Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 26, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY B THEOMAHA DAILY BEE. S RoRRWATE Edior.___ "~ PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday) One Year Daily Bee and #unduy, One Year wo Montlis Leesireress unday Isee, One Venr.. Thee, One_ Yo e, One v I« , The Tee Dullding uth Omaha, Corer N Counell Tiuims, 12 Prarl Breet,” ; Office, 317 Chamber of Commerc 13, 14 and 15, Tribune 1idg. ‘ashington, 107 ¥ Street, N. W. « PONDENCE All communications relating to news and edi- torial matter should be addressed: To tueliditor. BUSINESS LETTERS, Al business letters and remittances should be addressed to The Jiee Publishing —company, Omaha, * Drafts, “checks and postitice ondors to bo made payahle 1o the order of t 2 R PUBLISHING COMP, 1 Twenty-fourth Sts. t STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George B, Taschiuck, wecretnry of The Bee Alshing company, being duly swoin, says the actunl number of full and ¢ cop) of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sunday T printed during the montis of June, 1891, wis 08 ollows : 22,008 18 oveenees 20,018 17 1,00 18 L2061 Wiieovisorss 523 2 21601 211508 21615 22,018 21,668 2,167 L.066,163 coples Total_wold 5 atly avernge net Wiyt *Kunday y RGE 1L TZSCHUCK. Sworn (o befare me and subscribed fn my pres- ence_this %l day of July, 1801 (Seal) P. FEIL, Notary Public. (et Pt e Bt i 5 The speaker of the next house of repre sentatives was renominated for congress by the Malne republicans the other day. Dennis Kearney must be on the side of Japan in this Corean dispute. He Is the author of the famous order that the Chinese must go. Mare Antony lived to pronounce the funeral oration over Cnesar. Does Hill expect to perform the same service, politically speak- ing, for Mr. Cleveland? That cool wave that struck Washington this week brought relief to every one ex- nept President Cleveland. It was just as Yot for the president as ever. The reporter who said that in the hearing of Debs Judges Grosscup and Woods were sitting “en blanc” should be immediately hauled up and unceremoniously fined for con- #empt. Three victories for the Vigilant ought to nable George Gould to sail into society, al- though he lose every other race in which he enters his yacht against her British com- petitor. It is unfortunate that Debs was not born twins or triplets, so that all the courts which are clamoring to try him for contempt might have jurisdiction over him at one and the same time. It cost the taxpayers of Omaha $114.50 for the little outing of Superintendent Fitz- patrick to the meeting of the National Teachers association. What will it cost them for his pleasure excursion this year? Isn't it about time for another rumor of the declsion in the maximam freight rate case to emanate from railroad headquarters? It 4s quite safe for the railroads to claim an opinion in their favor so long as Justice Brewer has not taken final action in the case. Our asphalt streets are being kept in a tolerable state of repair, but as much can- not be sald of the sandstone, granite and wooden block pavements. Is therc any rea- son why part of the street repair fund should not be lald out for repairing the worn out wooden block and defective stone and brick pavements? We are glad to know that Shakespearian Boglish has not yet been crowded out of the Unlted States senate by the poker room language so profusely indulged in by the great number of senators. It Is gratifying to be Informed that Shakespeare persists in spite of the peculiar vocabulary by which he finds himself surrounded. Inoculated chinch bugs have produced an almost total annihilation of these pestiferous insects In Clay county. So says the official crop report of the United States weather bureau. Why not Inoculate a few politicat boodle bugs and kill off the pestiferous po- ltical parasites? There never was a time when the statc was so badly aflicted with them, In this red-hot weather it is not at all surprising that councilmen should try to pitehtork each other with words that burn. The truth Is that our council proceedings have become tame and uninteresting, In the good old days not many years back councll meetings were enlivened by the throwing of inkstands and distribution of black eyes. It is so seldom that Senator Hill finds himselt on the same side of the question as President Cleveland that he is making the most of the opportunity afforded him by the president's tarift letter. HIill's sup- port of the president’s position In this emergency will be called upon to counter- balance all the latent hostility that is houna to appear in outbreaks against the president sooner or late Wo suppose that Congressman Harter had no expectation of recelving a reply to his Inquiries addressed to President Havemeyer of the Sugar trust. At any rate he ought to have known that no reply would be vouchsafed. The Sugar trust does not deal with Individual congressmen 80 long as sena- tors are fewer and just as cheap. Haye® meyer would be foolish to waste his time with the house after he has acquired title to the senate Has It come to this that every semator who makes an assertion upon the floor of the senate is compelled to call upon two or three of his. associates to attest the truth of what be is saying? Has senatorial veracity de- clined so tow that it has to have the evi- dence of witnesses to support It? The sena- tor who resorts to court room methods to make his case must be fmbued with tho idea that in no other way can he convince his audience that he s not misrepresenting the roal situation. It will become dangerous for penators to speak unless they have the cor- roborating testimony at hand. The prece- dent which they are setting may lead to rather Inconvenient embarrassment