Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 13, 1894, Page 4

:I“lmlnl’,()"\l;“ \ DAILY BEE, B, RDSEWATER, Bditor. ILISHED EVERY MORND RIPEION ), one Yeur Yoar TERMS OF Dailly 1o ovithout Dally and sunda Bix Monthe Throe Months sunday | Baturd Weekly Yonr OFFICES, g ty-tourth Sta. T Chamber nrce Fibune 1H10g. ews and edi To the Editor “:v I vened T TETTNG COMPARY SULATION. e of full and camples coples of Ty i Total Less deduct coples Total sold Dally avern net eirculition I TZACHUC JORGE ribed in my Sworn to me and sub his 24 day of June, 180 al.) N. P, FELL, N before tary Put The homeopathists ought to have brought this temperature with them in homecopathic doses. which all the striking An agreement with coal miners and mine operators fs what the public anxiously awaiting We wonder how of the Nebras delegation in congress are just now offic down with the dread congressional malaria. will” agree many 8o serlons have become the ravages of the epldemic of congressional malaria that the house could not even secure the presence of a quorum on Monday. Bryan and Crounse are both slated for Fourth of July orations at Nebraska City. Why not make the invitation a general one to all ambitious senatorial candidates? The excursion of the Commercial club which leaves the city Thursday on a tour of the important towns of the state is a specie of advertising of Omaha's commercial ad- vantages, and advertising always pays. Congressman Bryan will try to be present at the cenfereifbe of free silver democrats in this city next week. It would take some- thing with greater drawing powers than a mustard plaster to keep him away this time. It the police know of places in the city where liquor is sold without a license, they can not shirk their duty in the matter by re- ferring it to the county authorities. The police are expected to see that the law is en- forced. 3 Sergeant Shopp s quoted as saying that the chief's recent order placed him “between the devil and the-deep sea.” A more ex- plicit explanation than the one he has given as to which is which is demanded in several quarters. Mediation has once more, been successful In settling the cab drivers’ strike in London. A few examples of successful mediation would come in rather handy in several parts of the United States that are disturbed by labor troubles. There are nearly as many claimants for the throne of the late sultan of Morocco as there are candidates for the presidency of the United States just before the conventions of the various great parties. Why not submit the choice of a new sultan to a vote of the subjects? Congressman Breckinridge failed to put in a defense to the charges made against him as honorary member of the Union League club of Chicago. He s probably wishing devoutly that he had failed to put in a defenso to the charges made against him in the original breach of promise suit. It has been discovered that Senator Me- Pherson was mi:taken in fixing the amount of his profits from the telegram which his servant sent by mistake at about $1,000. The transaction netted him three times the sum at which he placed it. This makes it all the more important to know whether the servant was the colored girl or the cook. Dick Berlin's salary as member of the Mis- sourl river commission s ‘being regarded with covetous eyes by many of the hungry unterrified who demand his replacement with a good and tried administration demo- crat. The Hon. Richard may keep the title i he will only hand over the perquisites. No wonder the democratic administration is accused of being a failure. Senator Quay's skin seems to be becoming worderfully tender since his name has been “mentioned” in connection With the presi- dency. Formerly the Pennsylvania senator did not delgn to take notice of any scandal- ous reports that were circulated about hini. Now he seizes upon his senatorial privilege to make his position clear, That presidential bee must be buzzing pretty loudly. — Some of the officers of the police force have & queer Idea of what a “known prostitute’ 1s. According to thelr version of the recent order of Chief Seavey, they assume the right to break Into any house concerning which they have the vaguest rumors of unsavory reputation. It the police are to act upon the hearsay reports of irresponsible people who will not venture to swear out warrants, what house fn the city will be sato trom their intrusion? New Jersey is the latest state In which the courts have declared that the legisla- ture has no power to confer the franchise in particularly designated elections upon women 80 long as the constitution limits the right to vote to the male eitizen. Following on the heels of simllar decisions in Michi- gan and In New York this line of reason- 1ng 1s apt to be acceptod as & binding prece- dent by the courts of other states. [f the question should be raised where women are now voting for municipal or school district officers, even this limited suffrage may on- tirely disappear, With the exceptions, of course, of the states of Colorado and Wyom ing, whose coustitutions touch upon this point. IMPORTANCE OF THE CASK. The maximum freight rate law injunction procoedings. which it Is expected will be roached within a week In the foderal eir- cult court for this distelet, Is a case.which has no equal fn its importance to the paople of Nebraska. It is important in several ro- Not only are the people indirectly called spects, the real parties to the suit who will be upon eventually to defray the expenses and cests Incurred in its defes but It is prevent them from cnjoying the henefits of the maximum freight rate law that the pro- ceedings instituted, Disguise it a9 the courts may.for purposes of technically ncquiring jurisdiction, the suit is In fact brought against the state of Nebraska