Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 6, 1888, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. fly (Morning Edition) including Sunday, D?u‘z. One Year ... . 10 00 For 8ix Months .. veer [ ‘or Three Months . . 380 e Omana Sunday ix, maiied o sny d: & dress, One Year........... . 200 OMARA OFPICE, NOSIUAND 018 FARNAM STRE New York OFFIck, ROONS 14 AxD 15 TH BUILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. FOURTERNTH STRERT. CORR! anications relating to news and edi- r should be addressed to the EDITon BUSINESS LETTERS, ATl business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE DBEE PUBLISHING SOMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to De made payable to the order of the company. The Bee Pablishing Company. Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Al com: torial mat: OF THE.BEI LY Sworn Statement of Circulation, lhwn{Ne{l;r,nnh?. b “ounty of Donglass, ¥ Goo. . Tasen X nml-unlar;'lmrn&?“r’my i company, does solemnly sweal 0 l‘?."..!.‘ ipcutation of the Daily Tien for the week of 3, 1688, was as follows: 500 20,385 ~10,500 10,400 19 Frmas 18,760 ¥riday, March 3, GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Eworn to and subscribed in. my_presence this B1st day of March, A. D, 1888, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Etate of Nebraska, bous County of Douglhsa, %8 Geo, I}, Tzschuck, Veing first duly sworn, de- sen And says that he 1 secretary of The Bee lishing company, that the actusl average ly circulation of the Daily Dee for the month 7, 14,400 coples; for April coples; for May, g7, for June, 14,147 coplesi 1687, 14068 Ccoplesi for August, ,A61 coplos; for September, 1857, 14,348 coples; for Ootober, 1881, 14,333; for November, I6%, 15,226 coples; for December, 1887, 15,41 coples; nix;agu;mry. 1;»1 15,208 "coples; for February, 1868, 16,92 copte 8] 5 i TGEo. B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn and subseribed to {n' iny, presenco tils £ day of March, A. D. 188, N_P. FEIL, Notary Public. Ou fire laddies donothing by halves, They can fight fires, make a fine parade and dance at grand balls to per- fection. TuE dilapidated official organ of the council is blowing hot and blowing cold about the city hall, as it is about every- thing else. FRANCE is conseripting our natural- ized citizens. We wouid prefer that she would conscript our American-born shoddyocrat: PROPERTY owners on the streets that are to be paved this year should care- fully consider whether cheap pavement is preferable to durable and more costly pavement. MRr. MATH. ARNOLD, of England, says he doesn’t like H'america, or the H'americans. All right, Math, just re- turn that $25,000 you took from us last year on your lecturing tour. CONGRESSMEN are about driven crazy by the lobbyists of the International ‘Women’s convention. Most of these petticoat politicians are survivors of the American revolution. MAYOR BROATCIH is to be congratu- lated on the success of his effort to en- force the thousand-dollar prepayment clause of the high-license law in spite of the great pressure aund threats of organized resistance by the liquor dealers, Tue medicine man of the board of education points with pride to his record as Indian agent. How &bout McCann’s eighty-pound sacks of flour which were dealed out to the Indians and charged up 1o the government at full weight of 100 pounds. I8 it not high time for the council to take decisive action with regard to rail- road crossings within the city limits? ‘Why should people be exposed to the yisk of being crippled or killed every timo they are compelled to cross a rail- road track? THE St. Lou annual directory for 1888 gives that city a total population of about 450,000. Chicago is mean enough, however, to iusinuate that St. Louis counted in the advance guard of demo- cratic ward bums who arearranging for the national democratic convention, ‘TWENTY-THREE insurance companies have been sued at St. Paul by the state insurance commissioner for vi ion of the Minnesota insurance law Several of the companies sued are doing business in Nebraska, and it behooves our state auditor at Lincoln to look up their rec- ord and see if they obey our insurance laws to the letter. CALIFORNIA is going into an exten- pive culture of olives in order to mon- opolize the olive-oil business, If Cali- fornia will put on the market the genu- Ine article it will be more effective than the present 25 per cent duty in keeping out the foreign adulterations which rome into the United States under the name of olive oil, THERE are three causes now at work which are threatening a decline in the rural life of New England to-day. They are the western fover, impoverished goil and Medford rum, The eastern farmers are willing to struggle against all kinds of adversities, but they can put up no longer with a poor quality of Medford rum. Hence, the western fever. THE project to establish a large glu- cose manufactory in Omaha deserves liberal encouragement at the hands of our business men and capitalists, This section of the country is especially ndapted to the making of glucose, and the location of such a plant in Omaha will afford a home market for preducers aud gteady employment foralarge num- ber of working people. — As between Sioux Falls granite and Colorado sandstone pavement for busi- mess thoroughfares we believe the gran- ite to be by all odds the best and cheap- est material. Grauite is very hard to ba sure, but it.will last years and years after the sandstone has worn away. ‘For streets with steep grades that are not ecrowded