Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1894, Page 4

P 361‘ T s A bl v BEE: et St et e e e e et [ e B. ROSEWATER, Editor. PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING. | B OF BURSCRIPTION, One Year dny, One Yenr.. Monthe... b hres Monthi : Findny Tee, One Year Fatuniny [ee, One Year.. Weekly Tiee, One Year OFFIC The Ree Dullding. T Ot eorner N and Twenty-fourth Sta. el Tufts, 13, Pearl street, Chicngs OMee, 517 Chamber of Commerce, Now Yok, Rooms 13, 14 and 16, Tribune Bldg. Nington, 107 K street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE o Al communications relating to newh and edi- A1 matter should be nddressed: To the Editor. DUSINESS LETTERS. Al husiness letters and remittances should be oo Pubiishing company, . checks and_postofile srier of the SLASHING COM 2339338 8. omaiia made THE BEE PU STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The . 1shing company, benlg duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete o ! Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday eo b during the month of May, 184, was as follo 19.044% . Total sold vosy average net eirculy CHUCK in my pres- ROGE B fore me and subscribe ay of June, 180 N. P, FEIL an Sworn to b ence this 20 . Notary Public. There is now a free Field in the First wongressional district of this state. Declinations to gress are the order of the day. candidate for con- Next! be a During the election in Oregon the “army of voters” fs this year compelled to give avay to the “‘navy of voters. Boss Wiley declares The Bee lied when 1t charged him with owning twelve council- He says he owns fourteen, — men. The police commission has been playing hide-and-seek long enough with regard to the detective scandals. It must either fish or cut bait. The New York Sun has dubbed the ptalwart chairman of the senate finance committee “the Hon. Denial W. Voorhees." The man who can beat him in denying state- ments that are absolutely true is in vigorous demand. The chief detective that does mot detect deflantly proclaims that he cannot be dis- missed no matter what he may have done because the chief dare not incur his dis- pleasure, and it looks very much as if this were true. 1t we are not mistaken it was Judge Hascall who publicly staked his reputation as a lawyer upon the constitutionality of his pet garbage collection ordinance. But then the Judicial decree overruling his position will not disturb him greatly, as he did not have much to put at stake. The resignation of an assistant post- master general will be welcome news to the hordes of hungry democrats who have thus far been left out of the patronage deal. Deaths are few enough, but a resignation is a veritable surprise. But the coming ap- pointment to the vacancy carries with it a train or darkness and dismal disappointment. Nebraska popullst representatives in con- gress are sald to be at perfect ease with regard to their prospects for renomination on the populist ticket. They do not care to run the risk of having their salaries docked for the time they might spend in repairing fences at home. They therefore prefer to be- lleve that their fences are in no need of repair. In deciding to issue neither invitations to his wedding nor announcements of his mar- rlage Congressman Mercer s missing one of the opportunities of his life. The recelpt of one of those preclous cards by each one of his constituents would be appreclated more than all the kisses that have ever been lavished upon the bables of the Second Ne- braska congressional district, The milk dealers denounce as untrue the elaim that a license fee Is necessary to in- spect milk. At this point we agree with the milk dealers perfectly. Any milk in- spector who should attempt. to ascertaln tho quality of milk by the means of a licenso foe would not only display his unfitness for his position, but would also hold himselt up as a proper subject for the insane asylum. Let the inspection of milk procoed by the employment of the ordinary and Tecognized tests. —_— The democratic leaders In the senate are mow particularly anxlous to see that the senate does a good day's work each day. This is an Intimation that it has not been doing a good day's work of late and that it has to be spurred on to do s0. Of course we have to judge the efficlency of every leglslative body by the results accomplished. Judging by the work of the present session of congress, our legislators will have no difficulty in counting the number of days on which they are accredited with the per- formance of a good day's work. ——e The Gougar woman no wmakes public con- fossion of what was known all along, that her services were enlisted In the cause of prohibition during the campaign of 1890 for revenue only. She is no exception to the general run of professional prohibition agi- tators except so far as the price demanded 1s concerned. She says that she received oply $1,000 for speaking once or twice a day for a month. She may possibly be speaking the truth this time, although the truth s not usually in her line. Even the prohibitionists will have to admit that she managed to rake off soveral than she was worth, ——— times more . fhere must be kinks somewhere in our system of criminal prosecution, when a man can deliberately shoot a woman for no reason whatever, and then after languishing & short time In jall, walk out without even the formailty of a trial, simply because the injured woman does not care to prosecute. Had he killed the woman, as was his in-* tontion, he would have hid to undergo a trial without reference to the wishes of any of the partles luvolved. If prosecution is to depend entirely upon the whims of the pris- oners' victims, & great loophole is opened for the escape of criminals. When a case is 80 plain that a plea of gullty Is almost an assured fact, giving the prisoner his liberty a not set a very wholesome example for of