Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1888, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE, PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Hally (Morn! Aition) including SUNDAY PP One Year w0 00 For six Months For Three Months T OMARA SUSDAY Bk, mailed to any address, One Year WrEEKLY BEE, Oue Vear OMANAOFFICENOE W1EAND 016 FARNAM STREET, CHICAGO OFFICE BT ROOKERY BUILDING. Niw YOiRK OFpice, Re 3 BUILDING, WASHING FOURTEENTH STREET. SPONDENCE ins relating 1o n d to the EDITOR CORR ANl eommuni; orinl matter sho OF THE BER. hould ba OMPANY, s 10 Allbusine addressed to Tine: BEY O Drafts, checks and jos o be payablé to the order of the comp The Bee Pablishing Enmhany Proprietors E. ROSEWATER, Editor. —_— THE DAILY BER. George I3, Tzschuck, secretary of The [1ae Pube lishing ( rmv{: 'y nnly swear th actual efrenia Brr weok ending EBunday, Dec Monday, Dec Tuesday Dec Wed Thursday, | Friday, D Baturday e 15,1 DRI 15 TZRCHU CK. EWOrn o before me and subecribed in my presence ks 2nd day of Decembor A, D, 1888, Seal N.P. FEIL, Notary Public. Btato of Nebrask: | County of Dougis Georgo B, Tuscli Average 85, k, heing duly sworn, de- oses A says that he s secretary of tho Hoe Iy, that the actual average THE DALY BER for tho A1 copies: for Jun- for Febr 1885, 1558, 10,64 cop for' May, 183, 3 coples: for July, ast, 1833, 18,183 cople ¢ cop or October, for November, 158, ary 0 coples: M April, 185, 15,744 coples coples: for Jimne, 158K, 1888, 18,33 coples: for Ani for Beptember, 1844, 1 T8KS, was 15,084 cope: 18,088 coplos. ). I TZRCHUCK. Bworn to ‘befora me aud subscribad in my Dresence this sth day of Decomber, 183, N. P. FEIL Notary Public T treasury departmentat Washing- ton evidently needs a thorough over- hauling in some of its departments. THE question now is, how soon will the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul complete its projected new bridge and run its trains into Omaha. Wit the Haytian affaic hardly set- tled and trouble brewing in Sumon and in Jamuica, the Amekican navy ought to be kept pretty busy for the noxt few weeks protecting the vights of Ameries interests. THE heavy rainfall in to tho present time presages well for the crops of next'year. But for all that, Los Angeles will not be able to build alifornin up another speculative boom out of the prospects. QT Missouri Pacific railway officials will abolish the secret service of that round with the begiuning of the new year. That is a good resolve, and should be followed by every railrond company in the country which makes use of spot- ters and spies to wateh its employes. Trng announcement has now been positively made that the Hon. James G. Blaine has received the appoint- ment. That is to say, he has been ap- pointed by the governor of Muaine as one of the commissioners to attend the centennial celebration of Wash ington’s inauguration in New York. Mr. Blaine will undoubtedly be a leading figure in the ceremon QT 18 refreshing to learn that the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail- ‘road, which is a part of the Vanderbilt system, has declared a dividend of one per cent over and above the regular semi-annual dividend. In the face of the recent passod dividends by so many western roads, it is evidence that the management of Chauncey Depew has been a suce DETROIT has a grievance against Canada that needs looking into. It seems that it has been the custom of the people of the provinces to quarter their paupers and lunatics on the pub- lic charities of that city. The Detroit alms houses and insane asylums are overcrowded with these aliens from Canada and steps will necossarily have to be taken to prevent this imposition and infeaction of the immigration laws. THE objection made by the Chicago packers to the new rates on live hogs acking-house products, which are into effect Junuary 1, on the ground that in the case of hogs there is discrimination in favor of the packers at Missouri viver points, does not ap- pear to be well taken. Ilitherto the situation has been the other way, the packers of Chicago having the advant- age, ‘and the veadjustment was made with reference to removing this dis- crimination, which it would furly ac complish, Itis by no means apparent that live hogs and packing-house pro- ducts should have the and it 15 not doubted that th com- mission, to which the complaint of tho Ch ackers Is to be submitted, will vojoct thoir v isposition’ of the railronds to give fair consideration to the packers at Missouri viver points 15 to be commended, and those packers should sce that thoir intevests ave prop- erly represented before the commission. T ition at the prosont session of congress for opening tho Sioux veservation 1s likely to be ssed by the opposition of Sena- tor Dawes to the Gifford bill, which has received the approval of the house com- mittee on tervitories. The objection of Mr. Dawes is understood to bo that the bill does not suficiently guard the in- terest of the Indians, and that it does not properly respect the treaty obliga- tions which the United States has en- tered into with the Sioux. Objection of this sort was expected, for the bill fgnores treaty arrangements, having been framed agreeably to the view of the Sioux commission that the time had come for a change of policy in dealing with these Indians. However, the im- pression is that & majority in both branches of congress are favorable to this view, and it is believed the senate committee on territories, of which Mr. Dawes is chalrman, will accept the Gifford bill, The matter ought not to K0 over to the rext congress. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:!: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1888 SAFE BANKING SYSTEM The failure of several Nebraska bank- ing institutions within a week may well challenge public attention to the ques- tion whether private banking in this state is surrounded by the safeguards ne ¥ to protect the people against being detrauded. The statute requires that all corporations engaged in bank- ing shall annually, before the last day of December, make report under oath to the auditor of public accounts of the state of their condition, resources and linbilities. Tvery such corporation that fails or neglects to report, or which makes a false report, forfeits to the the sum of five hun- dred dollars, to recovered in a civil aetion. banks that have failed within the last few days have un- doubtedly béen in a rotten condition for months, but those in control of them held on as long as they dared to, using public and private money with the guilty purpose, it is fair to presume, of defranding the people who had placed confidence in them. The failure of the Sherman County Banking comps in- volves county funds to the omount of fourteen thousand dollars, while in the collapsed b of W. R. Morse, at Clarks. there were on deposit, school district aud state funds amounting in the aggr e to over ten thousand dol- lars. In neither case does there ap- pear to be any assets of consequence, and from the facts at hand it is im- to avoid the conclusion that there was a deliberate purpose to de fraud. Of course action can be brought to recover the public moneys involved, but this will not restore the money if the members of these corporations are bank- rupt, as is probably the case, The sug- gestion of these failures is t it is not suflicient to require an annual report from the banking institutions of the state, but they should in addition be subjected at least twice a yoar, at time to be designated by the state treasurer or state auditor. to expert inspection, the banking institutions to reimburse the state for the cost of such inspection. It is unquestionably the duty of the state, in giving authority to men to go into the of banking, to make provisions for the fullest practicable protection of th who shall become depositors with such persons. The contidence which the state invites for those whom it au- thorizes to do business, it should take every proper and necessary precaution to guard against abuse and wrong. It is the unquestionable privilege of the state tosay whether it will allow any form of private banking, and this right carries with it necessarily the authority to determine under what regu'a- tions, restrictions and safeguards it will allow this business to be carried on so as to secure the fullest measure of good faith and protection to the public. A policy that permits the growth of mushroom bank- ing institutions, and cnables unserupu- lous men to engage 1n tho busine: danger to the public prosperity and credit. Nebraska cannot afford to coun- tenance such a policy. LEx-Secretary McCulloch, in his “Men and Women of Half a Century,” s “‘No bank in the United States, the cap- ital of which was a cash reality, and whose managers were not thieves or the state be The nk possible business borrowers of its moncy, has ever failed. | All bank failures are fraudulent, either by mismanagement or deception in re- gard to capital, and all who are res- ponsible for such failuves are betrayers of trusts, and should be pun- ished as criminals.” The safe plan for the state is not to permit a bank to come into existence without having 1ts capital a cash realty, and to provide such regulations for carrying on the business as will allow managers the least possible chance to deceive and de- fraud, A NOT HOPEFUL OUTLOO K. A lotter of President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania railroad, addressed to its English stockholders, does nov take an altogether hopeful view of the imme- diate future of the railroad interests of this country. Mr. Roberts is one of the most caveful and conservative of rail- road managers, and not likely in re- porting the situation to the foreign stockholders of the road of which he is the head to present an exaggerated view of the dificultie His anxioty would naturaily be to disturb their con- fidence as little ns possible. Of course Mr. Roberts does not hold the inter-state commerce law entirely blameless, and yet he does not go as far as Mr. Adams in laying the responsi- bility for existing conditions rogarded as unfavorable to the railroads, upon that legislation, It did away with old methods, but some of these the Penn- vlvanin company was never favorable to—as for example the pooling system— though compelled toadopt it as a means of harmonizing their tra relations with their competitors. But the presi dent of the Pennsylvanin railroad e dently considers it a serious matter that the law left all the great waterways frea to make any vates they chose, and also left the Canadian lines free from and untrammeled by its provisions, The great Qificulty, however, for which My, Roberts suggests no remedv, has been to effect an arrangement be- tween competing lines for an advance of rates whioh would give a reasonable assurance of being more than tempor- ary, and this difficulty is still in the way. He expresses the hope that the agrecment recently come to for an ad- vance of rates will have some stability, but it does