Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 28, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. | F. ROBEWATER, Editor PURLISHED EVERY MORNING SUNSCRIPTION. Tag) One Y Yenr RAE OF Ithout 8 sunday, O Daily oo ¢ Dty Six Month Thrse Mo Sunday | Saturiday 1h Ky I Yiar Yent OFFICH ot ; ner N and Twonty-f i teont Chaiaber of Com s 17, M 15, Fribune buliding. Fourteenth s(reot uth Bta, y the Editor LETTIERS, tiances should be ‘eompnn N 88 lettora ai "I Tubli=h Jrafis, ehockn nnd postollioe order ¥ to the ond e company. REE PUBL NG COMPANY. T OF CIRCULATION. e I, Tzschuck, secretary of The T Publisning company, being duly sworn, & that the actual number of full and ¢ copies of The Daily Morning, BEvening Bunday printed during the month January, 1591, was as folows: 19 and of turned Total sold Daily aver: *Sunda luctions for ples v @ net circulation. . B CHUCK, and ribed ence this 6th_ day of February (SEAL.) P, FEIL, Notary Public. Mr. Harley solling pills and take to licking postage stamps. BOR to hefore me may now quit The poople who suffering from the blizzards in the east are cordially invited to come west and enjoy our unexcelled win climate. blizzard that between enator Brice and the southern is frigld when It was a passed brigadiers. The atmosphere they meet nowadays Nebragka democrats who have applica for office on file in Washington may their breath until the president from his outing. ons nola oturns easlor since it safety of the expedition. doubt fecls has presi- Vice greatly breathes of the his hunting Stevenson no The country been informed dent and President relieved. Whenever a lawyer has a hardened crim- inal in his to defend before Judge Scott all he has to do to enlist sympathy for him is to let him unfold a woeful tale that he was a victim of the gamble hands The recent proposals for furnishing the city with electric lighting show conclusively that prices under the existing contract are exorbitant and unreasonable. Cheaper lights are within sight and must not be permitted to elude the city's grasp. We have been informed that the idle money in the permanent school and trust funds of the state—idle so far as the state is concerned—has been reduced to some- thing over a half million dollars. But we aro waiting to hear where those half mil- lion dollars are. Willlam Waldorf Astor's contribution of $10,000 for the poor of New York had to be sent from London by cable so as to attract the greatest possible attention. New York's contribution to Mr. Astor's income goes to London unobserved, although it figures many times $10,000. It Chief Seavey really means it there will be something of a commotion in this city next week. There would have been a much merrier time, however, if the chief had not published his tip. Thero is nothing in the books that makes it his duty to notify law- breakers of intended raids, The Tammany government of New York finds itsell in dificult straits to devise a method of getting rid of the $1,000,000 which the leglslature authorized it to spend on im- proving the public parks of the city. This is something unheard of in the annals of American municipal government. A city with more money than it can spend! What are we coming to next? Democrats in this vicinity are praying that Grover may return to the white house with the biggest bag of game that ever paid hom- age to a sportsman’s gun. This is the only thing that will put him in a good humor and persuade him to go cheerfully to the worlk of sending nominations to the senate. Bad luck with the ducks will doubtless mean bad luck for the office seckers. The machinery of the federal courts has revolved again, and the program is all ar- ranged for a conference between the Unlon Paclfic recelvers and representatives of cm- ployes, whose wages it is pro to duce. The cireuit court has made President Clark the arbiter of the he contemplated reduction has been postponed, but there is nothing in evidence to' indicate that it can be osed ro- contention verted. It Omaha is deprived of the opportunity to secure a beet sugar factory by reason of the tarift tampering of the present congress, it should bend its encrgies toward sccuring other Industrial undertakings that will give like employment of laborers and artis Factorles create both an outlet for labor and an increased demand for local markets Bvery large city must be grounded on ex- tensive manufacturing interests. Wo never knew until how many different species of genus demoerat are to be found among the products of this favored country of ours. They have now been authoritatively distinguished as real demo- crats, cuckoo democrats and Tom Reed democrats. More caroful research may pos sibly disclose a few iwore varieties, all of which are duly represented in congress. Fortunately only one class of democrats are represented in the presidential chair and ihey seem to bo rapidiy passing into an in- significant minority. now A press dispatoh in the Lincoln Journal Mandors the falr name and fame of Congress- man Hainer of the Fourth district. That paper made Mr. Pence say that Hainer was “fuller of beer than comprehension of ideas.” Now Mr. Pence enters a disclaimer and as- serts that he was misquoted by the Wash ington reporter, He insists that all he attempted to say was that Mr, Hainer had been talking through his whiskers. Up to this writing Mr. Haluer has said nothing. We anxiously await his challenge. He cer- tainly cannot let the matter pass without a 1afogea of his appetite or his