Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1894, Page 4

OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISH EVERY MORNING, M3 OF SURSCRIPTION Panly, Des (without, Sunias), One Year ynily_Tide and Sunday, One Year...... Bix Moaths Vevens ohisbone Throo Monthe.. .10 inday Bee, One Yoar y Boe, One Ye: ly Bee, One Year OFFICES, Tee Bufidini rmer MK wenty-foneth Sts Vearl street 27 Chamber of C 14 and 18 maha, ‘he pth Omaha, O Council Miufs, Ehicagn OfMie New York, 1 Washington, 1 mmeroe. Tritbune BIdg. relating to news AlL comimunieation addressed: To the wrinl matter should b BUSE All buginess lettors and romdttar Wdicnsed to Th Tublishing Drafte, ohecks and postoffice or o payable to ¢ £ of the compal G COMPAY STATEMENT OF CIRCU ual mumber The Dafly Mo rinted during Hows: FREERCTesaananen HUCK. Sworn to hefors me n my ence this 2d day of b i 4 y Public. And mow It is the Unfted Senato that has been striking—articles from the free list. Chalrman Wilson must De thankful that the place where the free list once was still remains. The Chicago Herald dubs him “Willie the ©yolone,” The cyclone is scheduled to strike Omaha today. It is well to be prepared in advance for atmospheric changes of this kind. promoters took their time to formulate the proposition which they have made to the couuty commissioners. Let the commissioners set about revising that proposition with equal care. Too much haste may make waste. The canal Omaha will extend a hearty welcome to the incoming delegations to the conference of free silver democrats. Omaha has the same hospitality for all her guests without rogard to mationality, creed, business or po- Hitieal convictions, President Cleveland has returned to Wash- ington and is ready to sign the tariff bill so #soon as it may be presented to him. That is the opportunity which he has been wait- ing for ten years or moro. It looks as if he will not be compelled to wait many weeks longer. The Board of Fire and Police Commis- sloners must cut its garment to fit its cloth 1ike any other Individual or company. It it 18 maintaining a fire department out of pro- portlon to the funds at its command the only thing to do is to bring Its expenditures Within' {ts financial resources. Wo ought to have some vigorous protests against the income tax when that schedule is taken up by the senate. The populist senators alone are capable of doing all the work of defending it. In fact they are the only ones who are really committed to the principle of Income taxation. So the enterprising smoke consumer agent 18 to get $600 for the smoke consumer fitted to the city hall boflers that does not con- sume. It seems that any one who has a contract with the city may violate it with fmpunity and then if he has the proper pull come In and secure the payment of his claims without deduction of any kind. Is this the kind of example that is calculated to force contractors to live up to their obliga- tions to the city? Chicago insists that it was merely out of conslderation for the feelings of the New Yorkers that their Indian supply warehouse 18 not to be removed for the present and that the Chicago establishment will mevertheless be made the principal warchouse, most of the supplies hereafter being purchased in that city. It is plain that the fight over the Indlan supply depot is to be renewed at the earlicgt opportunity. Neither Chicago nor New York appears to be satisfied to share the privilege with the other. The warehouse must eventually come west, but it need not stop permanently in Chicago. Omaha ought to put in a powerful plea for It when the time comes to make definite arrangements for its re-location. The house looks with favor upon the Bryan bill to restore to the pension rolls the names of soldiers’ widows who, having remarried, have a second time become dependent widows on the death of their second husbands. The principle at the bottom of this measure Is that the Unfted States fs simply relieved of an obligation by the voluntary offer of its patriotic citizens, who may take upon them- melves the temporary support of the veterans' widows. To be strictly loglcal, however, the United States ought to be a party to cvery arrangement in which it 1s so vitally in- torested. It ought to see to 1t that the pen- sloned widows, if they marry at all, marry men who give promise of outltving them, and thus of keeplug them off the pension rolls for the remainder of their lives. It might become profitable for the federal government #o establish a matrimonial bureau for the especial benefit of pensionod widows. The Board of Education reminds us very much of the man who locked his barn door after the horse was stolen. Within the last two years It has squandered thousands of dollars through the $5 a day bullding superintendent, who could mot earn $2.50 a day at his trade to save his soul. Now the board proposes to economize by cutting down the superintendent’s salary from $1,800 to $1,600 a year. Now It the present superin- tendent s to be kept in place for another yoar ho is dear at any price and the board has virtually admitted tnat fact recently . ““When it boxed him up and ordered that he ahould not purchase a single dollar's worth of supplies or do another job without special authority from the committees. If a really competent bulider 1s to succeed him the sal- ary of $1,800 a year Is not excessive. A first class man should by rights be an archi- fect and expeilenced builder who could not only understand plans, but know how to remedy mechanical defects in school build- ings. Such & man can scarcely be Lad for less theu the salary now pald. THE CONSPIRACY OF SEVENTY-THREE. One of the signers of the call for the free sflver democratic conference repeats the absurd charge that the act of 1873, by which the people of the United States were deprived of the right to have gold and sil- ver coined Into money without rostriction, was consummated In a