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THE _OMAHA DAILY BE E: TUES DAY, APRIL 10, 1891, THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. | PURLISHING €€ CIRCULATION BTATEMENT OF ) Fho Ties Pob TZSCHUCK worn t fbed in my pres ence this Notary Public The a good makers. ministerial crisis for in Chili unemployed promises opening binet- There is at | eral Coxey's grand army be eligible for a over, ast one good feature in Gen- will 1s Its veterans pension after the war royal love feast In progress at Venics about the only cheerful that the king of Italy has been able to indulge in for a considerable time | diversion The United States senate body, but it objections tinulng its delibarations until 6 o'clock daily. 1t prefers to be deliberate with its delibera- tions. is a deliberative has scriou to con- Governor Tillman of South not bashful about expressing his opinion of himself. If everybody thought of him as he does of himself, his political future would be an assured success, Carolina s The campaign for the des/ruction of dan- gerous fire traps should be supplemented by a general public demand for uniform perma- nent sidewalks on the principal streets, as defined by ordinance. There are a great many things which the people have a right to demand of the judges whom they choose to preside over their courts. Unfortunately they have a right to demand and what they get are not always the same. what What kind of a public hall and market house of dimensions not less than 264 feet by 60 feet and two stories in height can be built if two-thirds of the bond proceeds must be handed cver to real estate specula- tors in payment of a site one block in size? Senator Peffer has wisely concluded to deliver his tariff speech upon the installment plan. He might also have it printed in in- stallments and distributed through the coupon system were it not for the fear that only the first numbers would_be applied for. Artist St. Gaudens is said to have recantly submitted a design for a figurehcad for our new naval vessels which met the same fate as his World's fair medal. His improved American eagle verged too far on the nude to stand the rigors of the climate to which our men-of-war must be exposed. s We are now told that President Cleveland never seriously entertzined the name of Dr. Miller when considering the appolntment to the Interstate Commerce commission vacancy. This puts the men who pushed the doctor forward for the place on the In- terstate commission in an attitude all the more open to explanation. triking tailors need have no fear of the law 50 long as they refrain from the em- ployment of violence or other illegal means to accomplish their purpose. By giving us an example of a peaceful strike they will controvert the assertion of Judge Jenking that there is no such thing as a strike free from violence and intimidations. 1t s absolutely necessary to the continued prosperity of Omaha that the assessed valu- ation of the property subject to taxation be raised to something in the neighborhood of the real value which competent men plac upon it. For this reform all that is needed 1s obedience to the plain mandate of the law. We need not wait for additional legislation on the subject. There is as urgent call for any member of the senate to take advantage of the tariff discussion in order to attempt to break the long speaking record made by Senator Allen during the struggle over the repeal of the Sherman silver pur- chase law. Everybody is willing to let the record stand as It is, at duriug the present sesslon of congr yet no distance is, least of Mr. meoting President Cloveland’s appointment Benedict printe with the democratic enthusiasm anticipated. If the reports of g position to his donfirmation aro dited, the president perience with the ofice of public printer a repetition of his troubles In connection with the last supreme court vacancy. as public Is not which wing op- be his ex was to may have in The dictum of the district court in its apinion the Jefferson injunction sase leads logically to the ridiculous proposi- on square tion that if any public spirited eitizen should sffer to donate a o the | sty the city would not be able to invest any of the voted at the last election to trect a building upon it. The state ment is a reductio ad absurdum The officlals In charge of the new govern ment building construction are to be com mended for thelr efforts to make absolutely sound the foundation walls of the great structure. To do anything less would amount to a serlous neglect of duty, which would inevitably be followed by a long chain of damaging consequences. The report of Inspector Cluss expressly justifies the state- ments made by The Bee before the post- ofic site was selocted, market house site mone, mere BSUE M HiN LICY of New Y bee the has fted with al inte It ha for sevoral weoks what the char that it w en kno i nd h Ituency il ing the reduction of duti th point Senator contemplated by pending tariff bill that ch a reductl tituted when treasury money and but it i the tr L very different ury Is fac suffering What former to attampt from lor eriminal