Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1893, Page 4

B. ROSEWATER, Editor. e e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, fly Bee (without Sunday) One Year fly and Sunday, One Year... " Bogthe . - reo Monti. undny Bee, Ono Yenr. ., turday Bee, Ong Year eokly Tee, Ono Yoar OFFICES, Omaha, The Ree Bullding. South Omala, corner N-and 26th Streots. Council Bluffs, 12 Pearl Streo Chiengo Office, 417 Chamber of Commeorce. Now York, Rooms 18, 14 and 15, Tribune Bullding. Washington, 513 Fourteenth Strect. CORRESPONDENCE. " All communications relating to negs an editorial matter shoald be addressod: To the Editor. BIEINESS LETTERS, Al husiness fettors and renittances should e addressed to The Bee Publishi mpany, Omuba, Drafts, ehecks and postoffico d 10 bo made payable to the order of tl pany. Parties Jeaving the clty for the summer can have the BER sent thelr addross by leaving an order at this ofiice. THE BEE PUBLISHING The Bee Tiw DATLY and Soxnay Dee 1s on sale in Chicago nt the following places: COMPPANY. Audito; Great Northern hotel. Goro hotel, Teland hotel. Wells I, Sizer, 180 ” Files of Tue' Ber can be n at the Ne- braska butlding and the Administration build- ing, Exposition erounds. — - e SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btato of Nohraskn, ) Courty of Douglas. | Rovort 11 anter of 11tE Beg publiehing company does moleminly awonr that the actunl cirenlation Of THE DAILY BER for the week ending Juno 10, 1803, was as follows: Thursday, June § . Friday. June 9. Baturday, June i) Bworn 10 bafore ma and subseribod fn my pres: enco this 10th duy of Juno, 159, N. I FRIL, Notary Publi 1803, 24,417 It 18 reported that the government printing office at Washington is as un- safe as was the old Ford theater. Con- gress will probably fail to realize the fact, however, until the building col- lapses and morc iced. there are more war pension rolls now than there were soldiers engaged in Mexico under Gen- eral Scott at any one time during that memorable confl THE legislature clerks of Pennsylvania can dizcount those of the last legislature in this state for feats that are mys- tevious. The 1ncidental mistake of adding the little sum of $10,000 to an appropriation bill is insignificant com- paved to that of transeribing a vill that had nover passed, have it signed by the presiding officers of both hous and finally reach the governor's + epproval. ANOTHER di for United States tor Martin, Tt is announced that the appointment will soon be made of R. B. Morris of Atchi- son, as collector of internal reveuue for the district of Kansas in place of the present collector, Cyrus Leland of Troy. Mr. Morris was a pronounced opponent of demo-pop fusion during the late cam- paign, and his vresent attitude is as en- thusiastically hostile to any union of these political e in store THE Missour] : has gathered in the Kansas City, Wyandotte & North- western railroad and will operate it in the future for the especial advantage of Kansas City. The road was projected by Kansas City capital four or five years ago and was built from that city to Beatrice, o distance of 283 miles. The idea of its projectors was to make it a great feeder for the wholesale and stock yards intorests of Kansas City and the road was a bold invasion of Omaha ter- ritory. The voad in its new hands will be a more aggressive factor in the de- velopment of Omaha's southern rival and its operation is one more good rea- son why Omaha capital should bestir itself in the interests of Omaba. This city needs at least one good system of railroad to the northwest absolutely controlled by local interests. Until such asystom is built Omaha will be at the beck and call of the railroads which from self interest naturally seck to make Chicago the commercial objective point of the entire transmissouri count THERE is & great deal of speculation 88 to the chances of a repoal of the sil- ver-purchasing & Members of con- gress who have good opportunities for knowing the sentiment of the house are quoted as saying that there will bo a safe majority for repeal, while others in- sist that the.act cannot be uncondition- ally repealed. The Washington corre- spondent of the Philadelphia Ledyer, whois a most intelligent and trust- worthy observer, thinks it possible that a measure for ropeal may pass the house, but he does nots regard the chances of such a measure in tho senate as favor- able, The latter body, he observes, is less under the influence of public opinion than the former, yet a positive vote in the house for repeal might exert a wholesome 1nfluence in the senate. There appears to be no very good reason to expect, however, that there will bo such a positive vote in the house for re- peal as would affect the position of a sin- glo one of the senators who are opposed to touching the Sherman law unless there is substituted for it legislation equally favorable to silver, and there is no question that the number of these is suflicient to defeat ropeal. A majority of the demoerats in the house are with- out doubt opposed to reveal and +. those who assert that it will have a ma- «dority in that body must count on the publicans, but there is some uncertainty @s to what their conrse will be. Indeed, the whole matter is surrounded with un- certaintios. 