Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 30, 1893, Page 4

s THEOMAHA DAILY BER B ROS JWATER, F s PURLISIED EVERY MORNING THRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Paiiy Nen (sitliont Sanday) One Year Dafly aud Sinday, One Yea - Six Months Whreo Monti« Sunday Bee, (he Vo saturdny Mo, One Yeu Weekly Ber, (me Yea OFFICES 1ty - foNFl Streets. CORMESPONDENCH clating to news and o S8 LETTER an remittances ahond be y S LISHING CONPANY. | SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. | Gic0. I Toschiiek ¢ Ture MEE Pub Wb compn A Mwear that e At eirenianon of Ti DALY it ok Mondny e 20 Fhuradny . Novombe Fridns, Navomber 21 Gro, <= | Sworn 10 hefors e and Sibaerived In iy Av Octobor, 21, BE THANKIUL that yon are not a foot ball playor. Piie income tax is worrying the demo- eratic members of congress a great deal more than their incomes. DON'T forget to give a hearty welcome to the exeursionists who come to Omaha to amend the Thanksgiving « football game. | Tue elevation of the distriet bench by the election of partisan judges does not, seem to be ssing very rapidly at prog this moment. How fortunate that we are not to be inflicted with that lengthy president's message until after the time for thanks- ving is past! Wrt General Campos in command of the Spanish for Melilla things may be expeeted to assume w lively aspect in that vicinity before vory many days. AN INCREASE of 100 per cent in the | vear's output of gold ought to be a tempting consolation to Colorado for the closing of o few of its poorer paying silver mines. (e tariff bill does not go quite far enough in the direction of free trade to suit the foreign press. The democratic | administration will please take notice of this when it undertakes to frame an- other revenue law HOw did the newly installed judge of the district learn court that he was elected to fill the particular vacancy to which Judge Duflie had been tempo- vavily appointed? Hasn't Blair as good a title to it as Ambrose? Towa-Nebraska football contest | teday promises be the event of the duy. The teams are well matehed, and while we helieve the Nebraska team will trinmph, sueh a result cannot be considered as a foregone conclusion by any means THE 0 THE United States might drive a pros- perous business just now in sending a fow of its surplus statesmen to reor- ganize the numerous ministries that are awaiting just such ability us each of our statesmen thinks he possesses in the most eminent degree, DISTRICT assembly No. 126 of the Knights of Labor has signified its di. proval of the gas franchise ontrage in a series of emphatic resolutions, The perpetrators of this high-handed pro- ceeding ave gradually learning what the people think of their disgarceful ac- tions. THE Omaha Belt line has been as- sessed by the city clerk at $12,855. The owners of that property down in New York claim it to be worth $8,000,000 in- cluding franchises, difference, The local tax agent. however,will doubt- less have the nerve to file a protest against the absurd valuation piaced upon the propert Some PER GENERAL BISSELL says that the sinecure postmastership must go. What is to become of all those newspapers which have becn feeding on the local postoflice for years imme- morial? Take away the postotfice and life will be scarcely worth living for the ordinary offic PosTy eeking editor OFFICIAL reports of railroad earnings for October aro not showing the terrible falling off in net receipts of which the railway magnates have been so loudly | complaining. The railvoads are by no means as badly affected by the prevail- ing industrial depression as are a host of other important business interests of the country POPULISTS of the state announce that acouncil of the party leaders will be iield in January 1o adopt a plan of Wam- paign for next year. The men in charge of this movement are probably not ask- ing advice from the newspapers, but we ean suggest that if the populists will next year confine their workers to state issuos and let national issues sevorely alone for a time they will produce bet- ter results. But theyawont do it THE coal agent of the Union Pacific railway is authority for the statement | that if the Wilson tariff bill becomes law and the duty on foreign coal bere- moved it will cut that company out of the sale of possibly 500,000 tons annually on the Pacifio coast alone. This would be a serious blow, not only to the road, but to the army of miners employed by it. There might be some recompense if the vemoval of the tari¥ would force the price of coal down in this part of the world, but there is no rezson to be- lieve that it would. THANKSGIVING. The nation 8§t peace with the world. The American people enjoying & higher averago of prosperity than any other people on earth. The