Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 21, 1893, Page 4

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee iwithout Sunday) One One Yenr ¥ OFFICES Dullding ¥ and T Ail All husiness letters &ud romitta pddrossed t Bee Publishin Drafis, checkn and postoffice orders v ANy the elty for the snmmer ean hav nelr address by leaving an orde ompany , O e m, 2 [HRE PUBLISHING COMPANY. = - SWOR OF CIRCULATION, € of Nehrask Sownty of Dou etary ot T solomniy swenr that (he ¥ DAILY BEE for th ch 3, Witk as follows: fActual olr Novem1 Eaturduy, November 1§ ik GEo. I Tzscue Yimim | Sworn 10 betore me and subseribed in i { et | presence i 18th day of November. 1 -~ it Notary Public fhoree i Averngo THAT plate glass trust crash is said to have knocked prices to splinters. 108K leaks in tho State department it Washington have evidently aot yet been stopped. WneN Hoke Smith and Senator Voor- hees collide watch for an outburst of true southern ire. WY didn't the gas company apply for an cxtension of its franchise before Its old franchise expired six months ngo? Him one franchised corporation and you hit them ail. Touch the gas com- pany and the street railway magnates squeal. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND people already in the Cherokee Strip. Nosuch voluntary movement of population could have becn possible in any country other than the United Stat SENATOR VOORHEES' reception by his [ndiana friends may have given rise to “the proudest moment in his life,” but 1t will afford poor consolation for his re- tirement from the senate when the leg- Islature meets to select his successor. THE invasion of the United States by that insidious foe' to agriculture, the Russian thistle, hasaroused the warlike spivit of Seerctary Morton. It may yet be necessary to order out the marines to resist the approach of this cnemy from the north. THE great storm off the coasts of « “J'rance and England Saturday night is reported to have occasioned immense loss of life. Our people, who have but recently suffered from similar calami- ties on the Atlantic and the Gulf, are in a position to appreciate the resulting damage and to sympathize with the vietims. 4 THE State Banking Board seems to have entirely recovered from its spasm of zeal over the prosecution of the al- leged bond investment companies. Have the companies been frightened away by the belligerent attitude of the mombers of the board, or has the board fallen back upon a policy of masterly in- activity? HONDURAS is putting on its fighting clothes. But it is very careful to search out an opponent less powerful than the United States. Nicaragua cannot ex- pect 80 easy a settlement of its difficul- tics with Honduras as was forthcoming when Honduras so promptly apologizod to our government for fiving upon the Costa Rica. MEXICAN complaints against the in- action of the United States in reference to the border bandits are to all appear- ances made with some justification, If the United States desires Mex assist in the enforcement of its eriminal laws it ought not to harbor Mexican eriminals within its borders to the detri- ment of the Mexican government. BuiLpe n easte: ) permitted to block the whole sidewalk where they are operating at one time, They are required to keep open an ample passage way for pedestrians, Buildersin Omaha 1magine that they own half the strect to the entire exclusion of the pub- lic. Their ideas in this connection should be subjected toa radical revisicn, CHAIRMAN WILSON of the ways and means committee is said to view the income tax as sound in theory but bad in practice. In other words, he is afraid to stand the consequences of its introduction as a measure of the demo- cratic party., Chairman Wilson must be given the dit for more far-sighted- ness than is possessed by the other mem- bers of his committes —— THE BEE has for months been agitat- ing a suppression of the smoke nuisance evil. It wasamong the very first to comply with the spirit and letter of the city ovdinance upon this subject and it has not ceused 1o insist that other build- fngs thatave pouring forth clouds of black soot and filth should be provided with smoke consumers of one kind or another, The smoke nuisance must go and the socner it gees the better, THE celebration of the silver anni- versary of the founding of the Nebraska State university ought to be, and doubt- less will be, a notable ovent in the his- tory of that institution. Nebruska's Veuniversity is now recegnized as one of tbe leading educaticnal institutions of 1ts class in the country. It has made rapid strides in tho past few years. It has at last reached that pointin the hi tory of its develcj ment where it is enti- tled to' more consideration at tho hands of the feople. It is nolonger a questicn of what the university wants at the hands « f the people, but what the people demand at the hands of the university. | on BEE Pib- THE RLOUNT REPORT. What is presumed to be the more im- portant part of the reportof Commis- sioner Blount