Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 14, 1895, Page 4

i OMAMA_ DALY Brs TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, Daily Des (Without Sunday), One Yes Dally Hee and Sunday, One Year.. Bix Months h Three Months . sirever Bunday Dee, One Year ... Baturday Bee, Ons Year.. Weekly Dee, One Yo ) OFFIC Dmalia, The Bies Bullding. Bouth Omaba, Singer DIk, Cor. N and 2ith Sts Council Blufms, 12 Pearl Street Chicago Office, 317 Chamber o ow vork, Rooms 1 ashington, 1407 F 5 CORRESPONDENC All communications relating to news and_ edi- torfal matter #hould be addressed: To the Bditor. NUSINESS LETTERS. ANl business lettors and remittances should be @Mresscd to The Bee Publishing company, Omaha, Dratts, checks and postoflice orders 1o made_pn: 10 the order of the company. T BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. mmerce. Tribune Bldg. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1. Tzschuck, secretary of The Dee Pub. Hishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actunl number of full and complete coples of the Dally Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 184, was s follows: o 21,960 | 22 20,560 21,357 2,255 20525 LT Less deductions coples Total sold.. v Daily average net cire « Bworn to before me and subscribed ence this 31 day of Decem (Senl.) tory have only brought additional haze over the tragedy. It Is not the quantity but the quality of the bills fathered by members of the legislature that count of the Nebraska ation ever do s didn’t want Did the members State Board of Tran anything that the railre them to do? Comparisons between the Towa Rail- rond commission and the Nebraska State Board of Transportation are just now particularly odorous. This is not a rticularly good time for raising the salaries of public offi- cers, whether employed under the Board of Health or not. Even if a currency bill should pas the house the chances of its running the gauntlet of the senate at this s sion are not regarded as worth taking into consideration. We have not yet had an expression from Mosher giving his view of the South Dakota defalcation. He might be _able to furnish expert opinion on this very important matte About nine out of ten of the bills in- troduced into the legislature are doomed to die a natural death in the house in which they first see light. Why not es- tablish o legislative crematory. With the adjournment of the federal grand jury its foreman, the Hon. S. 8. Alley, will be once more consigned to the more menial work of pulling rail- road chestnuts out of the legislative fire. ‘Some of our Nebraska solons want to take up the question of imitation butter and imitation cheese. ¥rom the sub- Ject of imitation statesmen, however, they are very much inclined to steer clear. The democratic members of congress still hope to get together on the question of money. They will certainly be to- gether on that question after March 4, when (heir salaries as public officers cease to be available. Every Tammany police captain, de-] tective and roundsman who has either been convicted or is under indictment for extortion and bribery denied under oath that he ever recelved money to which he was not entitled. ‘Why should not the South Omaha gamblers’ ring do as well by one another? [ beneficiaries of | Which these papers have placed upon CHICAGO PAPERS AND FAST MATLS. The vigorous protest made in the house of representatives by Congres man Perkins of Towa on behalf of the publishers of the Missour! valley agalnst the costly diversion of postal facilities for the special benefit of Chicago dailies has raised quite a breeze in the vielnity Michigan. There is a perfect 18 of disclaimers, paternal warnings and preposterous protestations from the | the fast mail incubus the tofice department under high- sounding pretenses of Chicago newspa- | ¢ per enterprise. The Chicago has the assurance to assert that Con- |1 gressman Perkins of Sioux City and the editor of The Omaha Bee are fighting against their own Interest when they try to stop the march of enlightenment and progress by delaying the delivery of the Tribune on the bhar of the Mis- sourl by 2 o'clock every afternoon. The | cago papers at government expense | ¢ when the treasury is bankrupt and the | ¢ postal expenditures 5,000,000 a low the receipts is a most striking bition of protectionism. “W1 ox- aims the Post man in shrill voice, “shouldn’t the infant industry of news- paper making in Omaha and Sioux City be protected against the pauper writers of the Chicago press? Why should not the Chicago papers be compelled to re- main in their own territor Here is free trade logle, tndeed! The Chicago paper that goes into hysteries over bounties and tariff taxation un- blushingly asks that (he government pay a bounty to expedite the Chieago papers 500 miles dis cial train. The Inter Ocean reminds Mr. Perkins that its publishers have during the past year shipped over 6,000,000 pounds of print paper by mail, and any rail- road manager, says the I. O. man, “would make a considerable effort to se- cure 6,000,000 pounds of first cl freight.” This Is an argument as is an argument! Suppose the railrond mana- ger was sure of carrying every pound of this freight on his regular trains, would hie ¢ it by lightning train a distance of 500 miles just for the pleasure of ne- commodating the shippe Now, what are the facts about this fast When the first fast was established more than ten ye ago it was done under the pretext of pediting mereantile intercous tween the great cities. The march of enlightenment by rapid newspaper tran- sit was a matter of secondary considera- tion. The newspapers of New York and Boston and the Chicago