Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 9, 1894, Page 4

= THEOMAHA DALY ROSEWATER, Editor. i PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, e = TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. i ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year....§$ 00 ly_Thee and Bunday, One Year e i Months v res Montiis day Bee, Onn Yoar =] ridny 16, One Yens .18 feckly Tieo, One Year....... L OFTICT: alia, The fee Puflding ith Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Sts. Counctl Binfs, 12 Pearl street leago Office, 317 Clinnber of Commeres. et York, Rooms 12, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. ashington, 1407 ¥* strect, N, W & ATl communien forial mattor ah BUS ANl business letters and remitt [reesed tn The Dee Dublishing e aba, Drafts, chocks and postoffice order ting to news and edl- To the BAitor. w made p the trder of the ¢ ny. +iee PEBLISRING COMPANY [e=— = STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1, y of The Bre Pub- Hshing comp, worn, says that the setual nunih Complats comes of The nily Morn: nd Sunday lee printed 1904, was a8 follow Total Less deduct coples 666,467 returned Total nold net circulut TZSCHT cribed in G Sworn betore m presence this 3a day Seal.) CONVENTION DATES. August 2, Sixth district republican con- vention, Broken Bow. August 8, Fourth convention, York district congressional August 14, First district republican con- vertion, Nebraska City. vgust 22, republican state convention, Omaha, 2, Avgust Sixth district congressional senvention, Broken Bow. We are still waiting for the president to eommunicate with congress on the subject of the strike. Isn't it pretty near time for Mr. Pullman to discover that he still has the opportunity to set in motlon the arbitration machinery that will peaceably end the strike? The railroads will recoup themselves for their losses by saddling Uncle Sam with a heavy bill of expenses for transporting troops and munitions of war. But the strikers will have no way to make up their losses, One political convention has already heen knocked out by the strike, as is seen in the postponement of the Iowa state republican convention, which was called for July 11, until two weeks later. The ecarly convention this year is laboring under unsual difficul- thes The register of deeds, who is asking for an increase in the compensation of his as- sistants and clerks, has evidently failed to become Imbued with the prevalent spirit of retrenchment. If one county official suc- ceeds in ralsing the salaries of his subordi- nates 4t will not be long before all the others make strenuous efforts to follow his example. Perhaps President Cleveland is afraid that congress might seek to share the glory of “putting down the strike” if he should ask for advice or suggest that it provide a rem- edy by legislation for the pending labor dificulties. The president seems to forget that there are three co-ordinate departments of the federal government and not one only. Republicans of Nebraska will have no time this year for a defensive campaign. If they nominate clean, capable men they will #weep the state. If they load themselves down with tattooed candidates whose un- savory records call for apology and ex- planation they will have an up-hill work from atart to finish, with the odds heavily against them, It seems quite probable that the courts will be occupied for a whole generation with the settlement of the litigation arising out of the failure of the Capital National bank. The more the affairs of that institution are Investigated the more evidences of fraud are @discovered and additional grounds unearthed for further suits to recover moneys fraudu- lpnlly taken from the creditors. The de- positors will have to loose the greater part of what is due them, even if all the suits to recover from the stockholders are success- tully prosecuted. The “general” of one of the late Industrial armies, after having escaped the toils of the law, has been entrapped in the toils of mat- rimony, and, as a consequence, has con- eluded to relinquish his lucrative potision as commander of his fellow unemployed. This incident indicates a solution of the Industrial army problem. The greater number of its members are unmarried men. All that is necessary Is for the marriageable women of the land to exercise their blandishments upon them and induce them to enter the married state. With wives to procure work for them and see that they remain at work the “‘privates well as the ‘“generals might retire from army life, ‘This s an era of progre Henceforward our federal jud, to be graduates from the traffic managers office 80 as to be able to make rate schedules and maximum rates for the railroad re- celvers, and, for that matter, for railroads that are not in the hands of recelvers. Our army officers Will have to serve apprentice- hips in locomative works and car shops and familiarize themselves with the duties de- volving on englneers and couductors so0 as to be efficient in running trains. With the fudiclary making :chedules and the army officers dolng the train despatching, locomo- tive driving and freight handling, the rail- road managers will be like Othello, without an occupation. According to the city charter the mayor is to desiguate what positions the various mem- bers of the Board of Public Works are to ocoupy during the ensuing year at the time he sends in his annual nomination of & new member of that board. There is no necessity for the city council to approve such designa tion. Nelther is there anything which au thorizes the mayor to make the designation conditionally. We fal! to sce why the desig- mation of the chalrvian aud the sewer com- missioner filed Ly the mayor with the city olerk should not take effect at once without awaiting any possible action of the city coun oll. Had a new chalrman been designated, this question would have assumed & much more lwportant aspect. and evolution, will have s e O TR 5 L BB R s a0 e s W THE OMAHA DAILY THE MAXIMUM RATE DECISION. report has reached railroad head- rs through sources that are readily ac- Justice Brewer has reached a by which the maximum rate bifl pased by the last legislature will be de- clared unconstilutional. The grounds for the decision zre said to be because the bill has not been read in full on each of the three stages of- its passage through both