Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1893, Page 4

N L T e, il THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. 1 - ROSEWATER, Hditor ERY MORNING N i BUSINESS LHI TER T THE DT PUBLISHING N FTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Morday Tuoesda, 'l‘v‘r N WL NP Not Average Cironlation for the president’s any cne besides its author. message APTER playing uponthe w for thirty.years the democrati means commitice now propeses back to the war income tax and the war internal revenuo duties on patent medi- cines and playing cavds, New YORrK 18 are worrying over the whether David B. Till bas parted company with the democratic machine. S5 long as the machine antagonizes the president it can count on Hill's co-operation. cry ways and 1 go politic question IF CONGRESS acts upon the postmaster general’s suggestion that tl postal money order be made simpler and v duced in price local hankers may have to revise their tarifl of charges for col- lection of smuil drafts and cheeks. ForTy thousand dollars or more as a reimbursement of the expenditures on the military equipment at Wounded Knee would look very well in the Ne- braska state t depleted, as it has becn, by boodlo rings and defaulting banker asury, Tt HAPPENS, accidentally we suppose, that in shifting the positions of the em- ployes inethe Intevior department all the clerks who secured highor salaries ave demcerats, and all who haa their salavies diminished were republicans. A mere coincidence, of course. Ex-CONGRESSMAN LAWLER, he of the long petition fame, once ap nt for the position of postmaster at Chieago, has torn all feelings of resentment from his breast and called to pay his respeets to President Cleveland. Perhaps there is some other office that might assuag his wounded feelings. RECENT Massachusstts eleetions show a gain in thestrength of the high license sentimont at expense of localitics where probibition had proven unsuc- cessful. Experience everywhers shows that some form of licons the only solution to the liquor problem in citios of more than & meager population. the is GOVERNOR WAITE'S scheme for a state issue of silver curreney is vopudiated by all the conservative elements in Colo- rado. This is anencouraging indication of Colorado’s rapid recovery from the fiat mania that threatened to become rampant among the people of the Cen- tennial state only a tew months ago. ENGLAND has rewarded the men wl represented her interests as counsel be- fore the Bering sen arbitration commis- sion by raising them to knighthood. This, however, was a small part of their compensation. Conferving empty titl has ceased to command the voluntary soervices of public men. They now work for the filthy lucre and 1ots of it. THE federal elections law was sent back to the senate from the committee to which it had been veferred without a written roport, because, according to the senator in chavge of it, “the reasons for its pussage wore self-evident.” To any person gifted with a remnant of his sonse of justice tho roasons for its de- feat are more than self-evident. HARD times ave driving prices down on almost all things vequival by work- ing men and their families, Bat the de- sssion has not yot steuck the 10-cont Couneil Bluffs bridge motor fave. This is just the time that a d-cont fare would mean most to workingmen on hoth sides of the viver. A S-cent fare would soon inerease traffic to make up for the temporavily lessened receipts, It 15 now insinnated that Me. Van Alen secured profossionsl assistance in weiting the letter declining his appoint- ment as ambassador to Italy. This would, if true, take from it all signiti- cance as evidence of his own diplomatic ability, which had been questioned in many quarters, But then he wight have takon his private letter writor alonyg with him to Rome, s0 that his oflicial o wrespondence would not have had to safler. nosk philanthrople gentlemen who s0 industriously engaged in cn- abling people to get scmehing for noth- ing through the medium of thelr so- called bond” investments will no doubt hail with delight the fact that Uncle Sam will relieve thowm from what must ultimately have proven & most embarrussing situation The Postofice department will lose n twe in winding up the affairs of the slleged companies under the penal eode of the ecountry and thus will afford the host of reascns to be given those who 8¢ slmplo enough 19 complain beea use thde bouds pever “wmature. | every AUDACIOUS IMPOSTURE Throe days ago Magor Bomis issued an official notice to liguor dealers in which ho pointed out the law relating to the publication of notices