Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1889, Page 2

> OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1889, rgurtew e THEY FLOURISH THE LASH. The BExtreme Submissionists At- tempt to Bulldoze Republicans. A SERIOUS SPLIT THREATENED. Conservative Men Getting Exaspor- ated at This Conduct—A High Li- cense Amendment Bill Which Will Emvarass the Radicals, Sabmissionists in War Paint. nate., Laxcor Nob., Jan. 24.—<[Spocial to Tre Br.]—The scnate spent half the morning in an undignified wrangle over a couple of special yrts that had been called for. Raymon( wanted to know why the railroad commissioners had failed to return a com parative statement of freight rates in Ne bra as required by his resolution of Jan uary %, and was informed by Howe and Nor- val that the reports wero in the building ready for distribution, Howe improved the opportunity to rebuke Raymond and oth who, he asserted, were continually pitching into the railroad com- auission to make the people think somothing was rotten. He wanted the commissioners treated with respect, and didu'v w press furnisned withi material for b the commission A determined effort will be made to abolish With a view to the live stock commission. showing up its costlincss it was ordered to make an itemized revortof its office ts and employos. The report camo in this morning, bt was not what was ordered, Conner stigmatized it as stuff, and Ransom denounced the commission as'a fraud. The report was turned over to the committee on Tive stock with power to have it printed. Lindsay's bill for submission, senate filo 81, had been held by the comwittee several days awaiting a favorablo opportunity for its retur 1t came this morning. Chairman Lindgay reported the bill with a recom- meudation that it pass. Ransom and Beards- ¢y made @ minority report for indefi nite postponoment, and Ransom moved its substitution for the majority rcport. 1t was lost by u vote of 0 to 2 After defeating a_motion by Wolbach to aajourn, the scnate, by a vote of 17 to 14, went into committee of the whole to con- sider the bill, with Linn in the char. Lindsay moved that when the committee arose it report the bill to the senate with a recommendation that it do pass. Ransom, Paunlsen and Wolbach opposed such haste, and Paulsen moved a postpone- ment of further consideration until Friday afternoon. al. Pope and Raymond wanted more time to consider the matter And Paulsen’s motion was adopted by a vi ing vote of 17 to 14, This is considered a fair test of the positive strength of the submis- sionists, though several of the seventeen are on tho fence and may yet be converted. The Lindsay bill provides for the submis- sion at the November election of the follow- fog amendment: “The manufacture, sale, und keeping for sale, of intoxicating liquors as & beverage are forever prohibited in this ptate, and the legisluture shall provide by Jaw for the enforcement of this provision.” The submissionists are beginning to warm to their work, and are fiourishing the lash over republicans who obstinately refuse to join them, Some of the extremists are making mysterious threats of “‘putting on the screws,” while others, more frank, threaten to oppose this or that appropriation if certain members who are interested in securing such allowance persist in their op- Pposition to submission, The effectis to exas- erate the members in question, and the feel- ng between the two factious 1s daily grow- ing more bitter. The effort of Dempster, Hall and Scoville in the house caucus to put collar aud chain on Cady, Rayner, Gilehrist and Cameron, was a dismal failure and has cast a shadow f gloom on the managers of the movement. ull's argument that Tuesday night's caucus ‘was but a continuation of the caucus which nominated Speaker Watson and therefore en- dowed with all its powers is ridiculed as a bit of presumptyous pettifogging. Not- witlistanding the fsolutions passed no one here considers them as pledging any one but those who responded to the call with their ayes. ‘The effort to bind absent republicans by the caucus action is looked upon as a very poor farce, even by candid submissionists them- elves; and the pre*ension that the resolu- ions do have such binding force would pro- ‘voke a pitying smile if the proposition were seriously advanced. But it is not. It is felt here that the only effect of the caucus has ‘been to compel Cady to declare himself. Ray- per's vote is as uncertain a quantiy as be- fore! and he has submitted to indignities Which he may resent with his vote. The submissionists have been counting noses dilligently, and they have gme over the count, repeatedly make sure that none have gotten away. Thoy have found only fifty- seven members of the house whom they can, with reason, count upon as for submission, and they have been relying upon the conver: sion or intimidation of Cudy, Rayner and Fuller for the other three votes, Fuller was ot at the caucus, and. like Rayner, he may or may not withstand the pressure. Cady, {mwevl!r, has committed himself by declar- ng his first and highest duty to b that of reflecting the sentiment and recordiug the ishes of his constituency, which is opposed submission, Heis a high-minded man, #nd, having declared himself, his vote is re- garded as lost to the subwmissionists, There is a disposition among some of the Eennlors friendly to the movement to couple he bill for submission with another for pro- ibition,the latter to be used as a club. But it doubtful. Yrould ot works, and its adoption 'he proposition was discussed at last night's “uetm but met with opposition, Senator urd, for example, is one of the most rabid of submissionists because he believes in the principle of allowing ths posyle themslys ass on o measure for which there is eneral clamor, and because he thinks sub- ission will removoe the liquor question from artisan politics; but he s opposed to prohi- ition, and hie objected to the scheme when roached in last night's conference. There are enough senators of FHurd’s mind to throttle probibition und to dufeut its use as club. AFTERNOON SESSION, A large number of petitions were submit- ted, and after other routine business the Eolnu.llnoo of the whole took up the Cornell ill, allowing the ‘investment of the perma- ment school fund in regstered school district bonds. It provoked an earnest debate. The Conuell bill was recommended for passage. » ‘The Raymond bill to submit an amendment for an clective railroad commission of three members passed the committee of the whole by avoteof 14 to 8, Itis not likely to get the necessary three-fifths vote on final pas- sage, House. LiNcoLy, Neb,, Jau, 24.—[Special to Tue Bee.]