Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1893, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. ':‘F?;OQ"F\\:ATV:R‘ BEditor. “LURLISHED EVERY MORNIN TERMS OF SUNSCRIPTION. day) One Year Ve ' Montlin . 50 7 Dee. 150 Weekly Bec, One ¥ 65 Teo Butiding, 2k W Tawenty-fourth strects. Aty Ongabii, €0 Ty s, lleago OMee, 817 G York. rooms M 513 Fouirl CORRESPON communjeations RUSINESS LETT Al business letters and remittane el ressed to The Bee Prblishing ¢ Drafiu, chiceks and postofic payanio to the order of the Parties leaving the city for the THE 1y eir address by leaving 1 Dusiness f Commeree ) a Suilding wnd 15, Tribuc 4 ahowld be iy, Omahi ors 1o be mado PURLISHING COMPANY of Nebraska, | County of Douglas, { Geo. b Tzseluek Jishing company, ¢ wetnal elreniation of evding Doceniber 2, 1503, was a8 follows 25410 Gro, . Tzantck ' | Sworn 10 hafo nd subscribed in my ! presonce i )t Degember, 1505 y N. P. FEit, Notary Public. {dent's message scems to have fallon like o damp cloth upon the fires that kindled the breasts of the state bank issue enthusiasts, W ARE likely to learn what was con- tained in the instructions given to Min- ister Willis on his departure for Hawaii s 8000 a3 congress is ablo to put its fin- gers in the diplomiatic ple. THE city council is asked to rent space In the city hall for a cigar staud. The next thing in order will be an apy tion to use a room in the city building for a barber shop or a pie stand. DO NOT expect congiess to accomplish anything in the way of legislation until after their holiday recess. Congress- men are constitutionally averse to labor during the last month of the year. ACCORDING to the Chicago Ierald the democratic nomince for mayor of that city is a demoerat after Mr. Clove- _ land's own heart. This is ample justifi- cation for the Zimes to bolt the ticket. THE rapidity with which the transfor switch law is being put into operation is only excelled by the haste of the State Board of Transportation to move for a lissolution of the maximum freight rate law 1njunction. TwoO MEN have just been convicted in tho police eourt of violating the provi- sions of the liquor law of this state. But the prohibition agitators go right on saying that there is not a semblance of s an effort made to enforce theso laws in Omaha. THE BEE contends that the coal deal- ers of Omaha ought to be satisfied with a fair margin of vrofit. Some of them comtest the figures presented by this paper showing their profits to bo ex- cessive. The burden of proof is upon the dealers to show .where THE BEE'S figures ave in error. NEWS of the amicable settloment of the Lehigh strike must be welcome ti dings everywhere. The strike has in- volved all parties concerned in losses which cannot be reimbursed. The win- ter will be hard enough withouta longer continuance of unnecessary idieness en- forced by the strike NoO SMALL partof the credit for bring- ing the gas company to a reasonuble re- cognition of the rights of the city and gas consumers in the matter ofan exten- sion of their franchise is to be given Mr. W. . Poppleton and Mr. John L. Ken- nedy, who secured the temporary in- junction to restrain the city author| from approving the fifty-year ies contract. THE Ponnsylvania State Board of Arbivration, which succeeded in bring- ing the strikers and the Lehigh railvoad to a satisfactory adjustment of their differonces, is entitled to a great deal of credit. The success of voluntary inter- vention of government officials here and in England may do much to bring that method of setiling labor difficulties into general favor., ‘WS the president trying to force the ways and means committee into accept- ing his plan for the internal revenue schedule when he asserted in his mes- sage that tho committee had already agreed upon a corporation income ta 1f the committee finally decides ypon an entirvely different Fevenue measuve the president will find himsell in a rather delicate position should the bill come before him for his signature. IN EASTERN cities parents compete with each other for the privilege of sending their children to the scnool used as a model for the instruction of students in the teachers’ training dopartments and its work usually stands near the top a8 campured with other public schools. This may not be the case in Omaha, but parents might give the subject a per- sonal investigation before blindly sign- ing protests ugainst the continuance of tho systom, THE Commercial club very properly discussed fire insurance and members manifested decideded opposition to an advance of rates This is a subject hich affects the pocket books of the selvient property owuers of this city, and is a legitimate subject for Commer- sial club treatment. Ouly recently, however, it was decided that the club had no business to ‘ake a positive stand on the question «f the fifty-year gas franchize, a subject far more lmportant to the taxpayers than insuranco rates. Fortunately