year'scrops ample for supplying every demand. No epi- demic disease anywhere in our broad land. Our political institutions securo in the love and patriotism of the people. The American name respected through- out the world. No obstacle to the con- tinued material progress of the republic that a wise and patriotic statesmanship cannot surmount. Are not these amply sufficient reasons why the American people should acknowledge on this day of national thanksgiving the divine goodness and favor that has been so richly vouchsafed them and in gladness and gratitude give praise and thanks for the blessings that are theirs? The spirit to which this day appeals should be as broad as the republic and clevated above pessimistic reflections. We all know that there is distress and suffering throughout the land. There has been a long period of depression that has forced many people into idleness, and thousands of such will find little reason for thankfulness beyond the fact that they ave living. Indeed, to many oven life may have become a burden. 0 one can be altogether blind to these and none should be indiffer- them. It is rather a duty to be mindful of them, to the end that we may make this the oceca- sion for helping the unfortunate and giving them canse to be thankful with But we shall miss the proper influ- ence of Thanksgiving day and fail to oxperience its rvight inspiration if we narrow our attention to the misfortunes of the few and thus exclude from consid- eration tho almost boundless blessings of the many. It is the grand aggregate of benefits and blessings enjoyed by the Amerfcan people which they are to think of today and these are greatenough to inspire the most fervent thanksgiving from those who acknowledge adivine providence in the affairs of mankind. There will always Dbe some of peovle suffering hardships and privation. That to be an inexorable law of the social organ- ism. But so long as our free institutions \wvive, assuring to every eitizen the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” we shall have reason enough as a people for national thanks- giving. The gladness and the feasting in mil- lions of Amervican homes teday will moke for a truer citizenship and a heartier patriotism. we realize the meaning of this occasion it cannot fail to awaken a sense of pride in the privi- lege of being an American citizen and to inspire a profounder affection for our country, which from its beginning as a nation has seemed to enjc degree the favor of divin conditions ent to us, our seems na special providence. THE POSTAL Ordinarily noreport of an executive department of tho federal government greator intorest for the general public than that of tho postmaster gen- eral. This is because the postal ser- vice is more closely and intimately con- nected with the business and social life of the whole people than any other, The reports of the head of the Post- office department under the preceding administration always commanded widespread attention, due to their highly practical character and the hearty interest they denoted in the question of improving and extending SERVICE. has the mail servico and increasing its efliciency. This interest mado 1itself manifest in practical achievment, 50 that at the close of the last adminis- tration the postal service in every branch had attained a higher standard of efficiency than ever before. The present administration, therefore, took control of this service under the most favorable circumstances, with a plain course marked out for it, which, if pursued, would carry the servieo still nearer to perfection. Thus far there has been no notable departure from the policy of the preceding administration and the effi- ciency of the service is maintained. If this shall continue the public will be satisfied, even though no advance be made. What it has to fear is thas the 80 o will be allowed to retrograde, as it did under the first Cleveland adminis- tration, when it declined to a lower standard than for many years before. Postmaster General Bissell, in his an- nual report, shows that the deficiency for the last fiscal year was very much greater than had been estimated, and he s that instead of there being a sur plus for the current fiscal year, as esti- mated by his predecessor, there is likely 19 be a defieit of nearly #8,000,000. It is not easy to understand why there should bo this extraordinary diserepancy in es- timates for the fiscal year, of which five months have passed, and it is quite pos- sible that the new hands at this business will be found when the year is ended to have made a mistake to the extent of a few million dollars, though of course there will be no surplus, as estimated in the report for 1892, As to the es- timate for the fiscal year ended June ) last