Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 28, 1894, Page 4

= THEOMAHA DAILY BEE, B, JOFEW UMD EVERY MORNING. Eaine, % OF SUDSCRIPTI Dally Boe (WIhont Sunday), One Y o nl Sunday, One Year i tse 100 1™ 160 ding. maha, *Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Juffs, 12 1'sarl stroet 317 Chamber of Commerce s 13, 14 and 16, Tribune PIag. 107 1 t. N, W. CORRESPONDENCE. Al communications relating to news and_ edi- ‘wital matter shomld be addreased: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS. Washington ATl buai sddresned | to Afts, Wl 3 BEE hecks and postoffice to the order of thy PURLISHING € NT OF CIRCULATION. Geotgn 1. Trschuck, secestary of The Jiee Pub- Iisiing company, being duly sworn, says that the wotual number of full and complete copies of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday e ginea during the month of May, 1504, was as ollowa 1 2, 17 reeeeens 22,836 3 18, severs ST 3. 2 10 5 STATEME Liews Aeductions for and’ returned coples Total sold s Daily average nei ¢ *Sunday reatation. e 23,188 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to hetore me subseribed in my pres ence this 2J day of June. 180, N. P. FRIL, Cotary Public. Wooden pavements are bad enough, but #ave us from pavements patched with wood However often the president of France may be changed the French republic never dles. To wail 5o long for the postoffiices and then to have the emoluments cut down is cruelty which even patient and long-suffer- ing democrats must resent. Governor Waite scems to have let go the opportunity offered by the Republican league meeting without making another bid for notoriety. Is Waite disheartened by Pen- noyer's fate? The popullsts in the semate must be en- joying their possession of the balance of power in this tariff debate more than they would having the responsibility of a major- ity on the shoulders of their party. Anything that escapes the judiciary com- mittee of the city council is caught in the drag net of the joint committee. Why not abolish the other standing committces whose usefulness seems to have almost entirely dis- appeared. The new tariff bill opens up the fleld for seme Interesting and important judicial de- cisions s0 soon as the doubtful points of constitutional law shall be brought up for dnterpretation by the supreme court of the United States. Denver is being made the testing grounds for determining the resistance which demo- eratic armor plates offer to shots of re- publican oratory. Defective plates will be plugged up by the administration and of- fered for a second trial later in the season. Omaha is not suffering from a building epidemlc, but it is doing as much in the building line as other cities in the west. Artisans in the building trades cannot better thelr condition by going to competing west. ern cities for more remunerative employs ment. The scramble for the appointment to the position now held by Major Furay on the Board of Public Works will be over mext Tuesday. Meantime the mayor's office is being flooded ,with petitions and remon- strances and the mayor is besieged by dele- gations. Wiley is in no hasio to have the city take ‘steps toward completing arrangements for ety electric lighting after his present con- tracts shall have expired, There is an elec- tion to intervene and Wiley wants to keep Bis trumps until it is more necessary ta play them. Washington is getting too hot for many of our statesmen in congress. But Washington heat 15 mot a circumstance to that which mwalts some of them at their homes. Many ©f them will find it so hot among their eonstituents that they will wish they had staid away. /Senator Peffer wants to amend the tarift 4 as to include an import duty of $50 per Mead upon every immigrant coming into this country. Such a proposition, however, \eanmot derive much comfort from democrats Mledged to exercise the power of taxation for revenue only. It is always unpopular for anybody to mdvocate the cutting down of the salary Mst, but when it becomes a question whether there is to be a deficit in the treasury or an unbearable increase of taxes It Is manifest that retrenchment is & matter of necessity. The constitutional power of congross to zaise revenue for the support of the federal government by the imposition of Import duties is undisputed. Why should congress under prosent circumstances resort to forms of taxation over which it exercises & doubttul jurisdiction? Colonel Akin is being quoted as the chief arbiter of the destiny of all the wchool ma'ms and regulator of all the internal and external affairs of the Board of Educa ftion. We realize the colonel s a man of very large capacity, but we did not know that the other fourteen members of the board had abdicated. Des Moines deserves to be congratulated upon capturing the national convention of the Republican league next year. Next year will be an off year; yet it will bo near enough to the presidential campalgn to make things interesting. It will be a ve- publican year, too, and that will give the & M- eting an (mmense impetus. The council will not give the mayor an | Jmpportunity to know whether it proposes to confirm or reject Mr. Schurlg as city electrician until next Monday night. It the appointment Is rejected at the eleventh hour the mayor Is expectéd to find a new * man for the place and send his name Into the council within less