Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 4, 1893, Page 4

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Fehruar Wednesday, el Thursday, February 23 Friday, February 24 Buturday, Februiry GEORGF Sworn tobofore me nee this 25th day N. P, as m ribed In ry, 1803 Notary Pubilc my THE Cherokee Ind 000 for the ans will get § nd ceded by them in the In- dian territory, the appropriation having been agreed upon. The Cherokees should start a trust of some kind. I7 18 gratifying to know that the Grant monument fund has heen completed and that the monument itself will be finished in the fall 0i 1895, New York City has not hurried herselfl much in this enter- prise. OMAHA'S greatest danger from chole will arise from neglect of sanitary pre- cautions along the cr front. Unless the bottoms and the dumps are purified they will almost certainly breed the | disease. | THe State Board of complains that THE BER has not given it credit for what it has done | during the past two years. THE Bgg | will cheerfully credit the board with all | it has done if tho board will stand up | and answer the people for what it has | left undone. Transportation | OMAHA modestly presents for the con- | sideration of the thinking public an in- creaso in bank clearings amounting to 52.2 per cent over the last week of Feb- ruary, 1802, as an evidence of her mate- rial prosperity. This is only commen- | surate with Omaha's increase in other directions. THE important tariff changes an- nounced by the Mexican government will have a tendency to stimulate trade between that country and the United States. The need of closer trade rela- tions between the two countries is felt on both sides of the line and it is to be hoped that there will be steady progress toward the achievement of this end, FEW industries in the United Statos: have shown such wonderful growth as | has that of glass manufacture. A dozen Yyears ago nearly all of the plate glass used in this country was imported, but now importation has almost ceased. American glass is of such excellent qual- ity and can be produced at such low prices that it practically controls the market in this country. DISTRICT ATTORNEY BAKER is said to be hopeful of the ability of Mosher's friends to plank down $150,000 to save Mosher from going to the penitentiary. This is very queer. What right has the United States district attorney to compromise felonies? Suppose Mosher had stolen a horse, ana after he was | caught and indicted his friends should offer to pay for the horse. | THE threat of the railroad managers thata reduction of freight rates by legis- lative fiat will drive the railroads now operated in Nebraska out of business is a reflection on the intelligence of the legislature. The same threat was made i Wisconsin, Towa and Minnesota twenty years ago when the granger laws were passed, but the railroads have never gone out of business in those states. THE grand jury of Cook county, 11li- nois, has indicted the superintendent and three employes of the Chicago, Pittsburg & Fort Wayne Railroad com- pany on a charge growing out of the killing of several persons in a grade crossing accident in Chicago some time ago. The indictment is for murder, and even if the parties are not convicted some good may be accomplished by mak- ing an effort to place the responsibility for railway slaughter whore it belongs and thus intensifying the demand that grade crossings be abolished, I7 18 not believed by Bradstreet’s that the March government report on wheat will have a bullish effect upon the mar- ket, although this result is anticipated | by many. The theory of the latter is | that inasmuch as there is an unusually large visible supply stored throughout the country the invisible supply, or that which remains in the farmers' bins, must be uncommonly small. The March report may throw some light upon the subject, and if it shall have the effect of sending wheat up a few cents from the present low figure the farmer will smile, UNDER the car coupler law the rail- roads engaged in interstate commerce will have until January 1, 1898, a period of five years, to provide their locomo- tives and cars with the safoty appli- ances required by the act. This is ample time and the railroads ought to be well satistied with it, but it is to be expected that they will make a vigorou effort in the nest congress to have the law repealed or amended 50 8 to ox- | tend the time. The popular sentiment | of the eountry, however, is 50 strongly in favor of this legislation that the next | congress will hardly dare to interfere with it . | been made, the most s | at any other pe | tion, and the only a | end | mistake, but it will | comm | yoars | value | dustries last year, built up under vepub- | the THE OUTGOING ADMINISTRATION. The record of the republican adminis- tration which goes out of