Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1894, Page 4

S THEOMAHA DALY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, ! PUBL SHED BVERY MORNIN TERMS ¢ (without Sunday), unday, One ¥ ¢ RUBSCRIPTION. Paity 1 One Year Paily and 2¢ Month Phree Month ¢ Junduy Tew, One Year Woekly 1o ar OFFICES, utidin 1R Twenty-fonrth Sta. ammerce, Lot ribune Dldg. York, R Washington 1 All communient torial mattor e RRs. and remittanees should b Publisting company, AL Duainers et Addrossed *to. The He Omalin. Drafts, checks and_postoffice ord: Ao pavable to the order of the comp THE | PUDLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1. Taachuck, seeretary of The Beo | Ishing company. benig duly sworn, says that f full and complete copiex of The vening and Sunday Bee printed th of May, 1504, was as follows Pl Less deductions coples for Totat Dally *Sunday. wold t'cireul ZSCHUCK. in my pres GEOR Sworn to before me and sub enea this 24 day of LTy Public. ithout wild s for a little The people will willingly do cat bank notes and shin plaste while longe It is rumored that Scotts Bluff county Intends to petition the legislature at its next session for permission to change its name Don't blame it, do you? No man who deliberately tells falsehoods when giving evidence before the police com- mission is fit to be a member of any metro- politan police. Weed out the frauds. When the promoters of the Platte river canal get ready to present their proposition to the county commissioners The Bee will cheerfully discuss all the points involved. That English clergyman who ventures to predict the day when men will be ashamed to attend the Derby is an excellent example of the optimist who sees assurance for everything for which he hopes. St. Paul is burdened for the time being with a duplicate set of city councils. Neither of them can be of the stripe of the Omaha city council. One of that kind at a time 18 all any city could possibly stand. The Ohio republicans didn't have a mo- ment to spare to incorporate into their platform a denunciation of the efforts of the democratic leaders to restore the era of “red dog" and “wild cat” currency. Northern democrats have no objections to placing the state bank tax repeal planks in their party platform, but when it comes to enacting it into law they draw the line. The south ought to be satisfied with the income tax and the repeal of the federal elections law. Nebraska's de monious on egation found itself har- the question of the repeal of the tax on state bank issues. For once republicans, democrats and populists were all ranged on the same side of the pend- ing issue. And they were all on the right side this time. It is perhaps not just the proper thing to draw odious comparisons, but we cannot help noticing the difference in the weather provided for the entertainment of the Con- gregationalists this year and that provided for the Methodists on the occasion of their conference In Omaha. The Chicago Tribune intimates that Chi- cago Is one of “the really great cities which Tiayo real municipal government.” It is Im- possible to say whether the Tribune expects us to take this statement in earnest or as sarcastically meant. The reports and com- ment In other columns of the same issue would convince the most doubting that Chi- cago has no “real municipal goyernment.” It 18 a great relief to know that the camp of the State university cadets, heralded THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY. JUNE 8, 189k to the public as Camp Mercer, was named 0 honor of the congressman who repre- wents this district at Washington, There #@re one or two other Mercers in this viein- Aty who might have appropriated the com. pliment to themselves, The truth of his- “ory must be vindicated, even at the risk of disappointing all the Mercers in the land. General Weaver, having captured the pop- mlist nomination for congress In the Ninth JTowa district, is casting about for a demo- cratic endorsement, or at least the endorse- ment of the free silver democrats, Without some such movement his candidacy would be hopeless, and it Is probably with the as- surance of such an endorsement that Gen- eral Weaver consented to accept the populist momination. The people's party only cast 2,610 votes at the last congressional election out of a total of 41,103, The victorious republioan ticket recelved 20,287 votes, as against 17,809 for the democratic nominee, 1t the democrats and populists had voted for the same man they would have carried the day by a small plurality. No administra- tlon democrat, however, can this year cou- sistently vote for General Weaver. The general will have to have the support of more than the populists and’ free sllver democrats to work his way to congress In the Ninth, v Federal officials ought to have provided safoguards for the Cherokees during the distribution of the money received from the sales of thelr land that would protect them from the fraudulent schemes of the speculators, gamblers and swindlers who are waiting to worm their wealth away from them. The storles that are coming up from the Indlan territory to the effect that the Indian no sooner recelves his money than he 1s beset by the horde of expectant sharks are a scandal upon our government. These Indlans are practically helpless and particularly subject to the wiles of un- scrupulous white men, A little disinter- ested assistance, It only to the extent of holding off the crowd of sharpers, might materially assist them to place thelr money where it will contribute toward making them self-supporting. The fallure to pro- vide this protection may frustrate the very purpose of the