Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 26, 1892, Page 4

[ i ¢ i i H THE DAILY BEE. e E. ROSEWATER. Eptton. » St — I‘UBLNH VLR\' MORNING. OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITT TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. bnnyl\r-n (without Bunday) 4\m» Year Paily and Sunday, One Y. 1x M onths / hree Months, ‘e Bundng Wer, Ong Ver. 22000 uturdny Bee. One Your cekiy Bee. Ono Y oar. OF ¥ Omaha, The Bee Building. Bouth Omals, corner N and 26th Streets Ce 12 . immorce. e Buliding All_communications ne to news and ftorinl matter should e 'Ndd rossed te the Editorial Departmen BUSINESS LETTERS, All husiness latters and_ remittances 8honld e nddressed to The Beo Publishing Company. Omahn. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to be made payable to the order of the com- pany. ’Itg Bec Fublishing Company., Prennetor SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Ftate of Nobraskn T8 (Countyof Donglas. { 1, Tzschuck, secretary of The BER TuETaine. company. " doea sglomnly awoar eirculation of Tiy DAILY BEE ending March 10, 1802 Was ns Wednesday, Marc Thursduy, March | Friday. Sarch 18, Eaturdny. March i9. Average . Eworn fo Fefore me nnd subscribed in my Sresence this 19th day of March. & . 1602, u(nrv I'uhlle‘ February 24,510, NEBRASKA oratory is becoming a drug upon the market. The supply is fully equal to the demand. THE conventions this phasize the fact that we are sadly in need of a million-dollar hotel. IT WILL pay our business organiza- tions to keep thewr eyes on railway movements centering at RicitArp P. BLAND will never again be either so happy or so hopeful. He made a frightful miscount of free silver noses. SILENCE is golden and speech is sil- ver, but silver was knocked speechless on Thursdoy in the house of its alleged friends. PATRONIZE home industries can never become an unprofivable proverd for com- munities which both preach and prac- tico the doctrine. INTEREST in the controversy over ap- pointments to the police commission ap- pears to be confined to the parties di- rectly concerned, NEBRASKA millers are entitled to the Nebraska flour trade and Minnesota cut-throat competition cannot alter this frigid. fortified fuct. EUGENE FIELD'S buttermilk banquet has set his old Denver friends to inquir- ing when the bright journalist became a fixed star in the milky way. OMANA ought not to sleep on herarms until she has made it morally certain that she shali within -twenty-tive years be the center of the greatest sugar beet growing region of the world. A ¥UND for the encouragement of manufactories in Omaha such as is con- templated by the Renl Estate Owners’ association would ultimately return to the city at large immense profits and to the investors themselves a fair per- centage on their investment. SILVER has dropped to 88% cents per ounce, the lowest price at which it was ever sold. This, too, in face of the fact that the national government is now ab- sorbing almost, if not quite, the entire American product. If silver is not a commodity like wheat, cotton and corn then experience isa delusion and logic a snare. COoNGRESS will appropriate $19,000,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi and $9,000,000 for the Columbian World’s fair, but will haggle over the meager sum of $250,000 for surveys for storage reservoirs in the arid regions. Congress should wake up to the fact thata full fourth of the aren of America is west of the Rocky Mountains. Tk move the council and park com- mission look at park tracts the further away seems the final selection of sites. But the delay has not worriea the tax- payers, They are saving $1,600 a month in interest on park bonds, will get sev- eral thousand dollars in taxes for 1892 and finally we shall get more land and more suitable tracts for our money. A CORNELL professor tells hisstudents that the man who sells his vote (in. New York presumably) for money is more re- spectable than the man who does not vote at all. The latter is at least a party to the wrong and may properly be ar- raigned as an accomplice, tor he may be making the purchased voto equivalent to two, whereas by performing his duty it would be useless to the purchaser. E—— According to the Chicago Journal of Commerce bindor twine was sold at 134 cents per pound without variation from January 1890 until January 1, since the last named date it has dropped until all last harvest the Chicago price was 74 cents, In view of this decrease of 44 per cent in the price the howl of our friend Bryan for free binding twine sounds for all the world like the bray of a dema- gogue. e—— AMONG the entertainments for the ap- proaching summer season in Omaha, mone promises more for the general good of the state than the industrial exposi- tion in June. The interest already showa in the coming event makes its suc- cess assured and ae it is tho first exclu- sive exposition of the manufacturing in- dustries of the state it will be both novel and instructive as showing the processes of manufacture and the number and ex- tent of the manufactured articles of Ne- braska, THE PRESIDENT'S PLAIN TALK. The administration of President Har- rison wiill be memorable for the able, firm and vatriotic treatment of the in- ternational questions