Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1893, Page 4

1. ROSEWATER, Editor, PURLISHED EVERY MORNING T 4 £500 Tiaily A Snday. 10 00 £ix Moytha % by Rl 0 Eundag e urday 1 1 Thee L4 and 15, Tribune SPONDENCE. e rafis, o n pryvable t tor Parties leaving the ¢l W 8 sent (0 et q THE ZEE PUBLISHING COMPANY SW IRCULATION RN STATEMENT OF € 4 nrE Pub Wt th thet week ehing « A wetval efrenla ending Novembe Eunday, N Monday. Noven Tuesdiy, Novem ey Noven 5.540 370 eyl Eaturiiny T7sCntoK i SwOrn to before me and subseribed in my 4 wrar Lpresence this 261h day of November, 1803, 1<y P.N. FriL, Notary Pub! Gro. m for October, (24,316 Crry officiuls will probably leavn by hitter expe that they not elected to conduct brokerage business in city warrants. No oNE killed on the Thanksgiving foot ball field! Let the president pro- elaim anotl v for thanksgiving, fasting and prayer. nee wer NO AMERICAN president over had 8o much trouble in sceaving followers to accent sinet positions being unde: by President Carnot of France. ca as s gone Wi CALL attention to Thr BEE'S full and accurate veports of all the sporting events of Thanksgiving day. As al THE BEE'S reports were un- rivalea in its territory. us CANDIDATES for the United States senate are becoming thicker in Towa as the temnerature grows colder. By the time winter arrives there will be more candidates than members of the ture. egisla- AN INCREASED tax Pproposed as a tax to repress u nuisance. This may be a very proper tax to be im- 1 for a very laudable purnose, but stting guite a distance from the :nue only™ idea? on cigarettes i THE adherents of the Nebraska and Town foctball teams cortainly deserve credit for gentlemanly behavior durin their short stay in Omaha. They arc doing much to redeem the student fra- ternity from the disrepute into which it has been dragged. WareH for some lively serimmages in the coming mayoralty clections in two of the larger cities which elocted demo- cratic mayors last time—Chicago and Boston. The republicans are keeping up their winning gait and will not be surprised if they shut their opponents entirely out. For orde behavior the western collegian can give his eastern brethren several points and beat them out. With equal cause for jubilation or regrets the students of the western colleges know where to draw the line on their hilarity, and this is where they are far ahead of their friends in the east. IF LOCAL public and private charity too often miscarries within the view of those who are interested in watching it reach its destination, how much more often would a federal appropriation be xpended in supporting a horde of use- less officials without affording the in- tended beneficiarvies any real aid? Fed- eral grants for public charity have sel- dom proven a success. Tr1s insinuated that Sceretary Carlisle i3 opposed to the whisky tax because he is o Kentuckian. As more Kentucky whisky is consumed outside of Kentucky than within its borders this insinuation will not hold water. The Kentucky dis- tillers are just as willing as any others to pocket the profits that would acerue to existing stocks of liquor through a higher tax on spirits. THANKSGIVING demonstrated the pos- sibilities of Omuha for properly enter- taining und amusing its citizens and guests, The football game drew a fair crowd in spite of the bitter cold weather. The theaters played to crowded houses at all performances. The numerous ballsand minor entertainments wore all well attended. No one could complain of a lack of suitablo amusements, Tae New York HMerdd prints a pie- ture of the ways and means committee discussing the schedules of the democratic taiff bill, in which William J. Bryan is visible only as gards the back of his head and shoul- dors. We trust that the Herald does not intend to convey the impression that he back of Boyan's head is the most in- spiving part of him. Beyan's distin- guished bearing ought to entitle him to 8 full face view in the ways and means group. new Hon THE anti-snappers down in New York aretrying to perfect a new democratic state organization whereby they may be able to freeze the Hill machine crats out of state offices as well as fol- eral offices. The machine politicians have been feelin for some tumo over their failure togatanyof the plum; which they expected as eompensation for carrying New York for Cleveland in 1892, Thoy view tho new movemant an unwarranted i the president aad his Ollowers, T prospects ave for war to the kuife. the meanwhile tho republicans wmake sure of vestor lrwer allegiance. 