Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1891, Page 4

| i 'HE OMAHA D vi’ TS JANUARY 20, 1891 THE DAILY BEE ROSEWATER koitor. e o PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dafly and Sunday, One Y ear Blxmonihs ! Three months Bunday Bee, One Year Weekly Boc, Une Year. OF FIC Omaha, The Bee Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and %th Streets Couneil Bluffs, 1 ] . Chie 17 Chamby New York. Rooma 1,14 and 15, Tri1 Washington, 51 Fourteen th Street RRESPON DENCE atlons relating 0 news and ter should be addrossed to the KUSINESS LETTERS, sletters and romittances should Publishing Con ccks und postoffie er of the som rerce. ne Bullding pany The Bee Publishing Company, Proprietors, The Beo 1110z, Furnam and feventeenth Sta NT OF CIRCULATION Vo EWOIIN STAT Etateof N County George 18 secretary of The Bee Publishing com pu aoes molemnly Aweat nat the netunl elrealation of Tik DALY Bee for the weex ending Junuary 1%, 181, was as Toilow Bundav, J Monday. Tuescny. | Wednesiny, Jun. i Thursduy. J. Fridny. Ji Buturday, J 2040 20,18 ... 80,602 Gronar B. TZSCNUCK. fworn to Yefore me and subsenbed In my presenco tnis 1ith day of January, A D.. 1800 1FEAL | N. P, FEir. Notary Publio of Nebraska, ity of Do 11 Tzschuck, beine duly sworn, de- y8 that he js secretary of The Beo Umpany. hat the actual average ATEroge. . ... oses il Publishine dally circulition “of Tuk DAy B for “the wmonth of January, 1500, 16 oples; for Februnry, 180," 10,161 "con: for March, 100, copies; ' for Aprl 1800, Moy, 20,1 copies M0, for ¥ ), 750 cop | e 470 coples: for Octobe or November, 1500, (@ coples f stemor. 1800 . 178CHUCK, Eworn io before me. and subscribed n_ m: presence, thisilstouy of Decem er, A‘._n,. 1 FiTa ary Publie. ik hoard of education has demon- strated that figures do lie, KANsAs Cr men should make their deposits in Omaha banks. BRIDGE competition is the highway to the ratlroad and commercial prosperity of Omalio. A CONGRESSMAN who has a finger in the silver pool is not an impartial judge of the currency question. SENATOR Manderson touched a re- sponsivo chord inOmaha when he recast the Interstate bridge bill. THE clearings record for the past week marks the return of the financial tide and the restoration of confidence in business circles. TiE partial success of the “tiger” hunt suggests what a grand haul might bo madeil the sleuths did not beat the drum inadvance, THE legislature met yestorday ot 4 p. m., adjourned shortly and rotired to rest. Cost of same to the people, $2,000; value of sume to people, $.0000, “THE human heart isshaped like o squish,” was one of the answers given by an applicant for a teacher’s cortifi- cate in Omaha. And she received it. McCoN L of Idaho is sald to have paid $16,000 for his sixty-day term inthe senate. A senator’s value to the public 18 genorally measured by the amount he paid for election—in inverse vatio. ty of putting the city to the exponse of sending a charter committee to Lincoln? Members of the Douglas county delegation arein Omaha every week and a copy of the revision can be handed them ht any time. WE ARE gratified to contradict the report of Governor Thayer's dangorous illness. According to last accounts he has simply been prostrated by overwork and want of rest. Heis now convales- cing and if norelapse takes place he will be out agair within a few days, LET it be understood at once that THE Bre does not propose to act as publio wrosecutor of any official derelict in the performance of his duties. We shall publish the facts as we find them, re- gardless of consequences, and leave to their official superiors the duty of en- forcing integrity and strict compliance with the law, The annual report of Wells, Fargo & Co. of procious motals produced during 1890 in the states and territories west of the Missouri shows: Gold, $32,156,916; silvor, $62,030,881; copper, $20,560,092; lead, $11,509,571, The total value of the output is $127,166,460, comprising in the aggrogate the chief product of seven states and three territories, Thisis a a vast sun to dig out of the bowels of the earth, yot in actual value it is con- siderably behind what the farmers of two statos garnered from the surface. The corn crop of Towa and Nebraska egated 300,000,000 bushels. At present prices in Chicago the crop is worth $144,000,000. Thus the chief staple of two states exceeds the value of the entire mineral output by nearly 817,000,000 And tho farmor gathers his annual crop at considerably less expense than the miner, TuE investigation into the methods by which teachers’ certificates ave obtained {n this city confirms what hae been common talk in educational cireles for years. The practice of favoring certain npolicants for certificates, regurdless of the result of the examination, has grown to the proportions of a scandal, It forced the retirement of 4 prominent citizen from the examining board a few years ago. The marking up of favorites Is but one of the evils. Others far more worthy and competent have been per- sistently marked down because they did not command the favor of the powers that be. The facts developed show not only a systematio traffie in toachers’ cer- tificates, but a deliberato alteration of examination papers. The board should pursue the inquiry to the end, place the blame where it belongs and promptly dispense with theservices of the abettors and beneficiaries. LET THEM REMEMBER. The disposition shown by leaders of the independents to ignore the truo state of facts in the political division of this state compels us to eall attention to the returns of the late election, Out of a totfl vote of 214,00 cast for governor, the candidate on the independent ticket received 70,187—or loss than one-third. In other words, of the 1,036,000 popula- tion of Nebraska the independents in the legislature represent 850,000 people and their opponents 700,000 people. Thus is one of those very rare instances in politics where the minority has the controlling volce in shaping legislation. to put it tersely, it is one of those es in which the tail is allowed to vag the dog. The reason why this is thus is readily explained. 