Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 23, 1891, Page 2

OMAHA DAILY BI would never cheapen their cost priceto them. But what they do wantis reduced rates on tbings they riise and soll and on the main hrtidles of use, such as are usually trans- orted in cariod lots, | ““Theseare the facts, and {f no freght rate billis passed, or if one of those unwicldy and Allegal onos oos through and comes to ~griof through lllegality, it is not difficult to see vhere the responsibility will rost f rathor than meet us with a fair propost tion to pass your bill, simply providing for nll the articles the farmer cares anything for, gouboldout for the entire portion of thesa ills for poiitical prestige, or for & naue, thon with you be the consequencos. But wo insist the people of this state shall not be de- eived into th belief that we faivor any cor- poration or oppose any just law on this sub- {eet, Aw we thoofom relorate heroin his formil way our position on this subject.” Interesting Times Ahead. Tixcoty, Nob,, March 2. —Specil to Tire B —The next move on the part of the cor poration strikors to defoat rallroad legisla- Yion will come up 1n the house on @ resolu- tion fixing a time for final adjournment. It is thought by many that this resolution will be sprany tomorrow, though It is evident thatit will only beintroduced as a feeler, andnot with any idea of being adopted The senate could ot legally adjourn for another week, The governor can’ only ad- Jour thelegisiature in case of a disagroe- ment of the two houses, and this, of course, 'cannot. happen untila concurrent resolution roviding for an adjournment sine die is {’)‘p«ml by the louse, The leadine indepmdents in the house de- clar they will never passa sin ppropria tion bill until the senate deadlock is broken, sndaction is taken on the pending railroad bills, andshow letters from tieir cons titu- entsad vising themn to hold the fort. and prom fsing to ut intheir spring crops all vieht and, if necossary, wake up a donation for their benefit, and chip in at the alliance mecting to pay their ex penses, All thisindicates that somo mighty inter esting times miy be expectedat the capital if the deadlock continues Tay¥or Non st Lixcors, Neb., Mareh22. —(Special Telo- gram to Tie Ber.)-Congrasman McKel han has roturned from Council Blufls, where he went with several independents to find Seator Hosays thathe 1s satisfied thatgentlemen left that city for parts uu- known. Ho also roports that Sergeantat- “Arms Derby, who went for Taylor, alsois Bick with grip at the Ogden houso in the Blufts. i1 wylor, Ten This Morning, Lixcory, Neb, March pocial to Tine Bk | —A truco has been doclared till tomor- rowmorning at 10 oclock in the se o dead- lock There isnowno doubt that then tha Sadependents will make an effort to force the assage of tho Nowberry bitll. Congres sman TcKerghan is liere to help thom. ——— iversity’s New De, re. Cmicado, March 22.—The Northwestorn university at Evanston today announced an mportant new departure, It is that fifty-ona fullnew scholarships will be created, corre- sponding with the senatorial districts of 1ili- nois, and the state senator of each district hasthe right toa nomination to a scholar- ship. The intontion is not only to make the university represent the whole state, but the scholarships aro alsoto bo an ackiowlelg- ment of 4 dobtduathe poplein return for the oxemption from taxation of theunivers- ity property. The plan is in line with other popilar sieps tiken under the atministration of President Henry Wade Rogers. Williamson Losing His Nerve. SipaLi, Mo, March 22—~Ton Willlamson, whowassentenced to be hanged yesterday, butwas granted a sty of execution pending thesupreme court passing upon his motion fora new trial, has become a changed man in the last twenty-four hours. Heretofore h has boen cheerful and amiable, but today when a rporter atiemnted to interview him he dashed a cup of water in hisface and posi- tively refused o talk, evenon wligious topics, which have been his hobby for some past. 1fhe isrefused a new tri almost eertain, it is bolieved he confossion, whon murders other than the two e was convicted of will bo clearest away. -— Murdered and Then Burned. FraNwiy, Pa, March 2. —The residence of N. . Tobin, tho leading merchant tailor, bumed this morning and Tovin’s remains were found in the ruins. The ody was in a crouching position, the head resting in & pol of blood, with finger marks on the throat and every iudication that he was murdered. Burglars' tools wers found _abont the plac and he probably discovered them ot work. T'wo yoars ago i great sensation was created by the finging of the ded body of Tobin's davghter Maryin Long [sland sound, and the mystry surrounding her violent death has never been ox pline Thirty Years in the Pen, Oquawka, Iil, March 2. —[Special Telo- gram toTure Bre.|-Last eveiing ofter an excliing trial of fwo wecks Barum and Willam Brown were sentenced to thirty years in the penitentiary for the murderof their butherin-law, George W. Holly, at Soper’s Mills, IlL., 183t Decembor. The boys, agel tweuty and twenty-four, had gonoto ot their sister's clothes, she having beon drivon away by her hustand, Holly, In a controversy thit followel Barnum biew out Holly's heart with ashot gun at closo range, For Murdering Boomer Couch. Wicrm, Kan,, March 2. —The trial of J., C. Adams for the murderof Captain W, L. Couch, the notod leader of so many invasions of Oklahoma, openul yestorday in'the United States district court. A vast number of people fom Oklaboma ocoupiod_the court room and exhibited the greatest interest in the proceedings. Tho attorneys of Adums willtry toshow that it was tio hypodermic injeting of morphine which caused blod isoniug and consequent death. An entire ay was oxpended in gotting ajury. A Court Olerk's Crooked noss. S, Paui, Minn., March 22.-Stato Public Exaniner Kouyon has filed his report on the bigstealof Jay P. Davis, deputy clerk of the St. Paul district court, who ran up a tre- mendous bank account trough forged jury ceriifieates= dr. Kenvou's mothod of exun- naton was to check tho jury cortifica agamst the daily record in the district court, and he thus discovored that Day verted 0 his own Davis’ pecu lations begaa In Noveuber, iS7 kopt up steadily for moro than three years, B Young Patricido Gets E Warspka, 1L, Mareh 22.—In tho cirout court hero today, Phitip Wiilian Peacock, & boy 18 years old, was seitonced to fourtson yeas in the pemitentiry for illing s fTather, Willian Peacock. The murder wa committed near the villege Ashkum, Iro- quois county, in May, 18 T'he weanon used was a rovolyer, and the ovideice showod that, the boy placed the revolver uoar the foreload of his favher, who was nsleop, and fired, death resulting in a fow hours, Akt They Were Not Drown od, Tacows, Wish., March 22.