Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 11, 1894, Page 4

'E‘;lE()‘\L\H)\ DAILY BFF ROSEWATER, Editor. PUDLIEHED SVERY MOR! TERMS OF Dally Dae (with Dally and Sund 8ix Moniha Threo Montha Bunday One Baturday Tice, One Weekly Boe, One Ye OFFI Omaha, The fiee Duilding SUHSCRIPTION. Year One Year Bouth Omala, ¢ tner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Counell Muffs, 12 PPear) strect Chieago Off) Chamber of Commerce, New York, 1tooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune BIdg. Washington, 107 I strect, N. W, CORRBRPONT . “ nun‘eations relating to news and edi- 11 e addressed: To the Editor. All torial matter sho RUSINESS LETTERS, Al business lotters and remitta should be addressad to The e Publishing company, Omaha, Drafts, chicks and postoffice orders to be made prynble to the order of the company. THIE BB PUBLISHING COMPANY, MENT OF CIRCULATION. K, secretary of The Tee Pub- Wi duly sworn, says that the il fund eomplote coples of The . Tivenimmic an nted ponth of April Sexusnames Total 98,357 Less deductions f ¢ ‘unsold and returned coples Total Rold........... Dally average net eirc * Sunday B, TZSCHUCK. ribed in my pres- GEORG! nAd sub; ¥, 1501, P. TEIL, Notary Public. Bworn to bofore me ence this 24 day of M (Seal). Did any one say that there was a smoke nuisance ordinance on our statute books walting to be enforced? Nebraska monopol of presi- dential appo'ntments Wednesday. This can't recur too often to suit the hungering demo- crats in this state. The faith the railroads observe which in their relations with one another cannot be much better than that which they ob- gerve in their relations with the public. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system pald a net dividend of § per cent last year, in spite of the business depression. Five per cent dividends make watered stock a pretty good investment. Contractors who are dissatisfied because they fail to be the lowest bidders for city work should apply to Mr. Wiley if they want all bids rejected in order to give them an opportunity to bid again. The sole way by which Bryan succeeds in getting men appointed to federal office upon his endorsement is by endorsing only those men whom he knows to have other back- ing nearer the administration. The assessors are still engaged in making up the tax lists for the coming year. The law requires them to list property at its fair valuation. The assessors must live up to their oaths to execute the law. Wateh how quickly the prospect of walk- ing to a state convention dampens the ardor of ‘he average ward heeler to be se- lected as a delegate. Heeling it is not the Kkind of work which the heelers most prefer. Senator Mills Is the most easily satisfied man in the democratic ranks. He says he will favor any tariff bill that makes a re- duction of even § per cent. Senator Mills appears to be afraid that he may be unable to get even tht 5 per cent. The sale of postage at the Omaha post- office this year has reached an amount in excess of that for a corresponding period last year. This fact is strangely out of tune with the prevalent opinion of depressed business. It is paradoxical, yet true. The visiting Hibernians are profuse fin thelr acknowledgements of the courtesies ex- ‘ tended by the press and people of Omaha. 8o far as we are able to see no exception has been made to the general rule of hos- pltality that Omaha has uniformly shown to visitors at all times. Several encouraging building permits have been taken out within the past week, which promise to afford work to men employed in the bullding trades. With materials and labor at bed rock prices, Omaha ought to have the benefit of numerous additions thls summer to the number of her fine resi-, dences and business blocks. It is wonderful how the obnoxious specific duty has come to supplant the good and only Just ad valorem duty in the second revision of the tariff bill. But why quibble about specifioc and ad valorem duties when the harmony of the democratic members of the Principle bows before time senate is at stake. harmony every camp. in the democratic By all means let us have all the summer excursions possible. There are thousands of people within a radius of 200 miles of Omaha who have never seen this city and will require but slight Inducements to visit this progressive metropolis. The manifold advantages to acerue from closer acquaint- anceship are mutual, Inestimable and self- evident. Three of the great trunk lines from the Missourl river to the Pacific coast go mer- rily on cutting and slashing rates, utterly oblivious of the fact that those roads are in the hands of recelvers, struggling to make both ends mect. If by legislative enactment those roads should be compelled to put in force the rates they are now advertising there would be raised a 1 that could be beard from Kalamazoo to Texas. It has been a long time since the State Board of Transportation, with a great deal of ostentation, directed the Elkhorn railroad to put in a transfer switch at O'Neill. The Elkhorn and the other roads included in the order have given no Indication that they proposed to comply with the order. There 18 a well defined suspicion that the road officlals thoroughly understood that the board was simply bluffing for effect, College politics seem to bo very much Wke any other kind of politics. Prejudice seems to sway the minds of students as well a8 the motives of voters. In the present dis- graceful controversy at the State ualversity the ehancellor and faculty will be compelled o resort to extreme measures in order to prevent the Institution from meriting the censure of the people of the state. Nebraska does not maintain & State university for the purpcse of educating her young men o the methods of pothouse politicians, OLNEY- AND THE CORPORATIONS, been Ted to