Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 14, 1890, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY B FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1890 'I’HE DAILY BEE. il nosnwm:a. nnm. l'l:l”.lfi[ll".l) EVERY MORNING TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally and ‘-\m('ny‘ One Year, L One Year. . Bundny i . One Year. Woekly i r of Commerce, Trllunmlluumu ashington, b CORRF All eommunications re In; editorini matter should be addressed to the Eaitorial Departme Al bust LETTERS. 1 ylmhhnfl‘llhfl"ld Publishing Company, | s and postoffice orders tobe made payable to the order of the oom paiy. The Bee Publishing Comp.my Proprietors, The Bee B'ld'g, Farnam and Seventeenth Sts i \ sy letters o f— —— EWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION Sln{fni Nebras or un George B, Tzschuck, seeretary of The Bes Publishing compuny. aoes solemnly Swear that (he netunl eirculation of THE DALY Bre for the week endiug Nov. 8 1800, was as fol- Jows Bunday. Nov. Mondav, N Tuescay, Noy, 4. Wednesday. Baturday, Nov. 8 Average...... In my ovember, A, D.. 1800, Ill!A 1L, Notary Publio Btute of \I(-hrnflk County of Da 1as, t George B, Tzachuck, being duly sworn, de- s that he Is secretary of The Beo t ctunl ave IAILY i of November, 1550, was 19, mber, 188, "mh(n'plo-\ for eruary 10,555 copies; for Fehruary, 1800, %61 ‘coples: for Ma 10, 2hiin mmni: o o Ber for 0 coples; subscribed i November, A 1 I Notary Publio. ———————————————— THE council combine has richly earned the solitude of private life. It is evident Jay Gould intends to squeeze o fow more millions out of the Union Pacific Tite dark clouds of prohibition have disappeared, but the council boodlers are still with us, Tt Omaha Tammany shows signs of returning life despite the fact that the people repudinted the gang twice within a year, THERE is much consolation in the as- surances of General Greely that torna- does donot occur oftener than once in two year: T collapse of Villard stocks in Wall street forcibly recalls the shock which followed the unloading of the Dutch stockholders nine years ago. AT the rate at which new offices have been created by the council combine within the past year, the nextmayor will have more offices at his disposal than the mayor of Chicago. papers persist in classing ’s sod house statesman among thedemoerats in the nest congress, the power of the courts must be invoked to secure a political divorce for hirn, TION on the speakership of fty-second congress is a trifle pre- mature, but all calculations based on the omission of the boot of Texas are liable tobe kicked to flinders within twelve months, SETTLERS on the frontiers of the Da- kotus are uttering loud and prolonged complaints against armed Indians. ‘While there is no danger of Indian war, the policy of permitting the Sioux to be- come walking arsenals is not conducive to the peace and teanquility of border settlers, Roving Indians armed with rifles, revolvers and innumerable knives arenot calculated to makelife in the scat- tered settlements of Dakota a ceaseless round of pleasure, ACCORDING to leaders of the Knights of Liabor convention in Denver, the Farmers® alliance was a sideshow in the recent election. The knights did all the work and claim all the glory. The as- sertions of these jawbone workingmen are founded on an abundance of gall. Of the seventy thousand votes cast in Ne- braska it is safe to say that the Knights of Labor did not east three thousand. In Douglas county, where it would natur- ally be supposed thev possessed the Preatest strength, the alliance ticket averaged about twelve hundred votes, a majority of which were cast in the coun- try vrecinets. In Lancaster, the next largest county, twenty-eight hundred votes wore cast, seven-tenths of them by farmers, So !ur as Nebraska is concerned the influence of Craddock & Co. has not been visible to the naked eye, —_— nce of the British er of agriculture leaves no doubt of the intedtion of the British govern- ment to maintain the restrictions on the importation of live cattle from the United States. The minister of agricul~ turs has hitherto professed that he actuated by no other motive than a de- sire to protect British stock from im- ported disease, but his late speech at a meeting of tory farmers very pointedly indicated that he does not entertain a {friendly feeling toward this country, and to the oxtent of his opportunity he in- tenas to put every possible obstacle in the way of American cattle getting into Great Britain, He had been officially informed of the meat inspection law going into effect when he delivered his address, in which he asserted that pleuro-pneumonia :till exists here, and expressed indifference regarding the authority given the president to pro- hibit the importation of goods from any country acting unfairly toward the United States. It is well to be apprised of just what the sentiment of the British government is in this matter, so that our government need not waste any time in idle negotiations, With this knowl- edge the plain duty of the United States government is to demand a removal or modification of the restrictions regard- ing American cattle, and if this is re- fused congress has prescribed what shall e done, WHAT THE PBEE CLAIMS, The “avings and idiotie gabble of soms of the would-be newspapoers of Nebraska about the results of the election are a disgrace to journalism and common de- | Dictator Burrows and the brood | of juckusses that ave always braying | conc about conspiracies and combines, in which Rosewater and Tnm BEe® made chief factors, assert