Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1894, Page 4

1 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. IRLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF Dafly Bee (without Daily and $undny SUNSCRIPTION €800 10 00 500 2 %0, FICRS. fidine tonrtn strots 0 15, Tribune bildiog b Atroot CORRESPONDENCE. munieations relating to nawa and edi- er should be onaed. ERS itances shonld Kew York shington, 5 pAny TSHING COMPANY. OF CIRCULATIO! 10k DATLY Byy was a8 10 Tuesday, Janunry 9 Wednesday, Janiary Mhursday. danuary 4 v ary b GrONGE I, TZ8NUCK to before me and subseribed in Thin f January 8B, y Publie Average Clreulation for December, 23,335 — e 1 forget the sermon “for men only.” Ttis tobe as rich and racy as one of Emile Zola's French novels. qualified council Daniel WE KNOW of no man bottc to promulgate rules for the city than the venerable and erudite H. Wheel ANOTHER d¢ for state funds has been designated. The ance of the law comes tardily, but it is none the less gratifyi wsitory Is 1T not about time that the State Toard of Transportation make some positive move toward getting the maximum freight rate law out of the federal court, POLICE COMMISSION ICKLER i8 trying to get a bit of cheap notoriety by posing as the great moral reformer. Such demagogy is too transparent to de- ceive a THE temporary truce imposed by the Jucksonian love feast has already been ruptured. Nebraska —democracy can never be harmonious as long as an office with a attached remains in sight. IT MIGHT be interesting to the people of Nebraska to know just how many of the executive oflicers of the state have been assisting tho sccretary of state_ in conducting his brokorage office in the capitol. DESPITE the extreme frigidity of the weather a great many congressional sprouts have been started in Nebraska for next fall’s blooming. It is the early sprout that is gencrally nipped by the first popular frost. ‘WE BELIEVE that the county commis- sioners mean t» adopt a conservative policy this year. In their estimate of expenses for 1804 they have reduced the amount by $75,000 below the estimate for 1803. Nobody wiil object to the official pruning knife this year. TF GOVERNOR MITCHELL cares to take our advice he will exile every short- haired bruiser that sets foot in Florida. If Corbett and Mitchell really want to fight let them go t6 Honolulu or Daho- mey and have it out. At any rate, we hope this country will soon get rid of them. Ex-CONGRESSMAN O. B. POTTER, who recently died in New York, left an estate estimated to be worth not less than 7,000,000. A few of the millionaires in public life fail to get higher than the lower house of congress, notwithstand- ing the attractions of the senate for men of great wealth. of Governor Mitchell for his firm attitude in opposition to the pro- posed prize dght in Florida will only strengthen his position among people who wish the laws enforced against brutal bruisers. If the governor will only carry out his promises the whole country will applaud him. ONGRESSMAN CUMMINGS disclaims having used the words, “You're a liar and you know it," to a cortain Mr., Sy pher, as recently reported, but admits having said something to that effect. The result was probably the same, but some people prefor to be called hars in the approved genteel fashion IT 18 too bad taat New York can't have the benefit of a blanket ballot law before the coming election to fill its two congressional vacancies. With the present temper of the people a blanket ballot would greatly incresse the pros- pects of republican success at the special election to be held there this month. THE South Dakota Swate Board of Equalization recently vaised the valua- tion on banks 50 per cent in Minnehaha county, whose commissionors havoe r solved to refund the increased tax, thus nullifying the action of the state board, This is a novel procecding. The bankers of Minnohaha county must have a very powerful pull. COMMITTEES to protect the interests of bondholders concerned in tho reorgani- zation schomes of the numerous bank- runt railways ave ail the rage just now The bondholders are, as a rule, omitted from consideration when the “friondly receiver” is selected und would undoubt- edly be mercilessly frozen out did they not organize for their own protection, INSPITE of the frantic protests of those fow newspapers in Nebraska that always rush to the defense of the state house vings, public sentiment in Nobraska is rapidly orystallizing in favor of clean state government, hconest methods of financo and rigid economy in the con- duct of public institutions. The investi- gations of last year have opened the eyes of the veople of Nobraska to the digraceful condition of affairs that has existed for s0 mal years at the state capital, Reform is voming, slowly at first, perhaps, but none the less surely. THE A SORRY'\LACK OF LEADERSHIP, Never was a party in control of the | government so lacking in strong, able, | courageous leadership as the democracy | is at present. Henry Wattorson re- cently characterized this as an era of small men and small things, and the Louisvillo