890 20 in will | duties. | tage of a specific demo- | the 1sion on the part of | SPECIFIC AND AD VALOREM DUTIES. A feature « regard as of very great impontance is the general change from specific to ad valorom duties which it provides for. As heretofore stated, it has 10ng been @ | controverted question as to which is the better system, but the weight of intelli- gent opinion and of practical experience has been largely on the side of specific duties, and not the least valuable of this opinion has come from democrats, tations from a report sent to con- on this subject by Daniel the first tary of treasury Mr. Cleveland's administration, furnish most convineing arguments in favor of specific Speaking of the contrivances then in operation to ovade the revenue by false invoices or by undervaluation, or by any of e inder an ad va- he said that they were in- contestably and notoriously inherent in the “One advantage,” said Manning, “and perhaps the chief advan- over an ad valorem system, is in the fact that under the former duties are levied by a positive test which can bo applied by our officers while th of the government. lorem system the valorem rato plied must be gath many thousand miles aw circumstances most un administration of justice authority said that the records of the Treasury dopartment proved thav un- dervaluation did not disappear by reason of low ad valorem duties. This testimony is fortified by the opinion of Manning's suceessor as sec tary of tho treasury, Mr. Fairchild, who said in a report to congress that in revising and reducing rates of duty they should be made specific instead of ad valorem, for the reason that ‘the latter are the too easy source of decention and inequality at the custom house.” Ex-Congressman Abram 8. Hewitt of New York, a demoerat whose judgment in matters of this kind, at least, entitled to ve high consideration, said of the new tar- iff bill, after pointing out some of its in- . that the ad valorem fea- ture is radically wrong. Nearly every secretary of the treasury who has up to this time discussed this subject has favored specific duties uniformly for the reason that undervaluation and fraud are inherent in the ad valorem stem. The present tariff law spected this conscnsus of opinion and as a vesult frauds on the revenue have almost ceased under it. The proposal to return to ad valorem rates, on the alleged ground that it will stop fraud, must be at- tributed to either dishonesty or ignor- ance. The specific duties of the nresent taviff Quo- Manning, the former secr inder er ns lorem system system merchandise is in possession But under an ad which the to be ap- in places ¢ and unde vorable to the The same ‘s to ad is consistenc re- | area great protection in themselves to ost of our manufacturers, and what 1o less important they ave a prote to the national treasury. Under this system the temptation to fraud is re- duced to the minimum and discrimina- “tion between importers rendered almost impessible. The house may agree to the general change to ad valoremduties, but it is not likely that this departure will be accepted by the senate. is tion A PLAN FOI: STATE CURRENCY. Among the questions that will press upon the attention of congress early in the regular session that regarding the currency certain to be prominent. The abandonment of siiver purchases brought to an end regular additions to the currency supply, and while the effect of this is not yet felt and the advocates of more money are for the time being silenced by the fact thot there is a much greater supply of currency at the finan- cial centers than there is demand for, still the expediency of making pro- vision for the future, when the require- ments of full business resumption will call for more currency, wili be strongly urged and congress will be forced to give it attention. The policy of restoring to state banks the privilege of issuing cutrenc, pealing the 10 per cent tax, w prives them of that privilege, is still discussed by those who favor it, and there is every assurance that bills foy this purpose will be introduced in con- gress. Tt is highly probuble also that a measure will be reported from the house ecommittes on banking and currency to carry out this policy. The advocates of it are principally from the south, tho demand for the repeal of the tax having been incorporated in the cratic national platform instigation of that section, also has the support of a northern democrats, among whom is Representative Harter of Ohio. In the last congress Mr. Havter introduced a bill to repeal the 10 per cent tax which did not receive much attention. He has a revised plan which he will doubtless formulate in a bill and introduce in the present congress, His proposition is to 1 the 10 per cent tax on state bank is- sues and to impose a tax of 1 per cent on such issues, to be guaranteed as redeem- able at par in the lawful money of the United States by the state granting the charter. The novelty of this scheme is in the proposition to create a stato cur- reney the redemption of which in pas funds the state is to be responsible for, The act ation would really be that of congress, but beyond this congress would have no responsibility The first objection to this plan that it is yvery questionable whether congress can compel a state t the