Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1894, Page 4

4 THE OMAIA DAILY BEE. 1 Iditor. ] | 5 ROSEWATER, PUBLISIED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUTSC withont Sundag) One Yea e Ve O Yeu Onee Yen OFFICE Sunday o Bt P Weokly Tos I e Tioa T Connell Ny, 12 Pe Chicago oM i New York, coom 1 Wanhington. 513 ¥ I DENCE, e to ness and. edl S » the Editor wud Twent Atreet amber of Commeree, 1400 15, Tribune building enth wtreet sntione rola shorild b addressed BUSINESS LETTERR fttancos shomd bo | 1z company, Oma! ater (ion lotters And v ol 10 Ve oo Pab “hiecka and postoMen ordors 10 be lie order of the combany THE BEE PURLISHING COMPA 10N, it The Bec sy et and of STATEMENT OF CIRCULA orge B, Tzschuck, secrotar Publishing company, being duly swi that the actual number of full and cor copies of The Dally Mornin Ivenin, Bunday e printed” during month Tanuary, 180, was as folow 92,25) 51018 the reduct turned coples.. Total sold R § + net clreulation TZSCHUCK bed in ry, 1804, tary Public. IORGE to before me and subsci nee this 6th diy of Febr FEIL, N Sworn my pr it bill resemble The of the ta through the senate likely old- fashioned log rolling bee more than anything else. progress is to an Some of the patient and long suffering office in this state should send the pesident a copy of a map of Ne- braska. marked Whisky has gone up 2 cents a gallon by a decree of the trust. For this evidence of better times the democratic party can truth- fully claim credit. Senator Allen is bound to push to the front. His desk has been changed from the | fourth row to the second row from the vice president’s platform. The very many and very much disap- pointed democrats in Nebraska are learning to their sorrow that a cabinet office is an expensive luxury for them. The number of trusts which are not going out of business as the result of the energetic policy of the attorney general of the United States Is increasing every day. The cables continue to reverberate with the detonations of the bellicose threats of the warring factions at Rio de Janeiro, but the fatalities are few and far between. The interstato irrigation convention to be held in Omaha next month to be successful must recelve the support of every organiza- tion of business men whose object is the upbuilding of this state. If Senator Hill decides to send President Cleveland a valentine we may be sure that it will not take the form of a vote in favor of confirming Mr. Peckham as assoclate Justice of the supreme court. It will be a cold day when the astuto lawyer is unable to find a few irregularities in a speclal tax levy that will give him a plausible excuse to take a case into court in order to resist its payment. If fire losses in Omaha are made the basis for the advance in Insurance rates, why is the advance extended throughout the state? This trumped-up claim of insurance man- agers is too absurd for serious consideration. Omaha is promised a handsome new build- ing in the place of that .destroyed by fire last week. Every one likes to see this kind of spirit in our citizens. The energetic business man is not to be downed by any- thing like a destructive visitation of fire and wate There is no occasion for perturbation over the proposed repeal of the federal elections bl The ballot box has a convincing method of punishing any of its assailants, and sooner or later the men who deprive it of the protection it is entitled to will be re- tired to private life, 1t Omaha is to secure the location of the Indian supply depot some carnest and well directed effort must be put forth to that end. We have tho advantage of location that no other city possesses or can ever possess and we should leave no stone un- turned In cur endeavors to win the prize. Senator Platt wants to reorganize the re- publican party in New York and put none but young als in fleld. Ho caught the spirit of the hour. He knows that the young men of the party have tired of the blunders and misdeeds of the demoe- racy and are in the proper frame of mind to administer a stinging rebuke. So It s in Nebraska, gene! the has A great many applicants for postoMices in Nebraska are now realizing that they would have done better to have postponed their ambition until next winter and then run for United States senator. Under ox isting political i Nebraska it would doubtloss be easier to secure a seat in the United States senate than it would to receive the appolutment to a postofiice, The democracy of Kansas Iy to be resuscitated A state meeting has been called that the leaders may reconnoiter and learn where they are at. They have even gone S0 far as to propose that a stralght ticket be put In the fleld this year. Kansas democracy seems to be about in the same condition as that of Nebraska. Just what it sees In the signs of the times to call it Into active business again surpasses all un- ferstanding. conditions The extensive swindles that are being perpetrated upon the thousands of poor set- tlers who are flocking to the Cherokee na- tion under the influence of glittering promises held out by the land speculators have been completely but the ex- posures come too late to save 4 great many men from the hardships occasioned by their removal to the Indlan territory. There ought to be some way of preventing the per- petration of such outrageous swindles. exposed, | to prey | to pr | and of the labor organizations. | ployea TO ABROLISH INJUNCTION ABUSES The lest few months have glven to the people of this country a serles