Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 23, 1891, Page 4

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Bworn to before me and subscribed in my prasence this 19th day of Septem! er. A. )., 1891 Ska P. ROGGEN, . Notary Publfe. tato of Nebraska, | « Doy as, (5% 78chuck, being duly sworn, de- Ases und sanys t he is secretary of THr HEE Publishin pany. at the actunl av- erage daily circulation of Tn JAILY Bee for the month of September, 1800, was 2 870 coples: for Oetol cr, 180, 20,167 coples for November, 1500, 22180 coples; for Decembor, 1800, 20471 coples; for Janunry, 1801, 28,416 coples; for Februnry, 1801, 2 goples; for March, 1801, 24,085 coples; for April, 1801, 2398 coples: for May, 1801, 20,440 coples; for June, 1801 26,017 coplens for July, 1801, 27,021 coplos] for Augist, 2601, 2740 copios GEORGE b, T28CHUCK Kworn to before me and sulscribed in my presence this Ist day of August, 1501, N. . Frir, Notury Publie ——— For the Campaign. In order to give every reader in this gtate und Towa an opportunity to keep vosted on the progress of the campaign in both these states we offer Ti WEEKLY Bi of this yoar for twenty-five conts, in your orders early. Two dollars be accapted for a club of ten names, THE Biew PUBLISHING Co, Omaha, Neb. for the balance Send will THE 100-cent dollar is the . dollar which we all want. EXCEsSIvE heat at St. Paul has caused the closing of the public schools. St. Paul is begioning to lay plans for a flower festival next wintor, instead of the usual ice palace. THE fact stands that the State Board of Transportation in its report upon railroad rates, epent more time defend- ing the corporations than in explaining the real rate conditions prevailing in Nebraska. Anour 2,000,000 young men will cast their first vote in Novembor, 1802 These young men have the issues of life in their hands if they properly under- stand the conditions pfovailing in this great country. THE people, continue to speculate as to the cause which induced the railroad secretaries to hold back the report which they were probably agreed upon early in the spring, until just before the republican convention. Ir your wifo is buying flour, soap, pyrup, crackers, extaacts, baking pow- dor, vinegar, pickles, brooms, baskets, candy, yeast, tinware and hominy of | enstern manufacture it is hecauso you have not called her attention to the duty of patronizing home industry. JAY GouLp’s boys probably never have any trouble in sacuring pin money, but the old man has his financial diffi- cultios along with the rest of us. Just now he is rustling with all the energy of & man in the west with a chattel mort- gage note due to horrow money enough %0 keep the [Inion Pacific in the swim. THE practice of permitting a favorite candidate to name the delegates in his Interest to a nominaiing convention has grown to be a serious abuse. It is time for a reaction against it and a return to the old-time method of electing dele- fates in the regular way and instructirg them as to their votes for particular can- didates. IF YOU are smoking eastern cigars under the impression that they are bet- ter than those made in Omaha you are simply proving that your taste has been vitiated by habituating yourself to the product of child labor in tenemeont houses of great cities. The Omahy cigar sold for the same monoy is made of bet- ter tobacco by clean hands and in many cases represents as much in labor as the eastern cigar cost for tobacco and labor. THE railroad managers will find the nnti-railrond sentiment materially in- tonsified if they attempt to dafent the nomination of the man whom the poople have in mind for the supreme bench. They will find it largely mollified if the convention tomorrow shall prove beyond u doubt that they did not seok to direct its deliberations or to dictato its ticket and platform, The railroads have an opportunity of gotting gracefully out of politics just now, which the good sense of their management ought to perceive and embrace. CHIEF JUSTICE Conn selooted among pthors the following well known eiti- vens of the capital as delogates to the state convention in his interest: F. M. Hall, B.& ‘M. attorney; J. D. McFar- land, B. & M. land commissioner; C. H. Gore, B. & M. editor; Alva Smith, B. & M. farmer; C, W, Pierce, B. & M. stock- doaler; C, W, Mosher, B. & M. lesseo Btate pemitentiury; T. J. Alexander, late ecandidate for mayor of Lincoln; T. C. Burr, R. . Moore, C. Burr, C. O, ‘Whedon, C. E. Magoon, . G. Court ny J L Caldwell, Tom Cooke, J. R. ‘Webstor, H. M. Bushuell and Joseph i e, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE TOMORROW'S CONVENTION, Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock the most important ropublican state conven- tion ever held In Nebraska will assemble at Lincoln. There are but three officers to nominate and there are no especially new issues to bo presented and it is the off-year in politics throughout the coun- try. Nevertheless to the republicans of this state the deliberations of the con- ition will be awaited with almost feverish anxiety. If tne convention is absolutely indifferent to, or what 18 better, froe from corporation influence and interference and nominates a ticket which deserves the respect of the