Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE, | E. ROSEWATER, Editor. S : e PUBLI RY MORN THRMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Dally Nee (without Sunday), One Year. Dafly and Sunda . Eix Montha Three Montis Kunday Des, Bt We Omntn. The fes Nuitdin uth Cmaka, corner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. arl atreet er of Commerce, nd 15, Tribune BIOg ot, N, W. ONDENCE, torfal inattor wh BUS ANl business addresned to Omaha. Drafts, ch be mado pavable to th THE DEE P Teo Publishing company, ‘ks and postoMce orders to Ner of the eompany. PLISHING COMPANY, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION Georgo 1, Taschuck, secretary of The tishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complets coples of Th Dully Morning, Fvening and fieo prini during the month of April, 1994, was as folloy 1. 24 0% 1 & 22,28 1 2281 1 2234 1 E 33 Lewn dvductions coples Total ; Daily average net circulation. * Sunday ence this 24 day of (8eal That chemicals schedule fs the drug on the tarift bill market, —e. The burning question—WHhat did the gover- nor of lowa say to the governor of Ne- braska? ey We shall expect next to see the federal courts assume control of the State university and admit students, conduct examinations and grant degrees by means of Judicial orders. With a reduced duty on morphia the democratic contingent in congress can afford artificial means to mitigate the pain they must endure when the returns from the next election commence to roil in. — e Those blowholes fn the armor plates furnished by the Carnegie company for the new American warships are occasioning considerable of a blow despite the efforts that have been made to plug them up. The democrats in the senate would im- prove the prospects of their tariff bill materially if they should relegate a few of thelr number like Vest of Missourl and Turple of Indiana to a place where they might keep their tempers cool. General Kelly gives additional evidence of his conceded level-headedness when he wants It to be distinctly understood by the /public that he is running no populist side show. Kelly is not the kind of a man to be satisfied with anything short of the main circus tent. 1¢f the officers of the United States cruiser Chicago receive such a royal welcome and such lavish entertainment in London, what would the English people do if the president of this great republic should favor them with a visit? It would be Interesting to find out by actual experiment. We wonder it Congressman Bland will have to pay for the time he Is devoting to the development of his presidential boom to the extent of having his salary docked for the number of days that he s absent from the house. Presidential booms come high, but we must have them. The Taxpayers League of South Omaha is making a godd beginning. It proposes to put an end to salary grabs and jobs through the medium of the courts. This Is what Omaha taxpayers must do if they want to break up the Wiley combine in the council, of which Hascall s tho head and Howell the “eaudal appendage. It is presumed that Treasurer Bartley is a candidato for re-clection, If he fs he certainly has enough political perspiculty to know that he Is simply Injuring himself unless he enters promptly into the letter and spirit of the recent decision of the ‘supremo court regarding the purchase of sstate warrants with the permanent school ‘tund. Kem has agaln thought It necessary to explain a little incident in his congressional career by stating that the reason why his Qistrict Is represented in the naval academy by a cadet halling from New York Is be- cause he was not aware of his rights in relation to the vacancy when It existed. _Better resign in favor of a better informed man, Mr. Kem! . Another name has been added to the list ‘of victims to the deadly switch engine—this “time that of an Innocent girl of 13 years, run down and killed without warning. The inquest will doubtless return the hackneyed verdict of accidental death, although the unfortunate affair could easily have been prevented were our railroad tracks and crotsings provided with adequate protection to pedestrians. When human life is valued higher than dividends on rallroad stock we may possibly secure rellef from crossing murders. According to the clty comptroller's report of the condition of Omaha's finances on May 1, when just one-third of the year had passed, several of the funds upon which the demands run uniformly throughout the year were more than one-third exhausted, It the same rate of expenditure goes on In these funds during the coming months there will be numerous deficits staring the city in the face before the beginning of the next fiscal year. The city oficlals must see to it that they keep within the avallable appro- priations. Suppose the council succeeds in finding the cause of electrolysis in our water mains and gas plpes and traces the blame to the source from which the truant electricity comes. What then? Wil it dare to en- force the simple remedy? Wil it order the corporations which monopolize our streets for the transmission of electrical power to put in complete metallic circuits? ~ Or will it defer to the mandates of its corporate masters and let them go on With the sume high hand as at present? Of what benefit to know whether the electrolysis s duo to the trolley or to the electric light or to both, if we know In advance that nothing will bo doue (o remedy W7 THE MISSOURI BOURBONS. The Mssourl democrats