Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1890, Page 4

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Dealers served by The Bee Flyer will consult their st interests by making liberal orders for The Sunday Be for June, coples; promber, X, Tis Towa legislative tis does not ex- tend to the state - treasury. The drain ou the taxpayers goes right on. THE battle in defense of the right of the majority to rule demonstrated that Reed cannot be shaken by violent dem- ocratic wind. Nonwri NEBRASKA is preparing for a boom when the Sioux reservation shall be opened to settlers. So are the rail- roads leading to that promised land. THE fact that the recognition of Br 7l was‘deterred sixty days did not di- minish the warm cordiality of Uncle Sam’s greeting to the young republic of the south, <THE man who can solve the problem of moving the enormous corn crop of Nobraska at a profit to the producer will be & benefactor to his race and a god- send to the--railroads. HENRY GEORGE is dispensing anti- poverty prescriptions in the west at an agreed sum for each prescription. His single tax theory works like a charm, because the tax is collected at the door. ANOTHER committee and another conference is proposed on the Dakota railroad. Itis evident that dve years of discussion, examination and cogita- tion are insufficient for practical worlk. Tue cold wave which struck the hol- low warmth of the new hospital and tem - porarily ended the labors of the homeo- pathic stokers andallopathic engineers, will not chill their grip on the county treasury. . Tue farmers of Dodge county have generously londed ' and shipped a car of corn to the sufferers of South Da- kota. The cry of distress is alwa heeded by the thrifty settlers of N braska sol TH difference between Lawyer Storey’s argument in favor of the Union . Pacificand Attorney General Leese’s +‘letter is that the former’s talents were hired by the corporation, while the lat- tor voiced the sentiment of a common- wealth which has been plucked for twenty years by Mr. Storey's clien Nebraska objects against tho govern- ment sanctioning the plucking and ex- tending it for several generations. DEMOCRATIC papers flippantly refer 1o 'the republican theft of Montana' and declare that the head of the state canvassing boird, now chief justice of the state, was a member of the court which declared the county elerk certifi- catos illegal, The facts are that Chief Justice Blake refused to hear the case and had nothing to do with the de- cision of the court. The best evidence of the justice of the decision is that the democrats have not attempted to ques- tion the position taken by the court, for the very good reason that it is im- pregnable. 5 — A SENILE vindictiveness for every- body and everything republican is one of the most striking and painful charac- teristics of the mugwump press. An instance in point is afforded by the re- gent capture in the mails in New York of dutiable silke in which had been worked the nsme *John Wanawaker.” The attempt to connect the postmaster general with the fraud was so absurd shat all the principal democratic papers in New York were careful to state in their head lines that Mr. Wanamaker wasin vo way comneoted with the af- fair, The hybrid Times of that city, however, so far forgot its dignity as to head its account *“Thrifty John, Was He Trying ta Get a Now Attraction For His Bargain Couuter?” THE COMMON SENSE VIEW. When anybody says that a reduction of freight rates on corn wiil be followed by & decline of the market price equal to the reduction of the freight rate, we are inclined to doubt his sanity or sin- cerity. The market price of corn in America is largely, if not wholly, gov- orned by the price pad in Liverpool. | Conceding that the price at Taverpool is governed by the law of supply and demand, what possible effect can a ro- duction of freight rates west of the Mississipni have on the demand or sup- ply in Liverpoot? All the rolling stock on roads in the corn belt is now engaged in moving the surplus product. In other words, every car the roads own and every car they can borrow is employed in hurrying the 2rop to market. This grain ia being moved from Omaha to the lakes for twenty cents a hundred and to the At- lantic seaboard for thirty-eight cents a hundred, What effect will a reduction of the rate have ou the quantity of corn moved? S se the ity ot the Nebrask isone million bushels per day, and they ave now boing operated to their full capacity, why ould a reduction of freight rates cause a drop in tne market price? Will the change in ght rates in any way affect the quan- brought to market? If the low ves now prevailing ave caused by a glutted market, it is proof positive that high freight rates have not prevented a glut. Iivery rational person must con- cedo, therefore, than an advance in the price of grain in this market would in- evitable follow a reduction of freight rates, unless there was a combi- nation among’ grain buyers to take advantage of the producer and rob him of the difference between the present and reduced rates. It is manifest that the railroads resist the aemand for a reluction because they feel sure that our farmers are compellad to sell their corn at any price. Railroad managers tell us they can- not afford to cut down their corn rates. If this be true why do the roads carry corn from