Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 26, 1888, Page 4

THE PUBLISHED E DATLY BEE. ERY MORNING, TERMS OF KUBRCRIPTION, paily Morning Edition) including Susnay D Cne Your $10 00 For Six Monti Ve 0 VorThree Montlis 4] ik ONAHA SUspAY Bee, mailed to any address, One Year 200 OMAAOFFICE, NOS. T4 AN D G186 FARNAM ETREET. NEw YORKOFFICE, ROOMS 18 AND 15 Th 16t BLDING, WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. FOUIRTEENTI RTREET. CORRESPONDEN( A1l communieations relating tonewsan edi- torial matier shotid be addressed to the Enizor ¥ TIE BEE. e BUSINTSS LETTERS, Al busine < und remittances should be adizecsed 10 THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 14, checks and postofice orders 10 OuAnA, Dr o made payabic to the order of the company e Bee Patlshing Comyany, Proprietors 15, ROSEWATER, Editor. —_— TH DAILY B $worn Statement ol Circulation, Stateof Nebras Cotnty of o Hobert Hunt for The Omaha Bea, ¢ the actual circuiation ao W ot ALY BEE for tho week ending 3 tein); THES, was as follows ept Sunda 18071 18054 313 16,05 . ROBERT HUNTER. Sworn to bhefore me and_ sibueribed in niy presence this 2 day of September, A, D, 1855, al. N 1L, Notary Public, Btato of Nebraskn, | o o Average County of Doulas, | * George B. Tzschuck, being fiest duly sworn, de- p-e8 and sy that e §s recretary of The fine Publishiug company, that the actual average @aily circulation of Tne DALY Bee for tie mouth of Se ln(l‘m'rer. 1887, was 14,549 coples; fox Oetober, ixv, 1155 for_November, 4 copies; for Dec 1887, 15,041 cop: 15KR, 15, for June, 186, 10, coples: foF August, $worn to presence this th day % . P. FEIL Notary Pub! S el e b WAt will Pat Bgan do if Fitzgerald should run for congress? WA Indiana objects to just now is a surfeit of campaign oratory anda searcity of Cal, Brice's crisp five dollar bills, TiE old rumor is again revamped to the effect that the Union Pacific con- templates the removal of its machine shops from Omaha. SOMETHING like fifteen thousand bills Have been introduced in the house and seunate this session. Only two hundred and eighty of these, which are of gen- eral character, have become laws Huan Mukrpeiy went down to Lincoln to invite Fitzgerald to run for congress. This looks as if We, Us & Co. were to have the contract for the pipe-laying and repeating in Omaha and vicinity. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER is a lucky man. He will be sworn in October 8, when he will have the supreme satis faction of showing off his new one hundred dollar silk robe to his -admir- ing colleagues on the bench, ys ho is afraid that tic ticket will be loaded down with Irish Catholics. Thatis a gentle hint to Pat Ford to get off the track, and leave a place on the demo- cratic legislative ticket for the Honor- able Jim. WHEN the work of sewer-building is 80 faulty that even Mike Meany throws up hishands in disgust, and when city paving is openly laid in direct violation of the specifications, it is high time that contractors were looked after by the board of public works. MAYOR ROHRER, of Council Bluffs, ‘Thas extended his right hand of fellow- ship to Mayor Broatch asking him to co- operute with him in celebrating the opening of the new bridge. The proffer has been accepted, and the two cities will see to it that the cordial grasp is eemonted in lasting friendship. As THE Hon, John Fitzgerald is the president of the Irish National league of America, it is hard to see how he can eonsistently allow his name to be used a5 a candidate for congress. The Omaha *dark horse’ still stunds a good chance of being entered for the congressional race—-and being distanced at the quar- ter-stretch by Connell. THE operations of James L. Bedwell, the confidential clerk of a promi- nent New York tirm of lawyers, throws completely into the shade the audacity ot the average defaulting bank cashier. By ing bogus mortgages he pocketed nearly a quarter of a million and would never have been suspected in his long sarveer of fraud haa his practices not Been disclosed through an accidental oceurrence, DouUBLE-BARRELED independent jour- malism in Omaha is to terminate ab- ruptly next Monday. The acrobats ot oither end of the political teeter- Woard have had their fun, but the strict- Iy original venture at political shuttle- eock and battledore has proved a la- mentable fizzle. It was nothing more than a straddle, and straddlers in a eampaign are neither respected or feared. It is not likely that the pro- priotor of the see-saw will take out a patent on his now-you-see-it-and-now- you-don’t invention. “'MR. JouN L. MeANS, of Grand Ts- land, has been put in nomination for thestate senate with a hurrah, Tle re- ceived hs title to this honor through the railroad gang with which he has trained ever since he had a chance to wide on a pass. When Charles Fraucis Adams revised his pass-list on mocount of the inter-state com- merce law, My, Means decided to leave the state and locate in Culi forvi But John M. Thurston induced him to change his mind, and Be has decided to remain and make him- sell useful to his reilrond patrons. It only remuins to be soen now whether $he votors of his district who do not ‘wear brass collars wil! help him to the geat in tho senate which Sum Wolbach Alled during thelast term with unflinch- hf fidelity in spite of all corporate Bulldosing aud threats of a commercial Woy00tt. The Appeal For Funda, addy the demo- itional committee, the prime of which is erats everywhere eampaign eluborately The cratic ohje rsa fssued ) \ appeal to demo- for funds also o document, It somew the principal issue in the invas, and docs not leave untouched any of the present grounds of controvesy between the two parties. It is more than proba- ble that its preparation wus entrusted to the gifted Mr. Henry Watterson, strong teaces of his virile thought polished sty being discovera- ble in it. The impression veys, however, is that the ading up, down, 1o of the matter than the likely to wade