Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Fditor. PURLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF 81 (without Hun sunday, One Daily Hee Year Dafly_and Hix Mo Thres Haturday Weekly Omaha, The Honth Omnh Counedl New Y Washington, and Twenty-fouth Sts rl street wamber of Commeres 14 and 15, Tribune bullding. Fourteenth it CORRESPONDENCE mmunicntions relating to news and edi torial matter should Mressed: To the Editor BUSINESS LETTERS « and remittances should he Pubiiahig company and postofice of the comp 1ING COMPA * CIRCULATIC Taschuck, secretary of i ‘company, being (nly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete pies of The Duily Morning, ISvening and inday 1 pd during month of January, 1804, was as folows: 50 17.. 18 19 0. 2| Publishi the ... e 31, 16 % 2,827 Total for the month o Less reductions for unsold turned coples...... v Total sold.... ST I Daily average net circuiation Sunday. 4 TZSCHUCK subscribe February, FORGF worn to hefore presence this (SEAL) N and It I8 safe to say that Cleveland and Hill are not Interchanging valentines today. How Mr. Peckham would e in the form of a confirmation by the senate to that supreme court v y a valentine We extend a hearty welcome to Mr. George W. Childs Drexel upon his advent into the editorlal management of the Philadelphia Ledger. The action of some of the roads in withdrawing from ment augur well political campalign this rail- the pass agree- for an early western seems to Tt your letter carrier is late today charge the delay up to the fact that has the usual number of valentine missives to deliver to the various sweethiearts along his route. he Another lonesome democrat in Nebraska hag been provided with a place by the ad- ministration. The rest of them are still exposed to all the cruelties of the blizzard. A little loaf is better than no bread at all. It Nebraska democrats can't have the whole federal machine at once, one postmastership at a time will have to suffice. But don't let the times be so few and far between. Omaha was possessed of thirteen fire en- gine houses during the year 1893. This ac- counts for the unusual fire losses of the year. Cease to lament the inefficiency of the fire department and curse the evil spirits that dwell in the figure thirteen. We understand that a coterle of republican politicians have made a slate at this carly day for the state ticket next fall. The peo- ple have not been taken into their con- fidence. This little omission may prove fatal when the pigs come home. The endorsement of Admiral Benham's conduct at Rio Janeiro by a commendatory resolution of congress, couched in language intended to pfevent it from carrying with it the privileges of a vote of thanks, is the least congress could do in recognition of his patriotic services, The recent heavy snow is not exactly what the railroad men enjoy, but the tillers ot the soil welcome it as the precursor of bountiful and early crops. Over a vast area it will put the ground in perfect condition and will be worth many thousands of dol- lars to the farmers of Nebraska. Secretary Carlisle is only beginning to learn from Mr. Riker in how great demand those 5 per cent bonds are held. An e way to satisfy the Chicago broker, who insists upon having the entire loan handed over to 'him, would be to issue another §50,- 000,000 in bonds for his especial benefit. Throughout all these weary, tempestuous days the Railway Employes association has been dumb as an oyster regarding the judi- clal reduction of wages upon the Union Pas cific lines. Is the association paralyzed, or fs it simply hibernating until the heat ot the next state campalgn shall call it to active life? From the length of time taken by the speretarles of the State Board of Trans- portation in making their report, it is fair to presume that they are having some dif- fieulty in wording thelr argument in such a way that it will convince the people of the state that \he transfer switch law will be of no benefit to them. The latest Parislan bomb outrage will give the French government an excuse for con- tinuing its repressive measures aimed at the anarchists, and at the give an impetus to the anarchistic propaganda. But punishment 15 one fhing and prevention an The French government has a v unenviable job on its hands. same time ather. The wreck of the bank at Atlantie, fa., 1s the most serious one that western lowa has sustained in many years. A striking fea- ture of it is found in the fact that the bulk of the deposits belonged to the farmers ot the nelghborhood. The people aro eagerly waiting further developments from the in vestigation Into the causes of the suspension As yet no faction of the state democracy has been accorded credit for the appointment of the new Lincoln postmaster. This is somewhat remarkable and will put all the little fish at sea respecting their chances for securing postoffices throughout Bryan's dis- trict. It is evident that no Nebraska dem- ocrat has an undisputed pull at the white house. A Chicago insurance man tells us that the city electriclan ordinance amendments now pending before the council will meet all reasgnable requirements. He intimates a policy for local Insurance agents which it adopted will be effective in bringing about a better system of electric lighting and a rigid enforcement of the ordinance govern- Ing electric lighting companies and their business methods. THE Secretary and broader GOVERNMENT CREDIT Carlisle takes a much higher view of his duty to maintain the crodit of the government than do the demo- who call in question his authority (o use the proceeds of