Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1889, Page 4

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Btate of Nobraska, | o County of Douglas, | George 11, Trschnck, secretary of the Tiee Pub- Ushing company, dovs solemnly swear that the Acthinl cirenintion of iy, DAILY Bk for the Week ending Pebruary 25, 1889, was a3 follows: £unday, Feb. Monday, Feb Tuesdany, Wednesday, Thursday, Feb, ¥ridny. Baturday, I' Average T GEORGE B. Sworn to before me and subscribed to in my resence this 2 day of February, A, D, 188, Eeal, N. P. FEIL, Notary Public, Btate of Nebraska, 1o County of Douglas, (5% Goorge 1. ‘Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de- oses and says that o Is secretary ol the Beo Publishing company, that the aciual averago daily clrculation of month of Febru 1884 cop for aune, L IREH, 0 copless copies; for Beptember, 188, 18,15 ¢ 18084 coples:’ for HUCK. bed in my D, 1850, presence this 5th day of ublic, ion—the deluge of office-seckers. WiLL Now York be torn asunder into Millerites and Plattites by that destruc- tive little wedge callad patronage? WASHINGTON'S aqueduct and Al- bany’s capitol ceiling should be reserved for a national museum of rotten public works. JAY GOuLDs recent sickness has been explained. The poor man could not obtain control of a railroad he wanted to play with. JouN M. THURSTON name was never on any cabinet slate, and there- fore he has considerable satisfaction in not seeing it rubbed off. CunicAco has furnished General Harrison with his white house cook and his inaugural suit. Chicago-is evi- dently making herself solid at the white house. RuMonrs are rife of great improve- ments to be made in the service of the Union Pacific, but a telescope can’t dis- cover any reference to the proposed union depot at Omaha. HASCALL is anxious to spoil the en- fire city hall building just to avenge himsell for the stinging rebuke which has been administered to him twice within four months, Some people never will learn anything until they are be- neath the sod, politically speaking. —— IF ALL reports be true Commissioner ‘Walker of the inter-state commerce com- mittee willgzet the best of the ‘“‘agree- ment’’ between the western railrond presidents. His salary will be twenty- five thousand dollars for one year if he accepts their offer, even though the association goes to pieces within thirty days. THERE has been considerabie loose- ness heretofore with respect to the pur- chase of supplics by the different de- partments of the city. Mayor Broatch has decided to putun end to this un- business-like system. Hercafter all supplies must be purchased through the comptroller. Such a rule should have beon adopted by the proper authorities long ngo. The go-as-you-plense method of purchasing supplies by city employes 1s linble to costly abuse. A 10N signed by several thou- sand farmers and pork packers of Can- ada has been presented to the minister of customs at Ottawa, calling for the exclusion of the American hog and beef products in order to protect the packing industries of Canada. This will arouse a feeling of indignation through the country. But why should $he Canadians be condemned for doing Just what several states are ugitating through their respective legislatures ¥ TrE location of alarge glue factory at South Omaha to convert the hoofs and horns of the animuls slaughtered there is an assured fact. This was to be expected, and it is moro than likely that other works will be established to make use of the waste products of tho packing industries in due time. Al- ready extensive fertilizing concerns are operated at that point. But greater pos- sibilitics are in store. Eventually the manufucture of horn goods will be under- taken, and perhaps the curing and tan- ning of hides. One manufacturing in- dustry has a tendency to draw another, and South Omaha has certainly not seen the lust of her opportunities in this di- rection. EEee———— TrE managers of the street railway companies are still trying to tinker with the charter so as to relieve them from paying for the pavement between their tracks. They have had a fair hearing before the delegation, and _have declined to accopt the concessions offered. They make no socret of it that they intend to have the charter revised in the senate tosuit themselyes, ‘We doubt whether our senators can af- ford 1 yield to their importunities at this stage and risk the damaging delay “of conference committees or dofeat of she whole charter. If the street rail- ‘way managers failed to carry their point they should have been coutent with halt ‘a louf when the charter was before the “bouse. THE SCHOOL FUND SURPLUS. The legislature should not be allowed to adjourn until it Kas made propeér pro- vision for the safe investmest of the enormous surplus in the school fund. For years our state treasurers have had at their disposal hundreds of thousands of dollars of school money which might be drawing interest for the use of the public schools, instead of being loaned out by bankers for the