of decislons by federal courts granting restraining orders nt rallway employes from striking which have practically revolutionized the at- titude of the courts toward controversies be- tween employer and employe. Beginning with Judge Ricks at Toledo, closely followed by Judge Jenkins at Milwaukee and Judge Dundy at Omaha, Injunction after injunction has been fssued forbidding the employes of rallroads which have been put under the con- trol of recelvers appointed by the United States to simultaneously quit work with a view to hampering the operations of the road. These orders have been variously Interpreted by the partisans of the recefvers On the one side it is argued that they make punishable ntempt of court every instance where two or mor to the railre the officiency tha bers of labor organiz vent courts as ¢ persons renounce their service d in a way caleulated to Injure of the line. Others maintain being directed to the officers and mem lons they simply pre the calling of a general strike in the name of the organization, while the individ- ual members are left to continue or to cease they may please. Yot whatever he the differences of opinion as to the exact interprotation which the court might itself put upon the restraining order, the language em- in the writ is sufficiently broad to make the inauguration of a strike upon a of the roads In very serious matter. Sonator Allen has evidently come to the conclusion that legislation offers the shortest way out of the injunction dilemma and has introduced a bill into the senate “to prevent the abuse of the writ of injunction.” This bill seeks to make It unlawful for any United States eourt to issue any writ of in- junction, mandate or restraining order against any labor organization, its officers or members, in any manner affecting their full frecdom to peacefully and quietly quit the service of any person or corporation at any time they sce fit to do so. From a political standpoint the populist senator has undoubtedly madg a shrewd move, By the introduction of this measure he sets himself up as the especial champlon of the labor organizations in the senate. The bill must call attention of the army of railway em- ployes to the populist representatives in congress, and whether it succeeds in accom- plishing the desired object or not it shows that Senator Allen’s sympathies lie with the workingmen as aga'nst the corjorations, As to the policy of legislative interference with the jurisdiction of federal courts in order to overturn specific decisions there is much room for debate. Yet conceding the wisdom of the policy, another question arises as to the power of congress to act. The authority of the courts to issue writs of injunction 1s derived not from congres- sional legislation, but from the constitution itself. Although the constitution leaves it for congress to establish the various tri- bunals inferior to the supreme court it or- dains that the judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, laws and treaties, or affecting designated persons or subjects. Having once secured legal jurisdiction over any mat- ter in dispute the courts must be unlimited, except by the constitution, to apply such legal or equitable remedies as are applicable to the case. Never hav- ing conferred upon them the right 10 issue an injunction it may be contended that congress has no power to take that right away. 1t is quite different, however, to deny that the federal courts have any constitutional right to interfere as they have done. But an appeal to the supreme court is the only way to establish- this point. Senator Allen’s bill tacitly assumes that the courts have thus far been exercising their righttul powers. work as question a may FIRK AND WAT Mr. John Rosicky appears to have a griev- ance against the water company, and we cheerfully give him the use of our columns to air it. His rantankerous assault all along the line is, however, entirely unjustifiable from any point of view. Ho starts out by charging the company with violating its contract obligation to maintain fire hydrant pressure that will throw a certain number of streams of water at given points to a given height, and as- serts that while the city has been increasing its fire force and apparatus the water com- pany has decreased the hydrant pressure and thereby caused the destruction of every large building that has burned up in this oity within the past two years. “And yet,” exclaims Mr. Rosicky in an apparent rage, “we do not hear as much complaint in public against the water com- pany as against the electric lighting com- pany. We do not hear that its bills were vetoed on that score, although the lack of water pressure is the cause of immense losses by conflagration both to citizens and insurance companies, and entails tremend- ous loss upon policy holders on account of increased rates. “Why this tenderness toward the water company? Are they perhaps liberal in any direction? God. save the mark!" Now, we are not required to explain why the mayor has failed to veto the water com- pany's bills, although we think the slur Is as much uncalled for as regards Mayor Bemis a8 it s regarding this paper. The ‘act that we print Mr. Rosicky's screed in full affords ample proof that his innuendo is baseloss. The Bee pays its water bills without rebate regularly when they are pre- sented. The aggregate pald to the water company for water used in The Bee building last year exceeds $800, In dealing with the water company the city has