Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 9, 1895, Page 5

THE OMAHA DALY BEE B. NROSEWATER, Bditer. — e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. —_— = . TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTI . Dafly Dee (Without Bunday), One Year Daily Tiee and Sunday, One Year. 8ix Months . Three Months Eunday Pee, O Baturday Tice, One Year. Weekly Bee, One Yenr OFF Omaha, The Bee Bullding. South Omaha, Singer k., Councll Pluffs, 12 Pearl Etreet, + Chieago Offiee, 317 Chamber of Commerce. New York, Rooms nd 15, Tribune DIdg. Washington, 1107 W, CORRE! All communications tordal matter should be u, BUSINESS LETTE 3 and remittances should bo | Bee Publishing company, | postoffice orders 1o company. PUBLISHING OMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. 3 George 1. Tachuck, sectetary of The Hishing pany, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and completa copies of the Daily Morning, Evening and Sun Dfll;lTld during the nth of November, 1594, was an follows 2533333 N and 2ith Sts, To the Editor, All busine: nddressed Omaha, be made pa THEE BE! tee Pub- Total rold.... Dally average ne Member tion” must night wor be ext nxious to do We be now receives s he dines in the that Senator Allen al attention whenever © restaurant. Tt remains to be seen how many votes a half-hearted 1eus endorsement will bring to the assistance of the tering currency bill. The deadlock became quite fashion- able among representative bodies dur- ing 1804, and the faskion seems to be sting into 1% Of course the railroads of Nebraska will just fall over one another in their Nustle to lend support to the bill pro- hibiting the issue ¢ pe passes! m Reed must feel greatly to have his friends so kindly take the work of constructing the committees of the next hou sentatives off his hands. Shonld con tigating the federal judiciary in earnest some of the glamor of unsullied purity may be lifted from more than one of our United States judge Those high-back chairs have finally gotten into the proecedings of the house, but for the present ave resting on the table. Yet, although tabled, they still oceupy the floor. If one or more of those numerous theaters which we have been bullding on paper during the last few weeks does not materialize in time for the opening of the next theatrical scason we shall miss our guess. In the lower house of the Nebraska legislature there is only one Jones and no Smith. But' then there are two Burns, two Johnstons, two Suttons and two Zinks. Ivery one must admit that this is a very fair showing of legis- Iative twins, The gold and silver coins of the United States ought by all means to be made legal tender in the state of Ne- braska. Until a bill for that purpose shall have been enacted Nebraska will searcely be able to consider herself as being in the union, Is there anything in the rules of the police and fire commission to prevent colored men from applylng for positions in the fire department and taking ex- aminations the same as white men? If there is it should certainly be eliminated. But we have heard of no such color discrimination. Of course the South Omaha officials who have been connected with the gamblers’ donation party prefer to be Investigated by their friends. A friendly investigation is usually some- thing like a friendly boxing match—it is agreed in gdvance that neither party shall get hurt. The barbarous Port Arthur massacre by Japanese troops has again been con- firmed. The news agencies evidently have an idea that the American people stubbornly decline, to believe the first report of the atrocities. We all believe it out here, Iurther confirmatory re- ports may be dispensed with, The house was very solicitous about adjourning early on Monday out of re- spect to the memory of a deceased member and at the same time to enable the democrats to hunt harmony in the recesses of a party caucus. The caucus, it i% to be noted, did not adjourn out of respect to the memory of the deceased member, There are still over eleven willion aeres of vacant government lands in Nebraska. If these lands were. deeded 10 the state for the es- tablishment of o system of vl gation Nebraska would have no diffi- eulty in sccuring as much capital as is needed in bringing the arid region under cultivation, There n be no law to hold ex-See- retary Allen respousible for the safe keeping of the legislative furniture and supplies which he purchased two years Ago, nor is there any statute authorizing such purchases by him. The fact that he made such purchases, however, im- plies o moral responsibility upon his part to see that the property of the state is protected agalust theft. It is high time that the legislature define such vespousibility by law in order that the state may not be bienuially | bills [ financlering and pave the way for spec- | | to be filled during the pre | ing the past two yes PREAKERS AHEAD. There is a commendable disposition on the part of the legislature to push through the relief bills for drouth suf- ferers as rapidly as possible. There is grave danger, however, that the relief | will open the door for reckless ulators and money sharks who are on the