by appli- cants, and cautioned them to use due diligence in ascortaining which paper was entitled to the publication, as hav- ing the largest eirculation in the county. Mayor Bemis also called attention to the fact that under the decision of the court each regular edition of a paper must be treated as a separate and dis tinet paper, and in computing circula- tions combination could legally made of the circulation of several oditions. A copy of this proclamation, with a request to publish, was t to Tur BeE and to the World-Herald. THE Bk complied with the request and pub- lished the mayor's notice word for word as it was written. The World-Hevald gavbled the itting out every- thing relating to the provisions oi the publication, and also that the mayor had to ng the separation of the wnder orders of the court. what right had the World- ald to gavble the mayor's official Why should that vaper cut out one part and print another. Is not this the most rank imposture? 1 & man was to offer plated spoons for solid silver he would be denounced as a common swindler and any victim would have a right to prosecute him for obtaining money under false pretenses. This is precisely what the World-Hevald has been doing in its impostu ‘e upon liquor dealevs and druggists. Would any veputable business man or firm resort to such methods As a matter no 8¢ notice concerning tting out all say concern editions Now 1ic notice? is Its of fact, imposture written all over that sheet. laims of lurgest eirculation were ploded effectually last spring when Mr. Yates held 85,000 asa forfeit for forty days on a challenge that THE Bee had double its bona fide circula- tion But it still persists in flaunting the barefs lis in the face of its gulled patrons. An equally brazen piece of imposture is the standing notico that the World-Il:vald is the only journal published in Omaha having both the Associated press and United press franchises. The World-Ilerald has no nehise in the Associated press and 5 not publish a line of the Associated veport unless it is clipped or Tur BEE is the only Omaha paper that has not only a franchise but a stock membership in the Asso- ciated press that places it on an equal footing with the largest papers in the association. This valuable franchise has only been acquired withina yoar, but we have not beagged about it nor alluded to the fact that we print full Associated press reports excl in the state of Neb 1t is excoedingly disagrecable for us to be compelled to reprimand and denounce the unprofessional conduct of & contemporary, but when it at- tempts to harrass and impose upon partics who are compelled to pat- vonizo Tne Bek in order to comply with the law that requires publicity to be given in the puper of the largest civeulation in the county, we are not only justified but compelled to expose its disveputable mothod: TARING CALE P THE iREASURY, Men of all parties agree as to the im- perative duty of congress to mako pro- vision as soon as practi the treasury to meet its obligations as they fall due and to avoid a deficit. Upon the basis of the presnt revenue laws the secrotary of the treasury esti- mates, as stated in the president’s mes- sage, that the receipts for the current fiscal year will be 3430, 5, and that the expenditures will reach $453,121,363, resulting in a deficieney of $28,000,000. “I'he excess of expenditures on December 1 was over $30,000,000, and the proposed veduction of duties will matevially affoet the receipts durving the re- maining seven months of the fiseal year. [t is therefore highly probable that the deficiency estimated by Secretary Car- lisle will be largely ceeded—in the opinion of some, whese judgment is quite as likely as that of the secretarvy to be 1, it may reach at least double that amount—and very little, if anything can be done by congress to arrest the growth of the deficiency for the reason that legislation providing for additional revenue from internal tuxes is not likely to be perfected before the close of the current fiscal year. There is ever reason to expect that receipts from all sources will eontinue to fall pending the action of congress on the taviff bill and for some time thereafter. ne the president showed at conearn about the eondition of sasury, remarking that he was satisfied that the reduced tariff duties. pravided for in the proposed legislition, added 0 existing internal revenuce taxa- tion, will in the near future, though porhans not immediately, produce sufli- cient revenue to meet the needs of the government, It might be interesting to know by what process of reasoning and nputation