Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. e TERMS OF SUBSORIPTION. fly (Morning_ Rdition) including Sunday Dnr, e Yoar 810 iix Months ] For Three Months 2 The Omaha Sunday drems, Ons Year........ L OMAHA OFFIOR, NOS.ILAND 018 FARNAN STREET. 'w York Ory1 ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIBUNE L e i FounTreNTR STRE CORRESPONDENCE. 1 unications relating to news and edi- torinl mntter should be addressed o the EDITOR o¥ THE BER. BUSINESS LETTERS. All business letters and remittances should be addressed to THE BEr PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMARA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the company. The Be¢ Publishing Company. Proprictors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. ‘iR, madled to any ad- THE DAILY BEE. Bworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate ng Nebraska, ¥ Lo s, s sojemily swear o g o atia of the Datly D for tho. woek May 5, 1888, was as follow: April 25, Siturday, Friday, May Cth day of May, A. D., 188, N PIFRIL, Notary Public. State of Nebraska, &% County of Douglas, A Goorge B Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that Le is secretary of The Beé Publishing company, that the actual average daily circulation ot {he Daily Bee for the month of Was 14,227 coples; for June, 187, for July, 180, 14,08 copted: fof 14,161 coples; for September, 1887, jes for October, 1687, 14,633 coples; fof 18#7, 1,22 copies; for December, 187, 15,041 ' copiés; for Januas lea;' for February, 16, 16,002 copl 1884, 19,659 coples; for April, s BEO. . TISCHUCK. Sworn to betore. mo, nnd Aaul\_‘wmnd in my ‘esence 8 2d day o Al . D, 3 Lo N5, FRIL, Notary Public. IT gives Chicago the heart-burn to ghink that her base ball nine will end she a@eason at the foot of the column. Bven the republican national conven- 4on might be sacrificed, if the glory of @ing the pennant were assured to her. — PAILADELPHIA under the high li- eense law which has just taken effect in Pennsylvania has decreased the num- ber of saloons from 6,500 to 1,200. This is another instance that high license is the only way to prohibit the multiplica- tion of saloons. GENERAL BOULANGER has not yet become president of the French repub- lic, but he has been élected an alderman for a little provincial town by a unani- mous vote. If a French alderman is anything like an American councilman, the general has satisfied his ambition in becoming an absolute dictator. THE Pall Mall Guzette has been dis- couraging the investment of English capital in the cattle industry of the west. It claims that of nine Scotch- American cattle companies doing busi- ness in the territories only two came out last year with a credit balance. The trouble, if any,is that the foreigners do not understand the business. BY joint resolution, congress has ac- cepted the invitation of the French republic fo take part in the centennial celebration to be held next year in com- memoration of the fall of the Bastile. France is particularly pleased with the prompt manner in which the United States accepted the invitation, and gratified by the friendly sentiments expressed by congressmen toward the republic. MONTANA does mnot claim to have enough of a population to get into the union as a state this year. Buther peo- ple are sufficiently enterprising and pushing to buy some of the effete south- ern states twice over. Last year the output of her minerals amounted to $25,000,000, while her stock interests compared favorably with any section of the west. Montana has been making great strides in the past year. ATTORNEY C. J. GREENE is publicly championed, in the columns of the rail- road organ, by that notorious bummer and brazen capper, Frank Walters, Tt should be charitably thought that Mr. Greene is not responsible for this, but it shows the character of some of his political chums, and the decent repub- licans of Nebraska will know what to think of a man who cultivates such as- sociates to further his political ambi- tion. THE weather bureau is about to at- tempt a novel experiment. Carrier pigeous are to be pressed into the ser- vice where unreliable telegraphic com- munication exists. With this end in view pigeon cotes have been established at Key West, Fla., and at other points nlong the Florida coast. If the trials to be made turn out successfully a regular carrier-pigeon service will be estab- lished between the main land, the Bahama islands and Cuba. ememenr——— CoLOoRADO has gone into the beet-root sugar industry with apparent success. 1t is claimed that the soil and climate of that state are most admirably adapted {for that purpose, and that a new field is open to enterprise and capital. Ne- braska will take a lively interest in watching the progress Colorado makes. 1If success attends the efforts of our west- ern neighbor, there is no reason why Nebraska cannot go into the business as well, The field is certainly one which invites attention. — COLONEL WRIGHT, of the national labor bureau, is carrying forward vigor- pusly the work on the fifth annual re- port of his bureau on the wages of rail- yoad men. When completed the report will be most valuable in comparing the wages paid on the different roads of the country. It is to be hoped that Colonel ‘Wright will pay especial attention to the rate of wages of engineers and fire- amen on the Burlington system in com- parison with wages for like service on parallel lines, Such evidence would ave great weight before the people. It is doubtful whether the work will be completed in time to submit before the inter-state commerce committee which hus just begun its investigation of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, The Forfeiture The bill for the forfoiture of unearned land grants to railroads, which was passed by the senate Wednesday, is & very thorough measure, but one in every way justifiable. As originally presented the measure was in several respects defective, but its consideration from time to time during the past two months has removed the faults and per- fected the bill so that there need be little delay in getting it through the housa if, as is presumed to be the case, there is a majority of that body favora- ble to the passage of such a measure. That it would receive the prompt ap- proval of the president there can be no doubt, unless he is propared