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THEOMAHA DATLY BEE. B. ROSEWATER, EAitor, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Bes (without Sunday), One Year.. Dafly_Bes and Sunday, One Year........ L4800 'x " Months Thres Montha. ... gunday Do, One Yenr... tarday Hee, One Yenr Weekly Bes, Ons Year Omaha, The Nee T Bouth Omata, ¢ Council i1ding: ner N and Twenty-tourth Sta Pea 217 Chamber of Commerce. Rooma 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bldg. Washington, 1407 CORRESPONDENCE. All communications reln{ing to news and totial mattor should be addrewsed: o the B BS8 LETT and ren i new Pubiishing compan . Drafta, eiiocks and postofiice orders ba mada payabis o th ‘ot the compan T 7 PUBLISHING COMPANY el itor. CIRCULATION rotary of The Tes Pub. inie duly sworn, xays that t otual number of full and complets coptes of Ti Buring the month of June, 1904, was as follows A - 4 s g or hing compnny, 7 18 Lons deductions for unsold and coples Vit Vorvihed 11,67 5t Total sold Daily average *Sunday, ot clrculation TZSCHUCK ribed in my JOnGE N Sworn to 3 and qul presence this 31 day of 1804, (Seal.) N. P. FEIL,Notary Public If Omaha continues to weatner the strike as well as it has up to this time the people of this city will little cause for com- plaint. have The republican members of the tarift con- ference committee have about concluded that they were appointed to their positions for ornament only. That call for the Douglas county republi- tan prima must be holding a private feance with the call for the democratic state convention. es One wonld imagine that Debs were run- ning for public office from the way in which every detail of his past career is being raked over by the new spapers The man who knows e: to be done in the present emergency is standing on every street corner. Unfor- tunately, however, he does not agree with himself. actly what ought The silence that has reigned on the sub- fect of the canal bond proposition does not signify that intcrest in the canal is dying out. Give the people something definite to discuss.and the discussion will be promptly torthcoming. The Springfield Republican is sure that Senator Allen will file a report on the work of the sugar scandal investigating commit- teo that will be “worth reading.” Quite right. Particularly for the senators who are |t . besmirched with Sugar trust stock specula- tion. The Musical union of Chicago decided to Join. the strike. This ought to complete the symposium of sympathetic symphony. What will become of Chicago with the fiddlers, harpists, trombonists and buglers on a sym- pathetic? Will they have to full tack on the hand organ? Tammany was equally profuse at the Fourth of July celebration with its applause for Cleveland, Hill and Croker. This em- phasizes the fact that Tammany is out for local revenue only. In national polities it diseriminates in favor of no one so long as he claims to be a democrat. Our hyphenated friends down on middle Farnam are, as usual, between the devil and the deep sea. They are on both sides of the strike issue, as they have been on both sides of everything else,” and scek to play cuttlefish by shedding an immense amount of inky fluid to cover their tracks. The action of the Sioux City Typograph- feal union in expelling two mer had turned out with their company of mili- tla when called upon by the authorities brings up a new question whether a can consistently belong to the militia & labor organization at and the time. abers who man to and one same of TIdaho, in requestin troops, repeats President Cleveland's d tribe at Governor Altgeld that this fs no time for discussion, but the president doos not seem to sce it that way. Questions of law and precedent are of no importance in Tilinols, but in Idaho they are the para- mount issue. It makes all the difterence in the world “‘where you happen to be at.” The governor a- Judge Grosscup of the United States court at Chicago had the experience of riding in @& traln stoned by a mob while traveling to Olo to visit his parents the other day. The judge thinks that the strikers did not know that he was on board. Of course not! Had they known it the train would have bad free passage. All the government has to do is to place a federal judge on every train, announce the fact to the strikers, and the blockade will be raised Try jt. No city In this part of the country pays the principals of the various grade schoole as much as Omaha, and few cities as little teaching from them as Omaha the principals are to have salaries almost twice what is pald the ayerage teacher, they should be willing to do a little extra work fn return. By requiring the principals to take charge of at least one class In addition to thelr work of supervision, the school board will bo able to save the salarles of several teachers. This is one point where retrench- ment can be effected without inflicting undue hardship upon any one. Does the Board of Education want to retrench? require 1t Strangers and residents unacquainted with the mysteries of our street raflway transfer system continue to complain of bring mulcted the sum of 15 cents for a ride from the eity to Courtland beach. The trouble is that the public, not being advised of the necessity of procuring trans| tickets from the conductor, fails to demand them until it s too late. This could be remedied by placing a transfer agent at the Intersec- tion of the two street railway lines, or bet ter yet, by glving no transfer tickets and re ducing the fare on the East Omaha line to B cents from one end to the other. Five cents Is all that should be charged for so short a ride, transfer or no transfer. Some- thing certalnly ought to be doue to abolish the 15 cen! fare abu AN T R BT AN TR AR WSS A Y R A 57 ULY 10, MEET THE 1SSUE NOW. When Abraham Lincoln delivered his fnaugural on the eve of the great rebellion made uso of the following language: “Physieally speaking we cannot separate Wo cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall, between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and heyond the reach of each other, but the dif- farent parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face; and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must ntinue them, * * * Suppose to war, you cannot fight always; and after much loss on both sides and no gain on either, fighting, the tdentical old questions as to terms of Inter- wpon you.” he between you g you cease course are a This declar 1s strikingly applicable to the pres ituation. The country Is on the v of a clvil war, brought on by the con- labor and capital. Physi- labor and capital cannot must remain face to face, either amicable or hostile, between We can put railroad strike by force of and may break up the rallway union and subjugate the federation of labor, but when the fight is over, after much 1085 on both sides and no gain on elther, we shall be confronted with the Identical old questions as to terms of Intercourse. Public safety demands that the intercourse between the railroad managers and their eratives shall at all times be amicable; that the highways of this country, the rail- roads, shall be uninterrupted and free from Il danger incident to and violent feuds between the managers and op- Public safety demands that the railroads from locom w1vs eigineer to train boy and train dispatcher to switchman shall bo by competent, courteous, sober 1 steady men, and that men shall ch and all remain at his respective post of duty until is relleved by another cqually competent and rellable man. In other words, the conditions under which our railroads are operated at this time must be make the railroad strike impossible. This can only be accomplished through national legislation by which the relations of the railroads to their employes will bo clearly defined, the rights of both protected and all differences bly ad- Jjusted. The laws of the land forbid under severe penalties the wanton destruction of property, the obstruction of railways and interference with the operation of trains. Our con- piracy laws prohibit laboring men from olently obstructing other laborers from working. Dut we have no law that prohibits workingmen from refusing to work, either individually or in a body. A peaceable walk- out is recognized as perfectly legitimate. Now suppose that the railway union had induced all trainmen, engineers, firemen, conductors, brakemen and switchmen, as well as dispatchers and telegraphers, to drop out in a body. Commerce and trafic would have been absolutely paralyzed and not a law violated. Has it not therefore become an imperative necessity for all classes of peo- ple in this country that steps shall be taken to avert such disastrous and costly conflicts by government supervision and compulsory arbitration. The time is ripe now for such reform. The rallroad managers and repre- sentatives of the rallway operatives should be brought together and congress should formulate the necessary laws to define their relations to each other and the public. ain between aking They reourse, tention cally sy separat int continue and must them. down the gri arms, we perfodic tie-ups eratives. manned these changed so as to aml SIGNIFFICANT FIGURES. Statisties of the manufacturing industries of Pennsylvania, covering the years 1892 and 1893, make a most significant exhibit of the industeial decline in that state during the latter year. As everybody knows, 1892 was a year of exceptional prosperity all over the country. There was a remarkable increase in industrial enterprises and a demand for all the labor that could be had at better wages generally than had been paid for sev- eral years before. The internal trade of the country in all departments was largely in- creased, while at the same time the foreign commerce grew to unprecedented proportions. It was while the country was in the enjoy- ment of this splendid prosperity that the people voted to transfer the control of the legislative and executive branches of the government to the democratic party, a de- cision which speedily brought about a change of conditions from which all interests have been suffering for more than a year past and to which Is largely due the perilous sit- uation of the country at this time. In the brief of a few months there was a precipitate decline from a high state of prosperity, with a universal feeling of confidence in the future, to a condition of general depression and distrust. The cause of this, as every Intelligent and fair-minded man will admit, was the pledge of the demo- cratlc party to reverse ths economic policy under which the remarkable material pro- gress and prosperity had been achieved. The effect upon the manufacturing indus- tries of Pennsylvania is most instructive. Returns for 1892 and 1893 recelved by the secre y of internal affairs from 424 of the leading manufacturing firms of the state. In these the number of employes in 1803 was 20,134 less than in 1892, and the total amount of wages pald $13,000,000 less in the former than in the latter year, while there was also a very considerable reduction in the amount paid per capita, the average for 1892 being $485 and for 1893 §$464. The returns from the iron and steel firms show that in 1892 they employed 108,402 persons, to whom they pald an aggregate compen- sation of $58,40 8 per capita, while in 1893 the number of employes was reduced to 94,719, recelving an aggregate compensa- tion of $19,763,854, or $525 per capita. Re- ferring to these statistics the Philadelphia Press says the loss has not all fallen upon the working people by any means. The loss of the s been equal if not greater than that sustained by the employes The value of the product of the 424 firms making returns was more than $55,000,000 less in 1803 than in 189 ““These figures do not fully show,” says the Press, “‘what Penn- sylvania has suffered by reason of the demo- cratic victory in 1892, because they do not, by any means, embrace complete returns, but they are sufficient to convey some idea of what the democratic tarift policy means.” What s true of Pennsylvania is relatively true of all the other manufacturing states, and, Indeed, it Is probable that the indus- tries of some of them have had an’ ey more damaging experience than those