the co>mpany has boon forced to make reasonable concessions without the interposition of the Com- mercial club. It is now an open ques- ticn what the functions of the Commer- slal elub are, and on which subjects and lssues the club is to be gugged. NO WORD AGAINST TRUSTS. Among the matters of importance which President Claveland did not refer toin his annual message is the question of suppressing the trusts and combina- tions which exist in violation of law. The president refors approvingly to several of the recommendations con- tained in the report of the attorney general and as gothing is said regarding the enforcement of the anti-trust law it is to bo presumed that the head of the Department of Justice had nothing to say favorable to enforcing that statute. It would seem that a matter which Mr. Cieveland deemed of safficient impor- tance and public interest to attention in his inaugural address should not have been entirely ignored in his message to congress, even if thero was nothing more to be said in ! relation to it than to give the people assurance that the administration was not unmindful of the implivd promise of the president to exert the power of the federal government to relieve them from the interference and exactions of the combinations. At the time of his inavguration Mr. Cleveland declared the ‘“‘aggregations of kindred enter- prises and combinations of business in- terests” to be conspiracies against the interests of the people and in all their phases unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness. It would have taken but a very few lines in the messsage to have reas- sured the people that the president | still entertains this view of the trusts | and still bolicves that “‘to the oxtent that they can ba reached and rostrained by federal power the general govern- meat should relieve our citizens. from their interference and exactions,” Such o statement would have been received with more general satisfaction than has any part of the messare. There is an impression abroad that jeneval Olney is not heartily sympathy with the purposo of the anti-trust law. Ho has been, during a large 't of his professional carcer, identified with corporations and he still retains an interest in them, that there is apparently ground for the belief that the attorney gen- eral doos not share largely in the general {popular opinion regarding monopoly. From a published abstract of the attorney general's report it ap- pears he has found that the common impression that theaim and effect of the anti-trust law are to prohibit and pre- vent trusts and combinations s erroneous. This discovery will doubt- less surprise the eminent lawyers in and out of congress who have given their opinions that this waj intended to accomplish this very vesult and was mo:t carefully framed with that very end in view. -Sonator Elmunds was a member of the committee which reported this act and he has said more than onee that every trust and trade combination in the country can be veached through it. He would be good authority if he stood alone in this opinion, but there'are a great many other distinguished lawyers who agree with him. It would seem that the attempt of At- torney General Olney to diseredit the anti-trust act, as he plainly does in the remark that *‘it would not be useful, even if it were possible' to ascertain the precise purpose of the framers of the statute,” has not heen without effect upon the mind of the president. The law was a republican measure, and this fact is sufficient to induce the present administration to discredit it, regardless of its merits. That there will be no serious effort made to en- force the statute by this administration there is no risk in predicting, nor is it probable that congress will be asked to enact alaw whose aim and effect would b to prohibit and prevent aggre- gations of capital, which Mr. Cleveland only a few months ago characterized as conspiracies against the interests of the people. The indications are that the trusts have nothing to fear from this administration. receive in 80 THE NA110NAL BANKS. The report of the comptroller of the currency, whose office has relation ex- clusively to the national banks, con- tains facts and recommendations which are of interest to the general business public as well as to those engaged in banking. It is to be remarked at the outset that the report is friendly to the banks and offers no encouragement to the people who are prejudiced against these institutions. Comptroller Eckels bas shown at all times that he recog- nized the merits of the national banking system, and while he recommends nu- merous amendments to the law deemed necessary for the improvement of the system, there is nothing in these to sug- gest that he does not regard the system as the best the country has ever had. The recommendations of the comptrol- ler that the national banking associa- tions be allowed to issue circulating notes to the