Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 12, 1895, Page 2

THE OMATA DAILY BEE; Br w Sloan, ler, Hahn, Wright, McKesson, Bauer, mith, tson, TO CONSIDER 10/ Benate Appoints a & Al Committees to Look After Appointive Nominations, LINCOLN, Jan. 11.—(8pecial.)—Governor Holcomb's first appointment went to the senate at 11 o'clock and was duly referred to the executive For several weeks the probable appointments to be made by the governor have been under by few, who have imagined that the republican | senate might make up its mind to ref to | confirm an appointment made by a populist executive, It is upon this assump that #0 many have believed that Governor Hol- comb would withhold his appolntments until after the adjournment of the legislature Whether Governor Holcomb has given this phase of the situation any consideration re mains to be seen shows his dispost tion to meet the in a full spirit of | fairness by sending in at least ona appoint- | ment carly in the session The name transmitted to the senate was that of John W. IMI'S SELECTIONS, session discussion a today Wilson of Ogalalla to be commandant of the Soldiers’ and Sailors home at Grand Island, to sueceed D, A Seoville, ppointed by Governor Crounse two | years ago. Judge Wilson w the people's independent candidate for aunditor of public accounts in the last campaign, and was de- feated by Hon. Bugene Moore, the repub- lican nominee, He is a one 'med veteran of the last war and his appointment is looked upon as a very creditable one, » The announcement of the appointment to the senate In executive session was followed by some little discussion, in which Senators Hahn, Sloan, Pope, Wright, Black, Sprecher and Caldwell participated. enator Sloan particularly called attention to the provision of the statutes giving the superintendent of the Lincoln Hospital for the Insane an official Mfe of six years, unless sooner removed by the governor for malfeasance or other good and sufficient cause. It was generally con- ceded in the general discussion that this statutory provision could hardly be construed to apply to the commandant of the Soldicrs' home. Several of the senators spoke highly of the ability and avalilability of the new appointee, but there was a_general feeling that the ap- pointment should not be confirmed with un- due haste. Finally, on motion of Senator Hahn, the appointment was referred to a special committes, with the understanding that any or all subsequent appointments sent in by the governor should be referred to the same committee. Licutenant Governor Moore, as a me of precaution, read the rule of the senate requiring all senators not to reveal the se- crets of the cxecutive session under penalty of expulsion. He then announced the fol lowing members of the committee: Hahn of Adams, Akers of Ccotts Bluff, Sloan of Fillmore, Biack of and’ Saunders of Knox. Senator Stewart, from the populist corner asked if the licutenant governor did not in tend to give the mincrity at least one repr sentati on the committee The lieutenant governor replicd that that was his purpose in appointing Senator Saun- on the committee. The licutenant goy- ernor had believed all along that Saunders was a populist. o therefore asked permis- sion to withdraw Saunders’ name and sub- stitute t of Senator Ste t, whose listic tendencies are too pronounced to of mistake. Stewart, in the meantime, had sent a mo- tion to the secretary’s desk asking for the appolntment of a committee, but as it was practically the samo as the verbal motion offercd by Senator Haln it was withdrawn, The dcors were then opened. The general sentiment expressed by the republican sena- tors after the executive session was that the appointment. of Judge Wilson would be con- firmed without opposition at the next session. sure Imit DITE RELIEF. Members Decide to Have Some Sort of Mensure Presented Pretty Soon, LINCOLN, Jan. 11.—(Special.)—The house passed its first bill of the session today. It 18 house roll No. 71, appropriating $55,000 for the payment of members and employes. It fEcvident that the house is growing restive over the. prolonged delay in relief legislation. This was signified by Miles, who succeeded in getting through a resolution that the special committee on relief report a measure to the house not later than Tuesday next. In support of his resolution Miles said that he was in daily receipt of questions concern- ing this subject that were hard to answer. ‘While at his home Sunday last one man had como ten miles to ask him to accelerate the Dills for relief if possible. The first bill Antroduced, he said, was a measure for aid 10 destitute farmers, but the bill upon which the greatest progress had been made, the bill first printed and pushed to its passage, awas a bill appropriating $86,000 to pay mem- bers and employes their salaries in advance. e denounced the dilatory action of the com- mittee. In defense of the committee Chairman Conaway said that it was in continuous ses- ®ion, and doing all in its power to expedite matters. He did not believe it wise to do anything hastily, which the house might ufterwards regret. “. Munger supported the views of Chairman Conaway, and said that the introduction and passage of an immature measure might de- feat the object sought. Secretary of the State Relief Commission Ludden had told him Ahat they were able to take care of all the destitute for twenty days to come. If this was true he saw no reason for precipitancy dn the matter. This view of the case was opposed by several and Miles' resolution was earried. Chapman has a bill, house roll No. 169, which s in the nature of another measure to dnsure expedition. It provides amendments 2o seotlons 1,630, 1,641 ahd 1,666, chapter xv, Consolidated ' Statutes, 1885, entitled “Elec- flons.” Under the present law a contest for an clective office carries the case through the courts, sometimes for six months or a year, and where no fraud is charged, but Slmply error of clerks and judges, it often works a hardship on the contestant, Chap- man's bill provides that where only error in court is alicged by a contestant the elec- fon board may be immediately convened and a recount had before the trial judges, pro- vided for Ly law. The list of employes, and those related to amembers of the