Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 30, 1894, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY on; Year Weekly Dee e OFFICES, Omaha, The B, Shuth Omaha Councll Dlufrs, « e New York 1w 13, 14 an Washington, 1407 1 Str CORRESPONDENCE. i ANl communications relating to news and edi- tortal matter should be addres To the Editor. RUSINESS LETTERS e Al business s and remittances should be od 10 Publishing company, Drafts, checks and postofce e to the order of the e B PUBLISHING COMP. nd Twonty-fourth Sts. - Omah. be made § CIRCULATION. Qeorge I3, Mzschuck, secretary of the Hshing company, being duly n, says that the nctual number of full and complete coples of The Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Hee rinted during the month of July, 1804, was as ollows $ideiie 24,015 1 : 1o 18 Rives 2 1 e 2 21 ATEMENT 01 o Pub- Total sibois . 775,504 Less deductions for unec coples 18,481 Total sold Daily averag: *Sunday. net ciroul GEORGE B. T7 Sworn to befsro me and subscribed in my p ence this 15t day of August, 18, (Seal.) P, L, Notary Publle. TO NEBRASKA 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 Jotter dirccted to me personally, suggesting the best method for defeating the election of Thomas Maje All communications will be treated as confidential when so requested. We must make an organized effort to save the staie from the blighting misrule which has repudiated the pledges repeatedly made to the people 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. 3. ROSEWATER. Entries in the congressional races will be closed In about three weeks. w haven't as yet seen any expressions of regret over the adjournment of congress. It the democrats of the Second district want fusion so badly what is stopping them from endoraing Deaver, the populist candi- date, for congress? Don’t put all the blame for the perfidious and dishonorable surrender upon Secretary Carlisle. It wasn't his fault. Secretary Carlisle did nothing but what he had to do. The arrival of President Cleveland at Gray Gables was marked by a rise in the mar- ket for bait. The president hopes for more successful fishing than he has had of late at Wakhington. New York politiclans with gubernatorial ,aspirations are holding their breath in anx- fous expectation of ex-Vice President Mor- ton's decision as to his proposed candidacy for the place. It the Pullman investigating commission pursues its labors diligently with the officers of the Pullman company a little longer the stockholders in that giant monopoly may be finally made familiar with affairs of the company ¢f which they have purposely been kept ignorant, Our pop contemporary Is evidently rattled over the momination of Mr. Deaver. Its de- mand for his withdrawal is refreshingly cool to say the least. It is apparent that the ed- ftorlal wire puller was somewhat belated in his consideration of the situation in this con- gressional district. Only a little later in the season the smoke- stacks all over the city will begin to emi vast volumes of black smoke and ho shower of soot will be continuous. What Iy the building inspector doipg to compel the en- forcement of ordinances designed to suppress the smoke nuisance? Advertising playing cards will have to pay the Internal revenue tax of 2 cents per pack Just the same as those which are designed for no other purpose than use at the card table, The way to secure untaxed adver- sing is to patronize the newspapers, the only reliable medium. The New York Sun thinks It quite possi- ble that a new development in the Cedar- quist case may be ohronicled from Washing- ton before very long. Unlil the whole affair is settled by the approval of the War de- partment of the findings in the Worth court martial there will still be some restlessness tn army circles. His Texas gressman Kilgore through another constituents have saved Con- the trouble of going congressional campaign. By nominating the other man they have left Mr. Kilgore at the mercy of President Cleveland, who will doubtless be appealed to to provide for the congressman out of a job. B0 far as the government is concerned, it will get along just as well if out of a job. Congressman Sibley of Pennsylvania has declined the renomination for congress which the democrats of his district have ten- dered him. Congressman Sibley, It we re- member rightly, sent resignation from the house to the governor of his state a few months ago, but ou further reflection Was induced to recall his action. It Is not impossible that the attractions of public of- fice may yet lead him to again his declsion to retire. he remains his recall The Bee was the first paper to suggest the establishment of branch postofices in thiy elty. Three months ago a branch office was located on Park avenue and another on North Twenty-fourth street. Experlence shows them to be just what the people want, and Postmaster Clarkson pronounces them ¢n un- qualified success. The facilities aifordsl for the prompt handling of mails and the public convenience of the branch offices ars grea while the additional expense is mercly nom oal. It was due chiefly Mercer's efforts that was carried out, to Congressmun The Boe's sugges:l WHY A REPUBLICAN NOUSE? Cleveland has declared that the new law furnishes a' vantage ground from must be waged further aggressive oper- He ngress has Mr. tarift which ations against the protective policy re fuses to acoept what the present o dono in revising the tarift as the close of the war against protection. He sald in letter to Mr. Catchings: “The milllons our countrymen have fought and well for tariff reform should ba exhorted boldly ehallenging constantly guarding alf-heartedness in their camp.”” Mr. Wilson, chairman ot the house and means ¢ safd In an interview before leaving Washington that the first step in the direction of tariff re- form had taken and that it be easy to proceed to a full realization of the reform. In more emphatic terms the recog nized leader of the majority in the house against protection has proclaimed the deter- mination of the party to keep up the fight and others prominent in councils of the party have heartily acquiesced. They mean to re- new the struggle in the form of supplemental legislation at it they should elect the house of representatives of the Fifty-fourth congress and retain control of the senate nothing is more certain than that they would sweep away nearly every re- maining vestige of 10 American industries and American labor. What be un There 18 no immediate remedy for the that is made in the new tariff law long-established economic policy of the country. That will have to stand tor several or until a republican congress and a republiccn president can apply the remedy. But a check can be put upon the avowed purpose of the dem- ocracy to make thelr assault more fag-reaching and more TEN N necessary that the country be kept where it 1s until something better can To quote jeaker Reed, it is necessary that the people should interpose, just as they are surely golng to interpose, and that the house of representatives is in such hands that its Incompetency nor the petency of the senate shall be a source of difficulty and of trouble. That the election of a republican house of repre- sentatives in November would exert a great ining influence upon the party in power re cannot be a reasonable doubt, and the larger the majority the stronger the in- fluence, It would be an expression of popular protest against the policy and the work of that party which it would not dare to ig- nore. It would be notice that the people demand a cessation of the “‘war' in the in- terest of free trade Mr. Cleve- land and Mr. Wilson might the expedi- ency of paylug some heed to. It would be a cracy that after nearly astrous experience, as the consequence of its assault upon the policy of protection, it could continue in its course only at the peril of its utter destruction as a national party. On the other hand, thé election of another democratic house would be an endorsement of what the party in power has already done toward carrying out its economic policy and an admonition to it to go on and carry out its avowed purpose to the farthest limit. It would mean that the people are satisfied with the policy and the course of that party; that they do not believe it to be responsible for the industrial stagnation and business de- pression which followed its advent to power, and that, despite the evidences of incompe- tency it has given, the people are still willing to trust it with the affairs of government The election of @ democratic house in No- vember would mean that the American peo- ple are content to have their ligislation dic- tated by the southern wing of the democracy and to subject the populations of the great manufacturing states of the north and the great agricultural states of the northwest to laws relating to revenue and finance framed by men who have no sympathy with these populations by reason both of the dif- ferent conditions surrounding them and of the sectional sentiment that The election of & democratic house of repre- sentatives in November would undoubtedly be followed by a renewal in intensified form of financial distrust and business depression, with vastly more serious consequences capital and labor than have already been suf- tered. These are the vital and forceful considera. tions which make the election of a republi- can house of representatives next Novem- ber imperatively necessary to the restoraticn of financial and business confidence, the con- servation of the interests both of labor and capital, and the recovery of gemeral pros- perity. his of who bravely to continue the struggle, and treachery and to open warfare against ways mmittee, en would the next session, and protection has been done cannot at once done, assault upon the years, sever be done. see neither incom- which even warning to the dem. two years of most di controls them to MAY STILL BE A DEFICIT. It is by no means certain, notwithstanding the claim of Senator Mills and some others that the new tariff law will yield a surplus of revenue during the current fiscal year, that the receipts under it will meet the expendi- tures. Secretary Carlisle, in his letter to Senator Harris adyising against the passage by the senate of the free raw material bills passed by the house, made a liberal estimate of total receipts, which, if realized, would leave a small surplus at the end of the fiscal year, but it is now apparent that the figures of the secretary are not likely to be realized, and as to two very important articles, sugar and whisky, cannot be. For example, it was estimated that sugar would yleld $43,000,000, based on the calcula- tion that duty will be collected on a quan- tity of sugar equal to that imported during the fiscal year ended with Jume. There are ten months of the current fiscal year in which to import that amount of sugar, but the importations during this period will be very much less than last year, for the reason that unusually large quantities of sugar have been fmported since July 1 in order to escape the duty imposed by the new tariff act. Dur- tng July the quantity of sugar imported was upwards of 758,000,000 pounds, valued at $20,- 000,000, and 1t Is estimated that the importa- tions for August will quite as Thus about one-third of the entire quantity imported during the last fiscal year will have been brought into the country free of duty, 50 that the largest revenue reasonably to be expected from this source in the cur- rent fiscal year is $28,000,000, instead of $1 000,000, wiping out the estimated surplus of the secretary. As to lnternal revenue re- ceipts it is assumed that the withdrawals of whisky from bond to save the additional tax ‘provided for in the new law will cut down the estimated increase in the revenues on that account $10,000,000. The estimated receipts from income $15,000,000, this provision of the law not going into effect uutil January 1, but as to this there is very likely to be disappointment, owing to the fact that 1894 will not muke a very good showing in gains and profits, either by individuals or corpora- tions. few men in busiuness wiil return an income for the year in exemption. Moreover, the law gives until July 1 mext for the payment of the 1x, and it s not to be doubted that very generally those having the tax to pay will put oft dolng o to the last day of grace, amount to much. are Certainly comparatively excess of the | %0 that very little ean be counted on from this source during the current flscal year. A revision of the estimates of the secretary of the treasury, based on the abo facts and figurca, places the total receipta from all sources at $350,000,000, with estimated res of $36 makes the prob- at the fseal it loss which 00,000, of re expend able defie this, but ther plus has been figured Mills and som: rs. MEIKLEJOHN UMINATED. The renomination Congressman George Meiklejohn by by the re- publicans of the Third congressional district is a fitting of faithful service during the two years, As a member of the minority party in the present con- gross Mr. Meiklejohn could not be expected to accomplish any very great results, but he has applied hims:If steadily to the duties of his office, and to promoting which represents. That the been entirely satisfactory to hi is plain tho unanimous action of the convention well as from the fact that at no time has any republican ventured to contest with him for the place. The Third congressional district comprises eighteon counties in the northeastern por- tion of Nebraska, with a population of 163,- ting som: 31,000 votes at the election ago. Mr. Meiklejohn received 635 votes and was electzd by a plurality of 3,000, the democratic candidate receiving 10,630 votes and the populist candidate 9,636 The demecrats and the populists put a candidate in the field this year, and have committed themeelves against fusion Should the situation In this respect remain unchanged, there will be no question of Mr. Metklejohn's re-election by ' plurality greater than before, and in the next republi- can house he will have an opportunity to give his abilities full scope the elose may be no r year or than n to expect a sur- out by as Senator of D, acclamation recognition past the record has constituents interests he from as have each DEAVER FOR CONGRESS. The populists of the Second congressional district of Nebraska, after a short and good- natured contest, have decided to support Mr. D. Clem Deaver as their candidate for congress. Mr. Deaver is a representative of the younger element in’the populist party. He is just 30 years of age, and will therefore conform to the demand for young blood in politics equally with his republican opponent Mr. D:aver has never held public office, nor has he ever stood for public office. He can- not be called an office seeker. He has, how- ever, taken a very prominent part in local labor organizations, and has been active in the formation and propagation of the populist party, His conduct of the populist campaign in 1803, when he was chairman of the populist state committee, showed him to be a man of untiring energy and of no inconsid:rable executive ability. Of the men among whom the delegates were per- mitted to choose, Mr. Deaver is unquestion- ably the most capable for the position to which he aspires. We do not think the populist candidate in this district can possibly defeat the republi- can nominee running solely as a party can- didate. We will concede to Mr. Deaver the 3,000 votes polled by the populists two years ago, and more, too, and admit that he ‘will make a creditable appearance on the stump with his opponents of both political parties, but the odds appear to us to be overwhelm- ingly against the election of a populist con- gressman from the Second district this fall. state THE PROTECTION TO SUGAR. In his speech at Old Orchard last week Mr. Reed gave some attention to the charge of the democrats that the MeKinley act gave the sugar-reflning interest half a cent a pound protection and, therefore, as the Gorman act gives but one-fifth republicans have no right to comment. He said there were two answers to this, both of fact, upon which the people should ponder. In the first place the Sugar trust in 1890 did not control. There were large refineries in Philadelphia and subsequently there bullt In that city the best refinery in the world, all of them in full antagonism to the trust. Now ail these properties are owned by the trust, which controls the production. ‘A protection which was justifiable,”” said Mr. Reed, “where thers was competition may be utterly unjustifiable where there is none, and especially is It unjustifiable when given by a party to a trust while pretending to be against both trusts and protection, too.” The other fact referred to by Mr. Reed Is that the claim that the present duty is one-half the old is mot true. He thus stated the case, and as the matter is one which will be much Awelt upon in the impending campaign Mr. Reed’s presentation of it is worthy of careful attention: “Ona-eighth of a cent is twelve and one-half one-hundredths. Forty per cent on 105 pounds of raw sugar necessary to make 100 pounds of refined at 3 c:nts a pound is 1.25 cents. Forty per cent on refined sugar at 4 cents Is 1.80 difference, which is protec- tion of thirty-four one-hundredths. Add to this the value of the syrup which comes out of the raw in refining and the refiner gets practically fifty one-hundredths. So that this bill, with its protection open and its protection congealed, equals the McKinley bill and is° given to the trust as a protection, not when the trust is merely a competitor, but when it is the sole owner of all production.” This is a clear and fair statement of the case. But even if it be granted, for the sake of argument, that the protection given the re- fining interest under the new law is some- what less than that under the McKinley act, the fact remains for the discomfiture of the democrats that the present duties were im posed at the dictation of the Sugar trust, and that while, under the McKinley law, sugar was cheapsned to the consumer, under the new law the price will be increased, subject entirely to the regulation of the monopoly It now has the field of production wholly to itselt and can do as it wills both as to the amount to be produc:d and the price to be charged, whereas four years ago, when the McKinley law went into effect, there was active comp:tition in reflning. Under the new law, by the ad valorem duty, the cost of every pound of sugar that is used by the people is increased 40 per cent in value, which is & direct tax of over 60 c:nts per capita for every man, woman and child in the United States, and instead of twenty pounds being sold for a dollar the peopls will get but twelve or thirteen pounds. Moreover, it is a fact not to be lost sight of in any dis- cussion of the sugar question that democratic legislation has already enabled the trust to make an enormous amount of money, prob- ably not less than $20,000,000, by importing this year's product free of duty, so that the treasury will get no revenue of consequence from this source for mearly a year to come. Nothing could better {llustrate the value to the sugar monopoly of the favor shown it by this democratic congress than advance in the murket price of its stock When the debate on the tariff bill com- menced last winter the stock of the trust was at 73 or T4 cents on the dollar. On the first report on the bill in the sonate, provid- ing a duty, it went to 80 and kept moving upward, the quotation for it now being 112 There Is no political capital for the demo- was the large question eratic party in the claim that Its legislation is tww tavordbie (o the Sugar trust than was the McKinleg, bidi. As Representative Tom Johnson of ONioipoint:dly said in the house: “Taero Is ndt' § housewife in the land who will not teel iat she 1s robbed by our ‘demo- eratie tarift refgrm' when she finds that whore she gob Lhres pounds of sugar under the McKiniey-bil she now urider the Gorman bill, for the ®Ame money, gets but two The great massof the people, said Mr. John- son, who must eount every penny of ing will feel it at once and feel it bitterly. TR Let cak-the attention of the council committee to‘'whom the electric lighting bids were referrcd to the fact that the advert ment under wliich the bids were submitted was for a light of but 46 volts and peres. The price of electric the contract which expired a ago was $140 for a light of candle power, which ought to be 45 volts and 10 amperes, The bid then is for a lamp of only 95 por cent ca pacity. It does not take a man of mathe- matical mind to figure that a lamp of full nominal 2,000 power capacity under the proposed price cost the city We ask the committes to consider whether a reduction of §3 per lamp per year upon a three-year contract calling for a considerable increase in the number of lights, is all that the industrial condition of the country and the present state of the city’s finances will require them to demand. me, us 5 am- under months 2,000~ lights fow ominal in reality of $130 niie would $137. The Philadelphia Record calls upon Commissioner Carroll D. Wright his Pullman pass and restore the universal confiden Commissioner Wright may return his pass or not as he maj fit, but it is doubtful if will the needed universal confidence. The discovery that he had a Pullman pass took away the confidencs which his previous had led the public to give him. In accepting it he put himsell under obligation to Mr. Pull- man, and the feeling of obligation must neces. Labor return needed to see le restore record sarily remain whether he gives the pa: it. The p career will up continues to de in Mr. Wright's blotted out. or use epis not be easily The of Counell per annum for arc lights the Philadelphia schedule and is complaining at what (s called an exorbitant rate. Omaha, located withiu sight of the tower lights of her pays $175 and $140 per arc light wum, and every endeavor to re- duce the outrageous charge is met with stub- born and successful opposition at the of the electric lighting monopoly. cost more to generate electricity clty Blufts electric is paying $92 each on neighbor, per hands Does it in Omaha than in Council Bluffs, or s the great differ- ence in prics owing solely to Wiley's pull on Omaha's city government? The federal constitution should be amended 50 as to require revenue bills in the senate, to need the end ment of one house of congress only and to become a law on the sigpature of the president of the Sugar trust. The president and the house would fot' then be called upon to as- sume any refpondibility in connection with the matter. Such a constitutional amend ment would operate to conform the law to the prevailing practice. to originate President Cable of tite Rock Island road i his letter to Mayor Bemls touches upon the vital point of the, union depot In 1872 the Union: Pacific into a covenant with admit trains of other city its bridge upon equitable Under no conceivable conditions should the city surrender rights acquired by that contract. Any proposition 1ooking to its ruvo- catlon should be nipped in the bud. controversy railway entered the city of Omaha to railways to enter this over terms. its 1t was a graceful thing for the Thurston Rifles to withdraw their protest against the governor's award of the Thurston cup to the Omaba Guards. There has been no dispute as to the ‘markings given during the petitive drill which showed the excellence of the Thurston Rifles’ representatives. There will be another cup contest in another year or 50 in which the Thurston Rifles will have an opportunity to secure the trophy beyond cavil. com- rotense and Practice. Washington Post The Pennsylvania republicans always going to retire Senator Cameron appear to be making every bit much headway as the Maryland democrats who v prepared to make a private 1 of Senator Gorman. S The Carnegie Treason. Loutsville urnal, The palming off of defective armor plates upon the government is a fraud whose enormity is not to be measured by any of money damages. It Is an of- strikes the pa- triotic citizen as something not far removed from treason. who are New York World, 1f you can be satisfied to surrender your individuality and to waive your personal ponsiblity, §0 to a model town, submit nd be happy. But if you wish to be a man, neither mastering others nor being masfered, keep out of model towns as you would out of the valley of Gehenna. s Rl G E Natl [ Globe-Democrat The Congressional Record for the present session fills more than 10,000 pages, and one of its pages is equal o three of the ayerag octavo volume. It Is padded with all sorts of rot having no real relation to the verba- tim report of debates, and is another proof that the American congress is excessively wasteful In its own expenditures. The Record, io fact, 1s & dump or a waste b ket, and to fish out the report of a discus slon from its mass of rubbish is no easy matter. Th i A Unian for Prosperity. Naw, York Tribune 80 disastrous have been the consequence of financial dixturbance and commercial de- pression that iy improvement of busin I8 to be welcomed a mere id a bless ing. It will cbme 'inevitably as the result of the temporAry settlement of the tarift question, and 3! 0\”:}1! to be frankly nized and openf¥" acknowledged press of both iparties, whether under the Mckinlgy or under the act. It will be 0k partisanship and poor triotism if urnal undertakes to mi lead the publig-far political effect. The ne cessi{y for amn, {mprovement of business is so urgent in yjew of the approach of an- other winter | which —otherwise will ' be fraught with a& wluch calamity for the poor and the unemployed as the fast one, that partisanship \44:]«; to be set aside by the press and every(hing done to promote a more buoyant Bing in trade and & general restoration of Amuaired confider The Kalare of Congress. s, York Tribune, A great party,'eimbracing nearly haif of the voters of the United States, which was intrusted less than two years ago with en- tire charge of the gc nment for the st time In thirty-twe y s, will b g d until sundown on the day of tion next November In explaining to the people wiy it has failed to discharge its dutles or keep its pledges. Whether the pledges we good or whether the things promised we really for the £00d of the country or hc is not an essential point. The question is whether the self-governing people of this nation can expect that their lawmakers and thelr executive will do the will of those who elected them. ¢ ¢ ¢ Dishonesty from the beginning sulted in disgraceful fallure, and there 1s nothing in the least surprising about it The men who sincerely wished to do wha the great body of democratic voters desire we bound hand and foot, not by a small minority, as some pretend, but by the ablest ty, who had organized its victory. Becaus tory by false pretenses the first session of congress with disgrace, has re- unparalieled to revenue “eternal as the stars. congress has adjourned a re- looked for in the political gas re- torm appears to ba " Now that vival may b belt an me democrats are mean enough to assert that the president should think more and write less Thirty-five langusges or dialects have besn mastered by the Christian workers in west- ern Africa ' Buck Kilgore knows how it is himself const tuents kicked him out of the ¢ slonal convention Senator Gorman is golng abroad health, The climate of Miryland denly developed malarial tendencies Senator Delph of Oregon never It Is believed took an overde carlier years and contracted a gust With riots, Killings, explos and tweaking of oficers’ noses, life at Sherdan is anything but a round of holid parades. Just t His ongres for hi: has sud smiles in his chronie dis- Taisson ns break ints the monkey and parrott monotony of democratic congressional con ventions, those of the republican party are blissfully unanimous affairs. Amid the host of errors in the new bill there are to Dbe found classific eminently correct. For Instance, m instruments are classed under subst tariff tions sical explosive nces.” Ix-Vice President Morton returned to find himself elevated to the dignity of a_politi cal savior in the minds of Me-Too and Milhol land. A dangerous Choate Is rooting under the machine fences jeneral Longstreet, who is at his home in ainesville, Ga., is sald to be showing evi- of overwork. He s busily engage upon his memoirs, which are expected t contain much of interest relating to the civil waz Avarchist Mowbray slipped the anchors of his jaw and slid out of the country under n assumed name. The only explanation offered for his mysterious departure is that grasping bartenders insisted on cash down or no porter. eneral” Fitzgerald, leader of a contingent of the Coxey army, who has received the socialist-labor nomination for congress In the Tenth Massachusetts distriet, will have no trouble in coming out again with the full vote of his party as shown by the re- turns of 1892. There was then one vote cast that way in the district, Thomas A. Garfield, the only brother the assassinated president, is living farm sixteen miles from Grand Rapids. He is more than 70 years old and is now lame with rheumatism and suffers with neuralgia In the house opposite dwells James A. Gar- fleld, his son, also a far who has re- cently been elected justice of the peace It Mr. Holman lives to serve out the new term for which he has been nominated he will beat the congressional record. No wman has yet served thirty years in the house of resentatives, although two members, both from Philadelphia, came near to it—Judge Kelly, who was serving his thirtieth year when he died, and Mr. O'Neill, who had served twenty-nine. of on a DID HE TAKE R IN HIS'N? New York World: Secretary Carlisl:'s usefulness as a cabinet officer is gone unles he shall regain public confidence by urging and aiding in the repeal of the infamous tax of the Sugar trust. Brooklyn Eagle: The period is one for hu- miliation, but that must be impartiaily dis- tributed and manfully and equally borne. The president must bear his ratable quota of such humiliation Bach representative must bear his. Each senator must bear hi: Every member of the cabinet must bear his. The proportions differ according to the responsi- bility involved. Washington Post: That is the word— a The story we hdve quoted assert- ing that on the 30th of last March Mr. Ca le called at the office of the Sugar Re- fining company in New York is a falsehood out of whole cloth, a falszhood without one shred of fact to warrant it. Neither on that day nor on any other did Mr. Carlisle call at the offices in question. As we say, the story is a slander, pure and simple, without the thinnest gossamer to qualify its nakedn:ss. New York Sun: The selection of Hon John Q. Carlisle as a scapegoat for Mr. Cleve- land’s expected sin in the way of perfidy and dishonor is not only undescryed, but ridicu- lous. Secretary Carlisle’s submissiveness to the whims and insults of the president has been the wonder of his friends. The proba- bility is that, so far from his ever actually doing anything not approved by his chief, he was under white house inspiration even whe he advised the senate nct to pass the pre- t:ntions popgun bills for free coal, iron and sugar. St an- Paul Pioneer Press: The fact has come out that, pending the contest over the tariff, Secretary Carlisle made several visits to the office of the American Sugar Refining com- pany in New York. In view of the fact that these visits were followed by the inser- tion of a cl the sugar schedule which was particularly favorable to the Sugar trust, and that this clause was in the handwriting of the secritary, are regarded as pe- culiarly unfortunaie for the secretry and for the democratic party. The disposition to give them an unfavorable construction will not be diminished by the apparent effort to conceal the fact that such visits had been made. il b CLEVELAND AS A LETTER WRITER, Denver Republ After giving the Whisky trust and the Sugar trust ten days of grace in which to pocket a few additional millions at th public expense, President Cleveland has written another letter ex- pressing_his ‘ablorrence of trusts and com- bines, Pecksniff wasn't in it with Grover. Kansas City Star: The Catchings letter is popularly gratifying in its emphasis as to the necessity of further reform of the tarifl. Whilo it wiii not be a very strong weapon for the general run of congressmen at the coming elections, it is a good thing for such congressmen to paste in their scrap books and read from time to time. Minneapolls ‘Journal: The letter convicts the president of cowardice. He is convinesd the bill should be vetoed, but he is afraid to be “separated from his party.”” He has not the courage of convietion. And, while declaiming against the bill, he knows that during its preparation he was kept advised of what his party was doing and consented to it. He is convicted of both cowardice and hypoericy. Chicago Tribune gress wanted Mr. “for the good of The democrats in con- Cleveland to sign the bill the party.”” He was not moved by their pleadings. He would have liked greatly to veto it, but party exigen- cies were such that not even he dared to do that. He has allowed it to become a law with his Wilson letter attached to it and serving as a commentary. That letter will be referred to frequently during the campaign, for it tells ponderously but clearly what he thinks of the law the dem- ocratic stump speakers feel they must de- fend. A camp of Modern Woodmen s to be organ ized at Chappell. The canning factory at Tecumseh is run- ning with a full force, putting up tomatoes. The country newspapers of the state grow smaller and smaller as the dry weeks go by Rev. Dr. George has resigned the pre dency of the York college and has accept the presidency of Gale college at Galesville Wis. The city council of Broken Bow has been petitioned to call an election for the purpose of deciding on the proposition to purchase the water works. The machinery for the new twine factory has arrived at Columbus and will be placed in position as rapidly as possible. The company has about 600 acres of hemp growing and will employ about twenty hands in the fac- tory. A Grand Island doctor made a ‘‘report” that a supposed case of diphtheria was simply a severe attack of membraneous angina, but when he made only a “statement” of the dis- ease he called the trouble an agzravated case of sore throat. There's something in a name—for the doctor Mr. O. G. Smith of the State Industrial school reports a piece of alfalfa near Jear- ney which under irrigation has already pro- duced two crops this season, and the third crop is now three feel high. Mr. Smith also stated that lands above the ditch west of the Industrial school can be bought for $10 per acre, while below the ditch, where they can be Irrigated, they cannot be bought less than $75 per acre. and surprised the American restdents of Paria, but Mr. Vanderbilt was o open in his attentions as to puzele everybody. One of the most startling things he did was to allow the servants of Nellie Neustreitor to wear the same livery as that worn by Mr Vanderbilt's servants. This fact has been noticed and commented upon by every pere son who saw her and her equipage In Parls and Deanville.” The Vanderbilts VANDERBILT FAMILY LINEN Wifo of W. K. i1 to Be Seekiug a Divoroo from Her Husband. TROUBLE HAS BEEN BREWING FOR YEARS srding to another ate ternoon paper, have lived apart since early last spring. Mrs. Vanderbilt has spent the summer In England at an estate on the Thames near London, which has been rented for her, while Mr. Vanderbiit has spent his time In Paris. It is alloged that when, some time ago, a tentatiy ment of separation wis reached, Mr. Vanderbilt agreed to settle upon his wife $10,000.000. ALBANY, N. Y. Aug 20—Joseph H Choate of New York, president of the con- stitutional convention, when asked today if there was any truth (n the report that he been retalued to prosecute a sult for dis ce which it lleged Mrs. W. K. Van- derbilt will institute, rofused sither to con- firm or deny the statement, saying: “I never tell my private affairs to the press 3Nihu Root denfed that ho had been re- tained by any one of the Vanderblits in di- vorce proceed Culminution of the DiMcultics Ca the Husband Took Up with Wanton and Lavished Atton- tons Upon Hoer. PARIS, Aug Mrs has under consiceration instituting p dificult | some months yacht Valiant d. About rhilt went to Londo exdings, but was 20, W the for nearly 50 when in the ten weeks ago K. Vanderbilt advisability of divoree. The reached a climax the party th Mediterrancan separ- Cornelius Van to stop further pro unsuccessful. M Van. lerbilt is represented by Coonel Wiillam Jay | of New York. A proposition is said to have been made by Mrs. Vanderbilt for a s pa | tion the basis of an annual Howance of $300,000, the custody of her children ana | Ufcle bhen. } the possession of throe houses at Newport, | te<peck g Islip and in New York. It is sald Mr. Va derbilt oftered no objection, but would only consent to terms | liberal than those | have turn-up noses asked by Mrs, Vanderbilt. She has refused his' proposition, and further discussion is postponed until the arrival of Colonel Tny In Paris. Mr. Vand:rbilt declines to discuss the matter further than to say he had in- | stituted no proceedings in divorce NEWPORT, R. 1., Aug. 29.—The the domestic infelicities of r William K. Vanderbilt at Ne over a period of two years ¢ far back as that time the pro separation was the gossip of the place, Two summers ago W. K. Vanderbilt turned up at Newport on his yacht Alva and later was | on it when it was ru down and sunk in Vineyard sound. Last summer at New- port the chatt was incessant. When Mr Vanderbilt returned to his new yacht gossip was silenced by the announcement of plans for a long yacht trip with Mrs. Vanderbilt and other well known persons in the party. Curious stories have reached here of quar- aboard the yacht, which are said have resulted In’ the ‘abandonment of tho | Youl, thitk that ( cruise at an early stage and the entire break- t an hour Ing up of the party. Mrs. Vanderbilt has | secmed to told her friends, is said to have written to them also, that she has no intention of r turning to Newport for years, and that th marble house, which $1,000,000 to build and which her husband settled on her, would remain closed during that time. It was a matter of general surprise day to friends of the Vand. (it family happened to be in town that the troubles of William K. Vanderbilt wife should have reached the point judicial separation becomes imminent been no secret for some time that troul has been brewing. Mr. Depew first heard of it when the Debs crisis was at its height in Chicago and he wanted to hurry to Europe. When the Pullman strike practically over he sailed, and until was recelved yesterday the contrary it was belicved he had succeeded in keeping tho Vanderbilt family linen out of the public wash. Cornelius nderbilt was not in town last night. It was said at his residence he had left Newport and might sail for Liver- | [i'8 Kot pool Wednesday. he borrow: Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt is a southern woman - of the family e Smythes of aobile, Ala., SOUTHIERN PASTORAL, who are much prouder of their blood than Atlunta Constitutic the Vanderbilts are of their millions. Shs | Sing of the merry laughter is a handsome woman, with beautiful golden That sounds in the village stre hair and large blue-gray eyes, and, although Then of the old cane grindings, she is exceptionally exclusive, those who Where the juice s dripping”sweet, know her say she {s gracious and charming to those whom she favors with her friendship. Mr. Vanderbilt, it is said, built the mag- nificent steam yacht Vallant to replace the And ride away with he girls! wrecked Alva, chiefly to please her, as she —_— is fond of yachting, and it was to enable her Investigating Labor to entertain, lavishing attention being an- 1 © Republican, other of her pleasures, that the famous white It s hoped that the Investigationg marble palace on the clifs at Newport was | of labor problems which have been ordered | puitt by congress will bring to light much falua- It s ble Information. These questions Are very e intricate, and solyticns of the difficulties sian beauty of the light swelldom. bt that e way {0 reach trgs NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The statement in through study of facts, and morning paper that Mrs. W. K. Vander- t be astertained by bilt is about to begi jon or divorce :ll\"u )|~ m‘ Investigations carrie w‘| (1‘n Il!tldlflr proceedings has mot, it is created | the direction competent authority, The Lurprm- in circles where the rel of the | twa investigat cferred to ab ve will be pair have been known. That they have not hoto B Lmnen Commisslonery rbwcts lived harmonfously for the last two years | popo that the work will be done well, has been the gossip of fashionable circles S S or_some time v e T g ;'h»» crisis in their affairs, according to the FROMTRE INDO-SYBIAC, Commercial Advertiser, as reached imme- v diately after the running of the Grand Prix de Paris, June 13, this year. “Mr. Vanderbilt,” says this authority, “won 40,000 francs on the race and almost immediately after receiving his winnings was introduced to a woman noted for her beauty and large following in the light swelldom. This person was Nellie Neustrettor, She fascinated the millionaire, and, as an evidence of his appreciation of her company, he presented | yea her the 40,000 francs so openly that several friends saw the unusual occurrence and re- monstrated with him. The story of how he fitted up a magnificent establishment for her in Paris and subsequently gave her a residence at Deanville, with servants and every luxury she desired, is true. It shocked | eedings it is said JABS. on Washingt brag,” sald Uncle hen oo mich ke up yer own se'f- Doan Hit soun's ter bolster Philade lips ke phin Record: Lots nd cheeks girls with like & peach ton Courier: P I it when they have to pu 10 pound for st bt | great her wh pay is tough cents i deal nly 1 Ch Dulan get ver t was for | ¥ Walked by t) fruit ing anything “How did_ Ofices medal ho wears? What did he do?" tands without tak- talk of and Mrs port extends more, and as ability of Lowell Courier: Business 5 | 1sn°t bobbin around just at at Fall River Philadephia wite calls me water, Ol Soak because 1 can go Record Ducky My ver Drink—My because 1 take to wite calls me Camel s without it. urnal: Pirst Ply—Did it ou that baldheaded men ave a k nse of humor than others? Second Fly- Well, 1 have noticed that they seem (o he casily tickled Indianapoli toston Transcript: 1Bdith—What makes “harley is in love with Why, ma talked to him over last ‘evening, and he really enjoy it Atlanta Constitution: A man doesn’t feel like being a living piciure these eool nights and mornings here I8 a fall breeziness about this wcather that makes one think of overcoats and pawn tickets, cost wh domestic and his where a 1t has Philadel the n agricultural whom he was drink Now i v why is 50 wenk," sald the ) the farmer with yarding I just this min- pive those cows water to i » et her Miss Footlite why Dr. Thirdly wants : stumbling blocks in » are striving for \eatrical profession. been doing now? Miss the abolition of di- (petu- away | he oy ok e Vhat has b word | Footlite—Advocatin | vorce law Chicago Chanter, voices 1 ev He's got o toaks—There goes ot one of the finest ISver hear him sing? Onkes (sadly)—Yes; card It about an hour ago— And wind a blast on the hunter's horn Till the smoke to the music curls; And then jump into the wagon roblems, sald the woman at the bottom is Miss Nellie Neustrellor, of a Pari- Hot not complai Killer of I What though h lunguor Springs Herald oh brother, )th rest, hands be ‘blocd is surely best Do not that fry the his Though he should slay the break of next morn; Yet for cach fool that yet another be born. from morning until there shall , were this not, yet would unceasonin Let him clean out a thou expect 1o g thy murmurs still the fools and couldst free? Though the Prize Idi Mild Lunatic rave Yet this old world would be with no one but knaves. gibbers, though the reary peopled Prepare for School We've marked down till prices cut no figure in our children’s department and Thursday, day, Saturday we place on special sale Nobby school suits—$2.50—$3—$3.50—$4.50—$5 These are knee pant suits that sold up to $10. Nobby school suits —$5—$6—$6.50—3$7.50.~$8.50 — These are long pant suits that sold up to $15. There'll be none left after Saturday for such as these won't last long. Everything way-way down. room for fall goods. Fri- for boy's Men's suits half price to make Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor, 15th and Douglas,