Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 24, 1892, Page 4

THE DAILY . ROSEWATER, Eovron. RY b= T PUBLISHED EV MORNIN “OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pn!lyl'w- (without Sunday) One Year....# & 00 Haily and Sunday, One Yoar. 10 00 Fix M onthe 500 g 250 , One Vear. 200 Hee, Ono Yoar. im0 pe. Ono Y e L OFFICES Omahs. The Ree Bullding. BouthOmaha, corner N and 20th Streeta Counell Bluffs, 12 Ponrl Etre Ohlearo Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York. Ko , 14and 15, Tribune Buliding Washington, 613 Fourteenth Streot. CORRESPONDENCE, All communications reluting ftorial watter should be wdd ditorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS A1l bualness letters and romittances shonld e nddreased 1o The lies Publishing Company, Omnha. Drafts. checks and postofice orders 10 be made payabie to the order of the com- pany. Yl Beo Fubishing Coman, Propritor MENT OF CIRCULATION news and wod tc the BWOR Btate of Nebra County of George 1, Publishing e that the n for the w lows Bunday, April 17 Monday. April 18 Tuosday, April 10. Wednesdny, April % Thursday, Apeil 21.. Yriday, April 22 Baturday, Apri o 'zachuck, secrotary of The Beo pany. doos solemnlv swear ciretilntion of Tk DATLY Bee k ending April 23, 102, was as fol- 28175 24,028 AVOEARD. o1ioavbisivurians GEORG 3 ' Bworn to before mo and subsc prosonce Uhis 2 day of April, A, 1., 182, BEAL N. P, FRiL. Notury Public. Average Circulation for March, 24, . MurHonisTs throughout the country may bo assured that the reports of tha proceedings of the general conferenco of the Mothodist Episcopal church to be published in Tue Bek will be accurate, fair and intoresting. Wo shall devoto all tho spaco necessary to making com plete daily reports of the sessions of this groat meeting of tho greatest of tho protostant churches. Our staff assigned espocinlly 1o the duty of reporting the conference is thoroughly informed upon Meothodism nnd selected with particular referenco to preparing nccounts of the deliberations for Methodist readers. Porsons in other parts of the unioa in- terestod in the general conferenco will find it to their advantage to subscribo for T Bek during the month of May. INSTRUCTIONS are ull right in their placo, but u sincere supporter unpledged is more desirable than an unwilling sup- portor, ovon if he is pledged on oath over a stack of bibles. — WHAT other object can the street car company have In giving an annual pass to an asscssor than to influence his action? 1Is not the ncoentanco of such a gift tantamount to taking a bribe when the man who accopts it cannot possibly return valuo for value unless he does so in the negligent or dishonest discharge of his sworn duty? Tur fact reflects no credit upon the country precincts, but it does prove that the South Omaha demagogue and his railroad running mate, Paul Vander- voort, made an independent stumping tour along the line of the Union Pacific railway 10 somo purpose. They helped 80t up pins in two out of tho thres pro- cinets visited for republicans who ought to be ashamed of such nssociates. THE Union Pacific has generously tondered a palaco car to take Webster’s delogntion to Kearney. The Union Pa- cific always has been generous with dolegates to conventions which the rail- ronds oxpect to manipulate. The peoplo of Nebraskn pay several millions a year t0 the railroads for carrying favored politicians who aro willing to help them 10 keop up local rates. Now it will be in accord with oternal fitness of things for the delegates from Douglas to the state convention to turn their coats inside out and cast their votoes for John M. Thurston. That will puy the Union Pacific road for its oxpen- sive oxortions to romand tho ropub- licans of Douglas county indo the hands of wreckers who have no part in polities oxcept as bushwhackers and mercen- arios. Tug captuve of Henderson, the Omaha forgor, in Chester, Pa., illust-ates the difficulty of escaping from the hands of the law in these days of nowspapors, tolograph, photography and facilities for travel from one ond of the country to another. Sufoty in flight is only possi- blo whon the individual committing a crimo has reached o foreign country with which America has no extradition tronty. Theso troaties are boing rapidly mado to includo most of tho adjacont! nations, thus gradually narrowing tho chances of eluding pursuir, — Now that spring has really come to stay itis pertinont to ask why the mayor and city council don’t enforee the opdi- nanco to roquire thoe street railway company to replace all the wooden poles on'tho motor line with iron posts of improved pattern. The company cor- tainly has been very liberally dealt with. Thoy have had ample time to comply with the ordinance and eannot offer u valid