Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1892, Page 4

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Trachuck, socrotary of The BER Jublishine compiny, does solomnly swear thut the nctual oirenlation of Te DAILY Ber for the week ending February 27, 1802, was as . 28087 015 EWORN STATEN hursdn Friday, Fe Euturday. Average : ve and fubscriby h day of February. Eworn to tof 1Tesence this EEALL A D 185 Notary Public. Clreutation for -lnlvlll;ry 24,324, COLONEL SAM BraAss of Juniata can now renounce his demoeracy and renew his cordial relations with the independ- ents, OMAHA citizens should look into the plan of the Chicago wigwam with the idea of erecting a structure similar in this city for coming conventions. SEVERAL members of the Towa legis- lature are quite anxious for congres- sional honors and this fact has o ten- dency to prolong debate upon the liquor question and probably will ultimately prevent any action whatsoover. YouNG MR. BRYAN isapolitician, not a statesman. This explains why he does nothing for his constitaents locally but devotes his time and his tongue to discussing the democratic side of the issues which sepurate the two great parties. INASMUCH as the Board of Education has been orecting but two school build- ings in the last few months, it would seem to have been altogether possible for the building deparument of the board to have given both buildings very close attention. THE charges against the Yellowstone National Park association in its man- agement of hotel and stage coach priv- ileges will doubtless be made the pre- text for a junket of a special committee to the park next summer ostensibly for the purposes of investigation. ATOR HILL will go on a hippo- droming tour of the south in a few days in order to stimulate his presidential boom. Ho will not go hunting for ducks in the Louisiana swamps, however. He is too good a sportsman to be satisfied with duck shooting after his exciting experiences in the Tammany tiger jungles. THE sad fate of young Olesen, the boy who fell under the cars on the Belt line, should be a warning to the lads in all parts of the city who persist in jumping on and off moving trains. It should also stimulate the police force to extra ex- ertions in the enforcement of the city or- dinances prohibiting persons from board- ing moving railroad trains, THE absurdity of jury trials of cases inyolving property rights has been well illustrated the present term of court in two cuses brought for damages against the city of Omaha. The real damages were practically the same' to both plain- tiffs, yet one jury found damages amount- ing to $2,300 in one case and another jury only $600 in the other. COUNCILMAN TuTTLE is said to feel vory much grieved because the grand jury bhas only indicted democratic mem- bers and ex-members of the boodle coun- oil. Wo apprehend that politics had very little to do with the action of the grand jury. The fact is.Mr. Tuttle was not indicted because he was a democrat, but because he has violated the plain mandate of the charter. THE Chicago Tvibune publishes six columns of matter containing the names of farmers and the value of their pos- sessions in Illinois. County after county is cited to show where from fifty to 100 farmers are worth from $50,000 to $100,- 000 ench and some are rated at $500,000. An investigation among Nebraska farm- ersmight not produce such surprisesas in 1llinois, but it would effectually crack the shell off that insufferable calamity chestnut which represents western agri- culturists as “paupers.” Every old sot- tlement in Nebruska hus its wenlthy farmers, not gentlemen farmers who commenced operations with largo capi- tal, but thrifty toilers who began with homesteads in sod houses or 'og eabins and who now enjoy all the comforts of a competency. — THE time has come when a city elec- trician is & necessity, and the council will do well to enact un ordinance for such an officer, The present inspector of lights can be kept comfortably busy looking after gus and gasoline lamps. The electrician should be an expert in electrical matters and the elec- trical department should bu as care- fuily conducted as that of plumbing. Indeed there is more danger from bad electrical work than from dofective plumbing. ixtensive conflagrations und danger to human life may be pre- venwed by the proper devotion of an officer of this character to his duties Dead wires should be removed, elec- trical plants regularly inspected, and eleetric lights rigorously tested. A good electrician cun be of inestimable ervice to Omaha TIE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM, Just before his departure for Kurope Secretary Foster submitted some recom- mendations in connection with the im- migration problem which appear to have caused anxiety among English ship-owners and emigration agents. The recommendation attributed to the secre- tary that caused the greatest concern abroad was that proposing that each steamship company engaged in the for- eign passenger transportation to this country should be