Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 6, 1893, Page 6

THE DAILY BEE. o = e ] E. ROSEWATER, Editor. e PUBLISHED — ERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Bmy Bee (without Sunday) One Year NIl i and Sunday, One Year.... o onths b o . v e ¥our Ono Yeur me Yo OFFIORS, Omahn, The Ree Bailding South Omnha, cornor N and 26tk Stroots. Couneif Blufts, 12 Penrl Street, Chicngo Office, 817 Chinmber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 18, 14 and 15, Tribune Buflding. Washington, 518 Fourteenth Strect. co PONDENCE. N All comnunications relating o nejes an itorial matter should be addressed: To the Edltor. BUSINESS LETTERS, All husiness letters and remittancos should e addrossed to The Bee Publishing Co mpany, Omnha. Drafis, checks and postofco ordor s 10 be nade payable to the order of tho com- pony Partics Jeaving the ity for the summer can have the 1t their address by leaving an order at this office. 3 COMPANY. The Bee in Chicago. Tk DAY and Suspay Bee (s on sale in Ohjeago ut the following places: ) o n Grand Pae Andltorin Great N 1. Wells B. Sizer, 189 State streat. 4 Tiles of The Beg can be scen at the Ne- brasxka building and the Adminisvration build- Ing, Exposition grounds. BWORN STATEMENT OF Btate of Nobraskn, Courty of Douglas, IRCULATION. Georgo B. Iishing eompan 1 clroul crotary of T BRE pub- olomnly awear that tho DAILY 1Rk for the week ending J follows M Tuesdny. Wednosda Ahursday, Jun Eians. Jugs 3 aturday, June i o, 1. T, Bworn 1o beforamo and subseribed In my pres: ence thisid day of June, 1503, N. I FEIL, Notary tor May, 189 Average Clrenlation T list of prominent Nebraska demo- crats who have been recognized by the administration is growing no longer every day. JCONOOLASM has foothold in Missouri. sonding tr down there. lently secured a They are actually in robbors to the penitentiary Tnr new government of has lasted nearly a week. The profes- sional revolutionists seem to bo lacking in their customary energy. Nicaragua the ox-Presbyterian di- vine, still has much to be thankful for. A few hundred years ago he would have been burned at the stake. THE most unfortunate result of the disinterment of the bones of Jeff Davis is the disposition of some of the southern editors to fight the war all over again. THE miners' strike in Kansas is still spreading. Two thoutand men in the 4 w=~emorthern mines quit work today. Public sentiment still remains with the strikers. I 1s predicted the attorney general will do a great deal to bring the trusts to a realizing scnse of their heinousness when he once gets to work. Wanted, ‘a starter. THE lynching of a negro in Illinois on purely circumstantial evidence proves that not all of the “latest southern out- rages" are perpetrated below Mason and Dixon’s line. IF THE democrats of Towa are only half as anxious to renominate Horace Boies as the republicans appear to have them, the Hawkeye campaign will open suspiciously for both parties. THE day that the New York Stock exchange refuses to list the trust stocks will mark the downfall of the trusts. The stock gamblers have an interest in keeping the illegal combinations alive. THE contest for election of governor in Virginia this fall seems to be narrow- ing down between the democratsand the populists, with the chances decidedly in favor of the former. It is now predicted that the republicans will not even make & nomination. THE Washington Star has figured it out that there will be no trouble in re- pealing the Sherman act at the next session of congress so far as the house of representatives is concerned. The feel- ing among the senators is still too in- definite to form the basis of a vrediction, Tne real estato dealers who con- atantly keep their fingers on the pulse of Omaba's progress and who are quick to noto every change, unite in saying that the city is enjoying asteady and healthy growth. Capital is seeking investment here and with capital come the people who use it and who are benefited by it. IN 1892 the collector of internal revenue from this district turned into the United States treasury $4,900,000, Of this amount the two Dakotas con- tributed but $42,000. The balance was contributed by Nebraska. And yet in all Nebraska a democrat could not be lovnd worthy of an appointment to the position of eollector. Tuepopulist party is not as venor- able as that other political organization which gave inspiration to the principle that to the victors belong the spoils, But it is not a laggard in way of emula- tion where it bas the power. Thus in a single day the warden of the Kansas state penitentiary removed sixteen guards and appointed populists to their places, and the headsman a novice at the business, too. THE attorney not of the United States—is making )om.hlel'lhle headway in his fight wgainst the Whisky trust. When he first instituted his suit to have the trust's charter forfeited, the attorneys for the trusts set up the plea of no jurisdiction. This plea was overruled. Then the trust filed a general de- murrer. This, too, was overruled, and the big whisky combination was given twenty days in which to convinee the court that its chartor should not be revoked. THE VEADIOT. A ruling majority of the ocourt of im- peachment has acquitted Messrs. Hast- ings, Allen