Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1888, Page 4

- THE OMAHA DAIL BEE: SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1885 —SIXTEEN PAGES. ——-—_—M THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SURSCRIPTION, Patly (Morning Edition) including Sunfay Bz, (e Year . . vee ik Montha - . ree Months.. . o Omaha Sunday Dxk, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year o o 8 #10K, NOS.O14AND 916 FARNAM STREET. u‘fl""?‘:flk O¥ricE, ROOMS 1 AND 15 TRIBUN K ILDING. WASHINGTON OFFICE, No. 513 FOURTERNTH BTREET, 0o 5 2 munications relating to news and edl- tn‘ul Thatter should be addressed to the EDITOR ® BER. e BUSINESS LETTERS. All business lstters and remittances should be ressed to THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, AmA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payable to the order of the company. ™ b Publishing Company. Proprictors 2 3 I THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraska, Lo, Jouglas, Y T ek secrotary of The Rea Pub: g company, does solemily swear that the R rulatia of the Datly Hee for the week ending My |1, 18, was as follo; Pt Avorage. ... ... 1830 e 4 submcried R0 TEECHUCK, orn to and sul in n,?lrrammca “Bth VA D, I . P. FELL Cay ordy, &. D 18, Niary Public, Btate of Nebraska, County of Douglas, Gt I Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, deposes and says that lie 15 secretary of The Bee Pub company, that the actual average daily circnlation of ilie Daily Bee for the month of May, 187, 247 coples: for June, v;w' “M,I47 cople Rilgnsr, to.n. Ser, , 1588, 15,206 co| ry, 18 16,02 coplest for March, 4008, 1R coples; fox AR BILONUCE. Sworn to before me_and’ subscribed in my Ppresenco this 2d day of May, "'»55;|'..“1‘§"n.um It whs a sad admission for the profe sion, which President Garrett made at a recent session of the American Medi eal association at Cincinnati, that there are too many doctors, and that the num- ber of medical schools must be reduced. The association has officially condemned and taken measures to suppress quack- ery and the so-called medical schools responsible for i BY the retirement of President Bar- nard of Columbia college, N. Y., that institution has lost one of its most val- ued friends. For more than a quarter of a century he has been identified with its management, and has raised Colum- ~bin to the high position it holds asa leading university of America. Dr. Barnard has morcover been a leader among men as well as an educator of the highest rank. To reciprocate in a measure the Bar- tholdi gift which France gave to the United States, the citizens of Washing- ton propose to present the French gov- ernment with a statue of George Wash- ington. Already n series of perform- ances have been inaugurated to raise sufficient funds for that purpose. The enterprise is laudable. "‘he American people are altogether too indifferent to the favors which France so often hus shown us. Tne Napoleons of finances, whose am- bition often runs N th them, are forever attempting the impossible. In- formation comes from Chicago that a syndicate is in control of the corn mar- ket. Itissanid tohold all the visible supply and is to be protracted until the new crop comes in. Undaunted by the collapse of the lard corner, and of the more recent corn and wheat corners in Chicago, these speculators, if report he true, have in hand a more gigantic scheme than any ever bofore attempted. Looking at the undertaking as a finan- cial possibility, the corner is doomed to fail. The Napoleons of our day have met their Waterloo when least ex- pected, and it will be with grim satis- faction that the public will see these adventurers come to grief. Itis not alone the parishioners of Plymouth church who are interested in securing a worthy successor to Henry Ward Beecher. The people of the country have their eyes on the famous pulpit of that dingy Brooklyn church. The man who is asked to occupy the great preacher’s place must be a man of national fame. The pulpit has ex- tended beyond the walls of Plymouth church and speaks to a congregation that comprises the nation. The an- nouncement that Rev. Dr. Lyman Ab- Dbott has been selected as the permanent successor to Mr. Beecher will be re- ceived with unqualified approbation. As o man of letters, as a historian, as a fumous preacher, Dr. Lyman Abbott has been a prominent figure. In intel- lectual strength and in rveligious fervor he is most worthy to stand in Mr, Boocher's place. Tur experiment of the great clothing merchant of Philadelphia, Wanamaker in profit sharing with his employes, seems Lo have proven entirely satisfac- fory. At the last division over one Bundred thousand dollars were distrib- wted among the employes, many of them receiving a very liberal addition to thieir income for the year, Mr.Wan- amaker was also largely benefited, since his business was materially enlarged, due in no small part to the greuter in- ferest and zeal of the employes, The scheme having been fully tested as mutually advantageous to employer and employed, will of course be continued, and indeed isalready understood to be a permancut policy of the establishment. “This is not the only example in this country of the satisfactory operation of profit sharing, several othe having ‘been noted by us heretofore, and thus far no instance has been recorded of its falure where both parties honestly en- deavored to give it a fair teial. In France profit sharng has had its largest development, and has been uniformly successful, "I is sproading, though in this country, but such examples as that of Wanamaker cannot fail to at- tract attention to the plan as one likely %0 accomplish a great deal towsrd ef- fecting better relations betwoen ewm- ployers and workmen, while contribut- fog to the material benefit of both. -Ewployers of labor on a large scale will find in the system of profit shaving | sonicthing that should interest them. The *Bee™ Heroine Fund. The memorable blizzard of January 12 developed several incidents of remark- able heroism of Nebenska's lady teach- ers, the