Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1889, Page 2

THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE Very Little Business Now Before the Benate. PRUNING THE APPROPRIATIONS. . Kennard's Olaim Defeated in House—The Maximum Tariff Bill Passed—Legisia- tive Gossip. the Senate. & Laxcory, Neb,, March 26,—[Special to Tre Brr.]-The senate jogeed along at 8o leis- urely a gait this morning as to leave the im- pression in a casual observer that it either had very little to do or plenty of time to do it. The former is true, and one versed in tho ordinary parliamentary rules could see signs of haste. Several house bills were ordered to their third reading, which eliminates the reference to standing committees and the discussion in committee of the whole. The following measures were crowded forward in that manner, Hungate's bill permitting the United States to buy or condemn a site for Fort Omaha and ceding the government jurisdiction over the samo. Caldwell’s bill providing that the supreme court shall moet in Lincoln in the first Tues- ay in_January and the third Tuesday in tember instead of in January and July. Fowle's bill for tho protection of notel @ecpers against dead beats, ‘Houso roll 483, whioh makos n‘:propriw tions for the current expenses of the state vornment and is called the ‘‘expense bill" ':r short, was read a second time and put on the general file, which prevents the delay of referring to the standing committee. Sena- tor Raymond, chairman of the committee on finance, thought it ought 1o follew ordinary yules and go to his committee. Church Howe assured him that it was in the hands of a committee and would be well digested. mond's motion to refer was snowed under, The senate passed Sutherland’s resolution ‘which provides that all contracts for sup- plies for state institutions shall be let on a system of bidding; that bids shall be on each tems separately, and that the heads of the several institutions make a monthly state- ment to the secretary of state of the supplies purchased. Raymond's resolution requesting the rd of transportation to make a scale of reight rates to prevent discrimination was defeated—17 to 13. This fight has been fought 80 ofton this session that there was no discussion, and one or two’ anti-monopo- Eau voted to table the resolution to prevent rofitless waste of time. Hiho committeo of the wholo toolk upa bill drawn by Secretary J. S. Dales, of the state university. Its purpose was said to bo to more clearly define the relations of the university and vhe industrial coliege. Sen- ators Howe, Keckley, Rausom, :Nesbitt and Sutherland riddled the bill with arguments 10 show that it had been ingeniously drawn ¥ fasten the agricultural experiment sta- tion on the state in the interest of the professors and ofticers who are drawing fi;n salaries or other pap from the station. 08t of the bill is comvosed of quotations from acts of congress, but at the end is an original clause providing that the state shall maintain the station if the government sub- sidy should cease. The committee took out the sting by cutting off this tail and gouged out the heart by removing the enacting clause. Then it hung up the mangled corpse in indefinite postponement. The committee recommended the passage of Berlin's bill requiring the city comp- tmuar of Omaha to investigate the books of he school board monthly and report to the council, 'he senate adjourned at noon till half past % this evening. EVENING SESSION. A large audience gathered in expectation of a contest over the expense bill, but had to ‘e content with soveral transient tilts, Nor- yal tried to work in his anti-bucket shop bill by substituting it for all that part of the bill orbidding the advertising of Nottaries. after e enacting clause. After some discussion ho chuir ruled it out of order, the same sub- ject matter having already ' been killed by !he‘suunw ‘The bill was laid over without on, & The committee of the whole recommended the passago of Berlin's garnishee bill ith an immaterial amendment; also pill exempting pensioners from ing tax or working n highways; also the bill incorporating arnu Raymond raised o titter with a resolution ’x‘qunnulg the senatorial alliance to report on the expense bill in the morning, but ,Church Howe promptly objected to its con- 'sideration, and under the rules it went over ~one day without debate. The senate then adjourned till morning. House, LixcoLy, Neb., March 25.—[Special to Tg Be.]—Hampton moved to make senate filo J14 and cther trust bills a special order to "foliow - bills on third, reading. The motion ‘was adopted, Tho scnate amendments to the Lincoln charter bill relative to releasing the street rallway company from paving outside the teacks were called up, Olmstead moved that the house concur, Hall hoped the motion would not prevail, The street car managers have doctored this bill in the senate, ana now come into the house through the gentlemanrom Hastings, “who seems to_be the monthpicoo for all cor- mrnlon- and ask this body to assent to ir work, 3 hfvntronltlmughnho hl‘)ula should not allow strect car companies to escape pavin outalic the trck, : % P ant of time for further consideration of the bill was urfwd by various members, and B almnmm!‘n motion wis adopted by a vote of Bills on third readlnz were taken up and th':‘lollawlnu passed 'he nnoruluppmprmllon bill; Hnn'l maxi- mum tariff bill as amende ! bill 1 by Cady for the punishment of the giving or selling of lnwxluulh\g liquors to habitual drunkards, and a bill by Scoville* authoriziug any city to establish a system of electric lights, Thn Kennard claim of 11,000 for alleged servicdk rendered the state in connection ‘with the collection of certain sums due from the genoral government on school lands be- hnfiq: to Indian reservations was reactied nn, ;:nl reading, d . lohuson moved to refer the bill back to t“I:: oommmfie,'nmll warned - tho frionds of measure that unless this was dono il would bo dofeatod. e Oln:;mul asked him what ho charged for ay ll defended the claim, and John- . son's motion was lost by & vote of 30 Y B'.‘.mn Corbin moved to,postpons final ruwlln un- il to-morrow, and said he was iny mux-'le '] m mevits of the claim and might be wlllmx fi‘lo\v something when he had finished the but if compelled to decide now would o ker spoke in favor of the claim, and ::F.umt Corbin was acting the part lu rifogeer and wanted to defeat the Lill ndirect means. “The roll call on the bill resulted as foilows Ay«-. 