would have been discasses present and con argume the is rather more extende democrat will through, and that iv wiscer to have stated few general principles and gone more divectly to the main purpose. The infe from this addr¢ that the democratic officcholders ave not chipping in with the alacrity they were expected to, and that there has also been a disappointing want of 1ib- erality in other divections from which the party managers had hoped to de- vive part of the sinews of There ave a great many manu turers in the country who are demo- wve heen, but they appear to ar their old-time interest in the party. Some time ago a number of these in New York were invited to meet ‘hairman Brice, of the national cam- paign committee, with a view to giving financial aid to the campaign, but it is understood the report was highly un- satisfacto the chairman. He is 1id to have learned from many of these manufacturers that they w putting their campaign money into congres- sional districts in the interest of repub- lican candidates for congress, believing there is greater necessity for a change in the politieal denomination of the house of representatives than theve is to elect a vrepublican president. Lvidently the democratic national committee is ina bad way financially. The address betrays this. And it is quite possible that it will continue so unless heroie measures ave adopted, 1f the officeholders have not yet shown the interest and liberality that were expected of them, if the president’s ten thousand dollar contribution has failed of effect upon the stipendiarvies of the administration, there is good reason to they will not be aroused to a of duty later on. With the chances of democratic success growing smaller as the day of election draws nearer, it is obvious that there will be increased difficulty in inducing men who will count their oflicial tenure by months to voluntarily give up gener- ously of their salary for campaign use, It would seem that the larger number of these officeholders are looking at the situation in this way, for the more in- telligent of them must see that their party is steadily losing ground, and being protected by the law against com- pulsory assessments, not much is being done by any of them, and some of them are doing nothing at all, to help the parcty financiaily. wch, at least, is certainly to be inferred from the address of tho national treasury, for were the ofticeholders con- tributing as they were expected to do the campaign fund at this time should be abundant. 1t is a discouraging situ- ation for the national committee, and we doubt that it will get any better, e mee is war, Taking Care of the Faithful. 1t is said that areign of terror exists on the New England branch of the rail- way mail service, owing to the great number of removals that are being made. The railway mail service is not subject to civil service rules. When the commission asked to be given juris- diction of this branch of the postal ser- vice Postmaster General Dickinson op- posed the request and his view pre- vailed. The object of this far-seeing politician is now appearing in the way in which republicans are being re- placed by democrats in the rail- way mail service, not only in N England, though notably there, but all over the country, Within a month more than a score of the very best clerks in the New England de- partment have been removed, not on charges, but undeniably to make places for democrats. To silence the clamor which is just now being made for what few offices remain in the hands of republicans, the president so far for- got his professed devotion to the princi- ples of a non-partisan civil service as to permit the removal of Superintendent Jackson of the railway mail service, who was one of the most experienced, faithful and efficient men in the ser- vice. The apparent policy is to allow no republican to coutinue in the vice if any way can be found to get along without him, regard- less of consequences to the service. The general public should understand, if it does not already do so, that the railway branch of the mail scrvice is the most important of all, and a knowl- edge of its arduous duties the most difficult to obtain. Not every man can be an efficient railway postal clerk, and there is no class of government employes who ought to be move se- cure in their vositions than postal clerks who arve competent-and efi- cient. But in the presont ex gency the democratic head of the postofiice department is not permit- ting considerations of this sort to trouble him. The party require- ments are urgent, and those must bo at- tended to although the effect is very sure to be more or less demoralizing to the mail service of the country. The patient people may continue to com- plain, as they havo been doing for full two years, buu the powers at Washing- ton are only coucerned with the fact that every democrat who replaces a re- publican will be a contributor to the campaign fund and a more uotive worker in the democratic cause. Mr. Claveland is reported to have said to somebody that he would rather be defeated than to prostitute his power for his political advantage. 