Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 15, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. BE. ROSEWATER, tor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING SCRIPTION. Year TERMS OF § o (without Sunday). nd Bunday, One Year s Months Tee Saturday 1 Weekly Bee One one Year One_Year One Year OFFICES, The e Bullding. ymiha, r N and Twenty-fourth ta, enrl street amber of € 14 and 1 S T Tribune DIdg ok, R Washingt o news and_edi torial matwr should be addressed: To u BUSINESS LETTERS. All busineas lettors and remittances shoul addressed to The Hee Publisaing Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoffice be made piyabie to the order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN TATEMENT OF Qeorge 13 Taschuck CIRCULATION secretary of The Hee Publishing company, being duly sworn, says that tunl number of full and complete coples of Daily Morning, 15 w ‘and Sunday Dee printed during the montisof February, 184, was an follows 1 1 I 1 1 L 17,808 20,801 Daily average net clrculation .. * Sund ROE B TZSCHU na subserih " Public. “All quiet along the Ama is the cry that now comes from Brazil, The attitude of the populist s the tariff bill is like the famous riddle of the sphinx. Most people prefer to glve it up. ors upon Uruguay Is baving about as much difficulty in securing a president as the United States had recently in getting a full bench for the supreme court. It the United States could but coin ‘the silver specches that have been made in the two houses of the present congress, what a rich country this would be. Hawali scemingly will not down. No sooner {5 the question of annexation dis- posed of than it bobs up again in connection with the sugar schedule of the new tariff bill, Hascall's jimeracks and monkey shines with the electric lighting ordinanze carnot decefve anybody. He is simply tangling up the clectric lighting matters so as to pre- vent the competing company from getting a foothold. The Brazilian revolution turns out to have been but a rebellion after all. The long promised naval battle in which the efficiency of the dynamite guns was to be demon- strated failed to materialize, much to the regret of the professional naval warriors of the world. It the examples set by previous members of the house who have been elevated to places in the senate have any influence upon the ambitions of Speaker Crisp, he will not be overanxious to lay aside his gavel for the privilege of succeeding Semator Colquitt at the other end of the capitol. Within the past three years the state of Nebraska has paid enough i the way of interest on state warrants to build and equip all the needed additions to state in- stitutions that will be necessary for the next ten years. Legislative ecconomy should be one of the planks in the political platform this fall, Accusations against dealers in other food products are rather weak apologies for sell- ing fnferior and filthy milk to customers who have no means of protecting themselves from imposition. © The milk dealers are re- sponsible for their own acts, and the ex- fstence of black sheep in other lines of busi- ness is no excuse for their existence among the milkmen, The Nebraska sheriffs who have already exhausted the state appropriation from which they draw their mileage fees in con- ducting convicts to the state penitentiary will look with envy upon the South Dakota sheriffs who are compelled to travel several hundred extra miles south into Nebraska in order to transfer a prisoner from the western part of their own state to the east- ern. Why should the city pay salarles to officers to bring back fugitivo prisoners charged with state offenses? The expenses of tho trip are charged up to the state, but not the time of the officer for which the clty Is paying. It seems as If the city were getting the small end of the horn fn this system of sending police officers to recelve offenders for whom requisitions have been issued. While most people working upon salaries aro only too glad that their wages have not been reduced, a considerable number of the New York officials haye come to the conclu- slon that they are not being pald what their services are actually worth. Instead, however, of resigning and seeking more appreciative employers they are pressing a bill before the state legislature to raise their salaries by $1,000 to $3,000 all around. It needless to add that this exhibition of Tammany bravery is mot meeting the approval for which its promotors had hoped. is The mayor's message to the new council upon its assembling last January expressed the desire that they might act in harmony upon all questions that affect the public in- terests. It Is evident that the council's conception of harmonious action and that of the mayor do not quite coincide. Some members of the council appear to have been imbued with the idea that all that is re- quired of them Is to oppose everything that the mayor advocates and to support every- thing that ne opposes. Unfortunately for them, the mayor s generally right, while they are generally all wrong. Omaha 1s taining the lumber men who do business In the surrounding ter- ritory. It Is about to entertain tho physi- olans of the Missourl valley, who meet here to discuss subjects connected with thelr pro- tession. Next week 1t will open its