with which it has had to deal, and for this the president himself is entitlcd to much of the credit. He has not only given careful considera- tion to these questions and dictated the policy to be pursued, but has also per- formed no small part of the actual work of correspondence. ‘This was the case in tha Chilian affair, when it became necessary to convey to Chillthe final decision of this government, and the hand of the president is again seen in the latest correspondence in the Beving sen controversy, which is distinetly marked by that plainness of speech, ox- plicit statement of principles and une- quivoeal enunciation of policy, which are characteristic of P.esident Harrison. The last note of this government on the question of a renewal of the modus vivendi presents its cnse with such log- ieal forco as must carry conviction to the minds of all persons not unalterably pre- disposed to favor the British position. toplying to the contention of Lord Salis- bury that another year’s suspension of sealing is not necessary to prevent an undue diminution of the seal herds, this government very pertinently suggests, aftor expressing surpr and disap- pointment, that if her majesty’s govern- ment so little respects the claims and contentions of the United States as to be unwilling to forbear for a single season to disregard them, it cannot understand why Lord Salisvury should have pro- posed and agreed to give to those claims the dignity and standing which a refer- enco to a high court of arbitration im- plies. It is declared that from the mo- ment an arbitration was agreed upon neitber party was atliberty to disregard the contentions of the other, and not to observe this principle is to add a new sense of injury and injustice, even 1f it should bo found possible to proceed with an arbiteation under such conditions. The gravity of the situation, in the opinion of the president, consists in the fact that if her majesty’s government proceeds on the basis of its contention as to the rights of the Canadian sealors the government of the United States will have no choice but to proceed on the basis of its contention that pelagic sealing in the Hering sea is an infrac- tion of its jurisdiction and property rights. This would become necessary, notas a question of pecuniary loss or gain, but one of honor and self-respect. This government, the president explic- itly declares, cannot consent, with in- demnity or without, that the contested rights of British subjects to catch seals in the Bering sea shall be exercised pending the arbitration. It cannot con- sent to have what it believes to be its rights destroyed or impaired pending their determination by an agreed tri- bunal, however adequate the security offered. The feeling both in London and in Washington evidently is that a crisis in this matter is imminent. Secretary Blaine, although not well, attended a meeting of the cabinet yesterday at which the situation was discussed, and there wasa conference between the sec- retary of the navy and the secietary of the treasury with regard to the vossels to be sent to Bering sea. In the British House of Commons the government was asiced for information regarding the sit- uation and replied that they hoped to be able to make the correspondence public by Monday next, including, it is pre- sumed, a response from Lord Salisbury to the last note from the State depart- ment. There is little reason to expect that Lord Salisbury will recede from the position he has taken, and if he adheres to it a conflict would seem to be almost inevitable. THE ASSESSORS AND THEIR DUTY. Botween the 1st day of April and the 1st day of June the assessors are re- quired by law te listall taxable real and personal property. The Ist of April is next Friday, yet the precinct assessors have not agreed upon a uniform basis of assessment and unless individual assess- ors assert themselves we shall find when the returns are made on or before the second Monday in June next that the assessment has again been a farce. Under the law no property of any de- scription is exempt except: Kirst—The property of the state, counties and municipal corporations, both real and personal, Second—Such other property as may be used exclusively for agricul- tural and horticultural societies for echool, religious, cometery and chari- table purposes. The word ‘‘exclu- sively” in the law has been largely overlooked by assessors heretofore, and hence a vast area of real estate and con- siderable personal property in this city, the title to which vests or is pretended to vest in agricultural, horticultural, school, religious and charitable socio- ties, which is not used exclusively for the purposes named in the act,have been left off the assessors’ books, It is be- lieved that the real property of these or- ganizations in Omaha will aggregate an actual valué of $25,000,000. The county clerk returns it to tha census office av ‘Washington with a ‘axable valuation of 82,500,000, The assessors must list every dolar’s worth of this property not used exclusively for the purposes namned in the exemption ciause if they are true to their duties and their solemn oaths of office. The section of the statute which de- fines property which shall be assessed and taxed, aftor