make. A way Is opened to cal- The charge has repeatedly boen made and | culating speculators to impose upon unsus- that same professional never denfed maintains the with or Attorney General Olney relations ps that Cleve- one more rajlrond compar he held he entersd Prosident | land's cabinet. Mr. Olney has been during a large part of his professlonal lite a cor- attorne; this fact 1l of critielsm of his appointment to was feit when poration and caused a ood d the office of attorney general. It that Mr. Claveland had made a grave mis take in selecting for the head of the De- partment of Justice a man who had been 80 long identified with corporations and who was reasonably presumed to be in full sympathy with them. It was reascnably ap- prehended that Mr. Olney would not be able to frec himself so entirely from corporate influence, oven though he should withdraw from all personal connection with the cor- poraticns, as to faithfully and Impartially represent and guard the interests of the government and the people whonever these might conflict with the interests of the cor- porations. But it was supposed that at any rate Mr. Olney would, In becoming the at- torney general of the United States, dis- continue professional connection with cor- porate bodies and no longer accept fees from them. This he has not done, according to trustworthy testimony, but continues to act as a railroad attorney, and, of course, to re- celve pay for his services. It may be that Mr. Olney has the legal right to do this; that there is nothing in the law relating to the duties of attorney general of the United States to which such a practice 18 obnoxious, but the Impropriety of his course, assuming the charge to be true, does not admit of question. If he is accepting private practice Involving or likely to involve dual iIntercsts he is blameworthy and the fault is not mitigated by the fact that some of his predecessors pursued a like course or that the practice does not interfere with his public duties. The office of attorney gencral ought to be absolutely free from all en- tanglements which might influnce the Judgment or action of th- mcumbent in a matter Involving the intercsts of the govern- ment, and an attorney general who is in the service of corporations may at any time have presented to him an issue that would create a conflict between his private inters ests and his public duty. Moreover, it is necessary to complete public confidence in this official that he should devote himself wholly to the business of his office instead of cultivating private business, even admit- ting that he has the legal right to do the latter, and that it is no violation of professional ethies. Public knowledge of the fact that the attorney general of the United States Is at the same time the coun- sel of corporate bodies and receiving pay from them must inevitably create toward him a feeling of distrust. If he will do this for the sake of revenue it is not un- reasonable to assume that his opinion is at the command of any trust or combination that will pay him well for it. If he serves one sort of corporation why not cu- other? If Attorney General Olney can properly act as counsel of a railroad com- pany why may he not just as properly Sell his opinion to the Sugar or Whisky trust? His duties and services should be conflued to the government, and if he is not willing to do this he ought to give place tv a man who will be willing to devote his time and attention wholly to the duties of the office. Mr. Olney has given some Indications of his sympathy with what Mr. Cleveland termed “aggregations of kindred business Interests.”” He found the anti-trust law, which has been approved by some of the ablest lawyers in the country, defective and inadequate, and although the present ad- ministration was unequivocally pledged to the enforcement of the law, the Department of Justice has made no earnest attempt to enforce it. While Attorney General Olney could find fault with the law he offered no suggestion for improving it so that it could be made effective for the suppression of the trusts. He is evidently quite willing that it shall remain a dead letter. Mr. Olney Is unquestionably a good lawyer. He is entirely competent to discharge the du- ties of attorney general. But owing to his corporation connections he does not possess the public confidence, and his retirement from the office would be very generally received with approval. —_— A PERNICIOUS DOCTRINE, The supreme court of Kansas rendered a decision last week in a case involving the relative rights of a raflroad and of the com- munities through which it runs that by its novelty and apparent Injustice is attracting considerable attention. Parties from New York and Chicago proposed to build a road from Dodge City, Kan., to Trinidad, Colo. The road was built from Dodge City to Montezuma, a distance of twenty-elght miles, the aid voted along the route being almost enough to pay for the construction. The projectors failed to carry the schems any further, and the road was operated as a branch of the Rock Island, the projectors having failed in their efforts to unload the affair on some of the large systems at a blg profit. The line was recently sold upon foreclosure, the purchaser being a dummy of the original promoters, who, having found another community in Colorado which he could induce to vote money in aid of a rallroad which he proposed to build, under- took to remove the road thus purchased The people naturally protested, and secured injunctional orders, which, upon appeal to tho supreme court, were dissolved, and the equities of the case held to be with the purchaser of the road. We have here another example of the old, old game by which the railroad speculators bulld a road with the people’s money and then exploit it to the last dollar that they can