Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 15, 1895, Page 4

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The only re of the South T treasury looters seems to be that they failed to operate in a state with more funds to be stolen. What would the senate do if it did not have the N raa canal bill as an outlet for the accumulating energy of its long-winded members One senator to two and a half em- ployes is the present ratio of represen- tation in the Nebraska state senate. And the session is but just begun. For men who insist that they are seeking no vorable legislation at the hands of the pr ure the fire insurance agents do protest altogether too much. sent legis That story about black snow in In- diana takes all the point out of the little girl's Sunday school inquir whether the snow that fell in Afriea was black. Teople who are spreading that extra session talk forget that President Cleve- land has not the most pleasant recol- lections of his last experience with an extrn session of congres We suppose the authorities of South Dakota will offer a reward for the ap- prehension and conviction of their de- faulting state treasurer after they shall have given him time enough to make his escape safe. South Dakota’s little item of unavail- able assets promises to prove even more than a counterpart of thé $237,000 which the books of the Nebraska state treasurer show to be standing to the state’s credit as a deposit in the de- funct Capital National bank. Now that the spirits have disclosed the whereabouts of Barrett Scott's body and named the men who waylaid him, parties who offered the reward for this Information may be expected to find the circulating medium that is recognized as a legal tender in the spirit world. It Is pleasant to be told that the al- leged differences between Mr. Cleve- land’s secretary of state and Mr. Cleve- land’s secretary of agriculture exist in Imagination only. The winter is frigid enough for both of these gentlemen without any special coolness between them. Arizona’s attorney general has sent his resignation to the governor, but not be-. fore having handed down an official “opinion to the effect that If he had the interests of Arizona and the democratic party at heart the governor would also fesign Immediately, At the last report the governor had decidedly the best of the situation. He had the attorney gen- eral's resignation, and he had the goy- ernorship, too. —_— Tlow fortunate the senate In this state consists of only thirty-three members Instend of elghty-eight, ‘as in the na- tional senate! If we had an extra fifty- five senators there wouldn't be enough available legislative on-hangers in the state to supply the necessary employes to wait upon that boa, In such an extremity we might be forced to the ex- pedient of importing several hundred doorkeepers, clerks, secretaries, pages, custodians, Janitors, ete., from neighbor- Ing states. The frantic effort made by the Sonth Owmaha gang of municipal boodlers to forestall the work of the grand Jury through o shamy investigation which will tie the tongues of all parties impli- eated will scarcely deceive anybody conversant with the situation, The fact that every gambling house in South Omaba has voluntarily closed Its doors shows that the disclosures of The Bee have had their effect, and the thrifty middleman is now like Othello—without an occupation, —— Thousands of people had to be turned away from the meeting of .citizens called in San Francisco Saturday to protest, among other things, against the Pacitic railroad funding bill. The P ple of California have uot been qui cent under the threat of this odious plece of legislation, but have been showering remonstrances upon their representatives in congress and ealling upon themw to defeat it at all hazards, The rvepresentatives from the Pacifie coast will not be able to excuse a vote o favor of the funding bill by assert- ng that they did not know how their coustituents stood on the matter. Colo- rado, 100, has spoken agalust the fund- g bill through its legislature. What does the Nebraska legislature propose MUST THE BOARD GOY A new reason why the Board of Trans- portation eannot be dispensed with at this time is now the subject of discussion. The maximum rate law recognizes the board as an Important factor, and gives it a prominent place in the enforce- t of the act. Therefore, it the legislature decided to appeal the rate suit to the United States supreme court, which is sald to be the intention, and eventually wins the suit, hich Is confidently expected by many able attorneys, In that event it is argued that the | maximum rate act cannot be enforced and fts important provisions carried out without the ald of the Board of Transportation.