Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. % ;0 ROSEWATER, Editor PUBLIEHED EVERY MORNING. BUBRCRIPTION. Year TERMS OF Dally ee (w Daily and Sundn Bix Montha Three Monthia Bundn Baturdn Weekly Year OFFICES Omaha, The Ree | 3 ind Twenty-fourth 8 Bouth Omaha, rorner N Council HIufrd, 12 Pearl street Chicagn Offiee Himber of Commere New 1%, 14 and 16, Tribune Washington centh street EEFONDENCE, relating to news and edi Aressed: To the iditor. HNag All Flel matter All busi addressed Omaha be made piy T mpany oriders o ULATION. worctary of The Aluly sworn, sa and « of iPebruary, 159, STATEMENT George 11, izwchuck Publishing compnny, bhein the aotual number of full The Dally Morning, kv printed during the month as fo 1 15 2 3, 16 3 2 ii 1 1 [ 1 ) 8 oF Tiee ¢ that 1 12 1 1 for the Total sld 3 Daily average not cireuiation S GREORGE . T Sworn to before me and subseribe prosence th dny ot March, 1504 N, P. FEIL, Notary Public, [ et Bnmi e et wants United States district Don't all speak at once. Who to be attorney? That rule against the appointment of ed- itors federal offices have relapsed into a state of innocuous desuctude. to must If there Is to be any tree planting and similar embellishment of the this the process cannot be begun any too streets year soon Tobe Castor ought to have the expenses of his frequefit Washington trips refunded by the appreciative constituency for which he has accomplished so much. No sooner had the Brazillan revolution petered out than war was declared in Den- ver. In case dynamite guns did it, while in other it was the dynamite mouth. one the It circumstantial evidence is at all con- clusive Colonel Breckinridge must soon find himself in very close quarters. There ap- pears to have been a great many circum- stances in his cas We have finally discovered what s the exact significance of Con Gallagher's front name. ‘““Con" is the inciplent germ of the appellation “congressman.” Just give It time and watch its wings sprout. The irrigation convention called for next week in this city promises to be largely at- tended. Its deliberations will well be worth tho attention of every man who recognizes the vast importance of the subject to Ne- braska. Coining the vacuum seems to be more pop- ular in the senafe than in the house. The senate, at any rate, managed to muster a quorum in favor of the seigniorage bill with- out supplying is sergeant-at-arms with a general warrant of arrest to bring in the" absentees. The Lincoln republicans are fighting thelr municipal campaign on a platform which protests against an extension of the street lighting contract held by the Lincoln Gas company. 1If the Lincoln councils are buiit on the Omaha model the platform promises will easily be forgotten, The creditors of the Capital National bank will receive another 5 per cent dividend. The money belonging to the depositors which Mosher has squandered since he made his “confession” to the grand jury would be sufficient to pay several more dividends it the receiver could only get hold of it. There s Just the faintest suspiclon of sar- casm In Seerctary Morton's recommendation that the farmers turn their sheep into the flelds threatened by the Canada thistle. It the Wilson bill becomes a law it is to be feared that free wool will kill off the sheep faster than the latter can kill off the thistle, The Missouri river commission has been heard from in the halls of congress, although not in a way that its members are seeking. It 13 something, however, for the work of tho commission to be attacked by a member of the house. No one outside of the house has heard of any work being done by them that might lay them open to accusations of any kind, except perhaps of regularly draw- ing on the treasury for their salaries. We wonder if the memorics of some of the most nolsy opponents of the granting of any electric lighting franchise in order to relleve the clty from paying a forced tribute to Wiley extend back so far as the time when the fifty-year gas franchise was under dis- cilssion. It may be painful for some of them to recollect how they stood upon that issue. To square thelr attitude toward the ques- tlon of franchises then and their attitude now might be a rather difficult task. All Americans may feel proud of the cred- itable manner in which the American fleet acquitted itselt while stationed at Rio Janeiro to protect American interests during the hos- tilities in that harbor. With the exception of the Stanton episode, the navy has upheld its reputation for promptness and efciency in performing the duties assigned to it by the authoritles in Washington. The command, especially during the last few months, has required a delicacy of judgment which has never falled at tho time when needed. The men who have been attached to the service at Rio have earned a transfer to stations where the work Is for the present less ardu- ous. Seventy-five doctors of medicine are in convention In this city, The state lumber- men have completed the work that called them hither. The representatives of the Union Pacific employes are here in large numbers working for an amicable adjustment of differences. The Irrigation convention is booked for next week, while 300 Hibernians will gather here within & short time. Omaha hotels will have no cause for complaint, while wholesale and retail merchants will de- rive some comfort from the unusual number of visitors. It is also to be hoped that the eity's guests have been