Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 17, 1891, Page 4

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Tzschuck, secretary of Tie Bee publishinz company, dovs Rolemnly swoar that the actual elreulation of THE DATLY BEE mber 12, 1501, was a8 for the week end follows: Sunday, D Mondny. Tuesday. I Wodnesday. Dec 0 Thuraday. Dec Friday, Dec. (1 Saturday, Dee. | Sk v s sk IO ) B TZSCIUCK Sworn to bofore me and_ subseribed In my presence th's 12th day of Decomber. A. D. 1801, SEAL P Average. . Notury Public. The growth of the averace dally eirculntion of Tie BEr for six years Is shown in vhe fol- Towin table: TRAT | 1888 | 1860 | T8 January. 15200 19,57 [ 19,56 February March April. May Augrist | Eeptemi) October Novemper. ... mber 112 Chicago desperado s enterpris- ing enough to drive a St. Louis robber to suicide, BeET sugar and the sugar beet hold the boards at Lincoln today and all this interior region is listening intently for the discussion and its results COUNT RoLsTol’S noble efforts on be- half of the famine stricken Russian peasants force an unwilling world to forgive him for porpetrating *Kroutzer Sonata.” SILENCE, move or less undignified, is still the only detense offered by E. C. Carns, chicf oil inspector, to the serious charges of neglect of duty made and proved by TiE BEE, SeNATOR KYLE of South Dakota, in attempting the grand straddle, has ap- parently come to serious grief. His du- plicity will probably result in shelving him so far as bis legislative usefulness is concerne EpwiN M. FIELD was a plunger while he lasted and many a Wall street spec- ulator chuckled at the thought of fleec- ing him. The young Napoleon of finance quit business $2,000,000 ahead of ‘Wall street, however, though bankrupt and insane himself. GENERAL GRANT'S famous remark that it is always safe to trust to demo- cratic blunders for republicwn success promises to be again verified if tho first ten days of the present congress are any criterion from which to judge of the work of the session. Jonn W, DANI elected United States senator from Vir- LS, who was re- ginia on Tuesday, is one of the ablest men on the democratic side of the sen- ate. Heisa law writer of natio re- nown, an orator of the old but eloquent style, and o general favorite with his aggociates of both partics. BRAZIL is too busy just now to ratify her treaty with the United States and asks for an extension of time. Unhap- pily for that country the business in hand is of u very serious character, It may result in eithera weading ora wake and therefore the request for ad- ditionul time is remasonable and should be granted. GENERAL NATHAN GOFF, ex-con- gressmun and ex-governor of West Vir- ginia, was appointed United States cir- cuit judge of the Fourth district, and republicans everywhere will say that an able, faithful and deserving muan was rowarded for valuable services to his state, his party and the nation when ho was selected. MONTANA has sold 250,000 cattle this year at un average of $40 per head. This is the bost year the cattle growers of the young state have ever experi- enced. It is safe to estimuite the vo- +ceipts from cattle, horses, sheep and wool in Moatana this year will reach $15,000,000. This is the country which a northwestorn extension of the B. & M. rallroad will open up to the Omaha stock yards. Theso figures ought to convinco almost anybody that the coun- try is worth annexing — As Tur Ber predicted, J. D. Wood- rufl’s breezy interview in Monday’s i concerning the Shoshone Indian agr ment has already agitated the capital menagerie. Mr. Merrillat is verifying Mr. Woodruft’s story in filling the news- papers with the merits of the majority report and is attempting to discredit the views of the Wyoming member of the commission. Mr. Woodruff is able to take care of himself, however, and his story will be heard by congress if not by the department. ——— MR. BrYAN is recognized as the leader of the Nebraska delegation in the house, according to the Omaha double- ender. Leador of which Nebraska dele- gation? The independent, the fusion, or the straight democratio? At this dis- tance Kem appears to lead the inde- pendent, McKeighan the fusion, and Hryan the democratic portions respect- ively of the Nebraska delegation and as each of theso consists of one congress- man all each leader has to do is to stalk THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THURSDAY DECEMBER 17, 1891 PROTECTION OF RAILWAY EMPLOYES The bill of Senator Cullom of Illinois to provide protection for railway em- ployes by compelling railronds to use an automatic coupler is, so far as its object is concerned, a commendable mensure. The killing and maiming of railw employes in this country is really appalling. According to the last report of the statistician of the Interstate Commerce commission tho number of such employes killed and injured during the year end- ing June 30, 1891, wus about 32,000, and the very large majority of these were the victims of the primitive and perilous coupling system. Itisa record of cas- itios in a single industry which in any country would be regarded ns alarming, and would receive from the government not only prompt attention, but the applieation of the mest stringent legislation toa remedy. In this country, however, the railroads have gone on from year to year Killing and muiming tens of thousands of per- sons in theirservice withoutany serious attelnpt having been made to compel them to provide against such casualties, Ifitisin