Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1894, Page 4

4 THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. | B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCIIPTION. (without Sunday), One Year nday, One Year 8500 Dally Pee 10 00 Dally and Eix Month Thren Monthe Bunday Dee, One Y 60, One_ Year . One YenF OFFICES, Omahia, Tha Ber Dy Bouth Omahn, ¢ « C) Weekly Pe rher N and Twenty-fourth § 12 Fearl street 217 Chamber of Commerce ma 13, 14 and 15, Trivune 3 Fourteenth stree v CORREZPONDENCE, Attons relating to news and ed! A he nddressed: To the BUSINESS LETTERS tiers and remittances should be The Res Publish company, Omaha, Drafts, cheeks and post orders Ve m ablo 1 the order of the company. BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. unell BRI, icago Office, w York Warhinats Bldg. AL commun torial matter STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Tishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complets coples of Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday Dee printed {luring "t month of March, 1504, was as fol 223 11 27 emaemam— Total, Less reductions for ‘coples unsoid ‘and’‘returned Total wold Dally averag *Sunday net circulation.. I8 B, TZSCITUCK, worn (o hefore m subseribed in my pres- this 3d day of April, 1894, N. P.'FEIL, Notary Public. oo e e S el s GEOT enc Insurance agents will no longer be unable to resist the attractions of a place on the 8chool board. There is nothing so pleasing to the rail- way officials as to watch the officers of the different employes' organizations fighting among themselves, railway Ex-President Harrison will through Omaha Friday morning. Recollection of his reception when last here ought to induce him 10 stop over at least a few hours. Those bids for county road paving dis- close a healthy number of competitors for the work that is available this year. Many competitors usually mean reasonable prices. om pass The move free the sidewalks from unauthorized obstructions is a move In tha right direction. But why limit it to the sidewalks? The streets belong to the public and not to the abutting property owners. Chauncey Depew will have to be careful In the future in making joking remarks about his candidacy for the pres:dential nom- Ination on the republican ticket in 1896, Chauncey's candidacy would be no joking matter, to Arbor day Is still a weck off, but thero fs nothing to prevent property owners from planting trees right away. This year ought to see a good beginning made in the direc- tion of lining our residence strects with suitable shade tree: The benefits of the recent rains throughout Nebraska are already becoming visible in the spring crops and in the improving pros- pects of good forage for cattle. An carly start signifies a great deal for the farmer's work, as well as for work in every other occupation, Kem appears to be more energetic in re- senting the kindness of his assoclates in con- gress in what he calls “meddling” with his constituents than in himself promoting the affairs of his district. It is a relief to know that there Is one thing that he can do en- ergetically. m— This Industrial army fad is becoming al- together too popular in certain circles, It not held in check by the properly consti- tuted authorities, we shall all live to regret It. Kelly's success In reaching the Missouri river will breed imitators whose ardor must be cooled in one way or another. ——— The Board of Fire and Police Commis. stoners i evidently laboring under a delusion IE it expects the garbage contractor to make concessions in the prices charged for hauling refuse from the city fail and engine houses. The garbage contractor had to put up for his Job and he intends to work it for all there is in it. Crowding in the public schools can only ba avolded by compelling the older pupils to at- tend schools outside of ‘the immediat neigborhood of their homes. The puplils of the grammar grades should be asked to undergo a slight nlence in order to provide the smaller children with the needed school facilities, incon Ex-Senator Paddock’s denfal that he is in any sense a candidate for the place now ocen- vled by Senator Manderson reminds us very much of similar denials from the same sourco previous to the senatorial contest that ended With the election of Senator Allen, A denial of this kind is the customary device for feel- Ing the public pulse —_— According mitteo to the chairman of the com- out by congress to investigate the condition of the Chicago postoffice there Wwas no occasion for the ala rming assiduously spread about not long the effect that the federal building in that city was almost collapsing. He ass. rts that the structure is good for five or six years yet. It will have to suffice longer than that It it tak cure a sont rumors ago to Chicago as long as Omaha to se- new fedaral building — The supreme court of Massachusstts, fol- lowing the recent decision In Pennsylvania on the same subfect, has decreed that all the assets of the Iron Hall held In that state must be turned over to the receiver for the riginal council in Indiana. In other words, the dupes of that gigantie swindle are all to benefit alike from the remnants of the wreck, or, rather, are all to suffer the same penalties for their credulity in the alluring storles told by the solicitors for that defunct institution. —ee Every time two or more of the crowned heads of Europe happen to get together it fs immediately rumored that they have agroed upon a plan ot disarmament by which the huge expenses of thelr lmmense standiug armies are to be materlally reduced. Yot at the time they keep on expending money for wilitary equipment and continue thelr attempts to outshine one another as competing arsenals. Disarmament