house, is now posted up in front of the clerk’s desk. They now number oighty-six. Five of them are related to mem- bers, as follows: Howard Burns, night watchman, son of Burns of Lancaster; Wil- Yiam B. Shook, typewriter, son of John H. Shook of Richardson; John H. Brady, mes- senger, son of Brady of Buffalo; Jra Cole, ‘typewriter, son of Cole of Hitcheock; Harry Standige, clerk, nephew of Speaker Richards, " Jenness has two bills for the protection of employes and guaranteeing their right (o beloni to labor organizations, and to protect them from being blacklisted by bond com- ‘panies. The former, house roll No. 183, was introduced today. The other, house roll No. 163, has gone to second reading. Mr. Jenness sayh thal gross Miustico Is being worked | Wgalust employes under the present law In both cases. Through mlstakes of identity und errors of clerks In bond offices men of 8000 repute and probity are often classified ‘wmong deadbeats and swindlers by bond agencles. * Davies has a measure, house roll No. 198 #0 submit a constitutional amendment for the investment of the permanent school* fund * A precautionary measure by Allan is hou xoll No. 184, to protect the public against young and Incompetent telegraph operators emplo; by railroads. ' ROUTINE WORK OF THE SESSION. The reading of the journal this morning was consiantly interrupted by motions to suspend the rules and dispense with the same, but strenuous objection from Barry Xept the clerk in line, and he completed if, upon which the speaker volunteered the ob- #ervation that he hoped the house had eu- joyed the reading, after which he made the lowing additional appointments of house employes: Pages, Alfred Bixby, Robert Pol- Jock, J. Chesington, W. Goodin; nlght watch, ‘Willlam F. Niles; stenographcr, Joste Me. Dermott; messenger, C. P. Lewis; clerk for committce on engrossed and enrolled bills, L. C. Boslaw; clerk for committee on finance, ways and means, T. N. Ceeil; enrolling and £ngrossing clerk, J. D. Hoyle; enrolling and ongrossing clerk, Kate Henderson; bill clerk, D. Bumgardner; assistant postmaster, Bd ‘Metcalf; fanitors, J. P. Mohammett, Ed An- #ou; engineer, Charles P. Stromberg. Legislation on house employes continues to Aucrease volume. It is a never failing wellspring of debate. The following, by mittee. of | centain o Bmith, is the latest to be carrizd; Resolved, That the chict clerk be to furnish quired with a list of the emplo the number of old oldiere employed. Resolved, That the preference be given to the old soldlers In the future employes of | the house, Lamborn's resolution, one of a halt dozen of the same tenor, to give preference to relief bills, was carried, and the introduction of bills on first reading was declared the order of business, following which a recess was taken until 2 p. m Burns of Lancaster opened the afternooh sessfon with a_ resolution, which was carried, the passageway leading to the flagstaft ced In a safe condition, as it was n dangerous, Brady sent up a resolution making relief measures a special order for tomorrow morn- ing at 10 o'clock, which, after a promis from Conaway that bills should be printed, prevailed The speaker next read the appointments of A. G, Keim, clerk to committee on railroads, and W. B. McArthur, clerk to judiciary com- Suter introduced a resolution that bills relating to feed, live stock be referred to committee on live stock and grazing. Sutton of Douglas objected and the resolution went over. House roll No. 71, appropriating $55,000 to pay members and employes, was put on passage and carried by a vote of 88 to 2, Cooley of Cass and Delaney of Butler voting against it Following the introduction of new bills the house adjourned. BILLS ON FIRST READING House roll No. 169, by Chapman, to amend , 1641 and 1,666 of (Ilu\vh'r xv of ‘onsolidated Statutes of Nebraska of “Eleetions,” and to repeal sald 161 and 1,666, No. 170, by Chapman, providing for the destruction’ of the Russian thistle and er noxfous weeds on all lands and highways in the state of Nebraska. House roll No. 171, by Hee, t appropriate $10,000 to pay bounties for the scalps of wild animals as provided for In sections 216, 17 and 218, chapter ii, Consolidated Statutes of Nebri providing ge and sale roll No. 172, by Bee, to prov! an appropriation to ‘prosecute the investiga- tion of artesian water in Furnas county. House roll No. 173, by Howard, to amend section 1 of the act approved April 17, 1891, ntitled “An act to provide cheaper text books ‘and for district ownership of the and to provide penalties for violat- de for in, House roll No. 174, by T vide for the appropriation of fines, penaltjes and license money In citl and villages having a part or all of two or more school districts within their corporate 1imite. House roll No. 175, by Hairgroy fo certaln contracts for the conditional sale, lea hire of railroad and street railway and rolling stock and providing for record- ing thereof, 1 roll No. 17, by Be 3,151, 3,152 and 3,153, d Statutes of 1803, and to rep al sectiol roll No. 177, by Becher, to render ity officers’ Ineligible to office than four years in succession, oll No. 178, 'by Judd, to amend sec- f chapter XIvii of Cobbey's Con- Statutes of Nebraska of 1 ?ublic Finance,” and to repe rgrove, to pro- ating her, to amena 's Con- 1 sald Hew for me Ho tc solidat Ted ction, House roll No. 179, by Richardson, to pro- vide for the erection of an additionfl build- inz at the Norfolk Hospital for the Tnsane at rfolk, Neb, and appropriate the neces- sary funds therefor, roll No. 180, by Mef Consolidated St peal safd sectior House roll No, 181, by 1 the removal of count: ship officers, House 1 section 2, sion’ 7, chapter piled Statutes of Nebraska of 183 Schools,” and same now exis House roll No. 182, by Jenness, employes and guarantee their right (o be long to labor_organization House roll No. 184, by M lief of Marion J. Posey. House roll No, 185, by Munger, ction 4,498 of the Consoligafed Si Nebraska for the year il and to section 4,993 as existing. House roll No. 185, by the government and' cor and bridges in 100,000 - inhabitants, enue for the sections 2, al’ said ick, to amend tutes of 1803 K, to provide for cinet and town- to amend ix, Com- entitlq Lo repeal sald section as the to protect nger, for the re- to amend