Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 16, 1894, Page 4

TEE OMAHA _I)AILY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, Baitor. RY MORNT LISHED BVE! TERMS OF S8U “RIPTION. hally Beo (without Sunday), One Year ity and O Year Bix Monthe T Fiiree Months Runday Tee, Baturiny Hoo Weekly Bee The Tiee Buildin ©Omalin a mer N pth Dmatn, Hibune DIAR. Now Wasiington, 147 CORRESPO ANl communleations relating t torlal matter should bo addressed : DUSINESS LETTE All business nd ren addressed to Th b Omahn, Drafts, ehecks and be made pavable to th THE BEE PU o news and edl- To the Editor. tances should be hing hien o Nishing company, being wh]ll\' r\\wlwrly\. !u‘\n ”.IV"("\I‘ 17 i : an. TS emaananmns Nidiiony for unsold and wold crage net circulat TZSCHUC d’in my GEOR pres- tary Publie. Mr. Wiley's band wagon Is evidently big enough to hold the entire city council. get prone to The Sugar trust didn't wanted, but it is not under the circumstances quite all it complain Those newrpaper correspondents who have been certified for indictment for refusing to disclose the names of their informants to the senate bribery investigating committee find that they are to have other and good company. There have been only two lynchings In Omaha within thirty-five years and it is to be hoped that we shall not have to record another execution by mob during the next century. We are not in Mississippi, Ala- ‘bama or Texas, Cunningham R. Scott certified that George ‘A. Bennett was a most eflicient and trust- worthy sheriff and custodian of prisoners. Why shouldn’t Mr. Bennett reciprocate the favor now that Scott stands in need of a similar certificate? It ought mot to be surprising that appli- cants for positions on the New York police force resort to ‘he employment of substitutes to pass the physical and mental examinations for them. DId not the former governor of New York and present president of the United States once hire a substitute himself? One-third of the graduntes of the United "= States military academy at West Point will have to wait for regular places In the army until the older officers are either retired or dle. This assures large additions to the ranks of those army officers who are always ready to support any new plan that promises more rapld promotlon. b The house committee In charge of the various bills to promote the Nicaragua canal project does not look with favor upon Con- gressman Bryan's scheme to defray the ex- penses of its construction by the issue of flat money. Congressman Bryan's little bill was only one of his customary plays for the gallery. Secretary Carlisle has been looking out for the welfare of his fellow Kentuckians in the Treasury department with almost as much wvigilance as that exercised by Secretary Smith in behalf of Georglans in the Interior department. He has seen that Kentucky has thirty-nine appointments, being led by only the District of Columbia and New York, while only nine employes from that state have been forced out by removal or resigna- tlon. Secretary Carlisle must subscribe to the home industry movement. The redundancy of money on the loan market could not be better illustrated than by the floating of two series of bonds just accomplished in Massachusetts. A state Joan of $110,000 for the construction of a amilitia armory was taken by a home insur- ance company at 3 per cent interest. The city of Springfeld, too, has recently sold a small amount of bonds at a premium that will make the investment net the purchaser only 3% per cent interest. . Gilt-edge credit «could not have done this a few years ago. Secretary Carlisle’s recent statement of the ~mumber of appointments, removals and resignations of employes In his department since his accession to its control, given in responso to a resolution of inquiry passed by the senate, shows that Nebraska has fared about as badly at his hands as the most shabbily treated state. Four employes accredited to Nebraska and receiving salarles amounting to $3,360 were removed, and three recelving salaries amounting to $7,700 resigned, probably because their resigna- tions were requested. On the other side Nebraska secured only two treasury ap- polntments, with salaries aggregating $1,000. Nobraska, therefore, stands upon Secretary Carlisle's appolntment list with a loss of five places and over $10,000 in salarfes. Ne- braska's loss Is, in this case, the southern states' gain. For all of which wo have to thank the democratic administration. Why should the city pay $600 for a smoke consumer that does not consume and that has never been accepted as coming up to the promised standard? The effort to have this appropriation passed on the ground of re- Imbursing the city treasurer for the money paid out on an unsigned warrant is simply a round-about way of paylng the original bill. The city treasurer has no legal claim upon the city whatever for this money and could never recover it In a court of law because his loss is due to hls own negligence, On the other hand he has a good case for re- coverlng the money from the person to whom [ ™ it was pald and ought in any event to ex- haust his remedies against him beforo seek- ing relief from the city council. At the of this lttle mishap It was the general understanding that the enterprising smoke consumer agent managed to get only a small fraction of the entire warrant—§160 it we are mot mistaken. Has he tince secured the re- mainder of the elaim cr does he hope to get it after the Indemnification ordinance is passed? The whole proposition savors of very loose business management. WOMAN SUPFRAGE IN K. The endorsement of the pending woman suffrage constitutional amendment by the Kansas populists, followsd by