Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 31, 1894, Page 4

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GRORGE P TZ8CHUCK Sworn to hefore me and subscribed i my presence this 30 day of March, 18 L /| Y o Public. RO . Stelcfaltcss bt e b b Speaker Crisp knows how to act as ar- bitrarily as his predecessor in the speaker's chawr, and can go him a little better if he only has the opportunity. The circus performances daily given at the capitol in Washington are the only petitors of the great Barnum shows are worthy of the name. com- that Something decisive must be done without delay to protect ths water mains from the cftect of electrical decomposition. A general collapse of water mains would be a calamity. That day in court for which the Union Pacific employes have been praying for some time past promises to be protracted into a whole week in court. This is even more than they asked for The city council forgot geant-at-arms along on its outing to the Pacific const. Merely an oversight, we sup- pose. Perhaps it is not too late to him forwarded by telegraph. to take the sel have As speaker of the house Mr. Crisp's salary is $8,000 per year. As the semator from Georgia his salary would be but $5,000 per year. The question of accepting the prof- fered appointment resolves itself into a con- flict between dignity and ducats. President Cleveland’s veto has already attained the status of “a crime” with the most radical of the free silver advocates. People who talk about “the crime of 1873 are not very strict in drawing the line at what a man must do to become a criminal. Ts there to be a vacancy on the park com- mission when Dr. Miller steps into the shoes of Mr. Alexander in the customs house? Several gentlemen in Omaba are willing to give the city the benefit of their experience in the maunagement and supervision of parks. A fight between the silver miners and the silver smelters as to a proper distribu- tion of the profits of the business must be taken as evidence that with all our legislative tinkering the bottom has not yet fallen out of the silver producing in- dustry of the country. The Cass county bank wreckers prefer to be tried in some county where their victims are not so numerous as in the place where their peculations were committed. A motion for a change of venue has gotten to be one of the regular steps in the proceedings against bank wreckers everywhere, What is that from Des Moines? Another insane asylum to be established in Towa! We thought that a prohibitory law was the panicea to prevent poverty, idiocy, insanity and every other ill with which states in which high license prevails s afflicted. It looks as it the probibition frenzy encourages the increase of insanity. The recognition of organized labor in the circuit court of the United States is no inconsiderable gain for the labor or- ganizations involved In the Union Pacific wage schedule controversy. Looking back a few decades upon the time when they had no legal status whatever their progress to this point s certainly a wonderful achlevement The bogus bond investment swindies came in for another scoring at the hands of Judge Woolson in his Instructions to the grand jury at Council Bluffs the other day. He insisted that the chief ingredient of what is commonly called the investment company is nothing more than the eloment of lot or chance. The grand jury was, therefore, fustructed to return indlctments against all individuals who, according to thelr findings, may have been engaged in promoting these institutions by means of the United States mails. The use of the United States mails In any way to defraud vietims with lottery schemes 1is strictly prohibited by law, and in this class are to be included the bond investment swindles that offer prives to be determined by a similar systrm, It the grand jury is alive to its duty some of the men who have been implicated in these deals will be brought before the federal court to answer for their conduc! A patrolman on South Tenth sireet has fnally discovered an Instance where the electric lamps in his district have failed to burn the required number of hours nightly and has reported the same to the authorities, A resolution was passed by the city council at least six months ago requiring the various polico officers to tako notice of electric lamps that were not emitting the light for which (he city was paying in order that deductions might be made from the electric lighting company’s monthly bills to corre- spond with the extent of the defective service. Any one who has occasion to be on the streets at night and who keeps his eyes open could not but have come upon lamps that were extinguished during portions of the night. But as yet not a single deduction from the regularly recurring bills has ever been made. It remains to be seen whether any such relduction will be made in the Instance that has just been reported, THE NO YEAR FOR TIE HEIR APPARENT. The king Is dead—long live the king! This trite expression comes to us s a souvenir of the Freneh monarchy. The doctrine that the king dies +applies not only to monarchies the only differ being that monarchies their with an helr apparent ty to ascend the while fn republics the succession {s not regulated by blood relationship or even partisan kin ship. Thers fs not an