Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 14, 1894, Page 4

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Sworn to before me and subscrib presence (his 34_day of (Seal) N. P, Publie. The South Omaha school board an- nounces that hereafter saloon keepers will be required to pay an annual li- cense of $1,000. This fs another straw that points toward annexation. Mr. John Burns, the English labor leader, will address an Omaha audience Decembe 17. He entitled to and will doubtless receive a warm recep- tion at the hands of Omaha citize The manufacturers’ banquet at Nor- folk will awaken new interest in the home patronage movement in northern Nebraska and especially at Norfolk, where is located the great beet sugar factory, which has done more for Madi- son county than any other one industry. The success of the banquent goes with- out saying. The federal grand jury has taken a recess until January The Capital National bank matter has not been dis- posed of nor is there any assurance that it will be—prior to the adjournment of the legislature. Menntime the jurymen will have their passes renewed, good for 1805, with a prospective allowance of 10 cents a mile for returning to Omaha or Lincoln. The Nebr: te reunion 18 soon to be located for a term of five years irand Island has had the re- union in recent years and no fault can be found with the entertainment given by that city. But other cities are about to compete for the relocation. Lincoln Is making a still hunt for the reunion a8 well as for the state fair, and Omaha will have to bestir herself in the matter or lose both, F- It may be necessary for a legislative committee to inquire into the matter of state employ The charge is made that half the force in the land office could do the work of those who have drawn good salaries in that office for the past two years. It is also alleged that nepotism is practiced in the state house and state institutions Let the house and senate committees shake all these matters up and put the incoming state officials in position to make a good record for the next two years. The valued policy fire insurance law of this state provides that where an in- surance company takes a risk upon a given piece of property and that prop- erty be totally destroyed by fire the company must pay the assured the full face of the policy. The state supreme court in a recent decision holds this law to be sound. It will be assailed, however, by an insurance lobby before the legislature. No legislator who has at lieart the welfare of property owners can countenance for a moment any at- tempt to amend or repeal the valued policy law of this state John L. Webster's letter to Attorney General Hastings indicates that the question of appeal of the maximum freight rate ease will depend upon the nction of the legislature and the incom- ing attorney general. Inasmuch as the legislature will be called upon to vote an appropriation to meet the necessary expenses incurred by the state's counsel in fighting the case in the federal courts, it is a very interesting question whether our law n will vote an additional amount to cover the costs of an appeal, Yet there should hesitaney in so doing. One gravest oversights in the law as passed two years ago was the failure to pro- vide munitions of war to guard against an attack upon the law in the courts The least the forthcoming legislature can do is to vote an appropriation suffi- clent to pay the legitimate costs of an appeal to the court of last resort. be no of the The doctors of Missouri and Towa are showing much interest in the new rem- edy for diphtheria. Experiments with anti-toxine in Kansas City are reported to have been highly successful. In New York the demand for the serum is far in excess of the supply, but arrangements are belng made to increase the supply. The newspapers are full of accounts of the success of the new treatment, but are silent in the matter of failures, if any. It is sald that in 2,000 recorded eases of diphtheria in France and Ger- many, treated with anti-toxine, the mor tality was but 15 per cent. Before the dicovery of this remedy the mortality was about 60 per cent. The physiclans of Omaha and Nebraska do not seem to have taken much stock in the reports of the wonderful success of anti-toxine treatment. At any rate no experiment has been made bere with the serum and little interest seems to be manifested by the profession In this great sclentific @iscover BESTADLISR A WESTERN MILITARY ACADEM Benator Brice, as chailrman of the board of visitors to West Point Military academy, has formulated a plan for the proposed enlargement of the academy on a seale commensurate with the de mands of our growing popualation. There is no doubt that the old Point from which the ablest American captains have graduated before the waz of the rebellion, when there were only thirty sta and less than thirty mil- lions of population, is altogether t contracted as a national