offenders. CARLISLE AND THE SUGAR SCHEDULE. The testimony of Secrotary Carlisle before the senate investigating committee clearly ostablishes his eonnection with the sguar schedule of the tariff bill. Whether what he did In that connection was upon his own motion or was dictated by some outside in- fluence the testimony does not make on- tirely clear, The secretary admitted that he had drawn up a schedule providing for an ad valorem duty of 40 per cent on raw sugars and one-eighth of a cent on refined, and that he had done this at the request of Senator Jones of the finance committee. He says he agreed to do this because it was a service the Treasury department was in the habit of rendering the members of the sen- ate finance committee. It 18 undoubtedly true that secretaries of the treasury have always had more or less to do with the framing of tariff measures, but there Is something pecullar in this case. The sugar schedule drawn by Secretary Carlisle, pro- viding an ad valorem duty for raw sugars and a specific duty for refined, was accepted almost without question by the democrats of the finance committee, or a majority of them, and it was satisfactory. to the Sugar trust. Now this is to be considered In as- soclation with the fact that the president of the trust had visited the secretary of the treasury, presumably upon business, and the secretary had given him a note of Introduc- tion to Senator Mills, with whom it s rea- sonable to assume Mr. Havermeyer also wanted to talk business, but who de- clined to see him. What is the ob- vious suggestion of the circumstances that after the president of the Sugar trust had called upon the secretary of the treasury the latter was requested by A member’ of the finance committee to submit a sugar schedule, which had been a source of prolonged contention: that the sec- retary promptly complied with this request, and fhat the schedule drawn by him was ac- cepted by the democrats of the finance com- mittes and was satisfactory to the trust? Is there not a very strong probability that the trust had some influence in the matter? Secretary Carlisle sald he could not remem- ber what was said by the several persons who called to see him about tariff legislation on sugar, but he remembered that there was no intimation that thé democratic party was under obligations to the Sugar trust. Mr. Carlisle is esteemed a man of candor and veracity, but a great many people will think it strange that in the brief time that has elapsed since his talk with Mr. Havermeyer and others interested In the sugar schedule, and who naturally would have endeavored to make their conversation as impressive as possible, he should have forgotten what they said. Secretary Carlisle denies the allegation that ha asked that the interests of the Sugar trust be protected because of the demo- cratic party’s obligations to it, but this must be taken for what it is worth in the light of his admissions. These indicate, considered in connection with the fact that he had held interviews with several representatives of the sugar refining Interest, confessedly in reference to the sugar schedule, that he was not unmindful of that interest when he submitted the schedule. Indeed 1t fs not an unfair or unreasonable inference that the rates submitted by the secretary were suggested by the representatives of the trust. The disclosure will have the effect to fmpair popular confidence in Secretary Carl'sle, No- body will suspect that he profited personally or intended to profit personally by his con- nection with this matter. The con- cluzlon must be, notwithstanding his denial, that he was Impelled by political considera- tions which he could not resist to urge the finance committee to adopt a schedule which was satisfactory to the trust, and it is per- fectly obvious that several members of that committee were most willing to do so. THE CURRENCY DISCUSSION. It is expected that the currency discussion In the house of representatives will continue through the present week at least, with the probability of lasting longer. The proposition upon which action will first bo had fs the repeal of the 10 per cent tax oh state bank issues, and from the debate on this thus far no definite conclusion can be formed as to what the result of a vote is likely to be. The optnion of those who have made a care- ful study of the situation is that uncondi- tlonal repeal of the tax cannot carry, but there is a possibility of the adoption of a measure embracing conditional repeal. The southern democratic representatives manifest a determined purpose to accept nothing short of the removal of the tax without any con- ditions, but some of them will probably change their minds rather than tike the risk of not having the tax repealed. It has been shown in the course of the dls- cussion thus far that the opinion is pretty general that one of the great meeds in our currency system is greater elasticity. Those who oppose the unconditional repeal of the state bank tax concede this, Representative Warner of New York, who s the author of a banking bill that has been commended by good financial authorities, said in his speech on this subject last Saturday that the condi- tlon of our financial affairs last summer had demonstrated the Inadequacy of our bavk- note currency system. Durlng the late panic the currency had been increased by addi- tions to national bank circulation only about 1% per cent, or less than half the amount by which the banks of a single clty virtually increased it by clearing house certificates alone. “In every particular except security,” sald Mr. Warner, “‘our national bank currency system has proved a most striking example of what such a currency ought not to be." Unquestionably this reflects the oplaion of a majority of the democrats in the house, and probably, also, of some republicans, as it certainly does of a number of financiers. There are