Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1894, Page 4

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Sunday TZECHUCK Bworn to Le ibed in my pres- enee this 20 day (Senl), ahie. Coxey was no sooner pushed upon the grass than he was pulled on to the carpet. Thursday was Nebraska day in congress. ‘Allen held the boards in the senate, while Kem monopolized the time of the house. Omaha receives another compliment from the American Ticket Brokers assoclation in the election of its delegate, Mr. J. J. Philbin, as first vice president. Omaha appreciates the compliment. 1t our school grounds are to be made at- | tractive this year the work of beautifying them must begin very soon. People will not care to sit in the school ground parks after snow falls next autumn. We presume the knowing lawyers of the city council will see that that Minnesota decision fs conveniently reversed, or at least discredited, by the time they want to engincer another long time contract job through the council. A clarification of the atmosphere in the center of the city from the soot which is poured into it from the chimneys of build- ings whose owners have failed to comply ‘Wwith the smoke nuisance ordinance would be a welcome event to the people who breathe it. Minnesota republicans intend to begin their campaign early this fall, their state con- vention having been summoned for July 11. The truth of the matter, however, is that the republican campaign has been going on all over the country ever since the demo- cratic administration came into power. It was not so very many days ago that the raflroad company In this city that re- fuses to obey the law In regard to the re- pairing of the Sixteenth street viaduct was elamoring for police protection for its own box cars. It's poor law that won't work both ways once in a while. The visiting Hibernians complain not of a lack of hospitality, but of a too lavish hospi- tality that has interfered with the transac- tion of the business of the order. It is the good Intention that counts. Omaha does the entertaining. That is her part in the work of the convention, and all agree that she is Blow the trumpets! Beat the drum! Omar ' Madison Kem, representative of the Sixth congressional district of Nebraska, actually secured the passage by the house, under a suspension of the rules by unantmous con- sent, of his bill providing for the resurvey of Grant and Hooker counties. Credit to whom credit is due! The managers of the Midwinter fair at San Francisco are recognizing the demand for cheap admission on Sundays and holidays that comes from the working people who can take advantage of the exposition only on those days. The stockholders of the World's ~ fair would unquestionably be considerably richer if a similar policy had been adopted for the Chicago exposition. Federal officials have not yet announced baving run across any of the 1,000 or 2,000 Chinamen who forgot to take out registration papers before the time limit ex- pired. Perhaps they are in no hurry to find them, The United States stands a good prospect of being called upon to pay the passage home of all the Mongolians who want to return to China within the next few years. Although deni:d the privilege of riding tree on atolen trains, the Sanders Industrials have secured the privilege of riding free on the regular train that has been chartered by the government to take them to Topeka. The difference is the difference between coal ears and passenger coaches. It Is also the differ- ence between riding at the expense of the railroad and riding at the expense of the United States government, Wyoming popullsts have finally come to the conclusion that they had all the demo- cratle fusion they wanted at the last presi- dentlal and state election and that, profiting by thelr experlence, they will this year be custodian of their own fortunes. When they tried fusion with the democrats before they found that they had elected the democratic candidates, while their populist candidates had been left high and dry. They are con- vinced that they cannot do any worse by going it alone. The workingmen of the United States voted for a change and good times in 1 Since that time, according to the press dis- patches, the average wages of the men em- ployed at the great Pullman car shops has decreased from $2.90 to $1.85 per day. Other wages havs been reduead In similar proportion In all parts of the country. It may not be fair to aseribe the general slump In wages to a mere change in the political complexion of the national administration, but it Is certain that the prevalling uneas- iness depends largely upon the uncertainty as to the course of Important legislation now In the hands of congress. The sooner the national lawmakers finlsh their voluble discussion of tariff measures, 50 wuch sooner wlll gonfidence retura, CING THE STATE DEDT. Tn accordance with the suggestion offered by the supreme court in the opifilon which it handed down denying the application of Gov- { ernor Crounse for a writ of mandamus to compel the state treasurer to invest the idle school moneys n atate warrants, the State | Board of Educational Lands and Funds has passeil resolutions setting aside certain sums for the purchase of state warrants and em- powering the state treasurer to act for It in examining the warrants that may be pro- sented and In acquiring them for the school fuud. ‘The resolutions of the board provide that $200,000 be appropriated for the purchase of outstanding