Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1804, wrth Sta, wmber of Commere 14 and 18, ¢ W Al busines adiromed & Omata ba made 1 3 o L N E STATIEME RCULATION e 11, Tzschuck, secratary of The lies Iisliing company, being dul nays that the actual numbor of ind 4 of The , Daily Mornine, Fvening and Sun: inte month of April, " during i 1 Total L0 Liess deductions for | coples Aol o not elrculi Total Z<CHUCK. Sworn to lefore my pres- ence this 20 day ¢ Seal). Notary Publie. It is becoming evident that Is determined to fight his tariff p it takes all summer, enator Quay ch cut It i The acme of democratic statesmanship will have been achieved when the present con- gress succeeds in passing a free trade bill with lots of protection in it. Great cities are built, not born. The way to make a great city is for every one inter- ested In it to do his share in lifting it up and not to attempt to pull it down. ! Senater Hoar's hot shot on the tariff must have reached the vital parts of his demo- cratic adversaries. A person can always tell when his fire reaches home by the yells which follo: Every one must recognize in the re-elec- tion of Chi:f Seavey to the presidency of the National Union of Chiefs of Police a neat compliment to the city of Omaha and to the state of Nebrask All the newspaper press of the country combined have not made the amount of cap- ital for the Coxey movement which the police court persecution of its leaders in i Washington Is creating. Sooner or later the plg-sty perspective of the river front must be wiped away. There % may be no money at this time with which to b park the squatters' retreat, but means can i and must be provided for making the city's front yard presentable. * The latest calculation puts the number of the new tariff amendments at 400. And it 18 still growing. 1If there is anything left but amendments by the time the bill comes to a vote it will only be because its framers want to keep something by which it can be identifled. Nebraska has a great many Commonweal politicians that could easily be spared, and they do not all belong to the populist party, either. The republican party could very well get along this year without a number of its camp followers, who have been out of honest employment for a long time. Up to the present time the crop conditions In Nebraska are extremely favorable. There 1s no apparent ground for the belief that the financial stringency is to increase as far as local interests are concerned. Good crops and good prices for grain will counteract the effects of the greatest of financial panics. Congressmen will have to pay for the cam- paigns they may hercafter make to sccure re-clection, unless congress shall adjourn to accommodate their appointments, If a con- gressman has to lose his salury for every day that he spends at homs looking after his political fences he will be more cc:nom- feal with his time. The delegates to the Hibernlan convention are making a most favorable impression upon the people of Omaha who have thus far had the pleasure of meeting them. They will compare well with any representative body that 1s to be found assembled in na- tional conventions of organizations instituted for similar purposes, The Hibernfans have every reason to feel proud of the display made by them in thelr grand street parade yesterday. No one saw the procession but admired it. The uni- forms were bright and fresh, the music good and abundant, the men, for the most part well drilled and well marshailed. Taken altogether, the Hibernlans presented as fine an appearance as any body of men who have ever participated in any parade in this city. Mr, Coxey made the mistake of his life when he neglected to form the numerous Commonweal armies into a trust and then send a powerful lobby in broadeloth to Washington, Instead of a reception with clubs the Commonweal magnates would then have received the freedom of the city and would have been allowed to trample down the grass with the samo rocklessness with which r trample other trust magnates down the rights of the people. How many times is the city to be com- pelled to expend money to remove the squatters from the streets along the river bottoms? The best way to get rid of the squatters and to remain rid of them is to transform the bottoms Intg a park. A pub- e park along the river front would pay the clty in more ways than one. It would set- tle the squatter problem once and for all to the great rellef of the city oficials upon whom has devolved the duty of clearing “uem off the street Tho Unlon Pacific and_the street rallway companies have declared their willingness to share their due proportion of the cost of repairing the Sixteenth street viaduct. The B. & M. company persists in its deter- mination to shift the matter on to others. The fact that two of the principal bene- les ara disposéd to be fair In the mat- tor makes it the duty of the councll to bring the B. & M. people to a sense of their duty in the premises. The demand of the «ity Is not an unreasonable oue. s | 7 | TIE SUGAR SCHEDULE. | Thore promises to be a great deal of dis- | satisfaction developed among the democrats | in congress with the sugar schedule of the | tarift bill as it now atands. Representative Warner of New York (s ontspoken against ft, saying that there wiil be less revenue for the government and a heavier margin of protec- tion for the Sugar trust under a rate of 40 per cent ad valorem, with onc-elghth of a dditlonal on