to repudi- ate the professed policy of the administration regarding the public domain. The bill declares forfeited all lands heretofore granted to aid in the construction of railroads which have not been occupied according to the terms of the grant, such lands to be restored to the public domain. A con- siderable amount of the land that would thus be restored has been sold by the railroad companies to settlers, and the bill makes adequate provision for the protection of these, leaving the act of March, 1887, in full force. The wisdom of the liberal policy of the government in' granting lands in aid of the construction of railroads 1s not now a matter for discussion. The question of immediate importance is whether the railroads shall be allowed any longer to have virtual possession and control of a vast terri- tory to which they have forfeited all just claim by having failed to comply with the conditions under which they obtained the grants. In his last report the sccretary of the interior said in re- lation to these grants: ‘“Years have elapsed since many of the grants have been made and other years since the withdrawals. Some of the companies have constructed the entire line of their roads, others fragmentary portions only, and others, again, none at all; but the withdrawals of the lands were no less effective as a barrier against the settlers in the one case than in the other.” The roadswhich have made no effort to comply with the re- quirements of the grants have not, how- ever, failed to immensely profit by them. Taking full advantage of the withdrawals made by the government in their favor, they have, as stated by the land commissioner, been enabled to compel settlers ‘‘to purchase railroad waivers or relinquishments of lands to which the companies had not and might never have any color of legal right; to appropriate the products of coal and other valuable lands; to dom- inate town sites and monopolize water privileges; and to devastate forests of their timber. Vast tracts of the choicest woodlands of the public domain have thus been exploited for the speculative purposes of railroad companies and their interior combinations.” Much more could be cited to show how ruthlessly the gen- erosity of the government has been abused by these corporations. It is due to the people that such resti- tution as is mow possible shall be se- cured. Every acro to which the land- grant railroads cannot show a just claim, in having fulfilled the termsof the grant, should be at once restored to the public domain. Three years ago the amount of unpatented lands embraced in all the grants subject to declaration of forfeiture was estimated at one hun- dred million acres, an area equal to the combined states of New York, New Jer- sey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary- land and Virginia. It is probably somewhat less now, but still an immense area which every consideration of sound policy and justice to the people demands shall be restored to the public domain. .This the senate bill would effect, and it should become a law without the least possible delay. 1s There No Remedy? In the course of a speech in the senate last week relating to trusts and similar combinations, Senator Vest said: *I know no remedy; the statesman who would invent a remedy would deserve a monument more enduring than the capitol.” Tt is such hopeless confes- sions as this, from men whose duty it is to seek a remedy from this evil, that af- fords it encouragement and enables it to defiantly pursue its way. When a United States senator dispairingly as- serts that while seeing the great dan- ger to the public welfare of vast combi- nations of capital to destroy competi- tion and control the product and price of commodities he knows no remedy, the Rockafellers and Havemeyers, with all their imitators, take fresh hope and pursue their pernicious policy with added zeal. Denounce them never so severely, they are indifferent so long as those who make the laws throw up tl hands and exclaim that there is nothing to do but submit. But there is a remedy, and if the law- yers and politicians in congress are not disposed to find and apply it, the people will send men there who will. The sov- ereign peoplé of this country are not prepared to admit that their govern- mental system is 50 tmpotent that it can give them no protection against monop- oly, in whatever form it may present itself. The combinations whicn have grown up within the past few years without any legal status and apparently without any responsi- bility certainly present a somewhat for- midable problem, but it is not beyond the power of a free and intelligent peo- ple, jealous of their rights, to solve 1t. It may require men of more wisdom and courage than the Missouri senator to do this, but they will be found. Meanwhile, the people are not en- tirely helpless. There are not wanting judicial decisious condemning these combinations as unlawful and declaring null and void the agreements or con- tracts upon which they rest. They have no status under the law, and it bas been held that a corporation which en- ters one of these combinations, thereby surrendering its franchise to the control of an authority unknown to the law, forfeits all privileges granted_ by the people and may be dissolved by their legal representative. What is needed gre fearless officiuls to prosecute corporations, existing under state laws, which enter trusts. 0 thut there may THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1888 be a thorough test of what the law as it stands is capabloe of doing to prevent combinations. Tt is believed that gen- erally it will be found sufficient, but if further legislation be needed the people will finda way to obtain it. In any event, there will be no general concur- rence in the despairing view of Senator Vest. The trust monopoly is an evil that antagonizes the interests and wel- fare of the people and isa barrier to commercial and industrial progres — Bettle the Controversy. 