not appear that he has much faith that there will be greater perma- nency in the future than there has been in the past for such arrange- ments. In that event an aggravation of the demoralizing effects of a rate- cutting warfure would be expocted, and it seoms to be a part of the purpose of the letter of Mr. Roberts to forewarn the English stockholders in his road of this possibility. This and other contributions to the study of the rallroad situation make it plain that the solution of thedifficulties rests chiefly with the railroad mana- gers themselves, and that if ever they shall establish just and honest relations among themselves and maintain them most of the diffoulties of which they now complain will disappear. It isnot oon- ended by any body that the inter-state act is perfect, but none of the railroad managers who have commented upon the act has been ableto conclusively show that the unfortunate conditions of the railroad situation are all or chiefly due to the imperfections of the law. THE PIRAT CHORT After stealing the special dispatch which conveyed an extract from the New York Herald that appeared in THE Bre Wednesday morning, concerning the senatorial succession in Ne braska, a very enterprising afternoon cotemporary has the gall to arraign the editor of this paper for printing what it baseless canard. This is de- cidedly cool, and in keeping with tha ir e of a sheet which important telegrams from ning edition of THE B and palms them off its exclusive dis- patches, procu t great expenze. As to the veracity of the New York Herald's political reports, Tie BeE is not ad- vised, although it believes them to con= tain more truth than poetry. Tue BEE published this report as it does all other reports that may be of interest to peo- ple of this section. Our Chicago and Washington bureaus gather this news and transmit it by wire, regardless of expense, and wo are not in the habit of suppressing dis- patches procured at heavy cost, what- ever the intelligence conveyed may be. Tie BEE is the only Omaha daily that maintaing these expensive news bu- reaus, and its cotemporavies very nat- urally pick flaws, while constantly appropriating its specials. So much on this score. Of course, Rosewater or Van Wyck must have inspired the reporters of the ew York Herald, because both were in New York ten days ago, although, as a matter of fact,they did not meet, either in New York or anywhere this sidle of New York. It is a fact that Rosewater, through the courtesy of Whitelaw Reid, was shown througlh every department of the Now York Lribune, which is, by all odds, the best equipped printing house in - Amer- i But while Rosewater did not enter the Hevald building, and never met a Ilerald reporter on his tour, Van Wyck undoubtedly, made himself at home in the Herald office, and chatted freely with James Gordon Benuett at Parvis through Mackay’s submarine telephoune. ~ This traces the story to itsorigin, We move that Van Wyelk be severely ceusured, and, if convenient, indicted for the offense. as has been sarved upon the country at large and the legislature of Nebraska. in particular that Alvin Saunders 1s ot ana will not be a candi- date for the United States senate tosue- ceed General Manderson. This assur- ance is said to come directly from the ex-senator. There 1s no law, however, written or unwritten, which bars Alvin Saunders from putting on the senatorial brogans which General Manderson took away from him six years ago. Bx- Senator Saunders is, of course, not a candidate, in the ordinary se of the term, but he has engaged rooms at the Capitol hotel and will camp on the ground during the senatorial balloting. It is safe to say that he will not refuse to serve his country, if the legislature should happen, as it we to do for him what the last legislature did for Pad- dock, when1t elected him to succeed Van Wyck who had defeated Paddock six years previous. The precedent is diable to ve catching in spite of all pre- cautions. : Norice CricAGo pork packers claim that the railroads are discriminating against them in favor of Omaha and Kansas City, and accordingly they vpropose to make complaint to the inter-state commerce commission. Itis not the railroads that discriminate in this case, The only way Chicago can hopeto retain her prestige as a hog packing center is to secure rank discrimination against the west to offset our natural advantages. Her pork packers know 1t and will work to accomplish that end. THE slippery iron apron on the street corners of Omaha after a snow storm i every bit as treacherous as the innocent looking banana peel on the sidewalk, EWS OF THE NORTHWES The Montana Yiorse fair of Miles City is now an assured fact. ‘Chero are only ten inmates in the peniten- tiary at Laramie, Wyo, ‘e farmers in the vicinity of Fort Benton, Mont., are still engaged in plowing. A woolen mill is to bo started in Salem, Oregon, if the people will give 0,000, Nearly all the Wyoming papers have adopted the war cry, “On to Statehood.” The Southern Pacific railroud company has issued an order pronibiting its employes from smoking cigarettes, There ure more idle men in Virginia City, Nov., than for many years, and_every busi- ness man 18 complaining of hard times and scarcity of coin. Mrs, Stanforth and her daughter Clara were chinking their cabin at Almy, Wyo. when the ladder slipped and the mother feil on tho girl, crushing her to denth. Harry Biedlor, brother of X. Biealer, one of Montani’s mast famous men, was recently shot and killed ut Texarkana, Texas. Ho