joint benefit of the treasurer and ‘the bankers. It is an open secret that the income of the state troasurer is fully twenty-five thousand dollars a year. This is fully five thousand dollars a yoar more than the combined salaries of all the other state officers, including the supreme court judges. The investment of the permanent school fund will still leave the treasurera very comfortable income. The only r why no bill has yet been passod to designate the securities in whicn this fund can be invested is because there is a difference of opinion as to what constitutes a proper seenrity, within the bounds of the constitution. The most feasible proposition is in our opinion the purehase of registered school district bonds. The primary and only purpose for which the permauent school fund wus dedicated is to maintain an efficient public school system. The building of school houses, where they are most needed, will in a great measure subserve that purpose. If the school fund loauned out to the school districts, on ample security, for the construction of school houses, it will bocome doubly potential in pro- moting popular education. There is no sertous danger that such an invest- ment will beget reckless and specula- tive school house building, in the in- terest of school district rings and school house contractors. The state educational board and the anditor will \ave the right to select among the bonds offered such asin their judgment afford the most ample security schoo! hondsissued annually by d comprising civies from five thousand population upward will alone taice up the surplus in the permanent school fund. With proper safeguards invest- ment in any school district bonds cun be rendered just as secure as any mu- nicipal or state bond, The present le islature would be develict in its duty if it did not in some way relieve the state treasury of the cunormous school fund surplus. Ason is GIVE US THE PARTICULARS. Mr. Cadet Taylor who [failed to in- duce P. E. Iler to take five thousand dollars worth of Republican stock and avenged himseif by blackguarding TNer through his paper has made an- other discovery at Lincoln. This time he goes out of his way to publish a canard more malicious than his lying report that Iler paid Tie Bee four thousand dollars for showing up the failure of prohibition in Towa. Representative Johnson of Phelps county, is given as authority for stating that a certain “Omaha man offered him five thou dollars to help defeat the submis amendment, and the person who n this corrupt princely proposal is said to have offered Johnson a feder: pointment with the assurance that Rose- water would b: him up. Now we call upon Mr. Eric Johnson to give the leg- islature the full particulars with the name of the person who made the al- leged proposals. We pronounce the whole story a malicious fabrication. If anyvbody has actually appronched Mr. Johnson with such proposals he was playing a part for some scoundrel who wanted to smirch the editor of TiE BEE. Onits face, the report that any- body offcred five thousand dollars for one vote, will be laughed at in the Lin- -coln lobby, where votes are said to be offeved freely for five hundred dollars with no takers. In the next plae, the editor of Tue Bei has never as much as hinted that he could prooure a fed- eral officc for anybody. IHe not in the office brokerage busin like Cadet Taylor whose stock in trade is influence to help people to plunder and patronage. There is no BRE stock in the market and THE BEE is not in want of convributious from the liguor dealers, insurance agents or any other that hi s to grind at Lincoln. The editor of Tii BEE makes nosecret of his opposition to prohibition and pro- hibitory submission. He always has been outspoken aguinst prohibitory legisla- t10n, not bocause he has any interest in common with ligour-dealers or drunk- ard-makers, but because he knows that prohibitory laws are a dead-letter in all cities of over ten thousand population, and beeause he believes and knows that the Nebraska high license law will prohibit in every commun- ity that has the moral stamina to enforce prohibition. Conceding the right to prohibitionists to hold and express theiv opintons, we deny their right to impugn the motives and call in question the integrity of any man who conseientiously believes that prohibi- tion is at variance with the unatural laws of human evolution, and pro- hibitory laws are a farce wher ever they come in conllict with the settled babits and temperament of large masses in populous PARTING SUGGESTIONS. President Cleveland has become re- markably accessiblo to the newspaper interviewer in the closing days of his official life. Is is vemembered that there was a time when Mr. Cleveland felt no kindly interest in newspaper men, but on the contrary did not hesi- tato to let it be publicly understood that he entertained a very poor opinion of them, Itis something to his credit that he appears to have changed in this respect, Mvr. Cleveland has given to at least Lwo correspondents