Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 26, 1893, Page 4

4 STHE DAILY BEE. Misanc- e il B ROSEWATER, Rditor e i THINS OF SUBSCRIFTION. 11hor dny) Une Year.. 8 8 00 STunday, Ono Yeur 210 00 8 00 250 200 150 100 Months. ... ... unday Hee, Ono Year turday Ben, Ong Yoar eelcly ltec, Ono Year OFFICES, Omahn, The B South (ma Council By Chicag New Yorl, Raoms 13 Byliding Vashingtor, WO All commun editorial natter ahe Editor 513 Fourtaenth Stroet. NCE fng to nows and ddressed: To the TERS, romittances ehoald ahlishing Co mpany, 1 postoffice orders 1o order of the com- nes L Al husiness iottors a be addrassed to The Neo Omaiia. Hrafl 10 he mude puyablo to pany. Partieslen the city for the summer can HAve the B sent thelr address by leaving an order ut this oftico. THE BEE VUBLISH i - BWORN Btate \ry f Tie BER publish tho act ng_cou: oF p the week ending eireniation June 24, 15 Wy THE DALY RE Tollows ., J Saturday, Ju SWORN to M-:«'ul-.' my presence th N and subscribed in 24th day of June, 18 Notary Publle. (i ey — The Beo In Tie DALY and SUspAy Dee 1s on sale in Ohjeago at the following placoes: Palmer house. Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorium hotel. Groat Northern hotel Gore hotel. Teland hotol. Wells B, Sizer, 189 Stato street. Flles of Tik BER can be scen at the Ne- braska building and the Administration build- ing, Exposition erounds. — — —— Avorage Circulation for May, 1803, 24,417 e ——— e THE new bids on state printing show a saving of about one-half. So much for exposure of the trickery of the Boodler’s Own at Lincoln. spects A. D. Jones is one of the most distinguished citizens of Omaha. He can remember the time when the paving contractors held no mortgage on the city. IN s0M WHILE the auditor of publie accounts 1s showing 50 much zeal in scrutinizing vouchers he should not forget to keep a Jookout for traveling expense bills of state officers who ride on annual passes. AT Chicago Saturday afternoon $800,- 000 changod hands over the result of a horse raco. Hereafter the general pub- lic will look with suspicion upon com- plaints of a monetary stringency coming from the Windy ci JUDGING from the angry comments of the administration organs, Congress- man Bryan seems to have stirred up a hornet's nest on his recent trip through Georgia. The young Nebraska congress- man did not hesitate to tell the Geogians Jjust how he stood with reference to the powers that be, and the applauso with which his remarks were received con- veys the impression that Hoke Smith does not carry Georgia in his vest pocket. THE late Leland Stanford was the recognized chief of the representatives of the railroad corporations in the United Btates senate. Governor Markham him- self is closely allied with these inter- ests, and there is no doubt ho will select & republican of the same antecodents to succeed Mr. Stanford until the legisla- ture elects a successor. Of course the railroad companies expect to elect their man when the time comes California $a the worst monopoly-ridden state in America. THERE are 11,124 acres of state saline Jands in Lancaster county and the pres- ®nt oceupants may exchange their leases for deeds aitar August 1. Thelands are extremoly valuablo and the state ought to realize from $500 to 81,500 per acre for a large portion of them. The people of the state will keopa good eye upon the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings when the time comes to sell the lands. If the appraisement is not equal to something like the true value of the lands, the state officials should refuseo to sign tho deeds THE Burlington and the Union Pacific are discontinuing trains on their branch Jines. The oxcuse they make for so doing is that in view of the results of the maximum rate law they aro obliged to withdraw those trains .on the score of economy. The true reason is that’ pas- senger traflic on the main lines is in- ereasing so cnormously that the mana- gors of these companios are put to their . wits’ end to find cars enough to handle this immense travel. So they aro deplot- ing théir branch lines of rolling stock to Anorease the facilities of the main lines. The excuse they offor is a false protense and tho attempt to thus hoodwink the public is arrogant insolence. By and by these haughty corporations will discover that the people have rights which must be raspected PROBABLY in no state has there been 88 vigorous a strife for the control of the federal patronage as that which has been carricd on between the two fac- tions of tho domocratic party in South Carolina. The straight-outs have been marshaled by Congressman William H. Brawley of the Charleston distriot, with the countenance of Senator Butler, and the opposing faction by Senator Irby and Representative Tillman of the See- ond district. President Cleveland has very definitely settled the claim in his first appointment for that state by giv- Ing the district attorneyship to the most bitter and uncompromising anti-Till- manito in South Cavolina. Sonator Irby even went to Washington and made an elaborate argument to prove that he was the head of the party in the state and should be recognized as the patron- - mge boss. But tho president evidently ‘Was not unmindful of the fact that dur- ing the last cawpaign Mr. Brawley openly and ropeatedly repudiated the free colnage notion and won his election in a free colnage district by the ability #nd courage with which he