with ‘travel and' traflic the Colorado sandstons is good enough and fu any eveut-preferable to cedar block. The Raflroad Lohby Active. It is reported from Washington that the Pacific railroad lobhy is just now particularly active in urging the legis- lation that has been proposed in the interest of the subsidized roads, and is combatting all propositions in connec- tion with this legislation required by the interests of the people, among which is that of Congressman Dorsey protect- ing the states in their rights with re- spect to these roads. The measure that meets the approval of the lobby is the Outhwaite bill, which proposes to give the Pacific roads an extension of fifty years on their indebtedness to the gov- ernment. A longer time than this would of course be satisfactory to the managers of these corporations, and particularly the Central Pacific plun- derers, but they will accept the fifty years' extension if they cannot do better. Having evidently concluded that this is the best they can hope for they are working hard fo close the bar- gain, lost the effect of public sentiment upon congress may defeat all devices of the corporations and their champions to secure more time in which to plunder the people. The anxiety of the rail- ronds for the successof this bill, as shown in the active labors for it by their well-paid attorneys in Washing- ton, ought to be sufficient to condemn the measure as ome that cannot be in the interest of the government or the people. But if the bill is to pass it must not be permitted to do so without the pro- vision proposed by Mr. Dorsey recog- nizing the right of the states through which the lines of the Union Pa- cific pass to exercise the same authority of regulation and control with respect to the subsidized road as they exerciso over roads deriving their franchises from the states. The fact needs to be plainly stated by congress that a rail- road which isa debtor of the govern- ment is not thereby relieved of its obli- gations and responsibilities to the states. The specious plea set up by the Union Pacific in this state, and sus: tained by a federal judge, which, if per- mitted to stand, would render that cor- poration superior to the state in all mat- ters with which it is concerned, would De effectually silenced by the legislative provision proposed by Mr. Dorsey. It would put a stop to such bold and defiant, proceedings as the Union Pacific has practiced in Nebraska, and would serve to bring these subsidized corpora- tions generally to a sense of their duties and an understanding of their true status. It is a direct and authoritative way of checking their arrogant assumption of special prerog: tives which events have shown to be necessary. To reject it would be to en- courage the corporations to bolder ef- forts to override state authority and evade their responsibilities. A war against this provision on the part of the Pacific railroad lobby was to have been expected, but there is reason to believe that it will not avail anything, since there are few members of congress who would dare go on record in opposi- tion to a declaration by congress so ub- viously proper and necessary. Another Case Under Prohibition. The operation of Towa’s prohibition law promises in time to produce an array of decisions from the highest tri bunal which willso fully and clearly de- termine how far a state may go with this sort of legislation that there will be no excuse for mistakes in framing prohibitory enactments. The decision rendered a few weeks ago annulled one very important provision of the lowa law in declaring that a state cannot prohibit the importation of liquors, on the ground that to do so is an interfer- ence with inter-state commerce, which is subject to the exclusive control and regulation of congress, Although three of the justices of the sunreme court dis- sented from this decision, so far as wec ve observed it has received gen- eral public approval. The position scems entirely sound unless it be held that a state may exclude. from its jurisdiction any recognized article of commerce, a contention which we think few of the most radi sticklers for state rights would make. Inall pre- vious deeisions of the supreme court the fullest scope had been allowed to the states, in the exercise of their police powers, for dealing with the manufac- ture and sale of liguors within their jurisdiction. Tt was conceded that there was no power of restraint as to these powers when employed to contro! the liquor traflic within a state, and the state could not be held responsible for tho consequences of the exercise of this power. Distillerics may he closed up and the business of dealers stopped, and those who suffer from the law have no redres But the limitations of this power were overreached when it was attempted to erect a barrier against commerce by pro- hibiting the importation of liguo The decision that proclaimed this struck down a part of the Towa law that was decmed vital to its effective operation. Another case coming from Iowa is now before the United States supreme courtinvolving the right to manufacture liquors in the state for export. Action was brought againsta distiller at Des Moines to compel him to stop manufac- turing and to close his distillery as a nuisance. He fought it unsuccessfully through the state courts and carried the case to the supreme court. The evi- dence shows that none of his product was sold in Towa, exceptas allowed by law, nearly all of it being sent out of the state. The principal question involved is whether prohibiting the manufac- ture of liquors for export docs not impose a restriction -upon commence between the stat The de- cision of the court will be awaited with great interest, as being hardly less im- portant than that relating to the impor- tation of liquors. 