Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1894, Page 4

AL A THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING D ——————— TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without Sunday) One Year Daily and Sinday. On Six Months. A hreo Months Bundny Hee, One Year Baturday Ree, One ¥ Weekly Dee, One Year Omaha. The Bee B o1t O Counell Bluffs, 19 Chiengo OMee New York. roo Washingion, 518 Fourteenth aie CORR unjeations ro yuld be addre BUSINESS L thers and. e sed to The Mee Publishing e w. cliecks and Mee orders 10 payable 1o the order of the co; v ; s THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY ULATION. suilding Al com e, nd edi foria) matter - STTERS {ttances ahould be Ay, Omaha. be mado SWORN STATEMENT OF CIR! Ut efrenintion of e DALY BEE 1 Janniry 1 Taniney i of T Ny Pub ar that the ot the woek Sworn my presence 10 before s G N. P. F¥ Iation for Decen IT 18 always easier to get onto un of- n to get off of it GOVERNOR WAITE'S the spocial session of the Colorado legisla- laturo has been ordered printed. In these hard times, too! message to RUSSIA'S budget shows a surplus of receipts over expenditures of over 1,000,- This is simply & reminder atic congress. 000 roubles. for the demo OMAHA needs enlarged postal facili- ties. The establishment of two or three postal stations by the Postoflice depart- ment would be a good beginuing in the right divection. THE action of the insurance compacts in advancing local rates in the several cities and towns in Nebraska is veing met with indignant protests from every place affected. The advance in rates same at an inopportune time. NOW that the tariff speechesare being ground out with unprecedented regular- ity the Congressional Record will once more assume that appearance of plump rotundity that characterized it during the heated silver discussion of last year. IF EVERY business man in Omaha should follow the precepts laid down at the Commercial club meeting for the building up and advancement of this city there would be an immediate and marked improvement in cvery line of local industr, Now that there seems to be a revival of the profession of train robbing it will e inorder for the railroad companies, who never hesitate to disregard the laws themselves, to appeal to the people for the passage of more stringent laws for their own protection. Now that Tobe Castor and Morton have ransacked all the departments and had all the federal advertising ordered to be exclusively given to the independ- ent paper founded by Dr. Miller their mission has been fulfilled and the Double-Ender brs no further use for them. THE Creeks have representatives at Washington to protest against any moasure looking toward forcing Amer can citizonship upon them. Americans are not accustomed to having citizen- ship viewed in this light. Lot them wait untii they appreciato it sufficiently to aslk for it. Mg. HORNBLOWER'S talented services will probably remain at the command of any wealthy corporations whose interests demand the attention of a high-priced lawyer. The attractions of a seat on the beneh of the supreme court have far less charm for him than they had a few months back. PENNSYLVANIA political prophets are busy computing the probable majority of ex-Speaker Grow at the coming elec tion to fill the congressional vacancy in the representation of that state. It is only a question of majority. The out- come of the eleetion was conceded fore nominations were made be- THERE was no necessity for the ser- geant-at-arms of the house to put Con- gressman McKeighan under arrest in order to compel him tw attend the ses- sions of the body of which he is a mem ber. McKeighan was under arrest bofor he left for Washington and one expe ence was enough for some time to come. I 18 amusing to see all the demo- ovatic nowspapers, which for yoars have been abusing Mr. Cavrnegie for his staunch adherenco to the policy of pro- teetion, hold him up as a model for loyal partisans just because he has written a letter saying that if there are to be an, tariff changes ho would be quite satisfied with the Wilson biil. All depends on which side of the bread is buttered. 