Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MARCH 8. 1890, T - , I'HE DAILY BEE. " B. ROSEWATER, Editor. : = - FUEBLISHED BVERY MORNING. oA xady TERMS OF 'DSCRIPTION Daily and Bunday, One Year Bix months . ‘Three Months see Funday Hee, One Year, . Weekly Hee, One Year with Premiu CES. oo nuu:uam vt Batidl Oftice, 7 2 ullding, ork, I?: 0ms I'l‘:m]r{'n Tribuns Dullding. ashington, No, 517 Fourteenth Street, Council Blufis, No. 12 Poarl Street. Fouth Omaha, Corner N anl 2ith Straets. CORRESPON DENCE. Allcommunications relating to news and edi- torinl matter should be addressed to the Editor- 1al Lepartrent. BURINESS LETTERS, Al business letters and remittances snould be aadressed to The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha. Drafis, chocks and Postoffios orders 10 be made payable to the order of the Company. Tiie Bee Publishing Company, Proprictors, Nier Building Farnam and Seventesnth Streets. Oniah THE BEE ON THE TRAINS. There is no excuse for a fallure to get Tig Bi on the trains. 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Such orders will be veccived by telephone, mail or tele- graph up to 12 o’clock tonight. copios, DOoDpLAN stock has gone up one point. ————— 1118 suggested that if Chicago will cultivate the farms recently annexed to ‘ity, she will not require outside aidin making a stunning exhibit of ag- ricultural products at the world’s fair. NOor LAurAver has es- d politics for the nonce und has retired behind his plow preparatory for spring sowing. If he raisca o full crop of anti-monopoly corn he will not have returned to his farm in vain JOIA Most warns the working- men that they mustarm for the fray and be prepared to fight at & moment’s natice. Foreunately for the working- men Most will not lead them to actual battle—not while his mouth is in a healthy condition and a bedstead can be found to hide under. Tue efforts of John Chinaman to cir- rumvent the exclusion act are well cal- rvulated to prove that Bret Harto’s celes- tial was not a figure of fancy. The ex- netions of the lawyers of San I'rancisco force the Mongolians to seck cheaper routes into the country, and the north- ern and southern frontiers are dotted with singles and pairs dodging over the boundary. The capture of a bunch at Detroit serves to illisteate the extent of the traflic and the facility with which the law is evaded Tne signs of the time can not be mis- reag. The farmers of Nebrass<a, Iown, Tllinois and other states are awakening to the nocessity of united action. They ure bunding themselves into granges and allinnces. They are preparing themselves for the day not far off when by eoncerted action they will sweep class legislation from the statute books and throw off the yoke put on their necks by corporations and monopolies, The handwriting is on the wall, Let those who seck favor at their hands heed well the warning. THe huge guarantee fund prepared by Chicago a few weeks ago seems to have suddenly dwindled down to a very small sum. The balloon isin danger of collupse unless congress comes to the nssigtance of the Windy city with a lib- exal uppropriation. In view of the fact that Chioago strutted around Washing- ton blufling alt competitors for the lo- cation with a full hand, declaring that it did not want government ussistance and that millions and enoecgy to match veere lying uround loose on the shores of Lake Michigan, ready to make the fair & monument to western grit and gumption, it is mortifying to obsérve that this admivablo spirit is rapidly changing to a selfish raid on the na- tional treasury. It is bavely possible the stories in circulation are the inven- ton of the enemy. Meanwhile the country impatiently awaits a vigorous deniul from Chicago. ALTHOUGH prohibition will not go fnto active operation in South Dakota until the ist of May, it has alveady had a doprossing effect on the material in- terests of the state. No one pretends that the enforcement of tyrannical and vindietive lnws will diminish the vratlic in liquor. The experience in lows and Kansasgnot to mention u dozen eastern Btutos, establishes this fuct. Under or- dinary conditions the people of Seuth Dakota would not resist the operations of the law, but it strikes their emoty purses and imposes burdens without any corvesponding benefit, The strife and coutontion that invariably follows, the cost mills sot up for the benelit of con- stables, petty judges and spies, and the shattering of public confidence, will impair and rvetued the development of the state, The incroase of taxation coming on the hoeels of crop fuilure presonts a gloomy outlook for the peo- Vlo of the state. LAND OFFICE REFGRMS. o a review of the work of the sev- eral departments of the government during the first vear of President Har- rison’s administration, the ‘New York Tribune §s especially complimentary to the management of the land office under Commissioner Groff. At no time in its history has this office made a more creditable record than since it has been in charge of its present head. Confronted at the very outset of his administration with the fact that there had accumulated more than one hundred thousand cases over and above any former amount, he started 1n with a task of herculean pro- portions. This accumulation of cases was due to the order of Commissioner Sparks under which final action upon all entries of the public lands, except private cash entries and such serip loca- tions us were not dependent upon acts of settlement and cultivation, was sus- pended in large sections of territory in the west,as well as upon all