crafty, Insidious and most rascally manner, without the knowl- edge of the people, and for the sole purpose of dishonestly Increasing the incomes of the rieh at the expense of the debtors and producers. This charge has been exploded again and again by the citation of the con- gressional records relating to the repeal act of 1873 and other historic facts that can- not be successtully gainsald. The so-called conspiracy of 1878 is a fablo fabricated for credulous dupes and money cranks by the crafty bullionafres who speculate in mining stocks. The act of 1873 was passed after two years deliberation in congress. It was fally and freely discussed In both houses and the debate covers something like forty- elght pages of the Congressional Record. The act did not discontinue the colnage of silver into dollars for the best of reasons that silver was then as now a commodity. There had been no coinage of sHver dol- lars as a circulating medium since 1861 and there were no silver dollars or gold dollars coined by American mints for use as money for nearly seventeen years. The only currency in the land in 1873 was green- backs, national bank notes and shinplasters. Gold and silver were used only to pay fin- ternational balances and interest on the pub- lic debt. During the whole eighty years prior to 1873 only 8,250,000 silver dollars were colned by all the United States mints, and the bulk of these dollars of the daddies was never in actuad circulation as money. It was only after John Sherman had brought about resumption of specic pay- ments in 1878, five years after the coinage of the 371%-grain silver dollar had been dis- continued by the mint, that silver began to be a factor in our currency. In the first five months after the Bland-Allison act had been passed in 1878 the mints coined 10,- 000,000 of silver dollars or 2,000,000 more than had been colned from George Washing- ton down to U. S. Grant. And in the fol- lowing fifteen years over 450,000,000 sil- ver dollars and about 70,000,000 half dol- lars, quarters and dimes have been coined by the mints. At the present day less than 70,000,000 silver dollars are in actual circu- lation, and something like $380,000,000 re- main in the treasury vaults ready for cir- culation whenever there is any disposition on the part of the people to absorb them into the ‘circulation. All the talk about conspiracies to increase the income of the rich at the expense of the borrowers is the veriest buncombe, It the panic of 1803 is due to the act of 1873, what brought about the panic of 1873, which was equally disastrous to commerce? What brought on the panics of 1857 and 1837, which occurred when silver was worth about twice as much as it Is today? 1t is easy cmough to conjure up plots and counterplots by the men of wealth, but the money lenders of the world have been punched harder and suffered greater losses by panics and bankruptcies than have the money borrowers. The conspiracy of 1873 is a very slim peg on which to hang the free coinage balloon. OUR CANADIAN RELATIONS. There appears to be very little probability that anything will be done by the present congress with a view to compelling the Can- adian government to observe treaty stipula- tions with the United States regarding the use of the Canadian canals. Reference has heretofore been made to a bill introduced in the house of representatives providing for retaliation when the Canadian government shall discriminate against Amerlcan vessels using the Welland canal. It authorizes the president in such case to withdraw the priv- ilege now enjoyed by the Camadian railways of carrying merchandise in bond between points in the United States through Canadian territory. This trafic amounts to a very large sum annually, which would go to American roads but for the privilege granted by our government to the Canadian corpora- tions, and it is contended that If the govern- ment of Canada discriminates against Ameri- can vessels, In violation of treaty stipula- tions, the very valuable consession made to the railroads of that country ought not to be continued. The house committee on commerco has heard arguments against the proposed legis- lation by representatives of the Canadian Pa- cific, but the opposition which will have the greatest weight with congress comes from New England and the northwest. Represen- tatives of the commercial Interests of Boston were before the commerce committee last week with a plea for the Canadian railways. It is said that tho Boston merchants secure special privileges in the way of transportation Tates over the Canadian lines, because “those roads are not compelled to observe the Inter- state commerce act in the same way as American lines. It fs a fact that the mer- chants of New England and particularly of Boston have long complained of unfalr treat- ment on the part of Amerlcan roads, and it 1t be a fact, as it probably is, that they are favored by the Canadian lines, it is only natural, from a strictly business point of view, that they should oppose any legislation which would be likely to cut them off from this favor. Many of the millers and mer- chants of the northwest are similarly situ- ated. They believe. that the competition of the Canadian roads with American roads is very greatly to their advantage and they are practically unanimous, as the testimony taken by a senate committes several years ago showed, In opposition to any interfer- enco with that competition. Thus the alien corporations, which derive a large part of thelr revenue from handling American mer- chandise, have powerful Interests hero to plead for a continuance of the valuable priy- lleges accorded these corporations by the government of the United States, and, as these interests have exerted a potent in- fluence in the past, they may be expected to do 50 now. The bellef is, therefore, that the projected retaliatory legislation will fail, There undoubtedly 1s a strong feeling in