par value of the bonds de- posited and that the tax on circulation be reduced are made, it is to ba pro- sumed, with the concurrence of the sec- retary of the treasury, and if so must bo assumed to represent the view of the administration. Tf this should prove to be the case there will be some probabil- ity of legislation to this end, though at present the outlook for it s not bright. The house committee on banking and currency has the “proposition under consideration and the finance committee of the senate has devoted some attention to it, but thore is an opposition that will not be ousily overeome, if it be not strong enough to defeat the proposition. Not- withstanding the fact that to allow the banks to issue circulation to the par value of their bonds deposited would enable them to make a considerable addition to the currency at once the op- position embraces most of those who clamor for more curvency, and their sole reason for opposing it is that it would benefit the banks. It is, perhaps, nced- less to say that a very large part of this opposition comes from the section which demands the repeal of the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues and favors a tax ¢n incomes nearly the whole revenue fzom which would be paid by the people ¢f the north, The c-mptroller of the currengy ree- «mmends amendmen's to the law with a l view to rende:iug he sysiem more se- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDA cure. He would have the comptroller ompowered, with the approval of the sccretary of the treasury, to removo officers and directors ot a bank for vio- lations of law; womid provide that no ex- ecutive officer or employe of a bank be permitted to borrow of such bank, ex- cept upon application to and approval by the directors, and would require bank examiners to take an oath of office and give a bond. There is no apparent veason why these recommendations will not be acceptable to all honest bankers who desire to have the national system made stronger in public confi- dence. The comptroller is of the opinion that there is an ample supply of currency for atime and that congress should not adopt any experimental legisiation on this subject. He suggests that congre: shall obtain, either through a special monetary commission or the proper committees, detailed information of the various systems of bank issue now in operation in order to enable it to formu- late a complete and harmonious system. An obvious inference from this is that the comptroller is not in favor of restor- ing to stato banks the privilege of issu- ing curren FREE RAIL c0AD PASSES. Notwithstanding the express prohibi- tion of the grant of free railroad passes except to employes laid down in the in- terstate commerce act, it has long been notorious that that healthful provision of the law was baing utterly disrve- garded. If anything more were neaded to confirm what has been generally ac- copted as true the agreement proposed at the mecting of the general managers of the various western roads at Chic this week shows to what extent the pass evil has boen revived. So flagrant has become the “violation of the federal law in this respect that the different railroads have been compelled to call upon one another to protect themsely from cut-throat competition in the lav- ish grant of free transportation to one and all who have tramped up a claim to the generosity of the company. To restrict this almost unlimited dis- tribution of free passes it is proposed to organize a committee consisting of the chairman of the Western Freight as- sociation and two managing offi- cers at designated terminal points of the lines who are to act upon all applications for passes for other than political, charitable or per- sonal purposes.” Leaving outof con- sideration the administrative machinery t0 be erected, the agreement proposed admits by these words that the railroads do issue passes for political, chari- table and personal purposes—pur- poses expressly forbidden by law— and that they intend to keep on issuing them. It further goes on to bind the roads not to give freo ov reduced trans- portation to influence business, clearly implying that such has been the pra tice and weuld continue to be the pra tice unless the railroad managers agreo among themselves to put an end to it at once. The railroads are coming to acknowledge that the game of granting free passes to shippers can be played simultaneously by all of them and that it confers no apprecia- ble benefits, but, on the contrary, de- prives them of & revenue which ought to be secured. The question of issuing free passes almost indiscriminately affects the pub- lic in equal degree with the railroads. When certain persons ave carried freo those who buy their tickets must necessarily pay for those who are not required to pay. Worse than this, the pass systom is used to demoralize the public officers of the government, to in- fluenco political conventions and