refned sugar, than was dod by the original senate schednie. He a 1 in a recent interview that it would | ba better to have no bill than such a bill as | thait. The ad valorem duty is computed on the involee price of tha sugar, which is less the price fn the New York market by the | cost of transporiation from the plantations | in Cuba to the seaboard, the ocean freight, the value of erings and the profits in York. The trust would have to pay construction of the schedule, only on this low value of raw and would have all the protection afforded by a duty of 40 per cent on the higher value of refined, plus the discriminating duty of one-eighth, and it nother part of the plan is carried out, plus io-tenth of a cent on sugar from Germany i all other countries paying an export bounty or the equivalent of such a bounty. “I cannot afford,” sald Mr. Warner, “as a | man of honor or a democrat, to support such a program. If the trust has us by the throat I would rather see congress adjourn without passing the bill than pass such a bill as that.” The democratic Philadelphia Record takes practically the same view of the sugar sched- ule. It says why raw sugar should be sub- jected to an ad valorem duty and refined sugar to a specific duty is past finding out. “An ad valorem duty of 40 per cent,” says the Record, “would be as near as may be to a speeific duty of 1 cent a pound on raw sugar at ruling prices. Why then not make the duty speeific at once and have done with it? That refined sugar is not also subjected to an ad valorem duty can be explained only in the interest of the trust, for this is mani- fested not in the Interest of elther the gov- ernment or the consumers. That paper further says that under this bill the valua- tion on most of the imports of raw sugar would be made on the plantations of Cuba and Porto Rico, and the lower the foreign valuation the less the revenue of the govern- ment and the greater the advantage of the Sugar trust. But no matter how much the duty on raw sugar should fluctuate there Is to bs no fluctuation In the duty on refined sugar. While raw sugar may go up or down in the market the duty on imports of refined sugar is to be fixed, certain and specific. The Record urges that there is no larger article of importation to which an ad valorem duty is 50 i1l adapted as sugar and there is none to which the specific form of duty is better adapted. It declares that there is no public reason why raw sugar and refined sugar should not be subjected to the same form of duty. The planters of Louisiana are not all sat- isfied with the proposed schedule and at a conference held last week issucd a call for a convention to meet May 11 to take action in opposition to it and to organize a move- ment for the election of United States sen- ators from that state favorable to giving bet- ter protection to the sugar interest than it would get under the proposed schedule. In- dead it is obVious that the benefit which that Interest would get from the proposed duty on raw sugar would be very small, and as a stimulus to the development of the in- dustry / would be practically valueless, It is hardly probable, however, that the sugar producers can obtain any better considera- tion from the party in control of congress and in view of all the effort that has been made in thelr behalf it scems pretty safe to predict that the sugar schedule, which it is understood is entirely /satisfactory to the trust, will not undergo any further re- vision, while the proposition to repeal the sugar bounty clause of the McKinley act by means of an amendment to one of the appropriation bills will doubtless prevail. The democratic plan regarding sugar will do the producers little or no good, while it will materially increase the cost of sugar in the aggregate to the consumers. | | | duty at 40 per cent, according to Mr. War- | ne | ANOTHER SHIP CANAL PROJECT. The producers of the northwest are iInters ested In the proposition recently reported upon favorably by the house committee on railways and canals for the survey of a route for a ship canal between the head of Lake Superior and the Mississippl river. Representative Kiefer of Minnesota, refer- ring to this proposition in the house a few days ago, sald there are five different pos- sible routes, and that if a practicable one is found and the canal is built there will be a saving on frelght in the one single item of coal alone to the people of Minne- sota, the Dakotas, Kansas, Nebraska and a portion of Wisconsin of over $1,000,000 a year. He sald that millions of barrels of flour and millions of bushels of grain are annually finding their way from the northwest to the east by way of the Jakes, and he thought this a proper time for congress to consider the expediency of beginning the construction of such highways of commerce. There s probably no doubt as to the physical feasibility of constructing a canal between the Mississippt and Lake Superior, and such an additional means of transporta- tion may become imperatively necessary in the course of time with the greater develop- ment of the productive capabilities of the northwest. It is also entirely credible that such a waterway would have the effect to materially reduce the cost of transportation both on what the northwest ships and what it receives. But manifestly the government is not now in a condition financially to un- dertake an enterprise of this kind, and when it will be so cannot be foreseen, The con- templated