power today is on the whole creditable to the country. It is not flawless. Some mistakes havo fous of all, in our judgment, being the most recent. The precipitate action in relation to the proposed anuexation of the Hawalian islands was a grave blunder which Presi- dent Harrison would not have committed riod of his administra- ptable explanation to of it 1s to be found either in a desive his term with an act which 1 conceived would confer especial credit upon him, or to] his yielding too resdil to wrong-headed adviscrs, one appreciates more fully than he this notew permitted to weigh in contempo that of the histor of the an futu | against the excellent service which the administration of President Harrison has rendered the country. During the last four years the foreign and the domestie industries of the United States have realized marked pr Our trade with the rest of the world was greater in the of 1891 and 1892 than du any | ious two ars in country’s history, while the of the products of our in- ing the lican poli is estimated to have ex- 000,000,000, The of the ion’s trade has becn materiall lened since the outgoing administra- ne into power and markets long closed against our products have opened to their unrestricted admission. We have made trade arrangements with other countries that have given ad- vantages over commercial rivals result- ing greatly to the benefit of all classes of our producers, and which promise, if maintained, to be productive of still greater advantage. At the same time there has been a vigorous growth of home industries, only checked now by the apprehension of radical changes in the economic policy of the country. It has been an administration dis- tinguished for integrity and sound busi- methods. Its political opponents have not deemed it y to insti- tute an investigation tain if its management of affairs has been hone while they admit that in its practical work it has set an example wWorthy of emulation by its suc Coming into to find a large accumulation of business in almost every bureau and de- partment of the government, it will go out with nearly every class of public completed as nearly to date as practi ble. Industry and fidelity h. the public service up foa higher grade of efficiency than ever before. It has been essentially a business administration and all connected with it have from the beginning been impressed with the necessity of a faithful and careful per- formance of duty. It has been an administration that commanded the respect of foreign gov- ernments. This it has done simply by frankly and firmly insisting upon a proper recognition of our rightsasa nation. The settloment of the moan controversy, the submission of the Bering sea dispute to arbitration, and the concessions obtained from the Cana- dian government in behalf of Amerie: vessels, are the more important results of the policy of the Harrison adminis- tration regarding American interest It has made the country stronger in the vegard of the civiiized world than when itcame into power’ and demon- strated that there is no danger to American peace and seeurity in a proper, candid and firm assertion of American rights. The istor administration ceeded us ness necessa 10 asce S801 power an the Harrison judgment upon of "President must be that it was clean, pratical and | patriotic, It may safely challenge com- parison in all these respects with anv of its predecessors. The congress which oxpires today has not made a record of wise and useful legislation that will canse it to be long remembered. With the house ove whelmingly democratic and the senate strongly republican pevhaps nothing different was to have been expected, yet there were important matters with which polities had no concern that were left for the consideration and action of a future congress. It will hardly be gain- said that so far as the house of repr, sentatives of the outgoing congress is concerned a more incompetent body of legislators has not been known since the foundation of the government. The or- ganization of the house was effected after a bitter contest that left wounds which were never entirely healed, and hence there has been throughout a sharp division on nearly every important question between the factions. The uncompromising free silver democrats and those who believed in attacking the tariff in detail were the successful fac- tion, and the men who went to the front as leaders wore with a few exceptions poorly equipped for the duties that { devolved on them. They probably would | have failed to carry out their plans even had the senate been democratic. The time of the first session was | largely taken up with the diseussion of the silver question, brought on in both branches of congress by -the silver men to force free upon the country. They feated, and this result was of sufficient importance to