Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 28, 1893, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE OMANA DAILY BEE ROSEWATER, Editor. M8 OF 1y Pee (without Sund Diafly and Sunday, One Bix Mortha. Trree Moniiis Bunday T Eaturday T A Weekly Dee, One Year OFFICES, Yo Bee Nufld vner N and SUBSCRI ¥) One and_edl Zaftor relail AHer shiould be addressed NUSINESS LETTERS iF PUBLISHING COMPANY NT OF CIRCULATION Wy DAILY B N. P, rticn in are dull times office seokers Thrse for democratic braska. T1 18 a poor politician who hasn't pull enough to get appointed to a lucrative receivership in those days. Tne way to restore and business prosperity is to show confidence in your state and in your town. confidence AMERICAN interests in Brazil must bo protected if every vessel in the vaval service has to be stationed at Rio. SpAIN and France scem to have be- come rivals to see which can take the most speedy and effective measures for repressing the anarchists. Ty only sensible explanation of our recont wob weather is to aseribe it to the fact that receivers ave squeezing the water out of so many railway stocks and bonds. S0 THE city declines to annex Clontarf precinet, and the seven voters and two boys will continue to send five delegatos to the county conventions of their re- spoctive partics at so much a vote, as heretofore. PENNOYER'S open letter to the presi- dent is meeting no warmer reception than did his proclamation anticipating the national Thanksgiving day by o week. Pennoyer might with propriety take his own advice and attend to his own business. JONERNOR WAITE'S special legisla- tive session is not hailed with the ex- uberant joy which the governor un- doubtedly expected. The people of Colorado have no faith in the ability of their own legislature to abolish a busi- ness depression that 1s almost world- wide in its extent. THE negotiations for the projected beet sugar factory have reached a stage which leaves little room for doubt that the contract will be consummated. If Count Lubienski and the capitalists whom he represents carry out their part of the compact Omaha will within two years have one of the largest sugar mak- ing plants in this country. THE State department wants an item of $10,000 included in its appropriation this year to pay for the transportation to this country of the remains of diplo- matic and consular officers of the United States who may die abroad. Only 3,000 was required for this purpose last year. Successful office seekers are evidently expected to die off soon and give other worthy demoerats a chance. CRISPI is hoo. PREMIER having a very hard row to Taking up the con- struction of an Ttalian ministry after every other prominent man had failed, he is immediately confronted with in- surrections against the imposition of burdensome local taxes in several in- terior cities. Although the determina- tion of the amount of local levies lies beyond his control Crispi will be blamed if he fails to restove peace. THERE i3 no dovbt that the assessment, of property in this city has been very unsatisfactory, to use a mild term. Some of the assessors have been negli- gont and criminally partial. But the question is whether the'council or any- body connected with the city govern- ment can discipline or impeach an as- sossor. The ward assessors are really procinet assessors. They are county officers and amenable only to the county beard or the distriet cour EX-SENATOR EDMUNDS in an inter- view the other day disclaimed any sym- pathy with the movement in favor of the annexation of Hawaii with the United States. He oxpeets the Hawaiian controversy to be eventually arrangel with the continuance of an independont republic as the legal government of those islands. Ex-Senator Edmunds is widely known for his broad ideas on na- tional and international affairs and his opinion in this matter cannot fail to have groat weight. ) It 18 encouraging to read of a grand mass meeting of white ns in Florida being held to protest against a resort to lynch law. Such reports tend to show shat there is at least a considerable ele- ment of the population in many parts of the south which bolieves in the ability of the courts of justice to sce that viola- tions of the laws are punished. Itis more than likely that such protests are frequently made by the more reputable eitizens but do not reach the northern newspapers, which chronicle mervely the fact of numerous lynchings. A pro- gressive development of sound public opinion can do much to restrain out- breaks of mob violence in the south. NOT A PRIVATE INSTITUTION. Lixcouy, Deo. 96.—To the Editor of T Bre: In your editorial you scem to treat the Home for the Friondiess as a state institu- tion. Are you not fn error there?! As many understand it, this is simply a charitable so- ciety, to which the logislature was induced o make a donation or, as it of course must apvear in law, an approvriation, the same as itoften does for tho relief of a person or persons or corporations. If this was the case, why should the Board of Public Lands and Buildings try to take a hand in the management! 