Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 24, 1893, Page 4

DAILY BEE. TEIMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Ome Year. Sunduy Tee, On Y Saturday T, On WeeRly B, Ono Year, OFFICES, Aiding. N Twe thatrets | puilding Tue DALY and SUNDAY Chieago al the following plac OXIme Lot l"ll("\” rll' can be séen at the Ne- d the Administration build- position grounds. ATEMENT OF CLRCULATION. r Toewday, Octoby Wedneaday, Octol ). == Sworn 1o before e 1 8EAL Lpreseuca this 21 —— - Average Circalution for Sept., 189 wonld be to_close the e JUDGE [RVINE is not yot el d to the supreme bench. The men who were instrumental in bringing about his nom- inaticn are just as likely to detert him on election day as they are to help him. ON occurs two weeks from to- voter should let those two woeks pass without informing himself upon the relative merits of the candi- dates from whom he will be called upon to select the men entitled to receive his vote, Now that the last days of the great World’s fair are in sight visitors are beginning to overcome their sqieamish- ness in regard to Sunday attendance. After the fair is over it will be in order for everybody to regret that they were foolish enough to miss of their limited opportunitie MR. GEORGE GOULD is in the city. It i to be hoped that he will take a meutal photograph of Omaha’s wretched union depot and leave an order here for the construction of a union depot at some ceessible noint which shall be commen- surate with Omaha'’s commercial stand- ing. Should he do this Omaha will rise up and call him blessed. RECEIVERS are now being asked for theatrical companies and similar enter- prises established for the entertainment of the publi If a business conducted through the agency of receivers is con- ducted by the government we are fast coming toa socialistic plane. The courts are already running theaters and oper- ating railroads. What nex: RAILROAD experience with cheap passenger fares has mnot been one which either officials or stockholders are having any particular cause to re- gret. The possibilities of cheap passen- ger traffic have been opened up so that the public may expect to see the excur- sion system become. a regular gnd re- curring feature of railroad practice. NEBRASKA has contributed another woman lawyer to the coterie of those who now have the privilege of practic- ing before the United States supreme court. There are several things both intellectual and physical in which Ne- braska leads the other states of the union. We have not yet been told, how- ever, whether this last woman attorney can make a fiftecn-hour speech. IF THE insurance law of Germany provailed in this country there would bea great fall in fire losses and in- surance compinies would not fare so badly. The German law decr that the holder of a policy covering prop- erty where a fire oxiginates shall not re- eeive indemnity, which all goes to the owners of adjoining property destroyed by fire. In other words, the insurance eompanies there are not permitted to pay & premium upon arson, as they some times do in this country. HE fight for an independent and fearless judiciary is not confined to any one state. In Illinois it takes the form of a popular uprising in favorof the re- election of Judge Gary, who has been unnecessarily antagonized by Governor Altgeld becuuse he sentenced the an- hists rocently pardoned by the gov- ernor. In New York itis a revolt of the respectable element against the die- tation of the bosses, who want to reward Judge Maynard for helping them steal the lust Now York legislature, In Ne- braska it is 1he repudiation of railroad- ism and boodleérism in public office. An indepondent judiciary is the necessary bulwark of a free government, THE absence of any tribute from the president of the United States among the many wreaths of floral offerings which the erowned head of Europe piled upon the bier of the late Marshal Mac- Mahon must have been a subject for remark abroad us well as at home. The United States has always had the most - gordial relations with France and ought 10 sympathize with France's loss. Mag- Muhon was more thana great soldil He was at one time the official embodi- “ment of the French sovereignty, and as deserved official recognition from country 80 long as his obsequies ~were made a state affair. President Cleveland has certainly neglected an opportunity to do the graceful thing. KEM'S CONFESSION OF INCAPACITY. Mr. Omar Madison Kem ocoupies nearly a page of the Congressional Record with an attempt to vindicate himself from the charge of neglecting the intevests of his constituents and to decry the wicked fate that has wrested from him the credit of having secured the passage of the act extending to resi- dents