Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 27, 1894, Page 4

THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. I, Rditor PUBLISHED BVERY MORNING, BUBECRIPTION. one Year Year TERMS OF o (withoiit o and Sunday Monti 1800 10 ™ 1 0 200 1] 5 Paily Il Hix one ¥ Sunday The Rt day e Workly D Oonabio, Th Boith Omaha, © Counell Bluims, 1 Wienwe Ofice, 317 New York, Rooms 13 Warbingion, W07 F ateeet, N, W CORRY DENC ons relting ¢ addresend LETTE] and remdtiances should be Bee Publishing company Rubding. ind Twenty-fourth Sta. Poarl aroot pmber of_Commerce. I and 13, Tribune Didg. AL communien sorial mattor should b DUSINFESS Al buginess lottors midiossed to T Omaha, Drafts, chocks and postoffce be made pn 0 the order of th TH i PUBLISHING CC OF CIRCULATION secretary of The Beo Pub- duly sworn, says that the of full_and complete copies of Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of May, 1%, was as Follows APEMENT B. Taachuck bein Goor Tixiing aotual num The Dally 17 180 1 2. 21 n 2 2 2. 7 ) 0., k) il Li21.005 22314 AT © 2051 2,011 L T Less deductions for ungold and’F coples . i Total wold Dally average *Sunday net’ elreulation a 8worn to hefore m ence this 24 day of Jun (8oal,) N, P. T ORGF and subs; 1504, 1 n, ribed In my press Publie. Denver is an assured republican city all this week, The league meeting was worth golng many leagues to see. Perhaps Boss Croker thinks it is as well to come back gracefully and voluntarily as to wait for requisition papers, People must not be surprised to see Pren- dergast outlive Santo. They deal out justice differently in the United States and France. When that income tax goes into effect con- gressmen may court the docking rule so as to bring their salaries within the $4,000 Mmit. After all the free pyrotechnics furnished by congress the demand for figeworks in Washington this year cannot well get above the hard times level. If it be true that the district court may at will brush aside and vacate an order of the supreme court at Lincoln there are many law books in these parts that must undergo radical revision. _Two prominent state democrats of -the straight goods brand are now in Washington in quiot quest of spoils. Mr. Bryan's last sppearance In Omaha s sald to have frightened them. Tho county commissioners are expected to revise and equalize the assessment rolls wherever it is within their power to do so. This Is a very disagreeable task that they cannot afford to shirk. It these lawyers continue to plead thelr own cases successfully with the most ac- complished and popular operatic artists on the stage we may as well discard all hopes of developing opera in America. Adlal must be wishing that he was vice president of tho French republic just for a little while in order that he might have an opportunity to show what he could do It he were seated in a presidential chair, The New York police investigating com- mittee says that it is only begluning to get in its work. The metropolitan police began to get In its work a long while ago and is doubtless willing to make an end of it for the time being and call it square. 1t the postmaster, general could only taboo former candidates for postmasterships as well as postmasters themselves from partici- pating in political conventions as delegates democratic conventions this year might poss sibly consist of representative men. The chalrman of the Douglas county re- publican committee is still playing ’possum. He has not yet heard of the call issued by the state committee for the election of dele- gates to the state conventlon and evidently intends to hold back the call for primaries to the last minute, Walt till the DIl s sent in to the tax- payers for the expenses of the Sugar trust bribery Investigation. By the time the stgn- ographer and clerks have been paid and the sugar schedule enacted into law the people Wil find that they have been bled at both ends of the bargain Governor Hogg of Texas is making a tri- umpbal tour of the east in company with bis daughter, Miss Ima, and twenty-one prominent Texans. Although the young lady i8 just beginning her teens, it Is to be hoped that she will not be compelled to write her name Ima Hogg any longer than is abso- lutely necessary. The Chicago Record Intimates that it is about time for the Midwinter fair to change Mt name. This is Injudiclous, to say the least. The name of the Midwinter falr is Just as appropriate in midsummer as that of the Columblan Quadro-centennial exposi- tlon was a year after the 400th auniversary of the dlscovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Democratic newspapers are talking a great deal about the next senate and are figuring profusely to show that their party will con- tinue to hold its own in that body. The next house of representatives is not so en- couraging a topic for the democratic press, The constitution of the house changes all At ouce and not by installments. If the entire senate were to be elected this coming yoar the democratic computations would have to undergo radical revision. The revislon of the voting districts which ke councll has under consideration should b made an woon an possible. The expenses of an slestion In Omaba have become ex- fsomaty burdensome under the declsions of (he sourta which allow Judges and clerks féoms #6 te §18 for & duy's work. The time I not vary distant when the voting machine Wi taks the plase of the paper ballot ana Marke of slection will be dispensed with, OO Ihat fie botiss we must reduce the WY OF stsotione be the minhaum L THE QUESTION OF CONSTITOTION ALITY | Somator Sherman, in the course of the de- bate on the income tax proposition, declared | that whatever may be said by the supreme court, and however nice the distinctions may bo made betwsen direct and indirect taxation, the proposed tax is in eftect a direct ch fndividual or upon a corpora- tion representing individuals. Senator Hil! expressed the opinfon that it would be held to be a direct tax, made upon a wrong basis, and therefore unconstitutional. The consti- tution provides that ‘ne ecapitation or other direct tax shall be lald, unless in pros portion to the eensus or enumeration.” These contend that this provision of the would be violated by the pro- posed income tax. Senator Hill sald that the income tax proposed by the president, or that Incorporated in the house bill, or any ther sort of federal income tax, is unsult- able for apportionment among the several states according to the census of thelr popu- Iations, and neither pretends to be uniform, | applied to all the net income of each and y citizen, nor can be. ‘Direct taxation,” sald the New York senator, “by definition, is taxation not shifted, distributed and divided by repercussion.” Although the supreme court has decided an income tax to be consti- tutional, it is by no means to be assumed that it would reafirm that decision, and there can be no doubt it will be given the opportunity to again pass upon the question whather such a tax falls under the inhibition of the constitution referred to. There Is another constitutional polnt that has been ralsed against the proposed tax. The essence of the Income tax provision of the tarift bill is that the collector may guess income and the citizen must pay the sum demanded or submit to be examined under cath as to his affairs and expose to the collector his private books and papers, under penalty of being charged with an evasion of the revenue and being fined therefor. The question is whetfer the pro- duction of his private books and papers un- der such an alternative as this would be an “unreasonable search and seizure’ within the prohibition of the fourth amendment to the constitution. Declsions of the supreme court are cited in supoprt of the view that such a proceeding would be in violation of the con- stitutional provision, which reads: “The right of the pecple to be secure In their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and selzures shall not be violated.” In one of these decisions the court said that “any compulsory dis- covery by extorting the party's oath, or com- pelling the production of his private books and papers to conviet him of crime, or to forfelt his property, is contrary to the prin- clples of a free government. It may suit the purposes of despotic power, but it cannot abide the pure atmosphere of political lib- erty and personal freedom.” It was further declared that the seizure of a man’s private books and paperseto be used in evidence against him, was substantially not different from compelling him to be a witness against Bimself. It would scem that there can be no ques- tion as to the applicabllity of the decision to the requirements of the ncome tax pro- vision of the tarlff bill, which distinctly authorize the compulsory production of pri- vate books and papers, held by the supreme court to be tantamount to compelling a per- son to be a witness against himself, withit the meaning of the fifth amendment to the constitution, and the equivalent of a search and seizure, within the meaning of the fourth amendment, Obyiously there is substantial ground in both these objactions to the income tax for attacking it in the courts and there can be no doudbt it will be subjected to a test of constitutionality on one or both of these objections as soon as it goes into effect. A HOT CAMPAIG The cradle of nullification and secession, South Carolina, has probably never had a hotter political campaign than the one now in progress there, with Senator Butler and Governor Tillman as the leaders and rival candidates for the United States senate. The senatorial term of the former will ex- pire next year, and the governor aspires to the succession. Butler represents the straight democracy, while Tillman, though claiming 1o be a democrat, Is identified with the popu- lists and owes his prominence in politics largely to that element. Butler is associated with the class who adhere faithfully to the Qoctrine of state rights, reverence the mem- ory of Calhoun, believe that secession was right, and is regarded as an aristocrat and a firm friend of the corporations. Tillman, while not hostile to some parts of the long- established political ereed of South Caro- linians, poses as the champion of the farmers and of the common people, and has done so very successfully. That he is very much of a demagogue will not be questioned, but he has some ability and unlimited aggressive- ness, and has proved himself a sturdy it not altogether wise leader. His most notable achlevement was in securing the adoption of legislation establishing state lipror dis- pensaries, which was decided uncoustitu- tional by the supreme court of the state after it had caused a great deal of trouble. The campaign has been characterized by great bitterness, and the feeling between the followers of Butler and Tillman is so strong as to have frequently threatened bloodshed. 