Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 9, 1894, Page 4

=~ ject on them again until the monetary cond 9, 1894 THEOMAH ADAILY BEE. Editor. ¥ MORNING. M8 OF RUBSCRIPTION. ut Sunday), One Year.......8 8 00 ny, One Yent 1% il s i Weekly ¥ LA | Omann, Th Bouth Omabi, ¢ s, inidg. of_ Comy 3, 14 and 15, Tribun t, N. W, Hishing actual 1 pletd Dally M . Sunday printed during 1594, was as follow 15 6, i 2. 1 1 1. 2) 22 607 G140 Tothls,:i,. 0000 T AT e Less deductions for unmoid and returned = coples & 13,062 culation. * Sunda; " i GEORGE 1. T7 Bworn fo before me and subscribed Chairman Wilson will have to have another formal introduction to the tariff bill that bears his name. Might we suggest to the members of the Board of Health that they attempt to cut their garments according to the cloth. The proverbial hue with which the town is ordinarily painted will assume a different color during the Hibernians convention. should make The best s Hibernians themselves at home in Omaha. none too good for Omaha's guests, nor can The visiting Omaha's hospitality be exhausted. ‘When Senator Aldrich said that there were 800 changes in the tariff bill in contempla- tion by the democratic senators he did not strike so far out of the way after all. Statutory exemptions of property from taxation are being abused and in some fin- stances ignored. They were not made to as- sist tax shirkers in attempts to escape the tax assessor. Another inquiry Into the causes of the {ndustrial depression is proposed. DId any of the numerous inquiries into the causes of the last industrial depression prevent in any degreo their operation to produce the re- cent crisis? Congressman Bland has not yet succeeded in bringing up another free coinage measure in the house, and if he respects tho wishes of his colleagues he will not inflict that su tion of the country shall have materially changed. The country needs time to absorb the ponderous information on the silver question that has already been launched upon It. i l The St. Paul Chamber of Commerce has a ready-made solution of the problem of the unemployed in the suggestion that they set to work to cultivate unoccupied government lands. Very well, but where will they get the capital necessary to work the lands and on what will they live until their crops shall be harvested? Then, too, how many of them have the ability to make a living at farming? Can there be any more effective way of shutting out competition in the proposals for electric lighting than limiting the con- tract to one year? Who will come to Omaha and invest his capital in an electric lighting plant on the assurance of a one year's contract for the public lighting? Why not say that-no bids be received and considered unless countersigned with Wiley's name? The resolutions adopted by the scholars of the Dodge street night school thanking the school board and their instructors for the opportunities extended to them to learn the English language and To avail them- selves of the public school facilities Is gratifying evidence that these schools are duly appreciated by those for whose benefit they have been established. The people of Omaha will cheerfully support night schools 80 long as they feel that they are doing good work. The new Dutch ministty assumes offico with a program for suffrage extension calcu- lated to put Holland abreast of the other European countries that have been Lroaden- Ing the basis of representation fn their leg- Islatures. The Dutch have always been con- servative In this way and will doubiless &0 about it slowly, but the spirit of democ- racy Is at the bottom of Its constitutional monarchy and will assert itselt. This part of the program of the new ministry ought to prove popular. The eagerness with which the members of Kelly's army applied themselves to the con- struction of the boats that are to take them down the Des Moines river shows that they are not to be frightened by work, provided that work is in the line of promoting their advance upon thelr destination. Calling them idlers, vagabonds and Vagrants be- causo they refuse to have their band dis- rupted by offers of temporary employment to one or two at a time proves no point. The behavior of Kelly's army has not been the behavior of tramps anxious only to beat thelr way forward, Hascall arguing that because of a recent fecision way up in Minnesota the city of Omaha cannot enter into any contract for A longer time than the tax levy runs, is al- most enough to make a& horse laugh. It such were the law It would apply equally to all contracts, whether for electric light- Ing or for some other purpose, .to tne guar- antees to keep paving In repair for a term of years, to the garbage contract, to the asphalt repair contract, and to a dozen othe! Hascall knows better than this. The charter was deftly tinkered for the very purpose of allowing the council to make loug-time contracts. Hascall himselt may remember how he pointed this out when he was engineering the ten-year gar- bage contract job last summer. It will be a sad day when Hascall can't dig up some hood-winking excuse to explain his gyratious as his personal advantage happens to dic- tate, | and thereby the bill has been improved as leaving it without protection cannot fail to TAY COMPROMISE TARIFF BILL. There is more protection in the compro- mise tariff bill than there was In the bill | that passed the honse or In the revised | measure first reported to the senate. Al groat many concessions have been made | to the conservative democrats of the senate, a revenue measure, Another Important fact Is that there have been made