Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1892, Page 4

i { ¥ 5 e e g T + New York, Roo 4 e THE OMAHA DAILY Bl MARCH DAILY BEE.| THE E. ROSEWATER, Epiton. — PUBLISHED [ OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. DailyBee (without Sunday) One Year... Daily and Sunday, One Year. hx M onths ... hiree Months, ... Eundny Hee, One Year. nturday Bee, One Yonr. yeekly Bee. Ono Year. OFFICRS Qmaha. The Beo Bullding. BouthOmuha, corner N nnd %th Streets Councill “]'l'l'"l. :Pl!lllll i:!.rr;;,.( - h 0 Office, 315 ¢ mber Jom! . Kow Yok tto 4and 15, Tribune Building treot. EVERY MORNING. - —rzoaSn 3 8% 23883 Washington, 513 Fotirteenth CORRESPONDENCE, y 1 nications reluting to news and foria ttor should bo nddressod te the ditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS A1l business letters and remittances shonld 1eaddressed to The B blishing Company. Omaha. Drafts, oheoks and postofiice orders 10 be mado payable to the order of the com- pany. Tte Bee Publismg UEII]]]HFIY. VPI‘OIVH"IBMP RN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Htato of Nebraska % County of Douglas. { N, P. Foll, business managor of Tho Beo Jublishine Company, does solemnly swear that the actual nqulnflnn of Tne DALY Bre for the week ending March 26, 1802, was as follows: Eundny. March 20, Mondny, Marob 210 Tueadny, March 52 Wodnesday, March 2. Thursday. March 24 Friday. March 25 .. Eaturday. March %, Average.. Bworn 10 Lefore me and_subscribed In my yrsntnrn 1his 26th day of ll;[rrll. A. D, 1802 % P. ROGAEN, Notary Publie. THE London 7¥mes is a genuine Bour bon so far as American affairs are con- cerned. thing. It never learns or forgets any- Tie relocation of 100 firo hydrants will give unprotected localities fire service without materially increasing the water bills of the eity. Rnope ISLAND is not as large assome counties in Nebraska, but if she goes republican by a good majority she will shine in the firmament of states like Jupiter in the heavens when that planet is the morning star. Tue conuvracts for lighting fixtures nre suspended in mid-air by the action of the council. The quickened con- seiences of some of the member8 revolt at the iden of expending uvver $18,000 for what should cost no more than $10,020. JUDGE BREWER'S decision declaring that the Union Pacific may not legally lease its telegraph lines to the Western Union is a decision of considerable con- sequence in this western country. Its full text will be awaited with a great deal of interest. ProPLE who signed for rotten block pavements have only themselves to blame if they are required to pay for keeping these blocks in repair so long a8 they will last. It is bud enough that the city at large has to pay for keeping the intersections 1n repair. THE Fourth ward should receive some consideration at the hands of the city council. Tt is a fairly respectable ward in the matter of population and weslth. A part of the intersection fund for pav- ing, guttering and curbing should be awarded to the Fourth ward. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW has made many great and eloquent addresses; but nono that are more finishea and readable to patriots than that delivered Tuesday night in Albany at the memorial exer- cises in honor of the late General Sher- man, published in full in THE BeE of yesterday. THE spectacle of 150,000 citizens hold- ing up the hands of the mayor and city attorney in a wrestling match with a giant “‘octopus,” as pictured in a Fake Factory pavagraph, is thrilling indeed, all the more so because of the difficulty of wrestling with ‘‘octopi” with both hands held up. THE controversy us to whether the chest of powder was carried from the Ames building at Sunday morning’s fire by firemen or volicemen has gone far enough. It was a daring deed in either instance but the doers thereof probably had no thought that it would become ~ cause of ill-feeling between the two excel- lent departments for protection of iife and property. It 18 understood that the threatened litigation over the will of the late Byron Reed will not affect his bequest to the city for a librury building. Neverthe- less the taxpayers of Omaha would fael a trifle more confident about the matter if n deed in escrow ware executed by the heirs, conveying the Reed lot to the city 1n absolute fee. — Tue sale of the park bonds need not be hustened. This largo block of city securities should be thrown upon the market after the absolutely necessary funds have been realized. The park lands are not increasing in price and the city is saving over $1,600 per month by taking her time, to say ncthing of a possibility of further reductions in the _prices of land offered. e ’ WALT WHITMAN'S poetry will not be remembered as long by his fellow aiti- zens as his unselfishk devotion to wounded and dying union soldiers on the battle- fields of the rébellion. His poetry is good, bad or indifferent, according to the reader’s preconceived notions of what poetry should be. His patriotism ‘was pure and unselfish. There can be but one opinion of that. — CONGRESSMAN DOLLIVER, the young man eloquent of Iowa, delivered aspeech in the house on the tariff question Tues- day which it is stated riddled Brilliant Billy Bryan’s harangue 1oto tatters. The Nebraskan stood tne fire bravely for a time, but before the Iowa repub- lican had finished his addvess crept out of representative hall. He felt that a moment had come when ho should be alone, A