Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 6, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. J. ROSEWATER, Editor. RY MORNING. L PUBLISHED EV 18 OF SUBSCRIPTION t Sunday) One one € 700 A 10 00 R Montha 590 Three Months PRI PTIrI 2 ';:: OFFICHS Omain. Tha Bee Bufldin CORRESPONDENC i 17 RUSINESS LETTERS ommerce. wibune building and_ edi- 0 Editor. SWOR Btate of Nebraska County of D Tzachick. secrotary of TiE BRE Pub- ors molemnly wwear that the netial ofreulation of Tik DAILY BEE {or the week endin Aber 80, 1503, was a8 follows Sinday, Decomber 24 Monday, Decenbe Tiendiy, Dovenber 2 Wednesduy, Decomber 27 Mhirsday, Decembor 25 Friday, Dicem bor 20 Buturdiy, December 30 1 TzscireK to before me and subacrived in nee thin 40th day of December, P. Frin, Notary Pubiie GronG e BW g, sEAL L my 1252 Vs Ave o Clronlation for November, 24 COUNTY TREASURER IRBY has filed h's bond and the agony is over. OMAHA will try its best to get along without an official populist daily. ISN'T this a little early for the sowing of populist gubernatorial aspirations? QUORUMS appear to stand at a pre- mium in both houses of this great demo- cratic congress. BANKS that are willing to become de- positories for stato money at 3 per cent ar may now file their bonds for ap- proval by the proper state officers. TiE announcement of the proposed Matropolitan Union depot has been hailed with enthusiastic approval by the people. The dawn is breaking. Wirh a change in the incumbent of the Brazilian ministry of the marine it is to be hoped that the opposing naval forces will quickly get together and if it must come have their little affair out at one W have not yet heard of any active effort making to put Chief Scavey's sug- gostion of a work test in operation in connection with the able-bodied appli- cants for charitable assistance from our relief associations. ONEof Tobe Castor's fourth class post- masters has just been detected robbing the mails. He commenced to steal the day he took the office. We do not regard this as of great importance, however. These little democrats for revenue only have been a long time without fodder. LORADO is hound to have at loast one month’s legislative session as the re- sult of Governor Waite's proclamation. But the governor’s wild silver coinage schemos are to be given a wide berth. The members of the legislature profer to draw their salaries in good United States money. EX-TREASURER HILL views the re- moval of the state's suit against him from Douglas county tw Lancaster county in the light of a verdict in his favor on the main issue involved. The people who will be called upon to make up that quarter of a million dollars in extra taxes have not the same cause to bo jubilant. THE latest reform movement is one that aims to elevate the social, moral and financial position of the turf. When this commendable purpose has been accomplished might we suggest that the men engaged in the movement extend its usefulness so as to abolish the prize ring. THE quarterly vouchers for coal sup- ply at the Kearney Reform school show that $4 is spent theve to $1 at the Omaha oity hall on fuel account. Everybody knows that the school building is little larger than the city hall and anybody can guess that the money was not all in- vested in coal as vepresented by the voucners. What was done with it? This is a quostion which wiil rise to plague the superintendents of the state institutions about the time of the next logislature. SECRETARY MORTON has at last heard from the Nebraska furmers alliance in vegard to his publicly expressed con- tempt for the man who ‘“farms tho farmers.” Without this addition to his collection of condemnatory resolutions the secretary would not have been able to appreciate the widesproad influsnce of his remarks. We expect to soon re- celve u revised edition of the secrotary’s pamphlot, including in its appendicos a reproduction of this resolution coming trom the farmers of his own state. THE regular civil tlon for mail eavriers oceurs in this city February 6. We state this as a matter of information. The Civil Service com- mission has requested THE BEE to an- nounce it and we cheevfully comply. Other departments of tho government, when asking such notices, promise to pay regular legal rates for them, which puts a business phuse on tho matter. But the. Civil Service commission seems to prefer to sponge its advertising. Uncle Sam must be getting poor, in- deed. rvi oxamina- AND now it is Attorney General Olney whose early retivement from President Cleveland’s cabinet is predicted. The rumor is said to emanate from Senator Brice and to have as its foundation the fact that several important corporation law cases are s00n t) ¢ome up in differ ent courts in which the attorney gen eral is very anxious to aspear as repre- sentative of his corporation interests. All this sounds very nicely, but in these days of paper cabinet constrution and reconstruction most people will prefer to wait until changes ave authoritatively announced ANOTHER DEMOCRATIO FIGRT ON There is another conflict