numer- ous changes from ad valorem to specific duties, thereby reducing the chances of the treasury being defrauded. The bill, how- ever, fs still vory far from being an ideal for it yet leaves exposed to damag- ing competition a number of most impor- tant industries in which a vast amount of capital is Invested and a great deal of labor {s employed. For example, the immense wool Industry of the country ts left without any protection. Wool 1s one of our most valuable products, On January 1, 1893, the number of sheep in the United States was 47,000,000 and the production of washed and unwashed wool last year was over. 301,000,000 pounds. The west is very largely interested in this indusiry, and measur over be a serious blow to the prosperity of this soction. Fully 150,000,000 pounds of wool were produced last year in the western states and territories, affording a revenue to the farmers which they can Il afford to be deprived of under the present condi- tions of agriculture. This is the most ex- tensive industry that fs left unguarded against a destructive foreign competition, but there are others that will certainly suffer from such competition if this bill shall bocome law. While, therefore, on the whole, the compromise bill, as it will be known, Is a less objectionable measure than the Wiison bill or the bill reported from the senate finance committee, it is far re- moved from the kind of tariff measure that is demanded in the interest of in- dustrial progress and prosperity. As to some industries, the fight to maintain them- selves in the cvent of this bill becoming law against foreign competition, which Is already preparing to make a struggle for the American market, will be less severe than it would be if the Wilson bill had been adhered to and become law, but all will still have to battle more or less vigor- ously in order to retain possession of the home market, and this means that wages In all industries must go still lower. It is understood that forty-three demo- cratic senators, a sufficient number to pass it, have approved this amended bill and will give it their support. A great many demo- crats, however, will not regard it with favor, 0 that it will not tend to harmonize the party on the tarift question. It is probable that many of the democratic members of the house will be dissatisfied with it, for, as ex-Speaker Reed satirically observed: “The presentation by the senate finance commit- tee of eighty-one pages of amendments, ap- parently more than 400 fr number, is a deli- cate compliment to Mr. Wilson and the house of representatives. It virtually says that the house bill was right, except on 400 or 500 points, and that the senate committee, after a month's work, find 400 mistakes in It s highly probablo that the demo- cratic members of the house ways and means committee will object to such a re- flection as this compromise bill makes upon their intellignece and judgment, and so, likewise, will many in the house who ad- vocated and voted for the Wilson bill as an eminently wise and just measure. It is to be presured, also, that it will hardly be acceptable to the free traders and ¥evenue reformers who held a mass mecting in New York last weck and adopted resolutions in which they objccted to the Wilson bill be- cause It was not broad enough in its assault upon the protective policy. Those who ac- cept the declaration of the democratic na- tional platform, that protection is robbery and unconstitutional, will be likely to raise their voices in denunciation of the compro- mise bill as a complete repudiation of the tarift plank of the platform. In short, while this LI will not be so bad for the country as would have been the measures that pre- ceded it, it Is still a very unsatisfactory bill, which nobody can unqualifiedly commend. To agaln quote Mr. Reed: “It will hardly tend to restore confidence in the country, and especlally as every amendment smacks of either prior fgnorance or present barter.” their own bilL"” THE COMING COAL CONFERENCE, The result of the conference of coal mine operators and miners to be held in Cleve- land May 15 is awaited with general In- terest. The sityation in many localities with respect to the coal supply is becoming serious. At a great many places a famino is ‘assured if the strike is maintained two weeks longer, and at some, according to reports, the supply of coal will be ex- hausted in less time. A considerable number of manufacturing establishments which had made no preparations against the stoppage of production are idle, and many more cannot run much longer on the supply of coal now on hand. Some of the railroads will be hard pressed if the conference should fail to effect a settlement. The cflccts of the strike are far-reaching. Lake vessels which have been engaged in the coal carrying trade are now tied to their docks because they have no cargoes and thousands of sailors and dock laborers are without employment. This is also practically the case with the coal carry- ing railroads. Not only are the mine owners and the miners themselves interested in the outcome of the conference, but hundreds of thousands of workmen engaged in other occu- pations as well and a great number of man- ufacturers. The latest advices from Cleveland hold out the promise of a satisfactory result to the conference. The indications are that the operators and the representatives of the miners are coming together In a proper spirit and with a determination, apparently, to arrive at terms of settlement. One of the mine owners who was in part instru- mental {n bringing about the conference is quoted as saying that