the province of enact o law that will have this result it is certainly time it did so, The mensure introduced by Cullom is peculi; in the method proposes for determining the cho of an automatic coupler. It provides that the choice may be mude by votes of the common carriers and the employes, the former to have vote for every freight car owned, leased or controlled, and the employes to be entitled, in the aggregate, to one-third as many votesns may be cast by all the common carriers. The Interstate Commerce commission is 1o have power to decide upon the valid- ity of the votes, and the choice of any partienlar coupler will depend upon its getting 500,000 votes out of u total of not less than 600,000 In a commission of Ccossury congress to nator it one case no choice is mad five competent persons is to be ap- pointed by the president to determine the coupler best to be used. If congress has the power to auth orize a commis- sion fo this purpose, why not do so in the first place, instead of waiting for the result of the roundabout ptan of voting, with its necessairy details and delays? Is it good policy to al- low the railronds and their em- ployes, tho latter being more or less liable to have their opinions and actions controlled by the mpanies, to have anything to do with determining this matter? A commis- sion could act promptly, requiring only a fow oxperiments with couplers to de- cide upon the best, but who can say how long it would take to know the result of the voting plan? At any rate the bill provides foran au- tomatic coupler, and aiso thasall carriers ave to equip at least 10 per cent each year of the number of freight cars used, 80 that after the year 1900, a time quite remote enough, all cars will be equipped as required by the bill. The object of the measure is good, whatever criticism may be made upon the methods proposed for attaining it. MUST PURSULE METHODS. Mayor Cushing explains his action on the library ordinance ana adjacent lot purel d that the ordinance and reso- lution had been signed prior to the ser- vice ou him of the injunction. So far as the ordinance accepting the bequest of the Reed collection is concerned nobody will find fault. But the mayor had no more right to approve nresolution that involves an expenditure of $18,000 out of the library fund when there are only $11,000 in that fund at the disposal of the library board than the coun- cil had to vote this overlap. The mayor and every member of the council who voted for this resolution have vio- lated the plain provisions of the charter and laid themselves and their bondsmen liable to prosecution for the Right here let us say once time that the action to enjoin the pur- chase of the lot adjoining the Reed library lot was brought solely with a view to restrain the deliberate violation of the charter and incidentally to compel the waiver by tho heivs of the Reed es- tate of all their claims for reversion of that property before tho city under- takes to expend $100,000 in improving it. The assertion thut this s an attempt to force the relocation of the library is preposterous on its face. The proposi- tion on which the bonds vest expressly requires the proceeds of these bonds to be expended on the Reed lot. Not a dol- lar of this money can be expended legally on any other location. It is the duty of our city anthorities to vrotect the eity from the outset against BUSINESS the reversion of the grounds and buildings to the heirs of the estate. In other words it is their duty to insist that nobody shall hold a string to the property upon which the city roposes to expend not less than $100,000 and in all p-obability is bound to expend $200,- 000 before the structure is ready to be occupied for a library and museum. REFORMER MOREARTY., E. F. Morearty is the most conspicu- ous member of the Omuha city council. In the roles he has chosen in that body he has coupled his name with a notorioty which extends all over the country. An honost man would be humiliated by the prominence which Moveacty has at- tained. Not so with the councilinan from the Seventh wurd. Morearty has been through the fiory furnnce of two investigations lately. The fivst was oceasioned by a suspicion that he had offered his vote in certuin cases for boodle and in others was to ba rewnrded by the legal business of a cor- poration seeking a favor at the hands of the public. In the opinion of most people who followed the investigation Morearty only escapad conyiction cause the Afro-American in the wood pile was covered with liquid lime. In the other case he was charged with murier and escaped sololy bocause of conflicting testimony at the preliminary houring. The gentloman’s gall has been fed by these apparent vindications and now he | demands a grand jury to ascertain whether not K. P. Davis and ( Specht ave interested in city contracts If they are 8o interested Morearty has known it for av least a yes be- or , aad has @:ound after his own nose. been an accessory in voting appropria- tions to contractors with whom, accord- ing to Morearty, thesa councilmen have been directly or indirectly in partner- ship. Asa reformer Morearty certainly caps the climax. [tis as hard to con- vict a man of boodling as it would be to convict a loose woman of a de- parture from the moral code. But if common report and current be- lief among citizens of Omaha could be erystalized into a jury vordict, Morearty would be down at Lincoln making bar- rels for Charley Mosier. This may not be complimentary