would b a very nice thing, but the rulers of Europe are not going about it in a way that alfords much hope for awalting Its early accom- plishment, me | vy | directly as TO COUNT A QUORUM. Ry an overwhelming majority the house of reprosentatives adopted a rule which provides for counting members present voting In order to make a quorum. This result was foreshadowed by the a of the ucus last week, but it was expected that-there would be a somewhat yesterday and not fon democratio ¢ since a number of promi- nent members tho democratic side had expressed thelr uncompromising hostility to any rule which would in the remotest degree seem to be a recognition of the principle and practice adopted by Fifty-first congress in the matter of counting a quorum. Pra tically there was no opposition and the vote shows the prolonged contest, on the however, number who did not want the new rule to be an insignificant minorit Of course the republicans voted for the new rule, after offering substitute the rul of the Fifty-first congress with any ex- pectation that it would but simply as a matter of form. The new rule is In its cssential the same ono the have so bitterly denounced si the as a not be adopted, charac as the which democrats The result to be attained under it cannot be reached so und republican plan. Its operation will be somewhat less simple. But the purpose is the same and the new rule s, therefore, a practical endorsement of the practice of the Fifty-first congress and a vindication of ex-Speaker Reed. It Is a con- cessfon which the democrats made with great Almost the beginning of the session the party in control of the house has been troubled by the refusal of members to vote, although present in the hou thereby breaking a quorum. The ruling powers wero helpless and all sorts of plans were suggested to remedy the embarrassing condition of affairs—cverything that be thought of, that is, except the principle of counting a quorum. That was persistently opposed by most of the serats, though there who believed it to be the only effective. Speaker Crisp tactics and found that such a course not win. The democrats of the committee on rules formu- lated a plan which was quite as obnoxious to many members of the majority party as to the minority. The effect of all this was to make converts to the principle of the Reed rule, and when the last democratic caucus to consider this subject it was found that a majority were ready to accept the repub- lican principle in a modified form, though without fn the least impairing it. The result will be the same, but reached ina little dif- ferent way. The fact that the republicans voted for it attests their satisfaction with it. That it is a complete surrender on the part of the democrats nobody will pretend to deny, but there will be no disposition to do otherwise than commend them for the recognition of an obviously sound and com- mon sense principle, even though thus tar- Qily made. All that there is to It is the assertion of the fight of the majority to rule, which is the cardinal principle in our political system. As was sald by Represen- tative Galusha A. Grow a few days ago in the house in reference to this question, majoritics are resporsible for legislation and have the right to adopt rules for the transaction of business. Ma- jorities have the right to control legis- lative bodies. It belongs to them under the constitution. Minorities also have their rights, but it s not their right to obstruct and defeat legislation by refusing to perform the duties required of them by the consti- tution and the laws. Both parties having adopted the principle of counting a quorum, 1t will undoubtedly take a permanent place in parllamentary practice. The effect upon legislation cannot fail to be wholesome. st republiean congress, the reluctance. since could den were plan that adopted some would be arbitrary would met our THIE FARMER IN THE OOD OLD DAYS." One of the best debaters in the h representatives is Ion. Charles H. C of Ohlo, whose republicanism is of the stal- wart kind. There has been printed in the Congressional Record a speech delivered some time since by Mr. Grosvenor on the tariff, in the course of which he paid par- ticular attention to the assertion that the farmers of the country are especially injured by the policy of protection to American in- dustrics, The Ohlo congressman was him- self at one time a farmer. He was raised on a farm and worked at farming until he was a man grown and afterwards. He is still in- terested in farming, and, to use his own language, “knows something about it.” He lived and worked on a farm and knows all about the ‘halcyon days” of which the democrats are ford of talking, and in those days the farmers owned all the property practically. There was no maunfacturing to speak of. The entire industry of the country was agriculture, What was the situation of the farmer at that time? Was it better than it has been since the policy of protection has made a home market for the products of the farm and at the same t'me cheapened every manu- has to buy? Mr. use of nor factured article that By way of answering Grosvenor exhibited to clothes had purcl Washington for which he had paid $10.80. Ho declared that ‘“nowhere on earth, no- where under the stars, outside of the jurls- diction of the star spangled banner of Amerl- can protection, can the like of that be pro- duced for that and one ques- tioned the statement. Going on, Mr. Gros- sald that from his own personal ob- examination the common clothing of the laboring men and the middle of men In country s and sold In America at a rate way under the price that It Is produced for in England or in any the continent of Eu- The same was true of boots a and every possible commodity