wring from a downtrodden community. In this case the game scems to have been carried one step further, and after getting the money in exchange for promise of a railroad the manipulators un dertake to dig the railroad up and carry it away, leaving the nothing but the momory of a costly and bitter experience. The rallroad men, of course, set up the timeworn plea that, burdened by taxes and unfavorablo leglslation, and with the rates as regulated by the state railroad commis- people’s the people slon, the business was insufficent to Justify them in continuing to operate the road. The people maintained that the con- sideration of the bonds which they had voted was the benefits they were to enjoy from the operation of a rallroad and not tho mere expenditure of thelr meaey In Its con- struction, only to have it torn up and car- rled away. There could bo mo confiscation of property In compelling a road to operate with the rates fixed by the state commission when almost the entire cost of the road had been defrayed by the bonus they had given. It the declsion of the Kansas supreme court should prevail generally communities which have glven ald to railroad companies In order to secure transportation facllities will find themselves without legal remedy to enforce the contracts which they have pecting people who may not be aware that rallroad promotors are privileged to keep their agreements or break them as they may choose. The plea that the operation of the road under the rates fixed by the Kansas state commission would be at a positive loss and that to insist upon it would be a conflscation of property fs, of course, the veriest rot. If the rates were really confiscatory they could readily be set Do away \with the obli- gation of a railroad to continue to operate its line and Its secure a club by which they hecome absolute masters of the realm. aside in the courts. owners ABOLISH THE SMOKE NUISANCE. Almost a year has passcd since the aglla- tion against the smoke nuisance evil in this city took definite but the clouds of black smoke still to beleh forth from the chimneys of a number of the large bulldings and factories in the very center of the town. -With the ordinance against the smoke nulsance, as with most ordinances of that character, the attempts to enforce its provisions have been ° altogether too spasmodic and incffective. Other cities have been able to put a stop to the pollution of thelr atmospheres and the blackening of their streets and buildings by smoke, and Omaha can do the same if the effort Is made. New York treated the first offender in this direction so summarily that he has had no imitators. Chicago has kept up the anti-smoke with but little intermission for several years past. Omaha must not admit that it is unable to deal successfully with the problem. It is against fnequality, partiality and discrimination that the citizen naturally pro- tests. A few of the owners of largh build- ings conscientiously deferred to the spirit of the smoke nulsance ordinance and equipped thelr furnaces with. smoke consuming de- vices within a reasonable time after they were properly notified to do so. Others, however, have neglected to do so and thus far entirely with impunity. Do we have ordinances to be enforced against some people and to be safely vioiated by others? Is it not an injustice to compel the owners of certain buildings to incur the expense of sccuring a smoke consumer while the owners of other buildings are left to do as they please? The value of the smoke nuisance ordinance depends upon its general enforcement. Un- less all furnaces burning large quantities of coal are equipped with smoke consuming devices little can be accomplished by those who comply with the law. The offenders against the smoke nuisance ordinance have been given ample notice and sufiicient leniency. Let the building inspector enforce the ordinance without discrimination. DON'T WANT RETALIATION. A representative of the Canadian Pacific railroad a few days ago made an argument before the house committee on interstate and foreign commerce against the bill intro- duced some time ago by Representative Chickering of New York, which provides for retaliation through commercial regulations upon Canada for the discriminating tolls the latter Is charging American shippers on the Welland canal. The plan of retaliation pro- posed In this bill is directed against the Canadian railroads and proposes to deprive them of the highly valuable bonding privi- lege which they now enjoy, in case the Can- adian government continues its policy of dis- crimination. hy The Fifty-first congress enacted a law giving the president the power to retaliate by levying higher tolls upon Canadian ves- sels passing through St. Mary's canal. Until the enactment of that law Canada, in utter disregard of treaty stipulations, had prac- ticed discrimination against American ship- pers that was greatly to their disadvantage, paying no attention whatever to the remon- strances and the requests of our govern- ment that treaty obligations be respected. Very soon after the law was put In force, however, by President Harrison, the Cana- dian government abandoned its unwarrant- able position and the retaliatory policy was given up. Since then the Canadiars have built their own canal at Sault Ste. Marle, and having thus made themselves independ- ent of the American canal, reimposed the old tolls on American shippers through the Welland. In doing this the Canadian gov- ernment again violates treaty obligations, but this is a matter about which it has never troubled itself, and will not do so now if this government will tolerate the unfair treatment of American shippers. It would seem that the Dominion authorities have reckoned upon such toleration from this ad- ministration, for which they have warrant In the leniency that