required to flle with the proper officers of the department a bond in a sum not less than $50,000 that it will return all immigrants whb shall within two years prove to belong to the prohibited classes to the country from which those immigrants came to the United States. Secrotary Foster reached London on Wednesday, and according to o dispatch stated to a representative of the Associ ated press that the bond proposal was not his, and he agreed with the objec- tion of the British vessel ownevs that the proposed bond 1s impracticable. He did, however, according to the sume source of information, recommend more air space in the steamers, and also that the existing head tax of 50 cents on each immigrant be abolished, and that the steamship companies be required to pay to the United States a license tax of 1 for every immigrant brought by them from any Kuropean port to the United States, such tax to be devoted to the use of the immigration inspection bureau. Replying to the objection that this would involve increased passage rates, Secretary Foster said that would mean a bettor cluss of emigrants; to the ox- clusion of the pauper clement. It is desirable to 1imit the tramp steamer traflic, and in the opinion of the secre- tary the requirement of more air space and the imposition of the proposed tax would have this result. Senator Chandler, chairman of the ate conmittee on immigration, di cusses methods of restricting immigra- tion in the March numbzrof the Forum. He thinks a rigid enforcement of exis ing laws, not only in our seaports but along the Canadian border, may result in quieting the alarm and avorting the dangers from bad immigration and in satisfying our people of the sufliciency of our present ruies of exclusion. Hea ier responsibilities should be placed upon the steamship companio: Lnws and regulations skou'd be so framed and onforced that before long it may appear that no immigrants will have to bo sent back, for the simple and satisfactory rea- son that the steamship companies will not dare to bring any about whose right to admission there is the slightest doubt. Senator Chandler also favors a law in- creasing the number of cubit feet of space on oach steamship for each immi- grant, and he expresses the opinion that there ought not to bu any objection to allowing persons intending to come to the United States to prove to the satis- faction of our consuls or special ofticials abroad that our laws do not prohibit their immigration, and to obtain certifi- cates anceordingly. [f the voluntary cer- tificute system after an adequate trial works satisfactorily, it can be mude com- pulsory if necessary. Heavy respons bility of steamship compunies, says Sen- ator Chandler, certificates abvoad if asked for, and strict inspection ou this side of the water, will make almost im- possible the evasions practiced at the present time. The discussion of the immigration problem is at last proceeding in u prac- tical direction. Sentiment regarding it prompted by seliishness or prejudice is no longer largely influential with intel- ligent men. There isconsequently good reason to expect that whatever (urther iegislation may bo had relating to immi- gration will be designed to secure a more complete and efficient enforcoment of existing regulations instead of erect- ing new barriers to exclude desirable persons, COUNTING A QUORUM. After afl that the democrats havesaid during the past two years in denuncia- tion of the rule of the house of repre- sentatives of the Iifty-first congress authorizing the speaker to count non- voters present in order to mike a quorum, the decision of the supreme court affirming the validity of the rule 1 one of the most discomfiting blows the democracy has received in recent yours. The course of Speaker Reed in this particular was made a party shibbo- leth by the demoerats. On the floor of the house, in the party organs and up and down the country they declared it to be a usurpation of power 1 gross vio- lation of the constitutional rights of the minority. It was proclaimed to be a revolutionary leparture, menacing the permanence of republican institutions. The decision of the supreme court sweeps all this away acd leaves not a vestige of reason for objection to the rule on constitutional grounds. The constitution provides thutoach house may determine the rules of its pro- cedure. It also provides that a mujority ol each house shall consiuitute a quornm to do business. In other words, said the court, *when a majority arve present the house is in a position to do husiness. Its capacity to transact business is then established, created by the mere pres- ence of & mujority, and does not depend upon the disposition or assent or action of any single member or fraction of the majority present. All that the consti- tution requires is the presence of a ma- jority, and shen that wajority is pros- ont the power of the house arises. The constitution has prescribed no method of vacertaining the presence of a mu- jority, and it is therefore cleariy within the competency of the house to pre- seribe any method that shall be reason- ably certain to aseertain the fuct. Such a method was that adopted and successfully carried out by the house of representatives of the Fifty-fivst con- gress, The decision is important. It givesa meaning and force which it has lucked until now to the provision of the consti- tution allowing less than w majority of the house of representatives to compel the presence of absent memb: Itis & fatal blow to the power hitherto exer cised by an obstruetive winovity, und will put an ond to a form of l!libus-.' s | tering that prevailed for mary ye and was the most dificult to deal witii, It assorts the vital principles of the vight of the majority to rule. 