that enters into th of the people of the country, There can be no question as to the correctness of this statement, and if any- body doubts it let him go to the busin houses of any of the large cites of th try and investigate, The result to convince him. The tion in which the farmer is in- terested in this country, sald the Ohio con- gressman, Is not the selling price of his commodity so much as the value that his commodity bears to the purchase of mmodities. By way of contrasting *good old halcyon days of democracy’ the present Mr. Grosvenor presente figures, which, he drawn, not trom Imagination, but from knowledge and actual experience, golng back to the days of a democratie tarift before the war, He de- clared that for the suit of clothes which Lad cost him $10.80 the farmer before the war would have pald in the products of the farm from three to fiye times as much at present. In grain, in butter, In cggs, pork, the farmer of former years, of s0-called days, would have had to sell several times the amount of these com- moditles to purchaso a $10 suit of clothes that 18 now required to buy such a suit, and he would not have got as well made and serviceablo an article. “In those haleyon days,” sald Mr. Grosvenor, “the farmer who traded the commodities he had to sell traded them for calico at 20 cents & yard, for the farmer this the house a suit of sed In the city of question he money,’” no vernor and ation class this produced untry on rope. d shoes use common coun- cannot fall ques other the with some sald, were as in the haleyon | the | the best Interests of the country ce its adoption | THE OMAHA .-nw and boots A)|nv~l and everything of was necessary to supply his one hand we have power of the the other the price of buys.” The to everybody and par- any practical will be no goods at at woolen for muslin proportionate hardware and that kind that wants. So that upon th the purchasing products and brought down the well known proportionate Iike prices for pricos, and crockery, increased farmer's on the truth who we have things which of this is has given attentlon to the subject, farmer 0 ticularly those who have had er, that It learn that the statements experience In the ma no surprise to them was made to deny Ohlo congressman Nobody will claim that farmers of the United States Is at all that could be desired, They are not 80 prosperous as could wished for and have not 1 years. But they are, on the relatively better off than they were in the period before the policy of pro- sound to attempt of the the condition of this time be been for sev hole, tion was Instituted and there Is no that their condition would an abandonment of that I of the American farmer in American market and whatever tends to reduce the demands of that marke for his products is to his Injury. In so far tarift would effect a industries it be a to expect by hope reason improved The the be mocratic reduction in our blow at the agricultural interest, PANIC FINANCIERING. Chicago bankers feel that th greatly wronged by the actions of a collego professor whom they kindly invited to ad- dross them at their annual banquet a few days ago. It had been their custom on such occasfons to entertain as guests one or more who are engaged in the but who are reputed to versed financial theory and practices, This year, to display their loyalty to Chi cago institutions, they conferred this great honor upon Prof. A. C. Miller, ot the teachers in the department of economics and finance of the Chicago university. To their great surprise, however, instead of re ciprocating this showing of loyalty to Chi- cago by praising her banks and banking methods, the professor boldly criticised the plan of financiering which has prevailed in that city during the recent panic, and com- mended the policy which had been pursued by her New York competitors. Prof. Miller found fault with tude of Chicago bankers which makes tho first principle of their creed an to New York. He opposed the system of bank- ing which requires a multitude of reserve cities instead of combining the bank re- serves into More audacious still, he favored the issue of clearing house certifi- cates In financial emergencies and argued that the law ought to be amended so as to legalize such use of clearing house notes. “This,” says one of the Chicago newspapers, “is the first time that anybody outside of New York has expressed an opinion to the effect that issuing a sort of makeshift com- mercial paper, which is an evidence that the banks have suspended payment, should be made a permanent feature of sound bank- ing.” But on this poiut our experience with the crisis of 1893 has furnished us with some data for studying panic financiering which ought not to be disregarded by Chicago bankers, although it may not be particularly favorable to them. The rules laid down for guidance in times of financial stringency Is that the banks ought not to suddenly contract their loans, but rather to discount freely and fearlessly for all solvent creditors. 