military ademy for fifty states and seventy millions of people. But why should the United States of America be dependent only on a solitary academy for military training. Other nations with much less population have cstablished two, three or more military schools for the edueation of army offic Would it not be more sensible to es- tablish a second military academy west of the Missouri, where the great body of the United States army Is now sta- tioned? The cost of establishing and maintaining a gecond military academy need not necessar be much greater than the enlargement of West Point academy. The grounds for such an academy will probably be donated to in and the outlay for new buildings need not be much greater than would be the cost of constructing new buildings on the most approved plans in the west. A magnificent sitc for the new academy might be found at Fort Leavenworth, which really has outgrown its usefulness for military purposes. Fort Omaha might, with a little enlargement, be converted into a military academy without great ex- pense. The infantry drill ground is certainly as good as need be and most of the buildings could be readily utilized for cadet quarters. The ma- terinl for commandants, drill masters and professors is abundant. Many of our arw officers would take great pride in being detailed as military in- structors, It strikes us that two military acade mies would be more desirable than one, and since the east has the parent academy at West Point the west has a rightful ctaim for the next one. s 0 Municipal reform is now the order of the day in every section of the country from New York to San Franc from Galveston to Seattle. The growth of American cities has placed under the care of managers of municipal corpora- tions vast interests and corresponding temptation to corruption. The revenues of several of our great cities by far exceed those of some of the largest states. The patronage in the cities of New York, Philadelphia and Chicago exceeds that in the gift of the gov- ernors of New York, Pennsylvania and Ilinois. The same is true relative to metropolitan cities of Olio, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minneso: To grapple with the abuses and reckless waste of public funds that characterize our present system of municipal govern ment is the self-imposed task of muni- cipal reformers, and especially the Na- ‘tio: Municipal league. While the obstacles to be overcome seem insur- mountable the overthrow of Tammany in New York and the breaking up of boodle rings in other cities affords grati- fying proof that municipal reform is making substantial progress. The consensus of opinion among the ablest advocates of municipal reform is that the first step must be the seps tion of the legislative from the execu- tive powers. Responsibility for ap- pointments and removals must be lodged in the municipal chief executive and the heads of departments, The city council should frame the ordi- nances of the city, but should be divested of authority to exerclse the veto power on appointments. The council should exercise the right to grant franchises, but all such grants should be ratified by. the taxpaying citizens after due notice and ample time for public discussion. The fire departments and all other municipal employes should be governed under civil service rules and made as near nonpartisan as possible. Ivel department should be administered on business prineiples and publicity given to all acts in which the public has an interest. These are in substande the funda- mental principles under which it is ex- pected to bring about the abolition of corrupt and demoralizing practices of the municipal machine. It will take years of time before this work of muni- cipal reform can be effectively accom- plished and the chang must neces. ¥ be made in each city according to existing conditions. A CURKENCY COMM A Dbiil has been introduced in the louse of representatives for the crea- tion of a commission to take into con- sideration banking and currency and to report to congress not later than De- cember 15, 1895, It provides for the appointment of three persons by the president, three senators by the vice ssident, and three members by the ker of the house. Granting that the commission idea is a good one, and it has received much approval, the plan of constituting it proposed in the bill is objectionable. What is wanted is a commission of practical financiers and business men and not one composed of politicians. Probably the president would appoint three men of the class desired and with sound money views, but of the six to be appolnted by the vice president and the speaker it is to | be regarded as certain that a majority |of them would not be sound in their views regarding the currency, and being politicians would be influenced political considerations. Of the nine | members of the commission proposed by this bill probably four or five would be in favor of free sily iy and