Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1894, Page 4

THE OM/ ROSEWA HA DAILY BEE. PUBLISHI MONNIS | ur Daily one Daily_ar #ix Mo Threo M. Runday Raturd Weeki 10158, omnlin ’ A ¥ wnd rwenty-fourth At wtreet f Commores and 16, Tr 12 1 1 Climibe ins 13, 11 Washingt " PON DI LETTER Fomittan ld be addrossd jublis mpan Omuhi il bo made i CORRE UBINESS @ lottor ANl commun torial matt Al busi Publisl the nc Th prints a8 follow month for un; Total for th s reduction: s Total sold et lreulat GRORGE B, N subsc ay ot March, 1 N. 1% FEIL, Notary Public e e nearer Washington also to be a Commerce Sworn to before me presence this &0 Towa is a few miles than Nebraska, It fow the commission vacancy. appea Interstate miles nearer According to the Chicago Times the chief of the tariff bill lies In the fact that it retains the income tax feature If that fs Its chief merit sphere of use- fulness must be extremely circumscribed. merit senate its Mr. Tobe Castor was to disclaim any part in the appointment of Dr. Miller. This was doubtless for effect upon the other fellows only. Tobe himself with the doctor when the proper time comes. quick will square It is announced that it is quite likely that there will be very little talk on the part of the friends of the seigniorage bill in its be- half in the senate. There is so little to be safd in its favor that the men who want to coin the would well to say nothing at all. acuum do It is human nature to leave every plece of work until the last possible That nccounts for the Utah legislature crowding the business of an entire session into four days. It is simply taking lessons from the example regularly set by congress at its short session. minute. “Bhe friendly injunction suit.to keep Jeffer- gon square as a posey garden and let the grass grow on the streets of Omaha should not be permitted to hang in the courts for an indefinite period. The city attorney should make a vigorous effort to tecure a decision at the earliest possible day. The democrats are not deriving much en- couragement® trom the many spring . elec- tions that have beem held in the various towns and cities of several different states. These spring elections are generally taken to be a good Indication of the temper of the people. The tide is not running in democ- racy's way. Are we never to have an end of the charge that the Nebraska democracy already has more than its share of the limited supply of federal patronage at the disposal of the president? That place In the cabinet is a cloud that overshadows the laudable am- bitions of all the good Nebraska democrats who would be better satisfled with smaller plums and more of them. Councilman Hascall has let ihe cat out of the bag at last. In the lotter which ap- peared over his name in the Sunday Hy- phenated he tells us that there was no in- tention on the part of the council that any one but the Thomson-Houston company should bid for the next three years' contract for electric lighting. Mr. Hascall 15 candid sometimes, if not often. That estimated deficit in the federal finances shrinks every time the figures are subjected to a revised calculation. In the meanwhile the estimated revenue from the proposed tarift bill increases every time it is altered by amendment. If the senate will now cut off the unpopular Income tax schedule, it will just about restore the desired balance between the governmental revenues and ex- penditures. Lord Roscbery is not allowing the fact that he is himself a peer to interfere with the adoption of a popular program of legis- lation, The custom of the British constitu- tion requires the ministry to be in harmony with the majority of the Commons. In con- sequence the party program must be con- structed with a view to pleasing the Com- mons. If it satisfles the peers well and good. If the peers are dissatisfied with the program 8o much the worse for the peers The appointment of Dr. George L. Miller to the position of surveyor of customs is meeting with approval among the people of this city. There can be no question of the doctor's fitness for the place. The appoint- ment has of course other ambi- tlons hereabouts and comes to Dr. Miller unsolicited as the easiost way out of a bitter factional fght in which he did not particl- pate. Taking this instance, coupled with the action of the president in the Lincoln postmastership, it is falr to predict that the active candidates for the district attorney- ship will be turned down and that the plum will go to some democrat whose name has not been mentioned In connection with the place. wrecked The supremo court of Nebraska has very properly set the seal of its disapproval upon the business methods of the so-called collec- tion agencles of this state, who threaten to dlacklist the name of the unfortunate credi- tor who falls to liquidate a claim within a sertaln specified time. The mails of the state have been burdened within the past few years by the threatening letters of these sollection agencies. Many men who from torce of clrcumstances have been unable to promptly pay their debts have been publicly advertised as deadbeats, and unjustly so. The deadbeat has mo sympathy; but the man who fs slmply the victim of hard times 1s entitled to the protection of the law, and | order to the court very properly extends ft, THE WRONG cxreament resched the United bill will be next Thursday, rs of this viclous and indefensi- themselves to h OF 1T week the final the By Iast vote In States senate on