Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. \. FiliY MORNING. RIPTION. thout Sundiy) One Yem ny, One Your Omaha, The | South Oy Counetl B Crueago O New York Buildin Washington, 513 Fourteonth Stroot. CORRESPONDENCE. All communications rolating to nows and Itorial matter shon'd be addressed: To the S8 LETTERS, ters and remittances should ddressed to The Boo Publishing Co mpany, Omnba. Drafts, checks and_ postoffice orde rs 10 be made payxble to the order of the com- pany. s Partles leaving the ety for the summer can have the HEy: s by leaving an order at this ofl THE BEE PUBLISHING == SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Rtate of Nobraskn, | (‘our.l{ of Douglas, ( Georgo 1. sccrotary of THE 1ishing company, solemnly swesr notaal elroulntion of THE DAILY BER for tl onding May 15, 1503, was as follows. Bunday, May 7 Mon My s Tuesdny, May Wednesday, May 10 Thursday, May 11 Friday. Baturds Batlding. corner N and 26th Stroota. 12 1 8 {817 Chumbor of Commeree. ooms 13, 14 wnd 15, Tribuno COMPANY. BEE pub- that the Bworn (o before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this I3th day of May, 1803, N. P, ¥EIL. Notary Public. e e Average Circuln tion for April, 1803, 24,281 Now.«umfi n’ Wall sirm".i“panlc" is about &s formidable as a South American revolution YESTERDAY was a red lettor day in the history of Australia. Only one bank closed its doo NEWSPAPERS all over Nebraska are speaking friendly words for the Manu- facturers' exposition. THE Nebraska democrat who pines for office will not advocate fusion with the populists in the next campaign. IN SOME respects Nebraska is more ortunate than Illinois, The Nebraska legislature adjourned some time ago. THE World’s fair is again in direful straits. Another preacher has prophe- sied the early destruction of the White city. ‘WITH her banks in good condition, a big surplus on hand and another large orop in sight the west seems to be all right. IF MERIT alone taken as the basis of the new pension commissioner's policy the true blue veteran will not complain, IT 18 remarked that the railway mail servico still retains its old-time effi- ciency. It is still under the control of republicans. OMAHA people are anxiously waiting for the placards which announce a lower round triprate to Chicago. Its bound to come. CLEVELAND'S experience as the sheriff of Buffalo county stands him in good stead when it comes to keeping office hunters in suspense, THE financisl policy of the national administration seems to be drifting; but a8 long as it is drifting in the right di- rection the country will be satisfied. THERE scems to be no good and suf- ficient reason why the railroads should sell round-trip excursion tickets to Sher- idan, Wyo., for 310 when they charge $20 for a round-trip rate to Chicago. THERE is a probable shortage of 117,- 000,000, bushels in the world’s wheat crop. The United States will supply the largest portion of the deficiency and Ne- braska her full share of it. AS LONG as the people of Omaha and Couneil Bluffs ave required to pay an 18 per cent dividend on the actual invest- ment of the bridge company just so long will they continue to ask for a 5-cent bridge fare. THE deliborate attempt of the im- peached state officials to assume a per- sonal credit for the reforms instituted by Governor Boyd is an admission of weakness that was hardly locked for in the defonse. THERE is a prospect that rates be- tween the Missouri river and Chicago wlll suffer a marked decline. Omaha people who are contemplating a trip to the World's fair will defer their visit a few days longe OMAHA'S bank clearings for the past twelve months show an increase of 83,018,721 over tho previous year. Taking the clearings as a fair gauge of the business transactions in the eity, the inerease is a most gratifying evidenco of Omaha'’s commercial advancement, The increase is all the more noticeable from tie fact that during the period referred 10 there was an utter absence of specula- tive tendencices. —_— THE numerous triends in Omaha of General Goorge B. Dandy will bo heart- ily glad to know that he has returned to this city to resume his former position of chief quartermaster of the Depart- ment of the Platte. General Dandy is one of the most capable officers in the service, and in social life one of the most genial of gentlemen. We are sure we voies the sentiment of everybody who knows him in extending to him a most cordial welcome, DENNIS KEARNEY has reconsidered his intention to transfer his field of peculiar operations to Chicago. As about one-third of the entire Chinese population in this country inhabit San Francisco, he finds the sandlots of that city better suited for his purposes. Al- ready, . company with that other blatant agitator, Dr, O'Donnell, now that the constitutionality of the Geary law Las boou established, he has re- wewed his Chinese-bating practives, THE CHINESE ACT DECISION. | There can be no question as to the possible far reaching effects of the supreme court decision declaring the Chinese exelusion act constitutional, as | set forth in the dissenting opinions of three membors of the court. The view | taken by Justice Brewer that if the law is upheld there will be no guarantee that similac treatment may not be ac- corded other classes of our population. Under this decision there is no