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SERVING THE PEOPLE [CONTISURD FROM ¥ 'l PAGR. | # better fight might be made for the de- mands of the department. He reported m the committee the bill for the mnn'er of the weather bureau to the Agricultural department, and had the satisfaction of seeing an amended meas- ure become a lnw. Secretary Rusk pro- nounced his work atthe end of this eongress most energetic and valuable, and personally congratulated him by letter upon his efforts on behalf of the department. 2. Our exports in cattle had been hampered by retalintory measures taken by England to prevent export of live cattle into the kingdom on the ground of contagious pleuro:pneumonia. Benator Puddock introduced and passed ® bill to provide for official certification of cattle free from disease and secured inereascd opriations through per- sonal efforts th appropriation com- mittees by which pleuro-pneumonia was effectually stamped out in this country. Complaint was then made by England that live cattle were so injured in ocean transit ns to be made unfit for consump tion when slaughtered. Senator Paddock promptly introduced a bill to provide for the inspction of caitle vessels, passed it in the senute, and had the satisfaction of secing 1t become o law. He introduced the first bill for meat inspec- tion. and made an exhaustive report upon the necessity of microscopic ex amination of @ncat products and their official certification as sound. The whole wystem now in such successful operation in western pucking houses of tagging beel, mutton and pork is largely the sult of Seoator Paddock’s persistent Iabors. In consequence Iranc Ger many and Bogland have thrown down the barriers to the American hog and he enters once more into consumption by the people of those nations. Senator Puddock was a strong supporter of the reciprocity feature of the McKinley bill, which the senate inserted in that meas- ure after the house hud rejected it. He urged it among his ussociates and nd- dressed the senate in its behall, quoting from his speech of February 9, 1879, in ndvocacy of the policy. 8. On February 1890, Senator Pad- dock introduced a resolution calling upon the committee on inters » commerce to report the powers of the Interstate Com- s cominission to regulate exc freight rates of agricultural products i the west. The matter was at once brought before the Intevstate Commerce cominissioners who made a personal visit to Nebraska and finding the alle- gations as recited in Senutor Paddock’s resolution sustuined, made an order re- ducing freight rates on food products. 'his practical legislation was the only national one in s ars which had re- gulted in reduccd freight rates and it was due solely to Senator Puddock’s initiative 4. It was in this congress that Sen- ator Paddock drafted amd introduced the first bill prohibiting the advltera- tion of food products which ever re- ceived the consideration of our national Jegisluture, The bill at once attractea the uttention of the country und became the subject of widespread comment. 1ts first effect was to call out thousands of notices aud urticles proving conclusively the great extent of the swindling of this oature which was in operation throughout the country. Medical socie- ties, allinnees, grange organizations and trade associations heartily endorsed the movement. Those whose nefarious bus- ness would have been destroyed by the mensure promptly rallicd in opposition and while at first not daving to openly attack the principte demanded vital amendment of the hill. During the first session Senator Pa-dock’s commit- teo held twenty-six meetings to discuss and perfect the Paddock pure food bill. and finally completed it in its present form, in accordance with Senator Paddock’s last draft. The Agri- culturai department epurred its chemical division to an exhaustive investigation and analysis of food pro- ducts, the results fully verifying Sena- tor Paddock’s assertion that 40 per cent of all articles entering into com- mon consumption were adulterated. Senator Paddock’s report accompany- ing his bill nas been quoted and re- quoted so often by those engaged with him in this gigantic fight aguinst fraud and deception that it is ot necessary to give here any exteacts to show the mo- tives impelling the senator to his cru- gade for the protection of the stomachs of the poor and the pockets of the pro- ducers, The best equipped and most meuve lobby in Wushington fought the measure ut every stige and pre- vented its consideration in the senate, All the cotton states opposed it, because thuy foared it would prevent the continued use of cot- tonsecd oil in the adulteration of lard. Benator Puddock made vigorous efforts 10 have the bill made an amendment to the agricultural uppropriation bill in the closing duys of the session, and made on March 2 a speech of nearly two hours’ duration, discussing the constitu- tionality of his bill, its character and the pressing demand for its enactment. Tho bill failed at the close of congress only to be subsecquently brought up and passed by the senute and hn'un\h[ly re- ported in the house, where it now swaits action on the house calendar. 