention of farmers and stockmen,for the purpose of forming the proposed or- ganization, has been called to meet at Topeka, Kansas, on May 1, and in the address inviting farmers to attend it is stated that the principal purpose is to control the shipment of farm products ‘‘and thus regulate the sup- ply of our commodities offering in the public markets of the country,” thereby always insuring fair prices. -“The farmers of this country,” says the ad- dress, ‘‘cannot compete with India wheat in the Liverpool market, nor do we longer intend to submit to the pay- ments of the cost of taking our wheat to Liverpool before it can be sold in our home market. What we want is a fair exchange of products. Thiswe demand and will submit to nothing else. We have the power, and all that is needed is organization to make this power effective. If we can by this pro- posed orgamization control our ship- ment of these commodities and prevent the supply from exceeding the Gemand in the market, then we would unques- tionably become masters of the situa- tion.” Herein as least is the spirit that inspires combination. If there is any interest that could be justified in organizing a trust for con- trolling in anywise its products it is that of the farmers, It is the one great in- terest which is left bv the fiscal policy of the nation without regard or protec- tion, and not only this, but is made to pay the greater part of the tribute ex- acted by that policy in behalf of every other industrial interest. The pro- tected stéel syndicate, the tariff-bul- warked sugar trust, the well fortified lumber and salt interests, the woolen manufacturers, all the industries, in short, which are guarded by an exces- sive tarff no longer necessary to the requirements of the government, get annually from the farmers of the country millions of tribute, oppress- ing them with a great and unjust burden which grows - heavier and more intolerable from year to year. These unprotected millions of the na- tion’s producers must sell the products of their hard toil at the prices that rule in a foreign market where they meet the competition of the products of the cheapest labor on earth, but all that they buy must be paid for at the highest prices that prevail in any market in the world, because protected by tariff duties more excessive than any other nation in history ever levied in time of peace. And what has been the service of these farmers to the country? For fifteen years they have kept the balance of trade in our favor, the aggregate vol- ume of agricultural food products ex- ported to BEurope and other foreign markets in that period exceeding in value four Dbillions of dol- lars. Since 1878 western farmers have exported to the markets of the world so much food product that the balanceof trade in our favor hasexceed- ed $1,650,000,000. They have thus paid off all our foreign debts, drawn gold from Europe to this country, kept the precious metals extracted from our mines at home, fed our own people and enviched almost everybody except them- selves. What have the protected in- dustries to show that is comparable with this? But while the farmers may have far fairer reason than any other interest for combining to protect themselves and se- cure better prices by controlling the distribution of their products, the wis- dom of their doing so is at least debata- ble. The trust is a device inimical to the public interest and ob- noxious o popular sentiment, against which & war hkas - been begun snd will be persistently waged until this last resort of monopoly is de- stroyed. Leglslation is being invoked 1o this end, and the time is not remote when every trust will be dreiven fron its stronghold and compelled to go dewn. Would it be well or wise for the farmers of the country to become in any degree identified with this device of monopoly, to which the great majority of the peo- ple are hostile? They are a most im- portant element of the people whose obvious duty and best interest would seem to be to array themselves against all institutions of monopoly and every condition that contributes to the cre- ation of such institutions. What the farmers of the country need is reliof from the oppression of war- tariff taxation. They need to be relieved from the payment of excessive tribute to the over-protected industries. They should address them- selves earnestly and vigorously to the effort to secure this relief, which when obtained will be certain and permanent, and not attempt the method of monopoly, which antagonizes the pub- lic interest and sentiment, and of the success of which in their case thero would be great uncertainty, It is well that farmers shall meet to discuss the situation, but if wisdom prevail among them they will avoid giving aid to the enemy by adopting his pernicious methods. S—— Misleading the Germans. Under the caption of *The Mayor on the Warpath,” our German-American local contemporary, the Tribune, prints the following extract concerning the order recently issued by Mayor Broatch requiring all liguor dealers to pay the full amount of the license charge for the fiscal year: The old question relative to the payment of saloon licenses has again assumed promi- nence. The plain issue is, ‘Shall the entire sum be paid in advanco orin quarterly in- stallments?’ The state law contains the fol- lowing provision relative to this subject, chapter 50, section 25: ‘The corporate au- thorities of all cities and villages shall have power to license, regulate and prohibit the selling or giving away of intoxicating, malt, spirituous and vinous, mixed or fermented liquors within the limits of each city or village, the license not' to extend beyond the municipal year in which it shall be granted, and to determine the amount to be paid for such license, not less than £500 in villages and cities having not more than 10,000 population, nor less than $1,000 in cities of the first class and cities having over 10,000 population. The new city charter—chapter 18, section 92, reads as follows: The mayor and city council may by ordinance license, restrain, regulate or prohibit the sale or giving away of intoxicating beverages, the license, how- ever, shall not extend beyona the municipal year for which it is issued;also to fix the amount payable for the same, which shall not be less than the lowest amount fixed by law. It is therefore clear that no prepayment of license was especially vrescribed. The pre- sent United States senator, Manderson,when acting as city attorney, interpreted the law and eave the opinion that the council was fully empowered t6 provide by ordinance in what manner payments should be made. This was done accordingly and quarterly payments were required, so that the liquor dealer received his full li- cense in the ninth month of the fiscal year. With this arrangement all seemed satisfled except the editors of several local Anglo- American papers, who have no high license to pay themselves, but are constantly finding fault with the enforcement of the Slocum law, since they appear to consider it their duty to become its special guardians, while every other subject is left untouched. To this circumstance is due the fact that the is- sue never drops out of our local politics. Under the new charter the fiscal year be- gins the 1st of January instead of the first Tuesday in April, as formerly, Thus it bap- peus that the lictnse year has been advanced. Mayor Broatch first insisted on the prepay- ment of the full $1,000, but consented to a payment of the first quarter on New Year's day, the balance to be paid by April 1, Our eccentric German-American con- temporary is misleading its patrons. ‘While it is true that General Mander- son, while city attorney, construed the high license law as authorizing quart- erly payments, the supreme court of this state has rendered a decision that every liquor dealer must pre-pay the whole $1,000 when he files his applica- tion for license. This decision should have been respected and carried out by the city authorities long ago. The law may be obnoxious. It will doubtless work hardship on dealers whose means are limited. But it is the law, and until it is repealed or modified the mayor, under his official oath, is in duty bound to enforce it. Our German contemporary pretends to quote from the city charter, but no such provision as he quotes can be found in it. His ci tation is misleading and liable to create a false impression upon German-Ameri- cans who are law-abiding, but resent fanaticism, and would naturally regard the mayor’s course as an unwarranted infraction of their rights. MR. CLEVELAND has received a warn- ing from the senate committee on the judiciary, unanimously concurred in by the members of that committee, which it is to be supposed he will heed. It re- lates to the practice of deferring ap- pointments, on which the advice and consent of the senate is necessary, until after the adjournment of the senate. A suspicious example of this was in the appointment of the inter-state commerce commission, though other offices created by the last congress were not filled until after the adjournment. The pres- ident had ample time in which to send these appointments to the senate, but for his own reasons he did not do so, the delay in the appointment of the in- ter-state commerce