Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 19, 1894, Page 4

SIS e S S R BEE. THEOMAHA DATLY PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN S ISCRIPTION, Year... TERMS Dally Bee (without & Pally Pee and Sunda nthe Month; Ronday Tee Bnturdny 1o Waekly oo or nday) one 8800 One Year One Ye OFFIC g N W) Tewanty 12 TPonrl ter N7 Chamber of O, Joma 13, 14 T E street, N CORRESPONDI Omana ' Bouth ¢ Conncil Chicig New ¥ Washington fourth Sta, Fibune 110g. ANl communications torial v LETT Al busi nd ror nddr The Hee Omaha checks be made pavabis o t) THE DEE P "comp PANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Hue £ The Ree el worn, says that Tnd complate conles eninie and Sunday June, 1504, wa Puh Georsge " Hshing eon the actual of The Daily Mo printed during the follows imber of full Morning, T month of 1 17 1 mammasmen Total an deductions pos unsold Total ol . Dally average not circula inday e pres- GEOT B T Bworn to hefore me and subscribed in my. ence this 34 day of | (Senl.) Notary Public. tion to celebrate the forthcoming evacuation day. It will soon be in order for some energetic congrossman to extend the privilege of the pension laws to disabled deputy their widows and their dependents marshals, geason of the sunflower and that accounts for the spontaneou of congratulations to Frank Kaspar over his accession to the Board of Public Worls. Thig 1s the outb rats the men who aspired to the vacancy on the Board of Pablic Works will get off the and look elsewhere for municipal phims. Now that the agony is over anxious seat Can't award a few deserving army officers for bravery in protecting the property of rail- roads from mob violence during the srike? congress medals conspicuous Over $400,000 in premiums earned by the Minneapolis for speed in excess of that de- manded by the specifications attests the wis- dom of for particular Ame industries. protection Major Balcombe knowing that he For a while he apprehensions that he for but a single salary. feels relieved I is sewer inspector only. was laboring under grave was filling two offices much They are still talking Frank Lawler for congress In Chicago. Having applied for and failed to get every local office within the gift of the president, Mr. Lawler has con- cluded that the dear people are the only ones who can appreciate his talents. When the county committee fixed the dates for the republican primaries and convention last Saturday it was to be presumed that the call would issued within twenty-four hours, or at any rate by Monday. But up to this hour nothing has been heard of it. be Those patriotic newspapers which placed a cut of the stars and stripes at their mast- heads are now engaged in that very unpop- ular business of hauling down the Ameri- can flag. But they will be ready to holst it agaln the moment they think they can make any capital by the proceeding. During Secretary Morton's absence from ‘Washington that appropriation of $1,000,000 for exterminating the Russian thistle which he has antagonized so vigorously has been tacked as a rider upon the agricultural ap- propriation bill by the senate. Will Mr. Morton try to induce the president to veto his own bread and butter bill on this ac- count? The forty-fifth star will not be added to the national flag before the next anniversary of Independence day. The Fourth of July Is the only day on which star additions can be made to the flag. The probability is that there will ba at least three stars added by the Fourth of July, 1895. The admission of Utah will doubtless be followed by the ad- mission of New Mexico and Oklahoma. David A. Wells, the eminent economist, who has been President Cleveland’s bosom friend and chief adviser on the subject of tarift reform, has sccured recognition of his sorvices In the appointment of his son to be second secretary of the United States legation at London. Mr. Wells has been given the credit of being able to get what- ever he might ask in the way of patronage for his friends, nd has assisted actively in the distribution of Connecticut offices. In securing something for he shows that it is possible for theory and practical politics to go hand in hand. his son economic Leave: of absence for city officials asked for and granted with wonderful ease. Last year the excuse glven was that every- one ought to have an opportunity to attend the World's fair. If any employe of the city falled to get that opportunity It must have been his own fault. But there is no dearth of reasons for continuing the practice this year and at the present prospects it bids fair to become a regular practice, If the city can get along so well with a third of its officials away it ought to manage to get along through the whole year with names on its pay roll. The vacation business can be overdone. are fower It 1s to be hoped that the acting city ele triclan will not take advantage of h weeks' leave of absence before appointing an stant who I satisfactory to Mr. Wiley Should b depart from the city with no one authorized to take temporary charge of the sity office who can tell what calamit the city of Omaha. The ammeters and volt- meters might be drawn into a distressing quarrel with one another and the photometer might undertake of itsolf to measure some of the short welght electric lights. The very office might attempt to run away. The thought of the city electriclan’s office with- out & custcdian for two weeks ought to arouse the people to the immizent danger that is threatening them. ke two electrician's during his absence might not befall 1 tinue A YEAR'S COMMERCE. The statisties of the foreign commerce of the United States for the year ended June 30 make a good showing as to expurts of merchandise, which amounted in round nvm- bers to $869,000,000, an increase of $21,000,000 over last #0 the total for 1892, dinary stuff year. It was not large as an extraor- bread- when there was abroad for American has been exceeded In only r years, 1881 1801, On the hand a large