Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 29, 1894, Page 4

1 THEOMAHA DATLY BEE, ' 1o OFFICER, o uilding corner N nnd T 12 Pent) wireet © of Comim and 15, TAbuY treet 17 Chum e 13, 14 teenth SHPON DENG elating to new i wiressed " 8 LETTERS and remittances sheuld be midrossed o Hee Publishing comy Omalia, * Dingts, checks and postoffice onlers o be made pavable te the order of the company FHTE TR DU BLISTNG COMPANY CORR and_edi Bditor ATl Lusine EMENT O CIRCULATION MENT OF CIRCUL N i, wnys that mplete coples of and Sunday Dee ruary, 15M, was zchinck, s npany, being dul number of full and « Morning, Evening ng the month of Py i 2245 1 1 18 19 Total for th coples month reductions for unsold Total sold Datly average *Sunday. not lreutation SCHUCK. in my GEORGE B bofore meand subscribed i day, of March, 1591 N. P. FEI1, Notary Public. Bworn presen to this Che of long 8 Coxey recruits: way off." The Bar that it has a duty the community sliould i association not for to | m to itsell and Wiley is in New York just but still holds Lis grip on the rottenest council Omaha has had for years, is now. he The grand jury should by all means be called. There is abundant work for it and the Judges of this district would be justified in calling it be able rest casier the president is suffering gout, but from plain, rheumatism. The country will to now that it kno not from aristocratic everyday democratic Tn pursuance of the proclamation just is- sued by Governor Crounse, the planting of political lightning will give way for one day, April 23, to the more useful prac- tice of planting tree rods The Hlinois Central would be a very wel- me and desirable adjunct to the railway om that converges in and around Omaha, and any reasonable concession on the part of our city should be granted. Senator Stewart seems to be the only sena- tor who is much concerned about the wel- fare of Coxey's great peace army. But then the people have bgcome accustomed to ex- poct almost anything from Senator Stewart. Furopean powers have almost reached the point where they are willing to take joint actlon looking foward the suppression of anarchy. They may yet advance far enough to consent to joint action on monetary mat- ters, The chances of a revival of activity in Omaha this season depend largely upon the work of the assessors. If the assessment is raised we may be able to undertake several important public improvements, now pro- Jected, before the building season is over. Tho city treasurer of Seattle has been sentenced to seven years in the peniten- tiary for speculating in city warrants and public funds, Here Is a pointer to cus- todians of public funds in this state who aro speculating with money which belongs to the taxpayers. Mr. Bechel has been elected acting presi- dent of the council, but he really will have Nttle or nothing to act upon in the absence of the council, unless Mayor Bemis should resign or hire a special car and go on a Junket to San Francisco's Midway plaisance Just because it is catehing. Congressman Boen, who introduced the bill reducing the salaries of employes in tho government service, is a populist mem- ber of congress. No democrat would have ventured to propose such a scheme so long as the great body of office holders are fellow democrats, Populist government employes are few and far between, The plot of Wiley and his henchmen to secure as city electrician a tool who will do thelr every bidding thickens. In the mean- while, however, the city remains without a city electrician to the detriment of all con- sumers of electric light and to the danger of all buildings that are exposed to the risk of fire from defective wiring. Towa seems to be laboring under the lm- pression that she has a vested right in t vacancy in the Interstate Commerce commis- slon. Just let the fowa democrats becorne embroiled in the matter of making a choice of ono of their number and President Cleve- land will be only too glad to grasp the oppor- tunity to give the appointment to some other state. An end of the transcontinental passenger rate war is now said to be In sight, How long the new rates will be maintained s quite a different question. Unless railroad faith in railroad agreements has changed materlally stable rates will remain only so long as none of the contracting parties have any reason, real or imagined, to repudiate thelr obligations. It is evident that the insurance lobby in- tends to stay with the lowa legislature to the end, and if any legislation is enacted on that subject it will not be because the lobby has neglected to Ty means at its command to defeat it. The secandalous tampering with tho record of the senate ought to open the eyes of the members of that body to the danger which is threatening their reputations, use e Councilman Wheeler was indignant at the suggestion of a second assistant to the build- g Inspector. Of course mot, if the old rookerles and tinder boxes are (o remain without ingpection and tho city Is to go without an electrician to Inspect the wirlng of bulidiugs until Wiley can have his own man appolnted. As a representative of the fire insurance interest in tho council Mr. Wheeler 18 & verltable cucloo, | of Minnesota wa ( MKINLEY ON THE SITUATION at the meet- the Republican League tand strong to be read by Governor McKinley's address ing in Minneapolis of e of his abl efforts. Tt L] addrees gl Ak of all parie fustriction profit, since it presents in a