journalist had in mind the men of his party who are at the front in congress and the work they are en- deavoring to do. Consider these men whom the fortune of politics has raised to the position of leaders. What has William L. Wilson, chairman of the house ways and means committee, ever done in his public to en- title him to bo regarded as a statesman qualified to lead his party in the popular branch of con- gross when thero is a demand for the highest order of statesmanship in deal- ing with the great problems of revenue and finance that confront the country? He has been eight years in congress and what ia there to his eredit in the way of wise, practical legislation? Unquestion- ably Mr. Wilson is a man of some abili He s a good talker and perhaps a saga- cious politician. But he would bea daring friend who should claim for him that broad and comprehensive states- manship which is demanded at this junctare. That he is doubtless the best man his party could have selected for the position he occupies shows how destitute the party in control of the house is in men capable of leadership. [Look over the list of the men who are charged with the high- ost responsibilities in proposing and in- fluencing legislation vital to the inter- ests and welfare of the country and see if there isone among them who has over shown himself possossed of a single quality of true statesmanship. They have boen sficcessful as politicians and nothing more, and even as such none of them take high rank. It is hardly any better with the sen- ate. The democratic ieader of that body, by virtue of his position as the chairman of the finance committee, is Voorh of Indiana. He has been in public life nearly a third of a cen- tury and has failed to acquire any distinction as a practical legislator. He has done well as a politician, but nobody will pretend that he is a statesman, and his incapacity for leadership was con- spicuously demonstrated in the silver fight. Yet there is perhaps no one among the senate democrats hetter qual- ified to head the finance committee than Voorhees, Mills and McPherson both know more about the tariff than the In- diana senator, but there are objections to these that do not apply to him, even if in pursuance of the custom of the sen- ate in forming its committees either had been eligible to the chairmanship of the leading committee. However, it can- notbe claimed for any one of these that he is in any true sense a statesman or qualified for leadership at the present juncture. Ave there any senate demo- crats who can show a claim to bo so re- garded? Morgan of Alabama and Gray of Delaware perhaps may, and for a cer- tain order of leadership Gorman of Maryland, but how do any of these rank with the democratic leaders of the sen- ate in the past? The men who are essaying leadership in both branches of congress are merely poiiticians, and not a few of them are of that class justly characterized as demagogues. Such are the advecates of an income tax, of the vepeal of the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues and of some other of the numerous expedients which are evi- dence of the lack of wise and broad statesmanship. With a strong, abte and courageous leader in either branch of congress tho politicians who arve actu- ated wholly by sectional considecations and the demagogues who are bidding for popularity with the masses, whose in- nce and sense of fairness they hold cheaply, would have little chance to even get attention for their projects. There is no such leader, and small men and small things will continue for a time to harass and injure the public interests. careor COND THOUGHT, Colorado has had a great deal of ad- vertising during the last three months, some of it beneficial and some not to her advantage. Ior the latter her indis- creet governor and his misguided ad- herents are responsible. The unreason- ing and unreasouable attitude of these people led the country for a time to be- lieve that the population of the Centen- nial state was made up largely of cranks and desperadocs, Tho gov- ernor’s talk about “riding in blood to the bridle’s bit, ceived with favor by a considerable body of the less thought- ful people of the state, together with the scheme of importing Mexican dollavs and making them a logal tender in Colorado, gave intel- ligent people generally a very poor impression of the common sense and integrity of the people of that state. Very fow, however, of the really sub- stantial people of Colorado ever sympa- thized with the wild talk and the wilder plans of Governor Waite and his fol- The men who built up the pros- perity of the state and were still ina position to advance her material devel- did not lose faith in the future commonwealth mevely becauso its silver interest had bheen deprived of the market which the government pur- chases afforded. They knew thera were other resources in the state as valuable as silver, the development of which would insure to Colorado a great and prosperous future. These men did not propose to cut loose from the rest of the country and adopt as a state cuvrency a foreign