alert for chances to fill thelr own vockets and loot the state treasury. | The legislature should bear in mind | that the hole 1 in the treasury by the Mosher bank swindle, amounting to a quarter of a million, is not likely it year, if | Just how mueh state money has n farmed out by the treasurer dur s amohg country banks that are not in condition at this time to pay up is not known, but we make bold in a ing that the state | trensury never was in such bad shape | as it is at this hour. | To draw $100,000 or more out of any fund that may be available, and couple | this appropriation with a proviso that all warrants drawn and not paid at | sight by the treasnrer shall draw intor- | est from date and be deposited in the | school fund as so much h, seems to us an extra hazavdous eoxperiment. It is confessedly unconstitutional, but, waiving that objoction, there is a wide margin for warrant brokers who ar willing to advance on voucher or claims before warrant has been drawn, o The proposition to authorize an un- limited issue of county bonds and wa rants for relief purposes, and author ing the purchase of all such evidences | of debt with money belonging to the | permzanent school fund, affords an op portunity for schemes and downright | swindles that would scandalize the | state and rob its children of the patr mony surrounded by the framers of our constitution with safeguards which should not be set aside. There is at present no limitation to the issue of county bonds, so long as the aggregate debt does not exceed 10 per cent of the sed valuation. Suppose the board of county s s or commissioners in any of the new counties should enter into a conspiracy with speculatc nd have the ment this spring raised to ten times the actual value, what is to hinder the issue of thousands of dollars of bonds for relief purposes, and what is there to protect the school fund from being invested into bonds that are almost sure never to be redeemed and on which interest is sure to be defaulted ? There are breakers ahead which bode no good to the state unless the legisla- ture surrounds every scheme of relief with all the safeguards that can be de- vised. 1. The $100,000 donation out of the general fund, if distributed in money per capita or per family of destitute people, would not go very far. It cer- tainly could not exceed $3,000 for any single county. The safe and rational way of disposing of this fund would Dbe to expend it for seed grain purchased by & commission of men of known in- tegrity and given for distribution on the ratio of ncresge under cuHivation last year. The emergency relief should be authorized by counties and also limited at the ratio of estimated destitute popu- lation, The volume of bonded debt or war- rants to be issued by any county for relief should be limited. The basis for such debt should be the assessment for 4 and votes cast at the elections with a computation as to population on the ratio of five and one- half persons to each voter. There are no more people in the drouth-stricken counties today than there were in 1892 or 1893. Quite the contrary there has been a material decrease since the drouth of last season. . Unless the legislature places stringent limitations on the proposed relief debt every dollar of our permanent school fund will be drawn out of the treasury and we will not get it back in 100 years unless it is replaced by direct taxation, as the constitution requires to be done in case of defalcation or losses through any other causs over, e 10, n asse COLORADO'S NEW GOVERNOR, The people of Colorado are to be con- gratulated upon the accession of a clear- headed, conservative governor. Colorado has had a rather severe experience dur- ing the past year or two, and the testi- mony of many of her best citizens has been that she has suffered quite as much from the antics of the explosive and rattle-brained Waite as from any other cause. At any te, the verdiet of the voters last November showed most conclusively that they had had enongh of the sort of polities of which the ex-governor s an exponent. The new governor is in line with the general demand for reducing public ex- penditures, This is a matter which every state executive this year has ear- nestly saught to impress upon the legis- lature and it is one which western leg islatures especially should give most serious attention to. It is hardly neces- sary to say that silver receives consider- ation In the inaugural address of Gov- ernor Melntyre. No public man in Colorado would satisfy popular expecta- tion or retain popular confidenee who did not improve every opportunity to say something in bebalf of the white metal. The new governor of that state believes, in common with all its other citizens, that the one thing necessary 1o restore prosperity to the coun- try is the vrehabilitation of silver and its free and unlimited coinage. at the existing legal ratio. Very likely the governor is corvect in saying that the restoration of silver would pls the people of Colorado in an enviable | position. For a time, at least, it would | probably do this, but according to trust- worthy information the silver mining interests of that