1he courts will probably be asked to decide. Why will not Tie Bre be charitable and I might ask “gallant” enough to let tho lady officers remain without preju- dice until decidea? Fam PLAv. T'ur BEE has not taken sides in the issue between the managers of the Home for the Friendless and the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings so far as the advisability or expediency of the particular rules which the latter has laid for the regulation of that institution is concerned. What THE BEE has discussod has been the question whether the home is a purely private charity rather whether it does not owe some duties to the pub- lic and to the state, and among theso the duty to conform toall reasonable rules and regulations laid down for its guidance by the body upon which the logislature plainly intended to confer such authority. 1f the home were a purely private undortaking its man- agers would rest entirely free to sever all relations with the state board, but the most enthusiastic of its defenders have refrained from asserting. Being neither a private undertaking nora purely public institution the ex- tent of the state control is open to dis- pute, and it is this question which the courts have been called upon to decide, and have decided in the first instance without laying down any definite line separating the powers of the different anthorities. We cannot regard the Home for the Friendless as oceupying the position of a person for whom the legislature has passed a private relief bill. To com- mence with the home was created and established in 1881 by an act of the state legislature. Its location was to be determined under the supervision of state officers, upon whom the duty de- volved to select for the purpose that city which should offer to donate the largest amount to said home. The buildings have all been ted by the expenditure of pub- 1 funds, and almost the entire cost of maintenance since its inaugura- tion has been met from appropriations from the public treasury. If we are »d why the legislature was induced to pass all these laws for the benefit of this institution we must answer that it did so because i% expected the desti children of the state to be car there instead of in another public insti- tution which would otherwise have been established. And to insure that this public duty should bo properly per: formed in return for these appropria- tions it vested the government of the home in the society, with the express proviso, *That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the Board of Public Lands and Buildings from establishing rules and regulations for the government of said home in any manner.” Another feature which distinguishes the Home for the Friendless from a per- son to whom private legislative relief has been ended lies in this, that the home is a regular applicant for annual appropriations. Private persons seek relief beeause they have claims against the state which they think are founded in justice. They usually get the relief prayed for at once or not at all. The home, on the other hand, secks appro- priations to defray the expenses of the performance of & public duty, namely the care of destitute children, and will continue to ask for appropriations so long as that duty is imposed upon it. The state, in substance, makes every taxpayer a compulsory contributor toward the maintenance of that institu- tion. It may receive private gifts and bequests as an endowment, just as any state charitablo institution may, but it doos not thereby become any more a private undertaking. There is no disposition to prejudice the attitude assumed by the managers of the home. That they happen to be women has no bearing on the points at issue. The only reason they were given the supervision of the eapendi- ture of state moneys was that their co- operation was expected to better serve the purpose of the public. Tf it turns out that private management of an in- stitution public in nature is not condu- cive tothe best results then there is call for making the home a public in- stitution in every respect. down or this even as ERECT A MONUMENTAL STRUCTURE. The city council has acted wisely in rejecting all the market house site propositions. The people of Omaha want a monumental building that will adveruse the city, We do not want a mere shed or an architectural abortion that would subject us to ridicule. Not another dollar should be invested ia a public buildin unless 1t presents a striking appearance and makes an im- pression upon visitors from abroad—that this is a city and not a crazy-quilt vil- lage. Before buying the ground we should procure plans for a metropolitan structure that will combine the features contemplated in the proposition submit- ted to and ratified by the people. The prerequisite of such a structuve is solidity, beauty and eonvenience for the purposes for which it is designed. The people who supported the market house bond proposition