Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAFA DAILY BEF: TUESDAY JULY 31, 1991, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Dally Deo (without Bunday) One Year Daily Pee and Sunday, One Year ix Months,....... v hres Monthis Runday loe, O Baturday Weekly 1k zse238 Omaha, The Ties Bullding. g " Bouth , Corner N and Twenty-fourth Council Blufs, 12 1 hicago Offiee, 217 Charn Now York, Tioms 13, 14 Washington, 107 o arl Hireet er of Commerce and 15, Tribune Bldg. t, N. W NCE, and edl- torial matter BUSINESS LETTER ANl business | A remittn addrensed o The Publishin Omaha, Dinfts, cliccks and postr o made payable to the order of the compu THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN on wh orders 0 e OF CIRCULATION. George i, Tuchuck, recretary of The | fishing company, belng duly sw « th the_actual numboer of full and k Sopise of The Dally M Kivening and Sunday Tes rinted during th nth of June, 1804, Wi follows : BTATEMEN Pub- that nin 18, 1 18 bt +.666,163 returned A unwold an Total sold 6 THUCK. Sworn to before me 1 in my pre ence_this 24 day o [ There Is one consolation in these dog days, and that s the nghts are growing longer. That tariff measure ought to be pretty well cooked up after the hot wave which has favored Washington with a visit. Debs told a Terre Haute audience Sunday that he voted for Cleveland three times. That explaing why he advised everybody to strike. The ward heelers and political unemployed are already rubbing their hands in expecta- tion of two prospective elections. They will all be promptly on deck. Billy Mason goes right on spreading good republican doctrine, without reference to the threatened refusal of Franklin MacVeagh to debate the issues of the day with him. The Hong Kong physician who claims to have discovered the plague baccillus should set about without delay to unearth the war germ that is thriving alongside of it in the Chinese dominions. Omaha Is fortunate in escaping the inroads of the fire fiend that is doing so much dam- age In other citles just now. A few small fires quickly extinguished is the record for several months past. Mr. Debs insists that he did all in his power to prevent the Pullman strike. Mr. Pullman has likewise been claiming to have exerted himself to his utmost to accom- plish the same object. Mayor Gilroy of New York apparently reads the handwriting on the wall. Hence his announcement that he will not be the candldate of Tammany Hall for re-election. All the Tammany leaders are trying to crawl from under ahead of the avalanche. The gold reserve is now down to 12 per cent of the government's note obligations, or considerably below what is required of the smallest national bank. The government ought to see to it that its reserve is kept at least as substantlal as that which it ex- acts from others, President Cleveland probably entertains ~some doubts by this time whether his tariff lstter to Chalrman Wilson really tended to expedite the conference proceedings or not. The additional bone of contention which it supplied is as well calculated to prolong as to hasten the conclusion of the negotiations “for an agreement between the two houses. No corporation with only a capital stock of $5,000,000 should for a moment think of entering into competition with the Pullman company in the construction of railroad cars. The water in the stock Is the sential cloment of success. The proposed mew company will have to begin by immers- ing its capitalization to the same extent as that of its rival. o8- All great bodies move slowly. Mr. Wiley has not yet found time to sign his name to the acceptance of the new general electric ordinance which Hascall and Wheeler en- gineered through the council to bar out com- petition, and for that matter Mr. Wiley has not even foun time yet to sign the contract awarded to him on his first bid for electric lights for the next six months, It is to be hoped that the High school square will be ready for public use by the beglnning of next spring. The school board evidently did not count upon the amount of work required to transform it into a park, but notwithstanding the delay in ordering the work it should insist that it be completed this year. Next epring should see tho High school square ready to receive the pub- lo from the very first of the season. Chicago is making another effort to have the smoko nulsance ordinance enforeed, and has prevailed upon the school board to sup- ply the varlous school houses with smoke consumers. Omaha has not seen any dim- inution of (he smoke evil for months past, although chimnoys In the center of the city are still belching forth their clouds of black #0ot. Perhaps Omaha prefers to let nuisance run along until it reaches ¢ lcago proportions. The trouble is that it will then be even more difficult to abate. the The story about Amerlcans coveting terri- tory in East Asia concocted by ome of the German newspapers would be amusing were it not so ridiculous. There may be a litile popular sympathy in different parts of the United States in favor of Japan in her con- test with China, but It is due to the agita- tlon against the Chinese in this country sather thab to any hope of American ag- grandizement. Such sympathy, is a mere matter of sentiment, because the great majority of the people believe the Japanese to be of a higher order than tae Chinese and regard the general policy of “Japan as more liberal than that of China But when the United States wants to go into the business of territorial acquisition it ean find & wore lucrative fleld much nearer Bome. s however, CLEVELAND HAS A PLAN. , The report comes from Washington that Mr. Cleveland has a plan of his own for a compromlise on the three items in the tarift bill which constitute the chief cause of the difference between the senate and the house It Is said that he proposes a duty of 45 per ad valorem flat on all kinds of sugar, raw and refined, which Is the as he one of the Loulsiana senators Just afier the disagreement of the ence committee, and that a proviso added to the fron ore and coal schedules that the duty of 40 cents a ton provided by the bill shall apply only to imports from countries that impose a duty upon those ar- ticles. That s, If Cuba should remove hor duty iron we will admit free all we from that tsland, which now levies