doors to the delogates to the Irrigation convention. Omaha is fast making itself popular as a place for holding conventions of this kind, The peoplo of Nebraska and the surrounding states like to come to Omaba and Omaha likes to have them come, Under such cir- cumstances tho oftener they consent to par- take of our hospltality the better. now ente PUSHING THE WRONG WAGON Four of the six members of the Nebraska the lower house have before the committee rivers and harbors in favor of an priation for the Improvement of Sabine I Nebraska s be b ted In shape or form by the dredging and deopen Ing of an inlet Texan harbor to this The Texan harbor projects, whether it be Aransas Pass, Sabine Pass or another pass, have for their prime objet the booming of Texas towns and speculation In Texas lands Tots, delegation in forvent appeal of in appro How to any into a we fall see at distance. deep and town There never can be any very great merclal entrepot on the gulf for export and import, because there Is no chance for get ting a return cargo from Burope. We can cotton, and other southern products from the gulf ports in almost any quantity, but no the gult will ever be able to comy cessfully with Boston, New York and Balti- more as an importing steamship center. In the first place, the colossal capital for hand- ling marketing wares s already centered in those cities and cannot be diverted The world’s great markets must be in the temperate zone, ac- buyer and seller all the year the next place, the most trafic is the conveyance ond immigrants, There mofey fn a steerage nigrants than on a cargo of costly wares. The bulk of t travel whether first cabin or steerage, the gulf inlet. What would they they get there, even if there were noy fever or epldemics? Without a return the gulf route be payl competitor for exporting western farm pro- ducts, because the shipowners would have to charge the expense of the return voyage to the outgoing cargo. To be sure, there will be considerable traffic from the gulf ports to Mexico, Central and South America, but that traflic is light and divided between the Texan ports, N Orleans, Charl and Savannah the Atlantic side and the California ports on the Pacific All these por to handle as many Sofith and Central Ameri- can products as New York. Nebraska and Towa, and even Kansas, have nothing to gain from the deepening of Texas harbors. What they want is a waterway to connect the Missonri and the Mississippi with the lakes, For Nebraska an air line to Duluth would be of value than ten Sabine Pass harbors. com export tobacco commerclal emporium on te suc- and imported southward. to In cessible round. profitable of is passengers more cargo of ¢ ansatlantic will avold do when low ArEo nnot made a comparatively ston on coast. combined do not begin be more FROM THE X AYE. NDPOINT. For four. years and four months the prop- erty owners of Omaha have been taxed at of $1,750 per for 100 lights contracted to be of 2,000-candle power, when in fact these arc lights ranged from 600 to 800-candle power. [For the past two years the property owne have been taxed at the rate of $140 per arc lamp for the lamps in excess of the first hundred. When this last contract was made the city agreed to®use mot less than seventy additional lamps, but since then their number has been increased so that we are now paying for 100 lamps, making a total charge on the taxpayers for arc lights of $31,500 per annum. About two months ago bids were invited for from 200 to 300 arc lights. When the bids were opened it was found that the Thomson-Houston company offercd to extend its contracts for three X $132 per arc light. Pardee offered to supply these lamps at $112 per lamp, conditioned upon the city's giving that company the right to establish and operate an electric lighting plant and supply electric lights to private consumers. It stands to reason that without this right, which may be ealled a franchise, the company could not furnish the lights, and electric lighting would be an absolute monopoly. The only question to be settled, therefore, is the term for which this franchise shall run, and that must be determined by the risk. No capitalist, whether home or foreign, will invest in an electric lighting plant if his right to operate it could be abrogated in a few years unless the city buys the plant. That right the city always roserves to itself. From the taxpayer's standpoint the only question is whether the city can rave money by letting the contract to Pazdes & “lo., and whether by so doing we got an cntering wedge for competition and lower rates to private consumers. Now et us muke the computation: Under the existing contracts we are paying $31,600 a year for 210 lamps. Pardee & Co. propose to furnish 200 lamps for $22,400 a year. Under the LId of the Thomson-Houston company wa would pa 200 lamps 00 a year and for 300 lamps $30,600. This shows how have teen robbed. Wiley's company now ofiars to give us 500 lamps for $8,100 a sear more than we are now paylng for 200" lamps, while Pardee & Co. will give us 300 lamps for 33,600, or only $2,100 a year more than we are paying for 200 lamps. “tan auy council- man justify a refusal to give the taxpayers a chance to save $4,000 to $6,000 a yeur? The hue and ery about planting more poles on the streets is