1f the clearing house certificate enables this rule to be fol- lowed without entailing evils that more than counterbalance the benefits the weight of argument may possibly be in favor of making it a légal possibility upon certain prescribed conditions. According to the authority of an article by Mr. A. D. Noyes in the last number of the Political Science Quarterly, at the height of the panic, when the resources of the New York banks had been subject to a sudden curtailment of 38 the loans, which normally amount to 440 odd millions, were contracted only $7,972,700. The ofher four cities which fol- lowed the lead of New York in issuing clear- ing house certificates, although in most i stances the action was far too long de- ferred, checked the contraction of the loans and so offset the shrinkage in reserves that between May 4 and July 12 the loan account of New York actually increased, the loans of Philadelphia were cut down only 2 per cent, and those of Boston only 4 per cent. But Chicago stubbornly refused to acecept the clearing housc certificate, and with what result? Outstanding loans of $96,000,000 on May 4 dropped to $82,000,000 by July 12, a decrease of $14,000,000, or 15 per cent. The banks avoided confessing the so- called insolvency of ng certifi- s by pushing down the mercantile houses under stress of severe monetary stringency, in many cases leading to bankruptcy. To save themselyes they deserted their patrons. The unfortunate and unnecessary refusal of some of the New York banks to pay out currency to depositors is no part of the clearing house certificate system and could be avoided were proper legislative jards at hand. The Chicago bankers, instead of becoming in- censed at honest criticism, should be willing to learn from even if it Is the experience of New York. as a d polic: would have been banking be well men not business, in to one new that atti- m one. per cent, cleal house experience, SCHOOL BU, H,I!l\h INSURANCE, With any corporation owning insurable property to the extent of that vested in the local school district the question of ever in- creasing insurance rates becomes one of no little As stated in President Powell's last annual report to the Board of Education, the aggregate estimated value of our school buildings is $805,300, nearly all of them being constructed of brick with slate roofs, detached from surrounding bulldings and heated by steam or hot air furnaces. In words, they constitute of the best risks which any fnsurance eompany could desire, Since the organization of the 50 district in 1872 the total receipts from insurance companies to cover losses school property from fire or lightning have been the almost Insignificant sum of $118.45. During that the insurance premiums amounted to $33,605.75, the being, as we are assured, in many instances exorbitantly high. If the policles now in should be gradually dropped as they and the amounts would have been pald as premiums invested in a fund similar to the sinking fund the school board will within a few years have saved up a sum large enough to indemnify it for any possible against which it is now insured ther the Board of Education should take to conduct its own insurance busi- noss then is merely a matter of economical administration. The principle at the founda- tlnn of all lnsurance policies Is plain enough. perlence has shown that if the risk as- sumed Is spread large area and a sufficlently long time the chance of loss can be calculated with a degree of certainty that can be relied upon for all practical purposes. Business men all over the country have very importance. other some on period, however, rates force expire which und over a DAILY | t BEE: WEDYESDAY, APRIL 18, 1891 into insurance companios and find that able bt A consid saving There I8 no reason 4My“the school board with ts forty recently been themselves mutual they assoolating are able odd buildings eannot e a simi lar saving to the taxpayers by assuming its own fi risks. Sin have done this with satisfactod other « results it ties becomes the | duty of the school board to adopt an expedi \t which gives r of saving money to thy taxpayers. If it will, in addition to this, d& away with the evil of overinsurance and witly the continual efforts agents ‘Jlmluvnw the placing of the Insuranc “séMvol bulldings, the de- termination of the §tlool board to gradually cease paying premfumb and to establish its own Insurance fund will prove to be a most commendable reform asonable assurances of Insurance The involved wage hadowed other features whose fmportance must not be lost sight of. The appointment of an ary in the per- son of Mr. ish will in all probability re- sult in disclosures of absorbing Interest to the people as well ag the employes of the He may be ablo to ascertain there is the slightest foundation for the claim of alf road that the Union Pacific was solvent when placed in the hands of receivers, or is so now. He may find as ult of his researches that the legitimate earnings of the main line be- tween Omaha and Ogden have during recent years been diverted in support of feeder lines of the system and that a large amount of has been for political pur- poses in this and other states. The actuary find many other interesting facts un- necessary to enumerate, main dec Issue in the Caldwell on ovel act Corr soon whether the a re money spent may The British government has made a pro- posal in the House of Commons to raise the limit of exemption from the income tax in that country from {120 to £160. This is cquivalent to about $640 in our money and to not more than $500, allowing for the dif- ferences in the cost of living and in Great Britlan. A plan to place the exemp- tion limit at $4,000, as proposed by the in- come tax schedule of the Wilson tartft bill, would be viewed monstrosity by the British financiers, here as a The Samoscts have passed a resolution denouncing Senator Hill for his anti-tarift speech and branding him as a traitor to the democratic party. It will now be in order for the Jacksonians to uphold Hill as the one representative in the senate and to affirm the stand which he has taken with reference tarift reform. What's the use of being a Jacksonian if the Samo- sets are to be permitted to have everything their own way? democrat to The druggists and liquor dealers of South Omaha will this year be spared any annoy- ance with reference to the publication of their application nptices. ~The council has designated The Bee as the paper having the largest