dailies char- tered special newspaper trains for their Sunday editions, for presidential inaugu- ral days and on other oceasions that warranted such enterprise. These {rains were chartered at their own expense, however, and their enterprise was not saddled upon. the taxpaye of the na- tion. Today eight fast mail trains run out of Chicago every morning at an hour when no business man can possibly make use of them for correspondence and in the face of the fact that mail trains go out of Chicago between 10 and 12 p. m. in every direction and are ample for all commercial intercourse ex- cept the newspapers. At a moderate estimate the cost of these special trains, if patd for by the publishers, would excced $1,000,000 a year. Should this expense be taxed against the people under any pretext? If Chitago is entitled to this special favor why are not St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver and Omaha en- titled to fast mail trains? Why do these fast mails run from Chicago to the Mis- souri river and why do none run from the Missouri river eastward? Why is there not a single fast mail train run- ning from Omaha, Kansas City or Sioux City westward for the enlightenment of the people? Why should the march of progress stop at the Missourl river? Why should ‘not the facilities for reach- ing Illinois with papers that go out of Omaha, Kansas City or St. Paul and Minneapolis be as good as those that are mailed out of Chicago? The vaunted enterprise dailies is very cheap. The Bee ran a fast xhi- of Chicago Robbery seems to be a very flourishing business all around us, from the holding up of an express train to the wrecking of banks and the looting of public treas- uries. But it is not the kind of business that the people are anxlous to encour- age. A few instances of well-deserved punishment might prove valuable as a deterrent, newspaper train to Grand Island with its Sunday edition several years at a cost of § a trip, and it paid $16 a day for years for a special train to connect with the Burlington fast mail at Oreapolis, and it has paid as high as $3,600 a month for a fast mail train between Omaha and Lincoln, The Bee can hold its own in its own field against all competition, but It The fate of the South Dakota school fund ought to admonish the Nebraska legislature to Institute a careful Inquiry Into the condition of the school fund in this state and to provide the additional legislation that may be needed to pre- serve It ns the constitution directs as a perpetual heritage for the benefit of the Behool children of Nebraska. The Board of Health is starting out altogether too cautiously, It is ask- ing for only §14,000 to run the depart- ment during the coming year, although it Is possible under the charter to make a 1 mill levy yielding nearly $20,000 for sanitary purposes. It must have been difficult for the board to ref from asking for the whole $20,000, Senator Brice is watehing his chances to report the Pacific railroad funding bill, for which he has been chosen as chief pusher in the United States senate, Inasmuch as Mr. Brice is also employ by the reorganization syndicate the eter- nal fitness of things in selecting him as chalrman of the Pacific railroad commit- tee is discernible even to the uninitiated, — The biggest claims for legislative sup- plies bought without authority of law by ex-Secretary Allen are yet to be filed with the legislature, It looks very much as It the claimants would pursue the same policy that was adopted by the dealers In legislative supplies four and two years ago. They will hold back their bills until the last moment and then try to railvoad them through. The proper thing for the legislature to do is to serve uotice on all these claimants to present theiv bills within ten days to the State auditor and let him check up and pass upon their merits, should not be compelled to compete with rivals that enjoy speclal and exclusive privileges which are not accorded to it. What it objects to and what it has a right to remonstrate against Is that un- der the wretched mail facilities placed at its disposal a Chicago morning daily of this date goes up the Elkhorn valley and into South Dakota side by side with Omaha dailies of the same date. That certainly shows rank diserimination on the part of the postoffice authorities which congress should remedy, AN 70 OIL INSPECTION. The appointment of a state oil Inspec- tor in place of L. I. Hilton, who has held the position for the past two years, reealls the fact that the laws providing for the Inspection of ofl have for years been a dead letter so far as public safety is concerned. There have been uable lives lost and a vast amount of property destroyed by fives that orig- inated in lamp explosions. The tests of ofls that had been branded as safe by the inspectors when made by com- petent and disinterested chemists have shown that the olls were dangerous and below the prescribed degree of combus- tion, although the Nebraska test of 100 Is ten degrees below the standard of lowa and other states. The unvar- nished truth is that the time of the chief inspector has been almost entirely given up to political log-rolling and his duties bave been shamefully neglected, exeept 8o far as the collection of foes is concerned. The law coutemplates that the in spector shall have an office at the state capitol and that Lis records shall he accessible, but so far as ean be ascer- tained there has been no attempt to comply with this part of the law. ean either be strict The people of Nebraska desive and need | the Tribune | explosive ofls, and they no demand or excuse for repe | law the Chicago Post declares that this protest | e lities for