to the State department, setting forth the testimony obtained by him regarding the events which cul- minated in the overthrow of the mon- archy in Hawaii and the establishment of the provisional government, is mad public. Accepting the evidence fur- nished in this report as trustworthy it fully justifies the letter of Secretary Gresham to the president, so far as the statements of fact therein contained are concerned. The testimony given in the Blount report was not all obtained from side. 1t was furnished by supporters of the provisional government as well as by the friends of the deposed aueen, and the eviaenco of both sides agrees in all cssential particulars. It shows that the Ameri- can minister, Stevens, was most willing to recognize the provisional government a8 soon as it conld offer the least claim to recognition, and that the knowledge of this was largely instrumental in sparring the revolutionary party to action and in inducing the legitimate government to abandon all purpose of resisting the movement for its over- throw. It shows that the minister or- dered the landing of tho American ma- rines several hours before the provi- sional government was proglaimed, it may be claimed as a precautionary meas- ure for the protection of the interests of the United States, but it is more prob- able with the object of overawing the queen and her ministers, which was the effect produced. Whether or not the vevolutionary movement would have succeeded had the American minister maintained a po- sition of neutrality and made no armed demonstration in the Hawalian capital it is impossible to say, nor is the ques- tion of any consequence in considering what is the present duty of our govern- ment in the matter. The obvious fact is that the provisional goverument could not have been established without a struggle if it had not had the favor of the American minister backed by force, and this is the vital point for the con- sideration of the government of the United States and the American people. The legitimate government did not sur- render to the revolutionists, whom it, had prepared to resist, but to the power of the United States gov- ernment represented in- its minis- ter and the armed force which he caused to be quartered on Hawaiian soil, It is possible and even probable that but for the course pursued by our minister the revolutionists would not have attempted to carry out their plan, but at any rate there can be no ques- tion that the queen and her supporters were intimidated by the presence of what they had reason to regard as a hostile force and realizing the folly and the danger of entering into a conflict with the United States surrendered under protest. It is not to be expected that the report of Commissioner Blount will be allowed to stand unchallenged. Undoubtedly Minister Stevens will have some- thing to sa in rebuttal of the testimony presented by the report, as will others who sustain the cause of the revolutionists, But they wiil find it no easy task to dispose of some of the evidence supplied by sup- porters of the revolutionary movement, or to convince the intelligent judgment of the Americun public that the conduct of the American minister was not hasty and ill-advised. Admitting this to be s0, the perplexing questions are: What is now the duty of the United States government to a friendly and helpless people deprived of the government of their choice by the arbitrary and un- warranted exercise of its power? What nanded of us in the interest of justice and of national honor? These questions must be answered in the nour future. LAND OFFICE CON>OLIDATION. The information relating to the con- solidation of land offices, which was sup- plied by Secretary Smith upon request of the senate in September, has been pub- lished in pamphlet form. The resolu- tion of the senate called upon the secre- tary to inform it whether any United States laud offices had been abolished or consolidated and which ones; upon whose recommendation and upon what showing ity or advisability; the number s of public land in each district subjeet to settlement; and copies of all correspondence and other papers bear- ing upon the subject. The answer of the secretary is in compliance with this demand and aims to justify the con- solidation which had taken place by his order. The reason for the recent abolition of land office; found in the law making appropriations for the oxpenses of tho Jand offic department for the present fiscal year, which enjoins it expressly wupon the secretary of the interior to consolidate the district land oftices 82 as to bring their total cost within the appropriation of $520,000. Inasmuch as the expenses of the previous year had amounted to #560,000, nothing remained to be done bt to 1op off salaries and office rents equal to the difforonce. This was the intent and purposo of thyp order as finally con- firmad by the president on Septombar 11 last, If thoere is any criticism to be made upon the action of the government in