would be safe e u would be Hill 1s not he believes that th government should be de tarift duties. As he hin he profers indirect above direct foretgn condit it Mr. orm, but of the rived mainly fr self states his position, taxation and tariff reform and tarift extinction; p products rather than taxing home products. the pr tax the New York senator and vigorously Ho protested behall of the people of his sary, 1ll-timed mischievous. It was not demanded by her of the great pol 1802, It roved only by the unfor populist party ted the pr tail lored at now tarift ref rovenues fers taxing nst posed incom spoke earnestl against it, as unnece, n tate, and two 13 ag and he to make the democratic ilist kite. Mr. Hill con length haracter of the proposed tax and pointed affected by 1t are incomes exceed ty a the ¢ out that the persons to be not limited to $4,000. The expo the wholly ne tion, for extent the tax those whose n given by the nator ration of this tax, is worthy of attenti he clearly shows that would be ultim people whom it is not intemled to reach, as, poor tenants. Senator Hill zaid ¢t internal or direct of of though not consider- to a large ly pald by for example, “The substitution ¢ for customs house tion of the wages of / the ean standard: dat labor; it m our of the of life to which they He believed that what government the hould be supplied by tariff taxation and that except the internal taxes to which the has long been accustomed. portions of this speech treat of other matters and these di the fact that Senator Hill not an mirer of the administration. There can be no doubt that he intends to vote against the tariff bill and meanwhile will un- doubtedly do all he can to create opposition to that measure, in which he evidently finds nothing meritorions. His colleague, Sena- tor Murphy, will doubtless with him and it is believed there are several other democratic senators at present in sympathy with Mr. Hill's views, though it. would not be quite safe to predict that they will found with him when brought the final test. The fact, however, that the two demo- senators from the Empire state are opposed to the revenue of their party Is certainly of great significance, for they have not taken this position without having carefully investi- gated the sentiment of their democratic constituents regarding that policy. Indeed the result of the spring elections in the state sufficiently indicated how the people feel and so shrewd a politician as Mr. Hill would not fail to give it the correct inter- pretation. He knows that the cnactment of the tariff bill in its present form would make New York a republican state for years to come and in antagonizing that measure he serves warning on the democrafic party that if it adopts the tariff bill with its in- come tax attachment it must be prepared to abandon the Empire stato to the re- publicans. It is very probable that this will have to be done in any cvent, unless the republicans waste their opportunity by factional conflict, but it will be inevitable It the proposed democratic revenue policy shall be put into effect. PROPOSED FEDERAL INHERITANCE TAX, The different states portion of their state revenucs from taxes upon inheritances and bequests are finally awakening to the danger that will threaten should the tarift bill become a law with the income tax schedule included. They are beginning to repeat the objections to such a which were urged some time ago by The Bee against the bill for a foderal inheri proposed by Senator Hill, and later again against the alteration In the income tax schedule to malko the tax of 2 per cent extend to all incomes from inheritance and bequest in excess of the usual exemption of $4,000. Against the prin- ciple of the inheritance tax there is perhaps little to be said, but against the policy of adding a federal inheritance tax to the stato inheritance taxes already in force there are numerous and welghty arguments that should not fail to make an impression upon the rep- rosentatives in congress. The question is such an important one for York that Comptroller Fitch of New York City last week made a special journey Washington with the senate finance committee against the passage f the bill as it stands. He had previousl addressed a lengthy letter to the representa- of his state in the senate, setting forth in detail how injuriously a federal inheritance would react upon the proceeds of the state inheritance tax. In this letter he shows New York would not suffer alone from the en ment of the The stat llecting a tax collateral heritances are Malne, Massachusetts, Con- Pennsylvania, New Jersey, W Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, New York has a law tax ing es those of collateral relatives; and Illinols has a special statute, passed for the purpose of making the Cook county which charges a docket feo of one-tenth of 1 per cent on all estates, real and personal, to the may pi Th usual rate of tax for collateral relatives and strangers (s 5 per cent, but in Ohio it 1s 314, and in Maine, Maryland and West Virginia 21% per cent. Impose a federal In addi tion to this and the tax systems of