1f he really said this what does it amouat to in face of the fact that he allows the service, in the efficiency of which the whole people are most intimately and ser- concerned, to be prostituted to partisan advantage? The postal service under this administration has been about the worst the couutry ever known, and the promise conveyed in the course thatis being pursued of turn- out experienced, competent em- oyes 1s certainly not in the way of im- provement. But the condition that confronts the democratic party will not admit of any trifling ing BNew Rule Required. It appenrs that at present the chair man of the house committee on enrolled bills can take hisown time aboutconvey- ing to the president bills that have been passed. There is no law or rule govern- ing the transmission of acts of congress to the president. The committee on enrolled bills devive the authority ex- ercised in thisparticular from a custom that has atways obtained, They are under to perform this duty, and if they failed from any cause or eaprice to place any act of the two houses before the president fo proval, they would ba amenuble to law or rule of the house. There can be 10 que: adangerous P to permit o commit- 1ee to The present eustom of transmitting enrvolled bills to the presi- dent is wanifestly undesirable, and ought to be changed. What is necded isa preseribed system of transmittal which shall take out of the hands of the chairman of the committee on en- volled bills the power to nullify the work of congress. In the last days of a session bills pussed by both houses which the president fails to sign do not beecome laws, The ten days’ limit of the constitution fdoes notoperate during the last ten days of a session. At this period a member of the committee on enrolled bills could defeat the will of congress by retaining in his possession an envolled bill and declining to lay it before the president. If the members of that committee can hold a bill for two months without the knowledge of the house. as has been done, it is easy to see how they could frustrate the will of congress and de- feat important legislation. ‘What is obviously noeded flexible rule governing of envolled bills and their transmission to the president within a spéeified time. The nature of the duties assigned the committee on enrolled hills does not make it neces- sary that the committee should carry acts of congress to the president. The whole duty of the committee consists in examining bills, enrvolling them. and reporting the completion of this work to the speaker. Beyond this the com- mittce has no jurisdiction, but it has been the practice to consign all bills to the committee for transmission to the president. The course pursued with the Chinese vestriction bili has awak- ened congry to the ity of a change. and it will probably be deter- mined at the next session that bills shall Dbe prowmptly sent to the president, no obligation ion that this is is an in- the custody providing for nece Mi. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS in a letter to the Kansas City press, recently called attention to the cause of the hot winds of Kansas which periodically sweep over that state and bring blight to the standing evops. [t is his theory that the treeless plains of the south- western part of Kansas have become so thoroughly baked by the sun as o con- stitute a great reflector, throwing back the heat as if reflected from a vast expanse of tile. The fail- ure of the crops in certain counties in western Kansas this year has been due to prolonged drought, and gives color to Mr. Adams’ argument. Public interest has been stimulated in the state to devise a means of averting this condition of affairs. The planting of trees in these sections of Knnsas on a grand scale is urged. As the season for fall tree planting is approaching, it is more than likely that a beginning will be made to convert o large tract of the trecless plains, The climatic influence of trees upon rainfall and their eflect in ecreating maosture in the air has been- found of incalculable benefit in our own state. Not only has the avea of the rain belt been widened by the extension of tree planting, but the hot winds once so fre- quent in Nebraska are now happily un- known. In a few yoarsthe extreme western portions of hoth Kansas and Ne- braska will be reclaimed, and there will not be a parched acre of land to be found anywhere. — SOME curious phases of the contract labor law are cropping out. Seven em- ployers of Buffalo, N. Y., wereserved with papers from the United States dis- trict attorney’s office charging them with violation of the law prohibiting the importation of foreign labor under contract. 1t seems that several hun- dred workmen employed in that city live in neighboring Canadian towns, and the purpose of the suit is to put a stop to their employment. As the prose tor in this case is a democrat and the seven defendants repnblicans, there is a smack of politics about it. At least two-thirds of these workmen are Ameri- can citizens, who live across the border because vents and cost of living are cheaper in the little towns than in Buf- falo. And even were they Canadian subjects, it is doubtful whether the con- tract labor law was intended by con- gress to apply to them, A GREAT deal has been said about gas light extortion and gas company swin- dlesin this city, but the gasoline job beats the gas jobbery all hollow. While the gas company is now drawing fiftecn thousand, two hundred and eighty: eight dollars a year out of the city for seven hundred and twenty-eight gas lumnps, the gasoline trust draws four thousund five hundred and four dollars and fifty cents a year for four hundred and sixty-two suburban glimmerers. Thecity actually pays two-thirds as much for a gasoline lump as it does for a gas lamp. It isan open secret that the gas- oline job was very profitable to the boodlers, but it has proved costly to the tax paye — Malignant Typhold Fever in Canada. Kixasrox, Ont., Sopt. 25.—The most m lignant type of typhoid fever is prevalent here, One hundred und torty persons are re- ported prostrated with the discase. | of brains to congre VOICE OF TH PRESS, Commenting on Norfolk News rem trict will send mord I's nomination, the gRhat “the Pirst dis the usual amount hi§ time th the singld emception of James says the B Wills Tines Winn republicans have no to e Laird, y “Sthe be on be reason ashamed of their capdidjites this year the contrary they hago g pound of most of théf. lumbus © Democrat il eat roasons to The ( says: §Tie O Be s e's abilities to draw a crowd, to the Siage of Scbastopol. 1f tiis thing keeps on, \,u.:{.