maintained s econowic convictions. ! ! i | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1893 PRACTICAL CAUSES OF DISTURBANCE. The common theory is that the finan- eial distarbance through which the coun- try is now passing is mainly due to tho silver purchase law, and that if that law shail be repealed contidence will speedily roturn, gold will stop going out of the conntry and the monetary trouble will come to an end. There are other causes for the cxisting situation, however, and some of those aro pointed out by Major | Brock, the retiving chief of the bureau with the oxports of gold. pelied to sond gold to E we are a debtor nation and pean countries do not want any- thing olse in which we might pay our indebtedness. They are not calling for our grain in suiivient amount to settlo the balance against us, nor do they want our secnrities oxcept to a limited oxtent. They have been throwing large amounts of their goods on the American market and have not taken our com- moditics in veturn, sv that within the pust yoar thers has beon a steadily grow- against us, Then there has urn of securitics to which ap regarding the future silver ry of the governmg may have in- cidentaliy ted. Gold boing de- d by the creditor nations of Burope it went there, and so long as these conditions continue it will continue to go there, whether the silver purchase law be ropealed or al- lowed to stand. Obviow o far asthe outflow of gold is concorned it is due chiclly to thecommercial conditions, the fact that the government is purchasing silver playing a very small pact in the matter, That the steady efllux of gold has had more or less influence in unsettling con- fidence is not to be doubted. but there are much more potent reasons for the distrust that has manifested itself in a general and great contraction of eredits. Unquestionably the greatest of these has been the enormously inflated capitalization of the numerous com- binations which have sprung up in the last six or eight yea It has been well said that nothing that the groat perioa of inflation and speculation from the close of the war to the failure of Jay Cooke in 1873 can show in the way of multiplying enterpr and floating share capital overtops the vast combina- tions of speculative capital that have mado the last half dozen years uniquo in industrial history. An enormous volume of inflated paper has been floate by the trusts, and the specula- tive manipulation of these combi- nations has been carrvied on with the most reckless disregard of sound busiuess principles. So exten- sive had become their ramifications that when distrust regavding them set in it was difficult to put any limit to it. Legitimate enterprise was made to ex- porience the lack of confidence equally with the speculative undertaking: There has been an undue expansion of rope be credit and the effort now making is to | return to a safo basi ‘This involves a contraction of credit, and those who understand how large a part is played in the businoss of the eountry by credits will readily comprchend what such a contradiction means. Of the enormous excha of the country from 92 to 95 per cent is carvied on with credit paper and only from 5 to 8 per cent with cur- renc, Aloss of one-twentieth of the supply of money, by gold exports or otherwise, is insignificant in comparison with a like percentage in the contrac- tion of eredits; and this is what the busi- noss interests of the country are now suffering from rather than the exports of gold. It is evident that all the weak and rotten timber in tho financial and commercial edifices has not yet been thrown ont, but there appears to be a growing feeling that the worst has been exporicnced in the regenerative process. When the end is reached those who come safely out will be stronger in the public confidence and have a better op- portunity for future prosperit THE FINANCIAL OUILOOK, Whatever cncouragement the fact that half a million in gold was shipped from Southampton to this country on Saturday may give to the belief that it is the change of the tide to the United States the general situation does not warrant any such conclusion. 'I'his is the opinion of Messrs. Baring, Magoun & Co., in whose interest the importation is madoe. They say that the transaction is purely a private affair on which they had a chance to make a profit; that it has no bearing on the general situation and they donot look for continued im- ports unless it be on special orders such as this. That is also the view of other New York houses engagoed in the same line of bus ness. They do think, however, that in perhaps another month the tide will turn, but there is a large supply of bills of exchange here now, and the present conditions do not warrant importations. Nevertheless upon tho announcement Wall str found at I lief that oven on a special ovder the cur- rent which had set 8o hea ant and significant. The last notable import were in 1801, In been sent out and turned. In 1890 ported and $20, totals for 1801 were $79,080.581 exported and 84,970,110 imported. In the fall of that year there was an important move- ment this way. During thoe last four months of the year a grand total of 424 gold cwme in, With the begin- ning of 1892 the imports fell off. During tho eleven months of the fiscal year be- ginning July 1, 1892 and_ending May 31, 1893, the amount of gold shipped from the United States to Europe, according to figures