remain faithful to the policy of reaction which has distin- gulshed the democracy for a third of a con- tury, They refect the teachings of the past and do not recognize the conditions of the present. The platform adopted by the state convention shows that they have for- gotten nothing and learned nothing. More than a year of business depression, due chiefly to the democrat'c threat to overthrow a poliey malntained for a third of a century, during which the countty prospered as nover before, has made no fmpression on them. The averted danger to the finan- clal soundness of the nation and to the eredit of the government from a mistaken attempt to bolster silver has not only failed to con- vince them of the folly of such an under- taking by the United States alone, but they would renew and aggravate the danger by opening the mints to the free and unlimited cofnage of silver. The Missouri demo- crats repeat the platitude about equality among all citizens and sections In bearing the burdens and enjoylng the benefits of government, yet they favor an income tax, which they must know would take ten times as much from the people of the north | as from those of the south, which, as pro- posed, would be class legislation in its most offensive form and which is undeniably | prompted by the spirit of sectionalism. Fur- thermore, while demanding that all citizens shall enjoy equally the benefits of govern- ment, the democrats of Missouri endorse the repeal of the federal election laws, which afforded the only safeguard to the political rights of the colored citizens of the south But the Missourl bourbons are in harmony with the views of the dominant element of the democratic party in the nation. Although forced to yield something to the conservative sentiment in the party, that element Is still for practical free trade and free silver. Under an Irresistible pressure It has made some concessions to the principles of pro- tection to American industries and Ameri- can labor, but it believes none the less that protection is unconstitutional and still hopes for another and better opportunity to strike it down. TIts hostility to the industries of the country is not more deep-seated and implacable than fts antagonism to those who advocate a financlal policy necessary to the malntenance of a sound and stable cur- rency. The free and unlimited coinage of silver by this country alone, at whatever ratio, would bring it to the single silver standard in thirty days, revolutionize our financial system, destroy the credit of the government and produce general disaster. Yet four-fifths of the democratic party is in favor of the policy urged in the platform of the Missourl democrats. What Is to be thought of the endorsement of Grover Cleveland by a convention that favored free silver? Is it not obviously perfunctory and insincere? Tho platform of the Missour! democrats— the first state democratic platform of the present year—may fairly be accepted as volcing the predominant sentiment of the democratic party on the great issues of the day. It supplies the Keynote for subse- quent democratic conventions, most of which, particularly in the south, may be expected to follow it closely. There 1s no promise in it to reassure the financial and business interests of the country, noth- ing to strengthen the hope for better times of the hundreds of thousands of unem- ployed, no utterance that can tend to dis- sipate distrust and restore confidence. Justly interpreted it means that the con- trolling element of the democratic party, with its 118 representatives from the south and their northern and western allles, is still determined to pursue its destructlve policy, utterly regardless of present condi- tions and future consequences STILL THEY COME. To the framing of financial bills, as to the making of books, there is no end. At a moderate estimate at least a score of such measures have been Introduced in the pres- ent congress, and undoubtedly there are more to come, for pretty nearly every con- gressman feels that here is the opportunity to immortalize himself. It is not an un- worthy ambition to desire to give the coun- try a better monetary system than it now has, but the crudities of most of the finan- clal bills that have been introduced show how little the average congressman knows about sound principles of finance and cur- rency. A bill Introduced a few days ago, which is understood to represent the wishes of the administration in regard to financial legislation, is designed to satisfy all the conflicting democratic views as to what such legislation should be. It provides for the issue of 3 per cent coln bonds to maintain the parity of the currency, for the uncon- ditional repeal of the tax on state bank circulation, reduces the tax on national banks and allows them to issue circulation to the par value of their bonds on deposit in the treasury, and finally provides for the coin- age of the so-called selgniorage. If this measure should become law the secretary of the treasury would not only have the power he has asked for to issue bonds, but the treasury would be reinforced to the amount of the estimated seigniorage, about $65,000,000, to the gratification of the silver men, while the cheap money advocates would ba placated by the repeal of the state bank tax. It I8 assumed that the sound money men would be pacified by the authorization of an issue of coln bonds and the provislons relating to the national banks. In short, it Is said that this omnibus