timber entries under the act of 1875, and upon all cases of desert land entries. Out of this grew the establishment in the land office of a division of re- review, which instead of helping mat- ters threw everything into worse dis- order than ever, and simply furnished the land office with a pretext for with- holding patents from settlers on the public domain. One of the earliesi acts of the repub- lican administration of the office was to abolish this ra-review division, and the eighteen thousand cases then pending before it were sent back to where they had come from, examined, and promptly disposed of, resuliing in the issue of a large number of patents. This course had an excellent effect in restoring popular confidence in the land office, which was rapidly growing to be regarded as hostile rather than friendly to the settlerson the public domain, Mecanwhile there has been no abatement of care and vigilance for the prevention of fraud, but on the contrary, under a better system of examination there is less chance than ever before for successful fraudulent practices. The utmost thoroughness is observed in the investigation of all claims deemed il- legal. An important feature of the work performed by the land office within the last twelve months is the suspension of noless than twenty-one million azceres of raitrond grants, pending legislation for forfeitures by congress. If legislative action should be had on these grants it would restore to the public domain absolutely and open to settlement large ' tracts of land now closed to the settler. [n other directions the present administration of the lund office has attempted to re- store to the public domain grants not fairly earned, and in muny cases 1t has succoeded, The policy of the land office as now administered is to subserve and protect the interests of honest settlers, and all such are assured a fair and just treatment under all circumstances. The affaivs of the office have not before for many years been in as good condi- tion us at present, the work has never heen carried on with better:system, aud there is cverywh complete public confidence in the admimstration of this most important branch of the public service. Commissioner Groff has made an enviable record as a public official in oue of the most arduous posi- tions under the government. ALLISO. ARIFE VIEWS. Senator Allison is constrained by a sense of propriety from making any ex- tended public statement of his views vogarding n rovision of the tariff, but what he said to the Washington cor- respondent of THE BEE supplies a gen- eral iden of his position and the course upon this subject his influence will tak: This is in a measure reassuring to those who hope for such reform of the tariff as will give relief to the great body ol consumers by reducing the duties an neces- saries. The announcement of the senator that he believes there should be a liberal reform of the tariff, and that it should reach those articles most lavgely consumed by the people, puts him in line with the dominant senti- ment of his party in the west, if not in- deed in overy section of the country. He does not propose to abandon the policy of protection, but he has evi- dently concluded that there are articles whieh no longer need the fostering support of a war tarifl, and that the time has come when the people may be given relief from oppressive taviff taxation without endangeriag the profitable maintenance of well-established indus- tries. The senator did not say how far he is prepared to go in this direction, but his remarks allow the inftrence that what he means by a liberal reform of the taviff will be found to compre- hend most of the necessaries. A very significant foature of this in- terview is that relating to internal taxes, in which the senator says he would prefe to maintain these taxes and make a heavy reduc- tion on articles in common “1 do not seo,” said Mr, thson, “how we cun sustain any action which will give the country free tobacco and maintain the present duties on woolens, cheap clothing and sugar.” Can there be o vensonuble doubt that the republican puarty would find it extremely difficult to justify such action? There is no gen- eral demand for the abelition of the to- 'co tax from those who use tobacco, because it is not felt to be oppressive, and besides there is no certainty that the counsumers would be hene- fitted in the least il the taxes wore abundoned. Kven if it be ndmitted that tobacco is a necessity to mast of those who use 1t, which is the argument upon which the advocates of removing the tax mainly vely, and that the con- sumer would got the benefit in reducod price to the full amount of the tax, the relief would be insiguificant compared with the advantages to be expoected to the whole body of the people from n ro- duction of duties on necessaries of uni- L use, The proposal to do away with the e. o taxes, in order to re- duce the revenue of the government, is acceptable ounly to those who are hostile to a liberal reform of the tariff, for it is cbvious if the government is deprived of the revenue from these tuxes very few chunges in tarill dutics use. A vt e will be possible. Any real relief of the people must come from lower im- posts, and it will ba a grave mistake if the republicans in congress fail to see this as Senator Allison does. The statement of Kis position by the Jowa senator gives o more hopeful as- pect to the outlook for tariff revision in the interest of the poople. Not a great deal in this direction is to be expected of the ways and means committee of the house. The