Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 27, 1893, Page 4

DAILY BEE. i ROSEWATER, Editor, © PUBLISHED IFFICKS, Ting. South Omahn. corner N and Twenty-sixth streets Couneil Biufs, 19 Chieago T New York & Washington, ber of Co YAana 16, v root. ENCR. ne tonews and edi- "To the Editor ERS litances should be ¢ Company,Omaha. Orders 1o be made n merce. me building P Tew Publl and postomce order of d y. ¢ the elty for the summer ean have helr nddress by leaving an order COMPANY. Tre DALY and Oblengoat the following place almor house. Grand Pacifie i Auditorium hotol. Great Northern hotel. Gore hotel. Teland hotel. Files of Tiii BEE canbe seen at Praska building and the Administration bul xposition grounds. the Ne- fld- STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. dea, ogins. | hek, socrotary of TAE Bew Pub- does solemnly_swear that the { Titk DAILY DEE for the week 893, was as follows: SWORN ending October Simday, October 1 Monday. October 16, Tueaday, October 17.. v. Oelober Friday, Saturday, no B T7sHUCK, = Sworn to before me and subscrided in my §Fmax | presence tits 215t day of Qetover. 1803, o] P, Fr1L, Notary Publie. Average Circnlation for Sept., 1803, 24,238 Now for a vote upon tho repeal bill. Warcn Lim registration books and in- vestigate any strangé names that may appear npon thom THE fact that we are in the midst of an olection campaign does not justify any pubiic officer in neglecting his duties. ‘WHY impose the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues if it is to be remitted every time u banking institution renders {tself liable to payment! MRI. O. U. BACHELOR insists upon remaining upon the republican city ticket as a candidate for the city coun- oil. The voters of the city will insist that he continue his deadbeat career as a private citizen. THE people should see to it that con- tractors and men interested directly or indirectly in city contracts be kept out of public office, whether it be the mayoralty, the council or the school board to which they aspire. THE Furopean governments which participated in the World’s Columbian exposition at Chicago may now consider themselves thanked to all good intents and purposes for the kind interest which they have shown in connection with the great fair, WE shall be pleased to have Candi- date Hascall tell the workingmen of Omaha how they are to get any work this year or next year if the million and a half of bonds are voted for the pur- chase of the waterworks or the electric lighting plant. THE state céntral committee is trying to pump up enthusiasm in this city for Judge Harrison. If the state central committee had not joined with the rail- roads and Lincoln boodlers to pack the convention against Maxwell there would have been no need of fabricating en- thusinsm. Maxwell would have been eiected without any state central com- mittee. HOw appropriate for the inhabitants of Lyons to bestow 2,500 handkerchiefs upon the visiting Russian sailors. The sailors have been wined and dined and hugged and kissed so much during their short sojourn in France that it will be with the utmost difficulty that they will succeed in drying their tears of regret when the inevitable time for departure is at hand. THERE are hundreds of yoyng men in this city and county who have reached their majority and will cast their first vote at the November election. To be eligible as an elector they must have re- sided in the state six months, in the county forty days and in the ward or pre- cines ten days. This vote is worth look- ing after. Every such young man should be requested to register. EvVERY male person 21 years old who shall have resided in the state six months, in the county forty days and in the precinct, township or ward ten days, is & qualified elector under the laws of Nebraska, Persons of foreign birth must bave declarsd their intention to become citizens of the United States at least thirty days prior to election before they can legally vote in this state. THE Philadelphia 7Times assorts that Jackson has withdrawn from the guber- natorial race in Iowa and that his re- publican supporters are trying to elect o ticket without a head. This will no doubt be news to Mr. Jackson and his most intimate friends, who have not yet been informed of any change in the Towa republican ticket. since it was made up by the state convention. The ticket is still complete, head, tail and Ir18 in accord with the eternal fit- ness of things for Peter Schwenck, whose rotten record has scandalized the party and disgraced the state, 10 take excep- tlons to THE BEE'S course in refusing to recommend him as & proper man to be entrusted with the managoment of mu- nicipal affairs. THE BEE does not need 10 justify its course tosnybody who is fa- miliar with Schwenck's disreputable ca- reer. Thore are, however, many people in this eity who might think that our position with regard to Schwenck arises through factional fouds or purely per- sonal animosity. For their information ‘we shall, befure the cam| ls over, publish & summary of Mr, wenok's racealities in and out of office. A STUPID SCHEM! The most