Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 14, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BE MONDAY. MAY 11 1894 'fii EOMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Bditor LISHED RY MORNING. IBSCRIPTION, 8 OF 1t Sunday), One Yea sem Dally and Sunday, One ¥ 0.5 Fix Monthe Thpne Montha Omann, Ti outh Omal tinz 3 e aner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. roarl stroot 17 Chamber of news and edl addressed: To the Bt BUSINESS LETTEF All business | A remittances should bo pddrossed to The I Publishine company, Omaha, - Drotts, checks and poatoftice o be-made pavable ¥ of (he com made pavabl e com 15 1 OF CIRCULA'T o . Ta of The Tieo Pub. hing company Seorn, saya that the I number o 10t coples of Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Lee print April, 1504, was as folly during tie month of 2,241 4,050 Total Less deductions coples Total sold Dally average ne * Sunday Sworn to hefore me my pres- ence this 21 day of May, 5 N. P. stary Publl We hope the first visit of the Hibernians to Omaha will not be the last. South Omaha may be a second-class city, as contended by the Taxpayers league, but sho don’t look it. It is plain that 11 o'clock is entirely too early in the morning for United States sen- ators to commence their dally labors. Do the Nebraska democrats have to go all the way to Chicago for advice to fuse with the poplists in the campaign of 1894? If the tarift discussion in the senate is so animated In relation to the schedule on chemicals, what will it be when explosives are reached? 1t the council can get Mr. Wiley's consent it should force the B. & M. road to pay its due proportion of the cost of repairing the Sixteenth street viaduct. If the rates on anthracite coal come down a little further people will be strongly in- duced to put in their next winter's coal sup- ply before summer begins. Corbett may be able to give the French people pointers upon the effective use of the arms, but the Frencn ballet can reciprocate with pointers on the effective use of the lower limbs. TR “My fllustrious ancestor,” writes the duke of Veragua in reference to the great Chris- topher Columbus. But alas! Were Chris- topher again on earth he would have to hesitate long before referring to the duke as “my illustrious descendant.” The Jacksonlans have issued a call for a meeting of the club at which members of the club who are officeholders are urgently re- quested to be present. Members of the club who are not officcholders, but who hope to be sometime, do not need to be urged to at- tend. The Argentine republic has become so economical that it has resolved to abolish its foreign legations, except those at Paris and London, in order to save the expense now Incurred. Argentine’s economy comes rather late in the day, but certainly better late than never. Talking about tax exemptions, one thing ought to be settled this spring for all time. That s, shall the fair grounds property, owned by one man who derives a constant revenue therefrom, be permitted to escape the assessor on the shallow pretense that it 1s reserved for the sole purpose of an annual cabbage show? The out-of-door season is now well begun. The various clubs and associations of this eity devoted to the cultivation of fleld and track athletics are showing commendable activity In inaugurating the summer's sport. The work of the clubs contributes a great deal toward making life in Omaha attractive Quring the warmer months of the year. . According to the usually accurate and re- liable Washington correspondent of the Chi- cago Record the changes in the tariff bill proposed in the senate will number not less than 1,000. It seems that the number in- creases every day. People who voted for a change must feel that they are getting more changes than their wildest hopes antici- pated. Senators who are endeavoring to find ex- cuses for hedging on the fincome tax schedule of the tariff are claiming that the most objectionable features have been re- maoved by the amendments offered by the senate finance committee. The most objec- tionable feature of the income tax tax. That has not been removed and the chances appear to be agalnst its removal. The plan for a fusion of democrats and populists in Nebraska suggested by the Chi- cago Times Is just what the populists are looking for. It wants the populists to be glven a free fleld for their state ticket, in return for which they are to help elect democrats in every congressional district, also a democratic senator. The populists have been having too vivid an experience with democratic generosity in the matter of federal patronage to make them jump very hurrledly at this chance. There are several things which they much prefer to daing the democratic work and holding the populist sack, ' As was naturally to be expected, Ger- many is quite pleased with Secretary Gresh- Is the | am’s Samoan manifesto and interprets it 1o mean that the United States Is intend- ing to assist her in perfecting her title to the Samoan islands. It Is probably going too far to expect the United States to take any positive action in favor of either of the other two powers that have joined in the existing protectorate, but should the American government pursue only a passive poliey Germany's position would be con- siderably strengthened. We ought not to bo compelled to wait long for Germany to take energetic action In Samoa. MAY RETALIATE. The provision In the sugar schedule of the tarlt bill fmposing extra duty upon all sugars, syrups of cane julce or of beet Jui and conerete or conesntrated