Chicago to New York, a tance of nine hundred miles, for eigh- teen cents a hundred, and charge twenty cents from Omaha to Chicago, a distance of five hundred miles? THE FIGHT FOR SUBSIDIES. The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries, the chairman of which is a leading advocate of ship subsidies, is intent upon making a thor- ough job of the coliection of evidence 1n favor of u general tonnage subsidy to Amevican vessels, The representa- tives of a number of steamship lines and some of the large shipbuilders have already been heard. and it is intended 10 summon before the committee the commissioner of navigation, the commis- sioner of customs, the chief of the bu- reau of statistics, the chief of the bu- reau of naval intelligence, and some of the statistical officers of the state de- partment. = All the testimony is being carefully reported, and it isto be pre- sumed will in due time be given to the public. Thus far the opinions elicited have been all on one side of the subject. Only the representatives of private in- terests have appeared before the com- mittee, and it need hardly be said that their voice has been in unison for sub- sidies. It is not known if it be the in- tention to invite to a hearing persons opposed to the granting of subsidies, but it is a fact that nome such has so far appeured. The commit- tee may reserve a brief time before de- ciding to conclude the hearings in which to get an expression of views from those who believe it to be neither wise nor necessary to inaugurate a pol- icy of ship subsidies. There is every indication of a very stubborn fight over this question when itshall bp seriously taken up in con- gress, and if the opponents of subsidies are not well orgaunized they will find themselves at a disadvantage. The house commitiee on marine and fisher- ies wus evidently made up with refer- | ence to promoting the subsiay cuuse. Its chairman, Mr. Farquhar of New York, is strongly committed in favor of subtsidies, and is the aathor of a bill providing for toniage, bounties. Most of the other republican membars of the committee, and at least one democrat, are in sympathy with him, so that, there can be no doubt as to what this commit- tee will recommend. Theve is reason to believe that there is a much larger element in the house than ever before favorable 1o some form of subsidy, while a measure for this purpose would be very likely to go through the senate. The advocates of subsidy are favored also by the fact that the ad- ministration is committed to libe ral compensation for mail service in Amer- ican vessels, so that if they cannot get all'they desire they may be uble to ef- fect » compromise very satisfuctory to themselves as a first stop toward the at- tainment of the policy they are working for.. It is therefore apparent that the subsidy men occupy a stronger position than they have held for years, or, per- haps, ever before, and constant vigi- lance and active work will be necessary to defeat them. WEAK OBJECTIONS. Senator Teller of Colorado represents the advocates of free silver coinage, and in his recent argument against the Windom bill he presented all the ob- jections which those people bave to that measure. The chiet of these are, that the plan would reduce silver to the position of a mere commodity, and that the proposed authority to be given to the secretury of the treasury might be dangerous. With regard to the former Mr, Teller contended that the government had ao better rignt to is- sue a paper currency against deposits of silver bullion at the current market price at the time of deposi o it had to issue such & curroncy ngaibst iron or corn. Asto the authority committed to the secretary of the treasury under the propased law, which is to suspend the issue of silver notes under certaiu speci- fied circumstances, Mr, Teller regarded itas an enormous arbitvary power the exercise of which might render the sccretary liable to suspicion and to imputations of being dishonest, “which, though they might uot be true, would makesn unfortunate con- dition of affairs.” He remarked that public officers might be always honest in using this option, but not discreet, which would be just as bad so far as the goneral effect was concerned. The first of these objections was an- ticipated by the secretary of the treas- ury when he submitted his plan in his annual report, and he met it with the simple and sufficient reply that silver bullion is now a mere commodity. Sen- ator Teller did not say it was otherwiso, and being already in fact a commodity the proposed policy regarding it would not change its character in this respect, but would make a freer market for it. In effect the proposed policy would operate as to the silver product of the country just as free coinage would, ex- cept that the owners of the silver would lose the profit of seigniorage which free coinage would give them, and it is not unreasonably suspected that this is the true explanation of their objec- tion to the Windom plan. The silver men vepresented by Sena- tor Teller desire that the government shall not only take all their product, but let them have all the profit from coining it 1nto dollar: The objection to giving the secrotary ot the treasury the authority proposed in the Windom bill has a fairer ap- pearance, but it is to be borne in mind that he could not exercise