Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 17, 1894, Page 4

il THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, Bditor. " PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING = HUBECRIPTION. Year TERMS O Dafly Beo (withe Daily Bow and funda. O Bix Months Three Months Bundny Bee, O Baturday T, Weekly oo, Omaha, The e Bouth Om; Council 11 Chieagn Ofce, 717 ind Twenty-fourth Sta arl Btreet Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. hington, 1107 F Street, N. V CORREEPONDENCE. ANl communications relating to news and edl- torial matter should be addressed: To the Editor. RUSINESS LETTERS All business lsttors and remittances should b addressed The Tien Publishing company. Omahn, Drafta, chocks and postofico ord made payabie to the ordor o campany. THI B PUBLISHING COMPANY. OF CIRCULATION, T George B. Tzachuck, secretary of The Tiee Pub. tishing company. being duly sworn w that the_nctunl or of full a plete copies Even inday Beo 189}, BTATEMENT was as ollown: 1. 20108 18 19 20 20,073 0,053 5,921 371 : 52 IR Lens deductiony CODIES 4.v.ins returned for unsold and Total sold ey Datly average net ‘circulatic *Sundaj GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this 1st day of August, 18! (Seal.) N. P. FEIL, Notary Publie. The battle of the ballots at Nebraska City has been a record-breaker for Nebraska dele- gates. Every republican vitally interested in the success of the state ticket will attend the primaries today. It won't ba tho fault of the trust if there 18 any whisky left in bond when the new tariff law goes into effect. The Sugar trust didn't get quite all that it wanted, but it will try to worry along as best it can for a little while longer. no longer required to at South Omaha, why moment long:r than It the militia preserve the peace keep them necessary? are there a Mr. and Mrs. Goudy have announced their candidacy for a third term incumbency of the office of state superintendent of public instruction, E Republicans of Omaha and Douglas county should attend the primary election today 1f they want to voice their sentiments in the county convention. McKelghan is in no hurry to get back to' Washingten before congress adjourns. That democratic endorsement of his re- nomination by the populists has not yet been captured. No legislation Is required to remove ob- structions to the completion of the union depot. 1f the dcpot company wants to com- plete its work ,let it go ahead and do so. There is nothing to prevent it. Pullman is getting into bad habits once more. He has just inflicted upon the peo- ple another ready-made interview, telling how virtuous the Pullman company has been and how badly it has been treated by its employes and the general public. ‘We print elsewhere a letter from the Grand Island Mercantile company which throws a searchlight upon local freight rate discrimination in this state. It is needless to say that the State Board of Transportation can find in this case a profitable field for exploration. Can’t the democrats come any nearer than $15,000,000 above the mark denoting the nec- essary revenues of the federal government? ‘What has become of the great Cleveland maxim about leaving the surplus in the pockets of the people rather than in the national treasur: Of course England hails the passage of the tarift bill with delight, for the same reason that she rejoiced over the return of Grover Cleveland to the white house. Any- thing that promises gain to the interests of English manufacturers makes the BEnglish heart beat with Joy. All the county road paving for which funds have been provided ought to be finished before cold weather sets in and it can be if the contractors keep up the pace they have set. The employment afforded by these public m- provements ought to tide a considerable number of laborers over the greater part of a winter that might otherwise be hard for them. —_— The president is being overwhelmed with telegrams from prominent demoorats in various parts of the country advising him to veto the new tarlff bill. But President Cleveland is known to be one of those who takes all the advice offered and then does as ho pleases. It would be rash to predict & veto even if two-thirds of all tha demo- crats In existtnce should waste money on telegraph messages of similar import, Let us suggest that strong efforts be made to secure the participation in Omaha’s Labor day demonstration of labor organizations of nelghboring towns. The local celebration should be one not merely local in character. 1t the proper inducements are held out and the proper entertainment promised, there ought to be little difficulty in securing the attendance of large delegations of laborers from numerous lowa and Nebraska towns. It s just as important to attract visitors from abroad as it is to get out a full representation of all the home labor organi- zations. The Lancaster county bar is making a move to get rid of irregularities in the system of jury drawing by which the courts are constantly Inflicted with the presence of the professional juror in jury cases. If any manipulation should be discovered in the election of a judge the court would be im- mediately scandalized, but the selection of & Jury which often plays & part more important than that of the judge is generally left to minor officials more or less open to the In- fluence of litigants. The abuse fs not con- fined to Lancaster