the failure to vealize it was due largely to the busi- ness depression, which had its effeot upon corvespondence, upon the money order business and upon the revenues of the service generally, while the in- creased business counted on as incident tothe World's fair fell far short of antici- pation, as did the sale of the Columbian postage stamp. Had the gencral pros- perity of 1802 prevailed during the first the current year there of six months of can be no doubt that the estimates postal revenue for the fiscal year 1 would have been very nearly realized, and reasoning in the same way, if there is a revival of business activity and prosperity at the peginning of 1804 there will probably be no such deficit at the end of the cur- rent fiscai year as the postmaster general estimates. It is to be observed that there is no better or more trust- worthy indication of the average finan- cial condition of the people than the fluctuations in the postal revenues. The postmaster general takes a de- cided stand aguinst extending free de- livery tosmall towns and villages, claim- ing that the experiment has not shown the desirability of establishing the sys- tem, and it is entirely safe to say that B O i L —————————— . THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1893, it will be abandoned and that the rural populations which for two years have been served in this way and ali that were expecting to be will have to be cortent for some years to come with the old conditions, That the abandonment of the policy of extending fr livery to rural communities will o extremely disappointing to such communities there can be no doubt. It was expected that the present ad- ministration wonld not approve of the contracts made by its predecessor for carrying ocean.mails, and the for doing this is that no apparent ad- vantage has resulted from them. The country will be better able to judge of the merit of this plea when it has seen the results of the policy regarding the ocean mail service of the present ad- ministration, though it cannot interfere with existing contracts, The postmaster general makes some recommendations and suggestions that merit careful con- o de- excuse sideration, among them that the charges for domestic money orders bo reduced and the form of the oraer simplified, at the same time abolishing postal notes. Regarding civil service reform the postmaster general makes unfavorable comment upon the dismissal of democratic clerks from the railway mail service at the be- ginning of the preceding administration. Perhaps Mr. Bissell needs to be in- formed that in the last year of Mr. Cleveland's first administration a large number of experienced and competent clerks were dismissed from that service because they were republicans and their places filled by demoerats, to the almost utter demoralization of the sorvice, and that the Harrison administration ro- stored the republican clerks, where their removal was shiown to have been for political reasons, both as a mutter of justice to them and for the good of the service. CORPORATIONS IN THE COUNCIL. Noone present at the last meeting of the city council would have had to be told that election day had passed. The proceedings of that body would have informed him before many minutes had clapsed that the majority of the mem- bers feel themselves entirely absolved from their immediate responsibility to the taxpayers and citizens who elected them, and the conclusion must have in- ovitably been forced upon his mind that tho corporations rather than the people are represented in the Omaha city couneil, Not to speak of the shamoful treat- ment of the mavor’s veto of the fifty- year gas franchise ordinance in refus- ing even to receive the papers which he had sent toit at the previous regular mecting when simple courtesy demanded that they be at least placed on file in case the council were not ready to act upon them, the council managed to show several times how it stands in relation to corporation raids upon the rights of the taxpayers. A communication from the garbage contractor, a contractor backed by the combined influence of the franchised corporations, asking for per- mission to erect a tool house on ground comprising a part of the streets of Omaha, was quickly referred without debate to the building inspector with the understanding that the prayer be granted. If the garbage contractor wants to erect a tool house, why does he not do as other private individuals do— buy or rent a piece of land suitable for his purposes? If the council can au- thorize tha erection of a permanent structure on a street near the viver, it can authorize one in the middle of Far- nam street. The garbage contractor hasalready secured valuable privileges from the city for nominal returns, Why should he be