bond sales for current expenses. According to the offi- clal report of what the secretary sald to the crats in congross house judiclary committee when he appeared before it to explaln his position In connec tion with the proposed he had the most complete faith not only in his authority to sell bond duty to apply the proceeds to what tho exigencles of the treasury render necessary. Ilo sta tee that he belioved it to be hfk duty to pay and all other public obligations, “and stops me,” sald the secre- while I stay there 1 Issue of bonds, but in his power and r pur- should ed to the commit- pos vensio unless congress tary, “I shall do o; shall endeavor to maintain the credit of the government by paying its obligations.” Asked whether e would do g0 out of the proceeds of the bonds he proposed to sell, Mr. Carlisle replied: “I would not the proceeds of bonds It it was possible to avold it, but T would not let the obligations of the govern- ment go to protest and fail to pay the appro- priations made by for legitimate purposes and for carrying on the expenses of the government as long as there is a dollar in th The secretary further in- formed the committee that, while his inten- tion in issuing bonds was to replenish the reserve fund, e might be confronted here after with a very aquestion as to what he will do In the event that congress fails or refuses to make provision to:supply the deflcfency. If he should find no money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, except the money that has been realized from the sale of bonds, e will be confronted with the ‘question at once whether he will stop the payment of whether he will stop the public buildings, whether he will stop payment for work upon rivers and harbors, whether he will withhold , or will use for these purposes the money in the treasury not otherwise appro- priated. ccretary Carlisle left no doubt a his course would be in such an exigs congress treasury. serious pensions, payments upon salarie to what icy. He would meet these obligations as long as he had money with which to pay them and it is hardly necessary to that such an actlon would be approved by the practical common sense of the country. The hair- splitting lawyers, the small politiclans and the demagogues In congress might object to art's content, but the intelligent Judgment of the people would commend the patriotic purpose of the of the treasury to maintain the credit of the gov- ernment with every dollar at his command, regardless of the source from which the money was obtained or of any legal techni- calities, Sceretary Carlisle rightly regards his office as having some other function than that of custodian of the public funds. As chief of the financial department of the gov- ernment his position is not merely clerical and among his dutics none is so important as that of maintaining the credit of the gov- ernment. Congress has given the secretary of the treasury certain authority, to be ex- ercised in his discretion. It has empowered him to issue and sell bonds under certain conditions. This everybody concedes: Hav- ing acted by virtue of this authority and the proceeds of the sale of bonds being in the treasury, could any greater folly be con- celved of than for the secretary of the treasury to refuse to use this money for paying the legitimate obligations of the gov- ernment and thereby endanger the national credit? Every practical consideration pqually with every patriotic consideration demands the maintenance of the government credit. If that should be impaired all other credit would suffer and the country would experi- ence a financial revulsion of the most dis- astrous character. From his elevated van- tage ground the secretary of the treasury can see the dangers which the petty poli- ticlans at a lower level cannot discern and with a sense of responsibility which they are unable to feel he is determined to use all means at his command to avert the danger. In this purpose he will have the almost unanimous support of the American people. say secretary A USUPRATION OF POWER. The declsion of Judge Scott upon the ap- peal of the Kaiser liquor license case in- volves much more than the granting or re- jecting of a particular application for a license to sell liquor. Unless the princl- ple laid down is reversed by a higher court it will result in practically destroying the power of the license board over this mat- ter and in arrogating to any judge of the district court the authority which the legis- lature sought to confer by statute upon the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners. In the Kalser case the only protests filed against the granting of a license were those signed by merchants do- ing business in the vicinity of the proposed saloon, who claimed that its establishment ‘would affect thelr trade injuriously. In order to give effect to these protests Judgo Scott has reversed the decision of the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners and has lssued an order perpetually restraining the board from granting a license to carry on the liquor traffi at the localily in question. It Is an established principle of law that no court is authorized to review the dis- cretionary acts of an inferior tribunal un- less founded upon a wrong theory of its powers, It has been equally well established that the power of the license board to with- hold a lquor license from any applicant s a discretionary power not to be questioned In any other place. The supreme court of this state has consequently ruled that, where the board refuses to grant a license, no appeal from such decision can