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

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. - TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Morning Edition) including Sunday Ber, One Y oa: or Six Months ... oty ‘or Three Monthia . 2 i o Omaha Sunday Tee, miailed to any ad- dress, One Yenr. AR OMATA OFFICE, NOSTAND 01 FARN AM STRERT. New YORK O¥FICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 TRIRUNE BuiLpixa. WASHINGTON OFFice, No 613 FOURTRENTH STRERT. CORRESPONDENCE. Al eommnnications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed to the EpiTor Oor ™ BEE. AUSINESS LETTERS, ATl business lotters-and remittances shonld be addressed to Tne BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to e made payable to the order of the company, g Bee Publishing Company. Proprictors SEWATER, Edito THE DAILY BEE. Aworn Statement of Ciroulation. of Nebraska, & ol - Geo. Ah-rhu.c:,.'metuy of The Bes Pub- Nshing company, does solemily swear that the ActRl EIrcolatioh of the DRily 11es for the Week Snding June & 1684, was &S follo Saturday, June 2 v Bunday, June 3. Monday, June 4. neaday, Jyne 1 inenday, Juns 6. Lursday, Jine 7. 1day, June 8 Average. Fworn to and subscribed tn my, presence this #th day of June, A. D, It N.F. FEll ul Btato of Nebraska, tss County of Douglas, X George B, Tzschuck, being first dul; Qepones and says that le 1s secretary of o Hed Publishing company, that the nctal averags the Dally BDee for the mont| of Was 14,147 coples; 'or July, 1857, 14,008 coplos; for August, , 14061 coples} for Bulmmnbor 887, 14,340 cobles: for October, 1687, 14,383 coples; fof jovember, 1887, 15,228 copies; for ember, R8T, 16,041 copies; for January, 1888, 15,206 cop- fes; for Februnry, 1888, 15,%% copies; for March, .l 3 D.fll?’g&p{!al;”for ‘Ablfl. 1888, 18,744 coples, or May, 8,181 coples. H GEQ. B, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to befors me and’ subscribed in my ‘presence this 2d (‘II‘ of June, A, D, 1888, P! FRIL, Notary Publie. sworn, daily circulation of June, AVERAGEDAILY CIRCULATION 19,021 Total for the Week - - - 133,147 i i i ottt THe Nebraska delegation to St. Louis was likewise a ‘‘kangaroo ticket” with the dunce Jim North at the head and the brains Sterling Morton at the LN ——— EpwIN GOULD has just been admitted to membership in the New York stock exchange. If anybody believes that the lambs have all been shorn this sea~- son, let him try to buck against the Gould family in Wall street. UTAR has sent to Omaha a special palace car containing an exhibitof the products of that territory. The pur- pose of this enterprise is to advertise Utah’s territorial exposition. Our citi- zens are naturally interested in the growth and prosperity of our western neighbor. and are always ready to en- courage an enterprise of this character. “TiE new bridge across the Missouri river between Omaha and Council Bluffs has been comploted. It has a double track and roadways for car- riages, wagons and horse cars, and a foot way for passengers.”—Annual Re- port of the Union Pacific Railway com- puny. Ar an imaginative writer of fiction, Mr. Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union Pacific, is a rival of Baron Munchausen. Horse car tracks, in- deed! Eyreror FREDERICK will have no “offensive partisanship” control over the ballot in Germany. The Prussian voter who goes to the polls will exer- oise his right of suffrage without dicta- tion from *‘Boss” Bismarck. The resig- nation of Puttkamer, minister of the in- terior, who has been ‘“‘offensive’” as an active politician, is a rebuff to Bis- marck and the high starch-collar aris- tocracy. As between Frederick and Bismarck thore can be little doubt now @s to which one is emperor, as well as rulor. MR. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS’ vol- uminous report for 1887 to the stock- holders of the Union Pacific railway company contains a list of the proprie- tary interest which the company holds in - various* concerns. Such are the Council Bluffs street railway company, the Union elevator at Omaha and the Union elevator at Council Blufts. It must have been a lapse of memory or a slip of the pen that all mention of a Union Pacific interest in the new wagon bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs in course of construction was wholly omitted THE fine weather of the past week has been most encouraging to the farm- fng interests of the state. From all quarters of Nebraska the reports come in that crops were never in better con- dition, The outlook in general through the country is bright and does much to overcome the unfavorable pros- pects which prevailed in the wheat market & month ago. There is reason to hope for alarge yiold of all grain, except, perhaps, wheat, But it is con- ceded that the favorable weather has advanced the wheat crop fully 20,000,000 bushels above the estimates last made, E— Tne action taken by the committee of the Fair association with reference to the building of a Temple of Ceres was on the whole wise. It would be im- practicable to erect such a structure on the fair grounds merely as aside-attrae- tion. The Temple of Ceres