Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1888, Page 1

RAT HOLES IN THE TREASURY Bome Reflections on the Conduct of the Last Legislature. A WARNING TO NEW MEMBERS. How the People’s Money Was Wasted Ry the Reckless BExtravagance of Unserupulous Politicians and an Army of Retaine ftead and Reflect. Doc. %).—|Special Tele On the eve of th islature 1 may render Wling attention flagrant abuses predecessor, For the members of 1will « few facts res contained in two little pamphlets the 1888 Lixcory, Neb. 1 gram to Tue Ber convening of the some service to the state by to some of the of 1ts lawmaking the benefit of incoming logislature, and fi publishea by the state auditor at of the legi @ scssions of 1887, The legislatare which held Ay session four years ago taxed the of Nebraska for legislative expensc ing salarics of members, officers and em ployes, $45.000; incidental expenses of the session, $40,000, which, added together, made the ageregate cost of forty legislation £55,000. In other expenses four i close nd a forty people includ days the legislative years ago el 2,250 for each day of the session. was generally words, That considered Yy ex ravagant, and, in fact, was way beyond any g the people of Nebraska had previously id for their law making. Two years ago the legislatiure was in ses sion sixty and the appropriation for legislative expenses up just an even £100,000 in excess of the session of 1559, Of this cnormous sum, §05,000 was propriate the salaries of office members and employes, and $20,000 for i dentals, From §2,250 for each day's session in 1583, the last legislature ran up the expense to 3,083 for cach day's session, At that rate the forty ran - to pay session of 1885 rly £40,000 nsidered the most ex actually did cost. more than a session extravagant of its t What brought about this reckless raid upon the taxpayers ¢ Raising the pay of members trom £ to £ per day and increas ing the time from forty to six counts for an increase of only & or only £30,000 out of the 100,000 What became of the §§0,000 excess ¢ A comparison of the two little phlets shows at a glance the rat into which the peoples’ money was | like water. In 1583 the legislative man which form part of the ‘“incidentals,” were procured for 30: two years ago they mounted up to §1,700, or a clean steal of over #1,200. It 155 Sherwood Burr was secretary of the state, and the entire expense of s oflice for assistance was $1,000.70, Burr himsclf drew $278 20, while Walter Sceley, his first assistant, drew £274; E. O, Lewis, second assistant secretary, $75, and D. H. Mercer, clerk of the committee of the whole, a position no more necded than a wagon meeds wheel drew $272.50. Computed by the day this gave rease. pAm- holes for them all that is equitable and just them attead to the business of railr and trust the peoplo and their tives for every favor which they and can properly ask ading representa real A Diphtheria Epidene Pratrssortn, Dee. 80— [Special to T Bre diphtheria epidem thought for a tim out ane adults are reported this week The which was ) be extin broken N this cit | affc 1 the cases are of d Suicide ona Train Bow, Neb,, Ded ) Fanny Hill, a xteen or years old, waa among the lady passongers on Friday’s train from Alliance I'wo hours afte train had left All ce e lady was taken snddenly il and bewan 10 seream and otherwise manfest evidence of being in intense misery. Al was done that was possible to alleviate her suffering, but without avail. When the train reached An mo the conductor telegraphed to this place for Dr. Sunders to bo at the depot on the arrival of the train to provide r 1 assist ance. As her case was ascertained to be very eritical, it was thought best that she should be taken off the train where she could receive medical treatment, She was taken to the Inman hotel, where she was given special eare and everything done for her that secmed possible, until 2 o'clock in_ the after- noon, when she was relieved by death, There was every indication that she had taken poison, which caused her death, and in all probability with suicilal intent. Her people live at St. Michael, in Hall county. BROKE™ Special to Tr Brr seven wirl s wen THE BALD KNOBBER soners Wi caped Ozark Jail Still at Ozank, Mo., Dec. 80.—(Speeial Telegram to Tk Ber. | —The fugitive Knobbers who ped from the Oz Jail yesterday morn. ing are still at large in svite of the most vigilant efforts of Sheriff Johnson and posse for their capture. The viemity of the Matthews home was diligently searched yes terday and guards placed at the passes to the Nills in which it was befieved the men would try to find sheiter, Some boys hunting rab bits two miles from Ozark yesterday came upon a man lying low in a fallen tree top Ho scemed very pale and excited, but ex- plained to the boys that he had hidden to scare them aud have some fun. After tell ing them that his name was Bill Owens he went off into the woods and the boys told the story and @& posse of men vainly hunted the woods in the vicinity From the boys' description the hidden man Matthews, At 1 o'clock this morn. man calling himself Owens called at the house of Jamos Collins, four miles south of Ozark, and_said he was hunting work. Collins kept the man till morning and gave him his breakf Observing that his strange guest 1 two pistols, Collins s00n came to the coneclusion that the man was one of the escaped knobbers, and came to Ozark and notiticd Sheriff Johnson, who at once went with a party of armed men to that vicinity. It is believed that this man will surely e caught before morning, The worl at the believed to have been planued by cwton, who was at one time a turnkey at tho jail, and could Lave casily taken an impression of the keys - Is it Retuenin ° Stovx FALLS, Minn., Dec. 30.