Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 15, 1890, Page 4

THE _DAILY BEE. B. ROBEWATER, Bditor. UBLISHED EVERY MORNING. ¢ TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Datly and Sunday, One Year . noo | Six months et & i Three Month < 2wl Buntlay Hee, Orie Year, 20 Weekly llee, One Yeoar with rreminm, 200} OFFICES, Omnba, fes Building. {(hlcago OMce, b67 RS okery Building. w S ork, Ttdoms 11 and 15 Tribuns Mutlding. Washington, N0, 518, Fourteenth Street. Council Blutfs, No. 12 Pear] Stree! South Omahia, Corner N and 25th Straets, CORRESPONDENCE. All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addre inl Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, All business letters and remittances should be uadressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, Drafts, checks and Postoffice orders 10 be made payable to the order of the Company. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors. Tier. Buildine Farnam and Seventeenth Stroets, The Bee on the Trains. 7There I« no excuse for a tailure to got Tik Bek on the treins. All newsdoalers have beon notic fled to earry a tull supply, Travelers who want TiiE BEE #iid can’t got it on trams whera otlier Omalin, papers aro- carried aro roquested to notify T Piehse be purticular to give fn all enses uil information as tu date, rallway and number your name, not for publication or un- ¥ Use, butas a guuranty of good faith. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement ot Circulation, state of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, 188 ~ (George B, 'Tzschuck, secretary of Trne Dex Publishing Company, does inly swear that theactual circulation of 11k DAILY BER for the week euding February 8. 1800, was as follows: b, e ( o, Tussdny, Feb, 4 Wednesday, 10,787 /SCHUCK, A sutacriien o In my Dl 133 l-hmua A D, Notar ry abiic. State of .Nr-hnwlm, County ot Doug! Georgn ‘B, Tascl ml. imxm duly sworn, de- foses and says that ho {8 secrotary of Tk Ii bublishing Company, that the actual daily circulation of Tuk age DALY BER for the month of February, 180, 16,006 coples; for March, 1830, 18,854 coples:” for April, 1856, 18,66 coples: for May, 1889, 18,600 copie . 1680, 18,858 muu for Jiily; 1983, 18734 18,851 “cope: for' Septen for October, 1880, 1,9 er. 1860, 10,310 coples 20,048 coples; for Januar: FEOI Sworn to before me A subACHBAL 1h i Prescnco this 14th day of February, A Do 180 Seal.] N. P. Friv, Notury Public, DISCUSSION of anne. |||0n vnll not, redound to the credit of South Omaha. HAs the council committee on useless officials become a sinecure committee? l THE new opera house scheme is run- ning a lively race with the Dakota rail- road and the million dollar hotel. THE attempt to forge an indictment against the Irish people for loving the motherland, proved a miserable fiasco. EX-SPEAKER KEIFER takes occasion to remark that he was the real author of the rules now onforced by Speaker Rkeed. Mr. Keifer needlessly shocks public notions about resurrection by a promature yawn from the grave. — -l THE opponents of annexation wisely ‘overlook the one great advantage to be gained by union—the overthrow of the reckless jobbers who have plunged South Omaha into insclvency. That alone is worth ‘‘the price of admission.” — A STRIKD on ‘‘business principles applied to city affairs,” is furnished by the council combine in multiplying the number of tax-shirkers without giving corresponding relief to the taxpayers from the horde of official sinecures. THE condition of the coal miners of Pennsylvania is a national disgrace. Ground toa mere pittance in wages and fleeced by the ‘“‘company stores,” they are t> a large extent denied the means of earning a livelihood by the coal barons, who limit the pmduct in order to maintain high prices. CLEVELAND'S cry for ballot reform has penetrated the interior districts of Peunsylvania. A Reading candidate for alderman has posted over his door the sign: “*No money paid nor beer given at this office for votes.” It is prob- ablo, however, that he runs a branch of- fice for political purposes in another suction of the ward THE decay of the sugar trust is very Suggestive. Capitalized at a fictitious Agure, the trust increased the price of s product one hundred per cent and for a time earned enormous profits. The nssurance of heavy dividends forced the price of certificates to one hundred and twenty-six, onabling the . Havemeyrs to unload and clear eight wiltion doilars. The competition of - Claus Spreckles and the tightening of the legal screws shattered the founda- tion of Lhe trust. and its certificates are " mow ¥ drug on the market at sixty - pents, - WEE———————— e dastardly murder of an inoffen- sive couple within a fow miles of 4Omaha is the most brutal crime in the history of Douglas county. And it is ull the more revolting because it was commwitted for the purpose of robbery. Mr. and Mrs, Jones were too far ad- vanced in life to offer any resistance to the highwaymen, even if they were ap- prised of danger, but thoy were taken unawares by cowardly flends. The county authoritios should spare no ef- fort or axpense to run down the perpe- trators of this horrible erime and mete ‘out speedy and effective justice with us little wercy to the assassins as they sbowed the vietims ————— L'ri election of a successor to Judge Kolley in the Fourth Penusylvania district tukes place next Tuesday. While there is nodoubt of the success of the ‘republican candidate, Mr. Reyburn, a Tow plement has éntered into the con- tost which renders the rosult of wmore n local interest. The tariff reform candidute, Mr, Ayres, is