selgniorag taker The Die uppor shown jority on every be measure hav tost vote doubt that it from th by an_opportunity of th no encouragement have it further rush argoly in the n and there no will pa appears to the sn effort of the but the do to the house, was made last week bill to the effort wish to opponent got to amend it advocates measure gave beeause they sont back delayod it to th try possible not where it Thelr plan appears president, and it he the veto. It Is could be dona in the on the said that its friends tho republican members will about sustaining the voto of president, and that Mr. mies in his own party vote to ovérride the veto in their This s aken view, so far as the concerned the of the Al other republicans, the would vote to tern to sustain it on this measurc In Senator Sherman cxpressed thic may vetoes it to hardly house, to pass it that thi in view of th of the bill, claim that be enthusiastic over close vote passage but it is not a demc Cleves land has a host of ¢ who will gladly show atic doubtedly a m re- publicans tion, of states. are with excep: course those from silver can be and would no doubt sustain a veto, these, with the ¢ be sufficient Sneating democrats, the opinion that f the pub. 1890, purchased senate, the solgniorage bill is a violation lic faith contained in the which pledged 0 to the r of treasury notes He pointed out that meaning and intent of that act silver bullion only coined redeem the tr “selgniorage” 1890 and awct of July silver lemption issued in payment the plain was that the under it dollars pure into needed to ury The and “gain’ used In the act of copied from the old of 1578, clearly mean, said Senator Sherman, “that the difference between the cost of the silver bullion and value be utilized from time; but this act that discretion was practically lim- ited. There is no authority,” continued Mr. Sherman, “‘and liere amines this that there is no au- this silver bullion ased should be 7 notes words were T its coinage should time to under cvery law will zay whatever lawyer who ex- thority to coin except for the purpose of paying the notes | hich may be ay that what this bill propo: and palpable violation of the That proposition is to take § present He went on to a plain public faith, 100,000 of th coinage value of this bullion, every ounce of which is pledged to the redemption of treg ury notes. not for the purpose of redeeming theso notes nor to maintain the par value of the notes with gold, but as an addition to the currency, which would plainly violate the obligations of public faith. Nor is this all, for the bill provides further that upon the security of this $55,000,000 of bullion taken out of the fund provided for the re- demntion of treasury notes the stary of the treasury shall issue silver certificates, “thus robbing the holders of the treasury notes of the benefit of the stipulation made by the government when those notes were issued.”” By the language of the bill the secretary of the treasury may issue such certificates to the full amount of the so- called scigniorage, so that this bill contem- plates a possible addition of $110,000,000 to the currency, and this Is proposed notwith- standing the fact that the silver bullion on hand, which cost the government $125,000,- 000, has a present market value of only $82,000,000, a loss to the government of $43,000,000. Is it not manifestly absurd to talkk about seigniorage in view of these figures, and equally obvious is the dishon- esty of the proposition to coin any part of this depreciated silver except to redeem treasury notes as already authorized by law. There can be no doubt that the success of the Bland seigniorage bill would tend to de- base the currency and impair the public credit, because it would create an appre- hension of further legislation, already threatened, in the same direction. With §956,000,000 of demand obligations now out- standing, every dollar of which must be kept at parity with gold fn ordor to maintain the public credit, and with a gold réserve of only about $107,000,000, the danger of largely increasing the demand obligations without at the same time Increasing at least pro- portionately the gold reserve must be ap- parent to everybody who knows anything about financial affairs. Senator Sherman was correct in declaring that whether the proposition ‘before the senate fs intended to introduce Irredeemable money or to force the circulation of silver it Is equally vicious, and that if silver should be paid for the certificates authorized by the bill then the Whole superstructure of our financial system based upon gold and silver at par with each other would fall and we should go down step by step to the single silver standard. see ON GLADSTONE'S LIN, There will be no departure by Lord Rose bery from the lines of policy laid down by his illustrious predecessor. Such is the as- surance given In an address of the new premier to a meeting of liberals yesterday. and given in such plain and unqualified terms that there can be no doubt regarding its sincerity. He declared that ho and those associated with him In the ministry stood where they did before there was a change of premiers and that they are all pledged to the same policy. The same measures that constituted the program of the liberal party under the leadership of Gladstone that party will continue to battle for under the leader- ship of Rosebery, First in importance among the liberal policies is that relating to home rule in Ir