Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 21, 1889, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:|SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21. 1889, THI«. DAILY BEE. B ROSEWATER, Rditor. PUDLISHED BEVERY MORNING TRRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daity and Sunday, One Year. Six Monthe Thres Months, Bunday lice, One Year Weekly Bee, One Year wit OFFICRS. Omann, Bee Bullding. Chicago Office, f47 Rookery Building New York, Hooms 14 and 15 Tribune ng. {Washmeton. No. 513 Foncteenth Streot. Conncil Blufts, No. 12 Pear] Street. Lincoin, 1020 P Steeet, Bouth Omaha, Corner N and 2th Streets. Bulld- CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and edi- torial matter stiould be addressed to the Editor- 1al Department. BUE All Unsiness 1 romittances should be addressed to Pubiishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoflice orders {6 be made payabls to the order of the company, The Bee Publishing Cor “flfl\lY, PI‘UDI’IMUI‘S sxx: Bullding Farnam and Seventeenth Strests FH “I'ne Bee on the Trains. 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Eworn to before me and subscribed in my Dresetice thnE SN day of November, A I Fonl.] P. postoll war is over in on Salt ereek. Lincoln e roosts Tie and pes THE uru lnpns shnunl be liberally extended, and that promptly. Frame shells must be relegated to the suburbs. OVER two thousand bills have been introduced in congress since the session opened. Two-thirds of them will perish in the committee rooms. UNIT and energetic work is essen- tial to secure arailroad to the Jim river valley. Omaha must meet the people of South Dakota balf way. ONLY the brave deserve the fare. The street car company is brave. Five conts will carry o passenger from the fort to South Omaha, a distance of eight miles, IN view of Juror Culver’s weakness for biblical lore, it is a serious question whether the ends of justice were sub- served by excluding newspaper readers and accepting bible readers, THE collapse of the Western States Railway Passenger association will be followed by the demise of others equally useless. State and national regulation deprives these combines of vitality. They are kept up through force of habit. — W e the postoffice and state treasury at its command, and an oceasional rail- road contribution, the Burlington organ at the capital is enabled to make up the deficiency in circulation with public coin, Tik pretended organ of the local democracy, having induced MeShane ~to enter a fruitless contest in the courts, now confesses that Rush was elected. Truth will oceasionally pene- trate the dark and noisome abodes of bar’l organs. ——— ALL that is _necessary to secure fac- tories and elevators is to properly preseut the advantages of Omaha to capitalists, The real estate exchange is doing its part vigorously and sys- tematically, with favorable results. Let the good work go on. THE streot car service as a whole is all vight, It is the lack of judgment in the management that the people com- plaio of. During the morning, noon and evening hours the service is inade- quate and should be increased to accom- modate the public. Trains should be regulated according to the traffic. THE two last issues of THE SUNDAY Bek contained the first and second parts of a remarkable article by Mr, Gravt Allen, reproduced from the Fortnightly Review. The writer treated of a most interesting phase of the woman question, or the true sphere of woman, ‘I'HE BEE has received a half dozen letters from ladics who take issue with Mr. Allen upon the propositions advanced, which are highly interest- ing. In alaterissue it is proposed to print all these letters, with others that in the meantime may be receied. S—— GEORGE SMITH suggests that the eas- dest way out of the boundary muddle is for the legislatures of Iowa and Ne- braska “to extend to_each other the courtesy of giving or transferring police regulations over the territory of that part of the states that becomes dotached from the seats of justice by the shifting ot the Missouri river,” Asas meansof facilitating the administration of law, the suggestion is & good one. It possesses the merit of mutual concession for the general good, and would ' relieve the officials of both states of needless annoyance in deter- mining their jurisdiction, pending a definite settlement of the boundary question either by congress or the courts. The matter should be brought t0'the attention of the Jowa legislature &t its wession next month, INFLUENCING LEGISLATION. The statement made in the United States senate by Senator Chandler, re- garding & scheme to