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

4 T OMAA DATLY BEE. 1. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. T LIPTION withont Snnday! Ono Year day. One Year . % 800 10 00 500 2 00 200 150 65 Latly Pec Drily and Sy Six Months. Thiree Montin Sindny e, One Year Ertuniny Pee, One Year Weekly Feo, One Year OF Cmahn 1 Konth Ol corer N and el Rua, 12 Penel atr 317 Chamt jms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune 13 Fourteenth streot CORRESPONDENCE. pmunfeations relating 10 ther whould be addressed BUSINESS LETTERS. ATl Dustnoss letters and e o ahonld he adrirensed o The Tec Publshing company, Omah. Vit ehecks and postoMiee orders 10 be mado 1yable 1o tie order of the company, et PUBLISHING COMPANY. Washington. "« » To the Fditor Grorge . Tzveh Tishing co pding F Sunday. J G, B TsenUCK. ud aubscribed fn my pres- enee this drd day of February, [841 SEAL] k1L, Notary Publie. After the $50,000,000 of bond proceeds have disappeared, what next? The plan to enlarge the treasury vaults wise preparation for an early republi- can surply The populists all managed to get on the game side of the vote on the Wilson bill in the hof Doesn’t this make it a populist victory Vaillant, the anarchist, is no more. But it is a matter open to doubt whether the num- ber of anarchists has been decreased by his execution, The annual cyclone season.seems to have commenced in the south, It is not toa early to ascribe the atmospheric disturbances to the tariff debate in congress. Senator Voorhees declares that he will smash the trusts in the senate. The Indiana senator ought to receive a good many valu- ablo pointers from Attorney General Olney. Bourke Cockran made a few remarks about Cleveland In Chicago that now partake of the prophetic. His denunciation of the in- come tax scheme will be vindicated next fall, should the measure become a law. Tt you make a row of sugar beets grow where heretofore a row of corn grew, you are a benefactor to the race. For by so doing you help to set in motion one of the coming great industries of this state and en- hance the earning power .and value of your land and that of your neighbor. Lemuel Quigs, the newly elected con- gressman from New York City, is said to be the first straight republican congressman elected by his party in that city in fourteen vears. Now that he has broken the spell, he ought to be given lots of company be- fore anbther fourteen years elapses. The prople of South Dakota are congratu- lating themselves upon the winter's heavy snowfall, which they interpret to mean an assurance of good crops next season. South Dakota must have intercepted the snowfall that was intended for Nebraska. We are glad to learn that it is yet to serve a good purpose. ‘What Omaha wants is reduced railroad rates on cattle from the ranges of the great southwest. Our stock market is as good as any, and with a fair chance the aggregate receipts can be swelled beyond the highest expectations. We must be put upon equal footing with Kansas City in competition for the trade of the southwest. Towa has promptly set forth to combat the inroads of that dread enemy of the farmer, the Russlan thistle, The Russian thistle has not made much headway in Towa as yet, but the legislature shows good approciation of the truth that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Nebraska must soon follow in Towa's lead as respects legislation on this subject, Let people who want to read works upon economics pay for them, for it is hard to be- lieve that they will read them just because they are obtained free of cost as a part of the Congressional Record. The government printing office is becoming daily more and more of an imposition on the taxpayers of the nation. It needs a thorough overhauling and it needs it soon. e So arduous have been the duties of Chair- man Wilson in connection with the tarift campaign in the house that he intends tak- Ing a well earned rest by making a trip to Mexico. There is no room for denylng that his rest is well earned. It ho could only wait until about this time next year he might prevail upon his constituents to grant him a permanent vacation. The railroads of the west have been ex- ceedingly fortunate the present winter in immunity from heavy snows and broken rails. Lines tributary to Omaha have been unusually free from accidents due to a rough winter and the loss of life and property has been lessened to a gratifying degree. Let us hope that these favorable conditions shall continue throughout the season. If Comedian Crane, who Is boasting of a button that cost him $1,815 hocause an en- velope containing that amount disappeared from his overcoat pocket while that garment was on its way to the tailor's, thinks this so very remarkable, he is mistaken. There are plenty of men all over the country who have lost large amounts of money In numerous Qifferent manners without even so much as & button to show for their experience. The great steel span of the new interstate bridge now swings to and fro by the subtle force of electriclty generated in a huge storage battery. It Is the acme of golentific achlevement. In these days of wonderful things we look upon this as & matter of course, but 1 100 years ago this great etruc- ture could have been seen to turn by some mysterious, Invisible force, it would have gone into history as the miracle of the elghteenth century, Information has percolated to Omaha to the effect that a monster movement fs on among church organizations for the enfor ment of prohibitory laws and for the elec- lion of candidates on any party ticket ple Jge1 to the object in view., The third party or- ganization Is to be abandoned, and every of- fort is to be made to purify the men who as- pire to office on old party lines. We do not know to what extent this new move has grown, but it is far more rational