Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1890, Page 4

HE OMAHA DAILY BEE,, RDAY, DECEMBER ( DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER kbrmon. PUBLISHED JRY MORNING TERME OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally and Sunday, One Year Eix monthe T'iree months Jtee, One Yeao Weekly Bee, One Year. OFFICES: THE 110 00 500 250 b, The Be: th Omaha, € Counell Hinfrs, 1go Office 1 2th Strects Street. \anherof Commeree, 3,14 and 15, Tribune Building rieenth Street PONDENCE All communfeations relating to news and editorial m uld be addressed 1o the Editorial it SINESS LETTERS nd romittanees should Publishing Company, and postoffice orders 115, ble to the order of the com nnde payi pany. The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The It arnam and Seventeenth Sta = ikl EWORN STAT) or Btateof Nebraska 1% County of Douglas, ¢ Gecrpe I Tzschuck, see: Publishing compunv. aoes toat the nctual eirculatios for the weex endiug Nov Jows: Bundav. Nov. 2, Mondn v, Nov. Tuesny. Noy Wednesday, N Thurediy. Nov Fridne. Noy. 25 Euturday, Nov. CIRCULATION iry of The Beo solemnly swear of Thr DAILY Brr 1500, was a8 fol- 1,075 Average... bed in mv muer, A. D.. 1500 .. Notary Publie. fFyorn to before mo presence this20th day 1ERAL. | N. P IE Etute of Nebraskn ¥ of Do Trschuck, being 1y that b ary of Tho B ompanv. that the actual_avers tion of : DALY BEE for N 1550, W 110 cople copless Vebruar 815 coples: 1860, 20,13 Auly sworn, de- montl of Cemlie cop'es April, 1800, 3 for nter, Y copies, GEON n 0 before me. and subscribed fn my prescnce, this lstaay of Noveuber, AL D, 160 The inipending session will be of vital concern to the people of th state. It is of the utmost fmportance th members of the legislature shall understand the wants of thelr constituents and be pre- pared to gzrapple intelligently and advisedly With the issues that must. como before the Tue Bre therefore Invites suggestions fre those whoare famillar with any particular subject that 15 likely to er tention of the 1o Partles favoring us, how- ted tomake their communi- a8 po: nd to the point understood that Tue Bee will not 1hle for the published views of con- tributors, and it reserves the privilege of dis- cussiniz them in its own way and from the standpoint which it deems Lest for the inter- ests of the people. of the le It 1s going to be a cold, hard winter for home rule in Treland. Svrrort of Parnell in the present crisis falls to the level of emotional in- PARNELL'S marvelousskill as a leader him well in his new role as a po- s just now occupying the McKinley as tho target of ic gun Mi. LODGE wlace of Mr. demc TiE wostern railroads should lose no time in forming a combine to keep their oflicers out of jail. vestigation rival each other in promis- ing “startling developments,” TiE issue of 1,000 stand of frontier sottlers insures a large crop of vietims who “didn’t know it was loaded. " BALFOUR'S coercion courts appear the acmo of justico and fair dealing beside the rulings of the Irish parliamentary leader. arms to SHOULD the stampede of colored voters to the alliance standard continue in the south, there will be nothing left for the foreoe bill to operate on. LVERYBODY is willing that the Me- Kinley law shall have a fair trial, as the president asks, but the fear is that it will be convicted and sentenced to death. Tie calm in Tllinois politics would seem to mean that General Palmer is to be chosen senator. There never is any calm there when that question is open to dispute. — I7 15 to be hoped that General Brooke will do nothing further until ho has re- ceived the full text of the remarks of Senators Dawes and Blaiv on the subject of the Indian wa Tur military authoritics do not pro- pose to walk into a trap like that which wrought disaster in the late political campaign. They do not underestimate the number and fighting qualitios of the foe. It 15 reported that the Indians about Rosebud agency are “disintegrating.” B is smull wonder, in view of the fact that the rations they receive aro scarcely sufficient to hold them to- gether, As long as the bloated Kulakaua can find people to cheor him in the streets of an American city the spivit of royalty may be said to retainiits grip on the popular imagination, No man ever had slenderer political or versonal reasons for recolving such homage. SALT LAKE Ci1Y and Denver enter a vigorous protest against the re-employ- ment of E. P, Vining as trafiic manager of the Union Pacifle. The only basis for the report of Vining’s return to the com- pany was the belief that the transfer of ownership meant the resurrvection of the old forco and a revival of the methods which made the company more encmies than friends in the past Vining’sability as a traffic manager was not what it was | eracked up to be, It consisted chiefly of a mania to divide and sub-divide freight grades and multiply classifications to an extent never before attempted by any railvoad corporation. By this means he succeeded in swelling the recelpts with- out a direct advance of rates and gained ceredit fo the financial gain to the company was overbalunced by the number of enemios multiplied by Vining’s total lack of \x‘ourtusy and domineering disposition, hrewdnoss at the expense of | the productive industry of the west. But | RAILROAD OFFIOLALS INDICTE The federal grand jury atChicago, which is investigating the alleged man- ipulation of freight rates by western roads and shippers in violation of the interstato commereo law, has presented indictments against three railroad offi- cials, These officials are the president and general manager of the Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City road, the gensral freight agent of the Chicago, Burling- ton & Quincy, and the general freight agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa- i The nature of the