Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 9, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. B. ROSBWATER, I PURLISHED Itor. EVERY MORN TERMS OF SUDBSCRIPTION. Dally Dea (without Sundny), One Year.... Tally and Sunday, One Yoar v Frenday o Eaturday. Weekly | Omanta. T) Bonth O Connell Chicagn O New York and 15, Washington, 140 N. W. CORRESPONDI ANl eommunications relat torlal matter should he ndd BUSINESS LETTER 8 and_remitinnces should be Publishing company \mmoree. Tribune BIdg. s and edl- he Editor, AL busine addressed to The e Omabn, Drafts, checks and postol be made pavable to the order of th 'HE BEE PUBLISHING COM CIRCULATION f The lieo Pub. ways that the pies of Th printed ATEMENT OF Trnchuck, s henlg duly sworn, f full and complete « ning and Sunday e f May, was as f Total sold... it iy average net cireulation anday. N TZSCHUCK. bed in my pres 154, IL, Notary Public. Bworn to before me ence this 24 d. Perhaps it would pay the county to dis- miss its corps of Inexperienced paving in- spectors and secure the services of one real paving expert. The senate can’t think of setting a day for the close of the tariff discussion until after the last instaliment of Senator Quay's serlal speech has come in. The religious crank who wanted to con- vert the president should be referred to the senate as the fleld where he can prosecute his labors with advantage. It begins to look as If the murderer of Maud Rubel might be apprehended should he deliver himself up. We venture to say that Omaha’s alleged detective force is giv- ing the culprit no anxiety of mind. The four councilmen who have stood up against the blandishments of Wiley and the confederated franchised corporations are en- titled to a good deal of credit and respect. Their names are Burkley, Cahn, Lemly and Elsasser. That hail sterm In Vienna cannot have been a very serious affair. The hailstones only reached the size of hazel nuts, and that after crossing the Atlantic by special cable. They should have been at least the size of grape fruit. s The only way to Insure the purity of our national legislature is for the people to in- sist that none but men of the strictest in- tegrity be sent as their representatives to he national capital. Once get a congress composed of honest members and it will require no legislation to keep them honest. Senator Allen must have been laboring under a mistaken idea when he drew up the title of his new bill “to preserve the purity of the national legislature.” How can we preserve purity where it does not already exist? Make it a bill “to prevent the national legislature from becoming more impure.” The Hawallan government plainly retains its hopes and expectations of accomplishing its plan of annexation with the United States and will probably provide for such contingency in its new constitution. But it is equally plain that the annexationists Will have to postpone their ambition until after President Cleveland retires from the ‘white house. It is highly improbable that the redoubt- able Breckinridge will inflict any of his florid oratory upon Nebraska this Fourth of July, and the talk that is emanating from certain quarters of a vigorous effort being made to get him to accept an invitation to speak In this state Is doubtless intended chiefly to worry, and harrass the good people of that particular community. No town in Nebraska is anxious to entertain the out- casts of Kentucky soclety. Kansas republicans want congress to enact & law imposing a duty on the importation of foreign silver to protect the product of American mines. So long as our monetary legislation remains unchanged, as at pres- ent, such a law would be altogether without practical effect. While we are producing a surplus silver product foreign silver is in no demand In this country. A tax on im- portations of foreign silver would be the next thing to a dead letter. General 0. 0. Howard in his address be- fore the Congregational Missionary conven- tion paid a brief tribute to Omaha that was pleasing, and we belleve well merited. The general resided in Omaha some years ago, and is an authority on matters pertaining to our physical and moral growth as a city. His remarks are all the more appreciable because of the unfalr and malicious attacks upon this city and our people made by roving evangelists who know nothing about Omaha, and care less. We have been asked why Mayor Bemls has not Influence enough among republicans In the councll to control even two votes in support of his veto, The question is very easlly answered. The mayor cannot cope with the corporation combine that commands favors of substantial value. He has no passes to give away; no fat to fry out; no insurance policles to take out; no water or B8 or electric lights to donate; no commis- slons on stone, asphalt or brick contracts to offer; no retainers for lawyers, and no mohey to loan for an indefinite period. Senator Voorhees' tribute to the late Sen- ator Stanford is rather a slur upon all the other millionaires within the circle of Voor- hoes' acquaintance. The Indiana semator is quoted as saying that Leland Stanford was the only very rich man he had ever known whose simplicity and sublimity of character was not touched or debased by his wealth, What do all the milllionaire colleagues of Senator Voorhees say to this? Are they all debased in character by their wealth? en Af*they are, does not senatorial courtesy de- mand that the fact be not thrown in their faces on the floor of the senate? Senator Voorhees might have eulogized Stanford in & much less offensive manner. ON THE RIGHT TRACK. Attorney General Olney bas finally pre- sented the claim of the United States gov- ernment against the Stanford estate for its share of the money owing by the Central Pacific raliroad, and, If the reports are to be belleved, has