decrease Is shown in fmports, which fell off during the year ended June 40, 1804, $212,000,000 in value from the imported In the previous year. The excess of merch imports is stated in round numbers at $214,- balance of trade In favor of this been ded in bu , 1879 and 1881, With regard to the leading articles of export, there gain during the last fiscal the preceeding year in cotton and provisic and a loss in breadstuffs and mineral oils The exports of were valued at $174,000,000 and the: tle and the exports of cattle valued at $31,800,000 for the last fiscal year, compared with $25,000,000 for 189: It is a noteworthy fact that the exports of demand and nd other very amount exports of ndise 000,000, a country which has sther years—1 exce three was a year over provisions figures inciud, hogs alone being provisions for the last fiscal year exceeded | the | of breadstuffs to than $12,000,000, a decide itive importance of these interesting f the amount of more change in the of exports. A very in value exports ture of these ment of gold and silver, it being shown that the of gold exceeded the imports only $4,58 while we exported $37,000 000 more of silver than we Imported. In view of the I trade balance in our favor and the very small of gold, mpared with the fiscal year ended June 30, 1593, the continued depression certainly can- ition of our for- considered as a an $200,000,000 situa condi- statistios exports loss as not be ascribed to the co that be sold more t elgn whole in excess of what we have bought is which under would be regarded as sound does it then, o large an amount on the proper commerce, if To have tion ordinary econom and that side tions lealthy, How with s of our account in our foreign commerce th our domestic busin ppears to be but one satis- factory tion, and that tainty incident to proposed new tariff legi lation which checks industrial enterprise and capital from secking employment Our foreign trade for the last fiscal year, considered as a whole, was ce tainly Similar conditions in the have been accompanied by gen- eral Moderate imports give Ame icturers a larger share of the home market and liberal exports should ople to buy liberall, There can be no doubt that this would be the ex for the fact that the proposed new revenue policy has caused a widespread cur- tailment of industrial activity that greatly lessened the ability of a large propor- tion of the people to buy. So far as the fig- ures of our foreign trade for the last fiscal year concerned they must be regarded as highly satisfactory. The of our business trouble is in the purpose to make a radical departure from a long-established cconomic policy. 1If that purpose shall pre- it is a safe prediction that at the close of the current fiscal year the balance of trade will not be in our favor. happen, depression in con- There explana is the uncer- restrains in business. on a sound basis, past prosperity. an manu enable our | rience now has are source WILL IT PAY? Mr. Worthington C. Ford, the chief of the bureau of stat of the Treasury depart- ment, has prepared a statement showing the possibla from the income pending tariff bill. It not give any en- of the tax. revenue tax as for in the is a statement which does pent to the supporters Mr. Ford has gone into the investigation evidently with great care, and as the sult is led to conclude that the possible rev enuo from this source will range from $12, 000,000 a year at the lowest point to $39,000, 000 at the highest point, and he thinks that in the first year of its operation the lowest rather than the highest possibility will be attained. & The operations of the income tax law of 1865 and the results reached by the opera- tion of the in New York state and foreign countries was carefully studied. Tak- Ing the results in New York as a basis of calculation, the statisticlan says the total receipts from the on incomes would be about $12,000,000. From an elaborate exam- ination of the workings of income tax laws in Buropean countries this deduction is drawn: “With the exemptions of incomes of less than $4,000 a year, and with the other liberal exemptions granted under the senate Dill, the number of payers would be very small and the revenue out of all pro- portion to tha difficulties of col- Wherever an income tax has been for any time the small incomes the large taxed, and it s the small incomes which yield the large:t revenue to the state”” As a final conclu- sion the chief of the bureau of statistics says: “The revenue from private Incomes will be small and will hardly cover the cost of collection, and the revenue from corpora- tions may reach as high as $39,000,000, but is more likely to be nearer §$12,000,000.” There is a wide margin between these fig- ures, but obviously tho judgment of Mr. Ford inclines to the lesser amount. The supporters of an income tax cannot reject this statement on the ground that it s prompted by elther prejudice or partisanism It is manifestly made as the result of a most careful, e te and candid investigation There is no evidence that Mr. Ford ix tile to and is a cratic official appointed by ministration. As a statistician he has a repn- tation at stake in this matter and would not willtully, it is reasonable to assume, distort facts in order to out a for side or the other. Conceding, then, as in fairness must bo done, that the chief of the bureau of statistics as fair a showing of the possible recults from the proposed income tax as can be made, It is entirely plain that the Imposition of the tax cannot be justificd by the plea of necessity for raising additional Among the fifteen reasons given by Senator Hill against that it is cause it had been conclusively demonstrated by the estimates of treasury experts that sufficlent revenues would be realized under other provisions of the tariff bill to provide for the needs of the treasury without the procesds of this tax. Now we have the opin- fon of the chief of the burcau of statistics, which, It he Is