1f it be decided that @ state cannot prohibit the manufacture of liquors for export it will render some- what more serious the problem of an effective enforcement of prohibition not alone in Towa, but in' all the states where that policy prevails; If a state cannotstop liquor coming within its borders, nok prevent its being manufac- tured on its soil 1o be exported, theé work of prohibitibn everywhere will be narrowed to the dram shops, and with this limited scope of operation, yielding as it always will most unsatisfactory re- sults in all large communities, the eause will hardly grow. Intelli- gent public opinfon will see the folly of maintaining an al- most profitiess warfare against the dram shops, and will turn to the sensible and practical method of legislating with re- gard to these places so that they can bo restricted and regulated while made a source of public revenue. Prohibitory liquor laws are valuable just to the ex- tent that they are contributing to this result. Indifferent Inspection. In the past four years more than three millions have been expended by this city for grading, paving and sewerage. When public improvements are con- ducted on such a large scalo in a grow- ing city it is but natural for contractors to take advantage of the great rush, and impose on the eity inferior matorial and defective construction. It would be surprising if it were otherwise. The city engineer could not possibly super- vise all these public improvements in person. He has to necessarily rely on his subordinates and the inspectors. Most of the defects in our pavementsand sewers are due to indifferent inspection. Some of the inspectors are either grossly negligent or notoriously dishonest. They should be weeded out and men substituted whose competency is unques- tioned and whose infegrity is above suspicion, If the inspectors were ap- pointed by the board of public works,on the recommendation of the city engi- neer, that officer would become jointly responsible. As it is, the enginecer has no voice in the selection, and hence cannot be held responsi- ble for defective supervision. If the council sincerely desires to male the board of public works more efficient, 1t should extend the authority of the city engineer in connection with the selection of paving and sewer inspect- ors. THE course of the democrats in the house of representatives regarding the direct tax bill is neither wise nor honest. This measure provides for re- funding to the states the money col- lected from them during the war as a direct tax and releasing the claims against those states which did not pay the tax. Only the states of the north, of course, would receive anything under the bill, and the fact that the southern representatives are unanimous in oppo- sition to'the measure, really leading the fight against it, suggests very strongly that their reason therefor is the fact that the states of the south would not be benefitted. The pretended ground of opposition is that the bill is a repub- lican scheme to get rid of a portion of the surplus and thus have another excuse for opposing an adequate reduction of the revenues, but this pro- fession will hardly be accepted as honest by those who desire to take a candid view of the matter. The comparatively small amount to be returned to the states would malke very little impression upon the surplus and could not with any show of reason be made an excuse for not reducing the revenues. It would, however, serve a good purpose in the use the states would undoubtedly make of it in public improvements, and it seoms only just that the government, with a vastaccumulation of money lying idle in the vaultsof the troasury, should pay back to the people the amount of the tax they willingly paid in the day of national peril, so that it may now be employed to their benefit. There have Dbeen expressions from the opponents of this bill which very clearly indicated that they were prompted by sectional feeling, and whatever excuses or pre- tences they may advance to justify their course candid and unprejudiced men will aseribe their opposition chiefly or wholly to that feeling. It is reported that in several of the southern states a considerable opposition to Senator Sherman as a pres tial candidate is developing, and that the benefit of the movement adverse to the Ohio statesman is going to Senator Al- lison. This is said to be especially con- spicuous in Virginia and North Caro- lina, where the supporters of M. Blaine are in strong for The idea appears to have taken possession of the minds in those states that Mr. r. Blaine’s rightful political heir, and the latter being out ot the field their duty is to transfer their sup- port to the former. There are other reasons, however, for giving credence to the reported defection from Sherman. In Virginia particu- larly the fact that his cause is championed by Mahone is to his disadvantage. That self - constituted leader does Fnot represent the better class of Virgiria republicans, and the greatest misfortune of the party in that state is his persistent effort to be recognized at its head, He has sumed to represent Senator Sherman and has been permitted to do this un- questioned. The result has N to weaken Mr, Sherman among the publicans of Virginia, where he has never been so strong as in some of the other