the operators must be ready to meet the miners half way, for they owe it to the public to do so. It is not, said this gentleman, a question of 150,000 miners being out of employment, but of a million workingmen being idle all over the country, For that condition of affairs, he sald, the coal operators should feel responsible till they have in good faith done their share toward compromising. There appears to be unanimity of opinion among the Ohio oper- ators that there must be a return to a uniform scalo of prices. It seams evident that the miners have the advantage if they hold together, and this they appear to fully understand. As yet there has been mo weakening among them anywhere, but, on the contrary, they have been making gains, as the dispatches of yes- terday show. Whether they could all be kept In line in the event of the faflure of the Cleveland conference to effect a settlement Is a question, but the probability s that a large majority of them would be disposed to continue the contest. It is to be hoped, however, that there will be no necessity for any such test, and there will not be If the operators are willing to deal justly and fairly with the miners, as now seems to be the case. So far as woll Informed public opinion 1s concerned, it Is undoubtedly with the men, whose demand Is simply that they shall be paid suficient for a bare subsistence. Coal mining s hard and perilous work and is entitled to better than starvation wages, even at this time of business depression. A REMARKABLYE RE A The rescue of a party of seven toutists after an imprisonment of ten days In a stala- cite cavern near Gratz, in Styria, {s a most remarkable achievement. The tourists started out a week ago Saturday to explore the cavern, but were suddenly hemmed in by the unexpected rise of water in the sub- torranean stream that flows through the great underground chamber. The local au- thorities made ineffectual attempts to rescue the prisoners. They could secure replies to their signals to those inside, like blows struck with a hammer, but were without means of communicating with them. A few boxes of food were floated into the cavern in spite of the flood, one of which, {t was learned later, happily fell into the hands of those for whom it was destined. The of- forts of the local authorities to reach the imprisoned tourists appeared to bs so half- hearted and inadequate that they aroused unfavorable comment throughout Austria, They cven gave rise to some adverse critl- clsm by one of the deputies in the Austrian Reichsrath, and attracted the attention of the central government. Finally, on the morning of the tenth day after the disaster, a daring diver found the opening of the cavern and succceded in reaching the almost starved tourists. The aperture was enlarged by the use of dyna- mite without further imperiling the people within. Additional food was conveyed to them, and before the end of the afternoon they had all been brought to a place of safe- ty and given every attention required to re- vive them after their long imprisonment. No such remarkable rescue as this has been recorded in recent times. So great has been the Interest excited by the rescue that its successful completion, wired to the Austrian emperor himself, deservedly called forth an expression of personal satisfaction. Those who participated in it merit a proper recog- nition of their most valuable services. RAILROADS AND SCALPERS. Rallroad officials, while making use of scalpers whenever they have wished to issue cut-rate tickets in evasion of their obligations to other roads, have for some time been constantly complaining that the scalper is a useless and expensive append- age to the railroad system and ought to be abolished. They have been steadily advo- cating legislation on the part of congress and of the state legislatures with that ob- ject in view, and are even now backing a proposed amendment to the interstate com- merce law providing severe penalties for the sale of railroad tickets through other than authorized and accredited agents of the companies which are to honor them. Their efforts in this instance are not meet- ing with any flattering success, while the scalper’s assoclations are exerting their in- fluence to prevent its enactment by con- gress. In Illinois, however, the railroads have socured substantially what they have been asking in the way of leglslation to suppress ticket scalping. Here, as elsewhere, the bill was favored by the corporation interests and vigorously opposed by the scalpers, but finally became a law. It's constitutionality was attacked by the scalpers, and fts en- forcement resisted by an appeal to the courts, The decision on the test case handed down last week upholds the validity of the law and denies every point which the scalpers attempted to raise. It places the scalpers utterly at the mercy of the railroads. Without the taclt consent of the railroad officials the scalpers cannot con- tinue in business a day. The question is whether the railroads pro- pose to have the law enforced to the letter as it Is thelr privilege to do. They have secured an opportunity to abolish ticket scalping in the state of Illinots. Do they want to do it, now that they have the legal power? The scalpers profess to feel no alarm that they will. They certainly have some foundation for their confidence, be- cause the railroads have always had the power to abolish ticket scalping by merely offering to purchase unused tickets at prices proportionate to what was paid for them, It they would make it unprofitable for scalpers to buy and sell unused tickets the scalper’s