—-Mises Lizie and Nellio Kines of Fluwn, S.D., and G. W. Treese and W. L. Bartlett of Monmouth, 11, who leftin a small boat Thursday aud who were thought lo have been drowned, arrived in this oty lust night. Owing o roug weather they stoppod “Lhursday and Friday nights on an islind uear hore, where the yachting club had a club house, To Ru SereNgenern, 11, March 22.-1¢ Is the in- teution of both political parties to seoure the passage of tho ballot reform bill @s soon as possible with an emer gency clause In order that thebill will gointo efest in time for the Judicial devtion in June. A member of the conmittoe on eloctions s2id today that thoy exjected w0 roport the bill to the hose Tuesday, e Kitted His Wife and Tried Suicido, Cieveiann, O., March 2, —George T. Harrls, 8 farmer living near Caldwell, last eveulng cut his wife's throat with e butcher kulte while she was preparug supperand then attompted suicide.” Mrs. Harris Is_dead and the husbud cupol recover. Jealousy W the cause, [0WA RAILROAD ASSESSMENT. The Past Week's Hearing Full of Intorest to Hawkeyo People. VALUATION OF ALL PROPERTY VERY LOW, Somo Big Improvements OContem: plated Near Des Moines—Lumber Interosts of Misissippi River Cities Threntened. Des Motxes, Tue Bre.] The past w urly full of interest to Towa people railrond question, The hearing betore the state exeeutive councll rogarding assess. ments, reports of shich have boen given quite fullyin T Bey, nasteenof the ut. most importance and may bo proluctive of good results in more directions than one, T'he facts and flgures theroin brought out serve to show that th e asssessment valuation of propertyof all kinds s very low, not over 13 to 20 per cont on the average, ad that farm lands wero assssed at o highor valution than almost any other eclas of property. But this fsoffset by the amount of exemptions granted farmors, which inciudo the growing crops and younger than six months on Jamary 1, which in this corn growingand log mising state mems more than tre fourths of the gross earningof the farm. A large amount of personal property, including moneys andcredils, esupes assessment en- tirely, through the cardlessness of assessors and the ease with which the aversge Amer. ican citizen can afivm that he has mowe of those desirable attributes of indopendenc and then serawl his name to an alloged afmi davitto that effect, hese malters haviog been brought so strongly to public attention by this hearing and being now a matter of semiofficial re- cord, it is very possible they will receive the attention of the cominglegislitureand beradi- cally remedied But so far as tho hearing will have any effcet upon the assessed valua: tion of the railways this year, it 18 nol be. lieved iv will have sny. In fact, your corvespondont, hns it upon the authority and opinion of & member of the executive council that the aggregte asessment of the ilways of Lowa will notbe raised toany greatextent, A fow of the lealing trunk lines, like the Rock Island, Northwestern and Milwaukee, will have a slight raise, but others which havo been running ata 1oss will be lowered cnough to offset_any increase. Those who argued before the board in favor of an Increase woro laboring under a false impression regarling the powers of tho board, Thoy favored assessment upon the stocks and honds and terminals of the rail. way compinies, when in fact the law does not contemplate nor warrant any such pro. ceeding, T'ne board seems to be in tion, for if the incur the lasting who inge for an ive croasois grinted as a sop tothe farmers, tho railways will tum their molitical batteries full upon them. But since a democratic governor isat thehead of the council, the re- publicans at loast will not be sorry to see him retived upon this issue. “There are somo intercsting side lights this question of railway (axation, amonsg his thodevelopment that some of the most urgent advocates of an increwse of rail way taxes are either men who haveno wealth t tax, or who so far succeeded in eluding the assessor or ovading his questions 18 to muke their own payment of taxes a mere bugatelle. OTHER RAILROAD MATTERS. Somo timoago J. 5. Wylio of Davenport complainedto the vailway commission that lie was being overcharged by the Milwaukeo company forswitching cars from that place t Oxkiand, a distance of two miles. The old question of what is a switch came up, the company claiming it was not aswiteh be' tween thesotwo places but a haul, and that they were charging the commissiiner’s rato for five miles or loss. Thercupon the board out ina two milo haul rate, which the road refused to rcoguize and prepared to fight out inthe courts, The comui issue so vigorously that the compar cinded discretion was the best and a few diys ago gaye notice procecdings were quashed they would put in the rato at_once. The commissioners are quite proud of tho vietory. Tho Des Moines & Northwescern company has putin a4 cent passenger rate, bocause of the “recent complaint from Rotkwell City against it of di nation whichthe board investigated and orderad discontimied. Now the people of that placo are again dissatis fiod, and askcs for the removal of either tho station at Kads or Lohrvitleto the crossing of the Des Moines & Northwestern and Chi- orthwestern, 5o they can make casy cctions with tho latter roud and th Chicago, Rock Islind & Pacifie, which hav lower rates, verily, the peoplesre hard to please, Souo big railyay improvements aro un- doubtedly contemplated in this city and vi. cinity in the near futire. The Des Moines & Kansas City company has in prospect the crection of & now dapot, freight houso nnd repadr shops, besides amore elaborate yard. The condemnation of proverty desired for a site isnow in progress, and the improvement will follow closely. The execution of thr deeds a fow days ago by Conrad Youiger man and wife to the Hawkeye investment company, ofa tract of land embracing 300 acres lying on both sides of the Rock [sland track threo miles westof tho city, at Valley Junction, for a consideration $105,256, re- ews the suspicion that this land wifl in the near future be used for the erection of great shops by the Rack Island, aud the removal of similar” establishments ' from Stuart and Brooklyn, the union depot project is just now in status quo, but will more than likely be brought to . vealization this year, 10WA LUMBER INTERESTS, Onoof