but it is the blunt and unvarnished truth. From all such re- formers ae may the Good Lord deliver u Morearty STATES FOR IRRIGATION. There danger that the movement for reclaiming the arid region will be embarrassed and injured by the many plans proposed for its promotion. The last irrigation congross, reflecting the consensus of the most intelligent west- ern opinion on this subject, suggested a simple, practicable and direct by which the government could materially aid the states and territories in carry- ing out a policy of irrigation without making any demand upon the national troasury or involving the gov srnment in any financial obligation. ‘I'his was that the government shall grant in trust, upon such conditions as would serve the public intevest, o the states and tefritorvies neodful of irrign- gation, all lands now a part of the pub- lic domain within said states and terri- pt mineral lands. This pian the approval of the of the interior in report, qualified by suggestion that with regard to the sources of water supply for irciga- tion there sbould bs reserved to the United States the power of forfeiture and resumption in case of great abuse or a conflict of interests between states threatening to lead to actual violence between their respective populations, allowing the irrigation of vast cts to fall into the hands of monopo- lies without suiticient protection for the people, This view was concurred in by the president in his annual message, and so far as we have observed it has met with no objection anywhere. Any proposition to involve the na- tional government financially in connee- tion with the reclamation of the arvid lands is certain to meet with vigorous opposition, and thevefore to injure the movement for that purpose. Such a proposition his been made in a bill in- troduced by Senator Dolph of Oregon, which provides “for the loaning by the United States of funds to the states territories for the pur pose assisting in the construc: tion of veservoirs, fountains, canals, artesian and other wells, and any and all other works used for the develop- ment, consecvation and furnishing of ter supplies for irrigation in aid of viculture.” Although the amount that may be loaned to any one state or territory is judiciously limited, still the plan would create a debt for which the government would ba responsible, and the best public opinion of the country undoubtedly will « not sunction anything of this nature. There is a foature of this measure which may commend it to an element of the people, which is that the bonds of states or ter ritories accepting loans shall he depos- ited with the United Statos treasury and notes issued to the par value of the bonds, such notes to bs legal tender for all private and public dues not exesed- LOANS TO oS wa, sec- his the retary wnnual dis- or of ing $10,000. This would give the country another form of currency and might be- como the prolific source of an endless va- riety. Propositions such as this only serve to complicate the ircigation problem and retard the progress of the movement for the reclamation of the arid lands. The practieal advocates of irrigation do not ask any such expedients. IN THE INTEREST OF WATERWAYY, A convention that will have some in- werest for the producers of the west and northwest will meet in Detroit today. Its object is to discuss the subject of im- proving the lake channols so as to per- mit the building and sailing of vessels of greater draught and tonnage, also the question of connecting the lakes with the ocean by u waterwiy capa- ble of accommodating the largest steamers, and to take action which will enforce theso matters upon the attention of congress. Iv is urged that the full usefulness of the lakes as highways of cheapand rapid transporta- tion between the northwest and west and the Atlantic coast and Europe will nevor be realized until the twenty-foot channel which will soon bs com- pleted between Duluth and Chicago and Lake Erie ports shall have been extended to tidewater. Then steamships carvying 3,000 or 4,000 tons will ply rogularly between the lake cities and tho ports of the old world, and the grain fields of the United States will be brought newrer the mar- ts of Lurope than ever before. Of I course this must come in the course of the developmoent of the country, and there is renlly no section of the nation 80 largely interested in it as the groat west, for whose products even now there are not adequats outlets, as the grain blockade since ths close of li navi- gation sufMiciently demonstrates. Not- withstanding the shipments of grain from the northwest by lake, during the past senson, were unprecedented, mil- lions of bushels of wheat remain in the cievators at upper lake ports and along the railroads. Our great inland sen bound to play a most important part in connection with the transportation prob- ke lem, and indeed a8 already doing | s0. The west und northwost, which have so profound an intevest in that question, and one that must steadily inorense with the progress of their de- volopment, aro not, therefore, uncon- cerned lu the movement for improving the facilities of ke transportation and connecting our inland seas with the At- lantic ocenn. 