5. The fifth subject of national as well as of local importance to which Senator Paddock devoted himself was that of the protection of timber on the public lands from fire and from de- nudation by the axe of the marauder, Several bills were beforo his committeo and were freoly dis- cussed, In June, 1800, he reported as u measure of temporary relief a bill, accompanying the bill with a written report providing penalties for the set- ting on fire of woods, underbrush or prai- rie on the public domain, The bill was debated vigorously in the senate, and its passugo opposed by Senator Tolle who denied the nuthority of the govern ment to enforce penalties within the states. [t finally passed the senate. Meantime Senator Paddock wus TDusy studying the history of forestry, with the view of formulating a general for- estry law which would pluce ull forosts on the public domain under rigid na- tional supervision, prevent depreda- tious and waste and protect the timber supply, and inthe next congress pre- sented his bill, which is now on the ealendar 6. Atan onrly stage in the session several bills providing for the encour- sgement of the cultivation of the sugur beet and the temporary exemption fiom duty of machinery for the manufacture of beet sugar were tyken up in the com- mitteo on ngriculture. The subject was thoroughly discussed and the litevature on the question studied, As the result, o bill was formulated and presented the senate, with an elaborate written peport by Senator Paddock, o, conse- quence the senate !mw--u “n amendment £3 tho tarift bill admitting beet sugar sanchinery free until Jaunuary 1, 1802 % he thorough exploitation of the ques- tion assisted in huving the sugar bounty eluuse udded to the tarifl bill. Senutor Paddook nssisted in dobate in fighting the amendment through the senate, Besides these most ilportant subjects acted upon by the committee, his com- mittee Look up, discussed and wade re- ports on the Conger lard bill, amend- ments to the oleomurgarine law, micro- seopie investigution of animal disenses god the extension of the bu.euu of wui- mal industry. The work of this con- gress on the partof the agricultural committee exceeds the total work of the committee in the ten years previous, and was exceeded by thatof noother committee in the senate. Fablio Lan As senator from the state where the first homestead patent was issued, Sen- ator Paddock naturally was familiar with the public land system. Much of his most useful work in the senate was done on the public lands committee, In this congress ho was particularly active. He made thirteen reports from the committee and attended every session. He reported the bill providing for appropriations for irrigation experiments, vhe bill creating the Broken Bow and the Alliance dis tricts, tho bill adjusting salaries in the land office by which Judge Grofl's salary was increased, the bill for the reliefl of entrymen on the Otoe and Missouri lands, the bill for the sals of military reservations in Nebraska, for the tion of the Wyoming land district, to amend the timber cultuve act and to allow settlers to prove up before county officials. Seven of these bills became laws. pite Penstons. His work in the committee on pen- slons was indefatigable and enormous and represented a large part of the six teen hours a day which the senator has been in the habit of devoting to his work. He made no less than 163 re ports on private pension bills, among them a bill granting a pension to Mrs. General Crook. Of these the remar ble number of 147 became laws, many of the beneficiaries of whinh had been vainly besieging the pension office for vears forrelief. The hundreds of letters of grateful acknowledgment from pen- gioners relieved from distress by his ef- forts are one of the most carefull served and cherished mementoes of Sen- ator Paddock’s senatorial term. When the lnbor of investigating the enormous mass of papers accompaning such claims is considered the industry and patience requisite to accomplish such results will be apparent. Indinn bepredations. Senator Puddock was a member of the committeo on Indian depredation claims, and was largely instrumental in the formulation and the passage of the measure which became alaw provid- ing for the adjudicatiomm.of this class of claims, so important to many citizens of Nebraska. Owing to the absence of the chairman of the committee, Senator Moody of South Dakota, it fell to Senator Paddock’s lot, as acting chair- man, to take charge of the bill on the floor of the senate, and to lead the forces of its udvocates, This he did with great shrewdness and ability, passed the bili, and afterwards sat on the committee of conference, whose report was finally adopted by the house. The passage of the bill closed nearly eleven years of hard work on the part of Senator Paddock in advocacy of jus- tice to settlers on this line, General Legisiation, Senator Paddock took an active in- terest in the formulation and passage of the me: ves which became laws in the Fifty-first con, A glance over the list will show that he either introduced or reported o lavge number in this gal- ayy, which forms the achievement of a congress republican in both branches. In every oue which came before the committees on pensions, agriculture, public lunds and Indian d-predutions he had a guiding and directing hand. His st-uggle for modifications in the tariff bill had much to do with the amendment of that measure on lines of western