commission being due to his desire to appoint Mr. Mor- rison, who was & member of the last congress and not eligible until his term was out. Such an excuse might justify delay, though the senate committee takes the ground that the constitution clearly es- tablishes the right and the duty of the senate to advise and consent to the ap- pointment to certain offices, and that the president has no right to fill an office otherwise except in case of au emer- gency. The interestiug fact is stated that but one other president omitted to send appointments to the senate for its advice and consent when be had ample time - to do 8o, James Monroe having neglected to fill two offices until after the adjournment of the senate. As a rebuke of his neglect the appointments were unanimously rejected. The protest of the senate committoe was not intended to be a censure, but it comes sufficiently near to It, and is a pretty plain notifiea- tion to the president that hereafter de- ferred appointments will be very likely to be rejected. IN reply to an inquiry for information regarding the provisions of the bill for ad on of the Sioux reservation in Dakota, we would state that the measuro is now in the handsof a conference committee of the two houses, made necessary by the numerous amendments of the senate to the house bill. Pend- ing action by the committee an ab- stract of the measure would be of no value, as it may still undergo many changes. The area proposed to be thrown open to settlement exceeds ten million acres, and a portion of the Ponca reservation would be included in it. As to the time when the act shall take effect, that will depend upon the acceptance and consent of the different bands of the Sioux nation of Indians, the bill providing that their acceptance of its propositions shall be voluntary and taken by popular vote in the man- nerand form prescribed by the treaty be- tween the United States snd these Indians. The result is somewhat uncer- tain. A good deal of opposition to the bill has been manifested by two classes of influential persons, one of them be- ing sundry old chiefs who see their power slipping away under legislation which overthrows the customs and tra- dit?ons of generations, and the othier being the whites who have married Indian women, who also see that this measure would greatly curtail their advantages. If the act is accepted by the Indians and satisfactory proof thereof presented to the president with- in one year after the passage of the act, the fact shall be announced by executive proclamation, otherwise the act be- comes of ‘‘no effect and null and void.” Great tact will doubtless be required on the part of the government authorities to secure the acceptance of the act by the Indians. - Tae Republican is not in favor of erect- ing a public building on Jefferson square. It has said 80 & good many times, and says so aguin. But where the people are divided upon any question it never interferes with their right to make their wishes known in the manner provided by law.—Republican. Will there ever bea time when the people are not divided? How many times are the people to vote on every proposition? When the division was called for on city hall location over three thousand people voted in favor of Farnam and Eighteenth streets and only 239 against ita That ought to have been decisive. Suppose another d'\vls{ n is called for, will pot the minopity) have the same right to call for Whother vote ‘as they now have? Are the takpayers to be put to the expense of special elections every few months just to satisfy the crowd that failed to carry at the last election? Where and when 1s8'this calling for division to end? 4 No‘honest contradtor. 'uses a dummy through whose hatids he makes a bid for paving. The Best Policy. Chicago News. Down in Kentucky they call a state treas- urer “honest” if he doesn’t take the safe when he starts for Canada. . ————— A Bill to Protect Trusts. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Randall’s tariff bill might be properly entitled, ‘A Bill to Protect the Trusts and Rob the People.” The Woods Full of 'Em. St. Paul Globe. There isn't a lawyer in the country who does not think he could name an exce'lent successor of the late chief justice if modesty permitted. Sl Hurry Up, Chauncey. Chicago Times, If Chauncey M. Depew is really going to write a letter declining the presidency he'd better hurry up before the presidency has a chance to write first, ———— Nebraska Has the Timber. New York Tribune. Tennessoo is said to be looking around for a governor who can’t play the fiddle and knows he can’t. Itis feared that no such wan can be found in the