'HEKE §s ono thing in favorof the beet industry in Nebraska that commends it to the thoughtful consider- ation of every thinking man in the state. There is practically no limit to the field, Ivery county in the Platte valley can support its mammoth fact ry and vefinory. The extent of the industry need only be measured by the willing- noss and ability of the farmers to the beets, sugar UNION Pacivic RECEIVER J. W, DOANE has been re-elected president of 8 prominent loan and trust company of Chicago, from which he doubtloss draws & salary commensurate with the duties devolving upon the position. Ha is however, one of the five for whom the federal court was asked to fix an allow ance of 818,000 per year for affixing his signuture to the receivers' reports in con- nection with the administration of the Union Pa: . Few offices of this kind are floating around in search of ccou- pants THE QUESTION OF ISSUING NONDS. Becrotary Carlisle has stated to the | senate finance committee that he wants | authorlty to fssue bonds, believing that | to bo the best way to meat the approach- ing treasury crisis, The gold roserve continues to decline and the monthly gap betwoen the expenditures and the receipts of the government steadily widens, The socretary seos more clearly | than the lead in congress appear to the impending danger and he is anxious toavert it. Ho knows that it will be | impossible to do this if dependence 18 placed upon revenues from proposed legislation. Under the Wilson tariff bill tho revenue from customs will be largely veduced and the contemplated additional taxes will hardly make up for such reduction, estimating thoe best possible results, to say nothing of providing for the treasury deficit for the current fiscal yoar, which may exceed #70,000,000. The timo fixed by the new tariff bill for it to go into effect is June 1. It may become a law before that date, but it is porfectly obvious that it can afford { to the treasury for this fiscal rs excise no re year, The resumption act, in order *to enablo the secretary of the treasury to prepare and provide for the redemption” required by the act, authorized him *‘to issue, sell and dispose of at not less than par in coin either of the descriptions of bonds of the United States de- scribed in the act of congress ap- proved July 14, 1870,% entitled ‘An act to authorize the refunding of the national debt.'” Under this author- ity the sccretary could issue bonds not exdeeding 1n the aggregate $200,000,000, redecmable at tho pleasure of the United States after ten years trom the date of their issue and bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum; bonds not exceeding in the aggrogate 500,000,000, payable after fifteen years from date of issuc and bearing interest at the rate of 43 per cent per annums; and bonds not exceeding in the aggre- gate $1,000,000,000, payable after thirty years from the date of their issue and bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. But Secretary Carlisle rvightly thinks that the rates of intorest provided for in this actave too high, and the time for which the bonds shall run too long, and he recom- mends that the act be amended so that bonds may be issued at a lower rate of interest and for a shorter time. In his annual report the secretary said: “Tho United States 4 per cent bonds, epayable in 1907, are now selling at a rate which yields investors loss than 3 per cent upon their cost, and T am coniident that abond, bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent, payable quarterly, and re- deemable at the option of tlie govern- ment after five yeavs, could be readily sold at par in our own country.” The socretary, it appears, would now be satisfied with an issue of bonds sufficient to meet the prospective deficiency of the present fiscal vear, bearing an in- terest rate of 3 per cent per annum and running for three, four or five year: It is said that inquiry developed the fact that it will be very difficult for the finance committee to agree upon a bill. This is very likely, because political con- siderations weigh heavily against the proposition, but manifestiy something must be done, and if the democrats in congress are not willing to authorize an issue of bonds in order to maintain the credit of the govornment perhaps they muy be induced to adopt the alternative plan suggested by Secretary Carlisle and embodied in a bill prepared by Rep- resentative O'Neil of Massachusetts, authorizing the seccretary of the treasury to borrow money up to $100,000,000 and to issue therefor loan certificates bearing 3 per cent in- torest. It is not apparent, however, that this plan would_have any advan- tages to make it preferable to bonds, except thet the government could pay off this debt as rapidly as the revenues would permit, whereas the bonds would run for a fixed term of years. But, while the government could undoubt- edly sell all the bonds necessary at an intorest rate of 3 per cent, could it borrow money on loan certificates to the ctent of its requirements at so low a rato of interest? The treasury situation is manifestly grave, and congress ought to give it prompt consideration with a view to rvelief. The zeal of the tariff tinkers, however, may prevent this being done. EXPEDITIOUS JUSTICE IN_FRANCE, In promptly trying and convicting the anarchist Vaillant for the crime of throwing a bomb into tho midst of the deputies in session, France has given the world an oxample of expeditious justice scarcely equalled in recent criminal annals. View the prisoner's act as wo may, we must all confess that under the laws as they now stand