Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 13, 1894, Page 4

B noamv;\n,n Editor. —— PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. M8 OF BUBSCRIPT it Sunday), One Sunday, One Year 10N, Yeur 28338333 aha, oo Bullding. Bouth Omaka, Corner N and Twenty-fourth Ste. Counell Mlufra, 12 Pearl strest Chicago OfMce, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New York, Rooms 13, 11 and 15, Tribune Bldg Washington, 1107 F street, N. 3 CORREEPONDENCE. unieations relating to ne hould be 1 To BUSINESS LETTERS. ss Inttors_nnd remittances o The Pabiishin Drafts 1 postoft be made_payabis or of the THE DEE PUBLISHING C All eomm wa torial matter STATEMENT OF CIRCULA' George B, Tzschuck, mecrotary of The fishing company, being duly swol the actunl number of full and ¢ of the Dally Morning, Evening o printed durng the month of November as follow ples i unday 1564 2),860 0 i 1 0.0 for “unsold “and’ return, i BB Sworn hefore anl in I subscribed my 1804 Publie. Omaha wants a market house and au- ditorium. The structure should be ab- solutely fireproof and the market place should oceupy a whole square. Prosecutor Shoemaker should purge himself of the charges brought against him by Councilman Wheeler. They are too serious to be fgnored. City Secretary Allen is still busy explaining away the legislative supply scandal. The next thing in order will be to ex- plain something much mor fous. The Bee would again ddmonish Judge Scott that it will be to his interest to make is proposed vacation permanent and let Governor Crounse appoint his successor. itor Bryan has better return to the bosom of his newspaper family. Ilis presence is sadly wanted at the editorial paste pot. which has been doing duty under a severe strain. There is nothing perpet in this world of ours. .Change Is the universal order. The irresistible law of change applies as much to cities as it does to men and thelr social environment. If there is any man in this country who has mastered the four r's and has not already formulated a new plan for elastic currency he must be sought in the asylum for the feeble minded. The Japanese army is still marching in the direction of the Chinese eapital, and unless Li Hung Chang succeeds in checking the belligerent Japs he will be in danger of being divested of his last jacket and even his nether gar- ment. We venture to say that out of the 166 members of the house who voted for the pooling bill not a dozen repre- sent the wishes of their constituents. In fact, it is doubtful whether any con siderable number of people outside of railrond circles sanction this measure. The incoming legislature will have abundant time to formulate some laws that will promote the welfare of their constituents. The danger is that the members will be beset by the old gang of oil roomers whose business it is to decoy members from the path of duty. If none of the subeditors of the Omaha Double-Ender have been on the pay roll of the penitentiary boodle gang they must have been acting under in- structions just before, during and after the Impeachment of the state officors for whom they have been apologizing in perfect harmory with the old estab- lished organ of state house plunderers and jobbers. The members of the German parlia- ment who refused to rise and cheer the emperor at the opening of the session Wwill be allowed to get off with a rebuke instead of being put on a diet of bread and water for a few weeks. This must be very consoling to the offenders against majesty. It only emphasizes the old adage that you can bring a horse to water, but you cannbt make his drink. There is no necessity for the council and the police commission to get into a jangle over the proposed reorgan tion of the fire department. The fire and police commission has exclusive control of the department and also must Dbe held responsible for its inefliciency. The council has the purse strings and its province Is to cheek extravagance or reckless waste when in Its judgment ex- penditures are not warranted. Judge Sanborn does not seem to have much sympathy for the overworked and underpaid Union Pacific receivers. The stone-hearted judge actually intimates that $1,000 o month would keep the wolf from the door. The judge has never lived in the Waldorf, where they charge $40 a day for a sulte of rooms and make their guests drop $5 tips to the porter every time he responds to the bell. “Judge Sanborn not what 1t costs to live in good style New York. : The fire lnsurance agents have held a conference with view to securing Islation that will promote thele in- est. Would it not be proper and timely for the premium payers to hold a conference with a view to securing such legislation as would promote their interest? There should be re iprocity in all such matters, and the legistature should be made to understand clearly what the men who bear the buriden of insurance require in the way of ad ditional insurance regulation and re striction, doe in know in | operate seems | probable The passage of the pooling bill In the house wns not unexpected, but the Inrge vote it recelved probably ex ceeded the expectation of its most san guine supporters. The measure, A8 adopted, was little changed from the form reported to the house by the com- mittee, but there was one Important amendment, reserving the power to congress of