1In the joint debates of the sena- torial rivals personalities have been freely indulged in, such terms as “liar,” ‘“thief and “coward” being unsparingly applied, Butler being a worse offender in this respect than Tillman. The former is understood to have the friendship of the national adminis- tration, and referring to this in a recent speech Tillman said: “Butler is the friend of the corporations and Mr. Cleveland would rather see Butler in the senate than to have Ben Tillman go there. If I go there I prom- ise that I will use a pitchfork in his old fat ribs.” This slightly indicates the spirit that pervades the contest. There is rveally not much to choose be- tween the two men, though Butler is per- haps a rather more respeotable figure in the senate than Tillman would be. But the suc- cess of the latter would be a blow to South Carolina bourbonism from which it would not s00n recover, and on this account would be & good thing. It would be a very eftective step toward breaking the solid south, because it would have an en- couraging influence upon the populist move- ment in other southern states where it has attalned strength. tax upon e senators constitution at a citizen's The democrats who are active the new tarift bill will probably attempt to excuse any defects that may be brought to light by the plea that they were so hurrled In securing its passage that they were un- able to glve It the careful consideration de- manded by so lmportant a subject. They are showing a disposition to sacrifice every- thing to haste and it the result is not a bl full of holes and misconstructions it wil be a cause of gemulne wonder. The proposition to omit the new administrative features and to leave the ad- ministrative sections of the McKinley bill continue in force is defended on the ground in pushing i 1 that such aotion will basten the enactment of the measure. This is a confession either that the, proposed changes are unnecessary or that the demoorats do not care to give the country a reascnably perfect bill %o long as they can adjust the rates to suit themselves. A erude tariff bill will mean numerous amendmonts to the new law 8o socn as it has been In operation long enough to display its Incongruities THAT 81500 CICNN The report made officially to the police commission by the secretary of the Pollce- man's Benevolent assoclation shows that the net fncome from the late police plenic was $1,738. To the uninitiated that Is a most creditable and gratifying exhibit. No other benevolent soclety in these parts could by any possible combination of attractions, freaks, balloon ascensions, greased pole purses, bag races, or any concefvable diver- slon have raked in over $1,700 in one single day. That the police picnic was such a howling success from the financial stand- point is, however, readily explained and not very creditable either to the police force or the police commission, which tolerates the perlodic levy of tribute by the police upon peopla who dare not repel their fmportuni- ties and on the business community at large. It is a matter of common notoriety that the bulk of the proceeds of the police pienic came from the keepers and inmates of dis- orderly houses and resorts that are under police survelllance, People who are constantly subject to arrest dare not refuse any demand made on them by men who wear the star, And nothing has cast such a glaring light upon the pernicious practice as the late pic- nic Never in the history of this state has there been such a scandalous orgle as was witnessed at Blair last week. The Blair authorities and papers describe it as the most obscene and degrading exhibition. ¢ And their statements are fully verified by dis- interested parties. A description of the shameless and beastly conduct of the par- ticipants In this orgle would be unfit to print even in a police gazette, It was perfectly natural that some of the dissolute creatures who were importuned Into buying tickets would patronize the benevolent entertain- ment, but how any police officer could per- mit the Jisgusting exhibitions in the streets and In the bar rooms of the town invaded by our policz passes comprahension. Whether off duty or on duty every officer of police is in duty bound to use his authority over subordinates whose conduct tends to scan- dalize and disgrace the force, It seems, however, that the officers present took no exception to the obscene revelry and some of them are represented as giving it active encouragement. Now the question is does the police com- mission propose to condone this scandal and allow a repetition of the levy on the div keepers and Inmates next year? Nobody objects to a police picnic decently conducted, but the forced levy of contributions from any class of citizens and particularly from the criminal class is demoralizing and should be forbidden. Another thing the police commission must do in order to maintain discipline and that is hold every man under its supervision to a strict accountability for misbehavior at all times whether he is on duty wearing the uniform or off duty In civilian’s dress. 