bill is put forward with the idea of uniting all the democratic factions in support of the scheme. It Is suggested that while such a measure might be put through the house it is not probable that it could go through the senate, unless congress remains In session for several months to come. It is doubt- less a fact that Secretary Carlisle 1s anxious for some kind of legislation to meet the situation growing out of the dally deple- tion of the gold reserve, but he is hardly likely to get it through such measure as the one referred (0. In the first place under a law of that kind it would probably be very difficult, if not Impossible, for (he sec- retary to sell bonds at 3 per cent interest. Any further silver inflation could hardly fall to fmpalr the credit of the government, or what s the same thing, its ability to borrow at a low rate of interest. In the second place the unconditional repsal of the bank tax, permitting the country to be flooded with forty-four kinds of state currency of more or less doubtful sound- ness, would have such a demoralizing effect upon the financial system of the country that nobody having gold would want to part With it even for government bonds, and as sllver and paper inflation fncreased we should drift away from the gold standard, Sound mcney men will hardly regard the authorization to issue bonds and to allow the national banks to fssue notes to the par value of thelr securities on deposit in the treasury as compensating for the risk of such a result, What the democrats In congress should THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, do, It they are disposed to consult the best intarests of the country, i to let the bank- ing and currency question alone. It s not urgent and they are not com- petent at any rate to deal with fit, because thers I8 too great divergence of opinfon among them to what should be done. If they will simply give the sec- retary of the treasury the authority he has asked for to issue bonds that will Lo suf- ficlent to enable him to maintain the parity of the currency and the credit of the govern- ment, and after the tarlff question Is dis- posed of that of the currency can be dealt with much better than now. WHO 1S T0O PAY THE FIDDLER? Ours s an age of specialists in every pro- fession and in almost every trade. There 1s no longer any place for the jack of ail trades. This Is especlally true In the field of mechanies and sclence. There are telegraph operators who are not electricians and electriclans who could not operate a telegraph line any more than they could run an engineer's transit. A man may be a first class telegraph operator and an ex- collent organizer of A. D. T. messengers and yet entirely at sea when it comes to inquirfes that involve phenomena within the domain of electrical sclence, A man may be an excellent machinist and utterly in- capable of gearing a perfecting press. A man may bo a good watchmaker, but to- tally unsuited for settlng up a sewing ma- chine. Béllwether Hascall's temporary city elec- triclan Is making experiments with water mains and gas pipes. This is entirely out of his line in the first place, and in the next place he does not know any more about the subject under investigation than the gas inspector, boiler inspector or plumbing inspector, His experiments may be very instructive to himself, but nobody could place any dependence upon his conclusions as to causes, consequences or proper rem- edy. It would simply be like allowing a blind man to lead a lame man. The fact that the water and gas mains are being decomposed by chemical action caused by electrical currents may be established be- yond a doubt, but is any telegraph wire ex- pert qualified to analyze the chemical ac- tion and give us definite figures as to what part of the electrolysis is produced by in- duction from telegraph and telephone lines which have their ground wires attached to gas and water pipes and use the ground as a return circuit; what proportion of the oxidation is caused by the trolley motor con- nections with the earth through the rails and what proportion of these destructive currents Is generated at the electric light- ing power house and carried into the earth by leakage of the overhead conductors and Interlor connectlons in electro-lighted build- ings? Without disparaging the capacity of the temporary city electrician within the pro- fession of operating telegraphs and tele- phones, we feel perfectly justified in assert- ing that his experiments with water and gas pipes can be of little or no value to the city or to the companies whose conduits are affected. The subject is beyond his scope. He has no experlence as an electrical en- gineer, and in fact no experience as a scientific electric expert. This fact was patent even to the city council when it granted its acting electriclan a four days leave to go to Chicago to learn something about the underground electrical disturb- ances. We have known patent telegraph schools to turn out ready-made, first class operators in sixty days, when it takes from threo to five years actual work In a tele- graph office to accomplish the same result. We never yet heard of any institution that can turn out an electrical engineer within four days. And this brings up the question, what the city s to pay for all this tomfoolery. If Mr. Hascall's temporary city electrician is doing this work as a specfalist the money is wasted, and if he s doing this work under pretense that it is part of the duty of the