changing, rescinding or dis- solving pooling orders at any time. T'his leaves an appeal to the representa- tives of the people in any case where a pooling order should be found to unsatisfactorily or against the public interest, and the tendency = of this will be to make both the commis- fon and the courts more careful in granting orders for pooling, in the event of the LIl becoming law, which now likely., There has never been much doubt that if the house agreed to legalize pooling the senate would consent, so that it is doubtless pretty safe to say that the bill will pass the latter body at an early day. What the president thiuks of the proposed legis lation is not known, but it is highly Lie will be found friendly to the desire of the combined railroad in terest, which has been working pe sistently for several yenrs to secure a law allowing pooling The measure I8 stringent in its pro- visions, Pooling contracts must be filed in writing with the Interstate Com merce commission for twenty days be fore they can go into effect, and it made the duty of the commission to dis- approve any contract if it shall appear, on inspection, that it will result in un- mable rates, unjust discrimination, inferior service to the public, or other wise contravene the provisions of the ac The parties to the contract may appes disapproved by the commission, but in unenforeeable, so that the practical e fect i8 to place it under the exclusive control of the commission, The cases would be extremely rare in which the railroads would decline to accede to the requirements of the commission, know- ing that in the first place the chances would be against them in the courts, while if they were successful -there they might still have to face an appeal to congress. The bill confers very great powers on the commission, which can be summarily exercised in the in- terest of the public if that body is honestly disposed to subserve the publie interests. Among other things the com- mission is given power, if it should not choose to disapprove a contract, to issue an order requiring the parties thereto to change such rates or practices as are deemed hurtful to the publie, and if the parties refuse compliance then the com- mission may apply to any circult court within the jurisdiction of which any of the parties has its principal office to enforce its ovders. The railroads may congratulate them- selves upon the result of their energetic labors in behalf of a pooling law, so far as the action of the house of repre- sentatives is concerned, though they will be wise not to lose sight of the fact fhat there was a strong opposition there to such legislation. As already said it is to be expected that the bill ill pass the senate, because the cor- porations are stronger there than in the house, but they may encounter more opposition in that body than they pos- sibly auticipate. NO VALID OR RATIONAL OBJECTIONS. pme of the rock-rooted members of our park commission plant themselyes upon the doctrine that cnce a place is declared to be a park it must remain a tree nursery and posy garden forever. They insist that because Miller park has been mapped out as a park and boulevard extension therefore it must remain so from now until our planet ceases to be habitable by man. Now let us reason together and see whether there is any rational ground upon which the park commission can stand in opposition to the suggestion made by The Bee. According to Webster a park is a piece of ground in or near a city or town enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation. Does that mean that parks can only be tracts of land planted with rows of trees and ornamented with flower beds? Does it mean that the roadways in a park must be laid out in a particular fashion and the teams going over them must be driven at a slow pace or any limited speed? The idea is preposter- ous and at variance with the definition of a park for recreation. Nobody will dare asse that Fairmount park in Philadelphia, Central park In New York, or Kensington park in London are not parks in their broadest sense, and yet portions of those park grounds are dedicated to the enclosure of rare animals and game, while other por- tions are appropriated for exhibition purposes, including exhibits of every description. What do the Omaha wise- acres say about the conversion of Fair mount park into the Centennial Bxpo- sition grounds, where in 1876 there were acr upon acres red by temporary and permanent structures for exhibiting the products of the soil, mine, mill and factory, as well as the works of art, ancient and modern, not only of America, but of all the nations of the earth? And what about the use of Jackson park at Cnlcago for the World's fair of 18937 If it 1s proper and legitimate to use | a public park for an international ex- position would there be anything fm- proper or unlawful in using a park for an interstate exposition or a state fair? And why is not a driving park or a cirenlar drivéway as much for public recreation as a boulevard or ordinary roadway But one or two members of the park commission declare that several “thousand dollars have already been expended in grading Miller park {and planting saplings that are nearly |all dead. Now what of it? How much can the park commission expend on Miller park during the next ten years unless