evidence upon which these indictments were found isnot stated, and probably will net be known to the public until the cases go into court, but it is doubtless ample. The at- torneys of the interstate commerce commission appear to have procecded with great care and the jury has un- doubtedly been equally civcumspeet in xamining the ovidence. It is therefore to be presumed that in returning the in- dictments there is full confidence that they ean be sustained. Others, it is ex- pected, will follow. This action can hardly fail to produce something of a sensation in railroud cir cles, particularly of the west., Thocom- mon belief is that officials of every west- ern road have violated the interstate commerce law by manipulating rates, and now that the commission has shown its first earnest purpose to enforce the law, it is to be expected that it will go to the very bottom with its investig. tion, in which case it is reasonably cer- tain that it will have an extend list of indictments, [t is wunde stood that after tho invest tion of freight-rate manipulation is com- pleted attention will be given to the passenger departments of tho roads, with a view to placing the responsibil- for the cut-rate tickets that have ntly been disturbing the m While it is probable that the vio! of the law in manipulating rates have not been 80 common or se! as in the freight business, they should suffer the penalties provided for *h violation of the law. These are a heavy fine or imprisonment, or a fino and imprisonment, The judicial proceedings stituted will lead to dec rding the constitutionalit ain features of the interstate com- merce law, if not of the law as awhole. Already the constitutional issue has been raised by the refusal of two persons, one a railv ofticial and the other a shipper, to answer questions propounded in the investigation by the grand jury on the ground that to do so would be to criminate themselves, and if the decision of the circuit court goes against them the cases will go to the supreme court, Doubtless other consti- tutional issues will arise in the progress of the trials under the indictments. Meantime the public will regard with unmixed satisfaction the evident deter- mination of the commission to enforce the law, the violation of which with ab- solute impunity has been too long per- mitted. ations senger ous in- re- cer- thus ions of AN 0MANHA POSTAL DECISION. Congressman Connell s doing oner- getic work for Omaha and tho west, The Washington dispatches state that he has prepared anargument in favor of a new postal division, with headquarters at Omaha, and that ho will made an effort to have a bill passed to this effect before the end of the present session. This change in the postal department would be very beneficial to the servico in general and Omaha in particular, and can be fairly said to be demanded by the enormous growth of this section and the business it gives the government, Ne- braska is now a part of the Chicago di- vision, which includes also the states of Illinois, Towa, Idaho and parts of Ore- won, Kansas, Colorado and South Da- kota. Mr. Connell’s plan is to establish an Omaha division to cover Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and, possibly, some other territory. The plan is not a new one, but it would seem that there isno longer any good reason for delay- ing it. Such a division must be made sooner or later, and the revelations of the census, as well as the large and growing railroad facilities at this point, ought to be sufficient to name Omaha as the propor headquarters. It is stated that tho business alveady transacted by the chief clork in the Omaha office is larger than that done at some of the di- visions in the west and southwest. The present is also a good time to ask that the headquarters of the postal in- spectors be re-established at Omaha, from which it was first removed to Den- ver and afterward to St. Louis. If Con- gressman Connell can get these benofi- cial changes through congress be- fore he retires he will do most excellent work for his city and state and for the postal service in gen- eral. I the changes ave not made at this time, when all branches of the gov- ernment are in harmony, it will be dim- cult to predictwhen thoy can be accom- plished hereafte ———— A DEFECT IN THE MONETARY SYSTEM. The sec tary of the treasury in his annual ort states it to be his judg- ment that the gravest defect in our present financial system is its lack of elasticity, but he does not suggesta remedy, He remarks that the national bank system supplied this defect to some oxtent by the authority which the banks have to in their circulation in times of stringency, and to reduce when money becomes abundant, but by reason of the high price of bonds this authority has censed to be of much practical value, There is reason to believe that the secretary had contemplated presenting a planintended to provide that when there was a surplus of money in circula- tion it could be invested in government bonds | bearing alow rate of interest, and whon money should become scarce these bonds could be immodiately con- verted into currency at the treasury. Such an inter-convertible bond plan has been proposed several times In the past without meeting with much favor, and iy is quite probable the secrotary was por- suaded that it would not be judicious to offer it now, atloast as anadministration reasure, A bond of this kind running indefinitely, although it carried nomore than two per cent interest, might prove 10 be an attractive investment and would possibly effoct the purpose of giving groater elasticity to the currency, but the objection to creating n permanent national debt is so streng that the inter- convertible bond plan would hardly meet | general public approval. The secretary of the treasury con- curs in the recommendations of the comptrollor