Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 8, 1895, Page 4

THE OMAHA DALY BEE - ROSEWATER, Baitor. M8 OF SEURSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (Without Sunday), One Year. Daily Bee Sunday, One Year, 8Bix Months. . benes ‘Three Monthi Bunday Be atur 5 ‘Weekly Bee, One Year. OFFICES, Omaha, The Tiee Bullding. Bouth Omal Rk, Corner N and 24th Sts, Council Biu 1 Street, Chicagn Office, 317 amber of Commerce. New York, ljoms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Bidg. Washington, 1407 Street, N. W CORRESPONDE ing_to onped TERS ittances s lishing com Jostofice orde the company. 2533333 4 and edi- ‘o the Bditor. All business letters addressed o The Bee Qmana. Draft made payn L) STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. George 1. Taschuck, secretary of The Bee Pub- Iishing company, being at the actual number of of the 1 g, printed o month of Ja an follows: 11 19 19,450 20,105 19,793 19,068 R oAl e D Less unsold and returncd o Total sale. 3 Dally av *Sunday. ORGE B, TZSC i< d subseribed In my pre 189 Sworn 1o before me ence this 24 d Out of sight—the mercur namental thermometer. xplain why indoor skating is just now more popular than the outdoor sport. Those constitutional shotld by all m voters amendments ns be submitted to the at the next biennial election, The grand jury fixes the length of its own sitting. There will be time yet for.everybody to be heavd before it. TFor a man who has said his last word on the valued policy law Captain Palmer is still talking rather voluminously and loudly. Now that populists hold the bal- ance of power in the senate the ques- tlon recurs, What are they going to do with 17 Be prepared for an a low zero stories capes from from freezing. alanche of be- of hair breadth es- almost inevitable death If George M. Pullman will pay the de- linquent taxes his company owes this city our city officials will return the annual passes he gave them and all will be forgiven. The entries for the county commis- slonership race are still open. If there is any eligible politician who has not yet announced his candidacy, he should lose no time In putting his name on the list. The death of Robert Clegg leaves a vacancy in the membership of the democratic state committee. This ig the opportunity which Buclid Martin ought not to neglect. A chance to be made regular does not come every day. After the consular and diplomatic service has been depopulated of repub- licans for the benefit of democratic officeseekers the democrats in the senate have suddenly become converts to the principle of civil service reform in all branches of the State department, The railronds are now battling with the blizzard. Belated and abandoned trains are reported over a wide section of country. But the winter is far spent and this is the first time the operation of trains has been seriously interfered with. ‘There is nothing to arbitrate. —_— Secretary Morton publishes a revised edition of his recent address before the Nebraska State Historfeal society in the North American Review under the title of e Financial Muddle.,” Sec tary Morton's associations in the cabinet ought to enable him to speak of the muddle, if any one can, Marquis de Pullman may yet be cast nto a dungeon for contempt of court. Should that terrible thing come to him we hope the turnkey will give him a lower berth and chain the upper berth down, even though it be tenantless. Then the marquis will know how his patrons are made to suffer. — Attention has been called to the fact that not one of Secretary Carlisle’s es- timates of revenue duving his incum- beney of the treasury has come any- where near the mark which the lapse of time has proved correct. If his pres- ent estimates of probable surplus for 1805 are no more accurate than his pre- vious guesses they need not be taken fnto account at all, Bvery resolution of the city council appropriating or involving the expendi- ture of money must have the approval of the mayor the snme as contracts and ordinances. The charter provides ample protection to the city treasury against petty ralds from any source. Its rigid enforcement will stop many leaks which at the end of the y show large expenditures of money. People need not expect the snccessor of Senator-clect Thurston as general so- Heltor for the Union Pacific railroad to be appointed while the legislation in which that road Is so deeply interested 18 pending in congress. There are too many ambitious attorneys in both houses of congress whiose votes are not unacceptable, but whose ardor in the ecause of the funding measurcs wight cool were the prospective vacaney in the legal department to be immediately closed. We may be sure that the Union Pacltic rvecelvers will proceed very slowly and take every circumstance under careful conslderation before they decide who is to be the next general Solicitor for the road. FAITH IN THE GOVERNMENT. President Cleveland is reported to have expressed the belief in response to the representations of certain bankers a8 to the urgent necessity of speedy action to replenish the gold reserve that the American people and those