Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 6, 1894, Page 4

* arected gave thelr lives to their country i THE OMAHA DAILY BEE J ULY 6, 1891, ——— THEOMAHA D B [ UBLISHED TR OF SURSCRIPTION ly Bes (without Sunday), One Year.. y_Bea and Sundny, One Year. TN A S iree Month. ... Bunday Tiee, One Year... Faturday Tee, One Year.... Weekly Bee, One Yeac.... OFFIC Omaha, The Ree Pullding. Bouth Omahn, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Bta. Counoll Wufth, 17 Pearl strest. Chieagn Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Wanhington, 1407 F street, N. W. CORRESPONDENCE, di All communications relating to news and edi- Sorial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. DUSINESS LETTERS. AW bustness letters and remitta #ddressed to The Heo Publl Omahn. Drafts, chocks o made pavanl to the c THE BEE PUBLISHING CC ATLY BEE. ROSEWATER, Bditor. EVERY MORNING. OF CIRCULATION. Qeorge 11, Trschuck, secrotary of The | Tishing company, being duly sworn, say actual number of full and completd e Dally Morning, Evening and Sund during the month of June, 154, 2 BTATEME: that printed as a8 follows 66,463 pwold and return 11,676 Total wold Daily average *Sunday. Sworn to befors m. presence this 2a day of (Seal.) N —_— No! It is a base calumny to say that Mr. Bryan stald away from Nebraska City because Mr. Morton went there. CLEVELAND AND THE STRIKE. According to the most rellable reports |‘from Washington, President Cleveland, with his oustomary self-assertion, has himself personally assumed the conduct of the fed- eral forces that have been summoned to | cope with the pending strike. Having lg- | nored the proceedings that led up to the precipitation of the present labor troubles, he has at the last minute been convinced of the serfousness of the situation and has jumped into the arena with the cry that the strike must be put down. But how put down? Evidently by the same old methods that have been employed on pre- vious occasions to stamp out with military forco every vestige of resistance which labor may ofter to capital. President Cleveland's policy Is to put down the strike, not to settle the strike. One of the most Impor! t duties Im- posed upon the president by the constitu- tion Is that contained In the clause which reads that “he shall from time to time give the congress information of the state of the union and recommend to thelr con- sideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”” President Cleve- land called together In extraor- dinary session last September to appriso it of the gencral distress aused by the financial panic and recommended to it the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase law. On the of congress in regular session he gave a review of the foreign and internal relations of the United States since his return to the presidential chair imparted much sage advice on toples of common interest, although without speci- fic suggestions any important point. Later, after he had become hopelessly en- tangled In the meshes of his Hawailan policy, he endeavored to relieve himself of his unpopular task by referring the whole matter to congress and leaving further action to be guided by its pleasure in the matter. Now, however, when the country is confronted with a crisis more threaten- congres assembling and on What is that we see? A prohibition state ticket without Mrs. Bittenbender's name on it! _ Has the millennium arrived? ~ That mayoralty impeachment bomb seems to have exploded prematurely before it left the hands of the men who lighted the fuse. Omaha democrats ought to emulate the example of Omaha republicans and securo the location of their state convention in this clty. The railroads that are openly defying the order of the Nebraska State Board of Transportation in the transfer switch cases are peculiarly fitted to depreciate the df regard for law manifested by some of the strikers. The Nebraska prohibitionists succeeded in inducing three women to accept places on their state ticket. No one would be more surprised to hear of their election than these three women. But there is no im- minent danger of such event. Richard Croker and Mayor Gilroy, two of Tammany's richest beneficlaries, appear on the new tax list of New York, each as own- iog no taxable property whatever. Will thelr consciences serve them as well when the federal income tax collector comes around? "~ When the canal promoters-and the citizens committee shall have agreed upon a satis- factory bond proposition, so that the people will know what they are asked to do, there ‘will be plenty of discussion on that subject. Until then it is useless to discuss anything that presents so hazy an outline. The name Debs uttered within hearing ot a rallroad manager acts like a red flag flaunted before an Infuriated bull. There can be no ratlonal conference between rall- road managers and their employes until managers recover from the spasm into which they have been thrown by that awful The Chicago Record, which is admiring the audacity of the warden of the Kansas state penitentiary in acknowledging that he has saddled five mombers of his family upon the public in positions within his gift, ought to be furnished with the list of Omaha ‘ward assessors and thelr deputles. ‘The Kansas penitentiary only supports one fam- ily. The Omaha assessorships keep a fam- 1ly employed in almost every ward. An amusing case of mistaken Identity {8 found in an article going the rounds of the press which had its origin in the New York Sun, purporting to tell about the Amerleans who carry the largest life in- surance policles. It says that “John M. Thursten, who halls from Omaha, and who was prominent in the Hawailan troubles, was wiso enough before he went to Hawail o take out a policy of $100,000 on his life in favor of his wif Mr. Thurston must feel that his fame has been established and that he need aspire to no further homors when such an intelligent account of him Is the property of the public. It will take an expert to unravel the two Thurstons after this interesting episode. The dedication of the soldlers’ and sailors® monument. at Oleveland was fittingly per. formed on the anniversary of Independ- ence day. The soldiers and sailors in com- ~ memoration of Whom the monument is ~ in order to malntain