they get a new source of reve The amount in the park fund today is a fraction over $13,000. That nount and the proceeds of the tax levy for park purposes is all they will have at their disposal during the year 1805, If they had $100,000 every dollar will be swallowed up by the projected coy | mainten [l | eurrency, | plausibility, as providing 1t | this subject among men who have given | that will be gener 1 to the courts, in case of its being | the meantime the contract is illegal and | parks that are avallable to the people of Omaha for recreation, namely, Hans- com park, Riverside park and Elmwood park. The fuct is, Miller park Is not much better than an erdinary corn field today, and no matter how much money the commission squanders upon it twenty years must elapse before it ean become a well shaded and attrac- tive park ground. On the other hand, If used for exposi- tion, zoological garden and driving park the eity will got its money's worth and the ground will be utilized, whereas the location of the fair grounds and driving park on another tract will leave Miller park dreary and unattractive for years and take a very large slice out of the city and county treasuries by the exemption from taxes ground that now contributes its share to the nee of city and county gov- of ernment, THE VARIOUS CURRENCY PLA The house comiittee on banking and currency has thus far listened to ex- ations of four plans for a new bank 1 of them differcnt in essen- tial fentures, yot cach advocated with earnestness, confidence and more or less solution of forceful illustra- ity of views upon the question. It is a m of the wide diver it very careful study and su difficulties in the way of r 1y satis aim of all these plans to greater elasticity to the currency out impairing its security, the essential differences between them being in the methods proposed for accomplishing this. It is presumed that everybody inter- ested in the currency question is famil- far with the principal features of the various plans presented to the banking and currency committee. That of the cretary of the treasury, which re- ceived the unqualified approval of the president, has already been introduced in the house and referred. It has been subjected to a good deal of unfavorable criticism. The provision requiring na- tional banks to deposit and maintain at all times a guarantee fund of 30 per cent of their circulation, on which fund they would receive no return, it is be- lieved by many will be fatal to the suc; cess of the plan. Moreover, there is a diserimination in favor of state banks, regarding which the secretary is mani- festly partial, in the provision that these banks shall keep, instead of deposit, a guarantee fund, that in their case they would include this 30 per cent among their current reserves, which would be available if necded. Another objection is to the proposition to make national banks responsible for the cireu- lating notes issued by any one of their number. It is urged that while a bank might not mind the risk of being called upon for a definite per cent on the amount of its circulation if needed to keep good a guarantee fund it might refuse to engage to undertake any share of an unlimited responsibility. This mutual responsibility of national banks would result, it is the opinion of prac- tieal financiers, in these banks giving up their national charters and becoming state banks, particularly as state banks, under Mr, Carlisle’s plan, are to have all the advantages of national banks. The state bank part of the secretary’s scheme is regarded by many as its es- peclally weak feature, and while it may commend itself to a certain element in congress will not receive the support of the conservative men of that body who are not prepared to open the way to the currency system of 18 Comptroller Eckels submitted a plan requiring that the security deposited by banks shall be equal to 50 per cent of the authorized circulation, and that when the legal tenders and treasury notes are used to redeem the bank notes for which they were deposited they shall be permanently retired and destroyed. If the objection to a 30 per cent deposit is well taken there is nothing to be said in defense of the proposition to make it 50 per cent. Besides these the com- mittee heard argument in support of what is known as the Baltimore plan and listened to a somewhat modified form of that scheme submitted by Mr. Horace White of New York. The tendency of these various plans is to carry confusion, as suggested by a member of the banking and currency committee, to the present confused con- dition, and a study of them Is very likely to convince a great many people that perhaps the wisest and safest policy is to let the currency alone, at any rate until there Is more urgent necessity than at present for a change and a party Is in power better qualified than the democracy to deal wisely and practically with the subject. If the discusslon of the currency at this time does no harm perhaps the time given to it will not be altogether wasted, but there I8 a possibility that It may have the effect to retard the return of finan- al There is hardly a chance, however, that any currency plan can pass this congress, and this fact ought to fully reassure the financial in- terests of the country. gests the is secure with- S0 