than tweaty-four hours. That is Hascality for you eum the Dait shell. REPURLICAN LEAGUE PRINCIPLES. The declaration of prineiples adopted by the National League of Republican Clubs 18 In the main commendable. The Memand for legislation to fnsure a free ballot to every citizen wili be approved by all friends of good government. The fact that hundreds of thowsands of citivens are still deprived of a free ballot i a large section of the counfry, and While connted as a part of the basis of rapresentation In are not permitted to exercise as they please their right of suffrage, is a reproach to the nation. Yet it must he confessed that the question of how to remedy this wrong diMcult problem, the solu- It solution be possible, is worthy of the best efforts of American statesmanship. The republican party has ever contended for a free ballot for every eltizen and will continue to do so. The declaration in regard to protection is Judiclous in omitting to endorse any specific act. It 18 quite enough for republicans to stand squarely and firmly for the principles of protecting the industries, the labor and the homes of this country, without reference to particuiar schedules. The system s the thing as (o which they can with greatest advantage make their appeal to the Ameri- can people, for that everybody ean under- stand, while a great majority of the people are confused when fthe discussion is of sohedulea. Tt is safe o say that all republ- cons belleve the McKinley law to be much better for the country than the pending il would be, but there are a great many republicans who regard the former as by no means a perfect measure. All, how- ever, belleve in the policy of protection. The regarding the currency should have stopped at the first sentence, It would then have been wngualifiedly en- dorsed by all republicans. What follows shows the influence of environment and evidences tlie great pressure that was brought to hear on the convention by the extreme friends of silver. The proposition that there will not be a permanent return of prosperity to the country "until the full use and highest position of silver shall be restored” 1s unsound, and the barren de- claration in favor of such legislation as will bring about the restoration of silver was unwise. If anything is meant by the “‘full use and highest position of silver it is that it should be given free coinage, and it is entirely safe to say that a large majority of the members of the republican clubs do not believe that this is necessary to a re- turn of prosperity. On the contrary, a majority of them unquestionably believe that this policy would produce a condition of things far worse than that which exists. It i3 unfortunate that the convention did not take a position on tMs subject that would have squarely and honestly repre- ser ted what was undoubtedly the predominat- ing sentiment, but this feature of the declaration of principles will carry Mttle weight when the circumstances are under- stood. Except the reference to woman suffrage, which also shows the Influence of en- vironment, there is no serious objection to be urged against other portions of the league platform. The convention has been a suc- cess in numbers and enthusiasm and its effect ought to be good. congrass presents a most tion of which, declaration CARNOT'S SUCCESSOR. Although there were several candidates for the presidency of the French republic, the contest in the national assembly over the selection of a successor to the late President Carnot was short, and appears to have becn entirely free from any of the intrigne and strong feeling between factions which usnally mark events of this kind. The distin- guished honor fell to ex-Premier Casimir- Perler. The new president of France, who will enter upon the discharge of ‘the execu- tive duties at once, has long heen prominent among contemporary French statesmen. He Is credited with more than ordinary astute- ness as a politician, and has kept aloof from the flerce party contentions which have always rent the Chamber of Deputies and made its sittings so stormy, without in any way forfeiting the good opinion of his as- soclates or incurring the charge of want of conviction or principle. He is a man of sterling integrity, universally respected, cau- tlous and conservative. It is sald of him that he has never fired the popular imagina- tion and he has never disappoimted his friends. President Perier is as earnest in his re- publicanism as was his lamented predecessor and quite as strongly devoted to a strong and stable government. He has the firm- ness and courage needed in the present exi- gency and can be depended upon to meet wisely and vigorously whatever extraor- Qinary demands may be made upon the ex- ecutive authority by reason of the um- precedented situation. The quiet election of a mew president, under circumstances which caused an apprehension that there might be some demonstration of political turbulence, Is most gratifying testimony to the sub- stantial character of the republican &ystem: in France, and will go far to reassure the world of the permanence of that system. There has been a tremendous ebullition of popular passion directed against the Italians, with a tendency to. reach out to other foreigners, but the government has shown this no countenance, and probably no com- plications will arise from it. It the new president