for some of them in the future KNIGHTS OF LADOR MILITIA. “The military shall be In strict subosdi- nation to the civie power.” This is the ex- press language of the bill of rights which constitutes articls I. of the constitution of Nebraska. Upon this fundamental principle are based the objections and remonstrances which have repeatedly been made by labor organizations against the use of the army to quell labor disturbances that have not de- generated into an insurrection. And now cortain labor leaders propose to counteract the offensive or unwarranted use of ,mili- tary power by the enroliment of members of labor organizations into militia companies. If Grand Master Sovereign i3 quoted cor- rectly, he also is outspoken In favor of en- listing the Kr of Labor into the stats militfa. “Heretofore,” says Grand Master Soverelgn, “‘the advice to workingmen has been to keep out of the militla. It should be changed. Every working man should Join the militia, thus gettting the arms and discipline necessary to defend the country and the people from the anarchists, rail- road managers, their trusts, attorneys and tho murderous deputies and Pinkertons whom they employ. Now, If this advice Is followed, what will be the consequence? Wil it not inevitably lead to military mutiny, eivil war and a military despotism established on the ruins ot our republic? The prime object of an or- ganized militia is to supplement the civil authoritios in the maintenance of law and order. The militia are sworn to support and defend the national and state constit tions and obey the commands of their su- perior offic in suppressing riot and do- mestic insurrcction. An army that would be subject to any order or authority except its commanders would be more dangerous by far to public security and civil liberty than mobs and rioters. But that is pre- clsely the kind of an army we should have it Mr. Sovercign’s advice is carried out. The governor, as commander-in-chief of the mili- tary forces of the commonwealth, might N in his orders with the mandates of the grand master of the Knights of Labor. Such a contingency Is almost sure to arise In any state under present conditions. Would the Knights of Labor enrolled in the militia remain loyal to their oaths and obey the orders of the governor or would they obey the grand master workman of the Kuights, and thus turn mutineers and traitors? Every American citizen of proper age and bodily strength has a right to enroll himselt in the militia, but to organize and arm large bodies of workingmen under militia laws with a view to righting real or imaginary wrongs and gr ices is a menace to free govern- ment and would be subversive of the very objects for which workingmen contend. There is no call for a Knight of Labor militia to put down anarchists, That will be done by the existing civil and military authorities at any cost. There is no possibility of sup- pressing conspiracies against the patrons and employes of railroads or destroying trusis organized by rapacious speculators by any kind of military force. There is no neces- sity for organizing the Knights of Labor militia to knock out the Pinkerton or other armed mercenaries who have no lawful part in our system. Pinkertonism should be rooted out by stringent legislation. In this and many other states Pinkerton merce- naries are outlawed and their employment for- Dbidden under severe penalties. It Mr. Sovercign and other labor leaders will direct their efforts in the proper channel there will be no place for Pinkerton hirelings in any state of the union by the end of two years. The Bee always has advocated every ra- tional measure that would promote the wel- fare of wageworkers, but it regards with serious apprehension the proposition to or- nize the Knights of Labor into military companies. If carried into effect it is al- most certain to lead to consequences disas trous to workingmen as well as the whole country. MR. HARTER'S PLAN. There are some meritorious features in the compromise tariff measure introduced in the house by Representative Harter of Ohio, who, it may bo remarked, Is an ex- tensive manufacturer and not merely & politician. In the first place it is a simple plan, which can be readily understood by everybody. It avolds complex schedules, which are confusing and often misleading. As everybody interested in the tariff under- stands the existing law, each interest af- focted would be able to tell at once what would be accomplished in its particular lne under a law such as Mr. Harter pro- poses. This plan provides for a minimum duty of 20 per cent ad valorem on all arti- cles now paying a higher duty than that, and all duties below 20 per cent ad valorem and in excess of 12 per cent shall bo reduced to the latter rate, the amount of the in- ternal revenue tax to be added in the case of articles produced or made in this country subject to such tax. Dutles below 12 por cent ad valorem are not disturbed. Mr. Harter proposes to tax coffee and tea, which, in the oplnion of a great many peo- ple, are quite as proper objects of tarift taxation as sugar, and he also proposes to increase the beer tax, though not to an extent that would affect the pocket or re- Quee the drink of the consumer. He would withdraw all protection from the sugar refining Interest, on the ground that it evi- dently does not need it, because it refuses to furnish reasonable Information regarding its business. Uuder this bill, Mr. Harter says, neither an income tax nor an increase of the whisky tax would be needed, and it would provide a surplus of revenue every year, Including the first. Mr. Harter is a practical man who has given the twil question a great deal of carcful study, and thereforo his proposed compromiso measure Is entitled to and will recelye consideration