obtain contri- butions from officers of the navy to be used in promoting legislation for the reorganization and equalization of the pay of the personnel of the navy, was a disclosure likely to cause soma conster- nation in naval circles. Mr. Chandler's resolution in regard to the matter, which provides for an investigation, was passed with very slight opposition, and it may result in developments which will interest the whole country. It appears beyond question that there has been a thoroughly developed scheme to obtain from officers of the navy financial contributions to be em- ployed in influencing congressional legislation in their behalf, and it1s not to be doubted that some of them have responded with their money. The disclosure apparently made a stfong improssion upon some of the sen- s, and there were some very pointed vations deprecating attempts out- side of von gress to influence legislation. Mr. Halo remnrked that it was plainly atter of deep regrat and mortifica- t10n 10 know that public legislation and outside offorts 1 the direction of ac- complishing it weve being hawked about by attorneys in Washington. The Maine senator remarked that there ware a great many men in Washington living pretty well whose source of in- come was dc d from supposed influ- ence on legislation. Mr. Batler, while disposed to exonerate the navalofficers, ish that the effort to way lobbyists would be applied in other directions us well as to officers v and nav Mr. Cockrellde- d that the developments were a disgraco to the army and navy. The good to be hopad for from the in- vestigation of this matter and what it may disclose is such a movement for re- form with vespect to the lobby as will ultimately result in destroying that baneful influence upon legislation aud prolific source of corruption. It is some- times smd that the lobby as an i tion is not so powerful nor so gr evil now as it was some years it is probable this isso. For some yenrs following the war the operations of the Washington lobby were carried on with a boldness and a munificence of expen- diture not only unprecedented, but mot likely to be repeated nnless the untry shall again ex perience a like general nlcmm’ alization of the public conscience. But it is no palliation of the continued existenco of an eradicable evil that its mischievous power is somewhat diminished. The fact that there 1s a lobby, and thata senator of the United States is enabled tosay on the floor of the senate that there are a great many wen living well in the national capital whose income 1s derived from their supposed influence on legislation, is a reproach to congress and to the country, and the senator or representative who will inaugur movement that shall result in extirpat- ing the lobby and setting up adequate barriers to prevent its return can achieve lasting fame. clar an ago, and FARMERS' INDEBTEDNESS. It is probable that congress will make provisions for enabling the superintend- ent of the census to ascertain the amount of indebtedness of the farmers of the United States, as represented in mortgages. A bill has been introduced for this purpose, which also provides for ascertaining the percentage of farmers who are tenants. The value of such information, if thorough and trustworthy, will not be questioned. An approximately accurate statement of the number and amount of farm mortgages in the country might have an important bearing upon the de- termination of certain economic.ques- tions, and so large a part has this mat- ter of the indebtedness of farmers been wmade to play in the discussion of these questions that it is certainly most d sirable that the facts regarding it should be carefully gathered, and as uearly as possibie trust- worthy. As it is, demagogues are free to make any statement regarding the extent of. farmers’ in- debtedness, uccording to the interests they may wish to serve, and thus while one class greatly exaggerates, another goes quite as far from the trath in un- derestimating the amount. The effect in either case is injurious to the farmer, But there are obviously very great difficulties in the way of securing this information, and it is a serious question whether it can be obtained so fully and accurately as to be of much value. The efforts of the states which have under- taken the task—Illinois, Michigan, Ne- braska and some others—have had far from satisfactory results, and it is very doubtful whetMer the general govern- ment would be more successful in gathering this information. Neverthe- less it may be well to undertake the task, for the knowledge is certainly needed, and if first results should not