state arve doing fairly well now, while the increased produc- tion of gold must bring to the state | nearly as much income from mining as | it formerly recefved when silver was | worth 80 or 40 cents wmore an ounce | than it is at present. But however thi may be, Colorade will have to be con- tent with existing conditions regarding silver for some time to come. So far| as can be seen, the prospect of the white ce muleted out of $20,000 to $30,000 for legislative supplies. | the de | s | value of stock | the treasu THE OMAMA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, Is not brightening. There is no indica- tion that Buropean countries are any more favorably disposed toward silver than they have been for a number of years, and in this country the sup- porters of the policy of free silver cain- nge are not as numerous as a few years ago. Still it is not to be expected t | Colorado will cease agitating for the whatever meas- n with- adoption of that polic; ure of prosperity she may atta out it NOT AN FOR LIGHT. ., Commenting editorially upon the peti- tion recently filed for an fon in the Nehi rate case, the Chicago Tribune says it desirable that the supreme court should settle the question involved if it can, because it would simplify matters tly and enable people inter- in railroads know just they stand. far,* we are told, Judge Brewer decided nothing. To quote liter “While clear in his mind that the rates of the Iaw were too low, the judge admitted his inability to decide what would be Just and reasonable ones, because he was not sure what the hasis should be on which to estimate them. He saw somoe objections to taking as the basis what it would cost to duplicate a rond and also some to assuming that the face <ka maximum ested where to Ro has 11, ity he construction of a railroad extravy built should be taken. decided nothing.” The inference which the draws is quite natural for any one who is unacquainted with the character of the men who have been managing Ne- braska railvoads. Ordinarily it would be confidently expeeted that in such a se the raitroad owners and officials would e more than anxious to have #he issue determined by a court of last vesort. A solution of the vexed prob- lem would tell them exactly how far they can go and precisely to what ex- tent they are subject to legislative regu- lation. It would also inform them upon what basis re: ble rates are to be computed. 1If fii settled it would do away with a bone of contention of which the railroads have been long and constantly complaining. But the railr s concerned in Nebraska maximum rate decision seem to be interested just the other way. Apparently they do not want the ques- tion of reasonable settled at all. ey scem to be perfectly satisfied to remain where they now are and to use the decision of Judge Brewer to frus trate all state regulation of rates what- ever. An appeal to a higher court sub- Jeets them to the liability of ving, that decision reversed. Tor this reason the railrond lobby appears to have been re-established in the vicinity of the leg- islature at Lincoln to prevent the appro- priation of the money necessary to de- fray the legitimate expenses of an ap- Dby the attorneys for the state. To ad off the appeal in this way is their present game. If they n succeed in this they will be willing to leave the question of reasonable rates in the dark, legally, for an indefinite time to come. i Therefore Tribune the CUSTOMS DUTIES «N GOLD. Representative Walker of Massachu- setts intends to offer an amendment to the currency bill under consideration in the house providing that one-half of the customs duties shall be paid in gold or legal tender notes. The object of this is to Dbetter enable the treasury to main- tain the gold reserve. Formerly it was required that all customs duties be paid in gold, but now they can be d in‘any form of currency except national bank notes. The result is that very little gold finds its way into the treasury from this source and the expediency of changing this has been urged by ex-Secretary Boutwell and others as an effective means of helping the treasury to keep up the gold reserve. There does not ap- pear to be any valid objection to the proposition. The requirement that 50 per cent or even a larger proportion of the duties from customs shall be paid in gold would not be a discrimination against other forms of money that wou'd impair their standing. The soundness of all the currency rests upon the gold reserve, and as long as this is main- tained at the amount deemed to be safe the credit of no other form of currency will suffer. It is only when this basis of security is seriously redueed that the standing of the paper money of the goy- ernment is in danger, Under present conditions it is mani- festly impossible to maintain the re- serve, even by frequent issues of bonds. It is only a little over a month since the treasury gold was built up by borrow- ing and it is again reduced to about $80,000,000, with the certainty of being still further depleted. The shipments for foreign account are heavy and it is reported that foreign bankers think the outward movement will be prolonged for