houses, and, furthermore, because the bill does not define the manner In which the state courts shall determine whether the rates are confiscatory. It would hardly be profitable for us to discuss the grounds al The quar cessible that decision leged to be set forth in the decision of Justico Drewer until after the opinion h been formally promulgated. Inasmuch the law has been hung up in the courts ever since its passage and the railroads have deflantly disregarded the law up to this time, no very serious effect will be felt by the shippers if the law is declared invalld. The probabilities are that an appeal will be taken to the United States supreme court 80 as to get a definite expression from that tribunal on the points involved. One thing fs clear, however, and that is that tome of the most important measures lioretofore enacted by the legislature of this not read in full on three parate days, and therefore would have to be declered void if any taxpayer should see fit to assail their validity in the courts. In any event the num rate question will once more become a live issue in every leg- islative district, and that means, of course, that the railroad que-tion will again be an important fector in the state campaign. state have been max Speaker Crisp pursued the usual course in sinting the house members of the con- nce committce, selecting them from the s and committee according to their rank. This takes from the south all the democratic members, of the conference committee on the part of the house. It had been urged that at least one member of the majority should be taken from the north and it would have been judicious to do this, although it would have necessitated a de- parture from the uniform practice, but the speaker could not be induced to change from the uniform practice, and so the south, which also has a majority of the senate members of the conference committee, will determine the ultimate form of the tariff bill. It is said that the more radical tariff re- formers in the house arc confident of their power to force the senate to recede on every- thing of importance because of the great parliamentary advantage they enjoy. The senate has lost all power to prevent the en- actment of the bill. No vote will ever be taken on the bill as amended by the sep- arate reports of the conference committee. Each item of disagreement will be voted upon, but it is believed that a majority can bo secured in favor of cutting down the senate rates, restoring coal and iron ore to the free list and wiping out the discriminat- ing duty on refined sugar, if each proposition is submitted separately to the senate. It is stated that the sugar men have discovered that they may lose the differential duty by a vote of fifty or sixty against five and still have no power left to defeat the bill except by stubbornly refusing to permit agreement on subsequent amendments. The only way for them to kill the bill is by persisting in means disagreement over some amendment until the expiration of the present congress, and even then the majority in the house would have the power to pull the ground from un- der their feet by accepting the amendment. The senate in that case could take no vote and would have absolutely no control over the situation, since it has passed the bill and submitted its amendments to the house. If the house conferees will accept a duty on sugar and the senate conferees will abandon the differential duty on refined, it is belicved that nothing can prevent the ac- ceptance of such a schedule by a majority of both houses. The fight in the conference committee, all admit, will be over the sugar schedule, and it is the opinion of those who have the best opportunity for forming an intelligent judg- ment, that there will be a modification of that schedule. Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee has been out- spoken In his opposition to it and McMillan and Turner, also of the conferees, are un- derstood to be no less hostile to the arrange- ment regarding sugar made by the senate. It is sald that in this they represent the view of a majority of the democrats of the house. They are in favor of free sugar and are especially hostlle to the plan of giving more protection to the Sugar trust by which it will be enabled to largely increase its already enormous profits. It is impossible to say how long the contest in the com- mittee will last, but it is very likely to be prolonged. The senate fixed August 1 as the date at which the bill shall go into ef- fect, but it is not expected that it will be- come law before that time. At any rate the industries of the country know what to look for, except as two or three schedules, and it is only the treasury that will now suffer from delay. OUTLOOK FOR CURRENCY LEGISLATION. It would seem that the democrats In con- gress have reached the conclusion that they caunot agree on any plan for changing the currency system and have decided to allow the subject to rest for the present. Since the defeat of the proposal to repeal uncon- ditionally the 10 per cent tax on state bank Issues no effort has been made to do any- thing further with the currency question, and but one measure relating to this subject has been introduced. This is the bill of Representative Buker of Kansas, which 1s unique. It provides for twelve United States government bank generals, who are to recelve $10,000 a year and to serve twelve years, at the expiration of which time they are to be retired on $5,000 salaries, to run as long as they live. Four generals are to be chosen by popular vote every four years, and these bank generals are to con- stitute a bureau to have charge of the new bauking system which the scheme provides. Tuls system 15 to consist of a government state bank in every state capital city, with branches In all cities of 10,000 population and upwards. Al of the officials of the state banks are to be elected by the people, and the buildings of such banks are to be constructed by the United States, When a bank has been bullt and the officers elected as provided for, an amount of legal tender money to double the eost of the bullding— the cost belng proportioned to population— will be Issued to It by the secretary of the treasury on the approval of the all-powerful bank generals. This money is to be loaned at 4 per ceat. An elaborate force of na- tional and state Inspectors is provided make