Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 22, 1893, Page 4

o thO THIEOMATIA DAILY BEE, ROSEWATER, Edio PURLISTIED EVERY MORNIT PRSI ALARLLARARELLIE THENS OF €0 RSORIPTI A Sumaz) Ono Yoa Any, ONe Yoar h " T awenty- fonrtn sl oot ot o1 of Commeren e buflding m 19, 14 and 15, Tril 19 Fotirteenth str CORKESPONT neatior showid e s and eal 0 the Bditor reln e letiors Al remlitnees shonld Feo Peblishing com pany, Omal tofMeo orders 1 Tt order of the company TIE BEE PUBLISTHNG COMPANY NT OF CIRCULATION Pub 1At th week £ Tt By 030 Ay, Decomby % 68 e ¥ N el oty a1 Average Clrentation for Novembor, 23,210, b ki Aol A bbbt ey way home ral office a brief period of Tone CASTOR from Washingto neadsmen will rost is on nd vo ha VAN ALEN satisfied that Wayne wwh is the better man for the n ambassadorship to whom he re- 1in his lottor of declination? DEMOCRATIC place hunters should not allow themse to become dis- heartenod. The sonate reconvenes Jan- uary 4 to receive additional nowinations from the president. 1CoNOMY is the ovder of the day in private establishments. What cireum stances demand of private individuals is equally demanded of public officials in every department of the public service. Is Mac\ Ital fer ves THE senate may as well decide to pass on the nomination of M. Hornblower to the supreme court vacancy now as later. No other man will be nominated so long as Mr. Hornblower is not formally IN the seramble for spoils which has embroiled the Nebraska democeracy in a Kilkenny cat fight we occupy very much the position of the wife who, while act- ing as umpire for the famous bear fight, said: “Go it, husband; go it bear! THE battle of the the flesh pots will he adjourned over holidays, and the hungry and thivsty applicants for federal spoils will have t look to Rescue hall for a plate of soup with crumbs of com- fort thrown in, Itis very dggravating, but under the circumstances it must be endured with patience and resignation. AN INSURANCE rate war in San Francisco involves the old controversy whether the merchants are to permit themselves to be controllad by the in- surance agents. Should the merchants there come out ahead in their efforts to vesist arbitravy raising of insurance rates a wholesome example will be set. Toe World-Herald pays a merited compliment to Judge Ogden as a lawyer, scholar and gentleman. Meantime its allies of the Morton-Castor combine are sticking the knife into Judge Ogden every time his name is mentioned for the position of United States district at- torney. The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hand is the hand of Esau. sRNOR BOYD has had his in- terview with Grover Cleveland, and we may be sure that every word that was said. and many things that were not spoken of, will be dished up by telegraph in the official B. & M. organ at Lincoln. As amind-reader, prophet and revelator Major Paddock’s gifted son-in-law beats all the clairvoyants that boast of being the seventh son of the seventh daughter. A JOINT committee of congress, con- sisting of three senators and three mem- bers of the house, will enjoy a junkot to Nicaragua at the expense of the govern- ment under the pretext of investigating the status of tho Nicaragzua canal. - The next congressional junket will probably include a'sea voyage to the Hawalian islands. The congressmen who fail to get berths upon these pleasure-scoking committees are not alive to the oOppor- tunities of their positions. To HEAR the Philadelphia papers raveoverthe beautics amd conveniences of their new trolley street railwayline one would imugine that all the stories ahout the Sleepy City were literally true, Whon we are told that the people gaze in admiration as the trolley glides by and that they go blocks out of their way to take advantage of the new system of rapid transit we are led to ask whether the inhabitants of Philadelphia have neither seen nor heurd of electric streat railways before. The introduction of the trolley into Philadelpbia must be a veritable electric shock to the good people of that festive burg. IN 178 answer to the mandamus pro- ceedings of the managers of the Homo for the Friendless at Lincoln the State Board of Publie Lands and Buildings as- sorts that during the existence of that institution the suwu of $195,860.80 has been appropriated by the legislature and expended for its support and main- tenance, while no voports have cver been wade by its managers showliug its financial o ndition, nor have any books of account beon kept of the same. If thesc allegations be true they re- flect but little credit upon the state board and still less upon managers of the Home for the Friendless, What'kind of adminis- tration 1s it