understood that the procoeds should be expended chiefly for the erection of a building so planned 4s to combine a commodious ma ket house with a public hall of sufficient capacity Lo accommodate great popular gatherings, national conventions, opera fostivale and concerts. When the plans have been agreed upon the question will be how much of the $200,000 voted will be required to erect the market house and public hall building. That amount should be set apart and the remainder expenaed for the purchase of a suitable site. There will be no trouble in getting acceptable offers [or a magnificent public building. Property owners in various localities will be ouly (o anxious w club together and maks up a bonus to insure the loca- tion where it will Improve their roalty. To spend 8100,000 or $125,000 for the ground and then build a cheap, rattle- trap building would be a waste of money and discreditable to the city SPOILSMEN OPPOSING REFORM. The Fifty-second congress created & joint commission which has for its ob- ject the examination of the public serv- ice with a view to recommending re- forms and economies, The commission consists of three semators and three members of the house of representatives and has devoted a good deal of time since its creation to the work devolved upon it, A few days before the holiday recess the house passed a bill, upon the recommendation of the commission, pro- viding for a change in the method of accounting {p the Postofiice depart- ment, It was not a matter of great im- portance, but the action of the house was a recognition of the commission, and when the bill went to the senate there was developed an opposition, not to the measure but to the commission, which showed that the spoilsmen of that body do not want reforms in the public service which will diminish the patron- age at thelr command. ' The most persistent spoilsman in con- gress is Senator Gorman of Maryland, and he was naturally the leader of the opposition to the commission. He saw in it a threat against numerous positions that are handy when a place is wanted for political workers. He did not boldly and unequivocally attack the commis- sion, but manifested his hostility in a quiet way that was quite as efTective. He remarked that the commission might be able to bring about some reforms in the ad- ministration of the departments, He was not entirely without faith in it. But it was a novel thing for congress to ap- point such a commission. It was done in the expiving hours of the last ad- ministration on an appropriation bill, and it was an extraordinary thing to do. Furthermore, the Maryland senator re- marked that everything thatis achange is not a reform, and he said he wassome- what of an old fogy in these changes of the method of doing business. In this way, whilo at the same time professing that ho had no objection to the commis- sion, Senator Gorman plainly indicated that he had little sympathy with its object. Another democratic sena- tor, Call of Florida, was more candid and straightforward in express- ing his views. He declared t the commission has no legal or valid ex- istence. ‘It is not a committee of this body,” he said, “because committees of this body can only be created by the senate under the power to determine the rules of its proceedings.” He thought it would be adangerous innova- tion upon the power of the senate to establish its own rules of procedure if a bill were given a place in that body in the recommendation of a commission which has no legal existence and cannot be recognized under the rules of the senate or under the constitution of the United States. Undoubtedly there are other democratic senators wko concur in these views and would be glad to have the commission done away with so that the old order of things might be con- tinued without disturbance. The commission certainly is a novel thing, as Senator Gorman said, but inas- much as four of its six members are democrats the party in power ought to haveno apprehension that it will do anything inimical to the political inter- of that party. The fact is, how- ever, that there are a great many posi- tions in the public service which are simply sinecures, and if the commission performs its duty faithfully it will rec- ommend that these places be abolished and a large expendi- ture therepy saved to the gov- ernment. Several such positions are a partof the patronage of the Maryland senator and probably, also, of the sena- tor from Florida. The probability is, however, that the opposition of the spoilsmen will not be allowed to inter- fere with the commission, from whose investigations and recommendations there is reason to expect much good will result to the public service. The cir- cumstance referred to is interesting as showing that the spoils element in the democratic party, which is implacabiy hostile to everything in the nature of reform, is still alert and vigilant. ests ADVANTAGES T0 CANADA, In his comprehensive speech on the democratic tariff policy delivered in tho senate on the 18th