Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 25, 1894, Page 4

4 5% A THE OMAHA DATLY BEE, ST B ROSEWATER, Editor. e = PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. — il TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Enll] Pee (without Bunday) One Year, ally_Tlea sad Bunday, One Year i Monthr ... hree Mont Bunany Bes, One Year | Baturdny Dée, One Yeur Weekly Tiee, One Year ..... OFFICES. Omaha, The Thee Dullding. Bouth Omaha, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Ste Councll DM, el slrver 7 Chicago Office Ambar of Commerce. Hew ok, T R ione inde. Washington, w CORRESPONDENCT e Al cammunications relating to news and edi- torial matter showld be addretsed: To the Editor. BUSINESS LETTERS, o siness Ietters and remittances should be adirenscd i Y Eibihine company, Smhne Drafts, Checks and ‘osiafice orders 't Bo ade paeabic 1o the ardor of the company. * MAde PR It PUBLISHING COMPANY. T STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George 1. Tyschuck, secretary of the Dee Pub. Hahing company, being Anly swora, the actunl il ind completa conl ‘The Daily FVenink and Sunday De Srinted during the month of duly. 14, was a8 s during ¢ g for unsold an Dally average net circulation.. *Sunday. %k GEORGE 1. TZSCHUCK. Sworn to before moe and- subscribed in my pres- nis_1st day of August. 1591, Iy o siL,, Notary Publle. EBRASKA REPUBLICANS, A1l republicans who are opposed to the domination of railroads and desire to resent the attempt to make the party subservient to corporate monopolies and public thieves are hereby invited to express their views by letter directed to me personally, suggesting the best method for defeating the election of Thomas Majors. All communications will be treated as confidential when so requested. We must make an organized effort to save the state from the blighting misrule which has repudiated the pledges repeatedly made 1o the poople in our platforms; has made the execution of our laws a farce and looted the state treasury. Notice will be given in due time through The Bee what action will be deemed most advisable to accomplish the ends in view. E. ROSEWATER. It is hard enough for China to float its vessels, not to speak of floating its loans. The Modern Woodmen of America have the happy faculty of getting up a pienic that Is successful in every respect. The czar of Russia has influenza. It is therefore entirely proper that the president of the United States should be indisposed with malaria. Lawler of lengthy petition fame has finally been nominated for congress by the Chicago popullsts, Lawler knew somcthing would turn up it he only waited in patience long enough. Nebraska republicans had vietory within their reach this year all along the line if they had been permitted to make thelr cholee without the pernicious interference of rallroad bosses and impeached state offictals. Ex-Governor Boyd Insists that Congress- man Bryan is a populist. When he sees the democratic state convention he will probably come to the conclusion that the populists will have keld two state conventions in Ne- braska this yea Omaha's increase in business for the last weok in 1891 over the corresponding time in 1893, as shown by Bradstreet's compilation, Is 285 per cent. As the total increase for the United States is but 19.6, the local show- Ing 1s very comforting. ‘What justification will the officors of the Rock Island raliroad make to the directors and stockholders of that road for the loss of $800,000 to §1,000,000, which they incurred as a result of their policy of stubborness during the redent railroad strike? The honest money plank of the republican platform has done more to stiffen up the credit of Nebraska than a full corn crop. The assurance that the people of Nebraska have not all gone daft on free silver at 16 to 1 must be gratifying to Nebraska's cred- itors and investors at home and abroad. Word comes from Sioux Falls that Bank- wrecker Mosher Js jubilant over the nomina- tion of Majors and the triumph of the peni- tentlary gang in the state convention. ‘With Majors as governor Mosher’s fraudu- lent lease of the convict labor of the state will be continud until . expires in 1897. A denial {s made of the report that the Japanese government is opening all foreign letters and suppressing those considered detrimental to Japan. The privacy of the mails is guaranteed by the Japaneso consti- tution and the constitution s not suspended because of th: pendency of a forefgn war. Legietative lobbylng and brivery, saya President Moorfield Storey of the American Bar association, threatens to lead to riot, lawlessness and perhaps civil war. What could we expect if men who used their pub- 1 offices for purposes of lobhying and brivery were regulary rewarded with promotion to offices of greater honor and trust? The royal Hawalisn commissioners who went to Washington to consult with the ad- ministration in behalt their ex-queen are on their way home, expressing eom- plete satistaction with the results of their visit. They wanted to learn what Presi- dent Cleveland proposed to do and quickly discovered thit he proposed to do nothing. All we can say Is that the royal IHawaiian commissioners are men very easily satisfied, How the president's delay in acting on the tarlff bill operates upon importations of £00ds now dutizble but free in the new law 18 bolng illustrated in Boston, where a ve sel laden with wool is lylng off Cape Cod waiting for the bill to become a law. It the cargo entered now it wontd pay the gov- ernment $80,000, but by keeping away it will save this sum to th: owners. If the bill (mere already a law the treasury would be no richer, but the vessel would not have to remain idle all these days. Th: policy of delay Inures cnly to the detriment of both government and citizens, UNDER WHOSE DOMINION? Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make madgq This is strikingly applicable to the rallrond autocrats of Nebraska, It is known to all men that Jack Ma hostlle to On oll 18 not the raflroads. the contrary he had for years trained with the friends of the railroads and If anytking leaned against the anti-monopoly wing of party. didate for governor, but was accepted and | | of conciliation at a the republican He was by no means our ideal can- | supported in a spirit time when such a sacrifice seemed to by demanded for the sake of party success. | MacColl is a clean man with an unassailable | the not only in western record in legislature, He was popular | braska where he lives, but fn Omaha and Douglas county, whers the party has for years had to look for Jorities. its ma- When Mr. MacColl waited on Czar Holdrege to ascertaln whether his candidacy would not be opposed, he was asked to make pledges which no honest man who expects to live up to his oath of office could consistently Had Mr. MacColl and double-dealer make. been a political trickster he would giving all But Coll is a man of honor and integriiy. not have hesyated a minute In the Mac- While respectfully declining to comply with the re- quest guaranties that were demanded. he assured the rallroad czar that he would give the Burlington railroad and ali the other railroads “That Ir treatment. Is_all we expect,”” responded the czar days after blandly, but within three this remarkable interview the organs and cappers of the B. & M. were upon the trail of MacColl setting up the pins for Majors. The railrond czar had no use for a fair man in the governor's chair; he wanted a down- right his matter tool who would do bidding, his de- kind of a man and therefore all the power of the czar no how treasonable or criminal mands might be. Majors is that was exerted to foist him upon republicans against all protests. Flushed by last year's successful defeat of Judge Maxwell, who had dared to offend the railroad autocrat by his decisions from the supreme bench, Holdrege, who, by the way, is a democrat. proposes to ride rough shod over Nebraska republicans and make him- self absolute dictator of the political des- tinies of this state. There s no doubt that thousands of re- publicans will submit to this indignity and bow their necks to the yoke. But there are also many thousand republicans who will re- sist this attempt and refuse to follow a stained standard bearer who had to rise in the very convention that nominated him to conduct that can neither be condoned nor explained away. will resent the outrage perpeirated by the railroad czar and his minions by repudiating the tattooed can- apologize for criminal This class of republicans didate at the ballot box next November. THE POPULIST NOMINEE. With Silas A Holcomb of Broken Bow as their candidate for governor, the populists will enter upon the contest for state ofices this fall unhampered and unhandicapped. Judge Holcomb is undoubtedly the strongest man in the populist ranks who could be given that place of honor. He has been ele- vated by his party to the bench of the dis- trict in which he resides and during his incumbency has reflected nothing but eredit upon that tribunal. He was chosen by the populist state convention last year to ask the suffragés of the voters for the position of judge of the supreme court of Nebraska, and, although defeated at the polls by a republi- can plurality of some 6,000 votes, he made a campaign that lett only favorable tmpres- sions throughout the entire state, At that time The Bee spoke as follows of Jndge Holcomb's candidacy: “In nominating Silns A. Holcomb the populists have placed at tio head of Uielr ticket a man whose record, $0 far as we can learn, 1s unsullied and whose career has been free from all disreputable entanglement with corporations or boodlers. It must be a source of gratification to citizens of Nebraska, regardless of party, that the populists have chosen a man as their candi- date for the supreme bench who, If elected, will not disgrace the state and lower that high tribunal in the popular respect by in- competency and lack of integrity.” We can say no less of him now, when he stands as a candidate for the gubernatorial chair. The people of Nebraska, without regard to party lines, may well rejoice that the man who has been selected as the populist standard bearer will, If elected governor, enter upon the duties of that office with both the inten- tion and the ability of performing them, free froni corporate dictation, as the best inter- ests of the state may demand. GOODS IN BOND. It seems highly probable that the federal courts will be given some business growing out of the construction of the new tariff bill Tegarding goods in bond. It appears that Secretary Carlisle, on application of a Phila- delphia firm of importers and dealers in wool as to whether wool now in bond could be withdrawn without payment of duty when the tariff act placing it on the free list be- comes a law, has that all wool in bond, in order to avold the pavment of duty, would have to be exported and agaly im- ported. It is understood that this ruling fs in accordance with a declsion of Attorney General Olney, to whom