Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 24, 1894, Page 4

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Tasc \Jishing company, ithe_notual number ‘of The Daily Morning, F during the month of 210 1 24108 30,053 28321 27,371 26,560 L 24628 Total Losn deductiong CODIes .v...0ns for vinsold ‘and Total sold Dally average *Sunday. circuiation I e GEORC Sworn to before me and su! ence this st day Gf Augus Seal.) P, FEI 3 B, TZSCHUC tibed In my pres- 1894, . Notary Publie. The influx of lawyers returning from sam- mer vacations Is a sure indication that the ‘courts are about to grind once more. President Cleveland s reported to have Teturned to Washington “looking mueh bet- ter.” There was always considerable room Jor improvement in looks. Congress may be expected to adjourn fust as soon as its conge ariives, duly signed and attested by Mr. Havemeyer and stamped With the seal of the favorits Sugar trust. There is an old German adage: If you go to bed with dogs, you are sure to get up with fleas. A party that loads up with tat- toed men must expect chastisement at the ballot box. ' When the prices of everything on the mar- ket have been going down for months, the rallroads of lowa ask that the state rail- road commission kindly raise the rates for transporting freight in that state. How (oes Tom Majors fit that plank of the platform which demands the enforcement of the maximum rate bill which he sought to choke off by all the disreputable tactics of which he has shown himself capable, when presiding over the stato senate? The telegraph companies have no objection 1o the absence of quorums in the two houses of congress, particularly when the sergeant- -erms is directed to send messages by wire to the absent members requesting them to return to snswer to thelr names when the ol 1s called, Buzzard’s Bay has settled down once more to its duily diet of theatrical and literary celebritiey, content with having supplied the temporary ebiding place of the president, sick from perplexity as to his duty regarding & tarlff bill passed by congress in spite of his bitter denunciation of it. How conventent to charge the defeat of the Yale athletes who contested with Oxford in England for the International championship upon the differences In climatic conditions between the two countries! But if this is true, America can never hope to win in England nor England in Amerlea. Candidates in the fleld of local polities are” even more numerous in comparison with the number of offices to be filled than they have been in the fleld of state politics. There Is also Just as large a proportion of rougues and tricksters. The local tickets must be made up of clean men without regard to the char- acter of the state tickets. Mr. Pullman refuses to be interviewed re- garding Governor Altgeld’s visit to Pullman. He s probably preparing another statement for the publie defending his philanthropie attitude toward his former employes. The poople will cartainly be disappointed if they do not eontinue to recelve their regular com- munications from Mr. Pullman. Sixth district populists hailed the announce- ment of the nomination of Majors for gov- ernor by the republican railroad convention with eheers and other signs of jubilation. The nomination of Majors by the railroad convention brings joy to the hearts of the populists everywhore in the same degree that its brings consternation and disgust upon honest and conscientious republicans through- out the stata of Nebraska. Pete Schwenck 1s the right man to manage Tom Majors' canpalgn in Douglas county. Pete Is the very fellow that was coavicted in the congressional investigation of pro- curing and Hlling out the blank ceriitying over the name of the secretary of state and attested with the seal of state the bogus and frauduleat census return for which Tom Majors was censured and recommended for indictment in the District of Columbla. Mr. Kem has been nominated for a third term by the populists of ths Sixth district. It passes all comprehension how a man like Kem, who has done nothing to speak of ex- cept drav his salary in ths four years he has been in eongress, should be endorsed for re-election when there are so many more capable and deserving populist leaders in his district, It remains to be seen, however, ‘whether Mr. Kem will pull througa again as Agalnst a bright and tireless worker like Matt Daugherty. o Only ten days rematn before the reopening ©Of the public schools. It behooves the school board to see that everything is quite ready for resuming work upc: the very first day. Most usually so many things are left un- provided until the vacation period is almost @t an end that it is Impossible to set the machinery of tho schools promptly in opera- tion. There have been no mew school build- Ings erected thls year nor any very extensive repairs except at the Dodgo school. There ‘was amplo time for completing all the work in hand this summer so0 as not to Interfere witix the reopening of the schools (n the least. The children ought (o bave (he full benefit of lnstruction throughout the eatire school Fear, commencing with the very frst day. RAILROAD PASS BRIBERY. The most potential factor in the nomi- nation of Thomas J. Majors was the wholesale distribution of railrond pass bribes. Not only was free transportation given to almost every delcgate on the line of the Burlington road from TPlattsmouth to Box Butte, but annual B. & M. passes were distributed where they would do the moat good in con- verting delegates from thelr honest cholce to the support of Majors. Every retamer and