the union ~ upon the Independence won from Great Britain by the revolution. Their deaths " were the assurance of a surviving patriot- _fsm as strong as that which animated the men of 1776, and liberty was as mucff to * them as It was to the signers of the Declara- _ tlon of Independence. The handsome shaft ‘and memorial tablet room on the most con- spicuous public. square in Cleveland will © pecall to each successive generation what it owes to the men who put down the great rebellion. founded The principals of the various schools are not very enthustastic over the suggestion that they be required to teach at least one class In addition to performing the other duties pertaining to their positions. One of the chief arguments that has been advanced {n support of the retention of woman prin- elpals and of promotion from the ranks is that the principal should have had practical experience in teaching. All the high-priced principals have taught different grades and wonld doubtless resent the imputation that they are no longer competent to do so Tagaln. Furthermore, untll only a few & years ago the principals In all the schools " had charge of a room containing two or more classes and acted as principal at the same time. They receive from §200 to $600 more than the best teacher under them, and for this sum ought to be willing to de- wote & little more time and energy to the foterests of the schools. By insisting upon the principals dolng some of the work of teaching the Board of Education can effect & waterial econowy, ing than any in recent years, when by the stoppage of railway traffic industries In various parts of the country are forced to shut down, when the United States mails are interrupted and traflic generally made precarious, the president has not a word of advice to offer to the people. Congress is in session at his very doors, ready and anxious to co-operate with any rational plan of solution which he may propose, but he goes on without,consulting the chosen rep- resentatives of the people. A message to congress, apprising it of the situation and embodying his recommenda- tions on the subject, “would not only be appropriate, but is clearly demanded by the constitution. For President Cleveland to personally volunteer to put down the strike without any effort at compromise, corciliation or settlement and without ask- ing the assistance of the legislative depart- ment is a step towards the one man power that must arouse the serious attention of all thinking people. . SOVEREIGN'S FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH. Mr. Soverecign’s Fourth of July oration was a frenzied bombardment of accumulated capital, but he suggests no remedy by which the relations of capital and labor can be made mutually beneficlal. Property is not robbery; it is simply the unused surplus of the product of toil. When honestly gotten it represents industry and frugality. Capital is the tool without which labor cannot sub- sist under modern conditions. The great problem is how to curb the greed of con- centrated wealth and at the same time make wealth subservient to the satisfaction of the wants and comforts of the producers. Mr. Sovereign simply wants to destroy wealth because capital concentrated under corporate control has exatted more than its due share from labor. His doctrine carried into effect would result in killing the goose that laid the golden egg. What all patriotic Americans should strive for is the abolition of monopoly, except when it is created for public uses and controlled by municipal, state and national authority. They should endeaver to protect capital in its rights to earn fair returns when employed in legitimate enterprises, and at the same time protect the wage workers from oppres- sive treatment. When a man occupying the position of Mr. Sovereign In the labor ranks makes asser- tions he should endeavor to confine himselt to facts instead of imposing on credulity and presuming on ignorance. The condition of the working classes is bad enough, but there is no warrant for exaggeration or mls- information, Mr. Sovereign declares that this country s burdened with 30,000 million- aires and 8,000,000 of tramps. As a matter of fact the list of millionaires collected in detail for each state two years ago shows that there were a fraction over 4,000 persons in this country whose wealth is estimated at over $1,000,000. It is safe to say that fully one-half of these alleged millionaires are oither insolvent or on the verge of bank- ruptey today. The terrible shrinkage In prop- erty values and smash-up of business con- cerns has thinned out the ranks of the mil- lionaires and knocked a big hole Into the cstimated fortunes of the multi-millionaires. It would have been just as easy for Mr. Soverelgn to assert that there are 30,000,000 tramps In this country as that they number 3,000,000, Among the 65,000,000 of population at least 33,000,000 are females and very few women are tramps. Of the 32,000,000 males fully 12,000,000 are under 18 years of age. That would leave 20,000,000 from which the ranks of trampdom are presumed to be re- cruited. Does it stand to reason that one out of every seven men In thls country is a tramp? Take Nebraska, for Instance. We have about 260,000 males over 18 years old. That would make Nebraska's quota of the tramp army over 35,000, when in fact No- braska’s actual tramp population does not excoed 1,000, The same proportions prevail in all the agricultural states. We make bold to assert that there are not 30,000 ac- tual tramps in this country at present. All the industrlal armies could not muster over 12,000 men on the tramp. There are un- doubtedly between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 wage workers, male and female, out of em- ployment, elther because they cannot get work or are on a strike, but are not tramps. Mr. Sovereign's figures on homeless bread- winners are equally misleading. He declares that only 2 per cent of the population of New York City live in homes of their own, Two per cent of the population of New York is 30,000 Now if there are 30,000 home owners in New York there are 30,000 families llving in thelr own houses. Taking five per- sons for each family, that would mean that ten out of every 100 families in homes of thelr own. It