hirsute. ' | | it requires all the eviden: JUDGE GROSSCUP'S DECISION. The effect of Judge Grosscup's denying the authority of the federal govern- ment to eompel rafirond offielnls to ahswer questions propounded to them during a grand Jury Investigation of violations of the Interstate commerce law on the grownd that sueh testimony might tend to eriminate the witnesses will be to leave the Interstate Inw just as it was immediately before the re. cent amendment of 1893 was passed by cons< It does not make the law unenforee- but it practically makes It so, hecause « bearing npon vio- voluntary wit- unean- Up deolston leged ress able he secured from lations to nesses, or from wholly nected wth the violations of the law, to this time the Interstute C‘ommerce com- mission wholly in abolishing violations by sudh means and it 18 extremoly doubtful that it will be better fav. in future prosecutions, The commis- thought that it had power to testify under the original that it mistaken by the snpreme court in the sought extended w8 through an amendment witnesses hay heen unsuocessful ored sion to compel witnesses act, but was informed of was on power fr to the law by the court in th told that congress Viewed tional Judge Grosscup’s opinfon is cer- tainly an abl He takes a stand for the lost possible inter pretation of the fifth amendment, to the fed- eral providing that no person shall be compelled in any criminal case to against himself. This s Intended by its framers ot the withess agalnst the and conviction that might be follow from self-confessed criminal but also to soclal and civil notorfety that rise from such disclosures. Congress n cong on the lines seemingly suggested t decision only to be now had no the amendment constit from the standpoint of constitu- law, nd ing an snfous argument constitution, ar witness he be a prohi- bition onl ays, w not to prot prosecution to of him consequences of the crimi expected any evidence action, protect against the must can perhaps grant immunity from the pains and penalties imposed by law upon the con- icted author of a crime, but it cannot pre- the soclal ostra or the unfathom- h soclety and his fellows The constitutional amend- ntee the vent able disg Inflict upon him. ment then, which is intended to guai to every complete freedom from consequences of enforced self-accusation, be evaded by any enactment of con- lares that the witness shall cism ace wl one cannot gross which de not be prosecuted for or on account of any matter of which le has been compelled to testify. In coming to this conclusion Judge Gros: umes to be following the ruling laid the supreme court in the case of against Hitcheock, which he cites as aining his position. The para- graph to which he refers is this: “It is quite clear that legislation cannot abridge a privilege and that it cannot replace or supply one, at least unless it is so broad as to have the same extent and scope. But it is equally clear that Justice Blatch- ford, who delivered the opinion, had no in- tention to extend the scope of the Sifth amendment guarantee beyond the mere legal consequences of an admission of guilt. He Boes on 6 say that “no statute which leaves the party or witness subject to prosecution after he answers the criminating question Dut to Lim can have the effect of supplanting the privilege conferred by the constitution of the United States,” and that the then exist- ing law did not supply that complete protec- tion. But when he says that “in view of the constitutional provision, a statutory enact- ment, to be valid, must afford absolute im- munity against future prosecutions for the offense to which the question relates,” he intimates that a valid enactment Is both pos- sible and constitutional. Congress acted upon this hint when it amended the law to obviate the defect that had been pointed out. The supreme court may finally agree with Judge Grosscup, but the dictum in the Coun- selman case is plainly opposed to him. It is to be hoped that some way may be devised to bring the question before the supreme court. In the meanwhile the railways will become more defiant of the interstate com- merco law than ever before. THE TERRITORIES AND STATEHOOD. It is said that the democrats in congress are not at present so anxious about ad- mitting the territories to statehood as they were carlier In the session. The stumbling block, it appears, is Utah and the main trouble is with the Mormons, but not in the line of polygamy. The democrats having promised the people of Utah that the terri- tory should be admitted a bill for this pur- pose promptly put through the house and sent over to tho senate, since which time nothing has been heard of it. It has remained securely pigeon-holed in the com- mittee room of the committee on territories. It is sald that Senator Gorman of Maryland is responsible for this. As the result of an investigation he found that the Mormons are in favor of the protective policy, and upon obtaining this information he and other democratic senators, so it is given out, con- cluded that if Utah is admitted it means a republican state, represented in the national senate by two republicans who could be depended upon to support the policy of pro- tection. The success of the republicans In Salt Lake City,at the last election was an object lesson which it seems made an im- pression upon the more sagacious demo- cratic politiclans of the United States senate and greatly diminished their faith in being able to draw Utali Into the