molasses, which are imported from or are the product of any country which at the time the same are exported therefrom pays directly or In- lirectly a bounty on the export ther:of, w.il be very likely to lead to retallatory logisla- tion by Germany and France. The effect of this extra duty would be to exclude the be:t sugar of those countries from the United States, and as this is a considerable item in their trade with us they cannot be ex- pected to vicw its loss with complacency, The reimposition of discriminating duties against American pork products is therefore 10 be looked for it the proposed sugar sched- uls is adopted. The removal of the diserimination by Ger- many and France against our pork was se- cured only after years of effort. That it would not finally have been obtained but for the reciprocity prineiple of the existing tariff law it {3 presumed no well informed person Wil deny. The discrimination against Am r- fean pork was established in the intercst of rman and French farmers, although the ostensible reazon was that our meats wero not healthy. This had been clearly shown for years to be a mere subterfuge, because vigilant investigations by the officials of those countries uniformly failed to discover disease in the pork shipped ‘rom this coun- try. But notwithstanding this fact the per- sistent efforts of our ministers during a period of ten or twelve years to persuade the German and French governments to re- move the restrietions against our pork ac- complished nothing. When those govern- ments realized, however, that this govern- ment was In a position to shut off their sugar trade with the United States it be- came a question whether their pork ralsers or thelr sugar producers should be protected, and it was decided in favor of the latter. This government made no threat of retaliation, There was no, attempt to coerce compliance with our request for the removal of discriminating regulations. It was not necessary. But the governments of Germany and France understood very weil what they might reasonably expect if they malntained their hostile policy respecting one of our most important products and they yielded. This concession was hailed as one of very great Importance and value, and It has proved to be. Perhaps the in- creased Buropean demand for our hog products has not been quite so great as was hoped for, but it has been considerable, and our farmers have realized a benefit from it which they would dislike to part with. But it seems hardly possible that it will be continued if the proposed legislation affecting the sugar trade of Ger- many and France with the United States shall be enacted. If there is any hope that those countries will abandon the bounty to their sugar exporters it may as well be dis- missed, because it is by means of that policy largely that the sugar industry of those nations has been developed and it will undoubtedly be adhered to so long as there is further room for the extemsion of their trade in sugar. Nor will the concessions which the pending tariff bill makes to foreign manufacturers necessarily operate as a bar to retaliatory legislation. The loss of the German and French markets for our hog products would be a serious matter, but the democrats in congress are not consider- ing the welfare of the farming interest in drranging their tariff scheme, and so far as sugar is concerned it is the trust they are endeavoring to satisfy. THE CHINESE REGISTRATION. The statement made public last week by Commissioner ~ Miller of the internal revenue bureau, giving the exact figures of the Chinese registration under the extended Chinese exclusion law, shows that the pur- pose of that law has been practically ac- complished so far as the registration is con- cerned by its observance by almost all the Chinese residents in the country. The law therefore has operated even better than many of its most hopeful supporters anticipated, and in spite of several unfayorable ecir- cumstances. The extension act contemplated giving the Chinese an additional six months for securing thelr certificates, but delays in the Treasury department in preparing the Dblanks and in the courts by failure of their officials to begin the work of registration cut oft a considerable portion of the time allotted. The Chinese, moreover, were rather slow In making up their minds whether the law this time was meant to be enforced in earnest. They were also to a great extent scattered in places which were of difficult access to the courts where the certi- ficates were Issued, and as is unusually the case, left this important duty to the last moment, when there was a general seramble to take out the papers. With' these condi- tions it is only to be wondered that so few of them remain in default. The figures of the Chinese registration glve a total of 105,312 as having complied with the law, while, according to the census of 1890, there wdre 107,485 Chinese resi- dents in the United States, 1If, then, there has been no considerable illegal immigra- tion during the last three years and if there has been no duplication of certificates there can be but 2,000 Chinese who have falled to reglster. A comparison of the census statistics of the Chinese population of this country with those of the registration re- turns discloses some very interesting facts, The number of Chinese in this country in 1860 was 34,933; in 1870, 63,199; in 1880, 105,465; In 1890, 107,485. There was scarcely any Increase durlng the last decennlal period. On the other hand, all through the various censuses we see a steady movement of the