excepting property named in the preceding paragraph, dis- tinctly sots out the following: Kirst—All real and personal property in this state. Second—All moneys, credits, bonds ov stogka or other investments, the shares of stock of invorporated companies and associations, and all other personal prop- erty, including property in tiansitu to or from this state, used, held, owned or controlled by persons residing in’this state. Third—The capital stock of com- panies and associations incorporated under the laws ¢f this sta The law is suMciently plain for the guidance of any honest assessor and there can be no excuse for a repetition of the neglect of former years. Let each man who has taken the oath of office as an assessor wndividually resolve that for once at least the terms of the law shall be eomplied with to the letter. This may make wmore work for the Board of Equalization, but it will result THE OMAHA DAILY in a return of from two to five millions worth of taxable property which has hitherto Dbeen exempt through the grace, negligence or dishonesty of the ASIE8OTS, AND HARRISON, South Dakota is for Harrison as a matter of course. The Dakotas could not be against him and be cither honest or gratefu!. When Harrison was in the United States senate the great territory which has since been made into two magnificent and prosporous states, had no better friend. It was, therefore, most ungracious ns well as foolhardy for politicians to attempt to create a sentiment in South Dakota against the president. Whether tho recorded vote of the state convention sflows the dele- gation to Minneapolis to have been Tormally instructed for Hasrrison or not, the fact remains that overy delegate will vote for him and the convention it- self adjourncd under tho impression that it had most omphatically endorsed his administration and declared him to be the choice of South Dakota. Unhappily there are two factions in the republican party of South Dakota. Governor Mellette is at the hoad of on s and ex-Senator Moody appoars at pres- ent to lend the othor, though it is gen- orally conceded that Senator Pottigrow is the real force behind the Iatter. Whether the Moody faction was really opposed to Harrison or not is a matter of small importance now that he and all admit that the state will throw its vote for the renomination of the president. Governor Mellette appoars to have been badly worsted if he had any purpose to control the action of the state conven- tion, for the men he most cordially dis- likes were elected delegates. Tt oppears to an outsider as if the peo- ple had taken the watter largely into their own hands and administered a severe rebuke to all factions. They hissed ex-Senator Moody when ho opn- posed instructing for Harrison but elected him a delegate; They likewis refused to give Governor Mellotte any prestige upon which to claim control of the patronage of the state by electinga delegation friendly to him. In other words the people simply asserted their own rights with an emphasis the poli- ticians ought not to forget, and the South Dakota delegation goes to Minne- apolis to help renominate Harriscn. SOUTH DAKOTA ANOTHER IMMIGRATION BILL. Senator Washburn of Minnesota has introduced in the United States senate a bill to regulate immigration. It is in some respects the most drastic measure that has yet been presented. One of its provisions requires that vessels bring- ing alien passengers to - the United States from foreign ports more than 2,000 miles distant shall give a bond of not less than $50,000. When Secretary Foster was in England he heard state- megts from steamship owners that it would not be practicable to give such a bond, and he was reported to have agreed with them. This plan is really aimed at the class of vesseis, known as “tramp steamers,” which are priuci- pally engaged in bringing Italian im- migrants, but it would necessarily have to apply to all vessels bringing alien pussengers to the United States, and would proye a hardship to the lines of European steamers which are now con- forming to the requirements of our laws. The bill also provides that every vessel engaged in bringing passengers from any foreign port to the United States shall pay a license tax equal to $1 for each passenger not a citizen, the money thus collected to be paid into the United States treasury as an immigrant fund to defray the expenses of regulat- ing immigration. A commissioner and a suitable num- ber of inspectors are to be appointed by the secratary of the treasury for each of the twelve ports of Europe from which the greatest number of alien immigrants have come to the United States during the period of three years ending Decom- ber 1, 1891, these officials to be subject to the authority of the United States consuls at those ports. This would furnish comfortable places for quite a corps of “‘public servants” without giv- ing much greater assurance of improve- ment in the character of the immigra- tion, The steamship companies and their agents are said to be now very careful and vigilant regarding the emi- igrants they allow to take passage for this country, and this safeguard against the coming here of undesirable immi- grants is supplied without any cost to the government. There is reason to