1t appears that the union bricklayers are desirous of effecting a compromise with the contractors. The committee appointed by the union some time ago is understood to have soughta confer- ence with the contractors, and the lat- ter were expected to appoint a com- mittee last Monday to meet with the union men, but omitted to do so. It is now thought they will appoint such a committeo at & meeting to be held Friday evening. Itistobe hope this will be done, and that the parties will confer together in a spirit of mutual conces- sion, so that the existing differences may be satisfactorily settled on a basis that will assure peaceful relations be- tween the contractors and bricklayers throughout the remainder of the build- ing season. It is not questionable that the conflict has been a losing one to both parties, and all know that 1t has been a serious detriment to the city. There 1is yet time, however, to recover a part of what has peen lost, and to accomplish a great deal that must go undone unless a fair and permanent arrangement can be effected between the contractors and the union bricklayers. Having regard primarily for the general welfare, and not failing to consider what is just to both sides, THE BEE confidently hopes that the contractors will meet the union bricklayers in a friendly spirit, and with a sincere disposition on both sides to settle the issue, we believe there need be little difficulty in doing so. And we feel certain the effect will be of im- mediate and lasting benefit to those concerned and the community. AT the council meeting, Councilman Snyder brought in a minority report from the committee on railroads and viaducts. Mr. Snyder’s ordinance pro- vided that the Omaha Horse Car com- pany shall pay & nominal sum as rental for the first five years for the right to run cars over the Eleventh street via- duct. But the majority report of the committee, Messrs. Ford and Lowry, giving the street car. company the ex- clusive franchise for an indefinite period, free of charge or rental---was accepted by a vote of 14 to 4. The street car company will not be asked to con- tribute acent toward keeping the bridge in repair. By granting the Omaha Horse railway the exclusive franchise over the viaduct free of expense the council has violated the spirit - and purport of the charter. The framers of that law had in view just such a contingency. For the charter provides that “‘after the com- pletion of any viaduct any revenue de- rived therefrom by the crossing thereon of street railway lines or otherwise, shall constitute a special fund and shall be applied in making repairs to such viaduet.” If these words mean any- thing they point out the manifest duty of the council. The question is, how long will that body continue to hold itself above the law? A VERY fair idea of what the strike has cost the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy company is obtained from the statement of the earnings and expenses of the road for March, the first full month of the strike. The statement shows a decrease in earnings,as com- pared with the corresponding month of last year, of over $1,700,000, while the expense account was reduced only the smallamount, in round figures,of 821,000, There is no reason to suppose that the earnings of the company were very largely increased in April, while it is quite likely its expenses were fully up to those of a year ago. It is probably within the limit tosay that the com- pany has lost in consequence of the strike, from decreased earnings, quite three million dollars, to which must be added a very large amount for destroyed and damaged roll- ing stock. If ever the account of losses is fully made up it will certainly be found not less thau four milli on dollars, and is likely to exceed that sum. Be- gides this the road has lost patronage that it will not soon regain. On the whole the determination of Manager Stone to defeat the engineers and fire- men has thus far been a very costly al- fair to the corporation, to say nothing of the damage done the public interests more or less dependent upon the service of the road EVERY spring the problem comes up to the farmer how can he destroy ravages of the chinch on his growing crops, The question is serious and should attract the attention of our peo- ple. The loss in our annual farming products amounts annually to tens of thousands of dollars, and any sugges- ti0a relative to the destruction of this pest should be carefully entertained. Mvr. J. H. Reed, of Columbus, a prac- tical farmer of the state, has a simple remedy that has proven effective and commends itself to the attention of our people. He finds that the chinch bug during a long continued rain takes shelter in old grass, leaves and rubbish, If these patches be set on fire, the pest can to n great degree be destroyed be- fore damage is done to the crops. The plan is certainly suggestive and worthy of trial, — Tk telegraphic abstract of Colonel Robert G, Ingersoll’s eulogy on Roscoe Conkling is sufficient to show that it wus one of the greatest efforts of the brill- isnt orator. The selection of Colonel Ingersoll for this service was s most fortuuate oue, not only by reason of his special and pre-eminent qualifications, but because he had enjoyed such close professional and personal relations with Mvr. Conkling as enabled him to present an adequate analysis of his character. How admirably be did thisis suggested by the extract from his address sent over the wires, ~ Everything said of the dead statesman by his eulogist will com- mend itself to thg approval of all minded Amerifgs. to di- T Cutting Afair affords capital the Mexican iticians who are vided tion. The cMgicals or conservative element asser {nt the United States court is trying to create hostile feelings in this country against Mexico and with to reduce a political depend- ence of the govi ment at Washington. The liberal lo: , who are happily power, deny these absurd allegations and continue cordial in their relations with Americans, So long as the “Yan- koe’ is an 1ssue in politics the one side will as sedulously support everything coming from the United States as the other will assail it. into tllp.ru'en over the ques- Can't. Resist 'Em. New York World, Prince Bismarck has treatod Carl Schurz to bock beer and oigars. Bismarck never hesitates to employ the most aggressive ‘weapons in his diplomatic design et 4 The 8ick Dems, Minneapolis Tribune, 1t is plain, Mr. Blaine, That it gives the dems pain To learn that you're still strong in body and brain. ——— Abe Lincoln of Illinois. St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. The republican party has never yet made o mistake when it has followed the advice of [llinois a8 to a candidate for president; and it should therefore be very slow to re- ject such advice in the present contingency, e -— For Chicago Drammers. Chteago Tribune. Double.decked cars for the transportation of hogs are commg into use, and it seems strange that no progressive railroad com- pany has yet equipped its passenger cars with a sort of upper deck for the use of two- legged traveling hog: s An Ominous Sign. Chicago News. “That is ominous,” said a visitor in the house of representatives, as he gazed down on the members. “See,” he continued, ad- dressing a friend, ‘‘how many of them are leaning their chins on their hands.)’ “Well, what of that?” inquired his companion. *It is evident,” said the observant visitor, “that all those members are preparing to make tariff specchos, for they are now resting their mouths preparatory to beginning.” S Over-reaches Himself. Philadelphia Record. John Jarrett, the tin-plate lobby man, de- plores the miseries that woula overtake the miners of Pennsylvania in case the Mills tariff bill should bo passed. A few years ago Mr. Jarrett testiffed 'before a committee of congress that the toal miners of England were better off than the coal miners of Pennsylvania. Bit), inasmuch as the Mills bill does not proposé to touch the duties on coal and iron ore;his cry of alarm to the miners is doub I How it Lobks in Figures. 2 Post, Charles T. Davis, a Washington statis- tician, has been figuring the annual saving to farmers by the passage of the Mills bill. These are his estimates of savings fora family of five, ona. fifty-acre wheat farm: On tin plates, $2; ol earthenware and glass, £3: on lumber, §107 an woolen outer clothing, $35; on flannels, blankets, shawls and under- clothing, $2; on cotton goods, $17; on jute bagging and binding twino, §52.50; on mis- cellancous items not enumerated, $20; totat, 8158, ——— Congress to be Kept A fter School. Commercial Advertiser. Already we have ntimations that the pres- ent session of congress is to be extended far into the summer, and possibly into Septems ber, It issaid, with perfect truth, that the business of the session has been thus far neglected, and that a midsummer term is required if the work that demands attention is to get it. We suspect, however, that the lazy boy will not stay in long after the usual hour for closing school. They have the fixing of the limit, and as well might we expect that book- hating school boys would voluntarily stay after school when an important base ball game was to be called at the parting hour, as that politicians would stick to their routine at Washington in the midst of a presidential and congressional campaign. When the hot weather comes and the can- vass grows warm, too, we shall s the usual break up at Washington, whatever legislation may be pending. 1f necessary even the ap- propriation bills wilk be postponed and the government run fora few months by joint resolution. Trust the boys for keeping an eye on the clock and making a dash for the door when the minute hand records its nunc dimittis, They Are Waste-Basket Warblers. Dr. William Hayes Ward, in the Independent. “But who are these! A company of youth Upon & tesseled pavement in a court Uunder a marble statue of a muse, S!‘l'uwl llOb':ho\lM flowers, before a micmic oun! Drawn from a faucet in & rockery, With mutual admiration they repoat Their bric-a-brackery of rococo verse, Their versicles and icicles of song! “What know ye," Poot's art! What noblo passion or what holy heat Is stirred to frenzy when your eyes ad- wire The peacock feathers on a frescoed wall Or painted posies on a lady's fan!” verso-wrights, of the STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraskd Jottings, Utica has a brass pand of ladics, Hastings shipped oyer a million eggs last month. I Kearney is expacgflgu lively building boom this spring. f 1 1t costs 8300 pes dugum to retail bug juice and other drinks in Gothenburg, Cortland has voted §5,000 bonds for the es- tablishment of & capiling factory. The Nebraska City distillery last week paid to the government & tax of $31,557.60. An electric light company has been_incor- porated at Norfolk with a capital of $5,000. There are 5,157 sfhool children in Platte county, which is au increaso of 152 over last year. The mayor and half the council of Colum- bus have voted against the suppression of disorderly houses. - ' A fire at Culberton Tuesday night de- stroyed the Culbertson houseand & drug store. Loss, $4,000. Advices from the western part of the state report a general caving in of sod houses dur- ing the recent rains. Fred Peckham, s farmer near Gothenburg, last weelk captured a golden eagle measuring seven and one-half feet between the tips of the wings. An unknown man was knocked from the railway track by an engine last Wednesday night. He died from bis injuries the follow- ing morning. The Plum Creek Pioneer issued a boom edition of twelve pages last week, containing 8 creditable write-up of Plum Creek and its business interests. Nebraske City anticipatcs the arrival of the Tabor & Northern railway from Mis- souri Junction, 1a., en route to some point on the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, A heavy suowstorm prevailed all night Saturdasy nightund until near noon Sunday. Iee froze on Snmrdl* night. It was a hard storm for April 28. Tt is hoped that the rain n'nd snow m\lcd the chintz bugs.—Kearnoy lown. The river at Dubuque is higher than it has L sinoe 1880, Sioux City's polica force is composed of six patrolmen and the chief. The conferenco of the Towa association of Unitarian and other independent churches opened last ovening at Davenport. Will Shaffer, son of the secretary of the state agricultural society of Iowa, blew his brains out with a revolver yesterday. ““The Sioux City Journal goes Into ecstasies over the ‘wonderful soil' of northwestern lowa,” says the Des Moines Leader. ‘Just as if ventral Towa did not have the most magni- ficent soil on earth, Northwestern soil is good for the propagation of grasshoppers, but when you want an abundant harvost there is nothing like the alluvial richness of central Towa to produce it. Still there is no danger of starving in northwestern lowa. Henry C. Wheeler, the groat Iowa farmer, raised last yoear of corn 60,000 bushels, timo- thy seed 12,500 bushels, oats 6,000 bushels, flax 10,000 bushels, German millet seed 3,000 bushels. He has 700 head ofstock, 500 breed- ing animals, and in two weeks' time will start for Europe to purchase a stud of French English ar.d Scotch horses. He has ordered to have in readiness for its reception a barn, and to build this barn 75,000 feet of lumber will be used. The dead body of a German laborer, known a8 Poto, was found in a ravine near the rosi- dence of Frank Whaley, about two miles cast of Waukon. A few rods away was a shot gun, and he had evidently shot himself. He had been working for Charles Kruoger, avho lived near. He came there from 18- consin and had been in the county five years, He had been married, but his wife had died .