that fuils to keen account of the expenditure of state mouoys and to | 80e that they wove really applied to the purposos for which they were voted? The stato board is rather late in acting upon this mattor, but now that it has be- stirved itsell it should gt rost until the publio is placed in prssasiiu of dotuilold information regarding conduet of | cussion. | lican st 1 and merchants this state institution. FOR HIGI LICENSE IN 10WA, As the time for convening the nowly elected Towa logislature approaches the question of modifying the prohibitory liqnor inws that have proven o ineffec- ti 70 is becoming a favorite topio of dis- That some change in the direc- tion of high license and local option is desired by the great majority of the people of Towa is now most generally acknowledged by fair-minded men of all political parties, although many of those who favor a new departure in the liquor legislation of the state originally voted | for men pledged to put the prohibitory law on the statute book. This revulsion | of faeling has hoen by no means a sudden ono. It has boen in progress & number of years and manifested itself firstinthe republican defection to the support of Governor Boios in his first two guberna- torial campaigns and again in the res- toration of a republican this year, when tho prohibition issue was wisely thrown overboard by the repub- o eonvention, It is the conse- wence of a firm convietion that prohibi- n has been given a fair and impartial trial and found to be a complete failure in every locality where it was not sup- ported by an overshelming popular sen- timent, The conclusion then has been upon the people of Towa that to r law that is subject to ly open tions can but bring reproach uj air namo of their state. The for the election last November showed s the tomper of the people, for immedi and radical modification of the prohibitory statute. How it shail be modified and what shall Le adopted in its place are the problems that are to be solved Dy the coming legisiature. Already numerous projects are being urged by prominent men in various soc- tions of the state. They all aim to carry out this mandate of the people, namely, the retention of prohibition wherever it has been successfully en- forced and its abolition wherever the tiguor traffic has continued in spite of Lo PRIGto lays el L R DIR0S o tomplate keeping the existing law in force until cach community shall have expressed a proforence through the bal- lot for its suspension. This would give local option, with the presumption in favor of prohibition nnless ov, turned by a vote of the people. Some variations exist in the different methods suggested for regulating the operations of the liquor dealers in case of a vote against prohibition. All agree that they should be held to a strict ac- countability in observing the rules laid down for the conduct of their business and should contribute periodically to the public treasury. Some want this contribution to be paid as a license, graduated in amount according to the size of the town. Others provide for the arrest and fining of the dealers at stated intervals, while still others contemplate merely tho levy of an additional tax by the regular asscssors upon all premises where they find liquor for sale. course, if the trafiic is legalized, it isun- just to fine the dealers as if they were violating the law. The system of high license as in operation in Nebraska has commended itself as an eminently prac tical way of solving the liquor problem and should find favor in the eyes of Towa legislators governor forced ain a viola- m the e THE DECLINING MERCHANT MARINE. The report of the secretary of tho treasury says thav the year 1893 wit- nessed a further decline in the relative importance of the American merchant marine in the foreign carrying trade, it falling from even the low percentage of 1892 to the lowest on record. According to the treasury report for 1892 the per- centage of imports and exports carried in American vessels that yeav was 12.3, which was the lowest up to that time. In 1860 tho percentage was 66.5, so that in the last thirty-three years the mer- chant marino of this great commercial nation in the foreign carrying trade has been steadily declining, so that at this time it amounts to but an insignificant fraction of what iv was before the rebellion. Tt was said in the veport of the secretary of the treasury for 1892 that the amount paid per annum for the transportation of freight and passengers between the United States and forcign countries was estimated to exceed $200,000,000, and the sum ex: pended by our people in this way will grow from year to year under normal conditions, Most of the