given further privileges, however small their value may be? The ecorporations i the council have also pushed through all the disputed claims of the Barber Asphalt company that have been hanging fire for months. The merits of the original dispute need not detain us. But the city engincer had taken the trouble to institute acare- ful examination of the work for which the last monthly claim had been pre- sented and had recommended certain deductions on account of failure to live up to the letter of the agreement. Two councilmen in a two hours’ drive, in company with the agent of the Barber company, had convinced themselves that the twenty miles of paved streets were in excellent condition and on their report the repair claim was allowed. The repair contract calls for keeping the streets constantly in good order. With the corporations running the council all that is, needed is to have a mile or s0in good order on the day when the committee takes its monthly drive with the company’s agent, and holes and cracks may be left in the streets the remainder of the year, in spite of the protest of the engineering department, The corporations are daily becoming more and more bold in their manipula- tions of the eity council, This course of action will probably be continued until the taxpayers arouse to the protection of their interests. The veto power of a watchful mayor has in too many in- stances proven unavailing. Unless things change for the better the task of driving the corporations out of the city couneil will soon have to be taken up. TESTIMONY from rope designed to support the advocacy of an income tax in the United States is not likely to have very much weight with our people. European governments, when in need of revenue, do not usually concern them- selves as to whether the methods of ob- taining it arve offensive to any portion of the people or not, or whether they are partial in their operation or otherwise. They arve controlled altogether by the necessities of the situation. In this coun- try every citizen is presumed to have an equal interest in the govern- ment, and to propose that one class of the people shall pay & tax that another olass is exempted from, as is done by the advocates of an income tax here, is hostile to one of the most im- portant principles in our political sys- tem. As a matter of fact such a proposi- tion dees not find justification in any of the income tax systems of Europe. Buv in this matter we need not go abread for guidance. We have had an income tax aud pretty much everybody who remems bers its offensive operation knows that such a method of obtaining revenue is | not suitable to this country PRICES on all\gegdes of soft coal are and have long Beemtoo high in Omaha. There ave rich coal deposits in central Towa, southern Kansas, in the Black Hills, in Wyomia® and in Colorado, within easy ro##h of the consumers of Nebraska. Inv@stigation made by THE BEE in the pa&t proved that it costs more to transport coal from the mines mentioned Omaha than the coal is worth at the mines. Local*dealers of course put on top of this a liberal mar- gin of profit, so that a ton of coal worth $1.65 at the mines is retailed in Omaha at from $4.50 to 37. That these prices are exorbitant without saying. They are maintained by a local combine of dealers which leviesa princely tribute annually on the people of Omaha. Back of them, of course, stand the railroad companies pledged to uphold them in their close corporation methods. The only means of redress that scems at all practicable is that suggested in the ve- cent local populist platform, wherein it was recommended that 100 or more pri- vate consumers pool together, acquire trackage, and purchase large quantities of coal. By .such means the combine might be broken. A REPRESENTATIVE of the receivers of the Union Pacific railway system has asked the federal court to fix the salary of each of the five receivers at 318,000, or 0,000 a year for all. These men will be expected to do the work of offi- ls whose salarics have aggregated 50,000 & year heretofore. They are un- skilled in the servico and must grope their way through the intricacies of scientific railroading. By no process of veasoning can their service be worth as much as that of trained railroad men. The compensation asked for seems to be out of all reason and to have no other ground to rest upon than precedents in like cases. There has for years been much popular clamor against the princely sal- aries paid the higher railroad officials, alleged to be at the expense of the pat- rons of the roads. 