—State Journal. The attorney. general, secretary of te, auditor of public accounts, state treasurcr, and commissioner of public lands and bufldings constitute the State Board of Transportation. These state officers can be continued in thelr nom- inal function as the State Board of Railway Commissioners, but what carthly use is there for the three se retaries, who each draws §2,000 a yes out of the state treasury, as railroad | regulators, when they don't regulate anything except. their own diet, Under the law creating the Board of Trans- portation, the five state officers t onstitute this board are empowered to employ a stenographer, at $1,500 a % t stenographer ean do all the work which the hoard is disposed to perform in the matter of railrond regu- Iation and supervision. The board as such need not go, and must not go, be- ise it has been made part of the chinery for enforcing the maximum e law, but the three sccretaries should be given an indefinite leave of absence. The state does not owe them a living, but if the railrond manager feel under obligations to them they are at liberty to put them on their own pay roll, just as the Pullman company has done with Tom Benton. The tax- payers of Nebraska certainly have a right to expect that the legislature will relieve them ffom an unwarranted bur- den in times when they are being crowded to the wall to meet the legiti- mate expenses of government. THE SOUTH AND PENSIONS. It would seem from what happened in the Louse of representatives ofi I8t evenin that some northern ats are becoming weary of the tent host v of the southern dem- ocrats to pensions for union soldiers and are disposed to resent it. On this ocea- sion a bill giving $100 2 month to Gen- eral MceClernand was under considera- tion and w tacked by a democratic representative from Virginia. It was defended by Mr. Springer of Illinois; who took the opportunity to tell his southern democratic colleagues {lint their course regarding pension§ Wi§ very damaging to the party in the north, which at the last eclection had returned only thirteen democrats to the house. Representative Clark of M sourl, a democrat, spoke in the s vein and with even greater spirit, ing that “the democrats of ‘the north were sick and tired of having their southern party associates come to con- gress and stab their party In the back,” defiantly concluding his remarks with the declaration: “We are through with you.” Regardless of the merlts of the claim to a pension of General McClernand, who was undeniably a brave soldier and did valuable service as such, this incident is worthy of attention as an illustration of the feeling that quite generally prevails among southern dem- ocrats. Not all of them have the cour- age to proclaim their senttments as the Virginia representative did, who, the dispatches say, proudly declared his reverence for the confederate cause, but it Is not questionable tnat a majority of them are no less hostile to pension- ing union soldiers than Mr. Jones of Virginia, and if they could see their way clear to doing so would stop the payment of thousands of pensions the merit of which is unquestionable. It is time that northern democrats took no- tice of this spirit and rebuked it as it deserves. It doesn't matter whether its effect upon the party In the north is damaging or not, the sufficient justifica- tion for treating it as Mr, Springer and Mr. Clark did is in the fact that it is unpatriotic and sectional, the motive prompting it being such as a generous and fair-minded people cannot counte- nance. The rebuke administered by Ldirect v THE OMAHA DAILY BER: TUESDAY, to talk about a scarcity of gold for the ’ great measure, world's requirements of that metal. A distinguished authority has recently ox- pressed the opinion that the increase in the production of gold will soon make itself felt in commerce, and ultimately upon lahor also. There is the best of reasons that such will be the case. It is a fami #old in California and the subsequent addition to the supply from Australia | had a wonderful effect upon the world's trade and the wages of labor, and reasoning from this there is the best possible ground for the opinion that the increasing volume of the gold yield at this time will have a like effect These facts, however, seom to very little effect upon the silver men, who continue to insist that the only remedy for industrial and business de- pression is in restoring silver to its former position and requiring the gov- have ernment to coin it on an cquality with | gold. This was the contention of Senator Teller last Saturday, who re- peated the argument that the low prices of agricultural products are the result of the demonetization of silver, taking no account of excessive produetion. He declared that the gold Dbasis was too narrow, ignoring the fact that this basis is steadily enlarging, as the statisties of gold production and that it s likely to go on increns It s most extraordinary that the vocates of the f and unlimited coin- age of silver refuse to take any notice of and decline to give any welght to the increasing volume of the gold sup- ply, while at the same time ignoring the universal rule applicable to the two metals. ATORIAL CON ts for the United States been carvied on will be settled SE Several conte senate which s with great earnestness within the next week. One of these is in Minnesota, where a successor is to be chosent to Senator W. D. Washburn, who seeks a re-clection, There ave sev- eral other candidates, among them Gov- ernor Knute Nelson, A very vigorous fight has been going on between the partisans of Washburn and Nelson, and the outcome is uncerfain, though the chanees seem to favor the former. The election of one of the other candidates or a dark horse is, however, by no means improbable. Another very inter- esting struggle is in progress in Illi- nois, for a successor to Senator Cul- lom. There are several candidates be- sides the senator, the most prominent among them being Mr. Joseph Medill, the veteran editor