all th states will be generally The p greatest in the larger In New York they amounted for the year 1892 to $1,786,218, being 20.6 per cent of the total state taxes; in 1893 to $3,075,687, being about 25 per cent of all state taxes, two-fifths as much as the total levied directly upon the counties. The law has been in operation since 1885, aud has, so the comptroller states, become taxes axation means the reans the degr the comfor Tnxuries have be med. ver the needs of the therefor deprivation of and on accast n of ans workmen neeessary revenue alone countr that se There are is ad- be be to cratic uncompromisingly policy which derive some their financial resources measure nee ta New to to remonstrate tiy tax that measure. now e upon ins necticut Virginla, Obio and Carolina. direct i st ritay as well as probate court self-sustaining, whomsoever same tax unbalanced eds of these taxes are of cou and wealthier states and state tax several in taxes | Th ylvania prod nae of about tax | s fixed f trae with r law dat iture of state taxatio 1 to Penn W from 1 amo 1s where the and annual rov $1,000,000. of th inherit thus bel ed by is not nee product to the supp monts. It field to contribute st both federal the systom of sta a most become and state gov rnm taxation it ¢ important resource and s to more important m of federal taxa than promis as n tion it coul years go on st nover figure. A wanton In el insignificant federal {s but a terforence with the existing revenue sy of th more an inheritance tax tema statos ABSURDITY OF OUR TAX SYSTEM. The latest census bulletin dealing municipalities having ith the finances of than n population & some figures that bett ument utter absurdity of our sysi of lecting from the detailed forth those relating only population s appr Iy to that of Omaha we have the following for the total valuation of real and per property for taxation and the valuation per capita of the population nsus ¥ th tax valuation. S atistics ar than any ar proy m there se whose ximat table listed Viluation [Per Capita 81371 § 802 o] 1 It « spulation Minnea, ) 1 Omaha, as might have methods e the p althc been expected from the iployed by our assessors, rest showing of any of the but of them would be to rest thoir claims to wealth upon ns made for taxation. If we were o the statements of our the real and rty subject to taxation in Omaha fs, speaking, hird that ot City, one-fourth that of Den ver, Kansas City, Rochester, one-sixth that of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and one- seventh that of Providence. one has the slightest knowledge of the relative wealth of these dif cities would for a moment give credence to ratios of this kind. Turning to the census estimates of the true value of the real estate taxed, as compared ith the assessed value of the real estale taxed, we find that Omaha again occuples the same unenviable position. The ed tate taxed in Omala during $16,315,645, th value is given at $99,918,575, This mear our g their duty as the makes cities gh fow con the nt tu belie sors sworn as- personal property per ita roughly only o No who erent value of real e the census year w estimated true or six tin 13 while s as great. essors, instead of do list real property at but one- sixth of its uctual value, I £0es almost en‘ir-ly exempt,th r 000,000 returned at all. With the exception of Denver, which also its estate is worth six times as much as what it ed for, no other city assumes to pre- sent such absurd figures. The assessed value in Rochester is within one-tweaticth of the true value. In Kansas City and Providence the true value is estimated at but one-third the assessed value; St. Paul, at one-half again as much; in Minneapolis, at two-thirds again as much. The assessors In these cities may, with some faint degree of plausibility, claim that they attempt to get at the actual value of the property which they list; in Omaha they would not dare to even make the pretense The statistics furnished by the census sup- ply us with yet another evidence of the ex- treme absurdity of our system of tax valua- tion by permitting us to compare the figures for 1890 with for 1880. At the time the tenth census was taken Omaha had a population of 30,518, the assessed val of both real and personal property was 83, or $246 per capita. In 1890, with ation of 140,452, the assessed valua- tion was only §$19,989,715, or $142 per capita, While the population Incres more than fourfold the assessors had been able to dis- cover an increase of property less than two- fold, and we are given the paradoxical ab- surdity of tho per capita wealth actually decreasing by almost one-half. Local pride, it nothing else, ought to force a complete reorganization of our taxing system. at law commands onal operty belng scarce claims that real s li more than on sed When that close corporation of high- salaried officials, known as the Underwrit- ers’ Association of Chicago, ordered an ad- vance in premium rates on firc insurance of from 20 to 40 per cent on Nebraska risks, there was resentment expressed all along the line. Many merchants of this city ser- iously considered a proposition