Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 5, 1894, Page 4

THEOMATA DAILY BEE. J T ROSEWATER, Fditor j % PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF St without Snnday) On Sunday. One Year 8800 baily i 10 00 Dajly n Bix Mor Three Mo iy e, Oni urday Bee, Ou Weckly Bee, One Year OFFICES Oon The Boe Duld Bouth Omal Comnell Mnfrs 0 Offier Yoar Chamber of Commoree ing tonewa and e To the Editor. TERS nittane (i il postoMen o Lo order of the comy HE BEE PUDLISHIN A should be nddres ¥, Oman . Dra = i COMPANY. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebrasia, | County of Douglas. { George 1, Tzachick. no f TiE BER Pub Linhing company. does sc awear that the aen eulation of DAILY HEE {oF the ending Doccrnbor 31, 1803, was as fullows Sunday, Decen he onday, D Gromy 1.7 sn 10 be e and CHenee this N.P.F Bi has retreated from the gradu- ated income tax to a uniform income tax. This is something of a come-down all by itaolf. Missot river bankers ha again at St. Joseph to discuss clearing house regulations. Omaha jobbers wera not invited to participate. NEBRASKA banks may now prepare to fork over interest at the rate of 3 per cent on state and county public moneys deposited with them for their use. T decision of the supreme court on the state depository law will save the populists the trouble of bringing man- damus proceedings against the state treasurer, AMERICAN workingmen may congrat- ulate themselves that they have not yot been overtaken by the severe winter weather that has been prevailing throughout Burope. 't WOULD be interesting to know just why $4,000 has been chosen as the limit for exemption from the proposed federal fncome tax. Taxation for revenue only has no reason to stop at $4,000. How kind in the subcommittee of the ways and means committee to put the in- come tax exemption limit low enough to include their own salaries as congress- men among the taxable income: IT 1S rumored that certain ex-council- men will now be requested to pay for whatever gas, water and electric light- ing they may consume. It is likewi rumored that they will no longer travel upon street railway passes. THE city electrician reports that he making a thorough inspection of electric light wires in buildings. He has found a great deal of defective work, which rendered the buildings liable to destruc- tion by fires. Tt is to be hoped that he can put & stop to imperfect and danger- ous wiring. ‘WE ARE not in tho confidences of the lacal democratic refreshment commit- tee, but if Hon, William Jennings Bryan and Hon. Toburlington Castor are ex- pected at the Jacksonian feast we as- sume that they will not be seated to- gether. Mr. Castor is not Mr. Bryan's right-of-way man. THE d urer and the auditor may be stral ened out. The discrepancy between ox- Treasurer Hill ‘and Treasurer Bartloy as to which is to be held responsible for the quarter of a million deposited in the defunct Capital National bank will not be s0 easily disentangled. OMAHA and Nebraska are deriving no little advertising from Couant Lubien- ski's proposal to evect a beot sugar fac- tory at this point and to back it up by Iccating a Polish colony of beot farmers in the Elkhorn valley. Reports of this onterprise cannot fail to attract other capitalists to Nebraska as a field for profitable investment, NERAL Ma & WORKMAN Sov- EREIGN likes to talk. He seoms to be intoxicated by the higher atmosphere which he has breathed but a foew short weeks. He evidently has not learned the truism that o man whose jaw is al- ways working soon finds himself without respectful auditors. Past Master Pow- derly had faults, but he rarely ev talked whon he had nothing to say. EARLY in the spring work will begin on the government building and & Fort Crook, the new Metropolitan Union depot will bo started, a 31,000,000 beot sugar factory is almost a cortainty, public improvements to cost many thousands of dollars, oxtensive stock yards improve- ments and large operations by East Omaha veople will all contribute to prospority and make life worth living, MAYOR BeMis takes an excusable pride in pointing to bis connection with the sottlement of the recent gas franchise controversy. The people have not yet begun to appreciate the extent of the concessions which the mayor's porsistent efforts secured them. They will recognize the magnitude of the at- tempted fifty-yoar franchise rald before the present franchise is one-fifth ex- pired. WHEN Galusha A, Grow takes his seat in congress as congressman-at-large from Penusylvania he will return to the house over which he presided as speakor at the outbreak of the war. Mr, Grow began public life in 1831 at the age of 27T and was active in tho early struggles of the republican party. Now, at 69, he is nominated unanimously to run for congress once more, after an ab- sence of thirty years from that body. Inasmuch as no real contest for the seat will be made by the opposing parties, his