he made practically no defense whatever. The throwing of the bomb was proudly admitted by this self-constituted regener- ator of socioty. The facts as to its serious rosults and much more secious possibili- ties could not be controverted. The plea of not guilty, entered by the accused, was in this case a plea neithor of denial nor of extenuation. Vaillant's defense consisted inan attempted justitication of his erime, a counter accusation against society, us being the real cause of its own ruction. A finding of guilty and sentence of death undor theso cumstances are exactly what was assured immediately after the identification of bombthrower. Just what the effect of this summa punishment will bo upon the anarchists in I'rance and in other countries 15 somewhat dificult to anticipate. According to the cable vreports Vaillant omitted no effort to make the finale of the trial sensational and mock herole. He poses as a martyr to a great cause and boldly courts execution as an honor and not an ignominy, Those dramatic scenes were no doubt affected in order to draw about him at least a foigned halo of glory and stimulato other reck bravadoes to imitate a deed which has brought much notor- ety upon its author. On the other hand, it is the object of the French givern- ment to make the punishment so speedy and so sure that it will strike terror to the hearts of the most desperate of the anurchists, If they know that there are no possible means of escape aftor throw- ing & bomb where it can do great harm, des! and that detection means oconviction, they will, it fs hoped, be more re- luctant to hasten the day of an- archy, whioh they know they cannot enjoy. Europe has durlng the past few months had an epidemic of anarchistic outbreaks. Inaction on the part of the governments attacked would but have invited renewed attacks. Ie- have become a mat- ter of absolute necessity. The prompt execution of Vaillant will be regarded as just reteibution by all except those who sympathize with the jteachings which are said to have spucred him on. vressive moasures THE PLOT THICKENS. The renomination of George P. Bemis by the republican city convention was a stunning surprise to the political ward heele that formerly rotated around the axis of ex-Mayor Broatch and the Chaffee-Birkhauser combine. They had counted Bemis as among the dead, whom even Gabriel's trump could not resur- cect. The election of Bemis by over 2,000 plurality in spite of conspiracies and bolters' tickets was not merely a stunning surprise, but a terrible blow to malcontents and aspiring volitical stair- climbers. They had exhausted all the urces of political chicanery, bush- whacking and jugglery. They had played fast and loose with the demo- crats and populists, with A. P. A.'s and Catholies, with rank prohibitionists and drunkard-makers, with colored demo- crats and white niggers. But the great mass of voters refused to be stampeded by roorbacks and political guerrillas. P. Bemis was triumphantly elected by over 2,000 plurality out of a vote of over 16,000 divided among four candidates. Then there was gnashing of tecth and silent lamentation in the camp of the conspirators. There is to be a governor elected this fail and Bemis is a stumbling block in the path of the Omaha candidate. The legislature to be chosen next fall is to clect a Unitea States senator. The champion of the state house ring of boodlers bitterly opposed Bemis and put his X mark opposite the name of Bed- ford. To him also Bemis appears as a formidable barrier to ambition. Some. thing desperate had to be done to dis- lodge and paralyze Bemis. How could this be done? Bemis had proved himself cfficient in the dischargo of his duties and his integrity was unas- sailable. e is eccentric, but his eccen- tricity had saved the taxpayers hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. He had wheels in his head, but the wheels were always rotating against boodle schemes and jobs. The plottors were baflled on this score. Then a brilliant idea dawned upon their chamber councils, They decided to revive the anti-vice crusade, and enlisted in this cause a sensational preacher, a cheap demagogue lawyer and the editor of the Louisianalottery sheet. The objective point was to be the im- peachment of the mayor on the pretext that he refuses to suppress gambling and the social evil, which have existed either openly or covertly under all the mayors since Omaha was populous enough to be incorporated. The first onslaught was made by an eccentric judge, who cited the mayor into court as a witness and then took it on himself to berate and abuse him while e was on the witness stand. The ju- dicial explosion afforded a text for the sensational preacher whose craving after notoriety has led him to advertise from the pulpit the location of a palatial house of ill-fame and the name of its madam, and who follows up