Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 10, 1894, Page 4

5 OF SUDSCRIPTION. Dally Tee (withont Sunday) One Year. Daily Iiec and #anday, Ono Year..... Bix Monthe v Thiran Months Bunday Iee, On Yoar. e, Onn_Y Ons Year, 333 ass Omaha, The ¥ = N and Twenty-fourth ftrect v of Commerce. 14 and 15, Tribune Didg. Htreot, N, W. CORREEPONDENCE, ating to news and ed! y the Bditor, LITTERE s And remittances should be Puliishing company, Drafis and postoffice orders 10 payabie rier of t smpany. THIE | PUBLISIING COMPANY. TATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, George 1. Tasclick, secretary of The I hing company, being duly “sw ¥ the_actual number of full and lete cop of The Daily Morning, Evening and Sundny Tee printed during the month of July, 150, was as follows: All brgine, nddressed Omaha be made o Pub- that 21,015 oser L aam 1181 18 Total " e Lesn deductions for unsoid and returned Total wold Datly average *Sunday. + .0 net’ cireniation 3 GEORGE B, TZSCHUCK, ibscribed In my pres- 150, FEIL, Notary Publle. Sworn to hefore me ence this 1st day o (8eal.) We thought the original intention was to have the new tariff law go into effect on June 1, 1893, According to the Bryan-Weaver organ the distinction between real populists has too fine fuddled intellect. democrats and real become for its be- DI those bicyclers ever make comparison of the expense of sending a telegram from Washington to Denver by wire and by relay riders of the wheel? 1t is lucky that Li Hung Chang has not Aeen the alleged pictures of himself in the American press. Were It otherwise there might be a war against America Instead of one against Japan. Mr. Bryan's presence will not be needed at the meeting of the democratic state com- mittee next Monday. The state convention will be summoned without any conscious de- #ign of encouraging Mr. Bryan's senatorial ambitions. Senator Allen’s bill to punish professional lobbyists is, we fear, destined to be rele- gated to the realms of innocuous desuetude. There are altogether too many congressmen and senators included in the objectionable Tobbyist class. g Gambling n corn options is no better than gambling at faro or betting on the outcome of a prize fight or horse race. The man who has earned his money by honest industry is worse than a fool to risk it on margins and options in the grain pit. The Whisky trust must have the straight tip that the tariff bill is to be passed or it would not pay out the money necessary to take its stock out of bond at this particular time. This action of the trust indicates that it is prompted by more than mere possi- bility. Ex-Senator Ingalls says that he is sorry for all the fellows who are working to be elected or appointed to some office or an- other. He furthermore adds that they can never know what it is to enjoy life until they abandon the race for office as he has done. Mr. Ingalls’ reputation for sarcasm has long been established. Senator Voorhees' defection from the sen- ate tariff bill to the house bill is occasioning some unfavorable comment in Washington, where it Is said that the Indiana senator was at one time prepared to second Senator Gorman in his attack upon President Cleve- land for interfering in the tariff controversy. Voorhees' somersaults, however, have be- come too common to attract widespread at- tention One of the arguments advanced in favor of holding the republican state convention in Omaha was that it would stimulate activity and interest among local republicans. The prospect of the convention is already doing this, Clubs are being organized and meet- ings held nightly in all parts of the city. This is encouraging so early in the season When the campaign is once on, politics will bo the one absorbing and all-pervading topic. The enterprising eastern newspaper which 18 printing the news from the Ori¢ntal war fn the Chinese and Japanese languages for the benefit of its Chinese and Japanese pa- trons seems to have entirely overlooked the Coreans in its dispensations. The Coreans are as much interested in the progress of the war as any one. The Coreans in this country can be counted on the fingers of one hand, but they must be We shall expect to see the war news in four parallel columns henceforth—English, Chin- ese, Japanese and Corean newspaper readers. The ostrich is reputed to have the most case-bardened stomach of any known living creature. He will swallow broken glass bot- tles, iron spikes, old boots and crushed rock without experiencing the slightest trouble from indigestion. The Iowa demo- crats who swallowed General Weaver are Just a little ahead of the average ostrich in thelr castiron digestive apparatus. When they gulped down Weaver they swallowed prohibition, woman suffrage, flatism, social- ism and every other lsm that has aficted American politics for the last twenty-fiye years. Sioux City has been lopping off fads and high salaries in the public schools right and left. The Omaha school board has not yet been able to realize that it has become nee- essary to bring the management of the pub- Mo schools down to a strictly business basis. While every business house has been re- trenching, and If not cutting salaries, at least not adding to them, the school board in Omaha is increasing salaries through the device of shortening the school year, It glves the teachers and principals the same pay for less work. Omaha can not hold her- self aloof from the cities immediately