coin. Their practical judgment showed them at a glance the ridiculous folly of such a proposition. It was necessary for these men to do something to save Colo- rado from far worse injury than she had suffered by the stovpage of government purchases of silver, and they did it. They got together and appointed a com- mittee of representative men to inquire into and veport upon the condition, re- sources and prospects of the state. In due time this committee made its re- port, which completely refuted the wild assertions atout the impoverishment and impending ruin of Colorado. A short time ago, at a dinner given by the Manufacturers ex- change of Denver, the subject of lowers. Colorado's resources and prospects was fully discussed. The expressions of opinion regarding the futuro of the state wero of the most hopeful charac- ter. Silver mining is on a somewhat reduced scale, but more gold is being produced, and it was stated that the out- look for precious metal mining in the state is highly encouraging. Ono of the speakers at this dinner, a banker, said he believed that 1804 will witness a re vival of business in every line in Colo- rado, and he gave substantial reasons for his faith. he course of these busi- ness men has brought to the people of Colorado the sober second thought and the great majority of them no longer look hopelessly to the future. It has silenced the po- litical demagogues, with the excep- tion of the blatherskite governor and a few adherents whose means of sub- sistence he controls. More than this, it has assured the country that there is enough of common sense, integrity, loy- alty, enterpriss and energy among the people of Colorado to prevent any such blunders as Waite and his sympathizers would lead the state into. The Colorado legislature met in extra session yesterday, It was called to- gother to consider the governor's plans of relief, but it is stated that a majority of both houses not in favor of con- tinuing in sossion and that an adjourn- ment will be taken within a week. It would be a very proper and salutary re- buke of the unnecessary and foolish ac- tion of the governor. aroe THEY CAN MAKE ENDS MEET. According to the estimate made by the retrenchment committee of the Board of Education last November there would be a deficit of 5 .76 in the necessary disbursements for 1804 over and above the estimated incothe. Upon careful examination of the figures we have reached the conclusion that the board can, if disposed, make both ends meet without increasing the school tax levy of last year. The retrenchment committee esti- mates the income from licenses for 1804 at $210,000. It is now certain that the income from liquor and drug licenses alone will exceed $220,000. Add to this amount the income from licenses to peddlers, auctioncers, hackmen, thea- ters, circus exhibitions, ecte., and itis safe to compute the aggregate license income will exceed %225,000, or %15,000 more than the committee’s estimate. The committee’s estimate for text book, stationery and supplies is $15,600. We believe that that item of expense can be reduced to $10,000 without crip- pling the schools. Our supply of school books ought to be almost sufficient for this year. In any event 5,000 for the purchase of new sclool books would meet all our wants, unless there is an unwarranted change of text books in the interest of booksellers. It is all right evough to supply free school books, but there is no good reason why the city should suppiy free stationer: in the shape of lead pencils, slate vencils, ink and paper, blank copy books, slates, ete. That is carrying the free education idea altogether too far. The board might perhaps be justified in buying these supplies at wholesale and selling them at cost to the puyils. The estimate of the committee of re- pairs is $30,000 and improvements $15,000. In view of the fact that most of our school buildings are new and sev- eral of them are about to be completed, it would seem to us that the estimate for improvements could be cut .down one- half, or at least by $20,000. This would bring the deficit down to about $15,000. With a little pruning here and there the expenditures of the board can be curtailed sufficiently to enable the board to run within bounds without in the least affecting the efficiency of our schools. This is no year for increasing taxes. They are already too burden- some, WHEN E. P. Vining was a bright particular star in the railroad firma- ment he put taviff sheets in effect fore- ing charges as high as the traflic would bear. That was fiftcen years ago. In obedience to the public will rates on lumber, grain and live stock have from time to time been scaled down, but the rates on coal still remain extortionately Ligh. On all coal shipped into Ne- braska the transportation costs from one and a half to three times the price of the coal at the mines. There can be no sound principle of business which would warrant a transportation charge for any distance on any commodity greater than the cost or value of such commodity. It seems to us to be about time that the consumers of coal in this