be altogether satisfactory the experi- ence would be likely to suggest a way to render future investigation more suc- cessful, DEFIANT SEALERS. It is reparted from Ottawa, the capital of Canada, that the sealing fleet from British Columbia will be much larger next year than ever before. The past seast has been an exceptionally pro- fitable one, and the sealers are prepared to take their chandes. They do not an- ticipate that there will be any interfer- ence with their design to do this from either the British or Canadian govern- ments, and they assume that because only a fow seizures were made by the United States cruisers during the past season it is not the intention of this government to press them very hard pending a set- tlement of the question of jurisdiction over Behring sea. 1t is true that this govornment has been somewhat lenient, evidently desiring simply to warn in- truders upon the sealing grounds of the rick they wera taking, rather than to aggravate the controversy by wholesale arrests, but 1t may be necessary to change this policy if the reported plans of the British sealers are carvied into effect. The govern- ment cannot without virtually surren- dering the position it has taken, and doubtless will not, permit an unre- stricted invasion of the seal waters of Alaska, and if the defiant sealers un- dertake what it is said they propose, and are not prevented by the British or Canadian governments, it is not to be doubted that this government will sum- marily deal with them. Meantime it is possible that the ques- tion of jurisdiction in Behring soa may bo satisfactorily and permanontly set- tled. The British government is un- derstood to have beon pressing the mat. ter upon the attention of our govern- ment, and it is to be presumed that the disposition at Washington to reach a settlement is quite as earaest as that at London. Ifsuch is the case an agree- ment may bo effected bofore the next soaling season opens, which will obvi- ate any further controversy and settle for all time a question which ought to have been disposed of long ngo. OMAHA | been bowling along che past year through the impetus of in- ternal improvements—those made by citizens largely with home capital. he efforts of our business men are now being directed to the inducement of for- oign capital to investhere. This is the groat object to be sought. No legiti- mato boom can be had in any other way. The prospects for the coming two years in Omaha are brighter than ever be- fore. This fact is traveling far and wide, but the veasons for such a happy state of affairs are not known to any extent outsiae of a radius of three or four hundred miles. There nover was a time when the brillinnt prospects of Omah a could be shown to such good advantage, and millions of dollars of eastern capital could be induced to invest here simply by advertising this city. This work should be put into compatent and judic- ious hunds, and carvied on systematic- ally and persistently. Money thus in- vested would return handsome divi- dends. NOWHERE in this saction of the coun- tey can an advertising medium such as TiE SUNDAY BEE be found. The 1ssue of next Sunday will, if possible, be above the high standard of excellence attained by TiHe SUNDAY Brge, Issued just before Christmas, 1t will contain a limitless variety of original features veculiarly appropriate to Christ mas-tide. very page will attract and hold the attention of tho reader. The issue will bo a mag- zine of literary merit; a compendium of the best and choicest ntelligonce and information upon current topics, a com- vleto ne per, with the very latest and best dispatches from all quarters of the globe. In fact all of the standard nows and other departments of THE SUNDAY BEE will be full to repletion with wholesome, fresh and attractive reading. Look at it. FEW like incidents 1n the history of Omaha stirred public sympathy to a more dangerous pitch than the attempt of the man Miller to gain possession of hislittle daughter. Although the courts could not do otherwise than award him custody of the cnild, the stolid indiffer- ence of the man to her tears and plead- ings were well caleulated to prove that his efforts cloaked an ulterior purpose.’ Having neglocted hisoffspring for seven years, paying not the slightest attention to her welfare, it was natural that she loathed his presence and repelled his offorts to forcibly take her from her gencrous grandparents. Miller’s con- duct and character are not such as to inspire confidence that the child would receive the tender care from a heart- less parent and stepmother which en- deared her to Mr. and Mrs. Burrus. With the latter she is in safe and kindly hands, and she witl probably re- main with them despite Miller’s fran- tic appeals to the law. THE legislature of North Dakota has passed and the governor has approved the bill to enforce prohibition, be- ginning on the first of next July. The bill follows the lines of the Clark law in Towa and provides an endless assort- ment of pains and penalties for vendors of stimulants. The druggists, however, will be permitted to sell the cheering beverage for medicinal purposes. This wise provision is a safety valve for the epidemics which invariably follow pro- hibition. The vital statistics for the last halfl of the year will therefore pos- sess great value for specialists on con- sumption, —— Tue Utah commission-reports that thirty-five thousand dollars have been expended on the home for reclaimed Mormon women in Salt Lake City, but venture no opinion on the success of the institution, However worthy the motives animating the men and women in charge of the home, there is little doubt that failure awaits them. The prejudice of the - Mormons against everything witha government label 18 so great that the women of the church prefer death to becoming an object of charity at the hands of the prosecutors of their husbauds. Time serves to in- tensify their hatred. — CONGRESSMAN MILLS is trying to ef- fect a democratic combine against the /| bill reimbursing the victims of Silcott, Roger’s scheme will fail. The victim- ized democratic congressmen are not sufficiontly patriotic to manufacture party powder at their own expense. TrE opposition to the confirmation of Judge Brewer vanished when put to the test, Even the prohibition senators of Kansas voted for him, showing that while differing as to means they are & unit for Kansas men foroffice. —ee NEWS COMMENT. To the Thomas County Herald, greeting: Don't blow out the gas. Give generously and promptly to the suf- fering poor of Dakota, “Juror" Culver achieved a world-wide fame in hangiog the jury eud thus saving the conspirators from that operation. Since the verdict in the Cronin case a wild cry of jury reform has been rawsed, These cries come and go but the old jury method Koes on forever, Chicago is now trywng to convince herself that she has the genuine Russian influenza. The ambitious city by the lake don’t pro- pose to let New York beat her at anything. The new governmeat vt Brazil is in dan- ger of being **hoist with its own petard.” A wmutiny has broken out awong the soldiers in Rio de Janeita.and the republ are traveling onyq rpl‘,k)‘ road. With the goldag Jaads of hor rich ceroal overrunning tha, ceibs st country stations and lying in hoaps along all the tracks be- tween, the great coca bolt may be said to be in full dress thi¥ season, An archwologist has discovered that base ball originated amopy the American Indians. Before the game!bakame the pastime of the degenerate palefaco it was probably the custom to burn the umpire at the stake. An Ohio man rafifed Rye has a fancy for christening his daughters aftor the, states. It 18 safo to say there will never be any Miss Towa Rye if her papa ever tasted any of the original article. The Brotherhood league proboses 1o have two umpires for each game of ball 1 the futuro, This will materially enhance the facination of the national game for players, and spectators will now have tiice as much to kick at. Much pressure s being brought to bear upon Claus Spreckles to have him sell out his new sugar refinery 1n Philadelphia. A man worth $30,000,000 ought to be able to hold out against such influcnces, butivis thought hie will eventually sell. With the present magnificont crop of corn it is a shama that tho Nobraska farmor should bo compelled to rush it into market at prevailing low pricos. The elevator pro- joct of the Omaha board of trade is the koy to the situation and should be pushed for- ward as rapidly as possible. Editor Squires was foiled in his attempt to turn himself 10t0 a zas tank and thus se- cure an undue advautage over his “loath- somo rivals” in Thomas county. He has suflicient material in stock, however, to en- tertain his readers with exnlosive oditorials on the nutritious qualities of water gas dur- ing the dreary winter months, an officials ot et OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The rumpus stirred up by the Portuguese explorer in Africa, and which caused Eng- land to put on some war paint, turns out to have been an expedition in tho interest of military science. Tho strides of the Kuro- pean nations in armaments during the lust fiteen years naturally created a wild desire to test tho