competent for that position, 1s entitled to respectful consideration, that the revenue from private incomes will hardly the of collection corporations is likely to the provided courage re- laws cost and lection. in p as well as tice are hos- an income tax, he demo- the present ad- make case one has made revenu the tax one was unnecessary, be- while that very tax cover cost from be much less have revenue from this the tax ought not 1t the cost of collection will eat up the receipts, or nearly 5o, what honest be for levying the tax? If its enactment would simply be to create a standing army of tax gatnerers, who alons would be benefited, how can such legislation be Jjustified? Stll there Is mot the least than supporters of the timated. Certainly if a source cannot be assured to ba Impose reason can urged two | the | over | live cat- | lates to the move- | | have | that B T U Y e e —— probability that the statement of Mr. Ford will have any influence with the demoeratic advocates of an income tax, because the groat majority of them are by sectional rather than by practical considera- The burden of the tax will be mainly borne by the people of the north, and that fact 1+ sufficient to bind to its support the men who dominate the party in control of controlle tions. the government "ING POWE tand executive WHO HO! DS On Friday lnst a message to the slon requesting THE APPOIN President Clo senate In that the nomination of James Parker to be United district attorney for the district of New Jersey be considered as withdrawn. The president, of had a right to do this It lies within his power to withdraw any ination mot yet confirmed by the senate, although he may have sent In the n the hope that it would be immediately approved. Captain Parker had been inated for this position earller in the week, but the of pleasing the snfor senator from Jersey seems to had quite the effect. In interview on the following day Senator Me- nomination must have sent State course, perfect nom- name nom- instead New reverse nomination an Pherson said that th been made under a misappreliension In re gard to his wishes in the matter and that he committed. He also said that he would not nomination for that position immediately repaired to ask President Cleve the name, and although he shown a long forgotten letter in which he himself had endorsed Captain Parker as worthy and capable of filling any honorable position to which he might be ap- pointed, he expressed the utmost confidence that the president would accede to his re quest. Tt has since transpired that that con- fidence was by no means unfounded. The question that naturally arises s, it that Senator McPherson's consent is sary to the appointment of a federal officer for New Jersey? What kind of an influence docs Senator McPherson exert that he can not only securs the appointment of one of hig friends on the strength of a letter of recommendation, but is also able to get the president to withdraw the nomination for no other rcason than that he has changed his and now stands committed to some other person? Why Is the president so obliging to Senator McPherson obliging to several other worthy democratic It is notorious that Senator Hiil's for for federal appointive offices does them more harm in the president’s estimation than his outspoken oppositi nator Vest of Missouri, too, s complained that appointments have been de in his bailiwick not only without his nt, but in the face of his strongest dissent, Coming to lands nearer home, Ne- braska’s only democratic representative in congress, Mr. Bryan, has found the work of sccuring patronage for his personal fol- lowers as painful as pulling teeth. So far as requesting the president to withdraw an obnoxious nomination when once made, none of these representative democrats would as much as think of such a thing. Their only hope in that case would be to enlist the senate on their side and to refuse to con- firm the nomination. They might possibiy compel the president to send in another name, but that would be no assurance that it would be the name of the man whom they were championing. Senator McPherson alone scems to have control of the presidential pen with reference to New Jersey appoint- ments. Office seekers who have not his con- sent may as well give up their hunt. In the meanwhile people will be asking in whom tho appointing power Is vested—in President Cleveland or in Senator McPherson? was otherwise Parker was aware consent to hi McPherson white house withdraw Senator to the land to was how s neces mind and so d snators? recommendation candidates THE PROPOSED CONSOLIDATION. The action taken by the council looking toward the consolidation of the cities of Omaha and South Omaha and the creation of a new county out of the consolidated cities with one government for all municipal and county purposes will commend itself favorably to the taxpayers. The plan offers the most feasible solution for an cconomic and efficient administration of the affairs of the two corporations that now maintain sep- arate municipal machinery as well as of the county which draws nine-tenths of its revenues from the two cities. There is no more use for three treasurers to collect the taxes upon the property in the two cities and the county than there Is for three state treasurers collecting the taxes for Nebraska. There s, however, a serious obstacle in the way of the proposed new county which abso- lutely prevents its consummadon for the next three years. Section 1, article x, of the constitution of Nebraska decrees that “no new county shall be formed or estab- lished by the legisliture which will reduce the county or countics or either of them to a less arca than 400 square miles, nor shall any county be formed of a less area.” Now Omaha and South Omaha together do mot have an area exceeding fifty square miles, 50 that at least seven times the ter- ritory occupied by the two cities would have to be included in the territory of the pro- posed new county. The