partition of the money ob- talned from their lands. WHAT WILL, THE HOUSE DO Conjecture as to what the house of rep- resentatives will do when the tarift hill Is returned to that body fs In order, although | | #peech in the senatd that the judie’ary com- the measure is not likely to go to the house for at a month, and possibly not so soon. It has been suggested that as the con- that revenue bills should house of representatives, leant stitation provides originate In the and It 1s a fair whether pending fn the wenate did not orlginate n the latter body, will, the house, without any question regard for fts constitutional prerogative, bow | to the will of the senate and pass its bill, which is radically diffsrent from the meas- ure which the house sent to the senate. It seems to be the general opinion that this is what the house will do. Unquestionably a great many democratic representailves are thoroughly dissatisfied with the changes made by the from the Wilson bill, not only because these changes conflict with every principle of tariff reform adopted by the house, but also because they reflect upon the intelligence and judgment of the repre- sentatives who framed and voted for the house Dbill, and these representatives must realize that they will stultify themselves by supporting the sénate measure. There are some democrats in the house, also, who it is are wo indignant because of the ex- posure of dishonorable deals in connection with the senate tariff work that they insist the house cannot afford to let the bill pass without at least some amendment. They think the democrats of the house should do something to show that they are not insensi- ble to these disclosures. Nevertheless the democratic leaders pro- fess absolute confidence that when the meas- ure it will pass without {mportant amendment. Doubtless séme of the more radical among the tariff reformers will make afl effort to have changes made that would accord with the avowed policy of the party in its national platform, but the indications arc that these men will consti- tute a very small minority, and consequently will not be able to accomplish anything. One would suppose that Mr. Wilson, whose arduous labors in framing a tarift bill have counted for little, with his democratic asso- ciates in the ways and means committee, would be disposed to manifest some resent- ment at the way in which the senate has treated their work, but there is no intima- tion of any Intention on the part of any of them to antagonize In any respect what is now known as the Gorman bill. The chair- man of the ways and means committee, so far as known, Is ready to allow the Mary- land senator to enjoy all the distinction that may be derived from having his name conneoted with the new tariff, though in any event It must be a divided honor. It has been reported that Mr. Wilson was uncertain regarding the attitude he would assume to- vard sugar, but he will probably be induced, as other house democrats have been, to ac- cept the senate schedule. Some democratic leaders urge that the bill ought not to go into conference committee and that the house ought to adopt the senate measure without change. It would not be surprising it this were done. One potent Influence that will operate in favor of this result is the desire of a great many democratic repre- sentatives to get home among their coustit- uents and do what they can to save their political hopes from disaster. It is said that the subject of passing a number of separate tariff bills more in ac cordance with the democratic platform than the pending senate bill is under considera- tion among the radical tariff reformers in the house, and It is suggested that if coal, iron ore, lead ore, and other raw products are left on the dutiable list bills are likely to be introduced and favorably reported by the ways and means committee transferring the articles to the free list. The majority members of the committee are understood to be in favor of this course and to Intend to make a fight in the conference commit- tee. They want to do something to set the record of the democratic majority in the house straight before the country. It is hardly probable, however, that anything of the sort will be dome. It would be to no purpose, for it is admitted by these house democrats that the same senators who have secured advances In the senate bill would probably form a combination to defeat small bills dealing with special items, and the senate finance committee might feel bound in good faith to pigeon-hole such bills or report against them. The Indications are that the semate bill; in whatever form it may pass, will be accepted by the house with few and unimportant changes. It will be this or no tariff legislation at’ this ees- sion, and the latter alternative the demo- cratic leaders of the house will be likely to regard as more dangerous for the party thin the abandonment of the principle laid down in its platform and In a measure recognized in the bill passed by the house. senate sald reaches the house THE TRUST PROBLEM. There appears to be little probability of any legislation by the present congress re- lating to the trusts. Notwithstanding the fact that the democratic party in its last national platform declared fts belief that the worst evils of the trusts and combina- tions could be abated by law, and de- manded the rigid enforcement of the laws made to prevent and control them, together with such further legislation in restraint of their abuses as experience may show to bo necessary, no democrat in elther branch of congress Has yet proposed a measure for this purpose, A prominent democratic repre- sentative