Chinese from the Pacific coast, where in 1860 they were alone to be found, to the eastern portions of the country. Much of this was of cour:e at the expense of the new im- migration, but during the period between 1880 and 1890 the number of Chinese in California decreased absolutely by 3,000 and In Nevada by 2,600, while the number In New York Increased by 2,000 and in Pennsyl- vania by 1,000. The phenomenon which now presents itselt is that this eastward scattering of the Chinese has gone on during the three years that have olapsed elnce 1890 at a rate greater than ever before. California and Nevada, which together were aceredited with 75,305 in 1890, have regis- tered only 67,977. Oregon and Washington, which by the census were glven 12,800 Chi- nese inhabitants, registered only 10,885, On the otber hand, Nebraska and the two Da- kotas, to Wwhich the census ascribes 326 Chinese, registered 407. Pennsylvania, with a Chinese population of 1,146 in 1890, reg- istered 1,875; New York, with 2,935 in 1890, registered 6,247; Texas, with 710 in 1890, registered 1,021; Virginla, with 55 in 1890, registered 111; and so on through more than half the states in the list. If the flgures are accurate, thelr significance is not to be undervalued. They mean that the concentration of Chinese on the Pacific coast will soon be a thing of the past. The number admitted to this country cannot be materlally increased, while those already here must in time be gradually dissipated by death. One hundred thousand Chihiese seattered over the whole country cannot be a menace to any portion of the 65,000,000 of American people. The Chinese appear to be solving the Chinese question for them- selves, THE STATE BANK TAX AGAIN It is expected that this week the house of reprosentatives will be given an opportunity to consider the question of repealing the 10 per cent tax on s'ate bank idsues. It Is stated that Speaker Crisp has Intimated to those Interested in the subject that he will ohey the mandate of the democratic caucus and will rerognize the leaders on the' differ- ent sides of the question if they will reach an agreement as to the order of recognition. As to the prospect for the repeal of the tax 1o recent estimate of the strength of the re- poalers has been made, but there will prob- ably be a test voto during this week, and it need hardly be sald that the country will awalt such a vote with great Interest. One of the - newest measures to be pre- sented is a compromise bill, permitting state issues when the state laws require designated guarantces. The author of this measure, Representative Swanson of Vir- ginia, takes the view held by all the south- ern democratic representatives that state charters are preferable to charters fssued under a national system. He maintains that state supervision of banks is much less subject to political influences and abuses than federal supervision, because the states difter among themselves politically and state officials are constantly responsive to local criticism and cannot show favoritism with- out its being manifest. He thinks that a large proportion of the states would re- quire the deposit of securities with the state government, and he does not fear suspen- sion of specie payments so long as any noto holder has the power, as provided for In his bill, to go into court and shut up the bank, in order to secure his lien, the moment that the bank refuses to pay specle. Mr. Swanson has figured out a possible cir- culation of over $250,000,000 on the existing capital stock and surplus fund of the state banks, which amounted in 1893 to about $351,000,000. Seventy-five per cent of this amount would give a circulation of $266,- 000,000, or about $4 per capita. The national banks, with a capital stock and surplus fund in 1803 of over $900,000,000, would be able to issue a circulation of nearly $700,000,000, or more than $10 per capita. This increase in the existing circulation, even after deduct- ing the $200,000,000 in national bank notes now outstanding, Mr. Swanson thinks, would be adequate for the demands of the future for some time to come. The full circulation would not, of course, be taken out at once, but it is assumed that its issue would keep pace with the demands of business and that more capital would be invested in banking as the demand for currency and for banking privileges increased. It would seem hardly possible that any measure providing for the unconditional re- peal of the bank tax can be passed in either branch of congress. Few northern democrats in the house favor unconditional repeal and the republicans are understood to be unani- mously opposed to it, so that a union of of the republican and democratic opposition could safely be counted on to defeat repeal without conditions. The difficulty is to agree upon a compromise measure and the failure of the banking and currency committee to do this is very likely to be repeated in the house. A number of bills for conditional re- peal have been considered in committee, but none of them have satisfied the conflicting demands, and it is quite possible that none of them will be more fortunate in the house. The measure that appears to be best thought of is that of Representative Warner of New York, to which referenece has heretofore been made, but that is much too conservative to satisfy the south. MORE WILY WORK. The absolute subserviency of the clty council to the influence of Wiley and his as- sociates in the Thomson-Houston Electric Lighting company beconies more manifest every day. ‘There is more at the bottom of its decision to