'I'le THE OMAH | present house rejocted the quorum rule of its predecessor, as it was bound to do outof respect for the attitude of the democratic minority in the Fifty-firat congress, but 1t is not to be doubted that the next republican house elected will restore the rule, and that it will then become a permanent part of our parlis mentary practice, not only in congress, but in the state logislaturos, The vindication of ex-Speaker Reed, who formulated the quorum rule and courageously enforced 1t, is complete, the supreme court being unanimous in affirming the validity of the rule. ——— A BACKSLIDER ON REFORM, Thomas Tuttle has heen a greater dis- appointment to the people by his ecareer in the city council than any man who has ever served in that body. Mr. Tut- tle was supported by the best elements of the most respectable ward of the city. He was elected as a check to corruption and jobbery in the council. The Fourth ward is republican by a decisive major- ity, but several hundred republicans voted for Mr. Tuttle although they knew him to be a democrat. When he came into the council he was very loud in his denunciations of boodlers and promised to go through the city hall job from the foundation to the roof. Hewas placed on the committee on public prop- erty and buildings and had a splendid opportunity to unearth and expose the dishonest methods by which thousands of dollars had been squandered on that building and the rank favoritism shown in the letting of contracts and selection of materials. Did Tuttle redeem his pledges? On the contrary he joined tha ringsters and plotters and worked his silicon plaster on to the walls after the contract had been let for another matervial. e not only introduced silicon into the city hall but made trades to have introduced into the public school buildings. His record in the council has laid him open to the suspicion of venality and rasc ) He wss o warm supporter of the Ketcham furniture denl and other deals more or less unsavory. Considering all things and in view of the fact that he a rank backslider on the issues made in his election, Tuttle has been treated very leniently. He ought to have been compelled to resign at the end of the first year of his term. THE CITY HALL ROTUNDA. The council is right in voting to finish the city hall rotunda in mvble It would be absurd to expend $450,000 on a handsome public building and then spoil its whole effect by a cheap hall- way and entrance, It ishetter to do the work now and to do it right than from a false cconomy to have the rotunda an ovesore to the community. Kventually public sentiment would compel the city government to zive the building the ap- propriate finish proposed, and tho work will be done in bette - style and at less cost now than hereafter, The sum proposed, however, is largo, and the council should make sure thay the benefits of competition are not ov: looked. The city hall contractor should be abie to underbid any other on the work, but it will novdo to accept the contractor’s proposition without invit- ing compatition. The marble work of i Bep building, including the impos- ing arch at the main entrance, the wainseoting of the courtand business office and the marble base for the corri- dors, only cost $16,000. The work in,the city hall will be less elabo:ate, and con- soquently should be less expensive. Therefore $18,000 ought to muke a mar- velously beautiful and substantial rotunda. The architect’s estimate of the cost of the marble is $12,000. The other $6,000 will be us>d in other decor- ations and imvrovements, bus practic- ally the $18,000 is for improvements on the rotunda, and the peoplehave a right 10 expect that they shall receive full value for the money expended. Lf thete is 0o job 1n the additio 1l improvements th will be no adverse criticism of the action of the council in ordering them. STOP RIGHT THERE: At the adjourned meeting of the coun- i cil an ordinance to grant the new Thom- son-Houston Electric Light company the right to lay a system of pipes and con- duits under the st:eets of the city was introduced. This was read a first and second tune by title and referred to the committee on clect lights, The council should stop right where it is. The ordinance is only a schame for per- petuating the present olectiic light monopoly und its extortionate rates, It is a new way of