the dramatic scene in which Susan B. Anthony and Rev. Anna Shaw, who had heretofore claimed to be staunch republicans, stepped in front of the speaker's stand and had populist badges pinned to thelr breasts, means that the woman suffrage campaign in Kansas is to be made a populist campaign. The woman suffragists were unable to prevent the ad- dition of a clause to the party platform to the effect that support of the woman suf- frage amendment is not to be taken as a test of party fealty, but they had assured the populist politicians that should the con- vention give them the desired endorsement they would work for all the candidates on the populist ticket without diserimination, both on the stump and at the poils. In other words support of the suffrage amend- ment is not to be a test of fealty to the populist party, but support of the populist nominees s to bo'a test of fealty to the cause of woman suffrage. The whole deal has been nothing more than a political bargain In which each side hopes to get the better of the other without sacrificing more than Is absolutely necessary. Of course woman suffrage has no greater interest for the members of the populist party than those of the other parties, be- cause their principal proposals do not ap- peal stronger to women than to men. The populist national convention at its session in Omaha two years ago refused point blank to Incorporate a woman suffrage plank Into its platform, and the best its delegates could do for the equal suffragist faction was to oxpress their sympathy for all propositions for reform while declaring them all sec- ondary to the great issues now pressing for solution. “Equal rights and equal privileges for all the men and women of this country was held up as something to come as a matter of course in the dim and distant future, after the principles of the populist party shall have been incorporated Into the government. The Kansas populists, therefore, undertake to say that they have made the government of Kansas all that is to be wished, and have now time to devote to the consideration of the “secondary issues.” The people of Kansas who have been suffering under populist misrule will hardly be ready to subscribe to this theory, nor will they be ready to stamp with approval such a po- litical bargain as this by saddling woman suffrage upon their constitution. The cause of woman suffrage cannot be greatly strengthened as a moral fssue by such ex- periments in practical politics. WILEY'S $15,000 HAUL. Mr. Wiley has not only substantiated his claim of owning fourteen councilmen, but has actually increased the number to fifteen. By an adroit hugger-mugger Mr. Wiley has induced the five-sixths of the council to vote $15,719 to the Thomson-Houston mon- opoly in one lump to pay the claims which had been vetoed at different times by the mayor and failed to pass over the veto by reason of the ubsence of one of the solid twelve or some kick in the traces by his tandem team. This lump claim of over $15,000 was vetoed In detail by the mayor on the ground that the contract of the city for $175 per year per lamp requires 2,000- candle power lights, when in fact it Is known and believed that the lamps furnished were below 1,200-candle power. On that point there has been so much sald and written to render further explanation super- fluous. Suffice it to say that Wiley has carried his point under a pretended con- cession of reducing the rate from $175 to $111 per lamp from now until November on condition of raking in the pile and getting paid in full for thtee years' deficient lamp service. Wiley would doubtless not have made even this concession If he was not afraid to bring his claim into court and morcover anxious to shut out Pardee & contract for furnishing lights for the lamps included in the contract that expired in May. It is plain enough to every Intelligent person that the so-called concession made to the council Is a juggle to cover Wiley's $15,000 grab. The mayor’s veto is doubtless anticipated and Wiley's contingent is ready to override it within ten seconds after it has been read by the clerk. Meantime Mr. Wiley serenely looks on, and, fn the language of Tweed, says, “What do you propose to do about it A DEFENSE OF REPUBLICANS The complaint of democratic senators and democratic newspapers that republican sena- tors are unduly delaying action on the tarift bill by prolonging discussion of that meas- ure comes with ill grace, as was pointed out by Senator Sherman some days ago, in view of the uniform course of the democrats when they were in the minority in the senate. It s not often that the veteran and distinguished senator from Ohio s stirred to sharp rebuke of the opposition, but he was so affected when a few days ago a democratic senator attacked the re- publican senators for the course they are pursuing in subjecting the tarift bill to a thorough discussion—a course which they announced at the outset would be pursued and which 1t Is not to be doubted a very large majority of the people of the country heartily approve. Senator Sherman asserted the right of the minority to debate to the fullest extent a measure of this kind. It was done with the existing tarift law by the democratic minority of the senate, which did not agree to a five-minute limit to debate as the re- publican minority have now done. “The opposition of the democrats to bills of a similar character and to other political meas- ures," said Senator Sherman, “has gone far beyond any opposition which has been shown to this bill. In all the tariff bills which have been considered here the other side have resorted to fhe same expedients which are now resorted to by this side to secure fair debate, and