made intimation of his Inten- tlon to press the matter to a declsion in the courts. The theory of this claim, which has been explained in these columns before, Is in brief this: By the pecullarities of the law of the state of California the stockholders in any corporation are made responsible in the ratio of thelr holdings for any loans con- tracted by the corporation for their benefit. This responsibility attaches mot only to the stockholders at the time the debt was con- tracted, but also to their estates after their death. Moreover, where the United States is party to a sult, it is the statute of limitations, so that the defendant cannot set up that statute as a defense. The claim, then, is not peculiar to the Stan- ford estate, but Is equally applicable to the property of the other three Central Pacific potentates, who became rich through their dealings with the federal governmen The dispatches state that it 1s not known what Mre. Stanford, the executrix of her late husband’s estate, intends to do in regard to the government’s claim, but that she will probably reject it a nd fight it to the bitter end. Of courss it Is known what the bene- fl ries of the Stanford estate will do, and it was known before the attorney general made his demand upon them. The men who defrauded the government of the security which they had given for the payment of the Pacific railroad debt did not hesitate to re- every means at their command to augment their fortuncs at the expense of the people. Those who hope to reap the ben- ofit of these frauds will hesitate no less to avail themselves of every legal technicality to keep their fll-gotten gains. In fighting for this claim the United States will be op- tatives of the never barred by sort to posed not alone by the repre: Stanford estate, but also by those who have an interest in the fortunes accumulated by the other members of the Central Pacific syndicate. The claim against the Stanford ostate must be regarded as a test case: It Is for $15,000,000, or one-fourth of the govern- ment debt, the remainder to be collected, if it can be collected In this way, by sults against Mr. Huntington and the Hopkins and Crocker estates. It is this feature that gives the present suit than its own indi- vidual importance. The attorney gencral is this time moving in the right direction. He is simply doing what his predecessors ought to have done long ago and what any individual who oc- cupied the government's position would have done the moment the Central Pacific defaulted on its obligations. The govern- ment ought to use every measure of pro- tection to prevent the loss of the Immense sums which it contributed In aid of the construction of these roads and which were adroitly transferred from the railroad to the private pockets of its chief manipu- lators. The people should encourage the attorney general to push the claim against the Stanford estate and to institute similar proceedings to enforce the individual re- sponsibility of the remaining stockholders. more THE QUESTION OF CIRCULATION, Commenting upon the discussion In con- gress of propositions for increasing the currency, the Louisville Courier-Journal re- marks that we have had enough amateur meddling with the circulation and that it is better to proceed safely than swiftly in a matter of such importance. Besides, says that paper, we are in no pressing need of an increase of circulation. There is more of it now than business has any use for and its redundancy is doubtless one of the in- fluences aiding to drive gold. to Europe. According to the last treasury report the supply of currency was over $1,600,000,000, or a little less than $25 per capita of the population. On May 1 last the surplus in the New York banks seeking employment was §53,000,000 and three months before that time it was considerably larger, having been reduced principally by subscriptions to the national loan. It is probably some- what larger mow than a month ago. The amount of idle money i the banks of the rest of the country is perhaps at least double that in the New York banks, and at any rate it Is safe to say that not less than $250,000,000 of cur- rency Is at this time lying idle. There is no legitimate demand for it. It Is not wanted for the establishment of new enter- prises or the extension of those already established. Anybody who has adequate se- curity to offer can get all the money he re- quires, but such persons are not using money to increase their business operations. The trouble is a general lack of confidence and not an inadequate supply of currency. There is more money in the country now than there was two years ago, and yet the supply was amplo in 1892, when the country realized a greater industrial activity and a higher degree of prosperity than in almost any other year of its history. With between $200,000,000 and $300,000,000 of currency now unemployed and no legiti- mate demand for it how would it belp mat- ters to increase the volume? Would such a policy be likely to restore confidence and induce capital to enter into new enter- prises and enlarge old ones? Would it prob- ably have the effect to promote manufac- turing and give employment to more labor? It is not apparent that it would have any such influence, and if not an intlation of the currency would- simply increase the stock of ‘dle money, unless in addition it should en- courage forms of speculation that would ultimately result in more harm than good to the country. If more money would not restore confidence and promote enterprise it could bring no benefit to the masses of the people, who can get money only by working for it. The politicians who demand that the circulation shall be increased to $10 or $50 per capita do not attempt to explain by what logit'mate and practicable method an addi- tional billion or more of