well entertained and that their sojourn here has been both pleas- ant and profitable. THE_OMAHA DAITLY BEE: FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1894 8 That som in business fow quarters, THE TIDE TURNING? improvement lins taken throughout the country ks 18 the testimony of all there the export trade, tavorable Consequently little gold some time for a ¢ place during from has been which | the last we all First an fmprovement in has to glven a aspect balance, aratively has of | the | of | domestic in trade there golng ont and been comp: the country for outlook Is of affairs. In the there Is generally activity, The output of iron steel has Improved, there s more activity | In the boot and shoo Industry and the | of textile goods have en oir operations In none of these of full resumption taken plac All of them are working on a very conservative basis, limiting pro duction as closely as possible to the demand. As yet they are In possession of the Ameri- can market and can safely count upon being 80 at least. Stocks throughout the country have been pretty well up and there is room for a eonsiderable supply. The sagacious manu- facturer i€ figuring closely as to the possible during the erfod until he will have to meet an expected formidable com- petition from abroad, will come as soon as the new tariff goes into effect While, therefore, there is a good deal more actlvi than was two and this ely to a time and even increase, it is certain that it marks a perma nent revival, for the industries of the country have hardly yet readjusted to a permanent basis and will not be until the tarift question is settled and something near an accurate measure can be had of the competition our manufacturers are to encounter in the home market from foreign rivals. In every branch of in- dustry have been reduced, but it is by neans o that there will not have further reduction in order to enable manufacturers main- tain th, market. But at any rate it is gratifying to know that the situation 18 not so bad as it was and that the probability is it will not again be #0 bad before it is still better. The open- ing of spring has furnished employment to mechanies and laborers who were Idle dur- ing the winter and the good elfects of this will speedily be seen in the increased pur- chasing power of the people What the consequences of the passage of the silver seigniorage bill will be, in case the president allows it to become a law, cannot be clearly forescen. There is some reason to apprehiend that its effect abroad would be to revive the feeling of appre hension as to the stability of American currency and American sccugities and lead to a return of the latter In such amounts as to again make a serlous drain upon our stock of gold. Such a result would be most unfortunate, for it could not fail to again unsettle financial confidence, not yet fully re- stored, and without which a full revival of business cannot be attained. THE AGRICULTURAL SITUATION. The geheral agricultural depression pre- sants one of the most interesting problems of the time and the importance of the ques- tion as to the future of agriculture cannot casily be exaggerated. Tn the report re- cently submitted by the subcommittee of the senate committee on agriculture, the result of a careful and prolonged investigation, a number of causes were cited in explanation of the depression, but the report was par- ticular to say that overproduction had nothing to do with it. It would seem from the latest statistics regarding wheat that in this respect the conclusion of the committee is questionable. It appears from the last estimate of the Department of Agriculture that previous estimates wera much too small, and accepting the latest estimate as more nearly correct than those preceding it, no difficulty will bo found in accounting for the low price of wheat. A writer In the New York Tribune gives instructive figures regarding the wheat sup- ply. The quantity of wheat officlally re- ported in farmers’ hands March 1 was 114,- 000,000 bushels, only 22,000,000 bushels less than a year ago. The quantity in visible supply March 3 was 75,569,000 bushels, only 4,000,000 bushels less than a year ago. Thus the quantity in slght was 189,669,000 bushels, against 215,564,000 bushels last year, a de- crease of only 26,000,000 bushels. The stock in visible supply and farmers’ hands .a year ago, with the ecrop according to the government report, would make the year's supply only 611,695,725 bushels. But the quantity required for consumption, taking the average of treasury statements of popu- lation for the year ending March 1, was 313,644,000 bushels, and 54,000,000 bushels are required for seed, while 174,674,430 bushels have been exported in the twelve months to March 1. These figures show where 542,218,430 bushels have gone within the twelve months, provided the consumption has not decreased, leaving only 09,477,205 bush- els for the visible supply and farmers’ hands March 1, if the government report of yield was correct. But the quantity actually in visible supply and farmers' hands was 120,- 000,000 bushels greater. This writer further says that i Is not a dificult matter to demonstrate that if the consumption has continued as large as it was for fifteen years prior to 1891 the department estimates of yield for the past three years have been in error by 191,000,000 bushels. According to treasury estimates of population the con- sumption at the rate for previous