honest voters of the state the jon in No- vemberwill restore the republican party to a power and prestige which will make Nebraska safely republican for 1802 and ®ill brealk the backs of both the opposi- tion parties. It is well once more on the eve of the convention to recapitulate the situation and consider the conditions which enter into the coming contest. There were 214,000 votes cast in the state election ons yoar ngo. These wore divided among the parties as follows, using round numbers: Republicans, 74,000 independents, 71,001 democrats, 63-- 000; prohibitionists, 4,500, Since the olection of one yenr ago the republicans have nothing. The rcy has been rather to a return to ailogiance and there shadow of daoubt but that we hve 75,000 votes which cannot be swerved from the ticket unless political hari-kari is com- mitted by nominating Cobb for associate justice of the supreme court and Gere for regent of the university, thus sur- rendering unconditionally to the rail- rord ving. The independents, by accre- tions from the democrats, who are be- sioging the court houses all over the state and are willing to fight in any camp for the sake of the forage and spoils, have in nll probability main- tainad their strength at about 70,000 The demoralization of the demo- crats has been so peneral and the pros- pect for success in the state election is 50 udsolutely hopeless that they will not poll more than 50,000 votes in November. They are not in the race at all unle the republicans put in nomination so distasteful a ticket ns to warrant them in making campaign solely in the hope of showing strength enough to be the second party in rela- tive strength in Nebraska. If these caleulations are correct and the prohibitionists hold their votes there are about 15,000 votes not classified in the above paragraph. A large majority of these are alliance republicans who will vote for a good republican rather than the independent ignoramus who aspiros to a supreme judgeship. In- cluded in these 15,000 votes are those of ! hundred honest democrats, who will prefer a competent republican law- yor to au incompetent independent office Sooker who claims to be a lawyer. It will be observed that while the e publicans have u plueality of probably 5,000 votes on the straight ticl:ets the uncertain element is sufficiently strong 10 wipe out that plurality in favor of the independent nomines if they shall be so inciined. They will beso inclined if it shall become apparent in the organiza tion of tomorrow’s convention, in the platform it adopts, the ticket it nomi- nates and the central committea it creates that the railronds have domin- ated in its deliberations and dictated its course. Hence it is especially necessary in the present condition of public sentiment, in view of the relative strength of the parties to make no blunders. The con- vention must organize without help from corporate monopolies and nomi- nate a candidate for justice of the su- preme court whose record as a judge is the best answer to any charges of un- fairness or corporation influence. The two regents of the university must be not only reputable, cultured and well known, but have a personal strength in the communities where they are known which will help the entire ticket. The convention must adopt a platform among other things distinctly serving notice upon the railroad hosses and corporation tools that their hands must be kept off the elections, local and general and that they must cease their efforts to control our courts and legislature: Finally when the state central commit- tee is created the hund of the people must be clearly shown to prevent ar intimations of corrupt deals with rail- roads and to make sure of an honest and aggressive campaign. If the conven- tion apprehends its duties and performs them the November election will triumph for republicanism and good government which will mark an epoch in the political history of Nebraska. is scarcely o votes. an aggressivo sev be a THE TARIFF AND ENGLISH TRADE There is manifestly a strong feeling of anxiety in British manufacturing cir clos regarding the future effect of our taviff law upon trade with the United States, and already cortain industries have oxperienced a matorinl loss of busi- ness. Recent dispatches have reported this to be especially marked in the woolen and cotton industries, especially in the former. The Amec n demand for woolen goods of English manufactur hus so largely fallen off us to have greutly crippled that indust and while tho cotton manufacturers have nou felt the effects of our tariff so severely they pross apprehension that theiv trade will limitod wholly to the finer makes, and that ultimataly even this may be cut'off by the manufacture in the United States of the better grades of cotton. At the same time these I and manufacturers expect that under the operation of reciprocity they will lose a considernble part of their trade with South American coun- trios, wh'ch will be taken by the manufaeturers of the United States. The gr\\'il_\' of the situation may be ap- preciated from the statement that the English manufacturers are looking about for new markets in India and Africa, It is also roported that a move- ment has been started to form a league