stapfd thing that we have heard of in the present campaign Is the attomnt on the part of local democratio | | through that the state. committees to have the county clerk print the official ballot with the name of { each candidate as many times as he has been endorsed either by convention or citizens petitions. proposed that Judge Walton's name shall { appear on the ballot threo times, first as | & nonpartisan, second republican, third | democrat, the same rule to apply in printing the names of all the other can- didates, judicial, county and eity. What would the outcome be if this is done? ‘Would it not make confusion worse ocon- founded and result in the throwing out of hundreds of ballots on the ground of irregularity? Take the judicial ticket for instancel which will be headed, ‘‘Vote for three.” Now what will the voter do as regards candidates whose names appear more than once? Suppose he puts his X mark opposite the same name twice or three times, will that vote be credited as one, two or three on the tally sheet? Would not the whole judicial bailot be thrown out if the voter marks the name of any one candidate more than once and also puts his mark opposite two other names? If the whole ballot is thrown out on can- didates for judge, the voter is disfran- chised to that extent. But the chances are it would furnish a basis for a con- tested election. Is that the object of the law or the law makers? Will not the same confusion prevail as rogards other candidates on the county and city tickets? Several candi- dates on the county ticket have been en- dorsed by two parties or by vetition, and this is also true on the city ticket. Sup- pose a voter marks one of these doubly nominated candidates for the council opposite each name as it appears on the ballot and then marks eight more mes. He has voted only for nine councilmen as the law requires. But he has made ten marks. Will that ballot count or will it be thrown out? If itisthrown out it robs all the other candidates whom this man voted for of one vpte. Can that be the intent of the law? Is not the proposition to print the name of any candidate more than once on the ticket pernicious and destructive of the very principle of one vote for one man and an honest count? If this prac- tice is to be sanctioned it would bring about the worst election abuses and frauds that we have ever suffered from. Suppose a candidate whose name ap- pears among the first letters of the al- phabet wanted to make his election sur All he would have to do is to have his friends get up twenty or thirty petitions and get his name printed on the official ballot twenty or thirty times. Common axperience has shown that a large per- centage of voters mark the first names on the ballot, either from ignorance or carelessness. The candidates who had their names duplicated at the head of the list would have a tremendous ad- vantage. The whole scheme of multiple print- ing is idiotic and tends to confusion and fraud in the count. FIGHTING i AMMANE. The war against Tammany in New York City is more aggressive at this time than for many years past, and if such signs of the povular discontent with that political organization could be safely counted upon to indicate the outcome it would scem that the politi- cal cabal of which Boss Tweed was once the chief would have little hope of ac- complishing anything at the coming election. There has b2en organized in New York City what is known as the City club, composed of many of the wealthiest citizens of Gotham, and with this there is allied a number of associations under the general desig- nation of goed government clubs and distingnished from one another by alphabetical designations. These organi- zations have been holding numerous meetings and their power and influence are arrayed more particularly against certain nominations of Tammany, instead of fighting it as a whole. Professional and business interests are united in these clubs and their aim is to purify the city govern- ment by defeating some of the men whom Mr. Croker, as the boss of Tam- many, has placed in nomination for some of the more important offices of the me- tropolis, The City club includes in its membership & number of the most prominent and wealthy citizens of New York, and it is said that if all the mem- bers were to pool their wealth they would be found to represent nearly a thousand million dollars worth of prop- erty. Meritorious &s the purpose of these organizations unquestionably is, it re- mains to be seen whether it is practicable. The course of Tam- many in the present campaign, under the leadership of Croker, has cor- tainly been as daring and reckless as at any time in the history of that most re- markable political organization. It has proceded entively upon the principle of rewarding the most unscrupulous of the members of that organization and its friends, a conspicuous instance of this being the nomination of Maynard for the court of appeals, the highest ju- dicial tribunal of the state, in return for his theft of election papers in ordor to give the democrats control of the state scnate, But this is not