\flu“ ago. Ho was about thirty-five years old. “About seventeen years ago a farmer named Gleason, living northeast of Independence,’ says the Journal, “ono morning found one of his colts dead, and there was certain ovi- dence that it had been killed by some one. The young man supposed to have killed the colt left the country about that time, and very little~ was heard from him _ until last fall, when it was learned that he had been converted and had joined the church., A short time ago the young man returned to Buchanan county for a visit. While there he went to Mr. Gleason’s farm, and'meeting that person, id: “I belicve you lost a colt several years “Tdid,” was the reply. ‘‘How much wes it worth?” was the next question. “‘About $30.” *‘Will this pay for it!" said the visitor, handing out $100. “Yes, and more t00,” said Mr. Gleason, handing back $20. The other person took the $20 and de- parted, starting for Nebraska that day. This is the kind of religion that is needed.” ——— Justly Indignant Almans. Neb., May 9.—To the Editor of the The peovle of this community are as- tonished and indignant at the malicious false- hoods that have been telegraphed to the Omaha and Lincoln papers regarding the finding and care of the bodies of victims of the Rope creek wreck on the B. & M. rail- road, three miles west of here, on April 27, Not ouly is every statement that the B. & M. officials or employes cither assisted in the search for bodies or took any care of them when found, most maliciously false, but ex- actly the opposite is true, as can be estab- lished by the testimony of hundreds of the best, ‘mux!!c of both Alma and Orleans. Not only have eighteen of the best business men in Atma, composing the three coroner’s juries impaneled to hold inquests on the lodics taken from the wreck, found the B. & M. railroad company guilty of criminal negli- gence in connection with the Rope creek dis- r; not only have two of these juries es- pecially consured the criminal negligence of Iugene White, the section boss here; not only lias it been proved by the contradictory statements of this man White, but by the testimony of other witnesses as well, that ‘White has lied in regard to important inci- dents of the wreck and 1ts causes, but from the day of the wreck until the present time not one of the ofiicers or cmployes of the B. & M. railroad company have ever lifted a hand to assist in the seach of the missing bodies, and for this neglect the company has been censured by two juries, It has been shown by the testimony before the coroner’s juries that three days before the wreck Bridge Foreman Anderson, of Red Cloud, had repawred the Rope Creck bridge, previously reported unsafe, and that he then reported it O. K. and took oft the slow orders. The conductor swore to receiv- ing slow orders for that bridge on the morn- ing of the wreck, and yet neither he nor the engineer took the trouble to ston before going upon the bridge. The conductor and brakeman swore that the train was only run- ning at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, while eye-witnesses declare, and the con: dition of the telescoped coaches most posi- tively shows, that the speed must have boen at least thirty miles an hour. Section Boss ‘White at the first inquest swore that he tele- graphed from Alma that morning to stop the train at Orleans, to allow him to get w‘{m pe creek gbridge before the train reached it. On the second and third inquests he swore that he nover scut such a telegram, and that he had never sworn that he did, His testimony, however, was impeached by a stenographor who had 'taken his first testimony in full, and by the company’s own agent, who swore that ‘White tried to send such a telegram but it was too late, as the train had already left Orleans. White also swore that he went to Rope creek bridge at 4 o'clock that morning two hours before the train was due and found it in good condition, but both he and his family told several partios that he did not waken up that morning or leave the house till 5 o'clock. At the time of the wreck the conductor reported that all the passengers in the wrecked coactes had been accounted for; yet two bodies have since been taken out of the river near the scene of the wreck, and others are believed to be still in the water. Not only has the negligence of the com- ny and its employes in_allowing the wreck r boen fully established, but their ut- lect and refusal to search for bodies is known to all our people. And then to have a lying correspondent, who was kicked out of this town for general cussednoss, telograph to the papers giving the ofticials and employes of the company the credit for something they absolutely refused and neglected to do, is enough to make our people indignant. Sher- iff Allen and the people of Alma are entitled to the credit for finding these missing bodies, as they have never for a moment re- laxed their vigilance in the matter, and the B. & M. is entitled to nothing but the con- tempt of all good people for the brutal course its employes have pursued in this matter. So far from rendering any assistance in getting at the facts in the case, they have done all in their power to cover up the extent of tho wreck, and it is ramored that they even con- templated burning the wrecked cars in or- der to prevent the finding of more bodies, but this move was checkmated hf‘ Sheriff Allen, who kept a constant watch on the wreck. To show the spirit of the company's employes toward the people of Alma,.one incident will suffice. This morning Charles Eaton, one of the men who was perhaps fatally