1t is said that the feeling in financial circles has improved some- what since the president announced that congress would meot in September, but the outlook for the financial legislation Which the administration wants is not so bright as to greatly encourage coafi- dence. THE WORST OF THE PANIO 1S OVER The bank panic which Omaha has undergone within the past' thirty-six hours may now be considered almost at an end, The run on the savings banks reached its height yesterday and has well-nigh spent {te force. With the exception of the McCague Savings bank which closed 1ta doors at the first onset, the savings banks have withstood the heavy drain and are doubtless In condition to meet further demands of small de- positors, The American National is the only member of the Clearing House that has succumbed in the shock. All the other national banks are prepared for any emergency and in position to sustain cach other, ‘While this is the first time in twenty- five years that any Omaha bank has been forced to close its doors in conse- quence of a financial flurry, there is every assurance that even in this crisis no depositor will suffer a penny's loss. The assets of the two banks that are now in the hands of receivers more than cover the liabilities and even if the assets do not pan out the stockholders are abundantly able to meet every claim of the creditors of their respective banks. It is perfectly natural for people to lose their heads during a money panie, but there is veally no ground for alarm, and level-headed people must realize that the enormous bank reserve held in Omaha is ample to prevent any serious commercial disastor. THE ROADSTER CLUB MEETING. The first summer trotting meeting of the Gentlomen's Roadster club will be inangurated at the fair grounds in this city toduy.” The meeting will be a notable one in the turf cvents of the season and will in every way be worthy of the patronage of the people of Omaha. The club has been organized under the auspices of well known, representative citizens of Omaha. They have labored indefatigably for months to make the meeting a success and they have suc- ceeded in bringing to the city somo of the best horses in the west. There is every reason to believe that the races will be lionestly and competently man- aged: The day has gone by when the general public looks with disfavor upon a well conducted trotting meeting. Peoplo of all el have come to recognize the fact that the horse is one of the noblest animals given to man. The long course of breeding and training have brought out perfections in the equine race that were undreamed of by the people of one or two generations ago. The sport to be witnessed ata meeting like the one to be inangurated in Omaha tomorrow is not only legitimate, but free from question- able surroundings. The best’classes of our citizens with their families may at- tond with perfect propricty. The open- ing events of the Gentlemen's Roadster club should by all means receive the en- couragement” of the best people of Omaha, and the cfforts of the men back of the enterprise should be recognized by a general attendane CONGRE. x RESPONSIBLE. Whatever may be the finding of the coroner’s inquest in the Ford’s theater disaster and of the court of inquiry or- dered by the secretary of war, the pri- mary responsibility for that calamity rests upon congress. There was un- doubtedly alack of vrecaution in the prosceation of the work of cxcavation which was the immediate cause of the collapse of the building, and it ought not to be difficult to fix the blame for this. There is not room for a reusona- ble doubt that those in charge of this work were incompetent to see the dan- ger, for it is incredible that they could have been indifferent where so many lives were jeopardized. It 1s at least charitabie to believe that they did not know there was any danger in ex- cavating under the building and in the confidence of ignorance they did not seek expert opinion. It was a most un- fortunate and calamitous mistake, but it is questionable whether it can bo re- garded as criminal. It was simply a case of self-reliant ignorance, so far as Colonel Ainsworth and his assistants are concerned, and we do not see how they can bo subjected to any othor pen- alty than that of being condemned for not having asked for expert opinion. The charge that they exercised an in- timidation which silenced complaints as to the insecurity of the building does not, n to be material to the case. There will not be much publie sympa- thy, with men who, seeing the danger risked their lives rather than incur the displeasure of superiors by calling at- tention to the danger, The insecurity of the wrocked build- ing was nota matter of recent knowl- edge. Tt had been known for years and congress had repeatedly been askod for an appropriation for strongthening the structure. A few thousand dollars ox- pended on this structure would have saved a score of lives and the maiming of many others, but sham economists of the Holman ilk would not appropriate the money and the consequence has boeen a calamity that shocked the coun- try. It is not possible to fully atone for this neglect. The men