be entertained no matter upon what grounds the conclu stons been reached. This is the foundation of the local option feature of the Slocumb law, those communities desiring practical prohibition being left free to select members of the li fuse to issue any licenses whatever, new have snse board who will re It the withliolding of a license comes within the discretionary power, the granting of a license where all the forms preseribed by law avo been properly observed must be equally within the discretionary power and the decision of the license board final and complete, The right of appeal to the district court from decisions adverse to protests claiming that the applicant has failed to live up to the law must not be confused with any pre- tended right of the court to review the dis- cretionary acts of the board. The statute prescribes certain Imitations upon the grant ing of liquor licens and in executing these provisions the board exercises merely ministerial power. So, where the applicant has violated the law during the preceding year, it becomes the duty of the board to refuse to renew his license. Where the pe- tition is not signed by the deslgnated num. ber of freeholders the board does mot even acquire jurisdiction to act, and & license thus granted must be declared invalid on appeal to the court. The same Is true with respect to advertising in the newspaper laving the largest circulation in the county, | with repect to the payment o the ticenss foo and with respect to all other conditions precedent conformity with which is enjoined by the law. Shouid the board issue licenses in disrogard of these requirements, it Is the place of the court to overrule it on ap- peal. These are matters of law, not of dis cretion, and are appeal What fs the logical outcoms of the posi- tion assumed by Judge Scott? The board becomes a mere plece of mechanism before which formalities be enacted but whose decisions count for noth- ing. Bvery judge of the district court | comes a license board to himself. In the Kalsor case the protesting merchants at- tempted to make out that the proposed sa- loon would be injurious to thelr businesses, The license board after weighing the dence gave it as its opinion that the pros- pective Injury was not such as to justify a refusal of the license. There had previously heen no saloon there and therefore no viola- tion of the law during the preceding year. Every condition demanded by the law was fulfilled. But Judge Scott gives it as his opinion that injuries com- plained of do justity a refusal of the license, and where the judge's opinion is different from the opinion of the board nis opinion goes. Bverybody and anybody, Tom, Dick and Harry, may file frivolous protests with the license board against every applicant for arry an appeal up to Judge Scott and let the judge decide whether or not the license shall be granted. The license board may as well resign its powers to the tender mercies of the judge. No more flagrant usurpation of power has been attempted by our courts In many a day. roperly subjects fc license certain are to ovl the prospective a license, ¥ YEARS OF PROFIT SHARING. At the annual meeting of Mr. Alfred Dolge of Dolgeville, N. Y., with his employes two weeks ago the head of the cturing industries at that place reviewed the prog- ress of his scheme of profit sharing since he removed his establishment there in 1874, The usual feature of the yearly recurring reunion of employer and employes had been a banquet given by the former and an ac- counting of the earnings to be divided with the workingmen. This year was neither banquet nor division of earnings, because there were no earnings to share. This unprecedented situation, is attributed by Mr. Dolge to the financial depression under which all industry has been laboring and to the threatened raid upon the wages of the laborer by the pending Wilson tarift bill. The plan of profit sharing originally adopted in the felt mills established in Dolgeville twenty years ago was an experi- ment inaugurated entirely volwntarily by their proprietor. It contemplated the yearly distribution of a portion of the net profits among the employes, chiefly among the fore- men and those who had displayed an extra- ordinary zeal in the welfare of the mills. Bach employe, of course, received the cur- rent wages for the work which he performed. Gradually other features were added to the system. Mr. Dolge contributed to the en- tertainment and education of the families. Ho organized an aid society. He Instituted an old age pension for those who attained a certain age after a specified number of yoars spent In his employment. He gives away a number of life insurance policies, on which he pays the premiums, and those who fail to pass the medical examination are credited with the amount which would have been paid as premiums upon thelr policles. Alto- gether in the twenty years the sums ex- pended as the employes’ share of the profits add up almost $212,000. Under the profit sharing regime Brock- ett’s Bridge, known as Dolgeville since 1881, has also had its fulk share in the profits of the felt mills and kindred industries. One of the older employes sketches the progress which it has made under his own eyes In a contribution to a recent numbgr of the Dolgeville Herald. He tells how the place has grown from a mere hamlet to a prosper- ous village, how the old Brockett’s bridge was replaced by an iron and steel structure, how the club house and school house arose, how the railroad was built, how electric lighting was introduced and finally how the inhabitants are going to indulge