the chief industries of the Missis- sippi cities of Towa is seriously threatened by the introduction of a billin the Wisconsin logislature, the object of which, or at loast the effect. of which, if passed, would be to de- stroy the ontire lumber interestbelow St, Paulor the mouth of the Chippewa river. A Davenport dispatch explains the matter as follows: “The bill in question domands that 1o Loose logs be floated down the Chippowsa, and secures to local mill meu on it the right to erect & hiom for their convenience in sort- ing their logs. In tho first place it is inpos. sible to float brailed logs out of the Ciuip- pew, and they can_only bo handled whet In the Second place the boom men. is_intonded merely to blockado tae 50 that the local mill owners can hold baek the logs intended for the lowor mills at their pleasure, thus subjecting those mills to a continual shortage. Bither feature of the bill is fatal to the lunberintersts below named. Mills at Dubique, Clinton, Daven- port, Musctine, Burlingron, Fort 'Mudison and 'Keokuk, Ti; Rock Islind, Moline and Quincy, 10, and Hamibal and St. Louis, Mo, will 'be affected and ultimately closed if the measure s carried 1nto efTe 80 percentof thelogs that are cut by them comeout of the Chippewa. The withdrawal of that amount of competition from the man- utacture of thelumber that zoes to supply Towa, Nebraska, Kausas, Colorado aud tho Dalkotas will throw the entire business into the lands of tho up-river combination that is engincerine the scnemo and result in 4 largo raisein prices. An interesting ceature of tho matter is that theso lower mills are not mero purchasers of logs on tho Chippews, but they own the land” theso competitors ar tr ing toshut them off of, Al the lower mlls are united in fighting the move, It was at templed last year to manipulato railroad rates to the same end, but the interstato comuission interforrel and the offort failed. The monoy interested in the lower mills, whoso destruotion 15 aimed at, is reckoned by scores of mullions." I T An Assumption of Authority, PokANE Fauis, Wash, March 23 —An India farmer atthe Couer d'Alme reserva. tion, claiming to be acting under orders from the secretary of the interior, is ordering all intrudors off the reservation, Many refus Ia, | stock delicate posi- v will to con- tof valor, that il the to obey hisorders. The reservation will not bo thrown open until the president issues his proclamation. AT Made Fun of the Faculty. Lawiescr, Kan., Mawh 2. —Baldwin City, the swat of Methodism in Kansas, is much worked up foday over tho arrest of David Amsdom, a promiuent student of Bakor university, located ot _that dty. The conplaint was filed by Prof. Markham, in the interest of tho universty, charging Amsdem with pablishing and cireulating an anouymous paper, filled with siily sayings, directed to the faculty of the university. Tho ider is to have Amsdom reveal the reql publishers or suffer the consequences himseif. S ——1 BIALL AND FX18 INMONS. oon Wil 1s a Challenge on Behatf of thy Former, Biurntone, Md., March 22, —Willim doon, who arrived from Sin Mranciso with Jake Kilrain last night, will tomorrow pub- lisha challenge Lo Fitzsinmons, the present champion middieweight, to meet Jim Hall, tho Australian middloweight. Mulloon siys he s author ized by Joe Thompson and Joe Harris, the Australian bookmakers, to biok Hll for 815,000 to §5,000, Fitzsimmons is now in this city and sail tonight that he would probably accept. A purse of $15,00 has been offercd by the Sui Antonioclub for the fight Curcadn, - March 2. —The prospct of a feht between Hall and Fitzsinmons, julg- ing by tho indications hero, appear to be dim. A dispatch from Hail's backers mtimated that Fitzsimmons? forfeit, posted hero, would bo coverud by last Wednestay. Up totonight, however, nothing further his been heard from Hall or bis backers, Mu Mul- Kenmic's Backe MISNEPOLI, Minn., March 22. Kenmie's back have deposit with the Twin City athletie club for Kenmic to fight Ryan at 140or Kerrigan at 13 pounds, give or take two pounds. These two men are preforred, but all other 140 and 138 pound men are embraced in the challenge. Posta ¥ Carter Challenges Schaefor. 1eado, March 92.—Bugeno Cirter has challenged Jacob Schacfer forthe champlon- 0 of the world at 14-inch balk lino billiards 48500n sido, subject to thorules govern- 1 the Brunswick, Balke-Collender company championship emblom, and has putup £50 Torfeit. PR Lo PIAFIA MUST BE KILLED. But One Way to Get Rid of the Ttalinn Organization Loxnoy, March 22.—When General Phil Sheridan was in Europe ten yeavs ago he beaame particularly intersted in the Mafia and other Italian secret societies througgh his association with Ttalian generals, whose mis- sion it was to tear these societies outof Ttaly, rootandbranch. Sheridan visited Italy and was given practical demonstration of the power of these s is by the vident measures to which the gov- ent wascompelled to resort to to destioy them. In tho Sheridin party wis an Irishman ramed St Johu Breuon, who acompanied the general on his journey through Italy, acting on all occasions as his mterpreter. After Sheridan went bome Brenon remained in South [taly five years and made a special study of the Secret, criminal socielies. He is nowliving in Lon- don publishing his book and poems. Mr. Brenon today said : In Lynching the Mafia ruflans the New Orleans peoplo took the only course open to them if they wished to rid " the city of this murderous gang. y treated them in oven a worse manner. Isaw themshot downin the strects of Sicily like mad-dogs — them atatime. Cheir gang was ab exiled from ltaly and took refue in America I have heard from an official in Italy who is in a position to know that the Maila gaig_is quite as powerful in New York asitis in New Orleans. Under Bourhon rule is cruninal society originally flourished in cily. It was partially supprossed, or at all ovents its baneful influence weakened in Palecmo in 1500, when Garibaldi took the ad- ministration of the city, but it ressumed such dangerous proportives in the island in 1800 that the Italian government songht by every means possible to root it ou of the country. In this endavor it wias haf- tfled for yems, but fnally, by adopt- ing the Heverest repressivo measurds, to which the New Orleans episode is nothing, it manazed to make it impossiblefor the Mafia to remain any lonzer on the island. They migated in large numbers to New Or- leaus and Now York. This was not acco- plished without hewic public effort. Tho Mufia hal powerful political pressure at its command, whick made then seure for