—[Special Tel- cgram to Tiz Buk.) ~Last Sunday a three- year-old child of L. T, Olson, of Iast Sioux Falls, died from dropsy, and prevarations wore made to bury the child on Tuesday, but as the ground was very slipper: recent sleet storm it was postp uext day. That night the bod, dence of returmng life. The From the Large. showed evi- lor would Burr and all his assistants &1 per day for 6 days, when the actual number of session days was only 0. Two years ago Waiter Secley, as secretary of the senate, drew for himself and his assist- ants $2,357 us against less than £1,100 for the same worl in the preceding session, except that there was an merease of twenty days, which, on the basis of 1555, would have mado the aggregate of the secretary’s ofiice only $1,000. The §700 increase s readily accounted for. Instead of beiug content with two ussistants and a clerk of the committee of the whole, Mr. Sceley employed Paul Clark, book Jeeper, and three girls as so-callod assistant booklkeepe Walter Sceley himself daysat $4a day ina scssion lasting sixty days. This gave him $10a day for session duys, What dothe farmers of Nebraska think of a ten-dollar-a-day sceretary of the senate ¢ But that is not all. Four years ago Sher wood Burr prepared the Seuate Journal for the sum of 600, But Walter Seeley two years ago drew $900 for the sume work, From a perfectly reliable source I hear that one of the girls employed on his staff was placed on tho pay roll at the instance of Senator Bonesteel, whose relations with female friends croated a gooa deal of scandal, Seeley and Bonesteel were runuing mates during the entire session 1 do not belicve the can afford to scandalize itself at the outset by giving countenuuce and support to such tnexcusable plundering of the people This rat-holein the senate was not a cir- cumstanco to the rat-holes in the house, where a whole horde of male and female as- sistants, copyists, clerks and hangers-on were employed at & a day for most of the session, when in fuet they rondered no ser vico excepting to add to the scandal and dis- repute in whicl the whole legislature was enveloped. E R drew pay for 150 present legislature A CLEAN LEGISLATURE. The Railways Scoe That ontrol Laxcowy, Neb., Dy pecial Tele gram to Tup Ber]—I talked with a gen- tleman of wider political experience than perhaps any other who is here, and 1 give his views as he expressed them to me: *The question of the submission of a constitutional amendment on the subject of prohibition, ought not to cut any figure whatever in the speakership contost. Nebraska has excel lent legislation on the liquor question uow. This question aside, both the leading candi- dates, Watson and Dempster, represent the same sido of political affairs, as between monopoly and anti-wonopoly. “Chis has the appearance of a clean le gisla ture, one free from the former low influ- ences, but of course we must wait and see. There arc some of the strikers of former sessions present, but they are not making much noise. The senatorial question does not, as ho retofore, enter into the matter of the organization of the legislature, 1t should Dot cut the slightest tigure in the speak- ership _contest. Manderson not here,” Van Wyck is not her Both the candidates of whom [ have spoken substantially hold the same views with re- gard to railroads. If this legislature can transact its business independeutly of rail- road control, there Is reason to look for something in polities besides the constant turmol of the past ten years, There now scems to be & chance to make 00d politics in the public affairs of the state. here are more than two hundred thousand volers in the state, and they are assertin Sheir needs and their rights. The ralways 'eu that it is too large a body or men, in too large a feld for them to fight. Let tnem keep the oil room reoplu away from the leg- islature representing the people. Let them brust the representalives of the people w0 do hey Cannot frequently come iuto different parts of the body . and then entirely disappear, There were also other evidences of life. The funeral is now indefinitely postponed until it is decided whether or not the child is dead. — - Death of Mrs. Schofield. WaAsHINGTON, Dee. 80.—Mrs, Schofiela, wife of Major General Schofield, died of puralysis of the heart at 7 o'clock this morn- ing. She has been suffering from the effects of a severe cold, which developed into bron chial catarrh a few days ago, but was not thought to be in danger until he lure supervened, only one hour or two before her death. Mrs. Schofield was the daughter of Prof. W. H. C. Bartlett, forme the United States military academy now actuary of the Mutaal Life Insu com of New York. Ther 'sduy at West Point. - Losses by the Merle Failure, SAN Francisco, Dee. 30.—Details of the losses which it is supposed have been sus- tained by various San Francisco and eastern business houses through the mysterious de parture from this city of Charles F. Merle, president of the Califcrnia Bone Meal I tilizmg company, and loeal agent for N. K. Fuirbanks & Co., Chicago_lard dealers, are dificult to obtain, and it is probable they will not be definitely known before tho meeting of the directors of the fertilizing company, which will be held Monday. It is now stated the losses aggregate about §50,000, s FROM THE WIRE ve at her home on SPARK Mrs. Har New Yes Hon. Moses Mordecai, an ex-United States senator, died at Baltimore, rson Davies says Kilrain will not fight Juckson, but is anxious to meet Sullivan, Lexico was damaged to the ex- X0 by lire in New York harbor ison will reced Lor the first time in years the emperor of Russia has sent a friendly Curistmas greet- ing to the pope. Jos h Solomon killed himsell lust New York City. At a fight amongu groes yesterday afternoon one man wus tally and several others seriously ijured. A committee of nine locomotive engincers held a secret meeting at Hammond, Ind., lust evening, presumably to discuss the Q" strike, The St. Paul Distilling company whisky (rust are st loggorhonds weantime the price of whisky duce Seven