CHANCE T0 ECONOMIZE. Since 1879 congress has made an an- nual appropriation for “‘special facili- tiv in thé transportation of the maiis by railroad companies. The approprin- tion for the current fiseal yoar is in round numbers 000,000. The post- master general, in his estimates for the next fiseal year, omitted this nllowance, for the reason that he thought no oe- casion exists for perpetuating the pre- ferentinl method whereby a limited number of railroads would be paid both ordinary and special transportation and full car compensation, while other rail- ronds, porforming precisely the same character of service, can be allowed nothing more than the compensation which the postoffice dapartment is by statuto permitted to pay for ordinary transportation, The fact appoars to be that this special facility pay isasort of subsidy which has been given principally to what is known as the Atlantic Coast Line. This consists, in general terms, of lines bo- tween New York and Port Tampa, Fla., and carries the Cuban mails. Not one other of the hundreds of railroads in the country receives any part of this special facility allowance, and the subsidized Coast Line has been for years influentinl enough to prevent the cutting off of this oxtra compensation. This discrimina- tion was pointed cut by the postmaster general last year whon he left out of his estimates $100,000 of this subsidy, but the roads had the money a) propriated just the same. It remains to be seen whether they will be again successful this year in inducing congress to prac- tically present them with nearly $300,000. Postmaster General Wanamaker, in a letter to Chairman Henderson of the house committee on postoffices and post- roads, states that the continuance of the special facility allowance has for some years past been the source of much an- noyance to the department, and has hampered the best interests of the mail sorvice, because railroads operating in contiguous territory, and to some extent paralleling the roads which receive the extra pay, object to rendering equally good or quicker schedule mail service except they be paid corresponding rates. They ask that all be treated alike. The practice of compensating u few railronds upon a higher basis than others render- ing the same or moro satisfactory serv- ice has been the source of much annoy- ance, which each year becomes more perplexing to the department and hurt- ful to the general service, becnuse it acts as a check to the extension of the fast mail systom in sections where it would work great benefits. The depart- ment, in endeavoring to do business with all the other railroads and secure liberal treatment from them, is always confronted with this continuous dis- crimination in favor of the few. Therc can be nodoubt that this special facility allowance ought to be stopped. The reasons for this given by the post- master general are conclusive. The demceratic house professes a desire to economize, and here is one good oppor- tunity for it to do so. ESTIONS TO BE ARBITRATED. The Bering sea arbitration treaty proposes five questions to be passed upon by the court of arbitrators, which will'be Held in Paris. The first question relates to the exclusivo jurisdiction and rights arserted and exercised by Russia in Bering sea and the seal fisheries prior and up to the time of the cession of Alaska to the United States, and the second matter of inquiry is as to how far the Russian claims of jurisdiction as to the seal fisheries were recognized and conceded by Gieat Britain. The que: tion whether Bering sea was included in the phrase, “*Pacitic ocean,” as used in the treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Russia, and what rights, if any, in the Bering sea were held and exclusively exercised by Russia after said treaty, is tho subject of the third inquiry; and the fourth question is as to whether all the rights of Russia as to jurisdiction, and as to the seal fisheries in Bering sox east of the water boundary, did not in the treaty between the Unitea States and Russia of March 80, 1867, pass unimpaired to the United States under that treaty. The fifth question .is as follows: Has tho United States any right, and if so what right, of protection or property in the fur soals frequenting the islands of the United States in Bering sea when such s2als are found outside the ordinary three-mile limit? These questions embrace the entire contention of this government. The claim of the United States is that Rus- sin asserted and exercised exclusive jurirdiction over the waters known as the Bering sea and the seal fisheries therein, and hat this jurisdiction had had never been questioned by Great Britain. That being the case, this gov- ernment contends that when the United States purchased Alaskafrom Russia all the rights of the latter us 1o jurisdiction and ns to the seal fisheries passed into the possession of this government unim- paired. - The nrbitrators will probably have very little difficulty in establishing the fact of the'exercise by Russia of ox- clusive jurisdiction in Bering sea up to the time of the cession of Aluska to the United States, the evidence on that point being practically undisputed, but the question as to whether the United States succeeded to the jurisdiciion and rights exercised by Russia must be de- cidea upon principles of internationnl law. There is strong argument on both sidos of the question, but it may as well be admitted that the