money could be got into the hands of the people. The truth is that all the talk about the country needing more currency Is purely demagogic. Infla- tlon at this time would not only fail to re- store confidence, which is the condition prec- nt to a resumption of industrial and busi- ness activity, but it would probably increase and intensify distrust and thus put off the time of recovery from depression. Its ef- foct would be to create doubt as to the con- tinued soundness and stabllity of the cur- rency, for the country being once embarked upon a policy of currency inflation no one could be sure where it would end. When we had reacbed a per capita of $40 or $50 the demand for a further increass would un- doubtedly be just as strenuous as it is today, for there will always be a large element of THE OMAHA DAILY BEF. SATURDAY ent, It will do well to elect the teachers for the ensuing year with a distinet under. standing that they will be subject to a maodified salary schedule. The board can not expect to pay ‘present salaries If It cuts down the work. On the other hand, the unconditional re-clection of the teachers might possibly give them plausible grounds for claiming that they are entitled to the old rates of remuneration, notwithstand ng any shortening of the school year that may be determined upon. This is a point upon which the members of the board can not lay too much stress, WHY WE ARE MISGOVERNED. Municipal reform s the crying need of every large city and the larger the city the greater the need of self-purification. The fact is that misgovernment and boodlerism chronie In all American cities. Omaha is perhaps no worse In that respect than cities of equal population in other sections of the country. The the base of our municipal The adage that the stream never rises above its source finds striking illustration in the prevailing waste- incompétency and dishonesty that permeates clty councils and various branches of city government having control over public works, police force and fire and health departments, At the bottom of all our troubles is the political cesspool from which we draw the managers and custodians of the municipal funds and property. The marked contrast between city government in England, France Germany or Canada s cniefly due to the difference in the standing of municipal coun- cils and officials. In the cities of England, Germany and France municipal officers are chosen from among the most substantial and reputablo class of citizens, who consider themselves highly honored in serving their fellow citizens and who bring to the adminis- tration of the affairs of the municipal cor- poration business qualifications of the high- est order, coupled with ummpeachable in- tegrity. In our cities men of the highest standing and business qualification habitu- ally refuse to serve n a munici- pal office and leave to the ward heeler and politician the task of managing the city’s finances and supervision of its pub- lic works. As a natural result our city leg- islatures are for the most part filled by men who are discredited commercially, lacking in business capacity and prone to promote jobs and schemes of plunder. When one set of boodlers has served its time and made itself too obnoxious for re- clection another set of boodlers is almost sure to take their place. Primarily the responsibility for municipal government s with the taxpaying and law- abiding class of citizens, Although they are in the majority in every city they allow the hoodlums and vagabonds to pack their pri- mary elections and conventions and to foist upon them candidates who are totally unfit for any position of trust. When citizens who de- ire good government take an active part in primary elections and men of integrity and ability agree to serve in a municipal office we shall strike the death-blow to Tweedism and misgovernment in eities. In Omaha the cause of misgovernment is not merely due to the indifference of business men in municipal campaigns and the refusal of leading real estate owners to serve in the city councils, but to the persistent tampering of corporation managers and contractors with councilmen. By combining their influ- ence these corporate conspirators have thwarted the will of the people, robbed the taxpayers and thoroughly demoralized the public service. This deplorable state of affairs cannot be tolerated much longer. When the reaction sets in and public senti- ment is thoroughly aroused ‘we shall be able to redeem the city from misrule. IN BEHALF OF POOLING. The New York Chamber of Commerce has adopted a memorial to congress favoring an amendment to the Interstate commerce law permitting railroad companies to enter into pooling agreements, subject to the ap- proval of the Interstate commerce commis- sioners, the withdrawal of such approval at any time to invalidate any such contract. The memorial says that the chief object of the Interstate commerce law was to prevent unjust discriminations and that it has been shown by experlence that there was less unjust discrimination when the east and west trunk lines had a pooling arrange- ment than at any subsequent time. Irreg- ular and fluctuating rates, it is averred, are inevitably productive of unjust diserimina- tion, and stable and uniform rates cannot be maintained unless rallroad companies may legally enforce pooling agreements, It is also sald that experience has shown that the popular fear that if pooling is legalized it might result in exorbMant charges is un- founded, but if it were well founded the pro- vision that pooling arrangements should be legal only when approved by the interstate commerce commissioners would act as a controlling power to prevent exorbitant rates, These views are understood to be concurred in by other large commercial organizations. A bill to legalize pooling has