the president reached this optimistic conclusion, but that is not important, fre it i3 not at all likely that My, Clevelzal thought on the subject very casefully or deeply, but aceopted unguestisningly the judgment of the froe trade advocates, such as David A, Wells, whose counsel he has invited. ‘The important fact is, and this seems to have been lost sizht of by the prosideat, that the condition of the treasury de- mands immediste relief and with ut danger to the public eredit, wait for future results of revanue lexi lation, At this very tims the national treasury is practic: ent and tho gold basis of the curr is depleted to un extent which leaves oaly $1 to about 18 redecmable in gold. Still the receipts continus to fall balow the expenditures, and it appears certain that this will bo the case ag the remaining months of the nt fiscal yoar, and probably fur beyonl. A fur- ther depletion ot ol reserve mast be regarded inevitable, ani the quostion how much fur- ther this can be with- out disturbing in the stability of the curvency. The treasury must go on drawing upon its gold re- serve as long as oxponditures exceed re- 'ipts, sud everyb.dy can. uade.stand 58 stolen. oven the oly uska. able for enabling no g cannot, au 2 the us is | fonndation that thero is danger in this. For years this reserve has been the strong founia- tiom upon which the carrency of the country has securely rested. Porhaps the faith of the pesple in the govern- ment would maintain the shundness and stability of th ey it this entirely swept away, but nobody whose judgment is worthy of any consideration would advise that the faith of the pesple be put Lo such a test It isnot good statesmanship toallow the urgent requjrements of the national treasury to wait upon the uncortain pos- sibilitiesof the future, and Mr. Cleveland disc not only a lack of that quality, so far as this matter is con- ned, but of ordinary practical judg- ment as well, when he suggests that this may be safely done. The “‘near future” when he expocts the revenues will bo sufficient to meot the naeds of the tre ury is a vecy indefinite timo that would not satisfy the creditors of a bhusiness house whose financial condition was daily growing weake sonably be expected to satisfy the ot itors of the government. Muanwhile the democrats in congress are woreying over the revenue problem and finding at overy point in its consideration per- plexing differences among themselves which impode progross trward a solu- tion and aggravate public suspense. eu oven were el ETHING MUST B, There is stilla very large amount of petroleum used inthe homes of the people in town as well as in the country Many of our stores are also lighted with coal 0il. Tf this oil was as good us it is ropresented to be thore would be little or no danger in using it. But when most of this oil is known to be explosive ina high degree and the pretended tests arca mere sham 1t becomes a very serious matter. This is not a question of dollars and cents. People would gladly pay a few cents more per gallon if the tosts could be depended on and they could feel that they and their families are safe frem spontaneous explosions. As it is, Nebraska has been made the dump- ing ground for oils that cannot pass in- spection in other states and some of the incipient fires and most of the accidents with coal 0il can readily be accounted for. 1f we were mevely subjected to the 1oss of property it would be a matter of secondary importance, but these highly explosive illuminants involve the maiming and kilimg of men, women and children, and negligenco therefore becomes a crime THE BEE certainly has no animosity toward the Standard Oil company. orany other dealer in petroleum and its com- pounds. [t has no quarrel, either, with any of the state inspectors. But there isa duty which a fearless and vigilant newspaper owes to the public, and in the discharge of that duty Tne BEE has never faltered. Something must be done to check the importation and sale of dangerous coal oils. We believe that the inspection is not rigid enough. The Standara people evidently must have a string to most of the inspectors. The Foster cup isa poor test, but if it was honestly used and tests were made on every barrel that bears the stamp of the inspector a lavge percentage of oil would be rejected here as it has been rejected in other 50 WRON: OF INIEREST 10 PRODUCERS. There was held in New York a few days ago a maeting of mevchants, ship- pers, seientists and others, some of the m from western cities, to consider a mat- ter which possesses a divectand vital in- teres: to the producers of