democratic net and thus help to perpetuate their power in the senate. If Utah is allowed to come in now there is hardly a doubt but what she would come as a republican state on the tariff question, and that would be the only question at issue there. If the democrats keep the bill giving her statehood hung up in the committee and neglect to pass it, it will be a distinot break- ing of a promise deliberately made to the people of tbe territory and will put the democracy in bad odor the The: proba- bility is that tho senate democrats will hold the party promise in abeyance until the next hoping that in the meantime the operation of the democratic economic policy will have results justifying it, or which will ut any rate servo to modify the opposition to it. If this hope should fail Utah might have to wait several years for admission and per- laps the other territories also, for there is almost equally good reason for believing that Arizona and New Mexico, if they come into the union at present, would come in as re publican states. The interests of tho: ter- ritories which lead their people to favor the protective policy are for the most part the same as those of Utah, and the Mormon element In them, which s considerable, is actuated by the sentiment regarding protection as those of Utah. The people of these territories are very anxious for statehood and the party in con- trol of congress will undoubtedly make the best possible use of this solicitude. To keep them in suspense, with the under- standing that the price of admission into the union is allegiance to the demooracy, is an expedient, the adoption of which by the cup as down by Counselman constitutional was session, same THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN means have houso of the [ demoernts of the senate 18 ® improbable. The democratic no of carrying the next of representatives. They are sure senate, as the conditfons now are, for four years at least, and probably longer, and they will take no chances involving the danger of losing control of that body. It will not bo urprising, therefore, if there is no further action at the present of congress looking to the admission of new states, no leaders expectation session 10 ENCOURAGE AMERICAN SHIPPING It was to be expected that the act of con- gress of. May 10, 18 which the steamships New York and Paris wero to American reglstry, would furnish an example to the present congross. That required that the International Navigation company, to which the privilege of reglistry was accorded, should build two or more at loast in all spects to those to which the act applied and s being carried out by the company, 8o that within a year it will have sailing under the American flag steam- ships built Ameridan shipyards perhaps uperior to the foreign constructed New York This act was cordially approved under admitted act steamships equal re- this condition is now in nd Paris, by Secretary of the Navy Tracy, as it by public sentiment generally, and it would in behalf it derived substantial advan- was seem (hat the company whose was passed has s from it here is ncw under consideration by the marine a bill e of the act of 1892 to 15 who may be disposed to avail themselves of it. It authorizes any citizen of the United or any corpora- tion created under United States laws, tenths of whose stock is owned by American citizens, to purchase a foreign vessel and ob- tain registry, but registry can had the citizen, or corporation applying for it bond (o the United States fn a penalty equal to the value of the vessel so purchased that the Ame will build in American or of an aggregate tonnage and value not less in amount than that of the vessel so admitted to registry. There is another bill before the committee on hant marine which pro- vides for free ships, but it is believed that it cannot-be passed and the more recent men ure is intended as a substitute for it. What Secretary Tracy ‘said of the act of 1892, that it was without doubt one of the most bene- ficial measures for the encouragement of American ship owning and ship building that had been brought forward, may safely be applied to the proposition now under consid- eration by the house committee on merchant marine The question of encouraging American shipping and restoring the country's mer- chant marino is one of such vital and far- reaching importance that it should not be longer neglected by congress. In his annual report Secretary Carlisle makes only this brief referenco to the condition of the mer- chant marine: “The year 1893 also ex- hibited a further decline in the relative im- portance of the American merchant marine in the foreign carrying trade of the country. Low as was the percentage of imports and exports carried in American vessels in 1892, 50 low as to give foundation to a belief that no lower point could be reached, there was an actual decrease in 1893, and 12.2 per cent must be recorded as the lowest point our relative participation in this industry has yet touched.” There is every reason to expect that the record for 1894 will show a still further decline, all the conditions con- tributing to such a result. This situation presents two facts which ought to be suffi- clent to awaken a vigorous public sentiment in favor of legislation that will enable the United States to regain its former position in the foreign carrying tradel One of these is that our people are annually paying to foreign shipowners, according to conserva- tive estimates, more than $200,000,000, nearly the whole of which goes dbroad, for these shipowners spend as little money as possible in this country. This is a heavy drain and it will steadily” increase with the growth of our foreign commerce. The other fact is that so long as we are dependent on forelgn shipowners for carrying on trade with the rest of the world we will be at a greater or less disadvantage wherever we come into commercial rivalry with Muropean coun- tries. This Is conspicuously the case in re- gard to the South American trade. A great commercial nation like the United States should possess ample facilities of its own for the expeditious transportation of its pro- ducts, and this country will never attain that position in the markets of the world which is possible until it has a merchant warine equal to every demand. se committee on merchant to extend the privile all American citi nine- American before such he an citizens, must gl an owner or owne shipyards a vessel vesso mery “SOMEBODY HOLD ME!" “This court is absolutely handicapped,” roared Judge Scott. “It is absolutely im- possible to run the criminal court under the order of things here in the city. On Saturday they brought a man in here ar- rested for selling his wares without a Ii- cense In Omaha. That act was made a crime by the same pen from which flowed the ordinance allowing gamblers to run gambling houses in consideration of $150 a month, “Yet, I am threatened and told that I must not say anything about it. I will talk about that iniquity until it s wiped from the face of this oity. The more I get into the criminal calendar the more I sce the fatility of doing anything against such high-handed outrages. “I hope there is a God In Israel who will right this matter, I do not see that I can do it. “When the authorities of the city will incarcerate a man for selling his own legit- imate wares, it 13 no wonder the people have no respect for the courts. “I hope the papers will abuse me as long as there is & place on my body uneolored by abuse. I want people to know just where I stand on this question. I say it Is an out and out shame that this continues. Now, where s the court handicapped in dealing out justice to criminals? Where is the logic of connecting the occupation tax with the gambling ordinances? What ex- ocuse fs there for the judge to prance and bellow like a bull in the Mexican arena at the sight of the red cloak of the matador every time that a oriminal pretends to have lost money In a gambling house? ‘“‘Some- body hold me!" cries the judge, “or some- thing terrible may happen!” Well, why don’t this righteous judge break loose and do something to suppress gambling? If he knows that gambling is rampant and men are liable to turn road agents and highway- men to get even after they have staked and lost at faro, why don't he instruct the county attorney to flle an information agalnst the gamblers and koepers of gam- bling houses and the owners of the buildings in which gambling s going on? Wouldn't that close the gambling houses quicker than Strickler's buncombe resolutions? But the judge likes to hear himself talk instead of acting, and he dellghts in playing to the grand stand and asking the God of Israel to right a matter WRieh ta in his own hands. " 2 The twelve ml"‘!u‘( houses of New York city yleld a revenmes of $303802 a year. There {8 every prokp#st that a central mar- ket bullding sueh as’{s projected for Jef- terson square will tontain at least 200 stalls. At a rental of $8 &'week for each stall, which 18 a very low' average, the income would be $30,600 @ year. A falr estimate of the expense to (he city of a market mas- ter, special police, and janitors would be $10,000 a year. Cowputing the Interest on $200,000 at 5 per cent, would leave the city a net income of at lemst $10,000 a year, and it that revenue (¥ sét aside as a sinking fund the bonds would be paid at the end of the twenty years'when they mature. If the sinking fund is deposited at 2 per cent it would pay off the entire debt at the end of seventeen years, or three years before the bonds mature, auditorium should not only pay running expenses for. heating, lighting and Jjanitors, but ought to yield enough revenue to keep the building In re- puir and otnament thy iaterior, If between now and the end of twenty years one or more market houses are added, the revenue from the market is not likely to decrease the growth of the city will enlarge the trafic and make the stalls more valuable. or The central because Ex-Speaker Reed is entitled to feel him- self complimented on being referred to as the leador of political parties on the floor of the house. Most men have con- tented themselves with trying to manage the members of their own party, many of them having difficulty in doing even that. M. Reed appears to be running the whole house. In this achievement stands unequaled and alone. two he No one begrudges Kansas her prospective influx of short-laired woman suffragist Kansas is to sacrafice herself temporarily for the good of lier sister states Dangers of Premature 6 Globe-Domocrat pvernor McKinley says his visit to New York at this time hag no political stenifi- cance. He is right. Nothing that McKin- ley, Harrison, Reed or any other presiden- tial aspirant can do or say at this stage of the game is of any especial political sig- nificance. A good many things can happen in the two and a quarter years between the present time and the meeting of the n tional convention. ooming. Lol Surly and Absurd Beast. Louisvilte Courier-Journal. tish lion is a_very surly and ab- ast. Instead of thanking our ad- Rio for protecting a British mer- vessel from interference by the in- surgents, after protection had heen refused by the commander of the British squadron, the unmannerly brute 'says we have in: sulted him and that Farl Rosebery must demand _an explanation. 