years. Imustgive you an ideaof what the Mofia rveally s, Miny nobles of the wealthiest families of Sicily were members of it —some from sympathy, others from fen It differed from the'Camorr society mthe fact that it had been always leagued with brigandage. For that remon its ex- istence was to der; the law and to despise the judiciary of the country. The Matia controlled ~ elections, boycotted whion it was w a airth ful mood, butas arule it robbed and assisted indiscriminately the purposes of plinder and revenge. It has a codo of honor called Omerta, which means the code of men who have blood in their veins by which all who are members of the Mafia bind themselves never togiveevidence in a court of law aud never to seelc atlaw re- dress forany injury, It has cortain uxioms which guide the Mafiosi, as the members of thesociety are called. Twill mention a few of their articles of association : Agunand a wife are things should lend. Botter far an influential friend ounces (£255) in the pocket. The gallows is for the poor, justrce only for fools. He who has money ana friends holds jus- tico by the buttock. Testimony i3 good as long as it does not harm your neighbor. In alliance with the Mafa s o subsecret order called Fratellanzo, who ars a band of assissing whose motto is, “Sweet is the wine, but sweeter still is the blood of the Chris- tian) Their ackunowledged god is Avemi, which isthe name of the playing cards of the Sicilians marked with gold money. It vhere- fore siguifies gold. Doubtless it is this sub- division of the Mafia thatis the pest of New Ouleans. I amsatisfied from personal letters that the Italian gofernment and Italian people, save those who outwardly are iuflu- enced by party fecling, admnit that the citi- zeus of Now Orleans did right in punishing in a summary way, those wretches. They, in a measure, imitated the methods adopted by General Pullayicini when he successfuily put down brigaudage in Caldria by shooting wholesalo ot only the Mafia brigands, but thoso who gave them shelter, In 136fin Messina Camorra was scotched by killing witlout trial and lyuchug at one coup twonty-nioe of the worst members of this so- cioly. " Against this kind of justice tho Italins made 1o compiaint, but on'tho contrary ex- pressed thauks to the government, for ridding the island of o class that terrified ing citizens. we nover than ten Fath ta s ORLEANS, March tta, the priest of the italian parish s indignant over an interviow. yith Mayor Shalkespoaro publishedn a St. Louis paper. n it tho mayor advises Consul Corte agiinst bad compauy, and s “That little priest—what's bis name, Mau- oritta—isa bad man.’’ The priest thinks this an uojust attack upon bis character and huas written to the Italian mivister at Wash- ington tor counsel #s to the skeps t take to vindicato his charactor. It is said Fathor Maroritta contemplates a libel suit agaiust tho mayor. Tne Italian citizns of Bewmont, Tex., telograghed to Baron Faya, the Italian min- ister at Washington, that they bad beon thrvatened and wero menaced with violeuce. Tho baron telegraphed to Consul Corte, whose jurisdiction extends to Texas, to iuvesg tigate the mattor aud take action. As a pres lininary step Mr. Corto sent a dispatel to overnor Hogg. The latter promptly aus- wered that ho would investigalo at ouce, and ifthe reports were true the Italians would bo protected with all the power of he state. L'Italo A moricano, the official organ of the Italian wlony, appeared this _norning with anissue devolod largely to the mMassacre of lan Saturday, Theruloson the st pige aro turnod and the paper has the appearuuco of deep mourning. Tn 8 leading articlo in English it says 1 the authorities are not in accord with thelr sworn duty, as Is shown by their permittiog tho uussacre, thoy should rosign, [f the Mafia exists and prac- tices or onsels murder it should be gotton ridof, but popular force should be employed aften, "ot durlug the slow process of the aw. New Manot hureh. ATION FAILED. STATE REGU Removing Polios Goltrol From Ranes Oities Did Not Help Prohibition, COSTLY EFFORTS AT ENFORCEMENT. What the Leglrii ve Committee Dise covered and Heoommenled-Sa- loons and @hiybiing Hens Wide Open in six Cities, Torera, Kan, March 22.—[Special to Tite Ber,|— Printed copies of the report of the legislative committes that investigated the working of the metmpolitan police law are available, and the conclusions of the commilt- tee can now be gottn at. This commitis consisted of five men—Dunbauld, Fon tnoy and Kenton, allance men; York, o repib- lican, and Neeloy, a domocrat. It was thor- oughly & wmmittee intended w develop it possitle aiy vitue thut might exist in the law. Volumious corespondence and coplous tostimony takon 18 printed inthe re- vort, showing clearly how thorough theln- vestigation was, Atcison, Kusas City, Kan, ort Scott, Leavenworth, Topeks and Wichita, the Kan- sas cities which comounder the provision of the metropolitan police act, furnish strong evidence of theinofliciency of statutory pro- hibition. Bailey P. - Wagamer, while my Atchison, had a long cores pondenco Governor Humphrey, fornng the the investization. In this charged that since appointment by the gov- ernor of policc commussioners in 1589, “joints” for thosale of liquor wererun (an averige of forty) and flues were systemat- feally collcted fromthem These fines so- cured the owiers of the joints immunit fromarrest. Other charges of sinilar naturo weremado, Before the committee Mr. Bon- ning, a member of the police commission of Atchison, testified that tippling shops, gambling dens andhouses of prostitution paid regular fines. Evidence expliatory was given by prohibitionists, repiblicans and democrats. Al expressed the belief that it was impssible to cfore the prolibitory law in Atchison, andthat it wasin_ tho intor- est of socioty and the city o have laws exe- cuted to rogulate and not suppross the salo of liquor, Similarexpressions wero obtained the other places. In Topeka during months from April 1, 18%, 1,200 was col- lected as fines from' liquor slling, $5302 from gambling and $37.:2 from houses of il fame, Tho city testified to & police ox- penditureof £05,156.7 forome year, overall collections. R, H. C. Searle, olice judge, testified the number of drunks in his court had ot diminished my. In Wichita over £10,00 were collected from the salooms and gambling dens, Tn sumning up the committee thus sots forth its conclusions ““Your committee lias heard no_testimony thatinduces it to beliove that the prohibitory law hus beon enforced in any city of tho statothrough tho agemey of the metropolitan