candid, straight- forward way principles of the great po: litical partios and the results of the appli- of Governor Me- declared that while the republican party defeated in the cause for which {t contended did not fafl. That “sur- vived the awful disaster and shines more brightly and gloriously than before.” Referring the principles cnunciated by the republican national of 1802, Governor McKinley asked who would modify this declared policy? “Like all loctrines,” he sald, ‘‘they are Upon them the republican party bases s future suprem and impatiently the constitutional opportunity to make its appeal to the peo- The democratic party won in 1802 profuse and glittering promises, and |t pocalized, having so far failed made to the by 1 rywhere, and Indeed e with and it the catton these principles Kinley was 159 ever to convention or republican unchangeable. reverse claim to awaits ple.” on now stands de to redeem a single pledge It people jovernor MeKinley eontrasted tho condl- tion of businest at the close of 1892 with that at the close of last ear, citing statis- ties show the disastrous effects of the menace of democratic cconomic policy and of tarlft legislation ince the e who were soldicrs of the of the constitution legislation to passed to a review the beginning of showed that men revolution and held protective to our industrial indep and out the from this legislation and the injury that uni- formly followed each departure from it. Re- garding the pending tariff bill Governor McKinley said it is not like of Jdy tariff measures, which framed on wational lines, but s which the changed condition of the and its marveious growth and development are ut- terly ignored and forgotten. Its promoters, declared the distinguished Ohio republican leader, “do not nor appreciate the independence and dignity of labor and cannot understand that the protective policy under which we had such splendid prosperity is not to be determined by geo- graphical lines. The bill is a narrow, sec- tional and provincial measure, unworthy the great party which proposes it and wholly unsuited to the needs of the country.” It is a measure that turns to the past and away from the present; it is for the plantation, not for the farm and factory, was the apt and pointed characterization which Governor McKinley gave to the democratic tarift bill. Ho lad examined it with and had found nothing but irritation and aggravation to the great industries of the country, no in- terest among which would suffer more se- verely than agriculture, while labor of all kinds seems to have been singled out as its foremost victim, Peculiarly anomalous is the position of the democratic leaders on internal taxes. So determined are they to break down the protective system that they are willing to resort to internal taxes which were opposed by the democracy from the time of Jackson to that of Buchanan. In regard to an in come tax, now a feature of the democratic revenue policy, when it was proposed in 1864 to levy a special war income tax the democrats in- congress were almost unani- mous in opposing it. Governor McKinley condemned @s unwarranted and unjustifiable the proposed repeal of the reciprocity clause of the existing tariff law and presented sta. tistles to show thé benefits that had ac- crued, mainly to the agricultural interest, from the operation of the commercial agree- ments made under this clause. As to tariff rates or schedules, Governor McKinley said they aro subject to change up or down as new conditions require it, but such changes should always be governed by the protective principle. They must not fall below a rate which will adequately measure the difference between the American scale of wages and that of competing countries and must always be in favor of the labor of our own country and the home market for our people. A revenue tariff, said McKinley, is an enemy to the American shop, the American work- ing man, to American prosperity and to American industrial fndependence. It has not a single element of patriotism and no national spirit or instinct. The large attendance at the league meet- ing indicates that the republicans of Minne- sota are fully alive to the demands of the situation and will do thelr whole duty next November. government framers be essential rdence and progress benefits flowed pointed that is any the were, one in country ecognize have care E MORTONIANA. Secretary Morton promises to develop a full- fledged mania for public letter writing before he completes his incumbency of the secre- taryship of the Department of Agriculture. The Arbor Lodge statesman started out to keep himself prominently before the people by delivering an address to the farmers’ con- gress at Chicago, in which he rubbed against tho tender feclings of the class of profes- sional agitators whom he delighted to call “‘the farmers who farm the farmers.” These farmers most naturally resented the affront and letters, memorials and resolutions began to pour into the Agricultural department denouncing the insult. Some of the granges and alllances even went so far as to petition the president to depose his secretary and to give place In the cablnet to some one who had the Interests of the farmers really at heart. Secretary Morton boldly collected the most offensive of these documents and used them to decorate the cover of a pamphlet reprint of his Ohicago address, which he dis- tributed with lavish prodigality. The pam- phiet