record in the history of this president has been able to perpetuate himself by prearranging the line of succession, or, in other words, by naming the heir apparent. What is true In national polities is equally applicable to state succession. When the lHeutenant governor of this state, Colonel Majors, addressed a letter to Gov- ernor Crounse, to get an expression from him as to whether he was or was not a can didate for a term, he perpetrated not only a piece of impertinence, but dis- elosed himself to the republicans of this state in the role of an heir apparent, something that nobody ever before had the presumption to attempt. Nebraska is a free state and not a monarchy. We have no political dynasty and no political nobility with claims to official titles by d Governor Crounse to announce that he intends to official life at the end of hi right o express a prefer ht to never but to ublies, ence have dynasties throne, presidential instance on country where any second cont has a right retire from term. He has g ence for his suc make any political tie-up that may serve his ambition in the future. But it is a very cheeky thing, to call it by a mild name, for the leutenant force his own upon the republicans cssor and he has a r governor to candidacs this s by soliciting an abdication from the governor at this stage under any pretense. Nebraska has never promoted the figure- head as lientenant to the responsible position of chief executive, shie is not likely to make a depariure in the year 1804, Since 18 when sh elected her first lieutenant governor, Nebraska has had Abbott, Agee, Carns and 8hedd in the po. now occupied by Thomas Majors. It hing much praise to s governors were known governor and sition would not be lay that either of these vice fully as deserving and capable as Mr. Majors. But the republican party has firmly adliered to the established precedent of relegating the licutenant governor to private life at the end of his first or sec. ond term. ‘The party has set its face do- liberately and firmly against the idea of creating an heir apparent for the position of governor, and we do mnot believe there is cither occagion or emergency for chang- ing the time-honored usage. If anything there is more peril to the party in the am- bition of the would-be heir presumptive than in the candidacy of any other man. The mere fact that he was elected to the second place on the ticket two years ago by a larger majority than was received by Governor Crounse is no criterion to go by. Two years ago Judge Crounse was pitted against General Van Wyck, the ablest and best known populist in the state. He had to bear the brunt of attack and with- stand the bombardment of all the enemics’ batteries, as well as the fire in the rear from the Majors contingent, who secretly sought to push Majors ahead of him in order to give color to his claim of extraordinary popularity. There was no fight made on lieutenant governor, aud the populist candi- date for the office was handicapped by his foolish utterance, “Damn the constittution.” Had Majors been pitted against Van Wyck he would have unhorsed and driven from the fleld before the campaign was halt over. He was vulnerable where Crounse was unassailable. He was a man with an unsavory record, as full of holes as a skim- mer. Those holes still remain unplugged and a good many have appeared in his perforated armor within the past two years, It Is-not at all probable that the party wiil venture to jeopardize its success this year by choosing a leader who would keep it on tho defensive from start to finish and drag every other candidate down with bim in a futile attempt to hold him up. This year of all others the fight should be aggressive, and the men who lead should have unblem- ished public records. This is no year for the heir apparent. been more SUBURBAN TRAMWAYS. Comptroller Olsen, writing from Little Rock., Ark.,, enters a vigorous protest against the suggestion made by The Bee in favor of bonding the county for half a million dollars to be expended for grading and’ paving county roadways and establish- ing a system of suburban tramways. Mr. Olsen regards the project as an attempt to spend §1 where there is only 5 cents in sight as a return. He dwells especlally upon the injustice of making property owners in the city of Omaha pay for improving the lands outside of the city with no material benefit to accrue to the city taxpayer, and calls loudly for an absolute divorce of city and county for the reason that the union of the two has been a misfit in which the city is bearing three-fourths of the burden and getting. comparatively no return. This is a very uarrow and selfish view of the relations subsisting between the city and county. A man might as well com- plain that in the household he is paying all the grocery and butcher bills while his wife Is only taking care of the babies. The city and county are necessarily part of the same household, and the city, having the bulk of the wealth, s very naturally obliged to assume the bulk of the burden of taxation. There may a time come when we shall have the city and county of Omaha under one government and the limits of this cor- poration extended at least ten miles beyond the present city limits. Such a change would result in the merging of the remainder of Douglas