to bribe the voters whenever possi- bie to favor railroad candidates for public places., The interstate commerce law and the Interstate Com- merce commission have proven quite powerless to abolish this abuse. While the railroads ave asking congress for legislation to protect their property from train robbers and train wreckers it would be no more than reasonable to couple with such legislation more strin- gent regulations concorning the issuing of free passes than have been incorpor- ated into the interstate commerce act. 20 DISCRIMIN ATING ON COLOR. During the last presidential clection the democratic organizers made no little ado over the formation of nimerous colored democratic clubs, to which they pointed with pride as an in- dication of wholesale desertion in the republican ranks. These colored men were drawn into the service by promises of various sorts, the most potent being, of course, promises of appointment to office in case the democratic presidential nominee proved successful in the ocampaign. By these means it was made nominally to appear that the democratic ticket was receiv- ing support among the colored people both north und sputh. But the redemp- tion of the promises has been exceed- ingly slow and unsatistactory. The southern colored leaders who were won over to democracy by assur- ances of oftice are said to bs particularly disgruntled at the distribution of the plums and ave loud in their denuncia- tions of the present administration. They confess that they have heen taken in and vehemently assert their intentions of not being caught a second time. One of them, the editor of the Nutional Free- man, hung around Washington for nine months in vain, awaiting a consulship, which he was led to expeot in payment of campaign services duly rendered, but has finally left for his home in disgust. He declares that while Van Alen and Roosevelt and others who bought their offices for hard cash have had their goods delivered the colored holders of political pledges have been unable to have them redeemod. To be sure the administration has given a few samplo offices to colored men, but they have all been of minor importance. Two presidential nomina- tions of colored men have been sent to the senate only to be quickly rejected, and in these instances it 1is intimated that they were intentionally sacrificed. Oftices that had formerly baen given to representatives of the colored race have been filled by white adherents of tne president's fortunes. Those two nom- inatious just mentioned were to posi- .popul tions usually hald by white appointees and this afforded the senate an casy pre- toxt for refusing to confirm them. The administrations hewevor, seeks to claim the eredit for the hominations, although the offices have neyer been delivered. Colored men aresimply lcarning anew the lesson that thdfy have nothing to ex- pect from the demgperatic party. To the republicans they ‘owe their emancipa- tion from slavery: to the republicans they owe their' “political rights, and to the republicand they owe what little political preferment they have already secured. They must look to the repub- licans for assistance in the future and their adherence 't the democratic ad- ministration promises to bring them nothing but bittor disappointment. LAST spring, when the question of legal publication in the paper of largest circulation was up in South Omaha and publishers were asked to file sworn state- ments, THE BEE promptly responded, as it always does. The publishers of the World-Herald did not put in an appear- ance. Thercuvon the licensing board passed . a resolution declaring that Ti ENIN B was the me- dium for advertising applications for license. Although he made threats and talked loud about filing remon- strances and protests, Mr. Hitcheock did not. protest a solitary application. He did not dare to do so then and does not dare to carry out his threats now. If he protests he subjects himself to a searching inquiry that would at onco explode his bogus claims of largest civculation. The whole course of the World-Herald in regard to the license publication is too transparent. It is nothing more nor less than an audacious effort to hold up liquor dealers for #3.25 apiece. If the paper had a valid claim for this adver- tising it would not offer to charge $3.25 for twelve insertions in three editions, morning, noon uud evening, when tho legal rate for one edition twelve times is $13.25 and the commercial rate for the same space exceeds that amount. 