this Police Gazette advertisement by an announcement that his next sermon would deal with the dis- gusting details of the brothel, and would be delivered ‘‘to men only.” And the plot thickens. On the heels of the sensational sermon comes a reso- lution introduced in the police commis- sion by the demagogue and mountebank foisted on that body through the bunco- steerer of the Louisiana lottery. This resolution expresses it as the sense of the commission that the laws against gambling should be enforced. The manifest object was a censure of the mayor, while at the same time a trap was laid to enable the son-in-law of the governor to get another tool or two on the police commission under the pre- text that members who voted against this resolution were in collusion with criminals. Onits face this resolution is a ploce of arrant demagogy. Tho mayor is the chief conservator of the peaco of the city and he is sworn to see that the laws and ordinances shall be enforced. This does not mean only the laws and ordinances against gambling, but the laws against bigamy and fornication, the laws against profanity, the anti- treat law, the Sunday laws prohibiting all kinds of business, including the de- livery of ice, meat and milk, summer and winter, the hiving out of livery toams for any purpose, including funerals, the running of street railway cars and any other Mon excopt tho salo of drugs on proseription. But a vesolution expressing it as the sense of the commission that all the laws and ordinances should be strictly enforeed would not serve the purpose of the plotters and conspivators. Thoy want tho mayor deposed, if possible, or politically killed off if he cannot be de- posed. Fortunately the plots and counterplots of malcontents, monomaniacs and politi- cal adventurers do not often materialize. They generally miscarry at the e pense of the mischief makers. That wils be the outcome in this instance. THE BEE would not even give the plot a passing notice were 1t not for tho fact that it has already done more damage to Omaha by advertising her as a city of outlaws and moral lepers than all the men engaged in it could undo in a hun- dred years. re Goorge voc: THE decision of the men in char, Rescue hall to apply the work test to able-bodied applicants for reliof comes none too early. The indiseriminate harboring of the unemployed was por- haps justifiable in the temporary emer- gency that existed when the work at Rescue hall assumed its present propor- tions, but the methods employed up to this time made no attempt to offer a permanent solution of the problem. The work test has heen found by experience to be the only means of sifting the worthless from the de ing and is | especially applicablo to those who drift THE OMAHA DAILY BEE Into the oity from out of town places. There is so mueh work which they might |verfnrm:sz| the streets without taking employment away from othe that it is no more than right that they should give to the community what lit tle service they can in return for tho aid extended to them. The work test, it systematically applied, caunot - but give satisfactory results, IN K 'UBLICAN CONTROL Hon. Frank D! Jdckson was yesterday inaugurated goyerrior of Iowa and the political affairsiof that state are now in control of the republican party. A proper consideration for the recent be- reavement of tho retiring governor de- cided the republicans not to make the inaugural event the occasion of a formal demonstration, but the peopla mani- fested their int in the event and their regard for the man who had ae- feated the great lowa democratic leader, until last November decmed by his party invincible, by turning out in largo numbers. Tho new governor said some very commendable things in his inaugural address. He believes in an economie policy that will maintain the wages of American work- ingmen at a rate which will enable them to educate their children and to live as citizens of a free country should live. “To accomplish this,” said Gov- ernor Jackson, ‘‘those manufactured products of foreign countries which can be produced in our own country must be kept out of competition with American labor. This country can consume the products of the American laborer, but it cannot consume the products of both American and foreign labor.” This is good republican doctrine, and the vote »f Jowa last November shows that it is approved by a large majority of the peo- ple of that state. Of more importance, however, than the opinions of Governor Jackson re- garding the tariff and silver, so far, at least, as the people of Iowa are con- cerned, are his views respecting the regulation of the liquor traffic. Upon this very important subject he does not speak with the straightforward clear- ness and courage that was to have beon expected. Ha shows in his reference to it the indecision and the tendency to tergiversation of the average