to form a mutual company among themselves, all agreeing to indemnify each other from loss by fire. About that time similar com- panies doing a somewhat exclusive and very conservative business in other large cities expressed a willingness to admit some of our leading business men, and the agita- tion for a local mutual company was per- mitted to dle down. By means of these so-called Lloyd companies the cost of as- surance is reduced 50 per cent, the moral hazard is almost wholly wiped out, and in case of loss the slanderous tongue of the pestiferous adjuster Is silenced. When the best business men of Omaha are found among the patrons of these mutual com- panies it is safe to conclude that they are not altogether unworthy of_gonfidence and support. If it be true thaf technically violating a state law by doing business in Nebraska, the sooner that law d the better for our business men. thing is certain, our people are not bound to submit to the decrees of the Chi- cago underwriters, —_— they are now is amenc One As a direct result of the Cornell chlorine fatality, the New York legisl has en acted a special law for the express purpose of punishing hazing and rowdyism in general by college students, This law of course may have some slight temporary effect, but how can it be expected to put an end to theso outrages it it s better than laws long on book which cover the So far as hazing is reprehensible it 1s a violation of already It is not new legislation that is needed, but an undiscriminat) I3 forcoment of the old laws that have c to be negle 1. ture no en- the same forced statute grouna? it is b extsting rause laws, en- ome The people of Nebraska are anxiously awaiting the announcement of the name of the next prominent citizen of Lincoln who became involved the Capital National bank scandal who ever disgraced the state of men He in No man ebraska has dragged down so of standing W ruined his depositors, betrayed and hed the sought aid him And yet the efforts to secure his pardon are countenanced by many good men. many high as Moshe his business character of assoclates sm men who to When The Bee reported that public senti in Holt county was almost entirely against Barrett Scott it was accused In many ment quarters of misrepresenting the facts. Scott's case has now been trausferred to Antelope tak; agon of local fair and the pecu coun ut to plac prejudics 1 t " part I wrred. It were m unty where Holt ¢ favor of Seott's ity sentiment innocence, or even livid that péint, there would have been for a change of venue, The market hou Ivr nd proposition carried a clause authoriziAg bids for a new site. Nobody will, dispute the right of the city to reject agy pr all bids. There may posals made a site in eve wve the price. In that event condemn it, have it of it under the exercise nt Our charter was amended 5o that such a course might be followod ho seek and lots, ive prices paid for park ossed by the condemnation for much than for them. There mon In the city council who expect to profit through th of a site for a market house. These will honest effort and condemn property for such of every officer of the city government who the inter of the city at heart to oppose any attempt bbery and to no oceaston to ask however. be among the way acceptable tho and take city can appraised possession of its right of em domain in order to cireumvent two prices for The city has suffered enough from whjch uifder speculators to get thelr lands exc tracts might have been po city proceedi 58 money was paid are purchas men oppose any to appraise purpose. It will be the duty has best at at j ake advan- tage of the charter provision by which a con- siderabl can be saved to the taxpayers. Every dollar needlessly expended upon the ) much taken from th wages of the laborers who may be emplo In the of the building. um of m site will be construction market house Scott seems finally ty of acting the rol judge and jury in t case and has appointe: attorney to take charge of the prosecution Would it not be equally in conformity with the good taste, especially in of the fact tha as already expressed h elf as convinced of the defonds for hifh to step down likewise from the position of judge and con- fine his part in the pr 15 as witness before onc ates on the bench? Judge to have nized the prosecutor, Percival conten of the impr witnes demands of justice and view he wt's guilt 53 to app Fow and Far i Rhode Island § move freely abe without coming in Chestnut Crackin Kansas City Morton us hut he m nybody on the is a nal. be o news think he liscovery failure that ment, Times. Paul Vandervoort is writing sermons now to the populist It was our intention to follow this statement up with some conm- ment, but it is" unaecessar nybody who knows Paul can add the comment - —— dering, Al 'Round. ow York Tribune. ing all around the horizon. cloctions in this stat have resulted aimost uniformly in favor of the republicans, *Repdrts to the sume efTec have been coming frdm a number of west crn states this wecky and now t news of a tremendets vietory for the re publicans of Rthode Island. No one can fail to perceive the