registered general fund war- rants, with accrued Interest, that are to be ealled in, while $250,000 1s appropriated for the purchase of current unregistered war- rants already drawn, as well as those that may hereafter be drawn against the general fund. As soon as the registered warrants are seeured for the school fund they are to cease bearing interest and thus save the sum that would otherwise be expendeda for Interestto the people of the state. By this operation, should it be carrfed through without further obstruction or delay, the state debt will shortly be reduced by $450,000. The state will cease to pay inter- | est upon $200,000 of this at the rate of 7 per | cent, which the warrants have been drawing. The school fund will not be in any way | augmented, but instead of being deposited in favored banks for the benefit of private in- dividuals it will be applied to the uses of the state In paying warrants drawn upon the exhausted general fund, to be repaid to the school fund so soon as the general fund shall again have a surplus at its command. This will leave but a comparatively small portion of the school fund uninvested, although even then the warrant indebtedness of the state must remain for the time at considerably more than The warrant indebtedness of the state has of recont years assumed alarming propor- tions and fmposed upon the state a huge and unnecessary burden of interest. Since August, 1891, the Interest charged has amounted to nearly $150,000. All this time vast sums In the school fund have been lying idle, which, if applied to the ox- tinguishment of the state debt under the law, would have saved almost this entire amount. Every obstacle which ingenuity could devise has been pushed forward to prevent the state authorities from making this application of the school maoney to the reduction of the state debt.. It is but natural to expect that the same policy of de- lay and of interposing legal technicalitics will be continued despite the order of the board. Already rumors are being spread that the holders of registered warrants will refuse to heed the call when issued and will claim the legal right to hold their in- terest-bearing certificates until the general fund shall be replenished from the usual sources of taxation. Their object would be, of course, to draw the 7 per cent interest from the treasury and at the same time to keep the money in the school fund deposited in banks, where the benefits arising from its use accrue to some one not the public treasurer. Should such an effort be made the people will expect the proper officials to carry the issue to an immediate deter- mination. They have had enough specious delay already. If the state debt is not speedily reduced by the amount of idle money in the school fund the people will want to know the reason. FAVOR A POOLING LAW. The bills pending In congress to authorize railroads under certain conditions to enter Into pooling arrangements were given an impetus by the action a few days ago of a committee appointed by various state rail- road officials favorable to the proposed legis- lation. The railroad commissioners of var- fous states, at their annual convention last year, appointed a committee to consider the subject of pooling, and last Tuesday the committee made a report to the sixth an- nual convention of the state railroad com- missioners, held in Washington. This report, signed by all but one member of the com- mittee, recommends the repeal of the anti- pooling clause of the interstate commerce act. It is argued by the committee that if the railroads were allowed to pool or other- wise divide their earnings, that the rates would be much more stable, which would greatly benefit the business community, and that discrimination and unfair arrangements Wwith large shippers would cease. It was also urged that if the anti-pooling clause were repealed the labor of the interstate commerce commissioners and the railroad commissioners of the various states would be lightened and their authority hetter re- spected, because it would be in the interest of the railroad companies to see that the law was maintained. The report favors unconditional repeal. It also favors legislation to give immunity to the contracting agent of the rallway and the shippers who testify in regard to discrimination. It s expected that this re- port, taken in connection with the fact that the interstate commerce commission has practically recommended the repeal of the anti-pooling clause, will have much effect in congress when it comes to consider this subject. The indications are that the sentiment In congress favorable to allowing the railroads to enter into pooling arrange- ments, under certain restrictions and sub- Jeet to the supervision of the interstate commerce commission, has gained strength, 0 that the prospect for the adoption of the proposed legislation is regarded by its advo- cates as very good. The railroad presidents throughout the country are unanimously of the opinion that the remedy for rate wars and the consequent decreased earnings of the roads will be found In the repeal of the antl-pooling clause of the Interstate com- merce act. In a recent interview Mr. Depew sald that the slow improvement in railroad busiifss Is due mainly to the diMiculty of maintaining rates, for, in spite of the most carefully drawn agreements, the cutting of rates still goes on, the weaker roads, in the absence of pooling arrangements, having to “scramble” to get their share of the