Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 17, 1893, Page 4

AR ORI SRS S S A .4t FATTR BT 4 THE OMAHA DAILY BE DAILY BEE. THE ROSEWATER, Editor. ERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, 1y Pee (without Sunday) One Yea and Sunday, One Year. gt it e @ Moriths 5 e " kely Bew, One Year OFFICES, 1iding N nnd Twenty-sixth streets O Cliamber of Commeree h i Fooms 13, 11 and 15, Tribune bullding Washington, 513 Fourteenth CORRESPONDE All_commiumieations relating 10 nows torial matter shonid b k To the [l idress by PUBLISHING COMPANY e ny, does solemnly ww culation of THE DALY BE for ¢ eniber 11, 1803, was as follows nEr Publish- r that the e He 3 bed In my nber, TR y Public, —_—m Average Oircalation for October, 31 m—————————— HAWAILI promises to furnish congress with a topic for almost endless debate. now warship Columbia s a record almost as fast as Governor Both have developed ex- traordinary running powers. No GAS company has ever asked Omaha for a fifty-yoar franchise up to this time. Why should such afranchise be granted at the present moment? EVEN the most severe critics of the president’s Hawaiian policy give him vredit for the shrewdness displayed in withholding it from the public until After the late clection. A PRINCIPAL in an lowa High school ohjects to having his pupils participate in ovening parties. This is simply awful. Better inaugurate night school nessions and thus prevent a recurrence Of this terrible calamity. THE practice of county boards in South Dakota and western Towa in deporting pauperized people to Omaha to be fed and clothed at the expense of the tax- payers should be made unpopular. Let very tub stand upon its own bottom. THE startling increase in the infamous orime of train robbery demands more stringent laws for the protection of the fnland commerce of the country. Train vobbing is practically a species of piracy, and there are many good rea- wons for a federal law covering the emergency, TF PRESIDENT the Hawalian episodo requires an am- nesty for the members of the provisional government it must also require an am- nesty for the officers of the United States who are said to have assisted in the revolution. All parties in the vlot should bo regarded as equally culpable. THE exoneration of Captain John G. Bourke from the charges brought against him in connection with his con- duct of the campaign against the Mexi- can bandit Garza is welcome news to all his many friends in this v never fora moment gave the slightest credence to the accusations made against him MR. TRON CHEEK BACHELOR an- nounces his willingness to sacrifice his own private interests to the public wel- fare by accepting the expected vacancy in the city council should it be offerea to him. It would be difficult to fAind any- thing in the line of public office that Bachelor would not accept if he got within reaching distance of it. THE Chicago people are making no mistake in vigorously opposing the in- troduction of the dangerous trolley system with its unsightly wires and poles. Recent advancement in elec- trical science has made it possible to do axyay with this feature of rapid transit, and Chicago is in a position to reap the advantages of rew improvements. THE charitable orgauizations of the city are preparing for the winter's cam- paign. The men and women engaged in this laudable work should receive the encouragement of all well-to-do people of this city. They have succeeded here- tofore because their distributions of alms have been confined to cases of actual distress—worthy objects of charity. THE Philadelphin Press says that it would not have been at all strauge if Nebraska had elected the democratic ticket on Tuesday a week. That is just where the Press is wrong. The success of the democratic state ticket would bave been quite strange, So strangé,; indeed, that it would have been handed down to an astounded daemocratic pos- tority as a veritable miracle of ye olden times. TARIFF sion s likely to prove an elephant on the hanli of the ways and means committce of the present demo- cratic congress. Tt has been difficult enough to harmonize its own members upon an administration measure. Tne prospects of harmonizing all the demo- orats in congross upon that measure are becoming less and less bright. Over this the republicans may be permitted to smile, THE city and county official canvass bas cnly verified the figures published by THE BEE the day aftor election. But the work of the canvassing board is con- elusive in the eyes of contesting candi- dates. They now “‘know whero they ave at.” One or two of them talk of contest- M\MMWO' the cfficial canvass- ing board, This is bound to prove futile - the past can be clied as precedents. A candidate always stands better the community when be takes wediciue like & waa. ELAND'S view of | A TARIFT BILL NEXT WEEK. The report from Washington is that the democratic members of the ways and means committes hope to be able to lay the new