refuse to complete the contract with Pardee & Co. to supply elec- tric lighting at a greatly reduced price and to readvertise for nmew proposals than the public has hitherto been aware. Attention has been called to the conditions laid down in the advertisement calling for new bids— conditions that have been darofully ar- ranged for no other purpose than to ex- clude all bidders except the Thomson-Hous- ton company, at the same time leaving the latter at liberty to put in a bid or not, as it may choose. The first of the two con- tracts now held by that company expires at the end of the present month. Bids for supplying the lights now furnished under that agreement may be received up to and including May 22. If promptly actd unon, a contract might possibly be concluded by tho end of the week, but if there should be several blds requiring consideration by a committee of the council, its concluelon could not be had until a week later. The successful bidder, then, Is to have at most only ten days, and most probably only two or three days, to put his Installation in op- eration. Could there be any more effective way of announcing that no bids will be re- celved from any one but the company that now enjoys an electric lighting monopoly under the protection of the council in this city? ! This, however, s not all. When the bids were invited last January there was some attempt at precision in designating the kind and power of the lamp to be used. The advertisement called for lamps ‘“‘each to have a lighting capacity of forty-five volts and ten amperes, or equal to 450 watt This is what the electricians clalm is a nominal 2,000-candle power lamp. It Is the light which the city has been supposed to be getting under its contract calling for an actual 2,000-candle power lamp. The new advertisement for electric lighting does not call for even a nominal 2,000-candle power lamp. It say: “Bach lamp must have a lighting ecapacity ot forty- five volts and 9.5 amperes."” By some hook or crook the volume of the light has thus been reduced 5 per cent. A con- tract under the wew advertisement will per- mit the company to furnish a current less by 6 per cent than it now claims to be giv- ing. Even supposing a bid be received at the $112 limit of price, it will not be for a lamp of equal capacity to that which Pardee & Co. was bound to furnish for the same sum. Just as the decision to readvertise was reached at Wiley's behest, so the conditions under which the new bids are to be recetved were framed, it not by Wiley himself, at least at his dictation. Perhaps Mr. Wiley can explain the Juggliug that has taken place with the specification for lighting ca- pacity, Has the capacity of a nominal 2,000-candle power commercial light been mysterlously changed since last January? Has the necessity of de- fining it by both watts and am- peres disappearcd fm ‘thowe short manlhl?' Won't Mr. Wiley o Jsatisfied with the | monopoly of the electrio lighting flell with- out resorting to underweight methods in order to cheat the city? The twenty-first national conference of | Charltles and Correction will be held in | Nashville from May 23 to 28, As the name | implies this 15 a gathering of people in- | ted in all kinds of charitable and re- atory work, that which is carried on by private benevolence as well as that which | is supported by public funds. These confer- | ences have performed a very important and valuable work in the past, which gives assurance of a continuance of such work. Its membership is largely practical, em- bracing” members of the state boards of charities and correction, delegates from officers and charity organization socleties, ex-officers of public and private charitable and correctional fnstitutions, official dele- gates appointed by the governors of states, and all other persons directly or indirectly connected with charitable work. The pro- gram for the coming conference includes the presentation and discussion of a great variety of subjects relating to the objects of the conference, some of those who will present papers being of world-wide repute in connection with this work. One of the vice presidents of the conference Is Mrs. John M. Thurston of this city, and among those who will contribute subjects are Mr. John P. Mallalieu, superintendent of the industrial school at Kearney, and Mr. J. Adam Snider of that city. It has been the history of this city the past ten or fifteen years that one or another Jjobber or contractor has been able to con- trol the action of the city council in all mattors pertaining to public contracts and franchises. It matters little who the man was or may be today willing to stand the brunt of censure and criticism upon the part of citizens and newspapers for his brazen manipulations and utter disregard of decency. Just now it happens to be Wiley. But back of Wiley there is an influence more powerful than the moral sentiment of this community and before which a majority of the council- men seem to fall an easy prey. Some years ago City Engineer Rosewater sald at a ban- quet that municipal ownership of electric light plants and franchises, as well as other franchises within the city's power to grant, would put a stop to much of the corruption known to have existed in this city. The fu- ture of Omaha will see the wisdom of that statement. The frefght rate war now being waged by trunk lines traversing this territory is seri- ously affecting the business of jobbers and shippers in this section, who have been de- nied a share in the tariff reductions made on through shipments. The Towa State