state. —— What Might Have Been., Boston Herald. By what narrow chances men sometimes miss becoming famous! Here is old Daniel Drawbauch whko came within one vote of be- ing the orlginal inventor of the telephone. i A Strong Combination. St. Lowis Globe-Demaocrat, The falling off in railroad earnings in the second week of March as compared with the corresponding week in 1857, which has just been developed, signifies suaply that the brotherhood and the blizzard, in opposite sections of the country, were running things about that time. R A Lone Sentinel. Chicago Herald. A rather grandiloquent tribute to Mr. Alli- son in an Towa paper starts off with: “Wil- liam B. Allison has stood with his hand on the national pulse for a quarter of & cen- tury.” This is saying o good deal for Mr. Allison for a period when 8o many of our statesmen stood with their hands in the na- tional pocket. e ‘What the Party Wants. The American, It is necessary that the republican candl- date should be neither incompetent, nor weak nor untried. He must be a strong man who has proved his strength. The work be- fore him demands the powers of a statesman, 1t is not & time for experimentjng. National affairs call for the executive guidance of a republican who can lay upon them a firm and familiar hand Sl The Republican B, Washington Critie, The presidential B doth flit From bonuet unto bonnet; And when it findeth one that suits It scttles down upon it. Ou Sherman’s there is not a sign, And Allisou don’t show it, And if it rests ou Foraker's, The people do ot know it. In Gresham's case we find the same, And Harrison is like it, Depew and Evarts hold theirs up, But still the B won't strike it. Say, where's the prosidential B, Sinee Blaine of Maine's declined it? Well, take the uaine of Blaine and search And possibly you'll find it o tmndias A Roman Count. Romx, March 27.—The pope created Lanbat of New York, a Roman count. Total Annihilation of His Pet Jeffor- son Square Scheme. PAT FORD A PRETTY SICK MAN. The Warrior From the Third, and the __First Ward Statesman and We, Us & Co. Go to a Funeral. Hasoallity Completely Squelched. Jofferson square’s cundidacy as & prospec- tive poinit for the location of the eity hall met with a death blow at the meeting of the coun- ofl last night, and Chief Grave Digger Has- | call and the pall-bearers, consisting chiefly of “Hon.” Pat Ford and the members of We, Us & Co,, attended the saddest funeral of their whole natural existence. The death throes became. visible about 0 o'clock, and one hour and a half later the poor old boom stretched out and died, despite the ministra- tions of *‘Dr.’’ Burnham with a sugar-coated resolution to keop life in the aged and vener- able plant. It wasa harrowing scene and ome 1ot to be soon forgotten by Grave Digger Hascall and Chief Pall Bearer Pat Ford. When the death was made known the two looked sad, and it is to be expected that they will wear the regulation badge of mourning for the balance of their lives. The exercises opencd with the clerk read- ing the following communication : To the Honorable the Mayor and ICity Council of the City of Omaha: The under- signed, your petitioners, hercby represent that at a meeting of the citizens of the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and other wards of the city of Omaha, held at Wolf’s hall on the corner of Twenty-second and Cuming streets on the evening of Friday, March 23, 1888, they were by the action of said meeting appointed a committee to represont and present to your body the sentiment and desire of said meet- ing with reference to the location and erec- tion of a city hall building for the city of Omaha. That the sentiment of said mceun? as unanimously exprossed was in favor of the location and erection of a city hall build- ing (costing not to exceed $300,000) upon Jef- erson square in the oity of Omaha; that it was the desire and request of said mooting— unanimously expressed—thst proper action by your body to submit to the electors of the city of Omaha for their ratification and approval—or otherwise—at the polls the question of such location and erection. ln&)ursumlco. thercfore, of the sentiment and expression of said meeting,and in accord- ance with the decision of the district court of Douglas county, lately expressed, concerning said matter of location and erection, your pe- titioners hereby request and pray the imme- diate appointment of a committee to secure and procure plans for a suitable building for a city hall with reference to said herein pro- posed location, and upon completion and preparation of same, to prepare and enact a suitable ordinance for the submission to