that THE BEE claims Boyd's election and that Rose- er proclaimed Boyd before all the re- turns were in. Now. Tue Ber claims nothing, and Rosewater has made no proclamations about the election of Boyd or anybody As a metropolitan daily TH has in this election, as in all other m: ters where enterprise and lavish out of money are required to get news, demonstruted its rightful claim to rank with the great dailies of tha country. It laid outn very extensive and thorough system for the collection of the election returns, it received several thousand dispatches from its reporters in every village and precinct, and spared no means to have each report verified and revis rapidly as official counts we made in precincts and by counties, This enterprise, coupled with the em- ployment of half a dozen experts in its office, under the supervision of Rosc- water himself, to summarize and foot up the returns, enabled THe BEe to dis- tance all would-be competitors, not only in the completeness of its election ve- turns, but in their absolute oy, a8 mensured by the returns so corved by the stary of state. In publishing these election returns T BEe necessarily had to admit that Boyd ran aliead of the other candidates for governor on the face of the returns. That did not make T Bee achampion or claimant for Boyd, but simply a reli- able and painstaking newspaper. It was t to announce Boyd's election, 15 it was the first to announce the election of Grover Cleveland, who be- came president by about the same ma- jority, Tt is true that at the speeial request of William Henry S$mith, general manager of the Associated press, the editor of THE Bee, over his own name, wived the result of the election according to the best means at his command for ascertain- i sult. If this is not satisfae- to the wretched nonentities who are trying to give themselves some prominence by scnrrilous and indecent attacksupon this paper, they ave wel- come to make the most of it. MORE IMPORTANT THAN POLITICS. It is to bo hoped that politics will not engross the attention of the new legisla- ture to the exclusion or injury of im- portant business interests of the state which will come up for consideration. No legislature elected in Nebraska evi had lurger questions to meet and settle, One reform which is bound to come some time, and ought to come at the next session, is a change in the methods of assessing property for taxation. The present method of putting valuations ridiculously low and the tax rate ridicu- lously high is a fruitful source of dissat- isfaction. It pleases nobody, unless it be extravagant county boards who de- sire to cover unreasonable exactions under & mass of complicated arithmetic which the avérage taxpayeris unablo to penetrate. It scares away capital with lofty percentages that bear no true relation fo the real amount of taxation, It isa veady means of excuse for over or undervaluation of property, ac- cording to the mood or intere: of the assessor. It is a method which invites dishonesty and general looseness in the raising and disbwrsing of public revenues in all the es and counties of the state. To reform this obvious abuse should be one of the first acts of a legis- Iature which was elected with the hope that it would do much to advance the material interests of Nebraska. Other important matters—not to men- tion the absorbing questions of railroad regulation and revision of the usury laws—will be the adoption of means for pushing the development of the state and attracting new capital and popula- tion, The methods which have done much for other western states are worthy of trial here. Provision must also be made for the representation of the state at the world’s fair. These are some of the business ques- tions which will have to be dealt with by the next legislature, They aremuch more important than politics, It is to be hoped that they will be met by clear-headed and public-spirited repro- sentatives of the producing and business interests of a state that is still just in its infancy. THE ELECTION BILL. The decision of the president not to call an extra session of congress lessens the chances for the passage of the elec- tion bill which is in the senate. The advocates of the measure are said to be as earnest as ever in the determination to pass it, but it is doubtful whether they will be as numerically strong as when congressadjourned. It is reasonablo to suppose that the late elections will cause many republicans at both ends of the capitol to revise their opinions on the election bill, and while it is not to be doubted that the more radical of them will insist on pushing the measure, it is certain that the conservative ele- ment will be largely reinforced in num- bers and emboldened in their opposi- tion, The bill was formally postponed until the December session, but it has no special privilege, Still it could be taken up at any time by a majority vote, but unless the rules can be amended so astofixa time when a vote shall be had it is not probable that it will be taken up. To attempt to change the rules would precipitate a fight that might be prolonged to the close of the session, and since the republicans are pot unanimous in favor of a change it is not likely that these who are will bring on a partisan conflict over this question, The well informed Washington corre- spondent of the Philudelphin Ledger snys that independent of the parlia- mentary obstacles that beset the bill the result of the election has thrown addi- tional obstacles in its pathway, and it would not be surprising if it should be quietly abandoned. Undoubtedly that