both in and out of congress, though, of course, there is hardly a possibility of its acceptance and adoption. Phere s very little protection for anything In this bill, as the average of duties under it would be less than 20 por cent ad valorem, but its author is doubtless right in saying that it would raise revenue. It would certainly stimulate the importations of forelgn manufactures, and to the extent that it aid thls American industries com- poting with these foreign-made goods would suffer. Mr. Harter admits that the average duties under it would be lower than under the Wilson bill, and that measure was looked upon as desiructive of many of our indus- tries. He cannot reasonably expect the senate, which would not have the Wilson bill becauss it approached too near to frea trade, to accept his measure, which goes still nearer. . As to taxing coffee and tea, there aro democrats besides Mr. Harter who think those articles & proper source of roy- enue, but the number is small who would venture to support such a tax. An Increase of the tax on beer was discussed when' the house bill was being framed and abandoned under a pressure from the brewing interest of the country, which convinced (hose in charge of the bill that It would be bad political policy to Increase the tax. With they would BWE_aBTd to exereise a little more coerclon over the stubborn senators. the president seems to have made a miscalen from the defiant attitudes as- to abandoning the entirely certain that the friends retained In any revenue lation, Judgin assuredly would not allow a tax on coffee and tea to be sub- submitting to shower thelr gecusations duplieity upon compromise fully gave thah to understand at every stage of the bill that he not only had no obje mendments not be more worthy of at- Harter's plan, overcoming proved of them. They accuse him of break- and holding them up as evidence of party perfidy and party dishonor. tween the house and senate. THE SENATE the political HOW WILL house, and not in the senate Nobody familiar with LU LG the course of this crimination cerimination the public has been given a viow itty-fourth WL ALy of the terrible struggle that has been going of republicans. xisted at any time within the past six months a reasonable ground for doubting that the result of the congressional elections in November will be to transfer the control of the house to the ripublica removed by recent more strongly the democratic party on the tariff and more plainly demonstratcd the incapacity and the insincerity of that party with respect to this onfession of its own leaders the democracy stands condemned as having representatives of the ny tarift bill passed by that body b strained relations that them can save the measure. \Which shall be the one to recede is now the perplexing probs A compromise without the stultification events which emphagized must be a backdown for one side or the fail ure of all tariff 1 gislation le claim to popular ¢ nd spectacu- s in the national senate have been de A Lyt The question of securing a g performances over several largely a question of financial arrangement. Anything that bring 1 to the prineiples and the pledges of th people from abroad is make purchases o our merchants while tley they also form acquaintances and obtain information of our re markets that encourages them their business relations with eity firms long their homes. stimulates frequent vis the city for the purpose of transacting busi- terms can be this exhibition will deserve the encouragement of our busi- Other cities t appeal to the There are charges of corruption and of subservience the dictation of a grasping monopoly. dismemberment and to be again entrusted’with the power of leg- Such being the case, and of the vast injury to the country which has resuited from the success of the democracy two years ago, it is impossible to doubt that the people will return the republican party to the control of the popular branch of con- s rext November. ? This being concede it utterly u ¢ utterly unfit | ¢ ohermore 1t favorable Omaha must keep up with the pro- , it is an Interesting No fault can be found with the selection of made by President city council as members of the joint com- the question dating the city and county governments in The scope of the committe power Is one of doubtful extent, but therc hinder it from politically in the Fifty-fourth congre Howell of the body were to be terms of thirty sixtesn of whom as the house is, senators expire next March, are republicans and fourteen sixteen states represented by Massachusetts, this county. republicans are Hampshire, Rhode Island, Delaware, Ilinoi Michigan, Minnesota, Towa, Nebraska, Colo- rado, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon Wyoming. The fourteen sented by democrats are Arkansas olina, Louisiana, West Virginia, Texas, Ten- nessee, Virginia, Kentucky, Kansas, Mi: sippi, New Jersey, Alabama, North Carolina There are at present eighty- five senators, of whom forty-four are demo- crats, thirty-eight republicans and three popu- lists, and to control the senate the republicans gain seven votes in addition to those in a full senate of elgty-eight members they must have forty. means by which the desired object can be In a discussion of this kind the men appointed to repres large will be able to contribute the results experience with problems of municipal government. dent Howell judicious choice. states repre- the citizens and Georgla. commended for his sioners are quite right in refusing to allow a bill for the services of a deputy assessor who was dead during part of the period alleged to have ‘been covered and confined to his bed for the most of tho But they ought not to stop here. They ought to find out who was responsible for bringing in° that bill, for it must