nomination is already equivalent to Meetion, 70 IMPORTANT DECISIONS Two decisions have just been handed down by the state supreme court which vitally concern the taxpayers of this state. One of these involves the recov- ery of the $236,000 deposited by the state tr nthe Capital National bank. The other affirms the constitu tionality of the act passed by the leg lature of 1861 authorizing the establish- ment of depositories for state, county and cf inds. In the first case the court holds that the prosecution of ex-Treasurer Hill and his bondsmen shall be under the jurisdiction of the courts of Lancaster county. This decision, although in ac- cord with the principle that porsons held for offenses against the law shall be tried at the place whoere the offenso was committed, is for many reasons to be deplored. In ordinary sses between resi- dent litigants and even nonresident cor- porations the average Lancaster county jury will do the fair thing and ren- dor verdicts according to the law and evidenc .But when it comes to depredations on the state, defalcations, embezzlements and misplacemen public funds a miscarriage of justice is almost certain. It is reporved that Mr. Hill was jubilant when the decision was aunnounced, and his bondsmen doubtless feel even more jubilant. The chances are a hundred to one that Mr. Hill and his bondsnien will be released. The sume result will follow as to Treasurer Bartloy and his bondsmen. The out- come will be a dead loss of nearly a quarter of a million to the state. In view of tho depleted condition of the state treasury this is not a very grati- fying prospect. The decision with regard to the state and county depositories will be hailed by the taxpayers with supreme satis- faction. It affords proof that the su- preme court is not in league with money lenders and warrant shavers. The ef- fect of this decision is far-reaching and will save the people of the state hun- dreds of thousands of dollars annually. The state treasurer alone has had an average of $1,230,000 on hand during the past year, which at 3 per cent should yield an income of over $37,000 a year. County and city treasurors of Nebraska have many millions out at interest, which, loaned out in compli- wce with the depository act, would savo the taxvayers thousands of dollars in every county. In many counties the deposit law has been in force for the past two years, but theve have been desperate offorts made to ignore or cir- cumvent the law in various localities. The most flagrant defiance of tho law has been at the state house. It is not for us at this time to locate the re- sponsibility. The trouble in this state has been that public offi 5 and cor- pcrations persistently refuse to obey laws under the plea that they ave un- constitutional. Such examples are very pernicious. Every law enacted by the legislature is binding until it is set aside by the courts. To say that a law can be nullified and ignored so long as it has not been declared valid by the supreme court is the first step to anarchy. The immediate effect of the decision of the supremo court will be wholesome, to say the least. 1t will compel the state treasurer and the state boacd, that is charged with the designation of deposi- tories, to take immediate action looking toward the loaning of the surplus in the treasury in banks that wiil furnish un- exceptional bonds, and in salling in state ants that are now drawing 7 per cent, proc COINAG R BULLION. It is not apparent what benefit to the government or the people is expected from the proposal to coin all the silver bullion in the treasur; A Dbill for this purpose was introduced in the house of representatives Wednesday. It provides for coining all the silver bullion now in the treasury as speedily as practicable, one-seventh of the amount into sub- sidiary coins, the dollars, which shall be of the weight and fincness now pre- scribed by law, to be a logal tender in payment of all debts, public and pri- vate. Of the dollars coined there is to be set apart 40,000,000 for the redemption of the notes issued in payment for the silver pur- chased under the law of 1890 and it is required that all these notes shall be redeemed in silver. The third section of the bill is intended to do away with contracts for payment in gold, it being provided that hereafter any contract made by the government, or between corporations, or between a corporation and a verson or persons, or between pri- vate persons, which is by its terms or by law payable in dollavs or doliars and cents, may be paid at its maturity or thereaftor in any lawful coin of the United States. Aceording to the report of the secre- tary of the treasury the amount of silve bullion in the treasury, purchased under the act of 1800, is 140,699,760 fine oun The cost of this bullion, for which treasury notes were issued, was $120,758,218, and at the legal ratio of 15,988 to 1 it would make 181,914,800 sil- ver dollars, The