the onmly case in which Tammany has shown its utter disregard of popular sentiment by selecting for. responsible public posi- tions men of tarnished reputations. At leasi half a dozen such persons are on the democratie ticket in New York. The fight against she unprincipled and unscrupulous rule of Tammany should receive the unqualified support of good citizens everywhere, for the dis- comfiture of that political organization would be a political benefit in which the entire country would shave. The dom- inance of Tammany is a general injury. Its example is bad and the hold it has apon the prineipal city of the country, maintained by corrupt practices well known to everybody, isa reproach not only to New York, but to the nation. Hence every patriotie citizen should de- #ire to see this power overthrown. Un- fortunately, however, there is not much prospect that this will be done. Thor- oughly intrenched as it is and command- ing every avenus to political success, In other words it is | there is reason to anprehend that this powerful and wnprineipled political oligarchy will continue for many years to come to rule New York City and The principal aim of the demoerats in urging the re- peal of the federal elections law is to give free and unrestricted course to Tam- many, and members of that organization have boasted that without this restraint there could be rolled up in New York and Brooklyn whenever needed a demo- cratic majority of 100,000 or more. It is to be hoped the present fight against Tammany will break, if only for the time being, the power of that organiza- tion, but past exverience does not war- rant much confidence in such a result. AN INCOME TAX, Tt is reported that the democratic mombors of the ways and means com- mittee of the house are seriously con- sidering the question of imposing an in- come tax as a method of raising revenue. Last week the committee listened to arguments in favor of an in- come tax, and it is understood that there is a very strong sentiment in the committee favorable to the proposition to tax incomes. The advocates of this policy, it is hardly nccessary to say, are in full sympathy with the doctrine that protection is unconstitutional, and in order to put tho tariff on what they call a purely revenue basis, which is getting pretty close to free trade, it is necessary to provide other means of revenue. The plan of taxing incomes above a certain amount seems a convenient way of rais- ing a considerable revenuo without ex- citing the hostility of a very large num- ber of voters who would not be subject to the tax. The plausible idea is that the laboring classes would not be af- fected, at least directly, by an income come tax, nor would it reach a great many salaried people, so that it is as- sumed that a very considerable body of the electorate would approve of such a tax if at thesame time there was a reduc- tion in the price of many commodities due to a reduction of tariff duties. Plainly spoaking, this is one of the methods ch the democrats think of adopting to raise revenue in order to give foreign manufacturers a better opportunity in the American market than they now have. There is undoubtedly a large element in the democratic party favorable to an income tax, but it is not at all probable that this English method of raising rev- enue can be adopted at this time in the United States. The British government taxes all incomes exceeding $750 per annum, the tax rate being 6 pence on the pound sterling, and the revenue from this source amounts to about $25,000,000 aanually. This tax is perhaps as nearly equitable as any tax on incomes can be made, but it is well known that it does not operate with absolute fairness, nor is it possible that such a tax can be made to do so. It was first imposed by the British gov- ernment as a war tax, was abolished at the close of the great war period in 1816, and was reimposed in 1842 in be- half of free trade. It is significant that the American advocates of an income tax at this time are the champions of free trade. Ttisalso noteworthy that while these people vigorously protost against this country adopting the financial system of England they are prepared to have its revenue policy copied almost from baginning to end. There are numerous objections to an income tax. In the first place it is offensively inquisitorial, requiring, if the law be properly enforced, a search- ing inquiry into the private business affairs of individuals by petty officials which woald be intolerable. To avoid this the sworn statements of persons believed to be subject to the tax would have to be accepted and not ten ina thousand could be depended on to make a truthful return. Thus such a law would be an incentive to perjury. An in- come tax cannot be made to operate oquitably. Tho people of fixed and inablo incomes would have to pay r tax, while those whose incomes ave not fixed and cannot bo roadily as- certained would pay what thoy please or evade the tax altogether. 