on the Sioux Indian reservation in Nebraska the same privileges that are accorded to residents on that reserva- tion in South Dakota. Mr. Kem con- | fesses the truth of all the essential facts | in the case as reported in the columns of THE BEE at the time tho amendatory act passed the house, but he pleads in extenuation of his absence from his post of duty the fact that he was confined to his room by illness. Illness is certainly a valid excuse under most circum- stances, although it would scarcely justify the unwarranted indignation which resents tho favor of a fellow con- gressman who has snecossfully directed | the course of the bill in the absence of the member who would naturally be ex- peeted to look after it. But Mr. Kem entiroly overshoots the i mark when he attempts to place himself 1it on this Sfoux reservation land bill. Whether some one else is to be blamed, for failing to have the Nebraska portion of the resevvation included in the orig- inal bill is immaterial. The question is, why did the amendatory bill languish when in the control of Mr. Kem, and finally become law only when a fellow congressman called it up and pushed it through? In oxplaining why the bill hung five in the last congress, Mr. Kem makes o lamentablo confession of his own incapacity. Here is his oxplana- tion Now, what are the facts? the early part of the IFif T introduced a bill covering exactly the same ground. Aftev this Ilearned that Senator Manderson had introduced a like bill in the senate and had succcedod n passing it; but when I learned of this fact it was some time after the bill had passed the senate. At onee, upon learning of this, I looked up Mr. Manderson’s bill and found that it had been referred to the wrong committe Now what kind of & congressman is it that does not know what legislation Dbearing upon the interests of his con- ituents is before congress? What kind of a congressman is it that fails to wateh for the passage of a senate bill which he expects to engineer through the house? What kind of a con- gressman is it that only learns of the passage of a bill through the senate some time afterwards and then finds that it has been referred to a wrong committee? [f Mr. Kem had attended to his business he would have been aware of the situation of the bill at every moment subsequent to its intro- duction; he would have watched for it as it came from the senate: he would have scen to it that it was referred to the right committee. It was only be- cause of his own neglect that the bill was 8o long pigeonholed in the com- mittée and finally reported too late for passage by the Fifty-second congress. Mr. Kem could not make a more damag- ing confession of his own incapacity. WILDC.AT BANK SCHEMES. A resolution was adopted a few days ago by the house committee on banking and durrency fixing November 14 as the date when the committee will take up and proceed with the bill providing for the repeal of the tax on state bank issues, no further discussion except by members of the committee to be had after that date. Last week the committeo heard arguments in favor of the absolute repeal of the tax and also listened toa plea against having pre- sented to congress information called for from the Treasury department re- garding state bank cireulation, the de- sire to shut out such infy ation being, of course, prompted by the fact that it would tell strongly against the proposal to restore the old system. When the banking and currency com- mittee was formed the statement was made that a majority of its members wore opposed to repealing the tax. This impression was conveyed in reported interviews with Mr. Springer, the chair- man of the committee, who was repre- sented as being very pronounced in his opinion that the tax ought to stand and that it would be most unwise to allow state banks to issue notes. It now ap- pears that there is some doubt as to Mr. Springer's attitude and it is thought that he is quite as likely to favor as to oppose the repeal of the tax. It is not difficult to find an explanation of this. ‘When the chairman of the banking and currency committee expressed his hostility to repeal he had not been brought under the influence of the southern members of his party who are unanimous in favor of restoring state bunk issues. Having for the past two months been subjected to this influence, which is very potent with northern democrats generally, it is not surprising thav the 1llinois congressman, who is not notably firm in his convictions, may ‘have yielded somewhat to it, and it is quite possible that when the time comes to act he will be found ready either to favor unconditional repeal of the tax or to agree to some sort of a compromise that will be satisfactory to the southern wing