of the Chicago Trib- une. It is impossible to say, from the spect of theé situation, who will B& €liosen, but the indicationsseem to be favorable to the re-election of Cullom, although this may be changed within twenty-four hours. It would seem that Mr. Medill is not being quite fairly dealt with by the Cook county delegation and this fact weakens his chances, and it is thought t <-Con- gressman Mason is now Senator Cul- lom’s most formidable rival. Senator Dolph of Oregon, whose term expires March 4 and who wants re- election, has a fight on hand, there be- ing several candidates for the position. The opposition to Mr. Dolph is chiefly on the ground of his hestility to the free and unlimited coinage of silver, in which he has been outspoken and con- sistent. He is a man of ability, who has done good service in the senate for his state, and he deserves to be con- tinued in the position. There is a lively contest in the state of Washington for the vacancy in the United States sen- ate from that state, with Representa- ‘tive Wilson appavently In the lead, though it is somewhat early for definite indications, the legislature having met only yesterday. There was a sharp contest in California for the seat of Senator Perkins, but that gentleman has been renominated and will be re- elected. In Kansas the several repub- lican candidates who desire to succeed Senator Martin are making an earnest canvass. Ex-Senator Ingalls seems to have dropped out of the race, and who has the best of the chances at this time it would not be easy to determine. The failure of Ingalls to make a better showing has been somewhat of a sur- prise. One of the most interesting senatorial contests of the year has been in Dela- Ve these northern democrath to their south- ern colleagues may or may not do them good. It doesn't matter, since they are soon to go out of power, with the chances against thelr ever returning to it. But none the less it was a timely and just rebuke INCREASED GOLD SUPPLY. There is not much comfort for those who have argued that the compara- tively small yield of gold makes it im- possible to use it as a currency basis for the business of the world in the statistics showing the inere; in the production of the yellow metal. Ac- cording to these reports last year made a large addition to the supply. The yield in California was about $2,000,000 over that of 1803 and it is believed the increase will be much larger for this ear, as bydraulic mining will brought more into use. The larger in- crease, however, Is shown by Colorado, the yield in that state having Jumped from $7487,071 in 1893 to $11,300,000 in 1804, an increase of about 50 per cent in one year, and nearly 800 per cent since 1890, The development of new gold resources since these sta- tistics were made known promises t the present year will witness a gold output from Colorado very much greater than has ever yet been known, and which will be of more value to that state than gll the silver mines so far developed. Idaho, Montana and Utah have also added largely to the yleld of gold, and it Is estimated that the product for 1805 will exceed that for the preceding year fully $10,000,000, According to the best authorities on this subject the gold output for the cur- rent year is expected to be, for the world, $200,000,000. Last year the gold product was about $15,000,000 greater than the product of gold and sily combined twenty years ago, and this year the margin of difference will un- doubtedly be still great Such being be to Jdo? ware, where a Mr. Addicks, a very wealthy man, but one who has never figured in politics, aspires to a seat in the United States senate, as the sue- cessor of Mr. Higgins, Addic has been the subject of no little ridicule in his fight, his wealth being the only thing he could offer to justify his am- bition, but he developed a considerable support. The republicans of the Dela- ware legislature will hardly make the mistake, however, of turning down Mr, Higgins, who has made a very credit- able record and as to whose repubilic- anism, under all circumstances, there is not the least doubt. The contest in West Virginia was settled last Friday by the nomination of Stephen B. El- kins, who was found, when the vote was taken in the republican caucus, to have no serious opposition, There will e a number of new sen- ators in the senate of the next con- gress, prominent among whom will he Thurston of Nebraska, Carter of Mon- tana, Gear of Towa, Burrows of Michi. gan, and Tillman of South Carolina, MORE SOUTH DAKOTA STEALS, T more that is learned about the looting of the South Dakota state treas- ury the worse is the light in which the affair stands out. Later developments disclose the unmistakable evidence of a glgantiec conspi. , invelvin more than one of the state officers, and in which the ‘state treasurer merely fig- ured as the leading spirit. A ring of corrupt politiclans seems to have gotten its grip upon the funds of the state and to have squeezed them so hard that nothing but a compromise of its matur. ing Indebtedness can save it from an outright declaration of bankruptc The most scandalous, and at the same time the most deplorable, feature of this defaleation consists in the manner in which the school fund of the state, which ought to be gugrded as a sacred trust for the benefit of all generations the situadon, it is manifestly absurd to come, has