sur- rounding her. She must follow Sioux City and Kansas City in a policy of retrench- ment. In this politics and favoritism must &\ve way to busiuess principles, OF IMPROVEMENT. While business generally is still far from satisfactory (here are unmistakable signs of improvement which encourage the hope that a revival is at hand The eastern ‘rade Journals note a better condition of things In several lines. It is reported of the shoe business that nearly every manufacturer of low-priced ghoes Is supplied with all the or- he can fill up to October. Manufac- turers have had stocks on hand reduced to the lowest lmit, and what is true as to shoes s equally true of other lines. In the trade the demand for the raw continues active, and manufacturers large stocks. The mills an excellent business, most of them being filled with orders, and it is said that unless the senate rates on woolens are materfally changed the mill more than tolerable, In the iron trade production of finished steel for other purpe rails is 80 good as to show that consumption of steel outside of the rail demand is about as large as when Industry A feature of the situation is industries (here Is to provide for the for the part tual wants a This 15 a things ders woolen terial are laying in port ma- re- up prospects are and steel the than the was more active. that in most being made no attempt tuture, production belug most confined to supplying ac- represented by orders on hand. perfectly condition of under existing but it none the less clearly points to a revival just tarift question is settled. The that there is increase in all uncer of stocks .assuming, of course, t no made in the pending Of this there seems to be little It an agreement be items over which senate natural efrcumstances, as soon as th vital fact in room for a in all lines, removed the building commenced, material tariff bill. probability. reached on the and house conferces there will be little difficulty or in reaching thing else about the situation is considerable stocks ainty s will when up. and be changes are can the struggling loss of time understanding as to every- which there is a difference. The latest advices from Washington do not indicate that an agreement is probable, but it appears likely that there will be definitive action one way or the other before the close of the week. All efforts now to be directed to securing of a promise, neither side being willing to make a complete concession of the demand of the other, and it is by no means certain that a compromise can be effected The signs that the ests are ready to expand operation they know what the tariff conditions are to be for the next few years The con- dition of the crop is a rather tunate feature in the situation, but this may not to be so segious as is ap- prehended. Altogether the outlook for do- fe trade is more encouraging, and while recovery must be slow it seems to be well assured. The foreign trade continues to be disappointing, but a revival in that direc- tion, confidently anticipated within the next sixty days. At any rate the situation Is far from hopeless. are now an some sort com- industrial inter- the mo- are ment corn unfor- prove now mes also, may be REVENUE UNDER THE NEW TARIFE Assuming that an agreement on the new tariff bill will be reached, as the latest advices appear to warrant, and that the changes in the schedules of the pending bill will be such as to very materially affect the es- timate of results from that measure, it will bs interesting to refer to the final figures of the treasury experts of the probable re- ceipts from customs under the operation of thie senate bill. These estimates were made two weeks ago and are based upon the as- sumption that the Imports wiil be the same as for the fiscal year 1893. It is admitted that reduced duties and the disturbances to the regular movement of trade caused by tarift changes will modify these figures and but there is no substantial data for estimating what this increase may be. The importations for 189 among the largest in the commercial history of the country, and it will require a very development of trade to carry those of 1895 and suc years beyond them. Still it is po: they will be excecded. Under the existing law the receipts from customs for the fiscal year of 1893 amounted in round figures to $198,000,000. The esti- mated receipts from the senate bill as it now stands are $179,000,000, which is $55,000,- 000 more than it was estimated the house bill would yield. The large difference in revenue In favor of the semate bill comes chiefly from sugar, which it is estimated will yield $43,000,000, so that the increases in other schedules amount to only about $11,000,000, and the amount may be still less in the event of iron ore being placed on the free list, which would require a re- vislon of the metal schedule. But accept- ing approximately the estimal of customs receipts under the pending bill they will fall below those of the existing law for 1893 to the amount of only about $20,000,000, though this reduction represents not more than one-third the amount the schedules other than sugar. mated revenue from sugar be the estimate of total revenue senate bill it will be seen that the redu tion from all other schedules, on the com parison with 1893, Is about $62,000,000. From internal revenue the estimated increase under the senate bill is $20,000,000 from spirits, $3,000,000 from playing