Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 4, 1894, Page 4

TALOMAHA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, Editor. RY MORNING. TERMS OF SURSCRIPTION Dafly Roe (without Sunday) One Year Dally and Sunday. One Year Six Months v Three Months Ay Tlee, One Year ®.8 00 10 00 5 00 2 10 2 00 160 - 65 OFFICES. Omaba. Tho Tes Dilding, South Omahia. carner N and Twonty-fourtn sirects, unell BTs, 12 Pearl sty mber of Commeree Tribune building nth atreot A et \ting 10 news 2 1tor. ddressed: To the ESS LETTERS a and remittances should be Fee Publishing eom pany., Omanha. Drafts, choeks and postoMeo orders 10 be mado payuble to he order of the ¢ THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. munfeat er sl BUSI AT huistiens addrensed to T SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nobrikga, | County of Donxias, s W Tur Bre Pib- mpany. does 8 Ay mwear that ¢ aetual efreniation of Tur DALY BER for the week ending Decombor 30, 1803, wis as follows iy, Deeeniber 24 Monday, Decom bor Tuesday. Decenber Wodueday, Deccnber Thursday, December ey mber 2 December 30 Sworn my presence this N. P, FraL erago Clrenlation for N bt St b Y SERVIA, at last accounts, was suffer- ing from o dearth of cabinet makers, Tk next batch of presidential ap- pointments cannot arrive any too soon to suit the demoerats in this vicinit THE new president of the onw of the few, very few members of tho last council that pays his way on th stroet railvoad. Tn that respect at leas ho scts a good exanple. council is No ONE who neglects to read the mayor's message carefully from begin- ning to ond can assume to speak with intelligence upon the present status of our municipal government. ROPOLITAN union depot, cen- railroads may This is and AM trally located, that all enter upon equitable torms. what Omaha long has sought mourned because she found it not. ermination of the Stute Board ation to abide by 1ts original decision ordering a rvestovation of the hay rates which the Elkhorn had at- tempted to raise has at least the merit of consistency. THE de of Transpor NIcARAGUA and Honduras are said to have begun the new year with the commencement of actual hostilities. That “at peace with the world” sermon must have been omitted in Central American churche: Tre mayor wants the street railway company to paint the unsightly poles which line the streets along which the tracks are laid. What about those orna- mental iron poles that wore promised so long ago and so many times delayed? SOME of our senator have so much leisure time on their hands that they ave beginning to specu- late upon the probable length of the present session of congry Unfor- tunately the consensus of opinion seems to be that it will last well into the autumn of 1804, - ACCORDING to,the census of 1800 Ne- braska stood third in rank with the other states in the union with respect to its per capita state debt. The census took only the bonded indebtedness into consideration. We wonder where Ne- Dbraska would stand ina table showing both the bonded and floating debt in 18942 GARBAGE contract complications arve setting in at a time quite convenient to the new garbage contractor. The con- tractor was not ready to begin work when the required thirly days notice ex- pired. But he will no doubt resent the fmputation that the injunction brought against him is intended to serve as an excuse for not carrying out the terms of his agreenient. parliamentary leaders in England have effected a compromise by which the parish councils biil will no doubt pass this month, The rank and file of both parties, however, ave dissatisfied with thearrangemeut. But none of them will dave to repudiate the leaders’ agree- ment. Were such a bargain made in congress the parties thereto would not be so confident of carrying it out. AUTHORUTTES high inthe ranks of the free silver agitation agree that no free coinage measure at the old ratio can become & law 50 long as the present demoeratic administration remains in power. Populists in conference upon tho means of effectively organizing their party for the next campaign might bear this in mind and avoid the exertion of working themselves to a high piteh of enthusiasm on this particular point, THE Omaha Street Railway company {5 now honoring over 300 annual passes in the hands of county and eity officials, court bailiffs, the tribe of Van Alstine and any man in position to serve the company in some form or other. It seems almost incredible that the ex igencies of the times call forsuch a wide distribution of these covoted pasteboards, Before long the company will be in the predicament of the B. & M. road about convention time, whon it is always ready to pay the right men to ride on its cars. FEARLESS devotion to duty, such as was displayed by Conductor Atwood in his attompt to warn passengors of an in- evitable collision on the Union Pacifie Tuesday and which resulted in his death, desorves more recognition than can be given in & mere newspaper ac- count of the wreck. So frequent com- plaints ave made against the reckless negligence of railway trainmen that in- stances such as this, where faithfulness toemployers and a souse of responsibihity for the pussengers has been guarded