tariff bill before the public about the close of next week. It appears that therc is a great pressure upon the committee, from the interests affected by the tarff, for an announcement of the changes that it is proposed to make, and the committee is disposed to accommo- date this desire. It is quite possible, however, that it will not be able to do s0as soon as promised, owing to tbe division among democrats regarding what shall be done with coal, iron ore and some other article Ala- bama and West Virg! are most determined in their opposi- tion to the proposal to put coal and iron ore on the free list, the Texad repre- sentatives have announced that they will fight free wool and they will have democtatie aid from other wool-growing states, the democrats from Michigan are expected to oppose free salt, and a united opposition to free lumber is looked for from the democrats of the lumber states. This condition of affairs with respect to the tariff schedules does not look favorable for harmonious action at an early day, unless some sort of compro- mise can be agreed upon, and this is probably what is expected. It is to be remembered, also, that the dem- ocrats are divided on the ques- tion of raising more revenus by increasing the internal tax on spirits, beer and tobacco. The south doesn't want tobacco and spirits taxed any higher than at present, and it is said that as to tobucco it has been prac- tically settled to leave the tax as it is. The whisky tax is likely to be increased, perhaps to double the amount at first proposed. The brewers have protested vigorously against increasing the tax on beer, and as they represent a very con- siderable vote the committee will prob- ably leave the beer tax untouched. Then there is the division on the ques- tion of an income tax. This means of raising revenue has the practically unanimou port of the southern mem- be but so far I than half a dozen northern democrats have indicated their willingness to favor legislution for an income tax. If the advocates of this tax can offer no better arguments for it than those presented by Mr. Bryan they ave not likely to make many converts to their cause. It is not at all probable that a proposition to impose an income tax could pass either house of congress, even if it did not rea incomes below the sulary of congressmen, The repub- licans will oppose solidly legislation of this kind, regavdless of the example of England and Prussia, cited by Bryan to show the merits of an income tax, and it is not to be doubted that the number of democrats who will oppose it, united with the republicans, will give sufficient strength to defeat 1t. As the situa- tion now appears the probability is that the only intérnal rev nue tax that will be increased is the tax on whisky and that there will be no new means adopted for raising revenue from internal taxation. In that event most of the propositions for putting certain articles on the free list will have to be abandoned ova duty placed on sugars now free, and possibly on ten and coffec, Tt is apparent that the ways and means committee has a very large and perplexing jobon hand, due largely, of course, to the fact that the -party is di- vided as toalmost every schedule. All democrats will say that they ave in favor of tariff reform, but individ- ually they do mnot want to apply it where it will interfere with the interests of their constitu- ents, The democratic coal and ivon producers of Alahama and the demo- atic wool growers of Texas, for exam- ple, are tarifl reformers until the policy is to be apphied to them. It is undoubt- edly a fact that the manufacturing in- terests of tho country are extremely anxious to be informed as to the extent to which the party in control of the gov- ernment intends to revise the tariff, and the committes on ways and means will do a great servico to those interests and to the country by giving the new tariff bill to the country as soon as possible. INEXC ABLE OASTE. Even if the ordinance granting the local gas company an extended franchise to operate within the city of Omaha for fifty years were & measure unguestion- able i itself, the inordinato haste with which it was rushed through the city council last Tuesday without one word's debate upon its merits cortainly war- rants the conclusion that its promoters were not willing 1o court the pub- licity of a free and intelligent dis- cussion. Introduced in early October, the original ordinance was promptly re- | forred to the appropriate committee and carefully seereted in the pockets of its chairman until it was flashed upon the council at the first mesting after elec- tion. Why it was withheld pending the canvass for the recent city election only those who have been active in securing its passage can tell. If brougnt out sooner it might possibly have had some effect upon the results in that contest. But if it could be held for six weeks unti! election day had passed and whilo the gas company was opoerating