of the currency that the ob- ligatory deposit of bonds by national bauks bo reduced and that eirculation be issued equal in amount to the par value of the bonds pledged, and it is safe to infor that ho belioves such a change in the national banking law would re- sultin at least partially remedying the defect of a lack of elasticity in the monetary systom. But in any event it is apparent that this is . mattorof such vital importance as to deserve the cave- ful and early attontion of congress. As the secrotary says, the demand for moncy 1n this country is so frregular that an amount of eirculation which will be ample during ten months of the year will fre- quently prove so deficient during the other two months as to cause strin- gency and commercial disaster. This may happen without speculation and simply as the result of the immonse de- mand for money during the active veriod of moving the crops to market. But stringency may occur at any tim and whatever tho causes its saverit, will be felt according to the degres of inelasticity in the financial system. Un- usual importance attachies to this mat- ter now for tho reason that for seyeral years at lonst the national treasury is not likely to baable to givo such assist- ance to the money market as it did dur- ing the sovere prossure in Septembar and mo: sntly, without which nssist- ance the country would undoubtedly ve expariencod a disastrous financial i The nocassity for an elastic cur- s well understood by all ness men, and if we would avoid disastrous monetavy disturh 03 from time to time provision must ba made for a financial s, m that will ad- just itself readily to the irvegular de- mands upon it. A DEPLE TREASURY. The extravagant recklessness of the inc is already apparent in the de- pleted condition of the city sury Despite the nted fi of the defunct ¥watch dogz™ of the com- bine, the council is brought face to faco with an exhausted general fund, Comptroller Goodrich reports the funds for the following branches ex- hausted: Mayor’s office, superintendent of plumbing, feeding prisoners, watch- men, appraisers, hopitals, elections, compiling tax lists and city lighting. Several other funds will be exhausted with the payment of the November lia- bilities. This is & charming specimen of **busi- ness methods in city affairs.” HE BEE warnod the council beginning of the year that rotrenchment was fecessary not only t6 prevent a deficit but to protect the taxpayers from the raids of useless office holders. The re- duced amount of public worlk, the cves tion of new departments, the division of work formerly performed by a few men, and the depression which pervaded building operations, justified a radical reduction of the city forees, But the combine not only refused to curtail expense but actually multiplied offices, sanctioned inflated salaries to in- competents in the city clerk’s offic maintained the three tools of the Twen- y-cighters in the plumbing inspector’s office where one competent man could have done the work and paid th wages for weeks dovoted exclusively to furthering the political fortunes of the boodlers, The same spirit of extrava- gance was permitted inother depart- ments, with the result of deploting the funds before the close of the year The condition of the city treasury calls for an immediate routing of the tax-eat- ers, For weeks they have performed no actual labor for the city. On the con- trary, they have conspired to override the will of the voters at the primaries and at the polls, preventing an expres- sion of honest sentiment at the former and endeavoring to thwart the will of the people at the latte It 13 exceedingly doubtful whether any public building bill will pass con- gress this session. Under ordinary con- ditions it requires considerable pressure to secure action on such measures during a short session. This year they are ov shadowed by increased regular appro- priations, which will not leave enough of a surplusto warrant any large ex- penditure in new public buildings, The dotermination to pass the elections bill is likely to seviously antagonize not only the forty public building bills on the calendars, but to prevent consideration of all the regular appropriation bills: Under these circumstances, aspiring cities will spare themselves the pangs of defeat by placing little trust in congress. THE editor of the national organ of the Farmers’ Alliance, in an interview, hints that the opposition of that organ- ization to the financial system of the country s soon to take a pointed turn. He says that for five months they have had lawyecs at work preparing a case for the courts, in which thoy will at- tempt to show that the payment of all premiums on bonds is illogal and un- necessary, and that the $70,000,000 used for that purpose hus been wasted. Tt will be claimed that all bonds are now due and payable at par, Thisis one of the points of a campnign against the financial system that bids fair to be very aggressive. THE significant fact should be well understood at the outset, that the elec- tion contest was conceived by prohibi- tionists, is supported by prohibitionists and all the lawyers belong to the party of frayed and frizzod colonels, A glance at the list of names reveals the animus of the “investigation.” THE attack on Tom Majors’ right to an ex offl is an inscrutablo mystery, The fact that'the statesman from s a professional farmor and sports a hickory shirt should have pro- tected him from assault. THERE is one thing about Parnell that all men must admire, and that is the bull dog pluck with which he bears his troubles and faces his ecnemies, He is } = mended for judgment, or a ljat is due to his country’s tands his ground like a not to he cory wise senso of causo. But thoroughbre SECRETARY "TRACY truly assorts that the Indings are making ‘“‘steady progross in pentoful ways