business would soon d'sappear. The railroads evidently still have use for the scalper and do not care to destroy such a handy piece of machinery always at their service. They have secretly stimulated the scalper’s business and doubtless will do so again if they think they can gain anything by it. If they decide to avail themselves of the Illinols law it will be because they conclude that they can attain the same object by less expensive means. In the meantime it will be interesting to await whatever they propose to do. Two issues were rajsed in the local contest that has been happily terminated by the selection of Mr. M. H. Redfield for member of the park commission. Citizens of the south side demanded representation in the board and republican leaders insisted that the ap- pointing power should consider the claims of republicans in selecting the new member, The Bee has all along held that a man's pol- ities should not disqualify him for a place on the park board and that party fealty should not be taken as a sole qualification, It is true, howbver, that local democrats have dominated the affairs of the park commis- slon ever since its inccption. Mr. Redfield is an active young republican, who has grown up from boyhood in this city. His selection is a guaranty that the best interests of Omaha, and particularly the interests of residents of the south side, In all matters pertalning to public parks, will be intelli- gently subserved. Will the Board of Education at last con- foss that it has been paying $1,800 for the services of a man as superintendent of bulldings who Is worth no more than $1,5007 This reduction is a trifle tardy, Better follow it up by dispensing with his services entirely. A man who thinks he is worth $1,800 can’t conscientiously work for $1,500, One of the Michigan members of congress bas suddenly lost his sense of hearing, a ca- lamity which may compel him to retire from public life. This is another burden to be lald upon the Incessant talk which congrossmen must endure. The wonder is that it affects 50 few congressmen in this way. The antl-option bill has been reported to the house of representatives from the com- mittee on agriculture, and it will be called up for consideration when an opportunity offers. Mr. Hatch, chalrman of the commits tee, expresses confidence that the bill will be enacted Into law before congress adjourns, ! and he does not anticipate any protracted Idlacu £1 n of the mc be passed by the hquse with reasonable | promptness and thaty the senate will take simiiar action. Aveérding to Mr. Hatch the | regular deators i fijtures are protty well satisfied with the bill, and the only sections which will now meet with any serious oppo- sition are those relating to bucket The author of thig mpasure certainly ought to be well informed.as to the situation, but it I8 to be apprehsnded that he takes a some- what too cheerful ¥ibfy of the outlook for the bill. The probabjlity s that the opposition to the measure is simply “laying low,” and that when it is breught forward for consid- eration this opposition will show itself to be much mora formidabje than now appears. The hostility of the bucket shops will amount to little If it is mot backed by the heavy speculators of the commercial exchanges. shops. The growing necessity for an assombly place was never more manifest than it is today in this city. When The Bee advocated the lo- catlon of an auditorium on Jefferson square it was in response to a popular demand for a public assembly hall. No other and more practicable means had been offered. There Is no place in this city where a large con- course of people can meet for the discussion of any question. By force of habit meetings are called for Jefforson square, but once there the people are cautioned to keep off the grass and policemen are there to enforce the rule. The crowd must then assemble and block the street, improvising a rostrum on the iron steps in front of a business house without the owner's consent. It seems to us that the proper authorities might provide a suitable place for public meetings during the summer months, s0 that the rights of private property may not be disregarded. The court house grounds are public grounds, and if no better place can be suggested for open air meetings the Seventeenth street front might be designated by common consent as the best place for such popular gatherings. Just to e Mulis] Globe-Democrat. There {s room for the suspicion that the democrats are going to impose, the income tax simply because they didn’t say any- thing about doing so before the election. Good Rule for Publie Business. Boston, Globe. No work, no pay, is the rule in private enterprise.” Why it 'should not apply to the congressman who is off at the races or fol- lowing his tastes and caprices while the house’ goes begging for a quorum is not evident. el Any Sacrifice for Rellof. Minneapolis Journal. President Cleveland has surrendered to the senate Income tax The income tax he recommended was much milder than the senate tax. The president would prob- ably sign most any kind of a tarift bill now to get congress off his hands. e et An Interested Looker-On. Philadelphta Record. Bimetallism can be accomplished only by international nsreement. The people of the United States have indulged in sin- gle-handed experiment to their hearts’ content. They will; be ready for joint trial when other gevernments shall be agreed but ‘untl] ggreement shall have been reached they will occupy a position of safe expectancy. ' Give Murphy the Chicagd Pos If only the groundtess prejudice against American corn could 'be