strong devotion of its chairman to the high tariff policy for- bids it. But with Allison and a few republicans in the senate seeing clearly the expediency and duty of lowering the dutics on necessaries, and making such a general revision of the tariff as will commend itself to the intelligent judgment of the country, there is rea- s0on to expect legislation that will give the people needed relief without injury to the labor or the industries of the country. Sm—— THE record of the first legislature of South Dakota under statehood can haraly be considered a model for future bodies. Called into existence with putriotic flourishes and pledges of great reforms, it frittered away its time in fruitless measures and plunged the young state into burdensome debts. At the threshhold of statehood, South Da- kota was confronted with, the difficuit problem of making the ordinary reve- nue derived from taxation meet the ex- penses of a largely increased army of officials. A partial failure of crops in- creased the hardsnips of the people and made it impossible to collect taxes due. Under thase conditions strict economy was necessary to tide the state over tho finaneinl s. But the legis- lature forgot its earlier promises in the excitement of the closing hours and not only continued but increased the ex- travagances of territorial times. Offices have been multiplied to such an extent that it will require a quarter of a mil- lion dollars more than the receipts to maintain the government this year. The constant presence of the corpora- tion lobby prevented the passage of laws regulating railroads. As a whole thi positive detriment to thestate, for the few good laws enacted are counterbal- anced by the mischievous extravagance which imposes increased tax burdens on a struggiing people and leaves a legacy of debt for settlement in the early future. THE announcement that the inter- state commission will visit Nebraska and investigate the charges of railroad discriminatiop, is a sweot morsel of news for the state board of transporta- tion. - It saves the trio of Sphinxes, temporarily at least, from the disagree- able duty of enforcing the law on their friends, the corporations, and serves as an excuse to defer action on the vital question of local rate reduction. Just what can be accomplished by the com- mission, beyond delaying action on the rate problem, is not visible to the naked eye. Discrimination in rates can unquestionably be proven, but it is confined mainly to local rates, which are beyoud . the jurisdiction of the federal commission. The interstate rates are now practically the sum of the two locale. It can be shown that Nebraska rates are double those of Towx for like service, but the commission is powerless to remedy the evil. It can recommend a reduction after consuming months of time. The question must finally be settied by the stato board. No amount of squirming or pretence can shift responsibilivy. It is a state question, involving the pros- perity of the commonwealth, and the people will hold the state board re- sponsible for failing to relieve them of the outrageous tolls levied on the p ducts of the state by the railroads. Surr has just been broughtin the cir- cuit court of Ohio to compel Calvin S. Brice to pay his aelinquent taxes on an assessment of two million eight hun- dred thousand dollars, Strange as it may seem, the late chaivman of the dem- ocratic national committee, rainbow chaser and reputed millionaire swears ho isa poor maw. He made a sworn affidawit in the court of common pleas of Allen county, Ohio,some time in Sep- temoer last that the amount of his por- sonal property taxable in that county did not exceed in value five thousand dollars, Ifthisaffidavit speaks the truth Senator Calvin Brice is to be pitied. As a financial venture rainbow chasing turns out to have been aa unfortunato speculation. The unfeeling tax collec- tor, however, is firmly of the opinion that the junior senator from Ohio is a tax shirker on a gigantic scala and will aceept no plea of poverty. The stakes played fov are certainly big enough to spur the tax collector on in his duty. It will be interesting to fol- low the proceedings through the courts which are to force this prominent dem- ocratie politician to disgorge. I'r is extremely gratifying to note, on the authorivy of the railroad managors, that Omaha stock shippers and packers were laboring under a wrong (¥) im- pression when they filed, with the state board of transportation, a complaint aguinst diseriminating rates. The raii- roads succeeded in ‘‘convineing” the grieved that the schedule of freight s was wisinterpreted, and there- fore misunderstood. The interests in- volved cheerfully acceptod the *‘expla- nation” and went on their way rejoic- ing. Harmony veigns once more, and diserimination wiped out. The alucrity of the railrouds in reaching an amicable understanding with the stock- men furnishes a valuable sue for other commercinl interests, of which they should promptly avail themselves, Te opinion of Attorney General Leese, printed elsewhere, effectunlly disposes of the attempt of certain irve- sponsibiles to twist the law 80 as to de- prive the police of power to enforce the city ordinances regulating the liguor teaffie. The attorney geueral clenrly points out that the laws governing cities of the metropolitan class, as well us the provisions of the Slocumb law, confer on the mayor and ; il the power to regulate o2 suppress plivg shops, and that power was . not af- fected by the law empowering the board of police nnd fire cowmissioners R s ot s work of the legislature will prove a | em peror, All laws passed by to issue licen: the city are §E red valid, and can be repealed o mded at will, LEADING citiZdns of Council Bluffs have united fof' the purpose of driving out the lawless,alements that have scan- dalized the eitys Since the enforce- mont of the !