furnished by the treasury burean of statistivs, amounted to $105 965,950. During the samo period gold was imported from Kurope into the United States to the amount of $20,164,0699, leaving @ balance against this country in that period of $85,000,000. The total exports of that year, beginning with January 1, were 76,632,056, while the imports wero only 817,450,946, a total export surplus of 081,110. During the five months of ! country. tho present calondar year, ending with ‘ wo are hulldhuzutur new warships it May 31, the amount of gold exported was 71,003,044, the imports during the same | period belng $10,740,361, or a balance against us of $61,000,000. Up to date the total exports oxceod that of the imports hy about $60,000,000. But there are encouraging features to be found in the general situation. For the last three weeks no gold has been exported from New York to Ku- | rope, and as a consequence the Treasury of statistics, who rogards the silver law | as really having little or nothing to do | We are com- | department at Washington has been gaining gold during that period. The demand on the east.from the west for currency has perceptibly diminished. The returns from the United Statos treasury show that there has been for- warded to national banks since June 1 31,200,270, and thore has been ordered for issuance on national bank bonds since the latter date $2,020,000. Secretary Carlisle has also given notico that ho will anticipate the payment of the July interest on government bonds. This will release $7,500,000 now in the treasury and put a like amount into active cireu- lation in the business centers of the This announcement has al- ready reduced the current rates for money in the east, and the issueof clear- ing house certificates in New York must relieve the stringency of the market to some extent. Although the commer- eial agencios roport that trade is cor- tainly reduced by this monctary strin- the statement is made by those in a position to know that the retail trade generally is more than usually active for this season of the year. All in all, though the outlook may not bo resplen- dently roseate, there is no just ground for the pessimistic line with which it is regarded by panicky alarmists. MUST BIDE THEIR TIME. Now that the managoers of our Yankton & Norfolk railway have thrown up the sponge for want of money to push the road why don't the OMans Bree and the Omaha cap- italists come to the rescue? They have been talking what a great thing it would be for Omaha to have a through connection to the north; nolv here's your chance.—Pierce Call. Omaha is as anxious as ever to have a direct road into South Dakota, or even an indirect road like the Yankton & Norlolk line for want of somothing bet- ter. But just now moncy for building railroads is not very abundant and Omaba capitalists are not in condition to embark in any enterprise that would drain their resources, Tho people of northern Nebraska and South Dakota must therefors patiently bide theiv time until the country is relioved from finan- clalembarrassment. When that time comes TiE BEE will very cheerfully do what it can to induce our monied men to compiete the Yankton road THE M RE. Details of the Mediterranean horror are not yet at hand. Tt is known that the British battloship Camperdown ran her ram into the colossal battlaship Vie- toria during a naval evolution, tearing a great hole in her side from which she sank so quickly that it was impossible for most of those on board to escape, and that more than 400 of the officers and crew on board went down with her in ninety fathoms of water. The Victoria was a twin-screw battleship of 10,470 tons, 14,000-horse power, mounted fifteen guns and carried 718 ofiicers and men. She had a longitudinal bulkhead run- ning through her, besides a number run- ning across ship. She was thus divided into compartments on each side of the longitudinal bulkhead, without commu- nication between them. The ram struck her on the starboard side forward of the turret. In the absence of particulars the most probable theory of the collision is that likely the two ships met when steering in exactly opposite courses, and the ram of the Camperdown would then have caught the unarmored part of the Viec- toria’s hull and torn it through for a considerable distance, ripping a wide gash below the watertight compart- ments. The rush of waters through such a hole would drown those in the forward part of the ship on the star- board side and the weight of the flord would have turned her over before many of the remaining number could get out. Or the Camperdown may have struck the vessel a ripping blow, glancing alongside and opening out tho plates above several of the compartments. The huge volume of water thus admitted into a number of the compartments on one side of the ship would cause her to capsize by its own weight. If this theory s correct it is seen that the possession of these com- partments proved a source of weaknoss rather than strength. She was really capsized by her watortight compart- ments. Another explanation is that the ram struck the Victoria on the athwart- ship bulkhead which separated the large forward compartment from the next one after, thus filling both com- partments, Forward were a turret and barbette, bearing eighteen-inch armor and two 111-ton guns, with many tons of ammunition, while there was no weight aft. The forward compartments