frequent examinations and to the bank generals. Of course this scheme will never receive and consideration, and 1t 1s referred to sim- ply as an {llustration of some of the singu- lar notious that prevall n congress on this subject. Absurd as Mr. Baker's bill is, it to to report is hardly more so tham some others that have been Introduced in this congress. It appears that the banking and currency com- mittee fs giving mo attentlon at all to the currancy question. A subcommittes was appointed some time ago to formulate a plan and put it Into the shape of a bill for submission to the full committee, but the members of the subcommittee are far apart in thelr views, with scarcely a possibility of getting together. It has been demoh- strated that the bank tax cannot be uncon- Aditionally repealed by this congress, and those who are in favor of such repeal will not agree to anything else. Especially are they opposed to any plan which involves supervision by the national authorities of state banks, Insisting that the federal gov- ernment ):as no constitutional right to inter- fere in the rewwtest degree with banking institutions organized under state laws, This being the situation, it 1s probably sate to say that there will be no currency legis- lation at the present session of congress, though undoubtedly a very earnest effort will be made to do something In this line at the next session. The democrats are undoubtedly anxious to include currency leg- islation in the record of the Fifty-third congress, and a majority of them especially desire to strike a blow at the national bank- ing system. The time is drawing near when there will have to be currency legisla- tion, but the country can wait for a congress more competent to deal with this important question than the present one. CONTRACT LABOR LAW VIOLATIONS. A report by the superintendent of imml- gration on the violation of the contract labor law, just sent to congress by Secre- tary Carlisle In response to a resolution of inguiry passed by the semate, gives some interesting figures respecting the operations of that law. While suits were brought since March 4, 1889, in 439 cases to recover penal- ties amounting to $342,000, the total amount recovered was only $75997, and of this amount $65,000 was remitted by the presi- dent or by the Treasury department. Judg- ment was recorded for the defendants in forty- five cases, and nincty-seven cases were dis. missed or discontinued for want of evidence. In thirty-nine cases a nominal fine of $1 was imposed. Of the number of suits men- tioned only ten were commenced since March 4, 1893, when the present administra- tion went into power. Superintendent Stump reports that the number of alien contract laborers debarred since March 4, 1889, was 2,887, of whom over half were returned to Europe during the present ad- ministration. From these figures it 15 seen that the contract labor law is being constantly vio- lated, but that only one party to the con- tract is being prosecuted for the violation. The reason for this is, according to the superintendent, that sufficlent evidence fs not adduced at the port of entry to warrant a prosecution of the importer. Such an excuse, although plausible at first glance, is in reality either a confession of inefi- cient administration of the immigration laws, or, what is worse yet, an admission that the immigration officials are them- selves violating those laws. The contract labor law provides penalties for both par- tles to the contract—for the summary re- turn of the immigrant to the port from which he embarked, and for a fine of $1,000 upon the conviction of the importer. Clearly, it the evidence is sufficlent to detect the laborer who comes to this country by virtue of a contract and to warrant his return to Europe, it ought also to be sufficient to conviet the party to whom he is under contract obligations. The explanation of this apparent anomaly is that the government officials are eager only to make a record for sending back defenseless immigrants and not to collect fines from resident violators of the law. The statements extorted from aliens, ignor- ant of our language and of the consequences that may follow, would never be received in a court of law, and hence, 1f presented as evidence against the other party to the contract, are insufficient to secure a con- viction. But the immigrant inspectors ac- cept them. The poor immigrant is de tained, arraigned before a board composed of contract labor inspectors, tried without legal advice, and sentenced to mmediate de portation without an opportunity of appeal to a court that will grant hjm a judicial hearing. Even where the immigrant 1s guilty of con- travening the law, the instigator of the offense, knowing his rights and demanding an impartial trial, {s acquitted for lack of cvidence, or if convicted, has his fine re- mitted. Such a state of aMairs certainly demands some legislative remedy. = No nation of our pretensions ought to treat the helpless im- migrant in so barbarous a fashion. The immigrant cannot be presumed to know our laws, as Is the importer of contract labor. The offender who violates the law in ignorance should have treatment at least equal to that accorded the importer who violates it knowingly and willfully. What a farce this adjournment of con- gross as a mark of respect to the memory of deceased members has come to be! Con- gressman Lisle of Kentucky died Saturday ‘morning at 6 o'clock. His death must have been known and announced in Washington but a few hours later. Yet the hLouse met as usual at the noon hour and proceeded to business, taking up the report of the ways and means committee on the tarif and agreeing to send It to conference. After everything of importance to be done had been ‘completed, Mr. McCreary, at 1:55, sud- denly discovered that his colleague had died and moved an adjournment on that account. That is to say, the house waited until it was ready to adjourn and then received the news of Mr. Lisle’'s death In order that the adjournment might be moved out of “‘respect for his wemory.” Was ever a formality more hollow and insincere? One thing that the strike has shown us to be sadly In meed of is an acceptable definition of what constitutes a mob. Ac- cording to the reports sent out from differ- ent places, every gathering of men, no ma ter what their purpose or their action, is described