must be made the centre of a special celebra- tion, and surrounded with such acces- sories as to make the carnival imposing and novel, To carry out a programme which shall be on a scale of magnifi- cence demanded by such a project, re- quires more money than the Fair asso- ciation alone could reasonably be called upon to expend. The example of other cities should be followed in the matter, The board of trade and the various business men’s clubs in conjune- tion with the fair association could com- bine to further the project. In this way the success of the carnival is made the cave of the whole city, and not of any one clubin particular. If anything is to be done this fall, immediate action must be taken, A good plan would be for committees of the various business men’s organizations to meet and form a permanent Carnival association. When this is perfected it will be time to form- ulate 1n detail the eatures of the car- uival, A AR X An Earnest Remonstrance. The announcement is made thata majority of Nebraska's delegation to the national republican convention, under the leadership of John M. Thurs- ton, general attorney of the Union Pa- cific railroad, intend to cast their votes for Chauncey M. Depow. | This will ereate more surprise abrond than at home. When the railroads pooled issues and captured the recent conventions by main force, it was manifest that they had a deep design to foist candidates upon the re- publican party at Chicago who would do their bidding at Washington. But the great mass of republicans of Nebraska who have not become sub- servient to railrond domination for selfish ends and mercenary purposes will resent this proposed transfer of Nebraska's vote to Chauncey M. Depew as an infamous betrayal of a sacred trust. The foundation of this republic rests upon the fidelity of the people’s repre- sentatives. Mr., Thurston and his col- leagues are in honor bound to voice by their votes the sentiment of their constituents. Who, among the hundred and twenty-five thousand republican voters in this state has ex- pressed himself in favorof the president of the Vanderbilt railroad eystem? ‘Whence comes the inspiration for cast- ing the farmer and soldier vote of Nebraska for a railroad manager, who has nothing in common with the interests of the producers of this country ? On behalf of that great majority of republicans who still remain undefiled from the contamination of “corporate influence, we earnestly remonstrate against this perfidious defiance of their will and wish. Coupled with this pro- test, T BEE serves notice that its support will under no conceivable cir- cumstances be given to Chauncey M. Depew. During the four presidential cam- paigns since it was founded Tne BEE has always championed the national republican ticket. It supported Grant in 1872; Hayes in 1876; Gurfleld in 1880, and Blaine in 1884. Itstands pledged to support any of the candidates prom- inently mentioned, whether it be Sher- man, Allison, Gresham, Harrison, Haw- ley or Alger. But it cannotand will not rally the party under a standard bearer whose nomination stampsunder foot the cardinal principles upon which the party was fourided and through which it has held supreme control of national affairs for twenty-four years. The party that had for its mission the relief of the oppressed of all races; that gave frce homes to millions of the home- less; that struck the shackles from the limbs of four millions of slaves; that made the poorest laborer the peer of the millionaire can not and must not stultify itself by kneeling at the shrine of railroad billionaires. The party that gained its first triumph under the immortal rail-split- ter whose heart throbbed in natural sympathy with the toiling masses, can not hope to restore itself to power by making corporate monopoly its main- stay. And even if success under the New York monopoly leader was as- sured TAE BEE would still withhold its support. The election of Chauncey M. Depew would be a triumph of the con- federated monopolies over true republi- canism, It would be a fatal blow to re- publican institutions and a menace to the republic. is to be bought by the surrender of all that liberty loving Americans have held dear, we will have no part in it. In order that we may not be misun- derstood as to the which Tne BEe will pursue case Chauncey M. Depew becomes the republican nominee for president, we will define our position clearly. THE BEE is not a convert to democracy and does not propose to change its po- litical faith, It will not support Cleve- land and Thurman. ‘We propose to uphold republicanism and republican principles as expounded by the founders of the party, We pro- pose to support an electoral ticket made upof republicans who will stand pledged to cast their votes for a republican candidate for the presidency, but will not vote for Depew. We confidently believe thatamajority of the party in this state will rally around the standard of true republicanism and give such an electoral ticket their support. In other words, the anti-monopoly republicans of Nebraska will put an electoral ticket in the field made up of republicans who have