congre:s, however, that something ought to be done to protect American Interests against unfair and damaging treatment from Canada, Senator Higgins of Delaware voiced a sentl- ment largely held in congress and outside of 1t when, in the course of speech In the senate recently, he said that a matter of very great importance s the aggressions of the Canadian raflways upon American railways and transportation interests In the internal commerce of the Unlted States, The Can- adlan corporations could hardly exist it it were not for the American traffic they got through the privileges sccorded by the gov- ernment of the United States. Indeed it fs sald by those whose opinion In a matter of this kind is entitled to the highest consider- ation that there corporations would speedily become bankrupt if the should lose this traffic. In view of this, to say nothing of treaty obligations, it would seem that the Canadian government would be disposed te o everything necessary to retaln the good versles that might lfead to retaMation. It that government, however, persistently re- fures to do its plain duty and subjects Amer- will of the United States and to avold coatro- ! of Afty years or lownn the privilege of ' fean Interests to annoyance and damage, as it has done, the time will certainly come when no influence will be able to prevent the adoption of such legislation as Is now proposed. WE MUST HAVE PROPER GUARANTIES: The county commissioners have invited five prominent citizens to make suggestions that will ald them in formulating the canal propo- sition under such condftions as would pro- teot the Interests of the taxpayers and con- sumers of power. As a friend of the project The Pee deems It its duty to caution the committee and the commissioners against leaving loopholos in the proposition that would enable the opponents of the canal to compass the defeat of the bonds at the polls. They should bear in mind that the Pproposition when submitted will be bLefore the voters of Douglas county for thirty days, and every tne will be scanned and every omission of any important safeguard will be pointed out. The wild talk of reckless boom- ers that no restrictions shall be imposed should not be heeded. Every vote against the proposition will have to be offset by two votes in its favor. We believe there are fully 10,000 voters in this county today who wil vote down the proposition unless it {s hedged in by proper safeguards. Inasmuch as the subsidy is to be voted to a corporation it matters but little who its leading stockholders are. Corpora- tions proverbially have mo souls. Nobody can prevent any stockholder from parting with his interest, and no stockholder can be held responsible for any act of the corpora- tion, or even its debt, beyond the actual amount he has subscribed. It would be worse than foolhardy to submit a proposition which would not stand the test of a fair and free discussion. The last canal propo- sition was beaten overwhelmingly because it was loosely drawn and open to suspicion that the money voted would either be absorbed by speculators and construction rings or squandered in buying Wiley's electric light- ing plant. For that very reason it will be much more difficult to carry the proposition which s about to be submitted. No matter how public spirited any tax- payer may be, and what great things are In sight If the canal s built, the average tax- payer will insist that the subsidy shall not be given without ample guaranties that every promise made by the canal company shall be fulfilled to the letter and can be legally enforced. The great majority of vot- ers do not care whose property will be en- hanced in value, or how much anybody will make by availing himself of the canal power, provided that the promoters of the canal will give us the full capacity of the ditch, with reservolrs, power house and plant of ample dimensions to satisty not merely the pres- ent wants of Omaha, but to afford cheap motive power for the factories and mills that are to be established in years to come. Anything less will not meet with proper endorsement. — MAY NEED A SMALL LOAN. The indications are that the new tarift bill will become law in time to go into cffect at the beginning of the mext fiscal yeur, July 1. 1t is estimated that when in fiil operation 1t will yield a surplus of from $35,000,000 to $50,000,000, but tho revenue will not be large from the new law during the first six months of its operation, for the reason that nothing will be derived from the income tax or the duty on raw sugar, as the bill is now framed, until the beginuing ct next year, and any considerable proceeds from these sources are not likely to get into the treasury for several months after that date. It is reported from Washington that the embarrassment which might result from this situation has been a subject of some discussion at the Treasury department, but Secrctary Carlisle has deferred any recommendations to congress in relation to it until it should become clearer what the tarift bill will provide. The secretary is sald to be in favor, it the mecessity arises, of the issue of short- term obligations bearing a low rate of inter- est, which may be set afloat by payments to contractors or by open sale in the stock market. A plan of this kind was suggested during the treasury stress last autumn, and subsequently in the annual report of the secrotary of the treasury as an alternative to the issue of bonds. The recommendation of the secretary then was that he he em- powered to execute from time to time, as may be necessary, the obligations of the government, not exceceding in the aggregate $50,000,000, bearing a rate of Interest not greater than 3 per cent, and payable after one year from date, and that he bo per- mitted to sell them at not less than par, or use them at not less than par in the pay- ment of public expenses to such creditors as may be willing to receive them. It is belleved