land, and as to this great question the new premier spoke in no uncertatn or ambiguous terms. He declared that the government s bound to the Irish question by the cause of honor and affection and that the policy of home rule will not be less definitely pursued by reason of the change of prime ministers, The pledge of this was in the continuance of John Morley as chief secrotary for Ireland, that staunch champion of Irish homo ruls having declined a higher position from a sense of duty to that cause. Irishmen and all sympathizers of home rule will dnd in the utterances of Lord Rosebery no reason for other than hope. In roferring to what promises to become an issue of hardly less importance than the Irish questisn, namely, tho “ending or mending” of the ilouse of Lords, the premier sald the present government had fully identified itselt with the declaration made by Mr. Gladstone in his last speech tn the House of Comumons, Ho had himselt long felt that with demos cratic sufirage the House of Lords is an anomaly, and he poimted out whereln the power exercised by the hereditary lexisletors 1s & danger to the constitution. Being hims selt a peer, Lord Rosebery spoke in no harsh or disrespectful terms of the Lords. He dia not think the peerage should be considered & stigma or a bar to opportunities of serving the state, but, as a liberal, none would be more steadfast in doing his duty (o the party What was sald by the premier on this quess tion was largely In the nature of a warning, as, indeed, was that which Mr. Gladstone un- an- | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:; IMUESDAY, MARCH 13, 1894 | aatd Botora cotieing from the sremtseanip, Lord Roretiery, like his predecessor, dres not fliot the Lords, put if it I8 him the assurance gives Iy seek a o with forced upon that he will not make any offort That it s very likely to be forced upon him It may come on there seems to be no doubt any one of several measures that are promi it in the liberal on the bill for the reinstatement of evieted tenants in Ire on the m dealing with the stical plishments of \Wales and or on the proposed equalization of the poor rates in London. The latter meas: ure is peculiarly Lord Rosebery's and fllus. trates his broad democratic of London now provide for their own poor ot pauperism s large in proportion t | property is mueh in those portions where the wealthier classes live. It is proposed to make all the paupers | in London a common cha tire metropolls, and it is expected that this will bitterly by the great property | owners, with whom the Lords will undoubt edly be in sympathy. It is that sthere will not be lacking opportunities for a onflict between the Commons cnd the hereditary legislators, and if it shall arise it will command an interest surpassing that of any other Issue in British politics. The so-called speech of the queen delivered which, as prepared by the prime mint program land asures cccles o8 | Scotland views. ctions where population, taxabla taxed these, the more heavily nd in some than o tpon the be opposed apparent at the opening of Parliament body knows, | ter,contains little beyond a mere outline of the proposed measures of the government. The only this the an- nouncement that negotiations are in progress looking to the execution of the ard of the the seal fisheries progress of legis will be every- reference to country 1s court of arbitration as to in the Bering sea. The lation under England's watched with a good deal of inte new premier WHEELER VS. WHEELER. Fhe bitle tells us that 1y man two On this point all all preachers are agreed. And yet there are men constantly do the two-horse act. A striking example is furnished by Councilman Wheeler in his attempt to muti- late the electric inspection ordinance. As a member of a fire insurance firm Mr. Wheeler represents not only several of the most sub- stantial insurance companies in the country, the merchants, manu- cturers and owners of buildings and stocks In his relation to the in- surance companies and their polic holders Mr. Wheeler is to exert his in- fluence in the council in favor of every safe- | guard that will protect property and lite from fires generated by electrical wires strung on the optside or inside of bulldings. As the beneficiary of Mr. Wiley and the Thomson-Houston company Mr. Wheeler Is expected to exert his influence in the coun- cil for the prevention of any regulation by ordinance that will hamper the company in doing just about as it pleases, and particu larly in making the inspection a mere farce. As between the Insurance companies and the insured on one side and the electric lighting monopoly on the other, whom did Mr. Wheeler represent in mutilating the electric inspection ordinance? As originally drafted, the ordinance was satisfactory to the insurance companies and their patrons, who, are decply interested in preventing spontancous fires. Who was it that cut out certain essential features of this ordinance? Surely not Mr. Wheeler, who does not know any more about electric science as applied to lighting and motor power than he does about the Hindoo language. Is not Mr. Wheeler serving the wrong master when he seeks to lessen public safety and Increase the risks which his employers, the insurance companies, have to carry? Is he not also fastening upon his Omaha in- surance patrons excessive rates by reason of increased risk? Is it not about time for Mr. Wheeler to discard one of his masters and serve his constitucnts