Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 27, 1893, Page 4

[ \ » ERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. {ly Bee (without Sanday) One Yeoat Aily and Sunday, One Year lfill""v! P hiree Montis. .. upday Hee, One ¥ Frurdny Dioe, Ong Year Joekly Foo, o YoaT...... (1 OFFTCES, 'maha, The Bee Bullding. flu”:’: ymaha, corner N and 26th Streeta. ‘Ilht'll "‘,l'lxfl'i. ;?"l'(v_lnrl 9]'\‘!‘1‘!,. Commenee. feago Ofice, Jhamber of Com: . 8 ow York, Kooms 18, 19 and 16, Tribuno 11din Q\'nsh‘fimmn. 518 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. " 11 communications relating to news an E?m?e'.l"y.’;'a"'w “hould be addressed: To the itor. BUSINESS LETTERS, £ All husiness letters and romittances should p addressed to The Bee Publishing Co mpany, maha. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders 1o be mado payable to the order of the com- pany. Partles loaving the city for the summer can have the Beg sent thelr address by leaving an order at this officc. THE B PUBL = - —menasa 8333333 COMPANY. SHING BWOIN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebraskna, Count; George 1. Tazchuok, secretary of Tik BEE pub- Yiahtng eompany, does wolomnly DAL of Douglas, woar that the il elrculation of Ti for t) k ending May 20, 1803, was F““ May 14 onday, May 15 24,200 £0. 1. THZCHUCK. Sworn to bofore me and subsoribed dn my pres: once this th day of May, 186, . P, FRIL, Notary Publle — == Avernage Circulation for April, 1893, 24,281 ‘WHEN the tiresome controversy over Dr. Briggs is settled perhaps tho Pres- byterian heresy hunters will kindly per- mit the world to go on again. Now that the Cherokee Indians have gone to Wall street to obtain a loan of $6,000,000, all doubts asto the ultimate civilization of the aborigines will be dispelled. THE supervising architect at Wash- ington is beginning to realize that the people of Omaha are very much in earnest in their desire that the new postoflice shall be constructed of granite nstead of limestone. SUPERIOR has again been successful in securing the interstate reunion of the soldiers of the late war. The metropolis of Nuckolls county has demonstrated her ability to take care of the gatherings and she is rapidly becoming known as one of the lively towns ot Nebraska. ‘WE concede that the property of rail- roads in Nebraska shall be taxed in proportion to its actual value no higher than any other class of property. real or personal. We insist, however, that the railroads should be made to pay their shareof local taxes thesame asany other class of property owners. This is both xight and fair. THE grand jury is still in session at Tincoln. and some startling develop- ments are promised before a final ad- journment is reached. While nothing definite comes from behind the closed doors of the jury room, it is generally understood that the mysterious circum- stances surrounding the death of Convict Powell at the state penitentiary last De- cember are being investigated. OMAHA holds her own in the business world so steadily as to strengthen more than ever the faith of her citizens in the city of their adoption. While the affairs of the financial and commercial world are shaken by the wrecks of plans and the failures of enterprises, the Gate City pursues prosperity’s path. Bradstreet’s report for last week credits Omaha with an increase of 22.6 per cent in the total of bank clearings over the corresponding period of 1892, a most gratifying showing indeed, when con- trasted with the veports made for other cities. ANOTHER important ruling affecting homesteaders is established in the gen- eral land office. The supreme court holds that in the death of a homestead entry man leaving no widow, but both adult and minor heirs, patent when is- sned should issue to all the heirs equally and not to the minor heirs to the ex- clusion of the adults, This is contrary to the uniform rulings heretofore, but Secretury Smith holds that all cases in conflict with the decision must be con- sidered overruled, and hercafter all patents issued must conform to this de- _eision, THE cowboy race from Chadron to Chicago which will take place next month is attracting widespread atten- tion and is being denounced in unmeas- ured terms by the press and pulpit of the east as a piece of barbarity and in- humanity. The oruelty of the proceed- ugs is largely the product of a wrought- upimagination. The horses to be ridden are of the hardy broncho species and the work they will be urged upon to per- form will be little if any more .arduous than what they have been accustomed to. Besides, they have been in training for tho race for months and they are likely toarrive in Chicago in much bet- ter condition than their riders. The " race will be a notable event and will be atehed with