meaning of these demon- strations, It is uin as the handwrit- ing on the wall which caused the ient king to tremble and turn pale. al Blast Buffalo ¥ Occasionally a judee to discover precidents fo illegal, but Judge Gibbons one who is ready (o mak none exists. ~ In a decision Whisky trust on Thursday he should hardly require the ald dent for a court fo decide as law that any syndicate or which owns and controls tilleries is a_dangerous that it should fall under lawry and contrary to e An Income Tax for a New York Sun. Senator Voorhees estimates that the Wil- son bill with the Income tax will yield reve- nue sufficient to meet the exper the government, and furnish, besides a nual surplus of $20,000,000. He estimates that the income produce $30,000,006 annually. By economy the government could cer- tainly save $1,000,00 a year in its expendi- tures, and then every cent of the taxes on incomes could be devoted to the accumula- tlon of a_ surplus. Here, then, in nutshell space, is the pro- d outrage: * An_un-democratie, un-American, damna- ble tax on a few for the purpose of piling up in the treasury a surplus which the many do not need. — —— Unfalthtul Congressmen. Loulsvllle Courler-Journal, Candor compels the on that many democratic congre 1 are contributing all they can to the destruction of the party which they o unworthily represent. Elect- ed with an express mandate to reform t tariff on revenue lines they have ma themselves (he attorneys of selfish Inter- ests 1 the defeat of any tarvilt measur 5 not meet the de- mands of the nts whom they have traitorously undertaken to protect. By un- reasonable delays, by absonteelsm, by ir tion at a time when prompt and decisive action s desired b the country, they have created widespread dissatisfaction and im- periled the success of the party in the coming_elections, Senator Voorhees estimates that the W son bill with the income tax will yield r we suflicient to meet the expenses of the government, and furnish besides an annual surplus of §29,000,000, - ALLEGED JUDIC It is thun The recent A Judi Agninst Trusts, found who s declarin of Chic a pree against said: “We of a prece- matter of combination nty-one dis- combination, and the ban of oul nd pubiic policy urplus. tax will De AL DIGNITY. Gothenburg Star: Judge Scott, one of the district judges in the Omaha district, is re- celving ‘a merited drubbing by the state press for charging and punishing a Bee re- porter for contempt. Scott’s actions on the bench have been unworthy, even though it has been condoned under the plea of eccen- tricity. Nebraska City Press: It Judge Scott of Omaha_ ever troubled himself with precedents we would certainly expect him to follow the example of a Sioux City judge, who had trouble with a member of the bar. He pro nounced and exceuted the fine at once—took his cane and pummeled the unruly attorney into submission. West Point Republican: Judge Scott of Omaba is just nbw venting his spleen upon a reporter for having written up some of the judge's shortcomings. In the trial the reporter was denied the privilege of intro- ducing any testiniony, and the right of being defended by an attorney. The judge took advantage of hiy position, and constituted Bimsalt judge, Juky pnd dictator of iis own trial JIkhorn really Exchange: It desirous of maintaining the respect and dignity of the bench, why does he not take a tumble to himself. His court has been in some Instances called a show, Peo- ple of Omaha, together with many lawyors have been heard to say, you should go early and secure a seat, and that reserved seats were selling high. For a judge through the management of his court to bring about such criticism it 1s stmply ridiculous. Judge Scott is to rescue him from the ignominy ¢ hi t b th th is W placed e W B the n r or against vi pu & f il a fr his J st lic fr er n ve b ar d bl m pe it pr G H n st fr ticket ¥ fowa r With a ne w T ne cans ne tr for br I3 ha dat of pr ti fid and this year they p to one state ¢ STATE POLITICAL NOTES World-Herald Hryan as the govornor. It s Omaha_friends dofeat ip ska City Pre William atle candidate ate In Mr The ennings for Bryan mocr nside own district York Times: The republican state conven 1 should not be handicapped with any srrowed fssues. It should leave the ques n of electing a United States semator to he leglislature. Our candidates for the log. lature will have enough to contend with ithout having any unnecessary obstacles thelr way. Auburn ger care, has begun hich he desi in Jacob 8. Dow, it planting the seed from to reap an official harvest ach one of the three papers in which his {vertisement has been planted tells that is boing extensively and favorably men oned as a probable candidate, ete.,” before xt republican_convention for commis oner of public lands and bufidings. It member correctly Jake didn’t put himself v record to any considerable oxtent as the crookediess of state officials iring the scasion of Ho s therefore yssibly eligible to a nomination in the eyes the republican bosses. Koarney Journal: Hon sited Hon. Jack MeColl at irpose of his visit was to ntieman the importance Is an answor