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THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, e TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dolly (Morning Bditon) including SUNDAY ik, One Year " £l For Six Monthx For Three M " 35569 Tur OMAnA St ftek, matied fo auy address, One Y ear. Vonves WERKLY BrE, One Year.. 200 OMA A OFFICE, Nos, 014 and 918 FARNAM BTRRET, HICAGO OFFICK, 57 ROOKERY BUILDING. EW YORK OFFICE, ROONS 14 AND 16 TRUNUNE BUILDING, WASHINGTON OFFiCK, NO. 618 URTEENTH STREET. CORRBSPON DENGE. All communications reiuting to news and edl. Yorial matter should be addressed to the EDITOR or e BeE. ' PUSINKSS LRTTRRS, All bustress loiters and remittances should bs addressed to Tivk BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAHA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to o mado payable to the order of the coMpany. 7%e Beg Publishing Company, Proprictirs. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. e ey Notice to Agents and Subscribers, 1n order to successtully rectity any fanlt in the delivery of papers, it is absolutely neces- sary that we know the date on which papers were late or missing. 1f late, give the time and train on which i Bxe should have reached your town, Also state from what direction, so that we can locate the troubls and apply the proper remedy. Papers aro frequently carrled . by a town through the carelessncss of the route ngents, ana when this occnrs, we can, with full Information, place the blame where it belougs. We will consider it a favor if agents and suo- scribers will notify us at once when Tk Beg 1is to reach them promptly. © THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement ot Oirey Btate of Nebraska, County of Dou Georjeo I3, 7 -1 3 833 tion. wecretary of Tho Ree Pub- « tshingConina n s solomnly swear that the ctusl circulation of Tk DAILY [ikr for the week ending April 27, 1859, was as follows; funday, April 21 L1885 Monday, April 2 PSS T Tuesday, April 23 | ieian 18,008 Wednesday, April 24 K,0669 Thureday, April2s ... L IK6T Friday. Aprii 26 . o L8008 Baturday, April 27 Average..... GEORGE . T2 CK. Bworn to hefore me and subscribed to in my presence this 2ith day of April. A, D. 1880, Seal. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. State of Nebrasks, | County of Dowrlas, (8 George B. 'Tzschuck, being duly sworn, de. 0ses and says that he 18 secretary of the Bee Publishing company, that the actual averago i daily clrculation of DALY kg for the month of April, 185, 18,744 copies: for May, 1888, 15,183 copies: for June, 188 10,243 copie: July, 1888, 18,053 ceples: ‘for Augiist, 153, 18,183 coples; for ‘September, 1888, 18,154 coples; for October, 1888, 15,084 copies; for November, 1858, 18,08 copies; for December, 1888, 14223 copies for Junuary, 1589, 18574 cobes:'tor February, 1689, 18,68 coples; for March, 180, 18,654 copies, GEORG I I, 128 Sworn to betore me and subscribed in presence thix 16th day of A pril, A, D., 1% N. P. FEIL, Notary OMAHA owns Deadwood; the keys of that city were turned over to the board of trade. MusHROOM would be a characteristic name for a town in Oklahoma. Tt could grow up and disappear in a single night. THOSE must be exceptionally fine re- taining walls on which the board of edu- cation proposes to spend twenty-four thousand dollars. THERE are blooming prospects for May. The new park commissioners will be named and the new plans for the city hall are to be submitted. FANNING AND SLAV are reported to have sweptone million, nine hundred square yards of paved streets in Apeil, and the month not ye pired. WHEN the board of education enters the real estate market as buyers of school house sites they cannot be ac- cuscd of any desire to depress the price of realty. 8 It would appear from the report of the condition of winter grain just issued by the department of agriculture, that wheat west of the Mississippi is some- what delayed by the dry weather. Later returns, however, are more favor- able, The plunt shows a good stand, nnd with necessary rains a marked im- provement will be at once noticeable. Tue overwhelming majority of forty- five thousand votes by which the pro- hibitory amendment was defeated in Massachusetts warrants the belief that prohibition will not cut much of a fig- ure in the politics of that state for some years to come. Had the vote been close, the fall election in Massachusetts would in all probability be seriously af- fected by this rankling thorn. UNITED STATES MARSHAL NEEDLES, of Oklahoma, is accused of having run his friends into the new tecritory in order to pre-empt claims ahead of the crowd. This isa piece of sharp work which the interior department is now investigating. ‘Tom Necdles comos from Illinois, and it is quite evident that his state has nothing to be proud record of in his homa. a5 mashal of Okla- THE state of lowa, through its attor- ney-general, has come forward to defend the settlers on the Des Moines river lands on the ground that the original claimants never compliod with the con- ditions of the act making them the grant, This brings the right of owner- ship o a foous, and Attorney-General Miller, of the United Stites, will be the bettor able to vrevent the eviction of settlers from their homes until the su- preme court pusses judgment upon the question at issuc, ADVICES regurding the crop condi- tions in Nebraska are favorable, There has been enough rain to keep the ground moist for the present, and the farmers, who have been busy plowing for coris, are expected to begin this weok putting i u lurge ucrcuge. The nowly sown oats are represented to have generally made o good stand. In northern JIowa the spring wheat and oats arve all up, the rains coming just when they were needed, Not much _corn planting has yet beon doue. e e——— Tie lower branch of the Hlinois log- {slature has by a large majovity passed a bill providing that alultevated or pompound lard shall carey o labol stat- ing specitically its character and compos sition, and preseribing a ponalty for the violation of this provision. Doubtless this