the question was submitted by the secretary of the treasury, and who held that the rate of duty to be im- posed upon good from bond de- pends upon certain eircumstances thit may vary in different cases. If the present rate of duty on such articles has been reduced but not entirely abolished by the new bill the withdrawal from bond can be made at the new rate; but If the duty has been entirely abolished by the new bil) the merchandise must pay the rate of the existing law. Such a construction seems in- consistent and absurd and it s reported in eastern papers that importers have declared, doubtless upon legal opinion, that the courts will not uphold the ruling of the attorncy general. This wmeans, of course, that they intend to take the question to the courts, If the ruling holds the greatest sufferers will be the wool importers, who have placed “ very large quantity of wool in bond under the supposition that, as soon the new law goes Into effect, would be allowed to withdraw the wool without any payment of duty. They glven warrant for this view by the general opinion among treasury offcials be- tore the attorcey general gave his construc- tion of the law. It was the judgment of these officlals that the proper rate of duty to ruled withdrawn as they were was that in force when the merchandise in quesilon s taken out of bond. ‘The MeKin- ley law guarded against any such difficulty as this by providing that. merchandise im- ported and placed in previous to the act f.king eftect should be subjected to no other duty upon the entry or withdrawal thereof than If the same were imported re- after that day, thus making it plain to importers what would be required in the case of importations bonded for wareh purpose before the act would take effect, but the democratic bill does not contain such a provision, and, therefore, the has arisen which the courts will be asked to pass upon. That the busingss community has placed a construction on the tariff bili the opposite of that of the attorney general and the secre- tary of the treasury is shown in the course pursued. In every case in which the duty or internal revenue tax upon bonded goods s inerspsed the holders of such property in bonded warehouses have been trying to take the goods out of bond as much as they can before the bill goes into effect. On the other hand, owners of bonded merchandise which the rates are to be decreased or abol- ished by the new law have been taking as little as possible of such goods out of bond in order to profit by the changed conditions expected from the enactment of the bill. It is one of the muddles of the democratic tarift legislation that promise to make a good deal of trouble and give numerous opportunities for judicial constrictions of that remarkable measure, bond spectively entirely asing, transportation of any other question doubtiess upon ADJOURNMENT NEXT TUESDAY. Both branches of congress have alopted a resolution to adjourn sine die at 2 o'ciock next Tuesday, and it is stated that this action has the approval of the president. It Is con- strued as signitying that Mr. Cleveland in- tends to allow the tariff bill to become law without his signature, though it is suggested that he may send on {he measure, ¥ The country will heartily welcoms the an- nouncement that a date for the adjournment of congress has been agreed upon &nd that there will be no more business taken up of a nature to embarrass or menace the financial nd business interests of the nation. The Amcrican people have had a most costly ex- perience with this and they will welcome the termination of its first regular session with more earnest enthusiasm than they have felt at the ending of any session of congress in the past thirty-five years, or since that body was last in the control of the democratic party. The Fifty-third congress met in cxtraordinary session on August 7. 1893, That session lasted until November 3 and the regular session commenced on De- cember 4. This congress has therefore been in actual session for nearly one year, and only two congresses in the history of the country have consumed more time before the last regular session, the limit of which is fixed for all congresses. Mr. McMillin bas had published in the Congressional Record, on behalf of the demo- crats of the house, a statement showing the work of the majority and laudatory of their action. This is intended for campaign pur- poses, and it will be repeated and rehashed in the democratie mewspapers from now until the day of the congressional electivns in November. Nobody will deny that there has been some creditable legislation, but it is completely overshadowed by the work of that body, which is responsible for an amount of damage to the industrial and business inter- ests of the country almost beyond computa- tion. This congress will be memorable for having brought upon the country the most disastrous depression in our history, and against this the few commendable things it has done are Insignificant in value. The democrats can claim no credit for the repeal of the silver purchasing clause of the Sher- man act, for which purpose the extra session wps called, for a majority of the democrats in both the house and the senate voted against repeal, despite the earnest entreaties of the president. They fought against it for three months and repeal was only ac- complished by the votes of the republicans in both houses. According to the telegraphic summary of Mr. McMillin's statement, he regards it as a particularly glorious part of the