months, The gold thus called for will be drawn largely, if not wholly, from the treasury, for the banks show no disposidon to part with their gold for lexport. There is probably not less than $70,000,000 in gold held by the banks of New York City and they scem deter- mined to hang on to it, regardless of the difficulties and embarrassments of the t ury or the menace to the credit of the government from a declining gold reserve. When gold is demanded for export these banks supply the exporte with currency to be exchanged at the subtreasury for gold, and this process, which has been going on for the past year and a half, is very likely to be | continued. When customs duties are to [be paid it is also the practice of the banks to furnish the importers with other money than gold or legal tender notes. This practice would be stopped if 50 per cent of the duties was wmade payable in gold or legal tender notes, which in effect ave the same, and the treasury would be assured an annual gold income from this source of about $100,000,000. It might be advisable to ake the proportion of duties to be paid in gold lavger than Representative Walker proposes, but even that would unquestionably be a very great help to The proposal to retire and cancel the United States legal tender notes Is not a popular one and some wetal occupying a larger place in the currency of the world than it now dovsl other plan will have to be adopted for protecting and maintainlng the reserve. wppeal from | and honds or the cost of | JANUARY 9, 1895. That of requiring a percentage of the Auties, not 4§ than one-half, to be paid in gold is pragticable and it is believed would accobpilsh the desired object. The preséfit’Indications are that un- less sometldog is done by congress to protect the-seserve it will again down to tht'dhnger point within the next two months and the treasury will be forced tosede more honds, In that event it would hrobably find some diffi- culty in disgibking of them. The bonds last fssued hav market and are now worth less than the government received for them, Tt | n that another issue could not be s as favorable terms as the last THE CURRENCY BILL. A caucus of house democrats has adopted a resolution endorsing the cur- rency bill now under consideration, The action of a cancus exerts a good deal of influence, if it is not absolutely binding | upon those who participate in it. A strong opposition to the bill was, how- ever, disclosed, which warrants a doubt as to whether it can pass the house. It appears that a number of those who at- tended the caucus did so with the un- derstanding that it was intended to be simply adviso and these, of course, will feel under no obligation to be bound by its action, although it is quite possible that some of them will be in- duced to fall into line in the interest of party unity, for which a strong appe was made by Speaker Crisp and others. As to those democrats who did not at- tend, they are entirely froe to do as they pl when the measure comes to a vote, and it is not unlikely that many of them will he found in opposition. 1f as many democratic votes are agninst the bill in the how: given in opposition to the caueus reso- lution endorsing it, it will probably be defeated, for of course the republicans will vote agaiust it solidly. There was one important point set- tled by the caucus, and that is that no proposition for an issue of honds to retire legal tender notes has any chance of being adopted by this congress. Rep- resentative Sperry of Connecticut had prepared a bill containing a provision of this kind, and a motion to substitute it for the pending bill ced only thirteen votes in the caucus, while sev- enty were cast against it. Doubtle after this showing no further effort will be made looking to a retirement of legal tender notes by the issue of bonds. In view of the fact that the Sperry bill hias received considerable commenda- tion in financial circles it may be in- teresting to refer briefly to its provi- sions. It provides for an ne of bonds to an amount’ not exceeding in the ag- te all the Uhited States notes now standing, sueh bonds to bear 3 per cent interest per annum and to be due and payable thirty years from the d of issue. 1 legal tender and tre: notes redeemable in gold at the treasury after the pagsage of the act shall be canceled and destroyed. It also author- izes the secretary of the treasury to use any surplus revenue to redeem these notes, which, when so redeemed, shall be canceled and: destroyed—shall not again be reigsued. The rejection of this measure as a substitute for the pending bill by the democratic caucus distinetly shows that a large majority of the democrats in the present congress are not favorable to the destruction of the greenbacks and that no currency plan embracing this proposition has any chance of adoption. A vote on the currency bill will doubt- less be reached this week. The result nnot be forecast with any degree of tainty, but assuming that under the pressure of caucus action the bill passes the house its defeat in the senate, if it ever gets to a vote in that body, can be regarded as assured. In this con- nection it will be