as to his willingness to low his name used for governor. Upon presentation of the earnest demand of his fends Mr. McColl announced that he would ter the race for the nomination for gov lor and authorized the use of name ich candidate. This is the best of news t of friends, who are sanguine that ack McColl at the head of the republican ito ticket means an overwhelming repub an victory this fall. His hosts of Kearney fends Jjubilant over his decision to nter the race. Pierce County Call: Governor Crounse ates that he will not be a candidate for smination before the republican state con- sntion this year. Now let s and professional ring g laying the wires for the n own and out. It Is time they ited to the rear—in other word ack eye. Put up a young man an; one not a professional wire puller sliticlan; one who s a staunch, loyal re iblican because he believes in that party's inciples, not one who is selfishly after (he uch men as Raymond of Lincoln orge W. Lininger of Omaha, John R ays’ of Norfolk, and many me might e, We have noticed lately that in the wtes where the young men are put to the ont large majorities are rolled up for that Take lowa, for Instance, with the ung Frank D. Jackson, for governor. lled up 30,000 plurality for him clean, new man heading the ticket xt fall Nebraska will not scraich through ith a pa 7,000 or 8,000 plurality, but 1 up at 18,000 or 20,000 Put up a man! North Platte of the eastern Matt Da Lexington. urge upon of giving his rty that who L step given or a n le: st Telegrap! The republi- part of Nebraska are nging out the names of their choice for lates for state offices, and, as has been n for years, the central and west tions of the state are completely ig- Here in Lincoln county we have as blue, stalwart republi as can be the glorious republican state of Ne during former years our dele- ites (0 publican state conventions wve been the pivol upon which some candi s destiny depended, and by the change eir vote the matter was settled and ominent men received the nomination. ow the republican wheel horses of this see- on have become tired of playing second ldle to the ecastern section of the state, opose to have a say as ndidate for at least believe that we are en red. ue und -aska the We who shall be titled to a candidate on the state ticket, and the leaders of th to st an de W P st poses, countrs party in this scction want sbraska represented in the republican propose to send tate convention that of our leading re- for sceretary of sce western } ate house, and by a nd for this reason we cgation to the next s ill see to it that one ablicans is nominated ate. L g TIE VACUUM VETO, Pre: For the silver question enjoy a season practical in of pur- this rest, Philadelphia however, will now considered as a live issue of aflirmative put the issue of more silver Philadelphia_Record: No othier measure inflation is likely to command so large an trength as the proposition which tificates in its most seductive form. St Paul Globe: The house has sustained the president’s veto of the seigniorage bill, conciude congress wother attempt to depreciate the cur. failed. Perhaps after a few more ful efforts the silver cranks will that there is honor left in after ail, Chicago Herald: some The country may rest well assured that the Bland crowd will not succeed in doing much harm so long as Mr. Cleveland is president. the country can and enterprises without f The business men of proceed with their plans ar that free silver coinage will come in to wreck trade and in- dustry in the of th nidst of a panic to which that Iast summer was as a zephyr to a cyclone. Chicago Times: It is entirely fitting that e period of Grover Cleveland's decline should find him dependent upon the republi- cans I W defending when they gave him oflice, a pair hi sa Bland, however, and, from With Mr. Cleveland In the way no pr certain to be for support. He s a republican at art. His sympat 3 lie with the clas hich cnjoys privileges and is intent upon them. The democrats blundered ud can best re- their blunder by letting him support mself therein. Philadelphia Ledger: The ¢ tisied with the presiden still harps upc asserted, will shortly introduc committee some such measure. there will be free silver act during the term of the nt congress, and the next congress fis less favorable to cheap money untry is well veto, Mr. 1 free coinage it is than the pres m, HING LINES, s: Professor—Why does the earth Hardup (absently)—Cun’'t pay the LAU Tid ove! rent, I suppose, lucky? eyes he w Wi Philadelphia Record: Blobbs—1s W igwag Slobbs (@ bowling enthusinst)—1 ay he was, Why, it he rolled his d make a ten-strike. Cholly—T sight.” L did #he say iat | verified un old adage. hould Judge: told Miss Lenoz that I out of W Dick Cholly 1t was th forth the ied the ELon Star that warbled that 1 am merry pe sonis W better 1 Bet along.'” h w matche t Hrown, Wiliiam! keep your Mrs, Brown (nudging Mr jores with his mouth open) ke less noise If you'd shut! Brown (only half Life: awake)—So'd you, azar y ning papl e y'are, any paple ye wint Man with Chrysanth ( Man in Middle—Any news ir B Any news? Well, rath Man in