hav been done with-the evident mntention of de- frauding the taxpayers of the county. the person is 4 public officer, even though merely a ward assegsor, the public have a right to know it and to besapprised of his The county commi Of the sixteen states represented by re- publicans only Delaware and Colorado can be chances largely in favor of both returning republican successors to Senator Higgins and legislature of De ware is two-thirds republican, so that the re- publicans ought to hold emocrats and populists in Colorado might be successful against , but the indications are that the experfence of that state with a populist gov- ernor has made it again safely republican, Tliinois has tions among the doubtful states, but perfectly safe to predict that Illinois will not to Senator The now vacant seats for Wyoming and Washington will be filled by republicans and there js reason to expect that the re- publicans will get the vacant seat for Mon. leave still four seats to be gained by the republicans in order to secure control of the senate. pretty safe to count on, from Kansas, and it is very probable that another will be gained There is abundant evi- dence of a strong drift to the republican party in Kansas and the success of party is not seriously doubted by those famil- far with the situation. lican for the first time in many years and is very likely to continue so for some years to Assuming that this calculation the republicans will still need members to control the senate. is a possibility that one of these will be fur- nished by West Virginia, and it has been suggested that Tennessee may choose a re- cnator, but this is far from prob- indications, this extraordinary condition in 1895: publican house, a democratic president and a with the populists Senator Wolcott. passed without some action to prevont its re Litinokalani 5 her continued existence known by protesting government against the recognition by this country of the newly or- to the United State: comes a trifle late just now, but will be duly incorporated into the files of the correspondence, the president over the Ha- question seems very low ebb. enthusiasm of One of these, It i [ The man who expects to be the next post- master of South Omaha is most decidedly opposed to annexation, least several men.on the anxious soat about When that plum plucked they will all change their minds ex- cept the lucky one. and there are at from New Jersey. that postoffice. New Jersey Is repub- have supposed that Hill and Gorm be verified, alnst each other in a presidential race. The Lords Know Thelr Rights. Louis Republic. of securing impossibility the submis- ng this gen sion_of a constitutional am ing for the election of s ple is only additio with which our House ¢ proof of the solulity Lords has planted holding the is one contingency that would insure republican control of the senate of the Fifty-fourth congress, and that is the inability of two of the western or preme and immovabl e ate BIlL Al Right. Clevetand Plain Dealer (dem.). Free trade does not mean democrac the radicals within or without the party by a free trade do no texpire next year to serve out their | jrinciples of historic democracy and pas 1 protection to all government and_Incidents he senate bill, and our industries. A BACKDOWN OR NOTHING. R e e i “When thieves fall out, honest men get no particular perti- nency to the parties at war in the present tarift deadlock, but it is almost unconsciously called to mind by the confcssions of mutual deceit and guilt that are to be gathered the utterances of the president and of the sen- ate combine, exposing The 2 per cent dividend declared by Pull- Car company s But it means profits of $600,- ems unimpor- tant of Itself. quarterly divide can apprecia to the public proceedings v sustained -hy rd of directors. o Great Only Circus, New York Tribune. Bredkinridie, constituents for 518 that he Reprosentativ in_ pleading i Kentucky nomination, be needed in the next congre: funiling the promjses made holy horror of one another and telling how selfish and how double dealing the other has been, those members of congress who have been excluded from participation in the dis- of reconciling folded arms and contemplate the inspiring harmony that pre- vails in the democratic camp. The little coterie of senators who have been manipulating the tariff bill set out to whip in support of a measure that promised each of them the con- cessions required to the country The spectac ckinridge begding for an opportunity to poor old Ak and compel it to pérform its moral obligi- tlons is an exhibitipn,that must weary and busingss, dul circus now showing, in, Kentucky. The Cdfiné ilitary dictator . dntempt for th lative branch of W& 'gbvernment remarkable letter of President No czar, emperoh their colleagucs pay his own g the pledge: tariff measure now 8o far as holding the pledges of the | BEUT MEMIRIE U Ksimed suc as he sets up In that document. He applicd consistently erfidy and dishonesty” to legi sume to differ with him on the subj rticles of raw materi He speaks a8 one having author- pine what the legislative branch Tty asso- placing two grab, with the one with the longest arms pulling the higgest prize. ity to deter After each had de- | Shall do, o in the senate on the tariff bill he secks o brush aside as if It were a cobh Mttle boys had built, without his on his office floor. | mce:pt for his vote, the sccretary of the treas ry was Invited to assist In formulating a varied interests and conditions of a country as large a8 ours must of necessity be lar The secretary as well as the presi- 1 ly the result of honorable adjustment and dent, on belng informed that the senate bill offered the acquiesced doubtless in the hope that with the bill once Promising on both sides of the