from New York recently expressed the opinfon that any legislation by congress against the trusts would be worthless, be- cause these combinations would evade it by changing the character of their organization, and this view, it would seem, s pretty gen- erally accepted by the members of the party in control of congress. Not only did the democratic platform of 1892 convey a distinct promise to the people that if that party was successful it would cnforce existing law to prevent and con- trol trusts and combinations and enact additional legislation as experience should suggest, but Mr. Cleveland puts him- selt on record in his inaugural ad- dress In favor of using all the powers of the general government to relleve the people from the Interference and exac- tlons of what he described as “immense aggregations of kindred enterprises and com- binations of business Interests formed for the purpose of limiting production and fixing prices.” The president used no uncertain terms in referring to this matter. He de- clared that these aggregations and combina- tions frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and op- posed to our American sense of fairness. Yet what has the administration done to carry out these un- qualified pledges? Mr. Cleveland appolnted as attorney general a man who has been during the greater part of his professional life the servant of corporations, and this offi- clal, In his first annual report, announced the opinion that the anti-trust law is inadequate and falls to meet the dificulty, He Nas the bill | made but one effort to test the law, and he was careful, while pronouncing it defective, not to suggest In what way it might be im- proved. Senator Sherman sald In his recent mittee of that body ought to take up the fquestion of legislating regarding aud deal with ft, but thers fs no likelihood that the committee will do anything of the sort. Tts democratic Just voted in the interest of the Sugar trust, they will do the same for the Whisky trust, and having done this, they are not likely to sup- port any measure inimical to these combina tions. Meanwhilo the number and strength of the trusts and trade combinations the problem they present becomes more serious. It constitutes already one of the most important and urgent questions for the consideration of the people and thelr rep- resentatives, and if a satisfactory solution soon found it will overshadow in importance every other question of public The growth of trade combinations and the tendency to monopoly must be checked. The power to do this is in the congress, which represents the soverelgn will of the whole people. If the party now in control of that body will do nothing—if it 15 disposed, as seems to be the case, to ab- jectly surrender to the trusts—the peoplo must elect a congress that wiil act, and an executive. who will honestly endeavor to enforce its legislation. the trusts members have Increase and be not coneern, AS TO THE UNION DEPOT. The council has charged one of its com- mittees with the duty of abating the public nuisance known as the immigrant shed which has for a number of years done sery- fce as a union depot. The committee fs expected to bring pressure on the Union Pacific railroad to erect a commodious rail- way station on the grounds donated to that company by the city without further delay. This action Is to be taken on the presump- tion that the fmmigrant shed belongs to the Union Pacific and that company Is solely responsible for the lack of depot facilities. As a matter of fact the immi- grant shed stands upon B. & M. ground, or at any rate ground which the B. & M. Railroad company claims as its own. It is an open sccret that the B. & M. railroad gets a net rental of $1,500 per month out of the wretched vermin-eaten shed which constitutes the passenger station for all the roads that enter Omaha, barring the Mis- souri Pacific and Elkhorn Valley. The Union Pacific is as much a tenant of the Burlington shed as are the Milwaukee, Rock Island and Northwestern. With an income of $18,000 a year from a rat trap that would not sell for the cost of pulling it dewn the B. & M. certainly has no reason for favoring any move looking toward the erection either of a temporary or a permanent depot. It is very doubttul, t00, whether the council committee will ac- complish any more than did the famous Kking of France, who “with twice ten thou- sand men marched up the hill and then marched down again, There s no doubt that the State Board of Transportation could force the construction of a respectable and commodious railway station at this point if they were so dis- posed, but, being absolutely under the con- trol of the railroad managers as much as is their rolling stock, nothing can be ex- pected from that quarter. The truth Is also that there is mo serionw atarm at B. & M. headquarters over anything that the councll may threaten to do or demand. The railroad corporations only have to call upon their allies, the franchised corpora- ticns, when they want to choke off any serious move on the part of the council to interfere with their doing as they please about the depot nuisance or anything else. So long as $1,600 a month can be made out of the immigrant shed the building of a depot offers no temptation to the B. & M. magnates and the Union Pacific is in no condition just now to undertake such an enterprise alone. ANOTHER SOP TO SILVERITES. The tendency of republican conventlons held tuls year to depart from the. well- established principles of the party regarding the currency, and particularly as to silver, is an unwelcome sign. It indicates a dis- position to pander to that political