more jealously than Hfe, should not be overiooked. Happily the nogligent and solfish railway employe isstill in the small minority among his fellows. and congressmen AN INDIVIUAL INCOME TAX. After a long struggle the advocates among the democratic members of the ways and means committee of a tax on individual incomes have won, and & proposition to tax such incomes, in excoss of $4,000, 2 per cent will be sub- mitted to congress as o part of the demo- cratic revenus polic I’resident Cleve- land and Secrctary Carlisle are not in favor of an individual income tax, unless they have changed their minds since their rocommendations regarding in- ternal taxation were made to congress. In his annual message the president did not refer to the proposal for a tax on individual incomes, but approved the plan of ‘a small tax upon in- comes dorived from certain corporate investments.” Secretary Carlisle also recommended taxing incomes acquired from irvestments in stocks and bonds of corporations and joint stock companies, saying in advocaey of such a tax that it is not inauisitorial nor liable to evasion by the fraudulent suppression of facts, in this respect differing from a tax on individual incomes. The leading demo- eratic organs of the country are opposed to an income tax, and espeeially on such a basis as is proposed, which would ¢ empt a large proportion of the people having incomes from the opera- tion of the tax, thereby making it rank class legislation.| One of these organs recently declaved that there could be no equitable income tax in this country that should not be levied on all incomes from high- est to lowest, und that “‘there could be no more insidious and dangerous enemy of popular and frec institutions than a system of taxation that should exclude the masses of citizens from a just share of the burdens as well as the benefits of government,” The action of a majority of the demo- s of the ways and means committee in favor of taxing individual incomes is therefore in disregard of the evident hostility of the administration to such a 1x and of the pronounced opposition to it of the leading democratic journals of the country. How will the proposition probably be treated in congress? There would seem to be small rea- son to doubt that it will be overwhelmingly defeated, It will re- ceive the nearly unanimous support of the southern democrats, and perhaps it would be to count all of them for it, becanse the revenue from such an in- come tax as is proposed would come almost entirely from the north and west, Thus far but three democrats from northern states are publicly known to favor the tax and it is questionable whether as many as a dozen can be in- dnced to support it, particularly if it should encounter the activo opposition of the administration. The republicans will of course cast a solid vote against it. Even if it were clearly possible to pass itin the house it would certainly fail in the senate. Theve isconsequently no apparent reason to apprehend the imposition of an income tax, at any rate upon the basis proposed, and there is no democrat in congress who will venture to advocate a tax on all incomes, from the highest to the lowest, which is the only way the tax could be made equit- ble and relieved of the odium of being class legislation. That would raise a storm of opposition that would be irre- sistible. The proposal of an income tax, as it is made, is demagogic and sectional. Its most ardent advocates are politicians who believe it will help tho parly, at any rate in theiv districts. They think it will draw to their support the people who are exempt from the tax and par- ticularly the laboring classes. Making a low estimate of the intelli- gonce of these classes and of their senso of what is fair and just, it is as- sumed by the political demagogues that the workingmen of the country will ap- plaud legislation which makes an in- eguitable discrimination against their move prosperous fellow citizens. They aro gravely mistaken in this. Every intelligent and fair-minded workingman desives to bear his fair share in sustain- ing the government as well as to enjoy in equal measure the benefits conferred by government. He will not approve of apolicy the tendency of which is to divide the people into the classes and the masses, with the former claiming all the honors and rewards by reason of the greater support they give the govern- ment. It is a sectional proposal for the reason, as already stated, that the south knows that nearly the entive revenue from an income tax,such us is con- templated by a majority of the ways and means committee, would be derived from the people of the north. THE WAY TO SUPPRENS GAMBLING. THE BEE has never been known to crawfish or run away from a fight. When it says anything it means just what it says. And this is why it exerts influence in ecity and stuto affairs. Its position on the gambling question is not a byplay in the interest of blackmailers who want to hold up gamblers and the position it ocenpies on this question today is the position it has always ocou- pied. THE BEE does not masquerade as a religious paper or asan organ of moral reforin. That role it leaves to tho impostors and Phavisces who have