“anti-gambling law in Omaha, that city has become the haven of toughs and 1bw-necked sports, and the authorities’ have permitted them to hold a proldnged carnival of out- lawry. Notice'hias been served on the gamblers to mt¥e before the 15th of March, or suffer the consequences. 1t is to bo hoped the citizens will not fal- ter in earrying out their resolves, with the co-operation of the newly elected city officials. THE presence of an agentof the inter- state commerce ecommission in Omahw wiil give shippers, merchants and pro- ducers of the siate a chance to bring be- fore the commission definite charges of discrimination and violutions of the in- terstate law by the railroads. This is an opportunity to seek redress from many of the abuses which oppress the people and to put to shame the mem- bers of the state board of transporta- tion. PERITAPS the ambitious architects who are already struggling to boss the job, will subscribe that deficit of thirty- five hundred dollars to give the govern- ment title to the postoflice site. If they cannot personally put up the cash, they might pass tie hat among the charita- ble. Some steps should be taken to re- lieve the oppressed property owners in the neighborhood ot this irritating de- ficiency. Oxpow and rainbow railroads are weing built on paper on all sides of Omaba. The example of the city in building air lines is becoming conta- gious in the countr, SINCE the acceptance of the report of the “smelling committee” of the coun- cil a puinful silence has come over the mouth organ of the council combine. Tie railroad lion and the stockyards famb have patched up a truce. but care should be taken to keep the animals in separate pens, I the soda water business is to be ab- sorbed by the blarsted Britishers it is high time to look about for a new sum- mer drink, .. THE plans fof new Fort Omaha are evidently keeping shady company with the plans of the new postoflice. THE fire on block 86 clearly 1ndicates that Providence is with the supervising architects. s80f OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The affair that led to Lahouchere's suspen- sion from the house of comuions may be the begiuning of the end of a series leaaing ulti- mateiy to the defeav or to the dissolution of the Salisbury-Balfour-Hartington-Chamber iain-liberal-unionist/combination against the Gladstone -Parnell hiberal and bome rule al- liance. If it can be made reasonably clear that the Salisbury government is 1 any way implicated in the effort toshelter low crim- inals in high life and in connivance with their escape—that may rouse the indignation of fair-minded Enghshmen to a higher heat than the narrative of Irish wrongs or the cruel scones at Irish evictious. There is a naturial dispositioa besides at this time to look with suspicious and hostile eye upon everything with which Attorney General Sir Richard Webster is connected, and it is, therefore, unfortunate that he has been se- lected as Lord Salisbury’s spokesman in the bouse of commons as tothose Lord Somerset scandals, If Labouchere can make good his attack, there's trouble ahead for tho British ministry. w'e ‘The rumors of the retirement of Prince Bismarck have been natural enough, since it 18 plain tha' the emperor has taken very important steps either in disregard of his advice or without asking for it. 1In spite of the affectedly obsequious way in which the chancellor has always spoiken about his “masters,” he is quite aware of his own im- vortunce in Germeny, and is as little as any man disposed to submit to a personal hu- mihation, It i3 not too much to say that he 1s considerably more necessory to the emperor than the emperor is to hum, *not so much by reason of the value of his counsel as fof the irresistible weight he carries in the national legislature, where it is more thun ever needed in view of the results of the recent elections. It ismnot to bo sup- posed that the emperor is unawarg of this fact or indifferent to it, however hot-headod howay be: and, on the other hand, there is no doubt that Bismarck humself sincerely belives in the doctrines he hLas so long been advocating as necessary to the welfare and greatness of Germany. In these cir- cumstances 1t would be very strange it an arrangement were not reached, even at a considerable sucrilice on the part of the by which the services of the chancellor will be secured until he is act- ually forced by bodily infirmity to with- draw them, and there is no sign that such a necessity is imminent. O The center party in Germany, which has been able to dictate terms to the imperial government, is recruited mainly from the southern states, which therefora acquire in parlinment o predpuunsuce heretofore de- nied to them, Composed ohiefly of landed proprietors, imbuad with foudal ideas, their alliance with the 'government cannot fail to exerciso an exceelidgly reactionary influence upon the latfor. With regard to state und church interventionon behalf of the work- ing classes, thoy hold much the sumo views a8 those to whichywith slight difforenc? in detail and prascology, both the pobe and the emperor have givel public exprossion, The question as to whebler it is feasible to give a practival applicatin to this combination of church aud stae socialism