groundloss. The contract with the **homson-Fouston company on the 26th day of Movember, 1889, contains the following provision: It is hereby further understood and agreed that the said party of the aecond part shall, upon the payment of a reasonable compensa- tion, permit any other electric light com- pany or any electric power company to use the poles of the said party of the second part for the purpose of stringing its wires; pro- vided that in caso the sald party of the second part shall be unable to agree with any such electric light.or electric power company upon the amount of ald com- pensation the city councll of the city of Omaha shall have power to Intervene as an arbitrator and fix the amount of sald com- pensation, which determination of the city council shall be final. That knocks the objection to more poles silly. The Pardee company has a right to string its wires on the poles of the old com- pany at reasonable rates, and if the old com- pany abandons these poles the Pardee com- pany would replace them with poles of its own, And let us see the shabbiness and partiality which is being exhibited in deal- ing with a company that offers relief from extortion to taxpayers. The first contract with the Thomson-Houston company con- tains no limit to Its franchise and not the slightest concesslon fs exacted for this priv- ilege. The city has no reduced rates for public buildings and no reserved rights, but, on the contrary, provision Is made that the company shall not at any time during the life of the contract be required to take down or remove any of its poles or such as may in future be erected under the contract. The bond of the company, under this con- tract, was fixed at §10,000, and the bonds- men are 8. L. Wiley, as president of the company, and 8, L. Wiley and A. B. Hunt suretles. Nelther the company nor its bondsmen quality for any sum. Contract No. 2, made on the 31st of May, 1892, has a bond for only $5,000, with 8, L. Wiley, presi- dent, as princlpal, and 8. L. Wiley and H. B. Chubbuck as sureties. Both of these suretles are officers of t*3 ocompany and the rate month arc we made now made a | THE OMAHA nelther of them have qualified for any sum On the other hand, Parded & Co. were re- quired to file a bond for $25,000, with quall- fled sureti fts bid, and a $40,000 bond will be exacted If th ntract is con- It i right and proper for the city to exact a sufficlent bond from every con. tractor, busyhe rank discrimination displayed against the parties that offer to give the city el lights petition cannot be Justified or easily explained away. Tho Bee fs not fighting the battle of Par doe & Co. or trying to down the Thomson- Houston eompany. Our fight Is for the tax- payers and for the clectric light eonsumers, it people had given O contract ealied for should have had no fault to find with their bills. If they had been the lowest bidders wo should have been in favor of awarding them the contract What the citizens of Omaha is lights and competition it they can get it, at least until the city owns int every with simmated per and o the Thomson-Houston aha what their wo want s cheaper its own plant, and from this standp councilman should gauge his course. WHAT WILL THE PRESIDENT DO The final vote in the senate on the Bland seigniorage bill will taken today there is reason to apprehend that 1t will be be and passed without amendment such will be the case, the highly interesting nd important question is what wiil president with the measure? A ago no one would have hesitated to say that promptly veto it. clusion is consistent with the attitude which Mr., Cleveland has maintained toward silver. It was reported at the time he went on his last that im mediately before leaving Washington that he was opposed gniorage; that the actlon of the adminis tration in fssuing partly tended to pr this legislation. It said that the ‘president at that time mani- fested decided displeasure with the Bland proposition and gave every on for the belief that under no circumstances would it his 1t congress should Assuming that the do month he would o other con hunting excursios he stated to coining the so-called silver bonds was in- ont was re receive pass it. It would seem from later developments that Mr. Cleveland has changed his mind, and, if the testimony of Senator Stewart of any value, the change has been made in the interest of the tariff bill. The Nevada senator, who is identified with the populists, is reported have sald as re- cently as last Tuesday that in conside tion of a promise that the president would cither sign the selgniorage bill permit it to become law without his signature he intended to vote for the Wilson tarift bill, all of whom favor the scigniorage bill, it is believed will also support the tariff bill, although there was some doubt a week ago whether they would all do so. The natural inference fs, therefore, that the administra- tion has made a compact with the populist senators by which, In consideration of their votes for the tariff bill, the bill for coining the seignlorage will be allowed to become law. There is cumulative evidence that Mr. Cleveland is prepared to recede from his position regarding silver so far as to permit the coinage of $55,000,000 of the bullion called the “seigniorage.”” One of the most active opponents of