of the puarty, which is now ina position and mood to exact terms. The south wants the tax re- pealed. Tt was at the instigation of that section that the plank was inserted in tho national platform recommending the repeal of the ‘tax. [Every democratic represcntative from the south, there- fore, feels it to be his duty to insist on repeal and they are united for this purpose. This being the case, it may be re- garded as certain that at the regular sossfon of congress a bill will be re- ported providing for the repeal, in whole or in part, of the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues, with some such provisions for the security of such is- sues as ave contained in the bill now in the hands of the banking and currency committee, and it will undoubtedly have some support outside of the southern states. There are northern democrats who will help those of the south to re- It is quite safe to predict, however, that the number of such will not be sufficient to carry a meas- ure of the kind through either house. No bill intended to allow state banks to Some t'me In -second congress fssue currency can get a single repub- 1lican vote, there is every reason to be- lieve, in either the house or the senate, and the number of democrats opposed to such a policy, united with the repub- licans, would insure the defeat of any measure of this kind. So far as the administration i concerned its position on this question is not definitely known, but the reasonable presumption is that the president would not favor repeal of the tax. SHERIFF BENNETT'S DELINQUENCIES. The republicans of Douglas county find themselves in a most lamentable dilemma with regard to their candidate for sheriff, The earnest remonstrance made by this paper against Mr. Ben- nett's renomination was denounced on one hand as personal spleen and on the other hand as an arrogant piece of political dictatorship. In the face of the most damaging accusations of offi- clal delinguency the convention placed Mr. Bennett at the head of the county tickot by acclamation just to teach Rose- water an object lesson. That foolhardy action will cost the party very dearly. It not only is bound to result in the defeat of its candidate for sheriff but may also defeat several worthy candidates who have proved themselves capable and faithful in the discharge of their duties. With the exposure of the scandals and criminal negligence which involve the sheriff and his deputies re- publicans who_ believe in good government must withdraw from the support of Mr. Bennett no matter how anxious they are for republican su- premacy. No self-respecting citizen will by his vote justify the conversion of the county jail into an assignation house. No man that has any respect for law and order will by his vote put the seal of approval upon the lawless favoritism shown to a bank-wrecker, forger and robber of toilers who placed their money in his safe-keeping. Such crime merits the most’ condign punishment. A len- ient court sentenced this criminal to only five years' penitentiary labor when his crimes merited a life sen- tence. Instead of being placed where he belongs this man was committed to confinement in the Doug- las county jail. That was extending judicial leniency almost beyond reasona- ble bonds. It was the duty of the sher- iff to treat this convict the same as he does any other man convicted of a felony. Instead of keeping him confined in a felon's cell Mosher has been allowed to luxuriate in an elegantly furnished apartment. He has been treated as a companion and given “privi- leges that made his imprisonment a farce. Not only has he enjoyed a good time inside the jail and sheriff’s home, but he has roamed at large in company with Jailer Bennett and visited disor- derly resorts where he kept a mistress. That mistress was allowed to visit and entertain him in jail. The Henderson case which we cited two weeks ago was aimost as reprehensi ble. Here was an embezzler in the cus- tody of the sheriff. He was presumed under the law to be kept in close con- finement. Instead of being treated as a prisoner he was taken to a gambling house by the sheriff’s deputy to gratify his mania for gambling, which brougit him to his ruin. Such a thing is un- heard of in the annals of our courts. Can the sheriff pretend that he was ignorant of all this? Can he convince any rational person that he permitted these delinquencies of his deputy out of pure friendship? These things are too rank to be coun- tenanced or brushed aside. THE BEE has sought to perform its duty first to the repubiican party by warning and appeal. Now it must do its duty to the people. That duty compels us to de- clare that Sheriff Bennelt has forteited his right to occupy the position of