utes of repeal Crow, relative to truction of roads counties of over and providing rev- same, and repealing 1814, 15, 1816, 1,838, 1,847, 1,855, 1,928, , 1,935, 1, 2, 944, 1,945 and ed Statutes of Nebraska, compiled in 1893 by J. E. Cobbey by the authority of the legislature of the state of Nebraska, sald sections being under the head of chapter xvili, entitled” “Highways,” of sald Consol- Idated Statutes of Nebraska, ip so far as the same are applicable to the countles having over 100,000 inhabitants, and repealing ajl other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, 187, by Munger, to define 52, 1,941, 977 of the Consoli: House roll No. the duties of certain of the faculty of the university. House Toll No. 188, by Sutton of Douglas, to amend sections 3,756 and 3,757 in chapter xlly_of the Consolidated Statutes of Ne- braska, 1893, and to repeal sald sections as now existing. House roll No. 189, by Harte, providing that no person shall render or manufacture out of any animal fat any article in imito. tion or semblance of natural butter or chees roll No. 190, by Allen, House to_amend 5 XXVl of the Compiled “Revenue,” 2 a8 heretofore cx- tion 2 of chapter | atutes” of Nebraska, entitled nd to repeal said section isting. House roll No, 101, by Ricketts, to amend section 2,02 of chapter xxiil, nsolidated “Tn- House roll No. 192, by Crow, to amend sec- tion 3,03 of chaptér xxxix of the . dated Statutes of Nebraska of 1801, sald chapter being entitled “Officers,” and shid section entitied *“Bailifrs.” House roll No. 193, by Pohlman, to provide for the wants of the poor. House roll No. 194, by’ Allan, to protect the public against Young ‘and incompstent telegraph operators employed on railroac House roll No. 19, by Cole, authorizing county boarcs to transfer any specific funds of the county except the school fund to the general fund for relief purposes only, House roll No. 196, by Davies, a_joint reso- lution to submit to the electors of the state of Nebraska for their approval or rejection an amendment to the constitution of the State providing for the investment of the permanent educational fund of this state, House roll No. 197, by McNitt, to repeal sections 6,017, 5,018, 5,019 and 5,467, 5,408 and of the’ Consolidated Statutes of Ne- ska. House roll No. 198, by Smith, making it the duty of owners of land to destroy certain noxious weed: Edmiston Appoluted Oil Inspector, LINCOLN, an. 1L—(Speclal Telegram,)— Governor Holcomb today appointed J., H, Edmiston, recent chairman of the independ- ent state central committes, chlef oil in- £pector, vice L. F. Hilton of Blalr, removed. The appointment is to take effect February 1. R R What star shines so bright as about Dr. Price’s Baking fame Is fairly won, e r— BESSEMER ORE MEN COMBINE, Will Market All Their Product Through Oue Firm and Put Up Prices. DULUTH, Jan. 11.—The details of what is to be one of the biggest combinations in raw materials in the United States are now under consideration. The probabilities are that within a few weeks the combination will be effected so there shall be no com- petition and so that a reasonably good price shall be obtained for three-quarters of the Bessemer fron ore mined in this country. There will be but three companfes in the deal. These are the Minnesota Iron -com. pany, with an expected output this year of 1,000,000 tons; the Norrie, which will put out this year nearly 1,000,000 tons, and the Colby, which has been put into such shape that it can cone well up toward the capacity of the Norrie. These three companies wiil mine fully three-quarters of the Bessemer output of the country. The expectation fs that the sale of the ores of these companies will be made chiefly by one firm of Cleye. land brokers and the idea s to put the price for next season's delivery at about $3.50 per ton instead of $2.50 to $2.90, the pre- vulling prices of (he past season. There is sald to be no question that these producers havo a grip on the Bessemer market and while the Rockefeller interests in the Mesaba and the Pewabic, Lake Superior, Lake Angeline and Cleveland mines of the lower ranges would undoubtedly like to join in the deal, they are not liable to be invited. —— Dockers on Strike ut Buenos Ayres. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 11.—The seamen and dock laborers who are out on strike are growing turbuleat. Acts of violence have the lustre Powder. Its the members of the legislature | boen reported. WOULD NOT RELEASE HAWAIL Dole's Little Deal with England May Be Quietly Knocked Ont. CABLE MUST NOT HAVE FOREIGN CONTROL Republicans of the House Insist that the Istands Do Held to the Treaty and that the United States Should Lay the Wires. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The recommend- ation by President Cleveland that the United States give its consent to the construction of |a cable to Hawaii by Great Britain does not find favor among the republicans of the house. Representative Hitt of Illinols, who is recognized as the republican leader in the house on foreigh affairs, said today that he fully agreed with the president that the Hawatian Islands should have the benefits of telegraphic communication with the world at | 1arge, but was strongly opposed to putting | thefr cable facilities under control of any government but the United States. In the Fifty-first congress Mr. Hitt offered an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill providing for a survey of a feasible route for a cable between Hawail and San Francisco, and for the preliminary steps toward the organization of a company. On the grounds of economy the proposition was defeated by a small majority, the at- tendance being lmited. Mr. Hitt is still in_favor of a subsidy for a Hawalian cable. “The United States,” he says,*‘controls most of the commerce with the islands and chould control any cable company that s to be under government domination. With a British cable this gov- ernment would be under great disadvantages in caso of war or grave international difi- culties. Doubtless Americans would be free to use the cable for commercial purposes, but it is doubtful whether we would be per- mitted to send messages in cipher and no treaty arrangements would be practicable by which this government would have the privi- lege