with most at stake have sufficient confidence in the vernment and its institutions not to entertain any doubts of its ability and purpose to faithfully perform every obligation. He did not, therefore, share the fenr of these bankers as to any gerlons danger from a further deple- tion of the treasury gold reserve. This may not be quite consistent with the tone of the president's special appeal to congress, but none the 1 it is a welt founded view, Were 1t not for the almost boundless confidence of the peo- ple in the government conditions might have been very much worse during the past year and a half than they have been. In that perlod this confidence has been put to a ve test. The people have seen the revenues of the government falling steadily below the expenditures, the public debt in- creasing, the gold reserved for the re- demption of the paper obligations of the nation drawn from the {treasury and sent abroad, and while all this was taking place they have also seen the party in power hopelessly divided as to what should be done to remedy these conditions and the leaders helplessi floundering about in search of some way ont of the dilemma. The people have witnessed the administration and a vty in congress pulling in different directions regarding a finan- 1 policy have seen the sec- retary of treasury pursuing a course the tendency of which has been to impair the credit of the government. Still, the people ve never lost confi- dence in the ability and purpose of the government fo faithfully perform ever obligation, although the strain ever since this democratic administration and congress came into power has been hard. This confidence Is due to two facts. In the first place the people know that the rvesources of the government are practieally inexhaustible, and in the second place they understand that the ance of the credit and the in- the government rests with It is in evidence that a damage the credit of the do incalculable injury to and welfare of the people, but no party can destroy the nationgl credlt except with the consent of a majority of the people. For some time past, or since the last gene election, popular faith in the government ha been strengthened and buoyed by the knowledge that the next congress will be republican, at least in one branch, and that it will give the country no financlal legislation that is not in the interest of a sound and stable currency and for the maintenance of the credit of the government. The people have no expectation of getting from this con- gress any wise and safe financial legis- Iation, because they know the dominant element in the democratic party, which demands free silver and a state bank currency, will not permit it. But they feel secure against a worse condition of affairs in the fact that the life of this congress is nearly ended and that it has probably done about all the harm it is capable of doing. No people have greater confidence in their government than the Amerfean people, but it might not have survived another two years of complete democratic control. severe party nation and the intere: SHE GIVES IT The arrest and imprisonment of Liliu- okalani appears to have entirely broken the spirit of the late queen of Hawail and it is announced that she has sur- rendered all claims to the throne, having changed her attitude of hostility to the republican government to one of suppli- cation for clemency. There can be no question that the deposed queen was in full sympathy with the recent attempt at rvebellion and gave to it all the aid and comfort at her disposal. It is stated that her house was found to be a verita- ble arsenal and there is no lack of evi- dence to show that she was an actlve party to the projected revolt against the government. Still it is to be hoped that her appeal for clemency will not be un- heeded. Lilinokalani I8 a very weak woman, who has always been a catspaw in the hands of a lot of adventurers. It was the Influence of these men that led to her downfall and it'is to them mainly that she owes her present posi- tion as a prisoner charged with the most serfous crime that can be committed against a government. These adventur- ers have persuaded her that it was pos- sible for her to regain the throne amrd in her great eagerness to return to the little pomp and power which she had enjoyed she could not see that she was being misled. At last she has been brought to see the groundlessness of her hopes and she gives up the fight, as she onght to have done long since, when there was a chance of receiving such cousideration from the government as would have enabled her to live out her life In peace and comfort. As it is the government of Hawaii may not punish her for evident complicity in the at- tempted insurrection, but it will hardly feel disposed to provide for her future. As a matter of fact, Lilluokalanl had no claim to the throne and therefore could surrender none. IHer deposition was as complete as that of Dom Pedro of Brazil, who never afterward made any pretension to having claims to the throne. But a great many of the ignoi ant and deluded royalists of Hawaii be- lieved that the