Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 31, 1891, Page 4

S 'HE DAILY BEE. 4 . ROSEWATER, Epiron. 3 + e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. f TERME OF 8UBSCRIPTION. 11y Boe (without Sunday) One Year puily and Eundiy, On i ¢ Months liree Monthe. nday fee, O wiurdny Bee. One Year Weokly Beo, One Year, OF FICES. aha, The Bee Building. 1 th Om or ) 08 ounell Blufrs, Sliieazo OMc ow Vork, o ¥ ashington, 7 Chamber of Commerce. 1,14 and J5 ne Bullding 313 Forrteenth ¥ CORRESPONDENCE All_communications relating to news and Bditorial matter should be addressed tc the Fditorial Depurime BUSINESE LETTERS. All business letters and romittances should e addressed to The Bee Publishing Company, dmaha. Drafts. ehecks and postofiice orders o be made payable to the order of the cor- nny. e Bee Publishing Company, Propriefors THE BEE BUILDING, WORN STATENENT OF CIRCULATIO :Hrv of \l‘lln’w“.:l e " o D Hoschuck, socrotary of Tho BnE ublishing company, does solemnly swear hut the actual elreulatl of Tir DALY Ber or the week ending December 24, 1801, was a8 lows: nday, Dee. 20 Do Voinost aturday, Uy Average........ Sworn to Lefore me and ¥resenco (his: BEAL. i Nétary Publie. The growth of the averace daily circulat on of THE BEE for six years is shown in vhe fol- Jowin: table: {unuacy. 37 14,400 19 o1 | 014 o L4147 107243 18,865 141008 15,03 18.788 | 20,062 140151 | 18,11 18,661 20750 | 47463 14,345/ 18,154 | 18,710 20,570 | 25,547 1508t 18007 207235100 10(22,15 24,099 Feptemier f Tack McColl goes out of poli- tics, juck rabbits will be as tame as Kitten SENATOR PALMER’S lLittle presiden- tial boom is still able to draw its breath, but as it draws no water it will not float long. Di. KerLey hasdiscovered the secret of extracting the pure metal from bi- chloride of gold and of transferring it to his pockets, LONDON 7yuth exhibits foresight, if not judgment, in arguing that the sepa- ration of Canada and Australia from Great Britain is as inevitable as fate. SNOW blockades so far the present winter have been upon the socalled “‘all the year” routes, while the Pacific lines north of the semitropic belts have been almost free from trouble. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE has just celebrated his 82nd birthday. The grand old man is still vigorous in mind and body, by all odds the most remarka- ble specimen of manhood the nineteenth century has produced. A NEW YORK minister has stirred up # hornets’ nest by declaring that the Chinese attending Christian Sunday schools ave not secking free grace or re- ligious instruction but a knowledge of the Bnglish language. WHALEBACK vessels make a ship canal around Niagara Falls almost an imperative necessity. Senator Davis of Minnesota has introduced a bill looking to the construction of such a waterway. The idea is (nvol‘uhls, if the Dowinion and-the United States jointly undertake the enterprise. MEXICO has a population of 13,000,000, but the lands outside the cities are in the hands of less than 10,000 owners. A country organized upon such a basis must expect revolutfons, especially whon the bulk of its citizens must, per force of circumstances, be ignorant, des- titute and vicious. $ THE assurance of the farmers alliance of Kansas was not seriously affected by the casuulties of November. The ov- ganization will never be beaten on ac- count of its modesty. It has made a formal demand upon the republican gov- ernor to call an extra session of the calamity logislature. A RECIPROCITY treaty has been con- oluded with the British West Indies, These succeeding reciprocity victories will completely paralyze opposition to the tariff policy of the republican party when once the people ave given full in- formation as to their number and ex- tent. This has been a business adminis- tration. A BIsnor JouN P.. NEWMAN is a host in working for Omaha. He deserves the respect in which he is held by this community, and the New Year recep- tion tendered him by the Methodists of the eity should be taken by the bishop as an evidence of the good will of our people generally. We all gratefully re- call the good work he performed for us in connection with securing the general confarence. THE genial and gifted ochairman of the senate committes on agriculture, the honorable senior senator from Ne- braska, insists that the National Fish commission should be made a part of the Agricultural department. The facetiously reckless New York Sun sug- gests that it be incorporated in the - Navy department. In view of the age and efliciency of some of its officials THE BEE suggests that it be added to the geological survey. — REPUBLICANS of Nebraska and of the country at large will fiud the Interview with Judge Lorenzo Crounse, assistunt secretary of the treasury, which we print elsowhere, interesting and full of encouragement. Judge Crounse is a level-headed and broad-minded man who, in his position ut the Treasury do- partment, has come in contact with leading ropublicans from all sections of the country and is therefore enabled to + reach well-based conclusions as to the political outlools for 18 THE THE CLOSING YEAR. Tha year 1891 has boen an important and eventful one for the United States. It will be memorable as one of the great- st crop yenrs in our history, and as the beginning of an era of prosperity for | our agricultural interests which prom- ises to bo prolonged. - Although the | great doficit in the Europsan supply of breadstulls has not yet had the expected offect of advancing and maintaining the price of coreals materially above the val of lst