inst., Senator Dolph of Oregon made a strong point on the advantages which Canada would derive from that policy. He said that oxtend- ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the United States and Canada lie side by side, divided only by an imaginary line, with similar forests and mines, with the same character of soil, but with cheaper lands, cheaper labor, and more unde- veloped resources on the Canadian side. It is proposed to throw down the barrier which had protected agriculture in the United States and com- pelled the Canadians to contribute largely to our treasury and to admit the products of the cheaper soil and cheaper labor of Canada into the United States free. It is proposed, said the senator, that we shall make an exceedingly fool- ish bargain with Canada and give her the markets of 67,000,000 of people for the privilege of sending free certain agricultural products into a country hav- ing 5,000,000 of people, But the disproportion in population is not the worst feature of the proposed reciprocity. The raw products of the two countries are substantially the same. With the duty removed or reduced upon the products of the forests, the mines, and the soil of Canada, said Senator Dolph, the only result will be to make farming profitable in Canadd, to increase the amount of Canadian products annually exported to the United States, to crowd out of our home markets a like amount of our own pro- duets. “The amount of Canadian im- ports will not greatly affest prices in the United States, but will affect do- mestic production and relieve the Cana- dian producers from the burden of pay- ing duties at our ports. It will result in benefiting the Canaaian producer, in loss to our treasury, and to American farmers exposed to Canadian competi- tion.” The very bost testimony as to the soundness of thest views is to be found in the favor with which the proposed change in the tatift policy of this coun- try has been recelvedd by the Canadian people, and espeeially by the conserva- tive party, which sees in it a great help to perpetiating it§ power. The press of Canada voices in unmistakable torms the general popular hope that the new tariff bill will become law, while those papers which speak for the government express particular gratification at the fact that the adoption of this measure will give tho natural productions of Canada the fullest advantages in the American market without requir- ing any concessions on the part of Canada for the manufactured products of the United States. It is pro- posed to give the Canadian producers all they have asked in the way of trade reciprocity without requiving anything in return. This government has for years insisted, whenever the Dominion government has proposed negotiations looking to closer trade relations, that some concession should be made to our manufactured products. Its contention has been that there would be no advan- tage to the American people in the freo exchange of the natural products only of the two countries, but that all the benefits of such an arrangement would g0 to the agricultural producers of Canada. The democratic tariff policy proposes to renounce this view, offer a free market to Canadian producers and put no restraint upon the power of the Dominion government to still further discriminate against American manu- facturad products if iv shall’deem it ex- pedient to do so. Of course such a pol- iey is most acceptable and savisfactory to the Canadians, and they hopoefully await the enactment into law of tho democratic tariff bill,<confidently be- lieving that it will mark the beginning of a prosperous ora for their country, which for years has been at a standstill in population and material develop- ment. TWO STREET railway companies oper- ating in Newark have come to the con- clusion that the wholesale issue of free passes does not pay and as a consequence have entered into a binding agrecment to withdraw all free passes after the be- ginming of the new year. At the pres- ent time they have oatstanding over 1,000 such passes, which are being used by judges, city and county officials and hosts of others who have trumped up one claim or another as entitling them to free transportation on the city streot railways/ It is announced that even the presidents and stocl holders of the roads will hereafter be compelled to pay their fares with their own nickels and trust to the dividends on the stock for their just returns on their investments, This innovation, if consistently adhered to, cannot but prove beneficial to the people in secur- ing better sarvicé and also in purging the local government of a great source of corruption and evil influence. The self-interest of the street railway com- panies ought to lead: to the adoption of such a rule in every city of the United States. If the companies do not make the movement of their own accord each state legislature should force them to do s0 as a measure of protection for ths local governments. Quaint Doctrine, Atlanta Constitution, According to