consolidating the land offices in ques- tion it is the utter absence of ¢oinsis- teney in the selection of offices to be aban- douned. Looking at the land offices in Nebraska only we find that but two in- stances of consolidation out of the four were made 50 as to retain the office which turned over to the treasury the greatest amount of receipts, The union of the Chadron office with the Alliance office is probably justified on the ground that the latter has a much larger acre- age of undisposed land at its comruani and thus promises a better business in the future, The abolition of the Grand Island offico in favor of vhe Lingoln office is, however, almost inexplicable. The entries at the former offico were 571, as against forty-seven at ihe latter, The receipts at Grand Island were over twice those at Lincoln, There were 20,007.20 acves of undisposed public iand £till open to entry wt Grand Island, THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1 while at Lincoln thers was niot a single acre subject to settlement. When it was ramored that the Bloomington office was to be removed to Grand Island the register and receivor of the laad office at Lincoln protested and asked for the union with Lincoln because their business was the smaller of the two. The only explanation is to be found in the recommendation of Tobo Castor that the Lincoln office be retained and the reference to Secretary Morton's “political interest in the formation ofthe districts.” In no other instance, except that of the abolition of the Salina, Kan., office in favor of Topeka, has an office been given up which had both the larger receipts and the larger acreage of un- disposed land. These excoptions to the demands of expediency must have been oither altogether arbitrary or prompted solely by political considerations. VOORH AND THE VETERANS. Senator Voorhees of Indiana, in com- mon with several other democrats of more or less prominence in their party, has been seriously investigating the causes of the republican landslide two weeks ago, and he' has concluded that among them not the least influential was the unfriendly policy of the ad- ministration in regard to pensions. The Indiana senator did not have to go out- side of his own state to learn this. Indiana gave tens of thousands of her sons to the union armies, and no state furnished braver or more loyal soldiors. They made a record for splendid courage on every great battle field of the war,and those who survive are justly proud of it, as are all in whose veins runs the blood of the heroes who met death in battle. ‘These people believe that they are en- titled to the friendly interest of the na- tion. They will not contend that every man on the pension rolls is honestly there, but they will insist that any who may be suspected of not being there honestly shall have a fair investigation before being adjudgad guilty, and that punishment shall follow instead of pre- coding the ascertainment of guilt. They demand that the veteran union soldier shall have at least as fair a chance to defend himself against the charge of fraud as has the man who is charged with Dburglary, arson, or any other crime, and that he shall be held to be in- nocent until proven guilty. What i true of the old soldiers of Indiana is equally true of those of Massachusetts, Ohio, Towa and every other state. Thoy resent, as they ought to do, the asper- sions cast upon them by a hostile admin- istration, and Senator Voorhees, Rep- resentative Holman, Senator Brice of Ohio and other democrats are right in the conclusion that their party suffered in the late elections by reasons of its unjust and unpatriotic policy regarding pensions. It is said that Mr. Voorhees contem- plates making a speech in the senate, soon after the beginning of the regular session, in which he will espouse the cause of the veterans and sharply arraign and criticise Sec- retary Hoke Smith and Com- missioner Lochren on account of their unfriendly action and hostile atti- tude toward pensioners and applicants for pensions. According to report it is expected that the Indiana senator will create something of a sensation by this speech, for it is said that he does not in- tend to mince words but will put his denunciation of the administration's pension policy into the strongest langnage he can command, and Mr, Voorhees is well known to have a very comprehensive vocabulary. He has two incentives to this, one political and the other more or less personal. He knows that Indiana will be a sure republican state during the continuance of the present administra- tion unless the policy regarding pen- sions is modified and made fair and just. This would be disastrous to his political future. The personal consideration is said to be a dislike of Secretary Hoke Smith, but this probably has little weight with the senator. A speech by Daniel W. Voorhees, ad- vocating the cause of the union veterans against the unfriendly policy of the democratic admimstration, could not fail to be interesting. It