Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 18, 1893, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BER)FRIDAY, AUGI THE DAILY BEE _ ISHED EYERY MORNING TERMS OF Daily fee without Daily nnd Savdny, Eix 8 Thre and Enturdn Weekly b IECRTPTION. andny) One Year.. § 8 00 10 00 5 00 2 50 2 00 150 100 i . One Year OFFICE 1. The Bee Buildin b, o roet, hamber of Commorce. New York, 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Building, Washnzton, 513 CORRESPONDENC ATl copmumientions relating to news and editorial nintigr should be To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business Jetters and remittances should be addressed 10 The Hee Pubiishing Company. Omha. Drafts, checks and postoflics orders 10 be mide payuble (o the order of the co ) l.l rifes leavi ve Tue Ber order at this c THE BE = the city for the summer can thelr address by leaving PUBLISMING COMPANY. The e in € ) YAy and SUSDAY IiEE is on sale in t the following places: ot honse, Grand Pacific hotel. Auditorium hotel. eat Northern hotel Goro hote nnd he Flies of er can bo seon at the Neo Praska building and the Administration build ing, Exposition grounds. T SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Rlate of Nebraska., | County of Donglas. we 1. Tanehuck, secretary of T Ao Aolemnly SW Tak DAILY T Bre Pub- fetal elreu ending Augnst 1 Sunday, Avgust f L AURUSLT. for the weck & B, T7Z8Cnuck SWORN 10 before @ mubseribed in my prosenee this N THAT “straightout democratic news- paper” will feel lonely in this vicinity. IT 18 only “the dis: 1873" in the latest silve the people. trous error of to address to NoWw that it has imported something like $5,000,000 in gold, Chicago boast- fully proposes to resume specie pay- ments. THE T0WA republicans said the correct thing when they remarked intheir plat- form that *‘prohibition is no test of re- publicanism R 1 experience in New York shows that even the cholera has no ter- rors for people already demoralized by fears of a financial panic. How unfortunate that Billy Bryan's brilliancy is employed in advocacy of principles repudiated by the majority of the constituents whom he represents. TiME has a sigoificant way of pre- gorving the equilibrium of events. The strike of 10,000 coal miners in Kansas is counterbalanced by the news that grass- hoppers are devouring the crops of western Pennsylvania, 1718 to be feared that serious cyclonic disturbances will be reported from the vicinity of Tom Patterson and Governor Waite as soon as the news reaches Colorado that the New York cable car lines refuso to accept silver dollars, THE measures prepared by our local “‘gentleman of financial ability” and in- troduced into the senate by Mr. Man- derson will no doubt be greatly appre- ciated by the senate committes on finance. Whether they will ever be reported to the senate is an altogether different question. THE problem of the unemployed is daily attracting more widespread atten- tion in all the large cities of the coun- try. In Denver the relief given by pro- moting public improvement has proven altogether inadequate and insignificant. Public work can not alone supply the needed outlet; it must be supplemented in & large degree by private industries. IT MAY be set down as a certain f: that the people of this country are in no mood to listen to the vagaries of the financial cranks. The men in conyress who are only waiting an opportunity to offer bills for land -loan money issucs, and subtreasury projects may as well save their talk for the next campaign's stumping tow ATTORNEYS on both sides of the rail- way injunction proceedings feol certain that the suit will ultimately be appealed to the United States supremo court. That is but to be expected. What the poople of Nebraska want is that the _ dnitial decision be in their favor. After the maximum freight rate law goes into effect the railways may appeal if they wish, SENATOR ALLEN hasbeen heard from. He proposes that interest be stopped on all government bonds deposited as se- curity for the issue of naticnal bank notes up to their face value. The adop- tion of such an amondment would effectually prevent any naticnal bank from taking advantage of the permis- sion to increase its notes above the 90 per cent now allowed, AN ADV! MENT of one of the bond investment companies which appeared in the columns of yesterday's BEE sists that the plan upen which they ave condueted is perfectly legitimate and feasible. * We must not be understood to endorso anything which the oflicers of these companies may say in their own behalf. 