Mr. Carlisle a man who is rich enough to engage in a big business without the aid of partners should be ex- empted from an income tax, but tbo men who combine their capital ought to be taxed. Queer doctrine! —— Blocking 1mprovement. Globe-Demacrat. No real and permanent improvement in general business 1s looked for until after the tariff bill begins to take in congress the shape which it is likely to retain, but this will probably happen some timein Febru- ary or March at the latest. ——— Uncle Sam s a Rallrond Manager, Springfield Kepublican, About 32,000 miles of railroad have so far this year come under the divect control of the federal courts through receiverships. This is government oporation of the roads ou 4 very pronounced scale, ———— Whero Reform 15 Neodod. Phitadelphia Inguirer, hicago court that called an attornoy to order on account of his abuse of a witness is entitled to the thanks of the entire public There is more blackguardism to the squa inch in the trial of criminal cases nowaday than in any other walk of life ouiside of ti @ slums. And sometimes the slume have noth- ing that begins to compare with the cross- examiners. —_— The Dinner Pail Platitude, Chicago Inter Ocean, Bofore the election demoorats were very anxious about the cost of “the poor man's littie dinner pail. But they don't bother with the question of what he has got to put m it. Millions of men with “little dinner pails” now seo vhe difference botween demo- cratic tariff reform and protection. They voted tariff tinkering in and they can vote it out, but in the meantimo they have got to suffer. — Insolent Vorporation San Francisco Chronicle. ‘The street car corporations are daily be- comming more insolent, and their manag: by their attitude, plaiuly declare that they don't care a — for the public. Treatment of this kind can be pushed too far. 'The courts permit corporations to do pretty much as they please 80 long @8 they are not made to feel the inaignation, of the public, but that once aroused they will ,be careful how they give all the turkey, to- the stroet car com- panies and the bones to the peoplo. Lotty' Concelt. New Yonli, World. Tne bar of Carlislg, P’a., refuses to admit women o the rmol ce of the law. Ex-Judge Herman, justifying thid refusal, says that ‘iwhile women may’ bo’ physicians, journal ists, ministers, telegraph operators and typewriters, it doesuot follow that they can comnete with o b the profession of law, where the abl®t mon are found and pitted agninst one another™ 'This is a lawyer's modest estimate of’ the superior qualifica- tions veguisito for beiug a lawyer. Has a Daaiel come to judgment, or is isa Dogberry ! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 893. NERRASKA AND NEBRASK NS, Thore were 300 birds entored fn the poul- try show at_Heatrice General Josoph Hollman of Emerson s spending tho Christmas holidays at his old home in Williamsport, Md. A wagon loaded with corn ran over 7-year. old Andrew Leisenmeyer of Beatrice and crushed both of the ad’s legs. Miss Dora Pierco of Butto, in_attempting to mount her horse, jumped clear over the animal and fell upon her wrm, broaking the bone. Grand Tsland young people went on Wasmer lake in spite of the fact ice was thin, and they all foll in. No harm came of the affair veyond a ducking. John Noh, a prominent Colfax county farmer, died of fover, and his wifo 18 very low with the same discaso, having been un- conscious since her husband's death Axel Atkiuson of Grand Island has an eaglo that was captured the other day near Loup City by a hunter who disabled one of its wings by a shot. The bird of prey got away on thoe road and when its captors tried to récapture it the bird showed fight and caused the nerve of three men to forsake them. Tt was finally caught, however, by one man going up on one side and another man on the ovher side and catehing it by the wings. The eagle had a be: s sharo as a razor and a mouth as b nan has been heard from again, ska City News is informea b; ph Huberle that while in Lincoln a short time since he met a relative of Quin Bohanan, who informed him that he had Just received vositive information that Quin had been killed in a railroad wreck in Mon tana a short timo since. 1t is known that Quin was out in that couffiry and it 1s more than probable that_the information 18 cor- rect, at least Sheriff Huverlo places a groat deal of confidenco in the story told him by that gentleman, The troubles growing out of the passage by congress of the act allotting lands in sev- cralty to the Omaba Indians have been numerous, but one featuro of tho caso has Just been' settled for good in Judgo Norris' court at West Point. W. 1. Peebles of Pender was promineut in securiug tho pas- sage of the acy by congress allotting the lands in severalty, and also in urging the government Lo put_ the act in force. Ihis aroused the ire of Ed Farley, who haa for & number of years leasod the lands in que tion of ‘the Indians for pasturing ca tle. Farloy had secured a renewal of his leases, but the