redemption of u currency created by its aet. But let it be admitted, for the suke of argument, that it can, there i then presented the objection that con- gress would have to inerease the issues of lawful money to keep pace with the increase of the eurrency guaranteed by states. Thus if all the states uld in the aggregate two or three hundred millions cf eurvency it would be necessay for the national ment, in order to provide for its on, to e ntinve to issue lawful in & constuntly increasing There would be created a pro- coss of curvency inflation to which it would be difficult if not impossible to fix suy limit, and a considerable proporticn by re- hich de- demo- the it few at but of ¢ guaranty sh issue gover redem curreney amount, | | | been of this eurrency would not possess the the new tariff bill which | legal tender quality, though the state, [ its framers and supporters profess to by reason of ite guaranty, would prob- ably be bound to receive it for taxes and all dues from its citizens. Under such a plan the financial business of a state would done very largely or alto- gether with its own currency. It would receive that currency for taxes and pay it out again, and under such circum- stances the question is, how would the state secure the lawful money necessary to redeem its currency? The efforts to find some plan by which a state currency can be made as safe and desirable as the currency we now ha wilt fail. The are but two ways to treat this question. Oneis to let the tax stand, the®ther to repeal it uncon- ditionally. The constitutional author- ity of congress to impose the tax affirmed by the supreme and is unquestioned, except a few of the advocates of peal who hold extreme views regarding the rights of the states. The power of to prescribe any conditions under which the states may authorize state banks to i tionable. Atany rate the exercise of such a power, granting that it exists, could not insure the country a curren equally as good as that it now has. The intelligent judgment of the country is against the restoration of a state bank currency under any conditions. be has court by roe congress issue ourrency is ques- A PERVERSION OF THE SCHODLS. We wonder whether the people of this city who have children attending the public schools send them there to be taught the art of professional begging and whether they approve any course of action on the part of their teachers that practically results in such instruction. The children of the public schools have a perfect right to organize a public en- tertainment for the ‘amusement of them- solves or their friends. But there is no color of law which authorizes them to use the publie school buildings for en- tertainments to which an admission price is charged, namatter what may be the object for which the proceeds ave to be expended. Every orderly citizen has a right to admittance to the public school buildings of this city, and no teacher or official has authority to de- mand payment for the exercise of such privifege. The people of this community have provided liberally for the public schools and -they have never hesitated to ap- prove the expenditure of public money for anything that is really necessary to the progress of our school system. It is wrong to ask them to make additional contributions for particular schools when others are not accorded the same treatment. Iven overlooking this fact, sending school children aronnd among their acquaintances to sell tickets of ad- mission to u school entertainment savors altogether too much of an imposition on the public. The butcher and the baker are almost compelled to buy of their customers’ children, although they have already, by their taxes, given their due quota to the support of the public schools. It is time that this practice of tegehing children how to beg be perma- nently abolished. BOGUS OIL INSPECTION. THE BEE publishes the initial articloe in a series, by which it will attempt to show that the provisions of the oil in- spection law are not properly observed. The statute is not what it'should be and does not insure that degree of protection to oil consumers that the laws of Towa and Ohio amply provide. It is known that oil rejected by the official inspec- tors of those states is” dumped into Ne- braska, where the test is not so critical and where it is likely to pass muster re- gavdless of the legal test fixed by our has bought samples of oil of retail dealers at various points through- out the state, and at some expense has had each sample tested by an expert of unquestioned integrity and large ex- perience. The result fully confirms the belief that the oil companies doing busi- ness in this state are selling dangerous compounds to local dealers, whain turn innocently sell to private consumenr: This lagrant disregard of a wise and benificent law must stop. While the law is imperfect it is infinitely better than no law at all. The official inspec