leaves a family and considerabio prop Albert Wale, of Highland District, B, C Killed a largo panther tast week. Ho is on thirteon yeurs of age, and his neighbors in- tend to present him with a valuable rifle and trappings. Shoshone county, Idaho, leads the other counties of the territory in mineral produc- tion, witli un output of $2,430,93% during the year. Alturas county comes second with #2,017,467. George Ross, a drayman, after a baptism i the Methodist church at Port Townsend, W. T,, foll dead in the pew. Doath was in® stantancous, and was caused by a blood ves- scl bursting Willard MeCune, who has been lying in 1 at Lalayette, Ore., on a charge of mur- dering James Bowloy, has been indicted by the grand jury for wanslaughter. His bail was flxed at $6,000, Seven hundred allotments, of which 400 wera agricultural and 300 grazing, were made for the Crow Indiuns this season, embracing ull the lands so far surveyed for this pur- pose. There are 215 allotments yet to be made, James Smith of Ophir, Cal,, while out hunting on Bald Mountain, in the vicinity of town, found e nugget of gold that weighed betwoen 50 and §00. The recent Leavy rains had uncovered i, and he happened ‘to e lucky enough to “'stumble over it." E. H. McKenzie, an alleged detective at Great Falls, Mont., circulated the report that John Clinton, of that place, was an escaped risoner from Dakota. Mr. Clinton had Me- Sonzie arrested and he will be tried this week. MelSenzie Las admitted that he made & mistake in the man, MclKenzie is thought to be & crank. A movement has been started tu the min- tai counties of California for annexation to the state of Novada, thus avoiding the ex- pense of another state government and at the same time removing the ob) 10N NOW raised that geaeral legislation cannot bo had which is applicable to Both the mining and agricul tural counties, It transpires that the killing of Bill Arnold at Cotopaxi, Colo., was an _assassination by cattle thicves. Arnold had been hired by the stockmen to find out who had been steal- ing their cattle, and the thioves spotted him. Dick McCoy and his son shot him down a3 he was putting some catile in _a corral, and the coroner’s jury charged them with the murder. Both the McCoys have been ur- rested. William Thomas, a ranchman of the Mus- elshell, was married at White Sulphur prings, Mont., last weok, to Miss Clara J. Disc, of New South Wales, Mr. Thomas left his sweetheart in that far-off land more than ten years ago, Each kept the plighted troth, and when Mr. Thomas made monoy enough in Montana he sent for his lady-love, who came out alone and became s bride. Becauso the trustees of the Indian Valley (1daho) school refused to lease the building 10 a fifth-rate, tin-whistle show company uu less they put up the rent money in advance, a company of roughs fired up with whisky, rode to the houses of different citizens, shout- ing, swearing and using abusive language; went to the school house, threw the s through the windows, partly filled up the well, and tore up thines generally. They then sent little bunches of straw and matches to the trustees A TALK WiTROEENATOR JONES. He Tells What the Silver Men Want— Other Const News. Ciicaco, Dec Senator Jones, vada, was at the Richelieu yestorda had not seen President-elect Harrison since the clection, nor had he written him, and therefore had no knowledge of his inten- tions concerning cabinet matters, The Pa- cific slope would iike to have one of their number selected for the place of secretary of the interior, because of the large landed interests of inhabitants of the coast. As to future legislation conve roing the silver ques- tion, the senator said the silver men wanted a secretary of the treasury who would coin £4,000,000 “worth of silver per month, the maximum provided by law. in place of £2,000,000, the minimum. When this was done, the price of silver would advance, The senator thought New Moxico ought not to admitted’ to statehood just yet, se of the monerel breed of the inhabitants, ~ With reference to _ the charges of immorality on the part of the whites of Alaska, he " expressed - indignation at the circulation of such malicious reports. They were set on foot by the opponents of the Alaska Fur Seal company, whose lease was about to expir He thought the republican tariff bill would so0on become a law. There would be no de- crense in the duties, however, as some re- publicans expected. Speaking of trusts, the they had resulted in _benefits to ,, and generally ended in dis- people who composed the com- Tnis would be the fate of the copper icate before long, as it continued to ac- cumulate material and new mines continued to be developed. The Standard Oil company, he , had made oil cheaper to the con- sumer than it could be made without the trust, but he was against it, and hated it be: yond measure—because he was not able to get any stock in it. The senator said his mining entery s were now confined to California, Nevada, Colorado and Alaska, the Treadwell mine in the latter territory being ono of the best paying mines in tho world. of Ne- He N AVORING DAY LARBOR. Cigar Makers and Hod Carriors Op- posed 10 the Contract System. At a meeting of the Cigarmakers' union No. 03,0f Omaha the following were adopted: Whereas, The Central Labor union and other workingmen assemblies and unions, huving discussed the contract system of labor, and the day system as suggested by the different organ ons; therefore, Resolved, That we, the Cigarmakers' union No. 3, at our regular