whose objeots will be the encourage- ment of British industries, the protoc- tion of British labor, und generally to assist in the maintenance and develop- ment of British trade and commeree in evory quarter of the globe. The pro- moters of this movement state that they intend to impress upou the British pub- soon be maans of locturss, demonstra- tions, distribution of literature, and various other methods, the necessity of consuming as far as possible the pro- ducts of British industry in preference to the goods of foreign origin. acheme, if carried into effect, could hardly amount to much in helping the British manufacturers who loso their American trade, for 1t 18 presumod that English consumers now use ver little that is manufactured outside of England, but the movement is interest- ing, as evidence of the solicitude t has taken possession of the English manufacturers and industrial classes re- garding the possible effects of the American tariff. The apprehension is probably exaggerated, but there can be no doubt that it exists, and associated with it is a somewhat hostile and bitter feeling that is neither reasonable nor Just. The only people in this country who will sympathize with the English manu- facturers in their trouble are the demo- crats. All others will understand that the trade which those manufacturers lose here will go in the hands of Amer- ican manufacturers, requiring the in- vestment of additional capital and the employment of more labor, and they will have no fault to find with such a result. It is desirable that shall manufacture more and better woolen and cotton goods in this country, and no patriotic man will find fault with a policy that will bring this about. Noris there any reason to fear that we shall sell less of our natural proaucts to England by reason of such a result. That country takes from us what it needs und no more, just as every other Buropean country does, and not- withstanding the democratic theory to the contrary, we should not materially augment our commerce in the products that any European country buys of us by opening our markets to the unrestricted entrance of their products. Such a policy would very seriously crip- ple our own industries and impair the value of the home market without bring- ing an adequate return in an increased demand for the surplus products of agri- culture. we THE MANUPACIURERS. The meeting of the manufacturers was large and representative. It brought together mnearly avery manufacturing firm in the civy. Others interested in building up home industry were also in attendance, and a great deal of enthusi- asm prevailed. The people gathered to- gether are a unit upon the main propo- sition, but as might bo expected there are differences as to the details of the organization. A good committee has been appointed, however, to formulate a plan of operations, and THE BEE is con- fident they will work out an association which shall be compact, harmonious, flexible and potential. In view of the fact that THE BEE has conducted the comvaign for home industries during the iast six weeks without the aid of any contemporary and may justly lay clnim to the hofior of having awakened the interest which now promises so much good to the business interests of Omaha, a few suggestions will probably he recerved by the proposed association in the spirit in which they are offered. The association must not bs large enough to be unwieldy. A bodv small in numbers with interests ix sommon can perform bstter service than ons in which too many diverging intorests are represented. [n numbers there is strength, provided harmony controls the numbers, but they are a great source of wenkness if broken by factions. The active members of the association should be actual Omaha manufacturers. The jobbers have or should have their own union. The retail merchants have an organization. The general interests of the community are now well provided for in the*Board of Trade and the Real Bstate Owners’ association. The real estate agents have an exchange. The new association should not attempt too much lest it interfere with and hinder the good work properly in the hands of other well managed organizations. In order that those who believe in patronizing home industry may be- come identified with the present movement a system of honorary memberships might be provided which would give the association proper the henefit of the counsel of other business men, but its working force and backbone must be the manufac- turers themselves, If any attempt be made to include others there is danger not alone of antagonizing the two excollent organizations already at work, but of overloading the new one with undesirable and unsywpathetic mombers who can and possibly way later find it to their interest to brenk its in- fluence, THE BEE thinks the organization at the outset should be composed solely of firms nctually manufacturing goods in Omaha and its suburbs on this side of the river, When it is fairly in working order and has established its line of policy, and has elected a secretary who has proved to be the right man in the right place, if it should then seem desir- able, Council Blufls and the state of Ne- braska may be asked to participate and nendod