canal, in order to be of the high- est servico, would cost a great deal of money, and the probability is that the pub- lic treasury will not for years be in a posi- tion to stand such demand upon it. Then there are other projects of a similar char- acter which are perbaps quite as important, if indeed they should not have the prefer- ence. Still a moderate expenditure for a survey—the amount proposed s §$10,000— might be judiclous at this time, In order that the practicability of the project could be determined and the question of construct- ing the canal hereafter discussed with an accurate knowledge as to the most desirable and feasible route. It was urged by Mr. Kiefer that the con- struction of such a work would give labor to a good number of unemployed and would benefit not merely one district of one state, but the whole country. This consideration will probably commend itself to some, but it congress should at once take action favor- able to constructing the canal, it would be at least a year or two before work could be started, and the present unemployed would got no relief from it. It is to be hoped that long before work on this proposed emter- prise could be commenced, even If congress should vote to procted with it as soon as [ eacticabls, thers will e no necessity for | urging It on the ground that it would pro- vide work for the unemployed. The project is unquestionably worthy of consideration, and, as already cbserved, the time s almost c'rtain to come when such a waterway will be abeolutely necessary. That time, how- ever, Is still somewhat remote, and at any rate the enterprise must wait untll the pub- lic treasury is in more plethoric condition | than at present or than it is likely to be | for some years to come. THE LIMIT " REACHED. o The plot to perpetuate the Thomson-Hous- tan eloctric lighting monopoly upon the citizens and taxpayers of Omaba is progress- ing in strict accordance with the decp-laid plans of Mr. Wiley. Emboldened by the with which he has been able to con- trol his puppets in the city council Wiley has become even more audaclous than he Nimselt originally proposed. In having the accepted bid of Pardee & Co. for supplying the city with needed electric lights at $112 per year set aside in order to readvertise for new bids he notifies all prospective com- petitors that no contract will be awarded without the previous consent of the man who owns ten votes in the city council. But not content with this advantage he pro- ceeds to shut out even a nominal competi- tion by calling for bids to supply lights only for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Who will fnvest money in an enterprige that must start on such a precarious foundation? What contractor will bind himself to put in an expensive eclectrical plant upon a promise of patronage for a few months only? What kind of a farce with straw bidders put up only to be knocked down does Mr. Wiley intend to perpetrate upon this com- munity? This juggling with these electric lighting bids goes to comfirm the general conviction that it is founded upon a series of corrupt bargains. When the councilmen must fish up the most ridiculous lot of filmsy paper excuses to explain their votes it is pretty safe to say that they are afraid to tell the real reasons that induce them to betray the interests of the city in so brazen a manner. The ery for cheaper electric lights than at the price of $112 is a delusion Intended to blind the taxpayers, If the councilmen are 50 anxious to save money to the city they are certainly going about to do so in an in- explicable manner. All Wiley wants is to De left in his present position, where he can charge the city $140 and $175 for the lights he is now furnishing and keep out every would-bo competitor. This enables him not only to bleed the city, but also to extort ex- orbitant prices from private consumers, who can turn to no other source for relief. There is a limit to which the citizens will endure such a bare-faced outrage. It will soon be necessary for them to rise up and to insist upon having a council that does not belong tooth and nail to Wiley. | ease CURTAILING RECEIVERS' POWERS. One of the results of the recent congres- sional investigation into the Northern Pa- cific strike injunction order of Judge Jenkins will doubtless be the enactment of legisla- tion by congress designed to curtail the powers now excrcised by receivers appointed to administer the property of bankrupt cor- porations. The recommendations of the in- vestigating committee were in the direction of prescribing by statute the extent to which the federal courts should be permitted to assume an arbitrary control over persons and property employed under the receiver- ships which they have instituted. The legis- lation suggested by the committee aims to curtail the powers of the courts in these matters and to compel the courts to pursue the provisions of statute rather than to leave them free to develop their own juris- diction entirely apart from statute law. Congressman Terry of Arkansas, who was a member of the congressioual investigating committee, now goes one stcp further and proposes by a bill which he has prepared and which he Intends to introduce and push in congress to curtail also the powers of the receivers which may be appointed by the courts. The purpose of Mr. Terry's bill, as well as can bo gathered from the outline transmitted in the dispatches, is to correct the abuses that have gradually