people, all colored, were drowned riy yesterday morning near Ripley, O., by upsetting of a small flat bout on which shot his wife and then evening at his home in rowd of drunken ne and the In the is being re- ¢ were crossing the river, Amos J. Stillwell, a wealthy morchant of Hannibal, Mo, was murdered ihile sleeping at his home,’ about 2 o'clock this morning, ‘The wotive of the crime was robbery. In Pittsburg a spark from a pipe exploded two kegs of blusting powder, destroying four houses belonging to the Fricke Coko com: pany aud frightfully burning seven laborers, A tramp who was stealing a vide ou a Pennsylvania road was accidentally locked in a box car and kept without food or water for fiveduys. When found Le was speech- less, and will probably die. William West, in a_quarrel with his wife's relatives in in Cruighead county, Arkansas, yesterday, wounded his mothor-in-law in the hand, Killed his father-in-law and was biw- self shot dead by the latter, Advyices from, Suakim say that Arabic trauslations of atcounts published in London newspapers prior to December 20, of the plans and operations of the British forces, have been found in possession of the enemy, e Princess Adelbert Insane. BenLis, Dee, 80.—During the performance of “A Midsummer Night's Dream,” at the opera houso last evening, Princess Albert of Bavaria was seized with a violent attack of hysteria, and had to be removed. She has since become worse. It is bolieved she is insane. After the princess had been taken frou the theater, the play was resumed, Let | | OMAHA. MONDAY IN SPITE OF THE POLICE. The Widow of Anarchist Parsons Makes Good Hor Boast. SPEAKS IN her a.m SHE CHICAGO. only The Socialists nouncing the Poli Recent Inter fablic M s Resolutions De- | " s for Their nee with Ings. and For the Promotion Cuicaao, Dee. 30.—Anar dark-skinned widow, to-day boast that she would speak 1n spite of the police, 1t was in Waverly hall, one square from Mayor Roche's office, and is the same place which was closed against her one week ago, Four hundred people were crowded into the poky little auditorium, and up the entrance aud T'he meeting was one st Parsons, the | $top made good her Chicago in | of use scores of others choked stood upon the stairs, called by the soeialistic labor party “to tran- sact business and for the promotion of socialistic doctrines.” The proceedings opencd with the introduction of idemuing the police for their recent “law, 8" interference with publie The resolution was unanimously adopted “Tommy" Morgan, & socialist, was the first speaker, He said the employment of force by workingmen was futile, It appealed to the Inwest instinets of mankind and wrong from the moral, intellectual and prac- tical standvoint. 1ts impract had been demonstrated in this city by the Hay- market and its results, The hanzed anar chists was proof enough that force was iw- practicable. The meeting was then open to any one who wanted 1o talk ten minutes. Mrs, Parsons rose. Phe erowd cheered when it saw her familiar face. “1 should like very much | t some of these days to answer the assertions Mr. Morgan has made agaiust those who ave dead®’ said she “but the ukase has gone forth from Roche and Lord Boafield that 1 m never to make another speech in Chic nd that T am forever to be deprived of th right under the constitution. But | cithe 1 nnot sit here quietly and | W hear it said that those who are dead and silent in their tombs, had anything to do with the throwing of the Hay market bomb, though iu the war against tyrants, ali things are justitiable. Those Who say anything else aré curs, They were miserable curs who on_last Sunday night al lowed themselves to be drivea away from this hall by the police.” Mrs. Parsons then read what purported to an extract from the speceh of Tho Jefferson, in which occurred the following words: *God forbid that our country should be for twenty years without a rebellion.” “Did Parsons “or Spies ever utter anything more revolutionary than that¢” said Mrs, Parsons, “It has béen said that dead martyrs arc 1o good, but their memory is dear and a perpetual inspiration, becau: died before they would ask pardon fo they aid mot Go. When liberty shall be crowned with immortality, the’ brightest names in her crown will be those of Parsons, Spies, IMischer and Engel, who died for her. [Cheers.| Iam for peace on prinemple. 1f you see two rival armics ap- proaching cich other and take a poll of the men, you will find that nine-tenths of them are for peace, but they are borne ou by irre- sistible foreés to the conflict. Before we can have peace in a society like our own, rivers of blood will b orun.” [Applause. | The chairman interrupted Mrs, Parsons and suid that her ten minutes had expived. Anumber of detectives were nt but ade 1o attempt Lo inte a num r rehes, ina decidedly hatl was cleared und a private mecting lield by promincent members of the socialistic labor party.” When the confer- ence ended it was announced that arrange- ents Liad been made to continue the meet- ings every Sunday afternoon. ks DIVISION AND ADMISSION. A Large Proportion of Dakota's Citi- zens Favor the Proposition. St. Pavi, Dee. 30.—A vote has been taken by a Deadwood, Dak., paper on the question of single or double statehood, and it is shown | C| that a little more than five-sixths of those answering are in favor of division and a mission as two states. The auswers re- ceived are from various parts of southern Dakota, and those voting are of all occupa- tions and all political faiths. This vote is | of velieved o be a fair representation of public sentiment on the matter, which daily grows stronger. Tt is generally believed that divi- sion und admission are simply a question of time, and while waiting the outcome with considerable anxiety, the people have ul- ready begun to loo " after the prizes to be secured when the two new states are introduced. Every move at the national ital is watched for'cagerly, while a number of Dakota towns are looking after their fences and generilly brushing up in the hope that they may become the scat of govern ment. While a few towns are espe anxious to secure that phum, all ave united in their efforts to bring settlers into the soon to-be states. a resolution meetings. | ¢ was apyy wel M chur who life W our her -~ The Papal Encyclical. Rose, Dee. 50.