donned the livery of heaven while serv- ing Satan and his imps. All that these Phavisces want in making this noise about closing gambling houses is a visit from the gamblers with a suitable amount of hush money. As soon as the green goods arve delivered they will keep as still as a mouse. As far as THE Bk is concorned therve will be no re- treat and no hushing up. We understand that citizens who are sincere in their desive to break up gam- bling demand that the judges of this district shall call a special grand jury to investigate gambling and other law- lessness with a view to indicting parties believed to ba guilty of violating the criminal statutes. Weo see no necessity for such a move. The county attorney anthority under the law to file complaints against all parties for in- fractions of the crviminal code. There should be no difficulty of obtaining suffi- clent proof as regards gambling houses to file an information and have the par- tios placed on trial. A grand jury is an oxpensive luxury. The last special grand ju t this county over 31,000, Every dollar in the county treasury is very THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THU now needed for the destitute people. Wao do not beliove the judges would be justified in piling up $1,000 of expense when the object in view can be accom- plished by the regular officers of the court. THE MAYOR'S MESSAUE. Tho annual message of Magyor Bemis is a clear and comprehensive reviow of municipal management during the past year. Necossarily the mayor' embodies and recapitulates all the im- portant facts, figures and recommenda- tions of his subordinates in the various departments, In that respect it is a compendium of information relating to the finances of tho city, its public works, municipal and corporate, the health de- partment and the fire and police depart- ments, The mayor also devotes considerable space to the problem of uniform assess- ment, special taxes and retrenchment. Mayor Bemis ventures to make recom- tions looking toward the acquisi- o or mer tion of the waterworks, the pure! establishment of an electrie lighting plant, and calls attention to the failure of contractors to eomply with existing ordinances and to carry out their obliga- tions, Incidentally Mayor Bemis repels the aspersions sought to be cast upon him from bench, pulpit and press as to his course in dealing with gambling and the social evil. On this point the mayor takes a manly stand and gives candid and frank expression to his views of the most effective way of minimizing the evil that springs from gambling, public and private. The message certainly is instructive and its recommendations cannot fail to meet the approval of the taxpayers and all citizens who desire equitablo assess- ments, economic and honest disburse- ments of the public funds and a strict enforcement of contracts made by fran- chised corpor: i PRESIDENT H)WELL. The organization of the new counecil was perfected last night to the general surprise of politicians who expected a deadlock and a long siege. Mr. Edward 1. Howell, the choice of the council for president, possesses the requisite qual fications for the important position to which he has been clected. His career in the last council has in the main been highly creditable. So far as we know he wears nobody's collar and is not a creature or tool of contractors or cor- porations. From a pure party stand- point Mr. Howell's selection would nat- urally be offensive to republicans. But from the standpoint of the taxpayer he will be accepted as a safe man. The position of president of the coun- cil carries with it great responsibility, and the functions devolving upon the presiding officer of the council are for the most part related to good govern- ment rather than politics. The first test of President Howell’s mettle will be in the make-up of the council commit- tees. Ho is expected, of course, to give the democratic members the lion’s share of chairmanships, but partisanship should be made secondary to the inter- ests of the city. The committees should be so organized as to promote whole- somo legislation and defeat jobs, steals and fraudulent claims. In the make-up of the committees no political caucus should be allowed to dictate or exert a preponderating influence. The sole aim of the president should be efticiency and honesty. If Mr. Howell is actuated by these mo- tives he will merit public confidence and receive the commendation of all classes regardless of party. THE city hall building has about the same cubic contents as has the state asylum for the insane at Lincoln. For the first guarter of 1803 it cost $994 to heat the city hall, and for a like period the state paid nearly $2,400 foc heating the asylum building. Just why there should be so great a difference in the cost of heating these two buildings is probably due to the fact that the city buys coal at the lowest market price while the State Board of Purchase and Supplies sits down while pap leeches and bloodsuckers loot the state. The Lincoln asylum or any other buiiding no larger ought to be heated at an ex- pense not geeater than $1,000 a quarte To approve and pay bills of $2,400 for that service is to countenance barefaced