this author- ity without the approval of the presi- dent, so that unless it be assumed that the president might allow himsell to be the mere creature of the secretary of the wreasury in this matter there is lit- tle ground for apprehending serious danger from this authority. It is gen- erally admitted that the power to sus- pend the issue of silver notes under certain circumstances is an essential feature of the proposed policy, and it is uot to be doubted that the general pub- lic judgment would be entirely satistied with devolving it upon the president and secrotary of the treasury. It is obvious, therefore, that the chief objections to the Windom bill of the people represented by Senator Teller are far from being conclusive against that measure, if indeed they do not serve to demonstrate the weakness as well as the sellishness of the opposi- tion. They may be sufficient, however, to unite the free-coinage men and the anti-free-coinnge men, who are per- haps strong enough in congress to de- feat the bill. TIME FOR ACTION. Four months hence the enumerators will begin their work of taking the United States census for 1890. Every important city in this country 1s extend- ing its boundaries and annexing subur- ban towns in order to he able to boast the largest possible population. Chi- cago has annexed every village and town within a radius of sixteen miles of its former boundaries. She now has an ares about ten times as large as Omaha, and expects a census certificate for over a million population. Chicago realizes fully the advantage of an established standing which for the coming decade will keep her at the front as the second or third city in America, It is time for Omaha to emulate Chi- cago’s example by taking active steps to annex South Omaha, which, in fact if not in name, is a part of this city, and must forever be identified with her commercial and industrial growth. Un- less South Omaha is annexed within four nionths the census returns will quote Omaha as acity of a given popula- tion and South Omaha as a separate city of a given population. And this distinetion will be maintained in every bouk of reference, every calendar and every commercial, bank and news- paper divectory for the next ten years. This will be of incalculable damage to both Omaba and South Omaha. Sup- pose that South Omaha four months hence musters a population of twelve thousand and Omaha one hundred and ten thousand. The directocies for ten years will quote Omaha, the cbhief city of Nebraska, population one hundred nd ten thousand, when in point of fact it should be one hundred and twenty- two thousand. South Omaha, on the other hand, quoted alphabetically amony cities whose names begin with the letter S,.will cut a very 1nsign cant figure among very unimportant towns. But suppose that the enumerators only return ninety odd thousand population for Omaha proper, how would our city appear as against Kansas City, St. Paul and Minneapolis? For ten years to come everybody hailing from Omaha would be constantly explaining that South Omaha is part of Omaha and should be added to her aggregate population. ‘Tne BEE deems it of vital importance to the future of Omaha that steps be taken at once to amalgamate the two towns. Under the law the initiative must be taken by the councils of the two cities. T'he charter prescribes that tho preliminary steps shall be taken by the enactment of an ordinance in each of the two cities embodying the terms of consolidation and the corporate as- sets and liabilities of each, These or- dinances are to be submitted for ratification to the voters of each of the two cities, and it ratified in each town by a majority of citizens voting thereon, the consolida- tion of the two cities 1s legalized, to take effect on the date fixed for the same. In order to arrange the terms, con- ferences will necessarily have to be held between the municipal authorities of Omaha and South Omaba at the earliest possible day, It is immaterial which of the two city councils takes the first step. There should be no standing upon ceremony in view of the interests involved. No time should be lost in moving for a conference, —— Tk collapse of another bank in New York eity, under circumstances that point to a huge steal, iudicate that financial Napoleons are flourishing in the metropolis, The fate of Ferdinand Ward, now shattered in health and spirit in Sing Sing, has no terrors for the sharpers who prey upon a credulous public under the cloaks of respectabil- ity and responsibility. During the pust five years the Empire state has vroduced a large crop of rascally bank- ers, and with the excention of Ward all bave escaped just punishment for their infamous crimes, The hungry man or woman who il desporation takes bread to prevent starvation or steals a cont or shaft’to covor a shivering body is promptly and vigorously hustled to tHe i workhouse or peniten- tary. For thit the law has no merey. But the rich sageal who robs the poor, and confiscates’the pittance of the widow and otfifin, defies the law and laughs at the penalties. The fruits of his robberies w4 employed 1n purchas- ing immunity from punishment, by taking advantage of the law's delay and prolonging# 'the contest till public interost wanes and witnesses disappear. THE contract between the city and the electrio light company calls for one hundred aro lights