story of which is familiar to our renders and to the country. Tlie wonderful tact and fearless daring of Miss Minnie Freeman, in saving her thirteen pupils by lending them, tied together, through the blinding storm to a haven of shelter and safety, has made her name familiar, not only to the greater part of the reading public, but thousands of curious pupils in every state have listened in admiration to the story -of the brave girl, but twenty years of age. The more pathetic story of the fenrful struggle of Miss Loie Royce, who with the three helpless children was borne down by the storm-king, and who in the drift of snow that finally covered them, saw her little charges die one after the other in her arms—herself finally helpl and exhausted, quickly touched: a responsive chord in the hearts of generous people. Miss Etta Shattuck, who started from her school house to her home, after her pupils had safely gone, she dismissing school upon seeing the storm gathering, conld not withstand the fury of the tempest longer, and grasping at the last chance far safety, dug her way with almost frozen hands into a hay stack, where she remained unconscious until found by a farmer, and conveyed to her home. Subsequently it was Jdeemed necessary to amputate both her feet, from the effects of which she died within a few days. The announcement that two of these teachers had risked their lives for the simple purpose of saving their pupils, and the other had been disabled in the discharge of her duty, caused THe BEE to start, among its employ es, a heroine fund. This action met with a prompt second at the hands of the public, until the fund was rapidly swollen to magnifi- cent proportions. Now that contributious have practi- cally ceased, THe BEE deems it proper at this time to make a statement of the result, which is as follo Royce fund., Shattuck fun: . Woebbecke fund. Freeman fund.. Monument fund (for the two phalen girls who perished)... 110.45 Making a total of fourteen thousand and fifty-four dollars and sixty cents. Other funds raised 1 different places and distributed among the teachers, amounted to at least five thousand dol- lars additional. THE Bek has rendered *to the bene- ficiaries a strict account of all moneys received, which has practically been turned over to them. The possible ex- ception may be with reference to alarge portion of the Royce fund, which is soon tobe invested by responsible men of Omaha so that it will guarantee to Miss Royce a life annuity. While the hundiing of the many con- tributions was no small task, THE BEE wishes to state that its work was given as cheerfully and as freely as was the penny from the youngest child who may have contributed. And further Tie Bewk desires to take this opportunity of thanking, in the name of humanity. each and every in- dividual who lent his or her mite in the noble work that was so successfully performed. Nativism Run Mad. A meeting was recently held in New York city toendorse the action of Mayor Hewitt in refusing to permit any other than the Amevican flag to be displayed above any public building. The motive was commendable, if it be allowed that there was any serious demand for such a method of endorsement. In referring to this matter some time ago we ap- proved the reasons given by Mr. Hewitt for this refusal, and they ought to satisfy all rational men. But this meet- ing was taken advantage of by some of the speakers to give expression to the extreme spivit and sentiments of nativism in the most offensive form. As an example, one of the speakors made this remark, received by his sympathising audience with vig- orous demonstrations of approval: **And all other foreign monkeys must go.” Now a man who would make publicly and with deliberation such a declara- slowly, | tion as this is not a good American citi- zen, though he and his ancestors since the landing of the Pilgrims were *‘na- tive here and to the manor born.” The sentiment is un-American, un- justifiable and indecent. The man who made it, if he is familiar with the his- tory of his country, is a base ingrate. What would this country be to-day if the foreign *‘monkeys” had remained away from it? Their names are found all through our aunals, conspicuous in war and in the arts of peace. Our independence would perhaps have been impossible of attainment without their aid. Tosuch “monkeys” as Lafayette, Rochambeau, DeKalh, and many others who gave their powerful help in the revolution the American people owe a debt of imperishable gratitude. They ne to the struggling patriots in the contest for free government on this con- tinent in theiv hour of greatest need, and with adevotion and sacrifice that imparts a distinet glory to that era con- tributed their full share to the success of the effort to establish here a republic which should forever be the refuge of the oppressed of all the world, Could they have imagined that the time would come when citizens of the republic would characterize their descendants as “monkeys,” to be driven forth from the republic, they would not have drawn their swords and given the best years of their life in the cuuse for which the founders of the republic fought and suf- fered and died. In the work of build- ing up the nation, also, the brains and energy of many foreign “‘monkeys’ have been conspicuously useful. They foundad the commereial metropolis of the country, they populated the ¢ inal states with an earnest, industrious and thrifty people, and in a word they laid strong and deep the foundations upon which have been erected the grandest national superstructure the world Lias ever known. All that we ave | to-day as a people we owe iargely to the wisdom, the courage and the endeavor | of foreagn **monkeys.” Thero is a disposition at presont some- | what widely manifested,. to foster and cultivate the spirit and sentimant con- tained in the remark we have noted. It should be discountenapced and de- nounced by all fair-minded Americans who understand the true character of their country and would perpetuate it as essential to the vitality