who found death under the ruins of the old theater— made doubly memorable by this calam- ity—cannot be recalled to life, and it is hardly to bo expected that the govern- ment will assume the care of those who were dependent on them, however worthy their claim to such care. But congress may make some atonement for its dereliction by providing similar disasters in other publie build- ings that are not secure. the Washington correspondents there ave several such. The patent office building, with its vast accumulation of heavy records, has for several years been rogarded as unsafe. Two years ago Secretary Noble called the attention of congress to the condition of the build- ing, saying that he would not and could not be responsible for the lives of the people working there. ''The annex to the Postoffice department is thought to be unsafe, ms is also the building oc- scording to against | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDA oupied by the War department and the sccond auditor of the treasury, The eafoty of the building in which fs the Department of Justice is believed to be far from porfect, and 1t is said that the public printing office is the terror ot its occupants. Great masses of records, steadily accumulat- ing, are piled up in these buildings, and thousands of clerks crowd them daily. A disaster more terrible in its conse- quences than the one now being investi- gated may happen at one of these build- ings any day, and the apprechension of such a possibility keeps those employed in them under a constant sense of fear. It sometimes soems that nothing short of a great public calamity will arouse the authorities to a due sense of their responsibility and duty. The sacvifice of human life to the parsimonious spirit of congress may have the effect which all other appeals have failed of, to in- duce that body to do something for the adequato security of the lives of the em- ployes of .the government while in the discharge of their duty. In this way it may make partial atonement for its past dereliction and its sad result. THE SUGAR BOUNTY DOOMED. There scems to be no doubt that tho next congress will repeal the sugar bounty. The Lonisianadelegation,which favors the retention of the bounty, itis understood, has given up all hope that this means of encouraging the produc- tion of domestic sugar will be con- tinued. Senator Caffery said inare- cent interview that he had talked a great deal in Washington with public men about the sugar question, and he entertained no doubt that the bounty is doomed. ‘“Whenever the people geta craze against a Lhing," said the senator, “that thing must go. The craze now {is in opposition to the sugar bounty, and its repeal is certain. But I be- lieve that a tariff of 14c or 2c will be put on sugar, and I have the assurances of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Carlisle that they are favorable to a tariff on sugar.” Reprosentative Blanchard of the same state has expressed himself in similar language, and it is understood that the Louisiana delegation' will make little or no fight against the repeal of the bounty, accepting the inovitable on the subject, and will concentrate all efforts to obtain a protective duty of 1% or 2¢ on sugar, Putting sugar on the free list saves the people of this country botween $50,- 000,000 and $60,000,000 annually, the poorer classes deriving the greatest benefit from this saving. The bounty on sugar costs the people last year less than $10,000,000, the smaller part of which came out of the pockets of the poorer classes. An ex- perience of nearly thirty years with sugar duties demonstrated that they had little or no effect in stimulating the growth of tho sugar 1ndustry in this country, while on the other hand the bounty has had the same effect here as in all Buropean countries producing sugar in promoting the industry. It has been demonstrated that in timo the United States could produce sufficient beet sugar to supply the home demand, but this will n6t be accomplished with- out the encoiiragement which a moder- ate bounty affords, The repeal of the bounty would probably put an end to further efforts in this direction, and very likely beet sugar production would cease altogether. ‘We imported sugar last year, fres of duty, to the amount of 3,500,000,000 pounds. A duty of 1 cents a pound on this would amount to 00,000, or nearly six times as much as the bounty paid on domestic sugar last year. The actual saving to the consumers of the country under the present policy re- garding sugar is not far from $45,000,000 annually. These figures and facts carry their own argument, and noexigency re- garding revenue will destroy their in- fluence with the massos of tho people. It is a hazardous policy to tax the poor man's breakfast table. THE FIVE TRIBES AND CITIZENSHIP. The last congress authorized tho ap- pointment of three commissioners to enter into negotiations with the five tribes of the Indian Territory with a view to ascertaining their willingness to relinquish their tribal relations and consent to become a part of the United States. The commissioners have not yet been appointed, and it seems to bo the opinion of those who are cavefully watching developments in the