In a water works plant. All this wonderful trans- formation he ascribes to the prosperity of the factories under the profit sharing system. Profit sharing, it is thus seen, may in- crease the earnings during prosperous years, it may prevent so great a deficit during bad seasons as would otherwise occur, but it can offer no -guarantee that there will always be profits to divide. It may be an excellent device to encourage thrift and to reward fidelity, but it is not the much- sought-for solution of the whole labor prob- lem. It las been successful because it has been the exception. Were profit sharing universally in force it would give no indus- try an advantage over another. The disap- pearance of the profits leaves the, employes exactly where they would have been with- out the profit sharing system. manu there WATER PRESSURE AGAIN. In another column we print the opinions of city officials upon the' subject of water pressure. Public sentiment seems to have been largely formed in this matter upon the experience of recent fires which taxed the capacity of the waterworks and the firo de- partment to the utmost. The average citis zen i3 unable to sce with his limited knowl- edge of the conditions why a specified test at Farnam and Fourteenth or Seventcenth streets can meet all contract requ! ments, while at a fire water cannot be sed above the fourth story of buildings In quantities to successfully cope with the flames, In the hope of finding a practical way out of a perplexing dilemma we have sought the opinions of men whose official business it is to grapple with the question of hetter fire protection, We find that thelr ideas in great measure only confirm the pesition taken by The Bee in the matter. The rapid growth of this city in recent years has made 1t nccessary to extend the water mains over a vast territory, which naturally bhas re- duced the pressure at any given point. Where ten to twenty lines of hose are put in play in the vicinity of a fire it is utterly im- possible to throw water by that means to any considerable height. It has heen shown that similar conditions exist in many of the large cities where steamurs have had to be resorted to in order that adequate fire pro- tection might be afforded. Thoro are at least two methods by which a sufficlent water pressure can be secured and adequate fire protection afforded, The one is suggested by Chilef Galligan and con- templates the construction of a separate water maln for the exclusive use of the fire department, and tho other is in the use of more steamers. The fire commissioners have hit upon the latter expedient as furnishing the most speedy remedy. The former would involve the expenditure of a vast sum of money, and it the water company could le gally be compelled to put in the new line for the exclusive purpose in question it is doubt ful whether the recelvers, who now have chargo of the works, would be authorized to undertake such extengive {mprovements. It 1s & popular delusion that every fire can be extinguished with littlo or no loss. Some of the most destreékive fires of recent years have occurred In cities whose fire depart- ments aro the boesyaguipped and where the water pressure métimlt reasonable demands. o firetrapd'fd every large city that are sure to burn \{o_ the ground when the fire flend attacks themy No human agency can save such buffdings. It was almost a crime to permit thefi' to be bullt, and the responsibility for their loss is really upon the heads of officials who«failed to enforce the ordinances respecting’ the construction of large bulldings within the prescribed fire Hmits. The buildthiglordinance now in force In Omaha Is a gogd ope. If its provisions be strictly observqd hgreafter there will be fower fires and less, talk about Insufficient water pressure and,incompetent fire fighters. There a Senator Lindsay's attitude upon the ques- tion of confirming or rejecting the nomina- tion of Mr. Peckham to the supreme court vacancy will doubt command general commendation from all who inde- pendence and courage in the actions of pub- lic men. Whatever view we may take of the advisability of placing Mr. Peckham on the bench of tho supreme court, the reso- lutions of the Kentucky legislature instruct- ing the scnators from that state to cast their votes agalnst him were entirely gratul- tous and out of place. We can imagine what Senator Hill would say should the repub- lican legislature of New York venture to send him instructions to support Mr. land’s nominee. He would regard it huge joke. If he responded at all it would be to say that he had been elected senator and not the legislature, and that le would attend to his duties as in his view the in- terests of the public appeared to require. What would have been superfluous in the case of the New York legislature is equally 50 in the case of the Kentucky legislature. Senator Lindsay's vote favorable to Mr. Peckham shows that he simply Ignored the instructions which were sent to him. In a matter in which Kentucky is concerned so indirectly he could not have voted the other way and maintained his reputation for inde- pendence without an express repudiation of the resolution of the legislature, no admire Clove- as a Tho great reform leglslature of Colorado, convened in extra session by Governor Waite to provide for the regeneration of mankind, now finds itself come to a pretty pass. The state auditor refuses to issue warrants for the legislators’ salaries until they shall have enacted a bill designating the fund or funds from which the money Is to be taken. There would be nothing exorbitant in this demand