and perma- nence of republican institutions. The republic could have no more dangerous foes than those people who sock to steer it out of that course which it has pur- sued for an hundred years with such marvelous results, and who herald to the world that it will no longer weleome to its hospitality and its measureless opportunities the people of other lands who would come here to make homes and assume in good faith the duties and the responsihilities of izenship. But there fis little proba- that these aefamers of their coun- try’s true characte® and enemies of its material welfare will accomplish any part of what they desire. They are an exclusive class of bigots and egotists with whom the great body of the people can never be brought to sympathise. Nevertheless it is not wise to permit them to pursue their way unchallenged, and it is a duty to expose and condemn their false and pernicious teachings. Adverse to the Treaty. The report of the majority of the sen- ate committee on foreign relations, ud- verse to the resolution for the ratifica- tion of the fisheries treaty, in the main presents the objections that were ex- pected. It finds fault with the presi- dent for not having carrvied out retalia- tory measures, as he was authorized to do by congress, and charges him with bad faith in appointing plenipotentia- ries without the advice and consent of the senate. It is undoubtedly proper to remind the president that in this latter respect his action was irregular, to say the least. It has always seemed a little singular that Secretary Bayard, an enator, entirely familiar not only with the precedents, but also with the senate’s jealousy of its rights in such matters, did not better advise the president. But there are two plausible explanations, one that the president may have ignored the advice of his secretal if he gave any unfay- orable to the action taken, and another that Mr. Bayard, anxious to make a record for himself in the matter, either withheld advice or fully concurred with the desire of the president to bring wbout a settlement of the fisheries con- troversy in the administration’s own way. The plan of a commission was an administration plan, and whether originating with the i dent or the secretary of state, it is more than probable they concurred in the view that the only sure wayto reach the end they sought was to go ahead re- gardless of the senate, trusting to the result to overcome objection to the 1r- regular proceeding. . But the majority of the foreign vela- tions committee do not find the result such as to warrant them in dismissing the objection. On the contrary they offer eight reasons why the treaty should not be ratified, the ‘most 'impor- | V' tant of which is that it is ‘*a complete?| surrender of any claim of right now ex- isting either under any treaties or acts of congress.”” Some of the specific objections presented are certainly worthy of attention,and if well-founded show that the American plenipotentiaries were less shrewd than the representatives of the British gov- ernment and the Dominion. The claim ofthe mino rity report that the treaty is better than anything done in connec- tion with this question preceding it is not quite satisfactory. What is wanted is an entirely fair and justarrangement, which will operate to the mutual ad- vantage of the two countries and bring this controyersy to a final settlement, and not something that is merely an improvement upon what has been, un- der the operation of which one party or theother might have future cause of com- plaint that would reopen the issue with added difficulties. If the treaty before the senate is not such an arrangement it should not be ratified. It is well to remark that the treaty has met with vigorous opposition in Canada on the ground that it surrendered too much to the United States. It is very likely that the question of vatification in the senate will be de- termined on party lines, as pretty much all questions in congress are being de- termined at present, and in that case it will fail. In that eventitis said to be the purpose of the president to adopt retalistory measures—that is, to pro- claim commercial non-intercourse when- ever the circumstances are such asto justify him in doing so. If Canada re- sumes her former policy with regard to can fishermen, which is to be ex- pected, the circumstances justifying re- taliation will not be long in coming. Perhaps a trial of this might be effec- tive in bringing both countries to a state of mind that would better assure a just and tinal settlement of this contro- versy. E‘A“()l‘ !\'I)TEH: A woolen mill is to be erocted at Woodland, Cal. A stove factory will be run at Tullahoma, Teun. Williamsburg, N. Y., barbers have formed a union. A piano factory is being crected at At- lanta, Gat. There is a petroleum exhibition at St. Petersburg. Forty miles of double track cable will be laid in Boston. Women barbers Francisco, C The Fort Worth (Tex.) board of trade will put up & $100,000 building. The grocery clerks will hold a uational con- vention i Pittsburg next July. There are over two thousand electric lights in use in English mines, The adherents of Mr. George are 1o wmeet in convention at Chicago on July 4. are numerous in San The Falcon Iron aud Nail company, of Niles, O., has just laid off 200 men. Furniture factories will be started up at Charlotte, N. C., and Weleh, N, C. About 10,000 men are employed in the lum ber business of Minncapolis, Minn The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join ous has nearly four hundred sssemblies. The Flint Glass Workers' upion paia out $200,000 to its mewbers during the strike. i ‘The Mutual Relief assoclation in counec tiou with the Bricklayers'. union of Bul more, has a memberSMFFBE 212. Last years’ expenditures amounted to nearly §1,000, A Cambridge, M bber factory has turned out 13,000 pa overshoes in one day Denver hodcarriers and$8 a day. Some o yielded. » o The bricklayers of Buffalo will work nine hours' a day at 3315 @hnte an hour for the coming y ear. A Monson, Me., n;J guorry owner