circulation in Douglas county. Under the law all application notices must be in- serted in such paper. The Ins and the Outs. Kansas Clty Star. The Kansas populists have decided upon a strict enforcement of that clause in the Omaha platform which provides that no office holder shall ¢it in a populist nominat- ing convention. That:is to say, conventions of this character areo be made up, not of s who are already in office, but of se who hope to be. s With All Her Faults Chicako Herald. The destruction 0f*the democratic party would be an incurable national calamit It has been sometimes partly or wholly wrong. It has passed through unfortunate periods of history. It has been betrayed false le s and evil counsels, and 1t ha been m by erroneous impul But it is the best party that the country ever has seen, or will see in the future. S O Soothing Influence of Peace. Philadelphia Times. To the outside world the collapse of the lian rebellion will be a source of t satisfaction. Brazil is a rich and im- portant country, and its coffee, sugar, hides nd lumber seek and are sousht for in all markets. Aside from the purely commer- clal advantage arising from the restoration of settled conditions in Brazil, the public will be glad there are to be no more lying cablegrams about who is on top. i bt Politieal Estato n Bankruptey. New York Press. One year ago a large number of able democratic patriots were wrangling over the question as_to which one of them should be named as Mr. Cleveland’s legatee, but today there fsn't one of them who seems at all eager for that embarrassing and profitless distinction. Careful inquiry by experts skilled in such work forces the con- clusion that Mr. Cleveland’s political estate won't be worth enough to piy the cost of taking out letters of administration, e Governor Jackson and His Troc r Jackson ps. Chicag The spectacle of Gove going into fits at the a ach of a train- load of tramps from Omaha, whooping down the pike from Des Moines and calling the “citizen soldiery” to arms Is not edi- fying, but It is vasily amusing. Mr. Jack everyday v ation Is not in any bellicose. In his common walk we suppose he would not kill MO to, in moments of delirium he can let loose the dogs of war and cry havoe' In a yojce that drives every hen in lowa to.the oft. of Towa sense Republican, It is to be presumed that formed person in the east will importance to the suggestion wh ported that some man named McReynolds will make to Governor Walite to- ward the withdrawal from the of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado a other of the western states suppose that even Governor Wi be foolish enough to treat any such propo- sition with respect. But there are a great many people in the east who ready to against Colorado and the other popu lists gave our state such a bad name, il Sun Salve for Sore Samosets. New York Sun. The sentiment aroused everywhere Mr. Hill's specch Is exemplified by triking remark of that Intense organ of Clevelandism and bitter enemy of Mr. Hill himself, the Brooklyn Eagle: “We would rather haye the Mciinley law without an income tax than the Wilson tariff bill with ne ceivable evil of past exy ntemplated surren- der of demo into the hands of men who are working, their way step by step through the successive stages of populism, elallsm “and “anarchy toward ‘the new revolution, which!in their crazy hopes is to dest the existing of our re publlc and set up’a new structure on the ruins of the old, g RIS BACKGROUNDS: no union by this Judge. She sat before an casel with her head tipped lightly 5o, A pint brosh in het, fog and fro. I stood quite close ‘Beside her with a wildly [} ing heart And pralsed with reckless ardor v in art, she was d her! I clare, d to me no otk 8o falr, As she sat there, leaning gracefullest of poses, And deftly put the back; of yellow roses. et T e A Ah, that was many years ago; dear girl, 1 love her still, I love her smiles and dimples, and admire the wondrous skill her dainty, snowy fingers—I've watching them tonight Moye to and fro above the work she's hold- 10§ to the light, And, thinking of that other day, I doze a bit, perchance, As she deftly puts a background into Jim- mie's other “pants.” s, 1dly tralling to her profi- and dainty! How I r girl could be one- forward, in the ound in a plaque ot been PROPLE AND THINGS. With all the of Senator Hil crats love him “still The demoerats may now Reed their clear to the muzzle for filibustering. The congrossional campaign in th Kentucky district promises to be doc offensive eat minds often run monious grooves. Four seven papers headod it Mr. Depew presidency he unneeo sary, serfously Having rid the state of employed, California laughs fmm. the efforts of eastern towns to exodusters, The vice president of the Int anization of homeopathic phy ans s Dr. J. Millis Chapman, a Pitt woman, who has a lucrative practice in that eity Having commended the whipping p a remedy for certain oifenses, a Missour! ant jury gave a new ‘mpu se to local morals by indicting several people for playing pro- gressive cuchre Crudden, the coachman “who ran for mayor in Perth Amboy, N. J., received sixty votes Since the fad for coachmen as grooms for cloping brides died out their general im. portance appears to have fallen off. In the final rub in that little euchre between the railroads and monweal on the vernal banks of it is sonably certain that the Kellyites will announce to their opponents, ““We pass.” A bargain’'s a bargain. Wil m Kitson, who died the other day in fonia, Mich., at the age of 76, got one ten y 8 ago—a coflin that he bought for a trifle at a_sherift's sale of an_undertaker's s, and it came in quite handy. He was buried in it. Mr. J. Bdward Simmons, one of the lead- Ing financlers of