17 18 quite natural that insurance mon feel constrained to denounce the valued policy law of this state, the best measure of the kind ever placed upon our statute books. This law was designed tocompel insurance companies taking risks on a given piece of property to pay to the assuved after a fire what they agread to pay prior to a fire. It is a measure calculated to protect the assured against the traveling adjusters employed by insurance com- panies to bring about a settlement. An adjuster who can make a settlement in- volving the least possible cost to his company, rogatdless of the amount named in the policy and regavdless of the actual loss sustained is the man who receives the highest salary for his service. The valugd policy law stands between the adjuster and the assured. Take the Wakefield lumber risk, for in- stance. The loss by fire was all but com- plete. The insurance companics, we understand, refused to meet their obli- gations, and the assured brought suit. The companies adopted tactics to stave off the trial of the case and seem to be afraid to submit it to the court. Thisis a great hardship to which no man or firm should be'subjected. THE death of Professor Tyndall re- moves the foremost physicist of the English-speaking world and one who has been most indefatigable in hisefforts to promoto the cause of pure science. His contributions to the theories of light and electricity have been most valuable additions to our stock of knowledge on these important subjects, and their practical applications have resulted in material advancement in the_ in- dustrial arts. Not least among his gifts to science have been the fellowships which he endowed in three or four of the leading American uni- versities for the encouragement of original work in the realm of physical science. The institutions on this side of the Atlantic which have been specially favored by this great scholar ought to unite in erecting some suitable memo- rial in acknowledgment of his work as a scientist of the first rank. The Golaen Lining. Denver News. The gold product of the state, when footed up at the end of the year, will astonish even the friends of Colorado who believe in the wonderful productive power of her varied resources. ————— They Are Loolous, Detrott Free Pross, Postmaster Hesing, the new appointee at Chicago, 18 an Ohio man. Whenever you hear of a particluarly good plum being given out by the bountiful dispenser of govern- ment patronage the chances are that you will be right in declariog, off hand, that™ he entered this vale of tears by the Buckeye route, ——— Delining Lemoor: New York Sun. Neither sectionalism nor socialism is democracy. The income tax is intolerable to democratic idoas. It is unconstitutional; for, whatever the subreme court may have decided to the contrary under pressure of war emergency, it 18 a direct tax. If a tax on an income is not a direcy tax, there isno such thing as direct taxation, Congress Lias no power to loy any direct tax unless it is uplmruouod among the states according to ation, - The Test uf Husiness Kevival. Philadelphia Times, S0 much has'beeh said lately by the ocalamity howler ‘respecting the puise of wrade, the closing mills and other items in the routine argument' of the alarmists that perhaps the ‘ofter ‘last weok of only 16,000 packages of cotton g00ds at auction by a R York firmt_ auatnst 43,000 lust yoar will surprise even the howlers, if their hides can be penetrated. U'he recoipts from the were over $1,000000. This is the best dication yet that theeountry is bare of goods and thal the winler season will be active with buyers. Thé annual auction of cotton goods tests the trade @s no other commercial process can, and she Semper of business in- dicates @ rising (tide prosperity. There is nothing the matter<with the future with boards bare of goods everywhere. Y, DECEMBER 7, SNAP SHOTS AT THE MESSAGE. Kansas City Journal (rep): On the whole, the message is a disappointment and betrays n consciousness of weakness. Chicago Journal (rep): The Jwrnal wishes tife democracy joy of this ponderous fulmination, which will beaboutas effectual to counteract the revulsion against democrary asa fog bank to vesist the July suo. Chicago Record (ind.) read the state papers of President Cieveland from the beginning of his first administr tion will not fail to detect a new and strik. ing note in this latest message. It is thatof economy, St: Paul Ploneer Press (rep.) o most ardont admirer of President Cleveland will find it dificult to suppress a yawn over the interminable platitudes and trivialities that fill nearly nine columus of his message to congress. Globe-Domocrat, (rep.): There are no in- novations or surprises in the message. 