confidence, Mr. Dilworth, one of the secretaries of the State Board of Transportation, has taken it upon himself to visit Des Moines in order to ascertain how soon the Towa railrond commission proposes to raise freight rates, and to what ex- tent they are to be raised. Mr. Dil- worth is to be commended for rising to the occasion. It certainly is amusing, if it were not disgusting, to see such interest manifested in the proposed raise of rates over in Towa when every- body knows that the board manifested no interest when the Iow tes were low some years ago. It is con- ceded that Mr. Dilworth is the most ef- ficlent member of the board, or rather of the secretaries, but in view of the fact that not a single line has been written in the journals of the commis- slon since the middle of June the labors of the board have not been very ex- hausting on the most industrious of its secretarie T'he explanation offered by the Turk- ish government for the course pursued toward the Armenians will hardly be accepted by the civilized world as jus- tifying the horrible atrocities committed upon those unfortunate people. Even lmprovemeuts of the three principal [if it be true, which is very question- ~ able, that a few Armenlans rose In In- surrection agalnst the eruel and brutal despotism hich they are subjected and :'nlnan1 the outrages charged by the Turkish government, it furnishes no excnse for the unspeakable outrages ;u-r..mrun-.lll}‘ the bloodthirsty Kurds, The power 8tihie government of Turkey is suffici l""”"" have brought to swift Justice every” Armenian insurgent guilty of an otitrage, but instead of ex ercising thig pdwer, as all civilized na tions would haye done, it let loose upon a defenseless people a horde of the most bratal soldigry on earth and permitted it to do itd #darful work without re unt. Thove 1s no palliation for this terrible crime ‘against humanity and civilization, and it is the duty of the nations to hold Turkey to a stern ac countability, The Christian world is profoundly concerned in the question whether Armenia shall be longer sub- jected to Mohammedan domination. One of the British representatives to the labor convention at Denver said in a speech that bimetallism is rapidly gaining popular support in Great Britain and that it will be an important factor in the next tish general election. This is doubtless true, though there has not been auy very recent evidence of it, unless the success of the conserva tives in some of the recent elections is to be ascribed_in part to the fact that the leaders of that party are friendly to bimetallism. However, there s reason to believe that Mr. Holmes did not misstate the situation abroad, and it is an encouraging fact, since it con- tains the promise that within the next few years Great Britain may cease to be the great obstructionist to a world- wide remonetization of silver. With that country favorable to bimetallism there would be no further difficulty in bringing all the nations to that policy. The United States can afford to wait for British conversion on this question. and dollars a year for three of the State Board of Trans- portation is rather an expensive luxury for a tax-ridden state like Nebraska, especially when it is notorious that these secretaries are simply drawing their salaries as political perquisites dispensed at the instance of the rail- road czar. If we cannot abolish the whole board two of the three secre- taries can readily be spared. That would be a saving of §4,000 a year with- out counting incidentals for which the state has to pa The eat Aching Vold. Chicago Tribune There may be truth in the rumor that Senator Hiil is #bout to marry, but there must be times When the senator feels that it would be a relief if he could. e ey Enfoncing Popular Will. Globe-Democrat. The next house will decide contested elec- tion cases on their merits, and with a view to enforcing the will of the people, which implies that repblicans stand a better chance of belug septed than democrats. T The Difference the Next Morning. Infiiandpolts Journal One day the'prégident of the Sugar trust complains to the leountry that its business is ruined, but on the next its directors de- clare the' equivalent of 12 per cent dividend on §75,000,000 of . 8gock, §50,000,000 of which represénts nof adglar of property or money paid in, i Raldins tho Gold Reserve. Philadelphia Press. It has been aid that Mr. Carlisle allotted{ the recent government loan to a bankers’ syndicate at a lower price than other bid- ders were willing to glve because the bankers would furnish the gold to pay for the bonds without troubling the treasury. It now ap- pears that the treasury s being drawn upon for from $6,000,000 to $10,000.000 of gold by parties who bought the bonds. There seems to be a yellow gentleman in this woodplle. —— Hypnotic Nonsense, Minneapolis Tribune. Harry Hayward's accomplices and ac- cusers” generally assert that he exercised ypnotic” influence over them, paralyzing their wills. This excuse is g&lllng to be too common _with persons caught in bad scrapes, It 1s a plea that cannot be allowed in courf, Every individual must understand that he is responsible for his own acts There may be cases in which one strong wili can control a weak one, but if 8o it does it by a superior natural force, and not by any supernatural