agreements were de- nled over and over again to limit debate on tarift bills, because the other side wanted to consume time and we were compelled to have long sesslons in order to pass the bills at all.” Senator Sherman sald the repub- licans could defeat the tariff bill, if they chose to do It, by actual resistance and by availing themselves of the rules of the senate, and he believed they would be justi- fled in resisting the measure to the same extent that measures which had been in- troduced by the republicans were resisted by democrats when in the minority. For one, he did not Intend to utter a single word or spend a single minute to prevent the ac- tion of the majority on the bill, because ho belleved It is tho constitutional right of a majority to pass such legislation as they think proper, but republicans must determine for themselves the extent of thelr opposition and how far it shall be carried. No democrat ventured to make any reply to these remarks of the Ohlo senator, be- cause all of them knew they were justified by the rocord. The republican minority are doing no more than the democrats have uniformly done under like circumstances, and since thelr custom has been always T Ty THE OMAHA DAILY BER: SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 191, to resist to the fullest extent to wsatiafy their own sense of duty and their duty to thelr constituents, they cantot reasonably find fault with the republicans for following the example. The course of the repub- Iean senators is not only justified by that of the democrats during the long period that they were in the minority In the sonate, but by results. It has brought about concessions favorable to the Indus. tries of the country which could not have been secured without such a discussion ot the tariff bill as has fully and clearly shown the faults, the inconsistencles, the injustice and the destructive character of that meas- ure. Had republican senators not decided to debate the bill In detail and been con. tent to let the majority proceed unchecked in thelr purpose of destroying the policy of protection It is probable the country would now have a tariff law far less favor. able to the iIndustries of the country gen. erally than the pending bill, with all its dofects and shortcomings. In combating this measure and clearly exposing its dan- gerous character the republican senators are doing their duty, and the popular ap- preciation of this will be most decisively at- tested, there can be no doubt, when the people have the opportunity to pass upon it in the congressional elections of this year. They may not defeat tarift legislation, as some of them appear to think is still pos- sible, but they will thwart the democratic design to strike a death blow to protec. tion. A VERY IMPORTANT MEETING. The commissioners of Douglas county have called a meeting of citizens and taxpayers at the court house Saturday evening to dis- cuss the Platte river canal bond proposition. This is one of the most important confer- cnces that citizens of this county have ever been called upon to attend. The subsidy of $1,000,000 which the pro- moters of the Platte river canal ask should not be voted or even proposed to be voted without. a fair and full discussion of all the vital points involved. We are not merely to consider and discuss the amount of the subsidy, the Interest rate and period for which the bonds are to run, but under what conditions tho donatlon asked for is to be made and what guarantles we are to exact for the completion of the canal, its utilization for supplying power and the tolls to be charged consumers. There never has been any proposition before the county board that involved so much to the taxpayers of the county and concerns so vitally the business interests of Omaha and South Omaha, It is more than probable that the first meeting will be confined to the preliminary points and that several meetings must be held before all the technical and legal ques- tions are disposed of. In any event the meeting should be attended by every heavy taxpayer. A MORE FAVORABLE CONDITION . The treasury has lost comparatively little gold this week, the demand for export being small, and it is reported to be the opinion at the Treasury department that the outflow has about run its course and will soon cease. It has been the usual experience that the foreign demand stops at about this time in the year, and in view of the fact that at all the financlal centers of Europe there are large stocks of gold, while there is nothing in the financial situation here to create a demand from abroad, there seems to be good reason for the opinion that the outflow of gold Is at an end for the pmesent. If such should prove to be the case the treas- ury may be able to get along with its pres- ent supply of gold untll it can be increased in the regular way through customs receipts, though this will depend a good deal upon whether the tariff bill becomes law within the next month, which s by no means cer- tain. The gold reserve is mow down to $69,000,000, which is within $4,000,000 of the depletion when Secretary Carlisle s0ld bonds in February. The financlal conditions at that time, however, were much more un- favorable than they are at present, and what was then regarded as the point of dan- ger might not now exclte apprehension. Be- sidos the general treasury balance is larger now than at that time, so that the necessity does mot exIst at present for using the gold reserve In meeting the current obligations of the government. Of course a reserve of only about $1 to $10 of currency redeemable in gold is much too small for security against a possible exigency, but there will be no danger, even should the reserve be further reduced, so long as public faith in the gov- ernment remains unimpaired. It was reported from Washington some days ago that Secretary Carlisle was feeling somewhat anxious about the situation, and that he was contemplating another sale ot bonds whether congress granted him the authority he has asked for or not. He can do this under existing law, but he desires further legislation, and this congress has thus far shown no disposition to comply with. If gold exports should cease at once it is not likely that bonds will be issued. There s sald to be a strong interest in east- ern financial circles regarding the condition of the treasury and the course that the sec- retary may adopt. It Is also said that should another issue of bonds be made they might not be so easily disposed of as were those issued in February, The statement is mado that Secretary Carlisle has lost the confidence of New York financiers, and that they would not take hold of a second bond issuc as promptly as they did the first one. Indeed it s intimated that another offer of bonds by the secretary of the treasury might fail of acceptance, but it is hardly probable that such would be the case if the emer- gency became urgent. It is not to be doubted, however, that there Is distrust of Secretary Carlisle’s financial ability. The cessation of gold exports would be a good thing so far as the treasury Is con- cerned, but beyond this it would probably have no important effect. Apparently the condition s more favorable, but there is no assurance that It Is really so. An early resumption of gold shipments to any extent would doubtless cause the secretary of the treasury to agaln resort to a sale of bonds. There Is something radically wrong with the returns of real estate valuation made by the assessors of the outside precincts of the county. The total is 10 per cent less than the total for last year, although in some fow precincts a slight Increase is noted. In others there Is a marked decrease, partiou- larly in East Omaha, where the drop s sheer 40 per cent. Of course nothing has hap- pened during the past year to affect property values to that extent in any part of the county. This 1s ouly In keeping with the policy pursued in this county for years whereby assessors have deliberately lald themselves liable to the penalties Imposed on perjury and making false returns. The property in the county precincts is only la- ble to a very small tax, The bulk of eounty taxation fs borne by the clty property owners. It 1s notorious also that the county taxes are lower in Douglas than in any county in the state. In the face of this extremely favora. ble condition to land owners outside of the city there has been a scandalous undervalua- ton of both real and persoual property in county precincts years. Why there should have vm-r"m reduction this year from last year Is Inexplicablo axcepting upon the natural presuniption that the heavy prop erty owners and Jaig speculators hive ex- erted a corrupt pild-on the assessors. Sir William Hapgouft's Intimation that de- spite the severe business depression in all parts of the worfd the volume of British o has held ity owy for 1803, will, doubt- , Ive rise to.inguiries In this country to what extent this has been at the expense of Amerfean traddrs. The wonderful hold which England has secured upon the mar- kets of the worl ean alone account for a phenomenon of this ¥ind. If the call for British goods has.baen steady In the face of a marked the general de- mand then the other countrles must have borne the brunt of the depression by losing more than their shares of the patronag noable Exampla. sbe-Demoerat, Nebraska's tepublican . clubs formally endorsed the declaration of the national convention of 182 on the silver issue, and an example which the party in western states should follow. decrease in A Not Forgotten. Cineinnati Commerolal, ntral Pacifle rallway debt to the United States might as well be charged to profit_and loss on the books of the treas- ury. The property is not worth 10 cents on the dollar of the debt it owes, and the present managers can duplicate it for less money than the interest the corporation owes to the United State Colorad Denver R The republican part on the silver question, and when its posi- tion is fully defined it will be seen that it is the best advocate of the rehabilitation of silver in the United States. The silver problem s becoming very rapldly o na- tional question, and ‘on national questions the republican marty always takes the American side b g L S Paylng Off an Old Score. Kansas City Star, Colonel Murphy, whose labors In behalf of corn bread in’ Germany were the object of the delighted interest of the American people, has' now transferred his field of usefulness to Belgium and will give away corn pones and hoe cake at the Antwerp exposition. Tt Is to be hoped that Colonel Murphy will succeed in convincing the Bel- glans, who are now absolutely ignorant of corn meal, that they “don’t know what's good” until ‘they have made its acquaint- ance. Books have been written of late to ghow that the American colonies owed much to the low countries for fdeas con- cerning civil liberty; there is a chance to pay off the obligation in corn cakes. g REFLECTIONS ON THE SUi publican, ts getting into line R TRUST: St. Paul Globe: The Sugar trust is non- partisan. In states where the republicans have the majority it contributes to the re- publican campaign fund, and where the democrats are in the ascendant they re- celve its favors. It grinds its grist in demo- cratic as well as republican mills, and pays toll to both with exemplary impartiality. Such, at least, is the story told by Presi- dent