1f there be justifica- tion for such contention there is cer- tainly some force to the claim that the receivers in this case, or at least some of them, are asking too much. goos OUR Washington dispatches Comptroller Fekels as saying that he will go to the bottom of the affairs of the defunct Capital National bank and intimates that every man remotely re- sponsible will have to step up and help make good the loss. | This is good news for the taxpayers at large, but it will cause many groans) in Lincoln. The books of Mosher's defunct bank show it to be indebted to'the state in the sum of $80,000, whide the state treasureg’s books fix the amount'at $260,000. 1f the comptroller can bring the power of the national governwenf to play upon this case and save a large share of this money to the peovle he will accomplish more than seems probable at this time. quote 'RETARY MORTON.nakes a rather sensational statem€nt in his report when he intimates that a portion of the appropriation for state experimental stations may have miscarried. Aninvesti- gation will of course follow, as it should. The secretary vefers to the matter in support of his recommiendation that such appropriations be placed in the depsrt- ment so that supervision of disburse- ments may be exercised. On this point the secretary’s conclusions seem to be eminently sound. The Bustiess Outlook, New York Sun. These things taken together lead to the conclusion that we are sure of at least mod- erately active business as soon as tho pre ent winter s at an end. The vast supplies of money now accumulated in New York will then find remunerative employment. With the return of general confidence must come a revival of legitimate speculation, none the worse for the lessons that business men have received through the recent tight- ness of money - A Vital Objection Pmiladelphia Recor: Oue of the strongest objections to an in- come tax would be the cost of collection. A very considerable portion of the money de- rived from taxing incomes would be spent upon the army of inquisitors necessary to gathor it in. ~An income tax, if laid upon all incomes ulike, is no*doubt an_excecaingly fair tax theoretically. In practice, however, it is unfair, because of the opportunity to escape payment afforded to dishonest men whose actual income cannot be ascertained. e Tonoring a Revolutionary He Washington Star, New York Suturday paid reverential hom- age to the memory of & man whosename and heroic death should ever be conspicuously before the young of Amer] One hundred and seventeen vears have comeand gone since Nuthan Hale was hanged by the Brit- ish as a spy. ‘The influences of his sorrow- ful decease were potent 1o hastening suc- cessful revolution, and his brave words just before martyrdom: *I only regret that I have butone lifo to lose for my country, aroused thousands of lukewarm colonists. In erecting o statue to the hero New York City pays but a fraction of the nation's - debtedness, ——— Reversing the Mexican Custom. Chicago Herald Singular and altogetner news comes from Mexico. are to be believed the revolutionists have administered uuto the hosts of President Diaza most thorough and soul-satisfying thrasbing. The federal troops—or such of them as are left—avp reported to be headed for the national canital'at a gait that would make the big 999 locgmotive blow its smo stack off in sheer envy und despair. This entirely reverses the ushal order of thing: in Mexican revolutions. The custom hith- erto has been foc Some greasy patriot to dub himself general, eellect fifty or a hun- dred men, raise the standard of revolt and get captured withiTo¥ey-elght hours. Then followed o drumhead _court martial, 8 fusil- lade, o shallow trefigf and quicklime, and tnat' revolution wad -sfuelched. “I'he new tem is revolutiomary indeed, not only as affecting the governmentof Mexico, but as destroying old tragiwons. It is so novel, in fucy, that furtheri particulars should be awaited before giviag.Jdull credence Lo the stories that come from the border, unprecedented If the accounts EDITORIAL FOOT RALL. Philadelphia Times: Dying by inches is fast enough, but it's unfortunate when foot ball players die by the foot, as it were Cincinnati Commercial: 1f Corbeet Mitchell would challenge a foot ball pl there might be an opportunity to sce their morits as pugilists. Foot bail players differ from pugilists in that they fight—not talk Washington Post: Meanwhile, it would seem the rankest infatuation to harbor tho theory that foot ball is a more gentlemanly and & less domoralizing practice than prize fighting. The record indicates the contrary Indianapoiis Journal: Thus far the testi- mony presented by the newspapers does not warrant the conclusion that foot ball 18 as hazardous to lifo and limb as an averago pitched battle, but much more so than the average duel in Ligh life Kansas City Star: Foot amusement 1n the world that ¢ the semblan, and yer all is the sole rries with it e and excitoment of the great