'ING A FRENCH PRESIDENT. The election of a new president of the French republic to fill the vacancy caused by the assassination of President Carnot must draw attention to the different kinds of electoral machinery used for filling the highest office under the two greatest repub- lics in the world. The United States consti- tution provides expressly for a line of suc- cesslon through the vice president, a line that Las been extended to the cabinet offi- cers by statute enacted by congress. A pres- identlal election with us cannot possibly oc- cur more often than once In four years, and then the process cannot be completed in less than three months, The only constitutional way for any one to secure the presidency of France is by election to that particular office. The elec- tion in France, too, is indirect as with us, but it is through an electoral college made up of the members of both houses of the legislature, not through one artificially created for that purpose and endowed with no other function. Members of the French senate are themselves elected indirectly and the people vote for the deputies without reference to the possibility or probability of their participation in a presidential election. The immediate voice of the French people in the selection of their president, then, is extremely circumseribed. On the occaslon of a vacancy in the French presidency the two legislative houses are required to meet immediately as an electoral college, with the president of the senate presiding and the other officers of the senate acting as the officers of the body. Versailles has been designated by law as the place where the meeting is to be summoned, and the rule is to proceed at once with voting without debate. The constitution requires that to effect an election the successful candidate must secure an absolute majority of the college, that is to say, a majority of the whole legal number of senators and deputies. As soon as the college has agreed upon its choice its decision is transmitted to the newly elected president by the council of ministers of the preceding president. The peculiar feature of the French presi- dency, as compared with the American, is that there can be no unexpired terms. Every incumbent is elected for the full period of seven years—always providing that he is able to maintain his political ascendancy that long. Presidential elections need not recur in France more often than once every seven years, although it is quite possible for them to come one after another with but four or five days' intermission. The electoral college being practically a permanent body, no unnecessary inconvenience or expense is occasioned by this. President Carnot had almost completed his term of office, so that the present extraordinary election anticl- pates the regular constitutional election by only a few months. With the exception of President Grevy, the French republic has never had a president who has served through a constitutional term. People every- where will wateh with something more than mere idle curiosity to see whether or not seven years will elapse before another pre: idential election in France. Stubborn figures are sometimes more sug- gestive than the most florld rhetoric. Far instance, & comparison between the consump- tion of wheat and sugar by the people of the United States is within itself a startling revelation. During last year the consump- tlon of sugar in this country amounted to 3,783,822,000 pounds. At an average of b cents & pound this sugar cost the consumers $189,191,100, Now the most careful estimates made by the Agricultural departmont place the aggregate of domestic consumption of wheat at 324,036,365 bushels. At 60 cents 4 bushel the cost to the consumers was people af the Unit 719 more in 1593 It cost them almost bread. Sugar {s, th Important articles of fean people. While country exports al- most as much whoafiins it consumes the bulk of all our sugar {s imported from 1a- waif, Cuba, South Ameriea, Germany and Austria. With a liberal policy toward the sugar beet industry we would within fen Stutes paid but $5,220,« at than for sugar. ich for sugar as for re, one of tho mest t among the Avier- years be in a position to ralse all our own | sugar, and that wqaldeput at least $150,000,- 000 into the lmndx’} ur farmers that now | goos abroad to pal the sugar ¥ - port, Nebraska alone could raise from $2. 000,000 to $50,000,000 worth of beet sugar a year without materially curtailing her crop of corn and other small grain. The democrats of' Pennsylvania have a hopeless fight before them this year, but they seem disposed to select the best men they can find to make the contest. Among the possible gubernatorial candidates the most prominent is Colonel Willlam M. Sing- erly, the editor and proprietor of the Phila- delphta Record. Colonel Singerly is not seeking the nomination, and perhaps would not accept it it an election were assured, but it he should receive and ac- cept the compliment of a nomi- nation he ought to make as strong a candi- date as his party could select. He is a man of wealth and public spirit, has been very successtul in business, and enjoys a large measure of popularity