articles of incorporation and a modifiod constitution can bs adopted. This plan can give no possible offense to anybody. If the doors are thrown wide open representatives of eastern factories will be admitied and they will use their membership in the ex- change to combat the principles which ave expected to be applied solely in benefiting and encouraging local in- dustries. THE BEE offers these suggestions with some degree of delicacy, recognizing as it does the divergenco of opinionsamong its friends in the proposed organization. The new association can be a power if it 1s organized on the right plan, It will be a dead failure if mistakes are mude in the composition of its membership. The line must be drawn somewhere, and to our mind it should be an close cor- porution of uctual manufacturers at the outset. THERE i o great deal of nonsenso published in favor of the army canfeen, It is held up us n g temporance en- terprise but it is really a beer saloon undor an easy-spoken name. The offi- cial reports trip lightly over the drink ing department of the canteen and di- This | WEDNESDAY roct attention t8¢Re reading and recrea- tion room and thagrofits of the co-oper- ative institutiol "But when eighvy men at one post deink 95,000 hottles of beer in oight monthetaid & single invoice to another post of ¥4fenty men s 800 bar- rels of beer, 1t i3, vory plain that beer is the principal argiglo of commerce in the The temporance peoplo a will fiffver cease to fight the army canteen 80 lung as it continues to bo as it is now, useful and profitable chiefly because 1 'the quantities of beer s0ld and consumed. inteon, THE mayor nfily or may not approve the city hall furniture contract. The city attornoy has sdvised against letting a contract when there ave no funds in the treasury to meet the obligation, and the comptroller will cortify to the absence of funds, The labor organizations of the city will, it is said, protest against the disloyal action of the council and do everything possible to prevent the work going to an eastern firm. In face of the public indignation manifest- ed at the scandalous proceeding attend- ing this furniture contract, taxpayers will be sustained in a prompt and effec- tive rebuke of councilmen who voted against the interests of Omaha mechan- ics and workingmen, A CONTEMPTINLE contemporary whose only excuse for existence is its animosity to THE BEE and which either ignores or opposes every movement for upbuilding the city advoeated by T BEE, gives vent to the following choice editorial utterance: ** ‘Patronize home industry. The assuidity with which this is howled in tho neighborhood of the city hall malkes ‘rent offices in THE BEE building’ a fair interpretation of the mouthy charivari,” COLONEL W. J. FOLLOCK of Washing- ton. D. C., chief postoffice inspector, is in the city examining into postal affairs here. He will discover a postoffice well managed under great difficulties and o populur postmaster. He will also find that the postoffice dapartment is in high favor in Omaha on account of the recog- nition of its requiraments made by the postmaster general in incroasing the office force and free delivery servi JUDGE A. M. Post has been nomin- ated as his own successor in the Sixth judicial district by an unanimous vote. His re-election is believed to be a fore goue conclusion unless he shall rocoive the nomination at Lincoln for associate justice of the supreme court. Ho do- clures, however, that he will not accept the lutter nomination unless it comes to him unanimously. THE transmississippi congress meets in the Grand opéra. house October 19. The details of arrangements for the en- tertainment of the delegates go vigor- ously forward. Thé people as well as the press must co-operate with the local committee in making the Omuha meet- ing of the congress the largest and most noteworthy so far held. SHOULD the contract for city hall furniture be-let to.Omuha firms, as it must be, fully 75 per cent of the work will be done in thiscity. Will the work- ingmen und mechanics of this city per- mit the couneil to deprive them of this work? All good citizens hope not. POsSIBLY some of the gentlemen o anxious to get into the new manufactur- ers’ organization, who represent gast- ern goods and compete with those made in Omaha are anxious chiefly to use the namo of the ocganization to build up and retain their own trade. A CLOSE corporation of actual manu- facturers can do vastly more good to the the business of Omaha than one which spreuds itself out over the whole city and state and includes among its mem- bers men of all occupations. Mg. PoPPLETON’S pian for reducing schiool oxpenses scems entirely feasiblo and can bo accomplished without im pairing the efficiency of the schools or imposing special inconveaiences upon the pupiis. FIVE more counties can be accommno- dated in the state advertising train, They should present their names and in- dicaty their wishes forthwith, The train will move upon the effete cast O tober 1 THE Real Estate Owners’ association serves notice on all purties that this will beno yellow dog campaign. Tho best men will win in the coming municipal and county ele ANY city ofticial who has the brazen effrontery_to vote against Owaha me- chanics and