city take steps to have such railroad rates reduced to an equitable plane. The Commercial club has a freight bureaun, created and designed to treat with rgilroad managers in cases of this kind. If the commis- sioner can be induced to exploit this subject and bring the full power of the club to bear in forcing a reduction of coal rates he will, in the one instance, justify the mission of the club with the freight bureau attachment, and at the same time save thousands of dollars to the residents of Omaha. HOSPITAL boxes and the boxes of other charitable institutions for the col- lection of coins from those philanthropi- cally inclined are to be found in every one of the 8,000 odd saloons in New York City. The pastor who removed himself and his family from Omaha be- cause he did not want his children edu- cated with tho aid of money dervived from liguor licenses must steer clear of New York for fear he might, as the vie- tim of aceident, be taken toa hospital that accepts contributions deposited in its charity boxes by bartenders or sa- loon keepers. THE proposition of the Metropolitan Union Depot company as submitted to the council should he very carefully con- sidered and such safeguards embodied as may be deemed vital for the enforce- ment of the obligations which the com- pany proposes to assume. The con- sonsus of popular opinion is in favor of a union depot accessible to the public and adjacent to our principal thorough- fares. We must, however, have ample guarantios that the structure will be metropolitan in fact as well as in name. OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JA ARY 11, 1894, The subsidy asked, for should be ocut down at least fim That would give the company $1 0 toward the pur- chase of the depot grounds and ap- proaches und $150,000 toward the depot bnilding proper and the elevated rafl- way leading frf@h §the Union Pacific bridge. The magnilude of the enter- prise and its advahtdges to this city can scarcely be ovorrfitefl, but the city coun- cil should exercf® a1l the precaution in its negotiations that any business man would under similar conditions. TuE propositigh of Mr, Boggs to have the market house and auditorium located on Jefferson square would doubt- less meet with favor if no legal obstacles are interposed. The location could not be better and the city could expend the entire $200,000 on & monu- mental building with & superb auditorium that would hold 10,000 people and mako Omaha & national convention center, 'he auditorium could also be utilized for great concerts, revivals, reunions, art exhibitions, state conventions and mass meetings. The market hall proper could also be utilized for interstate or state fair purposes. The structure would moreover prove a paying investment. The rental from market stalls and the vse of the audi- torium would pay the interest and prin- cipal within ten years. THERE 18 no reason why the coal con- sumed by the Asylum for the Incurable Insane at Hastings should cost more or less than that used at the Industrial school at Kearncy, or at the asylum at Norfolk. The executive officers of this state, by their votes in the several directory boards, have the power to force uniform pricos for all coal used by the state, and also a level transportation rate on coal to each and all state insti- tutions. If these officials have a proper regard for the interests of the state they will systematize the coal and sup- ply business and thereby save many thousands ot dollars annually. NATOR LINDSAY hasbeen re-elected by the Kentucky legislature on the first baliot without any frills or feathers. The legislature simply met, the demo- cratic members cast their ballots for Lindsay, while other candidates got no more than a meaningless complimentary vote. In Towa the senatorial contdst had been going on for weeks before the legislature was to convene and the cam- paign has been organized for a fight to the finish. Kentucky had one candidute and harmony. Iowa has a multitude of candidates and a whole circus asa pre- lude to the finale. THE president is said to have tired of the Hawaian imbroglio. In that re- gard at least he had the sympathy of all rational people. ,jloo much fussand feathers have been blown up on account of that little 2x2 nation. It isnot of as much consequence to the United States asis Clontarf precinct to Omaha at convention time. ired of florso Piny. Philadelphia Times, The wuya and’ means -commttee should stop fooling with impracticable and_unpopn- lar schenies of taxation' and report a loan bill without delay. e ook Counde Washington Star. It is feared that the incomo tax will have some dificulty in bringing the box receipts into harmony with the expectations aroused by the advance notices. - Looklng Forward. Globe-Democrat. If the democrats stick to their purpose of passing the Wilson bill in the houso before the end of this month they may get it into the president’s hands around the lst of April, but it can hardly reach him earlier. “The bill will undoubtedly be longer in_the senate than it will be in the house. It is likely to be fought harder thore, and