Indian Territory that the ¢ommission will not be able to accomplish mueh toward in- ducing the five fribes to adopt the policy which the government de- sires them to accept. The Chero- kees soem to be especially op- posed to the statehood plan and are now demanding the enforce- ment of that part of the treaty relating to the removal of the intruders into the torritory. They want the presidont to issue a proclamation notifying intruders to ve the nation; and they are under- stood to be uctuated in this by the knowledge that the intruders are in favor of American citizenship. The numbor of these is stated to be 5,000, and as the president has appointed a commission to appraise the value of the property owned by the intruders the in- forence is that it is the intention to en- forco the treaty provision regarding their expulsion. ¢ The other tribes, however, appear not. to be s0 hostile to the proposition to be- ofue a part of the United States as are the Cherokees, and if these can be induced to accept the plan of the gov- ernment the tribe most strongly opposed to it will not be likely to hold out. It is not diflicult to understand the oppo- sition. The five tribes have been for many years accustomed to some of the advanced conditions of civilization and particularly to the forms of American representative government. They have their governors, legislatures and judi- cial systoms, their militia force, their stated eloctions and the vote by ballot. They have prospered under these con- ditions, and very generally are well sat- isfied with them. Most naturally, there- fore, many of them cannot see the wis- dom of making any departure from a system that has been productive of such satisfactory results to them. It is quite conceivable that they cannot understand in what respect they would improve their situation by being merged in the greut 1 Amerioan body politie, even though this brought them represeatation in oon- gross, They have a fhehty, tho sacred- ness of which has bogn $hus far faith- fully observed by the. government and they reasonably expect always will be. But sooner or later thefive tribes will have to accept citizenthip or be coerced into becoming & part of the United States by uncontrollabla events. The growth of population in the country will steadily increase tht pressure on the part of the whites for.the possession of #ho Indian Territory, which in time will become irresistible. This is as inevita- ble as anything in the eourse of human events can be, and when that time comes the five tribes, 1f still isolated as at present, might not get as favorable concessions as now. Selfish motives un- doubtedly have a good deal to do with the opposition to the plan of American citizenship, and this influence may be overcome by the arguments which an intelligent commission can present to show tho advantages of wider privileges and greater opportunities which the preposed plan would confer. At any rato the Indian Territory cannot always be kept for the exclusive benefit of its present occupants. Numerous as the intruders are at present they will be far more 8o in the years to come, and they will become more troublesome as they increase in number. A POINTED DECISION. Two questions in regard to the right of a state to tax foreign sleeping cars were settled very definitely by the recent decision of the United States court for the eastern district of Louis- iana in the case of the Pullman Palace Car company versus the board of asses- sors, The first point at issue was whether a foreign corporation can be taxed at all+| by a state on its sleeping cars engaged in interstate traffic, and which come into the state solely for the purpose of receiving and discharging passengers, and for the purpose of having such minor repairs made as they may casu-+ ally require. The court without reservation decides affirmatively. The law under which the question was raised provides tha$ “‘any transportation company whose sleeping cars run over any line lying partly in this state or partly within another state or states shall be assessed in this state in the ratio which the num- ber of miles of the line within the state has to the total number of miles of the entire line.” This law is similar to the statutes laid down for the government of the State Board -of Equalization in Nebraska. “This'is a prov says the court, ‘‘for taxation wh' plies alike to resident and nonresident companies, and since it is applicable to all companies it does ndt violate the constitution as being, in effect, an im- position upon interstate commerce. It is also just and equitable.” The second point rajsed ; was whether, it a foreign corporation can be taxed at all, it can be taxed except ratably and according to the proportion of the miles which its cars taxed traverso within the state, as compared with tho number of miles which they traverse in such state and other states. The court held that a foreign slecping car company could only be taxed rata- bly and according to the proportion of the miles which its cars taxed traverse within the state, as compared with the number of miles which they traversed in the state and other states, especially under such a statute as the above. The reason given by the court