obtaining what the com- pany has failed to secure by othor means, Under the plausible plea that it de- sires to place its wires under ground the electric lighting company usks for this privilege of tearing up the streets. l When its conduits are constructed and wires stretched in them it will be com- paratively easy to induce the council to shut out all bidders on electric lighting by the use of overheud wires, and thus the Thomson- Houston. company would be in tho tield alone. The city should make no more con cessions lo any of the lighting com- nies. When the present contracts and expive Omuahn should do her own street lighting and own her alectric light and gas plants. In any event no franchise should be granted or contract entered into that will extend oxisting franchises and contraots, P franchises ‘Pag [daho senatorianl contest has been memorable for the division of sentiment it has developed among sitting senators, Senators Vawmee and Morgin, for in- stunce, have argued the claims of Col- onel Claggett while Senntoss Vilas and Pugh have favored Dubois. Among the republicans there has been a similar di- vergence of view. Sennto: Saaders of Montanus took strong ground for the contestint, while Senator Cullom was equally as much in earnest for the con- testee. The coatesting senators are both republicun in puliti =, SENATOR GORMAN of Maryland has ! been formaliy wanounced us a eandidute ! for the presidency, so far as th's may be doae by the lealing orzie of the dam)- cratic party in his state suys many beiiey: Gomnin 1o be only en mon who wi | develon any strength at Ch e, and expresses the | vpntoa that is he 13 o0 good terms with st hat journal | the | 'lhu friends of both Cleveland and Hill he could cargy New York. For this lo- cality tho mbet interesting foature of this annountidthent, which it is pre- sumed was nofy,made without the knowl- edge and abproval of Mr. Gorman, is the suggestipn that G Boies should be his mining mate, That would bo a combination in which the tail of the ticket would bo in most respects stronger than the head. Boies has not seen 80 much of public life as Gorman, but he is quite his poor in ability and far moro respoctable as a politician, Gorman is the embodiment of the demo- cratic spoilsman, with a record that would piace him wholly on the de- fensive, and it is extremely doubtful whether Governor Boios would care to risk his chances of political promotion with such a standard boarer. At present the possibilities of his doing much bet- ter seem very good. vernor A TRANSFER of the Indian adminis- tration to the War department at this time would bo a step backward from which the service would not recover in yoars. Tinkoring with this problem | congratulation from its has been the chief cause for its com- ploxity. What is needed is more per- manent tenure ot office for competent agents and a pushing forward of the educational ideas of the present com- missioner. When all the Indians speak, read and write the Knglish language they can get on by themselves without tho aid of agents and by that time their reservations will all be allotted. The present policy of honest administration und earnest efforts to elovate the Indians by industrinl education is correct and offective. Lot it alone. The sonate should refuse to accede to the proposi- tion of the house for replacing agents by army ofticers, THE decision of the supreme court of Ohio adverse to the Standard Oil trust is likely to be followed by actions against that corporation in other states. It is statel that the attorney general of w York has awaited only for a de- cision 1n Ohio in order to bring a simi- lar suit against the trust in New Yorlk, where it has more extensive propor interests than in Ohio. It appears that the shrewd ovganivers of this great monovoly intrenched themselves in 1 states before: completing the trust angement, having been incorporated Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and so that if beaten at one refugs in another. It routed in both Ohio and New York, however, it miy not care to continue the fight, Tue grand jury reconvenes next Tues- day. It is doetermined to do its duty and rid this community of boodl Let every good ‘citizen contribute to the same end. While the grand juvy is in session the peopie ought to seize the op- po=tunity of ‘purifying the political at- mosphere. | t Knows Itself, S ey Tribune., Hou. Tom Reed s tow almost a quorum in bimself. e Silenee I3 Golden, Philadetplei Le iy The superb vesiraint under which Bis- marck holds nimself is illustrated by his cioguent silence during the last week orWo. ‘Tho old gentleman could make a paragraph fairly spectacular if he would let himself out. iy oo ‘ Royalty Comes High, Chicagn Post. Eastern Europe is paying a torrible price for the luxury of being goverued by potent- ates ruling by “‘the right divine.” Before long those potentates may pay dearly for their folly. Iurope is sleepiug on a voleano. But the dawn canuot no very far off, sttt il Home Industry Makes Home Prosperity. St Paul Glabe, An Omaba