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— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. IRNTNG. 10N, Dnily Pee (wi . r Datly and Sund . Bix Months Throe Montia ... Bunday Beo, One ¥ wmnlnv Bee, One eekly Rew, One OFFIC nah: e Beo Dulldine St By comar § and Twonty-fourth atreots. t Commerce. Tribune building 0 the Editor a noen shonld be pmpany, Om leaka and bostomMee W 10 be mado L ':" nll-lr I’IY;HANH‘NH COMPANY. SWORN STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Biate of Nebraska, County of Doiglns George 1. Tasehuck Aahing conipany, doss 80! tnal eireulation of Titk DA ending January 27, 1804, was as follow Sworn to before me and Aubsc th day of Jannary, ¥ pobhibdelhifhinbdnti A According to Comptroller Olsen's estimate it costs the city over $10,000 every time it holds its annual election. Elections, unfor- tunately, offer no field for retrenchment. A tip from Washington states that bids for bonds have been recelved by the secre- tary of the treasury from as far west as Nebraska, Don't all disclaim the guilt at once. One more straggling, puny Nebraska fed eral appointment will never satisfy the wait- Ing spollsmen in this state. Spasmodic ap- pointments, like spasmodic charity, set the pace which kills. The present administration must be hard pressed for democratic defenders in the sen- ate when it has to rely upon the voluntary remarks of Senator Sherman for support of its bond policy. It Mr. Quigg, congressman elnst from, New York, hurrles suffiziently he n ble to present his credentials at Washing- ton in time to record his v. nst the Wilson bill. This fs what Le was vicetal for. With the federal elections bill out of the way In the senate and the revenue meas- ures disposed of in the house, we may pre- pare for a return to the discussion of the’| Hawafian question that will be as edifying As it is wearisome. Omaha will look upon the reported deter- mination of Jim Hill, the Great Northern railway magnate, to extend his line to this city with no little complacency. Omaha needs the Great Northern and the Great Northern needs Omaha. The little combination out in the Fifth Aistrict, by which an impeached state of- fcial was to pose as a republican candidate for congress, seems to be pretty effectually smashed, The republican party of the state Is to be spared one humiliation, at least. The vote on the rejection of Cowgill for clty electrician in the council gives a fore- cast of how the new councilmen stand when the interests of the electric lighting com- pany are supposed to be involved in any ac- tion to theirs. The opposition to Mr. Cow- il mustered fourteen votes out of eighteen. It only needs twelve votes to override a veto by the mayor. Congressman Sibley could not have known how popular his opposition to the Wilson bill was with his Pennsylvania constituents un- til he handed in his resignation as congress- man. Requests for the withdrawal of his resignation have been coming at him so thick and fast that it will not be surprising If he decides to remaln in congress to vote his convictions. A Dbill introduced into the Iowa legisla- ture provides penalties for newspapers pub- lishing detafled reports of prize fighting. Better add a penalty for every one who pur- chases a newspaper for the purpose of reading any account of a prize fight. Under a law of the kind suggested, the first offender would doubtless be found among the logis- lators themselves. As an art critic and a censor of public morals, the senate quadrocentennial com- mittee will find itself in a delicate position, If it rejects the St. Gauden's World's fair medal, all the artists will hold it up to ridi- cule; if it accepts it, the prudes all the coun- try over will set up a howl that will be heart- rending to hear. The senate com- has an unenviable job. Why should” the city invest $80,000 to $100,000 for a plece of ground over a filled croek bed as a market house sito and then spend $20,000 to $30,000 for foundations when it already owns an avallable square, cen- trally located? Why should not every dollar voted for the market house and pub- lie hall be expended for the construction of & monumental building? Any one, we are told, may now make and soll telephone instruments without fear of infringing on the rights of the telephone monopolists. There seems, however, to be no present rush to utilize this right on the part of tho ordinary citizon. The right to manufacture a telephone instrument and the opportunity to put it to practical use are two quite difforent things. From the tone of the news from Des Moines the prospect for Towa's shaking off the pro- hibition Incubus seems to bo less promising than It was some woeks ago. The repub- lcans carried the olection In Towa last fall with the tacit understanding that they pro- posed to end the prohibition nonsense. The party can hardly afford to disappoint the men who placed It back in power. There seems to bo a prospect that Bank- wrecker Mosher will not fare so well in the state as in the federal courts. The rulings of the district court in Lancaster county are In favor of the creditors of the defunct bank and the property, which everybody be- lleves to have been illegally trahsferred by Mosher, 1s to be s0ld for the benefit of the men who were so outrageously swindled. The eagerness of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners to defer to every re quest of the insurance men, who want their fire risks improved, has resulted in placing the fire department on a basls of annual ex- penditures in excess of the limit set by law upon the G-mill tax levy for fi:e depastment purposes. While the gew apparatus must be manned, it rests with members of the board to divine measures by which that de- partment