that with the immense surplus in the New York bank reserves treasury cer- tificates or bills could be issued at a very low rate, payable after six months or a year, at the pleasure of the government, and that they would be gladly taken by the banks as a part of thelr surplus in preference to idle money. It is expected that the treasury will con- tinue to have a monthly deficit until next January i the sugar duty does not take effect before that time. The estimated re- celpts of the treasury for the first six months of the next fiscal year under the senate tarift bill are, in round numbers, $168,000,000, and the expenditures for the same time $153,000,000, the apparent defi- cit being $25000,000. It may be some- what less than this, but it seems entirely safo to count upon a deficit, unless, as al- ready observed, the sugar duty should be made to take effect at once, Instead of being postponed until January next, and even then it is quite possible that the receipts will run somewhat below expenditures, because the heavy importations of sugar already will prevent the treasury from realizing the full amount of duty that would come to it but for these importations. Doubtless the treas- ury might struggle along without a loan, experiencing more or less embarrassment from time to time, but it is a guestion whether it would be wise to do this if the suggested plan of a short-term loan at a low rate of interest, or an issue of obliga- tions, as recommended by Secretary Carlisle in his annual report, could be carried out. The treasury ought to be put in a position to meet fully and promptly every demand on it. 1t the park commission cannot look favor- ably upon the suggestion to establish a river front park it certainly should not look with disfavor upon another suggestion which The Bee ventures to make now. It must be con- ceded that Hanscom park will for all time be tho central park of Omaha. It Is a pity, however, that only eighty acres are within the park enclosure. There should have been at least 200 acres within the enclosure. The opportunity to extend Hanscom park by an- nexing the unoccupied lands south will not continue for more than & year or two if that long. Why can't the park commlssion lease 100 acres adjacent to the park for a period { its purchase when ean be secured to | buy it In? The owhers of the greater part of the land are getting Jio returns and would doubtless be glad to Il the clty occupy the ground for park purpo at a Jow interest on its actual value. With sublime nerve fluseall (ntfmates that of the bids received In response to the last advertisement for proposals for electric light ing for the three year term only those of Baker and the Thomson-Houston comipany were given bona fide. gfHe says that he has been unable to learn thynames of the parties comprising the Citizens company. Who Baker may be he does not volunteer to tell. At the same time the only bids that were supported by the cofffied check as required were those of the Citizens company and of Baker. If there was any bid that was not made in good faith it was that put in by Wiley for the Thomson-Houston com- pany. The troublo all along has been that the council has not been acting in good faith in considering the electric lighting bids. There must cither have been a trgmendous shrinkage in the price of coal purchased for the Lincoln insane asylum during the past few years, or an extraordinary shrinkage in its delivery to outs'ders. In 1890 the coal bills aggregated over $14,000 and in 1801 they exceeded $8,600, and during the year ending March 1, 1804, they had shrunk to a fraction over §6,200. That is very nearly the estimate The Bee made of actual consumption at the asylum when It first called attention to the POTPOURRE. Hastings Democrat: If we are to take the domocratic state press for it, Congressman Bryan's nomination for governor will be practically unanimous. Is it the intention of his friends to force him on to the state ticket and in a three-cornered fight crush him. This may be loyalty to Mr. Bryan, but we are unable to see it that way. Minden Gazette: The meeting of the Re- publican State league at Lincoln did not, as was anticipated by some of the delegates, attempt to “‘resolute’” on the silver ques- tion. The matter was left for the state convention—and wisely, too. The repub- lican party doesn’t have to trim any in its position on silver; ncither will it com- promise Its position for the gratification of demagogues simply for momentary endorse- ment. Kearney Sun: The name of Hon. John C. ‘Watson has been prominently discussed as a congressional possibility in the First dis- trict during the past two weeks. Mr. Wat- son has represented Otoe county in the state legislature several terms, and that, too, in the face of the fact that the county has a decided democratic majority. Mr. Watson would honor and do credit to his constituency should he be elected, and re- publicanism would find no abler champion on the floor of the house. Chappell Register: Matt Daugherty of Koith county is out in dead earnest as a candidate for congress, and with a following that is forming formidable shape. Matt has the right kind of timber in him to make a good congressman. He would make an excellent representative for this district for several réasons; one of which is, his well known interest in ‘irrigation and his belief that the general government should assist the arid region to secure water for irriga- tion purposes, either by river, streams or artesian wells. His well known ability is sufficient to convince all that he would know how to go after whatever he wanted and that he would mot shirk the responsi- bility, as our present congressman does, for want of braink to do his duty. Matt has the brains and the energy, and when he would be needed to look after the inter- ests of his constituents he would not be found lounging on seats in the capitol park, leaving his to be done