Chi- |older states. as much this year as it did two yes ago, when labor and higher than they are today, this thus? F1.60 this year for work which cost only 80 cents two years ago? ciary elares that the contracrors lost money parlance, simply means fi aud, only by ¢ MIAH ! Under the statutes the chief inspector is required to make and deliver to the governor in the month of January of ench year a report of the inspection by | himself and deputies during the pre- |ceding calendar year, and turn into | the state treasury the balance due, if Up to this time no such report put in an appearance so far as we ascertain, Now, the oll inspection law should ¢ enforced or repealed. any. has protection which oil inspection is lesigned to afford against the sale of are willing to pay the expense of such inspection. The fact that the fees collected exceed the cost of Inspection shows conclusively that the entire expense has been borne v the consumers. There is, therefore, ling the as a measure of econom, On contrary, the demand is for a test to that now prescribed in the In Towa the test is 110 8, and that is the standard ther states where inspection is leg hon- e be. | estly conducted, The new inspector will be expected to start out right and make his deputies comply with the law. be the bra states. That will not a lardship upon anybody except dealers who import oils into Ne- that would be VITIATED BY COLLU: The legislative printing will cost twice S materials were Why is Why should the state pay The Burling- ton Journal, which s the chief benefi- in the state printing al, de- two years ago. That will do to tell the marines. But even if the contract two years ago had been 20 per cent too low, there 18 no other explanation for doul- ling the cost of legislative printing this 3 There is ms estly only one explanation, and that is col- among the bidders to rob the Collusion to raise prices, in court nd fraud As a matter of ct for this printing has 1y ratified. It is signed cretary Allen, one of the three officers of the board. Neither Mr. Moore, auditor of public accounts, nor Mr. Bartley, state treasurer, h: gned that contract nor committed the state to it. The performances of Allen at the close Of his term are so seandalous that nothing else can be inferred than con- nivance with the printing job. The legislature should at once revoke this contract, as well as all the others that were made through manifest collu- sion among the bidders for state printing. lusion iates all contract fact, the contr not been leg: — WHAT WILL NEBRASKA DO? DENVER, Colo., Jan. 13.—To the Editor of The Bee: Both branches of the Colorado legis- lature have adopted a resolution instructing Colorado United States senators .and re- questing the representatives in congress to resist all efforts to reorganize Pacific roads, S0 as to perpetuate or reinstate thelr man- agements or extend government credit to them, and to urge at once the appointment of an impartial sole receiver to manage the Central and Unlon Pacific roads in the in- terest of the government and all concerned until it can be determined what foreclosure or final adjustment should be made. It is rumored here that Senator Brice will call Pacific rallroad committee together this week to take action friendly to roads before other western legislatures can instruct sen- ators. Would it not be of benefit to Ne- braska it your legislature would act promptly in line with action taken here? For text of Colorado resolution see Denver Times of Jan- wary 10. W. G. EVANS. Those resolutions have already been published by The Bee. The question is, what are the members of the Nebraska legislature going to do on this subject? COTTON AND WHEAT PRODUCTION. A convention was held at Jackson, Miss., last week to consider the problem of how to make cotton raising pay. Tt does not pay now and the outlook for the immediate future is not promising, except, perhaps, for a few favored lo. calities and a few individuals who can produce it cheaply. Among the propo- sitions submitted to the convention was one for the reduction of the size of fu- ture erops. The plan for the accom- plishment of this is to organize an asso- clation of cotton growers which shall cover the south and have state and county branches, Every cotton planter is to be brought into it and every mem- ber is to pledge himself to reduce his cotton acreage for 1805 at least one- third. When 75 per cent of all the farmers In 95 per cent of the cotton growing area of the country have agreed to this plan it is to be put Into opera- tion, and local committees are to be chosen to see that each planter keeps his agreement. If any one breaks his pledge the cotton he plants in excess of what he agreed to is to be destroyed by the committee. It is estimated that If this plan could be successfully carried out it would bring this year's crop be- low 7,000,000 bales, or from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 bales less than the crop of 1804, It is probable a plan of this kind would not work with entire success, he- cause the right of a committee to de- stroy a portion of a man's crop of cot- ton could doubtless be successfully’ con- tested, but the evident determination of the southern cotton planters to reduce production is a move that merits con- sideration. Such a step has been urged on them for some years, but withont commanding wuch attention from them. Now that cotton growing is unprofitable and seems likely to continue so they are preparing to change their policy, ‘This may very properly be commended to the consideration of the wheat growers of the northwest. It Is not pos- sible for them to do anything now, be- cause the wheat is in the