cards and $30,000,000 from the income tax, which added to $160 000,000 under the existing law makes a total of $213,000,000. Add to this the probable receipts from the postal service and cellaneous sources, $104,000,000, and there is an estimated grand total of revenue of $496,000,000. If this should be realized and the secretary of the treasury's for 1895 should not as it prob ably will not be, there would be a surplus of about $48,000,000, but this not come available within the following the enactment of the law. The income tax feature of the bill is not to go into effect until January 1 mext, and it whl probably be a couple of mouths after that time be fore there is much revenue fram this source. Then It will doubtless be fully six months after the taking effect of the law before there Is any considerable revenue from sugar, the refining Interest having taken full ad- vantage of its opportunity to accumulate & supply of raw sugar and bring it into the country free of duty, which will supply its until the next crop. It Is hardly likely, therefore, that the tr gt to one-third of the revenue from sugar during the current fiscal year. Assuming that the treasury will get nothing from sugar or from the income tax for six months it must, in obligations, realize In full the estimated re ceipts from sources of is hardly probable that it will able ‘to do this. It ecertainly cannot from whisky because from $12,000,000 to $13,000,000 of the whisky tax has been anticipated to avold the increased tax. It ably expected that heavy as soon as the tariff bill is enacted, not ar probably increase importations, were considerable new eding sible that as correct lost on It the esti- taken from under the mis- estimate of expenditur: be exceeded, could be- year requirements asury will exceed estimated order to meet other revenue. It be order is reason the importations will be but owing to prices and curtuiled consump- tion the wmount of importations is very likely there- ample is more to fall tore, reve below expectations. While, the se bill contemplates nue nnder normal ¢ than possible that the treasury will continu to experfence a defieit for som its may still to issue more bonds, with the ostensible pur- pose of replenishing the gold reserve. an nditions, It months after enactment and be compelled EXCLUSION The bill stitute for consular OoF by the ANARCHISTS, as a subs suse measure providing for immigrants adds ar of persons to passed senate the inspection of archists to the list cluded from this country. The which provided that all aliens to come to the United States should their records invesiigated by American suls and would not be permitted to our ports without a consular certificate, W not satisfactory to the secretary of the trea: ury or the ary of state, chiefly for the reason that it would both ments in the execution of the law. passed by the been drawn by ury, and it democrats The bill be ex- bill, proposing have con- house enter secre involve depart- The bill have treas both understood to ary of the support of senate fs the secr received the republicans. provides that shall hereafter be permitted port of the United States into the United States, but strued apply political offenders. the measure Senator Hill said the last clause desmed ary avoid all question in regard to persons in other coun- tries engaged in proceeding to overturn government in order to re- place it with another. The board of special inquiry, authorized under existing appointed by the secretary of the is required to make diligent investigation s to the ante of aliens charged with being anarchists, and in every where a charge is sustained by the order deportation. It is further that the secretary of the he is satisfied that an alien has been allowed to land into the United States contrary to the immigration laws, may issue a warrant and alien immigrant to be taken into custody and returned to the when A foreign-born convicted of any crime or the United State who will be anarchis whose presence here will be a menace to the government the peace and well being of society in gencral, in addition to other punishments adjudged, shall be taken be- fore a commissioner of immigration, who shall his deport the expense of the United States to country from which The secretary of the treas- ury is authorized to appoint inspectors such ports of departure as he may deem necessary, whose duty it shall be to inspect passengers embarking for the United States, such inspectors to have authority to forbid the transportation of amy person belonging to the excluded classes. A penalty is pro- vided in the case of ship masiers who disre- gard the orders of inspectors. The fact that an immigrant has declared his inten- tion to become a citizen of the United States shall constitute no bar to the proceedings against him under this act or the acts to which it is an amendment. It will be seen that the measure is com- prehensive, and it would doubtless effect the desired object. The question is, does it leave open a way by which injustice might be practiced and wrong done to innocent per- The civilized world is arrayed against anarchism. All the principal nations are discussing plans to exclude anarchists from their territory. Enlightened public senti- ment everywhere Is that the pouses and preaches anarchy should havi country. Unquestionably —the great Jority of the American people hold this view. But our legislation should be so