must be remembered, however, that thousands of bankers, mer- chants and men of moderate wealth in New York prefer to pay rent because they can invest their money better In speculative en- torprises than In real estate, It should not be forgotten also that the majority of the wage workers employed In New York live in Brooklyn, Jersey City and suburban towns, while the tenements of the city proper are occupled by Immigrant floaters who stop over In New York nierely for a few months live on thelr way to the Interior of the continent. The trouble with Mr. Sovereign is that he deals n florid fiction and eatchy phrases rather than {n substantial facts and sound argument. This class of oratory tends to inflame the minds of the most orderly and sober workingmen and makes them smart under what they consclentiously believe te be Insufferable wrongs. What the working- men need at this hour {s brave, cool-headed guidance and a truthful portrayal of the con- ditions and dangers with which the country fs confronted Instead of wild assertions and visionary schemes of redress that lead up to revolution and anarchy. The workingmen of America outnumber all other classes. They have it within thelr power to achieve all legitimate reforms peaceably. This Is a government of majorities. AN IMPORTANT CONGRESS. A congress or conference of very consider- able importance s being held In Ottawa, the capital of Canada. It is composed of delegates from colonles of Great Britain, and its object is to promote intercolonial trade and to bring these colonies into closer com- mercial relations. The British government {mposes certain restrictions upon Its colonies in connection with thelr revenue systems and their trade with other countrles, and an effort s to be made to obtain at least a modification of these restrictions. If this can be accomplished the plan is to form a intercolonial trade union. This cheme, it 1s easy to see, might have far- reaching effects, and it posscsses a par- ticular Interost for those Americans who believe that the time is not remote when Canada will become a part of the union, It suggests that the party now in control of the affairs of the Dominion not only has no sympathy, as everybody is aware, with the idea that any part of the country Is likely to be annexed to the United States, but that it is bent upon a policy calculated to defeat such a possibility. An intercolonial trade union such as is proposed, entered into with the full concurrence of the British government, would undoubtedly have the ef- fect to bind these colonies more closely, and perhaps also to increase their loyalty to the imperial government, to which they must still look for protection. There is no doubt that the dominant element in the Dominion is immovably loyal to the British govern- ment, but it realizes the necessity of doing something that will build up the material interests of Canada and thereby quiet the un- rest and discontent which proceed from a comparison of conditions in that country and the United States. The proposed union of the colones in a reciprocal trade arrange- ment would be a great help to the upbuild- ing of Canada and would do much to kill oft the sentiment for separation from Great Britain, either by annexation to the United States or by declaring independence. There Is a phase of the question, however, that may cause the British government to hesitate before conceding to the several colonies discriminating power In tariff mat- ters, even as regards intercolonial trade, and that s the existing treaties between Great Britain and foreign powers under which the products of the latter are to be admitted to the markets of the dependencies of the former under the most favored na- tions’ clause and the minimum rate of duty. The British government has before refused to permit Canada to enter into a reciprocal trade arrangement with some of the col- onies by which other colonles would be dis- criminated against, and as all the colonies are not represented in the congress it s possible the imperial authorities will want to hear what their wishes are before as- senting to any arrangement from which they might be excluded. - Still the effort s to be made to have the restrictions re- moved which stand in the way of the pro- posed reciprocal trade union, with the prob- abilities in favor of its success. Should it be successful Canada will care less even than now about reciprocity with the United States, and may go farther than she has done In Imposing discriminating duties against the manufactured products of this country. A reciprocal intercolonial trade union would enable her people to be more independent of the American market than they now are, and with the realization of this there would come a decline of the sontiment favorable to throwing off con- nection with Great Britain and becoming a part of the American republic. reciprocal AMERICAN RAILWAY INTERESTS. The annual report of the statisticlan of the Interstate Commerce commission, giving statistics of the rallroads of the country for the year ended June 30, 1893, is of rather more than ordinary interest at this time. Very few people have any conception of the vastness of the railway interests of the United States. The railroad mileage of this country one year ago was over 176,000 miles, exceeding by 70,000 miles the total mileage of Great Britain and Ireland, Germany, France, Russla and Austria-Hungary, and being nearly half of the total mileage of the world. Ralilroad construction in the United States has been very slow for several years, and it seems probable that it will continue to be for some years to come. That it has outrun the demand is admitted by all who have given Intelligent attention to the mat- ter, and it 18 to be expected that hereafter capital will not be so easily drawn into this form of investment as it was a few years ago. During the last three years the total railroad construction has not much exceeded 10,000 miles, a large part of which was In extenslons necessary to the completion of systems. The era of greatest railroad development in this country was the decade between 1880 and 1890, when the mile- age Increased from 93,000 miles in the former year to 161,000 in the latter, an average annual Increase of 6,500 miles, while during the last