to ob. struct it in the exercise of its right to regu late the charges made by the railroads oper- ating within its territory, From the standpoint of constitutional law raises the question whether the the federal government the final decision upon what constitutes reason- able rates for intra-state transportation. The supreme court of the United States has » again declared that it is en- the se, to have been case or has time and t tirely within of a state legisiatu for a schedule of constitutional competency to pass laws providing maximum freight rates, Such schedules, it has furthermore sald, must be reasonable; they must not amount the practical confiscation of the property of the railroad. Still further, they must be subject to judicial review as to the question of reasonableness, The supreme court of the United States itself undertook to inquire into the reasonableness of the schedule pro- mulgated by the state railroad com- becanse under the Texas law no state court was empowered to do so. The praska law, exprossly provides y railroad aggrieved by the schedule ed may bring the objectionable feature before the state courts for adjudication of its reasonableness and empowers the court the limitation for that road in the event (hat it is found to be unreasonable unjust. If the federal court to take juristiction of the reason- ablen of the rate schedule el ted in the Nobr: law it will practically deny the state the right to regulate railway charges. All the state can do will be to set up cach new schedule subject to the approval of the federal The will be uifablg to exercise the jurisdiction over ob- jectionable rates which the statute seeks to confer upon Politically the maximum freight rate case Is a test of power between the railroads and the people. The raiiroads sought to domi the legislature by obstructing the election of any but pliant members cither house. They happened find themselves in the minority, but, nothing daunted, immediately set to work to win over the needed legis- lators. By every means within their power, shameless corruption and brazen lobbying, they tried to prevent the enactment of any railroad legislation in the Interests of the people. Again unsuccessful, they openly defy the law and turn to the federal court for assistance in gaining what they could not get either from the people or the legislature. They ask the federal court to make. them undisputed masters of the state. They want the federal court to enable them to nullify a law which has aiready successfully run the gauntlet of the people, of two houses of the legislature and of the governor of the state. Industrially and commercially the max- imum freight rate case involves the raising of the embargo which the railroads have long laid upon the local traflic of Nebraska ship- pers. The new law establishes maximum rates, to be sure considerably higher than those in force in lowa, but still about 30 per cent lower on the average than those which now prevail The new rates would enable many products to be shipped against which the present demands of the railroads are absolutely prohibitory. They would thus tend to increase the traffic, and in this way to compensate the railroads in a measure for the reduction of rates. The in- habitants of this state, especidlly the farm- ers, have for years complained of the un- reasonable charges exacted from them by the railroads for the shipment of freight, and the new law was a long delayed response to this general demand of the people. By them the interference of the federal court to uphold the unreasonably high schedules of the rail- roads will not be lightly dismissed. The enactment of the maximum freight rate law was in itselt a hard fought victory for the people of Nebraska. Will the federal court help the railroads to smatch victory from merited defeat mission however, to suspend and now as- sumes ki courts, state courts them. to to here. COMMERCIAL RETALIATION. 1t is encouraging to note that the repub- lican press of the country does not endorse the idea that the United States should at- tempt to force Great Britain and other Eu- ropean countries Into a monetary union in the interest ‘of silver by means of a dis- criminating tarlff. We refer, of course, to the newspapers of standing and influence, not one of which, so far as we have observed, has fallen in with this most extraordinary and impracticable proposition. .The most casual consideration of this scheme of com- merclal retaliation cannot fail to convince any intelligent man that nothing more un- wise or more dangerous to the welfare of the country could be undertaken. Those who propose it seem to lose sight of the fact that we are a debtor nation, and therefore not in a position to adopt such a policy if we intend to deal honestly with our creditors. We are a debtor nation hecause a vast amount of our railway and other securities are held In Burope. The first effect of adopting dis- criminating tarift duties with a view to com- pelling England and other Buropean coun- tries to agree to a larger recognition of silver in their currency would be the return of these securities. The holders would part with them for whatever priee they could obtain, with the result of greatly depressing the market value of all of them. This would cause an enormous drain of gold from the country, probably taking all we possess. With our stock of gold gone and a commer- clal warfare inaugurated insuring a great reduction In our exports, what would be the condition of the country within a year after this fatal policy went into effect? Is it not perfectly clear that there would ensue financial panic and business depression com- pared with whieh all past experience in this respect would be trifling? The assumption that the United States can safely