Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1893, Page 4

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Wells B, Sizer, 180 State streot. Filos of ‘i1 Bep can be ston atthe Ne- braska hullding and the Administration build- |ing, Exposition erounds. e on salo in SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stato of Nebraskh, | County of Dougelas. 0. B. Tzsehuck, Secrctary of T g company does Holemnly e efreulition of THE DALY DR for the June 17,1803, V8 nday. Jnne onday, T ny raday. ‘riday, June 10 aturday, June | Ter publish- netual ending B, TZ8CNUCK. = SWOIN 10 br it A e Tn yma N iy o Thol! ek « Na Publie MAYOR BeEMIS did exactly right in votoing the driving park tax rebate and |he should have been promptly upheld by the counci . DouGLAs county is to be officially sur- voyed. Porhaps the government engi- Ineer may bo able to find some of the |property which the assessors very ovi- dently overlooked. THERE are a great many democrats in Ohio who would rather accept the certainties of a lucrative office from Grover Cleveland than the uncertainty of success as the opponent of Governor MeKinley. ONE of the notable projects of the World's fair year is the proposal of the Hebrew citizens of the United States to erect a memorial to Freedom and Liberty in America. The monument will be erected in New York, and $500,000 will be contributed for the purpose. CHURCH HOWE, who m, appeared immediately upon the adjourn- ment of the legislature, has turned up in Chicago long enough to be interviewed upon the subject of the political situa- tion in Nebraska. As usual his “views” are more unique than valuable. THERE is some hopes for Missouri yet. The supreme court of that state has just decided that the law authorizing the sale of persons for vagrancy is unconsti- tutional. The law has been in force for years, but its provisions reached no further than to the colored man. A MOST curious phase of the present depression in grain. prices is the fact that farmers, notably in Kansas, find it cheaper to buy wheat for speculative purposes than to raise it. Reports to the Kansas State Board of Agriculture indicate that the farmers of that state are buying large quantities of old wheat. REPORTS of the increased demand for dmproved farm property continue to vome in. They indicate that the immi- gration to Nebraska is gradually, but purely changing from the prairie schooner type to the more prosperous and more practical representative of the agriculturval class. EVERYTHING else considered, Frank Hurd is the logical democratic candi- date for governor of Ohio. He is the political antithesis of Governor McKin- ley and between the two the people of the Buckeye state ought to be able to bxpress themselves with the utmost clearness on the tariff question. THE state labor commissioner an- nounces his determination to enforce two laws which have been practically ignored ever since they were added to the statutes. One is the act requiring sll employers of female help to provide seats for such employes. The other 1s the one requiring all hotels and public buildings to be equipped with fire es- capes. The lpws are both humane and proper, but the labor commissioner will have difliculty in securing their enforce- ment. IT HAS been decided that the case of the state against ex-Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen eannot be tried in Douglas county. The decision will not affect the merits of the case in the eyes of the peo- ple of the state. If the money lost to the state can be recovered in a Lancas- ter county court nobody will grumble. But the chances ave that the state will be a quarter of & million out of pocket and the ex-treasuror’s and present treas- urer’s bondsmen will be allowed to slip through. THE mayor very properly vetoed the driving park tax exemption scheme and pointedly called attention to the fact that the thirty-four acres which had been formorly assessed at $16,000, or about one-twentieth of their value, had been reduced by the assessor this year to $3,450 and oven upon that ridiculously low assessment the council had ordered the tax canceled. The mayor's veto was overviddoen, but the right of the council to exercise the exemption power will presently be tested in the courts. If the council has a right to cancel taxes on driving parks it has a right to cancel taxes on Mr. Popploton's Exposi- tion building or the Coliseum, because some sccioty may exhibit flowers and shrubbery on the premises. THE OMAHA DAILY BEFy THURSDAY, JUNE 22 1893. MR, BLAND'S POSITION. The disoussion of the Sherman law and the probabilities of {ts repeal have become the salient topic of interest in view of the finaneial situation and the approaching session of congress, The reply of tho chairman of the coinage committes toSeeretary Carlisle’s review of the government's recont silver operas tions, is a pertinent contribution to the debate. Mr. Bland introduces and closes his analysis of the law, the secre- tary's