Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 22, 1894, Page 4

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B, Trschuck, secretary of the Bee Il“nb; the. aftund ummier of ull and complere copiea of Tha Datty Mormink, Kvening and Sunday Bee Drinted daring the month of July, 104, was a8 oitows: 1 (e ! 1 Dally av Bl GRORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn o before me and subscribed in my pres- ence this Tat day of August, 191 Seal.) Pk Notary Public. Nominate only clean men on the republi- can ticket and the goal of victory is al- ready half w Hawall may now consider herself off- clally congratulated by both houses of con- gress upon her launching into the world of Independent nations. Popgun bill number 5 falled to pop at the proper moment, and as a consequence threatens to languish in the house until next session of congress, If not forever. If Mr. Havemeyer was paying all the bills of this congress he would call his senators and representatives togetber, square accounts and send them home without any further expensive dabbling in pretended legislation. The tattooed candidate on any ticket re- flects his markings upon all the other nomi- nees. Ho is a stone around the neck of each of his associates. No party can afford to 80 handicap its standard bearers in a race for popular support. The information that Chairman Wilson of the house ways and means committee 18 to be renominated for congress by his West Virginia contingency knocks the bottom out of the story that he is to supplant Mr. Carlisle at the head of the Treasury department and in the president’s cabinet. Who broke up the populist labor conven- tlon in Chicago last Saturday? The answer ellcited from. persons of different political parties resembles very much the answer which the same persons give to the question, Who Is responsible for the industrial de- pression In the United States? «“Under the new tarift bill,” says a stanch democratic organ, “‘a poor min's dollar will 8o farther thon ever before.” Perhaps, but the poor man will have several times the difficulty to get a dollar than ever before. In fact, he will be lucky to have a dollar where he had several dollars before. Some people are trying to make out that ®r. Ely, who is to be Investigated on the charge of spreading soclalist doctrine from the University of Wisconsin, is a protection- ist and that protectionism and sociallsm therefore go hand in hand. As a matter of fact Dr. Ely has a strong tendency toward free trade, so that this bomb is rather a boomerang. e wabbling on silver in the republican state convention. As Senator Manderson says, there is not a vote to be gained by any halt-way yielding to the populist ideas. At the same time, there is much to be lost by such a course. The oy safe path is to ad- here firmly to the position which the repub- lican party has always taken In favor of honest money. As long as Great Britaln remains neutral in the Corean controversy she will see that her subjects refrain from Interfering on behalf of one belligerent or the other. Great Britain had a costly experience growing out of neutrality viclations during the American war of the rebellion and she is not anxious to contribute another measure of damages to the Chinese or to the Japanese treasury. The appointment by the South Omaha city council of a committee to confer with the committees alr:ady appointcd in this city upon the subject of annexation s an indi- cation that the sentiment for closer union of the two cities Is increasing. If we are to have annexation, it must be accomplished within the coming year, and before the state census Is taken. A comprehensive plan worked out in detall in ample time will do much toward expediting the project. When an employe of the fire department is arrested and fined in the police court for drunkenness and the fact is certified by the chief to the Board of Fire and Police Com- missioners why should it be necessary to re- for the communication to the committee on men and discipline? If there was any de- fense or justification of the charge it would have been brought out in the police court. Buch an offense should demand summary ac- tion and there is no reason why it should be first given to the consideration of a commit- teo. The only way to maintain discipline in the fire and police departments is to make the punishment for violations both sure and swift, Ex-Superintendent of Bulldings Macleod had his clalm for alleged attornoy's fees for his defense before the whitewashing committee of the Hoard of Education re- Jected once, but he insists upon presenting It again at a time when he thinks perhaps that he can exert some pressure upon am- bitious members of the board, Macleod can- not appreclate the fact that it was a privi- lege to allow him to app-ar before the com- mittee by his attorney. He thinks the people ought also to take the burden of paying the alloged attorney's fees. As it Macleod's in- cumbency of the office of superintendent of buildings had not already cost the people Wore than enough. M /NEST PARTY PLATFORM. Tn com nenting upon the organization of the two gres t political parties and making com- parisons between the work accomplished by them, t1» New York Evening Post indulges in this suggestive language: “Of course, nobody expects a party to live up to every line of ita platform. A great many things into party platforms to please soms man or section, as to which it would be idle to say the party is committed. The repeal of the tax on state bank notes | 1 was such a thing in the democratic platform | of 1892, The demand for penny was such a thing in the rcpublican plat- form of 1838, But on all matters truly national in .their scope, on which parties deliberately and repeatedly take they must perform what they promise, when given power to do so, or elsa have that power in- dignantly taken from them. It may be true, perhaps, as the Post con- tends, that few party platforms are really carried out to the very letter, and it may be true, further, that have been repudiated 80 many time postage sides, in part or in that many people have come | and persistently activ the party platforms | whole to regard them as mere empty proclamations. ! If this Is 5o it is because there have been too many dishonest party platforms and be- cause In certain cases the platform ha to be what it originally was—a declar of party principles. The way to win back the confidence of the people In platform pledges 18 to return to strictly honest platforms. A party may frequently find itselt unable to live up to its declaration of principles, but it can always be excused by making an lonest effort to live up to them. The trouble In most instances has been that the platform has been hastily patched to- gether out of haphazard resolutions intro- duced into the convention and lacks both coherence and consistency. In state con- ventions it is often the practice to leave the work of adopting a platform until aliost the last moment, and then to accept whatever is presented without either discussion or con- sideration. The committee's report Is read off amid shouts and applause, one or two planks may possibly encounter opposition, but it Is finally approved by the convention without questioning either contents or form. The result is to in a measure Jjustify the criticism that many things get into party platforms to please some man or section when the party as a whole would hesitate long before committing itself to it. For this reason, too, when the party is victorious, the ‘man or section for which such an unmeaning pledge was inserted into the platform and who demands that it be redeemed is bound to be disappointed, If not altogether alienated. There is no reason whatever why a political party should not be perfectly honest in its platform, Honesty In a party plat- form consists in saying nothing that is not honestly meant, in promising nothing that cannot be carried out. Give the voter the impression that portions of a platform are but insincere bids for the support of particular elements in the party and he will finally be forced to conclude that the whole platform is insincere and in- tended only as a vote-getting device to be cast aside so soon as the votes shall have been counted. A party that once s:cures a reputation for insincerity cannot long main- tain itself with the masses. Honesty is the best policy in party platforms as in all other things. ONLY A TRUCE. In an interview a few days ago ex-Speaker Reed said that the passage by the senate of the Murphy resolution did not mean that there will be no more tariff legislation dur- ing this administration. The business men and manufacturers might just as well un- derstand first as last, sald the leader of the house republicans, that the tariff agitation will be renewed at the first opportunity; the truce is merely for the balance of this ses- sion. “The adoption of the resolution means that. no more popgun bills will be passed merely for political effect,” _said Mr. Reed, ‘“but judging from the declarations of Senators Mills and Vest and of Mr. Wilson, it is conclusively shown that the course of the democrats will be to carry on tarift legislation, the tendency belng all the while against protection and toward free trade.” That this is the present intention of most of the democratic leaders there can be no doubt. In a speech in the house after the passage of the senate bill, Mr. Springer, who was chairman of the ways and means com- mittee in the Fifty-second congress, said that the party did not propose to stop the march toward revenue reform with that action. “Since that bill passed,” said the Illinois congressman, “the chairman of the commit- tee on ways and means, by direction of the democratic caucus, has brought fato this house bills placing sundry articles on _the free list by separate acts, and we are not going to stop here. Other measures will be brought forward, perhaps not at this s sion, but in the next. I say to the gentle- men on the other side of the house that we are engaged in this cause in carnest, and we are going to remain in it until the people of this country will have all that they desire on this subject and all that they are entitied to have.” Mr. Springer may not be regarded as an oracle of his party, but he knows the feeling among his political assoclates. Be- sides, others have spoken In a similar vein, and Mr. Cleveland himself has advised that the crusade against protection be kept up. Mr. Reed Is therefore fully justified in the opinion that the democratic purpose is to continue the tariff agitation, and undoubtedly a determined effort will be made at the next session fato laws the supplemental tarift bills passed by the house and now in the senate, with probably others increasing the list of free raw materials. Doubtless the manufacturers and intelligent busin men of the country fully understand this, It may not be to much purpose to specu lato at this time as to the chances of this proposed legislation. It is desired by all the democrats of the