Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 14, 1894, Page 4

4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. LOSEWATER, Editor. PUDLISHED EVERY MO ally | Dally Tioo Bix Month Mont Ther Omalin, The Toe Bouth O Counedl 1t ind Twenty-fourth Sts. Street £ Commerce, Tribune BIdg. Fork, Tosomin 18, e and. 13 CONRESPONDENCE. " Latiat Tmitier vl ¥ e Baitor, ‘i | Al addressc] Omahia be made PULLL THE DI 1 BIATEMENT George I Taxchuck Jiahing company, being the_nctuni number of full of The Daity Moraine, Finted during the montis of ollows 1 CINCULATION, | socre The Bee Pub- | 1y n, says that | and complete coples and Sunday Des July, 1894, was as Less deductions for unsold and returned OOBHRR Vi viesveeivs 9 Total wold..... o fly avernge not eirculation...... *Sunday. GEORGE B. TZ Bworn to before me and subscribed In my pres ence this 1st day of August, 194 (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. Poor Grover! What will he do now? Adlai 1s but commencing to have a proper sense of his own importance. It doesn’t require a modern Columbus to discover that the tariff conferees have missed their vacation. medium of com- whether it will and the fele- The munication. ever supplant phone. bicycle is a great But we doubt the telegraph For the information of the general publ we wish to state that the much talked of yellow jacket is in no way related to the hornet.” is The United States senate seems to have embarked in the business of manufacturing ties—and that despite the discouraging out- look caused by a tied-up tarift bill. As a harmonizer the president's letter to Chairman Wilson would have proved a won- derful success had it been administered in homeopathic instead of allopathic doses. The fads and supernumeraries in schools must go. The common people want the substantials of those who want the luxuries can get them at their own expense. the education; Deportation under the Chinese exclusion act would be the worst possible punishment that could possibly be inflicted so long as the war between China.and Japan is in Drogress. Senator Gorman insists that he always keeps campaign promises, and it seems that the president of the United States and nearly the whole of congress can’t make him break his word. With improved country roads It is safe to say that the time made by the relay bi- cycle riders from Washington to Denver could be reduced by at least another twenty- four hours. What 1f the democratic -state convention should finally decide to put some stalwart administration democrat in nomination for the United States senate. Where would Mr. Bryan be then? It the Iowa democrats are able to swallow ‘Weaver for congress it will only be because #0 many years of the prohibitory law has accustomed them to swallowing any de- coctions upon which they could get their hands. Tsn't it almost time for the municipal league to wake up? There are nine ward council- men to be chosen in this city at the fall election. Reform in municipal government must begin with the city council. We under- stand that the watchword of the municipal league is municipal reform. It is some time since we last were in- formed that an agreement had been .reached between tha city and the railroad companies by which the viaducts across the latter's tracks were to be placed in a safe condition. One of the viaducts is still closed to traffic and the other open at the citizen’s risk. Should the city attempt to close one of the busiest streets in the city there would be a tremendous uproar resulting. It is about time for the city to insist upon a repair agreement that will repar. The Pullman company threatens to evict this week all the tenants of the model town who are In arrears for rent, and there are 5,000 of them. Summary measures are to be taken to remove them from the territory over which the Pullman company rules. Where the unfortunate people are to go or what they are to do is to be left for them to dev In anticipation Chicago will do well to pre- pare for an Invasion of the unemployed side which all the Industrial armies combined would cut but a small figure. be- Omaha business men must not forget that the state fair is to be relocated for a perlod of five years this fall. The city that shall bo selected will have to persuade the mem- bers of the State Board of Agriculture that it will contribute more to the success of the fair than any other city competing for it. The way to get the state fair located in Omaha is to formulate a proposition that no other Nebraska town can equal. Nothing will be gained by waiting until the last possible moment bofore making a move in this direction. Congressman Dolliver of lowa ought not o be unduly worried over the endorsement by the democrats of the populist nominee for congress in the Tenth district. At the last election, when Mr. Dolliver was re- elected, he recelved over 23000 votes to 20,000 for all the other candidates combined. It he merely holds his own, then, he will have & majority of 3,500, His populist oppo- ment this year cannot hope to poll the whole democratic vote, nor can he exp:ct any ma- terial defection from the republican column. Congressman Dolliver ought to be returned to the Fifty-fourth cougress, fusion or no Susion THE OMAHA DATLY BEE: TU PQDAY THE SURRENDERS. The long struggle between the senate and the house of representatives over th bill has ended in a complete victory for the The surrender of the house was absolute and unconditional. The senate bill with its hundreds of amendments to the bill passed by the house, making It substantially was accepted by the demo- change. Per- tncluded in the HOUSE former. a new measure, crats of the honse without a haps the president should be surrender, but this cannot Jetermined until it is known what he will do with the bill, which will be sent to him directly from the house. There to belleve that Mr. Cleveland was fully for the action of the caucus of the house democrats. He was In consultation last Friday and Sat- urday with Speaker Crisp, Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee and other leaders, and it Is a fair Inference that he gave his assent to what they have since done. If 50 it ought to be perfectly safe to assume that he will approve the bill, although to do an extreme of self-stultifica- has yet been guilty be I8 reason propared 80 will involve tion which no president of and an in “party perfidy” and ‘“party dishonor” that Mr. Cleveland will have great difficulty in finding an ad- for. of President Cleveland's let- the h of the latte first disagrecment of te and house conferces, the utterances of other democrats in the house, and the decisive vote by which the house ordered a continuance of the conference, the complote surrender to the senate is most remarkable. Then the country was told in the most unambiguous and uncompromising terms that under no circumstances would the house ac- cept the sugar schedule framed in the inter- est of the trust and abandon the vital demo- cratic principle of free raw materials by agreeing to a duty on fron ore and coal. In the impassioned address of the chairman of the ways and means committee he declared that it would be better tarift legislation by this congress should fail than that the democratic party should become responsible for such a tarift measure as the senate had adopted. The democrats of the house re- celved this declaration with boundles: thusiasm and further conference was ordered without a dissenting democratic vote. This indicated a determination to maintain the contest, if ne until the term of the present congress expires. And this was only a little more than two weeks ago. In that brief time the professed courage and de- termination of the house democrats gave out, and putting aside their boasted devotion to principle they yielded to the demands of the senate and committed an act of stultification unparalleled in our legislative history. The whole record of this struggle is exceptional and extraordinary. For the first time in the history of the country the executive branch of the govrnment has conspicuously and constantly intruded its counsel and inter- ference upon the legislative branch, the pres- ident going so far beyond his legitimate and constitutional functions as to advise the con- ferees of one branch of congress regarding their duty. That the effect of this interfer- ence was to prolong the struggle and com- plicate rather than simplify it everybody un- derstands. The house having passed the semate bill wilhout amendment or change in any respect, the measure will go at once to the president, and Interest will now center upon the question as to whether he will approve or veto it. Mr. Cleveland is placed in a peculiar and embarrassing position. He has condemned the senate bill in unmeasured terms. He has declared that its adoption would mean party perfidy and party honor. Fidelity to these convictions would compel him to veto it. On the other hand, he has sald that he would not disre- gard the action of a majority of his party in congress. Forty-three democratic votes were cast for the bill in the senate and 182 the house, only one democratic being recorded against the ure in the former body and eleven in the latter. Everybody knows that the bill is not satisfactory to a majority of the democrats of either the senate or house, but will Mr. Cleveland for this reason take the responsibility of vetoing it and thereby defeating all tariff legislation by his party, or will he accept the view of Mr. McMillin and some other democrats and approve it on the ground that it is at any rate better than the McKinley law? The country ought not to be long kept in uncertainty as to what the president will do with the bill. As to the separate bills for free sugar, free coal and free iron ore, their introduc- tion will amount to nothing—not even much as a vindication of the house demo- crats. Doubtless they will pa the house, and there consideration of them will end. They cannot be passed In the senate, because the influences there that were pow- erful enough to pass the sugar schedule and retain coal and iron ore on the dutiable list will still be powerful enough to defeat these bills. Congress having ended its work on the tarift the duty now rests with the president to say how much longer the damaging un- certainty regarding this legislation shall con- tinue. He can end it within ten days, or he can allow it to go on during the lite of the present congress. His decision will be awaited with universal