statement, and the situation with oaustic allusions t5 the demoeratic in- consistency in the substitution of the siiver qriestion for the issue on which the democrats claimed that their party won. ‘“The platform of the democratic party is to be turned bottom up for the pur- pose of pressing silver demonetization ahead of tariff reform,” and ‘‘now we find the magnificent tarviff veform car rusting on an obscure side track,” are tho figurative epigrams with which he scornfully opens and concludes his ar- raignment of the policy of the admin- istration. Of conrso it is riot to be expected that any but the most extreme silver infla- tionists will agree in all of Mr. Bland's views, yet as the leader of the free coit- ago forces in the house they become 80 significant as to demand attention. From Mr. Bland's standpoint, ‘‘of course the Sherman law is bad,” yet “it is the only law we have that looks to the con- tinued use of silver as money,” and “bad as it is, still constitutes a strong lever- age or stepping stone to free coinage.” So it is not to be utterly condemned un- til the terms of redemption of silver notes with silver are complied with by the socretary of the treasury. This in- dicates the policy to be pursued by the silvererats in congress, The interpretation- this free coinage champion gives to scction 2 of the law, which provides that the notes, in which the purchases of silver bullion are to be paid for, shall be redeemed in coin—*‘‘in gold or silver coin in the dis- cretion of the secrotary of the treasury,” is that of a declaration in favor of free coinage. He argues that “it being the declared policy to keep the two metals—not coins, but the two metals—at par, it will be noted the act says the policy is to keep the parity of the two metals, not coins. Of course, he parity of the metals would insure the parity of the coins,” And “since noth- ing short of free coinage can insure the parity of the metals, any sensible inter- pretation would make this mean a dec- laration in favor of free coinage, but, of course, Mr. Sherman did not intend that, but just the reverse.” Section 8, he holds, tells plainly how the law ought to be inforced. By its terms tho bullion purchased with these treasury notes is set apart specifically as a trust fund for the notes iszued in the purchase. The scction further com- mands the coining of all the bullion that might be necessary to redeem the notes. “In view of this plain command of the law, what folly it is to call those notes gold obligations or to pretend that they are not, all of thera, by express statute, made redeemable with coins struck from the identical bullion purchased with the notes, How unjust it would be to treat this bullionas dead capital and to sad- dlo the taxpayers of the country with a new bond issue to get gold to satisfy the groed of the money lenders upon the plea that when they demand it gold must be paid to keep the parity of tho two metals.” Mr. Bland takes direct issue with the retary's statement that the treasury has suffered loss by its silver purchases under act of July 14, '90, to the amount of $10,000,000. True, he says, ‘“if this silver business must continue to be treated as so much dead waste then the loss is equal to the whole amount pur- chased. But if, on the other hand, the bullion shall be coined as commanded by law and the cofd used to redeem tho notes, then we lose nothing, but on the contrary we have gained, and will con- tinue to gain about $30,000,000 annually in our circulation.” The manner in which the law is now executed is de- nounced as “a farce and a fraud. It is just such a thing as Mr. Sherman in- tended it to be.” In the hands of the friends of silver it might be executed so as to do a heneficent work, is the conclu- sion of this feature of the argument. A ploa in fayor of a free coinage sys- tem is submitted~ in that if all silver bullion could be coined at the mint with- out cost **bullion would at once be worth what it would coin and would pass cur- rent in the shape of bullion.” The proposition to sell bonds to get gold to redeem the notes issued in purchasing silver bullion Mr. Bland dismisses with the peremptory assertion, It is not in the law. There is no such authority.” “This topsy turvy arrangement of the democratic party,” he concludes, *“bodes no good to the country, and I fear dis- aster to the party.” WHY GOLD GOES ABRUOAD, A corrected report of the bureau of statistics, showing the values of mer- chandiso exported and imported during the fiveo months of this year ending May 31, supplies the principal reason for the outflow of gold from the United States to lurope. According to theso statistics tho exports for the five months amounted to $324,217,801 and the imports to $420,414,202, the excess of the latter being $96,196,401. This large balance against us in the period of less than half 4 yoar is exceptional, and by itself would soem to bo a sufficient explanation of the large deman1i for gold, the aggrogate of