pursue an independent policy in finan- clal affairs Is a great mistake. We cannot 1s0late ourselves from the rest of the world without peril to our position among the com- merclal nations. The Interests of this peo- ple are 5o Intertwined with the Interests of others that from force of the law of self- preservation wo must conform our financlal system to the laws that govern the world's trade, or else fall behind in the race for commercial power. Equally mistaken s the idea that we can offset any loss that might result from & commerclal conflict with gold standard countries by a union with the silver standard countries. Most of the latter are in the same condition that we are In the matter of belng debtor nations, and it Is not at all probable that they could be induced to unite with us In a olicy that would bring dis- aster and utter bankruptcy to many of them. Unauestionably these countries desire an im- provement in the situation regarding silver, but they are not In a position to_enter into commercial hostility with the Buropean coun- tries whose ecapital has constructed their raflroads, built up thelr enterprises and tx till supplying them with the means of de- velopment. Hence they will not accept any invitation from us to a union which involves such a conflict. No effort on the part of this country to coerce England and other Buropean coun- tries into a larger use of silver could suc- ceed. The task is beyond our power, no matter what combinations we might be able to make with the silver standard nations. Clremmnstances may bring it about in the course of time, but should only Invite digaster for ourselves by attempting to force it. The advocates of such a policy are dan- gerously misleading those who do not give to the matter serfous and intelligent consd eration. we COMMED A T FLO 3 The practice of covering the graduates of the public schools with flowers on the oo sion of their commencement exercises, a practice long since discarded in all the larger cities of the country, still prevails in Omahia and has gotten to the point where it has become a nuizance and an abuse. The objections to this floral display are that it s unnecessary, that it serves no useful pur- pose whatever and that it gives rise to evil effects that are demoralizing to the schools them:elves. To commence with, such disy of place in public schools that to be conducted upon a strictly basis. There are many parents to whom the sacrifices necessary to their chil- dren a good education are a sufficient burden. The commencement honors distributed upon the ground of merit rather than upon the ability of the pupils' parents to deck them out in gorgeous costumes or smother them with flowers. But o long as the pub- lic presentation of floral offerings is per- mitted, every participant in the exe must feel that he must share in them whether or not his friends and relatives are in u position to expend money for that pur- pose. Commencement flowers also on too many occasions stimulate envy and leart burn- ings. It has become practically a competi- tive contest among the graduates to see who can count the greater number of floral trib- utes. The young lady with many admirers or with a large and wealthy circle of friends and relatives finds ler:elf entombed in a bower of roses, while her less fortunate class- mate sulks over her single bouquet. Al this oceurs before the eyes of the commence- ment audience and is intensified by the pub- licity thus given it. It lies entirely within the power of the Board of Education to abolish this senseless floral display. The board has only to say the word to put an effectual end' to it. It need not and cannot prohibit the giving of flowers to the public school graduates, but it can say that such offerings shall mot be flaunted in public. The florists will prob- ably sell almost as many flowers as before, but the gifts will be reserved for the exclu- sive benefit of the recipients and their imme- diate friends. Should the Board of Educa- tion neglect to act in this matter, the mem- bers of this year's graduating class should resolve among themselves to Keep their floral gifts away from the public gaze. By setting such a wholesome precedent they will have the credit of inaugurating this much needed reform. out sed democratic ays are re suppe give are A CURRENCY COMMISSION. It appears that the advocates of a new bank currency have not fully recovered from the surprise caused by the overwhelm- ing defeat of the proposition to repeal the tax on state bank issues, and none of the authors of the several plans for a new bank currency which have been suggested seems disposed to press his scheme upon the at- tention of congress. Representatives Springer, Warner and others who have framed bills to provide what in their judg- ment would be a more elastic and a more satisfactory bank currency than we now have appear to have either lost interest in their measures or to doubt whether there is any use In attempting to secure their adoption. It is with this question as with all others with which the party in power has to deal—there Is such diversity of views and interests that it is next to impossible to formulate a policy upon which all can agree. The party has really no fixed policy as to anything and as a matter of fact the na- tional platform is largely the expression of factions instead of the utterance of an har- moulous organization. A majority of the party, including its candidate for president, did not accept the doctrine that the policy of protection s unconstitutional, and the de- mand that the privilege of issuing currency be restored to the state banks came from the southern wing of the party. None of the numerous currency bills that have been considered by the banking and currency committee of the house has