element in the country which is in no small degroe responsible for the financial distrust that has caused s0 much trouble and it has its motive In political expediency instead of being prompted by an honest and Intelli- gent conviction of what Is required. We have already commented upon the endorse- ment by the Ohio republicans of the ab- surd and impracticable scheme for forcing gold standard countries into a monetary union for the larger recognition of silver by discriminating tariff duties, pointing out that such a policy would inevitably bring about a commercial warfare that would be most damaging to the agricultural in- terests of the United States. The Kansas republicans did not make the mistake of adopting this idea, but they have thrown a sop to the silverites that is quite as ob- Jectionable. The Kansas republican platform declares in favor of bimetallism and for the main- tenance of the parity of all forms of cur- rency, both coin and paper, which is all right. If it had stopped with this it would have been consistent in reaffirming the re- publican national platform, but it proceeds to say that the mints of the United States should be opened to the coinage of silver and that foreign silver should be kept out of the country by a tax. In other words, there should be free coinage of the silver produced in this country. There is nothing of this kind-in the republican national plat- form, and it is a distinct departure from the past attitude of the republican party on this subject. It Is a proposition to allow the silver producers of the country to get 100 cents for about G6 cents worth of silver, and under such a polley as this how long would it be possible to maintain the parity of gold and silver as currency or the equality of the purchasing power of the two metals? With an addition of $70,000,000 to the cur- rency annually In silver can there be any doubt that gold would disappear from cir- culation and go to a premium? It would not help the matter in the least.to ex- clude foreign silver. We should just as surely drift to the silver standard without any importations of silver if we undertook to coin all of our own product. And hay- ing driven gold out of circulation how would the farmers and workingmen, in whose be- halt the Kansas republicans make their declaration, be benefited? Thoy would re- celve for their products and their labor a currency of depreclated purchasing power relatively to gold and the depreciation would be continuous as the volume of sil- ver increased. - There would be no sta- bility, but with every emission of sllver dollars from the mints the value of such dollars measured in commodities would de- cline. This s not a condition of affairs which the farmers and workingmen want. No classes of the people are so deeply in- terested as these In having a sound and stable currency, for they are the loast abie to protect themsgyge ngainst the lo ineident unstplle currency It is true, as is @fiared in lean natiosal platfordh of 1802, that Amerfcan people from tradition und interest favor bimetallism fntelligent Jority of them dc that country ¢ the c to an the repub the ma but the not believe this that speration uf other great o we should confine the maintain policy without mmercial nations, even thotis to cur own production of ot safely do anything fias been done In the without an finter- colnage of silver that metal. We gy more for silver than legislation since 1878 national agreements it may catch the ap- probation and applause of the thoughtless to talk about desfaging our indepepdence In this matter and®edthblishing a monetary tem regardloss of our relations with the were prac- not be rest of the world, but even If it the resuit could disastrous to us. Repub- gain by retreating have always held ticable to do so otherwise than licans have nothing to from the position they ragarding silver, The redistricting of the voting precincts now being .arranged under the direction of the city clerk s an fmportant plece of work that demands the utmost care and discrimination. Happily, it offers no op- portunity for a gerrymander, but any serious mistake is apt to result in the disfranchise- ment of a considerable number of voters. There are two objects to be kept in view. One I8 economy of clection expenses. It the precinets are arranged so that each con. tains the maximum number of voters which can be conveniently accommodated at one voting place, there will be a large sav- ing through the reduction in the force of Judges. clerks, and policemen, as well as in the number of booths, stalls, and other necessary apparatus. At the same time, no one precinct should be allotted more voters than can cast their bullots within the time that the polls are opened for the reason that some of them would be forced to lose their votes, and all would be subjected to unnec- essary delays. But every districting must be to a great extent experimental. Thus far we have had precincts containing too few voters. The redistricting has been ordered and undertaken as a matter of economy. The vote by which the proposition to re- peal the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues was defeated In the house of representa- tives yesterday would seem to be decisive as to any effort for the unconditional repeal of that tax. What is known as the Brawley bill proposed to release all parties who is- sued any character of circulation during the financial panic from the tax of 10 per cent. To this an amendment was offered repealing the tax as applied to state banks and state banking associations. The amendment was defeated by 170 to 102, and this was followed by the rejection