to sus- tain this opinion is that ‘‘while the statute defining the manner in which the tax is levied to wit: that there shall be levied a tax within the state only upon that proportion of the valuation of the cars which results from comparing the miles traversed within the state with the aggregate of miles traversed within and without the state, is binding upon the sleeping car com- pany, it is binding also upon the taxing officers.”” THAT ‘‘timo at last makes all things oven” again finds apt verification in a little incident reported from the na- tional capital. Our readers will recall the notoriety that was given a Kentucky cabinet maker, by name George H. Thorbe, who ran as a labor candidate against Representative Carlisle a fow years ago. Tho present distinguished Scovetary of the treasury regarding his re-election as a sure thing paid little attention to the contest, and was aston- ished in the end to find that he had been returned by the surprisingly narrow margin of afew hundreds only instead of the accustomed majority of thousands. The voluble carpenter made a senscless contest before congress and sank into the obscurity of a special immigrant agent in New York, given him by Pres- ident Harrison. The other day a dele- gation called on Sceretary Carlisle to ask Thorbe’s reappointment, The next mail to New York carried the secre- tary's request for the special immigrant agent's resignation. THE Omaha clearing house reports transactions yostorday _amounting to over a million dollars.” Not a bad day's business, in view of the picnic of bank depositors. All Hall the Club, Globe-Democrat, Lot Cloveland swing the- patronage club over the heads of the silver men. If he can knock sense into them even in that way the country will bo pleased. 3 s e e Remember This, Kansas City Journal, There are too many people who are prone to make the most of oppertunitics presented in a condition like the present to carry tales and get houses in trouble that would be sound were it not for the stories that are circulated, Just remember that the failure or closing of one house daes not necessarily weaken another, and also remember that more harm has been done by an insidious tongue that meant wo harm than by the one that told the dircct lie. prtii Compensativns for Tight Money. Boston Herald, A tightToney market Is in many ways a health-producing condition of affairs, since it tendas to bring to the surfuce and thus ex- pose a number of weak spots in the business world that had better discovered and cleaned out. Itisnot desirable that mer- chants and manufacturers should continue in business as solvent persons or corpora- tions when they have much more than ex- hausted all the capital they ever had and are almost irretrievably in debt. A bus- iness carried on under such conditions is rarely o safely conaucted business. It be- comes & u{wln of :nmblm', thoso enga, in 18 knowing that the chanoes are that will bo compelled sooner or lator to d their insolvonoy, and that the only escapo is through certain extraordinarily fortunate operations, [ — Strategy, My Moy, Chieago Dispateh, Commander Davis certainly 18 a vory tact- ful man. At the recent Eulalia dinner he was thoughtful enough to order the walters to remove the knives before the pie was brought in. Chicago society owes him a groat debt of gratitude, Compliment to the Sex. Detroit Free Press. An Omaha woman defaulted to the amount of $275 and the fact was telegraphed all over the country. There could be no higher (‘r\mrllmnnl 10 the honesty of her sox, for had the defaulter been a man the offense would have been passed with & brief notice in the local papers. — Antidote for Train Robbery. St. Louis Republie Dead traln robbers are absolutely harm- less, and the most rational way to treat any member of the guild isto shoot him when- ever and whorever heis found plying his vocation, Lot the railroads put guards on thoir trains whoso business it wiil be to kill any train robber who shows himself. Such mon are easily found, and when tho railroads begin to haul in dead bandits as well as dyn- amite shattered expross cars the business of train robbing will soon cease to thrive. ———— Defrauding the Revenue, Chiego Record. One of the largest silk firms in this coun- try sald to the Fairchild commission, through its represcntative: “It seems a hopeless and discouraging task to put an end to frauds on_the revenue through under- valuation, No serious penaltics are ever en- forced.” This means that tho tariff on silks espe- clally is not made to yield the best results; that tho business of defrauding the revenue is systematic, successful and unpunished. Here is an evil for tariff reformers to, set about reforming. o Finnnce. New York Evening Post. It is fortunato that congress will tackle the financial question with a vresidential election throe years away, instead of only two, as in 1878'and 1800, This will tend to remove the paralysis which a genoral elec- tion near at hand and doubtful always scems to bring upon politicians and groatly in- crease tho chance of coming to some clear- cut decision. Thon it is also a googething that this financial question is cuttng right across party lines, so that unworthy partisan appeals are to have