been reported to the house of representatives, with the practically unanimous approval of the com- mittes on commerce. This measure provides that the pooling contract must be in writing and filed with the Interstate Commerce com- mission for twenty days before it can go into effect. If it is not disapproved by the commission it goes Into effect twenty days after it is filed, but it is made the duty of the commission to disapprove it if it shall appear on that it will result in unreasonable rates, unjust discrimination, in- ferior service to the public, or otherwise contravene the provisions of the act. After a pooling contract has gone into effect the commission is empowered to investigate its operation and it it should appear to result in unreasonable rates or unjust discrimina- tion the commission may make an order disapproving the contract and terminating it in not less than thirty days. ‘The rail- road companies may appeal to the courts in all cases of the disapproval of contracts for a review of the action of the commission, but in the meantime the contract is illegal and unenforceable until the court of last resort shall approve it. The practical ef- fect Is to place the contract under the ex- clusive control of the commission, subject to final review by the supreme court of the United States. This would lead the rail- roads entering into pooling contracts to com- ply fully and adhere strictly to the require- ments of the commission. This measure seems to provide ample safe- guards for the protection of the public, as- suming, of course, that the commission would perform its duty wisely and faithfully. But there Is a strong feeling in the house against permitting pooling under any terms, as being In the nature of a concession to the corporations and against the Interest of are cause 1s at very systems. fulness, the inspection the people wanting more money, no matter how great the volume, It the Board of Education s contemplating @ reorganization of the school year, whereby the latter will extend over a smaller number of weeks of actual instruction than at pres- shippers, and doubt is expressed whether any pooling bill can pass the house. It is prob- able that a majority of small shippers are opposed to pooling, belleving that it would result to their disadvantage in establishing higher rates, and these are likely to have more influence with congress than the com- | the w JUNE_9 morcial organ‘zaticns which represent the large shippers. 4t _wonld seem, howeves that all classes of ghippers would see that stabllity In rates,wesld in the long run be better for everybody ) the Wrong Tree. New, York World. The meanest thing on earth, all the late David Crockett In one of his political addresses, “is a_lgp-eared coon dog bark ing up the wrong tre This would L more Just If the lopseared dog_ever conducted a senmtorial in fon up ong tree with careful deliberation instead of through a. mere error judgment. - ik Kesponsibility of the Chicagn Jater O Politically the president’s subservience to the trust Is of no matter, for the presi- dent has no_political Tuture; his public lite ends with his term of office. But it Is beyond the limifs of decent partisanship wien his friends ask that he shall be ex- culpated of the fgnominy that has fallen upon the trust-serving se Its legisia- tion I8 his legislation, so long as he neither protests against it nor threatens to veto It. . e Shdh A Growing Reform. Springfield Republicar The plan of popularizing the election of United States senators by nomination made In state party conventions seems to be growing in favor. The California populists adopted it at their recent convention, and now the Michigan democrats intend to take ere will be two vacancies to fill latter state by the next leais e, and by naming thelr candidates nee the democrats will make thelr election one of the fssues in the canvass over the choice of a legislature. Barking U esldent. shbladder has departed from Chicazo and will_spend the summer in Burope. The old gentleman turned a good many pennies here lecturing our people on court et quette and breaking them of eating with their knives. He leayves us with his wal- let full of sugar, his paunch full cf victuals and his bosom full of pride. We suppose that the de fat old fraud will be here again next sea soon as he blown in all of his 3 g he potentates, pary s the other side of the he New York Sun We record with genuine interest the that General Thomas Launcelot Rosser, the great Virginia spouting geyser, s in perfect erupting form again. At Richmona on Wednesday he sent into the ajr a word stream 220 feet long and two inches broad and £o hot that it fried his own adjectives. General Rosser has taken the contract for heating the state house next winter. His next exhibition will be in a competition with Eagle No. 6, volunteer fire com- pany of Alexandrfa, 1t will ve a con- test of wind against water, General Ros- ser’s friends arc confident that he will wir the prize—a silver-gilt spanner. pflid et The Rain Mak Largo. New York Sun. The rain maker is abroad once more. Out In Nebraska he has succeeded in convine- ing some people that he brought the re- freshing showers that fell there and in Kansas on Monday night. But if he claims the credit for that he wiil have to shoulder the responsibility for the great floods in the northwest, because all these meteorological phenomena had their origin in the general atmospheric disturbance. A cyclonic center has been hovering over British Co- lumbia and the Puget Sound country for several days, recalling In some respcets our recent experience on the Atlantic coast, nd it was an offshoot of this widespread storm, and not the cloud-compelling devices of the western professors of practical meteorology, that brought the rain to Ne- braska. s Effcct of the. Valued