sheriff. NATURALIZATION LAW CHANGES. The present congress will probably make several importantchanges in the naturalization laws. A bill is now under consideration by the judiciary committee of the house for this purpose. It proposes to amend the laws so as to prohibit the naturalization of any alien who has ever been convicted of a felony or other infamous crime or misdemeanor involving moral turpitude, or who is an anarchist or polygamist, or who immi- grated to this country in violation of law. It also provides that an alien to be naturalized shall be able to read the constitution and must have resided con- tinuously in the United States for five years and in the state or territory in which he makes application for one year. The question of amending the naturali- zation laws with a view to enbancing the priviloge of obtaining American citizen- ship and surrounding it with stronger safeguards has received within the past few years a great deal of consideration, and it is not to be doubted that the intel- ligent opinion of the country is in favor of stricter regulations in this matter, An investigation by a committee of the last congress showed that in several lo- calities there had been very little re- gard for the requirements of the statutes in bestowing upon aliens the boon of citizenship, and it is not ques- tionable that in all the larger cities, particularly of the east, thou- sands have been given this inestimable privilege who had not complied with the law. It was found that in many cases clerks of courts baving authority to is- sue naturalizgtion papers exercised no care in ascertaining whether the appli- cants had complied with the law, being concerned only about the fees, which they retained. That this vractice has been a great incentive to railroading naturalizations through is evidenced by the single fact that for the years 1888 to 1891, inclusive, there were 8,280 aliens naturalized in the cirevit court of Mas- sachusetts, no return boing made of the fees charged. A bill passed the house last week 1o remedy this. At almost every clection, and especially at general elections, thousands of aliens through- out the country are given citizenship who have no right to it. To be wade a citizen of the United States is not an insignificant matter. It is a privilege of the highest importance, carrying with it a guaranty of the na- tion's protection throughout the world and bestowing righte and opportunities of the greatest ri_hxe‘ Amorican oiti- zenship means mowe. today than ever before and its sigmificance and worth will grow with thé ‘increasing power and greatness of the republic. Hence, there is greator Péaséh now than ever before for surrounding it with the amplest safeguards,iito the end that none shall be admitted to the enjoy- ment of its rights &Hd doportunities who is not worthy of them. No objection, therefore, can bo made to excluding from this high privilege the classes prohibited by the bill now being consid- ered by the house ' judiciary committee, nor will there be dny opposition to the requirement that ability to read the constitution shall be necessary to secure naturalization. It is true that thou- sands of native-born citizens exercise all the rights of citizenship without being able to read the organic law, but this is not a valld reason why we should make citizens of allens who cannot read that instrument, THE NEW MINING LAW. The bill just passed by congress sus- pending the law requiring the perform- ance of assessment work for the year 1893 will be hailed as a blessing by the poor prospectors who have felt the hard times in the mining regions this sum- mer. It will enable them to hold the claims they have, apd spend money for bread that would otherwise have gone for giant powder. It also relieves the corporations that have boen sorely pressed by the suspension of the ordi- nary demands for their product from expending large sums on undeveloped properties or run the hazard of having them jumped by some one, whose only aim is to sell them again to the com- pany against whom he has established an adverse claim. In this respect it will deprive the men of the work the en- forced performance of the law's require- ments would have brought; but to com- pensate for this, it will leave the com- pany in better shape to begin work next summer, as well as to continue work on its producing property during the win- ter. Foreign corporations are debarred from the benefits of the suspension by a senate amendment to the bill, and will have to arrange for the expense or ex- pose their property. Thus, foreign com- panies that ave holding claims on great tracts of American mineral lands for purely speculative purposes will be com- pelled to fulfill the Jaw, while the hon- est