county with Sarpy or the carving out of a new county by the name of Douglas with & new county seat. While it Iy true that Omaba does pay three-fourths of the cost of county roads and bridges, the court expenses for Douglas county are incurred chiefly for the benefit of Omaha, and s0 are the expenses incurred for making out tax lists and the salaries of the clerical force in and about the court house, and last, but not least, the cost of maintaining the fail and county hospital. As to the benefits that the city would de- rive from paved roadways and suburban tramways there may be a division of opinion. Our bellet is that half a million could not be more profitably expended for any public improvement, It would give Omaha pres- tige as the ploneer city in bullding substan- tial roadways and would be pointed to all over the United States as an evidence of ad- vanced western clvilization. By increasing the facilities for coming in and getting out of town the lands along the proposed tram- ways and the lands on adjacent roads within soveral miles on either side of the tramway would be cultivated in small tracts for gar- den truck and otber products that could be marketed in Omaha elther for home con- sumption or for export. It would stimulate diversified Industry, including the raising of sugar beets, and afford an opportunity for bread winuers who are employed In the city on swall wages Lo get homes on which OMAHA they can raise enough vegetables and fruit | In the summer season for the mere time put | in auring oda and when work is searce. What Omaha needs as much as she anythin trade for the reta’l merchants who pay than the jobbers and yet get no benefit from rallway extension. Our county Is sparsely settle There is land enough within a radius of twenty miles to support ten times the rural population we now have, and in our judgment will do so much to ward Increasing this population as the build- ing of and the establish- ment of tramways, POWER TO ISSUE BONDS. hours need is an increase of lo heavier rent nothing paved roadways In his voto message President Clevelan: urged the desirability of granting to the secretary of tho treasury better power than now exists to Issue bonds to protect the gold reserve when for any reason it should be- ary. “Our currency is in such A confused condition,” sald the president, “and our financial affairs are apt to assume at any time so eritical a position that it seems such a ¢ is dictated by rdinary prudence.” The existing power of the secretarv of the treasury to issue bonds is conferred by the act to provide for the resumption of payments, the third section of os as follows: “To nable the secretary of the treasury to pre- pare and previde for the redemption in this act authorized or required, he is authorized time to appro- come nec to me uise specle which pro {o use any surplus revenues from time in the priated, and to issue, not less than par in coin descriptions of bonds of th described in the act of July 14, 1870, entitled to authorize the refunding of the national deb Under this act the secretary may issue bonds not xeoeding in the aggregate $200,000,000, re desmable in plensure of the United States after ten years from the date of their issue, nd bearing interest in coin at the rate of 5 per cent per annnm; or he may issue bonds to an amount not exceading $300,000,000, payable at the pleasure of the United States after fifteen years from the date of bearing interest at the rate of 414 per cent per annum; or he may issue bonds not exceeding in the aggresate $1,000,000,000, payable at the pleasure of the United States after thirty years from the time of issue, and bearing interest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. In his annual report the secretary of the treasury recommended that the section of the resumption act of 1875, which authority upon the secretary to issue and sell certain descriptions of United States bonds, be so amended as to authorize him to iseue and sell, at not less than par in bonds to an amount not exceeding $200,000,000, bearing a lower rate of interest and having a shorter time to run than those now provided for. Secretary Carlisle ex- pressed the opinion that a bond bearing in- terest at the rate of 3 per cent, payable quarterly, and redeemable at the option of the government after five years, could be readily sold at par in our own country. The bonds recently issued by the secretary of the treasury were sold at a rate which makes the interest equivalent to about 3 per cent. Obviously the secretary of the treas- ury has ample power under existing law to jssue and sell bonds for the purpose of re- demption, provided for in the resumption act, but since the passage of that act there has been a large addition to the cdgrency obligations of the government, redeemable in coin, and this is thought to be a valld reason why the secretary of the treasury should be given better power than now ex- ists to issue bonds to protect the gold re- serve. There does not appear to be any serious objection to such a modification of the law as the changed conditions seem to warrant, and possibly there might be some advantag: in doing so, though this is not entirely clear. The question that naturally presents itsell in connection with the president’s sugges- tlon is, what s the cause