of newspapers a re- view of his administration, with the re- sults of which in the main he has as- sured the country that he is entirely satistied. There has boen vory little disposition shown to disturb the con- tentment of the retiving president with his work. Nobody can be harmed by it, and the American people are wmag- nanimous, Having relegated a public servaut to private life thev are quite willing that he should take with him into retirement whatever soll-satisfac- tion he can derive from his carcer ir the face of popular disspproval, Criti- cism of Mr. Cleveland. as a factor 1n the political affaies of the nation has reached the end. The history he helped to . make will remain as a lesson, It would have been well if Mr. Cleve- land had stopped with a review of his administration and rested in the assur- ance that those who will take up the work he will lay down are [fully capable, in patriotism and other quali- fications, to carry it on to the honor and advantage of the country. But the too welcome interviewer drew from him an expression of hopes and suggestions quite unnecessary under the circum- stances, and very likely to be regarded as impertinent. In this role M Cleveland is made to show a gr deal of concern lest the republic arty shall do something to revive the sectional animosities which have been dying out. It isevident that the tiring president is possossed of the de- lusion that he has done something to quiet sectional animosities. Certainly if most friendly interest and careful provision for southern politicians could have effected anything in this direc- tion, Mr. Cleveland ought to have ac- complished much. But does any body need to be told, with the history of the past four years before them, that hie achieved nothing toward remosing scetional antagonism? What southern leader feels more kindness toward the north now than he did four years ago? In what respeot has tho sentimontof the macses of the southern people im- proved towards those of the north? Is not the hatred of republicans as strong in the south to-day as it has ever boen ng Mr, Cleveland the full for good intentio the fact is unque tionable that sectional animosit far as the south is concerned, ha been dying out during his admin tion, and had the people retained him in power they would undoubtedly been aggravated. The best promise of removing them is in republican su In another respe Mr. Cleveland at fault, and that isin charging that re- publican administrations have given a fresh and dangerous impetus to monopo- lies, trusts and combines. The record is that these have had their greatest growth during the last four vears, and this notwithstanding the promises of the outgoing administration to protect the people against monopoly. Even the democratic New York World bears tes- timony to the complete failure of the present administration in this respect. If Mr. Cleveland continues to indulge the interviewer, there is danger that ho may lose the credit he has enjoyed for some discretion in controiling his tongue. o5 NO REDUCTION OF THE SURPLU. Speaker Carlisle is reported to have said that he will not allow a vote to be taken’ on the bill to repeal the tobacco tax unless a majority of the democrats in the house request it. As there is not the least probability that such a request will be made the conclusion is entirely safe that nothing will be done by the present congress for reducing the rev- cnues of the government, so that the surplus must continue to accumulate until the nest congress can provide the necessary revenue legislation. This attitude of the speaker is not unex- pected. It is in line with his vote against the rule adopted by the com- mittee on rules to allow Randall to bring forward his bill on a specified day, and it is doubtless in pursuance of an understanding with Mr, Mills, chair- man of the ways and means committee, who was defeated a few days ago when the question of a rule applying to this measure to repeal the tobaeco tax was voted on by the house. That vote estab- lished the fact that if the bill was per- mitted to come before the house it would roceive the support of all the republi- cans except perhaps one, and of twen- ty-cight or thirty democrats, and could thus be passed by a considerable ma- jority. Theouly power to defeat this rosult vests in the hands of the spenker, who can prevent a vote, and in orde justify himself in doing this he mal the condition upon which the bill shall be allowed to reach a vote, the request of a majority of the democrats in the house, knowing to an absolute certainty that no such request will be made. Practically, therefore, it is Mr. Carlisle who stands in the way of this measure of rovenue reduction, adopting at the close of his career as speaker of the house of representatives a transparent subterfuge to enable him to exercise a power he should not possess, but pos- sessing which he is most willing to use, Carlisle, Mills, and those in sympathy with them. will find it difficalt to ex- plain, on grounds creditable