1t is, on the whole, a clear, well written and busi- nesslike document, and, except on the Ha- iian and tariff questions, will prove fairly satisfactory to the country. Chicago Herald (dem.): The message sent yesterday by President Cleveland to congress is a simplo and straightforward document. Itis singularly froe from rhe- torical passages or platitudes. Kach para- gravh 18 a compact treatment of a theme or an aspect of one. Minneapolis Times tand's mes! Those who have (dem.): Mr. Cleve- 0is not a remarkable perform- ance in any respect. it is written in good, vigorous English, is less stilted and sopho- merical in style than most of the president's public deliveranc but it is about what everybody expected it would be. St. Paul Globe: Taken as a whole, the message shows a careful serutiny of all «questions of publ ncern, and an intimato kuowledge of conditions political, economic and industrial that betok: the deep per- sonal interest of the executive in every- thing that concerns the welfare of the peovle, Denver Republican: Not one word of sympathy does Mr. Cleveland express in his message for the unfortunate millions of American citizens who are suffering all the ovils of hard times as a consequence of their folly in permitting his re-election last year, Parhaps, after all, they deserve his contempt for their folly. Miunneapolis Tribune (rep.): The annual age of the president fully sustains dent Cleveland's record for length and voluminousness of official aocument. At the same time, it is less circumlocutory than many of the president’s messages and ad- dresxes, is more simple and direct in state- ment. while being less awbitious in rhetoric, It is, on the whole, a plainly-phrased and businesslike document, and lacks in form little more than condensation. Denver News (pop.): Cut from Mr. Cleveland's message the financial part of it and it must be regarded us a straightfor- ward, common-sense, practical state paper. It is not brilliant, neither is it dull. Itis comprehoensive in its scope and terse in deal- ing with each separate subject. Where sentiment crops out itisof the robust aud ennobling kind. No American will have occasion to blush for it; those who accord with his views upon mucy will have ample ground for enthusiastic praise. —— PEOPLE AND 1HINGS. Slushy street crossings invariably produce marked symptoms of anklemania. In the Chicago mayoralty contest it is evi- dent the race will £o to the The age of chivalry is not entirely passed when loyal Knighis troop about their Sov- ereign. Nineteen million dollars worth of dia- monds opened the opera season in New York last week. Perhans the Corwin takes an autograph copy of Clevelana’s message to Queen Lal as wvidence of good faith. A cargo of ancient torturing implements were recently lauded in New York. A re- vival of blue'laws may ba looked for. George Francis Train has returned to New York, mum, morose and somewhat modita- tive. Chicago exhausted his vocabulary. John Hogg claims to be the oldest mploye of the government, having served forty j'izx:\rs. There is something in heredity after all. The appointment of Washington Hesing to a fat federal ofice in Chicago is regarded as an endorsement of the Dickinson brand of sideburns. It is given out straight that Boss Croker 1s to retire from politics in New York. The story is gauzy. Several fat public contracts are about to be let. Edward Barron, the San Francisco mining man who died a few days awo, landed in Cali- fornin at the age of 20 with 10 cents. He died worth $2,000,000. The appearance of the story of “Pudd'n- head Wilson" au this particular time is an amusing coincidence. 1t is not, however, a biography of a congressman. Dr. Grifin, who was assistant sur- geon in General Kearney's command at the battle of San Pasqual, December 6, 1846, is still living in Los Angeles, Cal After one has read the message from sa- lute to signature, the extraordinary efforts made to prevent premature publication seem an absurd waste of federal energy New York police are to be armed with new clubs fourteen inches long, havi a core of steel incased in velvety rubber. As usual, there is much blow about the reform, Miss Fareedie Flutie of Beyrout, Syria, has presented to President Clevelund a por. trait of himself made of mosaic in Damas- cus. It took four months to complete it and cost §500. Muras Halstead, ruady, haired, blue-eyed, young as he twenty years ago, continues to give av least twelve hours out of every twenty-four to his jour- nalistic and literary work. Sir Thomas Esmond, M. P.. i3 conducting a crusade against the English language in County Cork, Iveland, The effort is to make the English language unpopular, and with this endin view S Thomas and a scare of other patriots who own their own carts are having their names and addresses writlen in Irish only on the vehicles, s When A. B. Williams, at one time famous as Bn attorney for the defense in the ster route cases, was dying s fow days ugo he sent this dispatch to Colonel Ingevsoll: “I am dying and want you to know that I died as 1 lived, an infidel.” The churacteristic reply was: My heartis with you. Cling to the willows and live. Give yourself my love. The secretary of war has awarded a bronze medal of honor to Colonel Guy V. Henry, Seventh cavairy, now commanding the post at Fort Meyer, “for noteworthy and con- spicu alluntry in leading the assault of his b e on the enemy’s works al Cold Harbor, Va.,June L and 8, 1864 At this time Colonel Henry commanded the Fortieth Massachusetts volunteers. Sice the war he has made an excellent record as an In- dian fighter. One by one the