four years the average an- nual increase has been less than 4,000 miles. The construction of 68,000 miles of railroad in ten years was In excess of the require- ments of the country, and there can be no doubt that it would have been better for railroad investors and all others if the ad- vance in this respect had been less rapid, But a still better impression of the vast- ness of this interest can be obtained when it is known that the aggregate property properly classified as railway capital was on June 30, 1893, in round numbers $10,500,000,000, equal to over $83,000 per mile of line. Granting that a considerable part of this Is fictitious, there will still after deducting a reasonable amount as inflation, an enormous capital invested in the rallroads of the coun- try. The national debt at its highest point was $2,773,000,000. The bonded debt of the railroads of the country approximates five billions, and they are stocked for over five billions. In other words, the rall- roads are capitalized for four times as much as the national debt at its maximum, and about twelve times the amount of that debt at present. On this colossal over-capitaliza- tion it would be impossible to earn fixed charges and pay dividends under the moat favorable conditions. It Is not surprising to find that more than 61 per cent of the total stock outstanding pays no dividends. The earnings of the railroads for the year remain, ro somewhat In ex- but se (n operating ex ended Juno 30, 1803 coss of of there was also an Mo penses, and the surplus was less than that of the preceding ¥ When it Is re- membered that the d from July 1, 1802, to June 30, 1893, w A very for the rallroads | easy to believe that during the past twelve months of general depression the railr#@® have not only made no money, but in m yegrogate have been large losers. A hedvy decrease in business 1s shown by all the roads whose statements for the past year have been made public, and while most of Mhet have practiced a rigld economy few have been able to keep thelr expenses below their receipts. New conditions, regulting from a change in the economic pofley of the govern- ment, must affect the railroad iInterest in common with all others, and will probably tend to complicate the problem of rallway management. That has been anything but simple and casy in times of great general prosperity, and now that there is required a readjustment of business to new condi- tions the difficulties of the rallroads are likely to be Increased, or at any rate will not be less troublesome than they have been. One thing the statistics impressively suggest, and that Is that the country has all the railway mileage it will need for at least the remaining years of the present century. those receding year, favorable one —_— VOORHEES IN RETIREMENT, Nothing connected with the management of the tarlff bill in the senate has been so noticeable and noted as the remarkable re- tirement of Senator Voorhees from active participation in the proceedings. Senator Voorhees has been In Washington right along and las retained the position of chairman of the finance committee, to which he was elevated by his fellow democrats when they found themselves in control of the senate upon its convening in extra session last summer. During the extra session Voorhees was head and front of the administration forces in thelr contest for the repeal of the Sherman silver purchase act. He was per- sonally in command of the fight on the floor of the senate and directed the campaign that finally overcame the free coinage fill- busters. He was the go-between between the white house and the recalcitrant demo- cratic senators and made himself the most conspicuous man on the democratic side, In the tariff debate, in which the chair- man of the finance committeo would very naturally assume the leading place, Senator Voorhiees has been heard from only at in- tervals, and then in his individual capacity and not as representative of the sentiment of his party associates in that body. The parliamentary manipulation was early handed over to Senator Harris of Tennessee, the supervision of the work of amendment was assigned to Semator Vest of Missouri, and the task of reconciling members and deciding upon requests for further changes was undertaken by Senator Jones of Ar- kansas. All these spnators are members of the finance committee, but they are all out- ranked by Voorhees and would ordinarily have ylelded to the chairman of the commit- tee. But In this case thejchalrman has been in a position even wors than that of the regular member of the committee. Not only has the leadership | been taken away from him, but ~he' ' has been kept in ignorance of what was actually going on within the committee and subcommittees. His Ignorance has led him into several humilidting mistakes, notably when he denied on the floor of the senate the allegation that~over 300 amendments to the senate bill had, already been agreed upon by members of the committee, only to have the amendments reported to the senate a few days later. Since having been caught in that exhibition of his helplessness he has been very careful in making statements as to what the democrats proposed to do. The most surprising part of this perform- ance Is that Voorhees has silently submitted to these indignities and has continued to hold the name, though not the substance, of the finance committeo chairmanship. Per- haps he may hope to assume his rightful duties once more when other measures are in question, but the revenue Is the most important topic with which that committee has to deal, and it is unlikely that it will be called upon to engineer the passage of any other revenue measures for some con- siderable time. Voorhees' chairmanship has therefore already practically proved a fail- ure. It was really too bad that Congressman Bryan could not be in attendance at the Fourth of July celebration at Nebraska City. He might have explained why he and Secretary Morton did not make their pllgrimages to the shrine of Jefferson at Menticello together. Adlal is letting no grass grow beneath his feet. It Is as hard for him to decline an Invitation to make a public address as it is to play the figure-head presiding over the upper house of congress. A Preside 1 Spurt. Washington Post. The