has begun the use of the waste slate for marble ized purposes. ~ The Smith & W Springfield, M 4 three-story addition ! The heaviest locomotive in the world be longs to the Canadian Pacific railroad. Weight, 160,000 pounds. The boys of the industrial school at Gol- den, Col.,are cultivating fifty acres of ground adjoining the institution, A company with a capital of 22,000,000 has been chartered to develop 20,000 acres of oil land near Lander City, Wyo. T. At a few Scoteh steel works the wages of melters, hammermen, rollers, cte., have been advanced from 15 to 20 per cent. The Retail Grocers' association of Cin- cinnati hes asked the board of affairsto abolish all retail public markets. The Buffalo union has just run the scabs out of the largest bakery there by refusing to work with any but union men. A member of D. A. 24, Knights of Labor, of Chicago, is reported to have said that not 80 many as 2,000 still remain in that distric By adecision of the employes of the Read- ing Iron works to accept a reduction of 7l¢ per cent in wages, 1,200 men will resume. A co-operative glass factory is being crected at Stoneboro, Penn. The town donated a site and loaned the operato £12,000. The Chinese government recently re- ceived 600 miles of submarine cable fora line to be laid from the islands of Formosa and Tonghu to Foo Choo. One of the furnaces started at Ensley City, near Birmingham, Ala., last week, is run- ning 200 tons a day, the largest capacity of any furnace in the south. The other three will soon be in use. Abbott's mills, at Graniteville, Mass., are running only fifty hours a week, with sixty frames, on carpet yarns. This is the first time the mills has been on short hours in thirty-one years, The operators in the coke regions are weeding out the Huns, Poles and Swedes. One firm that employes 10,000 men will d charge all employes who do mot speak Enghsh, and no others will be employed hereafter. 2 The thirty-six brick manufacturers of Chi- cago have notified their meu that wages will be reduced 10 per cent from last year's pay, which was $2.50 a day, Thereareabout 1,200 men i the Brickmalkgrs’ ymion. The French nationnl printing office em- ploys girls as type-founders, priuters, book- sewers, book-bindersyetc., the wages rang- ing from 50 cents tofper day. After thirty years' service both m@uand women are re- tired apon a pension. The English socialists have sent out a ci cular opposing the ong issued by their Ger- man brothers in relation to the International Trades Union congress in London in Novem- ber of this year. The English circular is strongly in favor of it, even if they are not allowed to participate. ) The carpenters of Troy, N. Y., refused to ork the nine hour day which the master builders had decided should" bogif on May 1. The masons accepteq thie change, but had to quit because the hod carriers wanted an ad- vance of 1 cent an hour, or 26 cents. Last year's day consisted of eight hours, The wood carvers are still .holding out firmly in their long fight with the Pullman company. Butthe union man has proved recreant since the struggle began in January. Only ninc of the strikers are now unem- ployed. The company is trying to run carv- g machines, but with indifferent success. — - He's an Angel Now. had_a little jam; She locked it up to grow, And everywhere that Mary went The key was sure to go. She lost it in the grass one day, While flecing from a_cow. Her brother Johnny picked it up— He 5 an angel now. ——— A Kansas Cow. Kansas City Times. The ways are greased for a river and har- bor bill, but sanded for tariff reform and Oklahoma. ——— A Chinese High License. Chicago Herald. In Australia it is proposed to I $500 upon every Chinese immig tion to an annual residence tax of §100. This is equivalent to saying that the Chinese must 0. The sentiment scems to be spreading. it oio-diby A Cigarette Party. Philadelphio Press, The democracy is a good deal of a cigarette party, anyhow-that is to say, it is made of seraps, catches the dudes and creates a bad odor with a smaller _expenditure of time and cnergy than any other applisnce known to science. Lo struck for 82.75 the bosses have n revolver works at 111 be enlarged by a —_— Jobn Sullivan Again. Chicago Herald. Mr. Sullivan has just fought a return match with John Barleycorn. The latter did not run like Mitchell, but fought at close quarters and dealt stomach blows exclusive- ving that the champion was with his boots on. Sl Bda st ‘The Young Man of Cuba. Chieago News, The terrible state of affairs in Cuba 18 in- teresting but not novel. Affairs in Cuba are usually in a terrible state, ‘The instability of the government of that island is well de- seribed in the following beautiful poem : There was @ young man in Cuba Who was learning to play on a tuba, When the frail alo horn Tooted loudlyin scorn, And provoked a re ll;n in Cuba. What Congress Has Done, Philadelphin Narth: American. Congress has beens. in session for five wmonths, and the bulky appearance of the con- gressional Record might 164d one to believe that the work done wils 1 proportion to the time consumed. The''saldries of the con- gressmen cost the courtry about 2,000,000, and it is fair to supposé that the public should have something in retutn.” Yet during these five months congress has. Hpt passed a single important bill, What, has congress done! Talked. e If Editors Had Their Say. Philadelphia Press. The New York Mail and Express has beea making a canvass for presidential preferences of the republican editors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The result, so far s made known, is an interesting one. Of the 194 replies received 58 are for Depew, 69 for Blaine, 10 for Gresham, 6 for Sherman, and the rest are divided awong eight or nine other candidates mentioned. Ex-Seuator Harrison leads the vice presidental list with 86 preferences, followed by Willism Walter Phelps with 19, Lincolu with 15, Hawley 12, and the rest scattering. If these expres- sions reflect accurately local sentimrent, then a ticket made up of Depew for president and Marrison for vie, president would be the most popular in these three states that the republicans could name. preabeier Y Alas! and Such Is Fate. “I lett fifty thoasand dollars,” man of money, ‘‘to Endow an insaitution that alive my name, But a ghostly individual who come through Informs mo that the lawyers vided up the same.” should keep has di- lately have “I had left amighty epic,” said the poet with_a sigh, “1 hoped for recognition and I dreamed of deathless fame, But a ghostly individual who lately came on high Informs me that the paper mills grinding up the same.” are “I hoad_left a faultless systom,” said the ministor of state, YOt governmental ' management wheresoever viewed, But a ghostly individual through the gate Informe me it has fallen into harmiess desuetude.’ ——— e CORCORAN REPLIES. The Pope and the Lincoln Branch Irish National Leagne. LixcoLs, Neb,, May 11.—-To the Editor of Tre Bre: In your issue of this date Mr. Sutton, secretary of the Irish National League of America, replies to my lotter of the Oth inst. I will not obscure the subject with personalities or notice in many words the msult to my dead mother in his impugn- ing her veracity. Ihug my facts. He does not touch, much less destroy, the fact that thousands of poor, starving women in Janu- ary and February, 1847, as well as in 1340, were tempted, as strongly as is possible for human nature, to renounce the pope and save themselves and their little babes, and, like heroines all, they refused. Mr. Sutton ad- mits that O'Connell was in Ireland in Janu- ary and part of February, 1847. John Mitchell, the Irish historian, records those months as the worst of the famine, and says further of O'Connell: “To the last he labored on the ‘relief committees’ of Dublin, and thought every hour lost unless employed in rescuing some of the doomed.” My dead parents, whose veracity is doubted, worked also with those committees. Moreover, O'Connell spoke publicly of the horrors he witnessed, addressing large meetings in Con- ciliation hall. Now let us take Mr. Sutton's points in their order. He implies that I rush into vrint to defend the church. I do nosuch thing. One of the greatest intellects of this age Fan atddn r ply to such an imputution, “Non tali_auxilio.” As an humble Ia afortiori, T am bound to say non tali auxilio, Mr, Sutton says I lose sight of charity. I look on that as simply an ad misericordiam appeal. He and the Lincoln branch of the league should not have been 8o bounc- ing in ther insulting censure of the pope, who is my rehgion, and then no protest of mine would have been forced from me. Could they not wa we know the text of the pope's d we know it is not forged! Do we } that Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, is Rome engaged in the preparation of an elaborate statement of Ireland’s case! What is my position? Istand for the good of the Irish cause against the curse of anti-clerical- ism. Istand for right and justice on the ground of the compact that religious discus- sions shall not be allowed in the league. I stand for my own individual rights and the rignts of those who appeal to me that my religion, “the infalibility of the vicar of God —the pope,” shall not be insulted or dis- cussed at the league. I want a “square deal” in this compact, and no men to scek oppor- tunities of sneering at, jeering at and in- sultang priests, bishops and the pope of any church. Iprotest againsteven any attempt to make us the dupes of an anti-clerical con- fidence tr I stand firmly on the *Rock of Ages,” so ably and eloquently championed by Mr. Sutton in his address to our Bishop Rt. Rev. Mr. Bonacum. Tobject to an at- tempt to force us to embark amid troubled waters in a cockle shell of a boat or astride A snag. - " % have beeh idformeéd by Mr. W. C. Fitz- gerald, president of the Catholic’ Knights of America of the way in which Bishop Bona- cum showed his grave displeasure on account of those resolutions at Lincoln. In charity T will not press to hard. But I must not be forced to take a stand and to take sides. From all the facts in my knowledge and con- versations leading up to those resolutions I have no reasonable dou that those resolutions were Inpired by an anti-clerical spirit. One of the most loud who favored them said to_one of the witnesscs that ath as much superior to christianity as ity is superior to ancient paganism. ready to lay my case before our bishop or, as he was insulted by the ‘crowd’ of young men who favored the resolutions, before any other bishop and abide the decision. But if this anti-clerical spirit be forced further, Irish Catholics will be forced also to take sides. The church must deal with it. Mr. Sutton and those with him I do not say are anti-clerical, but their resolutions were, Mr. Sutton claims that his position is better and more manly. He admits the decree, says it is not ambiguous and defies 1t. T claim that my position is better and stronger. It is this: The plan of campaign was justified by the bishops and priests of Ireland before the de- cree. If the plan were then a morally lawful means, it is not less so now. Ideny the de- cree is yet before us. Isay the text as given does not name in condemnation the exact same means or _weapons which, on looking, I see in my hand. Mr. Sutton says [ am over timorous. To that I will say [ have read car loads of atheist philosophy, and I say to those poor men who might be led astray I am more than ever con- vinced by force of reason that llle‘l pe is the vicar of God. But I never doubted. I would knock the stuffing out of any of those athe- ists who would attack my religion on a pub- lie platform. Mr. Sutton admits my whole case when he says *the moral law laid down by the pope is beyond dispute.” But I am in- deed timorous of oing on the down track of anti-clericalism which leads to atheism. [ am fearful of leading others astray. I fear God, but not the British governwment or any men. But my faith does not make me afraid to die, but gives me mere darimng. My critics will not dare more than T am ready for. Mr. Sutton in his last sentence says, “If Ireland acknowledged the pope's interference to be right then she surrendered her first privilege of nationhood. But she has never doue s0, and I hope she never will.” To that I say those words are foolish and an insult. The pop2's teaching authority by its defined nature does not now and never can interfere with Ireland’s privilege of n tionhood. The pope is our friend. e is U only one on God’s earth to whom we will listen and yield assent to iu faith and morals, and no man should dare to tell usheis wrong and has not supreme right from God to decide what means are against God's law, Yours respectfully, J. N. COuCoRax. from who late camo Politics vs Religion. Davin Ciry, Neb.,, May 9.