- will be labeled as Barnum's ageregation, the ‘greatest show on carth, The Sidney Telegraph belioves that by the way in which the democrats abuse Gov ernov Thayer for signing the convict labor bill one would be led to think that they were all drifting towards the penitentiary and didn't want to work." The Wayne Herald thinks the “republican state central committee ought in fairness to pay the campaign expenses of the democratic candidate for congress in this district and see that lie speaks in every county. It's the cheapest plan to make republican votes we know of. " The Plattsmouth Herald sa nell: “He will be an energetic mewmber of congress and we believe will prove himself a puinstaking, vigilant, useful man in repre- senting the big first district. Mr. Connell will be elected and the Herald predicts that he will give satisfaction to the people of this district.” Says the Fremont Tribune: *Connell is & strong and growing man and his nomination means that the ontrage of sending w demo- cratic congressman to Washington from this state shall be abated. There is a round re- publican majority in the First district and Connell will at least poil his full party vote." The Nebraska City Press has this to suy of “Rainbow Chaser” Brice: “Chairman Br says that the democrats will certainly carry all the states that they cavried in 1584, and that their chances are good for adding Mich- igan, Miunesota, Wisconsin and Illinois to the list. Evidently, Mr. Brice is ambitious t0 be known as the Rider Haggard of reck less and grotesque political romancers,’ The Ashland Gazette speaks of W. J. Conuell as a “strong man, a good republican who will ably represent the people of this district in the next congress. His nomina- tion takes away the last ray of hope from the democracy of the district. He will un- doubtedly be elected.” Concerning the guberaatorial campaign the Falls City Journal says: ‘*“The slurs and shameless insinuations of the democratic press of the state against the re-election of John M. Thayer will only tend to increase his majority. John A. McShane, who 0 in- dustriously put in his tims branding maver- icks 80 as to euable him to rise from a com- nion cowboy in 1571 to a cattle owner in 1573, will not meet with the same success when turned loose on a vange us large as the state of Nebraska and cdveréd by herds of in- telligent voters, at whosg hands he asks the displacement of that grand old soldier and best governor Nebraska ever had—John M. Thayer. N McShane's branding iron will be very busy if it: succeeds in touching enough mavericks to elevate him to the governor’s chair, b The business end of the Waloo Wasp makes some vigorous thrusts by presenting the following facts: *“The democratic press of the state is making a great howl just now over the fact that Governor Thayer signed the convict labor contract bill passed by the last legislature, Ip .fact it secms ta be a sort of nightuiye* to the Omaha Herald. The records of the last legis- lature disciose the fact that in the house nineteen of the eighteen democratic mem- bers voted for the bill, as follows: Philip Andres, of Omaha; W. G. Bentley and Thomas Simonek, of Saunders county; Matt Miller, of Butler; Patrick Garvey, of Omaha;: Ellis, Frantz, Fuch, Hayden, Kei- fer, Latta, McKenna, Reif, Schwab, Simms, Sullivan, Tyson, Wolenweber and Wright. Inthe senate J. K. Vandemark was chairman of the committes on state penitentiary and reported it back favorably, and, when the vote was taken on the bill, six out of the eight democratic members of the senate voted in favor of its passage. They were Bonesteol, Campbell, C. D. Casper, the great anti-monopolist of Butler county, Shervin, Wolbach and Vandemark. If the law is such an outrage as portrayed by the Herald its own party in the legislature seems to have been ubout as culpable in the matter as was any one, when twenty-five of the thirty-six democratic members voted for the bill. Itis possible that the Herald is monkeying with 4 buzz saw iu this matter.” s of Mr. Con A Bad Eye to Civil Service. M. Y. Post. The peremptory removal of Mr. Jackson, the superintendent of the railway mail ser- vice of the Second division, without notice and with 1o reason assigned, after forty years of service, is a very unfortunate thing on the eve of an election, in which the demogratic candidate is supposed to represent civil ser- vice reform. He is Losing Weight. N. Y. Tribune. Itis said that whenever he tarries at Kis- sengen, Bismarck gets weighed three times aday. Itis tobehoped for the sake of his own peace of mind that Mr. Cleveland does not get his chances of election weiglied three times a day, just now. If he does he must have the conviction forced upon him that he hus got **a glorious future—behind him.” e On the Stump. Epoch, 4 4Why, shouted an impassioned orator up in ‘grand old Alleghony,’ to a vast assem- blage of natwe leek s, ‘why, T say, was not Daniel eaten uy the lion's den? Then in a low, thrilling whisper, he an- swered the question himself: **‘Because, my friends, they were British lions, and thought that Daniel might be a democratic freetrader !’ ‘Then the leek diggers shouted themselves hoarse. digye —— ‘The Way It Looks (o Some, Harpers' Weekly It is evident that neither party is at all confident of victory, aud cach is striving with all its might to overcome its adversary. Sel- dom hus a presidential campaign been so stoutly contested. The most important of the doubtful states to the democrats is New York. If they cannot carry it they will be as- suredly defeated, and there 1s whoro they are weaker than the republicans, as the latte can lose New York and still have a majority of the electorial votes. The democrats of the Empire State have made what was be- fore sufficiently doubtful more doubtful still by renominating Mr. Hill for governor. He is in politics the obverse of Mr. Cleveland ; he ropresents to the most complete degree practical pohitics, and will be strenuously op- posed by the best elements of his party and the independent reforme —————— An Uablushing Audacity. Chicago Tribuns, In the frantic appoal of the national demo- cratic committee to the democratic party