prospector or home corporation may have the leniency of the government to aid in weathering the financial storm. No honest man will be harmed by the sus- pension. Assessment work is the central topic in the mining camps just.about this season of the year. Under the law develop- ment equivalent to ten feetof work must be placed on each claim located by the prospector each yéar in order that his claim may not be sibject to the process of jumping. Ten dollars a foot is the price established by é¢ommon consent, and the ten feet of work is supposed to represent an actual outlay of $100, or its equivalent in labor. Until a sufficient amount of assessment work has been done to warrant the issnance of a patent to the property by the United States, the required stint must be finished before midnight of the 3lst day of December cach year, or the claim i3 subject to ve- location, and the prospector loses all credit for the work he has*done. ‘WHEN voters in this county get to the point of making up their tickets for county commissioners, let them compare the present republican board with those of preceding administrations. Let them pay a visit to the new county hospital, which is a standing monument to the incompetepcy and dishonesty of the former democratic board. This build- ing is in wretched condition. The walls have cracked and the south wing is supported by timbers to prevent the brick walls from collapse. The wood- work presents a dilapidated appearance. The windows would disgrace the exte- rior of an ordinary barn. ere is evi- dence shroughout all the buildings of poor comstruction and dishonest work, Tt is a burning shame that the people of Douglas' county are compelled to submit to the robbery perpetrated in the con- struction of the hospital without means of redress, The present republican board has done everything possible to make the building safe. The north wing has been rebuilt, after having collapsed. The south wing must be reconstructed, or there will be a crash there that will re- sound from one end of the state to the other. The deplorable condition is di- reotly attributable to former democratic members of the Board of County Com- missioners, and the party that put them in power must share the responsibility with them, We want nomore of sach crooked work. The only way to make sure of a competent and honest board is for the voters of the county to elect the republican candidates now in the field— G. R. Williams and John Jenkins, ne Prorogatives, New York Press, When a man's courage gives out it is usually in the face of'danger. The woman doesn’t think to geb' frightened uitil the perilis all over. Phen she exercises the prerogatives of her séx and cries or faints or flees, us the case Hiay be. It's a historic fact that Josn of Arc wanted to run away and hideevery time }bo Won a battle, Fem- iniae nature )mln'tcmn‘ed in this respect in tho past 400 years. ¥e e The Book' of ' Books. Charles A, Dana's Address on Juurnalism, What books ought you 1o read! Almost all books have their use, out some are indis- pansable to this kind of W education. But of all these, the mos! ul, the most indis- pensable, the one w, knowledge is tho most effective is the WM& 1 am considering it now not s a religious book, but as & man- ual of utility, of rofessional preparation and professional use for & journalist. There s, perhaps, no book whose style is mors s gestive and more instructive, from wh;x you learn more directly that sublime sim- plicity which never exaggerates, which re- counts the greatest event with solemnity, of course, but without sentimentality or affec- tation, none whick you open with such con- fidonce and lay down with such reverence; there is no book like the Bible, Tobbed in Ity Infancy, Springfield (Mass.) Republican. 1t the money taken unrighteously out of Union Pacific from 1802 down, and™ now in- cluded in some of the big individual fortunes of the country, had been left to the com- pany, it would today not only be solvent but, out of debt to the government. The evi- dence of this is not out in black and white, but everybody knows it is true. Rascali has been the trouble with Union Pacific. Tt left a legacy 6t financial debility which years of honest management such as the road had under Charles Francis Adams could not overcome, Civillzation in the East. Philadelphia Ledge Many years ago, when Sepoys were blown from the mouths of cannon there was a great outcry all over the civilized world, but a dispatch from Lahore reports that eleven more mutinous Sepoys hage been troated in the same way and their cofpanions required to swear on ihe Koran to strict obedience to their commanders. The Sepoys do not fear death so much as mutilation, and for this reason no punishment has