sprung up in recent receiverships, particularly railroad re- celyerships, by which the roads are con- ducted for the sole benefit of one set of creditors to the detriment of other creditors. A departure was made from this practice by Judge Caldwell in the case of the Union Pa- cific receivers when he ordered the latter to pay all debts contfacted for work, labor, ma- terials, machinery, fixtures and supplies of every kind, including damages to persons or property accruing after the execution of the mortgage under which the receivers were appointed. This ruling, however, is not one universally followed by federal courts. To make 1t so Mr. Terry will endeavor to have it incorporated into the statute law of the federal government and applied generally in all the courts. It has been evident for some time that bounds must be set by congress to the ill- defined powers now exercised by recelvers under federal courts. The precedents gov- erning such receivers have grown up almost without restraint of any kind and have led to abuses that urgently demand reform. ‘Whether it is Mr. Terry’s bill or some other bl that shall be finally - decided upon, this s a subject which congress cannot afford to meglect. Until we have some comprehensive legisla- tion covering the whole field of receiverships the courts will be filled with never ceasing litigation arising out of controversies respect- ing the powers of the recelvers. A FLAGRANT USURPATION, Mayor Bemls' veto of the concurrent reso- lution of the city council naming Lewis M. Rheem to fill the vacancy in the cffice of city electrician until it shall be filled pur- suant to the manner provided by law is brief and to the point. He withholds his approval on the ground that the resolution is in effect the appointment of & city electrician by the council, when the power to appoint that officer Is legally vested in the mayor. The position taken by Mayor Bemis {s amply sus- tained by the law and the charter. No- where 1s authority conferred upon the coun- cil to name persons to fill apppointive offices that may happen to be vacant, The power to create offices not specifically provided for by the charter is vested jointly in the mayor and city councll. An ordinance creating such an cflice must or/ginate with the councll, and It would be the height of usurpation for the mayor to perform his part in the enact- ment first. It Is equally the height of usurp- ation for the council to take the Initiative in making appointments when by law the ap- pointing power rests with the mayor alone, subject orly to the consent of the councll. The charter is clear and explicit on this point. In section 143 It makes it the duty of the mayor to appolnt certaln officers men- tioned by name ‘“‘and such other appointive officers as may be authorized hereln or speclally provided for by ordinance.” The next section provides that the appointees of one mayor shall hold office until the eon | firmation and quitifehtion of their suco:s- sors, but makes fhfhontion of any power of the council to mame officers for vacancles for which there are no hold-over fncum- bents. The whold*ditrit of the charter is that the mayor shail, nominate and the coun- cil confirm appoistive offic Any action on the part of thé council to roverso this procedure is subversive of our entire frame | of municipal govetnment. Al the council has to do to get¥complete control of the | groater part cf the adwministrative machinery of the city is to legislate the present officers out of existence, troate new officers, refuse to confirm nominat{éns of the mayor, name the officers by ehnotjrrent resolution and pass the resolution cver the mayor's veto. What the council can do in ons case it can do in all Its action s a plece of flagrant usurpation. Its nomince can secure no valld title to the office of city electriclan. If he attempts to exercise the duties of the office and to draw the salary appertaining to it, ghe comptroller should be enjoined from issulng the warrants forsthe money. cases. The retirement of Richard Croker from the active leadership of Tammany Is an incident of some political significance, He has shown marked ability in that capacity, and it will not be an easy matter for that polit- ical organization to find a man who will en- tirely Al his place. Under his predecessor, John Kelley, Tammany attained its highest efficiency as a political power, and Croker las many of the qualifications of Kelley, under whom he was thoroughly schooled and trained. The explanation of his retirement Is that he is mo longer physically able to bear the strain of the work he has to do, but there s reason to believe that this is not the only reason or perhaps the princi- pal one for his retirement. He has not been satisfied with the course of his party in congress, and republican victories in New York and elsewhere have doubtless vinced him that the cause of the democracy in the Immediate future s hopeless. To give up the leadership of the greatest dem- ocratic organization in the country now fs to escape the odium of defeat which threatens the party and to keep his credit as a successful leader unimpaired. It fs highly probable that this has far more to do with Mr. Croker's retirement than the con- dition of his health, con- It is gratifying to note that the Com- mercial club has in contemplation the run- ning of excursion trains to points in neigh- boring territory for the purpose of promoting trade relations with this city. It is