which, however, in the period named has been less than the differ- once botween the exports and imports. For the eleven months ending wit May the excess of imports was in roun 1 num- bors 881,000,000, It will thus be seen that for a year past this country has been steadily go- ing into debt to foreign countries, thus reversing the usual ¢ourse of trade for many years. Notwithstanding the fact that Europe has bought an almost un- precedented amount of our breadstuffs during the past year, that the markets for our provisions have been enlarged, and that our trade has increased with countries with which we have reciprocity arrangements, we have been buying more than we sold and this con- dition of affairs continues. ln addition is to be ieckoned the roturn of the Amorican socurities and the sums taken abroad by American tourists, Putting oll these things together it is ensy to understand why gold goes abroad. Facts of this nature may be used to show that the American pesple are extravagant, but they do not necossarily indicate that the country is less prosperous than when the condition was the reverse and we were receiving gold from Burope in- stead of sending it there. If what the country has bought in excess of what it has sold was worth what has been paid for it oby ously nothing has been lost, but nono the less it will be generally agreed that it is much more convenient as a rule to be a creditor than a debtor country, and until the United States shall getinto the former position, or at any rate until the balance of trade turns in its favor, the financial situation cannot be entirely satisfactory. Legislation can do very little by way of remedy. The repeal of the silver purchase law would probably for a time strengthen foreign confidence in American securities and create a bet- tor demand for them, but 1f it should be followed by a contraction of the circulation that would injuriously affect domestic commerce that con- fidencoe would not last. A revision of the tariff on the lines proposed by the party in power would probably result in increasing the imports without adding materially if at all to the revenucs of the government. No legislation can keep Americans at home who have the means to go abroad, and this involves a heavy annual drain upon the country’s stock of gold. We recently referred to the opinion of one of the most distinguished Eng- Lish financiers that gold would return to the United States in the autumn. He had in mind the European demand for our grain, but it is by no means certain that this will be so large as to overcome the trade balance that is against us. We also noied an improved feeling abroad toward American secur- ities, but this is a very unsafe reliance, because its maintenance is contingent upon our future financial poliey, which nobody can forecast with any degree of cortainty. On the whole the prospect of regaining the gold we have sent abroad during the past six months and what we shail forward between now and the beginning of the active export sea- son does not appear to be particularly promising. THE LIMIT OF ENDURANCE REACHED ¢ There is a shortage of over three- quarters of a million in the assessed valuation of real and personal property in Douglas county for the present year as compared with last year. What does this shortage mean? There have been at least 35,000,000 expended in this county in improvements during the last year. Assume that $2,000,000 were ex- pended for public improvements, which are not taxable, we still have three mil- lions to offset any possible shrinkage of property values here and there, and we have besides the increase of property values by reason of public improve- ments. It is notorious, moreover, that the assessment of 1802, and. for that matter, all the previous assessments within fifteen years, have been out of all proportion to assessments in other citios east and west, north and south. Our heaviest land owners have man- aged to heav the smallest proportion of the burden of city and county govern- ment, and the franchised corporations have been allowed to fix their own valuations at scandalously dispropor- tioned figures as compared with the amount of bonds and stocks that are sup- posed to be an index of their value. Four of these companios, owning the streot railway, gas, water and electric lighting franchises, are stocked and bonded for 316,600,000 and assessed for 210,000, or about 1% per cent on a valua- tion which thoy have made for them- selves. Monied men, who have millions loaned out on mortgages, have been allowed to go untaxed or are allowed to make returns for a mere pittance. What is the cause of all vhis and where can we get the remedy? The core of this tax iniquity is in the systom of assessment and the utter disregard of the law by the assessors and the boards that are ex- veeted to equalize the taxes. We have reached a point now when the most heroic remedies must bs ap- plied. The honest taxpayers of the town must band together