filled instantly, and the ship went down by the bows until the stern was raised high. The weight of the water right- hand side gave the ship a heavy list to starboard and caused her to careen clear over; going down bottom up. Either of these explanations seems plausible, but as Captain Tryon, brother of the drowned admiral says the great depth at which the sunken vessel lies will probably presvent the exact nature of the damage sustained by her ever becoming known. The calamity has already dirceted dis- cussion to the monster naval construc- tion of the prescnt day and to the utility of watertight csmpartments to keep a wounded vessel aflcat. If the water was admitted into the compartments of the Victoria by the rent made by the ram in such volume as to turn her turtle back the suggestion arvises that these com- partiments wmight bo so subdivided by constructing one within another as to rendcr such an accident impossible. Had the compartments of the Victoria buen so0 constructed it is not likely that the volume of water capable of being thus admitted would have been sufficient to capsize the ship. Tho severe lesson tuught by the catastrophe is that there yet remains much to be done in the im- provement of naval architecture. While DISASTER, will be the part {sdom for our naval enginecers and _arghitects to inquire closely into this matter, No less im- portant 18 it “'{Nat the same at- tention, to inbuee safoty, should bo given in the construction of our great merchant ships. The catastrophe also'' Hircots inquiry re- specting the wisdom of constructing such monster warships as those recently built or now undersway. We have no war vossel as large as the Victoria, but the Indiana, Oregon and Massachusetts are enormous ships. Whether there is any advantage to be gained by the concen- tration of so much power in a singlo v sel in preferenco to its distribution among moro than one of asmaller size is aquestion to be determined. Morcover, it is shown that no matter how formid- ably a battleship may be constructed she is vulnerable to the assault of such ter- rible engines of naval offense as that which unintentionally sunk the ill-fated Victoria, provided the ram can suc- ccod in attacking her during an engage- ment. Such stupendous masses as our modern warships, must necessarily be less wieldy than swift sailing cruis which may be made into rams. A suffi- cient number of the latter it would seem might prove equally as efficacions in opposing an agaressive naval power. Atany rato. whatever disaster might result to them, the calamity of the Med- iterrancan would not be repeated. If the Camperdown tore off the plates of the Victoria it is evident also that the armor of the pretentious modern men- of-war by no means affords the protec- tion that has been assumed. The dis- cussion that is sure to ensue will doubt- loss suggost new and more efficient methods of naval construction than yet attained, grand as recent achievements have been. THE socialistic propaganda is rapidly coming to the front in Germany. Em- peror William calls it a delusive move- ment, notwithstanding the fact that it has gained more than a million votes in six yoars. Socialism may vet be more of a menaco to imporial Germany than republican France. HE people of Omaha will never con- sent to the repudiation of an honest debt; but there will be general satisfaction over the news that Mayor Bemis has the Barber company’s claim of $16,515.71 for allogod repaivs on the as- phalt stree! And for once, the council sustained the veto. Let Us Hope So. New York Recorder. With army officers as Indian agents the number of Indian wars will be cut \down and poor Lo will have a chance to get his full ra- tions. el Rights and Political Dickers. St. Louis Republic. ‘With at least a dozen parties represented in his new Reichstag it would seem that the r is in an excellent condition for trad- zif ho can abandon his notions of divine right long enough to strike a bargain. ————— Might Bo Extendod. Lincoln Herald. The state board of public lands and build- ings have cut down the wages of all the em- ployes of the reform school to the amount of 1215 per cent. The cut might be extended to every institution of the state and do more good than harm. e Fecding on Outside Fodder. Nebraska Nugget. ‘The stato board of agriculture honors the editors of the state with complimentary tickets to the fair printed at Denver. When public oMcials get too good o use stationery printed at home it is time to remind the gentlemen who feeds them, Divin Popuilst Tax N, Svringfield, Mass., Republican, The licutenant governor of Kansas is extra- officially engaged in organizing clubs over the state to educate the people on his great scheme of & graduated tax on millionaire estates, His plan is to squeeze 5o mucl money out of the millionaires thut nobod: elsc need pay any taxes. Its great populari is thus already assured. e Woman & Menaco to Burglary, New York Tribune. The number of women possessing enough courago and presence of mind to bring burglars to terms and hand them over to th police seems to be increasing rapidly. W daro say that beforelong oneof them will dis- close her quality at the right moment and a coach load of passengers from being robbed by a solitary ruffian with a brace of revolvers and a cheek of brass, L oakorshrp Involved. Boston Herald, IHon. Charles F. Crisp hasdeclined to state whether he is in favor of the repex