a duty of 60 cents a on coal, shall put American coal upon the free list coal from the Dominfon come into this country In other words, Mr. Cleveland pro- ording to this to make tion of free coal and free fron ore of reclprocity, thus practically recog- principle incorporated in the ex- by the advice of Mr. B and it is sald that Secretary Carlisle favors this fdea, though that fact Is not very im- portant, since it has come to be understood that anything the president favors will have the ot of the treasury. Mr. Cleveland had upon his own Invitation, and Mr. McMillin of the ferees on the part of the house, from which it s fairly be inferred that he con- tinues o take a very lively Interest In the tarift is not disposed to cease meddling with It despite the flood of critictsm his course in writing a let- ter to the chairman of the ways and means the house democratic of course, been was said in the in- president and developments cent same suggested to conter- be upon ore ore it Canada, ton the import and can report, one nizing th isting ta ine, Is endorsement his secretary audiences last week, with Wilson democratic con- to controversy and committee counseling conferees. There has, intimation to what terview between the gentlemen, but the next few days are very likely to a pretty close guess to be made whether Mr. Cleveland counseled stand against the senate amend; suggested some sort of compromise. The information at hand indicates that the chance of a deadlock and another disagree- ment are as good as ever. The senate con- ferees are firm in Insisting that the dif- ferential duty on refined sugar must be retained or the bill cannot be passed in the senate, and they regard it as no 1 important that there shall be a duty on coal and iron ore. The house conferee appear to be no less determined in their insistence upon the withdrawal of the favor shown to the Sugar trust in the differential duty and upon the recognition of democratic principle involved, as they claim, in free coal and free iron ore. Evidently the feeling of asperity between the two houses has not diminished in in- tensity since the tariff bill was returned to conference, and manifestly it will not be an easy task, if it be a possible one, for the same conferees to brush away the severe things that have been said in mutual arraign- ment. Besides tho considerations of poli- tics, expediency and self-interest which exert an influence on either side, there has been Injected into the issue a feeling that the outcome will go far to determine the question of the authority of the respective houses which has been raised. Of course there is no question that all revenue meas- ures must originate in the house, but the idea has been put forth that while the con- stitution gives the senate power to amend revenue measures the intent of the framers of that instrument was that the shaping of a policy involved in such legislation should be left with the representatives of the peo- ple. In a word, the house is disposed to deny to the senate any such sweeping power in connection with this sort of legislation as It has assumed, and this phase of the controversy will cause each house to ad- here tenaciously to its position. Of course some sort of compromise may be devised upon which an agreement can be reached— possibly such a one as is attributed to Mr. Cleveland, with its republican reciprocity principle—but present indications do mot promise such an outcome. no as these of the enable as to a firm ents or CORPORATION TAXES IN OHIO. Of all the states of the union Ohlo has unquestionably been waging the most relent- less war against corporate tax shirkers, with- out discrimination as to the character of the business they are conducting. Under the constitution of Ohfo there fs what is called a double liability imposed upon stockholders in incorporated companies and this has led to the formation Bf a great many industrial corporations Intended chiefly for business within that state and owned and controlle by Ohio capital under the less exacting laws | of other states, notably of New Jersey, West Virginia and Illinols. The companies thus formed and conducting operations in that state are said to number several hundred. The double liability, however, is only thing that has caused this Influx of bogus forelgn corporations into Ohio. The laws of the latter state also require domestic corporations to pay as an incorporation fee one-tenth of 1 per cent of the authorized capital stock. By incorporating elsewhere they have suceeeded in evading this pay- ment and at the same time in accomplish- ing all that the domestic corporations could do. To remedy this abuse a law was passed that became operative in June last requiring all foreign corporations doing business in Ohlo to register in that state and to pay the same fee of one-tenth of 1 per cent in the ratio which their business within the state bears to the-total capital stock. In order to facilitate the assessment of the fee each such corporation must file a report of its operations with the designated state author- ities, failure to do so subjecting it to a fine of $1,000 and an additional penalty of $1,000 tor e month (hat it continues to business in Olilo without the necessary cer- tificates from the sccretary of state that the fee has been paid. The clause of law which is relied upon to bring these al- leged forelgn corporations to time is that which provides that no corporation in default under the statute shall be permitted to main tain any action upon any contract made by 1t within the state, while is concedes to such as shall have complied with it frecdom from attachment proceedings on the ground that it is a foreign corporation or a nonresident. But, notwithstanding the stringency of the law and the penalties fmposed for its viola tion, less than fifty out of nearly 800 cor- porations have pald the required fee. There 1s a tacit understanding that the act is to be reslsted to the end by every device known to the le profession, bas Instituted injunction procecdings to re- strain tho secretary of state from eollecting the fee which under a previous enactment had registered and had made mere nominal payment for the privilege. At the not the er do he new and one compan from those same timo the attorney general Is preparing 1o bring