and industrial pursuits.” Thy cultivation of a crop of Messiahs maynot be classed among the arts of poace. In this respect, however, they compare with a” considerable num- ber of white doom-scalers. Surely the energy and endurance displayed in the ghost dances isn tribute to their indus- try. Nor is it as profitless as some peo- ple imagine. The action of congress, authorizing inereased rations, proves that they are not dancing for glory. Tie intercontinental railway commis- sion settled down to business withouttho formality of a prayer from Jay Gould. The omission will prove disastrous, Gould has declared that no more rail- roads shall be built, and what Jay says gencrally goes—in this country at least. [ ——— THE startling discovery has been made that somebody was touched on election day with a premature chicken. Does this not prove that “birds of a feather will flock together?” E———————— CHADRON claims to have a vein of coal. If so0, she has a deep, broad vein of good luck in which the whole state will share, OTHER LAND THAN OURS. M. Crispi, the brilliant Ttalian premier, per- haps today the ablest man charged with the conduct of national affairs in Europe, has won a brillian d overwhelming victory in the Italian election, For years, having gained power by a coalition, he has carried on his govornment by playing one party inst anothor and sceking support as un- tatingly from couservatives as from tho liberals. The constituents of his majority have been perpetually changing, and it is only by unexampled skill asa politician and amazing force of character as a man that he has kept at lLis back a scorc or more votes than a bard majority in & chamber of up- wards of five hundred members. The elec- tions which have been held, however, give Crispi’s government a solid support of 400 members, or nearly four-tifths of the cham- ber. The radicals, from whom tho principal aults on M. Crispi have come, have dropped bare twenty n, and tho great con- servative strength, which it has always been felt might divide the ministerial party, has cast its lot in with the youthful follower of Mazzini who in his old age has bacome the steadfast support of crown, law aud settled or. Such a result is livtle short of a po- revolution, It gives M. Crispi an as- sured position such as no Italian premier has had in twenty years. It greatly strengthens the vosition of the triple alliance, of which M. Crispi is the uncompromising supporter. It ends the dream of the ivredentist party, that its members might,!by agitation, intrigue and a network of secretsocicties, foment trouble between Austrin and Italy over the frag- ments of Italian territory the former still holds about Trieste. It stamps with perma- nency the policy of ftalian expansion in the Red Sea and Abyssinia. Unfortunately,also, it continues in Italy the wasteful and extray- agant armaments which have brought its treasury to the cdge of baukraptey, vastly added to taxation, and postponed the devel- opment of material woalth, u The future of Holland may be said to de- pend upon the Life of a frail and delicate girl of ten. Littlo Princess Wilhelmina is far from beimg a strong child; and in tho event of her death the crown will pass to her father's only sister, the wife of the reigning grand duke of Saxo-Weimar, and subs quently to the latter's sons, who, like their father, aro German princes and ofiicers to the very core, Although the Duteh constitution of October 14, 1848, provides that the crown shall not be held concurrently with the actual rulership of any forign country, yot there is nothing in this clause to provent the grand duchess of Saxe-Weimar from exercis- ing the soveignty of the Netherlands while her husband continues to exercise that of his grand duchy. It will be seen, thercfore, that in the eveat of littlo Queen Wilhelmina's death, Holland, with all its vast colonial possessions and enormous trade, will become, if not de jure, at any rate de facto, part and parol of the German empire. This is a result which, although awaited with ill- disguised impatience at Berlin, is regarded in the light of a terrible nightmare by the Hollanders, who aro fonder of success in commerce than of military glory; who profer hiring mercenaries to fight instead of doing their fighting thomselves, and who are con- vinced that any union with Germany will in- volvo the disappearance of their ancient lib- erties, of their trade, and of the peaceful and easy-going existence to which they have been so long accustomed. Indeed, there are many who assert that sooner than submit to German mastery they will rise and proclaim the abolition of monarchy and the restoration of the ancient Dateh republic uuder a stadt- holder, or president, clected by the states- general. It will be seen, therefore, that not in Sorvia and Spain, but also in_the Nother- lands, do vast interests, both dynastic and national, domestic and foreign, depend upon the precarious lives of infant sovercigns. W The cordial relations which bave hitherto been maiutained between England and Italy seem likely to bo impaired by the rupture of the negotiations regarding the boundaries of Abyssinia. The Italians insisted that for the defense of their Abyssiuian protectorate an occupation of Kassala either by an Anglo- Egyptian or an Italian force was indispens. able. The attitude of the British foreign oftico, on the other haad, is precisely that of the dog in the manger, It will neither take Kassula itself nor permit Italy to do so. That adds to the uneasiness of the Italians at finding their hands tied in the matterof Kas- sala is the reflaction that, at best, their policy of annexation in Abyssinin is of ques- tionable expediency. The acquisition of Mas- sowah, tho occupationof the high tableland of Keren and Asmara, and the assumption of a protectorate over |Abyssinia are moves an- alogous