of two thousand candle power each, for which the eity agrees to pay one hundred and soventy- five dollars each per year. These lights have been located in the business sect- ion of the city, from Seventh toTwenty ninth streets and from Cuming to Leavenworth streets. As a result the territory covered by electric light wires is enlarged and the ever present danger to lfe and property correspond- ingly increased. City laws provide no adequate safeguard for this necessary evil, but it is not too late to enact and enforcoa rigid systom of in- spection. Before the wire is put up the chief of the fire department should make a thorough examination of its ea- pacity and insulating quality. Expe- vienced electricians declare that the wire should possess a surplus capacity to counteract the tendency of the cur- rent toescape to the ground, Poles should be high enough to carry the wire above the telephoneand telograph lines, and the greatest care should be taken to avoid trees,in making splices, and in tying the wire to the glass insu- lators. If the work is done properly at the start, much of the dangers of the overhead system will be obviated, and frequent inspection afterward will render the system practically safe. —— THE wise and moneyed men of Bos- ton knowa good thing when they see it. Their confidence in Omaha’s pro- gress is shown by the investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars in lots and buildings. Dozens of fine business blocks and warehouses in the city have been erccted by the enterprising cap- italists of the Hub,and others are under way, and in nearly every instance ten- ants have been seeured before the build- ings were completed. Omaha realty is today the best iwvestment in the west, and the steady faflow of outside capital is conclusive proof of its conservative value and superior prospects THE house ¢ommittee on commerce has very promptly indicated 1ts disposi- tion regarding the interstate commerce law by orderiag dll bills providing for the repeal of that act to be reported back to the house with the recommen- dation that théy'lie on the table. This action will doubtless put an end to the efforts of those i and out of congress opposed to the law to bring about its re- peal, as it gives them - notice: that they cannot hope for‘any consideration from the committee on commerce, which is a condition precedent to getting any at- tention from the house, % reduction in water hydrant rental has become a necessity. Sixty dollars a month for hydrants will do for interior towns, but a city like Omaha cannot afford to pay such rates. We want and must have ample fire pro- tection, but this city should mot be asked to pay double the price paid by other cities of equal population. —_— TuE Ciscago roads grudgingly grant the demands of the Omaha stock mar- ket to equal rates with rival cities, but the concession will not go into effect for ten days, although the twelve and a half cent rate has prevailed in Kansas City for a week or more. As a specimen of petty injustica the delay is worthy of the corporations, THE volicy of the city in exacting a fee in proportion to the cost of building improvement is an unjust tax on enter- prise and should be radically changed or entirely abolished. Permanent in- vestment should be encouraged rather than held up for building, plumbing and other fees at the outset, PLusBING IN OR DENNIS pro- poses to rigidly enforce the law requir- ing plumbing plaus to be submitted, ac- companied by the regulation fee. Major Dennis’ experience as a plumber isa guarsantee that the fee wiil be in- telligently inspected. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The desvotic tendencies of Emperor Wil- liam and Bismarck encountered 8 check 1n the dofeat in parliament of the anti-socialist bill, fathered by the ohancelor. The bill was intended to render permaneut the ex- traordinary and exceptional legislation which the reichstag has from time to time suthorized the government tewporarily to adopt for dealing’'with ©.e socialist move- ment. The meastirés 1n question were of & stringent natnre #nd included among their provisions authority to the police to break up snd dwsperse pufilic meetings, to suppress newspapers, pgrlodicals or auy other kind of publicatian, to detaln suspicious characters in jail for an indefinite period without putting them on trial, and finally, to expel and exile fudm imperial territory any native-bora citizenior foreigner whoso pres- ence in Germany thiey may choose to regard as injurious Lo the state. yThese provisions were first voted fol'a term of two years by the reichstag durigg the few weeks of popu- lar excitement ahfl ;indignation which pre- vailed just after Nobiling's dastardly at- tempt to ussassinate the old emperor; aud since theu thoyhave been renewed from time to time on each occasion with increased " reluctauce by the {mparial parliament. With the object of putting an end to the necessity of adopting all sorts of political strategems, every time that Prince Hismarck is forced to ask for w rencwal of these extraordimary powers, he decided wgether with his young master 10 roquest the reichstag, which 1s uow approaching ils term of final dissolution , 1o pass u bill rendering thess powers perpet- ual. To this, however, the imporial parliament has refused to consent. For the monarchy of Emperor William, both