paper thinks that 25,000 names will be signed in that city to pledzes to give the proference to home manufactures, qual- ity and prices being equal. It is believed this will greatly encourage the establishment of new manufactures and ini the ola ones, ‘The impression 1s quite e — Strang! San Franelsen Ch-onicle. ‘I'hy tin-plate liar keaps mighty quiet about these times. He hasnot once suzgested that congress should remove the duty from thev class of imports. His covness is easily ex plaiued. He does not wish to deaw attention to the fact that he mada a precious dookey of himseif in the last campaizn when he pre- dicted that Americans wera incapable of making tocir own supplies of that indispens- ablo article. D S Sly nny St. Paul Ploneer Press General Palmer 1s.u a fair way to bo called avery cunuing old mon. Every time he hears anybody say he would bo g02d prasi- dential timber he takos bis pen in hand to it folks know that heis for Cleveland all ibe time.. When that convention meats and wost of the delegates are for Cleveland, but afraid to yominate bim, whau mora natural | than that they snould rally on Johu M. i Palmer! i — OUR HISTORY OF NEBRASKA, Plattsmouth Herald Oyana Bee's write up of Nebraska was a crediv to thut paper aud also to the state. 1t should be read by everybody Liucoln Joumsnt: Tue Ovana Bee devoted a four page supploment to a review of the history of Nebraska yesterduy morning, It was in every wadia creditable edition. Grand Isla 1§8Lndo|wnu~ t: Tie Omana Bk of today is@marvel of enterprise in its way. Itisan @dition valuable as well as intensely interdstiug. It is in every sense a sbraska paner Beatrive Dmderat: Tug Omana Bai priuts a supplement giving the history ot Nooraska. Luinguite intercsting, especially | Lo people who,huye lived through some of the stirring evenig pipntioned. York Times; Yesterday's Bze contained a very instrucA¥ nistory of Nebrasica during the tiventy-tive'yars that it has been a state, It ought to be pewserved for future reference by every citizanal the state. Lincoln Cadtg Tur Omaia Bre of this 0ing 15 b LNGARC PAgo paper Lhat s in way o ergditable paper as an awui wimbel Bustrating the Hest twenty - five years of Nebraska s a state. Tue Big In its entérprise in tis matter bas given the | stato a paper that will bu rememberea with edit, Premont , Tribune: Tue Owany Bee of March | contained a four page subplement civing o condensed and valuable history of | tho wenesis of Nebraska's covsttution, to- gother wi'h & good deal of interesting in- formation concerning Nebraska's political | bistopy during iLs territorial and statebood days, up to the celebration on Tussday of its twenty -{i0 AUBIVOIsary as & member of thy urlon. This supplement will ve valuable for reforenco. ago Tribune: Nebraska, on the Istin- celebrated its silvor wedding anniver- sary, for Marci 1, 1857, iho kuot was fiea that'bound 1t to the union. (o the oasuing twenty-ive years it bas prospered notably. 1sus of 135) guve it only a fraction ion; that of 1500 wives it ol i e-utury azo it had Dow it bus | 1.03%,010 A quar | J0ss a2 wikes of ratlioad; I to an arogether ditfercn | 5,400, and only seven states excel 1t In rail- | way mileage, Then the cultivated part of fhe state was confined to two tiers of coun tes on the Missouri and a narrow strip on the Platte: now agriculture s carried on in ninety counties, Its products of the farm, fac- tory and mill exceed £100,000,000 for the vear 1801, or more than the entire value of the stato, with all its lands, towns, railronds and chattols in 1867, Ttis a handsome showing Nebraska makes, It had the right to observe its silver wedding with hilarity and merits tor statos. STILL URGING BLAINE TO RUN. Fritnds of the Secretary Wi ard 1is Lettoer, New York, March 3.—According to the Warld’s Washington correspondent there is amovemeont on foot looxing to the nomina- tion of Mr. Blaine at Minueapolis despite the lettor ho has written. Somo of the most prominent republicans in the country are en- listed in it and tho correspondence on tho subjoct shows that the desire for Mr. Bluine's leadorship 15 still widesproad in the party. There is tho highost authority for saying that Mr. Blaino is woll awaro of the oxistence of this feoling. His old supporters have visited him repeatedly since the publi- cation of his letter, Last week one of the most intluential and experionced of the re- publican senators called on Mr. Blaine and told him frankly that the party ought to nominate him at Minneapolis and thereby draft him into its servico. Mr. Blaine mado no reply, but treatod his visitor with cor- diality and asked him to come agmn. Ho declared during the conversation that his physical condition was much improved. The World's correspondent finally adds: “There is an oxplanation given hero of tho scoretary’s lotter in do of his family in the recent divorce proceedings which siiows that even that may be put to political use, The Blaine men say that the story has obtained wide circulation; that the real objection of the Blaine family to Mrs. Nevins was that sho was a Catholic. This story the Blaine men claim has been disproved by Mr, Blaine's statement of the case, which shows that his regret was founded on the extremo vouth of his son. This was_the accusation, his friends say, to which Mr. Blaino was particularly sensitive, 1 to Dis- FATHER DUCEY COMPLACENT. Ho Has Nothing More to Suy About the Bluine Marciage. NEw York, March 8.