can be condugted within the iegal appropriation. ATLANTA'S INVITATION TO THE 6. A. R. At its next annual encampmont, which will be held in Plttsburg, the Grand Army of the Republic will be called upon to consider the invitation of the city of Atlanta to hold the encampment of 1895 in that city, The invitation is n the form of a resolution passed unanfmously by the common council of Atlanta, which has received the hearty endorsement of the people and the press of that city and section. There cannot be the slightess doubt of the absolute sincerity and cordlality of this action and there is reason to belleve that the Invitation, which will be formally presented by a commission, will be accepted in the same spirit with which it is tendered. That the union veterans would be entertained with a most generous hospi- tality in the historic metropolis of the south goes without saying. Not a rational obfection to the proposal to hold an encampment of the Grand Army In Atlanta suggests itself,while the reasons In favor of it are many. That city is in the midst of the most historic of southern battle flelds and was itself the scene of one of the most memorable and Important conflicts in the clvil war. The reader of the history of the rebellion finds no more Interesting and absorbing chapters than thoso which recount the military move- ments that led up to the siege and cap- ture of Atlanta, while as the starting placo of the famous march to the sea which exposed the weakness of the confed- erucy Atlanta possesses a peculiar and com- manding interest. In all the campaigns and movements that converged at this point most of the veterans of the western armies and many of those of the eastern were enguged, and all these will surely wel- come an opportunity to revisit the scenes where thirty years ago death and devasta- tion reigned, but where now there is peace, prosperity and all the conditions of & pro- gressive civilization. This may be the last opportuity which the men who wore the blue will have of revisiting the scenes of thelr young manhood's struggles for the preservation of the union and recelving the hospitality of the men who wore the gray, whose ranks are also rapidly thinning out, and few of them it is safe to say, will de- cline to accept it. Referring to the Invitation, the Atlanta Constitution of recent date says: “The old soldiers of Grant and Sherman will be more than welcome, and they will be made to feel that they are among friends and brothers who long ago turned their swords into plowshares and went to work ginning the peaceful victories of progress which have already blessed our reunited country, and which promise to make this the happl- t and most prosperous nation on the globe. Atlanta will give her thousands of visitors a royal time and the famous city of the siege will make the occasion a week of jubilee.” This reflocts the sentiment and teeling which prompted the invitation to the Grand Army and it deserves a responso It is announced that a vote will be taken on Iriday by the house committee on bank- ing and currency on the proposition to re- peal the 10 per cent tax on state bank fs- sues. The proposition that will first be submitted to the action of the committee is that of the unconditional repeal of the tax, and for this there will probably be one or more substitutes offered. As to the result no opinion can be given with any degree of certainty. From what has here- tofore transpired the impression is warranted that the committee will reject the propo- sition for an unconditional repeal of the tax, but it would not be wise to regard this as a foregone conclusion. There has appeared to be a majority of the banking and cur- rency committee opposed to the uncondi- tional repeal of the tax, but it is by no means certain that when the question is brought to a final determination that such is the case. The southern element of the party in control of congress is practi- cally unanimous in favor of repealing the tax on state bank issues and it may be able to carry its point just as it has been able to do in making the income tax proposition a part of the tariff bill. It was the south- ern delegates in the Chicago convention who caused to be incorporated in the national platform of the democracy the recommend ation, amounting to a demand, that the tax on state bank issues be repealed and this is the Influence, assisted by a few northern democrats, which is now insisting that this plank of the national platform shall be re- garded. It will not be surprising if the bill for the unconditional repeal of the tax on state bank issues is favorably reported to the house, and In that event it is more than probable that it will receive the approval of that body. The fact is that the element which favors an income tax can be counted upon to support a restoration to the state banks of the privilege of issuing currency, and having established its ascondancy and authority In the former case there is no reason to doubt that it will be able to do 80 in the latter. From this point of view It would seem not to be hazardous to pre- dict that the committee on banking and cur- rency will make a favorable report on. the bill for the unconditional repeal of the tax on state bank issues and that the report will bo endorsed by the house. It scems that all demands of the south in this congress are to be complled with. LIGHT ON THE REVENUE PROBLEM. Representative O'Nell of Massachusetts a few days ago submitted a strong argument against the necessity of an Income tax. Ho referred to the falling off in pension pay- ments and found good evidence to support the conclusion that the maximum point of oxpenditure has been passed In this item, and that it will henceforth steadily decline, From