sult to recover the fines and penal- ties that have been accruing, so that it can- not be very long before a Judicial opinion of the validity of the new corporation law Is secured. The law, which was expected to cover about $60,000 in into the treasury, has thus far brought In only $6,000, but shouid it the added fines and penalties may eventually double the original amount. In the meanwhile we may rest as- sured that the foreign corporations are busily engaged in Inventing some new legal fiction by which they can at least temporarily avold the payment of the fe THE CANAL PROPOSITION. The Bee always has been and is now in favor of public improvements, Whenever the Platte river canal proposition is submit- ted in proper form, with a reasonable as- rance that the project will materfalize within a reasonable time, it will advocate the voting of the subsidy asked for. The proposition as formulated for submission is defective in several essential particulars and lacking in safoguards that must be ex- acted for the protection of the community A proposition involving a million-dollar sub- sldy vast interests in other respects should not be rushed to a vote. For the present and until the to the taxpayers and power consumers shall be embodied we deem it to withhold our endorsement. This is not inspired by a spirit of frivolous fault-finding, but in what we conceive to be the public interest. The special election will involve an outlay the county and city of fully $15,000. Even If the promoters were willing to pay the expense of the election it would be imprudent and improper to submit any preposition that could not receive the neces- sary two-thirds vote. When the proposi- tion is in shape The Bee will come to the front and help to carry it. revenue AS 10 and conditions vital best course to MAY INVOLVE OTHER NATIONS. The fact must be recognized that there fs at possibility of other besides China and Japan becoming involved in the Corean war should the efforts which it soems are still being made to bring about a settloment fail. It appears to be the of- fcial opinfon at Berlin that these efforts will fail and that a prolonged war is at hand. A curious impression prevails there, as reflected in the press, regarding the re- lations of the United States to this conflict, Quotations from whose utter- ances carry a measure of official authority show that there is an idea that this country wants a war between China and Japan in that it may have an opportunity to acquire territory in Asia. How this notion should have found lodgment in the brain of any intelligent German editor, assuming that they have some knowledge of the for- eign policy of this government, and particu- larly of the position of the present admims- tration regarding that policy, is altogether inconceivable. It serves to suggest, how- that the attempts made within the last few years to depart from the long es- tablished policy of the United States regard- ing forelgn territory have subjected us to the suspicion of Europeans, with whom the thought of territorial acquisition s al- most constantly present. Our connection with the political affairs of Samoa and the readiness of a considerable part of our peo- ple to annex Hawail off hand, without in- quiring whether a majority of the people of those islands desired annexation, natur- ally had the effect to impress Europeans with the idea that the American people are digposed to extend their territorial posses- sions and to enter Into rivalry with European nations for colonfal aggrandize- ment. Nothing could be further from the teuth, This country wants no territory in eastern Asia, and the only it has manifested in the Corean matter is in the character of a peacemaker, for which it should recelve the commendation of Euro- pean powers if they really desire to avert a prolonged war between China and Japan. It is impossible to Imagine any ecircum- stances under which a majority of the American people could be induced to ac- cept territory in Asla. The tone of the German press indicates very clearly that the sympathy of that country is with Japan. Russia’s sympa- thies are understood to be in the same di- rection, although it is sald she would pre- fer an amicable adjustment of the trouble. Englaad sympathizes, for commercial rea- sons, with China. For the present diplo- macy will exhaust its resources to bring about a settlement, but should a prolonged war be found to be inevitable, as seems highly probable, it will be hardly possible for to avoid the manifesta- tion of an active interest, according to their respective sympathies, in the conflict. Chi- nese success that threatened the defeat of Japan would be very likely to draw Russia, perhaps in conjunction with Germany, into the and this would compel England to take a hand, however reluctant she might be to do so. In the event of Japanese success that threatened the defeat of China, England might still feel called upon to go to the assistance of the latter, which, of cours?, would draw Russia into the conflict. It may be that European mations will al- low China and Japan to carry on the con- test without any other intervention or in- terference than Is strictly diplomatic in its character, but the possibility of some of them ultimately becoming involved in the conflict Is obvious. If that should happen the Corean imbroglio might become mem- orable as the spark that kindled one of the greatest wars in history. In such a con- test the United States would be simply a spzctator, nations newspapers order ever, concern these nations war, The people of South Enid Point, Oklahoma, complain that in counts of the fight compel the Island railroad to establish stations stop their cars in their they have been made to appear in an almost wholly false light. The whole trouble has arisen from the efforts of a speculative town site company, in which the chief interests by a few officlals of the railroad company, to build up their own towns on the ruins of South Enid and Round Point. By some machinations, connived in by the government agents, the town site compeny securod possession of tracts of land in close proximity to what had been designated as the county seats by the Interlor department and town lots were sold with a guarantee that the railroad would protect the pur- chasers. To do this