been perverted and in a e fact that the discovery of | | and t with the other pub- stem of dealing with in South Dakota is in Nebraska. No nachinery could well be devised to assist unserupulous public officers in abusing their authority over them, The Ifnd is entirely under the control of the commissioner of public lands, whose fluty it is to convert them into money,! to be reinvested as a permanenf school fund o soon a8 they are worth more than $10 an acre, The appraisements for their dre made by the com- missioner, and He also has the handling | of the money fhat is paid for them. | The interest Acbruing from the invest- | ment of the fund, as well as the inter est on deferred payments for the land, 1s distributed by the commissioner from time to time to the different counties in the ratio of their school population. By dever manipulation of this money the commissgioner has been playing into the hands of the hanks in which he and his associates are interested. What at first promised to be only a delay in the distribution of the current school funds, now, on account of the flight of the treasurer with the vemnant of the money, threatens to be a permanent loss. The state house raseals have sue- ceeded in nearly overturning the whole public school system of South Dakota. Men who would stoop to stealing the income from the sale of lands granted to the state for the benefit of the public schools would certainly not stop fraud in the sale of the s, Tt will therefore not he surprising it Npon in- vestigation it turns out that thé com- missioner has heen constantly and sy tematically undervaluing the luns upon appraisement and sharving the gains that resulted from the p The opportunity for investing g money, t0o, in valucless securities, with the collusion of their holders, could not have been mneglected. If such shall prove to have been the ease the public “higols of South Dakota will have heen robbed not only of their temporary » enues, but also of a large part of their permanent heritage. It is the duty of the legislature to find out at once to what extent these steals haye heen sue- cessfully prosccuted, and to take meas- ures not only for bringing the mis- creants to justice, but also to make good the 1oss in the best way that may present. lic money. T the school 1 different fro The Chicago papers of Saturday pub- lished a sensational dispatch about des- tion and death in the wake of the blizzard, with the predietion that within tyenty-four hours reports would be received of the freezing to death of thousands of Nebraska set- tlers. One of . the Chicago dallies of the same day published a telegram from an Omaha news fakir representing a woman in flie neighborhood of Omaha taking flight across the prairie and bringing her child, frozen in her arms, to a neighboring farm house. This cruel h .lx is now Deing circulated all over the coun But if there ually had been_deaths by ex the Dlizzard there would have been nothing abuokinali - According - to . Ghi- cago papers aff Monday, the body of a woman aged G0 years, who had per- ished from cold, was found Sunday evening in the heart of Chicago. The police report that the poor woman lacked fuel and clothing to ward off the cold and was absolutely in a starving condition before she venturced into the street. s The South Omaha council need not waste its time in applylng whitewash to the various besmirched city officials. The men who want a vindication can secure it in other quarters. — Bl Wilson's Sarcasm, Chicago Tribune, Chairman Wilson's prediction that the country will be ruled either by the trusts or the democratic party stamps him as the worst calamity howler of the period. ——— A Startling Innovation. Chicago Tin The women of Colorado assembled in con. vention at Arapahoe have proposed a start ling innovation in American politics. They demand for scnator from that state a moral man. s The Theory and the Fact. Globe-Democ Sherman Is right in saying that the sen- ate has no authority to originate legisia- tion on a question of revenue; and yet that was what it practically did when it forced the house to accept the present tariff law. B a8 Distinetion Difference. Sloux City Times. vernor Crounse has retired from the ¢ of governor of Nebraska with the re- spect and well wishes of all, while the Towa college professor whom he made famous by his denunciation is making money on the lecture platform. declared in Omaha that free ole issue which _promised hop Hon, Franklin MacV nois democrats and told the salvation aking absolut the issue, e of those 'Irreconc ion on our hands. 1 with one able differences of opin- s of the Conl Barons, New ¥ The Reading rallroad's report chronicles with regret that K of ha in the coal trade” has caus, Se in the price of conl amounting for year to $1,84710.49, Good so far t It means s that T y pelled to ¢ with million dollars which ve taken without ren- nopoly the people n it would otherwise dering any return. i Forest rvation Denver Republican rvation 18 a subject to which ould glve more or less atten- osuly related to the agricul- ity of the far west, where irri- sentlal st tend' (o maintain of strgams, which has 1100 to successrul {reigation, sulations should provide for lands in harmony with other instance, there should 48P ¢ting and mining sh ubjet to rules that not “permit wanton' destruction of timber This could be done without difficulty. It would admit of ‘the rvation of all de sirable forest lands At the same tim provide for whatever mineral deve the character of the forest res render practicable, e Forest pre all persons tion. " It s tural prosp. gation is provizion that be permitted leld Republican of the New York bond syn- that Secretary Carlisle acted in bad faith toward them ‘in spoiling the market for their bonds with his cu me, he ean reply that they also acted d faith toward him.