to contribute funds to the campaign treasury the sigaers, William H. Baraum and Colonel Brice, allude to “the freedom of those in . office under democratic administration from exactions forcampaign purposes’ as a pross- ing reason why there should be a geuerous coatribution from the party in geaeral. The | states | tion. unblushing audacity of this pretext is simply phenomenal. The asscssmont of federal of- ficoholders in violation of the civil service has boon The rules universal i the northern peculiar bourbon methods of the south reuder it unnecessary in that sec The employes of the government, from postmaster to carrier and from collector to fanitor, have heen levied upon with no pre tense of eoncealment, not only in the douvt ful states, but in states where there is no possibility of democratic suc - LABOR NOTES. Allthe corn-cob pipes in the stured ot Washington, Mo, wh one man and a machine make 500 per hou The Journeymen 3arbers' union of N York has indiced 230 employers to sign the scale. Among them are o fow places that w boycotted. The Knights of Labor induced the government to place eloctrs lights and boow:s along the canal in order to lessu the death rate by drowning. The boe-keepers claim that they 300,000 persons, The annual prodiction of honey, 100,000,000 pounids. is worth £15,000,000, and the 500,000 pounds of bring $100,000. New Orleans houses deny that tne Tropi cal Fruit Importers' association is a trust One man say The principal product of Central America which comes to New Or leans is fruit. Fruit is a perishable articl hold it back three days, and the trust will bust.” A new chain wrench for pecially adapted for use in Dip ma, world of Montreal hav number plumers is es connection with andis so constructed that the pipe be turned from right to left, or vice versa, without removing the wrencii, while it permits of tightening the chain less than the length of a liuk. Sir Lionel Vincent, financial adviser of the Khedive of Eeypt, has been looking aronnd He says that oil 15 developed the same all over the world ; that the spout shoots more fluid in Egypt, and that the American oil is the best. Farm laborers who used to ive 16 cents per day now get i) cents per The price of Kuropean steel billets has increased, the price of the former ) per ton aud manganese $6.50 per ton. This year no ore has been imported because of the advance, while 1,000,000 tons were sold here in 1587, Chicago and ' Braddock manu- facturers are crowded with_orders. They are getting their ore at the lakes. el Bintors CONDUCIORS VS, SWITCHMEN. blooms and The Retaliation Resulting Keeshen's Resigoation. The Burlington strike has led to still another complication, and now there is a clearly defined breach between the Order of Railway Conductors and the Switchmen’s brotherhood. When the Burlington engi- neers went out last spring, the conductors saw fit to remain loyal to the company, and, in a number of instances, took the places of the strikers in the cab, or acted as pilots for the new men. Wiether 1t was done for loy- alty only, or fora chance of future prefer- ment will never be known. But the act in- curred the enmity of railway employes generally. At the same time the switch- meon remained constant, and for some weeks after the strike was inaugurated continued to do their duty, stating that the engincers nad never assisted thewm in time of trouble. A deal was finally made, however, by which the switchmen ‘went out in supportof the strikers, and in doing so they expected that the conductors would go with them. In this, they were disappointed, and as a matter of course, hard feeling was engendered between the two orders, which was intensified when the action of the con- ductors was sustained by a small majority at their annual couvention. The trouble thus started was never settled, and at length cul minated last week, when ex-Conductor IKeeshen was appointed night yardmaster of the Union Pacific at Tenth street. The men ob- ed 50 strenuously, that Mr. Keeshen re- gned, stating that it would not be pleasant. to worl under such circumstanc: ignation no doubt saved the Union P considerable loss and annoyance, for the company would have undoubtedly 'stood by him. Monday night however. hs resignation was accepted, and Pat’ O'Hearn, an old-time switchman, received the' ap- pointment. And just here, the conductors take a hand in ius behall and have insti- tuted a boycott against theswitchmen, For- they were in the habit of pussing switchmen in search of employment from point to_point, but now they will do it no longer, Four such were ejected from as many trains Monday, aud unless some com- promise1s effected, the only credentials that will pass a switchman along the line is the cold collateral, From Notes. Two coaches of Council Bluffs people went to Lincoin yesterday over the B. & M. Mrs. Crocker, of San Francisco, went west in a special car over the Union Pacific yes- terday. s Superintendent John Langtry, of the Union Pacific_building and bridge department, has Teturned from a tour of wspection over' the road. Boone station, six miles from Albion on the Nebraska Division Union Pacific will be opened in a few days. Thetickets have been printed and the depot nearly completed. Brakeman Black on the Union Pacific work train between Omaha and Summit lost a dia- mond stud yesterday. The finder will be rewarded on leaving it at the yardmaster's oftice. The following changes were bulletined at headouarters yestorday : M.P. Carrol succeeds M. J. Moore at Egleot, Wyoming, and E. W. Smith takes the place of K. G. Dinn at Bun- ker Hill, Kansas, whilc C. R. Fairman_does duty at Granite Canyon, vico J. H. Gridley. The brotherhood of colored trainmen is fast getting into shape, and all that possibly can are asked to attend a meeting at 4 o'clock Friday afternoon to be held at the Pullman House, corner of Twelfth street and Capitol avenue, The call is issued by Correspond- ing Secretary Clives and Secretary Allan. bt gl HARD COAL