removed fmmense quantities might be dfsposed of in Europe. This country raises about 2,000,000,000 bus] els annually. It could spare a consider- able amount for export, and the man or men who are instrumental-in opening the tuft, way for this export will place the nation under lasting obligatjons. Striking a Rich Lead. St. Pau) Globe, According to the testimony of the North- ern Pacific officials in_the pending inquiry at Chicago, the cost of the terminal facili- ties of the road in Chicago amounted to be- tween $7,000,000 and $5,000,000. It is not stated how much of this sum went to the aldermen of the city, but the fact that quite a number of these officials, previously poor, retired about that time and have since lived in apparent Idleness suggests that in that direction there is a mine of information. meeee The Fate of Samon. Philadelphia Record. Germany will not give up her hold upon Samoa; England has no idea of surrender- ing her interest in the Samoan protecto- rate; the United States is in the Samoan business to stay. This tripartite interest on the part of three land-hungering, pug- nacious and tenncious powers In the afairs of the Pacific islanders makes the idea of their future independence preposterous. Samoa is of enough commercial importance to make possession desirable, but not of enough importance to fight for, So she hangs tangled in the web of diplomacy, suspended between rival claimants, sup: posedly in the possession of heér own peo- ple, but practically belonging to nobody. — e Patriotism In the Schools. Boston Traveller, The grand aim of our common schools is sion.” We bring together children of all classes and races in or to Impress upon them in their pl: rlod a sense of fel- Towship, useful en nece human beings who are to be gether in later life, The mere does much for this ‘end. The stuc tory and civil government, p and salutations to the flags ‘¢ of enthusiasm which is a powerful —dis- rupter of inherited prejudices. But the emotions aroused by Paul Revere's ride, for instance, are rather vague, while the details of constitutional history are rather indigestible for: young minds, © Why could not a simple compendium he made. for school use of the principles which underiie our form of government? History gives us the credit of having been the first to ex- empliy certain noble political ideas, Why could not these be distinetly summarized and studied by our youth, as the Roman boys committed to memory'the Laws of the Twelve Tables? e Restating the Facts, Chicago Tribune. These are the facts. During elghteen years “of protection there was uninter- gupted prosperity. | When it was known hat protection was to cease prosperity ceased also. And yet the only remedy the democrats _prescribe ‘for a ' suffering country is the Wilson bill! They say that Wwhen ‘the senate has pussed ‘it andthe president signed it good times will return and there will be abundant employment and high wages, But the introduction of that bill and its passage by the house dried up employment and cut down wages The more of the deadly democratic mod ry for thrown to- ociation of his- triotic songs ate a bond cine the country takes the worse off it will be. The antioipatory effects are bad enough. The state of affairs which will exist after the bill has become a law will be even more serlous. And if the demo- crats get another leate of power two and a half years hence they will take another cut at protection, and substitute a graded income tax for the tngraded one in the Wilson bill. ~ Then tHe wage workers and other classes will suffer more acutely than now. The nearer free trade is the worse off the country will be. i — NEBRASKA EBRASKANS. Blackleg has carried off a number of cattle in the vicinity of xgeu;ingmd. Fooling with a revolver cost Gus Sullen, a Plerco county farmer<the forefinger of his left hand, 3 Six Lincoln peoptt’ ehigrated to New Zea- land the other day and will make thelr home near Auckland. A warrant has been Issued for the arrest of Florence Roberts of Mason City, charging her with bigamy. A. P. Childs bas €old his interest In the Wayne Democrat to ¥, B. Pennybaker of the Winside Watchman. T. E. McMeans and Frank Hetzel, Grand Island young men, have started on a three months tour of Burope. The Curtis Courler has entered on its tenth year of existence in & thoroughly healthy condition. There is nothing like having a doctor on the staff, Pawnee City is troubled with highwaymen, Two of the bold bandits held up a man named Eaton and at the point of & revolyer forced him to give up all the cash he had with him. Owing to dissensions in the ranks and to ure, He belleves it will | a burdensome debt, the Immanuel Baptist church of Grand Tsland has disbanded and the pastor has been dismissed. Willle's repentance fs suMciently elastic to hold till election day. Treading free lunch routes to Washington Insures a large vociferous crop of corns, The unfortunate illness of Jerry Simpson deprives the Coxey defeuse of considerable gayety, Mrs. Cornella Shout frage forces in Kansas, righter, Advices from England le the Rosebery ministry w power until it falls. areless writers of dispatches to certain newspapers refer to ‘“Congressman Hell, populist ~ of Nebraska.” Bell, Bell! O, ring off. For reasons unnecessary to mention, all sominaries in the Ashland distriet will sus- pend business and close up while the cam- paign lasts, has joined the suf- She Is a sonorous ¢ no doubt that | continue in tened establishment of a branch of a famous Philadelphin shipyard in Eng- land has already produced marked symptoms of intestinal Cramp in John Bull The