two or three advoeates of restoring state :I;: ik currency—at any rate w wmajority | favorable to plans inconsistent with a | sound and stable currency system. What | wouid the report of such a commission | be worth? It would be useless for the present | congress, notoriously unsound as it is | regarding financial matters, to author- ize a currency commission. The con | clusions of such a body, appointed | under democratie auspices, If it should 10N, West ‘ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1804, reach any conclusion, which s ex- tremely doubtful, could have no weight with the country or with the succeed fng congress. A currency commission, to have any Influence. should be as nearly as possible nonpartisan in char ster and constituted with refer ence to the business ications of its members. If affilintion were to be considered at all h ty should have equal representation, but it would seem to be entirely practicable to make up a commission of pr financiers and business men, without sol | regard to the political views of any of its members, and such men might rea- sonably be expected to consider the sub. Ject of the currency wholly apart from politics. Tt is certainly possible to se lect from among the great bankers, manufacturers and merchants of the country nine men who would be able to discuss plans for a new bank gur- reney and for changes in our currency system without permitting their politi- cal views to influence them in the slightest deg But no commission of politicians, such as the proposed bill provides for, would be free from politi- cal influence. A properly constituted commission would undoubtedly be approved by the financial and business interests of the country., The effect of its appointment would be immediately wholesome in putting an end to apprehension growing out of the currency discussion in con- gress nd the introduction of various schemes But there is no reason to ex- pect that the sort of commission to be ired will be provided for by this congress. des THE NICARAGUA CANAL DISCUSSION. The di: sion of the Nicar: bill in the rate I8 not on partisan lines. The measure is in charge of Senator Morgan of Alabama, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, but among its ablest and most earnest advocates are such republicans as Sen ators Sherman, I'rye, Dolph and others hardly less prominent. Tt is being con- sidered as a practical, business matter of national concern, with which politics has nothing to do. The sentiment of the Pacific coast is practically unanimous in favor of the government aiding in the construction of the canal aud con trolling it, a like sentiment widely pre- vails in the south, that policy has a con- siderable support in the castern and central states, while in the northwest the sentiment is probably about equally divided, there being a strong feeling that the government ought not to iden- tify itself financially with the project. he fact that the canal bill has been given precedence of other pending measures and that the senate has re- fused to displace it must be regarded s indicating that there is a very good chance of its passing the senate. It will be remembered that in the last congress the senate succeeded in pass ing a bill in aid of the Nicaragua canal, but it failed to get consideration in the house. It is understood that the dem- ocratic leaders in the house are now willing to let the senate’s bill come to a vote, so that there appears to be good prospect for some sort of legisla- tion at this session committing the gov- ernment to a policy of aid and control in the construction of the canal aeross Nicaragua. The bill under consideration in the senate provides for the extinguishment of the old canal compuny's stock and obligations and the issue of new stock to present holders, the government also guaranteeing the payment of interest and principal on $70,000,000 of bonds which are to be floated to raise means to construct the canal. The government is to become a large stockholder in the enterprise, as are the govesnments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, and the United State: case of any default on the company on its assume practical ownership and control of the canal. The total issue of stock is not to exceed $100,000,000. Accord- ing to the last report of the canal com- 1y to the secretary of the interior the liabilities of the company are a lit- tle over $6,000,000. The advocates of the bill present some very plausible arguments. Senator Morgan, in his carefully prepared speech on the meas- ure, said that the ownership of stock in the canal is the sole method in sight, or in contemplation, by which the United States can exert an influence over the operations of this canal for the protection and benefit of the gov- ernment and people of the United States, otherwise than by forcible or hostile intervention with the nations or the pow that will control it. The senator had figures to show that