to them, the defeat of the only measure for reve- nue reduction which could possibly be- come a law, in view of their past position in regard to treasury accumulations A promincnt argument in all thoy have said during the past two years in advocacy of reduced rovenues has been the danger incident toa growing sur- plus, and now when an opportunity is given them to do something to aver that danger they reject it. It may be conceded that the removal of the to- bacco tax is not the most desirable way of reducing revenue, since the rolief to be thereby afforded the people would not be materinl, but as was recently said by one of the most strenuous advo- cates of tariff reform, the Philadelphia Record, “At this j . huving fuiled to do better, if we can get rid of any tax to the extent of vhirty million dollars it should be done. By that much we would cut down the tempta- tion to extravagance and diminish the capacity for mischief at the hands of the next congeess.” 1t is vow clofir that the next adminis- tration is to be confronted with all the difficulties of the surplus problem. It will be called upon to provide against the possible ill effects of a with- drawal of money from circulation dur- ing the time it is waunted for spring trade, and also to devise means of meeting the currency requirements of the uutumn, The unow unusually large revenues, which may continue, are likely to exceed expenditures under appropriations by several wmillion dol- lavs & month, and while good authori- ties do not doubi the adequacy of the currency supvply during the spring and I carly summer, the drs treasury, ilu:ol, rolioved by generous bond purchakbrs—an uncertain re course —may be seriously felt when the acti money demands of the autuinn com- mence, e THE overwhelming majority with which the legislature passed the valued policy bill providing for the payment of the face value of fire insurance policies in case of total loss reflects the feeling of the peonle of the state upon the ques- tion. All that is now nocessary to make the bill alawi the signature of Gover- nor Thayer. What effect the law will have upon insurance companies can easily be surmised. They will not go out of business in this state as so often threatened where their profits have been large and their losses insignifi- cant. In all probabilities their agents will be instructed to be more cautious in writing policies. This is just the purpose of the measure. It is to stop the practice of insuring a person’s prop- erty for full value on which the premi- ums are exacted, but in case of fire the company scales the damage to suit itself. Now that the charter has virtually passed the house, we hope that it will #o through the senate without contro- versy or change. Parties who were issatisfied with any part of the charter have had ample opportunity to present their claims and procure concessions. If after all the parleying they have failed to convince the whole delegation of the fairness of their demands they should now subside and let the charter pass at the carliest possible moment. Omaha wants her parks laid out this season and every day's delay now is damaging to her material interests, A Tale of Woe. Lowisville Commereial, A belligerent patriot. named Sewall, Met a fate excecdlugly eruel. He stood by the fluz He was given the bag, And now he's immersed in the gruel. bl Pty Intellectual Progress. . Minneapolis Trilnune, The south is growing progrossive. Last week the Charleston (S, C.) Budget devoted two columns of its valuable space to a criti- cismof ‘‘Robert Elsmere." The Cities Don't Want It, Boston Globe, Journalistically, the fight over the prohibi- tory amendment is between the city and the country press. No vaper in Boston with circulation enough to make it avy sort of consequence will support the “Yes" side of the argumen — A Check on Christian Science. Kansas City Journal, “Christian scieace” has received a rude check in Buffalg by the threatened indict- ment of the ‘‘doctors” for manslaughter. The impression js growing even among the elect, that the ‘old fell dischse which it is perfectly safd to intrust to “Christian science” is a ¢old in the head. pleedins Le Caron’s Libil Suit. St.Paul Pioneer-Press. Le Caron, the despicably spy and informer, has quit giving testimony in other people’s law suits, and started a little libel case of his own against the London cdition of the New York Herald. Now the fur will fly, The original New York Herald was born the travail of libel suits, nurtured in the con- vulsions of contempt of court, and is alive yet. But Le Cavon will play with the hind legs of 4 mul - A Warning to Kickers. Cineinnati Commereial Gazrtte, A few superficial politicians of New York, Califoruin or Indiana may feel that they have been wronged, and set up the usual cries of distress or discouragement, and de- clare that they will use knives and razors; but the great mass of the republican party will support General Harrison in his mature judgment, even if it should be that owing to the quarrelsomeness