supported by a Jurge and influential faction of repub- Nicans, who favor s radical reduction of the duty on ruw materials, The issue is sauarely between high protection and sariff vedugtion. The returns will there- fore determine the extent of republican sensment in that district in favor of freo raw materials, USELESS INVESTIOATION. | Not the least of the senseless and ex- travagaunt practice of congress ic the creation of commissioners of inquiry. Very generally the only object of these commissioners is to defer action on | pending measures and improvise-pleas- | ant junketing tours at the public ex- ponse. Of all the congressional inves- | tigations that have been prosecuted | during the last ten years not halfa | dozen have resulted in any advan- | tage to the people. But what they have cost the people mounts up 1nto the hundreds of thousands of dol- lars. The present congress shows a tend- ency to bo uncommonly prolific in this particular. Several extensive investi- gations are already proposed, the com- mereial depression in the west furnish- ing an excuse for at least two. Con- gress has learned through petitions and otherwise that the western farmers are in an unfortunate situation, due to their inability to profitably market their pro- ducts in consequence of excessive rail- road chasges,and cortain senators profess vldvml'c to learn the causes, 15 an opportunity to throw a sop farmers, and it is to be done in | {ntat | ernor Larrabee of course maintains that to the the form of investigation, for which the farmers will of course pay their share. One of those whose solicitude 1n he- half of the agricultural interests of the wost has in this way been manifested is Senator Piorce of North Dakota. He proposes a commission to investigate the causes of agricultural depression. It is to consist of seven members, ap- pointed by the president, at least four of whom shall be practical farmers, and who shail be paid each at the rate of ‘ten dollars a day when engaged in active duty. The scope of the investi- gation prescribed for this commission is very broad, and at ten dollars a day there ean be no doubt it would manage to bo in active duty all the time be- tween its appointment and the meeting of the next session of cohgress, when it would be required to submit its report. Will any intelligent man contend that there is any nccessity for this proposed investigation, or that its result would likely be such as to justify tho expendi- ture on it of twenty-five hundred dol- lars a month for the next eight or nine months? Is there g farmer in the west who can be deluded with the hope that he might derive the least bonefit from such an investigation? Is iv ‘possible that Senator Pierce, who has lived many years in the west, is ignorant of the causes of agricultural depression? If so, he has boe: a very inattentive obser But the knowl- odge is so easy to obtain that he need not wait for a year throagh the tedious, expensive and not altogother trust- worthy medium of such an investiga- tion as he proposes. A great deal of the desived information is on the sur- tace and need not be probed for. Everybody who has considered the mat- ter at all knows that the chicf canse of agricultaral depression is the policy of the rmlroads, which are leagued to exact the last mll that the traffic will bear. Four and five years ago corn was carried from points in Ne- brabita to Chicago at fourteen cents a handred wherg now the rate is twenty contsand upward. A similar policy prevails thronghout the west. When the corporations exact from the farmer u bushel and a half of grain for carry- ing oune bushel to market it is inevita- ble thay agriculture will be depressed., There are other minor causes, but the one mainly accountable for the existing condition of tho agricultural interest is the unjust and unreasonable railroad charges for transportation. So long as theso are made with reference to sup- piying the greed ot the corvorations and meeting the demunds of excessive capitalization agriculture must sufler. Trusts and the tariff unquestionably play a part in keeping faurmer poor, and as to these congress can deal di- rectly for the relief of the agricultural interest. No investigation extending over a year and costing thousands of is necessary to find out these things. They are obvious to any one who will take the trouble to consider the situation intelligently. It is time there was an end to the_investigation claptrap and that congress itried to do something practical for the removal of the evils and abuses that are apparent. GOVERNOR LARRABEE'S VIEWS. Governor Larrabee of [owa, despair- ing, perhaps, of an early ending of the deadlock in the house, on Wednasday sent his message to the legislature, and it was received by that body without voading. The brief abstract of the elaborate document furnished the press presents the salient points of the mes- suge relating to matters possessing a general interest. Governor Larrabee urges that a re- vision of the tariff should e no longer delayed, and he would have the duties on sugar, rice and other necessities removed before téuching the internal revenue taxes. He -advises maintaining the principle of protection to American in- Qustries, but recogyizes the existence of undue protection, which oughtinot to be maiutained. Trusts and combina- tions are held responsible for the in- crease of the prices of many necessaries of life to the disadvantage of the furm- ers, who are not given a just equivalent in exchange for their commodities, and the evil is nggravated by the incongru- iues of the tariff, The