—To the Editor of Tur Bee: A great deal is being said in the papers about what Ivishmen should or should not take from the pope. Some de- clare that they will obey the pope in spirit- ual but not in political matters. That is a lame theory. Ifthe pope is vicar, i e. “in the placeof’ God then he is co-equal with God, and his authority follows you into every act and avenue of life. *Politics” is only the name of one class of actions, Acts are right or wrong. “Love your enemies” aud “return good for evil? are commands of God and if they can't be taken into politics, then the disciple of Christ must stay out of poli- tics. But, let me ask, why not take both your religion and politics from Godt Jesus smd: “If ve being evil, know know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heayeuly Father give the boly spirit to ‘them that ask Him!" ~What better spiritual guide than the Spirit Himself! Johu, “the beloved,” said, “1f any man sin we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” What ueed of auy other vic Whom the Son wakes free is free indeed.” If Irishmen uld throw off the yoke of Italian priest craft, and tak: on the yoke of the meck and lowly One, they would win the sympathy of millions in America and elsewher not sympathize us they would do, from dread of a worse thralldom thay English landlord ism—aid that is bad enough, God kuow Part of you charge the pope with connivaix with Engliab tories, snd part with being d ceived. . [u aliher cise, where is bis infalli- bility or Vicarshipf AN AMERICAN. said a° THE COMMITTEES CAN LOAF. Their Work For this Session is Praoctically Completed. DAKOTA'S SCHEMING GOVERNOR- Manderson Proposes a Separate De+ partment For the Distribution of Documents—Grover Gave Blanchavd a Tip, The Tarciff Takes Up Time. WasnrsatoN, May 10 —[Special to Tre Bee.]—Nearly all of the committee work in this congress has been completed Up to a fortnight ago nearly all of the committees in the house met regularly twice a week, and many of them three times a weck. From this time on to the end of this session there will not be an average of more than ome meeting in each month by cach of the vari- ous committes Nearly all of them have adjourned upon the call of the chairman, There are more measures pending im the committee rooms at this time than were ever known to be unacted upon at this time in a session. It is ebviously of no uso, however, to report move bills to the house, as not half of three already reported will be enacted into laws, and to continue committee work is to throw away good time and hard labor, It is generally believed that the tariff bill will not be out of the way in the house before about the 1st of July. There will yet remain at that time a number of unfinished bills of great importance, and thero will be a clamor for bills of national importance which have not been taken from the calendar; so that a very few general measures and a large num- ber of private bills, including pensions, will consume the time, The calendar in the senate is not more than half as large as that in the house, the work there beiug much ahead of that in the lower branch of congress. The second sossion of the congress it al- most wholly taken up by appropriation bills, of which there are from fourteen to sixtoen. The session only lasts about ninc weeks. Some of the appropriation bills require almost a week for discussion. The appropri- ation committee generally meets during the last of October, so0 as to have ready two or three bills to report as soon as congress as- sembles in December. The real work on the floor of the house on appropriations does not begin until after the holidays, and then it is a regular rough-and-tumble fight till the wind-up on the fourth of March. The work that will be accomplished by the Fiftieth congress from this time to_its close is pretty well defined now, and is very closely confined to those questions which have been agitated before the country and measures bearing upon them which have reported from e)mmittecs some time. They relate mostly to a few measures from the committees on commerce; the Oklahoma and territorial statehood bills; agricultural ex- periment and the agricultural department bills; coast defence and military reservation bills: consular and diplomatic reorganization, from the committee on forelgn affairs, t gether with exposition measures affecting ex- hibitions of this country in foreign countri general land bills forfeiting unearned grants to railroads, ete. THE CHARGES AGAINST CIIURCIL The charges filed by Dakota democi against the active and outrageous particip tion in politics by Governor Church of th territory, and the appeal made to the pres dent for the removal of that officer by repu- table Dakota democrats, have been the sub- Ject of much discussion around the halls of congress during the past two or three day: Church is specifically charged with hav ‘“‘'set up’’ conventions in Dakota with a view to the selection of Cleveland delegates, and the election of himself as & member of the national committec; as commander-in-chief of the militia of the territory the selection of men on his staff are not proper characters for the positions they hold; removing capable officers for improper personal reason: with having bartered his appointments aw: to ropublicans for his own advantage; insult- ing and ignoring