game of war, The first inquiry after a match is “Who won_the victory!” The next 1s concerning the number of killed and wounded, Chicago Horald: But at least lot us put a stop as soon as possible to the brutality of foot ball—a sport which, in many features, is worse than prize fighting, being less a matter of skill, more dangerous to the par- ticipants and involving a much larger num- ber of contestants. Detroit I'ree. Press: Because they a tho flower of our youth is nomore reason that they should be permitted to proceed in the work of killing and crippling than that the same concession should be made to the muscular athletes who have a less dangerous SPOrt 1n the twenty-four-foot ring New York Times: The game is bloody and brutal, too, how stoically the young players may endure their wounds and frac- tures, or the injuries or even the deaths of their compaaions. 1t has engendered, more- over, a sordid desire of gain by no means in keeving with the pursuit of the liberal arts and sciences, Harper's Weekly: stood, however Onee let it be under- that a knowledge of foot ball is essential to success as a policeman and we shail have not only men whose natural tastes and inctinations lead them to become policemen flocking to our colleges in order to obtain the best possible prepara- tion, but we shall find our athletic college graduates clamoring for positions as guard- jans of the peace, as they have hitherto thronged the professions of the law, medi- cine and the church, — —— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Foot ball colors nec and blue. ‘Lhe proud bird of freedom will innings some other day. A bicy gineer because of his s General Rusk’s fortun all of which is left to h Giving thanks costs nothing. The truly thankful are they who give a share of their abundance to the worthy but unfortunate, ‘Tho specter of sorrow which poets see around the “festive board” is doubtless due to the impression that loaded tables groan. Having secured a place among the an- thracite coal barons of the east, Vanderbilt hus gone abroad to enjoy the fruits of the squeeze. vory spellbinder who is onto his job should ot be buckward in sounding *“a note of warning.” A variety of Keynotes are in circulation, The price of plate glass dropped 20 per cent with the collavse of the trust. 1f the government wants to cheapen things hunt- ing down trusts offers golden opportunitics. As evidence of the cheerful condition of 4irs in Colorado it is worthy of note that the Denver Republican discussea the Union Pacific problem without suggesting the re- moval of the company’s headquarters. Wlien Jeremiah Rusk, the volunteer sol dier, wasoffered the coloneley of the Twenty- fifth regiment of Wisconsin volunteers ho declined. Afterward when asked to ex plam his action he said: 1 did not think I was competent to take command of a regi- ment or that I had the experience necessar: in military affairs to fit me for any rank higher than that of major, which at that time [ regarded as more ornamental than otherwise.” Within a few wecks he found that none of his associates knew any move of military affaivs than he did, and so he ac- cepted the commission. He commanded his regiment to the very end of the war. —_—— NEBRASKA AND NEBR: essarily run to black have his st is not to be regarded as an en- ina arch. mounts to &0,000, wife and children. SKANS, ‘Tne Fairfield creamery has been reopened. The Coneregationalists of Norfolk Lave raised enough money to iift the debt from their church. Patrick Campbell of Plattsmouth turned from an extended visit 1o home in Ireland. The people of Box Butte county have voted to submit to a tax for the purpose of sinking an artesian well. A corn sheller at Dubois removed three fingers from the hand of Wiiliam Myers with neatness and dispatch. A son of Albert Schoenstein of Chapman thought he was playing with an empty re- volver, He now has a jagged hole through his wrist Joe Moran of Hay Springs tied a cow iind his wagon and when the horses ran y the poor old bovine couldn't keep up and her neck was broke M. J. Mumford, whosecttlea in the Nemaha valley in 1857 and was for twenty-fiv a justice of the peace, died at the home of his daughter in ‘I'able Rock, aged 87 years. Sugar-making from beets isn't all safe work, by any means. Three workmen at the Norfolk factory are latd up—one with a broken thigh, another with mashed finge and the third with a bruised head, recove The Knights of Pythias of Bloomfield are caring for S, W. Tnowasand family, who lost their ail in the Pomeroy cyclone.” Mr. Thomas was seriously crippled by bemng caught in the wreck of his home and one of his childven w has re- his old STEWED COMIC! Binghampton Republic about the bassest thing on Lowell Courler: Filing & will son rasps the feelings of