road to public attention, however, does not seem to have had the success that was expected of it, for the secretary has re- nounced it in favor of his own unique letter- writing device. The letter-writing mania takes on two distinet forms with Secretary Morton. The first consists of semi-officlal corresponder with other officers of the government. The typical illustration of this.is the letter ad dressed to Seuator George not long ago, pur- porting to reply secretary’s views upon the bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the extermination of the Russian thistle introduced into the senate by Seaator Hansbrough. Secretary Morton utilized this unoficial opportunity to express a vigorous oppesition to the principle at the bottom of government intervention in any matter which the people might possibly at- tend to themselves. And great care taken to se» that the correspondence secured a proper publicity through the press. The second form assumed by the lotter writing manfa 13 an uncalled for answar to the application of some private in- dividual for information or assistance. The reply Is transformed into a sarcastle lecture to the audacious Inquirer, which, while not ally applicable to the person to whom It is addressed, oxpounds at length ths sec retary's theory of government. So the Mr. Edward Peterson of Dayton, [a., who re- cently sent in an application for appointment SOME to send especi THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1894 exterminator ~ for surprised, it chief Russian northwest palned, personal | from Secretary Morton himself, explaining | the 1-killing by legisla I’ tion and deftly smothering the applicant by | tulsome allusions to his pecnliar Atness and adaptation for the position. This eorrespond has been carefully | the way of reaching wide circle of read through the amlable services of the ever ready Wash ington correspondent It is quite evident that 1s working this fleld of semi-official spondence for all it {s worth, He feels per { fectly at home when he sits down to write a letter and has no difeulty in finding a text for any sermon he may wish to preach tho public. As an administration letter writer Secretary Morton s rapldly forging to the front the | not | must have been to receive a response parniclousness of w ene Morton corre Secretary to A PROPOSED TARIFF COMMISSION. Senator Morgan of Alabama has prepared a measure, which will be presented to the senate as soon as the tariff bill is taken up for consideration, providing for a tariff com- mission. The proposed commission to consist of five per of whom tary of the treasury shall be ong taken from the east of the Mississippi river and two from the west of it, and no more than three of the commission to be of the e party. The duty of the co shall be to Inquire Into existing tariff rates and decide whetlier they aré necessary or proper to raise the neede 1 shall report its decision to the president, who, if s ns, the secre- two to be mission rev he agrees, will be required to fssue a proclama- tion stating the decision, giving the in- o or decrease of duties and requiring custom offictals collect duties tory thereto upon the articles It is stated that the purpose of the Alabama senator 18 to pave the way for such changes in the tariff as will be equitable and capa- ble of being made without disturb- dnce to business. Semator Cullom of Illi- nois Is sald to have a similar proposition, the object of both senators being to take tariff revision out of the hands of con- B and to provide for its adjustment ac- cording to the needs of the treasury. This proposition certalnly has Very re- spectable authorship and the objects in view—a permanent tariff system and the re- moval of the question, as far as possible, from party politics-—will doubtless be very generally commended, but there is hardly a possibility of such a measure being adopted. In the first place a constitutional objection to it will doubtless be raised. The enth section of the constitution provides that ““all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the house of representatives, but the senate may propose or concur with amend- ments as in other bills.” In the framing and passage of the existing tariff bill, which the proposed commission would be empow- ered to revise, this provision of the con- stitution was, of course, complied with, but having done this can congress abdicate this important function in relation to the rais- ing of revenue distinctly conferred upon it by the constitution and confer it upon a to conforma- mentioned. violent se to a note asking for the | was | body entirely unknown to the organic law? This function is of the very highest im- portance In the business of government. There Is no duty above that of providing the revenue necessary to maintain the gov- ernment, and the framers of the constitu- tion most' wisely provided that the popular branch of congress should have the initia- tive in the performance of this duty, the senate, which represents the states, being limited to the privilege of amendments. Obviously to commit this great duty of rais ing revenue to the decision of five men, how. ever wise and patriotic they might Dbe, would contravene the evident intention of the . framers of the constitution. These wise men gave the president, it is also to be remarked, no authority in connection with this duty other than he possesses respecting all legislation. In the