ground and a larger area has been sown than usual, but the question of reducing the arvea is one that may be profitably considered for the future. The consensus of intelli- gent and practical opinion is that this will have to be done If the wheat growers of the United States are to make their indus a profitable one. With the formidable competition they are compelled to encounter in the Euro- | the railroad of of | DATL pean marketsH T evident they eannot continne the oy of the past without loss. When e growing of cotton and wheat ymes unprofitable it is the dictatli of ordinary business wisdom to tuMiattention to something clse that promises a better return, THE 10WA RATE DECISION. Town merchants and shippers of all classes will 1 o that a majority of issioners of that state have had the immense pres| rought fo bear upon them by the ads and to deny the petition of the latter for a material in- crease in the schedule of maximum freight rates that ha been in force for over five 'S, The Towa railroads under these rates have been just .as prosperous, if not more so, as railroads in other neighboring states. It would naturally be supposed that they would have been content to accept without fur- ther protest the schédule under which their earnings, mileage and business had steadily increased. But they seem to have thought that they could force the commission to do their every bidding and were anxious to make hay before its personnel should change with the ac- cession to office of the newly elocted member. In this they have apparently missed their The prospective increased finaneial re- turn * to have been only one of ack of the railroads' peti tion for a raise of the Towa rate sched- ule. The people of the states west of Towa have heen pointing to the railroad situation existing there as a most forei- ble and irrefutable argument for lower freight rates on the railroads that serve them. In Nebraska, for example, one of the most potent forces in the enactment of the recent 1 imum freight rate law the fact that the raflroads in Ne- cting charges approxi- mately double those recetved for trans- porting similar classes of goods the same distance on the other side of the Mis- souri. The Towa roads, in their petition to the railroad commission, alleged that Towa rates were considerably 'ower than those in 1 of Towa, but they confessedly failed to substantiate their statement. If they could but that Towa had admitted that her rate schedule was unremunerative and un- Just and raised it 12 to 50 per cent they might blunt the edge of the comparison of Towa and Nebraska rates now damaging to theitcontentions, The decision of the Towa commission is simply that the railroads have failed to make out akasej The commissioners could not pereg Quty resting upon them to see thfit the income of the rail- roads remain undighinished during hard times, while prices of every material and commodify‘have fallen and the earnings of v\"r.\' other industry show a shrinkage This" decision of the com- mission will certninly command general popular approval. 1y 80 What it iy Good For. GlobeDemoorat. The most that §s fo bo expebted of the present congress e passige of the ap- propriagjor bills, mocratic.eonsress cin always Be depended upon to vote away all the money in sigh ————— The Senutorial Drift. Denver News. Senator Wolcott -declines to as favoring operation of the Union Pacific main line by the government. Within a very short time it will be found that most of " the western senators, holdover and elect, along the line of the road, will come pretty e to giving it whatever it de- sires. The Chamber of Commerce me- morial should be signed by every one in order that the voice of Colorado. may be heard, Our senators will not speak for the £0_on record R Calling Crisp Down. New York Sun. The spectacle of Hon. Charles F. Crisp, speaker of the house of representatives, boasting again in the democratic caucus that the democratic party in congress has “kept its pledges" displays the false that boast with increased emphasi: of all pledges put into words, there was, be- fore the democracy was chosen to office in 1892, other pledges still more solemn and im- perative, unrecorded because fundamental and inseparable from the party’s name and honor, e Horrowing Trouble and—Tenrs, Chicags Record, That Colorado legislature will be worth watching. All signs point to the conclusion that the men In the body are going to hav a period of siorm and trials, The ladies a stubborn in their views, and they mean busi- ness, They will insist upon having things their own way, and if the men will not give in the ladies ‘can melt and resort to wo. man's weapon—tears, If the male members of Colorado's governing body mean to resist they must steel themselves against — the nerve-breaking sight of wet pocket hand. kerchiefs, ——— Couldn't Stand the Stench. Tecumsch Chieftain, Walt Seeley is having a hard time trying to get a job with the present legisiature He fsn't it all particular what the job is either—just anything to get on the pay roll. The trouble with, Seeley is that ho has a record—one of those odorous records that raises a foul stench to the nostrils of honest people. Tt s for this reason that the leiis: ature very properly considers him a fit per- son to shun, and we are glad to note that such is the' sentiment. He may break in yet, but if he does it will be in some under- handed way and not with the consent of elther the senate or house, The state of Nebraska can most happily dispense with all politicians of the Seeley brand, —_— Tho Senate Kestaurant, New York Sun, The crusade of Senator Allen, begun the other day, against the privileges granted to Yone Page," who