between the administration and representatives of its party In congress. The first one was over the eilver question and the admin- istration, with the almost unanimous support of the republicans, was victori- ous. The tight now on, or imminent, is over the proposition agreed upon by a majority of the democratic membors of the ways aud means committes to tax individual incomes. The president, it appears, is inexerably opposed to this policy and has indicated his opposition in a way not to be mistaken. In effect notice has been given by the administra- tion that this plan of raising revenue must be abandoned. This will be re- a8 it now seems, by the advocates of an income tax as an unwarrantable interference on the part of theadministration, and they threaten that defeat of the income tax will carry with it the failure of the tariff bill, It thus appears that both sides are determined, and the country may expect an exceedingly t, only the premonitory murmurings of which are now being heard, before this question is dis- posed of. Mr. Cleveland, itis entirely safe to prediet, will not be induced to acquiesce in the adoption of an individual income tax by threats of the defeat of the tariff bill. It is unqyestionable that he very earnestly desires the success of that measure, but it is to be presumed he is equally anxious that his adminis- tration shall not become responsi- blo for such rank class legis- lation as the proposed individual income tax would be. He knows that the demand for this tax is almost en- tirely sectional, the few supporters it has outside of the south being actuated by motives wholly demagogic. He knows that an income tax such as pro- posed has no relation whatever to the revenue policy of the democratic party as declaved in its last national platform. He knows that there is no valid reason for resorting at this juncture to this most obnoxious form of taxation, the operation of which never has been and never can be equitable and the tendency of which is to encourage perjury and the fraudulent suppression of facts. An income tax was defensible when the gov- ernment needed revenue from every pos- sible source in order to carry on the con- test for the preservation of the union, but the Gemands of the existing exigency can be met by other means that are less objectionable and not so ineqnitable and unjust in their operation. Mr. Cleve- land, fortunately, does not sympathize with the narrow political spirit be- trayed in the remark of one of the advo- cates of an income tax, who, when it was sugeestod that there would be opposi- tion from the income class, said: ‘“There are more men driving drays than re- ceiving incomes.” It is characteristic of Mr. Cleveland not to surrender a position that he has taken after deliber- ate consideration and he is not likely to make a departure in this case, when he knows that he has the intelligent judg- ment of the country behind him, How formidable the strength of the income tax advocates is remains to be developed. They embrace nearly all the representatives from the south, but very few northern democrats favor the policy. Perhaps those who want an in- come tax are numerous enough to de- feat the tariff bill by uniting with the republicans, in the event of that tax being rejected, but will they do it? It is havdly prohable that they will. In the meantime what of the tariff bill? Congress reassembled last Wednesday and the democrats in the house have not yet been able to secure a quorum so that they could take up that measure, which, according to the program, ought now to be under consideration. This looks ill for the mew policy, since it can only be regarded as indicating a considerable democratic opposition which chooses to manifest itself in this way. Before the session wa$ resumed it was freely predicted that the Wilson bill would pass without material modifications. Nobody is mak- ing such a prediction now. It would seem that some democrats carefully con- sulted their constituents during the holiday rece and that some are also impressed by the general condition of the country. 1f all of them would wisely give heed to the obvious demand of the situation and drop the tariff guestion for the present congress it would be a great good to the country and uot a bad thing for the party sented, very THE LATES( FROM HAWAIL By way of New Zealand there is in- formation from Hawaii that will furnish the American supporters of the pr visional government another text on which to base an attack upon the ad- ministration. This nows is that Minis- ter Willis had requested the provisional government to abdicate, as the United States had decided in favor of the res- toration of the queen. It appoars that Lilinokalani, after mature deliberation, decided t) accopt the conditions re- quired by this government in order that it should exert its influence for her vestoration, and thereupon the Amer- ican minister carried out his instrue- tions to ask the provisional government to surrender the offices and allow the rehabilitation of the monarchy. To this