Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING s = = zcmme TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Paily Bee (without Sunday), One Year Dally and Sunday, Ono Year Bix Months o Three Mo Bunduy e Dullding o, et N e Twenty-tourth Ste. Washington, ot, N. W. Iating to news and edi- el ToR IoF A 1: "To the Btor. torial matter nittances should be lishing company, 1 postofies orders to sreof the compan ¥ sine "t A, Draft nade_payabl THE T T OF CIRCULA cretary of ways that actual n Jples of Daily M during the mont of May, 1901, £y 2 1 f 18 1 1 11 .. 1 1 .. 6. unaold Liews deduiciions for ol Aous it et efrenlntion Between floods and strikes the people of Colorado are having a hard row to hoe. The political pot is beginning to boll and §t will get to boiling over within a few weeks. There is a senatorial hen on. Senator Allen seems to be getting all the tarift concessions from the democrats that he asks for. Better ask for a few more. The report of the Nebraska State Board of Transportation contains only elghty-seven pages, whereas former reports have been padded to the extent of 500 pages. How the state printer must have wept! 1t we are to have street cleaning we must lave street cleaning inspection. To abolish the inspector and let the street cleaning be done by the contractor just as may suit him would be a plece of economy at the wrong end.. The predicted fall of the Rosebery minis- try has not yet occurred, and the latest votes In the House of Commons indicate Jthat it has not suffered any loss of strength. The political prophets in England will have to guess again. Delegates to the free silver democratic .conference to be held in this city the lat- ter part of this month will have to bring credentials showing that they have a better standing In the party than the cbnoxious six-year democrats. T Mr. Martin of Missouri boasts that he has a pull on the chief of police and members of the commission that enables him to dominate the burnt . district. Mr. Martin /must let go his pull or the decent people of Omaha will want to know the reason why. That docking rule in the house of repre- sentatives will have to stand the blame for a great many unkept congressional engage- ments. It offers the most convenient ex- cuse & congressman could wish and s already being subjected to some pretty hard service. The new French ministry makes a clear and concise declaration of policy to mark its inauguration Into office. But all new min- istries start out with good promises. They can only be judged after waiting to learn -whether thelr promises are of any value .when measured by their works. The execution of special police order No. 18 should have been entrusted to that same meritricious pair, Sergeants Haze and Sigwart. Thelr efficient work on a previone similer occasion ought to have distinguished them as the only men on the force capable of performing this service satisfactorily. The senate bribery investigating committee 46 Eetting along superbly. It has had the wice ‘president make certification under the law of 1857, dug up anew, of the newspaper correspondents who have refused to divulge the source of their Information. A requisi- tion for a pot of whitewash is now in order. ‘It thoe city is going into the business of smarcufacturing its own electric lighting it must not stop there. The consumers of Lcommercial lights require relief from ox- tortionate prices almost as badly as the eity., A city plant must have capacity to «supply commerclal lights as well as public street lights. Hascall, Wheeler and Holmes are about to solve the question of truant electric currents in water mains and gas pipes. 1t any Institution of learning is in need of a professor of electrical engineering we com- mend one of the trio to the earnest con- sideration of the persons upon whom the cholee devolyes. Judge Caldweil's decision in the Union Paclfic wage schedule controversy naturally .came In for public commendation in the resolutions of tho delegates from the various rallway employes' assoclations recently as- sembled In New York. The rallway men will not soon overlook such an oasls in the desert of adverse declsions. Chicago papers are ralsing a great hubbub over the action of the striking miners in interfering with the movement of the coal trains on Illinols railroads. Such lawless- ness is most certainly to be unreservedly condemned, but what about the seizures of private coal consignments by the railroads themselve:? We have not seen any pro- test against these lawless acts in Chicago papers. Is it because In thoso cases a ifferent ox was gored? We trust not. It Is gratitying to learn that Omaha is in an excellent position compured with other clties to weather the coal famine, pro- wided, of course, that it 13 not protracted beyond many weeks. Omaha has not yet suffered materially from the effects of the ©coal miners' strike, although numerous other places have been compelled to watch thelr factories and work shops close down. It 15 to be hoped that the trouble will have blown over befors Omaba's coal supply shall have beem exhausted. ‘steady and large growth. THE CULMINATING ATROCITY. Benator Sherman sald in his speech on the tarift bill that the eufminating atrocity of that measure is free wool. No defender of the pending bill has offered a single sound reason or argument for the destructive as- | sault on the Amerfcan wool Industry that is Involved In putting wool on the freo list. That Industry Is one of the most Important In the country. There Is Invested In it the enormous sum of over $500,000,000, while halt a million people are employed