com- merded itselt to a majority of that commit- tee, and there seems to be very little prob- abillty of any measure being framed that will secure the support of all the democrats of the committee. Indeed it is probably im- possiblo that those who favor the uncon- ditional repeal of the state bank tax and those who are opposed to it can unite on a plan for a new bank currency, and this be- ing the caso it is obviously the wiser polley to let the question alone for the present, as Sccretary Carlisle adyised in his annual re- port, since there Is no immediate urgency for currency legislation. The continued agi- ation of the subject by this congress can only have a tendency to keep the public mind unsettled as to the future of the cnr- rency and to delay the restoration of finan- clal confidence which must precede a re- covery of business activity. The latest proposal is the creation of a currency commission, to be arpointed by the president, with authority to consider the cur- rency question and recommend to congress such leglslation as the commission shall deem to be desirable and practicable, It s thought probable that the banking and cur- rency committee will be willing to end its profitless discussions of currency schemes by remitting the subject to a commission, but this proposal will encounter opposition. Some democrats think that the labors of a com- mission would not amount to anything, while those who are not friendly to the national banks apprehend that a commission ap- pointed by the president would be very likely to report In favor of an extension of the national banking system. It s doubtedly entirely safe to say no commission of practical finan- clers, and It is to bo presumed the president would eppoint only such, would recommend the unconditional repeal of the tax on state bank issues, so that those in favor of such repeal can hardly be expected to support this plan of disposing of the sub- Ject. The president, it 1s noted, Is saying little on the banking subject which commits him to any definite position, but it Is thought un- that THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: he will be prepared for some expression as woon as the tariff o disposed of. It 1s sald that he has folt, evor since it was ap- parent that simplelrepeal of the Sherman law had revied eommercial activity, that {t was unwisqto throw a new rpple of discord Into the Dif¥iness community and arouse a fear that our currency system was to be again upset. It would seem, however, that it the president has any well defined opinfons on this question it would be well to let the country and congress know what they are. 'The diversity of views in the party in control of congress furnishes a good reason in support of the proposed ourrency commission, but the better course will be to let the questyg gand. until the people ross more competent than 1 with the Subject wisely and without prejudice. WEDNESDAY, have elected a co this congress to The street car company still leaves its passengers in dense ignorance to the points at which it glves transfers, and as to what they must do to secure transfer tick- ets. To the Initiated this is but a small hardship, but strangers and uninitiated resi- dents are daily compelled to pay two fares for a ride that ought to cost them but one fare. The least that the company can do is to post notices stating to what lines the pas- may transferred and that the transfer tickets are to be had from con- ductors. If it wants to be more generous in its treatment of the public, it might estab- lish transfer stations at the Intersec where the greatest transfer business fs done. In few other large cities are the arrange- ments for street car transfer 5o poor as In Omaha. as sengers be ions Delegate Smith of Arizona wants to abolish all the eastern Indian he thinks that the Indians become bad Indians 50 s00n as they are sent away from home to get white men's experience. This is a pretty good plea for a reorganization of the sy upon which the Indian pupils taught, If the schools at Carlisle and Hampton and elsewhere e abolished it will take away the educational opportunities of many of the Indians without substtuting anything better. When the western schools are able to accom- modate all applicants it will be time to abol- ish the eastorn sch schools because em are After declaring the anti-lottery law uncon- stitutional, Judge Hitchscott is turning his batteries upon a Kansas City lottery swindler. The Kansas City man doesn’t ad- vertise. From Richurd to Philadeiphin Rec Richard 111 would ha kingdom for a horse. Roseber and, therefore, he s no dicker. osebe rd. swapped his both; oceasion o Oblivion Without a Tear. »ston Globe. Not a single man throughout the great American nation has as yet risen up and objected to the retirement of Governor Pen- noyer of Oregon. — Reform for Trusis Only. New York Worle The Morrill way, taniff, which democrats have been denouneing all these years, less protective than the Gorman hill, and its substitution for the Gorman bill would be a great gain for reform. gl o e o Sendgd Loft in Kansas. Globe-Demoerat. Kansas s sou the silver ques- tion than Ohio, r at least, the men who framed the republican platform in the for- mer state avoided the financial crankery which those who_did, this work in the lat- ter state embraced Some Reflections onjthe Ohio Iden. Springfeld Bepublican, The republican party in the two first re- publican states has now spoken. In Penn- sylvanta “ft “endorses the erazy-populist de- mand of inflation of the currency to the extent of over $1,000,000,000, or up to $10 per capita. In Ohio it declares for a return to silver inflation as It went on under the Sherman _law until financial disaster forced repeal. What will the party in the nortn. east ‘say to