this measure in the house is Mr. Tracey, a democratic repre- sentative from New York, who was con- spicuous among the administration forces in On belng asked re- garding the probable fate of the seignlorage bill in case 1t passed the senato he slgnificantly declined to give an opinion. Mr. Burrows of Michigan stated in an interview that he had heard from a trustworthy source that the president had said to one or more democratic leaders that strongly inclined to approve, or at least not to veto, the Bland bill. This inclination had been produced, It was said, by strong repre- sentations made to the president by south- ern and western democrats to the effect that unless silver legislation of some sort should be had before the cnd of this session of congress the party would inevitably suffer a terrible and general disaster in November. That such representation has been made to Mr. Cleveland is not to be doubted, but it seems hardly credible that it could have induced him to incline toward favoring a further addition to the siiver coinage, as it must be obvious that the success of tho seigniorage bill would be even more dis- astrous to the democratic party in the east. ern and middle states than would be Its failure to the party in the southern and western states, the latter meaning, ot course, the sllver producing states, for it ia only these in the west that want more sil- ver. Mr. Cleveland is a much less sagacious politician than he is commonly supposed to be if he cannot sece that this seigniorage proposition, If it shall prevail, will cost his party a vastly greater loss of votes than would its defeat, and place the party in a hopeless minority for years to come. So as the soutlt Is concerned its voto will probably not be materially affected in any event. That section wants more silver, but it will continue democratic i its demand is denied. The only gain to be hoped for from the carrying out of this policy is in the silver states, and if this were absolutely sure it would be vastly exceeded by losses in the states where popular (sentiment is very largely adverse to any addition to the silver colnage. To say nothing of the damage to his own public record, which as to the silver question has thus far been consistent, Mr. Cleveland could do no greater harm to his party than by approving the seigniorage bill, or allowing 1t to become a law without his signature, which would be simply a’subter- fuge. Yet the indications appear to warrant the apprehension that this is what he Is likely to do, approval now to silver or The other populist senators, the extra session. he was The laws of Nebraska are very explicit in defining fire com- panies doing business In this state. Every company 1s required to make a full and specific statement of Its financial condition for record in the office of the state auditor. Fallure to do so debars any company from taking risks on property in Nebraska. This law, 1s being evaded. Companies that with our laws assume heavy risks In the state and then farm them out plecemeal among foreign companies that have not complied with the Nebraska statute, and hence pay nothing for the privilege of doing business here, Such practice may, of course, increase the surety of policy holders, but nevertheless It cheats the state of revenues to which it Is entitled, Is an In- justice to companles that comply with the laws, and sheuld not be tolerated. the duties of insurance however, have complied The insurance men complain that they are not treated fairly. They assert that there is a blind and unreasoning prejudice against them In tonls state and that they are harassed by the legislature at every sesslon. It they will stop to consider the matter they will realize that they themselves are largely responsiblo for the prejudice which exists against them. ‘Whenever It has been necessary to appeal to the legislature against unfavorable legislation the insurance men have entrusted thelr interests to an unprin- cipled lobby which seeks only to exercse DATLY BEE: | THURSDAY, MARCH 15, the power of corruption rather than to con- vince with argur The people of Ne- braska have good on to Fegard the pro- fesslonal lobbyist susplelon and in years past the insurancefliobby has been one of the most brazen and dlressive. The continue win the municipal electiong in many of the northern states the thing before them lust November. ditions are extremoly favorable lican success all over the. union In Nebraska the municipsl campalgns still in progress, but in this state party Iines republicans to where nocrats swept every- The con- for repul fall are next are not strictly drawn except In one or two | of the larger 1t whl therefore be almost Impossible to jndge of the political sentiment of the state by the April elections, The republicans unquestionably have the ad- vantage in Nebraska if they will keep. it and not dissipate it by costly errors in mak- ing nominations cities Senator Finn is eminently correct in his statement to the upper house of the Towa legislature that the passage of a local option measure will be a virtual acknowledgement that the: republican party has upon this all these years democratic party right. Everybody that the last republican state acknowledged this in the platfo It s far hetter for a political party that it been particular