than any other heretofore endorsed by the temperance element. It will not accomplish what Is expected of It, of course, but it will doubt- less cause some of the old pdrty managers considerable anxlety about election time. to BANKRUPTCY LEGISLATION. It is expected that during the present week there will be submitted to the house of representatives the minority report of the Judiclary committee sustaining the Torrey bankruptey bill and pointing oat the faults and weaknesses of the measure which has been proposed as a substitute. This will re- vive the subject of a uniform system of bankruptcy, and the result of another con- | sideration of the question by congress may he difterent from that reached by the house two months ago, when it inconsiderately, struck out the enacting clause of the bill that had been reported from the judiciary committee. The hostility shown to that measure was a great surprise, and while, much of It was due to the clause of the bill’ providing for involuntary bankruptcy there was developed a very considerablo opposition to any legislation by congress relating to bankruptey. Those who opposed such legislation call in question the wisdom of the framers of the constitution In authorizing congress to es- tablish a uniform system of bankruptey. Those able and farsighted men knew that general legislation on this subject would be necessary in order to properly protect both creditors and debtors and to secure justice to all parties in the settlement of bankrupt estates. They knew that to leave exclu- sively to the several states the right to enact bankruptey laws could not fall to have mischelvous results, and that the only true and safe policy was to make bankruptey leg- islation general and uniform. They there- fore provided in the organic law that con- gress should provide such a system, and thereby in effect imposed an obligation on that body to do so. It must be admitted, however, that the expericnce with bank- ruptey laws passed by congress has not been such as to strengthen the advocacy of such legislation. However thoroughly convinced one may be of the wisdom of the principle, it will have to be confessed that its appli- cation thus far has been anything but satis- factory. This fact, however, should not dis- courage the advocates of a uniform system of bankruptey, for nobody will pretend that it is impossible to frame a law that will op- erate justly and fairly to all interests, The Torrey bankruptey bill which sthe house rejected s a carefully matured measure. It s the result of years of patient study by its author, it received the endorsement of all the commercial bodies of any importance in the country, and it has undergone thorough revision by com- mittees of both houses of congress. It is, as a whole, undoubtedly a sound measure, and it Is not questionuble that its enact- ment into law would have good results. The obvious danger is that in consequence of the conflicting views there will be no bankruptey legislation at all, and while it may be said that having got along for years without such legislation the country can continue to do without it, yet no one of in- telligence will seriously contend that in a great commercial country like this it is not desirable to have a uniform law regarding bankruptcy. The bill proposed as a substi- tute for the Torrey measure rests its claim to support mainly upon the fact that it does not provide for involuntary bank- ruptey, such provision in the measure re- Jected by the house being the chief objec- tion to it. It was held that this provision would place a debtor wholly at the mercy of his creditors. There is undoubtedly a good deal to be said on both sides of this question but it is to be remarked that rolic- itude regarding debtors is hardly necessary, since such of them as are honest and desire to do what is fair and just are never in very great danger of being driven to the wall by creditors. The general feeling is rather to help such men continue fn bus- iness. On the other hand, the debtor who does mot want to do what is fair and just ought to be summarily dealt with, and it is for such that a general bankruptcy law is needed. THE DISTILLERS' GRIEVANCE, The whisky distillers think that they have a serious grievance against the democrats in the lower house of congress. They were ready to fight the increase of the tae on whisky now in bond to the bitter end and were only induced to draw off their forces by reason of an understanding that in com- pensation for their concession they would be given an extension of the bonded period from three years to eight years. For the privilege of keeping their wares in bond without expense for five years longer they were wiling to pay the small sum of 10 cents per gallon as an additional tax, the whole tax of $1 per gallon being made due at the vexpiration of the bonded period. Had this little plan materialized they would have driven a very profitable bargain at the expense of the public treasury. Unfortu- nately, as we have seen, one of the wheels slipped a cog when the internal revenue schedule was up before the committee of the whole, with the result that the bonded period remained unaltered while the tax was increased upon all whisky upon which it has not been paid, whether already in bond or not. . Hence the grievance of the whisky men. The specific objection raised is that the imposition of an additional tax upon whisky now in bond constitutes a violation of con- tract entered into between its owners and the government. The alleged contract Is said to be in substance this, that in consid- eration of being permitted to hold the whisky In bond three years the government has promised to return it to the depositors or their assignees on the payment of a stip- ulated 90 cents per gallon. Requiring the payment of $1 per gallon, or 10 cents more than was