amount goes to support the trade and businoss of for- eign countries, its payment constituting a continual drain our resour Fully 8150,000,000 annually paid b American manufacturers, producers and travelers to foreign ship owners is ex- pended in the countries whose vessels we are compelled to employ to ship our products of the factory and the farm to the world’s markets. $ In addition to this heavy drain which we contribute every year tothe shipping interests of Buropean countries there is a loss from the disadvantage at which we are placed in comnetition with the countries that have a morchant mavine ample for the requirements of their for- eign trade. It isin the interest of the ship owners of Great Britain, Germany and France to promote trade with those countries, and this they are constautly doing. Wherever it is necessary to dis- criminate against the American manu- facturer or merchant in the mat- ter of rates or other conditions in order to vretain or secure trade for the competing manufacturers of their own countries these forelgn ship owners will not hesi- tate to do it. There can be no doubt that this has operated as a restriction upon our commerce, particulaely with the eountries south of us. Lt is a fact attested hy experience that a people pre- for to do business with the country that bas 1ts own facilitios of transportation and thete are valid reasons why this should beso. The theory that trade follows the flag rests upon substantial grounds. e delegates from the South American eountries who ationded the Pan-Ameri- can eonfry a few years ago all agreed in saying ~ that it was of the greatest importance 1 thoe suceess of the policy of establish- ing elser commercial relations between the United Sta‘os and the “untries of the southern continent that we sheuld 1 returns | Of | have our own facilities of transporta- tion instead of doing business with them under a foreign flag. There can be no question that there is a very great deal in this, and.it involves a matter which ought to command the intorest of our whole people, for every section of the count is concerned in whatever will contribute to the expansion of the nation's foreign commerce. It is probable there will be legislation by the present congress looking to the restoration of the merchant marine, and certainly it is a subject which calls for early and wiso aotion. The large amount of money which we pay out every year to foreign ship owners is well caleulated to arrest attention, to say nothing of the disadvantages in other ways and the humiliation to national pride incident to the absence of our flag from nearly all the ports of the world. WHAT HAS DBEEN GAINED CONT 17 The revised gas ordinance has been approved by Mayor Bemis and an ac- coptance of its torms has been filed by the president ¢f the Omaha Gas Man- “ufacturing compar A summary of the concessions secured to the city and to gas consumers may not be out of { order. The original ordinance railroaded through the council withovt discussion granted to the company a franchise for | fitty yoars at a fixed rate, beginning with $1.75 per 1,000 cubic feot for both illuminating and fuel gas, with a sliding seale decreasing the price at a ratio of 5 | conts of every 50,000,000 cubie feet of an- nual increase of consumption up to 600,- 000,000 a year, when the price was to be 1 and when 700,000,000 cubic feet BY THE were consumed per year, %1, 800,000,000 were consumed per year, 31. per 1,000. And this was to be the limit of the lowest rate for about thirty years. The revised ordinance cuts down the term of the franchise from fifty to twenty-five years and leaves the city to readjust its contract according to condi- tions that will exist twenty-five years hence. The chances ave, of course, that by that time gas will go down in Omaha to the rate that now obtains at Cleve- land—from 80 cents to $1 per 1,000, The revised ordinance cuts the rate to consumers to $1.60 per 1,000 for lighting and to $1.35 for fuel gas on and after the Ist of January, 1894, and a sliding scale is adopted by which the price will go down to $1.25 when 600,000,000 cubic feot are consumed annually The fifty-year gas ordinance allowed the company to charge the same price to the city that it charged private con- sumers, namely, $1.75 per 1,000 cubic feet, until 200,000,000 were consumed per year and then the reduction by sliding scale. The revised ordinance requires the company to supply all public build- ings, including city hall, jail, engine houses, library, market house and any other buildings the city may erect in the future at $1 per 1,000 cubic feet. The fifty-year gas ordinance made no provision for & franchise royalty. The revised gas ordinance gives the city 5 cents for ev 1,000 cubic feet con- sumed, which will amount to fully $7,000 the first year, and if the city doubles its consumption and population within ten | years the income will be $14.000 to $15,000 a year, and by the end of the fol- lowing ten years it will probably exceed $25,000 a year. The fifty-year gas ordinance made no provision for purchase of the works by the city and did not contain a forfeiturs clause in case the company should vio- late its contract. The revised ordinanco contains express provisions conceding the right of purchase by the city and excluding in the appraisement of the property any allowance for the unex- pired franchise. 