course would be heartily approved by a very large wajority of the republican party. Outside of the south, where the | are | eleotion bill was directly responsible for | the loss of republican congressmen, that measure exerted very little influence upon the oloctions, Most of the con- stituencies throughout the north hardly heard of it, and none gave it very seri- ous attention. But while it played no slgnificant part in shaping the result, it can safely be said that if it had been made an issue the popular verdict would have gone heavily against it. What- ever may be said in defense of legisla- tion of this kind as an act of justice to a large body of the peoplo who are de- prived of the franchise, and thercfore are not properly represented in con- gress, or indeed are not r@presentod av all, the fact mnst be owned that the masses of the ropublican party do not believe svich legislation to be expedient, while many thousands of them hold the opinion that it would fail of its purpose. Under existing cireumstances it is ob- viously the part of wisdom to allow the election bill to quictly die. REPUDIATING CLEVELAND, The indications are that Mr. Cleve- land will have to fight hard in order to get' the nomination for the presidency in1892, The dem: domand for him is by no means ununimous. On the contrary there are party leadors who have already proclaimed their oppos tion to him, and such men as Senator Gorman of Maryland, Blackburn of Ken- tucky, McPhers on of New Jersey and Kustis of Loulsiana will exert a great inltuence. Gorman has never been es- vecially friendly to Cleveland, or at least not since he was checked in his attempt to manage the patronage of the admini tration, and it is therefore not surpri ing that he has thus early gone onrecord as against the renomination of the ex- president. Ilustis, also, has never been a friend of Mr. Cleveland, having stood aind other democratic senators in practically ignoring him. But Blackburn and McPherson were until now understood to be among the strongest supporters of the ex-president, and therefore their virtual repudiation of him is significant, In arecent interview the New Jersey senator remarked that the field had broadened, and the democracy was no longer dependent on New York for its candidate. The party could go to the west for a standard-bearer, This idea found nequiescence from the Kentucky senator, who expressed his displeasure at the failure of Mr. Cleveland to do any- thing to assist the Tammany democrats in their late con Senator Bustis is authority for the statement that at a confere of leading democrats in New York city some time ago it was prac- tically decided to throw Cleveland over s0 far as New York is concerned. He is quoted as saying that there was no at- tempt to conceal the fact that Cleveland is distasteful to the leaders of the de- mocracy, and that an outside man is preferred if it should be found that Gov- ernor Hill is not acceptable. Ungquestionably Governor Hill stands better at present with the democracy of the country than ever before, while he is in virtual control of the party in New York. He has announced his wish to again be acandidate for governor, which disposes of the statement that he desired to go to the United States senate, and doubtless his wish will be complied with. Congressman Roswell P, Flower aspires to the governorship, but he will very likely give way to Hill rather than take the chances of being defeated in a con- test with him. If Hill should be re- clected next year he could easily obtain the New York delegation in the next democratic national convention, and would therefore have a very decided ad- vantage over Cleveland. All the indica- tions are that this will be the case. But the trend of democratic opinion is manifestly toward getting a candidate outside of New York, and if the party had an available man in the west he would have a very excellent chance of being made the standard bearer. ANOMALIES OF THE ELECTION, It will not be well for the friends of reform and the enemies of corporate ag- gression to build too high hopes on the results of the state election, Itis true that both branches of the legislature have alliance majorities, but it remains for actual experience to demonstrate that its component parts will all stand firm in the encounter with the corpora- tion lobby. All is not gold that glitters—not every man who protests his devotion to the people proves true at the critical mo- ment. There were some very strange bed- fellows in the recent campaign. Ttis now plainly seen that W. A. McKeighan had the ardent support of the B. & M. railroad in the Second district., The railroad owed a long standing grudge to N. V. Harlan, and railroads have the Bourbon quality of never forgetting. Thus men who could discern the power- ful undercurrents at work in the Second district beheld the anomalous spectacle of a corporation fighting for the so-called prophet of anti-monopoly and sticking its long knife into the man whom the al- liance farmers were preparing to bury under an avalanche of votes. The rank and file of the independents were unwit- tingly working with the railroads to de- foat a man who had won the undying enmity of corporations by standing up manfully for the people. This very fact should have been the strongest argu- ment in support of Harlan. THE Bee does not say that MoKeighan had any understanding with the railroads, but it is well aware that he was the instrument with which they hammered a man who wuas above corruption and beyond re- proach into the dust of defeat, The same anomaly was observed in the