request, the dispatch says, the goy- ernment was preparing a long reply, probanly having been given unlimited time for this purpose, in the meanwhile continuing its preparations to maintain its position. Only this and nothing more, so far as this report tells, There was, it seems, no menace that force or any sort of coercive would be used to place the deposed queon back upon her throne. Su far as uppears the provi- sional government was sunply notified, in a proper and formal diplomatic way, that the government of the United States believed the monarchy should, as a malter of right and ustice, be restored, und that its ove throw having been accomplished largely through the discredited and disavowed conduct of the representative of this government, it was fult to be the duty of the United States to use 1ts influence in behalf of the restoration of the queen. If there was anything bevond this it is not reported in the disputch at hand, measures THE aud if there was nothing more it fur- nishes no ground for rational fault-find- ing. A Washington dispatch says the nows by way of Auckland is not cred- ited at the State department, for the reason that the reported action of our minister is contrary to his instructions. It is not inconsistent, however, with the character of the instructions that have been made public. The government revenue cutter Cor- win, which arrived at San Franci yosterday, undoubtedly brought official information of the situation in Hawail up to December 22, the date of her de- parture, This will be promptly trans- mitted to Washington and will probably be given to the country within the next three or four days, or as soon as the president shall deem it advisable to communicate it to congress, according to the assurance he gave in his special Hawaiian messuge. There is said to be a great deal of anxiety in congressional circles and an apprehension that blond has been spilled in Hono- luly, but it any conflict has taken place there is no reason to suppose that an American force has been a party to it, because this would be distinctly con- trary to the instructions of our minister. The information brought by the Corwin was, of course, most carefully guarded, oven the sailors not being allowed to communicate with anybody, and this naturally creates the presumption that it is of groat and grave importance. RESPONSIBILITY FOR SPECIAL TAXES. Prominent taxpayers of this city have frequently pretended to be living in constant fear that the non-taxpaying voters might take it into their heads to push public 1mprovements beyond the capacity of the taxable property to bear the burden of charges which such under- takings would entail. And every city charter, from the special uct for the incorporation of Omaha city in 1857 down to the latest charter amend- ments by the last Jegislature has proceeded upon the theory that un- less adequate checks were wrovided there might be some danger of such an oceurrence. There is ample room for the argument that this theory is not en- tirely correct, and that the property owner who pays the tax into the city treasury is not in every case the party by whom the burden is ultimately borne. But whether this is true or not, the charter, as it exists today, effectually provents the so-called non-taxpaying citizens from inaugurating any scheme of improvements involving additional special taxation. In the matter of issuing bonds secured by the property within the municipal corporation the legislature has been careful to provide a limit to the extent of that power as vested in the city authorities. It has furthermore re- quired every such proposition to be first submitted to the voters at an election, and the vote to authorize a bond issue must show two in favor of it to every one against it. About the levy of special taxes to de- fray the expenses of street improve- ments the charter has been no less ex- plicit. The initiation of special taxation proceedings must in almost every case come from the property owners affected. For every change of grade a petition representing the owners of a majority of the abutting front feet of property must first be presented. For paving this peti- tion must represent three-fifths of the abutting property. Only for street sprinkling, for sidewalk construction and for sewer construction has the city council power to act without a jurisdic- tional petition, and in every instance the amount of the tax is limitod to the ex- tent of the estimated benefits about to acerue to such property by veason of the improvement in question, The responsibility for special taxes rests, then, not upon the so-called non- taxpaying public nor upon the mayor and city council. Street improvements have been effected because the greater number of the property owners who pay for them hwve asked for them. It is to the interest of both workingmen and taxpayers that these improvemonts be continued, not extravagantly, but as needed from time to time. But the prop- erty owners have the matter entirely in their own hands and the determination of a majority of them in