-The worning session was largoly taken up with reports of committees, The committee on revenue and taxazion reported that house roll 30, Corbin's bill to punish as- sessors for undervaluation of property, be passed as amended. The committee on claims reported that the bill to pay Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts, the sum of $2,034 for ser- vices rendored the state in the United States supreme court in the case of Morton vs Ne- braska, concerning the title to certain lands, be lndcflnm:gg postponed, Hall moved that the bill ve placed on gen- eral i Dempster and White opposed the motion, and the recommendation of the com mittee was agreed to. ‘The committee on constitutional amend- ments reported back house roll No. 1, Demp- :gr' submission bill, without recommenda- . Dom&uur moved that it be placed on gen- eral fi Olmstead demanded a call of the house, which showed all the members presont ex- cept Larsou. The roll call was demanded on Dempster’s wmotion but flually withdrawn, :ln‘?o"u bill was placed on file without oppo- n, ‘The judiciary committee reported on a lu‘-'e number of bills as follows. louse roll 185, joint resolution to submit the prohibitory ameadment; do pass. House roll 107, making state warrants tate securities’ within the meaning of the oonstitution; do pass House roll 24, Gilbert's usury bill; be d on general file. Adbpted. The same recommendation was made in ro- gardfto house roll 124, Hall's bill providing for voting on the license question in towns and villages, Hungate's bill, prescribing what legal bus 1 be transacted on Sunday, was rec- iness ommended for passage. Houso roil 105, Gilchrist's bill to prohibit lotteries and games of chance, was favorably 1 bills were introduced, among them the following By Hungate supervisors the metropolitan class, pave or improve the such city. By Fieldgrove the sale and leasing of the longing to the state, House roll 4), to punish the woaring of the roseite of the Lerion of Honor by unauthor- ized persons, was taken up and passe: To authoriza the board of countios containing citios of first or second, to highways leading to for To provide for an_act o saline lands House roll 54, To bill, giving the keeping a lien on the als, was also passe (ouse then went into committee of th for the consideration of house roll 7, The whole which prescribes the fees of the county treasur id bills of minor importance, and then adjourncd until 3 p. u AFTERNOON SESSION The committee on_constitutional amend- ments orted that house roll 131, providing for the submission of a high license amend- ment to the constitution, be piaced on the L tiie for consideration. npster moved that the definitely postponed, but Anally the motion and the recommendation committee was adopted. y House roll 154, Denman’s bill to provide for the state publication of school books, and house roll 158, providing that all liconse feos shall go to the general school fund, were placed on the general file. he same re imendation was made in regard to house roll 137, Corbin’s bill provide for the investment of the permanent school funds in stato securities, registered county and schiool distriet bonds. Rayner sent up & resolution i regard to the regents of the state university not sub- witting an itemized report of thoir expendi- tures for the past two years. White said the report was in print and would be laid on the desks carly next week, and the resolution was tabled. The house then went into committee of the whole on bills for the general calendar, House roll 93, to tax dining and sleeping cars, and to compel them to make reports, was referred to the judiciary committee. A bill to prevent the forming of any coun- ties of less than 576 square, miles in exteut was recommended for pussage. bill bo in- withdrew of the Baker's Decedents Bill LiNcoLy, Neb, Jan. 2t—[Special to Tae Bee.|—The most d4mportant bill in troduced yi day was sent up by Baker, chairman of the judiciary committee. It relates to persons who die intestate and makes important changes in the present la w, The following is a synopsis of its leading features: Section 1. That section 30 of chapter 23 of the Compiled Statutes of Nebraska of 1337, entitled “Decedents,” be amended to read as follows: Section 30, When any person shall die seized of any lauds, not having lawfully de- vised the same, they shall descend subject to his debt in the manner following: 1. 1f he leaves no issue one-half shall descend to his widow and the remainder to his his father and mother 2. If the intestato shall leave only one child one-half shall descend to his widow and the balance to the child. 3. If the intestate leaves two or more children, one-third shall descend to his widow in absolute right and the remainder cqually distributed among the children. 4. 1f the intestate shail leave no issue and no father, one-half shall descend to his {vidow ana the remainder o his mother. 5. If the intestate leave no issue and no mother, one-half shall descend to his widow and the remainder to his father. 6. If the intestate leave no widow, his estate shall descend to his 1ssue in equal shares. - 7. If the intestate leave no issue and no widow his estate shall descend to his parents or the surviving parents, and in case of the death of both, in equal shares to his brothers and sisters and to the lawful issue of any de- ceased brother or sister by right of repre- sentation. 8, If the deceased leave no widow, father, mother, brother or sister, his estate shall de- scend to his next of kin in equal shares, 9. 1f any person shall die leaving several children, and the issue of one or more chil- dren, and if any such surviving child shall die under age, and not having been married, all the estate that came to the deceased by inheritance from the parent shall descend in equal shares to the other children and the issue of any decoased child by right of repre- sentation. 10, If the estate shall leave a widow and no kindred, his estate shall descend to said widow. 11. If the intestate shall leave no kinared his estate shall escheat to the state of Ne- braska. The bill, which is quite lengthy, provides further thut the homestead shall “descend to the widow subject to circumstances, if any, unless it exceeds the net sum of $1,000. The bill places the husband and wifé upon an exact equality so far as property rights are concerned. The so-called courtesy and dower rights are abolished. The bill allows the widow all the household goods and other persoual property ot to excecd the sum of 00 in value. ——— Prohibition in Iowa. LaNcoLy, Neb., Jan. 24.—[Special to Tue Bgg.|—The following are the expressions ot some of the members of the senate and house on Tue BEE's investigations of probibition in Towa: Roche—Have only read one of Tug Ben From porsoual inauiry 1 know greut difference of opinion on prohi- bition among lowans themsclves, Howe—A good thing and a strong argu- ment against prohibition. Its information will probably surprise many lowans, Lindsay —Tun BEE'S reports are probably exaggerated. 