in- jured in the wreck, and who had been ro- ceiving every care and attention at the hands of our people, was taken to his home in Lin- colu and a delegation of leading business men volunteered to carry him from the hotel to the depot on a stretcher. After they had placed him in the car an impudent brakeman hegan abusing these gentlemen, calling them “hay-seods,” “grays,” etc., and the acting agent of the compny, Gno Harris, then came out and ordered them off the platform, alleging that they were trespasscrs. This 18 the same agent who at the time of the wreck rofused to send telegrams to the relatives of the dead and wounded without being paid in ad- vanee, If there is any doubt as to the truth of these statements, the afidavits of all the prominent businéss men of Alma can be romptly furnished to substantiate them if hey are required. The ml'rm:]»oudn-xn trom Orleaus has not ounly impo: u tissue of falsehoods upon you, but the people of this community have been placed in @ false po- sition before the public, and they desire that they be set right. We haye been abused for doing what the company itself should have doue, and if acts of humanity and common decency be liable to censure, then let us bo censured, but when & corporation W from the vi-tims of its own neglig treatment that suffering humanity peserves, in Heaven's name let it not lay claim to the credit of a decent action when others are en titled to it. s The Lincoln Journal has refused, 1 am told, to publish a ' statement of ‘the above facts which was recently sept it. Will you! usnios pat to THE POPE'S INTERFERENCE. Becretary Sutton Defends the Ac- tion Taken at Lincoln. HE REPLIES TO MR. CORCORAN Irishmon Take Their Religion From Rome, But Not Their Politics— The Church's Relation to the Irish Struggle, The League's Plans Defended. Lixcorys, Neb., May 10.—To the Editor of Tun Ber: A letter signed Michael Corcoran appeared in Wednesday's issue of Tur Bre reflecting on the attitude assumed by certain prominent Irishmen in reference to tho late papal rescript, and by implication, condemn- ing the resolutions on that subject recently passed by the Lincoln branch of the Irish National league. In short, Mr. Corcoran condems as fools and anti-Catholics all who believe that while Catholics receive their religion from Rome they are justified in re- fusing to aceept their politics from the same source. Mr. Corcoran deems it necessary to tell the people of Nebraska that be is con- nected by family ties with certain fre- quenters of Dublin Castle drawing rooms, that his grandmother was an intimate friend of Daniel O'Connell, and that an engagement existed between his father's sister and one of the liberator's sons. I must congratulate Mr. Corcoran on having such distinguished family connections, but it i{s no harm to inform him that it was the illustrious and intimate friend of his grandmother that first uttered the colebrated sentence ‘“We take our religion from Rome but not our politics.” I may also express my astonish- ment at his statement that O'Connell related to Mr. Corcoran’s grandmother the heroic sacrifices made by thousands of poor women in the famine of 1847. O'Connell left Ireland early in February, 1847, broken in mind and body by a long life of arduous and heroic effort in the cause of his country, and died onthe 15th of May, 1547, at Genoa, in Italy. Having undoubted faith in Mr- reoran’s veracity I am at a loss to know by what spiritual medium the livi ancestor of Mr, Corcoran held communication with the de- ceased Daniel O'Connell. As to the author and mover of the Lincoln resolutions, I believe they were couched in language courteous and respectful, while maintaining the principle so cavalirly con- demned by the learned and theological Mr. Corcoran as foolish and” dishon- orable to Ireland. Untortunately it s very noticeable that ‘those: who are ever ready to rush into print to de- fend the church from 1maginary attacks are much more prone to lose sight of the_charity which the church 8o often counsels, than those whose views they endeavor to combat.o Mr, Corcoran says the decree contains sim- ply a public reaflirmation of what is ro- quired by the command of God—*Thou shalt not steal.” Mr. Corcoran is like a good many Catholics whose consciences make them over timorous; conceiving an exaggerated idea of the pope's attributes, while their reason draws them into an opposite belief, they try to hide their uneasiness, and cheat their rea- son, by playing with words and blinding their intelligence with a thousand and one quibbles of apparent logi Mr. Corcoran and others of his wni' of thinking would imn- press upon us the belief that being worried to death by English intriguers the pope writes a a letter that means nothing, but which by propounding an abstract prop- osition the dull — Anglo-Saxon will be satisfled, while the more quick witted and logical Irish will discern the pope’s little joke, and carry on their methods of warfare just as before, confident the pope was only indulging in by-play to throw dust in the eyes of the English. Such reasoning is cowardly; it is unworthy of men who pro- fess to hold the pope in respect. Therescript is not at all ambiguous. The question sub- mitted to the cardinals of the congregation is very clear: “Is it permissible in disputes between landlords and their tenants n Ire- land to use means known as the ‘plan of cam- paign’ and boycotting?” The rescript goes on: ‘“After long and mature deliberation their cminences unanimously answered in the negative, and their decision was con- firmed by the holy father Wednesday the 15th of the present month.” The disputes referred to mean the national and social movement now going on in Ireland, and further down in the papal lottor we arc given the reasons why the plan of ca:fmgn and boycotting have been thus declard not permissible. In brief thereasonsare: 1, con- tracts mutually entered into must be observed. 