workingmen deserves to be drummed out of camp. THERE is more danger in attempting too much than in limiting the purposes of the manufacturers’ association. Tur disloyally of the Omaha couneil to the workingmen will be resented at the polls. PATRONIZE Omuna industry is the key to Omaha prosperity, — Le Should Hav Norfalk New It begins to look as Jf:Judgo Reese had the call on the republivan mnomination for su- promo judge. - Poor Year for Cohbs. Beaty e Democrut, ‘There is s0 much cfid this year thut cobbs will be very cheap. dudge Cobb can doubt- less read the sigus ol ke Limas, e Meral Wind, Bostow ilobe, Tho Nebraska democéats have bad their convention, and denouticed the McKinley bul with a vigor that seaks well for their oarn- esuness in opposition to the war tarift and all that it implies SR In Line for Reese. Plattamouth. Herald, The resolution instructing delegates for Hon. M. B. Reose for associate justice, intro- duced by Hon, . B. Windham at the county couvention last Saturday, weut through with a hureab, thus demoustrating conclusively that the republican party of Cass county will be found in line for Judge Reese. Whily thore was opposition to the resolution, by soveral prominent members of the conyen- tion, thero was unmistakable evidence that it was ot because of hostility to Judge Reese, but because they believed that dele- SEPTEMBER 23, 1801 watos should be permitted to exercise their own judgment in tho soleotion, Kvory wan that spoke in opposition of the resolution paid & glowing tribute to the ability, integrity and availability of Judgo Reeso. The Herald firmly belioves that Judge Roese I8 ono of the strong men in tho party, and fnasmuch us he was not treated fairly at our hands two years sinco it is cortainly true that ho 18 a very formidable candidate. The nlliance should not object to him as ho has evory elemont of strength that their candi- date, Edgerton, possossos, with the addi- tlonal ualitication that the poople know the man and realizo his good qualities as evi- denced by his course oun the bench in tho past. ——— Why Not Corn? New York Herald. The high price of broadstuffs abroad is sug: gesting throughout the westorn states the question—often asked boforo—why corn, tho chieapest and most nutritious of the grains, should not be sent iargely to tho European The answer is easy to give. The poorer classes of Furope won't eat corn in any form, They do mot like corn meal in porridge or bread, and they detest hominy. Immigrants to this country do not take kindly to it. Tho quantity sold in this city, where there aro more than half a million poor peoplo of for eign birth or descent, is trifling compared with that of wheat flour. Why? Well, one reason is that vory few people, even in the United States, kuow how to make corn bread that tastes good. Corn bread does not “keep” well, It ought to be eaten while hot frow the oven, which means three bakings a day. Besides, the poorer classos of Europe are creatures of babit regarding food to an ex- tent which we do not dream of, Their diot has varied but little in centuries. It scoms a matter of heredity with milliozs of them to cat ryo bread, even when they can got whoat, justas it is an inborn habit here for the poorest inhabitant of the eastern states to buy wheat flour when ¢ood corn meal can be tad for ubout half the price. “1t Is Just as & man 1s raised.” CoinioS ey The Montana Railroad, venver News. The talk of the extension of the Central Wyoming branch of the Burlington to Butte and Helena, Mont., has assumed su ible form as to att L the atte iid glove association known as the ‘‘prosi- dents’ agreement,” which claims that such extension would be in violation of the terms of the contract, and hence cannot be built. Commenting on the fact, Tue Oxans Bek observes that the Burlington “never mukes an agreement which keeps it out of territory promising as large trafiic as Montana, and it will go on building in spite of the grimaces of its rivals” It will bo borne in mind that during the past threo months the New York Times has mado several bitter attacks on this branch of the Burlingtou as having been coustructed into profitless territor: Tbe trutn is that it runs through a very rich section of Wyommg, and one that will bo very productive when developed. The extension would add largely to its value and render it at once one of the most important and profitable of tho Burlington’s branches. The Times’ attacks may have been prompted by a desireto bear Burlington stocks, or they may have been instigated by a wish to prevent an extension into what is now Union Pacific and Northern Pacific territory. preS Do the Right Thing. Kearney Rub, Tre SuNDAY BEE publishes returns from about forty republican county conventions held last Saturday. Its summary shows that where instructions wore iven they were in- variably for ex-Judge Reese, and Tuk Bk cloims that “at present the surface outiook is thav Judge Reese will go into the conven- tion with yotes enough to nominate him on the first ballot.” This would not be at all surprising. And. by the way, this might be a good time for the Buffalo county delega- tion to carry out the republican sentiment of the county convention which was ignored two years ago. Our stato