1 am in correspondence with friends av Des Moines, and they do not kuow of this wholesale violation. Tageart —Have been too busy to read all of Tuk Bep's articles, but have no doubt they contain much truth. I traveled in lowa {m- u veur, and I know prohibition is a grand raud, Ransom—Have not read the articles, Robinson—Have no doubt lquor is sold clandestinely, but think prohibition probably as well enforced as other laws. I notice that the Des Moincs Register and Sioux City Journal ridicule Tur Beg's roport. Norval--Don't need Tur BEer's expres- sions to convince we of the failure of prohi- bition. Shanner—Perhaps the statements of Tnoe Ber's correspondent are true. I do not doubt one can get liquor in Des Moines and other cities. Tbo same would be the case in Nebraska cities, but the question is pro- gressive, and the cities will in time submit. Cornell -1 don’t thick Tnr Bee's expres- sions cut any figure in the present contest. This is a matter of submission and not of prohibition. Raymond—I don’t think it ought to be pub- lished, Both sides exaggerate the situation in lowa, ) know from a trip through the stato that i the smaller places prohibition is about as well enforced us other laws. In larger places this is not true, Olmsteod—I think Tue Bre gives the plain, unvarnished truth in regard to the condition of affairs in lowa. Weller—1 think the question of whether or not prohibition is a failure in lowa 18 en- tirely foreign to the question before us. Submussion is one thing and prohivition wnother. Hays of York—There may be some truth in those reports, but 1 have travecled some in lowa and know by obscrvation that prohibi- tion is enforced in many sections. Gardner—The reports are certainly true. Tur Beg wouldu't lie about it. _Hauna (# submissionist)—-Am not in a po- sition to suy as to the truth of these reports from Des Moines, I lived in Iowa until a few years ago. Prohibition was not a suc- sess when I left the state. Whitehead—It is published for effect—sim- ply to influence our action. KEach man looks #t such things through his own glasses. I have my doubts as to the practical workings of prohibition, but the party has. made a pledge to the people, and now they must re- deem it. ~ Johnson of Phelps (a strong sulynission- ist)—I have not read it and it has uo bearing on the question before us, anyway. Dickinson of Luncaster—Tae B is in such great demand in the house that some one appropriated wine before I got a chance to read it, but I think thers is much truth in the reports. Berry—1 don't take muoh stock in any- thing that comes from a whisky source. Yutzy-—-1 don't know anything about the practical working of prohibition in Towa, but that is not tho question before us. _ Shall we submit the question and redeem the party pledget Dunn—T guess there where vou can got all the liquor used to live in that state myself. I think that is certainly a bad are places in Towa ou want. 1 (an ardent submissionist) —T think it is a systom of wholesale lying carried ou or effect Caldwell—I kno n that sta and my of n's v it is correct. 1 used to nd go back frequently on a vations confirm thecorre- 1i visit, spon ports. Whitford of Dixon—1 boliove the law is all right. Tue Br ernor Larrabeo hie ought 1o know. Stirk of Madison—1 think shiould rulo, right or wrong. 1 want tho peo ple to vote on the question. I think the ma jority of my couty is against prohibition, but they have a right to express themscives on the question Rhodes—Tir Benis dead against both sub- mission and prohibition, and I rather think colors the por L Cady expressed himsolf freely. He said— Ihave always maintained that prohibitory legislation is not practical. You cannot leg- islate morality into a man. You may im- prove his condition somewhat by wise Law Yive hundred men drink, only one man solls. You may punish the seller, but the drinkers go free. " Thut is whore tho troubleli towever, Tdon't understand that the ques tion of prohibition has anything to do with submission, : reports are colored, Gov- id the law is enforced, and the majority Swartsley—1 have read the letters you speak of, and they reveal a deplorabie condi- tion of afairs. 1 prefer to live in Nebraska under high license than in a so-called prohi- bitiory stato, If I should want a drink I prefer to go in the front door like a man, and uot sueak around to the back door. McBride's Break. Liscory, Neb.. Jan. 24.—[Special to Trn Ber.] — MeBride v very much disap- pointed in not being able to sceure the ap- pointment of a spocial committes to proceed to Towa to investigato the workings of the prohibitory law, when the house refused this request of a majority of the com- mittee and peremptorily orderod the committee on counstitutional amendments to report the bill the next day, McBride offered a resolution, reciting that as they had not been given time to investigate the merits and demerits of prohibition, thereforo they postpone the consideration of houso roll No. 1 until Junuary 31, thus practically defying '-Y_I(l[fll‘dl‘l‘uf the house. The resolution car- ried. The members of the committee who had voted for it were not satistied, but securing n copy, found that the order was 1 datory 1 its nawure. They then decided to reconsider the action, but McBride remained obstinate and rofused to attend the meeting. Demp- ster aud others had prepared a resolution citing the members to the bar of the house for contempt, or at least to censure them for their hasty course, and had the committee not reported as directed, lively times would have followed and much Dbitterness might ve been developod., 2 The Female Suffrage Bill. Neb., Jan. 24.—|Special to Tur son’s female suffrage bill, the senate yesterday afternoon, is a substitute for section 61 of the compiled statutes of 1857. It reads as follows: Every person, male or female, who shall have resided in this state for a period of six months, and within the limits of any eity of the second class or village for a period of three months immediately preceding any election therein, and who shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, or upwards, shall be entitled to vote at all city and vil- tions. Norval called attention to the fact that it neglected to require that the voter be a citi- zen of the United tes, or have declared his iutention to be such. Then Howe put in a plea for the women of Omaha and Liveoln. He didn't want them hted, and put in an amendmegt including metropolitan cities and cities of the first class. Ransom.objected that Omaha had a charter which furnished the qualifications of voters, and that the charter could not be amended by a measure of this general na- ture, and, besides he did not believe the bill, if enacted, would be constitutional. The proper way to do is to make an amendment to the constitution in the manner prescribed therein, The bill was sent to the judiciary commit- tee to be patched up. In the course of the short discussion, which did not rise to the dignity of a debate of the principle involved, but. was merely a picking of flaws in the bill, Church H owe put him- self on record as follows: “I believe in let- ting the mothers and the sisters go to the polis with us and vote. 1 am in favor of the proposed measure,” ———— Mutilating the Omaha Charter. LixcoLN, Neb., Jan, 2t.