question and to ity to being wrong appear consistent. It is time for the repub- licans to stop pulling prohibition chestnuts out of the fire been wrong and the thought ention n which it point con adopted to learn on some its e mer has wrong or than to persist in As money begins to get casier in the east for more favor- Omaba s an If, upon the cpening we could house In newal of work building + and Fort begihaing on a together with active operations throughout- the city and at South Omaha, it would not take them long to decide that this is the place for profit- able investment. investors are casting about ablo bidder for these people. up of the building them a $200,000 market construction, a opportunities active eason, show ourse of the Crook on government union and a good passenger depot, What a relief it is to know that Dr. Miller has finally concluded ot the position of surveyor of customs tendered him by President Cleveland, Just think for a mo- ment what would be the result had he come to a different determination. It might the president as long to settle upon some other candidate as it did for him to fix upon the doctor for the place. Such an extension of the already protracted agony might have proved serious, if not fatal to some of the cager aspirants for federal office under the present democratic-administration. No part of Nebrasf (.;s statutes stand more in need of revision than the laws relating to public health. State and municiple au- thorities have but little power to take meas- ures for preventing the spread of an epi- demic or for improving sanitary conditions. The present StateBoard of Health is a misnomer and should be abolished. to ace: take A Superflaous Inquiry. Atlanta_ Constitution. Well may the democratic voters begin to rub their eyes and ask themselves where they are at! Modest Democratic Opinion Boston Herald. The second year of the Cleveland admin- istration has begun, and it seems proper to ay that there's room fob improvement, as usual. Stand from Under. Globe-Democrat. Hill seems to understand chance to get an endorsement York this year is to take a cours tariff qu jon that will harmonize @ republican §ictory. that his only in New o on the with Printing News W Louis Republic for mad and revile the newspapers because the facts in the sugar conspiracy have come out. The newspapers are here (o publish the news, and the fact of the conspiracy was news to the publle if not to the send- tor. get of tho Wilson BilL Indianapolls Journal. The fight over the Wilson bill wil battle royal, and it is by no means c that it will pass the senitte. In that e the McKinley law will remain in forcc it will devolve on the republican congr which will be elected next fall to m whatever amendments in that law experi- ence may have shown to be desirable. A Tidal W New York Sun. “If the democrats put thr come tax call me a republican That s what thousands of men town and elsewhere, solid cilize democrats, the backbone of th every political contest, are day. They are saying it aloud. When_the federal tax hunter begins to thumb their private ledgers for them, their remarks concerning democracy will be even more vigorous and impressi . Turn of the Golden Globe-Democrat. The continuous increase In the treasury gold balance, even though it is slow, is:q highly encouraging clreumstar Bond sales. sent the gold fund up H<m around the $63,000000 or $51,000,000 mark to about $104,000,000, and there has been a Staasv n ever since, which has put the funi Just above the $107,000,000 line. The gold ex- portations, however, which were ately heavy last week, and whi tinue for a week or two longe chance to stop the treasury inere time, gh the in- in this lifelong in ng every al Trend Rovealed. York World The elections held on last Tuesday re the same trend as those held two w ago. The republicans | ainead argely in supervisors and other local offi- cials, "It would be fooll to deny or b little these facts. They ¢ facts and they are significant Nobody can assume that this mean isfaction with the democratic pariy. Plainly it means the contrary. Why? The reason is not far to seck. It is because th duct of so many ofthe leaders and r sentatives of the party is selfish, falthle and undemocratic i B ‘Whited nancial Sepul Simon Sterne, [ the March ¥ With some very e exception: were invidious to name, but which the railway world know as such tions, the railway corporations of the United aLe 1t ully “\‘}; from hand to mouth, and have ghot Working or reserve moythy and havaumg requirs it more than any r. The rail re capitalized=for much more than worth ually the bonded in- tes, equipment taken at par, re ue In éxq of the cost of the pulsorily bl Hence, whatever the road eal al cost must, unless it exceed s :nf/be pald out annually in the shap of interest alone. The Polit m, which it all in exeep 1894. PEOPLE AND THINGS. Etheral mildness, cub off! Andrew Jackson was born 127 years ago today Italian version of the Brazillan affair: Gama’'s upa Victory does | tongest petition, | It often happens that a corpulent built on the square, | Even fckie March | wumplan weather togs. Several Indians are taking the Koeley cure in Kansas City, It is not their fault | Bvery suggestion of an enlarged free list glves Senator Murphy a cramp in the collar. The Bland bill