each case must decide the question. THE system of sidewalk construction practiced in Omaha has resulted in giv- ing us sidewalks that fail to properly connect with one another and at the same time to leave the property owner practically at the mercy of the contrac- tor. Each property owner has been anxious only to comply with the ordinances 80 far as necessary at the least possible expense, and the result has been poorly laid walks, irregulavity and inconvenionce to the public. The pro- visious of the new permit system which is to require all sidewalks to be laid only -after approval of the specifications by the Board of Public Works ought to have been onforced long ago. Strict uni- formity in sidewalks will never be at- tained until the sidowalk is assimulated to the remainder of the street and paved under a single contract made by the city, the cost being assessed against the property benefited. In the meanwhile, however, the proposed plan ought to be a decided improvement on the existing haphazard method of each property owner laying his own sidewalk without reforence to that of his neighbor. DOWN to the last moment of his term on the supreme bench of Nebraska Chief Justice Maxwell remained inde- pendent of corporate influence of every kind. His final act in connection with the impeachment of derelict stato officials was to dissent trom the decision of his fellow judges, overruling u mo- tion for a new trial in that case. Chief Justice Maxwell has consistently main- ained his position upon the impeach- ment cases from the beginning to the end. Holding as he did that the eyidence was sufficient to secure a conviction upon the counts charged, he dissented from the opinion of acquittal originally rendered by the majority of the Believing that decision to be wrong, eould not but record himself as in favor of the new trial asked for by the prose cuting attorneys. The fate of the mo- tion for a new trial was, however, & fore- OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY gone conclusion and was not on that ac- count pressed vory energetically. Two to one has been the vote on every point involved in the impeachment cases. Two to one has closed the official rec ords of the court, THAT the details of any, income tax measure are the most important parts of it will be seen from the fact that the announcement that such a tax of 2 per cent upon incomied in excess of $4,000 has been agreed upon by the subcommit- tee of the ways and means committee leaves the public_almost as much in the dark as bofore. What is to constitute the legal income, whether gross income ornet income,and what deductions ave to be allowed, is still undetermined. Is the 2 per cent to be paid upon the entire income or only on the excess over 84,0007 If the incomo from corporate in- vestments is to be taxed at its source and collectel from the corporation, how prevent the imposition of such a tax upon some incomes: that do not equal $4,000? All the machinery for collec- tion and the various penalties for do- faults have to be provided. There are still so many points where there is ample opportunity for disagrecment oven between the professed advoecates of an income tax that it is still early to count upon a unanimous party support for the income tax bill. by one the European govern- ments are following the lead of France in placing greater rostrictions upon the manufacture and sale of explosiv Austria is agitating making it a gov- ernment monopoly in the hope that such a course would keep the anarchists under control. The sailing of the anarchists will not he so smooth in those countries as heretofore. “EVERY railroad in America may en- ter here” will be the watchword of the Metropolitan Union depot. fle's on n Misslonary Tour. Norfolk News. What has become ot Farmer Paul Vander- voort? His name does not appear among tho 100 delegates attending the populist gather- ing at Hastings. o Likes the Bemis Way. Nebraska City Press. The Press believes, like Mayor Bemis, that 1t is better that gambling be done under the eyeof the police than in by-ways and garrets, where no one can look after it. Starung Up. Kansas City Jowrnal, Mills and factories are slowly starting up in some of the eastern states. They are all paying reduced wages, but workingmen are glad to be employed at any sort of wages under this administration. e - A Pariy Inheritance. Globe-Democrat. The democrats who are pulling the deadly parallel on Senator. Mopgan because of his change of base on the question of coal duties rin mind that bigger democrats i o wobbled. g The Brightening Frospect. Chieayo -Record. The wage worker who is out of employ- ment has good reason: to hope for employ- ment at an early day. Meanwhile ho should endenvor to get through the winter without burdening himself with needless debts to bo puid from future earnings. P S The Right and Left. Kansas Cily Star. Andrew Carnegie, who agreed to duplicate daily for two months Pittsburg charity con- tributions, has reduced the wages of his machinists and laborers. It looks very much as though his