and Humphrey of the charges preferred against them by the legislature, as set forth in the articles of impeachment and confirmed by the testimony adduced in the trial. The verdict rendered will not boa surprise to those who have watched the case closely, for it has been anticipated almost from the outset of the trial. The findings of the court will cause much regret throughout the state. A large majority of the people believed the impeached state officials should have been held to a more rigid account for their misconduct of the affairs of the Board of Public Lands and Buildings. While the people will bow in passive submission to the decision of the highest court of the state, they cannot be ex- pected to approve the methods that have been practiced by the officials whom the court has acquitted upon mere techni- calities. THE PLEDGE THEY GAVE. The anti-combine convention now as- sembled in Chicago is made up largely of representatives of the ropublican and democratic parties. And these are the two political parties which stand spe- cially pledged as opposed to these pernic- jons trusts. The pledges they gave in their respective national conventions are clear, conclusive and canno’ be misun- derstood. Says the platform of tho tenth repub- lican national convention, adopted at Minneapolis June 10, 1862; Wo reaftivm our opposition, declared in the republican platform of 1888, to all combina- tions of capital organized in trust or other- wise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens, We heartily in- dorse the action already taken upon this subject, and ask for such further legislation as may be required to remedy any defects in existing laws and to render their enforce- ment more complete and effective. Says the platform of the democratio national convention, adopted at Chicago- cocognizo in the trusts and combina tions, which are designed to enable capital to sezure more than its just share of the joint product of capital and labor, & natural comsequence of the prohibitive taxes which prevent the freo competition which is the life of honest trade, but we believe their worst evils can be abated by law, and we demand the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as exporience may show to be necessary. Is the nationaldemoccratic administra- tion exerting its power to insure the “‘rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control” these vicious com- binations of capital, with thatenergy that the people have reason to expect from tho earnest denouncement contained in the democratic platform? Is it not true that in this state and elsewhore both republicans and demo- crats, with individual exceptions always have been and are yet the firm friends and supporters of the corporations who labor to control arbitrarily the condi- tions of trade and commerce? Do not the peoplo look upon these declaratory and denunciatory clauses as thoidle mockery of scheming politicians andidemagogues? As hollow and empty? Sounding brass and tinkling cymbal signifying nothing? The words spoken by members of the convention who belong to cither theso old political organizations will be fraught with special significance because many of them are representative men, leaders of their respective parties. Doubtless they will explain the import of these platform protestations, that have thus far proved a trespass on the credulity and hope of the people. Tt will be wise for both democrats and republicans in the interest of the future of their respec- tive parties to recognize their errors of omission, and at the same time seek to amend and to guard against further re- prehensible commission. AS T0 THE GREENBACKS. Reference was made some days ago to a statement that it was contemplated by the secretary of the treasury to increase the present volume of United States notes, as an alternative to issuing gold bonds, if the necessitios of the govern- ment required such action. We said re- garding this that while the secretary of the treasury could reissue greenbacks he had no authority of law for an extra issue. The act of June 20, 1874, fixing the amount of United States notes, pro- vides that the amount of such *‘outstand- ing and to be used as part of the circula- ting medium shall not exceed the sum of 8382,000,000.” The resump- tion act provided for the redemp- tion of United States notes in excess only of #300,000,000. Under this act the maxi- mum amount outstanding was reduced to $347,000,000 in round numbers. The act of May 31, 1878, repealed so much of the resumption act as provided for the redomption of United States notes and forbid the secretary of the treasury to “retire any more of the United States legal tender notes.” The effect of this act was to fix the maximam of legal ten- der notes at the amount outstanding at the time of the passage of the act, and that amount cannot be increased or dim- inished without the authority of an act of congress. It is not at all probable that Secretary Carlisle, who is undoubtedly thoroughly familiar with the various acts of con- gress relating to the greenbacks, has ever had the slightost idea that he could increase their volume without the authority of congress, the suggestion having had its origin, doubtless, with some eastorn banker with little