Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 12, 1889, Page 4

| TKE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 12, 1830 THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERME OF SUBECHTPTION. Pafly Morning Bdition) including SUNDAY, Brx, One Y 410 00 For Rix Month: vrens S50 ‘or Three Months 250 e OMATA BUNDAY BEE, mailed to any mddress, One Year. [ WeekLy IR, One Year. ... 00 OMATIA OFFICENOS, U1 ANDO16 FARN AM STRERT, CIcano OFFICE 57 ROOKERY BUILDING. NEW YORKOFPICE, ROOMS 14 AND 15 Tieint No. BI.I AR TH STREET, Buinoiso, GTON OFFice, Founr CORRESPONDENCE Al communications relating to news and adi- Sorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR BEE. i BUSINRSS LRTTERS, All business Iettors and remittances shonld be addressed to Trr BER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMATA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o bemade payable to the order of the company. The Bee Publishing Company Proorietors ROSEWATER. Editor. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Hlntl‘mc‘nt ot Circulation. 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George b, Tzschuck. being duly sworn, de. oses and says that 1o {y secretary of the Bes ublishing company, that the L average daily circulation of THE DATLY BER for the month of January, 19, 162 copless for e Average, Tunry, IK8, 15,002 copies: for March, i8S, 10,059 copies: for April, I8, ) uropu-«.!or\m 1898, Bl for June, 1K, 10,243 conies : for Jul, ¥, 108, 1010 copiess for Angust, 188, 15110 copiag: Tor Reptember, 1888, 14,134 coples: for October, ¥R, was 1808 copies: for Novembar. 138, B33 coptes: for December, 184, 18,223 coptew, Bworn to befors me ani_subséribea in my Presenco this frd day of Jannary 1580, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Average Daily Cucnlahon 19 192 T OMAIA avehit monopoly of the c among themselves, cts will now have y-hall-plan contest Poupric sentiment in Colorado is in favor of a high license law. So it is every state where the liquor problem is thoroughly understood. — BOULANGER has an eye to marrying an American woman. Let him by all means be made dictator of France. An American petticoat will rule him. WHEN the street car consolidation eomes not only will rapid transit be as- sured, but a single nickle will carry a passenger to any pointof the city. KANSAS is agitated from center to circumference over the discove of a gigantic penitentiary swindle. No wonder they speak of *‘bleeding” Kan- 605, GOVERNOR CHURCH, of Dakota, has deliberately insulted the legislature of the territory But then Governor Church is the man who is going to hand resignation promptly on the 4th h. T council is to be commended for taking up the erection of the city hall 80 promptl Within ninety days, it is safe to predict,that work on the building will be begun and pushed toa finish with all possible speed. THE restrictions placed by the coun- cil upon the ercction of polestnd the stringing of electric wires by the elec- tric street railway companies should be followed up by ordering telegraph, tele- phone and electric light wires to go within a under ground reasonable specificd time. OMATIA smiles all over in looking at her clearings vecord. Her banking transactions for the week just ended over-top St. Paul, Minneapolis and Cleveland. Asthe record isnot inflated by real estate transactions—which, by the way, amounted to two hundred thousand dollars for the week—the steady increase in clearings must be at- tributed to our growing mercantile and manufacturing importance. Tne shooting of Dr. Kelly, yester- day, seems to have been a cowardly and wanton attempt at murder, involving the risk of lalling an innocent woman, Lynch law in this state must have a de- eisivo rebukesoon. The charges against Dr. Kelly, if he survive, will be beforo the courts in time, and there thoroughly sifted. Meanwhile attempts to assassin- ate him should be punished just the same as though the charges had no existence. NEVADA has found itself in desperato ®lraits. Do what she will, her popula- Qion is gradually dwindling away. What it will be within a year when the national census wan .comes around is viewed with no little alarm in that state. The legislature of Nevada, how- @ver, proposes to ask California to cede three or four counties in order to pre- vent its decline. The proposition is certainly unique. But generous as she is California is too jealous of her pat- rimony to yiold a single foot. In view, however, of the desperation of the case and the close relationship of the two states, Californin may be induced to lend Nevada a strip of her eastern tej ritory long enough toallow the next census to give Nevada a populationof a ®orporal’s guard ‘Wirn Fort Omaha two miles below Bellevue, this city will not be a gainer from the relocation of the fort. Two miles below Bellevue means just twelve miles from Omaha, Army officers and their families will have to ride twenty- four miles by nmbulnuce or pay Ifrom fifty to seventy-five cents railroad fare every time they attend church, a play at the opera, & social re- ception or auy entertainmeut. The road to Bellevue will not be turned into a twelve wile boulevard for some years to come. A boulevard running by the slaughter houses and packing houses will not likely attract tourists and pleasure-seeker in the summor- time. The whole Fort Omaha removal business has turned out what THe BEk always said it would be—a job for land speculators, which is a detriment to the city almost equal to the removal of the fort. ALTOGETHER T0D SPONTANREY A few days ago the