of communication for naval purposes in time of war or other troubles, “Great Britain maintains a cable between Bermuda and Nova Scotia, which does not begin to pay for its maintenance,” he sald, by way of illustration. “Bermuda is a great strategical point, with a powerful fortress, Americans can order onfons by that.cable, but Secretary Herbert could not request one of our ships to put dynamite on a British vessel and blow her up In the event that such a proceeding was deemed advisable, This was of course sald to illustrate his point. Had there been cable communication with the United States the complications in Hawaii of the past two years would have been greatly simplified and partly averted, Mr. Hitt says. He declares it to be a doubtful form of economy to expend $25,000,- 000 annually for the maintenance of a navy and neglect a comparatively small expend- iture for the control of vessels, by which they could be effectively handled and kept under working orders by the home govern- ment. SENATOR V AL BILL. Provides for Scveral Schemes Talked of in Democratic Caucuses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Senator introduced his financial bill in the senate this afternoon. The bill provides that all treasury notes and gold and silver certificates shall be destroyed and an equal amount of notes, payable in etandard gold and silver coins, shall bo issued and paid out instead of the notes. No coin notes of a larger de- nomination than $500 nor smaller than $10 shall be issued, and the denominations larger than $60 shall not exceed one-fourth of the total amount of the coin notes. outstanding at the time. ‘The coin notes are to be legal tender for all debts. The ‘'second scction repeals all laws which authorize the owners of gold or. silver bullion to deposit and receive gold or silyer certl- ficates, and the secretary of the treasury is directed to recelve no more coin or builion in_the future. Section 3 provides that the gold certificates now outstanding are to be paid in gold coin and the silver certificates in standard silyer coin or coln notes. If the gold in the treasury amounts to less than $100,000,000, exclusive of that necessary to redeem gold certificates, they are to be redecmed In silver coin; If more than $100,000,000 the secretary of the treasury, in the exercise of his dis- cretion, may redeem in either gold or silyer coin. Section 4 makes It unlawful for any na- tional bank to issue bank notes, and all acts authorizing all such issues are repealed. It Is made the duty of the sccretary, within twelvo months, to sell the United States bonds deposited in tho treasury by national banks to secure circulation in the case of national banks retiring their circulation or £oing out of business, and after redeeming coln notes hereby authorized, the outstand- ing notes or currency as provided by the national bank act, the surplus Is to bs also paid in the coin notes to the banks owning the bonds in the amounts respectively due them, Section 6 requires the secretary of the treasury to have coined as fast as possible the silver bullion held in the treasury pur- chased under the Sherman act of 1890, in- cluding the gain or scigniorage, and ' this coin i to be used in the payment of public expenditures and for the redemption of the coin notes authorized by this act. Section 6 provides that. when the revenues of the government are not sufficient to meet its current expenses, the secretary of the treasury shall issue a sufficient amount of coin notes to cover this deficiency, and all laws *authorizing the future issue of interest bearing bonds of the United Statos are repealed except as otherwise provided. The section also provides that if the gold in the (reasury at the time the act shall take effect, does not amount to $100,000,000, ex- clusive of that held to redeem gold certifl- cates, the secretary s authorized to sell United States bonds at not less than par, gold bearing, not to exceed 3 per cent Inter- est, redeemable after five years, but no greater amount of such bonds are to be sold than may bo necessary to procure for the treasury “the full amount of $100,000,000 in Bold. Section 7 provides that silver bullion brought to any mint of the United States for colnage shall” be received and colned into standard dollars of 412% grains; but no de- posit of silver bullion of less value than $100 shall bo received, nor shall any bullion be received that Is 8o base as to Be unsuited for the operations of the mint. The director of the mint is to retain as seigniorage and to cover Into the treasury the difference between the New York price and the coined price of the bullion, and this is to be paid out by the secre- tary of the treasury in the current expendi- tures of the government. Vest DISCUSSING THE PROSPECTS. House Banking nd Currency Committee Meots Today. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—At today's meet- ing of the National Dairy union short ad- dresses were made by Representatives Hatch of Missourl and Grout of Vermont, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Dabney and others It was declared that manufactured imita- tions of butter, oleomargarine, was a fraud upon the people and that it severely Inter- fered with the European markets for the genuine article, because it came into compe- tition with it ‘and because many European dealers, ‘having been repeatedly imposed upon, had declined to handle elther the genuine or the spurious article, as all American butter had been thrown under suspicion. This. it was asserted, was equally true of filled cheese, which had helped to destroy European markets even for the best full cream cheese. A resolution was adopted petitioning congress to place “filled cheese” under the internal revenue laws, to tax it 2 cents per pound and to require that dealers in filed cheesa be licsnsed the same as the dealers in oleo- margarine. idential Nominatious. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—-The president today sent to the senate the following nom- inations: Postmasters—Horac: Bullock, Colo.; David O. Stone, H Thomas F. Banaher, Forest City, la.; Alex ander Charles, Cedar Rapids, "I} " Ella Kempe, Montevideo, Minn. War—First Lieutenant Enoch H. Crowder, own, en, la.; Ighth ca fo be major and judge ad vocate; Lieutenant Colonel Willlam ~ Win- throp, ‘deputy. Juige adyocate general, to be colonel and MAsidant judge advocats gen- eral; Major Edward Hunter, judge advocate, to be deputy. Judge advocate general, with rank of lleutihant colonel. President Cliveland has' declded to send in the nominabloti’of Captatn W. A. Tibballs of Rock Island Ws steamboat inspector for the Fifth distrioty which includes the upper Ippi river s The nomination of Cap- Tibballs was strongly urged by Hon. Ben Cable, B — PREPARING ANTI-TOXINE. Consular Report on the Methods Employed ' Germany. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The United States consul 'kt Frankfort has submitted to the Departmerit of State a most Interesting Teport on anti-toxine, the new curative for and preventive of diphtheria. He explained that he is impelled to do this because the subject is about to engage the attention of congress, because of the large number of Inquiries for detailed information concerning anti-toxine and becanse at Frankfort is the only establishment where it has been pro- duced commercially in quantitics adequate to meet the rapld increase n demand. He sug- gests the early publication of the report, Mr. Mason gives a clear and detailed de- scription of every step In the process of pro- duction of the new remedy, prefaced by an accurate sketch of its discovery and devolop- ments. The factory at Frankfort to which he re- fers 18 that at the “Farborerke” at Hoechst- on-the-Main. Sheep and goats, at first em- ployed to produce thes erum, were discarded because their tissues were affected by the various foods they consumed, and recourse was had to horses, The establishment now utilizes the blood of seventy-fiva horses and has a trained corps of more than fitty men employed in this one work, producing at present about 1,000 doses per day, and by tho end of this month it wilt supply the de- mand. It is absolutely requisite that the horses be young, vigorous and physically per- feet, and no racing stud was ever better housed, exercised, fed and cared for, The anti-toxine improves with age, at least during the first two months, and the German physcians no longer use it fresh, when It is apt to cause a skin eruption. An early application, however, is of the utmost Importance. In seventy-two cases of chil- dren treated within two days of the first ap: pearance of diphtheria but two cases were fatal, and the death rate in such cases is placed at 4 per cent. In Germany, where the fatal cases used to average 60 per cent and not less than 50,000 lives were annually sacrificed to the diphtheria scourge, the mor- tality has been reduced to less than one- fourth, and it will be still further reduced when tho country physicians use it freely. A serious epidemic of diphtheria at Triests has been practically mastered by anti-toxine, INDICATIONS AGAINST TARIFE, Interesting Meeting of the Ways and Means Committee ot the House. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—The ways and means committee of the house met today for the first time In many weeks. It was expected that the meeting might bring im- portant developments in view of the govern- ment’s mneed of increased revenue. No positive conclusions were reached, however, beyond the reference of several questions to subcommittees and a favorable report on the bill exempting from duties exhibits at_Baltimore exposition in 189 The action of thei committee, though, was looked wupon as womething &ignificant in indicating that'no thriff legislation would be pushed at this session. Mr. Wilson stated informally during::the meeting that the revenues of the government had shown a promising increase since the woolen schednle went into effect onm, January 1, last. Mr, Reed suggested that this increase was probably of a temporary character, natural to a change when first put into effect. Mr. Whiting urgedi/that. it would be continuous and would develop; a healthy increase in government reyenues. A resolution,of s Mr. Pence of Colorado, asking the ‘secretany of: the treasury to in- form congress-as to the advisability of in- creasing the -beer..tax was voted down without division,aud.an unfavorable report Will be made ip accordance with a sugges- tion made by ‘Mr. Tarsney that the re- quested information was fully covered by the annual reports of the secretary of the treasury and the commissioner of the in- ternal revenues. The bill of Mr. Honey of Mississippl for Increasing the beer tax was referred to the subcommfttee on Internal revenue. Mr, Wilson's bill to take off the one-tenth differential on sugar was also referred to a subcommittee, Mr. Whiting requested the correction of the error in the tariff law as to hemp carpets. Mr. .Reed objected with a sarcastic statement that the law was all errors, The proposed correction was referred to a subcommittee. The bill exempting from duties forelgn exhibits at the exposition at Baltimore in 1897 was agreed to. S ELECTRICITY IN CARRIAGES, Earopeans Use it to Illuminate Their Private Conveyancy ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—As common as is the use of electric light in the United States, Amerlcans have as yet neglected to avail themselves of one application which has been extensively employed in Europe, and especlally in France, namely, its use for the illumination of carriages, street cars and other public conveyances. An interesting report on this subject has been submitted to the Department of State by United States Consul Chancellor at Havre. He shows that within the last five years electrically lighted private carriages bave been exten- sively used by the afuent classes in Europe. The prince of Wales was the first to adopf the idea in London, and the German emperor bas had the court carriages lit by electricity, not orfly to outside lanterns, but also the in- terior being illuminated by means of a series of accumulators carried under the boot, and all over the harness are placed what the Germaus call glulampe, colored lights, which glow like fire flies and conquer the thickest fogs. The accumulator for a carriage fs carried In a box only elght inches long by seven high and four wide. It furnishes a good 7% candle power for from one to two months. It costs from 50 cents to $1 to re- new the charges, less than the cost of smoky, unreliable and ill-smelling ofl lamps. The consul says that in a few years all public conveyances will be thus lighted, as a 50-cent plant 15 sufficient for each, He gives de- talled descriptions of the various appur- tenances necessary. DAIRYMEN IN CON TION, Discuss the Effects of Bogus Butter on the denulne Article. % WASHINGTON,' * Jan. 11,—Chairman Springer has called a meeting of the demo- cratic members of the committee on banking and currency for! tothorrow to consider the currency legislatign. 