New York “Imp ment ppears on every s The clouds have lifted. The skies have cleared, and here is warrant for confidence. The busi- ness turning point has finally been reached." Those genlal gentlemen to whom a_warrior southern governor referred as ‘“the sub- sidized agents of the blood-sucking gold- bu, continue lounging in the sunshine of the administration, while the emaciated torchbearers gaze on a cold, clammy shoul- der. Smaller things have wrought revolu- tions. Danfel Baugh, Indiana, has reached the age of 105 years. He says of his habits: “I have always been temperate in all things, though not an ab- stainer from liquor. I have drunk a little —never to excess—and drink a little still when I thing I need it. Tobacco I use, and ave always eaten anything that pleased faults dem title venth tedly in_common hundred and eixty “Balm for Madel was Joking about the says. The oxplanation Our Chauncey is on 3,000 of hor lerately at feed " the ernutional game of the Com- poon lake, a farmer of Scott county Several of the senators take daily naps on the lounges In the cloak rooms, and it fre- quently happens in the middle of the after- noon that the lounges are all occupfed by sleeping statesmen, some of whom snore so loud that the doors have to be closed to keep the rumble from becoming audible in the gal- leries. Senator Coke of Texas the repu- fon of being the champlon snorer. e PASSING OF A PESTILENCE. New York World: It dict and a very just one. Chicago Herald: Congressman Breckin- ridge s not fit to associate with reputable men. Kansas City Star: sentiment respecting the guilt fendant. Kansas City Times: effect of the result of the trial will be the ‘manent retirement of the hypoerite and ssembler from public life. His race is run. Detriot Free Press: The verdict Is a credit to the country and to the civilization of the age. It is an evidence at least that our laws rise equal to the demands of com- mon_ decency. Chicago Tribune: It is a relief to the com- munity to be rid of such an unsavory mess. Plaintift and defendant should drop into ob- scurity and cease to be a stench in the nos trils of the people. Indianapolis Journal: ~ The verdict will meet with universal approval, and with thi approval a sigh of relief will go up that the offensive case is ended and can now be dis- missed from the public prints Cleveland Plain Dealer: The jury has as sessed Colonel Breckinridge $15,000 for hi hypocrisy and for his breach of honor in pre- senting “damaged Kentucky morals in re- spectable families in Washington and other cities Chicago Post: Through his life, long or short as it may be, this man will bear in shame and sorrow (or rage) the heavy bur den of public contempt. To the close of his years he must accept without relief the lot of the outcast. - Chicago Times: is a righteous ver- It bears out popular of the de- Another gratifying However, $50,000 or $15 000, the verdict eternally damns W. P. Breckinridge and utterly blasts all chances of a future political carcer for him, had not his cowardly and Indecent tactics of defense already done so. Cleveland Leader: Colonel Breckinridge says that he will speak at every school house in his district during the coming congres- sional campaign. We hope for various r cons that he wifl not be permitted to do so while the schools are in session. [Puiets g R e NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Gering citizens have started a fund for the purpose of sinking an experimental artesian well, The Havelock Methodist church has been dedicated free from debt. It cost over H,mm, Caleb Waters, a_former resident of Su- perior, dled at La Grange, 1L, after a briet illness. hieves secured $50 worth $24 in cash by a raid on Roz at Clarkson. Burglars went through Herman Bros.’ store at Trumbull and helped themselves to a quantity of good: W. R. Barnwell Is now the Havelock Mechanic, as he has the Interest of his late partner, Kean. After having both legs amputated as a consequence of freezing them during a bliz- zard, Robert M. Clunes died at Grand Island of an attack of typhold fever. Mrs. George S. Warren of Beatrice lost her voice four years ago as the result of the grip. Since that time she has been unable to speak above a whisper until the other day, when, without any warning, her voice returnad, as strong as ever and without any apparent effort on her part. - BUBBLE BLOWER Breeze: A dog's tail Is no team- werally has a wag-on. alo Courier: This is the s the awning maker rder of mankind in the of goods and arin's store the sole owner of purchased J. L. Me- Danville but it Dealer: General Dutte says Pollard 18 a fine actress It was then for the villain to pur- Plain “Miss perfectly proper sue her. Washington Star: “Heard Olebateh has married his cook ““Was she about to leave him “Leave him? No. Her cooking was driv- ing him to dyspepsia, and he hadn't the nerve to discharge her.” the news? Indianapolis Journal: ing well this morning,” said the mirror to the gas jet. “No, My boss was out last night'* “‘What has that got to do with you Why, can't you understand, stupid, that I was out all night, too?" You are not look- Lowell ¢ For form's sake ing a cor purler: wear- ‘Edison’s 1dea of of ships to make them Eo faster,” the alderman from the nth ward, “Is nothing new. The prin- old’ as the hills; Grease,” added | nent alderman, looking meditative the direction of the city hall bullding, “will facilitate the passage of anything.” Tribun the sides Ald Chicago yreasing “Jones made me smile,” Blade, “How was that?" have a drink and wouldn't | a refusal.” Toledo Blade sald Rolstering “Asked me t take ‘no' for A POINTER. Buffalo Courler Burnish up the reel and rc Stralghten out the line Take a spade and turn the 8 Fishin's gettin' fine. p along ter where they say peckled beauties swish, Bit around for half a day— { Ohairman Go and buy your fish, FOR REPUBLICAN \l({IIS\ Baboock of the Congressional itieo Already Hard at Work, Com HIS VIEWS OF THE CHANCES OF WINNING | of A Labor Steadily Mu; to tl ot oxent, . the Tarty gother a Advant De | the Floeida Ph where phate i ho went to Investigate the lustry. Ho says a big company rk capitalists Is now ready to de- Bad Lands phosphat 0 beds contaln more o Florida_mines, which han 83,000,000 st yoar. e about (0 Kave & chemical analysis by the Dakota School of Mincs for. the parmose demonstrating the value of the South Takots I as compared with that of Floride ter Hor was today appointed postmaster Thule, Campbell county, 8. 