'This was the experience when we had an income tax and there is no reason to suppise that it would not be rvepeated if the tax should be again imposed. Another ob- jection to an income tax, particularly on the basis proposed of exempting in- comes below §3,000, is that 1t would be essentially class legislation, divid- ing the people into two classes, as rich and poor, which is in- tolerable to the sense of American fairness and justice. There are still other objections, but these should be sufficient to defeat the proposal for an income tax. The treasury is in need of more revenue, but there -ure other and better ways of raising it than recourse to this English method adopted in the interest of free trade. THE resolution offered in the house Wednesday by u democratic representa- tive from New York and referred to the ways and means committee, outlining a plan for a ta iff bill, may be accepted as an indication that any measure of taviff rovision which does not recognize the principle of protection will not have the support generally of the democrats of the manufacturing states. This resolu- tion very distinctly recognizes the pro- tective principle and calls upon the ways and mesaus committee to ar- range its schedules accordingly. It might be inferred that the rep- resentative who introduced this resolution had reason to believe that the tariff bill which is being vre- pared by the committes gees too far in the direction of carrying out the doc- trine of the Chicago platform, but however this may be, the resolution is significant. The industrial interests of the country will undoubtedly take note of it as a sign that the free trade ele- ment of the demoeracy is not to be per- mitted to have its way unchallenged. e— WORKINGMEN in this country might profit cousiderably if they should pay heed to the sentiment expressed by the socialist congress at Cologne that May day should be celebrated in those places only where the laborers can afford to spend an idle dsy. American working- men ave provably as well situated as as- | their fellows abroad, but they are too often called uptn participate in dem- onstrations whéf they can ill afford the Toss of wages which such idlencss entails. Labor demonstrations pay the working- man only whera/tfe beneflts derived ex- coed the sacrificoswhich he must make. Mnr. BEDFORD is still running on his shape. There is' bldonbt he would make a good figurehead.on oceasion. But the people of Omaha, want a man who will give his time and, his whole time to the business of the mayor's office. Thoy want a man whe has backbone enongh to®ay no when a job or fraudulent claim is presented for his approval. Is Mr. Bedford such a man? Mr. Bedford served in the council two years and soven months. During that time ho is recorded absent from ninety-nine meet- ings outof 226, and when he was present he wobbled badly on almost every meas- ure of importance. He never could be depended on to take a positive stand for or against a measure, and most of the time he did not know how he would vote until the very last minute. Would he be any more positive if he was elected mayor? We do not beliove that a man fully matured can change his nature. The old adage is true: A leopard cannot change his spots, although you may try to change them for him with a paint brush. ACCORDING to Mr. Wiley there is no likelihood that the city would buy out his electric lighting plant with the pro- ceeds of the bonds., Mr. Wiley thinks the city would not be willing to invest the large sum at which the company values its plant. Just so, Mr. Wiley. The planth asgrown in value enormously of late, but 'way down deep wouldn't you be willing to take $1,000,000 and give the city a warranty deed for all the lands, buildings and machinery? Would $1,600,000 tempt you to part with the works? It strikes us you would not got such a chance again in a lifetime. TAMMANY heelers have been again de- tected in illegally registering colonized voters. Menare induced to register under different names from several places, in none of which they have gained a legal residence. The parties implicated have been threatened with arrest, but it is doubtful whether any action will be taken. These are the regular Tammany exposures that ur each year when election time approaches. The fact that they are so brazenly repeated only goes to show the hold which Tammany nas secured upon the. machinery of govern- ment in New York., It 1S not the faulv of the four populist senators that filibustoring against the repeal billis to céase. If they had their way they would continue their obstruc- tionist tactics until the crack of doom. Alas! they ave imipotent to carry out their designs without the aid of the free silver democrats, We see then that the protracted debate has only been possible up to this time by reason of the ad- herence of these democrats to the popu- list program. Upon them must rest the blame for the weeks wasted in idle de- bate on the floor of the senate. LACK of quorum' at the meeting of the senate judiciary committee is again the excuse offered for not reporting upon the nomination of Mr. Hornblower to the vacancy vpen the bench of the supreme court. In the meanwhile the work.ef disposing of an overloaded docket is hampered