~ And this is the | those nearcst to the secretary are | making. The syndicate promixed to | use its own gold to buy the last | bonds, and did; but then they turned ar required 'gold of th who bought bonds of th thus driving them to the 1e of ound | some treasury to get the gold just pald in. If that 18 “not tricky dealing it would be hard | to state what Is. Moreover, it Is the same | withdrawal of the gold which ha don more to hurt the bond market n the currency scheme. The syndic bankers | seem o be trying to muke Carlisle the scapegoat of their own folly and greed, . | | record as gov JANUARY 15, 1895. VOIOE OF THE STATE PRESS, Cedar Raplds Commercial: Goverrdr Hol- comb takes the right view of the case fin recommending that the maximum frelght rato matter bs appealed, Nebraska City News: After a few more Taylors have robbed the states of all their money the legislatures will learn to put more safoguards around the treasurers and com- pel them to invest the money in certain funds as fast as it is received or at least will not permit them to deposit the mone In their own names. David City P that “the election the state,” the new far exerted nfluence. conservative, t ss: Despite the forebodings of Holcomb wounld ruin governor's course thus | a very whole- His message was tevel-headed and states- manlike, and many of the suggestions contained therein weré good. To say the least, his friends are satisfied, and even the ‘gravel-train croakers” are unable to critl- cise, Beatrice Tribune: Governor olcomb's in- augural address is a state paf®r that com- mends itself to the people of Nebraska as a strong, manly gnd intelligent presentation of his views on ‘state Issues. The political |y friends of the governor have reason to be | { more than pleased to find that the fafth and confidenme which they had fn him when he | was selected as thelr standard bearer was | | well founded. The address throughout reflects much credit upon the man and prompts us at the start to predict that his administration t of state affairs will be independent, judiclous, honest and acceptable to the citizens of our [y state, I Lincoln News: There are some reasons for | t justifying the appointment of committees In | ¥ the legislature by the corporations. There is 1o one who seriously questions that the legis- lative committees this year were made up more or less at the dictation and under the direction of the corporations, It fs | h claimed, however, that the chief concern manifested by the corporations was in getting committeemen named who would not bleed them to death, and if such committes have | t been named, then the people need have little to fear. If such men have been placed at the head of the committees as will not bleed the corporations when the opportunity is pre- sented, they need not be feared by the |l people. The chances are, however, that it was not the motive of the corporation dicta- tion. Tt was doubtless to secure the' appoint- ment of such committees as could be them- sclves held up at the least expense to the corporations. Honest men are hard to buy and command a high price, and it is just possible that the corporations did not want to meet any of them in the committee rooms. Lincoln News: The parasitic Mr. Seeley | | has not yet been shaken loose from the state treasury it would seem. It is now stated on what appeared to be good authority that | ¢ he has been created a superintandent of clerks, an office wholly unauthorized by law and entirely unnecessary. This office has been conferred upon him either by Secretary Sedgwick or his fresh assistant from Grand Island, Mr. Barber, who was presumptuous enough to endeavor to force the lieutenant | t governor to appoint a list of employes that he had himself prepared. Seeley and Barber have been running together, and the obnox- ious pr nato Seele 1 n [ nce of the former is thrust upon the | t and visitors to that body. It las been appointed to this office by any one the public is entitled to know it and also what authority there Is in law for paying this parasite a salary by the state while his chief business is apparently lobby- ing for the railroads and other parties, first | t and other names unknown. Lieutenant Gov- ernor Moore had the backbone to stand up | U and refuse this lobbyist a position on the pay roll, and the News trusts that he will also use his authority as presiding officer of the senate to investfgate and fnd out who has had the impertinence to assume the appointing power ' instead. Atkinson Graphic: This is emphatically a republican legislature and while it will be fairly liberal fn all matters pertaining to the public weal, it will not countenance or emphasize a policy of extravagance. The spirit_and genius” of republicanism, under existing conditions, demand conservative re- trenchment in_every avenue of public ex- penditures, and this demand will be heeded by every loyal republican in both branches