2, the ronts of the tenant cannot be dimi- nished at his mere will, especially when tri- bunals are appointed for settling such con- troversies; 8, rents must not extorted from tenants and placed in the hands of un- known persons to the detrimen’ of landlords. Finally it is contrary to justice and charity to persecute by social interdict those who pay rents they agreed to pay, or those who in the exercise of their rights take vacant forms, Now it is plain and explicit that the pope has condemned the plan of campaign and boycotting, aud the reasons adduced for so doing show fo those who are acquainted with the Irish question, that the congregation of cardinals know very little about Irish affairs, and must have come to their decision under the influence of false information received from sources unfriendly to Ireland. No man who knows anything of Irish land questions will be s0 regardiess of fact as to assert that in the land system of Irelana the tenant occupios the position of a free contracting party, Such a statement would be looke upon as simply absurd. 1. The tenant can pay the rent demanded of him; or, he can _sacrifice the sweat, time and labor expended by himself and his fathers and the value of his improvements, and go to America, go starve in the neighbor ing village, go sink to the degradation of the poor house, or die, as many have died before now, in the ditch, If, under the influence of these dread alternatives, he agrees to pay the rent named by the landlord, can he be said to have been a free contracting party?! Yetthis papal receipt condemns the plan of campaign on the ground that free contracts must be binding in character—while we who are fa- miliar with Irish affai know that free con- tracting tenants in Ireland are nearly as rare us white crows. 2. The tenant must not determine his rent at his own will, he must go to the land courts. The fixing of rents has for gencrations been the oxclusive privilege of the landlord and he has used it until the exercise of his rapacious power swept 4,000,000 human baings from the soil of Ireland without ever a reseript being issucd to say not only, “Thou shalt not steal,” put *“Thou shalt not kill,"” It is only when the unfortunate tenants com- bine to save themselves, their wives ana lit- tle ones that it is thought necessary by the Ttalian cardinals to remind these prosecuted creatures that they must not steal. Is it any wonder, when Irishmen think of it, that the veins in their throats swell with indignation The tenants are told they must appeal to the land courts. There is such a thing as going to law with the devil and holding the court in hell. Something similar is the advice to a tenant to go to law with his landlord in a court where the judges and officials are them- selves land owners and members of the land- owning class. These courts are besides ex- pensive, tedious and entirely unablo to cope with even the business of only a portion of the discontented tenantry. Evictions according to Mr. Gladstone, and he only speaks the truth, arecquivalent to sentences of death. 1t was o save the tenants from destruction that the plan of campaign was instituted, The ters ants pooled such portion of their rent as they could possibly pay, while retaining sufticl 10 support themselves in & frugal and rug, way. The trustees holding th the money subject to the landl ance, and in many cases the landlords of vast estatos yielded to reason, while some found the plan of campaign more generous thau Lhe aecisions of their own so-called land courts. Combination effccted what a tenant single handed could not have done. The plan has saved thousands of God’s creatures from de- struction, und it has given to the wronged peassut @ more reasonable and lawful weapon than the bluaderbus, from which, of old, so many tyrants received in full measure the “wild justice of revenge.’ 0 @ Pro tection 10 the Irish tenant in un abnormal condition of social life. and it has had a beneficial and moral effect upou the con test, by withdrawing the outraged and angry peasuntry from wild and lawleas associations, which in secret conclave hatched plots of murder and assassination and only too often reddened sod and scaffold with human blood Instead of that they are taught to adopt opon wnd logal means known as the plan of vaw pagn, whereby bloodless combination ca socure for them their just and honest rights. Condemn the plan, and who will be to blame if once more the demon of midnight murder stalks redhanded through the island ! Boyootting can be abused—so can tho holi- ost toachings of religion—but abuse by indis viduals in isolated cases does not render cons trary to justice and charity a social interdict when employed by a nation to punish knaves and traitors who who would sacrifice the in- terest of the community to gratify their own avarice; and among the worst of these is the landgrabber who takes a_farm from which another man has been evicted because theé Iatter could not pay an impossible rent. The landlord robs the uncompensated and evictod man of his interest in tho soil, created by his own industry and often by the labor of gen- erations of his own family, the man who takes the vacant farm over the head of the unjustly evicted tenant is a receiver of stolen £00ds, since he retains and enjoys that whioh was created by the evicted man's labor and for which no compensation was given. To boycott such a man is to boycott a social pest, a man who is & standing menace to the the security of other tenants in the posses- sion of their farms. The closer one examines the roasons given for condemning the plan of campaign and boycotting. the more clearly one discerns the cloven foot of English intrigue. They re- veal the characteristics of the storootyped libels of the Irish Loyal Patriotio union of which the duke of Norfolk is a prominent member. Iam forced to belicve that the papal letter, notwithstanding the moral les- 80N it conveys, was the outcome of a political cabal of which the was made the innocent instrument. Dooception was practised not alone upon the pe, but also upon the mnp‘ropznlon of car- inals, and_if certain English ecclesiastics wero forced to speak, the details would not bo creditable to those concerned. English influence in Rome is very great, the Catholio tory aristooracy 18 very rich and powerful, English words are very fair, and it is hard to convince the Italian Catholic that so reli- gious, 80 munificent, so distinguished a class as the Catholic nobility of England could en- tertain otaer than feolings of deep regard for their co-religionists of Ireland. Yet our own O'Connell has said that no piece of English treachery could be complete without having an English Catholic at the bottom of