43; uoes, 47. A bill hy Hu zflu authorizing the county “board to use the road fund in aiding in pay- ing and gradiug any road or boulevard leaa. ing into a o was defeated, and, on motion of Caldw the vote was recousidercd und ugain placed oo file, AFTERNOON SESSION. Imstead moved to take up the general v cy bill after disposing of the trust which carried. The consideration of the Keckley bill to prehibit trusts and all other combinations to he price of the necossaries of life that house roli No. 481, a lntmdund by Speaker Watsun, was weasure, and moved that it ko subst obb denied the statement. He thought the Kukuy bill would uu-.» every lrement of a'law of this moved to rofer seua mc i4 back to house, with & recor:i endation that i do ‘Watson—Dempster in the chair— thut the bill if passed n its rnwuc ri would prohibit any combinations mon to advance theiriuter- , and & a0 amendment exewpt- orgenizapons from the provisions a of the law, which was adoj nd the bin roportod BRGk. e ok, With tho rocommondation that it do House rol1 208, a bill introduced by Hun- Rgate, nuthorlllnl the county board to levy a speclal tax on m\joinlng property to aid ln ding or pa¥i nF boulnvlrdl leadmg into ty, was restricted include only cMcl of the metropolitan (‘Il\ll. and referred back with a favorable recommendation. House roll 275, the general deficiency bill was taken up. ‘White movod to strike out the item $714 for work on the deaf and dumb asylum at Omaha. Cady attacked the bill in general. He said that no one in reading over the items oould tell whether the claim is just or not. It behooves the members to exercise some degreo of economy, an ho item is submitted n & form which an ordinary man would re- quire in the transaction of private business. White's motion was lost, 30 to 38, On motion of Hall each item in the bill was considered singly. The deficiency of $18,500 for clothing, bedding, groceries, farm implements and yarious other items for the soldiers' home at Grand Isiand was discussed at lengtn and adopted. A bill to pay county treasurers for collect- ing the educational land funds for 1834 and 1885 was taken up. White and Majors de- nounced the bill as being pushed by claim agents and lobbyists, and it was indefinitely Ppostponed by 76 to 16 The ameudment by Cady increasing the minimum valuation of saline lands from $20 to $150 per acre was adopted. The bill pro- viding for the leasing or salo of these lands was recommended for passage. The bill providing for a constitutional amendment increasing the number of su- preme judges to five, and fixing the salaries of tho judges of both supreme and district courts, was considered. Majors moved to strike out $3,000 in the salary of district judges and insert $2,500. Carried—47 to 35, A bill relating to the organization and gov- ernment of s¢hool districts was passed. etttk Behind the Scenes. Lixcory, Neb., March 26.—|Special Tele- gram to Tre Brg.|]—The adjournment of the senate at noon in the face of the universal desire to get through business and go home mystified all but the few who understood its significance. It was nearly midnight when the senatorial alliance olosed its labors on the general expemse bill. It has nearly three hundred and fifty items, and the sena- tors considered about ono-third of them. The adjournment nt noon was agresd upon to give senators friendly to retrenchment this afternoon for their work with the prun- ing knife. The adjournment was made till this evening for two purposes. It was ex- pected that house roll 484, known as the salary bill, would be received and read the first time, and it was hoped that the con- sideration of the expense bill could be begun in committeo of the whole. The first object was achieved, but after a hard afternoon’s ‘work on the expense bill there was not time to preparethe amendments agreed on by the alliance in conference. Consequently the consideration goes over till morning. ‘T'wehty senators were presont at this af- ternoon's meeting, and at the close they pledged themselves to stand unitedly for the action of the conference. Boss Stout's claint for interest on warrants was discussed, and a majority of the senators present voted to resist any effort to injoct it into the general appropriation bills. There is an_ill-defined feeling that the Stout, Butler and Kennard claims would have 'passed the senate had the house not defeated them) Everybody continues to fight shy of a pusi- tive opinion as to their fate. = Few senators will commit themselves, but a careful study of their expressions and action leave the im- pression that these claims are doomed, though they may cause a fight that will delny adjournment, A large portion of the 850 items in the ex- pense bill have been pared down by the sena- tors in conference. Their reductions will Mgre ate about §300,000 from the bill as it the house. The following statement shown in round numbers tha principal reduc- tions proposed in the appropriations of the different departments and institutions: ldiers’ home, 814, 000 institution for feoblo-minded, #2,000; Hastings hospital for insane, 82" 0003 Norfolk hospital, $44,000; Lincoln hnspllul HE 000; state ulllvemi!.y, $15,000; Kearney industrial school, $7,000 home for Irlend\eu, $17,000; Mitford indus trial home, $7,500; employes at capitol, #$4,000; supreme court bmllfls, $2,000; fur- nishing court room, $2,500; library furni- ture, #4560, public blllldlng‘ repair fund, $2,000; current oxpenses of state officers, $5,000; miscellaneous, $2,500. ‘The’ house allowed the institution for feeble-minded $4v,000 for new buildings. The vroposed amendment will allow $10,000 for a new boiler house and kitchen, Another amendment will allow the Hastings hospital $12,000 for a new boiler house and $2,000 for a barn. The house allowed the soldiers’ item of $1,500, thougm been intended 000, and proposed umendment will make it $7,500 for a hospital building. The miscellaneous re- ductions include $10,000 for bounties on ani- mals and $12,500 for compiled statutes. The superintendent of public instruction will be allowed a small increase for expenses. ‘There has been tnlk to-night of adjourn- ment at noon E'riday The expense and salary bills can be dlsposed of if there is no fight, but there is a deficiency bill about ready to be passed by the house and another bill containing a number of small claims which has not yot been acted on. The Jatter may beexpedited by being pruned and tacked on the oxpense bill as an amendment. The senators 10 confarence have tried to keep their actions secret to avoid a swarm of lob- byists, most of whom will get their first defi- nite information from this article. Hall’e Maximum Tariff Bill, Lixcory, Neb., March 20.