Polley Law. Springficld (Masp.) Republican. They are elaiming up in New Hampshire that the valued poliey law has now vindi- cated itself beyond the question of the most obdurate insurance company. Taking the elght years to 1y, or before the valued policy law was enacted, the ratio of losses to premiums received averaged 654 per cent; during the elght years since the ratio nas ‘been only 417 per cent. Risks writ- ten increased $216,936,400 in the second period over the fist, premiums received in- creased $2,650,135; while losses paid in- creased only $59,821. So says the Insurance commissioner inJil§ annual report just published. He thirks these fisures ought to close the mouths: of lhose insurance men who are still running on the rulnous valued policy law. It will be remembered that all the outside companies. left the state when that law was enactad, but they went back again in two or three years. Ll Punishing Bank Wrackers. Chicago Tribune. The wreckers of the Indlanapolis Naticna! bank have come to grief. . A. Coffin goes to the penitentiary for ten years and P. 1. Coflin for five vears. T. . Haughey, the president of the bank, will be sentenced today. The fourth of the conspiratcrs, A. S. Reed, may escape. Bank wrecking hus been a_favorite pastime this year. Indeed, there has not been a year in the lasi twenty when so many banks have been wrecked and so much money has be:n stolen In various forms of embezzlement and defalcation. 1f the losses of 18} should continue to its close in the same proportion which has been maintained since Jaunary the present year will far exceed any In tne last quarter of a century in the annals of business rascality and dishonesty. A few more sentences, however, like those in the cases of the Indianapolis bank officers would go far to discourage the scoundrels in thelr operations. Officials who know that the penitentiary is ready to receive and keep them for several years are likely to go slow In appropriating the money ot depositors. e To Recover a Just Debt. Chicago Post. It is almost too much to believe that Attorney General Olney has filed a claim against the Leland Stanford estate for $i5,- 000,000—Stanford’s proportionate share of the debt owed by the Central Pacific rail- way to the United States. We have not re- garded Mr. Olney as the kind of public of- ficlul who was most serviceable in such a direction, but the present report appears to_be based on the truth, The money has been due for years and the attention of congress has been directed to the debt repeatedly, but, strange to say alling history,’ perlaps not strange y—no attempt ever been made to t, although the palpable intent of the debtors was to cheat the government. Successive administrations have appeared afraid to measure strength with the pow- erful ring, and, on the whole, perhaps they were right. It is no news to learn that Mrs, Stanford, although a childless widow and ‘alone in the world, will fight the claim to the bitter end. Possibly the suit will not get to a hearing during her lifetime, but we presume it will be defended by the directors of the colleges, museums and hos- pitals to which the fortune may be be- queathed on the well settled theory that money Is like water and becomes purified if it only runs far enough. - SYMPTOMS OF THE WATERLOO. colleo Kansas City Journal: It is not surpris- ing to learn that Oregon has gone republican by 10,000. Pennoyer ought to have bebn good for that large a republican majority, without taking any account of Cleveland and congress. Kansas City Star: The returns from Ore- gon are suficiently explicit to make it plain that the legislature will not be favorable to the election of Governor Pennoyer to the United States senate; and that is a great deal to be thankful for. Louisville Courler=Jodrnal: The demo- crats of the country Won't shed many tears if the Oregon elections yesterday resulted in such republican victorids as will keep ernor Pennoyer out'sf' the United States sen ate. The fruits of ™fusion” in the west are of the Dead sea variety, Give us stralght- out democrats in tho ‘senate or give us straight-out republicans, Chicago Tribune:! ' The actual cause of his defeat is not to'bb looked for in the superior merits of his, opponent or in the shight irritation, engendered by the contst for the nomination, It {s to be found in the intense disgust of thousands of the dem- ocratic voters of the district with the man- agement of national affalrs by their party leader, ¢ Chicago Herald: ~ Phe election of the re- publican candidate for justice of the su- preme court in the Fourth distr 1s a sur- prise even to republicans, and looks like a political revolution. In tne counties com- posing the district Clevelaud had nearly 7,000 plurality over Harrison at the election in 1892, The republican majority now Is 3,000 or 4,000. It I8 an event of national significance. Chicago Record: Tt Is likely that the of- flclal canvass will show a large falling oft from the democratlc vote of 1893 (in Fourth judiclal aistrict, 1llinols). The apathy dis- closed by the result Is significant as show- ing the disgust felt by many democrats because of the grotesque faflure of thelr representatives in Washington to effect the legislation which they w.:e pledged to bring about, 1994 TWELVE_PAGES. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. There are a good many persons who do not bellove in the finality of M. Carnot's re- solve not to be a candidate for re-election, sald to hava been announced to severwl of his friends during the recent crisis, The incredulity is likely to continue unless some public declaration on the subject 18 forthcoming, and there is no doubt that, should M. Carnot change his mind he would prove a formidable rival. In his favor is the fact that peace has been maintained during his presidency, a sufficlent proof of his wish for peace and of his power of selt- restraint; for he must have been sorely tempted by the traditions of his family to turn to account an army supposed to be un- cqualed in the history of France. Against him is his apparent willingness to stifle the Panama scandal and the lenity which he exhibited toward those who were Indisputa- bly implicated. Against him, also, is the distrust with which a large section of French republicans regard that feature of the constitution which makes the chief magistrate eligible for a second term. They contend that If the same man were to hold for fourteen years the large functions vested in the presidency the republic would @ quire the aspect of an elective monarchy. They remember, too, that the provisions of the constitution relating to the chief magis- tracy were inserted by the monarchical m jority of the Versailles asspmbly, for the scarcely disguised purpose facilitating a transition to monarchical institutions. Under these clrcums! a strong current of opinion could be excited on behalf of a can- didate who would proclaim himself favorable to an immediate revision of the organie law making a president ineligible for a second term. On this point M. Casimir-Perier has not declared himself, but it is a card which he may play at any hour, and which, what- ever may be the course of the late premier, will unquestionably be put forward by M. Henrl Brisson, who also is a candidate. . Another important controversy is hp- proaching a crisis between France and the king of the Belgians. That monarch owns the Congo state in his private capacity. Belglum has nothing to do with it. And if ever he wants to get rid of it, France h the first right to purchase it. That is in- disputable. The king, who has sunk most of his fortune In the African venture, now finds himself facing a deficit of about $2,000,- 000. To cover this he thought of borrowing the money from Belgium, and in return, or as sceurity, bequeathing the Congo state to that nation in his will. But France vigor- ously objected to his doing so, and much diplomatic correspondence on the subject passed between Puris and Brussels, with what result is not yet known. The King, however, has not yet raised the needed funds; there seems no probability of his being able to do so_except by bequeathing or mortgaging the Congo state to Belgium or some other power; and to that France ab- solutely objects, unless the bargain be made with herself. In case the king should see fit to defy France and transgress his obliga- tions, it would be interesting to see what means France would employ in dealing with him. She could not call Belgium to account, but only King Leopold personally. On the other hand, if he should sell, bequeath or mortgage the territory to France, there would beggome complicated problems to set- tle in the near future with England and Ger- many, whose empires in Africa abut upon the Congo. e It is well known to those who have fol- lowed the course of things at Sofia since the kidnaping of the late Prince Alexander of Battenburg and his subsequent resignation of the Bulgarian crown, that Mr. Stambouloft, while ostensibly upholding a constitutional regime, has virtually been a dictator. He prevailed on the Sobranje, or Bulgarian Par- liament, to make Prince Ferdinand of Coburg the ruler of the country, in the be- lief that the latter would content himself with the merely decorative functions of sovereignty, leaving the real power to his prime minister. This arrangement was car- ried out for a time, and might have been lasting but for the prince's mother, Princess Clementine, who has the reputation of being the most clever and ambitious member of the Orleans family. Desirous of seeing her son a genuine sovereign, and thinking that if lie exercised the power of political initiative he might manage to propitiate the czar, she induced him to dismiss Mr. Stambouloft and form a new cabinet made up of the enemies of that minister. This act of self-assertion gave rise to riots at Sofia and elsewhere in Bulgaria, the police of the capital and a part of the standing army siding with the deposed premier. If we may trust the tele- grams, which are subject to a rigorous cen- sorship, the prince and his partisans seem for the moment to have the upper hand, but there is reason to doubt their ability to re- tain it without the more or less overt sup- purt of one of the neighboring powers. The first step in this direction, however, on the part either of Russia or Turkey, would at once revive the eastern question in a highly acute form. e Sig. Crispl's adroitness and alternative bullying and cajoling of the Chamber of Deputies have not availed to pass his budget or avert a ministerial crisis in Italy. The resignation of the ministry was the result of the practical defeat of the government on Saturday last upon a motion to temporarily suspend the interminable debate upon the finances. The fall of Crispl, however, is not probable. The setback sustained by the ministry did not result from a division of Itallan partics upon momentous questions of policy. The issue between the prime minister und the deputies is merely a question of spoils, While Sig. Crispi is bent upon wringing more taxes from the lmpoverished people in order to maintain the huge military establishment of the Italian monarchy, the “patrlotic” majority in the Chamber of Dep- uties, In the face of imminent national bank- ruptey, are opposed to the budget muinly be- cause the measure proposes economles in the civil service which would deprive some of the political henchnien of the deputies of thelr offices. Current politics in Italy pre- sents a humiliating spectacle. A dispatch from Yokohama announcing that the Mikado had dissolved the Japanese Parliament probably indicates that the