in carrying it on. There Is annually expended for labor in this Industry not far from $100,000,000. The amount of wool produced annually in this country s about 380,000,000 pounds, and the annual consumption a little over 600,000,000 ponnds, so that we {mport nearly 200,000,000 pounds a year. Under the protection given this Industry down to 1883 it experienced a A serious check to the progress of the Industry was given by the reduction of dutfes In 1883, but with the restoration of a portfon of those duties by the McKinley law such an fmpetus was given to the wool growing Industry that the yleld again fncreased at a rapld rate. The increase was from 310,000,000 pounds fn 1891 to_ 360, 000,000 in 1893, and it is believed that it the presént protection were continued the pro- duetion at the close of the century would reach 650,000,000 pounds, Or an amount some- what In excess of the present consumption. Since the advent of the democratic party to power the price of sheep and wool has suffered a considerable decline, According to authentic figures the 45,000,000 of sheep in the United States on January 1, 1803, were worth, In round numbers, $146,000,000, while on January 1, 1804, their value was only $99,000,000, a decline in one year of $57,000,- 000, due chiefly to the democratic threat to put wool on the free list. The wool product of the world has been growing rapldly during the last twenty years. That of the Argentine Republic has nearly doubled and now ex- ceeds the production of this country. That of Australia has more than doubled since 1870, and is now not far from twice the amount produced in the United States. In Asia the wool product has doubled in twenty years, while it has largely increased in Rus- gia and France. Remove the protection to the American wool industry and leave it to the unrestricted competition of the wool of Australla and Argentina. and other countries which produce a surplus, and it is perfectly certaln that the effect upon the industry here must be disastrous.. Then, instead of {mporting 300,000,000 pounds of wool, as we have been doing, we would be compelled to import double that amount to meet our de- mand for consumption. For the great sacri- fice of capital and labor this would involve, who except the forelgn producers would be benefited? Can there be any doubt that as so0n as this state of things was accomplished the price of forelgn wool would be ad- vanced to a figure largely beyond that now pald for Amerlcan wool? According to the estimate of the department of agriculture the total number of sheep in the world is 534,000,000, of which this country has about 9 per cent. The total product of wool in the world s about 2,500,000,000 pounds- an- nually, and this about equals the world's demand. Destroy the industy in this coun- try, which supplies over one-elghth of the total, and the effect must be to Increase the price of the remainder. With this increase the price of every woolen garment would be advanced. The states of the middle west and the Pacific coast are profoundly concerned in this matter, for the destruction of the wool industry in these scctions would be a tre- mendous blow to their prosperity. California has Invested In sheep some $75,000,000, giv- tng employment to over 80,000 people. In Oregon and Utah the Industry is carried on upon an extensive scale, and it is important in Washington, Idaho and Montana. It is a valuable industry In other states west of the Mississipp! and one which the people of these states earnestly desire shall be maintained and increased. It fs pertinent to ask, why should the wool producers ot America be compelled to compete with the cheap labor, the cheap rents and the cheap production of foreign countries? Why compel our peo- ple to compete with this character of labor in South America, in Australta, in Russia, Turkey and Asia? A policy that proposes to do this cannot be justified upon any ground of necessity or expediency or upon any sound economlc principle, Senator Sherman was not extravagent in characterizing free wool as the culminating atrocity of the demo- cratic tarift bill. THE PRESIDENT DISPLEASED. There is nothing incredible in the state- ment of the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald that Mr. Cleveland is displeased with the way in which the tarift bill has been bungled In the senate and tainted with suspicions of jobbery and cor- ruption. It is hardly concefwible that the measure as it now stands can have the ap- proval of the president, assuming that he has any clear idea of what a tariff bill ought to be. Not only is the pending measure full of glaring Inconsistencies and evidences of the incompetence of the men who framed it, but it is admitted on all hands to be entirely out of harmony with the tariff plank of the democratic platform. It is true that Mr. Cleveland did not endorse that plank. On the contrary he made it perfectly plain in accepting the nomination of the conven- tion that he was not in sympathy with its letter or its spirit. He did not subscribe to the absurd doctrine that the policy of pro- tection to American industrios s unconsti- tutional. But the president expected a revision of the tariff that would at least be consistent in its details and would fairly reflect the reform {dea cf which he had be- come the leading exponent. The pending bill reflects nothing excopt the lack. of & definite ecoromic policy, the willingness of certaln democrats to subordinate principle to local interest, and the sectional Influence that dominates the party In control of con- gross. As to the suspiclons of corruption and jobbery