1t cannot be denied that many of these schemes have proven disastrous 10 both patrcns and promoters, and that some of the worst swindles have been carried on under the auspices of promi- | pent men, who have been induced to lend their numes and support in aid of what they imagined was simply a legiti- mate money-making scheme. But when they continue their connection with any such concerns after their fraudulent character has been disclosed they cease to be men whoese honesty is unassailable. People who know 4f they subsequently find that they have Yeen defrauded. schemes, fiat: ngly invest in bonds of this kind wust blame only themselves TUWA REPURBLICANS. The republicans of [owa aro acquiring wisdom from experience and courage from the discipline of dofeat. For years the incubus upon the party has been prohibition, fastened upon it by a com- bination of political demagogues and narrow-minded reformers. The utter | tailure of this policy to necomplish what its advocates promised isan indisputable fact of history. The loss which the state has suffered from it has been groat, though it might not be casy to compute it. The law has never been enforced excent where public sentiment has over- whelmingly supported it, and its con- stant violation in every city and con- siderable town of the state is a matter of general knowledge. Still the political party responsible for this legislation was able to retain control of the state, though with steadily diminishing majorit down to 1880, In no state of the union has the people shown a stronger devotion to the na- tional principles of the republican party than in Towa, and it is not to be doubted that a majority of the votors of that state are now republicans upon the issues that divide parties in the nation. It was conclusively demonstrated, how- ever, in tho state elections of 1880 and 1891 that a majority of the people are not in favor of prohibition, and there is every reason to believe that the scntiment against that policy is much stronger than indicated by the pluralities with which ademocratic gov- ernor was twice elected in the last four years, for it is not to be doubted that many rcpublicans vemained loyal to their party, even while opposed to pro- hibition. The lessons of 1889 and 1891 have had their effect. Republicans, however re- luctantly, have been compelled to ad- mit that prohibition is an incubus which the party cannot continue to carry with any hope of regaining the control in the state which it lost in tho last two general elections, while in the declining majorities in national elections it has seen that under this same damag- ing influence the state has been drifting toward the democratic column. 'The conviction that the republican party of Towa can no longer with safoty to itself undertake to carry the prohibition bur- den is shown in the platform enuncia- tion of the republican convention just held. That declaration does not go as far as conld have been wished by thy who know the fallacy of prohibition and therefore believe that the party should have courageously cut loose from it entirely and pronounced in favor of a judicious system of high license with local option, but it is at any rate astep in the right direction, from which the party will find it compara- tively easy herealter to move forward to the adoption of the broader principle to which it naturally leads. It is a de- parture, even if less brave and thorough than could be desired, and undoubtedly it will have the effect to draw back to the party some of those who have been driven fzom it by reason of its past per- sistent adherence to prohibition. Of the other portions of the Towa re- | publican platform it may be said in a general way that it contains good re- publican doetrine. The following timely declarations can be unreservedly com- mended: “That it of prime impor- tance to all the American people that sound currency shall be maintained, of uniform purchasing pows That we spoosed to state bank money or any blishment of that system of loeai shinplaster and wildeat currency which proved so disastrous in the past. That it is of the highest importance to work- ing people that their wages shall be paid to them inmoney of full value and high purchasing power, so that they shall be able to supply themselves in every market with the necessities and comforts of life. We denounce cheap ‘and depreciated ‘moncy of low purchasing power as un especial hard- ship upon the poor and all who receive wages.” These are sound princivles which will be approved by republicans ywhere, and indeed by all men, spective of party, who bave the in- terests and welfare of the musses at heart. The present year ought to he most favorable to republican success in lowa as in other states not hopeless democratic where general elections wilt be held, and if an aggressive and vigor- ous campaign is made the republicans of Jowa should next November regain com- plete control of that state. THE OHIO CAMT Of the eight state elections whieh will be held this year that of Ohio will un- doubtedly command the greatest inter- est and attention. This is because that state is again 1o bo the battle ground between protection and so-called tariff reform, which in the pending campaign will be championed by the author of the plank in the democratic national plat- form which denounced protection as un- constitutional, a fraud and a robl It is noteworthy that those demo- cratic papers which are presumed to most nearly reflect the taviff views of the president do not regard the candidacy of Mr. Neal with favor and some of them have gone so far as to intimate their belief that he cgnnot be clected. These journals do not ac- cept the tarifil dcetrine which Neal, with the assistance of Henry Watterson, succoeded in having adopted by the last democratic national convention, and Mr. Cleveland. They iusist that in nominating Neal the democracy of Ohio put the party in a false position, inas- much as he does not represent the administration view that ought govern the party. It is also said that his candidacy is not in fuvor in administration civcles and that he can hope for no help from that