disappolnted legatee Now Orleans Pleayune ing to come down stuirs ho ue hurry up. 1 man i try- d not be told to Toxas Sittings: Some men get down on their nelgnbors when they find they can’t cono np 10 them. Pittsburg Post: Miss dend struek on foot ball, Miss Mattor-of-Fact—Y, Lite: The Clergymun—And why s sy their prayers every nlght? Go0d Boy—So's the Lord can have a chunce to get whint they want by morning ushloigh L am just s, 15 Just killiug, ould lit- Troy Pross: Claus Bprec over in Huwail. Some peoplo think that it s 1s, who hus ralsing cain This s chelation. Buffalo Courler; Disagrecable though it iy be to him, it is still u fact that the Clinnces ure against the lozloss wan obtalning iy sort of a foothold in soclety New York Weokly: Actress—You aro a aivorce lawyer, 1 understand? Lawyer—Yos, miadam; @ divorces without publicity. Actross u in the wrong office. Good duy, sir. POOK THING. Indianapolis Journal, There was a little girl And sho had & little curl Right down in the middle of her forehead; 80 she wore it to the hop, Aud it happened off to drop And the langusgze that she thought was stmply horrid Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE WILSON BILLS WEARNESS New Tariff Measure Will Not Stand Repub- lican Analys! CAMPAIGN OF OPPOSITION ARRANGED Individanl Faatures of the Tnstrament Will Be Handied parately in ihe Ap- proaching Discass vl Re- sults Already Developed. WasniNarox Brreav or Tue ¥ S18 ForntEENTIH STRER Wasnixatox, Nov. The new democratic tariff bill oxcites more criticism hourly. By the end of the weok, when o majority of the democratic members of the house will have returned to Washington, the demand for a varty caucus to vevise the crude measure roported by Chairman Wilson will have be come overwhelming. The chief exigency which the Wiison bill itself creates, and which seems destined to bring destruction upon its own head is that while professedly 4 revenue measure, it really cs iuto the rovenues of the treasury to an amount esti- mated at $0,000,000, instead of providing means to meet the threatened deficit at the end of the fiseal year under the present rov enuo laws of from £50,000,000 to $30,000,000, Asstated in last night's Bre specials, this fact of itself will force the house to amend the Wilson bill so as to produce greater revenue, for the reason that an in- come tax cannot well pass that boay, and most certainly cannot pass the senate. h Result of Tariff Revision. The announcement is made this morning that as a boginning of disastrous results of the r fon of the tariff in the interest of every country in tho world except the United States, the mills of the Roxbury «Carpet company are to shut down indeti nitely, thus throwing %00 employes out of work. These milis are closed, it is stated, because of the publication of the new tariff bill, and they will be kept closed until the tariff question is settled. Iv will thus be scen that the disaster which overwnelmed the carpet industry at Yonkers, N. Y., last summer in the mere anticipation of tarif re vision has reached New England. ‘I'here ar ntimations that _reductions of wages on the entire closing of miils will follow in Phila- delphin, one of the greatesy carpet produc ing centers in the country, Of all the Moguette carpet made in ‘the world % per cent 1s made in Yonkers. The mills have | not been closed for nineteen years until th threatened reduction of duty on carpets. Wages have increased during that period for weaving alone nearly 500 per cent. At the same time the price of carpets has de- creased. Where the mer is Hit, The agricultural interests will, perhaps, | be the slowest to understand how their we fare is attacked, but when they are heard from the farmers will be likely to speak in no uncertain tones. The removal of duties from agricultural products which arereadily brought across our northern border from Canada will speedily prove u thorn in the | side of farmers, not only of the northwest | but of overy state wlhich frizges upon tho Canadian border. Representative member of the wa said to Tue Bep after careful exami he had been utterly single feature of protection in it. The cuts made in the bill on manufactured articles would, he said, have to come out of the pric | of labor because the manufucturers had already so little protection that labor was Payne of New York, a 'S And means committee, rrespondent today U ion of the Wilson bill unable to discover a the only place in which they could now onomize in order to meet foreign com petition. Mr. Payne lamented especially the injury to agricultural thought Nebrasia farmers with others must suffer competition with Canada. Aunother Unfair Feature, Speaking of the proposed tax on corpora- tions, Mr. 1 ne called attention to the fact that a corporation tax