Board of Transportation has taken the matter up on behalf of shippers of that state and will doubtless cite the railroads to appear before it and show cause why shippers at inter- mediate points shall not be given the benefit ot proportionate reductions in order that they may compete With eastern jobbers. Omaha merchants; are. complaining bitterly at the conditions forcéd upon them by the rate war. They have'd right to demand an equitable reduction that will place them upon a level with eastern shippers who sell goods In this territorys The Nebraska State Board of Transportatign could render some assistance In the matter If so disposed. The organization of'a national school of electricity with all the leading electriclans of the country connected with It, either as instructors or as lecturers, is one of the first outgrowths of the World's fair of last year. It proposes to offer to the young men who expect to embark In the fleld of electricity in any of its forms an opportunity to pre- pare themselves for their work by special study. We have in this country a number of universities that devote attention to elec- trical departments, some of which have become recognized as schools of authority. The new institution will have to" compete with these, but by centering itselt upon this one branch of science may become a sort of finishing school for students who have se- cured an clementary education. It is a new evidence of the drift toward specialization in every department of industry, sclence and art. Patience, Henry, Patience. Touisville Courler-Journal. There should be an end of this disgrace- ful imbecility (in congress). e A Mugwump Photograph. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican. Incompetency inconceivable continues to mark the steps of the democratic tarift re- visers in the senate. An Odious Qualification. Cedar Raplds (Ta.) Gazette, Cleveland insists that Towa shall trot out the best available man for the pension office or the place will go to Omaha. This thing of making merit a aualification for office is likely to discourage office hunters in some Instan B The Age of Progress. Boston Post. of modern improvements it will not be long before builders will equip houses with telephones, messengor calls, police and fire calls exactly as they now do_ with gas fixtures and running water. After that it is to be hoped it will not be a long step to automatic servants. e Piping Cries of the Cuckoos, New York Sun. Considered broadly, the income tax scheme which Mr. Cléveland s pushing at the behest of the socialists and the section- alists, is an abominable device to rob the few for the benefit of the many. Considered minutely and in its technical aspects, it Is one of the most amazingly muddled and Stupidly inchoate pieces of legislative work- manship produced at Washington for many years. “Put it through, no matter what it is!" is the word from the white house. *“Rush it through we must!”" i3 the piping ery from all cuckoodom. | Legislative Sillines, St. Paul Ploneer Pross. The tendency fo run to legislation as a cure for a sore finger comes to perfection in a bill before!the Ohio legislature to prevent lynching Now lynching is notns ing less than the forcible setting aside of laws on statute books and the substitution for them of the excreise of private ven- In the march geance. Every one ‘engaged in it is al- Teady, by that act, a lawbreaker. To pass a law making It illegal to hreak another law is the climax ofy absurdity. The next thing we shall hear of is a solemn propo- sitlon In congress making it a misdemeanor for the Coxeyites cal ailroad trains, The Referendum’In Massachusetts. Philhdelphia Ledger. The Massachusqits house of representa- tives has agreed fo!submit to the people a constitutional amendment providing for the referendum and initiative, The vote in favor of the submission of the amend- ment was very declded—156 to 2. Another legislature must joln in this action, how- ever, before the amendment goes to the people. Though working radical changes in the American method of enacting laws, und although Massachusetts is the first state to give the proposition formal con- sideration in its legislature, the subject was not debated more than two hours. This brief consideration of the measure, and the vote which followed, were no doubt in yiew of the fact that theré will be further opportunity to discuss the tople carefully and exhaustively in the legislature before the Massachusetts voters finally. Both of the leadin, state have declared for the pass upon it parties in the referendum. It this demand s renewed in the next conventions held by those parties the robability 1s that the referendum will Ku adopted. I m PEOPLE Governor Pennoyer has touched the bution and sct his senatorial whe:l in motion chator Allen rivals Senator Quay in come nding the undivided attention of the sen- ate reporters The convalescence of Bill Wilson sooms to be in proportion tn the increasing paralysis of Wilson IHil. When 200 pounds of muscular sits on thn horizontal bread yman the desire to collect vanishes In a sonorous gasp. ND THINGS. humanity Dasket of a overdue fare The Amer i Cofin Manufactur 180« clation eomplains of hard times, Having a dead sure thing the membors ealmly and hopefully await a stiffening prospect. Mourning friends and weeping kin must fe:l highly edified and consoled by the an- nouncement of the Lincoln Journal that it prints obituary notices “with great pleas- ure.'" Chicago Is moving for “0-cent gas while the state's attorney general s riving to break up the gas trust. The