bill will become a law, in which event it can be regarded as an impoct- ant victory for the pure lard movement, Ckicago heing a leading center for the manufacture of the compound article. T'he actions of foreign governments in this matter would seem to ve having its lulluenne, r AN IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION. The special senate committoe on our commercial relations with Canada, which is to be in Omaha at an early day, will entor upon its investigations in New York City next Wednesday. The vesolution providing for this com- mittee directs it to inquire whether commerce originating i the United States is diverted from American to Canadian lines, and if so, to what ox- tent and by what means. It is also to inquire fully into the question of tho regulation of the com- merce carcied on by railvonds or water routes botween * the United States and Canada, and to represent what legislation, if any, is necessary for the protection of the commercial interosts of the United States, or to promote the enforcement of the act to regulate commerce. The great importance of this investi- gation and its possible results will be appavent to the railrond and shipping interests of the country, which may not be found in sympathy in the event of attempted legislation imposing such restrictions upon Canadian railvoads as would practically shut them out from all competition with American lines. Mean- time there has been promuigated by by the inter-state commerce coramission a decision that the law under which the commission acts extends to foreign car- riers from or into the United States, so far as to require them to conform to the same regulations that govern domestic carrievs, while the authovities of the treasury department are said to be con- sidering the advisability of imposing customs duties on railroad cars crossing the border from Canada, and of revis- ing the reguiations under which Cana- dian lines enjoy privileges of tran porting merchandise in bond. he position of the inter-state commission regarding the transportation of trafiic between the United States and Canada is thus stated in the decision in the rand Trunk case: Whenever the carriage originates in the United States and goes to a destination in an adjacent foreign country, or comes from a port of entry or other place in an adjacent foreign country to a destination at a place in the United States, it is intended to be sub- ject to the provisions of the act. Its origin in the one case and its destination in the other within the jurisdiction of the United States give authority to the government to pre- seribe such conditions for the conduct of the business as it may deem just. The carriage is of property produced in or destined to the territorial sovereiguty of the United States, and the business is in competition with do- mostic carriers. The government has the right, and owes it to its own citizens, to say that foreign competitors in the busi- ness shall be governed by the same rulesof justice'and fair dealing that apply to domestic carriers, This is not, as argued by counsel, an attempt to regulate the internal affairs or to antagonize the laws of another country, but, on the coutrary, is the assertion of proper control over our own business, and the protection of our own citizens against unfair practices which unjustly affect their interests, The object is thatthe foreign transportation agencies that find it profitabie to seck business within our jurisdiction shall not abuse their privilezes to the injury of the carriers whose legitimate territory they penetrate. It is expected that in return for the hospitality of enterivg our domain for business purposes, enjoying the protection of our laws, muintaining agoncies, soliciting business, making contracts, receiving and discharging freight, and participating gene: erally in the operations of commerce, they will observe in good faith the rules of com- mercial houesty that the law has prescribed inthe public interests as expedient for the regulation of business. Hevein it is distinctly and explicitly announced that the Canadian railvoads cannot have immunity, on the plea that they are aliens, from the law regulat- ing American roads, and it isa very considerable step toward cutting off the -8 dumag Canadian competition, of which American railroad managers complain, not without substantial ground, as the evidence in the Grand Trank case disclosed. But how much favther it may be wisc or expedient to go in the divection of excluding this mpetition is a question in which American shippers are concerned, and it will be ono of the duties of the senate committece to tain the sentiment of the busi- ness communitics most directly con- cerned. It is appurent that this matter has assumed very g t importance, making ademand upon the thoughtful counsideration of the business interests of the country generally. We might inaugurate a policy that would seriously damage Cunadian raiivonds to the ma- terial benefit of our own, but with what consequence to American shippers of every class? It isa new complication in tne railvoad situation thut may prove quite as perplexing asany that have preceded it. T1E BERLIN CONFERENCE. The American commissioners to the Berlin conference arve at their post, and as was to have been expected, they were received with the courtesy and consideration due the representatives of this government. It was app hended that Bismarck might manifest some unfriendliness toward Mr. Bates, by reason of the article of the latter re- gurding Samoan affairs published after his appointment, though written long before, when he could have had no ex- pectation of being selected as one of the commissioners; but it ap- pears that the German chancello was quite as cordial to Mr, Bates as to the other commissioners, nccopting his explenation of the circumstances under which the article wus published in ap- wently the most friendly spirit. Count Herbert Bismarck, also, was notably cordial, and, in short, the ve- ception of the American commissioners was altogether kindly and