robber; The chances are that more than hait the amount said to have been expended for coal was diverted to other purposes in divect violation of a most important statute. This is a time-worn practice. Some day state officials will be punished for it. GOVERNOR FrLower of New York reeommends in his message to the legis- lature that steps be taken to provide the entire state vevenue without resorting to the apportioned property tax atall. Pennsylvania has already practically succeeded in aecomplishing this reform and if New York can do the same that policy will bid fair to become generally adopted throughout the union. The great obstacle in the path of such re- form in the western states is that their constitutions in most instances require the state treasury to be filled from the proceeds of a tax uvon all property, real and personal, which shall be equal and uniform throughout the state. The abolition of the general property tax in the great number of western states can not be effected except by censtitutional amendment, By reason of & sentiment worked up largely by Tk Beg, state, eity and county treasurers are required to give a sufficient bond to protect the people from loss through dishonest men. It is a ra- tional presumption that any man good onough to secure election to one of these offices would also be strong enough to procure a competent and sulflcient bond. For that reason the law provides that ample indemnity must be given, Itisa good thing. MR. GLADSTONE'S announcement upon the floor of the Commons that the Brit- ish vovernment has no intentions of in- werforing in Brazihian affairs must be taken as evidence that Great Britain at least has coneluded to aceept the princi- plo enunciated by the United States as the Monroe doctrine and to refrain DAY from intermeddling with the South American repfi$lics. This is the only explanation of Me. Gladstone's addi- tional remark that _he was not advised that his government had any right to intorfere in Bra#il. Great Britain has not hitherto stood upon any question of its righttointerfere inthe affairs of foreign governments whigh involved the inter~ ests of British subjocts unless its action promised to redound rather to its disad- vantage than to #ts advantage. The prime minister’s declaration, then, in- dicates the accoptutice by Great Britain of the general prbposition that South America is excluded from the field of ropean politics. : THERE must be some pretty good tim- ber in official places in Council Bluffs. Rarely ever is thove awhisper of officiul , and many have been the instances wherein city and county offi- cials stood up manfully for the rights of the people as against corporations that sought to sack the town. Within the past week Judge McGee has declared the motor line franchise forfeited and void because the company did not live up to its contract with the city. Itisindeed refreshing to note that there is one town in the world whose people are not afraid of franchised corporations. delinguenc Waiting for n Job. Globe-Democrat. Tho wheel horses of the democratic party appear to have retired from service until Cleveland does something for which they can pull in a consistent and self-respecting manner, St Paul Some_miscreants have been robbing the graves in tha Omaha cemeteries. This will no doubt be regarded in some quarters as another evidence of tho demoralization cre- ated by a democratic nationat adminis- tration, Exporioncod in Ohoklng. Chicagy Times. One Buffalo man choked over a castor oil capsule he was trying to give himself and another Buffalo man is choking over a pol- icy he tried to put down the throats of the American people. Experience is a bitter teacher. A Level-Headed Statesman. Indianapolis Jowrnal. Senator Sherman favors Secretary Car- isle's plan for additional bonds. The Ohio enator is reported as saying tha with cur- ent revenues runuing behind and a glaring deficit in sight it is the dictate of patriotism and good sense to relieve the treasury. Sen- ator Sherman does not believe in' peanut politics. Fofdlo oo Patterson’'s Abbreviated Holler. Rocky Mowntain New For the information of the Colorado and Nebraska goldbug republican papers which are crowing over ulleged populist losses in Nebraska, the following figures from the official count are respectfully submitted: Populist gain, fifteen counties; populist loss from vote of 1502, 4 per cent; republican loss, fourteen counties: republican loss from 1892, 8 per cent; democratic loss from vote of 1892, 15 per cent. Now whose turn is it to “holler?” Returning Confidence. Cineinnati Commereial, The great manufacturing establishments ot Pittsburg will start this woek on full time, giving employment to over 3,000 men who have recently been out of work. The proprietors, no doubt, have reached the con: clusion that the Wilson tariff bill is doomed. If we had as much faith in the wisdom and discretion of democratic congressmen as we ha in the intelligence of the American people, we would not hesitate to predict that the Wilson tariff bill, or the Cleveland tariff bill, as 1t may more correctly be called, would not get out of the- house alive. If 1t should escape that ordeal it is confidently stated by parties who