as kaiser aud as kivg, is limited by vational eoustitu- tion, and the members of the house felt that they possessed meither the right nor the power thus o make & pevmaneat surrender 10 the throne of the liberties aza privileges of the peopie. They reahzed that by yield- ing to the demands pf the government they KBRUARY 1 1890 would place in the hands of the crown a power as despotic and s untrammelled as that of the czar. Like the latter, Emperor William would become enabied thereby to exile or detain in prison for an indefinite number of years any ons who had been un- fortunate enough 1o incur his personal dis- vleasure. It meant tho cstablishment of an organized system of police tyranny on the lines of the infamons Third section at St. Potersburg, overriding tho administration of the common law of the land. The attitude of the reichstag in defeating the government bill will be approved by the nation at large. For the Germans aro too highly ed ucated and onlightened to submit to a form of rulo against which even the semi civilized Musco- vite rebels. Tt would appear thatthe Spanish min- isterial crisis was partly manipulated and partly natural. Sagasta 18 a shrewd poli- tician, sand was nothing loth to secure a reorganization of his cabinet. The easiest way to briug this about was to bave all the ministers resign and give him a clean slate. There can be no doubt, either, that he was sincerely desirous of placating the powerful dissident factions of his own party by giving them representation in the cabmet, and that thoir obstinate insistonce on their own terms was a real disappointmoent to him, Then came the nrotenso of withdrawing his own porsouality, and the attempt of Senor Martines, president of the chamber of deputies, a very respectablo and moffensive liberal, to form a ministry, This was pro- destined to failure, and was probably meant only as a sort ot object-lesson to the recal- citrant liberals, to show them that if Sagasta could not lead, no one eould. All this, with the subsequent prompt success In forming a cabinet as soon as this formality was out of the way, and the queen had asked Sagasta again to try his hand at it, betrays the deftnoss of the political mana- gor. But there are also fixed elements in tho situation which play their vart in these chaoges, and which foratoken the speedy failure of the new cabmet. The liberal majority cannot be counted uvon for the most important measures to come before the cortes—the budget and the bill for universal suffrage. Theso government projects will provabiy not bo killed outright so much as wdetinitely postponed. Yet Cacovas and the conservatives can do nothing with the present chamber, aud, as Sagasta cannot manage it, everythivg points toa vote of temporary credut, the dissolution of the cor- tes, and a new election, which will be con- tested on the main issues now before the country, and which will yield a positive aud working majority on one side or the other, A great revolution is impending in Persia, due to the belief that the shah is domented. His efforts to introduce western reforms 18 the source of this belief. Whatever foreign opinion on the subject may be, it is certain that in attempting to introducoe reforms into the legislation of a people who, since the times of Cyrus, 2,000 years ago, have prided themselves on the traaitional immutability of their laws, the shah has undertaken an almost hopeless task, one, indeed, which can only be regarded in the light of a for- lorn hope. In Persiu the Koran remains to this day the supreme source, notonly of spiritual, but also of all temporal law. The- ocracy constitutes the basis of all authorivy iu the kingdom, and the mollabs or priests, who form a most fanatical, reactionary and well-organized body, practically rule the roost. Their leader aud hierarchial su- perior is the Chief Mushtobed, an ecclesiastical dignitary, posses- sing rank and power even greater than that of the Sheik-ul-Islam at Constantinople, From his decision in religious as well as in secular matters there is no appeal. Even the shah is forced to pay him respect as to a superior, and a word from him would sufico 10 hurl Nasr-ed-Deen from the throne. As described by Mr. Benjamin, formerly Unitod minister at ebieran, in an article on Persia published recently, the Chief Mushtahed holds the power to make and unmake kings, aud to prevent or declare war. Hoth he and his vast arwy of priests are bound by in- stincts of self-preservation Lo present & most determined opposition to all innovation and progress, and, under the circumstances, it appears useless to expect that the well- meant effort of the shah to improve the con- dition of his people wili result 1n anything but his own overthrow. Reforms are impossible in Persiau 80 long as the presout state re- ligion remains in existence there. e The famous Danish minister, M. Estrup, has dissolved the folkething, or parliament, @ month before the legal limit in order to be ablo to discuss the budget with a new legis. lature betore the beginning of the finaucial year—April1. M. Estrup occupies a posi- tion such as no minister m a parliamentary country has ever occupied before. He has for fifteen years hela his place agamsta ma. Jority in five successive chambers, every one of which has refused to vote his budget, but ho has goue on and collected the taxes and spent