the stations were established in theso places, several miles from the regular county seats, and the tralng were allowed to stop at no other polnts, When the citizens of South Enid and Round Point protested, thoy received the reply that terminal facilities would be al- together too expensive. When the cltizens offered to supply the terminal facilities thelr offer was spurned with contempt. When they passed ordinances limiting the speed of trains within the town limits and requiring every train to stop at the main stroet and whistle, the railroad defied the law. When the citizens endeavored to en- foree the ordinances which they had enacted, the governor and the federal troops were Round the ac- Rock and and to clties are owned new quickly at hafi? 5 help the railroad per- sist In Its violations. That I8 to say, just in order to Wy hn inside ring of town site speculator@ the Rock Island has been inviting the stdlm which the people promise will break whel the leglslature once meets Then the old cry of hostile railway legisia- tion will again o heard In the land. The New York Press has been interviewing the chairmen of democratic county commit tees in that regarding the tariff bill, with the result of finding that a very large majority of them, the proportion s sald to be 6 to 1, are to the passage of the measure. These men, it hardly needs to be said, are In close contact with the people, and in the expression of their own opinion they express that of a majority of the voters with whom in dally aseso- lation. The obvious conclusion to be drawn from the answers of these county chairmen to the newspaper's question Is, therefore, that a large majority of the democrats of New York gfate are opposed to tarift legisla tion on the lines by their party representatives In congress and would wel- the defeat of the pending bill. That might not, Indeed, help the party and prob ably would not, but these Empire state dem- know that it would be quickly fol- lowed by resumption of industrial activity, and to a great many of them that Is a much more state opposed they are come ocrats nsideration than demo- cratic success next November. Such a show- ing among the Press makes ought to have some influence at Washington, but it is not to be expected that it will have, for the tariff smashers the heard from New York in the elections of last spring in a way that ought to have caused them to halt if they were susceptible to the influence of popular sentiment. important ot sentiment democrats as of the weeks way to cause fatal explosion about two on its A report caisson in ago Is said Washington, assigning as the of the disaster the inclusion of defective shells among the ordnance distributed to the army. It Is possible, of course, that the shells that exploded were defective, but ofie will ever be able to prove whether they or not. As a convenient explanation, absolving every one from blame, this theory will do very well. But if the report says nothing about the senseless order that sent a caisson loaded with dangerous explosives on a useless dress parade through the crowded stree!s of a great city it will be considered by many pesple to be incomplete. Whether the shells were dcfective fectly sound, they had no business in being where they were when the explosion took place, and the order that sent them there was at the least a mistake. on the Chicago to be were or per- The inspector of weights and measures is doing a good work in verifying the weights and balances employed by the different drug- gists of the city. - His investigations have disclosed that there is scarcely a drug store in Omaha which has not been compounding prescriptions with slort weights or defective graduates. Aside from the Injustice done patrons, who pay for more than they get, the use of inaccurate measures must result in inaccurate compounds and quite possibly in dangerous omes. - There has most prob- ably been little element of fraud in these instances of using short weights, but there is a conslderable element of carelessness on the part of th¢ druggists, The responsi- bility of those who, compound medicines ought alone to fmpel them to see that their balances are exact, and if this does not do it the’ city inspector should take steps to make them feel the responsibility. ly Truth. semocrat. sons for saying that the democ! rty made the worst mi take of its life when it carried the election of 1892, e Preacher Versus Layman. Louisviile Cou urnal. The Des Moines preacher who prayed the court of heaven for an injunction” to re- strain the democrats from the exercise of governmental authority seems to ignore the efforts of Mr. Gorman. ™) There ar Corporations in Evidence. New York World. The rallroads seem to have about as much influence with the constitutional convention as with the average New York legislature. The preamble committee has surrendered to the New York Central railroad and re- versed its previous wise decision that an arbitrary limit of $,000 should not be placed on the value of human life. —————— Coxey and His Dup s, Chicago Post, People who regarded Coxey merely as a fool did him too great honor. There was evidence from the beginning of his “Com- monweal” movement that he was a_ hum- bug. There Is evidence at hand now that he is a scamp. Recently Coxey visited the dup he had deluded and told them tha going home to Massillon, He adyised ther to proceed to Washington and beg. The. then would be arrested and locked up in the workhouse, where they would get food and | shelter. After imparting this cheerful ad- | vice he drove ay Although a rich man he did not offer to return the unfortu outcasts to their homes or give them much as u dollar to buy food. ———————— The Cou is Safe. ow Yok Sun. We greet with a_glad heart the return of eneral 13. Burd Grubb to his post as cap- 1in of the Philadelphia city troop. It is dificult to disassocinte him from that radiant uniform which won all hearts in Spain. We ugain the helmet with the al chin-strap; the plume, longer than c's wings and whiter than the s 372 miles of frogs and lace; the glor ing_epaulets; the faulfless legs, caressed by the elinging wl sers; the boots, such as Wellington would hivve given a ‘slice of his conquering aquiline beak for; In short, an that seems a dream of hasheesh. drums. Blow, bugles. Let