of Pennsylvania. This s doubtless the case where the advantages are less favorable, as New England states. In the south the manufacturing industries have not suf- fered so severely, Taklng these Pennsylvania statistics as the basis of calculation, and it Is plain that the loss to labor and capital throughout the country since the period of depression set in very soon after the success of the democratic party has been enormous, it is certalnly not an exaggerated estimate to place the loss of labor alone at $500,000,000, Add to space were manufacturers ha on in the this the foss sustained by manufacturers and that of the agricultural producers from re- duced consumption Incldent to an enforced economy and the grand total mounts up to figures that must amaze people who are not in the habit of looking at the practical side of prevailing conditions. At any rate it s enormous price to have pald for giving the democratic party an opportunity to overturn the policy of protection. One compensatory result seoms assured, that Is that the people will not soon again allow themselves to be deluded into mistake as they made in 1802, That they are most heartily sick of the blunder they then made has been abundantly demonstrated and will, unless all signs are misleading, be still more forcefully manifested next November. A PERMANENT TARIFE COMMISSION. It is probable that after the tarift bill is of the proposal to create a per- manent tarift commission will sideration fn congress, though it is not likely that any action will be taken on it at the presont session. It Is by men In both parties, propositions for creating such a commission having and advocated by Senator Cullom of Illinois and Senator Morgan of Alabama, both of whom urged that the question ought to be taken out of politics. A writer in an paper pre- sents some cogent reasons in favor of such a commission. He remarks that two-thirds of the members of the house of repr tives and three-quarters of the senators aro They may form the best eloments respective an and such a disposed recoive con- advoeated been presented eastern trade nta- lawyers, of thelr oubtless qualified to make laws on almost any subject except those of finance and trade. As a majority have no practical knowledge of their own of either of those subjects they rely on the selfish wishes oY their constituents or on evidence which may, when presented, appear to them trustworthy, but is generally This writer suggests that a tarift commission, to be rep- resentative, should consist of men of affairs from the most important centers of trade. To secure the best elements, independent of politics, the president, having the authority to appoint the commission, should call on the commercial bodles of cities in different sections of the country to recom- mend to him merchants, manufacturers and producers for membership of the commission, the list thus recommended to be revised by tho president until in his judgment it is the best that can be chosen. It is urged that men in this manner would bear a character which could not easily be persuaded that a policy which may favor their own interests or that of their friends is the one which ought to be adopted. They would take a broader view of the nccessities of the country than the average politician who now represents us in congress. That there is good reason for this view everybody will admit who is familiar with the course pursued in the framing of the pending tarift bill. It is hardly conceivable that a body of practical men, uninfluenced by political considerations, could frame a measure with 50 many inconsistencies and faults as the bill which the senate democrats have passed possesses. Political expediency as affected by local interests had a great deal to do with the preparation of this measure both in the house and the senate, though rather more in the latter than in the former, and this will always be the case to a large ex- tent while the politicians deal with this most practical subject. And there is no ab- solute remedy, for the work of a tariff com- mission would be subject to revision by con- gress. It is to be supposed, however, that it a permanent commission were created men of all parties would be disposed to in- terfere as little as possible with its recom- mendations and that there would be a good deal of hesitation about doing this in a way to Indicate political motives. The prin- ciple being once accepted by the political parties that the tariff is essentially and dis- tinctively a business matter, with which poli- tics ought to have nothing to do, and the people acquiescing in this view, as in all probability they would do, it is possible that tho politiclans would be induced to let it alone, There has been nothing to indicate what the general sentiment in congress is regard- ing the proposal of a permanent tarift com- mission, but it is perhaps safe to assume that it would not carry at present. After the people have decided next November what shall be the political complexion of the next house of representatives there may be a better chance for it, provided that body is restored to republican control, as now scems assured. In the other event the demo- crats would not desire a tarift commission, as they would regard thelr retention in power as another and more emphatic de- mand of the people to further revise the tarift in the direction of free trade, which they are fully competent to do without ex- traneous help. constituencies and are misleading. selected TREND OF THE CA1TLE BUSINESS. For years the South Omaha packers and stockmen have sought to reach out into the Texas panhandle, which is the most pro- liflc cattle raising region of the country. Up to a very recent period all their efforts have been thwarted by reason of the favor- able rates which Kansas City has enjoyed to the exclusion of all competitors. Within the past few months concessions have been forced from the rallroads that will open northern Texas to Omaha dealers and en- able them to compete, if not on equal, at least on fairer terms with Kansas Oity. The effect of the change Is already noted in the marked increase