this? And what is to become of the ©claim that the revublican party is the only one which can be trusted to en. force a” sound financlal policy? ——e BLOODLESS BLOWHOLES. Indianapolis Journal: The stage has been reached in the Breckinridge campaign In Kentucky when the man speaks whose ‘'voice is as «xpressive as a gun."” Minneapoliz Tribune: The supporters of the unspeakable Breckinridge threaten to trot out the family skeletons of his oppo- nents. If they do, the enterprising news- papers of the state will be refused trans- mission through the mails. When it comes tn skeletons, Kentucky is a jolly old cate- eomb loaded to the brim. Chicago Times: And now Desha Breckin- ridge has called Owens a coward, traitor, liar and gambler, and the people of Lexinston are cheerfully awaiting a Killing. But they will probably have to wait long. The most striking thing about this Breckinridge con- test is the remarkable self-control of our whilom flery Kentucky friends. They gulp down insults with as much gusto as if they were mint juleps. B KA AND NEBRASKANS. Broken Bow has hired a rainmaker to produce precipitation in that neck o' the woods. Boys at Kearney brought in 2,500 gopher scalps on circus day, and the latter reaped a bountiful harvest. The Union Pacific dfficials have closed the Willow Island station and transferred Agent Pangborn to Gibbon. A bastardy case at Doniphan almost de- populated the town for two days owing to the interest taken in the case. Fourteen cars of stone, cement and lumber have already been received for use in the canal enlargement at Kearney. Fifty cars o. cattle were fed at the Aurora stock yards last week, enroute from Pan- handle, Tex., to Moorecraft, Wyo. A plg having seven legs and eight feet was born on the farm of W. K. Hardman near Sprague the other day. It lived only a short time. Three little Indian boys who skipped from the Indian school at Lawrence, Kan., were detected at Nebraska City and will be re- turned. The sheep growers of western Holt, Rock and Brown countles are agitating the organ- ization of a Sheeprand Wool Growers asso- clation. The 15 cents an hour to seventy men now working on the canul‘at Kearney means over $500 a week turnéd over to the families of the laboring men. : i v A detachment of ‘soldiers has been sent down from Fort D! A} Russell to do guard duty at Fort Sidney until the quartermas- ter's stores are dmposed of. F. Cool of Custéf ‘dolinty was found lying dead In his doofway’ last week, having been killed by Mghihitig. His body lay three days before being discovered, The average dafy Killing at the Nebraska City packing housé for theé past week has been 1,740. This 1§ almost the full capac- ity of the plant, and in all probability the largest average fort any woek since the house began running. Seven familles’ Of, Russlans lve in tents on Union creek near Madison and cultivate beets. ‘They gatber brush for fuel and drink from the creek or draw water from a temporary sufface well a few feet trom the creck. They get $14 per acre for attending beets, and It takes the labor of one man from the middle of May to the middle of November to attend five acres. During the storm Henry Ransink of Cobb Creek, near Loup Qity, while plowing corn, was prostrated by a stroke of lightning. The fluld passed down from the point of his right shoulder to the right foot. Its pas- sage Is well defined by a red mark Inter- mingled with black along its ecourse. The team, a pair of mules, both recelved a share of the stroke, prostrating one and instantly Killing the other. Mr. Ransink's escape from instant death, it not miraculous, was very narrow. Ho Is gradually recovering from the shock. The mules were insured. NEBR: ‘Where JUNE 13, 1394 THE CENTRAL PACIFIC DEAL The Contral Pacific cor- poration will expire by limitation In 1918 Mr. Huntington is trylng to get congress to postpone its claim for 100 yoars, under a 3 per cent refunding schem his motive? Under the law he and other menibers of the Central Pacific syndicate are personally responsible for thelr dobt to the government. The treasury has a lien upon their personal millions as well as upon the “two streaks of rust and a right of way.” But that lien will expire when the com- pany ceases to be in 1918, It Mr. Hunting- ton caq get congress to pass either his own bill or the Olne refunding measure, this personal lability will cease before the gov- ernment can take any steps to enforce it. Congress should not pass either bill. The men who have got the plunder should be made to disgorge. Chicago Record: The government claim is founded on the bonds issued in aid of construction of the Central Pacific which is now owned to a great the Stanford estat by Stanford to pay these bonds, and to col lect them the government stands in exactly the position of a second-mortgage Londho'der. To make good its claim it must first pay the mortgage of $60,000,000, which would make the property cost the government $120,000,- 000, while the property is not worth to ex- ceed one-third of that sum. It fs said, and it is probably true, that no one ever agreed to repuy these bonds to the treasury exceptgl so far s they were, by the law under which they were fssued, a lien upon the property In the ald of which they were issued, and if this be true the government can never col- lect] a rthing out of the Stanford estate more than to foreclose its len. A “‘skin game” was played upon the government in securing the advance of these bonds upon nothing more than L ond mortgage, and, like similar transactions between individual the one who acted the part of the “‘sucke gets most wofully “left’” when settlement day comes around. St. Louis Republie: Mr. ington’s “‘widows and orphans' felt very san- guine in 1868, 1In a file of the Atlantic Monthly for that year the Republic finds a page advertisement which offers the first mortgage thirtysyear gold bouds of the Cer tral Pacific “at 103 and accrued interest As inducements to purchasers the company ites its concessions from the United Stat government and other sources. These con- cessions are: 1. Right of way through the territories, with the use of timber and materials along the route. 