every man willi any spice of the martialist in’ him dance the Pyrehic dance and raise the war c s whom he was t dustic Do ow, Yotk World, The Cummings, cgmmittee will that armor plates furnished = fr Carnegle works hi¢e been fraudulently tampered with in order to decel nment. There escapin clusion on the rick and Hunsie to escape it, and thare is a of confession thangof avoldance in their impudent plea thadyif the government in- ors had done’ their duly fraud would hive been impossibte. In reporting thisvthe committee pected to recommpnd that certain plates already in use o gyvernment vesscls bo taken off and subjédtdl to the ballistic test This ought to be Hone for the protection of the kovernmeng p ita satlors, but more must be done. The' dlready proved frauds must be punishedifa v As a matter qf,coqrse the likely to attempt (o claim that in the listic test they abe to have a new and more impartial trial and if they could manage to have the proper plates selected the test they would have no fears of the report "o Ton, been reat deal mor Is ex- | culprits are bal- oncerned the case it should, into a court of justice if anywhere, they must get thelr vindication. There must he no whitewashing of demonstrated fraud. Prosecute the guilty! ir Own Canoe, July 80.—The Hawallan now on its way to compelled to depend WASHINGTON, royalist commission, Washington, will be on Its own resources to secure an audience with the officers of this government assistance in that direction will be giv by the officers of the legation of the republic here, who polnt out that it would be mani festly improper for them to intercede in behalf of any one who Is opposed to the exlsting government. ! little POLITICAL POTPOURRL J. A. Plper of Harlan eounty Is another candidate for secretary of state who is olr- culating among the ropublican politicians Central City Nonpareil: There are a great many Majors men in this county, but they belong to the democratie and pop parties Genoa Leader: Tom Majors stands just about as much chance of recelving the nomination for governor as he does of being struck by lightning next February. Judge M. J. Abbott ot Hayes Centor feels confident that he is the right man for com- migsioner of public lands and buildings, and his smiling face and good record have made him many friends in his travels throughout the state Stanton Picket: Omaha Bee to Tom open, pointed and The opposition of Majors’ nomination reasonable, and must command the respect of all clean-handed, honorable republicans who stand without the pale of ring dominfon Walioo Wasp: There fs the minds of those posted on that Hon. T. J. Pickett Is in his_candidacy for secretary of Pickett has™ a large and most acquaintance throughout the state Is no new (hing to hear of new coming in every day. Lyons Sun: It is our sincere opinfon that Hon. George D. Melklejohn will carry this congressional district in the face of a demo-populist fusion, if such should take place. We believe this for two reasons First, Mr. Meiklejohn has made e&n excep- tionally good record, and secondly, a fusion won't fuse worth a cent. The western part of the 1s alive with candidates for the republican nomi- nation for commissioner of public lands and buildings. Several of them have secured the endorsement of their home counties and the struggle promises to be a pretty one. €. W. Shurleft is the latest man to sele his own delegates. halls from Hitcheock county. Editor Charles Creek Times is a candidate tion as a member of the legislature from Merrick county on the republican ticket Wooster s a fighter, and if the convention nominates him he will make a campaign that will long be remembered in that section of the state as red hot. He would be heard from in the legislature. The republican central committee of Cum- ing county took upon Itself the unusual pr rogative of refusing to call a county con- vention, but instead ft was agreed to select three men to name the delegates to the state and congressional conventions. This action has brought out a protest from the republicans of the county, who do not feel like giving up their rights to name the men who will represent them. A demand has been made on the members of the committce that they reconsider their action and call a convention. Kearney Hub: The charge of the Omaha Bee that Thomas J. Majors did not pay his campaign assessment two years ago when a candidate for lieutenant governor, nor any t of it, s a serious one, first for®the reason that it involves a fine point of per- sonal honor, and secondly for the reason that Mr. Majors was and Is quite wealthy and could easily have paid it. The greatest offense that a candidate can commit is to dendhead his campaign assesment, and the contral committee always holds the right to take a candidate’s name from the ticket for refusal or failure to do so, unless very good reason should be shown. In this case the charge cannot be permitted to pass in silence or be denied simply because it is made by Th: Bee. Mr. Majors should an- swer and defend himself specifically from the charge, and a failure to do so will gen- erally be taken as evidence of its truthful- ness. The Hub understood this to be true before the Bee made the charge, its au- thority being a member of the finance com- mittee of the republican state central com- mittee, North Bend Republican: The young re- publican is longing for a fresh deal. He is longing for rccognition. Few of them care for office, but they feel that they should be recognized as the’ chief element of strength in the party. There is a great deal of rot in saying that this man or that man must be recognized because he is an old-time re- publican and a vote maker. That has been the appeal to the young republicans for the last ten years, and in the meantime the young republican who would forge to the front is told that he must wait, for one of the old war horses is coming and he must be given a place on the ticket, else it will be defeated. And thus it ever goes. What the republican party of Nebraska needs just now is fewer political chestnuts and more of tireless youth. If the young blood is not recognized "it grows cold and that means the defeat of the ticket. This is not written in support of any candidate or through any selfish motive. It s written because the cditor has the