-Opening with the words, “Exennte jam anno,” the papal encyclical thanks God for the consolations which the jubilee rejoicings have brought to the pope, and his holiness thanks the Catholic world for its tokens of affection and devotion. Turning to religions matters, the encyelical complains that the tendency of the age 1s to ward material interests, and this tendenc, strengthened by worldly pride and an evil press and drama, demoralization of arts a changed education in the schools, mat istic and atheistic teaching obscuring notions of right, Socialism nihilism communism, it says, alsh outcomes of this tendency to material things. 2 pope attended te deum service in St Peter’s to- | b duy to make the close of the jubilee Marquis Guicoiloi hus been appointed syn- dic of Rome, she, M Proceedings of the Sobranje. Sorix, Dec. 80.—Tne sobranje yesterday voted the sums asked for in the budget, | m grauted amnesty to all political refugees, | eve except the actual leaders of plots since 1886, | Mrs. and extended pardon to Major Popoff, who waus convicted of embezzling funds belong- ing to the war ofice. Prince Ferdinand closed the session with & speech, in which he thanked the members for the legislation enacted, Changed Its Mind. BeruiN, Dec. 80.—It is stated that the government has changed its intention re garding the proposed increase of the artillery strength of the army, and that no credit wiil be asked for that purpose during the present session of parliament, — Temporal Rights of the Pope. BrusskLs, Dec, 80.—At a large meoting at Liege to-day which Hishop Doutrelou, presided. Resolutions were adopted in fayor of the restoration of the temporal rights of the pope. vast Officers of the Skuptschina. BerGuapg, Dec, 80.—The skuptschina yes- terduy elected M. Fanshanovios president, and M. Popovols vice president of that body. The premier read the royal decree opeuiny the session, Lou - Remedy for Radicalism. Panis, Dec. 80,—The manifesto issued by the mew revolutionury group declars the commune is the sole rémedy for Boulanger- isw and radicalisw, ANOTHER STEAMBOAT BURNED. Total Loss of Newr Bristc an RO, 1, of the old land River passengers. fe sonal bagga; the last started near Socialism, great rapidity sounded tizens the spot volume of fire and the glouds of smoke which arose from the apparatus on the stoamer was brought into soon as the flames and the save the boat, but the rooms dry as tinder, and the draughts through stoamer caused a fearfally the flame partment sweeping her i Some 0f the passengers still on board did understand alarm, and were only aronsed by the erackling of the flames, caping, but sme with only & portion of their clothinig, railing near tho burning timbers, with stateroom, who v cling tlames, bapely s, undressed, but with their cloth state two of cra little or ing in their ha to borrow clothing home in this city of the passcngers was baved. When the departmeft arrived decks and cente of flames, 1 hundred fhet. peded the work of thd firemen. had wainc only be the zreat beat and flying spa buildings on the do side of the wharf, and const > required on the part of vent them from were soon pouring into the flames with little vent effect for overtan hour, while others > employed buildiugs. of sevoer ought LAUREL Eloquent Tributes ®aid to Mrs. Orpha C. Dinsme Beautiful Orpha C. Dinsmoor were held at Unity I yeste adifice was ¢ revere woma with a wreath of fragrant stand e quisitely the lov Thy lection, “Gi tional choir, which consists of Mr. H. D. Estabrook, Mrs. Squires and Mr. Brig- ham. Falls, followed with a touching A choicely worded sketch of Mrs. Dinsmoor’s was Dodson, letter from Rev. of Unity, which was read by Mr. Kilpatrick. . Copeland’s tribute to the dead was at touching, bezutiful . Colby, ot ev. Dr. Doherty, close of which another selection, “Peace and was rendered by the choir. ¢ nay services The Love, Chase, representing the Neb society, el he extolled the suinted dead that were eloquent in W. Clark, of the Open Door, told, m glow- g words, of Mrs, Dinsmoor's re: nd Mr. Gillespie, of aritics, and Colby, with Mrs, braska n, of which Mrs, T ad u panegy work that brought tears to the hearers “W hel said dead, or to express our love to gather up and activity. Dinsmoo lady, “was fidelity ta truth _as she saw it, to it_beckoned, to gathered around her, and_those into the inner sanct what true friendsui Jts memo in the of Mrs. dnty as hear Mrs. Stanton folldwed Mrs reminiscencap of Mrs, *“Two nights beforo her death, as we were on our way to the Paxton hotel, she told_mo by what a'slender thread she held her 0 pass away at any moment; but, said I hav but'passing through an open door room to another, and I suppose I can fin & I have'b some with Liubl the w asily influcy Referring to the future of departed friends Stanton said: friends as here in our midst, 1o take a which words of cheer to the unfortunate classes and warning th and ease, Po to-dav, to nobier wetion, or w children in the nursery sh in_establishing. she here ains mental blessedness of trying to move the stopy ne: lionaire, whom she had'tric before, to open his coffers to those who 1o resting place on this gre be sure that a spirit so active as n s still devoted to her chosen v tanton quotation he child who entgrs life comes not with knowledge or infent So those who enter dealh must go as little children sent, Nothing i And as hf; dead.” Succeeding Mrs, Stanton came another se- lection by the choir, “Oh Paradise,” auditorium welody. diction by Miss R ANOTHER ¥ 1t Will B2 Built By the Omaha Com- and this time it will Ellis, one of Omaha’s best known architects, wio entered into competition sentatives from Boston, , aud carried off the prize. ing will be erected by the Commercial Na tional bank, and will staud on Farnam former d and the Salvation three stories in classit d lot, (x72 feet. 70,000 and 850,000, and wheo completed the building will be used exclusively for banking * urposes, MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1888, IT WILL ACT UPON THE BILL. the Bristol s sengers All Savel. Deé. 80.