the legal voters of the city of Omaha of the question of the location and erection of a city hxalldas herein stated, contemplated and do- sired. And your petitioners will ever pray. J. J. SaviLLE, James CREIGITON, FREDERICK SCHNAKE, Committee. Councilman Kiersteaa moved that the communication be referred to the committee on public_property and buildings. Council- man Boyd seconded the motion. Councilman Burnham moved that the rules be suspended until a resolution could be read which he handed to the clerk. Councilman Lee was on his feet in a moment, and objected to any such action. He said it was done for the purpose of fore- stalling a resolution he put in last week, and which was in the hands of acommittee. Common courtesy should prevail, and his resolution should receive consideration in preference to anything that might be intro- duced now. However, if the councilmen were in for a fight he was ready. Councilman Hascall thought there was no harm in considering the matter now. Councilman Kierstead agreed with Council- man Lee, and the whole subject was laid tem- porarily on the table. ‘When resolutions were called for, the clerk took up and read Councilman Burnham's resolution, as follows : Resolved, That I. S. Hascall, Michael Lee and J. M. Counsman be and they are hereby appointed a committee to mrange for and procure, and they are hercby instructed to arrange for and procure, by competition or otherwise, swmtable and sufficient plans, sketches and drawings for a city hall build: ing adapted to the ground and property com- monly known and designated as Jefferson square, as a site and location for the same. Said committee shall from time to time, and at as early a date as practicable, report back to the council, for concurrence and approval, such skotches, drafts and plans as may from time to time be procured; and in the direction of, and arrangements for such plans, draw- ings andsketches, they shall- be limited to the sum of $3,000 as the cost in full—and in all its details—of said city hail building. Councilman Ford moved that the resolu- tion be adopted. Councilman Kierstead opposed it, saying that he was not in favor of putting the city to an expense of $1,5600 for another election, after the people have once directed by thewr votes where the city hall should be located. Councilman spoke in the same strain, and insisted that thereportof the conmittee gn public proverty and buildings on his reso- lution be heard. Councilman Hascall remarked that pos- sibly Councilman Burnbam would like to say something in regard to his resotution, Counciiman Burnham arose and defended his action by saying that he was justified by the ruling of Judge Doane, and intimated that the councilmen who did not construe it as he (Burnham) did werea lotof lunkheads. Councilman Bedford cried down the Burn- ham resolution and said he should never vote for it. If a new site for the building was desired the way for the council to go about 1t was to puss an ordinance for another election, when the people can ratify the site by their votes. Councilman Lee defended the councilmen from the insinuations of Burnham, and had the clerk read a correspondence he had with Judge Doane in reference to his decision, The Judge's reply was clear and concise, and in keeping with his previous decision, An exchange of words was indulged in be- tween Hascall and Lee. Then the committee on public property and buildings reported on Lee's motion that work proceed ou the build- ing on its present site. It was a majority re- port signed by Lee and Boyd, and a minor- Ity report signed by Counseman was sent in, Councilman Kierstead cousidered it out- rageous for & little meeting held in the north- ern part of the city to ask the council to call R changing & site. If meetings were held in other parts of the city the popu- lar vote would be not to have another elec- tion, Councilman Ford reflected on the sincerity of Mr. Kierstead's 0|)ulioll. and said that he was pandering to the wishes of Mr. Rose- water, to whom be was indebted for making him a councilman. Ford blurted out that ne had come to the meeting with a Jefferson square bee in his bonnet bigger than Rose- water and his Beg, and that the Buruham resolutlon would pass, Councilman Klerstead retallated by re- minding Ford that when it was proposed to put up & market house on Jefferson square he (l-‘md) howled that no building should be put on it, as it should be left as @& breathing spot for the poor people. Councilman Snyder agreed with Coul:} cilman Kierstead that the city shoul not be put to the expense of a special election, and rewarked that it would an injustice to people who