without a franchise it most assuredly could have beeu held for one week longer, Tho manner in which the charter pro- vision requiring the publication before its passage of auy ordinance granting a franchise was executod is equally indica- tive of inwentional haste. The charter provides that no such ordinance shall be passed until two weeks after it has been introduced and until after it has first been published in the official newspaper of the eity, The manifest purpose of the framers of that instru- ment in inserting this eclause was that the taxpayers should be ap- prised in time of the pendency of any projeet togrant awey valuable fran- chiso rights and should hiive ample op- portunity to examine the terms of the measure and t9 protest in cass they were subversive of the bost interests of the olty. The fifty-year gas franchise ordinunce was fivst given to tho public in the advertising columas of THi BEE on the very nigh before the ¢ommittee insisted upon its passuge by the council, Cave was taken to delay publicatipn as long as possible without actually vio- lating the letter of the charter. The whole proceeding savors of a bitof sharp practice to say the least. Ono other point deserves mention in connection with the insatiable eagerness of the council to pass this measure. When Councilman Munro asked that action be postponed for one week he was unable to secure the courtesy of a second, which is seldom refused a bona fide mo- tion made in any legislative body. He then moved that the council adjourn, but here, too, he failed to obtain a sec- ond. Not a singlecouncilman was ready to go home. Every one was willing to remain all night if necessary to assist in the passage of the ordinances on the clerk’s desk. But no sooner had the roll been called on the filty-year gas franchise ordinance, not five minutes later, than several of the members, who only a mo- ment before wore unwilling to adjourn, rushed for their hats and coats despite the warning of the presiding officer that there were still several ordinances tobe acted upon that evening. From all this it is fairly to be inferred that the fifty-vear gas franchise ordi- nance was railroaded through the coun- cil m accordance with a preconcerted arrangement among most of the men who voted for it. A measure giving away the uso of valuable privileges for %0 long a time as fifty years isof vital intgrest to every taxpayer in the com- munity. No city is justified in making such concessions without some adequate return from the favored corporation. The inexcusable haste of the council in passing this ordinance is not the mode of action caleulated to assure the people that they are getting a just considera- tion for the privileges demanded. RESPONSIBILITY UF BANK OFFICIALS. Every official of a national bank in the country ought to read the charge of Judge Belker of the federal court at Indianapolis to the grand jury regard- ing the responsibility of bank officials. Doubtless a majority of such officials are familiar with the requirements of the law, but it will not do these ary havm to read this judicial interpreta- tion of it, while those who do not know what the law requires will find in this charge valuable information. It may serve to remind some of them that they are almost daily violating some feature of the law. How many banks are therve, for instance, that uni- formly give accurate veports of their condition to the examiners, and yet failure to do this is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment. Again, how many banks conform strictly to the requirement that they shall not loan more than one-tenth the capital stock actually paid in? Yet any officer of such association, said Judge Belker, who knowingly or willfully loans a greater amount is guilty of a willful misapplication of the funds of such association. It is a criminal offense to induce persons to deposit in a bank known to be insolvent, and it is also a criminal offense to make a false state- ment in reports to the comptroller of the currency, or to any agent of the gov- ernment whose duty it is to examine into the affairs of these associations. ‘‘The officers of banks,” said Judge Belker, *‘occupy positions of great trust and re- sponsibility. The law justly charges them with the duty of careand dili- gence and it exacts from them unswerv- ing honesty and integrity.” It may be freely admitted that this is fully recognized by the great majority of national bankers, but that there is more or less disregard of the require- ments of the law will hardly be ques- tioned. The history of bank failures at- tests this. Nine-tenths of the failures of national banks could have been pre- vented had the law been strictly com- plied with, and that it was not was in most cases due to the carelessness of directors. Investigation has shown that in nearly every case of a bank failure the directors bad allowed too great privileges to the subordinate officers and had not maintained that