beautics and wonders of the World's fair fade and leave a stain. It has been conclusively shown that the Ferris wheel was & borrowed idea. Now comes Ernst Fuchs, sculpior, claiming that the fa- mous Macmonnies fountain, in the court of honor, was & reproduction of a plaster model and photographs exhibited by him in Muuich and London, the Iatter being stolen in tra Sit to Chicago. Macmonnies has not replied 10 thecharge of plagiarism. e —— Short Out to Notorlety. Boston Globe. Any man can make his name a household word, can be the object of the flercest de- Nunciation and the sweetest culogy, get his name in all the papers ana his cartoons in all the funny prints, by simply becoming the author of @ tariff bill.” It is the short cut to immortality. portly, white- Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Jzezezo) Re Baking Powder ABSOIVUTELY PURE TOBE CASTOR AND THE PLUMS Nebraska's Hunyry Faithful Are to Havo All that Hang Within Reach. OMAHA OFFICES TOBE GIVEN OUT SOON | MeShane Said to Be Certaln of the Sarveyorship, with an for the Oficlal of Ten 8. Maker, Unknown Down Shoes Wasmisarox Bneacor Tus G, ) FoURTERNTH STRERT Wasnisoroy, Dee. 6. § Mr. and Mrs. Tobias Castor arvived in Washington late ts evening. Mr, arrived on schedule time, much to tho sur. prise of some of his friends, who had been advised by and not be here under a couple of days. When asked about his mission and the length of his stay, Mr. Castor sald to Tnx Bee correspondent tonight “1 have come to decapl lican officials in Nebraska. long as I can find a head above the Mrs. Castor and 1will provably be here s couple of weeks." “Will a customs surveyor for Omaha bo named soon?” was asked. “Ithink s0," said Nebraska's democratic national committeeman and federal office dispen “Can you name him tonight “Noj; [ have only jusc arrived and don't kuow the situation. 1 may know tomorrow. “And also the United States district at- torney " “1 think 8o, but T can’t mention any names tonight.” Will Muke a Sinte Mr. Castor has not Morton, who has been out of the city so days, and only roturued this evening. Thero is 1o bo a confereice between Morton and Castor tomorrow, and a siate for Nebraska officers, including a number of land ofices, will be made as rapidly as possi It is stuted at the Treasury department that the customs surveyorshiv is settled upon James McShane, and that he ceived the endorsement, of both Cast Morton. It is possible that the prote the Ame ate a few repub s appointment sury ofticials who but refuse to talk much, do not belicve thy MeShane's appointment can be sidetracked It is stated that the prosident has prom- ised to appoint Father McGlynn of New York to the Roman mission, now that Van Alen has resigned. will defeat it, but know the status, for Artdcles to Tax, The democratic members of the way means committeo are in a sad plight. They have been noldmg daily and nightly sessions for the purpose of findi scts of taxation and they are yet at i Vi found playing cards, ci tes and income and taxed them, but now they are prepariag t0 tax the transictions on boards of trad: hank checks aaa drafts, due bills and bil of merchandise, and to ease tho i ternal taxation upon various articles which now pay tribute to Uncle Sam. The com- mittee is divided up iuto factions, two or three men here and there advocating this and one or two that, and all bemg unable, as a body, to agree upon anything. The tarif bill 18’ acknowledged to be not a revenuo measure such as the party is pledged to make, ana the majority of the ways and meuns committee does not ant it to come before the house for consideration until 1t has found articles of taxation suflicient to raise revenue commensurate with the de- mands of the government. Itis afraid to let the house ha v and if 1t docs not provid in the various measures which are to follow the tarif bill proper they are afraid the beat of tho great and unwicldy memvership of the house will with them Scerotary report for internal reve- s and Ly Carlisle is still holding back his the committee's decision ov nue. He does not know, nor does the com- mittee, what will be done with the whisky ‘The secretary hopcs to know by Satur- night aud to publish his report on Mon- . The committee expects to_report its tarift bill to the house, accompanied by sep. avate measures on incomes and revenue, next Wednesday. It is likely that the ways and means com- mittee will finally agree to an internal reve- nue tax of bu nts per pack upon playing cards instead of 10 cents. Playing card makers now here v thata 10cent tax would i except upon i have shail be the limit, Postmasters Appointed. C, M. Ammidown was today appointed vostmaster at Fustis, Frontier county, vice ¥\ C. Schroeder, removed, and .Gi. A, at Leigh, Colfax county, N Walling, 'removed; als Pinto, Washington county, Utah, vice Mary A, Harrison, resigned. Today Luther C. Slavens was awarded the contract for earrying the mails between the Omaha postoffice und the trains in tne city. The contract price is 3,750, which is The largest mak @ S The great run On our suits and overcoats a!, half price has com- K Castor | nhim that he would stop enroute | an Protective association against | & co WO A b b | #1600 I0ss than the price paid under the pres- ent contract. * Porsonal Mentton. ix-Speaker Thomas R. Reed has boen in- vited by Custer post No. 7, Girand Army of | the Republic, of Omaha, to_deliver a specch on the tariff. 