reassuring, Inaddition to this the advices ar that Bismarck expressed nfidence that the conference would be harmoni- ous, that he had decided to abandon any claim of indemuity ngainst the United States by rewson of the alleged conduct of Kleiu, the corrospondent, and that there was a quite general fecling that the conference would speedily reach a result satisfactory to all concerued, This would be gratifying if there were no doubt of the sincerity of the pro- fessed desire of the German govern- ment to deal io this matter in a fair and straightforward way, or if there were uot a woll-grounded suspicion of a cut-und-dried programme bes tween Gormany and Engiand in consideration of which the latter has alrcady received a valuable con- cession, and which must nec sarily be inimical to the United States. We have heretofore referred to the visit of Count Bismarck to England, his con- ference with Salisbury, and his reported expression on his return homo of com- plete satisfaction with the result of his mission. It was merely a conjecture that Germany agreed to pay, as the price of England’s support of her Samoan plans, a desirable colony on the const of Africa, but whether this surmise was correct or pot there is every reason to believe thatan arrangement was effected binding England tosustain in the Berlin conference the demands of Germany regarding Samoa. The dispatches say there is occasion to believe t Eng- land supports the principle of German demands, and wo venture to predict that this will be founda to be about all England’s ropresentatives in the con- ference will do. The probability is that they will not have a single proposal to male on their own account, their utility being simply in standing with the Ger- man representatives against any pro- position coming from the American side vot approved by the German govern- ment. If this shall prove to be the case the chances are groat that the confer- ence will be a failure. he veported instructions to the American commissioners are of a char- acter that will require decided conces- sions from the German government, some of which there is every reason to beliove it will decline to make. Yet they are of so remnsonable and just a nature that our government will not be likely to recede from them. A pro- longed controversy therefore not im- probable. The conference will open, it is understood, to-day, and its progress will be regarded with widespread in- terest. OFFICIAL reports from Secretary Rusk verify the facts that losses of cat- tle from disease, exposure and all cuuses during the year 1888 were very light. A mild winter and generally sufficient forage material lowered the usual death rate. For 1887 the losses wore above the average. For 1888 the losses were at their minimum for a series of years. Itis a matter for con- gratulation that the present returns make the aggregate loss, in spite of the increased number of cattle, at less than one and a quarter million head against nearly one aud a half million. Singu- larly, the loss both by percentage and actual numbers was largest in the South, For Colorado there was a loss of thrce per cent, Wyoming two and seven-tenths per cent, Dakota two per cent, Montana two and five-tenths per cent and Towa one and six-tenths per cent. Of Nebraska’s one million six hundred thousand cattle, aloss of thirty- five thousand, or about two and two- tenths per cent, is reported,which is less than fhe average for the statesand terri- tories. The prospects, therefore, are most promising this season for the cat- tle industry all over the country. THE appointment of Paul Vander- voort to be superintendent of mails at Omaha has elicited, as might have been expected, a good deal of unfavorable commeut. The Zimes and the Evening Post, of New York, have sharply criti- cized the action of the presiaent and postmaster-general, referriig to the bad record of Vandervoort as totally disqualifying him for any public po- sition. The fault with the papers is that they do not lay the blame on the vight shoulders. 1t is not at all proba- bie that the president knew anything about Vandervoort, or even heard of him, and very likely the postmaster- general, if he had anything directly to do with the appointment, did not seei information beyond those who urged it. The fautt is with the Nebraska delega- tion in congress which endorsed the candidacy of Vandervoort and labored to hoist him on the public service. Tt is certainly unfortunate that the state has thus been humiliated before the country, and it is just and necessary that the blame should be placed where it belongs. . Tne announcement of the death of President Barnard, of Columbia college, will be received with doeep re- gret in the educational world. For many years he was the head and front of the movement in'New York for the higher education of both men and women. It was due mainly to his ef- forts after years of opposition that Columbin college opened its doors to both sexes, and Baruard college, for the liberal education of women, is the last- ing monument to his memory. In his ofticial capacity as president of Colum- bia college, Prof. Barnurd brought that institution to a high degree of excel- lence in all departments, It was only last year that he retived at the age of sovonty-nine from the presidency of Columbia, but to his last moments he was active in fostering her best in- terest WE PREFER not to discuss the new million-dollar depot project with its vinduet attachment until the railroad companies have formally laid the proposition before the city authoritie Omaha wants better depot facilities, 1d should have long since been re- lieved from the danger of the Tenth street crossing. But we want some- thing mo than a grand depot building with accessible approaches, ‘We want ali the railroads that termin- ate across the river to run in and out of that depot without hindrance, and unless such an arrangement is included in the programme of the railroud com- punics, we would not vote a dollar to any depot, even if it was to be built of Mexican onyx and lined with ebony. —_— WiniLe