interest by the people of @ entire country. THE rule of Nobraska railroads which limits lecal tickets to the day upon which they are purchased is to be tested in the courts. Under tho rule, which went into offect nearly a year ago, parties purchasing local tickets must use thom the same day or forfeit the privilege of using them. Local agents are permitted to refund the money for unused tickets within three days, after which time they must go through the red tape process atthe general offices. A citizen of Hardy purchased a ticket for Superior on April 18, but did not use it. Soveral weeks later he presented it to the agent at Hardy and asked for a new ticket or his monoy. Both were re- fused. He then boarded the cars and offered the ticket. The conductor re- fused it and demanded fare. Not receiv- ing it he ejected the passenger, who mow brings suit for damages. It is .\urdlx‘ probable the courts will sustain rule. AN INCOME TAX. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, who 1s probably as near to the administration as any news- paper man in Washington, states that the president has not said, as reported, that he proposes to recommend an in- come tax. Colonel Carson says thathe is assured that the president has not definitely decided to recommend the restoration of the income tax. The correspondent says: There is no doubt that western and southern mem- bers of congress who favor the restoration of this tax have dis- cussed the question with the president | and urged him to recommend its reim- position, but theso gentlemen have ev dently mistaken the silence of the pres dent, or rather his failure to disapprove their arguments and recommendations, for acquiescence.” Continuing, thecorr spondent, who is entitled to the fullest measire of confidence, says that the president “has not said nor intimated to any verson that he favors the reimposi- sion of an income tax, nor has he ex- pressed a purpose to join with that a recommendation for the repeal of the tax on the circulating notes of the state banks."” Commenting on the proposition to re- store the income tax, the Philadelphia Ledger, a paper which is supposed to stand pretty close to the administration and to reflect as nearly as any other paper in the country the views and in- tentions of the administration, takes a very positive position against an income tax. That journal says that ‘“‘the in- come tax is an unfair tax, and, being that, it cannot be defended successfully upon any other ground. The unjust, ununiform, discriminating tax, which is levied upon one class entirely for the advantage of all classes, has no excuse, much less no justification, for its exist- ence. ‘‘But,” says the Ledger, “besides being in its very nature unjust, the in- come tax is obnoxious, because it is an inquisitorial tax. It is one which puts a government inquisitor into every man's home and office, and which com- pels every man, if desived by the inquis- itor, to unlozk his closets and reveal any transaction of his private business. It s further objectionable,” says the same journal, “for being the most froitful source of lying, and is one of which the untruthful avoid payment by making false statements of their income.” On the same subject the New York Sun says that to *'levy an™income tax is just as inadmissible as 1t would be to abolish the internal revenue,” and that iournal opposes the proposition as abso- lutely hostile to the entire history and policy of the democratic party. It declares that system contemplates ‘‘class legislation and preferred beneficiaries of govern- ment bateful to every true demo- crat, and denounced in every democratic latform since the adoption of the con- stitution.” There is probably no better authority for the position of the administration on public questions than the Philadelphia Public Ledger, and the statement by the Washington correspondent of that jour- nal that the administration has not con- sidered the proposition to reimpose the income tax, together with the editorial expression by that paper in opposition to such a tax, may safely be regarded as conclusive that his expedient for rais- ing revenue will not be resorted to by the next congress upon the recommen- dation of the present administration. THE PUBLIC PATRONAGE. There is a lullin the work of distrib- uting the public patronage, but talk as to what President Cleveland intends to do abouv it goes on in undiminished quantity. The notice which the presi- dent gave the place hunters ashort time ago, that he proposed to devote less time to them and more to the urgent business of the government, at the same time telling them that their claims to consid- eration would not be helped by wor ing him with their personal appli- cations, seems to have had the desired