southern states. In North Carolina and elsewhere in the south the de- fection is in part oxplained by the fact that the most zealous workers for Sen- ator Sherman are ex-officials, whose motive is quite naturally believed to be the hope of reward in the event that he should be nominated and clected, Western republicans will not regard a loss to Sherman which advances the cause of Allison as a matter to cause them any serious solicitude. E— SINCE the governor and legislature of Towa passcd laws regulating freight and passenger rates over Iowa railroads, the money lenders of the east are raising a great howl over the ingratitude of the people. **What would Towa be but for the railroads?” *And where did the money and enterprise come from which huilt and equipped these roads for the benefit and the interest of the inhabi- tants of that state?” *Not from lowa but prineipally from the eastern states.” These are the questions and answers with which the meney lenders safisfy themselves. - But the answer is only half an answer. . If the. money lenders would ‘ask the mortgaged farmers of Towa, whe boudigd their acres 1o pay for | 15+ FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1888 the construction @f the roads; if they would ask the citi and towns which donated land and money for depot grounds, they would learn that the people of Towa paid for two-thirdsof the railroads of that state. If these money lenders would ask the merchants and manufactures, who for years have paid oxcessive freight charges and who Khye boen made the victims of discrimfnation, they would learn that the business classes paid for the construction afd equipment of Towa railroads. Tt wad jthe people of the state who gave théde eastern specula- tors valuable charters, franchises, privi- leges and business. The people of Towa are therefore deeply concerned in tho management of railroads in that state. They are silent partners in the owner=- ship of these ronds. They have a right to demand in return for grants and fa- vors that railroad companies live up to their part of the contracts and agree- ments entered into with the state and the people. A NEwW Yonrk dispatch announces that John R. McLean, of the Cincin- nati Enquirer, has purchased the stock in the New York Star owned by the late editor of that paper, Mr. Dorsheim- er, which, it is understood, is sufficient to give him the control. It is said that while Mr. McLean will not take posses- sion for several months, the Star will at once be given a metropolitan character, and for a time at least will continue to be the organ of straight out democratic principles. The statement will find be- lief from the fact that Mr. McLean has been known for a year or two past to have an ambition tocontrol a New York journal. If he has got possession of the Star a very great improvement in that paper, which has been laboving under financial embarrassment, may confi- dently be looked for. Mr. McLean has wealth, experience, enterprise and nerve, and he will find in New York a field for their most generous use. EVEN attending such innocent amuse- ment as bull fighting 1n Mexico on Ba: ter Sunday has its incidental danger. How thankful the people of the United States ought to feel that prize fighting is usually conducted in an open twenty- four foot ring where there are no grand stands to burn down. ‘Where the Line Is Drawn. Merchant Traveller. The man who steals from an individual alone is a rogue; if ho steals from a great many people he's a sharp fellow. Draped piE,r Times. The curious have noticed that the -vhite house has been draped four times in mourn- ing since President, Cleveland became its occupant—for Grant, for Hendricks, for Arthur and for Waite. —_———— Muddy Politics. The political streamwas never more tur- bid. The situation was appropriately summed up by the colored man who replied to the question: ‘‘How is politics?” by an- swering: “Brother, th¢ Potomac 1s muddy.” e I et o The Music He Likes. Chicago Journal. It is stated that Andrew Carnegie is ex- ceeding fond of music. The music, proba- bly, which is produced by one silver dollar chinking against another, e I A Body of Old Women, Buston Globe. The Shaker elder who wants the United States senate composed of elderly women need not despair. There are quite a number of them in that body now. e Pants. The town of Oskaloosa has clected a female mayor, and all the new members of the coun- cil are women. It is understood that an or- dinance has already been drafted probibiting the appearance on the street, after 9 o'clock at night, of any male citizen of the place. ———— $ 95 By the terms of the new charter of Los Angeles, members of the council will be paid per month each,but they will be required to give all their time 1o the interests of the city, and caunot, consequently, engage in other business. The result of this experi- ment for the improvement of municipal gov. ernment will attract general attention throughout the count Rl LIS Willing to Arbitrate. Kansas City Star, The Burlington strikers have again ex- pressed their willingness to submit their difference with the company to a board of arbitration for settlement. They have been v to do this ever since they left their engines, and thus they have fixed the blame for the existing troubles on the Burlington lines, The obstinate ofticials who stead- fastly refused to make any concession or entertain any propositions looking toward a mise must assume a large share of resposibility for present grave condition of affoirs in the railroad world. —— The 200 et Limit, Kansas City