national bankers In the east and elsewhere who are not opposed to a state bank currency under proper safe- guards and regulations. The difficulty s to provide these, for when it is proposed that the federal government shall exercise super- vision over state banks the objection s made that this would be an unwarrantable Interference with the authority of the states. No plan has yet been devised that over- comes this objection. The nearest approach to one is the Warner bill, which provides for the conditional repeal of the tax on state bank issues. This measure proposes that notes shall be Issued to state banks and national banking associations by the comp- troller of the currency, the notes to be registered in the offico of that official. They shall be furnished to a state bank only when the liws of the state in whieh the bank may bo located shall have given holders of its clrculating notes a first len upon Its assets and made thewm a llability against shareholders, as is now the rule In the case of national banks. It is aiso required that adequate provision be made by the state for tho redemption of netes lssued by state banks, elther at the state capital or some city designated by the comptroller. Notes shall not be furnished to a state bank until it shall have ‘a paid-up and unimpaired capital of not less than $50,000. The comp- troller of the currency must also be satls- fled that the aggregate amount of notes Issued, including national bank notes, ha: been kept less In amount than 76 per cent of the patd-up and unimpaired capital. All banks, other than national banks, thus per- mitted to use notes are to be subject to the same requirements as to report and in- spection now provided in the laws regulat- ing national banks., State banks established under this bill would not be confined to United States bonds as a basis of oirculation, but could use as security state, county and municipal securitios, The great Importance of this question s generally recognized and a wise solution s certainly to be de- sired, but this is hardly to be hoped for from the present congress, owing to the fact that the party In power Is hopelessly divided as to a policy, with a majority firmly In favor of restoring to state banks the privilege of Issuing notes which they enjoyed before the 10 per cent tax was im- posed. THE COMMISSION HOW ITS HAND. About three months ago Mayor Bemis requested Chlef Seavey to report the number of assignation houses and. dissolute women outside of the burnt district. Shortly there- after Ohlef Seavey submitted a report in re- sponse to this requisition which was an ex- act duplicate of the police court registgr. Thereupon Mayor Bemls informed the chief that this information was accessible to him through the police court. What he demanded was a report of the number of disorderly resorts ontside of the district that had falled to register™and the number of women of ill- fame scattered about the city. To this re- quest the chief made response a few days later through a report signed by Chief De- tective Haze and Sergeant Sigwart. These officers stated officially that after a full in- quiry they found but two houses of assigna- tion and no women of ill-fame outside of the district. On the face of It this report was an au- dacious falsification of facts so notorious as to be beyond successful contradiction. Chief Seavey must have known that.Haze and Sig- wart had palmed oft a statement which convicted them of downright falsification and official dereliction which deprives them of credibility. That a man who will lie will steal is an old adage. It may not be absolutely true in this instance, but we boldly assert that no man is fit for public duty.who will deliberately misstate facts. The least Chief Seavey could have done was to suspend the officers and call the attention of the police commissioners to their misconduct. So far as we know the chief has not even repri- manded the delinquents. And what is still more inexcusable, he has recently issued an order directing Haze and another detective to serve notice on the keepers of assignation houses and women of ill-fame that subsist in various parts of the city to move Into the district within five days under penalty of being sent to jail. This is an open confession that the reports heretofore made to Mayor Bemls were false. It there are houses of assignation outside of the two that have been reported as paying fines they were here three months aga and must have been known to the chief belled cat ot the detectives then as they are now. It there were no women of ill-repute scat- tered around the city three months ago they are not here now. There has been no Mmflux of this class recently, except such as Land- lord Martin has imported Into his preserve. And yet a score or more have been found and recelved notices, as we are informed. This is only an index of the inefliciency of the detective force. When the detectives are allowed to impose upon the chief other subordinates must naturally cease to respect him or his authority. From the highest to the lowesi the force Is demoralized. This the police commission can no longer ignore. They must cither reorganize the force by weeding out insubordinates and crooks or the public will begin to believe the stories now afloat that the detectives hold clubs over the heads of their superiors and that the superiors do mot dare to do their duty for fear of exposure. ANTHRACITE GOES UP. The strike of the coal miners and the con- sequ-nt scarcity of bituminous coal is bear- ing with untold severity not only upon the strikers and mine operators, but also upon the various interests that are to a greater or lesser extent dependent upon the coal sup- ply for their continued existence. We hear of factories and mills upon every side closing down ‘or running on part time, of the diffi- culties of the railroads to maintain their store of