—[Special to Tng Beg.]—The mnxlmum tarift bill for the reg- ulation of local freight rates, as amended by the author, was passed to-day by a vote of 54 t0 83, The bill fixes a legal classlfication of freight, being substantially the same as what is known as the western classification, Sec- tion 5 contains the essence of the bill, and as amended reads as follows: Section 5, That the board cf transporta- tion are hereby empowered and directed to reduce the rates ou any class or commodity in the schedule of rates fixed in this act, and 1o revise and change said clagsification of freight, as hereinbefore in this @t estab- ished, 80 as to work a reduction in any rate, whenever it shall seem just and reasonable to a majority of said board so to reduce any rate or to revise and change said clussifica- tion of freight 8o as to reduce any rate; and sald bourd of trausportation are herl.by empowered to raise the rate on any class or commodity in the schedule of rates fixed in this act whenever four-fifths of said board, examination and i had as in home & hospital to have a clare that said rate us hercin fixed is not compensatory for the service rendered, and sald hoard aro also horeby empowered to ve- vise and change said classitication of freight, 08 hereinbefore iu this adt established, o as. to raise any rate, whenever four-fifihs of #uid board shail, upon examination and hear- ing had as i other eas s, byaheir votes find aud declare that the said classification of freight, us heveinbofore established, when the rates are upplied is not com; for the service rendered, When an of rates or in b ssificution shali be mude by said board it sk be the duly of said board 1o cause not: ereof to be published 10 SUCCEssIVe wes some public naws- puper b d 10 the city of Lincoln, in lis state, which notice shall state the date n[ the taking effcol of such change of rate ifl said change of rate or ification made by smd board and published in sald notice shall take effect at the time so stated in said notice, and said changed rate 5o as iv this section made and published shall be a reasonable maximum rate within the mearing of scction threo of this act. Sectlon 7 frovides that any railroad that shall classify freight differentiy than is fixed by this act, by means of which the rates on such article is mereased, or shall make o groater obharge than is allowed by this act, said railroad shall forfoit to the party injured the sum of one thousand dollars, to be re- coverod as dobts of thut aw@OULL wre now re- covered by law, Babeock’s Boheme Bxposed. TaxcoLy, Neb., March 20, —[Special ele. gram o Twe Bew. | —A docided sensation was eroatod in the house this afternoon when Mo- Bride called up house roll 436, & bifl to pay county treasurcrs for collecting educational laod fuuds for 1884 and 1336, White de- THE OM.AHA DAILY BEE;" WEDNESDAY. MARCH 27, 18 nounced the bill'as a steal, and said that the county treasyrer of Unasas county, who is namod in the bill as ono of the olaimants, told him that the state did not owe him a cent i this connection. Certain partics were pushing the claim for a 10 per cont ‘divey.” MecBride demanded the proof, when Majors took the floor, savagely de- nounced the bill, and in support of his posi- tion read the following lotter, whioh was sent to all the claimants throughout the stwate: Dear Sir: Having' no special business for the winter, 1 am inclined to try.to get an appropriation theough the legislatire to pay county troasurers’ fees for collecting school land moneys for the years 1884 and 1885, The last legislature “absolutely refused to makojan appropriation for such purpose, and thisone is liablo to do the same, but there is nothing like trying and nothing to Jose, 11 all who have foes due them will ive me 10 der cent of what is allowed I will un- dertake the work and do my best to get somothing. If you wish to put your olaim in with others please notify mo at once, I am very truly yoars, H. A. BARCOOK. This same Babcook, who was formerly au- ditor ot the state, has been honaying around the legislature all winter and this exposuro of his schome fell on the houso like a thun- der clap. Majors doclined to give the name, but the members knew who was tho author of the latter. The committee reported tho bill back with the recommendation that it do not pass, and on a roll call killed the measure by a vote of 70 to 16. The bill called for and_ was to be divided between fifty-seven beneficiar- ies. It has leaked out that Bacbock is to be put at tho head of tho insurance department at tho auditor’s office and was in the move to increase the salaris of the deputics and clerks, The exposure of this scheme by Tur Brz will open the eyes of honest senators, Kennard’s Claim, LixcoLy, Neb., March 26.—| Special to Tire Ber.]—The claim of T. P. Kennard for $11,000 for alloged services came up on final reading to-day. Johnson moved to recommit the bill to the committee of the whole for further consideration, but the motion was violently opposed by Calawell and Olmstead and lost by a vote of 82 to 89. Corbin then moved to postpone the final reading until to-morrow morning, alleging that he was looking up the merits of the claim and needed more time. Baker said that Corbin was acting the part of a pettifoggor and warned the house that any delay meant the defeat of the measure. Johnson said that if the bill was pressed now it would go down to a well deserved death. Kennard’s friends flitted hither and thither, oncouraging their friends and strongthening the faith of the weak and doubtful. But they counted without their host. The bill was killed by the following vote "Ayes—Abrahamson, Buker, Bailey, Beck- man, Berry, Berlin, Bohacek, Cameron, Catdwell, Christy of Clay, Coleman of Polk, Cruzen, 'Denman, Dempster, Dickinson, Dillor, Dunn, Everett, Fieldgrove, Fuller, Gilchrist, Green, Hall, Hanna, Hanthorn, Hill of Gage, Horne, Loe, Majors, McBride, McNickle, Meoker, O'Brien, Olmstond, Ray- ner, Robb, Seed, Severin, Sweet, Westover, Whymau, 'Wilcox and Mr. Speaker—43, Nays—Ballard, Bortis, Braucht, Brink, Cady, Christy of Dodge, Coleman of Ante" lope, Collins, Corbin, Delaney, Elliott, Far- loy, Fonton, Gates, Hahn, Harding, Hill of Butler, Hooper, Mattes jr., Nove, O’Sulli- van, Potter, Sargeant, Satchell, Scoville, Shephard Snyder, - Stirk, Swartsley, Towle, Truesdell, Weber, Wellor, Welis, White, Whitehead, Whitford, Williams, Yut: Messrs, urnham, ‘Gilbert and Humpton were unavoidably absent. Legisiative Gossip. Lixcor, Neb., March 26.