will make himselt popular with the masses, among whom he is not thor- oughly liked because of his aristocratic affiliations and his supposed.partiality for the capital class, he has an opportunity to greatly distinguish himself, It is to be hoped that he will prove in every way equal to the task that is before him, — THE PENNSYLVANIA DEMOCRATS. The democrats of Pennsylvania, who held thelr state convention yesterday, have not learned anything from the crushing defeat they sustained last February, when Galusha A. Grow was elected congressman-at-large by the largest republican majority ever glven anybody In that state, the democratic tarift policy being the issue in the cam- palgn. Tqually unavailing for the instruc- tion of the democrats of Pennsylvania have been the results of the elections elsewhere, notably in Oregon, where this policy com- manded the undivided attention of the voters and was overwhelmingiy rebuked by them. Plainer or more unqualified protests against the palicy of a party were never made than those which have been pronounced by the people, so far as they have had an oppor- tunity, since the democratic party came into power and brought with it financial distrust and business depression. Yet the democ- racy of Pennsylvania endorses the doctrine of the last national piatform, which declares the principle of protection to be uncomstitu- tional—a doctrine which even the democratic president rejected. The Pennsylvania democratic platform lays upon the republican tarift policy the respon- sibllity for the existing condition of finan- clal and business affairs, Perhaps this was to have been expected, but it is incredible that the democrats of the Keystone state hope to add to the strength of their party by declarations so easlly confuted. The THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, '.vgm Cleim that the enactment of the taril of 1890 fmpaired International exchange of com- modities Is most conctasively dlaproved by the statistios of our foreign trade during the two years following the enactment of the McKinley law, and although that act greatly enlarged the free Nst the revenue from customs was well maintained. The charge of Improvident appropriations by the last republican congress long ago ceased to have any welght, in view of the fact that the democratic house of the Fifty-second con- gress made larger appropriations than the precading congress, and was jastified in doing so because the public interests im- peratively demanded it. The statesmanship of the Fifty-first congress saw the necessity of improving the postal service, of increas- Ing the navy, and of doing other things that were for the genmeral good, and it did mot hesitate to meet these demands of a progres- sive country, The republican congress also felt the duty of treating more gemerously the nation's pensioners, and it manfully dis- charged this duty. There was no difficulty in finding the resources to provide for these obligations so long as the republican party was in power and there was no apprehen- slon of democratic succession. It was not until the people made the mistake they are now bitterly repenting, of placing the demo- cratic party in control of the government, that_the international exchange of commod!- ties” became Impaired and revenues from duties were reduced and there ensued the other financial and commercial ills from which the country is still suffering. There wassnever a more foolish boast made than that which claims great credit for the first administration of Cleveland in regard to the surplus. Had that administration pursued the same business-like policy in reducing the public debt that its successor did and been less disposed to nurse the surplus for political effect its record in this respect would be far more creditable, The democrats of Pennsylvania under- stand, of course, that they have an utterly hopeless fight before them, and they per- haps feel that it will be better to go down to defeat adhering to the old creed, although its potency for harm to every interest of the country has been most distinctly and painfully demonstrated. They know that anything different would not be accepted by the people as honest or sincere, so strong and deep is the popular distrust of the party. A JUDICIAL ANARCHIST. Anarchy is defined to be that state of society where there is no law or supreme power; in other words, an absence of gov- ernment and a state of general lawlessness. Under our form of government a state of general lawlessness is not concelvable so long as Justice reigns supreme through a well ordered Judiciary. Anarchists might assassinate our executlves and terrorize our legislators, but so long as the courts were in position to administer the law and mete out justice, amarchy could not destroy the tabric of government. The most dangerous form of anarchy, therefore, is that state of society in which the strong arm of the law that holds the scales of justice allke over the rich and the poor, the weak and the powerful, be- comes paralyzed either by a law-defying Judiciary or by mob violence. When any man occupying a position on the bench subordinates the law to his own caprice and sets at deflance the mandates of higher judicial tribunals, or seeks to stig- matize the supreme judiciary of the com- monwealth, he becomes an anarchist in the broadest sense of the term. The pres- ent