quarter. This may not be quite just to the Obio democratic candidate for goy- ernov in view of the fact that more than two-thirds of the Chicsgo convention endorsed his tariff resolution, but this ion will not be of any value to him inthe campaign, or, at any rate, will not offset what he is pretty sure to lose from the apathy and indifference of the democeratic federal office hulders in Ohio, for, of course, if Neal is not per- sona grata with the adminstra- tion these officials will do noth- ling to wmssist him, Besides the which they assert has been rejected by | of to | objection to him on account of his posi- tion toward protectign, he is also ob- jectionable as an advocate of free silver coinage, which of itself would be suffi- cient to debar him from any administra- vion aid or sympathy. True, the plat- form of the Ohio democracy says nothing about silver, but this evasion does not wipe out the record of the candidate. Ttis stated that Neal is willing to meet MeKinley in joint debate, and if such is the case he will undoubtedly be accommodated. This would of course give added interest to the canvass, not only in Ohio, but throughout the country. Neal is a man of ability, though not the peer of ex-Governor Campbell, who held a joint debate with McKinley, and few will doubt that he will be overmatched by the author of the prosent tariff law. There are not a great many men in the country who ave cap- able of holaing their own in a tariff dis- cussion with McKinley, and if Mr. Neal shall succeed in doing so he will estab- lish a high claim to public recognition. The democratic press generally appears not to regard the chances of the party in Ohio as at all promising, and in view of the prevailing conditions it is not easy to see how the republicans can lose Ohio this yoar, except through very de- fective organization and widespread in- difference, possibilities which their dis- tinguished leader will undoubtedly spare no effort to prevent. THAT EXEMPTION CLAUSE, Ono of the allegations in the petition of the railway attorneys for the injunc- tion which has practically suspended the operation of the maximum freight rate iaw, and ono upon which they claim to set great hopes, is that that law is mado unconstitutional and void by reason of the clause which exempts from its pro- visions those railways which may have been built after 1880 or shall be built before 1% This clause, the petition alleges, is class legislation partial to the infant roads and violates the four- teenth amendment in that it deprives them of the equal protection of the laws. Of course, the legislature intended to do nothing of the kind. It was represented that a uniform maximum freight rate tarifl for all lines within the state would result in extraordinavy bardship to the newer ones which were only beginning to develop their traflic. 1t was also in- sisted that it would prevent the con- struction of all contemplated roads. The most obvious way of avoiding this was to classify the railways according to the time they were built, to cxempt the in- fant roads from the operation of the law and to rely on the competition with roads subject to the maximum freight rate luw to prevent the exempted lines from exacting exorbitant charges. This is what the legislature was induced to do. If its action constitutes a viola- tion of the fourteenth amendment, which guarantees to all the equal protection of the laws, then the law is unconstitu- tional. But to construe the exemption clause in this light would be in direct contravention of the interpretation which the United States supreme court has uniformly put upon such statutes. The decisions which have hinged on this point of equal protection of the laws ave numerous and o the point. In one of the granger cases, in which the con- stitutionality of the Towa maximum rate law of 1874 was vindicated, the court up- held a classification of the roads accord- ing to the gross amount of their earn- ings per mile during the preceding r and the fixing of different com- pensations which those of each class might receive. In reference to this the court expressed itself as follows: It is very clear that a uniform rate of charges for all railroad companies in the state might operate unjustly upon some. 1t was proper, therefore, to provide in some way for an adaptation of the rates to the circumstances of the different voads; and the al assembly, in the exercise®df its legislative discretion, has ssen fit to do this by a system of classification. Whether this is the best that could have been done is not for us to decide. Our province is only to de- termine whether it could be done at all and under any circumstances. 