the government would take no risk in the proposed Investment, but on the con- trary would derive a profit from it. The usual tendency, however, in mak- ing ealeulations of this kind is to over- estimate, and when Mr. Morgan as- sumes that without the outlay of a dol- lar of money the United States would realize a dividend equal to 5 per cent on $70,000,000 of stock it is difficult not to feel that he is assuming too much. jut at any rate the question still re- mains whether it is wise policy for the government to thus identify itself with this enterprise and thereby establish what may become a troublesome pre- cedent. he importance of the under- taking may be freely admitted and it may also be granted that it Is desira- ble to have the canal entirely under American control, yet this does not de cide the question as to whether the goy- ernment should become involved in it finaucially to the extent of 100,000,000 or any other sum. The bill under con- sideration seems to provide ample safe- guards, but there is serious objection to the policy it contemplates. u; gua canal in The unlon veterans have no more zealous and courageous friend than General Daniel E, Sickles, himself one of the ablest and most gallant of the volunteer officers in the war of the re- bellion. General Sickles is a demo- crat, but he bas never hesitated to condemn the policy of the present ad- ministration toward the pensioners and to discredit its charge of wholesale pension frauds. Wednesday, when the proposed appropriation of §250,000 for the expenses of special examiuers of the pension office was under consid tion, General Sickles again decl == ctieal | himself, saying that he was unalterably opposed to the approprintion unless it could be horitatively shown that the examigbrs were employed in aiding instead of cmbarrassing deserving claimants. Of course it would be im-| possible toyghow this, because the aim | of the examMers was to justify the ! charge of wholesale pension frauds, and | what was_the tesult of the laborious efforts of the pension office to discredit the honorable character of the pension roll and cast g stigma upon the benefi- ciaries of the tmn.m\ gratitude? Only a few hundred of fraud were found, and as to some of these there were mitidufiyg circumstances, the cipients of ‘||M|s!m| having been im- posed upon or duped by dishonest at- torn The course pursued by the pension office, however, rosulted in great wrong and injury to a very large number of honest and deserving pen- sloners, to say nothing of the humilia- tion they were subjected to by being branded with suspicion of dishonesty. As was said by Representative Hender- son of Iowa, the mission of examiners was to secure evidence against, not in favor of the pensioners and claimants, and this it s that justifies the opposi- tion of veterans like General Sickles to the appropriation to pay them. But of course this democratic congress will appropriate the money, regarvdless of the unworthiness of the work for which it Is to be spent. None the less the manly utterance of General Sickles merits record and remembr: cases re- Should the people of Omaha manifest a desire to have Miller park devoted to permanent exposition grounds the mat- ter could easily be adjusted. The driv- ing park and mile track feature would follow as a matter of course. Miller park is accessible by boulevard and the reet railway company could readily extend its tracks out Twenty-fourth street to the gates of the park, while the Elkhorn, Omaha and Missouri Pa- cific could find an easy grade for spurs to the grounds. The park Is an ideal location for the state fair, and the fact that it is owned by the city would en- able the state fair association to put up good buildings thereon. The time has come when our state fair buildings should constitute a distinctive feature of the exposition; the old style, barn- like structures should be relegated to the long forgotten past. Let World's fair ideas have some vent in the archi- tecture of the new Nebraska state fair huildings. We advise the State Fe Labor to center their energies upon one or two rational and conservative meas- ures and appeal to the legislature for support. If-it-assume too big a contract and attempt to revolutionize labor jurl prudence i one single session failure must be (ll: inevitable ult. Tho Task Too Great. Globe-Demoerat. s hat a form of state bank currency m?#.