area of Douglas county is only 360 miles, or forty squaro miles less than the prescribed area for new countics. It therefore follows that we should have to merge all of Douglas county with the two city governments as well as the village governments of Valley, Millard, Florence, Elkhorn and Waterlooo. For obvious reascns that would be impracti- cable. To do anything tangible in the way of creating government for municipal and county purposes we must secure a con- stitutional amendment that will the formation of a county from the territory included within the boundaries of a politan city with the limitation of the area to say seventy-five square miles, Such a constitutional amendment could not be sub- mitted until 1896, and hence would not be operative before 1897. So much on that score. There 1s nothing, however, in the way of effecting a consolida- tion of Omaha with South Omaha under one city government and the proposed conference between the officials of the two cities with a to submitting the proposition at tho next general election or at a speclal election next spring If any other proposition is to be submitted after the legislature ha amended our charter. The advantages if not the necessity of annexation must be ap- parent to anybody who has given the sub- ject any attention, Inasmuch as there is to be a state gensus taken next spring the pre- liminaries for annexation be begun square one authorize metro- November, view cannot too soon, The adjutant general of the Illinols Na tional guard is out with a proclamation de- claring the annual encampment of the militia off for this year. He states that becauso of the recent strike the entire national guard of the state has been called into service to assist the civil authorities to preserve peace, and that the duties thus performed with groat efficlency by the eitizen soldiers have given them the benefit of valuable practical training and experience which no ordinary encampment would afford. The more im- portant and real reason why the eneampment 18 declared off, howeyer, fs that the state has depleted its miitdy appropriation and Incurred such largeiand unprovided for ad ditional expenses that the expenses of another outing would not be ver able to the As & consequence th fatigued soldiers will b permitted to remain at home trying to make. up for the time already lost, and the people of Ilimols will with thelr present military bur- demanding more agre taxpayers den without ntent The provide both committes undoubtedly statehood of present will for the admisfon to Mexico afid *Arizona. The senate on territories has decided to recommend this, anfl ds the house is already committed to it tibre will probably be no obstacle to the proposed action. A: a mat- ter of fact, neither of ter- ritories -presents the conditions which ought to be required to entitle them to statehood. Granting that New Mexico sufficient population—and it does not equal the of representation—a large proportion of it is not compoed of a class of people who are likely to make good American citizens. This clement has manifested genuine sympathy with our political system, and it ns certain that it will improve under a state instead of a torial government. from which the support must be drawn the developed but development s progress at present well off in the population, probably not more than one-half the number in New Mexico, and with regard to resou s her condition is still less favorable. A consid- crable part of the territory is arid. But these considerations will not welgh with the party which hopes to get four United States as the reward of admitting these territories—a hope, which it is at least possible may not be realized. congress New however, these has basis never any As to resour of government will be ample when making Arizona is not so slow matter of having senators however, Whatever may have been the merits of the railway union's strike there is no further excuse for keeping it up. Mr. Debs and his ates should know enough to know that in prolonging the strife they are doing a positive injury to the cause of labor and dis commoding the public that certainly is not to blame for any of their grievance: The proper thing to do at this stage is to de- clare the strike fornally at an end and exert whatever influence the ilw operatives may have to bring about such legislation as will forever mak on public highways to seck redress for griev- ances by strike nd boycotts. assoc it needless for operatives Judge Cooley is reciprocating the favor of President Cleveland in appointing him to the Interstate Commerce commission by tell- ing the president how pleased he is with the firm stand taken in relation to th strike disturbances. Judge Cooley's words of praise are certainly worth having, but in this case they unfortunately.couple the president with the attorney general as equally desery- ing of credit. President Cleveland would doubtless appreciate the intended compliment much more if the attorney general's devotion to the corporations were not so conspicuously placed in the foregr The State Board of jTransportation has finally gotten ready-to Megin mandamus pro- ceedings in the proper distrlct courts to com- pel the railrcads té! gbey its orders in the transfer switch cases.’ When a few months have been fritterediaway by this device it will be about the caper of the court to de- clare that the rem@l¥ fs not by mandamus, but by suit to collect the penalties. We will then have specious excuses for still further delay. recent Pluck and Plucking. Kunsas City Journal. George M. Pullman once worked for $40 a year, and now he is worth $8,000,000. That hows ‘What a man can do in this free coun- try by pluck and gouging. wre Kansas City Star. If the senate had shown half the zeal in pushing the tariff bill that members have displayed in putting the appropriation bills through, business would long ago have been mounting the heights of prosperity and the great strike might not have occurred, Au Tssu oot. New York Tribune. intelligent student of the situation In an_avoid the conclusion that sue of his own feet is doomed to failure, The movement, unlike the sen- ator himself, has no footing worth taking into account. e Pullmanic Philanthropy. Chicago Record. Mr. George M. Pullman has generously given a picce of the Fort Dearborn massa- cre tree to the state historical 1il Springficld. Al theories as to the magnificent outburst of munificent spirit will prove unsatisfactory until fond memory recalls the fact that the red tree chip could not have cost Mr. Pullman anything. - Real Reason of the Beat, Chicago Record, It now appears that the real reason Vigilant failed to capture those rac the prince of Wales' Britannia is t) was a lack of a good spankin It ought to be insisted upon by an_ yachtsmen that if they are to in forelgn waters they shall at lea be allowed to take their own Yankee brand of breeze along with them. LA nutorinl Records. Savannah News. Senator Allen holds the senate record in this congress for the length of a continuous speech without rest or refreshment. Sena- tor Quay holds the record for filling the greatest number of columns of the Congres- sional Record with a speech delivered in sections. Senator Hill, ‘it appears, is try ing to strike in somewhere and establish a vecord for hammering on one particular spot in the tarift bill B to Bank On. St Paul Glob nd grant forfeiture bill, which will 54,000,000 acres of land to the public has been passed by the hous tions affected by the mé expected to take a determined nst the measure in the senate, and ex- pect to defeat it. The corporations have ctainly good reason for their confidence, the senate has repeatedly shown its ness to grant them anything they the T t there American Sal The 1 restore domain - Dangerous ns’ a Gy Chicago Dispateh In Kensington erday two detachments of United States deputy marshals opened fire upon each other with the result that two men are wounded, one of whom prob- ably will die. If deputy marshals have no more judg ment or discretion than to’ murder “each other they cannot logigally be expected to exercise greater care in thelr relutions with the public Give these fellows a wide berth. They are dangerous and should be converte into plain private citizens just as soon as possible. ling. —— A Neat Job Ualked. Chicago Tlerald, Philanthropist Huntington, who to have succeeded Philanthropist meyer as the Maecenas and tutelary saint the United States senate, has run into The newspapers are' responsible, of Just when he had th ate_com on commeree in line his Santa Monica harbor scheme the correspondents disclosed the whole program. That scared the committee. Mr. Quay scuttled off to the sea shore a la George M. Pullman, and several other Huntingtonians balked’ and refused to pull the bill through. So Mr Huntington “will have to begin all ove again, and s disappointment s not ' suaged by the knowledge t the pos ponement will increase the expense of the Job. Senators come high these days, owing o the lavishness and prodigality of the Sugar trust, appears Have: PEOPLE AND THINGS. The festive chigger Is comiug. Mra. Lease regards Mrs. niclous and impudent hussy Several pretentions presidential booms have boen sklctracked in the tie-up | The injunction against Lilllan Russoll does not restrain hor matrimonial libertiss The barbarle side of the Chicago Tribune 18 shown in Its proposal to sentence Sover N to six months® silence hat tired feeling complained Pullman is Iiable to becomo ucute voliime of decreased receipts roll in ho esteemed Congressional Record scored a great scoop on its contemporaries in pub lishing Senator Quay's elghty-two column speech. The Record is an exclusive looloo. George Alfred Townsend Is talked of as a re- publican candidate for congress in the Sixth Maryland district. Gath’s poem on Mary Washington demands some adequate punish- ment. The Towaraystwo Nayswietsz, joid Niepokolanezj Fomercy Nr J W has been incorporated in Illinols. The concern is doubtless intended to promote lockjaw and profanity. Congressman Brockinridge has introduced a bill to suppress immorality in the shanty hoats on the Ohio river. {dently the pro miscuous colonel will not brook competition in any quarter. braska prohibitionists are evidently de- termined to keep in the middle of the road The fact that most of the candidates named for state oficss are married women raises a barbed barrier to fusion. Atter the Cramps hav koles in the cruiser record the country ex pects Chicago will trot out the Ilinois and crown her queen of the seas. In the language of the boulevard, she's a brick. The Philadelphifa Inquirer laments the sence of a monument to Francis Scott Key, author of the “Star Spangled Banner,” in this country. Is not the Golden Gate parlk, San Francisco, a part of the country? George R. Graham, who died in New York the other day at the age of 81, was the first man who ever employed Edgar A. Po the editor of a magazine. Graham made fortune, lost it, and in late years has lived on the voluntary contributions of literary men The Atchison Globe surprises the natives with a twenty-six page edition, copiously il- lustrated. The number is exceedingly val ble, from a historic point of view. Innume ble sketches are given of men and events inscparably connected with the ploneer life of Atchison and Kansas. These are fittingly supplemented with reviews of the men who took up and carried to success the plans of the pioncers. The midsummer Globe is a credit to the cily and the publishers. AR S A AND NEBRASKAN aof by when Mr Penny Mary- blown a few more NEBRASK. The wheelmen of Clark bieyele club. The Deshler have formed a Herald has disappeared be- neath the waves of adversity. A Plattsmouth saloon keeper has been ar- rested for selling liquor without a license. There are 1,530 children of school age in Norfolk according to the census just taken The Geneva Republican-Journal is now printed twice a week, once as the