of the apprehended danger which it is deemed necessary to pro- vide against by glving the secretary of the treasury better power than now exists for issuing bonds to protect the gold reserve? Talk about the confused condltion of the cur- rency is superficial and unsatisfactory. There was no apprehension from this cause under the preceding administration, when the con- dition of the currency was practically the same as It Is now. There was no fear then of the possible inability of the government to maintain the parity of all forms of the currency and 1o one thought of making any different provision from that existing for protecting the gold reserve. The explanation of the apprehension at this time is to be found in the policy regarding the tariff, which, if it prevail, will reduce the revenue of the governmefit from this source and thus endanger tho maintenance of an adequate gold reserve. It is this contingency that the president is anxious to provide against. It is the proposed radical change in the fiscal policy of the government rather than the “confused condition” of the currency that leads the president to look forward to the possible necessity of issuing more bonds in order to protect the gold reserve, treasury not otherwise sell and dispose of at cither of the United States congress approved ‘an act coin at the issue, and confers coin, PROMOTING PUBLICITY, When the attorneys representing the Guit receiver In the controversy with the Union Pacific receivers stated in the federal cir- cult court that they were unable to verify their allegations concerning the status of the last mentloned railroad because access to the accounts of its receivers was closed to them they gave voice to a very general complaint that the affairs of the Union Pa cific receivership wers not being admir tstered sufficiently above cover. In support of this statement the fact was adduced that although the petition In the Unlon Pacific recelvorship case had been granted by the court on October 13 last, not a single report had been oftered or fled by the receivers since they had assumed control. Almost six months have elapsed under the receivership regime without taking the court or the pub- lic Into the slightest confidence in the man- agement of the road’s affairs, although, in theory at least, the recelvers are officers of the court and acting by its authority. If the regeivers of the Unlon Pacific rail- road are abting as the agents of a court of public record there is no reason why their acts should not also be of public record It 1s on this principle, therefore, that the clreult court has appointed a special master for the original case and has ordered the recelvers to make monthly reports to the special master, who after checking them up is to file them with the clerk of the court Another six months will not be permitted to go by without a single statement from the recelvers to tell what they have been doing to carry out the trust that has been conferred upon them. It will be the busi- ness of the special master to examine the reports made to him and to call the atten- tion of the court to anything of a question- able or unusual character that he may dis- cover, For this purpose he Is empowered DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, to employ actolintants and such assistance s he may require. AIl this, ofy cgurse, means an additional burden upon rmmvn« of the road the speclal ||lm‘r and his corps of ac nts will have to be paid from the funds the dispositioh of the receivers. But it fet the public idow what funds are at the disposition recolvers and what d mands are being made upon them from month to morth) It will inform the public whetherethe dofiduct of the road under the rocelvers nearer 1o or whether it fs dragging it deeper Into the bankeuptey. It will make the management 0f the road through the courts a public management in fact as well as in name. Promoting publicity must necessarily expedite the solution of the Union Pacifie problem. since ount will of Mie 1s hrjoging it solvency depths of Asido from the' viclous lack of judgment displayed by Governor Waite In the recent troubles at Denver, there Is one phase of the ase that should not be lost sight of. The law glving the governor of Colorado the con trol of the fire and police commission had been tested in the supreme court of that state and declared constitutional. The dis trict assumed jurisdiction over the utive in order to prevent from changing the complexion of the bo: The right of the judicial branch of the state government to interfere with the executive branch in the enforcement of the law serfously to be questioned. We have too many instances of such interfe In Nebraska. The height of absurdity was reached in Lancaster county, in this state, when a county judge fssued an injunction restraining the chief of police from raiding a notorious gambling den. Of course the infunction was disregarded and the judge was so thankful to escape from a serious predicament that he fafled to cite the chief of police before him for contempt. court him had etce here Tn the death of George Ticknor Curtis the United States loses one of its most eminent constitutional lawyers and who has taken active part in the various movements for political reform since the war. Mr Curtls' great legal ability was doubtle traceable to a legal bent in the Curtis fam ily, his brother Benjamin having attained a place upon the supreme court of the United States, while he himself held several posi tions requiring a high order of legal talent. Fortunately he has left a considerable liter- ary legacy to perpetunte the work which secured for him his extensive reputation as an expounder of constitutional law. one It was a rather crisp atmosphere in the house on Thursday during the proceedings on the contested elections cases. Beyonil Redemption, Atlanla Constitution. A cold wave i coming in from the west. But it is not tb be compared with the blizzard that wiio strike those who are try- ing to twist the Chicago platform around to fit goldbug fiens el Now "flll!