a right to exact compliance with obligations that can be fulfilled, but it has no right to ask what is impossible. The contract requires the company to maintain water pressure of a given force, and every time the tests have been made they have been up to the required height and standard, When the contract was madg In 1881 Omaha covered an area of less than fifteen square miles. Since then we have extended this area to cover twenty-five square mile clusive of South Omaha. Suppose we had extendod the area to fifty square miles? Could we expect the water pressure to be the same as it was when the city covered Afteen square miles? No city 100,000 population and covering an area of over twenty miles de- pends entirely upon hydrant pressure. Chi- cago, Cleveland and Milwaukee own their waterworks, and yet they have fire engines to supplement the hydrant pressure, No rational will contend that a single one of the large bulldings destroyed In Omaha during the past year could have been saved, no matter to what height the water could have been thrown. Every one of these bulldings was no better than a tinder box and In every Instance the fire was checked before it made much headway beyond the bullding in which It originated. The Shiverick and Orchard bulldings were full of combustibles, and so was the Boston store and adjacent stores. Each of theso ex- of over person [ butidings was completely envelnped in flame llar to roof in fess than ten minutes, and twenty streams of water 150 feet high could saved these structures or thelr contents. The old Boyd theater was doomed just as soon as the fire ran through the files, Brogklyn has certainly a good fire force and an But remember how 300 people were roasted to death Brooklyn theater a few years ago and the building was a total ruin. The same {s true of theaters and opera houses in a dozen larger citl than Omaha, where fire protection s ample, The proot that the lack of pressure has no bearing upon the raising of Insurance rates is the fact that rates have gone up In every city In Nebraska within the past six months. We do not attempt to defend the water \pany for excessive charges. The con- tract fixes the scale for private consumers, and f the company exceeds these rates parties can recover in the court One fact must also be borne in mind, and that that the water company s now in the hands of a receiver, and the city can no more forco it to enlarge its works than it can force the Unlon Pacific to finish its de- pot %0 long as it lacks the necessary funds complete the building. There will a timo come when the city will own the water works, but until then we can only exact what s reasonable, from ¢ not have 8 o mple water supply wo in a best water o to REPEAL OF FED: RAL ELECTION LAWS. By a vote of 38 to 20 the United States senate yesterday repealed the federal elo tion laws. There Is now only wanting the signature of the president to the measure, which undoubtedly will promptly at- tached, in to complete this part of the democratic policy. The repeal of these laws was demanded by the national plat- form of the democracy and was made a side issue in the national campaign. Very few people outside of the southern ®states, however, paid any attention to it an issue, yet none the less the democratic party proceeded to wipe these laws from the statute books on the assumption that it is a popular demand, adopting the same theory with reference to this question as It did re- garding the tarift. As was said in the report of the minority of the senate committee on privileges and elections, the laws which it is proposed to repeal were enacted largely for the se- curity of elections in northern cities. They were passed chiefly in consequence of frauds and crimes which had been committed by the democratic party in the city of New York, under the leadership of Tweed and his assoclates. In their operation they have nowhere prevented the casting and counting, freely and fairly, of the full democratic vote of the country. The strong- est evidence of this Is to be found In the last presidential election, when the demo- crats obtained control of the presidency and both houses of congress without any com- plaint of having been unduly Interfered with or obstructed. But the demand of the party in national convention that these laws should be wiped out had been made, the democratic organization of New York City against which they were chiefly ai- rected when passed, with the whole south- ern clement of the party, insisted that the platform pledge should be carried out, and 50 far as the representatives of the democ- racy are concerned they have complied. It is not doubted that Mr. Cleveland will respond with equal alacrity. That accom- plished all national authority over federal elections, so far as the protection of voters is concerned, will be at an end. Then Tammany will be free to exercise its pe- cullar methods without restraint and the democracy of the south will be more cer- tain than ever of maintaining the political solidity of that section. IMMIGRATION ON THE DECLINE. Official statistics show that there was a falling off in fmmigration last year, as com- pared with 1892, of over 54,000, the total for the year from all countries being 448 - 775 This was expected in view of the financlal and business conditions, and it is highly probable that the decline for the current year will be still more marked. In the classification of the Immigration by be order as countries, Germany and Poland show a great