0 necept pro- tection from the American flag may be a little galling to Dritish pride, but British merchantmen at Rio will not be so squeam- ish about it. Admiral Benham continues to be boss of Rio harbor ————— Revolutionary Land Marks. New. York World. Senator Sherman has introduced a bill providing for the appointment of a com- missioner by the president to determine the site of military. works and battlefields of the revolutionary whr, and for the mark- ing of such places with'suitable tablets or other indications. Thig is a bill that ought to become a law promptly. It is annually becoming more difficult to determine these places definitely. .In some states there are Tocal organizations which do a. good work of this sort. A natlonal commissioner would not make these unnecessary, but work in harmony with them. In 'some places he would peed almost to create the necessary ald and support. . But it is worth doing. St v A Dangerous Mouth. Chicago ' Herald. | The Knights of Labor—or their leaders at least—who onée disclaimed any conne tion with politics, 1o longer make any pre- tense of neutrality. The organization is avowedly run as a tender to the populist party. The members of the executive board are all populists, and no secret is made of the fact that Master Workman Sovereign’s action in seeking an injunction against the issuance of government bonds was In the interest of the populist organ- Ization. It will be interesting to see how far_trades unionism and party politics will mix. Mr. Powderly was a shrewd manip- ulator of men, yet when he was at the head of the Knights he never dared to try the experiment. Perhaps Mr. Soverelgn can make it work. ————— Favorable Trade Balances. Chicago Post, The balance of trade is now largely in favor of this country. If things continue as they are there must soon again be a large influx of gold from England to this country. Official statistics of the foreign trade of the United States for January show exports to have been $%,784,1l4, while imports were but $2,107,438. 'THis leaves a_balance for the month’ [n our favor of $31,285,6%, which if settled for in meney would bring that much Buropean gold into this country, This improvement in conditions is all the more satisfactory when it is compared with the state of things a year ago. Exports in January, 1803, amounted to but $67,673,669, or $19,110,445 less than for the opening month of this year, while imports for that month last year amounted to $75,168,267, or $22,670,- &9 more than they were for that month this vear. There was a balance of trade against us for the month last year of $7,494,- 59, which has been changed into one in our favor of $34,286,686 this year. Al COMIC SNORT! Dallas News: The barber s the only man whose pull is bad for him, Galveston News: Sometimes one has to toil under difficulties in order to get over them. Rochester Post: Many think that Mrs, Lease's claim to be a Mason Is not made on the square. Plain Dealer: Tt is a human-like trait that the rooster always thinks he knows most about cackling. 5 Indianapolis Journal: “I have noticed,"” sald Mr, Jason, “that it Is In the natur’ of man “to’ worship some’hn. Ef it ain't the Almighty, or a image, he ginerly worships hisself.” Philadelphia Recor calls his dog *Misel to catch the scent, An uptown man because he Is quick Washington Star: There are' men who say that the pretty bicycle girl should not be unrecognized as a daughter of the revo- lution, Philadelphia Ledger: A local a resort advertises for next week “the only living singing doitkeys,” which will strike some as being amamwarrantable claim, 1sement Boston Globe: She~And would you marry me if I had no wealth? He—Would 17 Just make your money over to me and see if 1 wouldn't, poor as jt would leave you! Judge: Brown—My barber used to ask a thousand questions While shaving me, but now he hurries ug th job in silence. Jones—Indeed! héw do’ you manage 1t? Brown—I cat heartily of raw onlons just before going to his shop. The Boston Transcript gives the following four xules for the guidance of spring poet 1—Write plainly on one side of sheet. Now read it and pdmire. add this’ finfim,..,, "Declined with Now thanks. 4 chuck itdn the fire. DAY, FEBRUARY 28 189+ ABRAM'S BITING BLAST. Washington Star: Ex-Mayor Hewitt of New York is the latest vietim of the insid- fous subtleties of the after-dinner speech New York World: What Mr. Hewitt sald of the southern sonators was true, but It falls short of the whole truth. The de- cadence of the senate is not sectional Cincinnati Commercial: By the wa speech of ex-Mayor Hewitt at the meeting of the Sofithern soclety in New York has attracted much attention, largely because it was truthful, and on this account it s espe clally valuable to our southern fellow citi- zen, Philadeiphia Press: The southerners col- onized in New York and their brethren on southern plantations haar as a rule too much flattery and too little fact. A slice of frozen truth at times, though chilling, is wholesome. ~We trust that tire southerner wherever located will benefit by Mr. Hewitt's dose of medi be drastic, but it 1s badly needed