‘u‘m devised that would be safe and useful, but there i3 not the least reason to belleve that democratic states- manship is cqual to the task of provid- ing it. eration of It is 1 is 2l Trust Them for That. Indianapolis Journal ‘While there is no probability that the re- publicans wil'fé-bnact the McKinley bill in cvery particmsm: they can be trusted to enact a law which will insure the American markets to Ihf ‘American producer with the highest wages! paid in the world. Lo S ithibiek Giving the Country a Chance. Detroit Free Press. me news has come to our American since the beginnmg of financial depression than (he assurauc. that the next congress will do littia or nothing. Given a chance, the country will s0on work out the restoration of prosperit, R States May Prevent Fraud, Chicago Herald. The United States supreme court has ren- dered a decision which, reduced to general terms, is to the effect that the constitution of the United States does not secure to any one the privilege of defrauding the public or deny to any state the right to protect its citizens against fraud. The state of Massachusetts has a law pro- hibiting the sale of any compound not pro- duced from unadulterated milk or cream made {n imitation of yellow butter. The law allows the sale of oleomargarine as such, but prohibits its sale in such form as to give the purchaser the impression that it is _genuine butter. A Boston dealer named Plumley under- took as the agent of a Chicago firm to sell in Massachusetts oleomargarine which had been prepared and colored to imitata butter, He was tried and found guilty under the state law, and the case was carried up {hrough the state supreme court to the su- preme court of the United States. Plumley’s counsel contended that the state law was repungent to various provi- slons of the national constitution, among others to the provision giving congress power to regulate commerce among the states, and to that forbidding any state to make laws abridging the privileges or im- munities of citizens of the United States. He also contended that the state law was in conflict with the act of congress regulat- ing the manufacture and sale of oleomarga- rine. The essence of this last contention, it would seem, was not that the state law was in substance repugnant to the act of con- [ but that congress had exclusive juris- diction of the subject, and therefore the state had no right to législate upon it. 'he supreme court afirms the decisions of the Massachusetts state courts, which were that the state law is constitutional. Justice Harlan, in delivering the opinion of the t, says that the object of the state law to suppress false pretenses and promote dealing in the sale of an article of food.” He holds that the constitution of the United States does not secure to any one a right to make and sell an article of food in such a manner as to make purchasers be- lieve they are buying something which, in fact, 15 wholly different from that which is offered for sale. He holds that the consti- tution does not forbid any state to protect its citizens against this kind of fraud by appropriate legislation. Justice Harlan refers to the celebrated Towa liquor case, in which the court held that a state could not, without the assent of congress, forbid the sale of liquors im- ported from other states so long as the iquors W in the original package. He holds that this decision does not justify the contention that a state cannot prevent the sale of articles brought from another state if their sale may cheat the people into buy ing something they do not intend to buy The short of'it (s that a state may legis late to prevent.the perpetration of fraud in the sale of artigles brought from other states, whether the articles are sold in orig- inal packages or pot. The constitution was ordained and estdblished to “establish jus- tice,” among other things, and it is not to be $o construed as to promote injustice by protecting men in the practice of fraud, 'he ostensible gbject of the act of con- gress on the subject of oleomargarine s to prevent fraud in the sale of that article. A state law enzetéd’for the same purpose and plainly adapted to the accomplishment of that purpose can thardly be regarded as re- pugnant to the apt of congress. The court doesn't say that, and It may not be exactly constitutional 1aw, but it is certainly sound sense, and the décision of the court s in harmony with it Chief Justice” Ruller and Justices Field and Brewer dissent from the opinion of the court, but the grounds of their dissent are not yet made public, proud, arro PEOPLE AND THINGS. Speaking ex cathedra, Colonel Bob Ingersoll declares he will retire from the lecture plat- form this season. The Federation of Labor convs fon s sald to be a better dressed body of men than the bankers' convention The claim that foot ball is a modern gam 18 not well founded, Wasn't Moses conspicu- ous in the bull rushes? Dr. Morrill Wyman Is a giddy boy of 83, mounting his bicycle low of Cambridge, Mass and he s as fond of any other young fel Warren legislative preparing Tinn can Senator Hill says he thinks it is folly to go fishing when you can buy such good fish in the market, There are some fish out of his reach even there. William Wahl, a New York groccr, has re covered $200 in a New York court for a hand ful of whiskers his cousn, Herman Wahl, pulled from his chin Recorder Smyth of New York, probably sentenced more men to death than any other Judge in the world and he was never reversed by the