Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 19, 1894, Page 4

THEOMA . ROBEWATER, Rditor. PUBLISHED BVERY MORNIY nMS OF SUT Dlly Bee (withont Sundas), One Year BRly g Sundar. One Yeat.. Eix Months : ot Three Moniiis : Eundny Hes Baturiny T Weakly fee OFFICES 1. ang. 15, Trbun CORRESPOND Al communieations relating ¢ tarat mate P ! 3 Blog Washington, nd edl 2 and remittances hould be Toa hing company, Omaha. Drafts, checks n toflien orders to be made pavable to the order of (e company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN AUl business letters addressed to The T OF CIRCULATION. el says that the printad ATEM Georgo 1, Tzschuek 1Ring company, heini duly Aworn ual number of full and eamplote Evening and Sundny 1 nh of April, 1M, was 7 B asaman i vy BE0 1 : ductions for unsold and \ge ot cireutation. f AEORGE T, TZSCHUCK. Bworn to before me and subseribed in my pres- M 20 Way of 01 Y OBV FRIL, Notary Public. The honorable Cunningham R. Scott never opens his without putting his foot in it mouth Nebraska will be saving about $100 per day when her floating indebtedness is cleared away. It's a consummation to be wished for. Bryan will not stand for re-election for congress. The house of representatives has become too circumscribed to hold his ex- panding ambition. It will take something more than a com- mittee of five to vindicate the dignity of the semate from the well defined rumors of Sugar trust stock jobbing. Will Bryan become a populist, or does he expect the populists to swallow the free trade and silver democracy—wlill the whale swallow Jonah or will Jonah swallow the whale? The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary society is the next national assembly which Omaha will be called upon to entertain in early June. No preparations should be omitted to make Omaha's part in the meeting one entirely creditable to our city. It will cost members of congress just about $13 a day to go home and fix up their political fences for the fall campalgn. Stil it is hardly probable that many fences will go to ruin. Theré are good reasons for believing that the sergeant-at-arms is a poor bookkeeper when it comes to keeping track of congres- sional absentees. Senator Morgan s now taking his turn in prodding Attorney General Olney about his failure to enforce the anti-trust law. He wants the attorney general to tell him whether, in his opinon, there is any defect in the law. A superfluous question alto- gether. The defect fs in the attorncy gen- eral, but that functionary is unable to see it. Congress proposes to protect the public from false weather prophets by prescribing a penalty of fine and imprisonment for any one who knowingly. publishes false weather forecasts or warnings. But how ‘can a per- son know that a forecast Is false until after the period covered has elapsed? Does the government weather bureau lay claim to a monopoly of the privilege to make a guess at the state of tomorrow's weather? The engineers who declined a ten days' trip through the Yellowstone as the guests of the Northern Pacific displayed a laudable intention to remain free from obligations to railroad officials with whom they might some time have to treat as representatives of their brotherhood. But, by the way, how does it come that the Northern Pacific, which Is now In the hands of receivers, offers a junket to the delegates to an cngincers’ meeting? It seems to us that the receivers and their subordinates are abusing the con- fldence of the court for which they are acting. that extensive frauds have been perpetrated upon the government in connection with the Indian depredation claims fs yet to b verified. Still the firmation of the report will occasion no great amount of surprise. It is not a dificult matter to manufacture a bogus claim against the government and bolster it up by false testimony. The Indian depredation field has long been successfully and profitably tilled by unscrupulous lawyers, who consider it no crime to rob the government. A strict in- vostigation should follow the present report and the punishment inflicted without regard to the prominence of the parties involved. A Nebraska farmer now a candidato for admission to the state insane asylum is “laboring under the hallucination that he has recelyed a commission from God to march on Washington and expel President Cloye land from his place in the white house, The delusion of this unfortunate man consists chiefly in mistaking the agent and in antici- pating the time when his divine comm is to be carried out. If he had only been wise enough to wait until the next prosi- dential election and to allow the people of the whole United States to assist him in his work he would have come out of the contest with fylng colors. Tho execution of that divine mission to oust the present president from the white house is necessarily post- poned, but none the less inevitable, The report con- to lon There will probably be fewer people going away from Omaha for the summer this year than there have been for several seasons past. The effect of hard times Is genorally to cut off the luxuries and most dispensabls enjoyments of lite and hard times will doubt- less be the excuso offered in more than one caso for the absence of the usual summer season in the mountains or at the sea shore. Those who remain In Omaba during the heated months will be surprised to find how comfortable they can make themselves with- out leaving home it