New York City has made ex- tensive preparations for the proper cele- bration of the Washington centennial to-morrow, the merchants, both whole- sile and retail, huve kopt their eyes open for the main chance. A great crowd is expected, and undoubtedly the fond hopes of the metropolis will be realized. For, if the truth must be tuld, New York City proposes to make her visitors puy well for their entertain- went, Tue United States is doing its share of the world’s trade as told by the re- turns from the burean of statistics. There has been an increase both in our export and import trade for the period covered by the lnst nine months of 1888 and the first three months of the present yoar as compared with the correspond- g time of 1887-8, As the gain has been mostly made in the first quarter of 1889, it is reasonable to infor that our foreign trade will assume large propor- tions during the next few months. — THE veople of British Columbia, smarting under the burdens of the Canadian Pacific monopoly, are said to have formed western transcontinental railrond company, with a capital of fifty millions. Horo is a projoct of suf- ficient magnitude to eclipse anything done in the United States, in the way of railroad building, for some time. It is quite evident the Britishers have taken a lesson or two from American specu- lators, and are going them one bettor. Avoiding the RRush, St. Paul Pioneer-Press. It appears that everybody went to Okla- homa early to avoid therush, This accounts for the rush. ——— Russian Fashion Note. Washington Post. The czar has returned to St. Petersburg and changed his suitof boiler-iron for a light spring suit of cast-steel. What An Od 1 Place to Live, Chicago Times. The only living direct offspring of George Washington is in Chicago. Let New Yori remember this and quit putting on so many airs, L e A Mysterv Explained San Francisco Eraminer. Salem, Ore., is excited over the conduct of a clergyman who refuses to eat. Perhaps he has been accustomed to the saiaries of rural parishes so long that he has forgotten what eating is for, - Our Naval Appropriations. Chicago Herald, No arrangements have been made for a dis- play of the naval appropriations of the last twenty-five years in the New York naval pa- rade, but it is understood that it will be a big affair, nevertheless. AT MEN. Jay Gould is reported not nearly so well or s0 strong as he was a mouth ago, and a doctor is visiting his house twice a da) M. Coquelin since his return to Paris bhas been outspoken in his admiration of the ap- preciation of humor shown by Americans. The Chinese mnister at Washington has a great admiration for American women. He says they are the most beautiful in the world. ieneral Clinton B, Fisk emphatically de- nies the rumor that he intends to leave the prohibitionists | and join the republivan party. | James Redpath has all atong claimed to be an Irishman, but somebody hunted up his genealogy a few days ago and nailed him to the broadside of a Welsh cabi. The czar of Russia has issued an edict forbidding members of his family to con- tract morganatic marriages, Hereafter they must take their matrimouy straight. Samuel J. Randall used to have one of the plumpest figures in congress, but since his illness his Prince Albert coat fiangs limp and loose about his attenuated frame, President Harrison will decline all invita- tions extended to him in New York e xcept those relating to the ofticial celebration of the centennial of Washington’s inaugura- tion. Rev. Dr. Bray, of St. Louis, who has just left the episcopal mimstry owing to a severe attack of uubelief, possesses a name which which might be used to his disadvantage if his opponents wished to descend to vulgar personalities, Mr. William L. Bright is thinking of re- tiring from Parliament to devote himself to business, in which he is enormously successful. He is the only oue of John Bright's sons who inherits his father's rare sense of humor. Goldwin Smith says it is absurd for any one to think that John Bright spoke extem- pore. He has stood close to him when speal- ing, and seen his notes, written on little slips of paper, in his hand. No matter how sym- pathetic he knew his audience to be, he told Mr. Smith that he never arose to make an address that his knees did not tremble under him. Mr. Smith says that he never heard the Bible read so impressively as he heard it read by Bright in his own houschold. Secretary Blaine's present attack of lum- bago is the fivst he has had to endure since heleft Europe. Before he left this country he suffered a great deal from rheumatism in the back, but he has been free from that af- fliction for a great many months. Thero is only one mode of treatment which gives him relief. He goes to bed, perspires frecly, drinks hot gin and sleeps as much as possi- ble. It generaily takes him about two days to fully recover when the attack has been a sharp one. Russel Sage is acquiring habits of thrift which, if persevered in, will yet make him a rich man. On the plea that his own house would be fully occupied by friends whom he had invited to witness the passage of the centennial procession, he secured an invita- tion from Jay Gould to make humself and family at home in his house. Then the guile- less tussell proceeded to turn an honest and much-needed penny by renting out his own windows for $1,200. There are no flies on Mr. Sage. T wAs D STATE JOTTINGS, Kearncy threatons to blossom with a ot~ ton mill, Custer county will put §16,000 in a court house, o be erected at Broken Bow. Having sugared the right of way of a new railroad, Norfolk is now moving for a union depot. The canal craze has struck Minden, Broken Bow und Republican City are simi- larly afilicted. A count of the school children of Fremont indicates @ population of 10,000, without en- thusiasm, Hassett holds down the county seat of KRock county by a majority of thirty-one votes, according to the revised count. Central City boasts of haying just com- ploted the best bridge spauning the Platte river. It is 4,483% feet long and cost §i1,- 858,15, Postoflice