FIGURES, The Price and How It in Omal To get at some sort of an understanding of the local and foreign price of hard coal, the cost of transportation, the influences that fluctuate the market, ete, inquiry was made at the freight offices and a number of the principal coal depots yesterday freight rate from Chicago and Milw this city, on both the Union Pacific M. railvoads, is 17)4 cents per cwt. This rate bas prevailed since December 20 without a change, and at present there is no liklinood of either a decrease or advance. The ruling prices at Chicago to-day, wholesale, are $6.50 per net ton, for egg and grate, and §5.75 for nut and range. Upon the latter class the prices are all based. Here the retail price on egg and grate is $10.25, and on nut and range #10.75, delivered, or 50 cents off at the yard. These prices have prevailed only since September 1, when, owing to an advance of cents on the coal at the mines, and an ad- vanco of 50 cents on the freightage east of Chicago, an advance of 50 cents was made here. However, the increase involving the price here could only be 25 ceuts, the ad vauce upon the coal at the mines, inasmuch as there has been no advance on the trans- portation between Chicago and Omaha, and it is the price in the Chicago market plus the freight rates between that city and this, which regulates the price here. Omaha deal- ers claim that the local rates are b0 cents less proportionately thau they are in Chicago, which is corre as the additional rate from Chicago here is $.75. In Kansas City the market price is #10.75 and §11, hence the Omaha figures have much tne best of it. It is not apprehended that there will be any further advance here prior to the lust of October, to which effect the aealers have al- ready received notification. At that time there is a likelihood of both an advance upon the coal and the freight rates east of Chi- cago. 1f the price is not raised in the local market, under these circumstances, the dealers’ claim tnat the coal will cost more than they receive for it. The prices, prior to the advance on the lstinst., was $0.75 and $10. Aungostura Bitters, the celebratad ap- petizer, of equisite flavor, h"uxed all over the world. Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers. Is Governed HARLES H. BROWN TALKS He Will Not Run Against Connell— His Opinion of Fitzgerald. An assiduous N all yesterday aftor noon finally proved successful late in the evening in running down Charles H. Brown pointed interview about acmocratic sional affairs for this district resulted . Brown was found in the cosily appointed library of his handsome home at the corner of ond strect and Capitol avenue voriug over the political columns of Tue Evesivg Beg, which he abandoned and re cervod the wterviewer with his character istic cordiality. After the stereotyped salu tations, Mr. Brown was as as to the truth of the report that a committee of promi nent Douglas county democrats waited upon Hon. Jotn Fitzgerald at Lincoln yes- terday to secure lis consent to make the v W replied M. is not a scintilla of that statement, 1 wus mn Lan colu yesterday, but I did not go down as a committecman or upon a political errand. William A, Paxton was with me and after we had attended to dv matters that took us to the capital, we called upon Mr. Fitz gorald and had a very pleasant and agreeable talk with him, but did not learn whether he will run or not.” “‘Has the Douglas county del mapped out any definite programme ! “No, it has not. Th Ave as yet never met together nor defined any course to pur sue, and what they will do in convention [ am wholly unable to sa, As far as I am concerned myself 1 have spoken to a half dozen members of the delezation about Mr. Fitzgerald's candidacy. He is a very able and practical man, and 1 can_safely say that it makes uo difference wihiether he represcuts the Irish Na- tional league or the demo of this district, either would be competently cared for, As I said before, he is able, steady, up- right and honorable in all things and the de. mocracy couldn’t select a standard-bearer who would more adequately fill the bill than Mr. Fitzgerald. 1, personally, think he is one of the best man in the state, yet I cannot ay whether he will run or not.” How about the boodle that Douglas county promises to Lhrow into the canvas’ STt is proposterotis—a pure fabrication — a figment of the inventive brain of your Lin coln correspondent. Mr. Paxton and I were there on a political mission, nor did we know that Hugh Murphy was there uutil we met him on the street.’ oua candidate?” (with emphasis) Brown, ‘‘there truth in | sir, nor have I “But would you accept if the nomination was thrust upon you " “No, sir; 1 would not, but you necdn't print that still T positively would not ac- copt. However, were La candidate T don't kuow of any man 1 would rathier run against than Mr. Connell—still I would not run against a man from the poor farm. 1 am not a candidate for the nomination “What is your ideaof theoutlook, Mr. Brown, anyway ¢’ “Well, I'am & man that_ generally speaks right out from the shoulder on political sub jects, but feel a delicacy upon this head, in- asmuch as iy name has been more or less conspicuously mentioned. No, I do not think that it would be in good taste for me to ex- press an opinion upon the outlook.’ The democratic congressional convention will be held 1n Nebraska City on next Thurs day night. The delegates from this county ars as follow! First ward—Charles Kaufman, Cnarles Brandeis, Thomas Casey, Patrick Desmond. Second'—James Donnelly, sr., Henry An- derson, J. E. Gustus, John Simanek Third—A. Snyder, Gus Carey, Canfield, Julius Meyer. Fourth-—C. H. Brown, George Christopher- son, R. Engleman, Truman Buck. Fifth—Henry Osthoff, Ed_0'Connor, Gus- tave Kroeger, John Magorey Sixth—William Butt, James Steely, J. C. Thomas, Phil Door. Seventh—T. A. Megeath, R. L. Gates, W. A. Root, Andrew Murpiiy. Eighth—I. A. Shaw, H. Schroeder, P. Weinhagen. uth—1. J. Mahouey, C. J. Sutvin,W. A. Gardner. South Omaha—@. Routher, C. Melcher, S. B. Fonno. Union Precinet—J. I. Murphy. Chicago—C. W. Baldwin. Valley—E. A. Agee. Elkhorn—-John Newton, McArdle—Ed Calleley, Jefferson—G. M. Timme, Waterloo—A. H. Lee. West Omaha—Irank Vier, Florence—E. L. Hunt. Millard—James Polloc George Note A meeting of the colored republicans of the is to be held next Wednesday evening at the council chamber. There will be a mecting of the Second Ward Republican Flambeau club to-night at Kaspar’s hall on South Thirteenth street. The Democratic Flambeau club of the Third ward met in Turner hall Monday night, but be- yond confirming the officers previously elected, aud authorizing the appointment ofa drill instractor, nothing was done. The first drill will be held to-night. Monday night the Young Men's Republican club held a meeting at the Miliard hotel, and considerable routine business was trans- acted. Arrangements were made to secure a suitable hall, uniforms and decorations,and the meeting adjourned until Monday next. It is probable that the uniform will consist of a blacik silk hat, aud cred, white and blue parasols, when on parade. Quite a number of new members joined the club. There was a meeting of the Eighth ward republican elub Monday night, at which peace and harmony between the opposing factions were re-established. The following officers were elected and approved by both parties: S. G. Wilson, president; M. . Singleton, vice president; A. F. Hayes, second vice president; Jester, secretary; U. combe, assistant sceretary; C. second assistant secretary, and C. B. Gur- ney, treasurer. The Fifth Ward Democratic club met in their hall at the corner teenth and Cuming strects Monday night with Henry Osthoff in the chairand Bai y MeGinn secre- tary. The question of a pole raisiug was defere- edifor a week anda vote of thanks passed to the recording secretary and hall committee for services rendered, I, Schoake, editor of the Nebraska Tribune, addressed those present, and the committee on finance was strength’ ened by the adaition of Id Quinn and Bd Brennan, after which the meeting adjourned. THE PATRICK COACHING PARTY. Reminiscences of a Novel and Enjoy- able Outing. The members of the great coaching party have returned to Omaha, and one of the most unique excursions on record is at an end. The turn out was a novel idea even to the pleasure-loving people of New England, who were surprised to find representatives of the “woolly west” giving them a lesson in enjoyment. The party was intended for an unostentatious private affair, but they acei dentally got into print and were treated with distinguished honors everywhere, When at New Haven, the printed bulletins of the Register and other papers csteemed the arrival of the cosching party as being of greater importance than that of Blaine or the meeting of 4 great state couvention, and it was emblazoned in the largest letters. At tho great fox hunts and other gatherings their names were among the first in the list of dis tinguished visitors pubiished in the New York papers. Wherever they went their coming was heralded in some mysterious manner and curious crowds gathered to stare at them. Even the more intelligent people whom they met seemed surprised to find such cultured and distinguished appearing persons from the wild prairies of Nobraska. To say the trip was @ delightful one is ex- pressing it very milaly, and to listen tothe rlowing nccounts of the expedition by essrs. Robert Patrick and R. S. Berlin is an enjoyable treat. The trip was full of pleasant adventures, but no accident of any, churacter whatever befell the members. They left the Windsor hotel, their starting point, on August 11, and returned September 9. They followed the sea coast through the states of Conpeticut, Khode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, They then crossed the last-named state, taking in the White mountains, aiso Ver- mont and the Green mountains. ~ After vis. iting Saratoga they took & steamboat and en- joyed a moonlight ride down the Hudson to k w York city, the only part of their jour- ney that was not made by horse or coach. Thioy Sundayed six times on the trip, and every Sabbath was spent in a diffevedt state. In theirentire journey they never missad & road or had to turn back, There was to obstacle but what was readily overcome, Thus at Fenwick hall they wished to cross the Connecticut _river, but there being no wagon bridge, they chartered a train and Were ca over on the railroad bridge. There were about a dozen persons in the party, and they traveled altogether 673 | miles They spoak in the highest terms of the kind, courteous and considerate treat. rnt th eived at the hands of the New 1 'people. There is no doubt but that turn the coaching party left a most rable impression on the New England | people wherever they went, They also took wood care to advertise Omaha, and the name is now a houshold word inrural districts where it was never heard before, T'hie members have brought home with them & number of souvenirs of the trip, among them a coupleof photographs of the party. One was taken at Narragansett pier, in front of ex-Governor Sprague's residence, a photographer happening to be taking a pic- ture of the place at the time. Near by is seen the bridge on which the ex-governor stood at one time with a shotgun and ordered Senator Conkling away, and at another kept a sheriff at bay who hiad come to levy upon his beautiful residence. All the members in the coaching party are roadily recognized in the picture and ‘a good idea given of their appearance on the roud. John E Patrick, Robert W, Patrick and R. S, Ber- Jin are mounted on horses, and, with their white helmets, look like a military escort, for which they were often taken. On the box of the coach holding the ribbons is Mr. J. N. H Patrick, the host of the party, and by his side is seated Mrs, Senator Mande In tho scat is scen the smiling face of M. Yates, vis-a-vis to him 1s Mr. William S. Walker, whilein the third scat are Mrs. J, N. H. Patrick and Mrs. Yates. 