will constitute one of the principhl subjects of aiscussion at the fortheoming Iabor couferenca which is to meet at Horlin A 3he ond of the present montk. Tho modigation of the programme thereof, and the n to limit the discus. sion to the sug oo of remedivs for the ills with which Inbor 1s afflicted, instead of attempting to enact or enforce logislation on the subjoct, has removed every hesitation on tho pars of the governments lnvited, and they have all prowised to attend. Lrauce’s courtcouse ncceptance in particular was a source of great satisfuction at Berlin, o It is reported that Sceretary Balfour will shortly introduce a bill to pluce Irelund on the samo footing in the matter of local gov. ernment as Eagland or Scotland, The more circumatance that such legislation should at this late day bo necessary shows what invid ious discriminations ugainst Ireland have for years been mado and porsisted in by the peo- ple who now duclare that uhe Irish bave gth- g to complaia of. Ireland is theorstically & component part of the United Kingdow, just as Scotland or Eneland, but it has never been treated as such, Its treatmont has been what of a subjugated province, and the idea of change being made in this by a tory gov~ ernment is regarded as 8o vrepostorous that Balfour's bill is promptly set down as noces- sarily being some kind of a fraud. Yet it may not be. The tories have before now ‘‘dished the whigs” by stealing their thun- der and they are likely enough to do it again whenever it suits their purpose, . Oy Statistios recently published in Berlin show 1n a striking way what a burden the great armaments of European nations are to their people,and are the most powerful argu- ment in favor of peace as well as the best proof that the present state of affairs in Europe cannot long contiaue. During the last three years, according to these sta- tistics, F'rance has expended $1,210,600,000 upon her army and navy, asum more than one-third largor than the whole interest- bearing debt of the United States. Russia comes next with a war expenditure of $780,- 060,000 in three years, or $200.320,000 a year, more than the total expenditures of this country for 1880, Grest Britain is third with $108,000,000 a year, Germany follows close with an annual war budget of §104,400,- 000, and Austro-Hungary and Italy come next with an expenditure of $158,160,000 and $180,320,000 8 year rospectively. In other words, these six principal nations of Europe havo poured out annually for the past throe yoars a total expenditure on armics, navies and general military expenses of $1,426,000,000. > e If the conflict going on between his majesty of Dahomey and the F'rench colonial author- ities in West Africa ends in the permanent overthrow of the despot who holds the lives. of all his subjects at his mercy or his whim, it will be a gain for civilization. The horri- ble sacrifices of human beings at the political and religious celubrations, calied *“grand cus- toms,” have long beea known, and within the last few years instances of this savegery have been recoutited, The superstition of the Dahomians, who regard their sovereign as divine, makes it hopeless to oxpect an end of these and other atrocities save through *he application of some exterior force. France, which has steadily pushed its inter- ests in Upper Senegal and on the Upper Niger, might do a good work by annexing Datomey, but it is not cortain that England and Germany would consent. They might even, perhaps, prefer letting the ceremonies of 1mmolation go on to allowiog anybody to annex Dahomey but themselves. The num- ber of victims sacrificed on peculirly grave, impressive occasious, such as the ascending of a new monarch to the throne, may have been sometimes exaggerated 1n the accounts, but it 1s known that thoy mount into the huundreds, If Frence can reasonably inter— fere with the verformance of one horrible festival of this sort, which is said to be down upon this year’s programme for Dahomey, she will do a good act. " Venuzuela treats herself 10 a presidential election every other year, and what with the iutriguing which leaas up to the event and the disturvance which occasionally fol- lows it, she is deeply immersed in politics much of the time. T'wo years ago the elec tion of Dr. Juan Pablo Rojus Paul was fol- lowed by an insurrection, headed by Gen- eral Joaquin Crespo, one of the unsuccessful aspirants to the presidency, which lasted through the year. When it faled on the battietield Dr. Paul, with wise generosiuy, pardoned Crespo and invited him to return to the country, from which he had fled. Crespo did so and made common cause with Paul against the redoubtable Guzman Blancho, who, although long absent on @ special mission in Paris, still possessed no little influence in Venuzuela, and desired to “run” its polit The aetermination of President Paul to be the real, as well as the nominal ruler ot the republic, although he had been accused of being Blauco’s nomi- nee, took the form of arts which aroused *Blaneo's resentment, It was also reported that Crespo had the opportunity ot Bianco's alliance when he chose that of Paul. Now wirepulling has again been going on for the next term of the presidency, and it is said that Crespo, who formerly filled a term of it, aspires to aaother, while Dr. Tebar, a prom- inent and popular man, is also in the field. Veuezuela snould at least dispense with a revolution this year on the part of the de- feated aspirant. * The success of the movement for federa- tion among the English colonies in Australia, following upon the similar