meeting, indorse the said action of the Central Labor union, and demand, as taxpayers and citizons, that the day work system be ergrafted in our charter for the city of Omaha, knowing the same to be a beneiit to all laboringmen, and, in fact, to all citizeus in our city. J. A, Boorn, Corresponding Secretary. C. L. NEwsTrOM, President. Hoa Carriers on Day Labor. The Hod Carriers' union met in G. A. R. hall and adopted the following resolutions unanimously : Whereas, It is an evident fact that the of Omaha has been and still systematic- ally robbed by an organized band of con- tractors, who are_evidently in loague with many of the city officials, who should be the guardians of the peoplé’s welfare, and not the willing tools of unscrupulous contractors. Whereas, It is a well-known fact that this same gang of contractors, by the corrupt use of the money stolen from the taxpayers, and by the intimidation of their employes, clect men to fili_many of our city offcos whom they know will aid them in their raids upon the taxpayers of the city. Whereas, (v is an undisputed fact that thoy rob the daily wage-workers in their em- ploy of many hard-earned dollars, who, ha ing no method of redress since it requir money to buy law in order to get justic must submit to tho law of this band of p rates known as city contractors, who piy them wages scarcely enough to feed and clothe them in the best of the working sea- son; therefore be it Resolved, By the Hod Carriers’ as No. 720, Knights of Labor, in regular session at G. A. R. hall, that in order to prote the taxpayer and laborer from the greed of tho average municipal contractor, ail municipal improvements of every kind should be dono by the ork Resolved, That we, the hod carricrs of Omaha, call upon all branches of labor, es- pecially unskilled labor, to immediately or- zanize, so that they can protect themselves against the injustice of unscrupulous muni- cipal contractors who think that the common luborer has no rights that they are bound to respect. Resolyed, That we endorse the resolutions adopted by the Central Labor union and the joint assembly of the Kuights of Labor bear- ing upon this question, and we instruct our delegates to said joint assembly of Kuights of Labor and Central Labor union to aid said bodics to bring this matter prominently b fore the coming session of the legislature, Resolved, ‘Phat we demand from tho legis- lature a radical reform in the present sys of voting, and we respectfully call the atten- tion of all persons itercsted in ballet reform, especially the Douglas county delegation, to the Australian systém of voting, for we be- lieve that the secret ballot is the only means of preventing municipal contractors from owning and controlling by intimidation and purchase the votesof their poverty stricken employes, Kesolved, Thiat a copy of the foregoiug bo sent to the daily press for publication, Jamis WISELY, M. W., L. A, ty embly, United States Petit Ju The following versons huve been chosen to serve on the United States potit jury during the next term of court, which will convene at Lincoln on January 15, 189, at 10 o'clock 4. m., at which time the jury are supposed to report for dut; Patrick McArdle, MeArdleville; Duke Beall, Albion; Moses Oppenheimer, Lincoin; Martin Warner, Falls City; William Ander- son, Omaha; K. Furnas, 1 William Dai ob Deiv, Tegumsch; John S : J. 8. Hennett, Lincoln; C. W, wart, Omaha; Loyl Johnson, Nemaha City; Fred Miller, Falls City; W. McCran- dell, Auburn; John Jack, Dorchester; Jacon Ireland, Crete: John Welseman, Lincoln; J. B, Sedgwick, Omaha; Paul Peterson, Omaha; J. D. Gad, Franklin; John Pohliman, John: son; W. H. Allen, Stockville; . L. Thomas, Plattsmouth; John Kesterson, Fairbury; W. H. Phelps, Beaver City; Idgar Reynolds, Eik Creek; 8. S. Dotson, Lincoln; Lynn Nelson, O'Neill; Peter Christeasen, Omaha. A grund jury has also been chosen, but Judge Dundy Las not thought advisable to summon them at this time. Not Guilty. John Mann, husband of Bertie Mann, charged with strikiog a soiled dove, was on trial before Judge Berka yesterday afternoon and was discharged, R DIED, STONE ~Paytou C., father of E. L. Stone of Dewey & Stoue, aged 80 years, of heart trouble. Funeral Saturdsy morning at 10 o'clook. GUARDING THE CITY MONEY. The Charter Committee Talk About Preventing Extravagance. A LIMIT ON INDEBTEDNESS, How Mayor and Council Are to Bo Checked —The Rights of the Police Commission—Increasing the Chief Salary. The Charter Revisers, The charter committee met again yestor: day afternoon for the purpose of hearing the reports of sub-committecs, to whom the pro posed amendments to the city charter had beon submitted for revision. Dr. Smith, county surveyor, handedn a communication which was referred to Audrew Kosewater. 