—The steamer Albgry line, burned at | The Ways and Means Committee to here this morning, and is a total Consider the Substitue, arrived from New York about 2:30 trelght and her Fall There were left on board Newport passengers and their At:20 o'clock, just us train wus drawin of ion the steamer 1 all her A SHARP POLITICAL TRICK How Bates, of Tennessee, Got His Core tificate of Election—Congressman Whittaker's Hureied Trip 1o Washington fire was discove was ap once given from the The fire spread with alarm nal on the 08, the kitchen and rendering futile all efforts to Three alarms o i rapid succession. Thousauds wero also attracted to ¥ the nt illumination, the WASHINGTOY BUnEw Tie OMana B 518 FoURTEENTI $T WASHINGTON, 1., C. McMillan, of the first democratic member of the committee admit that it would not be politic for to strangle the senate substitute tor the Mijls bill, in committee, “We will act upon the bill,” suid he, *when it reachies us, as promptly as possible, and will give the house an oppor- tunity to discuss it, and if it season, the people will have to understand. fully the the two houses on the subjoct.” Mr. M M s, of course, that the house firat | will vote the substitute down, and it is possi ble that the other democrats on the com- mittee may take this view and consent to the discussion of the biil again. If they do go so far as this, the chances are growing greater every day that they will be disappointed. ome of the members n the tobacco states have returned to Washington from their holiday visits. Aftor the election these people haa very little opportunity to talk with their constituents us to the course to be adopted to please the greater namber of them. The holiduy visit hus been improved in this respect to some extent, and it is ovi- dent from the guarded talk of these members that they have learned that the southern tobacco planters want the internal revenue aws amended 8o as to remove some of the strictions which now harrass them, Two three scen by your correspondent, this afternoon, would not say i the form of an interview. what course they pr posed to pursue with referen to the amended Mills oill, if the opportunity ded them, but 'when questioned y, admitted that it was of far greator importauce 1o them and their constitucnts that the tobacco tax shall be repeated than Bt the ideas of the Texas statesman . shall be carried o the extent of preventing inter. nal revenue reduction for some months more. They do not care hout detin their positions at this time, but one member from Virginia assured me that_there will be at Jeast five frow Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee alone, who Will support. the sen ate substitute so long as it retains the in- “erual revenue feutures. POLITICAL MAKEUVERIN The ltness of Congrossman Laird and the peculiar reports which come from Tennessee and West Virgiuia concerniy outeome of the congressional contests in those states, are causing some of the repunlican memb to urge their colleagues 1o join them in ¢ questing General Harrison to together immediately after the 4thof March, in order that the many contested cases may be settled at_the carliest possible moment. The democratic officials of the house will do all in their power to sccurc the organization the 'next house, and General the present © k, secms to stretch ali the points 0 insurc own_ retention yond_the together of the st session of the Pifty-first congress. If there should be two certificates for any reason, in any case, he may be depended upon to enter that which certities the eclec- tion of the democrat, rather than the. repub lican_meumb time. While neurly cveryone admits that two_republicans. have been elected from West Virginia, and that Evans has been elected in the Chattano district of Tennessee, it is believed that four democrats will show up with eertificates i the former state, and the Herald of ty (Bourbon democrat) has a_rather raph to-day: “IL s wincdatel after the treturns reached Governor Taylor, the tary of the state of Tennessee madd out a certificate of election for Bates, dewoerat, T itgn: | signed it and aflixed the seal of the state to C sone: | it; that the same day the state secre tary presented it to Governor K. L. Tayior, s signed and sealed, who also signed it he next morning Governor Taylor, for some reason, concluded that Evans, républican, was entitled to the certificate, and called on the state secretary to cancel the eertificat made out in favor of Bates. The state cither declined to surrender 1t, or was mis| and at onee communi with Bates, ‘who called and _took certificate, and fearing logal proceedings for its surrender, sent it out of the stu is said, ut the capitol, that Bates forw the certificate in a sealed pa we to ington; some suy to the eare of the cle the house: the package uot to be op until further di tions, Som time sinc these statements were forwarded to Goy ernor Taylor with a request 1o deny or affirm them for publication, but the goveruor has failed to reply so far, g WIHITTAKER'S IDE. There has been some doubt expressed as to the abilty to get every republican_membor i of congress to attend the openmg session, e 1t s | owing to the BT R R \° | that members arc very lax in_atiending to Memish | their dutics in this respect, 13ut. there hinv 5 been eases befe one party or another biad but a ba ud when hstling : ReEMaND, DOLLE of the gry ossity. 