heeler from Ager to Walt Secley had satchels full of passes which wete given out with a lavish hand and did thelr pernicious work more effectively (han it they had been = many bamk bills. A great many racn who would resent the offer of a bribe readily accept the pass bribe as a compliment, and in nearly every instance they fecl bound to reciprocate by casting their votes in accordance with the request of the pass distributor. In the paliniest days of Gould and Dillon, when the entire Unlon Pacific was a political machine, thers was nathing in the way of pass bribery to compars with the wholesale pass scatteration of the Burlington bosses, to hom Mujors his bought ination. Majors himself has for the last two years dealer In pass extent that would seem incredible to parties who are not familiar with which he bas beem working while masquerading as the handed farmer and playing racket. Every candidate whatever ticket he money alone owes nom been a bribes ta an the methods by up popularity honest, the old harny for the legislature, may run, should be mad to give a wriit:n pledge that he will supy a bill to prohibit, undar severe penalties, t Issuance and acceptuoce of rallroad p or free mileage tickets any pretext except to operaiives and rexular employes of the rallroads. So long raifroad pass bribery Is winked ai there can be no fre choice of candidates in political conventions, THE REPURLICAN PLATFORM. Barring the rather verbose introductorv the platform adopted by the republican con- vention commends itself as eminently sound on the most vital points at jssue im the impending campalgn. The® money plank speaks with tain sound against in favor of a sound, stable curr:n of which every dollar will represent 100 cents in com- mercial as well as in debt-paying value. The railroad regulation plank strikes the nail on the head squarely in de nding the enactment of laws that will enforce that pro vision#of our state constitution which forbi flctitious capitalization of railroads and de- clares void all stock dividends and stock issues that do not represent an actual fi- tment. The demand for the enforcement of the maximum rate bill enacted by the last leg- islature until the same is declared vald by the courts voices the sentiment of the great mass of railway patrons. The plank in favor of the supervision, regulation and control by the national gov- ernment of corporations engaged in inter- state commerce with a view to preventing their fictitious capitalization and excessive bonding s in harmony with the railroad plank and would, if carried out, go further toward breaking up the existing trusts than any legislation yet devised. The declarations in behalf of the rights of labor and in favor of preventing lockowt- and strikes by arbitration should meet with approval of capitalists as well as working- men . The demand for the extirpation of anarchy by the passage of the pending bill to exclude foreign anarchists from American sofl will meet the general approval of all law-ablding citizens. The recommendation for the submission of a constitutional amendment to enlarge the scope for the investment of the perma- nent school fund is timely and should be carried out by the next legislature. The recommendation for diversified indus- try and the stimulation of sugar beet culture cannot fail to meet the approval of every Nebraska land cultivator who has given the subject any thought. In most respects tho republican platform will be in consonance not only with the views ‘of republicans, but also a large per- centage of the membership of other parties. It the men nominated by the convention were by their record in public life and in their relations to the corporations that are subject to state and national control in har- mony with the enunclations of the pla\form the republicans would have reason to expect to-carry the state by their old-time majority., —_— on se8 under as no the free silver ci uncer- aze and THE NEXT CONGRES The republican gains in the several states of the north where elections were held kast year ranged from 6 to 9 per cent, and it is a reasonable estimate that the average re- publicar gain throughout the country this year will be at least 7 per cent. Assuming that such ‘an average will be maintained in all the congressional districts outside of the south 1t would emable the repablicans to elact representatives in seventy-three dis- tricts which are now heid by democrats or populists. Such a chango would make the next house stand republicans 200, democrats 1465, with probibly about the same number of populists as at present, most of the {hird party men coming from the south insteud of from the west. The Buftalo Express enumerates the follow- Ing districts fu which a republican gain of 7 per cont would wipe out the denocratic majorities: The Fourth Califronia, the First Colorado, the First, Second and Fourth Con- necticut, Delaware, the Sixteenth, Elghteenth and Nincteenth Iinols and the two at large; the Kirst, Second, Fifth, Seventh Eighth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thir- teenth Iudiana, the Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Karsas and the one at lirge; the Third, Ninth and, Tenth Kentucky; (he Pirst, Fifth and Sixth Maryland; the Fitth, Seyenth and Tenth Massachusetts; the Second, Fifth, Seventh and Tenth Michigan; e Third, Sixth and Seventh Minnesota; the Fourth, Twelfth and Fifteenth "Missour; the First Nebraska; the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Elghth New Jersey; the Fifth, Nineteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-first New