not stated whether the plan of the Kansas City Commercial club is to be adopted or whether country merchants are to be invited to visit this clty periodically by means of stated trains chartered for the purpose. In ad- dition to this commendable scheme may be noted the activity of local amusement ca- terers who propose to run occasional ex- cursion trains from points in Nebraska to this' city. Base ball' managers and the manager of the Cut-off lake pleasure resort are arranging a system of excursions which bid fair to become, popular if properly con- ducted. It will be a mistake, however, to haul the excursionists, through the city to the pleasure grounds . without stopping in the city. Such trains should be advertised to stop, both coming and going, at down- town depots so that passengers may have the option of remaining in the city or going directly to their destination. Amusement managers cannot popularize their excursions in any other way., Two-fold benefits can thus be realized. It is a point worth sav- ing. Mr. Jules Lombard in his address before the Commercial club voiced the stock argu- ment of the railroad managers in their op- position to legislative interference with freight and passenger tariffs, Being a rail- way man he could not consistently entertain other views of the subject. But there Is a feature of the conflict that has in past years been waged between the people of the west and the railroads that Mr. Lombard entirely overlooked. He said nothing of the determination on the part of railway mana- gers to dominate the party conventions of western states and to control the selection of men for all important civil offices. It is this pernicious interference in the affairs of government against which the masses cry out. No man will deny the patent truth that as factors in the upbuilding of a state, from the farm to the metropolis, the railroads are supreme. When they con- clude to confine their efforts along legitimate lines the people of Nebraska will be quick to reverse their attitude toward them. One point which Wiley and his henchmen in the council forgot when they took up that Minnesota decision as an argument that the city can make no contract for a priod longer than the existing tax levy is that, if in point, it must apply to the contracts which they themselves already hold. If a contract extending over more than a year is invalid for want of power in the council, what be- comes of the contracts for electric lighting under which Wiley is drawing $140 to $175 per light per year from the city? The one just about to expire is for three years. The other calling for $175 per light and supposed to hold until next Novemben was entered five years ago. To be consistent now, Wiley should be estopped from setting up his five-year contract when he comes to draw the next installment of the exorbitant price of $175 for the 100 lights called for by his first contract. Now You're Shouting, 8t. Louls Republic. Omaha s destined to become a great manufacturing and & great jobbing center, perhaps as great as St. Louis, Talking About Somothing Else. Philadelphia Times, Talking about the Weather in general is not regarded as high conversation, but here's the junior senator from Pennsylvania talking about two, teeks. s Cleveland and the Flag. New Yok Sun. Mr, Cleveland hgu;: down the American flag in Honolulu. . 18 he going to haul it down in the United States, too, and run up the red flag in its place? 1l 1 Tuing. Globe: Democrat. The {ncome tax, will,put New York, New Jersey and Connecticul so securely in the republican column that they cannot be wrenched therefrom by anything short of a political earthquake. e Loyalty to the Signs of the Times. Chicago Post. “Coxey” will go thundering down the corridors of time as the name of the man who obeyed the fundamental law of the land under the most trying circumstances— the man who kept Off the grass, e L The Omuipotent Drummer, Minneapolis Journal, The supreme court has decided that a drummer can sell goods manufactured in one state in another state without paying a license tax for the right. The decision I8 based on the rights of Interstate commerce. While a mu!uclpnlufv may tax drummers selling goods manufactured in the state where sold, they cannot tax them if they sell goods made in another state. This de- cision was in a Pennsylvania appealed case #ud may result in the repeal of all such cense taxes. STATE POLITICAL NOTES. Nobraska Clty Press: Judge Allen W Field is developing a potent desire to fac Dryan again in the coagressional race. He can have the nominatfon if he will give an indemnifying bond to carry his own city and county. Lexington Plonesr: Jack MaeColl has never been an office secker. 