1L will be re yousulihapie uropred sad with nbered that in the Forth-seventh con 1 'for good! ress, in spite of the fact that the repub. Ticuns had i bare majority, that they were at all times, excepting during the last two days, able to maintain @ quorum when th party 1 were tightly drawn. In this respect the repubiican party had beon very much better organized than the other, and it has frequently been a matter of com went that in spite’ of the compuratively heavy majorities which the democrats have had in the Forty-cizhtn, Forty niuth and Fiftieth congresses, they hiveoften been com.- pelled to resort to u cull of the houss and the aid of the sergeantatarms o wet cnough members together when the republicans re fused to vote. At the called session of the VO | Forty-sixth cong when the demoerats Ve | tiad “control by just enough votes to insure organization, they did the greatest hustling on _ record. Counting ~ Whit taker _in Oregon, and O'Brien of New York, ‘whosn ' status was uncertain, the democrats had a majority of three. The notice was briefl and the wires were down on the Pacific_coast, and wany member cleet were scattered.’ Telograms were s T el t T believe, God is over. | it every direction by the democratic com i h mittee, and every " democratic memlor . o living. s0 death is to the | Feuched Washington in time to vote in the i8 to the ltving, so death Is to the | yucug the night before the election of tho speaker. In the case of Whittakier, who was away from telegraphic communication, after the failure of repeated efforts to reach other prominent democrats in Oregon, a dispatch finally reached Mr. Noltner, editor of the democratic’ newspaper at Portland, Ore., who under the authority of the dewocr committee, chartered a special engine, steamed out to Eugene City, took a buggy sve fiftecn miles to Whittaker's farm, captured the member-elect, and took uim in the special engine to Portland, with- out a hair-brush or a_change of linen, just in time to take the steamer 1o San Francisco, As 800n 48 the steamer was sighted at Sau Prancisco, Whittaker was taken, on board of tug, direct to the railroad wharf, where a special engine and car had steam up wait- ing for him, and this special train took him the corner of | allghie way to Chicago, where he arrived just and Sixtaenth streets, where in | in Time to take the castern bound train, ar- s the city councilmén debated, [ riving at Wasbington the moruing of the rmy sang. It will bo | caucus. Another democratic member, who neight, and of a purely | was sick at the Hot Spriugs, and who was i, covering the full extent of the | not expected 0 live long, wis brought a part The cost will be between [ of the way at least, in s special car, aud in time to attend the caucus. It all cost the democratic committee, in the chartering of special traius, telegrapuing and other neces- progress Congressman onnessee, is on ways und means burning steamer, The fire i were discovered worked with great vigor to toiner work of the wnd stairways was as the rapid spread of 0 that beforo the city fire ¢ arrived thevs was a mass of fire linost from stem to stern. crew siloon reaches us in an opportunity difference between the meaning of the Nearly all succecded in ¢ by crawling over the One man, hildren, who occupied u as awakened by the sound escapod with his nd others little Abother youug man had in/ which” to go to his Allthe personul baggage the upper of Lif Stenmer were a mass which gavejout such intense | arcely e borne at th This g "The flames hoadway that they could from the whart side, while ks endangered ks and steamers lyingon | or it efforts 1cn to pr dozen streams such igniting. A in dremching the dock and WREATHS. -Workers, for the late By Her ( memorial services ¢ afternoon. The spacious wied with the legion of friends the momory of this noble Mrs. Dinsmoor's picture, encircled Toses, sat upon i ide the pulpit, which itself was ex- lorned with the snowy flowers of sissi and mignonette, opened with a be autiful se- Lis a Spirit,” by the Congrega- and Mrs. Rev. Miss Bartlett, of Sioux invocation, the and read by Miss Ida . ‘tuis was followed by a Copeland, former pastor s ling and sympathetic. Beatrice, read a lot ter from of Brownell Hall, at the Colanel wska Humane delivercd a ten-minute address, in i terms ahigh degree. Mrs, ue work, Board of connection fustitutic the Om: of the ladics work in that president of Suffrago smoor was an oflicer ic on her co-laborer’s life and yes of many Among other things she are not here alone to honor the and esteem, but smphasize the lessons of s lifo along the various lines of ‘Che oue overmastering quality 's (mind,” coninued _the spokie zood Woman's friends who who pry of her life realize might be and will bear a precious benediction the y for Colby with association She said: her Dinsmoo life, no fear of death. To szun just us well wn off this flesh as 1 can now.’ 1 replied, ‘and perhaps better. 0TIk, 4“1 like to think of our influencing us part in - charitics to her life, whispering ore uctive dovoted children of luxt 1d may be with s our hearts and th the happy instrii- ing the rk, or she may bo rtof some mil in vain to move cdloss ing Ler own v arth. he has ] tribute with this enaed her and the resounded with' its holy The services closed with the beud iartlett, T E BUILDING. al Nutional Bank. new edifice will grace Omaha, be designed vy Mr. with repi Chicago and St. The build- they got every m vote, which his g AN M mouth, N days iu this city mof Mr. G to suce the mark a car he finds that mor publican member of the that severa clared f is ex-Senat Mr. Ga state who fuils t wall, and that Se | tainly ve rotu votes to spare wl next June. M of th hin, w r Ro nger is Miss Clair Rus the oty last SCA80N a8 the ™e The Financia Bostoy, amto Muss, the B the managers of t of the United St changes for the 1888, with rates crease as comp: the