independent state convention. The man whom the railroads feared was beaten by a man whom their cohorts favored. These are samples of several like results in the state election. Men have been chosen to the legislature under the banner of anti-monopoly who owe their success to the occult power that has so long made and unmade poli- ticians in this state. Men were de- feated by anti-monops to the profound satisfuction of the railroads. THE BEE hopes the producers will roalizo every reasonable hope which they entertain in regard to the ncxt logislature, It will contribute all in its power to that end. But there have been enough pecuifar things developed al- ready to make'it wise for the friends of reform to keep sharp eyes on certain people at Lincon AN VRG. It is to bo présamed that overy repub- lican in the prosint congress approciates | fully the urgency of the duty to pass a reapportionment bill. There is no ter claiming the attention of this con- gress of greater jmportance. The ne- cessity for the reidjustment of the rep- resentution in tho lower house of con- gress has nevir hoen asigreat as the re- cent census has shown it to be, This rearrangement is a matter of justice to each of the states. There is nothing partisan about it, It is found that the differences in the present congressional representation are quite as glaring when the southern statos are compared with each other as when republican states are compared with republican or when dem- ocratic states are compared. In all comparisons the diserepancies are found to be equally groat. Thus, as the houso of represontatives is now constituted, northern republican states are found to range from one member of the house for each one hundred and sixty-eight thou- sand inhabitants down to one for each four hundred thousand, while southern democratic states are found to differ in the ratio of one hundred and sixty-two thousand to two hundred thousand. Such differences call most emphatically for speedy rectification, and the call is from every state and in the interest of every state, without regard to section or pol- ities, There oughtto be no difference of opinion as to the equity or necessity for the passage of a reapportionment bill during this congress, It is necessary in order that there may be opportunity for action during the coming winter by such legislatures as will be in session, or at the furthest at the sessions a year from the coming winter, unless congress should determine to relieve the legisla- tures of the duty of districting the states: A bill for this purpose has been intro- duced, and if it appears e that the constitution gives congress the authority to prescribe the congressional districts a measure of the kind is very likely to bo adopted. The feeling is general among the republicans in congress that such outrageous gerrymandors as thoso in Ohio, Indiana and Maryland ought to be provented. and this can only bs done by congress taking the arrangement of congressional districts out of the hands of the legislatures, Itldu\p-lel that the democrats will fight most vigorously- to prevent tho passage of a roapportionment bili by this congre There will be little danger of their accomplishing anything in the house if the republican members can bo kept in Washington, but they might be successful in the senate. The t of the late elections will encourage them to employ avery means of obstruc: tion, and the country may expect to wit- ness an unparalleled exhibition of filli- bustering and dilatory tactics. But a reapportionmont bill should be passed if possible, and it should be one of the earliest measures for consideration, THE reports that reach us from Wall street regarding the ascendancy of J. Gould in the control of the Union Pac may or may not mean anything, The probabilitics are that the reports were concocted by stock gamblers with a view to bearing Union Pacific stocks. The annual election of Union Pacific direc- tors will not take place until March, and many ups and downs may be reported in the stock market between now and then. When Gould had control of the road re- ports were cireulated every few wecks that he was outflanked and bound to step down, but for all that Gould held on with aniron grip. So itis at pres- ent. IF there is anything in sight that the railroad companies and franchised cor- vorations want within the reach of the city council, from a public thoroughfare to a viaduct, all they have to do is to ask for it. Until every square foot of public property ana every public thoroughfare is transferred into the keeping of some voracious corporation or monopoly, am- bitious ward heelers and thrifty honora- ble bilks will all want to be in the city council, where on six hundred dollars a year they can grow comfortably wealthy in a single term, THE board of public works declares that the services of inspectors can be safely dispensed with. But the power to do the dispensing 18 confided in the chairman, who is expected to see to it thatthe inspectors are kept actively em- ployed in the interests of the combine until after the city election. Mr. Birk- hauser must cancel his political debts, THE question that confronts the tax- payers of Omaha now is whether the city council is to be owned and controlled by franchished corporations and manipu- lated by jobbers and boodling contrac- tovs or whether the city affairs are tobe run in the interest of the taxpaying pro- perty owners. —— THE business: men of Omaha have done remarkably well in the campaign against prohibition, - Now they must buckle on their armor and assist in rid- ding the city of