there seems to be warrant for them, but this may trouble the mind of the president less than the apprehension that his administration will not get the credit of having given the country a tarift policy In harmony with the Cleveland idea. Cer- tainly the pending bill does not contemplate such a policy as that idea Is commonly understocd. Whether or not Mr. Cleveland shall decide to let the public know of his dspleasure is probably not now of great importance. It is very questionable whether his dolng so would have any fufluence with the demo- cratic senators who bave committed them- selves to the tariff bill as it stands, some of them, it has been assumed, with the under- standing that the measure would be ap- proved by the president. It might have some effect on democrats In the house, some of whom have already expressed their de- termination” to antagonize portions of the senate bill, but it {s hardly to be supposed that anything the president might say would induce congress to enter upon another gen- oral reviston of the bill. The desire of most of the democrats fs to get through with the consideration of the me s00n as possible, so that they may go homo and take care of thelr political fnterests. Secretary Carlisle fs made to bear the re- sponsibility for much of the senate tarift Bill in its present form, and he wiil need to make a very strong and clear defense to vavo his political reputation from being serlously damaged. Meanwhile the republi- cans will find encouragement in any manifes- tation of displeasure the president may make. Some of them still entertain the hope of belng able to defeat tarift legisia- tion, and the greater the dissatisfaction and division in the democratic ranks the better the chance of accomplishing this. EMANCIPATE THE SLAVES. The revelations concerning the iniquities practiced upon the denizens of the burnt district call for energetic repressive action on the part of our authorities. While every thoughtful and intelligent citizen who has glven the subject any attention must con- cede that public morals and good govern- ment are promoted more effectively by con- fining the roclal evil within a separate dis- trict, the levying of extortionate rents by greedy landlords is a monstrous wrong to an unfortunate class, And when one man becomes the owner of nine-tenths of the disorderly resorts of vice and is allowed to domineer with an iron rod by the ald and co-operation of the police the com- munity tolerates a slavery more degrading than was the bondage of tme African in the south before the war. The slave driver at least had some regard for the health and comfort of his human chattel. The death of a likely negro man or woman en- tailed a loss of from $800 to $1,200 upon its owner, and where the death was caused by cruelty on the part of a lessee he was obliged to reimburse the owner for his loss. + Our man Martin does not wield the lash and cannot torture his slaves to death, but he can force them to contribute from the earnings of vice so long as they are in health and throw them into the gutter pen- niless or farce them into jail by the con- venient help of the police. A more hor- rible state of affairs ean scarcely be fm- agined than are the tyrannical exactlons of $3 a day in advance from wretched women who occupy mere hovels and are left to a choice between freezing and starvation or a life of shame. The miserable tenements for which Martin gets $3 a day or $1,100 a year would not rent in the most respectable residence quarters for more than $3 a week. And when the stock of female slaves runs down others are imported from abroad or driven within the pale, which practically means cast into- slavery on Mar- tin's municipal plantation. There certainly must be some way for breaking up Martin's monopoly by the officers of the law. Some means must be devised by humane men aud women in Omaha to break the shackles of Martin's slaves. A QUESTION OF PROPRIETY. When Senator Allen asked Senator Hill on Tuesday whether he belleved that a sena- tor could speculate In sugar stock without having his vote on the tarift bill influenced by that investment the latter replied that Senator Allen was confounding the legal question with the question of propricty. The substance of that colloquy was to the effect that a semator had a perfect legal right to become personally interested In matters about which he is called upon to legislate, and that he is doing nothing that violates the laws when he uses his position as a member of the senate to assist him in his financial ventures. So long as he does not accept what can be construed into a di- rect bribe he can keep himself within the bounds of law, and there is little doubt In the minds of those who clalm to be in- fermed that if the senate committec that Is now investigating the charges of the exercise of undue influence upon the senators whose votes have determined the proposed tarift policy of the country were able to get at all the facts, it would uncover more offenses against senatorlal propriety than any one has as yet dared intimate. There are more ways than one of commit. ting these breaches of propriety without subjecting the Interested party to the ne- cessity of violating any, specific. law. The usually careful Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record says that the inves- tigating committee has gotten to a point where it. seems advisable for it to stop If its members are to retain their peace of mind. They are sald to have discovered some new and unexpected leads, which, followed up, might make several people high in official wreles exceedingly