second place no men who could be selected for such a service as the proposed commission could satisfy all interests affected by the tariff any better than it can be done by the representatives of the people in congress, and hence the question would not under this plan be re- moved from party politics. However, the matter does not require extended discussion, for as already remarked there is not the slightest probability that the proposal of a tarift commission will be adopted, even if 1t should recelve any serious consideration in the senate. WHO SHALL PLANT THE TREES? We regret that the tree-planting ordi- nance has been knocked in the head for want of alleged power on the part of the mayor and council to delegate the authority over tree-planting in the city to the park commission. To a man up o tree this legal barrier appears very flimsy and far- fetched. The council certainly has power to do indirectly what it is authorized to do directly, Such has been the usage in the past, and we fall to see any rational ground for quibbling over an infraction of authority at this time. The park commission has control over the ornamentation of boulevards. That means, of course, the laying out of lawns and planting trees and shrubs. The park commission has been permitted to plot and ornament the centen of Capitol avenue between Seventeenth and Twentieth streots, If there was no legal bar to such work there is no legal bar to tree-planting in other streets, by and with consent of the mayor and council expressed -through an ordi- nance. So far s that s concerned the council might even have conferred the au- thority to plant trees and shrubs upon the Board of Health if deemed a protection against epidemics or malarial fevers. The mayor doubtless has vetoed the or- dinance misappreliension and be- cause owners of large tracts of unimproved property do not want to go to the expense of planting trees. There is the milk in the cocoanut. 1f the point raised by the veto and sustained by the council Is well taken and the charter is really in the way of the of tree-planting in the publie thoroughfares by the park commission then the charter needs amending very badly on that point. It is worse than a farce to clothe the park commission with authority to acquire, Jay out and improve parks and boulevards and leave It without control as to planting and supplanting shade trees on the line of public highways that are known as streets. By rights the park commission should be required to take of shade trees already cxisting, remove such as have been planted out of line and such as are an obstruction of pedestrian travel and plant uniform rows of trees in every streel and avenue within the city limits, The Board of Public Works is not ex: pected to do this work. . The sewer fnspec- tors, paving inspectors and sidewalk Int spectors are scarcely competent o supers vise the planting and the engineering de- partment is not presumed to engage in such work, Now, (o planting to private enterprise is more of a faflure than leaving the sldewalk construection to private euterprise. The streets of a city belong to trees were under a control care leave tree | | the of The streets from should be under the to owners the whole city angt"§ot lot ine ling solute control ot municipal corporation, d the paving, curbing, eidewalks and trees planted In the streets should be under | of the properydepartments of muni BOY Lutil that is done kneck s and miles of contr cipal shall sidowalks, ment cursed Irreg streets without wo be with wretched, b lag tree lin «lu\tlw tree, Nebraska's output of sugar this year Is likely to be larggr| than The factories have already contracted for of beets, morg than has cver cultivated iIn the siate, Up to the present time the sugar industry in Nebraska has flourtehed under adverse local circumstances Farmers have been slow to appreciate the profitable results of beet culture, In ad- dition to this they have been hampered by lack of kr as to the best methods of culture. by the sclence of beet ralsing becoming generally known and but the adverse legislation will prevent the rapld growth of the industry from this time onward, Times Wil be good In Nebraska when this state furnishes a home market for the product of several hundred thousand acres of sugar beets two 6,000 ever acre been wledge AS the I8 nothing years g more most Paul Vandervoort confinues to bob up in at regularly recurring latest appearance be- stato unexpeeted intervals, fore the tion at places His Missouri was populists’ conven- where he ider-in-chief of the legion and gave the delegates to vention the benefit of tended knowl- edge on the subject of silver and the riff. Vandervoort in charge of an Industrial leglon is sarcasm of the keenest kind, Pre- siding over the oil-room lobby and superin- tending the distribution of free railway passes is about as close to any industry as he ever approachc Kansas City, was posing Industrial the con- as comi his ¢ The investment of the idle money belong- Ing to the permanent school fund still en- gages the attention of the Board of Educa- tional Lands and Funds, The members of the board will not gain the il will of the people i they invest the whole fund as speedily as possible. The proposition to in- vest several hundred thousand dollars in United States bonds may or may not be a wise one. If no other honds can be pur- chased to an advantage the state can better afford to hold United