Middle—Wher Boy—Hind a cabbage. ot out! em L D light? : Tost 18 odd but true that a woman's carriage Buffalo Courler: It 1e can best judge of hen she is wilking. Free Pr Customer—Wh ses that cture represent? Artist—Two hundred ave it for 100 plunks, tollars pot but you can Review strike,” three Ineffectual efforts because you are n ald Mrs, Bloobun; Fashion TPhat's cgute, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Real Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE FOR A FIRE INSURANCE TRUST monopoly Uy pro W York the busi the bt | tock Companies Reek to Emoke Out | Individual Undorwriters, i Joint § GROSS INJURY TO BUSINESS MEN | tly arry | vo Ralsed Rutes | nt of hi fous Elghty | difference, meant that & man Ty ing §1 worth of wtock must have it | least $806,000 worth of insurance in . fores | in"order to wet full paymont on his losies, | If he had 00,000 worth of fnsurance, and v iy troved $m.00 worth of his $i,000 " you woull naturally supy o ould b Band $500,00 Bt e wuldnt tend, he would siet only five-elghths of his total loss, being compelled to cnrey the three-cighths himself, bocause he wna co-insurer’ for the difrer between 50 per cent and 80 per e This condition, which ver | naturally forced the | St 80 pir cont of th happoned that fnsurag wpanies In compani merchint dexpite ther the How O1d Line Comp: 1,000 Per Cont 1) Per Cent Goug, Hilt Ty to the The New York ors, ropre Board of all the r companies doing busine York n started a fight of the g this country As a preliminary step, the inspired legislation at sfully will Lloyd underwrit Fir gul s in this city s, It 18 establish Underwrit- | y he sur- | In enting re the w nee i in r ¢ public t wrged th of in ment trusts formed one underwriters Albany out have which, it succ their nly Janies the fual olied by The underwrit prevatled the state insurance have a bill in the which will foree Lloyds into lquidation. wipe coul ulid himsolf, their competitor of d and con York it having of insuranc indiy rs, organ of cused ndent rtment the business men rs are u i Superint o) log companies on s inaur three years started” by busine lines of insurance, from England, where the pla s existence over two contiries. The “Mr. Plerce does not realize what this | plan substitutes uniimited personal mensure sald William D, Chase of | for limited corpor Ability. I the and Accident Lloyd to a | Dess men get together and agree o repor the Times. It he did, 1| §IN00 of risk against fire ‘on a um sur would not force the matter, [ TheY are individuaily tiable for oni which will do an incaleulable amount ot | i "the Afce il tale 0 policy ur irm to the business community. M. | the ‘underwriters. na thoy nre hobany! o or lerce §s naturally desirous of making his | responsible men financiaily, (he. pojicies department as important possible, and | issued by e absolutely safe, ' They this desire probably accounts for the fact | ensage experienced Insurance I that he has lent his name to this measure, | Manager and delegate to him a power of The bill as presented looks very simple | 2U1OFRGY (0 sikn policies in thelr name. Tt and innocent. It merely amends section 57 [ [inited Lo 0 por cone. | pave, statal, are of the Insurance code by striking out that [ neard of one of these Lloyds failing. thouen paragraph which exempts the Lloyds com- | there are now twenty-thiee of them in th panies from the operation of the insurance | State. On the other hand, throe of (ho law as it applies to joint stock companies, | J0Int stock companies, operating under stite No Lloyds can exist it the measure passed, and the control in this city, have failed within six Jolnt. stock companis can | MONthS, Involving Keavy losses o the pub put rates where they pi . The New York Board of Fir lic Underwriters prepared | . the way for the measure and the ultimate | y formation of a ‘ring’ or ‘(rust’ some years ago by squeezing out all the little com- panie e board succceded in doing this by putting down rates to such a low point that weaker concerns had to go. Now, then, if the board can clean us out, it will have the field without opposition and the people can make up their minds to see in- urance rates go up to figure that will fairly paraly the business community Rich and poor will feel it alike,” George A. Stanton, the manager of American Lloyds, said that the board fire crwriters, feeling certain, cntly, that it would suceeed in Lad already begun to show its hand. ENORMOUS ADVANCE IN R “Within three months,” said Mr. “the underwriters have quictly rates from 50 to 1,000 per cent made an advance of 1,000 per times the original rate, on apartm risks, and they are now at work on ing house risks, 5o that people who thele own houses will feel (he wel the trust in a few weeks, Hore instances that will prove what | 3 the tremendous advan Geeylock apartment hous y-fourth street and Columbus g merly paid $300 for a three-year Now' the underwriters dema same policy, which fs just ten times as much as the old r atherine apartment house p se-year policy. Now the it 4,012 “As”an excuse sase the joint stock companies say have been “losing money. This is