—[Special Tele- gram to Tnk Bee.]J—The democratic mem- bers of the Douglas county delegation held a meeting yesterday which extended late into the night, They unanimously agreed on the striking out of the amended charter as printed, sections, 11, 37, 50, 51 (giving the mayor and council power to establish and maintain public librarvies, etc.; the method of tax levying and contract letting for public works; exempting from taxation city property and relieving the mayor and council from liabihty for the ocity's debts if they surpass the limits of indebtedness; and fixing the salaries of the city officers and employes, the democrats were unanimous in striking out the section referring to the board of public works, and the section authoriziug the mayor and comp- troller to loan money to the bank: Hun- gate opposed striking out the Knights of Labor clause, In section 4 *city engineer” is substituted for “*board of public works,” ——— The Proposed Somersaulc. LixcoLy, -Neb., Jan. 24—[Special Tele- gram to Tug B —~The scheme to couple a high license amendment with one for prohi- bition is fast crystalizing, but they will be hitched as a team and not as a tandem, dem, with high license in the lead. A Brg correspondent met Senators Lindsay, Bur- ton, Taggart and Funck in a quiet talk this evening, and told them of the proposed somersault, Toggart jumped at it eagerly as a solution of the Jllumml in which he is placed, Lindsay said he could accept it, as he believed it would redeem the pledge made by the state convention. Burton was ready to take it as an alternative, but he would like first to try and put the Lindsay bill through the senate. Funck said he was agree- able to a compromise, Other senators fayor- ing submission have expressed themselyes similarly, and generally without reserve or lLesitaney. They clutch at it as a happy escape from a trying position, and the whole aspect of the contest may change to-morrow, The submissionists pretend to have had votes in the senate to-day, and they boast of their ability to pass the Lindsay bill to- morrow. They have agreed in some of their tactics. 1t is said that they will let the op- position do most of the talking and will resist every opportunity to adjourn prema- turely on account of their majority, ~They canuot only do this, but may force a vote at any time, LixcoLy, e The Contest Cases. LaxcowLy, Neb., Jan, 24.—[Special Telegram to Tur Bok.|—The house committee on privileges aud elections, ata meeting this evening, decided not to hear any niore oral testimony in the contest cases, and pending the arrival of the missing poll books, ad- journed to mect Friday afternoon, when they will hear the arguments by counsel for both sides. The ballot box in the first precinct of the Fourth ward will be examined. The re- sult, to a large extent, hiuges upon the decis- ion in regard to the legality of the election in this precinct. Legislative Notes. LaxcoLy, Neb., Jan. 24.—|Spoecial to Tus Be.)—The house is not going to spend much time with bogus claims, judging by the temper it exhibited to-day on the bill to pay Senator Hoar 82,000 for services rendered in defending the state before the United States supreme court in the case of Morton against Nebraska. The Lancaster delegation en- deavored in vain to get the bill pluced on the Keneral flle for consideration, Mr. Fieldgrove of Fuffalo, occupied the chair in committee of the whole to-day. The members tried their hest to confuse nim, vt the gentleman provnfl equal to the occasion and when the amefidments were being fired at him from all parts pf the houso he pounded on the desk and safd, * “Gentlemen, vou ar getting_all mixed np, as well as mysel This sally bronght dofyn the houso There was a disposition on the part of some of the membars to oppose tho placing of the submission bill ‘o tne general flle. A call of the house whis ordered, and the fight promised to wax wartn, but Morrissey arose and said: “Let it o, boys; we might as well give up without a Hght, and save time." The galleries werb twoll filled to-day a large sprinkling of ladies, probably ticiy n of the openiag of the batl submission contest, In the discussion 0f Lindsay's submission bill Church Howe gof another chance to_rap Raymond of Lincolti, over the knuckles Raymond objected to the consideration of the bill beeause he had not been invited to a of the submissionists. Howe re “Wo'll haye a cancus right now if its action,” and the sens augh Hon. John W. Webster is at_the capital and has made an ofticial report to the ernor on the centennlil colebration of Wash- ington’s inauguration. 3D BY INSURANCE. with n an- in the oV COVER A Fire of Rather Mysterious Origin Liast Night. An alarm from box 18 brought the fire brigade to 614 South Tenth strect last night, where the storo occupied by J. T. and Sam Schlesinger, under the style of Schlesinger Bros,, was discovered to be in flames, In half an hour the fire w under control, but the stock, consisting of dry goods, boots and shoes, ote., was damaged by the water and smoke. Tho day provious, it is said, the firm had removed the stock from the adjoin. ing store into No. 614, and it, too, suffered from the burning. The orlgin of the fire is a mystery, as it started in the rear of the store, and far away from the stoves or gas jots, and it had made considerable headway before being discovered. Tho promises were closed at about 9 o'clock, and it was about twenty-five minutes later that the alarm was sounded. An employe of the firm said that the stock was worth about £15,000 or §20,000, and that while badly dam- aged, it was fuily coverod by insnrance, The building is owned by Mrs. Martin Kennedy, and seems 1o be unfortunate, About yours ago it was the scene of another fire, which led to a disputs with the companies that had insured the stock it then contained, and the proprietors. A year ago the last fourth of July it gavethe fire brigade another run, but as the dawage was confined to the basement the loss was light. Lust night the building was not damaged adly as the stock, but the amount of in- surance on 1t was