—[Special to Te Bre.]-Tho senato has ordered 200 extra copies of the legislative mantal. The weading of Senator Taggart is an- nounced to toke place in April. Judge Sweezy, Seward Garber, Wright Thornberg and ex-Sheriff Joseph Warren, of Red Cloud, are capital visitors. Also Judgo McDonald, of Hastings. Prof. Billings has been in Chicago trying to corrall that $5,000 position. Senator Wethorald has been confined to his room by sickness. Represontativo D. A. Scoville is_circulat- ing a petition for the position of command- antof the soldiers’ home in the event of Colonel’s Smith's displacement. e e GOT HI1S DECREE, A Wife Influenccd by a Peculiar Brand of £piritualism. Dr. John Haughawout, a dentist of this city, has been given a decree of divorce from his wife Louise, who is now in Los Angeles, Cal,, with her daughter. The divorce was gr.mler.'l yvesterday morning in the district court by Judge Wakeley, on the ground of adultery. The testimony adduced showed that the plaintiff was a practicing dentist in Atlantic, Ia., four years ago, and that his wife committed adultery with a doctor named Wilder in_that place. He suspected his wife of infidelity and engaged a young man named William Taylor toshadow her. He did so and one day saw.her-go into Wilder's office, The husband was_immediately noti- fied and rushed over to Wilder’s office. Ho found the door locked and burst it open by putting his shoulder st it. There he found the evidence he had been seeking. Afterwards the husband claimed that his wife confessed her guilt, and said she had committed the act under instructions of a spiritvalist. William Taylor was present as a witness and corroborated the statements of the husband. The Jaller Melented. 41 positively refuse to be interviewed,” said the jailer yesterday, as the reporter was asking questions about the prisoners, He Qidn't mean it though, and relented 8o far as t0 say that W. 2. Lawrenco was held for steuling an overcoat from Moses King, of the reoples, and a pair of shoes from some one else—first name unknown. George Cronin was held at the district court in the sum of $3,000, for stabbing OM- cor Marnell. “Dutch Jake” was the prize that Maggic Norton and May Morgan fought for, with Officers Shiclds and Newman as_referecs. Time was called, and this morning Judge Berka will decide who is the winner, John Dean, the colored man who has already carned some notoriety by inducin & white g1rl to leave her home, is behind the bars once more. The charge sgainst him is just what might bo expected—wife beat- ing, A New Train. The connecting link between Ne- Draska and Kansas has just been placed in service by the Union Pacific railway. Thistrain leaves Council Bluffs daily at 4:45a, m,; leaves Omaha at 5:05 a. m., ans’ through without change to attan, Kan., making direct con- nections there with the Kansas division of the Union Pacific railway for all oinws in Kansas and Colorado west- ound, and for Topeka, Lawrence, Kan- 8as \Aty and points east and south via Kansas City. lktummg. train leaves ‘Manhattan at 2 p. m,; arviving at Beatrice at 6:25 p, m., Lincoln at 7:50 p. ., and Omaha at 11:20 p. m., Coun- cil Bluffs 11:40 p. m,, mnklng direct connection with Kunsas division trains from Kausas City, Lawrence, Topeka and the east, and from Denver, Salina, Abeline and all points west, enabling nssengers to visit the prlurlpul points in Kunsas and Nebraska in the shortest possible time. These trains have first- class equipment, consisting of smoking cars and first-class day coaches of the latest pattern. The new train will ill & long felt want, and is bound to be popular, - — Who OWIu Him? Ofticer: Ormsby found @ bright little boy at “The Island” newr Cut-Off lake yesterday, and brought him to the station. He says his name is Carl Blumbaugh, snd that ho lives “down there,” but he sometimes talks about Harney street. \Vho oW ul him! htrlhqnnku In Bpai Mapgiv, March 20.—Strong shocks of anrunqunku were felt to-day st Alhawa and THEY ARE: “VERY INDIGNANT. Attempts to firflae Oouncilmen Stir Up Viftubus Wrath. 0ff el SIZE OF BRIAE NOT STATED, -_— Oity Fatners Ma¥h a Stormy Moet- ing and Oensider tho Condult Businesh With Marked /(mrut. (‘Ily Counoil, Sixteen mombers of the city council met 1ast night, and for three-quarters of an hour listened to a string of petitions, communica- tBns and other items of news. The petitions were gonerally for grades and grading; the communications referred to favors required, and the “other items" to objections from some loig suffering citizons, Some of them paid taxes under provest, some didn’t want to pay them at all; some wantod paving, fire hydrants and water mains, and some wanted to write to the council any way. City Comptroller Goodrich asked that bids for printing the mayor’s annual report bo ro- advertised, and his communication was re- ceived. The Barber Asphalt Paving com- paay Wrote to say that their oxperience with liconsed plumbers has been anything but satisfactory for the past four years. Among other things they say “Our losses and annoy- ances have been great owing to the ' freedom snd latitude allowed them by the city m cutting our pavements, and the entire lack of legislation requiring them to cancel their obligations to us. Beginning the year 1880 ‘we are reful\ng to honor the orders from plumbers for thé repairs of cuts in asphalt Envsmnnt!, until such time as your honora- ie body may deem it proper to grant us pro- tection 1n the premises,”’ They were reforred to the committee on curbing ‘and guttering. Councilman Lowry moved that the city engineer be instructed to continue a pipe culvert on Sixth street, and after some de- bate the resolution was adopted with an amendment that the cost be charged to the South Omaha sewer fund. Ahother resolu- tion from the same councilman asked that the board of works ve instructed to be more specific a8 to the quality and quantity of cement to be wused in paving. There was considerable wrangling over “the matter, but it was cut short by a motion that the council consider the ques- tion Wednesday night, and that when the c(;uncll adjourned it should do so to meet to- night. Councilman Kaspar moved that an old two-wheel hose ocart, at prosent unused by the fire department, be given to South Omaha, the fire and police commission con- curring. The motion was adopted. Relerring to the report of the city comp- troller, that s large number of city lots are at present held by Hon. Alvin Saunders as trustee, under an agreement on the part of the city to furnish a 'pot ground and right of way for the Union Pacific company Councilman Chaffe§ moyed that the city at- torney be instructed to take such steps as will place the city in actual possession of the said lots. Thg resplutibn called for Hon. A. Saunders ~ to execite a deed of the said ground ' to the Union Pacific railroad " in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in the contract before® the council, dated January 2, 1872, with a_clause that the said lands revort to the city in case they shall not be occupied or impfoved in_accordance with tho terms of the cuulms: The deed is to be placed in the hands df the mayor, who shall deliver it to a représontative of the Union Pacific, upon receiviug’a contract in accord- ance with the mpg of the contract presented by the Omaha bridge wmmll.we The reso- Igtion was adopted, A resolution cn\llng for the employment of four men to olean up Hanscom park was carried. 