as a mob. ‘A mob" tries to dis- suade men from going to work. “A mob” makes threatening demonstrations toward tho police. *“A mob” finally actually as- saults the officers detailed to protect rail- road property. “A mob" may consist of two persons or of 2,000. The indiscriminate uso of this word is %0 misleading that it really conveys no definite idea. Mobs are becoming altogether too common. Hascall and his coparceners in the councll resent the imputation of Pardee & Co. as set forth in thelr mandamus petition that they have conspired with Wiley to keep the electric lighting wmounopoly in the hands of the present contractor. Now actions speak louder thanm words. Men are to be judged by what they do and not by what they pretend. The conduct of Hascall and BEE: MONDAY, the Wiley gang inggpgnection with electric lighting contracts § s conclusively that there has been a Sdllspiracy against tho taxpayers and patrérigeRt the olectric light- ing company. The |{ielery and trickery by which Wiley een able to defy public opinfon and I4W and maintain his grip upon a majorityot the cofincll has been a scandal and outrage. It cannot be explained away or accounted for on any other presumption than rank boodlerism. Other governments k«m»x that of the United States are troubi®d by the leakage of officlal Information. Germany s about to Institute an inquiry into the manner In which a confidential efrcular found its way Into a newspaper deapite the strictest in- junctions of eecrecy. = The United States senate conducted a similar Inquiry not long g0 when the proccedings of an exeentive session were given to the press, but without an very satisfactory results. It remains to be seen whether the German government has any more effectual plan for dealing with such offenders. The Board of Education at Lincoln, labor- ing under the same necessity to reduce ex- penditures that is pressing upon the Omaha Board of Education, has at one fell swoop lopped off all the supernumerary specials and will see how the schools progress next year without the usual fads. Each teacher is expected to be able to instruct his pupils in all branches that are properly included in a public school educatirn. There are lux- urles in education, as in everything else, and our Board of Education ought to appreciate the fact. Ask Us Ky LINCOLN, July 8.—~To the Bditor of The Bee: What would become of the State Jour- nal if the railroads were owned and oper- ated by the government. B. & M. The Halo of Harmony. St. Louls Republic. Senator Hill in the attitude of defending President Cleveland against the imposition of an income tax affords us an oasis in the desert of tariff debate. We may be happy Ty Dispensing with Formalities. Courler-Journal, According to the latest advices from Hawali Dole is to be proclaimed sident of the republic’’ without the little prelim- inary ceremony, usually considered neces- sary in republics, of an election. Washington Star. Senator Allen did not receive the most polite_treatment from the finance commit- tee. He was buncoed. He was steered into a green goods joint, and when he came out all’ he had was a cheap satchel and a wad of brown paper. Snug Donation to the I Minneapolis Journal. Public sentiment ought to be strong enough to defeat the senate gift to the whisky ring of two months’ grace in which it can withdraw its whisky from bond and pocket the 20 cents difference in the tax. It is the same thing as giving over $20,- 000,000 to the ring. —_———— WrestlingWwith a Deficit. Chicago Inter Ocean. Democrats are hard to please. They moaned and groanéd aver “the dangerous surplus” in the republican treasury, and they fairly howl over the deficit, present and prospective, in the democratic treas- ury. "A couple of Bundfed millions of gold Eonds will help them out. s Al Smashed Senatoxial Courtesy, Chicako Herald, Dayid B. Hill has-just one thing to com- mend him. He has smashed ‘senatorial courtesy™ into flinders and it will probably never be thoroughly cemented again. His rampageous methods have set the other grannies to quarreling. All of them despise Hill, of course. Then there is war to the knife between Hoar and Harris. Allen and Chandler are at.duggers’ points, Lodge and Vest come together at every opportunity and Gorman is the target for two-thirds of {he democrats. Out 0f this brawling there is a possibility that good may come. The senate do business out of spite while it would remain idle out of ‘‘courtesy.’ — Advice to Mr. Pullman, Chicago Herald. Does Mr. Pullman feel justified in contin- uing the experiment? Granting that he may defeat his striking employves this time, does he care to invite another strike, and another, and yet another—inevitable so long as wrong conditions exist? These are the questions he should consider carefully, and any true friend—if he has one—will advise him as to their answer He should subdivide his town and sell lots to any one who will buy. He should abolish the system of overseers and inspectors and quasi-sples. He should enfranchise his workmen—make them free men instead of feudal retainers. He should come down from his_ducal throne and take his place among Americans as an American, He should become a democrat instead of an autocrat; a benefactor rather than a slave driver. He should be a man Pt The West Getting Togother. Sloux City Tribune. The cities of the Missouri river valley, In eftecting an organization for the pro- tection of common interests in matters that refer to rallroad rates, have taken a step which is chiefly remarkable be- cause it has been so long delayed. It is only within the recent past that these cities ‘have begun !properly Yo realize in- has by that they have important common terests; yet this delayed realization been, in_ a large measure, obscured reason of the rivalry between the sev- eral cities, which ‘have often tended to make each one feel that whatever was good for one must be bad for anothel, The commercial struggle of the Mis- sourl river cities is not with one an- other. It is rather with citfes in the cast, which are striving to retain con- trol’ of the great jobbing and packing interests that the western cities must se- cure if they are to be such cities as this sreat valley casily can support. When the cities of the Missourl valley shall pull together, then the question of discriminations against the west on such matters as rates on live