county. The protesslonal juror s gaining a wonderful foothold in Douglas county a8 well. The bar here would be doing both themselves and the publio a great service by adopting some plan that will insure the selection of honest jurors in all cases THE FREE RAW MATERIAL BILLS. The bills tor free sugar, free coal, iron ore and barbed wire, passed by the house, have been sent to the senate finance committee. Interest centers on the bill for free and another warm contest in the senate over this measure {s possible. A majority of the probably in favor of free sugar The would for it number of democrats announced that they favor It, and very little likelihood that the measure can b: passed In the senate. In the first place, as shown by the letter of Secretary Ca read in the on Wednesday, to make sugar free would result in a defieit in the revenues of the government for the next fiscal year esti- mated by the ary of th $28,000 0. It is true that this was qu tioned, on the ground that the estimates of revenue were based on the importations of the last fiscal y , and under the new tariff importations are expected to in- on sugar senats are republicans vo! and a have yet there is lisie senat secre treasury at be largely 1 opinion among dem- to be on the creased, but the gen. ocratic senators seems clearly side of the eecretary, as was partly evidenced by the reference of the sugar bill to the finance committee, and it must be regarded as very unlikely that these senators will sup- port a measure the effect of which might bo secretary of the the democratic administration. of some of these uselves from the to embarrass the democratic treasury and en the profes senators to vindicate th charge of subserviency to the Sugar trust, it ought to ssume, will hardly lead them to act in distinct opposition to the evident desire of the democratic head of the of the t whose task has already been an arduous and difficult There Is another consideration, though how welght it ma with the democratic senators Is unc The pas- sage of the free sugar bill would tend to aggravate the embarrassing position in which has been placed by the sur- house to the senate on the Cleveland in his memorable letter that under the democratic plat- form and in with the declared purposes of the party “‘sugar is a legitimate and logical of taxation. and he urged that while no tenderness should be entertained for trusts not to be driven away from the democratic prin- ciple and policy which lead to the taxation of sugar by the fear, quite likely exaggerated, that in carrying out this principle and policy may indireetly and inordinately encourage a pmbination of sugar re ng " He further said that in taxing sugar for proper purposes and within reason- able bounds there was no danger of running counter to democratic principle. Thus the president is clearly and fully committed in favor of the policy of taxing sugar and having advised that this be done it would manifestly very greatly Increase the em- barrassment he s already under to send him a free sugar bill. It is to be presumed, also, that the letter of Secretary Carlisle had the concurrence of Mr. Cleveland. There are still other considerations war- ranting the opinions that a bill for free sugar cannot pass the senate, but perhaps those glven are sufficient. As to the other bills, and espcially those for free coal and free iron ore, it is pretty safe to predict that they will be buried in the finance committee, but if it should be otherwise there is hardly a possible chance of any one of them getting through the scn- ate. The senate democrats who voted to re- tain coal and iron ore on the dutiable list are not sexking any vindication. Trey are perfectly satisfied with their action and will steadfastly adhere to it. Thess “popgun’ measures will, therefore, if they ever again get before the senate, be overwhelmingly re- Jected and the victory of the senate over the house be thus more strongly emphasized. WELCOMED ABROAD. It is no surprise to learn that manufacturers, particularly in the goods interest, are very pleased that the tariff question here so far as it can affect them. don dispatch states that the woolen manu- facturers of Bradford, Leeds and Halifax are expecting a great Tevival of business. It appears that they have been watching the course of the tariff struggle with the greatest interest and anxiety, but at the samo time without manifestation of feeling, for fear of prejudicing the issue. Es. pecially in Bradford, which is a center of the woolen industry, the solicitude has been intense, and, as the dispatch states, “the cutcome is accordingly all the wel- come.” These British manufacturcrs see the great American market opening to them as it has not dome before in a third of a century, and they are naturally happy over the prospect. It is a great bcon to them after years of slow trade and narrow mas- gins of profit, and they will be certain to make the most of it. That they have great admiration of the wisdom and states- manship of the democratic party goes with- out saying. Well, that party has certainly gone as far as it dared to in behalf of these fcreign manufacturers. It has reduced existing duties on woolen shawls, not above 40 cents per pound, 76.71 per cent; knit fabrics, not above 40 cents per pound, 74.27 per cent; blankets, 66.71 per cent; hats of wool, T2 per cent; flannels, not over 50 cents per pound, 66,71 