judiciously and carefully framed that no injustice will result from it. The bill passed by the sen- ate will be further discussed in conference and some of its features are likely to be modified. and no alien anarchist to land at any dmitted not or be this shall be topolitical ref- In explaining s0 con as to ugees or was nece 50 as to who are some one law and treasur edents case evidence 1o provided treasury, when or has come cause such he came. citizen misdemeanor in country and unnaturalized be shown to an or to order ion at the he came. sons? who es- no ma- man LEGISLATION FORR THE LOBBY. The professional lobby, against which Sen- ator Allen has introduced a bill into the senate, while perhaps a very serious evil at Washington, is by no means absent in the various state capitols. In fact it is usually found to be more bold and more corrupt in the halls of legislatures less conspicuous than congress. Its pernicious influence has been felt at all our seats of government, Washington convenes being by no means an exclusive favorite. Nor is this the first legisla- tion that has been proposed to check the abuse. Measures have been advanced in numerous quarters to put an end to the career of the professional lobbyist, but the opposition has almost invariably succeeded in Killing off those that were pushed in carnest. Massachusetts, however, has been operating for four years under a law regu- lating the lobby and her experience with this plece of legislation has been fairly satis- factory. The Massachusetts law for the regulation of the lobby was the outcome of the scandals exposed by the West End Street railway in. vestigation of 1890. It aims not to suppress lobbying, but to make it subject to public surveillance, well knowlng that the light of publicity must alone tend to reduce the prac- tice to a minimum. The way in which it dues this is by recognizing the propriety of having interests especially concerned with particular legislation repr before the committees whose duty it Is to report upon them and by requiring a registry or docket of all persons authorized to work for nst legislative proposals. Under are really two dockets kept, for and one for legislative agents. The former is for the lawyers retained to argue their clients’ cases before committees, the other for professional or occasional lob- byists, men who try to sec the members and to influence them to vote for the measures which they are hired to advocate. These dockets are by law open to public inspection, 50 that any one can in a moment learn how much lobbying is being done for any single measure. The operation of the law has, as we have sald, been fairly satisfactory. It has reduced the so-called third house to a mere beggarly handtul. In 1893 lobbyists were registered sixty-three different matters and in all. Near the close of sente or the one law there counsel on there were twenty men the legislative ses this year had been registered only twenty matters and sixteen different men were ro- corded, and of these sixteen only seven were to be regarded as professionals by reason of long service in Many of the former legislative onhangers were driven to the desperate expedient of working for par ticular their trusting to benevolence of the ficlaries to recompense them for their work. On the other hand, the publieity of the lob- bylsts' list has no restraining effect upon the aber who is seeking to sell his vote it fon on the cause measures of own accord and the bene. me in his negotiations. He can find out without dificulty whp® js spending money on attor- neys and agents in the interest of certaln bills and B 4 go to them directly with any corruply:praposition. Corrupt seem bound to find a way to turn their op- portunities 12 thaneial a lhe Massa- chusetts law remo some of the temptatio but it doeg'iigt and cannot eradicate the corrupt mopiyes of bad legislators. The Masachusetts; experfment cannot but be in- structive to ®éformers count in other states. THE WE K Aug, 8—To the Editor of The The (Bee of August 7 I find the A (oo OMAHA, Ree: In following The weather bu demoralized th's season. cast this summer Ras been a a snare. This may not be the Wilson bill, the repeal of the Sherman w or the Pullman strike, but it comes mighty ne:r destroylng whatever confidence the people have had in the official weather astrologer. By referring to the telegraphic reports of local rains in this state published in your own paper, and comparing the dates upon which forecasts for local rains for the state of Nebraski were issued from this office, I think you will see the Injustice done me in the encl:sed clipping. Since: you have, taken a delight gIng" the service in your editorial columns ever since I have been in charge of the local office, it may give you some satisfaction t learn that I have reason to hope that my term of service here is drawing rapidly to a close, GEORGE B. HUNT, Local Forveast Official,United States Weather Bureau. The Dee nas no dispositton to “nag” the local forecast cfficial, nor does it delight in poking fun at the service. Our strictur: ave no reference to Mr. Hunt or any other individual connected with the weather for casts. The headquarters of the bureau are at Washington and the forecasts fir this section are wired from Washington. These forecasts have been disappointing. In rly every instance the predictions have failed to materialize. As a natural se- quence have lost confilence in the