Sherman act, and there is some curiosity to know whether he will tackle the subject in his speech in Tammany hall on the Fourth of July. It is highly "important that his position on this important question should be definitely known before he is again chosen to the speakership of the house. ——— A Bull in tho Rate Shop, St. Paul Globe, James J. Hill ap pears to be exceedingly popular everywhere, and yot forsomo reason western railroad magnates do not seem anxious to extend 1o him the hand of fellowshin.” Very good reason why. Mur. Hill is in position to knock tho thrones from under a good many of them, They must dance to bis music when- ever he seos fit to mako the AL el Looking Backward. Denver Tepublican, One yearago Grover Cleveland was re- nominated for presideént by the national Democratic convention in Chicago. Then the country was wore prosperous than ever before in its entire history. Now it is suf- fering the most severe and general business deprossion since 1573, Tt would be worth millions to the American’ people 1f they could turn the hands of the ‘clock backward and undo the great mistake'of st November. el rgroand Wires. ur City Tribune. ph and telephone companies in Des Moines are very 80re becauso the city council has passed an ordinance order their wires within the, five limits plac under ground, and th’y are making threats ahbout takjng the matter wnlb the courts, and, if successful there, to raise tho rates to customers. Byt if the city of Des Moines wants to enfopce the ordinance, iv can do s0, as the matted has been fully de- cidod by the courts, which have, in similar circumstances. ed thal the city has 4 right to mako such an order. The companies would better comply with the ordinance and save timeand vexation, to say nothing of expense. The Let the ot nnd Hungry Howl New Yors Iribunc. Senator Butler of South Carolina has writ- .teu a letter which will bo approved by all the members of his party except dyed-in-the- wool partisans, and which must be highly appreciated by President Cloveland. Ho says that senators and representatives have no right to dictate appointments or to con- sider their recommendations as flnal and conclusive; that the president's coustitug tional dutivs should not be iuvaded, and that he is not bound to con sult any one regardin- appoiutments. The *hot and hungry" can- not be expected to regard these sound prin- ciples us of binding force, but Mr. Butler is approaching the end of his third term in the senate, and cannot be accused of inexperi- euce or hasty judgment. THE RAILROADS' BLUFF, Wayne Democrat: Thoe raflronds aro re- tallating on the public for tho passage of the Newborry froight bill, by withdrawing pas- lenger trains from branch roads. Another '_numm-e of biting off the nose to spite the ace. Sioux County Journal: The new rate on wheat, which went into offect on June 10, raises the rate which the farmers v have to pay on what they have to sell just 5 conts o hundred. The local buyers have to figure on the Chicago rate, and that has been in- creased fron to 32 cents a hundrod. Greeloy Herald: All passenger trains on the branch lines have been taken off, and hereafter passongers will be compelled to go on the same train with hogs, cattle and farm produce. rocloy has one train dai ®ots her mail whenever it comes. he daily papers from Omaha and Lincoln are received when they are two days old, o our peoplo may hereafter consider themselves from throo duys to a week behind in tho rush of human progress and in a knowledge of cur- rent events. Schuyler Herald state aro pulling tho passengor tralus off their branch lines, and give for their reason | that the new frieght rato law, which goes into effect on August 1. will necessitate cut- l,lul( down their expenses to the lowest pos- sible figure. The law in no way effects their passenger traflic, and the real objoct which they have in taking off their trains is_to make the laws as obnoxiou possivle. Wo think that it will not take the veople very long to see through their very thin scheme. Alliance Independent: While tho freight rate law, which goes into effect next month, will force down local rates in Nebraska, the roads have throatened to make it up by rais- ing through rates on wheat, corn, cte. But it now appears that tho eastern intorstate lines are going to broak up any such an at- tempt. The Great Northern has already begun to cut the through rates and other roads will take it up. The only thing for the B. & M. and Union Pacific to do is to get down off their high horses and quit bluff- ing. York Domocrat: Several trains have been taken off on branch lines to punish the peo- ple for passing the bill. This is boys' play. The railroads of this state need a hittle gov- ernment ownership and control about as bad s any piece of property we have seen lately. Thoe people will stand about so mu and then a halt will be called. If the roads had wise managers they would g fully conform to the new order of things. little further aggravation and future legis- latures will make things decidedly worse. The raiirond poople had better prepare to obey the law the same as the citizens of the state have to do. Plattsmouth Journal: The railways of Nebraska are about to inaugurate u system of opposition to the enforcement of the new freight rate law—the most foolish and un- wise thing they could think of doing. A submission to the law, under protest if ni be, would