elahm asserted by Lili- uokalani was well founded even after the republican governwment had been recognized by leading nations and her abandonment of the alleged claln will have the effect to remove this notion from the minds of her followers and to put an end to conspiracies among them. With the vauishing of the idea of restoring the deposed queen will disappear all schemes of lusurree- tion, thus rendering more secure the peace of the Hawailan republie. for so far as its stability is concerned that seems to be fully assured. But the government has another test to undergo in dealing with the arrested Insurree- tionists, who, it is sald, are to be tried by court-martial. The new republic may find it wise fn this matter to take a les- g THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1895. son from the example of this country In dealing with rebels. AN IMITATION OF SCOTT. Among the decisions handed down by the supreme court of the state of Wis- consin on Monday was one which took soverely to task one of the judges of an inferfor court for assuming to exer- clse the pardoning power which is vested in the executive alone. The judge in question, Judge Clementson, hod undertaken to suspend the opera- tion of a sentence after it had been pronounced. The case was carried to the supreme court, which in its opinion administers this seathing rebuke: In this case the execution of a sentence already pronounced is indefinitely suspended, and it may be the pleasure of the court never to direct execution, so that the suspension has the effect of a pardon or of arrest of judgment indeterminate or final without the authority of law, and it is to bo likened to the incorporation Into our criminal juris- pruglence of the “ticket-of-leave” system with- out any of its safeguards, leaving the con- victed criminal subject to the mere option of the judge, who may direct the enforce- ment of the sentence after any lapse of time, however great, or withhold it, to the great detriment, it may be, of the Interests of the public, a power plainly liable to great abuse. In the state of Nebraska a power equally dangerous and subversive of the constitutional liberties of the people has been usurped Cunningham R. Scott, the judge presiding over the eriminal benceh of this judicial district. He has attempted to exercise the par- doning power in favor of criminals in direct violation of the law, not only after pronunclation of sentence, but also after a plea of guilty without sen- tence. If a judge could indefinitely postpone sentence and let the prisoner out on bail after hearing him plead guilty to the charge against him, as did Judge Scott in the Woolridge and Jar- dine cases, we would have a “ticket-of- leave” tem in operation even more arbitrary and more liable to abuse than that which the Wisconsin supreme court so vigorously denounces. The question is whether the legislature, in which the remedy lies, will, by ignoring such judi- cial usurpations, give them its silent endorsement. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. It is related of Peter Cooper that he on id an encouragement to young wmen, “I have made it the rule of my life never to receive anything from the world for which I did not render an equivalent in some form of service.” A great many people seem to have re- versed Peter Cooper's principle and to be exerting every effort to get as much from the world in return for as small an equivalent as possible. The great test of success lies with them, not in making important contributions to the welfare of society, but in getting something for nothing. There are a great many ways of get- ting something for nothing. /The law,| defines a few of them by the terms rob- bery, forgery, embezzlement, obtaining goods by false pretenses. There is an- other way which I8 in specific instances referred to as bribery and which con- sists in perverting the opportunities of public office to private gain. Too many public officers are not content with the compensation of their office stipulated by statute, but insist upon increasing it by questionable perquisites or by sell- ing indulgences to override the law. A great proportion of the measures consid- ered by our legislative bodies—just what portion it is impossible to say—are noth- ing more nor less than schemes by which their promoters hope to get some- thing for nothing. Whether it is the free use of the streets of a city or the exclusion of smaller competitors from business, or a contract foms public tvork at exorbitant prices, the ultimate object is the same. But just as in the physical world mat- ter cannot occupy two spaces at the same time, what one party gains with- out returning an equivalent another loses without receiving an equivalent. In case of robbery the loser is an indi- vidual and he knows the extent of his loss and the remedies for his wrong. ‘Where, however, the process is under forms of law, \vlle)-o, for example, a val- uable franchise is given away by recre- ant representatives of the people, the loss falls upon the whole people and is s0 distributed that no one knows to what extent he has personally been