trafic. Mr. Depew expressed the opinion that the amendment of the Interstate com- merce law as proposed would have a sal- utary effect, and that with the privilege of pooling their earnings, under proper restrictions of law, the railroads would be able to do Dbusi- ness on a paying basis. It may be said that the rate cutting is in the Interest of shippers generally, but this is probably a mistake. It is doubtless only the large shippers that obtain any advantage from it. - But at any rate it would seem to be better for all that there should be stability in rates, and it has been conclusively shown that this is not attainable under present condition It is perhaps not too much to say that every rail- road in the country 1Is violating the law by discriminating between shippers, and there I8 no way (o prevent (his, every attempt to do 80 by the commission having failed because of the decislons of the courts rendering it powerless to secure the needed testimony. Diserimination can now be prac- ticed with lmpunity, tue law in this regard hetg ontirely worthloss. With a sarefully guardad pooling arrungement the railroads, an 14 8aid In the report of the state commlis Sinnecs, wonld find it to their Interest to see that the law was maintained, and while rates would probably be somewhat higher all shippers eould feel that they were being treated alike. A tentative application of pooling under judiclous restrictions might prove highly satisfactory THE TARIFF BILL AND ADA, The pending tarifft bill proposes to give benefits of incaleulable value to nearly every Canadian Interest. It does not go quite as far in this respect as did the meas- ure which came from the house, because in the latest revision duties are placed on sev- eral agricultural products that were made free in the Wilson bill. But in Its present form the measure would bo a great bion to our northern neighbors in stimulating the development of a number of thelr industries which for a long time have been at a stand- still. Referring to this in his speech on the tariff bill Senator Hale sald that the measure was made up after a fashion that could not have better satisfied the Cana- dians had a committee of their own taken the subject in charge and fixed their own schedules and duties. He pointed out, as anybody can see who will take the trouble to examine the bill, that it practically and substantially opens up the markets of the United States to the agriculturists of Can- ada and to all the producers of Canada, without any compensation to the people of the United States, without any reciprocity whatever, and with no conditions of any kind asked. It gives to Canada, without any offset or any compensation, all that the Canadian people have asked for at any time within the last ten years. In 1800 our imports from Canada, chiefly of farm pro- ducts, were to the value of over $10,000,000. In 1892, under the operation of the McKinley tariff, they amounted to but little more than $4,000,000. This difference of $6,000,000 was made up by increased supply In the United States, to the advantage of our own pro- ducers, and this advantage the pending tar- it bill would destroy. The amendment Introduced by Senator Gallinger, providing that the tariff act shall only becon:e operative so far as it concerns Canada upon proclamation by the president of the United States, to be made only in the event of the Canadian government declaring. a desire to enter into commerclal relations with this country which will reduce the duties on American products and the con- summation of such an arrangement, Is a proposition that will undoubtedly meet very general popular approval. There s not a valid reason why important American inter- ests should be subjected to Canadian com- petition without requiring any sort of rec- iprocity on the part of Canada. The govern- ment of the Dominion has for years per- “sistently discriminated against American products. Her whole commercial policy has been hostile to this country, as in every other way she has manifested an unfriendly disposftion toward the United States. Even now the Canadian government s diserimi- nating against American shippers through the Welland canal. Recently that government has revised its tariff, but not in a single in- stance was any change made that would benefit any American manufacturer or pro- ducer. There was no concession to better trade relations between the two countries and no intimation of a desire to promote such relations, but, on the contrary, the declaration of a purpose to firmly adhere to the existing policy. All talk of reciprocity has ceased in Canada since the democratic party came into power, and if our govern- ment were now to make any overtures look- ing to reciprocity they would undoubtedly be rejected by the Canadian government, such is the confidence of the ruling party there in the intention of the democrats to throw open the American market to the manufacturers and producers of Oanada with- out asking anything in return. The passage of the tariff bill as it stands would give a great impetus to every Canadian interest. It would Inaugurate there an era of unprecedented progress and prosperity for that country. And to the extent that it produced this result American Interests would suffer. It is not to be ex- pected that Senator Gallinger's proposition will prevail. It is hostile to democratic policy. But it contemplates a just recogni- tion of American interests and will be en- dorsed by intelligent and unprejudiced