machinery of destruction on ani- mated targets, (ermany proclaimed peace; the Russian bear dared notslake his thirst in the Hellespont; france fumed and frowned by turns, whilo Austria and Italy groancd undor their military powers and dared not fire a shot lest the explosion would shatter a throue. A vast magazine of explosives, there was not room in Europe to test in actual hostilits tho value of tho latest im- plements of war. Major Serpa Pinto's ex- pedition furnished tho desirod opportunity. Armed with machine guns he strode into tho dark continent to enlighten the world, kicked up a war with a horde of undisciplined sav- ages, and promptly mowed them down. The savages were urmed with English guns, fand this cxplains wiy the lion is lashing himself into a fighting attitude. But what is a few hundred;sayage lives compared witi the beneits to floy from a practical demon- stration of the modern Gatling. The vapor- ings of England cau, not affect Pinto’s suc- oess with the “forces of civilizatipn.” The armies of Buropo xm)!hmd him, ‘A'he recent lljllr(:u Df Mr. Parnell at Not- tingham was a vigorous reply to some of the late speeches of Lord Salisbury regarding Irciand. The Irish leader declared that the object of the home-rula movement was to | ragsnerate Irelaud, éspecially with regard to her industrial condition. He said that man- ufactures might bé developad to such an ex- watas to take the strain off the land and enable the people to 100k to other means than farming for gaining @ living, but the idea was not tenable that Ireland could ve gov- erned by England’s promoting herindustries, Irishmen themselyes must promote Irish industries by building harbors, clearing out the channels of rivers, and reclaiming waste lands—not at the expense of the English exchequer, but of the Irish exchequer, or, best of all, through the efforts of local and individual enterprise and with private capi- tal, Mr. Balfour's plan of making railways through impoverished districts was a vain expenditure of money. Home rule aimed at aational regeneration, and this implied the regeneration of tue industries and the indus- trial and com:mercial spirit of the people. If home rule were granted it would not dis- courage the rich people of England from promoting industrial developments, hut the money would be judiciously and advantage- ously employsd instead of beinz'wasted, as now, to maintain in power a government of fraud and trickery. Expenditure of that sort would enable Ireland to get und to keep her head above water and so exercise and develop the qualities of her paople that she would beno longer an exhubition for the wonder and scorn of the nations of the world. e M. Blane, the emiuent French engineer, has just made an nteresting report upon the eridual extension northward of the desert of Sahara. Far within the present hmits of the desert ho has found in his explorations ruined buildings which amply attest the presence of human occupation and industry years ago. But sand dunes, blown by south- orn gales, are constantly encroaching more and more uvon the cultivated inad of Tunis, where the investigations were mude, and presumably of all the other North African provinces except perhaps Morocco, It is matter of coursa that the cultivable avea of Tgypt has greatly decreased since the days ‘when it was the most powerful kingdom of earth, Unfortunately M. Blanc can suggest no remedy for this stateof affars. Ho doubts whether enough water could be ob- tained by artesian wells to thoroughly irri- Ratethe threatened borderland, and of course there are no streams which can be used as the Nile is used to fight back the encroachments of the desert. The Nile rises in the great lakes and dense forosts of Central Africa and flows past Detber in wmighty volumo, but its flood receives no additions of conss quence in lower Egypt: it constantly loses by evaporation aud by pumping for irrigation 80 that comparatively hittle of its water ever reaches whe Mediterranean. Itis about the only instance known of & greal rivef which 18 biggest in the middie and smallest at both ends, though numerops smaller streams in our own southwesterfl states lose themselves finally in the sand ra somewnat similar loss by evaporatfon. Apparent.y, some gigantic scheme can be devised for makiong a great lake in the Sabaran basin, the whole northern coast of Africa is doomed to become amere fertile strip along the coast, widening out in Morocco bshind the shelter of the high @ountain ranges whick aip back generously from the coast there. Evon the oases are said to be decreasing yoarly iu extent and tfnlmy. o“u Italy has now in