the courage of their convictions and will stand or fall by them. ’ If the railroad republicans persist in opposing such an electoral ticket by a ticket pledged to Depew they must take the responsibility for whatever dis- aster may befall the party. Signs of Defection, One of the most prominent demo- cratic politicians of Brooklyn, N. Y., said toan interviewer on the day of Cleveland’s nomination that he should not vote for him, that he knew & num- ber of active and influential deraocrats in that city who would not support the president for re-election, and that he had wo doubt Kings eounty would give @ republican majority next November. Mayor Hewitt of New York was inter- viewed before and since the democratic convention, and on both occusions in- timated very decisively that he would do nothing to promote the re-election of Mr. Cleveland. In the first inter- view he was quoted as saying that he would wot vote for Cleve- It republican supremacy course in 1and *‘because he is no statesman,” and he did not believe in his re-election..In the later interview he declined to say whether or not he would support the ticket, but he said suffjcient to show that he has no regard for Mr. Cleveland and will not be likely to exert himself for his re-clection, if indced he shall not actively and openly oppose him. Mr. Cooper, of New York, a politician of equal or greater influence than Hew- itt, may be safely counted unpon not to take any active part in the campaign, and it will not be at all surpriging if he publicly declares himself against Clove- land. In other quarters signs of defec- tion are making their appearance, but those in New York are of cspecial sig- nificance. The truth f& that the country has taken note, as it naturally would, only of the boisterous display of enthusiasm by the democracy at St. Louis, and lost sight of the strong underourrents of dis- pleasure and diesatisfaction that are of wide extent. Witnessing the exuber- ant manifestations of the national con- vention, the majority of people have been willing to accept it for what it seemed to be, without reflecting upon how much insincerity there was in it and the extont of disappointment and chagrin it concealed. The artificial exultation has been mistaken for the genuine article, the manufactured zeal for & spontaneous ardor. But be- nenth all this surface show of passionate gratification there was a keen sonso of its hollowness and its pretense, and as well a spirit of dissatisfaction that was held in check only by the most earnest appeals for the “good of the party.” It may he impossible, however, to keepin line all of those who were ready to raise in the convention the banner of revolt, and who in fact did for two days menace the harmony of the convention. The strong interests which influenced their conduct at St. Louis remain, and what they found impossible of accomplish- ment there they may seek toattain where the voice of the minority is more potent. These men may refuse to be decoyed into supporting Mr. Cleveland and a policy they deem inim- ical to them because there is associated with him a truer and abler democrat whom they would be glad to honor, but who if elected would be powerless against the obstinacy and the despotic spirit of the party dictator. There are democrats in New York, New Jersey and Indiana, who have a practical concern in the result of the next presidential election, and who will be very little swayed by any sentimental considerations, Whatever effect the red handana may have on the-masses of the party it will possess little attrac- tions for those intelligent and sub- stantinl democrats who have im- portant interests at stake. The Hewitts and the Coopers of the party have got beyond the time when the hurrahs and the devices that catch the crowd can affect them, and it may be developed that they are more numerous than is now supposed. It is but four days since the national democratic con- vention finished its work, and already there is defection in influential quart- ers. What may not reasonably be ex- pected as the campaign advances, if the representatives of the republican party shall act with the wisdom that is hoped for in the choice of candidates and the enunciation of principles? TiE day is not far distant when an all rail line will connect New York city with Buenos Ayres,the capitalof Argen- tine Republic in South America. The plan is certainly feasible. An interna- tional railroad extending from the United States through Mexico, Central America, and draining South America from one extreme to the other, must of necessity cement international trade on the American continent. Much more has been accomplished in a realization of this railrond project than is com- monly credited. Within the past three years the South American states have actually built and surveyed routes for at least one-third of the distance, about n thousand miles between Buenos Ayres and Bogota, the capital of Colombia,not 500 miles from De Lessop’s canalin Pan- ama. Railroad connectionsare alveady established between our country and the City of Mexico. And thetask of binding the Spanish republics of the south to the