interests of the republican party at heart. He has fought in the ranks ever since he was old enough to fight, and is ready to do so again, but he could fight with a”better grace If he was fighting for newer men and fewer political chestnuts, Lincoln News: The chief obj urged against the nomination of Tom Majors for governor is that he has not the full con- fidence of the people of Nebraska. In other words, they have no confldence in his fidelity to their interests. And there are good rea- sons for this lack of confidence. Mr. Majors has been lieutenant governor for two terms. By virtue of that office he is presiding officer of the state senate when that body is hold- ing its deliberations, and in his hands rests oftentimes the fate of cerfain legislation. ach session that has found him the pre ing officer has also found his room the headquarters, or rather the lounging place, of the horde of lobbyists that always Infest the statehouse at those times. Callers upon the lieutenant governor during legislative ses- sions have always found it neccssary to run the gauntlet of Walt M. Seeley, whom he fastened upon the state pay roll ‘as his p vate sccretary. It is not necessary to dwell upon the poiitical reputation and’ character of Walt Seeley,,and for four or five years Tom Majors has' been his political guardian. Lately he has made a feint of having cast Seeley off, but time only will tell whether it is a dissolution for effect only or whether it is real. J. H. Ager is another precious politician who has been hand and glove with Majors heretofore, and who is now acting as his advance man. Ager Is a railroad capper who doesn’t disguise his occupation. A man is known by the company he keeps and Tom Majors' political company has been of rather a doubtful character in the past, certainly not of a character to commend him to the people of Nebraska e Darkness Preceding Death York Tribune. Gladstone's sight shows sikns of being agaln obscured, and another operation is talked of. At his great age there can be hope of a permanent restoration of vision, but his mental activity remains and Dids fair to do £o while he lives, and if h own f ice to him after f score 1 not lack the eyc of others to ald an k which he wishes to ca forward, The sympathy of the whole world will g0 out to him as he stands in the shadow of this imminent eclipse, the vision so darkened having taken in as wide a horizon of observation and turned it to as high and beneflcent a public use as that of any one in his generation, or perhaps in any other. the doubt in the situation the lead in state. Mr. favorable and it recruits little Wooster of the Siiver for the nomina - I JOLLY € Pock's Sun. Man from ec Candidate, Got up early, Staid up late, VDIDATE, Worked for office Day and night, hought he had'it, Sure and tight, Delegates were All for him (?) Candidate right In the swim. 8) No oné h Bill to pay. Had the offic In his hand; Biggest gun In All the land Went In caucus, Jead sure thin ididate right In the ring In _convention, Candlidate, Felt quite easy Things first rate. Went to voting, Boon 'twas done, Was not “in it,’ Dark horse won. | the SUPPOSE THEY FIGHT. Chicago Tribune: There Is something sus- plcious about that story of the sinking of the Chinese transport and the drowning of 1,000 oldiers armed with bows and ar- rows.” The Chinese are not going back conturios for thelr weapons, They are too shrewd to have anything but the best and latest developed implements of warfare Philadelphia Inquirer: Tt fs likely that Japan and China will continue to fight until stopped by the European powers. Thelr situation I8 not very different from that of France and Germany, Corea corresponding to Alsace-Lorraine, No love Is lost between the two Oriental nations, nd, as If to make the simile more striking, Corea, over which Chinn now has political control, was form- erly ruled by Japan, just as Alsace was a French province before the Franco-German war. w York World: Japan has the right of the present quarrel because she is simply defending the privileges and rights granted to her in treatios made with the Corean government. Apparently her young and healthful energy has caused her to win in the first shock of arms. This was antiel pated by those who have resided in anid studied ‘the east, but China s a land of wonderful resources, of fmmense wealth and of almost countless millions of people. The chances are that the smaller nation will in the end succumb to the thronging members of its foe, Chicago Inter Ocean powerful nations, and a war bety N them will not be a trifling affair. It will cost thousands of lives, probably close ports of large comm and be felt by t whole civilized world. "It is no longer possible for America to lightly dismiss a war between Oriontal countries as a matt that has no concern for this mation. No great nations can go to war without affecting our trade and our interests, which extend to the ut- termost parts of the carth. This is one of the responsibilities of Rreatness, and America, as the greatest of nations, must suffer from a war in any part of the world, Minneapolis Tribune: Russia is sald to e behind China, her object being to secure the eastern shore of Asia—but is where England would object to conquest or the transfer of any territory, It is hardly probable, however, that any of the great European powers will permit themselves to be drawn into a general war for so comparatively small a matter. It I3 quite likely that after the two belligerents lave foughit awhile and punished each other sufficiently, the European powers will get together and arrange an intervention, tak- ing care that their own intercsts do not suf- fer and that neither gets any great ad- vantage over the other. Paul Globe: The dispute involves the question of supremancy upon the island of Coren. The natives of that kingdom are a lawless, piratical set, whose depredations have long been a menace to the comn of the Orient. It has been manifest for years that they must be subjugated, and Japan undertook the task, not in the interest of self-aggrandizement or for the purpose of extending her domain, but simply to rid commerce of an enemy that was destroying it. China, whose power to suppress the aflliction had long been acknowledge tioned the right of Japan to ta and lhence the present