by his colleagues as Mr. #em: does mow, because he is ashamed toi!show his ignorance or too lazy to attend to his duties, presumably the former. S g ————— The Maxinium Rate Case. Fremont Leader. ‘We have watched very closely the action of John L. Webster in the maximum rate case, now pending in the federal court at Omaha. Notwithstanding his well known sympathy, If not allianc with the rail- roads, he is compelled to admit with the law in force, rates will still be considerable higher than In Kansas, the Dakotas or Iowa. It appears, also, from his argument, that the railroads from Lincoln and Fre- mont to Chicago get 45 per cent of the through rate. Thus, if the charge to Ch- cago is $100, the charges from Fremont to Omaha, 37 miles, is $45, while the railroads east of the river to Chicago get but $5, and as the distance is extended farther west the local rates increase until they rea h 60 par c°nt. This 18 a statement borne out by the testimony and is not as strong as thie facts will justify. It appears from ‘Webster's argument that the main line of the B. & M. pays 37 per cent on a val- uation of $20,000 per mile. It is known that the right of way srncllcllly cost that com- pany nothlnfi, and that the actual cost of the road did’ not exceed 315,000 per mile, and that on that cost it is Pfi’y ng more than 50 Fer cent per annum. ‘he same Is true of the Union Pacific and the Elkhorn. Webster's speech more than justifies all that the Leader has ever claimed as exors bitant cha’ ges made by the Nebraska roads. It shows that they are practically robbing the people of this state by their extortion- ate rates, which their hired and subsidized organs palliate and approve. Webster's spcech will make a good anti-monopoly campaign document, coming as it does from a leader in the republican party and a railroad attorney, for it shows some of the unscrupulous means resorted to by rail- road managers to bolster up thelr infamous practices. We regret that Mr. Webster did not enter more deeply into the discussion of the subject, and which (In our view) he should have done. The action is brought to enjoin the enforcement of the law on the ground that the recelpts will not justity the reduction in the rates. This involves the question of the cost of the road, the cost of operating, the receipts from all sources and the amounts expended, and for what. This necessarily would have re- quired a showing of the amount of free transportation and of secret rebates. It Is true, Mr. Webster refers to both of these in his argument and calls attention to their injustice, but no testimony seems to have beéen taken showing the amount of each. It Is evident, also, that a ver({ lurfie amount is expended for cappers and strik- ers to control the polities of the state in the interest of the roads. The amount so ex- pended is known to be very large, and last year probably not less than a quarter of a million dollars, But whatever the sum, let it be known. We find no reference, either, in the testimony to the bonuses given to the roads. The 500,000 acres be- longlnfi to the state was distributed im- partially between the IElkhorn and what now constitutes the B. & M, and its branches. The right of way was prac- tically given to all roads over the public lands of the state, and even over school lands nothing like the value of the right of way has been pald. The B. & M. received from two to three milllons of acr of the best lands in the state., The lands sold fo» more than the cost-of the rond. The road not only cost its oyners nothing, but left a handsome surpluf tf build its branch lines, and still upon the road that cost them nothing they are recelving a ned revenue of 50 per centi of the actual cost of the road—if no bvnlgea had been given, The same Is true of thé Union Pacific. Mr. Webster, In his argiimént, states that the corporations are not #overned in their charges by the coSt to the company of transporting the property, but they chargy all that the trafe Wil bear, In' other words, suck all the juice out of the orange except the pulp, which is left to the con- signee, 50 that they may get their freight. Mr. Webster has ‘done a service to the cause of truth in his argument, by ex- posing the rottenness-that has been Known to exist, but has been persistenly denled by the raiiroad companics. ADVANTAGES OF THE CANAL. OMAHA, June 20.—To the Bditor of The ee: In discussing the canal bond propo- #ition the questions are ralsed as to what demand there will be for the power pre duced, and, again, how will factories be secur 4 )/ The factors that control the Joeation of industrles are crude materlal, power, labor, rarket for manufactured goods and cap- ital. 4 Lie center of papulation in this country i3 mow in contral Indiana; later it will move westward to Iiinols, fowa, and pos- aibly to raska The center of wealth and commerce, job- bing and manufacturing will move, as here- tofore, with population. Chicago and St Louls were first Jobbing cent now becoming manufacturing c The Missourl river cities are becoming immense jobbing centers; soon factories must follow. These cities’ will be the line vhere the progre of factories west will suxe, because there will not be sufficient crude material, power and labor west to tain them; they would probably not be structed this side of the mc ins or ond. here is avallable in Omaha as crude ma- terial, grain -for flour, ontmeal, starch, slucose and miscellanéous cereal good feets for sugar and broomcorn for brooms. The glucose factory that may be secured to this city works 1000 men, and elevates and grinds 30,000 bushels of corn dafly, an¥ has a battery of boliers of 5,000 horse power. Cheap power is the only questionable fea- ture for us as against locating east, where coal {8 cheaper. The fact that Omaha 1s not located in the midst of coal fields, and that competing cities are so located, 18 a comparative disadvantage, but one that the canal would