question, and for both houses of congress? POLITICAL POTPOURRY Sidney Telegraph: The republicans must wateh the legislative campaign. The next senator from Nebraska must be a republi- can Stuart Ledger: Hon. Jack MacColl of the Big Sixth s strictly in the race for gov- ernor. It looks as though he would recefy the nomination on the first bailot Cozad - Tribune: With Jack MacColl for standard bearer there will be harmony with- in the republican ranks. Honestly, friends, would such be the condition with Majors the nomine Johnson county republicans have invited John M. Thurston to be present at their unty convention and he has consented August 11 will see the political campaign openied In good shape at Tecumseh Kearney Hub: There are occasional sly lints of Cady or Crounse as gubernatorial dark Norses. But don't be troubled. Th contost fs between Majors and MacColl, and our western man will win with hands down Fred Dorrington has captured the Dawes county delegates to the Sixth district con gressional convention, but it does not nec essarily follow that he will be nominated here ‘are still several counties to be heard from In the Big Sixth Sidney Telegraph: John E. Evans for sec- ary of state seems to be about the thing. stern Nebraska represcnted on the stato ticket by Johu K. Evans would suit the boys better than anything and the rejoicing among western Nebraska republicans has already cormmenced, as they cannot see from present indications how the ticket can be made up without John. At last a_democratic convention has been called in Nebraska. he bourbon com- mittee of the Third congressional district could wait no longer, and the edict has gone forth that the faithful must assemble at Norfolk on August 23. As this date is two duys after that fixed for the populist con- ventlon at the same place, there is some significance in the action. It Is evident that somebody {s not favorable to the candidacy of Judge Robinson for the fusion nomination Congressman Kem s too busy to come home just now, and so he has prevailed on the chalrman of the populist congres- sional committer to postpone the date of the nvention to give him a chance to fix up his fences. The convention will now be | held at Broken Bow August instead of August 13, as originally called. It is sald that the docking of the pay of absent con- men has had something to do with the inability of Kem to reach home at the time first set Lincoln News: Mr. Majors has a great many loyal friends in Nebraska who are doing what they can to secure his nomina- tion as overnor. They are, c¢f course, as much entitled to their cpinion as to his qual- ifications and_general fitness as are others, but it must be very evident to those who prefer party success to the elevation of any one man that the nomination of Mr. Majors this year would be a mistake. His record is a most vulnerable one, he has surrounded himself at every legislative ses- sion with harpies and lobbyists of the most notorious sort and it will be simply a cam- paign in whieh the republicans will be placed n the defensive and compelled to be mak- ing continual explanations. At the present time the chief trumpeter of the Majors boom is a politician in the employ of the Bur- lington, who has for years been recognized as its chlef pass distributor. The News i< for any republican who can be elected; it don’t believe Majors can. Chadron Signal: Democrats in Nebraska are in the position of the fellow in the poem who married the soclety belle. When the wedding night came, as it nearly always does in such cases, the bride proceeded to disrobe by taking off her false hair, removing her artificlal teeth and eyebrows, taking the plumpers from her cheeks and palpitators trom_her bosom, and, after depositing them along with sundry other feminine fixings in a chair, betook lerself to the nuptial couch, whence she Inquired of her spouse if he intended to retire. The young man’s reply on this occaslon, as nearly as we now recol- lect it, was: “My dear, T am quite undecided,” he said, “Which e in this case would be 12 T fair; To go with the fraction that's got into bed, Or ‘Xil‘lllvllll \\:'h the part that is hung in he In this case the maiority seems inclined to sit up with the part that is hung in the chair and we don’t blame them. It's enough to send the cold shivers up a man's leg to think of going to bed with democracy as she is with the wig off. L NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, There is a building boom on at Gering. Tramps entered the store of M. A. Lamson at Elm Creek and carried off $50 worth of tery. An association has been organized at Palmer for the purpose of fighting the Rus- sian thistle he Seventh Day Adventists have organ- zed a church at Beatrice with about twenty- five members, While Ed Patchin of Table Rock was run- ning a foot race he stubbed his toe and fell, striking on his head on a stone. He may lose the sight of one eye. An $800 horse belonging to George Shreve and Frank Benfer of Plattsmouth ran into a barb wire fence and injured itself so badly that it was ruined for racing purposes. J. A. Wilkins, formerly a business man of Beatrice, is sald to have secured a divorce from his wife at Enid, OkL, and to have married Miss Jennle Mann, also formerly of Beatrice, Jonas Patterson, a ploneer resident of Phelps county, died at his home in Holdrege Tuesda, He was a veteran of the la war, huving been a member of the Fort third Illinols infantry. A_few days ago City Marshal Clements of Norfolk went to Missourl after a man named J. J. Peterson, who formerly lved near Battle Creek and about a vear ago Ieft suddenly «with mortgaged property Peterson had been located at Wheatland, Mo., and had promised that he would re- turn to Nebraska without requisition papers if an offi was sent for him. After