of the general assembly. The education_of the youth of the state should, in the presént as in the past, receive the fostering care of our legislative solons, but this care should be almost exclusively exercised in behalf of our common schools—that grand college of the common people, where the most eminent and illustrious Americans have graduated. It is not. the legitimate province of the legislature to appropriate the people’s money for the building or endowment of speclal seats of learning. Such a policy is repugnant to re- publican simplicity and levies an unjust tax on the poor for the benefit of the rich. A reasonable amount to maintain a high grade of normal Instruction should be appro- priated, as they are training schools for the common school teacher, but here the state's bounty for educational purposes should end. —————— umbug Session, Lincoln Courier, Leglslatures are always frauds and de- lusions—particularly in Nebraska. And the present session, to speak plainly, will prob- ably be a greater humbug than any that have preceded it. In the first placé, the republicans are over- whelmingly in the majority, and it is a noticeable “and historic fact that when the republicans are in control indifference be comes a prominent legislative character- stic. G0 much success 1s just as harmful to republicans as to democrats. The present legislature is what the dally newspapers call a_‘repreentative body of men. It 18 composed, in large measure, of active, young or middie-aged men, lawyers, farme) merchant: politiclans, ete, "The majority of the républican members are tively identified with the party organi tion, and ‘“‘the boys™ are largely repre- sented. There Is a_deep undercurrent of sentiment that follows Pope’s lines, “Whatever is, 15 right.”” There Is no str sentiment in R e e A a ng favor of genuine reform. There is no evi- dence of a determined effort to restrict cor- porate oppression. There is no disposfion to enforce a strict economy in legislative ex- penses and in general appropriatio But there is no end of professions, Members are making a great show of in- troducing bills which they never expect to have passed. There are innumerable bills already intro- d or to be Introduced to regulite stock rges, to restrict telephone. and tele- companies and reduce the charges for Ablish maximum railway rates ., to regulate street railway com- panies, etc These introduced seriously a at least are pushed th some degree of earnestness, But there is no intention to t any of : 1 measures into law ailroads and th ompan and th med a graph pany e going to notwit v be a great al of noise at intervals during” the gession. What will the ielature do? Heyond electing Mr. Thurston senator it will do very little, It has already demonstrated its Indiffe; ence to the public demand for economy by hiring scor of useless emplgyes, It bids fair to be as extravagant in thls spect as any of its predecessol Many thousands of dollars will be literally thrown away during the session in car) 1§ supernumer- aries on the pay roll, e legislature wiil waste a good deal of d at the eleventh hour may possibly thing practical in the way of afford- ief to the drouth sufferers. There will be no end of talk about irri- , but few people expect to see any- thing of importance accomplished. Several hundred laws will bé passed— mostly amendments to existing laws, but to -nine cltizens out of a hundréd they will have no application, In the matter of appropriations the public may exp i great deal sald about econom all 18 sald and done the total amount of public Y appropri- nted will undoubtedly exceed that of last session. It I8 g humbug session. If you da observe th loud re- form protestations, and then, at the of sum up what has been accom- shed for the good of the state, The Good Lives After Him, Denver Republican. Whatever other faults e H. Waite may have exhibited during his term of office,” and they were not a few, it must be sald that no taint of dishonest ption ever aitached itself to his r as governor. Undoubtedly he commit many serious blunders, but he could neither be Lought nor bulldozed, and we ha no doubt that he alwa do | what he believed was best for the of Colorado. It must be remember that his term occupied a ‘-n‘,.n of ex dinary disturbance and depression, which would have rendered it difficult, if not im- possible, for the most level-headed man In the world to have made a very satisfactory | rnor of Colorado under the | rcumstances. Let us endeavor to do jus- tice to his good qualities, while deploring his errors of unwise utterance and ill-ad- | vised action, vernor Davls wholesome disgust for corporati-n tools, dead. A new quarter, on General Coxey resolutions were lost in t Ame: over the d | tor_ re-ele: cized by dech of trade," and there This will give smugglers much satisfaction, ar one cannot be imported and put In opera- would like to know. of the Minnesota legislature two years ago an anonymous dispatch, broadly hinting that upn to give the name of the sender, and failure to do so prov ended a fow days ago in a verdic we cabinet, of Secretary Morton from last Frida of the Ch SRS busy and deeply absorbed consumes about ho 1s le are alw: that this excessive smoking has never, so far as he can discover, done him any b grandfather, been an inveterate drawn, born in 181 but somo ti and thoso of his wife, of land from founded a