—Fathor Ducoy ar- rived here yostorday., Hesaid to a World reporter that he was in 4 state of ‘'perfect complacency” so far as the Blaine matter was concerned, Mr. Blaine's.letter,”” he smd, ‘‘contains nothing that is new to me. When I received that letter in 1853, all I had to suv on the subject I wrote to Mr. Blaine. He had iv the other day when he gave his letter to the public. 1f ho wanted to submit the detuils of the wholo affair to_the public, why did he not publish my reply Mr. Nevins, father of Mrs. James G. Blaine ir., said that he know Father Ducey mtimately. I know what 1 am talking about,” said be, “when 1 say that Father Ducey did not make public his reply to M Blaine for the reason that he did not keep a copy of it, It would hardly do for him to give the letter from memorw.” THEY WILL FIGHT TO THE LAST. t People to Carry the Case to the Supreme Court, BostoN, Mass... March 3..~Charles A, ince, couunsel for the defendants in the sky trust cases, says: *We shall take our cases to the United States supreme court. The cases will be tried here, but we shall uccept no decision as final that does not come from the supreme bench. These gentlemen who have been in- dicted have not been runming u trust. They have formed a company which owns certain property. 1t does not coutrol the entire out- put of the product manufactured. It is not a manopoly and has not conspired against com- petitive interests.” Prince did not believe the casos would come up Monday, as there had been no time to prepare them. May Contest Mrs, Fair's Will 8Sax I'raxcrsco, Cal,, March 4 Fair, the young son of the boonanza million- aire, is in town and nis presenco, taken in connection with the trip of Mrs. Herman Olerichs from New York, has lod to reports that Charley intends to contest his mother's by wiich ouly £0,000 was left him, the pul of which he cannot handle until he Whisky T —— L NOTIONS, Boston Courie: ome lawyer righ glient. s dyins betore théy WLt walt until a work with u Lowell Courie Loy is sometime rised by tucks. The unsuspecting school- liko municipal révenues— Somerstlle Journal: any fault found with hin must be because he neve o get i job. If & man never had by Is employer, it hud brains enough Washinzton Star: Some lectures may put o man 1o sicep, but the curtain iecture beiongs vurloty, THE GOLD BUG. Phitadelphia Inguirer. He tried Chiloride— The bi, of ¢ By Keele Filled full his hide, And ten years after, died. ‘They ot his hide Of bichlorid 80 fuil of wold Of worth untold; Qui wink They turned it Into chink! Boston Bulletin: [t is singular thut womey are often cmployed in postoflices when madl help i3 what 1s winted u New York Herald: Gunn—Twins always remind me of troubies; wonder why 1t is? Runn—-Probubly because they never como singly. Journ What a sweat- an your wife i 6 wus “Uentral” fn a telo- nt yeurs bofore I married Somervillo tempered won Diggs—Yes, hone offive for e hr. New Orloans Dolta: 1f aman's wifo caught him Kissing his typewriter 1t could hardly he claimed 0 b0 & Lypograph orror, but it would certaialy ‘be o misprint uud would bo promply corrected. Fimira Gazotte: - Jugson merchant s the gartor of tr: Ways Keeps a-stocking up. A QUESTION OF DRINKS, Mo tezumy Weily, Perhaps the country WL bo loss forlorn It you piant less cotton And drink fess corn s the hustling e bacause 1o al- Dublin Post. And the country ut I Would heavo i gr h 1t the o itor of the Weokly Would drin's less rye. Athens Banner. And the Dublin Post, Wouid be better within wed editor Phi'adelphin Le In sLte of erupti can enrry his stute — . Binghawton Ropublica When a man fuils iuto the hauds of his friends he will be Prety sure 1o get broke, TO MY CIGAR. Old Vesuvius isnzain Als0 the only man who nnatt O ! bright elgar! I love thy wroaths of smoie so dimly eurling; Ilove thy murky cloud 4bove ms whirlin Wh le, liko o star, Amid the smoke thy brillinnt tip is shining, And bids me o st all ¢ (Fe and sud ropiniug . From me afur. mmereial, Companion denr! When worry of this word. its ompty plossare, Tts c2as 21ess toll, ILs cures without a ineasare, 113 doubt and four; Then faney paints upon thy bright cloud way- ing The far-off frienls una er.vinz And brings them nesr. 10s my heart s 11 sorrow nd all is cold aronnd it, ry thoughts and weary cares sur- Uit Yeistil thes « sol My hewr And dre rou 1 Loecraw L while der Hope rev ving, ‘tho mists before it driving, i tomorrow ! THEY WANT T0 BE PRESIDENT Soveral Mon Anxions to Head the Colum- bian Exposition Commission, EXTRA. BUILDINGS NEEDED FOR THE FAIR Storey's Marhle Mansion to He Demolished and the Grounds Divided 1 ntinental Tele Being Rapidiy Built, Ontioao Buianyy or