1 RIGHTEOU D1 CISI0N. the Interior department has decided that Jane Waldron, the daughter of a white father and a half-blood Indian the United States and cunnot claim rights as un lo- mother, was horn a eitizen o! ssistunt Attorney General Shields of | dian. He debirs her and her children from the right to draw annuities and rations frogethe government, and ro fuses hor the priviloge ot taking tribal lands in severalty This is a very important dec will be far-roaching in its sults if Swained by the courts, in ease of apponl, or if adhered to in the practice of the Interior department. It is a well known fact to porsons familiar with Indian affairs that a geoat many persons almost entirely white, and abundantly able to provide for them- selves, hang like leeches to the Indian reservations or their teibes for the sake of annuities, rations and lands in sever- alty. In many of the Indian schools one sees more Caucasinn than Indian feat- ures and faces, Many of these are chil- dren of well-to-do white men who have intermurried with persons of Indian blood, but who scorn to be classed socially with the teibes to which they are connected by marriage. In almost every state of the union, since tho new policy of atlotment of lands in sevesalt has obtained, clnimants to lands spring up. In many cases men and women se up their Indian origin for the sake of sion and re- securing lands or tribal moneys, whoso maternal grandparents severed their tribal relations thicty and even sixty yenrsago. The Indians have doubtless suffered considerable loss from this cause in cash and lands and the nation in rations, As we understand tho decision, the children of white men mu vied to women of Indian bloud, wher the mother has severcd hor tribal rel tion hereafter to be called white and not Indian. This reverses the old rule which classed all persons having the faintest trace of [ndian blood as In- dians and entitled to the immunities and privileges of Indians. [t ought to di courage squaw men and will disappoint groat many thrifty lanwyers whose clients are ciamoring after years and even generations of civilized life to ba envolled as suvagos for ghe suke of allot- ments. It can do no injustice and can prevent a great deal of fraud. THE tenacity with which a majorit) of the council persists in pushing through the Kotcham furniture tract is within itself a proof that there something very magnetic in this job. The council receiveid notica of the in- junction through the veto message of the mayor. It sought to evade the order of the coart by passing a new reso- a- a v con- lution to awarfa the contract to the Ketcham company. This is dangerous business and Judge Hopewell may see in it a marked contempt of court de- serving his attention. TAXPAYERS cannot atford to have the precedent eskablished of paying $18 each to the sdven election officers re- quired at cach of the eighty-eight poll- ing places in Omaha. There were 616 of these ofticers, and at 35 each they will ve 10 their exorbitant de- mands are acceded to they will roceive just threo tinfps as much, or $11,088, sive $3,0! ‘D1 despised and obtrusive kodak put to a new and iraportant use'in Phil delphia during the last election. Snup- shots of suspects at diffevent polls were taken, resulting in the discovery of a number of repoaters. The kodak’s entry into politics promises to 1ncrease the povularity of the kodaks and to help purify politics, OMaAfA will cheerfully ontertain the National Drill association and guarantee the prize monaey necossary to the ss of the maeting here in June. Noth- ing less would be honest or honorable. sue- « Yards the [t appropriates $100,000 for next season’s improvements, Tii Union Stock keeps well ahveast of South Omuha. company times in CHRISTMAS s o great deal closor at hand than the, consummation of that Ketcham furniture job. MOREARTY W Movourty, wnts o grand jury. ou should he accommodated. THE injunction is almost as effective as the grand jury. Tag bank pool is still solid. Title | Undesirables. New York Reordey If tho no-rent policy goes into oparation 1n Bogland halfthe dukes und earls and lords will have to como over as assisted immi- grants, R The fu: Will Fly. Philadeiphia Press. When the Russian bear and tho British lion got to fighting over tho Cashmere goat, whatever olse may happea the goat is suro to suffer. 2! S David's T ouble. Chirago News. “ Governor Hill of New York will 500 in the president of Switzorland a man after his own | hoart. The Swiss executive has decided not to resign. — Tumultu us silence in the West, New York Tim:s. The response from the west to Governor- Seuator Hill's proposition to lix the policy of the demociatic party by the ropeal of tho MeiSinley bill gre rot Hattering to that é atatesman, y o Crisp's Anpaiiing Difiicul Clneaadti Commereinl. 1f Speaker Crispouly bad a couple hun- dred more fivst cpiss comimittes chiirman- ships to bestow hé bould make himself vastly | more popular with the mob that rules the south wing of the:oupitol nan sasure. Cnelunati Commercial, M, Paddock’s pui food bill, recently - | trcduced in the sepage, has a special intorest in the drug trado, jand is designed to stop abuses in which, i’ bertain lines, thove have been great profits. - Adultoration is tho deatn of trade, howover. AC Too Much ot a Goo't Thing. St Loufs Republic. What & spectacto is presented Just now in the inability of the rallroad companies handlo the enormous gralu crop. KEvery where the elevators ave tlled to bursting, and the entire rollng stock of all the ruil- | roads in the countey is inadequato to traus- port the kralo that is offered. Why shouid | any one go hungry when the earth bas be | s0 goneroust G | danan's Appeal Pitlocdelphiin Leee el | Thenppeal which tas been sent o this | country for aiu for