this point of view he would reduce the pension estimates for the next fiscal year at least $20,000,000. Assuming this to be a warranted reduction, Mr. O'Nell figures out an annual deficiency under the Wilson bill much smaller than Is commonly estimated. For the fiscal year 1895 the total expendi- tures are estimated In round numbers at $428,000,000, and the total recelpts at $411,- 000,000, leaving an estimated deficiency of about §$17,000,000 to be met, From this point of view he reasonably argues that it would be foolish to saddle a new system of taxation and a new horde of office holders on the country to raise the money. He gives good grounds for assuming that his figures are well within the probabilities. In all cases save of pensions they are based on the offi- clal estimates, and congress, he points out, 15 more likely to cut appropriations under the estimates then to do anything else. It is as- sumed by Mr. O'Neil that the common osti- mate of a $75,000,000 deficlt under the Wil- son act is entirely unfounded or based on an Improbable small volume of importations. As a member of the committee on propriations, Mr. O'Nell speaks knowledge of the question and mates, granting they are correct, the revenue problem before congress. He plainly demonstrates that it is not neces- sary to resort to an Income tax li avder to ralse the revenue necessary to supply the threatened deficiency, but that this can be done by other means without oppressing the consumers of the country. A mod- erate duty on raw sugar is one of the means suggested, It being urged that this tax could be made to come out of the sugar trust's abnormal profits instead of out of the people through higher prices. ap- with his esti- simplity _immediate vicinities. Another fs that tho desired rovenue could be raised by increased beer or whisky taxes, or by other less objectionable in- ternal taxes than that on Incomes. The merit of these suggestions will not be ques- tioned, but the time has gone by for their consideration in the house, and the Question is whether they will riva any attention In the senate, Today the house will vote on the tariff bill with all ita at- tachments, and the indications are that ft will be passed. There will be dsmueratic votes recorded agalnst it, but the prob- ability I8 that they will not be numerous cnough to defeat it even if united with the republicans, who seem to be indisposed to do anything to interfere with the demo- cratie program. The theory of the house republicans appears to be that the demo- crats shall be allowed to take the fullest advantage of their opportunity. The senate republicans may feel differently, but that remains to be demonstrated. It would seem to be well assured, however, that the latter will make a formidable and per- sistent fight against the Income tax propo- sition, and there is some reason to hope that they will be able to defeat it. They have warrant for combatting it to the last extremity in the attitude of a large num- ber of leading democrats as well as in the intelligent judgment of the country. 10WA REPUBLICANS ANDVPROHIBITION. Rellable advices from the Towa legislature indicate that there is groat danger of the failure of all attempts to modify the existing liquor legislation Such a failure would imperil not only the continuance of repub- lican control in the state. government, but also the progress and materlal advancement of Towa. Every state election for six years or more has been a popular manifesto that the prohibitory laws have proven a failure. On no other theory can the elec- tion of Governor Boles for two successive terms and his recent defeat by Governor Jackson be explained. The people of Towa have repeatedly and emphatically proclaimed for a modified liquor law. To refuse now to heed (heir demands can not but result dis- astrously to the party, which has been re- stored to power upon a distinct pledge to ef- fect such legislation. It i3 useless for the prohibition wing of the republican party to seek at this late day to twist the platform upon which the last state campaign was won into a mere meaningless mass of verblage. While that platform repudiates prohibition as a test of republicanism, and expressly relogates that subject to be dealt with by the gencral assembly, It imposes upon that assembly the duty of modifying the existing statute “maintaining the present law as to those portions of the state where it is now or can be made efficient and giving to other localities such methods of controling and regulating the liquor trafic as will best serve the cause of temperance and mor- ality.” What does this pledge mean? Not that the prohibitory law is to remain untouched and that additional penalties are to be provided where its strict enforcement has proved impracticable and undesirable. Certainly not that the localities promised relief from the free whisky regime upheld by the present law are to be forced to ac- cept something even more obnoxious. It means, if it means anything at all, that the wishes of the people of the different parts of the state are to be consulted with re- gard to the policy to be pursued in their It means local self- government on the liquor question. The lesson of prohibition in Towa is too recent to have been forgotten by the re- publicans in the Towa legislature. Prohibi- tion was responsible for the election of the first democratic governor in Iowa since the war, A change in the party program with respect to prohibition was responsfble for the renewal of the republican lease -of power. If that change fn program Is not followed by a satisfactory change in the law the people of Towa will be reluctant to rely on party pledges in the future. The oppor- tunity to redeem the platform pledge