5 Mr. Springer says no epecial line of action will be suggested to the meeting, as it will be for an exchange of views, rather than to agree on a course. The substitute currency bill is in the hands of Mr. Carlisle, reciving such changes as may overcome objections. Outside of the mem- bership of the cummittece, little or no at- tention is given to the currency question, as members considen It losed for this sesslon. The feeling is almost unanimous among the democrats that an éxtra session will be cer- tain to be called,, Mr. Springer has taken occasion to suggest 40 Representative Dingley and several other .republicans that if they attempt to handle the currency question in the next congresd they will meet the same embarrassments the Carlisle bill has ex- perlenced, in that there will be fifteen silver senators, according to Mr. Springer's vie who will be able to block legislation in a re- publican congress. The ening session was given up to the election of officers ARd the adaoption of re lutions, The most important of these c on congr to establish a dairy bure Chicago was selected as the place for next“annual meeting, which will be January 21, 1596, Ex-Governor Hoard chosen president for the Wilson of I and C. 8. Martin of New u. the held of Wisconsin was ext year. Sld W, elected secretar York, treasurer. Vecelpis BLill Too Small. WASHINGTON, Jan. 1L.—A treasury statement lssued today shows that the ex- penditures o far this month exceed the re- eipts by $6.211743, which makes the ciency for the flscal year to date §53 The total receipts since June 30 a W0, and the disbursements 320, MERCURY FLIRTS WITH ZERO Severe Oold Wavo Sweeps Down from the Northwest Country, PROMISE OF BETTER WEATHER TOMORROW Fitful Freaks of the Weather Clerk Recalls the Blizzard of Seven Years Ago, Which Passed Over this Section, Leaving Death in Its Wake, Fur overcoats and hot drinks will be In demand for the next few days it weather in- dieations count for anything. A cold wave of more than usual proportions is now sweep- ing down the Missourl valley, bringing pros- pects of booms for the coal dealers and ine creased suffering for the poor and destitute, who are 1ll prepared for the visitation, The first effects of the change were apparent carly this morning, and the thermometer at the government station registered a fall of. elghteen dogrees between 7 o'clock and noom. At the latter hour it was 8 degrees below gero and still tending downward. During the latter part of the day busi- ness reached a standstill and all last even- ing the streets were deserted, people remain- ing at thefr homes. The wind blew cutting blasts, and although there was no snow upon the ground, the air was filled with small particles of frost, which almost penetrated tho skin as they were hurled through the alr. At no time was the mercury lidle, though it seemed to have a tendency to go In but one direction, and that was down Into the tube. Followlng this course, at 7 o'clock last night it had reached a point 11 degrees below zero, but it did not halt there. Keep- ing right on, at midnight it reached 15 de- grees below, where it tarried in a breathing spell of a féw hours, Observer Welsh of the United States weather bureau said last night, when he made his last observation, that in his opinion the back of the cold wave was broken. He remarked that there would be a change this afternoon, and that beginning tonight the severe spell of cold weather would be fol- lowed by a warmer wavi Late last night Mr. Welsh recelved his re- port from northwestern states, which showed the fololwing: Sioux City, 10; Valentine, 4; Huron, 14; St. Paul, 10; Morchead, 16, and Bismarck 18 degrees below. At Rapld’ City it was 6; North Platte, 12; Choyenne, 42, and Baker City 43 degrees above wero. The wind was ‘reported as having a velocity of from elght to fitty miles per hour throughout the northwest, g Yesterday afternoon the wind at this point attainod a’ velocity of twenty-six miles per hour, RECOLLECTION OF 1888, The coming of the freezing blasts marks the anniversary of the great blizzard which oc- curred just seven years ago today. Then the wires were burdened with tales of death and suffering, of awful danger and heroic sacrifice. Little children, worn out with the struggling against the driving storm, laid down on the prairie and were shrouded by the mantling snow. Many of the teachers sacrificed themselves in heroic efforts to save their charges and earned the cternal gratitude of the people by their devotion, Some of these instances are recalled by the anniversary of the day. One of the sufferers was Lena Woebecke, a young girl of Seward county, who tried to lead her lit- tle brother from 'school through the storm. They lost their way and found themselyes freezing on the open prairie. Growing drowsy with the cold they lay down in the snow, and the girl bravely held her brother under her so that her body might shield him from the cold. He was saved, but his heroic sister was teribly frozen and only recovered after_one of her legs had been amputated. The Bee raised a purse of nearly $3,000 for her and she was sent to college. Last summer her guardian purchased for her one of the best farms in Seward county with the balance of the fund, and sho still lives there with her paronts. Bverybody remembers the story of Miss Myra Freeman, now Mrs. B. B. Pelnney of Lexington, Neb,, who at that time taught the Myra Valley school in the central part of the state. She was sufficiently familiar Wwith blizzards to realize the difficulty of the task of gulding her children eafely home across the prairie and tied them firmly to- gether With a rope. After a terrible experi- ence they reached shelter and owe their sal- vation to the presence off mind of the young &Irl who