would reach more poor pooplo than would a direet stax on - comes above §,000. He explained that most corporations are of small holders of stock. Some individual might hold a Jarger biock, but a great bulk of the stock woula be Wistributed insmall quantities among a great many people. A corporation tax would abply with especial severity to manufacturing concerns, a gr portion of which are now incorporated nd whose stock is widely distributed, in many cascs being largely held by employes. These concerns would suffer in two ways: First. from. the lower duties and the necessity of meeting foreign competition by the reduction | of cost of labor, and. second, by the direct tax upon their stock which is distributed among the working people in small lots, al- though of course the larger blocks are held by the chief partuers in these corporations. These criticisms of the bill do not come from republicun sources by any means. What the Debate Prd The debate of the tariff bill in this con- gress does not promise any better display of oratory than did the fight for the uncondi tional repeal of the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. The democratic veterans of many years scrvice in the house state tha products and ses, The largo (Mass.) | -~ BROWNING, KIN§ make fine clothes ¢ e e g ———— | they 1aiked thomselves owt on the tanft over {the Mills bill and the subsequent debate | over the McKinley act, besides their speeches of the camvaign of 1862 wero 1im. ited almost entirely to discussion of the | tAnft and tho tariff will again be the topic of their speeches in their campaigns for re election next fall The republicans on the other hand will make no special effort at displays of denun | ciatory eloquence during the genoral de | bate, “They will confine themselves to a number of calm statements showing the viciousness of the genoral dystom on which the bill is built and will direct their prinei pal efforts againet individual features of the bill when it is discussed by sections systomatic plan of campaign s arrange by which some expericnced republican mem ber will bo assigned the charge of the opposi tion on overy schedule, and®it will bo his auty when that schedule comes up for con ideration to present a clear and concise ex position of the injury tha will be done to all the interests affected by that schedule it the rates provosed in the Wilson bill are per: mitted to go into effect Fearing the republican avalysis of the measure the democrats intend to ailow but two weeks for debate in the house, and say the bill will bo in the room of the senate committee on finance when the holiday re- 83 is taker Personal Mentio Charles £, Gray of Kearney has beon ap. pointed Lo a clorkship in the Interior depart. ment. [t is understood that he will take the vlace ot his brother James, who is a clork under Secretary Hoke Smith. Tho tatter will shortly graduato from the Columbian universs ity, the principal law school of this eity, and he intends to retire from the federar servico and enter upon the practice of law J. S B was today appointed postmas ter at Ulysses, Butler county,Neb.,vice H. (', Byamw, rosigned Mr. Edward Rosewater, oditor of Tue Bxe, who has been in Washington for a couplo of i day ter attending a I’ress nssocintion meeting in the south, left for New York to night. He goes howme the latter part of the week Among therecent dismissals from the sery ico of the gencral land office were A, W. Conleo and P, J. Williams of Nebraska and B, Kilpatrick, D. H. Gooduc, J. Hasthshorn, W. B. Webster and J. 1. Driver of Towa, Tha names of the victims of the wholesale dis. wissal from tho land office force were not made publie until today Pruny S, Heatn e - Hintiin, Town Newapuper OMee Buriod. Towa Crry, 2 The fowa City Re publican building was totally destroyed by fire this morning, T.oss, $10,000 ut half. The Republican’s loss is very heavy, and to Mr. H.'S. Fairall it is particulivly bid, as he had just completed arvangements to buy the entire ofic insurance, S Suield Nov. 20.—The an- Haley. o tutor of b, had cut his throat (4 excitement and sympa- Cavmun nounceme: non Latin in Harvard colle created widespre thy. Hehasbeen a tutor at farvird for three years. Overwork is said to have caused the deed e A 1OAST. Detroit iree Press. Now, here's to the turk Wiih stufling so fine, Here's to the man Who on him doos dine. Hero's ta the boy Who ents the i Here's to the g st plog | Who never says die, Here's to young sweethoart, With figure divine, And this 1o her bright cyes— Would she were mine | Here's to us all, As bright as the day, Miy wo never know sorrow, Butalways be gay Here's to our town Upon these broud waters; And this to our stute, Her sons and her daughters. 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