demands. Among the laws en acted during this congress wera the following: The act providing for the monthly purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver and the issuance of treasury notes for the full value of the same, thus increas- ing the volume of the currency uneurly £60,000,000 per aunum. The customs administrative provision to prevent frauds in tho entries of im- ported goods, whici will make a saving of many millions of dollars o the treas ury annually without increasing the cost of such goods to the consumer. The act reorgunizing in part the fed- eral judiciary system, for the relief of the supreme court, one of the most im- portant und usefulncts passed by any congress for many years. The disability and dependent pension act, which gives a pension v every ex soldier who has sulfered the least im- pairment of his abilivy to maintain him- self and family by his own labor, provid- ing pensions also for widows and minor children, or without the requirement to prove the incurrence of disease by the goldier in the service and in the line of duty. In this connection the fact nleo may be properly stated that the last congress passod and the prosident ap- proved several hundred special acts granting pensions to ex-soldiers and the widows and children of ex-soldiers, where the required technical proofs were impossible to obtain. The act for the relief of soldiers who served during the late war under assumed names. The uct to provide certificates of hon- orable discharge to ex-soldiers who hive lost their certificates of disclarge. The act providing that no person in time of peince shall be tricd )ur deser- tion after the lapse of two years. The resolution of the senute directing the Interstate Commerce commission to investigate hs to excessive transportu- tion rates on the agricultural products of the transmissouri country to enstern markets, and to apply a remedy there- for, under which the most useful results were reached, This was Senator Pad- dock’s resolution The act enlurging the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission in se- curing testimony, enforcing attendance of witnesses for better enforcement of law and punishment of the violators of its provisions, The anti-trust and the acts, The acts for the udmission of Idaho and Wyoming and Montana, North and South Dakota und Washington, which, under acts previously passed, were also, by proclumution of the president, declured to bo states in the union. The uct providing for the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the discovery anti lotter, of America ia 1802 The laud grant forfeituve uct, by th the government has recovered 8,000,000 acres of unearned lands under grants to certain railronds The uct extending the provisions of an act for the relief of railroad iand set- tlers and of persons who huve been on railroad lauds five years, but whose en- tries huve not been recorded. ‘'he wet to repeal the timber culture and pre-cmption laws, The provision repealing the act of 1858 unaer which all public lands were required to be withdrawn from settle- ment between the 1032 meridian of longitude and the Caseade mountains in Califoraia. The act to dispose of the Fort Sedg wich military reservation to actual set- tlers uader the homestead law. The act extending the time of pay- ment to purchasers of Omaha reservu- tion land, The joint resolution allowing exten- sion of time of payments on account of fuilure of crops. Tue act providing for the compulsory attendance of witnesses in land cases be- fore registers und receivers of lund offic The provision requiring suit to vacate an existing patent to be brought de five years, the snme not to be permitted to be sold 'at public sale, The act amendatory of the law author- izing settlors’ affidavits in pre-emption and commutation of homestead entries to be taken before county judges and other local officers. The provision authorizing correction of clerioal errors in land entri also a provision authorizing confirmation of entries and issuance of patents where final proof and payment have been made and certificate idsued, tliere being no adverse claims originating prior to such final entry, and where the land was sold or encumbered prior to the lst day of March, 1888, and after such final entry, to bona fide purchasersor encumbrances for a valuable consideration. (This is the provision which has saved many of the original entrymen of the Otoe reser- vation lands.) Reported by Paddock. The act authorizing the taking and filing-of final proofs when the day of hearing came, during the vacancy in either the office of receiver or register of a land office, by the remaining officer, ete. he act crenting the Broken Bow and Allinnce land districts in Nebraska. The act to apply the proceeds of the sales of nublic lands to the support of agricultural and industrial colleges. The nct providing for the selection of lanas for educational purposes, in liou of those appropriated for other pur- poses, in abandoned military and other reservations, The act for the eatablishment of a na- tional park on the battlefield of Chicka- mauga; two nets setting apart the tract of land containing the mammoth trees of Culifornia for a national park. The appropriation for the Galveston, Sabine and Avansas Pass deep water projects, all in the interest of cheaper transportation for the agricultural pro ducts of the west to the seaboard and to foreign markets. The provision muking appropriation for transforming the Hennepin canal into a ship canal between the Missis- sipp river ana Lake Michigan at Chi- cugo. Two appropriations amounting to about $60,000 for investigation and ex- perimentation peparatory to the com- mencement of preliminary work for ir rigating the semi-humid lands in the western Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas by meaus of a general system of artesian and other wells and reservoirs. The provision granting rights of way over the public lunds for irrigation pur- 12 5. 