knowl- edge of the laws, but a shrewd mind for expedients. Such an expedient, how- evor, would obviously have no value should congress authorize the secretary of the treasury to adopt it, for the effect of increasing the volume of legal tender notes coincident with a decline of the gold reserve would but intensify the difficulties of the situation. What the treasury needs to do is to augment its gold reserve, now reduced $10,000,000 below what has for a number of years been regarded as a safe sum for the maintenance of the government credit, and there appears to be only one practi- cal and cortain way of doing this, and that is by the sale of bonds. The gold is not coming through the custom houses and the holders of it are not THRE OMAHMA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 6, 1898 showing great willingness to exchange it for greenbacks., There is an ample supply of gold In the country to meet onsily every requirement, but under oxisting conditions those who have it are disposed to hold on to it, actuated by practical rather than patriotic consider- ations. When early in the presen: ad- ministration Secretary Carlisle made an appeal to the country to relieve the treasury gold situation there was for a timo & quite liberal response, but it did not last, and now that the need of relief has become more urgentthan ever be- fore the disposition to furnish it appears to have been lost. Meantime gold con- tinues to go out of the country and there is a growing anxiety as to what the treasury intends to do. THE SILVER-PURCHASE LAW. The New York Chamber of Commerce recently by a unanimous vote, passed a resolution calling on congress to repeal the silver-purchase law at as earlya date as possible. It is very likely that other commercial bodies will follow this example, o that a considerable ex- prossion of opinion on this subject from business organizations may be counted upon within the next two or three months, in anticipation of an extra ses- slon of congress in September. So far as known the position of President Cleveland on this question has undergone no change since he de- clared in favor of the repeal of the law, and as he is predisposed to yield to the views and wishes of eastern financiers there is small probability that his position will undergo any change. A late report says that it is the poliey of the administration to use the patronage to influence the silver men to vote for repeal, leaving the question open as to the future of silver, and it is claimed that theefficacy of this policy hasalready been demonstrated. A Washington paper is authority for the statement that information coming from silver sources “‘makes it a safo prediction that there will bo comparatively little trouble to pass a bill through the house to repeal the Sherman silver law soon after congress meets,” and the samo authority states that there will probably be a majority of tho senate finance committee favorable to repeal. On the other hand there is a report that the president has been advised by some of those who are closest in his confi- dence that it will not be possible to se- cure the repeal of the silver purchase law without a compromise that will give equally broad recognition to silver. The policy of using patronage to in- fluence the silver men is not now sug- gested for the first time. If Mr. Cleve- land has every had any idea of such a plan, which is improbable, it is not likely that he ever seriously thought of putting it into practice. The mere statement, with no evidence of any authority for it, must have the effect to put every champion of silver in con- gress under surveillance, and the least proof that the president had really adopted such a policy could not fail to unify the silver men more firmly. The administration, therefore, could make no greater mistake than to allow it to be understood that it contemplated any such plan of converting the silver advo- cates. It is entively safe to say that Mr. Cleveland and his advisers in the administration, and particularly his secretary of the treasury, have too much political sagacity to try any such unsafe and injudicious expedi- ent. Assuming that the president is still of the opinion that the remedy for unfavorable financial conditions is in the stoppage of the purchase of silver by the government, he will undoubtedly use all the legitimate influence of the administration to bring about that re- sult, but it is safe to say that he will not regard the distribution or withholding of patronage as a part of this influence. Meanwhile the advocates of silver are not manifesting any great anxiety re- garding the situation. They claim that they are strong enough to prevent the repeal of the silver purchase act unless they are given something equally favor- able to silver, and they express a deter- mined purpose to doso. Itis not to be doubted that they are very much in earnest, but the value of their calcula- tions depends very much upon the course of the republicans in congress. What that will be it would perhaps be hazard- ous at this time to predict. A TEXAN'S PRONUNCILAMENTO. A recent message of Governor Hogg of Texas, vetoing the bill authorizing the state to receive its quota of the gov- ernment sugar bounty, is not in itself a matter of