movement in British America, points unmistakably to one of two conclusions—ocither imperial federa- tion and & proper voice in the affairs of the British empire, or ndependence. It is hard to say at this time whother the drift of co- lonial sentiment is more centripetal than cen- trifugal; but, in any event, the federal gov- ernment established 1n Australia will soon be the most powerful of Pacific states, des- tined before many years to outrank in um- portunce any other part of tho British do minion, and entitled to control the policy of the empive with reference 1o its own imme- diate mternal and external affairs, W Very little has been said of the remarka- ble expansion of French influence in west Africa, though it is one of the most striking phases of receat history. Five years ago the only notable possession of France, north of the Gulf of Guinea, was the .colony of Sonegal. That colony, 1 area, s only an insignificant part of France's dom:nions, for the policy inaugurated by General Faid- herbo in Senezambia has advanced France's boundaries to tho Niger, has overthrown the large empive of Samory on the south and added it to the Krench possessions, and finally, through the remarkable journey of Captain Bimger from the upper Niger to the Ivory coast, it has extended the K'rench in- fluence to the Gulf of Guinea. Emin Pasha has declined the offer of B to wako him governor of the Suakin district on the Red sea. This would seem t0 be rather a brilliant oppertunity for Emin 10 view of the renewed tatk of building the railrond to the Nile and trying to develop trade with the Soudan, But Emin’s goal 18 Wadelai or nothing. His heart is among the scenos where he has spent the past twelyo years, aod thither he proposes to return it ho secures the weans of re-asserting his autbority there. The world will cortainly appreciute and sympathize with his intonse disinclinatioa to abandon forever tho fleld where ho had toiled so long and centerod 80 many hopes. rd Brizanda, hiester Herald, 1t is said that brigandage is a thing of tho past in Greece. I3ut in this country the number of professional politiciaus is increas- ing. Civil L Want the daics Only, Chieago Herald, New York suvers atthe prowmpt offer of Sioux City to build a corn palace at the Chi- cago world's fuir. ‘The corn palace is really ablo aud intg@resting attraction, but I's interest in corn 1s limited solely 10 its juice. - Y The Burling and Its Coal Kansas City Times, The coal mining Interests of Kansas de- mand an amicable adjustment of the dim. culties that now exist between the Burling- ton and the Northwestern, The Burlington bus wanifested a bad spirit in refusing to " tion which take Kansas coal because it has minos of its own in Jowa, and the sooner it comes down off its high horse the better it will be all around. ———— Omaha Has One Too. Philadelphta Reoord, One of the chiefest ready-made advan- tages possossod by Chicago for handling the business incident to the world's fair 1s a belt line of railrond, which connects with every other railrond line penetrating the oity, and makes the intercha ge of traffic atonce pos- sible and convenient without delay or dis- order. —_——— Distinction Without Diffocence. Chicago Time ¢ To gamble in a bucket-shop s wicked trafficking; To gamble on the board of trade Is quite another thing. And here's the difforence, plain to seo, 'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledeo. - ngers in Sight. Sioux City Journal, There is not a particle of room for doubt that railroad charges i Nebraska are op pressive and exorbitant, or that they stould be forthwith scaled down. There is no justification, especially, for the terrific charges which are levied onlocal hauls in the state of Nebrasic Tho railroad companios have steadily re- fused to afford the reasovaole concessions to the people of Nebraska, and as a result, after submitting to exorbitant charges for years, the people aro instituting an agita- 18 going to produce important results. There will be a granger legislature in Nebraska in all probability after the next election is held, and then the rairoads will be complaining of *‘granger logislation.” ‘The Lord knows that local rates are high enough n Tows, butspecific figures are cited showing that local rates in Nebraska are in many cases from two to four times as high asin Iowa. The railroad managers may confuse the situation all they can, but there is simply no way to convince people of comi- mon sense that there is any reason in such a state of facts. Such charges are obviously inequitable, unjust and oppressive, They are precisely the kind of stimulus which makes vpopular agitation potent, And it is safe to say that when the coming granger legislature is elected in Nebraska and ready o proceed to business it will not stop anywhero near the point at which the corvorations conld now secure the practical satisfaction of the people by reasonable coucessions, When such a legislature con- venes, smarting under a sense of wrong, encouraged by consciousness of power and impelled by excited public seatiment, it will not only make reductions of rates, but it will go farther. It will make the thing more binding by straight-jucketing the corpora- tions and providing ways and means for fiagellating them on oceasions. it may not only put a bit in their moutbs, but also jerk on that bit. 1f these things hap pen shortly in the state of Nebraska the railroads will nave no one but themselves to blame. If there shall be a granger legislature in that state, the rail- roads will be responsible for its election. et S INDUSIRIAL CORPORATION, G Financial Institution Form:d by English and Americans. New Youk, March 7.