politician. The success of the republican party in Iowa last November was very largely due to its change of position regarding prohibition. The party candidly admit- ted that the policy for which it was responsible had failed and the time had come to make a departure from it. It went before the people with the assurance that il it were given the power to doso it would re- place prohibition with a policy that could be enforced and under which the liquor traflic could ,be controlled and regulated. Upon this thousands of voters who had strajed away from the republican fold, solely by reason of their hostility to prohibitidn, again cast their votes with that pacty and it was suc- cessful by a plurality whicn recalled the victories of a former| time. Possibly it woulc have won without this. It must be admitted that all the conditions were favorable to its success. But it is absolutely certain that it would not have received by many thousands the vote re- corded for it if the party had not changed its attitude toward prohibition Hence the republican party of Towa is sacredly bound by its platform asst ance and its campaign utterances, ac cepted in good faith by the people, to strike prohibition from the statute books of the state and record in its place legis- lation that will insure the proper and adequate regulation of the liquor traffic and which can be everywhere enforced. - The inaugural address of Governor Jackson should have contained a manly and carnest call for such a policy as this, but on the contrary what it says is a tame confession that prohibition has not been altogether successful ‘and a half-hearted suggestion that some modi- fication of the law is desirable, 1n all of which there is apparent the doubt and timidity of the politician. If nothing more is accomplished in this matter than what is promised in the sugges- tions of the governor's inaugural ad- dress the republican party cannot be sure of retaining full political control in Iowa longer than two years. - st As A result of the recent agitation in favor of the better management of tho state's finances the state board has alveady designated seven depositorics, and within a short time the state will be drawing 3 per cent interest upon nearly #500,000 of its funds. This will relieve the state treasurer from the re- sponsibiliy of that much of his official bond, but inasmuch as Bank Wrecker Mosher is on the bond for that amount the matter is pretty well evened up be- twoen the treasurer and the state. TITaLY is becoming suspicious that the tax riots in Sicily are fomented by the Freneh. As might have boen expected, the friendly relations of the two coun- tries have been seriously strained. Such is the state of public opinion in Italy that people are willing and anxious to believe any rumors derogatory of France. Nothing but a knowledge of her own military and financial weak- ness prevents Italy., from putting on an aggressive attitude of resentment, Tue State Board of Transportation undoubtedly has the power to compel a radical revision of “transportation rates on coal on every railegad doing business in Nebraska. It maybe said that the board has no contro} over interstate rates, but the fact yet remains that the present members of the board are on record as declaving that the railvoads Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. Rl FRIDAY, TANUARY 12, 1894 powers of the excellont idea m of com- are amenable to the board. It would bo an for the boara to take up the quest coal rates at the present time and pel a reasonable reduction in tho rates he present high rates ure enticoly out of proportion to the original cost of the coal. As a result of tho unjust oxac- tions of the railroads manufacturing industries have been frightened away from the state. If jhe State Board of Transportation would render the state a real servico, lot it attack the rates now charged by the railroad companies for the transportation of coal. THE rapid growth of the sentiment favoring the establishment of beot sugar factories in Nebraska will soon bring the tariff questicn home to the peopie of this state in full forco. When that sentiment attains its full growth it will be impossible for any man who boasts himself an enemy of the policy of pro- tection to secure an election to congress from this state. When the tariff be- comes a local issue frae trado will have no foothold in Nebraska. THE dilatory policy of the administra- tion with reference to the distribution of political loaves and fishes to the faithful in this state is subjecting the local democracy to a tremendous strain. Even the touching exhibition of har- mony at the Jacksonian love feast has faildd to make an impression upon the powers at Washington, A Succutent Fhenom. New York Sun. The unanimity with which the farmers re- fuse to unanimate with Hon. Julius Sterling Morton is one of the swectest