Philadelphia North Amerfean: It Mr. Hew itt will ook around him he will find that tho average New York democrat is not a whit more sound on public policy than the states- men lie 8o sharply assailed. Ho will soek long and in vain before he finds in the New York congressional delogation any Mareys or Van Burens, but the absence of such men in the delegation is not due to their nonexistence but to the policy that pushes mediocrity to the front, there and everywhere Atlanta Constitution: The southern peoplo know Mr. Hewitt and his new school of statesmen only too well, and they are not looking to them for advice and instruction. It is simply brazen audacity for the repro- sentatives of the castern democracy to talk down to us in this fashion after utilizing our votes. They pat us on our backs in a jolly way when a national election is held and after we have placed them in power they coolly inform us that are pigmies and fools because the 128 democratic congress- men from the west and south do not surren- der their convictions and yield to the hand- ful of eastorn democrats who stubbornly re- fuse to act with the majority. But we do not propose to treat Mr. Hewitt's scold seri ously. There is no glory in a tilt with a windmill. New York Tribune: It was a very whole- some, breezy talk by a man who preferred saying something that had the meat of sound truth in it to bandying commonplace com- pliments with his hosts. There could be no more doubt of the kindliness of his feel- ing toward the southerners whom he was addressing and all their kin than of the straightforward sincerity of his utterances There were probably very few at the table who were not in perfect nent with him, and possibly none who would not in the true spirit of chivalry thank him for saying frankly and courageously what he though The contrast he suggested be- tween southern statesmen of an earlier period and the southerners of today who have turned their attention to politics bo- cause they are fit for nothing else contains flection. e VEBRASKA AND NEBRASKA that A Grand Island city official passed a coun- terfeit half-dollar, but he is not suspected of being a shover of the queer. Burglars managed to get away w worth of cigars and tobacco from Bros.’ restaurant at Edgar. Palisade people belleve they have discoy- ered a vefn of coal 500 feet beneath the sur- face. A shaft s being sunk. Dundy county has only four physicians and none of them live in guilded palac It's a pretty healthy country. C. W. Daggett, ex-treasurer of Washington h $100 Cook township, Franklin county, has been arrested - and taken to Bloomington for trial on a charge of embezzlement. The warrant was issued by Judge Beale, district court being now in session. The township, including the school district, is short in an amount aggre- gating $500. Daggett is editor of the local newspaper, the Franklin County Guard, is a deacon in the church and superintendent of a Sunday school. Says the Red Cloud Golden Belt: Allow us to prophesy just once. There will be as fine a crop of winter wheat harvested in the Republican valley this year as has ever been garnered. While the recent fall of the “‘poor man’s manure” has drifted some, it covers the ground everywhere and renders it certain that the crop will be in fine condition until well toward harvest. Think of it; a good crop predicted by us, and $1.25 per bushel, predicted by you know who. We shall need to be lariated to keep us from going upward. The people of this valley are interested in the bullding of a railroad and the time is ripe for action, says the Bayard Transcript. Every farmer is in a position to take hold and do good work, and if they were properly organized could grade a line from North Platte to the Wyoming line in one season. There would not be as much labor in grad- ing as has already been accomplished In building the numerous canals now completed. Aq organization should be formed, a charter secured and a push made in this direction at once. A plan similar to that of the Guif & Interstate organization could be adopted. First organize, secure a charter and have a survey made. The immediate cash expense would be in a survey. The right of way could be secured without expense, and the grading could be done without very much cash outlay. By the time this was done there would be plenty of capital advanced for iron and rolling stock. If an organiza. tion was formed upon some plan it would demonstrate that we were in earnest in our desire for a railroad and show to the world that our people are not clams, shut in their shells. Let our wideawake, progressive cit- izens get together at once and make a united offort in this direction, PENCE 1S SORRY HIE SPOKE Colorado's Young Representative Expresses Much Regret for His Assault on Hainer, HE APOLOGIZES HUMBLY FOR HIS WORDS Writes o I Person hers nd Mis Viet Me Allen tter Seos - Opinions of Ot the Affair the Tarifr. on and WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE B 513 Fourteenth Stroot WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, It is not likely that Lafe Pence will b quite %o fresh ¢ the uso of languag of the lower house of congress, After saying in his speech yestorday afternoon that Mr Hainer of Nebraska was fuller of beard than comprehension of fdeas, which the regular press reports reported as “full of beer,” and the house took him off the floor and re fused to allow him to proceed, he felt very much ashamed of himself, and wrote a lotter of apology to