agreed, constitutes, they maintain, a violation of contract prohibited by the federal constitution. Had they been allowed the extension of the bonded period which they desired, they would have waived a trifling technicality like this, but having been frustrated in their pet designs, they are threatening to raise the point in court should the Wilson bill become a law and the attempt be made to collect the Increased tax on the whisky in bond, How any court can uphold the contention that the whisky tax is a contract is some- thing the lay mind will have difficulty in grasping. Because a tax becomes delin- quent in sixty days does not operate to pre- vent the legislative body from making It become delinquent in fifty days or in sev- enty days. The time when it becomes delinquent is nothing more than a condition fmposed by law, which may likewise be changed by law. S0 when one legislative body orders the levying of an annual tax it lmposes no restrictions on its successors’ liberty to increase or diminish the annual tax at will. No one who Invested his cap- ital in its jurisdiction in the belief that the particular tax rate would remain the same could claim that he had a contract right which would be violated by raising the rate. In the case of the whisky tax, we must not confound the two separate operations of imposing the tax and of collecting it. The tax as it now stands is 90 cents on every gallon manufactured and sold within the United States, The bonded warehouse has been Instituted solely as a convenience to the distillers, 1In order to facilitate col- lection and to exempt whisky that must be lost by evaporation before the product Is ready for consumption, the owners are per- mitted to delay payment for three years on depositing the whisky in government warehouses, They enter no contract with the government in relation to the length of time allowed or to possible ! changes in the rate of taxation. By pay- ing the tax they can take the whisky out of bond before the new law goes into effect. But if they choose to let it remain where it is they must submit to the condi- tions fmposed. On general principles, it is universally held that taxation is not con- tract. The privileges of a bonded ware- louse can not have changed the accepted rule. LET THEM DO THEIR DUTY. The citizens of Omaha have a right to ex- pect and demand that the council do its duty for the protection of life and property endangered by dead pole lines and defective electric light wiring. According to City Elec- trician Cowgill a number of business houses are llable to be destroyed by an inciplent fire by reason of defective wiring. This condition of aftairs is due directly to the outrageous course of the councils of 1892 and 1893 with respect to the city electrician’s office. The ordinance creating that office and defining his powers and duties was held back for elghteen months because its provisions did not suit the corporations that have fran- chises for telegraph, teleplone and electric lighting. The mamagers of these companies wanted an ordinance that would allow them to do about as they liked in stringing deadly wires and planting unsightly poles on the streets, When the ordinance had been juggled and tampered with more than a year the commlittee liaving it in charge was hypnotized by Mr. Wiley, who was anxious to have his own man in the office of city electrician and did not want the ordinance enacted until he knew that he would own the electrician, Finally the late council did pass such an ordinance ‘as Mr. Wiley would have. The office was created and filled, but the load put upon Mr. Cowgill was purposely made 80 heavy that he could not possibly do the work imposed upon him alone. The best electriclan in America could not supervise the untangling of dead wircs, make tests of electric lights and test the wirlng of every building in town without an assistant. Not only has the council sought to make the office of electrician a farce by refusing to allow Mr. Cowgill temporary assistance, but it has refused to amend the electric ordi- nance where it is found defective and in- operative. The whole treatment of the electrician has been an infamous conspiracy in the interest of the electric lighting company and a reck- less disregard of the danger to which the city 1s constantly exposed. The present council should do its duty by giving the clectrician such assistance as he absolutely needs and confer upon him such powers as are essential for the performance of his duties. Let the council incre the elec- trical inspection force and give the elec- trician power to remove and relay wires where they are defective and there will be no occasion for increasing the fire fighting force. THREATENING PUBLIC OFFICIALS. The threatening letters which have been sent to Judge Dundy recently emphasize the fact that Prendergastism is liable to become rampant unless it is checked and nipped in the bud. The assassination of Mayor Harri- son at Chicago was followed by a monomania for writing theatening letters and sending cards with inscriptions of coffins and cross- bones to public officials and prominent citi- zens. The case still pending before the police commission which for some unaccount- able reason has never been acted upon, is still fresh in the public mind. In that instance the case is even more aggravating, because it was alleged to have been committed by a police officer. It was the manifest duty of the police commission to pass judgment upon this case promptly. The board should either acquit the officer if it believe him to be in- nocent, or convict and dismiss him if the charge is sustained by the proofs and the testimony. So much, at least, is due to the mayor as well as the accused, quite apart from the necessity of maintaining discipline. Right here we may as well quote the law relating to threatening