2 THE m\nornc: SITE, Councilman Buroham moved “That it 1s the sense of the city council thap it deplores any sction and influence contemplating fur- ther delay in determining—by the proper au- thorities—the location ef a postoffice site for the city of Omaha, and the commencement of theerectioo of a building thereon.” That such action and influence is detri- mental to the business and other interests of the city of Omaha. A motion to lay it on the table was lost by avote of 9to 9, and a vote to adopt 1t was carried by 10 to 8. The committee on public property and building reported in favor of a §0,000 borfd from the architect whose plans for the city hall shall be accepted as a guarantee that the building shall cost no more than the specifications call for. The report was adopted. The committee on gas and electric light- ing reported the usual monthly overcharge by the gas company. This time it was for repairs and amounted to $52.90 for Feb- ruary. Chairman Balcombe, of the board of ‘works, recommended that the 5 per cent re- serve due Moupt & Griffin for construction of a sewer in district 76 be paid, and was re- ferred to the committeo on sewars. TIHE DOMSETT CONDUIT BYSTEM, The council then went into committee, with Councilnan Burnham in the chair, The first question considered was the grauting of a thirty-year franchise to the Omaha subway company for the purpose of putting all over- head wires under ground, the company to furnish all necessary conduits. Councilman Snyder wanted to hear from the Chicago delogation a8 to the feasibility of the scheme. Councilman Lee suggostcd that the city | engineer give the explauation. He did. He said he found its success depended not on the system, but the material used in the conduits. The electrical companies admitted that it was only a question of time until all their wires went under ground. It seemed to be generally admitted by those interested that the art of constructing conduits was in its infancy, and thav there was at present but little difference between the rival systems, but what there was went in favor of the Dorsett. “7 understand thet Mr. Lowry kept pretty sober while there. 1 would like to hear from him,” said Councilman Boyd. Councilman Lowry said the Dorsett system was put down ata cost of about $22,000 per mile, and yet the arc light and other electrical companies were paying more than that for a system of iron piping. By srequest Engineer Tillson explained the newly made soil in Chicago, rendered the laying of iron pipes necessary. Where the ground was new made in Omaba it would meet with the same dificulties, Councilman Leo said the question of cost was not one that, fl’ lected the city. The real question was “whother or not the wires should be put under ground. A year ago Kaspar had moved that the wires should go under ground, but Was outvoted, He (Lee) had subsequently brought in an ordinanee givin, olin“Grant a franchise, but it is still before thé ‘council, Then the present company for u franchise, and it is being opposed: by ‘the telephone, tele- graph and eleetric 11{!)! companies. The question for the coundil, ‘'as representatives of the people, to dooldé 'was whether the wires should wnderiground. If they thought they should, nmu some company Illollfll be given a olise, for until the conduits were placed’ they could not compel the companies to put thelr wires under ground. Councilman Davis/itold what the dele ation did while .iu" Chicago. Thurs- ay they spent about an hour look- ing at conduits, . Friday they went 10 see the Western Union telegraph oficials, They seemed willing to put the fwires ander round, but were looking for the best system. 'ney were not using and never haa used the Dorsett system, T'he opinion on that system was unfavorable to it, and none of it had been laid in four and a half years. It was declared to be impracticable, and that it was expensive to keep in repair. He did not think the time Lad come for Omaha or any other city to compel the companies to put their wires unclm‘{‘l round, though it would come some time, He would opposc krnnllng any frauchise to any subway wn‘gl uncilman Hascall said that the question of a premature building of conduits, or their {mpracticability when built, was a risk that the companies wlone had to run, The wires should go underground, and he' thought the council shoula vote for & sub- way ordivance of some kind, nllhnul nting & monopoly Lo auy One Cow| e Tobatard, Shoughl. 10, yiow of the great diversity of opinion @s to the pru:» ticability of the Dorsott system tha jhe ©ould not vote for it “He thought it was a stock schome, and that there wus a lottor in existence, now In possossion of a member of the council, that might throw some light on the subject. Councilman Davis endorsed Bedford's re- marks, and finally produced a letter, It was from hillinglaw, eleotrician for Armour & Co. It was addrossed to Chaffee and Davis, and insinuated that a_majority of the council had been ‘‘fixed," and that Mr. Dor- sett had tried o fix him by offering him & po- siton as superintendent ot construotion of Mthe Omaha subway system, Furthermore he had been offered a financial interest in the company., He claimed that the system would not stand a closo and impartial investigation. There was a storm at onco, and A, Shil- linglaw, electrician for Armour & Co., came in for & roasting all around. Councilman O'Connor explained that the writer had gone down to Chicago with them, had invited them to the theater at his expense, and had spoken against the proposed ' company. Councilman Hascal, Saoders and Isaspar followed, in the same strain or more so. Councilman Lowry objected to any abuse of Shillinglaw, Councilman