Repub lican and once as the Journal Scott Lyons of Pawnee City, while work- ing in a well, stuck a pick through his foot He will be laid up for a long time. The Hastings Blectric Light company will soon become the property of two Platis mouth men and a resident of Denver. Plainview has raised cnough money to build a $10,000 norm:l school building, and architects have been invited to submit plans for the structure. Burglars secured a lot of clothing, few elry and money from the store of Byram & Young of Decatur and made their escape without detection. Farmers living ten miles Lraska City heard the steam & in concert as a welcome to braska manufacturers, and they thought Commonwealers had ~ attacked “the city There was some talk of organizing a com- any to go and help drive out the sup- posed intruders. Miss Ora Wynkoop of Westerville, Custer county, died in convulsions after confessing to her father that she had been assaulted last March by Newton Rambo. She wa only 16 years of age, and before dying she asserted that Rambo had called at the house when she was alone and had accomplished his purpose by force, threatening to kill her it she revealed the assault. Rambo is now in jail at Broken Bow. John J. Cozad, well known to the earlier settlers of Dawson county, has returned to his old home in Cozad affer having been a fugitive from justice for years, being under indictment for the murder of A. Pearson, a esident of Cozad precnct, in 1882, whom ho shot while engaged in an altercation in the town of Cozad. Cozad immediately skipped and succeeded in eluding the ofti- cers who pursued him. At the adjourned April term of district court in May last the district attorney entered a nolle prosequi, and the indictment against Cozad and also that against his son, John A. Cozad, for ar:on, were dismissed. e BLASTS FROM BRIGHT BUGLES. south of Ne- whistles blow the Ne- New York World: Muley Mohammed, sultan of Morocco's eldest brother, ' b been thrust into prison. The sul to emphasize the fact that he i Aziz, Abdul Courier-Journal: Tubbs—There is one hor- rid thing connected with going in swim- ming in Jul Tibbs—Wi Tubbs—Wh it's that? you have to come out. Chicago Times: The literary world is agog over the discovery that the autho: of “The Heavenly Twins" hns a pink nose. Possibly this is cansed by the reflection of her books, which are read. Philadeplhia Record: A man named Teeth lives in Manayunk. e is not particularly well known, yet his name is in everybody's mouth. on Commercial: The only difference between the winner of a race on the riy and on the track was that one rowed a boat and the other rode a horse. New York Weekly: the world don’t you g of you Nelghbo misses told me not to pianer tuned, Ros rs. Suburb—Why | » that lawn mow Hired Man — The till' you had your George women, for Philadelphia Times: that yachts are like mean” American women, beat. they ript: | upo nkage in the People Who suppos: love do not find any butcher's bill on Trans e livin perceptible shr ribune: “There goes my hat!" pompous man with the red face rejoined the calm party with chin whiskers, “straws show the way the wind blow: A SUMMER SAVANT, Loutsville Courler-Journal Let others hie them to the woods, Where weeds are tall and rank. Where snakes are thick and con I'm no such foolish crank. ained chamber—cool and clean— o gnats and flies about; A springy bed—a bath—I we: Beat all your camping out Sound In Son Washington Senator Peffer is partially correct, There yme featurcs of the senate and house ¢ might be dispensed with without any at injury to the public service e b OPEN LETTER TO MARS, Chicago ral. O Mars, please tell us truly, s it really cool up there And can yc 1 somehow manage it to get a And when night comes, by throwing wide each window, vent and door, vou sleep in bed or do yo parlor floor? 1 seek the And is you brow, like ours Is, from morn Ul evening wet, With beads of perspiration which St folks call sweat? And when your brow dred drops of dew, Da Wy one inquire, you Lo; is beaded with a hun it hot enough for And {5 there real good fishing In your lakes still unexplored? And, by the by, what do they dlass summer board? | We do not like this layout here, the heat ( and dust ure vile; If you've a snap we'll all be glad to come and stay awhile, ask for first HAS A JUDGESIIP IN SIGHT | gomer; Aftor the New Placo on the United States Cirouit Benoh, | Carroll Mon | | | Ru S, HALL PRESENTS HIS PARTNER'S CLAIM | Prosidont Cloveland's Att for the Honorab! Not tion Called to the Omahn Aspirant Position - Other Yet Heard ¥ro States WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE 1407 ¥ Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, July 18, Montgomery for the extra United S uit Judgeship In the Bighth judicial circuit is being urged by his partner, Dick Hall, who was at the capitol | today and called upon both of the Nebraska senators in the interest of his friend. Inas- | much as the other states of the cireuit | likely to candidate for consideration of the attorney general and the president it Is not very easy to predict at pres- | ent whether or not Mr the rac The Bighth orn eireuit, containing within Missouri, Minnesot Towa, Arkan Dakota, South Dakota, Nel Oklahoma, Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah, with a population of He showed, according to the report of the attorney general of the United States for | 1892, the number of cases docketed in the | circuit court of appeals for the Eighth | district was 207, while the Secoud district, | awving three judges, had only 196 cases | docketed, It can thus be readily that the Iighth circuit ds the Sec- | ond in its legal business, just as it in area and population, and consequently the necessity for three circuit judges in the Bighth district was even greater than in the Second. DISAPPOINTMENT FOR RAWLINS, The Utah statehood bill has been signed, but there is a fly in Delegate Rawlins' oint- ment. He purchased solid gold pen and a solid silver