constant and strict supervision which the law contemplates. Comptrollers of the cur- rency have recommended that the law be amended so0 &sto more fully define the duties of directors, and perhaps this ought tobe done, though if men have not sufficient interest in their own affairs to properly look after them it is questionable whether they can be in- duced to do so by legislation. A much more important amendment to the national banking law is the one that has been proposed to put a greater re- striction upon the privilege of bank officials to borrow from the banks with which they are connected. Experience has shown that the law ought to be amended in this respect and it is yery likely that it will be by the present con- gress. The official of a national bank who does not constantly realize his responsi- bility and is not at all times solicitous to honestly and faithfully observe it is not fitted for the position. This responsi- bility is not confined to looking after the profits of the business, but embraces also, a careful guardianship of the in- terests of depositors, and this is really the more important - part of it. The national banking system is undeniably the best this country has ever had. It is not olaimed to be a perfect system, but 8o far as the currency issued under it is concerned itis absolutely safe, while the record of losses to depositors is very far from being as bad as that under the system whieh it superseded. The law under which it exists is perfectly plain in its requirements and bank officials cannot have any excuse for not clearly understanding it. THE report of an alleged shortage in the account sof local officials in Fremont and Beatrice, following so closely upon a series of previvusly reported defalca- tions in this state, will not be welcome intelligence to the friends of gocd munieipal government. The frequency of defalcation of city and county treas- urers, not only in Nebraska, but in adjoining states, suggests, the necessity of providing new and more reliable nhecks upon the fiscal agents of the peo- ple. The most noticeable deficiency in the present system is the facility it afords a dishonest offi- elal who is inelined to. speculate with publie funds to carry on his opera- ) tions for an extended period of time with but little fed¢ of detection. Noth- ing would be fiorq productive of reform in this direction than a law requiring the publication of qharterly reports show- ing the exact condition of each fund, the location ef each and every deposit and the amount of ' outstanding obliga- tions. The publication of such reports in newspapers-of general circulation would do much t6 prevent improper use of public funds for the reason that no public treasuvet would dare to take the people into his confidence unless his methods were open to the keenest seruting. THE general | stiperintendent of the railway mail service, who has been con- nected with it almost since its organiza- tion, makes some recommendations in his annual report which, although not new, deserve the serious attention of congress. One of these is that some pro- vision be made for the families of postal clerks killed in railway accidents. The work of these faithful servants of the government is more perilous than that of any other class of government em- ployes. According to the last report of the postmaster genoral. during the preceding four years thirvty-two were killed in accidents, 264 seri- ously injured and 280 slightly injured, a total of 585 casualties. This shows the perilous character of the ser- vice, and it would seem to bo only just that a great and wealthy government should make reasonable provision for the families of these public servants who meet death at the post of duty. Another recommendation is that the salaries of postal clerks be increased. The work of this seryice is arduous and requires more than ordinary intelligenco and the closest application. It ought to be well paid for, and the salaries are not now as liberal as they should be. The efficiency of the railway mail service was very much improved under the lust administration by a generous policy for the encouragement of care and fidelity in the work. Nothing would so surely promote these conditions as salarvies that would be a just return for the labor per- formed. THE unfortunate tendency of the pres- ent administration to entangle itself with the great corporation interests of the country was given a significant em- phasis in the appointment of Judge Hornblower to the vacant position on the supreme bench. The appointment scems to have been a worthy one in every respect but one. Judge Horn- blower was a member of alegal firm that has been associated in the closest rela- tions with some of the greatest railroad corporations in the country. His nomi- nation was left unconfirmed by the sen- ate, and his fine sense of honor and dig- nity will doubtless ‘itnpel him to refuse to permit his name tp be sent in again. 