tho democratic majority in that body is not largo. We e Away with It New York Sun, Recommit the odious, unconstitutional and destructive measure, then, with instructions to the committee on ways' and means to pro- ceed to the framing of a constitutional tariff for revenue and revenue only! The task is simple. It can be performed in half the time which would be cousumed in a single democratic speech of halting and casu- istical apology for a bill which betrays democratic principle and imperils the inter- ests of the people. et The Prospect and the Fan Our, Chicago Inter Ocean. ‘While the goveruor of Colorado was cavort- ing and threatening to wade in blood over vhe silver question Colorado miners just turned th attention to digging out gold in- stead of silver, and promise the coming year to double the output of gold. People who judged from_the windy periods of the gov- ernor that Colorado was ready *“to put up the shutters” and retire from business were not acquainted with the character of the people in vhat stat —————— a Sorow Loose Somewhere, Schuyler Quill., Great heavens! Will wonders never cease! The State Board of Transportation has actually broken its record and ordered the Fremont, Klkhorn & Missouri Valley Railway company to put its hay rate back to the old schedule after the road had raised its rates vecently. That is right. Tho only doubt n our mind is, would the board have 50 done if all the voads had raisod their rates, or was this act of theirs o protoct the other roads and not 5o much for the good of the shippers? Judging by past acts we should say the suipper did not figure in it, (e el The Right Man, Yor Times. The state allianee could not have found a better man for fts president than Seunator Dale of Harlay county. He is aman of ty and unyiélding integrity. What he is done because he thinks it is right, and he would ntt kifowingly do a wrong act. If the independént party hid nominated and elected such mén as Mr. Dale to office 1t would now be ‘much more nighly respected. The Times is not so bigoted that it cannot admit th oty of one who differs from it in politics. Therk are some houest, brave and good men‘An the populist party and Senator Dale isoneof them. If the popu- lists of the Fifgh digtrict bad the good sense to nominate him, for congress und should hapnen to electhim they would have a con- gressman who wauld nov disgrace the state. Ther: PEOPLE AND THINGS, Uneasy lios the head that hankers for & crown Procrastination blower. The World's fair was spectacular in death as in life The negative of the goddess of retorm is & makeshift afrmative, The quostion 18 not when will the Bra- #Alian revolution end, but when will it begin “The projection of Coffin fnto the senatorial contest in fowa shrouds the situation with doubt, A harmony promoter is vseful in o way, but the important Individual in a festal emorgency is a thought collector, A Prehistorie Growler” is the title of an article in the New York Sun, The law of horedity again asserts itseif John Goodbaby is o resident of Orono, Mo, That name should entitle him to an apyoint- ment under this administration. Miss Louise Tmogen Guiney, who writes good verse and is a capable literary woman, has been appointed postmastor at Auburn- dale, Mass, It was not down on_tho bills, not did bis voire ocho in the halls, yet Hop. €. V. Gallagher delivered a speech at the Jack- sonian banquet. Hon, Dick Crokdt is opposed to any Inw which “touches the carnings ot the masses.” Richard wants a mouopoly of the touching business. Notwithstanding;the flippant essertions of MeAllister, it is reasonably ain_that both sexes by a large majority were in the swim in Noal's time. The lightning caleulators of Chicago have raised the population beyond the 2,000,000 noteh, and the stock of hotel and boarding house registers of 1893 is not exhausted A New York citizen has acquired u capac ity for two keas of beer a day. The insinua- tion that he tratned for St. Hickory's day is malicious, Hickory toots are not buily thut way. eorge D, Perkins, editor of the Sioux City Journal, member of congress and caudi- ator, s a prac- nd was a privato soldier dur- is the thief of [Ilorn. 1 printe ing the war. Galust Grow eame out for Horace Greoley in 1872, but he returned to the re- publican fold a'few years subsequently his remarks at the Pennsyivania republic convention the other day indicato that ho s now about as orthouox as they make ‘em. THE THROW, HRONED. Chicago Times: Would the administra- tion take such stringent measures for the suppression of Hawaliim news if that news was to its liking? Whatever tidings the Corwin may have brought it is safe to st its message down now as one of disaster to tho Cleveland party. Globe Democrat: It every day that Clevelund's fu take in’ the Hawalian matter was that of not letting well enough alone. If b had merely signified his opposition to the policy of annexation, as he had a perfect right to do, by withdriwing from the senate a treaty that had not_yet been cousidered by that body, his position would have been reasona- ble and defensible. Chicago Herald: Tt is dificult to see what, object the government can gain by suppress- ng the news from Hawaii or Brazil, or any other country where important American interests aro involved. Itis an exceedingly unpopular practice in this country to sc- quester from the people intellizence regard- ing their own afairs. This is the people’s government and the people have a right to know what is going on. Not a single con- dition as it exists at Hawai can be enanged by keeping the American people in ignor- ance on the suoject. Philadelphia Times: Mr. Willis has simply ecarried the diplomatic program to the ond instead of stcpping short ol the first stage, as ho was supnosed to have done. But the practical effect is precisely the same. His instructions woro strictly con- fined within the lines ot peaceful diplomacy, and the actual situation is not changed from that reported by the president when, the effort at roparation having failed, he de- clared the exccutive authority oxhausted. Thero the matter ought to end. The one fmperative duty of the administration now is to stop Mr. Willis or anybody elso from meddling further in Hawail. ' We ought never to have been mixed up in this revolu- tion at all. Having got into it, it wasa question whether the wrong done could be un- done or whether it was worth while 10 try it. At the most, it could only be undone diplomatically, and that having Tailed there is nothing left buv to drop the whole busi- ness and pull out of it as promptly and com- pletely as possible. SUME THOUGHTFUL. becomes clearer damentat mis- TESTS, Lowell Courler: The policoman’s club and the press club alike ind to head work. What caused your Rochester. Democrad ost his balance.” bookkeeper's downfull New Orleans Picayune: When an amas buntor wants to buy i 4og s triend should im u pointer that he may not be cheated. Philadelphia Record: Nell-Why have you broken with Jack? Bello—Why, you sed, I thought he Was going o propose the other night, and the mean thing ouly usked me if Lloved him well enough to be & sister to Lim. Buffalo Courfer: No, Philopene, we do nat think you should refer’to prohibition speeches as wutor spouts. Such lovity would hardly show good spirit. Washington_ Star: “Did_you seo Freddio Twlgzins on New Yoar's day? asked one girl. “No," replicd the other. I was told, though, that he—or—that he had skates on.” “Skates,” repeated the other, “skatos doesn't begin to oxpress it Those were Suowshoes.' Cbicago Record: “There's an act of affec- tlon,” sald young Jimpsey, as he imprinted a kiss upon her coral lips. ally bost plays have throo acts, uid tho it young woman, looking org ing up to him without blin Indianapolis Journal: mo to thinlk of it." suld eho lottor "0 1 would like for someone to tell me Just whero I am at. I soom to be in the pushaid in the soup atono and the same time." As to n tax on playing dolphin Timos: tuke n cards w good many would certainly hand in paying it 1 believe in trying to o ug possible on everything 05 ko those, Maria," said Mr. Billus, looking again at the bill that had fust been brought in, “but it doos seom to e that $3.75 compleXxion wash in one month is putting ivon a little o thic Now York Horald: of trouble. Tho landlady says Settlo up or leaye Dowa Broke—Why, you're in_great luck, old man. My landludy suys I must settls up Defore I'can leay Chicago Tribuns good 1 fi Poor Pay—I'm In a lot I'll have to A LYRIC OF BATTLE. Chiew Record, Up and at him, Mrs, Louso! fyiitlo Your hoart with rage is swolling § Lot him Know no rost or peacs In his governmental dwelling. Baro your brow, tho eloud-compolling | Order him onee to conse ! Chargo, oh! charge on false Loweliing With your hatpin, Mrs. Lease! L ea HIS ERROR. Indianapolis Journal, Ho visited tho winsome mald, And was surprised Lo sen The parlor gus had been turned down As low us well could be. Emboldened by this state of things, Ho thought [t not amiss Ta place his arm around her walst And try to stoal kiss. Shie stralght robuked the foolish youth, And spurned tho bold curess; “Ldimmed the 1izht,” safd she, “you goows, To hide my worn-out dress.” Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, ol Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE WOULD MAKE SUGAR PAY IT Domocrats Who Argue that the Tariff Ought to Bo Restored on That. PECULIAR EFFECTS OF THEIR REASONING |1t the Bounty s Withdrawn from fome | Product mad the Tax on Imports is Levied the Workingman Wil Sufler. 