holder, elaborateiy carved and en- graved, nd left them with Private tary Thurber, with the distinet understand- ing that they should be used by the pi i dent in afixing his signature to the adm sion Dill, and by that act making it the law of the land. The pen and holder were then to be returned to Mr. Rawlins to be placed for all time on public exhibition in the state house of the new state, he president and Mr. Thurber each entered gladiy into the ar ngement, and Mr. Rawlins felicitated him- . self accordingly. The president sat at his | lesk late last night and disposed of a lot | | | DEE. The candidac are | each present a the | Montgomery is in circuit is the greatest wost- its boundaries | North | ska, Kansas, New Mexico seen excr cre- of routine business in a perfunctory way Several bills w 1 on his desk with the statement that they had all been reported favorably by the department to which they belonged. Either the presidet overlooked the | fact that the Utah bill was in the batch or le forgot his promise to Mr. Rawlins, At an he signed the Utah bill just | as he did all the others, with steel stub pen, blunted with use ink. IOWA CORN CROP IN DANGER. The chief of the Weather bureau today ssued a bulletin stating that on account of the severe and long continued drouth in the state of Towa the corn crop of that com- monwealth is likely to prove a failure. There seems to be no likelihcod of any rainfall within the next three or four days, because the entire section west and southwest of the Micted country is d and hot, while the signal stations ‘of the inter-mountain region give no indication of moisture. Senator Manderson making strenuou efforts to secure appropriations for the pay ment of Indian depredation claims which have been adjudicated. He has appeared be- fore the committee on Indian well as before the committee on appropr tions, and made arguments in behalf of afx- ing to the Indian appropriation bill a second clause covering these He sald thi afternoon that if he fail to secure consideration in - the Indian appropriation bill he wiil make an effort to secure on- sideration of the matter on the general de- ficiency bill. Senatcr Pettigrew of South Dakota has been confined to his room and to his bed with a bilious fever during the past three days, but is much improved tonight The custodian of the public building at Lincoln has written to Senator Manderson asking that the fireman and night wateh- man of the building be retained instead of dispensed with, as has been contemplated by the Treasary department. The senator today laid the request before the secretary of the treasury and urged that it be com- plied wit SPECIMENS FOR NEBRASKA. Senator Manderson today received a com- munication from the Smithsonian institu- tion of this city stating that in response to the request of President E. R. T, a col- lection of minerals, marine invertebrates, and cases of prehistoric implements will be sent to Nebraska to be used in the labora- tory of the Lincoln Normal university. The glass jars and ve to contain the articles are to be furnished by the university, and as soon as Mr. Sizer is heard from the col- lection will be sent. Attorney Cromelien of Omaha is in Wash- ington in connection with matters in the Treasury department. Senator Allen today “secured a favorable renort on his amendment to the sundry clvil bill increasing to $150,000 the appropria- tion made to pay special agents employed to prevent fraudulent entries of land in the western s The secretary of the interfor has affirmed the decision of the commissioner of the eral land office in the ase of G. L. Coe against W. W. Carter, contestant, for cer- tain lands in section 21, township 23 north, west, Alliance district, Nebraska. timber culture entry fs held for tion ers have beca appointed in Towa Cylinder, Pal Alto county, M. J. Mossness, vice B. G. Kelly, removed; Polen, Ringgold count Hattie Snodgrass, vico Samuel Polen, resigned. A postoffice has been cstablished at Summit, Story county, Ia., and John H. Donhowe appointed postmaster. G DISCUSSING INDIAN APPROPRIATIONS. ols on the Re a Spirited Deb; WASHINGTON, July 18.—In the today the house resolution was passed thorizing the secretary from G. F. Watts, R. A, Love and Life,” exhibited by World's fair. Mr. Carey called up the senate servo for ten years in each of severa 1,000,000 acres of arid lands, to be reclaimed and sold In small tracts to actual settlers, and it was pas-ed. The bill applies to the same states as the desert land law and also to Montana and Kansas and to the states that be formed out of the territories New Mexico, Oklahoma and admitted ppropriation The paragraph for educating the Indians pro- criticism of Mr. Platt of Con- the policy of giving aid to contract denominational schools. He the abolishment of all sectarian schools and the establishment of government schools in their stead Mr. Call said the ganizations had est the Indian reserva ment had made contrac the expense of erecting schools withont considering whether they were Episcopalian or Methodist or Congregational or Catholic Mr. Gillinger of New Hampshire protested agalust government ald to sectarian school especially when one church recelved so much more than the others. There was already a gathering storm In this country ap. proprial money for scctarian purposes, and that storm would break before long on the people and the congress of the United States he committee amendment was agreed to. The conference report on the naval propriation was presented and agreed to An smendment was proposed by Mr bois of Idaho and agreed to, directing secretary of the interfor to contract for should Carter's cancel! Postma: as follows rvations Causo ate an of state to accept a painting entitled him at the bill to re- 1 states when Indian up. 000 the again:t bill was then spropriating The taken necticut Indian favored charitable or- blished them elves on fons, and the n ts with them Lo save various against ap- Du- the the | the Portsmouth the construction of an irrigating canal on Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho, the cost to be pald ont of money belonging to the Fort Hall Indians Al amendment Was propored by Mr. Squire of Washington authorizing the Puyallup In- dans holding lands in _severalty on the roservation near Tacoma, Wash., to sell suff- elent portions of their lands to raise enough money to improve the remainder At 6:10 the senate went into executive sessfon, without acting on the amendment, At 6:20 adjourned NAVAL AVEPROPRIATION AGREED TO, Voted to Repalr the Old Hariford and Constitution WASHINGTON, July 18.