year, owing in part to the immense movement of grain to mavket | immediately after harvest, there is on to believe that before the crops of next year are gathered Ameri- can producers will receive better prices than they ave now getting for their pro- ducts, When it is stated that the oxports of whent and wheat flour during the year have amounted in value to double those of the preceding year, and that most of this increase has been within the iast four months, the reason why prices have not advanced is obvious. But un- | less all estimates regarding the wants of | Evrope are at fault this cannot continue, and as we get nearer to the exhaustion of our surplus pricos must advar An- other condition condueive to this result is the enlargement of our markets through veciprocity. This policy h boen successful bayond expectation, and while as yet the benefits have not been very great, though by no means unim- portant, there is every assurance that in future the closer trade arrangements that have been effected with the coun- tr of this hemisphere will contribute very largely to our prosperity. In a commercial way no more impor- tant movement was evor instituted by this government, and while it involves the country in treaties and alliances which add largely to its responsibilitios, there are few who now question the wisdom of the'policy. With the larger duties it imposes it also gives to the United States greater influence and power in the affairs of this quarter of the world. ire The year has furnished incidents con- nected with our foreign relations that have commanded the interest of the whole people to an unusual degree, and have served to remind the country that we cannot exnect w0 always enjoy im- munity from international complications of a move or less serious nature. The lyiching of the Italians at New Orleans for a time threatened to bring about a complete rupture of the friendly rela- tions botween [taly and the United States, and but for the Iuropean situ- ation would very likely have done so. The [talian government continues to manifest itsdissatisfaction with the posi- tion of our government by failing to send here a minister plenipotentiary, but it is not doubted that a friendly settlement of the issue will be attained. The Chilian complication, arising from the outrages committed tpon American sailors in the naval service last October, continues to be move or less menacing tothe friendly velations of the two countries, though the promise for a just and honorable sottlement appears to bo improving. These ovents demon- strate how important it is that a great nation should be amply prepared for pos- sible difficulties. The notable diplomatic success of the year is the agreement with the British government for dater- mining the Bering sex coutroversy by arbitration. The field of domestic poli- tics has not been without intorost, and while little is to be deduced from the | elections of the year as bearing upon the more important political contests of next year, other events have a very divect and significant relation to the immediate future of politics. Looking abroad, the year 189} closes with no important changa in the condi- tion of European affairs from that which prevailed a year ago, and so far as can be judged the peace of Europe is as well assured now as it has been at any time during the last half a dozen years. Am- bition for political power seems to have given place toa desire for commercial progress, and for some time the nations have been engaged in an active effort for advancement in the latter line. Out of this have come changes in commer- cial policy which are likely to have a fur-reaching influence. Brazil is still disturbed by revolutionary movements, but it is not believed that there is any danger to republican institutions in that country, Asa whole the civilized world is notably peaceful, but there Is prepara- tion almost everywhore for a possible change from this fortunate condition. In ull that makes for intellectual and moral progress the closing year has made o record of gain at least in this most favored land, if nov in all others, " LABOR LEGISLATION, The committee on labor of the house of represontatives has become in recent years one of leading importance. Or- ganized labor is now, and has been for soveral yours, regularly represented at the national capital during the sessions of congress, and the concern it has thus manifested rogarding legislation relating to its interests, together with the solicitude of politicians respecting the wishes of the laboring classes, gives commanding importance to the house committee oharged with formulating labor legislation. Speaker Crisp appears to have fully appreciated all vhis in his appointmenrt of the labor committee, and espacially in his appointment of Mr. Tarsney of Maryland as chairman of that commit- tee. Although not before identified with this committes, Mr.