1e act to pr contagious dised another The net transferring the weather bu- reuu from the War department to the Agricultural department. The act to provide a territorial form of government for the territory of Okla- homa. The act to amend the act constituting Lincoln a port of deliver The acts for the construction of a rail- road bridgo across the Missouri river opposite Manona, In. Two acts for the con bridges over the Missouri Omaha, Douglus county. The act for the inspection of live ani- mals and the products thereof at slaughter houses, rendering establish- ent the introduction of ses from one state into ruction of iver opposite ments, salting, canning and packing es- tablishme nts—the subjects of interstate commerce. By Paddock. The provision for the inspection of live animals at ports from which the same are to be exported to foreign mar- kets. The act providing for the inspection, under the direction of the secretary of agriculture, of salted meats for export. also for the inspection of all imported food products, drinks and drugs, with a retalintory provision against countries discriminating against our hogs, beeves, the products thereof, etc. By Fad- dock. Tho act authorizing the secretary of agriculture to require suitable accom- modations, to muke rules and regula tions as o space, food and water supply, and such other requirements as may be neeessary for the safe and proper trans- portation and humane treatment of beeves exported from this to other countries, with inspection as to these shipping arrangements both at the ports in this country from which they are ported und the ports in other countries through which they ave imported for sale and distribution to the consumers in those countries. The provision muking appropriation for microscopical iuvestigation and chemical analyses to detect adultera- tions of food imported into this countr, The provision making an appropria- tion for producing sugar from beets und sorghum. The provision authorizing the presi- dent to suspend imports from countries making unjust discriminations against our domestic products exported to those countries, The provision prohibiting steamship companies from soliciting immigration. The act authorizing contracts to be made with American ships for carrying foreign mails. Acts to encourage the shipping to South American and other countries of our agricultural and other products from this country in American ships. The act to prevent the employment of conviet labor upon the construction or repair of any building, house or other structure bolonging to the United States, The nct amendatory to an act to pro- hibit the importation of foreigners and aliens under contract or ngreement to perform lubor in the United States, ete, The act to reimburse settlers from losses from Indian depredations. The copyright act, for the protection of American authors, publishers and printers. Specches und Debates, Senator Paddock spoke sixty-eight times in the Fifty~first congress, He uddressed the sonate at length twice during the progress ot the tariff debate, besides engaging in the discussions muny times during the progress of the bill through that body He protested against the use which had been made of the approprintions for beet sugur exper- imental stations, with the subsequent resuit of securing stution at Schuyier. He spoke against the present consideration of the bank- ruptey bill, expressing apprehensions that the c.ause permitting creditors to throw debtors into involuntary bankruptey would not meet the wishes of his constituency. He denounced as infamous slanders the charges on the floor of the senate that the farmers of Nebras Awurur\luwrl. asserting that seven-eighths of the mortgage insebled- ness represented deferred payments on land or stock. He advocated Omaha as the location of the new court of appeals and Nebraska as the place for the cen- ter of a new division for peusion pay- ments; urged the admission of Wyom- ing: uttacked the geological survéy as an oroamental appendage of the In- terior department; spoike twelve times in carrying the Indian depredation bill through the senate and four times in advocucy of his bill to prevent food adulteration. Among other subjects which Seanator | mie policy. THE OMATA DATLY BEE: MONDAY, OCTOBER Paddock discussed in debate in the Fifty-firat congreys were the inspection of cattle, the f{!:frnr lard bill, irriga- tion, the inlorenf of the west in deep water harboraon (the gulf, the pension bill for Mrs, General Crook, in eulogy of James Laird, and upon the Sioux troubles on the Nebraska frontior. The struggle which Senator Paddock with sevoral other western senators made for tariff reduction