stock and packing house products can be settled with justice to all concerned. This one question has an importance second to no other commerclal fnterest intheso citles at the present ime. There is no reason why the Missouri river cities shouid be jealous rivals. Each, in large measure, has its own territory, in which, for reasons that are incident to the tendency of rallroad buflding to devoté ftself to east and west lines, it Is reasonably secure from encroachments by its neighbor western cities and it is only in danger of encroachment by Chicago and other cities to the east. It Is for the purposes of this struggle of the new and, if you please, omnivorous west against the old and established east, that such an association as the one just formed In Omaha, will prove of greater benefit than can properly be rialized at present. Let the great west get together and it will be amply able to take care of its own interests. s e — LABOR NOTES, Pottery manufacturers in Syracuse, N. Y., have signed the scale df the Operative Pot- ters' union. The Bluestone Cutters' union has resolved to fine any member $25 found doing the work of granite cufters. The Saddle and Harness Mak.:s National association assembles in annual convention at Evansville, Ind., July 17. The proposition fto harmonize with the Sociallst Labor Federation was postponed indefinitely by the Brooklyn Central Labor Federation. Italian workmen were ordered to quit France 'by 200 navvies, who marched through Cloisy, Villeneuve and other su- burban towns. An order has been posted in the Union Pacific shops at Cheyeune glving only forty hours a week work to employes, a reduc- tion of fourteen hours. Lathers and shinglers are contemplating forming a national organization. There are about thirty local unions of that trade in different parts of the country. All hotel and restaurant walters and cooks Pueblo have struck for a 15 per cent raise. About fifty men and women went out, but their places were filled. A few employers are signing the scale. All the miners in the coal shatt at Moweakua, Ill., struck against a reduction of 5 cents per ton. They have been recelving 10 cents per ton more than the old scale and worked all through the big strike. About fifty men are out, at i 22 s AR A Dt it BRI A J v ke B el 1894, LY 9 FEDER L REGULATION OF RAILKOADS New York World: The rulings of Judges Taft and Ricks, of Jenkins and Dundy, of Grosscup and Woods, lead fnevitably and swiftly to ational ownership and opera tion of the rallroads. The American people re long-suffering, but they are honest and they love justice. They will never consent thAat the power of the federal government shall be placed at the disposal of railrond managers when they quarrel With thefr employes, when the government recognizes no reciprocal obligation to secure the em ployes in the enjoyment of their rights and priviloges. The ernment should act frankly and straight fordwardly and aceept the full consequences of the position it as- sumes. If operating railroads s a public ad men are public servants in any sense that can justify federal control of their acts, then the federal government must not only protect the railroad com- panfes agiinst their employes ~ when there Is a quarrel between them-—It must also’ protect the employes in all their rights and privileges as public vants. Washington Star: The present necessity of government intervention in behall of the public in the affairs of the raflroads em- pliasizes the fact that these are at least semi-public corporations, and strengthens the argament for rigid governmental supervision of such public agencies, if not their manag ment and control by the government. The instrumentalities for transporting the mails and for conducting interstate commerce bear too important and too direct a relation to the general welfare to be permitted to re main entirely under private control, subject to be paralyzed into uselessness at any moment through a wrangle over wages or any other matter between a single employer and a few score empl he public needs protection both against tl dividuals who own and manage the railroads and the in- dividuals who work for them. Through surface occupation of city streets the rail roads shed innocent biood and obstruct travel and traflic. Permitted to exercise they will in re pect to discriminating frelght rates they rob the farmer as sham lessly as any highwayman. It is necessary for the law to intervene to protect life and property against selfish corporate aggres sion. Springfield (Mass.) Republican has gone by when the railways can be con- sidered performing otherwise than quasi-public service unsubject to close go: cramental supervision and regulation. Step by step for thirty years the government, state and nstional, has been extending a controlling hand over the roads. These steps will not be retraced. The whole logic of our industrial development makes in the other direction. The time has now come when tho relations of the railway employe with his employer must come under govern- ment supervisicn or the whole attempt at railway regulation be abindoned. But public control cannot and will not be given up, and nothing remains but to take the next step and make the relations of interstate rallway employers with their empk a matter also of government control. If that be a step toward government ownership of the roads, then we must make the most of it. We cannot put up with thee vearly interruptions of railway traflic, to the tre mendous cost of the public and its employ- ments and the menace of the public peace. We have said before, and now repeat, that tho government canaot justly interfere against railway strikes unless it is also prepared to protect employes in their rights against railway managers. For Judge Jenkins to enjoin the*Northern Pacific men from striking, while at the same time re- fusing to consider in behalf of the men the action of the receivers in reducing wages, was an untenable position to take. The striking, however, must be stopped; and lence the government must take hold of the matter of regulating railroad employ- ment as it now regulates railroad traffic Congress, therefore, should amend the inter- state law by putting into the hands of the national commission or some co-ordinate body the power to step between railway managers and their employes, to hear com- plaints from efther party in