phenomena of of a peculiarly cross-ayed winter, Qe Ripped Up the Back. Denver News (pop.). Politically speaking, the people's Colorado has been split by W folly, while the republican barty has been solidi’ fied and strengthened by the same in- fluences. arty of e Argument O of Place. Atlanta Constitution, Mr. Watterson s-ys the trouble overproduction. When hunareds of thou- sands of people are unable to buy food and clothes the argument of overproduction secms as aptas the tune of “Johnny, Get Your Gun' ata funeral. e On with the Faner; Minneapolis Tribune (rep.). Speed the Wilson bill. Let the country know the worst at the earliest possiblo moment. The sooner the necessary wage adjustments can be made and settied the sooner the wheels will revolve again. Re: publican congressmen can perform a patri- otic service by simply recording their pro- tests and letting the democratic majority do the rest, today s —_— 1t Philadelphia Times (dem.). The one imperative duty of the adminis- tration now is to stop Mr. Willis or anybody clse from meddling further in Hawaii, Weo ought never to have been mixed up in this revolution at all. Having got into it, it was a question whether the wrong done could bo undone or whether it was worth while to tryit. At the most, it could ouly be undone diplomatically, and that having Tailed thero is nothing loft but to drop tho wholo busi- ness and pull out of it as promptly and com- Dletely as possible. —_ e BUFFALO BILL IN THE LEGISLATURE. Kearxey, Neb., Jan. 10.—To the Editor of Tue Bee: I noticed a short articlo in Tz Bez asking why Buffalo Bill dian't take the scat in the Nebraska house of representa- tives, to which he was elected in L about that time. Buffalo Bill was never elected to the Ne- braska legislature. The fact of the matter is this: I think it was as late as 1872 when Bill made the run for the house of repre- sentatives against D, P. Ashburn of Gibbon, and at the time of the election there were some partics av Lowell, Kearney county, who intended to vote for Ashburn, but called and wrote his name on the tickets “Hep- burn.” Bill contested the election and was beaten in the contest, or was about to be beaten, by vhe parties voting for “Hep- burn,” swearing that they meant to vote for Ashburn, Bill saw ho he was going to come out and he withdrow from the contest, and claimed he resizned the offic He said hedidn’t care for_the oftice anyhow, just so he could have honorable atiachid to his name. I was here at the time and voted at that election. 1 have been here ever sinco 1870 and if Buffalo Bill was ever elected to the Nebraska legislature Idon't know when it was. SNOWDEN. Galusha A. Grow wears a Conlling curl. ‘The tariff debate is not wholly useless. fattens the Record. In dealing with anarchy the French surgi- al system is prompt and eft ‘That national deficit can be r posed of by levying a tax on congressional talk. In the Bay State | are secondary. C question. Lvidently the goddess of reform has can- celled her engagement with Lienry Watter- son. She will probably romain a sister to ham Mr. Henry Watterson crystallizes the re- sults of ten months' political experience in theso words: *I'his seems to me an ora of small things and very small men.” Mrs. Eliza I, Routt, wife of ox-Governor John L. Routt of Colorado, was the first woman in Denver who registered to vote under the new cqual suffrago law. She gave her oceupation as housewife, “The svectacular collapse of the court of honor agitated Chicago for a moment, But it did not obscure tho problem as to the whereabouts of the moon on the morning of May 4, 1880, There 15 much moonshine in the dispute. The city of Buda Pesth will present Maurice Jokai, the colebrated Hungarian writer, on the occasion of his jubilee, with the freodom of the city in a silver casket weighing ten pounds, richly gilded and inlaid and enameled, and having upon it allion portraits set in brilliants, rubies and pourls. Miss Huldah Arnold died Tuesday in Mil ford, Mass., at the age of 104 vears, 4 months and 20 days, She had led a busy as well as an extremely long life, teaching, taking in worlk from factories, weaving on a hand loom thousands of yards of cloth and working in the fields. At the ago of 14 she began smoking to relieve the asthma, and there- after she smoked every day up to the end of her life. Kate Sanborn, who ususlly says very per- tinent things when she ftalls, has 1 few remarls concerning women's clubs. the papers read at the meetings sh “These offorts are usually too long-winded and too labored. They” are exhaustive, usually going back to the beginning of the world to explain the present subject. There i8 t0o uch of avorything in women's clubs but fresh air, elbow room and sincere aler: ism." It and’ the taviff is the burning waii ation Gov't Report, Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE NEBRASK A AND NENRASK