excuso for ignoring its provisions. At ary rate they should without further delay place iron posts on the lines of our principal thor ough- fares. — ‘T'ne small-bore newspapers at Lincoln whose special business it is to say ugly things about Omaha, find another cause for making an exhibition of their pro- vincial moanness in the fact that two Omaha men have been honored with places on the World's Fuir commission, This was to be expected. They are like- wise dissatisfied becsuse an Omaha architeot drew the plans for the Ne- braska building. In this particular, however, Omaha should not be blamed, because it was the bourd of directors in Chieago that passed vpon the merits of the pians proposed. By the way, Omaha pays one-eighth of the entire state taxes and she contributed over $150,000 toward the construction of tho publie buildings at Lincola. THE THE REAL DANGER The friends of Benjamin Harrison should not be lulled to sleep by the ap- parent unanimity with which he has been endorsed by nenrly every state and | district convention. The real danger of the situation lies in over-confidence and tho prevailing belief that the nomina- tion at Minneapolis will be conceded to him by acclamation without a struggle. There is great significance in the bit- tor spocches recently made by the two Colorado senators and the threut that the Rocky mountain states would pool issues on froo silver and cast their votes for a third party candidate if Hacrison There is manifestly to be a%oncerted onslaught agninst Harri- son by the Pacific coast and Rocky mountain dolegations. Tremendous pressure will bo brought to bear upon all weak-knoed delegates by the threat that his nomination means the inevit- is renominated. able loss of every elector in tho silver And if thess tonderfoet bo frightened they will forced by the men who are masquorad- ing for Harrison reality anxious w havo him beaton. That a very considorable proportion of the con- mining states. can be while in vention will be made up of this class of double-denling politicians must be mani- fest to every intelligent observer. The hostility to Harrison among the fol- lowers of Quay, Platt, Clarkson, Alger and several dark horsos, who have beon kept in the background for prudential roasons, will break out whenever it is found safe to start a stampede. Instruc- tions and pledges will be sundered like a wisp by men who are at heart op- posed to Harrison because they have a fancied or real grievance. “Placo none but Americans on guard tonight,” was the instruction of General Washington on the eve of one of battles, men on the delegation if you sincorely desiro to seo Harrison renominated. It him, but it is ot safo to trust any man who his Place none but reai Harrison is proper enough to instruct for is not known to bo for him first, last and all the time. GRADE OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL. Se otary of War [lkins is actively supporting the effortto revive the grade of licutenant general, bills for this pur- pose having been introduced into the senute and house somo time ago. Such a moasuro was passed by the senate in tho last congress, but the proposed legislation failed owing to the fact that tho house proposed a substituto provia- ing that the grado of lioutonant general, to be conferred upon the present com- mandor of the army, should continue only during the continuance in office of that officer. The senate bill provided for re-establishing the grade on the broad ground of public expediency. The house passed the personal bill which its committeo reported, and between the two the plan fell to the ground. The bills introduced at the present session are similar in character to the senate bill of last session. The new senate bill provides that the senior major general of tho army, while com- manding the army of the United States, shall have the rank of a licutenant gon- eral, and shall be entitled to the same pay and emoluments of that grade, and to the selection of the samo personal stafl with the rank, pay and emoluments a8 herotofore fixed by law, and on his rotirement, by virtue of existing laws, shall bo entitled to the retired pay of a lisutonunt general. One of the houso bills provides that the grade of the licutenant general be re-established in the army of the United States, and the president is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senato, a lieutenant geneval of the army. It is also providea that the pay and allowancos of this grade shall be the same a8 in former years, Theso meusures put the proposed log- islation on the ground of the oxpediency of placing the commanding oticer of tho army in a grade superior to his sub- ordinates, and this is at least reason- ablo. Tho mistake of the lust congross was in overlooking