them all the same, having the king and the army at his back, This extraor- dinary state of things is due to the fact that the voters always send up large radical majoritics, while the court is rigidly conservative, and insists on keeping a conservative ginistry in power, aud relies on the popular attachment to the royal family to prevent any open ro- sistance to the uuconstitutional regime. Tho majority would, it is well known, make short work of the army and navy and many of the more expensive offices of state, aud probably cut down the civil list of the erown. That M. Estrup expects the now chamber to be tnuch more tractable than tho present one is hardly probable, but like most men in trouble, he thinks any change may bs in some degree for tho better. o The amicable settlement of the Missiones boundary liue with Argentine 18 a promising item for the new republic of Brazil to start with in_her admimstration of foreign af- fars, The main credit, however, is due rather to Dom Pedro’'s government, uader which the negotiations for the purpose, on Brazil's side, were initiated, Indeed, even the later stipulation of the two countries that if the Argentine-Brazilian joint com- mission should not come to terms, resort should be had to wrbitration, was made ix days before the republic was pro- claimed at Rio Janeiro. However, the new government, in pursuing the policy it inherited, will show that the republie, like the empire, *'is peace.” Some time ago thore was a report of Brazl's formng a corps of observation to watch a controversy between Holivia and Paraguay over rights of navigation on thewr river froutier, but it ap- pears to have been exaggerated. Since tife close of the war of Chili and Peru the South American states have lived in general har- mony, and peace appears still to be the policy of all of them, Two colonies on tne northern coast of the contineat, Dutch Guiaoa snd Freach Guisna, aro also to have their boundary settled peacefully, Hollsud and France havieg agreed oa the czar as referee. British Guias turn should come next. e Some British experts in African matters are now urging all inteadiog wissiouarios to acquire some knowledge of medicine before they start, as they can add much to their in~ fluence by prescribing for the physical ments of the uatives. Explorers ure not quite of one mind as to the value of their medical practice in helping them through the country. Cuptain Bioger, for indtauce, says thaton his recent Journey from the Upper Niger to the Gult of Guinea he found it ex- tremely dangerous to try to cure the natives of their complaints, If the medicine had a benefloial effoct they thought ho was a sor. cerer ana rogarded him with awe and dis like, and once or twice when his drugs failed he considered himselt in danger of being killed and eaton. Fortunately, in most v gions tho natives rezard the successful white doctor as a great and geod man who deserves to be well treated, and many explorers like Thomson, Arnot, Holub and others have seen the time when their great reputation as Dill dispensers was almost their only re source, It is intoresting to observe that success is attending the efforts of tho Royal Niger company to put an end to the flood of lignor that for years has beeu pouring iuto the vast region now undor its control. It has totally prohibited the trafic on tho groat Bonus branch of the Niger, where the hundrods of thousands of natives have not yet boen de- based by the trade m rum, By means of its Ligh duties ou spirits it 18 also greatly ro stricting the trade on the lowor Niger. The rosult is that regions not yet visited by the rumseliers of Germany and Holland aro being protected from the curse, and in rogions where they have had their own way the imports ot spirits have fallen to a com paratively insignificant amount. The spac- tacle of this large company refusiig to make money in the easiest way possible is particu larly edifying, inasmuch as most African trading companies are clamoring loudly against any interference with their rum trade. —— Gotham is a Boggar. Peoria Transcript Now York is a great boggar. Every mon- umental scheme she has ever started sho has begged the country to help her. In the world's fair matter sho is now begging for time, SN B His Mouth Against Him, Chicago Tribune. In presenting his claims to the governor- ship of West Virginia before the legisiaturo of that state at Charleston the other day Mr. Goft made a speech five hours long. Bets of $100°to §5 against him have since gone begging. Speaker Reed and the Bourbon St. Lowis Globe-Demasrat, The abuse which ths bourbons are heaving on Speaker Reed won't hurt him. Every Amorican statesman living within the past third of a century whom the country dehignts to honor, from Sumnuer, Seward, Lincoln and Grant ouward, was abused and tr: by the democratic party ‘The New Extradition Treaty. Boston Jowrnat. It is a step, and a loog one, toward a close and perfectly cordial and honorable under- standing between the two great nations to whose future are committed the best hopes and aspirations of the human race. Itls not alone in its narrower lines, but also in this much larger and broader aspect, that the treaty, we trust, will ba considered. —— The Right of Fre Philadelphia Re In Kansas the advucates of a resubmission of the prohibitory amendment to a vote of the people are