occupant of the criminal bench of this district, Cunningham R. Scott, has by his conduct and utterances proved himself an anarchist of this type. Within the past six months he has repeatedly usurped the pardoning powers of the executive by lib- erating self-confessed felons, when the law expressly makes it his duty to pass sen- tence-upon them, and pending sentence to have them remanded into the custody of the sheriff. He has taken it upon himself to disregard a specific order of the supreme court and thus invoked judicial anarchy. Scott has made a virulent assault from the bench upon Judge Norval, chief justice of the supreme court, and declared that the chief justice laid himself liable to im- peachment in issuing a writ of prohibition in a case that had been adjudicated by himself. Now, while there is no law on the statute books against such assaults, there is an unwritten law that forbids any reputable magistrate from abusing and seeking to bring into disrepute the highest Judiclal tribunal of the commonwealth. The re- spect and reverence due to that court de- mands implicit obedience to its mandates and courteous language toward members that compose it. Anything short of that is judicial anarchy. As a citizen Cunning- ham R. Scott has a right to criticise decl- slons of the supreme court and express dissent from its conclusions. As a citizen Mr. Scott may express his dislike for Judge Norval, and go as far as he can within the bounds set by the laws against libel and slander. But when he occuples a seat upon the district bench Judge Scott is presumed to preserve the dignity of the courts and maintaln that strict obedience to law and deference to the supreme judi- clary, without which all law courts would be degraded to the level of the pot house. The fact that Judge Scott is unfit by his temperament and lack of balance for any judiclal position has been apparent ever since he has been placed on the bench, but bis usurpation of power, his abusive harangues from the bench and his virulent assaults upon the highest court make him absolutely dangerous to the well-being of the community. He 1s a Judiclal an- archist who not only brings the bench into disrepute, but mahes the administration of law a travesty on justice. STATUS OF THE STATE SCHOOL FUND! The decision of the supreme court grants ing the writ of mandamus prayed for by one of the capitol warrant brokers to com. pel the state treasurer to register general fund warrants in order that interest may ao. crue upon them will probably close the series of cases which have been furnishing the people of Nebraska with judicial in- terpretation of the laws affecting the pers manent school fund in this state. With the various opinfons of the courts before them the state officials must see the exact situas tion in which they are placed, and If they fail to abide by the authoritative construcs tion of the statutes they will be acting with their eyes open. The status of the permanent school fund under the coustitution and the laws s subs stantially this: an inviolable trust for the benefit of the public schools, the annual income thereot only to be expended, and any losses that may occur from unfortunate investment must be made good by the taxpayers. The Invests ment of the fund is vested with the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds, but its selection of securities s limited by the constitution to those of the United States or of the state of Nebraska or Its several That fund 1s set aside ay® countios. It fs the ity of the state board to %eep the munky® at fta command cofc stantly fnvested, sinee Tn that way only can any Income be derived for the benefit of the schools. Idle school money remains in the custody of the state treasvrer, but he has no authority to lend it out or to de. posit it ander the depository law. His only legal course 1s to keep it as A special dev posit until opportunity for Investment offers. What has been, the difffeulty, and what promises to continmie to be the difficulty fox some time, is tha¥’ a considerable portion of the permanent school fund must remain fdte on account of the! impossibllity of securing the proper securifics in sufficient amounts. | The Taw of 1501 cofitemplated the redemption of general fund warrants to absorb the une invested pert of the permanent school fund. So far as declaring these warrants state se curities, and therefore available to the state board, the supreme court Has upheld the spirit of the law. In fts last decision, how- ever, it really says that such warrants can | only be bought by the state board just aw it buys other state or county Securitios. The holder of the warrant has a right to bave it registered in the absence of money in the fund upon which it is drawn, and to retain it for the sake of the 7 per cent in- terest which it draws until there shall be money in that particular fund to redeem it. He can, if he desires, accept the offer of the face value of the warrant, which the state board stands ready to make on be. half of the permanent school fund, but in doing so he may use his own discretion. There can be no compulsion about it. The state board may buy warrants, but it can. not redeem them, It is hardly probable that any but specu- lators and warrant brokers will prefer to hold warrants drawn upon exhausted state funds for no other reason than to securs the interest to