decline in the volume of immigration to the United States, while Italy, almost alone of all Furopean countries, sent over more of her people than ever, the obvious explanation of this being in the financial, industrial and political crises in that coun- try. It is noted as a curious circumstance that while Austria-Hungary as a whole records a decline, from Austria outside of Bohemia and Hungary there was a decided increase in the immigration, and it was nearly all concentrated in the last six months of the year, indicating that the peo- ple of Austria did not know of the business depression here or were in such straits at home that they concluded they could be no worse off by coming to the United States. There was a large decline in the immigra- tion from Poland and also from Germany, the figures for the latter country being 89,- 603 in 1893, against 118,278 In 1892, There was a very slight falling off from Russia and not much of a decline from Sweden and Norway, while the United Kingdom sent over just about the same number as In the year before. The immigration of last year was large as compared with that during 1885 and 1886 and 1889 and 1890, but below the average for the other years from 1880 onward. It Is to be observed in connection with this sub- ject, also, that this immigration does not represent an actual increase of the popula- tlon from foreign sources, for there must be subtracted from it an emigration of at least one-third the number and perhaps more. There has been an extraordinary movement to Europe during the last few months of former immigrants, some of the steamship companies reporting that they carrled back more of thls class than they brought over. Thus far in the present year immigration has been light, and there Is reason to expect that it will continue to be during the rest of the year. —ee THE DEPRESSION ABROAD. The returns of the British Board of Trade for 1893, just made public, a London dis- patch says have produced a profound im- pression throughout the country and deep- ened the gloom caused by the commercial dopression. A study of these re- turns will show that 18 good reason for this, For last year the value of British imports fell off over $78,000,000 as compared with 1892 and over $102,000,000 as compared with 1891, In exports there was a falling oft in value in 1893 as compared with the preceding year of over $40,000- 000, leaving & large apparent trade balance against the country. It has been argued in congress by those who advocato the Brit- fsh economic system that the adverse trade balances shown for several years by the dif- ference between imports and exports ure merely apparent and have no real effect upon the prosperity of the country. This s not casual theve THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 189L the view entertalngl, in Bngland, where the latest trade returns called out the declara- tion that “our wmidehivaunted free compe- tition has over-reaghpd itselt.”” The fact Is that the commercial depression in Great Britain, which hastésidted for several years, has vinced a ver§ large body of the peoplo that the ecanogic policy of the na- tion fs and it is not surprising to find the opinion expressed that the latest developments as o, teade conditions would tendency to advance the cause of radicalism and republicanism there. The cobvious fact: s that free trade land fs not holding her own in the Kets of the world, despite of the fact that Ner manufacturersthave free raw material, and this very ingtrictive lesson ought to be carefully pondered by American advo- cates of the English economic poll She has ovidently lost ground fn competition with the other industrial nations of Europe and it does not militate against this view to say that those nations are also suffering from depression. They are no worse if 80 badly oft as England in this respect, and it is to be remembered that the latter has had the advantage of many more years effort in securing the world's markets, be- sides which is the further Important con- sideration that the industries of England do not have to bear the heavy burden of internal taxation which those of Germany and France bear for sustaining enormous military os It wonld seem that the only hope of the industrial interests of Great Britain is in the of the democratic tariff pilicy in this country and whatever benefits they derive from that must be at the expense of American in- dustries, That the British manufacturers are eagerly hoping that this policy will pre- vail is well known and there appears to be no doubt that they will be gratified. It is impossible to say how great the bene- fits from this policy will be, but it is cer- tainly counted upon to increase largely the incomes of British manufacturers. In view of the fact that England, with free trade and a much lower average of wages in manufacturing industries than prevails in this country, is not maintaining her po- sition in the markets of the world, what becomes of the theory that the United States can acquire a larger foothold in those mar- kets under the proposed democratic tarlff policy? Is it not clearly apparent that the effect of that policy will be to surrender a large share of the home market fo our com- mercial rivals without any compensating re- unwise have a Eng- mar- ablishments, success turn in the forelgn markets, already fully occupled and where we will not be permitted it those Who possess them can by any pos- sibility keep us out? The returns of Brit- ish trade furnish an