pro- tection for alien vresidents of the United States against any form of proscriptive legislation which congress may enact. They can find no safeguard even in treaty stipula- tions if congress wills to disregard them. “If congress makes a law inconsistent with a treaty,” says the decision, “itmay | give a foreign nation the right to com- | plain and take such action as it may | deem best for its own interest, but the duty of the courts of the United Sta is clear and they must force.” There are thousands of aliens | in this country of all nationalities. It | is in the power of congross, according to this decision, regardless of any treaty ar- rangements that may exist with the coun- tries from which these people come and of | which they are still subjects, to reanire | them or any class of them to conform to any regulations that may be prescribed or leave the country within a given time, which may be fixed at a year or a week. Let it be supposed, for example, that there should be in congress a ma- jority hostile to the immigration of Italians and to allowing natives of Ttaly to remain here who had not been natur- alized, there is nothing to prevent the application to them, according to this decision, of the same treatment that the law provides for the Chinese. The danget of having to account to any BEuropean government for such a course toward its citizens may perhaps be safely depended on as a safeguard against proscriptive legislation apply- ing to Europeans, but this is a form of security that obviously does not furnish a complete guarantee. The pop- ular opposition in the eastern portion of the country to certain foreign elements of the popula- tion is almost as strong and bitter as is the hostility of the people of the Pacific coast to the Chinese, and it cannot be regarded as impossible that at some time in tho future a very vig- orous demand may be made for legislation to exclude and expel classes of Europeans for one reason or another. With the increas- ing tension of social and economic con- ditions no one may presume to say that such a thing cannot happen. Chief Justice Fuller presented two cogent arguments against the law. One was that the general government can- not, in virtue of a supposed inherent sovereignty, arbitrarily deal with per- sons lawfully and peacefully within its domain, and the other was that in mak- ing deportation the penalty for failure to comply with the law congress pre- seribed an unusual punishment not authorized by the constitution. He admitted that the government is in- vested with ‘all the powers necessary to maintain its independence and secur- ity, but this does not give congress an authovity essentially despotic in its character. Thesoundness of the opin- ion of Justice Field that there is a dif- ference between the exclusion of immi- grants and the deportation of resident aliens will hardly be questioned. It is probable that the decision will stand, even though the court should grant a rehearing of the case, but with regard to the enforcement of the law there is reason to doubt whether it will be _undertaken at once, owing to the failure of congress 1o provide an adequate appropriation. The obviously wise course for the Chinese residents is to register, and it is to be presumod that a great number of them will doso. Inthis way they will avoid adding to the complications and diffi- culties of the situation and at the same time intensifying popular hostili wward them. The American people generally, whatever they may think of the wisdom and justice of the law, will demand that the decision of the highest judicial tribunal in the land shall be respectod. JUDGE LOCHREN'S LAST DECISION. The last decision cendered by Judge Lochren before he resigned his seat on | the judicial bench of Minnesota to be- come United States commissioner of pen- sions will prove a memorable one in sev eral rospects. The opinion filed was in the celebrated St. Louis railvoad case. As trustee Henry Seibert brought suit against the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad company, the Central Trust company and the Farmers Loan and Trust company of New York and the Fidelity Insurance company of Philadel- phia to foreclose the improvement and equipment mortgage on the properties of the rond. The decision permits the foreclosure for the amount of #3,387,000. The case has been in litigation for five years. [t is one of the heaviest cases of its class ever tried in the west and has attracted the attention of the whole country. Oneof the remavkable foat- ures of the decision is the number of im- portant precedents it establishes. I'he bulk of the bonds secured by this mort- gage was held by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway company, and the plaintiff, backed up by that road, not only attempted to foreclose its own mortgage, but the mortgages held by the defendant trust companies, and the main contest finally narrowed down be- tween the plaintiff and the Central 15t company. Under the decision the latter gains a substantial vietory, The amount of its mortgage was $5,000,000; of the Farmers Loan and Trust company, $1,100,000, and of the Fidelity, $800,000, The plaintiff is given a first lien for about one-half of the Central Trust com- pany's claim upon the interests of the road in certain properties in Minnesota and on the