delegation can do itself credit by votng s & umt for Judgo Reese. —_———— That Bachelor Tax. Buffalo (Wyo.) Echo. Kate Field,you havo played it. From somo remote and cobwebbed corner of your mem- ory you have brought forth that threadbare and frazzled joke'about the denighted Wyom- ing legislator who was an alleged mono- manine on the subject of bachelor taxation, and metamorphosed it into a sober inhabitant of our statute books. bince you did that, Kate, the writers of heavy editorials have been producing labored screeds on the sub- ject of the oppressed single men of our stato until poor little old sore-eyed Wyoming is shunnod as a pestilence by the young man who wants to grow up with the country. An Indelible Fact, St. Louis Republie. Among the democratic governors who are oxpocted to tuke part in the great democratic .demonstration at Columbus, O., next month, is Governor J. . Boyd of Novraska. Tho fact that a partisun republican court declared against Governor Boyd and ruled him out of the state house on o technicality does not re verse or rub out the delible fact that the people of Nebraska elected him governor last fall by an unmistakable plurahty. sariidlitog Helena's Greeting Will Hold, Helena Jowrnal. It is to bo regretted that the visit of the members of Omaha’s Board of Trade bas been postpened, but tho dato now set for their excursion, October 3, will be an excel- lent season for enjoying tho delights of Helena's climate and surroundings, and their greeting lioro will be none the less cordial though delayed. e A Chance for a Test. Pliitadelphia Press, The type founders aro reported to have formed a trust *backed by an Euglish syndi- cate.” If opportunity is offered the attorney general ought to try the effect on these trusts of the law enacted by the last congress pro- libitng the formation of such combinations in restraint of trade. That law was made to be enforced. - Polk in Kansu Kansas City Journat. The Polk incident at Wichita is significant as indicating that the farmers of Kansas are 1n no mood to tolerate the petty decoptions of would-be politieal leaders of the reform school, and that these lesders are not above resorting to suca ¢isreputablo methods for the purpose of making & littlo political capital. e~ The Rage for P v Kansas City Journal. As was tho caso in Nebraska, the maa struggle for office in the ranks of the alliance in Kansas is provoking a greal of bad blood. It is ouly one of many other sigas of impend- ing aissolution which have uppoared of late. Al Lk His Pschyco-Cosmicus, Philadelphia Kceord, George Fraucis Train now writes himself Rev. George Francis Train, This shows that the veteran crank Lias attained to the final turn in tho process of evolution, The jump- ing off place for crankdom Is ovangelicity, — Campaign of Education. rewal Cinelnnati Com be domocrats uemanded a campaign of tion in Ohio this year, but McKiuley, rman and othor republicans are the ouly real schoolmasters at work. WASHINGTON GOSSIP. WaAsHINGTON Buneav or Tue Big, Wasiixato, D, C., Sept. 22, A Scotehman in Tliinois has requested the Buroau of Immigration hore to sond him the first good looking Scoteh woman that arrives at the immigration office in New York, and says he will pay her raliroad fare if she wants to marry him, He says he doos not want A woman ovar 40 nor under 5, and that she must be a good woman. 'ho application when made created some merri- ment in the Immigration buroau, but since othors of like import i.re arriving frequently it bas become a matter of business, " It hias heen ascertained by tnquiry that the flood of immigration to this country from every part of the globois not induced by agents or representatives of common carriers who want to get a fare, but by those who have come and concluded that this is the best coun- try for poor people. The irformation thus far gleaned in an official way on this sulject puts to shamo all freo trade argumonts, for it has boen shown beyond a peradventure of “doubt that the strongest aavocates of emi- gration to the United States are the laborors w\u; bave givon the question the groatest study. The influx of immigration has boen so stimulated since the adoption of tho new tarift Jaw that it would - by a serious problem to the authoritios and congress and would call for legislation to check it were it not for the fact that the new immigration law culls out the #ood from the bad, separates the aesirable from the undesirable and gives America the best of the laboring element from Iurope. But there are to bo other laws on the subject this winter, and the country is to be given more of the benefits of the tariff as it affects immigration, “Lam glad one feature of the coming ses- on of congress will be prominent, and that is the entiro absence of a lobby,” said an old- time member of tho house today. ‘“I'his, you know, is to be a do-nothing session. 