beginuing to assume a bolder attitude. They say that this is a question not merely of prohibition, but whother citi zens in Kansas have a right to freely ex- press their thougnts and opinions on any political subject, unawed by fanatical des- potism, o STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska dJottings. More cattle thun ever before are being fed near Madison. The opera house at Broken Bow 1s being rapidly pushed to combletion. Hunters report plenty of deer n McPher~ son county, but they are very shy. It is said that a new prohibition paper will Do started at Hastiugs with Dr. Fitcn ut its head. The Lincoln county commissioners esti- mate the exponses of the county for all pur- poses at $54,150, - After a long struggle with competing com- panies the York county board of supervisors has closed the contract for a burglar-proof safe, Tae drug store of Dr. Holmes und Har- rah's barber shop at Burchard were de. stroyed by fire Thursday ovening, entailing a loss of §1,5 According to 8 provision in his wull, the remains of the late Dr. James P. Kingsley of Bruning were sent to St. Loms and cre- mated last woel. Mrs, Thomas Waples has brought suit against tho city of Ksarncy for £3,000 dam- azos for the 1083 of her husband, who fell on the icy sidewalks a fow days ago and re- coived injuries from which be died. +Scotty” Miller has been sent to the Nor- folic insane asylum from Keith county. His malady is supposed to have boen caused by worrying over his wife. who bocame «usane und was sent to the asylum a year ugo. The Springfield baud gave a dance last week, but ouly two members showed up ac companied by ladies, the others going it slone. Atthe next 'ball it 18 proposed to offer chromos to all tho boys who bring girls. According to tho Borealis there is a well less than five miles trom Norden the water from which is unfit for drinking purposes, for the reason thav after water is drawn and lot stand a soum of ol collects thereon. A man from the oil region pronounces 1t the real stuff Park O'Meara, a Sloux City blood, has been very victorious for three woeks over the green cloth tablos on this side of the water, says tae Dakota City Eagle, but ono eveniug the latter part of the weak his luck turned und a fair share of the wad he had won went back into the faro banlk, and with it wont & diamond ring belonging to his solid girl. He roturned to where she wus, told of bis misfortuno and asked for more stuff, which was deniod. Trouble was at_hand. ‘The fair girl, who is the runaway wife of & Sioux Falls, 8. D., bank cashier, remon= strated, wlmrau'pnn Park endeavorea to force hor. ‘The force was mot over the gam- bler's eye with s water pitciier and other utensil Stone, a former olothing merchant of Hastiogs, has brought suit agaiust Mark Levi et ul in the district court for damuges in the sum of $25,000. Stono. alleges in his petition that tho defendants in bis “absenco nveigled his son, Nate Stone, mto muking an assignment of their clothing b iness in December, In the senior Stone's absence from the city tho young man, & member of the firm of Stone & Son, is said t0 have wiven a bill of sale for 10,000 to Levy et al, which appears to be the foundation of thé trouble. In the meantime the outside cred- itors flocked in and were paid their clauns in full. “Tutereating developmonts aro prom- sed. lowa ltems. Burglars and footpaas hold Ligh carnival at lowa City, Thero were soven deaths from la grippe in Wintersot last week. A trwning school for nurses has been es- tablished at Cedar Rapias. A fourteen-year-old w.rhllo boy bas been arrested on the charge of forgery. ‘The new 85,000 Disciples church at Win- tersev bas been dedicated free from debs. The mysterious deaths at Clear L ake have been found to have becn caused by bad air snd impure water, Twenty indictments for viotavions of the interoal revenue laws were returned by the federal grand jury at Keokuk. The public schools at Mapleton have started a savings bank department aud the deposits already amount to $30, The Illinois Central will build a new double-span iron bridge across the Des Moines river ut Fort Dodge the coming season, William Jones, deputy county treasurer at Ida Grove, wok out an accident insurance policy aud'the uext day slipped on the side. walk and broke his leg. He will draw & per weok this winter. John Klafkle, aged forty-five voars formorly employad as engineer in thy u- buquo mattress factory, which was destroyed by firo over a year ago, has become violently insane. He lost all ho possessed io the fuce tory fire and contmual brooding over the loss has finally driven him insane. Tho Carroll Sentinel figures up the atato legislatare thusly: Eight editors, sixty farmers, twenty-nine la ors, eight physic othier occupations having tho baiance, twenty of tho 150 are single men. Tho youngest man is Reprosontative Harey L, Byer of Lucas county, who s twenty-eight years old and is a native of this state, The cldost man is sixty-saven yours of age and is Warren 8. Dungan of Chariton. il is th fore the } it of the 150 men army fiteen are u; servod in ives of Tow Wyoming. ho machinery for the new Union Pacifl shops at Choyenno is boing placed in posi 1 a8 ranidly as possible. ttorney genoral of Wyoming says the ws of tho torritory aro of no effec ommends that they bo repealed and a new sot of laws passed. It is uadorstood that