complictations. The right is all on the side of Japan; it may transpire that the might resides with China. DIVID, Both are proud and tep, D DEMOCRACY. Courler-Journal (dem.): When you a man prating about “free raw materials set him down for a cowardly scoundrel, who wants to throw dust in people’s eyes, or an ignorant fool, whose room is better than his company among true democrats. Chicago Herald {dem.): Better the defeat of the bill than the triumph of monopoly. it must be understood that legislation to make people rich cannot be obtained by buy- {ng more than by bullying, or there will be trouble for the republic at mo very remote day. St. Paul Globe (dem.): ‘The stupid, ar- rogant, conceited senate, having gone plainly wrong, insists on staying wrong. Now let the house stand where the president and its conferees planted its standard and dare the senate to defeat the bill. Better no tarift bill at this session than the senate's sur- render of principle; its capitualtion to the protectionists. New York Tribune (rep): The president now seems to be in hot haste to be num- bered among the coparcencrs who have con- verted ‘‘tariff roform’ into protection of tru His_intimate friends are explaining away the Wilson letter and begging that Senator Gorman will lit him off without abject punishment. New York Sun (dem.): Truth compels us to say that just now depression rather than exultation prevails among the democratic rank and file; but there Is at least on: cheering thought The mpaign for the control of the Fifty-fourth congress need not be a campaign in_ defense of the past history of the Cleveland administration. Neither Tom Reed nor any other republican leader has the power to give it that un- fortunate turn, if democrats are wise and turn their faces resolutely to the future. hear NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, A Presbyterian church has been organized at Bodare, Sioux county. A fast freight on the Durlington was ditched at Holdrege by a misplaced switch and Engineer Oyster was caught under his engine and badly injured. The property loss was heavy. The Homer council of the American Protec tive association is talking of building a lodg room because the owner of the building where the meetings are now held Is opposed to tho principles of the order. While Frank Sterling of Shelton was olling a windmill he caught his left hand in the gearing and before the mill conld be stopped his Land and wrist were terribly lacerated, the flesh being torn from the bone, Says the Norden Borealis: Lightning struck the cellar door leading under the house of F. Zacharias in a thunder shower last week, shocking the inmates of the house considerably. Mrs. Zacharlas was hand black and blue, as though badly hand black and blue, as though badly bruised. Mr. Zacharias was lying down and spot where metal on his suspenders touched him was made black and blue. M. Hunter was there at the time and the cur- rent communicated to the heel via the nails in the heels of his boots, leaving a black spot and a very sore heel. e CONFERENCE OF JOKERS, The boy , whether th we call a ts are green bainstaking Galveston N ho all the melons he s or old, is what urchin, ernor Hogg says e reported. But never bad enough as it Dealer: ( accurately governor, it was Plain wasn't mind, was, “Hobbs—Say, Dohbs, Arkansaw Traveler use an Indian for a why do cigar stores sign? Dabbs—To indicate Lo, 1 suppose. that their prices are Indeed a golden the thief when he met 1 with ndsome gold m his pocket Buffulo Bxpr TS | unity," watch dangling f W Itahs shington Star ukumstanc , shoh,” sald Uncle Eben. “De man likes to heah hisse'f holler in u argy- doan seem ter git no satisfaction fum de soun’ ob his volce drivin’ dat ment tall cows.' the “Do you belong to Reform of Husbands York brunette. won't foin, either," nde. Do 'you sup. husband 80 good York will be Chicago Post: Society for the usked the austere New (! o, I don't; and 1 the decided ¥ pose 1 want to muke my that every woman in New chasing after him? Buffalo Courier: Pater (sternly)—Is it true that you were out gambling last Young Hopeful (unabashed)-Not m wasn't, 1 quit away ahead of the game. Indlanapolls Journal: “Was it drink that brought you to this place?’ asked the younir woman who was engaged in philan- thropic work *No, miss,"! Pwis the lack of 1t 14 thirst thet I tried ter replied the hardened offender. I wus that done up steal a keg o RETROSPECTIVE, Titusville World Already in the dusty past Historians must dip To find “the famous winter Of McGinty and the grip:"* And soon through vanished seasons Will they also have to pass To the then forgotten springtime Of Coxey and the grass, (THEIRS NOT Privates Nust Obey Orders Given Them by Their Superiors, EXISTENCE OF DISCIPLINE DEMANDS IT Any Complaint the I8 to Be Made After the Commn Isted Man May Have e Has e ixeeuted 1 Glven Not the Judge. BUREAU OF THE BER, 1407 I Stroet, N. W, WASHINGTON, July 30, The secretary of war today transmitted to house commities on military affalrs an al communication in answer to the res- olution of Congressman Grosvenor in the of Private Cedarquist of the Second infantry. This report will not be made public until the committee on military affairs has officlally considered it. The secretary of war states that the findings of tho court martial are approved. Private Cedarquist should Kave obeyed orders and entered com- plaint afterwards, if he had any complaint to make. To permit a private soldier to use discretion in the matter of obedience to orders would tend to des! all military discipline and make the Iy A nuisance instead of a protection to society. Tho secretary further states that it i not the policy of the War dopartment to have rifle practice or other duty of that nature p formed on Sunday, but under no eircum Etances will private soldier be mitte to disobey orders with impunity. This epit- ome of the contents of the letter of the secret of war has been obtained from one Wwho has read the substance of it ALL! ASKS FOR $50,000,000. Senator Allen today introduced a bill direct ing the secretary of the treasury to Issue $60,000,000 in treasury note to be divided among the several states acoerding to pop- ulation for the relief of the worthy poor, un- dor the direction of the legislatures of the siates. Bach