Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1893, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. — = ROSEWATER, Editor. — PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. $ OF SURSCRIPTION. { Sunday) One Year O Year TF Dally Pee (withe Datly and Sund: y. ® 800 10 00 500 50 00 100 Ome Year OFFICES. St i Twenty-sixth atrects 7 Chiber of ¢ . T 1 14 0nd 15T fiaing CORRESPONDENC 11_commun news and edl 1eha atter phiouh e To the Baitor T TTERS. cmittances shonld be 3 ':'A-y)l to be made AN Tuslness Totte pddreseed to The THE DY r At busin L ary of Tug Bre Pub- ar that th ¥ BER. for the week was a8 follow Thursday. November Friday, November 3 Satur November .. fron —~" Notary b ——— e Average Clreulation for October, 24,315, —— E TION time is not influential enough to interrupt the regular recur- rence of railway casualtie Presence this 411 ¢ N. [T 18 a noteworthy fact that more ex- planations come from the side of the de- feated than from that of the victors. GOVERNOR CROUNE Thanksgiving proclamation may be expeeted soon. He now knows that we all have something for which we may be thankful, CHAIRMAN SUDBOROUGH says the re- sult fully verified his ante-election can- vass of voters in precinet of the The republican city committee this year did most effective work. ever GOVERNOR BOIES now wishes that he had clung to his original plan of making his campaign exclusively on the line of stato On national questions Lowa's vepublican issue is not to be ques- Yioned. issues. IF WE are to believe Jer one who does not subseribe to the populist creed is a lunatic. On this theory, the populists must all have been lunatics before they were converted to their present political faith. populist gains are reported setts, although, of course, the whole populist vote does not cut much figure. Bellamy and his followers are the core of the movement in that state. Populist gains in Massachusetts indicate a recruiting of the Bellamy forces from the ranks of the unemployed. mpson, ‘THE desperate attempt made to carry the bogus canal bonds drew out a very heavy vote from taxpaying eitizens aguinst all the bond propositions. While the canal bonds were snowed under in overy ward it is not definitely known yet whether any of the other bond prop- ositions submitted have carried. Itis to be hoped that the sewer and paving bonds are not defeated. Omaba cannot afford to stop necessary improvements for the coming year. CARE should be observed in protecting the eity’s property in the furniture used at the election booths on Tuesday. In some cities the election officers despoil the booths of chairs, tables, ete., with- out the slightest regard for the fact that they have no rightto them. Steal- ing from the city is just as criminal as stealing frcm private persons, A little foresight and prudence in this matter will save the people some little money when the time for the next election arrives. TEN years imprisonment in Sing Sing prison is the sentence meted out to ‘Weeks, the New York embezzler, who was recently extradited from Central America. Weeks got away with $85,000 entrusted to his care. Mosher swal- lowed up the earnings of thousands of poor people and defrauded tho state of thousands of dollars. Mosher, however, was sentenced to five years imprison- ment, the first of which has been spent in luxurious living in the Douglas county jail, with excursions to the suburbs of Omaba for a variation. DIRECTOR GENERAL DAVIS received 80 many compliments upon his adminis- tration of the White City, acity varying in its daily population from a fow thou- sand inhabitants up to 700,000, that the people of Chicago are thinking of pro- moting him to the executive office of their city government. Mr. Davis would undoubtedly be an improvement upon the late Mayor Harrison and has the furthor advantago of being a stanch republican—a feature of no little moment now that republicans are again dominant in Ciricago politics, ON THE day before election John L. Webster declared he had ntended to vote for Mercer, but fearing that voting for Mercer would not defeat Bewis he proposed 10 cast his vote for Bedford. And yet John L. wants another republi- can paper started in Omaba that will swing the lash over the head of every republican who revolts against railroad- isw and bocdlerism. By all means let the Mosherite gang start a papor of their own with what boodle theve is left from the wreck of the Capital National and the profits of the penitentiary contract. WaiLe Mrs. Lease and the woman suffrage cohorts are tramping around from oue stump to another trying to persuade the people that political salya- tion lies in conferring the franchise on women, Miss Clara Barton and her as- sociates of the Red Cross scciety are netively engaged in relieving the dis- tress caused by the great Atlantic storms on the Sea islands off North Carolina. The difference in the methods employed by these two sets of wonen to regenerate mankind requires no com- ment. There is ample field for women's work