they will only make the effort. They will be able.to amuse them selves and enjoy the company of their friends vight here in Omaba at a consider able less expense than at thelr customary summer regort. Glve Omaha a fair trial and the out-of-town vacation will lose balf its attractions. THE _OMAHA SCOTT'S SCANDALOUS CONFESSION, During the progress of the preliminary hearing of tha Bennett-Rosewnter Iibel cases the charge was openly made In court that the cution had instituted at the Instance of conspirators for political pur- poses and personal revenges. Later on the editor of The Bee charged, over his own name, that the decision of the police judge was known to and foretoll by a prominent officer weeks before the taking testimony been concluded. In fact talk days before had made pros been court of the plot the findings publie. And two had had become town of the court been now Judge Scott has unwittingly un- masked the plot by a public declaration that stamps him with indelible Infamy. In explaining why he had concluded to walve his alleged prerogative to preside at the trial of this case Judge Scott used the fol- lowing language, word for word: Before the case came Into this court, in fact when there was talk that a criminal procecding would be instituted against the defendant before the police magistrate, 1 then opencd up a_correspondence with one of the judges of this state, not of this dis- trict, stating that I apprehended I should want to change dockets with him and have him take my docket and I his. This was agreed upon. Now that was before the preliminary examination. Since then, after the preliminary examination was had and before there was an information filed, I renewed my request to have a change of dockets with the judge. Now this is on my own motion; not a mat- ter that the law requires at all. Was there ever a more scandalous confession made by any judge from the criminal bench? How did this upright and impartial judge come to talk about a ecriminal case before any charge or complaint had been formu- lated, and to whom did he talk if not to the conspirators who hatched and instigated the prosecution? How did this most upright Judge come to the conclusion that he would want to exchange places with another judge in the trial of this case if he did not know what conclusion the police court would reach? How did he know what would be the nature of the testimony and whether or not the defendant would be able to justify his publication? What right has judge Scott to Insult the six other judges of this district by publicly declaring them to be unfit to take his docket in the trial of a case in which they are not known to have any in- terest or blas? Does he not by his own confession leave the inference that he was a party in a conspiracy into which no other member of the bench of this district could be drawn under any conditions? Was there ever a more scandalous exhibition made from the bench? THE RELIEF DEPARTMENT IN COURT. The decision just handed down by the supreme court of Nebraska in the case of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad company against Wymore will open the eyes of the railroad officials to the fact that their cleverly constructed relief department 1s not an infallible device to stave oft suits for damages suffered from injuries incurred by men in the employ of the company. This suit inyolves a ruling upon the validity of the pretended contract of release which every rallroad employe is compelled to enter it he wants to securc the benefits of the insurance and sick funds of the relief de- partment, but it goes only half way to the core of the matter. It deprives the railroad of a part of the alleged immunity from lia- bllity for injuries to employes and leaves the remainder of the question to be decided when it shall come up. In this case it appears that the widow of an employe who was killed in the service of the railroad company was suing for dam- ages in her own behalf and in behalf of her children, although the deceased had, as member of the relief department, signed a contract of release and she herself had ac- cepted the insurance benefit due her and had receipted for it “in full satisfaction and discharge of all claims or demands on ac- count of or arising from the’ death of said deceased which T now have or shall here- after have.” The company, of course, set this up as a bar to recovery, but the court holds that, by accepting such payment, the aggrieved party does not necessarily walve her right of action; further that neither the contract of the deceased as a member of the relief department nor the acceptance’ of the money or release of liability on the part of the widow operated to bar an action either for her own benefit or for the benefit of her children. In other words, the rail- road company cannot force its employes to contract away the rights of their wives and children, nor will the acceptance of an in- surance benefit, to which the beneficiary is entitled, serve to release the railroad from all further liability. So far as this decision goes, well and good. It protects the widows and the orphans from the rapacity of the railroad and the weak- ness of the railroad employe. Let the court 80 a step further and throw its shield about the employe himself. Let it say that an injured employe still has a remedy at law for damages against the company, in spite of the iniquitous pretended contract which the rellef department