the stricken peonle of | voutral Jopun talla & pitoor v story, Half a million human betngs left homeless by earth- quake and fire, and all their moans of liveli- hood taken away, implies a condition of suf- fo grasped. Out of our bounty we should give, and that guickl - THE GERRYMANDER. Buffalo Courier (dem.): The president's observations npon the political gorrymander are just and commendable, Hartford Courant (rop.): The prosident makes an appeal to the people, irrespective of party, agaiust the *perrymander’ and in favor of fair ballot, that deserves to meet & hearty popular response. St Paul Pioneer Press (rep.): The most important request of tho president couched in languago which shows that this is near bis heart and engages ali his earncstness is for protection to the public against the in- famous gerrymander, Indianapolis News (dem.): We adviso the demoorats 1n Pongress totaka the president at his word aad adopt an amendment that will provent gerrymandering for national pur poses. It i3 o gamo that two can piay at, and the republicans may be_in position before many years to make much more of it than tho democrats possibly could. St. Louis Globe-Democrat (vep.): General Harrison writes feelingly on the gerryman- der quostion, forone of thes ally schemes defeated num for re-clection to the senato about tivo years ago. Ho developed such strength among the people at that time, how- over, that ho became a presidential possivil and later on a prosidentinl actuality. Indianapolis Jourral (vep.): It would bo reliof for the country to see botn parties in congress suspend the work of president making and partisan legislation long enoughi to unite 1 adopting aud sub. mittiog to the people a constitutional amend- mont which should at once and forever put anend to gorrymandoring in national elec- tions, Charleston Nows and Courier (dem.) : This suggestion of the president appoars to be made in much better temper than most of his suggestions affecting tho rights of the state to regulato their own domestic affairs. We are sure that it is said i much bettor form than anything that the prosident said when the republicans wero in the majority in both branches of congress, ana we shall’ hope for its impartial considoration by the members of congress from the south, New York World (dem.): Now for the gercymander there is notone good word to be said. Tho right of every citizon to vote is sacred and should bo socured by law. Uni- formity in the method of choosing presi- dential electors is so desirable that, with the single exception of Michigan, all the states in fact and voluntarily chooso them in the sawo way. Butthe framers of the consti- tution. believing that liberty is more secure under a_federal republic of limited power composed of states veguating their own af- fairs in their own way than under a consoli- uated government, wisely left it to the several states to provide for these necessities, each according o its own views and cireum- stances. S HAVE PEA “LET New York Advertiser: “Let us have peace,”” saia General Grant. And, standing buside s grave, Mrs. Grant pleads: ‘Lot him tave peace.” Philadelphin Ledger: The inconsiderate people who keep urging General Grant's widow to bave his remains romoved to Wash- ington would cense troubling her if they had as much regard for her acad husbaud as they profess. She has expressed herseif plainly and pathetically, and her wishes in the matter should bo scrupulously re- spected. Cincinnati_Commercial: The rencwal of the proposition to remove the remains of eneral Grant from Riverside Park to Ar- Lington has stirred New York City up, and most emvhatic protests are made, and the papers of the metropolis promise, 1if the measure is defeated promptly, that the long- delayed monument in houor of the great hero of the civil war shall at once be compicted. Philadelphia Press: If the widow of Gen- cral Grant objects to the removal of hor late husbund’s vemains from New York to some more national resting place, that ought to sottle tho matter. Her wishes should bo ro- spectod and all agitation of the question should ond. In spite of the shameless in- difference which Now York so lonz muni- fost d, it would be scarcely less than inde- cont to persist in a movement against the objections of the widow, and there is no reason to suppose it will be. - —— LET'S BEE MERRY WHILE WE Ca Dl on mu News: Chiengo now feeds her guests beef and her hospitality is unbridicd. Lowell Mail: The Lizht under a bushel g new barn, rmer who hides his incurs (he risk of need- New York Herald Jury found that Hay ministered hy himsoif. Diggs—How in the been” Fiigzs Piggs—The coroner's 1 died from a blow ad- world could that havi He blew out the gas. ston Star: Some of the most ropre- xhibitions of mud slinging ever ro now coming fy sehold Washin nsible »m tno hou “Tis the soul in the fuce that fir, And as much admiration we feel For the muid in her tippet of Ast As for Miss Upperten in her s we prize in the akhan hair al: “What will you do if you are ele asked tho deputation of Voters delosated to ascertain the ground whereon the candidite stood. Great scott! What shall Tdoif T am not eleeted ™ wronned the candidate to himself bofore he hiud mado an wudible reply Lite: Thy Czartna—Alex. ASt us. Somervill there's n plot own houschoid. o getting used thinz, Czarina—But this is the most dastardly plot y¢ ‘The Czar—Wihat is 1t? The Czarinu (in wwfal whisper) golng toleave The cook is Prludelphia ™ es “Oh, T've lost my heart." Tlio maid did Sudiy wioans “For, spite of wil my art, Jack trumped ivwith his own." ake wo oply. wnd “ask him 1¢ ul.” rol doy Washington Star: Do you on this beefstonk that L ordere “Notas [ knows on.” was the “Well, you g0 to the cashie ho wou't bill fas raw mater| Ate CASHING CHIPS, | New York Heratd, i There's tun where the wina is blowing "he corn leaves dry and sere: There's fun where the elder's flowing, own, sparkling, sweet und eloar; There's fun in finding i re And sooking the reddor 1ips Of the prettiest givl at tho husking To eash your forfeit chips. Somerville Journl that T never fiirted with life, Nell (thoughtfully)=What an awful fun you've missed. 