2. Absolute grant of twenty sections—12,800 acres—per mile of public lands, the minimum value of which was $2.50 an acre. 3. A special issue of United St cent bonds running thirty years. 4. Authority to issue an equal amount of the company’s own bonds, which were su- perior to the government lien. 5. Donations from the state California_amounting to more than § 000 in gold. In other words, an aggregate sources of $60.000,000 upon 725 mi New York World railroad, extent by Collis P. Hunt- tos 6 per nd cities of ,000,- in cash re- 725 miles of road, independent of the 10,000,000 acres of public lany “At this time,” the widows and orphans continue, “the company have from national and state laws guaranties superior to any other securities now offercd.” Another glowing picture is thus painted “These bonds are a first lien on one of the most productive and valuable railroad lines in the world—a line which is already earn- ing, after paying opcrating expenses, more than twice the annual charge of the bonded debt.”” This advertisement helps to prove how velvety was the stock held by the four magnates, Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins and Crocker. Government bonds guve $35, 000 per mile. First mortgage bonds gave as much more. California and its cities gave $4,000 per mile. If the land grants were worth but $1_an acre they yielded $12,- 500 per mile. The company got, then, som thing like $85,000 per mile— in gold, remem- ber. The stock was clear profit to the four promoters, besides an actual surplus from the bonds and donations. ———————— CHEERY CHAT. Boston Transcript do you work now? What yer givin' us? I don’t work. plumber’s helper, I am. Dick—Hello, Tim! Jim—Work? T'm a The Wealers show some Dealer: b bitbiaatie The corn is get- haste to get out of Ohio. ting high enough to ho on, when Siftings: Now s the picnic ser Siftings: Now Is the p . hen rful idiot puts on a girl's Life: The bathing season now opens, and the girl with a plain face and a beautiful figure has.one more inning. Truth: Jinks—Do wife one letter a day when she is absent? Filkins—Oh, yes; the postage is a great deal cheaper than to pay tolls on her tele- grams. Detrolt Free Press: Mrs. Wasn't your husband out very late night? ou_really write your Kingsley— last M Von Blumer (sweetly)—Yes. But I felt sure he would be. He told me he was going to meet your husband. Why don’t you TIndianapolis Journal 7" sald thé blunt young work for your living? man. 'Work foh me living!" exclaimed Chaw- ley. “Gweat heavens! Don't 1? Fathaw is §0 careless T have to write him at least twice a week foh spending money. Washington Sta ou are very inde- pendent people,” said the tourist from Eng- land. “But you can’t deny that you owe a great deal to Christopher Columbus. “Oh, T don't know,” replied the self-reli- ant young woman, ' “This country made his reputation for him, you Know.' Senator Blankdash (at 1 you, gentlemen, and Chicago Tribune: committee meeting)—I t the country i aroused as néver befc the people will visit with swift retribution every man of vou whom they suspect of collusion with the Sugar trust. Gentlemen, re drifting onto the rock s of Bager Senators—\Where are the WISHES. Atlanta_ Constitution. T would I were an fcicle; T would my melting soul ‘Were going on a bicycle Pell-mell toward the pole! T'd like to hear a bliz And get a goodly My sole desire this moment is To put m: ! Reason Enough for Repudiation. Globe-Democrat. The McKinley law made sugar free and reduced 1ts price about G0 per cent, whereas the sugar schedule of the democratic tariff bill puts a duty on it that will Increase its cost by at least 1% cents a pound. This fact alone furnishes an ample reason for voting the republican ticket. - FRONTIER PROGRESSIVE POKER, Army and Navy Jour At Niobrara, Bill and me Were sojerin’ togethe: I allers stuck to Bill an' he Was better'n a brother; We used the same old cléanin’ kit, We chawed the same tobuacker, Slep' side by side, got full, got tired— O, nothin’ could’ be thicker. An' so it happened one A dough boy, name o Acrost a quiet game o' draw, Gey out ‘at Bill was cheatin'; Bill let him have It with the left, Hetween the eyes it landed, An' bruskly sent him off to | Beverely reprimanded. Stan' clear! squar’ off! the friends of both Salled in to join the tussle; . No guns or knives, as Dagoes use, But good American muscle Off blouse an' at it! knuckle As hard as we were able, With here an’ there, p'rups, a chair, An’ here an' there a tab) pay night, Keatin', sep bare, Hoopla! hoorah! but, darn it all! The middle of our fun in— “Purn out the guard!” an', double time, Some officers runnin’ But when they reached us—presto! change! The room was quiet an' alry, As e'er a proper, well behaved, Young ladies' seminary, Magee an' Jonen were sound asleep, Thelr noses mashed an' bloody; Delancey, with a broken thumb, Was deep in tactics’ study; To challenge 'em with doing wrong Would be a cruel libel. While Sheehan hummed a baby song, An’ Wilson read the bible. somehow, 'twouldn't work, ldn't take it, house half of us Went scootin’ like a rocket; Court-martialed? Naw! The kernel he Was such as you'd d "0, ' says he, A sojer's trade is fightin', An' to the g the | There Is no agreement | What s | 'SUBSIDY 0 | at such time as he OSE MILLION Projcsition of Platte River Canal Company to County Commissioners, TERMS ON WHICH THE BONUS IS ASKED Work to Tegin in