compensate for all short- comings. Tts effect was to veduce the free coinage strength in congress and doubtless also in the country. of attacking the tariff in detail was car- ried out in the house to the extent of passing a few measuves repealing dutic all of which were buried, as they we, expected to be, by the senato committ to which they were referred. As to general legislation the fivst session pro- duced the Chinese exclusion act, which is of questionable merit, and the bill admitting to American registry the steamships New York and Paris, which promises to have important results. The most important legislation of the sccond session was the passage of the quarantine bill glving the general gov- ernment supervision of quavantine ar- rangements throughout the country, with power to provide regulations where none exist and to improve such as are found by the officials to be unsatisfac- coin- Perhaps no | judgment nor in-| cratic statesmen | by those of twenty or ten y been | | street vo brought | | between the | ments equally efforts of | oy another way. were de- | | can re 'he plan | tory. Another important plece of legls- latlon was the passage of the bill requirs ing all raflroads, after January 1, 1808, to use safety brakes and automatic car couplers. But the most conspicuous farlure of the Fifty-second congress s in the matter of reducing the expenditures of the government. When all the ap- propriations are summed up it will undoubtedly be found that their total cxceeds that of the congress. Reductions have been in certain directions, the probable effect of which will be to impair the efficiency of the public service, but on the whole the appropriations are not likely to be below those of the ‘“‘billion dollar con- gress.” from the account the extraordinary ap- propriation for river and harbor im- provements, that when the democrats promised a great retrenchment in the expenditures of the government they did not know what its needs are. Demo- like Mr. Holman seem incapable of understanding that with | thegrowth of the country there must nec- essarily be an increase in public expendi- tures, and that it is absurd to attempt to measure the requirements of the present PArS ago. congress has not made a great record. The leaders in it have not distinguished themsel by any notable act of statesmanship. haps the country is to be congratulated that it has done nothing that can result injuriously to the genes The Fifty ond CONSPIRING TO DEFEAT THE CHARTER. The proposed amendments to the law governing metropolitan cities, known as the Omaha charter, are meeting with bitter opposition ut the hands of power- | ful interes and influential men. The vital provisions sought to be embodied in the charter ave in danger of defeat. A strong lobby is at work at Lincoln with no other object in view. The op- position is centered upon the proposi- tions made solely in the interest of this city, to wit: To ereate the office of city assessor. To provide for the assessment of rail- way property along the right of way. To change the make-up of the Board of Public Wor To empower ades the council to change without consent of prop- 'ty owners, as provided in present charter, To extend the city limits. To require railroads to pay for via- ducts ordered built over street In other words, the corporations and taxshirking property owners h bined against the great body of tax- payers who bear 95 per cent of the burdens of maintaining our city govern- ment, The men who are now opposing the charter amendments are only re- peating the tactics by which they hav defeated the ends of justice at every session of the legislature for the last ten years. They oppose the city assessor provision because they have heretofore been able to manipulate the asses- of the precincts in which their property is located and have cov- ered up vast amounts of personal prop- erty which the proposed assessor would be compelled to vlace upon the tax list at its market value. To carry their point on fraudulent assessments they join hands with the railroads and other corporations to knock out the viaduct and railway taxation clanses, which are not only equitable, but absolutely vital to Omaha's future growth. In every other large city the railroads arve obligated to pay local taxes the same as other property and in all well regulated cities they are required to protect the public at grade ings by the erection of viaduets. Omaha has been very generous to the roads by granting them free right of way for main lines and side tracks almost everywhere they have asked for it. In several instances the railvoads have never complied with the conditions under which these grants were made. When the right of way was granted across lower Farnam it was stipulated ity and the railroads that they would build a roadway above the tracks to conneet