years was 301,000,000 bushels In 1891, 306,870,000 in 1892, and 313,544,000 in the year to March 1, 1894—in all, 921,414,000, to which 162,5 bushels must be added for three ycars' seed. To this must be added the quantity of wheat and flour officially returned as exported in excess of imports during three years ending March 1—namely, 576,405,618 bushels. The quantity In visible supply and farmers' hands March 1, 1891, was 135,250,093 bushels, and March 1, 1894, it was greater by 54,318,- 907 bushels, =0 that there is actually ac- counted for no less than 1,714,646,525 bushels of wheat In three years. But according to the government reports the yield for those years was only 123,860,726, Of course the Qifference of 191,000,000 cannot reasonably be accounted for as representing invisible stocks, the probability belng, in view of the heavy fall in price and the increase in visi- blo stocks, that the Invisible stocks also were larger Mach 1 of this year than at the same date in 1891, Taking as a gulde the stocks of wheat in farmers' hands and visible supply each year, and assuming that wheat in other supplies was practically unchanged, it Is estimated that the yleld must have been at least 638, 000,000 bushels in 1891, about 660,000,000 bushels in 1892, and 516,000,000 bushels ‘in 1893, 1f it was as low as 456,000,000 bushels last year the consumption must have been reduced about 60,000,000 bushels. This de- crease in the demand, together with the conviction that the department's report of yleld was greatly in error, would naturally account for the unprecedented fall in price. It seems probable that the department re- past fmmediate ntinuance this state dustries creased noted an in manu! larged th industrie: rers course, has for several months cleared demand an which industrial there months a continue for not entirely apnears been which wages no ured bhe American selves in the hon to to port of yield was at least 60,000,000 bushelf small, and that the has docreased ahout the quantity guffico for at the and for and leave The last corn gives a somewhat too also will umption consumption as much. I actually in sight ur months' con full 104,090,000 apring 18,000,000 about 67,000,000 for department e as to age of hands, any rate, bushels, seed, bushels ex port. timate larger percen last year's crop as stl in farmers’ but the is smaller than at th rosponding date In any recent 1501, With these facts before him the intelligent will little difeulty in determining why the price of grain has declined to unprecedentedly low figures and he ought to have no trouble in reaching a as to tho ren The Secretary Rusk sald that American farmers, in order to obtain a profitable price for their wheat, must restrict its production. amount cor- year, except tarmer have conclusion late SUPPRESSION OF TICKET SCALPING The bill recently introduced into the sen- ate by Senator Wilson of Towa to so amend the interstate commerce law as to effectua provide against the practice of ticket s ing Is, as might have boen expected, me with considerable approval from leading rail- way officials throughout the country, as well as the general opposition of who are engaged in the business of sell- ing cut rate raillway tickets. The bill, of course, derlves its inspiration from the rail- road: part of and is being urged in the interests of the railroads, which complain that they suffer from the abuses of ticket scalping. It is claimed that their patrons are in- directly affected, what they would lose in the way of opportunities to buy cut rate tickets would be gained by stable rates on a lower basis than is now possible. The railvay officials maintain that the scalper stands between the public and lower rates that were his business supp , the public as well as the railfoads would share in the common benefit. The scalper's side of the argument is, of course, that lie serves a useful and legitimate He makes money dealing in unusued railway tickets, but he also saves money to his patrons, or otherw have no patrons at all. The railroads have themselves encouraged him and stimulated his business. They have used him whenever the shed to secretly cut under the rates of rival companies and have made him A convenient scapegoat for their misbehavior when their actions have uncovered. The scalper cannot be led to believe that the railroads really want to suppress such a handy plece of machinery as his business affords. He furthermore announces that he does not intend to be suppressed without making a struggle for existence, and that he will fight Senator Wilson's bill to the bitter end. More potent against this bill than the opposition of the scalper should be the atti- tude of the railroads themselves to the law which they seek to amend. In the first place, they have the business of ticket scalp- ing entirely at their mercy and can, if they 80 desire, choke It off without the aid of additional legislation. All they need do is to offer to buy unused portions of tickets at the prices originally paid for them and the patron will prefer to sell to them rather than to the scalper. Some few roads have attempted to do this. The remaining roads could easily enter an agrcement to pursue the same policy, but they know that even in that instance they could not rely upon onc another to live up to their mutual obliga- tions. They have lost among themselves all claim to open and upright dealing. Again, it may be asked, can we expect rail- roads which have