is not yet lost. The republican legislature should act without hesltation or delay. A leading New York paper says that it Is difficult to see any valid reason that may be urged against the enactment by congress and the approval by the president cf the new bill prepared by the projectors of the New York and New Jersey bridge bill in the place of that one recently vetoed by President Cleveland. It is induced to take this position on the ostensible ground that the new bill has been drawn especially with the view of meeting every abjaction that was urged in the veto message. While the new bill may forestall the raising of every one of the objections previously made, yet it cannot remove the real cause of the veto, which is generally believed to be based solely upon the president's opposition to Senator HIll, who had the measure in charge. The bridge bill has become fintimately incorpo- rated with the other elements of the pending Hill-Cleveland fight, and it will be Invest- ing the president with a greater public spirit than he has lately manifested to assume that he will not take advantage of the op- portunity offered by this bill to still further antagonize his opponents in his home state. One of the most flagrant abuses which have grown up in the management of state affairs is the reckless and extravagant man- ner in which publications authorized by the state are padded with material entirely foreign to the character of the publication. The Bee is in recelpt of the roster of Ne- braska soldiers and sailors issued under the authority of the legislature, It contains 156 pages of matter which is no more entitled to a place in the volume than would so many pages of statistics from the natlonal bureau of commerce and navigation. The 156 pages were simply Inserted for the bene- fit of the thrifty printer who contracted to do the work for 8o much per page, und in this case the state Is required to pay be- tween $300 and $400. The reports of the deputy labor commlssioner of the siate have always been padded to the extent of several hundred pages. Such petty inethods of mulcting the state should be stopped. t content with being denied a standing in the federal court for the district of Co- lumbla, the Kulghts of Labor have already sorved notice of an appeal to the appellate tribunal. It is contending for a principle and will not rest satisfied until its appeal is finally turned down by a higher judicial au- thorlty, In the meanwhile the bonds will be Issued and it may be safely afrmed that no federal court will venture to give a decision that would practicaly result in the repudiation of a part of the United States debt. There s & pretty fair prospect that while the members of the State Board of Public Lands and Bulldings are hesitating about golng Into the courts to secure the anull- ment of the alloged penitentiary contract held by W. H. Dorgan, some of the credit- ors of the defunct national bank will attach the contract and have the transfer set aside. In such an event the state would simply be cut out of another opportunity to recoup Itselt for the l0ss it sustained by the fallure of the bank. Councilman Hascall 1s a good lawyer, but his law on the Jefferson square market proposition will scarcely hold wi'er in. the face of the explicit provisions of the charter. Sectlon 62 of the charter reads as follows *“The mayor and coupell shall have power to erect and establish magket housos and estab- lsh market places; amd to provide for the erection of all othét dseful and necessary bulldings for the use of the city and for the protection and, safety ot all property owned by the city and-they may ‘ocate such markot hotses and vharket places and bulld- Ings aforesaid on A#y ‘direst, allay or pub- le grounds, or on hny land purchased for such purpose.” Doek ahybody contend that Jefferson square is fdt’ ‘Public gronnd? Would any court entertafn’ u‘ proposition to en- Join the city from 'i¥ing the square for a public bullding? The Way to it the Trusts, St Lowis Gl'es Demosrat. Trusts have no rights which the people are bound to resp.oi, They should all be treated as the sugar trust has been by the house. Thelr products should be put on the free list, Joe Coole's Rival. Chicago 1ribune, Master Workman Soverelgn 18 becoming too dictatorial. In attempting to regulate the affairs of ‘the planet he Is trenching upon the exclusive prerogative of Rev. Joseph Cook. - No Hope for Harmony, Philadelphia Times (dem.) Harmonizing the democratic at this juncture is rather a huge job. It I8 all split up in Washington, and until there shall be some cohesive 'democratic power there, there fs little likelihood of democratic cohesion and harmony in Phil- adelphia, Pennsylvania or elsewher Sheer Nonsense. St rand Globe., The talk of impeaching Judge Jenkins of the United States it court for enjoin- the employes of th prthern Pacific road from striking is nonsense. Such a proceeding would be laughed out of the senate for the reason that the judge sim ply obeyed the law. If there is any cause of complaint it lfes against the law, not the judge who enforces it. il gy A Crushing Boston Globe (dem ) It would be a great and most blunder, = fraught with possibiliti probabiiities of sw democratic majorit in this year of grace the dis detested” income tax plan of No political party could hope to carry such a crushing load as that which would be im- posed by the adoption of the odious and inquisitorfal scheme, —_— Revision in tho Senate. Cineinnati + nquirer (dem.). The tariff bill will not be a finished pro- duct when it reaches the senate. That is the body in which the real work of revi ing the tariff will have to be done. His- tory r 8 itgelf. The McKinley bill was put through the house under high