Chaffee spoke in defenso of Shillinglaw, and then Hascall put in another roast. He claimed that instoad of the coun- ol being fixed it way self-cvident that ho was trying to be fixed himself. Some mem- bers of the council were endeavoring to put thomsclves above the others, and were using this moans of endeavoring to fix a stigma on those who differed from them. Councilman Lee asked for a spocial com- mittee to investigate the charges made in tho letter. It was a sorious charge to_bring against the council, and should be sifted to tho bottom, He had met the writer on the train, and had noticed that he was very ac- tive in spoaking of the impracticability of the conduit system—so much so that he asked Davis and ChafYeo if he was uot in the pay of the wloqrnph company. Councilman Wheeler said it was not a ma- terial question. If anything was investiggted it should be the practicability of the system, not the charges against the councilman. He would oppose the company. Councilman Lowry astonished the council by ng that he ‘Was one councilman who had “boon offered. . bunch of atock in 'the company. He supported Shillinglaw and courted an investigation, He would tell the amount of stock offered Lim, and who it was offered it. A LETTER FROM D, H. DORSETT was then read, It was dated March 25. and stated that Shillinglaw had approached him with the information that he could control two_or three members of the council, and asking on what terms he could get in on the ground floor of the deal. He was not in Omaha for his health, and was willing to use his influence with two or three of the council who would rely on his judgment “and do as he desired them in the matter of granting the Omaha franchise. If he could get into the deal on the bottom he would do all he could to assist in getting a favorable report of the committe.’ The council then rose and reported in favor of withholding action on the ordinance. The chair then appointed Councilmen Burnham, Bailey, Bedford, Ford and Kaspar as a com* mittee of investigation, An ordinance outhorizing the annual levy of taxes for park purposes was read a first and second time, and the council adjourned. As the council filed out two rival electri- clans came in contact with each other, and a war of words ensued. “You can't bring on your committees any 00 quick for me,” said one, “I'll trot you a heat anyhow, and D1l just about prove that you're bought yourself and you tried to buy others,” said his oppo- nent. “Ivs a lio! You can't prove it in the coun- cil or the committe “*Well, T can prove it Just as well here as anywhere—anywhere you say. ggisey Onarged With Burglary. Frexoxt, Neb,, March 26.—|Special to Tng Bee.]—Deputy Sherifft Howe arrested David Etherton four miles north of Ames, this county, vesterday afternoon. The pris- oner was taken to Blair this morning by Sherift Schneider, of Washmgton county, where he will be Lield on a charge of burg- lary, He is one of five men who broke into a store at Blair lust September and stole a large quantity of goods. Three others of the ang have heretofore been arrested, aud are in Jail at Blair. e et The Lost Vessel, PriLApELPRIA, March 26.—The pilot boat Edwmunds reports that she picked up a clinker built whaleboat in good condition, bottom up, with “Conserya’” marked on the port bow, at Feawick island. Four oars were lashed in her. A new painter and new line were on each end, both of which were broken, and everything covered with fish oil, including the ropes. The boat was landed at Cave May. The pilot boat Bayard reports that on March 23 the Fenwick's island light ship passed half of a ship's whale boat, clin¥er built, which looked as if it had been run into and split. 1t had a new painter at- tached to it; aiso had a long log line and recl which were taken out by the pilots. NEW YoRrk, March 26,—The pilot boat Charlotte Webb arrived to-day from a cruise and reports that on Sunday afternoon she passed through several miles of wreckag and on the same evening picked up a life- boat marked *Conserva.?’ ————— The Grand Trunk Called to Time. WasHINGTON, March 20.—An order was made to-day by the inter-state commerce commission setting forth that information has been lodged with the commission that the Grand Trunk railroad of Cunada has violated, and is still violating, the inter-state statutes in divers particulars, and_citing the offlcials of said railway to_appear before the commission at Washington on April 4 to answer concerning all matters and submit to an investigation. AP Not Wildly Enthusiastic. Laravie, Wyo., March 23.—[Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee]—The news of the ap- pointment of Francis E. Warren as governor of Wyoming, fell upon Lavamiesto-day with 8 dull sickening thud. The majority of the republicaus here favored E. 5. W. Morgan, former territorial sccretury. They looked upon the candidacy of Warren as “more in the interests of Cheyenne than the entire territory. The Death Record. Beruiy, March 23, —Theodore Steinway, of Steinway & Sons, piano dealers of New York died to-day at Brunswick. Niw Youk, Mareh 26,—P. R. Kissam, a momber of the New York exchange since 1564, died this morning. Ho was a brother- in-law of the late William H. Vauderbilt, Ciataxood, Tenn., March 26.—Hon, John R. Neal, membor of congress from tho Third Tennossce division in the Fifticth congress, died to-day at Rhea Springs. Tenn., afteran iliness of two months, of consuinption of the bowels - The Needham-Gilmore Fight. MINNEAPOLIS, March 20,—The fight to a finish between Harry Gilmore and Danny Needham, which was stopped last night by the police, will occur before morning within - ten miles of the city limits, All'the urulhml- naries have been arranged, and at this ho (11 p. m,) those interested are collect J)ru- poratory to stavting for the battle groun —~— Sank With All on Board, Bostox, March 20, —The schooner M. B. Steadson, of Provincetown, arrived to-day in distress. The captain reported that last night, when twenty-five miles east from the highlands of Cape Cod, the schooner collided with a small Ashing vessel, and that the lat- ter sank with all on board. It is not known how many were on the fishing vessel. The Steadson had a narrow escape, her cutwater baving been carried away to within an inch of her plankings. She is leaking badly. . o . Not Coming to Nebraska. CuicaGo, March 2.—The signal service officer nere reports to-night that a coid wave signal is ordered to be hoisted for Lilinois and Towa. The temperature is oxpected to fall about twenty degrees for lowa by B &, m. on March 28,a0d about nu Y dl'greul in linois, Osborne Knocked ()ul By Skinner. CHicAGo, March 2¢.