governor defends tho railroad legislation of Towa and recommends an enlargementof the pv vsof the com- missioners to the extent oi authorzing them to make joint tariffs, He renews a former recommendation for the redue- tion of passenger fares on first class railroads to two ceuts por wile, and also recommends additional peaalties to pre~ vent the railronds furnishing free trans- portation. He would have all corpora- tious, as railvoad, telegraph and tele- phone companies, veport aunually the names of stockholders, the salavies” of ofcers and employes, their income, expenditures, as- sets and liabilities. The rail- road question is giveu very thorough consideration, and many of the recom- mendations made will doubiless com- mend themselves to the approval of the legislature. and of the people of the - state, . whils othiessnes 1656 rngnrnul as aither impracticable or unnbcessary. On the subject of prohibition Gov- the law has been a success, his claim being that drinking has been reduced to one-tenth of what it was before the passage of the law, and that crime has been greatly di- minished. _The only departure from the law he recommends is an amendment to prevent indue searches of private houses or prosecutions. Tt is well that the governor has had his eyes opened to the wrong and injustice that have been practiced under the prohibi- tory law 1o tho matter of searching private houses and subjecting innocent porsons to prosecution, the result in many casesof porsonal malice on the part of the officers, and doubtless there will be little opposition in the logislature to changing or re- moving the provision of the law which permits such abu Governor Larrabee’s assertion that drinking has been reduced toono-tenth of what it was before the adoption of the law will not stand against the evidence furnished by the veturns of the United States revenue collectors and the figures of the amount of spirituous and malt liquors carried into the state, nor will it be nccepted by anyone who is at all familiae with the extent to which intoxicating liquors are openly and surreptitiously sold in every v of Iowa, It s possible that the criminal redord has for the whole state been somewhat dimin- ished, but granting this, is it to be ascribed altogether to the prohibitory law? May there not be other iufluences to account in part at least for this im- provement, justas there are in other states not having a prohibitory law where a like condition is shown? The effort of Governor Larrabee, in com- mon with all prohibition advocates, to credit their policy with all moral and social ndvancementis too disingenuous to have weight with people whose minds are not harnessed to o hobby. The prohibitory law of Towa has produced move wrongs and abuses than it has reme- “died, to say nothing of the injury it has done tothe material prosperity of the state, and the well known facts, of which Governor Larrabes can not be ignorant, overwhelmingly disprove the claim that the law has been a success. It is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty whether the present Towa legislature will do anything re- garding either railroad legislation or the prohibition law.. The parties are so nearly equal in strength, and the struggle to make party ocapital out of these questions will be so keen, that it is more than probable little or nothing will be done. [ndeed, it is possible that the legislature may expend its life in a deadlock. LEU THEM PONDER OVER L. Ex-Councitman Hascall has taken the field against annoxation. This he has a perfect right to do if he believes it to be to his own interest.” But when he makes assertions in public that are wild and yisionary we feel bound to set him right, Mr. Hascall declares that Chicago did not annex suburban towns untii they had larger populations than South Omaha now has. This is not true. Chi- cago has nnnexed fifteen or sixteen sub- urban towns within the last year and the largest of them did not have two thousand voters. Mr. Huscall compares South Omaha to Minneapolis and p dicts that South Omaha may some day outstripOmaha in population. Thisisthe thinnest of moonshine. Minneapolis is ten miles distant from St. Paul. Huad she bzen within two or three miles, the two cities would have been consolidated many years ago. But Minneapolis is sepurated from St. Paul by ten miles of gullies, gulches and rocky hills. No motor line or cable road has been con- sidered feasible between the cities up to date. Minuneapolis is more popuious than St. Paul, but that fact is due to superior natural advantages. Minneapolis hus the St. Authony falls, with power enough to operate the largest flouring and lum- ber milis in America. She has also the advantage over St. Paul in the lakes thav make her a great summer resort, and in the beautiful plain that gives her vesidence property without expen- sive grading. South Omaha is practically part of Omaba already. The stock yards and packing houses are within four miles of the Omaha court house. .The lay of the land between vhe two cities offers no obstacles to annexation. Moreover, South Omaha by reason of her peculiar ndustries is not destined to ircrease materinlly in population, although she will no doubt keep on increasing her manufacturing facilities, ~ She will have more lard relineries, tanneries, fertilizing mills, canning factories aud kindred concerns that utilize the materials of the packing houses. But all these concerns only -make South Omaha more undesirable as a place of residence for people who are not absolutely competled to live there. Hundreds of people who are now doing