outside of the political whirlpool. MORE ABOUT COMPULSORY RELISK Some railroad attorney or section boss protending to speak for himself and 175 other B, & M. railway employes at Al- liance, Neb,, makes remonstrance throngh the World- Herald against the indignity offered to these employes by THE BEE in discussing their relations to ‘lington Volunteor Relief association, We read in the bible that inen who volunteored intsslavery hal their ears pierced as o sign of warni nd praach. If this was done in our day to every man who volunts mes a politic f and seeks promotion in the service of a railrond company by eringing and crouching ab tho foet of his masters, there would be a heavy domand for gim- lets and eavlaps. soll-respecting railrond employe can take excoption to what THE BEE has said concerning the imposition practised upon them by the so-called voluntary relief association. The remonstrant at Alliance works himself into a great passion because we have seen fit to ask railway employes to emancipate themselves from poli cal thralldom and protect themselves against imposition. The assertion that the members of the Burlington Volun- tary Relicf association have all been enrolled cn their own application with- out any pressure from superintendents and bosses is flatly contradicted by the following letter, which was received at this office eleetion day Haverock, Neb., Nov. 6. Tue Bey "o the Editor of Isaw an article in Tur SUNDAY BEg pertaining to the Burlington Voluntary Relief. 1 would like to inform you that ever since the new shops started up here it has become a compulsory relief. The way they work it is when they hire a new man they wive him work under the express condition that he join the Burlington relief, and are plain in teiling him that he must join it or not go to work. 1, together with 40 per cent of the men working in the shop here, am de- lighted with the article referred to, and we hope you will investizate further and expose one of the most abominable frauds ever per- petrated on working men, SHOPMAN. Now, who tells the truth about this matter and who is trying to curry favor with the company officers? Does it stand to reason that men who are obliged to sign away their own claims for injurie: stained and the rights of their families in case they are killed in the service of the company would feel offended at the exposure which THE Bee Nas made? Have men grown so cowardly and base that they will kiss the rod that smites them? RY IN 10WWA. The signal victory of the republican party in Towa indicates that besides - the popular dissatisfaction with the condi- tions and outlook under democratic con- trol at Washington many republicans who in the past four vearss wandered away from the party have veturned to it. Of such the majority, perhaps, were alienated by the mistaken course of the republicans regarding prohibition, while others were led to affiliate with the new party from a feeling that possibly in that way they might find relief from some of the bur- dens that were oppressing them. Tho republican party having pledged itself to throw off the prohibition incubus and to enact liquor legislation that can be enforced, many of those who left it on account of its devotion to a false policy have returned, while evidently some of those who expeeted to reach a political millenium through the principles of the third party have also come back to the republican fold. All such are likely to remain there if the party will now faith- fully keep its pledges. With the legislative and executive departments of the government in the control of the republicans they can have no excuse for not flfilling the pledges made to the peo- ple. The most important of these re- lates to prohibition. That policy should be abandoned as soon as the legislature can repeal the prohibitory law, and there should be substituted for it a judi- clously framed system of high license and local option. Upon this question there need be no time wasted in dis- cussion. The weight of argument is allon one side. Prohibition is a failure not only in Towa, but everywhere. Except in communities where public sentiment is practically unanimous against the sale of liquors prohibition does not prohibit, and all such communities could just as effect- ively exclude liquor selling under a local option law. Prohibition creates the surreptitious joint and the boot- legger, who thrive by dispensing the cheapest and vilest liquors. It encour- ages defiance and disrespect of law. High license, it has been demonstrated wherever it is in practice, restrains and regulates the liquor traffic, and to this extezt is in the interest of temperance. erybody who is pot blinded by prej- udice must see that the regulated saloon that is at all times under police surveillance is far less dangerous to society than the outlawed joint. The republicans of Towa are to be con- gratulated on thelr decisive vietory, T'heir defeat of the man whom the dem- oerats bolieved to be invincible wsas in- deed a signal triumph. If