developed both on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, he should go to the Mississippi valley for the bulk of his cabinet, and thus make the central states representative of the whole. The country would cordially sustain such a cabinet, and the personal fights and state fuciions will be forgotten in six mouths, while the adminis- tration goes sercnely on. Those who kick will find it bad politics. - In the Ra William Wetmore Story. I stand in the old gray weather, In the white and silvery rai The great trees hudale together And sway with the winay stra I dream of the purple glos Of the roseate mountain height, And the sweet-to-vemember story Of a distant and dear delight. The rain keeps constantly raining And the sky 1s cold and gray And thoe wind in the trees koeps complain- ing “That summer has passed away ; But the gray and the cold are hauntod By o beauty akin to pain— By the sense of a something wanted That will never come aj STATE AND TERRITOKY, Nebraska Jottings. The B. & M. is thinking of erccting a new depot at Hastings. Twenty-threo members have been added to the Christian church ut Beatricoas the result of a revival. There has been a religious awakening at Browster and _protracted meetings are being held every night. Three new school districts have boen organized in York county, maling a total of ninoty-cight, with 110 teachers . Brainard has booh struck by a temperance cyclone, 175 personshaving signed the pledge, and the outlook i8'Ho beer for the boys next year, A little girl living near Barneston swal- lowed a needle while sewing carpet rags, but u delicate operaftoh by two physicians res- cued ber from doush. All the teachérsin York county are get- ting married and the county supcrintendent is trying to evolvea plan to sop the demorali- zation i his ranks, Judge Do Forcst Porter, who, after the war, served several years in the Nebrasiu logislature, aud Av4s a prominent lawyer of the state, died at Phoonix, Arizona, recently, He went'to Arizona in 1570, being appointed as assistant justiep-for Arizona, but resigned that position in 1552 and has since been a law practicioner at Phoenix. lowa. The Masons of Hartley are about to build a flue temple. Phe Cliaton city council will try brick paving this season. Beer stamps to the smount of $440 were sold in Dubuque on last week. ‘Phe farmers of Webstors county are com- plaining of & scarcity of water, The Salado Cattle company of Clinton has incorporated with a capital of $100,000. Rey. Mr. Downing has resigned the pas- torate of the Presbyterian church at Monte- Zuma, The Crooked Creek Coal company 1s pre- iug to 4o a larke amount of prospecting n the southern part of Webstor county as 5000 as Lhe season 0pens uv. Winnebago county comes to the front with in the form of the greatest natural curiost t appear to be a calt with eight legs th hitched on indiscriminately. The town council of Hampton, at its last meeting, passed an _ordinance requiring bowling alleys and billiard halls to take down ull blinds and screens from the win- dows, 1t is estimated that fully 150,000 split fence sts have been made from tho timber of Webeter count d marketed during the presoat winter. The posts are worth about ten cents each, and at this rate the entire output would be worth in thu neighborhood of $15,000. Wyoming. Choyenno has nearly fourteen miles of ser- vice water pipes. Evanston will be the next Wyoming city to have u board of trade. A valuable find of asbostos is reported within a fow miles of Douglas. A herd of nearly fifty antelope wrere seen near the city limits of Cheyenne A board of trade has been org Rawlins with Homer Merrill as presid Thore are about 85,000 cattle in the Horn basin, and all of thom are in fine condi tion. Petitions have been circulated jn Johnson and Sheridan counties praying for the ap- pointment of H. R. Mann to_the position of register of the Buftalo land oftice. Mr. E. S, R. Boughton, manager of the Lone Land and Cattle company, tells the Laramie Boomerang that more cattle are now beng stolen over the territory than ever before. Washakie, the head chief of the Shoshone Indians in Wyoming has been enrolled us a government scout, with the pay of a regular soldier. The appointment was made to re- ward him for faithful service to the govern- ment. An antclope was found frozen to a block of 1ce at the mouth of Casper croek on tho 18th inst. He had evidently slipped and fell while crossing the stream, and when discov- ered, was sitting upon his haunches waiting for the June thaw. ik ALy AN v VITH BILLIN Wholesale Slaughter of Hogs By Innoculation Process. nion, Neb., Feb, 25.