business in South Omaha live in this city, and the botter the facilitiee are for going back and forth, the larger will bo the number of those who prefer to reside as far away as possible from the peculiar simells that emanate from the slaughter bouses snd lard refiueries, These are indisputable truths and property owners in South Omaha mgy as well faco them and ponder over them belore they reject the friendly over- tures for annexation. e———— ANOTHER REMINISCENCE. A property owner on South Six- teenth stroet propounds the - following questions and desires them to be ans- wered through THE BEE: 1. Has the city refunded any paving taxes paid by the street railway company b 2. If'so, how much did thie city refand and ‘when was the movey paid overt " Upon iuquiry the city treasurer in- forms us that the eity hus wefunded $20,148.68, from the paving fund, to the street ruilway company. This sum was drawn out of the treasury on Nuvgmber 27, 1889, The fact that the street railroad com~ panies huad drawa this large sum ———— outof the paving fund was kept so quiet that T Ber was not aware of it until inquiry. was made in response to the requestuhove cited, Th's is onlylanother reminiscence of thelate Brodteh administration which it will be rémpmbered engineercd the forty lhu\mmfl dollar gas claim through the council,in the last hour of Mr. Broatch’s tedm. Why the money which had be#h paid in by the street roilroads ag theie proportion of paving taxes should be refunded to them and the burden heaped upon the prop- erty owners will always remain a mys- tery. THE jobbing interests of Omaha, rep- resenting a business of over forty mil- lion a yeur, exclusive of the stock in- terest, are in position to command just and equitablo rates from the railroads. That the jobbers are constantly dis- criminated against is due to a dominat- ing selfish spirit. Every city of note in the west except Omaha, maintains a bureau for the sole purpose of watching railroad rates, recelving tho com- plaints of merchants, and seeing to it that the interests of the respective cities are not menaced by the corpor ations. A few years ago a piimilar bureau was maintainod in Omaha, but it was permitted to languish and die by the penny wise and pound foolish mem- bers of the board of trade. A saving of a few thousand a year was effected but how much has that niggardly poli cost the business interests of the city in diseriminating rates? It is safe to say that the losses in one year would maintain the bureau for five, Lvery branch of trade aiseriminated against now must defend itself alone, whereas, with all interests united and in the hands of a compotent representa- tive, compluints of unjust rates would soon disappear. Railroad managers take advantage of cou- flicting interests to exact all the traffic will bear and Omaha jobbers de- serve to be pinched for their short- sighted policy in ignoring the principle, “Aninjury to one isan injury to all.” The remedy for injustice in rates is the establishment of a freight burcan, and the appointment of an expert agent, to speak for the united jobbing interests of the city. THE act opening the Sioux reser tion to settlement vpartially rights a crubl wrong perpetrated by the Cleve- land administration. The aect of con- gress redueing the reservation recog- nizes the cluim of the setilers who in good faith entered the Crow Creek lands in 1883:4, and’ confirms their right to the lands then occupied ana cultivated. President Arthur'’s procla- mation declaring the Crow Creek reser- vation open to settlement induced hun- dreds of familips to enter the land. They moved:all their possessions to the country, rélyihg explicitly on the honesty of thé.government. If Presi- dent Arthur'wronged the Indians by premature action, the revocution of the proclamation by Cleveland was a wrong tenfgld greater oun the white settlers, who, were driven from their homes by tie soldiers and their erons destroyed. 'hé hardship inflicted on the people was us cruelasit was inde- fensible, and the vecognition of their rights five yoars later only partiaily compensates for the losses and injuries inflicted. BELT line railroads are good in their way, but the greatest commercial need of Omaha and Douglus county is a pub- lic highway into the city open on equal terms to all railroads seeking entrance to the city. At present every owner of property on a prospective right-of-way inflates his price fourfold and all unite in massacreing incoming corporations. SOUTH OMAHA'S industrial and com- mercial future is dependent on Omaha. That bond of imion can be strengthened by umiting under one municipal gov- ernwent. . IECONOMY und retrenchment as prac- ticed by the present municipal ma- chine places a premium on tax evasion and eucourages mendicun among money making corporations. Blaine a Typical An fcan. Spracuse Jourual, Jumes G. I e i8 w tyvical Ameri- can. Not only that, out he is the reo- resentative and champion of all that Am:ri cans hold dear, By wora and act he has ul- ways maintained a characteristic Americau- 18m in Opposition to those movements aimed to thwart or overtlirow that policy. S — 1¢ Don'c Sivnxe * New York World, “The opening of the Sioux reservation sug- gests the idea that wne Louisiana lottery might find a foothold there, whera 1t could neithor Sioux nor be Siouxed. What are the South Dakotans domg that they are not making 8 bid to the gamblers to step in and pay their ruuning governmeutal expenses! el Ll Kausns Lo Move. New York Sun. ‘The mayor of a Kansas town has actually refused to force the proprietors of billiard rooms to take