1n the intense fight over prohibition and the scramble for the offices the legislaturo became a second- ary matter, But that alone would not liave given the independents a con- trolling majority of the two houses. Tho fact is that a very large propor- tion of tho independents in the legisla- tire owe their election to republicans and democrats, Some of them received a greater number of votes from the old parties than from the new party. It may bo weil for these members to remember that they do mot ropresent only the Alliance, but other citizens, who are equally entitled to their se i Tet them bear in mind that 3,900 votes were cast by citizens who are not identified with the Alliance, and of the 70,000 votes that were cast for Powers and the independent ticket fully 10,000 were cast by voters who ave out- side of the Alliance. ————— FOR RAILWAY EMPLOYES. Two measures have been introduced in the legislature in the interest of rail- way employes. Ove of them requires that ruilway companies shallequip th engines and cars with automatic coup- lers. The other fixes the liability of the companies for injuries sustained by their employes in consequence of tho negligence or mismanagement of the agents and servants of such companios. are complemental, both being nec- ¥ to secure from the railway com- s the fullest possible protection to s to be obtained from the of the ~most approved appli- ances and the exerciso of proper care and management on the part of those in authority. The corporations are likely to pay little attention to the mandate of the law in the absence of adequate pen- alties for neglect to obey it. Considera- tions of humanity have no weight with them. They cannot be impressed by sontiment. They have no soul or con- enco to be touched by the sufferings or death of mangled employes, or by the privations to others which such casual- ties generally bring. But they will re- use sei speet a law which provides just and sure penaities Tor their failure to employ all practicablo means for the protection against injury of those in their service. Alaw fixing the liability of these cor- porations wouid give greater force to the demand for the best appliances in equipping their engines and cars. In 1889 the casualties to railway em- ployes throughout the country reached the-startling total of 22,000, ot which 1,072 resulted in death. The number was doubtless not less last year. This is an enormous sacrifice of life and limb 10 corporation cupidity und carelessness, It can not be stated what Nebraska's contribution was to this record of death and maiming ina single year, but there is no reason to doubt that it was in pro- portion to the relative number of rail- way employes in the state: At any rato the ascertained facts must impress every man with the necessity for legislation, local and general, to sceure better pr toction for those in the service of the railronds and to fix just and adequate penalties for injuries sustained by rea- son of the megligence or mismanuge- ment of railway officials, NEW IMMIGRATION BILL. The new immigration bill reported last weelk is a much less radical measure than had beon expected. The careful investigation of the subject made by the committee, and the expression of opinions obtained from persons who take aliberal and unprejudiced view of tho question, appear to have resulted in the conclusion that there is no valid reason at present for imposing very much greater restrictions upon immigration than are now provided, but which have not been as thoroughly enforced ascould bo desired. The result is a measure considerably modified from the bill that a majority of the commit- teo had previously decided on, The new measure exciudes the classes inhib- 1ted by the present law and 1dds thereto persons likely to become paupers, poly- gumists and persons convieted of any erime Involying moral turpitude, simplo polivical offenders not being included. It is also provided, in order to meet the case of persons sent over by poor law guardians, that persons whose transpor- tation was pald for by another, or who have been assisted to emigrate, must show affirmatively and satisfactorily that they are not within the inhibited classes, The bill contains a num- bor of provisions to meet eva- sions of the contract labor law, and it properly exempts ministors and persons in recognized professions from the pro- visions of the law rolating to contract labor. A more thorough system of immigrant inspection is providéd for and vesselsare to be compelled to care for and to return immigrants whom