tax-eaters and boodlers. EE——— THE tax-eaters are busily engaged in laying plans for ‘continued prosperity. They enjoy the , Soft berths that have been created fop their exclusive use and benefit by the combine and do not pro- pose to be oust,ed'from them if they can help it THERE I8 no iu'unudiuw danger that the councilmanie brogans of the Hon. P, Ford will go a-begging inthe bloody Third, though not one of the score of aspirants in the field is physically capa- ble of filling them. —— ‘WE must not lose sight of the fact that the immediate future of Omaha will de- pend very largely upon the outcome of the city election on the first Tuesday In December, THE number of eminent democrats in the state tendering advice and counsel to Boyd indicate an alarming want of confidence in the elect. CEES—— ACCORDING to a resolution of the board of public works suspending *‘the services of all inspectors immediately upon the completion of the ability to further perform service for the city,” the commissioners of insanity must be convened to determine when the inspec- tors reach the ‘“completion of their ability.” IN THE ROTUNDA. Miss Susan B. Anthony, by and most influential advocate of the woman's suffrage idea in the United States, was in Omaba y v, the guest of Rev. Newton Mann of Unity church, The lady was on her way ington, D, C., from a vigorous but unsuccess- ful campaign in South Dakota, whera the ques- tion of woman’s suffrage was before the people at the recent election, In 1884 Miss Anthony engaged in a debate with Mr. Edward Rose- water, editor of Tur Ber, at Boyd's opera house, and although opponents in & very carnest discussion the debate resulted in making them warm personal friends. Miss Anthony called at the oditorial rooms of Tue Bee last cvening and spent half an hour very pleasantly talking over tho prospects of her special hobby, of pronibition and of the political situation in general. Sho said that there was so much interest mani- fested in the location of the capital in Souih Dakota that it was impossible to interest the voters in woman suffrage. The two leading political parties paid but littic attention to the discussion of the question which inter- ested her and the rest of the suffragists. “I have made up my mind,” said Miss An- thony, ‘““that hereafter I shall lot the two old parties fight their own battles, and I shail confine myself to the work of furthering tho cause I so much desire to sce triumphant, 1 have not had much to do with prohibi- tion recently. The pronibitionists in Ne- braska are undoubtedly in the minority, but they form a very respectable minority. The efforts of our workers in the cause of suffrage will be largely directed, for some time to come, toward the United States con- gress, 'We hope to accomplish more there than by working among voters like the miners of South Dakota, who care nothing about the movement. The Swedes can be in- terested in prohibition, but they turn a deaf ear to woman suffrage.” Miss Anthony said she hoped still to see the day when women would be given the right o vote 1n every state in the uuion. “The admission of Wyoming, with its women in possession of the ballot, has given us a great deal of hope,’ said the lady. She was shown through Bee building and expressed herself as being surprised and delighted with the magnitude, magnificence and arrangement of the building, Miss Anthony is seventy-one years otd, but still retains to a remarkable degree the mental and physical vigor of former years. It is something quite phenomenal to see a woman of three score and ten still able to appear as one of the leading orators in a political campaign. far the ablest home to Wash- J. D. Hubble, the demoeratio postmaster at Fairbury, was resting comfortably ina capa- cious arm chair at the Paxton, complacently cogitating upon rccent events. A Bee man interrupted his musings and asked him a few questions, Then Mr. Hubble said : “Idon’t know- as Richards’ refusal to de- clare against prohibition made much differ- ence. Itiwas just about the same as if he had declared in favor of it, because it was gen- eraily understood that he leaned that way, and it he had come out against it, it would have weakened Boyd and strengthened Pow- ers,” “How do you account for the election of Boyd and the defeat of the balance of the democratio ticket:” “Well, Boyd made move of a campaign than any of the others. He was really the only man on the ticket who went out and did hard work all over the state, Another thing, he was helped by the alliance people more than any other candidate. I don’t know how it was in other parts of the state, but down in our county whenever the -allince people ched anybody it was almost always in orof Boyd. We didn't have a democratic paper in the county, while the republicans had two andt he alliance one, but the vote showed ropublicans 1,202, democrats 1,010, alliance The other parties did all the stumping, but we came out protty well with the votes. “What figure will the alliance cut in 1802 “Thot depends altogether on the legislation of the democratic congress. If it is satisfac- tory to the farmers, the alliauce will be a thing of the past, but if it is not, there will be any quantity of alliance men in the suc- ceeding congress, and they would elect a speaker. The work of the next congress will have a very heavy bearing on the result in 1892, Hon, John A. Dempster of Gieneva is in the city. Speaking of the recentclection M. Dempster said ‘1t was a sure enough cyclone all over the country for the republican party, but I want to tell you another thing. There will be just