'un December 28, but on account of provions engagements ho has been com | pelled to decling the tnvitation. I'ho comptrollor of currency has plication for the organization of th tonal bank of York, Ne Picrson of York and his asso S, K. Cooper of Council Moara of Ottumwa Kepler Hoyt of Lar recoived Cluy by Johm R es Bluffs und R H aro at tho Ebtitt, and o is at the Lincoin, Congressman Mei fas taken perma- | nent headquartors at tha Normandie for the winter aud is located on the samo floor with Senator David B, il Mr. Charles Kloman of | the city Major J. W night for home Broken Row is in Paddock of Omala loft to- Prany S Hearn, NEBKASKA AND NERRASKINS, falls City is onjoying a rel has a rious rovival \ mem: imbus social club w igh school has boen | APPrOpriate exorvis s propos nted at the state irriration W Platic 1. L. & . Wober & Co., dr » boen closed by creditors, It s expected that the Nebraska City packing house will be 1 opened for business Tho barn of Georze Hurst near wis destroyed by firo and cight verished in tho flames. The ofice of the publishied at Loxington, has be its creditors and ditor Tooloy a job teaching sehool Lester Ryan, aged 14, living _three north of Iixetor, fell tiventy foot windnnll tower, striking on his frozen geound.” The doctor ¢ extent of his njurics, but recover irs onteced the at Stamford and coatsand a_quantity of ci Both monoy drawcers were torn from their fastenings, but as the c1sh had boen taken outat closing time the miduight callers gov none. Cozad horses Dawson County tHerald 0 closod has secured miles from n cad on tha nnot toll the hopes he will store of Davis & sevoral ovor: s were taken. A dust explosion in the ineton rosulted in a five in and watchman were so seriously burned about the face and hands that they will bo confined to their beds for some time. This peculiar accident tends to confirm the not generally known fact that flour dust i an explosive and may be ignited by coming in contact with o light. T thiscase it was the lantern od by tho miller that is sup- | posed to have ciused the mischiof. The mill was saved from destruction. - NPIC.. OF LIFE, ller mills at Lox. which the milier THE New York World siys sho obj hivo her sic of the perlod hut she Hkes to 1 Irish chiropodist noved corns from all the crowned heads of Europ Washin queen, ex ¥ think, should know he phil, while Lhave ne'er a mill, see? urmised it. 1 callod there AW the tissue paper shades Leen putting on all the he wall flower,"” res the philosopher, “is often the ‘only. girlin the ball room who cin cook i dinner. “¥es," responded Miss Worldling, “and the girl who_dances is tho only one who can digest it." Chic physici marked ir, sir,” snld the pendicitis.” plied the patient, U me for plain,’ Iy, I common, eve “You iy just tre yday live Kato Fleld's on: makes champagne s rom ¢ port und sk What wret,and ngne is sod, don’t you But 1 thought you said you had ull | your wine charged. ALWAYS FASCINATING. Detroit Tribune, The frills that danced in breezes soft when suminer diys weeo hioro »to fluffy furs as now the autumn by And_all the men find all the malds moro eharming with the change, But thatis neither thoro vior here; the thing that's odd and s Is that, when summer in, we'll find, with flounce and frill, The summer girl than winter maid more fascls nating still. T u €y Warman in New York Sun. i5Thyme, 1y rhymie; but ev When [5it dows I've this assurance all tho wh! "Pwill make nt least one woman smile, £'en though It may boe hard to guess, Unless to dally with the muse Just why we write, somo will excuse And somo will call ivmeaningless; But oh, it means so much o her, My goldon-haired stenographs 10 8 llors of A A A Ae A A S AnAe Ao Ae A An A- A-Ae pletely cleaned us out and in order to satisfy a few of the disap- pointed ones we have marked down a small line of all wool over- was nearly overlooked but ago. BROWNING, fend the money and we'll pay the eXpress. ooats and ulsters to $8—$10—$12.50—$15 for the bal- ance of the week—if they last that long. of the rush in the men's goods our children’s wear Boys' Sale Saturday that will create as big a sensation as that of a week Full particulars Friday. For the accommoda- tion of customers, commencing next Monday we will keep open till 9 o'clock every evening and Sal- urdays till 10, only till Christmas. | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, On account we wish to announce a KING & CO., — T T A o bdddindd b