were not the concurrence of the senate nec- essary to the passage of every bill and the senate has steadily refused to pass bills of any kind in the hope that it might drive the house to agree to a resolution providing for adfournmenit. The members of the house will not feel inclined to continue their work unless they have reasonable assurances that they are to be paid. It is also quite likely that the senate will refuse to join in pass- ing a legislative appropriation bill until after the house dgrees to make some ar- rangements for adjournment. The legisla- lure seems to have fimlly gotten very near the end of its ropd." | It was only to ba expected that the county physician would ‘be exonerated from the charge of neglecting dounty patients, There was no denial that {le patients had been turned over to the. care of medical students not yet entitled to practice medicine as reg- istered physicians, and the report of the committee to which the charges were re- ferred stamps the approval of the commis- sioners upon this'kourse of actlon. If med- ical students are good enough physicians to attend to the county poor why not dispense with the county physician and save money by employing a half-dozen embryo doctors? Reported cases of distress are disclosing an alacming number of instances where the party asking for assistance has Just arrived from some neighboring town from which he had been driven or sent to this city penni- less and without resources. Omaha is doing her best to take care of her own desti- tute, but cannot be expected to care for the poor of the entire state. What would these towns say were Omaha to adopt their policy of sending its own charges to be burdens upon the charity of outside communities? Let every town do its duty without shirking or shifting. The fact that 30,000 wool growers of the west have forwarded a protest to Washing- ton against the free wool provision of the tariff bill suggests the idea that these same farmers should have made their protests against a possible free wool contingency at the ballot box in November, 1892. The farmers of the west were among the people who demanded a change in the administra- tive policy of the government. Perhaps they believed the change would only affect the other fellows. The state auditor of Towa has the past year given special attention to bond invest. ment companies which have lately met with the combined opposition of courts, press and people throughout the country. The re sult is the introduction of bills in the Towa legislature designed to fence such companies out of the state. It Is to be hoped they will receive the signature of Governor Jackson, as they doubtless will upon presentation to him for his official approv 1t is difficult to analyze the character of a man like Valllant, the Paris bomb thrower, or that of the man who sought to avenge his death in the Parisian cafe night before last. Society has no means of protecting itself against them. Death has no terrrors for them and every legal ition @ gravatas the danggr which they constantly threaten. Fortynately, America is paratively free from such dangerous foes to soclety. ” com- The 6 fof Investn Minnéapilis 11 e All who have money to Invest should in- vest It now. They will not hav opportunity ‘this year, nor for several y o come, no mattér whether they put it into bonds, stocks, real estate, new bulldings, merchandise, or what, not e Value of frmigration, New, ¥urk World, It 1s estimated that bver values in this country are pectation of growth’ through future imm gration. Have the people who are throw ing all possible impediments in the way of immigration thought=of that and what i means? er cent of all ed on the ex- e - No Froe Trade in His'n, Cincinnaté Enquirer In the last few days several papers have published a contribution from Prof. Wilson on the tariff, The fact that he has copy- righted the soreed named seems to Indicate that he favors “protection” in individual cases, and that the “free list" 13 suspended when' he takes his pen In hand. LS liating the Flatform, Lenver N ws. 1t is sad but interesting to see how the southern cuckoo papers take the ing of another plank in the national d eratic platform by the Cleveland adminis tration. The repudiation of the pledged re- peal of the state bank tax Is a severe blow 0 the south. It I8 good for the people's party, for it will give the populists several southern states, Re) hard The election of Lemuel Ely Quigg has not seriously retarded the establishment of soup houses Peixoto’s supporters must vote better than they shoot if they secure a vindication at tho polls. The reported conversion of the iridescent Ingalls by Sam Jones appears to be a misera ble advertising makeshift. One of the Northern Pacific receivers shed real tears in court while the company's coun. sel landed his charactor, Probably he wept because the lawyer belleved what he sald A. J. McLauren, who has been elected to succeed Senator Walthall of Missiseippl, 1s a native of that state, 46 years old and is not a confederate brigadier. He sorved as a pri e. The Salvationists of Chicago for divers crimes against the peace and good order of the community. A disagree. ment was the result. The defendant’s sup- porters were too numerous for an impartial return A statesman in the Massachusetts legis- Inture belleves he can pluck the water tanks while the Dell Telephone company is incroas ing its stock It is such innocence Boston seeks to protect by declaring war on the nude in art. An embezzler of $43,000 of th. funds of Tipton county, Indiana, was convicted and sontenced to two years in the