by the inadequate number of justices. Let Mr. Hornblower be either confirmed or rejected, so that the vacancy may be filled without subjecting litigants to unnecessary delay in securing justice. MR. WILEY'S assurance that the Thomson-Houston works are not for sale should be taken with a grain of allow- ance. When the canal proposition was before the county. commissioners Mr. Wiley declared that he was willing to transfer the works to the city ata rea- sonable price. Has he changed his mind since then? Koep Philadelohia Inqui er, 1t s faintly suspected that Congress Bryan's $5,000 limit for an income tax is based upon the fact that Congressman Bryan's present is exactly $5,000. e Going Ahexd Anyhow. Chieago Inter ( cean, It malkes migaty little difference what tho democratic senate does, the people have coneluded to resume business and go ahead ana do business the best way they can and change things at the very first opportunity. our Fiush, Globe-Demoerat, All the conditions which would start a business boom are present except one, and that is repeal. 1f we got repoal the country will soon see greater activity in all branches of trade than it has known since the flush days of 1879 and 1880, The Export Movement In Hay, Pliladelphia Times, The October report of the statistician, is- sued by the Department of Agricultire, shows that during July there were 6,600 tons of hay imported by Great Britain from the United States against 723 tons last year. The imports for August reached 11,362 " tous this year against 160 tons last year, and for ecighi months this year the total is 54319 tons compared with 7,875 tons & year ago. The short hay crop abroad is the divect cause of this® largo, | exvort demand for American hay, a8 in prévious years the hay crop appears to have been of little inter- national importance. The Man for the rgoney. Philadelphta Press, Senator Hill is proving himself in several importunt respects the man for the emer- gency ut Washington. He is not overloadea with an awful respect'for the courtesy and traditions of vhe senate. He has very clear and sensible views a3 W& what ought to be aone, and he is the ane; democratic repealor Who abpears to have & fair share of courage and 8 willingness o muke a real fight for repeal. We have notherelofore scen much to commend in Senator Hill, but he is just the man to put a curh ab the nonsense and insolence of Harris, Morgan and other belli- cose and threatening: temocrats who have been making thel particularly of- fensive of late. RPEGULATORS. Buffalo Express: Thoss women's Chris- tian temperance unions in the wost will presently have 1o be disbanded as common nuisances. One of them in Polk county, Nebraska, formed itself into a white cap band to chastise several young women of whose morals it did not approve. It is a pleasure to récord that all of these persons who put themselves above the Jaw have been arrested. Chicago Times: Christianity dealt out by members of the Woman's _Christian Temperance union of Osceola, Neb., to certain young women of that town, and which found its expression in cudgels and tarand feathers, has involved the spiteful “Christian” wome: sriminal and civil suits without end, [ justice is meted out the Osceola Woman's Chiristian Temperance union's labors seem in a fair way to be performed under the tutelage of the warden of the Nebraska penitentiary for some time to come. Minneapolis Times: It is possible that the victims of the whipping administered so summarily have been indiscreet—most Am- erican villiges contain indiscreet young women, but it is hard to see how forgery and_inhumanity are to combine to produce good manners and good morals. The prom- inent ladies have disgraced themselves and their town and fixed a stain on the girls they have exposed that in all probability aid n belong to them. If the ‘m'('rn aro the mi they should be they will forthwith marry their sweethearts and then prosecute the llldy white caps to the full extent of the aw. Chicago TInter Ocean: Ixcopt that their lawless vengeance did not proceed to tho extremity of taking life, the outrage of the Nebraska women was more heinous than that of a southern mob. To scourge a _\'nun:g white @irl, to coat her body with tar and feathers, as was ocontemplated by the women who formed the mob-—for a mob was what the assembly in the grove was—was to doom her to u living death, Such a punish- meat would be more cruel than the old-time branding with a scarlet letter, and would forever unjustly stain the reputation of the indiscreet but quite possibly virtuous vie- tim, Boston Globe: For the sake of the reputa- tion of widespread * organization, the Woman's Christian Tempe i we hope the lawless and outrageous white cap proceedings recently carried through in a Nebraska town will receive from those in authority prompt and emphatic condemna- tion. It is bad enongh for men to indulge in midnight assaults upon defenseless house- holds. But when a mob of women engages in the eruel work of beating and whipping those of their own sex, one might casily believe that the evil spirit which animated the furies of the