would be nota- ble as a remarkable example of con- version from prejudice, for the Indiana senator has never until now, so far as remembered, manifested the least , friendly concern for the veterans. If he has ever said a kindly word in their behalf, in congress or out of it, the fact has been forgotten, There is an ancient injunction—"*Beware of the Greeks bringing gifts.” It may not be applicable in this case, but of that the vetcrans will be better able to judge when they have read the speech which it is announced Senator Voorhees will make, THE PRICE OF GAS, The only argument the advocates of the proposed fifty-year gas franchise or- dinance have put forward in its defense has been that the price charged for gas in the eity of Omaha is not exorbitant and that the schedule of prices estab- lished in that ordinance is verfectly proper and reasonable in itself, The Omaha Gas Manufaeturing company, it must be confessed, hasup to this time been the most liberal of all our fran- chised corporations in its treatment of the public and it is entitled to fair con- sideration at the hands of the city couns g But it is entitled to nothing more than fair consiaeration, The average price of gas in the United States is said by the best authorities to be $1.75 per thousand cubic feet—the exact price asked in Omaha. But that average takes into account hundreds of cities, towns and villages smaller than Omabha and with a much smaller annual gas consumption than Omaha, while it includes less than twenty cities larger thanOmaha. The apologists for the gas company have told us of St. Louis with an annual consumption of 1,200,000,000 cublc feet of gas paying 81.25 per thou- sand and Minneapolis with an annual consumption of some 402,000,000 cubic feet paying $1.60 per thousand, but they have supprossed soma other statistios which they must have had at their com- mand. Gas matters were ‘“arvanged” in Chi- cago only two years ago. The city re- ceives a rebate of 34 per cent on all gas consumed for publie uses, amounting to $1563,000 par year,. In 1893 the net price is not to excoed ®1.20 per 1,000: in 1804, $1.15 per 1,000; ' 1905, #1.10 per 1,000; in 1806, $1.05 pero 1,000; after 1807, #1 per 1,000, Gas matters were Yarranged” in Cleve- land less than t#p years ago. Cleveland consumes about 700,000,000 cubic feet of gas per year. The prico to all con- sumers is 80 cents per 1,000, and in ad- dition to this the company annually covers into the oity treasury 64 per cent of the total gros§ receipts Omaha, of eoarsey is mot to be com- pared ditectly WithChicagoand Cleve- land any more thian it, is with Minneapolis and St. Louis. Tet us look at some smaller places. Thére are nine cities in the United States which supply their owngas. Only one, Philadelphis, is larger than Omaha, and in Philadelphia the price of gas is $1.50 per 1,000. The works wre, however, making large vrofits, and a reduction of price to $1 has been agitated for some time. Of tho others, the prices and outputs are as follow: Not Price. Profits. D) 150 100 100 150 150 162 Output. . 130,000,000 08,000 50,000,000 8,000,000 Wheeling Danvlille, Va, Hawmliton, 0. .. Bellefontaine, 0. Richmond, Va..... Alexandria, Va. Hendorson, Ky Cnarlottesville, Va 160 While these places are perhaps slightly better situated than Omaha as regards facilities for securing coal and other materials, yot they show that gas at $1.75 in Omaha must be a profitable investment for the compary. The use of our streets under such circumstances must be worth some concessions to the city even for a much more limited period than fifty year IT MUST havo been a severe trial to some of the members of the executive committee of the National Civil Service Reform league to vote for a resolution, at their meeting a few days ago, which was an implied condemnation of Mr. Cleveland for the appointment of Van Alen. The resolution remonstrated against the bestowal by the president of high offices of state in return for the contribution of large campaign funds, and it was explained by the author that the resolution was prompted by the Van Alen appointment, Reference might also have been properly made to the Roosevelt appointment, although that was to repay only a $10,000 con- tribution. The president had but one defender on the committee, though it is to be remarked that a majority, if not all of the members of the committee, were Cleveland men a year ago. One of them is veported to have said that if Mr. Cleveland wasi & candidate now it would not be possible to urge the moral principles upon which the last cam- paign for him was conducted without awakening a sinile of ridicule. Yet only a lhttle while .ago these very re- formers regarded Cleveland as above all public men, thé embodiment and bulwark of the policy they preach. ONE of the most objectionable features of the proposed fifty’year gas franchise, and one that has up to this time been ely overlooked, is the section which provides that the city can insist upon the extension of mains