front and rear attack will enable the trust attorneys to earn their salaries. Two glddy Hooslers, aged $6 and 88, ran a half mile race at Logansport, the junior winning in five minutes and elght seconds, This ought to encourage an eminent elderly Ohioan to take a little run—say in '96. London papers have discovered that Gen- eral Coxey commanded the Minnesota re- cruits in the Riel rebellion and was re warded with the appointment of congress man from the district of Ohio in the state of Indiana. The reported arrangement between Rus- sian petroleum kings and the Standard Oil company disproves the notion that the Stand- and company wants the earth. The distri- bution in question only gives the company this country, the British Isles, France and a part of Germany. The “Soclety for the Education and Reform of Husbands,” recently organized in New York, proposes to do the reforming by a series of comprehensive lectures, If the lectures are to be continued on the present familiar plan the outlook for reform is not sunset tinted. But should the lectures change places or swing around the circle of roform, why then—something will drop General John Gibbon of the United States army, who has scen much service in the far western country, lectured in Baltimore upon the American Indian a few nights ago. Tha Indian, he thinks, must, like the buffalo, eventually disappear, except, probably, a small remnant of the race, which will take on the civilization of the whites. The only thing left to do in the settlement of the Indian question, he sald, is to educate the Indian. Chaska, the Santee Indian, who was onco the husband of Cora Belle Fellows, has been given the following pedigree by a South Dakota paper: “Chaska wears long hair which gives his aquiline face am Oscar Wildish cxpression, but otherwise he is a plain, unadulterated soap-hating, dog-loving semi-civilized, foxy son of the wild and woo'ly west. He speaks fair English, brags of being Chaska and toes in with an abandon which is only begotten of a canine lined interior and a cordial distaste for work.” A canvass of the Kelly army while camped at Des Moines showed 763 men, of whom 549 were American born and 214 foreign born. Of the foreigners fifty-cight are Ger- man, thirty are English, twenty-cight are ‘Irish, eighteen are Swedes, twelve are Scotch, cleven are Danes and eleven ar Canadians. Politically, the army con- tains 240 populists, 218 republicans, 196 democrats, the remainder being attached to no party. The band contains 338 Protest- ants and 280 Roman Catholics, the rest hav- ing no religious opinions. There are 662 single men, ninety-one married men and several widowers. — ——— LABOR NOTES. St. Louls coopers won their strike. Rushville, Ind., people co-operated on a telephone system. The Baltimore labor people had a big ccle- bration on May day. The miners of Maryland, numbering about 4,000, will probably strike. The Bethlehem Iron company, at Bethle- hem, Pa., is relighting its furnaces. Mobile & Ohio locomotive engineers have accepted a cut of 8 per cent in wages. A free employment burcau has been es- tablished by the municipal authorities of Baltimore. Carpenters of Montreal have been victori- ous in their agitation for a nine-hour day at 20 cents an hour. It is stated that the millers of the coun- try are organizing and will soon make a demand upon the owners. “Unless the coal miners’ strike s settled soon St. Joseph, Mo., will be without light or transportation facilities. . The people now on strike and forced to idleness by the strikers in Paterson, N. J., number about 8,000 all told. The American Federation of Lahor is pre- paring to send out organizers and lecturers through the summer months. The striking miners of Whitewell, Tenn., have been given notice to vacate their prop- erty, and some are leaving the city. Bakers union No. 75 has succeeded in in- ducing Buffalo Bill to use none but union made bread at his “Wild West” show. The Chapin mine at Iron Mountain, Mich., has resumed operations after a year's idle- ness and is giving employment to 500 men. The nonunifon puddlers at the Sligo mill, Pittsburg, returned to work at $4 a ton. The co-operative arrangement fell through. Twelve hundred of the Mount Olive and Staunton, and 300 of the Edwardsville and Glen Carbon, Ill., miners are expected to go out, The national convention of the United Mine Workers endorsed the entire political program submitted by the American Feder- ation of Labor. Representative Maguire's bill in the house to prevent the discharge of letter carriers for partisan reasons is receiving very gen- eral commendation. The Journeymen Horseshoers National union s making arrangements for its an- nual convention, which is to assemble in Washington May 21. Wages of the employes of the Star Pin company at Anson, Conn., have been cut 10 per cent, this being the second reduction within a short time. Tho Peabody mills at Newburyport, Mass., have (given an increase 0of wages. This order restores a 10 per cent cut down made about two months ago. Henry H. Miller, organizer of tional Brotherhood ' of Electrical has been expelled from local union for alleged misconduct. The Lambert & Bishop wire mill at Joliet, Ill., a branch of the Consolidated Steel and Wire Trust, has increased wages of wire drawers 10 per cent, For the first time since New Year's all of the departments of the Pennsylvania steel works at Steelton are running, and over 4,000 men are at work. The United Laborers' assoclation of Cleve- land starts out with almost 2,600 men, prob- ably the largest union ever organized in so