vigorous manner In which Senator Sherman attacks the Pullman car leads to the suspicion that he has not given up all hopes of the presidency. ————— Enough and to Spare, Kansas City Star. The analysls of the senate vote on the tarift bill shows that the democrats had votes to throw at the birds. Even the de- fection of the two Loulsiana senators could not have affected the result, even with the Kinaly assistance of Hill and Pefter. The Knowledge of this may be useful during the conference. ————— Orders Honored In the Breach. Springfield Republican. Postmaster General Bissell has ordered all hostmasters to attend.to their business and et political conventions alone. What he wants to do now is to ‘enforce the order. Then the postoffices Wil not be so attrac- tive 40 local party bosses who want the pluce chiefly because of the vantage ground i gives for the direction of the party af- fairs. —_— Another Version, Denver Republican, The silver resolution adopted league convention demands - the restora- tion of silver to its fiullest and highest use, This means the establishment of bi- metallism at & ratio not of 16 to 1, but to 1. The frignds of silver in the nited States should stand for the latter ratio, for it s the one upon which the silyer of the Latin uniou has been coined. for Shore. - a. jeneral Hogan's \ glven an in- otting of & boat to watch by the Commonweal navy voluntary bath by a. It will be Inte of this imme of the Industrials has before been charged with tiking o bath, and it 18 within the bounds of probability that the ducking may re- Vive early recollections and inspire the Coxeyites with an awakened desire to go to work. P1iying the Popden New Yoik Sun, The popdems are not succeeding in the true popdem spirit when they tax playing cards at 2 cents a pack. The wealth of the pack should be made to pay Its pro- portionate share of the expenses of the kovernment. Ivery face card should be faxed 2 per cent, or, at any rate, nothing below an eight spot should be taxed. Why are the plutocrats of the pack not fined as they should be? Why this fallure (o dis- crimiuate sgalnst the dudes of the deck? Card. THE KAISER'S OV IVE RRANCH. Denver Republioan | better foeling between France is developing. It has beon stimu- lated by events connected with the assas- sination of Carnot It s possible that the two nations il again become friends and that the wounds caused by the war and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine will be healed It would be expecting too much, however, to look for this at an early day. New York Tribune: That the blow which has fallen upon France has knit closer the bonds of sympathy between the Buropean nations Is apparent from the genuine sorrow and_sympathy excited by the assassination of Carnot. Additional and most gratifying ovi ce thereof Is furnished by the action of Emperor William In pardoning recently the two French officers who were arrested s sples near Kiel last year and condemned to imprisonment. This creditable act on the part of the emperor of Germany can searcely fail to have a marked effect in bringing about a better state of feeling be- tween the republic and the empire. The em- peror has done a graceful thing at the right moment New York World It appenrs thal Gormany and The liberation of the two French sples by the German emperor was an act of grace and of wisdom. It was an expression of sympathy awakened by the calamity which has saddened France. It was courtly and chivalrous, and It was replete with significance, for it sald in deods more expressive than words that at such a time the German cmperor cannot recognize the possibility of hostile sentiments between the two nations. Nothing that Willlam could have done could so greatly mitigate the asperity of French feeling_toward Ger- many, for the time at least. single act of his since the boginning of his reign has made so much for peace. It was a little thing perhaps, and left alone would not be enduring, but many of such little courtesies would in the end wear out all hatred. If the rulers of the world only realized how much more powerful sentiment is than Bis- marck's “blood and iron” the outlook for the future would be very much brighter. Armies would be smaller and taxes lighter. IR A PEOPLE AND THINGS, The cannon cracker established its repu- tation as an armless contrivance So far Coxeyl'm has cost the government $62,000. Several good roads could have been made with this money. Keir Hardie is the only member of the Houso of Commons who ever declared an equality between undressed kids, Owing to the debilitated condition of the tiger, Governor Hogg's reception in New York resembles the soft side of a Manitoba blizzard. The table upon which President Lincoln signed the emancipation proclemation is now the property of United States Treasurer Morgan. Tho discovery of the ossified remains of a pre-historic American in California_ tends to confirm the ancient lineage of the modern mossback. Sir Edwin Arnold sald the other day that ho heartily endorsed a remark once made hy Chauncey M. Depew—"Fame depends on be- ing civil to interviewers.” Two additional canals have been observed on Mars at the Flagstaft (Ariz) observa- tory, making seven or eight in all, but not tho sign of a mule driver has yet been dis- covered. Willlam Walsh, the last but one of those who defended Baltimore agairst the British invasion in 1814, is dead. He was 14 years old at the time, and was pres:ed into service to mould bullets. Stuart B. Reed of Harrison county, West Virginia, was introduced to the republican league convention at Fairmount, W. Va., the other day as the oldest republican in the United States. He is 103 years old and is still in good health. Thomas E. Breckinridge, who crossed the plains with Fremont's expedition in 1845, is living at Telluride, Colo., in destitute cir- cumstances. Petitions praying for the fed- eral government to grant him a pension are clrculating in Colorado and California. A bill now before the Massachusetts legis- lature prohibits the use of the word color or colored, as applied to persons, in any official record of birth, death or marriage, when so requested by the applicant. The intention is to wipe out every shade of difference be- tween the races. The rotund harmony of the New York