regard to wages hours of work, ete., and to adjust differ- ences—appeals from its judgment being al- lowed say to the United State: court of ap- peais. This would undoubtedly in the first service and ra The time place have a great effect for good upon the thelr general the spirit_of the employes and attitude in relation to their work and public service. It would in the second pl offer a practicablo means of peacefully set- tling such disputes as may arise. It would in the third place justify the government in denying to the men the right to conspire to- gether to stop the operations of the roads in order to force a concession from the man- agers. Some such provision must be made in behalf of the uninterrupted running of the railways and of the public peace and comfort. We have no question that it would be found effective. Let congress take hold of it. S e PEOPLE AND THINGS, General Weaver appears to be lost In the boycott. Missourl cheerfully awards championship for train hold-ups. Somebody evidently pocketed considerable “tin” as a result of the Harney Peak deal. Senator Dom Cameron s investigating At- lantic blow holes on the breezy coast of Maine. The strike spirit 1s spreading. A tle-up of horses is occasionally obscrved on the street. Mr. St. Gaudens' reciprocal opinion of the United States Treasury department Is anx- fously awaited. John Jacob Astor protests against the translation of his American novel into Eng- lish by a Londoner. The heated discussion in Chicago has a tendency to diminish the charms of the city as a summer resort. The belle of Greenwood county, Kan., Is named Snow Ball White. Rivals strive in vain to throw her in the shade. Duke Pullman is enjoying a soft berth at Long Branch, utterly oblivious of what the wild waves are saying in Chicago. A South Dakota rainmaker has effected an alliance with a weather sharp, and is thus enabled to strike the right current. Sece? Senator Gorman plays farmer when his duties as a statesman grow monolonous. His hobby is fancy stock, though not quot- able in the chamber. The Chicago weather clerk displays a com- prehensive grasp of his business in predict- ing & continuance of the disturbed condition of the elements thereabouts. A Chicago attorney advertises ‘‘general carpenter work” on the side. If local com- ment on the judiciary is true, general black- smithing seems to be the proper legal ad- Junct. Tllinois the The St. Louis electric commission has propared and submitted to the council an ordinance providing for placing all wires underground. ~ Strange to say, the project receives the support of the council. The tie-up of traffic stranded a trainload of watermelons at Nashville and the luscious fruit was sold for a song. As & consequence the colored population enthu- siastically endorsed the boycott. A monument twenty-five feet high was unvelled iast week at Pleasant Beach, op- posite Bridgeport, Conn., to the memory of as gentlemanly a pirate as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship, and his name was Cap- tain Kidd, as he sailed. Pleasant Beach is the spot where tradition says he buried his fabulous treasure in 1696, Mme. Londonderry, who started last Mon- day from Boston in an attempt to go around the world on a bicycle, belongs in New York and is known there as Mrs, Kap- chowsky. She is described as a dark-eyed, pallid-complexioned young woman, slight of bulld and evidently of nervous tempera ment. In addition to the revolver she rides upon, she carries one for protection against tramp Mme. Pomery, who died not long ago, was a remarkable woman. It was due to her business tact alone that the wine bearing her name became the wine of the aristoc- racy. On the death of her husband she as- sumed the entire management of her vast Interests, and how well she succecded is known te all. She had a discerning judgment that taught her to appoint the Tight man to the right place. Good judg- ment was the secret of her success - - The Klek nference. Kansan City Star, tarift reform leaders declare they will never yleld to the to the end for The house poultively that senate, but will stand out free raw materials and the elimination of the Sugar trust favors. The president ls with them, and If the contest for a reas able amount of reform shall not succeed there will be both surprise and lndignation throughout the country, THE CASIMIR-PERIERS. ‘hing About the New French dent and M8 Ancestry. Like the lamented Carnot, the mew presi- dent comes of a family long honorably tnent in France. His great-great-gr father was a notary, living Grenoble, who, left a son, Jacques, a trades man of Lyons. The latter left $125,000 to his Clau and enterprising speculator, w lous before the to amass a colossal ho invested In the splendid chateau of V After the Ter®or he came to Paris he helped to found the Bank of France t in the Corps Legislatif. This worthy eight sons, the two elder of whom were re ceived into the French peorage, while the third displayed his father's commercial sa- gacity in many fields. It was tho fourth of s children, Casimir, who was destined to tablish the political fortnnes of the family on a prouder basis than heretofore. He was a man of indomitable cnergy and strong, but honorable ambition; in person, a giant, with a voice of thunder, a bitter style of elogue and a coarse, even brutal, manuer. He played a considerable part in the op- position after the restoration, and his policy as president of the council under Louis Philippe is a matter of history. In 1832 he visited the cholera hospital with the duc Q'Orleans, father of the comte de Paris, caught the infection and died. The eclder of his two sons, Paul by name, still survives, as senator of the Scine Infericure, but he has never been a prominent personage. Au guste, his younger brother, adopted the bap- tismal name of his father as part of his surname, and was known as Auguste Casimir Perier. In 1846 he was rewurned for one of the divisions of Paris, and in 1849 he re sented the department of the Aube in legislative assembly. During the empire held absolutely aloof from public affair in 1871 gave in his adhesion to M. Th who made him minister of the inter Prosi- em- near dying, a fortune of a long-headed troub- contrived which son, o in revolution capital, part of days re the he but his son today, was suspected of toward the Orleanists, for he had married the st in-law of the due d'Audiffren Pasquier, and received a visit from the comte de Paris at his country house. However, he cleared himself of these aspersions by a let ter in which he fr avowed liis loyalty to the republic as the only form of govern- ment that could save France from anarchy. His death took place in 1876, and his son Jean succceded to the greater share of both his_political reputation and his estate. The family still retains possession of the Chateau de Vizille, a noble feudal structure built in 1611 by the constable de Lesdi guieres, near the ruins of a still more an cient stronghold. It was much injured by fire in 1525, and was subscquently restored; but most of its artistic contents perished beyond recovery. M. Thiers was enter- tained there in 1874, and M. Carnot a visitor more recent but the ex-premier chiefly resides, as docs his widowed mother at another mausion, the Chateau de Pont ne, much more accessible from Paris. 