the northwost. The topic of discussion was the use that can ba made of canals in the shipment of merchandise from the west to the east and from the seaport to the great cities of the northwest, and the feeling among those who were present at the meeting was that we are upon the threshold of a new era in respect to the movement of what are called slow freights in either direction. The opinion i expressed that not many years hence there will be witnessed an immense development of artificial waterway navigation, which will not only supplement the great rail- way systems of the country, but tend to remedy some of the evils that are ascribed to the development of these systems. A very earnest movement has been in- augurated in New York having for its object such improvements of the Erie canal as will greatly increase its trans- portation capacity and also allow the use of power that will expedite trans- portation. It has long been realizod that this waterway is inadeguate, while the mule team and the tow path are behind the age. Recently tho ap- plication of electricity as a mo- tive power on canal boats was triod with very satisfactory results and it it believed that further oxperiment will demonstrate that canal boats can be propelled by this pawer at a spead very much more rapid than is attained by the present mathod and at much less cost. If thiscan bo accomplished and the capacity of the canal enlarged tho result must inevitably be a material n to shippers of products in both divections batween the ecast and the wost. The part now performed by the Jrie canal in the business of transporta- tion is important and valuable, particu- laly in its relution to freights, but as the demands upon transporta- tion facilities increase the influence of this waterway as a check upon high rates will become less until finally it will have no effect whatever, Double its capacity, however, and expedite the transportation on it and the canal will continue for many years a wholesome choeck upon exesssive freight rates. An offort will be male to induee the leg lature of New York at its coming session 12 malke an appropriation for improving the canal, and from the character and prominence of the men who are promot- ing this movemeat there 15 reaiin to ex- pect that somothing prac.ical will bs done. At any rate the poliey of improy- ing this important waterway seems to he ¢ommanlding the earnest attention of interests in Noew York whese views and wishas canuot fail to have weight with the legislature. With regard to the general gquestion of utilizing artificial waterways for pur- poses of teansportation there cun be no doubt that it is destined to become one of most serious public considerati n in THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, the not remote future. The next genera- tion will probably not have passed away befo there is ¢ mstructed a ship canal around Nir gara falls capable of floating the largest vesspls batwe the lakes and tidewater it the opinion of men that before the of the twentieth century a ship o wiil Have the peninsula of Michigan, con} neeting by way of Lake Erie with th Erie canal. It is predicted that not many yoars hence vessels may be loaded at Duluth and leavi \mer- ican waters until after passing out of New York harbor proceed to the deliv- ery of their cargoes to Buropean ports. There is nothing impossible and when the demand for giving it prac- effect becomes urgent enough the energy and entery of the American people will curry it to a successful con- swmimation LEWELLING'S Governor from his and is SOme very prac boginning al lower been cut across without tical MANIFESTO. Lowelling of Kansas vises bed to inflict upon the public a proclamation that for boldness and absurdity relegates his previous anties complete to the rear. The cause of this spontancous outburst is the sudden discoveny that under the munici- pal ordinances of many of the cities of Kansas vagrancy a misdemeanor punishable with fine or imprisonment and that under stress of hard times the number of vagrants apprehended under these laws is at present on the inci These laws, according to the interpre- tation put uvon them by Governor Leweiling, are designed to make poverty acrime. They are, in his view, uncon- stitutional and, consequently. he advises the metropolitan police commissioners throughout Kansas to pay no more at- tention to their execution. It is certainly one of the misfortunes of the times thata greater number of laborers than usual are out of employ- ment. Meve lack of employment, how- ever, does not make a man a vagrant, ard it is well known to