pub- lic opinion. THE DUTY OF ASSESSORS. The city council at its last meeting de- termined to drop the resolution that had been introduced into that body instructing the city attorney to bring mandamus proceedings against the several assessors in order to compel them to list the property which they assess at a fair market value, instead of at the absurd fraction of the real value which they have been accustomed to enter on their books. The fact, however, that no man- damus proceedings will be instituted by the city council affords no license to the assessors to continue to violate the law which they are sworn to observe. Their duty In this matter is 5o plain, so clear to every one who will read the provisions of the statute, and has been explained and emphasized so fre- quently in the public press, that they will bo unable to excuse their actions on the ground of ignorance. It is probably just as well that the idea of Instituting mandamus proceedings has been abandoned. The duty of the assessors Is so distinctly defined that doubts have been ex- pressed whether a writ of mandamus would lie were it applied for. There Is a certain discretionary power vested in the assessors Wwhich the courts would hesitate to direct, but that discretion must be exercised within the lines laid down by the law—that is to say, the assessors smust attempt to report the true value of property listed by them. Thore is absolutely no warrant for them to divide the true value by 6 or 10, or by any other number. A writ of mandamus could not make their duty more plain than it now is. On the other hand, it might tend to create an impresion that In the absence of such writ the assessors are free to violate the law as they may see fit. It is their duty to obey the spirit of the law, mandamus or no mandamus. Omaha is suffering constantly from un- favorable comparisons with other cities, founded upon the grossly unjust figures that are taken to represe: her tax valuation. The Pittsburg Financlal News only a few days ago contained an article giving a re- sume of the census bulletin on municipal taxation, in which it held Chicago up to derision in the matter of Its tax under- valuations, At the same time it says that of the twenty-cight citles enumerated, in not one is the assessed valuation half as low in proportion to the true valuation as In Chi- cago, “‘with the one exception of Omaha.” Is this the kind of reputation which Omaha de- sires? Does she want to be advertised as being possessed of taxable wealth insignificant in comparison with that of other citles, and as being burdened by a nominal tax rate that frightens the prospectiye investor at first glance? A falr tax valuation will remove thone obstacles 1o Diivaha's progr and | rity. 1t wilf'relbe the dmit of in- | debtednecs and perait! iy to ~outinue a policy | of public improvementsl It will reguce the tax rate to normal’ proportions. What wo noed 18 not new lofisthtion. It fs the en- forcement of the leflisldtion that we already nave. The askossor who falls to do his duty | ahould be held responsiblé for his failure. ——— Tha Chicago Tiniés goes to some trouble Tect what It says was an erroneous | report inndvertently sont out of this city | last fall to the cffoc? that Congressman Bryan spoke here fth Senator Allen before a popullst mass meeting. “Bryan” it says further, “was_advortised to speak, but it was done without his knowledge or con- sent. He refused (o speak and was at Washington the night of the meeting.'” Perhaps Mr. Bryan considers himself too good to speak before a populist meeting. He does not, however, consider himself too good to fish for populist votes or even for a populist momination for the office of governor. The Times suggests him as a senatorial candldate acceptable to both parties—democrats and popullsts. Would Mr. Bryan, after refusing to address a populist meeting, consent to secure an elec- tion to the senate by means of populist votes? The very idea of such incon- sistency is abhorrent. o Judge Doane’s pointed observation In ref- erence to detectives that do not detect is a reflex of local sentiment. Municipal sleuths seem to have been blindfolded. If they de- tect anything it is a class of petty offenders having no political pull, One of the alleged detectives has recently made repeated visits to the house of a man suspected of robbery, now a fugitive from justice. It s claimed that the ladies of the house have entertained the detective sumptuously when he visited them late at night. If the mayor could en- gage a real detective to watch some of the alleged detectives of this city, many ques- tlonable escapades could be exposed. It should not be necessary, however, to scan- dalize the city in order that reform meas- ures may be applied In that direction. The death of Henry Grebe will be mourned by many citizens in this community. For thirty-three years he has resided here, win- ning and holding the esteem of his fellow- men. Many times he was called to responsi- ble public positions, and in the performance of his duty his fidelity and Industry were steadfast and marked. Mr. Grebe was one of the sturdy ploneers who helped to butld the foundations of Omaha and lived to see the village of 1861 grow to be the metropolis of the Missourl valley. In later years he had not taken an active part in the affalrs of the city, but he enjoyed the confidence and respect of his neighbors, to whom his death will be a personal bereavement. His Integrity will stand ‘as an example