Star, James Young, a loud-mouthed colored bar- ber, was arrested at 10 o'clock this morning for violating the law prohibiting the peddling of tickets within 200 feet of the polls, Young was peddling tickets within fifty feet of the Second ward polling place when arrested, ‘Ihe arrest was made by Policeman J. K. Baldwin, Young was taken before Justice who released him on bail furnished by rman W. J. Looney. The penalty p bed for the offense charged against Yowusg is a fine of $500, or six months in the county jail, or both fine and imprisonment. e A Remarkable Charge, Atbany Jaurnal, The New York World is severely denoune- ing the Pacific railroads. It should turn its attention to President Cleveland., Nearly two years ago the chief clerk of the railroad bureau made an investigation and reported that the government bad been defrauded of over 300,000 by the Central Pacific road The accounts were sent to the treasurer for collection, but we have not heard that any- thing has been done in the matter. Was it discovered that the accounts could not be collected, that the roads were not responsible or that the federul government had some other business! Worse than this, the chief clerk who made the investigation and re- ported the indebtedness has been threatened with removal since he made his report, and it is said that the presideut has been inclined to remove him. What has the democratic press to say 1o this! — - — It Was Empt To the Editor of the BHr How much money, if any, was there in the Umted States treasury when President Lincoln was naugurated JoH The national treasury at e close of Presi- dent Buchanan's administvation ‘was prac- tically empty. Howell Cobb, wko was sec retary of the treasury, boasted that be had left nothing for the ‘*‘Lincoluites.” It:was tion before the rebellion to leave nothing of value to its successors, and in no respect was it more successful than in depleting the treasury. R— STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Real estato transactions in Norfolk the past three months amounted to $131,487. A large force of graders are at_work on the extension of the Elkhorn Valley road between Superior and Geneva. The capitalists of Nebraska City have taken the full amount of stock in the pontoon bridge scheme. Arrangements are heing made to push work on the bridge. The estimated cost is $20,000. A hog thief with the briel cognomen of Bud, is slaughtering time and straightening his accounts in the Ne- braska City jail. He is charged with borrowing seven hogs from yielding rznsnnd selling them to the packing house. The barn of William Schlichtemeier, of Itock Bluffs, Cass county, was de- stroyed by fire Monday night, together with nine horses, two mules, one cow and a large amount of hay, corn and onts, The loss amounts to 83,000, with $600 insurance. A swindler hailing from Chiecago, with his credentials stamped on his cheek, circylated among the farmers in Platte comfly last week, trying to pur- chase fat cattle with checks on the bank of Crookville. The farmers de- manded cash and the trade fell through. A girl in Burwell, Garfield county, who describes nerself as five feet nine inches in height, with baby blue eyes, golden curls and an amiable disposition, is an excellent housekeeper, and makes dishwashing a specialty, advertises for a husband. It s a terrible rveflection on that section of the country that such a gem is not gobbled up too quick. The result of the municipal elections in Nebraska proves that high license and regulation is growing in strength and prohibition correspondingly on the wane. One of the greatest advantages of the Slocumb law is that it gives com- munities the right to grant or withhold liconse and to cxpress that preference at the ballot-box.” The issue was dis- tinctly made in a score of towns, and the result is a substan victory for license, No attempt was made tospring the no-license issue in the large cities, as the result would have been a waste of energy. Returns from forty towns show that twenty-seven have ALEIRruRIor liconse and thirteen for a dry season, Ten towns in which prohibition had had a year’s trial, repudiated it and de- clared for license, while of former license towns six repudiated the saloon. This makes a clear gain of four towns for the license people. “It is amusing,” says the Hastings Democrat,” to notice a lot of the country papers just at present. They are doing the flop act in a characteristic though shameful manner. When the brotherhood on the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quiney first went out these papers were lavish in their praises for this in- dependent and gentlemanly organiza- tion, said they ought to win and cer- tainly would win. The next week the pupers were generalizing about the abor organizations as against corpora- tions and grinding monopolies and their chief argument regarding the strikers was ‘if’'s.” Last week when it appeared that the brotherhood was rather getting the worst of it, these papers saw the pasteboard pass glimmering in the dim distance and they committed a positive and absolute flop and ave now riding the . & M. free of charge behind the new engineers, whom they had termed ‘scabs’ two weeks before. And still the brotherhood is the same organization it wasa_ month ago. The difference is that these papers expected that the B. & M. could not run trains without the brotherhood engineers and when the road demonstrated that it could, the pupers were prepared to fall on their knees and ask pardon.” Wyoming. The potato crop has been planted in the vicinity