policoor any otler inichinery of the law. In all of the six cities, fines, or forfeited recy- nizances alled fines, are ' imposed. There is usually nofarther pinishment inflicted. Tho statute, which imposts a flue of $100 and in- prisoment for the offenseof selling liquor is abrogated by orlinances that impose 50 or 2100 only without imprisonment, ance being forfeited: the offense therehy compromised ln a manner donoby any other oficial action, would bba barbuwrous crime, The more vigorous the offort made to force prohibition in the cities, the more iresponsible and debused are the men engaged iuthe traffic, the more decept- ive their dovices, andseclided their places of business, ““The authorities of Popelsn have madea more determined effort to enforce probibitory laws than anv oty of itsclass, as has been already shown. Theyare exponding £15,00 per mrumof tho taanyvers' moncy in ex cess of all the revenue ofhe police department of the dty, and yot theWoints, drunkennss md crimo havonot been banisted. In the other five dties the system hasbeen merely self- sustalning; butitis dearly made 8o through the cucouragement it gives to crimes aud misdemeanors ; through fines {mposed, which are given the 'semi-recoguition of a license, and when the fines are not coiiceted for the public tresurythe temptationto bribe the policeis increased, and tho illegitimate joiny remains through that jntiuence. “The sysiem is so absolutely divor all respomsibility to the people that cers exercise an indepndence inthe interest of crime by notinforming themselves of the charucter of the city ordinances, and when they do, neglect or refuse to enforee ther Your committes conclude that itis a mis tak to establish dual governments in small citics, but as the semte his refusedto repal the law authorizing the appointment of commis- sioners, we can only condemn the general administrition of the metropolitan police Law of the state and petition the governor, ““Your committee thercfore recommends that the governor be memorializd 1n the ex- ereise of the discretion which is placed in him by thostatutes, to withdraw the appli- cation of the metroplitau police law from the citles of Kausas md leave those dities to the eaforcement of teir own police reguln- tion, “Allof whichis respectfully submitted. LEVI DUMIALD, 5. F, NEEY, “B. K. FoRNEY, W M. KENTON, E. D, Youk."? or of with is of Mr. Waggener from ten. itself is which, if FARNERS AS LEGISIATORS, The People’s Party of Kansas Issues 1ts Manifesto. Toreka, Kan, March 2.—The work it doneand the peopis party manifesto is ready for the considoration of the publie When the members of the committes delo- gated to preparo it amived in the city Thurs- day night, cach one of them was certain that the document woull be realy within a few minutes aftor the committee assomblel; thavthe meoting wasonly a matter of form now, as tho true history of the legislative session has already bion propared. Tho comnittee met yesterday morning and was in session all day and far into tho night and it was ot until this morning that it was arranged to the satisfaction of each individ- ual conmitteeman. The manifesto isa e bination of many mamfestos. Nearly every member of the commitiee lad written a docu- ment which hethougjt fitted the case and it was the business of {he whole committea to pick out tho best of eackr and wuite the piecos in one grard whole. . But one copy was pre- pared andthis was divided between the Kun- sas Farmerand Adlimce Advoeate. It was the originl intoukioy of the cmuitice to printit in pamphlet form before giving it to the ores “The manifesto dontains avout five thousud words and much 6f it1s good alliance doctrive. begins by givifg an account of the organi- zation of the housb. [t continues by telling of tho eleciion of ki jl. Suox as stat printer and Judge Willlsay Ar Peflor as United States senator. Of tho rasylt of the senatorial tion the committee commends the alliance reprosentatives as follo *“The schooled repiblican politician: of the land wero gathored lh Topelca and . our steps dogsed by *hired Hessians® b every of cash and_ political honor, but without eflicr. We point at this with pride, as domonstrating that the chosen op reseutatives of the people's party have provin the falsetood of the ruls of tho ring poll- ticiaus ‘thav every man bas his price) *We fowa upon the statute books s largo number of laws ereting boanls of commis- sioners, stite agonts, ote., which secmed o have been placed there for the oxpress pur- pose of providing places for favorites rathor than for my benefit to the state, but we have found it inpossible t repel thee laws with the senato and exeoutive departient making a bitter fght agaiust abolishing these sinecures, An attempt was mado on tho part of the house, in good faithand without wuy strempt 0 cripple any stats institution, penal, charitablo or eddeational, to reduce the expenses 1o something liko an cquality with the earnings of the werage citlizen of Kansas. The allempt was met by the senate with an absolite refusal to consider uy | proposition which reluced the wages or sil- | ary of employes of statn were under republican manigemont. *“Wo projent hereaftor acomparison ot ap propristions mado two years ago and the ap- propristions made atthis session, The sen- e qnsiste higher appropriations, excent In the propsition to appropriate §50,00 for the relief of tha peoply in the westorn part of the state who were suffering from the sover | drouth of last your, aud an apy of 85,00 toprovide for the de insano Who have for voirs past been « din tho county jails of ‘this state, which was defoated by thy senate. “Wo havo not forgotten that during tho drouth in southestorn Kaisas fn 180 sev. Al northorn state logis latures appropriated | large sums of money for the rlief of thy people, but when tho people’s party passed the "bill 1 the house for the purpse of relieving westorn Kansis from o sim ilar intlition the senate discovered that such legrislation was unconstitutional and an amend ment was insisted ipon by the rate that the different counties in the west rn part of the slate rewnain respnsible for the sced grin sont to them, and tho prico thereof must be returied to the state troas ury. Whilo responding to a_ eall from the cster partof the stato that bounties bo ex- tonded them in 1860, every republican repre- sen tative and souator refused to appropriato 81 forthe mliefof tho suffering in wester Kansws, *“The legislature of this session has not. ro- sulted in what wo desired to accomplish, nor in whit tho people woulat have had tho right to expect