not learned. “Ihere's My Papal!” It was a bright little five-year-old girl, that peered through the bars in the county jail yestorday, and singled ot a heavily built man that lounged among the persons in the corridor. Ho turned around, but it was a scowl in- stead of asmilo that grested her babyish grecting, and she clung affrighted to the skirts of her mother. *‘But it is my papa,” she said in avswer to a whispered admoni- tion from the lady. The latter was hand- some and well dressed, and the wife of Joe Snyder, the alloged bigamist. She had just come in from St. Joseph, and had kunocked timidly at the jail door for admission. She had told her errand and asked pormission to talk to the man she thought had proved so untrue to the vows he had made at_the altar. Kindly the officials told her that it was im- possible to grant her a private conversation with a prisoner, but, allowed her the usual privileges of the jail accorded to visitors. Standing at the griting, she strained her eyes to catch a glimpse of the man who had wrongod her, and it was beforo she had ve- come accustomed to the gloom of the jail that the brighter eyes of her daughter had found the object of her search. But he would not have 1t that way, and as she sought him, turned his back 'to look through the windows, while the officials left the prison room as she pleaded, and the un- kempt prisoners waited to sce what the re- sult would be. It was ot long they had to wait. ‘tJoe, I want to speak to you just a min- ute,” she said, but he kept unmoved. “Come here, just for a moment. I want to tallk to_you,” “but the only answer wasa shrug of the shouldors, a back still turned, a decper drive of the hands into the trousers’ pockets, and a silence ou the part of his fel- [ow wrisoners. - “Do como here, Joo, oh my God, my husband won't do this,” and a heavy fall completed the sentence. The prisoners crowded closely to the bars, the crics of the child were added to the sighs of the fainting womnan, and then the ofiicials came and removed Joe Snyder’s first wife. e A Valuable Discovery. Dss Moixes, Jan. 24.—([Special to Tne Bre.]—A recent discovery m the office of the state auditor may be of interest to some Towa claimants against a defunct insurance company. In 1876 there was organized at Burlington the Centenuial insurance com- pany, which after a brief career as a mutual assessment company, ceased to exist. Some of its policy holders and creditors in Towa failed to get their money back. It was re- contly learned by Auditor Lyons that there is on deposit with the insurance commission- ers of Missourt 100,000 of securitics, placed there by this company for the benefit of policy holders, and still hetd asaguaran- tee against claims coming up i that state Tt is possible that the Towa claimants wh have unsatisfied claims may obtain some part of that reserve fund, and steps will')be taken to test the matter. e s The Indiana Contests, INDIANAPOLIS, Jan, 24.—The state commi tee on elections reported on the Ray-Carpen- ter contested election case to-day. Carpen- ter (rep.) 1s the occupant of the seat. Five democrats on the committee reported in favor of unseating Carpenter, and three repub- licans joined in the minority report against unseating. The majority report oharged Carpenter with purchusing votes. The minority enters a general denial of the charges, and takes the constitutional ground that even if Carpenter did purchase volc the senate could not unseat him on that chargo unless he should have been convicted of the crime in the courts, In the alternoon the session of the senate was taken up with u discussion of the Lay- Curpenter contest. The debate was oxceod- 1ngly acrimonious on both sides. sl Mrs, Rawson's Trial, Cnicaco, Jan. 24—[Special Telegram to Tug Bre|—The trisl of Mrs. Rawsou to- day disclosed her life from the time she wus married to John Staymaker, at the age of fif- teen, to the shooting of Banker Rawson, her third husband, by her sou. Mrs. Rawson threw in an occagiopal “piece of her mind"” and expressed hor pride at the agt of the boy, Otherwise the defendant benaved her- self fairly well -~ A Fatal Ofl Explosion. MuLwaUKEE, Jan, 4.—An explosion of a large cau of oil occurrod to-night in the Iol- videre block. John Clejents, aged tweive, was burned 1o doath, and James, bis brother, aged fourteon, 8o bully burned (hat be oan: not live. e A Careless’ Driver. ©. A. Johnston, a contractor, arrested last night for reckloss driviug. He fell asleep while guiding & faam up Cuming streey and ran over 4 man named Stokes, who re- sides at the corner of Twenty-third and Cuming stroots. Tho v ictim is thought to be seriously injured, The Great Walking Contest. Frank Hall, manager of the great interna- tional six-day walking match st San Fran} cisco, writes the sporting editor of Tup Brg that & free entrance will be given any pedes- trian in Omaba who desires t participate in the race which opens at that place February 21, Mr. Hull predicts s grand tournament, aLd one in which' record-breaking may re: sult, Reducing Wages on the 8t J. & G. I 81, Josers, Mo, Jan. 24.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee.|—A reduction of from 10 o 15 per cent has been ordered on the St. Joo & Grand Island on all train men excepl passenger conductors, JUDGE WANTS T0 SCO0P PUCK And Asks Harrison For His Oabinet Nominations. REPRESENTATIVEBURNES' DEATH His Kindly Manner Towards Now Members and Courteons Treat- ment of All-The Cowles Bill-Territorial WasniNor 1 ¥ Bunmu Taw Owam Ban, ) 8 FOURTEENTIL STREET, Wasnixoroy, D. C., Jan, 4. ) When Mr. Arkell, the proprietor of Judo, went to indianapolis a fortnight or t! weeks ago, and had a conference with Gen eral Harrison, it was published throughout the country that he was working in the in- terest of Mr. Platt for a place in thoe cabinet. Your correspondent learns that Mr. Arkell's mission was to secure a promise from Prosi dent-elect Harrison that as soon as he has fixod in his mind all of his cabinet officers he will in confidence give their names to Judgo, 80 that publication could got a ‘‘scoop on its democratic rival, Pu 1t will be remembored that President Clevo land, four years ago, granted this favor to tue latter journal, which is the illustrated organ of the democ- racy. Presilent Harrison told Mr. Arkell that if he could putallof the employes in the Judge oftice under lock and key aftor the information was received and work upon the illustrations begun, he would not object to imparting the information in advance. It is not unprobable that Puck will be scooped on a very valuable piece of news. REPRESENTATIVE BURNES' DEATIL, 1t has been a long time since a death in the house of representatives caused such uni- versal regret as that of Mr. Burnes, of Missouri, who