effect. Washington is not now swarming with office seekers, heads /of departments are having more time to attend to their business duties, and the president has obtainad needed relief. That he has displeased a great many ex- pectant spoilsmen is a matter of course, but he has good reason to be satisfied with his order, which is approved by the intelligent sentiment of the country. There are conflicting statements as to what Mr. Cleveland intends to do, or to endeavor to havo doue by congress, with regard to the civil service. It is repre- sented on the one hand that he is con- templating a policy which will prac cally do away entirely with the present method of making appointments in the public service. Those who thus report say that he desires to greatly extend the scope of eivil service reform and that he will do this to the full extent of his au- thority. Furthermore, it is said, he has come to believe that politics should have no influence in determining appoint- ments and that it is his intention to make this view manifest hereafter, On the other hand, it is said, upon what must be regarded as equally good au- thority, that Mr. Cleveland has no intention of refusing to make appoint- ments for political reasons, and that while he will not make removals for such reasons, except when offensive partisanship is shown, all vacancies will be filled by democrats. Upon this latter authority it is also said that the presi- dent has not yot considered any changes in the civil service rules, and while this may come later he has n» such inten- tion as has been attributed to him of putting all minor appointments under @ commission and establishing a perma- nent tenure, There has been some eriticism, on the part of radical civil sery: of the administration for changes that have been made which seemed to be altogether in the interest of politics, but it would be unfair to find fault with the president because he hasnot been particular to please this class of reformers. The truth is that the administration has not gone as far as it was expected to by its party and by the opposition in making changes in the offices, and under the circumstances the democrats are the people who haye the best right to complain. Mr. Cleveland is & good partisan, and there is no reason to doubt that he intende to make his administration as thoroughly demo- cratic as possible. but there isalso no reason to doubt that he will endeavor to carry out his declared views regarding civil service reform. This matter of the distribution of the publie patronage is becoming every four years a more serfous one, under the prevailing sys- tem of appointments. If Mr. Cleveland can bring about changes that will sim- plify the problem and lessen the difficul- ties that are associated with it he will accomplish something of great value to the country. The weight of testimony is that he intends to make the effort. FIGHTING THEIR PAXES. There never has been a time since Omaha was made a railroad station that the railroad property located in this city and county has borne its due proportion of local taxes. While millions of dollars | in the shupe of froe right of way through the streets of Omaha have been voted and given to the railroad companies, and although the railroads enjoy all the benefits and protection of municipal gov- ernment for which other property is taxed, they have always managed to evade local taxation by every subterfuge that can be devised. The fact is that tax shirking and tax fighting is made a high art by the rail- road companies. _Each of these corpo- rations has a tax fighting bureau of which their general attorney is the head and whose sole business it is to interpose objections, protests and injunctions, and when all these fail to diffuse lubricator among county commissioners and town counc It is therefore notin the least surprising that the railroads are resist- ing the attempt to enforce that portion of the charter which requires the coun- cil to list for city taxation the property of railroads, including depot grounds, machine shops and other buildings. Just wiy this class of property should be oxempted from city taxation only a railroad attorney and a tax fighting agent of the railroad (companies can conceive. The railvoad property is protected by the police and the fire dopartments. The railroads enjoy all the privileges and advantages which other property owners enjoy by reason of municipal govern- ment. Why should they not also bear their due proportion of the cost of main- taining such a government? The only answer they give is that the roads are assessed by the state board in a lump, and therefore an assessment of their lots and buildings would be double taxation. Hasn’t this imposture been played upon Omaha long enough? Where does