is progressing smilingly, | nnmindful of a possible veto. Smiles often | precede the execution. | It President Dole possesses the business tact he is credited with he should inaugurate a fire sale of Quoen Lil's effects. Sitver Dollar Bland is sald to have presi- dential aspirations. He has a moderate crop of whiskers and fs therefore eligible Chicago reformers are convinced that it | 18 poor poliey o spoil talented mixers of | cocktails to make bad aldermen. Fine spun sentiments tickle the ear, but votes count The greater New York fever has broken out in Buffalo, where the municipal mouth waters for Niagara and a slice of Hamburg on the side. Unless rigid quarantine s es- tablished some town will be taken in Cornelius Vanderbilt, C. P, Huntington, W C. Whitney and Mrs. Paran Stevens own the four corners at Fifth avenue and Rifty seventh street, New York, and their cost $31,000,000. The locality fs appropriately called Millionaires' Four Corners. 'he Rev. Edward Didier of Baltimore offers to be one of ten or fifteen persons who will subscribe $1,000 cach toward the preser vation of the historic Carroll mansion, on Bast Lombard street, Daltimore. It is now used as a saloon and tenement house According to a poetic crank, last crop in this country crowded close on i 000. Despair had~ 100,000, Discontent 10,- 000, “My Soul and I was the burden of 130,000 productions, and 25,000 apostrophised Spring, exclusive of the uncounted thousands that fattened the office cat. Captain Levi T. Schofield, the builder who designed for Cleveland, O., the soldiers’ and sailors’ monument, has re ved a letter | from Governor McKinley asking him to make room for a statue of Rutherford B, Hayes on the monument At present the atues include Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, tanton, Garfield and Chase cnator Blanchard, who will occupy Justice White's seat in the senate, I8 a sportsman with a great reputation at home for accurate marksmanship. He can toss a coin in the air and bore it with a pistol two times out of three, and occasionally he drops into a Washington shooting gallery and surpr the spectators with his bull's-eye accuracy. Only one man ever challenged Mr. Blanchard to a duel, and he withdrew the challenge as soon as hie learned of his opponent’s reputa- tion as a shot. Da not always perch on the man s has shed its mug- 1,00 Bt NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. District court is in session at Nelson, with seventy-five cases on the docket. A special c of Tekamah has just been taken and it shows a population of 1,500. The city fathers of Howells are talking of imposing ‘an occupation tax on the business men of the town. ‘armers in the western part of the stato have all their oats sown and are rushing their spring work. A hook and ladder truck has been ordered for the protection of Howells from the ravages of the fire flend. Rev. Mr. Farnsworth of Norfolk Junction accepted a call to the pastorate of the Congregational church at Dodge. Robert R. Given Is the champion orator of Wymore and has been awarded the gold medal at the annual declamatory contest of the pupils of the High school. W. L. Knotts, the founder of the Beatrico Times, has disposed of his interest in the paper and will practice law. The’ Times will continue in the front rauk as a local paper 50 long, at least, as Walter Noel remains in control. Mrs. H. E. Phelps, who has just been ap- pointed postmaster at Howells, has issued a card of thanks to her democratic friends who 0 kindly assisted her in securing the plum, though she acknowledges that she has re- ceived ‘no more than what is justly due” her. ————— BEAMING MERRIMEINT. Truth: The treads on a of foot-bawl. yell a man sets up when he ack is one of the worst forms Buffalo Courier: Di Whén a woman s in doubt as to whether she will take well in photograph how is the queation usually decided? Danks—In the negative, you block- head. in the negative Drover's Journal: Remember, my _boy, that the young women hate a fresh young man as much as they do one that is stale. Journal: Just because a man it is no slgn that he is get- he people who answer him know any more than he Somerville asks questions, ting wisdom. may not really does himself. Plain Dealer: Mr. Hewitt's declaration that_ “politicians are not fit for anything clse” proves that he never saw one of them making a Sunday school speech just before election, Inter-Oc went to la stupid.” heade that party Slasher have been rathe he s as saw him this st night must “Why : Wobbley Wibbles Wag? De income tax is liky Wot's Wiggley W to hecome i law. Wolbhley Wibbies—Well, if dat's de case, de wooner we emigrate to Canada de bettel becuz everybody'll git 8o poor right away n. You are not afraid asked the weeping Iside. jspered the chronie kicker, “but 1¢ to think that 1 shall soon Silent majority, when all of my enjoyed being in the noisy min R THUS. ralo Courtor It won't be many weeks until Coai bills no more we'll fear, And yet small comfort this will bring, drooping spirits cheer For nature hath In her great plan That when we cea We start to pay wrought, recise, o pay for coal One truth to learn Befo 8o gray and be very one His fge can plainly see H 15 it beaten into him v oft repeated shocks You cannot always judge By the pictures on’ the he picture may