repre- sentatives recently elected to that body have proved no more tractable than were the members of the almost equally short-lived house which was dissolved in January last. The point at issue between the Mikado and his ministry on the one hand and the elected representatives of the Japanese people on the other, relates to the treatment of for- elgners, The previous Parllament was dis- missed because of its determination to adopt measures restrictive of the treaty rights of the foreign residents of Japan. It was even stated that when attending the sessions of the Parliament the ministers carried in their pockets the decree of the Mikado dissolving tho body, to be used if peradventure any measure hostile to Buropeans should come dangerously near to enactment. The recur- rence of anti-forelgn demonstrations in Korea and China surprise nobody, but that the people of Japan should be similarly af- fected proves that the task of Kuropeanizing the Orient is a long way from accomplish- ment. e Lord Rosebery’s recent utterances In the House of Lords, and the determination of the British government to send a commis- sioner and an adequate military force to Uganda, leave no doubt that the territory in central Africa that has been ceded to Great Britain by King Leopold of Belgium will be held against all comers. Those per- sons who expected that Germany would join France- in protesting against this action as a violation of the agreement arrived at by the Berlin conference whereby the Congo free state was established, scem to be destined to disappolntment. Germany may not be averse to seeing England and France engaged in a squabble over Africa, Inasmuch as a serious difficulty with France would draw Great Britaln more closely toward the triplo alllance. At any rate, the disturbed condition of affairs In Hungary and In the Balkan states has given German statesmen something of more immediate Interest to think about than remote central Africa. ministerial | POLITICAL POTPOURRI, Lincoln News: It will cost Congrossman Bryan $13 per day to visit Omaha and help dlsrupt the democratic party; but Billy don't seem to care for expen Pawnee Press: Now that Allen W. Fleld 1s out of the way, Church Howe can take the republican nomination for congress from this district and repeat his experience with McShane. Poor Church will never go to congross. Kearney Hub: The long range efforts of the Chicago Times to make a governor or senator of our own Billy Boy Bryan, to the oxtent of devoting whole pages to thit sub. Ject, have a very peculiar look. For instance like this: $—$—3. Seward Blade: A desperate offort is being made to steer the democrat party into the populist camp fn this state, with W. J. Bryan as high priest. There Is plenty of fun ahead when the varfous democratie factions toe the scratch. Walt for it. Central Clity Democrat: W, J. Bryan and the silver convention are stirring up great commotion In the family of the cuckoos. Morton, Castor and Harwood are fiyin around In great distress for fear the silver boys will rob the nest and steal all the eggs nd in fear and trepidation “one flies cast and one flies west and one flies over the cuckoos’ nest.’ Weoping Water Republican: “eld and Watson are out of slonal_race, the most prominent candifates are Chapman, Howe and Strode. These gentlemen arc all able, progressive republi cans and any one of thelr number would represent the district fn a manner that would do credit to this, the grandest agri- cultural district on the continent Wealth Maker: The blue shirted statos man from Nemaha will probably sit a little longer in the little political poker game now goiug on around the republican table, but the hand he now holds will never be fm- roved. Jack MacColl undoubtedly has the age” and will, in the end, “Faise him out.” fom 1s holding pretty fairly, but he can't beat a “full”” with raflroads at the top and Jacks at the bottom. And sad as it is to contemplate, he won't even be tendered this time the second place. But he will always be dubbed as Governor Majors, and future generations will never know or stop to en quire about the prefixes that now belong or may hereafter attach to his title; and for fear his political title may be entirely lost in the i will say in parenthesis, it Now that the congros- shuflle” we will soon forever be ex-Lieutenant Governor Tom Majors. Peace to his political ashes. —_——— CHEERFUL SNAP SHOTS. Siftings: Hope s the dream of those who are awake. Whenever a begins to Puck: guess he Judgment. man talk makes a good about his good Tndianapolis Journal Ir,” sald the In- dignant _constituent, “I am’ compelled to say that you have acted the part of a Jonah!" replied man, “would you astonished me be a the have Chicago Tribune: The cycler picked him- self up, brushed the dirt from his clothes, and readjusted his cap. I could wish," he said, where the carriage poleé had struck him, “that the driver of that go-cart would keep a more civil tongue in it rubbing the place Yonkers Statesman: Bacon—What's that thread tied about your little finger for? Igbert—Oh, that's just to remind my wife to ask me if 1 forgot something she tola ane to remember. Washington Star: Jack-—I heard a man 0 is worth $10, today that he {ras much’ happiér when le hadn't a dol- ar. Tom—Just the same, he prefers the dol- lars to the happiness,'and if you don't be- lieve it, you try to separate him from one of his dollars. Chicago Tribune: TFirst boarder—What ails Dumback's appetite? He has hardly eaten enough for two days to keep him ali Second boarder—It's love or policy— don’t know which. He's courting the land- lady’s daughter. “Young man,” the after the youth had s hand,” “do you Atlanta Constitutio old man sternly aske asked for the daug] play poker?" Y- that fs—I"—Dlurted the suitor, blushing. That's all right,” blandly interrupted