power Appomattox and Surrender. Washington Tost. We perceive with sorrow and amazement that the Postoffce department is determined to consummate the blunder involved in changing the postoffice name of Appomattox to that of Surrender. It i3 a change which the people most interested unanimously op- pose and deplore; it is a change mot at all c from any conceivable point of a change obnoxious to propricty and go taste, We do not believe that the most_furlous of the professional union vet- erans— hild or Foraker, or any of the rest—would insist upon it, for, with all their nonsense in politics, Fairchild and Foraker were fighting men {n war times, and fight- ing men do not seek the humiliation of those over whom they have triumphed in fair fleld. The Postoffice department, how- ever, has decreed that the change must be made, and, for the present, at least, we suppos» the change will stand. We repeat, nevertheless, that the declsion astonishes and. grieves us. (ol et BRIGHT BITS OF LIFE. Boston Transcript: These balloon sleeves evidently come of a desire to widen woman's sphere. Philadelphia Recor “Where are you employed?”’ asked the fresh conductol am a school teacher, and 1 train the mind. You skip out and mind the train,” said the good-looking miss. ck: Grymes—Your wife reminds me a deal of my sister who lives in the t. nderdek—She reminds me often of her first husband pretty ‘Washington St t's a good make light of your troubles.” do,” repiied Happlgo; “whenever a creditor sends me a letter I burn it Detroit Tribune, Got even with my wife.” “How?' “Smoked the cigars she gave me in the praence of her curtains.’ Chicago Tribune: ’I‘hm pyramid you ard bullding,” visitor at Egypt's court, purposeless kind of structure, for?’ ““When the top ‘stone King Cheops, guardmly polint.” Indianapolis J9urfal: Jimmy—Wot makes 80 many of dem attor fellers git softenin’ of de brain, T wonder? * Mickey—Aw, ' da¥'s easy, swells up an’'de air gits in, see? AN OLD. Epm) RESU Philadelphia Record hey used to sing some time ago A rather plaintive song, an wants 1ittle here below, or wants that little long. But nowadays the song is set With musio to the rhyme: “Man wants as much as he can get, And wants it all the time, idea to 1s an enormous observed a royal but it seems a What 18 It is laid,” replied “you will see the Deir heads NG, PREOPLE AND THINGS, Dr. Theodore R. Timby, inventor of the re- volving turret first used on the historie Moni- tor, 18 living In Chicago at the age of 72 A crusade for clean bread is on In (hicago, Owing to the expansive cult affected there, ar- tistic mixers of dough have their hands fres- coed a la Chicago river. It is asserted Senator Hill fane man and does not know how to swear. Just why he hurrled to the solemn seclusion of Florida timber remains a mystery A professional enthusiast refers to tecture as ‘“frozen music.” He must be a novice whose ears were never smitten with the sonorous music which bills for extras provoke. A rebellion fs not a pro- archi- has broken out in Wu-Hu China. This is the charming home of the poppy and that peculiar tribe yelept the Hoohioos, temporarily sojourning in the Mis- sourl valley. The announcement will sell its experimental sugar Medicine Lodge, Kan., com:s at the nick of time, Jerry Simpson longs for some- thing to sweeten the pangs of defeat. Mary Ellen Lease has decided to settle lown on a twenty-acre fruit farm near Fresno, Cal. As the whereabouts of Mr. Leaso is ot definitely known his sympa thizers are obliged to withhold congratula- tlons, Hibert Pond of Milford, Mass., who played with the Miford brass band at the dedics tion of the Bunker Hill monument, has just celebrated his 80th birthday and is one of the oldest musicians in the country. Life has been all play to him, as it were. After a sumptuous gratuitous feed in New York, David Christia Murray declared that ‘this country Is the field of the future Shake- speare and Balzac, If there shall be another of each.” And when the applause subsided David Christie Murray modestly added: “I am going to spend five years here myself.’ Mr. Murray’s nerve tonic is a professional seeret., The Rocky Mountain News example of the San Francisco Examiner in giving women exclusive charge of the Christmas number, the proceeds to be used for charitable purposes. It is doubtful whether the motiva justifies the placing of lovely women in such perilous surroundings None but those to the manor born can calmly withstand the hilarious and exhilarating horns of the festive cockroach. If an epl demic of hysterics does not follow, the versatility of the editorial comrades cooped up in the News' office may questioned. . The question of the liabilitly of insurance companies under the lightoing damage clause of policies was passed upon by the New York court of appeals recently. The plain- tiff sued for the full amount of the insurance on his barn, which was struck by lightning and wrecked by wind. The lower courts declined to iInstruct the jury to take into consideration the damage caused by wind, for which the company was not liable, and verdict for the full amount was rendered. The verdict was set aside by the court of appeals, on the ground that the liability of the company was limited to the actual dam- age caused by lightning. The New York Sun, commenting on the decision, says the interpretation of the court renders the light- ning clause practically valueless, iz A REY’S ARID LAND BILL. Mensure of Much Import to the Great Con- tral West. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The bill con- cerning the entry of land for sites for reservoirs, gravel pits, and pipe lines, which was yesterday agreed to in the senate on motion of Senator Carey of Wyoming, is considered of vast importance by the repre- sentatives of the western states, who con- sider that 4t will materially increase the facilities for the reclamation of the arid lands of that section. The provision in the bill of most general importance Is that authorizing any citizen or association of citizens of the United States, or any ditch or water company to acquire lands from the government suited for reservolr purposes at a price not less than $2 per acre. It is pro- vided that when the lands so acquired are mineral in charaeter the patent shall not authorize the purchaser to extract mineral from them, but that all such mineral shall be reserved to the United States. It is also provided that a failure to utilize such lands within three years after their entry, or abandonment for two years after beginning work, shall constitute a forfeiture. Another provision is that “the privileges granted by this act shall not be construed to interfere with the control of the water for irrigation or other purposes under the laws of the state or territory wherein the lands are situated.” Lands included in any reservolr site reserved by the United States are not subject to entry under the act. State, county or district organizations are also authorized to apply for storage reservoir sites, not reserved by the United States, for the storage of water for irrigating, mining or other useful purposes, whereupon the secre- tary of the interior is to withdraw the land included in the site from entry. The portion of the bill relating to gravel pits, reservoirs and pipe lines for rallroads provides that the secretary of the Interlor may sell sites for such Improvements to railroads traversing the public domain in bodies not exceeding 160 acres at their ap- praised value, where they are not located within the limits of any park or reserva- tion. Vest Will Not Give Up the Tarlft Bill. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—There is a well defined movement on the democratic side of the senate to get up the supplemental tarift bills notwithstanding the decision of the caucus of last week to give the prefer- ence to other measures and virtually shelve the tariff bills. Senators Vest and Berry are englneering this movement. that the government factory at follows the Honor for K. Dorsey Mohun, WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—In recognition of his distinguished service in the Harris campaign against the African slave traders, the Belgian Royal Geographical soclety h: elected R. Dorsey Mohun, United States com- mercial agent in the Congo Free state, an honorary meinber. e MAS PHILOSOPHY. I. M. Gregory In Judge. He Is the wisest man who keeps the heart of a boy. Let him labor and plan, power for joy. Let him smile at his pain and have In his heart no gulle, For the heart of a boy s g were made to smile, CHRIS but hold to his gain and the lips shall the long years give us that Il not pass away? Wealth and honors shail leave ours but for a day Peril and care and trouble, they shall not always annoy; We shall count the good things double if we have the heart of a boy. us—they are Hang up the stocking of faith and it shall be filled with cheer, Though grief and its 'wraith attend us through every month of the year. Take the world as it comes and glve it as good as it brings, Welcome the years with drums and the heart of a’boy that sings. The wrecks of life are a doll with the saw- dust gone from her legs, A Punch with his nose smashed in and a Judy off her pegs. What of the hobbles we rode in the days that are far away? The bugle-blast of & boy In ness of play. the wanton- Come, thou Nero, and fiddle while your Tome goes down in a blaze Draw your pleasantest pictures from old-time happy days Sit in memory’'s ashes, your broken toys, laugh that you're living and loving, with the heart of one of the boys. the in the wreck of Ana Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE [DUTY NUST CONE OFF SUGAR Boof Men Arrayed to Fight the Trust Oon- trolled by Havemeyer, AMERICA'S MEAT INTEREST DEMANDS IT Germany's Retaliatory Measure Touches the Cattle Trade In a Vital Spot— Freo Sogar Alone Can Ralse the Embargo on Beef, WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE 1407 F Street, WASHINGTON, here that Dec. 12 Word reached vast interests of the west, representing capital of not I than are about to grapple in a deathlock with the Sugar trust, and the direction of the fighting is to be ludged with P. D. Ar- mour, Nelson Morris and Swift, the Chicago kings of the meat trade The United States is ground, and unless the the encounter between porations will the of the clesing session sugar i3 a necessity meat products to the kets of The on sugar was promptly of an embargoe against Germany and Denmark retaliation Is Dbeing encouraged foreign nations with Increasing The merits of this question have thoroughly aired, and mention quired in this connection *to point that