uncomfortable. It the line of senatorial propricty is rather loosely drawn for the senators themselves it be- comes almost too faint for detection with some of their near relatives, and soon dis- appears altogether. The wives of the sen- ators and representatives residing at one of the leading Washington hotels are said to have entered a pool and cleared from $5,000 to $6,000 each on the rise in Sugar lrust certificates under the guidance of an ac- commodating friend. And one of the mem- bers of the pool was the wife of one of the cabinet officers, who, whether with or without her husband’s knowledge, carried oft her share of the profits without having advanced any of the margins or taken any of the risk. The son of a certain member of the cabinet, the private secretary of an- other, and the nephew of a certain senator, who is almost constantly with his uncle and is sald to carry his pocketbook, are also, according to the Record correspondent, “‘mentioned as having studled the tape so continuously while the sugar stock was on the rise that there was fear lest they might injure their eyesight.” It the surrender of our public officials to corrupt influences such as these is at present only a question of propriety it is high time that it were made a question of legality, A judge who should venture to adjudicate a case in which he was notoriously one of the parties or who should allow his friends or relatives to speculate upon an advance no- tice of what his decision in some im- portant suit was to be would be a fit subject for impeachment. The same offense by members of congress differs only in degree. If our senators and representa- tives have such a lax sense of propriety or care 0 little for it as these numerous stories indicate they should have their consclences strengthened by some timely legislation, Tye republican party cannot allow itself to become entangled by free colnage 16 to 1 sophistry, The republican party is com- mitted to honest money and that means money that will pass current for 100 cents on the dollar and every dollar as good as any other dollar, whether gold, sliver or paper. Free colnage at 16 to 1 simply means a Mex- iean currency and a shrinkage in the volume of money by the expulsion of all the gold coin in the country and a foreclosure of all the mortgages held by foreign capitalists, who naturally would insist on getting their pay In money of the same quality as that which they loaned. Free colnage on a basis in which gold and silver would be paired on the basis of actual value in the world's mar- | kets would be u good thing, but it would take an International two metals together with than There I8 more meteennces connected the detectivo department under H there was last ye the Douglas county Jall. But Mr. Hage \l»hlhll!l that he has a 4 pull with the ml.m.h«mn and therefore | cannot be dislodged. This thing has gone about far enough. ~The dotective force should be disbanded and the police force reorganized. The g eentmissfon has had ample time to moRtae oveF tho detective scardals and if they continue to Ignore the Jmatter much |«m:yz'x.e suspieton that the commission s confkdlled by fear of some unsavory exposure will be confirmed. The attention of Assessor Cosgrove of the Third ward is invited to the discrepancy between the enormous rental values of property in the burnt district and its valua- tion on the assessment roll. When a plece of property which rents at $400 a month Is assessed at $2,500 while store buildings which rent for $80 a‘month are assessed at from $3,000 to $5,000 there is a striking discrepancy that calls for an explanation. Two-Thirds RIght. Globe-Democrat. Expert arithmetic men have figured out that_the senate tariff bill will reduce the McKinley duties one-third. So McKinley was two-thirds right according to his friends, the enemy, Foollshly Agitated. + Chicago Record. A Frenchman named Turpin has excited the wrath of the I'rench government by selling the secret of some terrible explosive to the Triple Alliance. Tt would seem that the Irench ought to have been deeply grateful to him for not adding another fo the list of explosives already in use at home. i e e The Henuties of a Trust. Bpringficld Republican. A cracker trust has been holding a meet- ing out in Indiana. It is sald to include most of the large cracker manufacturers east of the Mississippi river, and they are managing to hold up the price, notwith- standing a great reduction in the cost of flour: A 20 per cent tariff helps them. The farmer is paying about the same price for crackers as he did when he got nearly twice as much for his wheat—and that fs one of the things which is making popu- lists of the wheat growers. i e The Democratic Traitors. New York Sun. We hear a cry of “traitor” throughout the length and breadth of the democratic press. When names are called, since his recent speech Senator Gorman’s name has led all the rest, with Brice, Murphy, Mc- Pherson, Smith’ and Caffery” almost on a par. The failure of congress to pass a bill according to the demoeratic platform constitutes the treachery. Treachery there has been surely, on a colossal scale, even for the extravagant imagination of this wide country. The trouble was born n the white house and began with the first mes- sage President Cleveland sent to congress when meeting In its regular session, — Far-Fetch utorial Courtes) New York Tribune. The courtesy of the senate is a fine old phrase, with a flavor of crusty port and long-kept Madeira, and, like them, rather more suited to a forfier time than to this one. It supposes the senator, as such, to be ex-officlo