the party will now keep faith with the people, lowa, vestored to the column of repub- lican states, will retain hor place there for years to com EXPEDLE THE CANVASK, Among the reforms that the coming legislature will be called on to make in our election laws will be the introduction of patent counting boxes and methods of counting that now prevail in New York and other large cities of the east. In New York city, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Boston aid other large castern cities there are duplicate ballot boxes 8o that they can be changed every hour and the count preceeds during the day so that the precinct canvass is complete within an hour after the polls elos Since the introduction of ballot counting machines the work of counting is finished when the last vote as been cast. Instead of marking s ballot the vcter touches a buttcn upen which is printed the name of the ndidate whom he desites to support. Ev ry time a buttcn is touched \hu_ count preeeeds by a self-acting register, juet thesameas the patent cash vegisiors now in use in a great many stores and public resorts. Instead of dragging ulong all night and balf of the next day, as is done in many precincts in [ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOV this city at every election, the whole count is finished and the returns certi- fied toby 7 p. m. on election evening and the result of the voting is given out at the city hall and court house. In this city and at Lincoln as well the clumsy and unsatisfactory primitive methods still prevail, and complote re- turns are impossible to obtain until after the official canvass. Andhere wo strike the old stage coach system. Ovr laws relative to the canvass of clection re- turns are the same today that thoy were thirty years ago, boforo we had a mile of railroad in the state. Inall the states east of the Missouri the official canvass is begun the davafter the election and must be completed within forty-eight hours. In this state six days are ellowed bo- tween the election and the official can- vass for state and county offices, and the canvass of city officos takes place on the Monday following olection. The can- vass could and shouid be comploted within forty-eight hours after the elec tion. There is no good reason why very ballot box should not be returned within twelve hours after the polls close. In any event the canvass should be begun the day after election and con- tinued until the last ballot box is in. In every county but ours the canvass is begun on Thursday following the elec- tion, and there is no valid reason why the same should not be done in Douglas county. 1t takes fully two days to com- pleto the county canvass, and oven if some precincts are behind one day they would all be in before the canvass is completed. Heretoforo the county can- vass has been held hack until Saturday. but we hope Mr. Sackett will select h board of canvassers at once and pro- coed 80 as to completo the canvass by Saturday night. While we cannot hope to change the mothods of stage coach days until we shall have revised our statutes there is no good reason why we should not expedite the official canvass as much as possible. THE RESULT IN NEW YORK. Corrupt machine politics received a rebuke in New York which cannot fail to have a salutary effect in that state and which furnishes a lesson that ought to have a wholesome influence where. [or several years the unserupu- lous course of the democracy of the Em- pire state under the leadership of David B. Hill, Edward Murphy, Boss Croker of Tammany and Boss McLaughlin of Brooklyn has been a reproach to the commonwealth. There was no corrup- tion or rascality too great to be prac- ticed by these men in order to carry out their purposes. When Hill had made up his mind to go to the United States senate he laid his plans to steal the state senate. For this purpose he found a willing and pliant tool in Judge Maynard. Hill was elected to the national senate, and when Flower was chosen governor he re- warded Maynard for his rascality, at the instigation of Hill, by appointing him to a vaca in the court of appeals, the highest judicial tribunal of the state. This was bad enough, but the machine wanted to retain on the bench 50 useful a tool as Maynard had proved nself to be and it placed his name be- fore the people as a candidate for justice of the court of appeals. All the influence of Hill and his henchmen and all the power of Tammany and the Brooklyn ring were arrayed on the de of this corrupt judge, but the ver- dict of the people overwhelmingly de- clared that he was unfit for judicial office and he will retire to-private life with an indelible stain upon his record. The rebuke of the corrupt machine did not stop with this. The next legisla- ture of- New York will be republican, and although with a demoecratic gov- ernor it may not be able to accomplish much for the general good, it can, at least, show a purpose in the divection of legislative reforms that may create a sentiment