tors are sworn to enforce it. THE Bpep will make it manifest that they are not doing so. 1t also expects to prove that the oil companies have laid themselves liable to the se penalties preseribed for a violation of the law. THE president of the New York Academy of Mgdicine has taken up in his recent annual address the cudgel against the free dispensing of medical ser 3 to those who are fully able to employ a veputable practitioner at his regular rates of compensation. The work of public boards of health in vaccinating, at the pense of the community, chil- dren of wealthy parents who happen to be attending the public schools and em- ployes of vich corporations vunning large vretail stores in for a particularly hard rap as lower- ing the standard of medi and depriving worthy physicians of a practice which properly bel them, Free dispensaries and cinption ave only possible, however, by veason of the encouragement of medical men, and the president’s address calls upon these to draw the line sharply be- tween patients who might pay and those who cannot pay. This is the old, old controversy and resolves simply into the question how far society shall go to pro- teet its own health when the individuals comprising that society neglect to take necessary precautions. Society must protect itsclf even at the risk of giving free medical service to a few who are in a fair position to look out for them- selves, comes free vac- ANTAGONIZING Tammany in New York and the Harrison element in Chi- cago puts President Cleveland in the attitude of killing the goose that laid the golden egg. A Mortoudan Spectth Washington News it is something of a shock to find that Secretary Morton iu his annual report cou- fines his consideration of the poll evil to the time-worn suggestion that voters should properly mark thew ballots before deposit ing thew in the box. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Tho acceptance E\l '}:u pardelli of King Humbert's sulighaps to form & new cabmet relieves asituafion that was more serious than a mere varliamentary crisis There is probably no,italian who has a bet ter chance of coping #ith tne difficulties that boset Italy thwrithe new premier, whose personal and professional and political standing 18 of the highest, ‘The task is none the less heroulean, abid Pocalls not only the labors of Hercules in gencral, but the Augean labor in particular, ITtaly been spending an enorm and disproportionate amount upon her armaments and has been brought near to bankruptoy thereby. Ttis possivle that with stHiet frugality in other directions, and with strict honesty in this, she may beable to maintain the military establishment. Whether the new premier can enforce frugality and nonesty depends not only upon his own qualities, but upon the good faith of theltalian politicians. It isa question how widespread is the corruption that has been rather indicated than disclos>d by the scandals of the Italan banks. The papal question, also, is one that will not dow 1t must, until it is finally settlod one way'or the other, remain a perennial source of po tential disturbance. But it is at least possi- ble by discreet diplomacy to keep it in abey ance and to postpono the inevitable conflict until some time deamad to be more oppor- tune and propitious than the present. ‘1ho reigning pope is sad to be failing visibly. It is thought that he cannot possibly live more than a few months longer, no longer, 1t is predicted, than next March, and thero 18 4 chance that the next woaror of the tiara may be more tractable and conciliatory than Leo X111, So King Humbert is uaturally de- sirous to avold complicating tho situation at the existing juncture. The indications, therefore, point to the formation of ono of those stop-gap ministries, headed by a re- spectable and inoffensive mediocrity, which are such u constantly recurrent and signifi- cant feature of the politics of France. e The average reader of English newspapers must be in a very confusea state of mind considerine the condition of the British fleet as compared with that of the navies of France and Russia. A table that was pub- lished the other day in the London Times gives the impression that during the last four and a half years Great Britain has added only twenty-four battle ships to her fleer, while 'rance and Russia between them have added thirty-three to theirs. A corre- spondent of the Londou Daily News, how- r, points out that this impression would be all wrong. A careful examination of the table, he says, shows that “since 1880 Great Britain has set atloat nineteen new first- s battle ships, with a gross tonnage of tons; while in the same period nee and Russia together have launched only fourteen such ships, witha gross ton- nage of 121,675 tons, Itis true that when the eigntcen ships now on paperin the naval ofices at Pars and St. Petersburg lave been completed and launched, the pro- portionate ivereaso of their