for self-protec- tion. They must drop all other issues and strike a blow at the tap-roo% of logalized robbery of the many for the behefit of the few. The power of the courts must be invoked to stay the law- less and unequal imposition of taxes, even if the wholo tressury of the city and county is paralyzed for a time. If hundreds of homes owned by wage workers have to be foreclosed because of confiscating taxation the tax- ridden property owners will at least have the satisfaction of smashing the conspiracy by which they are being mercilessly driven to the wall. We must call a halt at all hazards to lawless tax exemptions, donations of taxes and flagrant undervaluations of corporate wealth and stocks, bonds, mortgages and money loaned on interest. 1f the courts do not afford full remedy the re- fusal to pay taxes on real proporty will bring the county and city officials to time. There is a limit to endurance and tho limit has about Leen reached. A TOPLGRAPHICAL SURVE If Senator Manderson’s efforts to se- cure a topographical map of Douglas county through the geologicsl burean is successful, the delsy in building the projected county roads this year will not be u misfortune. The truth is that no rational scheme of road building can be devised until a sectional survey has been made that will show the natural elevationand depression as well as every pond, creek and river. A reliable topographical map will ensble the county eommissioners to see at a glance where the roads are most feasible. The section line system of roal building is t20 expensive and in many cases im- practicable by reason of steep grades and other natural obstacles. The value of a topographical map for other pur- poses than road making is incalculable. It would be advantageous to every rail- road company that desires to construct new lines or extend existing lines — through the county, and it would be of vast benefit to thedoanal project even though preliminary surveys have already boen maday: Tn view of thess facts Senator Mfmderson's effort s highly commendablg. THE CAMPAIGN IN 10WWA. Popular intorest Th this fall's political campaign will cenfer in the Ohio and Towa contests. Inthese two states the battle is to be wagd upon the line of national issuos. JRepublicans over the country generally” Will find cause for congratulation in e fact thatin lowa the prohibition question Will, as far as practicable, be eliminated from the dis- cussion incident to the campaign. This much has already been determined upon by the state central committee. The republican party managers in Towa have made no mistake in deciding to ignore prohibition as a political issue. That question has too long been a dis- turbing element in Towa politics. As a were moral abstraction the prohibition question will never be settled. People vill always differ as to the merits or demerits of a theory which secks to change per- sonal habit by legislative enactment; and as it is certain that it can never be satisfactorily disposed of, it is equally certain that it has no place in politics. The republican party in Towa has found to its cost that its championship of an 1ssue that is entirely for- eign to legitimate political discus. sion has been disastrous. The men who foisted prohibition upon the republican party in Iowa have neither succeeded in making the sump- tuary enactments a success nor in pre- venting the gradual but certain disin- tegration of the party asa result of their ill-advised action. The party has not only lost the support of its members who honestly opposed sumptuary legis- lation, but it has been deserted by the prohibitionists themselve It has re- quired ‘sevoral disasters to open the eyes of the party leaders toa state of affairs which has been perfectiy obvious to republicans in adjoining states from the very first. Unhandicapped by the weight of the prohibition incubus the republicans will be in shape to make a vigorous fight to regain the prestige they once enjoyed in the Hawkeye stato. Their ante-conven= tion work iswwell under way, the party organization is in vigorous hands und the prospects for success far from dis: couraging. While the contest over the governovship will b a spirited one, the great stake of the campaign will be the United States senatprship, to be deter- mined by the complexi nof the leg lature to be chosen this fall LELAND STANKORD, United States senator from Callfornia, who died vosterday, was kunown to the country rather for the millions he had accumu- lated than for any” distinguished public service he had rendered. Ho had been governor of California and was serving his second term in the United States senate, but 1in neither of these positions had ho shown any’notable ability. His voice was ravely heald in the senate cept to vote, and the only thing now re- called with which his namo was promi- nontly identified as a senator was a bill to establish government ware- houses throughout the country for de- posits of grain upon which the