1, vice VanDyke, femoved IN A GENERAL utative Mercer roturn \y, having come on a mons from the sorgeant-at His stay In Omaha was that the more 'Wdds that he In WAY. d to the ity telegraphic su arms of the h cut short on that WASHIN ON BUREAU OF THE NER, 613 Fourteenth Street WASHINGTON, April 17 Joseph W. Bab of Wisc of the republican congressional committee, {8 very actively and engaged in of the work be- | fore that committ for his tant Henry Casson, for years private secretary to Hon, Jerry M. Rusk ing the present outlook for a r tory In the ssional will geeur in next, this afternoon said *“I belleve the want of free trade theorles, the Wilson bill becomes a law or not cuts } but little figure in the result this fall, for | the democratic party has proven to the coun- try its utter inability to formulate legisla- ' tion or conduct affairs of the ment. Every attempt it has ma far has resulted not only fn disappointment to the country at large, but to the best clement in the democratic party. This condition of aflairs, 1 belleve, will result in the republi can party polling the largest popular vote in Hon chairman ek nsin, | earnestl; the pi | ssecution twelve Cone publican vie which Babeock elections Mr congre ovember had and people have all they whether | col the govern its history. dela “Tho result of the election this fall will be of greater importance and there is more at stake than war, At present there are twenty-five states that have been apportioned by the democrats and eleven by the republicans. | The remainder elect at large, having only one or two members each, and have not been apportioned. The vote that elected Benjamin Harrison president in 1888 gave | us a majority of three in the house, but the same vote today, which was then a decided republican victory, would give the demo- crats from ten to twelve majority in the house. This result is brought about by gerrymanders made In large northern states since then, among which are New York, Michigan, Illinols and Wisconsin. So you will at once see that we can win by a large popular vote and still lose the house. The democrats now have 120 members and the republicans seventy-one from the solid south. They need only fifty-nine more to make a majority, and have northern states to elect them from, we must secure 172 members from theso same states to organize the house, or other words, we must elect 172 members out of 0 districts, or three one. the problem is, can we elect 75 the members in the twenty-eight castern, | | western and northern states? The present | indications are that we can elect in over 80 | { per cent of these districts, but to do this | | we must contest every inch of ground. The race for the control of the next house, I be- | | lieve, practically determines the coming presidential election, for if the democrats control the Fifty-fourth congress by a majol t while ity of states their plan of campaign for "9 | regeury will be to endorse the populist ticket 4 enough northern and western states to pre- | § vent the republicans from securing a major- | { ity of the presidential electors, and in this way throw the election of the president into the house. So you will see that it we lose the Fifty-fourth congress we will go into the presidential campaign badly handi- apped. We do not look for any great gains from the south, for I believe that the legislation so far enacted and the pending Wilson bill, together with the income tax provision, will strengthen the demo . party in that section. They have for ye i demanded free trade and cheap labor, no one will dispute the self-cvident that the price of labor has be I reduced since the election of Mr. a 1 in 1802, It is the duty of the committes to look the facts squarely in the face, but I confidently believe that we can cure a fair ing majority in the Fifty-fourth con- but it will not be large, and our ds who rashly predict that we will carry | ) the house by anywhere from fifty to 100 | y majority, have entirely overlooked the con- | ditions we have to contend with. We will | | practically have to conduct the two cam- | « paigns in one, and to win will require the |t combined and untiring efforts of every re- | ¥ publican and citizen who the best in- terests of the country at heart.' i TURNER MAY PULL THROUGH. Judge Bartlett Tripp of Yankton, cousul general to Austria-Hungary, arrived here today. He has been is ‘returning to his post of duty. Judge | i Tripp has been busy all day working the confimation of his friend,” Dr. whose nomination for postmaster Yankton | ¢ has been hung up by the senate committee | of the court The judge does | ment on postoffices and postroads. not believe that Dr. Turner's nomination will be rejected. Consideration of the nomi- nation has been postponed for one week. B. M. O'Brien, the doctor's unsuccessful rival, is here, and is making a hard fight to defeat the confirmation. State Senator Thornby of Hermosa, Cus- | ¢ ter county, S. D., is here on his way from New Spring FOR YOUN | Frazor | the Nelig