ghort a time in this country. it e O The Mutet Law in Towa, New York ing Post. The proceeding: under the new law in lowa are bringing home to peo- ple the necessity of a local public senti- ment in favor of a law in order to secure its enforcement, In Boone, for example, 1,480 votes were t at the st state election, Last wee a cltizen cf nlated a petition for the establishment of a saloon under the new system, and in two days had ured over S signatures, nearly every business man in the town signing. A ma- Jority being sutficient, the work was not carried further, but it is sald that 200 more signatures could easily have been obtained, the Na- Workers, No. 3, liquor In other words, while there has been a prohibitory law applying to the whole state on the statute books, fully two-thirds of the voters in Boone have been opposed to No wonder that under its _enforcement such cireumstances prohibition has not pro- hibited in many towns and cities of lowa. P PARALYZED. Cleveland Plain Dealer, With a hideous yell, He reeled and fell, As he clutched at the atmosphera And he writhed and screamed Tl it surely seemed That death was hovering near, Then the doctors came, With a Latin name For_ the cause of his frantic fit= Which was all from joy, For his favorite boy Had batted a three-base hig Tamma Throats of disiutogration have | often been made of late and many of the strong men, notably Hourke Iran and PASSING OF 1 BOSS, l Washington Star: The friends of munic Ipal reform everywhero have reawon for re Joleingg over the turn affalrs are taking in Dunply, have not hesits O hers od to assall Crokor. will now no longer hesitate to follow thelr good example. New York Post: A man who has passed from the gutter through sivcet ruffanism, pri fighting and political blackmall to a mi iro's rosidence fn Fifth avenue cares 1 bout the hardships of anybody who has been loxs masterful in the struggle for supromacy than he has. Thero is a good deal written upon Croker iking count nance, but human sympathy I8 not conspieu- ous there, Chicago Tribune: Rats desert the sink- ing ship. Croker fs a wise rat. Ho has doserted In time not only to save himself, but to save all that he has made as captain of the craft. The erew now will have to look after itself for a time. Some of the sailors already arc in he penitentiary ors may go thero when the final exposur. place, but the captain is safe and so is his plunde Chlcago Post: Croker has shown his usual craft in getting out of the way before the burst of the cloud now hanging ove ware the falling ruins. nd he 1s content to let Tammany hall. Ho has the “sw trailers enjoy the glory of martyrdom. Dut it is a disgi o to New York City and a seandalous example to the youth of tiie coun- try that this man should be permitted to escape with his plunder unscourged by the law. Globe-Demorrat: When he(Croker)suceeoded John Kelly efght years ago he was a poor man, and now he is reported to be worth at least a million. He has made politics pay in a degree that shows him to have been a close student and imitator of the methods of his predecessors. If he has missed any op- portunities of levying tribute on corpc tions and other interests for legislative and othor assistance there is no sign of It in the hedule of his Sidepoagies Reorganization of the Union Pacific. Indianapolis Journ The plan of Attorney General Olney for the reo fon of the Union Pacific rail- ow in the hands of the hous a_very important and sy 7 It it had been propo republican rule way sy committe the democratic press erally would have donounced i, The U S| the time of ‘the construction, guars 1 821 2 of Union Pacific bonds and 36, ) A on these bonds the United has paid over $31,000,000, and has been paid in sery $18,700,000. There fs a_sinking fund of $1 the Union Pacific compan 0 excly bonded debt of the Union the outset was_$66,000,000, which has been lled by the Goulds and the Adamses for h roads and other forms of suspicious pitalization to $152,00),000. Now, Mr. Olney proposes to take all the outstanding st, floating debt, et cific a gating $230,000,000, of the §,000 Inil of the Union’ Pacific and have it cov by three blanket mortzages, of which the United States shall guarantee the principal and the interest at the rate of 2 per cent for 100 years, To pay off these mortgages fixed chirges, amounting to 8,500,000 a year, il be levied upon the traffic of the rc That is, ostensibly to secure a debt of § 000,000 when the sinking rund is deducte the attorney general of the United States recommends that the government guarantee the principal and interest of $230,000,000 of 2 per cent 10-year bonds—the ‘bare in- terest on which would be $60,000,0001 Al- ready in the hands of receivers to protect it against its creditors, the attorne recommends that, to secure a gage upon the doubtful property Union Pacific, the government shall make itself liable for three times as much as its own claim amounts to, with the cer nty that the government will pay principal and interest of the increased debt, as it may be forced to do in regard to the present liability. If thi ond mort- of proposition had been made by the attorney of the Union Pacific, it might have been excused on the ground that a representative of such a corporation cou not be expected to have any regard for the interests of the government, but what can De said to explain the condict of Attorney General Olney, except that he was so long of the counsel of the Union Pacific that he is unable, in his new position, to look at the matter in the light of the government, which he now