1t called for the compulsory filing of surveys of plats of land appropriated for public pur poses by the city or private cgrporations, and offered some suggestions as to the county eclerk’s department 1n connoction therewith The first committee to report was that having charge of section 125, relative to tho prevention of an extravagant expenditure of and the formation of over- laps, which arc continually hampering newly elected city councils, The amendment to the section was prepared by Charles Brown, and defined the penalties attached to its violation by the mayor or city council. It roads as follows: *And any liability sought to be incurred, or debt ed 1n excess of the amount lim* ited, or_authorized by law, shall be taken and held by every congt of 'the state, as_ tho joint and several liability and obligation of the councilmen voting for, and the mayor ap proving the same, and uot the debt, liability or obligation of the city, and votng for, or approving of such liability, obligation ' or debt shall be conclusive evidence of malfeas- ance in office, and for which such councilman or mayor may be removed from his oftice.” Some discussion followed on an additional clause which made it a felony for the mayor and councilmen to act otherwise than as laid down in the amendment, and fixing the pen- alty at not more than ten s in the peni- tentiary. Upon the advice of Mr. Connell, however, this was stricken out. In order that neither mayor nor council could plead ignorance to the state of tho finances of the city, the following amend- ment, to section 110 was submitted on bebalf of the committee by Mr. Andrew Rosewater “It shal! be the duty of the mavor, on or vefore IFebruary 1 of each year, to wecure from the heads of each department of the city an estimate of the probable cost of such department, for the current year following, and he shall submit such estimate to the city council, who shall thereupon make such cor- rections as shall be needed to embody the totul expenditure on each of the several funds of the city, including rents, sala repai and “one copy of such revised estima all be filed with the city comptroller not later than February 15 following and one_copy with the mayor and city ¢ respectinely. The comptroller shall thereupon deduct the amounts so shown from the limits of funds avamlable for the expenditures of the city for the current year, nd no contract or vote meurring an indebt- edness for money payable out of any funds shall be made by the mayor or city council without first notifying the comptroller of the probuble cost thercof, such cost to be obtained from the appropriate departments of the city, duly certified to by the heads of such departments, and filed in triplicato, one copy with the city clgrk, one with the mayor and one with the city comptrolier. And no final_action shall be taken upon such pro- posed contract_or indebtedness without tho certificate of the comptroller that there are funds enough in the balances available as thus shown, and in no event shall contracts or indebtedness be created requiring an ex- penditure from sy fund in excess of the limit, except in the event of au unforseen accident, requiring immediate ropair for the public good, which* fuct must be certified _to by’ the board of public works and only then with the coneurrence of the mayor and two-thirds of the entire coun- cil.” Mr. McArdle then made an_extended re- port on the various clauses in the charter, ating to the fire and police commission. ection and 53 were stricken out, and 17- 34 so altcred, that they can no longer be used to prevent the harmonious working of the board and council. The duties of the former are clearly defined as at present understood, and those of the latter restricted to furnishing the supplics necessary to the efticient working of the_fire and police de partments. Noone can be employed in city work except a citizen, unless where the aid of an expert is ne ry and a suitable man cannot be found. The commissioners will be required to furnish bonds for $5,000, to be approved by the mayor. The salary of the chief of police is to be increased to $2,000 per annum instead of $1,5800 as at present, Vari- ous sums runging from $2,000 to $2,400 were mentioued, but $2,000 was finally decided upon. "The police judge will be furnished with a clerk, but an application from the_mayor to be relieved from paying a depiity during temporary absences from the city—not to ex- ceed thirty duys in each year—was not ranted. A suggestion to alter the bribery clause was refused. Under the head of communications, letters were re rom the city treasurer, city comp- troller and city engineer, suggesting changes in the routine’ business 'of their respectivo oftices. The former also wanted authority to colleet the unpaid taxes from the year 1861 to “without interest,” because during riod—cspecially 1869 70—they we antly high, and might be hard to col- under any circumstances, The comp- troller wanted the treasurer to report in de- tanl all moneys collected, in order that he could credit them to the proper account at once. The engineer suggested that bonds for paving and eurbing be 1ssued together, under the name of street improvement bonds, and that all contracts for paving and curb- ing be let in one, to the one contractor. A communication from Mr. Furay, deputizing Chairman Balcombe to act for him, was re- ceived and read, and the committee ad- journcd to meet again Saturday. THE COURTS, United States Court. Before Judge Dundy the case of Deyo va, Otoe county, is on triul. ‘The causo is a test one, imvolving a question of §150,000, W. L. Barber was brought before this court to-day, charged with sending obscene matter through the wails, and was discharged. Court. Morrell vs. Morrell was heard by Judge Groff Thursday morning, The parties were married in Massachusetts in May . and have had two childr girl aged seventeen, and a boy fourteen years. No defense was made and a decree granting custody of the two children was is sued in favor of the father, who was | tiff. It is seldom that the spectacl fourteen-year-old son testifying to certain acts of infidelity upon the part of his mother is witnessed in a court of justice. The son, Charley Morrell, a bright looking lad, gave evidence