all who have had anything to do with police court matters that judges everywhere arve extremely roluctant to pass sentence of vag upon any one who manifests the slight- ost disposition to 1 his own living. The vagrants who are sent to the vock pile or ordered out of town have, as a rule, little claim to sympathy from hon- est workingmen. They think it easior to bag or steal than to work, and seldom interpose objections to moving on. Va- grancy laws are older than the constitu- tion and in no way contravene it. They are an absolute necessity ta the well being of densely populated cities. The strict enforcement of such laws at. par- ticular times may be of doubtful wisdom, and no doubt is i)mxl\"" able when lahor- ing menare havd pyessed for work, but their constitutionality is scarcely to he questioned. 3 What Governor Lewelling sets him- self up to do in his proclamation is noth- ing more than to detormine for himself that any law which he dislikes is uncon- stitutional and henee not to ba enforced. We have regularly established courts to pass upon such guestions and every law must be regarded as constitutional until duly setaside by ai¢ourt of exmyetent jurisdiction or“fepiiited by the body which enacted it. Governor Lewelling attempts to exercise the dispensing power which cost Charlss I. of England his head. He protends to sot aside laws without refevence to the legislatures If he succeeds in this he may be ex- pected to set aside other laws equally obnoxious to him. Governor Lewelling should be taught to obey the laws and the constitution which he has sworn to uphold. THERE may be no way to compel Gov- ernor Altgeld to honor a requisition made upon him by the governor of Ne- braska for the surrender of a fugitive charged with a violation of the criminal code of this state. But that does not make his action in refusing to comply with such requisition any more legal or valid. The federal constitution says that any person charged with erime who shall flee from justice and be found in another state all on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled be delivered up to be :moved to the state having jurisdiction of the erime.” It does not authorize any governor to refuse to honor a requisition because he thinks the criminal proge ution has been insti- gated for the purpose of collecting a debt. This is the old question that underlaid the fugitive slave law contro- versy. According to the letter of the constitution the motive involved has nothing to do with the duty of surren- dering fugitives, The governor of Illi- nois is mevely relying on the fact that there is no method at hand to force him to do his duty in the matter. THERE ought to be no question as to the position of the populist members of congress upon the Wilson tariff bill. The populist national platform of 1892 demanded that the government's reve- nues be raised by a graduated incomo tax. Tobe consistent with their plat- form they must insist upon a graduated income tax and mothing else, but, with the president opposed to this, all hopes of its attainment at* the hands of the prosent congress‘ndy as well be im- mediately given up. = But They, Didn'c Gee it, Kansay Cit, Journal. Lot us pity the poer and unfortunate. The application of the (/0o Pacific receivers for an increase of salgries Lo $1%8,000 u year each has boen refused. 2 AL No Monarchien) Tax for Americany, » Xork Hera'd, The people of this couhtey will nover toler ate an income tax, ‘dndthe democrats will soon find_this out 4t0thelr cost if thoy at- tempt to force one upanithem. Such u tax is in this idea | 893 | varepublican and unamerican. It belongs to A monarchy, whore the people are not froe- man and are forced to exicions levied by the soversign. It is sug: gestive of tyranny amd the Inquisition — - A Demoeratic saggastion. New York World The president should keep his ear closer to | 48 an ordinance fair to the city, is indoed | the ground. He seems to hold his head so high at times that he mistakes the voice of tue people for “noise and ciamor.