correspondin cmies, New York Boston Philaact Chicag St New orleans, Haltimo Cincinnan Pittsburg, Kansas City Proy ldeney Memnns Columbus Indianaponis Hartford New Haven Peoria.. Galveston St Joseph Duilu ¢ Richmona Norfolk Portlanc. .. nticid Worcests Wichiti Los Angeles Loweii Syracuse Grana Rapii Topel CHAMPLON He s Undd Blood sary oxpenses, several thos organived the house without should cast for himsi W. Scott Smith, editor of H., Chronicle, | SRYS t ed Senator Chandler, i Smith says il examination into the situal evening CLEARANC Past iled from dispatciios to th sand dollars, but Washington and Mr, Randall's associates had insisted he fif necossary to elect ALL G ember to DLER the Ports who spent the holi at the talk of the allinger, or any other man very w it Nie has made and Hamp tof the New supt i weod Ho says ot the nay o ten who W n tho 'ast ul that am Mr. Smith says \bout the only man - in ) seo the handwriting on the snator Chandlor ried with thirty ov len the legislature meets PERSONAT tin Omaha, avrived in and will spend the st of Mrs. Paddock Prrny S, Hear, - i RECORD. 1 wnsactions of the Week. Doe. 30, ~The Tol following table Post from nig-houses Spocial R, | he leading cle ates, shows the woeek ended December 30, her cent of incrcase or de - with amounts for £ week m 18857 Rross ex the CLEARINGE, 0301 Wiy BITE50 FOS,60 3 Nt - - LIAR OF MEXICO. hor of This Curiling Stor ST. Lovis, Mo., Dee. 0. Post-Disprteh from El Paso, midnignt Sunda; attack on the p 230 of the assaila Tex., dated ', BIVeS mea details of an palace in Mexico, in which nts were killed, seventy of whom were pricsts, The riot is s o'clock the previc It seems that known priest, hu for immediate Dinz. What he a few minutes af made out foral neople, but when ot one of them « At 11 0 attacked the na joined and rein at least three bar blood own killed. prisoncrs. priests were amo 30, Seventy-twe rested and order archbishoy A petitions to have Ihe o excitoment. prey overnor Laura ture together at ¢ to be arrested last des against the gove Senor Rom: Wasiseros, Mexican ministo press reporter to give an account o in the Mexican ci were killed and o had since b Senor Romero sa magnitude had ti received the first from such @ “Besides,” e dispatc by Friday evening, out” it. 1f an the pecially if in the published ¢ The minister custom for every of, nd then laug them It was fools day, and he published story ki 1t 1 Paso, Tex., lished in Chihuah ved h scounts and thrilling rising in the City purported to hu Chil paje rece le 1 NeWSpApers upon N is All nocent “Mexico as April 1 States and elsewl of this city placed Chihuahua stor petrators of the uccouut, BoTniNeav, morning, origina this town, causing BUrauC ings destroyed oftice. For Nebraska erly winds For lowa: Fair winds. For Dakota: F' westerly winds, ensucd, but the 1 won the victory The generals and sev At th thought that they met with suce lieve any sueh oceurrenc in the City of Mexico as was st happened in a special dispateh Tex., printed this n imprisoned I ot it by cable v would have said somcth: it had sucl to tell the bi exice a huge hoax perpetrated by th Dak., drug store, destroyed t 8 about §12,000), was the postofice tion by rain or snow, co! aid to have occurred at § ous evening. Father Jose G to the confercnce esident disclosed is not known, but ter warrants of arrest w number of prominent officers went after them, could be found clock that night an immense mob wional palace. They were forced by the garrisons of rracks. A conflict, fieree and government held its val Ligh officors were A nent took over 2,000 st fighting seventy-two i the slain who numbered o additional priests were ar- «d to be shot, among them number women ot up them reprieved, but it i 55, Chibuahua, whe the legisla | priests en the party ails in Canillo called once and order ems to have b of the clerical nment, ero Don't Believe It, Dec. 80.-Senor Rome r, said to an Associated might that he did not s hiad taken place ted to have m L Paso, morning, purporting to fagreat clevieal up apital, in which 200 great number of pricsts nd red shot i that if unything of sucli keno place he should have ton, and not intim, of the affair ht 1 El 1us0. said, “I have official cable up to | and they do not say a word y such thing had happened g about it s an ending as is given sing ople lisputeh ided that it was Mexican on the 25th of Docem rest yarns he could think )t those who believed sort of American April thought that perhaps the ad such an origio. 1s a4 Hoax Dee. 30.—A newspaper pub. ua, xico, Decembe yesterday, contained of an allezed papist up of Mexico. Tiiis nurrati ve been received by rs by wire Upon turus the Lhie invostigation out to be Chihuahua their readers, Decembe Y aund is celebrated in has been in the United iero, Intelligent Moxicans no credit whatever in the Itis hinted that the per canard will be callod to from L Fire Record. Dec. 20 —Fire MeArthur e business portion of « it loss f §32,000. The 1 Awong the build: and lung this ting 10 13ros. - The Weather Indicitions. Fair, colder weather, north prececded in eastern por- worthwesterly , co'der weather, north [THE BEE'S SPRCIAL TRAINY It Will Be Run Daily, Commencin@ With the New Year. SAVING OF TWENTY-FOUR HOURS This Paper Will Now Reach (he South Platte Conntry From One Hour to One Day Earlier Than Tts Rivals, The Rec's New Wings, To-morrow morniug Tur Bes, with thy advent of the new year, will inaugurate af enterpriso, such has been undertaken by ng nowspaper west of Chicago, This enterprise will be the running of € specinl newspaper train on the B, & M. to all paints south and southwest. By this meang e Bee's subacribers in the South Plattq antry and southwestern part of the statd will receive their from threo tq twenty-four hours carlier than they doal vresent As a consequence of tar Ber will be same time as o papers many nearcr tie mterior of the state and at some poiuts one day ahead of its cotemporaries iy Omaha. Tur Bre will hereafter v Lig coln 1. 