less power than over and the real interests of the people, to whom, and not to party, the president has appealod, to have a better opportunity of making themselves felt. Cancel the Prison Contract, Kearney Journal, The demand for a cancellation of the prison labor contract is a loud one. The state has learned enough of the Dorgans methods to demand that its partnership with him be summarily dissolved. The state authorities should take immediate steps to cancel the contract with the Dorgans which they hold under cover for othe The state has been brought into bad odor by the wethods of these men, and to longer tolerate it will make the state authorities particeps in legal parlance. The prison labor is wrong in 1tseclf, as it does not tend toreformation in a convict to be worked like a galley slave to put dollars in the vockets of some corruptionist living in aflluence outside the prison walls as a result of their labor. —_—— The Real Amerlcan Sunday, New York Evening Post. The truth is that we have developed dur- ing the past quarter of a contury an “*Amer- ican” Sunday, which is based upon the prin- ciple laid down in the Declaration of Inde- pendence, that all men are endowed with an “‘unalienable right to the pursuit of happi- ness’—on every day of the weck. A con- trary rule has, until a comparatively recent time, prevailed in the greater country—a rule which forbude tho pursuit of hapviness on Sunday unless one could get it at church or reading religious booksat home; but there was never anything “Americ about this rule. It was a servile imitation of England—the adoption of a_theory about the day which finds no support in the life of the Founder of Christianity or in the pra tice of the Christian church outside of Great Britain. So far from its being *“‘un-Ameri- can” for Me. Elboeck to advocate the pursuit of happiness on Sunday, it is the ve bodiment of the principle upon which the American system is dased. NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Howells will celebrate the Fourth. Harvard proposes to celebrate the Fourth 1 a manner becoming the Columbian year, The Central City Democrat has made its appearance with George Wells as editor. A scheme for building a big hotel at Hart- ington is being considered by the business men of the town. Rev. Johu M. White, pastor of the Chris- tian church at Auburn, had his shoulder broken by being thrown from a buggy. Mrs. Tyler, a daughter of Deacon Brown of Maple Creek, Dodge county, was killed in the Oklahoma cyclone. She had left hew husband up in Boone county and eloped south with a handsomer man, and was caught up in the storm and kilted, ‘While the Jjanitor of the Methodist church at Wallace was lighting the lamps the central chandelier fell to the floor, burning the carpet and ends of scats. It was only by the comfbined efforts of those present that the church was saved. Frank Uttar, living noar Beatrice, broke his leg while jumping from his horse. He undertook to climb upon the animal & secend time and fell again, and again breaking the Jeg badly, 8o bad in fact that pieces of bone protruded through the skin in six different places, It is thought that amputation will be necessary to suve the rest of the injured limb. —— PEOPLE AND THINGS, Hogg and homily is the favorite mental dietin Texas. Mr. Goschen, the English ex-chancellor of the exchequer, is of German parentage, Tom Ochiltree lingers in New York stuffing the gullible with mummified information, L. B. Bhzzard succeeded in freezing out thes republican postmaster at Cothori, Gu. The lofty pi: to shock Chic ordinarily *loud.” James Frazer is the loftiest compounder of “Manhattans” in Now York. Heis cight feot three inches tall. Frejuent train robberies tend to impair the health of Missourians. Involuntary throwing up of hands is a distasteful emetic. Carver Harrison kissing the gloved hand of Eulalia and persistently refraining from talking through his new silk tile, are looked upon as forerunner of castitian reform. Lot's 808D 80, Editor George W. Childs is fitting up the Philadelphia Ledger with a band of trained pigeons Lo act as messengers and carviers of Scopy” from distant reporters. It is ox- pected that the scheme will be a great suc- cess. The New York Morning Advertiser cheer- y celebrates its sccond anniversary with a E ial edition. Colonel Cocker ward is alusty 2-year-old, and is slready well ad- vanced in the highway of usefulness and prosperity. Pictorial and desoriptive accounts viewed at long range leave undecided the question whether it was Buffalo Bill or the Nebraska building that was dedicated last weok. ‘There is no occasion for repining. Both are home products. Henry C. Frick, deputy lord lieutenant of King Carnegie's domains in Per i says that he has entirely recov the wound that he sustained at th Anarchist Bergman last sumuw he is feelin, ouetting of Cairvo girls is said 20 morals. It must be extra- hands of r, and that a8 well as he ever did in his life. Mr. Frick is short and stout, wears a full beard and somewhat resembles ihe prince of Wales. The entire gallery of pictures collected by the late Henry Field, of Chicago, estimated 1o be worth $300,000, has been! presented by his widow to the Chicago Art