1t is stated upon excellent autnority that the senate was greatly influenced in the matter by Justice, Field, a member of the bench, whose sympathy with the people in theiwr contest with the corpo- rate interests of the country has been recognized for years. In THE light of thediscovery of exten- sive frauds in the management of state in- stitutions, the dissatisfaction with the methods of purchasing supplies, and the utter failure to either prevent fraud or punish the perpetrators, it is clearly to be seen that Nebraska needs nothing else so much as a radical revision of the business methods in vogue at the state house. Putting all the mistakes of the past aside, it may be said that citizens of all parties should unite in an affort to secure a better system of administration. This can only be done by a radical amendment of existing statutes. This matter should be raised into the impor- tance of an issue in the next campaign, and it should receive the attention of all parties. The necessity for good gov- ernment should never become the sub- ject of partisan dispute AUDITOR MOORE would be doing the cause of labor a real service by calling upon the attorney general foran opinion as to the legality of the insurance com- pany- misnamed the Burlington Volun- teer Relief department. There are good reasons for believing that this par- ticular piece of railroad imposition is illegal. If the Burlington system de- sires to provide insurance for its em- ployes let it do s0 in & manner that will really benefit them. The stato of Ne- braska, however, should not be made a party to a craftily conceived plan of compelling railroad employes to main- tain a department for the sole benefit of the railroad company. THE people of Wisconsin are having a little experience with rotten state gov- ernment, and if the published reports are to be relied upon ‘the democratic regime in the Badger state has intro- duced Nebraska wmethods with a few startling innovations. THERE is some dahger that the en- thusiastic admirers of Governor MeKin- ley may overdo the task of booming him into the presidential chair in 1896, The national conventieniwill not meet for several months yet; | An l_unnn-u‘l‘g pmblustion. Kansas €1ty Journal, The campaign in New York, according to Mr. Platt, was conducted *by aivine provi- dence.” 'Providence and tho republican party make a great combination. P High Hopes: With an 1 Lowlsville Otatvier-Journa. If the democratio congress shali bring a nunited support to the demoeratic president and redeem the pledges of the democratio piattorm honestly ibd prompuly. puttiog turough the tariif bill i time for its effects 19 ba felt vefore next Noyember's election, e party need have o°fbar of the outcome. E: FRIDAY, NOVEM Another demacratic congress will bo slected | and the demooracy will be in tho best of bo- | sitions for beginning the contest of 1505, | vistin s B~ ety Podiing the Responsibility, At anta Constitution Mr. Walter Q. Gresham wants the demo- party io restore the monarchy in The democratic party has not been bit of restoring monarchics any- where, and as Mr. Gresham is not a demo- crat he may have made a mistake in this matter. New York Tribune. The landslide was immenso. 1f Mr. Cleveland’s Hawaiian policy had boou an- nounced before the voters went to the volls the democracy would havo been buried still deeper. The present administration may have the courage of its convictions, but it is wise and far-soeing enough to cnooss the safest timo for precipitating the.n on the country, a—— Another Explanat Rocky Mowuntain News. It is now known that Judgo Harrison of Nebraska, the republican nomineo for justice of the supreme court, owes his clection to the support of administration democrats. He was the corporation candidate in the re- publican state convention and the bitter op- position to him on that account proved i effectual. He is indebted for his suc Secretary Morton SE N The Record Up to Date. Philadelphia Press, Hera is the record of the democratic party up o date. Give it two minutes thought: 1. Failure to promptly pass silver repeal, though in control of both houses of con: gress and tho executive—result, the worst financial panic of the contury. 2. Appointment of a tariff reduction com- mittee with the object of reduc tectivo tariff to one for revenuooniy Consternation among manufacturers and in- dustries all over the country closed and workingmen starving. 