the inspectors decide come within the inhib- ited classes. The committee wisely abandoned the impracticable plan of consular investigation, This bill promises tar more conserva- tive and judicious legislation on this subject than there was reason to ex peot from the disposition manifested at the fivst sossion of the present congress, and from the strong eastern pressure that wius made in behalf of an extreme rostrictive policy, and it will undoubt- edly commend itsell tothe intelligent and fair judgment of the country, how- ever unsatisfactory it may be to that class who selfishly Jand unpatriotically insist upon erecting barriers that would exclude from the United States foreign- ers who would make good and useful cit- izens. Immigration has not been in- creasing for somo years and s not likely to while the ocountries south of us are offering tempting inducements !to Kuropeuns to make homes there, as Brazil, for example, is doing, beeause the United States is no longer regarded as o new country offering ex- ceptional opportunities to the Industri- ous and thrifty, Intelligent Europeans undorstand very well thatthe conflict for existonce here is only less severo than in their own countries, so thatwe are not in any danger of being overrun by worthy and desirable immigrants. If the now measure becomes a law, and is properly enforced, thero ought to be no valid reason for complaint in the future regarding undesivable immigra- tion, VIEW OF THE CAMPAIGN. General Miles has issued an address to his soldiers, in which he reviewsthe late eampaign against the Indians and gives the public for the first time his views of tho mooted questions involved. At the beginning of his address he sottles one question that has been much debated by stating that the danger was # real one, and that the Indians ) deliberately plotting for extensive war- fare in the sprin, 1t was no fiction of the newspaper correspondents, nor panic of the Indian agents, The disaffection was widespread, involving many differ- ent tribes,” says General Miles, *‘The purpose of the conspiracy wus to pro- duce a goneral uprising of all the In- dians, in the coming spring.” While this testimony contradicts the uable opinions of the squaw-man, it will not fail of general acceptance on that ac- count, Reviewing the eventsof the campaign, he justifies every actof the Indian police and the army, o says thut the arrest of Sitting Bull was imperatiyely neces- sary, and that his death wassolely the re- sult of his resistance, He speaks with pride and satisfaction of the battle of Wounded K and utters no cr upon Colonel Forsythe or hi Ho evidently feels ajust pride in the series of maneuvers by which the hos- tiles were surrounded, disintegrated and finally forced back to the agency without bloodshed, and in the fact that this was done while the troops were disposed in a manner to protect the settlements, The address of General Miles, though delivered to the army, is the most im- portant evidence yot submitted to the country on the subject of the Indian war, Itis the opinion of an officer who has the gonfidence of the public and the government, and, in a measure, of tho Indiuns themselves. It disposes finally of the gravest criticisms uttered in con- nection with the subject. It will con- vince fair-minded men that what was done was justified by the situation, and that the authorities made the best of a bad matter, General Miles has undoubtedly ren- dered the historical judgment of the Indian war of 1890-91. CHARTER TINKERING. “The primary object in revising the city charter was to voform abuses, to more effectively guard the interests of the city and the taxpayers,and to em- body in law the changes which ex- perience proved wise and beneficial. That object has been perverted and the so-called revision made the vehicle of an increased raid on the public treasury. This 18 particularly noticeable in the sweeping advance of the salary list, aggregating fully $10,000 a ye As might have been expected, the majority of the revision committee being council- men, upheld every feature of the law affecting the power and vrofits of the council. They forced an advance of their own salaries, granted a necdless inc ase iu the salaries of other officials, ated new offices and rejectad every change which might affect their control of the city patronage. Even these uncalled for changes would be overlookedif there was any assurance that competency and reliability in pub- lic office would increase in proportion to the advance in salary., There is no probability of sucha change while the present ward system exists. There is no valid reason why the council should have supervision over the park commission. On the contrary the park commission should be given inde- pendent powers within reasonable limits to acquire land and to plan and develop asystem of parks and boulevards which the public demand. The park commis- sion should be a co-ordinate branch of the city government, entively fres from politics and beyound the reach of council- manic dictation, The proposition to extend the terms of the present councflmen at large and that of all city officinls one year, and thereafter to have city officers elected for a term of four years isa hold scheme to perpetuate men in office with- out subjecting them to the crucial test of re-election. On general princi- ples