which the law entitles them. Most of the bona fide holders will prefer disposing of them at their face value to the state board to discounting them with the broker. But there is always the pos. sibility of a dearth of securities in which the permanent school fund may be investen. This precarious condition of that great trust can only be remedied by constitutional re- vision, The State Board of Transportation has been informed by the supreme court that that s not the tribunal to which it should apply for writs of mandamus to compel the recaleitrant rallroads to carry out its orders in the transfer swilch cases. This means more delay and continued inaction. It is sald that the board may apply to the dis- trict courts for the desired mandamus, but as the district judges are everywhere pre- paring for thelr summer vacations it is quite unlikely that any action can be taken under the transfer switch law until next fall. Suppose that the board did sccure its writ of mandamus, what then? Are the law. Qetying railroads any more apt to obey such a writ than to obey the plain mandate of the statute and the regular order of the board in accordance with its provisions? There is a way prepared by the law itselt to bring pressure to bear upon the railroads, but the State Board of Transportation ap- pears reluctant to pursue it. Every day in creases the accumulation of penalties for neglect. By this time the penalties must amount to a neat little sum for each of the railroads involved. Recovering the penalties, of course does not build the switches, which are in reality the thing wanted, but it would be a powerful incentive to the railroads to obey the law with more alacrity. If suit had been brought IO the penalties so s6on as the roads manifested their intention to disregard the board’s orders the issus might perhaps have been decided by this time. Even now that plan offers as satis- factory a course as application for man. damus. ‘Whenever anything is done in connection with the fire department that does not ex- actly suit the fire insurance companies the business men of the city are immediately threatened with a ralsing of the rates on the policies Which they hold. But rates are never affected in the opposite direction. YieM to every demand of the insurancecom. panies and rates Temain the same. Thers is a point above Which insurance rates bring smaller profits to the companies. That point fs only partly dependent upon the efi- clency of the fire department. The local insurance companies have no-cause to com- plain because the axe of retrenchment s not kept off of that department. The populist Wealth-Makers prints Prof. Herron's commencement address and en- titles 1t “The Great Oration.” One hundred dollars is the present price of great orations, They used to come higher, but since the financial depression competition has brought prices down. For a populist address, even that is pretty good pay. It the fire insurance companies were at- lowed to have their way the city of Omaha would be supporting a fire department twice the size of what it now has. Perhaps turn- Ing the control of the fire department over to the Insurance companies offers the only solution that wil satisfy them, Suspicion Added to Contempt. Loulsville Courler-Journal. Senator Gorman is sald to have declared that the senate investigation into senatorial stock jobbing has done nothing but bring ridicule upon the senate. It is not fair tu lay it on the investigation. public contempt under which the Senate is now resting antedates the appointment of the committee. What the investigation has done is to add suspicion to contempt, and this has resulted from the course pursued by senators who think It is none of the public’s business what they do and who damaged themselves more by what they declined to tell than by what they con- fessed. —pau yarite Son, Brquirer, ! prbsidency come ana , “more are mentioned (Bt William B. Allison liglnllulx of thought- Towa's Cinctung] Candidates for th go. Many are call and few are chosen of Towa is always i1} U ful republicans in prestential assoctution, Senator Allison 18 oné’of the best equipped of the few men Wwho 'are really Buished in congress.' /He Is wise for the public good, and wige Br his own carcer. Time has vindicated” his judgment In not taking the treasury "‘QIJ[““" under Presi- distin dent Harrison. He 1’ In advance of his party in_mental view: ¥Hough never sensa- tional, 1t the republidans should get out of ‘thé hablt of lookih for 4 man ‘Wit a specialty, and reach for dn all-round States- man, I ould not by way for Mr. Allison to escape the responsibflity of leading the republican ticket - 1 THE CARTWHEEL CONFERE. Minneapolis Jowrnal: The Nebrarka demo- crats have wplit on the silver qiestion. It s a matter of congratulation that there wre some democrats in that state who are sane efough to object to & proposition to stump down to the silver standard of 50-cent cur- | rency, Courler-Journal: Some of the Nebraska democrats have ald the siver horso fs six- teen feet high, and they propose (o stick to it and swoar by it and legislate on It Why don't those Nebraska democrats also rexolve that & bucket of wheat s equal to a dollar in wold or & barrel of pork to $20 In the yellow metal? What's the use of stopping at sflver if prices can be rogulated so easily? It we can force Furope to accept sixteen ounces