interesting and instruc- tive lesson which ought not to be lost on American statesmen. The city s advertising for proposals to turnish electric arc lights for street lighting purposes for a period of three years, com- mencing March 1, 1894, The invitation for proposals is adjusted to'the basis of voltage, for which the local clectric lighting com- pany has been clamoring for some time past, and this innovation will be welcomed if it serves to end the seemingly interminable disputes over candle power and to enable the clty to be sure that!it Is getting exactly what It fs contract{ng for. But in other re- spects the advertisement leaves soveral things to be desired. If there is any ad- vantage in making a ‘three-year contract instead of a one-year contract the citizens should know the difference. This could be readily ascertained by ‘asking for bids for one, two and three vears respectively, and making sure that some concession in price was being made for the longer term. It Is idle to expect competition in the matter ‘of furnishing the city with electric arc lights, as there is but one company in a position to supply the service. That company now has a contract for 100 lights that does not expire until November next. Letting a con- tract now for three years gives it a vice like grip upon the city and enables it to torce a renewal of the second agreement so soon as It terminates. There is no reason why the city should be bound by two or three contracts for electric lighting expiring at different times. Were all the lamps brought under a single contract the city would be able to demand better terms. now there is no possibility for it to throw off the yoke of the electric lighting company, because, although one contract might be dropped, the other will contiune the company in power. Henry George is again enthusiastically ad- vancing his pet project of the single tax on land values as the sole remedy and general panacea for all the economic ills which man is helr to. He must derive his encourage- ment for this new agitation from tho pas- sage of the Wilson tariff bill by the lower house of congress and the prospect for con- stantly recurring deficits in the yearly rev- enues of the federal government. If every congress should be compelled to scrape around for money to defray the expenses of the government, Mr. George might possibly find one in the not far distant future that would be willing to give his plan a trial, And like all the owners of patent medicines, he is himself convinced that “after one trial you will use no other.” Up to this time Mr. George has been content to preach his doctrine as an economic principle. Politics have been incidental only. Now that a bill embodying his views has found Its way Into congress and several advocates of the single tax have vented their views on this question on the floor of the house, it will be quite possible that the idea of a single tax party may be again put forward only to fall from favor as soon as Industrial prosperity re- turns, A letter to one of the New York papers calls attention to the fact that the recent speclal congressional elections in that city cost the taxpayers & sim In the nelghbor- hood of $100,000. These elections were re- quired to fill vacanties' caused, not by the deaths of the precéding incumbents, but by the resignations of fwo Tammany congress- men, who were sunimoned to fill more lu- crative offices under, the local government. To glve these two men soft berths It became necessary to set alkithe election machinery in two congressiondl’ districts In motion. This machinery is, fno fammany hands, so that Tammany got the money expended, and that was what Tammapy wanted, even at | the cost of one congressman, | NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Burglars blew the safe In the Daykin post- office to pleces and secured $12 in cash and $200 worth of stamps, After wearing self ont nursing husband and children through attacks of typhold fever, Mrs. Milton Booth of Tilden succumbed to an attack of tho grip. The hardware store of Nesbit Fremont has been closed by creditors Allfance celebrated the ning of the consolidated land office at that place by a banquet and ball. Representatives were present from many towns in hraska and Wyoming The Towa and Nebraska division Treubund has just held fts grand lod sion at Plattsmouth, winding up the me Ing with a grand masquerade ball. Dele gatos were present from lodges at Omaha South Omaha, Council Bluffs, Lincoln, Deni son, Ta., Chariton, Charter Oak, Wilhelm Minden, Underwood, Norfolk, Madison, Ger mania, Pilger and Fremont Away back In 1860—thirty-threo years ago—'Squire Cadegan of Brayton lived in Nova Scotla and hought ty shares in the International Coal Mining company of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, at $50 a share, says the Greeley Herald. Two years after wards, in 1862, the company falled and the ‘squire put down his investment as a dead loss and soon thought no more of it. In fact, he had almost forgotten the trans action entirely, when one day last week he received a lotter from Cape Broton an nouncing that the coal mines belonging to the company he supposed defunct had been sold for $1,000,000, and asking him to send on proof of po n of stock, and intimat ing that it would be paid fn full with in terost. Tho ‘squire, naturally, lost no time in replying to this letter, and may have to make a trip to Cape Breton to close up the matte We congratulate Mr. Cadegan on his good luck and