3 The revised ordinance also contains a specific forfeiture clause. The fifty- year ordinunce left the company free to charge for extending its pipes from the mains to the curb line. The revised ordinance requires the company to lay the pipes to the curb line at its own ex pense Several other modifications have been embodied into the revised ordinance relative to extensions onsuburban streets that are of material advantage to the public. These extromely valuable concessions are the fruits of a stubbornly fought contest on the part of Mayor Bemis and his supporters, and inasmuch as THg BEE stood alone in backing Mayor Bemis and the taxpayers who invoked the power of the courts, this paper has a rightful claim to a large share of credit which all citizens will doubtless accord for the success that has attended the efforts to secure the best terms from the gas company. ND OF RE: The new tariff bill provides for the repeal of the recipreeity provision of the present law, so that the end of the rec- iprocity policy of this courtry, as it is embodied in the existing act, will come assoon as the domocratic taviff goes into effect. This the party in power was cpected to do, so that there is nothing ng or disappointing in its action, The sentiment of the party regarding this plan of extending the commercial relations of the United States and es- tablishing them upon a closer and stronger basis with the independent countries in this hemisphere is expressed in the report of the majority of the ways and means committos when it says of the reciprocity provision of the McKinley law: “This section has been of no appreciable ad- vantage to American exporter: It is not in intention or effect & provision for procity, but for retaliation.” Here is an example of the way in which the demoeratic taviff reformers brush aside facts and deal in misrepresentation. It may be admitted that the reci- procity poiicy has not accomplished all that its advocates hoped for, but to say that it has been of noappreciable bonefit is to 1gnore well known facts. ased many millions of dollars, and but for conditions that ¢ould not have been foreseen they undoubtedly would have been much Our export trade with Cuba and Porto Rico has been quadrupled, or nearly s> under r procity, the greater part of this benefit going to our agricultural producers, whoso interests the policy was chiefly intended to subserve. Theexplanation of THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, have not realized a greater incredfp th our exports to Bra- 2l is to be foungh 4 the political condi- tion of that codntey, for one thing, and other reasons ame,mlack of amplo trans- portation facilitits of our own and the tremendous contaMtion which our mor chants and m#¥ffacturers have en- countered theré, “ft is no fault of the principle of rediprpeity that it has not accomplished asantich as was expected of it, but failure, wherever it has failed, has been dug,. fy local conditions mainly, and to sothe extent to the im- mediate inability of our manufacturers to take the fullest advantage of the op- portunity to oxtend their trade. But with all the difficultios in the way of success, reciprocity has been of very substantial benefit to the country. As to the talk about its boing a policy of retaliation, it is too manifestly absurd to receive serious consideration. Tho policy, how is incompatible with the scheme of democratic wriff reform, and consequently it will be abandoned. But the democracy should deal with the matter candidly and honestly. the fact that .we A QUESTIONABLE CLAIM. There is an element of weakness in the movement for the retirement of Fire Chief Galligan which will not bear close inspection, The insurance men are going to the property owners of this city with the statement that the fire de- rtment i inefficient, and for that roason as much as anything clse they de- mand increased insurance rates. Chief Galligan may have outlived his useful- ness. It is possible that his long years of se