secretary stated that the coinage of the whole amount of this bullion, which would employ our mints, with their present capacities, for a period of about five years, would, at the existing ratio, increase the silver circu- lation during the time named $55,156,681 from seigniorage, besides such addi- tions as might be made in the mean- time by the redemption of the treasury notes in standard silver dollars. The secretary of the treasury has made preparations to coin bullion for meeting any demand that may arise, and there does nut appear to be any good reason for going further than this at present. The bill introduced in the house seoms to be intended to foree sil- ver into cireulation, and such a policy would obviously not be desirable at this tiwe, even if it were practicable. The country does not require any more sil- ver dollars in motive circulation, the notes which represent the bullion in the treasury are more desirable rency, and honce the to g0 on coining the whole steek of silver bullion seems altogether needless, unless the idea is to get rid, as soon as possible, of one of the nine different kinds of currency which Secretary Caclisle says in his res us our- proposition THE OMAHA DAILY BEE port are troublesome both to private business and to the treasury. Perhaps it would be a good thing if the silver cor- tificates were out of the way, for it ap- pears that there is difficulty in retain- ing them in circulation, owing to the fact that they have only a limited legal tender quality, but it is probable the holders would retain them in preference to silver. There is no demand or necessity for such legislation as is provided for by the bill in question and its expediency is doubtful. Congross should not waste any time on financial schemes which are mere makeshifts, It should with as little delay as possible provide needed relief for the treasury and that having been accomplished all other financial expedients may safely wait. RILE PLOT 's, tricksters, imposters and pharisees who have been making such loud noises about closing up the gamblihg houses will presently discover that the courts cannot be used to pro- mote political conspiracies and assist blackmailers. It is now an open secret that the assaults upon Mayor Bemis are part of a political consviracy in which boodle democrats and boodle republicans are working hand- in-glove. We do not pretend to say, of course, that either Judge Scott or Rev, Crane ars partfes to this plot or have knowingly played into the hands of political ~pirates, professional black- mailers, rapacious contractors and dis- gruntled office seckers. The judge prob- ably was not aware that his intemperate curtain lecture to Mayor Bomis furnished the keynote for a brace of conspirators who want to depose the mayor in order to pillage the taxpayers and divide the political spoils. Rev. Mr. Crane prob- ably did not have the remotest intention of helping a combine of rotten politi- ticians and thieving contractors to get possession of the eity government under cover of making a raid upon gambling dens and disorderly houses. We do not believe any judge or minister would knowingly allow himself to play such a role. But their vehement declarations and denunciations have not only given aid and comfort to the political buccaneers and mountebanks, but they have given their effort the color of respectability when from the moral standpoint it is a most despicable and infamous picce of business. There is, however, no immediate or remote danger that the puerile con- spiracy will receive any encouragement from people who understand the motives of the gang engaged in the movement against Mayor Bemis. The judges of this-district will not allow themselves to be made catspaws for any coterie of politicians or a contractor’s ring. The addled egg incubated with such care wil never hatch a chick or even a duck- ling. It may bring forth a goslin or two, but its cackle will not be heard out- side of the political barnyard in which the biggest fowl is a scrub hitch rooster. The only thing that will come of the mercenary plot is a boomerang that will knock out the wretched schemers en- gaged in it. CEN1-PER-CENT SHARKS. During periods of business depression the increased number of unemployed makes the battle for bread a desperate one, especially in the winter season. Under just such circumstances, in this and in other cities, the chattel mortgage shark waxes and grows fat. His clients, being reduced to dive extremity, must have money with which to feed and clothe their families. They are willing to pledge any personal property they may own and pay confiscating interost rates in order to raise a fow dollars. In many instances the interest payments exceed the principal at the expiration of the mortgage. Once in the clutches of these heartless usurers a poor man is fortunate to escape with the clothes he wears. He knows he is being robbed, but complains not, lest