of the bill, a result that had not been expected as to the latter. This action will probably-dispose of the question of an unconditiona§ repeal of the tax and open the way for dheflconsideration of the various measures fgr tpnditional repeal. It will have a good éffect in removing appre- hension that the old state bank currency system might be restored, and to this ex- tent will help to strengthen financial con- fidence. The chances are that the state bank tax will not be.interfered with by -the present congress : Vislons of, the, Waybacle. Cincinnatl Cammerelal. “Measures, not men/’jwas once the proud boast of the democratic par But that was a long time agg. Blowhole Vifldication Wanted. New York World. As long as the men who defrauded the government by furnishing rotten armor plate are unprosecuted the Navy depart- ment stands In urgent need of vindication. Speculating on Natlonal Distress, he-Democrat. The tariff uncertainty is costing the gov- ernment $1,000,000 a day, and the country a good deal more than that; but the Sugar trust is making money—and so are the democratic senators who are speculating in its stocks. —— Pefler's Masterly Idea. Detroit Free Press, Senator Peffer has broken out in a new place. He wants the senate to have the Jjudiclary committee ascrtain and report whether the government can constitution. ally take possession of the coal beds of the country, glving reasonable compensution to present owners. WHhy does the senator stop at coal beds? e e Profits Without Honor, Philadelpiia Ledger. The Washington prophets come up cheer- fully again with the announcement that the tarift bill may be passed by the senate within ten days and become a law before the end of the month. This is what may happen. It is extremely Imrmlmhl(‘. how- ever, that the house can be brought to agree with the senate in that time. — Wirat is & Democrat? New York Sun. There come periodically to this office re- quests for information as to what consti- tutes a_democrat. Recent events have re- duced the answer to six words. A new, un- looked for and unauthorized issue, over- shadowingly great above all others, has made the partisan lines so clear and the political contrasts so distinct that there is room for neither doubt nor discussion, ‘A_democrat today I8 a ‘man opposed to an Income tax.” B e Gotting at the Sources of Libel Providence Journal. At the first of next September it will be a ‘misdemeanor in New York to furnish | formation concerning persons or corpora- tions which, if published, would be libel- ous. In the gathering of hews more or less dependence must be placed on the individ- ual glying it, and it is proper those wii- fully deceiving the papers should be called to account, The general adoption of a law like that referred to in the course of time might stop a great deal of lying. ——— Benator Gray's Assault on th New York Recorder. The chief achievement of the current democratic congress s not unlikely to be the provocation of a decisive definition by the highest court of the United Stat s of the rights and immunities enjoved by the press under the head of “privilegel communications.” An eminent Eneflsh historian that what the priegthood as to the mid- dle ages the press has become, in se-ular affairs, to these modern times. = The new paper Is the authority (to which all popu- ar grievances are veferred:. Into jouraal- istic_ears the secrel that touch the high- est and gravest public affairs are daly poured. It it were mot #6 the press perform its great office us the ventilator of abuses and the' 6xposer of Iniquities in high places and in low. And it fol'ows that, unless the ourpalist can b proached with soffiething like th confidence, and unless’ disclosures can made to him with ‘something like the same sense of security with which tue priest, or the physician, or the lawyer 13 consuited, each in bis @wn professional c pacity, the first and most vital semvic of a free press to o people 15 g-lng to_be seriously impalréd, This u which Senator Gray's comm Bag ralsed by its dete mination to prosecutt the newspaper co respondents who refuse to disclose the names of persons who gave the Sugar trust and tariff Information, relylng upon the footing of confidence on which ni papers are constantly asking and r.oely- ing important information of the greatest public value. It |s o far more important question t» the American lpuuuln' than the question of whether the McKinley percentages or th Gorman percentages Shall be levied upo foreign Imports. The newspaper correspondents ened with Indictment under an old lsw of doubtful 4'1)“!Il|ll|‘0llull|r will, there 13 every reason to belleve, defy the ihreat and stand trial, If the Gray committee chooses to push Its prosecution of them #o far. hey will have the whole press of the United States at thelr back, and the peu- ple will be at_the back of the press on this issue. Press. has satd could not thraat- SENATOR AND SON. Mr. McPhorson fs cor- unfortunate for a his vote New York World tainly right. It Is very senator when his spectlation on goes off before he pnils the trigger. Clnelnnati Commercial: Mr. McPherson i3 a little carcless about his telegraphic orders to buy stocks dn the Sugar trust As soon as he found that he had purchased 1,000 shares on a rising market he ordered them ®old--after three days. Indiapapolis Journal: While the manipu- lation was going on, s the senator lestifies he and his son conferred about the purchase of trust stocks, which they knew would rise when the trust's sugar schedule should be made public. As the result of the confer- ence it was decided that it would not be proper to invest, but they left the