represcnts? * (e S A The Crack of Doom. New York Sun. We have long known that in Grover Cleveland, a_platform unto himself and a crank at that, was the seed of political incoherency and disorder. His fate has made him’ for the moment populist. Tut we deny the right of responsible democ- racy to turn somersaults atter an ntric and irresponsible exccutlve, and to make itself doubly anarchist by adopting the wealth-plundering principles of anarcny without the popular sanction of a national election. While the mugwump has already hurt us more than he knew, the passage ot an income tax after the country has just repudiated the populists and clected “the democrats instead, would be damage be- yond the power of any American states- man to measure. It doesn't require a formal tearing up of the constitution to shake our political order and stability. _———— Give the Treasury a Chance. Holdrege Cltizen, The state lost a large amount of money in the past because thefr money was unin- vested and lay in the banks and helped to swell the income of the state treasurer. It Is to be hoped that the board will go ahead and invest the money as they ought, and we believe they will, for they act as if they knew it was time for them to act, now that the court has said that it was their duty to go ahead. Your money’s worth i BRDWN‘IQE,KI ‘The largest makor tine clothes NEBRASKA AT LONG RANGE. Polltieal and Other Crops Viewed from the State of Hentrice. braska will saise a booming erop of overything this year," sald ex-United States Senator A. 8. Paddock of Heatrice, Neb., to the Washington News man, “Everything | has been favorable and satisfactory to hus- bandry this spring. The scction of Ne f braska from which I hail is a veritable f gard The beet sugar industry in Ne- {l braska has passed the experimental stage. | Tho factory at Grand Island has turned out ! as fine sugar as you over saw. The fm- proved process of extracting the sugar from the beot 1s wonderful. Al of Nebraska fs adapted to the culture of the sugar beet, and if congress will retain the bounty on sugar the industry fn Nebraska will become Xt iy I read that Senators Caffery Blanchard of Louisiana desire the re- ition of the sugar bounty, proforring the bounty to the levying of duties. All sugar manufacturers, I bellove, will profer the bounty, as this Is a certain thing, while the effect of tarift du'ies s uncertain and cannot be definitely dotermined “I belleve the republ can party will pull through in Nebraska, even If the democrats and _populists do fuse,” continued Senator Paddock. “The republicans will not take anything for granted in the coming cam- paign, and they fully realize the strength of fusion in Nebraska and will be prepared to meet it. i FAT BUILDERS, ith's Companion: A western man de- r that his house was carried away by a cyclone just because he was o foolish as to put wings on the bullding. rd: Tutor—Under what name of leglalation Student nate the sc on, say, in Preumatics. nec ONgress? Atchison Globe: No difference how bad o v . the people are bound to find some- thing good In him after he is de ew York J Wife—Why, de t play poker, do you? Husband ( —Those who ought to know say that I don’t. Buffalo Courfer: Many a man who howls loudly about the ‘“‘wron, of s and incqualities of our soclal s *al- s lets his wife carry the bab Philadelphta. Record: The fat man who achers at the ball game burst into tier fell through the b yesterday literall Bellefield when Mr. Sappy is that? Are “Oh, no; but we Sappy Is light= Pittsburg Chroni Mis: turn down the ga Miss Bloomfleld you enj ged to him?, don't meed the gas. headed himself." I al- Mr, Chicago Record: Tommy—Why do they say that the pen is mightier than the sword, pa? His Pa—Because no one can sign checks with a sword, Detroit Tribune: First Lawyer—Will you take something with me? Sccond Lawyer—No, thanks, In the business so long that You've been 1 would be suspected the moment It was missed. Indianapolis Journal: “What are the colors of our team?” asked the man who not been to a game. “Grayish suits, red stockings and yellow ball playing,” answered the other man, who 5 u game. REAL DISTRESS. ew York Press. Today upon the street he's seen, And as we pass him by We mark depression in his mien And sorrow In his ey Why does he sigh and d While passing up to town? Alas! Alas! spring cleaning's here, His home's turned upside down. a - The Ri of onal Petition. Cincinnatt Commereial. Tf the right of personal petition is at war with constitutional government, a8 has been alleged, there should be no admission of the public to the halls of congress ex- cept to those who go to listen or to re- port the proceedings. Lobbylsts of every Idind should be rigidly excluded. Not being done, against whom shall the line b drawn? £ CHARGE OF THE WIL BRIGADE. ‘or The Bee. Half a page! half a page! Half a page onw How shall we ever fill The other six hundred? rward the write brigade! opy, quick,” he sai; “Why don’t you hurry up That promised six hundred rward the write brig: Why are we thus delaycd And not a whit dismayed Still the voice thundered end out your copy there Where are our wits, oh where? Then flashed the scissors Lare, O'er that six hundred, Papers to right of them; Papers to left of them; Papers in front of them; Cut and dismemberec Flashes of native wit; With many a startling hit; By fires of genius lit; & Long were remembored, Honor the write brigade! Yet when our charge we made, Our chief in office said Some one had blundered; “Honor the charge you made? 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