Havemeyer, and the evidence thus far submitted in the congressional bribery in- vestigation seems to bear him out. Chicago Times: " We say that the brutal frankness of this fellow Havemeyer is en- couraging. True, 4t shows that he believes himself so buttressed about by the power of capital, so securely entrenched behind that bogus ‘“conservatism” which defends whatever exists, however apparent its in- justice may be, that lie can insolently pro- fess himselt a buyer of laws, a farmer of taxes. That is hfé stdte today. There will come to him no harii from his profession of rascalaity, nor’ indeed should there, for he is but the product’ of conditions, which are what we attack, not the individuals who profit by them. But when the beneficiaries of plutocracy boast as loudly as has Have- meyer the end of their rule draws near. The patient American people submit to rob- bery, but will kick when the robbers boast of the ease with ‘which they secure thelr booty. St. Paul Pioneer, Press: The question Is how long the American people will endure this sort of thing. How long will they per- mit the men who represent them to sit cheek by jowl with the agents of avowed and unblushing corruption? When will there be a reawakening of that stern moral sense that banishes from public honor and public life .for all time to come the man upon whose integrity even the breath of suspiclon blows? ~ The dreadful fact, the dangerous fact, is that these things can be done notoriously, and the public take seem- ingly but a languid interest in them; say, like a lot of ladics over an afternoon tea table, that it is shocking that such things should be allowed to happen, and then go oft to their daily business as If it were no further concern of theirs. Has the sense of moral duty, of responsibility, departed from the republic? s S JOKER'S RECREATION. Chicago Post: Possibly Muley Hassan was kicked by his first name. Buffalo Courler: “Bilkall says he has resolved his creditors shall trouble him no more." 'Ah, going to get out of debt, eh?" ‘Nope; out of town.” Washington Star: “And the Chinese put people in the stocks for financial delin- quency!" exclaimed the flippant,youth. “Yes" replied the profe “Well, I always heard there was money in stocks." Kansas City Journal: A Connecticut farmer through mistake drank some blue vitriol Instead of Jersey whisky and thus aved his life. Indjanapolis Journal: Mrs. Watts—I should think you would try to find some work—a_ great, strong man like you. Have you no pride? : Hungry Higgins—You bet I have. heap too proud to work. I'ma Yonkers Statesman: She—Here's a bill from the doctor. He—What's it for? Ethel-I know, mamma. Doctor spoke cross to me yesierday on'the street and I stuck out my tongue at him. SINCERITY, Detrolt Tribune. Her eyes upon him resting, Her quivering 1ips apart The words thot she was speaking Came strafght from her throbbing heart. She stands in commanding posture, Stands in the sight of ali, And yells from her place in the grand stand To the man in the box: “Play balll" MEMORIE! WManta Constitution. I've tasted of all the licker that a feller ever made, From champagne, sparklin’ glorious, to the circus lemonade, But nothing seeme pleasure bring} As the milk that mother cooled house beside thg:spring. I've swallowed glowiph grape juice tell I'd fairly thril PRIRE I've sucked the sweetest essence of many & moonllght stift> 3 But_they left a mem'ry'd sort s A N e 'aat the house beside |* ;"%’"‘K~ T've even fooled with drinkin' o' this fizain’ soda LU e That, seems to me, some feller made fer nithin' but a bIufr, But, when it gotto foamin', an' I'd hear the fountain sing, I'd think about mother coolin’ of her milk beside the spring. equal, or so much i in the Jneiome hankerin’, an' OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. Assuning that the King of Hongary has | agreed to enforce the will of the people’s | representatives upon the nobility and eccle- | siastical dignitaries, whose stronghold has | been the House of Magnates, we must recog- | nize that this civil marrfage incident has brought about the most Important victory achleved by Hungarian liberalism since the {nauguration of the dual regime. Now for tho first thme the bulk of the Magyar nation- ality may be said to be entering on the fuil enjoyment of its inheritance. The compul- sory passage of the civil marriage bill will be but the first wave of a flood of progress- Ivo legielation, which has hitherto encoun- tered an insuperable barrier In the House of Magnates. 1t has long been pointed out by careful observers at Buda-Pesth that Magyar public opinfon was Immensely in advance of the institution Now, howoever, that Dr. Wekerle's view of the Hungarlan constitu- tlon seems certaln to be adopted, nothing in the institutions will avall to check the work- ings of the democratic spirit. This victory of liberalism in Hungary must needs have a profound effect upon the other half of the empire and should powerfully stimulate the demand for that sweeping reform of the franchise which Count von Taafe tried in vain to effect. Few persons on this side of the Atlantic understand how widely removed from manhood suffrage are the peoples rep- resented in the Vienna Relcharath. It ls to the credit of Francis Joseph that lie favored Count von Taafe's project of reform, which was beaten in the Reichsrath itself by the delegates of the landed proprietors and of the rich burgher class. Bul the success at Buda-Pesth of a movement essent'ally dem- ocratic will excite at Vienna an outburst of feeling on behalf of the distranchised masses which the present ri nary min- istry will be unable long to resist. e All honor to the men in Africa who main- tain