court of appeals in a capital case. The lowa Traveling Men's association s a great and thrifty institution. Its members paid into the treasury last year $88,881 and Tinn has announced himself as a candidate in Wayne, 8. C., and Is to rattle his way through as only 76. enator Peffer is right In objecting to champagne and cigars at senatorial wakes when pipes and beer would carry out the prime object of the meeting and make drunk come ju:t as quick. George Washington was the victim of mer- ciless political attacks when he was president General Gates once alluded to him as that “‘dark, desgning, sordid, ambitious, vain, nt, and vindictive knave.”" Polit- ical denunciation seems to have grown de- cldedly tame in the:e later years. Mrs. Fannie Reid-Slusser, who is elected nce. county superinterdent of schools in Wyandotte county, Kansas, has submitted a statement showing that Ler campaign exjenses were only $118, of which $50 went to the county central committee and $34 to the printer. A state paper wants to know if this expenditure is an indication that money would be less a factor in political campaigns in which women figure. Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church, has for years cultivated a farm of forty acres with no other labor than that of his own hands and thoze of his family. His wife and daughters raise chickens, preserve fruit, and run a dairy, while his sons raise hogs and calves and do general farm work Except tea, coffee, sugar, and groceries the farm has ‘produced nearly everything th family has needed to live on. Absurditie: of tho Poollng Bill. Chicago Tribunc. It is idle to talk of punishing a ship) for getting the best terms he can obtain from a railroad, unless as it may be proved that he has been guilty of bribery in the case. Equally Is it idle to suppose that a railepad can be kept “straight” by providing for the punishment of its inferior officers in case of conviction when the supposed culprits are in deference to the wishes of their fors and know well that any pun- nt which may be inflicted will be com- ated for by their superior Provisions for this are the grave defects of the pres- ent law, and they ought to be changed, but not by ‘passing o law that will favor the commission of greater outrages on the peo- ple who have freight to be transported by rail. If the treasury of the carrying com- pany were held responsible for unjust dis- crimination the compa would have a vital interest in preventing It. Zare gl o 8 WANDERING WITTICISMS, Lowell Courler: People of bibulous propen- sities should do as saliors do—go "round the orn, Brooklyn Life: She—Colonel Firstnite con- siders himself such a critic that he never smiles during a performance. He—But you should see him between the acts, Detroit Free that really foot ball.” “Grea Press: “There goes a man and truly loves the game of “Is he the captain of the —?" Scott, no! he's a druggist.” Puck: “My youn, rianism,” mso. I didn’t know it was old enoush to walk." It isn't; but it is old enough to know that I can.” gest boy i very fond of sald Mr. wker to Mr. Galveston Ne There is no good reason why the bicycle should not be so arranged that young men can set it up and grind knives on (he front wheel. Washington Star: “One of the haril things I know of,” sald the young author, “is to get exactly the right” word in the right place.” Yes,” replied the take ' the signature stance.” impecunious _friend, to a check, for in- Boston Transcript: Cousin Kate—You have made it look as good as ever, Charley You're a trump! Charley—Yes; but then women are such poor players. It's no un- common thing for them to refuse trumps. Chicago Record: “Foot ball, sir, is brutal, It is based largely upon the exercise of brute force, and the opportunities of unfair tactics are’ such—'" ‘Oh, say, hold o} game of {00t ball? No; but I hold in a college tow Have you ever seen a clinics in three hospitals Smith's Monthly: Mrs. Mullaney—Sure, mum, there isn't much chance av a merry Christmas fer a woman as has siven childer ' no husband an’ not a blissed cint tn the house. Mrs. Westend (impulsively)—No husband! Oh, you poor thing! I wish I could give you mine! Truth: “I thought you told me that Miss Brown had spent a great deal of money on her voice.” “Well, so I aid.” But she can't sing.” “Well, I didn’t say she could, did 12" THE KNOWING TAILOR. Smith's Monthly. “You'll, aw, make the coat enough To cover the calf, d'ye see? Sald Cholly Kylle; ‘the tailor smiled, And Cholly was 'filled with glee. come low The coat was done in the course of time, And now everywhere he goes His friends can see that it covers the * For it reaches down to his toes! - MRS. HAMLEL’S SOLILOQUY, Loulsville Courler-Journal, To bloom or not to bloom, that is the ques- on. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and foldings of outrageous sk Or take up arms, and legs, against ou troubles, And by opposing end them. race No more; and by a race, to say we end The heartache “and the thousand natural shocks That modesty s helr to; ‘s a consumma- fon voutly To rub; For in’ that blooming fall what rents may come o mar our outer garments; there's the re- spect That makes calamity of so long life. ¥or who would bear the whips and scorns of style, The oppressor's wrong, the loud girl's con- tumely, The tanglo of despised skirts, the lngerie display, The indi spurns That patient merit of the unworthy take: When she herself might a compromise make With a pair of leggings. Who would petti- coals wear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of some untold mishap, The unfelled seam, the unsubstantial cloth, Which tallors use,’ puzzles the will And makes us rather wear those clothes we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus modesty makes cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution 1s sicklicd o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. To scorch, to to be wis| To scorch, to race; perchane to fall; aye, there's the erence of dudes, and then the Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Ro Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE = MANDERSON ON IRRIGATION, Senator Has Written n Loug Lotter to the Kearney Convention. WASHINGTON BUREAU OF THE BEB, 1407 F Stree!, N. W., WASHINGTON, Dec.13 Senator Manderson has been invited spuak at on of the at tion assoclation to be held at Koarne: Neb, € the 18th and 19th inst The senator wili be unable to attend the m:eting recount | of the prescure of public business at Wash ington. However, he t in which he express regard to the national and state {rrigati. n and irrigation by privats enterprise. He peaks very hopefully of the prospects of in- creasing the acreage of the sugar beet o duction, and states that the sugar best was the only crop mot influenced by the drouth The senator s that the motto of the state of Nebraska should be: ‘“Less acreage and more careful production.' Senator Manderson has number of letters from prominent Omaha business men asking that the contract for constructing the two new buildings at Fort Crook be awarded immediately Senator Manderson and Congressman Mercer called and urged upon the quartermaster general today the impo:tance of pushing this work | to a conclusion at an early date. | Senator Manderson called upon the compp- troller of the currency today and urged an early settlement of the accounts of the North Platte National bank, so that the institution can be reopened without going into a re ceivership or liquidation. R. C. Phillips of Lincoln, Neb., is in the | city on a short visit | Congressman Mercer has recelved a com- munication from the Missouri River commis- sion informing him that th: commission is haviog plans prepared for work which will | require the use of a part of the appropriation made for the improvement of the river at Omaha his letter was receiv in reply to a communication from Mr. Mercer asking the commission to put to use some of the appropriation as soon as possible. A postofiice has been established at Grass Campbell county, 8. D., and Nels Lillesoen commissioned postmaster. Lewis Hattery has been commissioned postmaster at Moorhead, Ta. Mrs. Hannah Asmussen has been appointed postmistress at Turley, Sully county, 8. I vice Thomas Landau, resigned. Advertisements have been ssued asking proposals for furnishing and placing gas and electric light fixtures in _the government buildings at Sioux Falls, §. D., and (‘vlnr‘ Rapids and Fort Dodge, to be opened January 3 next. | to the convent trriga lay wrote a long It d fully his views in| recelved a large Ia., XPLAIN Nebraska's Popullst Ssenator Tells Why He | Opposed the Sugar Bill. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Senator Allen, in | commenting upon the fact that he and Senators Peffer and Kyle had voted against | taking up the sugar bills and the Vest cloture resolution, sald they had taken this | position on the sugar bill because they c n- sidered the movement to get it up one ml the interest of speculators and in no wise an effort at serious legislation. ““As for the cloture resolution,” said he, “the pcpullst senators believe on general principles in rules that will permit the transaction of business but they are of the cpinion that the present effort t> secure cloture is for the purpose of passing the Nicaragua canal bill and putting through Secretary Carlisle's currency scheme, and they are nct ready for that just yet.” Lamcreux Wants Another Land Conrt. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—Commissiol Lamorcux of the general land office ha framed a bill for the action of congress pre viding for the creation of three divisions of three men each, with a specified tenure of office, to constitute a land court. It will be required to hear and decide all contested land cases, and the decisions will bear equal weight with those of the commissioner. Ap- als will be allowed to a board in the : of the assistant attorney general, and questions of law may be appealed to the supreme court of the District of Columbia The certification of certain questions from there to the United States supreme court will be allowed. = The board will be com- posed entirely of persons not employed in the department. IS VOt 1 William Will Hardly Do It. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Univer: Peace union has forwarded to the emperc of Germany a petition urging his considera- tion of the proposition that Germany re- store to France the portion of Alsace-Lor- raine whose occupants speak French. The action of the union is based on the publica- tion of the proposition in an International magazine this month, and the petition to the emperor recites that the measure will re- sult in the permanent reconciliation of France to Germany. President Alfred H Love of Philadelphia has requested all the peace socicties here and abread to testify their sympathy with the object in view by addressing similar petitions to the emperor. Confirmed by the Senate. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The senate n executive session today confirmed the fol- lowing nominations: Postmasters: Kansas —James Comiskey, at St. Mary's; Edward B. Gaddis, at Baldwin; John 1. Kessler, a Ottawa; John W. Kirk, at Weir; Henr: Joint, at’ Norton; Charles H. Giller, at Osawatomie. Herbert G. Squires of New York, to be second secretary of the embassy at Berlin; Edward R. Strobel of New York, now envoy extraordinary and minister plehipotentiary to Ecuador, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Chili. POWER OF THE PASS. Influence of the Rallrond Pasteboard in the Polities of Kanss, 4 Administrations may change Ir Kansas, but the “reform™ business goes right along as It nothing had happened, says the Toe peka correspondent of the St. Louls Repube lic. The outgolng of the popullsts and the incoming of the republicans by no means {ne dicates that the chief occupation of the ave erage Kansan {s gone. To the contrary, if recent events count for anything, the reform business in this state will be prosecuted with renewed vigor when the republicans ase sume control of affairs. The acceptance of railroad passes by judges and state officlals has been a theme of dis- cussion by the press of the state for the past three months. The free pass question, to & certain extent, entered into the recent cam= paign, and at least twenty of the three dozen district judges of the state have been com= pelled to “stand and deliver” and answer the question propounded by some presumptuous reporter, “Do you think a judicial officer should accept and use a free pass?’ This thing was pursued with such vehemence that one of the judges of the supreme court of the state res contly submitted to an interview which filled nearly a column in a local paper, in which he savored to explain that a judge could aes cept a pass from a railroad company and still deal out justice to the corporation well as to the individual. But at the same time he realized that a large element of the people thought it improper for the judiciary to accopt such favors; hence he had returned his passes to the corporations, and would, 50 long as he remained on the bench, pay his fare when he traveled, It fs the conviction of raliroad officia that Kansas s the worst pass-ridden state in the union, but in striking at the evil the press has falled to mention the class of frea passholders who have brought discredit and reproach upon the state and people. It is the professional politiclan who corrupts voters nd packs conventions, and of this class Kansas has her full share. For years every political convention has been controlled by the 2,000 fellows who hold annual passes on one or more of the four lines of rallroad which traverse the state. When the repub- lican party met its Waterloo in 1892 the froe- pass manipulation and influence contributed materially to the result. Not that the con- trolling power of this evil was greater thal year than any other, but because patlen: had ceased to be a virtue with the people. They were tired of the thing, and in thelr wrath rose up and smote the fixers hip and thigh. Wbl Sl Municipal Opportunities. Kansas City Star, Manufactured fuel gas is possibility. When it comes it will be & great factor for “‘capital seeking. invests ment” to consider. The city that owns of controls jts supply of gas for both light and fuel will he the city that can make terms with manufacturers seeking a new site and offer the inducement of a fair price for one of the necessities of life to workmen wha want to come here to liv Fat » Babies are generally healthy, They are also pretty, good-natured, strong and lusty. Why is this? Simply because being well nourished they are contented and happy. When attacked by disease their chubby little bodies are better able to throw off the malady and speedy convalescence follows. 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