—To the Editor of 3eE: 1 have no desire to enter into a newspaper controversy with Dr. Billings over hog cholera, but his published ietter of recent date in a Lincoln paper eriticising Representative Hill's bill to indemnify Messrs. Hess, Hinkley and Ludden, for loss of hogs by reason of having been innoculated under the direction of Dr. Billings, is so intemperate in tone and misleading in state ment that I feel imvelled to write a fow words in vindication of the bill and in do- fense of these gentlemen whom the learned doctor has seen it to assail. The facts are theso: Dr. Billings came heré by request of C. N. Walker and delivered a lecture about the 1st of October on the cause ana_remedy of hog cholera, both of which he claumed to have positively discovered and set hmself up as a philanthropist and public benefactor. This lecture was attended by quite a number of those interested in the raising of hogs, aud by his invitation a fow met him the next day at Mr. Walker's, to whom he more fully ex- plained his théory and cxperiments, and gave them to understand that innoculution was no longer an_experiment, but a demon- stated fact, and that he would be willing to guarantee every hog that should be muoculated, if done before it had symptoms of cholera. He explained the metliod of preparing the vaccine and said he would have some in a few days ready for use and that he would send a man, paid by the state, to use it, and would send them word through Mr. Walker when he would be here; and further stated that 1f the moc- ulation took effect the hogs would be taken ck in from ten to thirty days. Mr. Waiker who, as everybody knows, is_moro theoret- ical ‘than_practical, indovsed Dr. Biilings' theory and represented him as the authority of the state university these men—M Hess, Hinckle Ludden—as they say, under oath, *renosed special_confidence in Dr. Billings, because of the fact that he was acting under the author- ity of the state;” and wholly on_his repre- ticus consented to have their hogs by Dr. Billings’ deputy who, he ox- plained, would know just how much vaccine 0 use on each one. In accordance with this arrangement Dr. Billings notified M. Waiker and he in turn sent word to thoso who had consented to_have their hogs inocu- lated, when his_representative would be here to do it, in order that they might have their hogs shut up and i readiness. Dr. Thomas, then acting_for Dr. Billings, and in fulfilment of the arrangement madé by Dr. Billings, notwithstanding he, in his letter already reforred to, says he had *ab nothing to do with the whole trans action ex t to send a verson with materia to Surprise ut Mr. Walk th of October last inuoct 262 hogs; Ed Hinckly, 16 W. Ludden, abouf D. L. Sylvester, about 80. Sid Schram is acquainted with Dr. Thomas and expected to have his hogs innoculated, but when Dr. Thomas called Schram asked him confiden- tially if he would advise him 1o Lave it done, and the reply was: *Not if they aro healthy,” or something to_that effcc did not have it done, and his hogs have not had the chole In from ten to and so thirty days the hogs of Messrs. Hoss, Hinckl Louis Ludden, aceording to Dr. Billings' procratime, began to show symptoms of cholera, which in time were unmistakable, and the fact was demon- strated to a certainty that Dr. Billings had succeeded in propagating hog cholera. ‘Then the hogs began 1o die, which was not on the programme, and they keptdying until Mr. Hess lost 230, Mr. Hinckly S0 and Louis Ludden 40. This, then, was what led thom “to think tiat they lost certain hogs by means of innoculation.” The fact is, they kney srsonal experience, ' they are “ignor probably because they accented his theory and believed his statements, After all this had turned out exa tne doctor had predicted, except, of course, the dying part, he claimed all the hogs had the cholera when innoculated except 1. W, Ludden’s, which, apparently, did not take the cholera by innoculation, asthey were not sick at the time the otaers were, and Mr. Walker thinks innoculation a great success because one lot of hogs out of five had vital- ity enough to endure it. However, theso same hogs of I W. Ludden's have late hed the cholera and all but one died. Per- haps the materinl was too Weak, as Dr. Billings testified before the stal 'm com- mittee that he “gave Thomas some weak vaceine because he knew it could do mo harm,” but if weak matter can kill 350 out of 471 hogs it would not need to be very strong to_kill them all. Now, did these hogs have the cholera when whey were innoculated ! Messrs, Hess, Hin- klyand Ludden have all hud experience with hog cholera, and they are certamn that their hogs did not have the disease at that time. Mr. Hinkly sold seven hogs to A. W. kins u few days before Lis were inno and these seven have not had the disen: Mr. Hess bought fifty-five out of sixt of J. C. Coleman, living a-half milé from Hess. The five hogs Mr. Coleman kept were not innoculated and h had the cholera, while the fifty-five vought wero innoculated and nearly all died, After all is said that can ve, the question resolves itseli into this: Ilither innoculation affects the hous treated or it aoes not. If it does then Dr. Billings, or whoever employed him, is responsible for those 250 hogs that dicd, to suy nothg about the loss on those that pulled through, and the foed that went to waste. Mr. Hoss has over 200 head of cattle and is feeding oighty steers, und