Africa under its direct dominion 70,000 kilometers 1n the north of Abyssinia, (composed of the high plains of Habab, Menta, Bogoe, Asmara, and the province of Beni Amer,) and exercises gov- erning power over Impero Ethiopia and over the Opian territory, that covers an ex- tent of about 2,000,000 kilometers, with an estimated population of about 20,000,000, If not ali, certainly mauy of these places have 8 great colonial future, and to this Crispi devotes all lus force and attention. Their elevation above the level of the sea gives them @ most salubrious climate, aud 8o shows Kreat possibilities of their becoming colo- nized by the Italisu Working classes, sud decreasing emigration W America, & Ques- tion now occupying the minds of statesmen. Naturally,this will take much time to accom- plish, for colonization never has been, and never can be, instantaneous; buv it is just to acknowledge that—with the treaty of allianoe with King Menelik and the offcial declaration of the protectorate in Fthiopia— with this last battle Premier Crispl has completed a work (organized diligently and secretiy) of great political lmportance, by ‘which Italy will'acquire increase of power in Africa, will give a new 1mpetus to com- merce and agriculture, and will cbenefit the world at large in progress of civilization, w'e The five Central American states have suo- coeded at last in drawing up a scheme of rudimentary union which is guarded. con- sorvative and conciliator; The ingenuity with which objections have been evaded is quite remarkable. The' question, for ex- ample, of who shall bo first prosident, which has 80 long blocked all such projects, is uow settled in a way which, if primitive, 18 at loast practical and has scripture procedent On tho 15thjof September next the presidents of the five states are to meet at the capital of Honduras and draw lots as to wlb shall be president of the United States of Central Av ca for the following vear. That puts an end to intriguing, yet not to hopes, since a twelvemonth later will give some other one of the stato sidents & chance. During the first ten years, from 1800 to 1000, the new wunion will bo to a great degree tentative, Its presi- dent will deal simpl with foreign affairs, in whi it desires to present at onco o mational consistency, A common cit- izenship, free trade between the states, and gradual identity of laws, judicial systems, and 80 on, will be the features of this exper- imental decade, and then in 1500 will come the “rgore perfect union,” with its federal army i place of the state force The at- tempt is ono in which our country cannot fail to take an interest. The three northern states, Guatewala, Honduras and San Sal- vador, bring, among other things, much the ereater population and area to the new union; the two southern, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, bring, among other things, their relations to the great interoceanic canal. It is quite possiblo that jarring interests may at any time within the next nine months break up the whole project. But at least a better start toward success has been made now than at any previous tine sinco union, or rather reunion, Las been undertaken. »"e One of the mostimportant outcomes of the home rule agitation in England has been the tremendous impetus given to the federal idea. Med who have always made fun of federations have latterly taken to a study of what they mean and what they can accom- plish. What is called colonial federation, a union of all the British possessions as a means of establishing closer relations with the mother country, is largely the fruit of tory contemplation of those questions of gov- ernmeet involved in a Dublin parliament. Says an English unionist who rejects Glad- stone and all his statesmanship: *‘The fed- eral system which was first introduced in the United States, and has since been modi- fied in other countries, especially in Ger- muny, seems to be one of the greatest dis- coveries ever made, and of an importance to human happiness which cannot possioly be exaggerated,” Ho even hints that federa- tion is the true solution of the Balkan penin- sula dispute, and that there are English men of both parties ready to favor such a political consummation. 