513 FornreRNTn STREET, WasHINGTON, Jan. 10, A remarkable explanation 18 being ad- vanced by demoerats dn the hiouse who favor & duty upon saw sugar as against the bounty:for the encouragement of Sugar pro- duction aud & means of raismg revenue, and in‘opposition to an iucome tax. Oneof the most influential leaders for the administra- tion Yepeated the patent explanation to your corrospondent today in the following lan- guago: “Of courso a tarift {s n tax, and the sumer wi'l have to pay the forty or ffty mil- lion dollars annually which we propose to levy upon raw sugar, Certainly a duty on the raw article will have a teadency to ad- vance the price, and I frankly acknowledge that the burden wiil fall upon the poor man, who, under the present low rates paid for sugar, consumes a proportion of that article much larger than of other imported goods. I frank acknowledge thav we would save but eleven or twelve millions annuaily by abolishing tho sugar bounty outright, and would add forty or tifty millions of taxes by tho pro- posod sugar duty, and of course it 18 apy ent to any one that while the consumer will directly pay for the duty on sugar the gen- eral government pays the bounty, which is about one-fourth as much as the provosed duty. “But here is our explanation to the work ingman: 1t is hetter for him to contribute to the general government the direct pay ment on sugar, which will enable the o ernment to reduce the prices of his clothing and blankets, than for him to pay higher prices for these articles in order that he may havo free sugar and there shall be a bounty paid upon sugar produced in this country.” Would Cheortully Wasmixatox Brreav or Tae Bee, } con- Lot 1t Stand. A republicaa memver of the ways and ans comunttes, who heard of this ‘‘ex- tion,” said to Tite Bk corresponden If such an explanation will satisfy e the most ignorant laboring man I m w ing to let 1t stand. If, according to the dem- ocratic theory, o tariff is a tax, tho demo- crats propose, and they frankly admit it in this explanation, to make the liboring man pay &1in order that there may be collected Tevouue from sugar to save $1 from the gen- eral fund upon sugar bounty. This is_clear outside of any protective principle, and docs not include ument in favor of build- ing up the o sugar industry. After all, by this statement the democrats propose to make the laboring man con- tribute most largely to the support of the government as against an income tax, which they claim would be paid only by the rich—that is, the administration rats make this proposition. Politi- y. I would like to sco a duty of 1 cent per pound placed upon raw sugar, and the bounty for the encouragement of home sugar pro- duction abolished outright. You can buy at any erocery today pure white eranulated sugar for 5 cents a pound, and in some mar- kets a little less, purchasing but a single vound. 1f & duty of 1 cent a pound is placed upon the raw article, or even halfa cent, and the bounty abolished, I make the pre- diction, and hopo you will bear it in mind, that beforo the presidential campaign of 1496 we will bo paying at the grocery stores at least 7 cents a pouna for white sugar, such as now sells for5 cents or less, The moment it goes abroad that we have with- drawn our support from the development of our beet and cane sugar industries we will be at the mercey of the toreign producer, and if foreign sugar producing countries do not levy an export bounty, which we must pay, there will bo corners and combinations formed abroad, which, in connection with the trust of this country, which does all the relining and produces nothing, will advance the prico at least_one-third ot one-half the present figures. 1 have never heard of so much democratic imposition upon the intel- ligence of the workingmen. Aimed at Beet Sugar. “f would like to know,” continued the ways and means republican, “of a single laboring man in_this country, a poor man who works by the day, whois wearinga yard of imported cloth or sleeping under an imported vlanket. This talk about saving the bounty on sugar,which umounts to erther one-fourth or one-cighth of the sugar duty which it is proposed to levy, in the interest of the laborinz man, is an” insult to that in- dividual. I would like to know how it 1s that the democrats will ‘save’ money for the Iaboring man by making him pay o sugar duty i order to ‘save’ money when lie comes. to buy his clothing and blankets. What is the differencoe between a ‘tax’ on blankets and clothing and a ‘tax’ on sugar? The whole thing 18 simply a scheme to crush the greatest infant industry existing in tho L e o N i - UL W A L A= W Your money's United States today—that of our beet sugar manufacturers.” Allison on the Treasury, Tn commenting upon the condition of the treasury and the effort of Secretary Carlisio {0 have passed in advance of action up tarift bill a measure providing for tho ¢ ago of ailver seigniorage aud the issuance $100,000,000 of certificates of indebtednes edcemable aftor eightoen months, and bea Wiz 8 por cont interest, Senator Al is certainly one of the most influential re publican members of tho financo « said to T Brr correspondent today “If the secrotary of the treasury, Pre dont Cloveland or any of the leaders of democratic pargy 1h congress beliove the republicar® over in the house or senate jntend to play into the hands of demoeratic party by supporting such locisia vion they will find themselves very sadly mistaken at the critical moment when they attempt to displace the tariff by any su proposition. An issuo of certificates of debtodness is but a bond issue in disg ana directly _involves tho princ embraced in the Wilson tarift biil fad it not been for the promulgation of this vicious and destructive piece of tariff