1t i3 made cssentially so Dby the fact that the upper branch of con- gress and the chief executivo are re. publican, while the house is uncontroilably democrati Undeor ordinary oircumstancos this division of political sentimens would not make such a chango as to make the session almost useless so far as new laws are con- cerned; but being on the eve of a presiden- tial campaign, whon party lines are very taut, new leeislation of an_important char- acter is next to an impossibility. “Politics would be drawn into almost any measure one conld invent before it was placed upon its final passage. The appropriation bilis will afford any quantity of political fir- ing, and you may expect large deficiencies on account of the disinclination of the majority in the house to aporopriate amounts necess Ty to carry on the public business, No, I do mnot think an effort will bo made to prolong the session, as there was two years azo or during tho campaign, but T a0 not, expect to see the session close before about tho first of September.” The motion for a review of dopartmental decision of March 18, last, in the land case of Richard H. Axford vs Daniel Shanks, from rtowd, S. D., was today deniod by Sec- retary Noble. W. E. Jones of Lincolu'is at tho Ebbitr. P.S. H. s PASSING JESTS. The Ottumwa Courier tells of a man who ed suicido In a house of Illinols Chieago Tribune: Prosecuting Atto - Are you acqualnted with the prisoner at the Possible J sang o the's londe Prosocuting Attornoy (to the court, hastily) —We'll take this man, your honor. ryman—Yes, sir. We formerly mo church choir. He was the Rome (Ga.) Herald: Judge—You h searching for this man n long time, I by Detective—Yes, your honor. Judge—And could find no trace of him till yestorday? Dotective—No, your honor. Judge—Where did vou find him? Detective—Ho was working in a store that does not advertise. 0 heen ivo? TRE NEW GOLDEN RULE, Atlanta Conatitutun, When you've got u thing to say Sy it! Don't take half a day. Whon vour tale's got little in | Crowd the whole thing in a minuto! Life is short—a ficeting vapor— Don't you fill the whole blamed paper With a tale which, atu pineh, Could be cornerod In an inch! Boil her down until sho simmer Polish her until she slinmers When you've got & thing to suy, Suy 1t! Don'ttake halfa any? udge, “what do you ty or not guilfy?” ult for yer honor to ait Ll Lhear the ¢ “Now, Patrick,” suid o] the charse? dance so Life: “Doyou know, Miss, yon talk to wonderfully light that I wish cyou'd me while we're waltzing." “Whut for, pray?* “So L might know that I was kolding you in my arms.” “Will_you drive Somerville Journal; Ile The moon will be just ¢ this evening? Delighted, I'm sure.” Would you prefer to huve we bring a or n singie te She—Why—er S team much oarier to driy —isn't a stngle GUILE OF THE POLITICIAN. New York Herald Now doth the politiclan shrewd Pat huyseed in his huir; And in some lox His specches all prepare. fis friends all advised Wash ton Star LR " sald the unsuccessful hini to go on the stage trugedian’s father, Yes, I s0e now it wi on and'the audie s his frienas egged him geed him off." Clark Roview: Bingo—How is the new serv- ant girl cotting ont Mrs. Bingo—She's gone. Bingo-Gone, Why, what's the matter? Mrs. Bingo—My dr aidn’t fit her, Buffalo Express: When o young man and his best 2irl get into & swing by themselves it arkabie how they willmix up oscillation oscula ®Elmira Gazette: When u man denles that, S aring a shoe too small for him step on’ his foot and ten to one he will acknowledge tho corn. Somervillo Sometimes the politi- ciun who fondly | ho I8 (n 1L i3 surprised w! turns out to be the soup. | ey RETURN, Boston Courfer, On clang the timbrel lustily, ‘With sound of wild bazoo; She's back! she's back! she bas returued! My agony is through! How sluggish crept the leaden hours, How dreary dragged the day ! No happy momeut did 1 know Phe while sho was away. Sho was away but two short weoks And yet it seemed to me As if ber absence had comprised AU least a century. She's not so very beautiful, In fact she's rather plain But oh it fills my heart with joy "Po have ber back again. No other one can take bor place 1 know, for I have tried. Alas! I am a wretched man When she's not by my sida. For I'm a very busy man; With such a lot 10 do; And when my typewriler's away T'm in & perfect stow. e e . DISTRICT ~ COURT ~ DOINGS. Linooln Oitizsns Given an Opportunity to Air Their Troubles, SEVERAL VERY OLD CASES REVIVED. General Nows of Intorest from the Oap ital City — Many Resid Quarantined — Thieves Mako a Rich Haut. Livcory, Nob,, Sept. 23.—|Sneolal to Tus Bee.| —Jamos Sparks, a young colored man, was arragnoed before Judge Field this’ morn- ing on the charge of committing an unnatu- crimo, the vietim being James E. Wilson, a little whito boy of 7. Sparks pleaded guilty and was sentenced to ono year at hard labor in tho penitentiary. John J. Burkhoer and his wifo Alico, who are accusad of stealing 100 from Harry Ruff, & young railroad man who spent & night in the aiva whore Alice was an inmate, were arraigned on tho ohargo of grand lar- cony. They ploaded not guilty and thoir trial was set for Septembor 24, Everett Minnoy rocovered judgment in the equity court against J. A. Wallingtord and Jeromo Shamp for 81,6417, and & decroo of foreclosure was ent 1 An information was filed against Al Wilson charging larceny. The' county commissioners, in answer to the potition of Albert Wellon to prevent them from running & road across his land, filo their_answor, H ) Lo waive all damages bofore they began businoss, and they aro porfoctly willing to pay him what- r