the fact that appoint- ments to the sgrade of lieutenant gon- arat for war servicos were complotod and closed up by an express act of con- gross more than twenty yoars ago. Three officers only wero selected for that grade, Grant, Shorman and Sheri- dan, and two officers, Grant and Sher- man, for tho still higher grado of gen- oral. When Sherman was made gen- eral and Shoridan liovutonant gen- eral it was expressly provided that theso grades should lapse with thoir tonure by theso incumbents, but when Sheridan lay on his deathbed congress conforved upon him the rank of genoral, no change being mude in the law re- garding his vacated grade of lieutenant general, The proprioty of giving tho rank and pay of a lieutonant general to the officer commanding the army would seom to be obvious,but it may not bo possible to make the present house of roprosentatives seo it, because there is involved an addi- tional expondituro of a fow thousand dollars a year. Henco the proposod vival of the grade of lieutenant gonorni will probably have to wait for a less po- nurious congress than the prosent ono. — UNPROFESSIONAL PRACTICES, There is a code of unwritten ethics which no honorable member of the legal or medical profession should violate, No doctor or lawyer who has any pride 0 his calling would either directly or indirectly take advantage of his clients or patients for morcenary onds. The foes which reputablo men in these pro- fessions exact for their services are sup- posed to be ample. They are not arbi- trarily fixed by law or even by competi- tion. Every lawyer and every doctor fixes his charges aceording to tho esti- wate he has of his own abiiity to com- mand patronage. A flagrant abuse of popular confidence, if not a downright imposture has, howover, been toleratod atthe hands of professional men in this city, which tends to lower the professions in the ostimaie of all houest, thinkiay people. e e e e ! opeus, und if so Tt has bacome a custom among doctors who stand high in their calling to accopt free use of offico “rooms at the hands of iruggists, and in some cases doctors enjoying extensive practice have had their office rent paid outright by druggists whose prescription blanks thoy use. This mutual exchange of favors might not be discreditable were it not for the fact that some, if not most, of these doctors purposely pre- scribe enormous Goses of medicine when they know that the greater part isnotto be used. These double and treble doses of costly compounds are not only an imposition for the benefit of drugeists and doctors, but they often cause groat hardship and absolute dis- tress to people of limited menns afilicted with diseases. Many poor men and women in distress have to pawn their furniture and clothing to pay inflated drug bills on the top of doctora’ bills, which in themselves would be burdensome enough. A similar and equally indefensiblo practice has grown up nmong attorneys. Evory capable lawyer whose advice and services are in demand s entitled to re- ceive liberal pay for his time and skill. But no lawyer who makes any protonse 1 professional pride should take ad- vantage of his ciient and exact from him one dimo more for any outlay connected with his suit than ha has actually paid out for him. And yet some of our most prominent lawyers are constantly guilty of a species of imposture, if not petit larcany, alike dishonest and dishonor- able. Wo refor to the practice of ac- cepting rebates from publishers for legal advertising and pocketing the difference between the price fixed by law and the price actunlly paia. This is not the worst feature. The object of legal ad- vertising is the widest publicity in papers of established circulation that reach the masses. But such papers can- not afford to accept less than legal rates for their In any event, thoy cannot give 20 or 25 per cent discouat to lawyers and make out fraudutent bills spuce, for the full legal rate against their clients. What is the result? Mortzage fore- closuroes, sheriff's sales and notices to nonresident property owners are in- serted in papers which circulate only among lawyers and a few mortgage sharks and sharps looking for a chance 10 secura property at forced salos where nobody is bidding. Thus the interests of people who have been driven to the wall by creditors, and widows and or- phans whoso heritage is to be parti- tioned and disposed of, ure sacrificed to the greed of attorneys, Puople aro sold oui of house and home before they know it,just as peoplo are often divorced by tho same process of advertising in reader- less sheets. This malpractice is be- coming more scandalous from day to day. It hasextended from lawyers to court officials and furnishes a striking illustration of the debasing influence which a petty brite