to the younger generation of men. —_— The man who is attempting to bolster up Congressman Bryun's! senatorial boom through the editorfdl columns of the Chicago Times might do well tq revise his informa- tion concerning Nebraska's representation In congress. If, as he says, Nebraska ls represented In congress'by four republicans, two populists and. one democrat, Bryan must be posing as a-democrat and as a republican at one and the same tinie. Such a course is not well cdicutaied to win the much desired popularity with the populists. e ——— Sandbagging Voorhees, Globe-Demoerat. There has been a gain of 1,000 republican votes in Senator Voorhees' fown of Terre Huaute during the last vear, and that Is what his nelghbors think about the sery- ice that he has rendered to the trusts in the tariff matter. S Illustrating a Business Maxim. ‘Washington Star. The proposition to give the Union Pacific railway 100 years in which to pay its debts, considered in connection with numerou: just and unsatisfied claims against the gov- ernment, recalls forcibly ~the business maxim that an easy creditor is generally poor pay. e Logic of Statistics. Globe Democrat. People who are fond of considering the logic of statistics will be interested in ob- serving that the returns of the Indiana municipal elections show that if the cam- palgn had been for state officers the re- publicans would have won by nearly 35,000 majority. ———re An Aggregatfon of Blunders, Philadelphia Inquirer. Secretary Carlisle is quoted as authority for the statement that there were 500 mis- takes in the tariff bill as it came from the finance committee of the senate. That, however, is a small matter with the party in power, as ‘“‘a_tariff of some sort” is ail the democrats expect to pas: Th Toburlington Harvesting Fame. Milwauk Sentinel, The Hon. Tobe Castor, though not a democratic office holder himself, would Ifke to be the cause of office holding in others. He s urging Mr. Cleveland to appoint one Crawford pension agent at Omaha. A man with such a name as Tobe Castor doubtless has influence with the present administra- tion., S Small Business, Denver Republican, The conviction of Coxey was small busi- ness, or rather his prosecution was, for the prosecution was primarily to blame, It would have been much better and more diznified on the prt of the wuthorities of the District of Columbia if they had let Coxey and his men meet on the steps of the capitol, and no great harm would have been done if they had been allowed to walk on the grass. —_———— What is Tt." Chicago Post (dem.) The “compromise” tarift bill in the sen- ate has been prepared and published finally. Tt shews the effects of the “sand- bagging’” in numerous dents and protuber- ances and is as much worse than the “‘uri- compromised” Dill of the finance committee as that measure was worse than the Wil- son bill. In nearly every instance in which a change Is made the direction Is toward protectionism. Of course the Sugar trust profits again. The Industry with which that ‘nterest’ labored with the gpeculating senators has been substantially rewarded. We imagine the trust has now got all it wants and something more thit it expected, Senator Murphy secures concehsions as to collars and cuffs, Senator Smith gets duties on his interests, and here;and there the othe eastern senators have picked up items which they missed in the earlier struggle in committee, g et Representative of the West, Lineoln Ne Some of the small:bores in _the local newspaper fleld appeat to be offended be- cause the News 4Krees in a number of instances with The Omaha Hee, and are trying in their poor, weak way to use this as capital against,this paper. It mignt be just as well to state that despite the persistent misreprésentation and villificas tion of Rosewatdr by the corporation mouthpiece here, people who have any real knowledge of the newspaper situation In Nebraska, the policies and achievements of the respective papers, know that The Bee never attacks a publle officer, exposes a rascal or rubs the fur of u designing politiclan without good grounds for It, and it has invariably proven the truth of its charges, They also know that ‘The Bee stands today the representative paper of the west, with a larger and better staff of writers, & more complete telegraph report and better in every department than any er paper in the great midwest. The News is not enamored of some of Mr, Rosewater's political methods, but It does admire his newspaper ability, his courage und his fearlessness. If that 18 criminal the News pleads gullty, Meanwhile it will continue to speak it§ mind about public officers and public measures, the mere fact that & man who holds a public office belng able to throw a little advertising to it once in_a while not being consldered in this office, as in others, a8 giving him any im- munity from criticism, The Senate THE OMAHA DAILY BEF: SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1891, : : oo OTHER LANDS TIAN OURS The vots on the registration bIll in the Commons proves again that Rosebery and Hareourt have ao such hold on the cloments which make up the government majority a8 Gladstoue had, Harcourt eannst hold the majority foether in support of measure be it is a g nment ure, and dofeat on it would mean retir and di-soluticn, and Rosebery’s leadoraiip | Is not of the sort which holds the rank and flo of the party to thetr duty, There i a xrowing disposition among the members of the majority and the groups Into which it