keeps a restaurant in the national “capitol, will no doubt be appre- ted along the shores of the Platte, how- ever it may be ou the left bank of the Potomac ‘he Nebraska sénatir says that Mr, Page occupies, free of rent, ‘seven or elght of the t rooms in the splendid bullding, four being devoted to-the ‘dispensing of food o hungry senatorsy. that the government, through the senate's contingent fund, pays for every stove And, range in the kitchen other attiéle of kitchen furniture, or every pound of fuel used fn M. oking, for all his lights, and even for all the fce,’ the latter alone to the tune of about £300 a month. Last year, as M fllen is Informed, tho ice bill was over $3,000, and the gbverhme also paid for washing Mr. Page’s rooms and cleaning his carpets. In' lookingiover the bills fo Mr. Allen found a purchase on one 170 yards of Axmipgter carpet and 108 yi of other carpet, fav the restaurant, al 325 er yard put down, making $68 for that tem alone A féw years ago the k was remodeled and sfiked up, and th was $11,000, paid hy the government. In ad- dition to the annugh interest on that sum, represented in the permanent fixtures, the government pays, It appears, “fully §700 a month” for what i5 donsumed in the form of ice, fuel, lights, and 50, on, or about 8,000 a year. As 1o the prices which Mr., Page was able to fix, with such coneessions, the populist senator had little to say: “I have no fault whatever to find with his prices, although 1 see beefsteak costs a dol- lar and some odd cents Lhere, while the same quality of steak in my section of the country can be bought and cooked for 2 or 0 cents. It goes up to $i with truffles. | do not know “what truffics are, but an or- dinary porterhouse beefsteak with (ruffles 5§ Mr. Allen's resolution of in- did not meet with gen- ap Hale, premising that Mr. Page was a citizen of Maine, sald that Mr. Allen had found & mare's nest; that in stead of belng a mine of wealth, the restau- rant yielded so little profit, with its re- stricted patron, that it had always been hard to get a good man to conduct it. Mr. Hawley and Mr. Manderson took about the sama vView of the affair, and altogether the chief practical us: of Mr. Allen's resear may come hereafter in Nebraska, wh tells there the story of the ice, the mipster and the truffies. | missing in Holt ¢ ge to withstand the | TWO SIDES TO :'mnrr'n CASE. Nebraska City News: While the people of Holt county are searching for Scott's re- mains it would be wise to keep a sharp out- look on the passengers leaving for foreign porte. Custer County Beacon: No clue to the Barrett Scott episode has yet been discoverad and the trath is slowly dawning upon the people that it was a shrewd trick of his friends to cheat the penitentiary, Shelton Clipper: Barrett Scott is still unty, and while his case seems somewhat mysterious, thero is an opinfon lurking in the minds of many people that there Is a good deal of the “fake bus iness" connected with it Wayne Democrat: There is not one particle of evidence of his death, or that any one was even hurt, and the chances are that there are people right in O'Nelll that are keeping strings on him, and one at least In the state house at Lincoln that could find him easily. Schuyler Herald: There is talk that Bar- rett Scott, the notorlous Holt cownty thief, was not_lynched at all, but had himself ab- ducted by his friends. Now it the courts are nct entirely rotten they will declare the §40,000 bail forfeited. Wait and see what the court does. Chadron Recorder: A great many people believe that it was all a concocted scheme on the part of Scott to disappear, as it by murder, thereby releasing his bondsmen and giving him a chance to escape the coun- try and the sentence of imprisonment which had been passed upon him, Wahoo Era: Thero is a strong suspiclon in the minds of most people who have fol- lowed the later developments in the Barrett Scott case that the whole thing is a hoax perpatrated for the purpose of allowing ott to escape the penalty of his crime While at the same time releasing his bonds- men, Schuyler Quill: ~ The Quill considers the Wwhole thing a fake and helieves that the whole affair was planned by Scott himself; that it is a schemoe to get away from the hands of the law without his bondsmen hay- Ing to pay for his disappearance, for surely a dead man is no longer responsible. The wholo story looks decidedly “fishy” and we do not believe that any mob took Seott whatever, and that a mere band of his friends assisted him out of the country. Friend Telegraph: The hunt for Barrett Scott still continues as fruitless as ever. Every day more people are accepting the theory that the scheme of abduction was carried out by his friends in order to save him a term in the pen or to avold the payment of $40,000 bonds. We hate to believe that thers are men in Holt county 80 desperate that they would Kill or even abduct Barrett Scott without a greater motive therefor than has yet been shown. Holt County Beacon Light: Barrett Scott has suddenly disappeared, and the most dili- gent and careful search should be prosecuted until he is found, dead or alive. If he has been murdered by vigilantes because he stole the people's money the guilty ones hould be brought to justice and suffer the penalty of the crime of murder, If he has been murdered by his pretended friends who got part of the county money, and were equally guilty with Scott, because he had demanded of them the money or exposure. then they should be dealt with as murdere and punished according to law. If he has been spirited away by his friends for the purpose of escaping prison by a farcical hold up and the shooting of his team, and