deflantly disregarded every other provision of the interstate law to obey this provision were it incorporatgd into that statute? The railroads have obeyed the law and disobeyed the law just as thelr fancy has directed. They, for the present, think that it is to their interest to have a legislative enactment for the suppression of ticket scalp- ing and might possibly live up to its pro- visions for a brief period of time. But no sooner should it appear that one road could secure a slight advantage over another by issuing cut rate tickets through unauthorized agents than they would without hesitation throw the legal prohibition to the winds and jump at the opportunity. So long as the railroads hold themselves above law, they are foolishly inconsistent in asking for legis- lation to assist them to hold their faithless competitors to their agreements. Let them first show a willingness to obey the laws already on our statute books. It will then be time for them to ask congress to legls- late in their behalf. encountering those s, or, at least, from a them, only because and purpose. by e he would v have v been ONE OF HASCALL'S FREAKS. The Hascall ordinance to sidetrack Pardee & Co’s bid contains among other extra- ordinary things a -provision that all poles erected for electric lighting wires shall be of iron and not less than thirty feet high. Now, why didn’t Hascall make it 100 feet and the metal pure gold? That would be no more impractical than a thirty-foot iron pole. Any competent electrician must admit that iron poles are totally unsuited for arc light wires. They are not in use in any city 0 far as we know and never will be. Iron poles are all right for incandescent lighting or motor wires. The voltage on those wires Is moderate and seldom exceeds 500 volts. There Is no more danger from a shock from a motor wire than there fs from the incan- descent lamp current. On the contrary, the current of an arc light wire is intense, gen- erally up to 2,500 volts, which is sufficient to kill either a man or horse. If these wires when suspended from iron poles were to get loose from the insulator the current is liable to go down the pole into the earth, thus Impairing its lighting power or ground- ing the circuit. Or if the pole stood in a bed of dry earth orstone there would be great danger to any person that might come in contact with it during a rain storm. This freak of Mr. Hascall Is, however, not Intended for anything except to divert the current of public optnion. It would not have boen even suggested as applying to Mr. Wiley's company If that concern had not been knocked out by the competing bid. The executive committee of the people's party ought at once to apply for an Injunc- tion to restrain the latest natioral party trom flylng under the name of the people's progressive party, under which It has chosen to be launched upon the world, This is plagiarism of the worst kind and cannot but tend to confuse voters as to the candi. dates of the several partles. It further- more insinuates that the people's party iy not progressive—something which the latter should bo quick to resent. The new party should be forced either to join the orlginal and only people’s party, or at least to adopt a4 name that is less confusing and mislead. ing. The conference between the Union Pacific recelvers and representatives of the em ployes of that road begins today. The final result Is freighted with great import ance to the road and to the men, l sido will port of its o strong arguments In sup- There may be good reduction unds for the claim of should not be re through no present atention the pr Rood i roasons for and may be the men that duced. The road § fault of the men employed by it, who would suffer far from a sale reduction of the force than from a graded reduction of the scale. W¥no 1s to determine whether or not mf@hntenance of the present will ke oft and lay of Who knols volume is to | during the year? If the books of the company show that business is picking up, the fact may have some bearing on the decision of the arbiters. But no matter what showing tho employes be able to make, it is highly probable that a settloment of t issue can only be reached through com- promise. They will doubtless be required to give and take hosed ther their wages bankrup more whol wage scale compel e receivers to numbers the ot diminish trains men? of traffic s large whether may By a majority of 13 in a vote of 75 the sen- ate yesterday passed the silver seigniorage bill just as it was sent to that body from the house, all efforts to amend the measure having been defeated. This result was ex- peeted, though the majority for the measure than was looked against the mea was somewhat larger As many democrats vote ure as there republicans vote for it. The bill is probably already in the hands of the president and what its fate will be with him is still a matter of conjecture, though the at to be that he will allow it to become were who opinion Washington seems law According to the statement of Senator Stew- art Mr. Cleveland has promis in consideration of which the Nevada se tor has agreed for the tariff bill. The eastern newspaper supporters of the president he will the bill ind that to suggest the po bility of his doing anything else. If he in- tends to be consistent the newspaper opinion will be verified, but the lieve that Mr. Cleveland has been persuaded that there is no danger financially in this measure and that it will