letters, Section 46 of the criminal code provide: “It any person shall knowingly send or deliver any letter or writing with or without a name subscribed thereto, or signed with a fictitious name, containing willful and maliclous threats of any kind whatever, every person so offending shall be fined in any sum not less than $50 nor more than $500, or be imprisoned in the county jail ot the county not excceding ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court.” * The federal statutes with regard to mail- ing threatening letters are more severe. Sending such letters by mail is made a felony. People who are disposed to indulge In such maliclous and cowardly attacks should bear this in mind before they subject them- selves to the penalties of the law. v The determined action of Admiral Ben- ham at Rio has given that officer world- wide fame and his course is universally ap- proved. It secms, also, that he is entitled to the entire credit, having adopted the policy he did without Instructions from Washington. The officer in command of the American fleet before Benham was not will- ing, it appears, to take radical measures for the protection of American merchantmen, as requested by our minister. He absurdly proposed to wait until an American seaman should be killed and then he would prosecute the Insurgent commander. It is easy to un- derstand the disgust and impatience of Min- ister Thompson with this ridiculous ldea and the relief lie must have experienced on the arrival of a commander who understood his duty and had the firmness to perform it. There was really no risk, except the remote possibility of a naval fight In the course taken by Benham, for the Brazilian insur- gents have no standing as belligerents and are consequently destitute of all rights. They were proclaimed pirates by the Brazil- fan government, and while this fact may not affect our relations toward them so long as they do not interfere with our Interests, it does not warrant us in treating them as such should they interfere. The action of Admiral Benham produced the desired ef- fect and having learned the sort of man he is it is not likely that our merchant ves- sels will again. be interfered with at Rio. Meanwhile the vessels of other countries are enjoying the advantages of an unobstructed entrance into the harbor at Rio and quite naturally Admiral Benham stands very high In thelr respect, as he does In that of his countrymen. - A vigorous protest has heen entered with the secretary of the treasury by a New York Knights of Labor assembly objecting to,the proposed placing of the postage stamp contract with the government bureau of engraving and printing. It calls attention to the fact that plate engraving in this country originated in the metropolis and that its members have grown up to thelr employment right where they are. It would be & hardship to compel them to change thelr occupation or to remove to Washing- ton to obtain places which might possibly be opened to them. It begs the secretary to weigh well the advantages, real or ap- parent, offered by his proposition against the disadvantages and Injustice inflicted upon the plate engravers now engaged In postage stamp printing. The only ad- vantage to the government of changing the arrangements now in vogue is the financlal saving, which doubtless looks bIg to & treas- ury hard pressed for funds. If there s THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: T A possible saving, it is of the same char- acter as that whieh' would be effected by the introduction Wf fabor saving machines and the rule to be applied must be that ot the greatest goody tgs the greatest number, The treasury officials.gave way once before in view of a protostsugainst the supplant- ing of hand plat® pHuting and it 1s quito possible that it ‘miy yleld again in this instance. Every large fire’ is' taken as a ready ex- cuse to repeat the efy for more fire appa- ratus, Thoe Omahh five department is now quite fully equipped for effective work against the fire flend, Its running expenses for the next year promise to exceed the limit set by the city chatter unless rigid econo- mies are practiced, and no increase can be made without exceeding the authority of law. Of course, the department could use all the machinery that might be placed at its disposal, providing jts numbers were cor- respondingly Increased. Its present efficiency, however, is well up to the standard that is to be expected in any city of the size of Omaha. Take the fire of last Saturday as an example and it will be difficult to see where one dollar's worth of property that was destroyed could have been saved had there been a dozen fire engines at hand. The men confined the fire to within as narow limits as was possible under the circumstances. This fact in itself s suffl- clent argument for the efficiency of the service, The action of congress with reference to the sugar schedule will doubtless result dis- astrously to the sugar Interests of Ne- braska for a time at least. Nebraska should not consent to the total wreckage of ler promising industry without making an effort to retain it. The bounty denied by the nation can and should be provided by the state for a time until the industry is able to stand alone. With a small state bounty Nebraska could continue the work of building up the sugar industry and by reason of her insular position be able to compete with eastern markets. The state bounty s unpopular in Nebraska, but unde- servedly so. Two immense factories were erected under the operation of the bounty act and then the law was repealed by a legislature that based its action more upon unreasoning prejudice than upon sound judgment. The Metropolitan Union Depot company was incorperated on the 30th of December and the ordinance submitting the question of a bond subsidy has been pending for more