any _terrors for them except some such mothod of execution a8 that of being blown to pieces. This, at least, Is the excuse given for the barbarous practice. Vale and Farewell New York Sun, The whole drift of mugwump sentiment and support at the present time is away from the aemocratic party and toward the repub- lican party. That is a double blessing to the democ- racy. It gains both by its own good fortune in this respect and by the contemporaneous misfortune of the great organization which is its political adversary. Honor to the two democrats who have done most to speed the parting mugwump ! Their names are Grover Cleveland and David Bennoty Hill. e Y Will They Do It? Creston News. The only rebuke that the Bryan demo- crats can offer the convention packers of their party is to elect the independent nom- ineo for the supreme bench, S. A. Holcomb, fling tho vote in the teoth of the administra: tion and have it placed on record that the honest _element of their party does not en dorse the action of a gang of administra- tion and postotice strikers, We believe they will doit. Cleveland can get Morton, North and their pap suckers to resolute against the principles of honest democracy, but he cannot prevent the honest democrats from voting at the polls. et Soclal Calamlity n Chicago. Chicago Record. ‘W are pained to learn that while attend- ing the Kcr(m'mnn\'e t the Trocadero last evening Mr. T. Bertie Pratt, the well known young society leader, had the misfortune to swallow the head of his cane, Amid much excitement the sufferer was removed from the theater to his father's residence in Michigan avenue, where a cousultation of physicians was at once summoned, It is probable that a.delicate operation will have to be resorted to before the lamented young man will be restored to his wonted useful- ness. The unhappy event is sure to cast a gloom over our most fashionable society. Al S ey No Limitation to Nulsance. Chicugo Herald. In the middle of the first night, while the senate was 1n coantinuous session, S Allen of Nebraska, who can out- the prairies, read dreary paper s hour after hour, in whi action of the senate was criticisea. Senator Turpie of Indiana called him to order for ding irrelevant and disrespectful matter. The president pro tem, Senator Blackburn, decided that vhis tedious and offensive practice was not contrary to the rules of senate® debate. Can anybody tell what nuisance of speech and impudent departure from consideration of the question to be de- cided would be oat of order? The Situntion i St. Paul Proneer Press. ation down in Nebraska ou tood thoroughly, so that the state this fall, as it way prol The st be unde populists seems no not claim it a victory for their peculia The contest is justice of the supreme court, and there is great interest in it be- cause fmportant railroad- legislation is to be passed upon. Judge Maxwell, the candidate of the anti-monopolists, was turned down by the republican convention, and thereupon his supporters boited and will support the populist candidate, who is said to bo & man of high character and ability. The demo- cratio convention was torn up by the silver question, and Bryan and his friends threaten 10" vote with the populists to give the anti- silver men n lesson. Both tho old parties being spliv and_one faction of each of them ready to act with the populists, there seems a good chance thut their man will be elected to the bench, But it will bo no true test of their strength in the state. b Passing of the Lordlings. New York Sun. A scribbling blockhead of London sneers at the i'rench Chamber of Deputies because among the men who have been elected fo its membership there are two wine sell miners, a dancing master, a ba laborers, two peasants, a p i bat and four or five typesetie men who earn an honest living. Now, why should not such citizens be elected to the Chamber if they are competent to perform the duties of a de £ they possess sense, knowledge and virtue! In this age of de- mocracy there are in all the greav legislative bodies “of the world men who are not ot aristocratic lineage or of wealth or of any kind of superior pretension. There are such men now gven in the British Parliament, and therd ure plonty of them in the Ameri- can congress and the German Reichstag, s well as in the French and Italian Chumbers, They are men of practical ability; they aro acquainted with life; they know something of the world; they understand the senti- ments and wants of the people ; some of them are first-class politicians and legislators. The days of lordlings, of shams and of three- tailed bashaws are passiug away. —_—— THE BEAR IN PARIS, aghington Star: The Toulon demon- stration will at least enable the French to muke another