have ed to do this, to vote insist that veto is absurd reason to be- 0od results | one of the | spect politically if it shall become thing is clear, namely, that the president did not make effort prevent the passage of the measure through congress. law. One any to There is an adage that figures do not lie. But that is not true as regards the figures which the Omaha Fake Mill has volunteerd to publish as proof that it enjoys no favors at the hands of the Thomson-Houston mo- nopoly. Nobody pretends to dispute the cor- rectness of the bills. On the face they are doubtiess the same as the bills made out against all other consumers. But what is the rebate? How much’ has been actually pald and how much knocked off. Why has that concern been dumb as an oyster during all these years coficerning the 2,000-candle power swindle? Wiy, has it never opened its mouth about electrical inspection and the brazen. attempt to ‘abblish the office of elec- trician? On what grounds can it explain its endorsement of Hascall's performances and its silence about Mr. Wheeler's mutilation of the electric inspection’ ordinance? Surely all this cannot be explajped away on the plea: “We must help to down Rosewater.” That might do in a political fight, or in the police commission controverbies, but it will not wash with taxpayers even if they were ever 80 stupid. —r A corréct definititfi of the word *‘pull” bids fair to figure conspicuously in the jurisprudence of this county before the week is over. Webster gives it a number of meanings: (1) To .draw or try to draw toward one. (2) To tear. (3) To gather by drawing toward one. (4 Act of pulling or drawing with force. (5) A contest; a struggle. When the police raid a gambling or disorderly house they are said to ‘“pull" it by force. In fact the element of force enters into every definition given the word by common usage or by the dictionaries. What construction the courts have put upon the word is altogether another matter. At last accounts the courts had declared the ten-year exclusive garbage collection contract null and void. When that contract was railroaded through the council over the mayor's veto the chief argument of its sup- porters was that something had to be done, and to be done immediately, to settle the question of disposing of the city's refuse. That problem is again open and demands the serlous attention of the council. Other cities take care of the garbage in various ways, some one of which must be adapted to Omaha's meeds. It is urgent upon the council to carefully consider this matter as early as possible. Whether a base ball player practices a profession or a trade is likely to become an important question when the issue is raised against the importation of Canadian ball Players under contract as contrary to the contract labor law. Most people would insist upon making a distinction between the players themselves. If some practice a profession, the work of others is not en. titled even to the dignity of a trade. White is now on the bench, senate. As a grower and refiner of sugar he has looked with great fidelity after his own interests. He is a genuine democrat of the modern school. o B i The Pending Question, New York World. Mr. Onley deny that he has be pay of corporations while drawing rom the treasury as attorney gen- And will Mr, Cleveland say that a n who does this Js fit to hold an office in trust for the Ameffcan people? it Yol How Liko Old Ja w Yhrk World, George Gould is giipted as saying that the best thing that coull be doné to promote a revival of business would be to repeal the interstate comrierce act. As the inter. state commerce sot Is a dead letter to which the railroads. hardly pretend to pay any attention, thiy suggestion must be re- garded as oné of My. Gould's experiments in “sarkasum,” ke e Look Out farithe Eagle's Bill. Chleugd Record. Claveland firmly b shall keep st e will hay of the citiz of this rep and probably of all- the othe tinued independences and homogeneity of the nations of North and South America are dally becoming matters of more vital Importance o the’ Various republics con- cerned. Mr. Justice He has quit will in the alary If Presiden that Great B the Mosqu maintaing hands off the support blic, at least, e cont DR, MILLER'S PLUM. Democrat: Dr. Miller s able and universally re 1 democrats in the west and his ap pointment will give general satisfaction olk News: The nomfnation of Dr ®e L. Miller for the post of surveyor of customs of Omaha gives universal “sat faction to the peoplo of Nebraska. Of course there are a few disgruntled politiclans fn democratie party who are disappointed, but who cares for that? Saline County most braska City News: The appointir Dr. George L. Miller as surveyor of at Omaha was one of Cleveland's surprises, as Dr. Miller was not an applicant for the position nor had his name over been sug gested in connection with it. The selection will give the best-of satisfaction to the dem ocrats of the west Lincoln News: “Dr. the headlines in an Omaha the submission of the good decree of the president that he must take an $8,000 a year situation. Of course he accepts; no one supposed for a moment that a_lifelong, consistent ‘democrat like Dr. Miller would violate the traditions of his party by declining to take on a snap. Blair Courler: The president has seen fit on his own motion to nominate Dr. George L. Miller to become surveyor of customs at the port of Omaha and in this selection we beliove