as great a reaction after a while, 1 look for the state and nation to swing back again with a vengeance two yeurs from now.” Hon. E. L. Merritt, formerly editor of the Omaha Herald. but now a resident of Spring- fleld, 1L, and recently elected to the state legislature, passed throngh Omaha yesterday on his way home from Denver. “Do the democrats hope to elect John M. Palmer to the United States senate!” a Big reporter asked Mr. Merritt, Do we hope to elect him?" the gentleman said, carnestly. “I should say we do. We will elect John M. Palmer to the United States senate on the first ballot.” ‘W. L. Young of the Nebraska fish commis- slon was in Omaha yesterday. In speaking of the estimate made last Mondaay hy the commission for the appropriation needed for the ensuing two years Mr. May said: “The commission will not ask for so large an appropriation this winter as it did two years ago because we shall not need so much unless more extensive improvements than are now under contemplation ave undertaken. During the past two years we bullt a fish car and a new hatchery, and those two items of expense we shall not have to 1ncur very soon again, - e Irresp State Jnumal, Considerable discussion is now going on in the state press concerning the threatencd contest of the el ion of Mr. Boyd to the Governor's chair. Some are denying that the legislature has any voice in the matter except to declare the total of the votes, ana the name of the person appearing to haye ro- ceved the highest number, as the person elected toa state office. Others claim that as the legislatuce is made by the constitution the sole judge of the election of state officers, itisin joint session the supreme master of the situatibn, cau count when it gets ready and settlo a contest as seems good to it. The fact that the legislatures have fre- quently defied the constitution of a state with impunity, because of the impossibility of pun- ishing individuals fer the sinsof the cor- porate body, is suficiently well known, Legislatures have split in two more than once in this matter of declaring a governor elect, as in Louisiana, and each of the fractional bodies have met and sworn in other persons claimed to have been elected in suficient numbers to make two legislative quorums, and have gone on with their business until one or the other was ropressed by mobs and driven out of the capita More recently the legislature of ‘Waost Viee Legislat ibility. ginia refusod to count the vote at all because the majority of the membors seatod, were democrats, and the governor that was elected on the facoof the returns was a vopublican. They wenton with their business until the endl of the session and adjourned leaving the old g or in the chair until a fow days be- fore the expiration of the term of office of the man who had veen deprived of his seat, and then met with a now set of returns that had been npered with by the returning boards, and the democrade courts, that indi- ated the election of tho democratic gov- ernor, whereupon they had him sworn in. Tho democratic supreme court of the state easily winked at all theso abuses of execu- ive power on the part of the logislature, Still more recently, in the statoof Mon- tana, the first logislative session was spent in afruitiess attempt to organize under the constitution because of two sets of returns for legislators and state oMcials, two houses were running at the same time, and the de- cisicus of the supreme court on the election cases woro disregarded until the United States senate settled the matter by excluding oue sot of senators and udmitting the other sot. It appears from these procedents that if a legislature declines to be governed by the constitution and omits to do things of a mixed executive and judicial nature that the consti- tution enjoins upon it, thero is no ade quate romedy. Nor s there any penalty that can be infl d on the legislature or any member thercof for the violation of the oath of office | swear | taken by the members in which they to support, and, of course, to oboy the consti- tution., The irvesponsibility of logislatures is the great weakness of our national and state gov- ernment. Any other officer of the state, ex- ecutive or judicial, can be called to account for the violation of his oath of ofice. The legislature as a bady cannot be called to any account and no member of a legislature is ac- countable to anybody except the body of which he is a member, The reason for this anomaly in our system is that it is modelled to a_great extent after the English system. There the commons havenothing above or beyond them in the shape of a constitution, aud are wholly irre- sponsible, The only way thoy can be dealt withn case they assumea b haud is by prorogation. The sovereign can disporse them and take away their individual rights to sit at his pleasure, Here the only case in which the chief mag- istrate can prorogue a legislature is whenthe two houses cannot agree upon a day for asine die adjournment. Nor has any mandatory slature any practical force, If the legislature refuses to do what the court directs there is no penalty, The court cannot do what the legzislature refuses todo. [t may state what the duty of the legislature is in the premises on appeals perhaps, but that isas far as its jurisdiction can go. The court may nullify an unconstitutional act of a legislature, but it cannot cure a wrongful omission of a cou- stitutional duty by a legislature, SR The Wall Street Gamblers, Denver Republiean. A very panicky feeling exists in the New York stock market, and some of the Wall steeot gamblers will