in shipments from Fort Worth to Omaha and consequent in- crease In the volume of business done. With an air line railroad into the T panhandle Omaha would become a formidable competitor of Kansas City. The distances are very nearly the same from both points, and Omaha would really be much nearer to points in central and west- ern Kansas than Kansas Clty is. Even with present facilities Omaha will soon ov take Kansas City as a packing center for cattle, as she has for hogs. This fact is pointed out by the Fort Worth Journal in an article which we reproduce elsewhere. Incidentally it might not be out of place to note that a larger business is being done at the South Omaha stock yards today than at any other point in the country. This is, of course, temporary by reason of the strike, but it s also suggestive of what is in store for us in the not very distant future. - Omaha is located more advantage- ously as a packing center than Chicago or Kansas City. She Is in the very heart of the hog raising country and on the direct line to the cattle ranches of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, She is also in posi- tion to draw upon cattle in this state, as well asi in western Towa and north Missourl, and with falr rates from Texas she can handle the bulk of all the meat product west of the Mississippl. The shift- ing of the pork and cattle market from Buftalo, Cincinnati and Pittsburg has been steadily westward. While Chicago still re- talns supremacy and will continue to hold first place for some years, the trend of the meat Industry is westward, with the chances xas very feeders in favor of a permagent. stand «t Omaha, where the beef and Pork raiser can deal di- rectly with the packer jand shipper at the smallest expense and Idss of time in ship- ping —_—— A TARDY PROCLAMATION. President Has at last fit to make official communfcation to the public the subject of the rallway strike. He has fssued his proclamation admonishing all against Cleveland seen on good citizens of Chicago and Iilinols alding, countenancing, epcouraging or taking any part in unlawful obstructions, combina- tions and assemblages and already thus engaged to dispers to thelr respective abodes. This prefaced by a recital that such unlawful ob- structions, combinations and assemblages exist and that they in the president’s Judgment, made it for the ordinary course of judicial proceed- ings the of the United States within tho territory described Had the president fssued this proclamation as soon his judgment was formed that “udicial process could not be carried out by the civil authorities in the stato of Ilinofs, at he ordered the troops of the United States regular army to interfere provent Interruption of Interstate commer would have deserved. general comm for his action and might thereby been spared the necessity of calling out the federal troops at all. But the proclamation at this late day savors a great deal of shutting the barn door after the horse has been stolen. If such ning 1s necessary now to protect and the in nocent it was equally, if not more, ncces- ary a week ago when the United soldiers were first sent to the sceno of dis- turbance. It looks like a belated effort to rectify what the president now recognizes to have been a mistake. As to the exact status In which this procla- mution places the state of Illinols, and more particularly the city of Chicago, the language of the ducument is singularly and inexact. Whether this Is designedly so or not in order to leave an avenue of retreat for the president, no matter what he may do, can only be Inferred. In reality Chicago is under martial law and has been for a week. The president does not declare martial law to exist, but simply that he believes it to be “impracticable” to enforce the laws by the ordinary course of judicial proceed- ings. This is substantially an assertion of the existence of insurrection or rebellion, for only In such cases Is the authorized by the constitution to employ the military forces to supplement the unsuccess- ful efforts of the civil authorities. The writ of habeas corpus certalnly remains available s0 long as the courts are open and undis- turbed. The legal status of Illinois, then, Is somewhat of an anomaly. It has been so from the moment the federal troops were ordered to assume control, and the presi- dent’s proclamation does not alter it one fota. 0 warning those and retire varning 1s have, impracticable to enforce laws in or at least before to the e, he ndation hav wa save States obscure say: president One of the suggestions made by The Bee that the proposition for voting ald to the Platte river canal shall embody a clause that will require work to ba begun this fall so that employment may bd given to idle work- men and the money circulated among our merchants has, we finderstand, been omitted. We still believe that such a provision should be inserted. It would afford the only rational reason for holding a special election and a strong inducement for laboring people and business men to suppart the proposition. But the provision should be specific as to the ex- tent of the work and amount to be expended. Otherwise it would" bé regarded as a sham. If the promoters ean business they can certainly do a good deal of ditch digging in the fall and winter season without material increase over the cost of such work in the spring and summer, The Rub in Conference. Globe-Democrat. It 1s quite probable that the tariff bill will be passed by the house substantially as it came from the senate, ‘and all talk to the contrary is to be taken with due allowance for the fact that the average democratiec congressman has no convictions on the subject that he feels bound to re- spect. Ohlo Democrats for Silver, Cincinnati Enquirer. The indications that the democrats of Onio will come out squarely and enthusi- astically for silver are abundant and cheer- ing. The silver question is one which stands naked before the people. It is mot necessarily complicated with any other proposition In politics. It appeals directly to the material interests of the people. e Cabinet Thriftiness. Buffalo Express. It