the syndicate which has just taken an option on oxtensive tracts of land at Laramio proposo to put bifg canal to securo water power for manufactur- g purposes. It is expocted that the Union Pa will build additional car_repair shops at Evans ton, says the News. The presont biildings and_equipmonts are entirely inadequate to do the extensive repairing required at Evaus. ton, Up to the present time at the territorial fish hatehery, says tho Laramie Boomoraug, nearly 800000 eggs have becn taken this scason. With the 200,000 eggs received from the government, this makes 1,000,000 on hand. About oue-third of this vast number are now hatching, and others will begin daily from this on. The first eggs wore taken November 13, and a few aro atill bowg takon daily, but the season is now very nearly at its end. A bill has been introduced in the logisla« turo to creato Big Horn county. The pro posed county extends on the north to the Montava line, on the west to Yellowstono Park, on the east to the mountam range which vasses through Johnson aud Sheridan countios, and on the south is bounded by tho Shoshono reservation and Shoshone mount- amns. The area of the new county is over cleven thousand square miles, of which about seven thousaud square miles aro avail: able. 1ous Repast Prepared Reuders of the Sunday Bee, Jurists Off the Bensh—Ono of the inim it able lotters of Tk Brx's gifted correspond ent, Frank G, Carpenter, in which he graplic oribes the personal charactertstics ulfaritios of the suprame court jus with anecdotes of their live: The Numing of the Platte—A paper by Hon. James W. Savage, relatiug the exploita of ehna Mallot brothers aad a baud of brave Fronchmen in the Bighteenth contury of al- sorbing interest to Nebragkans, and loersto. fore unwritten history, My Uncle and His Methods—Giving tho incidents of a reportorial trip among tho Omaha pawnbrokers, thele methods of doing Dbusiness, peopls who call on them, and tho strange goods they handls. Early Disciples of St. John—A sketch of the ministers who laid the foundation of ths Baptist church {n Omava, together with n complote resume of past and coming events of interest to Omaba ctiurch goers, Laymen on the Clussics—A collestion of interviews with prominent Omaha financiers, Jobbers and professional men regarding the advisability and necessity of a classical edu- catlon, Doran's Dre for iful Deed—Under this e inganold Omahan tellsof an almost for- gotten episods in Omaha history which made asumnier Sunday scarlet and created the groatest excitement of any incident inthe criminal anoals of the city, Ihe Federalion of the World—An erudite paper by Richard P. Ely, Ph. 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It 1s standard goods, Our Society Column—This department is in the hands of a specialist who has the entrs into the vetter exclusive circles of tne city, and who writes from personal knowledge of all events chronicled . Culled From Contemporaries—A caroful selection of the treshest ana brigntest faat- ures of the best papers of the conntry, I the Field of Sports—In Tug Svxpay | a half page §s devotod to local and miscella neous sports, bolug a cavetully prepared re. view of the week, with gossip of coming ovents, Thisis a standard feature of Tuu Susnay 3xe. This department will contaln this week the fallest nows and gossip of the coming base ball situation, movements of players and Intsrviews with officars and others, . Qur Labor Depurtnent—Tue Susvar Be 1s the only dally in this stats wHlch msintains @8 a regular feature & labor department in which is given the news of Iabor organiza- tlons aud showing of the work done, wages Dpaid, supply and demand, and the gossip of diferent labor organizations. BEchoes From the Ante-Room—The depsrt. ment of Tux SuNDAY Brk devoted to mecrot societion has long been a feature, Mom bors of the various secret socleties 100k to Tik SUNDAY BEr for such kuowledge as they miy want of the doings and gosmp of tho muny searet societios in Omana and inthe state, Our Market Puge—One great featuro of ‘T Bi is 1ts full and_completo market re- port. Our corresponaent in Chicago compiles and transmits the Chicago produce and live stock murkot reports especiatly to Ty Bir. Our New York correspondent tolegraphs duily the stock market report especlally to Tiw Brr. Aspacial reporter of large experionce provides daily most accurate reports of the Omana live stock markets, and our commer- clal reporter prepares daily the only Omalin wholesale market report worthy the name published. in addition tothe above our com- mercial editor prepares espocially for Tiix SuxpaY BEk aresameof the condition of local trade, and his statemonts and predic- tions have made for this papsr & great repu- tation for reliablo market quotatiors, OMAHA LOAN and TRUST COMPANY Subscribed & guaranteed Capital, $50 0 Paid in Cap i s ’,,58'%%0 Buys and sells stocks and borids; negotiates commercial puper; receives and execties trusts: wols us transfer agent sud trusteo of corporu- tlons; takes charge of property; collects rents. OmahalLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E. Cor, 16th and Douglas & treete. Subsoribed & guarantoed capital, Liability of stockholders, 8 Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK J, LANGE, Caslilor, A.U. Wyman, president; J.J. 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