fuel, of the stoppage of electric light works and other power plants in different cities, anl of the substitution of wood, oil and so forth for coal by numerous con- sumers. While all these classes, however, are suffering inconvenience and hardship, not to mention the financial loss occasioned thereby, there is at least one gigantio in- dustrial combination whose members are rub- bing their hands in glee and hoping that tho coal famine may bring the people to still more despercte stralghts. The anthra- clte coal monopoly keeps its forces well under control and promises to make the best of the opportunity which the scarcity of soft coal has made for it. Only last week the castern sales agents of the anthracite coal combination held a meet- ing In New York to consider the situation and before they emerged the price of anthra- cite coal had been materially raised. was suid to have been some little opposition within the ranks to this action, not by rea- son of any tender regard for the public, but because the expediency of raising rates just at this moment was doubted. The coal barons had had dificulty enough in restrict- ing the output sufficiently to keep prices at their present level. The increase this time could not be based upon any change in the available supply. It could rest only on the prospect of a demand stimulated by those consumers reduced to the extremity of bur ing hard coal in place of soft coal. The temptation, however, was irresistible and the quotations on anthracite suflenly rose from 15 to 25 cénts per ton. Under the agrec- ment to limit the output to 60 per cent of the total estimated capacity of the coal mines the coal barons hope to be able to maintain the new schedule this seasom, no matter how soon the strike in the bitumi- nous mines may be brought to a close. It it 1s much prolonged they will see to It that anthracite Is shoved several notches higher, It Is only by reason of the close combina- tion of the anthracite mine owners that they are able to assume the position which they mow occupy. Any other industry would quicken its energles so woon as it felt the impulse of & better demand for its products. Prices would be ralsed only until the in- creased production could cateh up with the increased demand. That the coal barons are able to run counter to the ordinary laws of corpetitive pursuits shows to what an ex- tent they have converted thelr business into an exclusive and arbitrary monopoly. Vo Vote! 8t Louls Globe-Democrat. Sherman's great speech on the tariff prac- tcally closes the debate, and all additional | twliing will be superfiuois. THE SUGAR COATED INQUIRY, i) e New York Werld: Instead of investigat- ing the fraudsof fta own ticker-tainted members the dark-lantern senate has mere- Iy been trylng—to- find out who told the newspapers abeug iit. Minneapolis Journal: The senate sugar Investigating cothwnsttos will in all probabil- ity sollcit a few;mere denlals, condemn the newspaper corpespgndents who gave the deal away and adfourn with a proud con- sciousness of dfity el performed. New York World! Senator McPherson has found 1t necesddry 'to explain another pur- chase of 500 shared of Sugar stock by his son just at thetime when the semate situ- ation was suchjas to make a tip from a senator valuable, His explanation is that A telegram ordering the purchase was written and left on his desk before his son consulted him as to the purchase. He ad- vised against it as unseemly and compro- mising, but neither he mor his son remem- bered to destroy the telegram, and a super- serviceable servant carelessly sent it off with others that were intended to go. There are some explanations so ingenfous that it 18 on the whole better not to make them. Chicago Herald: After considerable squirming and wriggling Senator McPherson has admitted that although he stopped spec- ulating in Sugar certificates when the tariff bill came up for consideration he thought- fully turned his holdings over to his son, “who has made money on it." There will be people mean enough to say that young McPherson's success in speculation may be traced to the fact that the old man is a member of the finance committee, which fixed the tarlff on sugar, but people will talk, a8 every one knows. Senator McPher- as a matter of fact, only following the example of the bankrupt spoken of by Private John Allen, who had everything, even to his religion, in his wife's name for safety. Washington Star: Senator Hill Is right. The Investigation is to determine the truth or falsehood of certain charges against sen- ators, and not to discover and punish those who made_ the accusations, on the assump- tion that they are false. The statement was printed that” a lobbyist had attempted to bribe Senator Hunton and Senator Kyle. If, There | instead of questioning these two senators and the alleged would-be briber on the sub- ject, the investigating committee, carefully refraining from recourse to these natural witnesses, had summoned newspaper men and questioned them as to the persons who had told them of the attempted bribery, and threatened to imprison them if they did not digclose, the Buttz investigation would have been as farcial as the sugar investigation. There is no reason why a_different course should be pursued In thé two inquiries. Firet, let the senators and others reflect:d upon testify that the accusations are false; then will be the fitting time to discover and punish the makers and circulators of libel- ous statements. St S CONFEDERATE BLOWHOLES, Indianapolis Journal: Rev. Cave, who de- clared that the cause of secession was the noblest of the century, yearns for a non- sectarian church, The church without a belief would be just the thing to go with a_government whose corner stone was hu- man slavery. 