colony for refugee slave lionaire several times over, a $1,000,000 palace in New York City. report of his removal from Montana comes with the news Tom Carter for United States senator. pirants for "congressional the latter a republican. Anaconda Wwith Clarke, and he settled satisfaction of Clarke. At the session of the legislature two years ago Clarke was a candidate for the United States senate, cess. cratie forces vented the selection of Was no chance for his Montana, ing huge strides towa: political life. western samble on it that Horace couid on the very man, democratic ex-governor of Towa would re- of every silver dollar now in existence and that may be hereafter coined, Vviding that all coln certificates issued on de- Dosits of silver money or bullion deemable holder. approach bimetallism by golng away fro 3 If he shall adhere wy M % ot matters the next time Dubuque Instead of coming at *Omaha last night. thought of a previous January 8 when he Spoke at the Greystone banquet in the way theater, free coinage. the governor's lifetime, Had he declared on money of the constitution, gold and silver, for the past few written differently, clearly he took the fastern and overcautious western advisers, The golden moment might have become a truly great man. PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Quay has suddenly developed Report has 1t again that Bill Cook Is Now prepare fcr a well cooked raid in | BExperience appears to have Iittle effect | He threatens to Invade he national currency grass, Three moons were seen In the rural sec- | ™ fona of Tlinis last week. Several good | ectacle |a me, after all. An has filed with C- $4,000,000 claim nst There is much in a n n named Cheek Gresham a am, The b Atlanta Constitution waxes oy ful of Senator Carey of Wyoming tion, and congratulates the state | on “shelving a goldbug,” An Tllinols legislator who refused to place s gon on the siate pay roll has been ostra- | his fellows. The unfortunate man | mado a political mistake fn harboring pro- nounced reform sentiments, The United States circuit court. of appeals | that theatrical wardrobes are “tc re exempt s from duty. || or the goods they import are tools of thoir | © rade, Members of the Australian logislature are phenomenal ref rmers. They have actually duced thelr own salaries an 1deas popular in this con and the last | h |t b ry, fon any too soon. Mayor Strong of New Yerk, desiring relia- ble information about crooks from first | s hands, has ordered Superintendent Byrnos | 0 confer with newspaper roporters. Mr. | g dyrnes will presently learn more than ho | p, The Western Union delivered to a member | ho was crooked. The company was called [ fo ked a libel suit, which | for $10,000, | . he full amount elaimed. 2 While several Washington corrospondents o working out a sensatlonal split in the owing to the mysterious absence s meot- s inhaling the succulont air ago_ stock yards, The fncldent ts the necessity of harmonizing Wash- ngton and Chicago reports, Inventor Edison says that when ho I n his work ho s a day; whep about ten. Thoy The inven(or says th W i ng, the lafter w twenty cig: S active mentally, v8 strong clgars. 8 te arm. | one of smokers, his lived to be 103, having smoker and a chewer of 1is family has been who sbacco as well, Rev. Dr. King, the noted abolitionist, rom whom the character of Clayton Uncle Tom's Cabin” is said to have been Is dead at Chatham, Ont. He was the son of a southern planter, before the civil war, deciding hat slavery was wrong, he freed his slaves and, securing a ;rant Canadian government at Buy & | &l the on, Ont., which exists till this day. Mr. W. A. Clarke of Butte, Mont., a mil- about to build The | ¢f the nomination of Hon, And Both were rival as- honors in Mon- ana In 1889—the former as the democrat, Marcus Daly, boss of and one of the democratic big our, had a little financial score t) setile it to the dis- Carter was elected. hereby hangs a tale. vl h With g0od prospects of sue- Daly took a hand, split the demo- in the legislature and pro- any candidate, This doubtless convinced Clarke there political ambitions in his early rival is mak- rd the upper levels of . BOIES D HIS PLANS, Memphis Avalanche: Horace Poes wants a man for president, and we will put his finger h Xperience Meanwhile, in Dubuque Telegraph: The distinguished stablish bimetallism by making token money and by pro- shall be re- in gold at the option of the In other words, the governor would this policy in other he desires to come to start west from Waterloo east, Denver Republican: Governor Boles spoke ‘We wonder {f he he will Broad- and failed to say anything for That was the opportunity of and he let it slip by. that evening for the t 16 to 1, the political history of the west years might have been Faillng to see the light advice of Interested passed and the angel of ostiny his pen. Horace Boles put away with [ well and was not discovered for fift | When taken out the animal was dazed | tho redhot poker b Instead of bend badly. ch | Husband—TImp ho | sake! T |it. can usually friends he “has by | men he knows to borrow $20 biIl. | this,”” said the rur of rope, W-what Is s-she rehea NEBRASKA AND NERRASKANS, Dawes county hopes to reduce Its exponses for the coming year to $30,678 0. P. Perley of Broken Dow has a 2-year« 14 steer that weighs 1,725 pounds, An immense wildeat was caught by a traps