™ « - - Olney, Too, Resents Clamor. Glohe-Democrat. Attorney General Olney tells us in his ro- port that the business of the federal courts is increasing, but he does not present much of a list of trusts which he has smashed. A Feliow Feeling. Kansas City Star Whether or not Governor Lewelling's dec laration that he was once & *‘tramp in Chi is bid for favor of “floating votors,” it is rather of the pharisaical ordor. It cer- tainly cannot hold out a glowing promise for the present idlers by the wayside, ity ok Tribune. “Tn concluslon,” the prosident speaks of his *intense feeling of responsibility.” Tt is just that fecling of responsibility that makes muny democratic senators and members of congress restive. They think they ought to have some of the responsibility themselves — . He Needs No Mon t. Buffalo Erpress It is well that James G. Blaine buils vn enduring monument of fame. The veo of his own state have becn trying eve since lust spring to raiso $10.000 for’ a Blaine statue, ana_have succeeded so far in gotting exactly $115, of which $100 was contributed vy a New York man ———— Abitity of Amending the Constitution Irof. J. B, MeMaster i the Forum, In times of poace the federal constitution is practically unamendable. Since the day the first to the tenth amendments were sent 10 the states more than 700 joint resolutions mendment have been offercd. Yot but n have ever veen sent to the states, and of these seven threo were the fruits of the civil war. ‘That amendment would indee be badly wanted which, after securing two- thirds of the votes of both houses of con- gress and the approval of the president, se cured a majority of the vote in each brauch of the legisiature of thirty-three states and the approval of thirty-three governors, fisie oy The Popuitst Crecd. enator Peffer in North American Review, Tne populist claims that the mission of his party is to emancipate labor. He bolicves that” men are not only created equal, but that they are equally entitled to the use of natural resourees in procuring means of sun- sistence and comfort. He oelieves that an equitable distribution of the products and profits of labor is essential to the hizhest form of civilization; that taxation snould be for public purposes, and that all raised by taxes should go into the reasury; that public needs should be supplied by public azencies, and that the people should be served equally and alike. The party believes in popular government. Its demands may be s irly to be: 1. An exclusively national currency in amount amply sulicient for all the uses for iich mouey is necded by the peovle, to istof gold and si'ver coined on equal terms, and government paper, each and all tegal tender in payment of debts of what- ever uature or amount, reccivable for taxes and all public dues. 2. That rates of intercst for the use of money be reduced to the level of average net profits in productive inaus tries, 3. That the means of public transpo tation be brought under public control, to the end that carriage shall notcost more 1 it is reasonably worth, and that rges may be made uniform. 4. That private land-holdings be discouraged by law. The his 1y —_— Arr SOl w1 y oot Ball, Review of Reviows, ie popular renction ecan but affect s ously the deliberations of congress. hard times have been attributed large part to uncertainty abouy and many workingmen who in ana faain 1502 voted against “Mc- Kinleyisw™ arc now suspecting that it was those very votes that brecip: tated the panic, stopped the factories threw them out of employment. Sothey are ready to try the cxperiment of voting the other way. 'ne moral of it allis that the tariff should mot bo the foot ball ot party po! Ounce adopted, a tavifi m ought by general consent to remain stutute books for a period of years business of the comntry can survive any policy from the highest protection to abso- lute free trade, 1f only it can have some as- surance of a onsisient maintennce of the policy when once declared. 1t would be well if business men would agree to drop their controversiul theories on the subject of tarifls, anddo everything in their power to induce congress Lo deal with the question on its practical merits. ‘I'he present cong will be greatly tempted to pass a politic rather than a business tariff bill. At the end of the session the members of the house musy go b and faco the congressional mpaign of 1504, and the tariff bids fair for a year to come to be morc than ever a strictly party issue. This is unfortunate for the country 1500 in Eol i NU BLIZZARD AT BIRD CITY, Bixo Crry, Kan., Dee. 7.