probabilities are against an international tribunal giving the Unitedl Siates exclusive jurisdiction over so lurge an area -of wator as the Bering sea, which is larger than the Mediterranean. At the outsev of the controversy this government maintained that the Bering was a closed sea, but this claim has been abandoned, and now the conteution simply is that us IRussia exercised exclusive jurisdiction over these waters, the treaty which trans- ferved Aluska to the United Stades car- ried with it ulso the vights and jurisdic- tion which had been up tothav time conceded to Russia. This government claims the right of property inthe fur seals frequenting the islands of the United States in Bering sen when such seals urefound outside the ordinary three-mile lunit, and the arbi- trators will determine whether it has such right It wiil not bo surprising if | -ditions upon which the lands were the declsion is ndverse to the olaim, al-| though the arguments which this gov- | ernment has advanced in support of it : certainly mako o strong ease. 1 PROTECTION AND THE TRUSTS. There isa vast amount of insufferablo rot afloat regarding the effect of tho tariff upon commercinl conditions. Your average democratic free trader charges everything from bad crops to trusts to the republican taviff. He chooses to imagine that the pooplo are foolish cuough to follow. his fallacious style of pointing out the effoct and then nam- ing a cause regardloss of the relation of | one to the other. The fact is t trusts are no more dependent upon tariff laws than the weather. There is no import duty upon petroleum, yet the Standard Oil company is the most successful and gigantic trustthe world has ever known. The English free trader understands this fact. While the American free trader is endeavoring to prove that the protective tariff is promoting.the forma- tion of combinations in this country the English free trader is just as earnest in his efforts to prove to the people of that nation that protection cuts no figure, because trusts flourish in England as well as in America. The late Prof, Rogers, who is a well kaown writer on economic subjects in Great Britain, in a series of lectures delivered in 1888 and 1889, says: I have never yet heard, in modern times at least, of one man or any association of men being able to dictate the terms under which o freo industry shall bo carried on, and a oricesecured to the regulated nroduce. Of course, 1f tho state confers a monopoly by patent the prico can ba seoured to tho patentoe, being that at which ho is able to undorsoll successfully all producers under & common and old process. But the monopoly afforded by protoction doos not offect an ox- altod profit. As long as the government does not go to the length of protecting indi- vidual producers and atlows the area which it fonces for the industry to be open to all, tho inevitable tendency of profits to an oquality 1s sure to do its work. I very much doubt whether the profits obtained by the New England cotton spinners and woolon weavers and the reputed gains of the Penn- sylvania iron masters aro duo to the aid which the government gives them by a pro- tectivo tariff, Tae population of the United States increases at an enormous rate, mainly by immigration, There is consequently an ever increasing body of local consumers, whom the cost of freight and the habit of the market bind to the domestic producer. And if there bo any truth in the complaints about the cotton and woolon trades, domestic competition has reduced profits {n New Eng- land as fully as in the old country. TAKING POSSESSION OF HER OW Mayor Bemis and City Attorney Con- nell are to be congratulated by citizens genorally for taking the bold step of fencing in the lands north of the old water works pump house claimed by the Union Pacific railway company but bo- lieved to be the property of Omaha. The course pursued puts the burden of proof upon the corporation and gives the city the advantage of actual possession, un- less the work of inclosing the tractis stopped by injunction. In such case the company is forced to set up its title and the issue can be early made up for final adjudication. The fact is that the Union Pacific has 1o portion of its lines on the land adja- cent to that in dispute except side tracks and a spur to B1st Omaha. The con- do- nated to the company have never hsen fuifilled and the city has apparent rights there which should be asserted and defended until the courts have de- termined the facts. The doctrine of accretion is an oid one, but the question has never been passed upon, we understand, inthe shape which is presented herein. The enstern hound- ary of the city of Omaha is the center of the channel of the Missouri river. There is some reason to beliove therefore that aceretions on that boundary will become the proparty of the city aud not of indi- vidual lot owners owning property adja- cent to the bank of the river. At all events there is merit enough in the claim to warrant cavrying the question into the courts. This phase of the con- tention is independent of the claim for a restoration of the blocks and lots condi- ionally conveyed to the railway com- pany and, as we understand it, the steps taken by the street commissioner in fencing the disputed tract are a part of the plan of asserting claim to the ac- cretions. T'he importance of the land in ques- tion, which is about 200 acres in extent, cannot well bo overestimatea. It is the key to the entrance of the city from the north. 