we believe in retaining good men in office, but the proposition to retain the good, bad and indifferent is not good policy. Every faithful and efficient of- fice will have at least a fair chance of re-election next Decem- bor, and those who are in- compotent and unworthy should be weeded out at the end of their pres- ent terms, Tho responsibility for the charter amendments must rest upon the shoul- dors of the Douglas county delegation. They are fresh from the people and know very nearly what changes the tax- payers and citizens most desire. IRRIGATING TELEPHONE STOCK. The interesting information is tele- graphed from Boston that the directors of the Bell telephone company ‘‘have authorized the issue of $2,500,000 new stock on April 1,” and that “this would give one new shave for every five now outstanding and increase the capital stoek to $15,000,000,” Thus by a mere raising of affirmative hands a few men sitting in the city of Boston have added the greut sum of $2,500,000 to the “*wealth” of the world in less time than it takes to record the fact on paper. The uverage product of each person enumerated in the last national census is 40 cents n day, There are 313 work- ing days in o year, sllowing nothing for holidays or vacations. At this rate the average earnings of each of our people would be a trifle over. $125 o year. It would require the labor of 20,000 people half century and croated a class of mon- oyed barons mpro dangerous than the petty tyrants of qld feudal days. The telephons monopoly is a good | sample of the evils of the times. The 2,500,000 new g stock will bo real and not fancied wealth to its bolders, will pay good divi- dends and sell for more than its face value, It In fact, it has beenso good that the watering of it has sometimes been necessary to cover of up the exorbitant profits the busine: And those profits have bhoen taken from the public by means of high charges for tho use of n device now in- dispensable to the business world, but still the propoerty of a monopoly. Under the present order of things the people must go on paying big prices for the service of corporations and then, as these profits accumulate and new stock is sued to cover them, they must pay fu ther interest and dividends on the cap- ital accumulated from the very profits already wrung from them. Andas itis with telophones, soit is with railroads, telographs and all manner of other con- i resnecessary to life and business. do these thingsbettor in Europe. When Dr. Koch discovered a recipe of incalculable valuo to mankind, and thereforo of marvelous commercial value, the German government gave him a rich reward and published his formula to the world, Thus the great benefactor receives his due in money and fams, but no syndicate of capitalists will grow rich by establishing a monopoly in the product of his brain and charging the publio all it wiil bear for tne thing it must have. A similar policy in this country would do justice to our inventors and give the people the benefits of their inventions without the merciless exactions of the men who or- ganize syndicates and “get in on the ground- floor,” It is no wonder that our national wealth Is increasing when we consider the perfection to which the methods of al irrigation have been brought by modern corporations, THE deputy commissioner of labor, in his last report, recommended legislation providing for a system of boiler inspec- tion which he snid is demanded by the many explosions ' that have oceur causing the loss of both life and proper- ty. A bill to provide for such inspe tion, and also for the licensing of engi- neers, has been introduced in the legis- lature. We know of nostate in which steam bollers ave extensively in use that does not require that they shall bo care- fully and thoroughly inspected, - and the samo reasons that have led to the adoption of such leg- islation elsewhere apply withequal force in Nebraska. Such provision is so obvi- Ay us o precaution against idents, more or less calami- tous, that it does not need the enforce- ment of argument. No less importantis it that persons having charge of steam boilers should be licensed, which im- pliesan examination showing them to be fitted for such employment. ATOR BLAIR has been defeated by Dr. Gallinger for renomination for the United States senate, and thus passes out of public life on March4, He has been in congress sixteen years, of which four werepassed in the house, Noother sonator in thelast twenty years, if in the history of the country, has drawn to himself at the same time so much of ridicule and admiration. Onone hand he has been the buttof every para- grapher and caricaturist, and on the other the idol of woman suffragists, tem- perance societies and associations of col- ored men. One elementin the country has declared that he would be the laugh- ing stock of history, while the other pre- dicts that he will stand in bronze ona pedestal of graniteand be remembered a8 the honest and most far-seeing states- man of hisday., However this may be, he is apparently now relegated to the limbo where men await the verdict of the historlan. Miss ELAINE GOODALE writes very sweet poetry, but General Miles is a bot- ter authority on Indian warfare. —— Honest John, New York Herald. The Hon. John Sherman handled the cur- rency question inthe senate with the force