was their only protector. Miss Loie Royce of Plerce county was an- Jther young school mistress who suffered in a noblo effort to save her pupils. She lost both legs in the struggle and was afterwards sent to collego with a fund raised for that purpose by The Bee, Miss Ella Shattuck of Seward county was terribly frozen in the journey from her school to her boarding place. The Bee ralsed over $3,000 for her, but she died from her injurles on the day the money reached her. Among the fatalities were the deaths of two children who lived near North Bend, in Dodge county. They were frozen to death and thelr graves are marked by handsome monuments which were provided by funds raised by The Bee and the North Bend Flail. In this city one man, a cigar maker, per- fshed at Twenty-sixth and Leavenworth streets. He was on his way to his home in the western part of the city. That was before the days of electric cars and monster snow plows. The old horse cars had suc- cumbed to the blizzard and this man thought that he could reach his home by going on foot. At the above mentioned corner his strength failed and in an exhausted condition o fell into a snow drift, where he was found on the following day. A sleighing party of Omaha people went to Council Bluffs carly in the morning and the blizzard caught them on their return. Anxlous friends bemoaned their fate for sev- eral hours, but during the night all of the parties returned in safety. WEATHER FORECAST, Fair and Warmer In Northwestern Nebr: Today. WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—The forecast for Saturday fs: For Nebraska—Fair; warmer in the north. western portion; variable winds. For Missouri—Fair; colder; winds, For ' Towa and northerly winds, Tor South Dakota—Fair, except in the extreme southeast portion;’ winds becoming easterly, northerly Kansas—Fair; colder; Local Record. OFFICE OF THE WEATHER BUREAU, OMAHA, Jan. 11.—Omaha record of temper’ ature and rainfall, compared with the cor- responding day of the past four years: 1895, 1894, 18¢ 15 82 -10 21 Maximum temperature, Minimum_ temperature o 2 Average temperature. 2 2 Precipitation 00 .00 .03 .06 Condition of temperaturé and precipitation at Omaha for the day and since March 1, 1894: Normal temperature. v L) Deficiency for the day. 935 saiad Normal precipitation 02 inch Deficiency for the day ...... Loee 02 I0Ch Total precipitation since March 116.0/ inches Deficlency since March 1........... 15.90 inches Koports from Other Stations at 8 £, M, 0324 sTATIONS. BTATE O WEATHER, w d gre eamesadwma, £ep o same | ~eaway, xex - ‘uopeNdy Omana. North Biati Valentine, 200 Cloudy. .7 Cloudy., 00| Clear. ‘04|Cloudy. 00/ Clear. 00 cloudy. 02| Cloudy. 00| Clear. ol Davenport . Kansas City . Denver, s 00| Clear 200/ Cloudy. 00|Cloudy. 100/ Clear. ‘00| Clear. 00|Clear ‘00| Clondy 00!Clear. * Helow zero. "' Indlcates trace of precipitation. L. A, WELSH, Observer, SEVERE IN 10WA, Fall of Nearly Fifty Degrees n Twenty- Four Hours at Cedar Rupids. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Jan. 11.—(Special Telegram.)—The worst blizzard of the season struck here this morning and it has been growing colder since, the thermometers agw registering 10 below, with prospects of 20 bolow by morning. A high northwest wind Is blowing, but little snow is falling. There has been a change of nearly 50 degrees in the last twenty-four hours. Advices from points on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern road show the blizzard is general, At Rsther ville it is cloudy and 22 below, Bllsworth it I8 16, Sioux Falls 14 below, and at Water- town 18 below. In the southern part of the state it is from 6 to § below, OLD §NA NERAL, Extreme Low Temperature Thronghout the Western Country KANSAS CITY, Jan. 11.—Since noon today at midnight it registered 7 below zero, A further fall of 8 degrees Saturday morning is predicted. The cold snap, which fs the se- verest of the season, s gencral this section and is booked Sunday. GALESBURG, 11i., Jan, 11.—A cold of great severity is prevailing here, temperature las already gono down to 15 grees below zero and is sinking rapidly with a_heavy gale from the northwest. Thero s prospects of much suffering DAVENPORT, Ia., Jan, 11.—A terrific bliz- zard struck Davenport today, the tempera ture falling 30 degrees in a few hours DES MOINES, Jan. 11.—The blizzard which has been raging over Towa has not abated The thermometer at 9 o'clock tonight regis- tered 15 degrees below zero, and it is thought it will reach 20 degrees before morning, The storm came so suddenly that these is much suffering, and especially in the country, where the stock was all out of doors, feedtng in stalk fields. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 11.—A eold wave struck this section this afternoon and at midnight the thermometer registered about zero, a fall of thirty-four degrees since noon. Accord- Ing to reports from the weather bureau, the mercury will fall still lower before Saturday morning. A strong west wind is blowing. ———en Will women rule fn the next century? They rule now where Dr. Price’s Baking Pow- der is used. —— 10WA HOMESTEAD'S TROUBLE, throughout to continue until wave Th Plerce-Wallace Publishing of Towa Appenls to the Courts. DES MOINES, Jan. 1L—(8pecial Tele- sram.)—Temporary infunction was this aft- crnoon granted against James M. Pierce of the Plerce-Wallace Publishing company, proprietors of the Towa. Homestead, Wiscon- sin Farmer and Kansas City Live Stock Tn- dicator, restraining him from paying any funds or woney belonging to said Plere Wallace Publishing compuny, except upon proper orders or vouchers drawn by Henry Wallace, treasurer of id company, and also restraining said Plerce from making any fer, disposition or pledge of any ets of said_company, includ- ing any corporate stoc by the com pany or in hich it was ted in other corporation: and rest Pierce from entering into any cont atever affect- Ing the property rights of the company, ex- cept as ordered by the directors thereof, I'he appli lon was made by Henry Wal- lace and the hearing is set for tomorrow. This will probably lead to a complete settl: ment of the troubles of the company by the courts. Company No Passes to Bo Issued. DES MOINES, Jan. 11.—(Special Tele- gram.)