in the Fifty-second congrees attracted the attention of the country and thé approval of the repub- lican press and republicans of the west. It was maintained from tho entrance of the tariff bill into the senate to the vote upon accepting the conference report, and was a steady protest against ju- crensed duties and in favor of reductions where such scemed advisable. Senator Paddock’s position on the tariff was in accordance with the senti ment of his constituency, on the lines of republican profession and promise, and in full consistency with his ®ife-long views upon the upplication of an econo- As long ago as 1878, in ad- dressing the State Agricultural society at Lincoln, Senator Paddock said in speaking for reciprocity with the South American republics: “I myself was, as many of you are un- doubtedly aware, educated in the polit- ical school of Henry Cl and, while I think that in some cases and under some circumstances protection through pro- hibiting tariffs may answer a_gooa pur- poso, 1 am forced to believe that for an agricultural state like ours it may be on the whole an injurious policy.” And referring again to an unstable financial policy und unnecessarily high import duties, he added: *“I think it is susceptible of proof that this and pro- tection through unnessarily heavy im- port duties have cost this state since 1862 0 larger aggregate sum thun the entire crops of three yoars, The time has come when, without bins ov preju- dice, we should advovate a radical change in our fiscal policy.” Senator Paddock hus always been a protectionist, and avowed himself as such., He has believed in and advo- cated a protective tariff as distinguished from a tariff for vevenue only. But he has steadily insisted with Secretary Blaine that protection is a policy, not a principle, to be incrensed or diminished accoraing to the necessity for revenue and the equalizing of labor conditions. He has steadily insisted that the de- mands of manufacturers should not be taken as tho republican standard of pro- tection, and that the wishes of Penbsyl- vania andgOhio should not determine the tariff which should be imposed on products consumred by the west. Sena- tor Paddock for nearly twenty years has been an advocate of tariff reduction. In this he has represented the views of western republicans on the tariff ques- tion, and he did not falter in their ex- pression in the Fifty-first congress when the tarifl bill was under discussion. Fifty ongress. The record of the present congress is still incomplete. The second and clos- ing session, in which much legislation now, either in the committee stage oron the calendar, remains to be disposed of, has yet o be held. The work of - Senator Paddock in this congress is therefore perforce princi- pally in the stage of transition. Sum- murized, it has consisted of the intro- duction of fifty-seven bills and resolu- tions, the making of seventy-seven reports from committees on which he has served, and the presentation of 185 petitions and papers. In addition he has made re! 8 on forty-five subjocts in the senate. Of the bills which Le introduced seventeen have already passed the Senate and four have already become laws, twenty-five are still in committee, and threo are on the senate calendar., An amendment, that making an appropriation of nearly half a million dollars for the payment of Indian depre- dation claime, was ulso fought through congress to the great relief of many worthy and long suffering western set— tlers. Also he secured the enactment into law of an amendment providing funds for the investigation and settle- ment of Indian depredation claims. He also passed through the senate a joint resolution extending the time for pay- ment for lands on the Pawnee res- ervation. Of the reports made by Senator Paddock thirty-eight were from the committee on pensions, twelve of which were on hills which have become laws, and eleven of which are waiting action by the house. He made oleven reports from the agricul- tural committee, two of which were on bills which have become laws. He also reported fiftcen measures from the pubs lic lands committee, seven of which passed the senate. 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Senator Paddock introduced and passed through the senate a number of meusures of interest, among them his “Pure food bill,” for which he had to struggle at every stage from the intro- duction to its passage; the Hastings public burlding bill; the bill to provide for the disposal of Fort Hartsufl Sheridan and Fort McPherson, military reservations in Nebraska; an amend- ment providing funds to enable the secretary of agriculture to continue investigations concerning the [feasi- bility of extending the demands of for eign murkots for agricultural products of the United States; an amendment providing funds for the continuance of timber tests under the direction of the secretary of agriculture, an amend- ment increasing the limit of cost of the Beatrice public building to $65,000; the bill for a public building at Salt Lake City; bills for the relief of Frank Rother and 'Wesley Montgomery; the bill for the adjustment of the Otoe reservation land sales; the bill for a public building at Grand Island; a bill to readjust the sularies of land oflicers; to pension Gran- ville Turner; to provide for the survey and