he has made a very happy and sati factory choice. The doctor had made no application for the position and it therefore comes unsought. The selection will give gen- eral satisfaction to the party In the west. Kearney Hub: The selection of Dr. George L. Miller for collector for the port of Omaka is another surprise party. It's a good, fat Job, and for that reason the doctor's friends are glad that he got it. Just the same he should have got on the Interstate Cagimerce commission. But Cloveland doubtless had a pet for the latter position, and, not caring to slap Dr. Miller in the face, as he did eight ars ago, shoved him into the collectorship. Grand Island Independent: Dr. Miller @il not receive the coveted appointment as member of the Interstate Commerce com mission, but has been appointed surve; of customs for the port of Omaha. This is said to be the president’s own arrangement in order to get out of the fight made against Mr. Shane’s appointment for the plac and the simultaneous canvass for Mill appointment to the Interstate Commerc commission. For surveyor of customs Dr. Miiler may be better fitted than for the other place his friends were recommending him for. Now everything is lovely except for McShane and his friends. NEBRASKA AND Tom Majors is tripping through the state. Saline county farmers predict a very large crop of fall wh . Captain J. H. Stickel of Hebron has been secured for the Memorial day ovation at Superior. An iron bridge is being built across Swan creek at DeWitt to connect the town with the Rock Island depot. Lincoln grocers have stores at 8 p. m., except on Saturdays from December 4 to January 1. Lincoln saloon keepers with wine room attachments have little hope of securing a renewal of their licenses this spring. The Battle Creek Sugar Dect company been organized, with Howard Miller as presi- dent, and sixty acres of beets will be planted by it in Madison county this season. Fifteen per cent of the debts hanging over the Baptist college at Grand Island were paid off this week and the manage- ment proposes to liquidate the balance of the claims against the institution at the rate of $1,000 per month until all are paid. R. H. Stewart of Sutton, who was recently found guilty of two complaints for assauit and battery, being bound over to district court, and also under bonds to keep the peace, has left town. He was in custody of one of his bondsmen. Stewart is tho man who attempted suicide a few days ago by hanging, but was cut down in time to save his life. The expert's report of the accounts of treasurers of Valley county is said to show that A. Trout is $6,700 short and Robinson $6,000 short, and that this, in addition to the shortage for which judgment was re- covered against Robinson, makes a total shortage of over $10,000. All the bonds are good and the county attorney has been in- structed to commence suit against the above named treasurers aud their bondsmen. The sixth annual cncampment of the Inter- state Reunion ciation of Nebraska and Kansas, comprising the counties of Webster, Franklin, Harlan, Phelps, Kearney, Adams, Clay and Fillmore in Nebraska, and Wash- ington, Republic, Smith, Jewell, Osborne and Cloud in Kansas, will be held at Superior Thursday, April 12, for the purpose of locat- ing the next annual reunion and for the election of officers. Bach post is entitled to four representatives. The Gothenburg Water Power and Invest- ment company has gone Into the hands of a receiver. Judge Holcomb has appointed S. K. Wambold receiver. It is impossible to get statements of assets and liabilities. A very small portion of the stock of this com- pany is held in Kansas City and principally owned by the Milwaukee people. Receiver Wambold says there will be no change in the management of the company, and that all local labor claims will be paid in full. Wambold has formerly held the position of superintendent of the company. A THE SUGAR DEAL. Washington Post: As we see the matter, the senate would sacrifice its dignity and for- felt its claim upon the respect and confidenc of the country if it were to pay the very smallest attention to the impudent and noisy mendacity of the New York World. Kansas City Journal: Gorman says that Pefter’s charges of sugar speculation are groundless. But the public could judge of that better if the charges had been investi- gated and the evidence brought out. It looks ch as though a dirty senate scandal covered up. New York World: The tabling of the Pef- fer resolution to investigate the charges made in connection with the sugar scandal does not really unburden the semate of odium. It shows that the senate does not appreciate. the necessity which exists of freeing itsclf from the grave suspicion of a close connection between the committee room and Wall street speculation. Doubtless, lowever, some of the senators are vastly re- lieved by this disposition of the inconvenient resolution. Millor Accepts' is paper telling of doctor to the EBRASKANS. agreed to close their and Al NEWSPAPER FARMING. Panl Come, all ‘ve lowly farmers, Come, all'ye granger folk, Who in the cultivation Of wheat have gone dead broke; Since in the rural precincts You eannot find your luck, Come here and learn the secret Of making garden truck. up above the plemies rush along the street, toils a gifted worker Upon a morning sheet; All night he looks at copy; All night he handles news; All day he sweats his thinker And much of wisdom brews He grieves to think that farmers Should play a losing hand AL ploughing up the bosom ops diversifiec The farmer would be In it With fortune for his bride." 