as well as his em- ployers and patrons in the insurance busi- ness? an serve masters. sects and trying to but also their patron: of merchandise. expected Custer is the banner populist county In Nebraska. In the state elections of 1892 and 1893 that county gave the people’s ticket a larger proportionate plurality than any other county gave. Every important county office is held by a populist. The chances are, however, that the populists will lose thelr grlp there as a consequence of the recent Qisclosures attending the peculations of the county treasurer, to which reference has been made in the news columns of The Beo and newspapers of the big Sixth dis- trict. Eyidence Is also forthcomiug of the participation of Hon. Omer Madison Kem in the soft snap of the treasurer. A letter was recently received from him in which he admitted having used $1,500 of the county funds, which he subsequently returned. He again been reminded of an additional ,000 secured by him from the same source, but he has not yet stated whether he turned that amount back into the pub- lic treasury of Custer county. Meantime the county treasurer has hypothecated all his goods, chattels and realty in a vain effort to make the county whole, but re- port has it that he is still $5,000 short. We suggest that If Congressman Kem still holds any of this money he ought to return it at once, lest there may come a slump in the populist vote of Custer county In particular and the big Sixth in general. has sum of Another conference is to be held in Phila- delphia for the promotion of municl form. Americans are beginning to realize to what an“extent abuses have been carriod in the larger cities and what can be gain by the suppression of such abuses. The sub- Ject is attracting the attention not merely of theorists, but also of men of affairs who have had practical experience in the efforts made from time to time to rescuc the government of thelr respective cities from the hands of professional politicians who look upon the city revenues as logitimate spoils. It Is scon that what Is needed is a change iu both men and methods. These confer- ences serve to bring proposals for new methods before the public and to impress upon the people the necessity of constant watchfulness and care. It the better elo- ments in all the large citles will only interest themselves actively in the reform of muni- clpal government the improvement in our American cities-will soon become visible even to the most casual observer. The scheme of the electric lighting monop- oly and it tools in the council now fs to rescind the contract which has been awarded to Pardee & Co. as the lowest bidders and to readvertise for mew bids. This is a brazen subterfuge concocted for the evident purpose to prolong the grip of the Wiles oncern upon the taxpayers and upon private nsumers. What excuse is there for read- vertising at this time when delay manifestly makes it Impossible for any competitor to supply the lights by the 30th of April? The pretense under which Wiley's catspaws In the councll propose to rescind the contract is that they do not to grant a fran chise thirty years. Didn't these same councilmen cheerfully vote a fifty-year fran- propose for y avold it | [l‘h\u' to the gas mpany without reducing | the price of gas®® the public or the city? How I8 anybody to bid against the Thomson- Houston unless they on the The job ter- company are privilege of putting up the wires? its face and can only minate In a scandal PR — A locturer upon in New York the young mah whose waist meag inches. We may forthwith change their tacties and of attempting to reduce the size of waists to take measures for expanding them. One Important point, however, seems to ha boen the discussion on this subjoct, and that ts, how Is any young man to know whether the girl's walst comes up to the required standard? Wo presume that no more aceurate than actual measurement. The young lady might, to be sure, object to the process of winding a tape line about her. If the young man who adonts this advice Is wise he will pre- pare for the ordeal by ascortaining the exact length of his coat sleeve. If he is apt to be forgetful he might put a chalk mark at the twenty-five-inch When you young man with a chalk mark on sleeve you may be sure that he is looking for a girl with a twenty-five-inch waist. is too patent on dress reform for women other day admonished marry a girl twenty-five women to instead their to than oxpect the every mever b8 loss overlooked in method s point. sce a his coat A railroad about braska statutes the past y employe at Lincoln set to correct one the abuses of the Ne- that has sprung up within ar or so. The law in this state for a merchant or litor to assign a claim to parties outside f evading the been makes it a misdemeanor er of the state for the purposo garnisheo The law ently ignored and as a result several thriving syndicates have grown up in Council Bluffs Sioux City Nebraska claims against railway employ * julg Justice court the railway company in lowa. The practice has no little hardship and the rail road companies have never made the effort to prevent the abuse. law has persist and They purchase sec ment in and garnishee resulted in The Lincoln employe, has instituted a test case and has sued a merchant for fraudulently transferring a claim to an Towa syndicate. The progress of the wiil with no little interest. however, case be watched The rapid growth of sentiment favorable to the promotion