and profound interest and anxety. acquiescence missible excuse In the light ter to Mr. Wilson, on reporting the to the en- ssary, dis- in vote meas- 50 WHAT IS T0 B DONE WITH FT. OMAHA? One of the questions that will be agitated in this community in the very near future is what is to become of Fort Omaha after the garrison has been moved to Fort Crook Shall the old fort with its beautiful parade ground and Its magnificent shade trees and substantial roadways be torn up and par- ed out into lots to be disfigured with cheap-john shanties, or shall it remain ir tact and be conserved for some public Insti. tution? The grounds were donated origi- nally to the government, and it would not be unreasonable for the government to cede the fort either to the city of Omaha or the state of Nebraska for a military school, exposition ground, or for some other benevo- lent or educational institution, If the grounds are parceled out into lots, the bist builldings, which have cost fully $50,000, would have to be demolished, and the offi- cers' quarters, which might be utilized for many years, would be auctioned off for a mere song. Tho best use that could be ald fort would be to convert it tary college. The grounds and buildings are admirably adapted purpose. The large brick office and store buildings could be utilized with but slight alteration for recitation halls and school rooms. The resi- dence bulldings for officers would, with a very small outlay for furnish homes for the faculty and army officers do- tailed as instructors. The barracks would make substantial quarters for the boys, while the barns and stables would afford for all the artillery and cavalry horses may be for instruction in mounted drills, The cost of maintaining a military school an of the into a mili- made to such a repairs, good shelter needed that | 1t would costs to Being would be comparatively trivial. be a great deal less than It now meintain the Omaha High school. of the states settled largely by veter- ans of the war, Nebraska should by all means establish a school where the sons of other citizens who so desire may get efficlent military training in con- junction with the higher education in the useful branches of instruction. The smat- tering of army drill which students at the university receive doés not fit them for military duty as officers in times of war, even as officers in the militia. A military college conducted In accord with usage that at such Institutions would familiarize students with military diselpline and fit them for the duties of While nothing be done rection during the present congress, our state legislature could take the by pledging the state to maintain the mill tary college on condition that Fort Omaha be dedicated to this purpose one veterans and or ce obtains army officers. can In this di- Initiative THE PULLMAN CHARTE The action began by the attorney general of Tllinols to have the charter of the Pullman company declared forfeited scems scarcely to merit the blast of trumpets toriety which is being given to the ings. When the Pullamn company corporated in 1867 it took out a cha cording to law and stated the which It was organized. The powe of the corporation specifically limited to the manufacture, construction and purchase of rallway cars with all the couvenlences and supplies for traveling in them, to sell such cars or maintain them in its own discretion and hold such real estate as may for the successful The points at which the peti- tion alleges violations of this limitation of powers first, In buying and owning the large tract of land In the neighborhood of Chicago known as Pullman; second, in con- structing a large office building in the city of Chicago, only a small portion of which is devoted to the uses of its own business, and, third, in acquiring stock in other companies. Upon the tract of land known as Pullman streets and alleys and public squares have been laid out; churches, school houses, thea- ters, hotels, stores, dwellings and apartment houses been erected, and gas and power have been supplied, all are furnished to tenants at a price which indi- cates conclusively that the whole is a purely money-making enterprise. Three-fourths of the building owned in Chicago is let to par- ties who offer to pay the highest rent and the property is conducted as an ordinary financial investment. So far as the facts alleged in the attorney general's petition are concerned, there ought to be no difficulty in proving them to the satisfaction of any court, and it is even doubt- ful that the Pullman company will deny them. The question must resolve itself into what is reasonably necessary and proper for the prosecution of the work of manufactur- ing, owning and maintaining cars for the speclal service of railway passengers. According to the view of Mr. Pullman and his associates, the construction of the model town and all the conveniences and comforts provided for its inhabitants was but the means for achieving the end mentioned in the company's charter. They will probably take the same stand with ref- erence to the great office building which they have erected. The work of building could and would doubtless go on without these subsidiary undertakings, but it i to question whether it could