Associated Press burdened the wires with the announce- ment that Mr, Smith, secretary of the republican state committee of Colorado, had passed through Omaha on his way t Indianapolis, with a petition signed by every member of the Colorado legis lature, urging the president-elect to malke a place in his eabinet for John M. Thurston. And now itis announced that the Colorado legislature has passed a resolution recommending e nor Routt for posgmaster geners fact affords a striking 1llustration of the peculiar method by which John M. Thurs- ton haskept himself before the country as a candidate for General Harrison's cabinet. In Colorado, as in Ne rnmh made potitions gotten up b Thurston’s Union Pacific attaches have been circulated at the capitals and the names of legislators and officials wore readily procured as a matter of form. We know that membersof the Nebraska legislature who would not vote for Thurston in any convention were suc- cessfully importuned to sign the doou- ment just as members of our congres- sional delegation have signed similar documents, under the assurance that Thurston merely wanted a compliment- ary endorsement for a position which was beyond his reach. The fact that Colorado has a candi- date of her own for a cabinet position shows that the legis- Mr. Smith car- was procured lative petition which rvied to Indianapolis with no design on the part of the sign- ers 1o have Mr. Thurston honoved in preference to Governor Routt, It is not likely that a man as familiar with pub- ¢ affairs as Mr. Harrison can be influ- eunced by this spontancous outburst of enthusiasm for Thurston ILL SPRINGING UP, Trust combinations continue tospring up, despite the menace of adverse leg- islation and the assertions of Mr. Car- negie that this form of monopoly can not last because those who enter into it are the principal losers by it. The manufacturers of the country seem en- tirely willing to take the chances which some people profess to belicve are against them when they combine to suppress competition, check production and regulate prices. The stove men, who were in on in Chicago last week, after very careful consideration, reached the conclusion that it would be a benefit to them to combine, and this they resolved to do, the larger concerns to enter into a combination first, by way of experiment, and the smaller ones to fall into line later on. These practical manufacturers appear to have been unable to discern any of the dan- gers in a trust which Mr. Carnegie and others profess to sea. Meanwhile there appears to have came a lull in the efforts of legislators to do something for the arrest of this growing evil. There was promise a few days ago that the Sherman anti-trust bill, in the United States senate, would be pushed to consideration and ecarly action had upon it, but it seems to to have received a shock from some cause. [t is not perhaps in all respects such a measure as could be desired, but it would accomplish something, and any legislation on this subject must of necessity be experimental. The state legislatures, also, which have had this subjeet under consideration, appear generally to have allowed it to drop into abeyance. Doubtless combinations are everywhere active to prevent log- islation, and it is not a di ficult matter for shrewd attor- neys to find constitutional or other weaknesses in proposed measures, the tendency of which would be to delay their consideration. But this sort of thing might go on indefinitely, and what seems to be needed is the courage to enact a law and put it to a trial. No law can be framed so practically that the combinations will not fight it. In his recent m; zine article, which has received a great deal of di sion, Mr. Carnegie professes to r gard the trusts with serene confidence, believing that they must mevitably go to pieces from internal causes. IHis dvice is to “‘wait and see.” But in view of the fact that no trust shows any signs of going to pieces, the strongesy being those whose existence covers the longest time, while others are coming into existence, it is quite impossible to share in the confidence of Mr. Carne- gie or to admit the wisdom of the sug- gestion to “wait and see.” THE OIL INSPECTION BILL. The repeal by the lower house of the legislature of the entire oil inspection systein inaugurated two years ago is in our opinion a serious blunder. Every state west of the lakes, except possibly Colorado, has its oil inspection laws for the protection of consume These laws may not always be properly admin- istored by the inspectors or the inspect- ors may not be popular, as 1s the ease with some of the deputies uppointed by Inspector Caldwell. But that does not justify the repeal of the entire law which would throw the door wide opeun to the importation of dan- gevous and inferior illuminating oils, What is needed is not the abol tion of the system of inspoetion, but more stringent regulation to prevent disaster to life and property. The state actually derives a slight revenue fromn the inspection, and yot the tax on the consumer is so trivial that it is not worth mentioning. On the average it will not cost ten cents a year to the family using coal oil all the year round, PROMISES. The present week will probably wit- ness a renewnl of effort in the house of ropresentatives to effect some sort of ONLY revenue legislation. Mr. Randall has promised to report from the appropria- tions committee the bill that was sent to it providing for a repeal of the tobacco tax, while itis understood that the ways and means committee will report the taviff bill to the house. The