5 Globe-Democrat; Rev. Dr. Cave, the elo- quent pastor of the wholly unsectarian Church of the Heavenly Secesh, will not re- turn at once to St. Louis. He will dwell awhile in the exalted ozone of the bowie- knive chivalry of Virginia before resuming the salvation ‘of the lost In the fetid atmos- phere of St. Louis Puritanism. Washington Star: It s unfortunate that at thig. late day—twenty-nine years since the , war of the re- bellion came to its end—a southern orator should, with conspicugus publicity, and on a day sacred to the union dead, revive and cry aloud the dootrine of righteous rebellion on .the part of those who upheld and fol- lowed the flag of.the confederacy. Sensible Americans must deprecate such outbursts, For years the pgople of the south protested loudly against narthern waving of the bloody shirt; they should, in all fairness, insist that their own representatives permit the ensanguined garment,to rest in the soil to which " all level-headed people have com- mitted it. The day of strife is done—this generation saw it not. Why then seek to revive issues in, the veins of which life ceased long ago to flow? Louisyille - Courier-Journal: Tt..is a pity %0 imposing a ceremony as_that of tha un- veiling. of the confederate soldiers’ and sailors’ monument at- Richmond should hava been marred by some -{ll-considered utter- ances from the orators of the day. Glar!fica- tion of the dead heroes who surrendered tl eir lives in defense of the southern causa does not require denunciation of those who fought with equal sincerity and courage on the other side. It is surely possible to pay a tribute to the conspicuous valor of the ful- lowers of Lee and Jackson and Johnston without raking over old ammosities and In- viting a_revival of buo'less discus: to the right and wrong of the v surely possible to erect monuments that shall perpetuate the memory of noblo decds without charging them also with tha perpetu- ation of bitterness. If it is not possible we would better do without any more unveilings and reunions, e Conspliring Against Publio Interests. Chicago Herald. Responsibllity for the continuance of the coal miners' strike cannot be put upon the strikers 8o long as the operators refuse to consider any proposal to arbitrate, There is a well justified suspicion that certain of the mine owners are willing that the strike should continue Indefinitely, or at least until they have cleaned up their sut- lus stocks of coal at advanced prices. Several of them have admitted ns much. Under these circumstances the miners cai- not he charged with delaying a settlement of the strike, although they will be held to account for any outrage that may be perpetrated by disorderly and lawless mem- hers of thelr organizafion. But even for these acts of lnwlessness the operators will be In some degree responsible, unless they meet their employes half way and take measures to end the strike. The public, which I8 suffering loss and Inconvenience through thee dispute, is in no humor. to tolerate obstinacy on either side. If the operators persist In_delaying a settlement they will feel the weight of popular re- sentment. e Right Man for the Senate, Minneapolis Journal. The Tliinois republicans would make no mistake in_putting forward Editor Joseph Medill of the Chicago Tribune as the suc- cessor of Senator Cullom in the federal senate, as s proposed, the term of the latter explring in 18%. Mr, Medill's 71 years rest lightly upon him, for he is sturdy as o matured oak, and 1s splendidly equipped for the duties of the position by his strong maturity of thought and judg- ment, his profound acquaintance with the detaila of every question which has been in public discussion in the last eventful forty years of our national history, and his com- prehension of and devotion fo the best in- terests of the country and of the republi- *can party, Mr. Medill has occupied a con- splouousand most honorable position in the councils of the party many years. A Judicial View of Corporations. Judge Grosscup'sMemorial Day Address, It is time that we should reverse, I think, the general policy #rown up in the United States of conferring ¢ corporate existence upon any lawful projgct. ‘The license thus extended has dong gnore than anything else to obliterate the fmylividual from our indus- trial system. It I8 especially time that In the management of ibusiness enterprises the old privileges aficompetition should bo re-established andythe heavy hand of im- personal combinafion, removed. The exer- cise of a power that prevents any man from the pursult ¢f such a calling as his means permit, wihou uuh(u('llun to the obstacles of unequal conditions, ought to be a8 lawless as the Imposition of restraint upon a right to work. s Ak Morton and Bryan. Chicago Fimes. J. Sterling Mortaiy record I not of a na- ture to qualify hifii to read W, J. Bryan out of the democratio party, and his utter- have no_effect in Nebraska, Professions and thelr What Mr. Morton's Jibes ar any’ da, however, is (o in- Bpire Mr. Bryan's friends to announce him as the candidate of the Nebraska democ. racy for the United States senate, and should they do 50 hig election Is as certain a8 the defeat of the mortgage banker, now secretary of agriculture, I the event of his ever asking another office at the hands of the people whom his hypocrisy has long since disgusted. practic — A Crack in the Solld South, Globe-Democrat. The munieipal elections in Virginia last week were not comforting to the demo- crats, They logk Norfolkk to the prohibi- tionist reformers by over 1,000, and saved Roanoke from the republicans by only ten majority. Thelr success in Richmond was probably due to the fact that no opposition ticket was nominated. PROPLE AND TRINGS, Pat Carter of Council Bluffs is an up-to- date Inventor. Flying machines are duo In fiy time. The exposures of No. 1 typifies the fable of an ass braylng over the dead lion. Tynan lives, Parnell is dead. Philadelphia Is outfiting an expedition to bring Peary home. This is oharacteristic of polar hunts— Send out your expedition; then send after It The amount of swallowing done in the vicinity of St. Joo and Atchison gives color to the report that the mouth of the Missourl has forsaken Alton. One of the biggest men in the country wrapped the drapery of his couch about him recently and crossed the divide. His name was_ Willlam Dunlap, his home Tippecanoe, W. Va. He weighed a quarter of a ton. A ray of sunshine occasionally penetrates the fog of criticism with which the Chicago press envelops the police. A courageous policeman, who stopped a runaway horse at the peril of his life, comes in for generous praise on all sides. 