go on factorily as it has up to the very recent past. It will take a liberal construction of the law to say that laying out streets and crect- ing churches assists materially in turning sleeping cars, but laws lhave bee stretched further on more than one occasion. What every one, however, will be tempted to ask is, What good will be should the action succeed and the charter be adjudged annulled? Wil it bring any better wages to the Pullman employes? Will it result in lower rents to the Pullman temants? Will it cut off any of the unearned profits of the Pullman stockholders? Will it not rather do nothing but divide the present Pullman com- pany into two or more allied corporations? The property which the Pullman company has acquired and accumulated cannot be confiscated or taken away. Nothing is to prevent the owners from reorganizing and from continuing to conduct their affairs in a new capacity precisely as they have been doing. To the emp! will make no difference whether they hired by the Pullman Car Construction company, rent their houses of the Pullman Investment com- pany, buy their gas of the Pullman Gas com- pany and pay water rent to the Pullman Water company if they are all dominated by the interes and run along the same line of policy. The abuses of the Pull- man company are not to be reached by simply annulling its charter. The whole subject must be thoroughly dealt with by comprehensive legislation. and nolsy no- proceed- in- rter ac- purpose for was were persous in be of its work. necessary prosecution are, have water and is cars open satis- been done es it are same EFFECT OF THE SUGAR DUTY. The certainty that sugar will be subjected to a du'y and that the price of that neces- sary will be increased to the consumer sug- gests the question as to what effect this will have upon the consumption of sugar. It has been the experience in Buropean coun- tries, and also in this country under operation of the McKinley law, that sumption materially increased with the re- mission of taxes, but it is said that the question has not heen thoroughly tested under modern industrial conditions whether the levying of the tax on sugar anew will seriously diminish consumption or remit it to cheaper grades. The New York Bulletin gives statistics of the consumption of sugar in the United States for the past six rs, ending June 30, which covers the transition period in legislation on sugar. In 1880 was in round portations of the con- back Commercial the value of the sugar figures $93,000,000, that year be the normal volume under Tho years 1892, 1808 and of absolutely free raw sugar, of the imports for those years was $107,000,000, $118,000,000 000. The increase in 1593 was more than 10 per cent over 1892, and in 1894, fiscal year ending June 30, was more than 8 per cent 1893. This is about three times rate of increase as the population would Indicate a of consumption consumed the rded as sugar years the valu respectively $128,000,- im- Ing rega dutiable 1594 and were and over as Increase marked reduction great a in and since the rience in England as to reduction of the has been tncre; of price. the effect sugar upon as to seem 1o settle by that the lowering of the sumption. duetions in the sugar 1% in y ¢ increase in the the tax completely consumption nearly 20 per The effect of & sugar tax upon consumption The exy of the consumption yond a doub tax tax on od the fact increases s show that the re British government 1864, 1870 and se followed by a large and after 1874 years con The statis by the by tax in the y made sars were in consumed, was oun abolished, In increased within two 1 but | trated s having thus=twon:very clearly demonstratod it would seem to_be entirely safe to assumo that under the pending tarift bill there will be a conslfrable falling off in the con sumption of *wgr in this ry, though it 1s not possibly fo maké an even approximat conn ustimate as to this reduction will b The proposed-duty ought not to increase the of sugar to the halt a cent a pound, but it is pected that the refining fled with this if it is p the matter apy its control it will all that the business will allow. to be lal1imit its be depended on of the able to creatd favor of . a Sugar trust 000 annuaily, given the Kinley law, but the that law sugar wa cheapened the sumer. The trust will et less the pending bill than It has been probably and the to the consumer will be higher. will have no difficulty is the better policy their interests are concerned, mocrati beyond to bo ex rice consumer not trust will satls ssible t pears (o | ) exact more wntirely iy cupidity make has 1 as within undout tak will but it the been the The $20,000,- have to can most to opportunity it for itself democratic been credited with derived from the protection interest under the Mc fact stands that under through congress has refining under receiving, price of sugar The people determining wh not more, no in ar, far the republi- regarding €0 can or the in is of the One of the Congressional by the printing of the most aptly illus- August 3, con- the report proceedings question of by sman Grosvenor in relation to the Cec Mr. made a and submitted in argument several papers from the department, whic he to insert into the Record. his taking