80 come, ye lowly ploughmen, Who thirst for something good, And learn the golden secret; For be it understood That here we have a writer, Who deftly does the trick, Of making country butter By the paragraph or stick. Highest of all in Leavening Pot‘ver.A—Lntcst U. S. Gov't Report, Reval Baking Powder ABSOILUTELY PURE TOBE CASTOR COMING HOME Ho Says Ho Has Everything Fixed to Run a Spell in Washington. NEBRASKA PLUMS ARE TQ FALL SOON Within out AlL 1o Given % Secured of Ten Days They Will Two Little On terday—So; West Yes- Gossip Interest. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 513 Fourteenth Street, WASHINGTON, March 1 National Committeceman Toblas Castor will leave for his home at Lincoln tomorrow. H belleves that the balance of the Nebraska offices will be filled within ten days. Michael Davey was today appointed postmaster at Davey, Lancaster county, and Charles I Bash at Berlin, Otoe county. Today W. E. Peebles of Pender blas Castor led on Browning and urged the allotment of the Omaha tribal lands without delay The commissioner stated that as soon.as Assist ant Commiss Armstrong returns to Washington, by the first of next week, the question will be given attention. Mr. Pee- bles says the Indian land tax encounters no particular opposition, and will certainly be- come law at this session of cong The in the month braska, and To- Indian Commisstoner oner following d pension office Edward C. from $1,200 examiner; Samuel G. mocrats were promoted on the 12th of last Wiggenhorn of Ne- to $1,300, spectal Rogers of lowa, from $1,600 to $1,800; Cyrus L. Hall of Idaho, $1,200 to $1,400; Isaac B. Thatcher, $500 to $1,000. The following gepublicans were re- duced: Robert P. Minshall of Iowa, from $1,600 to $1,300; George Albertson, lowa, $1,800 to $1,600; Elias D. Godfrey, low and Walter L. Hines, South Dakota, $1,600 to $1,400; William A." Harries, Idaho, $1.400 to $1,200; Orr W. Lee, lowa, $1,200 to $1,000; Victor L. Dodge, Towa, $1,000 to $900. DR. MILLER CONFIRMED. The nomination of Dr. to be surveyor of customs confirmed by the senate this There was no opposition. Dr. Miller's bond in blank will be forwarded to him immediately, and as soon as it is filled out, returned and approved, his commission will be issued. It is belleved here that he will be able to take charge of the office on the 1st of next month, From a special census bulletin issued this evening, giving statistics of manu- factures in 1890 by states, it is found that Nebraska reported in operation that year 3,004 factories, with an aggregate in ment in - land, bufldings, machinery, tools and_implements of $37.560,508. The total average number of employc their yearly wages $12,084,571. of material used annually’ was '$6 and the value of their products $93,( SOUTH DAKOTA NOTES. Judge Thomas of Deadwood, S. D., 1s mak- ing for himself a reputation in Washington. He came here some time ago to get an ap- pointment for himsélf and failing had his wife appointed postmaster at Deadwood. The judge still lingers in Washington, laboring with the postmaster general for an increase of clerk hire for the Deadwood postoffica and other allowances, which will make the position which Mrs. Thomas is to assume more profitable and comfortable. Representative Lucas intends to have two young men from the Black Hills, Messrs, Baker and Kehoe, named as cadet and alter- nate cadet to the West Point Military academy, in place of Cadet Dincan, who was dismissed for misconduct in Chicago during the World's fair. Major Anderson, formerly stationed at Crow Creek, has left Washington for Chamberlain, where he will remain several weeks. Charles Greene, the newly appointed post. master at Mitchell, S. D., has left Washing. ton for his home to secure his bond. He exvects to be in his office the first of next month. Senator Pettigrew and Representative Pickler, in commenting today upon the agl- tation about the date for holding the South Dakota republican state convention, ex. pressed a preference for a late convention and a short campaign. They belleve that the fssues are well understood by the voters of South Dakota and that the expense of a long campaign will be unnecessary. Repre. sentative Lucas says he is indifferent whether the campalgn Is long or short, as the South Dakota republicans will sweep the state next November by an immenso majority. as corge L at Miller Omaha was afternoon PERSONAL MATTERS. G. W. Holdrege of Omaha and W. E. and C. F. Duncombe of Fort Dodge, Ia., are at the Ebbitt. Mrs. William V. Lucas, wife of the con- gressman from South Dakota, gave a lun- cheon of twelve courses yesterday after- noon to as many of the South Dakota Idies in this city at her residence, 34 B street Northeast. = The rooms and table were hand- somely ornamented with palms, flowers and blooming plants, Mrs. Pattie Miller Stocking (nee Miss Mil- ler, daughter of the late Associate Justice | by | to surprise ar for saying, They me in our family hadn't of beéen for might be takin' in plenty of money every, day on them fits right now. The man of fifty “Iello, old man And 1 Miller of Towa),who was severcly burned at her apartments at the emere “well! Monday | night by the aceldental overturning of a large lamp, fs 1 improved and her at tending physician says she is in a falr way to_recovery The amining the commi following rds I