with a wagon bridg: across the rive This agreement re mains unfulfilled and so do other agree- binding. Omaha has always been a bulwark for the raiircads as against radical rate cutting, and the least the roads could do in all decency is to pay their equitable share of taxes and pay for viadncts across their tracks, which would save them hundreds of thousands of dollars in the shape of judgments for injuries to persons and property. It is a long lane that has no turn. If the men and corporations who are now trying to mutilate the charter persist in their efforts they may find the great mass of taxpayers arrayed against them and seeking redress under the common law. It is an open question whether the present mode of assessing railroad property by the mile, with all the side tracks, depots, rolling stock and land bunched, would hold water in the United States supreme court, even if it stood the test of the state court, and 500 property owners contributing #5 apiece can secure the legal talent to test the | question whether one class of property hall be assessed one way and another There are other remedies at law and in the ballot box by which our cit ch the taxshirkers and corporate ators. Al it requires is an or- ganized effort on the part of the middle class of property owners and home own- ing working people. The one can fu nish the sinews of war and the oth will furnish the votes to strike a blow for honest assessment, equal taxation and an enforcement of the revenue laws upon rich and poor alike without fear or favc zens consp! I'r 18 announced that General Harrison has accepted a professorship in the Leland Stanford university and will in October next begin a series of lectures there on constitutional law. He has ce- ceived, according to reports, numerous offers of one kind and another, but he has chosen the one that is doubtless most congenial and probably also the most attractive in the matter of reward General Harrison is recognized as one of the very ablest lawyers in the country, and his sincere devotion to his profes- preceding | made | This will simply show, omitting | grade | crossings, as provided in present charter. | ve com- | slon is well knowty. i He will be a tower of strength to fll@\ ivorsity and 1t will be surprising if ita Jaw department does not become onebfithe greatest in the country ¢ A PLAN OF;DEVELOPMENT, The bill pentling before congress | providing for a giant of certain public | lands in Wyoming to that state for pur- poses of technical eucation in branches of industry perfgining to the develop- | ment of the universal resources of the state has an interést for people living outside of the borders of Wyoming. The bill proposes to- give to the state 40,000 acres of unappropriated coal lands lying within the boundary lines of the state, to be applied solely in promoting tech- nical education in such school, college or university as the legislature of Wyoming shall establish or designate, in the branches of learning connected with the mining of coal and of iron ore, in the production of coal, iron and steel | and the manufacture thereof, to be used in the discretion of the legislature. It provided that the land shall be | selected under such regulation as the secretary of the interior may deem necessary, and shall be under the con- trol of the legislature and such board as shall be created therefor by that body. It is said that according to the best estimates and surveys there are in the | state of Wyoming 30,000 square miles of coal lands, or lands underlaid with coal | and iron deposits. Thus far the devel- opment of these rich resources has been carried on by large corporations not especially interested in the state or its | growth, and it appeavs that more | than four-fifths of all the pat- ented coal lands in the state are now owned by a single corporation—the Union Pacific Railroad company—and that an inereased acreage of such lands iss con- stantly passing under its control. The | principal object of the bill under con- sideration is to limit the great holdings of corporations and to stimulate compe- tition on the part of smaller miners and manufacturers, The development of | the state by private enterprise is held to be the greatest need of the time in Wyoming, and the technical education of men to take hold of the work garded by the friends of this measure as urgently necessary. It is maintained that the proposed grant would not materially affect the revenues of the United States growing out of the sale of coal lands, while the results accruing from it would be agreat benefit to the | ite, and indiregtly to the whole | people. . There are many matters of detail to be worked out in connection with this plan before it can be practically applied, | but the central purpose is a commend- able one. The people of Nebraska feel an interest in thé