the world shall know of his poverty. Laws enacted to protect him ave practically inoperative. They do not reach the evil because the vietim can rarely be induced to invoke them. Yet the state and the municipal- ity owes its unfortunate citizens protec- tion against the outrageous oxtortions of chattel mortgage piratos. At no time in the history of Omaha has there been greater need of strict regulation of this class of tin horn brokers. The number of unemployed and destitute is conceded to be larger than ever before. The cruel hand of misfortune is swelling thie income of the chattel mortgage men. They are abso- lutely vovbing poor and worthy people under semblance of law. The city licenses and regulates the huckster and peanut vender, who invariably 1s honest and industrious, while it permits chattel mortgage sharks to prey upon the pub- lic without let or hindrance. There is certainly some way to get at them. The oity detectives could readily work up evidence enough in one week to convict every cont-per-cent man in town of gross violation of the statutes. With such evidence the county attorney could run the chattel usurers out of the state. If the officers of the law can be induced to take up this matter they.can afford re- lief to a large element of deserving peo- ple. THOUSANDS of pounds of meat packed by Omaha packers finds its way to Eu- rope. Within a week one house has ex- ported over 25,000 pounds. This produet is inspected by government examiners, and under such guaranty is received by the continental meat eaters. Without government inspection American meats would soon be excluded from Germany and France. Yet the scoretary of agri- culture has reduced the numbper of ex- aminers from forty to three, and recom- mends that the whole system of meat in- spection be abolished. Meanwhile be keeps speciai ugents galavantiag Eu- rope with samples of the product of oat meal mills, corn s h and grist fac- wries, elucidating the food properties of Indian corn meal. This isall right, of course, and it is & mighty nice thing for ex-Senator John Mattes and the stock- holders of the various flourishing mills at Nebraska City Bee at South if there is a a creditor A READER of THE Omaha wants to know federal statute forbidding from dunning delinquent by postal card, Wo bR thore Ia & law mak- ing such an act & misdemeanor, but the law was not intended to encourage dead- beating or to protect any man in efforts to secure goods or merchandiso under false protonses. This is a good time in the year to square accounts. PLAIN TALK ON THE TARIFF BILL. The resolutions adopted by the Penn- sylvania republican convention which nominated Galusha A. Grow for con- gressman-at-large speak unequivocal terms against the democratic tariff pol- icy, and there can be no doubt that the people of that state will endorse the utterance by giving an even larger re- publican majority than that of last No- vember. One of the charges made against the Wilson bill is that it is sec- tional in its authorship and all too plainly aimed at northern industries. The charge is trie, as a candid exami- nation of that measure will show. The bill makes little reduction in the duties on cotton manufac- tures @s compared with those of wool. The specific dutics aro re- tained in the cotton schedule, and in some important items relating to cotton goods manufactured largely in the south hardly any reduction is mad In the woolen schedule the specific rates were all stricken out and the duties cut down one-half or more. Can there be any other rational explanation of this than the fact that there are no woolen mills in the south, but that there are a num- ber of cotton mills? The raw material of the cotton mills is produced here at home, and on the democratic theory cotton could have stood a much larger reduction thun woolen manufactur but sectional interest prevented cotton from being treated the same way as wool. A noteworthy iilustration of this sec- tional discrimination 1s furnished in the treatment of cotton ties and pig iron. Pig iron is converted from the raw material, according to the chairman of the ways and means committee, at a direct labor cost of $1.50 to 32 per ton and it is protected to the extent of 22 per cent. Cotton ties have an additional labor cost of $18 per ton expended upon them before they are ready for ship- ment. But this highly-finished product is put on the free list because cotton ties are notmanutactured in the south and are exclusively used by southern planters, The low cost of pig iron, the raw material A manufactured iron and extensively produced in the south, is to be sacredly cherished, but the high cost of labor of cotton ties is to' be thrown open tvo foreign competition. Under the present tariff the duty on cotton ties increases the cost of each bale of cotton to the planter to the amount of only one-tenth of 1 per cent. Tho planter gets the same price for the iron around his bale