treasury should issue notes. He advocated this impracticable and demagogic scheme in one or two speeches which are not now remembered,but the proposition received no consideration in congress. Stanford made his millions out of his railroad enterprises, very largely by methods which did not commend themselves to the approval of honest men. The most creditable work of his life was the founding of the university in memory of his son and’ so generously endowing it that if wisely conducted it will take rank as one of the great seats of learning in this country, and perhaps in the world. He was generously hos- pitable to his friends, was widely known as a breeder of fine horses, and his private life was creditable. THE Kansas City newspapers con- tinue to view with apprehension the near prospect of the enforcement of the Nebraska maximum rate law. It is generally admitted that the law will have the effect of demoralizing rates in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. At the same time the people of those states will have nothing to complain of. Not Worth Space. Glohe-Democrat, When the chief justice of the supreme court decides that the World's fair can bo legally and_properly ovened on Sunday, Joseph Cool’s opinion to the contrary ocsn’t amount to muck L Reducing the Surpios, St. Paul Pioneer Press. President Clovoland is going through a strict regimen to reduco his surplus of avoirdupois. There is a suspicion abroad, however, that congress will furnish him the needed exercise when it moets to bring him to the condition of a living skeleton. o o The Man KElts the Issue, Minneapolis (Iribune, Frauk Hurd would b the ideal candidate for governor of Ohio ori the democratic side. He is tho embodiment alid incarnation of the democratic tarifl plank, which, by the way, is s0 swudiously ignored by the administra’ tion at Washington. :[ho democrats of Ohio would surcly appreciatti’such un_ exhibition of sincerity. Boar T (1 Mina, New Yuk Sun, One passage from the chief justice's opin- ion in the Chicago fairea e is worth remem- bering: e “Itis perfectly cledr that congress never intended that it should bocome responsible for tho construction of any of the buildings except its own, or for te work providea for by the approvriationi™? This, wo say, is w;fi"' remembering. It may save the treasury 'of the United States $10,000,000, sooner or lator. B — Away with the Law, Philadelphia. Record. Upon assembling in extraordinary session congress should proceed at once to the absolute and unconditional repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law. This is o pressing busmess that should be neither embarrassed nor delayed by auy question of Gompromise. Whatever ~currency laws might be deemed necessary could be consid- ered afterward and passed on their own moerits. Compromises which are so inviting 10 many persons are generally unnecessary and for the wost part mischievous. — A Cheering Outiook, Kansas C8y Star. The increased exportation of grain to Eu- rope will hardly explain the change in the movement of gold, but the fact remains vhat the outflow of that wetal to Kuropo is stead- ily dimimshing and that its accumulation in the United States troasury is Inorensing. Whatever may be the cause there appears to bo & surcense of the abnormal demand for Amorican gold in Kurope, and a restoration of normal trade relations botween the two countries. The financial outiook is cer- tainly more eheering than it was in March, and with the sound policy outlined it i3 con fidently expected that the situation will con- tinue to improve, — - SIGHTS AT THE PAIR. The rose garden on Wooded island has begun to blossom. There are 20,000 orchids exhibited Horticultural building. Thoy are going to call the Fourth of July “American day™ at the Chicago exposition. John W. Daniels will be the orator at Mount Vernon, Virginia's state building, on August 9, Virginia day. In tho Maryland state building are sev- eral rooms filled with women's work. The walls are hung with pictures of beautiful Baltimore girls. A common clay pipe, brown clay at that, smoked by Miles Standish in his friendly treaties with the Indians in 1620 is a part of the government collection. The guides have been disbanded at the ox- position, though 100 of them will be retained as ushers and special potice. The Columbian guards have been reduced to 1,500. The mayor of Chicago has appointed June 20 as poor children's day, when all the boot- blacks, newsboys and other working children will have a picnic at dackson park. In the Mining buwilding o conglomerate moaument represents tho quantity of every sort of ores and metals mined per sccond all over the United States. Coal forms the base of the monument, which is a cube, five feot oach way, and precious stones make the apox. The Island of Jamajca has an exhibit in the Manufactures building. There are 240 specimens of rare woods, & large collection of silk grass and hemp and the articles man- ufactured from them: rum, spicos, nuts, tropical fruits and dried bananas are the principal attractions. The valuable collection of interesting trophies which General Grant collected on his tour around the world, and which were nawned to the Vanderbilts to secure a loan, but by them generously given to the govern: ment, are on exhibition in the Government building for the benefit ot the public, with- out price. Over in the Woman's building is a large glass case, and in it is displayed o sight ich makes every littlo girl go wild with stasy. It is the New York exhibit of *‘Periods of Fashion” from 1505 to 1803 Sixteen large sized dolls, dressed in as many different styles and costumes, vie with each other for preference in the childish mind. The Building for Public Comfort, just north of the Woman's building, was opened on Friday, though it w! not be finished until some time this week. It is a roomy, two-story house, whero people may check their lunch baskets, rest on rattan lounges, eat their luncheons’ and take in a general feeling of freedom and relief after the sight- seemng. The creche in the Children’s building} which is proving s i in the ving such a useful adjunct to the design the exhibit of the Fitche he and Training school for Nursery of Buffalo, N. Y. At the exposition ldren are cared for and given their meals for 25 cents a day, but in Buffalo the charge is on home there being intended for the use of working women who leave their children at the creche while they do their day's work. In the Horticultural building there 1s a solid silver filigree model of that structure which cost &35,000, or about one-seventh of the cost of the larger building itself. It weighs 110 pounds, is 11 feet long, 3 feet 3 inches wide and 3 feet 9 inches in height. To build it required the services of 12 men working 18 hours a day 13 months. The work was done by the Mesicans, who are the most adepe in the filigreoe art. The Government building still continues to be the principal place of attraction for those interested in the study of the nation’s history and development. That here are found ‘seats for the tired and weary. polite and soldierly guards, und an aic of freedom, without the taunting signs, “These are for sale,” or the annoying cry oguo vender, may constitute some of the reasons why people seck its confines and remain longer within its walls. It is the only build- ing which the concessionaire has nov been permitted to invade. —————— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Dana Cleveland is the name of a man in Coldwater, Mich. The Borden homestead is a human slaugh- ter house. Six persons met violent deaths there. Ex-Governor Robinson, chief counsel for Borden, might properly pray to be saved from his political friends. They are boomir.g him for the presidency. A Philadelphia burglar held 100 armed men at bay for ten hours at Ches Pa. And yet ‘the envicus assert that Quaker citizens are too humble to resent the bill of o Jersey mosquito. Thomas Edison ventures the opinion that Shicago is destined to be the London of Americaand New York will be its Liverpool. The General Electric company has a few favors to ask of Chicago Mr. Bailey of Texas will give way to Mr. Settle of North Carolina as th ungest member of congress when the statesimen tackle the Sherman bill next September. Mr. Settlo S years old. Miss Sallie Pierson, a compositor, has been appointed state orgamizer of the Fed- eration of Labor for Indian She has sup- ported herself and mother by typesctting since she was 16 years of 3 It 15 not generally known that a brother survives Edwin Booth, He is Dr. Joseph A, Booth, who was born in Baltimore and studied medicine at the South oling Med- arleston. csel lecuuring on surgecy in Now Yor! Mount Auburn, the cemetery where Edwin Booth 18 huried, is cclebrated for its beauty. It is in Old Cambridge, about one mile from Harvard college, and half that distance from the residence of the late poot, Longfel- low. Edwin Booth's brother, Junius Brutus, Charles Sumner, the late Vice President Henry Wilson, Russell Lowell, and many other famous dead, sleep there. Edward M. Ficld, the degenerate son of Cyrus Field, who ruined his father and hastened his demise, was sent to the asylum at Buffalo to await determination whether he was insane or merely shamming, He has been as a quasi inmate of the institution for nearly year, and the reports show that he is not confined at all, but allowed to roam about the streets of uuffalo without tho formality of an attendant even. —————— MIRTHFUL OVERTURES, Washington Star: You may think that tho oung man who 1s delivering tho valedictory Tooks rithor ploased wd prodd; but you ougiie €0 see his mother, so0 that shocking straw hat 15 “Yes; another Pana, andal." Philadelphia Record ), Maud, dear, o resident of Parls is nota parasite Siftings: Hero today and gono tomorr the mun who borrowed o five-dollar bill Philadelphia Times; There is a langu, flowers. Henco, perhaps, the way tho Dblow about June, Detroit