with the masses, in whose welfare he has always shown a lively and philanthropic interest. He would un- doubtedly command the full support of the tarift reform democrats, having been long a consistent advocate of that policy, and there is the authority of one of his contemporaries that he would harmonize all the discordant democratic elements of the state. It is pos- sible that Colonel Singerly, as the advocates of his candidacy believe, would reduce the enormous republican majority of last Febru- ary, but republican success in the Keystone state this year {s absolutely assured by a majority sufficiently large to still furtner emphasize the popular revolt against demo- cratic policy, The stories sprung every now and then to the effect that some palpable fraud has been worked upon the election machinery in some particular city in spite of the Ans- tralian ballot system are not to be taken as proving the inefiiciency of that system or as arguing for its abolition in favor of a return to the old regime. The Australian ballot has been demonstrated to be an immense im- provement on the old style election. Yet the Australian ballot itself differs materially from state to state, in some being much more liable to perversion and abuse than in others. In Its most perfected form it is an almost absolute guar- anty against frauds on the bal- lot box. If bribery agd corruption is de- tected in one city {f means that the law is either poorly administered or poorly drawn. The remedy fs to improve the law and its administration. A relapse from the Aus- tralian system will*'not! be countenanced in any state where It exists. ———— People in the emst are welcome to come west and cool off. Look Out ¥or/Silver Rocks. Philadelphin Record. The league of repuplican clubs, which ts to meet in Denver, 8 be Induced it poss- ble ta adopt. o 1, 0f ree silver coin- e P R Bl 08 ot Iy the party Is not bound by what this league may do. The republicans cannot afford to turn their backs on sound money, even tor the sake of holding entire weste states, It Would Be Worth the Price. Kansas City Star. At their state convention the Vermont re- publicans declared that “we will hail with enthusiasm all efforts of the govern- ment to obtain an agreement with all other commercial nations to secure the free coin- age of silver on any proper ratio.” So will most_people. But it would be worth while to put it through if only to see & Vermont republican work himself up to a real wiid burst of enthusiasm. s The Demo-Fop Gale. Loulsville Courler-Journal. Tt happened that a tornado got to Omaha. one day in advance of Mr. Bryan, but this was a_mere coincidence. When Mr. Bryan arrived he kept up the supply of wind to the best of his ability, but the storm clearly had the best of it. The character and pur- pose of his address are best understood by his statement that the populists had taught reformers more than the democrats had done in thirty years. No doubt such declarations are very agréeable to the ears of the populists, but they are not calculated to produce harmony in the democratie ranks. e A Suggestion for Bryan, Chicago Herald, 1f Ignatius Donnelly's plan is adopted the populist campaign in “Minvesota. will re- semble the triumphal march of ‘a fly-by- night circus or an Indian patent medicine outfit. The Baconian cryptogramist proposes to disseminute the beauties of free silver and government loans by means of a troupe made up of singers, dancers, elocutionists, njo players, orators and a fife and drum rps. These apostles are to carry a big tent with them and will sweep over the state preaching simon-pure populism. It {g not stated whether Mr. Donnelly will ac- company the caravan or not. If he does he will probably blow the biiggest horn i the band—an occupation for which he has peculiar qualifications. ——— Three Main Facts About Sugar, New York Sun. Naked and ugly, the main facts about the sugar schedule are these: The administration proposed it The sec retary of state framed it. He asked n littie more for the trust than the trust finally ob- tained. Then Mr. Carlisle announced the new sugar schedule to the country as one of the concessions necessary to be made in order to pass any sort of a tariff bill, A majorlty of the senators voted for it Some of them denounced it and yet voted for it. Some voted and kept their mouths shut tight. Some of them Were gambling 1n Sugar. Some have denied under oath that they were gambling in Sugar. But not one of them has testified or will testify that the adoption of the trust's sugar schedule was desired by him, much less required by him, as a concession necessary to be made in orger to obtain his yulp for the tartf? bill The pretended Invbstlgation of this gigan- tic scandal has besn eonducted under the management of Geprgg Gray of Deleware, generally recognized as the administration's spokesman In the' senite, and it has been conducted, from beginaing to end, with the appparent’ intentign . &f conceallng rather than discovering the }{um That is all. It i§,quffe enough. What are the honest democrii¥ in the house of rep- resentatives going 'to do about it? e Threw Out ‘h!’llullcnnanll. LONDON, June 3§.