the double taxation come in? Why should the railroads be permitted to evade their share of city taxes on the plea that they have thrown all their prop- erty into the state dump? : Is it fair or reasonable that the small property owners in this city shall bear the expense of city government while the railroads with their millions of property go practically scot free? Is there any decency or fair play in this continuous tax fighting by corporations who have been so generously ‘treated by our city and county? Because the rail- roads have managed by sharp practice to evade hundreds of thousands of dollars of city and county taxes in the past twenty-five years is there any reason why they should be permitted to continue to shift their just proportion of taxes upon other taxpayers who are already overburdened? If they persist in tax fighting the city will, as a matter of self-defense, be compelled to abrogate and revoke the privilege of free use of streets and alleys. THE habit of circulating rumors inimi- cal to the intercsts of commercial houses is common to almost every community. The subject was recently brought to the attentlon of the New York grand jury, which presented to the court a paper on the subject that is worthy of general attention. The jury set forth that while rumors might be intended to effect only private individuals, the public injury that might be occasioned is mani- fost, and the wrong is cqual, re- gardless of how the rumors gain cur- ren A conspiracy to circulate fa rumors, said the report of the jury, i in no case a trivial offense, and where the object is to destroy publie confidence in vesponsible business concerns and thus to create a feeling of general dis- trust and apprehension in financial and banking circles, the offense becomes doubly grave and m s the severest condemnation. There can bo no ques- tion regarding the correctness of this position. The character and reputation of a business house ought to be as sacred as that of the family, and a statement affecting the credit of a manu- facturer or merchant, or a busi- ness man of any kind, that has not the surest and most substantial foundation, should subject the author of it to severe punisnment. There ought to be stringent legislation in every state for the punishment of persons who eircu- late false veports regarding the charac- ter and standing of financial and business institutions. Tug stolidity that may characterize men occupying official position in their vecognition of the ordinary rules that govern every day life is simply amazing. Laches and irregularities of a public offics which if attached to a civil offender would consign him to lgnominy, are esteemed by his poors as at worst only venial. An instance in point is the result of a court martial recently sitting at Leavenworth. The officers composing the court through stange moral obliquity esteemed the criminal offense of which the defendant was guilty so lightly that it brought from the secre- tary of war well merited rebuke, *‘In private life,” said he, “‘a verson tried and adjudged guilty of assigning prop- erty as collateral and then collecting and appropriating the avails to his own use, or of transferring the same property to two separate persons, would be sub- jected to severe and humiliating punish- ment. That & court martial, compris- ing officers of rank and experience should 80 lightly regard similar offenses here fully established is a reproach to the service and the proceeding is in marked inconsistency with the duty of protecting and maintaining the high sense of personal honor which has long charac- THE 6&1{5 terized the roputagiom of the army." As pertinont an indeadoe isseen in the case of the impeaghefl state officials. The carelessness, neglect, and unbusi- ness-like mothods "'that characterizo their management of the state institu- tions under their charge, would if found in the superintendent ¥ employe of any reputable business firmhave insured his summary dismissal, (/Yet these men looked on the laches of'cach other with utter indifference and their associates esteemed the irregulatities complained of as unworthy consideration. With suporcilious effrontery they resented the slightest criticism of their acts as pre- sumptuous impertinefce, and now that they are brought to book they raise the whimpering ery of persecution. Doubt- less the courtmartialed officer, and the court o severely censured by Secretary Lamont for their culpable leniency, would also make the same plea but that wholesome discipline prevents. Yet there is not an intelligent person any- where but who recognizes the incon- sistency of the court's proceedings and the justice of the secretary’s scathing reproof. The spirit that actuates the proper criticism of the state officials’ conduct is exactly that which animated the righteous indignation of the war secretary. It arises instinctively from the fact that in a free state the code of ethiss that governs the people must gov- ern also the servants of the people which these officials only are. A FEDERAL judge in New York has discovered what appears to be an essen- tially weak point in the Chinese exclu- sion law. e finds that the section re- quiring the deportation of Chinamen who fail to comply with the terms of the law does not provide how or by whom the order of deportation is to be exe- cuted, and therefore the law is in- effectual, though not unconstitutional. It is somewhat remarkable that the able lawyers who have discussed this statute and the eminent jurists of the supreme court who are presumed to have studied every detail of it with the utmost cave, failed to discover this alleged defect, and in consideration of this it is difficult to be lieve that there is any real importance in the question raised by Judge La- combe. At any rate the law is at pres- ent ineffectual for an equally valid rea- son, namely, the failure of congress to provide a sufficient appropriation for its enforcement. It is understood that the secretary of the treasury proposes to comply with the requirements of the law as long as the money for the purpose lasts, the amount of which will erable him to return to theéir: native land per- haps 100 Chinamen, l l FRIENDS of the impeached officials at Lincoln are trying to ‘‘boycott” the ban- quet to be given by the Young Men's Republican club, because Hon. G. M. Lambertson is likely to be one of the speakers for the occasion. Their efforts in this direction are on a par with their constant and effusive ‘apologies for the corruption that has long existéd in the state house. Mr. Lambertson was em- ployed by the legislature representing the whole peovle and he only did his duty in a manly way. Glve Them a Boost Downward, New York World, It is quite pleasant to have the trusts die natural deaths, but it would be much better if the officers of the law would contribute a little to their discomfiture. Dishonoriug the Piatform, New York Sun. If congress should not lay a _revenue duty on tea, coffee and sugar when it comes to re- form the tariff, why, then, tho purposo of the Chicago platform will be frustrated and the democracy will be dishonored, Prayers Foliow Preying. Pioneer Press. The clergy of Melbourne have appoiuted a day of humiliation and prayer that no more financial disasters may come upon them. A day in their parliament set_aside for the en- actment of sound financial legislation would tend to a speedy auswering of these peti- tions. ey Tariff Revision, Globe-Democerat, A moderate revision is the utmost that the democrats can hope for in the way of tariff changes i the present congress, and prob- ably this is all they will attempt. There is no excuse whatever for the cry that free trade is going to be brought about. Such declarations, if credited, would frighten the community, und create a feeling of distrust which would check enterprise and do serious harm to general trade. - e ‘fhe sugar Bour Boston Advertiser, The producers of maple sugar in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont will get about #70,000 in sugar bounties this year, Th sum is not a swall one, considered by its but on the other hand it is worthy of mel tion that the law which fixed the suga bounties revised the sugar tariff so as to in- sure the American people a saving of many millions of dollars every year on grocer's bills, The sugar bounty is small indeed when compared with the amount saved by the repeal of the sugar duties, — The Friend of Republics, New York Sun, It is a curious fact that Russia's only friends among the great powers of the world are republics, the two republics of France and the United Sta The czar is not much of an admirer 8f the German and Austrian kaisers, or thed talian king, or the “T'urkish sultan, or the Hyitish sovereign, but he is on_the best of ferms with Mr. Clov land and Monsieur Carnotand is a practical friend of their respective countries, each of which sails under a tricolored flag, Not a Land of Boston Glpbe. How the great and popialous Celestial em- pire may become a War power tweuty years hence affords a field for more or less inter- esting conjecture. v General Wolseley has expressed the belief that at some time Chinwmay overrun Rus- sia; and *Chinese” Gordon 1s said to have feared that China would sgme day send forth her hordes upon Kuro ho would leave behind them a track of Ud%lation. At present, however, China is not in the st formidable from & military point of iew. Indeed General Grant expressed the belief that Phil Sheridan, with 20,000 men, could march undeterred through