is fair and just they assort. horiff MeCiay was this morning ap- poiuted rocoiver of tho Carter & Bailey atock of goods on North Sixteenth streof, with orders to disposo of tho same at private or public sale, HOUSES 1N QUARANTINE. Health Ofticer Bortram quarantined 19 street this morning. Bossia, the G-year-old daughter of Elder . Nottleson, is down with diphtheria at ihat number. Mr, Charles Loving, rosiding at Twentieth and G sireots, died this morning of a diph- theretic affection. Harry, the voung son of Patrick Fitzgor- ald, at %0 North Eighth streot, is sick with diphtheria. The houso was quarantived thie moruing. The houso of Henry Kroll, 207 South Sec ond street, was also quarantined this movn- ivg. A child is affected with scarlet fover. “'he bousejof H. Woltemade is also quaran: tinod. Assistant Health Oicor Robdo is kept busy attending to the wants of the destituto A largo smount of broad has beon distributed among the ucedy. DAYLIGHT ROBUERY. The rosidence of Walter B. Hargroaves at £ street was entered by burglars at 10 o'clock this morning and some £00 worth of jewelry takon. Lntranco was secured by cutting a screon in one of the rear windows, and as the family was absont the thief had a chance to ransack the entire house. Tho fellow secured a gold_watch, a gold ring, diamond ring worth £200 and a pair of ear rings. There is no clue. Tho rings hamo quito & history, having once before been stolen. Mrs. Hargreaves was at a party ono evening at a D street mansion and inadver tontly lof*, hor rings lying on a bureau thero. When she went back after them they wore gone. After a thorough search they wero found hidden in the flour barrel. DISSATISFIED WITH SALARIE: Fred Fawcett, who bas beon a membor of the Lincoln Fire department for four years, has thrown up his position and gone to Cali- fornia. The causo was the cut in the wages of the firomen from §7) to §60 per month. There are a number of the other older mon in the service also who will hand i their resignations the first of the mouth for tha same reason. this morning nim with grand SUPREME COURT, Court met pursuant to adjournment. W. A. Prince of Hall county was admitted to practice. Creedon vs Omah dismi Chapman vs Allon; submitted on objec to jurisdiction. State ex rel Tarr vs Crete; reforred w Willinm H. Munger of I'remont to report evidence and facts in thirty days. Missouri Pacific Railway company vs Twiss plaintiff required to serve and filo briefs by Tuesday, October 20. Gorder vs Platts- mouth Canning company ; _death of plaintiffs Fred Gorder ana Josoph V. Weckbach sug- gested. lattsmouth Land & Improvement company vs Slaughter; dismissed. State ex rol Thiele vs Slocum; leave given relator to amend petition m forty-eizht hours, The following causes woro arguod and sub- mitted: Loder va Loder. Oleson vs Piatts- mouth. Everitt vs Tidbell. Court adjcurned to Wednesday, September 23, at i o'clook a m, SUSPECTED OF ROBIERY. Charles. Copeland alias Charles Cooper, & white man with a colored wife, was arrested at his homo in the vicinity' of Bigath and K streets last night. His wifo was locked up with him, and_ although the police have uo caso against him, they suspect that the couplo know more about. recent robberics than any- one clse. They wore given uutil this after- noon to depart from the city. Two trunks full of goods were found in their houso. COUNTY COURT NOTES, Judge Stewart was _struggling this morn- ing with tho caso of Overton Bros. vs Orval Grigsby, an action to recover §212 for work and_labor incurred in the construction of a weil on defendant’s premisos. The defonso thinks tho plaintiffs ought to pay him 10 for worry and expense, Tho old easn of the South Branch Lumbor company vs Rulifson, McCall and Barnes on anoto for 500 was cailed. The defense is that the noto was not obtained before maturity, and that they are not in- nocent holders. They further assert that defendants purchased a_pluning mill outfit from plaintift and after it had been in opera- tion for & short time thoy swooped down on them with a chattel mortgago and took the? mill back again. They ask the court to ix their damages. R. T. VanBrunt brings suit against Browa: Bros. for §135, which ho claims is due him om: a horse. Tho Lancaster County bank hoids thr notes against William KKiefner for and $150 cach, with G. 1. ‘Tucke Young and W. S. Piger as respectiv 2 ODDS AND ENDS, pmmissions have been issued A. L. Munger, Alvo; C. Cullen, Hubbard} A. W Lane, Lg ska City. Pacil npi Notarial the following Gardner, Sargent; T, M W. H. Shahan, Hilaroth; coln: A. T. Richardson, Nebr Thieves broke into the Missouri depot at Peck’s Grove last night and the money ¢rawer. The case of Thomas F. Me Namee, who wi convicted of murdering Kato Nichols Omaha Februai as been taken to suprome court on alleged error. ssissippl Cong News, et Lenver The Omaha papers are taking great inte estin the unextsession of tho transmissis sippl congress, which meets in that city of Octobex 19. In a recont editorial Tur Br urges thut prompt arrangements be made foi the reception and entertainment of the dele gates, and that the same intorest that was displayed in Denver and Galveston bo also shown in Omaha. 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