be- lieve that it will continue to be effective 80 long as we maintain a strict enforce- ment of our laws. The meusure provides that immigrants shall make a writton declaration under oath prior to embarkation regarding themselves, among otherthings whether it is the intention of the immigrant to remain here permanently or reside here temporarily and then return to the for- eign country, If thisbill should become a law its effect undoubtedly would be to materially restrict immigration, but it is not equally certain that it would be any movre effective than existing laws, if properly enforced, in keeping out the objectionable clusses. — TUE vote in the house of representa- tives on the motion to lay the Bland silver billon the table gave Speaker Crisp an opportunity to go on record, and he improved iv by casting his vote with the free silver men and thereby saving the measure, Of course there has never been. any doubt as to where the speaker’s sympathios are. He was elected to promote the cause of free sil- ver coinage and he has been faithful to that understanding. His coming to the rescue, however, as he did, was a more emphatic expression of his solicitude for the cause of freo silver than was to have been expected. The large vote for tabling the measure was somewhat of a surprise, there having been a good deal of uncertainty as to what the repub- licans would do. The result shows that they are prepared to vote their convie- tions, regardless of partisun considera- tions which it had bean thought might lead them to do otherwise and throw the whole responsibility upon the demo- crats, Inthe course takon the repub- licans of the house have maintained the position of a large majority of their party in the country, and there can be o doubt of the wisdom of having done B SATURDAY, this. Thore must,bo no paltering os temporizing with o silver question at this time on \th' hatt of republicans. The rapublicanisipte conventions held thus far have deslarod for an honest dollar. A ropulflithn administration is opposed 1o the free and unlimited coin- age of silver. It lithe plain duty of the representatives 6f the party in congross who agreo with this view to sustain it by their votes whetevor the opportunity comes to them, 'Bvery consideration affecting the welfare of the country, if not the interests of the party, dictates this to be the proper courso. ous conditions under which territorial government must be main- tained is well illustrated in the casa of Avizona. She is obliged to await the slow processes of congrossional lagista- tion in order to refund her territorial debt though this wiil materially reduce her interest payments, While congress is debating the question the Arizonians are losing money. Kurthermore city and county governments are hampered and the progress of internal impro ments of great importance cannot be un- dertaken without the consent of con- gress. Nowonder every territory which is growing and possesses an ambition to develop its resources is anxious to cut loose from Uncle Sam’s leading strings. THEanom Tne sumonm court of Wisconsin has rendered a dovision that the late demo- cratic gerrymander in that state is un- constitutional, There is no ground for hoping that the demooratic state su- preme court will bo able to see any legal impediments to the enforcement of the Missouri gerrymander, how- over, notwithstanding the fact that the republicans potl 45 per cent of the total vote of the state and are given, under the new apportionment, hut one out of the state’s fifteen representu- tives in congr 7 Sir CHAR Turrer, Canadian high commissionor, is not much accus- tomed to testing the public pulse of America, otherwise he could not rossi- bly suspect that public sentiment in this country will not sustain President Har- vison in the seal controversy. Wedoa vast amount of quarreling among our- selves over here, but wh are close, con- fidential friends and allies when any other nation attempts to snub, insult or make war upon us. This fact ought to be patent to the high commissioner. WHEN Omaha .gots a direct lino via Superior and the; Santa e, or some other route, to ther southwestern cattle ranges, she wilt o able to bring the railway companiss now discriminating against her in fayos of Kansas City to a better under: smndm" of her demands for a chunce at Texas or Oklahoma. NEBRASKA manpufacturers have re- cently enjoyed soilarge a home trade that they are ptBtty hard pressed to keep up with tha demands for their gocds and therefore cannot just:at pres- ent attempt to introduce themselves to the Spanish Amerigan republics. e ALL this time whether we say any- thing about it or remain silent we are conscious of the injustice of the bridge arbitrary which our jobbing houses aro forced to pay on shipments into Iowa, FOREIGN diplomats will learn by ex- perience if no other way that America understands her international rights as well as her international duties after awhile. Imperinl Earritation. Philadelphic Inquirer. Emperor William’s ear acho may yet knock out another of the props that support the tottering thronoof absolute monarchy. shineseoytine Even Curtls Despairs, Harper's Weekly. The ifference of feeling in his (M. Clove- 1ana’s) party (since 1833, is so great as