p sure, and after taking time for considera- tion the senate sent it back In a condition which Chairman McKinley could not rec- ognize. He swallowed it at one gulp, though. Speaker Reed stimulated his di- gestive apparatus. ST PROMINENT PEOPLE, party just costly and for the Cora Tanner has obtained a divorce from Colonel Sinn. Fortunately there are no petty Sinns connected with the case. Plerre van Beneden, whose death occurred lately at Louvain, was a professor in the Louvain university for a period of fifty years, Sandow was asked by ah interviewer,“What do you do when you are sleepy?” “I go to sleep,” he answered. , What would this country do without the interviewer? General John Bidwell, late prohibition nominee for president, is 76 years old and has lived in Californid fifty-three years. He took the first wagon ovérland to the coast. Ex-President Harrison has been invited to preside at the Congress of Politics and Sconomics, which will take place during the Midwinter fair, probably in February or March, : Dr Reed has introduced fnto the Ohio legislature a bill permitting condemned mur- derers to select whether tliey shall die by electricity or anaesthetics. They would mostly prefer old age, hut Dr. Reed hasn't included that as a. clioice. “Cap” Ben Thompson of Kennebunkport, Me,, celebrated his 100th birthday recently. His' eldest son, with characteristic rashness of a boy of 71, challenged the old skipper to wrestle. The challenge was accepted and the boastful son was put on his back. Mary O. Davis, who was housekeeper for Walt Whitman, and to whom he bequeathed $1,000 and the free use of his house for one year after his death, is suing his estate in Camden, N. J., for $5,000 for services ren- dered him and supplies furnished to his table, Pierre Lamartine, grandnephew of the fa- mous Frenchman,has been on his own con- fession sent to the workhouse in Cincinnati for ninety days for forging checks. Until within a year he was a professor in a school at Brookville, Ind. He pleaded poverty as an_excuse. When he was in Wilkesbarre lecturing the other evening, some gentleman asked Colo- nel Watterson what he thought of President Cleveland. His reply was as follows: I want to say that Grover, personally, 1s a good fellow. He is good company when you know him well, plays a falr game of poker, takes his whisky straight and temper- ately and all that. Dut he seems to lack {foresight. He won’t be ,advised. He Is bull-headed, he runs away from his party. In short, Mr. Cleveland is fatal to his friends o NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Cedar county teachers will publish shortly an educational journal. A Lutheran church with twenty-one mem- bers has been organized at Walbach. A justice at York has Aecided fhat the city license of $15 imposed on drays is exces- sive and thereforo illegal. The city will not appeal, The Niobrara merchants have displayed fust now a big line of trunks and needles. Bvery Ponca Indian has received $10 in cash from the government. Last week C. A. McCloud of York gave his last six months' salary as county super- intendent to the Associated Charities com- mittee. It bought fifty-one sacks of flour and 1,000 pounds of corn meal. This was a pretty handsome donation and will feed a good many mouths, Miss Vira Wilcox, a 15-year-old Lincoln girl, was blessed with a magnificent hiead of black hair, but now some black wretch is cursed with the young lady's tresses. He clipped them off with shears while Miss Wil- cox was walking along a dark street, and no trace of hair or man has been found. Sheriff Finn of Greeley county nearly hung fimself the other day. He was hurrying through a vacant lot in Greeley Center, when his neck came in contact with a rope stretched from a pole, and he was jerked from his feet with sufficient force to fracture his collar bone. He will know how to sym- pathize with 4 murderer if he should be called upon to executs oné. Mrs. Power, wife-iof the \longragational minister at Chadron, ‘met with a serious ac- cident the other day which will probably confine her to her room’ for several weeks. As she was going td' the gate to meet the oil wagon in its daily rounds sho siipped on the lcy sidewalk and foll, striking on her back and hips. Her husband hastened to her rescue, and she had to be carried into the house. She has the hest uf cere and is resting easy, but will probably not be able to walk for fivé or six weeks, coming Just after a severe aickness of two or three months. { TO DEFEAT IT IN THE SENATE Republicans in the Houss Want to Send the Wilson Bill to Its Doom, WILL NOT AID IN HAVING IT RECOMMITTED With Its Fen Tax and Other Obnoxious o4 It Is Pretty Sure to le Voted Down by the Upper. Houso. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 613 Fourteenth § ret WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, Ropublicans in the house are confronted with a very perplexing situation. The ques- tion vexing them is whether it would be beter from a partisan point of view and the condition of the country to support the pro- position to rocommit to the ways and means committee tomorrow the Wilson tar- I bill or to vote against recommittal and force a vote upon the measure in its present condition. The average republican reader in the country would no doubt jump at the con- clusion that it would be the better part of politics for the republicans to join the democratic kickers and send the bill to the ways and means committee. It is true that such action would be a direct knockdown to the democratic members of the committee, and it would, while Inten- sifying the feeling of resentment upon the part of those members toward the kickers calnst the bill, deprive the ways and means democrats of much of