the members of his party with unfair attempts to throttle the hone: voters in the territory: with compelling his staff, members of the railroad commission, the various boards of pub! institutions, the rogents of universitics, reform schools, the democratic judges and their imported clerks to do his disreputable work, and with pac ing caucuses with non-residents and republi- cans; capturing pe; 1 endorsements from conventions controlled by fraudulent proxies, and all manner of things which a federal of- ficer , in an alleged civil service administra- could not be guilty of. se charges do not come from anon, mous sources, nor from irresponsible sons. They are sent by the cream of the democratic organizations in Dakota, and the demand for Church's removal is earnest. The president, however, has refused to give them serious consideratlon because, it is said, he knew of Church’s political participa- tion and endorsed it. The president also knows of ofticials in the pension, postofiice and treasury departments going to thew homes recently to participate in conventions, and set up the pins for him and his friends. Yet he takes no action to reprimand or to remove them, as he has pledged in special orders, and is guaranteed by the civil sorvic laws. It is said that Senator Hall's commi tee, investigating civil service reform out: rages and violations of the law in general, will take lold of some of these matters with a view to showing up Cleveland’s bLypocrisy m the civil se natter A SEPARATE DEPARTMENT. Senator Manderson's proposition to estab- lish a separate and distinet department for the distribution of public documents meets with universal commendation. The gove ment pays for printing of vavious descrip- tions of ‘matter from §2,000,000 to #4,000,000 a year. Some idea of the amount of books and pamphlets and records and documents printed for the use of the government can be had when one considers the statement of gentlemen 1 ,mmtmn to know, that they would load ten freight trains in a year. Mr. Manderson’s idea is to construct @ building in close proximity to the capitol, where all documents for public distribution shall go from the government printing office and the departments, as well as those which now go cougress, and in this building shall be men vegularly cmployed who ure capable of doing their ntelligently. It is pro- posed that there shall be regular lists ept on _ file in this document building, so that persons who receive a por- tion may get all or aseries of documents, and that there shall bo some system and regu- larity in the distribution, so that the greatest good possible may be securea by the publi- cation, Tvis a fact not generally known, and the document rooni of congress offers more dates for wuthors and writers, as well as officials, thau any other iustitution iu the country It is therefore highly important that men b kept in charge of the documents perma- nently, so that they may readily turn to the matter called for. There is a large propor- tion of the public actious sent to the docu- ment rooms of the capitol, which are given gratuitously t gevery one who calls. ‘Phey are not alone issued for members of congress. The public calls and is supplied at wi Where there is constant change in the cal forces it can be seen that the benefits de- rived are generally impaired. THE PREVIDENT GIVES THEM A TIT, It is stated that Chairman Blanchard, of the committe on rivers and harbors, exer- cised the energy he did to secure the passage of the river aud harbor bill iu the house on Monday last, under a suspansiou of the upon & hint or request of the 5 stated in Bee despatehes sc s ago, the administration desives the passage of the river and harbor bill in the event of the failure of the tariff bill, and the crowding of the r and harbor bill through the house at this time is taken by many to indic that the administration has gi up hope of SUCCESS for tariff bill. The president is also anxious to 560 the tariff bill fiually passed, 0 that he may have an opportunity to redeem himself with a large indignunt class on account of his failure to sign the last bill passed by con- gress. The president received an avalauche of complaints from the country at large on account of his refusal to sign the last river and harbor bill, and as the one which has just passed the house is now likely to get through he senato, he will have an opportunity o re- triove sowe of Lis lost papularity in localitics where benofits are to be derived fn the way of river and harbor improvementa, THE TRUST X VANTIGATIONS, The house comm! on_manufactures, which has been for some time conducting an invostigation into trusts, will likely report to the house upon the two subjects which they have investizated—the sugar and coal ol trusts — and receive further instruotions, Chairman Bacon says it is not necessary for the committee to prooeed further in these in« veatigations unless the house desires to take some action upon the work the committes haa done or will accomplish. He says that the discoveries made by investigations into the swgar and coal oil monopolies revealed about tho same ffin.rll character of public evils which investigation into othor subjects will_disolose, so that if any legislation is de- sired congress may as well proceed to its work with the faets before it. Mr. Bacon thinks that there can be no donbt about leg- 1ation to prohibit gmln, combinations, trus! aud monopolies the necessaries of lifo being justifiable and on the faots alre: presented. b Army Matters. WasuiNGToN, May 12.—[Special Telogram to Tar Bre.]