to the French adventures in Tonquin and Anam, which reimed the ministry of M. Jules Ferry. Italyfs far less able than was France to afford such ambitious and expen- sive demonstrations,! Nor wers they, in- deed, ever deliberatoly sactioned by the Italian people’ or its legislature. Ounly . when tiby were presented as accomplisned facts was the reluctant ac- quiescence of the chambeyr of deputies ob- tained. The cost of maintaining a standing army in readiness for European contin cies 1s out of all proportion to Italy's finan- clal resources, and the country eannot bear the additional burden that would be im- posed by a war for the defense of Abyssinia. Where Lord Wolseley failed it Is improbable that the Italians would succeed without an exhausting outpour of men and moncy. Speaking on this subject some months ago, an influencial Italian statesman, Marquis Altleri, said that tho uncertainties of the African programme were infinite, while its advantages, compared with its risks, must al- ways be small, In any case, what Africa had cost would not cost the taxpayers might more profitably have been spent at home, NOT ENTIRELY HARMONIOUS. The Appointment Question Liablo to Cause a Demooratio Split in Oongress, THE PLAN OF REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN, Some Spec Hou lution as to What the Committee on Rules Will Do With Nebraska Publio Building BEills, 513 FoURTEENTH STRERT, Wasmixoroy, D. €., Dec. 5. Tho democrats are not entirely harmonious upon the appointment question and are ikely to split into two or probably three factions overthe number of representatives that shall be provided for in tho new apportionment bill. By the plau which has been suggosted by Mr. Holman, the leading democrat upon the census committee, there would be 323 members in the house, On this basis Indiana, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennesses and South Carolina will each lose a memboer each, while the republicans will gain soveral in the north- wostern states, The proposition of Mr. Springer will be of no greater benofit to them. The republicans’ plan of fixing the membership at 854 gives thoso states their present quota and the only states that suffer will be Virginia and South Carolina, That suggestion is moro popular with the demc crats than any that comes « from their own party, which leads the republi- cans ‘to believe that the reapportionment billupon this basis will _be received with favor and passed by the house regardless of the threats that tho democrots haye made to defeat it. It has beeu suggested that tho adoption of a new plan in the apnortionment process will prevent gerrymandering and give ail parties an equal and just representation in congress. This is by havingthe congressional districts of the several states dosignatod by congress instead of by the logislatures of tho overal states, The republicans will see in this a means of overturning the present demo- cratic gerrymander in Ohio and will theretfy gain several members of congress. NEDRASKA PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS, Senator Paddock and other members of the Nebraska delegation were hustling around the house today for the purpose of ing what is likely to be done tomorrow by the com on ruies with tl e Nebraska puolic building bills, Mr. McKiuley of the commit- teo said it was likely that the bills providing for public buildings in cities where thero are no United $tates courts would receive favorable action, Sen- ator Paddock thinks the Beatrice bill and v Hastings aud possibly another No city or two will be favorably con- Wasnixatos Bureav Tite OMana Bee, } sidor ATOR PADDOCK ON THE INDIANS Senator Paddock said “oday that he did not believe there has been at any time any real danger of an Indian outbreak in Nebras- ka or South Dakota and that it the military authorities had not awitated the question there would nov have been nearso much au- noyance to the settlers, “The Indians have sim- piy been enjoying a religious revival similar to the Protestants in civilized sections, ald the senator. “We chureh people have rov als and under the influenco of the all wise power we shont and give evidence of our joy. The Indians have the samo expericnco and they gave evi lence of their condition by dancing. I really donot believe there was anything of a serious nature among the lu- aians, but they have been improssed that the whites intend to molest them und they have prepared to defend themselves. There is such a thiug as too much interference with the Indians.” Congressman Evans of Chattanooga has a plan for avoiding Indian outbreaks in the fu- ture which he thinks will prove very effica- cious. Tvis likely that ho will submit his ideas in the form of a bill. He proposes that tie Indians who are possessed of property in- terests shall be responsiblo for the damages done by them or their families to the prop- erly of others and that the government shall deduct from the allotments of lands which may be made in the future or tax the lands already given for tho damages Indians may perpetrate. He thinks if tho Indians instead of the government would have to pay the losses suffered by these periodical outbreaks there would be soon a cessation. Mr, Evans is inclined to regurd the redskins as bolng as easily influ- enced when you touch their pockets as the white man, ana says he can see uo reason why the Indian should not bear the expenses of & frolic the same as a white man, MISCELLANEOUS, With the approval of the_secretary of war Lientenant Golonel George B. Sanford, Ninth cavalry, is relieved from further duty as a member of the tuctical board at Leavenworth dnd will proceed to join the Fort Leaven- worth cavalry battalion in the field. Hospital Steward Alfred Bauer will be re- lieved from duty at Fort Logan, Colo., and will report in person without delay to the medical