and logic of an expert, He bristied with sta- tistics as & porcupine with quills, and walked through the silver men like an elephant through bulrushes. But the other fellows had the votes, aud there you are. A Specimen of Gould Gall, Kearney Hub. The spectacle of the Union Pacific repui. atingits Omaha bridge contract with the Roclk Island is the most marvelous specimen of gallof modern gimes. If the small fry could follow Gould’s. example and repudiate otligzations or contragts that had become dis tasteful what & merry old world this would be, to be sure, — What 13 Expe Epoch. What is perhaps the most irrational and unsatisfactory of all our so-called Indian vwars” is drawing 1o a close. It ought to be the last of the sories, but it will only be so ifits lessons are trryed to good agcount, and the 1ight of public opinion is let In on the se- crets of Indian'/mismanasgement. These secrets ought to belaid bare without respect to whom they may hurt or help, The public mind is in @Mmoro receptive mood for instruction on thikdubj than it has ever been, and, as betwéen the humanitarian and the military theory of Indian administration, there is a good deal to be sald. But, in deal- ing with either, it must be remembered that the country expects wisdom enough from those entrusted with the duty of Tndian ad- ministration to reader forever impossible any such outbreaks as those whichof late have had such tragic consequences, s Why Vailroads Combine, In an article on the impending railroad trust by Colonel C. F. Crocker, the Pacific coast maguate, cver his siguature says in the San Francisco Examinel “In my judgment it will be some years before the middie, western and southern states will be suffici- ently advanced to support their railroads. I do not mean this to apply to California, Cal- l iforniais affected by the agreemeht only as rogards hor through traMo and her imports from points east of the Missouri river. The | theory involved and the general principle of for a wholgs year to produco | the wealth ly;.n the directors of the telapSene company spoke into existence in two minutes at thele recent meeting, This is a good illus- | tration, chosen fram current events, of | the means by which v e have developed | miilionaires in this coun in the last | | and to take out of readily in the market | i this agrecment relates to traftic in the middie western country, This agreement comes from the stok- holders in the propertios and not from their servants; and siill anothor considoration that prompts itis to bring the stockholders into closer relationship with thelr properties the hands of the trafic managers and the genoral freight agents the enormous executive power that has hitherto been vested in' thom, They have bad absoluto control over the rates of trafie, a power that is delegated toa servant inno other line of business, The stockholdors themselves will set the rate and will try to maintain it, thus taking the abso- lute control outof the hands of their em- ployocs. The tendency in railway traffic has always been downward instead,of upward, and the work of the active railway managers is not to raise tho rates, but to keep them upon an established basis, A staple rato is the best for the business men It puts them all upon an equal footing. If a competitor knows what the relations of his business rival are with the railway companies, and knows that they are the same that he himself nolds, then ne is better ablo to compete with his rival. It is the object and aim of this agreement to establish a fair rate and to maintain it, not increase it, and therefore it cannot be called a pool, and the roasons for terming it a rail- way trust do not apply.” ——— Too Linte to Growl, San Franciseo call, Tt is too late now to indulge in homilies about the necessity of studying tho pros- pects of now states before admitting them to the union. Everything has been said that can bo said on that proposition and the policy of thenation may bo assumed to be settled. New York and Pemnsylvania have voted, through their representatives, to admit as equal partners in the senate states which cannot in the ordinary course of events havo overasinglo representave in the house for many yeats to come. It must be supposed that they saw no danger in the proceeding, nor, practically, Is there. In tho semato, as in other deliberative bodies, brains govern. The ablest men in the chamber will rule it, whether they represent millions of people or only thousands, and other senators, whether they come from mighty commonwealths or from pocket boroughs, w follow their lead ostig) PASSING JEST A man ezed. ‘““That sealskin sacquo of your wife's is stunuing.” “Yes, ltknocked me cents-less, who is up to snuff isn’t to be sr Youkers Statesman( No matter how heavy aman's eyes aro he ulways has strongth enough to lift them. New York Herald: “Why do thoy call those fellows healers **Because they doctor the returns.”” Indianapolis Journal: A striking coun- tenance is ot always an evidenco of brains. Consider the Win. jzoat, for instance. Louisville Courler-lournal: Heople with castles in Spain read the dispatches with dis- m The heavy snowlall is bouud to break the roofs. Truth: “Why did Joseph's brothers put him in the pit? *Because colored coats are not allowed In the boxes.” Life: Ho—and you say we are to poor to marry; would you