was shown to Canada by the first Cleveland administration, when the government of that country was per- mitted to have pretty much its own way in everything and was accorded nearly ever concesslon it asked. If it be admitted that it is the duty of our government to protect American shippers against the unjust and damaging discrimina- tions imposed by the government of Can- ada, and that we may properly have re- course to retaliation, the only practicable way of applying this remedy Is the plan proposed in the Chickering bill of depriv- ing the Canadian railroads of the privilege of carrying merchandise in bond through the United States. This privilege is of great value to those roads, and it is highly prob- able that if the alternative were presented to the Canadian government of a loss of this privilege or the abandonment of the canal tolls it would not hesitate long in accepting the latter. American railroads that suffer from the competition of the Canadian roads would welcome the proposed policy of re- taliation, and doubtless their influence will be vigorously exerted for the passage of the Chickering bill. It is said to be a matter of general remark and comment at Washing- ton that the house committee should have given a hearing to the representative of that great monopolistic and military corpora- tion, the Canadian Pacific, in opposition to a| measure wholly. In the Interest of Amer- icans. But there ought to De no great sur- prise at this, for the party in power at Washington has manifested a disposition to show Canadian interests the most friendly consideration, as the removal of duties from the agricultural products of Canada attests. A congress that will discriminate against the American farmer, at a time when he needs all the protection for his home mar- ket that can reasonably be given, is quite capable of listening to an argument in the interest of an allen corporation that but for its American trade could not exist. shape, continue once crusade The New York Sun kindly takes the pains to show by precise mathematical computa- tlon the exact significance of the election of the democratic candidate, Sorg, in the Third Ohio district last week. Figuring on a basis ot democratic majority for the whole state in the ratio as that dis- played in Sorg's election, it finds that the party which carried Ohio for Harrison in same THE OMAHA DAILY 1892 by only 1,072 would have swept the state on Tuesdawlast by 44,799 had the con- gress elections beon general. Instead of being represented in congress at present by eleven democrats and ten republicans, the people of Ohlo would be represented by four- teen republicans and seven democrats. All this on the assumption that the democrats would everywhere run candidates “as rich and personally as popular as Mr. Sorg, with the desperate effort to elect at any cost which characterized the campaign in the Third.”" The election of Sorg is mot the cause for clation which some of the other democratic organs would have the people be- lteve. There is nothing in the recent decision of the supreme court to justify the Board of Educational Lands and Funds in attempting to use the permanent school fund for the benefit of warrant brokers, either in the stato house or out of it. The board clearly has the power under the decision to place any sum at the disposal of the state treas- urer it may deem proper. The money once set aside then becomes available for the specific payment of certain numbered war- rants. It is barely possible that the warrant speculators will make a fight to either re- tain thelr warrants for the sake of the in- terest they may hope to recelve or to hold them for a premium. If they do make such a fight the board and the treasurer can well afford to await the result. The people will not hold the board responsible for contro- versies started by outsiders. They will hold the board responsible for technicalities raised by the members of the board them- selves. If further delays are to be encoun- tered they must not be advanced by mem- bers of the board. When President Cleveland told the Iowa patronage brokers that Omaha would make a dosirable headquarters -for the western pension office he stated the fncontrovertible truth. From that office pensioners residing in the west are paid. The jurisdiction of the office covers a vast territory, reaching as far west as Colorado, and the office force embraces nearly fifty clerks. Years ago there may have been some excuse for locat- ing the office in lowa, but the rapid settle- ment of the western states and the gradual migration of veterans thereto has changed those conditions. It is essential that this important office be removed to Omaha if for no other reason than to facilitate the pen- slon business. We have no doubt that our representatives in congress will be quick to act upon the tip which the president ha- given, as there are many good reasons 'riy Omaha should have the western pension office. In inviting bids for electric lighting, the city council sets the limit of price at §$112 per light per year. Dut as it proposes to let the contract only for the remaining months of the present fiscal year, it can not expect any one to bid who would have to set up a new plant here and take his chances on securing any city patronage whatever after January 1 next. No respon- sible bidder not already in the field would risk an investment upon such conditions. On the other hand, there is nothing to com- pel the Thomson-Houston company, which now has the contracts for supplying electric lights at much higher figures, to bid at all under the new propesals. In the interval the existing monopoly continues to milk the cow while the t:u(p;,"y?'l feed it and the city council holds the it The St. Louis Industrial army proposed to exercise the rights of American citizen- ship by