out- look for final action, however, cannot be rogarded as favorable. A leading democrat of the house said some daysago that the bill to repeal the tobacco tax conld not pass, because if it should do so it would be practically a surrender of the democratie position on the tavill, and he doubtless reflected the views of the house majority. Mr. Randall and a few other democrats may support the bill, but not a sufficient number of them added to the republican vote to carry it, As to the tariff bill there is even less possibility of anything final being done with it. The ways and means commit- tee will report 1t probably with numer- ous amendments, in order to preserve as far as practicable the tariff reduc- tions of the house bill. In this wiy it may be carried to the conference stage, but if it shall go as far as that the chance of an agreement is extremely remote. But little more than three weeks of the session remain, and that period is too short to arrange, discuss and pass a tariff measure with both parties disposed to stubbornly adhere to their respective positions. Mean- while the surplus is piling up and the difficulties of the financial situation re- sulting therefrom promise to reappear early in the career of the next adminis- tration, The responsibility for this state of affairs must justly be laid in about equal degree upon the politicians of both parties. SHOU. I,l) BE AMENDED. The proposed transfer of the liquor licensing board to the polica commis- sion cannot be offensive to men who keep reputable houses or vesorts. In fact, the police commission is the proper authority to have supervision over the liquor trafic. The objection- able feature in the bill that hus passed the senate is the provision that requires the consent of the lotowners immed- iately adjoining each resort where Tiquor is sold bofore a license can be sued. This will afford an incentive for blackmail. Take the Third ward, where nearly one-half of all our liquor dealers are located. The owners of adjoining prope: wre eastern men, and their agents will extort bonuses from the liguor dealers and pocket the proceeds. With a body like the police commission as a licensing board. there is no danger.that saloons will be lo- cated where they would be a nuisanse to adjacent property. A law that is iron-clad only tends to law-defiance, and becomes a dead-letter by reason of its strictnes The bill now pending in the house should be so amended as to leave ample discretion to the licensing board. Tue merchants of St. Louis have sent a circular to all prominent commercial associations of the country inviting them to meet at a national convention to be held at St. Louis on the 25th inst., for the purpose of formulating and pre- senting to the next congress an equit - able bankrupt act. So many attempts have b made in and out of congress to pass a national bankrupt law, that it is a question whether the proposed meeting will be able to formulate any distinet proposition which will meot the approval of congress or the country. It is universally acknowledged that an equitable bankrupt law is a necessity. has But the difficulty been to frame such a law as will s protection to the honest merchant, inflict punish- ment on the dishonest, insure the rights of the creditor and do no wrong to the debtor. It isa balance, however, difli- -cult to strike. The commercial world has suffered severely from the lack of proper protection. The rapid growth of trade in the United States which has obliterated political divisions, makes it necessary to apply to commercial sub- jects uniform laws and regulations, and it is but a question of time when the in- tricaté problem will be solved THEapproval of the act by President Cleveland, to create an executive office of the department of agriculvure, will be received with considerable satisfac- tion by the 'mers of the country. While it may not perhaps add more powers, outside of the possible transfer of the signal service department, than now possessed by the head of the de- partment of agriculture, it raises the dignity and importance of that position. President Harrison will now be calied upon to make an eighth choice in his lit- tle family of confidential advisers. It s of course diflicult to sny where he will look for his secret: of agriculture. A number of states have alveady placed the names of ‘“‘favorite sons™ before him. in anticipation of the new office. Illinois, Massachusetts, New Yor consin, Missouri, Kansas and Nebr: notably have pressed their claims. Should the favor fall on Nebraska, it would not only be highly appreciated by our people, but would be a worthy recognition of the importance of our state as a great agricultural district. ThE seven dynamite guns for which the secretary of war has just awarded the contract, are all to be completed, delivered and mounted ready for ser- vice within eight months, This is chielly to promote the interest of the contractors, They have their defects. Their, range is limited to a mile or a mile and a half. They cannot be used for horizontal shell firing, even at that range, but must be elevated and trusted todrop their projectiles at the right distance, Their shells are a long time in the uir compared with those of regu- lar guns, and cannot get the penetra- tion which enables them to do their best work., Novertheless, as the New York Tiines obsorves, the knowledge that be- fore the close of the present year Sandy Hook, I"ort Schuyler and Fort Warren will en have two fifteen-inch tubes, and Sandy Hook in addition an eight- inch tube, is enough to justify the