1t required the united efforts of his best friends to persuad nhim to enter the race. He is now “In it," nd “in it to win,” and will be the next governor of Nebraska. Broken How Republican: Jack MacColl of Lexington {s recelving the general support of the repulicans in the wostern part of the state for governor. He also has a strong following in some of the eastern counties Should he be the cholce of the republican convention he would roll up a large mgjority Lincoln Repulican: The crop of republican candidates for congressional honors in this Increases day by day. The road to congress is going to be easier to travel this yoar than it was two years ago, but it will be a mistake for the party to fmagine that it s going to be a walk-away. Over-con- fidence has lost many a battle. North Platte Tribune: J. T. Mallalien, intendent of the state industrial school at Kearney, was in the city organizing his cos for a congressional nomination this He is an enthusiastic republican, yet republicanism is of that unselfish sort which will cause him to step aside in case he feels that he is not the strongest and most available candidate for the party. Howells Journal (dem.): There is strong talk of Judge Irvine, who made the race for supreme judge on the democratic state ticket one year ago, being nominated by the demo- crats of the Sccond district for congress. Irvine is immensely popular in Omaha and Douglas county, as was most thoroughly demonstrated by the large vote that he r ceived there last fall. He is a man of abilit and would make his presence iu congr felt. Kearney Hub: The republican state con- vention should be held not later than the 1st of August. Let the campaign start early and cover all the ground. Republicans hav nothing to fear from a tong campaign and a full discussion of political issues, state or national. On the contrary, the party will have everything to gain by it. This is a republican year and Nebraska republicanism must be at the forefront if it would win the state, elect six congressmen and save a United States senator. Nerve and aggres- siveness will be the requisite for the ap- proaching campaign. R gt PEOPLE AND THINGS, Sign of the times: Keep off the grass. ‘The Hibernlans are decidedly long on pro- cessions. The Coxey idea of good roads is to keep away from them. Ex-President Harrison pluckily refuses to attach a boom to his sleeves. Chauncey Depew supports woman suffrage. Possibly his support is a joke. Andrew Carnegie's mummies uffed the blow hole agitation. Congressman Dave Mercer Is sald to have contracted the chewing gum habit. The millionaires’ club blackballed Senator Wolcott of Colorado. Silver has lost its charms, Emperor William has actually written a song without words. Who sald the age of miracles had passed? Five hundred mistakes have been dis- covered in the tariff bill. The greatest mis- take of all was the intreduction of the bill. Ex-Secretary Charles Foster of Ohio is in New York and reports that his monetary affairs are gradually getting into good shape again. Eastern newspapers seriously discuss “The Right to Be Rich.” That is not the real question. It Is “How to Get Rich.” There's the rub. Daniel Lockwood of Buffalo, N. Y., is a prominent candidate for the democratic nom- ination for licutenant governor of the Em- pire state. ““What is a hobo?” asks an exchange. A hobo is a man who voted for a change and got it, and now foots it to Washington to kick against it. It is not improbable, with the present de- velopment of his gall, that Colonel Breckin- ridge will inaugurate a lecture season on “Personal Purity."” The retirement of Boss Croker Indicates the tiger is singed. The tiger belongs to the cat species, and is popularly supposed to have nine lives. Five years is the limit of the income tax clause. “The provision is a wise one. Ere the limit is reached the authors and sup- porters will hardly have standing room on the earth. Frank Hatton is the fifth cabinet officer appointed by President Arthur to pass over to the majority. Frelinghuysen, Folger, Timothy O. Howe and Benjamin H. Brewster were the others. Bourke Cockran hurried to Chicago to lec- ture on ‘‘American Patriotism” and was docked two days' salary by congress. It is a costly thing for congressmen to be pa- triotic nowadays. There is a naturalized Chinaman in Meri- den, Conn., who is a veteran of the war for the union. But his greatest distinction lies in the fact that he has never applied for a pension because he lost his “pigtail."” That glowing literary production, “What Congress Has Done,” is a bold plagiarism It was distributed in the United States sen- ate on the 26th ult., and actually provoked smiles on the face of Senator Quay, who had just completed the ’steenth installment of his speech on the tariff, There are two vacancles in New York City’s delegation to the state constitutional convention. Willam €. Whitney, one of the democrats, has resigned, and Nelson J. Waterbury, democrat, is dead. These vacan- cies leave the democrats with only sixty- seven members, against 108 republicans, There was presented before the Academy of Medicine at Paris, this week, a man who had been deprived of his voice by a throat tumor, but who could talk freely by means of a silver larynx that Dr. Kraus had fitted him up with,” Impressarios in search of silver toned singers should feel interested in his case, - NEBRASKA AND NEBRASIKANS. have not The work of putting down artificial stone walks around the Institution for the Blind at Nebraska City has begun. One firm at Mason City shipped during the month of April 3,840 dozen eggs, and claims to hold the state belt as heavy egg shippers. Mason City only has about 375 inhabitants. Editor Burrows of the Bennett News tried to clinch a nail with his kneecap, but it didn’t work to his satisfaction, and he is now lald up as a result of the battle of Wounded Knee, A man living below Nebraska City saw a colt enter the Missouri river on the lowa side and syim across the stream against the strong current, landing below a steep bank. The horse was guided to a spot where he could reach solid land, and is being held to await the arrival of his owner, Fred Wagner, a farmer near Norfolk, tried to untangle a plece of barb