elections are becoming fashion- able in Nebraska towns. The man with the largest number of votes does not always knock the postsiwmon, ‘The watch regulation scheme will be inau- gurated on the Burlington on the 1st. Every train man must arm bimself with & full-jow- eled, split second patent regulator, adjusted 0 heat and cold. Hastings has secured an elaborate system of sewers on paper. A cheerful feature of the pictorial display is the assurance that 200,000 will put the system in practical operation. ‘The Plattsmouth Journal is convinced that the germs of a great manufacturing town are lying around loose in that vicinity, await- ing the vroper effort 1o spring into Lfe. Eut the effort—there's the rub, Dave Crinklan, the tin horn sport, who hastily hustled Frank Frencher into ete nity, at Hastings, last Novewber, and after- wards jumped bis bond, is now enjoying the freedom of & 6x10 in the Adams county jail Graod Island has sent a committee to Hos- ton 1o advise with President Adams regard- ing the force to be employed in the shops in that city. Messrs, Rief, Gedder and McAl- lister will exercise their persuasive powers. The Louisville Advertiser is the latest hustler for public favor in Cass county. 1f acolumn of eloquent intentions pave the way to success, the Advertiser will get thero with both pedals, John Born, of Niobrara, plunged into the thick of a dog fight and whaled the animals with the butt of a londed gun. Mr. Bern is now resting on the hillside, while the purps howl a requiem from the roadside. Two unshackled cranks rebelled against fnil fare in Beatrice and bid a silent farewoll 10 their keepers. The officials had become 80 attached to them that_they pursued and overtook the truants and induced them to tarry vet awhile. The town boys of Rulo are roundea up once a week and relioved of their artillery by the authorities. Tn addition, vhe calibre of the fine is guaged by tho size of tho cap- tured gun, Thoe result is that none but the Delles of the town can safely bare arms. Fremont has invested $5,000 in a city hall site, 132x66, on the corner of F' and Fourth streets. 1f the town council displays as much energy as the aldermen of Omahu, the prettiost will have a city building beforo the ninoteenth century becomes a chapter in hisvory. Adams county will vote to-morrow on the auestion of 1ssuing $75,000 1 bonds for a county court house. Hastings is unani- mously in favor of it, whilo Junata and other towns are opposed, for mo other reason, apparently, than that Hastings will be the chief beneficiary. The wise dads of Falis City have neatly jugeled the suloon license. The regular licenso was reduced from $i50 to $500 and the occupation tax raised from §350 to $500, This divides tho receipts between the school fund and the city treasury, and materially helps to pay for waterworks on the side. A somewhat rude but impulsive embrace is wagging the gossips of Ashland. While crossing Salt creck bridge one day last woek, a lady, accompanied by her duughter, was seized’ by a rufian and hugged with the ardor of a lover. The embrace lasted but a moment. The ruffian left with a weird laugh, exclaiming, “O, ain’t that good.” The retiring license board of Ord, having been ousted by the antis, closed the ofticial record with the following: **Whereas, our successors in_office are desirous of raising a good crop of hay in the principal streets during the year beginning May 1, all parties are hereby warned to keep off the wrass under penalty of bemng stabbed with & meat ax." The Nevraska Central railroad scheme gives evidence of new life. A meeting of the dircctors was held in Oakland last week, and a letter read from the London syndicate which proposes to iuvest in the enterpriso. The directors decided to look uv the financial status of the syndicate, and requested that a representative be sent out to look over the ground, Meanwhile the railroad will sleep on. Perkins county is struggling vainly to dis cover the section corners planted there by government surveyors, The cheap mounds of earth substituted for stones have been washed away by the flood of time, and noth- ing now remains to prove that the work had ever been done but the large and voluptuous bills which the government paid, The county surveyor has gone to Lincoln to search the records for field notes, There was a lively and affectionate neigh- borly shinaig in Valparaiso last Monday night. While flying feet chused each other through cotillions and dreamy waltzes, J. MecFarland found time to insert his knife in the ribs of S. Gustofsen, and cut a wide, crimson gash under his left eye. Gustofsen kalloped cheerily after Mc with a gun, but did not get a chance to ventilate his carcass. Joy continued uncontined until the silvery streaks of dawn fretted the eastern hills. Gum chewing is the prevailing mania in Albion. The disgusting habit has become so general that parents and preachers inveigh against it, but to no effect. During services in church last Sunday, the dominice deli- cately insinuated that ' the congregation looked like a corral of munching tile, so industriously did the jaws wag. While the preacher was rounding au eloquent perora- tion on tho beauties of the echoless shore, a mighty yell vent the rafiers. It came from the puralyzed jaw of a Mr. Cato, who was suddenly smitten with lead colic, caused by chewing adulterated gum. Cato was taken home and the congregation dismissel. Next day a ton of sccond-hand gum was plucked from the pews and dumped into the raging Seaver. e WASHINGTON INAUGURATION. Subject of the Kev. Wihilard Scott's Sermon Last Night. Rev. Willard Scott delivered a sermon Jast night at the St. Mary's avenue Congre- gational church on the inauguration of CGeorge Washington as presidest of the United States a century ago. “The congregation that neard the discourse was a large one. “By the proclamation of President Harri- son,” commenced the reverend gentleman, “woareabout to observe this week, two days hence—the centenmial of that day when, by the inauguration of George Washington as the first president