Mexican capital though of a stupendous character, is certuinly within the possi- bilities of engineering triumphs. The completion of De Les- sep’s great canal at Panama will be a great stimulus to the project. Undoubtedly the gap of a thousand miles between the City of Mexico and the Panama canal will be closed by railvoad connection as soon as the com- mercial importance of the inter-oceanic canal is cstablished. There would be, in that event, about 2,500 miles to be built between the Panama canal and the termini of the railroads leading northward from Buenos Ayres. The difficulties in the way of a South Amer- ican railroad are nogreater than the ob- stacles which attended the building of the Union Pacific twenty yearsago. What can be done in the next twenty years may mnow appear fauciful and hairbrained. e Tue Rev. Mr. Pendleton, of Worces- ter, Mass., has made a most unenviable notoriety as being the originator of the story that President Cleveland had since his marringe been guilty of sev- eral acts - of dissipation and bad fre- quently ill-treated Mrs. Cleveland. He claims to have said very little to a reporter who interviewed him, which he requested should not be printed, and he charges the newspaper man with having made him responsible for a great deal more than was said. Apolo- gies and explanations, however, will not acquit him of having been most in- judicious and uncharitable in repeat- ing the ill-founded gossip of a certain class of Washington society. The wvul pamphlet that was cir- culated at St. Louis, reflecting upon the domestic conduct of the president, is said to have been written by a New York reporter, and involved the mother of Mys. Cleveland. The most conclusive denials of these statements have been wade, which all fair-minded people will accept without a question. It is certainly to be hoped that the impcend- ing campaign is not to be made one of personal glander and abuse, from which neither party could hope to gain any- thing. Thissortof thing was the dis- graceful feature . of the last national campaign, and eonsiderations of evlf- respect and of owr claim as a people to the respect of other nations demands that it shall not Yo repeated this yoar. o —tetm— THERRE is*altogether too much “funny work” going on behind the scenes of the state board of transportation at Lincoln. When valuable pavers and documents can be filched from the files and nobody knéws what becomes of them, it is high time that a change be made in the clerks of that department. There is not a business firm in the country which would tolerate such gross oarclessness, not to say anything of the suspicions that the records have been purposely abstracted. The board should hold an investigation and find out who is responsible for the disap- pearance of the prepared schedules and papers. The matter is too serious to be passed over in silence. Where the Rub Comes, Chicago Inter Ocoan, Very boefy men or vory old men aré not, as a rule, good runners, Plebvieibert S NOY A Parodox. Chicago News. Horoe is a democratic paradox: Gray and Black are fast colors, becouse thoy do mnot run worth a cont. [r— The Dirge. - Ploneer Press. The democratic campaign oponed at St. Louis with “Dixie.” It will wind up at Washington with “The Heart Bowed Down.”” i i A Deserved Rebuke, Chicago Trivune. Omahn hankers for Chicago's hog trade. What shio really noods, as her unfinished Y. M. C. A, building sadly shows, is some of Chicago’s christianity. How to Get Solid. Philadelphia Times. The czar of all the Russias is moditating a trip to the cast to be cfowned emperor of castern Asia, He wants to bo as biga gun as Victoria, empress of Tudia, if he has to feo every railrond porter from St. Peters- burg to Samarcand to achieve his end. A new Russian loan may be shortiy expected. Sz adras Gresham and Van Wyok, Chicago Tribune. A oorrespondent writes to the Tribune from New York advising the republicans to nominate Van Wyck of Nebraska asthe candidate for vice president to offset Thur- man. He bogs to call attention to the fact that Van Wyck is as great a martyr as the Ohio statesman, and that his name, like vic- tory, begins witha V and has seven letters init. Well, the convention might do worse than to make its ticket Grosham and Van Wyck. £ e The Clean Sweep. New Yorl Mail and Express. In view of the recent revelations of the shameless violations of the civil service laws in the custom house—the most audacious of them by orders from the treasury depart- ment that were undoubtedly inspired from the white house—it. is well to republish the following ofticial record of the removals made by this hypocritical administration up to June 11, 1887, almost a year ago, as follows: Officers, No. Changes. Fourth-cluss postmaster: 52,609 40,000 Presidential postmasters. ... 