leaving a trail to the Niobrara for the pur- pose of leading the public to believe he was under the ice and thus pave a way to re- lease his present bondsmen and enable the collection of his large life fnsurance, then the scheme should be exposed and the per- petrators condemned. In any event the great mass of people desire to know what dispo- sition has been made of Barrett Scott, and every endeavor should be made to find him, and no hum!'nme effort should be spared to ferret out hfs abductors and administer their punishment according to the enormity of the crime. e DEFEAT OF THE CARLISLE BILL. Globe-Demacrat: The ‘monace to general trade which the possibility of hasty and dan- gerous financial legislation offered will now ba removed. Business will be allowed a breathing spell, and with this will come the probability that the peril has passed away for good. Denver Republican: financial or revenme legislation should bo enacted, the worst that could p bly happen during the coming year would be another issue of $50,000,000 of 5 per cent bonds, and the country can better afford to assume even that burden than to have any such wretched and destructive measure as the Carlisle bill or any of its fellows passed dur- ing this session. Cincinnati Enquirer: It is not too late to do something. It Is the consplcuous duty of the bimetallists in congress to push vigorously the demand for'\free and unlimited coinage ot gold and silver as long as there is a reasonable hope of success. If there Is to be any financial legislation at all before the 4th of March the bimetallists should be able to at least secure for silver as fauch as was lost by the repeal of the purchase clause of the Sherman act. Indeed, much more. New York World: It is time for the demo- crats in congress to get together. It is time for them to put aside their factional wrang- lings and do the duty that lies so near them. There is need of a leader with a strong hand, There Is need of common sense and a due recognition of the country’s claim for relief. It is probably true that this congress cannot pass any comprehensive currency bill, and perhaps it Is just as well. But it can do all that is immediately necessary. Chicago Record: The defeat of the bill is another indication that the best thing this congress can hope to do is to give the whole question into the hands of a competent com- mission. It migRt go further and present an outline formula of some definite plan were it not for the fact that no two democrats seem to approve a definite plan in common. But the exhibition which culminated in the flasco of yesterday forbids all hope that anything like trustworthy remedial legislation can emanate from this congress, New York Recorder: We have no desire to discuss the question from a partisan point of view. The situation is too grave for that. The condition of the treasury is serious. It involves the best interests of the whole coun- try. Mr. Cleveland and s secretary of the treasury have proved that they are incapable of dealing with it to the satisfaction of their own party, and their idiotic policy of solving the problem cannot, of course, be endorsed by the republicans of the present congress and the republicans-elect of its successor. Buftalo Express: The result of inaction by this congress must require a special session of the Iiftydourth congress carly in the spring, if the president yields to the popular desire, The outlook is that the necessities of the government will leave him no choice but to call a special session, unless he weak- ens at the last and decides to suspend gold payments, a possibility which many New York financlers greatly fear, though the presi- dent declared In his annual message that he should maintain the currency at its present standard, whatever the cost. It would be a startling fllustration of democratic incapacity it a democratic president should be forced to call an extra session of a republican congress to rescue the country from the perils into which a democratic congress had plunged it Even it no e CURRENT COMICS, Galyeston News: Man should all his time studying himself, worth it. not spend He 15 not GOVERNOR HOLOOMRB'S INAUGURATION, Kearney Standard: Governor Holcomb inauguarl address is a fair exposition of an honest man’s intentlons and commands re- spect and consideration from fair-minded and honest men of every political faith, Creighton News: Hon. Silas A. Holcomb has taken the oath of office, and starts out on the exercise of his duties with prudence, zeal and intergity; on the exercise of these the happiness of the people and the pros perity of the state is assured. Fairmont Signal: The inaugural of Governor Holcomb may be considered strictly conservative, and gives no indica- tions whatever of impracticable theories and Is free from visionary suggestions. He gives his views in a straightforward, businessiike manner. Madison Reporter: Governor Holcomb be congratulated upon the splendid im- ssfon his inaugural has created. No ball no champagne nor orchestra for the taxpayers to pay for—a simple yet strong and impres. sive inaugural. His address was firm, pointed, honest and fearless, yet temperate and hopeful, Oakland Republican: Stlas Holcomb ‘s now our governor, and while we do not ex- pect any job of Silas, we have no hesitancy in saying that we believe ho will make a £ood governor—nothing brilllant or sensa- tional perhaps, but will do his best to fill the position in a creditable and honorable manner. At least we shall not find him guilty before he has been tried, just because he fs a demo- pop. Broken Bow Republican: Governor Hol- comb's recommendation for the amendment of the Australian ballot is, in our