more then remove by giving supertor facilities to all other localities in this respect. The mills at Atchison, Kan., a small place, produce 4,000 barrels of flour per day, and use 1,000 horse power. They from Nebraska and ship flour ha. ‘A beet sugar plant with only 200 tons capacity requires 20 horse power. Grawn elevators with moderate capacity require 250 horse power, The industries at South Omaha require 1,000 horse pow So it 18 apparent that 10,000 horse pow would ve required without much effort for the class of factories above referred to Again, as_crude material there is acces- sible an abundance of cottonwood, rag: flax and other straw, felt and old papers for making paper. The city of Omaha alone has a demand daily for fifty tons of print, manilla and apping and building papers and straw board, the manufacture of which will use 1,600 horse power. hese papers, with cheap power, can be made ut less cost here than they'are being made at any point in the world, and s suscepti- ble of being developed, based on the de- mand for the product, to the extent of using 5,000 horse pow.r or more, twen y-four hours per day. The water powers at Holyoke and at manufacturing points in Wisconsin make these great paper manufacturing cen- ters, In Denver the Platte Paper company uses the timber from the mountains and makes book, print and manilla papers, and sells its paper in Omaha and over the entire west, and uses 3,00 horse power, steam. The plant was built by local cap* ital and the enterprise s very successful. Twenty million dollars worth of imple- ments are distributed each vear from Coun- cil Bluffs and Omaha and $60,000,000 from Missouri river points, and as much more furniture and other products of factorics, made from wood. These goods are manu- factured in Illinois and = other western states. The basis of the lumber & these purfioses is now Arkans and the south. The rates are as low Omaha as to points In Iliinois and adjacent states, the average rate on furniture, etc., from existing factories to ti Missgouri river belng $100 per car. These enterprises are moving west. To demonstrate: Waiter A. Wood & Co., one of the largest imple- ment manufacturers in the world, employ- ing 3,000 men, lately moved from New York to St. Paul. Also wool and shoddy, made from rags and cotton, compose the crude material necessary to make hats, caps, blankets, clothing and underwear. The wool and rags are shipped from Nebraska east for these purposes. Rates on cotton from interior Texas and Arkansas_points are less to Omaha than New York. At Amsterdam, Cohoes, and points along the Mohawk 'river, ihere there is water power, these factories are congregated; therefore it would seem that power controls their location; certainly it is not crude material, labor or market. In a similar manner the hides and skins are shipped from the west to be tanned in the east and manufactured into goods. The gloves used in the west are manu- factured at Gloversville, Philadelphia and elsewhere east. Boots and shoes are mostly made in Massachusetts, Lately, however, Chicago and St. Louis are making these goods extensively. “St. Paul has seven ex- tensive boot and ‘shoe factories, so that it will not be many years until our supply is made in the west. "It is not good argument that because our manufactured goods are made in the east it should continue to be The theory is exploded by the rapid lately of these — enterprises west. There are no factories located in Chicago or St. Louis that would not be equally applicable to Omaha, In the building up of cities, factories come last, jobbers make the démand and the producer of goods follows. It is a mis- taken idea’ that in the east expert labor in factories is cheap. The women working in factories at Cohoes and elsewhere fre- quently earn as high as $2.50 per day. There is an_abundance of available labor in this city for factories, men, women and chil- dren; again, the cost of living is cheaper in Omaha_than east, the basis of expenses among laboring people being their food sup- ply, and the difference of price on staple articles, such as milk, butter, bread and meat, 1S evident. So that all the conditions that 'should produce factories to consume 20,000 horse power or more are favorable to Omaha, It is true these factories are not all in operation at present, but it is a rational conclusion that durini the period the canal is being constructed the pluck, energy and intelligence that concelves and builds the canal will in the meantime construct fac- tories to consume the power. We already have four factorles makin clothing and one factory making boots an shoes and working several hundred people and dolng @ prosperous business, but the £00ds made at home are but a small pro- portion of the amount consumed. Besides mn.ngv large factories, there are an immense number of smaller, using fifteen to twenty- five horse power, that will grow into large enterprises, Cheap power will aid these young plants to make cheaper product, Nu- merous inquiries are being made at tne Commercial club by those looking west for investment In factories. With the incentive the building of the canal will give, Omaha will have an cra of factory bullding that will be surprising. J.E, UTT. Trying to Unload. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. A movement in the constitutional conven- tion of New York that has_considerable strength aims at selling the Erie canal to the United States government. The reason of the movement evidently is to be found in_the disinclination: of the state to so enlarge the canal (hat sea-going ships may ass through it from the lakes to New York harbor. But were the canal the prop- erty of the United States all New York would immediately clamor for the expendi- ture of an enormous sum of money on the work. It looks like a ‘“job." ——————— THE WHISTLING BOY. Chicago Journal. When the curtains at night, ‘tween the dark and the light, Drop down at the set of the sun, And the tollers return to the loved ones at home, As they pass by my window is one Whose coming I mark, for the song of the lark As it joyously soars In the sky, Is no déarer to me than the notes glad and free Of the boy who goes whistling by. If a sense of unrest settles over my breast, And my spirit seems clouded with care, 1€ all flies wway it hie happens o stray Past my window a-whistling an_ al And I scarcely know how much gladness I owe, And 1 never could tell should I try, But I'm sure I'm in debt, for much pleasure 1 get, To the Boy who goes whistling by. And this music of his, how much better it s, Than to burden his life with a frown; For the toller who sings to his purposes brings A hope bis endeavor to crown. And whenever 1 hear his notes full and clear ¢ to myself T will try ';:l)uk:: all of life with joy to be rife Like the boy who goes whistling by. Highest of all in Leavening Power.«—Latest U. S, Gov't Report. Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE TOKEEP UP FICHTING BLOOD | Oongressman Cabatiss Has & Plan for Pro- | vidirg Military Training. WILL INCREASE OFFICERS AT COLLEGES Alms at Providing One Hundred and Sixty O1d Fightors to Teach the Youngsters the Art and Sciencs of Kitling Others. WASHINGTON, June 20 The Bee) — Congressman Cabaniss of Georgia has introduced a bill “To increass the number of army officers to b detailed at colleges,” %0 a8 to permit the president to detail not 160 officers of the army of the United States; and no officer shall be thus detafled who has not Lad five yoars' servico in the army, and no de- tail to such duty shall extond for more than four years, and officers on the retired list of the army may, upon their own appli- cation, be dotailed to such duty, and when s0 detailed shall reccive the full pay of their rank; and the maximum number of officors of the army and ¥y to be detailed at any one time under the provisions of the act approved November 3, 1893, amending sect 1225 of the Revised Statutes as nded by an act approved September 2 , and an act approved January 13, 180 is hereby increased to 160." This bill has been referred to the committee on mili- tary affairs and will recolve early con- sideration, Mr. Outhwaite of Ohlo, chair- man of the committee on military affair says: “I am in favor of giving our young men every advantage which may acerue from milltary training. I think the High school -~ cadet system should be supple- mented by a collogiato military training for the young men who are so soon to take our vlaces in the active aftairs of the world," Captain Hull of Towa, who is also a mem- ber of the committee, says: “The Idea of the Cabaniss bill 1s a good one. Our young men have a natural fondne: r military affairs, and it should be fostered.’” The leave of absence on surgeon's certifi- cate of disabllity granted Captain Owen J Sweet, Twenty-fifth Infantry, in speciai orders, May 11, 1894, Department uf Dakota is extended one month on surgeon's certifi- cate of disability. A gencral court martial is appomnted to meet at West Point, N. Y., at 11 o'clock a. m., on Wednesday, the 20th day of June, 1894, or as soon thereafter as practicable, for the trial of such prisoners as may be brought before it. Detail for the court: First Licu- jenant Samuel B. Allen, Fifth artillery; Pirst Lieutenant Mason M. Patrick, Corps of En- gincers; First Lioutenant Edmund D. Smith, Nineteenth infantry; First Lieutenant Wil lis P. Richardson, Bighth infantry: First Lieutenant Thomas H. Rees, Corps of En- gincers; Tirst Lieutenant Arthur F. Curtls, Second "artillery; First Lieutenant Arthur Thayer, Third cavalry; First Licutenant Frank MeIntyre, Ninoteenth fnfantry; First Licutenant Benjamin A. Poor, Sixth infantry; First Lieutenant Lucien G. Berry, Fourth artillery; First Licutenant Bdgar Russ Fifth artillery; Second Lieutenant Mar D. Cronin, Twenticth infantry; Second Lieu- tenant Charles P. Palmer, Fourth artiliery; Second Licutenant John 'S. Winn, Sec cavalry, judge advocate. The court is em- powered to proceed with the business before it with any number of members present not less than the minimum prescribed by law. Captain M. Swigert, Second cavalry, is de- tailed as professor of military science and tactics at the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., to take effect Scptember 1, 1894, to relieve First Licutenant Charles D. Clay, Eleventh infan- try, who will then proceed to join his com- pany. Captain Swigart will report in person at the college, August 25, 1504. The resignation by First Licutenant Odus C. Horney, ordnance department, of the commission as second lieutenant of infantry (Seventh regiment) only has been aceepted by the president, to take eftect May 31, 1894, Leave of absence for. three months and fif- teen days, to take effect before proceeding to join his regiment in the Department of Texas, is granted Major Wirt Davis, Fifth cavalry. The extension of leave of absence on surgeon's certificate of disability granted Major John C. Mallory, corps of engineers, March 8, 1894, is still further extended threo months on surgeon’s certificate of disability. DENIED AT WASHINGTON. (Special to to exceed Story of Cederquis’ Arrest Not Credited at the War Department. WASHINGTON, June 20.