can exert in an honorable profession. — UTILIZING NIAGARA. A most important undertaking, re- garded with reforence to vossible re- sults, is that of utilizing the water power of Niagara falls, which a company com- posed of some of the largest capitalists of the country is now ongaged in. This vroject, which had been talked of for yonrs, thero is now overy reason to be- lieve will be carried to a successful con summation, giving to the region near the falls a choap and unfailing power for industrinl uses which it is believed will develop there a manufacturing cen- tor unequalled in the world. The water power furnished by the Niagara river above the falls is esti- mated to be equivalent to 8,000,000 horse powcr. Some idea can be obtained of this enormous power, now going to waste, when it is stated that the Con- necticut river at Holyoke only furnishes about 24,000 horse power and the river at Minneapolis only 18,000, The com- puny which proposes to utilize the wators of Niagara for industriol pur- poses has built a tunnel 8,000 feet long, which is capablo of furnishing power oquivalent to 140,000 horso power, an amount that vastly exceeds anything furnished anywhere clso in tho world. The Ningara river nover runs dry and there never is an apprecinble diminu- tion in its'body of water. verywhere olse where water pow is used munu- factories are compelled gither to bave a steam plant which can be rolied upon in dry woathor or elso run the risk of shut- ting down for lack of power. That can never happen on the banks of the urn. The power from that source wi be unfailing. Manufacturers are said to be taking a lively interestin tho enterprise. The company owns 2,000 acres in the towr of Niagara, the greator part of which has already boen socured by mill owners. Tho engineers of the company estimate that the olectric power which can be doveloped and furnished will be prac- tically illimitablo, the only problem yot 10 ba solved being the amount of voltage which can bo carried effectively over twenty milos of w! The promoters of this enterpriso anticipate, apparently with good reason, the most important results from it. Thoy beliove that the great manufacturing city of the future is to be located upon the bank of the Niagara river, and that the time is not far distant when the eity of Buffalo will axtend from its presont site full twenty miles to tho north. when there will be a city, or & chain of cities practically ono, containing 1,000,000 of people and por- haps the largest capital investment in wanufacturing in the United States, with one or two exceptions, Practical mon will sce at a glance that there are vast possibilities in the successful utilization of the water power of Niagara, und the wounder is that American ingenuity and enterprise did vot long ago make use of it. But large capital was necessary, and hence the undertaking, years ago pronounced foasible by competent engineers, had to wauit until such capitalists as the Van- derbilts, J. Pierpont Morgan and others of great wealth bocame interested in it Fifteen million dollars has been invested in the enter- prise and probably nearly as much more will be put into 1t. expected that It the work will be completed and in ope- ration by the time the World's fair it will furnish foreign OMAHA BEE BEE : SUNDAY, APRIL 21, of the enorgy and ingenuity of the American pogmie in employing every agency to devillopment and progress at their comman AT SCOTT! On my retuMsrom Barope lasy Octo bor I was taken by surprise over the prominence which a broken-winded political hack who had played nself out completely nt, Council Bluffs years ago had acquifein Omaha during my absonce abroad: 'ltn., had worked up a boom for himself by agitating in favor of Omaha as the place for locating tho national republican convention and kept himself befora the public day in and day out under the titls of Colonel Scott, ai- though he had never been either a major, captain or corporal so far ascan be learned. Presently the **colonel” blossomed out ns n candidate for district judge and his most devoted friend and backer was Hon. Georgo W. Lininger. I had met this man some years bofore at an Associatod press mecting which he attonded us a proxy for the Council Blulfs Nonpaieil and he left a most un- favorabls impression by his exhibition of brass and gall mixed in largo doses. Ordinarily I seldom have oceasion roviso my first impressions, but I was persunded by Mr. Lininger that I had struck a rough diamond. He vouched for the brassy colonel as a true man who had been persecuted and keot down be- cause of his anti-monopoly tendencies, and only wanted «n opportunity to dom- onstrate his ubility and fitness for the bench. Mr. Lininger was scconded by our managing editor, Mr. Haynes. Very reluctantly, [ must confess, I yielded to Mr. Liningor’s entreaties becauso I sus- pected at the outset that Scott was pounding the national convention tom tom with a deliberate and selfish pur- pose. In due time my antipathy to Scott gave way, and the columns of TR B ntinued to koep him before the peoplo, although Scott never seemed quite content with the quantity of pufls he was steadily sponging. Up to my teturn Scott and the men associnted with him had only raisod $6,000 of the $50,000 guaranty bond for the nationul convention, and the whole scheine was about to be abandoned. Feoling that the city would be disgraced in the eyes of the country after Scott had solicited and secured endorsements for Omaha (always at the expense of others) I put my shoulder to the wheel and liftod the project out of the ruts by rvaising the groater part of the $50,000 guaranty Dbond, and over $2,500 in money subseriptions to defray the ex- penses of the dclogdtion. Then Scott, GREAT Scott, blew his horn at what ho had accomplished and had himsell named by a little coterie of the Real Estate Ownors association a8 the spokes- man for Omuha-before the national com- mitteo. But T am putting the cart before the horse. Scott had ingratinted himself into the cuniillt‘c of an element of our & to people who had visep en masse last fall against local mfisrule in the court house and city hall. A natural-born dema- gogue, Colonei Scott reudily foresaw the cyclone, and lie jumped in with the tide, just as ho would have dono had there been a populur prohibition crusude or any other uprising through which he could ride into oftice. So Scott had no trouble in getting nom- inated, and by tho help of Tur Beg, which commended him without stint, he was elected. That turned his head completely. His conceit and insolence knew no bounds. He bocame offensively arro- gant. On the special train that carrvied the Omaha delegation to the national capital he quarreled with everybody and made himself unbearabie. At Washington he gave Omuha u very un- enviable reputation. Great Scott in- sisted upon monopolizing the entiro timo allottod to Omaha for the presen- tation speech when every other city had three or four of the ublest orators of their respective states, and was only provailed upon to give up part of his timo after several disgraceful scenes at the Arvlington hotel His speech before the committee was viciously abusive and lost Omaha several votes that would have been cast for her but for Scott’s tirade. He was lampooned and denounced by the leading papers of the country for his want of courtesy and outrageous insolenco. But the most discourteous exhibition of conceit was Scott’s conduct at the Whito houso. The Omaha dologation had called to pay their respects to Pros- idont Harrison. It was ushered into the reception chamber, while the pros- ident wus holding u conforence in an adjoining room. Great Scott pompously sented himself in the presidont’s chair and romained seated after the president had entered. Senator Saunders intro duced tho delogation to the presidont. Scott did nov rise from his seat, while everybody, including the president, remainoed standing. Very naturally the presidont was peftled and turned his biek on Scott whilp talking to the dele- gation. Scott nemained motionless in tho president’s chnir during the entire interview, und ‘when the delegation pussed out of thp room the presidont ignored Scott’s/éphresence and Scott finally picked up his hat und sauntered out aftor the delegation, manifesting the most irritable tejuper because the presi- dent had ignored him-—Great Scott! Ever since theff Seott has boeen plot- ting to get even with Hurrison. He kept his own cuaasel up to within four or five duys and/fen ho suddenly dis- covered that a,darge number of his ardont admiredanted him to stop off the bench, drag’ his judicial ermine through the political gutter to bucome a delegate to the national convention, Scott's ambition is more boundless, if such o thing could oe, than his conceit. To gratify it ne has sacrificed friend- ship, dignity, manhood and honor. He entered into a couspiracy 10 waylay and politicaily assassinate the man who of all others was his friend whoen he nesded atrue friend, and the only man who could have induced me to commend him as a worthy man for popular supvort for the beuch, und he chose as his accom- plices for this dastardly work W. J. Broateh, Jobn Ciarie and the notorious gang of political eut-throats who treach- erously deserted thoir colors and elected what Scott calls an alien Rowanist as 189! -~ TWENTY PAGES visitors nov thv-‘h-m striking example ‘ mayor of Omaha two years sgo. In vain did Lininger plead with him to forego his ambitious design. Scott spurned him contemptuously and showed his baseness