3. The appointment of J. J. Van Alen ambassador 1o Italy, after it was conclu- sively proven that he had purchased the place “with a cumpaign contrivution of £50,000, 4.1 @ wtion of the request of the Hu- waiiau provisional government that the United States annex the islands. The rein- statement of the dissolute Queen Liliuoka- lani to the throne, and the complete triumph of Claus Spreckels and Mr. Theophilus Daves of England. Next!! e ————— PEOPLE AND 1 HINGS. Two wrongs often make a riot. According to revised democratic ethics the president can do no wrong. Josh Jump vaulted over his competitors for a federal oftice in Indianapolis. Pennsylvania gave 137,000 reasons why the change last year was a grievous mistake. In matters of war it is very probable Lobengula is opposed to machine methods. If Queen Lil is restored to her hand-me- down throne the affair must be regarded as a Dole out. The king of Coney island is at Old Point Comfort, but his enjoyment will be brief if the agiiated Gravesenders get their hands on him, Seventy-eight barbers enlisted in the United States army last season. They shoula do a great deal of damage in the face of the enemy. Baron Muunchausen is registered at a New York hotel. Heis charmed with Gotham, especially the family resemblance in its lit- erary atmosphere. A batch of the Columbian guards propose to enlist in the army of Hondur f their toggery goes with them they will prove shin- ing marks for the ravolutionists. A 17-year-old girl, who is a member of a native African choir now traveling in New England, claims to be a niece of Lobengula, but she doesn't seem to have inherited his taste for economy in dress. An Arizona court fined an editor for con- tempt. As a precaution against the growth of an insidious judicial fad the editor of the Tombstoue Toothpick has decided to enlarge his private graveyard. While goose bones, corn husks and toad- stools indicate a mild winter, to the opp nents of *“my administration” hungering f¢ poi there is novnhing in the signs calculated to cheer or mitigate the cola, dreary and dismal prospect. Butterworth of the Yale foot bull t was bitten in the back in the Pennsyly: game last Saturday. The marks of pouent’s teeth can be plainly seen. variety in diet now allowed to athletes in training seems to be carried to an exweme of late. Just to show what Kansas can do when pushed by calamity, the Salina Republican comes out printed on sunflower paper. Its color is of the bilious order and is neatly mottled to match the complexion of sun- flower politics. As a rustler it rivals crinoline, Francis Parkman, the historian, was a nephew of the Dr. Parkman who was mur- dered by Prof. Webster of Harvard in the medical school of the colleze. The memory of thut extraordinary crime, the trial of the murderer and his execution is still fresh in New England. John Dubel, who has been elected con- stable of the Eighth ward, Brooklyn, is a man of polish, He ig a colored man who runs a bootblacking chair, and was put up for fun, but he will draw 82,500 a year just the same. He is one of the most shining ex- amples of what a landslide will do. William H. Graham, who died the other day m Newcastle county, Delrware,. at the age of 02, was a drummer boy in the war of 1812, and as a blacksmith he heiped to put together the partsof the first locomotive engine used on the old Newcastle & French- town raitroad, one of vhe earliest railwuys in the United States. The locomotive was imported in pieces from England and put together at Newcastlo under the eyeof a skilled machinist. e TOUCHING TRIFLES, Elmira Gazette: The candidate’s memory for faces is now off 1 & vacation, Boston Courler: Ho fs a miss guided youth Wbo doos overythiug hia swest Gartusks him to do Galveston News: Any one can bo a wonther prophot if he will just predict thut it 1s golng t5 rain and siiek to It Atchiuson (Globe: It Isa consolation when another man is In trouble to think that it wiil prove a valuable lesson to him. Yonkers Statesman: A wonan always hopos for the best. Especinlly is this so when 1t 15 o seulskin sacque she 15 looking for, Cleveland P) the minister, of this meoting, in Denler: “Right here," sald L would 1t 0 to have the centy Rochester Democrat: The whistling of the wind and the whistling of & Woman &re very much alike in one respect. Nelther stop i street car, Philapelphia Ledger: Two girls who ran away trom Paterson last woel fled in trousers beloneing to tellow-bourders—a pluln case of broeches of trust. Washington Star: “What's the good of Thavksgivin' day, anyhow?"’ exclalmed Plod- Pete, In & discontented tone. "“’hll‘n the good of 1t?" ecchoed Meandering Mike, In dismay. “Honest, Vete, some times ou talk ke w reg'lar heathen. Don't you Ynow that Thaukegivin's one of tho biggost free lunch days in the whole year?” SOMETHING TO SELL. Atlanta Consitu'ion. Who Is the man of the mldulll'hl bell? The man of the midnight yell? Ho's not. the ghost of any who fell y wurder's He's not the soul of a wrath fron Hiv's only the man who tries to tell That he has wicuer-wurst to sell! Lado O POISOD's 5D aaiaa k| Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Re LD Baking Powder | throne again | likely to be super | itate bloodshed, THE AN A PMILTATION, | Now York World . Our true palicy In Ha. | waii is to keop hands off. We are under no | obligations to place Liliuokalani on her Washington Post: The proposition that two wrongs make a right has never yet been accepted by tho enlightened moral sense of the