have largely incapacitated him. He has earned a titlo to some place in the department the duties of which are less exacting. But the average citizen will decline to believe that the fire department is less efficient than formerly or that in comparison with departments of cities of Omaha’s rank it would suffer in the least. In fact, tho insurance men have statistics “from Kansas City, St. Paul and other cities which go to show that Omaha with a much smaller number of firemen and far less annual expense shows decreased average fire losses in money and more effective fire fighting as a whole. This fact is within itself conclusive proof that the Omaha fire de- partment is well organized and efficient. It follows, then, that the demand for increased insurance rates cannot prop- erly be based upon the false assumption that the fire department is not up to the standard in point of equipment and c: The insurance peopie will have to present other and better reasons for the advance in rdtes. The threat that leading companies will abandon Omaha to her fate if higher tribute is not paid them will not do. Outside insurance companies do not like the Nebraska statutes regulating their business and taxing them for. the premium money drawn from the state. They are disposed to retaliate until sugh time when our laws may be umended to their liking. During the past sixteen years in Ne- braska the per cent of premium receipts los; is 41.9. Granted that s have been unusually heavy this year, it is not possible that the loss ratio will exceed a general average of 48 per cent. Add to this'35 per cent for aver- age expenses, a net profit of 17 per cent on Nebraska business is shown. This is certainly a faiv profit in a year when business in all other lines is dull. he demand of the insurance peopie for a 20 per cent advance in rates cannot be ju fied by facts, They must not be per- mitted to attack our local fire depart- ment in order to bolster up a question- able claim for excessive profits. ONLY one populist congressman had the courage to stand up against the mileage appropriation grab when it was rushed through the house under pres- sure from the committee on rules. The cry is for retrenchment, but for re- trenchment only in such matters as do not affect the pockets of the members of congress. Fleeting Greatness. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1t is gradually becoming apparont that the admimistration will have to keep its promise o find another place for William L. Wilson. By the time the next election is over thore won't be enough of Mr. Wilson teft to fill an individual salt cellar. — - A Georgia Howl for Action, Atlanta Constitution, “The solid business iuterests of the country are clamoring for action. They are not splitting hairs about the tariff. They wany democratic action! They want results! ‘They want something on’ which they can base their operations and their contracts ! Forest Preservation, Phitadelphia Press. The_destruction of protecting forests on steep hillsides aud mountain slopes is always attended by the washing, more or less rapid, of the surface soil into the valleys. This may bo slow enough, and usualiyis i this country, to permit the starting of a second growth of trees before the humus is all gone. But there is & limit to this power of recu- peration, and if this forest destruction is persisted in we will soon have the condi- tions which obtain in the south of Kranco and in northern Italy, where the demand for timber has in recent years stripped the once green mountain sides until now those same once verdure-clad slopes are bare and naked rock. The soil of these mountain sides has been washed down into ys, filling up the river beds and covermg many square leagucs of fertile lands, once highly productive, but now mado barron, by the superimposed gravel and sand. I iw destruction goes on. Every rain is attendad by the downpour of wurbid torrents frog ~the mountain sides, which have become $o barren that no green thing grows there | not so much as a bird’s note is heard.” This has all occurred since the French revelution took away from the forests the prougction once given to them in the inter-stof the ¢hase. We need to guard our forests for the nobler purpose of preserving the soltées of our streams, checking their tendendy to ovorflow and cause destruction, ' of maintaining the sources of our springs and wells, the beauty of our mountaiu scagery and the wellbeing and comfort of future geperations, DECEMBER 22, PEOPLE AND TIINGS Four robbers held up A iar Chicago for $4,000. The trick vas with & battery of gatlings 1f the mugwumps don'toe what thay want in the foderal pantry lot them stop ask for it. Don't