than four wecks. There has certainly been ample time to revise the ordinance and embody all the nccessary safeguards. But the project still hangs fire because the in- corporators do not appear agreed upon cer- tain features of the ordinance. Meantime spring is approaching and the day for the special election is being delayed, so that peo- ple who desire to aid and expedite the building of the union depot are losing faith and confidence in Omaha's future is corre- spondingly depressed. Weo are aware that great bodies move slowly, but there is such a thing as killing a project by too much ide- liberation. The proposition to repeal the maximum rate law has already emanated from head- quarters of the railroad brigade and it is safe to presume that no republican who favors a continuation of the struggle with the corporations will be given a nomination to the next legislature it the railroad crowd can help it. Nothing will have more of a tendency to secure an anti-republican legislature next fall than a widespread impression that the republicans will favor the repeal of the max- imum rate law. The people have com- menced a final struggle with the railroad corporations in this state and they propose to keep up the contest until they arc thrown out of court. Uncle Sam s very severe on miscreants who use the malls for sending letters or postal cards bearing delineations, epithets, indecent or obscene language, or of libelous, scurrilous, defamatory or threatening char- acter. Any person convicted of such offense in the United States court is liable to a fine of $5,000 or imprisonment for five years, or both, It s to be hoped that the government sleuth hounds ‘may catch some of the dastards who are just now engaged in this cowardly business. The talk of reorganizing the board of sec- retaries of the State Board of Transporta- tion still continucs, ~The time has gone by when the officials who compose that board can manufacture political capital by so flimsy a subterfuge of reorganizing :the board of secretaries on the eve of a cam- paign. Thelr repentance comes about three years too late. Ben Baker seems to be the only man in Nebraska who is not harrowing his soul over the masterly Inactivity of the powers at Washington. He don’t care whether his successor is appointed sooner or later and continues to draw a good democratic salary with an unconcern that is positively dis- heartening to the aspirants for his place. Dangerous at tho Breech. Glohe Lemocrat. Boutelle's usefulness to his party is con- siderably impaired by his hair-triggered habit of talking in a loud tone when he has nothing to say. — A Bill Tweed Inquiry, Norfolls Journal The Tlkhorn raflway has ignored the order of the State Board of Transportation and declines to lower its rate on baled hay, The next conundrum {5, what In hades wili the board do about it? Sdlioe el nd Isn't Popular, Chadron Citizen, 18 no longer with us, but, thank still have a postoffice. How long we will be permitted (o keep that no one can tell—Grover may conclude to move that to Bordeaux in order to slink out of appointing & worthy democrat to a federal office in northwest Nebraska. od| (o Bo Shelvod. Kanws Gity >tar, Under the strict fnterpretation of the law, Admiral Benham will Be retired for age next April. In view, however, of the vigor and wisdom displayed by him this week at Rio Janeiro, congress should pass an act making an exception In histease. The United States cannot afford to shelve: him for several years to come, ———— Bound for Nebraska, dney Tglegraph. The prospect fora large increase in the population of Nebraska by immigration s very flattering, 'Many men have been thrown out of employment in the east that will not return to the mills and factories where they formerly - labored. These will seek new homes, and a large part will turn thelr eyes in the direction of the cheap lands of the west, ————— The New States. phe-1emocrat, There Is & strong probability that the bills to admit Utah, New Mexico and Arizona us separate statés will pass the senate anc become laws. Ungquestionably, —however, the majority of the people of the c favor the annexation of Utah to and the consolidation of New Mexico and Arizona. Utah's population 1 a little in ©oxcess of the number required in each of the large #tates for each member of the house of representatives, but it nelghbor, Nevada, has less than a fourth of such population, and s steadily decreasing Phese two locallties are favorably situated for consolidation. New Mexico ‘and Arl- #ona united wouid have @ little more in- habitants than comprise the uriit of repre- sentation in the house, which 1s 174,000, and no territory ought (o be erected’ into a state until its population reaches these fg- ures, The Too DAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1894, HE WAS A MAN, Chicago Inter Ocean: The example he set as a generous and just employer bas erected a monument to his memory In the hearts of the people. Chicago Post: Mr. Childs will bo wos- fully missed from a world in which he was a rare type. We could much more easily have spared many greater men, Indlanapolls News: He wreught from first to last with a high purpose, and his fame will endure 8o long as men give re- spect and applause to right living and to good deeds. St. Louls Republic: As a philanthropist his name wil live among the foremost of his day and country. He made the way as helpful as the gift, and was as broad as he was generons. Whether as editor, humanitarian or public man, Mr. Childs is sure to be as sadly missed as any man of this generation, Chicago Herald: More than any other American of his generation George W. Childs deserves the name of guide, philoso- pher and friend of those with whom he was associated. He applied in Lis affairs vol- untarily the principle of uncarned increment which modern political