weather bureau, and The Bee only gave ex- pression to popular sentiment when it de- the forecists to be a delusion and a snare. The Bee would have “nagged” the bureau and its astrologers just much had the unreliable predictions been made up by General Greely's signal office. Right here let us add that unless the weather guessing shall be done more accurately it has been for the last three months for this section the money expended by the government for telegraphing forecasts and maintenance of Iccal observers is an abso- luto waste. vau scems to be entirely Nearly every fore- delusion and chargeable to in “na clared than It is now almost certain that the work cf organized relief will have to be much more extensive the ciming than it was last year. It is also certain that a heavier county relief fund: will have to be provided to meet the wants of destitute people who will look to the county for fuel and other necessaries. . The problem the county com- missioners will have to deal with is how to obtain the best results with the means at hand. Much will, of course, depend upon the policy pursued in the purchase of sup- plies and the method pursued in distribu- tion. If the county would lay in its supply of coal during the summer season and con- tract for carload lots a large saving could doubtless be ‘effected. In other words, by buying at summer rates we would get a larger quantity of fuel for the same money. Another necessary reform should bé the dis- tribution of the fuel direct instead of doling out orders for hs}: or quarter of a ton to each family. ‘The store order system sults in sho't weights, inferior quality of fuel and uncertain delivery. The effect of this system is that four fuel orders havt to be paid for where three would be ample if the quality and quantity were up to stand- ard. It is not too early to project what- ever reforms and changes are to be made in the distribution of relief if the commissioners propose to take advantage of the present low rates of coal. winter Congressman Springer of author of the arbitration bill that has been favorably reported to the house, is quoted as saying that he does not expect any legis- lation from this congress as the result of the recent strike troubles. He points to the fact that the present session is already too far gone to permit of any important measure of this kind being taken up for consideration, and that the next ses- sion i1s a short session, at which all the time at the disposal of comgress will be occupied by appropriation bills and ad ministration bills that have the right of way. The lesson of the strike therefore is likely to be lost for the present, at least so far as congressional legislation is concerned, un- less the recommendations of the strike in- vestigating commission is sufficiently brief and to the point to command the almost un- antmous support of the two houses of con- gress. That report, however, cannot be made until the next session of congress, when the chances of bearing fruit will be greatly against it. Tllinols, the Woman suffragists who have been count- ing upon a victory for thelr cause in Kansas to offset in some small degree the faflure in Jew York will doubtless be much wrought up by the allegation that defects in the legis- lation submitting the constitutional amend- ment will prevent a vote on the question this fall. Were this assertion made by out- spoken opponents of woman suffrage it would be ascribed to partisan malice, but coming, as it does, from the candidate for governor on the prohibition ticket, and one committed to tie purpose of the amendment, it must consternation in the woman suffrage camp.. It.means that in case the amendment carriescat the election it will have to pass an interpretation by the courts of the law providing for submission. Qiscovery, it it Is i Wiscovery, cannot be wel- come to the waman suffrage agitators, create The Senator Vilad! is #till waiting to be made biographer to Nls bonor, Grover Cleveland, by special appointment of the president. Toath und! the National Cinelnnati Commerelal, The tariff bill aglike a jack longer it remajng unopened the sweetened. ! e —— Twenty Xearm Ago and Now. @lotesbemocrat. Real improyemént did not set in after the panic of 1873 until about four yers had 1, but in the 188 panic improvement me within & year. All that is needed W to bring about a thorough business re- Vival i for congress (o finish its work and adjourn. ol Game, pot. The more it s ——— Slime Wader" at Home. New York Time Mr. Gorman is the boss of Maryland poli- tics. He can secure any indorsement that he asks for that his heelers dare to give. He has but to press the button and they will deliver anything ordered that they hayve in stock. But apparently he does. not ask for approval of his present policy. He I8 a very lopely man. Meeting after meeting paper after papper, With muny strong indi Vidual democrats, ure denouncing him and his motives. 