public significance. Aside from the hysterical apprehension of the paternal influence of the government that characterizos certain passages, it is merely the commonplace argument and protest against centralization and class legislation. The official source from which it issues secured for it the atten- tion its author undoubtedly expected and desired, and he is already hailed by some of the southern newspapers as the Death Dealer to the sugar bounty sys- tem. It is remarked, however, that none of these papers have a word to say against the proposed imposition of a revenue duty on the article. The com- ment has become s0 general as to invest the incident that othorwise might have passed as a merely perfunctory executive act with more than nominal import to the sugar-producing states. Nebraska is listed in that category, for with proper encouragement she may become one of the chief sugar-producing states. The facts epitomized are simply that the state of Texas owns a sugar rlanta- tlon of 2,000 acres, upon which about 1,000,000 pounds of sugar were produced last year by 165 convicts. It was on this product that the legislature wished the state to get the bdunty it is entitled to from the national government, amount- ing to about $20,000, But the governor interposed his veto to the act passed by the legislature empowering and direct- ing the superintendent of the state peni- tentiaries to receive the annuity, just as he did to a similar act two years ago. Ho this time embraces the occasion to send in a long message arraigning oongress as guilty of gross usurpation of power in passing the bounty act and declares that to accept the gratuity would make the state government aec- cessory to the crime. So long as he holds the executive office he says ‘‘the state shall treat ““5" gr bounty with derisive contempt, ,.T ‘shall not stain her hands nor dishonor her name by the acceptance of , fliis money, the polluted fruit of orime against justice and the constitution” | A glaring objootioff$0 tho bounty in the eyes of this apprehensive oxecutive is that its acceptance wonfd admit into the state the whole raft,of internal revenuo agents whoso-duty it wowld be to inspect and supervise one of her-most important industries. ‘Lhe appallisg result of this would be that Texa§ would be roped into a United States court, ‘‘where they could magnify the power'of the fedoral judge at the expensq of her independ- ence and integrity.” \ The above sufficiently illustrates the character of the public document which has subserved the purpose for which it was probably intended and placed its author conspicuously before the south as the defonder of the sovereignty of the state against the encroachments of paternalism, of her independent auton- omy and the vindicator of her integrity. As indicating how the message is re- ceived in Loulsiana, the principal sugar- raising state of the south, the 7Zimes- Democrat of New Orleans, says: The superb oxample which Governor Hogg sets of scorning federal aid with which to but- tress up a state industry will open the eves of private suzar raisers everywhore to the humiliating position which they occupy be- fore the country as the recipients of federal aid, and at the same time as the humble receivers of orders from federal ofticials. The States of the same city, denoun- cing the evil principle of paternalism, says: ‘“This is the vicious principle which Governor Hogg has the manliness to denounce, rebuke and spit upon, even though his own state and people were to be among the beneficiaries of it.” The Texas governor's objections to in- ternal ravenue officials make a point against the democratic proposition for an income tax, while the absence from the newspaper comment of any sugges- tion unfavorable to sugar duties sug- gests that the demoeratic journals quoted are prepared to advocate such duties as some others have already done. HoN. W. J. BRYAN modestly admon- ishes the St. Louis Republic, which has named him as an aspirant for the chair- manship of the ways and means com- mittee, that he is not a candidate. Neither is he for the speakership of the house for which his name has also been mentioned. True confidence in the sin- cerity of the gentleman from the first district may be somewhat marred in popular estimate by his assurance that he would not be thought “so prosumptu- ous as to aspire to either .of those places.” But this eloquent young Loch- invar of the western democracy may be aware that his name hag already been associated by some of his ardent ad- mirers with the presidency in the future. After all, remembering that no speaker of the house has yet suceeeded in attain- ing that high goal of political ambition, it is possible Mr. Bryan has determined not to accept the one'or the other of the positions should it be' offered. As the ways and means chairmanship is gen- erally the stepping stone to the speaker- ship he may have just, apprehensions as to the disinterestedness of those who have brought his namne in contact there- with. It is not likely that an importu- nate demand will be made on our friend in this instance, yet we fear that he is doomed to disappointment when he ““takes it for granted,” that his vener- able and worthy patron, Mr. Springer, will retain his place