economy recom- mends for engraftment upon national and muniekpal systems. Chicago Tribune: In a word, he was a unique figure in the business world, for to a clear head for commercial and financial enterprises e joined a warm heart and open hand, a kindly nature and far-reaching philanthropy. The good that he has done will not be “interred with his bones.” It will long live after him. He achieved great wealth and he used it well and wisely for the good of his kind. Greater praise no man can have. Ploneer Press: The honor that follows his memory Is only another proof of the old truth, which men learn so slowly, that to do good is the most enduring monument. There are men who have made great newspapers, famed over two continents, while Mr. Childs was plodding along with his little Philadel- phia publication, and who have amassed millions while he was giving other millions away; but their names will be strange to tongue and memary while he is yet thought of gratefully and honored as a citizen and a man. Minneapolls Tribune: was his predominating faculty. There was nothing small about the man in thought, emotion, plans, acts or dealings. He in- spired the perfect confidence of acquaint- ances, employes and patrons. Men had faith in him and loved him, because he had faith in men and loved them. He labored as a man to whom money was a secondary aim; but the success of his work was such, the results were so beneficial to his fellow men, that wealth was added unto him in sums sut- ficient to satisfy the most grasping ambi- tion. The work of George W. Childs stands an inspiration to his race, as during his life it was‘a blessing. e B L T, NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Bigness of heart Burglars at Kenesaw made a raise of $12 in the store of Howard & Co. A number of Table Rock feeders will ship 300 head of cattle direct to Europe this month. Mr. Hargus, the Missouri Pacific agent at r, died of pneumonia after a sfort at Nebraska City Saturday for the first time this season. Rev. Mr. Trumbull has resigned as pastor of the Baptist church at Madison and will 0 to Crab Orchard. Farming pays in Furnas county. An agri- culturist there lost a pocketbogk the other day containing $310 and valuable papers. Robert Mitchell of Elm Creek. sued for a divorce from his absent wife, but now she has returned and will fight the case to a finish. The meadow lark is reported to be sing- ing his festive lay in northern Nebraska fields and the farmers are sure of an early spring. While Clarence Allen of Elmwood was re- turning from Murdock on horseback, the horse jumped from the road and plunged over a’steep embankment. The boy received a fracture and the horse had one hip knocked down. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Erickson of Phelps county arc in sore distress. Both are past 75 yoars of age. Mrs. Erickson is helplese from paralysis and her husband almost dead with asthma. Neighbors are doing all that can be done to make them comfortable. A real, live kitten was received in a mail bag from the west at the Ashland postoffice one day last week, says the Ashland News. There was no name attached, hence if any one is expecting anything of the kind they are hereby notified that the kitten has ar- rived and can be had on application at the postoffice. The Hebron Mail prints a sard from Carl Picard, announcing that he will fast forty days and forty nights. In concludiag his announcement, Mr. Picard says: “In obe- dience to Christ’s example I am row en- tering upon a forty days’ fast, so that you will not see much of me until Egster, when my public ministry will commence. He that hath ears to hear lot him Lear. Yours, a fool for Christ's sake.” Because his 7-year-old adopted son tried to burn his hay stacks, Emery Baltozore of O'Nelll tried to have the lad sent {o the reform, school. The judge examined iuto the morits of the case and concluded that the youth was eminently qualified to enter the reformatory class, and was ahout to’ make an entry on his docket to that effect when the boy's uncle, Price labeoc peared and agreed to undertake the civilizing the urchin for a short time, vhen he will be sent to his father in the soutbern part of the state. —————— PEOPLE AND THINGS. of anarchy is daecidedly French cutting. It is the man with a cold in Lis head who nose the value of a pull. A reformed evangelist in Kansas burned a huge stack of chips to prove his sincerity. His efforts to cash them in were futile. An organization of city purifiers has been incorporated in Chicago. The members should begin street cleaning and gradually work up. The physiclan of the imperfal court of Russia receives $350 a day when attending the empress. Such a feo would paralyze an ordinary person. Massachusetts sots an example that may be followed with profit. An overhauling of personal property for tax purposes netted a valuation of 41 per cent of the total taxable property. Colonel Thomas Moonlight, the newly ap- pointed minister to Bolivia, is 60 years old, a native of Scotland, came out of the late war a colonel of a Kansas regiment and was at one time governor of Wyoming. The old homestead in Kentusky where President Lincoln was born, is to bo re- paired and beautified and proseated Ly the stato of Kentucky to the national govern- ment. A graceful tribute to the memory of the nation's martyr, The oldest living officer of the United States army fs Licutenant Michael Moore of Brooklyn. He enlisted in 1812 as a musician in the Thirtcenth infantry, and, though he 18 retired, his name still is on the muster roll. His army service covers elghty-two years. opinion enator William M. Evarts of New York Is 76 today. Ho lives at his honio in New York City and Is rarely sewn. The once tall, graceful figure, famillar at the bar and on the forum, is now shrunken and emaclated, The slght of his