oring them friends. To make a fight against it is to awaken the enmity of every good citi 0 insure their ulti- mate defeat and humiliation. The railways are unquestionably a great power in the state, but they are not yet strong cnough to dominate over the laws adopted by tho peo- ple's representatives. When they do it will be time enough for honest and self-respect- ing people to emigrate. Lincoln News: The Nebraska ovidently in a qual v whether, after all, they will oboy the Newberry law or place ratesat whatever figures they may vloase. ‘When an ordin: citizen breaks the laws of his state he is roundly deuounced by the pressand the publie, and is often imprisoned. When a railron ses 10 obey a law it can atways rel) fenders of the stripe of tho State Jour misrepresent matters. If the te had a board of transportation with either the in- clination or the backbone, or both, to enforco -ates that are us favorable to the people as to tho railroads, w reated to this spectacle of railway managers sitting in consultation deciding whether or not they shall comply with the law. Schuyler Quill: As the maximum law only affected local rates in Nebraska, the thr. charges are to bo raised sufflc the state to make up and i as though the rates were stead of lowered. This was thefi step toward the unpopularity of the law among the people which would lead to its re peal. The next move was to remove the bass reduce_the number of trains on the main lines. - The reason assigned for this tha the roads could nov afford to keep up their former service under the new rate. Kven the Schuyter and Ashland branch of the B. & M. road was to have only a freight train per day. Right there comes tie inconsistent part of their work. First the people ure told that the bill raises the rates instead of low ering them and was a bad one for the masses ; then they next claim that the bill cut down the rates so much that they could not afford to run passenger trains, ex- cept in o few instances on the main lines. But that is not the only inconsis v in this passenger train scheme. The new law does not change the passenger or expre rates, it being a purely freight rate Dbill. Hence, if it does not pay to run the passen- ger trans now on the branch lines it did not before, and if it did before it does now—no change being made in those rates. That the roads made enough out of freight rates to balance a loss in the pussenger rates is not probable and even if true was not justice to the shippers. The sum and substance of it is another plan to make the law unpopular and secure its repeal by the next legislature, Let the people fully understand these schemes and instead of repealing this law change it $0 as 10 secure the reduction where the juggling in schedule figzures has appar- ently raised the rates. Iet no man be un- informed! Ironds are o PEOPLE AND THINGS. 1f Lizzio Borden aceapts the invitation to lecture, belief in her inuocence will undergo a radical change. populists announce that they nine-tenths of the county offices, The wholesalo pardoning of convicls by the gov- ernor rily o part of tho plan. Under the new law of Illinois a polling booth 15 to bo provided for every soventy- five votors, 1'his will relieve the the mentality of tho average election clerk. To place & foaming collar onColonel Ains- worth's beaker of sorrow, some ghoul has unearthed the supposed record of his elope ment with an actress some thirteen years vill clerall of Missouri rofuses to as- any young wan in his congressional dist- vict on his way to West Point bocause he doesn’t beliove 1 a “dude factory,” us he calis the military school. Justice Blatchford, who is critically 111, holds high rank for attainments as a mem: ber of the United Stat, upreme court. H vas born in the ety of New York and was ppointed to his present office in 1552, x-Ministor Phelps, who is now making the concluding ldress bofore the Bering fon court, promises to outwind ull precoding speakers. He has taken long walks and handled dumb bells for woeks nd put his caloric machinery in primo for the ra \d jury of Minne. psting viow of tho prac ire department in that tinguishment of fires is not tho exclusive aim of tho leaders, for, while tho rank and fila are working the pines, tho men who boss the job take inventories of the im- perilod stock. Should any of it prove useful or orname: or bo readily salable, it is prompily rescued from the “maw of the demon.” The industry of the leaders was not_confined to this line. They contributed to their flnancial health by farming out the department borses and charging snug sums for boarding the stock, the clty contributing most of the board. The grand jury con- cluded by returning four indiotments ugainst the industrious fire fighters. Tho late Leland Stanford earned his first capital by piefking a load of horseradish, washing each root separately and selling tho horseradish in Schenectady. On this finan- cial venture, undertaken at the age of 6, he reaped a profitof 2 York shillings. Two years later, when 8 years of age. he dis- Pplayed his instinctive knowledge of the laws of trade. A sharp frost came and all the chestnuts fell to the ground. He picked many quarts. Every boy in the wveighbor- hood had done tho same and the chestnuts were going begging. Young Stauford thought the matter over. He got & number of friends to join him and they stored th chestoutg away. They wailed xuuenlly for the marfet