Freo Press: The time is at hand when the vegotarian must communo with his {nnor self as o how ho stands on the cucum- ber question. Buffalo Courier: Perhaps somo expsrt in color effects can explain how it is that & man often looks bluest when he I8 in a brown study. Indlanapolis Journal: Hungry Higgins— What are you thinkin' about so hard? Weoury Watkins—1 was Jist thinkin' of the awtul responsibility they is in & wan bein' a citizen of a ropublic: “Lwonder.” sald ono of tho loungors, *what was the orlgin of the swallow-tailed o St is my, tden,” sald the grizzle-whiskered man from Montans, “thit they wascut that Way in the first place to make it handy fora man to gt his gun.” THAT NEOLIGEE SHIRT, Clothier and Furnisher. Brother and sister, sido by side, Wore sitting on the shore. ¥ tho malden cried, ore.* strange,” her brother said, ory's biad, 1 foar, 1 this Is the'vory shirt ourself last your." Plane for Two Now Stractures Approved by the Toard of Works, The Fifteonth and Sixtoenth stroot duct schemos wore sont ahoad another notch yosterday, and if the movemont is kept up, work upon tho construction may bo commenced bofore snow fi At the meettng of the Board of Public Works morning the plans for both were approved, and the action will bo commun ed to the council tonight. If the councilmen con- cur in thoe action the plans then go to Mayor Bemis for his signature. When that is se- cured City Engineer Rosowater will trans. mit a copy of the pians_ and svecifications to the Union Pacific and Burlington railway companies, Then will follow a reasonable walt for the pleasurcs of tho managers of those companies. If they slgnify their in- tention to construct the viaducts the city authorities will have done with the matter 80 far as cons ction is concerned. But in case the companies rofuso to do 8o, then the council and its legal advisors will have an opportunity to test the provisions of the new charter covering the construction of via- ducts, Under the new charter the city can com- pel the railway nomvnn!cs to orect viaducts over their tracks whenever deomed neces- sary, and the companies must do the work at their oxpense. In case a railway com- pany refuses to construct a viaduct when ordered to do so the city is empowered under the charter to do the workand assess the ocost up to the company and collect the same. In addition to this power the failure or rof company to comply with the cous is made n_misdemeanor, punishable by fine, and each day’s failure or refusal is deter- mined a soparate offenso. Last year stops wero taken looking to the construction of those viaducts. The matter progressed as far as sending to the com- and specitications, and ngs camo to an ab- The railway managers even acknowledge the receipt of the plans, which it is presumed were snugly tucked away among the must; gones in the vaults at headquarters. The matter slumbered along during the winter months, and it required the bright sunshine of spring to awaken it Thenew charter had become a law, und ono April evening the council delegated the Judiciary committec to investigate tho status of the viaduct case and to report back with recommendations. The committee investi- gated and a report was returned recommend- ing that the whole p tings bocommenced anew under the ne: ter. The committee found that a question had boen raised re- garding the powers of the council under the old charter, and that its provisions were not 80 plain as those of the now. The straighten out overything and to prevent the possibil- ity of the companies kicking over the t and refusing to o ahead, new ordina were iutroduced claring the necessity of the viaducts ordering plans drawn and s g repared by the city enginey s00n the ne. ¢ red tape is gone through, the plans will be approved and the com: panies furnished with copies and given no- tice that they will be expoctod to cons l!\)l‘ll\\'o viaducts with as little dela, sible, Both viaduets are steel, iron and stone. known as the deck viaduct and very si to the Tenth street. The Sixteenth will be 1,525 feet_in longth and will cost in the neighborhood of #175.000. Its dth will be fifty-cight fect inside of the curb, i pendent of the eight-foot walks one: 5 In its construction will be used about 3,000,- 000 pounds of metal. The length of the Fifteenth street struct- ure will be 1,030 feet; its width will be the same as the Sixteenth street. It will cost about $135,000. In its construction will be required about 2,225,000 pounds of metal. S S A BURNED HIS WIFE'S PARAMOUR. via- to be constructed of They are Terrible Vengeance Taken by a Doctor on the Destroyer of s (lome, Apey, Tenn., June 21.—Dr. John Hood, suspecting his wite of improper relations with William Piper, lay in wait and_caught them compromised. He threw a burning lamp on Piper, setting him afiro and burn- ing him to death. The unfaithful wifo threw hersclf on the body and prayed for death to take her with her lover. All parties are prominent. g AR 8 T Wreck on the Burlington, Garespura, I, Juue 21.