of Lusk. The territorial officers are now quar- tered in the new capitol building. There are now about one hundred Fin- landers in the Rock Springs camp. The new buildings at Fort Russell are being builtof stone from the quarries at Tron mountain, on the Cheyenne & Northern road. Between the new and old tunnels of the Dillon coal mines lies a mass of mag- iff feet wide, and who how thick. Brothers & Collins, rail- contr: f Beatrice, Neb., had ap i work all winte the coal mines near the YT ranch, Crook county. The Om: Oil and Mining compa has been incorporated under the laws of the tervitory. The headquarters have been established at Omaha., The incor- porators are J. P. J Schmidt, A. Burmester, Weher, F. Haarman, Paul Platz, ward Ainscow, Broderick Frank Wagner. J. C. Crawford, of Cheyenne, has pe fected arrangements for the establish- ment of wool-scouring works at Rawlin The works will be in operation by tl middle of May. They will have a c pacity of 10,000 pounds of ‘wool per day A force of twenty-five ov thirty men will be employed. An annual wool clip of y 2,000,000 pounds is tributary to Rawlins, road hav: and Colorado. Montrose has declared for waterworks. Nine valuable horses were cremd in a stable fire in Denvor last week. I est transactions 1 Denver during March reached the magnificent sum of 3,074,000, During the guarter ending March 81, the mines of Colorado poured into the i 491 in gold and Work has commenced on the new Episcopal school for boys in Denver. It will be known as Jarvis Hall, and will cost in the neighborhood of §50,000. Utah and Montana, There were thirty-nine deaths in Salt e City during March. Building operations and real estate are unusually active i the Mormon mictropolis, The establishment of large smelting and reduction works in Helena is now assured, The capital of the company is 4,000,000, *’1‘).‘- anks of Salt Lake City report the receipt for the w nding March i e, of 350, in bullion 35.85 in ore, a total of #106,~ that the output this year will beat the record in quantity and quality, The wool clip of southern Utah this year will exceed that of last year by 500,000 pounds and will probably foot up 4,000,000, Sheep on the Great Western desert are in fine condition and the loss sustained during the winter will not ex- ceed b per cent. o S Artin Milwaukee. MiLwavksg, April 5.—The Layton art gal lery, presented to the city by Kred Layton; an old and- wealthy resident, was thiows the policy of tie last dewocratic adwinistra- [ ppen Lo ghe public o-day. Shameful Condition of Affairs Caused By False Economy. Wasnisorox, April 8.—[Corrospondence of the Bee.]~Thero has been for several years complaint throughout Nebraska and othor states of the west regarding the delays in the trsnsaction of business at the general land office at Washington. Since the Interior department has reformed the lax methods in vogue during previous administrations, the delays have been necessarily greater than ever, A moro carcful scrutiny and rigid supervision and examination of land entries has taken up more time and caused more work. But, in addition, the great in- crease in the business of the land office, caused y enhanced values of farm and fron- tier lands and the rush of scttlors, has added still more to the mountain of work which is now weighing down the general land oftice As a rosult our settlers and land takors aro suffering great inconveniences. Patents from three to fivo years - behind final pro. The presumption divison is swamped with a mass of entries which there arc not_enough clerks to even post on tho books, much Icss examine, and the division of private ¢laims and railroad adjustment is paralyzed with the labor which have been devolved upon it. In a late interview the commissioner of the general land office gave somo cogent reasons for the disgraceful condition of affairs in his diyision of tho interfor department. Sinco 1884, in tho office of public lands, tho clerks have been cut down from 111 to 77, while the work has nearly doubled. Mr. Sparks in his last report said the force allowed him was not equal to doing the preliminary work of even posting roturns of filings, entrics and relinquishments, and that the forco ~ at present working left the labor of scrutinizing 140,000 accumu- Iated cases, and the yearly work of examin. g upwards of 100,000 originals and 60,000 final entires solely unprovided for. As 225,000 entries pour'into the land office annu- ally, it may be seen to what a helpless condi- tion the penurious and parsimonious economy of the democratic administration has brought the general land ofice. In the pre-emption division the state of affairs is quite as bad. At the beginning of the current fiscal there were $7, cases, exc the pre-emption office is already fiv half years in arrears, with the business in- creasing at a rate which at present, makos its work 700 per cent greater than 1t was in 1830, In the division of contests, which receives on an average 2,000 cases a year, 12,000 cases are in arrcars, and tho ofice is two and a half years bebind its work. The mineral land division is equally in arrcars, while the office of private land claims is 50 far behina hand that it makes no estimate of the time requirod with its pres- ent force to overtake its worlk. This is a shamefu! condition of affairs for which there is no excuse. It 15 the natural effect of a false theory of economy which has endeavored to show, as aresult of a chango in the administration, a decreasc of operating expenses of g vernment departments, with- out any referc ace to the