and insanoe eraving for notor- ioty by pushing his canvass to the end. A more despicable ingrate and une principlod demagogue has nover yot played his briof part on the political stage of Nebraska. It is my privilege as an editor and duty as a man to apply the lash of pub- lic contempt and scorn to this hypoerite and ingrate as his conduct merits and unmask him to the credulous multitude that has followed him for the past few months as a patriotic reformer when in fuct ho is a political mountebank. . ROSEWATER. OMAHA REAL ESTATE. There can be no question now about Omaha’s future. She is sure to become a great city, unless the indifference of her citizens shall allow the natural con- ditions to be changed and trade to be diverted from its logitimate course. These years of depression have not been yenrs of retrogression. Quite the con- trary, for while spoculation has not been active, legitimate enterprises have prospered. the population has gradually increased and the city has steadfastly held her ground. Real estate values have touched bottom. The reaction from the phenomenal activity of a few vears since has reached its utmost limiu. The feeiing for months has been more confident. Fastern investors have not hesitated to accept advantageous offers of promising lands and lots. Roal estate operators are begin- ning to withdraw from Chicago and othor ‘“‘booming™ cities and to look toward the great west for the best future retarns for investments. Home building is on the incrense and the out- look in every direction is encouraging. Contributing in large measure to tho promise of a renewed activity in this field of adventure are the extensive pub- lic and private improvements cither al- veady partly under way or about to bs begun. The additions to the packing houses and the extensions of the stock yards at South Omaha have given a strong tone to real estate in that suburb. The federal building, the street im- provements, the new business blocks, the viaducts and other enterprises all point to un enlarged demand for labor and a consequent increase in the volume of wages puid out to Yo distributed through retail establishments. The Munufacturers and Consumers associa- tion by the aid of a putriotic public opin- ion is placing its members upon a more solid footing than ever hefore and offer- ing an encouragement to manufactories which is more potent in influence than subsidies of lands or h. The jobbers report a better trade than they havo enjoyed for years. These and many minor elements have aided in bringing about the improved conditions which are making themselves felt in the stronger, more confident movement forr renl estate improvement and invest- ment. s For the oarly future investors and owners look to the advantages certain to accrue from the Nebraska Central enterprise, the extension of the y line to 1kton, the probable resumption of work upon the union depot, good crops and the removal of diseriminating rates now operating to the disndvantage of our jobbing trade. These are more or less uncertain of course, but the buoyant fecling which the abundant harvests of the past year, tho building and street improvement entorprisos und other evidences of re- turning prosperity have aroused, lead all classes of citizens to anticipate the roalization of these hopes for other and larger undertakings, and to turn from the slow profits of low interest rates to the more promising outlook in the direc- tion of real estate investments. THE GRANT MONUMENT. On Wednesday next, April 27, the seventieth anniversary of the birthday of General Grant, the corner stone of the monument to the illustrious soldier at Riverside park, New York city, will be laid. After nearly seven years the pledgo given by the people of New York to erect a suituble memorial to General Grant if his remains were ailowed to reposo in their city is to bo redeemed. Tho long delay in carrying out thowr prowmise to the family of the groat soldier and to the country—a promise which preveuted the ecection of & monument in tho enpital of the nation—is not cred- itable 10 the generosity, the spirit, or the patriotism of the poople of New York. That wealthy city ougiit to have supplied the small sum asked for the (irant monument at once, but it has taken all these years and the employ- ment of various devices to raiso the fund to a point where the laying of the corner stone can be done with the assurance vhat the work will be carried forward to completion. The people of New York, therefore, cannot ba congratulated upon tho faet that thoy have finally beon induced to do what they should have done six yeurs ago. The laying of the corner stone of the Grant monument will oceasion. The president of the United States, members of the cabinet and of congress, and