pray that he may live many years to enjoy the unexpected little fortune The South Park Baptist church of Platts- mouth ¥ torn and almost disrupted as the result of a festival glven several weeks ago After the function was over it was discovered that a portion of the provender, consisting of a pair of yellow-legged chickens and some pleces of chinaware, had been stolen. The strange disappearance of the fowls anl dishes naturally caused an Investigation, and one of the lady mombers of the congrega- tion was suspicloned as having appropriated the missing property. A church trial fol- lowed behind locked doors, which resulted in the accused being cleared of the char, as far as one chicken and the dishes were concerned, but gullty of taking one chicken, which was not looked upon as a serious offense. The other night a business meet- ing was held to consider the matter of having a special officer at the church to preserve order during service. While this matter was being discussed pro and con the woman who was mixed up in the chicken case brought up that topic and insisted on being heard. An attempt to call her to order resulted fn naught but confusion, in the midst of which the woman continued to talk, and everyone else appeared to be doing the same thing. Finally the woman's hus- band came to the rescue and induced her to keep silence. But the disturbance had the effect of bringing the meeting to a closp, and now the congregation Is badly divided, with poor prospects of a recorciliation. —_——— A Fool's Paradise. Cineinnati Enquirer (dem) The scene in the house of representatives yesterday upon the conclusion of the de- bate on the tariff bill was hysterical in the extreme, The concluding speech was made by Mr. Wilson, who occupies the bad emi- nence of the authorship of the bill. The press report says: “Members threw papers and records into the air and cheered, ladies in the gallery waved their_handkerchiefs, and amid the excitement Mr. Breckinridge of Arkansas rushed up to Mr. Wilson and put his arms around his neck. This excited tremendous enthusiasm. “Messrs. Tucker, Bryan and Willlams lifted Mr, Wilson on their shoulders and carried him down the alsle to the demo- cratic_cloak room." If Messrs. Tucker, Bryan and Willlan had the slightest conception of the public sentiment concerning this absurd measure they would have been otherwise engaged than in carrying Mr. Wilson on their shoul- ders down the aisle of the house. If the senate should pass the bill, Messrs. Tucker, Bryan and Williams would be able & Rogors of of ‘to carry on their shoulders all that would be Jeft of the democratic party when the polls close on election day next November. The noise that this mutual admiration so- clety were able to make over one another in the house is mistaken by them for pop- ular enthusiasm. We commend them to the refrain of the song, “Oh, what a dif- ference in the morning. Quigg's Herculean Task, Wa-hin ton - tar, The builders of the Wilson tariff bill now await with no inconsiderable amount of trepidation the appearance in the congres- sional arena of Representative Lemuel Eli Quigg. Among many things promised by Mr. Quigg in the course of his successful campaign was the smashing of the Wilson bill. When or how or where or by what means the promise will be made good i8 the present mystery and the cause of much tariff-reform nervousness. The complete destruction of a measure that went through the house by a vote of 20{ to 140, and is therefore out of Mr. Quigg’s domain for the present, is a contract of tremendous mag- nitude—large enough to affright an experi- enced legislator—but Lemuel will not shrink from the task he cut out for himself. Keep vour eye on the only straightout repub- Yiean elocted to congress by a New York city district in ten years. Reform's False Pretense. New So k Sun The eandid supporters of the Wilson bill acknowledge that it will be detrimental to that great section of our working popula- tion w! h is emplo in manufacturing industries. They claim, on the other hand, that the measure will Signally promote the welfare of the American farmer. If they are really acting in his interests, they are in duty bound to cut out of the Wilson bill those provisions which admit, duty free many of the natural products of Canad: largely reducing the duties upon Most of those provisions are strokes lled, not at the manufacturers, but at the farmers of the United States. They are, therefore, anomalies, inconsistencies, excrescences, that can not be reconclled With the professed purpose of the bill, —————— Leave the Judiciary Alone, St. Paul Globe, The proposed nmendment to the constl- tution, which has been favorably considered Dby thé house committee on judiciary, limit- ing the terms of federal judges to ten will_not commend iiself to public favor. Much of the esteem in which ou federal courts are held is due to the pe manent tenure of office of the judges, who are thus removed from political and' mer- cenary Influences, and, belng compelled to take heed for the future, can devote their entire time and their undivided tal- ents to the work of the courts. Any change that would tend to make politicians of our judges would be a change for the worse, and tend to degrade the judiclary In theé public estimation. ALl Sl JudgeHolman Partly Right. Cinetnnati Enguirer (dem ) Congressman Holman says the income feature is one of the good things of the tar- Hff bill and that it will give the bill the sup- port of some wes 18 and the populists. Judge Holman may be right in part of his proposition. The income amend- Hient has the moral support of nearly all the republicans in the house—eastern as well as western—not on principle, but as a means of making democratic leg{slation as odious as possible. No doubt, rather than see the income amendment fafl, the republi- can managers will contribute & good many votes to it. They would prefer to keep quiet, but will be on hand if needed. e Carlisle's Ambition. Chicago ' {mes. Who_would have said ten years ago that John G. Carlisle would imitate other secre- taries of the treasury and use the office as a stepping stone to the presidency of a national bank? Highest of all in Lcaveningl’:wel‘.