~By direetion of the secretary of war tho unexecuted portion of the sentence imposed by @ generai court martial (General ' court martial orders No, 1, January 8, 1888, Department of the Platte) 18 remitted in tha cases of William H. MoDonald and Edward O'Brien, late privates Company A, Seven- toenth infantry, amd they will be released from confinomens upon receipt of this order at Fort OGmaha, Nebraska, where they are now held awaiting transfer to the Leaven- worth military prison. The men will be pee- mitted to enlist again. Recruit W. Ramsey, mounted sorvios, hav« ing been ordered to be discharged without final statements by paragraph 6, speolal orders March 18, 1857, from this ofice whioh order was subsequently revoked on proper rep- resentation of facts in the case, by paragraph 5 special No. 78, April 5, 1887, from this office and notwithstanding the revocation of the order for discharge, the soldier was d charged June 16, 1887; therefore to redress & wrong and correct the record in the case, so much of paragraph 6, special order No, 68, March 18, 1887, as directs Recruit Ramsey's ischarge without pay or allowances and without final statement, is by direction of the sccretary of war, revoked, and the sol- dier (now a private of Troop F, Ninth cay- alry) will be furnished by the commanding ofticer of his station with final statements us of date of his discharge, June 16, 1857, This soldier is entitled to travel pay from place of dischiarge (Fort Robinson, Nevraska) to vlace of enlistment (Boston, Mass.). Nebraska and Towa Pensions. WASHINGTON, May 12.—[Special Telegram to Tue Bee.]—The following were grantod to-day: Nebraska pensions, original invalid —Benjamin W. Johnson, Atkinson: Jessia Knight, Blue Springs; Benjamin . Angus, Atkinson, Restoration—Burroughs Frecssa (deceased), Lincoln. Towa pensions: Original invalid—Samuel W. D. Frantz, EI0on: Johu Barker, Sandy- acob Brown, Keokuk; Hiram Martin, Homer; Frank H. Joraan, Danville; Milton W. Halsey, Anita; David N. Sell (deceased), Mount Sterling; Martin Vorloy, Oskaloosa. Increase—William C. Carnagy, Cedar Rap- ids. Re-issuc—John A. Phillips, Knoxville, Original widows, ete.—Mary A., widow of David N, Sell, Mount Sterling; Els widow of Sanluel M. McKinley, Caroline M., widow of Thompson I Bontonsport, Mexican survivors — Johu Baker, Lansing. The Anniversary of Gettysburg. WAsuINGToN, May 12.—The house commit- tee on military affairs has ordered a favorablo report on the bill appropriating $25,000 to de- fray the expenses of the anniversary celebra- tion of the battle of Gettysburg next July. The president is expected to be present at the celebration and, according to the present programme he will read the speech delivered by President Lincoln on the battlefield as an introduction to his own remarks, Tariff Debate Prolonged. WasninGTox, May 12.—The demooratio members of the house ways and means com- mittee have consented to an extension of the general debate on the tariff bill, which was to have closed Weddesday next, to the fol- lowing & . The decision was arrived at this i after consultation with lead- ing republican members, o R A BIG POW-WOW, Indians to Meet and Discuss the Sioux Reservation Bill. Rario Ciry, Dak., May 1 special Tele- gram to Tue Bee. >arties coming in this afternoon from the Sioux reservation bring word that Tndian riders have been out for several days serving summons for a grand pow-wow to be held to-night and to-morrow at the junction of Coon creek and White river, This is the most central point for a council of all the Indians from Standing Rock, Cheyenne, Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies, T ouncil will be attended by Sitting Bull, Gul, Standing Horse and other soreheads from the north, and Red Cloud aad his fellow malcontents from the south, ‘What the outcome will be can only ba guessed at. Nearly all of the southern Sioux have expressed themselves as satisfled with the terms of the proposed treaty, open- ing a portion of the present reservation for settlement, but old Red Cloud and his im- mediate following are opposed to unything like the new measu Sittmg Bull, Gul and Standing Horse are well known implaca- bles, and have often expressed a desire to go the war path once more. Several pow ws have becn held lately on the northern e ion, and much war talk has been in- dulged in. Troops at Fort Mead v put under marching orders last week, but litle fear of an outbreak is felt here as the whites are more numerous and the means of coms munication much better than twelve years ago. ville; - They Object to General Joe. Cnicaco, May It has trauspired that measu! were instituted by George H. Thomas Post No. 5, G. A R., in this city, a decision from Commander-in- f KRea, of that organization, on the action . D. Baker post, Philadelphia, admitting the confederate general, Joe Jolmson, wo con tributory embershij The question is raised that there can be no contributory or other than regular membership, but tha if such membership can be established b, posts, those who bore arms awainst the United States are ineligible as in the case of regular membership. i S Killed Herself and Child. INDIANAPOLIS, May 12.—Mrs. 1da A, Jor- dan, oged forty-one, wife of Thomas Jordan, a grain dealer of this city, gave s dose of poison to her four-year-old child this morn ingand then eut her own throat. ol died. The woman was partially demented. e — Delegates Chosen. CLEVELAND, May 12.—At the twenty first congressional district democratic convention to-day, Robert Bleer and Thomas Axworthy were elected delegates to the national con vention. e The Writer. The May number of ‘The Writer (13oston) contains a sharp article by James Purton on “Journalism asa Profession for Young Men," which is sure to excite discuss Editor Dana, of the New York Sun, valuable “Adyice to Youne Write fossor C. K. Nelsou criticises shary English of Miss Amelie Rives.’ Needs of Versifiers are pointed out in & caustic article by Jan Huckh and there are two practical art interest every shorthand writer partments of “Queries,”’ * Helpful Hints and Suggestions,” and “‘Literary Articles in Feri odicals” are, as always, full of interest The first edition of the April Writer was exhausted in a week, and a second edition, ing 11,000 copies in all, had to be printed. 0 of is one dollar a b Address, Tha Box 1905, Boston, Mass. - - With the Bookmakers Globe-Democral, Tips on presidontial races: At St. Louis, play Cleveiand to win und Bill Moxrisou for @ place. At Chicago, play Gresham: to wim and Willism Walter Phelps for a place.