of irrigation in Nebraska is due largely to the efforts of the pr to disseminate information point- ing out the incalqulable lu|\'llll(:l;,'» of irriga- tion wherever it has been this side and beyond the Rockies. Within the past few years publications exclusively devoted to the subject of irrigation have sprung up in leading transmissouri cities. The latest output has just made Its advent in Omaha under the heading'of “Irrigation.” The initial number comes to us in the shapo of a landsomely-printéd twenty-page pamph- let, with several photogravure illustrations and an enclosure of) the topographical map of the projected Platte river canal. Thero is much interesting #nd valuable information embodied in this number that will commend itself to our business men and people inter- ested in the extension of the area of Irri- gation. 8 persistent tried, Those Towa citiés protésting against legis- lation intended to deprive them of their special charters i a sight novel to most legislatures of recefit'years. The usual course for different citics to pursue is to, demand changes in the statutes under which they are organized, and they generally have difficulty in securing the legisldtion which they want. They are compelled to bo governed by char- ters which they have outgrown and which restrict their freedom of action until it shall pleasc the legislature to grant relief. Here these Towa cities prefer to keep (heir old privileges for fear that they will be cur- tailed rather than enlarged by the proposed enactment. They claim to be satisfied with the charters that they have and ask to be allowed to remain as they are. We should doubtless have to look far for other cities that are entirely satisfied with the state statutes that govern thelr organization. Limestone macadam has proved itself to bo a costly fallure in this city and will again prove itself a costly failure If used on country roads. A bed of limestone and cement covered with broken sandstone, granite and gravel would make a first class permanent roadway. But crushed limestone will pulverizo and disintegrate within a very short time. A limestone macadam road that remains unsprinkled in the summer would be avoided by light travel, because the lime dust would make it almost insup- portable, and dirt roads would be preferred in spite of ruts and heavy grades. Thanks for the ¥ Indianapolis Journal. Senator Peffer deserves the thanks of the country for introducing a_resolution to in- vestigite the rumors regarding sugar spec- ulations by senators. The subject should be probed to the bottom. e SR 8 L leant Circumstance. New York Sun. It 1s a significant circumstance that the business condition of the country has im- proved steadily since the Wilson bill passed from the mob of the house into the con- servative hands of the senate. e Tho Man for the St Paul Globe Admiral Benham, commander of the American fleet at Rio, is a hero in more senses than one. While all the other fc elgners have fled from the yellow fever, he remains at his post, and, ‘'when necessity requires, nurses the sick and comforts the He is made of the right sort of e 1. f the Tarift Bill. Philadefpile Ledg Barly reports fegm, \WVashington of the manner in which the bill has been received indicate that it mby get full demoeratic SUpport In Kome shape, Bt 118 almost tain to be thrown bith conference commit and to be so altered there as to amount new bill. Thu republie: hould un- nize it at every point, for its final pas sage 13 by no means, ppsur Hom— piration Fotaged wit Philadelibia Record Admiration for the quick-witted action of a Rock Island railway engineer, who saved his train from the bandits on Priday night while passing throuh a cut near St. Joseph, Mo, by turning on g full head of ‘steam, will' be' mingled wilf regret that the de peradoes could notbe captured. — The rail- ways of the countity should mike common In " hunting gdown these outlaws. the Adams i5xpress company has e in the ‘way o iRinin 168 (Tl crews ith buckshot rifles should be done by the rallroad companies generally for the pro- teotion of passenger trains. o bo. A Sig noy. Adj Grief. HERE AND THERE. A sweeping change on the surface of the streets would be an agreeable one The genial influence of the weather presently bring trees into bold re-leaf It fs possible to furn down cheap tric light, but it cannot be blown out Ex-Boss McKane has been found $200,000 short, in addition to his moral defictencies. The shah of Persia 1s a kodak fiend. No wonder European royalty dreads his coming visit Anont positivoly will her Masonic declines to in riding the goat T areoccasions after office seeks the man Some crats can testify to the fact. “Anxious Inquirer” s informed Mosquito country referred to in the Washing. ton dispatches fs not a part of New Jersey Whatever were the shortcomings of eral Jubal Early, he was a bluft brig whose plcturesque swearing oft set camps ablaze Although Miss Kate Field lier early ambition to shin states, the circumstance does not diminish the value of her Latter Day notes A coterie of local sports persistently dis- cuss an alleged scrap at Jacksonville, not- withstanding the solemn declaration of local jury that Corbett did not fight Mitchell. Phil Thompson, leading lawyer for the de fense in the Breckinrid is old light ning itself with a gun, and is sald to have dited no less than five Kentucky rals. There is to be a silver Moines on the 20th inst. Colorado proposes sending a delegation in favor of “honest money.” Prospects of an animated discus sion are increased thereb; Louisfana’s new senator has a full erop of modern whiskers. The growing popularity of cheek and chin adornments to statesmanship lends plausibility to the report that Dan Dickinson contemplates hanging his portiercs on a presidential nomination. John Kendrick Bangs, the democrat mayor of Yonkers, N. Y., is editor of tI humorous department of Harper's Bazar and has charge of the “Drawer” in Harper's Magazine. The dominant party is afficted with a mania for political funny business. Strong evidence of the financial revival in Denver s furnished by the February state ment of the First National bank, of whic D. H. Moffatt is president On December 19 the deposits amounted to $4,493,810.34, on February 28 $5,185,974.48, an increase of $692,130.14 in two and a half months. This is gratifying evidence of returning confi dene Initiation, Mrs. reveal her exact Lease pose all when the Omaha demo- that the daid not satisfy on the operatic > cas convention in Des President Cleveland las promised to re view the Knights of Pythias at their triennial encampment at Washington in August, and General_Schofield has consented to inspect them. This is the first time the president anl the commanding general of the army havi honored similar organizations. The campment will begin and three da August 27 last e Judicial Nullification Springficld (Mass) Republican. General Olney is not a haphazard opinions, and when he of Judge Grosscup's decision in th state commerce case as about he ever noted, his The attitude of the court is kable. It Is to be remem interstate law does nof to testify against them selves; on the contr it expressly ex empts'them from prosecution in such cascs But Jud up practically holds that any officer or agent of a railrond company which is being prosccuted for violation of the law cannot be compelled to testify against the company at And such ix the law now that when any federal judee decides against the government the lattc inot appeal, while the railroad company an, in case the judgment is against itself. The rote at which the courts are now openly nullifying legislative acts or prac- tically rendering them vold is a strik feature of the present exercise of Jjudicial power. It is not confined to the ‘federal ourts, which are granted such jurisdiction by the constitution, but to stite courts many of which aré not many high thoritics, such as Judge Cooley of Mich an, and’ a_ great number of eminent judges, have held even in the case of the federal courts that a legislative act s not to be nullificd except in the clearest and most_emphatic cases of constitutional Vio- lation. That Judge Grosscup has unduly stretched the powers of his tribunal would thus appear ta be evident, And when w join to this willingness of the federal court to stretch a point to save railroads from just punishment the further willingness ¢ the same courts, a8 in the decision of Judgr Jenking, to take an unheard-of step aga the generally vecognized rizht employes, we have an assumpt power of rather surprising prop: “Whocver hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, It is he who I8 truly the law-giver, to all in- tents and purposes, and not the person who first wrote or spoke them.” So said the English Bishop Hoadley in 1717 in o ermon before the king. It scems to be true saying, and it secis also to be tr that our judiciary Is rapidly taking to it- self prerogatives which are making it prac tically the Inw-giver of the nation and of the states within certain broad and en- larging bounds. Jefferson saw in this power of the federal judiciary a menace to the government. Roger Sherman of Connecticut, of another political school, op- sed the granting of it In the constitu- al convention of 1787. But it has been and thereby has arlsen a doc- of constitutional law wholly unique among the nations. Tt nower, how ever, never Intended for unlimited judicial exe The federal judges will do well . v to be occasionally of this fact. Attorn man of “hroad* judgment hat quire witn, vermment Ownership of Railrons . Bly In North American Tteview In proportion to the number traveling, there are thirteen times as many accident in the United States as in Germany, whet government ownership of raflways obtains and six or seven times as many accidents to employes in proportion to the total num- ber, And no wonder! ‘The first thing which attracts attention in Germany is the careful protection to life and limb. Accidents of dally occurrence in Chicago are an impossi- Dility in Berlin. a eclty of cq size. Con trast the efforts of the United States to save life as seen In our truly admirable ing_service on our coasts with the conduct of those raflway presidents who rush to Washington and to our state cap- itals to prevent the passage of laws to com pel the railways to use well known and ap- proved safety appliances! Tt is claimed that there is greater freedom in the service f government than in the service of the vast corporations which manage natural monopolies. And the freedom of the e ployed may be still furthe ased by better civil service regul nohil ity of public service is of importance to the wage earner of e 'y grade. The uniform of government {s an honor, while the livery of pri ed n bdg; inferiority. It which developed the great I e clvili: tion. Private service could never give us o Washington or a Lincoln. Government own- ership implies use for general social