—The State Agricultural society today decided to cut off all passes to the falr, cept badges to newspaper men, whom the decided did epough work for the fair to er title them to that much recognition. No complimentary tickets of any kind will t printed, and it will be a gheer waste of time for any one to apply for any. No ent will be charged exhibitors, but per ing entries must buy an’ exhibitors' ticket good for five admissions, for which $2 will be charged. The board asks the people of Des Moines to raise §10,000 to help pay oft the indebtedness of the fair and make this vear's exposition a success. Recolver for the Fidelity Compnny. NEW YORK, Jan, Il.—Default having been made in the payment of certain obli- gations of the Fidelity Loan and Trust com- pany of Sloux City, Ia., falling due Jan- uary 1, Otto T. Bannard, president of the Continéntal Trust compiany, Thomas T, Barr, president of the Nassau bank, Brook- lyn, and Benjamin Graham of Cuyler, Mor- gan & Co., “have been appointed by the creditors and stockholders of the company to act as a committee to protect their rights, Ralroad Commissioners Meet. DES MOINES, Jan, 1L.—(Special Tele- gram.)—Rallway Commissioners Luke and Dey arrived in the clty today and the board will proceed to consider its decision respect- ing “the request of the railway com- panies for an increase in rates, No intimation was given out as to what the decision will be, and it cannot be learned whether the decigion will be made before Colonel Dey retires from the board on Monday next, though it has all along been expected that such would be the case, Firn Loss at Stato Center. CEDAR RAPIDS, Ia, Jan, 11L.—(Special Telegram.)—News reached here of a de- structive fire which broke out at State Cen- ter this afternoon, destroying twelve build- ing in the business part of the town before it ‘was gotten under control. The loss is $30,000; partially insured. WESTERN PENSIONS, Veterans of the Late War Remembered by the General Government, WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—(Special.)~Pen- slons granted, Issue of December 27, were: Towa: Original—Abram W. Covalt, Coun- cil Bluffs, Pottawattamie; Edwin P. Curtis, Thurman, Fremont. Incrense—James R. Haviland, Ringgold; John Montgomery, South English, Keokuk. South Dakota: Original widows, ete.— Minors of Willlam O."White, Bee Helghts, d. Colorado: Original—William Hoag, Aspen, Pitkin, Relssue—Edgar T. Booher, Howar Fremont. Montana: Relssue—Abernethy Grover, de- ceased, Miies City, Center. Found Dend in His Claim Shanty. CHAMBERLAIN, 8. D., Jan. 11.—(Special Telegram.)—Carl Hetland, a settler, has been found dead in his claim shanty thirty- five miles west of here. He was last seen alive Christmas evening. The cause of death s unknown. Hetland is supposed to have come here from northern Nebraska., Like a Miracle Pains in Side and Breast Despaired of Help, but Hood's Sarsaparilla Cured. “C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass.: “1am glad to state my son's experience with To0d's Sarsaparilla, as it was the means of say ing his life. Last fall he was taken {1l with pains in lils breast and side. He had the best medical attendance possible, and was treated by the doctors for some time, but did not realize any reliet, He could not lay down day or night, and Hood's*#*Cures our hopes were fast falling. My aged moth advised a trial of Hood's Sarsaparilla. He com menced taking the medicine, and to our Creat Astonishment, ono bottle cured him of bis palns aud restoreq bim to porfect health. This case has been looke. upon by mauy in this viclnity as nothing short of amiracle.” H.H. WALLS, Oswego, Kansas the thermometer has fallen 85 degrees, and | THREE FIRES LAST NIGHT, One Down Town Proves Serlous and the Othor Two Silght, Threo fire alarms wore turned in last night between 10:45 and 12 o'clock. The first was | at Sixteenth and Douglas streets. The Bushman block caught fire in the basement ander the room occupied by Mike Minardo As a fruit store. The firemen soon had (he fire under control, most of the damage belng caused by water.' Several people sleeping in the second story were so badly frightened that they did not stop to dress, but grabbed | up_their clothes and took them to a neigh- boring store, where they comploted their ollet. The fire was caused, 1t Is thought, by an_electric light wire in the basoment. The damage to the building amounts to about $500. The fruit store s a total loss, the value of the stock being about $250. M. Leslie, who occuples the store room on the corner as a drug store, sustained the heaviest loss, being estimated by him to ba | $10.000 on the stock. Many of the bottles were brokep and the cohients were total losses. The total estimated loss is $11,000, (fully covered by nsurance During the progress of this alarm was turned in from Sixteenth and ere a two-story frame was partially Tho first floor was occupied as a flour and feed store, The loss on the bullding and stock will reach about $500. In golng to this fire the chlef's wagon broke down and the driver and the chlet were thrown out. Driver Risby was somes what bruised, but the chief cscaped without any damage. Tho third alarm was turned in o'clock from Thirteenth and Harney, originated at 320 South street a second-hand store, but by good work it was kept from spreading. The furhiture stock, owned by J. Lewls, was damaged to the extont of $150, amd the shoe stock next door, owned by J. Stover, was damaged $50. The 1oss on the building was about $60. The firemen had a great many difficultios to overcome at all three of the fires. The hose burst and froze up and the intense cold froze their clothes solld whenever water struck them, and made it very aifficult for them to move around. Hose cart No. 8 wa ditched on North Sixteenth etreet on the account of two broken tires, fire another at 11 The fire Thirteenth in furniture Two Has! HASTINGS, Jan, al Telegram.) —Nelson Briley's house and its contents were burned this morning. A small insurance was on_the same, The kitchen of the Standard rostaurant was gutted by fire this morning. ' It was partly covered by insurance, 2! S N ONE ENjJOVS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the 8y8- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. 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