the paint off their windows, ‘Pnere is little freadom left in bleeding Kan- 8as, and the facg that there 1s a town in the stato in which wey can play billiurds with. out a mob of, fapatics glowering at them through the windows 8 sign of progres whereof the sunflower state should be proud. n o —— Under f3d taflunnces. New York World. (Den.) Governor (.Aln)pbell (Dem.) of Obio, bas tendered the importent office of railway commissioner tg) gne *Doc’’ Norton of Tif- fin. Thus fellow {Norton is & common, cor- ner-grocery politician, Ie has served sev cral terms in the state legislature, und his reputation is augwling but good. His name has been identifidd with more than one ques - tionable transas He finds the trade of politics profituble, - Mr. Campbell doubtloss feels under obligation’ to the fellow for ser- vices rendered 1 /the last campaigo,butto pay him with a high and rosponsible office—one n which 8 weak man would he solely jempted—is & poor way to strengthen the democratio party in Obio. The indications are that Governor Cempbell is under the in- flueuce of the worst elements of his party. —— » ISRiOh Al ‘l » POLITICAL. State Senator Johs E. ih_vhurn of Penn- sylvania, who is to sugeesd tho late Judgo Kelley 1n congress, 18 forty-five years of age. He was admitted to the Philad elphia bar in 1870, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Perhaps the best way for the French authorities to treat the young Duc d'Orieans would be jto meet his bluff by permitting him to enlist in the army a8 a‘common soldier, Thus he would be relegated to obscurity and wonld bs sub- jegted to twholesome work aud discipline, He, at least, would not be digunified into the vosition of a patriotic martyr, as in the event of his imprisonmont. General Malone is living in comparative rotirement in Washington, He doss not hob. nob with his former cronies ut Chamberiin's and he spends a great deal of time in taking long solitary walks. Chicago Tribune: Let the Gentiles lift up their voices and rejoice with exceeding groat joy. Yen, on the borders of the great salt lake let them sound the loud tfmbrel and toot their loud bazoo. Their day of de- liveranve is at hand. St. Lowis Globe-Democrat: 1t would please the country to ascertain that some ®ood federal office h been reserved in order to reward General Goft for his gallant fight against democratic perjury and lar- ceny in West Virginia, St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Judge Flem- ing has three moro years to serve in the ofice of governor of West Virginia, to which Nathan Goft was elected, but Flem- ing is not wagering any money that either himself or any other democrat will huve the office in the next term, Kansas City Journal: Tt was doubtless very aistastetul to State Senator Becker of Montana to be brought into the senate chamber by a deputy sheriff and counted rresent, though not voting, in order to make a quorum. But it was Senator Becker's own fault. He should nave reconciled him- self to the inevitable. The lieutenant gov- ernor of Montuna was pursuing the ssme eminently proper course that has been adopted by Speaker Reed. BLAINE'S UNLUCKY HOUSE, Thirty Years of Evil Fate Hovers About tts Walls. The death of Mrs, Coppinger, Secre- tary Blaine's daughter, directs atten- tion anew to the unlucky house in which the Blaines live, says a Washington dl to the Nn_\v York S\m Ths ine i nms mut hls kcaneqt per- sonal sorrows. There were fears of calamity overwuking him or his family when it was announced that he had leased the old building, and gossip, superstititions and tragic, was heurd among all who knew the history of the place. Had it been a haunted house, Rad ghosts been sean there in conven- tion, there couid not have been more talk. Sume folks there were, though, who believed that the luck of Blaine woold offset everything, and when, on the gecond Wednesday of last month, the family of the secretary of state gave a reception to their hosts of friends and the rooms were filled with a gay, fortune-favored throng, the protestants against superstition de- clared that the spell, if ever there were v, was broken. Yet within a week the eldest son of the secretary. Walker Blaine, fell sick and died. That mude tallc about the house, and people said it wasan unlucky spot. Now Mrs. Coppinger, Blaine daughter, is dead, and once more the story of calamity is told. Theremay be somethiug, there may be wnothin, in the tale of superstition, but certain it is that if the house was in the real estate market today it would be long before it got a taker. The nouse stands on La- It wus built before the its earliest occupants spencer. Upon his fami- ly the evil sp vits first visited their fate. Tho secretury’s son swas a lieutenant in the nuvy, and while his father was in the house his son was hanged to the yard arm of his ship for hs allegad partivipation in a mutiny. Phen the ‘Washington club had the pluce during fayette square. war and one of President Buchanan’s — administr tion. The men about town he- longed ' to the club, and Philip Barton Key, the rec ‘l(’sn adventurous trict attorney of the District of lumbia. was one of the members. I'here had long been talk connecting him with the handsome wife of General Sickles then a representative in con- gress. Tha Sickles house on La- fayette square. and one February morn- ing when the sun was shining a band- ikerchief was scen iluttering from one of the wiridows in the house of General Sickles. Young Key answered it and steppad buoyantly up the square, Sick- les, who had seen the sfgnals, caught him in front of the housc, and in