—rAt the Old Bailey today the grand jury threw out the indict- ment of manslaughter'against General Hows- ton of Californla, fouiid by a coroner's jury on June 6 for the killing of Burton, the mu- siclan, by thrusting:an umbrella’ tip into his eye. = TIWO WESTERY SENATORSHITS, A Washington correspondent of the Globe-Democrat, reviewing the narrow mar- | #In between the old parties in the senate, | ®nys the political complexion of the next senate may depend upon the result of the coming eloctions In Montann and Wyoming Owing to the deadiock in the legisiatures of both states no election was had to fill senatorial vacancles, and the appointees of the governors were refused seats, leaving ench state with but one representative in the senate. The Wymming logislature which will be chosen by the people this fall will elect two United States senators. Senator | Cai {8 a_republican chosen to represent | the state when first admitted Into the union in recognition of his efforts in behalf of | #tatehood, made while serving as a delegate from the territory. The present representa- tive, Mr. Coffeen, Is a demoorat, who I8 v sanguine of being returned, ann has only one senntor, and he 18 a republican, but to all intents and purs rats of the silver-producing te have a senator here. He 18 no less a personage than Major Martin Maginnis, who makes his headquarters in Washington at the Metropolitan club. Major Maginnis represented the territory of Montana as a democrat in the house from 1572 until 1884, and in 1889 was a contestant for the seat now held by Senator Power. Montana democrats look upon the major as their senator de facto, and all the patronage ai- lotted to Montana s consclentiously looked after by him In the interest of his large constituency. — ANARCHY'S VICTIM, Kansas Ofty Star: The assassin of Presl- dent Carnot will doubtless be gibbeted, but the life of such a worthless whelp can in no wise atone for the loss of tho wise and patriotic servant of the people whom he | slew, Minneapolis Journal: The assassination of President Carnot by a crazy anarchist suggests the necessity of shutting up these mad dogs whenever they begin to bark and froth at the mouth. They ought to be cons fined where they cannot do any harm. St. Paul Globe: One great good will re- sult from the deplorable tragedy. Anarchism will be exterminated from the face of Eu- rope, if it shall be necessary in order to do 80 to destroy tens of thousands of lives. For, in view of this event, the lives of none | of the sovereigns of the continent are safe. Chicago Record: Meantime and in the hour of her calamity France has the sym- pathy of all people throughout the civiiized world. In the death of her president she loses an honest and singularly sincere and straightforward official and a_man who was a credit to the country which he governed with prudence and patriotic devotion. Kansas City Journal: Prosident Carnot was in every sense a statesman. He was given his high office because of his ricog- nized fitness, under constitutional regula- tions, to provide over the destinies of a great and progressive nation. The world will mourn at his loss and will take heed ot the manner of his going. The deed of vio- lence is a lesson for all nations. Chicago Herald: The people of every na- tlon in which even a gleam of civilization is visible must view this causeless atrocity with griet and horror. In the presence of this awful crime the peopla of every nation must take a firmer hold on the fundamentals of law and order and highly resolve that a heritage obtained at such fearful cost shall not be lightly assailed nor flippantly men- aced. There is security for all under the law. There is no safety, there can be no progress, there can be no remedy for any wrong, outside of the law. —— D HIS BRETHREN. Philadelphla.Inquirer: From the view polnt of the white house®David B. Hill may be an icebers, but on the income tax business, it oceurs to us, he can give the simoon points. New York World: Senator Hill can go as far wrong as most men, but he is not going wrong when he forces the cowards, the shuf- flers and the tricksters of the senate to go on record. Globe-Democrat: Hill says that the income tax will drive New York, New Jersey and Connecticut into the republican column, there to permanently remain; and that is really the only good thing that can be said of it. Philadelphia Times: Senator Hill is sald, by some of the papers, to have ‘‘repudiated his party.” Which party, republican or pop- ulist? His income tax speech seems like a repudtation of his récent popullst associates, but then Hill never was regarded as a popu- list in earnest. His real affiliation has long been with the republicans, and there are as yet no sure signs of his repudiating them. S e TRIFLES LIGHT iND BRIGHT. DAVID “I wonder how it is that Good- Truth: long?" “He fellow keeps his friends so doesn't wear them out.” “Don’t you consider Miss Bonby rather dull?” said one society man. “Well," replied another, “after the manner in which she cut you this morning I can't say that I do.” Good News: First Boy—I wish we lived in South America. Second Boy—Why do you? First Boy—The schools down there always close every time the town is bom- barded. - Indianapolis Journal: Tommy—Maw, the teacher wants us to give the difference be- tween “hope” and “expect.” Mrs. Figg—Well, I hope to meet your father in the next world, but I hardly ex- pect