~An agroement has been reached on the naval appropriation Ul by the senate and finally The allowance for ordnanc sen- ate reduced ft, from § This reduction was mads, however, by Ing out the house item of $150,000 for a mod- ern battery for the Hartford. The house had also put in an appropriation of $100,000 for new machinery for the Hartford, but the senato committee decided that sho be used a8 a training ship, and made an approprin tion of §150,000 to have her remodelod, which stands, as dos the appropriation of $5,000 for repairs to the old Constitution at navy yard, o that she may bo used as a training ship for naval militia. The senate conferces receded from the amendments to pay the Bath Iron works for 1 premiums on the Machias and Castino $46,000 each and to pay the Samuel L. Moore & Sons company $45,000 speed premium on the steol practice vessel Bancroft ho amendment authorizing the sccrctary of the navy to remit the time penalties on the dynamite cruiser Vesuvius and appropriat- ing the necessary sum was allowed to stand, The senate struck out th Aking tmmodiat uble much as fs neces- sary of the appropriation of $1,000,000 for armor and armament and $5,955,025 for con- struction and steam machinery. 1ts action prevafled In the first instance, but the bill Is 5o smended in conference that from the second appropriation is to be paid all speed premiums on new ve 1 hefore Janu- ary 1, 1894, based on the offi- cial reports, approved by the secretary of the navy. The scetion regarding naval cadets is 80 reported that the secretary of the navy can fill vacancies by the appointment of cadets who have been for two years resi- dents of the district from which they are appointed. Congressmen whose districts are unrepresented by residents can nominate candidates before September 1, Money Ships agreed to stands, as the 50,000 to $200,000. strik- provisions 1 sels earn speed to D STARTING UP T Orders Given to the Silver Now on Han WASHINGTON, July 18.—Mr. Pr director of the mint, today, by direction of the sccretary of the sued orders to the mint authorities at San Francisco and New Orleans to begin at the of silver dollars d during the month to coin up to the ordinary of the mints. The silver to will be blanks and ingots sufficlent to coin about §1 two mints and at Philadélphia. As soon this supply Is exhausted work probably Will begin on the silver bars, of which there Is a y supply at San Franeisco and New Orleans, and probably five years' supply at Philadelphia. ~ 8o faras can be learened it is not the intention or the pu of the governs ment to extend the coinage of the seignior. age beyond a few millions, but it is stateg that after coining what gold may be neces. sury and recoining the abraded fractional silver cach of the three mints will probably be worked at their normal capacity on siie ver dollars for the next several months at least, and presumably to the end of the pr ent year. Whether treasury notes will bo as fast as received for silver, so far as known, not been determined. ston, the troasury, is once coinage prosent capacitios be first coined of which there is 100,000 at these ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO. Senate Committe Statehood f WASHINGTON, July 18 mittee on territories tod: decided to recoms mend the admission of Arizonn and New Mexico as states and instructed the subcom- mitttee which has the bills in charge to make favorable reports at the meeting of the full committee next Wednesday. After the adjournment of the full commits tee the subcommittee on New Mexico, con of Messrs. Blackburn, White and . heid a meeting in accordance with the instructions of the committee and put the bill in shape for presentation. The amendments made by them provide for hange of date for the election and the constitutional con- vention, to correspond with the date of tha Utah bill. The Arizona subcommittee tak action. Picking the Men with Caro. WASHINGTON, July 18.—Hon. Carrol D, Wright, commissioner of labor, who is chair- man of the commission that will inquire into the causes of the strike of the A. R. U, said today he wished to have no say in the clection of the board. The president, ho sald, is considering the question very care- fully with a view to getting men who will ive satisfaction to all interests concerned. Tho law requires that at least one member must be a resident of the state where the controversy arise: s Favors The senate com= has not yet Has Four Arbitration Bills to Considor, WASHINGTON, July 18.—Another meeting of the labor subcommittee having in charge the arbitration bills which have been intro- duced in the house will be held today. Four bills are before the committee, fathered by Representatives Springer of Iilinois, Hudson of Kansas, Kiefer of Minnesota and Tawney of Minneso The last three contain coms pulsory features Senator Peffor und the O1d Soldiers, WASHINGTON, July 18.—Senator Peffor has accepted an invitation to deliver an ad- dress at the twentieth old soldier reunfon to be held at Caldwell, O., on August 17, 18 and B ¥ senator entered the war as a private and was promoted to a sece ond licutenancy, occupying several responsis ble positions in the cngineer and quarters master's departments, =—r== KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when righty used. 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