cstimates his 10ss in this wily a8 greater than the value of the hogs that died. On_the other hand, if innocula tion does 1ot affect the hogs, of whut practi- cal use is Dr, Billings, and who besides him- sif, and possibly the State Journal Co. is benéfivted by his exporiments, aud by the thousands of dollars paid to him and on his account! Is mot Dr. Billings a rather too expensive luxury ! - Would it not he a good idea to give hiw a rest and use a part of the money that would otherwise go to him iu re- airing the mischief he has alroady donet Yours wruty, W. H. Greexsiar, Hoess —— All lovers of the delicacies of the table use AngosturaBBitters o secure & good digestion, but the genuine only manufactured by Dr. Siegert & Sons at sl druggists. Three cases of eigars from Havana passed the custom house yesterday. Two of them were consigned to Max Meyer and one to D. M. Steele & Co. und | LINCOLN NEWS AND NOTES. The Governor's Special Message to the Legislature. DEATH SENTENCES MUST STAND. State Officers Leave for Washington to Attend the Inauguration—Su- preme Court Proceedings— General and Personal, LINCOLN BUREAU OF TiE OMATA B, 1020 P Stuent, LixcoLy, Feb. 2. The following special message was trans mitted to the legislature by the governor to-day To the Honorable the Reprosentativea: 1 have the honor to trans mit herewith a bill for an act to_amend sec tions 500 A, of chapter 48 of the criminal code. The object of this bill 18 to declare that the power of the supreme cairt to reduce the sentence in u criminal case shall not apply to cases where, on conviction of murder in the first dogreo, the sontence is death. 1 recoin mend the passago of this bill, Joux M. Tuaver. The followiug is the bill: Section 1. That section 509 A of chapter 43 of the criminal code be, and the same is v amended so a8 to read as follows: ection 500 A, In all criminal cases that now are, or may hercafter be pending in the court on error, oxcept capital cases, suid court may reduco the sentence ren dered by the district court against the ac cused, when in their opiion the sentenco is ssive, and it shall bo the duty of the su- me court to render such sentence against the accused a8 in their opinion may be war- ranted by the 0. Section 2. Said_section 500 A as the same now exists is heroby repealed. In casting abont for the reason for tne in- troduction of the bill and the spocial mos- ¢ of the governor recommending its pas- Tie BEE representative finds thav the facts ure th One Ole Anderson, living in Brown county, near Ainsworth, about a year and a half or'two years ago, kuocked his wife down with a poker and beat her about the head until ho supposed sho was dead, aud left. her lying on the floor in the kitchen; went out to the barn and watered his stock, then after a while returnod to the house and finding his wife still breathing he took the poker and beat her till she was dead. He then dragged the body*out to an old abandoned well and pitehed it 1 head first and covered it up. After somo days somo of the neighbors find- ing his wife had becn absent some time asked him where she was; ho replied she had gone to Saunders coun! to visit s B friends, but suspicion being excited a search was made and the body was found in the well described. He w. then arrested and confessed to the Killing of her as described above. He stated that on going baclk to the house sbo was still breathing, and he then finished her arrested and committed for trial, wards he withdrew his confession. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death nate and House of had, was very liberal and fair in his ruling. He determined that there should be no pos- sible ground for a new trial by the supreme court. The writ of error was issued and the ution of the sentence suspended till the > was reviewed. Aftera full hearing of the case no error was found in_the trial, and every ruling of Judge Kinkaid was af- firmed. Tt would scem, according to the statute, that thero was nothing for the su- preme court to do but to fix a day for the exccution of the sentence, Instead of that they have commuted the sentence from death isonment for life. Thoy have usurpe function of the executive, for the coustitution lodges the power of commutation and pardon in the governor only. The words “may reduce the sentence” do ‘not mean that the court can substitute another and entirely different punishment for that of death. The statute prescribes death as the seatence for murder in the first degree and prescribes nothing else. The trial judge is compelled by law to impose that sentence, and the supreme court has no power to substitute _another and differer: kind of punishment. Their authority was simply to lessen the amount of imprison- ment. The bill sent in by the governor was 10 taie away the authority assumed by the supremo court to commute the sentence from death to imprisonment. On the Wing. The state board of transportation, secre- less W. H. Munger, and the chief clerk, “accompanied by Mrs. Leese ard the Misses Laws, Stein, Hill