Tutn B, | Crioaao, 1L, March 8. Tnterost in tho annual wlootion of world's fair directors, which will take place early next month, is bacoming lively. Proxios aro | being quietly manipulated and schoming that does not appear on tho surfaco is indulged in by those both inside and oatside of the diroctory. The chief popular iuterost at present centers about thy quostion of who shall be prosident during the next year, President Baker, who now holds tho posi- tion, announces that he is making no effort to retain 1t; nevortheless it is kuown that he would accept re-olection if for no other reason than as a vindication of his presi- dential carcer against the criticisms that have boen hoaped upon him. Thus far the ndications aro that Mr. Baker will be re- elected. Genorally speaking _everybody wants Lyman J. Gage to accept the position, but Mr. Gage smid that he sould not again assumo tho presidency of the exposition. Noxt to Mr. Baker as presidentiat candidate is Diroctor Ferd. W. Pock. Wants More Bulldings, Chief Robinson of the department of ma- chinory wants two extra buildings for special displays which intending exhioitors have manifesied u desire to make, Ono is for the brick, tile and terra-cotta manu- facturers of tho United States, and the other for tho exhibition of heavy machinery, such as drop hammers, m" bhammers, forges and other exhibits requiring the use of fire, Cniof of Construction Burnhum has as yet made no report as to what is practicablo” In | the way of adiitional buildings. Ho is already crowded for svace and if further structures are to bo put up thoy must be at the expenso of the trades desiring them. Storey Mansion to be Torn Down. * That magnincent marble ruin on the south side of tho city known as “Storey's man- sion,” or by others us ‘Storey’s folly,” will soon be a thing of the past. It was doomed by the terms of tho p: on which has just boen made of the Storey property atv Grand boulevard and Forty-third street. The five | acres, which havo remained entire in the heart of ono of the finest residence parts of Chicago, bave been subdivided into forty- eight lots and the Sturey residence, which in its unfinished stato represents an outlay of $150,000, will be torn down. March of Long Distance Telophoning. Within a year the first long distanco tele- phone line will be camplulad between Chi- cago and Now York. The westerz terminus is now at Cleveland, from which point it will be pushed rapidly westward to Chicago and beyond. Another transcontinental line is projected and in fact already begun, which will pass through Pittsburg and reach Chi- cago by another route, Theso great trunk routes are but two of the lines by means of which the Bell company intends to bind to- gher all the great cities of Lhe country in a web of telephoue wires, Women Join the Strikers, The remainder of the emnloyes of 1z, Schwab & Co., manufacturers of -shoes, con- sisting of 300 womon, joined the other strikers this morning and the enuve force, numbering about 800, is now out. Tt ITS ETYMOLOGY. Mr, Wells Discusses the Originand Signifi- cance of the State’s Na Kaxnsas Ciry, Mo., Mareh 2.—To the REai- torof I'ne Bee: Nowis a goed time for your people to fix and perpetuate the mean- ing of the name of beir state. It is unfor- tunate that so many of the states can now only guess at the meaning of their names. The two states mnorth of you are called Dakouas, but the Indians called themselves “Lakota.” 1 take the word Nebraska to be from the Sioux words mnce (which means water and i3 found in Minnesota, Min- nehaha, etc.), and halaska. It is so long since I have spoken any Sioux that I cannot at the moment recall the word tor button, but there were two Kkinds of buttons that they espec- ially liked, the round and the flat brass or «ilt buttons. The lurge flat ones were des- scribed by the adjective balaska. 1 take it that Mnee-hil ska meant tho wide, shallow river, the Platte. This is doubtless the origin and meaning of the name. On old maps the Platte was called the Nebraska. During the war my father went to Ne- braska City from Missouri and jomned the Missourl colony there, with me and his other minor children. Later ou 1 went across the plains in a mule train to Salt Lake and back, and the second time went to Fort Laramie and lived. The Sioux were living there then. There is another Sioux word for a stream of water, wak alla, but I think it refers more | the corporations and therafore illogal. | asked fc | Standard Oil company in Ohito by reason of belt in northern Minnesota goes on with un- diminishod nctivity. In the state aud:tor's office yesterday thirty-throo contracts for fifty:yonrs oach woro takon out on loases about fo expiro, New companies wore or ganizod and yesterday legaily incorporated with an ageregato capital stock of §15,000,000, upen which the state lavied an incorpora: tion tax of $,050. Including the companies incorporated, the state is 23,500 richer than on Monday. i SAVS IT HAS VIOLATED NO LAW. Story of the Standard O1l Ohlo Case, NEew Yonrk, March 3.