to make his nominatfon this year higbly im- probablo. Hugging & Delusion, Kansas City Times. ‘Tammany 13 no political fool and the 1ndi- cations now aro that the New York deloga- tion will vote for Cleveland on the first bal lot. The letter of withdrawal will be from Senator Aill, ntentment, New York World, There seems to be a certain amount of sound sense in the advice given to Chaucel- lor von Caprivi to drop his education bill and wait until he hears from the country. In othor words, the education bill is the same kind of a stumbling block in Germany as the sitver bill in this country, . e e Effoct of the Wisconsin Decision, St. Paul Globe. Gerrymandering doos not pay. Tho Ohio democrats when thoy last controlled tho leg- islature stole a march of this sort on the onem; d now the enemy, having the upper band again, has put thom to still worso con- fusion. Hopesty is the best policy in poli- tics, us in other thiegs, and oven if 1t wore not, 1t is the duty of the high-minded men wo observe it, e —— Dethroning King Cotton, San Frayaigeo Chronic Nothing 1o recopy, years is more romarka- ble than the dethrgujpg of King Cotton 1n the southern statesy/ For forty vears cotton has beon the groat suaple of Gisorgia, the chief source of t3_wealth, yot now many planters of that stato have decided to grow tobacco becauss thore is uo longer auy profis in raising cotton, The discovery of the phos- phate beds near C| SLON Was & godsend to southern planters, 1030 deposits furnishod a cheap and abuudiht fertilizer, and what no one counted ou wi enormous increase in the growth of cott culture in India, which nas set the vpricalldown lower than iv was ever known. - \wfi Imagination, New York Tribune. Among the wrongs and oppressions which the Delegate Huoter enumerated in his speech at Augusta as haviug boen brought upon the south by repubiican misrule was “'the low price of cotton.” By a singular co- incidence the report of the Agricultural de- partment on cotton preauction appaared in the same issue that gootained Hill's speach. It states with mathematical coidness that during the past cwo years this country has produced 2,000,000 bales of cotton in excoss of normal requirements, 1o consequence of which the price in Liverpool fell from 6 1-16 pence in January, 1890, to 4'¢ peace in Janu- ary, 1802 Was ths overproduetion occa- sioned by the wrougs aud nDpNuk-n of re- publican misrule! S Twonty More Kx-Convicts Barred. New Yous, Mareh 25 —Tweaty ox-'0un- viels from ltaly wero detained at £ilis island today. They admitled that they wera liberated felons aud were prowptly returucd. MARCH 26, 1892. OTHER LANDS TIAN OURS, The disadvantaze to the Giadstonians, writes n London correspondent, is apparent 10 any one who undorstands tho system for the registration of parliamentary voters. An old rogister alwavs tells most adversely against tho liberal party. They draw their support groally from the working classes, Tho middle oclasses form the backbone of the conservative party, the shopkeepers and keopors of public houses being almost invariably tory., These peoplo are mora permanent in a neighborhood than the working class eloctors, and no matter how Iate in the year or on how old a retister the election is taken, these psoplo are always to be found, and, without giving any trouble 1o tho clection managers, coma up to the polls 1o vote for thy tory candidats. It is alto- gother differant with tho working olasses. ‘They scatter more and mora as the year poes on, and put the election agents to groat troublo and much oxpanse to keop track ol them. This departmont of eloctioneering work is 50 important to tho liberal candi- dates that in all constituencies where the eloctioneoring agent is permauently in resi donce, and is at all worth his salt, the system for tracing removals is brought down to o science. Many of the twonty -four Gladstonian successes at the bye-oleotions since 1330 have been duo insoms degroo to the perfection with which tho system of tracing romovals has been worked. This work isa charge that falls comparavively lightly on the troy canditates while on their opnonoents it 18 alwavs hoavy, and, 1n the case of a geueral election, be- comes hoavier as tho year goss on. Tho Gladstonians at prosent greatly fear this serious disadvantage. They feel that the Irish local goverament bill, the Irish ele- mentary education bill and the small-hold- ings bi'l will not hoelp the government much in theindustrial constituencies, because none of the measures named direotly touch urban workingmen, but the latoness of the general election does touch them most directly. Under existing conditions » general olection in November would practicaily disfranchise thousands of the working class electors up and down the country. The situation is an awiward ono, but thera is a0 way out of it at prosont for the liberals, When *thoy are in power they wiil lose no time in amending the resignation iaws, meanwhile they must wait thoir time and compensate themselves for the dolay by putting in all the work pos- siole in the constituoncios and by thoroughly oducating the olectors as to the one great issue which they will be asked to determine when the election doas come, »*s The most suggestive feature of the con- troversy in