which will restore the state to republican control next year and thus puve the way for republican success there in 1896. But at any rate there is reason why good citizens everywhere should feol gratitied with the result of last Tu day's election in the Empire state. It has demonstrated that there is a limit beyond which the people will not sub- mit to the cqrrupr and venal practices of political leaders, in this case the limit being the defiant attempt to foist upon the judiciary by the popular vote a man who had prostituted a judicial trust to the service of the machine, It has shown that when the people are made to clearly see a serious danger to their most precious interests as a conse- quence of the rascally machinations of the politicians, they can always be de- pended upon to protect themselves. The democratic machine in New York has received a telling blow, from which there is reason to hope it will not re- cover. else- PETTIGREW AND THE PRESS, Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota has a grievance. We khow of its oxist- ence because he has had himself inter- viewed in a 'Chicago paper. His grievance is against the press, or more purticularly againsi the men who own and control the press, and he takes par- ticular pains to make use of the press to hold his grievance up for public insy tion and sympathy. All this arises from the recent contest over the repeal bill in the senate in which Senator Pettigrow unfortunately found himself adhering to the losing side. Instead, however, of tuking his defeat with at least external good grace, the senator is still kicking at the traces while imagining that the vepeal is not approved by the groat ma- jovity of the people. The meritorions service rendered by the press of the country in the cause of a sound and stable currenecy seems to rankle in his breast. The complaint of Senator Pettigre is not directed against newspapor ¢ porters. They have always*treated him fuivly and honorably. They are all right as a general rule and only resort to misrepresentation when they are in- strucied to follow out the orders of the newspaper proprietors. Their perver- sicn of the news is done, in his opinion, werely because they are ¢ mpelled to back up a policy already marked out for them in advancer “The corrupt men of the press are the newspaper pio- prietors,” them is to be traced all EMBER 10, 1893. the unfairnm dishonest treatmont that | has been gomplained of by the free sil- ver advocates and all the “vile abuse” and “scandifous denunciation” that has been heaped wipon the congressmen who opposed unconditional repeal. Senator Péttigrew evidently looks the fmct that the proprietor or editor who eéintrols the policy of a nows- paper has' bqual control over the re- porters and the news columns, 1 he is | inclined to mako misrepresentations of fact, he is confined to no one page of his newspaper, ' hut has the whoie sheet at his comimand. Unfairness would not, as Senator Pettigrew maintains, stop in the editorial columns, and his confession that the news is accurately given dis- proves his accusation of dishonest inten- tions on the partof the proprietors. The very fact that his own interview involy- ing such ridiculons charges is properly reported and given space in one of Chicago'sgreatdailies, one that was fore- most in huttle for repeal,demonstrates by itsell the groundiessness of the charges, A newspaper may some times be mis- taken in its logie, it may sometimes base its arguments upon premises that are afterwards found to have been untrue, but it is seldom intentionally employed to advance interests which its proprietor does not honestly beliove to be the best for the people. Its influenco depends not only upon the soundness of its utterances, but also upon the in- tegrity of its beliefs, The press has favored repeal in the recent silver con- troversy because it believed, with the great majority of the people, that repeal was necessary to the continuance of a sound curren Charges of a senator disgruntled by defeat cannot undermine the influence of the press, nor can they cast reflections upon the honesty of its convietions, PEOPLE who live at this distance from Now York can have, as a rule, but a vague conception of the extent of the ropublican gains in that state last Tues- day. The republicans this year elect their entire state ticket and also regain control of the legislature. Take into consideration the fact that it is twelve years sines the republicans elected an entire state ticket and ten years since any republican candidate for a state office proved successful, and a better appreciation of the present situation may be had. The last time that the republicans secured a state office was in 1883, when Maynard was defeated for secretary of state by 18,000 plurality. The same Maynard is defeated this year in his contest for a place on the court of appeals by pearly 90,000 plurality. This is unprecedented in the history of New York state politics. over NOW THAT tne election excitement is