Germany has indicated clearly that she does not propose to recede from the position taken with regard to Ameri- can meats until the discrimination against the an in- vested ruggle to be program these colossal crowning of congross. for free exportation great ming imposition of a duty met by the levyin American beef pirit by other heartiness been pretty is only re emphasize the the miscarries cor- be con Burope. and the of pire is trigue s throughout and a ren against the part of the removed. German fanning the flame Surope toward commerelal In of hostility American meats, wal of the old vindictive warfare American meat products on the Old World nations is not only threatened, but felt to be imminent. Tho American meat trade with forefgn countrie approximates $160,000,000 a year, and an thing that threatens its mighty business in | a vital or fmportant way instantly touches the pockets of one of the most powerful and fighting combinations in existence. ALL CATTLEMEN ARE IN IT. The cattle raisers arc in a state of per- petual warfare with the great packing com- binations, but when in the presence of a common enemy a community of interests | at once formed and a united front presented. Therefore, the cattle raisers, the cattlc their issues and cause of Irritation preparing to remove the that is disturbing their established trade. The duly on sugar being that cause, they will bombard the trust Nelson Morris, who has been abroad fc several months, brings back word that the prejudice against Amer| n meats can onl be removed by the repeal of the discriminat ing duty on sugar. Morris furnishes mor ment supplies to the armies of Europe than any half dozen contractors in the world, and his relations with foreign governments are consequently recognized as beiog sufficlently close to give to his confidential communica. tion on this subject almost the stamp o official. He is in touch with the very heart of European inspiration—the money bags of all the principal nations of the old world. Morris has also caused the word to be passed down the line that if the discriminat- ing sugar duty is removed he has authorita tive assurances that former harmony with American meat exporters will be restored. The condition being thus squarely defined, a line of action was soon agreed upon. The details of the campaign have not been fully materialized, but the general outlines have been, subject of course to modification. The purpose is to go at the Sugar trust in the senate at the first opportunity at the risk o blocking all kinds of legislation and forcing an extraordinary sesston. The-theory upon which this proposition is based is that th: meat Interests are of more importance tha: sugar, the Nicaragua canal, appropriations or anything else that can come up, and that congress must protect them. In this fight the meat men feel that they can command the aggressive support of th: senators from every western and southerr state and put up a combination invincible, KEM'S SETTLERS' BILL PASSED. The senate today passed Wwith an amend- ment the bill which was introduced by Congressman Kem and passed by the house during the last session providing that if any setller has heretofore forfeited his or her entry for reasons such as sickness, drouth or any casualties which could not be averted, such persons shall be permitted to make entry of not exceeding a quarter section on any public land subject to entry under the nomestead law and to perfect title to the same. The bill as passed by the house pro vided that this shall be applicable not only to those who have heretofore forfeited their right, but also those in the future. The senate, however, amended the bill, so as to strike the provision relating to thoss for- feitures in the future. The house will prob- ably accept the senate amendment. cattle $500,000,000, | battle | { county sensation | Free | of | Wemedialand 1 mar- | oy | Y | United § | a bulletin the beet sugar interests of the German em- | | following Kkillers and the meat distributors are pooling | $1,794,172; been received, 000 makes the total withdrawals since De- cember 1 $12,702,608. month to Mary Palmer Banks, Major General Nathaniel P. Banks recently elected prosccuting attorney for Pot. tawattamie county, Towa, s In the oity. Congressman Halner has been appointed member of the subcommittee on aApproprisg, tions of the house committee on agricultur: This subcommittee will have in charge the agriculture appropriation bill for this year. The committee on agriculture has voted nimously to report favorably a joint resos lution for the publication of the reports of the agricultural division of the Columblan exposition relative to dairy breeds and pro- ductions. This report will be printed In two parts, one of which will be for the u of colleges, schools, librarles and rogularly incorporated associations, tho other being for geveral distribution. The agricultural com- mittee also decided this morn to apply for a number of days to be sot aside for the consideration of bilis already reported to the house from that committee. It Is expected that the Hill-Grout bill, which places oleo- margarine under tha police control of the soveral states, will be considered should this speclal rule be secured. IN A GENERAL WAY. Comptroller Eckels has approved the ape plication of Ben Baer and his