ewtitled to peculiar polite- ness and consideration, as if such stamp and attestation of; merit as went with the place were a suflicing warrant therefor under all circumstances.. But suppose the senator ought not to be a senator at all. Suppose him to have been a stock jobber out of the senate and to be one in It; sup- pose him to have bought his senatorship out and out from the proceeds of a suc- cessful and not too creditable stock jobbing transaction; or supfioké him to haye won it by proficienicy in the dirtiest kind of poli- tics, or In many of ways in which the oncé-high place is now aton—is such a sen- ator entitled to e courtesy of having his performances ¢overed up and slurred over by his investigating colleagues, or to have charges against him sifted behind closed doors. and_gut.of the hearing of the public? It has, no-doubt, been supposed by the cn‘!il!nllsl \\')l{ put his money into a senatorfal place that all the honors went with ft; but he may some time wake up to the fact that théy do not always and necessarily do so. Shlee il THE SENATORIAL SUGAR BAR'L. New York World: - It is an_outrageous proceeding for a committee which is set to investigate senatorlal bribery to divert its attention to the punishment of newspaper men for publishing the news. Chicago Herald: Dayid Hill has lucid fn- tervals. He insists that the bribery in- vestigating committee should call as wit- nesses the senators, brokers and lobbyists who know all about the corruption, rather than the newspaper correspondents, who ap- parently know nothing at all about it de- spite their large professions of knowledge. New York Herald: The business of the committee 1s to investigate the matters brought to public notice by these correspond- ents, not to pursue or persecute the corre- spondents. As there s no lack of wit- ne:ses whose testimony may prove timely and pertinent there is neither occasion nor excuse for pursuing a course suggestive of a purpose to switch the investigation off from its true line and divert public atten- tion from the real issue. Courler-Journal: Lobbyist Buttz referred the bribery investigating committee to Claim Attorney Holeman, who referred it to Lob- byist Harris, who is dead. Taking his cue from Buttz, Correspondent Edwards likewlse runs his side of the investigation into the ground by glving as his authority for certain statements ex-Speaker H. W. Hoyt of Con- necticut, who is dead and unable to contradict him. The Philadelphia Press “scoop” scems to have gathered nothing but wind. Minneapolis ~ Tribune: That's right. Prosecute the newspaper correspondents for refusing to glve away their sources of in- formation in the Sugar trust expose. They will pay their fines and serve their terms of imprisonment, but the information will not be forthcoming, for the newspaper corre- spondents of Washington know their busi- ness. While the so-called investigating committee is about it, why not examine a few of the senators who could tell the whole story if they would? Let's have an in- vestigation as is an investigation. Philadelphia Press: The work of a journaljst, as much a public service and as necessary as that of the senate itself, be- comes Impossible if his professional confi- dence s violated. Public opinion protects him in preserving this confidence because it is necessary to soclety that his work go on, and in dué time law and precedent, which the action of the senate Investigating com- mittee is helping unwittingly and unwill- ingly to form and create, will also protect him. Meanwhile, the duty of the journallst is clear. He cannot and he must not re- veal the source of any information which reaches him in profesgjonal confidence. Philadelphia Times: = The senate has dig- nified this scandal by ithe appointment of a committee to Investigate Under ordi- nary circumstances, Jt might reasonably call a halt when the authors of the scandal seal their lips and confess that they have no evidence to furnishi But it Is due alike to the senate, to theadniinistration and to the ocountry that the thuth, and the whole truth, ould be ascertafned’and the guilty party brought to punlshment. Either Secretary Carlisle has been guflty of most Infamous conduct, or two Wewspaper correspondents have béen guilty “of ‘the ~ most infamous prostitution of thelr!position by building up scandals from thevaporings of the political slums; and the eountry should know, and Journalism should koow, on which side there is guilt. Probe the ¥candal to bedrock, OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The latest acquisition of African territory glves Great Britaln an unbroken line across the length of Africa from the Mediterranean and the Nile to the extremo point of the continent. Tn all, this territory, held In rlous ways, from Cape Celony up to the pt, 18 In extent about 1,400,000 square miles, and has a population of 80,000,000, In the Nile valley it Includes incomparably the best of north Africa. In Uganda it holds the key to the lakes of central Africa, nearly as large as our own lake system. The new treaty gives it the high land west of Lake Tauganyika, con- siderably higher ang healthier than the eastern, in German hands. The new con- quests of the British South Africa company adds the great table land of the Interlor of subtropieal Africa, in much of which whito men live. y, there is Cape Colony, the only vital an settlement In all Afri As it stands, this great highway holds two thirds of all of Africa n which Buropeans can live and carry on an efiiclent administra- tion, It has the most fertile tract in the continent in Egypt, its healthiest