1f the incident s a rare one the commendation s more 0. The kinks of criminal jurisprudence are 80 hopelessly tangled hereabouts that it is not surprising the usually wide-awake Chicago Post gets confused in dealing with them. The Davis twin, brothers were not sent to the penitentiary together. Their game was discovered and checkmated in the county jail. Justico triumphed by accident. Prof. Roger Ham s adding new laurels to the science of bugology in the vociferous precinets of Hogwallow. As a result of a serfes of prolonged experiments the profes- sor is forced to the conclusion that the tumblo-bug is not a true symbol of rapid transit, but cheerfully accords it deserved praise for the tireless perseverance mani- fested after the ball. Judge Phillips of the United States court at Kansas City has rendered an important decision involving the question whether the name of a corporation in one state could be used by another corporation in any other state. The Investor Publishing company, publishers of the United States Investor of Boston, brought suit for infringement of name by corporations in Kansas City and Los Angeles. The court de- cided in favor of the Boston corporation, perpetually enjoining the defendants. The Chicago Inter Ocean has undertaken with refreshing zeal the work of revising and amending the elegiac poem of Theodore O'Hara, People who have hitherto admired the heroic classic, the lines of which grace the gates of national cemeteries, doubtless observed certain imperfections, but none es- sayed the task of correction. The poetic oxpert of the 1.-O. deemed the time pro- pitious for a modern rendition of the senti- ments O'Hara sought to express. For in- stance, O'Hara wrote: “Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.” The 1.-O. expert takes the sentiment by the topknot, chuck& in a fresh barrel, presses the button, and this s the result: “Glory walks with solemn sound And guards the bivouac of the dead.” et NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Potato bugs have appeared In the vicinity of Beatrice. About 200 acres of sugar beets have been replanted in the vicinity of Hagar. Herman Gehm’s thumb was shot off while shooting gophers at Plerce last week. Local Christian Endeavor societies held a general conference at Pawnee City last week. Republicans of Pawnee county reorganized their league with a membership of about 200. A colony of 200 Germans will locate in Cherry county near the mouth of Snake river. The business men of Cook have subscribed $100 for the support of that town's base ball team. Schuyler Methodists have bought a hand- some new bell for their church weighing 1,109 pounds. The postofiice fight in Talmage is settled finally by the apointment of Colonel Will- fam Eschmeyer. Edward and Everett Lindsay, while on a visit to Strahan with their friends, captured seven young wolves. The Rock Island rain makers began oper- ations at Beatrice, Bellville and Mankato the first of last week. A number of Omaha Indians and several Mexicans, with a brown bear and two or three monkeys, have camped down by the Platte river near Schuyler. The executive committee of the Jefferson County Old Settlers association decided to lold their next reunion on August 30 and 31 and September 1 and 2. Walt M. White sold his fine 300-acre stock farm in Burt county, together with 140 head of fat cattle, mules, horses and farm imple- ments, The amount of the deal aggregated some $17,000. One hundred and fifty men are at work en- larging the canal at Kearney, which will give that city a 9,000-horse power. Kearney is bound to be in the swim and will see to it that the water is furnished. Norfolk is looking anxiously forward to the location of a paper mill there. A Mr. Webb of Holyoke, Mass., is there taking a view of the prospect of putting in a plant. The chief requisite is a good power and water supply. A circus traln going to Hebron was wrecked on the Rock Island crossing north of Fairbury. A long flat car was derailed on the frog. The wreckihg crew went up and soon got the car on the track again. On starting up another car containing a wagon of birds, and another with a tiger, upset and the tiger came near escaping. Dakota county has decided to issue about $125,000 of refunding bonds to take up an issuc of railroad bonds made twenty years ago to aid the old Covington, Columbus & Black Hills road. The original issue was $03,000. Ten years ago it was necssary to issue $144,000 of bonds to refund them, and since then the issue has been cut down to $125,000. A party of hunters were out near Water- bury when a wolt was discovered and driven to her den. Spades were brought and an effort was made to dig out the animal. The excavators made good progress and were just about thinking that they had reached “the object of their search, when one of them brought to the light of day a grinning human skull. The Investigation was contin- ued until eighteen gastly human skeletons lay side by side on the open prairie. Con- siderable speculation is being Indulged in, the general opinion being that they were the remains of a party massacred by In- dians. Bimetallism In England. Chicago Record. There are many thoughtful students of finance i this country who are as firmly convinced