Institute. The collection will be preserved intact, and kept ina room to be known as the “Henry Field Memorial Room." of the pictures are now on view st the World's fair, The col- lection is chiefly of works by the French paintors of the Barbizon sohool, but includes Al8o & constable, & Fortuny, & Knaus and f & fow other works outside that school. Willlam D. Little, who was the first lite insurance agent in Malne, beginning that business in Portland & half contury ago, when many preachers oonsidered it a sacri: loge to nsure n man's Life, died this wook at the age of 86. He and Neal Dow founded the first temperance unfon in Maine. Mrs. Leaso of Kansas, who marched through Georgia with General Weaver last fall, has a husband, although he is not muc in evidence. He keops a drug store and is quoted as saying, mournfully: “It's all right for my wife to be golng around making speechies, but it's the drug store, just tho { same, that keeps things running." +Ex-Senator George W been called down. The Boston Transcript says: “Mr. Jones is not tho oldest living ox- senator, that distinction belonging to Hon, James W. Bradbury of Maine, who was bora July 10, 1 whoroas _ex-senator Jones was born April 12, 1804, Notonly is Mr, Brad- bury older in years than Mr. Jones, but ho was earlier a member of the senate, having entered it in 1847, whereas Jones entered it in 1848, Mrs. John Blackhall ot Oxtord, N.C., Is the possessor of a rello just now of somo in- terest. It is a Moxican rifle, known asa Yager, used by ner brother at the battle of Buena Vista. This gentleman, tho late Thaddeus O'MeClannahan, was a member of the Mississippi Rifles, Jefforson Davis' own rogiment, and it was in the desperate charge Wwhich immortalized this body of men that the gun was usea with such effect. nes of Towa has ——— FIGHTING RAILROAD DEVILS. S1. Pavr, Minn,, June 11.—-To the of Tne Bre: Inotice in yesterday's issue a *'special from Kearney headod “Split on Religion," in which Mr, John F. Crocker and his prospect of being postmaster is the bone of contention. I am satisfied an offort is being made to create a war of words on ro- ligion 80 that in the dust thus kicked up the grand army of monopoly may further entrench itsolf among us Some two years ago I civeulated a petition among the business men of Koarney, asking the roads to make us therates [ am now suing for before the Intorstato Commerce commission. This Mr. Crocker, who now s to serve the peoplo as postinaster, was only business man who refused to sign— coupling the refusal with personal insult. ocker gots tho study of the post to seo the prac ¥ of postal fr rates, oven if he is not capable of realizing its beneilts to the community in which he iv Mr Crocker is an American citizen, and so is Mr. Juan Boyle, both the gentlemen bo- lieving in currying favors at the hands of railroad managers rather than standing up in open fight for our rights. It is no man's business what another man's religion is, no more than it is business whom his neighbor shall Honest re- spect, merican com- munity for every honest religious sentiment of every s of belief. The man who to his neighbors becausc of gion is not a true American, nor does he underatand the principles underlying this government, That all shades of religion have shown m- tolerant and unamerican spirit is true, and the pot with fact call the kettle black, and such fact makes neither of them the more worthy to si he right d of a Just Gol. If the American Protective asso- ciation pot and the Catholic kettle, now boil- ing to breed local dissensions, were brought under the electric light of fact they would both show the smut and cloven hoof of an unan n devil, with ton-per-mile freight rate marks made extortionat in- est-gathering gold st for bales on which to s: i stomach of royalty may grow fat. Ivery man who is ‘agitating the tender chords of religious dissension, on whichover side, 1s playing clown to the amusement of o, condition, either mistakenly or malicious] Lot us settle the freight question and tho blood of commerce (money) question. They are public questions. ‘I'he religious one is private and the spirit of Churist's pupils, suchas Dr. Thomas, Dr. Briges, Bishop Brooks or Bishop Ireland, with the co of the honest worshiper, will not go ar wrong. I will thank my fellow citizons to help mo whip tho devils on carth that we know of, rather than fight those we dream of in tho world to con > of poverty, hunger and cold in this nightmare of life. ' Citizens of Nebraska, remember that every time two cats’ tails are tied together and “strung overa line, there are two cats less to catch nd the men who hold the hine get tho of war. The government of this coun- try lies in each individual, and our represen- tatives at Washington and Lincoln will con- tinue to bo creatures of Dorgan and Mosher, with the railroad managers and coal com® panies pulling the strings, if they can divert us in local fights. The lato trial at Lincoln was an impeach- ment not of our ofticers alone, but of our- selves, and the Stato Board of Transpor! tion had the threat put in their mouths that local rates would affect through rates, and now to make it good, tho managers raise grain rates to punish our state for exercising its right ve amended my interstate complaint that case, “Will Nebraska shippers help me by their voice to teach theso rail- road gentiemen & lesson? Tho interstato commissiohers are not creatures of rail- roads, and if we ure men instead of monkeys we can win, Wil the retail busine please write me at Chicago, 1L, in care of Tremont house, saying they join me in de- iding ton per mile rates for Nebraska? 