city electrician, we get back to the question, what right has the council to fill the office without the concurrence of the mayor, and where is there any authority in law to pay the salary of an officer illegally appointed? THEIR NEXT MOVE, As was to have been expected, the sys- tematic efforts which have for years been made to prevent the extinction of Ne- braska's floating indebtedness are, we are told, not to be discontinued on account of the measures adopted by the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds in relation to the Investment of the Idle school moneys in outstanding state warrants. The warrant shavers who have thrived-upon the exhausted general fund of the state do not propose to let go their opportunity for money making without a persistent struggle. If the state treasury should be in a position to promptly pay all claims upon it upon presentation the 7 per cent interest would be cut off from all tuture warrants, while those that are now drawing Interest would also be subject to the call of the treasurer, upon which they coase to bear further interest. To the clti- zens and taxpayers of the state such a con- ditlon of thelr treasury is most desirable. The warrant brokers, how- ever, do not view the situation in this light and are sald to be preparing their next move In order to obstruct the application of the school moneys toward the redemption of the outstanding general fund warrants. The plan that has now been concocted con- templates the presentation of a batch of warrants for payment by the treasurer and a refusal of any money that may be offered on the ground that the warrants are drawn upon a particular fund which has been ex- hausted and which cannot be replenished out of the school fund. A demand is to be made upon the treasurer that the warrants be registered and accredited with the 7 per cent Interest authorized by law. Should the state treasurer refuse to register the warrants on request, as he 1s most likely to do, a writ of mandamus is to ¥t sought from the courts in order to compel him to do so. This will bring the whole financial systém of the state once more under judiclal review and require a new Interpratation of the laws prescribing the administrative machinery of the treas- ury. The exact point at issue is whether the owner of the warrant can refuse payment from the state treasurer 80 long as the tender 18 not of money raised by the due course of taxation for the particular fund upon which the warrant is drawn. The wording of the statute, If strictly construed, might possibly give some color to this con- tention, although the legislature which passed the law of 1891 certainly intended to prevent an atuse of this kind. Should this new move turn out successful the warrant shavers will not be the sole beneficlaries It they can put a stop to the process of extinguishing the floating debt in this way they will at the same time effec- tually prevent the State Board of Educa- tional Lands and Funds from investing in state warrants, unless it buys them as It buys other securities. This would mean that the §500,000 now idle In the school fund must remain idlo, to far as the state is con- cerned, while the state continues to pay in- terest on outstanding warrants. That money will not be idlo so far as the banks to which it Is loantd are concerned. Those | banks will continue to have the benefit of It. The controversy then becomes one be- tween the warrant shagers and the favored bankers on the one,sids and the taxpayers of the state on thd jofffer. Whatover may be the outcome of tha struggle It must im- press upon all the! abdolute necessity of a complete and thorough reorganization of the whole financial system of the state. The number of Aurplus employes in the government printing office with whose serv- ices the new public printer, Mr. Benedict, promises to dispense has risen according to ; the latest statement from Washington from 400 to 1,600. The public printer expects to begin with the dismissals as soon as those | who are away on leave can be summoned to roturn, and will keep it up until the force | 1s reduced to the bare necessities of the | office. This means, of course, that the 1,600 to be dropped from the rolls will be almost exclusively republicans. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record goes turther and insists, as we have already done, that It means simply the replacement of re- publicans by democrats. The necessities of the office will suddenly increase after the surplus republicans have been gotten rid of and good democrats will be requested to sacrifice themselves in the service of the government. It is an old trick, but seldom played under the assumed color of a stroke of patriotic financial economy. he city council has devised a new scheme by which it Is enabled to evade the charter provision regarding the inviolability of the different funds set aside for specific pur- poses. It has adjusted a claim against the city by compromising on a stipulated sum and ordered the sum to be paid by crediting the claimant with that amount upon his un- paid taxes. The claim if paid in the usual manner would have to come out of the judg- ment fund, but that fund has been exhausted for some time. The unpald taxes against which a set-off is to be recorded would if covered into the treasury be distributed among all the various city funds in their just proportion. The judgment fund would receive only an insignificant amount. The new device In effect turns over