ought to know what they are talking about that it would be torn all to pieces in the senate. e s G OF A RAILROAD, Philadelphia Tnquire: The story of the looting of the Northern fic rallroad by its former officials, as told in detail in the vers, gives the first complcte ex- planation of how 1t came about that a con- tinental line, which began the year 1500 in splendid condition, with $1,500,000 in cash in its treasury, representing the year's profits above its expenses, and with $13,000,000, the proceeds of the consolidated mortgage, to provide for improvements, has within the short space of four years been completely gutted, The profits have been stolen, the procoeds of the bonds have been stolen, and today the treasury is empty and the road, unable to meet its immediato obliga- tions, is under the shelter of the courts. ‘The story is an amauzing one, even in this age of railroad plunderers, and it makes pertinent the query: What'is society going to do to protect itself from the highwaymen of the close of the mmmeteenth century? Chicago Record: Startling charges are made in.a petition filed by the general coun- sel of the Northern Pacific Railroad com- pany agairst the management which secured the appointment of the threes receivers. The petition asks for the appointment of other reccivers to take the places of those selected by the old management. ‘The declaration says that when the re- ceivers were appointed the road’s manage 1 in less than a year saddled it with the interest of §00,000,000 for properties which were of no value to it, but in many of which they were personally mterested aund out ot which they made large profits. It is also assertod that the receivers appointed have the effect of perpetuating the same control which brought about the bankruptey, and that they continue a similur line of policy. The transactions are set forth in the peti- tion in detail, aud are not only remarkable and startling in themselves becauso they disclose the sharp practices of certain finan- ciers, but because they reveal the methods whereby one set of investor may be preyed upon by another set. - MISSOURI KIVEER BANKERS. They Are Holding n Session at St. Joe and Will Organize. Sr. Joseem, Jan, 8.—A moeting of the rep- resentatives of the banks and clearing houses by the Missouri valloy is being held in this city today. The session opened at the Commer- cial club at 11:30 and at 12:30 an adjournment was taken until 2:30. The object of this meeting of the bankers of the Missouri river cities Is simplyio talk over matiers of interest to nmmm;?. and to discuss ques- tions appertainiug €0 the management of the clearing houses. Before ap adjournment is taken this smeyuiug, the dele- gates will organis as pormanont asso- clation of Missouri| river bankers and oleot officers. ‘The oyt -of town banks rep- resented at this thog are as follows: Midlopd National, jnsas City, Mr, Wi- nants; United States National, Omaha, Mr, Barlow; First National, Omaha, Mr, Davis; Lincoln ¢ Clenring House, M. Imhoff ; Interstate National, Kansas City, Mr. Sqdfives ; National Bank of Jommerce, Kansas Clty, Mr. Woods; Union Nutional, Kansas Oity, Mr. Neal; First Na- tional, _Lesvenwort, Mr. Folger; Mer- chants National, Om Mr. Drake; First National, AtchisongBMy Irazer; Leaven- worth Natlonal, orth, Mr. Carrol. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, fezezezo) ABSOLUTELY PURE Re JANUA PEOPLE AND THING, Modical science isa trifle slow in applying machine oil to headache: Bo contented with your lot. Observe how the postage stamp sticks o its job. Justice is snail-like in its movements, but it has recontly shown an elevating tendency. Schioek, the bicycle champion, doubtiess turned an alternating current on his com- petitors. Judging by the amount of vituperation affoat in Kansas, it is evident that Mary | Lease has run out. Henry Irving requires fewer hours of sleep | out of tho twenty-four than almost any man | now prominent in public lifo. | J. Sloat Fassett wauts another trial for the New York governorship. If Mr. Fassett's legs could maintain a parity with his mouth lie would have some show of success. Mr, Carnegio supplemented a reduction of the wages of his men with a liberal con- tribution to the poor fund of Pittsburg. A reasonable per cent was retained as compen- sation for the exchange. The new assistant prosecuting attorney in New York, Hugh O. Pentecost, possesses the conveniont qualitication of kuowing mighty little about the law, But he has an inex- haustible month and a power-house pull. A Now York man suggests as a means of utilizing thosurplus unemployed the buitding of a boulevard from the Atlantic to the P: Tho inducements for “hitting the at prosent are abundant. Why in- so thom? Hosea Sprague of Homer, N. Y., was 100 yeurs old Ihursday. He was born in Brim- flela, Mass., but has lived in Cortland county since I He is very active and is quite a wrestler even now in his old age. flis wife is 83 years old Wee Hung Pen, a Chinaman who left Ari- zona o year ago with his pretty American wifo after losing o fortune, is now reported from Africa as having a_good claim in the Matabele country that will more than replace his vanished million. Miss Jane