to this effect. The lad was deeply affected during his examination and wept copiously when certain admissions were drawn from him by counsel, “The circumstances which led to the suit of Edward Havlicek vs. Hanna Pililiks in this courtare as follows: On the 16th of Jnne, 1858, the plaintiff was married to defendant, who representid herself to be an unmarried woman, but subsequent events have devel oped the knowledge that the latter is, and has been for a long time the lawful wife of Joseph Puliliks, a resident of the town of Kalotelci, in the Domiuion of Bohemis, of which fact defendant was well aware of. A dissolution of the marriage contract is ther fore asked for, Charles H. Rurey sues for a divorce from his wife Jessie E'. Rurey, upon the ground of adultery with a man named Will Sapp. The parties to this suit were marvied May 5, 1579, at Independence, Mo, In the divorce case of Glines vs Glines and Schwager vs Schwager Judge Groff gave decroes Iu favor of the plaintiifs. In Falconer vs Hornby a continuance was taken. The application for a new trial In tho suit of Sternsdorf vs Mastaller, was overruled Lo the matter of Garlichs va Mills & motion The divore to yacate the decroo was rofused Judge Hopewall, sat in chambors and disposed of a fow minor matters, 1 ing some motions for new trials Jessio B, Edwards filed a suit aga miah C. Wilcox and Grace O wards, a minor, and prays for a_partition of cortain property situated in_ Wilcox's second addi tion in aocordance with her petition or in such othor manner as the court may olect, and that each of tho parties to this suit be or dered to pay one-third of the taxes and costs of action John O'Connell has appealed to the district court against t he decision of Justice Reed in the suit of Mc Cord, Brady & Co. vs. O'Con- nell, for the recovery of §13.53. County Conrt, J. T, Sexson hias bogun suit against John A. Brown and J. Foster for $300, alleged to be due upon & promissory note, Samuel J. Howell has entered suit agminst O. I, Jones ot al for tho recovery of §430.47 | duo upon a note dated August Judze Shiclds was occupied yestorday hearing the case or Allen Hrothers against Askwith, arising out of the attachmont of a stock of groceries. Allen Bros. have sued M. K. Woods for $716.03, alleged to be due ou account of goods sold and delivercd. promissory KASSID Opening of the First gamized in Nebraska, Tor thg first tune in Nebraska the ritual of the Kassidean Knights was heard last night, and the newly organized priory of St. James, No. 5, of the order was duly iustituted, The order is said to trace back 1ts origin to the ancient enic rite, as p wced by tho temple builders of King Solomon’'s time, and in its ritual is not unlike the Masonie. It is fratornal in all that the term implies, and tho titles of its officials are in the phrascology of the ancient days. Last night the Omala fraters who had finishod their term of dura; tion were duly admitted by Dr. . A. Gil bert, of Dubuque, grand hicrophant; Major E. H. Sunth, of Dubuque, grand banneret, actingas grand marshal;Colonel J.J. Mo grand Sacerdos and F. A, Brown, grand re ister. The following ofticers were duly elected: Dr. Charles M. Dinsmore, excel- lent prior; R, D. A, Wade, J. B, Martin, junior se bins, sacerdos; I, A. Brow M. Van Cott, keeper of Chom Batterton, seunior vigilante; W. M. Williams, junior vigilante; W. A. Humphrey, medical examiner, and Martin Kelly, ward With bowed heads and folded arms they stood in o semi-circle and listened to the teaching: the order as laid down by the grand phant, and were then duly installed in their oftices, and inversted with becoming emblem atic regalia. Short speeches were made, and a bright future predicted for the order in Nebraska. The mecting was held in the old Elk lodge room. The nextmeeting will be held a week from next Tuesday. KNIGHTS, Lodge Ever Ore- THE FAILURE AT CLARKS. Mr. J. ©. Martin Tells Why the De- funct Bank Weat Under, J. C. Martin, of Clarks, registered at tho Millard last night. Speaking of the Moise bank failure at that place, M tin says the bank suspended as precautionary measure. Mr. W. R. Morse, the president, is in a delicate state of health, and conse quently nervous. It is the time of year when bankers and money agents gencrally require an ofticial statement from all their clients us to the exact condition of things, and Mr. Morse, fearing that he might not be able to i statement that would not require con- ble explanation, resolved to close tiro He had bee for some time, but yesterday he was up and around, attending to business. The liabilitics of thie banik arc $33,000, and the asscts $17.000. The asscts are mostly in paper, but Mr. Martin states that the collectable papor s enough to pay 100 cents on the dollar, The depositors have nothing to fear Mr. Martin says, and, in his opinion, will reccive cvery cent they have deposited. Me: Richard son and Thomas hold two b ale on the fixtures of tho bauk to_cov certain in- debtedness, and these gentloman say, it is reported, that everything will come out satisfactorily to cveryone. The people in the neighborhood have every coufidence in the management of the bank. THE LICENSE BOARD, What Its Members Say About Permits to Sell Liguor. “My term as councilman, “sexpires on the Ist of Janva of December.” “Will the council meet on Now Year's day —a legal lioliday, you know " “Yes, the old one will simply meet and dis- band, and the new one will organize,” “Will the business transacted be legal?" “Yes, I have consulted Mr. Connell on the subject, and he says that it will be all right. 