Mr. Outhwaite, man of the committee on military affairs, whom the original resolution on the subject had been referred, reported back the papers which had secured to have them incorporated in h remarks. They, too, are printed, although they include the identical letters to which Mr. Grosvenor referred. As a consequence we have over a column and a balf of the Record a tion of what is already presented, presented, part of it, on the very same Had the papers transmitted from the department been of thousan words they would all printed in the Record twice, one right the other. Is it wonder that there are numerous complaints of the uselessly in- creasing and awkward bulk of the official re- port of congressional proceedings. wastes Record Issue of privilege the taining the gre qu brief remarks upon raised Con. ar- fow support of War permlission case. Grosvenor his secured Immediately the chair- to upon his seat he and asked repeti- and page Wwar s of been after documents loubtless have any. results of the law die, mold or imi- of the coins or brought One of the prohibiting thd use of an: tation of the design on an: securities of the United States was to lght in Philadelphia the other day. Phil- adelphia bakers had degenerated into the demaralizing habit of selling ginger cookies stamped with the’hgad of an Indian and the words “United Sl:\)zfi of America-—1880."" It was feared that thé children who ate these cookies might by some hook or crook lead unsuspecting innocents to mistake the design for a penny and thus infringe. upon the counterfeiting laws of the United States, so the cookies, designs were sum- marily confiscated by the puissant detectives of the Treasury!department, while the bakers are permitted th boritinue their bus {inder the most solémn promise not guile the children with any more of the in- terdicted cookies. And above all, the law against counterfeiting is triumphantly vindi- cated. Indicrous niolds ‘and ness only to be- Governor Waite of Colorado must be com- mended for refusing to take notice of the conduct of President Cleveland in connec tion with the message borne across the country Dby the relay bicycle riders. The president was expected to send greeting to the governor of Colorado, but without any ostensible excuse he delegated that duty to his private secretary, indited a note remarkable mostly for its stiffness and for- mality. Governor Waitz would have heen entirely Justified in devolving upon his pri- vate secretary the duty of recelviug the message with equally fcy formality. That he took no notice of the president's impolite- ness 1s evidence that he can and does exer- retion upon particular who cise a sensible d oceasions. The street commissioner will not be per- mitted to launch out into fence building for fear some of his fences might deprive the citizens of a view of the beautiful sign boards that ornament the most: conspicnous corner in the business portion of th city. The landscape must be preserved, no matter how the sidewalk ordinanc may be vio. lated by favored property owners. The pa- tience of the people with the on walk nuisance in front of the old Farnam Street theater site is nearly exhausted. It is about time for the city council to take a and show its anthority. “Party perfidy and party dighonor” are in- delibly stamped upon the new tariff bill, Avtestan Wells and Trrigation. Minneapotis Tribune The fact that a large tract Spink county, South Dakota, ated by an artesian well bushels of wheat to the acre, gated land in the same yielded practically nothing, shows farme in the artesian basin how tl nay easily insure a certainty of good crops every year. wod hand of land in which was yielded forty while unirri- neighborhood alts. @em.) in session for 330 did the repre- of the people com neq to a8 they are paid, Had the majority battled in bghalf of the public in terest with half the zeal that some few ob- structionists have diplayed in fighting to maintain class legistation congress might have adjourned Ly days 0. - - Sugnr Tends Yo Monopaly Philedi e T The 127 sugar refthers in a_capucity cf abeii 800,000 about a third the ‘Aneltings of the Su trust here, haveyongpnized a “syndicate which is the Buropgan for trust. The Ger man refiners are altehdy united. Sugar re- fining tends inevitald¥ to monopoly, and no monopoly should 'Ix given the benefit of a protective duty, ~Fee sugar is the only protection against thaitrust Philad s has now beer hably never he sentatives 50 earning th Austria, with tons o year - Erutaliyy of,C st Paul The rallway omhenies are refusing to take back their emploves who struck; and where exceptions aze made, It is on condl tion that they abjure thele organization RaNwayh are ouly treating thetr Working men as they treal each other. When sor i of them breaks the “gentiemen's ngree. * or bursts the pool to get more trafic better wages—and it is boycotted Gthers until' It is choked into sub the kicking company has to con terms imposed by the conquerors. Charged Up to i Philadelphin Ledg The absurd oath which, it aken by a number of men in ¢ o, the outcome of h was the o committed upon Adjutant Gene arsney, who was tarred and feathered commiited them to violations of law and possible murder in o to suppress i archy, This