as chairman-of his committee. SoME legal technicality or cunning device seems the favorite expedient of rogues now-a-days to escape the penalty attaching to their misdeeds. It is grati- tying to see their best laid plans some- times disconcerted. Thus in Minnesota leading citizens, wealthy magnates, have robbed the state of pine to the value of half a dozen million dollars within the last twelve years. An at- tempt was made to secure a legislative investigation, but owing to some techni- cal flaw in the act making appropriation therefor the intention seemed to be thwarted, and thereupon the thieves be- came insolent in their confidence of es- cape. But now it appears that there is asurplus for legislative expenses that can be legally used and the committee proposes to push the inquiry forthwith and endeavor to bring these haughty and arrogant ringsters to justice. In fact the inquiry has already begun, and the late domineering and pretentious gang have suddenly become the humble and pationt martyrs of an iniquitous per- secution! THE successful sinking of an artesian well in the suburbs of Pierre explodes the theory that the great artesian basin of the Dakotas terminated or ran out on the west with the Missouri river, This new spouter throws 500 gallons of water under a pressure of 175 pounds to the square inch a minute, and demonstrates that at a depth of from 1,200 to 1,300 feet the artesian basin can bo reached almost anywhere east of the Black Hills, It is believed now that the basin extends westward at least to the Hills, If such prove the case there 'i8 ‘no reason why every foot of land in the broad expanse of that domain sheuld, not he made ultimately valualle by means of artesian irrigation. T ———————— HISTORY is made'up of repetitions. Phe record of the past bécomes the les- son of the future. There is no truth stands out more boldly on its pages than that the verdict of $he people is para- mount to the most entinent judicial opin- ion. The republican sénators who voted for the acquittal of Andrpw Johnson, im- peached for misdemeanor in office, passed at least temporarily!from public life. Some of them retired permanently. Their vote was not in accord with the verdiet of the people. They lost the popular confidenc Some day Omaha capital will find in- vestment in a system of railroads to the northwest owned and controlled by and directly in the interests of Omaha. When that day comes Omaha will con- trol the traffic of the northwest. Until it does come this city will have to fight for every advantage it gains. OMAHA'S new hotels will be completed in time for the greatnational gatherings which are already booked to meet In this city noxt year, The Sooner the Metten New York Sun. An early oxtra sossion is in order, ——— A Surpius of Confidence, Washington Post. No natfonal administration ever succesded in controlling the politics of a state by the uso of patronage. Those who assert that Mr. Cloveland will be able to break the record snd the New York machine at one fell swoop are heavily stocked with confi- dence in his ability. — Valuo of Irrigation. Philadelphia Record. A recent census bulletin gives n most favorable revort of the success of artificial irrigation in restoring to cultivation desert lands in California and Colorado. It 1s esti- mated thali no less than 540,000.000 acres of desort land in the west are capable of being redeemed by the process of irriga- tion. This would make 8,375,000 homesteads of 160 acres each. [ — The Buriington Extenslon. Denver Republican. The extension of the Northern Wyoming branch of the Burlington from its present terminus at Sheridan to Helena, Mon,, is now a practical cortainty. The work of construction has been begun and will be pushed to completion as rapidly as possible. The distance from Sheridan to tHelena is in the neighborhood of 800 miles. The line will cross or skirt the borders of the Yellow- stone National park. i eite All Hail the Fourth. New York Tribune. One of the most encouraging signs of the times is the healthy growth of what may be called the American spirit. This growth is secen in one of its worthy forms in the wide- spread demand that the red, white ana blue shall be hoisted over every school house. Whatever tends to quicken tho American spirit obviously is to bo encouraged. Al hail, then, to the Fourth of July, and the more old-fashioned celebrations of the day there are the New York Mail and Express, The subtile line dividing genius and in- sanity 15 80 delicate that in many instances it_canot be defined, it can only bo felt. Even tho deep researches of physiological- psychology are unable to designate princi- ples on which the judgment can depend for logical deductions on tho subject, and the scarching analyses and arguments of many erudite students and philosophers are as in- comprehensible and meaningless to the or- divary mind as the vain vaporings of a mind unhinged. —_— The Australlan Panle, Boston Globe. The Australian banks fell into the custom of suverseding the merchants, who are nat- urally their customers, as commercial fac- tors.” They became traders, exported-on their own account, accepted risks in opera- tions which they attempted to conduct in part, and sometimes took goods in ment instead of money. The