—~The decision by tho Obio supreme court in the case of tho Standard Oil company s the first sorious blow the big corporation has folt for somo time. President rockefeller refused to dis cuss tho decision and all the newspaper mon were roferred to Mr. S, C. T. Lood, genoral solicitor of tho ofl company. “The point at issue,” Mr. Dood explained, “was this: Tno attornoy general claimed that the Standard Oil company of Ohio was party to certain trust agrooments lmlwn'-?n 0 v tho forfeiture of the charter of tho Rogard to the its having entered into tho contracts, Now tho court finds that wo entered into illegal contracts and ordors us to got out of thom. It will ombarass us to got out, for wo woro neverin." SWIIL the easo be rried to the suprema court of the United S tatos ! Mr. Dood was ¥o, I think not." . {avo you heard that the attorney genoral w York has pavers ready to filo against andard Oil company in this state and has only waited for a decision In tho Ohio caso to take action have heard somothing of this,” Mr. Dood answered, “out I do not believe it. Tho law of New York diffors from that of Ohio, and 1 can soe no possiblo ground of action.’’ eciniacacaidie ACTED QUICKER THAN DR, DURYEA. 8 to Tear Down Brack Riv s, Wis,, March certain theatrical troupe of not v order was billed in this city yesterday of theso bills contained pictures of a highly sensational uaturo. Mombers of tho loc Woman’s Christian Temperance Union do manded of the manager of the opera housn that tho bills bo at onco torn down or threatened to take the matter into their own hauds, The managor not_immodiately complying with their request, the ladics, who are wives of prominent business men in' this city, procured boys to destroy the bills, and the 'union declared a boycott” on the opera house. Burglars o n Big Haul. Corpwarer, Mich,, March 3.—Last nignt the Coldwater National bank of this city was robbed, The safes were blown open and $20,000 10 rash was taken, in addition to a do DOt of £40,000 of Pniladelphia & Read bonds. Ten thousand dollars reward hus been offered for tho arrest of the robbers, The job was the boldest and most complcto ever performed in this portion of tho stato and was ovidently the work of experts. They took every cent of cash they could find. The robbery caused a great sen- sation here and the bank was visited by hundreds of people this morn- ing. There is no clue to the robber Killed by a Ministor, BirMiNGHAM, Ala., March 4.—Rev. John Calvin, a Methodist minister ot Green county, this morning shot and killed Wil- liam Herdy, deacon in his church, and fatally wounded a brothec-in-law of Herdy's. Heordy suspected Calvin of being intimato with bis (Herdy’s) wife and attacked him with a cane, when Calvin drew a pistol and fired, with the above result. Colonel Dan Has a Scheme, JacksoNviLLg, Fla, March 3.—Colonel Daniel Lamont and Dr. . K. Hendricks of New York are at the St. James hotel in this city and have been keeping very secluded, eating all meals in- their rooms.~ It Is sup- posed their mission here is to ses what the chances are for securing the democratic delegation to Chicago for Grover Cleveland. e el e Miller Hauged by a Mob. Cano, IlL., March 3.—Nows reached hero last night that Amos Miller was hanged by a mob last night at Dexter, Mo., twenty miles from here, His crime was participation in the illing of Acting Mayor Cooper and City Marshal Sprinkle during the examination of himself ana a companion for horse stealing. s Deacon White Snys Fleld Was Nane. NEeW York, March 3.—In the jury investi- gation of E. M. Fiold's sanity the people opened its case Aand Prmenmd witnesses, among them S. V. White, whose testimony tended to show Field to have been sane at the time of his fatlure. et Pittaburg's Sundny Newspaper Fight. PrrrsnurG, Pa,, March 3.— The appeals of the Sunday newspapers against the suits en- tered for selling on Sunday were dismissed by Judge Porter in the county court this morning. T et Duluth Has n Minlng Exchange, Du; , Mion, March 3.—The Duluth Miuning Stock exchange has besn organized with E. Richardson as president. to the motion of the water, : Groroe WILSON. et e s 8 ota Mining Corporations, ., Minn.,, Mareh 3.—Tho work of providing for the exploriug of the mineral Doath of a Typhus Patient. New Yous, March 3.—Aaron Asronson, a typhus patient, died on North Brother island today. 8. W. Corner 15th Our spring invoice £ appointed chil = somely second floor and inspect the new things. We will not show out of date clothing for your boy because we and desirable. special prices. Open Saturdays till 10 Other ovenings till G:3 A fe'w Stubborn Facts-- - BROWNING, KING & co. and Douglas Sts, of nice novelties in children’s wearis now arriving. The jerseys and kilts are special- ly choice, and mothers are ur- gently invited to call at our hand- dren's parlors on the haven’t carried over a single dollar's worth. Everything is new Gentlemen will find it ad- vantageous to purchase their furnishing goods of us this week as we are making Browning,King & Co e |S, W, Corner 15th and Douglas Sts ‘s