logis lation there would not exist a deficien the treasury, and if it were known tha Wilson bill would fail to pass the deficic would not exist for a period of time sl it would be necessary to consumo in discus ing the issuance of the proposed L O. U.'s or bonds. Must Solve Tts Own Problems “The ropublicans do not propose to reliove the democratic administration of the ¢ barrassment it is in on _aceount of the of being made to establish English priv by the adoption of the Wilson bill certainly be much easier Lo pass bill in its present form, or aftor ments have been adopted, if the def the treasury was mot by some measur certainly have no right”to coin or the silver seigniorage , That,is a sa luttoral, hellin the treasury to se payment of outstanaing silver obli "I'hie provosition to issue certificates debtedness 1s to my mind a Hlmy ot through a_bond issuc without bea the odium which must attach toany creaso of the interest-bearing debt deficiency in the treasury must worry a in some way until we have either passed defeated the Wilson tariff bill." Meshane Still in Doubt x-Representative John A. McShano of Omaha slipped into Washington yesterday called upon Secretary Carhisle and presente a lovof papers to offsct the protests mad against the appointment of his brother James MeShane, to the position of surveyor of the port at Omaha, and this afternoon as quietly took the train for his home. 1t woul seem that the protests against the appoint ment of James MeShane had made somo in- pression upon the minds of Sceretary Carlisle and the president, for it 'is known that John A. McShane visited Washington at this time and filed papers in bebalf of his brother, upon the advice of some one repr senting Secre 'y Morton, and who 1S the inside of the situation. Whilethe state nient is made with considerable emphasis that James MeShane will beappointed to tho position, no one knows absolutely what will be the result of the contest. To Open More Nebraskn Land. Senator Allen toduy introduced a oill to open up to settlement, under the homestead laws, the iands in the old Fort Sheridan mil- itary reservation in Nebraska. The meas ure provides for the disposal of the lin homesteaders in quarter sections, excluad townsites and excepting sections 16 and for school purposes. Senator Manderson_introduced a bill for the relief of Willism H. Sloan of Nebraska, and Representative Hainer itroduced a biil to pension James L. Millett of Nebraska. The average reserve of the combined na- tional banks of Iowa on the 19thof last month was 3197 per cent. Opposing the Oklahoma Bt Ex-Assistant_ Attornoy General L. W. Colby was at the capitol today conveying two representatives of the Creck tribe of Indians from the Indian territory, who have come to have a conversation with the great father in regard to Mr. McRac's sweeping bill to take the five civilized tribes into the union. They are Childress and Goat, tho first speaket of the house of warriors, and tho latter a prominent member of the houso of kings, which corresponds to the United States sonate. They are here for the pur- pose of protesting vigorously against com- pulsory American citizenship, which it is proposed to confer upon them by the Okla- homa statehood bili. Bryan's Latest Publication. Today's Congressional Record prints from Representative Bryan over seven solid non- pereil pages, largely in tabular form, on the operation of income taxes in_Ingland, Prus- sia, Ttaly, Austria and several of the German provinces. Mr. Bryan obtained this in- formation from the Department of State, which in turn had procured it from our con- sular and commereial agents abroad. Thero isita historical statementof tho taxes in England, which shows that they origmated 1n 1798, and full statements as to how the taxes ave levied and collected in the various countries, and the revenue benefits to those governments. Representative Kem has laid before the house the petition of fifty-five citizens of Nebraska, members of Garrison No. b3, Regular Army and Navy union, asking for the passage of an act to amend the act of February 14, 1885, relativo to the re-cnlist- ment of enlisted men in the army and marine corps. Prrity S, HEATIL e Cotton Burnea at Momphi'e Mewpms, Jan. 10.—In a fire this morning 1,500 bales of cotton were destroyed. The largest makers fine clothes on Earth] 18allors ot th or your monay back. 1 18 A Am A Ae A A Ae 8 i 8 i i = EEST e i A= L i = BROWNING, Will pay theexpress if you send the money for 20 worth or more A 0 Pointing our way. Everybody does—they point at us as the only place where the quality of what we sell is not effected by the price. They point to us as ocutters of prices so genuine thatothers hold up their hands. December prices awfully. There are some grand bargains in suits, overcoats and underwear for both boys and men, and as to winter caps, from a 2-year old boy to a f()(j-:yonr old man, we have them and give you 20 per cent discount if you buy. ter than ever to trade with us. | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, SRR R R R R R We've cut our It will pay you bet- KING & (0., %41 =