penitentiary The Indiana Mosher flew at a $60,000 altitude in two years, and hopes to get the virus out of his system during the next tw State officers of Michigan chargoed with inflating the canvass of votes on the con- stitutional amendment increasing their sal- aries are getting deeper into the mire of public contempt. The latest development of the scandal is the mutilation of the record Captain Daniel Pratt Mannix of the marine corps, who died in Washington the other day, ‘was in charge of the detachment of marines on the monitor Saugus that guarded the conspirators and John Wilkes Booth's. body until they were removed to the Washington arsenal. Quanal Parker, chief of the Comanches, has a large and comfortable residence near the reservation in which his tribe is quar. tered, but when he leaves on an extended Journey he turns his five wives out and locks up the house, lest they should carelessly set it afire and destroy it in his absence. They do not like such assurance on his part. Hon. Dudley Du Bose, judge of the dis. trict court in Montana, is not only the youngest judge in the United States, but he has what is probably the largest judicial district in the world, as it covers five counties in Montana, reaching from North Dakota on the east to Idaho on the west, He is a grandson of Robert Toombs of Geogla. Election reform has taken a few strides in New York. Two inspectors have been con- victed, a noted boss Is on trial, two have been turned down and the health of another been seriously impaired by the approach of a legislative investigating committee. These are dismal times.for the democracy. Mr. Gladstone persistently refuses to cons firm Wally Astor's “‘scoop.” Bret Harte, although past 50 and in poor health, is a very handsome man. His face retaing an appearance of youth, while his hair is silvery white. He has a slender figure and an erect and graceful carriage. An American girl who met Mr. Harte in London last winter says that he was one of the best dressed men there. He is a club man and much sought after in society, but goes out Infrequently. - triod Satan THE KEARSARGE. ew York Advertiser: But, whether she be saved or not, the Kearsarge has left a fame as undying, and even more worthy its immortality, as that of Nelson's unfortunate Victory. Baltimore American: The loss of the Kearsarge is a severe blow to the navy, not because of the intrinsic value of the vessel, but because of the glorious memories which clustered about her. New York World: But though we shall never see the Kearsarge again, her name will always shine in the bright galaxy of floating stars with the Constitution, the Bon Homme Richard and the Hartford. Springfield Republican: It will pay us all to read again how this union ship went in search of that scourge of our commerce, the Alabama, found her, fought and sunk her. That was indeed a famous fight of which all the world took heed. Philadelphia Ledger: Every patriotic citi- zen whose memory carries him back to the days of the war will read with regret of the loss of the United States steamer Kearsarge, the famous naval relic of the war. The story of her sea fight with the Alabama re- vived the reputation of American sallors es- tablished by Paul Jones and Decatur. Philadelpiia Record: The old vessel had a sentimental value far greater than her actual worth. The roar of her guns in the English channel was worth reams of diplo- matic protestations in the hour of trial when the fate of the union hung in the balance. But perhaps it was just as well that she should dip her flag to Neptune and no other. New York Tribune: The loss of the Kearsarge off Roncador reef will be deplored by patriotic Americans. The gallant ship had survived her usefulness, and her con- tinuance in commission involved constant expense for repairs; but not even tho most rigorous economist of the Navy department or in congress had the heart to suggest her condemnatfon as a useless relic of the old fleet. e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The Fevival in the whole town. The Valley county teachers institute will be held at North Loup March 3. Hon. J. A. Cope, who represented Pawnee county in the legislature of 1887, died at Pawnee City after a long illness. The Richardson county court house caught fire from the furnace, but the flames were discovered in time to prevent much damage. The contract for building the new hotel at Emerson, for which the business men raised a bonus, has been signed and work will begin at once. While William Goeke was driving from Diller to Fairbury he dropped a satchel con- taining an order for $100 and a $600 note. He hasn't found it yet. Ex-Sheriff Conley of Phelps back from his little Texas trip. Kundson acted as escort and gave official quarters in the jail. The people of Scott’s Bluff county are thoroughly awake to the nced of organizing for irrigation purposes, and a local associa- tion is incubating at G i Haines Meyers of Falls City has sued John R. Smith, a prominent horseman of the sume place, for $5,000, damages claimed by the alienation of his wife's affections. Stanley Skeen of Verdigre dropped his mit ten in a well, and in trying to recover it he lost his balance d fell into the water. didn’t perish but he had a mighty cold bath. An Intoxicated farmer became ‘‘sassy' in a Gibson billiard hall, and when he re- covercd consclousness ho found his skull fractured and onc wrist broken. A billiard cue did Lho execution. Two Diller boys have applied for a patent on a machine which combin in one lmple- ment all the essential tools used upon a farm, including a seeder, disc plow, corn