have bought land in the neighborhood 10 move the site. The Doane decision was again argued and re-argued, and by this time Hascall caught his sccond wind ana gave vent to abuse. Councilman Lee insisted through all fair- ness that the Burnham resolution should be roferred for one week to give the people a chauce to express themselves ou it. There are other tax-payers and property-nolders in the city who have a right to talk as well as those in North Omaha. Councilman Alexander agreed with Coun- cilman Lee. Hascall, the speaker said, had bhowled about the people. Who were the peoplol - They are only the two or three hundred people drumined up by a few councilmen, who seemed to have wmore in- terest in woving the hall than unybodi' be had met, and heid in the northern part of the eity. xonncnm;n Lee¢ moved that the Burnham Noes—Bailey, Bedford, Burnham, Cheney, (‘grnlmln, Ford, Hascall, Kitchen, Man- ville. A motion to pass the ordinance was lost by ten ayes and eight noes, Councilman Van Camp voting this time in the afirmative. . Councilman Lee then asked for the adop- tion of his resolution signed by & majority of the committee on public property and build ines, which was lost by the following vote: Ayes—Alexandor, Boyd, Kaspar, Kier- stend, Lee, Lowry, Snyder, Mr. President Noes—Bailey, Bedford, Burnham, Cheney, Counsman, Ford, Hascall, Kitchen, Manville, Van Camp—10. Then it was proposed to adopt the report of the minority on the committee, and that ‘was lost by the following tie vote: Ayos—RBailey, Bedford, Burnhat, Cheney, Counsman, Ford, Hascall, Kitchen, Manville. Total—9, Nays—Alexander, Boyd, stead, Lee, Lowry, S President. Total—9, When the result was made known Ford fmwlcd like a bear, Hascall became speech- ess and We, Us & Co. and the Jefferson square boomers departed In funeral silence. Prosident Bechel npromwd Messrs, W. V. Morse and C. B. Rustin to assist the city clerk in canvassing the vote of Tuesday last for the issuing of #100,000 sewerage bonds, and reported the following result: For. Agninst, Sewerage bond: 1,821 88 Paving bonds 275 122 A i THE CONTRACTORS. Lucky OnesWho Secured Paving Jobs —-Adams Gets Left. The lobby in the board of public work's ‘was crowded with contractors yesterday who were interested in the award of the various contracts for paving. All the members of the board were present. On motion of Mr. Heimrod the following contracts on“strects ‘were awarded to Hugh Murphy. Sioux Falls granite on sand at $2.45 per square yard, Sioux Falls granite on broken stone and sand at $2.64 per square yard. Colorado sandstone on sand at $2.45 per square yard, Colorado sandstone on broken stone and sand at $2.64 per square yard, Mr. tMayne moved that the contracts for cypress blocks for streots be awarded Regan Bros. & Co. on the following terms. Cypress blocks on sand and plank at $1.45 per square yard. Cypress blocks on concrete at $1.80 per square yard, The motion was seconded by Mr. Heimrod, ‘who said he had seen the same kind of blocks inuse at Galveston and was very much pleased with them. The motfon was car- ried. The following contracts for paying alleys was awarded to Hugh Murphy : Sioux.Falls granite on sand at $2.65 per square yard, Sioux Falls granite on broken stone and sand at §2.84 per square yard. Colorado sandstone on broke stone and sand at $2.84 per square yard, A contract was also awarded the Nebraska and Colorado sandstone company, for paving alleys, on the following terms: Colorado sandstone at $2.50 per square yard. The bids for cedar blocks was found to be as follows: R. 0. Adams, cedar blocks on sand and plank at §1.42 per square vard. R. O. Adams, cedar blocks on concrete at $1.763¢ por squaro yard, J. 8. Smith & Co., cedar blocks on sand and g}lunk at $1.61 pe x;;guam yard. J. B. Smith & Co., lar blocks on concrete at $1.82 per square g“d' The lowest bid was, therefore, from Adams, but Mr. Mayne moved that the con- tract be awarded J. B. Smith & Co., as R. O. Adams was not a responsible bidder. Mr. Helmrod seconded the motion, agreeing with Mr. Mayne in his opposition ' to Adams, ad- ding that he had known that gentleman for some time and he did not consider hlm a proper person to give a contract. Smith, he added, was a restmible person and a man he knew favorably of in every business re- lation. The motion was carried and the con- tract awarded Smith & Co. Ali the above bids were under the specifi- cations of 1887, and the bids of Jas. Fox & Sons, under the specifications of 1888, were next taken up and found to be as follows : Cedar blocks on sand and plank at $1.78 per square yard; cedar blocks on concrete at $1.86 per squaro yard, Chairman