forces upon him. Let the court do this and the relief department will be relegated to its proper place as a mutual benefit and insurance association, in- stead of as a cunning device to deprive sick and crippled employes of their rights and to keep the widows and the orphans from re- covering the indemnity which the law allows them. QUESTIONING OLNEY, That was a timely resolution which Sen- ator Morgan of Alabama introduced calling on the attorney general for information as to whether any were pending against the Sugar trust, and, if so, what stage they had reached; If not, whether, in the opinfon of the attorney general, there {s any defect in the anti-trust law. The Ala- bama senator, it we are not mistaken, sup- ported with his vote the anti-trust law passed by the Fifty-first congress, and he has al- ways been regarded as one of the able law- yers of the senate who believed that legis- lation would prove effective, it properly en- forced, in suppressing the trusts and com- binations at which it was aimed. He is also familiar with the fact that the last national democratic convention for the en- forcement of existing laws against the trusts and that the present administration into power pledged to do this, There was no equivocation or ambiguity about the lan- guage of Mr. Cleveland in reference to this subject In his inaugural address. He char- the trusts as being generally con- spiracies against the public interests and declared it to be the duty of the federal government to protect the cltizen against thelr exactions and oppressfon, The promise of the democratic party and the pledge of its president have not been kept. Moreover, no serious attempt has been made redeem them. Proceedings were Instituted against the Sugar trust in connection with its purchase of refineries {n Philadelphia, and the decision in the lower court adverse to the government. So far as known Attorney General Olney was satisfled to drop the matter there, when he should have taken it to & higher court. It proceedings declared came we Is destrable to obtain the opinion of the highest tribunal upon the anti-trust law, and | here was a most favorable opportunity, but the public has no information that the at- general availed himself of it. Th most rapacious and unscrupulous monopoly in the country was permitted to enjoy its victory without further question. This fs the only in:tance of any effort to apply the antl-trust law under the present adminis tration of which the public has any knowl through to the torney edge. Barly assurances were given the medium of newspapers friendly administration that th law would a thorough test, but these, like the promises that preceded them, have to nothing. Undoubtedly Senator Morgan read the an- nual report of Attorney General Olney, and it 80 le fs aware of the fact that that offictal does not have a favorable opinion of the anti-trust law. He regards that act as being defective and inadequate, but while offoring an Ingenfous argument to show this he avolded any suggestion as to how It might be improved and made to meet the pur- pose for which it was passed. The plain truth is that Attorney General Olney s not in' sympathy with legislation of this kind. He is the friend of corporate power, whether in the form of monopoly or not. The coun- try will awalt with interest the response to Senator Morgan's resolution. amounted SEVERAL PLANKS LOOSE. There are a great many planks loose in the sidewalky department that need hammer- ing down very badly. We have ordinanc that require the laying of permanent side- walks of durable materials on paved streets. The ordinance not only prescribes the quality of the material, but also requires the owners of adjacent property to construct their side- walks of a uniform width. The enforcement of the sidewalk ordinances has been most shamefully neglected. Stingy or penny wise property owners have been permitted to con- tract for bogus concrete just to save a few dollars and the inspectors do not seem to take any exception to such evasions of the requirements of the law. In the very heart of the city, on the cor- ner of Fifteenth and Farnam, a plank walk raised at a foot above the curbisa constant eyesore as well as a positive obstruction to travel. A plank sidewalk on such a busy corner might be temporarily endured if there was a building being erected on the abutting lot. But as there is no immediate or even remote intention of constructing such a bullding the owners should be required to conform to the same conditions that are en- forced upon other property owners. Another striking divergence from the re- quirements of the sidewalk ordinance is the want of uniformity. In several of the blocks within a stone’s throw of the court house and city hall there is a variation of from four to eight feet in the width of sidewalks, an evidence of either favoritism or lack of efficiency on the part of the inspectors. If the city has any authority to compel the laying of sidewalks and to prescribe the ma- terial, the ordinance should be enforced with- out fear or favor. If the city has no such authority the ordinances are a mere farce. Omaha has a right to feel proud of her pave- ments, but people should not be compelled to use the middle of the street. “AILURE OF THE COAL CONFERENCE. The conference of mine operators and miners failed to effect a settlement of the issue it was called to consider, and the promise now is that the continuance of the "coal strike is simply a question of endur- ance on the part of the miners. These people are individually poor, their scant carnings not enabling them to make any accumulation. The funds of their organi- zation do not amount to enough to provide for them for any length of time. Under different conditions they could hope to ob- tain assistance from other labor organiza- tions, but as it is few such organizations aro in position to extend a helping hand, and probably none will be disposed to do so to any extent because they cannot tell when there will be a demand from their own mem- bers for every dollar they have. The coal miners will, therefore, have to fight their battle without any material aid in a finan- clal way from other labor. It is needless t say that the operators fully understand tho situation in this respect. The failure of the conference is very much to be regretted for a number of reasons. A prolonged strike, such as appears probable, must entall great hardship upon the miners and their families, whose meagre resources will be soon exhausted. The consequences to the industrial and transportation interests of the country will be very serious. Already many manufacturing establishments have been compelled to shut down for want of coal and railroads have been forced to re- Quce their train service, thus adding largely to the army of the unemployed and increas- ing the general distress. There is a coal famine at many places and it is only a mat- ter of a few weeks, if work is not resumed at the idle mines, when the famine will be- come general, causing incalculable trouble and inconvenience to millions of consumers. Finally there is the danger, in the event of the operators attempting to force matters, ot conflicts that may intensify the gravity of the labor situation. The striking miners constitute a formidable host if they should hold together, and while they have thus far generally shown a disposition to carry on the contest in a peaceable way there Is no as- surance that they might not under exasper- ating clrcumstances prove capable of caus- ing a great deal of trouble. The blame for failure to reach a settln- ment seems to rest chiefly upon the oper- ators. Only a small number of them at- tended the conference and these were mainly the smaller class of operators, who it ap- pears have made contracts at prices consid- erably below those of last year and therefore went to the conference with no idea of mak- ing any concession that would be acceptable to the miners. Most of them did not remain to tha close of the meeting, thereby Indicat- ing the absence of an earnest desire to adjust differences and effect a settlement upon what disinterested persons could regard as a fair and reasonable basis. The only proposition submitted on the part of the oper- ators was admitted by some of them to offer too low a basis for mining. It ought to have been possible, it would seem, for the two Interests to have agreed upon a compromise, but it appears to have the unanimous sentiment among the representatives of the miners, as expressed by President McBride of the national union, that “there could be no compromise along the lines of starvation wages.” There may be an honest difference of opinion as to whetlier the miners were wise In insisting upon a restoration of the rates for mining before the reduction of last year, in view of the continued business depression, but there can be no doubt as to the unfairness of the proposition submitted by the operators. Future developments in this very serious controversy, which affects all Interests and every portion of the country, will be awalted with anxious concern. The Injury already been done suggests the disastrous consequences that a general coal famine would produce and such a condtfibd seems not to be re mote. There should be no delay in making further efforts to'birinl the mine owners and | the miners to an agrgement will question the right of ganized bodies of laboring men to study mil- itary tactics. js a tolerably free coun- | try. But at @ime time the laboring | men should consiffef seriously the proposal before adopting it W ne laws of many states now prohibit theWMployment of the odious | Pinkerton snunnrq‘nnd within a few years | at they will: be prohibited in every state In tho un@m Public sentiment is doing that much at least for labor. The courts are also rapidly coming to the point where sympathy with corporation interests will no longer be tolerated. The of labor Is steadily advancing, even if the on- ward strides cannot be discerned for the time belng. The laboring men will find the ballot more potent than the musket, but they must use the ballot with the same cour- age that they would use the musket if called upon in defense of their country and its flag. one or- most. cause The United States grand jury will soon be grinding away on the usual batch of com- plaints, The same old Indians that have been on the list of witnesses from time im- memorial will be on hand again to testify that fire water was furnished to them at exorbitant prices by bad squaw men on the reservation. The man who forgot to put a stamp on his cigar box will be cinched and brought up standing to plead guilty. And the fellow who cut a twig from a tree on the Niobrara will be re- minded that he has laid himself liable to indictment for foraging on Uncle Sam's preserve. Incidentally there will be the usual amount of spring medicine making for the