1t is well worth fighting for and no doubt the legal battle will be fought out with persistence and vigor on both sides. If the decision be favorable to the city it will form a precedent for re- claiming other lands and lots also of great value. Tue course of the politicians who are in controi of the government of Cunada is beginning to urouse a sentiment of hostility to them in England. The com- ment of the London 7imes on the colo- nial situation, manifestly intended to upply cspecially to Canada, undoubtedly reflects a growing sentiment in England. While the public men of that country do not openly declare their feeling regard- ing the conduct of Canadian political leaders, in private they do not hesitate to express tho opinion thut Cannda is a troublesome nuisance. The difliculty is thut the men who are at the head of af- fairs in tho Dominion are bitter etemies of the United Stutes, and as long as they continue in control there wiil ba danger of disturbance of the relutions botwoen Evgland and this country. The high | commissioner of the Dominion in Kug- land, Sir Charles Tupper, cordiully hates the United States, and such a man close tothe ear of a tory p-ime minister is capable of doing a great deal of mischief, It is well that the British public is be- ginning to see and understand the true state of things. If it should go deep enough into the matter to learn the real nature of Canadian motives it would hardly fail to demaad of the British gov- ernment at least a less implicit conti- dence in Cunadian representations and a less ready willingness to comply with | Canadian wishes. The lutest experience ought to have, and it seems very likuly will have, the effect té somewhat lessen | the influence of the Dominion politieians with the imperial government. At the swmne time this country has hud another | lesson in Can, not to be altogot] enmity which ought r unprofitable. FREE coinngofs n ghost which will not stay down wl aftar the election, a8 the democrats forvently hope. ] A Yollow Knock Out. Newsg Oommerelal. Gold has urnrnmc first knock down. But there is no tolling at silver wiil do when it toes the mark nother round. -— o Swaliow. Philadelphia Times, The sugrestion to make Senator Platt of New York into a successor to Ministor Reid is eaough to drive President Harrison to drink. & e gl A Farewell Squeal, Rochester Post. Roger Q. Mills refuses to loave the house of ropresentatives untl he can doliver a speech on the tavift. But, really now, isn’t this carcying animosity too far! Cannot Roger afford to bo generous after having won a seat in tho senato! e il A Premature Prophecy. Phitadelphia Record. Senator Hill says ne is not a candidate for vice president, He has not long to wait to find out that he is not a candidate for the presidency. “Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voico in the streets.”” David will hear from hor. ot SR A Grenat State Debtless, Philadelphia Inquirer. Today Pennsylvania 1s praotically free from debt. Hor once large state dabt has been noarly wipedeout. 'Lhe small balance has been provided for and if she pald every dollar she owed she would have a surplus of nearly £3,000,000 left. This result has beon achieved by the ro- publicon perty. In 1861 the public dobt of Pennsylvania wus £38,000,000. Of this amount more than $20,000,000 was overdus. The democratic party had not only not pro- vided for its payment; they could not see any way to pay it. In 1850 tho state treasurer traflicked in the dishonor of the state for tho state's profit and made $4 by purchas ing $340,000 of the depreciatod stato loans. id In the South. Nashville American. Mr. Hill may ba o groat man in & state where great men have been rarer than in the south, and his statesmansbip may be ap- plauded by people less ncquainted with real statesmen than are the southeru peovle, but he certainly is no groat man among our people. Tenuessee has many, less experi- enced perhaps in thé arts which Mre. Hill's ad- mirers proudly call political diplomacy, out which really constitute political trickery, but better informed in the principles of upright democracy and more courageous to sacrifice. the advancement of self to tho welfare of party. Georgia can name dozens of her sons who are worthierf tban this shrewa and suc- cessful New Yorker to wear the shoes of Ar.- draw Jackson, and so can Texas, Mississippi, Kentucky and other southern states. eyt Cwaat Cult lw Chleago. Chicggo News. Among other admirabla features of the work now being done 1n this citv under the direction of Mr. Bhepdore Thomas is the in- troduction of the pihn of publishing on con- cort programs anglytical and descriptive com- meats upon the misic to be performed. The scheme is well enpugh, but somebody should atonce call Mr. Thomas’' attention to the weird manner in which it is occasionally put into execution. a.iv The latest program, for instance, contains a poworful rhapsodic paragraph on the eighth symphony of Beethoven. The following is un excerpt: **We have to fuorego the beautiful adagio in which the soul vearns for the ecstasies of love and soul-statc No. 1 meets soul-statc No. 2 on an ethereal chord of tha diminished seventh, for there is no adagio—not cven a vulgar andante.” Since there is no adaglo, upon what esoteric information does the writer afiirm that adagio soul-states Nos. 1 and 2 are in the havit of holding their