there the respect for human rights, the regard for common decency, which would mark thelr daily walk in civilized lands! But there are far too many men who think their advent into Africa loosens every re- ¢traint and opens wide the dcors of license. There are men in official position who bar- gain with chiefs for the young women who form a part of their estiblishments. The fact that one brutal man often combines the functions of judge, jury and exccutioner is a prolific source of frightful injustice. It is on record that for some slight infringe- ment of the regulations large towns have been burned, their chiefs killed, and women and children have not escaped’ the rain of bullets. Men and women been caught while trying stealthily to recover food sup- plies stolen from their own plantations and have been shot for their helnous offense. Women have been seized and held as pris- oners until ransomed with food supplies that were not otherwise purchased. Expeditions have needles:ly passed through regions where the crops have been a partial failure and havo ravaged the plantations, though the natives did not have enough for themselve At least in one instance an act of murder and canuibalism has been paid for that a spectacle might be afforded. *'I started from the coast,” wrote Dr. Peters, “without any articles of exchange, and so f could not pay my way or give presents to the native chiefs, as other travelers had done.” He did have plenty of guns and ammunition, however, and wherever the natives did not permit him, without protest, to rob them of their grain and cattle, he murdered them first and took their property afterward. These phases of brutality and crime in Africa form, with the murderous rum traflic, the black side of the plcture of white enterprise in that continent. ~ The truth about these things has often been suppre sed, but it should re- ceive the widest publicity. Public sentiment in all civilized lands is against such doings, and public sentiment, if nothing else, should compel governments and trading companies to face more seriously their responsibility for the acts of agents in Africa. e It a formidable rebellion should break out in Morocco, as the result of the death of the sultan, it would be almost impossible to pre- vent European complications. Ever since the little campaign between the Spanish garrison at Melilla, a port on the Mediterranean coast which has belonged to Spain for centuries, there has been a strong feeling among the Spaniards that they needed more fighting, and especially more victories, in Moroceo in order to prevent the prestige of Spain in that country from suffering. Moreover, there has been chronic irritation in Spain for centuries over the Interference of powers geograph- ically remote In the affairs of the naturally rich” and historically famous country just across the Strait of Gibralter. The posses- sion of the famous fortress of that mame by England_has been a constant exasperation to the Spanish people, and they are in the state of mind to resent most bitterly any British interference with the succession or anything else in Morocco. Nevertheless, there Is reason to believe that England will interfere in any demonstrations of force or negotlations which may threaten to change the position or future state of Morocco. About half of the forelgn trade of the coun- try s in British hands, and although the total s not more than $20,000,000 a year, that sum is no measure of the possible or proba- ble foreign commerce of Morocco if the coun- try ever gains the blessing of a stable and reasonably free and enlightened government. There is enough fertile land and the climate is good enough to make a secand Italy. In- deed, the present population, which Is esti- mated all the way from 2,500,000 up to 12,- 000,000 or even 13,000,000, not only might casily be trebled, but it'is much smailer than it was centurles ago. e increase of Tartar emigration from and eastern Russla has been so marked of lata as to excite attention and some anxiety, in government circles. No overt motive has been alleged by the eml- grants, who have deserted the villages and stricts inhabited by their ancestors for cen- turies. One correspondent, professing to have an intimate knowledge of the Tartar nature, attributes the exodus to three causes. First, an order sent from St. Petersburg to the provinces that in stormy, snowy weather bells should be rung with a view to guide benighted travelers to shelter. The Tar- tars have no bells in their villages, and the order indiscriminately circulated among them was Interpreted as an Injunction to hang bells on their minarets, a bell being an abomination to a Mussulman. Secondly, a circular was issued by the ministry to the effect that in the winter children should be baptized in tepid water. The Tartar mothers, hearing of this, took fright and hid their children away from all strangers, belleving again that forcible conversion to Christian- ity was Intended. In the third place, a high official was sent to collect arrcars of taxa- tion. Unable to make head or tail out of the hieroglyphic accounts presented to him, he requested those who had pald to put a cross opposite their names. This was forth- with interpreted by the Tartars to mean ad- vanced proselytism, and the rumors of these repeated attempts at interference with Mus- sulman observances and prejudices have led to the flight of whole Tartar villages across the border to Turkey and Asla, cee Referring to the unrest in India, a cor- respondent says that for tho first time the educated Indian has seen all the constitu- tional apparatus invented for his protection fail to protect him. He knows that the government of Indla regards the exemption of Manchester goods from the customs dutles as an Injustice to the Indian taxpayer. He knows that the Legislative Council in Indl regards it as an injustice, and that every member not constrained by his executive position condemned it. He knows that the council of the secretary of state unanimously protested against it, and that the secretary of state, In replying to the Manchester Cham- The southern ber of Commerce, scarcely deigned to defend it. He sees the authority and the remon- Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report. Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE strances of tho whole body of officlals whose lives are given to Indla, and who ars re- sponsible for Its well being and safety, con- temptuously sot aside, It appears {o him that India Is for the time, and in this re- spect, belng governed not by Its ostensible government, but by an influence which Is not allowed to appear. That influence, he Is assured by covery newspaper, European or native, In India, by the great econcmic jour- nals in England, and by the main body ot the Dritish press, fs a desire to conciliate for English party purposes the Manchestor vote. No effective denlal and no_alternative oxplanation ovor reaches him. He belleves that advantage was taken of a new viceroy and of a new finance miniater to wring from them a eacrifice of Indian Interests during their first weeks In office, and that all the councils and constitutional safeguards created for the good government of India were power- less to prevent the wrong. —e RELIGION IN THE SCIOO. Ono Sequet to the World's Falr Congross Showlng Itsolf in Chieazo. CHICAGO, June 16.—~A petition bearing 60,000 names and representing many relig- fons has been prepared: for presentation (o the Chicago Board of Education, recommend- ing that a reading book consisting of seloc- tions from the sacred scriptures in use in the schools of Toronto, or a shintlar selection, can, with the approval of both the Cutholle and Protestant churches, be put in use in the public schools without delay The petition continues As the wholo religious world united without objeetion in the universal prayer to ‘Our Father which art in heaven' during the world's religions congress of 1 we believe that all right- minded classes of Americans now agree on the daily reading in the public schools of suitable selections from the sacred seriptures and the recitation of that prayer and the two great commandments upon which hang all the law and the prophets, thereby fixing in the minds of the children the vital spiritual principles on which good citizenship and the future welfare of our country so largely de- pend.” Among other petitioners aro Charles C. Bonney, who was in charge of the religious congress; W. R. Harper, president of Chicago university; W. A, Amberger, president of the Columbus club; W. J. Onahan, upon whom the title of count was recently conferred by the pope, and other well known men. —-— EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES. Four of Them In Pittshurg | of a Single Day. PIT1SBURG, June 15.—A suicide epldemic prevails here. Since last night two men and one woman have Killed themselves. Last night Mrs. Mary Keims, aged 46 years growing despondent over the absence of her husband in Germany, swallowed paris green and died a few hours later. Passengers on the early train on the Castle Shannon road were horrified to see the body of John Warmblood, aged 70 years, hanging from a tree in Maple grove. ~He was well- to-do and no cause is assigned for the deed. About 10 o'clock a carpenter named Tate, living on Sibley street, south side, cut his throat with a razor and died In a short time. Winancial reverses are said to have caused him to take his own life. At 9:30 today Henry M. Boyle, a promi- nent farmer of White township, near Beaver Falls, shot himself through the heart with a shotgun, dying almost instantly. He was 66 years of age. No known cause for Lho b act. ST. ALBANS, Vt, June Ballard, a prominent business man city, committed suicide today, account of financial reverses. e DIN NOT JRE HIS CATARRH, tho Course 15.—Frank W. of this probably on Damages Asked from a Patent Medicine Company by a Patlent, CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., June 15. of a peculiar nature Is being tried here be- fore Judge Moon of the circuit court, in which one S. R. Logan of this city asks dam- ages from a firm in Toledo, O., which manu- factures a catarrh cure for failure to comply with their contract. Mr. Logan has been a sufferer from catarrh for a number of years. A friend adyised him to take tho cure. He did 50 and seemed to feel better, but he did not feel so well after the twelfth bottle. He kept on. however, until he had taken nearly 100 bottles at a cost of $78. Still he had the catarrh. Now he asks the company to pay the $100 reward it offers for any case of catarrh the medicine will not cure. No case of a similar character has ever been tried in this country, —— Connors Settled the Britisner. NEW ORLEANS, June 15.—Johnny Con- nors of Springfield, Ill., defeated Jack Levy, the Englishman, before the Olymple club in five rounds. The match was a twenty-five- round boxing contest for a purse of $1,800, Connors had the best of it all through. Levy kept growing weaker rapidly and in the fifth round viclous uppercuts on the point of the Jjaw put him to sleep in short order. Con- nors will fight Barry, who conquered Gor- man, in a few weeks, to settle the champion- ship of his class. — J. M. Grier for Congress. MACOMB, 111, June 12.