distioguishod citizens from all parts of the country will par ticipate in the ceremonies, The event will tovive in the minds of the people the splendid the illustrious leader of the armivs, and the thoughts of men of overy section of the country will dwell for a time upon his honorable service to the country in peace as well as in war, remombering espocially his solicitude for the establishment of the fraternal relations between the people of the north and the south, which he believed to be indispensable o a perfoct union. It was z Gieneral Grant who sought to quiet tho | passions and efface the antagonisms of his countrymen by the injunction: “Let us have peuce,” and no weightier or more influential words were ever spoken by any American. The monument to be erected in River- side park to perpetuate the memory of Grant will be a less imposing wemorial to the great soldier than the American people desire, and sooner or later a grander monument, better typifying the greatness of his achiovements and more Justly illustrative of the estoom and af- fection of his countrymen, will public | be a memorable | whole | military record of | union | be i oroctod at the nation’s sapital. There need be no hurry to do this, Thore is no danger that the fame of Grant will be dimmed by time or that the Amori- ona pooplo will ceass to cherish his memory. Without the aid of marble or bronze theso would live on, because they are an imperishable partof the his- tory of the nation from which it de- rives much of its honor and glory, But there is neod that the whole people shall properly and adequatoly attest their homage for the first of American soldiers, the sincere patriot and the truocitizen—illustrious in war and faith- ful to overy duty in poace—and this thoy can do by erecting at the seat of gov* ernment & monument worthy of the man and of the nation. E. BUSSEY, assist- ant secrotary of the interior, met his enemies face to face in the Raum 1nves- tigation with the most conclusive proot of the absolute falsechood of the state- ments of Witness Dugan, charging him with defrauding his croditors in Louis- inna. He explained thav his bank- ruptey was brought on by the panic of 1873, and he settled with his creditors at 25 cents on the dollar. Afterwards he paid up dollur for follar and he tri- umphantly offered to pay $2 for every claim of 81 that could be found against him in Louisiana. To the credit uf the partisan committoe which has beon raking the pension offico with a fine- tooth comb to find political capital to bo used in the coming campaign, it should bo added that after hearing General Bussey’s statoment the falso charges sworn to by Dugan wero stricken from the record. The vindication of a brave ox-soldier and honorable gentleman could ot have been more complete, —_— Tie New York Sun proposes to con- soiidate New Moxico and Arizona and to divide Utah between Colorado and New Mexico. The suggestion will not be adopted of course, but a botter ar- rangement would bo to dismomber Arizona and Nevada, dividing the former between New Moxico and south- ern California and the latter between Utah and northern California. Follow- ing this, California shou:d be divided into two states. Sho is now too large, being ovor S00 miles in length and 200 miles in width. With these additions, which would bring contiguous climates and interests togother, two good, strong states would be made, and the 10,000 voters of Novada would not elect two senators and a congressman. Arizona has scarcely 60,000 inhabitants and is not populous or wealthy enough to sus- tain a state government, but would be able to securo all the benefits of home rule by the consolidation suggested. EVERY step the republican party takes from now on in Nebraska will either tend to strengthen or weakon it in the coming campaign. Democrats may blunder and the independents may quar- rel, but the ropublican party cannot hope to regain its lost supremacy by building upon a foundation of rotten, worm-eaten or unsawed political timber. To talk plain, it is not to be expected that we can attract back 1nto our ranks men who have left it because they are disgusted with its subsorviency to cor- vorate power and men who have lost confidence in its leaders by coutinuing in the old ruts or by resurrecting politi- cians who have been buried under an avalanche of popular disfavor. THE Douglas county republ who has swallowed every doss offered him by the political doctors of this county must have a digestive apparatus made of cast iron. II'THe BEE were inclined to cite instances it could repeat names proposed by republican county conven- tions in the last twonty years which even now would nauseate every honest man in tho party. The fact is the mun who can truthfully say he has voted all