marry me if yvou were rich{ She-No, but I would marry you it “May I not aspire to your hand?" he asked eamestly, ‘Permit e, she said positively, “*to assute you that this 15 a lone hand.” Munsey’s Weekly : Ho—Yoth, I suppose 1 was born with a siver spoon in my mouth! She—Aro you quitesure, Mr. Sappy, that it wasw't a silver-headed cane. New Yock Herald: I sce some, dian has invented a buttonless shirt.” “That's nothing new. I've worn them ever since my was engaged in church work." na- New York Sun: “Your books hav. meat in them, Bronson,” observed Sc berry. *“My dear fellow, you should patron- ize & butcher, not a novelist,” returned Bron- son. Epoch: Johnson—Wh tend to marry a sensible girlif I can find ono, Tomson—Now there’s Miss Sharpe; shejitted me- Johuson—Just the girl I want. Won't you introduce mel Ido marry I in- Washington Post: “Bibbins is a man of good deal of depth when you kuow him,” said one member of congress to another. “I should julge so after sceing him drink whisky,” was the reply. New York Herald: Kdith—Thero's ono good thing abgut haviug a mother. Ethel—What do you meant Edith—Why, she is a sure preventive against having astepmother. Journal Amucant: FredWhat! Fight a duel or acconnt of & woman| No,sirl If I caughta man flirting with my wife I'd ia- vite hig to come over for & dav's shooting: just us I've inyited vou—and then, if an acci dent, were to oceur——" John—Heavens! I hopo you don’t sus- pect mei Puck: Brown (to Robinsin, who has been abroad)—And so you have returned from your long_looked forward to journey to the Tamous scenes of the old world, to the tombs of statesmen, mariyrs and philosophers, to the sublime Alps, great London and gay Paris. Tell me old man, what have you done! Brown (proudly)—1 have raised a beard. —_——— Cool as a Cucumber. Washiagton Poit. ““The coolest man I ever knew in my life," said a congressional arrival, “was a native of Kansas, A oyclone had struck him and set him down with entire family and a portion of his furniture within twenty feot of my house, 1said to him: ‘Hello, Sam! whut are you doing over heret” 40, he replied, as he dumped a han dful of tobacco into his pipe, ‘I just came over to get out of the drart.’" —_— Her Voyage, Munsey's Weekly. She wont out light, from the port of Fate, On the squully seas of life, With Love for captain and Joy for mate, Well stayed *gainst tho tempest's strife, And we hope to seo her como sailing back Tuto matrimony's slip, With sails all set, on the homeward tack— That gallaut craft, Courtship. - An Exciting Game, Minneapolis Journal. Idaho—Well, I'l! raise you a silver mine. Nebraska—I'1l call you. What you gotf Idaho—L'hree senators, Tll take the pot. Nebraska—~Hold on there. Threo senators ain’t good, Idaho—What yaa got! Nebrasica—Three governors, Idaho—Take it. '['hree governors lays over me, Ha'vard Lampoon. A barber, a bald man, and thirdly a fool, ogether o journey had made, But tatigue overtook them just at the end, So thoy all laid down in the shade, The barber, by lot, was compelled to stand And he, while the othors slept sound, Shaved the head of the fool 5o eleanly, in- deed, That never a hair could be found, On waking, the fool put his hand to his b 1, did he the barbor's joke see; “You rascal,’ said he, “you've dwaked by nistako Tho bald-leadod man and not me.” THE TARIEF COMMISSION BILL. It Will be Considered by the Senate Finance COommittee This Week, THE PROSPECTS FOR ITS ADOPTION. Approval of Several Roserve Agents for Nebraska Banks — Bishop Hare's Sermon on the ln« alans Commented On, 518 K NTI STRERT, Wasiixaroy, D, C., Jan, 10, Senator Paddock said today that his bill creating a permanent tarift commissioner would be eonsidered by the senate committo ou fiaanco this wook. He believes the meas- ure will receive favorable action by the s ate at an early day. He could find Littlo ob- Jection to the principlo involved or the mode proposed for their recognition. Tne bill pro- vides for a commission of five men, not more than three of whom shall bo appointed from th no political party, each to bo paid a salary of £,000 a ve Lo commission will ave headquarters in Washington, but shall look into the operation of the tarifl law in tho various sections of the country and report annually to congress with recommendations us to the changes needed in the tarift law The intention 1sts give congress fresh non- partasan information relative to the opera tions of the tarit law and what is needed to make it more satisfactory. Of courso the conclusions would in a degreo bo conferred by its partisan majority, but for that reason it is rogarded very favorably by the minority. The reports of tho commission would be based on practical and material evi- dence, It would, it is believed, be & broak- water between the extromo and wide views of the two leading political parties, But it does not meet, the approval of repre- soutative MeKinley, author of the present law. He said of the bill this arternoon: *I dow't believe it would he republican wisdom topass such a measuro at this time, Al though [ fayor a tarift commission for the purposo named inthis bill, I am afraid it would bo a confession of weakness for the republicans to pass such a_ measuro on the neels of a revision of tho tariff. It would though wo were not sure we had It might be regarded as an in- ion for moro information