French reign of terror had been re- incarnated in these fierce would-be reformers in the prairie country. Philadelphia North American: the girls ne needed vhe_discipline at the hands of their mothers. Not even the most respectable society of woman can_be privileged to apply the rod outside of their own households. And an organization like the Woman's Chris- tian Temperance union cannot claim any prescriptive right to flog right and left. Judge Lynch in petticoats is still Judge Lynch, neither more nor less, and any excuse for the Woman's Christian Temperance union in Osceola will serye as an equally good excuse for the white caps who go riding about o’ nights with red uel shirts and trousers, ostensibly to c t the morals of other veople. Perhaps the Osceola female regulators may escape the major penalty, becauso we forgive women for every offense but one. But it would be a grave error to overlook the offenders in this 1mstance, who had to forge decoy letters and lead their victims into temptation before they applied the corrective punishment. Probably but R A GOUD WuRD FUR HILL. Philadelphia Inquirer: In the charged nature of things Senator Hill ought to get a front seat at the pie counter and be allowed a bit of appetizing cheese with his pie. Boston Advertiser: Mr. Hill has certainly been forcible the last few days iu the senate. and we have hopes that he may yet show qualities worthy of leadership in that body. Indianapolis Journal: Senator David B. Hill seems to be the only democrat in the senate who has won renown during the sil- ver controversy in the senate, but then he has none to lose. Minueapolis Journal: It would be a singu- lar and interesting spectacle if the demo- crats should decree David Beonett Hiil to the leadership of the party in the senate. They are evidently turning to him as the leader of their forlorn hope, a kind of Mac- Mahon to lead the storming party into the Malakoff of the silver barons. Philadelphia Press: Senator Hill, 1t may b3 remembered, was the man whose election 1o the senate to pluuge him into an ob- s:urity from which he uever to emerge. or a public man whose carcer has been closed so often, according to his critics, Sen- ator Hi!l has had an extraordinary success. He is, as & matter of simple justice to his talents, an extremely dextrous and skillful politician, whose ability will always make him conspicuous, and whose unscrupulous methods will always render him useful to the democratic party and admived by it. it i A Veto Ready hinplasters. Cinewnnati Commercial, The advocates jof the repeal of the state bank tax do not care about anything of that kind unless they shall be permitted to issue a shinplaster ctirrency of the kind that ex- isted prior to 1860, In this connection we must ask permission to express the opinion that, if an unconditional repeal of the state bank tax should be passea by congress, President Cleveland would veto it. He has fully demonstrated his determination 1o sup- port sound mouey, and it is our impression he has made up his mind that if a minority, or even a majority. of his party in congress differ with him, the occupant of the white house will **hold the fort.” Al GERMS OF MIRLH. Galveston Nows: An enemy is a person who applauds you when you fail. Atchison Globe: The further you are away from a fight the more certaln you ure that bravery Is the thing. Glens Falls Republican: You never can tell what kerms of greatnoss miy be in 4 prison for he isn't allowed to “let himself Buffalo Courler: When it comes to home overninent, with the first buby aguinst iis Father and mother, it is often found that the minority rules. Washington Star: *Your husband 1s 50 mag- snid the visitor. responded the wife. “I found a Philadelphia Times: “There's a tomato can,' mubed OId Soak, as ho br 0 a limp post. on that “¥os,” rep! Tanqu nd 1F there was u stray dog about it might ndorn o tail.'” ight point & moral,” re| Somerville Journal: “He who can concegl hix joys is greater than he who can hide his griofs,” said Lavater. This is tho only ground Wwe huve for thinking Lavater may have been a great poker player in his time. Life: “Say,” sald the regular customer of the side-st restaurant, ay he stopped at the desk to pay his check, “whore did you got thut beef you ure sorving today?" *“What's the matter with it? cashler, who scented anothor kic nothing the matter with It that's why asked. A COMMON TALE. Kansas Oty Journal. A titled lord, A'uiid with cashi ay resort, A onhio aah; R'iBrelkn ports A'broken heart,” case in court. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ‘The peculiar brand of | !wnm (AT Demoorats Bound to Repeal the Tax on State Baok Oiroulation, SOUTHERNERS Member Johnson of the Committes on Banking and Currency Says the Com. mittes Will Sit D, to Prepare a Bl 518 FoUunRTEENTI STRERT, WasmiNatoy, Oct. 26. Representative Henry H. Johnson of In- diana, a member of the house committee on bankiug and currency, and who expressod the belief last week that a bill to repeal the 10 por cent tax on bank eircuiation could not pass the house, and that it would not be re- ported from the committes, has moditied his opinion m view of the change of affairs in the senate on the siver repeal bill. Mr. Johnson said to Tus Bre correspondent today that he believed the committee on banking and currency would report a bill unconditionally repealing the tax on state bank circulation, as pledged in the domo- cratic platform, and that since it is de- manded by nearly every democrat in the south it would be passed. “There are a groat many propositions be- fore the committee to modify the simplo reneal of the tax," said Mr. Johnson, ‘‘but 1 do not believe that the committee will agree to my amendment. Of course all of the republican members of the committeo are opposed to state bank circulation upon any basis, and Chairman Springer has here- tofore looked upon it unfavorably, but vhere is 80 much pressure for it, from the south especially, that I really anticipate favorable action at the hands of the committee. Johnson Considers it Dangerons, I believe there will be no measare before this congress of greater importance than bank issues, and the proposition to allow state banks to issne circulation upon secur- Ivies approved by state authorities I regard as the most violent of all the proposi- tions which have been made in good faith within my vocolle There is a great danger in the admission to circulation of bad bills. The fact that the government prints the bills will only vrovide against counterfeiting of them. If it is right to allow state bauks to issue circulation on private securitios the same privilege should be grauted to national banks. I do not think the government will undertake to assume control of the svate banks. Idoubt if such contract would be constitutional. Any pro- vision of this sort thatmay be put in the bill will be of little force, and not intended for use. Mr. Springer has asked that the committee continue its sistings during the recess that we all feel certain will come afier repeal. From this Ifeel thata bill for the repeal of tho bank tax is to be drawn up and reported just after the recess.” Fopullst Campalgn Literature, At last that long speech of Senator Allen, delivered vhrough the weary hours of tne first night of the continuous session, has been published entire in _the Congressional Record this morning and occupies fifty-iwo zull pages, or 104 columns, thirty-four more than the first computation. Much of the space is taken up by large tables and a iarge part of the text is composed of agata quotations from the books into which the senator plunged from time to time, This little brochure will soon be issued in pamph- let form for western consumption and postal authorities in populistic regions may prepare for a hard winter. The public printer has not yet fixed upon a price for the speech, but it will be over $20,000, and as it is to be is- sued af an alliance campaign document it may draw heavily on the funds af tlie third party. 1t will be seen in many sections of Neobraska. Mr. Bryan will use it as a sup- plement to his own silver speech. Special Crop Bulletin Extracts. The special crop bulletin just issued from the Department of Agriculture contains the following comments upon the reports from amed, which are of interest to Bee Wasmivarox Burrav or Tie Ber % Nebraska—The month has been charac- terized by unusual aridity and as a co quence corn ripened too rapidly, causing shrinkage to some extent, nevertheless there will be more than an average number of bushels of good corn for the entire state. Potatoes, both Irish and sweet, are light in yield, but of good quality. lowa—Wheat in vield and quality varies greatly throughout the state, ranging from extra to worthless. Rye, oats and barley are below the average. Oats is particularly light in yield. Buckwheat has be arded in growth by drouth. Continued drouth lowered the condition of corn in some counties, but the increase of percenjage in others wives a fine average. Potatoes show but little more than half a crop. Sonth Dakota—Wheat will be mostly threshea and housed in good condition. Quality in general No. 1. Oats and barley light in weight and of poor quality. Corn ripenod before frost and is nearly Teady to NONEY CERTAIN | « 0, | tended one month INSIST ON THE CHANGE | crib. Potatoos are a small yleld, but sol finest quality. owa for the Army, The following army ordors were issued today : on suvgeon's certifl. tea First Lisutonant Georgo iftconth infantry, is ox- The following transfors in the Fourth fantry aro made First Lieutenant Howland, from company C to company K First Li rnant. Krnes V. Smith, from o pany K 1o compar The lea rantod Major Jacob B, Rawles, Fourth artillery, is extendod ten days. Wil Tax the i Land The house committes on Indi reported favorably the bill in senate by Senator Manderson been urgently advoc 1 by grow, providing that the government shall pay the taxes upon land which has been taken in severalty by Indians. Favorable action has also been had by the senate com- mittee on Indiau affaira, and this early and concerted action by the committes of the two houses is rexarded as an indication that the bill wi ely becomo law within a