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: Tioe Dany E of the 2d inst. contains an article taken from the St. Louis Republic in which it says that reports from ropeka indicate a great deal of suffering in northwestern Kansas; v Dlizzard swept across the barren plains where many peeple were without fuel; that James Willis of Cheyenne county says hundreds of families 0 in need of tuel, and hav not a dollar with which to buy the nccessuries of life. Willis says the blizzard drove many families into the villages, where they were aliowed to keop warm around the stoves in the stoves and others were trying to keep warm over the fires of twisted buffalo grass and dried manure from stables. He says the situation is scrious for many neople, who will freeze and suffer from hunger if ‘they do not get immediate aid. He further says a heavy fall of snow covers this country and stock will starve. Tho above report, from beginning to end, is maliclovsly false 'in the extreme. ‘This man, James Willis, to the best _informatior obtainable, has never lived in Cheyenne county, Kunsas. T'ho blizzard and heavy fall of snow reported 1s untrue. There not been two inches of snowfall in Cheyenne county this winter. The mercury has been but a few points below freezing up Lo the present time, and we haye yet Lo hear of the first report of suffering from huager or cold from any of the people of this entire country, but on the contrary our farmers are gencr- ally well supplied with fuel and money with which 1o buy the necessaries of li The farmers ave availing themselves of the mild, open winter and may be seen at work daily, seeding their flelds to winter wheat. Not discouraged by the partial failure of crops the past seasou, the farmers have been busily engaged during the fali and winter and the acreage of winter wheat is larger than ever before. The peo- plo who left through excitement o find new homes in the Strip have nearly all roturned well fitted to appraciate the delighiful cli- mate and other advantages found in north- western Kansus. s False reports are too often seen in eastern papers of dire distress, of hunger und suffer- ing in western Kansas. Comfortable frame houses are rapidiy taking the vlace of sod buildings and no other country cau show a more rapid advancement than has been made by Cheyenne county during the past five years. K. D Lowe, Mayor of Bird City. Highest of all in Leavening ower.=-Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Re | LIS Baking Powder ABSOIUTELY PURE submit to any odious | ' REVISED 648 ORDIN ANCE, Omatra, Dec. 8.0 the Editorof Tun Bee: | The proposed now gas ordinance introduced | in the city council Monaay evening, Decom- | ber 4, and heralded by a le from the president of the gas company describing it ttet | much more reasonable than tho ordinance | recently enjoined, but it neverthcless con | tains very objectionable provisions and omits | valuavle safeguards in favor of our citizens which existed in the orainances under which the | acting, form he following are a few to the s ¢ nd ought 1ot 1o pass in its present ot the ordinance principal objections now as intro duced irst—The ordinance fixes & maximum price of #1.75 for both illuminating and fuel gas, notwithstanding the fact that gas can b furnished to the burner in Omaha by the | process now used by the Omaha Gas Manu | facturing company at &1 per 1,000 cubie foet, which price wncludes a large g on the investmeut and a wide margin for re pairs and extensious. I'he maximuom price should be §1.25 for illuminating gas aud #1 for fuel gas. Second —The ordinance barters away for twenty-five years the right of the mayor and | city conneil o fix and regulate tho brice of #us, Any deorease in the cost of production of gas will inure to the benefit of the gas company and not of the city Third—The ordinance docs not provide of fectively by contract that the city may buy the gas works and plant at any time at an appraised valuation and does not provide that the value of tho franchise itself should be di in g at the value of the works and plant for_purposes of apor priation or purchase. Tho nance does, indeed, provide that the vity may exercise the right given by its charter to buy or ap- provriate the works, but the gas company has only to secure the repeal of that section of the char chuse the works will then bo destroyed 1ourth—The ordinanco does not provide for a proper ropeal of all former ordinances governing the gas company nor for the re linquishment by the gas company and its assigns, if any there be, of all rights ac- quived or clajnied under any of the former dinances or contracts with the city as a ndition precedent to the ordinance taking ellect. 