wire, and before he knew what was happening the wire wrapped itself around his nose and nearly pulled his proboscis off his face. He wiil save the member, but it will never be as pretty as it was before the encounter. A number of stories of the severe hall storm that visited Superior and vicinity are printed in the Superior Journal. Al Lapham unhitched his horse in the field and jumping on one started for home, but was knocked off his Norse by the hall'and lay insensible on the ground till the storm was over. The Coppock brothers had their teams run away. Mrs. Ziegler, north of Lapham's, was badly bruised by the hail, and her husband was struck by an extra size stone, which cut a hole through his hat and a gash In his scalp, and so stunned him that he rolled into a ditch and lay there for some time unable to get up. John Bruce mourus the loss of a three-ton stack of alfalfa, while Phil Lyno Is out a couple of hundred chickens and a large number of small pigs that could not be gotten under shelter iu time to save them. ————— Irrigation Agltation, Denver Republican. It i3 probable that the irrigation con- tion which met in McCook, Neb., will awaken a deep interest In the subject of irrigation in that state. The farmers and general all the people of the western part of Nebraska are very greatly inter- ested in Irrigation, but they have only recently become aware of how mych it would help them ia the cultivation of their arms. .‘ CONGRESS AND JUDGE JENKINS, The report of the congre 0 Judge Jenkins' famous Dinver Nows: slonal committoe Northorn Pacifie order fs a stinging rebuke a8 of that julge. No corruption allegod and none was found, but the erder fs charac torized as an arbitrary use of julicial power and a statute to prevent such abuses in the future is recommended. Loutsville Courler-Journal: The majority of the subcommittes are on firmer ground when they call attention to the abuses that have grown up under the powers assumed by United States Judges to appoint receivers for railroad corporations, These powors have been greatly abnsed, as the report as rts, for the purpose of averting pursuit of litors and preventing the enforcement o wiul obligations, The powers thus exer. d by the courts are declured to bo purely thelr own creatlon, not as tained or mited by statute, und therefore dangerous. Chicago Post: Labor has won a victory throngh the report of Congresaman Boatner's special committee appointed to investigate Judge Jeukins' course in the Northern Pa cific’ Injunction proceedings. The report says that there was found no proof of (ntentiot wrongdoing the part of Judge Jenkins o of collusion with the railway attorneys. RBut it holds that the judge greatly exceeded his powers and acted contrary to all precedent and in a manner which is In the highest degree dangerous. In short it scores Judge Jenkins unmercifully while exonerating him from criminal intent. Chicago Herald: he best and most thoughtful minds have looked upon the re- cent Iabor cases in the courts as, perhaps, the beginning of peaceable, just and effectual methods for tha settlement of labor disput:s. Judicial methods are better than strikes, lockouts, personal assaults and riots result- ing from differences betwe'n smployers and employes. By legal process” is the clvil- fzed and humane plan of enforcing all rights and redressing awt_ wrougs. The trouble with the report fs that it is written In a demagogical spirit for demagogical pur- poses. It is a stump speech of the quality usually addressed to gangs of strikers at street corners, except that It is clothed in bettor language. . Detroit Free Press: The doctrine lafd down by the committee fs so elemental, so consonant with the teachings of common gense and the theory of the individual's right to his own labor that its enunciation in this emphatic form is not at all surprising. What is surprising is that 1t should ever have been questioned and especially that It should have been questioned by anybody of learning cnough to secure a position on the federal bench. The committee adds to the surprise by its compiete exoneration of Judge Jenkins from all suspicion of inter- ested or improper motives, for if there were some room for suspicion of that kind the judge's rulings would not have been as inex- plicable as they w Atchison Globe: The men any of the house cleaning to do, but they don't have make all the fuss. Chicago Inter Ocean: “I'm afraid there {s something wrong with baby he sleeps so much.” “Don’t worry, dear, he may grow up and be a great policeman.” Philadelphia Record: “Time's up!” ab- sent mindedly o; pawned his watel Indiananclis Jourral: A boy connot he ex- pected to take kindly to the lawn mower until one is invented that makes at least as much noise as a tin can and a plece of rosined string, Philadelphia Times: The Chinese, even in this country, bind their girls' foet sc they can’t go.”' For that matter, they're not disposcd to go themselves. “lain h. the referee as he Lowell Courfer: Iven the women who are compelled to go afoot in this world of uncqual conditions may possess a grace- ful carriogs Yonkers Statesman: ways sing before a fight, singers. The TIndians al- 8o do the opera Buffalo Courier: A petrified woman has been found in Illinois. It is suspected that her husband paid a dressmaker's bill with- out kicking. Indianapolis Journal ed the tired and dq ery man a_livin I guess you are richt,'" ass nted the vora.