impress you as The best you ever suw, And yet you can't smoke the cigars, they will not draw; rankness fills the And your enjoyment bloc Oh, no, you cannot judge cigars Hy the pictures on the box. Or else their alr, And =o it is with people whom You meet from day to day; The ones who wear the finest clothes Jmetimes common cliy pink of this, and save yourself rom most unpleusant knock ever try to Judge clzars he pictures on the box, Highest of all in Lcaveniugl};flel‘;—l‘atcst U. al LS Re Gov't Report, Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE ] cinnatl Volksblatt, for a fow weoks until Joined by the general, when they propose to make a tour of the North Pacific coast The comptroller of the currency has declared a dividend of 5 per cent to the creditors of the defunct Capital National bank at Lincoln The dividend will be pald as soon as the checks can recoived from the recelver | signed by the deputy comptroller, and re turned to Lincoln, which will Withi BANK EXAMINERS NOT TO BE MOLESTED | ““p™ fhtae 1. Moot va Interatate Commerce ¢ California. The Pacific sented on the commbssion Government Committeoman Castor called at office department today and found jeorge L. Miller had recommended as p masters R. A. Lindlay, at Blm Cree Buffalo county, and B. F. Harbaugh at Miller, Buffalo county, the latter be named after the doctor, He therefore roco mended the appointments and they will 1 made tomorrow n Hoyle has been for nearly two months trying to get these ap polntments made, and Mr. Castor ha precipitated them and saved further troub PERRY 8. HEATH [ECKLES WILL NOT CHANGE Comptroller of the Currency Deaf to the Pleadings of the Party Spoilsmen, be be Anoy mmission slope is on the will go e not repre Good ico Men in this Department of the Serv- Are do and the Has Too Few of Then Washington the Post Now— that D, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BE! 613 Fourteenth Stry WASHINGTON, March i4. So hungry are the unterrified for official spolls that an prossure 1s being brought upon the comptroller of the cu rency to have all of the republican bank ex aminers removed and democrats appointed in their places. It has taken a great deal of backbone for Comptroller Ecklies to resist the temptation which the pressure las made to turn spollsman. If there is any one place in the entire service of the government abore another which requires experience and skill, it I8 In the examination of the condition of banks. While a man fresh from behind the unter or who has just come from the ledgers in a bank may be well up in the bus- ines of running a bank, there is a certain system of the Treasury department for the detection of fraud which is most successful, and can only be acquired by actual expe- rience in its operation. It takes the smart- est kind of training to detect skilled decop- tion and fraud. The tricks by which ex- aminers are nowadays thrown off their guard and fraud In banks Is covered cannot be understood by the ordinary good banker. Of course, a banker who had been practic ing these tricks in order to deccive the ex aminer would unde nd them and need no special training, but the department makes it its business to not employ that character of men for bank examiners. Comptroller Eckles says the only way the government can successfully follow in ac- quiring and retaining such experts as bank examiners, customs and internal revenue detectives and counterfeit spotters, 18 to ed- ucate them, and nod only kecp them in the service, but show some proper appreciation tmmenso WESTERN PENSIONS, Votorans of the Tate War Rem: the Federal WASHINGTON, March 14 gram to The Bee,) of March 2, were Nebr Original Hastings, Ada John M. Rilue Washington, Refssue—Adam D Dix, Kimball. Orfginal widows, etc an Leidigh, Nebraska City, Otoe; Laura Men tor, St. Paul, Howard: minors of Wil H. "Thatcher, Wilsonvilie, Furnas. Mo War survivors: Increase—John 8. L Wheeler, Wheeler; Wesley Holling Grand I8land, Hall Town: Original—James D, Rice, Burlin, ton, Des Moines; Innes McKenzie, Sionx Raplds, Buena Vista; Lewls A, Feeck, Man son, Calhoun; Anthony L. Moyers, Daven port, Scott; nidas Tlamilton, Yale, Guth rle; Henry ¢ Scott, Lineville, Wayne; Wil liam . ituble, Maidora, Warren; Abrahnm Harden, Casey, Guthrie; John Fried rich, Lemars, Plymouth; Lyman 1. Stearns, Gracttinger, 'Palo Alto. Additional Calvin Weeks, Oskaloosa, Mahaska; Willlam Me- Kinley, Pacific Junction, Mills. In Thaddeus W. Maxon, ingdale John Campbell, Eldora, Hardin; Sloan, MarshalMown, rshall; Hunt, Little Sioux, Harrison John Greiner, 1d Junction, 1l widows, ete.