1ifth—The ordinance provides that sworn statemont of the gas company of ficials shall be conclusive as to the number of feet of gas consumed per annum, This is wrong. ‘There should be some means pro- vided by which the city may investigate the truth of suoh statements, Sixth—"The ordinance does that the gas company shall tions even to the eard line. vide that they shall lay mains on ungraded streets, if required, and itrequirves too many signers for gas per given distance as a vro ite to furth: tensions. eventh—The ordinance should also pro- vide that the franchiso should not be as- signed without the consent of the mayorand council, or at least not until afior notice to them in writing. Lighth—There of forfeiture in ca. 1o discharge tho ¢ by the ordinance, not provide make connec- 1t does not pro- on ould also be a provision o the gas company fals | lizations imposed upon it WrLLia S, P J. L. KENNEDY —— Cutering t Bugic Members of congress showed some ill tem- per because the president’s mess was published in London before it was made pub- lic 1n the United States. What can they ex- pect? This adminisiration is run in the intevest of London bankers and merchants. 1L is natural that they should be wmformed of its polivies first PPLETON, Europe. ) Fapress CURRENT COMIC: Albany Argus: Tt's not soeasy to “pursue the even tenner” when you loan it. Tudianapolis Journal: “Como (o st the fish, “Oh, 1o, for a Dit " usked A the wo “Just dropped in that's all.” Boston Cou Tt is impossible to ha Jast word with « chemist, because he lias a retort, > the always Life: She (from the Hab)—Cremation has ho- c it a faa in Boston. Hle—ihat is very interesting. What ce of heatis requirod to thaw out a Bostonkan? NewOrleans Picayune: A mar wisein hisown beconies in'a bad fix after the conceit en taken out of him. Buflalo Courle edy Applicant—Say, boss, 15 there an_opening lere for a man of push? Merchant—You be That door there swings out. “Turn the knob to the right and push hard Ad's Washin, dare, sir, to s i Kate 17 aid you Brown The Husband—Well, you know, daren’tscold you when we are by o o wtout Mhe Wi me bef Maria, elves. Ashington St in 1 rewark brooks? “T don't stand th u take uny sto “Dooks in the running suid one practical youns man know,” replicd another; 1 under reIs u volume of sound in Niag- TOUCHED HER w Yori Press. ared to heignts of eloquonce, T wooed her i poctic struin, 1 buckled down to common sense In vain; ‘twasall in vain 1then gave her an estinia te Of what | owned—the simple child Heard me the whole enumerate, mpany has heretofore boen | v, and the eity's power to pur- | THE SUNDAY BE | | Leading Features Apart from ite unrivaled ecable, apectal | tetegrapnie, press and focal news servics | The Sunday Bee will coutatn the foliowing tractive artictes: Down in Dixie Land, In TaE SCN DAY Do Me. R tell of his At of Sher avannab and and Fort Exterior and an's March ) the mb | Moultrie. A Vis ortes rea, wth | " wlven feh at i the ot o 0 Of THE SUNDAY T Woman Before the Camora. sox's Fad fo The Bvil of Overs Among Children ¥ posed woman's \ Hozarthian f Uhie Gontler oty pro- holds tha iy acusses there (s 1o cal ' The Irrization Conve | Subjeets whiel wi Nortli Platte ¢ tlons embody King tion. + the attontion of the nvention Decombor 18, Rosolues en who are on in Nehraska sbjeets of the At it el Cook-Fightiug in Texas, tors of the pit A quaint com- Moxtean bordot Co-Operative Home Building. A reviev of buildin i 1088 assoctations, the obe pan. and it on, together with fustructive e nvestigation of the Na Labor oming convens facts shown by mal Depactment ot Norway's Summer Dairies, Is the subject treatod gar L. W Ao of 1 away elim st deser of in this week's letter from o tolls 0f the sweet, pas- plo sacter in that far the genuinezhospitality with which are welcomed (o thelr homes, and also ey mome of the hundreds of wonderful waterfalls, ' and othor p) the whieh groet eye of the traveler in thas Sporting News and Gossip. esh wud new 1, the track and st i 1o agatn teems from the realms of the ball field and ) one of the with ¢ elubs, a ke It Tudes @ week ments of th whe 15 1 d i the chat with the waners, 1 horses budget, base ball fanls, aprinting, bowl- tng and news and comment oa all loeal and gen- sporting matters, mela “The Lugenbes! Marshes.” editor contr Jacks exploits w graph nature and on the lakes of S sportsman Hutes an ae kil 1t a unt of & (2 big tion to orraphs of the 1 among the sand hills ih Dakota by u true The grouse and ipe .t beauties of as 80 Three Local Features, The labor department. besides being ¢ utain a disciss ganization of labo 1 the fmp ution to i the sulzed s says: Ty Ber 5 to ba v a8 of o'd, not- varloty zood newspapers of th Gordon B ympote wiih vorld. of the THE SUNDAY BEE - SLIGHTED, Puck. 1 oye for the zroom that day, tied him awfully, 1 looking right his way— ry one but uw. 1 hadn’ Thougl With eve That is, ) course, "twas the brido they wero look- ing at, For who wouldn't have looked at hor, When to 6ven u fellow as blind as a bat ier beauty would hiave to occur? 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