which the German emperor is in- volved lies in the faot that both emperor sud chancelior are obliged to defer to popular sentiment with regard to a proposed measure of public policy. ‘Phero was a time when such antagonism would not have counted for anything, practicaily speaking, but that time has gone by in Germany, as in every other country. The spirit of constitutional liberty has beea spreading very rapidly in recent years, and the individuals who sit on thrones do not uave to disrozardit. In Germany, particularly, the people ars making them- solves felt in a degree that is very sigailicant and prophetic. Their will is practically de- cisive in general politics. Tuey are still ruled acoording to the monarchial ides, but that idea has boen materislly modified in their interest. It is no longor possible for the monarch to do as he pleases in tho exer- ciseof his imparial functions. He must con- sult the wishes of the masses inall impor- tant emergencies, and adjust his proceedings to suit pablic opinion, or o cannot succesd. A nhostile majority is fatal to any schomo that he may seek to. carry out. When it bo- comes apparent that tus psople do not in- dorse his views or purposes, he has to change or abandon them; ho canuot arvitrarily en- force them in defiunco of such opposition. ‘This is a great point gained for thu cauze of freedom, and other victories of liks mauning and value will bs won in the uear future. Gormany 1% not likely to becoms aropublic for many years; but she is cartain to bacome more republican every year in her sympa- thies and tendencies. »"s All that the young kaiser has said and done seams to indicato that it is bis confident be- lief that he can malke of himself a greater, grander historical figure than his illustrious family over gave to Germany. His mistake is that he believes he can do it upon the lines 1aid down by his predecassors: he is uaable to perceive tho growing spirit of democracy, especially as it is put in evidence in England and France, or even in (armiay in a lesser degreo. What ho really expects to do in his blindness is to impade the progress of oivil- ization, and, not content with that, to turn the hands of the clock of timo backwaras for 100 years or mora. Ho forgets that his great predecessors, even his grandfather, were only kings of a part of Germany until twenty years ago and mnot ‘em- poror of all of it. Tho victory over France united the German peoples, created the empire, and made possible an imperial throne. In Prussia the young em- peror might have madoe absoiutism possible foralong tim2 if he had governed it alone, but he cannot make it possible long in united Germany. Befors eithor he or his grand father becama emparos thore was a powerful popular sentiment favorable to representi- tive governmant. This sentimont has grown steadily, and during tha last five years it has had amazing growth. Tho emparor, by his unwise speechos and by punishing the news- papers for crivicising them, is not going to doerease, but increise, the very common de- mand in Garmany for larzer popular liborty. Hois constantly blundering from bad to worse in both what he says and does, * e It has been officially announced that the long panding negotiations betwaan the Hrus- sian government and the repraseitative of the house of Hanover havo rosulted io an agreement. The duke of Cumberland, on his part, renounces for himself porsonally all protensions to Hanover, which was annexed to Prussia in 1560, and also his claim to the unannexed duchy of Brunswick, to which he has a tatle by wboritance sincy tho death of the last duka. Toore is, also, it s0ems, a private understanding thut the son of tho duke of Cumberland shall on coming of ags renounce his claim to tho Hasoverau crowa, In consideration of thess coacassions Prus- sia will parmit tho younz priacs on the at- tainmeny of his majority to reign over the duchy of Branswisk, and will immediately restore Lo his father the so-calle Guelph funa, that is tosay, the private propsrty of the Hanoverian family which was sequestrated in 1883, This fund was originally estimatad at about 312,010,000, bat now, with ths acoa- mulated mterest, it amounts w uearly doublo that sum. No such reaunciation could ever have beeu obtained from the blind king, George V, who diad in 1873, afier making his successor, the present duke of Cumberland, pledge himseif never to forego his beredi- tary claims, In the war of 1863 Hanover did nothing more thau was done by Bavaria and other states which woare allowed to retain their indepsndence; that is to say, it ren- dered 8 half-hearted obsdienea to the order: of the confederate dist. Tne late king ba- lieved tha ingorporation of his kingdom with Prussia to be aa act of shaweless injustice, whieh would unquestionably be redressed in the next Kuropean war, He remem- bared that his dynasty had been de- prsed onge befora in the preseat century, only to be restored with incraased power and digoity. Ho refused to rogard the vecrostruction of Gerwany, effected in 1866 aad 1871, @3 toal, seeiuz that even tbe airingements made by Lhe cougress of Vienna, unacceptable as they were to the massof the German people, had lasted thirty throe years, and yot wore repudiated in 1848, As that system haa been