coufabs while precari- ously roosting on the soft, ethoreal chord of the diminished seventh—like cherubs hop- plng on the thin edge of a cloud? Why, since there is no adagio or vulgar andante, does be say anything about itatalli Why expati- ate on tho baanties of something tnat is not? Wy, further, does he expect audiences of intelligent people to benefit from reading such remarks? Of all arts musioc is the one niost cumbered with gushing ‘‘criticism”. The instance quoted is but a specimen, In the behalf ot art lot Mr. Thomas, who is probably not in any way responsible for this writing, lnsist that tho yearning, passionate soul of his program writer clambor down from the otheroal and restrict itself to the elucidation of facts. —_— COMES OFF THE PERCI Globe-Democrat: Premier Salisbury 1s backing down, reluctantly and ungracefully, perhaps, but he is backiug down, Chicago Tribune: Lord Salisbury is not such a bad man if you ooly know Low to take him. And Mr. Harrison seems to know how to take him. Chicago Newa: Webelieve that the British lion is mbout ready to stop rouring and quictly lap milk fron the saucor in which obn Bull usually feeds it. . Globe-Democrat: The Canadian poachers will have to kecp away from tho seal fisher- ies whether the arbitration treaty is ratitiea ornot. This 1s ono of the large and signifi- cant facts that Lord Salisbury should keep steadily in mind while he s pettifopeing aboutthe alloged rights of those law-brealk- ing individuals, Chicago Heratd: It is simply a case of mo- nopoly against piracy. It is not a national contention for national rights. There is not involved any principle affecting tho honor or self-respect of tho Awerican people. TLord Salisbury and the president will go on bluff- g until both weary of the folly, Then they will devise another relerence to arbitrators, ana we shall meanwhile have no war, e BLASTS FROM RAM'S HORN, pert A bad reputationssa hard thing to loso, As 5000 as we forana bablit we have a mas- ter. An ovil thougnt, js tho mother of an evil doed, Going to heaven o iness. The man who tties to ot to heaven ou stilts will havo a a0 many tumbles, It hoad proachingcould save the world the devil would have heog used up long ugo, Men who pray 1% earnest always have | & tombstone is risky arms long enouzh td'ohon windows in heaven. All the scionce hi'the world can't make a mean man feel at Lomo in a prayer meet| If angels hear allythe preaching that dono on earth, thoy just wonder what some | men aro driviLe at,’ Among the vreat'tifals that a woman has to undergo, is to have a now bonnet in the houso vn a rainy Suatlay. £ is ¢ e THESE MUDDY DAYS, Somereille Jowr ial. 1 hoso muddy duys l ndevious ways Suburbans 0 o winder, And on the brink Puuse oft and th'nk How 10 get over yonder. Tha Ladies 1itr Their skirts with swift And-ragmetimos-gricerul moto They pick their way s best they may, Like sallors 04 the ocean They hop. sud skip, And siide, and sii And Juinp, When nesessury; Thore's no dellght And 50 oach mnan As hest ho can h Tries nok to £ot--0h, shocking e As dafuty fooc 'ri)) 4 w0 the stroot A slimpse of shajoly st-ck g I HOW THE INDIANS ARE USED Some Lively Discussions in the Senate on the Subjeot. ADVANTAGES OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM Why Army Ofcers Would Not Successfally et the Business of the Agencles— Views of Westorn Senntors in Ref- erence to the Change. Wasnixarox Bureau or tne Ben, % FounrTERNTH STREET, Wasnivaroy, D, C,, March 30. Senator Manderson today reviewed the conditions at Pine Ridgo, and especia those facts of former ill treatment and ne glect of the Indians in the matter of sup plies and furnishing thoj provisions, that has been well known and published in Tar Ber. He dwelt more especially upon the specific items of the bacon contract which had been rejected by Captain Penny, tha army officer assigned to Pine Ridge and who was afterwards sucooedod by Cap- tain Brown, who took the same course. He reforred to the fact that the army officers would not issue 120,000 pounds of bad bacon, although it had been passed by the Indian inspectors in Chicago, and the officers ap- pealed even from the decision of the Indian office to the secretary of the interior. Senator Manderson maintained that the civillan agent would have issued the bacon and obeyec orders, and would not have taken the chance of having his official head cut off. The venerable Senator Dawes, chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, made ref- orence to ‘‘the deplorable condition of affairs al Pino Ridge,” but he also paid a high tri- bute to Agent McLaughlin at Standing Rock, who had been twenty years in the Indian service. Ho said that under this new regu- iation ho too would huve to go at the expira- tion of his term. The statements in the report of the Sioux commission rela- tive to the ill treatment of tho Indians and the manner in which their goods have been furnished was referred to. Ho sald the gov- ernment would have no financial recourse, for while the civiiian aents are compelled to mive bonds, the army agents would give no ponds at all. Not Prepared for the Service, The army officers did not care to be agents and would not, of course, try to give satis- faction as agents, If an army agent should oo hanled up for bad management. or dishon- esty he could enter aplea of ignorance, or adaptability and he could not Le held ac- countablo, as men who enter the army take the oath, and are