retirement of Boss Croker from active political life in New York will envelope in gloom the literatti, who were diligently warming over current biographies of the tiger chief. Without Croker the fall cam- paigh will be a dull, spiritiess affair, As evidence of the profoundly peaceful Intentions of the south, Colonel John A Cockerill and Field Marshal Murat Halstead have been cordially welcomed in that sec- tion. The quality of the cordial was Al Thus fs the treaty of Appommattox finally ratified. Paragraphers are requested to exercise greater care and precision of statemant in matters relating to czars. To say that “the czar hus an affection of the lungs, due to the grip,” leaves the anxlous world in doubt whether the afflicted is Czar Charley, Tom or Aleck. Thomas H. Benton, for thirty years United States senator from Missourl, would not allow the word “Hon.” to be prefixed to the pamphiet copies of his speeches which he sent to s constituents and other persons. The title page r Speech of Mr. Ben- ton of Missourl.” There was but one Ben- ton. Wee Hun Peunk, once a millionaire Chi- nese miner in Arizona, who was last heard from in South Africa, whither he went with his pretty American wife to make another fértune, has succeeded fn buying an interest in the Kaaraji diamond mine. 1t is said that Barney Darnato, the diamond king, is his partner. Secrotary Morton presents in his last monthly report a candid picture of demo- cratic times and conditions. Hear him: “During the pinching time of the past fall and winter many a crust and many a frag- ment of stale bread, which ordinarily would have found its way to the swill barrel, has undoubtedly been used to satisfy human hunger cr to ward it off. This has been the case not merely in occasional instances, but in millions of familles; for, besides the cases of pinching want arising from actual loss of employment, there has been a stiil larger number in which employment has only been partial, or in which wages have been materi- ally reduced. Rven among many of those in comfertable circumstances there has been in- creased care in the saving of food for the benefit of the mezdy on whose behall the appeals for help have been so frequent and urgent,” Accounts published in Ttalian newspapers furnish an inkling of the royal good time enjoyed by the doctors at the International Medical congress held in Rome last month. Although the medics caution ordinary mor- tals to beware of appetizing solids and fluid extracts, as usual they ignored their own medicine on this cccasion. The banquet hall was the famous Roman Bath hall, 700x430, built by Emperor Cavacalla, A. D. 216. While the royal march-was played to open the ban- quet 1,000 carrier pigeons were liberated, bearing cards of grecting to distant lone- somes. To exemplify the dircct action of medical practice on healthy appetites, it is only nec ary to ennmerate the quantities disposed of, namely: One barbecued beef, 20 barbecued deer, 30 hams, 40 shoulders, 20 lambs, 20 pheasants, 50 guinea fowls, 120 pounds of bread, 12,000 rolls, 5,000 pies, 50 jelly cakes and 10,000 tarts, all of which was washed down with 2,300 bottles of wines and 10 barrels of beer. WILLIE i WAIL. Chicago Inter Ocean: Colonel Breckin- ridge pays a very handsome tribute to the press when he says: ‘‘The newspapers con- victed me.”” They will rest easy under the charge. Kansas City Journal: Mr. Breckinridge's reception in Lexington was a noisy if not a flattering demonstration. Mr. Breckinridge, it must be understoed, is not suing for for- giveness; he is merely asking for re-election. Indianapolis Journal: ~ The most unique reason assigned by Colonel Pecksniff Breck- inridge for re-election is that he has made himself an awful example as a warning to other statesmen, and consequently deserves endorsement. New York World: The supporters of Colonel Breckinridge will make a useless ex- penditure of energy if they go on burning Judge Bradley in effigy. They are mistaken in the issue. If they wish to vindicate their principles they must make their fight on the ten commandments. Chicago Post: We have an opinion con- cerning the condition of morals in Ken- tucky high enough to induce the belief that Breckinridge's hope for re-election rests solely on his own unmeasurable impudence —that it has no foundation in the sentiments of the voters of the Seventh district. Chicago Times: Over 500 of Willie Breck- inridge's male friends welcomed him to Lex- ington with cheers. What did their good wives say to them when they returncd to their homes? The walls of homes in the Kentucky town doubtless echoed the thrill- ing sentiments of numerous curtain lectures after the “reception,” and probably numer- ous votes were changed. San Francisco Chronicle: From a parti- san standpoint we might hope for the re- nomination of Breckinridge, for in that event a republican might carry the district; but, on the other hand, if nominated he might be re-elected, and he Is not a fit man to represent Kentucky in the house of represen- tatives. The best thing to be done is to re- fuse him a renomination, and so end his po- litical career once for al ——— MILD MERRIMENT, Buffalo Courler: Jilson says that it is hard for a girl with her first solitaire to be still In the ring. Somerville Journa Even an upright plano sometimes is a downright nuisance, Atchison Globe: Just about the time a man learns to dance his desire for dancing is gone, Good News: Teacher—Why was Solomon the wisest man in the world? Boy—He had 80 many wives to advise him. Teacher (a strong-minded female)—Well, that is not the answer in the book, but you