of our silver for an ounce of gold, and to settle trade balances on that basts, why not force It to pay what we want for | our wheat and corn and pork? Pioncer Press: We shonld like to ask the free silver people of Nebraska, and of Min- nesota, und of any other state east of Colo- rado and Montana, what they expect o gain by their demand, it it were granted. They complain that théy aro working now for the capitalists of the cast. Well, suppoge for a moment that this were true; will they be any better off when they are working for the Nevada Mining and Milling company, and the other millionaires who control the silver output of this country? Suppose they had free silver. What then? It would cnable the owner of sliver bullion to take his pro- duct to the United States mint and sell it for a little more than twice what it would bring in open anarket. We can understand why he should approve that. But are there any owners of bullion in Nebraska or Min- nesota or the other states where people talk about free silver as a boon to the poor? And it not, where do the people come in? —— TAR AND TARSNEY, Chicago Record: If the great state of Colorado fs not already sick of the mis- rule and lawlessness which have lately characterized its public proceedings the last outrage ought to suffice to make it so. The recent events in that state afford a memor- able lesson not only for Colorado, but for all other states as well. It {s a lesson which teaches the danger of intrusting high places and authority to men who are fearless in the abuse of power without at all under- standing its use. Buffalo Express: The kidnaping and tar- ring and _feathering of Adjutant General Tarsney of Colorado, though done by Gover- nor Waite's political enemies, s a direct outgrowth of the doctrines which Waite and Tarnsey have been preaching and practicing. They have ineulcated disrespect for law, and the use of violent means to ends, and it would be strange it some of the more reckless of their opponents did not turn the tables on them and give one, at least, of them a dose of thelr own medicine. The feeling against Waite has been very bitter in Colorado Springs ever since the miners' strike at Cripple Creck, in the same county, broke out. Chicago Post: The assault on Adjutant General Tarsney at Colorado Springs was contemptible, and one has little patience with the newspapers and individuals that defend it Colorado s rapidly acquiring a reputation for lawlessness among its so- called conservative class that is doing more to undermine the confidence of the east in the stability of investments in that state than all the erratic outbreaks of the wild- eyed governor. Denver seems to have ex- perfenced a_reversion of type to its ploneer barbarity. Still it is hoped there may be sufficient respect for the law left in that community to insure the capture and punishment of the cowardly gang. e PERSPIRING PLEASANTRIES. Puck: The' tramp will not descend to slang when it comes to using ‘‘soap” as a synonym of money. Boston Journal: “Little boy, doesn’'t it pain you to see an elderly woman hanging on to a strap?’ Boy (keeping his seat)— No'm, 'less it's my ma. Indianapolls Journal: “By the way, speak- ing of the human race, has it ever been de- termined who won the first heat? “Prometheus, of course. Don't you re- member he discovered fire?” Atlanta_ Constitution: “Look here, old man, oughtn’t you 'to keep that boy of yours a little mare in check?” My friend, 1 do my best; this is the fourth one I've sent him this ‘month. W Kins has a very him?? “I should say he has,” was the mournful reply. “Four aces was what he sprung last night.” Detroit Free Press: “Aw—as 1 under- stand it,”” sald the traveling foreigner, “your office holders here are the servants of the people. Am 1 right? “You have become a little mixed,” said the citizen. “It must be the office seckers you are thinking of.” hington Star: “Don’t you think Bly- high-handed way about Spare Moments: Guide—Now, vou will have to be careful; many a_tourist has bro- ken his neck at this spot. Gent (to his wife) —Augusta, you go first. Fun: Mrs, Powell—I have such an indul- gent husband! Mrs. Cameron (spitefully, Yes, 8o Justin tells me; but he scinetimes indulges too much, doesn't he? INCONSISTENCY, Drooklyn Life. He wrote letters to the papers, saying ‘twas a crying shame To run open cars unless the day was But when they put the closed cars on, no matter how it rained, He rode outside upon the front platform, s LA Eradicating the Swindling Habit, Chicago Post. Willlam Stacey of 1dwa Falls was charged with being engaged in some land swindling scheme, and the Texans wished to discour- age him. They were courteous and consid- erate about it at first and simply ducked him in a pond. He did not seem to realize the force of that argument, so a few days Inter they tarred and feathered him. Stil he was not convinced of the error of his ways, they claim, so they hanged him. That seems to have proved a Satisfactory method of settling the matter, for we are Informed that he hasn't swindled any one since. i L A Joytul Pros Globe-Demoorat, The brightest prospect that the tarift bill carries with it 18 that of.an early adjourn- ment of congress after its passage, whicn will mean the removal of one of the prin- cipal obstacles to the restoration of pros- perity. ———— PSALM OF THE SENATOR, Sullivan, Tell me not In