true cnough, but the trouble Iics with the com- panics themselves, not with the rates th charged, According to the official statistic compiled by the insurance department, it is shown that the expense account of some ance companies | would inevitably decl: of the big stock fire insu ranges as hizh as 59 per cent of their total [ other, with the probable premium receipts. They pay enormous sal- | craz 1 meanest of ies to presidents and vi to iate the other two, etaries and assistant at Jarge would enjoy an Eovernment. rd of one company which piys out $10,- THE OLD FOSTMASTER. introduced slature all the means, arantee for man NOT THE FIRST ATTACK 'he present attack on the Lloyds by szular companies 8 not the fivst they have made to force us out way. In 1502 they had a bill just like the present one, but them so hard they proposcd a e | providing that no more Lloyds should formed. — We agreed to that, thouzh It was a hardship to the insuring public, as it lim- ited the opportunities to get insurance. To day there is millions of dollars’ worth of uninsured property in this city becauwse the owners, responsible bus men, cannot Bet policies. The 1 the attempt of their introduced we fought mpromise, hined legislation. ds companies have tnst the proposed hostil hey have flooded the state with circulars, 1 which they s her thing For over two centuries the tract in v existed in have the ot with another nmodity been questio “Ihese bills emanate from the joint stock | fire insurance companies, which, by combi- nation, are striving (o throttle all attempts te 1 fair and just rates of insurance to the punlic, and also preventing lar surers from obtaining a sufilcient amount insurance. The public has never de- manded, nor' has it asked for such legls- lation. “The best inter arc in peril, 1 of these billg means exorbitant of insurance and indefinite continuance of them, as it will leave the situation entirely inthe control of the stock company combinations. In responge to the circulars the merchants of this and other cities of the state have sent appeals to their senators and nssem- blymen asking them to vole against the proposed measures. the of appar- Albany, w ) ‘con- ance has this Iwe own ht of two re say sts of the insuring publio for this in- they outrageous Journal )ver should go rchy. They ainst each result that the the three would Then the world object lesson in Loutsville Courfer Tillman, Waite and off togetlier and form 000 a year for salaries alone. What wonder, then, that the companies lost money! What busifiess house could live if one-half its total receipts went xpenses? But the Frank L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution, officers of the big companies won't se Been runnin’ of the office fon of their trouble in putting the ‘er fifteen vear an’ inore; rs on u business ba o do this they At all the othor candilates— would have to cut their own enormous sal- Walked in an’ locked the door! a down to one-fourth what they et now, and this §s 50 exceedingly v 'r to continue their sal § they are, and trust to their strensth set at the publie throat, “But there we are in the way, and ther fore they wint to wipe us out of ¢ Our expenses are confined to 20 per ce our receipts, and on this basis, Which pro- vides amply for all legitimate ne can, of course, do business where the joint stock companies lose it. FORCED INTO LLOYDS. “The system of Lloyds insuran@ is over 230 years old, but it was not employed in {his country until the heavy insureri were compelled (o resort to It as a reliefl meas- ure against the oppression of the stock companies. The Insurance law of this state was o framed as to prohibit the formation of new stock companies under it. This is conclusively shown b$ the fact that since ite pussage nearly ten years ago only one new fire company has been formed, and this was forced into liquidation after a very short existence. No one has had the temerity to solicit capital for the purpose since. his law ga He wenrs two pair o' spectacles, His sight 18 growin’ dim; He knows cach man that éver Had a letter writ to him. He Handwriti I guess | Or a letter from yer aunt somethin’ He strikes a yaller envelope With printin’ on one end; He han’s it to the groceryman: ‘About them goods, my’ friend!" Knows everybody's business, An' tells 'em of it, too; “A letter from your sweetheart' Or “Another bill for you!" No_politics kin hurt him, No matter who may bt dents go out sees the p ps stayin’ in, While he ke But the truth about th To all is michty clear He's had the blamed olé thing so long, They've done fergot he's the matter the fire companies in ex- ROWRING, KING & co wkers and & othes ou e lors ot ™ The largest tine THE COMING MAN. 1es himsel in a that THE COMING MAN—is the man who clot beflitting manner—that is, his clothes fit him.—clothes are made up in the latest styles. The new styles we are showing in Spring Suits are nobby creations of the tailors' art and never fail to please. Ask to see the $10 suits. BROWNING, KING & CO., | 8. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sty Willuay theexprcssif you send themones (o1 40 worth or more