Indians claimed that he did so by fraud, as th understood they were leasing their lands for one year, but when the leases turned up in court they were for five years. On this showing Peebles and others advised tho Indians to bring suit against Farley, and tho red men accopted his advice. AS'a consequence of all these moves by Peebles and other friends of the Omuhas, Farley brought suit against them for $8,000 damages, charging con- spitacy to injuro him by breaking up his pasture. The suit finally came to trial last week, and there was an interesting scene, In court as witnesses were Big Elk, White Horse, Surda-Ha-Ha and Heney Fontanello, comprising the Omaha couacil. The testit mony was exhaustive, and the finding of the court was reached on in favor of the aefendants, loaving to pay about $1,200 in court costs. ey PEOY AND THINGS. Farley The crop of new leaves is almost ready for tho wurn, It dosen’t flatter congressional reformers to dub them political heelers. Japan, according to the new census just completed, shows a population of 41,030.940. ‘Lhe Bell Telephone company has divided §23,000,000 in_dividends. Stockholders do not regard taiking a bore. United States “Senator-elect Thomas D. Martin of Virginia never smoked, chewed, or drank, and dosen’t swet Edward Payson Weston, the noted long distance walker of twenly years ago, pirouctted from New York to Albany last week. Oskaloosa, Ta., is besieged by tramps. Tho evil is of such proportions that a vigilance committee has been formed, and muscular men ave getting in fighting trim for a tussle with the unwashed. Governor Waite's remarks are so punctu- ated with dashes and sulphurous d—d’s that he is suspected of being ambitious to fill the chair of profanity which she Colorado uni- versity is thinking of establishing. It is stated that abouu 35,000,000 pacis of playing cards were sold in this country last If the sales should not be oiminished a 10-cent tax for government purposes said tax would yield a handsome sum. A London man who made a specialty of manafacturing modern antiquities nas been forced to give up business, owing to the slim demand for his specialties. 1he times seem to be unpropitious for the sale of ma- chine-made prehistovic relics, According to reliable testimony various railroad corporations contributed cash to help along the campaign in Virginia. Of course the corporations had no special in- terest in the contest. They simply chipped in to help the wheels go round. Patrioti well, we should smilo. According to a paper filed with the Mai Historical society, Duniel Mitcheli of mouth, Me., who was captured in 1751 by Indians, was adopted into an Indian family, and lived as a member of it for 10 years, 50 that when lus parents found him hé refused to return to them, and had to be ta by force, wus a great uncle of Thomas B, Reed, himself a heap big Injun, Much has been said hereabouts lately concerning the case of gas production. Al- though the subject is closed, it 1s instruc- tive Lo note that a company offers to furnish water gas to Philadelphians av a cost in the nolderof 25 cents per 1,000 cubic fect. The yisto pay the cost of distribution ana collection. A comwittee of the city council has advised the acceptance of the pro- posal. There six members of the senate who have been cabinet ministers. Vilas was postmaster general and secretary of the in. terior under Cleveland, Sherman was Hayes' secretary of the treasury, Proctor was at the head of the War department under Har- rison, Chandler and Teller served under Arthur together—one as sceretary of tho navy, the other as secretary of Ltho interior —and Cameron is the veteran of the group, having been Grant's seeretary of war, e S—— THE KNOWING MAN. Springfietd Republican, He smilos an all sufic.ent smile of keen solf- satistaction; Knows every phaso of lifo—thought philo- sophic, warlike action Ho has the mystic scsamio that reveals the darl sterious, Discourses putronizingly with languld air im- perious. Ot selence ho c invention Religions thought? From board American, Hoputs ta-shiunio tho logic of a loarned Uni- tarian, Of finunce, toward silver he hasa cortain loaning; Of overy twist of politics he knows the proper méaning. The actors, bless you, ho is an adept in the art; Has seen th ofte n tell you of the latest grand Zorouster to the m all—has known them all, and bluyed a part Ho tulks about the cliss French romancer, And tells you pretty ancedotes about a ser- pont duncor, Sports and athletics! 