business right hand was fully informed as to the doiugs of his philanthropic left. e ‘Work for the Unemployed. New &ork Advertiser, Carnegie's great mills at Homestead will be in full blast today at a slight reduction of wages. Rail mills at Pittsburg will go into operation in suficient force to give cmploy- ment 1o 3,000 men who have been idle for six months, and a new milliondollar stecl plant is_being put up at Johnstown, Pa. The “Robber Barons” who are accused of fatten- ing off protection aro doing their share to hold the country up! What are the preach- ing Calhounites doing? —————— Injustice ot Criminal Laws, Philadelphia Inquirer. Our criminal laws are all for simpler kinds of crime. ‘T'he thief who steals a bushel of potatoes, or the burglar who breaks into a safe, the bank clerk who doctors his accounts and pockets the cash which the alterations represent are comparatively harmless kinds of offenacrs. Socioty has its watchful cye on tnem. There are the bani examiner and the policemen and de- tectives and prosecuting officers to grow in- dignant over outraged virtue; judges to sen- tence the petty criminals to long terms of. imprisonment, and jails all_ready for their reception. But what is going to be done about the railroad officials who unload valueless property upon iunocent stock- holders at Mulberry Sellers’ estimates of their worth? AN Utah and Nevada, Denver Republican. The senate ought to give careful consid- eration to the bill to attach Utah to Nevada. Very probably the Nevada senators will op- Dose this measure if it gets before the senate, for they have a better chance of belng re-clected if the union with Utah is not made. For u like reason certain politic- juns in Utah would object to the union. But the fact is that Nevada has not population aad wealth onough to maintain a state gov- ernment and it necds the strength which would come with union with Utab. In view of the deprsssion in silver mining, it is diffi- cult to see what will become of Nevada in the future. That it will rovive ultimately i y any doubt, for it has_enough rta considerable population, if the land were i od. But it may tuke years before this arid land 1s reclaimed, ‘The wholo problem would be solved by the annexation of Utah, and iv is within the power of congress to do this if Nevada consented. g MORALS AYD [HE MODES, Detroi Bece Press. *Twas at the meetingiof tho ways The malden peysive stood, Puzzled to know which rond would lead Most safely throdgh tho wood. A stralght and nurtow pathway led Directly to hoggonl; Most trying for hir gown and hat And wearing far hér solo. A broader roud Ik dovious! But smoothly thithery And which to tak this maiden fate Had found oxcobdtnz hard. At last sho starfed, with a fixed Decision In hdt’u‘";' “I'1L tako the crooked ros “And T wlll tollavou why 10 not like to strufrglo with The undorbrusti and loaves; Besides, the othes 1s by fur Too narrow for uly slecves, " sho sald, 1891, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. 1t is not likely that any further controver- sial legislation will be attempted in the present British Parliament, if wo oxcopt bills abolishing plural voting and reforming the registration laws., The disestablish- ment of the Kirk of Scotland and of the Anglican Church of Wales, and the proposed application of local option to the liquor ques- tion will have to wait until a new gencral election gives Mr. Gladstone a considerably larger majority than he has now. At present any of the throo Issues named might cause fatal schism among his followe As ro- gards the increase of tho navy, Mr. Gladstone will probably mako some concessions to the current feeling on the subject, though he will do it at the risk of exciting widespread discontent at the resultant aggravation of taxation As tho conservatives, however, will vote to a man for an enlarged naval appropriation, will find it diffieult to make party cap- 1 out of the fact that extra taxes are im- posed at a time of unusual industrial depres- sion. Mr. Gladstone's failure to meet the wishes of tho London progressives in the mattor of augmenting the powers of their county council can scarcely weaken his claim on their support, because the lords have proclaimed their purpose of defeating apy moyement to that end. Until the hereditary legislators are made to trembie for tho existenco of their order, they are not likely to permit the London radicals totax the noble owners of ground rentsat their discretion, e King Oscar, ruler of the dual kingdom of Sweden aand Norway, finds himself face to face with an acute crisis in the relations be- tween the two parts of his monarchy. In spite of the hostilo majority in the Nor- wegian Storthing, the king has for many years maintained a conservative minority, which favored a reading of the act of union between the two kingdoms in accordan h a Swedish interpretation of the ac The coming elections in Norway will cer- tainly result in the return of another radi- cal wajority, bofore which the present min- istry will be compelled to retire. A radical ministry