per cent; woolen dress goods, 54 per cent; woolen plushes, 52 per cent; carpets, 64 per cent. These generous re- ductions in the interest of the forelgn manu- tacturers are well calculated to make them foel good and lead them to infuse new lifo and activity into thefr industries. They have for several years been casting about hopelessly for new markets, but they need do this no longer. The greatest of all the markets of the world may now command their undivided attention and care. And it is not alone the woolen manufacturers of Great Britain who are happy ove cratic tarift legislation. There is also great gladness among the Welsh tin plate manu- facturers, in whose behalf a reduction of 46 per cent is made from the existing teriff Of course there will be a marked revival of the Welsh tin industry, for the past few years somewhat less extensivo and profit- able than formerly by reason of the Ameri- can competition stimulated under the Mo- Kinley teriff. How long will it take the Welsh tin plate manufacturers to again get complete control of the American mar- ket by crushing out what competition there is here? Can there be any doubt that they will make a most strenuous effort to do this? The British cotton manufacturers have less reason to rejoice than the woolen industries. They are well favored. The manufacture of goods is not an exclusively Qustry. Fortunately It Is extensively car- ried on in the south, where it been rapidly developing under republican tariff policy, and it still retains & measure of pro tection that makes it secure against foreign competition. It Is In this respect the most favorably situated of all the industries af- fected by the new tariff. Whilo the gratification manifested by British manufacturers at the favorable turn for them of our tarilf legislation is natural ed anxie be safe to a asury, one, much have rtain the president render of the tariff. Mr. accordance article revenue “we ought we Interests British woolen much is settled A Lon- more demo- thoss In not so cotton northern in- has THE OMATA DAILY BEE and not unwarranted, it is possible they may overestimate the benefits they will derive from it American enterprise and energy will meke a very determined retain control of the American the productiveness cf labor, with the ingenuity of our people In devising impr oftsat struggle o market, anl superior American together ved methods of production, may the cheaper cap tal and labor of Bur contest for this great nd its effect upon = can hardly fail to be ha ur mpetitors. A tnevitabl industries pean ¢ market | sme of our ANOTHER DE An ordinance council to submit at the coming general election a proposition ithorize the Depot the so-called depot adfacent to the Tenth its face this proposition objectionable. No valid raised by anybody to the completion of the structure begun three or four years ago and abruptly the Instance of Jay Gould when he sought to repudiate the con- tract between the Union Pacific Milwaukee and Rock Island companies. While the general impression. prevails that the Howe injunction suits blocked the depot bullding the fact is that it simply blocked the fssue of the $150,000 of city bonds tllegally for the viaduct. There Is nothing in the way of finishing the depot now and there Ig for submitting a proposition to permit the Unfon Depot pany to abead with their station time they want to Why, then, is this proposition to be sub- itted to the voters of Omaha? If aright the real object is to get a perpetual quit claim from the eity to all the rights and privileges acquired by the con- tract with the Union Pacific, under which that company assumed the obligation to maintain the transfer of its passenger busi- and keep its headquarters and shops in Omaha, and also to permit all railroads entering Omaha over its bridge to share its depot and transfer privileges at reasonable rates. Now, it Omaha votes a release to the Union Pacific, what is there to pensate her for yielding such invaluable guaranties? Does the proposed Tenth streot depot afford even the remotest inducement for abandoning what has cost Omaha years of struggle and hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes? Would the council be justified in making such a bargain or submitting such a proposi- tion to the voters? JUDGE STRODE NOMINATED. After a deadlock unprecedented in the history of republican conventions in Ne- braska, Judge J. B. Strode has been nom- inated for congress in the First district. It took more than 1,200 ballots to reach a con- clusion. A stubborn contest such as this is evidence of the strength of the candidat participating, and emphasizes the fact that this year a republican nomination in the First district is equivalent to an election. The First congressional district comprises counties in the southeastern portion of the state, containing nearly 75,000 voters. For years it had been regarded as a safe re- publican stronghold, and while Bryan was elected to congress as a democrat in 1890 by a good plurality he barely escaped defeat in 1892, His plurality over Field was but 140 votes. This being an acknowledged repub- lican year, Mr. Bryan not shown the hardihood to again stand for election in the First, and in fact no democrat has yet been found willing to be offered as a sacrifice on the altar of his party. Judge Strode is a man of more than aver- age ability. He has been a citizen of Ne- braska for