raid on the Siamese treasury Philadelphia Times: ~As part of the game of Kuropean politics, the French and Rus- sians av Toulon evidently think the game worth the powder. Kansas City Star: Whether or not it adds t0 Lurope's war cloud, there's a good deal of smoke jJust now rising from the French and Russwns at Toulon. Chicago Post: France may fancy she has made an impregnable alliance with Itussia. But it is noticeable thau KRussia is strength- ening her bonds of union with krance's deadly enemy, Greay Brivain, The czaro- witz is going to marry Victoria. & daughter of the prince of Wales. Philadelphia Record: The delrium of en- thusiasm at vhe love feast in Toulon, where the Russian visitors have been carried in triumph through the streets, polted and al- most smothered with s and openly hugged and kissed by the women, has far excoeded the bounds of appropriateness, considering the esseutial triviality of the occasion, I'his exiravagant and almost frantic exhibition of cordiality has passed far beyond the line that divides the sublime from the ridiculous. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl fezezezof Baki Powdne% ABSOLUTELY PURE THE BARGAIN CLINORED, Kansas City Journal: The confirming of Van Alen puts the senata on record as being unwilling to place obstacies in the way of an administration paying its aishonest debts, Cincinnati Commerdial: Now that Van Alen has been contirmed by the senate the only remaining detail necessary to completo the bargain is the forwarding of a receipt for his £0,000. Kansas City Star: Me. Van Alen has been confirmed, as_ove: asonable person knew he would be. The oniy serious charge—and thus faritis only a charge-- against him has been that he not quite American enough in demonstrative patriot- ism and breeziness. St. 1'aul Pioneer-Press: For purposes of rovenge, a man like Murat Halsted is re- jected by the senato; while an open bargain and sale like this ot Mr. Van Alen, although thoroughly exposed, can find barely a score of senators to record their votes against it As far as its supervisory power over nomina. t I8 concerned, thosenate isa corrupt combination Neow York World: It is a matter of deep regret that the president adhered to his mis- take. 1t is peculiarly unfortunate that at this critical period in the history of the democratic party, when the feeling is prevalent that the government is falling too much into the hands of the money power, the appointment of a plutocrat toa high oftice for value received, by a democratic president, should lend color to the charge. New York ‘I'ribus The gravityof the offense which Mr. Cleveland committed, and which the senate now shares, is neither in- creased nor diminished by the genoral char- acter and reputation of the nppointee. The personal disgrace and the public shame which this affair involves come from the demonstrated fact that the president was willing to abide by and able to complete au immoral contract made in his own intorest and that of his party. Chicago Post: A proud man would not take a mission sccured as Van Alon's has been at the expenge of tho reputntion of tho administration and in the faco of opy based upon the most humiliating cha But Mr, Van Alen is not a proud man, ox- cept to his coachman, perhaps. He 18 acold, calculating, vulgar suob who has bought a position as he might have bought n pair of riding breeches. Ho will go out calmly with his purchase under his arm, and for the next three years Europe will be regaled with the spectacle of this splendid product ot 100 years of a popular government—the end-of- the-century successor of Franklin, Juy and Jefferson. g NEBRASKA AND IBIRRASICANS, Nebraska Baptists ars 1n session at Lin- colu. 3 A resident of Bloomfield shot and killed a wolf on one the main streets of that village the other day. The Catholics of Atkinson are holding a fair to raiss funds to repair their churoh, which caught in a cyclone last summer. Robert M, Peyton, president sof the Stato bank of Creighton, contracted typhoid fever at the World's fairand is n eriously ill s homo. Fairfield oficers raided the place of busi- ness of J. T. Rossiter and discovered a quan- tity of liquor, Rossiter is out on bail on the charge of selling whisky without a license, At a recent meeting of the Women's Re- lief corps at Table Rock, Dr. Broyles pre- sented the corps with a gavel wade from laurel wood obtained from Lookout moun- tain,and imbedded init was a bullet from the battlefield of Mission Ridge. Bad boys disturb the vostmaster at Broken Bow while he is distributing the mails, and ho warns them that unless they keep quiet he will be obliged to lock the doors and keep everybody outof the offico until the mail is sorted. While “Father” Cashmire of Ehnwood aged 