of oiir country under the covstitution of the United States, we began to be a nation. Until then we had been only colonics. Surprising as it may seem upou recollection, every step which had been taken by the American people previous the particu- lar events to which this day recalls us had been taken ot as u united people in a com- mon government, but rather a people united ' by pressures from without — the Dutch, the Indiuns, French and British still remaining as indi- viduals in their governments wien they were established on the James river, Muassi chusetts bay, New York hurbor, Charleston and Savannuh, with leagues of miles of un. known woods and marshes between. In- deed, after most of them had been 150 years on she ground they had nover been truly confederated. For all that long period —longer than the century we now col brate—they had remained separate and peculiar, letting alone for the most part and being let alone They liked themselves and disliked others, “Now England was England, and Puritan Pennsylvania and Delzware were Quaker and Luthcran, Virginia and the Curolinas were mixed in population, and their relirion was that of Bugland in form, though free from iis burdens. New Euglind lived under acharter, while Pennsylvania, Virginia and the south lived under the rule of the best S—1und-0Wners and propriclors—an aris tocracy to which the making of a democracy of New England was distasteful. The quaker would ot fight at all, The southern aristo- crat loved his ease and acres and was littlo clined to war., “Pho wonder of to-day is that Washington was inaugurated on April 50 and not on Mirch 4, the day appointed by congress, The reason was thut congress did not have @& quorum present in cither house, On March 4 cannons were fired, bells rung and then came togetner twent, ne out of about seventy legislators, “These remained four weeks to sccure . quo- rum. This was caused by the distance to bo voled, a weneral lethurgy and their lazy methods of doing businsss.” Rev. Mr. Scott dwelt at length on the con. federate relations, hostilities of the Indians and I'rench, thoir' wars, the stawp act of 1703, levying certain duties on the colonics, and its repeal within a year; congress | cowing an executive body, not by right, but by 1 raising an army and electing a ge Washington; his fight ana victory, and the reading of the declaration of dependence on July 4, 1776, - Iev. James Patterse Rev. James Patterson, secrotary to Bishop Worthimgton, died at his home, 912 South Twelfth street, last night. ~ His ailment was kidney discase. Mr. Patterson was sixty three years of age. Death o - MOVING ON THE The Georgites Resolve to Convert the Congregational Parson: The Omaha Single Tax club held its weekly meecting in Gate City hall yesterday af- ternoon, After an address by Mr. ( Hecket, the club, as is their custom, one of their number to answer The disciples do not by any all of the side issues and matters of det and the battle raged fast and furious for hour or so. As Henry Goorge has bees courtesies by the leading uunisters of London lately, the solved to see what could be dons element in Owaba, and & comum pointed o cail upor the preachurs of suasion in the city. MINIST ns, hoose questions. means agree on club has re- with that Wis i IRELAND AND HOME RULE. James Redpath Tersely Tells of His Visit to the Greon Isle. HARMONY AND UNITY PREVAIL. The Feople Less Enthusiastio But Stronger and Moro Detormined— Victory In Sight—Cheors Are Uscles But Dollars Count. An Interesting Intorview. Friends of the Irish struggle for home rule remember with pleasure and gratitute the splendid service of Mr. James Redpath in ex- posing Irish landlordism five years ago and familiarizing the Amorican people with the evils which underlie Enghsh rule in Ireland. He has just retuined from another tour of that country, and gives the results of hus in- vestigations in the following interview with a New York Press reporter: ““Have you any objection to being inter- viewed?" James Redpath—Well, as I have been doing little else than “interviewing” for the last two months, and never was refused, it would be rather ungracious for me to de- cline a similar invitation. I suppose a dentist ought to submit once m a while to having his own teoth putled. Go ahead. Reporter—Well, while you reported what the Irish leaders thought or said, you have never given your own opinions, excepting by way of inference or indorsement. I want to ask you preciscly the same question that you asked John Dillon, AN ANECDOTE AND ITS APPLICATION. James Redpath-~The reason I withheld my own views was tuat I was every day re- minded of an anecdote told about the Duke of Wollington, Some one related an improba- ble story in his presence, and be remarkoed: “Well, if you saw it, that ends discussion: we must believe 1t; but I am bound to say that if 1 had seen it T would not have be- lieved it.” If any of my Ivish fricnds, jus returned from an Irish tour, had reported to me, before I left New York, the actual facts about Ireland as I found them, I would not have believed then 1 should have thought that his sympathy with Parnell’s policy had caused him to exaggerate. So, in order that the Irish in America might truly understand the changed conditions, and fall into line once more with the “men in the gap,”’ I pro- ferred to call unimpeachable native wit- nesses—men foremost i the fight and known by all to be in Parnell's confidence and coun- cils-—before I gave my own impressions or opinions, Before I had interviewed all the men whom I haa selected for that purpose, the space 1had contracted for was exhausted, and I add not know whether the Press would care for more. But 1 will give you all the matter you want—from a stickful to a hun- ared columps—anda be glad of such a chance to help rally the siragglers from the Irish movement over her and urge them to take a hand in the last round—to be *Yin at the denth” of tory tyranny in Ireland. Go on. Reporter—How is Old Ireland, and how does she stand ! Are the people as upited as they were on your previous visit in 