States bonds at a low rate of interest than to permit the money to lie idle. a Prendergast may or may not be insane. But the Chicago authorities are making a mistake In permitting him to pose before the throngs of visitors who crowd the Jail. During the time when he is not being carrled around from one court to another in an effort to save his miserable neck he should be kept In close confinement and not permitted to feed his inordinate . vanity and love of notoriety with the gossip of visitors. The prospect of a court martial trial for the naval officer “to whose negligence the wreck of the Kearsarge is ascribed will doubtless have a- healthy effect upon the other officers in c¢hafge of our men-of-war, Neither his conviction nor his acquittal will be able to restore| the vessel to the govern- ment or indemnify it for its loss, but it may be the means of preventing similar mishaps in the futur The lady managers ©of -the=Home for “the Friendless have made a requisition for 200 yards of carpet. The state has purchased almost enough Wilton and other brands of carpet for this institution to cover the block of ground upon which the building stands. Friendless babies doubtless require a great deal of nice, soft carpets to roll around upon. It is only fair to inform the public that the raise in transcontinental passenger fares just announced will not affect In any way the expenses of the proposed councilmanic junket to the Midwinter fair. Enemies of Reform. Globe-Democrat. Men like Coxey are the worse enemies of reform, inasmuch as they make it ridicu- lous, and thus discourage the sober consld- eration of questions of real fmportance. RS Cleveland Botween Two Fires. Cineinnatl Commerclal, President Cleveland finds himself be- tween two fires as regards the Bland bill, and it is not surprising that he wishes con’ gress had not placed the responsibility of Saying yes or no upon his shoulders, Tt looks, however, as if he would say no, The position of president of the United States is not always or often a bed of roses. As a rule, there are more thorns than flowers. AT g Municipal Electrie Lighting. Philadelphia Press, A municipal electric light plant save its cost in three or four years, It would yleld a steadily increasing profit. It could be bought and put in today for one- half of what the clectric light plnts sup- plying the city were hought for five or six years ago. A score of Inglish cities run such plants by using the garbage and drop- pings collected from’ the houses and strects as fuel, so that the expenditure for coal is reduced to one-third what it is without the garbage to burn. Philadelphia is about to burn garbage. Why not put in an electric light plant and burn the garbage to light the streets? would R L Piratical Pettitoggors. San Franclseo Examiner. It is evident that Canada, if not Great Britain, has a different ided of the result of the Bering arbitration rrom that enter- tained in this country. According to the declarations of the Canac ministors to the Canadian House of Commons, the Ber- ing theaty has superseded the modus vi- vendi, but the Bering treaty it not to be carriéd out until its provisions are put into legislation by the British Parllament. This is an interpretation worthy of a pettifogger in the police courts, but it is not the kind of language that would be expected from a great nation. It may be admitted, how- ever, that it is quite in keeping with the acts of Canada,throughout the efforts to protect seal life ln. the Pacific, Pluggiog the Blow Holes, Chicago Post. The hearing before the wholly ex parte president was The only evidence that Carnagle, Phipps & Co. submitted was: Pirst, H. Frick’s statement that he was wholly unaware of the deceitful practices carried on at night ‘under the direction of his superintendont, ‘and, second, a letter written to the superintendent dirécting him to prevent thess, practices, after news of the disclosure had begun to transpire, It was asserted that the superintendent had been “removed."" e was not discharged, he should hd¥é Been, but merely trans- ed to another position under the com- pan ¥ Mr. the white clslon Mr, the books Frick seems to be persona_grata at house. And in view of this de- Cleveland should stand high' in of vnrfiugw, Phipps & Co. NWERE IND THERE. The clatter of March is intended (o pro voke universal contempt Virginia A corner the publie During th o striving to effect The object Is to ma capltalists a shell out hie poacefnl moments operates a sand bank friction of his cogs. of the blight the small crop are pretty general Basket Wil probably go up two pegs Condemnation of the defendant in the Washington scandal Is so general as to raise a doubt ax to the friendship of his lnw part ners The press of Chicago is pumping het in vective into “law-defying courts,” and dis playing an appalling indifference to julicial Wheels and corns, The candidates to succeed the late Gen- eral Colquitt as senator from Georgia will be Speaker Crisp, Representative Turner and Gavernor Northen, the present executive of the state. The Kearsarge was belehing flames of war. was fts winding sheet, th of which were incompetency The blow holes of March should be for warded to Homestead for pligging Among the messages of condolence Mrs. Childs received on the death of her husband 18 one from the town officials of 8 tlord. upon-Avon, who testify to the appreciation in which they hold Mr. Childs' gift of the