Octoher wnd e Com- | pleted In Four Years—List of Stock- holders—Tronble Over Country Roud Paving. The Platte river canal before the county Jectors asking the county the sum of $1,000,000 to aid the proceeds of the honds to be used in the construction of a canal for the purpose of bringing the waters of the Platte to a polnt near this city, there to be utilized tn turning the wheels of machinery and In furnishing electric power Yesterday afternocn canal company were before County Commissioners, where they submit- | ed 4 proposition which was recelved and spread upon tho records ot the board. After | that the whole matter was referred to the | committee “of the whole, ‘the chalrman of the board being authorized to call a meeting might see fit for the pur pose of discussing the proposition. The proposition fs: the Honorable Boar ners, Douglay ¢ lemen—The Al and Power project {8 agaln the pro- bonds in the enterprise commissioners, to vote the officers of the | the Board of 1 of County Com- junty, Nebraska undersigned, ' the Omaha company, ‘a_corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of N braska, proposes to construct a canal for the purpose of irrigation and for developing water power and for other useful p poses, such canal to commence at the Platte viver within five miles from the city of Fremont, Neb, running thence in northerly direction to a _point about six miles from the place of beginning and about two miles west of the town of linzton, at and upon the Blkhorn river thence following river easterly to a point near safd town of Arlington; thenee loaving the Elkhorn river ‘and running in a south erly course to a point where the Union Pacific railway cuts through the divide; thence along the said cut on the north sile of said rallway: thence In an ensterly di ction to a point nearly south of Seymour park, in Douglas county, Nebraska, and thence northerly to a point at or near gald Seymour park. Said location is sub- Jeet to revigion, and the location of said canal, ns above stated, may at any time be modifled or changed if. after further Investigation, it is deemed to the best in- te of the enterprise 8o to do; provided, that the sald canal shall terminate at point mot more than four miles from th corporate limits of the city of Omaha. The lencth of said ecanal will be about forty miles, with capacity, as estimated, of about 20,00 hydraulic horse power at its terminus, ‘The proposed canal will be constructed in rdance with plans and specificatic appoved and provided by engine others expert in the construction of tch work. The sald canal will be con- ructed and put into operation for the pur pose of furnishing water for frrigation and for power and for other useful and bene- to b and ficial purposes: provided, the county of Douglas, in the state of Nebraska, will nate”to ‘the Omaha Canal wnd Power com- pany, its successors or assigns, $1,000,000 of its "6 per cent coupon ' negotiable bonds, to dated October 1, 1804, due and able twenty years' from the first y of January 1895, with interest D able semi-annually from January 1, 1895, on the first day of January and the first day of July in each thereafter, the principal and interest y= able at the fiscal agency of the state of Nebraskn in the city of New York, In the state of New York, said honds to he of the denomination of $1,00, and each thercof to ite as follows: s bond 18 one of n ies of 1,000 b like amount and tenor, which are s by the county of Douglns, In the state of Nebraska, to the Omaha Canal and Power company to ald it in the construction of a canal from a point on the Platte river near the city of ! Fremont, Neb., afd running in a northerly, | terl and’ southerly direction about forty miles to a point near_the city of Omaha, In Douglas count @b, and in the construction of reservoirs and other wark fncident to the construction and operation of said canal as a work of in- ternal improvement;” all of said bonds, in case the issuance and dellvery pof Dbe authorized by a_vote of the ecloctors of Douglas county, Nebraska, to be executed and ri 8 1 at the earliest possible time after have been voted, and, when registe . to be delivered to the fiscal agency of the state of Nebraska in the city and state of New York, to be held in trust for delivery to the safd Omaha Canal and Power company, its successors or ass in installments,” as follows: Twenty thousand dollars of such bonds at the com- pletion of and every one mile of said canal in proper condition for operation, to be delivered by the trustees to said Omaha Canal and Power company, its suc- T ass| ipon a certificate signed and verified Dby’ the chief engineer in charge of the work, duly attested by the president of the Omaha Canal and Power company, and appr by the chalrman of the Board of County Commissioners of Douglas county, Nebraska, which certifl- cate shall show that the canal has been constructed and the work been done to the extent and in the manner above pro- vided for. Upon receipt of such certificate, and at each instance upon delivery of the bonds provided for, the trustees shall be released from further lability to the ex- tent of the delivery authorized, the last delivery of bonds, being the remainder of the $1,000,000 bonds, shall be made by the trustees upon recelpt of such certificate showing that the canal has been fully con- structed and that the same is completed and ready for operation. In consideration of receiving be the pro- A HIS, Wednesday and posed aubsidy, the Omaha Canal and Power COMPANY nirees to commence (he prelims fnary work for the construction. of sail canal not Inter than the 18t day of October, 1891, il the sald canal shall be completed o und including {ts terminus, at or near the city of Omaha, as hereinbefore stated. on or before the Ist day of