ex- penditure of the four hundred thous- and dollars authorized by congress. Tug increased production of the min- eral output for Colorado for 1888, as compared with previous years, has given a promising color to the mining industry of that state. The favorable weather of the present wiunter, which has permitted the working of many mines, has likewise given au encourag- ing outlook for Colurado’s great indus- try., While it may be premature to venture any prediction as to the prob- able output this year, the indications are that the wroduction will be in- creased considerably over that of 1885, Phe prosperity of Colorado 1s o closely linked with that of Nebraska that what- ever adds to the wealth of that state The v caanot help bat contribute to the advantage of*oMr own. The tine can- not be far offj when Colorado will sap- port a largo pdpulation devoted to the mining and smejting of her lead, iron and silver ores, To Nebraska will fall the task of feeding and clothing the coming Pennsytvania of the west, centennial in New York City she*must make a display that willattract attention and reimburse the state for the outlay. Twosquads of Ne- braska militia marching down Broad- way, with the pageantry which the eastern states will exhibit, would hardly give this state enough advertising to be worthy of noti We must either be represented by a sufficient number of troops and public officials to attract at- tention or abandon the scheme alto- gether. What is worth dn\nfl 15 worth doing well I¥ Nebrask to De represented at the Washing@on A Prospective Inspectors Atlanta Constitwtion, The strike in New York did not bother the polico much, Policeman Farley, for in- stance, went through the streets like a small tornado, firing Lis pistol at random, and clubbing spectators right and left. Among his victims was a lady who was nearly clubbed to death, Tt takes a bigger thing than a street car strike to disturb Policeman Farley. He will b an insnector some day: The Thunderor's Witnesscs, St. Lowis Post-Dispaten, The London Times scems to be unfortu- nato’n its selection of witnesses against Mr. Parnell. One witness confessed that he lied and another has just been arrested ona charge of perju Tt might be advisable for Mr. Parnell to institute a scarch for suborn- ers of perjury as well as tho perjurcrs them- solves. Really a Con Chicagn 1f it should prove true that German spies have been sent to this country to discover the scerets of the army and navy, Americans will feel highly flattered. They didn't know there were any military or naval secrets in the United States that were worth discove ing. —_——— Chicago Has Tlu‘ n Too. UI(‘ n Mateo moun- announces that cliff- An investigator in tains, New Mecico, dwellers are not oxtinct in that section. There appear to be several of the species In Chicago whose chief dissipation is throwing pebbles at the passer by. ezl Y Barnum Might Be Usefal. Chicago Herald. Mr. Barnum thinks of taking a house for the winter at Washington. The preat show- man who composéd a happy family of a lion and a lamb, a cat and a rat, a fox and a hen, might be eful man in Mr. Hurrison's presidential f Iew die and none resig method of going ot of politics is at the muz- zle of a shotgum, & e Somewhat Equivoca Allantg. Constitution. “Mrs. Langtiy nust be pronounced the handsomest,” saysithe New York Sun. The Coustitution has ufiy May “Chicago Tim They say that Mr. Wanamalker never went toacircus, If e goes into the cabinet he will see mauy acircus hefore he comes out. The Wires Were € Jeweler's Weekly. Wht is it she hears through tne telenhone renders her eyes so bright! never bofore so brilliantly shone Nor e ich inteuse delight. What is it she hears tuat dimples her face, And conjures the smile to her lips, As she holds the machme with an indolent ossed. e finger tips. Tap, tap, tap! Tap, tap, tap! then a buzz and u whirr, And wild words in confusion lost, They all of them seem to be speaking to her, For the telephone wires are crossed. “Hello, thers, Central! Hello, there— hello!” ‘What's that " “I don't hear you speak louder!” “Who's there you, husband ! “No!" “P'm detained at the ofiice to-night.” igh *Is that But it is not these voices that brighten her eves ause her to smile—to he plain she finally hears with surprise, Is her father's, in Muden Lane, Ang Like music from far away lands the words come What eiiotions cestatic they bring! “Duke will drop 'round to-night, so you'd better stay home He has called bhere and purchased a ring." —— CONNELL'S BILL. Attorney General Garland Says it is Just the Thing, There has been a great deal saia about senate file 61 which was introduced some time ago at the mstance of Hon. W. J. Con- nell, regarding the cession of jurisdiction to the government over property in this city which may be sclected for the site of the propos y hall. Tt has been claimed that the instrument was virtually an evideneo of nullification. I3ut sucn is clearly not the case because it proviaes simpl the ¢ ing of jurisdiction over ouo binck of grounds which might be either purchased or con- demued for the uses above n oned. By way of satisfying himself as to the correctness of his bill, Mr. Connell sent a copy of the document to Senator Mande with the request that he would forw Attorney Goneral Garland so that the latter might e: his n,n.nu'l on it. In return, Mr. Garland wrote to Senator Munderson, who has forwarded the letter to Mr. Conneil, and from it the following ex tract is made return herewjtH copies of the bill in duced into the Nebraska legislature pro ing for the cesston to the