died from a stroke of apo- plexy at an carly hour this morning. Mr.” Burnes was one of those plam, genial, frank and compapionable gentlomen whom everybody admired. Young member: of the house were always shown cspecial favors at his hauds, and the old members re- ceived uniformly kind treatment whenever they went to him_for information or favors in connection with appropriation bills or any thing else. He was one of the leading mei- bers of the committee on appropriations, and took an active part not only in the presoiva- tion of these measures, but in their consider- ation on the floor of the house. It is not often that a man of his legislative, political, social and financial influcnce is found so am- iable around the halls of congress. Burnes was phlegmatic in physical constitution and had a marked tendoncy toward apoplexy. He had a premonition that death would soon come to him, and frequently mentioned it during the past y When' the members of the house were recontly delivering culo- gies upon the lato Mr. Itobertson, of Louisi ana, Mr. Burns occupied the speak Among _those who talked best Cox, of New York, This bright little epi- gramatic writer so pleased Mr. Burnes, who tvas physically a very large man, that he wrote a note on the speaker’s desk and sent 1t down to the New York statesman at the conclusion of the latter's address. In closing e his note to Mr, Cox, words like these were written by Mr. Burnes: “But, my dear friond, you don't know how soon you will by alled upon to deliver a eulogy upon me Suuset Cox will undoubtedly be at the head of the eulogists when the house delivers. its obsequics on this dead statesma. THE COWLES DILL Speaker Carlisle oxcreises the caution, the death of Mr, Burnes may result in a report being made from the committee on anpropriations, on the Cowles' bill abolishing the tax on tobacco. Mr. Burnes was strongly opposed to making to baceo free from tax, and of course no report was possible by the committeo while all of its democratic members were opposed o it. There was some talk arouud the house to-day about a report being made on the bill before the vacancy, created by the death of Mr. Burnes, should be filled by the speaker. This 'is not possible, howover, s Speaker Carlisle proposes to appoint another democratic member of the committee on ap- propriations before that body holds another regular meeting. He also intends to ap- point a member Who is opposed to the free wobaceo bill. It will be difieult to find one who 1s competent to occupy a chair in_the committee on gppropriations who is_opposed to the Cowles bill. “Therefore it is fortunate that nearly all of the worls of the committee is & fair crop in nearly Its price is the most grains, Very little attompt. is mada at ship ment, and {ts valus is fixed by the local sup- ind the demand or the whim of the local ply millors. For instance, in Buena Vista count its prico {s quoted at 80 cents per bushe whilo in Greene county, about miles away, the price is 8Li5. potato crop’ is generally good through ont tho state, Thore 18 very uniform at 25 cents per bushel. No develops in any quarter to disturb the equa: ble fuilness of the market. Hay is plonty. The prices of cultivated hay and wild hay are necessarily mixed. That of prairie b woll ‘saved." comments upon Nebruska, Failure at New Hampton. NEW HAMPTON, Ta., Jan. 24 1 Tele m to'Tne Bee. | —Bailey & Son, prominent srchants of this plac © mado an as signment, Tho assots ated at about 5,000 Their Liabilities are about the samoe - AN EXAMPLE IN OMAHA, Max C'Rell's Criticisms Not so Ex- trave, nt After AlL Max O'Rell, the witty I'renchman, in his book on the United i among other things that if a DI obsol the Chicago Times; if & men- ber of the cloth so offended in Ponns) vania he was lampooned in the news) perst but if the same thing occurred in K s tho parties who took umbrage the minister’s remarks waited for him after church and thrashed him on the sidowalk., This was regarded by the majority of roaders us a hit of face- tious generally quite characteristic of the author of “Jonhn Bulll” But it appears that Max O'Rell was only a little mixed in the matter of topogra- ph The rabbi of an Oma na- gogrue advanced some views last Sunday that failed to meot with the hearty commendation of his congregation, and he only escaped mobbing by dodging out of tho back door. After all,the I'renchman knew us better than we thought. e McClellan's Procrastination or- - Nicolay and Hay in the Febuuary Century?! With the exercise of a very little “sugacity, General MeClellan should red from the tone of this dispatch that the president’s mood was taking on a certain tinge of has been completed. 1If it were not for the Cowles bill there wouid be no necessity for fiiling the vacancy, but it wilt be absolutely necessary under the circumstances for early action to be taken and a man secured who is detfinitely committed against the bill. TERRITORIAL. The senate committee on territories will to-morrow take up the omnibus territorial bill for consideration, but up to the present moment only one of the republican members of the committee has expre himself favorable towards the idea of permitting New Mexico to come into the union. T’ Senator Stewart, of Nevada, Senator I dock said this evening that he should listen to the ideas of his colleagues and would govern his_action in this regard to the advice of the majority. said Senator Paddock, ‘‘we can secure more favorable terms for Dakota by allowing New Mexico to remain in the bill, I dow’ know but that 1 should be inclined to adopt that course, But in any event the bill in its present forn, so far as it relates to Dalkota, 18 not satisfactory, and it will certainly be changed so as to admit the southern half of the territory at once if it passcs at all.” Sen- ator Davis, of Minnesota, a member of th committee, expressed himself in language almost identical with that used by Scnator Paddock. He says that the prime requisite of a bill, to meet the approval of the repub- lican members of the senate, is that it shall admit South Dakota without delay. Dele: gate Gifford and Judge Moody have been in conference with the members of the senate territorial committee, to-day, and sub- mitted some propositions for ‘amendments to the omnibus bill. Mr. Gifford says that he voices the sentiment of the people of Dakota when he asserts that a majority of them would prefer to remain as a territory for some time to come rather than to go in under the provisions of Springer's scheme, Mr, Gifford says that the senate will certainly amend the mill, either by providing for tho immediate aamission of South Dakota with- out further submission of the question of di- vision to the people, or elso after the ques tion of division shall have been