2,000 Foreign ministers, 32 Secretaries of legation 16 Collectors of customs, 100 Surveyors of customs, all Naval officer Appraisers. Mint and essay office sup'ts. Assistant appraisers. ..... Internal revenue collectors. Steamboat inspectors. District attorney: Territorial judges. Territorial governors, Pension agents. Surveyors general Local land oficers Indian inspectors an| ageats. .. Indian agent: . Land oftice special agents, ——— Song of the High Protectionist, S. W. Foss in Puck, 0, yes,we'il build our commerce up by legal- 1zed starvation And benefit our workingmen by general tax- ation. We'll help the millionaire grow rich without especial struggling; And, though we put_the brakes on trade, we boom the art of smuggling! We've put a penaity on food, for each protec- tion meeting Would adequately stigmatize the heinous vice of eating. Against this fine no man sbould raise a cavil or a question, But pay a daily license for the priviloge of digestion, We must protect the workingman from Eu- ropean labor, Teach him to vencrato himself and execrate his neighbor. Protect him while he earns enough to grind the government axes And get_enough cach Saturday to pay his weckly taxes. ‘We would reform the workingman, and view with special loathing His vicious predilection for, and tendency to clothing. And we feel sure no patriot will ever grudge the giving. The government a daily tax for the privilege of living, CLOSETED V H NEEDHAM, The County Commissioners Transact Business and Meet in Secret, The Saturday deliberations of thé county commissioners were witnessed by a large lobby, the majority being on hand to put in bids for the opening of new roads, Chair- man O'Keeffe presided over the chestnut bell, and all the conrmissioners were on hand, A. H. Fricke gsked for $75 to pay for a fence that will b damaged on his property through the openfpg of a road, and . Par- rish’s communicaf relative to fregooing the court house \\'M{lm‘ed on file. St. Barnabas chufch protest against the payment of taxes was referred to the ju- iclary committee, and C. H, Hawes' com- mubication in reference toa new chimney for the county jailavas placed on file, The county clerk ggve notice that he had throee clerks at wosk on the tax lists, but that the force was jngdequate to do the work, and asked for additignal help. Referred to committee on court'house and jail. Eight | deputy sheriffs were ordéred for the grounds during the racing season at §2 per day, and the ract of J. C. Root for grading road 20 D was accepted, Iteports of cominittees—Allowing and or- dering the paymentof 8 number of claims; referring request of George Lober to erect a fruit stand in front of the court house. Resolutions adopted—-That hercafter trans. portation will not be furnished paupers for a greater distance than 500 miles except by ac tion of the rd of session; appointing Simon MeCarty road supervisor for the south district o s precinct, After ad ‘ommissioners went into secret session, and Lad a consultation with ex-County Clerk Needham and his at torney in r > money paid out and reserved by Mr. ) am for correcting the indexes in his ofice, which it is elaimed was done imperfectly. Mr. Needham, it is un derstood, informed the commissioners that he retained no more money than he was en titled to, and insists that the work was done as correctly the means at his command would permiit of. It all probability the com missioners will give their views of yester day's seance at their next meetiug. us {11 PROVES A BOOMERANC. Judge Dundy's Recent Declaion Oon« cerning the Union Paciflo. THECORPORATION'S OMAHALOTS If It 1s Not Suhject to State Con- trol Then Its Title to Them 1s Void—Judge Dillon Heard From. Works Both Ways. LiNcoLy Bureau or Tne Omana Bes, 1020 P StREET, } Laixcowuw, June 10, When the Union Pacific railroad, a fow short months ago, entered upon the work of defying the state and the state board of transportation the local attornoys had evi- dently forgotten a cortain very intoresting case the road had once met in Kansas. Through the willmg interpretation of the law by Judge Dunay, the road securtd an injunction prohibiting the state board from interfering in any way with the road or its exorbitant rates of transportation. It was t all appearances a great vietory for the oorporation, but they had more victory than they could handle and just prior to the day set for the final argument i the case the Jocal Union Pacific attorneys suddenly changed front from radical assertions that the case would be pushed, to the statement that the case would be dismissed, and dis- missed it was, before Judee Brower, on the motion of the attorney of the Union Pacific. There are some interesting facts and history connected with the dismissal of the case that have not heretofore been made public. After Judge Dundy had rendered his de- cision holding thav the Union Pacific rond was entiroly above and beyond state con- trol, that it was greater than the state of Nebraska and could not be regulated or'| centrolled by the state, oral Loese becan some work in the case that has “ surprisod the company and put an entirely difforent phase on thetmatter. The attorney general about a month ago visited Omaha and passed a couple of days nmong tho rocords of tho courts there, where he found that the Union Pacific had been for years exercising the 19ghts of eminent_domain in the state and had, through condemnation process, acquired title to over $3,000,000 worth of lots in the city of Omaha alone. The state