disastrous ures which finalin resulted are only added warnings that banking should always be kept within its legitimate function of serv- ing the business classes rather than of super- seding them. e The Decline of Sliver. Indianapolis Journal. The steady decline in the price of silver is shown by the fact that on the Ist of March, 1890, the government bought silver at $1.21, while on the 1Ist of January last it paid 83 cents, Two months ago it~ bought silver at 8¢ cents, while last Monday it paid 8237 "This decline in price cannot be due to any other cause than overproduction. The sup- ply is greater than the demand, notwith- standing the fact that the government is, under logal compulsion, buying 4,500,000 ounces every month. It is quite likely that this compulsory purchase of silver creating a preferred market has something o do with the overproduction R Valley Forge to Be Preserved. Philadelphia Times. Governor Pattison appropriately cele- brated Decoration day by signing the bill making an appropriation for the purchase of Valley Forge and its transformation into a state park, to be preserved to the future gonerations of Pennsylvania as a perpotual reminder of the sufferings and heroic serv- ices of their revolutionary ancestors. The act was appropriate to the day and tho day worthy of the deed. Tt is rot creditable to the patriotism of the people or statesmen of Pennsylvania that for more than a century this historic spot has been suffered to remain 1n prizate hands, neglected and almost unvisited. No locality in Pennsylvania, or 1 any of the thirteen colonies, witnessed a more periect exhibition of that patient, much-enduring fortitude which was the most striking char- acteristic of the men who won American liberty than Valley Forge, and it should long ago have become the property of the com- monwealth and been restored, as nearly as vossible, to the condition it presented when Washington’s ragged, bare-footed and half- starved army wintered there. ——————— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Chadron citizens are trying to Induce Congressman Bryan to give them a talk some time in July. Robert Dinwiddie of Berwyn, died recently in his 81st year. He was a native of Scotland and haa resided in Custer county for tea years. The closing exercises of the State Normal school at Peru begin next Thursday with class day and terminate with the commence- ment exercises on June 14, ‘There has been a change in the Kearnoy Hub office which adds J. A. Stevens, a well known newspaper man, to the business force of that bright publication. Three tramps who burglarized a clothing store at Central City, and were caught at ‘Aurora, now rest quietly in the Merrick county Jail awaiting their trial. ‘I'he 10-yoar-old son of Mayor Carey of Greely fell from a two-story window in White's opera house and sustained a broken arm, but marvelously escaped without other injuries, While killing a cow, John Kldred, a Gib- bon butcher, was knocked down by the animal and rendered unconscious, remain- ing in that condition soveral hours. He was severely bruised, but will recover. While Pat McCafferty was digging a well for Dr. Hazlo of Cedar Rapids an empty bucket fell twenty feet and lit on his head, cutting a gash three inches in length and turning down a large section of scalp. Delogates from the Christian Endeavor so- cloties belonging to the First district will meet in convention at the Lutheran church in Dakota City June 16 to19. Two delegates are expocted from each of the following places: Wayne, Hartington, Coleridge, Ponca, South Sioux City, Allen, Salem, Bloomfield, Emerson, Winnebago, Pender and Santee Agency. Besides these dele- gates, twenty-four delegates, scvoral state ofticers and soveral clergymen have been in- vited, An extensive program has been pro- pared. Leo Pflueger, who murdered his wife a year ago in Cuming county has been sen- tenced for life by Judge Norris, as the jury brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree. After the sentence had boen passed, the murderer spoke for the first time since last October. The substauce of what he said was that his wife had been untrue, Pflueger had been adjudged insane in Iebru- ary, 1892, and was about Lo b taken to the insane asylum, when he escaped from a dep- uty sheriff. He went to his home in the ex- trome northwestern part of Cuming county, where he hung around for a few days when he shot his wife dead. Sinco then he has been confined in the county jail. HINGS. Governor McKinley is a full-fledged Knight of Pythias. New York authorities do not intend stretching good will by giving the duke of Veragua a second round of hospitality. An Indiana democrat has declined an $1,800 office. He has also declined a tompt- ing offer to exhibit himself in Chicago. The chief pushers of the Choctaw-Chicka- sawW upymprmv.lou ru ketod 000,000 of the prize. The superiority of a civilized pull is uot “an iridiscent dream.” Among the official family of the new Cor- ean minister at Washington are: Messrs. Yi Hlum, Chow Chick snd Chang Boug Whang. These pames wero attacked by —_— PEOPLE 4AND 1 San Francisco reporters as an ovidence of dlstinguished consideration. During its closing nours the Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill repealing