Shakespeare public fountain. This one gen- crous act alone of the editor gave him a lively fame in Bngland A movement is in progress to erect a statue to Miss Palestrello of Lisbon. She was the daughter of a famous navigator, and a part of her marriage dowry was a valuable collection of charts and memoranda of her father's trips. She was, besides, an intrepid and enthusiastic traveler. In 1470 she became Mrs, Christopher Columbus Tho mutual admiration and Platonic af fection heretofore existing between the com- munity and the lamb half of March is hereby dissolved, disowned and repudiated. The Apache chief, Geronimo, for some years past at Mount Vernon, Ala., Is said to have grown old’ rapidly, o far as physical appearance is concerned, his hair being as white as snow, but he is still robust and hearty. The Cincinnati Enquirer furnishes a dia- gram of the Ohlo mouth, hitherto a source of admiration not unmixed with amazement, A native, whose name is withheld for grave reasons, sleeps with a horse shoe under his pillow. A set of false teeth is usually placed in the same repository. The other morning he overslept himself and jumping out of bed slapped the horse shoe in his mouth and went to his breakfast rejoicing. Oak tanned beafsteak was noticcably tender and masticable that morning. There is a suggestive significance in the fruits of the prosccution of the judicial co- partners of McKane. When a party of elec tion watchers entered Gravesend the eve of clection day they were arrested and prisoned. The local courts sustained the schemes of McKane in keeping the watchers In prison until the election was over. Iol- lowing the conviction of McKane, Judges Newtor, and Sutherland were arraigned on the charge of judicial oppression. Convic- tion was as_prompt as the testimony was conclusive. Sutherland fled the country, for- feiting his bond of $10,000. Newton was sentonced to one year's imprisonment and a fine of $500, Commander This explains Stories of fruit bottoms concelved amid the Smoke and flame warp and woof or negligence. ———— COINING A VACUUM. Elias Doty, tintyper, in Cedar Rapids (Ia.) Gazette: The national banks makes a dollar from a cents worth of paper. and I make a dollar from a cents worth of tin and the Omaha countirfiters makes a dol- lar from fifty cents worth of silver thug you see the dollar that me and the banks make contains 49 pr cent less in- trinsice honesty than the counterfiters dol- lar. Philadelphia Inquirer: Bx-Senator Far- well's humorous letter on the coinage of sil- ver dollars at Omaha contains all the ele- ments of a humorous letter except humor. The government at Washington will not prosecute the manufacturers of silver dollars at_Philadelphia, San Francisco and New Ofleans—otherwise the mints—for the very convincing reason that the latter are anthorized to make *“the coin of the realm.” As we undorstand it the Omaha “‘manufac- turers” are not. That's the only difference—a sort of copyright difference, as it were. Philadelphia Press: The extraordinary claim is put forth that there is no law to punish the men in Omaha who are coining standard silver dollars of the United States and have already put in circulation $500,000, The federal statute against counterfeiting imposes a severe penalty for simulating the coins of the United States “with intent to dofraud.” As the Omaha coins are of full weight and fineness the claim is made that there is no intent to defraud any one, there- fore no crime. If there is anything in the claim the act of congress on the subject is a very imperfect plece of legislation. Sena- tor Shermau called the attention of the sen- ate to the subject a few days ago. Ex- Senator Farwell of Illinois claims that the Omahia mint is perfectly legitimate, though the proprietors are issuing coins which cost about 48 cents as legal tender 100-cent dol- lars. Thero is a fraud on the people of the United States in imposing such coins upon them and giving the enormous seigniorage to private parties. Such cbins cannot be legal tender and their circulation as United States coins is, therefore, fraudulent, It is singular that this Omaha mint has not been summarily closed up by the govern- ment and those connected with it put on trial. That is the best way to prove how the law stands. e NEBRASK A AND NEBRASK. A lodge of the Knights of Maccabees has been instituted at Fremont. A Rebekal lodge with thirty-three bers has been organized at Louisville. A fake healer, who calls himself “Dr. Northrup, has suddenly left Superior and a 1ot of mourning creditors. Isaac Miles of Boyd county has come into possession of a fortune of $75,000 by the death ot an uncle in New York. William Cheneworth, one of the original ranchmen of the South Loup country, dropped dead at Oconto from an attack of heart disease. The new Congregational church at Butte has been dedicated to religious purposes. It Is the second church structure in the capital of Boyd county. Louisville hopes to secure the location of a Catholic college for the education of priests. Bishop Bonacum has been inspect- ing the location. W. C. Wentz, a prominent real estate man of Aurora, left town three weeks ago and nobody seems to know his whereabouts. The people of the town are quite anxious to discover (hs whéreabouts of the missing man, Fire starting from the ashes of an en- gine communicated to Madsen’s lumber yard at Elm Creek, and had it not been for the prompt action of the discoverers the lumber yard, grain elevator, railroad wind- mill, water tank and Unlon Pacific depot would have all been burned, as there is not the least preparation to fight fire in the town, S. mem- e Good Signs of the Times. Baltimore American, From all sldes good news comes. The people are beginning to take hold of poli- tics. It Is characterfstic of Americans that they stand a wonderful amount of Wrong. but when they turn they clean out abuses with marvelous dispatch, They are turn- ing now. It looks llke a series of revolu- tlons In all the large cities, north and south, east and west. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE im- | ( | { | | the Indian office for an opluion T0 TAX THE INDIAN LANDS | Indian Commissioner Browning Willing to | Recommend the Peebles Bill Favorably, HOW IT WILL HELP IN THURSTON COUNTY ntoto Bear the Expr Ont of the Indi Knox and Itoyd Countles Also Interested - Alof- ment in Sight. WASHINGTON BUREAL 613 Fourd WASHINGTON, M Klejohn and Brvan Browning yesterday to present arguments why {he land tax Dill, introduced by Mr. Meikicjohn, should become This Bl lad been referred the house committee on Indian affairs to Me. Brown that he was e uld Ho ospe on the He feally opposed to fands for this in the way of ome, and it wiil sho OF THE BEE, o8 alled oh Congressmen with Mr. W Indian Commis Peebles oner Indian A law by ing informed auite fami the with kentlemen the its passage men and recommend fally dorsed that provision which provide payment of the tax by th slated emph the use of Tidian purpose. The last obstacle this bill has now heen over law vernment. he the trus undoubtadly time. The measure originated out of the cond become a in a very tion of affairs existing in Thurston count where, 0,000 acres of land, the In- dians n which, under the provi slons of federal law, are exempt from taxa- tion, while the Indians have the full benefit of the protection of the laws of the siate of E without contributing anything Two years ago, when Mr, Peebles came to Washington and presented his plan of taxing these Indian lands, and the govern ment paying the tax. it was considered a very startling proposition, — After careful consideration however, by those best versed in Indlan affairs it was considered practical and just. Senator Manderson had the bill passed in the senate and it received the endorsement of the house committee of that sessfon, but failed for lack of time to pass that body. favorably in the senate, and with the en- endorsement of the Indian commissioner will receive a favorable report from the house committee, and in a very short time will pass both branches of congress The bill is general in its nature, and the counties of Knox and Boyd will share with “Thurston county in the benefits of the new law. Mr. Peebles returns home today. He expressed himself as being entirely safisfled with the result of his visit. Meiklejohn, in whose district three tribes of Indian citizens live, has taken a deep in- terest in these matters affecting their wel- fare. He has taken a specfal interest in trying to secure an allotment of the Omaha tribal lands this spring, and will probably be successful. This matter has been fully laid before the department and the probability is that an allotting agent will be sent out carly in the spring. AMENDMENTS BY Amendmets were 0,000, WESTERN SENATORS. proposed in the senate today to the sundry civil appropriation bill as follows: By Manderson, to increase ap- propriations for military posts from $200,000 (0 §700,000, and also to increase the limit of expenditure for the construction of Fort Crook, Neb., to $750,000 and of Fort Har- rison, Mont.. to $500,000; by Allen, to appro- priate $500,000 for/an irrigation survey of the great plains and semi-arid lands under the direction of the secretary of the fin- terior, report to be made to congress when the survey is completed; by Dubois, to in- crease appropriation for surveys of public Jands from $175,000-to $100,000 (this amend- ment does not touch the $45,000 named in the bill as it passed the house for inspection of surveys); by Kyle, to amend by adding Hol- man’s bill exempting from the act to repeal the timber culture -laws- contests pending in the land office prior to the passage of that and to authorize the contestant to enter the tract under any law in force prior to tho repeal of the timber culture laws; by Power, to_reappropriate $125,000 for the survey of public lands within the limits of land grants, to aid the construction of railroads and make the appropriation continuing to enable the secretary of the interior to carry out the act of March 3, 1587, for the adjustment of such land grants. (Whencver any part of this amount s expended the amendment provides it shall be reimbursed by the com- panies or parties for whose benefit the lands are granted.) Senator Kyle also introducod an winend- ment to Hansbrougii's bill to exterminate the Russian thistie by ince2asing the amount appropriated to $1,000,000. Ihe amendment provides that an estimate shall be made of the cost of exterminating the thicils in each state where It exists, the $1,000,000 to be divided among sald siates in proportion to the estimate of the cost of extermination in each state, the expense of the agents pro- vided in the bill being first deducted. 