development of the mineral resources' 6f Wyoming, for it would be an advantage to our state in many ways. This educational projéct has some'novel featyives, but if congress consents to its tria) iy may prove as suc- cessful as its friends hope and believe that it will, is re- -3 ProrLe genethllyw throughout tfie country hav> almost? forgotten that a monument is to be erected to General | Grant in New York, The gieat soldier has been dead over seven years, and all | that time the Monument association has | boen struggling in the nation, which pledged itself to ‘erect a suitable monument over his remains if | they were buried there, to raise money | enough to make good that promise. | | Last April the corner stone of the pro- posed monument was laid, President Harrison officiating, and then it was de- clared that the money to complete the monument would be raised without delay. Justnow comes another statement that the sum needed is almost cured, and it has been decided to go on | with the work. The original intention was to raise a million, but a monument to cost half that sum will have to do. | The judgment of the nation was long ago | rendered that the burial of the remains of General Grant in New York was a | great mistake, but this had no effect upon the sordid millionaires of that city, who generally know nothing of either veneration or patriotism. tropolis of tho | | They May Get It. Fremont Herald, 1 The state will play in great luck if the | railroads don’t insist. on a “raise” beforc | they are through with it! il s Sed OGS Chance for the Charitable. Lincoln News. Subdcriptions will be reccived at this | oftice for the relief of the starving railroads. For particulars see the legislative proceed- | ings. et Horlz ul Oblviion, St. Paul Pioncer-Press. The manful struggle of Hon. William R. Morrison against obloquy, obscurity and a reserved seat in the Valhulla of oblivion ap- pearto have been to no purpose, All his booms have collapsed and he finds himself in the ash heap in spite of himself. G R A Bogus Proclamatis Chicayo Tritune. M. V. Ganuon, the Omaha law, president of the so-calied Irish National league, protests that his name was attached without his permissiou *to an nddress issued in the name of his llefred organization from w York Saturday, denouncing the Glad stone home rule bill. Mr. Gannon adds by way of comment: “It would be the greatest | presumption for e Joeuo to denounco n | 11 which both IrisW pd entary factions | s Kverybody regarded the address which Mr, Gannon depounces as a humbug. Now it is proved to ho i fraud and u fory er who is Crounse and C porter. been made about the ka exhibit at g@c World's fair, and pressure has bib§ brought upon’ Gov- r Crounse to secyre the removal of Com: missioner General (Mfheau and the appoint- ment of some othé# ‘man. A change in management his late aate would be un wise, a8 no man could@Iformuis te new plaus successtully in the shart time, nor could any new man carey out the plans already formeil as well as those who formed them. We believe that the governor will do best to let the matter run as it is. Perhaps, after all, the work of Mr. Garneau and his associates will turn out better than anybody expects. Colonel Dana’s Irridiscent Cabinet. N York Sun, Secretary of state, Colonel Abe Slupsky, ublican, ecretary of treasury, Colonel Charles S. shild, unknown L etary of war, prophet Secretary o hurst, e splorer. Secretary of ipson, populist Attorney general, wumnp. som re Lieutenant Totten inter Charles H. Park ec navy, Colonel Jeremiah Captain Jenks, mug. ¢ general, Colonel Jones of St Gecrotary of ugriculture, Colonel Dink | closed their shops and announced the OTHER LANDS THAN OURN. The noew TLondon chamber of arbitration has many commendable features. Leading mombers of the various trades and profos- sions have lent their names and services po it, 80 that any dispute botween employers and workingmen, orwontroversies over the proper interprotation or fulfillment of con tracts, can at once be submitted, at ver small cost, to men who are experts in the matter. The parties may themselves select from one to three arbitrators on Jthe list, or leave the choice to the chamber itself, Evidence can be taken on oath, and the decision arrived at is as binding as a verdict in court. F precaution is taken to avoid delay. length of time to be given in each case is fixed in advance and is rigidly adhered to. Counsel may ve present, but all “making.the all hearings are private, and by the disin- the essen facts, to waste time listenmg to windy oratory. Resort to the Chamber is, of course, voluntary, although the law courts have power to refer some cases to it; but its operations begin so favorably that it is hoped that the custom will grow of putting a clause in all contracts agreeing to submit tothe Chamber any differences