transfer of - the Fort Randall rescr- vation to the stute of Nebraska; for the relief of Orson Putuam; granting a pen- sion to Mariou O: Gurney, and granting an increase of pension to George W. Clark, enator Paddock’s participation in the debates of ‘the senate during the past session covered a wide variety of subjects of general as woll as of special interest to the west. Indian depreda- tion claims and the demand for their prompt payment, the irrigation of arid lands, the necessity for forestry laws, pensions for disabled soldiers, an ap- peal for the passage of the anti-option law, silver coinage, the general condi- tion of agriculture, the Hustings and Grand Island public buildings, the Otoe and Pawnee reservutions, Missouri river improvements, Nebraska military reservation lands, food adulteration, postoftice buiidings for the ‘smaller cities and towns, and the Grand Army encampment, were & few of the subjects upon which his voice was heard. Charactoristics. Senator Paddock’s most striking char- acteristic is his energy. His industry is unvarying and unwearied. No sena- tor has been more regular in his attend- ance upon the sessions of committees or occupied his seat so steadily in the seuate, An examination of the roll calls during his official career will find him present as often if not oftener than any of his collengues. And when record- ed as ‘“‘absent” under the rules of the senate, his name will be found with but few exceptions among those announcing themselves as ‘‘paired,” and therefore preciuded from voting. On all the great issues which pro- sented themselves during his two terms of oftice Senator Paddock placed him- self on record, and will be found re- corded. He has never been found amo: the dodgers and absentees when deba ble questions came ub for finul determin- ation. On most such issues he has spoken on the floor of the senate, and on many which others avoided he has frecly given hisopinions to the pre: No stronger proof of his senatorial en- ergy can be found than in the numerous written reports he has prepared trom the committees of public tands,pensions and agriculture, reports which number nearly 400 many requiring long prep- aration and the arduous labor of digest- ing thousands of papers and consulting innumerable authoritios: Caring noth- ing for social functions, Senator Pad- dock has persisted in carrying his legis- lative work with him home to his lodg- 1ngs and 1n extending his day’s labor fur into the night, early discovering that in no other way was it possible for him to dispose of his work day by day accord- ing to his invariable rule, to keep up with the mass of correspondence, and to prepare himselt for his work on the floor of the senate. His success in expediting business before the departments was due to close attention to every case in whicn a Ne- braska constituent was interested awnd in the indefatigable energy with which he presented it to the various govern- ment oflic Hundreds lands in Nebr: old soldicrs i the publi ny more worthy d their owe the prompt adjudication of their enses to tho Senator Paddock would not take an answer while urging their claims in the land and pension office: Senator Paddock never posed as a professional reformer, seeking to make capital for himself by uassailing the motives of those of his collengues who ventured to disagree with him. Differing often from his associates, his courtesy in de- bate was mnoticeuble and uaturally brought reciprocal courtesy in exchange. His relations with the senate have always been of the most frienaly nature and the existence of this feeling has beon very often of groat vaiue when a single objection would huve prevented the consideration of some measure of interest to the state. T'he same may be said of the chief executive and heads of depurtments with whom the senator has always been on terms of kindly intimacy, which have smoothed the way for rapid and eNcctive work. Senator Paddock’s success in dispos- ing of public business is lurgely due to ® methodical turn of mind which eauses him to stick to every item in turn until iv is ouvof the w und to finish it tako up each day’s work and day closes. 80 far as possible before the He has mado it a rule to acknowledge on the .day of receipt every lettor which eame into his hands, and to keep both originals and nnsy indexed and uccessible for prompt reference in case of future inquiri His mail for the last six years is snid at the Washington postotiice to huve been one of the ti largest of all the wewmbers of congross. There has not been a yeur when his bill for postuge hus not been tive times the amount allowed by congress. This ference he has of course hud to meet out of his own means Senator Paddock is essentially a do- mestic man and has wmissed g 3 while at Washington, his pleasunt home at Beatrice, for which rented roowms at the national capital have proved a poor substitute. Continued illuess in his family prevented the senatoi from en- tertaining or from accepting invitations to entertainments in Washington during the greater part of his senatorial sery: ice. Whatever recreation ho has al lowed himself has been indulged in while in Nebraska among his own peo- ple and at his own home. A third characteristic of Senutor Pad- dock is his tendeney to work first of all for home interests. The opening of Major McKinley's Beatrice speech, in which he r od to Senator Faddock’s well known constant advoeacy of Ne braska’s ‘interests in Washington, was fairly earned. In all his varied sena- torial work he has steadily maintained an eye siugle to the interests of his state. He has advocated or opposed no proposition of legisiation . without hav- ing first carefully considered its bear ings upon home interests, He hus struggled with appropristion commit- tees fur greater recognition of the state dif- ¢ AWNIN AND TENTS. Oncha Tent-Awaing | WolfBros, & 0o, BAGS & TWINES, Bemis Omaha Bag Co | Importors And mirs, flons SACKS, buriaps, tyine. | BICYCLES. M. 0. Daxon, Bieyclos sold on wonthly PAYments. 