in Cape Town, its greatest gold mines and the only reglon from which tropical Africa can be controlled. Still :more important. is its re- lation to African water courses. A steamer can start at Alexandria and run, when the Mahdi’s successor is cleared away, to a po'nt on Albert Edward Nyanza,.125 miles from Lake Tanganyika. This runs to within seventy miles of Lake Nyassa. From this lake the Shire river, broken at Murchison Falls, descends to the Zambesl and the In- dian ocean. From a navigable point oa the Congo it is less than 100 miles to Lake Tanganyika, The Aruwinl runs as near the Nile. It Is possible to start at the mouth of the Zambesi and reach the mouth of the Congo or Nfle with less than 200 miles of land travel, and the key and cen- ter to this great system is now in English ands. e The discontent of the Finns at the differ- ence in the treatment accorded them by the late and the present czar made itselt mani- fest in some of the speeches delivered on the occasion of the recent unve!ling of the mon- ument to Alexander IT at Helsingfors. Af- ter the reading of a conventional praclama- tion from the relgning czar several native speakers extolled the dead monarch with an enthustasm very foreign to the ordinarily undemonstrative nature of the Finn. The representative of the hurghers quoted signi- fcantly the words used by Alexander II on epening the Diet in 1883: “On my part noth- ing has been done that could disturb or violate the agreement and understanding which should exist between sovereign and people. I wish that this agreement should serve as a_pledge {n the future of pleasant and favorable relations established between me and the true and loyal people of Fin- land.” The representative of the *peasant class laid still more emphasis on this point. Apostrophizing the statue, he said: ‘*‘Arise, noble and kind-hearted monarch, whose blessed memory thy Finnish people celebrate today. Accept from us the confirmation of thine own magnanimous words, which we, the elected representatives of the Finnish people here assembled, repeat from the depth of our hearts. On thy part nothing was done that could violate the agreement which should exist between sovereign and people.” The implication of bad faith on the part of the present czar is obvious, and the Finns will ba lucky If it Is not resented soomer or later. v Although the general election in Belgium will ngt be held for neariy five months, all po- litical parties are beginning to shows signs of deep anxiety concerning the possible result The new electoral lists show that instead of 20,300 votes, as under the old arrangement, Brussels and its faubourgs will now possess 142,182 votes. The actual voters, however, do not number more than 95,150—a large pro- portion enjoying the qualifications of age, paternity, professorship and means, which confer upon them the privilege of the plural vote. Itis calculated that in the rural con- stituencles the electors will be increased to fourfold the extent shown in the reglstration in Brussols, where hitherto at least one In- habitant in five has posseseed a vote, whereas in the country distriets the proportion fre- quently fs as' one to twenty, and whole villages, _containing a population of several hundreds, possess no vote at all. The liberals, radicals and democrats, among whom must be included a_strong con- tingent of Roman Catholics, will make the representation of minorities their party cry. They oppose the policy of procrastination adopted by the present cabinet, and the more extreme of their organs are uttering omi- nous hints respecting the financlal condition of the Congo state, and the risk to Belgium of embarking fresh millions in it. Another bone of contentlon is the project of convert- ing Brussels and Bruges into important har- bors, an enterprise regarded with great dis- favor both in Antwerp and Ghent. s In Baden a noteworthy suggestion has been' made looking to a modification of the clectoral system. The existing method In the grand duchy for the election of the Diet is that of universal suffrage, as it is for the Imperial Diet. It only differs from the im- perial system in' that the members them- selves are indirectly elected. An agitation for the abandonment of this system, on the ground that it has no practical value, has been going on for some time. A committee appointed to discuss a radical moticn ad- vocating the introduction of direst suffrage, pure and simple, has accepted this proposal unanimously on condition that the propor- tlonal system be adopted. This means that the various partles shalt be given members in proportion to the total number of votes which falls to each party as a whole. The resolution has to recelve the sanction of the upper Chamber and the government, and it it not thought probable that any such assent will be given. If adopted, the scheme would result in an increare of the social democratic and ultramontane parties. By ap- plying this system to the Imperial Diet the soclal democratic party would gain far more representatives than any other. After the socialists would come the ultramontanes. The conservatives and national liberals, who obtained about the same number of votes in 1893, would possess an equal number of members, and not, as now, sixty-elght and fifty-three respectively. ey Alluding to the recent scare in Indla cre- ated by the mysterious smearing of mango trees, a corrrespondent of the St. James Gazette says that “it has long been a tradi- tlon among the Brahmins, in another quar- ter of Indla, that in this year of the iron age, 1894, the immemorial sanctity of the Ganges would pass