and Mason left at 1:40 for Washington over the Burlington to-day, The parties will be among the city absentees for the next ten®iay. Mr. Munger will guard tae castie of the state board during that time. He advertises high handed liberality in the disbursement of transportation, and expects to gain more notoriety by reckicss use of railway passes than though ho was one of the party. Dave Baumgardner, of the sccretary of state's oftice, has applied for transportation for his mother-m-law_from Chicago to Lincoln and return, but it it is stipulated and agreed that its “time to run’. shall not extend boyonw thirty day Supreme Conrt Proceedings. The following gontlemon were admitted to practice M. Devore, W. M. Todence. ‘The following causes woro argued and sub- mitted: State ex rel Nichols vs Fiolds; Steelo va Coon. The followini State ex rel ( Fields, county judge of Box mandamus 1. Oberfeldor & Co, vs D, C error from Platte county The State of Nebraska ex rel the City of Beatrico vs Thomas H. Benton, as auditor of public accounts of the state. New Notaries Public, The following Nobraskans were appointea notaries public to-day by the governor W. E. Donaldson, Neligh, Antelope county John Overmire, Kearnoy, Buffalo coun: y Ronsin, Banner, Hanner county: W Chaso county; Simon nto, Custer county d, Clay county Douglas county; Charles I, sall, Kimball county | Frank Lincoln county; John F. Wenzl; Pawnee City, Pawnee county: Al bert M. Jacox, Thurman, Rock county; Wilt inm H, Jenuings, Davenport, Thayer county' . B, Dagge. York, York county City News and Notes. Chief Nowbury announ that tho “Silsby,” now being remodeled, will be on hand within the next ton days. It 18 said that the engine will do better work than ever before. This is good nows, for the want of better means for fighting fie hus been keouly olt. T, P. Konnard says that the Burlington has concluded to_make Lincoln a great com- mercial center. Lincoln i8 to have freight rates on a level with Omaha and such other help that the road can give is to come with- out money and without price. The city hails with gladness the Burlington's assured char- itable inclinations. The trial of the case of &, H. Burnham vs tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy_ railroad company hns been postponed for a few days, ‘The defenso asked leave to amend their an- swer, which the court granted. Che jury found Rickards a responsible ty in the suit of Simon Hene vs Rickards Judgment was given tho plaintiff for $105 and the costs of suit. Rickards 1s jointly rospousible for the judgmont with his part- ner, Mr. F. W. Kizzie. The revival at the United Brethron church 15 becoming quite marked in religious eircles througliout the Pastor Edmunds is evi dently dowg a splendid work. Converts ara reported by the score. The fronzy at Graco Methodist Episcopal church has subsidod and s0 has Pastor Minehart. It is givenout that a bettor state of feeling now exists in that ses were filed for trial harles Nichols va Albert S, Butte ocounty; Kavenaugh; P Youns, A. Mitcholl Seism, Oma Robertson, Kin iR WOMEN, ' quotes a fricnd of Mr. Blaine as ng that Mrs, Blaine is one of the last instances of the real Puritan woman, Miss Hattie Carter, of Kearnoy count Kan., has won several prizes at lassoing competition with cowboys, The dress that Mrs. Harrison will prob- ably wear at tho inauguration is of pearl white brocade, made with a long train, the front of which is of almost solid gold em- broidery. Mrs. T. N. Meade, of San Jacinto, Cal,, doesn’t worry much about the right to vote, but last yearshe plowed and sowed over one hundred acres of wheat, taking care of her own four horse team. Miss Susie, daughter of Senator Bates of Tennessee, is a famous whistler and banjo player. Mrs. Agnes Ethel Tracy, formerly a noted actress, has given a clergy house to St. John’s Episcopal church, Buffalo, N. Y. Mrs. E. D. ndiford, of Louisville, is said to be the richest woman in Kentucky. She is a widow, twenty-three years old and worth §3,000,000. Bessie Chandler, whose name is sub- scribed to some of the most graceful verses of the day, is Mrs. Leroy Parker, and the daughter of the late Admiral Parker, United States navy. Mrs. William Astor heads the fashionabla list, 80 to speak, of the large number of Now Yorkers who will pass all or part of tho summer in FEurope, and is stated to have planned to sail in April. Record was rocently made of the death of Senorita Castelar, sister of the well known spanish statesman, She was seventy-throo years old, and had presided over her brother's home for many years. Mme. Carnot, of Frange, has set the exam- ple among the ladies of the presidential court of wearing lilies of the valley ou all oc- casions, and these flowers are now regarded as the emblem of the Carnot regime. The empress of Japan, who is 5000 coming to this country. will have in her suite two manicures, a dentist, fourtcen doctors, ten fan-bearers, and a vast number of female at- tendants. 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