director, headquarters department of the Platte, Omaha. for duty. Senator Moody loft tonight for New York to meet Senator Pettigrew, who bas been there for several days on business. Both gentlemen will return to Washington on Mon- day. Henator Mandorsor has written a lotter to J. M. Thatcher, post trader at Fort Niobrara, in which he says that the gederal govern. ment has no authority to issue arms direct to settlers for use in Indian campaigns or any other purpose, but that they muy be issucd to the states and that the latter can issue them to the citizens. o) Representative Dorsey today recommended the appointment of John Galey to be post- master at Cresson, Platto county, Nebrask, Senator Manderson today introltuced a bill to pension Mary Haskell at the rate of $25 a month, Mr. Stanley lectured hore tonight, his stay in the city he and his wife guests of Sir Julian and Lady Pauucefoto. Mrs. ‘Tennant, the motherof Mrs. S 18 also a guest' thero. Sir Julian and Mrs. Tennantare friends of long and intimate standing, baving lived on adjoining estates in Ingland. The Belgian minister will give 4 dinner in honor of Mr. Stanley on Satur- day night at the Belgian logation, and there will be many other dinners given in his honor. Periy 8. Hearn, —_— Nebraska, Towa and Dakota Pensions. WaAsniNGToN, Dec. 5.—|Special Tetegram to Tuk Bee.|—Pensions were granted today to the following: Nebraskans: Original - Abraham G. Leonard, Dorchester; Nathan Bennett, Byron; Frauklin Jacobi, Craw ford; s, Albon. Iucreaso—Fred I, Foster, Roea; Samuel G. Dooley, Beatrice; Jesse Lemper, Omaha; Gliver Fenner, South Omaha: Hobert Gardiner, Petersburg; Latt Fillmore, Calamus ; Daniel Collins, Lewelien; David T. Dudley, Weeping Water; Carbaly Good, Falls City; Jacob Eggert, Mead; John B. Eridenbaugh, Dakota City: Joseph Amy, Friend; Francls M. Jacks, Callaway; Uriall Keeler, West Unionr Deénnison C. Depue, Mead ;'Alfred N. Mosier, Dorchester; Joseph Palm; Tekamab; Flenry Boelman, Lin- coln; Isaac C. Tobias, Leone, Towa: Original—Fredericle Grepuer, Fort Dodge; Traman Griggs, Sioux City ; William Hesler, Des Moines; Asher Baruard, Spring- ville; Firam 8. Allen, Guss; Matthew Craw- ford. Minburn; Lewis E. Tolle, Little Sioux; Wiliiam H. Gilbert, Prairvie City; Charles H. Tull, Grundy Center; Georige Wilson, Floris; ' William 8. Lomley, Waterloo William Hartsock, Wapello; S.'O. Critton- den, Cheslea; Simon Ba Odebolt; Chilrles W. Warff, Osceoia: John Lewis, Dos Moines; Milton I. Woddell, Prairie City; Henry Osterf, Springbrook; Melvin Davis, Monona; William H. Stacey, Medora; James L. Wilson, Keokuk; John A, McClure, Rich- land; John K\ Donser, Bedford; Jumes M Jones, Draperville: John Pylo, Lanesville; John 'B, Swain, Humbolt;” Ocorge Myer, Clio; William MoeCullogn, Hampton; Wash* ton Carl, Holidays, South Dakota: Original—Charles W Vicholson, Madison. Original widows, etc,— ton: Martha During the Minors of Jonn L. Jones, J. Carpenter, former widow of John L. Jones, Edgerton, 7 LLARI-T iy nin Pasha's Expedition, Zaxzisar, Dee. 5.—Emin Pasha, at the head of the German expedition, has arrived ot Lake Victoria. The oxpedition had a num- ber of fights with Arab slave traders, but it was successful in all the engagements, FROM THE CAPITAL CITY, Husband and Wife Granted a Divorce Within an Ho Lixcorx, Nob., Doc. 5.—{Special to Tin Bre.]—Lancaster county's distriot court is noted for its quick divorcoe cases, but the rocord was challenged this morning. Jacob H. Bowers filed his potition about 10 o*clock, asking for a divoree from his wife Sara on tho ground that she was too free in the use of a razor and a loaded revolver, while ho was around the house, and also was inclined to draw on him for cash as though he was a national bank. The wife filed an answer forthwith denying the sllegations, and an hour afterwards the court made them two. Bowers is a prominent nurseryman DON'T LIKE 118 HADITS, Minerva Young thinks that she ought to have a divorce, and tells the district court why. She sayes that James, her husband, is wvery irregular in his habits inasiuch as he goes away from home for a week at o time, but is very regular in that every time he gots drunk he comes home to sleep it off. On one occasion he attempted to climb the stairs with a lighted larp, and as a rosult there was a call for the fire department, On other ocea- sions she and her daughter have found him dead drunk in the barn, and as thoy could not move him had to cover him over with beauti- ful hay. She would also like a little slico of alimony. ROBIED TWICE. Andrew Dooley, who b been spending the summer working for Fitzgerald on rail- rouds, tronsured up considerable of a roil. Andrew has not seen the elephant very muc of late, and Wednesday night concluded t he would start out and gaze upon it in its lair. He pro to the bottoms, and rounded up “at the Gritter mansion, where Annie Tayior and Clava Thomas, sistors, and notorious cyprians, hold forth, Andrew was partial to Aunie, but when he came away he discovered that 10 he supposed he had had were missing, He said nothing about it, however, but later made another visit, b ing previously taken $50 from his hoa which he placed in a pocketbook. In ono compartmeat he had six #10 bills, and the balance was in_another portion of the book When he came away he discovered the 50 were gone. Warrants were sworn out fc the two women, and they are now in custod, The charge of grand larcony was placed agzmnst them, and they will have a trial Monday. ODDS AND ENDS, J. J. Kelsoy and o man named Arnold wero arrested this morning on a warrant swor out by the county attorney charging them with the larceny of $46 worth of lumber from the county. The lumber piles of the accusod and those of the compauy adjoined one an- other, and the men say the lumber got mixed up. They waived examination and gave 200 bonds to appear in district court. John Mclntosh filed suit in_the county court today against thoe city, claimug for flooding his oMce in the Montgomery block, due to the torn-up condition of the street in front thercof, BIDDING FOR SMALL PACKERS, The Stockyards Question Tangible Shape Crrcago, Dec. ~]Special Telegram to Tue Bre.]