civilized world New York Sun: The old princi otism, “My country, right or w oded land, right or wron within & very limited circle neinnati Commercial: In restoring Lilivokalani to the throne the administration s verpotrating a blunder which will precip. i What the end will be Meanwhile the world 10 of patrl mg," is not over Cleve perhaps, there is no wonders at us Denver Republican: President Claveland ought to read the Declaration of Independ- cnce bofore ho fully detormines to cast the influence of our government in favor of tho ablisiment of a rotten and utterly re ed monarchy m Hawail, San Francisco Examiner: 1t 1s to bo ex pected that the newspaper discussion will at first be more strongly marked by ship than judgment. But in tho popular decision will rest on the correctness of the facts as set forth by Mr. (iresham Now York Recorder: No American can read without feeling of shame and indigna- tion tho chapters, as they are unfolded, of the volume Grover Cloveland and his secre- tary of state are ing in the cuso of Hawaii and making part of the history of the republic. Washington Star: According to the ro- cent Hawailan announcement the United States is opposed to monarchies oy telling. r pudi power to say shall prevail. Chicago Record: 1t is an amazing. cruel, hateful position which the administration has taken. Its talk of *‘force and fraud™ 1s melodramatic bosh. Its course savors of trickery and of contempt for public opinion in America. It is an insolent denial of the truth on which this ion 1s founded, that a people have the right to overthrow a ty- rant and rule themselves. New York Tribun It would be to pus down a good government and sov up a bad one; to destroy republican institutions ad- ministered vy intetligent and public spirited men and 1o set up a monarchy administered by a woman whose character silence is mercy and by a group of knaves and supor- stitious savages. It would be to blow out the lights of progress and Christian devel- opment in a land now moving briskly for- ward, Globe-Democrat: This is the crowning blunder and infamy of American diplomacy. The administration has started out to over- throw a government which represents all the elements in its country which deserv to be consulted in this crisis, and seeks to re- store an authority which has no support ex- cept from suvages who arc as incapable of sotting up or maintaining a creditable eme of political rule as are the natives of anda or of the Iiji istands. Brooklyn Standard: If itis meant the arms of the United States are to be ployed to overthrow the provisional go ment and restore the queen and there is bloodshed, the blood will be on the handas of President and and secretary of state. U'he administration has managed to afix upon itself an ineffaceable stamp of narrow- minded, carping, unpatriotic prejudice and hide-bound bigotry, and has presented a small policy in a petty w: It has failure and humiliation on the face of 1t, and there eems to be behind it a bewildeved infatua- tion. Philadelphia North Amor about the equi is sickening. What does the provi: government of Hawaii stand for? does itrepresent? Tt stands forall that is best in the Haw: n community. It represents all the iatelligence, all the enlightenment, all the enterprise, the good possibilities, all the future of the place. It stands for education, for ecivilization, for just govern- ment, for a pure und elovating religion. And what does the monarchy Mr. Cleveland and his secretary of stuto secking to restore stand for? It stands for every kind of moral nd political corruption. It stands for gnorance aud barbarism and crime, for paganism and vice and individual licentious- oess, what kind of government that Thoe cant BAD B 5. New York Evemng Sun. Lain't feelin’ right today, an’ seems as ef my slecn ous o' my liver an’ hez turned all kinds But Mandy—that's my woman—she sez ‘tain't 1o spleen at ull, Jest n Sinkin® 0" tho glzzard an’ a risin’ o' the gail! An’ mebby that's tho truth, for I was feelin’ all sereno 1 m letter ‘bout that lored q 1 read as how ho'd 1ike to give her the crown I folt my heart, a flippin'—seemed liko 'twus goin’ down! givo a suddint jump an’ stuck k, okin' ever since an' feelin® like u wred 'Pears like I'd’ruther died a'most, afore I'd evor seon ol Yu auoe: An'sich aqueen! A yaller lookin' heathen, not half dressed, Whoso bringin' up' morals ain't the b of Uncle Doodle playin' second fiddle to a 2z doubtful, an' whose m, or any Yankee v in' up a rotten throne for sich a queen oz that! — BROWNING, KING et e —————————————————————t. S0 THEY SEE THE HANDWRITING Many Democratic Oongro:smen Not Avxious t> Faos the Storm. | FEW RENOMINATIONS DESIRED NEXT YEAR Bryan of Nebraska Among the Number Whe Ars Satistied to Retire and Save tha Voters the Trouble i g Them. FOURTEENTI STRERT, Wasnixaros, Nov, 16, William Jennings Bryan, in his reported intention to refusea renomination for cons gress fiext spring, will have much company. He