telegram to the broker on the table where they were consulting, and a faithful attendant took it to the telograph office. The 500 shares were purchased and the senator notified. When notified he ordered their sale, but In the meantime the stocks had risen so that the profit was $1,600. But the senator retains that. Philadelphia Press: It somewhere that when _General Butier was in command of New Orleans & party went to his headquarters day with referonce to a cotton lation, «and finding Butler rather obdurate intimated that there was something to be made out of it. This was a corrupt propo- sition, whieh scemed to arouse Butler's in- dignation, and he' said to his visitor, flercely: “I have a mind to kick you down stairs, sir, and across the street, and then kick you upstairs into my brother's office.’” In the sugar speculation Senator McPherson seems to be Kicking people upstairs to his son or downstairs to his servant, and all the time ho has made a pretty fair profit out of his Sugar stock. Kansas City Journal: McPherson was the very one to assume the task of draw- ing the dogs from the scent of other trails. He had a bad boy son on whom to shift the responsibility. The son should have tad more moral stamina than to take the stock his father had bought. And when he received the dispatch from the old man telling him to buy more of it he should have asked If the telegram had not been sent by mistake. If he had been a wise and prudent son he would have known that it was fully as unseemly for him to buy the stock on Information received from that quarter as it would have been for the sen- tor himself to do so. McPherson presumed too much upon the wisdom and high sense of honor of his offspring. has been told specu- New York sun. @ This Is a tale of Old McPherson, A very canny New Jersey perso This is a tale of Young McPherson, A very canny New Jersey person. John Roderick said to Roderick Dhu, I think that Sugar'll go up, don’t you?" Sald Roderick Dhu to John Roderick, “Let's take a flyer, now that's a brick. “Well, well, my boy, I'll not be a clam, So sit'down and write a telegram.” Young Roderick to the table flew “Five hundred Sugar shares, P. D. Q." “I've written the telegram, father,” he sald. And then he looked thoughtful and shook his head. “‘As a senator's son, I must deprecate Your tendency, dad, to speculate.” “When Sugar comes up in the senate'’— My son, When “Sugar comes up, it's true I must shun “The appearance of evil. Dear me. dear me! I certainly must turn round and flee. “Its @ pity; there's such a chance for a rise, It seen vise too bad. What would you ad- Now a canny kid was Roderick Dh ather, I'll do anything for you. “Just pass your Sugar shares over to me, For a senator’s son is above—hee-hee!” “T'll do it, Dhu, the idea s great; And as for that telegram, let it wait.” So they laid the telegram on the shelf, Until it got tired and sent itself. This Is the tale of the two McPhersons, Both ingenuous New Jersey persons joth pervaded with great anxiety lo Keep the bloom on official propriety. - —— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Columbus fishermen the other day brought in an eel from the Loup that was two feet long and weighed five pounds. The four republican olubs of York have a membedship of 588 already. The largest vote ever cast in the city was 739, Tho gathering of Shriners at Grand Island June 18 promises to be one of the largest ever held in the interior of the state. Cozad people are negotiating for a rain- maker, but this week's abundant shower may possibly make a change in the arrange- ments. Work will commence on Fremont’s power canal by a force of well diggers, who will ascertain the character of the soil along the proposed line. The Fremont postofice makes a good show- ing of business for the past year, notwith- standing the dull times. It shows a de- crease of only $900. The egg department In the cold storage plant at Norfolk became so crowded that it was necessary to ship a carload of eggn to Milwaukee for storage. The creamery at Fremont is now making 1,200 pounds of butter per day, being an increase over the output of the correspond- ing month for last year of 5,000 pounds. The Grand Chapter, Order of the East- ern Star, met in their nineteenth annual session at Hastings Tuesday. Notwithstand- ing the hard times thirteen new chapters lave been organized during the past year. A severe wind storm prevailed at Superior during Tuesday night and some damage was done. The Elkhorn road had thirty- four cars blown over. An hour's heavy rain prevailed there and all along the Elk- horn road to Linwood. The alumni of the Wilber public schools held their annual picnic on the Chautauqua grounds at Crete on Saturday. Thirty- nine members and most of the present teachers engaged at tho schools were present. The Platte river, which is generally a sand bar at this season of the year, is filled with water to the banks. It is something unusual and is accounted for by the recent severe storms In the mountain district, Usually corn could be cultivated in the chan- nelduring the month of June. While on their recent visit to California, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Hankins of Pawnee City visited the locality where the former worked a mine years ago. Mrs. H. picked up a number of pebbles as mementoes, and when they arrived home in this city a few days ago Mr. H. examined them and found among them a gold nugget that will assay $12 or $14. Tom MeDermott of Fremont brought to town recently two magnificent specimens of pelicans shot by him on the Platte near his place in Saunders county. He shot three more, but they couldn’t