1 truly say in all my lot of ny man It is protty senerally bolioved that tho vil- brackstith took advantagoe of his posi- U the bellows to put on uirs, THE MACHINE AT WORK. Somerville duurnat. Tha tired humorist sat down, Despondent, dull and solenin With not i thing th write about, And wrote ahout & colum . - THREE vencl of Marie Constantin, 1 tion 161 | 1 From th My dears. when | was young like you— G days that long wgo took wing! Thad your wit. VOur sweetness, too, And loved. 1Hko you, the spriug. | Fondly do I renicmber still i How (bar to me were fields and flowerss the hewrts (n lizhter hours aptive In the zay quadrl ery ciild like you, my deirs, ich was | ut iftedn yours. How d loss wild i m weet are they, ny hoart 1o 0uo devout osp And wodded joys Lo love nnd (0 be Bt somettn 1 pra i fn see That'some acar anzel m To stir in o n molher's h | Wife aua fond mother, too, my And stieh wis L ut thifLy years i gay, d wtor! Onward still e flies, 11no an iadvar wave, Lo, iuinn, both are 2one, 1 the Joys they gave Yot whi 0w droop with ige and pain, The hearts that 10 our bibes wo gave T Ll e s e eet innocencs miay 1ve, Anil with their babes bo young ugaing And sueh an L atlenzih my dears, of wighty years. A | With u | Witk my tull sp. I & the full horror of which can hardly be | CHANGING THE FENCE LINES. Shifting of Politioal Friendships and Fights by the New Congrassioal Daal. HOW THE STATE IS NOW APPORTIONED. Arrangement of the O1d Districts and the of Oan- of the New didates Chances - Status Alliance, oxt Nebraska politicians. Tho state will be entitlod to eloct six United States congressmou instoad of threo, and the aspirants for congressional honors are already coming to the front by tho score. Prior to the meoting of the last state legis taturo there were but three cougressional districts in the state. The original First congressional district prised the counties of Douglas, Sarpy, unaers, Cass, Lancastor, Otoe, Nemaha, Johnson, Richardson, Pawneo and G The Second comprised ali that portion of the state west of tho First district and south of the Platte river. Tho Third includad all the counties north of tho Platte not included in the Kirst ais trict, ‘Tho south lino of Washington, Dodge, Colfax, Platte, Morrick, Hall, Buffalo, Daw- son, Lincoln and Perkins counties formed tho houndiry batween the Third district and tho First and Second, and the big Third in- ludes ovorything in ' the state north of that line. In territory tho Third district was twico as large as both the First and Second, butin population it was not equal to the z0. IPirst, and was about 70,000 greater than the Second. Six New Districts. But the legistature, in accordance with the consus of 150, divided the state into six con gressional districts, Iho Iirst district 1s mado up of the coun t1es of Cass, Otoo, Lancaster, Nemahs, John- son, Pawnoe and RRichardson, Tho Second comprises the Douglas, Surpy and Washington Tho Third includes Morri Platte, Colfa ton, b counties of . Doage, Burt, Cuming, Stan- Madison, Auntelope, Pierce, Wayno, hirston, Dakota, Dixon, Cedar and Knox. ‘The Fourth district includes Saunders Butler. Polk, Hamilton, York, Seward, Fill- more, Saline, Thaye Jefferson and Gago. The Fifth dist includes the counties of Clay, Nuckolls, Wobster, Adams, Koarne; Franklin, Harlan, Pho.ps, Gosper, Furnas, Red Willow, I'rontior, Huyes, Hitcheock, Dundy, Chase and Perkins. The big Sixth comprises tho counties of Buffalo, Dawson, Liucoln, IKeith, Custer, Sherman, Howard, Greeloy, Valley,' Whealer, Gariield, Holt, Rock, Brown, Keya Paha, Loup, Blaine, Thomas, Hooker, Cherry, Grant, Logan, McPherson, Arthur, Deuel. Sueridan, Datwes, Box Butte, Cheyonne, Klllll_)flll. Banner, Scott’s Bluffs and Sioux. ‘I'his reconstruction has naturally createa a general shitting of nolitical fences and a re- arraugement of political friendships and antagonisms, & Some Candidates' Chances. 1 have it very straight, said a politician from the First aistrict yestorday toa Bre wan, “that Mr. Beyan will move out of the First before the time arvives for hts place to be filled. He cannot_hope to be elected in the Kirst district as it is now organized. Ho will in all probability wove to Omaba and try to win the nomination on the democratic ticket in the Second. In this he will be dis- appointed. There are influential democratic candidates 1 Douglas county who will not pormit Mr. Bryan to como here and walk away with the prize. In my opinion Me. Bryan will be retired to private 1ife after his prosent term.” Mr. 5. S. Alley, an attorney of Wilber, had something to say about politics iu the Fourth district, when seen at the Paxton. “Judge Hambell of Fairbury will bo the choice of the straight democrats of the urth district for congress, I beliove,” said Alley. Lo is'a clean and able man and will makei an oxcellent