- Tarsney is said to have long. been a careful student of labor questions, and to be as 1ntelli- gently informed as any man in congress 48 10 the needs of labor throughout the country inits various branches. He holds conservative views regarding what is necessary for the betlermont of the la- 'boring classes, and in a recent interview remarked that demagogic measures will get no support from him. **Measures of practical relief,” he remarked, ‘‘meas- ures looking to the permanent bottor- ment of the working classes, are the only onep that should engage the attention-of the committee,” while ‘‘flapdoodle schemes invented and enlarged for the tomporary aggrandizement of dema- gogues should not be countenanced, for | they invariable react to the detriment of the toiling masses.” This is the proper view to take of all | Iabor, and it has besn those interests that it has not prevailed before. For this, however, labor itself has been largely 1 blame. It has used its influence to have demagogu es ropre sent it on the floor of congress, and their efforts to advance their own lnterests have been defeated by the honest friends of labor. Any cause committed to the care of morely solfsneking politicians, who invite only distrust of whatever they advoeate, must inevitably suffer, and the labor causge has been peculiarly unfortunate in late years in the men who have been put forward as its cham- plons in congress. Tha laboring masses are therefore to be congratulated upon o change which promises an intelligeat, careful and honest investigation of their condition and practical nends, and tha recommendation of legislation intended to secure their permanent betterment. The funetion of the goverament in this matter is limited, There are fot many things that con- gress can doto improve labor conditions, and whatever it attempts to do should be at once practical and practicable, de- signed to benefit not u few but all classes of labor. Itis generally more difficult to determine what ought to be and can be done than what should not be. For this 1eason the demagogue is most likely to propose the impracticable thing, and the rule has boen to do this. The utter- ances of the chaiyman of the new house committee on lnbor give promise that the labor interests of the country will not lack die consideration, and that the demands made in its bahalf will be of a character to merit the candid considera- tion of practical and sensible men, It may be also inferred that the committee will have little time for listening to the suggestions of paid vEor THE L PRESS ULUBS, The delegates to the International League of Press Clubs, which is to meet in San Francisco January 14th, will pass through Omaha one week from . next Friday. The International Laague of Press Clubs is the worid’s organization of journalists and licerary men and women. The league includes among its officers and members reprosntative writers of international fam> and the meoting in San Francisco promises to be one of great interost. It will be largely attended without doubt, bacause any na- tional meeting in San Francisco is sur» to attract large numbers. The people of the Golden Gate are muking prepar- ations for an exceptionaily cordial ve- ception of the writers composing the league and it goes without saving that the program will meet all the foreshad- owing of the prepavations. "The delegates will nearly all include Omaha in their itinerary across thecon- tinent, and will span¥l a few hours in this city. They should hs shown the attention a representative press orguni- zation deserves. The Press club, which is small in numbers and poor in purse, will do what lies in its power to give the visitors a fraternal groeting, but somo- thing more :s desirable. Ths Board of Trade, Manufacturers and Consumers association, and Roal Tstate Owaers association should lend a hand in ex- tending to these bright, brainy and in- fluential people welcome and courtesies. The opportunity of introducing Omiha 10 the readers of the best newspiper: and periodicals of the country is pre- sented, and this should be sufficient to cause the organizations named to svire no effort in doing the most gracious thing possible in honor of the occasion. NOT MUCH OF A JUKE, A facetious contemporary tolls the tax- payers of Omaha that the assertion made hy TH: BEE that the lot adjoining the southeast corner of Nineteenth and Hav- ney, which the library board proposes to purchase for the city, is worth only 12,000 is & good joke on ThE BEE in view of the fact that the real estate agents figured the lot at thirty foet frontage whereas it has filty feet. Now the fact is that this discrepancy cuts no figure in the value of the lot. Our regular city lots are 132 feet deop from street to alley. This purticular lot is only ninety feet deep and has no alley in the vear. Moreover its value is ma- terially affected by the fact that it is filled gnound and will require a more costly foundation than a lot on firm ground. The value of any piece of property can only be gaugéed by the cash value of other property’in the vicmity. Gauged by this standard we make bold to assert that the lot 50x90 feet on Harney street east of the corner of Nineteenth would not bring more than $10,000 in the real estate market at this time. Mr. Samuel Cotner not very many months back sold the house and lot west of the corner of Eighteenth and Harney for 313,000. Mr, Cotner’s Lot has a frontage of thirty-four feet on Harney, running back 132 feet to the alley, or about the same area as the 50x90 lot. The Cotnerlot is on solid ground, facing south, while the Library Board lot faces north. There is more than $100 per front foot difference in favor of the Cotner lot, and the house upon the Cotner lot rents for 835 par month, whereas the other lot is vacant and nonproductive. There 15 no reason why the city should pay 818,000 for a lot worth'at the high- est from $10,000 to $12,000,any more than that the city should undertake to erect & $100,000 building on & space of ground that may revert in case the oity fails to comply with the conditions which everybody knows cannot be carried out. Incidentally, the question confronts us whether we can ever have municipal re- form 8o long as any