pur- naens, and not merely exploitation for div- idend: —_—— Superflous Selt-hnp Philadelphla Record Senator Sherman says the United senate 18 “the greatest deliberative b the world' In a certain sense he I8 right Whilst the senate “deliberates” the bhus- fness of the country goes to wreck. Ben- atorial delibs tion I8 the grandiose phrase with which senator filibustering, sen. atorial speculation and genatorial disresard for the public interest is sugar-coatel to hide its bitterne and vileness from the popular apprehensior e H00D LUCK. nee. tates ly in in Chicago Times. ast-off shoe from the cobblestones )l luck to you! Inging tones. Judd Lyman I found a horse's And snatched | j00d luck, my boy, 1t seemed’ to say in Thoughtlessly T stood and laughed, With future bright within my cliteh, il 1 got a jab with @ wagon shaft, And now I travel on a cruteh. Highest of all in havcningM—Latcst U. S. Gov't Report, ol ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder [ GROVER DID IT ALL ALONE seloetion of a postmaster at Lincoln and as the situation stands the machine has thres black eyes at this early stage in the Alling of the large faderal braska, President Cloveland Personally Responsible for the Appointment of Dr. Miller, WHY HE TURNED DOWN THE MACHINE the Combi « 1k it Welght to Tarn ¢ and Miller Came a8 & Huppy Solution, ndidato o Seale suryeyor dates orship arbitrarily eloctions made which O'Brien was today appointed post- tor at Bondurant, Polk county, la., vice 1. McClung, resigned, and J. 0. Johnson Westerville, Clay county, 8. D., vice Olo Westre, resigned Hon. Patrick mandie x-Senator Warren of Wyoming spent most of today on the floor of tho senate B PERRY S. HEATH. - - MID-MARCH MERRIMENT, Bgan of Lincoln is at the only way to get a Texas Siftings: The o i to g0 slow, but hen out of the garde: shoo'er. oint in the er: The turnin ' end of a Buffalo Cou Armer boys 15 lives of most furrow. Phila Eas i down wdelphin Record: A move for chienper something that shouldn’t be turned that inkers Statesman: If it Is o fact, that verything comes to him who wal Philadelphians will eventually get thing. Chicago Tribune: Winter apjienrs to be zoing, and through the tree-tops the spring i soon will be breathing o sigh of eve leggar—Have you a are, sir? Carleton-—Yes; the Kitehen making ments e you can vou will find him in fove to the cook. “T'Il never invite an editor to my home again,” said the youns Quthor. I had Bluepencil up over Sunday, ind my boy brought out the mucilage pot and said, ‘Dat's what my papa W'ites storwies wid.” " Harper's: Bazar: “IUs A queer erves closel who is h thing," “that an an- Star: who' barbe Washington said the man say not. You wouldn't expect ork against his own businessy counting the district attorneyship. Peeblos’ special mission on this occasion Is t¢ and passed at his requost over a year ng act secured by Mr. Peebles in 1890, The “President Cloveland assumes all of the Fe- | Measure passed the senate last session, but will result in a big boom for that tow: as Treasury department to The Bee correspond | entirely successful in securing what he cama the circumstances under which President Indian schools in South Dakota some weeks “When the friends of Mr. 1j position they | advocating the nomination of McKinley in mind some woeeks ago that under no elreum- | ug an enviable record as an Indian teacher he frst real evidence that the president | eurey upon the advisability of establishing white house and asked that information b and asked that information be | " the ndian appropriation bill will pros tter was looked up and the president today providing for the transfer of the fish of interstate commissioner, Dr. Mil sired by a numbor of residents of Nebraska man Castor presented the name of Dr, Mille rHIer | oourt rooms and was fnformed by the clerk ship. The president did not intend to ap. P 1 ready to proceed, but that the trouble or de- did not care for the place, and it was under. claimants can got thelr money. A judgment at a loss to know what e should do about court of claims have been refurred to tho the president saw his way clear out of his Qeficiency appropriation bill, which 15 ex- givon that state more than it is entitled to to appoint the doctor to the surveyorship the the doctor, he made up his mind to send his I do not know that he was advised of the their appeal for his appointment (o the other Castor refused to be interviewed upon the 1ot see his way to nominate him. Both say he was not given that place. At the same Commerce commission at the end of last A prise to them which they made for this office. The presi- personal friend. His ears are always open You never find a Secretary Carligle did everything ho could to | Would you? IGER. Uhe Nebraska contingent in Washington ex- She gots two letters in the mal, appointment of some one who s objection- PEEBLES AND THE INDIAN LANDS W. B. Peeblos of Pender, Thurston county, arrived in the t ovening. M. | try and secure the allotment of the Omaha Indian tribal lands at o in conformity with a bill Senator Manderson fntroduced There I3 some interest T due the Omahas, which he fs intorested in soeing | paid as soon as possible, as they need it to | buy seed wheat and implements for farming operations this spring. This Interest money is paid annually under the provisions of an WASHINGTON BURBAU OF THE BEE, Indian land tax bill, which has attracted 818 Fourtesnthi:Street, such widesprend attention, owes its oriir WASHINGTON, March 