1 Per| though a thorough re may be resarded as belonging to the Orleanist school of politics, that chool which holds that liberty stands in need of the correetive order, and whose ideal in all things was well expressed by phrase in fashion In the days of Louis Philippe, the “Juste Milieu.” M. Casimir-Perier, in the earlier portions of his career, was conscious that his ances- tral connection with the Orleans dynasty w not lightly to be ignored. In 1882, when a law was passed excluding all the members of the families who had reigned over France from all civil and military offices, he showed his sense of that law of proscription by re signing his seat as a member of the Chamber. sur- M publi Ca n, His immediate re-election showed that his constituents approved his conduct. During the siege of Paris M. Casimir-Perier dis tinguished himself as commander of a bat- talion of Mobiles. He was mentioned in general orders for one daring feat. He res- cued one of his wounded comrades under very heavy fire in an aftair in front of the redoubt of Moulin Saquet. He is a man of great energy, and the fact that he appointed M. Reynal to be his minister of the interior shows that he le not to be swayed by the clamor of the radical and revolutionary pr , as M. Reynal, who belongs to th Jowish faith, is the bete nofr of the. anti Semitic and revolutionary press. M. Casimir- Perier was elected president of the Chamber of Deputies in November last, and a fort- night later became prime minister. o STRIKING MIRTIL Acto wonder why _the 1o tuke such a large com- road Puck: First 1ger wan on the wre there Second Actor—He wants to be will bo enough of us to steal a train. Indianapolis Journal: “Whur ye bin?" asked Meandering Mike. A .‘\.)':IV\VI\ fur work,” replied Piodding Pete. W l“: you Wanter look out. Yer idle curiosity’ll” be the ruination of ve, yit.” Town Topics: ack won that De- troit heiress I down. Jax—Well, how did you expect him to win her—feet up? x—Cert. He made love to her in the M su “By the way,” remarked editor’ last week, you properly refer in a wedding notice to the moment when the bridal couple leave the altar as ‘the turning of the tied?" " Buffalo Courler: a friend to the society Somerville Journal: *Bez pardon,” sald the missi v, “but will you translate hix maj again? Did he tell his daught S to have guests to dinner or for dinner? “Which will you “but T You Indjanapolis Journa sked Yabsl “Ifeg pardon,” replied Mudge, think vou are @ little ungrammatical should” say ‘what will you take? " No, I shouldn’'t. It is a dead sure thing that you will take either rye or Lourbon.” Washington Star: “There's nothin',” said the anarchist, ‘“disgusts me liké idle speculation; like seein’ a man set down n' figge er without doin’ nothin’."" “Whats the matter? “I've just come away from one of our best men. He's a-weak- enin’ in the cause. He got hisse'f a pencil and a piece of paper, calculated it up that REPUBLICANS NOT INVIT First Effort Made to Reconcile Demooratle Differences on the Tariff, OPPOSITION CONFEREES NOT DESIRED Cleveland's Frends Think They Can Com: to an Agrecment Ensler If Not Harassed by Memboers of the Other Side. WASHINGTON, July 8.—The first offort te reconctle the differences between the sena and house on the tariff will be made tomer- row. The democratic conferces will meet at noon in the ate finance committee room. The republican conferees have not been asked to be present. It is not as a committes, therefore, that the meeting will be held, and it is understood to be the purpose of holding 1o meetings of the full committee until the four democratic senators and four democratio representatives have reconeiled all their dif- ferences. The democratic members of the committee say they can expedite their work better among themselves than they could 1t constantly exposed to the harrassment of the minority conferees, With this program in view, there may be no meeting of committee as a whole In the meantime, the procead with the work and agreements have been reached in whole in part the republicans will be called in and the committee, as a whole, will act on what the democratic members of it have previously agreed. This is similar to the plan followed by the ways and means dem- ocrats in the bill and by the democratie of the finance committee when ft was before that body. Chairman Wilson left for West Virginia immediately after his appointment as a con- feree yesterday, so that there has been no opportunity for consultation with him today and tho democratic conferees will assemble with a prearranged program. the for a week or ten da democrats will whe member: APPROPRIATIONS IN DL SENATE, Efforts to Be Made to Dispose of u N mber Mensures. WASHINGTON, July 8.—The committes on appropriations will have the right of way in the senate during the coming week, and an effort will be made to dispose of & num- ber of bills which have been held up await- ing the disposition of the tariff bill. It I possible that Monday or some other day early in the week may be allotted to the com- mitteo on forelgn relations, as Senator Mo gan is very anxious to have the Chinese treaty disposed of. . He thinks that one day will be suflicient. Senator Cockrell, chafrman mittee on appropriations, sion bill will probably be first taken up. Later in the week the smaller appropria. tions, for fortifications, military “academy, postofiice and other bills that will not con- sume much time will no doubt be disposed of the com- s that the pen- of. It is expected that during the week bills of local importance which may be passed without much delay, will be con- sidered in the two hours set apart for morne ing_business. The resolutfon introduced last week by Senator Kyle to prevent federal interferenge in railroad strikes is still on the table and may be called up any morning. THE HOUSE. Eeady to Take Up a Conference Report on thé Tarlff. WASHINGTON, July 8.