tho whole P’-rrlun. e e i et e e PR et e e S e Dl empire, and the viotor of Appomattox w % ::nunqmthe lmhofl:vwol such mad —_—— ©outrol of the Niearagna Oan Harper's Weekly. In war or peace the exclusive control of this canal will be to us of inestimable value. For attacking or defending the coasts of our hemisphere and the islands adjacent thereto it 18 more advantageously situated than is Gibraltar for the Mediterranean. As a means of uniting the east and the west it will be of more value than is the Suez canal for uniting KEogland with India. The latter saves but 8,600 miles, while the Nicaragua canal saves 9,500 in the voyage from the gulf ports to n Francisco. If we are to con- tinue our policy of protecting the smaller states of the two Americas against tho larger ones and all of them against foreign encroachment we must control the canal. We must also defend our own country. Our Pacific_coast is nearly defenseless. From Now York to San Francisco is 13,000 miles by water—half the circumfer- once of the globe. Between the samo points- by the canal it is only 5,000 miles. TFrom New Orleans to San Francisco it is 13,500 miles, The canal will cut this distance down to 4,000 miles, a still greater saving. Now England can hurl a floet against our western ports by way of the Suez canal or from Austraha, while another fleet, with a base at home or at one of the numerous British strongholds along our castern coast, is threatening the ports on the Atlantic. Notonly in war, but also in competing for the commerce of the world, and especially of the western hemisphere, will the nation controlling the Nicaragua canal have an immense advantage. No trade will flourish unless protected by the strong arm of military power, and no better exam- ple of this can be vited than thatof England, Where all the great nations of the world meet in the canal, and the nations through whose territory it runs are so miserably weak, the inevitable result will be that it willifall into the hands of some great power. If that power be not ourselves then we may safely bid farewell to military or commercial suprémacy in America. The golden moment is now here when possession is easy. il iisiniicn VERDIOI OF THE POPULAR COURT. Schuyler Quill: The impeached state of- ficials malke no attempt to deny the steals, but set up the claim that they were over- worked and could not attend to the duties of the ofices. This is a weak defense. Paptllion Times: The impeachment trial has closed and the decision will probably be handed down within ten days. Perhaps the impoached officials may be as innocent as they claim to be. but the evidence leads all fair men to adjudge them guilty as charged. ‘Wakefield Republican: The trial of the impeached state officials before the supreme court at Lincoln has already brought out evidence enough to fill a huge volume. The testimony of even the accused themselves tends to show that in the expenditure of the state funds they did nov use the care which an ordinarily prudent man would exercise in the management of his own business. Whether they were *‘overworked” or not is hardly material, except, perhaps, as an ex- tenuating circumstance, for, if such was the case, they had a right to ask for more help, and if refused, to have the record to show it. This trial will be an effectual object les- son to Neoraska officials for a good many years to come. — THINGS TALKED ABOUT. The man who never had a svegetable gar- den is siarting in as usual with great en- thusiasm this year. West Virginia boasts of a two-headed woman who has two distinctly different voices—bass and tenor. The difference between a night dress and a robe de nuit is that the robe de nuit has more lace and other frills on it, as a rule. A great peach crop is promised from Dela- ware. This will make up for the backward- ness in the plum crop from Washington. In Germany and Hungary magic qualities are attached to the lime or linden tree. In some villages it is usual to plant one before a house to prevent a witch from entering. The embarrrassmeuts of a Kentucky dealer in fine whiskeys are safe to prove but temporary. He is oneof the few traders whose assets improve in value with time. California_raises great crops in her fields and orchards, and her mines last year yialded $12,000,000 in gold. When the crops fail the farmer goes out and grubs for nug- gets. It is a great country. W. C. Cabiness, a sewing machine agent of Sedalia, Mo., has a chicken that was hatched a few days ago with four legs ana feet, all of which ave perfect. It is as lively as any of the brood, aud is attracting con- siderable attention, The Medical Record shows that according to recent statistics more physicians commit suicide than any other class of people, and that lawyers come next in the cat; victims. 