for another taviff bill. No, & don’t think we ought to createa tariff commission until we have wiven the now & trial and seen its opora- Wasmixorox Bon Owuna Bee, } BISHOP HARE'S TALK ON THE INDIANS, A sermon_preached at Grace chur New Yorls last night by the R Hare, bishop of South Dalot congressional cireles today, After the ent trouble in South Dakota and Ne- ska, he said, people had come to the opin- ion that there was 1o solution to the Indian problem except extermination, Even the friends of the Indians, those who had in_the past contributed monoy for their education and advancement and who were truly futer- ested in the Indian's welfare, were vexed and showeda spirit of impatience because the Indians had not all been swept off the face of the carth, He gave a brief history of the troubles. The numberof ghost dances, he said, had been greatly exaggerated. There were not more than seven or eight hundred, and there were actively engaged in the war it Of the causes that led to ‘) ir, he said broken promises was one, The government, had in some respects been wonderlully generous i keeping its treaty promises,” = Some of its promises it had flagrantly broken, The mos! ous of the broken promises, he thought, was the one that bouund the to build for each Indian cepted @ farm on the tion and would work, a substantial hou: That promisé had not been fulfilled. He spoke of other broken promises aud said that when the Indian commission went among vages in 1850 to_purchase from them a part of their reservation for the use of the whites the Iudisns were suspicious. The promises made were only the broken ones in in new shape, and they did not favor any sur- render until past promises had been fuliilled. Finally, when an agreement was made, the Indians waited s1x'months for the fulfillment of the promise and then three months longer and nothing came from Washington, and then they heard that the president had de- clared halt of their reservation open to the whites, INDIAN DEPREDATION OLAINS. Senator Paddock intends to continue his fight for the passage of the Indian depred tion billin the mworning hourof the senate. Phe measure will bo taken upas soon asthe cloture resolation is out of the way and will likely bo passed before the end of this week. A flood of claims is coming in from the s tlers who livein the locality of the present Sioux disturbances in South Dakota and Ne- braska, and Senator Paddock belieyes there should’ be provisions made for their speedy and equitable secttlement. There are no statutes upon the subject and Indian claims aro simply filed in the interior department, where they remain for years brfore adjust- ment, and when the amounts of losses ave de- termined there is no satisfactory procedure by which the claimants may get what is due them. At present it is folly for claimants to ad- dress members of congress upon the subject of their losses, Settlers in the Indian fight- ing states are also bombarding their repre- seutatives in congress with requests to have the war department order tho disarmament of the Indians and begging that the settlers benot left helpiess at the mercy of the war- viors, These inportunities areuseless, Offi- cers at the war department say the troops will not be withdrawn from the disturved scctions until perfeet safety to settlers is cer- tain and that the department will not be mis- led as to whether the Indians have given up their arins in good faith or deposi m in convenient but safe places for an outbreak in the spring. The matter of disarming the Indians is one of discretion with the war de- have alroady beon detormined, so that no congressional influence can be wielded. DECLINED T0 INSERT THE APPROPRIATION, Mr. Dorsey was before the house commit teo on agriculture this morning and mu argnment in favor of bis oill giving to the drought sufferors in Nobraska and those who left their homes on Indian troubles. The committee declined to put it in the regulae appropriation bill, ac it would be strickon out in the house on n point of order. Mr, Dorsey was asked to cito n precedent and for that purpose the proposition was referred to a_sub-committeo Some members of the committee said, th state of Nebraska should take care of its” un. fortunate settlors, but Mr, Dorsey reminded them that tho majonity of these sufferers had { also suflered by the recent Indian raids and forits wards and their acts. Mr. Dorsey says he will carry his battle for bis bill to tho floor of the house, but there are little of cess on account of the gencral against paternalisi ou the part of the government, NESERVE AGENTS FOR NERRASKA BANKS, The comptroller of the currency today ap- !ml\'l‘llh“« rve agents for the following - raska Brunswick and the Globo national bank of Chicago for the David City national bank of David City, Neb.; the Merchants national bank of Omaha for the Ord national bank of Ord, the the Liverton national bank of Chi- engo for the First national bank of Pawneo iy, Neb. MISCELLANEOUS, The rumor that the scnate committeo on wrerigation of arid land was favorable to tho Paoposition to turn ov to the states all lana not susceptible of cultivation, has awakened much interest. A number of lotters nave been receive the Nebraska delogation on the subject. There is very little prospect of such legislation at this session ana all agita- tion s unnecessary. 