paying its fare to Washington and riding with the best in the land. Its mem- bers may be out of work, but they are not yet out of money. Playing fora Raise. Philadelphia Record. There seems to be a definite connection between the sugar hesitations in the sen- ate and the sugar speculations in the street. How much longer can the game be played with safety to the players? The Conviction of Coxey. Denver News. The insignificance of the charge brands the whole proceeding with infamy. It will make heroes of the Commonweal leaders and render ridiculous in the eyes of all sensible men the national administration at Washington, ey AP Change. Chicago Inter Ocean. Havemeyer and the Sugar trusts are credited with only $1,000,00 given for ' change in 1802 buf the generops r cipients undel “the new tariff reforn Dill give them “4 per cent ad valorem, and one-eighth of 1 per cent on sugar. Let's see: was it the Chicago platform which so roundly denounced “trusts” and mourned over “the poor man's little tin dinner pail?” Dignifying the Ridiculous, n Chronicle, Tt is always unwise to make a martyr of an extremist. If a democratic president and a_democratic congress in their united wisdom could find no way to keep Coxey and his forces out of Washington, the authorities of that city should have let them have their say nd be done with it, especially as the crusade had dwindled down to such proportions as to be not only harmless, but ridiculous. If anything more 15 heard from Coxey the Washington officials and the president and congress will have to answer for it. It is they who have galvanized a body which was mani- festly in the very throes of dissolution. e A Corner on Gall, Caleago Herald. “If you re-elect me,” shouts Colonel Breckinridge to hls constituents, “there will be but one master for your represer tive, and that my own_ consclenc This is a pretty durk outlook for the Ashland district, for if there is one thing more than another upon which Colonel Hreckinrid 1s weak It is in the matter of conscience A close scrutiny of his actions for the last ten years, as acknowledged by himselr, can lead to no other conclusion” than t the man doesn't know what conscience s, Iffrontery, impudence, supreme hardihood he has in' abundance, but If he possesses either shame or donsclence he con cealed the fact with perfect success. NEBRAS. W. H. Eller has gold the Blair Courier to J. L. Greenleaf of Blue Hill. The paper will continue to be democratic, use he was discharged from the dis- Link Booton of Nebraska City hit Superintendent Cobm a swipe in the mouth, It cost the man out of a job just $15 and the usua! police dourt trimmings. A Tecumseh map Investigated an egg that did not hatch after the usual time and found inside the shell a ' monstrosity with four legs and the body &f a horse, with no bill to pick its way to liberty. The what-is-it has been preserved in the' interest of sclence. Frank Adams, thg young man who was blown up by dynamfte near St. Paul, and who was supposed‘to have lost both' eyes and both hands, is on the road to recovery. He can see a little -out of one eye and can use the stumps of the fingers on one of his hands. The 16-year-old daughter of Frank Lam- bert of Plerce county was thrown from a buggy by a runaway horse and her foot caught In the wheel of the buggy. Before the frighiened animal could be stopped the girl's ankle was so badly splintered that it 15 feared amputation of the foot will be nec- essary. Rev. A, W. Putney of Palisade, who was reported to have been in such dire distress at Sedalla because of his desire to wed a Missourl girl, denfes the stories told by the wicked newspapers of his escapade and clos his epistlo with a request to ‘‘please Insert My Denial in the Dayley Bee.” The Pali- sade Times also helps out Mr. Putney by re marking: “Andy is all right if the Missouri reporter couldn’t cateh his curves.” OLNEY AND THE UNION P, New York Recorder: Attorney Genoral Ol- ney thinks the Unfon Pacific should have 100 years in which to pay its debte. How about giving the western holders of mortgaged farms the same leoway? th fng could be more popular than y able a contury hence. \What is the goose really ought to be sauce gander. Buffalo Express: Speaking of the disposal of the Union Pacific railroad the Washington Post, which usually is able to give a reason for what it thinks, says: "It would be in the nature of a national ¢ pity were the gov ernment to be put In permanent charge of the road. The country is not yet ready for such an experiment in paternalism.” The Epress does not claim to be convinced of the advisability of government control of this or any other railroad, but we would like to ask why such a step would be any more dangerous an experiment in paternal- fsm than is the government control of the postoffice, or the state control of the Erie canal, or the ownership of a railroad by the state of Georgia, not to mention foreign na tions where railronds are owned and oper ated by the government the same as other public works? There may be excellont rea- sons why this may not be advisable for the United States, but we want to hear a bettel one than the statement that it would be an experiment in paternalism. We do not be- liove in arguing by bugaboos. Chicago Tribune: The plan for reorganiza- e bts p uce for for the tion as prepared by Attorney General Ol- ney is far more likely to be objectionabls to the public than to the holders of the se curities. It is reported that default been made on the May coupons of the K sas Pacific’s first consols, of which there are $11,725,000, the receivers saying there is no ‘money available to pay them, and that the default is permanent If this line, which is part of the Union Pacific systom cannot pay the interest on its first mor o preference bonds, which rank ahead of United State: second lien