long upheld by the vigilance of Metternich, so the new order might be hold together by the strong arm of Bismarck. The one regime no more than the other would be likely to survive the in- fluence of its creator, in the opinion of the Iate king of Hanover, aud 1t would, there fore, bo an act of sulcide not to keep the claims of his family alive. Tais conviotion was shared by a considorablo numbver of the Hanoverians, notwithstanding that they had no roason to love their last two sovereigns, who had offered the most stubborn resistance to tho povular demand for parliamentary in- stitutions. The truth is uot that the Han overians particularly love the Guelphs, but that they dotest the Hohenzollorns, Nor are the recont eballitions of overwoeeniog ar- rogance and almost insane contempt for pop. ular rights on the part of William 11 likely to reconcile them to their Prussian ruler. plasid e - odpaliay THE 10WA FOL Minneapolis Tribuno: By a strict vote tho Towa house has sent the Gatch county option bill to iis eternal rast. and now the resubmission bill, which has already passon tho house, will be' brought up_in the sounate. Meanwhile the quality of lowa whisky romains the same and the supply is amplo for all ordinary demand: Mianeapolis Journal: The Gateh bill was downed in the lowa house vesterday and with it all possivility of any lignor legisla- tion until the next legislature, The result will be that either the state must enforee the prohibitory law to the letter or let state wide probibition b a mere theory and not a coudition as it is now. The lattor will be the caso. Kansas City Star: The succossful efforts of Towa ropublicans in_tho logislatare in de- foating tho county option bill means con- tinued success for the democrats of that state. The peoplo of Towa have demonstrated for several yoars that a majority 1s dissatistied with geueral prohibition and tho ropublicans aro stuliifying themselves in not meoting the question in a practical w. arty CURS Eminent ¢ 1kers Discuss the Sit- merlen. Berriy, M Tho discussion in the American congress of the silver question has attracted much attention in Germany. The nowspapers nearly all agreo in tho belief that free silver would boa bad thing for the United States. Tho Associated press corre- spondent interviewed Dr. Koch, president of the Imperial bank, tho greatest financial in- stitution of Germany; Dr. Siemens, di- rector of the Deuche bank, the largest pri- vato banking incorporation in Berlin, having relations with American and other promi- nent bankers, with refarence to the effect of the proposed silver legislation in America. Dr. Koch said both Germany and Englana woula undoubtedly be willing to take purt in an intornational monetary conference, but felt positive that neither country would consent to a dimetallic basis, although Ger- many would doubtless consent to somo in- creaso in tho amount of silvor used. Except a few agrarians nobody in Germany dreamed of the demonetization of silver. Austria, which was changing from paper to gold, would not take un_ silver, and Sugland also knew when sho was well off. 1f Amevica adoptad free silver nobody thero would be benefited. Tho farmers would ro- ceive more for their crops, out silver dollurs would have less purchasing value and in the end they would be worse off. A change of currency is always bad, buva change to in- ferior currency would 1nfiict heavy losses, especially heavy on the country making it. “Tho continuous oxport of gold from America was a surpriso to Dr. Koch. Ho said it was probably due to a desire on the part of foreign holders to realizo on the high prices of American securitios. Dr. Siemens and other bankers hold similar views with Dr. Koch. Insane Fears of aSt, L to Attempt St. Louis, Mo., March 25.—-Max Phillips, o local. prominent musician, is probably dying hera from knife wounds inflicted because of a haunting foar causod by some oath he has taken in a secret society, which, he says, is the American Protective ussociation. He constantly watches for some ono to kifl him, saying ho has been warned ho would be de- stroyod bocausa his socioty distrusted him. Iuquiries have failed to explain the matter, though it is learned that the woud-bo sui- cido belongs to council No. 130f the American Protective association. Tho wounds, twenty 1n number, made upon himself, are in tho wrist and abdomen, and are likely to result in death. ———— Woman Killed by a Burglar, MitLevitie, Ga, March 25.—Louis ‘Williams, a negro, entered the house of Rev. S. C. Leonard, a Baptist minister, yesterday when all of the family were out. Mrs. Leonard returned home when the burglar was ransacking her room, and he attacked her with an axe, inflicting injuries from whioh she died. Willhams was oaptured and vlaced in jail. He will probably be lynched. Brother arth Wedding. Ricumoxn, Va,, Mm‘cl\ 25, —That portion of this city known as ‘“Africa” wasina whirl last night over the marriage of Rev, John Jasper of this city, the author of ‘“The. Sun-Do-Move' theory, and Widow Carey of his flock. She is his lourtn wife, Jasper is 80 years and his bride 39. The bride bas one child and four grandchildren, The wedding took place at the resides of the bride. MADE A BRIEF STOP. General Alger Visits Ymaha on