as I8 Mr. Chaplin that prosperit awalits only the adoption of internationa Dbimetallism and unite with him in urging the president to reconvene the monetary conference that met at Brussels and ac complished so little. The schooling whic the commercial nations have had' in th last few months has taught many of then lessons that would be useful at anothe conference. e Away with the Star Chambor. Chicago Post. Hill 1s for an inveslgation that will in- vestigate, He s for the widest publicity. He I8 for a popular verdict. He is against cellar investigations, packed juries and the punishment of he guiltless. We will for- give him much in his checkered past if he will continue to stand for sunlight in- stead of darkness and for an unshackled press against a censorship. R A Baek Number. New York Su A gratifying _proof of meteorological progress 18 the report from western Texas of hall stones as large as oranges. Hen's gk hall stones have long been fatiguing. They should be laid away In the refriger- ator of neglect with a cloud not larger than & man's hand, and strong men who are 80 liable to be made to weep should be packed In them. b Location of Extromes. Kate Fleld's Washington, My idea of hell is the present condition of this country. My idea of heaven I8 & Qefacto republic where patriots are elected to office and refuse re-election rather than Vote against convictions; and where ladies and gentlemen are known by their dis- tingulshed consideration for everybody's feelings. Demoralizing Strikes. Kansas City Btar. There Is not much ground for the beliet that there will be any substantial improve ment In business until the strike 18 over amone the miners and in the United States senate. T0 TEACH THEM TO SHOOT Oongressman Mercer Trying to Seoure Guns | for the High School Cadets, WANTS TO MAKE THEM REAL SOLDIERS | | Speaks of the Capital Cadets May o U EMclency of the National and How They d In Case War Nreaks Out. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEB, 1407 F Street, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. €., June 4. ongressman Berry of Kentucky and my- self,” says Congressman Mercer,” were fortunate enough o secure the detall of army officers for the Instruction of the High School ecadets at New- port and Omaha. We are now work- ing together to induce the War department to issue arms for the use of the cadets; and we ‘are urging the committee on military affairs to give favorable consideration to a Joint resolution authorizing and directing the secretary of war to accede to our re- quests in this matter, “The High School cadets of this city are a great credit to the national capital. They are not only drilled to march well together, and perform all of the evolutions with a de- gree of skill which many crack companies ot militla might envy, but they are also drilled | in the manual of arms, and tM government furnishes them with the latest and most improved rifles. They are well equipped to enter upon actual duty as soldiers In the event that their service might be required, and each and every one of them is skilled in military affairs to such a degree that he could drill and discipline a company of re- cruits, “I am satisfied that the High Sechool cadets of the leading citiew of the country ought to be encouraged in the study of mili- tary affairs, notionly by the municipalities and commonwealths in which they live, but also by the general government. While we all deprecate war, and hope that it may be forever averted, it is well for us in times cf peace to prepare for war. The young men of this generation, if properly " drilled at school, can raise companies in time of emergency and drill them for the field very rapidly. “This country will never malntain a large standing army, but we can have a militia which could speedily be mobilized into an invincible martial host. I beliove that we will ultimately secure arms and ac- coutrements for our cadets GEAR AFTER GOVERNMENT CASH. Senator-elect Gear today introduced a bill authorizing and directing the secretary of the interior to ascertain the amount of public lands entered by location of military scrip and land warrants in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Ilinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michi- gan, Minnesota, lowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Colorado and California, whose enabling acts of admission into the unfon contain a stipulation for the payment of 5 per cent on the sales of public land therein; and after making said investi- gation it shall be the duty of the secretary of the interior to certify the amount so found to the secretary of the treasury, who shall pay to sald states 5 per cent on the amount of lands located by military scrip or land warrants, estimating said amounts at the rate of $1.25 per acre. The bill was referred to the committeg on public lands. Governor Gear today said if the bill were to become a law there would be due the state of Iewa alone by reason of its provisions $17,500,000 in payment on 14,000, 000 acres at $1.25 per acre. EXPERIMENT IN IRRIGATION. The house committee on irrigation today decided to report favorably a bill by Con- gressman Sweet, appropriating $25,000 for experiments in the Snake river valley of 1daho, under the direction of the secretary of war. It is expected that this appropria- tion will result in succe:sful experimental work in irrigation, and that upon the report made to congress at the next session argu- ments can be based which will result in securing liberal appropriations for the purpose of irrigating the arid lands through- out the entire region which needs artificial aid in that direction. Mr. Lucas filed at the Postoflice department today a petition to change the name of the postoffice at Black, Jack:on county, S. D., to Interior, because the word Black iuter- feres with the distribution of mail to Black- hawlk, which