—[Special Telogram to Tue Buk.|—A big financial institution which has no counterpart 1 the country is 500n to be organized in New York. It will have for its principal the capitalization of in- dnstrial enterprises n such shape that they will bo available for general investment. In fact, it is the intention to reproduce ono of the great industrial corporations which have within ten or fifteen years opened an enor- mous field for nyestment in England. = The institution will have a capital of 00,000, and it will be & joint English and American_company, with' headquarters in New - York and Loodon. The plan of organization, entirely un- like that auy Amcrican corporation, is well worth studying. The cavital of the company will be made up or 99,825 ordinary share of 0 ecach, and 1 d founders’ shares, cach of $50. The founders’ shares are to be divided among twenty: © subscribors, cach of whom must pay in ad- dition to £50 por share 200 cash per share, to An lmmens of be used in meecting the expense of organiza. tion. ‘The founders’ shares are to be re tained in the treasury of uhe company, and the earnings on those shares are to con- stitute the entire compensation of the direc- tors of the corporation. Each foundors will be requested in subscribe_or guurantce @ subscrip- tion of 230 ordinary shares, thus securing $1,250,000 of capital stock before the books are opened for public subscription. ‘Dhese arrangements apply to_one-half the total capital stock, which will be piaced in this country and tne remaining half witl be ely the same manner in tions of the founders' that of the addition to disposed of in‘pr England. The re shires to the ordinary shares will be ey shall be entitied to one-half the of ‘the company afier a dividend o cent has been paid on ordinary sharcs company will carry on wl 50rts of onter prises. An Oyster- ¢ Syndicate. h 7.—The Sun says whereby a large n control of nearly fruit packing Baraivone, Md., M plans are being perfected English syndicate is to g 05 per cent of the oyster and houses of Baltimore. These represent nn annual output of cupital of botween 15,000,000 and §20,000,000. Competition in this business has caused i s¢ lrinka ing the past five years. sman Looks Tough, 1L, Ma ® Bre.) ous ¢ of profits dur- Forger § BrooyiNGroN, — [Special Telegram to 9 William H. Furs- man, the notorious §00,000 forger of deeds and mortgages, returued to Pontiac, 1L, his old home, lust evenivg, intho custody of Sherift Wilson, There was a great crowd at tue Alton depot when the train arrived, but he knew no one and marched along to jail with down-cast eyes. Iursman looks pretty " and his clothing shows tough ana He also has a cut in marks of hurd usige. tho back of his head. Ho says ho was not drunk when arrested in New Orleans, but suffering from the effects of a fall. Ho tukes his situation very coolly and philosophically, ‘seoms wholly resigned to his fate, st o A Russian Jack the Ripper. A ghustly tragody A parcel was Dolgoroukoft With tho Moscow, March 7. has come to light in this city. left at the residence of Prin the head of a womar, t u note, bearing no signature, bis s our first exploit, We witl < the iipper.” It is believed killed containing parcel was } saying 8000 outdo J the woman uihilists, was for betraying e - Embezzlor Coleman Sentenced, Lenaxoy, 0., March 7,—Yesterd Treusurer Coleman, who has been convicted of the embezzlement of §12,500, was sen- tenced to pay double that amount, puy the costs of prosecution, and bo imprisoned 1 the penitentiary for Lwo and u hall yeurs. Biz Browers 'nil, New Youk, March 7.—~A general ass ing firm of Monroe & F stein, which has been rated by the commer- cial agencies ut from #500,000 to ‘The ment of the bre 81,000,000, was filed 1n_court today. preferences foot up to $123,000. Cremated in His Hom ‘The dwelling of and Mr. fits, per- DextoN, Md.,, Murch 7 Alexander Stokes burned, today Stokes, who is subjoct to epileptic ished in the flames. — Will Ask a War Cradit. Pans, March 7. —The goverament will ask the chawmber of denuties for a special credit for the purpose of carrying on Freuch opee- ations against the king of Dabomey, The Tragedy of a Kiss—A pathe ™ SUNDAY BEE Prespectus of the Greatest Paper in the West, Below are outiined a few leading features of THE SUNDAY Bee. Every page will contain good, substantial and atiractive matter, Read it all, Orators of the Scnate—Mr, Erank G. Car- penter, Tue BER'S colebrated correspondent, in hin lotter this ween prosonts a series of brilliant pen pictures of the great orators of the senate, thelr peculiarities of volce, dress, delivery and appearance, with amusing inci- dents in the lie of each, Revived Under the Knife—A Nebraska yhyslelan was once one of the actors in oue of the most startiing and romantic disecting room incidents ever recorded. A BEk cot respondent gives the story arg its denous ment, Echoes From the Ante-Room—The dopart ment of Tik SUNDAY Bike devoted to secref sociotios hag long boen a feature. Membors of the various secrot socletios look to Tiw SUNDAY BEE for such knowledge as they may want of the doings aud gossip of the many secret societies In Omata and in the state. The leading features tomorrow will be aw Able criticism on the famous Edict No, 1 of the grand master of Nobraska Masons, John J. Mercer, from the penof Past Grand Mastor H. H. Ingersoll of Tennesses, ana an account. of tne action of the grand lodge and tho grand chapter of the state of Washington on