submitted to the people of the territory as i whole, and not to the people in each section scparately. CABINET TALK, 1t comes to your correspondent from most llent authority that President-elect Har- rison has for the second or third time just ronewed his invitation to Senator Allison to take the treasury portfolio, and that if this distinguished statesman sgain refuses to ac- copt, Towa will not be given a cabinct po sition, and the secretaryship of the treasury will go to the Hon. John C, New, of Indiana ‘The further information is received that the name of Mr, Platt, of New York, 18 not now being considered in connection with the cabinet and that if ay of the well-kuown gentlemen of that state who have been men- tioned in connection with the malke up of the cabinct is given a place, it will be Warner Miller. NEBRASKA'S MESSENGE 1f the messenger beariug the electoral vote of Nebraska d not arrive here by next Monday, he will be delinquent. ALl of the electoral colleges have reported except Ne- braska, California, Colorado, Florid tucky, Maine, da und Texas. ernor Stone, of Iowa, th :ssenger sclected 10 bring the electoral vote of that state 1s stopping at 1136 Twelfth street, northwest. 10WA CROPS. The commissioner of agriculture has just ued & report on the crops of the past year, from which the following relating to the farm products of lowa taken: “The weather has been very favorable for corn during the entire fall.” It has been remark- ably dry and pleasant, maturing and harden ing the'ears and enabling the farmers to ather and crib the crop in fine shape, The ocalities where it had to be 'sorted’ are ex- ceptional, and the bulk of it is already safely cribbed. The price of wheat is s0 affected by the intense speculations of powerful combinations that it is hard o get itat what would be nominal, but thore s a shortage, which will be felt more and more #s the year advances and prices whl probably still be forced up. Buckwheat auste Nevertheless, he continued tions at perfect leisure, and afterward he senta long le definite instructions in regard to details of guards to be left on the upper Potomac; to which ho re- ceived a reply that ‘“‘the government had intrusted him with defeating and driving back the rebel army in hi front,” and dirceting him to use h own discretion as to the matters question. As Gene veferred 1 his dispa march of Bragg’s army eral Hulleck concluded his an; n 1 MeClellan had *h to the probuble astward, Gen- ver with the significant intimation: *You are within twenty miles of Lee, while Bragg s distant about four hundred milcs.’ He finally got his army across the Po- tomac ou the 1st of November. It had begun crossing on the 26th of October, and as the several detachments ived in Virginia they were slowly distrib- uted on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge under the vigilant and now dis trustful eye of the president. no doubt that the pr i and confidence, which had withstood so much from General McClellan, was now giving way. The president had resisted 1n his behalf, for more than a year, the nest and bit- ter opposition’of the most powerful and trusted friends of the administration. McClellan had hardly a supporter left among the republican senators, and few among the most prominent mem- bers of the majority in the house of representatives. In the cabinet the was the same unanimous hostil- ity to the young general. In the meeting of the 20 of September, when the president announced that he had placed McClellan in command of the forces in Washington,he w an outbreak of protest 5 from the leading members of the gov- erament which might well have shiken the ncrves of auny ruley. But the pres- ident stood manfully by his action. He admitted the infirmaties of McClellan, is lnck of energy and initative; but for this exigency he considered him the best man in the service,and the country must have the benefit of his talents, although he had behaved badly. We need not refer again to the magnanim- ity with which the president had ove looked the insolent dispatches of Gen- al McClellan from Savage’s Station and Harrison’s nding. He closcd his s persistently duaing all the months of the winter and spring to the stovie: ne to him from every quarter ard to the tone of factious hos- tility to himself which prevailed at M Cl s headquartevs. But these stories iner d to such an extent du ing the and autumn th in his 1, so slow to believe ioned some trouble. Soon wtle of Antictam an incident came to his hearing of whivh he felt himself obliged to take notice, Major | John J. K brother to Colonel Thomas M. Key, of McClellan’s stafl, was ported to have said, in reoly to the question, put by a brother officer, *Why was not th bel army ately after the battle ? “That is not the game, ject is that neilher army shall get much ad- | vantage of the other; that both shall be kept in the field till they xhausted, when we will make a ¢ompromise and save slavery,” The president sent an | aide-de-camp to Major Key to inform | him of this grave charge, and to invite him to disprove it within twenty-four | hours, A few minutes after this not| was sent, the major appeared at the ex- ecutive munsion in compuny with Mujor Turner, the offfcer to whom the remark had been made. mme mi S Oranges sported in Bulk. Oranges are now being moved from Plorida in bulk, the sane as potatoes. They are piled about three ¢ high and “paper is run around the sides of | the car, while the floor is covered with fine mavsh grass. Numerous earlonds | of the fruit thus packed hi ached Baltim The Sun reports thut sev- oral varieties came in a cur, partiti of thin board being put up. The car to Baltimore contained 42,000 or- anges, und had been six days making The fr the trip. ght on the car wae $199. e The Washtnb Wouldn't Chord, Chicago Tribune: George—That is i beautiful piece, Laura, and you have played it most soulfully, But what is | rumbling noise | bave been hear- 7 nearly at the time since I came in? huum —[t must be the wind, lxcuse me & moment. (Goes into the kitehen ) Mother, can’t you take .that washtub into the back basement? Jt doesn’t chord with the piano. Auction, A 1 wish to notify my friends und pat- rons that the sale that was advertised 607, 609 and 611 13th st., The no sale uth be 1l parts of tho state. apricious of all the fifty The little shipping demand yot, and the price is quite searcity wild, or ranges at about two-thirds that hum molasses s very fine ane was well matured and There are no reports from or in New York voiced scutiments dis- pleasing to his hearers thoy went to another church the next Sunday | aid being s | Conside I0WA'S PACKING INTERESTS. The Courso to Be Pursued in the Fight For Rates. ACOMBINATION WITH THE ROADS Action Taken at the Des Moines Con- ference—The Ilinois tral Sued For $200,000-A Wholesale Poisoning. The Pork Packoers Drs Moixes, ln, Jan, 24.