the parent. *Can you put me on to a quiet game? Somerville Journal: When a man asks you for a candid opinion of his novel, or his picture, or his new baby, he generally means a_candied opinion, and, if you want to be popular, it won't be wise for you to forget this little fact. Doctor—I ordered you to rub your chest with brandy, and, in- stead of doing so, you drank up all the brandy, so your wife tells me. Sufferer—The truth ish, doctor, I've got no confidensh in thesh external applica- shuns. Texas Siftings: Detroit Free Press: Small Boy—Pop, thls book I'm readin’ says something about the “wild wind;"” what's a tame wind? Father—The blowing that never seems to stop in the halls of national legislation, my son. ELECTION IN GEORGIA. Atlanta Constitution. “Marse John, he's de canerdate An’ T'se de'man to vote, So I'll call dar in de mornin’ An’ strike him fer a shote. An' Brudder Samuel, you jes' walt, I'll be baclk in 'bout ér hour; Den you call eround, you see, En strike him fer some flour."” SAID GOODBYE AT WINDSOR Last {cenes of the Great Jubileo Convention of Uhristian Workers, Y. M. C. A CONFERENCE HAS ADJOURNED Dr. Cuyler's CL Walls of O Under the Vietoria's Castio—Dele« A Re- s Visit Eton College markable arting. LONDON, June 8.—The delegates to the International conference and jubilee celebras tion of the Young Men's Christian assoclas tion visited Windsor and were received at the station by the mayor and municipal authorities. The farewell meeting of the delogates took place in Windsor park. Dur- Ing the a number of the dele- gatos and viewed the anclent school rooms, chapel and library. Subsequently the convention reassembled, and, after passing a resolution expressing gratitude to the queen for the hearty recep ton accorded the delegates, Rev. Dr. Cuylor pronounced a benediction and the conference was declared dissolved Before pronouncing ternoon a visited Eton college the benediction Dr, Cuyler made w speech, in which he spoke of the glorious love feast the delegates had had during the last tew days. It was, he sald, a forctaste of the New Jerusalom. The memory of the conference would warm the coldest” winter night in Scandinavia, The tale would be told far beyond the Rocky ountains and in distant New Zealand, They said goodby under the walls of Britain’s royal homestead, where dwelt that ncble, pure, loving, gracious lady, the queen, who was the Queen of Hearts, oven of re- publicrn Americans. (Applause.) But by and by under the walls of the palace of the King of Kings they woull meet and grasp hands, and sing the song “Hallelujah and the Lamb." They were going home to the work of saving the world for God and then after a_while home (o eternal rest for ever and ever. A Daily News correspondent, the scene, ays It was surely markable meeting that ever echoes of the royal forts and hollows beneath it describing the most re- awoke the the sleepy - SIN SEALERS MISSING, Bad News from the Japunese Const—Many Lives in D SAN FRANCISCO, Jur The latest news from the Japancse coast is anything but encouraging to the sealers. In addition to the four vessels known to have been lost, it is reported that six other sealing schooners are still missing. They are the schooners Marfe H. Thomas, Alton, Rat- tler, San Diego, Unga and the Kate and Ann. Not only have they not tonched at Haki- date or Yokohama, but they have not been seen by any of the vessels which have put in there. The missing sealers all sailed from San Francisco and carry about a hune dred men. - Arid Land Survey. Denver Re A survey of the arid region by the nas tional government for the purpose of ascere taining the amount of land susceptible of reclamation would be able thing, The making of suc) weuld not that the would under- onstruction of the canals, ditches reservoirs ne ed to bring the land cultivation, but it would show just At land is aviilable, and thus it would open the way for the construction of ditches and reservoirs by either private capital or the state governments. It ap- pears that it is proposed to ppropriate $25,000 for the work in each state included within the scope of the survey. The sum would hardly be enough, but if it were found to be insuflicient another approprias tion could be made next year. e b Cost the Company Itg Money. SIOUX CITY, June 8.—(Special Telegram to The Bee)—Jeannic Campbell got a ver- dlct for $11,00 damages against the Pull- man Palace Car company today. She was cnroute to this city to join her husband. Coming into this city she was the only pas- senger in one of the defendant’s sleepers, when she was assaulted by the porter of the car, named A. Caraser. Bridge Bill is Signed. WASHINGTON, June 8.—The president has signed the New York and New Jersey bridge bill. o WHEN MA WAS NEAR. Atlanta_Constitution. I didn’t have one bit o' fear 'Bout nuthin' 'tall, when ma was near; The clouds could bank up in the sky, Or 'fore the wind in white streaks fly, But somehow 'nuther I didn’t keer A snap for them—when ma was near, Goblins that sneak at night to skeer Us little folks—when ma was near Jes' fairly flew, and wouldn't stay *Round there one bit, but runned away; An’ didn’t seem to be one bit queer— They couldn't help it, when ma was near, It wasn't bad to be sick, where You felt the oy that ma was near; The throbs o' pain couldn’t stay much Under the cooling of her touch, But seemed to stand in mortal fear Of ever'thing, when ma was near. s X L - Draws wWell sesa ND gives the best of satisfuction--does our great sale of suits at $10—So many speak of it as such a novelty to get really and truly $18 and $20 suits for $10-—they’re new customers—of gourse our old customers know us and expect it— A nice, soft, cool, negligee shirt for a dollar, now. R N RKFY ST .3 DAY 2 Browning, King & Co., S. 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