i3 truly “fighting the devil with fire.”” But it Is nothing new to have illogical things come out of Colorado, § the populists have been in power ther much of the news of the state has read like @ bulletin from a lunatic asylum, to th 15 alleged, was ler TG\ ST 14, 1801 l THE ROCK ISLAND WRECK, | Denver the aceident tn Lincoln, Neb., t were lost, was causcd It thal ix true the law shouid be visit it they are for which too sev be found Buftal caused that \ which el Republican the I rough reported that road near wh many lives by train wrecker nalty of th I upon thos rea caught, 1 a torrit re u punishment could not Express: The train wreckers wh wreek on the Rock Island road ven lives were lost 1 be pu ind A form of punishm will fit their crimes. throwers should have a thefr gentle oraft on the train wreckors ani afterward be themselves put on a train which as boen sentenced to be wrecked with escap ing steam accompaniment nt be in Perhaps th cliance o exereise sw York Commercial of the wregking of a pi train on Rock Island railway near Lincoln, Neb | be received with horror, the more the slaughter appears to have been tentional work of mall flends, evidence that the fishplates on where the derailment occurr deliberately removed. Whetlher desire for plunder actuated the horribl there should be no peace on earth for perpetrators Chicago Tribune: The disaster Rock Island road near Lincoln, which more than a dozen p:rsons were burnt up or crushed to death, was not due to an accident. [t was unmistakably the work of train wreckers, The railrond employes have found the crowbar and the wrench which were used in removing the fishplates and displacing the rails. The villains who com mitted the murderous devilitry chose a_point where the railroads crosses the tracks of another line on a high trestls, and where the derailment of a train would result in the loss of the largest possible number of lives. Globe-Democrat: — The terrible raflroad wreek in Nebraska recalls what Charles Francis Adams wrote some years ago a train in motion. “Here is a bod ing in the neighborhood of 200 ton said, “‘moving over the face of the at a speed of sixty feet a second, and to its course only by two siender lines of fron rails—and yet it is safe.” That is to say, we think it safe, because accidents are” comparatively so infrequent; but as a ma of 1 Njere s always serious perll, and the wonder'ls that wrecks do not hap- pen oftensr, considering how small a thing may cause one at any time, in spite of all precautions nows the will so that the in There | the trestle had been malice or a deed the i today | | on the Neb,, by held P IND THINGS. Governor Hogg Is victions. The sugar there is nothing to arbitrate. In the light of recent remarks, Senator Gorman could not identify his speeches made two years ago. Going into politics has been road on which man man was the raiment of self-respect. Wiho cares for royal yellow coats, raiment rich to look: upon? Humid is sorely taxed to keep his shirt on. Colonel Bill Skaags of Alabama scems determined (o break into the New York Sun’s collections of euphonious statesmen. The promptness with which Chinese war- ships scoot for the bottom suggest the presence of Carnegie blowholes in their armor. Piiladelphia barrels of beer. extension fron necessity. The vehemence of the Kolbite cry of fraud shows that couverts from old parties cannot change their habits readily as their political association An eastern genius p long felt want and rivet perfected and patented an partisan rubber buttonhole purposes. A post-mortem horse talked to death at a Coxey meeting in Ohio shows that the animal ruptured a vital organ while giving the speaker the horse laugh. The army of Corea has for Dye, who ‘fought through the civil war on the union’ side and went to that country ter his property in Chicago had been de- royed by the great f Governor Matthews of Indiana wears a ting made of gold mined in Brown county and presented by admiring friends. It bears an alleged quofation from Jerry Rusk: *I seen my duty and done it, William C. Oates, just elected governor of Alabama, worked as a common laborer after he left his father's farm. Afterward he aught school and studied law. He left his right arm on a scuthern battlefield, Dill Wallie Astor, who has become a British subject, is a candidate for justice of the in Middlesex county, England. Wallio does not necd the office half as much a3 the beronetey at the end of the string. Governor Tillman denics that he is an infidel and declares he recognizes the su- premacy of God. The governor is carcful that his recognition of a superior power Is ot licble to conflict with the managzment of a small slice of the earth, The San Francisco Examiner California in three weeks upwar signatures to a petition for ownership of the subsidized Pacific railroads. Signatures are being added to the monster pelition at the rate of 10,000 a day. The peddiing of municipal franchises and other visible means of enrichment have e dently reached the limit in Chicago. Her tofore the city dads worked for and wax Ithy on a salary of $3 a meoting. Now demand $5.000 a year, but will com- promise on $3,000. Alexander Hamilte rooted (b his con- senators are convinced that cho of the Je robb:d