away, and that the pris- tne virtue of the holy river would be con- veyed through caverns under ground, ‘meas- ureless to man,' to the Nerbudda. Should there be any chance of Allababad and Hurd- war on the Ganges no longer taking toll from the immense hordes of pilgrims who for centuries past have flocked hither to cleanse them of thelr sin, we may well be- lieve that extraordinary efforts would be made just now to publish far and wide the advantages of other boly places, Janakpore among them. It was at the city of Rajah Janaka that the lotus-eyed Rama, the hero of one of the great Sanskrit epics, won by a feat of arms the rajah's /daughter, the incom- parable Sita. There has been some dispute as to the situation of the ancient city where Rama found a bride, but the Brahmins of Janakpore are, of course, provided with innumerable stokas in support of thelr claim. So it {8 more than possible that the mysteri- us occurrence reported from districts lylng between Nepaul and Benares s entirely the Highest of all in Leavening Power,— Latest U. S. Goy't Report. Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE | ulaticn of 17,4634 | has Just work of thelr missfoners. The desire, In- deed, s distinotly ereditable to the orfental intelifgence.” e “Hungary' 18 a country which in a pop- in 1S90 had but 7,246, 730 Hungarians, This s the serlous weak- ness of such a prosecution for ‘‘treason’ as been carrled out against the sup- porters of Roumanfan natlonality ber the Roumanians, in al 501, re one third as numerous as the Magyars. Loss | highly eivilized, they come from quite as good n stock as the Magyars, and they have across their eastern boundary In Roumania 5,800,000 Roumanifans, who are making most rapldy progress, creating a natlonal literature and alive with national feeling, For forty | yoars the Magyar has been endeavoring to enforce his rule on the 10,000,000 assoclated with him in the Hungarlan kingdom and di vided botween varlous nationalities. In | every case the Hungarlan government and the Diet has been forced after an ineffectuat resistance to concede autoncmy, as it will in the present instanc In num- PEOPLE AND THINGS, Breckinridge has been denfed an appoal in the courts of the District of Columb Now let the Ashland district reject his ap. peal and the country will rejoice exceedingly The petitions for . womaa suffrage pro- gented to the New York coustitutional con- vention contaln 212,953 names. 1t is not probable the government will proceed against the signers for interfering with the malos, General Oliver L. Shepherd, U. A whose death was recently announced, grad- uated at West Point in 1840. There were forty-two men_in his class who graduated, among them Willlam T. Sherman, H. Thomas, Governor Paul Herbert of Loulslana and others of note. General | Shepherd's death leaves only two members of the class still living, General George H. | Getty and General Stewart Van Vilet. Five members of the class were killed in’ battle and many wounded. Speaking of C. W. Buttz, would-be briber of senators, the Philadel- | phia Record says: . ‘“He went into the army from this city fn 1861 as first leu- tenant in the Eleventh Pennsylvania cav- alry. He .was an efficlont wnd popular officer, and In 1863 was made assistant provost marshal of Suffolk, Va. Resigning from the service In that year, he married a southern lady and began practicing law in Norfolk. ~ For obtaining a writ of habeas corpus In a case of arbitrary military ar- | rest, General Butler ordered him ‘out of his department. Buttz went to Washington, and In company with 8imon Cameron called on President Lincoln and laid his case be- fore him. After pondering a few minutes, Lincoln's precise words, as repeatqd after- | ward by Buttz, were: ‘Butler gives me more trouble than any other general in the army, and yet should T deprive him of com- mand, I should have the state of Massachu- setts and the whole of New England down here’ Then he wrote with his own hands an order glving Buttz permission to return to Norfolk and remain there ‘without mo- lestation.’ " George | the alleged = e LINES CAST IN PLEASANT PHRASES, Hallo: Debby—Wi at do you try after a night oft? Hubby My ‘wife's patience. *‘Ah, that may be said to help said'a crow, as he looked upon the corn field. | Boston Courler: “What, glve a prize to | your son? He persists in doing nothing!” | “Well, give him the prize of perseverance, then!"* Washington | Star K “Ob coh'se,” sald Uncle Iben, “time is money. But it do beat* all how much easler ‘tis ter gib a needy frien’ two houahs' talk 'bout econ- omy dan 'tis ter len’ 'im 50 cents.” Chicago Record: Weary Hokus—Here's a paper w'at tells of a fellow's havin' de- liryum treemuns. Wandering_ Willle (sighing)—Read it out loud, pardner. It's a long time since we've | had ‘anythin’ real soothin’, Indianapolis Journal: Mrs. having to foot the get from their wi st nonsense going. Mr. Watts—How about it when she pre- sents him with twins? Watts—This Ils Indianapolis Journal: “I don't mind a woman bein’ neat,”” said old Mrs. Jason, “but one woman I used to know: was jls{ a little too neat for any use. Why, that there woman used to take a couple of gold- fish she had out of their tank every Satur- day night and give them a bath.” Philadelphia Record He—My dear, I've jus teen times in Seventeen seconds. She (reproachfully)—Harold, ~you love another, ss me again. ed you seven- Washington Star: “Mistah,” sald an urchin to the man who was driving a very PoOKhiorss; i ¥does Lyeh fwants mo¥ to “hol' "im? “No; this horse won't run a “I didn’t mean hol’ ’im fas', run away, I mean hol' ‘im