United, States of jurisdiction of the sfate over such land in the city of Omaha, s may bo selected as site for a_postoftice, 1 have the honor to all vive state that in my opidion the bill contair that is requisite for the purpose. [ per nothing in it whict ne Miss Irene Lowe's Listter, Miss Irene Lowe, daughter of Gieneral W, W. Lowe, of this, ¢ity, who was an inmate of the Omaha hotol burned at Sutherland; Fla,, last Thursday, writes an intercsting account of the affidir to her father, The big hotel was totally destroyed in forty minutes, being composed entirely of pine wood. The guests ull escaped uminjur newspaper roporters to the contrary not- withstanding. Miss Lowo made no mention of ladies being lowered from verandshs by means of shects being tied together, as stated in the newspapers, and stated cm- phatically that Bo one was injured. The guests, with but very few exceptions, lost their clothes and jewelry. Miss Lowe and her sister, Misses Kitty aud Jessie, managed to save their money and jeweiry, but had to loave the hotel in their night clothes, as did nearly all the guests. The other Omaha people who were in_the builaing at the time, Dr.and Mrs. Conkling, Mr. and Mrs. C. T\ Taylor and daughter, Mrs. Colonel Smythe and daughter, and G. P. Dietz, lost about everything they had with them. The people Who were stopping at the hotel have all been provided with accomimo- Gatious at Tarpon Springs, six miles from Sutherland, whera they wiil remain until their wardrobes are replenishod. WHY SHOULD THEY NOT WAIT? A Question Asked By an Investiga- tor of Appropriations. WANTS OF PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. Expended During the Coming Two Years—A Measure of Fconomy Proposed, Their Wants. Livcory, Neb, Feb. 11.—[Special to Tnr Bee.|—On looking over the sixth biennial re- 1OM, of tho commissioner of public lands and buildings I find a total of about $300,000 asked fovr by the various public institutions of the state, to be expended during the com- ing two years in buildings and other improve- ments. 1 cive the to sums which the man institutions ask the legisiature now in session to appropriate for this purpose: Hastings insane hospital £ 84,000 Millford industrial home.. .. 20,000 Omaha institute for deaf and dumb.. 3,300 h arney state industrial sehool 118,050 ka City institute for the blind. 12:000 ie for the friendless 1 Beatrice institute for feoble-minded youth. .. 58,000 Lincoln Nospitul for tho insune 142,000 Norfolk hospital for the insane. v 14,550 and sailors’ Grand Island 'iuldl(‘l home. .cvuiuiieinane I horewith prosent ' statoment in a con- densed form of the purposes in detail for which these large appropriations are asked. The hospital for the insane at Hastines is situated three miles west of the city on a , which was donated by the blace for this purpose. A building of brick, three stories high with stone basement has been constructel. Tt will accommodate 100 patients. In order to increase the capacity of the institution, which has not cared for any inmates as yot, the construction of two wings is recom- mended to aecommodate 100 patients more; a two-story brickk building is asked for, to con- tain a ch kitchen and storeroom, to- gethor with a boiler-room, smoke-stack, ¢lecs tric light plant and frame barn. The siun of 81,400 is demanded for these improvements, le industrial home is located two miles east of the village of Milford on a tract of forty acres which was donated by the eiti- zens of that place. A three-story brick bur ing has been e ted, with an addition for a boiler-house, The trusteos ask the legislu- ture to appropriate §30,750 with which to build two win arn, walks, and to {mprovement of the grounds, b and Sailors’ Home is located three miles west of Girand Island on a tract of 640 acres which was donated by the eiti- zens of that place. The building is three stories in height, of brick on a stone base. ment, has been erceted at a cost of 830,000, Appropriations to the amount of 308,000 are askea for to construct two wings, a I aund house, ahospital, u building for commis: supplics, a frame barn and _twenty-five cot- tages for soldiers with families, and provide for improvement of the grounds. The State _industrial school at Kearney, has two brick buildings each two stories i neight with stone basements, and another for laundry and bakery. Its managers as for $118,050 for the erection of another large building with wings. one industrial building, a boiler house with smokestack, togethor with other miscellaneous improvements. The superintendent of the Insane hospital at Lincoln asks for §142,500 for the construc- tion of two three-story wings with stone vasement, of u separate large building for dining rooms, chapel, work room for in- mates, kitehen, ete., and for various im- provements to the present building looking to the occupation of the entive central poi- tion for oftices, living rooms, etc. The Nortolk asylum for the insane is situ- ated on a tra 20 acres donated to the state by the izens of that place, two and a half miies northwest from the town. It ha 50x240 feet, with ninety rooms for patients hed two wings for the accommodation of patients, togethe with buildings for a_chapel, kitchen, bake boiler house, ete. The managers sk for an appropriate of §14,50) for the completion of the present plans, and for miscelianeous im- provements, The Home for the Friendless at Lincoln s for an appropriation for a new building for a dormitory, school rooms, ete. ; nections for wuter, gas and sew , and for the purchase of more ground, which to- gether umount to 