would leave the king with the choice between the alternative of grant- ing complete autonomy to Norway, both in iuternal and foreign affaivs, or a dissolution of tho union, which would be tollowed by the establishment of a Norwegian repub- lic. Against the manifest dotermination of the Norwegian people, the king, it appears, 18 prepared to use fo Tho Swades, who were at flst apathetic, seom to have been aroused to such a pitch that the king is conflaent of thew support; and he will neither surrender the Norweglan crown, nor surrender the union, which he believes to be essential to the safety and prosverity of both Sweden and Norway. Although the policy hitherto fol- lowed by the king is not without support among a considerable number of the Nor- wegian people, the largely preponderating sentiment is with the radicals. Among their most prominent spokesmen in the Storthing they can count no less a porsonage than the celebrated author, Bjornstene Bjornsen, who is o most outspoken republican and sepa- ratist. But the first overt act of hostility upon the part of the Swedes would rally the whote Norwegian people, conservatives as well as radicals, to the defense of their country, and unless the European powers who were the sponsors of the union should intervene the disruption of the Scandi- navian dual kingdom would be the certain result of King Oscar's obstinate resistance of the Norwegian demands. ' The public mind of Germany is mainly in- terested in three questions: Will the com- merciul treaty with Russia be sanctioned by the Reichstag? Will the new taxes proposed in order to defray tho cost of the increase of the army be adopted? And will the Jesuits be ve- called? The three questions are closely interwoven, owing to the dismtegration of political parties und the consequent diMiculty of constructing a government majority. The so-called agrarians, who include most of the conservative land owners, formerly the mainstay of Bismarck, are now under the leadership of his son, Count Herbert, and are even more resolutely arrayed against the commercial treaty with Russia than they showed themsclves, before the re- cess, ngainst the treaties with Roumania, Servia and Spain. They hold that the rye, oats, wheat and other agricul- tural products of the Fatheriand ought not to bo exposed to a ruinous competition with imports from Russia. They point out that Germany, unlike England, is able to feed her own population, and they proclaim it the part of wisdom to encourage her to do so. That Chancellor Caprivi has grave doubts of his ability to pass the meas- ure seems plain from the latest telegrams from Berlin, according to which ho has de- termined to undertake no other business of importance during the remainder of the present session. The fiscal program devised by Herr Miquel, with reference to the new expenditure caused by additions to the mili- tary force, is to be deferred to the next ses- sion, ang, if then rejected, will be made the basis of an appeal to the electors. If both the Russian treaty and the tax bill should be passed through the support of the clerical members of the Reichstag, it is expeoted that the seventeen votes of Prussia in the Bundesrath will be cast in favor of accept- ing the bill recalling the Jesuits, which has alveady been carvied through the popular branch of the German logisiature, There is no European soveiregn who will have more cause to watch theevents of tho present year with anxicy than will the Otto- man sultan, who knows that in any war to which Russia may be a party Constantino- plo will bo the principal stake for which the yezar will play. 1t must be plain enough to Abdul Hamid that the defense of his capital is no longer possible, seowng that the Turkish fleot has vanished, and thay the whole naval force of Kngland in the Mediterranean will be nceded for the pro- tection of her own merchant vessels and of th e short route to India. Even without th co-operation of the Russian squadron, wh was lately at Toulon, there are enough Russian ironclads now ready in the Black sea to over- come casily the obstacles that would be presented by the fortifications of tiie Bos- porus. Times have changed since Russia was forbidden by the treaty of Paris to keep a single war vessel afloat in the Black sea, and the Porto might as well prepare itself for migration to Brusa when the czar or- ders o nuval assault upon the city of the castern Ciesars, % e It is manifest that France will never be n amore favoraole position for war thanshe Is Highest of all in Leavening Power.=Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE now. fier army has reachea the acme of s170 ana of efficiency, and her navy has at. tained a strength, particularly in the Medi- terranean, where her ironclads are concen- trated, which excites the gravest misgivings in Great Britain. She has a moro stable governmont than sho has had for many yoars, or scemed, a few weeks ago, to have any prospect of possessing. The bomb ex- ploded in tho Chamber of Devuties has en- listed all the forces of the natioa in tho cause of order; has kneaded three-fourths of tho legislature into a rosolute party, and has increased the ministerial majority from alittle more than thirty to upward of 800, Since the palmy days of the second empire France has not had so strong a govornment. or one so well qualified to engage 1 a groat war, as that of which M. Casimir-Perier 1s the head. A war with England would bo quite as popular with Frenchmen as o war with Germany, and the main objection to such a contest would be the danger that tho Triple Alliance might eventually be drawn into it i THE INCOME T Kansas City Times (dem.): The decision of the ways and moans committeo to make no distivetion in the matter of levying the income tax, but to place it upon all incomes alike ubove 4,000, is wise and equitable. Denver News (pop.): The decision of tho democratic majorivy of the ways and means committee to report in favor of an individual income tax was a concession to justice, but is sure to be resisted by tho money power when the revenue bill is considered in detail 1n congress. St. Paul Pionoer Pross (rep.): The demo- crats in congress, a3 was expectod of them, lose no opportunity to fill the measure of pos- sible blunders. A majority of the ways and means committee has approved the income tax proposition, the adoption of which would be about the best vicce of fortune that re- publicans could ask. Kansas City Star (ind.): One reason why tho income tax will appeal to tariff ro- formers is that the MeKinley organs are so bitterly opposed to it Anything in the way of revenue raising that is obnoxious to Mc Kinleyism is sure to haye excellent features, Of course, this is not an all-powerful veuson for its adoption, but it is reason enough to look carefully into 1ts provisions. Chicago Post (dem.): It might have been expected that the picture presented by the opponents of this tax, of hardships to be borne by citizens of moderate moans. ot cvasion and deceit to which otherwiso nonest men will be driven and of & vast of- ial avmy of tax ferrets called into exist- ence by a'system that will inevitably involye the most ungenerous espionage—it might have been expected that the radical mem- bers of the committee would have been ter rified by this picture. Any other means of raising revenue would huve been preferable. THE LAUGHIN Dallas News: The man of note is ono who never pays lis debts, Cloveland Plain Dealor: Young man, re- member that the successful racer always ninkes tho most of his Iast quarte; Boston Courier: When n washerwoman changos her place of residence ono may ask hor Mwhero sho haugs out now'” without usiug slang. What an othoreal, ox- Smilax is, isn't she? Jus pose of that left (1 “Humph! That ain't poso; It's vaceination. Brookly n Life: Herdso—When youlget to be A man are you golng to be o lawyer, iike your vapa? Dick Hicks—Nope; going to be a goad one. Atlanta Constitution: “¥ou must excuso the beef,” upoligized the landlady; “the butcher promised to do better tomorrow.” “Al," muttored Fitzgobber “wo are all entored for the futurity steaks, as it were.” Siftings: “Thats a_ beautiful on. ” How wmuch did it cost you?" wonty-{ive conta. Wiy, how is thati? “Oh, the confounded taiior sent 't homo by express and Lhad to pay the charge.” cont New York World: DId_your papa help you blow your New Yoar's horn, Freddy? b No, Dupis went off on o tobt all by himsel. New York Press: The question of ages and the ability to guess them had come up, and Mr. Smartly announced that he could tell any- body's age Wy just looking athim. “Do you want me to tell yours?” ho added, turning to Miss Aatique. “No," sho ‘said, coldly, “there fs no use of your telling it to me; I know it myself.” Washingten Star: “Dat's do mos’ wun'fullest ing dat 15, remarked Unclo Eben, as ho «d at the electric light. *Dey dou put do ch to deuddah end ob do eonnection, an® u turns on de spigot de light jos Detrott Free Press: Young Housekoeper— ve you any canvas-backed ducks? ket Man—No, lady, but I huve some fino canvas-packed hams. hu\ll'/ " * Young Housekeeper—Well, yes, I suppose they'll do. ? L L Shall Tsend you up a THE SLIP, She stood benoath the mistleton With sparkling eyes and cheoks aglow, And threw around a smiling glance Tsottly sald, now Is my chane And crossed the room with rapid stride; Butere Lreached the malden's side My rival, with a swaggering ar, Appronched and hugged and kidsed lor there, Yes, kissed hor with assurance cool, While I'stood staring like a fool, And she, 'ere I a word conld say, Blushed, lnughed and lightly tripped away. i ngulpgg, KINF i s and 8311ae3 of s on Earth THOSE STATE COAL DILLS. Kearnoy Hub: Advice for the heads of state institutions charged by Tre Ber with burning too much conl. Kesp cool Kearney Journal: Tie Bre's search light 1s being turned on the fuel bills of Ne. braska stato Institutions, and it makes a strong demand for economy in coal bills Wahoo Era: Tur Bree shows up the conl steal in state fnstitutions atconsiderable length, combaring the cost of heating large buildiogs in Omaha with that of heating