from us had we beon in power i all brancies of thestate government,” T'ho manifes to then proceeds togive a 1ist of the general bilis passed by both house and sonato which has already been published, ad which bocomo laws. o dist of the bills passel by the bouso 1 not by the smateis to be given in title. Among them s tho history of the world's fairappro. | priation bill, the blamo for the failure of whichis laid atthe door of the senate, he report continues; F“The appropriastion for the next two years, whilothouwsandsof dollars smaller than i the yers mssed, has been swellod cos. ary ations and by tie achment of ouoof the republican district judees of th state, It becams the duty of the present house, forced upn them by the republicans livingin the Thirty-socond judicial’ district, to inv igate the charges of drunkenness, fraud, . prefared against Judgo | Theodosius Botkin. The mvestigation ro. sulted in the preferment of avtides of impeachment for high erime and misdo. meanos. Afterthe impeachment had pecn ordered by the houscho attempted to follow | the recommendations of the repubiican re- | vision coumittee of the senato to abolish the districtin the judicial apportionment of Kansas. At the same time, to relieve the statefromthe cxpeness of in_impeadiment trial, a bill was passed by the house abolish ing " the Thiry-secnd judicial The saterefusid even to consider the bill which would nave saved the enormous expenses of i eachment and immediately organized s a bigh curt of impeachnent, The expenses of investigation and iu<ach: mentsimply incroase the regular appropris tion of thelwo years, In addition, the house instituted the investigationof the construc tion of thestatecapitol, on which £2,500,000 | have already bee expended, and at tho timo of adjournuent discovered that the end was 1ot reached, and that further ivestication should alsobe hal, and the expenses of such | investigation alo’ have been added to tho rest of the regular appropriations, This ro. port will be printed. ““The notorious Conevville ex pl yearsago came prominently be for 1da legislative co sentors and represen tointed to examine the facts relating to such explosion, and the investigation is yet in- complete, but the expenses can be added to the legitimate rezularex peuses of the bien- ninl period. Tho reqular appropriation un. der republican rule forthe two years ending June i), 1801, was about $3,250,000; then add the deficiency of $50,00, makiug the total expenses £,600000. Tho appropristions made by the ‘present leislture, including the deficiency made by the legislature of 1554, amount to §,600000, 8 saving of 1,000,000 m curent expenses, They also lnclude the expenses of this logislature and carofuily estimated current exvenses of the legisiature of 158 and the payment of all bids to June ), 150, that tho legislature of 1589 loft as debts agaiist the state, the cxpenses of boards connected with every charitable, edu- cational and penal institution, augmonting the total 083,500,000, ALl of these bills so far_as they camy to the altention of this logisliture have been proviled for aud pail by the people’s party in the house” The document gives the smate's codifying commitee's enormous ex peises uud _its fail- ure toaccomplish anything, Tho statoment hns a ‘comparisonof the economy betwoen the two bouses. Whesubmit the fact that tho senate with forty members had 115 em. ployes on ils payroil while the nouse with amenbersiip of 125 had only eigh makig a difeceice of 129 por day in the cost of therunning of the two nouses” In conelusion the manifsto says: **We ean safely say in refutation of the charges mado by our political enemies and given such wido crcultion that we did not consider or pass o singele bill that could in any way, dirediy or mdirectly, disturh the relation of debtor and credilor or jeopardizothe wilection of debts or to repudiate any hon ation, aud with this bricf and”care of only afewof the important mesures considerel and passed by e howse of repre sentatives durilg the thirtioth session of the Kansas legislawre, with the action taken theron by fho senate we know that wecan safely’ say to overy business interestin thestatoof Kansas that we have carefully triel to protect the samo in thointersst ofthe peopleof our state, and thoy cannot fail to seo how unfortunito it was and inthe fature wilt bo, to bave a ro. publican senate whose only business object Is to obstruct honest legislation in theinter. ost of the peopleof this state and to check: mate the action of the people's closen repre. sentatives, and wo commend this reviow to the honest consideration ofour peopleand o cndid world."” B e VAES MRS. PDTIS” STORY. fistitutions, which aistriot ionof two his legis. ittee, composed tives, wis ap. DE. Carlysle W, HarrisTh Mothor is Crazy. New Yok, Mireh 2, —([Spacial Telogram to Tur Bre. ]—-Cariysle W. [Harris, the young medical student, who is susviclously volved i the death by morpnine poisoning of the pretty Ocean Grove school: gicl, Helen N, Poits, hus U sus pendeq by the authorities of the colloge of Physicians and surgeons pending the invest pationof the temible charges made by th doad girl’s mother anduncle. His caso has also been placed in ~the hands of the district attoruey, who willdecide by Mouduy whether the evilénco is strong enoigh to bring to the attention of the grand jury. Tie accused young mau came tothe district attomey’s offico today, 1n compauy with @ richaunt the momont he hewrd of the charge and offered bail in any amount, but M | Nicolltold himto gohome, and said that if ho wantedbimbe would be summoned in due tme. * In an iterview young Hi | Mrs. Potts was certalily crizy “Ttis true? ho saud, “‘that wererecently married, and it criminal oporation was perfo Inst: summer, butit was don ton, ler wicle, without my agalnst my wishe Sl A Surgical Operation Caases Doath, | * Mascoumi, Til,March 22.