814, T'he institution for fecble mmdu\l uth at Beatrice will accomnnodate 72 inmates. The sum_of #8000 is asked to |‘rJ\‘ulu another 'd building, a_structure for kitchen and dining room, a refrigerator building, a boiler and an engine room, with their necossary ad- junets and for gencral improvements. It will be observed that the whole of this vast sum of money is asked for purposes of buitding merely, and not to meet regular and miscellancous cxpenses. In other words the legislature arc cooily ask to appropriate 2600000 at the present session for purposes which it wonld naturally be supposed hud been completely provided for in previous vecent appropriations. There are a: ten public institutions, six of which are of recent origin, and they demand an average of 21,000 cach from the state to be spent within the year in substan- tial improvements. There are two or th of > institations which it was supposed would be provided for by public charity, if the state would only erant them a small sim beginniug. Yot the ot 0ne wmong them all to-day that do join in the de- mand for large sui y from the tax- payers of tie st 1 they were Pounded -the most of them within the past six years—it wus supposed that thew wants for many years to come, beyond the mere necessities of existence and of care for their i 3, would be few aud small. But now all‘appear, and beside the large amouut essury to sustain them, ask for larg, ditional appropriations, auonnting to ne: three-quarters of a_million dollars 1 the ag- gregate, to be expended upon additional new buildings and improvements in their grounds. There is none s all that it doos not ask for u good round sum; and the larger, older and movre complete th 'e the greater more pressing arc their demands, From #16,000 to £160,00), they all with one voice out for @ chiance at the public crib whore of corn and grem of wheat has been earned and saved by the toil and ccon- omy of the producing classes among our people. It appears singular that there is not one among them all that is sutisfied to have been Lled into existance, and to be supported the people ef the state, and is content o live on with the means at its disposal, and to wait till the population and wailth of the state have before asking for rencwed and lurge appropriations for buildings and improvements. Al altko must have tional fine buildings, steam heat, lights, lands 15, fine stable ha S ana ¢ 03 in them, the most 1n- for wash- y means invention proved and ex) ing, with lib of amuscmdnt whic have called into oxistence. 4 is safe 10 say that not one person 1aone thousand wwmong the taxpayers who are asked to u.m.lmu- their hard-earned money for all theae | uries, has in his_own house any of these pensive means of onjoyment, ' vast, i Jo! of them-—the great mas of the common people of the state—are barely ablo 10 obtain the pluinest and simplest negessar ies of food, clothivg and shelter. ~ Go out among the farners of the state, who com- prise nine-tenths of -t taxpaying publie, and you will find’ none of these | things. ~ Yet they are willing and glad to see the insane, the blind, the deaf and dumb, and the aged and the help- less properly cared for, and even to provide at thio public expense comfortable homes for young and old who are loft without friends and means of support. But to do this docs not mean, in their estimation, that uil these are to be lulu n and made more thun com- fortable, to bo supplied with all the luxuries which wealth alone can bring to the citizen vate life, vo ontered upon the plan of sustuiniug threo separate insane asylums y with the samo. class of pa- ts; they all do the work whiech one woll- conduited hospital should do; each of them conts the people a like suw; each has similar suitos of apurtiments on o 1 scale for housing thelr superintondents and managors. cach pays from $10,000 to $15,000 u year o its superinteudent and ical ussistants, and half a8 much wors for their housing aud sustenance, and from $20,0000 to $40.000 more for the salaries of other employos, with their board and lodging at tho public expense. The throoe institutions require simply a tripli- cation of the sum for cost and maintenanc which our contral institution, enlarged from time to time to meet the increasing demand, would nead. Instoad of three institntions,oach the counterpart of the others, all with tho same list of expensive officials most expen sively housed and fod, with their palatial suites of offfces, their separate kitchens, laundries, engines, eloctric lights, moans of heat, cto., the state should in tho interest alike of cconomy and of efficiency have but one institution, enlarged from time to time in anawer to the growing need of the popu lation which sustains it, all under one en- lightoned and experienced managemont Hero would bo a saving to the tax-payers of the state of from £100,000 to §200,000 a yvear in this one item alone. Therecipients of this grent charity would be far bettor carod for than they ean ever be in thewr widely-sop rated institutions, each under its own differ ent management. These various institutions now come to the reprosentatives of the people and ask for £600,000 to be spent in permancnt improve- ments during the coming two years, Two yeurs hence, 1f this extortionate and exorbi. tant demand is granted, a_round million will demanded for the same purpose. Thero must come a pause in this wholesale and exorbi tant demand. It is absurd for the friends of these institutions to ask that our young, thinly-settied state, the vast majority of whoso inhabitants ure only barely beginning to