state buildings. We have not space to give tho figures and do not deem it necessary, t cause il fair minded people are fully con- vinced of the cnormous fraud porpetrated on the people by the gang at Lincolr Nebraska City Nows: The cost of heat. ing_various stato institutions, us published by TiE OMAlA Ber, shows a varianco that is really surprising. The Home for the 'riendless leads with a cost of #2560 por 1,000 foet, and the Norfolk usvlum comes smiling along with 81.88. The Institute for the Foeble Minded is tho lowest, it costing but 82 cents. The managers of theso insti- tutions ought to get together and comparo figures, Papillion Times: by Tie OMAnA Ber officials are truo clse the paper would then it is high time tho were thrown into the secms strange that s legéd may prevall among state officers. But w the use of whining about it? Proof positive of a public oficial’s crookedness ouly increases his majority when he runs for office in Nebraska If half the charges mada against Nebraska's state nd - they -must bo true, not dare make them affairs of the state ds of a receivor. It ach corruption as al e g TIME FOR 4 CHANGE. Springfleld Monitor: Omaha is to have a new union depot. The new structure, to- szother with tho land it is to be built on, will cost 1 the neighborhood of §2,000,000. 'Well known Omaha capitalists have formed a company and filed articles of incorporation, and they propose to push things right along. 1 Kearney Journal: Omaha is in sight of a now metropolitan depot at last. 1t is cer inly time she had somothing besides the old cow stable quarters people have been run into every time they were unfortunate enough to be compelled to stop in it for jears gono by. Nobraska's metropoiis de- rves as good a depotascan be found in tho west, and tho Journal trusts sho is about to receive her just deserts. —l e Hard Facts and Figures, Lincoln News. Tug OyAmA Brg prints some facts and fgures showing the extravagance in state institutions in the matter of coal, and it will require considerable explanation on the part of the state ofticers to make it clear to the average mind why it should cost so much more to heat the state institutions than other public buildings and blocks. It also ves to give point to what tho News charged during the Home for the Eriendless society dispute, ‘that tho state officers but perfunctorily performed theirduty of letting contracts and tl their administrdtion would be more costly than that of the ladies. e Bee's figures for the home coal supply might at first thought apparently contradict this, but as & matter of fact, the reason why the home has been compelled to pay 8 a ton for coul is that the dirt furnisned by the state board's contractor under the name of coal, at $2 per ton, failed to generate any heat whatever, and necessitated the pur- chase of other coal to keep the babes and other inmates from freezing. e A Warning Noto, Philadelphia Ledger. With thousands of persons in various in- dustries out of employment, manufacturers ay reduce wages with less opposition than in more prosperous times, since the demand for labor is much less than the supply. When business starts up there will be a reguest on the part of the employes for a return to the old rate, which will be resisted if the manufacturers feel that the proposed new tarift law is likely to strip them of their profits. In such times as these labor and capital have, more than ever, an Incentive to cordial relation. Employers should not take advantage of the helpléssness of their workmen to needlessly lower the wage rato, and employes should not resort to disustrous strikes against reductions which may be & temporary necessity. L~ A Veteran Leader. Globe-Democrat. Galusha A. Grow, who has just been nomf- nated for congressmuan-at-large by the re- publicans of Pennsylvania, to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of William Lilly, belongs to the heroic age of politics. He was spenker of the house in con 1861-8, which was called on to provido wa and means for carrying on the war, and which did this work promptly and patrioti- cally. Ho dropped out of public Life so long ago that his name is unknown to the younger generation of voters in the country ut lavge, but in the war days and for years before, he was a conspicuous figure in the nation’s politics. e —— United Statos Senate Committees. Hastings, Jan. 8.—To the Editor of Tas Bee: To settle a dispute, pleaseanswer the following in Tme Bee: 1. Who appoints United States senate standing committeest 2. Are thoy appointed for overy new con- gress, or do they hold over? 3. What is the custom in regard:to appointing committees in the senate! Yours truly, G. B. Scasor, arty in power. political complexion of the Same as answer 1o No. 1, 1. Caucus of change when senate changes. O T = BROWNING, Will pay the express If you send tho money for ¥20 worth or more s (I | U | 1 Sweeping Out Sale of Suits, w(vercoats. Everything at way down prices. | 5. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, KING & CO., M [ A g A A e e e e e e A e i \ ’