and pipes in the suburbs only in case it procures for the gas company a written guarantee that ten consumers for every 400 feet of mains will continue to wuse gas for the period of one year. With our blocks of 264 fect this means that the peoplo in the out- skirts of the city will not be able to se- cure gas until the street is practically built up solid, with one consumer to every fifty feet on each side of the street. Should this provision become law the gas company will be left at liberty to keep suburban residents in the dark until it pleases its fancy to ex- tend its lines of its own accord. THERE seems to be a movement all the way from North Dakota to Texas looking to an increase in fire insurance rates. From the point of view of insur- ance companies there is some justifica- tion for an advance of rates. Their be- sotting evil is the incendiary torch, which they have never been able to checkmate. Because of it insuwrance companies and honest policy holders must suffer. The latter must pay a higher premium to cover the propor- tion of losses through arson. Two pro- visions must sooner or later be enacted into the law of Nebraska relating to in- surance, The stute must exact of such companies more care in placing risks and fix a positive responsibility upon the agent in the field, who is too often inter- ested solely in securing commissions without regard to the best interests of the company WITHOUT considering the merits of the controversy between the empioyes of the Lehigh system and the officers of that road, it may be regarded as singu- larly unfortunate that an extensive strike should have been undertaken at the present time. But few laboring men are in & position at present to re- main idle for any length of time in the face of a long angd rigorous winter sea- son. On the other hand, the long con- tinued period of depression in railway circles has left the railroad managers in anything but a complacent framo of mind. PoruLIST leaders deny the rumorof a proposed reorganizstion of their party on the lines of frée stlver coinage. The free silver men wusg swallow the whole bait or none. " a8 . — Clvilization's necond Course. Indianapolis News. The first stage in the brocess of civilizing the Matabele seems to have been passed. The | with political histery will admit | matters stand, next step will be the introduction ot opium and whisky to the few who have been per. mitted to csoape. Another Explanation. San Frarciseo Chroniels, ‘There seoms to be an_increasing belief in democratic civeles that it was the extra session that did it. All persons familiar that extra sessions are dangerows things and very apt to bo loaded at both ends. o 1o This? Atlan'a Constitutio If thera were no other question before the public the Hawaiian business would present features of considerable interest, but as the contention whether these ex-cannibals andhalf-breeds shall bo governed by a quoen or a president is hardiy worthy of serious considera Denver Republican, Colorado men, by advertising the gold re. sources of their state, will not give up the fight for silver and bimetallism. They will merely take advantage of the situation to show the world that this state cannot and will not be crushed, for if it be compelled to turn away from one industry it can find in another employment for its” energies and profit for all the capital that may be invested. SO — A Note of W ng. Adams County Democrat Republicans and republican papers are de- manding the removal of K. Rosewater from the republican national committee, bocause he fought Harrison. Mr. Rosewater's Bre, however, comes back at the penitentiary and state house ring and republican politicians in o way that will give him admirers all over the state. We very much fear that in- stead of getting Mr. Rosewater off the national committee, the latter will have scalps of the corrupt outfit dangling av his belt before they know it. e Van Wyck and the Populists. Rocky Mountain News. Goneral Van Wyck of Nebraska gives some timely and valuablo advice to the populists. He warns them that they can never win more victories while they permit bigoty ana fanaticism to control the party managemont. That the impracticable theorists and un- lous office hunters must be retirved to r and men of broad and lioeral ideas | called to the front. Whut the people's party neods is vecruits, and these cannot be had until the cranks and hobby riders are re- tired from the party management. g = Sy The Knignis of Labor, Chicago Herald. There is something surprising vitality of the Knights of Labor organiza- tion, Beaten in nearly every strike 1t has undertaken, rent nnd disrupted by internal sensions, mixed up in political schemes, it t survived and been a vower in labor . Its membership has steadily de- creased, however, and the latest scandal in the order—the executive board being churged with diverting strike funds to its own ends—will probably cause its dissolution. ‘[he order was founded on the principle thay “an injury to oune 