democratic work that the laws to pro- tect the right of suffrage in every section of the union were repealed. It s doubtful whether the party will try to inake use of this fact, at any rate outside of the south, as a recommendation to the confidence and support of the people. The Tennessee con- gressman seems also to attach a great deal of importance to the authority given the states to tax United States curremcy, but before lauding this action it might be well to wait until the courts have passed judg- ment on it. Mr. McMillin commends the in- come tax, as do all southern democrats, but a democratic president has deprecated *his tax and a very large element in the demo- cratic party is wncompromisingly opposed to it. Of course the claim of having reduced appropriations is urged, but it has been shown by undeniable figures that except in the cutting down of the penslons of the union soldiers the appropriations of this ses- slon of congress are larger than were those of the first session of the preceding congress. Besides, a large part of this apparent saving will have to be appropriated next winter by way of deficiencies. It should not be forgot- ten, as a part of the work of this congress, that it passed a bill for colning the silver seigniorage, which was vetoed by the presi- dent, But if the majority in the present con- gress had done nothing unwise and bad except its attack upon the industries of the country ‘and the enactment of a tarift bill which is accentzble to nobody, that alone would condem i it as unfit to be entrusted with leglslative power, and it Is for that it is to be tried before the tribunal of tne Ameri- can people. a message to congress congress The interstate tennis tournament just held in this city has shown how widely interest in the game extends and has at the same time glven an impetus to its practice, The managers of the tournament cught to feel encouraged to make It an annual event. hie success of their first effort ia this direc- tion ought to give the interstate tourna. ment at Omaha certain prestige and make it easler to secure outside sontestants in the future. By holding the competition earlier in the season the winners might be induced to enter the western champlonship games at Chicago and thus bring the Omaha Interstate tournament Into the serfes that decides the tennis champlonship of this country. The effort which _is making to secure general railway rate of one fare and a third on the certificate plan for members and visitors of the Army of the Tennesses reunion to be held in Council Blufts October next ought to have the active support of the business men of Omahs. The commit- tes having the question of .ransportation in charge 1s meeting some did-uities in their attempt to persuade the eas'ern roads to agree to this concession. 1%c western xfons to do what they can to PYoffivte i large attendance, but no speelal rate can be made without the agreement of the others. The Army of the Tennessee revnfon is a meeting of the suf- viving officers of the army corps and s likely to attract many besides the mem- bers and their tamilies, Omaha will doubt- less have a place on the program and at all events will have an opportunity to en- tertain the visitors on this side of the river. It s to the interest of Omaha as well as of Council Bluffs that the one fure and a third rate be madg by the railroads. e — The New York Times makes an appeal to the senate for the {mmediate confirmation of the several presidentlal appointments to office In the state of New York on which action has been long deferred as a contri- tution that would visibly help on the cause of harmony in the democratic party. On this point, however, there may be consider- eble difference of opipfon among New York democrats, Thers may be a number of ex- pectant office seekerd who still hope for the rejection of the presidential nominees and their own appointmént to the places. Hold- ing the spoils up to public view as an incen- tive to party harmopy and party work often accomplishes more tlan awarding the prizes, to the necessary disdppointment of the many and to the gratification of the few only. At all events, the Times cannot hope to have its appeal answered while Senator Hill retains his present attitude. toward the president. — e eesin A local minister, who apparently fears the influence of great minds upon the children in the public schools, would have all refer- ence to Emerson, Fiske, Huxley, Tyndal, Hegel and similar authors prohibited in the High school. If hé will but add a few other names to_ the list—Shakespeare, Gib- bon, Macaulay, Darwin and a few more noted in English literature and science— he will simplify the work of the High school immensely. Should the schools be run upon his principles, however, we would not carz to vouch for the narrow-minded pupils who would be graduated from them, California democrats are not at all back- ward about saying what they want from their candidates for congress should they be elected, and they have adopted a plan which will in- sure thelr g:tting it If anything will. They propose to make every democratic nominee subscribe to a pledge that he will oppose the extension of the Pacific railroad dzbt and will work and vote for immediate fore- closure. The democratic congressman from California who goes back on his pledge may decide “to rctirs from public life without further ado. Money und the Crops. Globa-Democrat, Money for “moving the crops" eannot be furnished by the treasury this year. Neither was it furnished iast year, however, and the treasury should never bé required to do it. This service oyght always to be per- formed by the banks, and it has been in recent years. The banks are in shape to furnish all the money needed for any busi- ness purpose tHis year. lent's Prediction, New York Sun. The unfortunate alternative which now confronts the presideht should Serve as a perpetual warning to all men never to vary from the path of righteousness, never fo Promise with (e Hgs and ai the same tiime cherish a contrany” purposeé in the heart. All history is full'of this great lesson, but never in our day'has it been enforced so {remendously as by the existing predioament of the protectidnistapresident of the United States, elected 10, office as an-utfer and un- compromising énémy of protectionism. Treason to Congressmon A - Republican. Boiralary IRy nas secured from. Als torney General Olney an opinfon that the law concerning the distribution of secds by the government only relates to such seeds as are “rare and uncommon to the coun- This is where the secretary scores a against congress, He wanted the seed distribution appropriation left out of the agricultural appropriation bill this year, but the congressmen, mindful of the useful: of the seeds to win the favor of ner constituents, put it into the bill as usual. —_— Government and the Rallroads. Cleveland Leader. There can and must be better and more mprehensive government control of the common carriers, and there will be found ways and means of retaining the principle of private ownership and, at the same time, preventing the robbery of either ship- pers’ or investors by the falsification of records and the concealment of the rates given to favored shippers. The nation will choose the safe middle ground, and there will bé government control of a thorough and efficlent kind, without the perils and evils of government ownership. A Discourag/ng Load to Carry. New York Sun. Particularly heavy will be the burden of defending the adious and un-democratic in- come tax. Defending it, did we say? What New York democrat will undertake that hopeless task?’ The homely phrase used by John Bunyan, “Out of the frylng-pan into the fire,”” would fitly describe the folly of attempting a defensive campaign on’ the income tax issue. The income tax will figure in the canvass, but all that New York democrats do is to hang their heads and be silent, Defense or apology will cost the democracy more votes than silence and confession. — MODEL TOWN MISERIES. Kansas City Journal: That was quite a lively epistolary debate between Governor Altgeld and George M. Pullman. The sad feature is that it accomplished nothing for the relief of (he suffering families of the strikers. Chicago Herald: The world knows all about Pullman that can be learned from the palace cars. It should learn what can be told by the pecple who have been driven by the Pullman system to homelessness and destitution, Courier-Journal: Mr. Pullman won in the strike. He pleased his vanity by the in- difference he assumed while it was golng on. It may please him now to spare no time from the pursuit of a titled son-in-law to relieve the distressed among his employes. But the public will not forget. Indianapolis News: We shall follow this investigation carefully. If Mr. Pullman has auything to say for bimself we shall be glad. But as ‘hings stand this morning the judg- ment of the clyilized world must be given against him. Aud whatever may be the decision of the inyestigating commission, we do not think thal anything can justify the heartless indifference . which has from the beginning marked Mr. Pullman's attitude, Kansas City Star:, The result proves co clusively that the paternalistic idea will not work in America. Ip this country the peo- ple insist upon the maintenance of their in- dividuality and indepepdence. They will not suffer dictation s, to their methods of living even to purchase comerts and luxuries which they cou:d not othgrwise obtain. The privi- lego of regulating L3 own ‘affairs and ot going his own gait.is dearer to the avorage American than all of. {he alleged benefits of co-operative or paternalistic government. The idea of the “‘mcdel town" will mot succeed in this country bPShuse it interferes with personal liberty, high is the vital principle of republican govzrament. — e LANDS THAN OURS, The proposed bill providing for salar'es foremembers of the Ilonse of Commons Is one of the six reforms demanded by the chartists under the lesd of Feargus ('Con- nor and Ernest Jcnes, patriots who “went OVer to the majority” long ago. Their plat- form was called “the people's charter'— hence the name chartists. Besides pay for the Commovs, they demanded manhood suff- rage, vote by ballot, abolition cf the property qualification {-r a seat In Parliament, annual parliaments and equal electoral districts. When the promised b0l is passed the great reform for which that party was orginized and for which It contended from 1%38 to 1850, will have been substantially accom- plished. In 1858, some years after the char tist party had subsided, the abclition of th property quilification was effected. In 187 the ballot was introduced. By various acts the franchise has been broadened unti] it is now a close approximation to manhood suff- rage. In 1885 ¢n act was passed providing for a redistribution of seats in the House of Commons. This does not actually secure “‘equal electoral districts,” but it appreaches that desirable end. The two demands of the chartists remaining ungranted are annual parliaments, for which no one now asks, and pay for members, which will come in time, in spite of the opposition of the House of Peers. Marked is the improvement which has takon nlece of late in the relations between France uud Germany, a striking illustration of which has just been afforded by the re- fusal of the mayor of Munich to permit the erection on one of thé. public squares of the city of a fountain destined to commiemorate tho bittle of Woerth, The mayor declared that ho was strongly opposed to everything of a character calculated to wound the sus- ceptibility of Germany's western neighbor. Tho worthy butgomaster has evidently taken his cue from Bmperor Willlam, who won for himself so much good will in France by the noble language of his message of con- dolence to Mme. Carnot and the tactful kindliness of his act in liberating on the morning of the funcral of the murdered president the two French officers impris- oned as spies. How much this conduct was appreciated is shown at the present moment, when two of the principal Parisian reviews, as well as the press of every political shade throughout the land, contain articles of most enthusiastic eulogy of this young ruler, who is set up by M. Jules Simon as a “‘model of every domestic virtue,” by M. Lemaitre as “the most chivalrous” and generous-minded of modern monarchs,” and by M. de Vogue as a grandiose and modern impersonification of those priest kings of former times who were imbued with a mystical conception of thelr duty as pastors of the people. By each of these three eminent authors he is, strangely enough, held up as the principal safeguard of the maintenance of peace in Burope, with auite 2s much unanimity and conviction as that displayed at the outset of his reign to the effect that his eagerness for military glory would deluge the old world in blood, e As the nucleus of a military chest Ger- many has her so-called Kreigsschatz, or war treasure, of $80,000,000, lying in coincd gold in the Julius tower at Spandau. It s less generally known that there is another re- source of the kind available in a national emergency. After the war of 1870-71 thcre was set apart a fund of some $140,000,000 consisting of first-class bonds, the interest of which has been applied to the paymen! of military pensions. The outlay for this purpose is continually decreasing through deaths, whereas the interest remains the same, and in the budget of 15934 figured for more than $6,000,000. In case of need these bonds could easily be turned into ready money, while the pensions could be transferred to the budget charges. Another most encouraging feature of the financial situation ds the fact that the German em- pire, compared with other great states, has a very small public debt. The annual in- terest upon it is less than §$17,000,000, whereas France devotes to a like purpose more than $265,000,000 a year. It (s true that many of the countries composing the empire have their state debts, but theso also, with one exception, are inconsiderable. The Prussian public debt is nominally large, owing to the purchase of raliways by the government. At present it slightly exceeds $1,580,000,000, with an interest charge of a little over $6 000,000; but the outgo on this account is more than counterbalanced by revenue from productive public property, the net income from the state railways in the last fiscal year having reached almost _$90,000,000. There is, moreover, a net profit of more than §$16,000,000 a year from the state do- maing, forests, mines, iron and salt works So, too, in the Bavarian budget of some $82,000,000, there figures on the credit side a net income of $15,000,000 from public prop- erty. The empire itself has some public property, namely, the railways of Alsace- Lorraine, yielding a net yevenue of $5,250,- 000, and the state's share, amounting to nearly $2,000,000, of the annual earnings of the lmperial bank. Great as are the perils that menace Great Britain’s rule in Indla, where nearly 300,000,- 000 natives are maintained in subjugation by barely 160,000 English, of whom half are soldiers, the dangers that threaten her empire in Africa are of a much more serious character. In the colonized portions of the dark continent the same spectacle Is pre- sented of a mere handful of white aliens ruling over millions of indigenous human beings. Dut instead of the latter being submissive and peace-loving races like the Hindoos, the African tribes are essentially warlike, proud of their thews and sinews, brave to a degree and always ready to try conclusions with the whites, This disposi- tion of the population iy not only the case in the newly settled territorics, such as Mashonaland, Matabeleland, Basutcland anl Bechuanaland, but even with the older colonies, such as those of the Cape and Natal, where the blacks already outnumber the whites by ten to one, and are rapidly increasing, being attracted by the prospect of good wages, steady employment and se- curity for thelr possessions. To such an extent is the native population growing in size in South Africa that the British au- thorities have become alarmed thereat, and Prime Minister Rhodes, who runs things to please himself in the scuthern and central portions of the dark continent, has an- nounced his intention of procuring the en- actment of a law prohibiting black immi- gration into British territory, much in the same way as we have excluded the Chinese. —— Folly of Sugared Reform. Chicago Tribune. n a Madrid dispatch that “the momant the new United States. tarlfe bill BOes into effect the minister of the colonies proposes to ask the Spanish government to denounce the existing treaty between Spain and the United States [n regard to Cul This was to be expected. 'The treaty or agreement In question declares that because of the free admission of sugar, molasses, ele. into this country, “and,in reclprocity and compensation thérefor,” the Spanish government will admit a large number of American products into Cuba and Puerto Rico duty free, and will reduce the duties on others, When the free admission of sugar ceases Spain will feel at liberty to reimpose the old prohibitory, or nearly pro- hibitory, duties on American products, As @ consequence a very profitable market will be closed to American farmers and manu- facturers. But as it was Mr. 3laine who opened It the democrats feel It their duly to close it Prosperity Prophecies. Philadelphia Ledger. ven the immediate prospects of business activity are encouraging, and it is the com- monly entertained belief of prominent men of shrewdest knowledge and experience that with the advent of spring there will come u revival of old-time prosperity, In which all sorts and conditions of business will share, Hignesc ol au in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S, Gov't Keport, Rl Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE SESSION WILL END TUESDAY Oougress Thinks it Has Worked Long Enough for One Session, ONLY WAITING FOR THE TARIFF BILL Will Ao Take Ktest Until Monday resentative English Objects (o the « derntion of the Anti- Rep- WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Immedlately after the reading of the journal today Mr. Catebings, democrat of Mississippl, from the committee on rules, offer d a joint resolu- tion for a sine die adjournment next Tues day, the 28th inst., at 2 o'clock. It was adopted without dissension. Mr. Catchings, then moved that when the house adjourn today It be to me:t Monday next. This was also agreed to. Mr. Catchings asked unanimous consent to publish in the record the titles of the bills pass:d by the house at this session, togethe with a list of those which passed the house but falled in the senate. Mr. English, dem- ocrat, of New Jersey objected. Mr. Terr democrat, of Arkansas, from the committes on judiciary, asker unanimous consent to corsider Senator Hill's bill providing for the exclusion of anarchists. With it he offered an amendment which he sald was designed to meet objections rajsed to the bill It defined an anarchist as one “who advoeated the destruc- tion by violence of ail government or the government of the United States.” Mr. Euglish objected. Two bills were passed by unanimous con- sent, one for the relicf of certain Winnebago Indians and the other for the relief of L. A. Hathaway & Co. Adjourned until Monday. AND IN THE SENATE, TOO. Resolution for Adjournment Work in Executive Sessio WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The prayer of the chaplain was the only business trans- acted by the senate today before going Into executive session. Not even the journals of vesterday and the day before were read The reading was dispensed with at the sug- gestion of Mr. Harris, democrat of Tennessee The senators had reached an agreement about procedure in the senate. Senator Har- ris representing the democratic side and Sen- ator Manderson representing the republi- cans had an understanding befora the scnate met and arranged that the senate would immediately go into executive session and clear up all nominations possible. Some of the contested nominations will go over, which is equivalent to rejection, as reay pointment is required if the president de- sires to retain the candidates in ofiice. After the exegutive cal ndar is cleared the senate will consider bills to which there no objections in open session, but no other business will be taken up. The agreement also remains that no speeches are to be made. This is one of the points the senate has been contending for. The bill to cmend the alcohol schedule is not to be considered. If possible the semate wore a more de- serted appearance than yesterday and the day before, despite the fact that one of the republicans, Mr. Higgins, and two demo- crats, Messrs Camden and Butler, had re- turned. Mr, George asked and oblained in- definite leave of absence from his colleague, Mr. McLaurin, on account of serious illness in his family, and then Mr. Harris, without testing the presenc: of a quorum, moved that the senate procced to consideration of exccutive business. This was agreed to, and at 1:25 p. m. the senate went into executive session. At 12:55 p. m. the senate adopted the honse resolution providing for an adjournment sing dle on Tuesday at 2 o'clock. The senate, behind closed doors, agre:d to a motion to adjourn from today until Mon day, and at 1:25 p. m. adjsurned Senator Blackburn tried to get up his res- olution instructing the committee on rules to sit during the recess for the purpose of revising the rules. Senator Blanchard ob- ject:d, and a_ single objection kills any mo- tlon. = Mr. Blanchard fears that the rules may be so revised that debate will be cut oft and a free sugar bill passed at the next s:ssion. Bills Approved by the President. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—The president has approved the following bills: Granting the Northern Mississippi company right of way through certain Indian reservations in Minnesota; empowering fourth class postmas- ters to adminstir oaths to pensioners; ex- tending the time for the completion of the raiirond bridge over the Columbia river near Vancouver, Wash.: providing for opening cer- tain abandoned military reservations: repeal- ing house resolution 104, first session Fifty- first congress, granting the seeretary of war permission to license the use uf the pier at the foot of the Chicago rive Adoptad— Confirmed by th, WASHINGTON, The executive session has confirmed the nominations 2 Robert J. MacBryde of Wisconsin to consul at Leith, Scotland; it senate in following be James Sougherty, It’s Hard Jjobber's hat. | clerk, Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, . W, Cor. 15th and Dougl ryeyor stomn at Peoria. Also the fole lowing postmasters Kansas—~Thomas W. Anderson at Cherry Valley; W, D, Gerard at Aubueh. California—John W. Ryland at San Jose, CLEVELA D APPROVED THE COURSZ. utlon Submittrd to the Prosident—May Send n Message, WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, — President Cleveland’s purpose on the tariff bill was the maln reason for the resolution passed in the hou: today for final adjoufnment at 2 i lock next aday. Representative atchings, from the committee on rules, had called on President Cleveland today, and, on reaching the capitol, conferred with Speaker Crlsp as to adjournmont. The resolution was thereupon framed and intro- duced with the authority of the rules com- mittee. It is understood that Mr. Catche ings outlined the plan with Mr. Cleveland and 1t met his approval Mr. Catchings would say little as to his talk with the president. He regarded it as settled, however, that the bill would become a law next Monday midnight without Mr, Cleveland's signature. Mr. Catchings also inclined o the beliet that the president would send a message to congress on the subject. It fs 8aid that while a message on a measure not signed or vetoed would be unusnal, it would be entirely regular. 1t any positive action on the prestdent's part had been oo templated tomorrow or Monday, the house managers would not have bound themeelves to Bave postponed the adjournmeut until Tuesday next Chairman W'son house today, bu. aid not as the cabinet meeting had Mr. Wilson accompani in an appointment. and it was not the pur- pose of the chairman to speak of the tarlff bill unless the president desired a conference. Mr. Wilson has not scen the president since the bill ed Chais n Sayers of the house appropria- tlons committee had a talk with the presi- lent, but not on the fariff. Mr. Sayers has the satisfaction of know ng that all the ap- propriation bills had become laws, the gen- eral deficlency bill Leing the last to receive the president’s signature yesterday. Adjournment Res also went to the the pre already begun, a friend interested white Ident, 5 Sent to the Senate. WASHIN N, Aug. 24—The president today sent the foliowing nominations to the senate: Postmasters- Cal Troasury stoms, Pe 11} Stat=—Robert J. Mel be consul at Leith, Sc John W. Ryland, San Jose, James Daugherty, surveyor of of Wiseonsin to tland. e TRENCHINT TR OFFS, Chicago Tribune “1little thought," sald Arduj eating pigs' feet at the free lunch “that I should ever be reduced to Xtremities as this.' Washingtor k down merchin s, sir” replied the experlenced clerk. “In price or size? Star I ow you that 101 of ladies" shoes, would sald Detroit FProe [ress briskly, “we have la Would you like to see Vale I said the of all kinds, clennes or point “It's a shoe customer. lnce I want,” explained the Boston Bulletin: The lawyer who worked like a horse was engaged in drawing a con- veyance. Atchison Globe: There is a man in town who thoroughly under tands the tariff situa- tion, but he doesn't know anything else, Towell Courier: Stealin when he is bathing is a p as it is evident that the dress, a man's clothing ety safe business, victim has no re- Atlanta Constitution: snake is ¢ are se The Georgla rattle- t in all his'glory, and the snaks : on the buttons and rattling t rate, Philadelphia Record: “A bad boy seldom gets his badness from his father,” says the Manayunk philosopher. “The' old man usually hangs on (o all he has.” Boston Gazetie: *“If Mrs, Staylong calls today, 1 . tell her P'm engaged.” “Be- gorra, ma'am,” what'll your husband say? Haven't you been ma 1 these ten y JUST LIKE OLD TIMES. Indianapolis Journa She stood beside the cottage And [ stood there beside her; The distance that between us wa: puuld scarce liave heen less wider. he moon hid in the wet, gray cl The durkness we disdained; gy By Zucks. we didn't know enough To g in when it rained e THE MODEL BUSBAND, ate, Atlanta Constitution, ses every moriing, Just at the break of d He lights the Kitcher And he puts the k e washes ali the dishes, Puts biscuits ir 4 Cahly the steal. ses all the chilren, S ' say their morning prayers And lets 'em go to take the air, Or tumbie down the stairs. He sweeps the house all over— Knocks the dust from every shelf, His wife—she runs for office, And he just can't help himself, to Paint In words the many advantages the ‘‘Stetson Special” hat, that we are sole agents for, has over all other hats, but it's so vastly much better than any one supposed a hat could be made that it is acknowledged the world over as better for style, fit and finish than the Dunlap, Knox or any other It's made by Stetson himsell and no one else; just like our suits—we make them and we know they're good—They're specially good just now, for we're selling them at half price. : luctions in children's suits and waists. Big re-