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report, Rl ABSOIUTELY PURE i Baking Powder | her | | | battle going on behind the northwestern | | might make a doubtful justice ¢ | openty PECKHAM'S FATE, Prossnre Exerted for 1is Contirmation. The Washington correspondent of the Chi- | cago nes, under date of the Gth, thus ple- tures the struggle between the Cleveland and Hill forces | Senators Pugh and Hill are busy roading | all kinds of damaging missives to the com- | nmittes of and concerning this would-be judge (Peckham). There fs a tromendous senatn ourtains, Peckham, who | the peace save that of a indifferent fame Tromendouy It is Cleveland against Hill and who In all respects cranky mugwump has but i5 not in his unfitness belng considored at | all. Nor has the vacant chair on the su- | preme beneh entered into the discussion, | 0 ubject 15 merely that of Cleveland®! against Hill, and the contest 18 being waged | on purely ward caucus lines, This Peckham | affair, from any point of view, fs a dis- | race. It ought to give the correct assay of Cleveland, and teach a befooled public that won't run ten ounces to the ton “It doesn’t look tonight as much like | beating Peckham as it did. Dumped into | the senato like a load of white house | garbage, this sad-odored nomination would | have been cursed and damned by senate | disapproval in n moment. But the Horn- | blower defeat taught Cloveland the sity of effort. Ho learned he couldn’t quite cinch a saddle on the senate and ride it as he chose Now he started in nd without a blush to buy enough to confir Peckham he Cockrell's brother-in-law, ~ John Waller, to be United States attorney for | tho west Missourl district. He also offers | the marshalship of the same district to that confederate hard rider, General Joe Shelby., These two names are expected to purchase the two Missouri senators. To day's list shows a plenteous remembrance of Towa, Hlinols and Indiana in a postofico way, and marks how the white house lariat is whirling in the horned viclnity of such shaggy leaders of the senate herd as Al- lison, Palmer and Voorhees. It Cleveland can buy or bribe Peckham's confirmation with patronage he will do it. And it lo gloomily as if ho might succeed. It is as barefaced and villainous display of white house Interference with the senate as has vet been shown." RISl St HERE AND THERE. Notwithstanding reports to the contrary Gladstone seems resigned to his job. The cohesive power of Italian politics enabled Minister Crispi to accumulate $1,- 000,000. Da Gama's demand for an ‘“‘absolutely civil government” was courteously responded to with shot. Blue-Eyed Billy Sheehan essa; act in the New York senate. A Saxon col- lared him and the Celt went down. Ochone! The Chicago Times has diagnosed the case of the New York Sun and pronounced it * ile gangrene.” Harmony blooms apace. The original ghost dan Lake will doubtless improve the opporiuni of turning that Nevada meteor to his account. His business has languished for some time. Major Allan Wilson, who was slaughtered by King Lobengula, ‘was a tall, powerful fellow of military build and bearing. Though only 35 years of age he had seen sixteen years of hard service in South Africa. Mayor Hopkins has discovered that Chi- cago is being robbed by office holders, and a reduction of salary must be had. There appears to be no obstacle to the mayor re: turning a portion of what he has already drawn. The Detroit Free Press gravely announces that the Omaha Bridge and Terminal struc- ture ‘“crosses the Big Muddy at Topeka.” The writer's amazement at the length and weight of the “‘draw” is excusable under the circumstances. The appearance of a legislative investi- gating committee in New York City coin- cides with a sudden impairment of the health of Boss Croker. He has started for the Pacific coast to recruit and avoid inquis itive annoyances. ‘Ward McAllister, king of Gotham's 400, hurls a cold, clammy stare at Congressman Bryan because the latter ridiculed his royal prerogatives during the income tax debate. Ward polnts to his revolutionary ancestry and intimates that reflections on his patriot- ism are the emanations of conceited plebians. George C. Hunter of Oakland, Cal., has just come out of the surgeon’s hands with- out a memory. His skull was fractured by a flying bolt and the brain was injured. Al- though he is now otherwise perfectly well, he cannot remember his wife or his mother. | Although he had a good education he can now neither read nor write, Mrs. Clara Mindoch is one of Uncle Sam's lighthouse keepers who has been retained for many years in spite of all political changes. Her husband was appointed keeper of the Rondout light during Presi- dent Pierce's administration. He died after one year's service, and since that time Mrs. Mindoch