—A story coming from Omaha to the effect that Charles Cederquis, a private in the Second infantry, is under arrest awaiting court martial for refusal to participate in target practice on Sunday, met a very prompt denial at the War department today. The officers say the man has undoubtedly assigned a false reason for his arrest, as target practice on Sunday is unheard of in the army, and would be in direct violation of the army regulations. The United States soldiers have also been exempt from any unnecessary duty on Sun- day, and in that respect has much the ad- vantage of the Buropean soldiers. Even in time of war this rule has been observed whenever practical, and during the late civil war, President Lincoln, quoting the words of Washington, made a general order ene Joining the observance of the Babbath on officers and men of the army and navy, i the spirit of this order still pervades the kervice. President Lincotn, fn this order, sald The Importance to man and bea of the preseribed rest, the sacred rights Christian soldiers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of A Chris= tian people, and & due rogard to the Divine will, demand that Sunday labor in the army . . and navy be reduced to the measure of striot necessity." lie rule thus lald down has governed the army from Lincoln's time, and about &M+ labor that romained was the necossary guard mount and the daily inspection. One of the first acts of President Harrison was to res duce the latter to a mere perfunctory form by a general order directing the complete inspection under arms to be held on Sature days, and that the Sunday inspection be merely of dress and general appearance. S REPORTS, wi RINT ENGINK Gots n Resolution of t Through the Senate. WASHINGTON, June 20.—(Spectal Tele= gram to The Bee)—Senator Manderson today | introduced a resolution, which was conside ered by unanimous consent and agreed to, instructing the secretary of war to transmit to the senate all reports, addresses and . papers pertaining to the proceedings of the World's Congress of Auxiliary Engineers, It ' is the Intention of Senator Manderson to hive these dscuments printed, and the rosos , lution introduced today is for the purpose tng them into the hands of the sonate ase they are noeded to be printed. onator Manderson also introduced a bill xtending for two years the time in which « veterans of the Mexican war and War of | the Rebellion can apply to the War departs . ment for honorable discharges, and a bill to remove the charge of desertion now stands ing against Rufus Betz, who was a private in the regiment in which the senator first served The senator also presented memors ials of wholesalo and retail liquor dealers of Beatrice and Fromont remonstrating against any increase of the revenue tax on whisky. Congressman Mercer called at the Posts ! office department today and succeded in hav~ ing an inspector detailed to the old postoffice building at Omaha to make an investigation us to the advisability of putting an elevator in_the building J. 0. West of Grand Island has written Repre-entative Mercer, enclosing a letter to Governor McKinley of Ohio, requesting the governor to stop at Grand Island on his trip to Denver. Mr. Mercer today forwarded the ' request to Governor McKinley and urged that he accept the invitation to speak at Grand Island and that he also stop a night at Omaha and deliver an address. The house committee on publio® linds today made a favorable re- port on the bill of Congressman Kem, permitting each settler who has lost his claim by having to abandon it because of poor crops to make another entry. Postoflices have been established at Emmaet, Union county, and Tea, Lincoln county, . D., with Joe Patterson and John M. Heeron as postmasters, respectively. N. 0. Elliott has been appointed postmage ter at Vega, Jefferson county, la., vice Abel Trueblood, resigned. Senator Mandor: Some Tm| Anti-Option Bill Occupies the Hous: WASHINGTON, June 20.—The anti-option bill occupied the attention of the house and an agreement was made that debate should close at the adjournment tomorrrow and & vote be taken Friday morning. Speeches were made against the bill by Represent tives Warner and Goldzier while Mr. Rich- ardson of Michigan spoke in favor of it. —_————— TAPPING THE FUNNY BONE. Lowell Courler: Muslin the sweet girl graduate doesn’t make her less dangerous. Town Toples: May—Do you read afteg, going to bed? Madge—Yes. I love to read poetry on my back. May—Bless me! You' must be a contortionist! Somerville Journal: When the shoe string . of a girl 37 years old comes untied, you may be very sure that it was by accldent; nhlur: that she will have to tie it up her- self. | New York Recorder: The new volume of, war rumors from Burope is bound in Mo- ' rocco. ‘Washington Star: “And do you mean to say,” said the man who likes ornamenta? phrases, “that his senatorial prospects le wrecked among the breakers?' “No; n among the breakers; among the brokers.” Life: She—He's a bad scholar and a poor athlote; why don't the college authorities put him out, anyhow? He-lut you ought to hear his college yell! Philadelphia Record: wThats what T got for my pains,” sobbed the small boy as he swallowed a dose of castor ofl. ' Buffalo Courier: Good natural rivalry in business is all right, but it is carrying things a trifle too far when an undertaker’ starts in with the avowed intention of lay= ing his competitors out. Somerville Journal: It is hard to declde whether it is the base ball umpire or the ice man who is most unpopular just at the present time. ENCOURAGEMENT. Puck. He gravely said: “I have been told That you've declared you will refuse My proferred hand, because you hold Ioar other and far higher views. “Now, was your motive to prevent Mo from proposing, as seems clear?® “Why, no,"" she gently said; “I meant— I méant—to—give you courage, dear!" days. Cash is easier cut the clothes way down, over. $12,50, that are worth lots Boys' suits same way. than $1.00 to $2.50 more. match for only $4.50. Straw hats and summer out prices. sort o see where we're at, as it were. words we're going to take an inventory in a few to count than clothes; so we JE#I t’s This Way. We're going tolook down to the bot tom of things; In other to save oursélves the time, and to keep from carrying the sum ner stufl Suits will be sold for $7.50 $8.50, $10 and more money. $2,60. $3 and $3.50, will buy suits that you ean’t buy elsewhere for less A splendid boys combin- ation suit with two pairs of pants and cap to furnishings at olearing Browning, King & Co., W. Corner 15th and Douglas.