fall campalgn, the season’s compliments to the district attorney, the presentation of gold-headed canes, watch charms and cats- eyed scarfpins, with pledges of eternal friendship. The good work of taking up Nebraska's floating indebtedness should not be allowed to falter just because a firm of Lincoln war- rant brokers proposes to hold up the law for a “test” case. The case should bo treated as an individual case. But very few people will object to receiving their money. The mer- chant who sells supplies would rather have the cash than the 7 per cent interest, for, in trying times like these, money to do business with cannot be had at the banks for' that rate. The laborer will prefer the ready cash to a warrant. It is only the men who have grown rich in the speculation on state warrants who will raise any objection to the enforcement of the law. Let them object, and, In the meantime, the people will expect the board and the treasurer to do their duty. - We shall soon sdo whether Mr. Wiley's written promise to reduce his charges for electric lighting to the city is worth any more than his wérd to the same effect. Why should he offer to supply lights at a lower price than his last bid when he has com- plete control of the city council and can dic- tate his own terms? Confining the pro- posals for electric IMghting to the one com- pany that already has a monopoly of the local field is not calculated to bring reliet from extortionate charges. Will the people of Omaha confess that they must _awalt the pleasure of the Burlington railroad in the matter of viaduct repairs? Must persons uSing those viaducts place themselves in dally jeopardy of their lives because that railroad defies the law and the authority of the city officials? It is about time that the Burlington railroad be told that there is a limit to its privileges and ex- ceptions. If it does not want reciprocity, let it have retaliation Painful Lack of Courtesy. Chicago Times. Investigate the senate? Nonsense, Abolish it! e e Sign of the Times. Globe-Democrat. Building operations are picking up in New York City, where seventeen office buildingy, from elght to twenty-four storles high, have been contracted for. = The low price of buliding materials will help business this summer. — The Throbbing Questlos Chicago Record. How much is a college degree worth? A student of the University of Nebraska has sued for $25,000 damages because the uni- versity declined to grant him the degree of bachelor of laws. At this rate what ought the degree of half-back on the foot ball team be worth. e “By far the most remarkable political phenomenon of the day, v8 the Toronto Week, “is the rapid growth of democracy.” This is spelled with a lower case d, and has no refercnce to the party that is now repenting in sackcloth and ashes the ele tion of Mr. Cleveland e e Importation of Ideas. Philadelphia Ledger. Wa are becoming liberal borrowers of forcign ideas. The Australian bullot has been legalized by many states. The re- publican and democratic state conventions of Maseackusetts have recommended a trial of the Swiss initiative and referendum, The same state is seriously discussing the Nor- wegian liquor license” system, and resolus tlons favoring it were unanimously adopted at a mass meeting in Springfield on Satur- day. . Breaking Up ‘hicago DI In Helena, Mont., General Hogan, who led the Commonweal army which stole u Northern Racific train and was captured two_days later by United States regulars at Forsythe, was sentenced to six months in fail, The Commonweal engineer, firoman and forty captains and lieutenants were sent to jall for sixty days each. This is the right sort of treatment for lawbreakers and it should have u tendency to make the present pastime of train stealing somewhat ess popular. e Curing n Chronie Evil, Philadelphia Press, his docking thé siglaries of congressmen for absence seemis Tather a small business, but if persisted In and thoroughly done it would do much to correct the evil of chronic absenteeism., There are very few members who wauld be indifferent to the cutting down of their salaries, and the formal notice conveved to their constituents by this process of their inattendance at the sessions of congress, an slect of duty would have a wholeseme effect. There are members of both house and senate who draw salaries for WRIch they return almost no equivalent. THey are chronle absentees given over to pleasure or business other than that which they are paid to perform, This 15 a fraud and @ wrong, and even If docking salaries & abandoned some other drastic’ remedy shopld be found for this great abuse. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. hory has not fulfilled the expec- his friends In his leadership of his party. He has been conspicuously lack Ing in dignity and serioushess. Succeeding A statesman who was always profoundly in earnest and who never divested himself of a marked stateliness of manner in ing public questions, Lord Rosebery played a Jockeying and flippant dealing with factions and fcal crises. He has made a series of spo. on the vital question of home rule, cach ch has produced a differefit offect and two of which have required strained and labored interprotation, A prime minister who startles the Lords one night with his stark, naked candor, and then labors to convince with flippant sophistries a hard headed Scotch audience that he has been generally misunderstood, inspires distrust and