the question now agitating the Masonic fra- tornity, Cemetery and Crematory—A continuation of John D, Beugless' able article on incinera- tlon glying some startling {llustrations of the revival of plagues and the dangers of ceme- terios, The New York Opera House—A graphic description of the magnificent bullding. Some of the brilliant scenes it has witnessed and the voices it has neard. The School of the Army—Ts the title of « specinl article un Wost Pojnt academy, which details the hazing experiences which pros- pective cadets may expoct to meet. o Special Telegraphic Service — Bvery ime portant event in Nebraska, lowa, the two Da- kotas and the entire west and northwest will be covered completely by our own corre- spondents, New York Herald Cables —A completo ro~ sume of the situation of affairs in Furops, with the news and gossip of the Englis and continental capitals, all written in a bright and entertaining style. Wired spectally to Tue Bek. The Associated Press Dispatehes—Nows of the world gathored and prepared by the largest, most carefal and efficient corps of trained journalists on the globe, 2 Heath's Washington Letter—One of the notewortny features of Tik SUNDAY BER, Our relluble und newsy Washington tetter has- made Tik Ber sought for all over the west It 15 standard goods. 3 I the Field of Sports—TIn Tie Suxpay B A hnlf page is devoted to local and miscolla= neous sports, being cacefully prepared re- view of the week, with gossip of coming, events. Attention {8 given espoclally to Western association affairs. ; G Our Labor Department—Tnr SuNpAy Bre is the only daily in this state which maintalns a8 aregular feature & lubor department in which 1s g1ven the news of labor organiza- tions and showing of the work done, wages patd, supply and demaad, and the gossip of different labor orgamzations. Tnis week the striking coopers of South Omaha and other current events receive atvention. story of real lifo fn the city told by a great musician, Morning Removes the diaslk rets of the boudoir and tollet room. General gossip of | women und their ways, ¢ Cowldn’t Beat Ben Butler—A collectisn of fresh and interesting auccdotes of famous men. Our Market Page—One great featuro of Tuk Bik is dts fulland complete markot ro- port. Our correspondent in Chieago compiles and transmits the Chicago produce and live stock murket veports especiatly to T Bik. Our New York correspondent telegraphs datly the stock market report especially to Tig B, A special reporter of 1 periance provides daily most accurate reports of the Owmaha live stock markets, and our commers clal reporter prepares daily the only Omaia. wholesulé markot report worthy the name published. in addition to the abova our com- mercial editor prepares especially for Tiw SUNDAY BEE aresumeot the condition of local trade, and his statemonts and predic- tions hive made for this pApSr & great repu tation for reliable market qaotations. Positively cured by| these Littie Pils, They also rellevo DI tress fron Dyspepsia, In- digestion and Too Liearty Eating, A perfect rem 0y farDizziness, Nausea, dness, Bad Taste) Mouth, Coated gue, Pain in the Sid RPID LIVER. Th regulnto the Bowels.: Purely Vegetable. SHALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRISE. B‘ Thursaay Friday aud Satara largh 6 7 and 8, and Saturd Matinee. Epecial Engugenent of g 1he Fameus Bostopian IN ENGLISH OPDRA. - TOM KAREL, H. BARNABEE and W. H. MucOONALD, Proprietors and Managers, REPERTOIRE; = N ‘Don Quixote” (New) FRIDAY BV i BATURDAY MATINER, “I'he Poilcher SATURDAY EVE...*Pyginglion and Galat e Complete Chorus and Orchestra, New and Beautiful Costumes, PRICES —Parquet and Purquet Circle, 815 Balcony $1.00; Generat Aamission Tie und $] Galle “I'hio sale of seats will commence Wednsday morning. DROPOSALS KU LUMBER—U. 8. Indian Sorvice, Plne Ridge Agency 8. Dakota, £eb- Tinry 21st,” 190, —~Bouled propossis indomsed “Proposals for Lumber and agdressed to tne lgned at Pine Iidge Agency, Shannon a, will bo recelved at this' Ageney 10tk of March 1 th, 180), for furiish- ing for and dehvering ut this Agency, at thr e Bundred toussud faot ot wamartod fun afuil d THURSDAY F o1 to the uudersigned. uived to state in thelr bids tho proposed f each varlety of lujaberto b oiferea for ontract, BAUFLETED CUBCKA, Fa-h bid miust & uplod by & co check or draft upon some. United States. De- posItoty, miade piayabie totas order of tie un dursiwied for at lenst KTVE DO cuilt of ths win- ount of tho proposul, whieli gheck or draft will be forfeltad to the United btates 1n case uny bidder ar bidders recoiving an sward shall fail, JIptly exocute s confruot with good and suilicfent sirietios othorwise to bu retirnod to tho bidder. M. D. GALLAGHER, U, 8, fhdian OMAHA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subscribed & guaranteed Capital, $500,000 DAL I Cupita ot $382:205 Buys and sells sto 185 negotintes commercial paper tes trusts: Achs ws LEASTEr aielt And Lrustes of corpor- tons; tikes chitge of property; collocts rents Omahaloan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK 8. E, Cor. I16th and Douglas Strosts. Fatd in Capital... . . $50,000 Bubseribed & guaranteed capital, 100,000 Liability of stockholders, 200,000 5 Por Cont Interest Paid on Deposits FRANK J, LANGE, Cashlor, ks ard bo 5 and ox Wyman, president; J.J. Brow vico pr i W.T. Wyman, trestirer Digorons: A. U. Wyman, J. K. Millard Brown, Guy C. Birtou, . W, Nasn, Kimball, Ueo. B. Lake. Loans In any amount made on City & Farm Property, and on Collateral® Security, at Lowes Rate Currenttes OFFICERS: A. ho: ladl - -