Baicombe and City Engincer Tillison were both in favor of uwwarding the contract to Fox under these specifications as it would require a gallon more of tar to the square X‘r than the specifications of 1887 roquired and cousequently would make & befter pavement. ‘They said they were will- ing, as citizens, to pay seven cents more to have a good payement. The additional gal- lon of tar cost the contractors ten cents more anyway. Messrs, Mayne and Heimrod were opposed to the granting of a contract under the speci- fications of 1888, as that code had not yet been formally adopted. Mr. Balcombe said that he saw no reason why the peal)le should not have the oppor- tunity to petition for cedar block under the specitications of 1888, inasmuch as the ordi- nance ordering and the advertisement itsclf asked for bids not only on specifications adopted by the board of public works, but any specilications, even those originating from the bidder. Mr. Heimrod said he was opposed to the proposed 1888 specifications from beginning 10 end, as he had proviously told the city en- gineer and would now say in the presence of the chairman. He objected to them because in the proposed specifications the word “chairman” had been substituted for the words ‘‘board of public works” in too many instances. Mr. Mayne spoke up and said he didn’t be- lieve in delegating all his powers to the chairmau. He wished to reserve his propor- tionate rights. Mr. Balcombe showed some displeasure at these remarks but said he would settle the chairman question some other time. How- ever, he said he didn't see why any spite work on their part should keep the peoplc from getting the advantages of Mr, Fox's work, Mr. Mayne next amended his motion to read that the contract be awarded J. B, Smith & Company, and the bond be fixed at $100,- 000, Carried, Mr. Balcombe moved that the contract be awarded Mr. Fox for such pavements as peo- {.les may want under the specifications of 588, Mr. Mayne said that he would second the motion,but would vote against it ‘‘as that was a contract which he would never sign in God 1d.” The motion was carried, Heimrod and Balcombe voting aye, and Mayne no. On motion of Mr, Heimrod the following bills were allowed Fanning & Slaven, street cleaning Kaspar, Kier- der, Van Camp, Mr. roh 20,—-Hon. 3 Tepror sent to your honorable at I have abid in your possession for cedar bl&oionwum base for £1.781¢ and that I fin tb;ll an- able to secure the required bon awinL to the fact that I failed to name the nroc oa- tions un o which I bid, and sm.a- who would ot ierwise on bond are afraid that I wo: ‘4 be held up te the proposed speci- fications tor 1888. Furthermore since the bidding tho prico of material has risen and lmr‘l‘:;s :vhn my ll:'flfifllllu bia could be worl 0 my great disadvan! 1 respocts fully withdraw the same. Roé‘ofimu,y.m O. Avams. | —— THE CITY LEAGUR A Few Dotails of the Season's Worlk Declded On. A moetinyof the city base ball loague was held last evaning at Penrose & Hardin's, It was decidel to have the base ball season of the league commence May 1 and close October 1. A committee of three was appointed to examine tho intor-state rulos of Pennaylvania ond report at the next meeting and make any changes necessary, The following wero :rpolntod on that committees Messrs. Mo- jeth, Metz aad Rockwell. )y : , It was docided that each club should :\ve ?m; 'wm‘t every. nolher olub ‘n :lho longue, maling twenty-five n Mr. Stephenson, of the lub,mm uh a member of the schedule committes. It was decided to ndopt the Reach ball under tha g:lnnue that Mr. Hardin furnish the samq 11 used by the American association. The home club is to receive 60 per cont and the visiting cubs 40 in all games; also that tha clubs playing on any other grounds than their own allow 20 per cent; also that each club furnish its own scorer. The meeting adjourned to meet a week from Friday nights i dsbodork Took Them Both In. Lettie Cotrell, a colored woman, owns & shanty on Dodge stroet between Eleventh and Twelfth, which she rents to a colored man named W. S, Lock. Last evening, the rent being due, Lettio called on Look for hor money. Lock and his wife were not pleased ‘with the visit of Lettie and jum| upon her and commenced to beat her. The landlad; managed to get hold of a poker and she v{ Lock two or three stinging blows wlfil‘ it that made him howl with pain, He rushed intoothe street and called a policeman, but when the officer arrived and heard both sides of the story he decided to take both Lettie ! and Lock to the central station, g ipbest s Passion Week Servioe. Kountze Memorial Evangelical Lutheran church, Rev. J. 