flects over ours wiil be as stated in Your contemporary, pro- vided the English admiralty does not make any attempt to extend 1ts building program. But then it is mattet of common knowledge, derived from the speeches of Lord Spencer 1d Mr. Morley, as well 4s from more recon- dite sou that our admiralty has ot the slightest intention of sitting still, and that at this moment it is copsidering a new pro- gram of shipbuilding. If that program should, as I hope it jwill, increase the strength of our navy in proportion to that of ance and Russia at the rate which has been maintained from 1850 down to the hour at which I write, the veriest panicmonger among us ought te.be reassured.” What- ever the exact truth of the case may be, it is plain that the whole question has been raised for party purposes. The increasing friction between the Egyp- tian government and the English chiefs of departments is said to bo obvious ensugh in Cairo to excite a good deal of public com- ment. The vresent premier, who is cred- ited with honesty of purpose, is a statesman trained in the old Oriental school, a believer in centralization and personal government. He is mistrustful of proposals made by sub- ovdinates, and is firm in opposing and as- | empire tute in preventing all extension of European influence in government departments, be- lieving that the Egyptians are ready for self-government. As a result of his influ- ence and example 1t 18 said that the work of the Enghsh administrators 1s much ham- pered and that the natives complain of the revival of old abuses and wonder why Eng- land permits them. The condition of af- fairs is attributed in no small degree to the Russian and French intrigues. All the na- uves, however, are not blind to their own interests, and a number of signed letters in the chief Arabie jonrnal are quoted to show that Egyptians owning property are anxious for larger measures of KEaoglish control. What discontent thereis is believed to ex- ist chiefly among office seekers and such of- fice holders as are unable to grow rich by the former methods of extortion, Although as yet the word revolution is but whispered in Italy, 1t is plain enough that the champious of the monarchy fear it, for their newspapér organs already discuss the expediency of making Sig. Crispi a virtual dictator; thai is to say, of allowing him, a prime minister, to do in Italy what Bi marck did Prussia Trom 1862 to 1866, namely, to govern without regard to parlia- ments, But Ttaly is very far from being what Prussia was at the epoch named, a highly centralized country, containing u population fervently loyal to its sovereign. Moreover, it is one thing to violate o consti- tution for the purpose of maintainiug an avmy, mdispensable, as events were to Frove, to a nation’s security and aggrandize- ment, and quite another thing to violate iv for the purpose of shielding wembers of royal family from proof of complicity in shameful frauds. Under the latter circum stanees it would need.a stronger man than Bismarck to gove sutocratically the di- verse elements of & population so hetero- geneous and intractable as is thatof the Iialian peninsula. «'n The party of the. young Czechs in Bo- hemia is become the!distinctively nation. alistic party. It stands practically for the absolute independerve of Bobemis as opposed to the growing German influence, as well as ‘the domjuution of Austria. Not only Bohemian autonomy in the sense that Hungary has autonomy s aimed at, buy Bo- hemian independence from all external inter- ference from any power. There is a strong pro-Russian feoling awmpng the young Czech lead but no dispesition to trust their e SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1893. country le ™ jump from the frying oppression into the much sian tyranny the Crechs in the hands of n toward Russia the czar n antagonism to the pan of Austrian hotter fire of Rus. of absorption into Bo- out of should empire party The traditional program includes the of Moravia and Silesia hemia, and the formation this union of a state which be an integral part of the Austrian This is the program of the old Czech today. Theold Czechs profess loyalty to the Austrian crown, and deny that they have any desire for the disintegration of the Thoy aro separatists in the sense that they want autonomy for Hohemia, but foderalists in that they want Hohemia to re- main & part of the Austrian empire, Thoy urge especially that the emperor of Austria be crowned king of Bohemia as ho ix king of Hungary. The Germans oppose the federal movement bocause if Moravia and Silesia are joined to« Bohemia they would be swamped by the overwhelming majority of Crechs, and also becauso and desire point to a German rather than an Austrian connection for Bohemia. Of the two the Germans are suspected of favoring the program of the young Crzechs rather than the federalists. If Bohemia should be cut 1oose from Austria it would be & much