to. Wasington Star: Judge: ‘“What is the cause of the com- motion in the house across the way?" “The son of the gold bug that lives there has swallowed a 10-cent silver plece and the old man is nearly wild about it.” Life: Evelyn—Do you think Mr. Blake could be so base as to propose to me for the sake of my money? Phyllis—Heaven only knows, It is incredible what necessity will sometimes drive men to do. Washington Star: This is the season of revenge. The young man who was laughed at when he slipped on the banana peel the gigglesome young woman watches ks. when the hammock br Bazar: Tramp (entering taxider- mist's)—Do_you stuff all kinds of animals here? Taxidermist—Why, yes. ramp— Well, T wish you would” 5tuff me with a good dinner. THE SIZE OF HIM, Detrolt Free Press. “How big was Alexander, pa, That people call him great? ‘Was he like old Gollah, ‘tall, His spear a hundred weight Harper' o “Oh, no, my son; not quite so large, 1 think it's safeé to say, As was the umpire that we saw Conduct the game today. ————— COMMENCEMENT DAY, R. K. Munkittrick in Truth. Her sash Is pink, her gown is white, Her golden locks hang loose and free; She smiles with infinite delight Upon the audience, while she Is thrilled with pridé and ecstasy, And from a manuscript that's With ribbons reads in queenly g Her essay on commencement day. First with her left, then with her right She makes cute gestures gracefully, Her eyes, as dark as darkest night, Are sparkling as the moments flee, Her subject, “Roman Art,”” ah She handlés in a classic way. il all declare way up in * Her essay on commencement day. ‘hat stacks of flowers, dewy bright, P iround her when sne bends the kiee, Acknowledging the shouts that quite O'erbrim her with felicity. The sweet girl graduates agree Her eloquence o'er all holds sway, Yet they regard most enviously Hor essuy on commencement day. ENVOL O Princess Mamle Maud Magee! Of her we can sincerely say, In characters of gold should be Her essay on commencement day. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ol Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE NAY POSTPONE THE VOTE Democrats in No Hurry to Get a Final Teat on the Tariff Bill. TEMPER OF THE SENATE IS IN DOUBT Managers of the Majority Rather Fear the Minority—Count Three Pops and Threo Mo ns Against the BIIL, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE DER 1407 ¥ Street, N, W. WASHINGTON, June 26, There seems to be some doubt tonight whether the democratic managers will pers mit the tarift to come to a vote this week. Senators Jones of Arkansas, Cockrell of Missouri and Gorman of Maryland in conference in Senator Cockrell's pri committee room for three hours this afters noon. Since the conclusion of that confers ence leading democratic senators are says ing that there Is no need “for undue haste In pressing the bill to a vote.”” This moans that the democratic managers realize that they have no positive assurance that they have a majority for the passage of their conglomerate concessionary compromiss mcusure. As a matter of fact, indications tonight point to the almost certain defeat of the Wilson bill if it comes to a vote, Thirty-eight republican senators, three popus lists and three democrats, making in all forty-four votes, are believed to be ple against the final passage of the bill, three negative votes would Kill the bily Allen, Kyle and Peffer are the populists and Hill, Irby and Murphy are the demo. crats who are expected to assist in killing the bill, By PROTECTION FOR PLAYWRIGHTS, There is little doubt that the bill for more strict dramatic copyright laws, which fs being pushcd by the play writers of the country, will receive favorable action by the house committee on patents, and its friends are hopeful that it will pass congress. It is to be voted upon In committee on Wednes- day. From the tenor of the discussion in committee on the measure it is apparent that a majority of the members are friendly to it. The only ground of objection which has been raised is against the clause provid- ing imprisonment not exceeding one year, which emanates from members who are op- posed on general principles to extending the powers of the federal courts. Representa- tive Covert, the chalrman of the committee, made a strong plea for the bill last week in the course of his speech on the anti-option bill, in which he pointed out that the men hostile to the dramatic copyright law were supporters of the Uatch -anti-option Dbill, which greatly increases the jurisdiction of the federal courts and provides greater pen- alties. Supporters of the copyright bill argue that the theft of the product of an author's brains is as much theft as the larceny of his coat, and should be punished with commensurate severily. The criminal clause is made nec- essary by the nomadic habits of the dramatic plrates. ~ Pirating publishers have prepared and fixed places of business, have financial ' responsibility, and In some degrec can bo made to answer by civil processes. Play pl- rates can always evade a Jjudgment, and when an injunction is served upon them in one jurisdiction of a court they merely take their companies into another circuit. More- over, they damage the reputation and com- mercal value of the plays they present by staging them poorly and presenting them