suspicion rather than confidence. Per. haps it Is the contrast between Mr. Glad- stone's stately dignity and Lord Rosebery's Jocular banter that places the present pri minister at a disadvantage; but he has cer tainly lowered the tone of British politics since he has been in office, His speech at th National Liberal club was below the high level of English political leadership. It was Jaunty, light-hearted and not without dex- terity, but It was the speech of a prime minister who regarded a political crisis as something like a horse race that might be won by a neck. Sir William Harcourt has appeared to much better advantage than Lord Roscbery since Mr. Gladstone's retire- ment. Indeed, he has done well that many liberals no longer attempt to conceal thelr regret that the succession did not fall to him. When the government was placed in minority on the opening debate on the address it was through Sir William Harcourt's brilliant tactics that the situa- tion was transformed. He has led the home rule party in the Commons with consummate skill, and the government’s triumph in the budget debate was mainly won by his strong defense of his financial proposals. While Lord Roscbery has been imitating Lord P merston and Lord Beaconsfield, Sir William Harcourt has taken Mr. Gladstone’s place as a government leader, capable of giving sledgehammer blows and at tne same time bent upon maintaining the dignity and deco- rum of English public life. Lord Ros. tatlons of discuss- has dis habit in polit ches of in meeting Signor Francesco Paisserra, in his report on the Italian war budget makes very in- teresting comparisons between the military expenses of the principal nations. In case of war Austria can arm 1,350,000 men, Ger- many, 1,890,000, France 2,112,000 and Italy 1,010,000—that is to say, Austria has 82,900 soldiers and sailors for every million of in- habitants, and, in the same proportion, Ger- many has 38,600, France 55,600 and Italy 32, 600. The value to civilization, or even o the national interests of the different European countries, of this enormous expense s problematical. The excuse always given for it is that one nation must have big armies in order to preserve Its autonomy from assaults by the others. Europe is called an armed camp and the present con- dition an armed peace. It would be nearer truth to say that the nations are afflicted with a military mania. If the matter were less serious it might alimost be called a fad. Any of these warlike nations would be quite as well prepared for war if it substituted mere volunteer militia for its armies and saved its money. A full treasury is a bet- ter protection than a drilled army with weakened finances behind it. The Franco- German war Is, of course, responsible for this great spread of the military idea. Ger- many demonstrated in that contest the ad- vantage of having an army ready to throw into an enemy’s country immediately on the declaration of war. France was held to have shown the folly of lack of adequate prepara- ton. Yet it was the weakness of govern- ernment and lack of skill in the command- ers rather than the poor preparation of the soldiers or inferiority of weapons which cost France her defeat. Success in war depends on generalship more than anything else, and great generals, like all other geniuses, are born, not made. . It seems likely that fresh trouble is brew- ing In France between the government and the clericals In consequence of the law de- claring that all church accounts, including the receipts for the letting of chairs, must be audited by the prefects. The most recent opposition to the edict comes from Mgr. Co- uillie, the archbishop of Lyons, who has directed the church councils in his diocese to prepare their accounts in the same man- ner as heretofore, For this insubordination the payment of his stipend has been sus- pended. The bishops themselves are not all agreed upon the effects of this law. Some of them think it harmiess, or at least capable of being made so by slight amendments, but others strongly condemn it as an encroach- ment by the state on the province of the church. The cabinet meanwhile has decided to appeal to the council of state to annul Archbishop Couillie’s pastoral. M. Spuller is likewise to request all the bishops to in- form him of any pastoralssissued by them on this question. As for the 1,100 church coun- cils. which, out of 40,000, have refused to obey the new law, the government threatens them with dismissal. Bach council consists of the parish pricst and the mayor, as e officio members, and of a.handful of parish- joners, some chosen by the bishop and others by the prefect. It is regarded as peculiarly unfortunate that this source of discord should have arisen just at this time, when the moderate party, in church and state, is anxlous for peace, and M. Spuller has been preaching the “‘new spirit” of mod- eration, v According to the reports published in the Vienna newspapers, it scems that the recent riots in Hungary, at Hod Mezo Vasarhely, were the outcome of a rather serious state of affairs. It seems that not alone in that neighborhood, but throughout the whole dis- trict of Alsold, there is widespread discon- tent among the agricultural population. They are well organized under the leadership of a former police agent named Kavacz, a man of herculanean frame and intrepid character, Who has secured great influence over the peasantry. The local society Is understood to have 