equipment of the road. But as this equipment was purchased by the road under eleven distinet contracts, the claim is split into eleven distinet liens. the rolling stock erdered sold in eloven different parcels. Also as it was paid for in a large part before the mortgage was given the defendants can recover a large part of it upon payment of small sums. The result is to practically destroy any beunefit plaintiff might gain | banks that failed { tost | that which led to the c Columbia bank ‘at Chicago, from having a first lion. A first lion is also given to the defendant loan com- panies upon different portions of the road. The Central Trust is besides given a second lien on all the rest of the | line and property covered by the other two loan companies’ mortgages. The money in the hands of the receiver is divided about equally between'the Cen- tral Trust company and the plaintiff. The court refused to grant the plain- tiff's request to foreclose these mort- gages and permits them to stand as liens on the property. The road is or- | dered sold, subject to the mortgage of the other defendants, to pay the claim of the plaintiff. but the raiiroad com- pany is given one year in which to re- deem after the de:ree is entered. The resiilt of refusal of the defendant trustess to accede to the original de- mands of the Rock Island to foreclose their mortgages is, therefore, that the | property has not only been saved from recognize its | wreek but the security of the defendant mortgagees is in better eondition than over before. Among the important pre- cedents established by tle case the fol- lowing are the most significant: That a junior railvoad mortgagee cannot compel a prior mortgacee to foreclose his mortgage: that if a junior mortgagee has receiver appointed in a foreclosure suit to which he makes senior mortgagees parties, that receiver beeomes the receiver not only of the plaintiff, but also of all the prior mortgagees; that a railroad company giving a mortgage upon its property, when it had theretofore given mortgages to other parties, catnot make th: last mortgage a lien prior to the others upon property purchased and paid for with the proceeds of the mortgage, when that property enters into the corpus of the railroad; that in case of rolling stock, where the title has not passed to the rail- road company, but the company holds the property under car trust leases, a first lien may be acquired by a subsequent movtgagee to the amount puid by him to take up the | trust leases and put clear title to the equipment iuto the railroad company, WHERE GUOD MAY RESULT. The recent bank failures may have one good result in impressing more strongly upon the authorities at Wash- ington the necessity of greater care and vigilance in the supervision of banking institutions. The developments regard- ing the management of some of the and their general methgds of doing business reflect very severely upon the government officials whose duty ic is under the law to keep well informed regarding the condi tion of the banks, and yet they are not entirely without excuse. The system of bank examinations is not altogether what it should be, and this is the fault of congress. That body has had repeatedly recommended to it amendments of the national banking law which experience has shown to be desirable and necessary, but it has failed to adopt them, mainly for the reason that the opposition to the banks in con- gress has, for yeavs, been so strong that it was able 10 successfully combat efforts engthen them in public confidence. Under present conditions it s found impossible to give the banks as watchful supervision and as frequent examinations as is desirable, and the knowledge of this fact enables speculative and dishonest bank officials to carry on their practices i with a freedom and a disregard of the requirements of the law which can, as a rule, lead to no other result than disaster. The present administration cannot, of course, be held in the slightest de, responsible for this condition of affairs. The new comptroller of the currency has not been long enough in office to learn fully what is required of him, to say nothing of intro- ducing needed changes and reforms. But he is making a careful study and inves- igation of the situation and has indi- cated that although without experience in banking he has some very practical and judicious ideas about what is de- manded. He seems determined to put an end, if possible, to such banking as llapse of the and as he will have a congress of his own party to uphold him he may be able to accom- plish the task. He is rveported to have said that there is no excuse for the failure of a bank if it is conducted according to law, and that the statutes provide abundant safeguards if they are only followed. One thing he proposes is more frequent examinations, upon the safe ground that *‘a good bank courts examination, and a poor one ought to have it whether it likes it ornot,” His plan is to give each bank in the country two examinations at least every year, one of them out of the regular season, s0 that the actual and not the pre- arranged condition of the institution shall be made known. This would be a reform that could not fail to have good results and there can be no doubt that it would be approved by all conservative bankers, The general effects of