Cloments had sfarted home with his man the fellow changed his mind and had Clements_ arrested on the charge of abduc- tlon and attempting to use force in re- moving him from one state to another Clements was taken back to Wheatland, and asked for a change of venue to Hermitage, which was granted him. Here, in default of bail, he was placed under guard, but not in jail, where he now is. In the mean- time his prisoner had been liberated by the court: Attorney John O. Licey of Norfolk has left for Missourl to look afier Cloments’ case. e - THE LETTEE T0O PROF, WILSOX J.W. Switt In New York Sun, a letter from your sire, mine, party mine; I could read and never tire, Party mine, party mine He is standing firm by me, And I do not care a What the stand of others be, Party mine, party ming What the stand of others be, Party mine, He has told me what he thinks, Party mine, party mine; How his platform Spirit shrinks, Party mine, party mine; From the party perfidy, That the senate asks to be Made the Cleveland policy Party mine, party mine Made the Cléveland policy, Party mine, And your papa asks of n Party mine, party mine That free coal and iron be, Party mine, party mine But that sugar needs our hand And the Income tax must stun opular demand, Party mine, party mine As & popular demand, Party mine, This may seem a little strange, ¥ v ne, party mine To those who're not in range, Party mine, party mine; But I'm here to tell you that He's not writing through his hat And we know where we are at, Party mine, party mine; And we know where we are at, Party mine I've a letter from your sire, Party mine, parly mine 1 could read and never tiry Party mine, party mine; 1t Is full of love for you, And the best thing now is to Get beneath him p. Party mine, party mi Get beneath him p. d. q Party ming, GORMAN'S BOLD DEFIL Chicago Herald (dem.): President Cle land may now aspire to a third term Arthur . Gorman, the vulpine, has ‘“de- nounced” him Globe Democrat (rep.): Hithierto Gorman's strong point has been “fine work” rather than oratory, but he showed yesterday that he fs great in the latter field also Chicago Record (Ind. dem.): Before the public takes much heed of Gorman's vin- dictive censures it will be Inclined first to polut to his own poersistent tarit meddling and request him to explain that Chicago Times (dem.): Botween Gorman and Cleveland the true patriot can but stand hesitant. Both are absolutely selfish men, with few scruples. Both have great talents which both devote first and always to their own aggrandizement Kansas City Journal (rep): President Cleveland 1 placed in even & more humil fating position by the testimony of senators o his treachery than when he was com pelled to back down in the Hawallan con- troversy. Poor old Grover Indianapolis News (ind. rep): So we re Joice that the breach has come at la:t. May it be so wide as to be unbridgeable. May Gorman's “‘resentment” be hot. The quar rel cannot be too bitter to please the hon and self-respecting people of the country. Chicago Post (dem.): How pathetic is the case of Arthur Pue Gormin! Ilustrious patriot, far-secing statesman, unblnching democrat, self-sacrificing tarill reformer, he was Iikely to go, because of the bluntness of our viden, into American history as a pothouse politician_risen above his natural environment, a crafty double-dealer, a cheap hucksterer of office, with the brain of a rabbit and the conscience of a fox St. Paul Globe (dem.): Gorman and his -conspirators think to defeat tariff reform hey have only given It greater impulse and"a more decided sp.rit, They have given the congressional campalgns this fall but one fssue. Party lines sink away before it The question to be decided next November fs: Shall the president and the represes tives of the people be upheld, or will you sustain the Amcrican house of lords? Minneapols Times (dem.): The truth Is that Senator Gorman is the leader of a little discontented cligue, who have been dis gruntled and obs ous ever since Mr Cleveland was nominated for the third ‘time In 1892, They thought some wiser choice might have been made—one of themselve:, for example me of them were “in debt.” They owed a_job lot of old grudges- left over from Mr. Cleveland’s first administration, and were defermined to pay them oft with compound interest Minneapolis Tribune (rep): Whatever is the outcom: of the fight thus precipitated Whether the pre-ident wins or the senate wins; whether Mr. Gorman and Mr. Cleve- land come (ogether and reconcile their dif ferences or not—this speech of the Maryland senator will stand as an arraijgnment and conviction of the democratic administration for insincerity and hypoericy in ling WILH the tariff. It also throws some stron side-lights upon the incompetency of the demccratic party, as a whole or in part, to deal with great mational questions St. Paul Pioneer Pross (rep.): No one can read this speech of Senator Gorman and those of his associates without being con- vinced that President Clevelind has been playing a double game on the tarift ques- tion; that the senate amendments, including the duties on coal and iron, which he now denounces as repugnant to democratic prin- ciples, were framed and pased with his consent and approval, and that his present position, as expounded in his letter to Chair- man Wilson, that democratic principles in- exorably demand free raw materials, Is wholly at variance on this question, especially during the pre:idential cimpaign. Kansas City Star (ind. dem.): As far as the senator from Maryland is concerned his tribute to himself, his past reccrd, his emi- nent services and his lofty sense of political honor will_be heard with a shrug of in- credulity. No man is more mistrusted by political friend or enemy t this man Gorman; no man has shown more