1t Is the same with Smith | New Jersey and Hrice in Ohlo, Considering their political experience and skill, this is a strange position. There are these thi senators on one side end the whole demo. Cratlc party on the other. The resuit of the o he is willing to dispense with & middie man | fight should not be doubtful legislators | | of Kansas ALARANA CLATMY, Kinsas City Star (Ind): Alabamn doesn't want any gubernatorial paresis fif hers. Minneapolis Journal (rep): Kolb appears to have been turned down in Alabama terday. It s § ting, however, to see democrats fighting pocrats in a southern state and both factions hustling for the negro vote, Detrolt Free Press (dem.): The demoe party will continue to win so long as it by (he people on this supteme fssue of the day The allied seckers of political plunder wil fail as they have done in Tennessee and Alabama Chicago Journal (rep.): From the returns Jt appears that for every democrat who went into the cave of Kolb there were found republicans who preferred some pretense of government, under Oates to a refgn of folly and fury utder Kolb's control. New York World (dem.) In the present diseouraged condition of the democratic party any victory is gratifying, The election of a courageous candidate on a good platform over a demagogue supported by and unprin pled coalition is particularly gratifying Globe-Democerat (rep.) But even the Alabama republicans will not don crape over the democratic victory. Kolb Dbelongs to that reckless and pestiferous element which produced Tillman of South Carolina, Lewelling and Walite of Colorado. As b men of that stamp nd the avera democrat the republicans prefer the democrat every time. yos- atie ands The Alabama dem which is worth 50 bune (rep.) ocrats want a currency cents on the dollar and the populists a gur- rency which is worth a nickel or nothing on the dollar, It is better, therefore, that the half-way honest party should win than the hopelessly dishonest That seems to have been one reason why so many colored republicans voted for Oates. BARKIS 1S WILLIN'. Tribune: 1f the office of United senator from Nefraska is hunting for a man it will find Congressman walking briskly about and coughing Chicago States around Bryan loudly. Chicago Record Part of Congressman Bryan's support during the coming campaign in Nebraska no doubt will come from people who, in imagination, have heard him ad- dressing a few airy remarks to the Gorman coterie in the senate, Buffalo Express Representative Bryan the boy orator of Nebraska, has consented to be the candidate of the free silver demo crats of his state for the United States sen. ate. This is another incident which will be more annoying to the administration than to the republicans. Chicago Record: The strength of his can- didacy, however, like its significar lies in the fact that Mr. Bryan is actively repre- sentative of the radical tendencies to be found in the members of both parties in the middle west, He is a free silver man and an advocate of the income tax. He stands for the n nalization of railroads, the national ‘bitration of labor troubles and tarift for revenue only. - AEDBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The board of directors of the Pawnee county fair have decided not to hold an ex hibition this year. An Aurcra man sold 3,000 bushels of old corn the other day for 56 cents a bushel. Several small lots have recently brought 60 cents Incendiaries set fire to the big ice houses of Swift & Co. at Ashland, but the blaz was discovered in time to prevent the des:ruc tion of the building. Six teams attached to a threshing machine ran away near Aurora and tore the thresher all to picces, besides badly Injuring the driver, John Barbee, A stock company of populist farmers has bought the plant of the Craig Times and will remove it to Tekamah, where an organ of the independent party will be issued. Fire at Ashland destroyed the barn in the rear of the La Fountain livery stable, and for a time it looked a though there would be an extensive conflagration. Prompt action by the fire department, however, re sulted in the flames being coufined to the structure where they originated. While engaged in her household duties at her home in Seward, the dress of Mrs. R. R. Schick caught fire at the bottom and blazed up. She dropped on the floor and called for her daughters, who arrived in time to rescue their mother from an awful death by smothering the flames with blanket Mrs, Pete Kuhn of Beatrice went into the house the other night, leaving her 15 months-old child on the back purch. She was only gone a moment, but when she re- turned the little one was nowhere to be seen. A hasty searah was made and the child was discovered in a boiler of water that had been used for scrubbing purposes When taken from the boiler he was in an unconscious condition, and it was thought for a time there was no chance for his re- covery, but after a half hour's persistent effort, the child was resuscitated, but suf- fered intensely throughout the night. The fact that concentrated lye had been used in the water makes the matter much worse, as the child’s eyes are severely injured, and it s feared permanently so. O COPLE AND THINGS, If Corn is King dream.” It is now teathers fly. It is quite evident the Loulsiana sc have nothing to arbitrate. The voting cattle of Alabama show a de cided preference for Oates over Kolbs. In the light of recent events, blue matches the complexion of Li Hung Chang better than yellow. Some political orators are so carried away by their weird effervescence as to imagine they are corkers. Mankind cheerfully concedes the brilli of Old Sol, but there is no occasion for per- sistently rubblng it in. Mme. Boulanger, mother of the famous general, died recently in Paris at the ad- vanced age of 92 years. Her maiden name was Grifiths. A Massachusetts judge has deciled that fce cream is a necessity. He has probably goue through a costly