their Interest in the measure; but the majority membership of the committee have suffered so many over- whelming and humiliating defeats that a lefthander is no punishment to them. WAYS OF LOOKING AT IT. There are two paramount points of con- sideration with the republicans in the pro- position that they should join the kicking democrats and secure recommittal. The business interests of the country are suffer- ing from anxiety and suspense as much as from the threatened destruction by the adop- tlon of the Wilson bill. Recommittal might cause considerable delay and the republicans who were responsible for recommittal would have to shoulder that responsibility for delay In final action upon the bill. The measure as it stands is in its most unpopular form. Recommittal would mean the striking out of the income taxes, the levying of a protec- tive duty on coal and fron and barley, and two or three other changes which would make the bill more acceptable to those demo- crats who take exceptions to it now. The ways and means déemocrats would have an opportunity to pacify the discontented mem- bers of their party and secure their votes for the measure upon its final passage. With these chinges the prospects of the re- publicans defeating the bill on final passage would be groatly lessened. The mission of the republicans in both houses to defeat the Wilson bill on its final passage in the house if possible and if not to so direct its course as to defeat it in the senate, It may appear that the republicans should join the democrats in securing amendments to the bill In its early stages of consideration. The republicans occupy the position that they are in the hopeless minority, and that they are given no consideration whatever and that it would be the height of injustice to the coun- try, and their party in particular, to inter- fere with the will of the majority in the preparation of the early stages of the bill, that the measure is viclous and malicious, destructive in character and has no extenu- ating point, no feature commending it to their favor. After they have failed ifi every effort to defeat the measure as a whole and it becomes clear that it is to pass into law, they will join the minority demo- crats in removing some of the objectionable features, but the point for this work will not come till the senate has acted and the bill reaches the house the second time. WILL OPPOSE IT AT THE EN The farmer, the manufacturer, the me- chanic and laborer can each and all rest assured that the republicans In congress see in the Wilson bill no possible merit com- mending them to support it. And it can be further depended upon that the republi- cans in congress will, at the last moment, when all hope of defeating the measure in its entireity has failed, do everything pos- sible to make its burdens fall upon Amer- ican interests as lightly as they may. Un- til all of that hope for defeat of the bill has passed, it is the primary duty of the re- publicans to vote and work with the sole aim of so shaping the democratic opposi- tion as to enable them ‘to defeat the bill on its final passage. It is true that some of the staunchest republicans in the house have voted for features of the Wilson bill. Some of them have voted Indirectly for the bill itself. This they did, not because they had any patience with the measure, but be- cause 1t was necessary for some republicans to vote in order to maintain a quorum and keep the bill in form to attract the most democratic opposition, It is stated that there are twelve or more republicans in the house who are ready to vote for the re- tention of income taxes in the bill, in its present shape. This they would do to bunch the unpopular features of the measure and intensify its opposition in the senate. There is no hope yet that by keeping in- come taxes in the bill there may be enough democratic opposition in the senate to se- cure defeat on its final passage. With in- come taxes out of the bill there would be possible hope for final defeat. DEMOCRATS ARE LINING UP. It is belleved that there will not be more than a dozen democratic votes cast in the house tomorrow against the Wilson tarift Dbill after the income taxes have been in- corporated in it. Like most of the demo- cratic blusters, the cry against the vicious and malicious free trade features in the bill and the income taxes will have no effect. The democrats have at last fallen down and will support the bill rather than bolt the caucus, even though home interests are destroyed and in the face of overwhelming protests from their constituents. Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who is given credit for having unearthed the income tax scheme and secured its insertion in the Wilson bill, was about the happiest man in Washington tonight. He says income taxes are certain to be in the Wilson bill when that measure becomes law. The immense reversal of democratic ma- jorities in New York City yesterday, when a republican was elected to congress to suc- ceed Fellows, and there was a change of several thousand democratic votes in an- other district, fs acknowledged by New York democrats to have been the direct result of dissatistaction with the Wilson tarift bill. It has been many years since the demo- crats received such a setback with a party measure, but there is no indication now that any sort of political rebuke will change the determination to pass the Wilson bill. ESTABLISHING FISH HATCHERIES. The recommendation of Fish Commis- sloner Marshall McDonald for the estabs lishment of but one fish station, and that at Bozeman, Mont., to supply the states of Nebraska, Wyoming, South Dakota and Towa, and a single fish hatchery at Man- chester or Decorah, Ta., will be antagonized