comparatively at any election held since the | v attempt the race for congre: deed it is not likely that he will run for any twenty-eight | onjen be per cent of | appiating tain WEATHER Too Cold In Most Se and | (e states also cool in the Mareh home on business and | partment has just published the ing for | was convicted of writing a letter r Turner, | yjon Captain Bunce, of the sentence t manded. Stores Senator Tho secrotary of the fnterior has overruled the motion for review In the case of Herbert Thurston against George W. Millard, fled by the former, in dismissing the contest unst pre-emption cash entry of the latter form tract of land fn the Chadron, Neb trlet. The socretary has affirmed the cision of the commissioner of th in the of James K. Fiteh againat. . P appeal by the lattor | ot polication to make stead entry land district; also in the case of W. R. Fitch against hoirs of Rosana Lowder, on appeal by the lat the home- stead entry of former the same dis- trict J. D. Yeomans of Sioux City, Ia., recently nominated to be a member of the Interstate Commer Tudge M Dill, night and will be he any charges that may be brought agafnst his confirmation These charges, it fs said, simply refor to his former connection with railroad corporations, but it is understood that the chief cause of delay rests on the fact that Mr. Yeomans fs unknown, and the members ot the senato have had no opportunity of satis. fying themselves as to his fitness for the po- sition to which he has been nominated. It is not believed that any serious objection to lis nomination will be raised, though the in reporting his nomination is causing Mr. Yeomans no little uneasiness Patents were issued to the following in- ntors today: James Boston, Dubois, Neb., pulverizing harrow; Wallace M. Coats, Hills- dale, Ta., door stop; Hiram Cromer, Musca- tine, Ia., rotary harrow; Edwin W. Craine, Missouri Valley, Ta., tube stopper; John H. Gray, Elwood,” Neb., assignor of one-half to R. N. Bouck, Jackson, Mich., and John W. Herriott, Hubbell, Neb,, twine box; Willlam Lyon, assignor of two-thirds to W. Carson, jr., and H. 8. Rand, Burlington, Ia., wood- working machine; Frank J. McArdle and J, B. Furay, Omaha, bracket and card holder; William “R. Nightingale, assignor of one-half to J. H. Simonton, Valley, Neb., revolving cleaning brush; Charles H. Taylor, Lincoln, Neb., corn separator, husker and feeder dis- the land offl his hoi involving in the e commission to succeed returned to the city last in person to combat slitter. There are more than surface indications that Hon. Willlam Jennings Bryan will not next fall, in- this year. His the gubernatorial therefore have cherished ambition to ndidate of his party will to be laid aside. This in | jnformation comes to The Bee correspondent from a source which cannot be doubted members to their | p, And under (he present gerrymanders | ¢ Mr. correspondent at he was con- life. ““That prepared to an was asked by The Be evening if It was true t retiring to private s a question that I am not answer at this time,” was the reply. “It is oo early entirely for me to say just what intend to do. In fact I don't know myself. At the proper time I will make known my ntentions.” 1f the bill looking to the abolition of cer- customs offices, which is now before he house committee on expenditures in the department, becomes a law, the ustoms office at Burlington, Ta., will be liscontinued, the receipts of that office fall- ng considerably below the expenditures. UNFAVORABLE TO CROPS. tions for Fary on the Const. April 17.—The wenther in its report of weather crop con- for the week ending April 16, says “The week has been cooler than usual and rally unfayorable for farm work on Atlantic coast and in the Ohlo valley although more favorable conditions srovailed in the Ohfo valley during the tter part of the week. The week in the spring wheat sections states on the Pacific const. Although ol in the Dakotas, spring ling is well advanced in South Dakota, re the ground is reported in excellent ondition, Tt was slightly wa than psual in the lake 0 and fro west ulf yrehward o the Missourl val- ey, there has been an excess ) temperature since March 1 in dis- ricts east of the Rockies, the season 13 mewhat retarded, owing {o the fr which occurred during the latter The week was also dry Worlk Dry renc he weather was ¢ th aclf Captain Shepard ¢ WASHINGTON, April 17, Tsy. The Navy de- srimand pard, who fiecting ¢ The secretary deems of the findings and sentence nd the action of the depart- thereon In its general order to be a uflicient compliance with the requirements t he be publicly repri- n the case of Captain E. M. S he publicati Nicaragua Bill in the House, WASHINGTON, April 17.—Representative of Ohio has Introduced in the house Nicar canal bill as presented by Mor n to the senat Suits G MEN, FOR OLD MEN, FOR BOYS Wa know thay are fino, ono of them.” By all o v lino In tow ial prices n Wa uils 1ds 10 Lar nooSi thass nl ok at Our Wirdows. Boys' Two-Piece Suits, Light and Medium Shades, Double breasted only. Ages 5 to 14 years. e Boys' Combination Suit, fo With Cap to match and extra pair of Pants, all wool. Mon v Choy Kilt Suits for littlo boys 24 to 5 years old, 400 Lvery Shado. Nicely Trimmed. Just look at them — Boys' Long Pant Suits, 750 Light and Medium Colors, for 14 to 18-year-olds, iot and Cassimere Suits, §12 In sucks ar wiys: In bl serges, 1o, Men's sults in bluck Cheviots and 30 1 cuta- ud 1k, Men's sults in Clay Worsteds, Meltons, How Much They're will cost you almost as much as at BROWNING, K Willvay the express If you send the movey for 20 worth or more o s ory known shude We don't say. \’uu be the judge, The clsc—but not quite, Wort anywhere ING & CO. W. Cor.15th and Douglas Sts, ’ 1