the whole to the judgment fund. It may be good policy to effect the compromise in question and to accept a relinquishment of the claim in lieu of unpaid taxes, but it is clearly an evasion of the charter provisions. Every one will rejoice at the removal of the remaining causes of dispute between the managers and the employes of the Great Northern railway without a renewal of the strike which had been adjusted by a resort to arbitration. The same arbitration committee which settled the differences in the first Instance his Succeeded in arrang- Ing matters once more, and It Is to be hoped upon a basis that for & time at least will restore harmony between the employes and managers of that corporation. We have enough new strikes on hand without reopen- ing old ones. ¢ Omaha democrats haye come in after all for a consolation prize in the shape of the assistant district attorneyship, but not until the futllity of securing an out-of-town man had become apparent, |; With such a gener- ous gitt, all’ complaints of unfair treatment at the hands of the federal patronago dis- pensers ought fo ceass abruptly. Erotense and Practice. New York World. The Sugar trust is a most scandalous example of that “communism of capital” Mr. Cleveland so__vigorously —denounced some years ago. Why does he not Induce Attorney General Olney to read his views on this subject? [ — Advice Worth Heeding. Detroit Free Pross. The Ttalian government has glven its subjects warning to remain away from the United States for a time, and the United States nod approval all along the line. In this instance there is not a stiff-necked member in' the whole sisterhood. Eftect of Amorican Influence. Chicago Herald. Politics appears to be very much the same everywhere when the pot begins to boil vigorously. The accounts of the fes- tivities up in Newfoundland, where oppos- ing factions are clubbing each other over the head with patriotic enthusiasm, read very much like the storles of the proceed- ings in the First ward last April. Testimony from High Quartors. Cleveland Leader, The staunchest and ablest of the mug- wump champions of the administration and of free trade, the New York Ivening Post, admits that the complete ascendancy of the Sugar trust in the United States senate 18 accepted as a fact beyond dispute in Wall street. Let honest men remember that when they are told that the demo- cratic party is the friend and advocate of the masses and the foe of monopoly! e The Hamstrung Squad. New York Sun. It the amalgamated atrocity bill now be- fore the senate were the work of republicans how many. democratic senators would vote for it? What cloudy wrath and steaming rhetorie senators llke Hon. George Graham Vest and Hon. Roger Quarles Mills would manifest against such a” bill If It were only republican in authorship as it is In principle, Indignant enough these gentlemen are now, but all their indignation is impotent becausé there Is no courage behind It. They know what a shameless thing of bargain and sale the bill is, that it utterly contradicts the democratic’ platform and is so rotten with discrimination and special favors that even Pittsburg accepts it without com- plaint, Why do they let such a loathsome mess be rammed down their throats? They consent, sulkily, it Is true, but they consent to the dishonor of the democracy, and they accept thereby their personal share in that dishonor. Operation of the Mulet Law. Buftalo Expre: The mulet liquor tax law of Towa, a re- vision of the preceding prohibitory jaw by the legislature at ity 1ast session, 15 declared to be proving itself very effectual. In Du- buque, where the' prohibitory law was a dead letter, forty 8alobns are said to have been closed since the new law went into effect a few weeks age, and in Cascade all the liquor places were ‘closed. This Is due to the clause making the mulct tax a prop. erty llen; the landlords demand a bond of the liquor sellers before renting the bufld- ings for waloon purposes, and the inability to glve this bond j§ deiving many men out of the business. Nevertheless 1t 1§ not likely that the law will remain in its present shape. The local license powers of“the smaller cities are greatly limited by the power given the sur- rounding districts, and herein lies the source of & conflict whigh probably will find its way yet to the leglilature for settlement, The most Interesting polnt about the pres- ent situation is the more efficaclous workiny of this modified prohibitory law in the large Cities, as compared*with the more rigia pro- hibitory law which preceded it. Self-inter- est is doing what compulsion could not. i for conventions approaches. ‘in repogting at the general MAY 17, 1894 STATE POLITICAT North Platte Telegraph: John E. Evans a8 the republican candidate for secretary of state will be the proper thing. Bayard Transcript: The nomination of Mr. MacColl would give the republicans a most useful candidate and prove a source of strongth to the state ticket and to county tickets throughout the entire state, Chadron Journal: Now that the populists have endorsed Hon. M. P. Kinkaid by de- claring that he will be the hardest man for OT RS, | them to defeat, it behooves the republican party to nominate him if it expects to win. Kearney Hub: The disposition of Sixth district republicans s to get the best man to be had for the congressional nomination regardless of location and sectional lines, and there s a general feeling that such a man will lead us out of the wilderness once more, “ullerton Journa'. The west part of the state seems to be almost solid for Jack Mac- Coll for governor. We have always had a tender spot In our anatomy for Jack, and although there are several other excellent candidates who can lead the republican party in this state to victory this fall, we shall shed no tears if MacColl secures the nomina- tion. Lodge Pole Express: Candidates for state offices are becoming numerous as the time There 18 no reason why the western part should not be recognized on each ticket and the Express belleves 1f the right kind ,of delegates are selected that it would be casy to secure men who have an idea that part of the state lies west of Kearney. Grand Island Times: Ex-State Senator A. M. Robbins of Ord {s a candidate for at- torney general, and will probably want Hall county's support. Mr. Robbins was in the senate at the lime that the Soldiers’ home was located at Grand Island and it would take a telescope of a good many horse power to discover the debt of gratitude that our county owes him for his exertions in our behalf. ’ Hastings Nebraskan: If W. E. Andrews goos Into the congressional convention with the Adams county delegation solid for him there is no doubt of his receiving the nomi- nation. This county owes it to Mr. An- drews and to the welfare of the party In this district to go into that convention united for his support. There should be no lukewarmness and no horse play. This is a year for republicans to do business, and business it should be from the start. York Times: An early republican conven- tion makes a short campaign within the party, which is desirable, and a long one by the united party, which we believe will be a good thing this year. Some bitterness Is always engendered by a struggle for nomi- nations and the longer the struggle the greater the bitterness becomes, the wider the breach and the longer it takes to span it. There is ample material for a_ long and effective campalgn this fall and the sooner the newspapers and public speakers know what they have to do and get at It the better. The Times Is in favor of an early state convention and a long and aggressive campaign —_————— PEOPLE AND THINGS. Commodore Kelly is now keeping close tab on current events. Reports indicate that James J. Corbett hypnotized the Latin quarter of Paris. Presently we shall hear the melancholy gurgles of the bather who did not know the creek was Jloaded. It speech had any bearing on the silver question the senate would be a unit for free and unlimited colnage. Prime Minister Rosebery with his small majority achieves results far greater than Cleveland dare hope for. It does not follow that justice in the county building is fishy because the blind goddess exhibits a few scales. The deluge of aqua Injected into Northern Pacific stock doubtless accounts for the present floundering of the directors. The strike of the wet nurses of Vienna has provoked a serles of squalls embarass- ing to the infant industries of that city. The shortage of coal caused by the strike has stimulated Importations from Nova Sco- tia and Newcastle. ’Tis an {ll wind that blows nobody good. The Marquis Pullman told his striking employes his business was a losing one, and then proceeded to declare a 2 per cent quarterly dividend on $30,000,000. That little brochure on “What Congress Has Done” provoked a laugh when circu- lated in the senate. 'Tis well. Several members will have little occasion for laugh- ter in the sweet subsequently. When Mr. Gladstone first became premier a gentleman called on his tutor, Rev. Mr. Rawson of Seaforth, Liverpool, to congratu- late him on the high position gained by his pupil. The old gentleman replied: “I had two letters this morning from old pupils— one prime minister, the other gatekeeper of a workhouse. Such is life!” i ate Field has evolved an idea that must sty Sympathetle chord. “The Washing- ton street car companies,” she says, “which insist upon putting five people on the seat of an open car, should arrange with tho maker of the human frame for a certain uniformity of size. If this seems imprac- ticable they might let little people ride for 4 cents and chargo heavier ones 5, 6 or 7 cents, as the case might be.” The Globe-Democrat inaugurates a novelty conforence of Methodist church, south, now in session ey femphis. As each member is pumped by any one of the twenty reporters he is given this check: ‘Keep this check In your hat. Solah. This gentleman Tas been inter- Viewed and is exempt from further disturb- ance by reporters during the present fnvasion.” The check system has its ad- vantages in great crowds and prevents much vonfusion. The great need of the hour is an effective check on public men swallowing What they say when it appears in cold print. ¥ THE ELOQUENT AD. MAN, Nixon Waterman in Chicago Journal, You may talk about your editors who sit in irs Aflfle"l'r}; clg“b;fis the whole machine and put f airs, g Andul;t‘leoltglg make the people think it's what to say Thn‘{lefi'?:]:‘flvelhc business on the move and ‘makes the paper pay; But don't y(lll‘ nelvur think it, o Tllen::i‘ltl‘fl!l‘"':’l‘l‘u{ in it with that huge conceit Fu!‘o(ln‘ll\"!! only one essentlal in the whole newspaper plan— Buccess depends alone man. The men who edit telegraph and write the tuft witneal s e felds they ANl may answer il ‘ehough; The sporting aha dramatic ch as those, Wi eMite i 'the passes and who visit all ‘he shows; And likewlse, too % Thumntils:ll;ls‘ things they have to say in blind ‘and haiting verse, M ohe. and all, Thep’;\pem first began, A That they were mere assistan| iverdsing man. »pis true the advertising man has naught to do but talk, Yet he's the one who, walk, Foralie’Ne editors thelr pens In trash age, He "tlx;llfi O mething worth the while—the advertising page. And "uwfi:‘l‘ ut { d He “works more men and hours others all combined, 5 To him belongs the viotor's sateh-as-catcl s Koo by Sl hatting, business-booming nd- vertising man. for the whole upon the advertising men and small lher too, the poets who insist they have understood since to the after all, permits the sufficiently than investigate the crown—this Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE MEANS NUCH FOR STOCKMEN Hainer's Effort to Becuro Groater Privileges in the British Markets, TO ABROGATE - UNJUST RESTRICTIONS Asks that Shippers Ie Given a Chance to Feed Their A, s Beforo They Aro Slaughtered—~Will Save ny Do WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE, 1407 1 W, WASHINGTON, May 16, The house committee on agriculture bhas ordered a favorablo report to be made to the house on the Hainer foint resolution, which provides that the president of tho United States be requested to cause correspondence and negotlations to be had through the De- partment of State, or, otherwise, with the authorities of the kingdom of Great Britaln, for the purpose of securing the abro- gation or modification of the regulations now enforced by sald authorities which ro- quire cattle imported into Great Britain from the United States to be slaughtered at the port of entry and prohibiting the same from being carried alive to other places In sald kingdom. Representa- tive Halner, who fs a member of this com- mittee, has been working very diligently to get a favorable report on the resolution. He says that If the resolution is adopted it will prove a great benefit to the state of Ne- braska on account of the large shipments of cattle from that state. Tho condition of the cattle after they have been subjected to a trip across the country and then a voy- age across the Atlantic is very deplorable, and as a consequence they are mot In a fit condition to be slaughtered. This greatly reduces the grade of American beef and also reduces the price paid on the other side. Representative Hainer thinks that tho cattle, after arrlving on the other side of the ocean, should be sent inland and given time to recuperate. Senator Manderson today had read In the senate an amendment proposed to be offered by him to the army appropriation bill pro- viding that nothing in the act entitled * Act to Increase the Number of Officers of the Army to Be Detailed to Colleges, Ap- proved November 3, 1893, shall be so con- strued as to prevent limit or restrict the de- tail of retired officers of the army at insti- tutions of learning under the provisions of section 1,260, Revised Statutes, and the act making appropriations for the support of the army, approved May 4, 1880, nor to forbid the 1ssue of ordnance or ordnance stores, as pro- vided in the act approved September 26, 1888, amending section 1,225, to the institutions at which retired officers may be so detailed, and sald act of Novembor 3,183, shall not be so construed to allow the full pay of their ranks to retired officers detailed under said section 1,260, Revised Statutes, under the act of May 4, 1880. O'ROURKE FEELS COMPLIMENTED. Senator Manderson has transmitted to Supervising Architect O'Rourke of the treasury extracts from numerous letters recelved by him from prominent citizens of Omaha, warmly pralsing the beauty and appropriateness of the granite used in_the construction of the new public building. The supervising architect is pleased to re- celye these evidences of public appreclation of the wisdom of his judgment in the selec- tlon of granite instead of the limestone or sandstone which were urged upon him for use in_the magnificent structure. Mr. Meiklejohn today introduced a bill to remove the charge of desertion now standing against Isaac G. Biglow of Tekamah, The North Nebraska division of the Grand Army of the Republic will hold its reunion at Neligh on July 1, 2, 3 and 4. The man- agement has requested Mr. Meiklejohn to secure 200 tents from the War department. He called on the secretary today, but was informed that the department had no tents which they can furnish. Advertisements for_proposals for the con- struction of the new Niobrara bridge will be made immediately, and every effort will be made to hasten the matter. The construc- tion will be in charge of the quartermaster general. The proposals will be advertisod in_Nebraska. The Dbill introduced recontly granting right of way through the Omaha and Winne- bago Indlan reservation for the Eastern Ne- braska & Gulf raflway has been favorably re- ported by the secretary of the interior, with the recommendation that the right of way shall be 100 feet wide, instead of 159 fest, and that the station grounds shall be lmited to 200 feet wide and 3,000 feet long, instead of 300 wide and 3,000 long, as provided in the bill. The secretary further suggests an amendment which will provide that the bridge be completed within three years after the passage and approval of the act. Representative Lucas of South Dakota to- day secured a favorable report on his bill for a bridge over the Missourl river at Yankton. SOME NEW OFFICERS. G. L. Heldebrand has been appointed post- master at Stillwell, Powesheik county, Ia., vice J. A. Craver, resigned. The senate in executive session today con- firmed the nominations of Andrew J. Robert- son to be receiver of public moneys and Charles H. Adams to be register of the land office at Broken Bow. Also the nomination DWNING, KIN The largest makers and satlors ot fine clothos on cartl, Your money’s worth or your money hac'e. of Elmor Willlams to be receiver of publie moneya at O'Nelll. By direction of the assistant secretary of war, Private Stephen Aburlan, company D, Twenty-first Infantry, now at Fort Sidney, Neb., will be discharged without honor from the service of the United States, with for- feiture of retained pay, on receipt of this order by the commanding officer of his sta- tlon. This soldler Is not entitled to travel pay. il NEBRRASKA DNEBRASK 8. The Holdrege school board has reduced the salaries of the teachers for the coming year about 10 per cent. Sixty people were Immersed In the waters of the Blue at Liberty last Sunday, the result of a religlous awakening. Frank Lisle, an alleged thiet rosiding near Long Pino, escaped from the sherlt Who had arrested him for stealing, stole & Norse and fled to the hills, He is still at The Holt County hold its annual 4 and 5, ng made In style. Miss Babeock, a 10-year. ty girl, shot herself in the hope of ending her existenco. She had been an inmate of an insane asylum, but had been discharged as cured. A finely developed case of chicken pox caused a full sized smallpox scare at Wayne, but a diagnosis by a Norfolk phy- siclan relieved the tension and caused the suspension of the quarantine. The sudden stop of a train at Holdrege threw A. D. McNoer, a Hastings traveling man, from his seat to the floor. He struck his head on a spittoon and Injured himself so badly that he will be laid up for some time, Tho revivals that have been In progress In the vicinity of Wellfleot for the past fow months have resulted in the formation of a church, which has grown from a mems bership of nine to ninety-nine, and more converts are belng baptized every few days. Harry Pearce, twice convicted of selling liquor ‘fllegally at Scotfa, while locked up In- the local jail for refusing to pay a fine of $26 and costs, was taken from his cell by friends and given his liberty. He is still a freo man, but it will go hard with him it he is captured. One fare and a third, on the cortificate plan, has been made for those who wish to attend the meeting of the Republican State League at Lincoln June 12 Parties buylng tickets should take a receipt from the agent and have the same endorsed by the secro- tary at the state league meeting In Lin- coln. They can then purchase return tickets for one-third fare. The Lexington Ploneer says: George P. Nellson, the farmer who was so severely beaten by burglars a few weeks ago, ap- pears to be slowly mending physiclally. Mentally, however, he is sald not to fm- prove miuc Ono of his assailants, the fellow who is wounded in the leg and who is confined in the county jail, Is improv- ing. Last week he refused to longer ac- cept the services of Dr. Rosenberg, the county physician, and called in Drs. Dan- croft and Baker, who are now ministering to his wants. He s a bright, shrewd fel- low, but s apparently no stranger to crookedness and jails, e THE COMIC CONTINGENT. Veterans assoclation reunion at Atkinson and elaborate preparations to entertain the veterans d Pawnee coun breast in the Philadelphia Record: Al the world may be a stage, but Shakespenre was wrong when he sald that all men and women were players, Life: ‘““That's an uncommonly pretty girl over there pouring tea.” “Yes, she {8 one of the relgning belles this season.” “Ahl These belles never relgn but they pour.' Somerville Journal: A pretty girl usually forgives a man for staring at her, but you wouldn't think so to hear her tell the folks about it after she gets home. Siftings: “Change for the bette: sald the cashier of the pool-room as he pald out the cash to the winner. Red Lodge New Ideas: Feed people on angel cake all the time and they would get s0 high-strung they would turn up thelr noses 1f you offered them cream pufts. Journal: ‘‘Carry any life in- ‘““Yes, $10,000 in favor of my ‘Should think you'd be ashamed to look her in the face.” = “‘Wha—what for?* living. What excuse do you give Indianapolis surance?" Puck: The charlty that begins at home is often so discouraged that it never goes fare ther. New York Press: “Few people,” sald the wife, as she proceeded to Investigate her husband’s pockets after he had gone to sleep “ifew people are aware of what a wife has to go through.” Plain Dealer: Monopolist ‘pn(ronlzlll‘ly) —Why, men, do you know that when you first struck town I was afraid to trust my= self among you? Commonwealers—Oh, you needn’t have been—we had nothing you could get hold of. Harper's Bazar: ‘“Ethel,” he whispered, “will you marry me?" “I don't know, Charles, replied, he said, rluln(‘ coyly. “Well, when you find out, “gend me word, will you? I shail be af Mabel Hicks' until 10 o'clock. If I don't hear from you by 10, I'm going to ask her.” A TRAGEDY. Brooklyn Kagle. “Handle with care!” it said on the box, The baggageman shricked with laughter; The box was filled with dynamite, Ao E) she otice of funeral hercafter.” It’s Time. R T T i Y =B “ BROWNING, 5 o= It's time to buy that light coat and vest, It's time to put on that new straw hat. It's time for boys' shirt waists---stilts with $2 worlh, Most complete assortment, at various prices. S. W. Cor. Fifteenth and KING & CO., Douglas Strezts,