is a well known place, He also presented a memorial of the Congre- gationalist society of South Dakota in oppo- sition to the use of the United States mails for lottery purposes. PERSONAL MENTION. Albert H. Scott has resigned from the Postofice department. He was appointed chief of the salary and allowance division by Postmaster General Frank Hatton on the 1st of January, 1883. He filled the position for eleven years acceptably to the postmas- ters general. The position was one which re-' _quired a man of firmness, able to say no to senators and representatives, and the man who habitually says no never is popular with place seekers. The chief of the salary and allowance division is the autocrat who dis- burses according to his own indivilual judg- ment about $6,000,000 per annum for expendi- ture in the postofices of every class for rent, light, fuel and clerk hire. In order to make the appropriation, large as it was, last throughout the entire fiscal year, Mr. Scott was obliged to divide the appropriation inte ' quarters and distribute proportionately throughout the country ono-fourth of the en tiro lump sum every three months, placing the money proportionately with the offices whose financial returns indicated a growth of business or a sustalned amount of bu ess Which warrantad additional help in the matter of eclerk hire. Representative Mercer in response to res queits from oftizen of Omaha, today called on the secretary of the treasury and quested that elovator be construeted in the old postoMce bullding at Omaha. He was advised that there are no fands now available for this purpose, but that the re« quest will be complied with and the elovator WL be put in at the beginuing of the next fiscal year, which is July 18 next A. B. Roeder, formerly of Omaha, now of Denver, is In Washingion enroute to Bus: zards Bar, where he will visit his famlily for A summer viit Representative Monticello, Va Jefterson DIVIDENDS TO BANK CREDITORS. The comptroller of the currency has de clared a second dividend of 15 per cent tn favor of the creditors of the Nebraska Na- tional bank of Beatrice, making 30 por cent In all, on claims proved, amounting to $160, 604, He has also declared a second divi- dend of 15 per cent In favor of the creditors of the Citlzens National bank of Grand Island, Neb., making 40 per cent in all, on claims proved, amounting to $187,001, J. P, Peter:on has been appointed master at Pilot Mound, Boone ecounty, vice Trwin Gore, removed, and W. V. at Doyle, Mead county, S. D, vice Mowat, resigned, Bryan spont yesterday &t the old home of Thomas post- Ia., Doyle John i i THE GAY AND P STIVE FEW. Baltimore Americ spicions that water queen n: There are grave the queen of May was a Washington Star ‘It really looks,” sighed the poet, “as it T had no writes that anybody elfe fs hound to respect.” Chicago Inter Ocean: “There goes one of the greatest fiction ‘writers of the “Ah, Indeed. What is his spec “Promising to pay what he owes Philadelphia Record: A cheap trip—on a banana ski summer Boston Transc ‘One swallow does not make a su but 1t m have oceurred to you that one grasshopper makes more than a dozen springs bt Chicago Dispatch: A Cinclnnati preacher s he Is tired of a republic and “wants king.” A great deal of money Is lost here every night just in that way. Boston Herald: W cn & man s fired he feels a coolness tow 1 his late employers. Judge: Jamfe (in a whisper)—Observe him well, Johnnle, fer yer may ne ce his likes agin’. Johnnie—Who is he? Jamie— Dat's de captain of de Ate Ward Rangers, wot made five home runs in one game. Detrolt Free Pres: you going this summ Merchant—Going to want to go 'long? Siftings: When a man nearly breaks his neck getting out of the way of a lightning bug, Supposing it to be the headlight of a locomotive, it is time for him to sign the pledge. , Tdler—Where are perspire. Do you BEYOND HIS REACH. Washington Star. He kicked about his meals at home; He kicked about the weather; He kicked at people separately, Then' bunched them all - together. He oft’ abused the grocery man, The butcher and the baker, And sighed because he’d have no chance To cuss his undertaker. SENATORIAL RELAXATION. Washington Star. Oh, let us ha ttle time, For life grows very prosy! We long for childhood days t With “ring around the rosy But games undignified, like that, Would never suit our' station, And so we seek the pastime old That's called “Investigation.” New York World. Of the many indecent perquisites members of congress have voted themselves fow are more indecent than the allowance for pri- te secretaries, Sometimes a member ap- propriates the money himself through the fimsy pretext that his wife, his daughter or his son s his secretary, but oftener still s it used for the still Worse purpose f closing the mouths of newspaper Qorre- spondents who are sent to Washington to keep the country informed of what is done there. — BEFORE AND . iR TAKING. Nixon Waterman in Chicago Journal. , gladsome plenle morn! Jol the alr, the skies how bright. A thousand mental joys are born o fill the heirt with wild delight. The Incense from the tree-crowned hills, The babble of the woodland rills, The wild bird’s song which grandly trills And all the forest arches fills; The lisping of the “tongues’in trees, The soothing crooning of the bees A scene designed the gods to please, A dream of happiness and ease, That all our being thrills. 0 weary, dreadful pienic night! 1 almost wish that I were dead; P ‘looking like a perfect fright, ‘And filled with aches from feet to head It's rained Incessantly since morn, My clothes are stained and wet and torn, ' feeling miserably forlorn, I wish T never had been born. The woods were full of begiars' lice, We drank rain water minus ice; And dinners full of ants aren’t nice; Hereafter a picnic device ‘Will catch me—in a horn. 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