opinion, a reform needed. He recommends an amend- ment which will facilitate a more rapid and accurate count of votes, that each party hav- Ing a fair percentage of the vote should have representation on the election board, and an amendment so an_elector can designate, where it is possible, his choice of candidates, and at the same time his political convie- tions. Geneva Journal: The most sensible thing In Governor Holcomb's message to the legis- lature was his suggestion that the rate of interest on state warrants be reduced from T per cent to 5l per cent or 6 per cent. The reason for this recommendation was the refusal on the part of many holders of state warrants to turn these warrants into the permanent school fund and receive their money. Already several bills have been in- troduced looking toward a reduction in the intcrest rate, the members appearing to favor the lower rate of 5 per cent rather than the rates suggested by Governor +Hol- comb. Undoubtedly state warrants drawing 5 per cent would remain at par and the state wculd be saved many thousands of dollars. 'We hope the Fillmore county mem- bers will assist in pushing this bill through. address s | SOUTH DAKOTA’S PREDICAMENT, Sioux. City Tribune: The defalcation of ¢ Treasurer Taylor of South Dakota is a calam- ity of no mean proportions. 1If the figures Which have been given out are near correct it means a loss to every family in the state, on an average, of $6. Minneapolis Journal: The defalcation of Treasurer Taylor of South Dakota, and the at- tendant financial ruin of a number of the leading men of that state, suggests that some new system will have to be adopted for fur- nishing security for financial agents. The in- surance scheme in vogue among bank officials seems to offer the proper remedy. St. Louis Republic: The South Dakota re- publicans have lost one of their active and able leaders in the person of State Treasurer Taylor, who has left the state without ac- counting for $350,000 of the state's money. There seems to be no doubt that the good old republican times have come back—but not to stay. Minneapolis Tribune: The defaleation of State Treasurer Taylor of South Dakota is, under the circumstances, nothing less than A calamity for that state. The past year has been a hard one for South Dakota. The crops were short—in some sections the farmers did not raise enough for bread and seed. Taxes have been coming in slowly, funds in the treasury are at a low ebb, and this defalca- tion of $350,000 will gréatly fncrease the financial embarrassment and Impose addi- tional burdens upon the people of the state which they are not in good condition to bear. Sloux City Journal: The developments re- garding ex-State Treasurer Taylor must be especially humilating to the republicans of South Dakota, who have shared with their brethren in the north generally in pride for the honest, strict and businesslike record of their management of state affairs, especially In contrast with the record of those states which have been for long periods most dis- tinctively democratic. As the' latter had to bear the odium of the acts of unfaithful pub- lic servants, so the republicans of South D; kota will suffer in some degree for the < fault of a representative of their party, ex- ceptional though the default may be In its record. Chicago Tribune: From one account Taylor must haye had in his possession when he left some $250,000 in cash, which he had drawn from the various banks of the state within the last three weeks of his stay in Dakota, the money being taken by him for the ostensible purpose of paying those warrants, If Taylor did not use the money for taking up that paper his defalcation is ono of the most com- plete pieces of rascality that has been devel- oped in many years past. It will also be one of tho most foolish ever committed, for the magnitude of the steal iw such that the em- bezzler will be hunted all over the earth and sea, should it be necessary, to find and cap- ture him. PROPLE AND THINGS, Fortunately the vault in the Sonth Dakota treasurer's office was securely bolted to the floor beams, These passing blizzards -are usetul in ro minding the people of the tempetature bee tween the white house and the capitol. The heathen Chinee of Calvaras was an in- tellectual phenom compared with those who attempt to bluft the Japs. When they go out they are promptly tuken in. Lieutenapt Nicholas Savin has dled at Saratov, in Russia, at the age, it Is asserted, of 125. e must have been considerably above 100, for he entered the French army in 1798, ninety-six years ago. A Boston girl has refused to marry an English suitor because he said he would lead her ‘to the “haltar.” Shrewd American Eitls put the halter around the neck of the other contracting party, and he never knows it, either. Secretary Morton says wheat Is a lazy man’s crop, because most of the work is done by machine. If the statesman from Arbor Lodgo could be induced to steer a reaper on a hot July day he would harvest a few Yyaluable ideas by the sweat of his brow and body. Hon. Thomas H. Carter, ex-chalrman of the republican national committee, has re- celved the republican caucus endorsement for senator in Montana. Mr. Carter's irresistible smile and his last triumph proves that time does not wither nor practice stale his en- gaging qualities. Some of the smart set in San Francisco have formed a whistling class. The girls are not obliged thus to keep their courage up while waiting for a proposal, as they are young, handsome and wealthy. The whistling habit is a local necessity to avert collisions during the fogs. The Astor division of New York's 400 pre- sented the shocking spectacle of