'Twere feeble praise to say ho knows it all, From problems intricate at c ale foot bull, The reason why the “dems" went out, to him was vory plaini With_optimistie view hoe says we'll have good timos ugaln, To catalogue his knowlodge needs a volume without doubt; Butno, he's finished shavin g me. gent!") LIl get out. muse, the latest 88 to Harvard- (“The next Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, LS Baking Powder ALL OF THE PARTY'S POWER How the Democrats Proposs to Pass the Wilson Bill, PECULIAR RESOURCES OF THE PRESIDENT Sald to 1 List o) ve Prepared a Colitieal Hack the Namos of Those Who Opposs the Tarim Monnur 513 1 Wasitixaros, Dec When the Mills bill was under considera tion soveral democrats unced their un willingness to vote for a meoea which threatened so much disaster to the intorests of their respective discricts. Threc of them, Messrs, Sowdon of Ponnsyivania and Green- man and Bliss of New York, went so far as to cast their votes against the bill. Grover Cleveland was then prosident and he promptly vetoed a vill for a public building in Sowden's district. Then, with all the power of the patronago at his command, he proceeded o encompass the defeat of the three men who had dared to his wishes, The same tactics aro to be followed this year. President Cleveland has a black list, on which is inscribod the name of every democrat who has spoken his feclings in opposition to this Wilson bill. Already Haines, the New York member, who is lead- ing the New York “kickers,” has been turned down in every postofiice nomination lie has submitted, and even Sperry of Con- necticut finds that bis suggestions concern- ing federal oftices in Connecticut fail to meet with executive approval Mr. Wilson's Views, The Wilson bill is to bo made tho tarif measure of the democratic party, and every man who fails to vote for it is to be hounded out of congress. Wilson believes that party spirit will overcome tho fear of home do- nunciation, and that his party will be united. He explams his views years of work as a minority made the demo- crats littlo fitted to pull togother in the party traces, but thoy have had good train ing in the extra session. The go-as-you- please spirit that used to be so manifest umong them is disappearing. Instead of cousidering what they will do on a_question they nowask what the party should do. This was the spirit that was respousible for much of the success of the republicans. They worked well togeth 1L is now mauifesting itself to a degree uever before known among democrats. It is yotan un- known quantity, but I believe that when congress reassembles this spirit will be so strong that this boiting dwsposition of which we are hearing 80 much will have to go down before it. Mugwu Wasurxatos Bereavor Tie Bes, RTEENTH STRE e appose thus: “Thirty ps In Righ Favor. If the thoroughbred democrats who are daily seoking appowntments at the hands of President Cleveland only knew half of his catering to the mugwumps they would fairly scalp themselv Ihere is complaint every y among the Clevelan ther give a mugwump an ofiice than a genuine and consistent member of his party. They point out the fact that he gave his highest cabinet ofice to Walter Q. Gresham, a mugwump of buta ye standing, aud has not only retainea a ' large number of republicaus in the foreign service, but has given some of the best pluces to mugwumps. They point out the composi- tion of the aivil service commission as being mugwump and republican, and declare that they can lay their hands upon more repub- licans and mugwumps in the departinents than actual democrats, Your correspondent today saw a letter from Freiburg, Germany, in which it was stated that another mugwump had recently arrived there to take charge of the United States consulate. The new consul is Mr. Rosselle, tho son of a prommnent hotel man of this city. 'Lhe letter has this significant statement, which should make every thor- oughbred democrat hoyw. The new consul here sa s the matto int was Kept i profound s as he Is a mugwump, zht it hes 0 not let his politic be known and to keep from the public s as possible his identity, politically speaking. More than a dozen times have mugwumps appomted to positions in the departmental service and assigned to the field requested your correspondent to make no publication of their appointments or to let it be known that they were in politics neither zepubli- can nor demgerat. of his Genulne Resignations Are Few. There are very few real and genuine resig- nations from the government service theso days. The press reports announce daily At this and that officer has *tendered his resignation” or has ‘“resigned to enter pri- vato business,”” Nine-tenths of these de- partures from the federal service are the re- sult of force. Secretary Carlisle has tho distinction of Liaving secured mora *resizna- tions” than any man who has presidea over the ‘Ireasury department for a period of ten months since the adoption of the civil serv- 1o law. o told a friend the other day t by the end of this vear there would not bein his service & single republican of- It's been an year—so “BROWNING, KING #1771 The largont makers and s tine elothes on Barth Before Taking, _ outsiae mail of the classified brings to his desk ienatic but it s mnoticed from books that there have gono out in th mails of a few days previous an panl nume ber of letters calling for as many resign: tions as are oived A resignation upon the roquest of th president or & cavinet officer is the same morally as a dismissal from tho service. The result is