has attended to the duties. In Chicago the other day Colonel R. G. Ingersoll was asked what he thought of the income tax bill. “I think it's a tax on brains,” he replied. “I don’t wonder Cleve- land favors it. Why, there is no more sense for the democratic party to tax incomes than there would be for the republican party to tax Cleveland because he is fat. An income tax is a fight against nature. Nature gave some men more brains than others. To tax a man's brains is to try to combat nature, and in the history of the uni- versa that never yet has been permanently accomplished with success.” neces votes named od the czar fine clothes o 1T BROWNING, KING © Your money’s worth or you WHERE TO PIND THE NF mparison Metween Papers Peinted Yoster- day by The lee n Would-Be Riva The dally comparison between the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commercial nows and advertisements, printed in The ee, World-Terald: and Lincoln Journal, gives the following figures for yesterday Morning Bee, long, wide columns a7 Morning W.-H., short narrow columns,, 2 Lincoln Journal, short, narrow columns, 28 vening liee, long, wide columns Y Fvening W.-H,, short, nu ow columnas, 31 KEEN EDGINGS, \s News: F when come to blows ze ranks merit Albany Press: A girl may be almost par- med for throwlng herself at a man if he 18 @ good cateh, Minneapolls Times: 1f a man gets up when the day breaks can he be sald to have a whole day before him? Truth: “Old Hrown is dead.” “I'm - not surprised. More than forty years ago he told a girl that It she refused him he would die, and she did refuse him.” Inter Ocean: “Goodluck has had his sal- ary raised; was it for extra work?' “‘Yes; he alwayslistens when the proprietor tells his baby's smart sayings, Detrolt Tribune justice, “You are charged,' “with voting twice In one oW 1t replied the cul- weekly, “but hit wur the best T could do. "1 can't Vote fast as I useter, ‘count o' the rheumatism.' Somerville Journal and \\‘l a half brothers, v I didn’t know W he wasn't Wing—Dobson did you know it? that; but 1 al- w more than half a man. Puck: Mrs. Funnyman—John the first joke on the mother-in-lnw Mr. Funnyman—When Noah went the ark and left her out when was made? into Detroft Free Press: Judge—T shall sen- tence you to twenty years for wrecking that tfain B s would me at had have my oner—1 wrecked the been glad to have palatial residence. presume, judge, whole road you dined with Harper's Bazar: “When T last met you, it I am not mistaken, you had an exceed- ingly heavy beard." Tust s just months ago and for my wife. Se %0; had it cut off four ade into a shoulder cape “What do yer think ot the fncome tax?" asked Plodding Pete, “I ain't got no objections to it,” replied Meandering Mike. “Only it does’seem ter me thet the government might go the whole length ov the string an’ pervide every man weth an income ter fit it.” Washington S SECLUSION. Clevcland Plain Dealer, He in the gloom and silence alone, While the wild wind continued its whistle, And he sang to himself in confldent tone— Tor his heart was as light as a thistle, The wind not alone did the whistling that night While the youth in the gloom was abid- ing— One whistled without, in a sorrvier plight, The collector—from whom he was hiding. st ‘00 RICH NOTHING R BARY. Latest Popular Song. Though the world all its beautiful ures may bring, There's nothing 00 rich for the baby. He sits at the table and rules like a King, There's nothing too rich for the baby. When the turkey is carved 'till its frame is a wreck You had better belicve that the child is on deck He gets all the white meat, while you get the neck; There's nothing too rich for the baby treas- And at night they give “Tootste” your side of the bed, There's nothing too rich for the baby. He stakes out his claim from the foot to the head, There's nothing too rich for the baby. And at midnight you waltz on tha carpet a spell, Bither dangling a rattle or fingling a bell He clings to your hair with a wild-west show’ yell, There's nothing too rich for the baby. I buy costly playthings and toys by the score, There's nothing too rich for the baby, He pulls out their works and keeps crying or more, There's nothing too rich for the baby. He chokes the life out of a ten-dollar pup, He bites out the side of a beautiful cup, ‘And_my diamond set shirt stud, he gobbles that up, There's nothing too rich for the baby. When the minister's calling they bring the kid in, There's nothing too rich for the baby. Of course he shows off his original sin, There's nothing too rich for the baby. He sticks his dear foot through the cl man's hat, He climbs on his collar and mashes it fla He spies a bald head and he sneezes af that, There's nothing too rich for the baby! Y- Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. Children Cry for, Pitcher’s Castoria. Barth The Fire-Fiend Has again got in his A=A =Bonmn. Y for $2.25. Those who have the price, the quality is just Will pay the expross If you send the money for $20 wortli o more 100 0 4 L R B .can buy a $b pair of trousers for $4.50—or a $3 pair know these to be more than ordinary bargains and well worthy of your inspection, BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, , work and did it with a rapidity that is only equaled by the race- horse pace with which we are disposing of our magnificent stosk 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 = e 7T R R e e T patronized us in the past No matter how low as good as ever. Ry | T | [ v e e e - o e =