assoclates of Deadwood, 8. D., to organize the American fonal bank of Deadwood he following vpostmasters polnted: Towa—Fairview, Jones county, Mrs. V. V. Holden, vico James Northrup, res stgned South Dakota—Blunt, Hughea Mrs. Kate H. Leeper, vico W. La dead. have been aps Leeper, Suggested t estimated 00,000 by the Agrienltural Departm WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—With losses of between $10,000,000 and $ from hog cholera and in the ates, the discussion of the treatment means of prevention of these dieases in issued by the Agricultural depart- ment, is of great value to the farmers of this country. The bureau of animal irdustry has been conducting an exhaustive inveéstigas tion of this subjcct and finds that the agents which destroy the germs of one of these fatal diseases are also effective in the dustruction of the germs of the other. Both are sprawd by infection and their course varies from one to three weeks. Both are caused by bae- terla. The germ of hog cholera, says the report, are very hardy and vigorous, while those of the swine plague are very delicate and easily destroyed. The la‘ter are found to be present in practically all herds of swine, but the er_must bo introduced from in- fected herds. The most efiicient remedy al- ready tried by the goveramen.'s agents i8 the Wood, charcoal, sulphur, sodium and antimony sulohate, one pound each; sodium chloride, sodium, bi-carborate and sodium hyposulphate, two pounds each, These are to be comp' ly pulverized and mixed. The medicine may he used also as & preventive of these diseases. To insure suc- cessful treatment the animals should be kept in dry and comfortable quariers. Five or six months should be allwwed to elapse nfter an outbreak before new hogs are purchased or any of the old herd are sold The report recommends a rigld quarantine ing of newly bought hogs anl the prevention of their joining those already on ths farm for at least six weeks. During the warm months of the year the swino should have ty of young grass os clover; crushed or wheat should be fed 1o the growing animals, swine piague nd Iphat GOLD GOING ABROAD, Treasury Has Lost Twelve Milllons Already This Month, WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—The net go1d bal- ance in the treasury today recelved another heavy shock by the withdrawal of $2,150,000 from the subtreasury in New York, which leaves the true net balance today §103,378,475. Of the amount withdrawn today only $1,30 000 is thought to be for export. The full tide of gold exportation scems to have set in, and when it will sease Is a problem which the treasury officials do mot care to discuss, S5 far this month and during the last of November withdrawals have been re- ported every day in sums ranging from $46,082 to $2,150,000. The amounts of these withdrawals in exchange for United Stat notes and treasury notes are given by d as follows, the withdrawals, however, ac- tually having been made two dnyl previous to the date siven: December 1, $16,082; December 3, $688,485; December 4, $827,656; Decomber 5, §821,668 December 6, §$1,662,188; December 7, $1, 188, December 8, $1,313,004; December 10, December 11, $847,922; December 362,704, Yesterday's report has not yet but today’s returns of $2,150,- 12, §1, Next Friday's report will show the balance still further reduced to $103,378,475, or less. * The cash balance in the treasury today w $165,671,782. tures of the Treasury department exceed the receipts by $4,2 since July 1, fiscal year, $26,499,645. So far this month the expendi- 204,530, making the total dei elt 1894, the beginning of Pension for General Banks' Widow, WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—Representative Sickels of New York has Introduced in the house a bill for a pension of $100 per widow of or Fort Snellin 12.—Representative introduced a bill Military Hospital WASHINGTON, Dec. Kiefer of Minnesota has for an appropriation of $40,000 for the con- « struction of a military hospital at Snelling, Minn. Fort about it, and——we wont, “give aways” SMOKING JACKETS of English Jacket Cloths quilted satin trim- med, from $3.50 to $15.00. BATH ROBES of Terry Cloth and Eiderdown, from $3.00 to $15.00, DRESSIN GOWNS. NG AND STUDENT'S HANDKERCHIEFS—A beauti- ful line of Linen Handkerchiefs, hemstitched and plain, in fancy colors and plain white. A very fine and ext-a quality Jap Silk Ini- tial Handkerchief. Our regular 75c. We are going to make a spe- cial price of this one at 50c. Rellable C Opex EVENINGS UNTIL §:00 P, M C. C. Saunders of Council Bluffs, who was Open evenings till 8:30, Browning, King “lothiers, S. W. Cor, 15th Everybody Knows that Christmas is coming just as well as we know it; “Hanay 's Worth or Money Back,” so it isn’'t necessary to talk But just look at these for your friends: KERCHIEFS—AIl the new ef- fects and novelties in long shawl kerchiefs and mufllers; extremely neat offects. MUFFLERS—Extra fine line qf pure cashmere and Paisley wool mufllers for elderly gumlomon. GLOVES — Driving glovu- in English buck, fine Mocha, dog siin and cheverette. Dress gloves, light weights in undressed kid, English buck, dog skin, colt skin and French kid. Fullline of Dent's driving and street gloves, and Per- rin's best pique dress gloves. Fur gloves and lined gloves of all de- scriptions. & Co., and Douglas.