senate, and It is belleved that union with the republicans of thoso democrats who do want it would defeat it. But there is one suggestion in connection with this matter that is timely and ollght to be kept in mind by all voters who think that further tariff tinkering by this congress would be damaging to the me- terial Interests and prosperity of the coun- try. That is that the result of the Novem- bor elections will exert a great influence, either in stimulating the democratic pur- pose or restraining that party. There are few who ontertain any doubt that the next house of representatives will be republican, but it Is Important that it shall be 5o by such & majority as will incontestably demonstra'e the popular revolt against the democratic tarift policy. A sweeping republican triumph in the congressional elections, that shall over- whelmingly express the opposition of the peo- plo to the declared designs of the democracy against the principle of protection, is neces- sary to put & check to the crusade which it is the avowed intention of the demoeratic leaders to continue. A small majority will lave little effect. To merely wrest the popular branch of congress from democratic 5- an to enact s8 not not control Is not enough to make the needed Impression upon the leaders of that party who demand that the assault on the pro tective policy shall go on. What is required 18 a republican victory that will so over- shadow the democratic success of two years ago that It can no longer be appealed to as Justifying the effor's of the democracy to destroy the economic policy of the republican party. In order to accomplish this the friends of protection to American Industries and American labor will need to be alert, vigilant 1t will not be wise for them anywhere to underestimate the enemy or indulge in overconfidence. They cannot afford to lose any opportunity or abate effort in any locality where republican success is possible. The country has had a most impressive object lesson as the re- sult of giving the democratic party control of the government, and the people, there is every reason to believe, are eager to render a verdict of condemnation upon the course of hat party. But, none the less, there s work everywhere for republicans to do, and they must do it heartily, earnestly and per- sistently. I they prove faithful to the great opportunity—and every consideration of national good and of patriotism should in- duce them to be—there can be no doubt as to the result. It will be a republican trfumph that will compel the enemies of American Interests to call a halt in their free trade crusade and perbaps abandon it altoget her. THE CLAIM OF ECONOMY. Tho democrats will endeavor to make po- litieal capital in the impending campaign by setting up the claim of economy fcr the present congress. Mr. Sayers, the chairman of the house committee on appropriations, has made a statement showing a reduction of $25,835,980.70 from the appropriations made at the last session of the last con- gress, and deducting the amount of the river and harbor bill, which he said should be done for the purpose of comparison— $11,473:180—places the reduction at $40,309,- 169.70. This is apparently a very gencrous reduction, but how much real merit there is in it and how far it can be made avatlable for political capital will appear upon inves tigation. Mr. Cannon, the senior republican mem- ber of the committee on appropriations, has also made a statement which shows that the reduction in eppropriations by this congress is covered by the item for pensions alone— that is, that .he economy of which the demo- crats are making a boast is at the expense of the union soldiers of the country. An- other fact shown by Mr. Cannon is that the appropriations made by the Fifty-third congress at the present session are greater by over $27,000,000 than were those made by the first session of the Fifty-first con- gress—characterized by the democrats as “the billion-dollar congress.” It is also shown that the appropriations of this ses- sion of the present congress, excepting pen- sions, aro greater than the appropriations made last year. A statement submitted by Representative Henderson of Iowa, also a member of the committee on appropriations, corroborates that of Mr. Cannon, showing that it is in the cutting down of pensions that the economy of the present house con- sists, Mr. Dingley of Maine said in a speech in the house a few days ago that it was a gratification, after the democratic party has been in power in every department of the government for one year, to have it so clearly demonstrated that these gentlemen, who, when out of power, made such denun- ciations of republican extravagance two and four years age, now find the boot is on the other leg. They now find themselves sub- ject to the criticism of those whom they then criticised. It was seen that the ex- penditures under the democratic administra- tion, with both houses of congress der cratic, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1804, have been only $17,000,000 less than the last fiscal year of President Harrison, and this reduction has been entirely in pen- sions, leaving an increase of $1,000,000 In other expeditures—that is, the expenditures for the ordinary purposes of the govern- ment were $1,000,000 more for the last fiscal year, under democratic rule, than they were for the preceding year, under republican rule. In the meantime the revenues of the government have fallen short of the ex- penditures to the amount of over $70,000,000, the treasury gold reserve has been reduced nearly one-half, and there has been added to the public debt by the issue of bonds $58,000,000. Surely this is not a record on which the democratic party can hope to make political capital with intelligent voters, and the less the party says about it the better it will be for the party. The claim of cconomy is about the least justifiable or defensible of any that the democrats can offer. They come Into power promising great retrench- ment in public expenditures, and as with all thefr other promises—excepting that to cut down the pensions of union soldiers—they have failed to make it good. IMPROVED COLLE A movement has gained some headway among wholesale merchants of this state looking to an amendment of the collection and foreclosure laws. There seems to be a growing demand upon the pari of responsible merchants for the enactment of such laws as will amply protect the Interests of whole- salers, not only of this state, but of those throughout the distributing centers of the cast. The laxness of the Nebraska collection laws has long been a matter of vital concern to jobbers, but In seasons of prosperity no considerable eftort could be exerted for thelr improvement. Country dealers were for the most part doing a prosperous business and the of fraudulent failures was small. The trade outlook at (his time, how- ever, is not promising, and while jobbers are not extending credit indiscriminately as here- tofore, they must of necessity give thelr patrons reasonable time in which to balance accounts. Under existing exemption and foreclosure 1UN LAWS, proportion laws the defaulting retail dealer has what Is cdonsidered an undue advantage of his credi- tors, A weak assignment law permits a bankrupt dealer to prefer his ereditors it he 80 elects, the result of which is to shut out other deserving creditors and admits of favor- itism incompatible with justico and equity. Moreover, the exemption laws operate to protect the homestead and personal property of a bankrupt merchant to the amount of 2,000. Wholesale merchants do not as a rulo clalm this law to be an Injust one, but they do contend that it is constantly abused and plead as a fence for the pro‘ection of volun- tary bankrupts. The movement which s now taking shape for the betterment of existing statutes contemplates a law that will place all creditors of a bankrupt dealer upon an equal footing, so that po favoritism may be shown. The effect of the present collection law is Qetrimental to the consumer. When the Jobber is obliged to take chances on getting his pay he adds o the cost of the goods he sells 4 sufticlent amount of profit to cover his possible foeses; 1t follows therefore that the retaller pays a heavy premium for his credit, and thd puréhasing consumer pays the freight. 1t I¥ ' Well established fact that r credit makeg high Interest rates. If credits were (mpreved by laws that would make collections more certain and expedi- | tious, the benelft {ould accrue to the middle and working glages, who have all the losses in the enhanced price of com- moditles, It has apparently become simply a mat- ter of necessity”that the teachers in the public schools, i they are to be retained without any rednetion in the salary list, be employed from ‘ménth to month, so that a reduction may take place whenever the emergency demands, At the same time the board must recognize that it made a mistake when it re-engaged all the principals at the old extravagant salarles for the whole year, thus shutting off all possibility of retrench- ment in that direction. The employes of the board ought to have been treated all alike, and no favoritism shown to the princi- pals and janitors, The mistake of tying its own hands should not be committed again. Unless some check 1s speedily placed upon the school expenditures the end of the next school year will find the board in a most un- pleasant financial tangle. Senator Teller of Colorado professes to believe that President Cleveland is seriously setting his pins, as he puts it, for a fourth presidential nomination at the hands of his party. Some of his recent actions may possibly tend to give that effect, especially his appeal to the house as representative of the sentiment of the country on the tarift auestion rather than the senate, which was plainly a bid for popular applause. At the same time the president must see that the crowd of lesser aspirants for the white house chair is increasing with wonderful rapidity by daily accessions from the democratic ranks. With all his alleged conceit he must know that the party cannot confine its favors to one man. If he does really anticipate a fourth nomination, he can no longer have that farsecing judgment with which he is usually credited. Great bodies move slowly. That accounts for the deliberation with which President Cleveland fs passing upon the new tarift bill. Where the Shoe P rk Sun. g ent signs the tariff bill ‘the MeKinley act will cease to be the ‘cul- minating atrocity of class legislation.” Mckinley act contains no income tax ches. If the pres to pay for | —_—— Divested of Nis Yellow Coat. Chicago Tribune. Poor Wilson! A few months ago he was being lauded to the skies as the Moses of the democratic party. Today the Washing- ton dispatches are filled with the discussion of ways and means to pension off the original author of the tariff bill. Such is political fame, Don't Bo Too Sure. New York Tribune, The democratic statemen and fournalists who assert that the German