Lo g0 up, which it did, and the, then sold for $25 chestuuts which woull have been sacrificed for §2 or § at the wost if put on the market prematurely, ~ v, and | The railroads of this | nger trains from all branch roads and | GARNEAU-MOURE, Norfolk News: The most oxpensice ex- hibit in the Nobraska building at the World's fair is Mr. Josoph Garnoau, Nebraska City Press: No one is at all sur- prised that Commissioner Garneau is vory angry over Auajtor Moore's open letter. Garneau has acted all along what he wrote in his reply, that tho appropriation was made for his sole Lenofit, and ho had o right to uso it as he pleased Fairbury Gazette: ‘Garneau, of Nobraska World's fair tamo, Is very indignant be. ¢ause the auditor of the state has accusea bim of “needless oxtravagance.” But the auditor has put it very mild, in fact the ma- Jority of the people of the state who have secn that miserablo structare which repre- obraska, will hardly be so charitablo riticism, Red Cloud Argus: Garnea, the Nebraska World's fair commissioner, has struck a big snag in the shape of a rofusal on the part of Auditor Meore to andit some of tho commis- sioner’s bills which tha auditor deems ex- travigant and unwarranted. For onco tho stato has an auditor who will not hesitate to set down promptly and hard on what ho does not consider right. Itoms must be pluged to sizo and bo within scops of the appropria- jon. Idgar Post: No ono will have the temer- ity to accuse Mr. Garnean of giving Ne- braska anything like a decont show at tho World's fawr, ovon with the hmitod appr priation at his command, but thore are many who do not hositato to accuso him of making lavish expenditures of money whore thero is vory littlo to show for it. Auditor Moor 10'¥ come forward and refuses to approv number of the bills, This will no doubt bring on a needed investigation of the mauner of expending the state's money, and some in- toresting disclosures may be looked for. Dawes County Journal: 1If auditor Moora stands by his resolution and refuses to allow many of the oills pr d by Commissioner Garneay, tho whole state of Nebraska will bo under great obligations to him. It 1s time, for instance, that men doing business for the state and traveling on railroad passes should coase to be paid for railroad exponse The State building on the World's fair grounds does not represent the monoy which was appropriated fcr it. The people who pay the taxes huve a right for their money worth when public funds are voted for uny euterpriso. Hastings Nebraskan: Stato Auditor Moore has brought Commissioner Garneau up with a good round turn and rofuses to audit bills that ho considered extravagant, among them boing a bill of Mr. Garneau at o Chicago hotel charged at $5 ver d Garneau says ho didn't chargo full price, His bill was $10 per day and he paid four of it out of his own pockot. There of places 1n Chicago whero Mr. could have secured good board at §3 per day and no objection would bo made to that amount, but Auditor Moore has a perfect right to object to paying 83 for style, D CONVENTION. June 98, the North and South 1 convention will moot wn Liucoln. egislaturo last winter passed the fol- lowing joint resolutions, setting forth the objects of the convention: Whereas, The congress of the United States 0,000,000 10 make n doep sulf of Moxic and ., Tho construction of such deep er harbor would be of lue to the or ba f the continent without a \d south ad 10 sald harbors wnd reas, A road costing £27,000 por mils could be constructed fr he no line of Ditkotu 1o the gulf for the sum of $27,600,000; and Whereas, A taxof 5 lands of t at stutos lying interior basin would construct sald roq leave a surplus of over $2,000,000: Whereas, The exportsof wheat, cuttlo heet products, meat products and breadstull of all kinds amount inround numbe 7 annually, on which thei ing in transportat amounting to 804,0 2 ficient to pay the cost of suid o one-half times; and Wherens, The furnishing of north and south transportation the great manuf ies to tho great interior valleys and make them the most populons as well us” the_wealthiost portion of tho country so that Nebraska inten years would have 5,000,000 peoplo with many Dros- Do like Lincoln and Oniahiag and Wi 5, By id tr portation Tacilities the value of the arable land id interior states would soon be enbanced in v ast 35 per cent id the valu pre erty proportionately ine sed amounting in all’'to a sum 100°ti ter than the cost of said roud; now therefore be it Resolved, By the senate of tho s © and the house concurring, that it is the sense of this logislature that the said ten states should im- mediately take measurcs for a co-ope effort to build said road, with its neces: br: D! 1 and that when the s: 1s bu owned by tho people of tho suid states : rated as o line at cost for the benetit of its owners, viz., all tho people, Resoived, th requested to ts per acre on tho aly, or suf- ad ‘threo and nid interior ould attract erritory of Oklahoma and scs that u tlon of delogates fr ) of said states, o be appoin (lln{ Lhe respective gov. crnors thercof, bo held In the near future some point to disenss and mature wiys and means for tho construction of suid north and south road. —_—— Approving Smiles. Denver Ne Western bankers smile at tho impuden sertion made_daily by dispatches from York that Wall str lieving the necessitics of the western banks, The money now coming west and south