Is divided to magnify grievanees and refuse to make concessions for the general good, Gladstone could fnduce or compyl a subordi- nation of these private and semi-private mat- ters to his general program, as he obtained the assent of everybody to the nopoly of the time of the Commons which he gave | to home rule for Ireland and the employers’ Hability bill. Were he at the helm now | it Is doubtful if the government majority on the registration bill would have been cut down to fourteen, by ndifference and worse on the part of the government supporters. In many respects this is the narrowest es- cape the vernment has had, and the most alarming. The bill is supposedly one in which the whole party behind the govern- ment {s interested—the liberals and radicals because it practically does away with plural voting, enfranchises a very large number of workingmen who have been deprived of the suffrage by the old registration require- ments, and the Irish because It promised | to increase the home rule vote In the next Commons. Primarily the bill was intro- duced to strengthen the liberal and radical vote in the constituencies, and all well-wish- ers of that party were counted upon to vote for it. It seems that eight or ten Irishmen a group of radicals and a few liberals were present when Saturday's division took place, but did not go Into the government lobby, and that others absented themselves. If a dozen more had followed these bad ex- amples the Rosebery governiment would have fallen. e The real significance of Prince Bismarck's address to the societies of Danish war veter- ans is beginning to be appreciated in Berlin, These socketies are absolutely nonpoliteal, and consequently little weight was at first given to the congratulatory ailusions made by the ex-chancellor to the disappearance of the differences of opinion which existed thirty years ago concerning the future of the duchles of Schleswig and Ho'stein. The re- port of an impending modification of the German imperial policy of coercion hitherto maintained In the duchies conquered from Dgnmark in 1864, when taken in connection with the address of the ex-chancellor, seems to indicate a more intimate understanding between them and the emperor than had been suspected to exist upon a question of current politics. The subject of this under- standing seems to be a plan to abolish all distinctive laws applicable to Schleswig and : Holstein, and to extend to the residents of the conquered duchies the same rights ac corded to Prussian born subjects of the cm- pire. Hitherto the Schleswig-Holstein of- ficials have had considerable discretionary owers, and although they were instructed 0 use them with the utmost consideration, they have often applied the excepttonal laws in a despotic and arbitrary manner. Cit- izens have been expelled upon the slightest pretext, and permits to hold meetings of any kind within the duchies have gencrally boen refused by the local Prussian officials. The interdict was extended even to literary, ar- tistic and educational reunions, and quite recently a request from the Danish pastors in the duchies to be permitted to preach twice a week in the Danish language was denfed by Dr. Borse, Prussian minister of instruction and ecclesiastical affairs. This regime of repression, it is belleved, will be soon replaced by a few administrative laws leaving little or no discretion to the gover ing autho:ities. e The attack upon the Austrian government recently delivered in the Austrian Reichs- rath by Dr. Gregr, the leader of the Young Czechs, was a vigorous political arraignment and has attracted a good deal of attention. In one place he sald that to promise and not to perform was a characteristic feature of our time. The present perlod in Austria was marked by faithlessness and breach of promises given, at least so far as the Bo- hemian people were concerned. The prime minister was one of those nobles who had inscribed the cause of Bohemian state rights upon their banner, and he still maintained at every opportunity that he held fast to that program. Notwithstanding that fact. how- ever, Prince Windischgratz recently de- clared that he did not know what the Bohe- mian question meant, although formerly he had energetically defended it in the Diet at Prague. That was evidence, said Dr. Gregr, that those nobles were simply weathercocks on the palace roof in Vienna. It was easy to conceive that the Young Czechs could not place much trust in a cabinet formed of such personages. They must also refuse their confidence to the government on the ground of its program. In his criticism of the ministerial policy he insisted that it gave no indication of how the government pro- posed to deal with the social auestion, It has abolished the legally guaranteed liber- ties of the people and hindered the national and intellectual development of whole races. In the effort to maintain an unjust predomi- nance it had allowed free scope in the great- est kingdom of the empire to a-Statthalter whose methods offended the moral sense of every respectable person. Such a govern- ment could lay no claim to morality. It had spoken in its program of acting with frankness and_sincerity. The Young Czechs would, he said, keep the ministers to their word on one important point, and would ask why they maintained the state of siege in Bohemia and whether they were in- clined to advise his majesty the king at last to carry out the solemn promise wh he made to the Bohemian people in the re- seript