be got out of the river. One of the birds measures six feet five inches from tip to tip of wings and five feel six_inches from tip of tail to end of the ak. Councllman McLaughlin of Grand Island shows a paper contalning favorable mention of the Black Bear range in New Mexico, in which himself, Mr, Houck and others of that city are Interested. A smelter, a railroad and other new enterprises are being devel- oped, and the mining properties of that belt are said to be very rich. The Nebraska Binder Twine company has its additional machinery, recently put in the tow plant, in operation and Is now turning out at the Fremont mill between 6,000 and 7,000 pounds per day and at North Bend about 2,500 pounds per day. The company has so far this season shipped 1,012,616 pounds of tow, sending out two cars Satur- day. It estimates that It has enough more hemp for 300,000 pounds. J. A, Fort of North Platte, president of the Nebraska State Irrigation association, s lecturing over the state on the subject that is now uppermost with many formers of Nebraska. He is telling the people that canals can be constructed along the valley of the Platte by the farmers themselves at & cost, exclusive of the right of way, not exceeding, in his opinion, $1.25 an acre, and that an annual outlay of about 25 cenis an acre would keep the canals lu repalr. There should also be & system of ditches carrying off surplus water, one | PROPLE AND THINGS. Sonator McPherson displays a sonny dis- position In his stock deals. L. C. M. A. Todd of Tennessce has taken initial steps for congressional honors of bullet to exp A consignment that is necessary of the Colorado militia on Advices from Berlin the kaiser's choek wns materially di minished by the removal of the tumor The big gorflla of Doston has n fresh consignment of ink A motion in the literary market awaited M. Turpin's new electrical mitrailleuse will fire off 256,000 bullets a minute, Sending a substitute instead of going yourself wiil be more popular than ever in future wars. A stone on which John Boyle O'Rellly his initials, in Dauth cemetery, thirty-four years ago, has boen to his grave in the cemetery at fulfills the poet's wish Holy Blanket, a Stoux widow, was marr to High Barr in Sonth Brooklyn, on Thurs day, by Rev. Mr. Loyd. The bride was given away by Buffalo Willlam, while the complacently smoked a cigarette, The old-time turtle with the fa a G. A. R. badge on its shell has be again at Brazil, Ind. Truly there is nothing new under the sun, when even lies repeat themselves in the most tiresome fashion Fifty western descendants of Jacob Do Haven of Germantown, who loaned the gov- ernment a large sum during the revolution- ary war, came together recently to devise means for recovering the amount with fn- terest, Coney ' Island already feels the despotic heel of reform. The gay and festive ele- phant no longer parades in the garish elec- tric lights. He squats in a back room while the “‘sacred concert” veils his exterior, It is a holy show Brooklyn wants her fire bells suppressed and the fire apparatus fitted with pneumatic tires, By all means let reforms go on. The somnolent residents are entitled to unbroken rest all hours of day or night. That's what they live for—in Brooklyn. Robert Louis Stevenson, at a gathering of Presbyterians lately in Sydney (Australia), claimed to be as good a Presbyterian as any of them. It turned out that his claim was based upon the fact that he had once sat out an hour and a half sermon in the old parish Kirk in Leith. The city of Philadelphia has secured a court decision authorizing an increase of $23,000,000 in her indebtedness. This sum is deemed sufficient to elevate the statue of Willam Penn a few pegs above its present sordid surroundings. The Quaker city is patriotic regardless of price. Some one, evidently a wag, recently started ‘the story in Kansas that Senator Peffer has become superstitious, and_always gets out of bed on one side of it. Some of his populist admirers began to deny the story, until it dawned upon them that every- body gets out of bed on one side of it. g il sy JOKER'S JOB LOT. proof coats is all lite the movement Bull Hil glve assurance that swallowed treat com is confidently cut Ireland transferred Boston. This sroom simile of n found The best evening man at home Boston Commerclal: ties are tnose that keep a after dark. Syracuse Couriel The bright summer girl and the snap camera will be among the most taking things of the season. Galveston News: A religious exchange declares that “the world has very little in it”” That may be so, but there is enough to go around. Washington Star: “Man's got to hustle in my business,’ sald the rental agent. “That 507" said the other man. I thought all he Liad to do was to lie about the house day after day.” Siftings: The latest craze is for collect- ing pottery dogs. There is one advantage in this. A crockery setter, for instance, could be easily broken. Judge: Primus—Your theory about moral suasion with children is pretty enough, but have you ever known it to work? undus—Why, yes; I've never had to strike a child of ‘mine’save in self-defense. Buffalo Courler: Dinks—Those Boston girls really seem to_think their eyeglasses becoming. Danks—Why not? They cer- tainly wear ‘em- to improve their looks. Lo Bengula—Do you know that the 1 last night? Young-Man- —Yes, I heard about it. She left a wife and three Life: bearded lady -aid-of-the-Soa It's awful sad. children, BANISHING THE TIRED F) Indianapolis Journal. He had “that tired feeling, That set his footsteps re He found it quite an effort to respire— But when the gong had sounded, Whew! How those tan shoes pounded, ‘As he ran for two long miles to see’the fire. e THE OPTIMIST, Cleveland Plain Dealer. What's the use of growling, What's the use of howling, ‘What's the use of yowling, When ‘“the world is going wrong?” What's the use of sneering, What's the use of jeering? Men are sick of hearing That old, dyspeptic song. SLING. See the flowers springin Hear the robins singing; See the glad sun flinging His light across the sky rth's a sea of gladness— Irush away your to $20 suits for -$10—E would charge $35. west. You needn’t buy—j Qfi'\: :\'E‘fi?