con- stitutional convention is seriously menaced by an obstreperous member, who insists on a provision prohibiting public ofiicials from accepting railroad passes. Members who enjoy the freedom of the trains are loudest in resenting the clause as a personal reflec- tion. '"Twas ever thus. Of the many explanations offered for the senate's delay in passing the tarift bill, there is one whose reactionary influence is over- looked. Since the debate began six quart bottles of apollinaris, a box of lemons and the usual accessories were consumed every day by the senators. Accessories cover a multitude of dilatory tactics. Sam Houston’s grave in the little cemetery at Huntsville, Tex., is in 80 shabby a condi- tion of neglect as to excite regret on_ the part of many Texans. There have been propositions before the leglslature to re- move the patriot’s remains to Austin, the state capital, and to erect a monument over them, but nothing definite has ever been done. “Uncle Dick” Thompson, the hale old vet- eran of the Wabash, has been a great lover of tobacco all his lifetime, and now, in his age, he smokes from ten to twenty cigars a_day and fills in the odd moments with an old pipe, in which he inserts perique and plug tobacco. His favorite brands of the weed are "Wabash stogies,” which are be- lieved to be a little worse than Pittsburg stogies. The orator's eagle eye swept the vast, pul- sating multitude, while a wreath of joy ab- sorbed the combing waves of applause set in motion by his appearance. ‘‘Fellow citi- ho began, as soon as peace was re- stored, “the times demand action, not words, Tyranny stalks abroad. Oppression's ghastly front overshadows the land. We are face to “face with the foes of blood-bought freedom. Hence, 1 say, this is not the time for sil- very tongues—" A mightly wave of protest cut short the grator's periods, and a mas- terly maneuver of his friends enabled him to escape to the brush. The_distinguished editor of the Philadel- phia Record and democratic candidate for governor of Pennsylvania opens the cam- paign of reform with a julcy assortment of striking mottoes, of which the following are choice selections: *A man that is often sat supon—ottoman,” It doesn’t make a room any cooler to put a frieze around the walls.” “It fsn’t every man who has plenty to say that gets a chance to say it.” “A downtown man who owns a hornless goat calls it oleo- margarine because it is no butter.” “The architect asked Mrs. Newrich if she wanted an electrolier in her parlor, whereupon the lady replied: ‘No; I don’t think my daughter knows how to play it Walter Aldrich, the bibliographer, of Prov- idence, R. I, has in his posse:sion a unique bandana handkerchief, one yard square, made of silk of red body, with portraits of Davis, Beauregard, Semmes, Lee, Mason, Slideli, Morgan, Jackson and Johnson, printed in black, encircled with wreaths of characteristio southern leaves, with ferns and the cotton plant on white ground. It is ¢ald to be the only one extant of the twelve orderad for the confederate government in Eogland by Judah P. Benjamin, and was rescued, when on his way to this country, from the Alabama when she sunk. It subse- quently became the property of General Kirby Smith, but Mr. Aldrich now owns it and has It framed and glazed and values it at $1,000. Federal Inter w York World, The World holds that all violent interfers ence with the railway companies in per- forming their duties” as pul carrlers should be prevented if possible, and pun- {shed if It cannot be prevented., This should be done, however, through the local utharities in the vided by law hat the federal t couid be alled upon to interve such a matter would not have been d ten years ago. Through the encroachment of the federal courts it is now being dragged in on all possible occasions, but the effort o muke a federal question of quarrels be- tween employers and employes should be vesisted with the whole force of enlight- ened publie opinion. Such an injunction as that drawn by two corpordtion attorneys and granted yesterday by Judges Grossoup and Woods 18 monstrous invasion of the people’s rights, If this doctrine prevails and terference 18 insisted upon, on that railronds are perforn service, and that conse ployes are quasi-public’ servants, federal in- the ground 1 A semi-public ently railroad em- then the Interference ahould not be by a lexal quib: be. The g v rnment s)ould act frankly and stralghtforwardly and accept the full con sequences of the position it assumes -— The Whisky Trust. Cinelnnatl Southwest (dem ) The sugar scandal has lately monopolized public attention to such an extent that an other trust not less odicus than the Sugnr trust has felt pretty safe of securing, with- out the deserve ndemnation, an enactment t senate sugar to the Whisky trust and its o the tax on whisky increas he senate bill [rovides for an increaso of 2 cents per, Kal: on, to take effect on the first day of the second ealendar month after the enactment of the bill, The WHhisky trust and other spirit distilieries, which for the time being make common cause with it, have enor: mous quantities of spirits stored away, all of which are immediately available as they are ready for use. With the gigantic pro- ducing eapacity at their command they can 1 sily during the forty-five days the average time between the passage of the bill and the date of its taking effect a three months' supply, which, added what {8 now on hand, would probably , or al 000,000 gallons, on which the trust its followers would scoop In an extra pr of $,00,00 before the treasury would a smell of the increased tax. If the demo- cratic members of congress belicve that this scheme can be consummated without creating a scandal fully as malodorous as the sugar scandal they are mightily mis- taken The fact that half a dc Kentucky ask for this different plea and under Whisky trust animosity makes no differ ce. They speak for o coterie of specu- lators who are, like the trust itself, in des perate straits, The country 18 not in a mood to deal leniently with the demo- cratic party, and we warn the majority of congress to bew of the Whisky trust and those who co-operate with ft. Whisky pays now a United States tax 'which {s more than equal to 450 per cent ad valorem, and, besides