bonds, what fs the use of haggling about the terms of a reorganization under which the government would have to stand all the responsibility and got little or none of the preceeds? And if, as there is reason to believe, the other members of the system are in a similarly low way, having been milked past the paying point by the suckers, what Is to be gained by further temporizing with the system of which they are a part? Would it not be well to insist upon far more radical mea ures than seem to be proposed by the at- torney general, who is a friend of the trusts and apologist for their methods? e gy PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ex-President Harrison will deliver an dress at Columbus, O., Memorlal day. Omaha presents to the assembled Hiber- nians a slice of incomparable weather. The present congress has already talked 20,000,000 words, yet the record is a blank. The constitutional guarantee of “life, Iib erty and the pursuit of happiness,” as trans- lated by Washington courts, means, “Keep off the grass. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller are out for woman suffrage in New York. Their support of the movement promises to lend considerable gayety to the campaign fund. The “human ostrich,” whose death is re ported in New York, achieved museum fame by eating newspapers. His untimely taking off is a great misfortune to Colonel Breck- ad inridge. Private Secretary Thurber’s hands are said to be the coldest in Washington. Noth- ing strange about that. Many persons further removed from the administration have been chilled by a single contact. Captain _Cornelius Nye of Lynn, Mass., who was 90 years old last week, is a pen- sioner of the war of 1812. Nye was one of the Maine soldiers who guarded the Kenne- bec when the British men-of-war were hov- ering on that coast. He afterwards served as captain of a militia company. Some one got away with about §34 worth of wines and cigars, with which ex-Pres- dient Farrison stocked his quarters at the Stanford university, and the students flatly refused to stand an assessment to make good the loss till they learned that Pres dent Jordan had gone into his own pockets for the amount, and they then made a “camptown’ of that amount. A convention of dress reformers in New York resolved that the skirt must go just as soon as an artistic substitute can be devised. The masculine trousers iwere not looked upon favorably as a feminine gar- ment. The more advanced reformers ha already appropriated the masculine vest shirt- and collar. It is not unlikely they will presently appropriate the remainder, creases and all. Oceasionally a_court and jury is found with courage sufficient to invade the inner sanctums of a railroad directory and yank deception by the topknot. One of the lordly directors of the Grand Trunk road took it upon himself to vindicate his as- soclates from the charge of issuing and cir- culating delusive and deceptive reports. On appealing to an English court and jury his injured feelings were salivated with a ver- dict for half a cent damage. S ND WISDOM. Philadelphia Record: The wealthiest women sometimes don’t own their ages. Truth: Customer—Are you sure this arti- vill cure my rheumatism? k—Oh, yes; all the doctors refuse to recommend it. e Ocean: “I don't believe that Chicago T hor s Dolton would stop at anything.” Bob—-Did you ever try her with a soda fountain? Texas Siftings: A chemist says wood can be made palat urishing, "Tisn’t the Kkind of board we are hankering after, however. A Prenchman has invented an appliance for the electrocution of mosquitoes—a current piece of new which is hardly liable to shock the latte: Philadelphia Ledg em Gazette: Speakin Jones affirms that no death ever him so sadly as that of his wif husband. of bereavement, affected s first Galveston News: The heavier a man's head becomes the more it swims. Philadelphia Times: Letter carriers may be seen collecting letters at midnight, but this doesn’t explain why some late males don’t arrive till near morning. Detroit Free Press: The dude was making the girl dead tired by his long and vapid talk on the advancement of women. “Don’t you ever wish you we he asked as a kind of a clincher, No," she responded in the sweetest, most omanly way; “do you?’ Buffalo Courler: Jillson, who is pretty well up on colors, says it is only natural for a man to feel blie when he hasn't a red. e a man? gang drinks w 11 you go it alg m bum who drinks your rum rchless thirst of his ow ast, and your friends are man ‘ast, and’ they cut you dead; They’ll not get mad If you use them bad, ) long as their stomich’s fed. Steal, If you get a million, For then you can furnish bail; It's the g While the little one Cineinnati Tribune, There are sounds that seem to soothe us here are sounds that seem to move us As the cradle song in opera, or the rooster's early crow; There are times when nothing ple And tormenting thoughts will teg Then it does me good to listen to her musi- cal “Hello. "is 80 nicely regulated And so sweetly modulated That I oft would linger longer, If I did not Jealous gro r some fellow's sure to break in With a sound that I must take In While I'm patiently awalting to hear one more *‘Hello moment," says sl And switches him off 1 Then, uninterrupted, tells me knows [ want to know: Yot there a » honeyed phras For “the chief’ 18 “keeping cases But she menages to call me something m-re than mere “Hello, “walt a what she Although I've r seen her, Curlosity's no keener Than when first I heard her volce repeat a all, distinet and slow; For in my mind I've photo-ed he And in my. heart I've voted her The loveliest and the brightest girl that ever sald “Hello,” MAY MOVE A PENSION OFFICE Distributing Oenter for Towa and Nebraska to Come to Omaha. \ DIRECT RESULT OF A RICHARDSON ROW Patry Hawkeyo mge Brokers Get Into w