1f it could, the legislature must aecide for itself, subjoct to no control from us, whether tho common good requires that it should be done, The statute of Illinois of 1871, which classified the railroasds within the state according to the gross annual carnings per mile and put different limits on the compensation of the different classes of railroads for carrying a passenger and his baggage, was udjudged con- stitutional and valid in Ruggles against Illimois, and in Illinois Central railroad against Illinois, both in 108 United States. The legisla- ture of Arkansas in 1887 fixed by statute the maximum fare thatany corporation, trustee or person operating a line of railrcad might charge and col- lect for carrying a pussenger within the state at 8 cents per mile on a line fifteen miles long or less, b cents a mile on a line more then fifteen miles and less that seventy-five miles long, and 3 cents a mile on 4 line more than seventy-five miles long. This act was upheld as in, no way denying the equal protection of the laws in the case of Dow against Beidleman in 125 U, 8. The court then said, speaking through Mr. Justice Gra The legislature in the exercise of its power of regulating fares and freight rates may classify the railroads according to the mount of business which they have done or appear likely to do. Whother the classifica- tion shall be according to the smount passengers aud freight carvied, or of gross or net earnings during a previous year, or according to the simpler aud more coustant tost of the lenguh of the line of the railroad, is & matter within the slature. 1f the same s applied to ull railroads of the ssme cluss, there is 1o violation of the constitu- tional provision securing to all the equal pro- tection of tho laws This goes very far in giving the state a wide latitude in adopting a classifica- tion for the purpose of fixing different maximum rates for different railways, but she court goes even further in the vory recent case of Budd versus New York. The limits upon warchouse charges fixed in the law therein ques- tion applied only to parties ow operating elevators in cities having over 30,000 population. The court sustained the validity of the law aud went on to say: It is further contended for the plaintiffs in error that tho statute in guestion violates ug and | | the fourteenth amengment, bocause it takes from elevator ownerd bhe equal protoction of the laws, in that it applies only to places having 130,000 poputasion or more, and does not apply to places, which have less than 180,000 population, A9 thus operates agninat elovator owners i#¥AS larger cities of the state. Tho law oporates equally upon all elevator owners in places having 150,000 pop ulation or more; and %e do not perceive how they are deprivvd of the equal protection of the laws within the meaning of the four- teenth amendment. “* The results tfieli seem to bo these: The legislature fiay fix different max- imum rates for different classes of roads and may base the Classification on any evidence that appears to it best suited for the purpsse—on earnings, on busi- ness and on length of line. Why not also on the time the line has heen built? But further the logislature may estab- lish a maximum rate for oneclass and leave the other class entirely unaffected by that schedule. In defining that class why not use the length of time the line has been built? The power being un- deniable, the purpose being legal and commendable, namely, to prevent injus- tice to infant voads, the method must bo lefty to the legislative discretien. The only condition is that the 1aw apply equally to all within the designated class. SPEAKER CRISP can hardly relieve Congressman Springer from the chair- manship of the ways and means commit- tee without ruaning the risk of being indicted for ingratitude. The speaker- ship contest of the last session is still fresh in the memory of congress. The votes of the members who were support- ing the 1llinois man for speaker were finally thrown to the Georgia reprosen- tative. Tt is possiblec that Crisp might have secured the coveted honor without the aid of Springer’s friends; but in the absence of positive proof to the contrary it may fairly be presumed that any at- tempt to disturb Springer in his posi- tion at the head of the ways and means committee will be fraught with unpleas: ant consequences. Republicans are in a position to look upon the contest with compiacency; but then republicans al- ways like fair pla; Ta ty authorities want to have a rehearing of the paving case, which was decided in favor of the city some weeks ago, in order to secure the opinion of the court on several collateral points which were not at that time touched upon. The mayor and. council want to know whether they can legally create paving districts and’order paving done at the expense of abutting property owners without a petition from the m jority of the ios affected. As thi Point was not necessarily involved in the case brought before the supreme court, any opinion which: it may give con- cerning it will have'to be considered as purely dictum. It may be valuable as a guide for the future action of the city authorities, but itswill be difficult to see how it can be relied tiponas a binding interpretation of the law. COUNTY CLERK.SACKETT thinks that he has discovered whene the state has been unjustly enviched at the expense of Douglas county to the extent of $150,000. If this is true we hope he will be able to make out his case. There is always some difficulty in recovering back money voluntarily paid to another, and this difficulty will be inereased in this in- stance on account of the nonsuability of the state. Some way ought to be de- vised by which refunded taxes might be deducted before the county’s quota of state taxes are paid over to the state treasurer. Now that the Chicago newspapers are unanimous in their criticism of the management of the World's fair, i is fairly to be prosumed that the big expo- sition is a success—from a Chicago point of view. Keep Cool nud Be Sensible, Philadelphia Inguirer, Don't bo fools. Don't wrock this country. Take your money and put it_in bank, for our banks fail every other business will also und we will be in a regular maelst of bankruptey. Don't be scared. Daylight 1s at hand. Staying the Tides of Rul Ehiladeiphia North American, 1t scems to be assumed by tho majority that the republicans in the house have no part in the adjustment of this question. The republicans sbould not offer measvres just now, of course, but they should assert their privilege of discussing the measures pre- sented. And they should insist on uncondi- tional repeal. They might take up that po- sition with advantage. 