educated to perform military services, which Indian work of this charactor1s not. * Since this is true and tho ofticer has i voice in an assignment outsido of his line of duty as a soldier, no court-mar- tial would convict a military agent, for mal- feasance. Senator Pottigrew had some very vigorous and original ideas on the subject of the in- spection of Indian agencies wuich were not altopether complimentary to the in- Ho declared that the ores- pections were of no account whatever, It was nbsurd to detail an army officor to inspect an Indian agency. There should be a chaunge of inspoctors at each agency every time thero was an inspection. Ho ripped up the frauds of eastern contract- ors who suppiy rotten or shoady blankets, light weight or tough meats and inferior foods of all kinds. ‘Turning to the charges, in a recent speoch of his colleague, Senator Kyle, in which it was alloged that there were gross frauds and corruption on the partof South Dakota Inaian agents and the men now occupying those nositions were simply the tools of politicizns who were given the places as a pursonal re- ward for personal favors, Senator Pettigrew Jirst denounced tne representations of fact as oeing utterly and wholly devoid of any truth, Accused Kyle of Malice, He broadly intimated that Senator Kyle was prompted by malice in making his state- ments. Ifthe statements of Mr. Kyle were true, it was that gentleman’s duty as o citi- zen to call the attention of the courts of South Dakota to them, as no state had better Ccourts or Lh0se more eager to doul swift Jus- tice to just such conditions and the men re- sponsible for them than South Dakota. ‘‘Yes,” said Senator Pettigrew, “it is true as charged by my colleaguo that the South Dakota Tudian agents are men of political in- fluen It is true also that they are my frienas. I make ita voint to select men for office whenever I can who have influenceand who are republicans. When 8 man has in- fluence it is an indication he has friends, that he is respected, and whon he is selocted as a republican he ts sure to be taken from among thte best class of citizens in the country aud to represent the majority. I presume that should a demo- cratic president be elacted, my colleague would go to that president and recommbnd for those places deémocrats, thatis unless he sought men of no political intluence—those in the minority party—in which event he would 20 to extremes and recommend republicans, and get, the best men in the state,” Senator Pettigrew’s speech attracted close attention and had its effects. It is believed that the provision to turn over the agoncies to army officers will bo stricken out of the bill, Senator Paddock opposes the proposition to make army ofticers Indian agents and Sen ator Manderson favors it. Tho latter spoke for the provision in the bill after Senator Pettigrew took bis seat, Hpoke from Personal Experience, During the consideration or the ludian ap- propriation bill Senator Pettigrew opened another broadside againsy that feature of the measure inserted in the houso whicn turns all of the Indian agents over to the army ofti- cers, Senator Pettizrow has spent the bot- ter portion of his life among In- di; is o member of tho committee on Indian affairs ana spoke from a personal knowledge of ho'y indian agoncies aro con- ducted. He said that if the agoncies were placod iu tho hands of army officers thers would be no restraint whateéver and such a thing as su nspection would be kmown no more. 1t was in violation of a most emphatic privciple of army discipling to cast veproach upon an_ofiicer by sending a civilian to inspect his office, while t have an inspection by an army ofcer was tho samo thing s having no inspeotion atall, He made the oficer inspoct his own offices. Ho observed that through tho ras- calines of the Indiau 1nspector, or some of them, tho nawe ‘“Indian inspectors’ had be- come synomonous with all that was dis- honest and rascally, while as a matter of fact it was not vossible for an Indian ugent 10 bo officially dishonest. The contracts were ade by higher officers thau tho agents and were generally given to eastern con- teactors, the friends of men in congress who were striving to make army officers agents. No Re arse on Army Ofticers, At present an Indian agent was subject to removal if ho did not give satisfacuon, but such a thing would not be possible if tho agent was an army officer, The Indians nor e peopie divectly intorosted would have no recourse upon an arimy officer as ngeut, “Tho poor quality of goods will probably be brought out quite thoroughly 1n this - discus- sion.” Senator Manderson made the state- ! ment that it “took oniy a few yoars for In- aisn agents on & salary of $1,800 u year to amass a fortune.” ‘e implication clearly being that the agent and inspector were paid by tho coutraciors to pass bad goods to the Inaions when the contracts called for first SEURALGIF» @ured Eobis0iL% clas ‘Thore is liablo to be consider- able fun in the matter beforeit is over. Later in the day Senator Kylo unaertook to roply to Senator Dawes and was vory much sat down upon. He wished to impress upon the senate what ho kuew about Indian affairs from nis lifo in the Rocky mountains and by fnsiuuation made the broad and swoep- ing charge that there was nobody in the Indian service who was honest. This, of course, was absurd upon the face of it, and Senator Dawes had an easy time 1n showing the falso vosition