is significant of the character of the tariff_reform bill that one of the choice bits of gossip put in circulation on the day of its passage was that a cabinet officer had made $104,000 out of It through specu- lation in Sugar stock, while his private sec- retary had laid by’ $17,00. Whether the story Is true or not, there 18 nothing in the nature of the bill or the manner of its pas- sage to disprove it. The South in the Sadale. Denver Republican. Speaker Crisp has appointed four cross- roads statesmen from the south as the democratic majority. of the house con- ference commiitee on the tariff bill, but no northern democrat was given a place on that very important committee. Good will come of this sectional discrimination, however, {f It results in the defeat of thé bill. That would leave the McKinley law unchanged and the industries of the coun: try would then enjoy a magical revival of activity and profits. Groed » Chicago Herald, What manner of man i3 George M. Pull- man that he skulks in lis seaside cottage while other men—disinterested and innocent parties—struggle to extinguish the conflagra- tlon that he has started? Why doesn’t he come to Chicago and take up his share of the responsibility? By what right does he throw upon the people of this town the bur- den of his greed, stubbornness and cowardice, while he sits rubbing his hands together a thousand miles away, discoursing fmbeclle platitudes to reporters and announcing in ef- fect that the whole country may be d—a before he will lift a finger? Is he really a man or a mere aggregation of stupidity, poitroonery, obstinacy and unearned divi- dends? Wise Declslon of the Federation, Denver, News. position taken by the Federated of Unlon Pacific employes in re- gard to the strike 13 manly, proper, con- ative and indicative of 'rare common cnse, Thelr address to the engineers, nductors, firemen, tra operator switchmen' and Knights of Labor recites the results of Judge Caldwell’s recent cision and calls on all these org to stand honorably by their pledg, court. A strike, say8 the addre be the means of sacrificing all t been gained for laber everywhere by the eftect of the Caldwell decision. This 14 minently the sensible thing for the Union Pacific employes. To stop work now would be to break the very contracts for whose existence they foukht so hard and on which they gained 8o brilllant a victory for organized labe The Board would at has THE CHERISHED GIFT, Washington-Star, On the wall, by a ribbon suspended, Tt ranks with the thinis I hold dear; With the antlers, 8o flauntingly splendid, the foils—which no foeman need fear. it with truest affection Souvenir of a sweetheart of mine Ah, that dark, wavy hair; that complexion; And those eyes, which no stars could out: shine. "Twas at e Had redd That, you er And murmured, “Take this with my lov S0 I cherish with sentiment tender, Whate'er the temptation may be, n the sun to an ember the cloud just above sought me—how well I r wh That basely suggests its surrender, The ciger that my wife gave to me, THE STRIKE REMEDY. Kansas City Journal: Some better way of settling labor dificulties must be found and applied. The strike and the boycott are too exponsive to all parties coneernad. St. Paul Globe: The arbitration of diff- culties of this nature {s the only reasonable solution. Tho conntry may not yet be pre- parod for such a change in methods, but that it will eventually come Is beyond ques- tion. Hoston with thelr western Globe: Bmployers naturally side contemporaries and the tollers with their own class, The right of or- ganization must be freely granted to each, but oppression on the one land and lawless- ness on other will not be tolorated by the people of this country. Every day's delay mukes the matter worse, and only through arbitration can there be any satisfactory and permanent settlement of the questions in- volved Minneapolis way to get at Sherman points it portion of a legal arbitration law, which sort to arbitration before a tated. In this way the the public, can be pr that always results from right wrongs or inju side or above the law. Rocky Mountain News tration for settlement of held to be merely the appl ciple that is the root of Compulsory luwsuits now take settiements formerly ted ring or with deadly weap can no longer lawfully the old and violent way, course to the halls of jus reason for compelling great and organized capitalists to differences to the judgmient constituted tribunal? Chicago Herald: In a recent letter to the Herald Sidney C. Eastman stated the pro- position that ““the people of the United Statos need protection from unlawful interference with their rights on the public highways of the country arfsing out of quarrels between the raflroads and thelr servants.” An over- whelming majority of the American must be prepared by this time to endc that proposition. * * * The suggestion deserving of very serious consideration business of tying up commerce and reducing cities to a stato of siege, civil war and ‘star- vat'on without amcment's waraing from time to time is simply intolerable. In some way it must be stopped. St. Paul Pioneer Press that, without regard to its influence upon disputes and disputants, the public Is en- titled to such a_measure ot protection as this agreement would give them. The innocent third party is now, in case of every railroad sirike, the heaviest sufferer. That people should be held prisoners half way on a jour ney, perishable freight destroyed by delays, and’ business brought to a sudden stop at a blow and without a word of notice, is an outrage that should be no longer endured by the community. If labor disputes are to be fought out by the strike, let it at leas be after bystanders have been told to get out of the way. It is probable that if an agree- ment_were reached to submit all differences to arbitration the strike would be of infre- quent occurrence. New York Times: We are by no means gnorant of the errors of the railway man- agers of the United States. With peculiar nd great opportunities, t have not made the use of them the intelligent in- terest would have suggested. They control a vast