interesting to note the composition of the finance committee of the senate, to which the bill will be re- ferred if it goes to the senate. The committee stands six democrats and five republicans, as follows: McPherson, Harris, Vest, Jones of Ar- kansas and White, democrats; Morrill, Sherman, Jones of Nevada, Allison and Aldrich, republicans. Jones of Nevada is classified with the republicans be- cause he is in full sympathy with them on all questions except the coinage of silver and would undoubtedly vote with them against the so-called Carlisle cur- rency bill. McPherson and White, it is believed, would also co-operate with the vepublicans in opposition to this meas- ure, so that there is no probability that the senate finance committee would re- port it in its presentform, We see no suson to change the opinion heretofore expressed that there is very little chance of any currency islation by the pres- ent congress. The mayor of South Omaha has re- quested the town council to make an in- vestigation of the alleged crookedness and bribery of munici officials, The council has accepted the suggestion and set Thursday evening for opening the ball. The Bee is informed that the X- payers league of South Omaha is anxious to take up this matter and go to the bottom of the charges of collusion between the gnmblers and official, Leading members of the league express willingness to raise a fund to weet th necessary expenses of an investigation guaranteed to investigate and to pre. vent a farcicalingu such as is doubt- less contemplated 'by the town couneil, It goes without saying that a wholesale whitewash of ‘very one implicated in the scandalous affpiv will be made un- less responsible, citizens take charge of the Investigatign and prosecute it in dead earnest. Let the Taxpa jump into the, breach and bring the guilty parties to justice. An able and incorruptible lawyer should be retaines at once by the league to formulate a plan of campaign. Official circles of outh Omaha bave long been in need of a thorough ventilating and now is the accepted time to begin the work of re- form, The Board of Fire and Police Com- missioners first order sixteen additional men to be ewployed on the fire for and then adopt a resolution asking the finance committee to report the prob- able cost of the five department during the coming year. Why would it not bave been more business-like to insist —— be | declined in the open | |ing to Pri s league | on knowing how the department stands financlally before venturing to anthorize further expenditures without the remotest idea to what they will lead? Before any expenditure is au- thorized by any public body it ought to know how such action will affect the funds at its command. Terre Maute, Ind, has just had a small-sized sensation in the disclosure of an alleged attempt at bribery by the agents of a fire hose company that was [auxious to get the contract for furnish- ing supplies for the department in that city. Of conrse there are the usual denials and recriminations, but the cir- cumstances are strongly indieative of the truth of the chavges. It that some of the fire hose companies are not above paying for public con- tracts when they can be secured in no | other way. ¥ will at least bear watehing in every city where they send agents for the purpose of stimulating trade. Emperor Willlam's New Year's greet- nce Bismarck shows that the man emperor it satisfied with the sults of his reconciliation with the neellor and that he is anxious to maintain the harmonfous relations which he has re-established. In this he sees strength, e ognizes the influ- ence which Bismarck still has over the German people and he prefers to have that influence on his side rather than against him. This annual New Year's greeting means a great deal to the em- s subje and its omission would been regarvded tudied neglect. ts who for two generations st have incessantly voted for 2 drew Jackson met at the festal board last night to deplore the fact that the general is not now living in the flesh that he might infuse a little horse sense into the so-called leaders of the party. What the oceasion, may have been for this gloomy wake The Bee has not been informed. Te pall bearers were all there, howeve Those sugar brokers who have been adjudged properly indicted for refusing to answer questions put to them last winter by the senate investigating com- mittee will of course ¢ their ea to the supreme court. They will have every defense that money can furnish. If they were poor and without wealthy backers they would have answered the questions without the slightest ado. Drawn While You Walt. Courler-Journal. If this thing keeps on the newspapers will so0n be able to issue out currency plans to their subscribers on the coupon system. il Pity the Poor Ambassadors. Chicago Mall. The condition of our ambassabors is in- deed pitiable and should appeal to the sym- puthy of workingmen who get $150 o day, but live within their income because they can't live any other way. If a subseri tion isn't taken up for them our amb dors may yet become objects of charity. e B The Philanthropic Andrew. Milwaukee Journal. Millionaire Carnegle, the