congressman. It looks as though vernor Dawes of Crote would be the republican nominee if wmattors drift on ns they aro at prosent. James W. Dawes is the smoothest politician in the ropublican party in that district, Ho is the haraest worker in the disttrict when be gets intoa politic fight, When he has been at the head of the ropublican forces of his own connty they have neavly always defeated the demo: crats, Din Dawes can make the republicans pat on the ghost shirt and danco when otuer republican leaders in that county are complotely hoo- dooed. You want 10 keep your eye on Jim Dawes. The only thine thit will hold nim down is the fact that he and his former part- ner, T\ J. Foss, ave having 4 bard siego of litigation. Foss is ambitious, politically, himself and ho wiil stand on Dawes as long as he can.” Where the Alliance Com s In. Doputy Shoriff Doane of Saline county was also seen at the Paxton, “I believe that W. G. Hastings will be tho democratic-alliance’ candidate for congress. Ho 15 0pen for engagement, you know, at all time: He can’t swing inas a clear cut domocrat, bocause he publicly declared that b had ciit entiroly 100so from that party last all,”? “Will the alliance hold together for a hard fight next fall 2" “No. Men are leaving tnat party squads. ‘I'nere may bo enough: of to join in with che domocrats and _keep up a show of strength, out as a separate organiza- tion the alliance 1o our part of tho stato will be protty badly shattorod before the con- gressional election arrive — - WERE SHORT OF SAND, Paving Contractors Have to Do Their Work Twice, Contractor Hugh Murphy has a force of men at work tearing up and relaying tho stone paving iu the alley between Davenport ana Chicago and Kighteonth and Twenty- first streots, known as alloy paving districts 380 und 300. The work of paving these alleys was completed less thun two weeks ago, and thereby hangs a tale. When Mr. Murphy's men had apparently completed tho worlk of paving tue two alloys in question, M. J. M. Wilson, living on Chicago streot botween Eighteenth and Nineteenth, asked Major Birkhauser, whom he wet near the work, to bo sure and have tho inspector on the job certify, when he made s report, that the work had been done according to specitications 1f such wus the case. Major Birkhauser at ouce became uucasy and wanted to know if Mr. Wilson had scen unything wroag with the work. Mr. Wilson replied that he was simply wanting to know whether auything was wrong with the work oruot. He was going to have w pay for 1t and wanted the certificate of the Board of Public Works that the specifications had been followed by the contractor. Finally Me. Wilson went to tho Board of Publio Works office and asked for the report of tho iuspector on the paviug of the alleys, The report was produced and then the tuxpayer received another lesson on the mannor’ in which business principles are employed in oity affairs. ‘T'ho report of the inspector simply cortiied that he had put in eleyen days'a work on one alley and two on another and was willing to accept thirteen days' puy in full settlement of his cluims for thivteen days’ work. “\What's this!" asked Mr. Wilson, going room where tho members' of tho into the them left | ear will bo & stirving timo among | ok, Nance, Boone, | mombers of the Board of Publio Works wers in session. “That,"” sald Major Birkhauser after a very careful examination of the paper which had caused Mr. Wilson's quory, “is the re- port of Iuspector Sedgewick on the paving of alloys in districts 389 and 300," “Yes, but what doos it moan ! porsisted Mr. Wilson, *“‘Does he certify hero that tho work has been comploted! Doos he certify that the work has been done according to specifications, Do vou allow ostimates on such roports as thisf Mr. Wilson went on to say that the roport was no record at all and did not show how the work had been done. “That's an inspoctor's blank usod by the old board," said Mr, Birknauser, in oxplana- tion, “Yos, but if it is faulty, and a blind man can 500 that it {s, whv doos this board uge it uskod Mr. Wilson, wio was gotting warm under the collar. “I don't think you know what you are talk- ing aboat," suggested Major Kgbert “Perhaps [ don't,” retorted Mr. Wilson, “but [am certnin that no member of this board knows what he is doing it he votes to pay for work on such a report as that made by this inspector. You admit that your in- apectors nover certify that the work hias been done according to specifications and you admit that you take thisimportant foature of tho work for granted, not even - requiring s statement from your inspector.'’ Then some member of the board discov- ored that the inspector's report was not o final one and Mr. Sedgewick was called in and asked what yet remainea to bo done. After a lot of quostioning tho inspector stated that the work had all been dono_ac- cording to the specifications, but that thoro Wwas some tamping vet to ba dono. “They’ve tamped it once, Mr. Wil son, “aiid have put the final layer of sand on tho'top of the stones. Aro they going to tamp it again " Matters wera loft in this shapo. of tho board apparently felt Wilson knew thero ~ was something wrong with the work, but they could not find out what it was,as he porsisted that he only wantod to soe the final report of the inspector and havo the board's certiticato that the work had been done according to contract, T'wo or three days after this meeting somo of Mr. Murphy's workmen began work tamping the pavement again, Mr. Wilson