a moment Key lay on the walk wounded to death. Itisonly a few years since the tree against which he fell was cou down ary S ocenpied v.ho place. On April 14, 1865, while he iil in bed, & man came 1o the house say- ing he had been ordered to feteh some e ud deliverit in person to Mr. I'his wus (h-nluil im, but the knocked down Frederick W. 1d a servant, rushed into 2 secretary room and tried kill him with a dagger. He eas cuptured, hul he escaped and rode tand- off on his horse. which had bu-u ing in the streot. Payne.and after a wh and nuL to death. The war depart. ty fearing that other attempts might be made to assassinate Mr. Seward, or- dered that a sentry patrol before the house night and a; T'nis was done and for four years continued, though for a long pact of that time the Sewards were not there. tthe mansion retary Belliuap. He had not been the: long before his wife died. That ended the oceupancy of the house as a resi- was taken by Se dence. I'he governmnent rented it and used it for the commissary general’s office. When the commissary general’s stall was moved to the new building of the war department the house was left vacant and no onc dared toface the evil futes by taking it untill Mr. Blaina leased it. He tore down the partition that made rooms where the Seward as- sassination hud occurred, and with a lavish spending of money ' transformed the musty old office apnrtments and made them beautiful with the furnish- ings of & rich man’s home. But the decorations huve seemed wmore like those of a tomb, und men want to know what will be next in the series of mis- fortunes that appear to come to those who inbabit this historic house. Millons in the Senate. How many millions are represented in the senate ? ‘I'be following is an es- timate of the rich men who have been elected vo the federal senate, says the New Yorlk Journal g i §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ S = :—.3:—‘ =, §§§§§§ ’ g |8 54,000,000 There are Seventeon names in the list and only four are those of democrats— Barbour of Virginia, Brown of Georgia, and Payne and trice of Ohie. MUST JUSTIFY DIFFERENCES. The Live Stock Exchunge of South Omaha in Dead Earnest. COMPLAINT OF STATE MILLERS, Benton, Cowdery and Steen Cene sured for Haste—Another Com- pliment for the Governor— City and State News. LixcoLy, Neb., Feb. 14.~ [Special to Tas Bes.)—Toquiry was made of Secratary Gar- ber this morning as totho action of the live stock exchange of South Omana, in session yesterday, which he attended and of which notice is given in Tue BEs this morning. Tho secretary says he was prosent at the meeting at tho request of mombers of tho ex- change for the purpose of jointly discussing the local rates on live stock to South Omaha as compared with the existing rates from points in Kansas to Kansas City, and also to afford the exchange information respecting apparent inconsistencies ia the Nebraska local ratos from aifferont sections of tho state. The secretary declines to state the result of tho couference or to give any in- formation , respecting the probable action of the 'exchange in tho matter, However, it may oconfidently be said that the roads will ero long be called upon to justify certain ap- parent discriminations or submit to a reduc- tion of the livo stock rates from various points in the state to South Omaha. Readers of Te Brr will rembor, notice beiug given through its columns of tho o tomplated compluint and petition to the state board of transportation from the State Mill- ers’ association, The cause of complaint ap- pears to be discrimination in sales on mill stuffs from milling points in Iowa as com- pared with the rates of like comwoditios from Kansas City, Leavenwortl, Atchison and St. Joe, to like destinntions. It seems that while Nebraska lines are willing and unxious to grant the state millers equal and just rates in competition with manufactur- ‘ers south of them, they are prevented from doing 80 under tho binding rules of some of their trafflc associations. T'rafiic association rules, however, will in this caso be com- pelled to give way to the authority of the state. AN EXPLANATORY LETTER. Hon, Smith Caldwell, state oil inspector, addressed a letter to W. S. Stowart, jr., Western oil tank line company of Omaha, to- day. in which he says: Replying to yours of the 4th instant in re- gard to a lotter written from this office to one A. A. Ege, Ewing, Neb., would say that the letter was written in reply to one from Mr, Ege, dated Decomber 23, 1889, stating that acyeral merchants in his place had bought a carload of oil from your company, consisting of prime white, water whita and headlight oil. The two first oils were branded 150 degrees fire test, the latter 175 degrees fire test and all branded by the state inspector 108 degrees, flash test and asking -about the meauning of 108 degrees flash test. 1'his oftice Wroth him, as has been done to mauy othar re- taf dealers about the state, that headiight oil, 175 degrees fire test, should not test less than 130 degrees flash test with our Foster cup. I willadmit that it is going beyond what the law absolutely requires of the state inspector, but the law does not prohibit. an official as the servant ot the people from trying to protect their interests, and I wish to say further thut I desize to protect thoe consumers of oil as well as the retail dealers in the state from being imposed on i the following manuer, to-wit: When a retail dealer gives his order for three different grades of oil, the jobber caunot fill his order out of the same kind of oil and charge him from 3 to 4 cents a gallon