12 to the Thurston county gentleman. This _ y alled to go through the house. The allo.ting sponsibility for the no on of Dr. Gec i e ‘r"" ho nomination of Dr. George | of ‘yyy yuat tract of tribal lands adjoirwg « Miller of Omaha to be of eus- | pender, heretofore used for grazing purp. toms at that port,” said a high official in the allotted fands can bo leased for agrieult .ral ent late this afternoon. here is not a ; While tribal lands cannot. Mr paper on file in this department in favor of ikt BB L AL Dr. Miller for any place. [ will tell you | aftor. Prof. R. M. Jester, who was temoved from Cleveland dropped the three or four candi- | the superintendency of the Lower Brule for the surve and R it o ‘ ago for having written a political letter to o ulaatod Dol Lt e friend in lowa giving evidence of pleasure at ms filed papers mocratic defeat fn recent and for his appointment to the enterad eharges against Mr MoShane, | 95, has been reinstated in tho service and and the. fact is' the proatent % will be assigned with his wife to the charge R UP I8 | o Tan Indian school In Idaho. Prof. Jester stances would he nominate McShane, He prosentative Mercer called upol came to the conclusion that McShane was | (e s inith mrt iy oo, L URREL ok tiie plibe ry Hoke Smith and Indian Comn e " Drowning today and presented facts and ided to nominate Dr. Miller came to th ' rtment on Saturday,” continued the oft- | & branch ot the Indian supply depat at VN Ao ¥ came over from the | Omaha, with a view to_securiug their on- t s E oper am tHC | dorsement to congress. Mr. Mercer belleves to the president bearing upon the Lol financial benefit to be derived from the office | Yd¢ for the branch depot at Omaha, of surveyor of customs at Omaha. The IN A GENERAL WAY Representative Meiklejohn introduced a bill was informed that the emoluments made the office worth between §6,500 and $7,000 per | commission and the geological survey to the annum. or nearly as much bosition | Agricultural departmient With a yiew to procuring fnformation de- ler sought through his friends HELPED OUT OF A HOLE as to the condition of business before the court ‘S toR BAbrataty Nor R Gat . | Of claims affecting Indian depredation claims. At i The Bee correspondent today called at the for the Interstate Commerce commission vi caney they no doubt unwittingly sealed the | that the Indian dopredation claims are being fate of all aspirants to the Omaha suveyor- | 1isposed of as rapidly as they are made.com- plete upon the docket and the claimants are point Mr. McShane, and he did not want to | appoint cither Cunningham or Tams. He wax (1Y is with congress, which must appropriato given to understand that ex-Governor Boyd | money to pay the judgments obtaine inst £ the United States government before the stood that Messrs. Morton and Castor wera u unwilling that Le should be appointed to it, | against the government is of no avail with Under the circumstances the president was | ot an appropriation to pay it. Al the Indian depredation judgments obtained in tho the surveyorship until Dr. Miller's name was pressed for the vacancy on the Interstate | house committee on claims, which has taken Commerce commission. Almost instantly | favorable action upon them and will deavor to have them placed in the goneral dilemma. He did not want to give the Inter state Commerce commission vacancy to No. | pected to appear in the house before many braska, because he feels that he has already nd because he wants a lawyer for the posi- tion. He wanted to provide for Dr. Milter, and when the idea suggested itself to him question of compensation was the ouly thing in the way. Learning that the offico was | N¢ worth nearly as much as the one sought by | name to the senate today. While I do not doubt that Dr. Miller knew that lis name was to go to the senate for the surveyorship, fact. It is not known at this department what Secretary Morton and Mr. Castor think of the nomination of Dr. Miller, but after place, neither can enter objection. MORTON AND CASTOR ARE SILENT. Both Secretary Morton and Committeeman nomination of Dr. Miller. They both declare allegiance to James McShane, and say that they deeply regret that the president could they urged the president with all their power to appoint Dr. Miller on the Inter- state Commerce commission and are sorry time both are quoted as saying that they were aware of the futility of further press- the name of Dr. Miller for the Interstate week. However, Messrs, Morton and Castor knew on Saturday Dr. Miller would be nom- inated today. The nomination was no sur- Mr. McShane and his friends in Omaha have President Cleveland more than any- body else to blame for losing the fight dent s naturally of a suspicious turn of mind, except in a few instances, where, to employ & vulgarity, he is “dead stuck on” some to charges and he is even ready to find an | You ney exeuse for turning down an applicant who | #TEPERC g is endorsed by a large number of the people. | " S bring about Mr. McShane's appointment. ol Now that the Morton-Castor machine has THE LADY OR THI broken down on the Omaha surveyorship, Brooklyn Life pects to see it knocked out in the selection The envelopes are seanned; of a United States district attorney. At- A il ‘!mu'vll\\v'“tf. fifi.]:;' one, torney General Olney has recommended the A monsjthe other:hand, able to the machine and it remuins to be seen whether he can have his way. 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