B. Adams recently picked up ou the beach near Jupiter inlet, Florida, & bottle which contained a message written on board a federal transport during the war while the vessel was in the Gulf of Me )y near the mouth of the Mississiovi river. The soldier who placed the message in the bottle was Joseph H. Johnson, who is still living in Miadletown, N. Y. Roscoe Howard of San Diego, Cal., has preseuted to the Smithsonian institution a white king eagle from Ecuador, where it was captured in_the Andes, and said to be the first ono of 1ts species ever brought to this country, It is a magnificent looking | bird and although but six months old weighs nearly fifty pounds and is about th feet six inchies in height. President Wilson of the school of biolo, of the University of Peunsylvania, in accel ing the exhibit of native woods, worth £150,000, which the Argentine Republic dis- played at the World's fair, said that the approaching exhaustion of our cherry and some other woods would compel the United States to import these fine grades of wood from the Argentine Republic and other South American countri Colonel Hampton S. Thomas of Phila- delphia has just been awarded a medal of honor under the general act of congress for gallant servic in the action at Amelia Court House, Va., April 5, 1865. In this act- ion Colonel Thomus, who commanded the Pirst Pennsylvania cavalry, lost his right leg below the knee. e has four other wounds mude by shot, shell and saber, in diffefent engagements. Uncle Sam is sometimes slow, but he gets there eventually. NEBRASKA AND N Bhe grip is proving very fatal in the vicin- ity of Wilcox. There were 28,000 chickens shipped from Shelton during December. There were $i1.498 in mortgages filed in Gage county in December and $35,851 re- leased. Hemingford citizens have voted to issue bonds for £6,500 to build a system of water works. The bonds carried by a majority of nine. A man who registered at the Hotel Riley at Plattsmouth as W. J. Brown, blow ouv the gas when he retired, but he left the transom oven and so his life was saved. A dog suffering with hydrophobia ran through the streets of Norfoll, but was driven into a building and killed before it | had done any damage beyond frightening few people. The Grand TIsland Independent has fin- ished its first decadn of life, and Editor Hedde announces that he is just as hard a fighter for the rights of the people s when he started in to deferd them from the en- croachments of monopolies. Fred Bonfield committed suicide at a hotel at Harvard by taking opium. The young man, apparently 80 years old, unable ‘to se- cure work, having lost both wife and child at Plattsburg, Mo., some two years ago, had become disheartensd and despondent, and being utterly without money concluded to end his career. His father is reported as living at St. Louis, possessed of considerable | means. — e PUINTED PLEASANTRIES. Lite: Teacher—What was the significant lm:!.ci( ’?Ehonms Jefferson's death on the Fourth ot Ju ; Bright Boy—That he missed the fireworks. Atchison Globe: What has become of the old-fashioned woman who knit wristlets for presents? Elmira Gazette: New Year's would be more thoroughly, enjoyed if it didn'v always come at the busiest time of the year. Shoostring—Why did o l'ust Colors! Detrolt Free Press you call your race hor: Bigroll=He won't run Milwaukee Journal: Even if “swearing off"" is followed by a relapse, it Is better than o n of habit with unbroken links. t sald tho storo- y at tho lottering hat's what I call pol- Washington Sta Kkeepor, as he gazed ! on his new brass sign, ished English. Judge: First Steamshlp Passenger—Do you Kknow what thoy had for breakfust this worn- toamship Passenger—No. up long ago. Igaveit COhicago Record: The Membor of the Barn- storm Company (presenting himselt at the box unother theater)—1 say, do you recog- nize the perfesh? The Box Oflice Young Man—You hat we do— tho minute wo lay eyes on'em. Throw the ham out, Bouncer. Mrs. Watts—Thore 15 rd wood I would like to \L to earn your Tndfanapolis Journal: about balf a cord of havo suwed up, it you breakfust. Hungry Higgins—I'd 1llke mighty well to oblige ye, mum, but it aln'vsafe for a feller to glt in & prosperition this changeable weathor. HANDLI WITH CARE, Cleveland Plain Dealer, “I'm a good resolution Of frail constitution, My purpose you've often heard spoken, 1 Roy af the sinnor, Made Just after dinner— Be caretul—I'm easily broken!" MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, Wahington Star, So change tho years; the long ago When knights were ranging o'er the plain Through trousured hooks wlone wo know, Vor 1ife has sought & gentler straiu ¢ maidens sign and lovers woo Sxuctly us thoy used to do, But swift steeds bear thom not afar ochinyar, As in the days of In vain we soek for that romance Which made the glory of 1ts duy, The indolont and tirnished lance No longer wakes the minstrol's Iny. Yot youth will love, and nge compining And obdurate sweethenrts bliss may gain 1y rallway or by cable car, Bu not tho steed of Lochinvar. Baking Powder FEELS MUCH ELATED Adoption of His Income Tax Proposition by the Oommitteo Ploases Him. BRY PLAN OF THE LAW STATED BY ITS AUTHOR Only Incomes of 84,000 and