it. And now let me ask where was the noces- sity for such a letter! There is not within the pontiff's world-wide religious demain, & hierarchy more learned and pious, & priest- hood more moral and devoted to sacredotal duty, than the hierarchy and priesthood of Ireland. Could not the morals of tho Irish Catholics pe safely left in the hauds of such guides and teachers! Does not the issuing of the letter imply that the hiorarchy and priesthood of Ireland were either 1gnorant of their theology, or, being fully in- structed therein, were wilful partioipators in the supposed dishonesty of the people? I don’t think I am disrespectful when T ex- press the wonder I feel that the Roman car- dinals in paying so much attention to the ap- parent mote i the eyes of Irish Catholicity, should be so blind to the beam in eyes nearer home, 1 do not believe I am impertinent when I state my belief that if the attention bestowed upon the morals of the Irish people was given to the Italian Catholics, even to those under the very shadow of St. Poters, it would not be necessary to write articles in strictly Catholic magazines on the deplorable religious ignorance of the Italian Catholics who come as immigrants to our shores. It is an excellent motto to leave well enough alone, Mr. Corcoran and those who think as ho does may try to frighten themselves and others with an exaggerated idea of papal in fallibility in deciding questions of faith and morals, but I am not called on by my church to believe in papal omniscience. The moral law laid down by the pope is beyond dispute, but when! the conduct of a peoplo is measured by that law, the decision depends upon evidence, and if the evidence Dbe fauity so also must be the decision. Tho law is one thing, the application of it is an- other; one is a matter of faith, the other is of discipline and church. government. The one is divine and infallible; the other is human and fallible. The plan of campaign and boycotting were adopted by the Irish people as weapons to defend themselves against a government which the Irish nation claims is an alien and usurping government, and did they have a prospact of success, the people of Ire- land have a perfect right to take up arms and drive their enemies into the sea. Unable to take up arms, they adopt other and less vio- lent means. If the pope could condemn the lesser, he could also in the greater, and i Treland acknowledged the pope's interfer- ence to bo right, then she surrenderd her first_priviloge of nationhood. I3ut she has not doue so, and I trust never will do so. Re- spectfully yours, JORN P, SUTTON, e SETTLERS NEED NOT FEAR. The Order of the Interior Department Misinterpreted. The following letter will explain itself: DEPARTMENT OF (THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 80,— Hon. C. H. Van Wyck, Nebraska City—Sir: Tam i roceipt of your letter of the 218t inst., relative to lands patented to the St. Joseph & Denver City railroad company, west of Hastings, Neb., beyond which point said company mnever constructed its road. You refer to the unsettled feeling of the purchas- ers of said lands from the company, aud state that other parties are attempting io enter the lands under the public land laws, and ask what more, if anything, is necessary for said purchasers (from the company) to do, and ‘whether there is any probality of other per- sous acquiring title to said lands. In reply you are advised that there scems to be no present cause for uneasiness on the part of the purchasers of said land from the compauy, and I do not see that it is ne- cessary for them to do” anything further at present in. regard to their claims, as while the patents to the company for said lands aro outstanding mo further disposition of same can be made by the United States. Should the title of the company be vacated however, at the suit of the United Statos, the preference right to purchase 1s given the purchasers from the company by the act of March 3, 1857, ‘The present cause of anxiety on the part of the grantees of said company and the endeav- ors of other Inu'luN to enter the lands they claim, is probably due to a misunderstanding of a r ut order issued by this office (by di- rection of the hongrable socretary of the iu- terior) to restore to pre-emption and home- stead entry all lands in the indemnity limits of said road, not covered by approved selec- tions, This order, a8 you will readily perceive, does not in' any manner affect pretended lands, but from correspondence received in this office it appeurs that the impression ex- ists in Nebraska that all lands in said com- pany's indemnity limits have been restored to entry, without regard to whether or not the samé have been approved and patented to the company. Under date of the 11th inst. the land offi- cers at Bloomington, Neb,, reported that a largo number of applications to enter said lands had been fited in their oMce, and asked instructions as to the proper dispsition of the same; whereupon this oftice, under date of the 21st inst., informed them that patents had been issued to said company for all the otions in its indemnity limits in their dis- trict (which embraces the land referred to by you), and that, thercfore, not single tract therein was affected h{ aid order, and instructed them to reject all applications to Very respectfully, 5. M. STOUKSLAGER, Commissioner. enter said lands. S Gets His Money, SAN FrANCi3c0, May 10.— At the executive meeting of the directors of the Nevada bank held yesterday ex-Benator Fair was paid tho balance of the §2,000,000 which the bank owed nim. This money was in_sottlement of & claim against the bank for $2,000,000 he had put into the concern 1 enablé it to tide over trouble caused by some wheat deals. e —— The Dee Stake: LoNpoN, May 10.—At the Chestor meetiug to-day the race for the Dee stakes was won by Toscano. The race for the great Cheshire handicap stakes was won by Theodore. The race for the Ormonde two-year-old plate was won by S h Owl. e The Fire lecord, CiicaGo, May 10 the lumber yard of J rsou at Thirty- eighth and Laurel stroets early this morniug, destroyed an_immense amount of lum besices four dry kilus and a planiug mill, belonging to the firm. Loss, §50,000. — - Gold For Kurope. New Yous, May 10.—August Beluont & Co. have ordered $250,000 of gold for ship ment to Burope.