—In the seventh round of a fight to-night for $150, Frank Skinner, of Chicago, knocked out Billy Osborne, of Milwaukee. The slugging ook place ina bara at the south end of the m,y About oune huudred people were present. . SOUTH OMAHA. Democratio Primaries. The results of the democratic primary eloction, by wards, at South Omaha yester- day was as follows: FOR POLICE JUDGR, 2, 84, 161 19" 4(h 'I‘an B. Strothman, Patrick J. Kin b Henry McKendey 94 63 101 J; Lo R . .9‘)7 820 209 » Mr Slrnlhxlmnn plurality over Mr. King, FOR SCHOOL DIRBCTORS, 1st. 8d. ad. Prank H. Boyd.. 80 1. J. Carpenter, H. Fleming Edwara Corrigan. M. I O'Rourke, tn, 'rolnl 6 Thomas Ryan, W. C. Stentoff, . Mr. Fleming and Mr. Corning are the nom- inees. FOR CITY COUNOIL—FIRST WARD. John C. Carroll, Thomas Rock. E. [B. Towl. Daniel Hamn John F'. Ritchba Total.. A. Melcher. Dumcl Rafferty . Mr. Melcher's majority. THIRD WAKD, John N. Burke. . Jacob H, Egger. Mr. Burke's majority FoUR Ed Johnston . B. Jettor........ Mr. Johnston's majority. THE TICKET. For Police Judge—Bruno Strothman, IFor School Directors—James H. Fleming, Edward Corrigan. Council—First ward, E. B.; Towl; Second ward, C. A. Melcher; ' Third' ward, John N, Burke; Fourth ward, Ed Jolnston, A 50 cont bottle of Dr. Bigelow’s Positive Cure will promptly and thor- oughly cure the worst case of recent cough, cold or throat or lung trouble. Buy tho dollar bottlo for chronic 3 Pleasant to take. Goodman Drug Co. g ok An Ex-Saloonkeeper Duped. Until About one year ago Frank Crawford cenducted a saloon on South Tenth streot near the Union Picific tracks. He disposed of his establishment and went east. Monday he roturned for the purpose of looking after money due him, o largs amount of which he claimed stood against a number of railway employes. Ho called on several of them and threatened to garnisheo their wagos if they did not produce. Monday evening-he re- paired to the switchmen’s tepee in the yards for the purpose of calling upon the nigut men when they reported for duty. He was in advance of their usnal timo of arrival, and carelessly laid his ledger containing the accounts one sido as he meandered off for a cigar, Upon his return the book was gone. 1f he fails to find the book he can prepare no itemized account of the indeb.edness of his patrons, The Y. M. C. A. Reception. Another one of those receptions which are making the Young Men's Christian associa- tion more popular with the young men, was given last night. The reception was ten- dered to the clerks and bookkecpers of the wholesale houses and manufecturing institu- tions of the city. Fully 1,000 invitations were sent out to the employes of the various de- partments of the wholesale and jobbing trade. But as the Lenten season still holds on and causes a lull in ail social events, only about 400 people were at the reception. They were richly rewarded in enjoyment for being present. Recruiting the Creche. A baby about three weeks old was found last night on the door step of Dr. Tilden on Douglas street between Nineteenth and Twenticth street. It is supposed that some heartiess mother deposited it there. The child was sent to the Creche. - ON HUMAN COUTLICLE. Two Chicago Men Receive Ghastly White Cap Warnings. Cicaco, March 20.—|Special Telegram to Tie Bge.]—There has been a good deal of excitement in this community during, the past few days growing outof the horrible and business-like White Cap warning, received by two well-known citizens of the town. A woek ago last Friday Fred Hartlicb, proprie- tor of the Stone House hotel, received a box by express which haa beed shipped from some way station on the Baltimore & Ohio road. Hartlieb opened the box and was par- alyzed at its contents. Inside was a pair of human ears, two big toes, a second flnger of a man and a picce of human cuticle about_four inches square, on which was scrawled @ warning to leave the plac once. Hartlieb said nothmg to his but he and his wife were about frig] deati, and since then, up to last Saturday, he has been standing guard over his premisos with a rifle while his wife slept. Mutters drifted along until Saturday night when o bundlo of hickory switches were buug on Hartlieb's door knob and a paper posted up again warning him to leave. A live warning aud a bunch of switches were also loft ai the home of Anthony Smith, LR Nebraska and lows Patents. Wasuixaroy, March 26.—[Special Tele- gram to The Bee.|—Anna O. Schuckman, Lincoln, Neb., culinary apparatus; William H. D. Ludlow, Tecumseh, Neb., tag fust cner. Towa: Harrison V. Conway, coupling; Paul W. Lefllor, assiguor to Craver, Steele & Austin, Grinnell, journal box for crank pens; Hugh' O'Hare, assignor to J. . Leech, Mount Pleasant, folding chair; Buren M. Soule, Cedar Rapids, car- riage spring. Boone, car - Another Monte Carlo Victim. Caxxes, March 26.—Geisendorf, son of the Swiss consul here, was found murderad near EQUAL T0 THE EMERGENCY. The Remarkable Presence of Mind of Two Des Moines Youngsters. A PLAYMATE FALLS IN A WELL And is Resoued by Their Unaided Bf forts While Aduits Stand Around and Fill the Air With Howls, Deserving of a Medal, Drs Morxes, Ta., March 20.—|Speoial Tele- gram to Tie Bre.|—A very strange acoldent happened Sunday afternoon in Kast Des Moines. Harry Fish, a lttlo boy soven or cight years of agoe, was visiting with two children at 1300 Walkor stroet. The children were alone on the premises with the excep- tion of a servant girl, and they went to a well to get a drink, The well is one of the rope and pulley kind, one bucket being gono from one end of the rope, H with the assistanco of the othor children, boy of nine and a girl of eloven years, drew a bucket of water and leaned over to set it upon the floor of the frame work. Somehow he lost his balance and fell in, still holding tho bucket. Downward he plunged, a_distance of forty toet into nbout six fect of water. The other children callod the girl, who was in the house, but her fricht was 0 great that she could not do anything excopt scronm and wring her hand in dismay. Bofore any assistauce came the boy and girl drow the littie fellow up, he holding to the rope and bucket. The only injury be received was a cut on the lip made by the bucket. In Favor of the Road. Drs Morses, Ta., March 25— [Special Tele- gram to Tre Bre. |—In the case of citizons of Fort Dodge against the Rock Island road, which has beon considered by the commis- sioners, they have reached a decision which has not been made public, but it is under- 