may go up to the head. Chicago Record: Emily—You dear, sweet, good papal shall I cut a pink for your but- tonho Her Papa—No, more money than I give it to him, Buffalo Courie Brevity may be the soul of wit,” muttered Penner, sadly searching his pockets in vain for the price of a beer, “but I'll be blamed if I can see any fun in being short,"” Your brother Bob has got have tonight. Better Indlanapolls Journal: Weary Watkins— Madam, I was not always as you see me now— Mrs. Peck—No, I guess not. I suppose there was a time ‘once in your life when you were entirely sober. Detroit Free Press: Oltope—I wish I was a barrel, His Friend—Why? Can't you hold enough? Oltope—Yes; there 1s 1o trouble about that. The advantage is that no matter how often the barrel 1s filled or how full, its head never gets any bigger. Chicago Times: The catboat is one of the ships that pass in the night, no doubt. THE TIME FOR THEM, New York Press, Now smiling spring with nimble feet Phrough lane and meadow dances; Her hands are filled with flowrets sweet, There's sunshine In her glance Her balmy breath with fragrance fills The woodland as she passes The time is here for liver pllis And sulphur and molasses. 'BILL WITHOUT A FATHER | Revised Tariff Bill Denounced as an Tllogitimate Pantling, | SENATOR GRAY DOES NOT RELISH IT Senntor Morrll Thinks If the Pemocrats Will Only Listen to Republican Bpoec! They Will Learn Sa ng in Time, WASHINGTON, May S8.--There .was a promise of an electrical display in the senate when that body met toda The republicans | were active and disposed to ask some em- barrassing questions concerning the “‘compro mise amendments” offered to the tariff bill yesterday. Mr. Quay demanded the presence rum before the journal was read. tine business fntervened. The credentials of Senator-elect Gear of Towa were presented by Mr. Allison. Mr. Hoar questioned the form of the certificate. A certificate of the speaker of the lowa house and the president of the Towa senate was not sufficient. Mr. Wilsen, whom Mr. Gear d, stated that the eertif cate was in the form usually employed in Towa. Mr. Allison suggested the certificate lie on the table. There was plenty of time, he said, between now and March 4 next to examine ft. At 11:30 Mr. Harris, in charge of the tarift bill, abruptly moved to proceed with the con ation of that bill, The resoluticn offered by Mr. Allen yester- day looking to the appointment of a special committee to investigate the alleged police clubbing on the steps of the capitol on the occasion of the Coxey demonstration went over until tomorrow. When the tariff bill of a quo Some rou 18 to suc was laid before the senate Mr. Hoar took the floor. After asserting that the people meant that the senate should respond only to their d liberate will Senator Hoar said it was tods asked to enact into law a spasm that the people have got over. The hasty action and the excitement of the fall of 1892 which ths American people were repenting in sackeloth and ashes was to take effect on the infinite mischief and misery of a great action of le islation. ~ The senators were to hurry and the work to be done before the people could get at them. This democratic majority of two, sald the senator, made by the junior senator from North Dakota and the junior senator from Kansas, is expected to compel the American people to submit to a measure which they have unmistakably condemned and which they loathe and hate as they tell us on every occasion and in cvery form in which they can utter their will. Idle fac- tories, extinguished furnaces suffering homes, armies of tramps, unprecedented majorities at the polls are clamoring on the deaf ears of this accidental majority in the senate to wait and pause until the will of the Ameri- can people can again find its constitutional expression. NO LEGITIMATE PARENTAGE. “This bill,” he said “has no legitimate parentage. It is born of an unnatural union between two hatreds, that of scction against section, and that of class against cl The present bill was not a free trade measure, continued the senator. It con- tained clauses in the highest degree protec- tive, inserted for the undisguised purpose of buying votes. It was not a protectionist measure, elther moderate or extreme. There was not a scrap of ‘good hearted American- fsm in the bill. “There is,” Mr. Hoar said, “a large ma- jority of demccrats cn this floor who avow the doctrine that duties for protection are a gross violation of the constitution itself, And yet they bring to us a bill crowded with protective duties and tell us they are pre- pared to commit this perjury and to be ac- complices in this - revolution because they think their measure, taken as a whole, is better than the existing law, or because they think this revolution and perjury are necessary to buy votes for a measure that cannot otherwise be passed.” In concluding his remarks Senator Hoar sald that two great disturbing causes threatened the peace of the public and ex- posed us to the dangers of great disorders, One was the acquisition in a few hands of vast aceumulations of wealth by dishonest or questionable practices and the other the wicked and unscrupulous appeals to prejudices and passion of large masses people by political leaders for political in- fluences, spreading abroad throughout the country falsehoods which made the people dissatisfied with their own institutions and their own laws. The senator argued that there are four things which come from competition, viz: gh wages, national independence, varied cmployment and a stimulant of inventive faculty. Upon high wages, he insisted, de- pended