—The house of rep- resentatives will be resting during the com- ing week, ready at all times to lay aside its regular business and take up a conference report upon the tarMff or any other bill. Om Monday the rules committee will meet to arrange an order of business, but whatever they agree to take up will be conditioned on glving way to the tariff or appropriatiochs whenover a conference report is presentefl. with the work an’ time he'd put in makin’ a dynamite bomb he could earn two weeks' board ez a farm hand. An’' the line of thought has took his mind clean off his ‘riginal glorious principle: EMBARRASSING, New York Herald. In_spite of all modesty ‘And hatred of display, T've blindly fallen in a trap, Which fills me with disma I bought a pair of russet s A cheap pair—but I'm If_they don't squeak so horribly— I find I'm loudly dressed. ME OF TRE FORTU VE HUNTER. son John Kendrick Bangs in Harper's Weekly, I am a fortune-hunter; I've a fearful thirst for gold; I pine not for mere millions, but for wealth that can't be told, The riches of Goleonda, I'd take them if 1 could, Are nothing to the sums I want, I wish it understood. while I'd rival Monte Cristo, with his wondrous al anci it not honestly, by stealth rival Mr Id the three; But how to Set about It i3 the thing that bothers me. rd ri Rothschild ay, rival all The schemes on which the people of a by- o e waxed fat y are truly very stale, and profitless, and flat Legitimat To professions, I've observed, are very slow, And public life is barren—overcrowded, don't you Know. The mives are all pre-empted; there's no money on the P There’s not much chance In banking, men are growing 5o diser And erime 1 dare not e for forgery; an't afford a vessel to embark in piracy. ter~there are jails I e To wreck a line of rallroad on a time was quite a fad, But they're already mostly wrecked by others bold and bad. To think, of all the chances In the world there's noue me! I've half & mind to end it all and jump into the sei. Ve o VAT TN TV m Ol . But stay! At last I have it! Oh, my heart, thy beating cease! . I have a friend who'll get me on the great New York polic vision beatlfic! shall make! It they can do so well asleep, what can't 1do awakel on Ob, what squillions I District of Columbla appropriations will oe- cupy the house tomorrow. For the rest of the week the rules committee will prol)‘r:‘ give several days for the bill to elect Unil States senators by direct vote of the peoply and also several days for numerous bills legal and judicial character reported by thl judiciary committee. WEST! NSIONS. RN P! Veterans of the Late War Remembered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, July 8.—~Special to The Bee)—Pen: granted, Issue of June 2, were: Nebraska: Orlginal—Herman Paape, Shelton, Buffalo, Increase—Robert Ising, Omaha, Douglas, Original widows, ete.— Prodence A: Bennett, Trombull, Clay. Original - Hatrison C. Mace, Shen- Phre, Increase—Charles D, OVer- Rediieig, Dallas. Telssue—William A, Towa Falls, Hardin. _Origin he Whitehend, Sherman, Poweshiek Electa J. Hale, 5“'!‘\\[3\1’] Pomt, Clayton; Margaretha Flscher, Dave enport, Scott; Catharine B. Moore, Mar- chilltown, Marshal. South Dakota: Original—Darius B. Scott, Sioux. Falls, Minnehaha. Reissue—Alexan: der ¢, Morrison, St. Lawrence, Hand. ado: Original-Max Schafer, Denver, Relssuelsago Young, Love: street, 1. Sherwc widows, ete.— CHINESE JOURNALISM, The Celestinl Kingdom Slowly Oatching On ~—Editorial Specimens Slowly but surely, says the Telegraph, Hong Kong, the Chiuese are “catching on™ to the advantages of dally papers; there are already three daily papers printed in the Chinese language in Canton, and the native merchants are beginning to understand the advantages of advertising. Untll lately, the advertising columns of Chinese papers wore patronized only by foreigners doing business in China. According to the Figaro, Parls, the most noteworthy publications in China are at present: Chen-Pao (Shanghal News), Hu-Pao (News of Hu, another name for Shanghal), Tsing. Pao (News of the Capital, Peking), Che-Pso (Daily News, Tien-tsin), Kwong-Pao (Canton News), Ling-namfe-Pao (News of Lingnam, old name for Canton). All these papers contain carefully written leading articles, discussing questions of In- ternational interest, as, for Instance, the Pamir question. News by telegraph from the capital and abroad is not wanting, and (ho usual quantity of murders, sulcides, fire and sporting items are supplied to the rea ors just as regularly In China as in Europe. The editorial comments are nevertheless very amusing to those Kuropeans who are sufficiently acquainted with the Chinese lan guage to read them. The Ost-Asiatische-Lloyd Shanghal, recently published the following item from the native Chinese Press: “It is sad to see how short is the life of man, In Europe they invent remedies against death, but they don't work." ““The seventh son of the Mandarin Ko-Lin 18 said to have four legs—that is the fault moon."" ree persons committed suicide by hanging In Canton at one and the same time. That is very good.'" “The rice harvest promises to fall oux very good this year. It 15 to be hoped that the great examinations in Li-Whah wiil ve just as good. They will take place during the harvest.” “A murder has been committed nuar*n seventh tower of the Great Wall. 0 Peking merchants were killed there, It {s a blessing that they were not Mandarins." “As the emperor was belog carried tnrough the Yellow street, recently, blows were given to the multitude to make room. The mighty son of heaven laughed heartily over this “The Arch-Mandarin Tul-Men's summer residence on the Yang-Tse-Kiang has been burned down, owing to the carelessness of a lamplighter. May the noble lord be com- forted ! “During & recent review at Manking, Prince Ho-Tu-Lin-Sab (the recond son of the late emperor) swore at the soldlers boe cause the cannons were not polished,” G R Al g i