8t00d to bo in favor of the road, and against compelling it to maintain a track from Tama w Fort Dodge. The Rock Island is using the track of the 1llinois Central for those six miles, but, the citizens of Fort Dodge wantod to havo tho road run its own parallel traclk and maittuin a depot of its own. The com- missioners refuse to comvel the company d0 8080 long as it keeps up 1ts train se #. herotofore. Hoof Rot In Webster. | whisky, the railroad track at Monte Carlo. His valise, which was ng near by, had bten rifled. He had recently won large sums of money at the gaming tables at Moute Carlo. Fonr Donee, Ia, March ¢ Special to Tur Bee,]—The appearance of the terrible cattle disease, hoof rot, among herds in three widely su]lur.uml parts of Webster county, about the sawe time, creates consternation among large cattle owners in this part of Iowa. These fears were further creased to-day by the discovery of the disense in the berd of Dan Meredith, a large farmer noar this city. Hoofs have entirely dropped oft from many of his cattle, The state veterinary has been notified and his coming is anxiously awaited. A Gang of Miscreants. Masox Ciry, In., March 26,—| Special Tele- gram to FIIP H| satisfied with their graveyard nllaunbmu‘e the gang of miscreants at Sanborn, operating under the name of White Caps, continue their depreda- tions. Last night sevoral barns were entered and the tails and ears of several amimals were cut off. T. H. Lindon was hung in effigy in ono of the principal streets. ‘I'ha two who were arrested last week are still held in custody, and it is thought that they will soon peach'on the entire gang. Mehan Will Plead Guilty. Des Moixes, In, March 24.—[Special ‘Pelegram to Tue Bee.]—fhomas F. Mehan, who was brought hero from Davenport, charged with robbing the postoffice there, was arraigned before United States Commis- sioner Jordan to-day. Mahan wuaived ex: amination and was taken to Council Bluffs and lodged in jail there to await trial at the next term of federal court, which meets there. It is understood that he is willing to plead guilty as soon as an opportunity is offered. Accident at a Funeral. Muscaring, Ta, March 20.—[Special Telo- gram to T ~While on the way to iester's funeral yestorda the team hitched to one of tho carriages be- came frightened at a switch engine, and Mrs. Rinl, of Musserville, an occupant, was thrown out over an embankment and ge- verely njured. In falling she struck the wround with hor head, shouldor and right side, breaking the collar bone and bruising the lung and right ribs. SO Used Himsif for Balit. WarenLo0, I, March 25.—|Special Tele- gram to Tre Bae.j—A sensational suicido tool place hero tonight. Fred Galla, a taior, who had been out of work for somo tiine, went, fishing this evening and after sotting three lines he sat down on & high bank, tied his feot togethor with a cord, and thern lll‘4| hoth hands by his sides. In this condition he pitehed hendlong into the river., Help was close at hand, but he was dead be- foro he could be got aut‘ Raised the Necessary Amount. Des Moixgs, Ia., March 24.—|Special gram to Tng Bee]—The Merchants National banl has raised tho sum of money required by the national banik examiner, and this mornng opened _its doors for the 'pay- mont in full of all depositors, 1t will thus g0 into liquidation, and in a_short time will bo opened as tho Hawlkeye Savings bank, Everybody Had a Cough. WatkLOO, In., March 20,—[Special Tele- gram to Tng Bek| Thomas A. Nash, a druggist at Rockford, has been arrested and flued $100 and costs on complaint of J. H. Pickott, commissionor of pharmacy, for sell- itg a cough syMp, which was principally His store was closed, R I 1R Struck by a Train, Ind., March 26.—Robert Mof froy and Della Love, aged nincteen and twenty, respectively, whils attempting to cross a railroad truck in a carriage six miles from Goshen, last night, wore struck by a passengor train and instantly killed.. The ‘mnu was also kilied and the carviage de- molished. Gosuey, Makes the Weak Strong 1f you are run down, or have that tired feeling | a8 @ Tesult of overwork or the effect of the chang- ng season, you should take that best of all tonics and blood puritiers, Hood's Sarsaparills, Itpurl: fles and enriches the blood, tones the stomach, vouses the torpid liver and kidneys, creates an appetite and bulldsup the system, Thousands who have taken it with benefit, testify that Hood's Sarsaparilla “makes the weak strong,” | “It00k Hood's Barsapar)lla for loss of uppetite, dyspeps'a, and genera! langour' Itdid me & vastamount of good, and I haveno hesituncy in recommending it.” J. W, WiLLeroun,Quiney, it ! That Tired Feeling “I was very much run down in health, had 1o strength and no fuclination to do angthing. I have now been taking Hood's Sarsaparilla about & month and that tired feeling has loft e, wy appetite bas returned, and takeit all inall, 1 am likeanew 12an, We alltake Hood's Sursaparil 1a,” CHAUSCEY LaTiAN, North Coumbus, Oblo. “For fivo years I was siok every spriug, but last year began in February 1o take Hood's Barsupa- Filla, 1 used five botties and have not soen a sickday since.”” G. W, SLoax, Millon, Mass- N. B. If yon decldeto take Hood's Sarsapa- ri’la do not be induced to buy any other. A falr trafl of Hood's Sarsaparilu wili convince any reasonable person that it posscsses Kremt medicinal mevit. Wedo not cialm thut every bottle will accomplish a miraclo, but we do know that nearly every bottle, taken according to dir- octions, does produce positive benefit Its pecu- liar curative power 1s shown by wany xemarks able cures, *[ huve takon three bottles of Hood's Barsapa- rilla nd cousider it tho vest blosd medicine L have ever taken. 1t bullds me up, makes me | sloep better, elvas mo n good apperite and tm- proves my health generally.” Mics, A, o 70N, Portland, Me, Headache, No Appetite “I hava been tiwubled a grea’ deal with huld- achie, had no appetite, no strongth and felt iaac o Aty Sim Gl And Do SOCHRIAY WOLES Since taking Hood's sarsapueilla I have not had the headache, my £0od hns rolished, aud soemod to do me good, and 1 have felt myselt growing stronger cvery day. 1 thoroughly believe iu Hood's Sarsspariia,” M. A. BTEINMAY, 19 Grand Avinue, (irand Lapids, Mioh, *“Hooil's Sargaparilla purified my blood, gave me strength, and overcame the headarhe snd dizziness, 5o that now I Lurugs NASOS, 68 Church St., Lowell Musa, ‘Hood’s Sarsaparilla o8, Praobrimese L & 100 Doses One Dollar for 3¢ Franppes, g nl" e, 11 slx for 8. Preps Ulll A'Du;hucune-. Loswel T" v Aoo oo-u One Dollar =3 pola nr Mol