constant improvement in manufac- turing practices, which inereased produc- tion and diminished cost. It was said that it was impossible to interfere with the natural laws of industry and trade, but Mr. Hoar contended that all the progress of hu- man life rested upon such things. HOAR AROUSED GRAY. Toward the close of his speech Mr. Hoar ed in arousing the ire of Senator He was talking about the methods used by the so-called “‘conservative’” demo- & G The largest mukoers and fine elothes on carth, Your money’s worth or your monoy hac'e. Cratic senators to secure concessions In the form of higher duties, and concluded his statement by declaring democratio senators who would support the compromise bill agroed upon by the demoeratic caucus would violate the constitution and thefr caths, This statement brought Mr. Gray to his feet. He demanded to know what the Massa- chusetts senator meant by such & charge—a vl’;‘\ . he said, which was unworthy of Mr, Mr. Hoar waved the Delaware fsonator aside. He would refuse to yfeld to him, he sald. Dut Mr. Gray was not to be put off. Mis cheek was flaming. He fnsistod upon an explanation. “Very ‘well,” sald Mr. Hoar, 1 cannot be intimidated by a little bluste But 1 will explain. I meant to say for a demoerat who subscribed to the doctrine of the Chicago platform, that a tari¥ for pros tection was robbery, who went to the people airming his alleg to that platform, and Who now comes here seeking and obtaining protective duties, I mean to say that for such senator there fs no esoape from the logle that he violates both his senatorial oath and the constitution.” Senator Gray made an offort to reply, but Mr. Hoar refused to be interrupted, wheres upon Mr. Gray called him to order and asked * A ruling upon his point that such language a8 the Massachusctts senator had used was unpariiame Mr. Gallinge who was in the chair, over- ruled the point of order. Mr. Gray could do nothing then but sit down. In a fow mo« ments Mr. Hoar concluded his sp OR GRAY REPLIES, arose. His anger had not subs This was the sixth week of the tariff ate, he began, and if there was any doubt about the artificial character of the edifice of protection this debate had supplied it. very attempt to approach the monstrous a ation of folly and greed known as the McKinley bill had been met by those who raised a clamor about the inte ts of the people and by the greed of corporations. Tho culmination of McKinleylsm was chars acterized In this debate by the wild state- ments and assertions of the advocates of the systom that had wrought so much ruip to the country. They threw aside all the re straints of the senate and dealt in the rhete oric of the slums. They cast their foul as- persions on those who sought to do thele duty to the country and their party. Today in the speech of the senator from Massachu- sotts the decorum of debate had been vio- lated, but the language he had indulged In only showed the straits to which he had been put, Mr. Hoar's tempen was seemingly un- rufifed when he replied in a few words to what Mr. Gray had sald. He said the nator from Delaware had been too severs in his condemnation of the McKinley law, and that he stood here on this floor advos cating a measure dotted and crowded all over with protection. If prolection was un- constitutional and robbery, this was a wicked thing to do. “Why did he not tell the tenuation of his course why protective duty on sugar?” senato in exe he had put & efaculated Mr, Gray from his seat. HOAR “Can the s ence TRIKES HOME, ator not understand the differs between a protective and a revenus this retort the republicans tittered, Hoor insisted that an attempt to show increases in duties were for revenue and not for protection was simply an evasion. When Mr. Hoar took his seat Mr. Palmer of Tilinois felt called upon to defend himselt from several of the insinuations in Mr, Hoar's remarks. He said, as far as he was concerned, a half a loaf was better than no loaf at all. If he could not get into a measure framed by his democratic colleagues all he desired, he would take what he could. The discussion was closed by the venerable senator from Vermont, Mr. Morrill. When the author of the old war tariff, white haired and bent with age, arose in his place a smile playing about the corners of his lips, As d on previous oceasions said something ion of the democratic tarl¥ meas- ure, he desired now to say something in sprobation. The 400 amendments to the tarift bill offered yesterday, he said, showed that after listening to republican speeches for six weeks the democratic senators had learned something. If the tarift bill were laid aside for a month and that month were devoted to study by his friends on the other side of the chamber, he thought at the end of that time they would bring in a bill which would be perfectly agreeable to the repub- that purpose wa he in derog: licans and which would pass the senate unanimously. The senate seemed to enjoy the playful oke. : When Mr. Morrill took his seat Senator Quay of Pennsylvania appeared from behind his huge pile of manuseript and resumed the speech he has been delivering since April 15, No attention was paid to the Pennsylvania senator save by the official reporters. How- ever, at times during the afternoon a call of the senate was had at the suggestion of some of the republicans, These calls gave Mr. Quay the necessary breathing spells. At 4:45 p. m., on motion of Mr. Mills, the senate went Into executive session. Somerville Journal. The cat came back, bedraggled, weak, His tall all worn and bent. 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