8. Detweiler pastor, will hold special passion week service at 7:45 every evening. Wednesday evening Rev, H. W, Kuhn, D. D, first pastor of the church, Wlli preach, this bemg his first sermon after a long absence from the city. “Christ Before Pilate” will be the subject of the pastor for Thursday eveming. A continuous service from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. will be held Good Fri- day. The ladies will serve a lunch in an ad- joining room for business men who wish to Pass an hour at this service. - A Bad Barkceper Bagged. H. Ernde, lately a bartender for Harry Hagan, near the corner of Eleventh and Far nam streets, disappeared a few days ago with $32 of Harry's money. Last night he was found by Officer Vanous in Montgom- ery & Adams’ saloon, Fourteenth and Dodge streets, and the moment he was taken khw custody he weakened and confessed his guflt, It was discovered last eveniug that anothens 'warrant for his arrest has been out for ovet three months on a charge of stealing $10 from a woman on South Thirteenth street, | King Bound Over. Johnny King, proprietor of a saloon on Thirteenth street, between Douglas and{ Dodge, was arrested yesterday chargedl with gambling. He was arraighed befora) Judge Berka, and waiving examination, was bound over to the district court in the sumy of $800, King was a participant in the poken! gomo in his place Saturday night last, when 2. W. Owens was robbed of $510, ol | —_——— County Court. JUDGMENT FOR THE PLAINTIFF. John G. Willis brought suit against Dennls - Hurley to have him vacate the premises on| Dodge street. The case was tried by juryy who after a short deliberation, returned & verdict in favor of the plaintiff, W ————— | The Evangel Al nce. A meeting was held yesterday evening fn the rooms of the Y. M. C. A. by the Evans gelical alliance for the purpose of consu mating the organization and the election fl board of managers. Dr. Detweiler, the president of the society, presided, A Small Blaze. £ Aalarm of fire at half past 2 yesterday aftery noon was occasioned by the burning out of & small smoke house, the property of Mr. \ ders, at Eleventh and Dorcas, Damage Algé significant. | e Board of Trade Meeting. An adjourned meeting of the Omaha board, of trade will be held this Wednesday evens, ing, at 8 o'clock, to complete the considersy' tion and adoptioh of tho revised by-laws. | Death of Mrs. Chandler. Mrs. G. W. Chandler died last night at 10; o'clock, at the Barker hotel, after a short! illness, Her maiden name was Cora Unks, | and formerly resided at Englewood, 111 §ha was about twenty-four years of age, 1 e el Personal Paragraphs. Mose Martin, proprietor of the Merchanta\ Express of Dubuque, has been in the city for, a couple of days, the guest of Mr, J. I, Nichols, | Ernest Peycke, wife and daughter Lulu, have just arrived from a three months' visi to Germany and France. They are all in good health, Louis Schroeder, has returned from a trij to Old Mexico, as brown as a berry. He tool an interest in seyeral mines near Chibug- hua, which are working satisfactorily. Colonel Henry, inspector of riflo prnetloa of this department, with his wife and chil are at the Beach hotel, Galveston. Sinca their arrival there the colonel's son has been taken sick. At the Millard: J. C. McGuire, Chicagoy B. Gilbert, Cleveland, O.; Ross W. Easts lick, J. J, Brady, Chicago; J. L. G. Charle ton, A. Duraund, St. is; Paul Grubery Kansas City; L. L. Smith, New York; O. Berger, New York, JONES' MERRY WAR! A six day's Easter Carnival of Slaughtered Prices commencing Monday, March 26th. Prices that have never been quoted in Omaha and prices that will only be made on day@ quoted. Mail orders filled if recelved on or before date of sale. Read and Wonder | WEDNESDAY—Our entire line of Trunks aud Traveling Bags, 25 per cent less than regu- lar prices for Wednesday only. THURSDAY—Two great bargains in Spring Overcoats. No.1, afine Light Brown Serg¢ Lined, soft finished, Cassimere Coat at $5.95, worth $10.00. No. 2, an extra fine, Kersy finished, Cassimere Coat, Silk lined throughout, at $10.00. FRIDAY—Men's genuine Fur Felt Stiff Hats, Spring Style, Satin lined, at $1.25; Boys' fing all Worsted Knee Pants Suits $4.25; Boys' flue all Wool Plaid £cotch Chevio suits at $.75, worth §5.00. SATURDAY~—Two marvelous bargains; Men's fine Gage Spring Underwear, Silk Embrold ered, at 89¢, worth 7bc; 500 pairs Men's Cassimere Pants, strictly free from shoddy, nice Spring styles and well made, at the remarkable price of $1.09, All above prices only on days quoted. “Put money in thy purse” by attending these sales, L. O. JONES, American Clothier, 1309 Farnam 8t., Omaha,