1t is also claimed thats creases with education and civilization, and the doctors and lawyers may, therefore, claim tolead the way in these advances. The thirteenth funny man who went into the postoffice and laying down a dollar bill asked the stamp clerk to give him ‘‘four times as many twos as ones, and the balance in threes,” got four 2-cent, and one l-cent, and thirty 3-cent stamps, and then ho got one in the reck, which the oxasperated stamp clerk came out and gave him just for luck. One of the most prevalent, if not the most glorious products of the nineteenth century is the picnic, which dates from 1802, A list of eatables and drinkables was drawn up and passed around, Kach person who pro- posed to take part in the thing was then supposed to pick out the articles he or she would provide and nick or ti them off the list. Hence the picnic, which ever since has done so much to increase the gayety of na tions. We will positively enter.no name on our subseription book, says a Texas paper, with- out the cash. We trust that no one will be- come offended at this rule of our: The fact is, we had a little trouble in east Texas with three Chinamen about back subscrip- tions. We killed two of them and hurt the other so baaly the doctors had to kill him, and in order to get out of this scrape we had to promise “Squire White” that we would never take another subscription without the cash. in the Philadelphia Ledger a Colorado lady tells how the Picket Wire river in that state derived its name. Yearsago, when first the gold fever drove men wild, a party of Mexicans made their way up the stream in question in search of the precious metal. Months passed and when the little band did not return their friends mourned them as dead, and called the river ‘‘El Riode los Animos Perdidos” (the River of the Lost Souls). Soon a Irench colony made its home on the banks of the stream, whose o was freely translated 1uto “Le Purga- ame the American cowboy. er, heard its name, and trans- ag (1) it into his own tongue, dubbed it “Picket Wire river.” THOUGATS, Vogue. Alast word In the vestibule, A touch of taper fingers; A scent of roses swoet and cool, When sho s gone, still lingers, He pauses at the carrfage door “I'o sigh a bit and ponder, He thinks the matter o'er and o'er, Aud all bls senses wander, With mantle thrown aside in haste, Hor heart a bit uncertaiy And neither time nor love to waste, Sho watches through the curtain, And she has played him well, he knows, Nor has he cared to stop her, She wonders when he will propose, He wonders how bo'll drop her. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest 1), S, Gov't Report, ol Baki Powder ABSOLUTELY PURB COURTS AND SUNDAY CLOSING, Milehetst Hasm't Announced i Plan Cone oerning the World's Fale Ga Ciioaco, 1L, May 26.—The natlonal World's fair commission, after short, sharp debate and without transacting any other business, today adjourned till July. Whether or not the threatened Sun- day closing Iitigation had anything to do with the action did not appear on the surface. 1t was claimed by those in favor of adjournment that it was next to impossible to got a quorum for the transaction of busi- ness and therefore the continuance of the 80ssi0n WS an unnocessary oxpense. It remains to be seen whether United States District Attorney Milchrist will make an ex-parte application to the court in cham- bers for a temporary injunction to close the fair on Sundays, or wlll secure a rule from the court compelling the exposition authori- ties to show cause why a permanent injunc. tion should not be issued. One of the officials explained the court process thus: *In case it is decided to provent the opening of the fair next Sunday the proper proceed- ings would be by exparte application for a temporary injunction, This applicatian would have to be made on an application showing that Sunday opening would causo irreparable injury or damage. It is only by such a showing of irreparable injury that a court is justified in issuing a temporary injunction without a full hearing. A temporary injunction is the only means by which the authorities could bo compelled to close the exposition on Sunday, for there is no_ time between now and Sunday for an ordor to show cause why pormanent. injunc- tion should be issued. But should Mr. Mil- chiist decide to go slowly ho will apply for a rule summoning the exposition to show cause why they should not be perpotu- ally restrained’ from openiug the fair. In that case considerable time would elapse be- fore the issue could be joined and the case heard. The rules of the court would allow a certain number of days before the exposition lawvers could show cause. “It would probably take three weoks be fore arguments could be heard and docision