—The people's party congressional convention has nominated J. M. Grier of Schuyler county by acclamation. Mr. Grier was the nomineo by the same party two years ago. A sult | ADIUSTED BY ARBITRATION Probablo Striko Avorted by the Action of & Committee, WAGES SETTLED ON THE MOBILE & OHI0 Agreement, However, In One Sectlon May Cause Difficulties fn Another—Men Make Substantinl Galne by the Award of the Board. 8T. LOUIS, June 16.—~At 12:55 o'clock this morning G. W. Hoyd, president of the Mor- chants Bxchange, Lioutenant Governor J. G. GHIl of Tilinols and Rev. I. M. Alexander, comprising the board of arbitration to settla the wage schedule on the Mobile & Ohlo which has been under discussion for some time, rendered thelr roport. The engineers had accepted a reduction of 8 per cent for flve months from May, with the under- standing that the company would pay full wages for the four succeeding months. The firemen south of Cairo accepted a reduction of 8 per cent for six months, dating from June 1, with full compensation for the fol- lowing six months. The other employes south of Cairo acceptod a reduction of 8 per cent, dating from June 1, for twelve months, with full compensation for the following twelve months, The employes north ot the Ohio, save the engincers, refused to accept the same reduction and referred it to arbitration. The committee reported as fol- lows “\We, the board of arbitrators appointed to adust differences between the Mobile & Ohlo Rallroad company and the conductors, firemen, trainmen and switchmen of said pany, render our decision as follows: A rediiction of 4 per cent of four months from June 1, 1894, after which the wages existing prior to June 1, 1891, shall be re- stored for a like perfod and continue f definitely thereafter unless sixty days' notice shall be given by efther party de- siring 4 change from these conditions.” It was agreed that a sottlement of tho 8 per cent reduction should ba adjusted, and the decision be considered final by both em- ployes and company, by the board of arbitra= tion. The Mobile & Ohlo company chose as its representative Mr. Boyd of the Merchants exchange, while the ocmployes selected Lieutenant Governor Gill. The third party, Rev. Mr. Alexander, was sclected by tho representatives of the employes and the company. The representatives of the employes sald the decision of the committeo was perfectly satisfactory and would be lived up to. When the reduction of 8 per cent was first authorized In_November last the employes north of the Ohlo river arbitrated the matter and accepted a reduction of 7.6 per cent. Now that the arbitration committee for the St. Louls division south of the Ohfo has de- clded upon a 4 per cent reduction it fs reasonable to suppose that the north of the river employes_ will ask for an equal re- duction. SURE TO GET A RAILROAD. Coal Flelds of Eastern Wyoming Will Be Opened at Once, BELLE FOURCHE, 8. D., June 15.—(Spe- clal to The Bee.)—Tor some time past there has been more or less talk concerning the building of a branch road from this place to the coal fields of eastern Wyoming, but today the matter assumed definite form. General Manager Burt and Chief Engl- neer Berry of the Elkhorn, accompanied Dby the entire engineer corps of that road, arrived this morning and have already ommenced running lines to the Hay creew coal mines, eighteen miles away. These coal fields were purchased recently by an castern syndicate that s desirous of hav- ing rail connectlons witn the outside world. pmpany was formed by eastern parties { for the purpose of constructing such & line, and its surveyors have been in the field for the nast two weeks, and are now making the final survey and cross sections ing. The Elkhorn, which has been care- fully watching all'proceedings, has gotten c\‘-'r_\'(hllxu: in readiness and began operu- tions tod The other company says it will have its line completed in sixty days. The Elkhorn can have trains running on the branch by August 1. This railroad building will make Belle Fourche a junction and division point. The company owning this townsite has Increased the prices on lots 25 per cent, and is now platting several new blocks in a second addition. —_— Monument for a Patriot. CHICAGO, June 15.—Chicago ploneers have erected a flag over the almost for- gotten grave of David Kennlson, last to die of the members of the Boston ‘Tea Party.”” The patrict was burled in the old Chicago cemetery, now a part of Lincoln park, in 1852, having died at the nge of 115 years. A’ monument bearing a bronze bust of Kennison will be erected over the Brave, et New Hampshire Populists Nominate. MANCHESTER, N. H., June 15.—The peo~ ple's party state convention has nomi- nated George D. Epps for governor and for congressmen Joslah H. Whittler and E. M. Blodgett. The platform declares for the immediate adoption of the Initiative and referendum; annual state elections; the elght-hour working ~ day; against interest-bearing T, A SUITS AT HALF PRICE. % Broken Sizes at Hall PriCe —sm 346 Suits, in size 33 to 44--sometimes one size 42 Sults, been selling at $10.00, now . 94 Bults, been selling at $12.50, now 6 Sults, been solling at $19.50, now 79 Suits, beon solliug at $15.00, now 84 Sults, beon selllng at $18.00, now 23 Sults, beon solllng at #20.00, now 8 8ults, been selling at $22.50, now 11 Bults, boon solling at $25.00, now 4 Bulits, been selling at $28.00, now the store. of a kind, sometimes more. them before inventory—take your size at half price. 10.00 11.25 12.50 14.00 346 Suits at exactly half price Saturdauy. See them in the window and on front tables in We must get rid of 5.00 6.25 6.75 7.50 9.00 51 Boys' 2-Pleco Suits $1.00 SATURDAY (6 to 14 yoars) Light colored. worth Who ever hoard ot B. & Co. welling boys Bulth for $1 before? Browning, King & Co., S. W, Corner 15th and Douglas.