York; the Ninth North Carolina; the Third, Ninth Fourteenth, Sixteenth and Eightseath Dhlo the Twelfth and Twenty-fourth Pennsylyania; the First and Second Rhode Island; the Third and Eighth Tennessee; the First, Second, Third w4 Fourth West Virginia; the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The Express says that this calcalation Is based solely on republican gains, but in most cases where the republicans will gain the democrats will suffer a faliing off in their vote. On account of this transterrence considerable less than 7 per cenl increase of the republican vote would be sufficient to overthrow democratic majorities, which in 1892 wers much larger than 7 per cent of the fotal vote. The Express says: *Of course there are in this Mst many districts in which the democrats, though they have relatively small majorities, are so stringly fortified that it will be impossible t defeat them. But un the otiwr hand many dlstricts where republican prospects are wery good SE_OMAHA are left out. It may fairly be sali, therefore, that the omisslons will eounterbalance the Imposxibles included and thal the next aouse will have a republican majority approaching fitty.” This appears to be A safe and con- servative conclusion, but should it be somewhat optimistic the margin Is sufficlently lberal to permit of absolate con- lenice that the republican majorily in the heuse of representatives of the Fifty-fourth congress will not be less than forty. The importance of having the next house of representatives republican cannot be over- estimated. It |s necessary to put a check to the democratic purpose o further assall the prineiple of protection, A republican house could not secure the enactment of any legislation not accsptable to a demo- cratic senate. It could, therefore, do noth- Ing toward remedying the faults and the demaging effccts of the tarlff legislation of this congress. But it would be a bulwark against the further efforts of democracy in the direction of free trade. Should the democrats succeed In retaining control of the house for another two years they would not leave a vestige of protection to Amerlican Industties and American labor. It Is their avowed keep up the crusade against that policy,and a popular endorsement next November of what they have already done would stimulate them to go the full length in their destructive assault on protec- tion. The election of a republican house will give an effectual check to this design. prove o too purpose to THE WHEAT SITUATION. The comparatively smali export demand for neat e low price of that grain are souraging facts not only for the wheat growers of the couutry, but for all interests dependent for (nel: prosperi'y upon the pros- perity of the agricultural interest. For the month of July the exports of wheat (flour included) from all points amounted in round figures to 11,000,000 bushels, against 19,000,- 000 In the same month last year. The ex- ports from the Pacifle were less than ono-tenth what they in July, 1893, while for the Atlantic they were less than one-half. It Is thus seen that the crop year begins most inauspiciously for th. pro- ducers, and when it is rem:mbered that the government report and mearly all unofficial statements prior to the middle of July indi- cated a yield far below the average the smallness of th: exports assumes greate importance, since under such conditions for- eigners would be likely to buy more largely than they would done pecially as tie averag: price in July, only cents at New York, was altogether (he lowest ever known in any month. A writer In the New York Tribune, who is evidently entirely fumillar with the situ- ation, says that the trade on both sides of the ocean treats the gowernment estimates of vield with entire coniempt. The unoficial estimates now most generally trusted point to a yield exceeding 40,000,000 bushels, and the facts seem to indicate that the yield will be even higher. The movement of wheat from farms to western markets has been larger than a year ago, from July 1 to Au- gust 18 about 29,000,000 bushels, against 21,- 000,000 bushels last year, when the crop was certainly over §00,000000 bushels, and 36,- 000,000 bushels in the same weeks of 1892, when the crop was large, and 35,000,000 bush- “is in th: same weeks of 1391, when the crop was the largest ever grown. It seems to be demonstrable that the yield of 1893 ex- ceeded 500,000,000 bushels. According to the writer quoted, indications at present are that the yleld this year is somewhat larger than it was in 1893, Minnesota and the Da- kotas claim 125,090,600 bushels, against 77,- 000,000 bushels reported by the department last year. Other state reports quite gemer- ally promise more than the department al- lows. The larger movement this year in spite of phenomenally low prices is an indication not apt to be erroneous. It can therefore be assumed, until further information, that the crop year starts with about 82,000,000 bushels commercial wheat in the country and a yleld of about 530,000,000 bushels, against which thzie may be required for food 320,000,00) bushels and for seed 56,000,000 bushels. This would leave for export more than 236,000.000 bushels, a quantity larger than forelgn countries seem likely to require, Indeed it is a greater quantity than foraign countries have taken from us in a number of years, and now we have (o meet a more ex- tensive competition from wheat-producing ocountries than ever before. Manifestly the situation Is a most unprom- ising one for American wheat growers, for it seems to clearly point to still lower prices, notwithstanding the fact that they lave al- ready reached lower figures than at any pre- vious time in the last forty years. The ad- vice of the late S:cretary Rusk naturally comes to mind in connection with this mat- ter. In his last report he told the farmers of the country that in order to make wheat- growing profitable they must reduce pro- duction. It was sound advice then and is all the more s0 now when the competition of other wheat-producing countries is increas. ing. and coast were have otherwise, — THE COST OF DELAY Whether President Oleveland signs the tarift bill or permits 1t to become a law by the lapse of the constitutional ten days without his signature can make no possible difference with public sentiment on the sub- ject. A new fariff bill can be enacted only with the president’s consent, and It affects popular opinion little whether that comsent is given In writing by a formal app.oval of the act or whether it is given taitly by passive inaction unt/l the time limit al- lowed shall have expired. Assuming then that the bill is to become a law, an assump- tion which seems warranted by the atticude of both congress and the cabinet, every day of delay adds to the profits of the trusts and other beneficlaries of the pending legis- lation at the expense of the national treasury and the taxpayers who are compelled ta sup- port it. The receipts from customs have practically fallen off in their entirety, while the recelpts from the internal revenue in discount of future taxes greater than ever. Importation of dutiable articles 1s prac tically at a standstill, because the importers are aware of the prospective decrease in the rate of duty and see that their interests aro best subserved by working off stock upon which the old rate of duty has been pald and holding back new goods until they can enter the country at the reduced tariff rates, They are enabled to do this through our bonded warehouse system, leaying their new importations in bond until after the new law shall have taken effect. As a econse- quence, the bonded warehouses are over- crowded with goods. There Is, to be sure, some contention that imported articles must vay the rate of duty in force at the time they were brought into the country, bat there is really nothing in such argument for the reason that all such articles could be re-exported without charge and then re- tmported at the new asd lower rate of duty. On one class of importations tue pres dent’s delay has had a precisely opposite effect. For some thne the Sugar trust has Leen Increasing and expediting its imports are of raw sugar. Its imports In June ex- cocded 500,000 pounds. 1t imports for August are wjd o be at the rate of 600, 000,000 pounds 0A 20,000,000 pounds per day. The explanatlfi”be this is that under the existing law sugar is free and the trust de- sires”to bringimts the country as much raw SUBOr as POSSINE before the Amposition of the duty of 0 per cent. It thus avolds vaying anything, jnto the treasury and will turn the equivalgnt of the duty into its own pockets 0 seon as the mew tarift affords it the opportunity, Simultaneously with this proce ding the, Whisky trust ks taking ou' of bond every day large quantities of spirits in order that #t thay escape the payment into {he treasury of the ‘added tax of 20 cents & gallon on spifits, Its present withdrawal will enable the trast to colleri the extra 20 cents from purchasers of whisky frow and after the enforcement of the revised Internal revenue schedule. ‘The Whisky trust, like the Sugar trust and the Im- porters, believes in making hay while the sun shines, The New York Times estimates the profits aceruing to the Sugar trust from the presi- feat’s delay in signing the tarift bill at $200,000 & day, and those accruing to the *Whisky trust at $300,000 per day. The Times believes that the revemue being lost to the government on sugar and whisky alone is not less than $500,000 per day, and may be much more than that. What the importers are saving it fs much more dif- ficult to guess. Yet the usually caretul Washington correspondent of the Chicago Record places it at another $00,000 per day, and makes the total 1oss ta the govern- ment $1,000,000 daily. A delay of ten duys means, «then, on this calculation, $10,000,- 000 transferred from the nationsl treasury to the coffers of the trusts and {oreign im- porters. President Cleveland has known the provisions of the senate bill ever since the first week in July and ought certainly to have familiarized himself with its details in the six wecks that it was in conference. He might, bad he so desired, have been prepared to act upon it the same day that the engrossed bill was presented to him. His failure to act upon it prompily, to veto it boldly, or to sign as after all acceptable, promises to be a rather costly proceed- ing, regerded from the taxpayers' point of view. Postmaster H g of Chicago pretends to have discovered an increase of 10 per cent in the collections of mall in that city on the day after the tarift bill passed, an in- crease of 15 per cent on the following day and’ an increase of 25 per cent on the third day, which, to hi mind, can be explained only by the resumption of business on the removal of the tariff uncertainty. Postmas- ter Hesing fears that if the work of his office continues to be augmented at this rate he will soon have to have the entire Post- office department placed at his disposal in order to keep pace ‘witl the business. Some clew to Mr. Hesing's views may perhaps be gathered from the fact that he is now in Washington urging.the authorities there to permit him to' make numerous additions to the force of employes allotted to his office. Senator Voorhees is again on duty in the senate after aniabsence of nearly four weeks forced upon him by sickness. His recovery 1s attributed efcluslvely to the good effects of the new tariff. Had the sewate and house remained in deadlogk, or had the bill fatled of passage, there is' no doubt in the minds of Senator’ Voorheed'. friends that he would still be confined to the sick room. The sen- ator is profuse In his recommendation of the tariff cure. His photographk and letter of acknowledgment will soon appear in all ad- vertisements of that wond-rful medicine. Tom Majors declared in tha nresence of 3,000 people that he refused $3.0y tendered him by congress as back salary. Anybody who has ever known Tom Majors knows enough to know that the honorable bilk who did not pay his assessment in the republi- can campaign in which he was a candi- date wouid not be likely to turn back a five- dollae bill if ever it came within his reach. The fact is he was trying to get pay for a full session of two years, or $10,000 for playing the role of contingent congressman for a few months on a forged census certificate, A conviction has just been secured in New Orleans for the soliciting and acceptance of bribes by a former member of the city coun- cil. New Orleans wil doubtless reap some benefit from the example of justice thus set for other councilmen who might be tempted to do Mkewise. If the influence of this suc- cessful prosecution would but be exerted to preserve the integrity of the public service in other cities also it would save the latter the necessity of resorting to similar proceed- ings to secure an example each for its own counclimen. . ‘The extremes of temperature during the last year have contributed toward working havoc with our wooden pavements so that today there is scarcely a woolen pavement fit for use on any street subject to moderately heavy traMic. In another year these pave- ments will have been ground to a mere mass of filthy chips. Omaha will have to do a great deal of repaving before very long. o Business men should co-operate with the Labor day committee in preparing a Labor day demonstration for Omaha that will be a credit to the city and that will attract vi tors from abroad.. The celebration can be made more than a merely local affair. There is not much time left in which to perfect arrangements, Bt ‘f that short time all should act together for the same end. Reflnod Sarcasm. Cinetdnd¥l Commercial. Tt 13 evident from fhe testimony taken by the committee nowesitting at Chicago that Pullman, I1l.,, wiss (Mot be(ng operated as a sanitarium. A Spectidé for Willlam. Wisthriiton Star. Governor McKInléy s preparing to sit back and enjoy the:spectacle that will be presented in Chaiyman Wilson's West Vir- ginia congressiona, district in a few weeks The governor Kjq\vs what it is to be the center pole of ' political cireus full of tariff trick mules”” ——re——— The Perfidy Strikes Howme. Denver Republican. Hereafter sugar wifl cost 2 cents a_pound more than it has cost under the McKinley law, because the demoeratic party has seen fit to tax that commolity, mainly for the benefit of the Sugar (rust. How do the people like to have the cost of living in- creased for the benefit of a great monopoly which alraady possesses more wealth than it knows ‘vhat to do with? el B Now to York Recorder. Enterprise, courage and self-reliance are the great American characteristics. Now 18 the hcur to exhibit them in thelr greate t, D nd highest forms. g silent factory whistles blow out! Put the great drive-wheels in motion! Drown with the roar of the mighty machinery of the re- public the idiotie clatter of the crank the- orists who have brought so much misery on the country! The Recorler appeals (o all its contemporaries tv unite with it _in this work of lifting up, In every way they can the postrate hidusiries of the nation. It s a sacred and patriotie duty, PROPLE AND THINGS, To the average railroad in politics a con- ventfon is n passing event. There are other games besides base ball in which the striker is strictly in it. When the votes that count are coun'ed vocal discords will be pitched in a 1winot key. The king of Slam denies the report of his death. Kindly words of eulogy are regret- fully recalled Reflections on the gall of Colonel Breck- inridge in seekivg a vindication are pre- mature and uncallcd for. Senator McPherson hax been persuaded to resign. Similar pressure induced valet to remain on guard. A bill taking alcohol used fn the aris off the free list has passed. This puts a plain isky and the most elaborate cocktail on all fours, The incomes not his tax_applies to Incomes for the year 1894, Although incomes are in- visible, collectors wlill nevertheless bestir themselves and draw their salaries. The Philadelphia Times utters a fow “Sober Words About Wages.” Things have come to a pretty pass when Quaker City utterances must be branded as jagless. Reformers in Cleveland are about to in- vestigate the common council. It is hinted in interested quarters that the supply of munieipal kalsomine is ample for all im- mediate needs. Colonel Hampton Hoge, the Virginia gentleman whose appointment as consul to Amoy was recalled by President Cleveland, has been nominated for congress in his dis- trict. He ought to get out a full vote. Burlington, Kan., has a pensioner who was born on Christmas day, 1791, fought in the war of 1812 and two Indian wars and served as a teamster in the civil war, An- drew Franklin, who Is said to be as spry at 103 as many men ot 60, American millionalres are not the ones who find life in England best suited to their tastes. The South African mil- lionaire, J. R. Robinson, wiill henceforth regard London as Mis permanent residence and South Africa as but a winter resort. Miss Mary Lithegon of Manistee, Mich., who recently came into a fortune of $500,000 by the death of an uncle in Glasgow, Scot- land, s none the less ambitious to succend in her chosen profession of medicine. She will graduate at Ann Arbor and finish abroad An Indiana farmer has entered suit for damages against Congressman Bynum be- cause he cannot get the promised $1.25 a bushel for his wheat. If office seekers are liable for breaches of promises made on the stump their salaries would not liquidate the court costs. The report that Sioux City is slaughter- ing horses and sending the carcasses east as prime heef s groundless, Some time ago Sioux City rettled the box and put sev- eral horses on the other fellow. The present repirt is doubtless a revamping of that little imcident. Dr. Albert B. Miles, the New Orleans sur- geon who died recently, left an estate valued at about $250,000, amassed during a prac- tice of twenty years. Under his will the Charity hospi Hotel Diew and the medl university of New Orleans will each receive $10,000. The Memphis grand jury has just un- earthed a large sized municipal sensation and has reported 736 indictments against saloon keepers, merchants and others who have not paid, or at least are not credited with paying, into the treasury the amount of thelr licenses for eight years The amount of the shortage is nearly $2,000,000, and the county officials are next to be in- vestigated to find out why the money was not collected. WHERE ECONOMY COMES IN. only Indianapolis Journal: The, democratic ap- proprintions by this congress are $28000,000 less than those of last year, and $28000,000 is the aggregate of the flchings from the pensioners. Philadelphia Press: Congressman Cannon casily disposes of the claim that the present congress is economical. A reduction in pen- slon appropriations of $29,000,000 has given the democratic majority & margin which it has used to increase other ~expenditure heavily above the appropriations three ago by the last republican congress. Boston Journal: The first year of the democratic administration has witnessed a decrease in revenue to the extent of $89,- 000,000; a deficiency for the first time in time of peace since 1860 amounting to $70,- 000,000; an increase in appropriations; an in- crease in expenditures save in what has been saved at the xpense of pensioners; the bor- rowing of money to the extent of $58,000,000; and the filching of $12,000,000 from the gold redemption fund to meet current expenses. Buffalo Express: This congress bas not been quite 8o extravagant as its predecessor, at least, if the second seision keeps up the record. The total appropriations, according to a statement issued by Chairman Sayres of the house appropriations commitiee, amount to $28,835,989 less than were passed during the first session of the Fifty-second cengress. But the appropriations of the first session of the Fifty-second congress were greater than the appropriations of the first session of the much deeried “bullion” congress by §44,201.- 677.92. The democrats have not yet made as good a record for economy as did the re- publicans whom they criticised for extrava- gance. They are beginning to appreciate the truth of the remark that this is a $1,000,000,- 000 country. e MOTTLED MIRTIL Galveston News: Some imen ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they never hap- pen to think about it New Orleans Pleayune: There are some young men who feel like going out for a iark after taking a few swallows at various places. Atchison Globe: Having a “steady” keeps a girl at home as close evenings as if she was married and had a baby. Philadelphia Record: Tt's quite ratural that the actors in seashore companies should mistake for applause the noise made by people killing mosquitoes. Philadelphia Ledger: China offers a re- ward of taels for the head of a Jap officer and 100 for the head of a private. IU's a _case of heads they lose, taels the other fellows win. Chicago Tribune: “Why don't boy to keep your desk in order: r the caller. “It looks awfully littered up. T keep It this way.” said the man at the “to show that I'm always hu'xy." But why—O, I see! Good day!" Indianapolis Journal: Mrs. Fizg—I want you to get some Insect powder when you go down town. The pantry s full of ants. Mr. Figg—Good. We won't have to go on that picnic you have been talking about We've got the materials right here at home. Chicago Record: The Ardent Democrat— Aha! You agree with me then that the democrats are magnificent fighters? The Ardent Republican—Of course T do. When they can’t get anybody else to fight they pitch in and fight one another. ou get a inquired Philadelphla Record: “I never thought thore was much in Wiewagz until we went to sea together.” “What changed your opinion?” “He got seasiclk Atlanta Constitution: I knew Sa was & mean man, but T never thou &0 back on his wife's father.” “Did he do that?’ "*Yes; you see he had nowhere else to go. Syracuse Post: story ahou City Editor—"The | Las and let it go at Philadelphla Times: In parts of this couniry dogs are used to drag around little milk carts. In connection with this bever- age there Is Mttlc harm fa working the Erowler. Atlanta Constitution: tellow.” “How?* “Got elected coroner; fellow who run against him dropped dead; Jones sat on him and made three dollars!"’ Jones 13 a lucky Tnter Ocean: “How about this cough of yours? T[s it do'ng well? “Well, yes. It bas bought a new and buggy for the doctor this month," NATURAL THE: Detrolt Free Press. Dar ain't 0o use a-talkin’, I'se about made up my ‘mi 1 haint gwinter jine de meetin’ eptin’ 1 kin fin' Sormewhar inside de kiver Ob de good book dat dey's got Some watermilyuns growin’ On my New Jerusalem lot, BAD OUTLOGK FOR TAYLOR Oivil fervico Commissicn Closing in ov Oleveland's Kansas Oity Find, HE LEVIED POLITICAL ASSESSMENTS Accused of Exacting Tribute from Employes in Interest of the Negro Natlonil Dem - ocratle Lengue—Damagiog Tosti- ny Adduced Against Him. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEE 1407 F Street, N. W WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 The clvil service commisison resumed its examination of the charges agalnst Recorder of Deeds C. H. J. Taylor today. The com- missioners have determined to clothe the in- vestigation with absolute secrecy, and a hum- ber of witnesses xald to have feceived as- sessment letters signed by Taylor, repre- senting the Negro National Democralic league, were examined at length behind closed doors. Taylor is credited with repre- senting th egro National Democralic league, but at the commission It is hinted both the league and th Afro-American Bureau of Organization of the demwcralic congressional committee are involved in the Taylor Is president of the league, and until recently was connected with the bureau He resigned from the latter position after the civil service commission began (ts investigation of the charges against Robert G. Still, the chief of the burean. It s learned the complaint concerning the us- sessments was flled several weeks ago, wlhe the full board was in sersion, and {hat it has been discussed at a number of the meet- ings subsequently, Mr. Lyman has been spending several weeks at the seashore, but returned to Washington last night to jein his two colleagues in the investigation, Sev- eral more witnesses who received th et ters probably will be examined tomorrow, and it ecan bs authoritatively tated (ho report will not be forwarded to the attorney general or the president before tomorrow night. There is strong ground for {he be- lief that accompanying it will be an urgent request, signed by the full board, fof Tay- lor's removal from the office to which Presi- dent Cleveland appointed him last spring. Thi. request will be accompanied by haustive statement summing up the ¢ and reviewing the case. The o charges were filed by W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Bee, a negro organ of this city, and by a messenger In the Interior department named Barnes, who s also busi- ness manager of the Bee. Both Chase and Barnes, as well as Secre- taries E. L. Dawkins and M. C. Coonce of the league, have appeared before the commission as itnesses. The persons accused of campaign contributions soliciting_denounce the charges as ‘“‘trumped by Chase, with the aid of the wolored senger, and ascribe them to a refusal of Taylor to appoint friends of the negro editor to positions in the recorder of deeds office and they will endeavor to have the dent retain Taylor in office, notwiths the civil service commission. NO PUBLIC BUILDING BILLS PASSED. None of the Lills introduced in the house during this session of congress providing for the erection of public buildings ha been passed by the house. A great ma- jority of these bills, however, have received favorable consideration in the committee of the whole, and among this number are a bill introduced by Congressman Mercer appro- priating $200000 for a postoffice building at South Omaha and a bill by Mr. Meikle- John providing for a building at Norfolk The amendment attached by the house to the senate bill providing for the issuance of a patent to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions for a tract of land in the Omal Indian reservation for school purposes today concurred in by the senate, and the bill Is now awaitiug the signature of the president. The Nebraska delegation in congr been flooded lately with letters fr surveyors asking for information as to when steps will be taken in regard to the resurvey of Grant and Hooker countiss, as provided for In the sundry civil bill. The reswvey is to be made under the direction of the sec- retary of the interior, and unless iuitiatory steps are taken by the commissioner of the general land office in the way of sugg>stions to the secretary the matter will have to await the disposal of the sccretary of the interior. The commissioner of the generai land office is at present away o1 his vaca- tion and Is expected to be in Washington next Wednesday, It is probable that econ after his return to duty the commissionor will take action in regard to having a re- survey. ANOTHER SERIOUS BLUNDER FOUND. Another blunder has been discovered in the tariff bill, which is almost sure o cause trouble. In the free list of the MeKinley bill appears these two paragraphs #36—Coal, anthracite, 7—Coal stores of American vessels; but none shall be unloaded." The new bill, however, unites these para- graphs in section 441 of the free list, which now reads “*Coal, antiracite and cuul stores of Amer- ican vessels, but none =hall be unlonded Of course, according to the punctuation, case, presi- anding is Las various the prohibition contained In the last applies to all that precedes It fn IM°=:= graph, Including anthracite coal, which was Intended to be mado free. As the paragraph now stands, anthracite coal cannot be uhe loaded. DYE WOODS GRTTING .SCARCE. United States Consul Willlams of San Joss, Costa Riea, reports to the State department that owing to the heavy exportation of dye woods from the country—15,000 to 16,000 tons annually— Within the next five years all this wood avail- able wil have been cut, There are large suppliew in (he terior, but they cannot be broukat to market at & paying price. The sovernment has lately fssued a decree impos- Ing an export duty of $1 per ton on fustie or other dye woods. From reports received at partment it appeara that the United States has at last turned the tables on England and is now shipping to that country carpets of the value of nearly §500,000 annually, To make the case still sironger, It is stated that these carpets are the famous Axminsters, supposed here to be produced in porfection only in Eogland, and the trade is steadily increasing. P s appointed today: Towa—Car- penter, Mitohell county, William Sefert, vice F. H. Nichols, remored; Ryan, Delaware county, J. H. Beacon, J. A. Thomas, removed Postoffico established at county, la., and Clarence sloned postmaster. W. E. Hitchcock and F. 8. Brownlee of Omaha are fn Washinglon combining busi- ness and pleasure fn a short visit. the State de- Boles, Blackhawk Aftland commis- MR THURSTON OMAHA, Aug, of The Bee and unreliable culation republican pr on yesterday the Editor conflicting are in eir- declaration of nciples at the state convention that 1 ask you to publish tie following as my exact ianguage Were 1 to frams a platform for the & publican party, it would mean this The supremacy of the constitution of the United Statos The maiatenance of law and order. The suppression of anarchy and ecrime. The protection of every American citizon in his right to live, to labor, and to vote. A vigorous fogelgn policy The enforcement of the Monroe doctrine. Safety under the stars and stripes on every sea and in every port. The restoration of our merchant The tariff of William McKinley reciprocity of James G. Blaine. American markets for American products, The protection of the Ameriean farm, the American factory the American mino from forelgn pauper competition. Such legislation as will guarantee steady employment and good wages to the work- ingmen of this country A free ticket to China for any man who insists upon his right to buy the product of human labor withcut paying a fair price to the brain and braun which produces it. The enactment of federal legislation ade- quate to secure a free ballot and a fair count in every voting precinet of the union. A one-term preside The election of United States senator by direct vote of the people. The establishment of a system. The government supervision and control of transportation lincs and rates, The protection of the people from all un- lawful combination and unjust exaction of aggregated capital and corporate power. War on the three great democratic trusts —oil, whisky and sugar., The abolition of all sictionalism; one peo- ple; one country; one flag. A political crop failure howlers and fusion jugglers. A pension policy just and generous to our living heroes and the widows and orphans of thelr dead comrades. The utmost expansion of our currency con- sistent with the malntenance of the equal purchasing and debt-paying power of every dolar. American mints for American miners, The free coinage of the American roduct of silver and gold info honest money. An American welcame to every Godsfear- ing, liberty-loving. constitution-respecting, law-abiding, labor-sceking, decent man. The deportation and exclusion of all whose birth, whose blood, whose condition, whose teachings, whose practices would menace the permanencys of free institutions, endangar the safety of American society or lessen the opportunities of American labor. An American flag for cvery American school house. A deathless loyalty to American institu- tions and a patriotism eternal as the stars. JOHN M. THURSTON. pelinltons THE MODEL WIPE, S0 many reports as to my wexact marine, and the postal telegraph for calamity Atlanta Constitution. She rises every morning, Just when the roosters crow; She gently splits the kindling Malkes the old stove puff and blow, She puts the breakfast on to cook, And sings, as if at play; And while the battercakes are made, Her husband snores away! The children show her gentle care, Thelr nightly siumbers o'er; She dresses half a doz And she whips & dozen more! Then to the room she doth repair; Her hushand hears her say: “I've almost worked myself to d Are you going to sleep all day? KRB, : bk g WA Y 'rr)('-*—., ) That the agency hats such as Dunlap's, Knox's, You- man’s, Miller's, ete., are not made by these men them- selves, but by hat makers who fill orders as the whole=~ salerdictates? Take the Miller hat, for instance—not made &y Miller, but for Miller—4y John B. Stetson. Now knowing that Stetson was about to make a “Spe- cial” hat of his own, we rightly concluded he'd make a better hat for himself than for anyone else—so we took the sole agency for Omaha for “Stetson’s Special’’—the finest hat for fabrie, finish and fashion the world has ever produced—not the extreme dudelike shapes of the agency hats—but a modest, elegant hat, and, without exception, the best hat ever made. the erown The binding is im- proved—the band stars. all are perfect, and as far outclass the Dunlap, Knox, Youman and Miller hat as tne sun does the moon and The “Stetson Special” and other new fall shap:s are now ready for inspection. Browning, King & Co., Relizgble Clothiers, S, W, Cor, 15th and Douglas, the color—the price