of 1872 and to allow himself to be crowned king of Bohemia. The government had stated that they would not permit them- selves to be intimidated by threats, and he replied that the Young Czechs would not be terrorized by the menaces of the ministry. e There are numerous signs that the process of Germanization in Alsace-Lorraine has made considerable advance. From divers quarters of Alsace it has been asserted by those who ought to know the temper of the people that there is no longer an Alsatian question, Even In Lorraine, where the French element Is more numerous than In the almost entirelv German-speaking pro- vince of Alsace, the people, although still friendly toward the French republic, have found something better to do than to pose as irreconcilables or martyrs merely to please the Parisian boulevardiers, The in- terdiction by the authorities of Colmar, in Upper Alsace, forbidding an amateur dram atic soclety from performing the opera “Galath in the French language has aroused the indignation of the sensible Ber- liners. The action of the authorities Is justly criticised by the Berlin press as likely to do more to maintain French fecling in the Reichsland than would the performance of 100 French plays. Public opinion in Germany would overwhelmingly sustain a policy of conciliation and equal rights in Alsace-Lorraine, and the government might find the curtailment of the arbitrary powers vested In the local officials of the Relchs- land quite as expedient and.useful as the proposed abandonment of coercion in Schles- wig-Holstein, The dictates of justice and a sound imperial policy both demand a re- form in the direction indicated. e Great excitement, which threatens to be followed by serious international complica- tions in the extreme Orient, has been caused by the assassination at Shanghal of Kim- okk-Kiun, the chief plotter in the Korean massacre of December, 1884, upon which oc- caslon seven of the chief ministers and two princes of Korea were slain, Kim-okk- Kiun, after a brief period of authority, had been compelled to flee from Korea, and bad found a refuge in Japan. For ten years in- cessant attempts had been made to entice the Korean refugee out of Japancee juris- diction, and he was induced to make the trip to Shangbal, where he met his death, only after a promise of immunity from the Chinese minister at Tokio. The duplicity of the Chinese authorities has naturally aroused the Japanese to a fever heat of hostility against China, and in view of the long existing rivalry between these coun- tries to gain control In the affairs of Korea, the Shanghal incident may furnish a pretext for an acute crisis in the relations between the two great ewpires of the east. THE SUNDAY BEE. Aitention s called to the Jeading featurss Most noteworthy o latost suecoss, ' a continmation of which will bo of the Sunday Ben weltes (8 now, Charles Emory Smith, diplomat and editor, American travelers « entertainingly He s eminently sutisfactorly hottoms s given, Is interesting in that It portrays to the more fortunate the manner the fag ond of civilization within a stone's throw of the The Soldiers and Island is a state institution of which ¢ paratively little is known, will contain a description of the ing how the disabi erans are cared for, Very few adults in Omaha know anything methods of tn vogue in the public schools In a spectal work now being done to properly teach (he facts will be brought out as the result of recent visits to gome chools of the chronicle of doings in the smart world; the | sporting department at of all timely adequate representation The Sunday Bee. No paper west of Chicago can hoast of a market page equal to that of The Sunday Speclal efforts are feature of The Sunday Beo above and be- yond competitors. With unrivaled facilities for gathering the news of the world, and e own territory, readers of The Sunday Bee are assured of its excellence In that regard. All newsdealers sell The Sunday Bee. pecially that of its RIPPLING MIRTI. Philadelphia think the English tongue will ¢ Hoax — Do [ from the way some people persist in mur- dering it, it ought to be dead now. soliloquized stood on an eminence and took his first says the owner n occasionally of some of the other animals, variably has all his leopards spotted. Milwaukee Journal year when young of nervous energy aspirations In making a garden, This is the time of Washington Star: call that particular style of verse ‘blank’? asked the girl who always wants to know “that's the condition your mind." Plain Dealer: There is much tenderness butcher rar Philadelphia ade your debut as an actor last on? Footlite—Oh, I got on all right, but I could not get off quick enough. Muggins—So you Chicago Tribune: Well, how's things?" asked the deaf and dumb man, 5 n. “Well, what are you kickin' about?" grumble about something. New York Press. She loved to chat and to gossip, And scandal made her glad, But she hadn't made any acquaintances, And often her heart was sad. But she joined the sewing And the sadness left her brow; each’ family In And a happy woman she's now. — A LYRIC OF COX Chicago Record. To Washington went Coxey, To found & new regime— The people’s self-made proxy § With his altrurian dream. Arthur P. Gorman of N led minions, 4 by one Browne, Who shared his vast opinions, He marched into the town. And with his All marshal He sought the people's forum On capitoline hill To make the languid quorum Regard his wish and will. And as he thither hied him | within the past six months, it has He had through lawns to pass, And bold policemen spied him A-walking on the gra o0 he stands con Our Coxey bold, ala Convicted and evieted— His dreams all “gone to grass.” o - WNING, KINR 580 & CO. g Tho largest makors and sellers of fine clothes ou carth, St our money’s worth or your money hac Y A W Stilts Saturday. Kesponsibility for the Disastrous Orash of the 014 Ford Thea'er Building. PROSECUTOR LOOKING FOR A VICTIM Pursuit of Cotonel Fred Alnsworth Has About Ended and the Search is 8t s~ White Huss for e Manawa. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE DEB, 1407 I Street, N, W WASHINGTON, May 11. The district attorney and othee legal lights have thus far been | baflled in thefr wndertaking to find & vietim upon whom to fasten the responsibility for the Ford's theater disaster of last June, The hunt for a victim bas been diligent and painstaking, but unsuccoss- ful, because the steuths have boen on a false scent all of the time. They have as- sumed from the first that Colonel Fred Ains- worth, who happened to be the army officer tn charge of the old bullding when it lapsed, ought to b made the scapogoat. But, as a matter of fact, the real party upon whom the blame should rest Is the congress of the United States. Colonel Ired Alnsworth has secn consid- erable frontler servica, principally in Ari- and Texus. Ho was called here by the Surgeon General Baxter, who knew his qualifications. He came here a captain, was promoted to the g e of major by rey 5, and was made colonel by act of congress, as a recognition of his efeclency as an executive officer. Colonel Ainsworth made his clorks work us they never worked before. He brought the work up to date and estematized everything, The correspondent of The Bee was a clerk in the old Ford's theater, cighteen years ago, for more than a year. After shaking the dust and grime of the old rattletrap from his feet the correspondent returned to jour- alism. In August, 1 ) years be- fore the theater collapsed, he wrote an arti- cle for an lowa paper deseribing the condi- tion of the bullding, and predieting a holo- caust or a crash, and denouncing congress for its niggardly refusal to put the building in order. And eleven years afterward, when the disaster ed, an attempt was made to fasten all responsibility upon Colonel Alnsworth. ntative Hager of Towa today made t to the flsh commissioner v one carload of white bass to be in Lake Manawa at Councll Bluffs, he commissioner informed Mr. Hager that they would be shipped within a short time. General Grosvenor of Ohlo will speak at Lincoln on June 12 at the meeting of the Nebraska Republican league. Representative Dolliver of Iowa will also be present, and he has promised to speak at Omaha at the re- quest of Mr. Mercer. Representative Hainer today made a fa- vorable report from the committee on agri- culture of his bill to establish and maintain agricultural experiment stations in Alaska. Commissioner Lochren today appointed the following doctors to be members of boards of examining surgeons: Nebraska—Ed. B. Cummings and T. P. Livingston, Platts- mouth; J. K. Whiteman, J. M. Birkner and J. E. Spatz, Bdgar; Adolph Opperman, Au- burn. lowa—C. V. Campbell, Atlantic. South Dakota—A. G. Allen, Deadwood. Andrew Phillips has been appointed post- master at Erina, Garfield county, Neb., vice Michael O'Connor, resigned. — - THE REVISED TARIFE BILL. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.): The new tarift bill proposed by the finance commit- tee of the senate is a conservative bill, o yery great improvement over the Wilson Dill, and should be passed into a law. It will, as near as we can figure it, be a res duction of the tariff from the McKinley bill of about 33 per cent. Washington News (dem.): Tn their des- peration to do something in the way of tarif revision the democratic majority in the senate and house may be dragooned into support of the compromise, but the hostile attitude of the democratic press to- ward this measure presages a reckoning at the bar of public opinion that will be de~ cidedly unpleasant to those responsible for a easure that is egarded, rightly or Wrongly, as o “miserable mukeshift,” or a er to protzctionism. as City Times (dem.): The closer the amended ff bill is scrutinized the more obvious the betrayal of the democratic party appears. David B. Hill and Edward Murphy, jr., of New York; James ., and John R. Me n’of New Jer S. Brice of Ohlo, all elected to the s by the states they represent as dei have turned traitor to the party that hos ored them, and, like Bencdict Arnold for a_consideration the prineiples t fessed to revere and support. Louisville Cour! the democracy of this c depth of contempt whicl been stirred by demovrac ptatives in the United State Journal (dem.): If In intry there 18 a had not before ‘s alleged repre- senate been reached by the action of the committee In the latest “compromise bill 4 1on. It would be as profitless as it would be humiliating to multiply words on this mise which years of struggle T N ten” The. wioat signal of political triumphs had been won. =t =P S P S= S A pair of stills free to every boy purchasing $2 | worth or more in our children’s department Saturday —a new lot just in—Boy's elegant 2-piece suits a$ low as $2—The finest long cut, long pant suits in the | world for $9—Endless variety of boys' furnishings, |: including hats. BROWNING, KING & CO., S. W. Cor, Filteenth and [)nglas Streets, AR = ; v’si‘- .'174— e T L T e =R