which may arise. **a Marseilles has recently by the labor riots of a novel desc 1 pality is at present rene of The mu- controlled by the so clalists. Availing himself of the provisions of an almost forgotten law passed in 1701, the socialistic mayor issued the other day a decree reducing and fixing the price of d. The bakers resented this interfer- ence with their business and immediately reso- lution of baking no more bread till the de- | cree of the municipal council was withdrawn The journeymen made common cause with their masters on being promised their usual pay, and the redress of certain grievances, while the bakers of Toulon, Arles, Nimes, Avignon and of the other neighboring towns showed their sympathy with those of Mar- seilles by refusing to suppy to the latter city. In the of [this opposition the mayor forced to rescind his ordinance, uot before numerous riots had been caused in the streets of Marseilles by the scarcity of bread. It has had the effect, however, of arousing almost universal resentment against the socialist element of the municipality The working people condemned the decr as an interference with labor, the employers as an infringement of theiv rights, and population at large bec of making bread both scarce and dear. fortunate in every way that the reforming zeal of the socialist mayor of Marseilles has thus been nipped in the bud; for besides the probability that other municipalities might have been encouraged by his su low his example, there was, morec danger that he might be led to fix not only the price of bread, but also of wine, meat and even of boots and clothes, thus giv practical illustration of the doctrines of soctalism. was One of the subjects considered by the com- mission which has been inquiring exhaus- tively into the agricultural condition Holland was the proposal to substitute for fixed rentsasum to be determined in ac- cordance with the market values of produce The system would be favorable to long leases, and its advocates maintained that the state might givea powerful supoort to the movement by requiring corporations and public institutions to stipulate for rent on a slidiag scale. The commissionc that they cannot support this view have come to this conclusion, they willing, for if the idea were practicable of creating an absolutely just division of the profits, the ideal requirements of fair- ness and stability would bo insured: It They | has hitherto been found impossible to frame re of | | profits rightly belonging to landlord and ten- a measure for determining the st ant, and the commission does not profess to beable to do so. Where the cultivation is very simple, they say, a basis for forming a caleulation of their respective shares might perhaps be found, but ina more developed state of agriculture it would be impossible. The value of the harvest does not depend alone on the price of preduce, but on the quantity, nor can the fertility of the soil be determined by one or two products, but by the general result produced by factors which may vary in their operation, not only in dif- ferent districts, but in different farms in the same district. “The opinion army expressed on by General Kaulbars ct earnest attention in European military circles,” observes the correspondent of the London Times at Vienna. “General Kaul- bars was for some y military attache to the Russian ecmbassy at Vienna. His subscquent achievements as the Czar's special commissioner to Bul- garia are still fresh in the memory of the public. The general must be regarded as a competent authority in military tors, and when he contends that the Austro- Hungarian army in its present condi- tion takes a foremost place among the armies of - the world, there is no reasonable cause to doubt the of his statement. I have myself heard this same opinion from @ French officer of high rank and unquestionable competence, who spent some time in Vienna a fow weoks ago. The Austrian cavalry had been under- estimated by some of iis German critics, and it was, indeed, chiefly this circumstance that led to the long-distance ride, which proved that the Austrian cavalry was at match for its German rival. The Germans were, moreover, alone in their opinion, all foreign critics having unhesitatingly recog- Inestimable Value The discovery by Dr. Prica of a new process for extract- ing from the true fruits their natural flavor will be of inestimable value and benefit to the consumers of flavoring extracts. By this process the flavoring principle of the fruit employed is brought out so perfectly that when used to flavor cakes, creams, etc., it imparts the delicate and delicious taste of the fruit itself. Thousands of pounds of the costly Mexiean Vanilla Bean are annually consumed in the manufacture of Dr. Price’s Delicious Extract of Vanilla. Ladies, try Dr. Price’s flavors if you wis