branch of " the city government is permitted to draw sight drafts on the future and overlap the appropriations? If we can disregard the charter provisions in this particu- lar we have thrown the doors wide open and cannot hope successfully to stem the tide of jobbery and reckless ex- penditure of publio funds. Tue BEE s content to stand alone in its remonstrance against the proposed purchase of the library annex lotat a higher price than the property is worth and before there is money enough to pay for it in the library fund. We be- liove in running our olty government on business princlples and can conceive of no reason why thelibrary board should be permitted to oyerstep the lumitations set by the charter even if its members questions relating to the interests of |are for the most part gub edged OMAHA DAILY BERE: 1 unfortunate for | gentlomen whom nobody would s of mercenary, niptiveh. THERE is 6 gali for electric 1 the suburbs,”§ven ut 8115 per lamp, People who veside outside of the busi- ness center wilt bs much better served by a large fibghiber of gas or gasoline lamps insteadof single nre lights planted ab groat distatfébs from euch other necessarily Limited for the benefit of favored loealities. —— MorEARTY, §pted to award the con. tract for a 325,000 job to an outsider whose bid was 32,600 above that of a home firm, but in the case of a little con- tract for hay and grain he toars his hair because he thinks the lowest bidder was not successful. ~ Morearty’s brand of consistency ia a pinchbeck jowel. and A pELT line without suburban trains is u misnomer. Proper train service on the Bolt line would develop a profitable business. The North side improvement club is moving in the right divection in its effort to induce the railway company to provide morning and evening trains. WHEN oil i3 struck at Seymour park in paying quantities wo may look for- ward to the discovery of navural gas in this locality. Oil, conl or natural gas would be a godsend to this community. and patient, persistent exploration will be rewarded in the end with success. 1 Monday night will witness the demise of the old council. ~ Our citizens will part with most of the retiring mem- bers without regret and welcomo the new ones with the hope that they will leave behind them u bstter record than their immediate predecessor: ks will agree with City At- Poppieton that the present is an excellent oceasion for determining the rvelative rights of the city und the Water Works company. Boston insuits Chicago. Boston Gl .be, Chicago's demund upon congrass for a trifling $5,000,000 mors on account of the fair, which she promised to carvy herselt without asking anything boyond the first grant of 1,500,000, is very generally commented upra as chazky. Skl AU ‘Iribute to 1 O emp. Sely'er Q il Tne Quill can admire a brainy. sarcastic article, even when mimod at its own editor, but the disgusting bray of a conceited jack- ass, who ouly escels in the length of his oars and the harshaess.of the noise he makes, is wearing on the constitution. ———— Betwaen I'wo ratal Globe-Democrat. The leading democratic organs of New York declare that the vassage of u free coin- age bill by the Housa will moan the certain loss of tnat statg 1o their party; but on the other hand the filurs to pass such a measure will mean a corsainty of like misfortune in other states. ires. LLY e Ridiculons Y'alk of War. Phitad Iphia Rexord. From rumors of War to assurances of peaca the nows from and’abolit Chill pops hera and there like corn on & skillet. Thore may be euforced oparatan, or even -chastisement: but thore’could b b war'in tho ‘largs acd eneral sense. Tho contanding parties would be too ridiculously unequal. L e The Grand GL1 Man. Chieago Times, Dee. 29, Gladstone colebrates his 824 birthday to- day. The nistory of man in all ages and all nations might be scanued in vain in search of au fastance of so long a life better spent. Other nutions have produced men great in time of war, Fow, however, can bdist of a statesman so steadfastly and truly patriotlo in times of profound peace. The Rio Grande Marauder. IKan as City Star. Garza Is the Spartacus of the western con- tinent. Av first it was a handful of troovs to crush the mavauder; now two republics are trying to curb his growing power. While there can be u6 doubt ‘as to the outcome, the insurgont has demonstrated his capacity to make trouble and has shown how easy it is t0 organize a rebaltion 1n Mexico, - A Suggostion to Paldook. New York Sun. Senator Paddock proposes to make the commissioner of fish and fisheries an officer of tho Department. of Agriculture. Why not make bim an oflicer of the Navy department! The fishermen and the war ships have this, at least, in common, that they navigate the same element; while fish bas nothing to do with agriculture, except in tho form of fer- tilizer. e e The Blunders of Crisp. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Thereis practical unanimity of opinion among the democratic newspapers that Spoaker Crisp has blundered egregiously aud stupidly 1n the malkeup of the house commit- tees. His own friends do not attempt to con- ceal their fears, and his opponents ooldly pronounce his action ‘‘fevolutionary” and “treacherous” to the last degree. Even the Gorman-Hill-Brice gang of bourbons and re- actionists, which was chiefly instrumental in putting Crisp where he is, has taken alarm over what it deems the needlessly hurtful length to which the speaker has carriod the game. INo predecessor of Speaker Crisp ever .managed so early in his course toarouse such antagonism in his party or oreute such a party emorgency as he appears to have done, s e RENRY'S LAMENTATION. Rochester Post'The star eyed goddess doesn’t like the'comnosition of Mr, Crisp's committees, but’ the 8, . G. is a back num- ber and doesn’t eount. Kansas City Jouraul: - Watterson's procl mation cannot bé valled a note of warning; it is a shriek of despair. Ho sees that the wedge has entered his party; he knows it is too late to mend this year{ he is simply getting into a Emlllon to say to Crisp and his colleagues who sink the cratt{ I told you so. New York Regorder. ‘‘The 5 cent con- qress!” We thank thee, Henry, for the word! For it is lu'the Wattersonian Courier- Journal that we find the phrase so aptly de- scriptive of the poliey the Tammanyized house of representatives s to pursue in the vain hope of foolktg the country into putting the Tammany looters in possession of the United States treasury. So Holman is to bave his way and the ‘‘cheap and nasty” lioy of the picazune objoctor is to be en- Foroca through the obstructive power of the house, in order that republican administra- tion may be crippled wbile the demosratio opposition makes a deceptive and dishonast show of economy, St. Louis Republic: Mr. Henry Watter- 80D nOw steps Lo the front to say that ‘‘the rosent is no time for mincing words,” ana hat ‘1t {s a time for plain talk.” In pursu- ance of this he declares that ‘‘for the first tima in tho bistory of the democratio party in congrass the grlnol 0 is laid down that the organization of the liouse is a matter not of friendly rivalry among friends, but of per- sonal aggrandizement and factional power,” and that in framing his committees Mr.Crisp “'sends the tried men of the house to the rear and brings the untried men to the front.” ‘Tuese be plain words, it Is truet but if in- stead of walllng when (b ls too late Colonel Watterson had followed the Republic's ex- ample and given utterance to them at & time when they might have had some effeot, the party would not now be confronted with the situation whioh he deplores, DECEMBER 31, 1891. FROM THE WHOLE NATION, Flood of Tmm‘gration Disturbing All Ele- ments of the United States, PARTISAN LEGISLATION NOT POSSIBLE. William €. Chandlor's Interes ing Observations on the Subject —~What May Be Done to Remedy the Evil. Hon. Wasnisaros, D, C., Dec. 30.—[Special to Trr Bre, |—Mve and a quarter millign im- migrants landed in the United State¥in the decade extending from 1851 to 1500, Of these 5,000,000 in round mumbers came from Coutiuental Kurope. This was almost threa times as many as came from Gireat Britain. Fifty years ago half our immigration was of English speaking peovles, 1Mifty yoars ago Italy sent us 10ss than an average of 200 im migrants a yedr. An average of 30,000 now annually land on our shores. Twenty yoars a and Poland furnisbed an average ,000 immigrants annually. Erom 1881 to 1890 theso countries deported 253,000 of their inhabitants to the Unitou States, The flooa of immigration is increasing and statistics soom to show that tho desirabls character of the immigrants is dcereasing in almost equal proportions, It is ohavged that where the immigrant formerly sought the fields of the country ho now swarms in the alleys of the cities. It is alleged that whore once tho secker for our shores sought them for home, for land and liverty, he is now too often a slave, in fact if not in name, hired out by “‘sweaters' 1 shop and muwe, degrading American labor ana dragging down others in his degradation. Fitty yoars ago no suggestion of restricting immigration was broached in pross or forum, For tn years past overy congress has been called upon to deal with the subjoct of the exclusion of undasirable immigrants and to discuss the porplexing problem of how to ex- tend the blessings of freodom ond oppor tunity to those fitted for citizenship, while excluding the pauver, the criminal, the dis- cased and the assailant of the interests of American lavor. From the Whole Nation. The agitation comes from no one nation- ality. It bas no suggestion of “knaw noth- m" or so-called *‘Americanism,” as its basis. It is not confined to party, or creed, woraect. It 1ooks to the solution of a question of economics no less broad than that of pro tacting the stream of nationality from sew- ago and consequent pollution. But it is ail the more perplexing because its advocates coacede the extreme difficulty of drafting proper laws which can be enforced and of avoiding legislation inconsistent with Ameri- can traditions and in violation of that in- horent right of oxpatriation so often afirmed by our government, ‘I'he course lies between Scylla and Charybdis, but the curroents swirl around both rocks. The Fifty-first congress, through the joint committees of senate and house, made an exhaustive investigation of thesubject of restricting immigration. The published report fills more than 1,000 octayo pages. But the bill which they reported added nothing of muterial importance to tho pre- vious legislation. The committee found evils in abundance, steady evasions of the law, but could not'agreo that any moro drastic measures were imperatively demanded. It aimed to prevent socalled assisted imwigra- on, but it did not increase the list of exciu- sions except by the addition of ‘“‘polygam- 18ts.) The subject. at the opening of the Fifty-second congress remained practically whore it was at the end of the Forty-ninth. Hon. William C. Chandler, senator from New Hampshire, bestowed much time and pains upou the investigation of immigration robloms during the