com pletely the small and tricky metheds of the petty politician. Nothing that he can say can alter in the slightest degree the opinlon formed of his character as dangerous to his party and unswervingly hostile to good go ernment. Mr. Gorman has put himsell in that position where he can humbug nobody. PEOPLE AND THINGS. Tn times like these republican senators believe silence is golden The temperature in Washington tends to debilitate the entire country. It will be observed Senator Murphy re- frains from precipitating himself into the fray. He has been collared and cuffed into silenes, Senator Hill's picturesque cast of Shakes: pearean characters was not wholly satisf: tory to himself. The want of a dead Caesar checked his joyous tears. Prince Blsmarck's estates are leavily mort- gaged, amounting to about $750,000. As th estates include two breweries, the prince can lighten his burden by inflating the collar. One effect of the late strike is the turn- ing of a searchlight on Pullman affairs, In- quiry shows that Pullman pays $12,500 to the national government for licenses to sell liquors in 500 cars. As far as known no state exacts a license. Here Is a chance to touch Pullman in a tender spot. What funny things we see when the troop are disbanded. There is Senator Gorman re pudiating the tariff plank which he and his fellows nailed to the wigwam platform, while Senator Vilas secks to uphold that which ho and Charley Jones denounced and voted against, Democratic politics m strange tie-ups. A new twist has been given the Davis millions, hung up in the courts of Butie, Mont., for four years. Allegations of perjury and blackmail are now made, and the mess is as disgusting as greedy heirs conld make it. Meanwhile the lawyers are vigilantly guarding the precions pot, and it is pretty certain mighty little of the contents will get away—from them. n Arkansas man_ the other day rapped on his coflin just as the minister was about to begin the burial service over him. A man in the room, who thought some one outside was knocking at the door, yelled “Come in,” hear- ing which the supposed dead man in the coffin exclaimed: *“What's the matler with you? Iam in already, and want to get out.” He finally became so0 obstreperous that the funeral had to be postponed. Amos Johnson of Cherokee, Mo., ha the century mark in years. Mr. Johnson dif. fers from the usual run of his class. He does not walk twenty miles to work up an appetite in the morning or read fine print without glasses. He has not smoked for ninety years or drank to excess. On the contrary, he is too weak to move, s blind and deaf, and takes his food hypodermically. His cineh on life is the wonder of the neigit borhood. The public man who is Inveigled into um- piring a base ball game sacrifices not only his popularity, but imperils his prospects of promotion. Mayor Hopkins of Chicago at- tempted to pass judgment on the fine points of the game the other day, but meither friends nor enemy approved of his decisions and he was jeered off the fleld. His turning down did not end there. The city council Il upon him later in the evening and squelchied an elaborate veto. Captain Bob Evans Is a lucky sea dog, He commanded the naval dispatch boat which carried Cleveland to the shooting grounds on the Chesapeake and took precious care that the necessary comforts of u states- man out for a good time were provided, As a reward for his foresight in guarding against Dismal Swamp malaria, Captain Bob has been assigned to command of the great armored cruiser New York. Moreover, the assignment was Cleveland’s own act Fighting Bob, however, earned and deseryes the honor. i BROTHER'S DREADFUL DEED. Shot Both His Father and Sistor Mistaking Them for Burgla BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July John Col line, & market gardener, last night thought he heard thieves in his garden, and started to Investigate. He was followed by his daughter Maggle. Mrs. Colling heard the two, and supposed them thieves. -Arousing her son, Willlam, he kot hiy gun and shot both father and daughter. The former ls dead and the latter dying. Arizonn aud N to Be Admitted WASHINC The senate com- mittee on territories has ordered favorable reports on the bills admitting New Mexico and prizona to statehood. | These bills have passed the house, faensure of a Minnesota Representative that May Make Many Changes, INTERESTING FEATURES OF THE BILL of the Facilitios Contained iy the Conl Land Laws Contomplatod— Patent to Iasue in Certain Cusos on Short Nof WASHINGTON BDUREAU OF THE BEE, 1407 I Street, N. W, WASHINGTON, July 26. Representative Hall of Minnesota today re- ported to the house a bill amending the exist- fng law regarding public lands. Provision Is made whereby settlors in townships not min- cral or reserved by the government or pere sons and assoclations lawfully possessed of coal lands or owners of grantees of public lands shall have the right to have such lands surveyed unde tain conditions, This fea- ture of the Dill has in view the enlarge- ment of the fucilities contained in the conl lands law by permitting such lands to be surveyed as can now be done in the case ot agricultural lands required for actual set- tlement. The discoverer of a valuable de- posit of coal upon the unsurveyed public do- main may now take possession of and hold bis mine, yet there is no provision of law er which a patont can issue therefor until the public surveys have been extended 50 as to embrace it Another feature of the bill provides that when settiers or owne of publie lands make deposits in payment of the cost of surveys certificates shall be s for, and’ these may be used in part ment for the lands settled upon, BIT OF DEMOCRATIC HIS How long can Gorman stand it? That is the question which is uppermost in the