service, highly matized, con- stantly expanding and” developing. In this service the demand for fidelity, energy and intelligence s steadily in advance of the supply, so that the higher places are the richest prizes of industrial life in the United States. Under these conditions it ought to be possible on every great road so to organ- ize and guide the service as to make it fairly stable, by making it to the obvious interest of all employed in it to remain faith- ful to it. And this has been done in con- splcuous instances. It has not been so gen- erally done as it should have been. s i NEBRASK.A AND NEBRASICA Fire at Orleans destroyed a two-story frame building belonging to Isaac Huff. = Incen- daries did it. A waterspout at Crawford struck the mill dam and damaged it to the extent of several thousand dollar; People boring an artesian well at Arapahoe went through a strata of silver-bearing rock. They are still boring for water. A proposition will be submitted to the voters of Boyd county to issue $20,000 in bonds, and also to decide whether to adopt township organization. While Orville Willlams, a Meadow Grove boy, was celebrating at Battle Creek, some- body hit him on the head with a sandbag. He was unconscious for two hours, but is now on the road to recovery. J. H. Chapman, editor of the Ansley Chronicle, has been sued for libel by E. O. Garrett in connection with the charges made by the Chronicle as to the shortage in the county treasury of Custer county. Mr. Chap- man has been placed under $1,500 bonds to appear for trial. The program for the summer meeting of the State Horticultural society at Geneva July 17 and 18 has been issued. One ses sion will be devoted to the cherry, another to the strawberry and a third to small fruits in general.” A number of experts on the topics to be discussed will be present. THE FATE OF HILL. the s a legal and Senator out in part. The other remedy I8 a compulsory will compel a re strike Is precipls fnnocent party Tribune: There Mr. Pullman, the to by att methods ¢ mpts arbi- 1s Compulsory labor digput tion of a Jurispr in the prize It individuals settle disputes In but must have re- how inuch more bodies of men submit their of a properly people It seems to us New York Recorder: Some able demo- cratic editors of the cuckoo species are en- deavoring to make out that David B. Hill is not a democrat. Their chattering on the subject proves that they are populists Philadelphia Inquirer: Nothing could more surely indicate that the silly season has struck Washington than the determination of the unterrified democracy to read Scnator Hill out of the party for standing squarely upon the democratic platform New York World: The purpose attributed to Mr. Hill's democratic associates in the senate to “‘read him out of the party,” or at least to deny his caucus fellowship, on account of his refusal to vote for the com- promise-surrender tariff bill, must be classed wWith the follies of dog-day politics. Philadelphia_Ledger: It is reported from Washington that his democratic colleagues are about to boycott Senator Hill to the ex- tent of denying him admission to party con- ferences. Senator Hill's martyrdom will be likely to add some interesting passages to the political history of the year. It is sure to be dramatic. STRIKINt POINTS, Phis s a drendful place, T man_ yet. Madge—~It as the bed for one. you ever felt the No. What s it old silk dress Truth: Cora ven't. seen a bad as looking unde, Judge: Fanny—Have ) of poverty? Nanny Fanny—Wearing your with the tight sleeves. which ad ays and at Chicago Times: The raflroad vertises “'a new ture’’ thes fs able to make the departure is ln gr luck. . Tt 1s supposed that fashion among women of reading the al pages of a novel first is due to their dilection for the last word. Boston Transeript hicago Times: All of the school teachers idle now. This may be a pointer for rallroad magnates who are anxious to have switches handled properly. Indianapolis Journal: Hungry Higgins. How would you like to live in of them South Sea islands, where all a feller has to do to git his grub is to knock it off the trees with a elub? Weary Watkins won't it fall oft if he will’ lay down the tree and walt long enough? Brooklyn Bagle: The Ministerial One— The raceé question seems to be as much of oblem today as it was at the close of > war porty One Say, under You're dead right, pard. n follerin' the he for ' thirty * T have jist a3 much trouble * de winner now as I had de first day - went to & track. SUMMER., w York Press. Now comes the sudden thunder shower, Thelr thirst for blood mosquitoes saf The collar wilts in half an hour, The pesky fiies exasperate; We slip on the banana skin, The beauteous malden's face gets tanned, Green cucumbers thelr work get in, Jamaica ginger's in demand, The thirsty foaming lager drink, His little pile the lceman makes, The small boy from the river's brink Each day a nude departure takes, tected from the injury | D NOT FOLLOW MR. MORTON Senato Eubcommittee on Appropriations Has Its Own Tdeas of Agrionltare, SQUELCHED THE SECRETARY'S PLANS ted to the Senate Dinmetrically o that by the Mo Department. Bl Rej Opposed Drawn Up and Passed s for the BUREAU OF THE BEE. 1407 K Street, N. W WASHINGTON, July 9. appropristions appropriation WASHINGTON enate commitice on The has cut down the agricultural bill and o disfigured it that when the meas- | state | settlement will be th ure is returned to the Lou.e it al- most as unrecognizable to its rs the Wilson bill to the mittee on ways and Morton ing and M. practic has ans tary of of forestry patholog Morton nd lly abolis members of the h bill in ¢ een exceedingly the effi the div irous inerea fon able it down @ is anxiou the room 150 ¢ teo on & with feulture pr the desires passed nsists pared w of bill pract \e sube was prepared. mmt of Senators and Cullum ot gave a careful ofore 0 and mod appropriations ¢ ot Florida, Brice of nois. Th Ohio senators the bill m beginning to tleular attention to the se an increased appropriation the division of vegetable pathology bureau of forestry, where great reductions have been made. The scnate