Fifty-first congress. de was chaivman of the senate committee on immigration and chairman of tke joint com. mittee before which the testimony before reforred to was taken. He is notoriously un indefatigable worker, esvecially wnen inter- ested. Senator Chaudler may know what it is to rest, but if he does he bas never im- parted his knowledge to his most intimate volitical friends. Senator Chandler's Activicy. Ho is persistently active. His enemies say. perniciously so. If he is not busy advocating some new view of practical politics through s, for which he is an able and spicy writer, ho is probably hatehing up & modifi~ cation of existing views or collocting mate: vial for a future onslaught. He is the genius of aggressivencss and the embodiment of Yaukee spunk. The fumes of a convention are porfume to his noso. He knows tho dgors to the caucus and the road to the pri- mary. He has never believed that tho way to get votes is to lot your opnonent do all the hustling after them, or that tho proper, be- cause tho most, dignified, method of imprass- ing your opinions ypon the public is to wait till they ask for them. L there is a political storm browing Senator Chandler is not gen- orally found in the cellar with tis heaa in the ash barrol. Ho is more likely to be dis- covered Frankliullko on the front porch fiying a kite and _nttempting to attract somé of the lightuing in his own direction. Tho New Hampshire sonator 1s o partisan. Ho works on party lines. His political pre- forment has cofie throughthe republican party and he has nover been’ considered an ingrat:. He fights hard and asks no quarter. He has perhaps as many encmios as most public men and does not lack for friends on this account. That is tosay, he is a man of vositive character, who sees one side very clearly and is sometimes inclined to_doubt whethor tho other really exists. But he tnakes it & poiat to post himself thoroughly on the causo which ha advocates and the op- pouents who pics him up for a cold potato are apt to drop him with a few remarks abouu the hieat of the warm end of a poker. Had Been Through the Fire. Having struggled through the bitterest sonatorial ight ib New Hampshire's bistory, edited a_paper meanwhile for rocreation, opened his batteries on the combined rail- road system of New England, gathered a fow thousand faots about {mmigration, investi- gated fraudulent naturalization in New York and furnished a few articles for leading journals in the meantime, Senator Chandler, feeling that the recess was not entirely spent in vain, flasbed up in Washington at the opening of the session prepared to lay tho carpets In his residonco and a Tew scores of plans for senatorial work, [ met bim yester- dayin the capitol, encased in ulstér and cape, slouch felt hat aud eye glasses, one arm clutching a bundle of papers and the other grasping au_umbrella, and talking in the meantime to a half dozen clustered corres- pondents. “I want to see, you senator,” said the writer, *“for a half hour when you have time, 1o talk over the Mnmigration question. Tie Bk has many thousand reaaers throughout the west who are interested in the proble of how best to restrict undesirable immigrs tion and would like to have your views as coairman of the senate committea having that subject in charge.” “Come up to my house af fug," replied the seator, answer your questions.” Senator Uhandler's bouse is on I street ad- joining the Normandie hotel and fronting John Chamberlic’s famous home of gour- mets, Itisa large double residence with the stone nowel posts of the broad steps leading to the door ornameuted with gas lamps and white globes. A cozy little parlor is on the left, a handsome oil portrait of President Arthur hangs on tho wall, a bu: of ex-Secretary of the Navy Cnandior stauds in the corner, and & fow easy chairs and a boolk case complete the furnishings. The senator threw himself back in his ohalr, “Go on with your questions,” he sala. Classes to Be Excluded, w{What do you consider, Senator,” 1 asked, *the proper &im of & law or laws'to restrict immigration “Primarily to keep out undesirable persous desirous of landiug on our shores. These are doflned by existing laws to include be- siues Chinese: (1) Ialots, (2) Insane per- sons. (3) Paupers or persons likely to become such. (4) Diseasod parsons. (5) Coa- viots. (0) Polygamists and (7) Persons coming undor a contract to labor, Assisted immigrants falling under these classes are also excluded. These seven compose the excluded olasses and by eommon consent, are denied sdmission to ports of entry. The reasons for such exclusion are manifest on tho face, The prohibited classes come under 7:30 this even- ‘and I will try to three heads: (1) Such as would probably become public charges, (1) Those who would add to tho oriminal classes, and (3) Immigrants who would be brought into imme- diate competition with American labor and tond to lower its rewards,” “What propositions are made to incronso the restrictions already thrown around un- desirable immigration “There are several, but they rosolve thom selves into two kinds: Stricter adminis- tration -of the laws already in existenoe, and additions to the excloded list. There aroa numbor of proposals under this second head, various gentlemen urging that wo ought to describe and keep out anarchists, socialists, persons who cannot read and write, and persons without a certain amount of money or property. Some go so far as to ndvocats the entire exclusion of lmmignants from particular countries as we do the Chi- nese,’ What conclusion have you reached your- self Quite & Difficult Problem. 