‘l" It, Now You Don't. SC Louls Republic. = The prohibition law in Towa is now in the fix of the famous Illinols measure which Lincoln ¢nce moved to amend by adding a clause that it should not be e forced except by unanimous consent. S [nw Breakers. Chicago Tribune. When judges, _Mg\mu-n verdicts of furies, o overrule supre| courts and usurp the pre- rogatives of gd¥enors, how can citizens be expected to much dicts or for JAdgeA2 I a judge does not hold [the law héhor, and i he seems willing” to_bend%ff to serve hisefelends, can common people bhe e¥pected to be faithful observers of the law? The € respect for v Tho Crack of 1 Chicago Tribune. In November a new house of representa- tives will be elected to replace the one which passed the Wilson bill. The voters, thoroughly acquainted by that time with that measure and its workings, will subs tute for the democratic house a republican one, which will see to it that no further step towards free trade is taken during the remainder of Cleveland’s administration. American Beef in London. London News. Enormous quantities of United States beef are now in the ndon markets and in_the shops of the retail butchers. The prices at which wholesale dealers’ pu chused it were very low, owing to the heavy_ supplies. A dull sale for Knglish and Scotch beef was a natural conse- quence. The excellent New Zealand lamb. now sells at the same price as the best Scotch mutton, e Election of Senators. St. Louls Republic, Mr. Bryan's joint resolution for changing the mode of electing United States sen- ators has the great merit that it is more likely to be adopted than a more {mpera- tive measure. The constitutional amend- ment which will be presented to the nation if his resolution s successful permits each state to choose whether it will elect sen- ators by direct vote of the people or by the present legistative method. Watterson as a Prophet. Louisyllle Courier-Journal, ‘When they have fled ingloriously from a vietoriou field, leaving guns that were shotted with the ball-cartridges of truth, to be spiked by an enemy we had driven before us—and whel bringing with the only the white feathers of the cow: the black plumes of the mercenary, they come home for theilr reward, wl shall they encounter, what have they a right to look for, except political damnation and death? . The Senate and the Tariff. New York World. The fate of the bill in the senate is uncer- taln. While the business of the country is pleading for action senators are planning for delay, The measure is not to be called up until the 2d of April. It will then be at the mercy of the tireless talkers and the unprincipled logrollers, The final shaping of the bill, if it shall pass the senate, will be done in conference committee. It is to be hoped that the representatives of the people will be able to secure a better recog- nition of democratic principles and of the needs of consumers than the senate com- mittee has given. AL A Reversing Itself, Philadelphia Record. Relying upon thb rulings of the United States supreme ‘Court that the states could not lawfully tax the interstate business of rallways, the state of New York has paid rebates amounting to §1,600,000 to rail- way companies onthe volume of interstate traffic. But 1t appears that in its latest declsion upon thfs point the supreme court has reversed ifs 'former ruling, holding that the franchidesgranted by thé state to corporations within the state to transact interstate busingss is in itself of intrinsic value, according, to the amount of such business transacted, and therefore taxable. A suit whil be bréaght by the state of New York to recover'f ‘part of the money pald to the rallway ¢omppanies. AL i N The Republicun Outlook. Carter At North American Review, With a manifest misinterpretation of public sentiment , presented through the Wilson bill; with' Current history verifying to an unfortunaté degree all predictions made the most ardent protectionist reference to the destructive evils to the abandonment of the protective policy; with closed factories and open soup houses: with disorganized business and or- ganized charity; with breadless homes in the midst of the world's greatest granary; with the Increase of the flocks of Australia and of South America simultaneously; with the disappearance of the flocks from our own pastures; with New England idle and Old England active; with assignees and re- celvers prominent business factors through- land; with organized labor seeking, her wages, hut any ased exports and nc with cheap things and no a dollar to buy