committee took exactly the oppo-ite view of the necds of the Agricultural department from the view which was taken Ly th ry of agriculture, and it is understood that the senate will insist upon the amendments which have thus been made t cultural appropriation bill The secretary of agr nd is using every endeavor to induce the senate to resture the bill to the shape in I the house prepared it under his di fon. con- siderat fled it fr end, 1 room is mad and and seeret tlture is chagrined SOLDIERS War department is informed by tele- ph and by long distance telephone that ral Miles regards the situation as more serious in Chicago tonight than at any time during the past week. The general is im- pressed with the possibility of an instant out- breal and has excluded from camp every citizen, ieluding all newspaper correspond- ents. The chances for mischief by insidious representatives of the raging muititude thus, reduced to an infinitesimal minimun Four troops of cavalry and three batteries of artillery are enroute from KFort Riley, Kan. They are C, E, I and G of the Third, manded respectively by Captains John G. Bourke, Elting, Dodd and Hardie, and batter- ies A and I of the d artillery and F of the Fourth, under Grover, Voss and Taylor, | commanded by Major Randolph. Tay- lor's is the Hotchkiss battery, and will, If there is any rioting there tomorrow or af- terward, be an interesting factor in the struggle. Colonel Gordon is bringing four troops of the Sixth cavalry, while the East Madison barracks and Fort Ontario con- tribute the entire Ninth infantry, under Colonel Bartleit. Colonel Crofton” now has a force of about 1,000 regulars, consisting of the Fifteenth infantry, the battalions being commanded by Colonel Ovenshine and Major Bailey. The Leavenworth battalion, consis ing of the Fifth infantry, H of the Seventh infantry, F of the Tenth infantry, F of the Twelfth infantry and F of the Thirteenth infantry, troops B and K (Farnum’s and Hare's) of the Seventh cavalry, light bat- tery E (Capron's), First artillery, and B and F of the Nineteenth infantry. Before mid- night the military forces of the gencral goy- ernment in Chicago will be not less than 2,000 strong, classificd as follows: Five hun- dred cavalry, 240 artillery, 1,150 infantry Therewith the oflicers will make up a total of 2,000 trained fighters. IN A GENERAL WAY. A party of eighty-five school teachers is registered at the Ebbitt tonight, two days overdue by reason of the railroad strike In the west. The party is enroute for the na- tional educational convention, to be held at Asbury Park, N. J., July 10, 11, 12 and 13 They Will take in all the objects of interest at the capital under tbe guidance of Repro- sentative Mercer, and will be received by the president tomorrow. The controversy over *he appointment of a United States marshal for Wyoming Is about concluded. Representative Coffeen has been diligently urging the appointment of McDermott, while Mr. New has been work- ing for the appointment of Harper. It is practically decided, so far as the Depart- ment of Justice is concerned, that Harper shall receive the appointment, but the case cannot be laid before President Cleveland until peace is restored. Senator Manderson presented the petition of 1. C Keene and others of Hayes county praying for an appropriation of $25,000 for the purpose of sinking an experimental ar- tesian_ well. W. H. Kelligan of Auburn is in Washing- ton for a fow days. R. B. Reynolds of Wymore called at the capitol today and paid his respects to the republican congressmen from Nebraska mptroller of the currency has ap- AT CHICAGO. The v s | | sentativ | | proved the selection of the following reserve agents: Chemical bank of New York for the Dawson County National bank Neb. et National bank neapolls and W ational bank of Milwaukee for the First National bank of Charles City, Ia.; American Exchange N: tional bank of Chicago for the Dakota Na- tional bank of Sioux Falls, 8. D. Foster & Smith of Minneapolis were today awarded the contract for the interior finish and plumbing of the public bullding at Sioux Falls, 8. D. White oak s to be used in the first and second stories in liew of white pine, cement plaster in liew of lime mortar plaster; one-quarter-inch polished glass in lieu of ‘sheet glass, and a wainscoating Is to be put in the public lobby, halls and second story corridor. The amount of the contract is §22,473, and it is to be completed in six montlis The senate has appropriated office expenses— of e for South committee on appropriations $2,000 for the the survoyor gen- Dakota This ap- propriation {8 an Increase of $0 over the amount allowed by the house. The total amount now appropriated for this office, in- salury of the surveyor general, is 2,000, Nominated by tho Ident. WASHINGTON, July Nomluations e made by the president today as follows Postmasters—Curt ~ W. Miller, Ariz.; John S. Mitchell, Newcastle, B. W. Whitehall, 1lL; Ambrose Craddock, Shelbyville, 111.; John C. Neltnor, Turner, 11.; J. M. Hammond, Hamburg, B. I'. Thomas, Carthage, Mo.;Rufus J. Best, Stillwater, Okl Withdrawn-—Samuel tef at Moscow, Idaho. Napoleon B. Laughlin, supreme court for the territory of New Mexico; William H. King, associate justice of the supreme court of Utah, Pre 9. we T. Owings, postmas- associate justice of Distriot Day in the House, ASHINGTON, July 9.—This was Dis- trict of Columbla day In the house, and a bill to provide an immediate revision and equalization of real estate values in the Dis- trict was taken up for consideration. Most e of the afternoon was spent on this bill, which wag finally passed. The remainder of the day was to a street raitrond bill, Which was not disposed of when the hous At 4:55, adjourned WESTERN MEN FI¢ il to Prot Transmi WASHIN an't Sule surl Congress July 9.