the odious blue laws which sabbatarians tried to en- force against Sunday newspapors. Sir George M, Pullman, C. T., prodiots hard times and appears inconsolable, A falling off in porters’ ll\w: with a demand for highor wages as a rosult, sadly disturbs his peaco of mind. Tho battleship Massachusotts, which will bo launched this week is armored with Har- noyizod nickel steol. She is built to fight and her armament will be superior to that of any ship afloat. Congressman W. J. Bryan asserts in the St. Louis Republic that thera is neither truth nor pootry in the assertion that ho is a candi- dato for the chairmanship of the committee on ways and means. ‘The success of the state saloon system to bo maugurated in South Carolina noxt month has become a subject of grave anxiety because the governor declines to say whether or not he will set up a free lunch daily. The cisposition to strike a man while he is down savors of refined cruelty. Just as Dr. Briggs reached the broad mesas outsido tho yterian pale, the Washington Post trated the unkindest cut of all by B ting his picture and labeling it “Jeft av Reform is making hugo strides in New York journalism. Last weok an_eavesdrop- per heard Commander Davis dictating o o typowriter a letter to Mrs. Potter Palmer in Chicago in regard to the infanta's visit to the World's fair. His words were taken down in shorthand, transeribed, and hawked among the nowspaper offices. = The letter was deciined and the cavesdropper publicly rebuked. Governor McGraw of the state of Washington, ‘‘went west" eight or ten yoars ago, arriving in San Francisco with $42 in his pocket. - Ho sent $40 homo to his wife, and began his western life as a horso-car driver. He mada his way to Seattle, whero he became sheriff, hotel kecper and lawyer, and finully ono of ‘the most prosperous and popular men in the now state. He is about forty years old. i, LAUGHING MATTERS. Inter Ocean: No matter how choap quinine may be it is ulways a drug in the market. Elmira Gazetto: Ambition is a balloon which carrles no parachute. Troy Pross: A good mirror always tolls tho truth, 1o matter upon whomn it reflicts. Buffalo Courlory Tt is highly probable that the tines which tried men's souls found somo of thom gullty. Somervillo Journal: Sometimes for observers to tell whether the w or the bachelor enjoys club life t Washington Star: He gots o new straw hat, and fato makes merry with his pains. Tho first day that he puts It ou it ralns, and rains, and rains. Judge: Mr. Dude—i Tresomble your carpot you know. Miss Sly"~Yes, you aro very much like my carpet. T am golng toshake it soon. Detroit ball pla N as tnInking now much always at your foet, ree Press: *“Is Diggins an old base or? I seo t he has a mask zing in hi ary.” “No, he puts that on when- ever he wants to have a talk with his wifo about cutting down household exponses.” Ohicago Tribune: “With all my hSart and soul,” exclaimed Rivers, sitting down on the edge of the bed the next morning aftor the houso cleaning and pulling something out of his heel with a strong palr of plier abowmi- nate and detest the in-come tacks! A PASTORAT. Chicago Record, A countryman fished with a crooked pole, Cut from the copse near by A cotton lino from a fuzzy roll Dangled just under his oye. Whlle over tho creek a clty man Whipped out a costly fly, With a jointed rod and a reel that ran Iast ds the waters by. And thoy flshed and fished all day, these two— Nevera fish would rfse; But they wont home in Full of the same old e [ THE GROCERY ORACLE. falling dew Sam Walter Foss in Yankee Blade, Oh, T've heord Daniel Webster, an’ he spouted like a good ‘nn, A’ e rippin’, roarin’ ravin's of the slam- bang Rufus Choato: But for undiluted " elerkunco an' fntellehul pudd'n’ Sam Plckering _at Blancom's store jest gethers in my vote. With Jollygy an' gogorfy an' 'rifontick he rastles, An’ ho grabs the cyclopedy an' he slings 1t fairan’ flat, An'he ripsup all the sciences an' flings ‘om roun’ in passels, For the reservoy of wisdom spouts frum jest beneath his hat. He knows the presidonts’ messages from Wash- ington to Gros An’ the congresaional report lies packed in- sl his brain, Au’ tho atghteon-niuoty consus he can say tho hull thing over, An’ then jost turn it back'ards an’ say it once agaln. An' wo all gether roun' to git the drippin’s of his knowledgo, An’ wo drink ft {n an’ like 1t, o' an' young an’ groat un' small, Tain't no good to go to high school or to wasto four yeurs at college, Or to tiko the county paper, for Sam Plclkor- ing knows 1t all, O, I've heerd Daniel Webster, an’ he spouted > good "un, o rippin’, foarin' ravin's of the slam- ng Kufus' Chonte; But for lindiluted_elorkunco an' {ntelicchul pudd'n’, Pickering at Blancom's storo Jest gothers in my vote. . business. SHE ENJOINED THE FUNERAL Divoroed Wife of an Towa Morchant Asserte § Her Authority, ‘o STRANGE PROCEEDINGS AT SIOUX CITY Romaina of W. H. Livingston Taken from! His Second Wife on an Order Pro- pared Ty Him Before Denth, Srovx Orry, fa., June 0. [Special Telegram | to Tnm Bee | -An extraordinary scene oo curred at the railroad station here this morn ing when tho body of W. H. Livingston ar, § rived from Chicago, where he died last Friday. An injunction wag served on bohalt of the firsg wife of