minds of men who have a wide and deep knowledige and of current ovent: and of recent history leading di- rectly up to the present situation In 1888, after all agreements had been made concerning the national convention which was to renominate Grover Cleveland for the presidency, and when Gorman wa chairman of the committee and was manag- ing everything, the president stepped in suddenly “ond smashed the slate. He di tated the date of the convention, selected St. Leuis as the place, depoed Gorman with Napoleonic abruptness, and placed Wil- lism L. Scott In chiarge of the committee It was pretty hard for Gorman to endur but he gulpcd down lis feclings and bided his time. [l recaleitrant hand was felt at the polls 1t the following November. Hill was elected governor of New York, but Cloveland lost the electoral ticket of the Enipire statc In 1892, after the slate was arranged and the nomination of Willlam R. Morrison of Hlinois was assured, Cleveland smashed the slate, and Gorman ran to cover, leaving his friends in the lurch. It was very hard for Gorman to endure, but he succumbed and tried to swallow his crow without a grimace. In 1893, after Gorman had arranged a compromiso silver repeal bill, and _after Carlisle and Cloveland had approved it, the same mailed hand came down clinched and smashed everything. It was an awful blow at Gorman, but he managed to come up smiling, although a little groggy, and voted for the autocrat’s measure. In 1894, after Gorman had arranged a ompromise tarift bill, with the approval of Carlisle, and after it had been passed by tho :enate, when it was in conference, and everybody was saying what a great man is Gorman, the relentless monster again entered suddenly upon congressional delib- crations and said, substantially: “Gorman is offensive to me. He is a stench in my aungust nostrils. I will have none of him, nor of his compromise. Go to, and make another bill.* Now the question s, how long will Gor- man_ stand this sort of pounding? He has power to defeat all revenue legi-lation. Or can swallow his chagrin and submit. Which? IN A GENERAL WAY. In response to a letter of Senator Mander- son requesting that the night watchiman and fireman of the public building at Lincoln be retained instead of being dispensed with, as was contemplated, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Curtis today sent a lotter to Senator Manderson stating that the custodian of the public building al Lincoln has been requested to nominate for appointment a suitable person to perform the duties of watchman and fireman, and that when the appointment shall have been made the serv- ices of Joseph Boothe and James Manning, laborers, will be dispensed with. Congressman Mercer today received a telo- gram from Captain A. H. Scharfl, command- ing Thurston Rifles, stating that the Rifles have entered the state competitive drill; that they have an insufficient supply of arms, and asking Mr. Mercer to request the secretary of war to authorize a loan of sixty surplus rifles and equipment at Fort Omaha. Mr. Mercer in accordance with the request called at the War department today, but was advised that the law not only dovs not provide for such a loan, but absolutely prohibits it. As a last resort, Mr. Mercor suggested that Captain Seharff make appli- cation for the loan to the adjutant general of the state of Nebraska. Mr. Mercer today, from the cemmitice on public buildings and groun's, made a fav- orable report to the houss on a bill appro- priating §75,000 for a public buiicing at Norfolk Senator Allen today introduced a resolution dirccting the attorney general to transmit to the senate full coples of all telegrephic and other correspondence which may have passed between him and his office and any of the officers, agenis or attorneys of tiie railway companies whose rozds enter Chi- cago, and that were fn any manner engaged in or affected by the rocent industrial troubles in the city of Chicugo. Jumes Marsh of Wyomug, formerly of Beatrice, is in Washington for a few days, and was at the capitol buiiding today. W. T. Allen has been appointed postmaster at Siam, Taylor county, Ia., vice Isaac smith, resigned e A JOCULAR JABS. ene—What do you n a counterfeit bill? v wife Nighthawk Gocularly)—How's business? The Telescope Man (with dig- nity)—Looking up! Atchison Globe: The swagger of o pretty il 1% very often like the swagger of fighter who thinks he can whip everybody. Oakland Tichoes: “There wias no spea ing, 1 understand, at the I3stee dinner? “No uests npplauded every cours d encored the wine,” Chicago Record: “There are no flies on o, sid the fresh young man, with idlotic vely YN0 sald the sedate girl, with an air of deep thoughtfulness, 1 suppose that there are some things even flies can't stand Oakl a (at Santa Cruz)- That letter scems to have made you very happy ! Y from Juck. He has heard that 1 am flirting terribly, and is delightfully angry about it Washing! 5 t ‘Folks doa show Mt co Young b " sald Uncle 1 “When er small boy gl {le gtomach ache, people mikes Jokes 'hout ‘im and laughs, but when er grown up m %I he insists on beln' treated like h Ewineter die, sho'h, Detroit Free Press: *“What about your ta' consent, Julla®’ asked the youth. her favors you and obposes answered the malden: “they have now retired What hope | there of the ing favorably? It it were anybody but mother (hat wis conferring with father I should fear a dis- agreement, but as it 18 mother my mind s casy. 1 know mother.” PLEASANT MEMORIES, Puck Gray sky, green treew, a shadowed stream, A gllded spire-top's distant A'rod, a reel, & book of Al A dozen pleasant memories A homeward trudge through mist-wrapped night, A heart and creel, In common, light; Complete content—the day his brought it— He fished for pleasure—and he caught ith