—The great stockyards question is now assuming a tangible shape. As a result of yesterday's meeting of the packers, other than the great four, held at the office of S. W. Allertou, a committeo of fifteen was ap- pointed to confer with the great four. The Tolleston packers and railroad representa- tives convened in session last evening remained 50 until quite a late hour. meeting convened again this morning but it is not expected that any decision will bo reached before tomorrow. —‘The committes of fifteen was appointed to entertain any propo- sition mado by the Tolleston packers, and this, taken in conjunction with the meeting of the latter gentiemen named, scems to indi- cate that a proposition would be made. There is no questiou now but that both parties are biddiug for the smaller packers. A decision will probably be reached by Saturaay even- ing. Assuming e Special Agent Tingle's Report. WasmiNGToN, Dec. 5.—Supervising Spectal Agent Tingle in his annual report says “While in attendance on the conference of consuls general of the United s in Europe, called to consider the practical work- ings of the customs law, I was strongly im- pressed with the wisdom and uecessity for a stringent enforcement of that act. Had further proof been nceded it would have been found in publications in the European press admitting that luvoices were systematically and intentiontionally un- dervalued and deploring the ~ fact that under the new provisions of the law these evasions could no longer be safely continued. It has also been brought prominently to my notice that while citizens of these coimtries were enjoying large profits on their deceptive and illicit importations iuto the United States, American products were unreasonably and invidiously pro- scribed and made o 1 the rigor of their commercial laws.” Tingle expresses the opinion that more than half the prepared opium consumed in this country during the st sux yours has been smuggled. It is be- ieved, he says, that _an internal revenue tax of notmore than & per pound on prepared article (crude opium to be admittea free) and csponding duty upon smoking opium imported would practically put an end to smuggling. e PRICKS THE BLAINE BURBLE, Amos Townsend Says Ho Will Not Ee a Presidential Candidate. New Youk, Dec. 5.—[Speolal Telegram to Trk Bek.|—Ex-Congressman Amos Town- send of Ohio,who isat the Fifth Aveuue hotel, does not think Mr. Blaiue 1s in the presiden- tial race. He said in conversation today: I wish to prick the Blaine bubble rignt here. Blaine is a friend of anine and T admire him very much. He is not & candidate for the presidency. He told me so himself. I had a long conversation with him ono day and he said that he had heen a candidatlo several times and fuiled of nomination. When he did_get it be was defeated, and he thought that was onough. His ambition, ho added, was to fulfil the duties of secretary of state in a way that would refiect credit upon the countay and himself. Ho was tired of the political excitement involved in a presiden- tial reco. T believe Mr. Blaine, and while ho is popular and his reciprocity ideas have been halled with exprossions of approval every: where, I donot think the siren voic maiden will chango him from his resolution not to become a candidate.' - Parnell Endorsed at Kansas City. KaxsAs City, Mo, Dec. 5.—At a meeting last night of Irish-Americans resolutions were adopted denouncing any attempts to do- pose Parnell from the leadership of his party ; endorsing his policy and expressing confi- dence in him, ‘Tho substance of the resolu- tions was immediately cabled to Parnell, ki Ll To Manufacture Projectiles, New Youk. Dec. 5. —[Special Telegram to T Bee.|—F. W. Bliss of . W. Bliss & Co. has taken & contract to manufacturo armor piercing projectiles for the govern- ment and a factory will be built for the pur- pose of competing with British manufac- turers, The government has appropriated $100,000 to establish the plant. TWO IMPERTAL DOCTORS. 8ir Morell Mackenzie and Professor Koch, the highest authorities in Europe or the world, unhositatingly recommend Soden Min- cral Pastiiles (Troches) for all Throat, Lung sud Catarchal diseases. Dr. Koch sald: A cough for which I tried many other medicines which had not the slightest effe came bettor and hus now entirely disappenr- If you ure suffering from a Cough. a Cold, Asthma, Bronchlal Catarrh, or uny Throat treuble. the Soden Mincral Troches will positively retiove where all else fails. Be sure to obtain the genulne | tlele, which must have the signature and re commendation of Sie Morell Mackenele with euch box. None other a re geuulue, t, s00n be- ported ar- DUN'S REVIEW OF THE WEEK. Stringoncy of Commorcial Loans the Caly Cause of Disturbanoe, A SURPRISING VOLUME OF TRADE. Cheap Cotion and Fine Weath / Affeot Collections—Banks Taking Care of Castomers N for the Futy Fears New York,' Dec. 8.