probably go into bank- ruptey before itis allayed. The danger is that legitimate business may bo seriously in- jured by the financial disturbance brought on by the stock gamblers. It would be a good thing for the whole country if the New Yorlk stock exchange could be wiped out entirely. A NEWS OF THE NORTHWEST. Nebraska. There are 105 German families belonging to the Catholic church of West Point. Rev. A. W. Connett has left Burwall to be- come the pastor of the Congregational church at Fairfield, There has been but one case in the Hast- ings police court since October 20, and that was 4 plain drunk. ly destroyed tne residence of Eu' gene Hammond at Hastings. The loss is covered by insurance, Three thousand barrels of apples have been shippod from Rulo this year. The average price per barrel was §2. The Nebraska City pontoon bridge ‘has been cut, loose and started down the river for its future destination, Auchison, Kan. Excavations have been mado at Uly for ten new brick blocks to take the pla the buildings recently destroyed by fire. Thomas Sweeney was killed and Lewis Melntosh was injured by the caving in of a sand bank near Ulysses Wednesday aftor- noon. Jacob Penn, one of the oldest settlers of Otoe county. died at his home near Dunbar, aged sixty-five years. He came to Nebraska in 1850, W. B. Beck of Burt county would like to be president of the state senate and C, D. Shrader of Logan has his eye on the speak- orshipof the house. Beyond the Rockies. Baker City, Ore,, is now lighted by elec- trieity, Wyoming coal shipped into Oregon brings £#10 a ton. Billings, Mont,, offers £,000 to anyoie who will build a flour mill, Three Indians will be hung at Missoula, Mont., December 15 for murders committed the past year. ‘W. H. Sibley, a Novada City, Cal, man, recently purchased in Oregon twenty pair of Mongolian pheasants, which were introduced into that state several years ago, The price ranged from $10 to $15 pl.r pair, Laura de Foree Gordon, the “lady lawyer," is engagedin a suit at Walla_ Walla, brought by ladies who voted last fall, but whose votes were not counted. They sue for dam- ages and Laurais taking care of their inter- esis. A strangeand fatal disense has appeared among the cattlo inthe easteru part of Ne- vada. Death ensuesin an hour after the animal shows symptoms of the disease, The cyes then bulge out and the tongue turns Hack Promenent citizens of Boise City have is- sued a call fora commercial convention to meet in that city December § and discuss the needs of the new commonwealth of Idaho and prepare memorials to presentto the Iirst legislature, There ave growing on & furm in San An- tonio, Ual., two large fig trees that are us old ns the state. They are thirty feet in height, have a very large spread. and are of productiveness, It is thought 11 yeld 1,000 pounds of fruit each. ‘The bark Tamarin n the Arctic ocean, at San isco on the Sth_inst. 000 pounds of bone, of sperm oil, the product of sixteen whales, all of which is valued at $40,- 000. This 15 the most valuable cargo amoag the whalers for the year. A salmon taken at Astoria, Ore, silver Waltham watch and’ chain in its mouth, The watch had evidently laid in the water for years, as the steel portions crum- bled to dust when touche 1ts presence in the salmon's mouth is _accounted for by the fact that sulmon at this season of the year will eagrerly biteat any bright object, and the watch nml chain had been caught by the net dragging on the bottom. As it’ was hauled in it attracted tho attention of the salmon and he took it in, Game s exceedingly abundant in San Francisco markets the present season. Geese aud quail are very abundant and of other varicties the Bulletin says: “Ducks north by myriads. y variety is seen in large piles, illustrate the " abundance of game. The littlo teal is huug up in bunc and here and there, seoarated from the gre piles of the more com hunches of canvas backs; but the mark never overstocked with the latter variety, Suipe, rail and all the loug-billc are hung up to_tempt the buyes has been abundant for muny @ day, slonally the carcass of a young b seen, Helas a place in ‘the game list. coon, also, i3 among the spoils brought in from the country, A few weeks later larks, robins and the reed birds will be abundant,”” had a OMAHA'S ART EXHIBITION. They Have Done. A VERY COMMENDABLE LOCAL DISPLAY, Interest on the Increase as to Whoy Will Take the Prizes Offeredd by the Association for the Rest Pictures, “A great deal of accent, but very little noise,” sald Wagner when leading one night, to his orchestra. This Is sometimes a dis. tinction worth the painter's conside on, cially should the young artist bear thas Iy in mind when engaged upon his exhibition work, for so very often does he fail to discriminate between true and ultea-vivid color which veflects Wagner's idea of accont and noise, Of tho 217 oils on exhibition in the Life building there are b v few for whoso presence upon the walls one is forced to blush, as has generally been the case in tho preceding exhibitions. Thero are very few daubs and fewer absurditios, when the age of the association is taken into consideration, One pleasant featureof the exhibition is that so many of the pictures ave ¢ compositions, good in almost ever lar, This hasno refercnce to e fngs which are satisfactory in tho o but canvases which in th are covered with per Charles Cralg of the assoviation one of the ve It depicts o & frontiersman, Ute Indians ageucy for supplies, and desor admiration. The atmosphere i detail carried to the finest point consist vith the subject matter, the wihole effect