—Ida, the fiteen yearld dmehter of Henry Miler, awell known farmer of Clinton county, diedat lier home, near Quea's lako, last night from tho cffects of an operation performed upon one of her eyos. The cse has attracted considera bl attention among the medical fraternity A sl tumor appeared on the left oye ball aboutn year agoand was the causo of much suffering to the young hdy. She strenuously objected to the removal | of thoeye, ind cyery offort was made (o savo | Thé movemont of thejaw excited the and caused great pain. She conse quently diinot eat anything forover ayear, | ving 1ived on mille and soups all that time. | | She was reducel toa mers skeloton on ac countof her foreed fasting. T'ho eye was re noveda fow days ago by aSt. Loiis oculist, | | voung lady ralliel ~after tho operation had been performed, and grow some botter. Yestorday, how she was takon worse, | and died 16 great agony in ashort time, Ex-Treasurer Woodrafl's His Wife's vris said that Helen and [ is truethat a ‘med on Helen by Dr. Treves. consent and Shortage, Lare Rick, Arle., March 22, wittes svhich las been i shortage of ex-"Troasurer ! leted (ts labors, The total amount, inelud: { o siate and. 8ihoot soeip, to Lo explkined | The com investigating the Woodruft has com- wnd aocounted for is §0 .83, PEACE AMONG THE INDIANS, Major MoLaughlin Gives His the Situation, ' ANOTHER OUTBREAK 1S NOT PROBABLE. Ghost Dancing & Thing of the and No Disturbing Tnfluences at Presnt Affecing Them. N. D March 22.~|Spoclal Telo grm to Tk Bre.-Major James MeLangh linof Standing Rock, themost succssfuland exporionced Indian agen of the govornmont, has furn ishea your eor spondent a sucoinet statomentof tho prosont situation on the frontier, Fosays that the ghost. dancing terninatel with tho war lst December, There was no geaeral attompt to ontinue that exciting pastine among the foux ot Standing 1Rook after thoe death of Sitting Bull. He is confldent that tho dance will notbe resumed on the reservition this spring. There Has hoon vors littla communi- cation between the Standing Rock Indinus and theso of the Rosotua md Pine. Ridge agencios sing fiest of tho year, which is an indiation of prace. Tho Indims have only been partly disaemed, swd it s not ex- pected that 4 complote disarming will ke plice this spring unloss they b lent again. The Sinx are divided into two distinet classs—thoso who willing anc ormitied to work, and those who will not ept tho privi iliation and comé good Indians, ab Tndians at the it Clieyenne River. and il borin s This inel Nortti un commu among the siva tho DD canpaign extendo) i to Manitoba. Had the war 1 length of time there would have itingon both sides of tha Manitoba lin as well as at Standing Rock and Piie Rideo Major McLaughlin thinks it is the intontion of mostof tho Sioux to proceel qaiely with knows of al present, ) say that tha sl uprist probable Thoro Rosehid Stan ding Dakota Ltion bor 1 during from iag them, rocent reports groatly ox: the mest bo with Sho: just across the line Phoy have a vory bad dispo United States, and have be account of their rosidence in try, “These troublesorr od inhabitants of the United States, the New Ulm bute which the leading participunts, the line. Lhey have always kopt ationship with the Dalota are constan t hreedoers o f mischi operation of the Cranadian au thori ti bosecured this springe in_torminating the menancing aspect of the Shoshones, T public demands that the (roops that were re- moved from t South Dakota agemeies the approach of coll weither ba retur Major MeLaughlin thinks the protection is insufficient, and that them is 1lso & gencral feeling among the settlers that the manage- ment of the Inhansouglitto b transferred tothe war dopartment in order to com- pletely divoreothe service from polities. After expressing tho utmost confidence that tho Indians at Standine Rock are pe ably "disposed, Mujor MeEmgshlin said “With ogardfo tho reports affecting the Rosebud, Pino Ridgo ani Cheyeane Ry Indians,i consider them groatly exaggerated butT amnot iua position to_judeze with a certainty a8 o the attitule of the Tulians those agencies, yot I do not ontertin ay fears that peac will be disturbed in that part of the country.” - REED T0-DAY. Ho is t of a tod Ao one insolent on amothor were fo b they 70 BE 12U Proparations for the Func renco Barrett, New Yoms, March 2.—The body of Lawrenco Barrott, the actor, lay today in a room ovhrlooking Broadway in the Windsor hotel, where he died Friday night. M. Marshall Willams, Mr. barrt’s youngest daughter, arived at the hotel yestes afiernoon, She was acompanied by ler husband, and was summoned from Boston by telograpn last night. The other dughte aroin Europe, Mrs. Josenh Andersonin Lon- donand Baromess von Roeder in_ Stuttgart. have been notified by cable of their faftier’s death, Joseph Levy, Mr. Barrt's business man- ager, has_chaice of tho funoral o ments. The funeral will takee place Mo: Sorvices will be beld in this city in morning, and then the bodv will be takcen to Boston for interment Services will also pe held in the latter dty, and the remains will belaid torestin Forest, Hill cometery. Anumber of telegrams and_ lotters of con- dolence were reccived from varions parts of the country, Tmuediately after Mr. Bar- rews death worl was Sen to Edwin Booth, at the Players’ club, tut he did ot call at the hote) until 11 o’clock this morn- ing Hewentat once tothe rom where dead partner lay and seemed be plunged indeep grief. Mr. Barrit's doath was o groat shock to Mr. Booth. The Broadway theatre was closed Saturday, Mr. Booth will probubly disband _the company, ns he s ot enjoying tho bestof nealth and does not care to continue without Mr. Barvett, The engaizement was to have ciosedat the B road- way next Saturday, whei the compny was tollave taken the road. Mr Booth will probably finishout the weele at the Broad- wiy and then taige s much neeled rest, essed € o Button, Cnreaco, March 2,-~Charles Button, are- pairer inthe empioy of the fire alarm tole- graph serviee, enterod an ltalim barber shop aud seating himself in & ciair clled on my member of the Maia in tho shop to give him ashave, Heuso amounced that he had a band in settling the New Orleans trouble. “The Ttalins, upon hearing this, fell upon the customner en masse, beating Button so badly that he will probably die. Three of t barbershave been arrestod. Button, it is thought, was not in New Orlans and wis only attempting to be funny. - - Arlcansas Munle k., Mareh 22.-Officer -v and Marshal Frtzpatrick of this plice effccted the arrest Satun ghit of a dos porate character, who is charged with having Killoa & folloy fisherman several days ago near Ashport, Tenn, ‘Fho ofticors were noti tied by tho eaptainof the govermment boat 1of Law- e Opinion of Past, | I now in the service | me turbn- | Graham that ho had seen Mullen, the mir- dorer, in o skifl, making his way'down tho river, and that ho wes heavily armed The officers were iniormed that n sis- pleiws mdividual had landed on this |side in a skiff. They put on citi tons' clothes and went to the landiy, as onlled outof tho skiff | by one of the disguised ofiicors and the other officer ot botween the suspeet and his siff. Mullon bocarme sus picions and was endoavor ing to make his way back 10 his boat. Ho was immodiatoly eovored by the pistols of the oMicers, wheretpon ho submitted to ar st Ho Js now 1u jail at this place await | Ing the arrivalof oficors from Tennes He cisims that ho killed his parwer in self dofenso, but asthe murderod man’s trunk which containad money, was found brokou openand (he money e, it 18 thought tho | mu T Wis con 1 for gain, - - | CORNELLSTUDENIS AT WAR, | Thelntroducion of Motar-Board Hats Leads to Hoodshed. Trines, N Y, March £9.