the recent bank failures have not been seriousyund whatever distrust they may have caused has about passed away, but they have not been uninstruc- tive and the lesson should be producti of some good in the direction we have indicated. ATTORNEY GENERAL CRAWFORD of South Dakota has reached an unmistak- ably pronounced conclusion with respect to the enforcement of the prohibition law in that state. It is not only emi- nently sound and wise, but it wili receive the approval of all the people of the state except the radical prohibition ele ment. Espeeially will it be distasteful, though, to that very considerable elo- ment of the population who have car- ried on their unwise temperance erusade more for the purposes of gain than from the incitement of principle. Mr. Craw- ford says point blank that he does not propose to take any part in the enforc. ment of the law, believing that it was never intended that the attorney gen- oral was also to discharge the duties of a state attorney. Neither will he appoint assistant state's at- torneys except upon the most complete and specific showing that the prohibition law is being flagrantly vio- lated. He will not even considor appli- cations for such appointments unless made by residents of the county for which such aid is asked, and then he will be careful to name a lawyer of such | tion for years. national | character and reputation that he fln' be likely to do something other than pile up expenses for the taxpayers to meet. Coe I. Crawford is a young attorney of Pierre, but the stand he has taken on this vexatious question gives promise that “a Daniel has come to judgment” in the state that has been harrassed as perhaps none other by these fraudulent reformers, IT 1S to be hoped that the apprehen- sions entertained by the citizens of west- ern South Dakota that the murder of the alleged rustler Giles in Butte county is the beginning of a cattle war similar to that of last season in Wyoming will prove fallacio The outlawry in John- son county brought disgrace on the whole state, bankrupted ths county and retarded the development of that sce- Nor is the end yet. The conrts are still wrestling with the con- sequent litigation and the cases are likely to engage attontion for a long time to come. However, the report of Tur Bek correspondent at Bellefourch that the valuables and money the mur- dered man had in his possession were found intact on his body instinctively leads to the inference that his assassina- tion was not for the purpose of robbery. And as he had been suspected as a rustler and ordered to leave the coun- it is possible that the fears entor- tained of further trouble are not un- founded. The affair incidentally directs attention to the fact that Utah is also at this time having a lively tussle with cat- tle thieves., But as the federal authori- ties have taken a hand there it is not likely to be of long duration DELEGATE RAWLINS' determination to withdraw his resignation upon the ground that he finds upon reaching Salt Lake that he possessos the confidence of his party and the people of Utuh is not the way toestablish the truth of this assumption. If he were renominated and returned to congress he could point to the resnlt as a vindication of his The probability that should ernor West call a special election, a republican would be returned in Raw- lins' stead is the more likely incentive for his reconsideration. The political history of this country shows that for a congressman to vesign his seat with the expectation of being vindicated by the vote of his constituents is not a safe course to pursue Up 10 date the only Nebraska news- paper that has the nerve to defend the attempted state printing steal is the Fremont organ of the ghost- dancers union. And, by the way, the Fremont paper was tobe one of the beneficiaries of the steal. THE Muscatine outrage seems deter- mined to boost itself into Towa politics. Bar Out the 1 Elmwood Leader, 1t is to pe hoped Auditor Moore will stand up for Nebraska and sit down on the at- tempted printing steal. Keep the rascals out and don't let thecombines in. —_—— « Bef buty. New Yk Recorder. Is the demouratic party afraid to face the full responsibility of power? What other tion can be placed on its supinene and general reluctance to carry out its promises to the people ! wonls. e Sounder Planks Promised. Globe-Demoerat, Tt was not a very inspiring program which Colonel_Clarkson marked out at Louisville for the party. The party will adopt sowe- thing better when it makes its appeals to the people next year and in 1596, Sure Roud Bufalo Express. Surely experience enough has been had to warrant the refusal of any person with common sense to have anything to do with trusts of any sort, as they are sure to lead to disaster. Tne results of such combina- tions are evidently not accidental. When a trust puts prices up to a point where exces- sive profits follow, a rush of capital in that direction is sure to come, often accompanied by a decrease in consumption. The amount of capital invested is abnormal, and an abnormal depression follows, s Lmprovements in Armawment. Philadelphia Record. An interesting experiment in gunmaking will be the construction at the ordnance shops in Washington of an S-inch steel gun on_the built-up-plan, chambe: to load with high explosives. If such pon can