of the South Dakota “Indecrat.” Senator Collom for Harrison, Senator Shelby M. Cultom of Iilinois is not apresidential eandidato and rofuses to have his name used farther for the nomination. He is out in favor of the nomination of Pres- ident Harrison. Tonight Senator Cullom addressed a lotter to ex-Mayor Roche of Chl- oago in which he savs the people scem to demand another term for President Harri- son and he desires his own namo shall not be used further for the nomination. He be- lieves a good administration should be appro ciated, and all things considered, ho regards the present incumbont as the strongast man the party can place at the hoad of its tickot. It was the intention of Serator Cullom till now to do nothing to accellerato his presi- deatial boom and nothing to choke it off, but. ho lLias como to the conclusion, after tho meetingof soveral county conventions in Tllinofs, that his state, or at least a goodly portion of it, favors a continuance of tho present administration, ana as a good repnb- lican, desiring party success before personal aggrandizement, ho would do nothing or por- mit nothing in his power to bo left undone to secure party success, He therofore recom- mends his friends to stand by President Harrison, Tho retiroment of Senator Cullom leaves but one open aspirant in the way of a renom- ination by acclamation, and that is General Alger. It is belioved in Washington that President Harrison's renomination by acela- mation is assured. They Favor Boles for President, Frank F. Emerson of Omaha is at the St. James. Hon. Matt Kean of Lawler, Ia., a democrat, is here and says: ‘‘Governor Boies has mado such a fino record that we want to_see him nominatea for prosident, Town has boen gotting more democratic all the time on the prohibition issue until tho repub- licans can no longer lay claim to1t. Outside of Governor Boies we have no special prefer- ence, but will go to the man that seems to stand the best show. In my judgment it would be folly to choose either Hill or Cleve- land, but Governor Flower might suit admir- ably'as a compromise candidate.” Miscellaneous, Upon the recommendation of Senator Pettigrew, William F. Bushunell, owner and editor of the Dakota Farmer, pubiished at Huron, 8. D., will be appointed a statistical agent of the Agricultural department. The South Dakota _congressional delegation agreed upon Mr. Bushnell as the man for the place. The appoiutment will be made st once, Representative Jolley today introduced bills to pension John H. McLaughlin, t5ou- zillai Morlan and Thomas W. Thompson of South Dakota. Towa postmasters were appolnted today as follows: Churchvill, Warren county, J. W. Linnamann, vice J. E. Churchman, resigned; Dorrough, Warren county, S, E. Walrus, vice J. T. Boohn, resigned; ' Klugstad, Ham- ilton county, O. D. Peterson, vice M. H. Murphy, deceased; Grafton, Worth county, L. C. Thompson, vice J. K.& signed. —— ¥. M. C. A. Notes. Tho younger members of the organization have organized a bicyclo club with twelve members and have elected R. Wood captain, G. Purvis lieutonant, F. W. Lake sergeant, aud F\. D. Korr secratary and treasurer. Tho boys are expected to make some fine runs this summer. The Kuockabout club meot Waednesday afternoon at5 p. m. and will (in thelr minds) take a trip across the oceann. Tho subject which will engage their attention next Wednesday will be **An Ocean Steamer and Its Fittiogs,” and the following week Sights to be Seen from Its Decks in Cross- the next, “A Storm at Sea,” “\Vhat May Bo Scen at the Bottom of the Sea.” The club will take some tramp's aboit 1he country as soon us the walking is good. Secretary Over is tho leader of tho club. \ thursday evening the newly organized chess club meets again. A number of new applications for memborship have boon ro- ceived, and the prospects are that the club will become quite large. Reserved scats can now ba had for the magoiticontly illustrated lecture on tho “Yosemite and National Parks,”” by Colonel Daniels Thursday evening. Next Ssturday night Dr. George L. Miller will deliver an addvess upon “Fifty Years in Omaha.” He will notonly dea! with tho pro- gress and development of Omaba in the past, but will also attempt to pull aside the veil of the future aud picture some of the things that the people of Omaba may reasonatly ex- pect to take place within the next two de- cages, Or. Sunday afternoon Hon. J, M, Wool- ‘worth will address the men’s meeting at 4 o'clock, taking for his subject *‘Rocks in Busiuess Life.” The American History club will discuss the revolutionary period this evening. Colonel Churles Bird will take charge of the young wen's meetings on Friday even- ings Tor the month of April. Dean Garduer will deliver the opening ud. dress at tho Young Men's Christian associa- | tion district convention at Columous, on April 8. Instruct: Wiy e, Kv., March 30. ~The repub- lican convention for the Kighteenth district and ot met hero and elected Daniel Davi ‘(fl' - Macune delegatos to the Minneapolis " tion and instracted them to vote for Mu.gq son. < ROY LTY D OIL, Albert Edward to Have Connected Himsolt With pe Line Company, Pirrsnuno, Pa,, March 30.