1850, in the early days of the land league! James Redpath—The Irish to-day are less enthusiastic, perbaps—less sunbursty—than they were in 1830 but they are as detor- ulined us then and vastly more hopoful. It you are old enough to remember the fealing of the north for a few weeks after Fort Sumter was fired ou-—the boyish enthusiasm for “the flug,” the frothy denunciation of “the south,” the brageard boastings of put- ting down the rebellion in from thirty to ninety days, that ‘‘we uns" all indulged in, then you will have a parallel, on a big scale, of the ional sentiment and senti mentality of Irelund in 1550, To-day the situations corresponds more to the state of fecling in the north aiter Sherman tele- graphed to Lincoln thut he “sent howe as o Christmas present the citics of Augusta and Savannah.” \Ve had got ria of our patriotic foolishness, but were o moro dangerous foe than ever, because although we had learned to respect the warlike south, we yetsaw that the begining of the end of the war had come; that however stubbornly the confed- erates might sull contest the battle, our tri- umph was absoiutely sure and within sight, POPULAR TRISH AND ENGLISH POLITICIANS, Now the Irish, to-day, of all shades of nationalist opinion, firmly believe that Eng: land wiil yield home rule within three or four y at the furthest. Therefore—as the long prayed for boon is so near at hand, and as they can only get it 80 soon with tho aid of the English liberals— the old hatred of all England and of everything English has disappeared, and the traditional detestation of “'the Saxon'’ is now confined to the tories and the liberal unionists, Next to Parnell, no man living is more honored and trusted in Ircland than Gladstone. Next to him, the most popular English politician_is Earl Spencer, who, as Lord Lieutenant of Ircland only n few years ago, imprisoned and hanged more Irish patriots than any one of his prede. cessors for generations had ever thus pun - ished during a similur period. Gladstone, in his time, imprisoned during u single r, over twelve hundred Irish atriots, among tiem Parncll and Joln Dil- 1, not'one of whom had committed any uct which would have been 1minal offonse, if sen done in England. Even *Bueic- ster, who was detested in_ 1550, is rather k to-day. So is Tre velyan, who was hat when he wus in power, only a short time since, As compired with Balfour, Forster is now regarded as rather a decent rulor. The spoken of *“Buckshot" having been reason of the change of opinion regarding those men is that they have changed their policy and are, to-day, or were re itly, the advocates of home rule. They admitted that t had doue their best, o their worst, to suppress Irish aspirations for sclf government by force, but they declared that it was imposst ble, and therefore they recommended homo rule. Like the schoolmaster in the comedy whio ordered his unruly pupils to*sit down," and when they refuse said: “Stang then; I'm bound to be oboyed.”” The I lish liberals are still in favor of order in land, So much for the spirit of nationai unity freland 1s united, hopeful and determined ENGLAND'S DESPOTIC KULE IN TRELAND. As for the government, it is wmore cruel and despotic than it was even under Povster, T3 Ire. "he presont_coercion bill practically abol ishes all civil law and establishes ‘martial luw, without the protection that the Hrofes sional pride und self respect of the t of throw over the legitimate enforce the martial law. Whoever the chiel seccretasy wants W throw into jail is imprisonod-—wita evidence or without. “Lriul by jury is eholished ery of the law s administ and “offeusive partisans,” Over four thousand p imprisoned since the i went into effect. More than half of 1 d by zuichin corrnpt ns hiave been thus sent eaorcion law lund is prociaimed Bhat is, the right of free press and of free specen s denicd in one-nalf of nd Over one-third of the Irish members of purliament have been imprisoned. Not one of them did any act that would be itlogal in Englaud to-day Men have been urrested and condemned to months of imprisonment with hard labor for pescefully atteading peaceful meetings; fo publishing, without noto or commoent,” the oAt . matler-of-fack and com e re ports of peaveful meat Lteporter—\Wiat excuse is given for such imprisonments James Redpath—That these were reports of branches 0f nutional lemgues that had been “proclaimed” us “suppressed,’” and that 2o publish the fuet that 1 y stiil existed were fiourishing tended Lo “xadition ™ More than that, newsdealers and 1 sboys have been imprisoned for merel selling papers that ! eontained such reports. sther Costello, at Bullinasloe, County 4y, ponted out Lo me u constible who happencd 1o be passing the skop in_which we were standing, aud sadd: ook ut that constable! e arr our people on the gharge of “inciting Lo riol and when be was askod 1o what the incite- ment cousisted, suil that *ho (the prisoaer) sted called for three cheers for Gludston hie defendant's counse! asked him if he thought thiat calling fur eheers for Gladst aad,? uuded Fatber Cost ‘:a,,i illegal act, with my own ears I heard him say he thought it was!" And ou that evidence the maun wi Jail with hard labor. sent to CION WORKS Other mon h en similarly for calling for choers for Willinm O Brion, and still others for “boling'’ for Baifour. Blacksmitha bave boen sentenced as crimin: als for rofusing to shoe horses for unpopular noighbors, evon although the prosscitors wore not’ regular customers; shopkeepors havo been condemnod to jml and piank bee for refusing to sell goods to police 8pics, and even young girls have boen consigned 1o jai for cheering or waving handkerschiefs o) shawls in honor of popular leaders ! Yet the National league in Dublin holds ity meetings rogularly and openly, and_denunci ations of the gavernment are notonly spoker but fully roported and published in the daily sentonced pay: with impunity, There is no estab lished rule even in custlo dospotism; just as the whims or tho oaprice of the secretary dictatos froo speoch and free press are tolor atod