1., one hour betore other Omuhg daili os leave this eity, This entevprise ha been undertaken to supply an inercasing mand for the froshest news, Tne Bee published for everybody. 1t is tuken by al 1ost everybody in this section of countryg even thouihi they are compelled to wait {0 it, in some instances, many hours after i§ his been read i this city and vicinity There was but one way i which o ovord come this difienlty and that was to inuneus! rate the speeinl train - service whiel will enable our readers to wet and peruse their papers at the carliest possivlg moment The special Bre train will every morning, conmencing 4180 o'clock. 1t will pass Bellovue at 4:4§ and reach Plattsmouth at 5 o'clock, In thi there will be a saving of three hours. I will reach Louisville at 5:46, South Bend ag 5:55 and Ashland at 6:18, ut which place tha olll time of arrival was 4325 o'clock. * In rege ular order the towns of Greenwood and Waverly will be passed at 6:24 and 4:88 o'clock, respectively, the old hours being 0:50 and 10:15 o'elock, AUT o'clock the newsboys® ery of 'Ere’s ver Owmana Bre” will resound” through th strects of Lincoln as above stated just one hour and five minutes before tha Owaba contemporaries reach the mail traind and several hours before they arrive in the In this way, Tne Bee becomes @t the breakfast tabie in Lincoln as! oll as it is in_Omaha. Its rivals, howevery! atistied 1o get there i time for ding papers this entorprist delivered st thy miled ioave Omaha to- morrow af With regards to the towns further to the west, the following shows the hour at which they will be served under the new as well ug when they were served under the old ruleg Old, Crote 2 Dorchester irmount . afton . Sutton Havvard. . Hastings. Kennesaw. . Holdrege.... . Oxford. Arapahoe Cambridge hes DIC3T5 - O too0a L k) b stations on the branch betweesl Holdrege and Cheyenne, T Bie will now reach its subscribers on the day of publicay tion instoad of twenty-four hours later, ag heretofore. SERGAcEREERSE THE NEW VEAR ECLIPSE, Prof. Rigge, 8. v., Tells How It Wilf e Scen In Oniaha. The total celipse of the sun, which take place on New Year's day is a source of much speeulation among astronomers, By caleulutions to be made from observationg taken durmng this solar contact, it if hoped by scientists that the exact meridin. of any place in the United States may be as~ certaimed. The ectivse will be visible in alf wts of the country excepta small portion of south and east of Philadelphia. y Although the eclipse is spoken of as a total it will be only so within a certain narrow belt 100 miles wide, Iying north of Sun By cisco. Tu this belt 'the total eclipse will two minutes. At places more distant, it will be of much shorter duration. Rev. 1. Rigie, of Creighton college, in speaking on the sub. jeot s “The first contact which will be ind ternal and « will bo visible in Omuha at seventeen minutes to four on to-morrow ternoon. The total obscuration will take place at sunset, The total eclipse will hardly be visible herc, but seven-eigiths of the sun’s surface will be obscured by the moony The surface of the moon will appear large, than that of the sun. This may be necounte for by the fact that the woon is nearer to us, Obscrvations may be made through nnmkm‘t glass and the general public may watceh the phenomenon by that means, The cause of the cclipse is the moon passing betweon the carth and the sun_and obscurmg his ”Kh'g will from us. In the belt of totality spoken o previously, during the two minites 10, total darkness will reign and alludod the staj several which may be veritied by astronomers during the eclipse, New platets may be discovercd. We shall il particularly for what is called th inter-Mereurial - planct, one supposed to, exist inside the planet Mercury, "The lattos is now very near the sun and, durig totale ity, will be'easy of observation. There willl also be observations made of the seven ate wospheres around the sun. The Lick obe servatory at San Francisco will be the bes place on'tiis coutinent for observations, An celipse of such profundity seldom ogs curs, 1t may now be obscured by a cloud,’ and all our calculations upset, if, at the crite ical moment of totality, a single ¢loud should pass over the sun. Prof. Rigge was invite 1o attend the observation in California, bu his duties.here forbade him moving away, from home. He will, however, take obseryie tions in the obscrvatory of Creighton collegas The St. doseph € St Josern, Mo, Dec. ) gram to T Bre) —The col the Union eleetric Paul & IKansus City Robideux strects lust night, was much morg serious thun at st reported, About 41 o'clocie this mo ruing the mangled remaing o A. R Bye, o grocery clerk, were found be. neath the crushed platform of t car. Tho other persons in, George Hadley, of 521 south Ninth strect, head cut open aud body bruised; Henry Feldman, of 517 south Kighth street, head una face cut and severely bruised; William Diedrich, of north Second street, arm broken George Miller of North Second strect, fuce cut and body bruised; Mr. Young, of North Second strect, bidly braised about the body 3 Charles Waller, the driver, serious internal injurics and head cut, and severely bruiseds Mr. William H. Ray and wife, 1530 Savaunah avenue, Mr. Riy cit over oue eye and one Mrs Ray severe internal injurs o clecuric car was running at the rate of twelye miles an hour at the tiwe, and the box var had boen sent from the cogine to make a drop switch, A number of hoawy damage suits will result from the aceident, No flagman was stationed at the crossing, - . Steamship Arvivais, At Pailagelphia—Ttne Lord Clive, trom Liverpool At New York—The Umb: pools the Uity of Berlin, La Brotagne, from frow Bremen, importunt matters 5100 between and a Chicavo, St,' car on Main and car box from Liver- Liverpooly the Aller, frou Havrog —— o r——— e