& * *j{ i <% ek ik 0, HE IS NOT—He's just a funny little man put in there to attract the missionary’s attention to the fact that we are holding a special sale of $18 We extend a hearty invitation to all strangers to visit our store=“the finest in the Browning, King & Co., 8. W. Corner 15th and Douglas. 10 REORGANIZE THE ARMY Formation of Light and Heavy Infaotiy Regiments of Three Battalions Bach. WILL BE A TRAINING SCHOOL FOR M:N Ten Reglments Intended to Give the Youth of Ameriea Practienl Knowledge of the Sclonco of Warts 1ts Method o and WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BER, 107 I* Street, N. W, WASHINGTON, June' 7. A new military bill is boing submitted to the consideration of congress, embracing a plan for infantry reorganization Into heavy and light infantry, twenty regis ieavy infantry of twelve companies and ten regiments of 1ight companies to each regls ment, the Third battalion in each light in fantry regiment to be unorganized fu time of peace and fully organized in time of war, The design contemplates infantry as the principal arm in the military service in every army, long-range rifle fire having made in- fantry pre-eminently so. It is the only arm of the service in our army that has not th three-battalion organization The three-battalion for the infantry has recommended by all ot our distinguished generals and it Is consid- ered very lmportant that the infantry arm of the service be given the three-battallon organization, and any reduction in the In- fantry arm of the service it fis believed would be seriously prejudicial to the best interests of the United States. The plan proposes to consolidate the pres- nt twenty-five regiments of infantry into twenty regiments, classed as heavy in- fant having twelve companies, di- vided into three battalions of four companies each. Ten regiments of infantry are 1o be organized, classed as light infantry, num- bered from the Twenty-first to the Thirtieth, for duty in the regular army, which are to be an addition to West Point—a practical train- ing school of the youth of America in every= thing pertaining to the infantry arm of serv- ico In peace and war, ¢ A distinctive character and uniform sim- ilar to that of the United States corps of cadets 1s proposed for ihe light infantry reg- iments thus organized, the aim being to fit them by a three years' Infantry course for a successful performance of the important duties of commissioned officers and non- commissioned officers of the National Guard and volunteer forces in war. Trained of- ficers will be required, and a plan of this Kind, It is calculated, will successfully pro- vide officers for the millions of men that in emergency could be put in the fleld One section of the bill prowides for pro- motion of infantry officers by senlority, de- termined by length of scrvice as a commis: sioned officer, both in regular army and vol unteer forces. Belief is expressed that in war machine guns will be attached to both cavalry and infantry in the British army, and there Is probability of the same thing in this coun- try—that one of the center infantry com- panies of the center battalion will be sup- plied with machine guns and be an in- fantry-artillery company. Senator Manderson will deliver an address to the graduates of the Georgetown Law school of the District of Columbla on the night of Monday, June 11. Senator Manderson has written Post Com- mander C. B. Adams that if congress has adjourned at that time he will be present at the Grand Army reunion at Superior on August 2, ABOUT PUBLIC BUILDINGS. The Drexel Stone company of Omaha has written Senator Manderson informing him that there s now not enough money fn the office at Omaha to pay them for public work which they had contracted for and completed. Senator Manderson called on the supervising architect of the treasury today and was in- formed that on May 1 last a remittance of $20,000 was made to the disbursing agent for the public bullding at Omaha, and that a further remittance of $20,000 was made a few days ago to the disbursing agent of the court house, custom house and postoffice at Omaha. Representative Pickler this morning ap- peared before the house committee on public buildings and grounds and presented a strong argument In favor of the public buflding at Deadwood, S. D. A favorable report will un- doubtedly be made within a short time on a bill of Mr. Pickler's appropriating money sufficient for the bullding. The contract for the interlor furnishing and plumbing of the postofiice at Sioux Falls S. D., was today awarded to Forster & Smit of Minneapolls, Minn. Several changes wer made in the plans, and white oak will be" used instead of white pine, cement plaster instead of mortar plaster and plate glass is to be used in the windows instead of sheet glass. The amount of the contract is $2: 473, and the work Is to be completed in six months. 3 A postoffice has been established at West Day county, S. D., and Martin Wis commis- sloned postmaster. members of ments of to each regiment Infantry of elght organization been each legant goods—a tailor ust look around.