man who says that a man who dies rich dies disgraced, does not reduce wages for his emplo because he wants to do it for his own gain, but simply because the less wealthy employ= ers of labor cannot afford to pay high wages. When they all become as rich as he is then they can afford to give labor a better show. e Senators and Cocktails. New York World. Senator Allen is not the only person in the United States who would like to know why senators cannot go outside the build- ing for their cocktails, as the rest of us have to do if we want cocktails. The peo- ple of the United States are under no moral or legal obligation to take any part what- ever in painting the nose of any occupant of the plutocratle auction room n the cap- tol. - Ohio a Refage for Criminals. Cleveland Plan Dealer, Judge Buchwalter of Cincinnati in re- fusing to permit the extradition of the Ken- tucky negro, Hampton, on the ground that he feared the people of that state would take the law into their own hands, seems to have had no hesitation whatever 'in tak- ing it into his, In disregarding the law which he is sworn to administer he has failed in his duty as a judge, and in violat- ing_the comity between Ohio and a neigh- boring commonwealth he has been derelict in his duty as a citizen. The negro, Hamp- ton, Is wanted in Green county, Kentucky, for 'shooting and wounding. That he should be tried for his act there can be no doubt. Certainly there is neither law nor com- mon sense to justify his being turned loose upon the people of Ohio. Yet this is Judge Buchwalter's decision, and the negro is free in Cincinnati, el Recognizing the Monroe Dootrine, Springfield (Mass) Republican, Forty years ago we had got so far toward o’ settlement of this dispute as the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which really set- tled very little, for 'Great Britain still claimed the right of protectorate over the Mosquitoes. Never until now has that na- tion formally abandoned the claim and given the Clayton-Bulwer treaty the inte tation we have always put upon it. No at Britain abandons the Mosquito pro- teetorate absolutely, and acknowledges the authority of Nicaragua over it, and this action settles that old dispute forever, Now also the United States and Great Britain stand in exactly the same relation of recog- nized neutrality to all Central American territory. Neither claims the right to oceupy, or fortify, or claim any sovereignty over any part of 1t, and so far as this pledge koes Great Britain recognizes the Monroe doetrine, —_—— 1LOULATED 10 TICKLE. Philadelphia Record: Most people who walk on icy pavements are slip shod, no_doubt ment beij hody n want de bes' foh h ain’ Washington Sta 3 onte sald Uncle Eben, ** 'bout hetter'n riches, ' But m ‘days seems too p'lite te hisse’ Buffalo Courlel sticklers for form mus the inevitable without ha duetion “Be®proud of your sex, Miss Haw- ill~but remember this, woman was a ed De Saphead, I never ond thoughts were best, Mr. sald Miss Hawkins, : “Do you think, Miss that the time wili ever n will propose to the up her beautiful eyes and looked him squarcly in the face “Never, Mr. Smith,” she replied, “if they are anything like you kins, was thought, Philadelphia Tecord Mrs. McGuire— Phat's yer ould man doin' McGuirk—Droivin' a hearse, coughin’ all the toime, M Ye don't say! Wull, since Dj ivin' a cab, he do be havin’ an' Star: “DId anybody insin- d myself? inquired the New 0 Washington uate that | York poll » I dldn't b that," replied his friend. “All that came to my ears was that you gave yourself away.” Cleveland Plain Dealer: “William,” said old Mr. Skinner, “always take your seat near the rear end of the street car. “What fo * ULt s a principle of business, that should taken advantage plain, fath “By taking your seat at the rear end you get to hold your nickel that much longer, and interest is worth something these days.' be OR HIS COFFER Buffalo Courler He cares not Lo rap Whene'er it doth hap That_his wife's cold to him, so they say; But he raves and he roars And slam-bangs the doors If his morning's pancakes are that way, is known | DANGERS OF RETALIATION, Denver Republican: Tt fs not surprising that Austrla’s protest against sugar discrim- inations has given the State department much | trouble, It fs trouble, however, in which the administration desorves no sympathy. | The reciprocity treaties should have been ad- hered to. Under them our trade was increas- ing and relations with other nations were pleasant. Bt it was a republican policy, and | of course demoerats could find no good in it. | St. Paul Ploneer Press: Our democratic rulers seem likely to embroil us with all the constitutional powers of Europe. Germany now threatens to prevent the execution of our | laws to keep cholera and the worse plague of | pauper and criminal emigrants out of this country. The executive department of the ad- ministration seems so bent on involving us in a snarl with Buropean governments and is drifting so helplessiy into needless complic tions that it is now thought likely that con- gress will have to take these international questions out of its hands. Philadelphia Record: The exclusion