experience with the summer girl. Eugene Field has invented a new beati- tude. “Blessod Is he,”” he says, “who get- teth to the bathroom first of a morning, for he getteth all the hot water.” President Dole's whiskers have reached a luxuriance that Insures a crop of populism in Hawail. Perhaps Queen Lil will be the Lease of the new dispensation. A well-meaning but Indiscreet young man who essayed the role of peacemaker in a hot, windy nelghborhood quarrel was res cued by a policeman from the jaws of death. Another reform Is abroad in New York It I8 proposed to remove the buttons from the back of policemen’s coats, and thus re- lievo the finest from the temptation of hitching their thumbs in that suggestive section of their apparel Congressman Lafe Pence, the Colorado populist, declines to stand for a second term, giving as his reasons that he cannot live tn Washington on $5,000 a year. Al most_any excuse will serve as a means of escaping the republican avalanche. The youngest member of the Georgia bar 1s Edwin Harrison Bleckley, who is not yet six months old. He was unanimously elected & member of the associarion last Tuesday. This interesting infant is the son of Chief Justice Bleckley's old age. Judge Bleckley 1 not far from 80, and his wed- ding two years ago attracted much aften tlon in Georgia and throughout the son:h, Dr. Meldon of Dublin, Ireland, weighs a triffe of 378 pounds or 5o, but he manages to ride a bicycle and play lawn tennis. Goneral Horace Porter says of the Grant monument in New York: ““The only un- looked for delay upon the whole work se far was the general strike of the granite cut- ters, lasting about six months. The real work has until lately been going on at the quarries. There the granite blocks for the principal portion of the structu n substantialiy finished, the structure hero iy now rising at about the rate of three feet a week, The contract calls for completion of the structure the 1st of Decembor next year, and from the progress at Lhe quarries there 1s no good doubt that the terms of the contract will be fulillled as to time, his rain is “an irridiscent Tarsney's turn to make the ors two | P11 BEFOL Shall the Party Commit Standarc Thomas J. Majors party of Nebraska as success in the impending to the position of the party on the | Hing fire that The fronts candidney of the republican a menace to its campalgn. To elevate him standard bearer will place defensive and subject it to a & con- THE TELL 'ALE EPUBLICANS. Itself to a Tattooed 1 Bearer? following bill, certified to by Jors as president of the senate, tho hands of auditor and a warrant for $75 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bai- ance due for alleged services In the senate for the last fifteen days of the month: T J was placed the CERTIFICATE. For Services as 1301, ... 00 aaysdd's per« Miteage 3.7 Y _mitesat 10cents pe Total, dayof.... § 28 g A SEXATE (Kt P R24 lday of..2 tay, - v mile, Deduct amount drawn, Balance due, Lincoln, I/ 1 herchy certiyy that the above (o Attest, Eramined qud adjuspep. 7 /u W ccount is corvect and just, and has not been paid, ~or Pyesident,” SR sr1canS Dep puty, { DOHMK siate] N Doy e Recetved of TIT. lzf\' TOX A uditor of P Warrant oLl Y/ amount, § 80 (8n it could not withstand. B every party leader on the compelled to champlon the man who Is tattooed with a record of in- dellible Infamy. They would be confronted t every crossroad with the story of the forged census returns that scandalized the state at the national capital and placed a stigma upon the man whom the people of this commonwealth had honored with place in the halls of congress as thelr representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same congressman while acting In capacity of president of the state senate. During two sessions of the legislature In which he occupled the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as lieutenant governor, Mr. Majors was notoriously a tool and capper for the corporation lobby, and exerted all his power and influence during each session of the legislature to promote jobbery and assist boodle schemes and ob- struct, sidetrack and defeat all rallway reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity of corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the session of 1891 the state was scandalized by the abduction of Senator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on the anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate law. It is notorious that Taylor was on confidential terms with Lieutenant Governor Majors, and especlally with private se retary, Walt M. Seely. There s no doubt whatever that Majors and Seely must have known of the plot to abduct Taylor in order to keep him from casting his vote for the Newberry maximum rate bill. Taylor's abduction created such a sensa- tion that even if Majors had not been ad- vised about the plot le could not have been fgnorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed the sergeant-at-arms to have Taylor arrested shows absolute knowledge on the part of Majors of the disappearance of Taylor, The records of the auditor's office show that Taylor had drawn §262.40 as his pay and mileage for the session up to the time of his abrupt departure In the middle of March. On March ery candidate and stump would be candidacy of a his 31, when the session closed, (lon waZL221, The above is a fac simile of the signed by Lieutenant approved by the auditor, as