Livingston, from whom he had b divorced, forbidding the socond wife tromil] having anything to do with the remains ancj giving their custody to the first wife. Thd second wife was with Lavingston during hi sickness and at his death brought the re, mains from Chicago. r Livingston was ono of tho oldest ancy] wealthiest merchants in Sioux City and s year ago secured by agreement a divoree from his first wifo, with whom h had lived thirty years, who had borne him two sons, now grows men. He immediatoly marricd Miss Rosdf Grady, who had long been a clerk 1n his dry] goods cstablishment. He had previously deeded hor considerabla property, but made amploe provision for his first wife. The affail caused a great sovial sensation at the time.s Livingston has sinco lived with his secondf wife in the old homestead. Upon learningl of his death at Chicago, where he had gonels for medical treatment Saturday, the disgf vorced wifo Instituted proceedings to seoure's rnssv!smn of tho body, based upon the fol owing w ng, in the nature of a will: S101X (1Y, .—To Whom 16\ rilficato that in ¢ oath 1 desire, request and eme phatically ‘stats that 1 want my first wife, o E Livingston, und my two sons, W, H! Livingston, jr, ‘and N L) ingston, ' to ' take remaing and burial. No othor person or per= S0n3 are to Assumo Any authority, or in sny nner direct or make an Stions s toy the disposition of y ro 1 want to be) buried by my own dear on whom [4 brought “so much sorrow, and” ‘whom 1 still love dearly. W. 11 LivinasTox, Sr. (8 An injunction according to this will was i waiting at the depot and the body was) taken by the sherift fromgy the second wife and delivereddf over to the first wife. The former pro ests#] vehomently and it is said will attempt to re- cover the proceedings. WRECKED A HAPPY HOME. Story of the Domestio Infelicity of the' Livingstous. | “Few things in ux City were so much A talked about in their time as that Living. ston divorco case,” sald a gontle: fromy the city up the river in reference to thed special dispatch in Tie Bee of last evening ! “The sentiment of the community leaned.] unanimously to the side of the injured wife, who is one of the sweetest ladies that oncy could wish to meet,”” he continued, “‘while the young woman who caused the separation! was a vulgar person, who was unknown to society until the day the town becamo scans, dalized by hearing of the low, infatuation™ of her employer. Her life with him since as his § wife has been of an isolated character,s shunned by the social circles in which his first wifo moved and too pu roud to asso-’ ciate with her former companions. Living- § ston himself kept aloof from society, in whicl his conduct had rendered him unpopular to the extent, it is believed, of iujuring his Both Livingston and his first wifec were advanced beyond middle life, the husband, who was considerably the older, being well along toward 70. Ho was a tall, well pro- portioned man of notoriously gruff mannors, 1t had been believed for some time past that the aged dry-gnods merchant had outgrows his in ation for his second wife soon after their marriage, which took place oniy a couple of years ago, snd his written de- sire to_have his funeral conducted by his first wife, of which the telegram speaks, serve to confirm that impression. Tt is ovident that his secona wife was lucky in gotting him to_aeed property to her before she married him, rather than just before his death. Prior to their marriage she was | aclerk in his cloak department. His first wifo was placed in comfortaole circums§ starices for life by the terms of the divorce.” — Misplaced Contidence, Globe-Democrat., Congressman Warner, a Now York demo- crat, declares that not a vestigo of protec tion will be in the tariff bill which his party will pa It 18 entirely safc to say that Mr., Warner is a victim of misplaced confidence, No bill of that sort could pass congress, eves With its present democratic majority. It i safe to go even farther and say that showd? such & measure, by any sort of parlinmentary, logerdemain, reach the presidont he woul veto it. Nor will any such bill be prepared A tariff law for revenue solely is & long woyj in the future, and threats of the passoge o such a law are mischievous in the presenf condition of business as well as foolish. 1 Ewing Ready to Sall, New Yonk, June James I, Bloomington, I1L., the i gium, arrived here yesterday with i family and sails Wednesday for his post ¢ duty. BROWNING, KING Largest Manutacturers and Retallers ol Clothing fn the World. Easy Riding Now When a stranger steps into our palass these days he is first impressed with the magnitude of our stock. After going around through the building he finds not only a great assortment, but some of the finest tailor productions ever brought out. Every _ single garment from a boy’s 3/ $2 suit or a man’s $10 suit to the most expensive in the house is carefully made of the best material money can buy. Being the largest manufacturers of clothing in the world, it is easier for us to put in good cloth than most peo- ple to buy shoddy. Shoddy we will not sell at any price, but we sell the very best at the lowest liv- ing prices. BROWNING, Etorgopen every evenlngtill 61k > .’n’an i KING & CO, ! § W. Cor. 16th and Donglas 8ts.