be bashful Some democrats ungratefully that the administration gor in its ear. Afraid of the cogs. Congress responded onthusiast: the eall for omy by v mileago and extra pay to p Whon Walter Damrosch wavel his wand in vain 1tis doubtful If extra emvhosis on the first syliable of his name soothed his agitated feclings Mrs. P. Morton spends n fortuns evory year in shoes and slippers. But she groudly assorts that sho nosor made Mr. Morton a present of s pers for Christmas. Such & wi The quantity and dive fiction provoked by the Hawaiian inci not without its advautages, It demo what grave strains the country endure without objecting to the sizo bore. A New York man, posscssin nerve, calmly stood his ground when con fronted with his ten wives. By the way, stove polish statesmen should not overlook the cast when thundering about Mormonism in the west - Philadelphia’s reputation for conservatism in all things is not what it is cracked up to bo. When the government looked about town forn mint sito land values tieblad wherever the commissioners bestowed a tavorable glance Buffalo Bil is a candidate insinuate Vly to [ extra dmits in New York that he for governor ot Nebraska, Until William detormines bstween the slotter house and packing house factions his declarations must be regarded as emanat- ing from his sombrero. Androw Carnegie has manipulatod a ste rail trust, by the terms of which vlant Baltimore employing 7,000 men is to be closed down for o year and receive $400.000 sharo of the spoils. A revised edition slumphant Democracy™ is in order. Cotonel John B. Selhicimer, who died at Lowistown, Pa., last ¢ ¢ tain of tho Logan guards, and througin Baltumore April 1%, 1861, with tho first company that reached Washington in response to President Lincolu's call 11008, Prof. Tyndall was one of the most char- itablo men in the world, So far as his rather small means allowed, ho never lot a s go unrelieved in whatever but he had a horror of appoaring in sub- Dtion lists. As he accompanied every gift with the anxious messago, “Don't say who 1t is," his generosity always acknowlédgod s Calla Forresterof En ued of her neighbor a Simen Grayaon, alleging tat voked her beyond endurance, ant was a discarded s ined o for ish, Tnd., com- ross tho w o had_pro- Tho defend- or, and in revenwe ot to ery, “Ugly “Calla lives across the street quire Brown found the de- fendant guilty of provoke, and compelled him to give bond against further annoyauce. The appointment of Wayi ac Veagh to the Italian mission will prove a pamful test of the cousuming admiration which Hon. Charles A. Dana_vears Dr the administra- tion. Rewarding mugwumps is not to the liking of the vencrable democrat, but in- stead of chidng Cleveland in brotherly or shattering party harmony, he h to the Holy Land and hires o muscular bedouin to kick him over the plains of . Calvin Fairbank, one of the most active of the abolitionists who helped escap- g negroes to reach Canada by means of the ailrond,” is uow living, at Augelica, Pa. 1t is said of him that helped forty-seven slaves to gain their lib erty, besides tuking a hand in the escapo of many more. For his efforts in obcdienc> to what he belioved to he a higher la statutes of the slave states he than seventeen before he was set free through the efforts of President Lincoln. ————— VOORH. 1. BILL. Atlanta Constitution: The thing for Mr. Voorhees to do is to introduce a free coinage vill. That is the only way the democratic platform can be carried out. Thatis the only way the just expectations can be met Philadelphia Ledger: Senator Voorhees' billis, if possible, worse than cither tne Bland or Sherman act. The avowed pur- pose of it, as is shown by the sections w have quoted, is to force a debnsed, discred- ited and obnoxious silver currency upon the country. New York Tribune: The bill offered has no real merit. It isnot even as reasonable as the comprowmise proposed during the extra sion, which was smashed by the refusal of ns to give it a single vote. The democrats could not pass it alone. The presi- dent found he would aten and disgraced also if he assented to it, and therefore came out with his unqualified declaration agamnst any compromise. Philadelphia Times: The_silver coinage bill introduced by Senator Voorhees prob- ably has no morc serious intent than the ful- fillment of his promise during the discussion on the Sherman law, that when that was disposed of he would favor an attempt av some definite legislation on tho currenc The bill may also embody Mr. Voorhe personal ideas of the direction suc tion might take, but it is not a m is likely to give satisfuction to either side in the controversy, and it does nov at the pres- ent call for serious discussion. New York World: Tt is difiiculy_to con- ceive what can have led Senator Voorhees into his present movement. 