Mr. Hainer, and then cam him in person and made a very apology, saying that his whole toward the Nebraskan was uncailed for and without reason, and wou himself moro harm than Mr. Hainer braska mem ber has a large black beard, and while he s not at all sensitive about it he does object having that beard being referred to as “beer,” because Mr. Hainer i not a tppler, There was a good deal of indignation the house over the attack upon Hainer by Pence, and some of the members did not mince words in commenting upon it. A num- ber of the oldest and most prominent mem- bers of the house requested The Bee corre spondent to quote them in their expressions of indignation toward the Colorado mem- ber's course WHAT THE MEMBERS THINK Representative Hepburn of Towa said: “Tho attack upon Mr. Hainer was a most unjust and unworthy one. No one member on the republican side of the house stands botter with his colleagues than does Mr. Hainer. He is diligent, always in_his place, indus- trious and intelligent. No gentleman i3 more courteous or less frequently by his con- duct gives justification to such an attack as the one made upon him." Ex-Speaker Thomas B. Reed of Maine sald: “Mr. Hainer did not even need to notice the report. His standing here is too high to require it. Mr. Pence's haste, a very commendable haste, to write to him, shows that tepresentative Dolliver of Towa says Hainer rendered the house a very substan- tial service yesterday in bringing young Pence of Colorado to his senses. Debate in the house is degraded when personalities of a_cheap and unimportant character take tho place of argument. It was a rather severe Iesson for our populist friend, but Hainer did the business in the most approved way and won the gratitude of both sides of the house. This evening’s Star and News have ed- itorials upon tho lengthy local accounts of the incident. This, from the Star's account, will be read with interest: The congressmen with whiskers arc dignant today. They say that the remarks of Mr. Pence about one of their number, Mr. Hainer, who is drnately adorned with a Tiberal growth of glossy sable-hued whiskers, constitufes a reflection upon the class which should be resented. The fact that Mr. Pence is beardless, they say, seems to lend additional sting to the inference to be drawn that because a man is bewhiskered he is lacking in ideas. They say that Mr. Pence was not modest, being beardless him- self, to intimate that because a bearded man is not full of ideas a beardless man must logically be overflowing with them." PUTTING THE KICKERS IN LIN Nearly overy one of the democratic kickers in the senate against provisions in the tarift bill has already been convicted of a species of duplicity and deception. With the possi- ble exccption of Caffery of Louisiana and Brice of Ohio every one of the democrats who have been denouncing the free list and who have secured the caucuses now in progress have, when catechised by Chair- man Voorhees behind closed doors and in the presence of their colleagues, admitted that they ‘ntended to vote for the Wilson bill on its final passage, although none of the changes demanded by them were made. It is even doubted whether Senator Brice will Have the nerve to vote against the bill if the alterations which he has demanded at the point of voting adversely are not con- ceded. Chairman Voorhees characterlzes the ac- tion of the Gorman-Brice combination as a mero “bluff,” and says that they will all vote for the bill 4s it stands and that the only thing he hopes to accomplish by the caucuses is harmony in the debate and as little talk on the democratic side as possible when the bill is under constdbration. It looks now as though the kickers would nearly all be placed and the bill passed with few amend- ments. ALLEN ANNOUNCSS HIMSELF. Senator Allen may yet refuse to vote for the Wilson tarift bili if there Is no protection given the sugar Industry. He has been re- ported both ways. Today's Post quotes him th “I cannot answer for the views of my col- in, nor so reckless in in referting to members to abject course i d he in “Mr. in- S ——1 ' | teagues, Mr. Poffer ator Allen, “‘but stand. I am against dies, but in this case United States passed a signed by the president, bounties on sugar. Under the government a large were induced to invest their capital and enter upon the busines of making sugar, and it seems to me that the government has no right o abandon its pledges. There i certainly a high moral right, if not a legal one, which binds us to observe this obliga- tion. T shall vote against the bill it the bounty not in it Will it make any difference it ome tax feature is incorporated?” Not in the least. I should still vote in the negative If the boun was left out.' IDAHO AT THE CRIB Chairman Bean of the democratic contral committee of Idano fs here tryIng to get po- sitions for a fow of the faithful in his state. Chairman Bean says there is not a bonafide rosident of Idaho employed in the governs mene service in Washington, althou there are a few persons in the service here who claim Idaho as their residence. The admin- Istration i o deeply disgusted at the attis tude of Idaho upon the silver question that it would no doubt be very glad to forget that thero f« such a state in the distribus tion of federal patron Reprosentative Hainer hearing by the house nmittee on posts offices and postroads on next Tuesday in support of his bill to admit as second class mail matter all pu cations of benevolent organizations, although