them; with idle flooded mines; with increasing farm ducts thrown into decreasing. mark: H with our forelgn policy reversed, to the humiliation of the nagion, and with confi- dence and hope supplante doubt and uncertalnty—who can question that the contrast of worse with better days will r sult In the overwhelming triumph in 1893 of the party of progress, patriotism and prosperity? Chatrman \iners MARCITL 31, 18M--TWELVE PAGES OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, who assumed that the Germany was no than a youth who was bound on dragging his coun try into have had revise their Already there is a dispo sition to speak of him as a particularly long- Possibly the second est much exaggeration as the first, but it is at least clear that Wil lam is nobody's fool, and that he is gradu ally developing a broad and far-sighted in ternational policy. The Importa that he has attached to the commercial treaty with Russia Is In itself a recognition that In these days the interests of commerce are stronger than merely military Interests, and that freedom of Intercourse is a truer bond of peace than standing armies. He has al- ready made plain to the world the military strength of his empire and his own readi ness to fight upon occasion. Having done this, he fs the better able to throw his in Those emperor of more hot-headed war oceasion to headed statosimen. mate nay have as fluence, as he seema now Lo be doing, on th side of peace and the reduction of mil itary expenditure. Germany is indeed the only power from which the movement for disarmument can come. She occuples the central place and the foromost place. No ons can attribute such a movement on her part to timidity. Austria and Italy can both be counted upon to follow her lead, and she stands betworn Russia and France, now upon terms of friendship. Germany cannot pro pose disarmament directly to Frapce, but if Russia will agree France will be brought to the agreement also. [Kvery nation in Europe recognizes the truth that the burden of the military ostablishments become intolerable, and there s not one of them that would not gladly reduco its offensive and defensive equipment if it could be sure that its neighbors would do likewlse. TI power that can lead in this movement would be more than ever the dominant power, and such an ambition s worthy of the emperor of Germany. Py There Is but little doubt that, for the sak of assuring the tranquility of central and n Europe, the Berlin and Vienna gov would cheerfully agree to leave interests in India at the mercy Whether they would also con sent to give him a free hand south of the Danube is mueh more questionable, Kaiser William 1[. may concar with Bismarck in thinking Bulgaria not worth the bones of one Pomeranian grenadier, but [Francis Joseph, as king of Hungary, cannot pro- foss u like indifference. The Magyars have e enough to control the Sla uents of the transleithan kingdom, and they deem it a matter of vital import to shut the Slavic empire out of the Balkan pe Their national policy, personified in Count Kalnoky, the fmperlal minister of foreign affairs, has hitherto dictated the Hapsburg program. This ems irreconcilable with Russia’s designs upon Constantinopl The absorption of Bulgaria would be the first and indispensa- ble step toward the czar's acquirement of the territory still held by the Turks in Burope; but, far from viewing with ap proval such a step, the Magyars, speaking through Count Kalnoky, are likely to urge on Russin a formal recognition of Prince Ferdinand as an independent ruler. So long as Hungarian influence is dominant at Vi- enna the Hapsburg emperor cannot be ex- pected to acqulesce in the aggrandizement of Russia in southeastern Europe. If, then, the league of the three emperors i3 revived it will probably be at the expense of Eng- land. ~ weste ernments ingland's of the czar. o Inasmuch as the holy cities of Medina and Mecca have always been regarded as tho hotbeds of cholera, and as the point of departure of those terrible visitations that have scourged not only Europe, but even the United States, it must be a matter of uni- versal relief and congratulation to learn that the sultan of Turkey has at length yielded to the urgent solicitations of the last inter- national sanitary conference and is now taking steps for the improvement of the cities where the prophet was bern and bur- fed, He has sent out a speeial mission to the Yemen, under Marshal Assaf Pacha, to suporintend the construction of various es- atablishmentg_for the accommodation, board- ing and medical treatment of pilgrims at the holy places, Asylums, hospitals and dis pensaries are now being built, the wells are being disinfected and cleansed, the tanks in- creased in number, and a large and com tent staff of doctors stationed at Mecca, Medina, Bl Thor, and at the Red sea ports where the pilgrims land. The sultan is re- ported to take a keen interest in everything connected with cholera, and is sufficiently up to date to abandon those fatalist ways of the old-faghioned Mahometans, who would re- fuse to administer medicine to the sick for fear of running counter to divine wishes, or even to remove the flies that settled on the eyes of the poor little infants, because “‘they had been placed there by Allah.” P The exhibition at Antwerp, which