now on the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for $76 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private secretary of the lieutenant governor, and pocketed by him. Taylor never received a penny of this money fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the lieutenant governor. This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public office. When he certified that Taylor had served through the entire term he knowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that laid him liable not only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the eriminal courts. Had Majors certified to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in army pay roll, he would havo been court martialed and cashiered in dis- grace. Where the offense was as flagrant as the Taylor voucher fraud, he would have been made to serve a sentence in a military prison. Is this the kind of a man the re- publicans of Nebraska are asked to make chiet executive of state and commander-in- chief of the military forces of the common= wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the lieutenant governor was the conversion of his private office adjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative oil room, in which liquor was dispenscd freely to members of the serate who were addicted to drink, and to tobbyists, male and female, who resorted to the room for debauching the law makers, Every fellow who belonged to the gang carried a Yale lock key in his pocket so as to have access at all times, night or day, the senate was in session or at recess, to the demijohns and decanters filled with choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was gencrously sup- plied regardless of expense by the corporata concerns whose bills were to bo logrolled through whose fnterests were to bo protected by the bland, affable and accoms modating leutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardizo their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? certificate Governor Majors and file in the when and THE TELL-TALE T3 MAORS, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR PLRU, KLMAWA COUNTY, — ———— TAYLOR ORDER. % MMM *% Senate Chamber, Sy e (G O/(/J/VQC & %x/wflf/ awthor AL ey (75 xmvcv&7 aty , The above is a fac simile of the order of the abducted ex-senator authorizing Walt Seely to receipt the vouchers and warrants for his unearned salary. It will be noted that the order is in the handwriting of Walt M. Seely, private secretary of Lieutenant it @V{.//&v\/, =S o Plaby on\ et (0 7/~er(/"/'\£¢4/ Governor Majors. It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of- ficial blank, headed with the name of tho leutenant governor, at the senate chambe Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, ox. 5 1891, 2 MIDSUMMER MIRTIH. “Those who don't like my course in the matter of sugar," ob ved (he eminent wtor, placidly stirring his cold tea, “can lump it Chicago Tribune: “After his election to congress did legislation of the country for hoth houses adjourned for a died.” Somerville Journal: Tt is a man to see how his n Across the street might pearance of his place! ffay when he always easy for ghbor who live {mprove the aj Record e ladies know *hiladelphia Philadely These are the dog days that how to dress, need muslin, the summer watering Lowell Courler: At on places the Wi will always be found the sonny side of the piazza. Ruffalo Courler: The hotel porter who to arouse a guest when Instructed to falls to, o ason to bo ashamed of his calling. Washington Star: Editor—You're too early with that bill, my friend. Collectar—Why, your bills paid_on irs DI pald os; 'Dut it means the first of the year! slgn reads: “All » you think ith Mars?" Indianapolis Journal of this idea of communicating ‘It strikes me that until get rid of the present congress the lesy we expe Dlrselves to comment from other worlds the better.” father the w York Pr “Fhen ¥ shows no disposition to recede ground he has taken?' sald the malden sighed and shook her is unalterably opposed to you Can not have a conference?” he asked. It \dle Lo suggest it; ho would decline to be- our from youth head we Glen Falls Republican: ““To whom are we Indebted this call?”” smiled Mrs, V abit, as she gr 1 a good looking m the front door. ‘“The butcher, ma'ur the reply. “IU's $9.86. There's a bill there 1s a fatal flaw In “What I8 {t?" asked the Reginald,” she sobbed, out; you haven't gof come a conferee your position agonized youth “the truth must come the sugar HE KNEW. New vaiter!” I crie What kind of food I w Mutton or beef or v The weather Is 50 beastly hot Phe walter smiled and siald to me? N “In spring lamb hash you'll get all thre - A STREET INCIDENT. York Press. PHIS MAITDEN The mald went tripping across th Quite freely displaylng the russets neat That covered the daintiest of dainty fe York “I cannot say it today; Al or—what, New watering cart came by the crossing that erst Just then th And drenched dry, And ‘the “Oh, wus alden and exclatmed stopped my THE MAN. A man to the crossing came and he At the patent leathers looked ruefully, hat had cost, at the very least, a V within him start, vily sprinkled part cried * that Then he felt the pass As he looked at the he Of the sticet, and he cart! THE MAIDEN iden looked at the man and sald face o'ers and resumed The As u ravishing smile h And she lifted her skirts wilk Acrossing the crossiog talk “That's the