—[Special Telo- gram to Tur B ]—The wckors of Towa held a conference at the railroad com- missioners’ oMce, beginning this morning. The attendance was not very large, but the citios not reprosented by packers had sent full statements of their views, and the meet ing, which was ecalled by the commissionery at the suggestion of the packers, for the pu of digesting plaus for the defonse of tho cking intorests bofore tho mter-stato > commission as agninst the repr and complaints of the Chicago a8 decmed very important, Dey and Campbell ot Commissioner Doy ) order, pork sentation packers, Comuission wero called “the and Packer Foster, of Ottumwa, was madi rman. The different packers discussed the course that should be taken to maintain the rates on aressed meat which the railronds had wade. The sentiment of the conference was that whilo the fight of tho Chicago packers was directly upon the railroads, tho lowa packers should take their share of itand help out the roads. “fo_this end they appointed an exceutive committee, consisting 05 Messrs. Windsor, of Des Moines; Fostor, of Ottumwa, and Mahoney, of Sioux City, to collect information and’ materia fenso, and to employ logal counsel to repro sent them before the inter-state commission. A Big Railroad Fort Donar, gram to Tue By Minnesota raily the Illinois C they claim is routal of the Cedar F v has entered suit ad for $200,000, which for fifteen months' alls roadbed. Hor Scheme Was Frastratod, Dis MoiNes, , Jan. 24.—[Special Telo- gram to Tne Br A spocial from Musca- tine says that the of George A. Warlield against Blsie L. Warfield, decided yostorday by the lowa supreme court in favor of the husband, is alinost romaniic in interest. in September, 1835, the plaintiff and defendant were marr Warfield had a valuable farm near this city, His wife's father was a man of wealth, and befors their marringe had lonned his then prospective son-n- law several sums of money, amount- ing . all to about 300, In March, 1876, Mrs., Warticld’s father visitod her at the Warfield farm, near Muscatine, where she and her husband were enjoying their first r of wedded Dbliss. During that visit. he induced Mr. Warfield to exe- cute to Mrs. Warfleld a deed for the land lately in controversy, which was quite valua- he consideration and the reason for action are the subject of tho law decided. Mrs. Warfield insisted that it was made for money advanced by her father bef and after her marriage War- ficld miintained that the deed was iutepded and, the to convey the undivided halt of the but that throngh mistake or fraud of woman and her father, it was d convey allof it; that the money by his father-in-law before the marr age had been paid, d that o large part of the consideration, 5000, was to have boen subscquently advanced for making improvements ~ on the farm, but it never was paid him; that he received only 82,000 in money, and that certain prop- erty, such as a piano, phacton, ete,, given to the wife, entered into the account, but sh took it all and kept it after thelr separation. In September, , Mr. Warfield was ad- judged insan sent to Mt. Pleasant, re- maining there until discharged as cured or convaloscent, in 18 His wife was ap- pointed as his guardian, and managed his property during his confinement in the asy- lum. In 1881 she instituted proceedings to annul their marriage, on the ground that ho was insane at the time of the wedding. She was a witness on her own behalf, and on her evidence and that of others, the m riage was, in 1852, anuulled. She, however, continued in charge of his property until Wartficld was declared compos mentis, in 1883, After this law suit was commenced War- field alleged as a ground for setting aside the od that, ut the time of its execution he was ane. The interesting feature of the caso was that Mrs, Warfield sought to annul one contract —that of her marrige—-on the gronund of insanity, and yot tried to enforce substantially similar circumstances and conditions, by which she acquired valuable property. 'The decision of the suprome court, frustratos this comforta ble little plan, and provides for an account- ing between the partic Owen's Challenge Accepted. Masoy Crry, la., Jan. 20 —[Specini Tele- gram to Tar Bes.]—To-day A. C. Owen re ceived the following aco to Lis chal lenge to Sullivan Moler, of Marshull town, Ta. *Secing your challenze for a foot race with one of e 2 givos me to presume you would like to wrestie to complete If you wiil acecpt me as of suit age, being now in my seventy-seventh year, I will me June next.’ Owen will probably bo matched with Moler, the running race and wrestling matel oceurring at the same time. another made und. The Su Telo- isions DEs Mo —[Special gram to Tue Bie. |—1he following de were filed by the supreme court to-da, Hemmo Ruiter, appellant, vs H. J ct al; reversed. Emma Poebles, appallant, vs Robert W. Pecbles et al; Monroo district; afirmed. W. . Eden Williams, appeliant, ve J. G, Brown; Marshall distriet: afirmed American Assurance compuny vs Goc pellant; Mavshall distriet; Plate 48 Auchampaugh, administeator, uppel- lant, vs Christitn Schmidt; Buchanin dise ricty rey i Pa ned By Discased Meat, WaTERLOO, Ta., Jan. 21 —(Special Tole- gram to Tie Ber, | —News came Lo this city to day reporting that the cutire family of Michael Bulner, consisting of five persons, living at Duzzkerton, in this county, wore voisoned and in & dying condition, Medical red, it was found that they poisoned from *lump Jaw,” & blood communicated to them through meat thoy had cate The symp- toms were most violent, causing vomiting, vetching and distortion of the features. Later reports indicate that all will recover excepting onc, # girl fifteon years old, who is 1 a dying condition, we poisoning in cattlo ors Arrested. Bogus Sury, Booxr, ln., Jan A corps of engi- neers who hiave been running a survey of railroud on their own hook from Minncapolis to Kansas City, have been arrested proposed road has been widely and it seems that upon the o corps in any community donati demand the location of depots, ete. > money had beew collected in this manner until & row among the suryoy sulted in one of them giving the away. The advertise ival of t ns would ors ¢ schoin - In the Interest of Al Des Moixes, Ia, Jan, 24 —|Special to T s Beg, | 0 is Lo be a 1neeting of the cred itors of the 3 & L store in this city on Junuary 31, The store Is now in charge of a recelver appolnted by the court, and efforts will be mude to secure a comprom by which all of the oreditors can receive sowe thing instead of having the fiest few whe A, W, Cowa ,.‘\.uuliumulx have attachments get it all. The liabilitier are nearly #5,000,