July, 188, The sald Omaha Cannl And Power company furs ther agr that the eaid cannl shall be con ted i the manner and otherwise, nbefore provided, and that it wii howater power and such other power may be able to provide to T8 ANl olher consumers in AN necessary quantities and upon reasons Able Fates, terms and conditions, and that It Wil deliver in the ity of Oma one year after the completion of si electrical or other power City s £uch power (s v thAt it will Incroase sin to time as may be required until the capacity of the canal {8 exhaustol by e ageregate use or consumption of oither hydraulic, “electrical, or. other power furs nished o those who may be entitled thereto he Omaha Canal and Power company (s that this ition be at onee submitted “for aceeptance and adoption to L vote of the people of Douglis county, Nehraskn, at a special election, tn b quly and held for such purpose, and that At such time and in connection with sueh Proposiiion, there he su to the voters of Douglas ‘county the question whether of not bonds shall be fesued, registered ind delivered and proper taxes levied aes cording to law for the payvment of the in- terest and principal of ‘safd bonds. If, hy reason of infunction or other legal interference, or by the ncts of Providence, the work I8 delayed, the time of such delny shall be added to the time herein provided for as the time of completion In witness whercof the sald Omaha ¢ and Power company has caused these p ents to be executed by ite officers the unto duly authorized, this 12t day of June, A. D, 1801 OMAHA CANAL & POWER Attost H. KOUNTZE, FRANK MURPHY, Treasurer, LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS, The following fs the list of stockholde the Omaha Canal and Power company Kountze, W. A, Paxton, George L i Clarke, W. F. Allen, F. J George Payne, A. Hospe, J. B Farrell, A. L. Patrick, N Powers, T. Mahoney, C. [§ Wiley, N. A. Kuhn, E. A W. Ames, D. C. Pattorson H. L. Windsor, Willlam Coburn Phelan, R. S. Ervin, B. A, Cobb, nk . Moores, William Krug, J. M. W August _Doll, I R. Andrews, Dexter L. Thom Bullard, John Curtls, Charles H son Rich, P. W. Henry, Henry F. W. Martin, John P. Shoning, ¢ nis, R. I Mattice, Joel S. Williams, J. I Helin, J. A. Sunderland, Colling & Morrison, H. D. Shull, Gotlieb Stortz, A, Martin, Willlam Randall; Metz & Bro., B. J. Kendall, M. A. Free, R. Gilmore, B Crumer, Frank Murphy, John A. Creighton, Lyman Richardson, R. Du- frane, T. Lindsay, W. B. Clark, C. O. Lobeck, Arthur Shiverick, J. A, Gillispe, 0. F. Davis company, William Louden, J. V. Kuon A. Mchonald, Omaha Electrie works, H. K. Burket, A. P. Tukoy, M. F. Roys, George N. Hicks, Frank Colpetzer, William_ Preston, Frank A. Kemp, John Grant, H. H. Baldridge, J. W. Rodifer, G. A. Lindquist, Frank J. Ramge, G. P. Stebbins, C. E. Squires, A. Mandelburg, T. J. 0'Dona- hue, John 8. Knox, J. H. Pratt, W. B. Allen, George Hines, M. B. Copeland, W. Ji Welchans, A. Raymond, J. B. Parrott, J. T, Kinsley, Harry C. Hartley, Henry E. Cox, W. 8. Brooks, G. . Kuenne, John W. Paul, Weed & Bancroft, John E. Utt, D. Wi Shull, W. T. Seaman, Richardson Drug com- pany, J. A. Connor, F. P. Kirkendall, J. H. Evans, C. S. Elgutter, D. C. Bryant, Klopp & Bartlett, Carpenter Paper _company, M. P. Keefe, A. C. Powell, J. H. McDonald, G. Andreen, W. .R Bennett company, N. B. Falconer, Helen R. Clark, S. Buftett, J. M. Woolworth, F. D. Brown, S. Balduft, €. S. Raymond, J. A. Tuthill, W. Lyle Dickey and company, People’s Furniture and Carpet company, Charles R. Lee, D. T. Mount, M. H. Bliss, Baum Iron company, John F. Flack, Rector-Wilhelmy company, €. A. Starr, Alvin Saunders, J. Rowe, Frank Vodicka, Hobart Willlams, W. S. Gibbs, W. R. Anthony, Gladstone Brothers, L. Wood= worth, C. M. Wilhelm, A. K. McKone, John Steel, D. R. Davenport, Charles E. Miller, Johin' Condon, Otto E. Guiter, Edward Rie elieu, Charles Cheney, Joseph Gardner, C. A Lenry, Joseph Headfleld, John ¥. Schulz, A. R. Miller, John Flynn, Peter Cockrell, A. C. Raymer, Ed. Johnson, L. D. and 0. P. Burnett, C. M. Hunt, F. J. Pierson, Hollls Hogle, B. Jetter, Thomas Swobe, L. Mens delssohn, Samuel Katz, Wm. Doll, Thomas Brennan, W. A. L. Gibbon, Globe Loan and Trust company, Thompson, Belden & Co., L. T. Sutherland, Walter G. Clark, M. O. Maul, Isaac E. Condon, Dewey and Stone Furniture company, John Rush, George A. Wilcox, T. J. Foley, Willlam Fleming, M. McGuire, Willlam ~'T. Robinson, Adolph Meyer, W. O. Taylor, Vincent Burkley, W. M.' Bushman, Poycke Brothers, Warren Switzler, George H. Boggs, Charles I'. Bin- dorft, Henry Bolln, A. H. Perrigo, C. H. Frederick, C. W. Downs, Sherman and Mes Ccrnell, Hamilton Brothers, Nebraska Cloth- ing company, Doston Store, F. B. Kanard, W. H. Robertson, J. C. Abbott, J. W. Houder, Henry Van Deusen, Thomas Mel drum, Elijah Dunn, J. H. Manning, Androw Smith, William Barrink, F. Pivonka, Charles Curtis, F. M. Smith, Herman Thielk George W. Masson, E. J. Seykora, Koutsky Brothers, T. J. O'Neil, J. M. Glasgow, B. B. Wilcox, Thomas H. Ensor, M. R. Risdon, John L. Kennedy, Graham Park, John M. Hamilton. (e United States Senator Wetmore. EWPORT, R. I, June 12.—In the state legislature George Peabody Wetmore was to- day vnanimously elected United States sena- tor to succed N. F. Dixon. wnal COMPANY, President. s of H. Miller, Casper, Rilley, Dan Shelton, John man, 8. L. Henson, George George W. Doane, Cady, orge L. iriffin, bout Shirt WaiSts asn Thursday we will sell any of our Wilson Bros., or Star shirt waists —except white ones-—for 25¢ less than the price— $1.00 waists 75c—$1.25 waists $1.00—$1.50 waists $1.256—$1.75 waists $1.50—for all ages 3 to 14— You can see them in the window—where we are also showing a new invoice of boys' choice straw hats. Browning, King & Co., S. W, Corner 15th and Douglas.