nearly twenty years, and is well and fayorably known throughout the First congressional district, possessing those qualities of manhood that have drawn to him many friends and unwavering sup- porters in the party. It is a significant fact that his chief op- ponent in the convention was first to break the deadlock and make Strode's nomination a fact. This is a strong indication that the fight ended with the convention and that the friends of the defeated candidates will work zealously for the success of the ticket and to Tatify the work of the convention. MOT PROPOSITION, introduced in the to the voters of this city has been to Union company to union building street viaduct, On would un- objection complete seem can be abandoned at and the voted no necessity com- L) any we Buess ness com- seven has rare A DESERVED COMPLIMENT. In accordance with time-honored usage, which accerds to every efficient and faithful representative in the national legislature an endorsement for a second term, Hon. E. J. Hainer has been remominated by accla- mation by the republicans of the Fourth district. Mr. Hainer represents an intelli- gent and discriminating constituency, and it is highly creditable to him that he has gained their respect and good will by dis- charging the duties devolving upon him satisfzctorily to all classes. No man, how- ever brilliant or industrious, can accom- plish great things during his first term in congress, and more especially when he hap- pens to be a member of the minority party. The next house will undoubtedly be repub- lican, and the people of the Fourth district will profit by the experience Mr. Hainer has gained and the influence which a re- publican will exert with a republican speaker wielding the gavel. The New York World publishes a list of leaves of absence granted by the house dur- ing the two months of June and July, which shows that the epidemic of congressional sickness has not yet been brought within control. Under the farcical operation of the old docking law, revived in this congress, all a member has to do in order to enjoy his vacation and his salary at the same time Is to say that his absence is due to sickness. The World figures that were the absentecs docked In every case, as the law contem- plates, the treasury would be richer by more than $200,000, the amount saved from conscientious congressmen who do not care to make a lylng report will not exceed $2,000, or one-hundredth part of that amount. While making a show of refusing to pay members except for work actually performed, this house has been as great an offender in the line of absenteelsm as any of its pre- decessors. Its claim to economy by reason of its enforcement of the docking law will not be able to bring it any credit. whereas Senator Berry of Arkansas thinks that by passing the bill for free sugar the senate can at one turn free itself from the charge that it has been manipulated by the Sugar trust. But the passage of a dozen free sugar bills would not clean the tainted skirts of the senate. The people have evidence of the Sugar trust's work in the sugar schedule of tarift bill. Free sugar might as a partial atonement, but quittal. the cepted as & complete be ac- never Senator Vest kindly informs cans that the campaign the hands of the republican party will be the president's letter to Chairman Wilson denouncing the democratic senate for its part in framing the new tarlft bill, as if the republi- best document In | the republisans wwere not very much alive to this fact. Phe prsident’s letter furnishes all the evidencs: that be desired of incompetenc ofthe democratic to ¢ duet the aff necessity of, could the party and of the party 4 of government nestoring the to power. \ An Omahd bute tells nings Bryan s heading for the ination for the fire be news to Seitor ceded that Mr. Bryan has the same right as other man to aspire to the recently Iald dosn by that eminent statesman James B. Weayer. What Bryan for carping critios who may ask: “Upon what meat doth this, our Caesar, feed that he hath grown so great!” The Natal Day of Infamy. New fork Sun August 13, 1504, be known in demo ry as perfily and dishonor day Taking the Joke Seriously, Indianapolls essman Hryan of N of the Platte, seems to seriously A candidate ates ser the Chicago William Jen populist nom This will be con cdrre the pondent of world that idency in 1596, Allen. 1t must any distinction need care will cratic h braska, the boy be t for Cong orator himself United § Little, but Oh, M, Chicago Record He doesn’t cut much of a figure on scales, but s demonstra Arthur P. Gorman is a heap bigger man than Grover Cleveland when it comes to a rough-and-tumble in the senstorial cockpit. i e Singed Voters Dread the Fire Chicago Tnter Ocean. People who imagine that the voters of the United States will repeat the idiocy of 1802 must have a pocr idea of the intelligence of the American people. Men may be pare tisans, but they cannot be expected to re. peat the finan 1 and commercinl disasters they i ted at the ballot box under the attractive name of “tariff r nd the world can see they n fold to the highest bidder by the party in power. A Little Late, but Life Size. Springfield (Mass.) Republican It is difficult to refer to the riff situn- tion at W hington with any patience, A worse spectacle of treachery, obstinacy, stolidity and general incapacity has never been seen at the capital tl n