—Western repre- been preparing for a fight against a bill that made something of & Str In the extra session of congress, but which was referrad back to a committes and has since mado its appearance in the house, It i a bill to forest re- serves, but the westorn say that It will result in tho sale of the timber on these reserves, and they propose to have ¢ materially amonded before ft shall be ale lowed to pass. The bill came from the come mitteo on public lands and provides for the disposal of timber upon the reserves that have heen set apart in differsnt western There have been reserved from by proclamation of the presi- about 17,000,000 acres of land in the of Montana, ldaho, Wyoming, Washe , Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado the Interior sta The bill, which 15 now back in the house from the commite tee on public lands, provides for the dis- posal of such lands in thexe reserves as are tual timber lands. The western men ay that the reservations were made for saving the timber, and that Bill s passed the result will f the roserves of tho best ber and defeat the purpose viding for the reservatlons, cate the dill claim that r i disposed of it will loss by fire and theft, and government will derive no benefit protect men ont in ibject hat the from it . WESTERN PENSIONS, Wi al Gove July 9.~ granted, Veterans of the Late the Gene ASHINGTON, Pensions Remembored by went clal of w ee.) The 2, to sue June Nebraska: Original ceased), Dakota, Lleanor war Charles Dakota, Or Davis, Omaha, | urviv inerova I'ric wer Crossing, S Towh: Additi William wwed), Bonaparte, Van Buren; George W. AL Smith, Welden, Decatur siio— Martin Ashley, Macedonia, Pottawattamie; Halsy H. Saunders (deecased), Waterloo, Black Hawk. Orizinal widows, efe.-Mary A, Scheyli, Bonaparte, Van luren; Mary Medcham, Washington, Washinigtons m Huntley (father), Cherokee, Cher- D. Phillips (de- winal widows, Mex- V. (de- fean ls, James wrd Scheyll uth Dakota: Original rill, Bridgewater, MeCook. North Dakota:' Origir Hamlin, Sargent Tssi Jung Nebraska: A Lincoln, Lancastc Phebe J. Wilson, Tow Additional City, Winnebago, Willlam J Hiram David McKee, 2% litlonal--John Dougherty, Original widows, ete.— orth Loup, Valley., Amund Olson, Forest Restoration and relssue Logsdon (deceased), — Des Moines, Polk.” Increase—John 1. N. Walsh, Lake Park, " Dickinson. ~ Original widows, Henridtta 1. cadon, Des Moines, idows Indlan wars'Rebecea Bal Fairfleld, " Jefferson o South Dakota: Orfginal—Parin D, Lal- mer, Estelline, Hamlin. Reissue and in- woline Kellogg, Red Helghts, Monitana: Original Quartz, Missoula Wyoming: Original—Elwood Laramie City, Albany August Bauer, Gaskin, APFROPRIATIONS HOLD THE tion LBOARDS, Bl Constder Senato Yesterda WASHINGTON, July 9.—After the trans- action of some business of minor importance the senate took up the naval appropriation Dill. Mr. White of California called atten- tion to the action of the committee in strike ing out the appropriation of $50,000 for team tug for Mare Island navy yard and had read a letter from the secrotary of the navy endorsing the necessity for the tu The appropriation was allowed to stand, Mr. Allen offered an amendment, which was agreed to, providing that all appolnt as maval cadets shall have been actual residents of the district from which they are appointed for at least two years priof o thelr. appointment. - The by as' amended was passed. The senate passed a house bill to amend the law relative to mining claims. It pro- vides for the temporary suspension of the requirements that a certain sum of money shall be expended each year on minipg laims until a patent shall have been granted, ¢ Mr. Blackburn announced the death of Representative Marcus C. Lisle of Knntuok{ last Saturday, and after the adoption of th customary resolutions the senato at 4:25 p, adjourned. Naval Approp! od In the PEFIER G Wants the Government to Operate Rall- ronds and Coal Minos ASHINGTON, July 9.—In the senate today Mr. Peffer offered an omnibus resolu- tion providin First—That all public functions ought te be excrcised through public agents, Second—That all interstate rallroads ought to be brought under one control and the ipervision of public officers, and charges for transportation of persons and _property throughout the United States ought to be uniform, and that tho wages of employes ought to be regulated by law and pald promptly in money. Third—That all coal beds ought to be owned and worked by the government, and t the wages of the employes should be paid in money when due. Fourth—That all money should be supplied only by the government of the United States and that the rate of Interest ought to be uniform in all states. Fifth—That all rovenues of the govern- ment ought to be ralsed by taxes on real ostate, The resolution without action or went over until tomorrow comment. Confirm WASHINGTON, executive session d by the nate. July 9.—The scnate fx today confirmed the fol: lowing postmasto Oregon—Stephen R, Green, Oregon City; James A. Cross, Tht Dalles; B. F. Bonham, Salem. ittt R o Inhaled the Fiames and Diod. SALIDA, Colo.,, July 9.—One of the watch- men in the round house threw some coal of) into the firebox of an engine In which a fire was burning. the gas generated, exs ploded, and a sheet of flame flashed out of the furna Ex-City Marshal C. C. Steven in trying to extinguish the flames, ev dently inhaled some of the gas, for he coms plained of feeling sick and walked to & drug store. While the clerk was drossing, Stevens asked for a glass of brandy, but before it could be brought he dropped dead. Visiblo Supply of Grain. NEW YORK, July 9.—The visible supply of grain Saturday, July 7, as compiled by the New York Produce Exchange Is as fol= lows Wheat, 54,115,000 bu, ,277,000 bu.; d oaty, 2,817,000 bu.; dee . 00 bu.; decrease, 36,000 bu.; barley, 98,2 6,000 bu. LS To Complete the Dikots & Wyomlng. RAPID CITY, 8. D, July 9.—(Special melegram to The Bec)—A great effort 1§ being made to effect the completion of the oming railroad by January & Wyoming ral ¥ Januseyd decrease, 542,000 bu.l 1,164,000 by, 000" bu.; Increase, Dakota 5 Y ocal creditors have agr their Loinly U after that dute, and at & meeting of citiz this afternoon a come e of five was appointed to wire for & like agreement from outside creditors, Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report. oYal h Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE

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