over it may not be out of order to in- quire what has become of the revised city electricidn ordinance, and why we cannot have all the dead telegraph wires that now encumber the poles on our principal thoroughfares taken down and all the telegraph lines hung on one set of poles. That would relieve us of hun- dreds of unsightly poles that now ob- struct the “stre¢ts and condanger the lives of our firemen every time we have a big conflagration. imdianapslis Journal. When Secretary Bayard, in his froe trade speech to the ¢ spoke of the war of 1812 the United States 3ritain, ho From 1561 to 1865 Great nd was compelled Senator Allen's Boun St. Paul Glob Senator Allen of Neb she lines will be drawn in the next congres- sional election on” the silver question, aud that as a result there will be a majo free silver men in the nexvcong Allen s evidently possessed of the fu is capable of removing mountains, are no indications visible to the ey rest of mankind that the future contain: such prospect. There will be 10 more s legislation in cougress for a decade, at lewst, The issue is alrcady dead beyond hope of resurrection. o ——— Rank Wastef Philadelyhia Ttecord. Explorations in the depths of the capitol have revealed the fact that more than 1,000,- 000 books, published at government expense, ostensibly for the benefit of the people, arc stored there, ap ntly awafting the con ing of doomsday. This “sholy of the books, 1f not precisely the one decreed at the polls a year ago, is nevertheless an instructive one, and it should result in the imposition of some check on & system of bookmaking and bookkeeping, which, as it has been carriea on, has been a holly unjustitiable form of ofticial wastefulness, e The Investment Outiook, springfield (Mass ) Republican, But of one thing we may rest assured. Europe will have to bear the brunt of any trouble which may ensue from this quarter. If the skittish state of foreign finunces de- ters foreign investments hero, then wo shall lose only 50 mucn of an addition to our for- eign debt and the help it would give toward reviving activity in the United States. But with this country now offering to capitalists abroad the safest and most profitable place in the world for the investment of their money. it will be strange if our securitics wmavkets do not immediately begin to ceive substantial support from that part of the globe. i Two Signifioant Lrinmphs, Kansas City star, The defeat of Maynard and the el ion. of Gury shows that the heart and conscience of Ame ve yebsound. Of the signs of moral und social deeay which have causea anxiety for the last few years, none has been more grave than the disposition mani- fest in some (qUArLers to lower and debase the standard of the judiciary; to elect poli- ticians of bad character or ignorant and {cious demagogues to the bench, the latter pledgea to wrench and distort the statutes in the intercst of the faction that elected them. 1t is now seen thut this form of cor- rupti tompordky. The people cannot adure for long the spectacle of a degraded ad poliuted judiciary. There ‘s an instinet strouger than auy Party or machine which demands, when the test is made, that the unworthy, corrupt, &od ignoraut judge shull step down and thal the just judge shall re- main in his nigh place. This rezard for justice and its real administrators, which in the long run always asserts itself, is one of the grealest encourbgements to believe in the capacity of thi people for self-govern- ment. | grants we send down o them | and in the indolent, half-apologetic manner ! though if the teapot be no THE HONDUR, SALUTE. Chicago Post: We may Hondurians for their contemps for the Unitea States, They sec us in the paltry cross-roads politicans and defaulting emi- s ministors not blame the 1n which wo go about righting the wrongs of our injured citizons abr But a shell crashing into the apala or & body s ta of La Libertad would end all that, once for all time. Minneapolis Journal: Ministor Baker 1 having an interesting time of it. Doubtless the fact that his y a8 been exposed to Hondurian shots wi 1 the government to | insist that the government of Honduras will make reparation. The fact thata Hondurian 0 wis on the ship whose custody his nment would be justified in demanding, make any differenco. It was an an vessel, the United States minister was on board and the shots were wantonly fived. Chicago Tribune: The Honduras affair 1s hardly more than a tempest in a teapot, t more careful in be knocked into smither- sunt ot a runaway Hondu- rian revel, Policarpo Bonilla, who had the city toretuen from gua on the Mail steamer Costa a, & Hondu ican flag which It can be forgiven to the Hondureans that they wanted to get their hands upon Policarpo, but when the captain of the steamer refuscd to give him up they sheuld have been more carcful where they fired. As a United States vessel that fires ‘back has been ordered 1o Ama pala, it is likely that Hond quickly will make reparation. Meanwhilo the Costa Rica should got rid of Policarpo, who is a general nuisance, as soon as possible, Pt A PEOPLE AND THINGS. The weather is fairly generous to theshorn democracy “Tho smoke of battle” 151 from the smoke of the campaign cig An immediate and liberal distribution of federal pie seems necessary to avert star tion. ‘The marked thinness of corn fall adds to the widespreaa gloominess of the democratic sivuation. Itis not too late to suggest to the van- quished that there are several copious va- cancies m the kingdom of Lobengula, It would have saved a large amount of heartache and fruitless expense 1f the re- publicans wero permitted to take office with- out the annoyance of an election. Owing to the dificulty of adjusting expec- tations to results the issue of a second lection of “Editorials that Won," by the Chicago Herald, is indefinitely postponed. The saddest spectacle amid the wreek ot political matter is the turning down of pop- ulism in Colorado. There is in the returns suffivient provocation for a bloody bridle re- vival, In the in t of truth and for the infor- mation of the St. Louis Republic it should be stated that Congressman Bryan did not address the populist rally in Omaha as ad- vertised. Barbers in the senate barber's shop are notallowed to talk to senatorial customers unless the lutter speak first. What's tne matter with making th natorial courtesy applicable to all barber shops? Gorham Abbott of Winsted, Conn., was made deaf and dumb thirty years ago by an attack of scarlet fover, and spoke no word since uutil a woek ago, when he began to utter sounds and is now thovght likely to fully recover his powers of speech. Dr. Cyrus Edson has been giving no_little attention to the decreasing birth rate in the United States. In Massachusetts, he VS, the rate nas fallen off from 25.61 per 1,000 in 1860 to 19.22 in 1800. He looks for the ex- planation in the physical deficiencies of an over-educated American womanhood. Miss Alice Fletcher, the ethnologist who has been making a study of the Omahas and other Indian tribes, drew a salaryof $8a duy as a special agent of the indian bureau This is a rate of remuneration rarely given by the government to persons who are of no primary value in a political struggle. Outside of D. F. Murphy, stenographer of the United States senate, J. M. W. Yerrin- ton, who recently died in Washington, was probably the best known stenographer in ihe country. He took to stenography in 1858, though he was bred to the printer’s trade, his father being the printer of Ga Liberator. The first speech he ever sone by Wendell Ihillips, ana for him thereafter. Phillips ked that but for the intelligence and skill of Yerrinton much of the smooth- ness and grace of his reported speeches would be lost. B COMIC COGITATION the future it mn eens. All on_a flying. joyous relief husks this Lowell Courier: Sometinies when a man airs his views he raises a breeze. Detroit Journal: Times are better. You can askaman to lend you a dollar now without ng run in. Itisa great day for tho small boy an whistle for himself and wear his Siftings Yonkers Statesman: band who refu: obliged to mind t There is many a_ hus- 's to mind his wife, but is Detroit vour husbu Bilge—It depends on the gins—Wigwag is his Tus— bolts burg vory carefully ever Muggins—Ye: his food. Indianapolts Blieve I'll take a hath Weary Watkins—Wha Hungry Hig:ins-Got to. The lust brake- man thit ketehed me stonlin’ o rido made mo pay 40 cents for excess baggage. Hungry Higgins— oxt chance I git. sournal: 1t you don't believo that any ads ndveriisoments, just ask the man has had the birth of twins an- nounced in the local paper how many times aring the noxt week ho had to stop to be )ng:ululxun-(l. omerville Siftings: Talking about poultry exhibitions, what's the matier with a woman throwing stones at a hen? Washington Star: “Whatebbah yoh does," sald Unclo Eben to his eldest boy, “donn be suhcastic man dat keeps allus' tryin’ ter shoot Foily ez she filos run'er heap o' resk ob Dbein’ hurt by do Kick ob his own gu WIDESPIEAD WOE. Indianapotis Journal, The world 1s small and circumscribed, And ho will find it so Who wanders from his fireside, To teavel to aud fro. Go as ho will, or how ho will, or dovs it matter where, 1o's sure Lo meet some joyous Juy, A-tolling of the ful Ll A4 80NG UF NIGNS, Ceatury Magazine. I found i pis Bigns alr 50 12 fortune favors mo toduy, "This one's wuth beliovin® O'er my shoulder glows the moon— Signs alr 50 docelvin'— 1€ 1 foed from Prospor's spoon, This one's wuth believin’ My lovo found i cloyor loaf— Signs alr so do 1 sho nev: “This one’ o vin' 5 10 K1 wuth boeliovis bove my door— Thls one's wuth 1 With Kate I met threo | Sigus air so deceiv This one’s wuth belibvin Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE WARM TIMES PREDICTED Republicans Will Stand on the MoKinley Bill and Ficht Tariff Reform MICHIG'N E’DER ON THE 13SUE Representative arrows Declares that the Party Will Forco the Democrats to Contend Vigoronsly for All WASHINOTON Brneav o Tug Ber 518 FountrexTi S WAsHINGTO! ‘“Thero will be no minority tarift biil pre sented for the purpose of antagonizing the measuro which will be by Chairman Wilson," Burrows of Michigan, a republican member | of nd means comimittee, just be- fore leaving the city to eugage 1 the Ohio paien. shall stand firm upon the McKinley law. 1t is good enough for us. It has been tried and has given the country the greatost era of prosperity it has ove Joyed. 1t is possiblo that had we re-elected our president last year and sccured both branches of congress we would have slightly amended the law in o few particu measure of such widespread importanc With 80 many technical features can be made perfect upon first effort. But in the coming tariff struggle the republicans will sumply oppose the democratic taviff bill, lea ing them upon tho record they have made." Will the republicans fight the details of the Wilson bill when it comes before the house?" “Uertainly,” replied the Michigan leader. *Wo shail point out some of the benefits the country has derived under the existing schedules as the items in them_come up, and vill point out the viciousness of the proposi- tions in the new measuve, 1 no doubt the fur will fly in many places, and there will bo barrels of good campatgn material in the debate. We will resist the bill as firmly as possible, and the republicans in thoe ser- ate will_do the same thing; but with the power which is vested in the house comumit teo on rules © to cloture, placed in the hands of the senate committed on rules, a final vote will be reached in the scnate and the bill will bo passed. We are coustantly assured by the ¢ ic members of the ways and means committee, however, that they will not reporta revolutionary meas- ure,” ported next month said Representative the ways on Springer's Chairman Springer of the house teo on banking and currency was flying ¥ today like the button on a collecting information on which heiatends to prepare a general currenc asure, to be laid befors his committee at eting next month, t progreased suMiciently far with the bill,” said Mr. Springer to T B correspondent, “to enable me to e lighten the public upon what_is in store upon the currency question. I regard the bill under preparation as the most important measure that will come before this congress. My idea 1s to have the committee on bank- ing and currency prepare a measure which will cover the entire currency question ; th: will treat the state bank and the nation nnco Measure commit- bank issues ana provide for & uniform pap money, all of which wilt be good where under all conditions—a bill whicl will determine all of the problems affecting the currency question.” Mr. Springer says he would be glad to re- ceive suggestions upon the currency ques- tion from financiers and bankers and that he i wed until congress convenes with of collating information upon which it is proposed to frame the commit- tee's measure. Why the Senators Were Alrald. When the fact is considered that tho legislatures which are elected next Novem- ber will choose thirty United States seuators there is little surprise that there v 0 much straddling and evasion and indefinite- ness upon the silver question in the upper branch of congress. The senators terms expire March wna who will be up for re-clection before’ the legis chosen at the geueral elections next ber are as follows: Berry (dem.), Ar Butler (dem, South Carolina; (dem.), Louisiana; Camden (dem,), Virginia; Carey (rep.), Wyoming; Chandler (rep.), New Hampshir k3 (dem.), “Texas; Colquitt (dem.), Georgia; Cullom (vep.), Illinois; Dixon (rep.), Island; Dolph' (rep.), Oregon; (rep.),” Maine; Harris (dem.), Tennessee; Higgins (rep.). Deleware; Hoar (re Massachusetts; Hunton (dem.), Virginia} Lind! (dem.), Kentucky; ~Manderson (rep.). 0 (dem.), I MeMil Michigan; McPherson (dem.), N ; Morgan ‘(dem.), Ala- (rep.), South Dakota; ep.). Montana; Ransom (dem.) North Car shoup _(rep.), Idaho; Wal' thall (dem.), Mississippi; Washburn (ren.), Minnesotu; Wilson (rep.), lowa; Wolcott (rep.), Colorado. Hud Hoped to Evade the Issue. a severe test of the moral and politi- ge of these senators when they led upon to a themselves di- in favor of or against unconditional repeal when the sitver bill was placed upon its passage. Many of them had advocated a comvromise peculiar to their own no- tions, and had hoped to evade the direct BRO issue. [t 18 acknowladeed that silver will bo a prime factor in the congressional cam- paigL of next year, and it was &t times = and thei painful 10 seo senators in closely divided upon the silver issuo ne the main question during all o! recont stengs o senate, o easier for th really opposed uncondi tional repes favored cither a compro- mise or the leaving of the silver question where 1t was to support the measure when they knew that it would have a laree ma Jority. Men 1n congress always feel better 10 SUPPOTting a measire inst their pro test il they know that it is to become law by a gooaly majority How Sanntors fedge. that this fact gave