1 don’t think, however, that much business will be carried out except that of reorganiz- mg."” “Will there be a meeting of the before you retire from oflice " id Mr. Bechel, not o the 3lst license 1ify ms, and he may whon ho has applica- tions ready for consideration.” “Will you act on those applications oe leave them for your pssor on the board 1" “7 shall act upon them and all that come up before T go out of office. “How many applications coived " “Idon't know. The last T hoard subjoct from Mr. Southard _there had 210 applications gilod. 1 don’t kuow many havo since'boon mado." “Who calls the meeting board ' *“The city clerk neral the mayor and myself v tions to be considered., City Clork Southard was asked how many applications he had ready for consideration, He roplied that while @ niimbor of applica tions had been made,thatonly forty-cight had | been reported to him as having been adver- tised tho required number of times. Of coursoa larger number would bo 80 ro- rted upon bofore the end of the year. appears now, it will not be possible fow all of the saloonkoepers who have made application for license to recoive the same betore the beginning of the year, when all licenses bogin, because of the two wooks' advertisement required. This will nocossi tate the running of thoir saloons without license for a fow days unless the authorities should it to close them up, which Mr. Bechel does not think they will, Mayor Broatch says that a number of pro tests have been filed with him against grant ing saloon licenses o certain people who have made application for the same. Theso protests he intends to bring before the 1i censo board at the first meoting, 1t ts stated that the mayor's opposition will reach a num- ber of saloons, the owners of which have nOW 10 anticipation of the same. hava boen ro- on the becon how of the licenss , whon he notifles ho has applica- A SECRET CONFERENCE, Jongressman Dorscy Has a Meeting With His Fricnds at Veemont, A telogram was recoived in tho ity night which told of a seeret meoting which was held at Premont under the direction ot Cougressman Dorsey. The gathering, of course, was a secret one, and was composed in the main of state reprosentatives on their way to Lincoln. These b 1 notified to meet Mr. Dorsev at Fremont. That gentlo man was in this ty until yesterday aftor. noon, when he took a I \ to koep s appointments. There is but one reason ns. signed for the g ¢, and that s that Mr. Dors > recoiving a protty strong complimentary vote for Unitod States senator even it he has not already his mind to conduct an active campaign to secure the position. o Licensos. Judge Shields distributed the followiug Christimas @ifts in the shape of warriago licenses Nut lence { Philip Mathias, Omaha 1 Mattie Kahlan, Omalia § Willis B, Connor, Roc 1 Emily James, Omnha § Will B. Shipp, Omaha Martha Schrader, Omaha {.lnhn H. Starkey, Lincoln, Tll.... Antenctta Wilson, Blunt,'1 { lav Svobos Bu The followin, yesterdhy Charles A. Halley, one ppleton’ avenue 1ts. building permits were issuod tory frame o and Twenty one tory brick and Castellar brick store, det near centor Hauscall, altorations to frame louse, éventeenth and Vinton , one-story teenth and Castellar § LS. Hascall twosstory brick aadition, Sightoenih and Viaton . Hascall, two-story brick divelling, Castellar and Thirteenth o 10,000 Lliie- 5,000 1,000 600 600 b frame’ cotta; T s Eight permits, a| egating . L No buffet should be without a hottle of Angostura Bitters, the South American appetize wafactured by Dr. J. G. B. Sicgert & Sons, — Blizzard’s Back Broken Dec. 27.—Yesterday's blizzard seems to have about spent its force in the northwest. The signal service here reports the storm center passed here last mght and 15 IOW proc i eastward along the lower lakes. ~ Tho fall of snow has cc in tho novthwest and the weather is clearing. In some portions the wind coutinues, with moderately low temperature, The Cricaco, Fatal Naptha Explosion. Manrnokovan, Mass., Dec. 27.—Yosterday afternoon the factory of the Goodyear Gossa- mer company, i Hudson, partially burned, The fire was caused by an_explosion of naptha, and one workman, John Coleman, was killed and another seriously injured” The 10ss to the building is —t New fowa WaASHING ial Telegram to Tue Bir.|—The following Iowa post- masters have beon appointed : Lovi H. Sisco Elma, Howard county, vice J. E. Roche, ro- s, but 1 don’t know when—one may be held this alternoon. The city clerk will uo- 4] WISH YOU HAD SOAP a lady said to a clerk in a I ideg how ordinary soap is wa ge the bottoms of the wash-tubs, dish-f when the water is poured off, the soap has the cons and a new bar must be taken from the box. sted, signed, und Wallace ‘A. Shray, New Yorl, Wayne county, vice John Blukely, resigned. el THAT WOULD FLOA grocery store. ‘“You have n¢ The servants let it remain in ans, and scrubbing-pails, and ency of mush, 1f the soap would only float, they would see it, and take it out of the water when they were through with it."” The ““Ivory Soar” floats, replied the clerk, is made of oils, and is goffy per cent, and, as the ‘‘Ivory Soar Oil will float; pure, as a matter of course it will float, A WORD OF WARNING. There are many white soaps, each represented to be ' just as good as the ‘Ivory' they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peouliar and remarkable qualities of the genulne, Ask for “lvory " Seap and insist upon getting it Qopyright 1863, by Procte & Gaiable,