1t may be that he considers his political future in need of some bolstering up among the silver men. But when he opposes them by advocating the repeal of the silver purchasing act and then advauces to meet them half way in its restoration he siands a prospect of forfeit- iug the respect as wellus the support of both sides. Or perhaps Mr. Voorhees de- sires to convince the public that the climax of inconsistency and folly in western sen- ators has not yet been reached. Philadelphia Press: Fortunately thero 1s little danger of the bill becoming a law. It is opposed to principles which President Cleveland cannot approve without stultifi- cation. Iv serves 1o put Mr. Voorhees' right with his silver-loving constituents, and this, we presume, is the real purpose of the bill." The country ought to be suffered 10 enjoy a respite from silver agitation, but with Stewart always talking silver, no mat- ter what subject is before the senate, with Secretary Carlisle wanting to coin the seign- iorage, with new territories being aarmitted to mcrease the silver vote, with Voorhees championing the Bland law in the senate and Bland continuing Lo push a free coinage measure in the house, there is livtie prospect of even temporary rest from the iteration and reiteration of the witting champions cf cheap money and the witless victims of the silver craze, e L R Buffalo Express. James R. Sovereign, the new general mas- ter workman of the Knights of Labor, suys he never engaged in strikes and is against them. Such remarks evidence a new light in the labor world. 1f the Pniladelphia con- vention, in substituting Sovereign for Pow- dorly, endorsed the former's anti-sirike principles, still less regret will be felt over tho latter's defeat. i Siamg it Chicago Post, The cousensus of nationalopinion of Presi- dent Clevelund’s messugo appears to be that 1t is one of the best, worst, bravest, most cowardly, frankest and most uncandid state papers ever written. The edy. Highest of all in Leavening Po‘wer.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, | fezezcz0) E{o Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE marvelous | ne | | » W and | fares not put a fine | B R T an patiently | lon over of the | | preieren | BeAn Anae A- ae a- s COMING TIONE ON IS SHI 10 | wn Oastor R ington Withont His Committe wms fron Washe oted Triun APPOINTMENTS HE WANTED NOT MADE Prestdent Cloveinnd Omits the the Wig Ploms for Ne- Hraska and Le Matter Namiug Reeiplents of ves tho SO0 B bt Cuear oF Tik BER, 313 FOURTERN T STRERT, WasHiNGros, Dee, 21 Committeeman and Mrs, Tobias i ex-Governor Boyd left Washi the Pennsylvanin v after: their homes Thoy will { this noon for will ma be abo in rask o n( a short ston thoir rengo, but arthstones when Claus distributes his ¢ifts on Chvistmas ov Much to the chagrin of Mr. Castor the nomination of a democratic surveyor for the port of Omaha did not fore con adjourned rocess this afternoon, I not now bo mado be venos ort Thursd ince could not be o senato confirmed the action of the presi- dent. All uominations for presidential offices during a session of the senate must be confirmed b the can issue. Constructively congress is in session during the actual holiday rocess, Messrs, Morton and Castor wor that James MeShane would surveyor of the port of Om holiday adjournment. When they callod upon the president yesterday they we confldent that the nomination would then or tod Santa reach the senate bes for the holiday | » appointment wiil n as the nom- missioned until tho uary 4, re commission confident nommated A before the be be made Hud a Talk with Olney. They found at the white house Attorney General Olney. who had been requested by them to join ‘in an audicnes with the presi dent respecting the appointment of a United States distriet attorney for Nebraska, but there appears to have' been no conelusion ched unot ained who is or Lns because both Castor are secrotive in regard 1o tial appointments, fearing tha publication t frustrate th designs. The early publication of tne fact tnat’ they had récommended the appoint it of MeShane threatens to defeat his It all pr premature today from a Nebr just talkea to the president that poiniment of McShans was not tain; that either Lams or equal chance with MeShane, und that the deferring of the appomtment until after the holiday recess of congress was another point againsy McShaue, ~ The trip of Tobias Castor to Washineton, covering a period of two week nd endiu this afteruoon, was not successful it its mis sion. He > especially to secure the ap powtment