1s the concern of all.” It ficmrished so long as it was wisely and con- servatively conducted. It began to decay when its leaders attempted to use it as a means of dictating legislation, . in the Harper's Weekly. The truth is thut the democratic party has in a conspicuous manner failed to justify the confidence of many good citizens who last year, at the presidential election, gave it their support. The business disturbance would not have produced such sweeping political effects had the party in power—that is, the majority of the democrats in congress —shown themselves capable of dealing with the most pressing problem of the time as sagaciously, vigorously and promptly as the sis demanded. ITt1s true the fiual repeal of the Sherman act satisfied the immediate requirement of the day. But this result is generally believed to be due to the unwaver- ing firmness of the president, and not to the wisdom of the democratic majority. It pro- duced much more the impression of a_lucky escape than of an act performed by the party in power according to a well settleds policy. The public mind has conceived a serious misgiving as to what the democratic majority would do when unrestrained by a very vigorous executive leadership. Plain Dealer: Any minister may got up a sensation, and the sensation may get down tho winister, Galveston Nows: Credulity isnot altogethor bad. Tt aids greatly in keeping money in cir- culation, Youkers Statesman: The woman who has worn tight shoes for an afternoon can well un- derstand how a man can “dlo with his boots on." PLiludelphia Record: It is a noticeable fact that tho melancholy fudividual who says he doesn’t care whethor he lives or dies alwuys wears a chest protector and guw shoes. Yonkers Statesman: No, Constance, It is not proper to spaak of tho horses belonging to the tiro dopartment us fire plugs. Detroit Tribune: thought I was prepared for the wurst, but I must say I wasn't expect. ing this,” suid the new boarder as he sat down to his 'seventh consecutive breakfast of suusage. Chicago Record: Ne I'm situnted us regards this world’s goods. Bob—How's that? Ned-—When 1 look at my bank uccount I think I'm poor, and when I | look at my wife's clothes I think I must be rich. 1 hardly know how New York Worl Aidn't know T had bought a newspaper and beconie a moulder of public opinion?"” }Wis not awaro that you wero fn that busi- ness, but 1 had noticed that public upln(ull was beeming somowhat moldy of late.” Detroit Free Press: Joe—Hello, Jim, your overcoat Is away too short for you. Jim~Well, it’s been in soak since last June and I guess it has shrunk. Chicago Inter Ocean: Mrs. Wickley for the life of me see why you think ahe's a r murkable woman, Mr. Wickley—She can remember the trump through an ontire game of cards. 2L tell you, Katle," sald her father, “that Slokins s a very level headed young man. supposo so, father,” she re- plied, “Ho certalnly mukes u groat many flat remarks.” Washington Stag: Indianapolis Journul: “You think you are bright,” said the window pane to the mirror, sbut you only glve out soue onc clsw's re tlectlons.” “It 1s easy enough to ses through you," retorted the mirror. “You' are envious of o bocuuse I have 4 coat to my back and you haven't." THE CHIEF EVENT. Ransas City Journal, One portion of the poople— A mighty multitude Care nothing for Huwali, From any standpoint viewed; The tariffy don'v disturb them, Nor do tho silyor laws— They'ro chiefly interested Just now in Banta Claus, e —— THE DESERTED VILLAGE, Chicwgo Tribune, Swift Midway, liveliest villugo of the plain, Where glib-tongued fakirs fleoced the trist- ing swain, Where guileléss youth its longest visit paid And aged dandios went on dress parado; Dear, high-priced bowers of innocence and cise, Whero swarthy donkey boys got fat on fees, How oft the giddy throng, kay, troe from care, Strglied bheeozily wlong thy tioroughfare! Deserted Midway! Desolate, forlorn! The winds go howling through thee now in scorn! A few short weeks ago the home of mirth! And now thou art the deadest spot on earth! Highest of all in Leavening Power.——Latest U, S. Gov't Report, Rl R WHEN THE SHIP CAME IN. MUSTASSUME N STASSUME N0 EXTRA RISK Pioneer Pross: The brief glimpse which the dispatches givo usof the situation at Honolutu_is puzzling. Minister Willis ar- rives, recognizes the provisional government in a civil interchange of diplomatic compli ments with its president and the curtain falls upon the scene. What happened then is a matter of conjecture. Chicago Times: President promptly dismissed a minister government who nterfered cven slightly in the domestic affairs of this republic, and President Cleveland s not tho man to au- thorize a United States minister, or United ates men-of-war, or marines to interfere ny government under the sun. Chicago ribune: For somo reason Minis ter Willis has not made much headway in the work of restoration. Has he found the “illegitimate™ governmen’ too strong to be upsot by a word, or is the task of restors tion to be carried on in a slow, diplomatic manner very differont from the rough and ready methods it was assumed tha minister was instructed to adopt? Chicago Inter Ocean matter of public congratulation that up to latest advices the United States has not been disgraced by having 1ts navy used to | W overthrow a friendly republic and reinstate a debauched monarchy. 