the committee the other day Indicated hostility to this measure, probably because Postmaster General Bis- sell las approved it. Mr. Hainer believos that he can get a favorable report upon it, PERSONAL MENTION Mrs. Van Wyck, wife of ox-Senator Charles Van Wyck of Nebraska, gave an elegant luneheon tod: in the large dining room at the Portland in honor of Miss Mor- ton, sistor of the secretary of agriculture, The table, oval sha had covers for twenty-five The conterpiece was of Ameti- an Beauty roses o boquets of the same roses were Bach bunch was tied with a broad satin bow of the same color. On one streamer was tho monogram of the hostess and on the other the name of the guest and ate prettily stamped in silver. There wer beautiful souvenir baskeds in gilt for the ladies to away with them and the Roman punch was served in them The tapers burned under silver shades that had little bows and streamers of satin ribbon in the rose color. The ices in the shape of strawbe 'S were served In green candy hats. The guests at the table were Miss Morton, Mrs. Cul- lom, Mrs. Teller, Mrs. White, M Dolph, Mrs, Faulkner, Mrs. Murphy. Mrs. Hate, Mrs. Allen, wives of senators; Mrs. Condit Smith, Mrs. Talom, Mrs. Broadhead, Mrs. Hufr, M Halliday, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. ‘Weber, Mrs. Saville, Mrs. Cabell, Mrs. Up- shire, M Heath, Mrs. Lefevre, Mrs, W. J. Bryan and Mrs, J. Thompson Swan. Hon. George W. E. Dorsey of Fremont is in the city on business before the War and Interior departments and is stopping at Chamberlin’s, Mrs. J. L. visiting Mrs. Harrington J.N. H for a visit Mrs. Manderson. W. H. Day and wife of Dubuque, Ta., are at the Normandie, and J. M. Burke of [daho is at the Riggs POSTMASTERS AND PATENTS, C. L. McKinley was today appointed post- master at Fulton, Hanson county, . D., vice B. D. Wright, resigned, and Bdmund Gerber at Loretta, Bon Homme county, vice Phillip Plaltzgraff, removed. Patents were granted to inventors today follows Nebraska—V draft equaliz adjustible uremonts, Towa—John W. support; Frank E. nd Mr. K sald Sen: 1 cortainly know whers 1 bountles and subsi- the congress of the law, which was pledging cortaln the promise of number of men the in will be given a Tate of On R. B. aha is In the city on, formerly of Patrick of Omaha is in the city and is the guest of Senator and am Eikenbary, Union, r: Benjamin F. Morgan, Strang, draft for roof and brace mease Brenner, Beloit, tongue Lyon, Dubnaue, machine for covering piano strings; Frederick W, Miller, Des Moines, hame tug; Charles B. Putnam, Marion, windmill; John F. Wil- liams, assignor, of one half to P. I. John~ son, Atlantic, lock. PERRY S. Economy the Vita Galveston News. Feonomy 1n public expenditures is going to be a vital issue In the next campalgn, bite of the eagerness of congressmen 1o nt it by mixi v uniawful of mileage and by suppressing the vens and nays on senatorfal donations @ dependents and relatives. DRIFTING., Somerviite Journal. We're out adrift in an open boat, Just you and I; On the ocean of life we now must float, And live or die. The waters are dancing In wild delight, The ripples gleam; The shimmering sed, in beauty bright, Seems like a dream. Where are we drifting, oh, tell me, pray~ To harbor clear, Or into_the shadows, grim * Where death is new nd gra, Looge not the clagp of your hand, dear, Keep close to me; The darkness deepens, the 1 cannot see, But T feel your kisg, and I hear I trust you, my denar; Though the storm-king rages, T still rej ks are near, our volee For you are near. - HERE AND THERE, The unemployed of Philadelphia are not sufficiently anxious for work to break the eight-hour rule. Baron Munchausen is stopping in New York. Several wierd tales have been traced to that section lately. The manifest necessity of counting a quo- rum in the house of representatives is a czartul prospect for the democrats, Justice White's hair is red and a little thin_in spots, but enough remains to warm his brain to a working temperature. Congressman Simpson Is nominating every populist in sight for the presidency, but strange to say the ingrates fail to tickle Jerry by reciprocating. The New York Evening Post enlightens its mutual friend, the Sun, on the genesis of the cuckoo. The Post is a conceded authority on the question, The Ledger of Philadelphia characteristic solemnity, that it rained and snowed next day and. the night after a brilliant cross in the lNeavens was seen by Pennsylvanians. And the returns are not all in, In view of the ear-rending friction of party notes, with wheels, it is suggested that a supply of the | Whitney soap, so efficaclous in Chicago, should be distributed at once. Pending the shipment, a distribution of federal fodder would check the discord for a time. The Grow landslide In Pennsylvania has reached a magnitude that threatens to smash the record. Democrats are obliged to go back forty years to find anything equal to It, but the comparison is an obvious back number, and Philadelphia organs wisely con- tent_themselves with learned discourses on the Wissahickon" The statue of Treasurer Spinuer, the ex- pensé of which Is borne by the women clerks of the Treasury department at Washington, has been cast in Philadelphia. It Is eight feet high, of “‘enduring bronze"” and a fine plece of work. But General Spinner's most enduring moment will be that extraordinary signature of his, which was unique in the annals of chirography. 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