of MeShanc as a district ney and to secure a number of remoy lana officers. In all of these he failed. the ap- at all cor e had an signally Voico of Jacob, but Hund of Hao sceured, of cours class postmasters, bu endorsements on' filo at _the Vostoftice de- partment upon whicn these postmast were appointed convineed T B spondent this afternoon that ex-Governor Boyo could take as much credit o himsel in that work as could Nutional Committee- man Castor. Scarcely onc of the fourth- class postmasters appointed during Mr. Cas- tor's stay here failed to have been’ endorsed by ox-Governor Boyd, and when the lund officers are appointed and the surveyor of the port of Omaba and the United district attorney have been appointed the truth known it will be found that crnor Boyd has not beea withaut influence in this administration. Of course he has 1o perform uphill work 1 not having the operation of ary Morton, but he has vroven quite a match for Nutional Commit- teeman Casior. 1t can be stated upon the authority of & gentieman who this week alked to Mr. Cleveland that it is not the president’s intention to give Nebrask, ANy oftices located outside the state. excepting. possibly one or two inconsequential places. No Consuls for Nebraska. The president says that when he gave the secretaryship of agriculture to Mr. Morton the state more general patronage than iv was he must the fore decline to give Nebraska democrits as many places in the foreign service and in the departments here as were given to 1 braska by President Harrison. u e, & number of fourth- ) examination of the This will be to quite a number of demo- ts in the state who huve applicd for con- r positions. nuot, therefore, be pected that | Morton would u upon the pr appomtment of his fellow citizens to positions outside of the state, knowing the position of the president with respect to general patronage for Ne- braska. Some New Postmasters, Postm.asters appointed today : ol i Hall county, W. H, v . Lord, resigned; Elyria, by county, A. C. Coruell, vice L' M. 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The attompt of 1ed 1s $1,000 with interest fro Pruny S WHY IS @6 i KINT of ¢ dir over teaced fur Dy Snerinay, Wyo,, e 1f you will To the low me th published ald The tirst Bennott's Tur Bre de up of plates in Omaha catled Jage contai cablo othoer a fow disvatehes, than thi cireulation q this country don't care to hear Mr. At one time ther World-Her. rdon We ter looking v tho buy Tie B to ¢ rday’s (Decen paper. - MENT 11 MINCE, Lowell Courier: Wi huntor yon bear growid Rochestor Deni Whisky unlly 0 spoil That s, it will i it indu A an's cou hin wry Philadelphia iy 5 ove ‘raom L It in cord il de Wilson bi ches ain't me Wr o Lwe do Weury Bl oned on list Washington st outwa it ani bettah t put yer o in thit "hat's nothing. Tndianapolis Journul: uy mind ne Who on but I was his doctor.” OUT OF TER 1 Puck; Lin her hand stand before her; mmand, A She takes n snow And makes An aply wi wise T quite Sho loves m inst sy Forwhile she the She Lnows sho — CHRISTMAS TIME, New York sun owh Ul Diclk Is coming home from collego, 1o has holiduys just now He s going to | (Ho could n Lucy's coming froy Bun farry from the And w 10 Elizi § To bring ildr ) plow): 1gh sehooly own, OISO lown, Mother's in a pesky fidget, And she's frotting all day long, Lest with all her ronsts and puddings Something way perhaps go Wrong; But 1 just keep on a-humming An old-fashioned Christmas gloe, For the young folks are all coming Homo to mother and to PO ROWNING, KNE ©* " & Cn. 0] nd sellors of ) A Friendly Tip-- If you are going to buy him something nice to don't buy it somewhere else be- cause it's 10c or, a dol- lar cheaper than the best. You'd better buy it of wus, for you get the best of us —you can't get the best for the price of poor material, but you can come pretty close to it—no matter if you buy him a suit, or an overcoat or a lot of under- wear, handkerchiefs, neckties, or the thousand and one nick-nacks he carries around with him all the He'll like his present if you get it of us, because that's where he trades himself, or will trade if you initiate him, BROWNING, KING & CO. i1l pay thsexprossif you send b bodoy for £2) Wor Ll oF 1woro i | N O T oy R e I space Thoroe is Willlam s on his mers pec iish the ol the 1 L e i zns of o8 10 s ot ated pro- posed to keep them in repair at the expense county for the froe use of the tra AVol { the somewhoro, hich April the and The plain ther aire il 23 Hiari litor tho But why is it called a nowse of J. tha lilke to got thy Hitoh- Wi AS Look for A Kicken. seoks lzod o= Jost ng. B O Sl S S ES e = = = % | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, I