1 1t to use the letters bofore the Int state Commerce commission, 1 ¢ alone, and will. Iean win casier with your help. 1t will only cost you a postage stamp and your time. Am I entatled to it? A.J. GustiN, Editor 0 DIVIDE THE DISTRICT Nebraska's Intornal Rovenno Returns Suffi oient Withont the Dakotas. . NORTH'S WORK LIKELY TO BE REDUCED , Commissioner Miller Figuring on Equaltes | Ing the Western Districts, and Prosident Cleveland ors the Tdea—Captain Anson's Fine Double Play. WasHixarox Brreav or Tie Bes, 513 FOURTERNTI STREET, } 4 Wasnixaros, D, C., Juno 18, At present North and South Dakota and 3 Nebraska aro bunched to make one internal rovenue district of which J. E. North was yesterday appointed colloctor, There has boen considerable talk regarding a division of this district with a view of making a now district out of North and South Dakota, and the filing of an application fosthe collector ship of the proposed district by Shel- ton of Springfield, 8. 1., today started this talkanow,but no now district will bo croated, but it is likely that the Dakotas will in the | course of a fow months bo dotached from Nebraska and added to Minnesota. At the present timo, owing to the big di tilleries at Omaha, tho rovenue collected in the Nebraski-Dakota district is nearly double the amount collected in the Minne- sota district. By this change the districts will bo equalizod. Josoph K. Millor, coms missioner of internal revenue, said today | that the matter was under consideration, but the decision rests solely with the pros! dont. | Captain Anson's Double Play, 1 Captain Anson of the Chicago baso ball 4 nine played some good ball today and did & cal work at the same time. Ao nine beat the Washington elub Unclo Anson was undoubts od to greater action by somo infor- mation ho recotved at the Postoflice depare- ment this morning, where he called on a political mission. His fathor lives at Mar- shalltown, la., and isa demoerat, ana Cap- tain Anson is urging the claims of his father for the walltown postofice, Ho was agred at the result of his inter- It is o fair question whether congross will 1ot bo more amenable to renson in July or carly in August than in Soptember. The business instinets of the country are uroused now. In September the cranks will be out in thie lo : s emergency mous loss. Yonkers Statesman: Is it wiso for a loco= motive engineer to stop to think? BufMalo Courier: Come to think of 1t, fsn't the parrot i sort of mocking bird, two? Troy Pross: Tho professional baso ball player lends a hit or miss sort of an existence Philadelphia Timos: Tho prohibitlonlsts elaim that the man who doosn’t. believe in the water bucket is outside the pale of clviliza- tlon. Tndianapolis Journal: Wibble-1'd like to know what n you have for calling boor an aristoeratic drink? Wabble—~Well, it comes within the pall, is the chlof reason. Philadelphia Ledeor: crnment ot i « uded 'om's Cabin" you they call 1t despotie Washinzton Star: ~Oh. d gi Wi getting roady t y Vo Joeked up my 1t it And L forgot to. put my bathing suit in “Novor mind,” replied her bratal brother; s astanped envelopo.™ Philadelphin R m sure you won's this contribution,” suid the poet to the SWhat s 1" asked the lats An umbrelia, with my complis AT A DIVORCE O New York Adves “Ah. what a handsome gontleman Who stands by yonder door! Pray, madum, tofl me who he is— o you've met before.” fear’] cannot please you, ehild," Roplicd the queenly din 1o used (o | husban 1 quito forget his name.” ‘but e LEMONADE. Somerville Jowrnal, Lemonade! I sing thy praises! When i1t gots as hot a8 hlazos, Then thy coollng virtues shine. When June comes, with torrld breozes, Then thine acid swootness pleases, Moru rofreshing far than wine: Then thy flavor, so deliel Titillates tho taste eapri Music of tho spheros, L'm sure. Lemonade! T sinz th Not with long, sounding phrasos, But with zeal S5 intense. And to think that ho who'd try thee Almost everywhere can buy thee I 1 sum of five conts! prafsos, BROWNING, KING Lurgost Manufacturers and Rotallors ol Clothing i the World. Brown Stiff Hats. For the next few days we are golag to offer all our $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 stifThats in brown shades for $1.50. .They are first class goods, but as our hat de- parbment has been moved around from pillar to post lately, we thought it would be a good idea to again remind you that it is permanently located in the southeast corner of the first floor at the 15th street entrance. If you will come and see it you will be able to get a good brown stiff hat for $1.50, that usually sell for $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50. We have a few boys' suits left from the $3.50 sale -—all the style. BROWNING, Etore 0 every evenlngzulll 6.5k turday till10 KING & CO., 1 8. W. Cor. 10th and Douglas Sts,