—A stock train and an engine on the Burlington road collided near Buda this morniag, ¢ ing a serious wreck, The engincers and firemen jumped. All were seriously hurt. e THE SAILOR HAT. Somerville Jowrnal. The girl with the sailor hat Ismatty, and trim, and neat, In Tior suit of blue, She s falr to view, As she trips a-down the street. I wateh hor us sho goos Dy, And my heart goes pit-a-pat. No girl I seo o pleases mo As the girl with the sailor hat. But the girl with tho sailor hat s as coy as sho Is demure. Il well she knows oW iy poor heArt As T look xt hor, I'ny sure, \ FOR NEW VIADUOTS. OFFIOES FOR VOTES. Cleveland Dispensing Ple In Return for Vo Five deputy auditors of the treasuty, writes the Washington correspondent of the New York Sun, are “held for consideration' by Mr. Clevoland, who has given Secrotary Carlislo notice that he will himself fill the officos just as soon as he soes his way cloar, but no sooner. Kor these five offices there are for cach place at least five democrats, who have been waiting ever since the first month of the administration thinks he is bound to bo the lucky man. Besides th ve candidates for every one of tho five bosts, overy one of whom stands in the foreground and is 1 his own mind certain to be appointed, thore are at least three times as many others, every one of om does not for a moment doubt, as one hem said, that he is “in it;" that is, has a fair chance. There aro othor ofices held in bunches ot five by Mr. Cleveland, concerning which an equal number of domocrats hkave been equally confident for an equal length of time: while the number besides who also think thoy are “in1t" is not less than the crowd which pressesaround the five auditor E) ‘Thore is hardly a department where a similar state of things does not at present exist. The motive for this extensive and system- atic holding up of appointments is to enabla the administration to oxert an influence on congress. Only in rare cases will any of the oMces bo filled before congress has acted on certain measures entering into the adminis. tration's policy. Fvery deputy auditol place, according to Mr. Cleveland's polioy, shoull capture tho vote of at least one momber of the house who has not yet mado up his mind to favor some cortain tning Mr. Cleveland wants done. A senator is not deemea too high & price, and if the talk in one caso is not all wrong, a4 certain senator is as good as won over by the promise of an appdintment on tho promise in roturn of a vote in the senate for something which Mr. Cleveland very much desires, How many promises on both sides have been given, fulfillment depending on action after congress meets, thero is no knowing. How many consuls, United States marshals, district attorneys, presidential postmasters, collectorships, and 8o on, are thus held in abeyance is o matter for conjecture. The president has given his cabinet to un- derstand that this is his own blusiness, this arranging beforehand for increased strongth in congress. Many offices that have been filled were filled in such a way as to securo the promnise of votes. A prominent member of the senate finance committoe, once notor- 10usly loud in his decla: ons against Mr. Cleveland’s policy, only recently said that ho had been treated so kindly by the prosident that he would find it hard to deny hun any- thing ho might ask. That senator is today as cortain for whatever Mr, Cleveland asks as the sun is to rise tomorrow. 1t was foretold at the beginning of the ad. ministration that this was going to be one of its effective methods of influoncing legisla- tion. S0 it has proved to be, and the game is boing playod more openly now than any one then ventured to predict. Slsnipgeens Steaming Hot at the Fair. Cu1caGo, June2l.—A blazing sun on streets soaked with rain last night made the World's fair grounds something like a big Turkish bath house this morning, but could not keep the crowds away. It is estimated 60,000 tickets were sold bofore noon, The German wine exhibitin the Horticultural building was opened with appropriate cere- monies. Kvery one ——-——— A HINT FROM PARIS. Europcan Edition New York Herald. YOI THE GRAND PRIX. The costume shown today has been spo- clally designed for the Grand Prix. The corsage and lower partof the sleeves are of shot silic, The ribbons crossing the corsago arc of black velver. The upper part of the sleeves and skirt are of lace. BRGWNJQE,KENG Largest Manufacturers and Rotallors ( Clothing in the World. ‘r;;;Qmm_yr,«r»fif" J 1 S W LT e pays to buy the best. BROWNING, Blore open every evenlu Baturday till 10. 41 6.0, I $. In the Same Boat. All the goods we have in stock ara in the same ” boat-—it's a mighty nice |to quality it's all in the ;same boat—no matter ries, workmanship and i style are absolutely correct. We are making such decided bargain prices just now that it is a com- paratively easy matter to convince a man that it KING & CO., W, Cor. 16t1 and Douglas Sts.