by inferior companies, Speaker Crisp has promised the committee on patents a day for the consideration of its business by the house and that the bill will be brought up on Monday. Chairman Covert is sanguine of its success. NATIONAL PARK AT SHILOH. One of tho plans of this congress in which war veterans are interested is the bill intro- duced by Representative Henderson for a national park on the battlefield of Shiloh, which was favorably reported by Represen- | tative Outhwaite of Ohio from the committe on military affairs. Nearly 100,000 men par- ticipated in the two days” fighting at Shiloh. The battleground embraces 2,000 acres, over which the state of Teunessee will grant jurisdiction to the United States. The bill gives the government authority to institute condemnation proceedings, but to avoid en- tailing hardships upon the residents who de- sire to retain their homes they will be per- mitted to lease their lands at a nominal rent on condition that they keep the grounds in good order. Land can be acquired for $12 an acre, the report states. The roads are unchanged since the battle was fought, and it is proposed to restore the fleld as nearly as possible to its former condition, the states co-operating by erecting tablets to mark ine stands of their regiments. It is proposed to have the work done by a com- mittee of three veterans, one of whom served In the army of the Tennessee under General Grant; one from the army of Ohio commanded by General Buell, and one from General Johnston's confederate army of Mis- sissippi. IN A GENERAL WAY. In the adjustment of salaries of presi- dential postmasters for the year beginning July 1, prox., it transpires that the offic at Fairbury, Norfolk and Plattsmouth are reduced from the second to the third class. i | ! signod; ! Rock Valley ' avth Omaha fs reduced from first fo sboond Miss Jennte Fuller of Yankton was ofe corted throngh the capitol bullding today by the wife of Senator Davis of Minnesotas Miss Faller wHI sail for Vienna on Mowe day, to be absent a vear with the family of Hon. Bartlett Tripp, United Statos mins Ister to Austria. Judge Tripp left last night for his okl home in New England. He will roturn to New York and safl on Monday. Represontativa Plekler today oalled and secured the passage of his bill providin that In the establishment of elaims nMo! the pension laws of the United States the oath of a private or noncommissioned wficer €hall have the same weight and effect as' the oath of a commissoned officer, The bill pros vides that in case a commissioned officer cannot be found who can testify then the testimony of a comrade or noncommissioned officer. will be considered as strong and as \\;Igh(y as the testimony of a commisstoned officer. C. H Mercer. Postmastors lows Nebraska Trussell, 8 ¢ Collins of Omaha 1a visiting Me have been appointed as fols Compton, Cherry county, Suste viea Mes. Azubaal Cady, re- Sartorta, Buffalo county, W. 8 Spooner, viee Mrs. B, J. Swenson, romoveds lowa—Agency, Wapello county, John Fals len, vice E. T. Sage, dead; Churchville, Warren county, Michael Grassman, vice Jdu M. Linnon, rosigned A postoffice has been established at Sums or, Valley county, Neb, with Bryon H Smith as postmaster. J UMS ARE WORTIL tinl Postofcos by the fot of Big s, June 26.—(Special annual WHAT THE Price Set on Presid Latost ¥ WASHINGTO gram to The Bee.)—The of the salaries of presidential postmasters was promulgated today The feature of theso changes is the great number of res ductions whera there have heretofore beets increases In the postal revenues, the amount of salary being regulated by the income of the office. These changes go Into effect July 1. The Towa and South Dakota offices in which chavges will be made are as fol- lows: Tele reviston T0WA OFFIC Towns, SEEE 2332 Hoone Tritt Trookly Charles City Charter Onk . r Lake .. Coon Rapids Correctionvill Davenport Decorah Donnison Dewitt . Dunlap Fairfield I 2 LEEEEEEEEE R i ndy « Holstein . Humboldt "0 Independencs Towa Falls . 98 100 30 B e 30 4 Muly Marc o Now Hamp Odebolt Ovlwein Ogden Onawa 1 T Postville Pringhen Rid Onle k P e o e Ruinh Rock Rapids ' Ruthven What Cheer ... Winterset Woodhine e i SOUTH DAKOTA OFFIC 160 L 110 S, Abordecn Tritton 5 ST 1000 * 130 Flandr 2 L 12m HIll City . Huron Tpswich .. Millbank Pierre . Rapid Ciry Sioux Falls Spoarfish . turiis wtertown F38E: w2 H geessii: Heat Too Great for Senator Palmer, WASHINGTON, June 26.—Senator Palmer was overcome by the heat this afternoon and was forced to reire from the senate chamber, but declared he expects to be on hand again tomorrow. Head Tax posed on Forelgners. WASHINGTON, June 2.—Senator Peffer today gave notice of an amendment to the tarlff bill levying a duty of $50 per head on every alien arriving in the United States. Patents that Have Expired. WASHINGTON, June 26.—An aggregate of 234 patents on various inventions exjpire by limitation today. S. W, Going to the BottoN) Going to the bottom in price now--going to take inventory next week-your last chance to get suits for $7.50 and $8.50—worth lots more. Boys' suits $2.50—$3—worth 50 per eent more— stilts given away to boys in boys' department— See the $4.50 combination suit with anather pair of pants and cap to match. AT AL & ] e ke Browning, King & Co., roer 15th and Douglas,