as he does for his cotton and he makes more money out of the cotton tie, pro- portionately, than he does out of the cotton. But to increase the profits on the ties to the planter the labor of sev- eral thousand American workmen is to be jeopardized and the wagos paid them sent abroad. There are still other features of this measure which show the sactional influence that operated in framing it. i The republicans of Pennsylvania de- nounce the Wilson bill as vicious in substituting ad valorem for specific duties, in reducing instead of increasing revenues, in compelling the government to make up these deficiencies by means of increased internal and direct taxes, and in compelling its supporters to re- sort to the most odious war taxes or bor- row money. They declare unceasing war upon the measure and call upon the senators and representatives of the state in congress to make this warfare felt in every wise and patriotic way, ‘“to the end that by the defeat of the Wilson bill American workingmen, producers and manufacturers may resume that pros- perity which the country had buta single year ago.” It isa most vigorous and earnest protest which the republi- cans of the Keystone state make against the democratic tariff policy and the popular endorsement it will receive next month will evidence that it revresents the overwhelming sentiment of the people and emphasizo the verdict of last November in every northern state which then held an election. SINCE August 1, 1891, the state of Ne- braska has paid out the enormous sum of 8136,072.22 as interest upon warrants drawn on exhausted treasury funds. Had appropriations boen kept within the annual levy a great part of this would have been saved to the taxpayers. The investment of the school fund money in state warrants would have ac- complished a similar saving, It would be interesting to know how much of this money wentwas profits to state warrant shavers, THE Nebraska populists still profess to see a panacea for all evils in free coin- age at the old ratio of 16 to1. Free coinage is expected to soften the hearts of the railroad mignates, to reform the methods of managing state institutions, to make up the dgficit in the state treas- ury and to raise a,bountiful crop with- out the exertiow'of labor. Oh, yes! free coinage must be what Nebraska needs above all other, things. THE attempt of the populists to intro- duce the state liguordealer in Nobraska is as impolitic @s it is impracticable. Such ar issue fortéd upon the people in the coming campaign will have about the same effect agsif: the party sought to revive the prohibition corpse which was buried under 50,000 majority only three yours ago. The'@Xperience of South Carolina with thb; stgte dispensaries and FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1894 state bar rooms has certainly not proved a howling success. The state has de- vived very little revenue from it and the number of rum holes has increased enormousiy. The attempt to enforce the law has been a failure and the court expenses in trying to pumish violators have been doubled and trebled. Gov- ornor Tillman himself recommends in his last messagoe that the dispensary law should be modified so that beer could be sold without let or hindrance and the state dispensary should only deal out whisky, brandy and compounds of aleohol. Washington County Wants n Show. Blair Courder. For successful sugar beet growing wo in- vite Count Lublenski to come up and take a few items in Washington county. Tho beet has boen tosted in our soil and the state ex- periment station at Lincoln has the record. Washington county has the soil for beot culture, —_——— A Colorado Squoezes Paul Globe, he Cotorado coal companies have formed a combine to control the outnut of coal and the prices of the commodity. Colorado is the state whence the most indignant pro- ests against eastern monopolies emannte. rhaps it might bo wall for citizens of the Centennial state to remove the beam from their own eye before they call attention to the mote in the optic of their eastern brothren, ——————— Sixty Doltars & Day. Lincoln News. How much longer it will take Treasurer Bartley and the Board of iducational Lands and Funds to make up that friendly test caso to decide whether the board shall order the investment of school funds in state war- raus or whother the treasurer shall follow the plain provision of the law ana invest the money therein himself? It will probably take considerable time, as the fund as at present invested 13 paying the treasurer $60 Explanations in Nebraska City New Tue Omanua B been investigating the amount paid by state institutions for conl and shows that the stale puys an ox- orbitant pr 1t bases its comparisons on the cost of heating Tue Bee builting, the New York Life building and Omaha city hatl. Take for example the insane asylum Lincoln. Tt cost for the months of Octo- or. November and December, 1802, $2,300 to beat that