1In the veht cle behind them are the coachman and maid with the trunks and provisions. The other pictire was taken at Stoten, N, H., and rep resents the party at their noonday lunch At night the members put up at the best hotels, and wherever they stopped, thoy were allowed the freedom of the pla were treated with the greatest defc A number of quaint, old style ta had been running for over a hundred years, were visited and a number of curious relics brought wway. Near Bostonthe party had the pleasure of taking a trip on the Stiletto, the fastest steamboat in the world, At the Hub they were joined by General John P, Hawkins and wife. The party saw some of the most beautiful scenery ast, but that over which they are most eathusiastic is the drive from North Conway, near the foot of the White mountains, to Crawfords, The road the entire distance is arched with beeches, silver elms, and other beautiful trees, and as Mr. Robert Patrick prettily ex presses it, “it was like passing through a Jeafy tunnel.” "At Twin Mountain house, re Henry Ward Beecher usel to sum- mer, the party were jomed by Miss Lillian Ellis. The east is full of places rich, not only in scenic, but also histovic mterest, and to_ de scribe all such places worthy of not along their route would alone fill a volumeo. The members tell a number of comical stories about each ncher, that wil prove the source of many a laugh in the future. When the party lunded at Black Kock hotel, and Senator Manderson and Mr. Yates stepped aut, the landlord eyed them moment and then remarked sententiously, “Gentlemen, you will find the bar a These gentlemen did not hear the last of this to the end of the trip. ———— HUGH MURPH MEASURE. How He Manages to Take Contracts At Cost." Mr. Hugh Murphy was the gentleman using the ten-inch gauge which Chairman Balcombe confiscated the other day,” said an offcial yesterday, ‘“and that by the way is one solution of the mystery of his low bids. Contractors are supposed to base their bids on the specifications and allow themselves a margin for profits. Mr, Murphy does not require any margin for profits, Ho can put in his pavemnents ‘at cost' and make money out of his little ten-inch measure. No wonder his bids are low and other contract- ors frozen out.” Chairman Balcombe found the gauge in the hands of Hugh Murphy's foreman on North Twenticth street in front of his own residence, Contracts have been signed with the Bar- ber Asphalt company for the paving of dis- trict 123, Seventeenth street, from Dodge to Davenport, and with J. E. Riley for the curb- ing of Howard st from Twenty-second to Twenty-tourth, and Twenty-second from d to St. Mary's avenue with Borea A citizen wishes to inform the sidewalk in- spector of the dilapidated condition of the sidewalk on the north side of Twenty-cighth strect between Farnam and Howard, At in- © to twenty feet there aro from one toa dosen planks wissing, making the walk very dangerous to pedestrians. Mike Meancy, who has been inspecting the sewer being laid by Hugh Murphy as men- tioned in Monday's BEE, has boen trans- ferred to the work being’ carried on by Bl- liott in the north part of the city. The chunge was made at his own request be- cause he claims he could not compel Mur- phy’s foreman to abide by the specifications. “Wuy does the board of public works ~ mot inquire into the charges made against contractors by the inspectors ! asked a merchant yesterday. “It would scem that until they do this and support the in- spectors, these salaried men might as _weil be dispensed with. There has been, and is, & great deal of fraud perpetrated in nearly all our public improvements, notwithstanding our inspectors, and the chairmau of the hoard should have the matter stopped.” The lowest bidders for the sewer work in South Omaha, as has been demonstrated by some closo fighring, are as follows: Houso sewer, for both work aud material, C O'Donovan; work alone, J. B. Ryan & pipe alone, tomes & Smith. On the storm water sewer on N street, work and material, L. B. Stanley; work alone, L. B. Stanley} pipe, Homes & Smith, The bids are much lower than those opened two weeks ago. PAY EVERY WEEK. Commission Men Will Inslst on From Retailers, A meeting of tae jobbing commis; chants was neld at the oftice of Pe company last evening and was ver; attended, representatives from o mission firm in the city being pre: olutions were formulated and quiring that colloctions from mado wockly instead of monthly fore, and all present bound themselves to strictly abide by this rule, whicli will go into cffect this morning Sion nien com- that they a it for nments promy canuo sixty It on mer- ko Bros, largely s thirly or days or longe A reporter who wormed his way into the meeting was discovered and vromptly fired. It was discovered, however, that the com mission merchants’ had decided to get out placards similur to those placed on the walls by the coal men, notifyiug grocers, butchers and produce dealers that they would have to settle every Monday. A commitiee was ap- pointed to report on Friday ovening next on a cment organization of com- mission wmen, At a previous moeting W. W. Bingham was clected permanent sident and Julius Peycke secretary of the Commis- sion Merchants’ association, Want a Fair Show. —The moeting of the English shavoholders of the Chicago, Mil- wankee & 5t Paul railroad company calied last week was held to-day. It was unani- mously recommended that the shareholders deposit and register their shares with the English Association of American Bond and Shareholders, with the view of enabling the association te influence the election of the directors of the compa Nebraska National Bank, U 8 lDl::IB.XTOBY, OMAHA, NEB, , Vice Prosident. . TOUZALLN, 3ud Vico Praside) W. H. 5, HuGR! W. V. Monss, J Ogguiw H. W, \'Allfi 2 Tor Lewis B, i Daaking Omoe— T TOURALIN. THE IRON BANK, Cor! 18h aud ¥ o & Ggnoral Bauking Busiuces Trassvetote v