His Re« turn from Callfornin. Genoral Russoll A, Algor and family came in at noon yesterday over the Union Paoifio from the west in the genaral's private car. They wore met at tho dopot by Mr. and Mrs { John M. Thurston, Major Clarkson, Dr, Stone and Captain Burmester of Omaha,and Mr. Georgo . Hopkins of Dotroit, a_spacial triend of General Alger. Carriages wore at once taken to the Thurston residence at Tienty-fourth and Farnam, whoro the guosts wore ontertained at luncheon and during the aftornoon. The party consists of Genoral and Mrs, Alger, Misses Frances and Fay Alger and two sons, Mr. Russell and_Froderick Alger. T mply stopped in Omaha for a fow hours rost, and will depart this evening for Chicago. General Alger said ho had nothing to sav in particular. His trip wost was in_connec. tion with his business interests and his fam- ily went along to enjoy the delights of a Cali- fornia wintor. Head of the G, AL R, ! Goneral John Palmer, commander-in-ohief of the Grand Army of the Republic, nassed through the city_yesterday on his way to Hot Springs, 8. D., whore te will rest and recreato for a wook. ‘ bkl — MURDERED AND CREMATED, » Fate of a Unlon Pacitic Rrakeman at Ogden While Intoxieatod, Oaoey, U. T,, March A conflagration occured in this city yesterday in what is known as the Grand Avenue lodging house, in which Dick Cowell, a Union Pacitic brake- man, was burned to a crisp. The remains were taken from the debris und wero a ghastly sight. It was developed at the cor- oner's inguest that tho death of Cowell was caused by foul play while under the infiu- ence of liguor and tho bullding was set on fire in order to avoid the disclosure of tho crime. The casois being investigated and the ovidence Is very strong against certain parties concerned. he only relative Cowell is known to have is & sister in Albany, N. Y. Lost Through n Speculating Deputy. St Pavr, Mion,, March The decision in the smit of tl county commissioners against Jay P, Davisand K. T. O'Connor was filed yostorday by Judge Oti The judge filed as the facts that Davis filled out the printed blanks, attested them with the seal of the court and had them audited, allowed, and then collected the money from the coun- ty suditor; also that the auditorand treasur- or had to ackrowledge the certificates wero fraudulent. Tho total secured was $24,552.50 and covered from 1887 to 1800, The juugo gives the counly judgment for the amount with 7 per cent interest from tho time paid out by tho treasurer. Tho actual loss on- tailed on R. T. O'Connor on account of the speculations of his deputy is about 10,000, - Peculinr Railros Wreck. Boxuay, Tex., March 25.—At Choctaw station, on the ‘exas & lacific rauway, about sixteen miles west of hero, a wost- Dbound freight train collided with an engine which was left standing on a switch too near the main track. The engine of the westbound train was thrown from the track, cavrying with it one box car, turning com- pletely over as it went down a steep om- bankment. Engineer A. K. Leight) 3 caught under tbo engine and had to be dug # out. His fireman, J. W. Keeler, was fatally injured. — Chief Redstone Wants to Soe, St. Pavr, Minn.,, March 25.—Chief Red- stone of the Assinaboino tribe, accompanied by C. A. Scovey of Fort I’eck, Mont., was at tho Merchants yesterday on his way to Chi- cago, where he will receive treatment for a cataractover his oyes. Redstona has been of great service to his tribe 1 inducing the Indians to lead a pastoral life, and this niove- ment shows the appreciation of theso ser- vices by sending him to Chicago for treat- mont. It is bolieved that his sight can bo restored. i Dose of Australian Just Mennovse, Australia,March 25 —Larkin, formerly secretary of the South Melbourne Building socioty, has been sentenced 1o six yoars imprisoninent, and Clear, another ex- oficial, of the organization, to four vears im- prisonment, for defrauding the society. Written for The Bee. Bryan had an old lamb story — Tts board was lonz and white, Tts hoad was bald, its back wus bent, 1t was a painful sisht: But it trotted on [rom yoar 10 your, Bleating with ail its might. With age its stiffoned Joints woro sore, Its pensive oye was dim. Byt still the young man stald by it, And stiil itstaid by hi ALt by st ol A ah And botn got the !lwilu." Then on to congress Bryan went, And. when he got the floor, Mo toddled that old story out To serve 1Ls Lurn onee *Twas poor, nnd blind, and lame and old, But 'twas his only store, Go off and wenp, Nebrask Your woes cono sltozet! alnilty. O'kolghan,” O Oh. l‘ hlor and Ob, Bryan! Whatever else you do, Let up on thatofd chestaut Aud give us somothing new ' luck, dry To a man Up a Tree--- . It looks very much as if we were going | to do the LxrgLst business | i | | | | Open Saturduys till 10 pom Otbier evenings LUl 6:30 | | BR[}WNING KING 8. W. Corner lalu and Douslas 3t this spring we've ever | done. But then youdon't |}~ have to climb a tree to | Aconvince yourself that our | spring novelties in suits | and overcoats are just ? what you want. neat and nice; meaare new, all the leading { colors, equal to tailor made, and the prices | within the reach of all. Browning,King & Co |S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas St Nobby, the styles i