enjoy the comforts of life, shall outshine the oldest and richest states in the Union, One of the chicf troubles with the present tom has beon, that the managers of those Iogislative funds have exercised no carc in their outlay. Instead of keoping strict within the means placed at their comman they have uniformly undertaken to do far more than thoy had ecither tho means or the authority to undertake. ‘rhey have uni- formly gone far beyond the original inten- tion of the legislature in making tho appro- priations. Hence we evorywhere seo uncom- pleted and unfinished buildings, defective machinery, imperfect arrangements, Noth- ing whatever is finished. No effort has ap parently been made unywhere to complete anything. Appropriations are overywhere asked for to supply deflciencies, to complete what has been bezun on too ' expensive & scale. This demand amonnts in ono instance to_#80,000, and it is a moderate estimate that $150,000 of the $600,000 asked for is noeeded to complete what has been rashly and without authority undertaken on too large and pensive a scale, The imoression has every whero prevailed that they could make a beginning on the plans which they had formed, and that the leg: islaturo would simply feel compelled to make the appropriation necessary to com- plete what had been began on a grand and asive scale. And so we have t cle of several buildines in different parts of the_state, unfinished and unfurnished, and their managers hesieging the legislaturd for the funds necessary to enable them to realize their own ill-formed and expensive schemes. The addition making to the asylum for_the blind at Nebraska City isn_case in point. The ne structure is so defective thatit is feared that it well tumble down before 1t can be completed. There is said to be an absence of anchors in_walls a large portion of which have been laid without mortor, from a comuunication to Tite B of h Mr. Wales thought the worst building in Nebraska were owned by the state, and the reason of this was that an honest man would not do work for the state; that shyster con- tractors would do the worl 15 per cont lower than it could be well done, and poor build- ings and wholesale robberies were the re- sults. Prof. Parmalee, superintendent of the in- stitute, thought the building as good as the average state building, which was not saying very much, The work was not the best, and did ot suit him. The contractors required considerable watching to get half decent work out of them. The fact is that there is scarcely among all the state buildings that has been constructed with an inteligent view to strength and permanency. They have been iet 10 the lowest bidders, who are almost al s persons possessing neither the ability r the means to carry out their contracts. J them at prices unremunera. e specta- cne st-class materials and work, they putin defective materials with imperfect skill. The lowast-bidder system can only r sult in s als and in boteh work. The State universisy an insane asylum at Liucoln are both practical illustrations of the system which is still in vogue among us. On the State university building 8ver $30,000 has been expended during tho last fifteen years m repairing sham foundations, roof and walls, and now a large sum is still asked for to render it secure and comfortavle. The or- sylum was burned down, as is supposed, because of its notorious apparent. defe The present structure is poorly d signed, and is glaringly defective in arrang ment an consvruction, It presents, it is true, quite a pretentious front, but internally the whole builddg is & pretentious sham. It is mot in one single particular adapted to the special purpose. The arrangements for heating and ventil tion are rude and defective; the water- closets, washing and bathrooms are badly lo- cated and ill-arranged; nearly one-half” the building_hasno proper relation to the pur- poses of its construction. It needs a com- plete and thorough overhauling; and some 320,000 or £0,000 in addition 10 the large sums whieh have been spent in repairs from time to time, will have to be applied m order to put it in_in condition for convenionce, healtn and safoty. ‘The plan of the bwlding is radically defective, and the same is true of both the other buildings for the insane at Norfollcand _Hastings. In them, as in this, about one-third of the entire space is taken up with apartments and rooms for the » f superintendent and his assistants and their families and friends, The living rooms have: no place in the hospital. Thoy ought to bo in soparate houses built for the purpose. From 8,000 to $10,000 would bo suMoiont to expend on building comfortabls houses for the superintendant, his assistants aml the steward and thoir famies. The offices of the asylums oould then all be ar. ranged on the main floor, loaving (h'\ two floors above for the use of patients. Under such an arrangement as this there would ba no further necossity for appropriations for buildings at prosent, The various ofoors Wwith their families might not be housed quite magnificently as ;they are now, but thair rosidenoces wonld bo far more in lfl'"lnnx with the character and condition of the people of tho state, from whoso pockets comes the monoy for all this expenditure. If mattors 0 on much longer undor the present system, the time is not distant when there will boa Tovoltof tro peoplo against WAt cannot soem otherwise than as an oxpensive systom of aristoor and beurcauocracy in tho managoment. of all our publio institutions, The fact simply 18 in regard to the wholo of the ten institutions of which this