1t wonld show them ready to back the president in his effort to stay the tides of ruin, i Son Sound Advice. John Rua ik Youn ) in Phitadelphia Star. Republicans must not be led from their duty by specious misrending or half hearted understanding of events. We suffer from the evils of o triumphaut, aggressive democ- racy. We must remove the cause. Silver is @ pretext. We took care of silver when in power. We can dowo again. The “honesty” of American mobey was never jn question under a republican president. Nor will it be again in question when the happy day of re- vublican ascende urns. ———— A Long Struggle Knded. Kansas Gity Star “Phe Carnogio strike has been dectared off. After over a year's wrapgling whorein blood was shed and enalesss litization begun the watter has ended. Much distress las becn caused. aud 80 far a8 the oulside worla_ can learn 1o ono has been miterially benefited “The strikers have suffercd from hunger; the operators Rave lost oney. 1t was an’ un- fortunate affair, but it may carry o lesson with it, the lesson thatdeachios patience and reason and considegation for aud betwecn cmploye and employe —— Ap Lmpostant Man, Washingtas Post. Tn the opinion of mapy it rests with Mr. Gormuu to determng vhe action of tho s ato on the question of khe repeal of the ver purchase a Tt fdsts with the senate of the Unitod States 46 8top the purchase of silver aud Lo remove whit the president has declared and the fluanéirs of the countr, believe 1 be the chief cause of the disu trous state of the busimess of the country. 50 1t i plain that according 1o the view of 4 considerablo portion of the ob s of pub- lic 4ffairs o great responsibiliLy rests on Mr. Gorman. v ol Dewmocratio Compliment New York sun. Hon. Patrick Egan, late minister to Child, has returned to the United Statcs, and this is u good time to say that his conduct in the very deligato and dificult complications be- tween the two ropublics was that of a firm, otic und worth§ reprosentative of the r of his country. Aside from some 1n- judicious partisan opposition to his course, he attacks upon bim in this country camo principally from those mon without o coun- try, the inugwumps. 1 sceins 1o grieve Lthese gentlemen every tune thoe tates refus o be auce. o Kgan. THE BERING SEA DECISION. Chicago Journal: It now remains to bo seon whother it is already too late to repair the harm that has been so unjustly done us by English poachers. 1t is doubtful whether there are any large seal herds loftto be protected by the decision. Chieago Herald: This decision is final 1t comes from a great tribunal. Littlo as the people of the United States m matter, its binding force will be gracefully and in good faith acknowledged. Kansas City Journal: Mr. Gladstone ro- gards the decision in the Beriug sca case as a vr-lory for Great Britain, and Mr. Phelps and Mr. Coudert pronounce it a triumph for the United States. Undor the circumstances Baron de Courcel and the commission are 1o be warmly congratulated. (Globe-Democrat: Thecountry will rejoico at the settlement of the Bering sea case. The decision of the tribunal of arbitration has gono against us on some points, and on other points it is in our favor. But the worry and_irritatioa which the case pro- duced are ended and this is a cause for con- gratulation. St. Paul Globe: On the whole, the coun- try is to be congratulated on the outcome. We made claims which wero unsound and unjust, and not so much for the preserva- tion of the seals as in support of a private monopoly. Tho only public intercst, if, in- deed, it has any at all, is in preserving the sculs, and this is attained. Minneapolis Tribune: 1t is a matter of congratulation that Great Britain is satisfied with the decision. Not only this country, but the civilized world should re- joice that a decision which is so satisfactory to the government at Washington should meet 8o heartily with the approval of the Premier Gladstone in London. St. Louis Republic: Pelagic sealing is not asport jn which the American citizen is much concerned, and a private corporation gets all the profits out of it as a cold busi- ness proposition. So, to toll the trath, we are not much worsted, except in the morti- fication of being compeiled to let Britishers take our maverick seals. We shall buy pauper labor sealskins hereafter, and mayboe & cheap cont will make a cheap woman. Chicago Record: It is a matter for con- gratulation that the long dispute has been settled peacefully and in a way that promises effectual protection for the valuable seal fisheries. The securing of such prot has been the main object thi had in view from the outset. The will compass an end eminently desired