easier prey for (ermany i AN Populist Gie Rocky Mountain News, The western people laugh to seo tho squirming of the eastern protected barons over the coming tariff reductions. their sympathies The Crueinl Tes Washington Star There will undoubtedly bo some moral courage demanded from congressmen when 1t comes to be a sacrifice of principles or a sacrifice of constitueuts Relgn ot iver, Chicago Post, Nobody should be surprised at the action of the receivers of the Union Pacific railway in demanding a salary of $1.500 per month for each, That is only #18,000 a year for each, which isn't so very much after all wiien you consider that the receivers have to work a part of the time each year signing their roport. Indeed, it is too little, us the roceivers themselves realize, for they have reserved the right to demand an increase if they find_they cannot possibly make both ends meet. R S A Snug Siiver Deal. Phitadelphia Times. The report of the treasurer of the United States containg one particularly interesting item. It shows that cof $108,000,000 in gola withdrawn from the treasury during the past year, $102,000,000 was paid out in re- demption of the notes issued in_payment of the silver purchased under the Sherman lav.. Evidently this substitution of silver for zold was uot stopped any to . soon. Hav- ing been stopped at_last, there need be no further question of the stability of the cur- rency, provided congress can make the rev- enues meet the expenditure: i o e LS The Backbone of Siiver. Philadelphia Press. The price of silver keeps up pretty well in spite of the fuct that the government has stopped coddling it. The surplus goes abroad and finds a ready market at 70 conts or thereabouts an ounce. The people of Colo- rado aiready discover that they need not go nto bankruptey or be plunged in despair e- cause of the repeal of the silver purchase under the Sherman law. ‘Their silver finds a demand elsewhere, and_instead of being loaded in the treasury vaults, where it is useless and causing an inflation’ of the cur- rency by the issue of treasury notes upon it, it goes abrond and has to be paid for in £0ld or n its equivalent in products needed 1 this country. Theexportation of the &30,- 000,000 or £40,000,000 worth of silver bullion which used to be absorbed by the treasury must needs have a very substantial and happy influence tovard blishing and maintaining a balance of trade favorable to this country. o el BANK OFFICERS ARKAIGNED, Madison Square Offlcials Court Brought to tor Trial. New York, Dec. 1.—The Madison Square bank dircctors wno have been mdicted were formally arraigned this morning be- fore Recorder Smythe in the court of general sessions to plead and have a day fixed for their trial. Joseph F. Blaut was arranged on two charges of perjury cight misdemeanors and one charge of fraud ulent msolvency committed jointly with the other directors, Adolph D. Kalisper, Ronald I. McDonald, Simon Olenberg, Andrew . Leonard, Charles A. Selover, I'rederick A. Kursheedt and Emil Frankel. McDonald and Soulard were arraigned on eight indictments charging misdemeanors. President Blaut entered a plea of not guilty to all eleven of the indictments and obtained the privilege of a week's delay in which to determine either to withdraw the plea, demur to the indictment, makea motion concerning it, or let the plea stand. The her directors asked and obtained a week for deliberation, a privilege similar 1o that granted to the others excepting Solover, who did not appear. His counsel was in- structed to produce him at once. DRSS S T £ BREEZY BRE T1ES Statesman: The man who s “driven usually has to wilk by No, n o Yonke to drink oK, Philadelphia Record meotings of lnmber ings. Maud dear, all not board nieet- Lowell Cour A railrond & when two trains violently single track. pass has no meet on a Galveston Nows: Some people succeed in taking time by the forelock, but they cannot hold hiu. Indinnapolls Journal: Watts—T don't liove Jonah wias swallowed by a whale, whitlo's throat s 100 narrow forany such per- formance, Potts—But think how smull thd man must have felt when he realized thut he was the originul Jonuh, be- Puck: Lady—Thls {5 the second time you hatve recol yed food from me, (an s 167 Tramp—It s, madum; and you are at liberty to montlon the fact to your friends if you wish. Detrolt Tribune: Lady of the Iousoe (just d from n visit—Poor Polly! All alone Parrot (feverishly)—Give of me & stack ent was broken off."