ayes Is almost gone, and his persistent scclusion gives rise to rumors of mental weakening. One J. J. Davenport, & perpotual candidate for mayor of Kansas City, dropped & gun into his overcoat pocket and marched into the sanctum of the Kansas City Star last Saturday. The edltor, it seems, uttorly failed to appreciate Mr. Davenport's superior qualifications for the office and at divers times intimated that he was a braying ass and a conceited chump. These expressions, Mr. Davenport rightly concluded, showed Dbloodythirsty bluff accompanied with gun play bloodthirsty bluff acompanied with gun play would effect a desirable change. It did effect @ change—in Mr. Davenport. A few desultory remarks were uttered in the edi- torlal den, and Mr. Davenport sought to | emphasize a point with his fist. Then | trouble began. Before Davenport realized | what struck him he bad floated down a pair | of stairs accompanfed with an eloquent peror- | ation of shoe leather. His impressions of | the meeting resemble the effect of & bare- back jaunt on an emaclated horse. PLANNING T0 RUSH THE BILL Voorhees Eager to Push the Tariff Bil Through the Senate, MAY HAVE IT IN CONFERENCE BY APRIL Republicans Will Try to Secure Hearings for Interested Persons—Democrats Will Havo Few Changes to Make in the Bill, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE. 513 Fourteenth Street, WASHINGTON, Keb. 5. As intimated some days ago in The Bee, Chairman Voorhees fs opposed to tarift hear- ings before the senate finance committee, and has expressed himself in favor of rail- roading the Wilson bill into law. Ho be- lieves the bill should be reported back to the senate from his committee within ten days, without giving any one a chance to be heard, and that six weeks are at most suffi- clent for consideration by the senate before that body takes a final vote. He believes that the circulars he sent out have given all the information n ssary, and that |f public hearings were granted there would be nothing heard but ssays on political economy. It is generally 23 pected that the committe at its meeting tomorrow morning will fix a day when the bill shall be reported to the senate, and a day less than two weeks distant. ~Repub- licans in the senate say that if this action is taken they will have a resolution passed which will compel the finance committee t hear those whose interests the Wilson bill proposes to destroy. It is intimated that the democrats may agree to strike income taxes from the bill before it is reported from the finance committee and to propose a duty of 1 cent a pound on raw mugar and a large in- crease of the whisky tax as compensat revenues. Chalrman Vaorhees and his dem- ocratic colleagues declare that the changes in the bill will not be in the direction of protection, but with a view to revenue only. Republicans here believe that the reason the governor of Washington does not call the legislature together for the purpose of electing a United States senator to fill the existing vacaney Is because he is trying to handle the office for himseif. It is well Kknown here that Washington's governor is a candidate for the vaeancy, and that he has been hesitating about convening the legisla- ture in fear that it would not select him for the position. Undoubtedly the interests of Washington would be vastly advanced if a republican was sent here to the senate at this time. It might be the turning point against the Wilson tarift bill. CHANGES IN I0OWA BANKS. During the past week changes in Towa national bank officers have been made and reported to the comptroller of currency as follows: The First ional bank of Mc- Gregor, F. 8. Richards, assistant cashier; the First National bank of Marshalltown, George Glick, vice president; the Iowa Na- tional bank of Ottumwa, William Daggett vice president in place of Calvin Manning, Calvin Manning cashier in place of C. K. Blake, W. R. Daggett, assistant cashier; the First National bank of Charles City, J. A. Case, assistant cashier; the Charles City National bank of Charles City, J. H. Owen president in place of S. F. Farnham, Robert G. Reigner vice president in’ place of George E. Dexter, George E.May cashier *in place of J. H. Owen; tift Des Moines National bank of Des Moines, C. H. Getchell vice president in place of J. 8. Clarkson, no second vice president in place of C. H. Gotchell; the First National bank of Waverly, no prosi- dent in place of J. H. Bowman, A. F. Bodcker assistant cashier; the Clarinda Na- tional bank of Clarinda, M. S. Ray vice president in place of Frederick Fisher; the First National bank of La Porte City, R. A. Perkins president in place of James F. Camp; the First National bank of Dunlap, H. A. Moore president in place of J. H. Patterson, E. H. Barrett vice president in place of J. D. Bassett, A. B. Collar cashier in place of H. A Moore; the First National bank of Pringhar, C. H. Slocum president, H. S. Green vice president in place of C. H. Slocum. IN A GENERAL WAY. In the supreme court today the decision of the United States court of Nebraska in the case of John A. Buckstalf and others against Russell & Co. was reversed with costs and the case remanded. Fourth class postmasters for Towa were appointed today as follows: Centerdale, Cedar county, A. C. Claflin, vice H. W. Gates, resigned; Fenton, Kossuth county, Frank Bailey, vice J. L. Reed, resigned; Rudd, Floyd county, Elizabeth P. Crane, vice G. W. Crane, dead; West Grove, Davis county, Charles Fulk, vice Asa Tremaine, resigned; Wichita, Guthrie county, Isaac Mann, vice C. C. Nesselroad, resigned. Mr. Streeter of Aurora, who has been here several days, has left for his home. Although a large number of nominations were received at the senmate today, none came for Nebraska to fill any of the impor- tant positions which have been in the hands of republicans over four years and the demo- crats here from the state are growing very restless. The friends of Secretary Morton are unable to explain why the president does nét name a customs oflicer for Omaha, a district attorney and a postmaster for Lincoln, unless the delay is with the view to compelling the two factions to compro- mise upon candidates. P. 8. HEATH. n I h [ W t t i i W ¢ W weary scen; statesmen Comparison Between Papers Printed Yo of rending matter, Bee, glves the following figures for yesterday: Morning B Morning W.