—Another pipa line from the westorn Ponnsylvania oil fields to tho scaboard is contempiated. The new lino is to be built with Eaglish capital, It is said titled royalty has a hand in the en terpriso and will own & big block of stock, [ The membor of the roval family of Englana [ who will figure conspicuously in the ocom J monplace business of pibine: oil Is his roval § highness Albert Edward, prince of Walos and tho future king of England. Ulosoly as- sociated with the prince will ba Mr. Wilson of Tranby Croft, who will also invest exten- sivelv in the lino. Besidos theso illustrious gentlomen, Knglish eupitalists are interested in tho venture and will back it with English gold, The capital stock of tie company is to oe £2,000,000. A charter hus already been taken out in the state of New Jersey by Mr. Wilson, and the line is to be called ‘the Bog- lish Pipe Line compa ¥ The agents of tho contemplated company Are now out along the route undmvurlnfim secure the right-of-w: The proposed lino parallels the new Crescent line throughout western Pennsylvania to its terminus near the city of Philndelphia. It is estimated that the line will cost not less than 3,000, ° 000. It will be a six-inck line, and it is to be equipped with the vest duplex pumps used for forcing ofl through the pipes. There" are to be six pumping station As s00n as tho trunk line is completed, it is tho iatention to extend branch l*rq into West virginin and eastern Ohifo. 'The 1ino Is to be as completo s the last soaboara } ling built by the Standard, and it is to be ready o pipe oil beforo twelve months have rolled around. The oil is to be loaded upon tank steamers and carried to E;l(fln‘_d, ‘where the orude articlo 1s to be refin ho 0B~ tracts for the steamoers have nlready been let and aro to be completed by the time tho ipe line is finshed. The refineries are to 0 built near Liverpool, that they may be oasily accessiblo to the stoamers, 4 Jagged, Cut and Jugged, £ A drunken man was found in the mud bya 4 shed near Twenty-first and Plorce streets about 7 o'clock last evoning with a long--" deep gash bebind the right ear. Tho cut was evidently made with a razor or very sharp knife. " The man was taken to the city jail and Dr. Townoe called to sow up the wound. Tho patient was then booked as Johin Doo and locked up, as ho was still too drunk to give his name. praifotsse IR MILD MERRIM T, Chicago Herald: appoared upon the head and bod negro down in Georgla Inst your, and the fle good price. This thing aleKinloy's time. A thick cont of wool ling . bringing. never hubpened before Minneapolis Times: Managor at the Dime— ell. whatare thoyifighting about now? Attendant—The Cardiit glant used the rub- ber man to crazo an entry in his diury and threatons to bounce the rubber man torkiok- ng. New York Horald: Itmay seem an achronis- tic, but it has been suspected latoly that tho king who shouted: ““A horse. a horse—my kingdom for a horse!” wus in reality u passan- zor on un Alabama railroad. Judge: Sumbo— Mose Washington, I yerd a foltn insultin’ yo dis muwnin'—sayin' dat yo had freckles. : Wha Mose—Who's got frockles! Deom uin' freckles, dey's warts, 1 got, freck- Tos! Whero I do insultin’ rascal? Somervillo Journai: The mun who has never neoded to have any _tooth pullod s tho loudost In ndvising tho sufferer to “‘bruce up like » man and havo the thing out at once." AND SUCH 18 LIFF. Thay loved other yen Thoy thoucht thelr love He doted madly on her, and On hiw she doted, too. A something came bet As happens oft in life Another's husband ho became Aud she unother’s wife. They et tho past was but A recoll i He wondors what he saw in hor, She what she saw in him. - Sitings: N paper Reporter (to prosident npany)—Hus your company taken uny Steps to buy Its taxes? President--Why, certainly, sir. Wo have made two protests against the constitutional- ity of the Jaw. Life: On the Horse—Do you think Misy Morton und her mother discovered that I was tips night? The O Ob, no: yOu Wore crazy. oxpiained to thom that think of that story that a pug noso cuu bo stralghtened out by lying ou one's fuce when {n bed? Banks—I think it's a lie on the face of it. Chicazo Tribune: Rivers—What do ynu/ Washington Star: “You know, Marln." he sald. I think every child shows in some way in what cal it is‘most likely to succeed 1n uftor yours: *Do'you think so? Then wo'd better make n real estavo man of our Willie. Lcun't keep him out of tha dirt." “Danville Breeze: Tho quiokest wuy to re- duce liquid measuro to dry mensure I3 to take aquurt of nitro-glycering und hit it with w hammer. You will'then have a ton or more of debris, yourself inciuled. Binghamton Leador: A Sixth ward man is kicking becauso his wife doesn't throw u little more Delsirto oxpression into lier performs unce over the wush tub. { Burlington Press: “Soled out,” he murs murred to himself us the father of his hest el guve him wlifv at 2 o'clock In the worne n; | BROWNI H Ne . Corner 15t 4 Boys’ School Suats- Waists 40¢, 75c, #1 ties, all boys’ furnishi this Vacation week. ladies’ and children tc purchases. Many 1 | Open Saw Othier ovent ays 61l 10 p. M "Now when you want them you can get { cation week we make || | K1LT Boys' lIuts,—S—()_c, 75c, $1 and up, Hose with knee protectors, collars, neck- boys’ spring overcoats at special prices for | - Browning, King & Co | [S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas S¢ hand Donglas st } J, them. For this Va- special prices on ) everythingfortheboys | | $3.50 3 i 8. | uITs, so, 84 1], L 82,5058 LONG PANT SUITS, 13 to 18 yeurs, #4 1T 24 o5 years, KNFEE PANT 410 15 year 5, 86.50 up to $10 Shirt | up to $6.50. Boys'’ ng goods and elegant Pleasant parlors for ) rest in or to make 1ew and novel styles. e