planter, lister, drill and cultivator, mowing machine and hay rake. The entire machine will not weigh to cxceed 700 pounds, Louisyille is stirring up county s Sherift the ex- s tho Senate. Globe-Dremoci ai It 18 probable that the attempt to be made In the senate to strike out the in- come tax from the tarift bill will fail. The great majority which the bill with the tax amendmenit obtained in the house, and the certainty that the house is determined to fight for that feature of the bill, are likely 10 deter the senate from removing it. And, president’s desire to see {urift gin as early as possible will con- strain him to sign the bill despite his hos tility to the tax. —- Indinn Civilizntic St. Paul Globe. mo, the famous Apacl Justice of the peace in and presides with dignity and falrness permits no foolishness from the lawy and administers jus with an even ha knows but the erstwhile chie Y y ke a se and. proy instead of & chief, has Alabama, He Geron hecome 1oe himself benefactor public -of silver. LAND FOR THE OLD SOLDIERS Manderson's Bill Will Give Those Entitled a Full Quarter Section Bach. THEY MAY SELL THEIR RIGHT TO ENTER Proposed Veterans Outright, and ¥ it Withou ofw Visit, Mensure Gives the Land to the nits Them to Dispos the Teou WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE. 613 rnth Street, WASHINGTON, Feb, 13, Senator Manderson today reported favor- ably from the public lands committee a bill of great interest to union soldiers in all parts of the country. In a word, it permits all._ who are entitled to a soldier's home- stead, and who have not exercised fhat right, to select 160 acres from tho public dos main and own it withont occupying it, and to make the entry by proxy or power of ate torney. In his report sustaining the meas< ure Senator Manderson says “The exist« Ing law allows the soldier (o make the entry without residence upon the land. He is re. quired, however, to make the entry persons ally at the United States land dWice in the district where the land is situated, and not by power of attorney. As will be appars parent, the remaining people en- titled to make this additional entry having served during the war of the rebellion are well stricl in years and in ma cases decrepit. in most cases they reslde in loca- tions at great distances from the public lands now open to entry and are thus hindered on account of the expense and hard- ship of travel from taking advantage of the right given by the government. . Since there 18 no value to the right, except on full consummation by personal appearance of the claimant the local land office, the ol decrepit and poor, who are most considered, are practically denied and cut oft from the possibility of realizing any benefit from this privilege, either by ry or transfer, Inas- much as the original act creating the law does not require residence upon the land there would seem to be no good reason why the entry should not be made by power of attorney or the properly certified right be transferablo. SENATE COMMITTEE AND SILVER ORE. The subcommittee of the finance commit- tee revising the Wilson tarift bill have prom- ised the senators from silver states to take silver-lead ore out of the free list and make the lead in silver ore pay what will amount to 1 cent per pound duty, the same as the Wilson bill places upon pig lead. The smelters of this country suggested to the house committee that lead-bearing silver ore should be admitted free, and it was placed upon the frec list. The silver senators d manded that lead in silver ore should pay the same duly as pig lead, and they have won their point. The senate committee will also strike out of the Wilson bill the retaliatory clause against countries from which silver-lead ore is imported, should they impose an export duty. BRYAN ON A LECTURE TOUR. Representative William Jennings Bryan will open his_senatorial hoom next wee beginning at Valparaiso, Ind., and winding up at Denver, Colo. He leaves here the first of next week or the end of this week, and will_address the students of the coliege at Valparaiso on bimetallism. It will be a regular lecture in favor of the free coinage On the evening of February 22 he will address the Union League club in Chi- cago. He will stop at Lincoln for a day or two immediately thereafter and it will be ar- ranged for him to speak in his home city. He goes thence to Omaha, where it Is ex- pected an arrangement will be made for him to deliver an address. Mr. Bryan will stop at Orleans, Neb., where he is to address the students of the college. On the way to Den- ver he is expected to have a number of speaking engagements to fill. He is to de- liver a free silver speecli at a banquet which will be given at the metropolis of Colorado. It is expected that there will be ovations pre- pared for him at every point where he will stop and sentiment worked up which will operate in hix favor as a candidate for the United States senate to succeed Senator Charles F. Manderson. POSTMASTERS AND PATENTS. Postmasters appointed today: Nebraska—Jordan, Garfield county, W. E. Rice, vice E. E. Hahn, resigned; Memphis, Saunders county, Ellen M. Hutchinson, vice James Snell, resigned; Yutan, anders county, W. J. Parmenter, vice Otlo F. Peters, removed. Towa — Thornton, Charles Schneider, moveil. South Dakota—FEagle, Brule county, Anton Steiner, vice A. Wodraska, resigned. Idaho—Creston, Oneida county, Gibbons, vice J. C. Greaves, removed. Wyoming—Chugwater, Laramie county, F. W. Foss, vice A. Bowie, removed. Patents granted Nebraska inventors to- day: Richard B. Carter, assignor of one- half to