article has apoken, that $200,000 or #300,000 is spont evory year in sustaining them which has no relation to _their proper character and tho ofticiency of their work, There ought at once to be a most complete overhauling of their manage- ment and the method of thewr expenditure. "he legislature of the state has no business to tax the people to pay for the princely hous. ing of sixty or seventy employes whose liv- ng is provided for and whose salarios aro adoquate to entitle the people to the best sor vices and the most rigid economies on thoir part, It is not at all the business of the stato 10 do more than provide a docent and respoct. able home and living for this class of its pub. lic servants, The stato has no business to provide for thom palaces in which to live, and to fill their stables and barns with splendid horses and costly carriages for thoir own private use. The system mneeds to bo reformed altogethor B T — SW D THE GING ROU CIROLE, The Committoe on Public Lands and Buildings Visit Omaha. Portions of the committoes on public lands and buildings, on ways and moans, and asy- lums, of the state legislature, arrived from Norfolk yesterday morning and were driven in cabs to tho institution of the deaf and dumb, four miles northwest of the eity, Tho committees, which are composed of Messrs, Caldwell, W, yman, Horne, Fieldagrove, Olm stead, Stirk, Christy, Denman, Shepherd, Sateholl, Larson, Lash, Cruzen,” MeNickl Potter, Dickinson, Weber and Gilchrist, aro accompanied by nearly as many more mem bers of the house. Several of whom aro accompanied by their wives. They are making the annual visit to the state institu- tions for the purpose of familiacizing them- selves with the condition of things, in_order that they may vote futeligintly upon the va- rious appropriation bills. They are enjoying themselves in a robust manner as they go along, and subsisting upon the fat of the Jand. *“We are here on business pure and simple,” observed Mr. Stirk, the membor from Battle Creck to Tie Beg man, “and wo don't want to bestyled; or looked upon as junketors.” Prof. §. A. Gulispie, the affable and cour- teous, and it should bo added the highly efii- cient superintendent of the institution, pi- Joted the committee over the ground and through the institution immediately after their arrival. ‘They watched the inmates in the various grades o through their regular morning exercises, questioned the teachers and examined into the internal machin- ery of the institution with much studious- ness and after all was over the unanimous verdict was that the condition of things could not ve in better shape, in fact, that the in- stitution was a model one and worthy of im itation. It was learned from J. S. Woodburn, the secretary, that there are just 111 inmates in the institution now and ihat ninc teachors are all that are required to handle them. That they do it in a highly satisfactory and thorough s made evident by the apti- tude of the scholars and the very completa way in which they are mstructed. As far as their education goes it would compare favorably with that sttained by children pos- sessing all their faculties. Superintendent Gillespie informea Tii: Bee that no especial appropriation is asked for this institut(dn. All they waut 1s a new engine and a few minor and inexpensive improvements. What tue mstitution wants, however, it will probably get, as the committeo and' all the members present were most favorably impressed with the high state of order and efficiency they found in all departments. The legislators, after a good substantial din- ner, served under the especial supervision of the excellent matron, Mrs. Gillespie, asscim- bled in the parlors and witnessed 8 class of ewght young lad inmate execute a ‘'sign song,’” ompanie by Mrs. J. K. Reed upon the piano, Reed also singing the words, T exhibition was one of great beauty and foreibly demons strated the marvelous appreciation of tha deaf and the mute of things of which they can have no tangible understanding, other than that procreated by look and gresture, At 3 o'clock the legislators drove into tug city, and in the evening returned to Lincoln, wmuich pleased with their visit here, ——— Poor St. Joe and Kansas City. Both these cities have given up the idea of rm;mlz 1ce for their own consumption this r, and have been compelled to come to flmahd for their crystal. Geise’s abandoned brewery in Coun Bluffs, which prohibition closed up, has been turned into an ice houso by £ Wittig and Henry Bosor. The placo lias a capacity for #,500 tons, which has heen almost pre-empted by southern peonle, Tho tkce, and 18 sud to ba It is not for sale in ice is cut in D awi as clear as crystal. Omaha.; Hard features every bungler can command; To draw true beauty shows a master’s hand. HE outline illustrations of the Ivory Soap advertisements have created so much favorable comment, and the requests for copics been so numerous, we have, to meet the demand, bound in the form of a Drawing and Painting Book (siz the most spirited and pleasing of the advertisements. 6 x g inches) twenty-four of We will send one of these books with a pad of twenty-four sheets of drawing paper, post-paid, to any one who will mail us, according to directions below, fifteen lvory Soap wrappers, Proc FOLLOW THESE DIR ik & Gasmorr, Cincinnati, TIONS. Cut out the center plece of each wrapper and put them In the en- velope with your letter, in full, ying what you want, and glve your addres No attention will be paid to requests for Drawing Books, ete., unless the center picces ure in the envelope with the request,