mournful numbers Life is but a tale of woe, For the trusts and corporations Make it pleasant here below. Life is full of hope and promise, 1t we only work it right; 1t we only pull the string’in Every time we get a bite, Sugar stocks are fluctuating, nd if we would buy them low We must ming] with ‘the ‘“‘agents,'" Who will kindly let us know. While the senate ante-chambers With the lobbylsts are crammed, Take no notice of the people— Let the populace be d—d. Lives of cuckoos all remind us We can warble through our hafr, And, departing, leave behind us Jawprints on’ the ambient air. Jawprints that perhaps another Congressman with lengthy speech— A_foriorn, bewhiskered broths ‘Seeing, shall begin to screech. Let us then be up and talking, Talking hard with all our might; Talking much on all occasions, Talking every day and night. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report. Powder COST OF THE COXEY CRAZE What the Government Must Pay as Its Share of the Expenses, SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ASKED Olney Kol Used In of Commonwenlers in the Western States osts This Modest Sum aying for the Suppression WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BF 1407 F Streot, N. W, WASHINGTON, June 27 The attorney general today sent to the serate through the secretary of the treasury a request for a defl appropriation of $1 00 in lleu of $50,000 asked for some time ago. 'This amount, it is estimated, will be required to meet the expense incurred by the United States marshals and other officers of the Department of Justice in the arrest and punishment of Coxeyites in the west charged with stealing trains over which the government has Jurisdiction. The attorney general's letter, which contains this request, shows these Coxey demonstra- tions occurred in fourteen states and two territories. Relief for B. the Creek Indlans who emi- grated to the Indfan territory under the treaty of 1826 and have not been reim- bursed for the expense resulting from thelr removal, as provided by the treaty of 1 is sought in a petition signed by delegates. The Indlan commissioner ;l‘n\.:' ment of the claim, In a report on the condition of the Ulntah and Ouray Tndian reservation in Utah, In- spector McCormick says: “The Mexicans who work on a large portion of the land and a number of squatters who are very demoralizing should be driven from the reservation by the general government. The police are unreliable and the herders at Ouray can be dropped without detriment to the service." IN A GENERAL WAY. Senator Allen today fntroduced a bill to prevent the appointment of cadets to the naval or military academy from states, territories or districts in which such cadets do not reside. The bill was referred to the senate committee on military affairs for report. Representative Meiklejohn today called at the pension office in the interest of John C. Knapp of Palmer. W. D. McHugh and Euclid Martin of Omaha were at the capltol today, accom- panied by J. Sterling Morton. They had no particular business, but were seated in the galleries looking dowr. upon the demo- cratic party upon the floor of the senate. Senator Manderson went before the com- mittee on commerce this morning and made another argument in behalf of an appropria tion for the Improvement of the Missouri river between Council Bluffs and Omaha. He says that it seems probable an up- propriation will be made either in the river and harbor bill or in the sundry civil bill. Senator Pettigrew has succeeded in get- ting a change of mail service in Charles Mix county, South Dakota, so far ns to give the town of Bartholdi a delivery on every ;\'t‘rk day instead of tri-weekly as hereto- ore. Hon. Charles T. McCoy of Aberdeen, late chairman of the South Dakota republican state committee, is in the city, and took lunch with Senator Pettigrew at the capitol today. Mr. McCoy is one of the largely in- terested men in the mining district of Crip- ple Creek, Colo., and is on the way to New York to place some bonds. Senator Allen today presented the petition of N. F. Donaldson and others of Lincoln county against taxing the incomes of life and accident insurance companies. Orlando J. King of Omaha was the lowest bidder for constructing the superstructure of the public bullding, In course of erection at Mankato, Minn., bids for which were opened in the office of the supervising arch- Itect today. The amount of the bid was $40,470. The contract will probably be awarded to Mr. King in a short time. Postmasters have been appointed &s fol- lows: Nebraska—Kirk, Banner county, Charles W. Johnson, vice Mrs. Eva Maynard, re- signed; Marlbank, Keya Paya county, Edwin B. Heliyer, vice Charles L. Phelps, re- signed; Royville, Sioux county, Mary E. Graham, vice Clarence J. Green resigned; Slocum, Holt county, Harvey Wells, vice William M. Kelly, resigned. Towa—Sunbury, Cedar coutny, H. Peterson, vice J. L. Denkman, resigned. Creek urges amounting to H. APPROPRIATIONS EXTENDED, Those for the Current Fiscal Year Extended Thirty Days. ‘WASHINGTON, June 27.