120N, 1sth 8t BOOTS AND SHOLS. | Morse-Coe Shos C mpiny 10 Howar ) Syesot tory corner 1t o 1 busers, wnd Are s vory saloabio With merdhants | Kirkendall Jones & Amer. Hand-Sewed wholosale m | Shoe company, boot | Boston Rubber | shoes ANt DhF ¢o company., 4106 | 15K and 1810 11K | 110§ Harney strect strect | CLOTHING. | Blotcky | Cloth; CORNICE. COAL, COKE, | | | OmahaCoal Coke,Line Co Eagle Cornies Works o | Mfrs, Hard and soft ¢ cor. 16th and Dougals strosts, ealvanized iron cornice: window et | metalic syt | 1110, 1112 Dode-st s, et ————— DRY GOODS. M. Sith § o, alrick - Koch Dry go0ds, notion Roode. C fu 14Co. Notions, 1t furnishing gools I3 Cor. Lithard Harney 1th and Howardsts. | R[INITUR { : .' Omaha Upholstering Co, | Beche & Runyan l pholstered farnitars 102 110§ ¥ieholus stesat Wholesale oaly Furniture 0. Graco an Tith str. GROC | DRUSS, ErC D. M. Steele & Co. | Blalie, Bruce & 120112 ones stroet, 10th and Tiarn oy ste Omaha. Owaba. and wrestled in the departments and at the white house to make that recog nition more effective, Senator Paddock’s theory of the double responsibility of a representative in congress is that his fi duty is to his constituents and his second to some one else’s constituency. This may not be broud statesmanship, but it is business. n examination of his senatorial record will show it filled with defenses of his state and 1ts people, with appeals for recognition of their demunds for logisla- tion particularly affecting their in- terests and with speeches and votes made and cast with a view of sing the material prosperi sbraska, He has stead- fastly endeavored to keep his fingers on the pulse of his people and to honestly voice their wishes. The assertion can be made with a confidence borne out by an analysis of the Congressional Record that no state has received in the senato more careful watchfulness in respect to all its interests than has the state of Nebraska during Senator Puddock’s i cumbency of oflice. Senator I’addock has been greatly aided in his work by several personal charactoristics, namely, his evenness of temper, his distaste for display, his ac- cessibility and his courte: of manner. As ono of his colleagues once said of him, *‘Senatorial dignity does not dis- turb his sleep.” At the same time he is neither flippunt nov eccentric. He has made no offensive displays of oratorical gymnastics for the benefit of the gal- feries or endeavored to gain notoriety vy offensive attacks on those who hon- estly differed from him. He has been willing i tive matters to yield ag well as to :k acquiescence from others and has gained in consequence, With no pretenticus to eloquence, | Senator Paddock is an earnest and effective speaker, largely so because he has always had somethivg to say when he rose 1o address the senato. His ro- marks in Gebate have usually heen short but 1o the point. Ilis more ambitious efforts have never been wearisome. While he has spoken on many topics, he has not felt it his duty to consume the time of the senate mercly to get his name into the Record or secure an ephemeral notice in the public press. He has had no ambition to destroy hig influence in the senate by becoming knownas a “wind bag,” even if by £0 doing he eould gain a passing notoriety. And yet on all questions of national importance affecting the wes ator Paddock has spolkenand spoken weil and spolken straight to the point, and no senutor has been left in doubt ns to the reasons for his vote when given. Pidelity to duty, unwearied devotion to the trast comiitted to his charge, loyalty to his stute and its people, and intelligent devotion to repubiican prin eiple > the sulient characteristics of Senator Paddocei’s senatorial career, ) suspicion of external influences directing his action attaches to his rec- ord. His skirts are free from intima- tions of ulterior motives in positions taken, avoided or opposed. In his speech upon the McKinley bill he boldly declared that every dollar ho had in the world was invested in Nebraska, and he adaed thut he did not nor would he per mit himself 0 own s stock or bond which might be affected by legislation in which he might be ealled” upon to purticipate. e has not, therefore, been impelled to attack corporations for the sole purpose of depressing thoir stocks in the market or to defend them to bolster up prices of his own holdings. No corporation can necuse him of bluck- mail any more than constitnent can charge him with having wocked for corporale interests, senutor Paddock, whatever his future ' bo, can confidently iadulge in the reffection that during his public career he hus given honest, fuithful and un- sparing