le to stand the tremendous bursting r developed by the detonation of the re- cently discovered high explosives the prob- lem of milita d navalattuck and defense on i new aspect, and the ients of the last ) will degree of decisiveness they Plattsmouth Journat There is a constant stream of flattery is- suing from the monovoly republican press these days for Secretary Morton, who secms to be their ideal of & démocrat. To a man more suspicious this wouid naturally set him thinking that there might be something out of sorts in his course, but Mr. Morton is as unsuspecting as & child, and he goes right on feeling s good over i f it were demo- crats instead of republi st were laud- ing him to the skies, The greatest of men are sometimes pleased at being praised. But if hes wants to put himself in_line with Ne- braska democrats he must trim his sails to a different breeze, Time for the Inquest, New York Tribune, The desperate attempt of the tory organs of Canada to prove that the Dominion is, on the whole, quite as ptogperous as the United States, convince omiy'the official placemen and place hunters, ‘Fhe most ominous fact, of course, is the virtua). decline in the popu’ lation, ~Not only does Uanada fail to attract the bulk of desirable pmigrants from Buropo, though it sorely neods, them, but there is o constant emigration of Canadians to the Jnited States. If the country were over- populated it mizht stand this drain, for o time, at least. But this is not so. With an area almost equal €F“that of the United States, its populavion is only 4,820,411, or more than 1,000,000 less than the population of the smgle state,of, New York. When a country with S0 weager a population for such o great extent of " territory loses about 1,000,000 of its citizénd through emigration ina few years, the tinié for holding a politi cal inquestover that country is uot very far off. You'n BE — Kl LHERISH HIM. Cinetnnatt Commerctal. Thore are husbands who aro protty, There are husbantds who are witty, Thigro are husbands who in publie uro 43 sil- the rn o are husbands who are hoalthy, are hushands who are wealthy, But the real angelic husband, well, ho's never yot been born. Some for strength of love are noted, Who are really so devoted That whene'er their wives aro absent they are Tonesome und forlorn ; Andywhile now and then you'll find ono Who's i fairly good aud kind one, Yot the real angelle husband, ob, he's never yet been bora! 80 the woman who s mated To tho mun who may be rated As pretty falr, should chérlsh hiw forever and ature. 1, quite, y feature, r been dlscovered, and be won't thoy suy. LIGHT ON DARK PLACES, Tobias ‘Tribune: The impeachmont trial is moving right along, the supreme court being occupied overy duy this week fn tak- ing tostimony. The trial appears to be in no wise on the fake order. MeCool Reeord : According to the corpora- tion organ, the State Journal, the tmpeach- ment case is a howling farce. but according to the testimony of the witnesses in court, thore has been w great amount of fraud and corruption carried on in connection with the penitentiary Banuer County News: Nebraska's im- peached officials are apvarently not count- mgona complete vindication, but will bo satisfied if thoy can by any means retain their offices, This they can possibly do by iegal quibbles of various kinds, known only 1o the initiated, Niobrara Pioneer: The impeachment cases are opening up strange revelations. The peovle will occasionally et on top. ‘The new officers, with Auditor Moore at the head, are making worthy records in business mothods. Jobs are getting scarce under the new order of things, Elkhorn change: The impeachment vridl is bringing about a genoral investiga- tion which seems 1o be pretty thorough, as something new is being developed each day and from present indications those who are being tried and a few of their associates as well will begin to think that it would have been better for thom had thoy discharged their duties as was required of them by law., We trust that the pood work may go on to afinish and if needs beexpended double $15,000 to bring them to justice, Fairfield Tribune: Theimpeachment trial now in progress against state officials dis- closes a condition of rottenness and corrup- tion that is a shame and disgrace to the state. This system of knavery and plunder has been going on for years and the high public functionaries who sat supinely by with their oyes wide open and saw theso glariug frauds committed and the public funds stolen and misappropriated, whether they participated in the division of the money thus unlawfully taken from the treas- ury or not, should bo held to a just accounta- bility for thelr acts and punished accord- Lincoln Herald: Impeachment still holds the boards up at the state capitol. Tho trial drags wearily on and it will probably be con- cluded this month. Whatever may be sad of the guilt or innocence of the accused state ofticials, they canunot escape censure for the manner in which they allowed Bill Dorgan and others to run the affairs of the state, If the state officials had guarded the busi- ness interests of Nebraska with half the zeal a prudent business man would run his own affairs, there would be no necessity for this large expenditure of money in the im- peachment trial. Tilden Citizen: The Lincoln State Journal is