more for one bar- rel than he does for the other when it is all the low priced oil, as the 108 degrees flash test would indicate on the 175 degrees fire test oil. Respectfally Swirit T. CALDWELL, State Oil 1nspector. TKxplaining the letter Caldwell said that Stewart had written him concernmng the let- ter to Ege, expressing surprise at it and aaying that he . was satisfied that any oil refinery in the world would say that 150 oil is called “headlight” ag many times as anything else. Stewart, he says, also suggestea that when an inspector attempted to draw the live oil whtn the fire test should recomwmend the name headlignt, that official goine beyond tbe requirements of the law. Stewart concluded his letter by saying: “I[ you are going to establish the flash test for the brands that we use as trade warks on the other end of the barrel, it will be necessary for us to_know just what flash test is required to satisfy the different trade marks we use.” In this counection Mr. Caldwell said further: *‘I wish to impress on the retail dealers the importance ot ordering from the test or inspoction instead of from various trade marks adopted by the several compa= mu. such as ‘beadlight,’ ‘water white,’ ‘prime white,’ eto. I have known of retail dealers ordering these several brauds and they have been suppliea by filling all the barrels out of the same tank, The law reg- ulates the flash test. All headlight oil, 175 tire test, should test not lower than 150 de- grees with the Foster cup. When the retal dealer wants headlight oil let him specify 130 degrees flash test and he will get it, while if he orders *headlight' oil he 18 liable to get most any wrade that the company chooses to send.'’ & ALION'S PARMEKS' ALLIANCE. In the Lincoln correspondence of one of the Omaha dailies this morning there ap- peared a reference to letter of Sec Garbers to the Hamilton County I aliiance, in ackuowledgement of the olutions adopte 15EE of 3LfllL~rd.l 11 16ctor was HoE Intended. [or. hablloatiop: bul since the ference made to it by the Omaha pupers is misleading, w copy of the same is offered to ' BEE for publication, which is us follow. ‘o the Hamilton County Farmers' alli- ance, Aurora, Neb,, V. Horn, president, H. the enforcoment of a just rate demanded A vompromise to secura falr treatmoent for one clnss of trafic while the other ciass 18 left to suffer would be, in my mimnd, begging the question. - Very roapectfully, « S Ganner, CONDEMNED FOR TIASTE, The following resolutions were unanie mously adopted by the Wabash Farmers' ale liance of Cass county at a meeting held 1"ob. ruary 12, 1800 Whoreas, The extortionate foreign rates now asked and_socured by the railroads of the stats on farm products has lowere prices below the cost of production, th making it impossible for farmers to m their obligations or pay their debts, there causing & genoral depression of busine throughout the state ; therefore be it Resolved, That we the mewmbers of tho Wabash Farmers’ alliance, No. 844, of Casa county, Nebraska, having the management of freight rates In oharge exerciss thoir authority and demand of the railroads doing business in the state such rates as will wivo the needed relief, and that they enforse this demand to the fuil extent of their power Resolved, That we oondemn the action of Auditor Ienton, Secretary Cowdry ana Commissioner Steen of the stato board of transportation in . 00 cep ting with unnecessary hasto a reduction of 10 per cent on freight rates, of 10 conts por bundred will give the neede relief. Resolved, That we heartily approve and appreciate the effort of Attorney General Loeso to rolieve tho people from tho unjust and unroasonable freight rates now de. muanded by the railroads and pledge him our undivided support in his eudeavor w remove the great burden, Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions rwarded to the Farmers’ alliance for publication. B. . AMES FERGUSON, cretary. RESOLUTIONS, We, the citizens of Loon convened in accordance with the call of our honorable governor, John M, or, upon whom 00 much praise cannot be expressed for the noblo and earnest manner in which he has championed the righta of an oppressed people, who find 1t imperatively necessary that there be granted a reduction on the cost of transportation of corn to Chicago of at least 5 cents per bushel, a compliance now with thia roasonable demand will be grate- fully recognized. Resolyed, That th@freight charges on all kinds of grain are extremoly out of propor- tion with the prices received, and especially on that of corn, that this ineeting heartily Presid ent. ALLE and vicinity, commends sud endorses all fforts to puty forth to remedy this great evil, fully urge upon his honor the Trans-Missouri associution not to be hoodwinked by the insignificant reduction of 10 per cent which has already been made as an off-set and to quiet these meetings. Resolved, That the present reduction now made to take effect February 15, 1890, from Nebraska points to Chicago should also be made to St Lm"?fl that as it will now bo there will be no benélit derwved by us, as tho price, with the reduction, merely puts Chi- cago on the same basis as St. Louis. W. A, ForsyTi, C. O. NeLsoN, J. E. BrarD and fifty othors. CITY AND STATE NEWS. Dr. M. E. Jones should have had tho credit for the paper on “‘Insanity,” resd bo- fore the recent meoting and bauquet of tho regulars, instead of Dr. Holyoke, as has been stuted. Auditor Benton and wife have gone to Hot Springs, Ark. Mrs, Benton has been on the sick list for several wecks past. Tho auditor will return the first part of