—Mary I, 1 ack Hawk; Alma A City, Woodbury; antville, Marlon; Arst lagley, i, Mo Margaret Tibbitt Hopkinton, De Sarah B, B. Cuiler, Decorah Winnishick, Mexican war survivors: (i crease—rancis Molitor, Watcrville, Alla- Pengions granted, {ssua ki Jacoh Peeble Blair Grubb, s Cedar; W illiam Isanc E Reissuc reen. Origi- tz, Wat “Throckmc Samantha ¢ nakee, South Dakota bank, Grant (decensed), Wyon Hulett, Crook. Cololaddo: — Original—Anton Rosenberger, Denver, Arapahoe; Bdward P Pitkin, Den’ of thel work. He declares, therefore, that he will not dismiss bank examine who has shown exceptional ability simply to get a man of the other political faith, He does not intend to make any more. changes in the bank examiners' roll, unless it to en- large it in numbers, o ! ! IT KILLS RECIPROCITY. I N o e A pEColorade After some hours of suspense and dispute than Morgan, Stonew it has been definitely decided that the Wilson Yol tarift bill as it stands repeals all the ree- il iprocity provisions in the McKiuley tarift law. While it may create the possibility of protecting the sugar interests of this country, the repeal will result in closing the best markets we have for pork and | product as under the reciprocity provision we get most of our sugar from Germany and that country in return admits our pork, wheat, and other staples of the farm. The repeal of the reciprocity provision in the law is ol of the most objectionable features of the Wilson bill for the farmer of this country. FIXING SOME NEEDED BILLS. A subcommittee of the house committee on invalid pensions, composed of Messrs. Fyan of Missouri, Haines of New York and Pickler of South Dakota, Is recasting the Pickler- Martin bill, which make the oath of a privato or noncommissioned officer of the same welght of a commissioned officer in pension cases. This bill passed the house, but failed in the senate, and it is expected that it will il be reported favorably to the house after be- | moned today to IHarrison, where several ing modified by the subcommittee in such s on the property of the St. Vincent form as to insure its passage into law. re for the insane were reported burn- Representative Pickler will present to the | ing. ~ The flames threatened to recch the Interstate Commerce commission tomorrow ( Main buildings, four in number whore 10 some suggestion from Hon. D. S. Hooper | inmates are cared for. i'he inmates were of Tulare, S. D., upon conclusions arrived at | "0MOVed to @ place of safety. from the reports of the commission and re- ports of the railroads to the effect that the railroads on their own showing should get lower rates than they are now getting for grain to Chicago. Major Pickler will make tho presentation on the part of the South Dakota delegation in congress, each member of which has endorsed the document. IN A GENERAL WAY. The coutract for the iron work on the Omaha federal building sn't yet been awarded, although it is generally conceded to the Milwaukee Bridge com which was the lowest bidder upon the entire con- tract by about $1,200. Mrs. Mary N. Starr was today appointed postmaster at Starr, Juab county, U. T vico . D. Mendenhail, resigned, and W. W. Cluff, jr, at Red Canyon, Uintah county, Wyo!, vice A. E. Bradbury, removed, .'A. Nash _of Omaha, general w agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St railroad, is in the city on busine days. Representative Mercer this morning called up and had passed by the house the bill for the relief of General John R. Brooke. This bill has been pending for a number of years and last week passed the senate. IC will now become a law. Mrs. General Kautz and her who recently returned from a two year tour abroad, have left the city for Cineir natl, whero they will visit her brother, Colonel Mark Breit, manager of the 4']"-l Orl Ifred Carl, Mill- Tncre ree W. Shafer Valley s Minneiah Origina ward D. Willson, B. Newton, WASHINGTON, March 14, executive session taday, co nation of J. Marshall officer at Philadelphia, right to reconsid, Mention The senate, in firmed the non: Wright, as navel but reserved tly e if found desirable. was made of an anonymous letter received Ly the senators aceusing Wright of hav expressed gratification at Lincoln's death and it was d that under ordinary circumstances no attention would be puiil to such a communication, but that in (his instance the writer had said that there were charges on file with president confirmatory of this charge. 18 sug hat Investigation be mi s to the existence of > charges, which Is to be done before the confirmation is ofticially announced. e, 1t In Danger. S, N. Y., March 14.—The of this village was sum- Insane T WHITE PLATN department THE INSURANCE DEPARTHENT Of New Yorlk State says of this Company that it has ¢ 50,000 members,”” ““a splendid plant,”” and is ““in condition to commend itself”” to those seeking accident insurance. In fact, it CERTIFIES TO ITS SOLVENCY. The United States Hutual Accident Association, 820, 322 & 824 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, Onapres . Prar, Wi, Do, Surr, President. Secrotary, K. 4, WASNER, State Agent, 252 Bee Building, Omaha. sterit Paul for a few daughter st makors e clothes il wollors of cartl, Your money’ worth or your moncy | In the Springtime Is when the small boy gets in his work on the pet = ¢ g 1dog and it is also the time when we get in our work our spring suits. We are e lenabled (o offer extra- minm‘y values as well as the most perfect gar- ments for men’s and boys’ wear. All the newest ideas in the tailor's art are represented in our new goods. The styles are elegant, the cloths are beau- tiful, while the designs for spring are far beyond those of a year ago in point of comfort and general usefulness. We would like to have you look at them, whether you wish to purchase or not just now. Our spring overcoats have been in for some time and are All colors, all prices, on gems of style and beauty. BROWNING, KING & CO., W il pay the expressif you send the money fcriz0 worthior nore | S. W. Cor.13th and Douglas Sts,