LNY, Herald has boon tho editor of Tho plant of the Norfolk purchased by Phil I, Sprechor the Journal The business men of Wenping Wator have an assoclation with the objeet of securing public Improvements. Doxie and Vernie Sears, two Falls City boys, have been arrestod for atealing harn- ess and other small articles. Thoy belong to tho “tough gang." "ho annual meoting of the Elmwood Fair nssociation showed the affairs of the cor poration n a flourishing coudition and only o few aoilars {n debt Fremont business men aro agitating organization of a local or home insur company for mutual protection against five and fire insurance companies Lowis A. Leger, ono of the oarly sottlers of Seward county, died at his home near Milford. He was i man of bright intolicct and had a classical edueation. Ho was at one time a professor in one of the academies of Paris and was well known throughout the country Mr and Mra. P. R came near being suffocated by gas from a stove. Upon retiring for the night thoy closed the dampors in the stovepipe, filled the stove with coal and opened the front door. The next morning both were very sick, but a doctor saved their lives. The editor of the Lincoln Journal is also the postmaster, and when the city council asked for bids ‘on 2,000 plain postal cards, the Journal company offered to furnish them for &30, wvhich meant #10 profit for carrying the cards from the postofice to tho city clerks. Strauge to say the bid was r Jected, the nee Child of Arapahoe MENTAL CHON -CHOY Florida Times: The nofghbor's bulldog may tench u man to lead a chased life. Lowell Courier: K lors should swallow-tail coats and woodchoppers awiys. wear cut- and Plain_ Dog shington, “dili’s ‘vant Mitchell *d nevah got dat s, snh," said » in ‘ronch! pullet.” Philadelphia Record: Blobbs-I like to hear Spouter mike & speech. 1o puts his wiholo soul Into it. Slobbs ~He doesn’t stop with his gole. "o usually managos (o put his foot in it BufMalo Courier: “Bilkein's is a strong face, or I'm no judge of physiogomy.” “It ought twbe. 1o wnd his whole family aro living on it dlanapotis Journal: Sho—I must ask you to releaso me from our engagement. Papa has filed te—Oh, that's all right. won all his moncy Lam tho man who Philadelphin Ledger: Sir fortu of it Is just over tients Androw +In the pr #1,000,000, took time and g Phitadelphia Times: An incomo tax that nobody opposes—your first baby. Dotrolt Froe Pross: Mamma—Why don'tyou get rid of the attentions of that poersistent Mr, Hayergal? Daughter—How, I should like to know? Mamma (firmly)—By rosorting to herolc moasures, of cours Daughter—But, ry him, ma, T don't want to JUST A FLIRTATION. New York Herald, The dance was over and apart we strolled In the conservatory's tragrant shade; There, by the gloom und solitude made bold,s Uncerémoniously I kissed the maid. Dost think that fato conferred this happy chance Tolead us on to love and wedlock falr, The g )l?flb A, uo! New Fork Sun There's a faint and far-off rustle of a pair of flapping wings, There’s utremulous low murmur, as a touch upon the strings Ot aharp a long time silent mists of yeurs Ina burst of outraged glory Andrew Juckson's ghost appears. 1d through the With a heart bowed down and breaking by tho weight of prosent wiys, He turns his face of sadness in a reminiscent gaz0 Upon the white house tenant, who so occupies The democratie prostigo—and Jackson winos his eyes. latoly With a fierce and grim resentment, which ho does not try to hide Ho listens to the v paTiy's pride And he'shakes his bony finger at the mug- wumbp in his scorn. And usks, by the Eternal! why was it ever born. dals as they slug the azo of vengeance which ap- w on him, thtul contenance toward the With a ghastly pours to gr He turns his w. distant, dim Pacific, whero w tyrant’s thiono has lutoly conie 10 bo ot 0 amount importance to the banner of the ree. With an oath In which all virtues are concen- tered, good and strong, Ho fiercely strikes at leadérs who would do the Durty Wrong By trackling to that mammon which, in tariils as elsowhore, Makes minions of the millions, who would gain the vielous prize. What o travesty of party? what a farce of pol tics Haye be 30 And the ghost of good old Andrew, disgusted with the shin, Ploats upward through the ethor on a concen- trated damn! 1 boforo the public in the years sinco =8 The la Amas Anas e - SO BROWNING, Will pay (he express if you send the money for §20 worth or more LT AT T L N e It | 11T BROWNING, KING L makers and $3llora of fine clothes on Karth Pointing our way. Everybody does—they point at us as the only 1 place where the quality of what we sell is not effected by the price. They point to us as cutters 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 1700-year old man, we have them and give you 20 per eent discount if you buy. ter than ever to trade with us. | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, WILL