- clous plutocrat, “and if you would like to have the debt collected, T am ready to at- tend to the matter for about 90 per cent commission.” “The world,” re- wntrodden 'toiler, CURRENT VERSELE . Chicago Post. “Oh, for the old, old days,” he si “The days of long a0, heds When trousers cut extremely wide Flapped idly to and fro. “I'd have that style return, I swear— To old days I'd revert, For then I could with My wife's divided ski Detroft Free Press. Oh, pretty, dainty, maiden fair, _On the avenue strolling; Your lovely bonnet, silken hair In wavy coilets rolling, foty wear Zown more neat or sweeter looks; earch not—you cannot find; But hist! Oh, hark! Great Scott! Gadzooks: Your necktie's up behind! Y o Truth, Vhene'er we drive my love dotl WA e she callad Jieaus foth dog W hat pins ranged Clike quill AJhe fretul poreupin SR e nd when I'd fain, with loy A kins on her bestow, | OVe elate pins my beauty lacerate, Because she stru, REDUCING THE BUTTER TAX | Manderson Has a Bill to Ont the Revenue Impost in Two. CHANGES THE REGULATIONS GENERALLY nt Cloveland o Now Concludes ations for Small Plams Giy the New 1 the Land raskn v OutMercer and nting Oico. Some WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THR DEB, 1407 I Street N. W, WaASHI N, May 9. Senator Manderson today introduced a bil) to amend the act passed August 2, 1586, do- fining butter, also fmposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture and sale of oleo- margarine, Among the provisions of the bill is one that wholesale dealers In oleos margarine shall pay $240, instead of $480, and that retail dealers shall pay $24, Instead Of $18, as heretofore. It also provides that the tubs In which the olcomargarine Is packed must be made of wood tin, or other sultable materfal, as the commissioner of internal revenue shall prescribe. It also makes one instead of ten pou the minl« mum quantity i which the p packed. The president toda nomination of register of th sduct can be nt to the senate the Ambrose 8. Campbell to be land oftice and of Patrick Gibw bons to be receiver of public mcneys at Mo~ Cook. The prosident also nominated Elmer Williams as recelver of public moneys at O'Neill and W. B. Morrison for the same office at Lincoln. Representative Bryan rec- ommended Morrison for the receivership at Lincoln and also endorsed Campball for the \d office and Gibhons for receiver of pub- at McCook, Fourth-class postmasters have been ap- pointed as follows: Nebraska—Drule, Kelth county, Jennie C. Proper, vice H, C. Dun- ; Lebanon, Red Willow county, augh, vice A. J. Rich, resigned; Frauklin county, Dedonge, vice Mrs, A. M. Briggs, removed; Paul, Otos county, A. M. Durr, vice Edward Mitzner, resigned. Towa—David, Mitchell county, F. W, sen, vice D. 1. McLaughlin, renioved. South Dakota—Canova, Miner county, H. Canfleld, vice Thomas Wilson, removed. John P. Thomas of Omaha Is in the city for a few days, and J. J. Philbin, also of Omaha, Is a delegate Lo the convention of the American Ticket Sellers assoclation in Washe ington. Representative Mercer was very much pleased today with the action the house has taken in regard to the government printing office bill. In the committee on public buflds ings and grounds, of which he is a member, Mr. Mercer advocated the erection of the new printing office on a government reser= vation, and leaving the s on of the site to the committee. The house has endorsed that proposition. Mr. Bryan said today that he has not yet made up his mind as to his candidacy for governorship or whether he will stand for re- election to congress. He said good humoredly that maybe he will not stand for anything. Mr. Mercer today presented a petition of the Omaha members of the Soclety of Mod- ern Woodmen protesting against the income tax feature of the Wilson bill, The Postoffice department has acted ad- versely upon the application of East Omaha for a separate postoffice on the ground that the mail service at that point does not ws rant the increased expenditure demanded, Representative Mercer made every possibla effort to secure the establishment of another office, but the department has been immovas ble in opposition to the proposition. The successor to Postoffice Inspector John Steen of Nebraska has not yet been selected, but he will be soon. The removal of Mr Steen from office was secured by charges af- fecting his conduct of the office as well as other matters. The charges were mada largely by Rey. Mr. Myers of Wahoo, whera Mr. Steen resides. It is alleged that Steen nimself preferred charges against the posts master at Wahoo because he refused to res move the postoffice to a building occupied by Steen’s brother, There are other papers res lating to the case on file at the department, Macon, Jen= L. Royallsts in Hawail Still Hold Out. WASHINGTON, May 9. — The president sent to the senate today a letter from Min- ister Willls at Honolulu, enclosing a copy of resolutions adopted by a mass nu-nrxtn' f royalists April 8. The resolutions, after Obtting forth that the call for a_ constitus tional convention prescribes for electors an oath of alleglance to the provisional gov= ernment of Hawali, aflirms that those coms sing meeting and all loyal citizens DOInE e fo take such oath and refrain from voting for delegates to the constitu- tional convention. The resolutions were, by Vot of the meating, sent to Minister Willis With @ request that he forward them to th government at Wi zton. Earthquake in Venezuela. 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