s to be opened by the king of the Belgians on the 5th of May, promises to be a most successful affair. The necessary buildings have been erected with great rapidity and are said to present a most imposing and beautiful ap- pearance. Although the space is double that of the exhibition of 1885, all of it will be occupied. Belglan manufacturers have rotained a space of 330,000 square feet, and the United States comes next with 175,000. France and Germany, who are brisk com- petitors for Belgian trade, have bespoken 110,000 square feet each, while Great Britain has 60,000. Italy, Russia, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Sweden, Canada and Peru also will be well represented. An extensive space in the park has been set aside for eastern coun- tries. Here will be found streets in Cairo and Constantinople, dancing and howling Dervishes, priests, caravans and “‘fantasias,” not to mention the Congo section, which will be remarkable not only for the products exhibited in a separate palace und dioramas showing the country, but also for the pres- ence of a large number of natives chosen from the principal tribes of the future Bel- glan colony and living in their habitual fashion, the crowning attraction of the ex- hibition will be the reproduction in fac simile of old Antwerp in the sixteenth century, which is to be a marvel of plcturesque fidelity. fevs The correspondent of the London Standard at Shanghal insists upon the truth of his story that the Chinese have agreed to with- draw their opposition to Russia's claims in the Pamirs and to leave the whole matter for settlement by Russia and England. Count Cassini, the Russfan ambassador at Pekin, according to the same authority, has won fthis diplomatic victory in return for several favors shown to the Chinese govern- ment. In the first place he refrained from making trouble over the audience question, although he refused to be received by th emperor outside the walls of the palace. A little later he was the chief means of int ducing China to the benefits of the interna tional telegraph convention, by allowing her land lines to be connected with those of Russia by a private arrangement, while China stood outside the convention, despite efforts of the Eastern Extension and nish company (Great Northern) to pre- vent her from getting a share of the inter- national traflc by fair competition. Finally he was instrumental in securing the agreement by which Russia abandoned her pretensions to Korea. If all this be true it does not appear that China has the worst of the bargain, but she has England yet to settie with, . The kingdom of Italy is constitutional Agony isannoyance concentrated. Beecham'’s Pills (Tasteless) are concentrated remedies for the annoyance of Indigestion or the Agony of Dyspepsia. 25 cents a box, Guinea Worth (S Crispl Is seconding his master, with every cxpediont of secret and unserupulous mis management, In what can only be constried as an aim (o establish despotic rule. The misery already entailed has been enormous. Tho responseibility for It is fastened easily enough, by the government and its corrupt supportoers, upon anarchy, but that is no more than an evasion. The Sicilian deputy, Gluffrida, whose case has been exclting vast attention, Is not an anarchist. He is simply a ropublican, who secs no issue from (he present frightful crisis save an appeal to the patriotie {mpulses of a nation which pro duced Mazzini and Garibaldi, and may be expected to produce thelr prototypes. When these prototypes arise the situation for the king, for Crispi and for the slothful nobles who are battening upon what is left of pros perity in Italy, will be critical - THE SEXGNIORAGE RILL. OMAHA, March 80.—To the Editor of The Bee: I read this morning with genuine pleastire the vory clear and able message of Prosident Cleveland vetoing the Bland seigniorago bill, and cven apart from the ound principles enunciated the message may be commended to the public as a clear and foreible sample of good English I may say that I was delighted upon turning to your editorial page to find your warm words of commendation of = the prosident’s course. While no one who is familiar with your record can justly ques- tion your republicanism, yet in local mat- ters 1 have always notlced with pleasure vour marked opposition when for any rea- son poor men were nominated for office. 1 congrgtulate you and the public on the fact that you are also able to leave party polities aside even in national matters when men and measures are, as in the present case, worthy of support. As bearing somewhat on the seigniorage bill, permit me to state the following prob- lem: My wife has recently purchased what is known as the “Bland Patent $10 chair.”” It is a very comfortable and con- venient chair, but wero it not for the patent, I think it could be produced, so far as the material and labor are concerned, for per- haps $3 or $4. My wife, as I have sald, bought one of these $10 chairs lately for $6, and told me with much pride that she had saved $4; and in these days, when pru- dent economy is the rule of life, she natur- ally felt quite proud of what she had done. As a matter of curiosity I called a few days afterwards at all the principal furni- ture stores where the chair is offered for sale, and 1 found the chair in each case marked $10, for that is, indeed, the established price made by the manufacturer, but I found upon further inquiry that in each c I could buy the chair for $5, and now I am greatly puzzled to know whether my -wife saved $1 or lost $1. By the time your readers have solved this problem, they will probably understand bet- ter what is meant by the “Bland selgnior- age bill.” THOMAS KILPATRICK. POINTED PLEASANTRIE. Detroit Tribune: id he get into soclety nuch ? 