80 years, was on his way home L team become frightened snd’ ran away throwing him out onto a_harrow in the y. at his home. One arm was torn to pis and his head nearly scalped and otherwise cut_and bruised. His recovery is deemed doubtful. Fort Randall military reservation, just over the Boyd county line, which was abandoned by this government, is r 1o have been seized by a large force of In- dians,who have driven out the custodian and have taken possession of the buildings. [t is said troops have been ordered to remove the redskins. The feeling against the cattle thieves in IKnox county is so strong that the Bloomtield Journal goes so far as to practically advo- cate lynching the members of the Rothwell gang. The Journal says: Knox county's citizens should carefully nurse the injury and insult of the failure to bring the Koth- well geng to an bmmediate vroof of their in- nocence and insist that justice -be not de- ieated bysskillful manipulation before the courts, If these men are innocent they need e no fear of trial, but if they show their by attempts to further dodge a trial we say then that patience ceases to bo a , and the men who have been taxed beyond reason by the shortcomings of this crowd have a right to say,"move on, or up. S How to knd the Deadlock. Chicago Tribune. Give the republicans o chance. Let Mr. Voorhees, who has proved a failure, resign his leadership. Let the democrats who are a favor of repeal fall 1 behind the u phalany, taking Sherman asa leader, following him as_loyally as the re- publicans have followed Voorhecs. and there will be a change in_the situation speedily and the senate will come to a vote on the sundry propositions bofore it. republic: LT THE MODERN BRIGADIER. Chicago Post: Mr. Morgan may not he ashamed of his connection with the soces on _movement. e have known reformed burglars who were not penitent. 1t is largely o matter of breeding. But Mr. Morgan at least should be ashiamed of his speech. That involves a matter of taste. Kansas City Star: Mr. Morgan has taken " Hvli:ml moment to thunder again that grand old provosition that ‘eloven states went out of the union to presor This may no; bo strictly portinent to the matter in debate, but it is always pio: turesque, and coming from a man of such self-confessed “personal responsibility” 1% would not be polite to deny it Philadeiphia Record: Senator Morgan of Alabama feels persuaded that the peaple ot tho United States would rise up against the establishment of the closure; and it will not do to dismise such words as idle talk, in view of the ominous fact Yhat so far as Mre. Morgan s coucerned the selec fon of o lnst ditch and other hostile preliminaties give token that the rise-up has already set in, Q Chicago Hora . indeed, can weo think of this solicitude for ‘the constitution when we find it in # man who gave five vears of hislife to wreck the cherished mstity tion? How much weight doos Mr. Morgan's appeal for its protection carry when it is confrontea with the tact that out of sevon teen lincs devoted to his life in the congres- sional divectory (supplicd by himseli) nine liuos ure spent in veciting his distoyalty the constitution, from his clec gate to the Alabama secossion conven his _appointment as brigadier genoral of the eonfederate army ! al: Mr. Morgan sought to 0 impression that hie was in some way a very great man and that it was ime pertinent for any one to address him whom he did not chooso to recognize a8 his equal. He insulted Senator Washburn by remarks of an inexcusably porsonal nature and re- forred to Senators Hill and Lodgo contempt- uously as juveniies. Then he became deflant and ended like a melodramay the field of battle by would die at his post. He is not dead yet, however, and theatrical managers who are contemplating a tourof the provinces might do well to look him uj it CH OF SMILES. for: Tt very llablo to an attac o the constitution." warrior on aring that he suid that the bull e € searlet fover. Boston Transcript: It o man changes his mindattor praposing for marelago e would do well to mind the change. Harper's Bazar: “1 passed your anor last evening. Miss Gildorsleove,” remarked young N Gilléy. juliow "kind of you," replied the gratetul girl. Cleveland Plain De When the congros- stonal orator I hread of Lis discourse s the he has o dificulty in spinning a new one Boston Bulletin: The elephant is one of the fow immigrants to this couutry who does not try to smugglo something in his trunk. me in, old man, and 1th, u can't do it, years ago. Buffalo Courfer: What n lot of labor would bo saved If the sweeping glances we read about would only take the dirt from carpots. Dotroit Tribune: TrampMadam, T was ays thus. 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