-H., short, Evening Be Evening W.-H., short, narrow columus. I hope vet, It you so sure that Jack never loy per safd that T wasi Farmer ¢ easy, ef ye don't go no faster'n this.’ pok bad, me knuckle in it calling p He was o thin, 5o very who struggle walked to his seat to the o mentary c a successful closed his speech sional with a doughty Mr, Wilson had the unus o w WHERE TO FIND THE NEWS. aters day by The Tlee and Would 11 Eivals. The daily comparison between the amount xelusive of commercial ments, printed in The and LI n Journal, news ‘and advertl World-Herald iy 3 29 i 33 columns. parrow columns Jincoln Journal, short, narrow columns. , long, wide columns. ... . long, wid RS S RIB TICKLERS, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The forelgn usband 18 the absorbing idea!” said the American millfonaire as he wrote the wed- ding check, Philadelphia Record: A local den tises “a new stock of walking-stick ntlemen with carved wooden heads. v nd- Journal our f Indianapolis that pleasant. Cannibal King was here before you was a re Now ture refations Misslonary — may be So do T. he fellow who lar ronst. Brooklyn Life: Bessie—Doos er always embrace you so cffy fe i he thinks I'm in the infant class s very annoying, but he's so old, If a younger man it would be differ- e minis- Kit- t were ent. Somerville Journal: Nell-What makes 1 any girl pufore he met yoil and asked you (o bo his Belle—Why, east a hund he has told me so himselt at rd oklyn Bagle: “Confound you, sir! I'va otfon to pull ‘your nose. What do you by telling people that I've got a tem- “I take it all back, sir. When I 't aware that you had lost U this morning Washington Sta heard,” sald ritossel, as th nductor of the ommodation train cs for his_ ticket, ye hev “Well, T should think thet it ud be purty Judge at th Arthur (to chance acquaintance race track)—So you dwopped fifty at wsd night? Deah me, that was too ye know! Didn't you hawve good H aintance~Naw; 1 broke fresh jay's nut, an' las' wiggle me fingers quick enough. S Journal: “T wouldn't care Timmins, “if T hadn't 1is sni Indianay <o much,’ signed the thing." “What's the matter?” asked Simmons. “Why, T wrote a bit of verse with a ling ssionately for a new ideal. The fool printer set it up calling for a new deal.” TOO THIN. York Recorder.) thin— (New He hung upon a strap, There w start, and down he sat Upon a maide He rose, she & As she her | “Conductor, pl For I believe I'm @ to stop t tabbed.” - A Theatrieal Climax, Chicago Record. of the three congressional to figure the sul Each were in equent mpli- and applause that s gen- 1 for the first appearance of tragedian. Hon. Mr. Reed amid a hurricane of ap- plause and like some new sort of congres- prima_donna_ tripped off the scene & bouguet of roses. Mr. Crisp met fate, and the small-framed but 1l honor heiniz holsted upon his colleagues’ shoul- lers and borne around the hall, the In- carnate figure of triumph. Probubl Reed, Cri will reflect t it was worth weeks of preparation to be the actors in a that will be recalled in history as one the usual congressional vista of bloomed and expanded into a atte crally reserv he same. p and Wilson wherein theatrical spectacle. h 1 1 t t ¥ gl %RUWN&"gE’ K 'NETLU e ‘The largest makors ant4lars ot flne clothes on Barth Your money’s worth or your monay hac prove to have been guilty of w officlous letter to recall A diplomat who does duty of a foreign minister—never servicy stored to the editori The riches which I car Sy The Headlight Under a Fog. Phitvielphta Record. If Bditor William . Smythe of the Gra- ham (Va.) Headlight, who represents the ‘nited States as minister to Hayti, should ting that olyte his moment, the first to Inter- neddle in the domestic affairs of the gov- rament to which he is accredited—should srmitted to represent the United even in the Bl Republic, The s of his powerful pen should be re- 1 columns of the Head- ight, where he could enlighten the world o his heart's content upon the subject of he proper administration of the Haytien President Hipi be delayed a not” know. should not fisc. Ll TING AT THE STYX. Chica o Tribune. Jeside the mournful river Styx Two shadowy forms had str A ME, yed, And one was rich with gems and gold— One for a penny prayed. ‘Where did you get that glittering store?™ The shivering beggar said; ‘One hundred millions once were mine— I have not now a red; ‘Not one to pay my passage o'er Where peaceful fields are And thou art rich while A beggared millionaire “My name is Childs' the rich man sald, “And yours is Gould, I say; v here Are what I gave away." for $2.25. Will pay the express If you send tho money for $20 wortli or more The Fire-Fiend Has again got in his work and did it with a can buy a $6 pair of trousers for $4.50—or a $3 pair Those who have patronized us in the past know these to be more than ordinary bargains and well worthy of your inspection, the price, the quality is just as good as ever. BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, rapidity that is only equaled by the race- horse pace with which wo are disposing of our magnificent stock of men'’s suits and over- coats. The cut is gen- eral all over the store. More particularattention is called to our men’'s $12 suits that go for $8.50. The suits we are selling now for $16.50 were formerly $20. You No matter how low sl ool bl e - v