—A difieulty has arison between the upper and under class | men at Comell university which is likely to | be asgmented and cause trouble. For one { week tho sophomores and freghmen havo | been wearing mortarboard hats with a cliss | button on top. Au effort was made to induco 1ALl the classes to adopt tho motar-boards, but | the juniors and seniorm refused. Yos terday moming the several sovlomores went to rocitation, leavingtheirmortar boards in the lail. Whon they wore dismissed from | cinssthey found that thear prized hats had boen stolen. A mud lot of hatless sophs | walked upand down the eampus looking for the thief, but to noavail Last night they { loarned that a in prominent junior | holped the through, Lato in the ovenin wont to tho houso n Buffio sirect where the junior [lined and rapped. A “man came o the s { aid tho sophs pounced upon i | Dlacked his eyes, broke his nose, and left hi It tumed out thiat tho wary r hadaskol a seufor to go o t who reeaived the poundin sider it an fnsultto tt ¢ between tha e I'ho innosont all the trouble o the done up. boar | maay havo A Kansas City Collupse. Kxsas Ciry, Mo., March 22, —Thestockol H Dickinson & Co., book dealers and tionors, th concern of the kiud westol tho Mississipol river, was taken pos. session of tonight by the sherff under chattel mortage held by the Union National pank. Assets about §100,000; liabilities not known. M Co. largost ANNOUNCEMENTS, { Thooriginal Hanlons open for one weok's ongragement at Boyd's opera house Mon nndgive dunng their stay the aturday matinco. St perba’ is thelt setacular trick pantomime, The na of the Hanlon Brothers has never yet vith & doubtful porformance, 1auch They have traveled the world oversevenl times, have studied out novelty after novelty and have 4 reputation as producers which none others can roach, Ther Voyage en Sulsse™ was a marvel of stag tricksand mechanism in its day, Theu cano Fantasma,” more wonderful and full of bea Ald now comes “Superbs,” tho = verdict of other cities in reference to which is that it casts the others so far in the shady that they are aimost forgotten, ‘“Superby is thorasult of three yearsof hard work the part of the Hanlons. They did_not give | it tothe public until they had itso fully por f that they felt safo in trusting tholr reputations in it The company includes George Melville, the clown, bats and Grecian dances, day evenin usual gaine Letter on a Postage Stamp, When tho postmaster at the littl country office in Illington, Conn, opened his mail bag one day last weok a singlo cancelled postage stamp foll out, | He looked among the lstters to sce if the stamp had comoe from any of them, but they wereall right. Then he e amined the back of the stamp to see if the gum was still onit. He found that Mrs. J. ¥ lrviss of Shaker Station this state, had exercised her ingenuity and strained her eyesight by writing n lotter on the baclk of the stamp. On one eige was o small margin of white Juper, oh asis alyays found on the ull sheet of stamps, and on this was written the addr Miss Lizzo L. { Kibbe, An Ancient Weapon, Anold Chinese matehlock has been given to the State Mining Burenu, with 4 curious assortment of accessories Lo it There cartridgo box with oight barloo enrtridges, o powder flask and bullet pouch. There are about twelve feet of fuse coiled up over the hammor which is operated by pulling a string. The gun itsell is a very inoffensive: looking weapon, but the owner says it is responsible ;m the death of at least ono I'reuch officer, who was killed at the battle at the island of Iormosa. Died of a Br A genulne ken Heart. ase of o man dying from broken heart, .15 before Dr. Brennan at the St. Louis morgue. Just before Fat- rick Connelly, aged thirty-five, died, he exelaimed: *'Oh! my mother! my dear mother!” When the heart of Con- nelly was examined it was found that the apex clongated and burstod. No causo Is assigned except grief due to the deathof the aged mother of the do- ased, The verdictwasdeath caused by aruptured he: A High-Toned Flies. Concord Monitor: Dinny was inspect: ing apack of cards ina back roow kuown butto afew intimates After rigid examination he said to the pro- ietor: **Moriarty; what is thim marks on the baelks of the d “Oh, thim is fly specks,” opl S Well, e toned flics he don’t fresco queens, was the or, you have some high- said Dinny, **for thoy anything but kings and Detroit Free Pross fool. Yousay his bird dogi’? s, but B. wouldy't take it. “Shooter ho offered Ban ger nust be o 1,000 for nger was a bigger fool, o Spring Medicine For a good springg medichio we confidently recommend ITools Sasaparilla. Ly its uso the ood Is purified, enriched #hd vitalized, that tired feeling 18 entixely overome and tho whols body glven stremgth and Yigor. "Tho appetite is restored and shanoned, the digostivo organs are toned, the Kidney's aud liveciuvigorated. Lf you have never tried Hood’s Sarsaparilla da s this season, Tt ls a thorouglly honest and reliable prejaration, purely vegetable, and contalus 0o Injurious fngredionts what- ever, Thousands who have taken it witl et testify tolls pe.uliar curative power 1 take Hool's Sasaparlla a3 o spring and I recominend it (o all who hive ble tired fecling.” O. PARMELER, reet, Brooklyn, N, ¥. Makes the Weak Strong NI ¥ you doclde totake Hood"s K @e 1ot be liduced W buysny olker prop b, | pariaia, Dandelion, ke, Dock, Juniper Borries, and other well known vegetablo remedics, by & coubination, proportion and peciliar toitsell, and by which (e full medielnal valie of all tie ingredients used fssocuicd. Henee it possesses supeiloe wd positive curative power. Purifies the Blood 1y syring for years T lave mado it a practico to take from three to five bottles of | Hooassarsaparilla, because Tknowitpuriles tie Blood and thorongh nsos tho sy stei of albinpurities, That linguli feeling, called ‘spr er,! will uey cr visit the system that | 1as Leen properly cared for by this never- falling remedy.”” W, L LawneNce, Edilor Agricultural Epitomist, Indianspolts, lud. I00 Doses 'One Dollar Hood's Aavaparits orgs. Irepared by, proce old by droggtat. §1;aix - Hvad & Co, Zaoweli, Morme Aribian acro. W, Vs -