increase of work which they aro called upon to handle. Mr. Sparks, in_ his last report, made an urgent’ and almost pathetic plea for 174 additional clerks with which, he stated, within a year he could bring up all inthe general land office. As matters nd, our senators and representatives at Washington are deluged with letters ask- ing for the status of land cases, which, under the rules of the department, they find them- selves entirely helpless to expediate. At the close of the last fiscal year m a sin- gle department of the general land oftice, owing to the inadequacy of clerical help, there were 12,000 unanswered letters from citizens of the United States, living on claims, asking for information as to when they m ht hope to get a patent for their farms ——— AMUSEMENTS. Potter's Second Night at the Boyd. The audience that asscmbled to see Mrs: Potter last night as Juliet was neither as large nor as enthusiastic as that of the pre- vious evening. No attempt shall be made to criticise her in this great Shakesperian role, suffice it to say that nobody could resist pay- ing tribute of admiration to the splendid woman who is the centre figure of each act. From the moment of her appearance to the close of the mournful and chilly scene at the tomb, she isa vision of beauty and grace. The presence of other women on the stage vy enhances her superiority as a woman. weet face, and sweeter smile, her e: quisite toilettes, and her ravishing attitud are but a portion of the exhibition of the beau~ tiful Mrs. Potter, and the best proof of what is being written is the complete worthless- s of her company, especially in Shakes- 1 characters. Of course Mr. Bellow is excepted, but there are hundreds of better actors than he, Railway Matters. On the 25th of the present month the elec- tion of officers of the Union Pacific railway oceurs at Boston, and that time there will without doubt be chosen a_successor to the late first vice-president and general mana- ger, Thomas J. Potter: In railroad circles there is a general belief prevalent that Thomas L, Kimball, the present acting g manager, will bo chesen, and it is that on his recent visit to this' city President Adams intim . Kimball, who will, how yond the statement ‘that at'the clection the watter will be settled. His long continued ico with the Union F fact of his being perfectly fami 5 doubtless contribute largely toward his se curing the position, Mrs. stis, of the General Ticket Agent B for a western trip in B. & M. left last ni the interest of the road. C. M. Hunt, local agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, was yesterday distributing cireu lars containing new tariff rates on his road, which took effect April 1, or traflic at this period is inc dly, both _ecastward and woest 1 Ticket Agent Tebbets, of the reports that an unusually large number of emigrants arc coming west ward this spring, and that many tourists are now going westward into Colorado and Utah A gl many eastern people who have spent the winter in California are returning cast Twenty new engines for the Uuion Pacific are expected toarrive during next week The Union Pacific railway will sell tickets at one and one-third fare for the rouna trip from all points in Nebraska to the Knights Templar meeting at Grand Island, April 10, all tickets returning good from April 11 to 14, with a one-day Iimit from date of sale The Union Pacific has issucd s little works of extreme value to the profession, wholesale trade of the w s had on application to owpany all along its line. Genel Union Pacific, handy Latic and the ofiices of the NR. CARNEGIE'S PARTNERS, His Workmen Reject a Proposi< tion and he Shuts Down. A CASE OF BUZZARD VS. TURKEY, The Great Iron Millionaire Gives His Views as to What is Best for His Men's Prosperity and In- sists That Heis Right. Prersnvro, April 4.—The strikers at tho Edgar Thompson steel works to-day rejocted Andrew Carnegie's co-operative proposition Mr. Carnegio immediatoly ordered a com plote shut-down of the groat plant until Jun- uary 1, 1389, This announcement was re- ceived with dismay by tho workingmen. It will throw out of employment over five thousand men. Upon the subject of the great iron million- are's recent proposition to his employes, to make them in a measure his partnors, tho New York Journal has this to say: “Does a sliding scale of wagos mean an advantageous co-operation! “That is the question now being studied by organized labor all over the country. 1t most concerns the 6,000 employes of the big Carnegio ironworks at Pittsburg, The prin- cipal of theso is tho Edgar Thompson stear- works, the largest and most_completo st ool rail mill in the world, It alono employs 8,500 men. When the mills closed down for repairs at the end of 1857 there were rumors of a coming reduction of wages on account of depression in the steel-rail trade, Those rumors were confirmed on February 9 by a proposition from Carnegie, Phipps & Co., to their employes, which' was postod aghout their mills 'at Broddeck, h fixed wages as follo Commmion labor, 18 conts per hour. Blast furnace labor, § per cent _reduction. Furnace A tobe gone over by Mr. Gayley and committee, but is not included in tho Positivos per cont reduction. All engineers and water tenders, 8 por cent reduction, but in no case shall wages be re- duced below 1856 rates. ‘Transportation department touched. Steel department, 10 per cent roduction. Or the whole quest of wages for 1888 to be submitted to arbitration. The workmen promptly accepted arbitra- tion, but after two or three weeks of fruit- less