this, fmmense municipal and state taxes In the shape of license. If the manufacturers of such an article ask f an additional tax of over 100 per cent there is something wrong, and the democrats will hear of it in the next campalgn from every stump In the land if the house does not Kl the infamous scheme of legislating £,000,000 into the pockets of the trust and its confederates, and perhaps as much more into the pockets of whisky speculators. The of whisky tax Is demanded sts only, and if the maje n congress has the welfare of the demo- fc party at heart it will let the present whisky tax laws severely alone, because they produce a satisfactor nue—the grentest we obtainable, in the bellef of Dayid A. Wells—and they seem to suit the whole trade, with the exception of a few speculators and the Whisky trust. Pullman and His Starvellngs. Chieago Herald. At a safe distance from the scene of operations, George M. Pullman has thought it adyisable to talk stern new PAper reporters conce existing raflroad troubles in the west. Mr. Pullman believes, or affects to be- lieve, that the gevelopment of the strike or the bogeott ha% carried it to a point where it no longer concerns either him personally or the company of which he is the head, di- rectly or indirectly. He believes that 'the issue between himself and his employes has been submerged and lost sight of In the trouble between the railroads and their em- ployes. He believes, in short, that the pub- s no further concern in the dispute led to the present paralysis of trans- portation and trade west of the Ohlo riyer. Mr. not wet en members from. legislation on a great display of Pullman is altogether mistaken. He mistikes the significance of the present situation and he mistakes the feeling of the public toward him and his company. He mistakes the American support of law and order for support of George M. Pull- man and the Pullman company. He mis- takes hostility to lawbreakers and riot- ers for hostility to his ill-fed, underpaid employes. He is mistaken in every one of his assumptions and he will realize his mistake when the present emergency ceases to exist. R ey o to the Silverites, . New York Sun. The income tax now in the tariff bill 1s founded solidly on the principle of taxation without representation. Is this bewildering eccentricity in our government, this im- measurable violation of every American rule, the threat of blind socialistic fanat- fclsm? Not a bit of it. It is a self-absorbed and coldly calculated scheme to make Grover Cléveland solid with the silver men, and to lay a griping southern hand upon northern flesh, BT LT Love's Labor Lost. Washington Post. Senator Hill has made many changes in the tarift bill, but he is making it rather uncomfortable for those of his colleagues who are making an effort to stand by that measure and the Chicago platform with- out losing their balance. BELATED CRACKERS. Harvard Lampool to_discharge me, Druggist—Yes; without you. Clerk—Are you golng then? I think we can dispense Detroit Free Press: Judge—What is the prigoner charged with? Clerk—Drunkenness, your honor. Judge—Rub it out; it's a bad debt. Browning, King & Co.s Monthly: “Do you belleve In woman's rights?" she asked the shoe dealer. ou bet I do “And In woman's _lefts, ‘em for ' was the reply. too; and I've got Arkansaw Traveler: The first thing a man does when he finds that a counterfeit dollar has been passed on him is to study out something to spend it for immediately. Somerville Journal: When it comes to packing a trunk, the average woman can do_a good deal better alone than she can if her husband is around, but the husband comes in handy to sit on the trunk lid, after she has got everything inside, Buffalo Courier: Jilson says he thinks a good many women are demanding the bal- lot with the idea that they are going to get curlpapers at the expense of the state, Chicago Tribune: The stately steamer plowed its way through the blue waves of Lake Michigan, “0 Horace!” moaned the - young bride who a_moment before had paced the deck with smiling face and lovelit eye, the hap- plest of the happy, “I feel so queer! Let me lean on your shoulder.” “No, dearest, don't do that! exclaimed Horace hastily. “Lean over the side of the steamer.” WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE. Cleveland Plain Dealer. He fished, and wished, And wished, and fished— But not u bite got he; He swore, and tore, And tore, and swore At river, lake and sea, He bent, and went, And went and bent His homeward way, and then— He lied, with prid With pride he lied- Like other fishermen. —_— ABOUT THIS TIME, New York Press, The youtll is leaving college, With his head crammed fuil of knowledge, And lllil!lklm; in his heart he knows it all, all, all; And to thosé who do not know it, At some early day he'll show it, When he comes to show his skill in play- ing bail, ball, ball. The mald is graduated, AlL her thirst for learning sated, No longer over sums abstruse she pores pores, pores But she finds more dear employment, And a livelier enjoyment, In shopping tours among the dry goods stores, stores, stores, The boy who's been in swimming, Denles, with tears bedimming His eyes, that such a thing he's been about, 'bout, 'bout; But finds a deal of bother In explaining to his mother How It happens that his shirt's inside out, out, out. | Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota. FRESIT AIR FOR LAWMAKERS Not Enough to Sustain Happy Life is Now Furnished Them, SENATOR HANSBRUUGH ON SANITATION Complalng that the Constenction Capitol Bullding Is Such nger the Logistative 1 t the us to En- Lives of Men in s WASHINGTON BURKAU OF THE BER, 1407 F Street, N, W. WASHINGTON, July 6. cannot sald in mnas the capitol,” sald 'The and the hall of the house are bullt inside the outer walls of the cap- itol building. Around each hall large corridors extend, which futervene bee tween the pure alr and the penned-up states- men who would be glad to breathe it. The architect of the capitol Is a very old man, who receives a stipend of $4,600 per annum; but I do not understand that thing to enhance the sanitary condition ot the big bullding, and while he is the fn- cumbent of that ofice nobody else can do anything for us. Circumstances are such that the mortality of congress s greater than