the unconditional repeal bill a half-dozen or more votes than 1t would have r ived ad there been any doubt as to its recelving a majority Several of the conditional repoal There is no don enators who voted for un live already announced that if, as alrcady r 1. Chairman Voor hees introduces or supports o froe sily age bill they will also support it. They this aunotncement first, to set them- selves right with their free silver constit ueney, and secondly, beca they knov' thut such support can the finances of the country no harm, tho bill would be prompily votoed by the president should it #ot through both brauches of congress. The Congressional ] d will figure spicuously in the ean next yoar tho p dings of thirty legislatures a year from this winter, olities 1 the Old Dominton, Representatives Hainer and Meiklejohn, who went to Richmond on Mouday to wits ness the manipulation by which election frauds are committed in Virginia and tho publican voter disfranchised, have re- turned to Washington. They wero agtounded by the intimidation of the colored s, whicheis carried on there by wholesalo with* out the least concealment of purpose excuse. Both of tho Nebraska statesmen will have something to say on the subject later. Mr. Hunor is a prominent menber of the hoise committ setion of presi dentand vice presidentand the first time there is debate upon o proposition from that body he will have an opportunity to relato to the house wi.at e saw in tho black wards of the OId Dominion's capital, May Ay ta Pani Printer. Tt is expectod that within the next weelk tho president wil appointa publie printer., 1t is known that he has for some weeks had in mind Thomas I, Benedict of New Yor who was public printer during Mr. Cleve: land’s first term and who mado o satisfac- tory officer. 1t is barely possible, although not probable, that the resuli of the elections of T ¢ lead the president to chango his plans about who shall i1l the office. M. Benedict s a warm personal friend of the prosiaent. The present incumbent of the oftice, Mr. Palmer of Illinois. has during the past six months been dismissing republicans by wholesale and appointing democrats and for that reason a feeline has gained e in Washington that hic expeets to be retained in the ofic atloman who has re- cently talk ident says that an early change is contemplated. Nebraskn Cadetship Examinaton, On December 15t 9 o'clock a petitive e for the West Point cadetship w held at the State univer- sity in Lincoln under the direction of Cha cellor Canfield, assisted by Profs. Corbett nd Skinner. Applicants must be boua fido idents of the Fourth congressional di sed between 17 and 22 sound in every respect, fair sizod and possessing a robust constitution. The mental qualifications required are suc as would entitlo the & t to a fivst grade teacher's certific ch applhicant must bring with him a certificate from some rezular reputable practitioner attesting his phy quahfications, This examiuation will be s ) rlis id the best and most desirable applicants will win. Western Ponstons, Pension issue of Octobor Nebraska : Original—Thompson Westrope, Hockville, = Frontier. Restoration and supplements John Rogers, deceased, Bellwood, Butler. Increase—Allen Overman, Western, h Original _widows, ete.—Reissue. Mary k. Bowen, Holdrege, Phelps; Julia Rogers, Bellwood, Butler. Orig m., & com- years, phy Edward Siberts, Win- field, ssuo—desse Tharp, Cre ton, Union. Original widows, cte.—Ann I, Creston. Union; Leonard Lincoln, halitown. Marsh Pension issue of October Original - James H Hamilton Nebraska: O'Neill, Holt; illips Station, Vance in B. Starr, Wader Henning, Neola, Pot Sibben, Red € .y oranklin . Nolton, Popejoy, Additioual —James tays, Diff, Restoration—Charles D, Pop- ham, Parnell, lowa. Increase—Gardner Dodge, New ton, Jaspe South D; Ori Yankton, Yankton; William ' dreau, Moo arles K. Wi City, Lawrence. Or Widows, J. Rathbun, Fuhy 3 M. Phelps (mother), Alexandria, I Mexi ar survivor, increase—George C. Watson, soldiers home, Fall Riv Priy 8. H — - An Objoct Lesson. Chicago Tribune, on of the elections in the northern states is that it will nov be safe for the democrats to fool with the tariff now that the voters are beginning to see what the andonment of protection means. Tllinois would uot endorse today the tariff al The great Largest Manufacturars anl Ryballaes of Clothinz ln tho Worll. Pay your bets. Didn't bet much money on it, of course you didn’t. But you did bet a hat — pay your bets with one of our hats—better hats for the samse Now that the struggle's over You will have to pay your bets, And you're looking for a hatter That will soften your rezrats. ‘We assure you that the winner ‘Will be proud to wear a tils From out our hat department, ‘Where we have the latest style. store, but you can. BROWNING, Slore npen every evening till 6.4) PO aturduy viil 16, 18 It is a common impression among the uninformed that a man can't buy a good hat outside a hat Now pay your bets. KING & CO., W. Cor. 16t2 a2l Douglas Sts