commanding recognition. Mr. Craig certainl is to be congratulated for his masterful de lineation of the A me Tndian as he is, Mr. Borglum is also largely represented, but none of his work is new, ing been on exhibition for sore time at th ninger gal- ‘There is a big future for this youn Omaha artist, and when his reputation 1y made, when ht is a prize wi X salon, he necd not paint any bet te than the ones on exhibition “now. tation will do the rest In landse: hu_h rank. going to the His topa ons takes vory s chosen to place on thie entative of herart, an_ origi- nal drawing of a sceno near Philadelphi Tt is 50 excellent, so_carefully worked up that some of the leading artists of tho country have given it unstinted praise, Charmingly pastoral, with a deep artistic fecling running throughit, the canvas will stand anexcellent show of lu\w\;:nucu[ the leading prizes in tho landascapo cl: Mr. Roth has more than ever justified the good opinions of his friends regarding bis ability asa puinter in olls. He has made tremendous strides in the past twely months, his worle being far superior toany- thing he has heretofore accomplished. Thero will be a diversity of opinion as to which of his exhibition pi the best. One, th figure of's wonan ot her _gollet (108) is du ing, it is unconventional. The flesh tints aro excellent, the drawing, with the single ex- ception of the left: shoulder, quite aceptable. But his subtlest art seems to have goneout in the liming of ‘“*LeisureMoments' (169), the full length ttrait of a @ray haired man, who is busi \gaged reading the paper, proba I{vh debateon the Blur educational ill, 0 outline of the face, the working up of the background, the tout "enserblo is | fect. 1tisa picture which places the artis in the front rank because of its feeling and its truthfulness to the rules of ar One of the most modest and cons arti KII\I]I(‘(‘\‘HL‘I’IU!I s M number of very charmin Mrs, Mumaagh is par ating her limitation, s i withi her ability wre huis 1 the Lo in the prosent 'um\mu Vi a study of I I is particulu nd thoroughly trieto . 130, “Autumn T which in this case fwecabbages; oni nted as a companion picco ng Fate’ of lust year. As remarkably pradseworthy artist's kunowledge of the ative value of colors. And No. 131, Deserted Claim,” has the true poetic ring, is alone hut in a wide expanse of prai the eff@ct being heightened by the sombr colors which the painter has used. It shows a thorough command of light and shade and is deeply contemplative. Miss Sadie Kelly has a studyof ducks upon the conventional board back ground, ch are wonderfully well drawn, tho color being particularly commendzable, Ayoung woman with the instinets of the French school of art is Miss McLennan who has fourteen tures on exhibition, some of them ceedingly worthy of critical commendation. The young woman has unquestioned ability and in & dozen years from now, when ages tempers youthful impetuosity, will be in the forefront of the fight for fame. Two studics of roses, Nos, 105 and 100, are among the gems of the collection. lhov are truthful to nature, with an atmosphere warm and invit- ing, whilo he study of carnations [112] 511 much careful consideration v who is surprising her Liena Snowden, a pupil of Mr. Rothery A year ago her work was exceedingly crude but'she determined to win a place in the colony of rtists and her ten pictures in the present exhibition show what, can_ be accomplished when deiermination liolds the reins, No. 180 *“‘wine and honey'” is a gem, one of the cleversst bits of trans parent pamting, if not the cleve gallery, and her roses are v drawn. Beyond doubt the young woman hus a f\;lurc before her especially in still life studie: “Impen study ptece it reflecting the Tho udy of thistles [91] — elevated almostto the ceiling, the hanging mittee evidently belioving that the painting, in the slang of the street, was fout of sight,”’ and 50 itis in this far—that itis anex ingly charming bit of work, quite worthy of a place on the line. Mrs. Lilla avey, wife of the chief of police, has painted a cluster of bovardia [17% very prettily and effectively. In color and tone it is well nigh perfect, Mrs. George 1. Gilbert has several very pleasing sketchos, No. 82, & swdy of roses, ng very artistically paiited. _ Now that the exhibition is open to the vub- wvers should assist the association by their pr e It 15 beyond question tho best exhibition of home falent Omaha has bad, and the artists should be encourag ed to even better work. -—— At & quarry near Salt Lake, last week, o frog hopped out of a poeket in the center of rock which had just been blasted. The wi- mal was of small_size and perfectly white Its eyes were unusually larg, but appar ently blind, Wherothe mouth should hava veen there was onlya line, The frog died next moruing. OMAHA LLOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsorfbed and Guarint Pald In Capital.. Buys and sells stocks and bands; negot commerelal paper; recclves and exec trusts; acts us transfer agent and Arusteoot corporations, takes charge of property, ool- lects taxes, Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK. S. E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. Pald in Oapital...... 3 5100 abscribod and Guarinteed O -puul 100009 Liabllivy of pokbolders. ... 200,00 5 Per Cent ercst Pald on Deposits. llh\\l\ J.LANGE, Cashlor Officers: A. U. Wymaun, president. J. J. Brown, vice-president, W, T, Wyman, treasurer. Directors:~A. U, Wywan, J. H, Millard, J. J. Brown, Guy U, Barwn, E. W. Nash, Thowus L. Kiuaball, George B. Lake. Somothing About the Artists and the Work \}