1 canuot say, that my mind {s deflnitely fixed along any of the’ lines mentioned. It seems to mo that there would be very great difficulty in enforcing any of the ‘nroposed new exclusions. Take anarchists and social- ists, for instance; how would one 8o describe thern as to -permit the admission of political rovolutionists from despotic countries and at the same time exclude those who profess to wago {ndiscriminate war agaiust society everywhere! So with the educational qual ification which is so strongly urged, how will you apply it! Shall persons be excluded who can not read and write their own name! Shall they also be required to read the ton- stitution”of the United Statos either 1 theic own tongue or in Knglish! A practical diftl- culty would be found in applying this test to families. Shall every momber above 12 yoars of age be able to read and write, and any ignorant member ve excluded and the family sepurateal If the father and mother eannot read, -but tho children can, shall all be kopt out! If tho father can and wifo can- not, shall stuo b stopped! How many per- sons aud what ignorant mentvers shall it koep out! 1am puiting to you practically the same questions which | printed and sent out last summer, to which I have received many answers. S0 with the proporty quali- fieations, shall eacn immigrant or each fam- ily be required to briag a cortain amount of iouoy or property? ‘“T'liere ave serious objections to all the proposed new exclusions. 1 do not suy that they cannot be romoved, but I do say that I have not vot beon able to bring myself to ad- vocate any of them.”! “You incline, then, to tho beliof that a more rigid enforcement of existing laws is the best available remedy 1" Laws (onstantly Evaded. *'Yeos, aided by some new statutory pro- visions tending to that end. That the laws are constantly evaded admits of no_question. The best of inspection very often fails to_in- spect. With the contract labor luw a prime difficulty is that of proving the offense. With the other exclusions thore is almost equal difficu in securing evidence of criminal nssociations or assisted shipment. Considering the difticulty of enforcing our statutory require- ments upon tho landing of immigrants here, Tincline to believe that we must begin some- how vefore embarkation. Just how we shall bozin is the moated quastion. There are ob- jections to any of the plans suggested, but it seums Lo me that the pian of requiving immi- rants, bafore leaving their own country, to obtaln consular cortificates abroad showing their right to enter the United States, is less objectionable than any suggosted, and I am now working tentatively on this line, My vill—senate bill ls4—providing for consular certificates in the country of depart- ure for immigrants starting for the United States, is an exact copy of the ono which 1 drow up and which Mr. Owen and myself placed in the draft of the committee bill passed last March. As it had been agreed, however, that the bill i its final form should be one to which no one should make objec- tion, Mr. Lehlbach’s opposition to this clause induced us to strike it out. Thoe bill 13 a ten- taitive one. You will notice that there is nothing mandatory in its provisios *“The securing of consular cortificates was made permissive or optional, with the view of educating intending immigrants iuto se- curing theso evidences of thejr qualifications to become American citizens before leaviug their native country. Thoe idea is that_if such iwmigrauts “discover that by securing such certificates they will obtain more easy entranco into this country the habit of ob- taining such certificates would become mo: prevalent by rcason of Lheiv advantage to the immigrants themselves, and will then finally run into the system of requiriag such cer- tificates witholit'any friction whatever. Being Generally Discussed. “This is one of tho arguments which I used in provosing this vill to get it passed by the last congress. Sinco thav time, how- ever, thoro has been a great doal of discission upon the question of immigra- tion, a discussion confined to the think- ing men of tio ono_party or nationality. As a resuly of this agitation I believe that” there is much more unanimity in favor of & bill re- quiring consular certificates than for any other form of bill for the restriction of immi- gration, and therefore I' have introduced the measure as the sole ono which I think avai able at the present time. I do not say that it is the best possible bill, but 1t seems to mo that under existing conditions and 1 the present state of feeling on the question 1 is the ofily one which is likely to securo favor- able action from congross. “I don’t think 1t will be denied that there is a general feeling throughout the country that something is nocessary, but the public at largo has not focused its 'ideas upon any one point or any one proposed measure, nor has it apparently decided whether a rigid on- forcement of existing laws will not provide the remedy domanded. 