Upwards Wikl ected to th 1post, Whieh WiiI e Straight 2 Per Cent on A 513 FOURTERNTII STREET, WAsHINGTON, Jan. 8 Willam Jennings Bryan of Nebraska went about Washington today with his mobile face all wreathed in swiies. He is about the happiest man in town. He feels, and justly, too, that he has won a per- sonul victory in securing favorable action at the hands of the democratic members of the ways and means committeo last night upon his incomo tax proposition. Mr. Bryan was the first member of the com. mitteo to advocate an income tax. It was for that roason he was placed upon the ways and means committee. When Chairman Wilson divided the commit- teo into various subcommittecs, Mr. Bryan was asked to head either the subcommittes on general revenues or income taxes. He selected the lattor because tho policy of the tariff bill upon the customs revenues had already been determined. Mr. Bryan has gathered all of the data used by the commit- tee in determining its course upon incomes All of the friends of income tuxes today ex- tended the Nebraska member their congrat- ulations upon his success in the face of ob- stinato and bitter opposition upon the part of the adinistration, Wasnisarox Buresu or Tne nu.} presontativo He Downed the Administration. Mr. Bryan was given to understand some weeks ago that if he succeeded in securing a majority of the committee in favor of his project he would have to do it against the open opposition and persistent work of the administration. o felt, howeve at he could win and that he could afford to oppose the administration, becauso it had invaded his state vecently and fought him upon the silver question. When Tug Beg correspond ent this afternoon founa Mr. Bryan in the rooms of the ways and means committee his countenance bore a broad smile and ho was surrounded by & number of democracti members of the house, some of whom were with and some opposed to him in this fight, “Yes, I feol that there is some cause for me to regard the action of the committee in adonting income taxes as a persoual vic tory,” said Mr. Bryan, to Tug Bre, “I do not, however, share in the belief expressed by some democrats that income taxes will be defeated in tho house or senate. I be- licve they will be passed by both houses and become law. I was in favor of a graduated tax, and believea in making legacies pay a higher tax than other incomes, but I am very well satisfied with the outcome of the contest so far.” Will Work Out the Details, “Have you entered upon the work of ar- ranging the details of the proposed law, the manner of levyingand collecting the tuxes?” was asked. No,” replied Mr. Bryan, “we have not bezun’ that work but we have the material at hand and will begin the labor at once, The details have ull boen reforred to Mr. MeMillin of Tennessze and myself. We ex- pect to_have the work completed and ready 1o report to the house before the Wilson bill. as it now stands, is adopted and to_have it made a part of the general bill.” “Have you auy plans for avoiding the in, quisitorial and abnoxious features of levying and collecting these taxes?” “You may say,” replicd Mr. Bryan, “that wo have plans’by which income taxes will be as little ou the inquisitorial order as it is possible to make them. ; We intend to avoid wvery obnoxious featfire possible. In the tivst place, there will be only one-thwd as wany persous called upon to pay taxes under this law as were asked to pay under the war income tax. The income tax during the war went down to incomes as low as 600, while we do ot propose to tax any income’ under $1,000 per year. The war income tax was graduated, while oursis uniform at 2 per cont, which is much simpler and less than tho former law. ““Why, ours is about the only nation on the e of the earth which has not an income Lax. Englond has had one for many years and it is much more wquisitoriai and heavier than the one we propose to levy. Kven an alien in Kngland who has a residence there for ninety days must pay an income tax. I don’t believe there will be over 50,000 persons who will pay taxes under this law, although the committee has figured the number at 85,000 Yes, if one inherits a sum of money after the adoption of this law, er comes into possession of other proverty by inheritance or otherwiso which is worth more than #4,000, it will under the law be regarded as that person’s income for the year, and all above the $4,000 will have to pay the 2 per cent tax. But after the first yoar we tax The largest n ‘BROWNING, Kij ors tine clothe: Your money’s worth or your money back. only the income from that inheritance or possession 1f (b should amount to over $4,000 per annum.” Al Reforring to the objects which led him ta advocate an income tax, Mr. Dryan said: “Income taxes are the only safe basis upon which to found she Enghsh aystem of rovenue faws. We could not maintain the democratic prineiple of tariff reform and law tariffs.without an income tax. as wo would ave no adequate source of revenue. It is mply a question ot making tho consumors of imported goods—tho common peoplo pay tho expenses of the government or making those who have incomes of over £4,000 0 year stand the brunt by a direct tax. There were many who favored a duty upon raw sugar rather than income toxes. That was simply a proposition to make the laboring man, and farmor and our poorcst classes bear more than their share of sup port of the government, as agair com. pelling those who have large incomes and who can_afford to pay an income tax fork over to Unele Sam. A duty on raw sugar is unjust and unpopular and I would not favor it, whotlier or not we were to have income taxes olutely Necessary to Tarl( Reform, Stiered Up Great Opposition, The adoption of income taxes has proves the groatest sensation sprung in legi tive circles here within many years. 