nice desserts. You will nevet be disappointed in their use Botts, everytbiug. s e coort ring" is discouraged by the fact that | clination of business men, anxious to get at | | mouth | tionof the latter that her territorial rights | the first time, ocer but | | pointed by ex-( | quest of Moshe | further made by the L the | h use it had the effect | It is of | report | un- | vouch | tious discharge of his duties, and it v the Austro-Hungarian | | engers. | securing more | in mat- accuracy | least a | kit Ser nized tho superiority of that branch of the Austrian army. General Kavibars acknowl- odges the oxistence of many other excollent features, not the least of which Is tho esprit de corps which prevalls throughout the sorvice. The efcient organization for mobilizing the forces of the monarchy 1§ the object of special mention on the part of the Russian critie . F Itappears that the Venezuelan boundary | of dispute is at last to be submitted to arbi tlon, Great Britain having assented to tha vory suitable method of disposing of the affair. The question involved goes back more than two centuries—to tho time when the Dutch and the Spaniards held re spectively, the domains now possessed by British Guiana and Venezuela, But the controversy only became acute about fifty years ago, and then Venezuela protested against certam frontier marks set up by an English surveyor and caused them to be removed. The claims of Great Britain appear to have increased since that time, while within the last few years her en cronchments around Barima Point, at the of the Orinoco, and in the Yuruari gold district of the interior, have greatly troubled Venezuela, The extrome conten extend to the Essequibo entertained by an arbite haps, hope to got a decision limiting British Guiana to the line of the Pomaron or the Moroco, which, in fact. were formerly suggested, we believe, by British statesmen us possible compromiscs. Either of would dislodge the British from Point. re not likely to be . but she may, per these Barima el iiimiail THE PRISON PHYSICLAN. General John M. Corrects Some Mis- statements Heretofo LiNcoLy, Neb,, Feb, 27.-~To the Editor of Tue Bee: If one should undertake to cor- rect every misrepresentation he might find himself oceupied for a lifetime. T do not in- tend to engage in the work of correction, but will submit one misstatement. In the Lincoln correspondence of i Brr of last Friday, which I have today scen for s the following, referring to Dr. Houtz, nominated to the s for prison physician “Tt is known that he was or vernor Thayer at the and Dorgan, and his re appointment has given Dorgan more pleasure than any other occurrence of the past few weeks. This may be understood when it realized how much intepest it is to the contractor to have the physician on his side. This statement is aster doelegation that it was at the earnest personal solicita tion of General Thayer that Goveruor Crounse changed his mind regarding the ap pointment of Dr. Simmons and substituted efor the name of Dr. Houtz,” w it is well known that exactly the re > of this statement is the trath, and that Dr. Houtz was not appointed at the re. quest of Mosher and Dorgan aud that it is equally well known that they, Mosher and Dorgan, labored earnestiy to prevent his ap pointment by urging the reinstatement of Dr. Carter as prison physician, who had been removed by Governor Boyd! T selected Dr. Houtz of my own valition for that posi tion because I knew his great skill as o phy- ician and surgeon and his unusua! fitness e, and also for the reason that he 11 the time necessary in the dis- of his duties there because he had no Of what possible use or prison physician can be to tractor, except to keep the ¢ health and prevent yond my comprehension. Perhaps the vivid imagination of a reporter may conceive it, but I cannot. Every convict who is sick, unable to work, is a loss to the contractor. The prison physician in keeping the pris- oners in good health does beoefit the con- tractor to that extent, ‘and 1 do not suppose the public would desire him to keep them ck to spite the contractor. I'speak from personal knowledgo for his most faithful and c nally ap advantage the the prison con nvicts in good is utterly be- At when 1 nscien- that induced me to pointment to Governor Crounse. 