or man drinks every year 1,800,000 This explains why animated are cultivated as a business romises to supply a fortune. He has adjustable non- for campaign examination of the the s chief Major collected in 5 of 100,000 government who died In Grand Rapids, Mich., a few days ugo, was a slave who escaped to the union lines in '62 and beeame the valet of a Michigan officer, by whose aid he_studied law and was admitted to the bar. He built up an excellent prac- tice among his own people in Grand Raplds. Etna, N. J., can boast of the strongest woman In that state. Her name is Kate Kulin, and she is styled the female Sandow. She is only 19, but has a handsome and symmetrical form, and her muscles stand out like those of a trained athlete. Some wonderful storles are told of her phenomenal feats of strength. Rev. R. A. Motley of the bible to prove his a are no women in heaven men. Great guns, great oth:r exclamatory periods. Shall we sub- mit to it, girls? By heavens, no! But walt. Did not Old Harry quote scripture to sustain his claims? Let it go at that When Governor Nelson of Minnesota inter- ceded with the railroads for the reinsta ment of striking employes he was informed the railroads wanted no interference from stato cfficlals, The reply hes the merit of consistency, When the corporation wants something from the state It usually de. demands it and then it walks off with it Some newspapers display a comprehensiy grasp of ourrent events and a lucidity of | statement that extracts admiration as readily | as Old Sol draws perspiration. The average vehicle of public opinion smothers facts with a fog of words, l:aving the reader the blessed privilege of following the train of thought, heedless of consequences, to th end of the run. But in the higher levels of the profission a nudeness of expression is cultivated. Redundancy is scouted, and facts presented with the dircctness of a scarch-light The Cincinnati Commercial takes a front seat in the latter class. In late editorial it expressed this opinion The congress of the United States is now in sesslon.”” Apart from Its news valu the asseation poss historical elemen worthy of preserva Jersey City quotes ertion that there All the angels are Scott, Caesar, and fon LT, ership of Streot Railwaye. Philadelphia Press, Milwaukee Street Rallway comp, ed against its property being 5 1 at $2,800,000 for taxation purposes, lleging thut this sum is far in excess of | the real value of the property and fran chise, and the common council at once up- | pointed & committee to arrange for the pur chase of the street railways by the city. So the effort of the company to escape tax ation may result in an entirely different | way from what it expected. Milwaukee is ¢ity of over 200,000 inhabitants, and the | ple there must be given very much less treet car riding than other people if the | incomes the street railroads do not | | show @ profit on several times $2,800.000. It | 18 likely that th 1o, and that an investi ation will prove it und the fol f the company in making a protest. I enti ment s steadily drifting toward city owner ship of street railways, and the co if they are wise, will not hasten th by trying to shirk their just taxation. City Ow The prot 1T BEROL i REPUBLIC W Shall the Party Commit Itself to a Tattooed Standard Bearer? candidaoy of Thomas J. Majors con party of Nebraska success fn tho Impending eampaign. To elevate him to the position ot standard bearer will place the party on the defensive and subject It to a galling fire that The republican a menace to its THE TELL-TALE rvicesas O €0 7 days ] 1t to per Hiteaye miles at 10 cents p the following Majors as p | 0 the hands bill, certified to by T. J. ident of the senate, was placed of the auditor and a warrant for $76 was Issued to W. M. Taylor as bale wnce due for alloged services In the senate for the last fifteen duys of the month: CERTIFICATE, Clday oy day, - rmile, Total, Deduet amount Balance due, W), Lincoln, 4 1 I hereby certyy that the absve account is correet and fu ol Attest, C.sr @ Qe Syery(ary. a7 rr, \ Eramined q Asoond, I ALO D, dpproved, § /3 AN W ’\a Uan 0.4 Received of T.11. ~ [ it could not withstand. Every candidate and every party leader on the stump would be compelled to champlon the cand of a man who fs tattooed with a record of in- dellible infamy. They would be confronted at 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 a place In the halls of congress as their representa- tive. They would be confronted with the more recent misbehavior of that same ex- 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 railway reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the rapac- ity of corporate monopoly. SCANDALIZED THE STATE. During the scssion of 1891 the state was candalized by the abduction of Scnator Taylor, a populist, who had been elected on the anti-monopoly platform, which pledged him to support a maximum rate I 1t is notorlous that Taylor was on confidential terms with Lieutenant Governor Majors, and especlally with his private sec- retary, Walt M. Seely. There |Is 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 he could not have been ignorant of the fact that Taylor had disap- peared. The fact that Majors directed the sergoant-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 ST A o /~ N . : uditor of P! BENTOX:. Warrant A\'u.é//, Y ‘f;Axm.mm traw 501, , Ad has not been paid. /////’///7\ (’// Foregan puty. i 7 The above Is a fac simile of the certificate signed by Licutenant Governor Majors and approved by the auditor, as now on file in the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for $75 was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private sccretary of the licutenant governor, #nd pocketed -by him. Taylor never recelved 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 fn any public office, When he certified that Taylor served through the entire term he kuowingly and wit- tingly committed a grave crime that laid him liable nét only to impeachment, but to prosecution in the criminal courts. Had Majors certified to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay In the army pay roll, he would have been court martialed and cashicred 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 chief executive of state and commander-in- chlef of the military forces of the common- wealth? THE SENATE OIL ROOM. The climax of infamy on the part of the licutenant governor was the conversion of his private office rdjoining the senate cham- ber into a legislative ol room, n which liquor was dispensed freely to members of the senate who were addicted to drink, and to lobbyists, 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 8o as to have access at all times, night or day, when the scnate was in session or at recess, to the demifohns and decanters filled with choice brands of liquor, with which the lieu- tenant governor's room was generously sup- plied regardless of expense by the corporato concerns whose bills were to be logrolled through and whose interests were to be protected by the bland, affable and accom. modating lgutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardize their cause by placing a man with of his abrupt departure in the middle of Mareh On ‘when March 31, the session closed, such a record at the head of the ticket? THE TELL-TALE TAYLOR ORDER. T MAIORS, LIEUTEHANT COVERROR. PLRU, NEMAWA COUNTY, Senate Chamber cnealst, @rflfm( @»-f plic ‘ /f;?/ Cfl %L/u’// ,/, Al e 7 / aly //)’\ f‘flfiu(/ ') 2 qéz/nld 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. Scely, private secretary of Lieutenant Sl ty vrweherq It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but Is written on an of- ficlal blank, headed with the name of the licutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, Governor Majors. | except the figures 1891, FICTITIOUS TALES, atesman: Mr. Beach—All you when you g0 into the water, Miss Bright—Well, you suid in with me, didn't you Yonke want I8 Migs B you'd g tecord: Tather (visiting at college) these are better clgars than I can That's all right, father; take this 18 on me Yale My son, afford. Son all you want; Buffulo Courler: “It {sn't fair to set th strong against the weak,' sententiously re marked the new boarder as he pushed his butter plate away from its contact with his coffee cup. Harlem Life: Wickwire—I tell you, old boy, there's nothing like a baby to brighten up n man’s home. Yabsly—Yes. I've n ticed that the gas seems to be at full height in your house almost any hour of the night Indianapolis Journal: Tommy—Paw, what males them have the weather office’ away up on the top of a high building? "ME Flig—That s %o that 1t will be toc ch excrtion for a fat man to ciimb the and kill the weather man have Mr know an allowance ar: Minister—You but found a son, Don't 1 me for Harper's Ba lost o daughte Mr. Pater (ruéfully) The boy's been afler alveady Rixby appears bright young man. 1 hegr he Lcquired enough money by writing to pay for his education at college He—Yes; writing home to his parents. Arkangaw Traveler: She to be quite Very naturally a plain put a better face upon Lowell Courler woman would 11ke te the situation If she know spond What newspaper ¢ hington Star asked the Wa ileasantly patch to 1 the senator nt sent a di * replie ogmespon Mr. Sohngo had just his paper stating that pending senatorial In- been testifying in the vestigation Indianapolis daughter will her pi g at jt? ournal: Do you think my ver become so0 proficient in as to earn her livelihood mother the professor, “Zome bianist in a teef und TOWN AND COUD Washington Star 8he does not heed the cable car _Which goes with speed ntens cares not for the trolley wir ose voltage is immense 2 old excursion steamer No terror to her brow, But when she's in the country she will run ross acres of ground and ciimb barb wire fences to escape the aftuble though inquisitive gnze Of an aged, docile DIAGNONTIC 'RY, brings cow. Wrltten for The Thec o Sam (8 very sick, it democracitis; Quick milver drops were iried and failed, Tariff-ic changes he bewailed; r-coated pills avalled; Throughout his system soon prevalled Business-suspendicitis. arose; New complications th With all the ¢ That boycott ca Who sympathiz Struck with the With Sov i those s foes, they goes th Pullm ymploms-—-out ign-Debsdieltis, Quoth Unele 8am: “I am too 11l o he pestered with this cross-eyed bill Go tell to Grover, Wilkon, 1, And conferees, 1'm suffering still With tarift-amendicitis AIB JAY Omaha, August 10,