when it comes before the senate by Senators Manderson and Pettigrew, who want fish hatcheries, or supply stations, located in thelr states. Senator Manderson belleves that there should be a hatchery in northern or northwestern Nebraska, whilo Senator Pettigrew wants one in the Black Hills re- glon of South Dakota, A Bee speclal some weeks ago gave the substance of the re- port which Commissioner McDonald has just | made to congress in favor of the establish- Highest of all in Ixaveningl’;weh—l,atest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLMTELY PURE ment of a hatehery, or a fish station, In the northwost, together with the observa- tions of the special agent who traversed that country and furnished the matter for the mmissionor's report SUGAR TRUST 18 ACTIVE The sugar trust is making an effort to have the honse tomorrow reconsider the vote by which it struck out of the Wilson bill the protective duty of one-fourth of 1 per cent per pound on raw sugar. This would require a yea and nay majority vote, and in- asmuch as it would be a direct vote for the trust after the house had refused protection to or encouragement for the home producen of sugar, it will fail by a large majority. The sugar schedule will go to the senate with all grades of sugar free and no bounty for the home producer. PERSONAL MENTION. Senator and Mrs, Manderson have gono to New Orleans for a week or ten days. The senntor has been suffering from threatened quinzy and believes that a lttle outing will do_him good. James Stephenson will bo awarded the contract for carrying the mail between Riflo and Axil, Colo., at $3,720 a year, Representative Meiklejohn has had the postoffice at his lome town, Mullerton, made an international money order office W. B. Taylor of Omaha, who has been in the east for some time, is here for a couple of days on his way home The senate today passed the bill authoriz- ing the construction of a government bridge across the Niobrara river in Nebraska and making the appropriation therefor. Joseph Schwarz of Sioux Falls, 8. D.. was today appointed superintendent of construe- tlon of the federal buflding in that city. Mrs. Carey of Wyoming today attended the luncheon given in honor of Mrs Stevenson, wife of the vice president, by Mrs. Brice, wife of the senator from Ohio. rey will hold her last reception of n at the Arlington tomorrow. Davidson was today appointed post- aster at Belfast, Lee county, Ta., vice J. P. Starr, removed, and J. W. Scavinger at Frederick, Monroe county, vige Cyrus Church, removed. PERRY 8. fPEATH. [ YRUTHS TERSELY TOLD. You Offender—1 & Roston T ¢ is mutusl, why 0 for Judige, s not call Puclk: Life: She—Did you put the hot v ta"in the sleigh under the B He—Oh, yes; and when w water was frozen solid. n ‘gl Bt back the Town Toples: ank—Did Maude break off her engagement with George cause he went to the Keeloy cure? May—Oh, no; but after his ret it off, finally bo- n he broke Washington Star: “What In the misch that fellow doing in red-hot _ineu “Hush, that's & ne poct filling an order for a July poem in the middle of Jan- ua Courler Journal: Tubbs—T see Tobby I8 dead—wonder what ailed him? Dubbs—Oh, he had been studying this laying- on-of-hands ' cure, and he tried to make it work on a live wire. An Exciting Role—Hig Friend find the most difficult when to live up to the salary T nds T was drawing, Rrooklyn Life: told my fr “This thing of prize fight- with the skull cap on ago Tribun. the pusseng “is mighty Tow business. bie by the side of it."" to see n man stand up for his own said @ Florida passenger in the next You're from Missouri, ain't you?" Boston Globe: The Old Gentleman—Here 1s n full uccount of that wicked Corbett-Mitchell fight. It s simply scandalous. A paper which will print these horrible details ought to be suppressed. His Wife—Let me see it, dear! The Children—Let us have it, pal Who won? The Old_Gentleman—Hold on, I want to read 1t myself first. Train rob- THE FUTURE FORMULA at is the formula, professor, For maidens up to date?"" The wise man smiled and quickly wrote, US.S, F, 981 y, what may mean this mystlo scroll?” 0'she, the Vassar pert. v, one part saint and one part sage, Andninety-eight a fiirt e et UNCLE EZRA’S BUTTONEIRE. Louisville Courter-Journal. I'm a comin' round ter fashions; gittin’ old but gay; ,'m’a goin’ out in public with buttonhole bouquet, my floral decoration geously good form, Fur its petals goes a steamin’ like a hay- stack tuk by storm. An' T rally do admire it; but ter tell the hones' truth, I hev trampled, without thinkin’, lovelier blossoms in my youth. An’ T can't keep from confessin’, though I know ’taint 80 with some, That I druther hev a daisy than a big chrysanthemum, I'm a An’ is most gor- It's culture puts the fixin's on the blossom er the man, An' I'm goin' fur to keep right up with culture ef T can; An' yet I get ter thinkin', ev'ry time it greets my eyes, Of the white an' valler beauty I've seen smilin’ at the skies, It never sought attention, only lovin' sun and air; It knowed thet it was purty, laughed an’ didn't car My but the truth languid pet is lovel hez got ter come— I druther hev a daisy than a big chrysan- themum. so it A RUWNJ!E' K'NG‘—L i ‘Tho largest makers a fine clothes on Earth THEY DON'T PRINT THE NEWS, Herald and Lin Poor Showing with T rnnl Make a Bee, The dally comparison botween the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commerclal news and advertisoments, Tho Bee, World-Herald and Lincoln Journal, Kives the following figures for yesterday Morning Bee, long, wide columns e Morning W.-H., short, narrow columns 25 Lincoln Journal, short, narrow columns Evening Bee, long, wide columns \ing W.