by both parties to the dispute and its prov ions may be rogarded as embodying a sumi- cient and reasonable victory for the United States, while being a sweeping defeat for American diplomacy. St. Paul Pioneer Press: The decision ren- dered by the arbitrators in the Bering sea dispute__between the United States and Great Britain will probably be unique in commending itself to both parties to the controversy. From ono point of view this country, and from another her adversary, ha 1 sustained by the commission; and each finds itself supported in the contention about which it was most desperately in carnest, and defeated in that which was only of formal concern. Therefore both ought to accept the verdict with consider- able satisfaction. Kansas City Times: It makes very little difference whether our elaims of jurisdiction over considerable water around Bering sea through Russian purchase stand good or not so long us we get about_all we desire of it. The Bering sea commission secms to have done its work thoroughly and well. While neith cy ot all it w , i shman _or American yill fail sure which 10oks 1o the pro- tection of the harmless and useful fur-bear- ing animals, On the whole, this latest ex- ample of arbitration may be said to have resulted satisfactoril = NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKA. According to the mew city directory Beatrice has a vopulation of 15,000. Miss Nellie Lynch has been elected as principal of the Platte Center schools. They were paying 35 cents per bushel for oats yestereay on Lhe track at Kearney. Petitions are being circulated for the pri ilige of again voting on township organiz: tion in Hall county. The dwelling house of Miss Emily Brown of York was cowpletely deztroyed by fire. It is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. Two sons of W. H. Predmore of Bow have discovered a gold mine Black Hills that gives promise of them all rich. In the vicinity of Creston there has been so much rain farmers are compelled to scat- ter the grain out from the shock to dry be- fore threshing. The Pender Times says that town will have water works and that the vote on issu- ing bonds was: Votes cast, 104; for bonds, 72; against bonds, 22; spoilea ballots, 4. Cnris Duebolm, a8 well known resident of Logan township, Dodge county, for more than twenty years, died Tuesday. The funeral took place’ at moon yesterday, at Hooper. “The city of Alliance is going to have a sy tem of water works just as soon as it can float its water bonds. The auditor is now engacod in registering the bonds, which amount to $17,000. The survey of the state line bids fairat the present outlook toleave the town of Fairfux, S. D, on the Nebrasks side. Fairfax has been the leading aspir: of Gregory county, 8. D. Burnett, as refcree in the case M. Messick and Ross Gawble at Kearney concerning settlement, has ren- dgered his sion, which 1s favorable to Messick, giving him $1,571, The chinchbug s getting nto the corn in some sections of Guge county and threatens to ao considerabledamage unless rain cones 10 the relief. Fortunately the depredations of ihe pests are counfined ovly toa few fields. According to President Perkins of the Burlington, Nebraska City is the only town on his road tbat has shown a positive in- crease in business this year. The business there has been $45,000 botter so far this year than last. A resolution offered by Alderman Spies doing away with the Board of Public Works, amounting to o saving of §00 per year, was adopted unanimously by the Flattsmouth Board of Aldermen on the theory that there was po public work now requiring their at- tention. The abundant rains of Monda have closed the coutroversy on dry weather and have assured an abundant corn crop, says the Blair Courier. There is no real want of currency in Washington county. There is plenty to do business on and more is coming. ln fact this county has uot been unsel for o minute during the whols financial melee. “The aistrict reunion of soldiers and marines 10 be held at Greenwood, beginuing the of this month and continuing four days, promises to bo a notable gathering. Among the speakers who have been secured are als Thayer and Dilworth, Captain nd othors. The first day w day, the second will be eps day and the other two days will be sthe old soldier programs. There wi provably be o sham battle every night dur- ing the reunion —— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Broken in tne making afternoon Coplous rains definitely settled the ratio of corn in Nebraska. Both the United States and Great Britain achi d o victory on theseal question. Who suys arbitration doesn't arbitrate? Fdison expects to produce an electric en- il able of 5,000 revolutions a minut He is endeavoring Lo broak the South Ameri can record. If the report is true that there are 5,000 dialect poets in lndiana, the country be Jusufied in cordially comm work of the whitecaps. In oraer to swim asbhore a New York man had to drop & belt containing $1.000 in geld. Tue boarding of woney in times like the present 1s a terrible menace to life. The house in Charter street, Salem, whera Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote his books is uow oceupied by Horace Ingersoll, who was for thirty-six years a friend of the novelist Some of the new pugressmen are not eply read in the history of the United States