1t does not take an over- sharp eye to see that the colonies of Aus- tralia, when they ask for a federal union, will find few obstacies placed in the path of their ambition and trut;‘ welfare. The last year has been a critical one in the history of [Prance. Tt 18 not too much to say that the very existence of the republic has been involved in the political issues which have been presented to the people. The coun- try, however, has plainly shown that it is tired of mere theoretical politics, and wants something that is practical and business-like, It has decided what it is in favor of such measures s will maintain and promote its internal prosperity, rather than those which present a promiso of foreign honors with o possibility of aangerous entauglements, The effect of the late elections is manifested in the new spirit which prevails in the cham- ber. Instead of the political grouns of the last session, there have arisen industrial, commercial and agricultural groups, in which members of all parties stand side by side. The prevailing spirit is beyond doubt one of toleration, moderation and concord. What- ever may be the rumors in regard to a pos- sible war between France and Germany, there can be no doubt that the overwhelming opinion of the French ropublic is for peace. It will be 1n the interest of peacen East Africa if the report proves correct that the Germans have at last captured Bushiri, the leader of the insurgents, When Bushiri de- stroyed Mywapa in July last he told Mission- ary Price that there would be no peace as long as he was alive. Until tbe Germans killed him, be said, he would devote his life 10 keeping the country in as disturbed a con- dition s possible. The Germans say they have suppressed the rebellion, but it is cer- tain there can be no assured peace as long a8 this white-haired old trader of Pangani, who hates the Germans as interlopers, is av large to foment fresh disordors, £ e A Wonderfal Unange. Chicago Herald, Prison life will'go especially hard with Dan Coughlin, He will have to work, and he's been a policeman, B A Perennial Suggestion. I'hiiadelphia Times, The habitof dawdling away the tirst month of the session, which has become a confirmed one, leads to the conclusion thut the date for the opening of the congressional session should be changed. i el . A Puazzlor, Chicago News, The cider-malkers at their session in Chi- cago have been requested by the Protective Order of North American Wives to settle this point: When a marriod man gets into a shocking condition late at night by eating a section of mingepie, what is 1 tho piel ————— A Pro:pective Ri Chicazo Tribun “Those are my preseut prices on handker- chiefs,” said the laundryman, in a cold, business-like tone, “*but I'm not making any contracts, Imay have to run the figure up about 50 per cent next week." B Should Follow Hosea. 8t, Louis Globe-Democrat, Most of the weather prophets rushed into print & month ago saying that December would be a very cold mooth, and that the wiater would be a very severe one. All of which shows that {n weteorology, as in other things, it is well to heed the advice of Hosea Bigelow, esq, to let knowleuge precede prophecy. e Portugal und Her Troubles. LisuoN, Dee. 20.—The Portuguese govern- ment is agitating the holding of an interna- tional congress for the settlement of the questions which have arisen from the aispute between Portugal aud Great Britain concern- ing their respective possessions in Africa,as it refers to accept European opinion to Eug- ish dictation, It is rej rlm:l that the Pnnu- guese are anxious for 'edro to leave Portugal. The calmness wllh which the peo- ple of Brazil accepted the overthrow of the empire and the uublllh\ncnl o( the republic encourages the radi 0 believe they will eventually achieve & quhl. bloodless revolution in Portugal. THE CAPITAL CITY CRIST. Judge Field to Pags Upon an Impor- tant Question. COURT MATTERS OF INTEREST, A Soarcity of Freight plaint of the Clarks' . Oars—Com- ‘armers' Al liance—Fitzgorald va Gould ~Lincoln in Brief. T, LINCOLN, LixcoLy Bunsav or Tar Omama Bae, 1029 P Stae Neb,, Deo. 20, This morning, before Juage Field, the question whether of not the court should order the removal of the cause of Lowery & Company vs the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney railroad company from the district court o the federal court was discussed. "The suit involves about 150,000, predicated on three claims —on account of the excessive rates, discrimination and loss by reason of loakage of grain in courae of transportation. The argument for removal wsa that the inter. state luw governs all intorstato trafMo; that the company is governed and guided by what law, and wust be judged by the I which can ouly be done in tho foderal courts the trafic which forms the subject veray being interstate, and fr. §70,000 0f the elaim being founc necting lines beyond Chie the defendant could not « ed with con- 10, Whose rates ntrol and for ing to the judgment of Judge uldnot bo held responsible