next week, General Webster, the alleged defaulting treasurer of Merrick couuty, was in this city today and secured Attorneys Darnell and Babook to defend him 1n his™ cuse now pending in the district court of that county. The Dime Savings bank of Omuba fileX and rospeots believing that nothing less than a reduc uo\ d =~ the governor and - articles of incorporations with the secretary s of stato today. Capital stock $200,000, Iu- corporators: P, C. Himebaugh, W. H. Russell, C. H, l’nynu ‘L. H. H. Taylor, G. M. V\uum or, 17, Hills, W. A. Goddard, Alvin Saundexs, N. Merrivil 7. A, Glilsepio and W, F. Alten. The American Steam Boiler and 1nspection insurance company of New York filed notico with Insurance Auditor Alleu today that it intended to aiscontinue transacting business in the state. H. Worthington, charged with illegal vot- g, was found not guilty today and the court very promptly discharged him. A HOME IN A CANOE. The Strange Residence of an plorer at Cape Colony. I have been leading a strange but far from disagreeabie life. I have been ex- ploring and surveying a large district between old Calabar and the Cam- eron, To do the water part of the journey I hired at Old Calabar o large native canoe, with a house in it, an ar- rangement faintly msamblmg the house-boats on the Thames. At one end of it is a large box of sand. On this my cooking fire is made. A firo, in fact, 18 kent_burning duy and mghr, 50 that' with " few minutes’ no- tice I can have o cup of tea or cocon. In the house, which has two small windows and two sliding doors and a thatched roof, thore s just room for my bed, dx»»qlng-hug table, chair and can- teen. The canteen is a wicker-work with inives. forks, plates, ete. here are aiso shelves and hooks in tho house, by. which a lot of thingsare stored a space. Outside the part of the w level floo sheltered b, in a surprisihgly small house, in the forward nos, is u clear spuce with and small seats round, an extension of the thatchea roof. Here, in daytime, [ put my table and sit, oither eating my menls or making my survey as tho canoe glides along, .propellod by eighteen paddlervs, This is really most pleasant, writes H. H. Johnstone, tho AN Cape Colony. The motion of the canoe is 80 smooth that I can write or dvaw unshaken, and —Gentlevmen: Acting knowledge the receipt and fi wopy of the resolutions of- your body. adopted in session assembled (‘ebru- ary 8, 1500, having reference to railway rates of churges for the transportstion of agricultural produce, T'le resolutions will be duly submitted to the board at its earliest session, and will, [ feel safe in assuring you, receive that care- ful consideration due formal expressions of opinion emanating from your alliance, Permit me to respectfully request of you information respecting the ‘true intent of your ussociation as conveyedl the follow- ing seutence taken from the resolution; viz *That we demand a reduction of not lews than 10 cents per 100 pound: 1o view of the very geueral discussion now prevailing in this state, with refereuce to what would be a just rate for the transporta. tion of corn from our siate to the eastern markets, the thought is, that the phraseolog: referred tois ac expression of ovinion fron your assewmbly as 1o & proper and just redu tion from existng rates on corn to Chicago, but this interpretation is unot iu accord- ance with the precediug statemeut, con- tained in the resolutions, viz; That the stute board of transportation has power Lo reduce the rates, Of course, it is well known to you that the bourd has no control of rates of carringe between points of carriage other than those within the state. T'o coerce the railroads into a reduction of interstate rates by threats of annihilating local rates would, 0 my miad, be a very questionable action on the part of Nebraska's board of transporta- tion. The regulation aud control of local rutes is separale and distincv from the lation of through or interstate rates. tranaportation board has uudisputed wwer to fix local rates, aud the sworn w»y n regulate uul mllnhlu the rates, -nw' faie uw X 'iu”w e " ng o fair ' on fl railroads. uumvo ud numuua, b-y above mentioned, then it is the duty of the board to reduce them, & _duty which ean- not be evaded by passiog beyond 1ts juris- diction and, in couaideration of a cessation of excessive rates on through traflic, permit & coutiauation of local extortion, Through trafic is subject to regulation under federal luw, rezulation just u shwmw as local trafiic under our atate la ‘The fact of the Olluun Fate on corn being ust rate should oe established hlnu the luterstate commerce commission, and when my tabie is laid with u whito cloth, napkin and bright silver, it at once provokes an appetite, SICK HEADACH 'Mouth,Coated Tongue, Pain in the 8ide, TO! PID LIVER, &c. - They regulato the Boj and prevent Coustipation and Plles, smallest and easiest to take, Only mupm doss. 0 aavial. Parely Vogeiahia, P 25 cer OARTER MEDIOINE 00., OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST T | COMPANY Bubscribed & guarantesd Capital, Pita i Capitat - b Buys and sells stocks avd bonds; n commercinl DADer; recelves and executes truets: #ots as transfer agont and trusteo of Corpora- tlons; takes Llnrlh of property; collocts rents OmahalLoan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK troets. ‘D:‘DOO 3 nogotintes FRANK J, LANGE, Casblor, Orricens: A. U, Wyman, prosident; J.J.Brown, vice lll‘ulld!lln!' W.T. \'l!y-nm. muum:‘ Kiiokis 0 Loansin lny nmount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral Becurity, at Lowest Current Rates . N s, 1 N B