or thoy aro suppressed —tolerated in one district and suppressed in others. A hopeful sign is that the most enforcoment of this law has not cowed the poople, but it has stimuly tyrannioa only nc od their spirit; in fact, it seomod to me that 1 was the witnesss moro than once of open viola tions of tho Castle rule suppressing free speech that were deliberately intended te dare the secratary to arrest tho speaker, It helps @ public man in Ireland to have been 1n Jail for tho sake of Ireland, and prison lifo has rather a charm than & terror for every ono who dosires to be conspicuons in tho national contost. Women and girls aro us deflunt as the men aud boys In this rospect tho Irish to.day are far more courageous and even more reckloss thun they were ten years ago. Coercion hus absolutely no terrors for any one Donegal is ontirely under military rule, Every cabin m Gwoedore has boen scarched by the soldiers. A cordon of soidiers bout the entire parish with locked hands, as ef fectually_as hunters beat the covers for game. Not one informer appeared! All this would bo discouraging—all excopt the gallant spiris of the pooplo 1 mean—if thero were not a thousand proofs to ve seen on every band of the fact that this is probably the Tast round of the long fight between the tle and the cabin, and that, althongh Ire- land may be pretty bad!y “punished” by th Saxon Sullivan, John Bull, yet he will throw up the sponge, and forever. HARMONY AMONG IRISI LEADERS, Reporter—Are tho Irish leaders us in real concord as in 18501 Jumos Redpath—More so. 1 was thor oughly convinced, and I took especial pains to find out; and us I know very intimately so maiy of tho leaders, I should have discov cred the real state of the case, no wmatter what attempts might have been mado to con ceal the truth. Yes, thero is more “real union among the leaders now than there was in 1850, ‘Then, although John Mitchell's body lay smolderivg in his grave, his soul still fuspired tho masses of the' peoplo- spirit of irreconcilable antagonism to Bng lund and to all attewnts to try to get justice much from the Enelish purlament. Parncll hin self was not distrusted, but there wero mauy good men—true patriots—who dis trusted Parnellism. They were simply willing to give it and all parhamentary poli- cios a last trial. Although they did not pry claim their doubts of Parnell's policy, 1 know that many of them foit doubtful of its success, Now, oxcopting an Irish bourbon hero and there, every intelligent man talks us if confident that not only is Parnell to ba trusted, but that Parnellism will be suc- cessful. Gladstoue and Parnell have taken the place that ton years since was held by John Mitchell's spirit. But John Mitchell’s fierco ghost is aid ut rest at last. No man attempts to rival Parnell, He stands absolutely pre-cminent and alone. Ho shares his pedestal with no man. The po ularity of other men—0'Brien, for example does not. endanger Parnell's ' popularity or diminish it—rather, it increases it, 1850 CONTRASTED WITHT 1859, Another hopeful fact of to-day is that the snme men who were patriotic leaders in 157) S0are abler men and better leaders tnun they were then, They have grown. S who wero comparatively obscure then COnSPICUOUs NoW. Still another peril of the future then has been removed during tue past ten years. 11 ot are Mr. Parnell had died in 1580 the Irish party would either have gone to vieces or have been badly demoralized. There was uo ono then who hud the necu joyed enougn of the have taken his place, When Daniel O'Connell died his party dis- appearcd forever. 11 Parncll was to die now it would be a groat national calamity, buttho party would still have able, unselfish and competent leaders—men whom the people would trust and follow, and who would save the moicment from éven temporary disin tegration, If Gladstone should die,John Morloy would be almost us satisfactory to the Irish. Ho would be trusted us much; and from all [ could learn, he would hold together the English party, also, until home rule was es- tablished. However, although Mr. Parnell, a few months ago was very seriously sicl, much worse off ' than was ‘goncrally thought, he is now in good health, and there is no_reason to fear that the Irish movement will nced any othor leader until an Irish parliament meets at College Green. PARNELL'S PROUD DISTINCTION, Reporter—Is Parncll as popular and as much trusted as he was in 1830, in spite of the Times' charges ! Jumes Redpath—More _ so. trusts and respects him. o 1 met was ever influencod, even for a mo ment, by the Times' charges. If Parnell had ceven secretly believed that w little touch of terrorism would have helped tho Irish move- ment the history of the pest ten yoars would have been clotted with English oficial blood. But Parncll kuows that assassination in politics is “worse than a erime—it i3 a blun der,” and _oven if it were neither, as in Russia, it is for Ireland an impossible pol- icy. There! ‘I'he Let me sum up “The Irish are sed, with _every hope of speedy victory, in their last political struggle with iSngland s an_enemy. Their English ullies are steon s, determined, aud to all ap pear perfectly honest in their ox or of Tricndship, buv if thoy shoul prove recreant, which I don’t fear, “then all nopo of a veaceful solution of the Trish Gues tion will disappear, never to come back into Irish politics, leaving ouly u_lust resort to unpitying terrorism as a romedy. But 1 be: 11 and Gladstons will be sus \dScoteh coustitu will bo an Irish parlia- ment in Dublin within three or four yoars, Parnell and his policy enjoy the confidence of the Irish poople, aud those who beliove in howo rule for Irclund should sustain him iberally until ut loast tho ext. Taglish olec fon. And let me add that praising Parnel) doesn't help treland; passing resolutions of sympathy doesu't help Troland ; cheering the Irish patriots doesn’t help Iroland. Ireland can be helped now by her American friends in 000 way only ~by dollar Pass around the hat once more; for the Jast time. 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