-H., short, narrow columns e best is the cheapest. printed in DEMOCRATIC DISCORDS. Loulsville Courler Journal: Mr. Bailey, the young Texas steer of the house jue diclary committee, seoms to beliove it would be a Jolly lark if ho could get himself and Uncle Sam fn the same yoke and plunge headlong down the declivity of natfonal bankruptey and dishonor. ~ Perhaps Mr. Balley thinks it would he only good fun, and that before any great harm was done somebody would “head us, darn our fool uls!" Chicago Record (ind. dem.): Meanwhilo the publie, wearied by this period of legislative horse play in the face of the count sore noed for wise and sober enactments, waits for the chreatened upheaval next ovember which is Ilkely to leave the president and his cabinet sitting upright and somewhat aghast In the council room at Washington facing a republican majority of national legislators newly returned from the dis- tricts by the voters. spublic: 1f the party xcitement is needles: declamation would be ts cannot be decelved, ter the mugwnmp with his farce and fraug than the un akable idiocy of a ganization democrat.' Better the blaw In the face than in the back. Better the n- dependent than the crat who does not respect the party government, which s th only assurance of safe national govern« ment Chicago Herald: No man who will take oath to deprive any portion of his fellow citizens of thelr constitutional rights fs fit to hold any office under the constitution. No man 5o small, 0 mean, 8o cowardly as to Join a secret proscriptive political associa- tio Is fit to be a justice of the supreme court of-the United States. In fact, such a man is by implication foresworn. He has taken an oath in violation of the constitution. To take another oath to support the constitu- tion would be blasphemy and perjury. No knownothings in office in the name of the national democratic party, Mr. President! Mr. Peckham chooses to train in an anti- democratic party. Lot him stay there Washington Correspondence New Yorlk Sun: There is nothing in the present condi- tion of affairs at the capital, politically, financially, any other respect, that in any manner suggests that the administration now about closing its first year was brought into existence by one of the greatest victo- ries in political history. So far from thero being a single thing to indlcate one joyous sentiment or any feellng of satisfaction about anything, the reverse in its most aggravating form is the fact. It is impossible to exagger- ate the sense of disappointment, loss, and disaster which oppresses democrats who 8o lately came to Washington to participate in Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration and the meot- ing of congress. The victors and the chief they rallied around so heartily are in a con- dition of antagonism. Nothing has he done that commands applause. So far from ap- plause, open or suppressed denunclation is the hard fact growing harder every day. There has been no act done, no measure pro- posed, that has not tended to split the party into fragments. Where statesmanship was looked for there has been nothing that did not shame the name at home or abroad. In finance and administrative ability a bank- rupt treasury describes the fact In general and particular at the present instant, Sighioe: S o DISAPPROVE ANY CHANGE. is not It it i3 pu Cherokee Indian Delegation In Conference with the Dawes Col nission. MUSCOGEE, I T., Jan. 31.—The Cherokee delegation to treat with the Dawes commis- sion yesterday had a conference with the commission. The Indians in a general way expressed disappproval of any change and sop arate interests. The delegation is headed by Chief Harris who sald that though a call for an international council has not yet been made it will probably be held at Checo- tah in the Creck Nation February 19 and the Dawes commission inyited to attend. The Choctaws have appointed a strong delegation to visit the committee on the 19th. It is composed of Hon. N. B. Ainsworth, Judge Charles Ward, Judge Mitchell.Harrison, Hon Sam Holson Judge G. W. Dukes, Judge H. C. Harris, Hon. L. D. Wilson, Hon. James Dyer, Hon. J. W. Everidge, Hon. A. Telle, private sccretary of the chiof, Hon. John M. Harrison and Hon. J. P. Turnbull. On the same date the Chickasaw delegation will call on the commission, pestat SRR Mow York Chautauquans. Buffalo, Jan. 81.—The trustees of the Chautauqua assembly, who have been In session here, finished thelr business today by electing the following officers for the en- suing year: President, Lewis Miller, Akron , 0.; chancellor, Bishop John H. Vincent, ‘Topeka; treasurer, E. A. Skinner, Westfleid, N. Y.; secretary, Dr. W. A. Duncan, Syra- cuse. d 93llara of Your money’s worth or your mounsy bass, Reehehehehes Now Listen When the Lewis full fashioned underwear, that i Ar A A A s s 1 T I W i to buy underwear? cause we'll length of time. — i at 500 a tie. chance again. BROWNING, Will pay the express If you send q the modey for §2 WOrL OF Hiore | S. know,n health underwear that retails for $5 and $6 a suit goes for only $1.50 agarment~-then isn't it time We won't do it long, be- be sold out—then any more—can't afford to sell such flne goods and sell them at such ruinous prices for any Also some awfully low prices on broken sizes of other underwear. choice of a fine selection of our $1.50 and $1 neckties As drawing card we have putin all our 506 four-in-hands and tecks at a quarter a tie. know when we say double value, it's so. You may be too late if you wait. | 7 ML sells never for less than $3.50 to $4.50 a piece, goesat a straight $2a garment; or when Warner's well R I R s we won't buy We will, also, give You No such KING & CO., W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts,

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