—The house got into a serles of deadlocks over the New Mexico statehood bill. The bone of conten- tion was an amendment originally proposed by Mr. Smith of Tllinols, requiring the public schools 1o teach the English language. The consideration of the bill was not concluded at the hour of adjournment. A cablegram from the French government, acknowledging the action of congress relas tive to the death of President Carnot, was e 1 latd hefore the house, Alyo n message frof the president transmitting Hawailan_ correspondence. A rosolution appropriations for the current fiscal year the lato Wik Adopted extending the thirty days from the f0th inst., as the seA* ate whi priation bills flscal year AL the ton thie on the not be abte before to act on any appros the expiration of ti quest of Mr, Watson of Washings joint resolution was passed calling secrotary of war for information relative to dreging the harbor of Kveret, Wash., for the purpose of making a fresh water Larbor The bill giving the Brainard & Northers Minnesota Raflway company a right of wAp through the Leech Lake Indlan reservation was passed, also a bill authorizing the cofs struction of a foot and wagon bridge oved the St. Croix river hetwesn Wisconsin and Minnesota At 5:20 the houso ndjourned. INCOME TAX DEBATE RESUMED, Amendment Adopted Exempting Mutust Savings Tanks from Tation. WASHINGTON, June 27.—Only cleven sens ators were In the chamber when View President Stevenson called the body to order. Twenty minutes wore consumed awaiting the appearance of a quorum. A bill to amend the act providing for the times and places for holding terms of United States court fn the state of Washington was passed. Then the debate on the income tax provi sions of the tarift bill was resumed. T pending amendment was that of Mr. Allisos to exempt corporations, companies or assos clations having a capital stock of loss than $100,000. Mr. Hill tmmediately took the floor. The theory of this Income tax, he sald, was that the incomes of Individual investments unless they exceeded $4,000 should not be bject to the tax. But mo such limitatio existed as to corporations. He could see no; reason for the distinction. He thought some. a dment should be adopted that would give a small corporation the same exemption granted to individuals. Mr. Vest, In reply to Mr. Hill, said that: under the present system of taxation, the tarift system, the citizens pald upon com= sumption. It was unjust and unequal. The. poor paid practically as much as the rich. Property and incomes, in his opinion, should pay for the protection of the government. Mr. Allison finally deeided to withdraw his amendment altogethor. Several amendments were offered exempts ing corporations, jolnt stock companies and other associations, but they were each turn lost. Mr. Aldrich offered an amend- ment to except savings banks organized on the mutual plan solely for the benefit of their depositors. It was accepted. Mr. Vest, in the same counection, offered an amendment, which was ngreed to, exe empting mutnal savings banks conducted for the benefit of depositors in the state of Del ware. Mr. Hill moved to amend section 60, to provide for the inspection of the accounts of corporations subject to the tax so as to limit the time of Inspection to the period between March 1 and Angust 1. After some further debate, without action on Mr. Hill' amendment, the senate, at 0, adjourned. WESTERN PE Voterans of the Lato War Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, June 27.-(Special to The Bee.)—Pensions granted, lssue of June 14, were: Nebraska: Renewal—Carson L, Bladen, Webster. Reissue—Samuel H. Fra- zier, Humboldt, ‘Richardson. Original wid= ows, ete.—Juliana Heilig (mother), Tecum- seh, Johnson. Jowa: Increase—Irving A, Des Moines, Polk; Solomon T. Baker, Keos sauqua, Van Buren. & South Dakota: Rencwal and_increase— George F. Johnson, Redfleld, Spink, In crease—Christopher ' €. King, Canning Hughes: John RB. Campbell, Hot Eg:_-l‘nn. Fall River. Reissue—Andrew J. ley, Bonestecle, Gregory. Original widows, ete. -Almira” Shafer, Valley Springs, Minne- aha. Colorado: Orfginal widows, Ticknor, Fort Collins, Larimer. Andrews, Stringham, ete.~Mary. Commissioner. i For a number of years Judge Joseph H. Blair has held the position of fish commiss sioner of the state, but because his other duties required so much of his time he resigned, the resignation to take effect on June L. An effort was made to have him continue looking after the interests of the finny tribes in the lakes and brooks of the state, but this was without effect. In view of the fact of the resignation, James B, Meikle of this city has been appointed to fill the vacancy. He qualificd yesterday and s now ready to enter upon the dis- charge of the duties of the office. At this time the commission consists of W. L. May, R. H. Oakley and James B, Melkle. This year the commission has planted 26,000,000 of wall-eyed pike and countless numbers of black bass, trout and crappies In the streams of the state, It was the intention of the commission to place 1,000,000 pike In Courtland lake, but this will not be done so long as the pracs tice of unlawful seining is permitted by the authorities of this county. —e McNitt-Brown, A very pretty wedding took place Tuesday evening at the residence of Mr. W, H. Brown, 2221 Dodge street, when Miss Emlly W. Brown was married to Mr.Frank McNitt in the presence of a few Invited guests, Rev. T. J. Mackay of All Saints officlating. The' parior was tastefully decorated wi palms and flowers, and a light repast was ed to the guests, * and A i Hold your breath, We're going to Pant. (Watch this space.) prowning, King &! Co., . W. Corner 15th and Louglas,