3 “About $,000, as report has Harper's Bazar: “When I look into your ves, Jennie, dear,” he sa “It surprises me to remember at you ¢ a teac 4 primary o Why, Georg sked, ~“Because, dear, your pupils are so ge. “It palns me very much to spank Johnny," 'sata ' hiy mother with deep feefing, “and 1 shall have to turn you over to your father. His hands are harder Chicago Tribun vou, Atlanta Constitution: Sub: tor)—How’s the newspaper business now ? Fditor—Splendid! Just got $30 out of the rallroad for cutting off my left leg. criber (to_edl- Minneapol Genevieve, “I can never take you hub. You have a wheel. You tire me. T shall have to get another felloc.”” “That's all right,” replied Charlie, “but you ought to have spoke sooner.' Journal: “Charlie,”” said for a Washington Star: In the spring the gay campaigner sharpens his rhetoric fang, and proceeds to make things lively with re- marks about the *‘gang. Chicago conductor, car.” “Yes, sir,” replied the resolute matron from beyond Ninety-ninth street, = sitting down with igh of relief, “I know it. That othel I reckon, is the hog car. There's fifteen ‘women' standing up in the aisle.’ Tribune: politely, ‘Madam,” said the this is the smoking HAD BEEN THERE. New York Press. one,” he sald at midnight's Just one, he said in accents wild, While overhead the silver moon Peeped “out between the clouds smiled. She Iald her head upon his breast, While blushes bright her fair wore, “I think,” she said, “you're like the rest— When you get one yow'll ask for more.” Lo THE EARLY FLY, Chicago Tribune, Behold the fly! + o The early fly of spring! Forth from some mysterious hiding place Where it hath slept the dreary months away It buzzeth Ruttle Wabbiy i the T le wal n the legs, mayhap, But full 'Of bustness. g Inglorfous insect! Pest cantankerous! Vexatious, troublesome, annoying bore, Sample of spring’s first crop, Bud, blossom, fruit and haryest, all in one, Sure promise’of a billion flies {o come, Calamity-buzzer most calamitous, ‘Where didst thou come from, And what art Thou here for, Anyhow? SHE noon and cheeks ROWNI The | priced. Wi the mox y1Beexpressif you send worthi ormore IS | sexever We called the turn—It's getting Spring-like and bland and you will want that Spring suit. Our styles are exclusive, for we make every suit we sell. usual excellence goes without saying. We have no competitors but tailors and they are twice as high BROWNING, KING & CO., W. Cor.13th and Douglas Sts, EPIGRAMS AT MINNEAPOLIS “While the ropublican party falled to carry the last eloction the eause for which it cons tended did not fail. It survived the awful disaster and shines more brilliantly and gloriously than ever before.” “The past year has boen a Labor, more than all, and dearer to us than all, has succumbed to the wasting blast of ‘the great change by which Industry has beon cheated of its just rewards. long one, “Bverything has been blighted but repube lean principles.” “The democratic party has suffered—a calamity we could bear with resignation, 1L 1t had not also carried In its train the vast and sacred interests of the people.” “Who would strike from the republican banner a single star or stripe?"” ‘“The democratic party won by a campaign of profuse and glittering promises.” he democratic party has signally failed to redeom a single promise it made to the people. “What devastation and distress have been wrought in a single year.” It has relleved the people of employment, of work, of prosperity and of plenty, and some of them of thelr homes." “Is tho national distress, the business de- pression and the universal poverty of the people, which have relentlessly followed the enactment of every revenue tariff measuro in_all our history, to be lost upon us in tha calm consideration of this economic sub- Ject?" “The Wilson bill is a narrow, sectional and provincial measure, unworthy the great party which proposes it, and wholly unsuited to the needs of the people.' ““The Wilson bill is for the plantation, ngf, for the farm and factory.'"” A They (democracy) look to the of the importer, ignoring the livious to the fact t everywhere." interests armer, and ob- the agriculturist is “Changes in tarift schedules must ev governed by the protective principle. r be “'A revenue tariff encourages no home en- terprises; it supplies employment to no American workingman." “A revenue tariff is a sure precursor to nae tional poverty, national bankruptey gnd ine dividual distress,” tarift is an enemy to the the American workingman, and American in+ “A revenue American shop, to American prosperity dustrial independenc “The democratic victory was the outcoms of misguided judgment, pique, passion and prejudi “The administration and congress are with out compass or rudder.” S / KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. 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