building, whileit should have only cost §1.052.04. The state board should rise and explain, —————— Less Haste the More Boodle. Lincoln News. ‘Whatever may be the exact facts matter of thecondition of the state tr whether the outstanding indebtedness is $720,000 or over §1,000,000, it is bad enough— and what is still worse, there does not ap- pear to be any great .desire on the part of any one to change the existing condition. Considerable dust has been kicked up over the dispute between the treasurer and the board as to using school money to purchase ints as an investment, but little is being shown to discover whether or not the treasurer should pay it th or without an order. The treasurer is in no hurry, becauso ho is getting his interest on the money in bank, and the state board be- cause they evidently do nos care whether or not the state gets ,the benefits. Meanwhile the people are paying from $40,000 to §50,000 yearly in interest on warrants. The s tion ought to appeal to the executive ability and fidelity of some of the officials. e UMAHA'S UNION DEPOT. Beatrice Times: Prominent Omaha cup- italists have organized for the purpose of nsuring a new and creditable union depot for the metropolis. A move in the right direction. Plattsmouth News: Tne B outline of a $2,000,000 depot wh erected at the foot of Farnam street next spring. The names of the incorporators amount to almost a guaranty that the long- looked-for depot building will soon be rear- ing its head skyward. The present railway facilities are not only an 1njury to Omaha, but to the whole state as well, and vhe pub- lic generally will rejoice to hear of S0 prom- ising an outlook for the needed structure. ——— PEOPLE AND 1HINGS. gives the his to be The Smithsoman collection will not be complete until a congressional jabberwock 1s installed in a conspicuous place. Congressman Bryan's income tax victory in committee will be unrecognizable after a collision with Grover's rotund veto, The flirtation conducted by Governor ‘Waite with Mexico has produced conditions like those aficting Colorado. A Mexican voleano is spouting fire. For the first time in seventy-five years New York state is out of debt. Naturally the administration regards the fact as a rare Flower in its bonnet. One thousand children were turned loose ona mince pie weighing 500 pounds at Ash- land, Wis. They survived the operation. Bob Ingersoll should revise bis opinion on miracles. Iokoma, 1nd., possessesa marvelous judi- cial shine. The owner actually refused to admit a murderess to tail, although she is a person of high degree and possessor of a fortune. Whither are we drifting? Some people in Ossian, Ind., believe with D~. Rainsford in the elevation of the saloon, but differ as to methods. The reverend doc- tor recommends atiractive surroundings and mild tipples; the Ossians try dynamite, Jovernor McKinley's mail since his last election has bsen most astonishing. It is said he receives hundreds of letters every day from all parts of the country, from democrats and republicans, full of enthus- iasm for him for president. Romeo Pagliostro was an applicant for naturalization papers before a New York court last Friday, and when the judge asked him who was the chief exccutive of the United States he answered, confidently, “Tammana Halla,” He got his walking pupers instead. Mme. Emma Seiler, a G~rman woman, first discovered the mechanism of head notes, the highest tones in the female voice. She devoted herself to the study of the larynx at the dissection table, and was ro- warded by finding two small cartilages in the vocal chords which produced these sounds The Buffalo Express is inconsolable. Its iamentations echo from Black Rock to Lime- stone Hill, from Blackwell's sand dunes to Dopew. The rippling Hamburg is silenced by the heartrending moans *hat pierce the air o few blocks away. Ana all because Boss Platt--captured the persimmon av Albany. Edward Dunbar, the author of that beauti- ful hymn, “There's a Light in the Window for Thee, Brother,” died a fow days ago in the jail at Coffeyville, Kan., where he had applied for lodging s & tramp, Dunbar was once a noted evangelist, but his career was cut short by a term in vhe Minuesota state prison for bigamy. The death of Miss Jessica Boies, the be- lovea daughter of lowa's governor, darkens and saddens the closing hours of his ofiicial term. Miss Holes was a woman of admira- ble traits, which enabled her to win and re- tain the friendship of all with whom she came in contact. Her amiable character and intellectual qualities pormeated the official 1ife of her father and materially as- sisted in making its social side a brilliant succoss, The sympathy of every home will €0 out to tne aftlicted father. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, ABSOIUTELY PURE Baking Powder VAY KILL THE WHOLE BILL | Olevaland’s Opposition to Tnoome Tax Will Probably Dafeat Tariff Logislation, DEMOCRATS ARE NOW WIDELY DIVIDED Brench In the Party Growing Dally, While uses for Faotional Disputes Are Multiplylng on Every Mand in Congress. OURTEENTH STREET, WasuiNatoy, Jan. 4. Soopen and bitter and bold became the administration’s opposition to income taxes today that a southern democratic member of s and moans committoe observed to Tue Bee correspondont: he president cannot dofeat income taxes, but he can carry his opposition far enough to defoat the Wilson tariff bill. If that measuro ever becomes law it will contain a provision pro- viling for iucome taxes. We are growing very weary of this interforence upon the part of the administration with the work of the ways and means committec, and this dictation as to what congress shall and shall not do respecting taciff veform and other important questions. The division of democratic sentiment in both branches of congress over the income tax problem grows in volume and bitteruess Four-fifths of the democrats from the north oppose any sort of income tax and the addi- tion of this new element of dissatisfaction and weakness scems to make clear the vl ticabilty of defeating the Wilson tariff bl upon its final passage. The measure will surely be defeated if half of the opposing democrats retain their nerve in the face of the influence of the administration, or con tinue to advocate lome interests as against general party theovies and principles, Laying it at Greshum's Do severely “sat down upon” Walter Q. Gires- ham in the matter of the income tax agreed to by the ways and means committee, It was Gresham who was largely responsible for incubating the subject in the minds of democratic members of the committee. This fact was brought out today in connection with the secretary of state's denunciation of Representative Bynum of Indiana for having voted for income taxes av the meet- ing of tho committee onTuesday evening. When o democratic member of the commit- teo was informed th r. Gresham was berating the Hoosi for having sup- ported the proposition be said: “Walter Q. Gresham had better stop talk- ing upon that subject or he will get himself into deeper trouble with Grover Cleveland It is nov generally known, but it is true, that sham was among the earliest and most arnestadvocates of incou s. Ho ed democratic m.ombers of means committee noonths ago de for income ta. in the Wilson tariff bill. You know thav Gresham got all of his reputation by antagonizing corpora tions, s0 he insisted that we should a tax corporation shares, 1 remember vhat a few weeks ago o secret meeting of the majority membership of the committee and ata time when income taxes were threat- encd with defeat a certain prominent demo- cratic member from the west delivered a brief_but spirited argument in favor of tax- ing incomes and legacies, it mot indeed private incomes. Changed All of a Sudden, “At the close of his earnest appeal in behalf of the proposition he reminded the committec that his arguments and logic wero those of Walter Q. Gresham, and ho made the further statement that 1f we agreed upon income taxes the secretary of state would help the proposition through both branches of congress. A few days ago when that member called upon Gresham he was astonished to hear the secretary of state implore him to vote against income taxes. When the members of the committee re- minded Gresham vhat vhe secr y of state was largely responsible for the growth of sentiment among members of the committee in favor of income taxes he replied by say- ing: ‘Oh, I know that 1 have been talking for income taxes these many months, but 1 have been looking into the question and have changed my wmind. We must de- feat the project—besides the administration i nst income taxes.’ The fact is, tte president learned of Gresham's work in favor of the proposition, and, sending for him, told him that he must not only stop his talk, but proceed to immediately undo what he had done. Walter Q. Gresham has no more independence or power in his oflice than one of the £1,200 clerks under him.” It is stated by democratic members of congress, who have talked with the presi- dent, that the latter is very indignant over Gresham’s work in buhalf of income taxes, and that he has sat down upon him so hard that he will not soon forget it. It looks as though the causus belli between Gresham and Bynum would be transferred to one be- tween Cleveland and Gresham. Of Western Interost. The comptroller of the currency today authorized the City National bank of York, WasmisaroN Buigav or T l\lll.