1t is humiliating to national pride to have the diplomacy of vur president turn out a ludicrous flasco, tho butt of international ridicule, but that is infinitely better than to have had that divlo- macy succeed in its sinistor purpose. Cincinnati Commereial: It may be per- feetly safe to prodict that the monarchy will not bo restored in_Hawaii and upon that failure Prosident Cleveland will have much to explain. So far as the democratic party 1s concerned, however, it seems likely that it cannot properly be held responsibie, except in so faras it is responsible for the administration. But democrats, as well as republicans, enjoy the brivilege in this country of kicking. and in this case it seems likely that democrats will join republicans in kicking vigorously against the Cleveland volicy. Railroad Men Warned by the Supreme Court of the United States. Cleveland of the British CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE 1S DEFINED Employes Are Not Warranted in Hazarding It Lives to Save Property or Life and Cannot Recover 1t Killed or Injured, 513 FoURTEENTH STREET, . decision was al interost to all thing to do with practical oper Iroad property, It nt, especially to train employes and scction rkmen, The ease comes from the suprema of South Dakoth, und is known as that of the widow of John Elliott against the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Raile way company. John Elliott was a section bees. Hoand his men were at work in o lit- tle town 1n South Dakota, Whilea freight crew was engaged in switching about the yards a running or flying switch was being performed, which is a violation of the law in ttat state and many other states. Sees ing his hand car and two of his men were in danger by a flying section of the froight train, Elhott tried to cross the switch in time to give warning, but was caught by an- other section of the train engaged in theact of making a running switch and was killed, he South Dakota court held that Elliott was guilty of contrivntory negligence, in that it was not necessary for him to endan- ger s life as he did, and therefore refusod Record: The proposition of an income tax, [ 12 give his widow the damages sought. if it should bo made by the commiitee on | ‘Lhere wore other grounds set up against tha ways and meaus, would be in the uature of o | Suit by the rvailroad company, but the feeler. It 1s more than doubtful whether | Supreme court of the United States, in such a tax would be sanctioned by n majority | #fitming the decision of the court below, in congress, or whether it would bo avproved | Stood upon the plea of contributory noglic by the people: and still more doubtful | gence. whother it could be collected with any ap- proach to fairness or equity. In _ Ledger: It1s well to recall that the single incoma tax we have ever had was ai the period of the country’s greatest peril. 1t was a_temporary makesnift to tide over an emergency which threatened the cxistenco of the nation. The income tax is thus asso- ciated in the public mind. o ravive it now, under such very different circumstance: would be a confession of the failure of Ame ican statesmunship. Times: The income tax was submitted to, as werea great many other burdens, with more or iess cheerfuiness during the war; when the war wus over this was one of the very first that public sentiment cansed to be dropped. It was regarded as dis- tinctively a war tax, and to reimpose o war tax in time of peace is not a good way to gain popularity. The ways and means cou- mittee had better lot the’ income tax alone. Press: When civil war was desolating the country this and other unpopular modes of taxation had to be resorted to, but there is no excuse for it now. Sufficient rovenue can be obtained by customs duties and the taxes on spirituous liquors and tobacco, For twenty-cight years these taxes have paid the expenses of the government and extiu- guished two-thirds of the national debt, while the customs duties have operated to build up, foster and multiply our home in- dustries, Bat for democratic zeal to rob the latter of all. protection there would be no talk of a tax on incomes. ey NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, WasniNGTox Buneav or Tie By } WasniNaros, No In the supreme court today rendered, which is of ge who have ax 1t 18 certaialy a [ oo ts impor court —_——— PHILADELPHIA FPoRNINST IT. Has No Jurisdiction, the case of J. Leslie Thompson and others agaiust the Sioux ¥alls National Bank, from Sioux Falls, S. D., the supreme court’ here roverses the decision of the court of South Dako and remands the case vk for adjudication to the court of Moody This is