6,000 members, and is afiliated with the international social democratic party at Buda-Pesth, The object of this local organi- zation 1s sald to be redistribution of the land among the people. At the festival, on March 15, in commemoration of the granting of the constitution, Kavacz declared at public meeting that he and his fellows Would join in the celebration, as they were not Magyars and had no fatherland. Only those who possessed something had a father- land, They themselves owned nothing, and were accordingly International. It is now stated that the attack on the town hall was made for the purpose of rescuing Kavacz. According to an official report, half the Dolice force made common cause With the | oclalists and refused to obey orders. The leaders of the soclal democratic party in Buda-Pesth strenuously deny all responsi- bility for the disturbances, for Which, they say, the conduct of the local authorities was ohlefly to blame, The party, they say, re- pudiates all violence, and advocates le and peaceable propoganda for the extension of its principles. Where Tommy Watson is At. Kansas City Star. 2x-Copgressman Tom Watson of Georgla, Ay presiding over the populist con: Vention of that state, declares that if the dumecruts hud followed out the principle c « ‘Chicago platform there would no o e O popullats, Watson is about Yight for once, and many @& CONEressman Who sees retirement before him after next March will sorrowfully endorse his declara- tion, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Roval ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powder WILL KEEP IT AT DES MOINES Unit:d &tat s Pension Agency is Not ¢ Fo Removed from There, WHAT JUDGE HAYES SAYS ABOUT IT Prosi- | o | CInins to tave Assurances fr dent that the 1 Wil Chunged and that an Towa M win i U ation e Agent WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THI 1407 ot, N. W. WASHI . May 18 Judge Hayes of Daveriport, the only demo- atic member of congress from rived Nere this morning. He says on the president in company with tor of Nebraska and Natlonal man Richardson of Iowa ago and the matter of the pen:ion agency was lald before the president. Mr. Richard- son and myself were informed by the presi- dent that he was not ready to make an appointment yet, and that he is not enti ely satisfled that Mr. Brice is the proper man to appoint. He gave Mr. Castor to understand positively that he had no intention of removing the pension agency from Des Moines to Omaha, and 1 do not think Mr. Castor had any foundation for the belief nor any warrant whatever for sending word to Nebraska that the president was fnelined to change the location of the pension agency. Tam perfectly confident that an lowa man will be appointed in a very short time, and that the agency will remain where it is at Des Moines. National Committeeman Richardson Is expected here, and I presume he will arrive not later than Sunday evening, and we will have an opportunity to s the pres- ident upon this subject some day next week, There s not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the pension agency will remain at Des Moines. “I have no news, and am making no news, nor s anybody making news at this end of the capitol,” said Senator Allen this after- noon. “I am an interested on-looker her 3 trying with Christian fortitude and patience to await the slow and tedious process of ‘getting together,” in which my democratic friends are engaged. It seems to me that it is almost impossible for them to agree upon a tariff bill; certainly they are not making progress in the formation of a bill which fs in accord with the pledges given in their national platform in, 1892, 1 hope that they will be able to accomplish some- thing, no matter what, for they cangot get the country into much worse condition than it Is now.’” Second Licutenant Willlam J. H. Horne of the Ninth cavalry at Fort Robin- son, Neb., is transferred from troop H to troop F and Second Lleu- tenant Lawson M. Fuller, also of the Ninth cavalry, is transferred from troop It to_troop H. Representative Bryan, in reply to an in- vitation from the house committee on inter- state and foreign commerce, will, next Fri- day morning, apepar before that committee in the interest of his bill to amend the act to incorporate the Maritime Canal company of Nicaragua. S. Harwood of Lincoln and Dan W. Cook of Beatrice are in Washington for a few days. Secretary Morton has recommended a re- duction of $30,000 in the appropriation for the distribution of seeds under the agricul- ture bill. An amendment has been offered by Representative Pickler making the ap- propriation $160,000, which is exactly the amount appropriated last year, and this amendment was adopted. 2. F. Douglas has been appointed post- master at Dysart, Tama county, Ia., vice Joseph Ferron, removed. The senate committee on agriculture has requested the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of the treasury to give their official opinions concerning the advisibility of the passage of the Manderson bill to amend an act to define butter and imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, Importation and exportation of oleo- margerine. I —— eglected the Floor., Kansas City Journal. A sensation was created in congress on Monday by a crank attempting to address the house from the galler: Cranks are only permitted to addres: house from the floor. 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