tarilt bill will bring about an immediate era of prosperity were just as confident last fall that the repeal” of the. silver law would make a speedy end of the hard times. But the melancholy failure of the prediction then has not taught them humility. e g —— How the Trast Grinds Labor. Springfield Republic The wall paper trust, having whipped most of its competitors’ into line, is now engaged in tightening its grip on the trade by reductions of wages in the several trust factories. A case in point is the old Jane- way & Co.'s factory at New Brunswick, N.J., wheére a prosperous business had been built up and close relations established between the employer and employed under the personal supervision of the owners, Now the employes have to deal with officers of the trust, remotely located, who have no sort of interest in or regard for the workmen, and who have now ordered them all discharged with the intention of hiring them back at reduced rates of pay. It 1§ evident enough that this trust control of industry cannot go on developing without inviting serious trouble. —————— Cost ot cratic Rule, Philadelphin Telegraph. To sum it all up, democratic ascendency in sixteen months has cost the country in loss of business, loss of wages, reduction of values, and general financial and indus- trial demoralization more than $1,000,000,000, This in a little more than one vear, and but the’ beginning. The shrinkige 'must continue In every direction. and what is lost will be lost foreve The reduction in wages in one v under the Cleveland tariff in the middle states alone will reach $100,000,000. And the workman is not the only one affected. The reduction in his wage represents a corresponding reduction in the amount of his purchases. He will lose at both ends, He will get léss money in his weekly envelope and he will have to pay mor his sugar to start with. He wiil have v cheaper clothing, or rather that is at a lower price, which Is always the dearest In the end. Heé has seen sore times during the last year, and he Is for it while the present administration lasts, at least. It was indeed a dark day, not only for Philadelphia, but the whole country, when the tariff bill of 1894 passed the house. ey CONVENTION OF JOKERS. : A man with plenty of out an existence some- s: se Courle sand is sure to grind how. Life: Brown—T hear you are the happy father of twins. Jones—I am the New York News: She-— young to be called colonel, He—Well, 1 have been' in eighteen en- gagements, and the girl and I fought in cvery one of them. father of twins. ou are awfully Florida Times: It wouldn't be so bad when the mosquito presented his bill if he didn’t sign the receipt in such fiery ink. Philadelphls for that mat- ter, in a couple of weeks ¢ven the oyster will open for business at the old stand. Somerville Journal: After all, there is no better health-lift for a man, in his wite's opinion, than the necessary hod of coal. Indianapolls Journal: “Oxcuse me, Mr Acheimer,” remarked Mr. Grossgeld, '*but id 1 understand you to say that der bro- 1its of dis pizness you vant me to invest in vouldt pe ten thonsandt a year net or ten thousandt o year nit?" Buffalo Courier; Anxious Inquirer— Qur legal editor, "After” careful research, decides that vou 'aré hardly entitled to r cover damages because the “Chalk Talk’ you attended theother night was not a lecture on the milk business. Washington Sfar:' “My son,” sald the economical father, “these cigars are bet- ter than 1 smokedlat your age.” “Tather,” replied.the youth' it pains me to do it, but 1 4m gompelled' to state that they aré better than the cigars you smoke LIKE CURES LIKE, Courler-Journal, Since love % & disease—heigh-ho! So proven by the proctors; This diagnosly Worketh woe To one pour 1k of doctors, 0 to—ye allopathic vanish on s cante 5 homeopathy w Similibus cdrantur, reed— POLITICAL POTPOURRL Burt county's delegation will vote solidly for the an of its cholce. It is not divided on_governor. The impeachables are all in the city now, and the Majors headquarters s where they most do congrogate, Pender Republic: Tom Majors Is sweating his old hickory shirt every day, these days, making gubernatorial hay, which is llable to be rained on next Wednesday. Walt Seely has nothing to say about the Taylor voucher, except that “the ineldent has closed.” He seems to know when it is best to keep his tongue between his teeth. The hickory shirters displayed great ac- tivity last night, but thelr movements re- sembled those of drowning men snatching at straws with death staring them in the face. B. & M. passes are as thick around the Majors rooms at the Millard as they wero at Lincoln two years ago. J. H. Ager, as usual, is the chief dispenser of the favors to the tattooed faithful. “I'm afrald Tom's done for,” remarked an intimate of the tattooed candidate last night, “for he hasn't shaved for four day And when Tom Majors puts off having his whiskers removed for that length of time there is always something troubling the old man’s mind, When Tom realizes that he is knocked out he lets his beard grow for a week #0 as to hide his chagrin,” Lincoln News: The MacColl boom recelved substantial encouragement in 8 ventions, especlally in Douglas county, where the 108 delegates to the state convention were instructed to vote for Jack first, last and a few other times. At present nearly 200 dele- gates have been instructed for MacColl, and when the conveation mects there will be enough MacColl men to make him the re- publican’ candidate for governor. Only the most shameless betrayal of delegates or the purchase of them by the approved rallroad methods can secure the nomination of Majors, Sidney Telegraph: Jack MacColl will be a governor of which Nebraska can well feel proud. He Is thoroughly American and has always been identificd with Nebraska's de velopment. The best place to find a man out is his home town. The Lexington people will stake their all on their home man. They know him. The entire western part of the state Is for him, not particularly that he is a western man 80 much as it is that h clean handed, capable and honest. methods are ‘open and above board. Tt the same with him in politics as in business Jack MacColl is a sure winner. He will bring dignity, intelligence and business acumen to the office, He know the needs of our great state, and knowing its neces. sities he can the better protect its interests The republican party of Nebraska can do no better thing than to put Jack MacColl at the head of the ticket. Let us not go into this campaign handicapped by a candidate who must from start to finish make a de- e campaign. We do not say that ck” is better than any other candidate ose name Is mentioned in connection with the nomination, but we do say that, all things considered, he is the most available, and being the most available, as a matter of party policy, we should head our ticket with Jack MacColl. Lincoln Call: The republican state con- vention will be held Wednesday. The dele gates will.go Into the convention with a full understanding of the political conditions in this state. They will nominate a state ticket with full knowledge of the necessity for patriotic action, for the naming of clean, strong men. There has never been a time in this stato when there was a greater re- eponsibility on the delegates to a republican state convention, It is in the power of the men who will make up this convention to absolutely insure success. On the other hand, it is possibl that such a course might b adopted that will result in partial defeat for the state ticket. The Call looks forward to the state convention with the same hope that it entertained prior to the congressional corvention, and wo trust the result may be cqually satisfactory. For governor there should be nominated a man of experlence, good judgment and determination—a man who, uninfluenced by prejudice or clamor, can be depended upon to guard the interests and credit of the state at all hazard. And for the other offices there should be named meti of known ability and integrity. And the platform should be a square, positive declaration of republican principles, without equivocation or any yielding to populist prejudice. The Call believes that the party will prove equal to the emergency and that the work done in Omaha this week will commend itself to the republican voters of the state. is is P GOOD, IF TRUE. Nebraska politiclans, no less than those of New York and Indiana, play the game of politics for all there is in it. An amusiug instance of the fervor with which the average cross-roads statesman_onters the game and the resources displayed by him in prosecuting it was narrated by one of the Nebraska delegation to the Chicago Record corre- spondent. “In the Missourl river,” said he, “there is an island containing about thirty voters, The result of a recent election hung upon thelr ballots. It they voled against a certain candidate for a local of he would be defeated. Without their op- position.he would be elected. Two or threc days before the clection a physician from the main land, where they would have to go lo vote, reported that smallpox existed on the {sland and the town on the other bank ~f the river was_promptly quarantined against the jsland. This barrier was maintained uniil after the election, which resulted in a vie- tory for the candidate referred to, who is said to have been a friend of the physician. The case s now In the courts.’ Mr. Pence of Colorado was making an elo- quent address in the house on Monday night of last week, on the tariff bill, and, soaring fo a high oratorical altitude, pointed to Uhe house clock, and in @ solemn tone exclaime “This bill will pass when that clock strikes 10." There was a solemn hush second or two, when Il w on the republican side: Vi strike, Lafe.” was Mercer of Nebraska, collapsed with laughter, and it time before Mr. Pence could equilibrium. Pence cornered Mercer. at the main the next ‘afternoon, according o tho Wash el »ost, and held him 2 o D tcrcer, ho sald, “I've got a little il 1 want you to help me pass. Dropriates @ small sum of money, not enough fo tut any figre in the treasury balance. Vill you vote for it?” N ortainly," sald Mereor; “what is it for? “Oh, T want the house to buy a striker for that clock, said Pence, sending Mercer across the lobby with a slap on the back. Dem that 1 5 broken ““That od a by a clock The was regain house some his donr Sound Harsh in catic Ears. Globe-Democrat, S tong will soon be headed for nomeE NG brass bands, please, and kindly omit the soft notes of the popsun. OUR MELLOW AUGUSL. Atlanta Constitution, llow month of August 15 a mellow indecd! the coals up the The mel month, pile in higher We huve fces, we have juleps and ther- ometers' Lo hee il (Phat fellow with my overcoat s late!) We revel in the sunlight—with a handi "ehict or two. e this fur how suits a cap my hea ) ¥ We sweiter helter-skelter where the are burning blue. % v (Just put a dozen blankets on my bed!) skies 0, mellow month of August, with the glory ' “on the hillst Kk IU8 getting colder by degrees. whahink Bikie o the tcadows, and the ripple on the rills! R0 (1 wonder If the waterpipes will freeze?) Higicac 0o all 1 Leavening Power.— Latest U, 5. Gov't Keport, Re Baking Powder ARSOLUTELY PURR that T know. He Is one of the most popular YOUng representatly and has so many friends among the leaders on both sides of the house that he al- BETTER OFF WITROUT THEM, House Committece Makes a Strong Feport | lexislation he desires for. his people. He Favoring t1e Exolnsion of Anazohista, has an excellent record for this session of cong and every one will be glad to know that he has been renominated. In my judgment, the republicans of the Omaha district have made a splendid selection. Congressman Bryan will leave Washington on Thursdiy morning for Lincoln. On his way home Mr. Bryan will stop a day at At- lantie, Ia., and deliver a speech In favor of the election of Weaver, the populist candi- dato for congress in fhe Ninth Iowa dis- riot. Dr. J. O. White has been appointed a member of the board of examining surgeons at Plankinton, and Dr. J. M. Lewis at Can- ton, 8. D. Annfe L. postmistress MEXICANS FINALLY PAY AN OLD CLAIM Congressman Henderson of Town Spoaks & Good Word for Congressman Mercer ~Bryan Wil Stop and Speak for Weuver, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BE 1407 1 Street, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21, A strong report favoring the rigid ex- | S clusion and deportation of alien anarchists s has been made by the house committee on | HLAE, Judiclary. The report says “It is admitted on all hands the question Is one of very great importance and that legislation on the subject is called for by every conslderation of public safety, The committee Is advised that owing to the se- vere legislation recently adopted by France and Italy a great many dangerous an- archists are making their way to the Unit States, and as under existing laws they can- not be denied admlission to our territory, the United States will soon the rendezvous of these human monsters, unless the pro- posed legislation is speedily adopted. Your ommittee 1s of the opinfon that the Vnited States is fully justified by existing circum- stances to use all its powers to prevent the {mmigration and settlement in of men who repudiate all law ernment and practically selves as the enemies of mankind. Your committee has no desire to hamper the vigorous and prompt execution of a law pro- viding for their deportation by 100 nec proceedings or delays an concede that the superintendent of fmmigra- tion and secretary of the treasury may bo fully trusted to confine the operation of the law to those who are justly subject to its provisions.” The report takes up the various objections made to the proposed measu; and disposes of each of them. Concerning the objection that the bill is faulty in not defining anarchy, the report says: ‘“As the meaning of the word is as ‘absence of government,’ the of society where there 5 Mo law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion, and i's meaning s well known it is consldercd unneces: ¥ to en umber the law with a special definition,” | of The committee meets the obloction that a person should not be charged with anarchy and deported without jury t “It would hardly be contended, we suppose, that the government ought to maintain a Jjury at every port of entry for the purpose of bassing on the qualifications of emigrants who desire to enter, and as the emigrant | At a test the other day v 7 ant | At a test the other day the com Who has been permitted to enter acquires [ was out of quarters, fully equipped for. the Do rights not possessed by the foreigner | fire, twenty-two seconds after the alarm was Who desires to enter we are unable to per- | tured in. Amsterdam hitherto claimed ceive upon what principle a jury trial 18 | to hold the record on twenty-six seconds. insisted Upon In order (o deport an allen | “genator Caftery of Loulaiana has en:'fam ! residence In the countiy Is considered | _ho will not shake hands, He thinks it s detrimental to the public weifare. a senseless thing and refuses to practh In conclusion, the report states that there | {t *When a atranger 1s introdused o etace s full constitutional power for. the cnact- [ ho, of courae, strelshes out hia e Jre oo ment of the proposed law and that there I8 an | ing’but the Loulsiana senator paye w oe: ;nlrgn-:1];xrcexs-ly for the immediate passage of | tention to it and the man hnxgllg llmwul; e bill. e back. For years he has observed this custom MEXICANS PAID INDEMNITY. and maintains it even in the scnate, the A celebrated case, which has occupied a | paradise of handshaking. 00d part of the atfention of the State de Senator Isham G. Harris wi am G. as going up i vartment for seven years and has figured | the senate elevator the other day whet ong In congress in years gone by, has just come i of the correspondents who was “standing at to a successtul termination and the Mexican | the semator's elbow exclaimed n a. loud government pluced with the State de- { voice: “I'l daro any man to ask .Senator partment to the credit of Mrs. Leon Me- | Harris whether the conference has adjourned Leod Baldwin, the sum of $20,000 as indem- | or not.” There was u second of awed Still- nity for the assassination of her husband. | ness, The crusty old Tennesseoan turned abe Mr. Baldwin was superintendent or manager | ruptly upon the venturesome young man and of the Valenciana mines. In August, 1887, | said in his most impressive manner: “You while makizg a tour of a group of mines be- ask me any question you plense today longing to a party of American capitalists, ho I don't happen to bave my pistols with was fired on by two men concealed be- hind rocks close by the mines. They were well known despe does/—Castor Martin and Vicente Bee r Baldwin was badly wound d and sought refuge in a tunnel. The desperadoes cried: “We intend to make y With the whole gritigo company,” and called upon the unarmed miners to surren- der Mr. Baldwin, or they would fire on them. To save the lives of the helpless men, Mr. Baldwin surrendered himself on the promise that he would be allowed to pay a ransom and go 0 The bandits put him on a mule, carried him down the road, and in a few minutes shot him through the brain and disappeared. The Mexican government dented responsibility for the assassination, and it has taken seven years to convince them they are liable. Meanwhile the in- demnity was scaled down from the original figures of $100,000 to $20,000. PLEASED WITH MERCER'S RENOMINA- TION. the announcement of the re- nomination of Mercer, Colonel Henderson ot oday. said: “I con- gratulate the republicans of the Second Ne- braska district on their choice. I consider Congressman Mercer one of the most cfficient of the young members on the floor of the house. " He is such an energeic, alert and actly worker for Omaha and his dist that he makes one of the best representatives Magorien has been appointed at Gayville, Yankton count D., vice Iver Bagstad, resigned. ¥ - INDTHINGS, Mr. Debs fs hooked (o speak at Topeka and St. Louis on Labor day. o senator from Troy achieved some dine netion. e collared the Go J cuffed the popguns eSS Ambassador Bayard s safd to be impressed with hi for president in | According to another seer, sink into the sea and hundred years Bosh Bicyelist mmern, | sald to be due to h which is declured by ches longer than the Accounts weapons used by war recall the tles and bottles The death is annou Mr. Bugen: Omaha, strongly vailability as a candidate New York will in a few wash disap, It won't 1's great success is whnormally large heart, the doctors to be two werage. and vooiferous in the present days of political bat- Third ward. el in New York of Lawrence, aged 71, Twenty ars ago his name was familiar to readers of magazines and illustrated weeklies, Governor Matthews of Indiana suppressed a resolution endor him for president in the pacra te convention, Level headed democrats are fighting shy of ‘96, For reasons that require no explanation, this year's campaign in the Second district will have, for eligible young ladies, none of :n charms which marked the contest of 802, Senator Vest of Missouri his friends all about it retire from’ politics. ous_political ban of Missouri The cuckoo of southern California s the deadly enemy of the rattlesnake. The ad- ministration is experimenting on the political rattlers of Maryland with u branch of the same family. Hon. William Nye, formerly a dispenser aw and letters in Wyoming, is convin a from experience that manly beauty com- mands the united support of women voters. Owing to' this fact Mr. Nye wisely refrained from secking elective office in Wyoming after the anting of woman suffrage Berlin claims the Buropean record quickness in turning out the fire be the ancient haleyon N e this country i all gov proclaim them- is now willing to ays he will tell when he decides to Still, there are numer- pecls on the highways ined state for brigade, ny tested Prof. Charles Eliot Norton sald at the Bryant centenary “The harebell npds with the rhythm of Scott's delightful verse; the daffodil dances to Wordsworth's tune; the lark sings Shukespeare's ‘Hark! hark! at heaven's gate; the nightingale never ceases to lament for her poet’s untimely death in Keats; and as Burns has made the mountain daisy, so b de the fringed gen- tian his own. long as a wild duck shall cross the erimson sky of evening in its flight, so fong shall Bryant's memory float heavenward with it.” Private Tom Allen, M. C., does not pose as a prophel, yet ho has shown himself a more reliable one that the average profes- sional. When asked, after the president's letter was made public, whether the house would yield, he forccasted the outcome in these words: “Why, of course we will. We always give in when we have a row with the senatc. We are going to raise h—1 for a while and let on as It we never, never would be enslaved by the trusts and plutocrats, bug when we gel out of wind we are just golng to lie right down and let them step on our necks. That is the way we always do, and it is very mortifying for a man of my pride and high moral principles to realize that while the trusts are having to pay a big price for the senate they are getting ths house for nothing, When learnin he Fall of Pompeii (Pronounce Poin-pa—ye) B EATARATS ek bk Is not more com- plete than the Fall of Prices — pronounced half-pri-ces—in our | men's suits—$25 suits $12.560—$20 ones $10.— $17 ones $8.50—$15 cutaways-—light or dark—cheviots worsteds—elegant goods—DBoy's suits— $2.50—all wool cheviot—6 to 14 years -all colors— another-—$3—neat checks—latest cut-—double braas ted —and $3.50-—nice quiet patterns—same qualily - another—$4—little better—But--best of all—combin- ation suit-—$4.50—extra pants--cap (o match-—neat little Scoteh cheviot checks—guaranteed all wool—all ab cost— nicest waists— ones $7.50—sacks cassimeres 2-piece suits—straw hats lowest prices— Browning, King & Co., s, 8. W, Cor. 15t] Reliable Clothie nd Douglas.