constitution oxpressly provides that no road can acquire property in the state without_ being incorpo- rated under the state laws and subjecting it- self to state control, yet the attorney gen- eral found that the ljnlon Pacific had been constantly aequiring property in violation of the law and in the face of it demanded and received from the federal court a decision '.r;nlt the road itself was not amenable to the state. The attorney general also found that in 1885, when the state of Kansas brought ac- tion against the Union Pacific in that stato to make the road conform to the state laws, that the same plea was raised that the road was greater than the state and beyond state control. In the Kansas case John F'. Dillon, the general so icitor of the Union Pacific, saw the storm coming and entered intoa stipulation in which the road agreed to sub- mit to state control. Acting on this informa- tion and with the further knowledge that through quo warranto proceedings he could dispossess the Union Pacific of their title to grounds taken under condemnation proceed- ings, Mr. Leese wrote s follows to Mr. Dil- on : ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, LINCOLK, Neb., May 8, 1888, —Hon, John F. Dilion, New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir: Some time ago thie Hon, & J. Popploton, lato goncral attor- ney of the Union Pacific’ railway company, commenc.d proccedings in the United States court for the district of Nebraska against the state board of transportation of the state of Nebraska, to restrain the said board from fixing rates for the transportation of persons and property. A hearing was had before the Hon, Elmer S. Dundy on a motion to continue the tomporary order of injunction. The mo- tion was sustained as to 80 much of the order as related to the Union Pacific proper, and dissolved as to the Omaha & Republican Val- ley railroad, the branch line. T presume you are well aware of the facts, nerate the above to refresh your s now pending in the court and will come up for hearing in May. “There is no doubt in my mind but what the result will finally be determined in favor of the state, but it is cxpensive to the state as well as troublesome. 1 want to assure you that it is not the intention of our state board to do any injury to your road, but we do want to place the Union Pacitic road on an equality with all other roads in this state. You are well aware of the great injury it would cause our state if it were true that there was a corporation or porsons within the boundaries of our state that were great- erand higher than the state itself. Our state board have been enjoined by the United States circuit court from interfering with the Union Pacific railroad company on the grounds that the company is indebted to the United Statos government and was chartered by congress. This, it is claimed, is sufficient to oust the jurisdiction of the stato over the whole line. 1wish to state further that I have been to Omaha and have taken a list ot all the lots and lands owned Dby the Union Pacific and taken under con- demnation procecdings of our state. The law under which the Union Pacific has taken these lands applies alone to corporations of this stato—those that are governed by the Taws of this state. The Union Pacific depot, the machine shops, and lands and lots valued at some millions of dollars have been ac- quired in this manner; and now if it is to be said that the Union Pacific is above our laws then I can clearly say that our lands are not within the reach of any such organization, and our constitution prohibits any foreign corporation, or one organized under the laws of the United States from acquiring lands in this state for depot or other uses, ‘ou will find on examination that thou- sands of dollars worth of property has been acquired by the Union Pacific for its use, since our constitutional provision has been in fore The act of congress does not give the com- pany this power, but limits it alone to the public domain. The decision of Judge Dundy has startled our people and they will never submit to having a road in our state that they cannot cont -1 do not know of any good reason why the state of Nebraska shouid not have ail the rights over corporations in our state that tho state of Kansas has over corporations within her boundaries, 1 have before me_the stipulation entered into between the Kansas Pacific and Ames, and the state, and also a copy of the letter you wrote to Attorney Genesal Bradford, You therein state, that you advised the stip- ulation as it was desirable to have harmoni- ous relations with Kansas, It seems to nio that you will_desire the same harmonious feeling with Nebraska, Now what I desire is, that you order Mr, Thurston, your general attorney in this state, to withdraw the case now pending in our United States circuit gourt, and give Nebras- ka the same rights as you have given Kan- sas. This isnomore than right to the peo- ple of this stateand no harm can come to yourroad. I write this to you personally, as I do not desire any controvérsy between your road and the state, if it cau be avoided, and your sense of justice