is the cash reserve of southern and western banks, upon which New York bankers have specu® lated and dictated the financial policy of the government. MAXNWELL AND HIS PARTY. Alliance Independent: Chiof Justico Max- woll is recognizod as one of the finost jurists in the nation. His opinions are _everywhers quoted as authority. His treatises on law aro standard. This 18 tho man that the stato house gang is trying to down. Wayne Herald (rep.): 1t is probabla that a fow repiiblicans will object to nomi- nating Judge Maxywell to the suprome bonch this fall, but the Herald will wager dollars to doughnuts that he receives the republi- can nomination if ho desires it, and that fsn't all, Silvor Crook Times (rop.): While the Times has no particular kick againsh Crounse, excopt in the mattor of his signing the stroot railway bill, if a governor were to bo nominated next fall Chicf Justice Max- well would be our candidate. With Max- well in the oxecutive chair thieves and bood- lers could not flourish Sohuyler Horald (dom.): Tt is a fact evi- dent to anyone who has taken the pains to look into tho mattor, that a united offort is boing mado by tho ring leaders of the repub- lican party to retire to private life tho ablest judgo on our supreme bench. Tho flght is not mado against him bocause he has not made a_good record, but becauso he has not allowed party projudice to diotate bis opinions Central City Nonparofl (rep.): Tt looks much as though the fight in this state this fall will bo Maxwoll and anti-Maxwell. Tha rank and filo of the republican party no doubt desite to soe tho ola man renominated, while there are some who would toar thoit shirts to provent it. ‘Tho judge may b little aged, but he cortainly is not in his dotage, Judging from somo of tho opinions which lie hands down York Damoorat: ‘ihe ropubliean workers appear to baon the hastle to find somo one to place on the ticket this fall to succeed Juage Maxwell. A largo body of republi- Cans want Judge Maxwell nominated, but are roceiving very little oncouragement from tho leaders. Wo do not want to see a judge punishod for daring to do what ho bolievos 10 bo his duty on tho bonch, and if the gang attempts to turn Judge Maxwell down there will bo thousands who will voto for him, no matter whether he is on any ticket or not. Dawaes County Journal: The commonts of the state pross clearly indicate that tho peo- plo sustain the dissonting opinion of Chief Justice Maxwell, whoso morit as a man and Jurist 1s highly praisod. Discredited politi- cians like ox-Governor Thayer may rago and faam with vengeance, buta judgo wiho has withstood the ,wrath of huckster poli- ticians for twenty years has nothing to foar boforo the bar of public opinion. Some of the papers of the state plead the “advanced age' of Mr. Maxwell as @ sufiiciont reason for his retirement from the bench, but thoy ail to stato that 1st year ho wrote no twice as many opinions a8 bovh of the other Jud; Many a man at the zo of 65 has had his first aloction to the bor The banks thaf s on wind and loan- -ors ard stockholders Kcop cool! liave been doing busin ing their deposits to o re about woeded out. g comrea Washington Star: 1€ you really want a man to keep cool don’t tell him to. New York Horald: softest kind of pear? W 1Should sy, What s tho A bridal pair, rnor arduor- Bufalo Cour 10 best windod race horse is tho one that wins in the long run Milwaukee Journal: The roputation of boing. a goud follow never helped o man at a bank. Lowell Courfer: A man is ofton drawn asa Juror und quartered at the court house. Yonker's Statesm; tired of holping oth Ishly helps himself, Philn ive to run a chap down. Wh v horse owner to pay cash e simply opens ount with the merchants he pat- The bank cashior gots rs, und some times fool- itat Troy Pross: doosn't want running ronizes. Tammany Ti you must have misunder s maun in a Har How s, sir"* have brought Tnter-Ocean look W night because there w “What made Gurglo ion ho loft tho theater last n tell you; It wue ree acts.” WITH A DIFFERENCE, Syracuse Herald, r muld," quoth he, g of theo To fly, to fly, to fly with me." “Young follow,” quoth she, “Now don’t you he Too fly, too fly, too fly with me." ; I HER, Atlanta Constitution. Don't growl about the weather, but jes' take 1t as it comos, When th der b Stop complal Tul for the drops As they sprinkle, “tinkle, tinkle,” ou the dry and thirsty erops. uin' brightly, or the thun;, ums! ‘cos it's rainin’, but bo thank- t the weather, when the birds isios 1ikd a white cloud aro a-foamin' foot! growl at nothin', on the earth or up , an' the Don't by abov It's the I Tight is sweot makes the shadders ithlove! BROWRING, KING Lurgest Manufucturers and Rotallors ol Clothin in the World. Such a Fuss As some men make over their toilet when the weather would They claw at their collars clutch at their cuffs, and rip out rough remarks in front of the looking glass, and get so steamed up generally that it's a wonder the mercury stays on the glass. cost one individual, solitary, lonesome cent more to dress is a little make you warm weary. It doesn’ cool and ciorm}u?t,able, if you know where to get your summer wear, Cool coats, coal s hirts, cool vests, cool collars, cool underwear, cool hosiery, cool neckwear, cool hats; all at the lowest prices for high class stylish goods. BROWNING, Blore open overy eventug till 6. Saturduy uili 1 KING & CO., |, W, Cor. 16t1 and Douglas Sts.