Jdangle Over Candi es and Clear the Way for a Nebraska Ma Somo Washington Gossip. | WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE. 1407 F street, N. W, WASHINGTON, May 10. The pension agency for Towa and Ne- braska, now located at Des Molnes, appears to be coming to Omaha unless all good signs fall. The lowa democratic leaders have been unable to agree upon a man for the position of pension agent. Ex-Congressman Fred White of Oskaloosa was the original candidate, but he was turned down by Con- gressman Hayes, and National Committee- man Richardson recommended Brice of Des Moines, because his relative, Senator BHrice of Ohio, re: ago the that jested him to do so. One month president informed Mr. Richardson Brice could not have the position, and advised him to select some other man. Mr. Richardson still sticks to Brice. On Satur- day last Mr. Richardson and Judge Hayes cailed on the president and were Informed that unless th oon selected a suitable man for the pension agency he would re- move the office to Omaha and appoint a Nebraska democrat, Judge Crawford of West Point being the choice. On Monday Mr Richardson and Hayes left for Towa. They have not agreed upon a compromise man, and Richardson is known to be determined not to give up his man Brice. Congressman Dave Mercer has been aware of the condition of affairs for sqme time, and has been quietly urging the selection of a Nebraska democrat and the transfer of the ision agency to Omaha. The commis- sioner of pensions is in favor of the transfer and it is likely to be made in the very near future. The secretary of the interor favors the transfer, because Omaha is centrally located, and 'is one of the great mail dis- tributing points. The presfdent is inclined to order the transfer, because of the political complications indicated. The Des Moines penston agency is the sixth largest in a list of eighteen, being preceded only by Columbus, Topeka, Washington, Chicago and Indian- apolis. There are between fifty and sixty clerks employed, and the salary of the pen- sion agent is $3,500 per annum. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1 this office disbursed to 56,201 pensioners in the states of lowa and Nebraska $9,246,332.92 The number of pensioners in Nebraska at the end of the last fiscal year was 18,119 and in Towa 38,100. Although the only democratic member from lowa, Judge Hayes, and Na- tional Committeeman Richardson are unable to agree upon a candidate for the pension agency, the other Towa members and both of the Iowa senators are aroused and are doing their level best to retain the agency at Des Moines. They may succeed, but tonight it looks like Omaha. DOINGS OF NEBRASKA'S DELEGATION. Congressman Meiklejohn has been invited to speak at the Fourth of July celebration at Lititz Springs, a summer resort in Penn- sylvania. He bas declined the invitation be- cause he intends to attend the annual meet- g of the Nebraska Republican league at Lincoln on June 12. Senator Manderson today presented the petition of the Overton Building and Loan association of Overton and the Mutual Building and Loan assoclation of North Platte against a tax on the incomes of build- ing associations. Senator Manderson today favorably re- ported from the committee on military af- fairs his bill for the relief of W. D. Mack, who lost both feet in an accident while re- turning from the celebration at Gettysburg on July 4 last. The senator thinks he should be paid so much of his salary as was with- held because of his absence from the War department. Representative Kem today called up and secured the passage of his bill directing the Interior department to make a resurvey of Grant and Hooker counties. Senator Allen today introduced a bill to repeal the act regulating the use of the capitol grounds. The bill provides that nothing contained in it shall be so construed as to prevent the vice president and speaker of the house from making such rules and regulations for the governmént of the capi- tol building and grounds as will protect the same from violence or injury and prevent the disturbance of the pubiic business. Also that they shall not possess or exercise any power calculated in its nature to interfere with the proper exercise of the constitu- tlonal rights of citizens of the United States to peaceably assemble on said grounds and petition the government for redress of their grievances. IN A GENERAL WAY. Indian Commissioner Browning and a force of clerks will go to Chicago on May 15, and will receive bids for supplies for the Indian department. The bids will be for nearly $3,000,000 worth of supplies, Com- missioner Browning will remain in Chicago until nearly the 1st of June, when he will £0 to New York and there receive bids for the same supplies, The bids of all mer- chants will be accepted for supplies. The comptroller of the currency has lssued 1 _n‘ =¥ T Y 0l i F T BROWNING, KING e %,—, & CO. i The largest makers and sollors of % a fine clothes Your money’s worth or your monoy bac Stilts Saturday. a cortificate authorizing the First Nattonal bank of Rolfe, Ia,, to begin business. The capital of the new bank fs $50,000. J. P, Faraen s |president and J. W. ‘Warren cashier. J. A. Drubaker has been appointed posts master at_Kirkwood, Rock county, Neb., vice A. G. Felton, resigned, Patents have been fssued as follows: Nes braska—Charles %, Strasburg, Lincoln, trols loy wire hanger. Towa—Edwin W. Craine, Missouri Valley, rein support; Hobart C. Middlebrooke, Rock Rapids, banjo; Truman K. Nickerson, Maquokefa, hydrocarbon burner; Willl A. Seibel, Independonde, lubricator; Arne 8. Tragethon, Kensett, brace and guide for windmill pump rods. South Dakota—Aloxander M. Lockhart, Mitchell, threshing machin e TO THE EDITOR. Contraction Cans HASTINGS, Neb., May of The Bee: It is an old theory, on this