UPHOLD THE MfiWfY Represantative Meiklojohu's Maiden Eff:t to Bo Made Along This Line, WHERE THE CONSUMER IS MOST BENEFITE! I8 Botter Genarally than i ntures of the Mo- Why a1y Duty—Admirablo ¥ Kinley Law iston to Be Modified. ity fmportant Do- O1U FOURTEENTH STRERT, Wasnixarox, 1L Representative Meiklejohn expects to get an hour or two of time in the tarif debate in the houso this week, and to speak especially interests of the y. Ho the bounty feature of the wnd show how and whoro a the producer and falls n a duty WasniNorox Beneav or Tur Ber, } for the sugar will sustain MeKinley law bounty is better for much easior upon the consumer t This will bo: Mr. Meiklojohin's maiden ¢ in the house. Will Modify the Declsion. It is likely thatthe secretury of the n- tertor will modify nis recent decision in the case of Black Tomahawk against Mrs, Waldron from Pierre, 8. 1., coufirming tho decision of Secretary Noble, who held that no lands could be allotted in severalty or ra- tions 1ssued except to full-blood Indians. 1t has been discoverad by Nopresentative Pickler that passed a law in 18 providing that theissue of marriages between white men and Indian women subsequent to that date should citizens of the United States and not be entitled to lands or rations. * The decisions of Scorctaries Noble nd Smith fixed no retroactive limit, but the modified decision will simply bar out halt breeds since the enactment of the law in 1888, There have been very few marringes between the whites and Indians since that law was passed, as the mercenary incentive for squaw men allying themselves to Indian women has been cut off since the enactment of the law which deprives heir spouses of benetits under the government, Pierre's New Postmnster. There will shortly bo a change in tho post mastership at Plerre, S, D, The resignation of Postmaster A. D. Merritt has been ro ceivea. Jd. A. Ward, Souch Dakota's demo- cratic state central committeo chairman, who is either heve at present or will bo this week, is toname the new officer, and it is likely that he will name M. R. Locke. Other aspirants for the ofiice are Steve Travis and Mr. Shubert. It scems certain, however, that Locke will get iho offico. Postmaster Merritt intends to remove to Omaha, where ho will ergage in business Thelr Potition lusuificient, somo time ago- re- the general congress become Senator Manderson quested the commissioner of land ofico to_have a resurvey of Grant and Hooker councies. The commissioner replied that he would make the survey vravided the owners of the land involyed would peti- tion him to have the work done. The com- missioner has again notified Senator Man- derson that allof the settlers and owners of the lands must join 1n a vetition for the resurvey and that the petitions already re- ceived are not sufficient. It 18 likely that there will not be a resurvey ovdered. Senator Manderson laid before the senato today a petition largely signed by prominent citizens of Hastings against tho passago of the Wilson tariff bill. Briefly Mentloned, Colonel W. Miller, United States dis- trict attorney for South Dakota, is in the city. E ; A change in the postmastership at Madi- 3. D.. is anticipated within a few days. s believed that Mr. Tobin will get the oftice. Judge Wright, solicitor of the Rock Island railroad and located at Des Moines, with Mrs. Wrizht and Reprosentative Picklor, attended the diplomatic eption of Presi- dent and Mrs. Clevelund tonight. ® Hiram H. Main of Decorah, Ia., has sur- ate on the rendered his pension certifi hr appar- grouud that s pension disabill ently disappeared. He states in uis lotter that ho is willing to accept & pension if an nonorable dependent list be establisted. J. M. Woods of South Dakota is at the Oxford and T. J. Harrison of Des Moines, ., at the St. Jame i AL of lown has presented to the use the petition of A. L. Ogg and twenty- seven other citizens of Warren county, lowa, asking that all suspended pensioners’ bo re- stored, and no further suspensions be al- lowed excent on proof of fraud. A favorable report has been made upon the Mandaerson bill to readjust and close the subsistence and quartermaster accounts of Charles B. Swith, decensed, late a Hrst lieu- tenany in the Fifteenth Iowa cavalry, and pay Julia A. Smith, his widow, allowances due him at the date of his death, notwith- standing the fact that the pay und allow- ances have heretofore been applied to the adjustment of his subsistence and quarter- master account i Senator Allen has introduced a biil pro- viding for the construction of a wocden or iron bridgo across the Niobrara river ncar the village of Niobrara, Neb., the govern- ment bridge there having been recently de- stroyed by floods. The bill appropriates 7,000 for the work. Priny S, HeaTiL B P P T B el % e = = e R N We've cut our It will pay you bet- KING & CO bl b e LA b el L