will convince you of the justice of my position. The factsin controversy are with the state, and a long litigation will’ cer- tainly do more injury to your road than the benefits you will recéive. Of course the re- sults will certainiy be, that if your company insists on.the ,course it has pursued and is determmed to éarry the case to a final issue, then the state will proceed to oust the Union Pacific from the use of the lands that have been condemned in violation of our constitu- tion and law . I dislike very much to bring on a conflict between the state and the corporation, but I cannot_and will not submit tothe proposi- tions claimed by your company, and if you decline to have the proceedings dismissed, [ will commence proceedings in quo warranto in our supreme court to forfeit the lands you have taken from our citizens. 1f you were here on the ground and made an examination you would readily see that the cow Lias o caseand if the United States court ever passes on the find wy conclusion right 1 do not write this letter to threaten but to appraise you of the rights of our state which the compuny have entirely overlooked, and feel sure from what L kuow of you that you will Attorney Gen- questic roalize the justice of my cause. That the friondly feeling and relations that have so long existed betwoeen your road and our state, should be continnoed, is my great desire; but to excluda one road from the operation of our la would be unjust to all other roads in our state and disastrous to our citizens, 1 trust that I may hear from you soon, as [ desire a speady determination of the question before the expiration of my office. Yours very respectfully, Wirriam Lekse, Attornoy General, The reply to this letter was recoived the week following from Mr. Dillon, and in addi- tion the subsequent proceedings will show that Mr. Dillon was intorested in the con- tents. Mr. Dillon's reply is as follows _Union Pacific Railway Company, Now York, May 0, 1888, Hon. '\‘f'nn.m "o, torney General, Lincoln, Neb.—Dear Sir: 1 have the the honor t0 acknowledge the re- ceipt of your lotter of the 8rd inst. 1 appreciate the importance of ita subject matter and the spirit in which your letter is written. I am not acquainted with the faots and have taken steps to acquire knowledge of them. ‘This will necessarily take a little time, but 1 will bring the matter to a conolusion as 8o00n as may be. I merely write now to ad knowledge the receipt of your commun tion, and to say that as soon as I can learn tho facts I shall submit them to the com- pany’s oficers or board of direotion and com- municate their answer without unnecessary delay. Meanwhilo I remain, with great re- spoot, your obedient servant. Jonx F. DiLLox, General Solicitor., This ocorrespondence and especially the straight-from-the-shoulder talk of Attorney General Leese to Mr. Dillion shows to the most obtusethe why and wherefore of the sud- den dismissal of the case decided so ardently by Judge Dundy against the people of N braska. But the dismissal is not all that is wanted from the Union Pacfio. In conver- ion to-day Attorney General Leose stated that stipulations after the kind agreed upon between Mr. Dillion and the state of Kansas would be prepared atonce and forwarded for signature and approval on the part of the Union Pacific, that the rocord might bo set- tled for all time that the road was subject to control of the state the same as other. railroads in the state. With a stipulation of this character on record the road would not be interfered with in acquiring property in the state under the laws of the state in com- mon with other corporations, The stipulations agreed upon botween the Union Pacific and the state of Kansas by which the quo-warranto proceedings against the road there were dismissed were briefly: 1. That the road agreed to waive all claims of right to remove state casesto federal- courts, tho road agreeing that cases brought against them should be tried in the state oourts, 2. That the road would conduct its opera- tions, its transportation of freights and pas- sengers and the rates for the same in con- formity to the state laws. 8. That the road will have parties in every county through which the road passes upon whom service by legal procoss against tho road can be made. 4. To exhibit all accounts and statistics of operating the road to the proper guthorities in the state. 5. To keep officers in the state who will have power to arbitrate and settle claims. 