unter argament was that the in- terstate law had not abrosated the common law, only supplemented that law; the plain- ff claimea undor the common Jaw that he bring a it in, and have it the state courts, Vhe decision was reserved. The I)NII'I(,( Court, In the case of Anna R. Stow: Asa Stewart, Judge Kield today decree in fayor of the piaintiff for divorce, dividing tho property, which is worth about $12,000, equitably betwen the parties. The Wohlenberg divorce case was also de- cided this morning. I'red was given his de- cree as prayed aud the care and custody of the enildres Mrs. Wohlenberg, however, secured 84500 alimouy, and the court grunted the plamtiff fifteen days to rustic that amount in The ca company vs ¥ tention of Judge Chapman forenoon. This action was brought to rec on proumissory notes given ! for lands sold. During the trial one of tho jurymen was called from the hox to testify, and his return was objected to by the de at's counsel. The objection, however, rruled, giving alleged grounds for After a short. sitting the jury gave the [llnlnllfl judgment for §1,407. This afternoon the case of Lowery vs the Western Union Telegraph company oceu- pied the attention of the second court. will hardly be submitted fi tomor: The case promises 1o be sharp!y ‘The case was brought to recover damages for non-delivery of telegraph me: s dur- ing a pending grain aeal at Chicago in which the plaintiff was interested, and which he al- leges caused him to lose money. art against granted a f_the Nebraska Stock Yards pied the at- nd a jury this nte: Scareity of Teain Cars. The state board of transportation is in re- ceipt of a letter from A. T. Hempston, a member of the shipping committes of the Clarks’ Farmers’ alliance, complaining that the Union Pacific railroad company is dis- criminating against that organization at Clarks, Merrick couaty, 1n the disposition of cars for the shipmentof corn from that point, Hempston sots up that grain buyers thero have received their full allotment of cars us ordered, and in this he alleges that there has been discrimination agaiust farmers as ship- pers, On the part on the board Sorcretary Gil- christ writes Hempston that there has been an extraord ry demand for 8 10 move corn throughout the west, but that the board ‘would hold that cars should ba distributed vro rata until cars can be furnished in suf - cient number to meet the demand of all shippers, regardless of party, company or corporation. The Osceola clevator complaint was con- tinued this morning until December 30 at 1 o’clock, Fitzgerald vs Gould. 1t is learned that tho United States circuit court has appointed Edwin L. Towle of Par- sons, Kan., special referee in the 81,500,000 suit brought by John Fitzgerald of this city, on behulf of himself and other stockholders of the IFitzgerald & Mallory construction company against Jay Gould, Russell Sage, Vice President Morton and the Missouri P’ cific railroad compuny. This suit, it will b remembered, is the outgrowth of the con- struction of the Denver, Memphis & At- lantic and the Pueblo & State Line rail- roads, both of which were built by the plain- it and the stockholders of the com- pany he represents for the Missouri Pacific follks. ‘The suit was commenced in the dis- trict court of Lancaster nty but was re- moved to the federal courts nt the instanco of the defendant. The roads run from “ol., to Chetopa, Kan., a distance of The defense set up makes it ary to examine the right-of-way of nearly all of the construction line, and for this purpose a referee was appointed, City News and Notes, F. C. Rough was fined $20 and costs for carrying concealed weapous, by Judge Houston this morning. W. A, Mowery, the real estate agent who was arrested Wednesday for obtaming money under false pretenses, was dismissod today on motion of plaintifi’s attorney, A."'T. Betzer, an cmploye of the book room, roturned from Red O; k, Ia., today with his two childrea who ran away from home a day or two ago. Colonel E. P, Roggen was more seriousiy injured than at tirst supposed in his racket on the street car Wednesday evening. His attending }Jhy!h.lull says that he sustained a fracture of the ankle and will be laid up several days. E. Hiil, a former Omaha tailer, but of late manager of & business for Helin & Thomp- 8on of that city, is possibly in serious trou- ble. 1t is alleged that he has succeeded in getting the firm deeply involved by negli- ®ence if not criminal carelessnes Thompson is here makiog a thorou, tigation, but declines to talik until be has gone to the bottom of mattors. 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