of American beef and live cattle from European markets will not be without alleviatio b | meat business in this country is in the hands | of great monopolies, which pay small prices to cattle raisers and exact large prices from consumers, The prices of beefsteaks, like the, | prices of steel raiis, are kept at the top noteh The foreign markets take the surplus that cannot be disposed of in this country at monopoly prices. American meats have fre- quently been laid down at forelgn ports for less than the ruling prices in New York or Philadelphia. The outlets for the surplus having been temporarily closed, consumers may expect to profit by it. 1t will not add to the terrors of the winter season If the prices of chops and steaks shall go down for awhile with the ratings of the thermometer. tiaceilfmniie NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. The Merchants hotel at Hartington been closed because of hard times. There were 116 interments in the cemetery at Nebraska City during the past year. Over $31,000 in improvements were made at Hartington during the year just closed. The 3-months-old child of Bert Stickly of Guide Rock was wrapped up too tightly and suffocated. Charles Callakan, who intended to start a new paper at Sidney, has changed his mind and has purchased the Sidney Telegraph. The grand lodge of the Treu Bund, embrac- ing the states of Nebraska and lowa, will convene at Norfolk February 6. About sixty delegates will be in attendance. Rev. George Willlams, one of the first settlers in Adams county and at one time cditor of the Hastings Nebraskan, died at his home in Kenesaw at the age of 64 years. The sheriff of Thayer county has heen or- dered to keep all his prisoners in the steel age in the future instead of allowing them the privilege of the corridors. The recent es- cape of a prisoner is responsible for the order. The Durwell irrigation ditch 1s to be com- pleted by the middle of May and water given to the farmers on June 1. "About 20 per cent of the dirt work Is completed. It is fourteen miles long and eighteen feet wide on the bottom at’ the head and five feet deep and will irrigate 15,000 acres of as rich land as can be found in the state. S A Far Fotched Prophecy, lobe-Domocrat. John Burns prophesies that within the next twenty-five Americans will be emigrating to England in order to secure good government and associalion with a happy and contented people. Twenty-five years from now the population of this coun- try will be over 120,000,000, and really there isn't room for them on the foggy patch of British real estate. No An willingly emigrates {o Ingland now e an occasional heiress, and this will soon as the supply of dukes runs short. i A Battle Royal in the Courts, Denver News, Tt is now announced that the the Union Pacific will make a against a separate receivers Oregon Short Line, as asked for in the com- plaint of the American Loan and company. The case will come up for argu- ment before Judge Gilbert at Portland on January 15, and it is expected that Genes Solicitor Thurston will be present to repre- sent Union Paclfic interests. A battle royal, as in the Guif case, Is imminent, e Reported Murder Denied, TUCSON, Ariz, Jan, he reported murder of Frank Dobs on the Yaqui river in Mexico by Indians, whom it was alleged he had’left stranded at the Midwinter expo- sition, 1s denied by American Consul Hale of Guaymas and Governor Terres of Mexico. el DEMAND OF STATES) has eivers of rong fight hip for the MANSHIP. Washington Star. It_has been said the tariff needs Some slight attention still; The public clamors for reform— As publics always will. But these are minor things on which Our mental glims we douse; ‘We must debate to regulate The Senate eating house. Oh, what's the good of terrapin, With champagne on the side? Oh, what's the good of broiling steak? It's just as juicy fried. And truffies—what the déuce are they That they should so arouse The men of size who patronize The Senate eating house? It's the steward we are after On this glorious ship of state; We can diet all like heroes, Though we do not legislate; One may, with effort, on finance e silent as a mouse— But none shall spare the bill of fare At the Senate eating house. | Bee: EASTERN LOANS AND WESTERN LAWS, OMAHA, Jan. 8.-To the Rditor of The I notica a very marked activity on the part of loan companies and their agents for what they are pleased to call “improvement In our foreclosure laws.” An effort is to be made by them to induce the present legise lature to make some changes in our present statutes affecting mortgages, which they y will prove benefictal. Beneficlal to whom? Since any change in such laws could only prove an advantage to one party to the mortgage contract, and all companies and agents thercof are eager for the change, It is not difficult to sse who Is to ba benefited, Loan compantes, as a rule, make careful sorutiny of the property upon which appli- cation for a loan is made, and fix their own estimate of its actual cash value. After they have seen that Incumbrances are paid off and an insura policy for the full tirm of years of the loan is paid for by the applicant and turned over to