rending the air with its plaintive howls against the investigation of crooked state and ex-state officials now in progress. That organ has been the staunch friend of corrup- tionists for many years ana no pers quainted with its history is at all surprised to see it defending state house thieves now. All the Journal can say or do willnot stay the wheels of justice this time, for the people have resolved to destroy, if possible, the power of designing villains and their cappers. Tho plea that Lincoln's reputa- n is being injured by this investigation will not avail. Money has been appropriated for the purpose of cleansing the state house and the work will proceed regardless of consequences. When the Journal folks acknowledgn that a terrible disgrace over- hangs their city, they ackunowledge a be- lief in the existence of corruption, and shouid aid the people to remove it instead of, throwing cold water on a popular movement in that direction. Yorl Press: It is truly pathetic to see how: industriously the republican papers aro now defending the state officials whose im- peachment trials are now being conducted. The State Journal leaus in the assault upon every mun who dares to hint that the oficials may be guilty. In the face of testimony showing rank dishonesty of subordinates, with no effort on the part of their superiors to protect the state from the organized rob- bery, the Journal writes column after column of slush calculated to foreshadow their acquittal and every litle two by ten g 0. p. sheet in the country echoes their screed. They have got bravely over the talk, “Let the guilty be punished,” that they were so full of o few months ago. It is hardly fair to foreshadow and prophesy what the decision of the court will be, but to 1ead the revublican papers one can only come to the conclusion that they expect these men to be whitewashed by two judges and condemned by one. Be thut as it may, the testimony is before the people, thanks to the efforts of 1d Rosewater in Tug O»ana Bee,and be sure, all ye who read, that already is there testimony enough be- foro the people to convince them that a change is an 1mperative nccessity. White- wash 1 be applied, but out in the country where the votes are cast, the real court before whom these men are being tried exists, and if the republ their party from the effe misdoing they had best beginto try to rather than discou a complete inve gation. Every attempt to hamper, e effort to belittle the evidence, every slur at the attorneys for the prosecution will be charged up to the republican party, and it will soon be generally believed that the men who run these party organs desire to cover up rather than disclose, corruption that has gone on for muny years, confined to the rauks of the republican party. ———— THROWING DOWSN THE BARS. St. Paul Globe: Opening the gates will greatly increase the receipts; and, from Present appearances, the management will need every dollar that can be had to come out evel Denver Republican: Throwing the World's fair grounds open on Sunday, while all the buildings are closed tight, will prove a very unsatisfactory compromise in our opinion. Washington Post: If it be true that the question of opening the Worla's fair on Sun- 41;11’ has resolved itself into a matter of dol lars and cents we re willing to risk our dollars and cents that the Chicago people will open it Kansas City Journal: the World's fair Sunday opening problem will hardly be satisfactory to either sido, Visitors may go into the grounds at half price, but the buildings will be closed to them. Ifitis rignt and proper o open the exposition at all, it is right to open it wholly and charge full ra of admission. What is the virtue in a half-way business? Philadeiphia Record: Their paltry, quib- compromise measure of ning the ates and side shows, but closing the main builaings, is as destitute of business seuso as of digniy, In @ matter of such moment half-way proceedings are calculated simply itate both sides. One faction or the other must give way. It is unfortunate that at this critical period in the great undertuk ing the detirmination of this question should been 1bft to men apparcntly anxious to evade responsibili Detroit F'ree Pross: That the half oven- g is & quibble is shown conclusively by the demand of o price for admission. 1t may be urged that the price is)a small one; but it will be very difticult to persuac onest men that the difference between good faith and breaking o pledge is a mere matwer of b per cent. 1f is & sin or any breach of contract i giving a b0 tshow on Sunday there is Just us much Just as much breach of Ccontract iu giving a 25-cent show. This is one of the cases in which there is no ques tion of degree. The stealing of the tinies lamb in the flock is larceny just as much as it would be to carry off the fattest wether, The compromise in | pounds, or 10.46 tons for eve INRXCUSABLE STUPIDITY. Wanoo, Neb., May 16.