the ropublican tickots proposed in this county from top to bottom is either a fool or a knave, THE tin soldiers of Rock Springs and en River are very much offended cause United States troops were lled upon to assist in suppressing the troubles {n Johnston county, andths officers have resigned. The stockmen who were 80 willing to surrendor to the federal troops are making no complaint, howover. They know that the action of the War department probably saved their lives and they also know that the state militia would have been a less in vincible guard to protect them against the ire of the rustlerson the long march to the railroad. —— O'FERRALL of Virginia is a man who has won the respect of the country by sinking his democratio partisanship in the interost of an honest eloction. 1o had the manhood to defend the right of a republican to n seat on the floor of congross which had been fraudulontly usurped by a democrat. It issigniticant, however, that he was in a hopoless minority. — MAY DAY in Europo has been trans- formod from a peacoful and innocent holiday, indulged in chiefly by children, toa day when anarchists, socialists and the turbulent element generally threaten the welfare of the community at large by their excesses. Thoro is reason for the aporehension with which its appronch is regarded. ACCORDING to the Fuke Fuctory the editor of this paper has no longer any following in Douglas county. With thirty-five pronounced IRosewator men among the sixty-three delegates to the state convention, it would scem that tho famous victory of the rotten combine that claims to dominate the county was not very sweoping. How to get down ea has been tho sy most harassing problem of the several favorite sons who have striven for presi- dentinl delegations in states whore tho Cleveland flood has been petually at high tide. kept por- TuE old guard of Washington county want Judge Crounse nominated for go ernor, but Crounse positively declinos to have his namo mentioned. A Foul Slander, New York Commereial, Out in KKansas they aro saying that Jorry impson wants congress to appropriato §2, 000,000 to bring about a cross betweon beos and lightning bugs so that the boos can work at night. ot TR The Grant Monument, New York Tribune, Undor the sagacious, skilful and onergetio directiou of General Horaoce Porter the work of the Grant Monument association is going forward with every prospect of swift and complete success S el Hard Facts for Influtionists, Globe Democrat. The latest statoment of loanablo funds 1n the banks aod trust companies of the country shows an aggregate of $,134,000,000. Thoso tigures certainly do not indicate a scarcity of money, and the inflatiouists should study them carefully. N A Terror to Rogues. Kansas City Stares” Journalism was highly complimented by Herr Most when he expressed n desiro 1o sweep all reporters from the.fuce of the carth. Were it not for the repesters such fellows as Most would not be compolled to make so many trips to the penitentiary. Educational Advan Pawl Pi Press. No other act of the St. Paul Board of Id- ucation, unless it bo its distinct and firmly pursued policy to extend and complete tho work of giving manual training to the chil- dren of the people, will compare in im portance with its resolution, just taken, to ostablish kindergartens as a part of tha pub- lio school system. Aud in ultimate im- portance and ultimate results, there is probably no comparison even botween theso. The schools of St. Paul are now not ! only in line with tnose of the most progres- ive cities of this country, but they aro arted upon a work whioh will enrich the educatfonal heritage of the people, aud bring to them a large part of tho venelits that should hav e been theirs long ago. 'nw/l adoption ot the free kindergarten moan the first full and frank recoguition of tho principle that tho education of the clild is the auty of the state. Hitherto we havo veen satisfied, blindly following tradition and precedent, to educate by piecomeal. Now we are prepared to make this publio duty oue complete and consistent whole. Oh, What a those from $10 to $30. money, dandy, Open Saturdays till 11 p m )ther evenings il 0:30 (2= BROWNING, K ING S £ %o W, Cornor 15ta anl Douglas sti Spring--- Looked for a while as if we'd have | winter came to see us by droves | in the last few days, and | you ought to have seen our boys | spring suits. lection on earth to choose from, at prices all the way Every one of them the very latest pattern and made to fit and wear as well as tailor's goods at twice the Our $1.65 hard hat is a jo- Hatters get $2.50 for them. Browning, King & Co |S. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas St , _ all who but SO summer, thought turn out the Finest col- Ny e e S B 5 FAASY 8 %4