will not journoy down the dark avenues to retirement alone. Since the recent eloe tion more than a score of prominent demo. crats in congress have discovered that thoy o important intorests ut home, and that do not want to romain in public life. Senator MePhorson of New Jersoy tho oldest and most influential democratio members of the finance committee, since the cyclone of last week, by which nearly all of the hold-over stato senators in the state log- islature who will vote fora United States senator next year wero socured by the re publicans, has concluded that he is tir public and prefers to resumo the prac: tice of law. Chairman Voorhees of the senats comimit teo on fiuance, who finds himself in hot water over his financial views and tho anti pension policy of this administeation, has do- termined to make a personal explanation when the senate meets, and if his appeal for clemency does not right him with his con. stituency, he will refuse to bea candidate for reelection. Wastixaros Brnear or Tu I\rx‘} 51 MeMitin Seos the Handwriting. Mr. MeMillin of Tennessee, who has boen several times a strong candidate for speaker and who is one of the most intelligent mem- bers of the committee on ways and means, admits that he would be retired to priv lifo 1f ho asked for re-cloction, and intends to voluntarily got out of the way. He as- cribes the unconditional repeal of the silver law as the cause of his personal unpopulart lled that Senato nd Bate of Tennessen wore the most o lll‘min rats in opposition to uncon- If Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee asks for a renomination it will_bo only because the democrats in West Virginia demand him as a sacrifice. He in- tends to decline a renomination. Representatives Dockery and Tarsney of Missouri have both privately told their friends that they do not desive another raca for congrross. na, an old member of means, is already out of the race snomination, whiie Mr. Cooper of thal closing up his 's 1N congress “There are more well known democrats in_cone suddenly been seized with a desire to retive to their privato busi ness. Will Rebuke the Administration, fn diplomatic, congressional and oficial cireles it is confidontly betieved, i of political afilliation, that the effort of the administration to restore the monarehic form of wovernment in Hawaii will be a miser- able failure. ‘Tho founders of the provisional government are expected to resist the en- taronement of the queen, and unless she has th ernment she cannot. possibl. President Cloveland cannot gi an act of congress to call out ou forces. Under such circumstances, of , this authority would never be given, t three-fourths of the democ a the republicans in congress apenly denounce the step taken by this administra= tion with respect to Hawaii. Personal Mention, Garaer, James M. Wilson and . Hall were today appoiuted to con- stitute a pension examining bourd Doug- lass, Wyo., and Dr. Vincent Mulcahy was appointed on the poard at Vermillion, S, D. jor J. W. Paddo of Omaha, who arrived here late last night on business - neeted with the Union Pacific railway, de parted for the west tnight. Hon. John A. McSbane of Omaha was in the city tod If Governor McKinley, in his present eastern outing, should drop into Washing- ton he will bo given a rousing reception. The republicans here are eager to emphasizo their demand for McKinley in 1806 by somo sort of u public demonstration. The gov- ernor’s friends here intimate, however, that neis much opposed to the precipitation of the ‘96 campaign at this time. Postmasters appointed today: Tow: Kiron, Crawford A. Novelius, vi A. B. Falk, removed ; Si Montgomery county, O.'C. Mellott, vice C. M. Kneedy, resigne South Dakota—Bai Gjostal, vice W. M. derbilt, Campbell county, vice I.J. Holmes, resigned Perny 8. Hear, Drs. | P Hugh Trianor, 1 New Post. Pams, Nov. 16.—M. Loze, formerly prefect of police in Paris, has been gazetted for ambassador at Vienna. Largest Manufacturars val Ravallyes of Clothing 1n tay WorlL Been cut off, And cut off just for fun, too. We've been go- The jcollectors will proceed.” =| ing along at such a lively gait that we want to keep it up, and for that reason, and no other, we have cut off consid- crable from the price on three lines of men’s win- ter underwear, specially on sale this week. We've been getting $2 a suit for them,but have cut them to 75¢ a garment. and natural grays, derby They come in brown mixed ribbed, and are the elas- tie, tight fitling kind that are so popular. This un- derwear is no job lot but good, reliable wear that we keep regularly in stook. All sizes and plenty of it. No limit. Don’t be afraid of it on account of the price—that's out just to keep you eoming. Maybe we will sell you something else somelime that there's a profit in. If you want to see what it looks like go round to the 15th street entrance. BROWNING, ~pen y evoniog till 6.33 'lf" e aturday sl 18 KING & CO., W, Cor. 16th and Donglas Bts.