service; that he has put his abilities to their best use for his state and his section, und that he will leave Washington at least with the esteem of his associates and the admiration of those who have witnessed his endeavors to bean able, energetic and con 0= tiously useful representative of the peo- ple of the west, PERRY 5 HEATH, - ching Neal Dow uggled Whisky, S Lewiston Journal: A well-known Lewiston business man has been in Mon- treal recently, and comiog howe he rode in the car near Neal Dow of Port land. On approaching the Statesthe car was boarded, #s usual, by the custom house ofticer, aud s the ofticial went through | the Lewiston man’s buggage, the latter whispered in the oticer’s ear. I know it’s mnean 1o tell on w man, but 1 hate to sce anybody cheating the Government | or anyone else. That old gentleman, pointing Lo OMAHA Manufacturers”and Jobbers” Directory e TR HARDWARE, Recor & Wilkelny C0. | Loberk & Gino. | Corner 10th and Jackson stroets | Dealers in hardware and mochaniess tool 101 Doagl ; LUMBER. Chas. R Lee. | Joho A Wakeield HArdwood Tambear. wood | Tmported American Port earpets and parquot [ landeamint. Milwauksy Hooring hydranlic csment and th and Douglas Quincy white 1me. —— LIQUORS. | MILLINERY Friek & Terbert | 1. Oberfelder & Co Who Tmporter 1 wilin, ordars pr ¥ 18 1igor daals 1 Farnam st ympt 12 South 1th st PAPER, | Carpenter Paper Carry a full stock OlLs. Co. | Standard 0il Co. of Refined and lubricating olls, nxle grease, et OVERALLS.ETC. | OYSTERS King & Smead | David Cole &Co, Mfesof “K & S panty [ Wholosale ovatoes. tance S1eLs And o¥oralin. ete (195 100N atrent F11-18 South 11ih st phone 715 PRODUCE COMMISSION % Establishod 1873 R Whitney & o, Branch & Co. Jas A Clark & C). liry and vamo T ¥Guti 15th st STOVE REPAIR OnahaStove RepairWks oy, 1 water SASH | TOYS, M. A.Disbrow & Co.| H Hardy & Co. Manufactorors of wash. ‘|’m-. dolls, albu m floe, th and lzard ste SOUTH OMAHA. Union Stock Yards Company SOUTH OMAHA. 0g and shoep market in the west Best cnttle, COMMISSION HOUSES. GEO. BURKE & FRAZIER LIVE STOCK COMMISSION, TiE LEADERS, 0. OMAHA Write 40 this hou for cor- rect M r ket R Wood Brother: Fouth Omaha—Telephone 1YT. - JOIIN D, DADISMAN. | WAL RE. WOOD. | Managers. Market raports by mail and wire cheerfully furnished upon application. Chieago —THR— Campbell Commission Co. Ohleago, EastSt. Lonls, Kansas Olty, South Oniaha, Sioux City, Fort Worth. A. D. Boyer & Company, 68 and 5 F anze Bulldinz,South Omah . Correspi ftad and promptly answerad. Bpeci toordors for stockers & feeders. Established, 1886, - - . Incorporated, 130 Capital fully pald, $20,00) Waggoner Birney Company Write or wire us for prompt_and rellablo market reports. Pcrr); Brothers & Company, Liv 61 kxcl Stoek Commission. ingo Builc South Omaha, i Room lephone 17 General Dow, “has valise full of Canadinn liquor. You look for it.” The official looked at the Lewiston man for an instant, suid. **Thank you,” and turned his attention to General Dow, whom he did not know.” hen followed quitea circus, He pulled Mr, Dow's baggage out and gave it n very thorough overnauling. Then he asked him if that was il the baggage he had. Then he looked it over again. Of course he didn’t tind any liquor, and he looked his surpriso us heturned back to the Lewiston man, who was having ono of the best times of his lifo, and said, “What did you suy he had liquor in his satchel for?” “Don’t vou know that old gentleman?” snid the L iston mun, as he held on to is sides with laughtor. Honest, don’t you?” “No, sir, I do not,” said the ‘Govern- ment official. **Who is it?” That suid the Lewiston man, with a burst of laughter. *“That(why it’'s too good)—That, sir, is Neal Dow of Maine.’ a family paper, wo are unable to register just what the official sald. An Ungrateful You St. Louis Globe Democrut: *‘The most remarkable adventure I know of was that of a ten-year-old boy in Colo- rado,” smd Rienzi Beauchamp. A party of us had gone from Pueblo for a along the gater, weok’s hunting and fishing Avkansas River. We carried tents and umpoed out, “A man named Britton had his young son with him, o manly little follow who could land o trout and bring down an antelope with the best of us, One day he got separated from the party, lost his way, and spent the night in the mountuins, He had with him a sbort as-calibre sporting rifle, a good weapon for small game, but in thesection where we we ecamped mountain lions wer plentiful, His father wos \\'ull'-muh dis- tracted, and we seavched all night long for the adventurous youngster without avuil, Just ab sun-up wo started to re- turn to camp. As we descended o ravine we discovered the object of our seurch wound nsleop, with his head pillowed on an enormous mountain lion which was curled up as though cn{nyinu_ a pap. Phree of us approached cautiously to within fifty yards, drew o bead on’ the animal, and nt a given signal fired, I'he brute never stirred. The boy whom we supposed dead, half rose, rub bed his eyes, and inquired peevishly sWhat in h—l are you fellers tryin’t’do? I killed this yere lion four hours ago.” “NDS DIBTRICTS, TWATER COMPANIES, BT.R,R.COMPANIES,¢ic. Carrespondence solicited. N.W.HARRIS & COMPANY, Bankers, 16 Dearborn Hireet, CHICAGO, 15 Wall Stréet, NEW YORK, 70 State fit., BORTON. WANTED. Total Lasuen of COUNTIES, BCHOOL