S. E. Kemp, Blair, door check; Lizzie A. Moore, Waloo, compartment ves- sel or holder; Thompson Rasmussen and R. Johnson, Bennett, window blind; Albert A. Sawyer, Gandy, assignor of one-half to W. Nugent, Chicago, flat iron rest or holder. Patents for Towans: William Boll, Red Oak,mileage bool; Henry Dyers, Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo County, vice C. A. Mable, re- W. B, milk strainer; Thomas Green, Sioux City, brick kiln; Henry Wagner, Toledo, halter. PERSONAL AND GENERAL, Henry D. Estabrook of Omaha spoke last evening at the Lincoln club banquet in w York. The speoch war recoived with tho greatest enthusiasm by the guests pres- ent, although it was forty-five minutes in h, and the last of the evening. The papers this morning speak of in terms of the highest praise, with the excoption of the Horald, which says that the speech was delivored In Chicago during the World's fair, and wus thon extensively commented upon. The New York Tribune mes pronounce It the best speech of the evening. Mr. Bstabrook was accom- panied to New York by Mr. John B Wil- bur, cashier of the Omaha Savings bank e house committoe on claims has ngreed to report favorably the bill which has passod the senate relmbursing the state of Nebraska for the expense incurred in repelling the Sioux invasion. The bill ap- propriates $12,000 and fs now almost cortain to_shortly become law Robert Vierling, an {ron man of Omaha, s In the city on business in connection with tho Treasury department. Ho I8 contractor for the iron work in Omaha's new federal bulkding Hon. Charles D, Hon. A. J. the Ebbitt. C. L. Rose of Omalia 1s at the Howard nate finance committee has promised a duty on sugar of 1 cent or 1% cents per pound, but if the incomo tax s ained in the tarift bill the sugar duty as revenue measure will not be necessary, nate tarift bill may not be published Il the end of next week PERRY 8. Fuller of Fairflold and Richardson of Davenport are at HBATH, WHERE TO FIND THE NEWS, Comparison Botw day | e The dally comp: o Rivals, rison between the amount of reading matter, exclusive of commercial news and advertisements, printed in The Bee, World-Herald and Lincoln Journal, gives the foll figures for yesterday: M wide column .41 Morni narrow columns 814 Lincoln Journal, shorf, narrow columns 28 SMILING LINES. Yonkers Gazette: The spin: at least lay claim to Self-posse can Siftings: “This Is a rage, 8 the boy remarked whe that his mother had put the coo upper shelf. high-handed outs he found % on the Washington Star: “T wish,” sald the rail ¢ passenger as a bunch of comlics were dropped into his lap by the train boy, “that these people would quit poking fun at me."” Somerville Journal: Japanese doctors never present bills to their patients. They await the patient’s Inclination to pay, and then thankfully accept whatever sum is offered. Couldi’'t a few Japanese doctors be imported over here? [ uged to worship ncients,'” lecturer, the s mighty little sense they had,” com- mented Mr. Hogan, “to be worshipin® thing that works overtime half the y POOR FELLOWS, Hlanta Constitution sits on the The croake And the town groans at his joke 1t he's there to stay and he ‘croa I'rom the early morn till night, "he countr gone to the gone!"” And he can't cure a mad dog's bite. i et MPTY DINN ‘dogs—dog- THE & PAIL. Lizzie Clay'c [1ardy in Chicago Tribune. As T sit here idly dreaming of the happy time that's gone, Not a dollar in my pocket, and the winter coming on, thing that breaks me up the most, and makes me feel so small, Is the sight of that old dinner pall hanging on the wall. I've carried that old dinner pail for fifteen years or more, And it never saw’ me out of work or destl- tute before, For with shops and factories running and the best of wages pald, A prosperous lot of fellows were the dinner pail brigade. , though 1t country But you see we wasn't satisfie seems most mighty strange, And we sald we thought the would be better for a change, And we railed about the tariff, blowed about free trade, And we voted democratic, did pail brigade. and we the dinner Well, a change was what we wanted, and we got it. oo, you bet, For the shops and factorie and left us in the wet The banks suspended payment, and T lost my it all And the dinner pall is empty now, that’ hanging on the wall. all shut down, I'm dependent now on charity for the roof above my head, And I've seen my wife and little ones go hungry to their bed, But I've plenty tim and 1 see it {sn't strange, For I voted democratic just to have a litt change. for thinking, Yes, we voted democratic, and you see the Change has made A lot of hungry beggars of the dinner pall brig The workingmen are idle, wood and the gull Is to see the cmpty dinner pail, hanging on the wall. but the worm- BROWNING, KI{ The largest nuakers and el fine clothes on earth, 8 of Your mouey’s worth or your money bacic, No reflection / Is intended on the tailor-made suits of today, and is made up in the very but this reminds one of a misflt just the same — something you never get of us, for we never allow a garment to go out of our store without thorough inspection and |if there is the smallest defect it is remedied at once, The suit fits per- featly, holds its shape atest style of the tailors art and ordinarily in buying a $20 suit of us you will save $20 over tailors’ prices, but just now you will save more than that. great bargains in suits this month. for yourself. We are offering some Come in and see BROWNING, KING & CO., Will pay the express if you send tho money for ¥20 worth or more | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. - /4