6, To reimburse the state for all its costs and expenses in the trials that had been in- curred prior to the dismissal of the cases, The state in the stipulation waived no right to quostion the legality of consolida- tions that had been made by the company or I‘l%hu in any pending suits. It will 0 observed that the Kansas stipulations were what might be termed iron clad and that thoy removed all question of extra rights that the Union Pacific pretends to hold by virtue of its charter from the fed- oral government. Stipulations of like char- acter between the road and this state will place the Union Pacific on the same level with other railroads in the state and the board of transportation can regulate its charges in company with other roads. The dismissal of the case that had been de- cided in the company’s favor by Judge Dundy points conclusively to the fact that the road will stipulate and if it does unot the people of the state have an attorney general ‘who will not hesitate to dispossess the road of 1ts lots and lands and rights of way that it has secured in direct violation of the state constitution, it The best of all spring medicines is Tarrant’s Scltzer Aperient. e — Stop at the Globe hotel. — An Octogenarian. Chicago News. “Who is this Mr. Thurman whom the dem- ocrats have nominated for something ¢’ asked Mrs. Wishiwas of her husband last evening. “He is a vory eminent statesman of Ohio,” replied Mr. Wishiwas, *and he is almost an an octogenarian.” ‘“An octogenarian!" ex- claimed Mrs, Wishiwas, “Dear me, why didn’t they choose a white man.. STATE JOTTINGS. Nebraska Sneak thieves abound in Sutton. Children's Day was generally observed, Chadron’s base ball team is covered with unfading glory. Quack doctors are travelling through the state, doing up the people. Aurora, Hamilton county, will bore for oil. The enterprise is commen le. Tho state encampment Sons of Veterans will soon eonvenc in Tecumseh. Nobraska City's nete opera house is cortain if the millenniu does not interfere, There is not a saloon in Fullorton or a druggist who has a permit to soll liquor. The Tecumseh Republioan is the oldest anti-saloon republican paper in the state. Ex-Senator Van Wyok has promised to de- ;\\T;r the address at several county fairs this all, The Chester Hernld says it is reported that tho Cheater & Fairmont lino will be ex- tended south, The Franklin _cotnty teachers' dnstituto will bo held in Bloomington from August 13 1o 24 inclusive. Scotia 18 in the throes of a school board fight. 1t is dificult to declde who shall be the principal of the sohool. 0. . Perkins of the “Q." road visitod Ne- braska City and real estate is held ina tighter grip than ever bofore, The MoCOook Demoorat has lived to the age of four years, and starts into the fifth stronger and better than ever., Beaver oity is working up a boom: Tho enthusiasts claim that Furnas can be made the banner county of tho state. < The Creighton branch of the F\ |, & M. V. railroad will rest at Verdigris station, thirteen miles northwest of Creighton, for this season. The state league of republican olubs will hold its adjourned meeting at Lincoln June 28, for the purpose of ratifying the ropubli- can nominations of the 10th inst. The farmers of Clay county foel jubilant over the prospects of a good crop this year, Seldom if ever before has small gram looked better than now, and corn also averages a good stand. A cinnamon bear and an Italian are work- ing the state. The Italian is tho same fellow who imortalized himself by saying, ‘‘Some- times me whippee bear und sometimes the bear whippee mo.”” The Bancroft Journal says: *Thirty-five Indian children and adults have died within the past six wecks, of measles, and it was deemed necessary to close the school at the agoncy in consequence.” The Burlington raflroad will build 100 miles of rond west of Alliance on the main line and twelve miles on the Black Hills route to Hemingford. The suveyors are on the ground and work has begun. It is said that a minister at Talmage has a “hoing beo” when his garden gets weody, and the members of his church come in_and hoe the garden, while ne sits in the house in the cool breeze writing his sermon. Through Senator Paddock a valuable con- tribution was n‘l'fll\lli‘ secured for the Be- atrice W, C. U. library. It consists of twenty-nine bound volumes of the Cot 8- sional Record, containing a report of the proceedings of the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th congrosses. A Fourth of July celebration that will rival any In the United States, will be the one held in McCook this year. There will be those to chase greased pigs, the Goddess of Libecty has been socured and the eloquence of a hundred voices will relate tales of the daring of the great grand fathers who fought, bled and died at Trenton and Valley Forge. Towa. The treasurer of Sioux county had $32,- 840.07 of public funds on hand June 1. The Iowa undertakers will hold their next state convention in Dubuque in June, 1889, A Parkersburg boy recently captured the first white pocket gopher ever scen in that vicinity. Prof. Foster, of Burlington, warns the peo- ple to be prepared for bad storms during the last half of this month. cx= The stone quarries at Monroe will soon be put in operation and will furnish quite a boom for that section of the countr; A farmer who resides in Tipton township, din county, has a hen that lays two oggs y time shc goes to the nest. Albia has just levied a speciul tax to pay a $2,000 judgment for damages to one of its citizens on account of a defective sidewalk. The council at Sanborn has decided to pay the street commissioner a salary of of §25 per month for attending to the usual busi- ness, thus avoiding the dificulty of looking after unimportant charges. 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