! O, a lovers' quarrel Vliat was the nature of it?' dispute between them as to which loved the othor best.” Philadelphin Record: Hoax—I was playing poker with u blind man last night, and he saw Phat's nothing. T played with a deat and when | raised lie called muta oney Washington Star: “This life" sald the man who stood on the collar stalr with a conl buckot in his hand, “would be one succession of swest surprises 1t coal only came up as cusily as the prico does HER LACK indianapolis Journal, Though woman may learn o debate, Thopgh sho Wy Yot Lequire i Voo, Yot nevor will sho An oraclo be At the little country groceree, Until'she is able to raise” u sot of Pearl gray chin whiskors patternod after the stylo of tho beurd of the William Goat Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Roval Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE ey | ple Alliance, and not because they would | { werea WORK FOR THE LEGISI .\1’()RS‘ Soma of the Questions to Consume the Time of Congress | i | : | REVENUE MEASURES TO BE mscussm; i | Tax on Wh Withont Opporition BUL WIL Be Ritterly tested by Repablicans. to e Tnorensed Tari Con- WasHINGToN Brrav or Ture Bee, ) A FOURTEENTH STREET, | & Wasnizaros, Dee, 1. § member of the Nebraska delegation in congress oxcopting Representatives Mc Keighan and Kem of Nebraska Washington. All are ecager he messag i | | g | Evo | are now for the fray fter the yo which wiil quite early with "The senate will soon be wrostling in The proceedings in the coipt of the president’s be read Monday, will b the tarift with the vacant seats bolonging to Montana Kansas and Washington and then take hold of the bill repealing the fede and the bankruptey measure, pending the veceipt of the tariff bill, which 1s to passed by the house before the Christmas holidays. All interest in Washington ters upon two questions. ‘president’s message, which eagerly anticipated. Th are the income tax and the proposed increaso of the whisky tax. ‘Ihe first is to be a party question, opposed almost, if not soldiy, by the republicans, and the latter appears just now to be a necessity in order to raise sufl cient revenue to meet the requirements of the government. ‘Fhon, too, the whisky tax is being watched by speculators. 1f the tax is increased and the whisky in bond does not pay the increase whisky trusts stock will boom upward rin election luws 18 he just now aside from the is, of course, © Lwo questions cen- Legal Aspocts of the Case. It is held by many good lawyers that the government has no right to make tho whisky in bond pay the increase, as when it was put in bond the government and owners entered into an agrecment by which the whisky tux was named at 90 cenis a gallon, no more, 1o loss. It was to be taken out of bond and the tax paid inslde of three years. Reprosentative Holman of Indiana today declared himself in favor of the increase of tho whisky and the income taxes. He bee lieves both'will prevail, He wants the in come tax to apply to all incomes of 8,500 or £,000and over and the tax to increasein proportions as the income is increased. This is the position assumed by Representative Bryan, One of the most telling arguments which will be made against the fncome tax is that to reduce the protective duties upon manu factures 40 per cent, as is done by the Wilson bill, and levy an income tax upon manufac- tories and mills would be almost a deadly blow to the industrics of the count if an income tax is to be levied upon covpor tion shares, the present protection to Ameri- can industries should be maintained Lincoln's Next Fostmaster in Doubt. When Representative Br. interview with Tur Ber correspondent the other day that therc were but two candi- dates for the Lincoln postmastership he meant that in his opinior: but two asnirants were in the race or nad a chance of suceess From what Tue Ber man heard today it would _appear that Mr. Bryan might be mis taken in his cstimate. Tere are a number of aspirants whose names have been pre- sented to the postmaster general and Presi dent Cleveland. Among them the name of H.J. Whitmore, a prominent attorney of Lincoln, came forward today and he may be a winner. Mr. Whitmore has lived in Lincoln twelve yoars, has been police judg practiced law for a decade, and was a candi dato on the demoeratic ticket for various oftices at times when there was no hopd of success. He served as secretary of the demo cratic state central committee in the cam paign of 1884, and as secretary of the demd cratic congression: nittce in 1886, He has been a_prominent democratic worker ever since he went to Lincoln, and it is hinted that Secretary Morton looks upon him so favorably that'he may yet give him his endorsement, which would. of course, secure the oflice. * Whitmore, who is a cousin of Representative Georgo W. Houck of Ob1o, & prominent democrat, is an old-time friend of the secretary of agriculture Personal Mention, Representative Mercer has returned from Omaha. He called at the Department of State and procured a passport for Nicholas Yager of Omaha. Postmasters apoointed to Vista, Chickasaw county, Hen: H. Radtke, removed: Carl county, 1. PP, Webster, vice W. man, resign almyra, War W. Farley, vice J. Bartholamesw, removed idaho—Market Lane, Fremont county, Charles Harwood, vice Etta Webb, resigned. Pruny S, Heati, et A Business Barometer. 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