few months, uth Dakota, ns well as Nebras«a, is deoply intercsted in this measure, as the former state has 4,500 aliotments which do not now pay taxes of any description. It will be recalled that the condition of affaivs in Thurston county, Nebraska, suggested this measure in the last congress. Mr. W. 1. Peebles of Pender has a number of times visited Washington and urged the adoption of this measare in justico to his city, as there is vody of land lying adja- , and belonging to the Otoes and Winaebagoes, which pays no taxes. Under this proposed iaw Thurston county would got more taxes from lndian lands than from the farms owned by white sete tlers, nd which has enator Potti- Miscellaneons, From tho abstract of the combined reports of the nationat banks in lowa just propared at the office of tho comptroller of the cur- rency it appears that the averago reserve of ional bauks in Iowa on the 3d inst. was 3L percent, which is nearly 7 per cent above the lagal requirements, The Wyoming national banks had but 23,97 per cent, or over per cent less than the ro- quired reserve. Favorable reports were today made upon the Manderson bills to pay John Paimer 1,905, tho vaiue of his im onts on gov- ernment lands near Pine Ridge agency from which he was driven by un_order from the Indian oftice, and to pay John Little and Holsart William of Omaha 2,000, due them as reported by the court of claims, The commissioner of {ndian affairs has ap- pointed Special Agent Marcus D. Selby to take charge of the governwent school at Gevoa, This relioves Superintendent Wil- lism B. Backus, whose resignation takes effect at the end of this month. Agent Selby will have charge of the scliool until the appointment of a successor to Superin- tendent Backus 0 today: anklin W i county, C. L. Price, woved. ick, Hyda county, K. rand, v Triplots, rosigned. Judge Conklin of Canton, S. D, is here. He has his oye upon tho receivership of the lana oftice at Chamberlain. ; Penruy S, Hearm, E i P PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Morgan is u protty spectacle on the cookoo perch It is evident tho president is an expert in blowing out the g, % Wesley C. Rippey, the would-bo assassin of Jolin W. Mackey, was sentenced by a San Francisco court to pay a fine of §25 As a meusure of public paign cigar ought to be 1 of things forbidden law. ‘Che surrender of t} misers was not “honah, sah.” F! ence. The new Kansas elec the distribution of cigu or theuse of free ca election day. Silver people in Silyerton, Colo., who think Senator Allen of Nebraska is a brick are going to present him with a silvor one forty ounces i weizht The Geary law in California and Gary law in Chicago, though differing widely in purpose, are issics of popular interest in their respectivo loc The man with the something to his : candidates for . Tho demand for un- feeling limbs excoeds tho supply. The condition of A. K. McClure, editor of the Philadelphia Times, continues precari- ous. In the opinion of the physicians tho case will be a protracted and tedious one, even if it result favorably. Chicago pupers emphatically deny tke story that many infants had been abandoned by their parents in the Children’s building in the fair grounds. Of tho hundreds cared for, not one has been deserted. “Ihe ono sad feature in the collapso of tho silver fight is the wet blauket it places on the ambition of u Washington surgeon, He bad made a special study of diseases of the Jaw, with a view 1o treating the senutors in job lots. The San Francisco strect was recently bought by 000,000, the plant | That is, the sum of 15 various companics for the stry they enjoyed. afety, the cam- uded in the list by the smoke-nuisance southern cowpro- severe wronch to their miliarity breeds indiffer- n law prohibits money or whisky, ges for voters on al leg will learn by calling on railway systom yndicate for $18,- A big drive In Lewis winter Largest Manutaoturers a of Olothing in the BROWNING, KNG 1 Rysallaes orl underwear, tomorrow, the most perfect shaped garments made. Only one thing wrong-~it's too ex- pensive; to get a SIZES— 28 ;b DRAWERS ~$3.00 $3.76 $4.00 profit the large sizes sell $10.25 suit. table, then see what we do with it UN EHHIII!(TH*‘-"{{K’AH $4.25 Friday and Saturday we'll sell you any size for $7 a suit, which is the price of the smallest size. Much of the underwear advertised as “full fashioned” is straight from neck to ankle, with the exception of a few needles of fashioning at the top and bottom of the inseams and knitted so looge as to fit any- Look at this .75 § 6 84,80 [ 2 $4.50 #0.26 $4.70 44 $5.60 thing by stretehing, or it has pieces inserted to ob- tain the necessary fulness. The Lewis underwear is full fashioned in reality and not simply in name, The inseams and sleeves are knitted in perfect con- formity, as are all other points of the garments, thus preserving an equal tension throughout, and retaining its original shape to the last. Colors nat- tural gray, gray tint and cream, any size this week $7 a suit. BROWNING, Btore npen every eveniag till 6.0 PO aborday Ll 10 KING & CO., |8, W, Cor. 1612 and Doaglas 33