'I'ero was so much general discussion duricg the summer, many newspaper articles and so much ed! torial debate upon this question that [ felt it would be wise to draw specific attention to particular problems of the immigration quos- tion. With this view I prepared twelve quostions and sent thém out, stating theories, objections to theories, and asking for opinions and suggestions.” ““‘What was the effect?” “The effect of theso quostions was good. Whilo the number of auswers was not ns largo as it might have been, tho questions put people to thinking and men who had beon talking diffusely on the subjeot of restricting immigration concentrated ~ thewr thoughts upon particular 1deas.” Greater Restrictions Favored, “‘1 am not prepared to say that I think that any other measures than the ones which I have introduced must be passed to satisfy Fublic sontiment, 1t is undeninbly trua thas there is a strong gonoral feoling look- ing to greater restrictions upon immigration, but whether it will take the shapa of a specific demand along any oue line canut yet be determined. First, it may be said very frankly toatno legislation can be procurdd wbich is not supported by tho mombers of both parties. For myself I do not propose to advocate, morely fof tho sake of making & political issue, any proposition which cannot be carried. ‘I'tie question is one which is so widespreading, boaring as it does upon the question of Américan nation- ality and the proservation of our nsgjtutions, what I prefer to seo If democrats andl rapun- licaus aliko cannot gratify public sontiment by uniting upon judicious measures. ““There are souwe things which in my judg ment can be bettered. For instauce, I think that botter accommodations should be given to immigrdnts, moro spaco on the vovage, more cubic feet of atr. This would of course increase the cost of coming over, and would in itself be a restrictive measure, while pri- marily based upon bumantarian aid sauitary principles. Of course better accommoda- tions on the steamers would compel the coin- panies to charge more for pussage, and the greater the cost of transnortation the fewer undesiranle peaplo would como over. I bave introducea a bill coveriug this point." “What as to naturalization 'As to naLuralization, you must understand that the senate sommitteo is one on immigra- tion only. Tho house committes ia one on fm- migration and naturalization, 1 do not khow whother the sanate committoa on immigra tion or that on judiclary will doal with tho subjoct of nataralization. I make the samo romark with rogard to moro restrictive laws rogarding naturalization that I dia vegarding immigration: that partisan logislation is not possible, Will Be Generally Supported, ‘Thore should bo a union of tho two partios upon a measure which will bo acceptable. to both as American cltizens. 1 do not, how= over, think that anyous ought to Ob: ject to requiring a man to give two or throe months' notios in the court where he is to apply for his final papers of hin intention to make such application. This would afford greater opportunity for looking up ovidenco of his right to consum- mato his alionation from his vative country, and would bo « most offoctual bar against the fraudutent naturalization which bas been prevalont in somo cities, As matters now are the immigrant can make his fivst applica- tion before ono court and complete it fn_ any othar court without final preliminavy notico. As to Incroasing the torm of naturalization, the presont torm of fivo years with two years' preliminary notice and no provious notice where the man comes into the country beforo 1S years of ave, has existed so_loog that I ao not think it can be moditied. These fundamentai conditions of naturalizatiod cannot, in my judgment, bo changed at present. Restrictivo legislation will take sowe othor shape. “It will readil7 be noticed that there is a great deal of uneasiness among naturalize democratic Ieishmen ana Germa.s and other good and desirablo races over the influx of Hungarians, Poles and the lower grade Ttaliuns. L am conflaent that these classes ace likely to sustain any law against the fraudulent naturalization of these people. They recognizo that inasmuch as the rewards of American labor are now, und presumaoly alwaya will b, greater than those of any country in the ‘world, the starvation wugos of Europe will keop up a constant pressure of immigrants whom our laws exclude agaipst the gates of our immgrant stations, and that if American naturalization is to mean anything it must mean tho conferring of the privilege upon thoso fitted to receive it intelloctually and physically.’ e — Overworry Kilied Plu B sto) Many and eloquent are the editorial ser- mous preached from the text of the late Sen- ator Plumb's death from overwork. Tho sormons aro all right, but the toxt is, wo s pect, inaccurate. It was doubtless over- worry rather than overwork that brought the IKansas senator’s career to an end bafore ho was 55 years of ago. Overwork has killed very fow persons indoed, but overworry hias killed countless millions. Don’t worry. —— International League of Press Clubs. ‘[he mombers of the International League of Press clubs will arrive in Omaha January 8, at 2 o'clock p. m., on their way to the Puacific coast, The members will come over the Chicago & Northwestern railrosa and will remain in the city about two hours, A committeo of the Press club will confer with the Real Estate Owners association, Board of Trade and other oreanizations to make arrangements for -the entertainment of the visitors, . 0. 55 e SMILES FOK THE DYING YEAR. Chicago Nows: Tt issaid that Mrs, is fond of muking heaith aud endurance e matters of wonder iladsto Ir. Gladstone's nore and wore New York MHerald: We may differ in this worid. but whon We get to the vometery we are all on a dead level. azo Tribune: Even Russcll Sage has tod by the generous influcnce of tho spiritof Christmas. e did not dock b s clerks for the time lost wien they lay stunned b the oxpiosion. They are now stunned by hie niunificence. 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