—[Speclal Telog Bk, |—R. (. Dun & Co's woekly wof trade says: Tho stringency in com reial loans, noticed last woek as the chicf uso of presont disturbances, is now almost the only remaining cause, In domostit affairs thero has been a dis- tinet improvement in the disposition of banks and money lenders to give necessary support to logitimate business, curtailing spoculative advances as far as possible, but the volumo of trade is still surprisingly heavy. With time and aspirit of mutual helpfulness the legitimate businoss of the country should s00n tecover its normal stato of health Very numerous and full reports from other cities this week show that tho cheapness of cotton at the sonth and the delay of winter weather at the north have some the transactions and cause 1 more tardiness in collections than heretofore, But colder weather and the approach of the holiday season ulready begin to have a favorablo effect at many poluts. Thus at St. Louis trade s improved in all seasonable lines, excellent at Baltimore and better at Detroit and Boston. At most southern points the slower moveme nt of cot ton on account of low prices is named as tho principal cause of delay in collections, thus at Dallas, while money 1s tight, made advances, are urging shipments, and, thin a radius of one hundred miles are said to be from 5,000,000 to $10,000,000 worth of cotton to be forwarded. “The banks are genorally taking care of theiv customers as far as they are able, and the movement of sugar at New Orleans is largo at good prices, ‘In the northwest, while n conservative feeling appears, and’ money is gener arp demand, is notect greater At Cincinn, two other points, and at Ci sary ad vances for legitimate bu mado to the exelusion of long drawn out or specnla- tive der The country trade 1s healthy, and no foars for the future are oxpressed, At Boston there is a better fecling, ~ Providenco notes q trade. At Hartford the banl take care of their customers whose need large, manufacturing having inereased. At New Haven is comparatively easy, though houses find collections harder than for ten years past. Philadeiphia roports somoe aetiy - y in holiday trades though the grocery trade is only fair. Wool is extremely dull and toa and coffeo flat. About £4,000,000 in clearing house o tificates ave outand the banks are discoun ing custom house paper liberaily. The move. ment of produce at Chicago shows an in- crease over last i’v.’ of onehalf in oats, dressed beef and barley, some inereaso in lard, ched and hides and a decrease in wheat, flour, covn, cured ments and wool. In general the volume of trade throughont the country is S0 heavy that with the ad- vance of 7' per cent in prices since a yoar ago larger supplies of monoy are absorbed. The speculative markets for proaucts are rel- high atready, wheat having advanced a shade forthe week and corn no less than { cents, oil 1 cent and pork 25 cents per bar- rel, though lard ana hogs are a shade lower and cotton and copper unchauged. There is no pecial — change in the great industries though pig-iron is rather weaker in ton Demands for fin- ished products of iron and stecl are still largo though distinetly less than a month ago, and s ave weak with scanty sales, The woolen manufacture is more hopeful and confident than at this time a_year ago but manufac- turers are moving without caution. Labor troubles are very few and the indus- is remarkably wetl em- vatly money Somo noted ployed at f: The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days num ber 312, as'compared with a total of 249 last woek. For the correspouding week of last year the figurcs were 310, ——— The Wool Market. Bostoy, Dee. 5.—[Special Telegr amr Tue Bee.]—There has been a fair demand for wool during the past week and the salos amount to 2,125,000 pounds of all kinds, The general tone of the market, however, wus quiet and prices have been in the buyers’ favor. Ohio X has been sold at 81@32c; XX ¢ @iic; and No. 1 at 87@H0c. Michigan X fleeces have been dull at 20@30c; and Nov L at 36@sic, Combing and delnine have been in moderate request, with sales of No. L combing at 40@42c; Onio fine delaine at 86 #7¢, and Michigan fine delaine at 34@i%e. In unwashed combing there have been small sales of onc-quarter blood at 264i28c, and threc-cighths blood at 20@%0c. Territory wool has been in steady demand with sales of 460,000 pounds at 60c_¢lean for fino; HS¢ for fine medium, and 53@35¢ for medium. Ore- gon wool has been slow at 30c for the best. In California wool there have been sales of spriug at 17@2c and_fall at Lw20c, Texas wools have been in good demand at 20 Pulled wools have been in fair de- and, suver selling at 30@i5c und extras ut #de. Foreign wools have been firm. Keith County Asks Outside Aid, Sr. Louis, Mo,, Dec. 5.—Secretary Morgan of the Merchants’ exchange has received un appeal from the Ladies' aid society of Pax- ton, Keith county, Neb, The appeal states thatas a result of the failure of crops in that county the people are destitute of cloth- ing and money is needed to ussist settiors through the wi Decker, Howe Assets, New Yonxk, Dec. 5.—The schedules in tho assignment of Decker, Howell & Co., bankers, show Liabilitics of 9,410, al w3s0ts, §35,181,932; actual assets, §3,760,3: SPRAINS. BRUISES. Ohio & Miss. Raflway. Office President and General Manager, Cincinnati, Ohio “My foot suddenly turned and avery sey spraincd ankl application of i, Jucobs Ol vesulted at onee in elief from poin.” W 746 Dolphin Street, Baltimore, M., Jun'y 18,1890, “T was bruised bade ly in hip and gide by & full und suflered se- verely, 8t. Jucobs 01l pletely cured W, C.H W. Pranony, Member of State & Gew'l Man Legislature, __THE CHARLES A. VOGEL R CO.. Daltimore. M&. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY. Subsoribed and Guaranteed Capltal Paid in Capital A 50,000 Buys and sells stocks and bonds; nogotlutes commercial paper; recolves ond exeoulcs trusts; acts as & or agent and trustec of carporations, fakes chargo of property, ool= lects taxes, 230,000 Omaha Loan&Trust Co SAVINGS BANK, S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. 'aid In Oaplital k. 3 5),000 Subseribed and Guaranteed Oapltal 100,000 Liability of Stockholders. worenn 200,000 5 Per Cent Intorest Pald on Deposits. FRANK J. LANGE, Un Offoers: A. G Wyman, president. J. J. vice-prosident, W. T, Wyman. treasurer. Dircotorsi—A. U, Wywan, J. 1. Millard, J. J, Brown, Guy 0. Burtou, E. W. Nash, Theumas L. Kimoall, George B. Luke, rown, banks hay e,