giving gor- geous receptions and theaters parties while the body of Mrs. Waldorf Astor was in Trinity chapel awalting interment. For genuine cold blood heartlessness the aris- tocracy of Gotham admits of no superior. Mr. D. J. Ockerson of Red Oak utters a unique New Year resolve through a New York newspaper. He renounces alleglance to what s “commonly called the democratic party,” and will henceforth. vote the repub- lican ticket. ~ Mr. Ockerson's regeneration leaves Mr. Horace Holes the high lonesome of democracy, in Towa. Boston's tax bills show that J. Mont- gomery Sears has regained the position onoce occupled by F. L. Ames, of being the largest individual taxpayer in the Hub. His tax for 1894 was $48019.92. The Ames heirs pay 70,168.08. The valuation of real estate in Boston is higher than ever before, and has increased 155 per cent since 1868, Lively times are brewing in the Colorado legislature. ee women members of that body have served notices on their colleagues that they will not tolerate any tampering with the bills they introduce. Should an un- gallant male so far forget himself as to criticise or urge amendments, woe to his locks. Hair dye won't save him. Recently a Cincinnati paper printed sensa- tional reports of distress in Nebraska. In- vestigation shows that for genuine distress Nebraska cannot equal that which exists at Cincinnati's door. In the picturesque Hocking , the heart of Ohio, hundreds of familics are on_the verge of starvation. In the vicinity of Nelsonville 10,000 fdle miners are crying out for bread. Christian Conrad, now of Winchester, Ia., but originally of Pennsylvania, Is 115 ycars old, according to his own statement, and is enjoying good health, Conrad was 17 years old when he heard George Washington de- liver a speech in Philadelphia. He fought in the war of 1812, and would bave donned the soldier’s uniform in the Mexican war, but was 00 0ld to be admitted in the ranks. S e THE SONG 1 NEVER SIN James Whitcomb Riley. As when in dreams we sometimes hear A melody so faint and fine, And musically sweet and clear, ; 1t _flavors all the atmosphere 1 With harmony divine; So, often in'my waking dreams, 1 hear a melody that seems Like fairy voices wh'spering To me the song I never sing. Sometimes when brooding o'er the years My boyish youth has thrown away, When all the glowing past appears But as a mirage that my tears Have crumbleéd to decay, 1 thrill to find the ache and pain Of my remorse is stilled again, As, forward bent and listening, I Near the song I never sing. A murmuring of rhythmic words, Adrift on tunes whose currents flow Melodious with the trill of birds, And far-off lowing of the herds In lands of long agv; And every sound the truant loves Comes to me like the coo of doves, When first in blooming fi:lds of spring I heard the song I never sing, The echoes of old voices, wound : In limpid streams of laughter where The river Time runs bubble-crowned, And giddy eddies ripple ‘round The_lilies growing there; Where roses, bending o'er the brink, Drain their own kisses as they drink, And fvies climb and twine and cling About the song I never sing. An ocean-surge of sound that falls As though a tide of heavenly art Had tempested the gleaming halls And crested o'er the golden walls In showers upon my heart. Thus, thus, with open arms and eyes Uplifted toward the alian skies, Forgetting every carthly thing, 1 hear thé song I never sing. el o] DR e AT e A BROWNING, KING & CO, Your Money’s Worth or Your Money Back, 300 Odd Suits— Some of the sizes These Special Prices apply to Overcoats and [J]sters on the broken size tables. fact l"emaihs,these 0dd Suits and the choicest colors—or so nearly sold out—In order are gone in certain styles, colors and prices —Some lots have no sacks and some have—while in the midst of the 30) odd suits you'll find sacks and cuta- ways—single and double breasted sacks and even Prince Alberts — but the are from the choicest styles they would not have been to clear them out quick we've put them all on the front counter and the prices Plain Dealer: Some men go to extremes but very many purs Chicago these eggs?® whi ribune:” “What do you think of pered the lean boarder, 'hese eggs,' responde the fat boarder, whose occupation was that of advertising clerk in a newspaper office, “are too lat( o classify.” Brooklyn Telegram: Jeweler—The inscrip- tion you wish engraved on the inside of this | ring, "1 understand, {s “‘Marcellus to Iren Young Man (with embarrassment)—Yes that's right. But—er—don't cut the “Irene’ deep. Cincinnati Tribune: He—How does It hap- pen that one Of you women have come forward with & new currency plan? She O, we already have a perfect one. When we need currency we just sit down and ery for it. FROM HER BACHELOR UNCLE, Chicago Herald. T've a mecret to disclose, SBweet Marle, | It concerns your ruddy nose, Bweet Marie It would 8000 come 'round all right, And once mo be pearly white, If you wouldn't lace so tight, l Sweet Marle, are something like these ; There are four $8.50 sults—now. There are seven $12.5) suits--no Bome $15, $16.50 and $18 suits Some 315, $16.50, §! There are four Some $18, §20 and § Bome $25.00 and $50.00 suits $25.00 suits. are five $35.00 suits sults—now. now now. You never bought new this season’s m now and §20 suits—now 5 sults—now now... 8 5.00 .. 8 7.60 ... 81000 . 812,50 813,60 816,00 . $18.00 .. 820,00 $25.00 ake of high w. class suits at such prices—as the lots are badly broken some of them will be gone 1 800 PANTS and $6.50 ing black worsteds and blac and $7, your choice at §3.75, BROWNING, he first day. —A good assortment yet of those $5, $6 Pants at $3.75 — includ- k clays, worth $6 $3.75 KING & CO.