7The various amounts are then to be paid to the governors of the states where the 'histle exists, each governor to give an obligation in writing that such sum will be expendad in connection with such sums as may be pro- vided by the state either by taxation or upon | Representative | { featu | t | mark he may i The bill has been reported | voluntary contributions. 1If any governor re- The lary fine clot dows—but we're not. when you want it. ou send rRiore W illvay (he express | the money for b0 wor “BROWNING,KING st makers and so A-head-of-Time That's what you think when you see our ele- gant display of new spring suits in our show win Next Saturday, or Monday by the latest, you'll be climbing over each other to get something light and airy in the way of a suit. you ¢ome now and select it, we will lay it away Tor you, the balance to be paid when you get it. that way you will be able to get what you want BROWNING, KING & CO., | S. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, fuses of his troasiry execute tate is such obNgation to be covered back the quota into the IN A GENERAL Allen troduced the production all papers in partment appertaining ¢ masters now pending for unpaid readjusted alaries under the law of 1883, The court Ia to construe sald act and thig constructior Is to be regarded final ar the st general settle In accordance with all pr uted be January 1, 1887 Power today the geologieal fopartment. Also a bill the clovation above the se tion of topographic d economie of conntry surveyved to be added field notes of all surveys of all publie WAY today a bl te in the court of the Postoffice do clafs of post Senator authors claims of ns is o ther fore Senator transfor cultural qui e similar claims introduced a survey to the bill to Agrl to ro- and fall 1o the tand Willls Bullock, editor Journal of Canajoharle, a petition signed by persons interested in the hay trade ia states oxtending from New York fo Nebraska protesting against redue- ton of duty on hay from $1 per ton to 20 per cent ad valorom, equivalent to $1.20 & ton. It whl be Introduced in congress by onator Allison. The petition says the value of the hay erop s $760,000.000; of corn, $550,- 000,000; of wheat, $325,000,000, and of cotton, $200,000,000, The house committos croed to report ‘favorably the bill priating $7,000 for the construction bridge at Nlobrara, Neb. The bill roady passed the seaate. enator Manderson Trade Y., is here with ot the Hay today appro- of a has al on commerce ud Representatives Mercer, Meiklejohn 1 Hainer have jolned in a lotter to Governor McKinley request- ing Nim to reconsider his declination to at- end the meeting of the Republican State league at Lincoln next month, Mrs. Pickler, wife of Representative Plok- ler of South Dakota, left this city for her home this morning. She will not return here during this session Postmusters were appointed today as fol lows: Towa—Bladenburg, Wapello county, J N. Hamersly, vice Thomas Murray, removed Ulyria, Fayette county, J. T. 8. Humphrey, vice William Boyle, resigned; Radeliffe, Har- din county, G. W. Jones, vice 0. J. Heng, removed. South Dakota—Cortlandt, Edmunds county, J. A. Westgate, vice J. W. Nesbitt, resigned. COMICAL CLATTER. New Orleans Pleayune people may be expected take drink in public Public spirited to occasionally inlveston If one will hit the that his enemies as well as his friends will mark the hit, Buffalo Courl T as the elevator boy ger asked to be taken above, t's another stor: id when the passen- to the next floor ew vk Advertiser: Cheerful lies minnow ‘neath the rippling wat and cheerful lies the fisher reaches home at night when he Constitution: ew Resident the votin' conditions in this her Atl and Boome v Resident in congress! Two vote: Gimme to the ten acres an' a seat Detroit Tribune: Mr. Longface don’t you think that a man ought a little something to brace him spring days? Dr.” Jolly—Why, certainly; Il go right along with Doctor, to take up these thank you. Chicago Tribune: lady over there by ‘s the day but she de “That handsome young the pia sald Hanks, of a wealthy bill-poster, cem (o be at all stuck up.” to in Buffalo Courier: It is tarnal hard keep soul and body together. But it harder to keep your mouth together, “What? You room- aid the first drum- were too afraid ot Indianapolis Journal ing on the top floor ., “I thought you lhere won't be any fire here tonlght,” said the second drummer. "I overheard the landlord say that his insurance had run out.” HER INQUIRY, Tuck "Twas 1aster services face Seemed quite the pers: and grace; And to this day, when memory her some presence bring: I think the thought her face first brought: an angel, minus wings. Rut it prayer she offery ness she sat? Ah, no! She simply asked a friend, “Where did you get that hat?” ——— FAIR SINNER. her fair anl soulful ation of both piety win~ 1 as in lovell- dine S, Nridges in the Club, 5 lence gave him many a twinge And led him many a dance, Recalling thoughts that made him cringe Befc her earnest glane Her pure eyes caused his soul to quake While he confession longed to make, He y And sarned to empty out his heart firmly tell her all, bravely make a clean new start, slved no more to fall— as he mused, she murmured, “Dear, a confession you must hear,' ed, Her eyes were wet, true: 1 smoked i cigarette with & man I knew: 1t made me sick, and—so did he. Speak-—tell me—can you pardon me He chuckled His face surprised “I had a tale to tell,” he said, “Of errors, quite as bad; But now, I can't confess to y ince you, de: but made nd sad. 3 of o earth, If In /A