also an interesting casc, 16 arose during the territorial da of Dakota really a contest 1 the First Nationaland the Sio National banks of Sioux Falls, 1t s tn meeting of the commi of Minnchaha county the county tr asked as whichi wero in his missioners evidently he had the money. went to the Sioux Falls National bank, nd, as a personal favor, nsked the Nier to make u cashic check for him for the sum of 500, which coverod the deficit in the county funds, ‘e trea urer stated that he simply wanted to borrow the chieck for a few minuies for the parpose of convincing the commissioners that he had the money belonging to the county. o the surprise of the treasuver the commissioners retained the check and eashed it a National bank. The Sioux Falls set up the elaim that the check w: the hands of the innocent parties, and that whad been swindled. The vank which cashed the check claimed to be an innocent of the property. supreme court for adjudic I'ne court of rtion took hands, The com- 0t balieve that asurer Howard tion, it having no jurisdiction. the county in_ which the tran Dlace has the jurisdiction, Maiklcjohn Arranging Postoflices, n Meiklejohn today ¢ supervising architect of the t O'Rourke, aud will ‘ pletion of the plans ) the interior work on the public builling at v Har- | feimont, so” that the proposals will be pub- lished within the next ten days. Through his effort in securing the completion of the plans ana_specifications the building will have an early completion. Mr. Meikiejohn also called on the fourth assistant postinas- tor general to_sceure the blishment of a. postofice at Haisin. Boyd county. The present postofiice is located some four miles has crected a flag pole, where old glory will | from the townsite, and the citizens of tha be displayed on state occasions. place are very anxious lwslm'\u"‘ ug.[s "g"if; b- The Red Cloud Chief has Tun up a ticket Ir'n',‘.f‘(‘f.‘":“:rLf::;C"‘.‘:i;:f;::ul«;'cr"‘gw‘ S o for 1900: eaor prostdent, William MeKin | {hav the matter would have his immediate AL Tt - Mander | pioation and the oftice would soou be lo- somk T 3 3 | cated as requested by the citizens. The After publishing the Utica Sun for six | Jisin postoftice is situated m the Sixth con- years, the Compton brothers have retived | oo PV s tier, and the paper will hereafter be under the di- TR rection of P. A. Drake. Reserve Agencs esignnted. Johu S. Slack, o well known citizen of | The Omaha National banl has beon ap- Kearney county, died recently while visiting | proved as reservo agent for the Iitst No- in Pennsylvanin. He wasa member of the | tional bank of Tobias, Neb.; the bankers Grazd Army and a prominent Odd Fellow. National of Chicago as reserve agent forthe - ska National of York, and the North- Mr. Ferris and His Wheel. National of ‘\HI\I!(‘.;WH'I? l'u‘r l.lhc NeWw York, Nov. 20.—The owner and in- | Cedar Rapids National of Cedar Ranids, l1a. e ‘(Z:h'p 2 e et 15. M. Nelson was today appointed post- Yonior:oto BOrrisies, amecint m, | | aster at Fdgerton, Charles Mix county, which revolved at the World’s fair, is now in | &Pr° it K. Westershins, removed, this city at the Everett house. He said toa William Evans and wife ot Council Bluffs reporter that he had come for a rest. He | are at the Lincoln. Periy S, HEATH, has made no defimte arrangements for the transfer of his_wheel to auy other city. In- L Abons Eours A el deed he was not certain but that the Chicago WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.-Assistant et l:'.v people would persuade him toallow the great | of War Grant that his resignation is to attraction to remain. take effect about the middle of Decembor. BROWNING, KING Largest Manufacturarsanl Ryailasd of Qiothing la vas Worll A Thanksgiving dancoe will the Utica band. Custer county teachers will meet in con- vention at Mason City next Saturday. Evangelists Billings and Byers are con- ducting successful revival mectings vard. A religious revival is in progr: wick and already forty converts h with the church. The r has risen above the hori adison. It is guid&l in its course by n & Wright. The Woman's Relief corps of Beave be give be given by lled on asury, tions for at Bost- ave united M About Four Wecks More Pay to get in And, as a usual thing, you won’t have to pay to get out. *We won't charge you a cent to get in our store, though it may cost you some- thing, but not very much, to get out. We won't bleed you—we don’t do that kind of businfi The best suits made, for $10. Tailors don't make any better clothes than our $20 to $25 suits == 1| or overcoats. They certainly don’t make them fit any better, and everybody says they don’t wear any longer. Saves from $15 to $25. What a whole lot of cireuses you could go to, or better still, what a lot of underwear you can buy—our $1 kind is 75¢ now, for a few days. Save enough on underwear to get a pretty good hat of us. We're the best hatters in town. BROWNING, KING & CO., |S. W, Cor. 16th and Douglas Sts. npen every Btore open aard alag il 6.5 s ALl 3