1t has acted like o fivebrand in o stubblefictd. It has aggravated and precipitated the bitter- est opposition to the Wilson tarift bill and iy has made apparent the hope entertained by socrats in tho east as well as repib licans from all sections of the country that the tarifl bill may be defeatea on its final passage in the senate. Thore were many democratic congressnien from Connecti cut, Massachusetts, New York, Now Jersoy and one or two other great manufacturing states who took serions ob- cction to the tariff bill because of its features destroetive to manufacturing mtoer ests and while they have been threatening to voto against the bul, if it wasnot radically amended, they have not until now scen their clear to openly de jce the measure in its entirety. 1t 15 be there ara quite & number of d ais in both tha house and the senate who will vote against tho Wilson bill on its tinal passage, if the in- come taxes are not eliminated. There are few democrats in Washington who believe the income tax proposition will be found in the bill when it becomes a law, if indeed that measure is destined to ever go upon the statute books. Ben Baker's Days Are Numberod. rhere appears to be no doubt in depart- mental circles that a successor to District Attorney Baleer will bo nominated by Pre: dent Cleéveland within a very short space oo fore or after the 20th of January, the day on which Mr. Baker's term expives. One thing 1s absolutely certain in connection with this 36,000 plum, and that is_that Secretary Mor- ton will have the maming of vhe min who will hold down the job. ‘There are six can- didates in the fleld. They are: Matthew Gering, the young Plattsmouth orator. J. Mahoney, Gharles Ogzden, Frank Martin, Matt Millerand A wwyer. ‘The lutter is snid not to be an avowed candidate, but his friends here say if he is appointed he can casily be induced to accept. It is stated that Secretary Morton now favors Sawyer and that he is almost certain to be ap- poinied. 7 South Dakota's Ple Wag South Dakota democratic managers aro gathering in Washington again for the dis- tribution_of patronage. Besides a number of postoftice cases to be fixed up the sur- veyor gencralship of tho stato and the Chamberlain_ land office are yet to_be awarded. Those now here include Na- tional Committeeman J. M. Wood, Ramd City; B. C. Witcher, Highmore; A. D. Tis- ley, candidate for Sioux Falls postofiice; sudge Treesh, Scotland, candidate for sur- veyor general; Abe Boynton, recently ap- pointed to the Mitchell land office, and Judge Graybill. Chairman James A. Ward is expected daily. Senator Kyle has just returned from bLrief visit to his wife at Cincinnati, woere she Is receiving medical treatment. Cathoun Sald to Be Held Up. Tt is reported that the president has or- dered papers in the Lincoln posimastevahip contest held up until hocan investigate charses proferred against Caihc tho leading candidate for the office, who is en- aorsed by Mr. Bryan. Iv ischarzed that Calhoun has been attackieg tho administra- tion on its anti-silver and ovher policies Tho statement was made to the Treasury deparvment today that James McShane would surcly be appointed surveyor of the port of Omaha within a few days. It was stated furthee that Seeretary Morton had insisted on the ¢ appointment of McShane i such emphatic manner that a refusal to mako the appointment would be an insult as well as a dircct turn down to the sccre- tary of agriculture. There appears to be no doubt that Mr. Morton's wishes will be re- spected and McShane appointed very shortly. Happy Van Wyck's Birthday. This evening's Star says: “Miss Happy Van Wyck, daughter of ex-Senator and Hrs, Van Wyck, gave an enjoyable birthday party to a few of her little friends New Year's afternoon. Among those present were: Miss Anna_ Cockrell, Master Joe Warner, the Misses MacCuaig, Miss Litlian Warner. Miss Lynda Webver, Master Up- shaw and Miss Helen Johnson, Miss Brod- head, cousin of the young hostess, assisted Mrs. Van Wyck in making the children have amerry time. Those present to see the cuke cut were: Sec and Mrs. Morton, Mrs. Webber [General Holman, Mr. B. F. Rice, jr., and Mr. and Mrs. M. Brodhead. Perry S. Hearin. co. ad 8allors ot on Barth) BROWNING, | 8. wiil ay the express If you send the money for 20 worth or ore (TR | A O T O O 1 O We're in it-— This invoicing business is no snap—its more Grand Sweeping Out Sale. Full particulars Friday. work than we thought— but we are culling out some elegant bargains and next Saturday January 6th. we begin our KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, \i 5 ~u’.q A AR A A L e U 4 ’