them, they then make a loan of about 40 per cont of the cash value of the property, as fixed by them- selves—in other words, the loan company has 40 per cent and the mortgagor 60 per cent invested in the property. Agalnst the Income which the mortgagor may receive from the property the loan company has all taxes and other assossments patd and re- ceives whatever rato of interest the contract calls for. Our present laws do not unreason- ab otect the mortgagor's equity. They still leave every material advantage with the mortgagee. Suppose it takes two years to forceclose a mortgage and the mortgages paid no Interest or taxes during that time, the loan company has about 60 per cent on its own valuation of the property with which to pay itself, besides paid up fire insurance and freedom from annoyance of any other liens. Few foreciosures take the full time claimed by loan agents, and in any case the only loser is the mort it the loan was judiciously made. Why should we legislate for castern money loaners? Why should our laws say to them: “You loan us 40 per cent of the value of our homes and we will pay you interest on the money until you got to take the lomes, and then vacate instanter?” If we want to sell at this rate, why not scll to home capitalists and patronize home? Why should a loan company be allowed an attor ney's fee by the court in case of litigation for the nonfulfillment of a contract any more than other parties who fesort to law for the same reasons? The only argument advanced by the companies for the changes they suggest is that money would be cheaper it these little arms of protection (styled by them embargoes) that our present statute throws around the poor man's home were removed. Would it be cheaper? Why do they want cheap mon In what way would it beneflt them? The demand for highs + priced money is greater than the supply as it is. How, then, would cheap money bene- fit them? This argument is too transparent. Money would not be cheaper. Kor a time castern capitalists might loan more readily, but not cheaper. © in_obtaining money with “embargoes” removed, as these com- panies suggest, would, however, result dis. astrously to our people. Will the cry of castern capital never cease its Wil the dread that it may be withdrawn ever ccase to trouble the other- wise tranquil west? Yes; when the western people learn to use the top of the head more and the hole under tho nose less. A NEBRASKAN. e NEW YORK MAY IRRIGATE. all the r Eastern Farmer Loarning a Valuable Lesson in the West. DENVER, Jan., 8.—Samuel D. Willard, a wealthy farmer and well known republican leader of Geneva, N. Y., Is in the city, res turning home from California. He has been out west making an extended investigation of irrigating systems and of agricultural and horticultural methods, and has arrived at somo decided conclusions. “I believe the time will come when New York will have to adopt the methods of water storage used in the west in order to furnish sufficient water to ralse crops,” said he. “The destruction .of the fcrests will bring about a condition of things in the eastern states so near akin to that in the western states we shall be glad to study the methods of western farmers and fruit growers. 1 have been making a study of the big systems in California and also of the general subject of agriculture and horticulture and I expect to put what I have learned to considerable uso in my own meighborhood.” Mr. Willard is a candidate for the office of commissioner of agriculture in the state of New York under the new administration, e MUST WAIT FOR A DIVORCE. Sibyl Sanderson Came Horo Antonlo Terry, NEW YORK, Jan. §.—Miss Sibyl Sander~ son, tho California prima donna, who is to be heard for the first time in this country at the Metropolitan opera house next week, ar- rived on La Champagne. During her stay in America, Miss Sanderson may be heard in “Manon,” “Phrynne,” and perhaps in “‘Bs- clarmonde” or “Thetis.” Incidentally she sald she hoped to marry Mr. Antonio Terry, a Cuban of considerable wealth, who is equally at home in Paris and New York. “The date of our marriage,” said the singer with engaging frankness, “‘depends on a di- voree suit which is pending, for unfortunately Mr. Terry has a wife. He has not lived with her for quite eleven years, though I bes lieve sho is a very charming person.” M. Terry came over on La Champagne with Mise Sanderson. to Marry Your Money's Worth or Your Moncy Back, Sorted Suits— Now we begin our great clearing up for Spring— we don’t propose to have any winter suils left—we never have—we always have new goods—-one of our suceessful secrets. $20.00 $15.00 $12.50 $10.00 “ “ $25.00 Men's Suits, now “ $20.00 $15.00 $12.50 $10.00 $ 8.50 “ Men's $5, $6, $6.50 trousers are in one lot at $3.75 —why pay $6.50 when you can get them for $3.75. Clearing Up Sale — of everything for Winter wear in every department in the store-——no matter where —especially is this true of —the disecounts are great our Boys' and Childrens’ Winter wear—You know what our prices were—You will recognize the cut when BROWNING, lothiers, 8. W. Corne Reliable you see the clothes, KING & CO. v Fifteenth and Douglas Sts.