it ought to be, and it is a matter of fact that senators and representatives have been killed by the fmpure air of the capitol building. There ought to be some method devised for supplying these legislative halls with sufficlent pure air to make life endur- able if not enjoyable all of the time. “All_around the capitol building, and throughout the entire city, the surface ot the carth is covered with concrete pavements, which absorb all heat by day and radiate it at night. The national capitol is beautl- ful to look at, and It is creditable to the artistic desires and pride of our people; but it is not at the same time creditable to our knowledge of the laws of health, I think that during this era of reform which pervades the legislative and exccutive des partments of the government It is particus larly necessary that some reformation should be made in our hygienle methods." WANT TO FINISH THIS MONTH. Senator Allison of Towa, late chairman of the senate committee on appropriations, spent the Fourth of July in the room of the com- mittee with Senator Cockrell of Missourl, who fs now chairman of that committee, and Senator Call of Florida, those three constituting a subcommittee of the senate commttee on appropriations for the consid- eration of the legislative, execative and jus dicial appropriation bill. Senator Cockrell sald to The Bee correspondent that in addition to the legislative bill the subcommittee of the committee on appropriations 1s considerin the Indian and naval appropriation bills, an; will have them ready to report to the sen- ate early next week. The senator says that so far as the semate Is concerned every- thing will be done to facilitate action on appropriation bills, so that an adjourn- ment may be had not later than August 1. The senate committee on commerce today took up the river and harbor appropriation bill, and will have that ready to report about the middle of next week. While the sena- tors are now diligently endeavoring to con- clude the session of congress It seems likely that many and vexatious delays will oceur in the house of representatives by reason of difficulties arising out of Intense dif- ferences of opinion concerning the various schedules of the tariff bill, which will to- morrow be taken up for consideration by the conference committee. SOMB LAND OFFICE DECISIONS. The secretary of the Interior has rendered decisions on appeals from the decisions of the commissioner of the general land office in the following contests in Nebraska and South Dakota: Nebraska—Thomas C. Kelly agalnst Albert R. Barues, r 40 w McCook distrlct, motions for review denied and Barnes' entry to stand; Gerard A. Vanderveen agalnst Robert Thompson, r 19 w Neligh district, decislon afirmed and Thompson's entry held fc cancellation; Ella M. Hughes against Joha H. Goffett, r 51 w Sidney district, declsion afirmed and Goffett's entry held for cane cellation; €. H. ‘Porter against F. Mg~ Given, r 2 e Neligh district, declsion nold ing McGiven's entry for cancellation af- firmed; Mark Burke against John M. Barnes, r 41 North Platte district, decision affirme and Burke's application for entry rejocted; Robert B. Branch against Robert J. Mos Donald, r 16 Bloomington district, afrmed and McDonald’s entry allowed to stand. South Dakota—George Navholz against V. D. Chaaning, r 56 Watertown district, des clsion affirmed and contest dismissed; Charles E. Ady against Ziphoriah H. Boyle, r 73 Aberdeen district, motion for review overruled; Irene M. Forgers, r 63 Waters town district, decision afirmed and entty held for cancellation; Willlam H. sthr “Too much tion of the ot con: condition senate chamber legislative he does any- is against Granville B. iealey, r 52 Yanjton district, appeal dismissed and Healey's of L-‘ is to stand; Charles N. Daley against Lee Barton, r 63 w Huron district, motfon for review denied and Barton's entry to stand. REFORMS IN THE PRINTING BUREAU. Contemplated reforms in the methods of printing work for the government aré pointed out in a communication forwarded by Public Printer Benedict to the heads of departments. He says: “The practice that various departments and bureau offi- clals have fallen into in furnishing hasty or imperfect copy to the public printer, with tho purpose of revising it in proof, has grown into a most serious abuse, Durln late years certain departments have deplet their allotments for printing by tens of thousands of dollars merely for the revision of proofs. Frequently the original cost of composition has been doubled and quadrupled. Nor is that the only evil. Type has often been required to be held for months, awalt- ing the return of proofs, encumbering the office, and the typographical appearande of the work Is serlously marred by free editing after the work I3 in type.” Congressman Bryan has secured the pas- sago of his bill compelling the recording of United States courts’ judgments in a county where the property is situated, except where the court keeps In the county a permanent record of the United States judgments open for inspection. This bill affects Lancaster, Adams and Madison counties, which now have to send to Omaha to examine for United States court judgments. Postmasters have been appointed as fol- lows: lowa—Ledyard, Kossuth county, A, H. Graves, vice W. A. Wright, removed; Little- ton, Buchanan county, B. B. Barclay, vice E. M. Smith, removed. ‘South Dakota—Sutley, Campbell county, A. 0. Berreth, vice J. J. Hummings, resigned. The comptroller of the currency has ap- proved the selection of the National Bank of St. Joseph of St. Joseph, Mo, as a res serve agent of the First Natlonal bank Fairbury, Neb., and the Lincoln Nation bank of Chicago of the Kearney National bank of Kearney, Neb. A pension has been granted to Colonel D. R. Scott of Sioux Falls, 8. D. —— Whisky and the Tariff. CHICAGO, July 6.—The managers of the Whisky trust met today to consider the new tarift bill and the probable effects of the im creased tax on spirits. It was sald the trusf will make an effort to get possession of all the supply of spirits in tho market in anticls pation of the rige which Wil follow the pass sage of the tarlft bill Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S, Gov't Report, Roval Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE