Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 29, 1893, Page 4

AHA DAILY BI EWATER THE (}-M Tditor. { WY MORNING. TERNS OF SULSCRIPTION one Ve ¢ 10 00 5 00 Ove Year OFFICE! eekiy T Nnd Twonty- fourtn stregts "PUBLISHING ¢ ¥ STA NT OF CIRCULATION sk, | T Mk Pub s AOle swear that the 1Tk DATLY ¥ for the week Trsehiick. ameretary o company fon \ V3, Wik or 17 (1 e Dy Sumday. De: Monday, 1) b Granar T TasCnUeR i N. P. Frir, Notary Publie. Average ( reulation for November, 24,210, Wiar right has a democ con- gressman to expect patronage without gubscribing to the president’s poliey! Kissing goes by favor. TrRADE in during 18! der that the British merchants are anx- fous for the Wilson bill to open up the American markets to them without danger of offective compotition from our home industries. EMrLovEs of the Northern Pacific object strennously toa reduction in their wages in the face of un application of the receivers for salarics at the rate of $18,- 000 & The employes as a rule do not constitute one of the interests to be protected by tho courts when the re- vship is ordered. IDITOR STEAD'S homely truths are extremely nnpaiatable to the average Chicagoan, accustomed to hear cigners express only amazement and ad- miration his eity. Mr. Stead's | criticisms appear to Dbecome sharper with cach successive arraignment of the system of charity administration there in vogue. It tobe feared that his actions are ing to wear his wel- come out, over is opera MeMBERS of the House of Commons receive no pay, but they manage to do more work than members of congress. Congress requires not less than two wegks vacation in order to celebrate the Christmas holidays. while the Com- mons are content with a few days only. The very fact that they receive no pay probably makes the latter more eager to transact business and conclude their session at the earliest possible Tay. AS THE industrial statistics for the present year come in the magnitnde of the cr throngh which we havo been passing will take the form of stubborn figures. The first return, that for rail- ways, shows that there was less railway building in 1893 than in any single twelve months for fifteen years. Other branches of industry will undoubtedl show correspondingly decreased activity and enable people to appreciate the con- traction of business in other lines than their own. THRESHING OV old straw would be fruitful compared with the new investi- gation of the Hawaiian affair to be un- dertaken by the senate committee on foreign relations. The correspondence and witnesses have already been exam- ined by several sots of officials and it is fdle to oxpect any material discovory to be made calculated to affect the fon arvived at by the president and his advisers. As far as congress iscon- cerned, nearly evory member has taken gides in the controvery and has been placed beyoad con ion. A majority and & minority report presenting sub- stantially opposito views is the most probable outcome of the committee’s labors. decls- TuE latest reports from the Pacific coast are that the Chinese residents are willing and anxious to comply with the requirements of the Chinese exclusion law, but that they are unable to do so owing to the neglect of the Treasury dopartment to furnish the blanks neces- savy for registration. Such omission on the part of the government, of course, gives the Chinese a plausible excuse for still further delay, and if that state of affairs continues much longer wo can sxpect to hear complaints that the United States is not acting in good faith. Congress intended to allow six months for the process of registration, nd it is not the prov of the Treas- ury department to shorten the period by withholding the requisite blanks THE senate committeo foreign af- fairs has entered upom the investization of the Hawaiian issuo with the ap ent intention of going to the bittom of the whole matter. It isunderstood that the inguiry will not be confined to ouy diplomatic relations with those islands, but will be extended t) obtaining infor- mation as to the capability of the people for self-government and whether it would be desirable or not to annex th fslands at some foture time. Thore will be no objoction to the committee making its investigation as comprehen- size as 1t shall think propsre. Th American poopfe are alveady protty well nequainted with the condition of the Hawaiian islands and the capabilities of the people, but they ave willing to ob- tain more knowledge on this interesting subject if any is to be had. 8o far as annexation is concerned, howe they have done with that for the present, and it pretty saie to prodiet that it will be many years before it is again seriously considered. 1t is not easy to understand what is expected t> be accomplished by the investigation, but nee on | But the fact | principle ' state and local revenue NECESSITY FOR TAX REFORM, The time to agitate a reform in our | methods of tax administration s un- | doubtodly just bofore the regular assoss- ment of ta property is made in | anticipation the general tax levy. | that our systemn of taxation | has become honey-combed with abuses that threaten to render it an instrument | for unjustly burdening the poor to the exomption of the rich eannot be empha- sized too often, nor can such emphasis be out of place at any time. Tho upon which goneral property tax is groundod is open | to numerous serious objections, though | it also many commendable | features and has by its apparent fair- | wred an introduction into overy | state and tervitory in the union. But whether or not it is grounded upon the true principles of rational taxation, the Al property tax has become so en- 1 in the laws and constitutions | 1 our states that it isddle to expect | its total abolition in the noar future. Tt is with us to stay for the present, and the only course to be pursued is to at- tewpt to remedy the abuses that now *'ut and to prevent the accumulation other abuses. ' The absurdity of our methods of tax- ation Jies in theattempts of each locality to havo its property assessed at a smaller ative figure that its neighbor and thus to escape o part of the state apportion- ment. If only one community did this the trick might prove succossful, but when all do the same thing the outcome is simply confusion and inoquality. This prime abuse is by no means confined to any particular state; it exists wherover the general property tax is levied and most flagrantly in the larger cities. In Now York City the assessment returns show $1,828,264,275, or about 40 per cent of what the market value of Now York property is estimated. In Chicago the tax List foors up $243,732,138, or less than 10 per cent of the actual estimated value. As a consequenco of these ri- diculous valuations the tax rate in New York was 185 mills and thatin Chi- cago 74 mills. Omaha is not quite so well situated in this respect as New York nor so badly off as Chicago, and its tax rate ranges near the 40 mill point. In all of theso instances the law calls for a valuation according to the selling price, but the law is ignored, negligently, if not willfully. What is wanted is some means by which the intent and purpose of the law may be enforced. Tt issuggested that the boards of equalization be given powers to alter particular valuations on their own initiative, without waiting for complaints which citizens ave so re- luctant to file. Another suggestion is that whenever the owner publicly sets a bona fide price upon his property his own estimate of its value should be ac- copted as tho basis of his assessment. Philadelphia vecently acted upon this principle by raising tho valuations that had been placed upon several squares which were offered to the government as asite for its new mint. For property assessed at $25,000" the owner asked $50,000 and the board of revision of taxes equalized the tax list by raising its taxable value to $40,000. It applied the sume rule to other properties that had been assessed all the way from 40 to 70 per cent of what the owners thought they were really worth and refused to modify its decision on appeal by the par- ties affected. Such remedies would go far to do away with our assessment abuses, at leastin so far as they relate toreal prop- orty valuation. Were they supple- mented by a complete separation of tems, as has been recommended in the reports of all the late tax commissions, the general property tax which is enjoined upon us by our statoe constitution might yet be administered with a rough approxima- tion to equality and justice. The prob- lem will soon be taken up by the legisia- ture. An intelligent discussion of the many questions involved will, at all events, show the importance of having our tax laws revised by men who are able and willing to begin reform at the bottom., our presents ness ‘sec IMPORTANT POSTAL REFORM. The bill which was passed by the house of representatives and reported to the senate just ‘bofore the holiday re- cess, providing for abolishing the postal note and reducing the charge for money orders, is of interest and importance to evorybody. By tho first soction of the measure the postal note is abolished, and the report of the joint commission of the two houses of congress, from which the bill was reported, says that the ad- visability of this is generally conceded. The postal note was intended, says the commission, to afford an opportunity to send an odd amount of change through the mails. It affords no security, and if lost no duplicate by law is allowed to be issned. It causes greatinconvenience and annoyance to newspapers and large in- stitutions that money through the mail, as, when the inclosure is not inthe letter, correspondence is neces- sary, and the individual who sends the postal note is frequently not aware that in buying a postal note he hus no secur- ity wha'eve The feo for a prstal note is 3 conbs up to and including amounts for which they can be issued, viz.,, $4.99. The revort of the comussion (states that for the fiscal yoar cnding Juno 30, 1892, the avorage amount for which postal notos worn issued was 31.08, so it is evident thata large proportion of them were issued for amounts less than $2.5), By the change proposed in money order focs u money order can bo issued for an amount as great as $2.50 for 3 cents, and it is the opinion of the joint commission that this would supply the facilities now afforded by the postal note. Ay one who desires to send v says the report of the commis- must be aware to whom he wishes snd it, and if it is sent to a party who | is nut convenient to a money order post- office he simply nas to endorse the money order over to some one who is convenient to & money order postottice, or endorse it in blank and send it tosome one who will colleet it for him, who may fill in the name for proper identificaticn and ob- tain the money on the order, or send it to the bapk.” The proposed act reduces receive gre 4f it can do nothing useful it will ut any ate be harmless. the fe:s charged for mouey 0:ders and brings thew 1 tho same basis as 1s now | ____THE_OMAHA_DAILY DEE: FRIDAY, DO eharged by the various express com- panies, the reduction taking place in the fees charged for orders exceoding 15 cents, It is assumed that the reduction in the ratos for the larger orders will give the government more business in those orders for the reason that the express companies have been obtaining that busihess, charfing less fees than tho government, while the government has doing & larger vusiness ip the smaller orders, which must necesearily bo done at a loss. No been | estimate is made of the 'probabie in- crease of business under the new rates, there being really no basis upon which to make an estimate, but it is confidently believed that the increase will be very ynsiderable when the reduced rates go into effect. [t appears that there has been no growth in the revenue from the money order business in the past ten years and but little in the postal note business for the past five years, the logical conclu- sion of the joint commission being that there is evident necessity for a schedule that will produce an increase in the business of the larger orders and yield some profit to the government, while at the same time affording cheap facilities to the public for the transmission of money. The competition of the express companies deprives the government of a very large amount of money order busi- ness, and the question is, will not these companies continue to bid for this busi- ness by offering to do it at lower rates than those of the government? It is to be presumed they will, in which caso the oxpected increase in the govern- ment's business from the roduced rates would probably not be realized. In any event, however, the public will be bene- fited. The measuro will doubtless pass the senate very soon after the reassem- bling of congress next week. A REFUGE FOR OUILAY The open lotter of Governor Fishback of Arkansas to President Cleveland, re- ferring to the dangerous relation which the Indian territory occupies toadjacont states in turnishing a refuge for crimi- nals and as & most convenent place for arranging criminal schemes, ought to receive the attention of the government and lead to some effort in congress to remedy this long-standing menace to the peace and welfare of widely-ex- tended communities. The suspicion of the governor that a large percentage of the bank and train robberies between the Alleghanies and the Rocky moun- tains is organized and originates in the Indian terrvitory is undoubt- edly well founded, and he is entirely right in the view that the refuge which this sparsely settled ren- dezvous of outlaws affords to criminals 18 constant temptation to crime in all the country around. He makes the state- ment that during the last twelve months there have issued from the states of Ar- kansas, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma territory sixty-one requisitions upon the Indian territory authorities for fugi- tives, and he expresses the belief that as many more are hiding among their comrades in crime in this asylum of criminals. The demoralizing influence of the criminals who find refuge in the ter tory is showing itsell upon the Indians, especially in inciting the young men to deeds of blood and theft. Governor Fish- says the records of the federal courts of Paris and Fort Smith reveal a start- ling story in this direction, yet they do not tell one-tenth of the whole stor The federal jail at Fort Smith is at all seasons nearly full of prisoners from the Inaian territory, and the federal court holds sessions continuing through nearly every month of the year. The governor forcibly says: *This state of semi-chaos and the favces of govern- ments which exist in this territory, ren- dering it a constant menace to the peace and order of all the states of the Mis- sissippi valley, suggest the very serious question whether the time has not ar- rived for the fdderal government to as- sort its right of eminent domain over this part of the national domain, and to change its political rela- twns with tone United Stal He thinks that not only the public good, but public safety as well as the highest interests of the Indian himself, demand the suggested change. The statg of affaivs in the Indian ter- ritory to which Governor Fishback now calls attention is not unfamiliar to the country. It was a subject of discussion in the last congress, when abundant evi- dence was presented showing the refuge which tho territory affords to criminals and the security which they find there, but nothing was done to remedy the evil, which it would seem is growing steadily worse. Everybody will readily admit that such a condition of things is a reproach to the country, and it would scem that the representa- tives in congress of the states whose peace and order are most directly men- aced by it would unite in a determined effort to put an end to it. There can be no excuse for the government tolerating such a state of affaivs anywhere within its boundaries. THE §14.US 0 PRUDUCTION, There arve indications that the new year will bring considerable improve- ment in production, notwithstanding the uncertainty regarding tariff logisla- tion. A late issue of the leading organ of the textile industries notes that the predietions regarding them based on prevailing trade conditions are not being verified by results, but, on the contrary, each week sees steady increaso in the amount of machinéry in opera- tion. This authority further says that, inconsistent as it may appear with the general feeling of depression in the trade, there are, however, more mills running . today than there were thres months ago, and the eports of mills starting continue to ex- eed those stopping from weck to week. The conclusion of the trade journal is that when it is considered the few manufacturers would have the hardi- hood to run their mills except on orders in these times, there must be a great many goods ordered to keep these mills running. According to another authority there was & net increase of thirteen in the number of furngoes in blast Dacember 1 as compared with November 1, and com- pared witk October | there was an iu- crease of uixteen in the number of fur- naces and noa 17,000 tons in the woekly capacity of, furnaces in blast. he New York,, Commercial Bulletin states that last week three manu- facturing congerng of different kinds re- sumed work on 'fulf time at Tarcytown additional furnaces, were blown in by the Carnegie company: print works in Providence thathad been closed five woeks started wp with a full comple- ment of hands: gingham mills in Phila- delphia have gétie’ on full time after running five dag¥ & week for several weeks. A list i§ given of a large num- ber of establishments that have started up or increased their running time ince the first of the month, and which are likely to continue operations on full time. Many other concerns are re- ported to be getting ready to start up or to increase their running time. Of course there are manufacturing establishments shutting down, but it appears from the tostimony of papers which give close at- tention to trade matters that the num- ber of suchis notso great as the ber starting up. One of these journals says that manufacturing establishments would not be resuming in so many dif- feront lines and localities if business was so dead as itis altogether too cus- tomary to represent it, and remarks that the truth is our manufacturing is very uneven: there is a period of great activity, stocks are piled up, production runs away ahead of consumption, and then there i a shutting down and a period of prostration until con- sumption catches up. In every staple line of production we have machinery capable of producing considerably more than the American people can consume, or will consume at current prices. In other words, there is not employment enough for all our plants worked up to their full capacity, and the manufac- turers either pool their business orsome of them go without orders, ov with orders for only a part of their plant. The nearly 70,000,000 of people in the United States, who consume per capita more than any other people in the world, create an anormous demand for the products of our mills and factories, and so long as our manufacturers control this great market they will never be compelled to remain idle for any great length of time by reason of overpro- duction, IT 1S not so long ago that the United States supreme court was asked to de- clare that a part of the Missouri river just north of Omaha had migrated over into the jurisdiction of Iowa. That tribunal kindly complied with the re- quest. Now congress is to be asked to keep the Missouri river in Towa, for fear it might be inclined to turn back to its old channel. After gotting the line of the river permanently fixed congress might devote some attention to securing the agreement of the states of Iowa and Nebraska to a readjustment of their boundary lines in conformity to: the new river bed. Curious Financlering. Chicago Times. The Carlisle policy: of going into dept 200,000,000 in order to rieet a §25,000,000 déH- doesn’t seem tg.be meeting with very wide approval i tho country. B Rl e What of the Cuckoos? Cincinnati Commercial The New York Sun has come squarely out in_favor of defeating the Wilson bill; tho editor is manifestly not a_cuckoo. On'tho other hand, Mr. Crisp says the Wilson bill will pass thé house and bo'sent to tho sen- ate before the close of January. e Bouneing Relorm. Loutsville. Courder-Jowrnal With John R. Proctor at the head of the Civil Service commission to give it a proper leaven of democracy, and with John G. Car- lisle at the head of the treasury assisting republicans down and out, the public can study the Kentucky idea_of civil service re- forfu from any point of view it likes. Htne s i Democrutic Testimony. New Yok Sun. 1f Prof. Wilson’s incapables hid sat up of nights devisiug the most unpovular plan of taxation, they could hardly have found any- thing superior to the great triple fraud which they have invented. For produciog a deficiency 1 the treasury and in the democratic” vote these genticmen are un- rivaled financier: The Willamette Sage. Indianapolis News. Governor Pennoyer, in his extraordinary epistle to Mr. Cleveland, is sure that the source of all our woes is the failure to do justico to silver, 1f congress would only Proviae for the free comage of silver mto dollars worth about half their face, prosver- ity would come back to us with a rush. Why or how, he does not explain. As 1t 1s, fully one-half the value of the property of the coyntry has disappeared. Where it has gone he does not say. M ST NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Plattsmouth thinks she ought to have a beet sugar factory. v Sneak theives are very plentiful at Norfolk and they add varigly to the work of the foowpads. There is a chance for a socioty for the pre- vention of crueity tounimals to do good work at Norfolk. York business men propose to close their stores at 6 o'clock auring the winter and carly spring. A mecting will be held at Kearney Janu- ary 12 for the purpose of organizing & county irrigation association. A new two-story building has been started av Newport. It will be occupied by a bauk and the Odd Fellows' hall. The old treadmill ferryboat at Brownville was _caught in the ice the other day and crushed 50 badly that it sank The Bauk of Dapuebrog, of which ¢. 0. Schiytern is president, has failed and all the depositors are’éurding their luck and the broken bank. If present plans donot miscarry, the capa- city of the cigar factory at Plattsmouth will shortly bo increasod byl the employment of forty or fifty hands. D, . Woods, formerly a prominent citizen of Palmyra ana who 6stablished the first cheese factory in Otge Bounty, died recently at Santa Barbara, Cal. The Crawford Tribupe devotes a whole page to advertising (‘hadron business houses because the merchatits of its own town were not enterprising eneagh to tuke the spaci Poter Anderson,’'n; patient who escaped from the Norfolk insane'asylum, is in jail at Nelixh with his feev frozen. 'The asylum authorities have besa. informed of his capture. The Wahoo New Era has changed hands, Messia. Mauck and Longfellow retiring. Mr. Maueck has been elected principal of the Weston schools, aud Mr. Loogfellow will be deputy recordes of desdsafter January 1. Says the Blair' Courier: Formerly the number of mortgages that'went on record ia this county would number from twenty to thirty per month. Now they hardly aver- age six por month. This o us1s an index of the good times that are enjoyed by the peovle of this county. Two Elm Creek barbers and a young wowan went on & high old *bender” and made such a holy show of themselves that | citizens formed a party to tar and feather the too enthusiastic trio. Instead of that rough treatment, however, the turee were arrested, 10>d and ordered Lo leave wowu. num- | EMBER 29, 1893 PROPLE AN THINGS, Great Britain has Stevenizod the Gilbert islands. There fano evidence that Depew made Rome howl, The absence of soup from the Wilson bill freo list was doubtiess an oversight “What did TAl et in her stocking?" asks A wild eyed annoxationist. Hor foot The green Christmas which prevailed down aast portends a fav political graveyard Douglas county farmers have an abun l dance of sand to mako the sugar factory n £o. The secret of tho Hawaiian inquiry is Senator Morgan's desiro to muzzle a cuckoo or tio. It is said the play of Rip Van Winkle does not draw in Philadelphia. The story holds the mirror too closo to local conditions With soveral thousand able-bodied men seeking freo food in Chicago, offers of work at $1.50 per day are contemptuously re: jected In view of their conflicting ovinions, it suggested that the sanity of sanity expe be inquived into before their testimony admitted Charles W. Palfrey. who celebrated his #0th birthday last week in Salem, Mass., was for nearly fifty-five years au editor of the Register of that city. The governor of Colorado appeals to heaven to afirm “the rectitude of my 1nten- tions.” Probably because Providence has a tender spot for fools and idiots. The proposed tax on bachelors as a means of diminishing the national deficit does not emanate from democratic sources. Party princivles are ferninst encouraging infant industry, Although this is not regarded as an age of miracles, some things envelop comprehen- sion in a fog. Four hundred and twenty three doctors attended the mother of China's emperor and she recovered. Colonel A. K. MeClure is mentioned as a candidate for ~congressman-at-large from Pennsylvania by the democrats to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Lilly, and that with him they will make an ag- gressive campaigs on the tariff issue, Hou. Josiah Quincy, the late assistant sec- retary of state, is referred to by a_Boston newspaper man as the best lhistener ho ever knew, and says that he is not always giving interviews nor speechifying on all occasions as some men do, but he'*'saws wood, and his woodpile is a big one."” A most_interesting case of judicial sand- rzing is progressing in Minnesota. Ite- vers of the Northern Pacific, with the approval of the court, ordered a reduction of the wages of trainmen. Fearing a strike, the court issued another order, enjoining the men affected from combining to resist reduction. is 18 is o S8 NEWS FOR THE rMY. Changes In Stations and Dutles of Signal OMoers Directo WastiNGTox, Dee, 28.—[Special Telegram to Tue Ber,]—The following changes in the stations and duties of officers of the signal corps are ordered: Captain William A. Glassford will proceed from tuis city to Denver and report in person to the com- manding general, Department of the Colorado, for auty as chief signal ofticer of that department. Captain Glassford will, in addition to such duties as may be assigned him by the department commander. assume control on January 1, 1804, of all military telegraph_lines in that department, reliev- ing INirst Licutenants Frank Greene, signal corps, and Frederick R. Day, Twentieth in- fantry, acting signal ofticer, of these duties. Lieutenant Greene, upon being thus re lieved, will, after the settlement of his mouey accounts for December, 1393, proceed from Los Angeles to San Francisco and re- port in person to vhe commanding goneral, Department of California. The leave of absence granted First Licu- tenant William E. Craighill, corps of engi- neers, is extended one month. The leave of absence on_surgeon’s certifi- cate of disability granted Second Lieutenant William Lassiter, Iirst artillery, is l‘xlundg'kl one month on surgeon’s certificate of dis- ability. The ieave of absence granted First Licu- tenant Samuel E. Smiley, quartermaster, Fifweenth infantry, Department of the Missouri, is extended onc month, First Licutenant, William H. Coftin, Fifth artillery, is detailed as recorder of the examining board convened at.the Presidio of San Francisco, vice First Licutenant John McClellan, Fifth artillery, relieved. Leave of absence for two months, to take effect on or about January 15, 1804, with per- mission to apply for an’ extension of one month, is granted Major John D. Huil, sur- geon. The leave of absence er ptain Harvey C. Carbough, acting judge advocato, U. S. A, in special orders No. 170, November 27, 1803, Department of Dakota,1s extended one month. ———— KEBATE CERTIFICATES. Liquor Dealers Interested in a Sulv Against the Whisky Trust. Kaxsas Crry, Dec. 28, —A suit was filed in the cireuit court today whose outcome will be watched with great interest by the retail liquor dealers of the country. The case will determine whether the Distilling and Cattlo Feeding company of Peoria, known as the Whisky trust, can legally maintam its rebate system. It is u test case, and the disposition of millious of doliars rests upon its decision. ‘The case was brought by the trust against Glasner & Barzen, hiquoe aealers of this city. Some time since the firm held rebate certificates, 1ssued by the trust, to th amountof $70. The rebates were issuod with the understanding that the firm to which they are issued shall not purchase any liquor from any firm not a member of the trust. The rebate is paid at the end of six months if the condition has been com- plied with by the purchasing firm. The firm mentioned bought some liquor of a company not a member of the trust. The trust refused to pay the rebate. Gla Barzen thensbought §270 worth of liquor from the trust, vefusing to pay for it upon the ground that the trust was indebted to them for chat amount of money. The trust took the matter to the courts and was defented in the lower court. v appealed the case and the suit was filed in the cireuit court, Ite- bate certificates aggregating #30,000, issued by the trust, are held in this city, and corre- sponding amounts in_ the other citics of the countr; —_— AN THE IRON TRADE. Pronounced Quietness FPrevalls with small Chance for Betterment. CreveLasy, Dec. 2. —The Iron Trade Re- view says: With the timo for balancing the year's business approaching only a few duys business is to be looked for in the iron trade, and with more pronounced quictness. Surmises as to what may bo expected after the opening of the year take the place of tho usual staple of market gos- sip. There is an agreement in the general statement that an expamsion into anything like the old time demand uced not be looked for within sixty or ninety duys, or in twice that time, but & larger cail for iton and steel products than has been kuown at any time during the past six wonths may be expected y this yeur, and thus will tead to mcrease business. That the producing capacity in the wholo range of material will continue for some time to be much more than adequste Lo the con- sumptive demand is evident, since most new euterprises will wait upon the new tasift uct, yet the accumulation of renewal de. manids in these months of stagnation ought to insure & continuance of the better symp. toms noted in December, but the market will creep before it walk B R, As Tar as Ever. LoutsviLLg, Dec. 28,—Congressman Brock- inridge made his first public address, since the institution of the Pollard suit, at the Turf club this morning before the Masonic lodges, which were giving their annual meeting. He had been 1vited to speak and knew that his future dopended upon the success of his effort before & body that had beeu reported to be his deadly eaemy. Miss Pollard’s tather was at oue time grand wmas- ter of Kentucky, which is supposed to have given rise to the rumor. The congressman Was on his mettle and was heartily ap: pliuded ‘The reception he received when ho closed amounted to an ovation, and proves that Breckioridgo has lost none of his influence with Fayette county peovle. This speech was pronuunced the effort of bis Life, but | agricultural and gra TELLER 1S FEELING BETTER After Careful Reflection He Finally De- cides that Colorado Will Pull Through. STILL BUILDING ON FREE COINAGE Tnvestigation of Mexico's Tead the Noxt win Har Dogma Systom Him to the Conclusion t Republioan Adm Adopt 1is Peo steatio Wastisatox Boneav or Tur B, ) 13 Kot EENTILSTREET, Wasnisaron, 1 28, ‘ Senator William M. Teller of Colorado, who was the free silver leador during the over unconditional repeal mn recently, and who has just returned from a silver investigating expedition ou hfs own hook in Mexico, after spending a month at home, does not take that gloomy view of the future prosverity of the country thay he i account purchasing law spondent today “Sinco congress struck down the causo of silver the people of Colorado have begun to look about them for other interests, and it looks as though their prospority would con tinue almost unabated. Of course the closing of many of the sitver mines and the sluggish condition of the siiver markot is n great set-back to but 1 think it is ouly for a time. We have ing interests in Colo- rado, which are even more valuable than sil- ver, and these are uow to bo developed, Wo have gov rid of agood dealof our surplus population, and that has been a relief. The idlo miners have ceased to bocome a burden They have gone elsewhere, If we could have maintained our silver interests wo would have had just that much more, for we were on the verge of entering iuto the pres. ent development ol agriculture, etc."” *Do you believe we will ever' have the un- limited free coinage of silver?” was asked. Looking Forward to Fros Oolnage. “Not during the official lifo of Grover Cloveland,” was the reply, “but T am just as confident 'that we will have free coinago under the next administration, which will be republican, as that the question will hve, When silver’ was bofore the senato at the extra session 1 declared and proved that the depression was in no wise due to lack of confidence in our money, but the proposed anti-protection policy of the adiinistration and the movements of eastern bankers. | know now that I was right. Mexico has fr age of silver and she never was as pros- perous as now. 1 stated before the senate three months ago that it would be but a snort time before IEngland would ask for a renewal of the international monetary conference: that the abolition of free coinage in India would ruin that country, and her protectorate, England, would have 1o adopt free coinage, at least for her de- pendents. Al of that has already come true. Indin is suffering immensely aud Eng- iand has just authorized her to borrow £50 000,000 to meet her deficiency caused by a depression growing out of a stoppage of freo silver coinage. 1 am confident that it will be but a few wecks or months until England indicates that she is willing to nogotitate on a free coinage basis, but Ihave no idea whatever that the president would enter- tain such a proposition. He is opposed to silyer, is a gold monometallist, and wo might just as well defer any furiner silver legisia- tion until we get a new administration. The proposition of Senator Voorhees in the di- rection of free coinae is ridiculous. Ho knows that the bill could not pass congre: because it satisfies neither the silver standard nor the free silver men: and he knows above all else if it was passed Presi dent Cleveland would promptiy veto it." Re'orred to General Brooke, Asaresult of interviews hetween Con- geessman Mercer and Secretary Lamont concerning the assignment of an officer from Fort Omaha to give military instruction at the Omaha High school, the papers were all forwarded today to General Brooke. Omaha people interested in this matter should see General Brooke. Omaha is the first city in the country to take advantage of the sugges tions contained in Secretary Lamont's re- port and the secretary is disposed to comply with the request. The War department issued a special order today granting Harrison Gordon Chafee of Omaha the privilege of enlisting i the United States army, providing he passes the mnecessury examination. The course is ndopted because Mr. Chafee is an enlisted man and desives to hold a clerical position in the army. Julius Meyer and William A. Gardner, both of Omaha, today applied for the posi tion of surveyor of customs at Omaha Yorker of Rockford, In., wants to bs stant register of the treasury, Work on Federal Butldings. report of the suporvising architeet of sury for the year ended September has the following to say in reference eral buildings now under constru, ebraska. The masonry of the basement is complete, and tho first sition. T work of ma contest con. gress on of the silver your He suid to corre our people, tier of beams a1l building is now r anco of $341.00 romainoa avaliable on ¢ vor 1 Fromont—Masonry fs practically complete and roaf covoring w place, Building now roady for interior finish, Total apnroprise tion, $60,000, of which #1027 romained unox- pended At the date of the roport Boatrico—The entive appr £00,000 has veen expended and is ready for occupaney Therd are five builtings in course of ereo- tion in Towa. At Sioux Clty work has boon delayed by msecure foundations ; the limit ot cost of the building 18 fixod at §235,000 of which sum £165,000 has been appropriated $141,921 remained unoxponded on Sep- boe 30, At Hurlington the basorent in Ly and tho contract for et vwardod; #4,182 re led out of a total cost lim At Cedar Rapids the work on 10 SuD o is nearly comploted and ady for intorior finist 2 remains to o expended out of §130.000, At Davonport tract for tho superstructuro has boon wwirded building is limited 10 2100000, of which sum 2,50 has been fod. Tort D about complote intevior finish; total approprintion, 000, nnexpondod bilance, $24,874 At Sioux Ialls, 8. D, tho bullding s ready for the rooi and it is oxpected (hat this portion of the work will be comploted carly in 01 total cost, $150,000; unoxpendod sprintion of tne bLuatlding ported w tho sup mained ited to &1 need mox e Sty tho cost of the exp New Postmasters, William M. Cunningham was today ap- poluted postmaster at Champion, Chase county, Neb., vice Wililam L. Davidson, ro- sined | 3 rough, Hooae county, In Wesley B Sherman, vico J. M. Newcombe, resigned ;. Chillicothe, Wapello county, Ia., Joseph L. Layne, vice 3 Piuegar, ro- moved ; Highland Conter,” Wapello county, Ta., Daniol B. Kuight, vice James Meoldor, removed: Marathon, Buena Vista county, Ta., J. C. Mundell, vico Willinm M. Wells removed; Ochoydan, Osceola county, ., Andrew V. Randall, vice 15 N. Mooro, re- moved. Peuny S, Heatn, 1CHINATIONS, Atlanta Constitution: The editor Is the only person who gives the dovil hits dues Inter Ocean: It always follows pletury is suro to be considered comcar ¢ Chicago that a rare well done. Chicago Record: Gudders actalwiys s your should? “Cynicus itis, Why don't you selonce tolls you you 1 ke cnough encmios as fol- Mhes uk ho Indianapolis Journal: “What s that low at the plano singing? 1 | Not.'™ “Fear the knot, I should would fear the noose.™ Siftings: Whena real estato agent hoging to go down hill he loses ground very fast. Rams Horn: The man who done so and 8o if he had heon the there would have re NOYOE Kots evoland Plain Dealor: The man who starts out with a resolve to reform things will ot course go homo and el his wite how o bebave herself noxt ye Indianapolis News: Chollie—Don't you think it would be s noble thing for you to do Wwith your wealth to. establish w homo for the fepblo minded v Miss Rox—On, appe, this is so sudden! Chicago Tribung Castomor—Among the other items on this bill yow've got “four and a half hours' work. You worked just e our hours by the clock. Paper 1 Yos, sir: but it took me half an hour t5 make out the bill. THE CARELESS MAN, Washington Star. re wis who told his wite That, while he hated to, He had to go down town that night, As he had worl 10 do. “Alas, you're so forgetful, John," Nextmorn he hoard her siy, While handing him the program which He'd brought home from the play. SR ) Civilization in Alriea, Philadelphia Led jer. ‘The Beigians have opened a railvoad in Congo, Central Africa, which is to be ex- tended as soon as possible to Stanloy Pool onthe Congo. Thus one of the greatest forces of modern civilization_ is about to ba set at work in the interior of Africa, a coun- try almost as promising as was America in the time of the early settlement of this couns try. Parts of Africs have climatic disads vantages, but vast areas arc as habitable as any places now oceupied by man. sEeriedinghifol Tuorenso roduction. Dexver, Dec, 28, —Tho produst of the Bos- ton & Colorado Smelting company for 1503 shows a gain of over 50 per ceut in the amount of Colorado gold handled, the total for this year being nearly 1,000,000 Tho total production of the smelter, 'including wold. sitver and copner, s £,575,049, as_com- pared with $6,062,014 in 180: The decrcase is due to the fall in the prico of sily 10 HER BOA, Boston Traveler. Abvout my lady's snowy neck, O, littis bowof fur, You cling whenover'she goos out, And liko it, T aver. Her chin she nestle And you pecp out hene You ean't conceal your ecstacy, But smite and show your teeth, 50 10 you, 1 know she 1o 1t's very trylng To see you i u | Most no very woll, though, o whe'to my LXIOus arn can't go, Grin on, smile on, O littlo elf, About that sweet throat curled! sonry and supc "I'he total appro- priation to date i 000, of which a L 2= Bl i T st make fine clothes Before Taking, ;BRUWN,{NGE. KINE e “Your money’s worth or y It's been an off year—so they say—that's If iy rlght arm were in your place Pa’luugh at all the world! ra and wallers of on Earth the 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 iever_yt.hin(.:; in the - reason we store at reduced prices with special inducements on broken lots—no matter if overcoats—ulsters—hats—furnishings duced prices before taking stock—sale ends Satur- day night. BROWNING, |'s Wil vay the expross if you sead the money for ¥0 wortl or more they are pants—suits— all at re- KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, 1k B8 RIS : i e v—’w‘v_‘d“ e e (I Al 44