if the Washinziou papers tell the truth, A ne: tod representative from Missourl wa oduced Lo Senator Sher- wan the othe wnd shook the Ohio SLALOSIDAD W by the hand, sayiog “Ach, Senator, 1 vas glad to see you. 1 baf | mate that y ke it, | as it demolishes all their expectations 1n tho | it for the county seat | heard of you more times as | ha! hairs on my head. . You vas from Atianta, hoy?" Hoe is believed to have acquired his information vespocting the Sherman family from a well known patriotic song. Gold bug imagination is extremely active in Washington. Eastern newspapers inti the silver lobby is disbursing huge wads of boodlo und _capturing votes on all sides. Tho strange feature of it is that the easterners alleged to have been in fluer ¢ should tako so kindly to the white meta One of the agricultural counties in Indi- ana recently discovered that thero was not enough money in the traasury to mect cur- rent expenses and carry on needed public improvements. The banks did not feel jus- tified in making the desired loan and the farmers woro appealod to. The manner in which th cspondod was a startling sur- prise. All of them seomed to_have plonty of money and were anxious to place it with the county ns a loan. Dingley of Maine, Dolliver of Towa and Burrows of Michigan are seated side by sido in the front row of the republican side of the house this session. All three have tre- mendous lungs, strong opinions and o chonic desire for the floor. It is believed that Speaker Crisp will have trouble with these statesmen when the silver debate gets warm. He will havo to conduct tho pro- coedings in dumb show or allow the trium- virate to do all the talking. Robert G. White, a bachelor of Philadel- phia, who left properly valuod at about 8 000, bequeathed nearly one-half of it for re- ligious and charitable purposes, including #2,000 to the Franklin Keformatory Homo for Inebriates, but expressly stipulated in a codicil to his will that no portion of the money should be used, under penalty of for- feiture, to advance the cause of what he considered “‘the pernicious fallacy of prohi- bition, or its bantling, local option.” Berry Wall, the ex-king of the New York dudes, is not without a senso of humor. He was hit hard in the rocent Wall strect tius and was discovered by o friend hangis 0 o strap in a crowded stroet car. “Why, Berry,” said the acquaintance, “Inever ex- pected to find you riding in 4 street car.’ . Wall sighed, shifted his weight to the othior foot and answered: I suppose not; but I tell you on the quiet that it'’s mighty lucky you didn’t tind me driving the—thing.” There is now living in Alameda, Cal, a little girl of 13 years who is in the sixth gen- eration in lineal'descent from Molly Stark, the heroine of Bennington. And, by the way, Molly Stark did not become a widow because of the valorous battle. On the con- trary, she lived on to see many of her de- scendants grown up. At one time thirty of forty of the children attending trict school in the “Stark district’ Hampshire were named Stark, and they were all descendants of Molly's four chil- dren. President fliot of Harvard college chal- lenges with some asperity the statement of Bishop Mallalicu that drunkenuess among the students of Harvard and’ Yale has be- come 80 common as to oxcite no comment. President Eiiot bishop doesn't know what he is talking about, and that the charge is absurd. “It is well known,” he says, “‘that there has been a great diminu- tion in drinking in all colleges, due largely to the decrease in drinking in societ, Per- haps, perhaps. But has the vresident ever hm-n)iu New London the night after a boat PAKRTY SPLIT. Cordlal Hatred of the Shiverites Recipro- cnted by Clovelnnd, Those democrats who are thoroughly com- mitted to the canse of silver entertain a da- greo of feeling toward the administration, writes the Washington correspondent of the Globe-Democrat, which is only revealed in private conversation. They hato the admin- istration. A senator, one of the oldest and best known on the democratic side, was asked today to go to adepartment to see about some winor appointment in which a citizen of his own state was concerned. T will not go,” he said with emphasis, I am asking no appointments and no removals. This is a gold bug administration. 1If 1 ask any favor 1 am at once given to understand that I cannot get it unless Iam in harmony with the administration. That simply means that I must abandon my true bimetalliss. You don’t know all that bas ppened. The country doesn’t know all. 1 can’t tell you more than that the whole power of the administration has been cx- erted to bulldoze us over to the gold bug po- ion. It has failed so us 1 am con- 1 told Mr. Cleveland some time ago where I stood. Iam asking nothing and will notgo to the administration for anything.” In ove of the conferences or caucuses with which the first week of the extraordinary session was filled there was heard such an expression as “Judus.” Mr, Cleveland’s contem pt for the silver wing of his i procated 1n bitternes rd him. ‘his financial question divides the dem- cracy along strange lines. Hunter , the Lwo cougressmen atlavge, sit side in the bouso und are very close in their personal relations. Hunter is in th free silver camp and Black fsu't, Forman and Pithian of Tilinois are hke Damon and Pythias. Iithian is for free