1t will news to the governor as well as to myself that T induced him to change his mind re. wrding the appointment of Dr. Simmon id not know he had decided to appoint the and I had no communication with him eral days prior to his nominating Dr. Houtz to th e. * JouN M. THAYER. o aON 25 “Convenience’ the Public Pays For. rfolls News 1t The senate has very gladly crawled out of a discussion of the anti-pass resolution ‘When the time set for calling up the resolu- tion arrived the senate was conveniently not in session, and the chair held that it could not conveniently be called up later. Every two years the Nebraska legislature is going to wipe out the business from off the face of the earth, but as regular as the legislature meets as regularly does it ad- Journ without doing anything of the kind. ‘When a Nebraska legislator ceases to ride on a pass railroads will have quit carrying pass- recommend his — % at the West Wants, Kearney Hub, is not nea t passenge s of railway ai outlets and connections. Light reductions freight rates would do no harm, but a 20 per cent cut such as is proposed, would be a reduction so viole 20 the silroad systems of the state and impair the Wi Western 1 inte a lin gold in the next ti the last two, we quences. meta cline throws out the dan, The Cramps' shipya ship of war ever this continent, and she will take out question among the stoutest w in the world more than a fleeting spe tens of thousands who may more than an oc the marl of our will find vecognition cign governments Philadelphin R speetacl sounds as if it show Pittsbu so mueh b F0me tx Chicago Nows word {3 oy Press e by hixh Wi usoful in your “1 should say so give the ope | makes so much noise he' « thin Chic get rid of hor in and took t youngst What! must you go? He thought of “And Which goes to show he's on “Ldon't know But I'low a man t sorter sounds like one of us 11k And I guess the boys ar BROWNING, KIN wl;'\illm to an extent that would provoke o publio ‘#slnrn Nebraska would not be materially affo and westorn Nebraska would be set back in development along all lines for many yoars to come, ment of Nebraska roads whoreby th suffors fairly and intelligently, but no hue and cry of political shysters making political capital should be taken as a basis for readjustm allroad rates either chorus of curses loud and deep, ed by a_heavy reduction, but central xisting abuses in the manage publie wrongfully octod, should bo o e reight or passenger. t. Paul Ploneer-Py bolieve that if the Sherman wore lod and all possibility of free coinage > United States would gain moro 8 than it has lost in psent drain continu not care to contemplate the conse- It is not_the actual loss of the a trifling affair in itself -but the de- of confidence indicated by it which fienal i A Massive Ship of War, Philadelphia Record, battleship Tndiama, launched at 1, will be the most massive t afloat in the waters of nk with- r vessels launch of such a_craft is tacle to thrill the look upou it sion of patriotic national smiorable by the presence of st digni e Ior it s the dawn of 4 new cra in the history naval establishment, and one which s promptly among for- at home. - PEPPERY POINTERS, 1f the 1 do 3 ord theatrieal 15 to have £ That wight be a pr shocking r, when do lio steps on my cor Philadelphia T roti mton Leader: The man with o long head is rarely headlong, Chroniele: Charging inmmigrants head is the very reverse of an ine “Hrokelelgh, 5 zood as his no y t's what's thi that his s Just us matter with 16" Just beeause a man happens Ptiebrowed is uo sigu that e hivs a by ad o in hington Star: “You find the typowriter business? When wWtor the tip A bor ul the V't hear comes in [ miaching inselt o Tribunc: Anxious Mother 1 wish you would try to cultivate od Literature. Why'do you n Mu 1 Browni Petted man hter -I've tried > use, 1 just e Rrowning, “How do asked Sno by the busy desk, " replied the man o stories abont my sn Now, only the other day hi Well, good norning. eame FALSE PROPIET New York Jowrnal The prophet who prodicted that Mhis winter would be mild Was suroly through his hat" In w mann Last fall he pawned his ove And wore his summer clothes He has the hoi 1nd of th BIG BISS OF BUFFALO, Indianapelis Jowrnal, eler of the party, who satsul<ing on the bloomin' ver's leg, veshan and he cous Bourbon woe, 3 aid he, “there's Bissell of Buffalo, wily Wamps were a-pullin’ re in right Big Biss call him 1oty - ot us, and not too, h tone, old much ke Adlai's ux go as she ss 'mosafe fn bankin' on Big Blss of Buftalo. a deal about him, for he ain't been much in sizht, 's called ‘Big Biss' is apt 10 be all rizht, 50 common- in it with Big Biss of Buffalo & co Largest Manufacturors an1 Rotallors of Clothing fn thy World. Spring Opening On Saturday is our spring opening. The first of the season—always the first you will notice. ties in suits and overcoats for Many novel- spring wear have been made up by our tailors this spring, and quality and price have been so nicely blended that the most fastidious wearer of clothes, be he boy or man, can They are good to look at any way, and that's all we want you to do Saturday. We'll sell them later. Lovers of nice things to wear will appreciate our efforts this year, weare sure. you will be new -absolutely. Everything we show BROWNING, KING & CO., Store open ry eveningthl 83k | Baturd ‘ y Uit 10 S, W. Cor. 16th and Douglas St