conferences this was abandoned. Tho hitch was in the duration of the now scalo, whatever it might be. The men wanted it to run only until July 1 of this year. The firm nsisted that it should continue until Febru- ary 1, 1880, And there the matter rested until the carly part of last weel The exccutive board of district assembly Knights of Labor No. 3, of Pittsburg, sent a committee to New York to interview Mr. Carnegie. They received a cordial reception from the iron millionaire, who drove them through Central Park, after which they lunched at his clegant home on Fifty-first strect. Then ensued a conversation of six hours' duration. When the committec left for Pittsburg the next morning they carried a long letter, only to be opened by the execu- tive committee in Pittsburg. “The first part of the letter was given up to proving a former statement of Mr. Carne- gie's that steel rails, notwithstanding tho cheapness of fuel in’ Pittsburg, could be made as cheaply in Chicago as in the east, on account of excessive freight. The letter then proceeds as follow “You nsked me to state my views as to what was best for our men and for us under present conditions—for I believe what 18 really best for the ono is best for the other —and [ gave you as my reply acopy of an article published in the Forum, in April, 1856, T wish our menand oursclves to bocome practically partners by paying them upon a monthly sliding scale based upon the price received for rails during the month proced- ing, this price to be reported by an agent chosen by the men ecach month at our ex- pense, all documents bearing upon the sub- ject to be handed over for his thorough in spection to our chief bookkeeper, and also n member of the firm to swear to'the correct- ness of the statement. 1 was asked by Mr. Stewart if the company was not pald for a lovof ruils, whether the price to be paid the men would be affected thereby, to which 1 replied that the men would have nothing to do with any losses whatever. The company ran all visks of paymentand paid the men for every rail made as herctofore. “I further stated that I had gone carefully over all our figures of labor, cost, ctc., and decided that it would be Tair and just for us to adopt the prices paid in 1885, us a basis of the scale. Rails that year nettod us $27.50; this year so far £31.50. This would makoe wages start between 14 and 15 per cent above 1885; common labor would be §1. ST said that in order to_give the sliding scalo a fair trial it would be necessary to malke it binding the remainder of this yoar, and for the years 1850 and 1590, but that it wished 1t end of 1500, notice must be gi October 1, of that year,when the cease at the end of 1300, und T also inorder that every mau would be sure to read und understa agrecment, wo vould require every man to sign it individ- iself, although we had no ob- and to be un s slgna- ent the possibiliLy of sunder- standing. [ also said that of course our man- rs would sclect such men as they desired unacr them and that we thought it only proper to provide that common labor should not go below §1 per day. “Phis," says Mr, Carncgie, “is not pre sented ib a spirit of antagonism to the men, and 1 believe that if our men and ourselyes were thus placed in the same boat, sharing adversity and prosperity together and stand ing shoulder to shoulder in loyal co-opera 1, that it would be a cold day after this ar when the Edgar Thompson works wero Stopped for want of orders as long as orders were to be bad.” The plan is before the wor have nov yet accepted it M to Pittsburg curly last we telegraphed that he should remain for somo 5. The employes of the Edgar Thompson works hold nightly meetings and the Dlan is being discussed from every side, but 10 sigm._ has been made yot that ‘it will bo adopted. It has its friends and opponents in both the Knights of Labor and the Amalga- mated Associution of Iron and Stecl Work- ors, Inth committee ture to Mr, Car. \on for arily former article agreed to, negie argues that ut no time working for a compensi that time. All large conce ) keep filled with orders as f months m advance, and a shdin > of wages Dased upon the net prices 1 > pro- ceding month would equalize matters und virtually forin a parinership between o ployers und employed. GRAND OPENING FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, APRIL 6th and 71l P With opening buds and warmer day 80 L. O. Jones, with his opening g ¥or human beings must be clothed ALL LINES COM/ another springtime comes, ur homes, Are offered suits and overcoats, ne'cr sold so cheap before, The stock'is choice, and very large At Jones American Clothing Hous 1In the spring the young man’s fan And the old man with the child And the ladies take their wee onc Yor this house is selling into Jones’ low pric clothing cheaper now than ¢ us you will meet, rect, rightly turns to thoughts of clothes, cheapest clothier goes, d #tof e hefore. On its many crowded counters, goods well made and sty lish too, Patterns And the ovi in be found so stylish, oh, 80 nobby, nic oats and suits, are priced much lower and new; wan elscwhere; The buttons sewed on tightly, each seam made not to tear; L. O. Jones is the proprictor and from the cast turned, He shows a stock of elothing for which just fame is earned; And he who buys saves many dimes, for all the suits you see, Are bought for cash at lowest price of the great castern factories. Elegant ph Cil on epening days, ic souvenirs of Booth and Bar Come and bring your friends, Lo all wha L, 0. JONES, American Clothier, 1309 FARNAM STREET.