1t will como up in the net congress and may succeed. Soere blo today denied the motion for a_roview of filed by the attorne; 5 of Walter West in the case of said West. vs Arsine B invol ing land in section 20, township 10 north, range 20 west, Grand Island, Neb. W. Wagdrs was today appointee post ter at Lambert, Holt couaty, Neb., vice 3, R. Howard, resigned, Mrs. C. W. Robinson and child of Dubuque, Iu., are at the Ibbitt Dr. 1. Benuett of Clark has been appointed a member of the pension examination bourd of Clark, 8. D, The following attorneys were today ad mitted to practico before tho or depart- mont: Edward S, Benediet of O'Neil, Nob., David J. Morrow of Omaha, Samuel . Wire* man of Glenwood, Ia, W. I Burwell of Hastings, Neb., has been appointed 1@ a position in the government printing oflice, Representutive Dorsey will att ford's great stock sale i New woek. Prany S, Heamn, - CITY NEWS, carrion A Grave Error, Lixcory, Nb,, Jan. 19.~To the Editor of The statement published as a ch to the effect that Governor insano or dangerously ill isa baso fabrication. Tho general is slightly ill from overwork- tled in his mind, w day and today replying to drouth sufferer 3 H. B. Pamen, AN EDITOR ARRESTED. Mr. D, Q. Bartley, editor of the Bartioy Entorpi llow county, and who came to Lincoln to look after cortain matters m the logislature, was_arrested here today by the sheriff of Red Willow county. Tho charge against him was_criminal libel and Rev, Tayloris the complainant. THE MELFENSTEIN OAS This aftornoon in tho Dniteds, States court Captain Straum, in behalf of or threo persons who are defendants in the Holfen- stein case, asked that the cases bo dismissed on the grounds that tho prosecutor was dead and that the heirs could not take the matter up. Messrs, Wharton & Baird. attorneys for the organization of persons known as tho “Home Defenders,” and who own property in the so-called Helfenstein tract, are greatly opposed to a dismissal and wish to fight tho matter to a finish. A QUEER SPECULATION. On the night of the 13th 1st. a young man named Roy Osborn, claiming to be from York, wandered into the police station with the tale that ho had accidentally shot him in the hand, a ball from a i2-calibre rovolver passing betieen the third and little fluger of the left hand. He was directed toa phy- and nothing more was thought of tho matte Today accident an agent of tho insurance Standard company of Detroit was on the hunt of the young n and ulso of what circumstances be cc glean about the aceident, atement is that Osborn took out four accident policies on the mornyng of the 1th inst. and his claim to the company states the accident oceurred at Tenth and O strects in this city, T ofticers who were on duty that night el that Osborn told them it occurred at or ne the Ninth street crossing of the railways, though ho could givea very unsatisfactory explanation of just how it occurred. As this is the fourth claim of this kind that has followed tho issuance of policies at York the Standay company suspicious of the genuinéness of accidents and will investi- gate before paying. ‘ The Lnte Edzar Crowe. Tho remalns of the late Edgar Crowe will be brought to Omaha for interment. Mr. Crowe died at Butte, Mout., last Friday. Ho was well known'in this city where he was born and where he lived until a year ago. Ho was at ono time a carrier for Tie Ber and six years ago won the gold waten awarded by this paper for the most eflicient carrier sor- vice for o term of months, Later ho was employed in the office of the Pacific Ilxpress compuny and_ resigned his position about v g0 to aceept @ position in the office of his step-father, Hon. J. 8. Shropshire, at- torney for tho Montau division of tho Union *acific, “Ihie funeral will bo held today av 10 a, m. from the residonce of Mrs. H. M. Clayton, 616 South Twenty-eighth street. SRS Frank Semple has succocded Geoorge Ady as assistant gencral passenger agent of the partment, and the manuer, time and place Union Pacific at Denver. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U., S. Gov't Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE NEBRASKA National Bank U, 8, DEPOSITORY, OMAHA, NEB, Capital, - - = = Surplus Jan. 1st, 1890, - $400,000 67,800 ) THERE IRON BANK, Cornor 12 b aud Farnam 8ts. A General Bunking Business Transacted, DRINK EXCELSIOR SPRINGS #:. weg' WATERS ‘St Saline” Nature's Tonic, Diuretic and Uric Solvent. N BOTTLES BY C B. MOOKE & CO., Agts. 155 Dodge St OMAHA. LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Bubsoribed and Guaranteod Capltal Paid in Capital ik nd solls stooks and bonds; negotlutes tal paper, recelves and executes trusts; acts as transfer agent and srustoe of vorporations, takes charge of property, ool lects laxes, Omaha Loan&TrustCo SAVINGS BANK. S, E. Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. \id In Capital desriang siftsnsid B0S0) Bubscribed and Guaranteed Cupital..,. 100,001 Liability of Btookholders. vren s 800,000 & Per Coat Intorest Pald on Deposits, FRANK J. LANGE, Cushle: OMocers: A U. Wyman, president. J. J. Brown, vioe-president, W. T. Wyman, treasuror. Directarsi—A. U, Wyuan, J. H. Millard, J. J. Brown., Guy C, Barton, E. W. Nusb, Thowmus L. Kuapall, George B, Lake account. of the federal government is surely responsivlo the departmental deciefomr—===== L - o np + ~ - RN 6. N