reached. In the meantime the exposition could be open on Sunday if the authorities 50 desire. Tnis indicates that the legal battle may be pre- cipitated this week if Mr. Milchrist decides to make an ox parte application_for temporary injunction. Whether Mr, Mil- christ will decido to plunge into the strugglo this week or will go at it laisurely by secur- ing an order to show cause, is yot to be de- termined.” RAW WEATHER FOR TAE FAIR. But the Day Was Made Memorable by Sev- eral Noteworth Incldents, Cmicaco, L, May Anothor World's fair day was ushered in with cold, raw weather, diminishing the attendance in com- parison with what it would have been with clear skies and comfortable tempera- ture. Among the features at the fair today was the dodication of the Irish village with religious and civ The dedication had the primate of all Ircland Feehan of tho arch dio Finert address, Tne New York room in the Woman's building was also thrown open. 1t is beau: fullys furnished and decorated and has a library of 5,000 volumes. Everything in it s the handiwork of women. Tncident to the opening was the unveiling of the marblo bust of Hurriet Beecher Stowe, The French section of the Woman's build- ing was also opencd. It is vety beautiful and attractive in_every way, representing a modern Fronch salon. - The Turnishings aro the finest, most costly and a artistic obtain- able in Paris. N A Devastated by a Cyclone. VANDALIA, Mo., May 26.—A eyelone struck Laddonia, & small town ten miles west of here, last night, killing Jack Willis, seriously injuring many others and completely wreck- ing five business houses and five dwellings. ceremonies. blessing of tho and of Archbishop . Hon. John of Chicago delivered the dedicatory CHEER NG CHATTER. Boston Transcript: There is something to be said in favor of indolence when a man is 100 lazy to run in debt. Washington Star: “I teard ‘a number of sound arguments this morning." it a scientific discussion 0. A aispute between two musiclans,” Gazette: During an epldemic of ) the dispensary doctor can boast patients. Yonke mumps ev. his “swell” Lowell Courfer: It is reported by Bishop Hood that one colored minister in this stiate uses to 0. It s a pity thut more of the white clergy do not eschow it. Indianapolis Journal vression Miss Welloph aequired fu childhood. ¢ at a scornful ex- 1t 1s alook she of her youngoer two blocks of the Most s wore spent within ago river.” Somervillo Journal: A human hair Is somo times only a 600th part of an Inch in thicks ness, but discovered in the wrong place may cause as much troublo as if 1t were us hoavy as acable tow, Kate Field's Washington: Nellie—I couldn’t love a mere man, but I think I could love a hero. Blanche—That's so nice; your love would be 50 appropriate for a hero, Atlunta Constitutio in the darkness and w petitions all piled in 1D, Como home your househelds, loft vacant of yore, or, ring tho bell softly—the lock's on the door! O, pilgrims, that walt . With your tears and Detrolt Free Press: If the money market e much tighter 1t ahould EvenR ehhnce o voberofi 0 b Funda wn Troy Press: No matter how conrteous an caroful of others' feelings a man 1« ha can help showing it when bored by & wosquito, Indlanapolis Journal: of yours Isn't he? Yabsloy—That's what I thought, but when ook bl out In town 1ast nigh o Lcm-(uyum 1 ght T found hiw 4 Mudge -That cous) o the country Is pretty greet TOO LATR. Detroit Fre, Preas. “1t he had como at the noontide hour Ho wouldn'thave como too 1ato; T would havo given him pationt taih, For then I had learned to walt.” But he camo to me in the gloaming time When another man was there, 801 told him two wore company and T broke him up with & pale. ANOTHER INGALLS LETTER IN THE SUNDAY BEE. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls has prepaved an article ex« clusively for Sunday Bee, in which he makes the bold proposition that the ne- gro problem is no nearer so- lution than it was the day the Emancipation proclama. tion was given to the world, He says: ake the Negro Back to Africa: The experiment of negro suf. frage has been a dis rous experiment to both white and black.” Colossal Exodus Predicted. Meanwhile the Race Prob- lem is the Nemesis of the Republic, and will grow in importance until it is solved. The article puts a new phase on a most perplexing question. Read it in The Sunday Bee.! THE WORLD-FAMED PROF. A, LOISETTE NEW YORK. LONDON. Will deliver his introductory lecture op MENORY, OR HIS NEW ART OF NEVER FORGETTING: e EXPOSITION HALL MONDAY, MAY 29. Evening at 8. he 1] Afternoon at 3. FREE TICKETS and Tickets for the course at For. e e G 1568 Do atreot.or V- My € A. Itoums. Instruction May Slst, June Ist and 20, otk course nt Y. M. C. 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