won' dra ay." he won' up, s0's he A ROMANCE. Detroit Freo Pres: Miss Polly came to our To tea the other day, And I took Polly home 'that night, And loafed along the way. house And when we'd got to Polly's house, We both had had our say, And Polly promised that she come To our house to stay. Ameon Chicago Tribune. If it will quiet General Weaver of Towa to give him an office of some kind, in hu- manity's name let him have it. | Interest Is maintained to the last word. | 18 a lterary feast “ Hjalmar H. Putes a ¢ the act of I t fighting for a orinciple. THE SUNDAY DER. of M. Zola's story, in The Sunday Bee (tomorrow) begins with the recital of the Third day's events. Qompetent critles that no stronger work of flction was ever before presented by a newspaper in this country. i The installment “Lourdes,’ assert Hiustrated ture Is an Interview with the “flylng man,* of a flylng machine has at- linary popular The articlo will be fllustrs It Is a late, aus thoritative utterance by Mr. Lillenthal in regard to his Invention and experiments and the solution of the flying machine problem. abllity of Western Farm Mortgages" Is the caption of an article by J. Henry Wood of Boston, based upon recent census statistics. 1t s shown conclusively that of the millions of farms in the United States no more than 70 per cent of them are morts [ and none mortgaged to ex- cood 50 per cont of value. The avernge mortgage debt s loss than 17 per cent. The article presents a strong argus ment in behalf of western investmonts. Carp,” in his special letter from China, tells of the native antipathy to foreigners; describes the brutalitics to which foreigners o subjected and the methods employed to create a sentiment of bitterness among the natives against subjects of foreign powers, Phis letter relates many new and sensa- tional facts, and is exclusive with The Sun- day Del e Problem of the Allen,” Boyesen of Colu college. Prof. Boyesen has made a special study of the {mmigration question and has contributed soveral notable articles to the reviews on this topic. He treats his subjects in a vig- orous and masterly way A local authority on matters pertaining to “good form’ in the smart world contrib- criticlsm upon the Omaha young woman which will cause something of a flutter in exclusive circles. The writer has lived here long enough to acquaint himselt with the subject, which 18 handled without gloves. There will also be a budget of light, spioy reading of general Interest to women, with the latest fashion hints of the season. The soclety page will chronicle the local events of the week; the sporting department will treat of fleld sporting events, with gos= sip about sportsmen, while the local labor news of the week will be presented fully. The speclal’ cable service, unrivaled As- soclated press dispatches and The Bee's spe- clal telegraphie service arc a standing guar- anty that The Sunday Bee will present the news of the world, while locally the fleld will bo thoroughly gl O Wilson BilL. elpitn Ledger, The changes made in the Wilson bill y_th re in_the direction of pro- tecting n_industr When com- pleted the bill may not differ greatly from which preceded the McKin- except for the incluston of the Ature us a sop to the popu- epublicans, _however, are The passige of cent of future doubtless -be sion, since t a half doz A novel fe Lilienthal, whose wn o as Invention tracted extry intorest by Prof. ley act, income ‘tax f 5. The bill, in the » Wilson i & would: democratic success, followed by a more it is to the firmne tors that the country Is indebt modification introduced ~in the The majority of the democrats admit that the bill is too conservative in its provisions. THE SU\ e RED CONGRESS. AR- Pittsburg Dispateh. (Tune—*The Old Oaken Bucket.") How dear to our hearts is our democratic congress As hopeless Inaction presents it to view: The bill of poor Wilson, the deep tangled tarif, And every mad pledge that their lunacy knew! The widespread depression, the mills that closed by it The rock of free Grover fell, They've busted deny it, And _darn well. This G. Cleveland congress, This Queen Lilly congres This wild free trade congress We all love so well. silver where great country, no use to it's busted a® our the old party, Their moss covered pledges we no longer’ treasure, For often at noon when out hunting a Job, We find that instead of the corn they had promised, They've given us nothing—not even & cob, How_ardent we've cussed overflowing With sulphurous biessings as great swear woras fell, The emblems of hunger, free trade and free silver, : Are sounding In sorrow the workingman's knell. This bank-breaking gongress, This mill-closing congress, This starvation congress We all love so well. ‘em with lips How sweet from their eloquent lips to re- celve it, “Curs tarift protection no longer up- hold We listened—and voted our dinner pails empty, The factorles silent, the furances cold. And now far removed from our lost situas tions, The tear of regret We yearn for repub ‘And sigh for the congress 8o well. 'his Fifty-third at doth Intrusively swell, an administration that served us ngress, ngress, congress woll, class suits such as we only your money’s worth, presents—is $10 The sale SPECIAL SALE of suits for $10—all wool, ele- gant suits that sold at $12.50 to $18 and $2) Zsale is now on.—No fake—but genuine, by our guarantee that means you get your money back, or satisfaction, if you don't get more than See the show window— everything in the window—except the policumen"s Browning, King & Co., S. W. Corner 15th and Douglas, first- can make, accompanied is now going on.