mombers of penslon ex- Nobraska were appointe fonier of pensfons today Drs. Jullus Singerfilder, Charles Oxford and Thomas ‘B. Thompson at West Point, Dr Morris at York phen Rush was today master at Rockerville, P 8D, viee 1 8 Carliy 1t is belleved that appolnte nington rosigned the consfd . March 26 B. F. Palmer the position of Burlington. Representative Sweet of Idaho belleves tho entire northwest will be swept by the repub lieans next November, and that all of t state legislatures there and the next congross will_be republican by a large majority peaking of the hard times prevailing in his stato and the scarcity of money, Representa et says (hat it |s impossible to bor row a dollar on a government bond in Idaho, and adds: “A well equipped livery stable, ample to meet the necessities of a town of 5,000 people, and with horses, cutters, car riages and wagons, recently sold under tho hammer for § Good horses sold for $2.50 aplece. Po in the east don’t realize tho premium which money commands in some sections of the west. In my town somo finely bred horses wero sold for $10 and $11 cach, Just because there was no money in tion.” ral Joseph Hollman of Dakota county, Nebraska, who has been here several weeks in the interest of an extension of the charter for the Wagon Bridge company the Missour! at Sioux City, left for home this tterfoon, confident of sic Hon. Smith McPherson left for home today. Newton C. Ridenour, “the tall Sy of the Nodaway,”" of Clarinda, In looking after the office of pension agent at Des Moines. He believes Judge Crawford of West Point, Neb., is in the race in ear- nest. Mr. Ridenour saw the president today with reference to the office PERRY S n of Rallway Prop March Forum the proper financial resuscl- rallway system of the country \mitous events of 1893, and to 1 helieve that a uni servative system of rallway islation ‘simulteneously enacted by the ,OF the wnion nithoned by sary. The majority of the sto minority should ounized TR minority should, fn proportion to their strength, perpetially have a volee in tho management; the crude. confisc and communistic Tegislation of the n and western states on these sub, should give way to scientific and rvative measures, Rafllways should be secured a field of operations until public nccessities require the constriction of additional lines, and in that field held to a strict public countahility so as to prevent oppression; reasonable facilities should be afforded for the development of a fund to meet the lic requirements for additional s accommodation to railwdy s the public. The trustee character « tors and adr ators should be in upon and brenches of such trust severely punished. Poolingg should be permitted under the control and supervision of a pub- lic body like the National Railway commis- sion, and the evils of receiverships and their waste in reorganizations limited, not wholly prevented; an official accounting shonld be nrovided for, and some safe- guards found against the secret accumula- tion_of floating debt. These reforms can- not be accomplished without work and snc- rifice, without which no good things in this world are accomplished. COMICAL WINKS. Grip: A host in himself: who devoured his entertainer. Moy applied for appointment collector of customs at across of Red Oak, In camora is hero to HEATH. Resuscitat los. Simon_ Stor Finally, for tation of th after the cal event its recurren rm and trustee re The cannibal Life: The theatrical manager Is known by ‘the company he'keeps. It is said that a man from the Siftings: can be told by the pitch of Pine Tree st his voice. Truth: T fear I am going into a declin remarked the poet as he entered the ed torial sanctum. New York Tribune: A naturallst saya that the ant Is the most pugnacious of all created beings. This must be why the poet remarked, “Go to the ant, thou siugger." Dallas News: some people imagine that they cannot have a walkover without tramping their rivals under foot. Bvery singer In a quar- 00d reasons why the otte: Elmira Ga ou three tet can tell organization isn’t absolutely perfect. ;. Expressions dly in gooa form, yet wh per fellow mar a “rich 's daughter peonle may be pardoned “Tor the land's sake!" Buftalo Cour Indianapolis Journal: Dismal Dawson— s one feller, if 1 ever meet him, I n to beat the Tace 6ff of him. Hungry Higzing—\Who's he? Dismal Dawson—The doctor that doctored when 1 was a kid. It i his fool interferin’ CURIOUS, ISN'T 1T? New York Press. met and said to the man of twenty-two: - where hay , and how you the man of twenty-two replied, lit up_with joy well!l Is it true that and how are you, my boy you been this wl his this is you, BROWNING, KR The largest makoers and sollors of tine clothies on earti, four money’s worth or your money hac'e In the Springtime ord ments for men's and goods. tiful, while the des Is when the small boy g ts boys' wear. ideas in the tailor's art are represented in our new The styles are elegant, the cloths are beau- gns for spring are f: in his work on the pet dog and it is also the time when we get in work on our spring suits. We are enabled to offer extra- the most perfect gar- All the newest our r beyond those of a year ago in point of comfort and general usefulness. whether you wish to purchase or not just now. We would like to have you look at them, Our spring overeoats have been in for some time and are gems of style and beauty. All colors, all prices. 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