per near Benkleman the other day. The Merchants hotel at Wakefield has been copened by a gentfeman from \Wayne. A. Talbot, formerly postmaster at Brainard, fod after a lingering illness of diabetes, Johnson county proposes to expend $20,000 | In bettering its roads and bridges this year. A mad dog in York county bit two horses, mule, three hogs and a cow before it could | bo killed, Cheyenne county commissioners estimate hat it will take $49,600 to run the county the oming year. The barn of Willlam Brown of Table Rock as consumed by fire and a horse perished in tho flame A quantity of frozen carth fell on John lemlick of Atkinson and his leg was broken | in two places. There Is a revival on at Genoa and all the usiness houses of the town have been closed venings to help on the good work. The citizens of Albion are being stirred up Rospel temperance meetings, conducted lexander r of Michiga The Nebraska City Militla company will old a reunfon on tho anniversary of jts re- urn from the Pine Ridge Indian campalgn, anuary 17, Harry Mason of Table Rock went on a pree on Christmas and Kept it up until Sun= ay, when he expired. Ho has wealthy rel- ll\v’wlln New York, and they have been otified A Dolled Ang bull belonging to acobsen, near PI; nview, fell into a de Hans erted days. for a °W moments, but it soon started for home as gh nothing had happene Mrs. McMurphy, - living near Stoddard, hayer county, tried to straighten out a bent pressing on it with her shoe, ing the fron she puhsed it hirough her into her foot, burning a hole half ay through her instep. Then she tried to ull the poker out and burned her hands A doctor s in attendance, ——— CCMIC CHATTER, Free Press: ed him with faiiure 't het s0? Whut was sh Detroit Albany Journal: A man In Bay Tich., has written 749 poems which are nof > be published Il after his death. Lo fe to him! 2T e hington Star: Prisoner—Your policeman struck me: New York Magistrate itor Life: Wife—There ave some of m. honor, how much? comes that tramp 1 biscuits to the other day. bl Thi: t Tushs his' must be = hig 1se Post t's What is? the doctor have to pay for it. Tribune: T Wrest— i I have four little children c ome for bread. Mrs. Potts—For goodness ! I don’t sce how the nelghbors stand You don't live in a flat, do you? The average man out’ just how many true v starting out among the a much-needed very Me- treats erett Somerville Journ: find Atlanta Constitution i “Queer people, al editor, In what way?" “'Can’t understand English. 1sed them to gis and, bles Merely ad- e the new mayor plenty my soul, they lynched im?" Judge: TBobby- ister will be down In a few minutes, Mr. Softly; she's upstairs re- earsing. Mr. Softly (who has come prepared)— E ing, B-bobby? Bobby—I “don’t know, fust; but she's flanding in front’ of the ‘mirror and blush. 5 ng anc ng: “Oh, Mr. Softly—er—thig is so sudden!” THE SKATER. Boston Courler. She stars, she moves, she seems to fee] The ice dru{: from her skates of steel; And then she cuts, by strange device, A pretty figure on the ic H1S CORNCOR PIPE. George H. Conrad In Chicago Tribune, Jes' a plain ol' cob, that's all; Rats shelled it in the bi But got the peth all hollered out To put the 'backy in; - An’ got it sort o' tapered some, An” whittled down a few, 'An hole bored In it fur the stem To suck my heaven through. ‘When T've been workin’ hard all day, An’ all the chores is done, Stock is fed, an’ supper's et, An' twins 'a-havin' fun, Like to take my pipe an' set Afore the fire at night, Feet cocked up on the mantel shelf An' back log glowin' bright! An’ thar T set an’ watch the smoke Curl up in litte rings, While Sl is singin’ roun’ the house An’ workin' while she sings, I set an’ spit into the fire, An’ smoke, and dream, ind_doze, Till pipe flips upside down and spilfs The ashes on my cloze, Tell ye whar's th, That's by the fire at home, Whar I kin set an’ dream, an’ snooze, An’ smoke tell king'um' come, Big {:I;lkx kin smoke their murshem hipes, Er fine seegars, may be, But ijIl ve what, this ol’ e place for me— cob pl the thing fur met °*" P'P® Yeur Money’s Worth or Your Moncy Ba 300 Odd Suits— Some of the sizes are gone in certain styles, These Special Prices apply to . colors and - prices —Some lots have no sacks and ome have—while in the Ovepcoats midst of the 300 odd suits and [J]sters on the broken size tables, fact remains, these 0d1 Suits | you'll find sacks and euta- ways—single and double breasted sacks and even Prince Alberts — but the are from the choicest styles and the choicest colors—or they would not have been so nearly sold out—In order to clear them out we've put them all on the fro are something like these : There are four $8.50 suits—now.. There are seven $12.60 suits Some $15, $16,60 and $18 sults- now Bome $15, §16.50, $18 and $20 sults There are four $20 suits—no Some $18, $20 and §22.50 suits Some $25.00 and $30.00 sults—now. Some $25.00 and §25.00 suits—now There are five $35.00 sults—now You never bought new this season’s m class suits at such prices—as some of them will be gone th now.. now.. quick nt counter and the prices 8 6,00 .8 7.60 £10 00 80 813,60 815,00 . S18.00 .. 820,00 $26.00 ake of high the lots are badly broken e first day. now. 800 PANTS“A good assortment yet of those $5, $6 and $6.50 Pants ing black worsteds and black and §$7, your choice at §3.75, at $3.75 — includ- clays, worth $6 $3‘7s BROWNING, KING & CO.