} Neb., to begin business with a capital of ROWNING, KING ™ The largest makers and sellera of fine clothos on Earth) Brown {s president, and ashier, wwho was today nom- inated to be postmaster at Hooper, Nob., is a well known oaitor of that eity, and his ap. pointment i3 hore accredited to Secretary Morton, Congressman soat. The Dakota county 00,000, K Jolm R. P Kem has roturned to his protesters ngainst an extension of the ch r of the Snort Line Bridge compavy of Sioux City, announce that they aroe willing to have the charter oxtonded another year if the company will give a bond of £00,000 forfeit that it will constried the bridge within tho time of the extonsion, Hannah Noxon was today appointod post- master at Adams, Gage county, Neb., vico J. J. Shaw, removed ; M. J. Olary at Lawlor, asaw county, fa., viee W. H. Parker, romoved; N. N. Davis_at Ashton, Spink county ; Iver Altsen at Bloomington, Char los Mix county, and J. O, Lioyd at Chandler, Charles Mix county, S. D. Charles G. Dawos and Isaae M. Raymond of Lincoln are at the [Sbbitt. They ure on their way home from the east. Mis. R. ¥. Pettigrow, wifo of Senator Pottigrew of South Dakota, announces that she will be at home tho remainiog Thurs- days of theseason. Judge K. R. Duffe of Omaha is business with the supervising treasury. Priny S, here on hitect of Heari, - THE INCOME TAX. St. Louls Globe-Dem (rep.): A veto of an incomo tax bill would be a terrible blow to the democracy of the west and south, but if such a bill reaches tho presi- dont it is as sure to bo votood as the sun is to rise tomorrow. veland is a ropublican on theincomo tax issue as woll as on the silver question. Chicago Journal (rep.): Two percent on all incomes above #4,000, personal and cor- porate, is the figure decidod upon. 1t is cal- culated that it will produce a revenue of £30,000,000, but this is pure speculation. Its immediate object is to persuade the masses that the democratic party is their frieod and that it is willing to help them in any schemo to despoil the rich. The demagogues are certainly going too far in thus presuming that the / can’ peoplo approve of dis- honest discrimination against any class. Chicago Post (T0M.): lu spite of the almost unanimous opposition of the demo- cratic nowspapers of tho north and regara- less of the advice of Mr, Cleveland, Secre- dlisle and Chairman Wilson, the democratic majority of the ways and means committee decided “to offer an income tax amendment with the Wilson bill. The voto was close to 5H—but the action mvolves caucus obligations, and it is likely that all the minority, except possibly Stovens of Massachusetts and Cockran of New York, will support_the ameandment. Mr. Wilson will report the tax as_vart of his revenuo bill. Mr. Stevens is bitterly opposed to it and it is said that Mr. Cockran will fight the entiro Wilson bill because of it. Detroit Free Press (dem.): Thero is very grave doubt as to the wisdom of tho con- i ached by the house committee on ways and means in respect to the taxation of incomes. 1n theory the tax isali right, whether levied on the incomes of inaividuals or of corporations, or of both, as proposed by the committee. It is the only tax, in fact, by which the rich can be made to bear a share of the burdens of government com- mensurate with their ability to pay, and with the benefits they ivoas compared with the paorer cla a tax could be honestly laid and honestly collected it would be one of the best possible devices for increasing the revenues of the govern- ment; but experience shows that 1t cannot be honestly laid and collected DiBegsnes RIVPLES OF MIKTA, Atlanta Constitution see that man’ trade isoponing up.” W docs he, do? “Serves shell oysters at a lunch counter. Dotrolt Free Press: Jonah (Inside)—What did you do that for? The Whale—Because you necded taking down. Somerville Journal: Griggs—Don't you think that Dr. Holus Is s protty good physiclan? Briggs—Geod physician! Well, T should say not. Why, that min couldn’tv cure a ham! P. & 8. Bulletin: Mr. Wheeler—I suppose the great and mysterious admirers in Boston, Miss Miss Emerson—Why, yes, Mr. Wi the bouns go through a course of Browning before they come to the Tndianapolis Journal: I don't know," sald the optimist, “that we should bo altozether depressed about the increase of murderors Why note “Because of the tendency 1t develops to ele- vate murderers In general.” n—1 had a queer dream luss 1 thought I suw anothor man h you. And what did you say to him? ho was ranning for." Lifs Mrs. 1 asked him wh Deotroit Free Press: “You are not like s ghost, are you, Mr. Lingerlong?" sho said as §ho yawned behind her fan at tho parlor Wiy am T not like a ghost?’ he asked bravely. “Bocause a ghost vanishes at the approach of morning. MEMORY'S JOYS. Buffalo Couries He's a twirler in tho summer, And of cash e earns o pile, And he blows it And he knows it Al for beor and whisky vile, Thus It Is when winter comes That this pitcher, sad to toll, Is broke, ah me; But not. you 500, From much zoing to a well. Your mousy's worlh of your monsy avk. == v S T Sweeping them BROWNING, Will pay thoexpressif you send | the monoy {or §20 WorLh or more e e TN IO O A |t T 1 o= A s e the Warpath Hear our war whoop on page 5. . W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, out Saturday, KING & CO., I b b db b ‘il.'i'r.'i:\l;*if:‘tl».‘ r 4