~To the Rditor ot THR BEE: [ have been a constant reader of impeachment proceedings from the com. moncement of the trial before the supreme court to date, as they have been reported in Tur Ber. Have just read Race's statoments of coal delivered ard charged for twelve months from and including Decembor, 1800, to and including December, 1891, for twelve months, the month of May, 1801 not being given. According o Mr. Race, during twelve months alluded were delivered 5,503,600 there were charged 240,141 barrel There was actually delivered 3001 tons, 1,600 pounds. There was charged 7,124, tons, 1,141 day of the #00 enumerated 2,001 tons, or and_every months named. The in must be A very warm place the yvear iround, when within a fraction of eight tons of coal is consumed overy twonty -four hours for the whole year, Now, if the state has paid for nineteen and one-half tons for overyaay for @ year it would be considerable warmer than if they consumed eight tons. If the state paid for it the state ought to have it. It 1s not necessary for a man of ordinary intelli- gence to go into an investigation when bilis for the amount of coal are presented, even of an average of eight tons per day, to at once know that a fraul is being porpotrated. When state ofticials audit and allow any such enormous bills as those, taking the low- est amount stated by Race, they give ovidence of astupidity so enormous and inexe that 1o ° honest mau can como to any other conclusion than that they are intentionally dishonest, or too stupid to do busi for the state or even for themselves There can be uo excuse for such oficial blindness. There ave, T believe, less than 400 inmates in the asylum at Lincoln. Take Race's lowest figures and each inmate would consume seven tons in twelve months. Every mother's spn of them could have a soft coal base burner of his own and then have a sur- vlus. When the facts ure stated there is no f amplific Pl OF argument to come to a conclusion. There are two horns in the case, incompetency one, dishonesty the other, REPUBLICAN. —_——— PERSON. NERAL the there and days of .the twelve months thi actual amount received w: an average of 7.2 tons for e day of the twelve sane asylum Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox uses five qnarts of milk to one complexion bath. Ex-President Harrison is counsel insa street rarvoad suit just filed in the federal court at Indianapolis. The old Knapp mansion in W: owned by the family of the Maeyer, recently sold for 20,000, A babel of langnages may be heard in the Midway plaisance, but the babel of tongues holds the fost in the Woman's building at the World's fair. Lord Aberdeen, the new governor general of Canada, was lord lieutenant of Ireland in 1886, and became the most popular ofticial in that trying position in half a century. roy is 00 years of age. Twenty-flve years ago his writings were L over the country. He is now inter- ested in raiiroad schemes in Cororado. Schweinfurth, the Rockford Messinh, has arranged tosend a trotter to the circuit meets this year. Mr. Schweinfurth will take to pool betting as well as religious faking to make & living, evidently. King Humbert of Italy gave £500,000 for tho foundation of an institute for the orphans of workingmen in commemoration of his silver wedding, The receipts from the great his- torical tourney amounting to $40,000 were devoted to charity. Mus. Cleveland's tastes in jewelry are very simple. Although she owns a number of rings, she rarely wears any except her wed- ding ring. A favorite ornament on dress oc- casions is a besutiful diamond ster, which us one of her wedding gifts. The late Queen Mingo, wife of the king of the Kaw Indians, was accompanied to tho happy hunting grounds with several pounds of jerked beef, a quantity of bread and a gourd of water, Immediately after the in- terment the chief had three ponies lariated and choked to death on the newly made grave as a sacrifice to his departed wife. Roscoe Cornkling used to say that the simplest way for a person to stop the habit of tobacco chewing was to keep a kage of crystallized candy in his pocket and sub- stitute a lump of it for the “'weed" whenover a desire arose for the latter. This way, Mr. Conkling said, he had broken off to 0 chewing, but ne nad never been able to abandon smoking. Congressman _Thomas J. Geary, author of the famous Chinese exclusion law just afirmed by the suprewe court, hails from California, though a Massachusetts man by birth. Heis 39 years of age. He removed to California in 1863, studied law and was admitted to the bar, and on the resignation of Congressman J. J. DeHaven was chosen as his successor. He was re-elected to the Fifty-second congress by a bare plurality, is a democrat in polit nd is a member of the interstate and foreign commerce and foreign affairs committees. me of “James Gordon Bennett, pro- no longer appears at the head of orial columns of the New York It is stated the paper, valued at £5,000,000, has passed into the hands of a stock company, in which Bennett holds a controlling int 108sip has it that the change was md cure loans to meet losses sustained in conr i with the establishment of the Mackay-Bennett cable id by Mr. Bennett's Kuropean editions of his paper in Par d London, Mr. Ben- nett came over to this country last week and I'riday he led for Europe again, William C. Rieck, city editor of the Herald, impanied him. Simultaneously with his arture for Kurope his name disappeared from the editorial puge. ashington, ate General CAPTURED WORK IN OMAHA, Denver Flem Wi Frobably Complete PostofMes Rallding. WasHINGTON BUREAU OF T1ie Brg, 518 FountersTi STRART, Wasnixatos, D, €., May 16, Bids were openod today for th' Omaha postofice builaing as follows Foster & Smith, Minneapolis, $486 96 T. J. Hale, Omaha, $50,867; Ashe! Basford, St. Paul, $48.800; L. L. icact & Son, Chicago. $20,388: Portage K, try Quarry company, Chicago, §3109,000 Geddes & Seerie, Denver, #21,900; Moun") Waldo Granite Works, ' Maine, $303,700. These bids were all for granite Thero were soveral other bids for sandstone and limestone whicl | did mot meet the specifications. (3ed! des & Seorfo of Denver will probably get the contract. They aro now building the Kan | as City building Watkins Appointed Recelver, o Comptroller Kckels this morning _ap] pointed Albert Watkins of Lincoln, Neb., erceiver of the defunct FirstNational bank of Ponca. Mr. Watkins was postmaster at: Lincoln during Cleveland's first term. South Omaha Appointments, Secretary Morton today ordered the ro | instatement of the lady assistant micto scopists in South Omaha who were removed” follow Misses Lulu B. Gil homas and Mrs. Orpha C, Thomas, They each received $600 a year. Tho reap- | pointments will take effect May 22, E Miscollaneous, Comptrollor of the Currency letin on change ports the following : fartington, Neb., H. H. Clar place of D, T, Gilman; K ell, S. D, K. 1. Moses cashier from assistant to fill vac count of deat NEBRASKA AND Eckols' bul-g| of bank_organization re. First National “bank of promoted o Eagle is to have a town hall built by a stock company. y A lodge of Knights of Pythias is to b ot | ganized at Randolph. The creamery at Humphroy is to be pushed | to completion at once. [ A. A. Reel has been elected suporint entof the Crete public schools tv suce W. H. Skinner. Valentine's city fathers have put the | town in such excellent sanitary condition that a siege of cholera couldn't touch it. The Cherry county commissioners have awarded the contract for building an_iron J bridgoe over the Minnechaduza on the Rose- ¢ bud Agency road. “Thornton A ing a store at Brc d. 1t confessed to burglariz: on the night of May 2 and was s d o threo years in tho penitent has already begun to serve his time at the pen. Ina dispute over some horses near Kon- v, Chorry county, J. R. Smith shot at J, - Goe of Shelton, but his aim was poor and s bullet buried 1tself in a_horse. Smith was arrested and is now in jail. June 13 to 23 have been fixed on as the dates for the Beatrice Chautauqua. Among the workers already engaged by Superin- tendent Davidson are Dean Alfred A Wright of Boston, Prof. W. S. Weeden of Pittsburg, Dr H. H. O'Ne amuel Phelps Leland, - Charles B. Mitchell of Kansas City, Dr. Henry Mott of Dubuque, and a host of other loading lights in the Chautauqua firmament. Agrand program of specizl entertainments will be provided, including many of the most eminent names in the country. William Sparks, a young man whose home is in Auburn, was probably fatally shot at “alls City by a tramp giving the name of Smith. Young Sparks was in the second hand store of J. H. Harris and the tramp proposed that he and Sparks trade rovolvers. While Sparks was showing his revolver the tramp pulled his revolver and- in a spirit of wanton meanness pointed it ,at young Sparks and fired. ‘Lhe bullet lodged in the groin of Sparks and before aid could be summoned Sparks almost bled to death. The tramp was immediately arvested and on his person were found several razors, six gold pens, three watch chains, seven fancy penholders and other small plunder. TRUTHS AND TKIFLES. Tt Is n strong boarder who s of hash without turning u, Boston Courler: can eat throo pl hair. Chicago Tribune: The broommakers have Just closed a convention at St. Louls. In tho matter of price lists they seem to have made soveral sweeping changes! Buffalo Courier: A saw gencrally means | business when its teeth aroe set. 11 the entist. Detrolt Free Pre use both urms?” asks a sc she will permit it oming man He will it cnyune: The president can ands with an office seeker 1 o shake that will lust. New Orleans Pl afford to shuke when he can give Philade} ord: bet you can't tell me made of. Wigwag—They're made of a sort of very light bark, of course, Blobbs—Say, Wig, I'il what a dog's pants aro Troy Press: Just whon the coffee thinks It has good grounds for complaint tho exg drops i and sottles the whols business. 2,300 brow- upward tendency, Kind of mounti' Philadelph in Aner At this rate t goat. THE ACCEPTED TIME. Kansas City Journal, Now's the time the you s fancy Lightly turns to thoughts of love, 1in dizzy ic n pints he 15 upon his turtle dove, waiden, playoed in I cold. BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manutacturacs a1l @y5ilazh of Clothing la thy Woeil We're Cleaning Up You've no idea what a relief it will be when those everlasting hammers get out of the store. years we've been hampered for room and for weeks we've been hammered for more room--and now we've got il — then cleaning up. to show off our new room in a few days now. We're so glad to get done that we feel | like as if we might present a For comes the We'll be ready | house and lot to those who come to the grand opening in a week or so—provided they don’t say anything about hammers—and speaking of hammers reminds us that we're hammering out a lot of suits, the prices on which have been hammered down to the lowest ebb. BROWNING, Etore open overy eveninztlll 6.3k Buturduy Ui KING & CO., 1 8. W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts.