Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 16, 1894, Page 4

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P. FEIL, Notary Public. Ye democratic eyes still looketh wist- fully after the salary which appertain- eth to ye Omalia postmastership. President Cleveland won't be able to say that he has a congress on his hands after the 4th day of March next. The attention of the great American publie will soon be directed to a eritical discussion of the Thanksgiving turkey. It begins to look as if all the demo- eratic nominations will have to be forced upon reluctant candidates next year. Oh! But won't the new bond issue give the free silver statesmen food for a perennial flow of talk, commeneing so 800D A8 CONEIOSS reconvenes. The railroad organs all along the line may as well take the sitnation grace- fully and follow the lead of the Lincoln Call in recognizing Judge Holcomb as the governor-elect. ‘Why not Euclid Martin for postmas- ter? Did he not do yeoman service in the cause of Phelps D. Sturdevant, the candidate of the “straight” democ- racy of Nebraska for governor? The Episcopalian congress in Boston is telling what a Dold, bad thing the secular newspaper is and relying upon the secular newspaper to inform the people of what the Episcopalian con- gress I8 saying. John Boyd Thacher has, after ma- ture reflection, decided to contine him- self hereafter to the distribution of rib- bous at county fairs and industrial expositions and to leave conferring of political prizes severely alone. The unanimity with which all the de- feated democrats say, “Cleveland did it,” gives some grounds for the sus- picion that they underwent several weeks of laborious training in order to render this chorus with precision and effec Tn Omaha the senseless gabble of B. & M. politieal claquers won't go. But at Lincoln the czar's prompter only has to start the talk and the miserable crew of superservicenble cuckoos echo in chorus. The ezar ought to order his hirelings in out of the wet. A man's neighbers are usually the persons who know him best. The re- ception accorded Judge Holeomb at his home in Broken Bow on Wednesday I8 a testimonial that speaks volumes for the character and reputation of the next governor of Nebraska. The pertinacity of Japan in refusing offers of mediation in her difficulties with China gives ground for the sus- picion that the Japanese as well as the English have the benefit of a pro- verhb conveying the information that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. | Ther¢ are prolific coal mines in Towa, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota within easy reach of Omaha. On every ton of soft coal shipped into this city the railronds get more in trans- portation charges than do the miners at the shafts. With the cost of trans- portation reduced to a reasonable fig- are the price of coal could be forced down to a live and let live scale. Managers of western railroads who have their offices in Chicago are re- ported to be very mnrch pleased with Judge Brewer's decision on the Ne- braska maximum freight rate law. We should think they might be pleased. They are said to be just as well satis- Bed as it the court had declared the whole kuw to be unconstitutional. If this Is so, it must be phkin that the people have no reason to be satisfied with the decision. No pains should be spared to bhave it reversed at the parliest possible memen The election of Major Elijah W. Hal ford to be president of the lo Young Men's Christian association will be wel- comed by the people of Omaha as ample assurance that that useful organization Is to continue and extend its usefuluess under its uew officers. Major Halford has been prominently identified with the work of the assoclution ever since be made his home among us. He Is earnest, devoted and persistent In any philanthropy which he undertakes, and may be relied upon to see that the Young Men's Christian association goes forward and not backward while under his direction. His conseut to aceept the posit on to which he has been elected J5 & ma ter for cong.utu ation all sround. Siv e NOT PUGBEARS AT ALL. There has been a disposition fn some quarters to tréat lightly The Bee's nc- counts of the plots hatched by railrond corporations to tamper with the ballot boxes and rob the people of their duly elected governor. Its warnings to the friends of honest government to be- ware of attempted fraud have been re- ferred to as “bugbears,” “after-election roorbacks. But ey day brings | added proof to the fact that the desper- been moving heaven and earth in behalf of their tattooed candidate are waiting only for a chanee to fall back on foul means to count him in in the absence of fair menuns. Only continued watchful- ness on the part of law abiding citizens will prevent the perpetration of these deep laid designs. The Majors organs are still endeavor- ing to crente a public opinion that Judge Holeomb has not Dbeen fairly elected, as they evidently hLope thus to secure a public mind favorable to proposed manipulation of the ballots. The secretary of the republican state central committee, Mr. Tim Sedgwick, in promotion of this scheme, writes this in his paper, the York Tim There are 1,745 election precincts in the state. If only two Majors votes were ille- gally thrown out in each preeinet it would give him a handsome majority on a fair | count votes were thrown out because they had an fnk blot on them. If votes enough were honestly cast to elect Mr. Majors he ought to have them counted, and if the judges of election refuse to count them the legislature or the courts ought to do it: The people should not be defrauded out of their gov- ernor by trickery. There are not 1,745 election precincts in Nebraska, but suppose there were. What kind of a handsome major- ity would Majors have if two votes were illegally thrown out in each precinet? Would a majority of be a handsome majority? But as a matter of fact, for every two Majors votes that may possibly have been thrown out illegally th have been ten Holcomb votes illegally thrown out. Not half of the election precincts in the state are in populist communities. In almost all the larger precinets, where the great bulk of the vote is cast, the election oflicers were entirely or pre- dominatingly in the interest of Majors. In Omaha's seventy-six precinets, which cast nearly a tenth of the entire state vote, the Majors supporters had a ma- jority of every election board. The same is true of Lincoln, of Plattsmouth, of Beatrice, of South Omaha and of all the ar st towrs. Wlat : bout the Hol- comb votes that were illegally thrown out? We have reliable information that 300 votes for Holcomb were sup- pressed in one ward in South Omaha It is also reported that in one precinet of the Third ward in Omaha fifteen Holcomb ballots were not counted be- cause they had blots or other aecidental warks upen them, while every Majors ballot, no matter how besmeared with ink or otherwise defaced, went into the Majors column. Bugbears, indeed! Fraud and trick- ery, too! All the fraud and trickery— and there was enough of it—was that purchased and paid for by the eorpova- tion managers, who furnished thousands of dollars to debauch the ballot and to corrupt election officials in their vain attempt to place their pliant tool in the governor's chatr. Unless the ballots are stolen and changed by hired mercen- aries a recount can only add to the ever growing plurality of Holeomb. » to it that the ballots arve sacredly guarded and the now loud-monthed Majors mirers will shun a recount as a hu child shuns fi [ CLEVEL: ND CARLISLE. There is eumulative evidence that Secretary Carlisle does not possess, as the head of the financial department of the government, the full confidence of the president. It has been apparent for a year past that Mr. Carlisle is lit- tle more than a figurehead in the Treasury department, and this has been very distinetly shown in connection with the present call for bids for a new loan. It seems to be unquestionable that another issue of bonds was de- cided upon and ordered by the pre dent either without consultation with the secretary of the treasury or in dis- vegard of his views. The first an- nouncement that a new loan was con- templated was made nearly a week ago in the New York Times, which is known to enjoy intimate relations with Mr. Cleveland and therefore peculiar advantages for obtaiing inside infor- mation. The statement of the Times was discredited by treasury officials in Washington, whe claimed to know noth- ing of a proposed loan, and on the day preceding the publication of the call there was sent out to the press of the country the statement that none of the treasury officials in Washingten had heard any intimation of an issue of bonds, the dispatch saying, “and these include the men who were first consulfed before the action of February lnst was determined upon” It is thus clearly shown that the president ncted independently in this watter and that he allowed bis decision to be imparted to & New York newspaper and given to the country before he made it known to the secretary of the treasury and other officials of that department. It might not be ensy to discover just when the president began to lose con- fidence in the financial judgment of Secretary Carlisle, but it was probably about the time, something more than a year ago, when the secretary of the treasury inenrved the displeasure of the financial interests of New York. Not only were the views of the secretary as to the policy which the treasur, should pursue unsatisfactory to th bankers and financiers of that eity, but he manifested distrust of them and a disposition to regard them as enemies of the government. This lost him in- fuence and respeet in that quarter and the hostility toward him, it would seem, was not long in having an effect upon the president. At any rate it is per- fectly certain that for some time the secretary of the treasury has not re- ceived from the president that con- sideration which his pesition should command, and the latest evidence of [lack of confidence, to say nothing of respect, gives color to the weport that Mr. Cleveland is disposed to let Carlisle go. The latter, however, has treated with such cowpucency all previous ate gang of corporation tools who have | There are precincts where five Majors | a8 fo suggest the probability that he will do the same with the latest expres- slon of it. Report connects the name of Con- gressman Willlam .. Wilson with |h|-‘ position of secretary of the treasur in the event of the retirement of Secr tary Carlisle. President Cleveland is a drawn from (he guaranty fund for the redemption the elrculation of such banks. It is stat hat some of the features of this plan are not entirely satisfac- tory to the treasury officials, among these being the provision continuing the existing national bank note redemption agency at Washington and the requir FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1894, NERRASKA’S CREDIT ALL RIGAT. DeWitt Times: Holcomb can do the state but little Injury. Madison Chronicle: Nebraska will survive, however, and come up smfling fn 1896, ‘ Randolph Reporter: Speaking from a re. publican standpoint, the credit of the state must be lost ring Courier: Holeomb personally is not a bloody old crank like Walte, and ne [ warm friend and strong admirer of |ment that the government shall redeem | detrimental legislation s possible Mr. Wilson and would doubtless like to lave him In the cabinet, but little as | » be sald favornble to Secretary | Carlisle a8 a finance minister it is not | probable that the West Virginia states- | man would be an improvement. He | las given 1o evidence of possessing | the ability to wisely administer the national treasury, particularly under | existing elrcumstance: A change in the head of that department at no re- mote time, however, seems more than probable, in view of the plain indica- tions that Mr. Cleve sugar refining monopoly has be- gun to recoup. It will be remembered that after the passage of the present ariff law several small advances in the price of sugar were made by the trust, attention being widely ealled to the fact as showing that the monopoly was tak- ing full advantage of its opportunity. This promised to be a strong point in the campaign against the party which had favored the trust and most unex-| pectedly there was a sudden change. The price of sugar declined and simul- reously most of the refineries in con- | trol of the trust, and tney include all but two or thiee, were shut down. The excuse given for this was that the mar- ket was overstocked with sugar and that it was necessary to take this course in order to protect the refining interest against 1 That this was only a pre- text has never been questioned, so far as we have observed. At any rate, the elections being over the price of sugar is now going up, and | the announcement is made that all the trust refineries which had been closed will at once resume operations on full time. If the trust lost anything, which is not at all probable, during the period of lower prices and suspension of refin- ing, it will now proceed to fully recoup itself, but the thousands of workmen | who have been idle for several weeks will lose the time. Indeed, this is one of the ways by which the trust averted loss to itself. Obviously the policy pur- sued by the monopoly before the elec- tions was for politieal effect, and now it proposes to make the American people pay for it. The trust managers under- stand that the part they played in framing the sugar schedule of the tariff bill had no small influence in arraying voters against the party in power, and they doubtless appreciate the fact that | the advantage given them by this legis- | Tation they will not be allowed to enjoy a very great while. That they will make their harvest in the meanwhile as large as possible is not to be doubted. There is a bill on the calandar of the senate providing for free sugar, which was passed by the house at the last ses- siom. That it will pass the senate is more than probable, since it is very likely to vecelvé thesunanimous support of the republicans of that body, not- withstanding the fact that the present necessities of the treasury seem to absolutely require the revenue expected from this source. Per- haps Mr. Cleveland would ot approve sueh a measure, but he might be willing to give his approval to one which would lessen the advantage enjoyed by the trust and the power of the monopoly to exact what tribute it pleases from the consumers of this prime necessary. A way should certainly be found to curb the rapacity of this com- bination, since 1t seems that no effort is to be made to reach it under the pro- vision of the fariff law which was framed with particular reference to it. CONSIDERING CURRENCY PLANS. It is announced that President Cleve- Iand is giving very earnest considera- tion to the currency problem and that he will treat the subject at length in his annual message to comgress, It is stated that the president is prepared to recommend the adoption of a bank- ing currency and that he thinks well of much of the plan endorsed by the convention of bankers at Baltimore a couple of months ago, which is to be presented to congress by a com- mittee appointed by the conven- tion. This plan bas received a great deal of public discussion and has been pretty generally approved, though of course there have been numerous sug- gestions of modifications and amend- ments. The essential purpose of this scheme of currency reform it to supply an elastiec curreney. It propoeses to deo away with bonds as security for eir- culating netes and allow banks to is- sue such notes to the amount of 50 per cent of their paid-up, unimpaired eapi- tal, subject to a x of one-half of 1 per cent upon the average amount of cir- culation outstandiug for the year, and an additional civenlation of 25 per cent, be known as “emergency circula- subject fo a tax in additien te the one-half of 1 per cent on the aver- age amount outstanding for the year. There is a redemption fund provided for equal to 5 per cent of the average outstanding circulation, to be deposited in the United States treasury, and a guaranty fund to be created through the deposit by each bank of 2 per cent upon the amount of circulakion re- ceived the first year, the tax for this fund after the first year to be one-half of 1 per cent upon the average amount of circulation. When the amount paid into the fund shall equal 5 per cent of the entive circulation outstanding the collection of the tax shall be sus- pended, to be resumed when deemed necessary by the eomptroller of the cur- reney. The notes of insolvent banks shall be redeemed by the treasurer of the United States out of the guaranty fund if it be sufficient, and if not suf- ficlent then out of any money in the treasury, the same to be relmbursed out of the guaranty fund when re- plenished. Circulating notes are to be issued to banks by the comptreller of the currency and it is provided that the | government shall have a prior len upon | the assets of failed banks and upon | the liabilities of shareholders for the b | purpose of restoring the amount with- | the notes of failed banks whether there is sufficient guopey in the guaranty fund to do so ok ugt. It is also urged by some of n.N‘-'ummm that the plan is defective in not providing for prompt redemption of the bank notes in coin at the counters of the Issuing banks or | through agencies appointed for that purpose. It is understood to be desire of the administeation o system which shall treasury of the necessity of banking business, ns at pr throw upon the banks the v for the maintenance of the soundness of the eurrency. It is held that under the proposed plan the situation would remain substantialy as at present, when the treasury has to cope with the real difficulties, whereas the banks ought to be requived to grapple with the export demand for gold on their own account. One amendment to the Baltimore plan which will probably be made before it is presented to con- gress will be the insertionm of a pro- sion for retiving the greenbacks. The country will await with a great deal of interest the views of the presi- dent on this subject, the Importance of which is recognized by men of all parties. There is not much probability however, t any measure providing for n bank currency ean be passed by the s, for the reason, in the that it is hardly possible diversity of views among the demo- crats ean be reconciled or compromised, and in the second place if they should it is not at all likely that any plan they might agree upon would be ac- ceptable to the republican relieve the doing a sent, and The county clerk of Phelps county has. corrected the veturns on governor which he certified to the etary of state so that the Majors gang will not able to claim for their didate the votes which were in reality given to lis opponent. Thelr shouts of joy on discovery of this clerical error we entively premature, but they were enough to indicate the conspirators has been. Had the error not been. ummediately discovered and rectified Judge Holcomb's plurality in Phelps county would have been counted for Majors. Could the Majors men have duced other officials to make enough intentional mistakes of this kind to change the face of the totals they iwould have stopped at nothing to.do so. The incident ad- monishes th¢ utmost watchfulness on the part of those who stand up for houest electigns gnd fair counts. oc The resolution ‘adopted by the county commissioners to give preference to the employment of men in repairing ditches oit. the countgy lréads to thoseiavho dare already: recefidnge aid from, thE eounty as public’ charges,ig veally an“applica- tion of the work test in the administra- tion of poor relief. If the Mst of de- pendents should be carefully scanned and every able bodied man whose name appears upon it summoned angd offered work the test would give an indication, at least, as to the worthiness of the greater number of them. The periodi- enl resort to a work test of some kind aould not but have a beneficial result iu keeping the number of applicants for assistance within bounds. Encouraged by his success with the tariff, President Cleveland now pro- poses to show the country what he can do with the currency. If he is no more suceessful with the latter than he was with the tariff, the country will soon be ready for commiseration. Whorefore the Howl Courler-Journal, China s the yellow dog of nations and her howling when kicked is characteristic of the cur. SR B The Consolation Planik, Washington Post. In groping about for consolation Mr. Bland should not overlook the financial plank of the Pennsylvania republicans. Stand from Under. Chicago Herald. The day has come for the west in the councils of the national demoeratic party. No more New York dictation! —————— Not Enough Sugur te Ga Around. Minneapolis Times. The prediction of the 587 sugar planters of Louisiana that the state would go re- publican must have been based more on the size of their barrel than on thelr cumer- ical strength. —— The Doad Elect. St. Paul Giobe. In an lowa township the republicans elected a man wha had been dead a month. This s a pretty serious reflection on the Hawkeye democrats, that even a dead re- publican Is better than a live demoerat. e The Frice of Hiread, lobe-Democrat. The cost of a loaf of bresd in New York has been reduced from 10 cents to 5 cents and in Clncinnat! from § cents to 3 cents. A similar cut is-#nnounced in Washington. An era of cheup wheat withcut correspond- ingly cheap bread ds too absurd to require debate. w axond o~ Iy His Qeoppation Going. Mifngapolis Tumes. All over the country the papers are ad- mitting that tife’ time has come when peo- ill think dnd vote for themselves, irr ve of the"demands of the party lei The p-1.ticalibess 18 sur:ly doomed, an the American peqple are awakening (o the realization of an, independence of thought as well as the Kind’of national independence for which their foréfathers fought and bled. P e il The Outpoured Soul of J, 8. €, Wéw [York Sun. The Hon. J. Swlli¥an Clarkson is laudabiy quiet during avlarge part of the year, and rhaps he should be foriven for the regu- arity with which h¢ pours his soul into type after every Aaétloh! "Hia tatoat colleetion of Views comes fram denver, but if he were starting @ resgr| jrust in the empire of Prester John of atroducing substitute food for infant cannibals into the island of Hollk- bol, he would “#9m up the result of tne elebtions” with his usual neatness and dis- patch, His latest observations are cheerful, of course, and the only marked omission 1 his failure to credit the result to himself, the | to devise | sponsibility | what the plan of | Nance County Journal: Holcomb will be governor, but will be tied up by a solid state ticket and republican legislature and can do no harm. Nebraska City Press: What the business men most needed was confidence in the future, That they have now secured and can resume business, Beatrice Express: Confldence was the | great word of the business men, and confi- | dence they have secured and can now resume | business on the old lines. Strang Reporter: The business men have |sald all along, if Holcomb fis eclected the credit of the state will be ruined. We will now walt and see the results. Falls City Populist: We are pleased to note that the hercule the Nebraska Business Men's assoclation to defeat Mr. Holcomb has been rebuked and resented as a gross insult by the people. Hastings Nebraskan: Whatever Governor- elect Holcomb may be, we do not believe that he will prove a Walte or a Lewelling | He has undoubtedly read the fate of those men and will aim to keep clear of a similar one. Ord Quiz: There is one good thing about it, Holcomb's election wiil be of little injury to the state, with an overwhelming republican majority in th legislature, all the state officers republican and an almost solid repub- lican delegation in congress. Greeley Leader: Those citizens who have put good government and good men before mero party politics are certainly entitled to great credit for the part they have taken in the campaign that has vindicated the busi- nes of the people of the state of Nebraska. There is plenty of encouragement for the state to take up her old line of march, plow deep, plant alfalfa, forget the hot winds, irrigate, and forge ahead. Niobrara Pioneer: As to Nebraska, with a populist governor, a republican set of offi- clals and a_republican legislature, the state will not suffer. I thelr sober moments the conservative men will keep the heelers in line. It mugt be remembered that the maxi- | mum rate bill was the result of the noble fight of the late Senator Clark, an honorable, young and earnest republican, aided by the popullst members, When men say that be- cause Holcomb Is governor he will get the support only of populists they must remem- ber that other Senator Clarks will rise up to assist in needed legislation will of the people against the corporations. ncoln Call: The election loses the significance many people feared it might have. The state as a whole is over- whelmingly republican, and this fact has been made plain to the poople of the country. Populism, involving the stability of credit and the business security of the state, has been stamped out for the time being; the election of Holcomb meaning not a_tribute | to this discase aptly dominated by the New York Sun “a mixture of socialism and in- sanity,” but a protest against certain methods that liave obtained too strong a foothold in the republican party. Nebraska, despite the defent of Majors, is a republican state, There can be no crazy populist legislation, and we do not see how the success of Holcomb, re- grettable as it is from a party standpoint, can have an appreciable adverse effect upon the state. Plattsmouth Journal: Now that Holcomb has been elected it is presumed that the credit of the state will at once “go glim- mering’ and that H. W. Yates, with his Nebraska National bank, will refuse to loan another dollar during Holcomb's term. The vate of Cass county shows more of a sur- render to the peculiar influences that sup- ported Majors than any other county in Nebraska, and it is safe to say that most of its strength was drawn from the friends of the administration. Men who have not the confldence of the party in the county enough to control it have given their in- | filience’ and quietly ~worked for the other side, and while they may have saved them- selves from the charge of voting the republi- can ticket, encouraged and urged their friends to do so. This is the sore spot that hurts and eats into the vitals of the party, crip- pling its future contests. It gives room for the conclusion that pelf and not principle is the chief use they have for the democratic | party. To be aggressive and to win, the party In the future must look to other sources for its stremgth. more than an efforts of strong and venal arm of the plysseito s CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMISSION, Chicago Times: The report will do a dis- tinet service to the cause of organized labor, and cannot fail to temper somewhat the bit- terness of public criticism of the men who led the great strike. Minneapolis Tribune: The Hon. Wade Hampton, United States commissioner of rail- roads, In his annual report, also recommends the creatfon of a national board of railway commissioners. Hampton, however, would give the board power of final decision. This plan is not so good as that suggested by the strike commission, that the board should sim- ply make recommendations to the court and that the power of final decision should reside in the latter tribunal. Chicago Post: The commission was sim- ply one of investigation, and its recommenda- tions convey no mandate except such as is implied by public respect for the sobriety and honesty af the inquiry. This force may be serviceable in directing the attention of | congress to the necessity for legislation. The strike last summer brought us to the parting of the ways. The public foresees efther the settlement of rallway strikes in a tribunal, removed both from avarice and demagogism, or a relapse to worse anarchical conditions than those that prevailed last summer. gllndie il ed CURRENT COMICS. \delphia Record: The fellow that s rying to raise the wind usually wants to blow himself. Harlem Life: “What are you doing now asked one Yale man of another. “I'm.wril ing for a living.” “What do you write “Letters to the governor. Judge: Woman' Lawyer—What Is your age? {Woman Witness—I was born in the same yenr as yourself. Woman Lawyer—Witness excused. New York Weekly: Missionary (out west)— Did you ever forgive an enemy? Bad Man—Wunst, 4 “I am glad to hear that. What moved your inner soul to prefer, peace to strife? “I didn't have no gun Indianapolis Journal: Weary Watkins Hullo! Dis here paper say you ort nev to eat when vou are tired. What do you think of th Hungry Higgins—It looks to me like a plot to git gents like us to starve ourselves to death. Washington Star: human life,” sala the sentimental young man, “is a poem— tragie, comie, sentimenital, as the case may & and 80 Yes," 5 many of us are rejected manuseript: Why do you call them stag parties ause when he goes one a man takes at least a couple of horns, DOMESTIC TROUBLE. Philadeiphia Record. Oh, mother, dear mother, come home With me now, Vor daddy is kicking like fun. He says that you promised you'd not ralse a Yow If you found that your suit wasn't done. And the tallor sent word that you're yelling for gore, And he (Hinks he'll ¥ And he says that the 50 sore Is—he didn't put hip pockets in it, dead In a minute, ason that you ape Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov’t Report ABSOLU QYal Baking Powder TELY PURE The mighty | has exerted its energies | | in of Holcomb | TRET P e WILL INVESTIGATE GRESHAM Representativé Storer Wants Information Ooncerning His Foreign Policy, DEPARTURES FROM THE MONROE DOCTRINE Thinks Congress Should Ko About it {f This Time-Honored Pollvy I8 to Be Abandoned as i the Aslatic Dicultion. w Something WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Representative Bellamy Storer of the committee on foreign affairs of the house of representatives in- tends to iotroduce In congress when it re- assembles a resolution of inquiry as to the action of Secretary Gresham In suggosting to China and Japan that this country will act as meditator for the settlement of the present war. The resolution when drawn will ask for information as to what departure from the traditional policy of the government as embodied fn the Monroe doctrine is con- templated by the executive branch in coming a factor in Aslatic entanglements, Mr. Storer says he has no desire to barass the executive branch in any foreign policy that it wishes to pursue, but as a member of the committee on foreign affairs he says such a foreign policy as is now con- templated should properly have the attention and judgment of congress. be- Report of Assistan! well for the Y ling June 30. WASHINGTON, No —The annual re- port of R. A. Maxwell, fourth assistant post- master general, has been submitted to the postmaster general. There are three divi- sions under his charge—appointments, bonds and commissions and postoffice inspectors and mail deprecations. The report covers period for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, The total number of postofces In operation in the United States on that date was 69,805 During the year 3,136 post- offices were established and 1,734 - discon- tinued. The total number of appointments during the year was 23,166, and the total number of cases acted on was 27,560, of which 8,966 were in cases of removais. The em- oyes in the postal service handled 15,050,- 4 pieces of domestic registered mail during the y with the ineonsiderable loss of one every 1,778. General Maxwell, in his report, emphasizes the necessity that the public should report every depredation upon the mail, whether it relates to registered or ster Goneral Max- | ordinary ' matter, and guarantees every com- plaint will receive the earnest attention of the department. During the year 56,877 com- plaints were recelved affecting the ordinary mail, 31,118 of these referring to letters and 25,696 to packages, a decrease of 1,983 as compared with last year. AGRICULTURAL OFFICERS, Convention at Washington Eleots Lenders for the Coming ¥ WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—The annual elec- tion of officers of the Association of Amer- fcan Agricultural Colleges and Experiment ations was held today with these results: President, H. E. Alvord, Oklahoma; vice presidents, A. A. Johnson, Wyoming; A. Q. Holliday, North Carolina; T. B. Comstock, Arizona; E. B. Craighead, South Carolina, and O, €. Clute, Florida; secretary and treas- urer, F. L. Washburn, Rhode Island; bibllo- grapher, S. W. Johnson, Conmecticut, and executive committee, H. H. Goodell, Ma: chusetts; H. C. White, Georgia; M. A. Scor- rill, Kentucky, and H. P. Ormsby, Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Dabney, assistant secretary of agricul- ture, delivered an adlzess in which he re- viewed the yays in which the scientlfic work of the department had been extended under the present administration. At tho general seasion this afternoon the general work In horticulture and botany were considered by the sections of the convention. the SHUTTING OUT SPOILSMEN. Many Pestmasters Object to the Enforce- ment of the New Civil service Order. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—Many requests are received at the postofiice department from postmasters all over the country asking that certain offices included in the recent civil service order be excepted from its opera- tions for a short itme. It appears, according to many of them, that the postmasters ap- pointed since the new administration came info power have not yet had time to fill the offices under them with their party friends and by the new extension they are debarred from selecting men for chief clerks and other offices which have heretofore been considered party patronage places. These letters have been very numerous, but to each the reply is made that the president only can except any offices from the operation of the order, and that Is not very probable that he would be willing to do s0. Some of the requests ask when the order will take effect, the sup- position being that some time in the future was de It was now known, however, em- | the | | NEBRASKA EN | | system which mak | Contracts | lines, which are indefinite quantities. that this very question came up fn ocabinet meeting and that it wi that the order went into effect the day it was signed. The correspondence thus far res celved at the Postoflice dopartment shows that there are a great many places affected by the order and considerablo disappolnt= ment in many postofiices. ARMY PAYMASTER REPORTS, Gratitying Toorease in the Savings Doposits, of Private Soldlers. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, —Paymaster Gen- eral Smith, in his annual repert (o' the sec- retary of war, calls attention to the fact that the soldiers’ deposits have increased $79,682 during the year, a gratifying increase, in view of the fact that the deposits had been falling off In preceding years, and of the Turther fact that a soldier with s deposit account rarely leaves the service without honorable discharge. The expenditures on aes count of pay of the army show an increase of $275,663 over the preceding year, dus, in part, to the fact that the enlisted fores was more nearly kept at its maximum imit. The fact that the expenditures on account of pay of voluateers was $493,653 less than last year Is taken as an indication that these claims are being exhausted. The paymaster general questions the beneficial effect of the system of withholding a portion of the sol dier’s pay until he Is discharged. The travel allowance of the soldier is ample to take him home when discharged, and it is not neces- sary to withhold pay for that purpose. Any the soldier a dependent detracts from his manhood and efficiency. Many men enlist, belng told their pay will be $13 per month, only to find that through deductions on account of clothing and with- held pay two or three months must elapse before he can receive any pay. He regards this as a breach of contract and deseet Therefore it s recommended that the system, which s cumbersome, complicated and abso- lute, be abolished. It is also recommended that there be but one common pay chest for the army, and that all disbursements be made through the bonded officers of the pay corps, Instead of being divided up between non-bonded dis- bursing officers, who last year distributed half of the army pay. GINEERS GET THE WORK, for Resurveylug Grant and Hooker Counties Let to Loeal Bidders. WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The contract for resurveying Grant and Huoker countles, Nebraska, for which an appropriation of $16,000 was made at the last sesslon of congress, was today awarded to several Nebraska surveyors, as follows: Alt, Wahoo, classes 1, 2 and 3, §3,798, ass 7, $2,116; M. S. Dixon, Allen, class 0, and J. Chambers, Elwood, and 6, $3,120. The total fixed cost is $10,114. To this, however, must be added the cost of determining all claims and section They will cost an average rate of $4 per linear mile. This will bring the gross cost of the survey up to very nearly the amount of the appro- priation. The contract has been awarded to Morri- son Southern Electric company of Baltimore, Ma., to furnish and place gas and electrio light fixtures in the federal building at Fre- mont, Neb,, at its bid, $205. A contract has also been awarded to the Corbin Cabinet Leek company of Camden, N. Y., to supply furpiture for the federal building at Des Moines, Ia., at their bid, §626, Nebraska postmasters have been appointed as follows: Riverdale, Buffalo county, Emma. K. Lea, vice August Reymond, resigned; I Ut'ca, Seward county, Samuel Willlams, vice D. G. Harden, removed. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS, Comparative Statoment for this Year and st WASHINGTON, Nov, 15.—A statement prepared at the bureau of statistics shows that the total value of the exports of mer- chandise from the Uited States during Oc- tober was $83,658,702, of which $82,291,250 was domestic, and $1,267,122 was foreign. For October, 1893, the exports amounted to $87,675,48L. The imports during October amounted to $59,681,674, of which $30,498,653 were free, and $29,183,121 dutiable. The im- ports in October, 1893, weré valued at $61,- 735,322, of which $29,080,844 were free, and $22,664,478 dutiable. For ten months, ended with October, the exports were $660,166,648, as against $60,987,354 for the corresponding period of 1893. The imports for the ten months of 1894 were $563,271,016, of which 3 4 were free, and $234,607,282 were or the same period , of which $357,741,« 503 were free, and $319,319,191 were dutiable. Ior the ten months of 1894 the gold exports were §$91,602,714, and fmports $18,699,371, as against exports of $76,789,532, and Imports of $67,544,569 for the first ten months of 1893 During the ten months of 1894 tho silver ex- ports were $39,773,554, the imports $11,208, 407, as against exports of $36,877,387, and im- ports of §16,424,323 for the first ten months of 1893. Delogates to the Transmississlppt Congress. BOISE, Idaho, Nov. 15.—Governor McCon- nel today appointed ten delegates to repre- sent Idaho at the transmississippl congress to meet in S§t. Louis Novembe ernor has been invited to sponse to the add of the congre: Overcoats. We're giving choice of three styles ot overcoats ; that are built with $20 worth of wear, and just as many dollars worth of looks, for justan even $15 this week. One is a melton, box style, good length, in brown, black and oxford mixed. good plaid serge lining, fly front, double stitched edges.—Another, is an extra long Oxford with velvet collar, Farmer satin lined, and in every way equal to most $20 gar- It has an extra ments.—Number three is an ulster, a heavy domestic Irish freize, cassi- mere lined, with silk sleeve lining v \NSubi# ___|and deep storm collar. $15 gets any one of the above; and we warrant 'em. We give money back as readily as we take it in, if customer is not satisfled. Browning, King & Co., Reliable Clothiers, S. W, Cor. 15th and Douglas,