the same; but upon the records of the department the change in the ofMce is rogarde the same asaf thore had been a dismissal. A resignation is only called for instead of dismissal action being taken when tho preswdent or the cabinet officer has somo reason to extond o little ro- t for the officer to be ret 1. A resige nation is called for in nine instances out of ton whore charges forred, rather than proceed by dismissal list. of course, News for the Army The f\ day Ifirst Lieutenant Tywelfth infantry, now in San Francise Colonel William Metiraha president of the examining o 'ra socretary of 1owing named off wi it the oftice of the chiof sig army in this city on Thursd the examining board f. 8 view to aseloction 1 signal corps: IMirst Licutenant Samuel Rebor, Ninth cavaley: PFirst Licutenant George O, Squive, Third artillory Now Nebraska Money Order Offices. ow monay order ofices will bo estab lished in Nebraska on January 2 as follows: Belgrade, Nanco county; Clinton, Sheridan county: Surprise, Butler county Interna tional money order oftices will also be estab lished as follows: Valparaiso, Saunders couaty; Waterloo, Douglas e Saunders county. Postal no homie, Polk county Pr - The Balance of New York 7mes ‘The ofileial reports for the month of No. vember show that the value of tho exports in that mouth exceoded the valuo of the im: Ports by nearly $41,000,000. In every month since tho beginning of the current fiscal year the balance of trade, so far as it can be Shown by tho value of products exported and products imported, has been 1 favor of this country, and the total excess on the side of xports for the five months is about §193,: 00,000, This excess has been cavsed in large measure by a decrease of imports. The valuo of November's exports was 00,000,000, while tho value of the goods imported was llowing army omders wore 1ssued to Stephen Mills, leavo of absen port in person Fifth artillory, board convened will ¥ war the report in porson al officer of the wy, danuary 4, to oxamimation, with transfer to the Swede HeaTi - by, Phitxdelphia Ledger. There appears to be astrong disposition in Washington to make the Nicaragua canal a national enterprise, at least to the extent of guarantecing the bonds of the company. Such a guarantee would greatly lessen the cost of construction and the interest charges, thereby permitting a decrease in the rate of tolls, to the great advantage ot commer “The’ house committeo on com- e so favorablo to the canal enter- prise that it has unanimously agreed to rec: ommend the appointment of » committee of senators and represcntatives to visit Nica- ragua and report on the subject - VARIATIONS OF THE WITS, Philadelphia Record: Blobbs—Why eallyour girl a silent b Slobbs-— B kissed ner and she never tolled. an: The nearest thing written ly for the correspoudence. you w50 I Milwaukes Republ toa vacuum is a lott purpose of kecping up Atlanta Const mind the baby?" when she gots older, th her mother about hér.” or have to *pose T will Cis, It she's got any of Tndianapolis Journal; is the differenco spaper man? Kl =Tho nowspiper man 1 tho one who while the journallst makes the borrow, usually. my—Paw, what between a journalist 'and Rochestor Democrat: When a young man's first mustache gets bold enough o make ite appearunco, although he may treat it tenderly, 115 friends do nog hesitate 1 eall it down. Washington Star: “Jollikins Is trying to make i perpetual niotion wachine.” “Well, ght to succeed i any one can.* Tow'so? “IHe’s gov wheels enough in his head.” rd: “Do you believe,” he satd stroked bier hair, “do you be- D, abiding love like ours can Chicago Re as he tonderl liove that a lio out U o rze, T don't, ‘but it aiways did in ments.” sho responded, my ‘previous engage: Buffalo Courier: Spoaking of hard times, the man who hias & job it small wages probas bly finds but little ¢hango in the situation. me G Atlanta Jowrnal. La Grippo! Dark demon of diseases, With your sniffs and snorts and snoez W s and muftied moanings, Aches iund shakes und grunts and gronnings, Swollon Joints, theumaiic twing With yoirr various frills and fringes— Since T cannot shun or shake you, Monstor, may the devil tako you Go at onee and do not Go therd as & missiof And as swift as fly Boldly th nions Ho will fold his flapping pinions, Shed his hoofs and h 1 50 His connoction there forever! e llers ot off they say—that's eg .reason we have sold off so many goods and probably the reason |we held our two half |off sales so as to sell off as many broken lots as possible—Now next Monday, we take stockand before taking will place on sale for the balance of the week everything in the day night. BROWNING, Will vay the express if you send l S i the money for $20 wort fi or wore 10 N L s b e e A e e e ke | A store at reduced prices with sp;a'ml inducements on broken lots—no matter if they are pants—suits— overcoats—ulsters—hats—furnishings duced prices before taking stock—sale ends Satur- all at re- KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. |- R A