happeued along and watched the work fora fow minutes, He, discovered that the men were not tamping the outside row of stones on cither side of the alloy so that_the adjoin- ing stones were from two to three inches, after tamping, bolow the outside row, “\Why don’t you tamp this outside row "' asked Mr. Wilson of one of the workmon. “Because,” was tho frank reply, *that outside row is just level now with the twelve-neh lino and if wo tamped it down it would show that there is not sufficient sand undor it," Then Mr. Wilson declared himself and do- manded as a property owner that every stono in the alley be tamped. He had known all along, he said, that the contractor was put- ting in about three inches of sand when fivo woere required by the specitications and ho was simply waiting to see whether the board would certify to 1t or not. Yosterdny morning Mr. Wilson went to Mr. Birkhauser’s oftice and asked if the bourd had acceptod tho work. He was informod that the members of the board had discovered that the paving had not been laid accordiug specifications and that Mr. Murphy had becn required to relay it. That's why Mr. Mur- phy’s men are at work now. Mombors that Me. St M WILL BRANCH OUT. Manufacturers and Consumers Asso- clation to be Generally kxtended. The regular meeting of tho Manufacturers and Consumers Association of Nebraska was held yesterday afternoon. It was observed that the attendance while 1t was fair was the smallest since the organization of the asso- ciation. In theabsence of the president, Vice Prosident Trostler presided. Mr. Trostler stated that the members of the association should do more to advertise the Nebraska trade mark, as that is the dis- tinguishing feature by which Nebraska- made gooas way be identified. If the trade mark is not brought into prominence mauu- facturers who hold back and do not help the wovemant, will get an equal benefit. He also cailed attention to the fact that the mem- bers of the association had not filled out tho lists of general membership and returned them as tnoy should. The matter of carryiug tho organization nto the stute was brought up again and it was explained that the plans wero being per- focted as rapidly us possible. It1s proposed at an early date to get together a number of Omaha manufacturers and visit the manu- facturers of Lincoln and discuss the proposi- ion of fovming & branch association there, The secretary reported that about forty members wore still delinquent i dues and soveral gentlemen walked up to the desk and settled. The following were admitted as members of the assoclation: John J. Muller, 1414 Far- uam, confectioner; C. H, Forby, 1408 Douglas, trunks: 4. L. Undeland, 106 South Fourteentn; Phul Stimmel, 911 Joues, seods ; Owaha Carriage Top company, 214 North Rifteeath; Voegele & Dinuing, 1110 Howard, confectionors; Omaha Basket Manufacturing company: Festner Printing company, 1307 Howard, blank books; Steinhsus Engraving compuuy, 634 Paxton block; F. Weidoman, 1600 Farnam, cigars. The secretary stated that thore was a groat dnarth of statistics regarding the man- ufacturing industries of the state and that ho had sent out circulars to all tho members calling for certain information regarding tho subject, and hoped that sl would respona promptiy. A catalogue of the association 15 being compiled and the socretary reperted that several prominert merchants and bankers had taken advertising space in the book, amounting up to the present time to 3250, It was moved that any member who de- sired could have advertising space in this boolk at the rate of §20 a pugo, Mr. Gednoy suggosted that some steps ought to be taken in Omaba to make an organized offort to bring in wanufucturing establishments. Mr. Farrell had an estimate of the cost of a beet sugar and glucose plant combined. A very large part of the machinery used in a beet sugar factory is available for the manu- facture of glucose, and tho extra expense of combining the two is very small. Mr. Kar- rell’s plan is to operate tho fuctory for tho manufacture of elucose after the sugar sou- son is over, and thus utilize the plaut through- out the yea — BLAINE IS THE MA Mr. Millard Tells the New Yorkers What Nebraska People Want, J. H. Millard, presigent of the Omaha Na. tional bank, is stoppiog at the Fifth avenuo hotel, New York City, and in conversation with a reporter for the Mornwg Advertiser of that city, suid : ““There is nothing of special interest down our way just now. ‘The peoplo are quiotly making the best of the solendid crops aud naturally looking forward to the coming presidential nomination, Ob, yes; it I3 Bluine with tho westorn republicans, and [ think Cleveland on the other side. The tarift is not an important fuctor i our state, and although free silver was at first the great .y, I think the sentiment 15_slowly chang- g in the other direction. Nebraska is con- servativo any way, and as long s tho times are good the people are not in fuvor of radi- cal measares. The farmers allisuce is not by any means dead in our state, but the good crops have caused many farmers Lo retura Lo Their tirst love, the republican party.'" - New Club House. A meeting of the Omaba club wiil be held on Saturday evening to take final action upon the question of building the proposed new club house. Reports will be received from the commit- Les having this subject in charge, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov't Report. ol Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE e i 4