oceasion, history repeats itself onca In twenty years, but ofttimes it seems to require many events to bring it about. In the year 1862, in congross assembled, an act was passed, known as the exception clause in the greenback system of money, said ta have been engineered by Inglish syndicates and become a law by American satellites, President Lincoln presiding: but he should Panies, ) the Rditor but true not be censured in the least. His cabinet and congress forced him to do many things he would have scorned. There were redhot fighting men t a distance, and he was compelled to glve it his signature, robbery no robbery, at a time when the governs ment was In its greatest despondency and in throes of bankruptey. Those robbe don't confine themselves ‘to time or place or party after the national banking law was hassed. The contraction law of 1856 followed, Tugh McCulloch, secretary and tresurer, in his oftic w8 December report 4, 18%, sald the peoy to cong » were comparatively fr from debt. He also told the people that the expansion of mouey had now reached a point as to be absolutely opp sive to good morals. the rascality! Who was ever oppre with money? Now note the remedy rdy, anid ‘only remedy within the control of congress, 15 in the se_retary’s opinion to by found in the reduction of the currency. This i8 the sccretary’s own language. Now comes sngthening or credit act of 1869, and sive and subve then comes the refunding act of 1870. Then comes the climax. It was a caper, {00, long to be rer by the American people. ress convened, as in the ed the bill that netizing the silver 78 cong of night, and s too well known, ¢ money, the money of our fathers and gra fathers, legal money for fifty years. Tha darkness of the hour in which it was done fully represents the blackness of the crime. At the time it was done no one had the gall or tem ‘nd the act. Demos crats Wl and o robbery the value of the year of . the a large percentage ing thelr act of 1873, rity to « pronounced it a st for personal gain to enhanc gold, but we find in twentieth anniversary of both parties endors We well remember the panie of that year and years after. ‘This 18 history and cannot be ignored. All the while since 1862 that the ament has been tinkering with our stem 1t was playing into the hands of the national banks, as well as individuals, I_have the best of reasons for saying so, Chiuncey M. Depew fells us that less than 100 men of this nation, by coming together a single twenty-four hours, N account of their vas trol of the cff- ulating = can block alt wheels of trade. 4 crowd for the Ameri- can people to be at the merey of, with all her paupers and unemployed men and starving families. 1 told you that I had reasons to believe that the national banks were interested in bringing on the present panic. On the 12th of March, 1893, the bauk= ers’ assoclation of national bankers met and passed resolutions that were intended for all to recelve, whether any of them received them and acted accordingly being more than I want to say. I will give the instructions and the communities in diffe ent localities where national banks are lo- cated and form their own conclusions Whether their banks had received and acted under such instructions or not. It is some thing none of them would want to_admit ‘o All National Banks: Dear Sir—The in. terests of all national bankers require Im= mediate financial legislation by congress, Silver certificates and treasury notes must be retired and the national bank notes put on a gold basis and made the only money. This will require the authority of 500,000,000 of new government bonds as a basis o€ Circulation. You will at once retire ones third of your loans. Be careful to make & money stringency felt among your patrons, expecially among the influential ones. They fire also required or requested to advocate an extrn session of congress to repeal tha purchasing clause of the Sherman law and et with other banks of your city In se- curing. Iarge petitions to congress for its uncondition: s per accompanying form. Use person. influence with congress- men, and particularly let your wishes be known to your senators. For the safety and prosperity of all national banks ns {hings stand now we want immediate legis- lation, for there is some prospect of legal tender notes being made by the government and some prospect of froe silver.” You have the cause of the panic of 1893 and the present hard times in a nutshell. The republican party laid the trap, the national banks sprung the trigger and caught the contingent of the Tom Reed and Johu Sherman wing of the democratic party. have nlways voted the democratic ticket, state and national, commencing at James K. Polk, 181, but I have no promises to pake from this on. e WILLIAM J. HAMMONDS, Leasing Reseryation Lands. PENDER, Neb., May 10.—To the Bditor of The Bee: The letter by R. W. Breckenridge in regard to the Indians leasing their lands is an Injustice to the people of Thurston county, inasmuch as it creates a doubt in the minds of the land scekers who come here to secure farming lands, and the people of Pender keenly feel the wrong {one them. He certainly knows that hig Jetter 15 A misrepresentation of facts, If he does not, he only has to refer to Judge ision to convince him that heé he injunction secured by the ny has not, or i3 not to dis; 10 the intimation to the contrar. without foundation. D. on earth, aenes W —a new lot just in—Boy's including hats. S. W. Cor. Filteenth R T B R R Ik LA e A pair of stilts free to every boy purchasing $2 worth or more in our children’s depariment Saturday low as $2—The finest long cut, long pant suits in the 4 world for $9—Endless variety of boys' furnishings, | BROWNING, KING & CO, R ) Al d T PR 7 — e T == ==t dl 4 =2 elegant 2-piece suils as s S = and Douglas Streets, (B Y I O = R R e e e >