that which the democratic majority is now offering to an impati and distracted country. ver did the ge s of the man who f em- ployed the mu to symbolize the demo- cratic party blaze forth in such a striking light as it does today, O nly hope lies in the fact that the be annot always kick a Jut must sometime take a step forw he fire is already burning under it. \ hay- » that e Jugglery of Railroad Books. Springfield Republican This extraordinary ex bookkeeping mcthods in ment will be made to mand that the government extend its powers of supervision o the requirement that all interstate railroads keep their counts in some prescribed uniform way, which shall be simple enough for investors and others to understand. Railroad hook- keeping s now too generally used to mis- lead investors and conceal the real stafe of the company’s finances to be much longer tolerated. Nobody but an experi- enced accountant ‘ean ordinarily form any of the fiug situation” of a road the purp complicated and in- ts that are made. This device to help themselves at the ex- security holders and the public g0, S — ninstructed. Lincoln The railroads are playing their game with their usual shrewdness and cunning, and if Tom Majors i§ not. nominated by the repub- lican state conventicn next week then it will be because the delegates had the man- hood to pick out the man of their choice instead of followlng the dictation of the railroad companies. County after county has held its convention, and delegation after delegaticn to the state convention has been selected without one word of instruc- tions, They | the simple reas was sullicient being done. rience how much is to influence individual delegations by one of the many means in their power than to throw cc ons their way. The practic uninstructed delegations, like that rmitting a candidate to select the del is decidedly unrepublican, and sub. versive of the basic principles of ‘the party. The members of a state delegation are in almost cvery instance politicians or ward workers selected in advance by party leaders, and in many cases are not repr sentative republicans. To entrust them with the honor and power of throwing the vote of the county to this or to that man is not only unwise, but is not representative government. It is safe to say that the ma Jority of republicans in ench’ county in the state favor the nomination of either Mr. MacColl or Mr. Majors, and if republican principles are so dear to the party leaders as we are led to believe, the sentiment of the party should be manifested in the county convention by nstruetions for one man or another. We should then know for a certainty which is the real choice of the party. As it is now, a dangerous power been ‘entrusted to men in many cases un- worthy of it, and they will not represent the true sentiment and wishes of the party for the gimple reason that by manipulation that sentiment has been suppressed and no instructions how to vote given. Tt is such tactics as these which make politics a dirty game and permits the control, by corrupt fools and public cnemies, of many conven- ons. crafty manage- emph the de- must also such thing long expe- ——— DEMOCRACY'S DISHONOR. New York Sun (dem.): What a record for the house of representatives in the Fifty-third congress, with a democratic majority over all of not less than eighty vo'es! Detroit Free Press (dem.): Good has been done, but much more will be accomplished before the end is reached. The traitors could not be forestalled, but they will be punished and the right will prevail. Bufftalo Express (rep): And so, by over- riding parliamentary precedents, with con- scious shame, with terror of further ex posures of venality, amid the angry pro- tests of the more honest democrats, the infamous bill was passed. It is the con- summation of hypocrisy, the complement of a lie. Cleveland Leader (rep.): The action of the house marks the humiliating and ignomin- fous failure of the cause of tarift reform It marks the surrender of the democratic party to the most gigantic monopoly that this country has ever scen. It brands the demo- cratic party as a party of false pretenses, a party of deception, a party of fraud. Cleveland Plain Dealer (dem.): The demo- crats of the house of represenlatives, in agreeing to the tariff amendments offered by the senate, have triumphed over the free trade fanaticism &nd vindfoated genuine demoeracy. They' have saved the nation from the shame.of an empty treasury and established ample incpme and unimpeachable credit. Boston Globo (demi): The what the democracy ‘could o working majority, but the senate has shown what a party can do on the nar rowest possible Jugrgin of powe That, without a vote to spare, it has been able to readjust and in nearly every instance reduce the entire tariff systéth of the nation, Is afier all a splendid ménument to the competency of the demo tic party. Indianapolis Jotirnal (rep.): erals in the housk who have been guilty of this perfidy to the American people wiil come back with pfofse explanations. They will anathematizesthas trusts whose bidding they have done, while. they will seck of the Sugar and Whisky eople fractions of the $75,000,000 which (hey have pocketed by reason of thelr voles for the senale bill All explanations aré Insults, Chicago Post (dem.): The house has sur rendered. What else could it do? Be hind it were the people demanding carly lief from the oppression of McKinleylsm Before it stood a shameless, brazen conspir acy, knitted together by self-interost, defiant of public opinion, corrupt but powerful, It was a question whether the house should submnit to the Gorman blackmall or refuse all compromise and adjourn. Loulsville Courler-Journal (dem.) No party was ever placed In a more humiliatin position than that visited upon the demo cratic party yesterday in the lower ho of congress. One thing alone is those who have betrayed it will pay de for their treason One short year ago all the trumps were in our hands. Now we do not, as Hop Price of blessed memory used to say, “hold a prominent card." house showed with a free The demo- FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, ” - - | company 1901, SUGAR DIFFERENTIALS, Vigorons Protest of the Grand Isla enntile Company has tered Board of Transportation by Mercantile company that local fr $10,000 in there Complaint been ¢ State Istand oriminating ight aid over back which has not ce rendered.” The roferred to has address ary Dilworth, and the Mr. J. H. Peterson, has to publish the following c on worth of sers to ret president The Bo GRAND ISLAND, Neb, Dilworth, cre‘ary of the oh Joard of Transportation, Lincoln, 8 Your letter of August 7. n lotter of complaint against bing system that s imposed up: terlor towns of Ncbraska, re noted. We also wish to reply te your o tion, published in the Nebraska St July 24, wh in you state that usually hauled to the Missouri local rates charged for which is not true, as the local cents invariably. You also stat the convenience of jobbers th times stops enroute and leaves the destination, and yet charges the in addition from the Missouri river. not true, as we have been in busin poiut now nearly two years has goye to Omaha and back to c edge, all having been stopped for the convenience and saving o only. You also state that you ! information coming from they are not responsit od by an and the asseriion is agreed to sell this the country only to Missourl river a price no lower than sugars in from the cast agroement sugars are rate, and the roads say ble. This is not true follows During the Western su Western Sugar Refining \variably make prices much lower ern or southern refineries, thereb all Missouri river and interior buy thelr sugars of them. After all their exeess they advanee on t and allow New Orleans to come | out their surplus, and up to tl time we have never been able to b car of sugar east of the Missour equal basis. This system of hig bery is purely a local matter, and communication in our office from sugar kings above mentioned, in plainly staes it is purely a local 1 should be taken up and fairly a the lines between Grand Island Missouri river. On the 1st of June we received a bill of lading attached, for a car lated sugar, shipped over the Un system, freight paid to Omal mediately paid the draft, secur esting roads that situation, cau sugar king Spreckles has Accord deliverad hey The fa the lading, and awaited for the arrival of This car arrived in due time; tarifts, it freight Dbeen on Neb: D swerlng the highway return of and not ol agreement are not r 1 Mor- before the the Grand owing t has charges tollar's mercantil 1 a let compar equosted py of the , Aug, 13.-W. A 1ska Sta our rob in- and \ the ived ymmunica ate Journal sup are and cents, is 26 e that for rallroad some- sm at their local rate This s ess at this car sur knowl in transit f raliroads have inter- the rail for the with the made that section of points at Havemeyer can g ing to this at a river onsi cts are as ar_refinery’s season company than east- by cansing Jobbers to absorbing heir prices n oand sell he present uy but one i river on hway rob- we have a one of the which he natter and tusted by and the draft, with of grant fon Pac We im- 24 bill of 1gar. way bill to Grand Island, with printed instructions on way bill: * y the mercantile We hauled car of sugar ar back freight from Omaha, one hu five dollars and some ¢ hauled into Grand Island with a of sugars; the balance of this trair on side track for disposition w charge. June 20 we received ar of sugar from the Western company, supposed to have been Lincoln. This car came in as and Aurora, a little tow east of us, where the reg miles onts per hundred. — Aftel rate is 9 pany saved a haul of about 125 mi nts. This car company.” nd_ refused ndred and was train load 1 was held ithout de- murrage, and when sold was hauled to dif- ferent points on the Missouri river without rother car Sugar Refining prepaid to usual, via wn twenty ular tariff r the com- they exacted from us 23 cents per hundred weight, which is supposed to be Lincoln we promptly refused and tendered M. Railroad comp the rate frol 9 cents p sight, which refused. We immediately attache rate. Thi: the B. & m Aurora, I was also d this car of sugar and took judgment against the B. ult. company & M. road by de B. & M. Railroad has Since that time the petitioned the court to open up this and the pe- tition has been granted, providing costs. On July 2 we Refining company’s price on sugar, and their reply by wire: “Can only a offer for 4-76 prepaid to Grand which you will seo is exactly 23 cc Lincoln price. This fairly bility of the great railroad collect this exorbitant local which sugars never traveled, convince any fair-minded sents the people that thero is bel tem practiced by the different co wired the West agents at L and immediately shows corporations to freight man_ who they pay ern Sugar incoln for received ccept you Island,” :nts above the ina- for ought to repre- ing a sys- prporations of the state of Nebraska that is simple high- way robbery. this city of Grand Island should n tected with the proper differentia paro with other interior Lincoln and Fremont, kindly st reasons. It is fairly shown by t mont of the railroad companies If there is any reason towns and why ot be pro- 1 to com- cities, ate your his move- that they have gone to the great American Sugar trust and bowed down before them them to protect their corporations small interior jobbers by adding turn charges to their bills and a ing their bills with bills of lading. exorbitant charges that have by hoth systems are legitimate, collect same by law freight or freight charges? admitting that the system th practicing is unjust in every we not entitled to the same differ respect of the railroad out the country as our refiner, Mr. Onxard, who has ferential, which we claim and Lincoln diffe the Missouri river? You further state that you ha gated to a certain extent the sugar lem in the state of Kansas a coupl ago, where the question got into t both federal and state; about wha come was you have been unable to This seems simply absurd, as any ficer who i This have an and been as any other companies resident beet sugar Aurora atial, which is 12 cents to asked in robbing these re- ccompany- If these exacted why not private is fairly been ential and through- exact dif- freight ve investi- rate prob- e of years he courts, t the cut- ascertain. state of- representing the people fairly ought not to take two years to investigate such an important question. Up to the present writing we have paid ver $10,000 worth of back freight charges which there has not been §1 rendered. Understand the proper differential to Our city has on servic and aboy are entitled. as good worth of this is over which we facili- ties as any interior town, and If any whole- grocer or manufacturer ex sale he should bo treated justly city ists” in this and fairly as compared with other interfor towns with which he has to compete. We are compelled to sell sugars in com- petition with all river 5 terior points above mentioned. K this matte you will confer a favor on thi a8 man facturers, and we can any river jobber, and, in ct to this arrangement spectfully, J. H. PETF Grand Tsland ntile Cc By J. H firn see no re PETE ath Republican. Evidenc Springfeld James B, Weave democratic’ nomnlation for Ninth Towa district, as w nomination, Nothing bette despair with which the de the congressional election outiook. General congre 1l as th THE MAIDEN'S Somerville Journal “Something in blue? Why, centa The clerk says, with a smile, For oh! the very loveliest girl 1s standing in the ajsic! And_though the clerk is s He is 80 charmed by her That he unrolls piece after piece, Without the least demur metin At last the malden cries Now st that too sweet!” And, looking in her eyes, the cle Says: “Yes; that can't be I “Now, how much shall I nee: T make o pretty dress? And_he repli Just seven ya You couldn’t do with less," yen yards," sh 810,50, Al right. ' Please send it out And then she wonders what the Is 80 amused abo; “Exeuse me! Seventeen yards in He says. The style deceives. You'll need the seven yards fc And ten more for the sle say points as well fact, any RSON, Pr s in- indly give your early attention; by so doing n, as well ¢ other cities and neighboring manu- ason why Jobbar, Yours r RSON ppany. sident, Despair. got the 5 in the e populist Lrings out the ts regard MISTAKE. ainly!" mes cross, “Oh, m. rk t sh a0y, rds, then clerk n the dress, KEEP 1T DEFORE REPUBLICA NS Tattooed Standard Bearer? The candidacy of Thomas J. Majors fronts the republican party of Nebraska as a menace to its success In the fmper eampaign 0 elevate him to the position ot andard r will place the party the | iShull the Party Commit Itself to a Del ling | the following bill, certified to by T. J. Majors s president of the senate, was placed fn tho hands of the auditor and a warrant for $76 was lssued to W. M. Taylor as bale wnce due for alleged services in the senate defensive and subject it to a galling fire that | for the last fifteen days of the month: THE TELL-TALE c ERTIFICATE, by V7, nd For Sevvices as. f ¢21. srom...€ 1501, day nto 60 daysdd’y . .- Miteage Batance due, Lincotn, day porday, - = 3.2 mites at 10 conts per mite, Total, e Deduct amount drawn, <A 5 7 SENATE! et o an yv 307 /“ day of [UNVge) o /s Adit g Dite goco /{7‘ 7 Attest, Approved, § / . 1 Sta Warrant No.L”, it could not withstand. every party leader on the stump would be compelled to champion the candidacy of a man who Is tattooed with a record of in- dellible Infamy. They would be confronted at every crossrond with the story of tho 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 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 sesslons of the legislature ir which he occupled the responsible and honor- able position of presiding officer of the upper house by virtue of his election as licutenant 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 raflway reg- ulation bills and measures to curb the fapac- 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 Licutenant Governor Majors, and especially 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 ereated such a sensa- tion that even it Majors had not been ad- vised about the plot he could not have fgnorant of the fact that Taylor had peared. The fact that Majors dirccted 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 $202.40 as his pay and mileage for tho session up to the time of his abrupt departure In the middle of March, On March 31, Bvery candidate and when the session closed, te I hereby certify that the above account s correet and ust, and has not been paid, (soxtienn) ) IRA ot ovom 8 G President, = s, (A A 20 E 272 i Cinntlon Deputy. Received of 1111./&/ 10X Auditor of Pupgieounts, 7 7 (Siox tien 7 The above Is a fac simile of the certificate signed by Lieutenant Governor Majors and approved by the auditor, as now on file in the office of the auditor of state. The warrant for was cashed by Walt M. Seely, private secretary of the lieutenant governor, and packeted by him. Taylor never recelved a pruny of this maney fraudu- lently procured by the connivance of the licutenant governor, This act alone stamps Thomas J. Majors as a dangerous man in any public office. When be 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 prosoeution n the eriminal courts. Had Majors certificd to a fraudulent voucher in the army, or duplicated his own pay in the army pay roll, he would have 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 chief executive of state and commander-in- chief of the military forces of the commone 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 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. Svery 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, when 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 corporate concerns whose bills were to bo logrolled through and whose interests were to be protected by the bland, affable and accome modating lieutenant governor. Can republicans stultify themselves and Jeopardize their cause by placing a man with such a record at the head of the ticket? T3 MAJORS, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. PERU, NEMAHACOUNTY. THE TELL-TALE TAYLOR ORDER. Senate @hambex. S Gl {. 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 s in the handwriting of Walt M. Seely, private secretary of Lieutenant PEOPLE AND TIINGS, a wise reformer who knows his own tarift bill Senator Gorman deports himself a the Wellington of a presidential Waterloo. al big four are mot indulging Like Brer Rabbit, they lay becomes The senato in pyrotechnics low. Public sentiment favors immediate adjourn- ment of congre But congress it not in the business of heeding public sentiment While French justice is unusuall disposing of Santos, there is no doubt but that it will be ahead in the ¢ It is not likely the victorious senate will emulate the Fiji islanders who celebrated a conquest by feasting on the roasted remains of the invaders. Reports from all sections of this delightful country furnish attendant assurances that the average office will not be overworked in seeking the man It Senator Chandler hears of doings of the republican convention of First district we may expect a senatorial investi gation in the interest of ballot reforn; Mr. Corbett called Mr. Jackson a bluffe Mr. Jackson hotly retorted “‘You're anothe Then they shook hands and parted. What a startling piece of “news"” to wire over the country! If the lican convention slow in the the Jegates to the First district repub. could ballot at the polls with half the fr ney shown in the con vention, what a whooping majority would be piled up for the candidate All that Is necepsary to put the finishing touches on the demjocratic spectacle in Wash- | inton I8 to write the presidential autograph | on the sugar bill with the quill used to trace | the burning words addressed to Wilson on | July 1 Governor Majors. It purports to be dated at Portland, Ore., but is written on an of- ficlal blank, headed with the name of tho lleutenant governor, at the senate chamber, Lincoln, Neb., with the date line left blank, except the figures 1891, PASSING PLEASANTRIES. i Tribune: When Mr. he was more easily turnec Gorman than Cineini Was o p now. t0ston Transcript: The latest thing in the industrial line Is a trade union of ballet girls. In a kick for wages they will be able to kick in concert, ven the man had better opens a new stoj who hit smerville Journal doesn’t belleve in - si some painted when he Deal thawnk th' Lawd,"” ob- served the dude, as he tenderly rolled up his white pantaloons, “that we have on style th' ladies ‘1l not likely steal from ug!" Plain e you going to do Kets out of college? sending him to Puck: Pipkin—What with your son when hi Potis—I think some of school. Walts [ see that a Indlanapolis Journal democrats national convention of has been called *otts—If it m ance ought to be 4 blue ones, th thing phen attend- som enil man gets pOorest way to whistle it Somerville Journal: When a eatchy tune into his head 1t for him to get it out is to try out Brooklyn Life: Priseilla—1 want to get a gown to mateh my complexion. Perdita— Why don't you get a hand-painted one? Minneapolis Journal: A Nebraska pape wants to put down “riot and resurrection. This 18 like the populist orator who stated his premizes and then sald: “Irom these facts we seduce the following usion, CAUTION Cinel Tribune. When you see the humble bumblebee A-salling o'er the lea, Attonding to his business Why, 1t's best Lo let him bee