ver und For- man isn't, at least not_on a 16 to 1 ratio, From Pennsylvania, represonting the old di trict of the lute William L. Scott, comes Si ley with such enthusiasm for silver that, though a new member, he has been put upon the Bland steering committee. Missouri furnishes one strong repesler in the person of Seth W, Cobb. But, as a whole, it is the south against the east and that part of the upper Mississipp valley which lies cast of the Mississippi river. by sid entiment as a | | l There wero but four Illinois demoocrats in the confercnce the other day which em. braced 100 free silver men who were ready to bind themeaives to any line of poliey which would not loso sight of the whito metal In all of ihe south Mr. Cloveland has had no more stoadfast adberent and friend than General Buck Kilgore of Texas. Perhaps each recognized in the other the distin. guishing trait of stunly stubboraness and felt drawn thereby. Atany rato General Kil faith in the president's wisdom has never wavered untiinow. The tio was a sirong_one, but General Kileore has gone with his_peopie. When Mr. Bland sum- moned “all friends of free silver” to con- forenco the goneral, without any ostenta- tion, walked into the houseof roprosentativos and took & back seat. If he had been left to himsoelf he would not have said a word being content to brenk with the administre tion and square himself with his constituents by his simple presence in the free silver meeting, But that past master of political hamor, Judge Culberson, was presiding. 1f ho had been Sam Jones, Judge Culberson would have focused attention on the new cort by calling out: ““I'ho Lord bless brother Buck " But he didn’t. The judge waited a fow moments until he saw the right opportunity, and then, as if ho wished to tako the floor and offer a few remurks, he sald quito gravely: “Will chair?” The genoral couldn't refuse. That would have been a confession of lukewarmness in the cause. He took the chair. About ten minutes afterward Jerry Simjson arose and procecdedod to excoriate the president and “the pio bellies,” as he has named tho re pealers. Those who know General Kilgore's past sentiments toward the president do not understand how he restrained himself, but he did. He occupied the chair until Judgo son relieved him, But when the con- o was over and General Kilgore was asked about it, he gave a condensed accouut of what had taken place, without any men- tlon of the part he had played in it. Judgo Culberson was scen later on and asked to ment the information General Kil- gore had given, “Did Buck tell you he presided? asked the judge, with “just the faintest twinklo under his shaggy eyebrows. “No. Did he preside?” was the reply. “Did he?' said the judge. “You bot ho dia." The serious business of financial tion has its lighter moods, il st A LIGHT AND SHADE. Boston Transeript: Appearnncos are decolt- ful. A mild gluneo hus beon known to cowe 01 1L CTOSS 0y . teneral Kilgore please take the legisla~ Cloveland Plain Doaler not, South Carolina coulds out’a iittle “mint. colnage or along with= Pritshurg Disy read in the catlery is dull. el dwiro It sounds rather odd to market reports that Indianapolis Journal: Minnie—Miss Parsay I ol woman, does sho Mamie—I'm surc 1 aon't know. At any rate, she advanced the date of her first birthday about five years. I will keep thoso r. ks if you do it will suve me a pile Galveston W the speculative world a telegraph operator frequently holds the key 1o the situation. York y: Judge—Have any prejudice agninst the prison a1 iy 0 SUen SOme newspap, tuiresof hin Judge—You aro e Florldn Times: The watering-place _girl suys that when the “squ is over in Wall street she hopes it will cowo her way. you pic- Boston Globe: The Baltlmore pollce wero paid in silver dollars last week. And yot stlver dollury for coppers s not a good exchuage. he difference be- o ns agreat deal of und the other s a good S work.” an you saw Meandering. Miko | t on tho doorsiep. No'm, e answered, in u grioved tono; “but T kin suy no And he strod: wood?"™ could A SUMMER (DYLL. New York Worl 10 the twili Towards a faco sun-kissed with tan, And to Susie Munle whispered: “Don't you wish we'd see a mun?* e WIE 1INE, Vogue. When T get time Lknow what 1 shall do: Tl cut the leaves of all my books And read them through and through, N weeks and weeks When I got 1l Ul puy those calls T owe, Aud with those bills, those countless bills, T will not be 0 slow. When I get tim U'll regulute my life o such i way thut Iy get Keiquinted with my Wite, When 1 got time: iy Bt T cun't i Ihave no time. Jenrs from now— i BROWNING, KING Lurgest Manufacturers anl Rataller. o Olothing Ju the World " " It makes me tired To think that I ean’t get a new suit of clothes ¥ “| when they are selling them at about half price. I looked in at the Douglas st. window at B. K. & Co. today and I saw some of the beau- tifullest 2-piece suits you ever saw—I know they used to get $2.50 for some, and $6 for some others-—but they sell them now $3.60—0h they are dandies— for $2 and Dark and light colors, single and double breasted, nicely made and the best of cloth—The sizes are for boys 4 to 14 years. It makes me tired when [ think of it, and every suit in that window is a bargain, too, BROWNING, KING & CO., overy evening tiil 6.4 Blore op! aturday vl 10, |8, W, Cor. 18t and Douglas Sts,