state shall fssue to the United States coupon bonds in denominations of $1,000 each, at 2 per cent per annum, pay- able in not less that three nor more than ten years, to be held by the treasury as security for the payment such debts, Senator Roach of North Dakota today in- troduced a bill granting to the state of North Dakota certain portions of the aban- doned Fort Abraham Lincoln military reser- vation, and buildings thercon, for the site of a reform school and other educaiional purpos The bill referred to the com- mittee on public lands. Senator Roach re- ported favorably from the committee on agri- culture a bill transferring the geological sur vey and fish commission to the Department of Agriculture. Congressman Bryan today e secured the concurrence of the house in % senate amendment to a bill granting an extra term of court to the city of Lincoln. The senate amendment provides that the meetings shall be held at Lincoln on the first Monday in Oc'ober, instead of the third Monday in September, as provided in the house bill. The time for the other meet- ing at Lincoln, as provided for in the bill, is the third Monday in January. SENATORS WILLING TO QUIT. The legislative condition of the Wilson bill is not understood by the general public. That bill is no longer in the hands of tho house of representatives. At the conclusion of the former conference the bill was re- turned to the senate with a request on tho part of the house for a new conference. The senate agreed to this request, but retains custody of the bill. There is no prospect of an agreement in the conference. Sooner or later both houses will be informed that the conferees have been unable to reach an agree- ment. This will bring the bill again be- fore the sonate, and it is not believed that it will ever be ailowed to again go into con- ference or to pass into the custody of the house under any circumstances. The re- publican lcaders have determined to fill- buster, if necessary, in order to defeat the biil, and the democratic managers are not in an aggressive mood. The bill does not meet with the entire approval of the demo- crats of the senate cven as amended. The house Is unalterably opposed to it. Tho president calls it a perfidy and a_dishonor. It scems to be almost wholly friendless, consequently the republican leaders would seem to before them an easy task, Of course, if the democratic senators could feel that the fate of revenue reform rested upon them alone, and that their insistenco upon the passage of the bill would be fol- lowed by exceutive approval, they could force the fighting. But they are discouraged and ready to quit, because they are confident Atheir efforts would be followed with a veto containing even a more severe arralgnment and characterization of their work than was contained in_the letter of the president to Chairman Wilson, and they have no desiro to receive another rebuke, and one of an official character_such as would probably ba administered. Conscquently they are not likely to make any strenuous endeavor to compel action on the bill. It will probably be either postponed indefinitely or laid over until the next session of congress, IN A GENERAL WAY. The comptroller of the currency has issued his certificate approving the extension of the corporate existence of the People’s National bank of Independence, Ia., to July 30, 1904, Bertha Nagle has been appointed post- mistress at Big Rock, Scott County, Ia., vice C. B. McCully, resigned. A postoflice has been established at Mag- net, Cedar county, Neb., and Enoch Adkins commissioned postmaster. The postoffice at Green Valley, county, In., has been discontinued. will go to Dekalb, The name of Hon, William Lochren, com- missioner of pensions, has been presented fo the president by leading lawyers the northwest through the democratic repre- sentatives of Minnesota for appointment to the additional United States district jud ship for the Bighth judiclal district. " It is believed that if the president can find a suit- able man to complete the work which has been undertaken by the commissioner of pensions he will give this life appointment to Judge Lochren. In executive session today the senate con- firmed the nomination of John F. Sherman as postmaster at Wahoo. Senator Vilas, chairman of the senate com- mittce on postoffices and post roads, at tho request of Senator Allen, today made a favorable report to the senate on the nomina- tion of Postmaster Korns at Tekamah, with the result that the nomination was confirmed in exccutive session this afternoon. JOND TEST. WASHINGTON case lled up and Decatur Mail ACCERTED ON SE r Pluto Tako for the Oreg SHINGTON, July 30, ary Her- bert has finally accepted the 300 tons of bar- bette armor intended for the battleship Ore-- gon, represented by the 17-inch Carnegle harveyized s plate, which has been tried at Indian H Owing to the peculiar na- ture of this trial there was some question as to the acceptance of the lot, but this has heen decided affimatively. On the first trial tha second shot perforated and cracked the plate, and if the test had stopped there, as is usual, the lot of plate would have been re- jected. 'But the contractors, asserting that Drofectiles of a quality surpassing the stand- ard shells in preceding tests had been used, asking for anolher trial under the old con- dition This request was grantcd and the fragment of the plate came out vietorlous on the second trial ore Hawullun ¢ spondence, WASHINGTON, July 30.—The president today sent to congress another installment of Hawalian correspondence, the most important foature of which Is Minister Willls' recogni tion of the new republic. The minister, after relating the proclamation of the republic and alluding to a communication from Mr. Hatch, Hawallan minister of forelgn affairs, an nouncing the new step, adds that on the Hth of July he replied to Mr. Hatch's note, stet- ing that “I hereby, as far as 1 have tho right to do, extend to the republic of Hawall the recognition accorded its prede- cessor, the provisional government of the Carnegle Ar s Satisfactory Hawallan islands. I do this In the belict that I represent the president of the United States, to whom this, as the executive of the government 1 represent, will be promptly submitted for his necessary approva T0 REASON WHY -