de- frauded. Here the responsibility of pub- lic officials is doubly great because they are entrusted with the rights of the public and the public is able to defend itself only through them. VALUABLE COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT. The new commercial agreement which has been entered into between the United States and Spain will be ap- preciated by the agricultural interest of this country, since the effect will doubtless be to restore to us the mar- kets of Cuba and Porto Rico for bread- stuffs, which we lost by the termination of the reciprocity arrangement, as well as other products of both the farm and factor, As_soon as the reciprocity agreement between this country and Spain, applicable to the Antilles, went into effect, the Spanish government re- imposed upon American products the old tariff rates, which as to most of these were practically prohibitory. Un- der reciprocity this country had almost monopolized the markets of Cuba and Porto Rico for flour, the trade in this one article having attained to large and profitable proportions, while our ex- ports to those islands of all articles in demand that weré very materially in- creased. In a word, we had established trade relations on an enlarged scale with those islands which were mutually beneficial and which were ecertain to grow with the development of the is- lands. Pretty much all of this was lost with the ending of reeiprocity, owing to the relmposition of the old maximum tariff by the Spanish government, which seemed to have been done in a spirit of retaliation, since at the same time the minimum tariff was applied to mer- chandise exported from Canada to the Spanish West Indian possessions. This discrimination was taken notice of by our governemnt and negotiations en- tered into with a view to placing the United States at least on an equality with other countries. It required an caruest presentation of the watter on the part of our government, carrying with it af=fiplied purpose to meet the discrimingti with retaliatory meas- ures, to 1\.:&”‘ the Spanish govern- ment to recede from its poli and this having been accomplished there is rea- son to expect that there will not soon again arise any disturbance of the com- mercial relations between the United States and Cuba and Porto Rico. Of course the{{new agreement does not glve this country the advantages en- Joyed under the reciprocity arrange ment, but it puts us on an equality with our comnifRfal vivals and in a fair competition we shall undoubtedly have the boest of it The administration is to be com- mended for having brought this about, and if its action in the matter can- not fairly be regarded as a conces- sion to reciprocity it was at least an indirect acknowledgement of the value of that policy. Brazil pursued the same course as Spain in relmposing the old dutfes on imports of American pro- ducts and the administration would do well to turn its attention to that country with a view to obtaining more favorable consideration. The administration financial bill was defeated in the house yesterday by good majority and with it went the sub- stitute offered by Mr. Reed. his was the third measure which had been pre- sented to congress as representing the financial views nd - wishes of the president and secretary of the treasury and its failure will probably put an end to further efforts from that quarter to shape currency legislation by this con- Bres It will also serve to strengthen the conviction ‘of the hopelessness of getting any financial legislation from the present congress. Other measures will be proposed, but it is perfectly obvious that there will be no practical ult from any efforts in this direction. This being the case the only thing to be done is for the s tary of the treas- ury to issue the bonds necessary to re- store the gold reserve and sell them on the best terms he can get. As the def of the administration bill wz generally expected the effect in finan- cial circles will not be important. Governor Crounse refused to endorse the demand of the university regents for an extri half mill tax for that in- stitution. Referring to it in his mes- sage, he said: “While I share in the just pride the people of the state feel in the university and appreciate the importance and+desirability of provid- ing higher education for our young, yet I cannot repress’ the suggestion that with the state, as with the family or in- dividual, the question of cost and ability to pay it must Ue considered in connec- tion with the question of desirability.” On this peint Governor Crounse was unquestionably_fn accord with the gen- eral popular sonilm on the subject. e Rellef commission an- nounces that it as more clothing than can be made of service to the drouth sufferers for whom the contributions were intended,- Intending contributors may take thie hint and make their of- ferings In the! f6im of fuel, provisions, feed or seed grain, but it will be much safer to supply the destitute set- tlers with more clothing than they ab- soluiely need than to leave them expos:d to blizzards. —_— The Pet of Fame. Globe-Democrat, The member of the present congress who has made the most motions to adjourn will have the best standing in history, The Pupll Teaches the Teacher. . Washington Star, Japan is disposed to discourage the tradi- tion that a lavish consumption of time and an enormous surplusage of conversation are necessary to the transaction of official busi- ness. The little Island will be giving lessons in diplomacy ye g A Crlses Epldemlc, Kansas City Star. General Weaver's assertion that we are “face to face with a great crisis” suggests the unhappy fact that wo are also face to face with Weaver, who is in Colorado, where they declare crisis dividends every month. The general has passed the greater part of his life seeing crises. It is a sort of delirium tremens, ——— From n £artisan Standpoint, Louisville Courier-Journal (dem.). Looking at the matter from a strictly partisan etandpoint, as most of the Tepub- icans in _congress have insisted on looking at It, it would be better for the republicans that the present congress should take some definite action on the financial question than that it should be left entirely to the next congress. The republicans are about as badly split up on monetary matters as the democrats are, Gettysburg n Natlonnl Park. Philadelphia Record, Among the great battleflelds of all the world's history there is none that Is more hallowed in {ts memories or that stands for a nobler lesson than Gettysburg. The Union has fittingly chosen it as the na- tional military park. Its soil, as President Lincoln declared in his memdrable address, has not needed this consecration. The in- termingled blood of the Blue and the Gray, the common heritage of patriotism and manhood of both the north and the south, has buptised this great kround forever as the pulplt-fleld of the government of the people by the people for the people. e Tho Peoplo Must Pay. Chicago Dispatch, The Brooklyn Street Raflway company se- cured jts franchise for nothing, It has be- come enormously wealthy. It has given in return poor service, It has beaten the world's worst record for grade crossing slaughters. It has,increased the hours of labor and ground down its ‘employes’ wages. It has forced tham Into a strike costing hundreds of ‘thousands of dollars. It ‘hias dlscommoded tha public: has suddied on the taxpayers a heaVy bill ‘for military service and has causedHieavy 1058 of life and prop- erty. i And now it will modestly ask the city of Brooklyn to pay dumages sustained by the company during ‘ANg'strike. " Caesar had told us that “All Gl was divided ino three parts.” We can'locate at least two of the parts. 133 The Hos 3t » Function, 0 Herald, The annual ball'of the Chinese minister at Washington anfiially brings out ' that gre- garious thing, the Washington hog. This year the herd pustid by the inert footman, and to the number of 800 filled the embassy to which anothgr 400 persons had been in- vited. ~ The unifrrr. Who was ordered to provide for 400 afid found himself confronted with 1,200, doubMeéss “Swonders whether they do these things better in China. The minis- ter naturally dislikes to ask for police pro- tection for a legation- ball, but as every country is under ebligation’ to protect for- elgn embassies from mobs, the Washington local authorities should station a Gatling &un, hose cart with water on and a brigade of police in front of the Chinese minister's next year, The Washington hog will not be kept out by any less formidable barricade. THE REJKCTED REILLY BILL. Washington Star: The house of representa- tives did the right thing when it recom- mitted to the committes on Pacific railroads that measure which s popularly known as the fanding bill. The scheme involved promised profit only to those who have al- ready secured possession of very much more than is their own. Chicago Post: Whatever may have been the pretext of “protecting the government™ on which this bill was put forward the measure has very generally been regarded as a device for the relfef of the pirates of tho Central Pacific. Under its terms these patriotic citizens or their heirs would escape the payment of their debt of $70,000,000, and they labored unremittingly for the bill, with the result that they were able to muster to their support most of the queer birds of the house, including our own amiable Cannon. New York Herald: The wholo Paclfic rail- way business presents a scandalous record of plundering and wrecking with the United States as the chief victim. The government has simply been buncoed out of untold millions, and yet, notwithstanding that, the proposition is coolly made that it shall de- liberately consent to bo still further victim- ized. The United States has had enough of this shameful jugglery. It s high time for the government to look out for its own and the people’s interests as well as the welfare of the roads. That it can now only do by foreclosing its liens and making the line a national highw San Francisco Chronicle: These rallroads do not want nor intend to pay their debt to the government if they can help it. This may be natural—at least it seems to be characteristic of corporations, which, the richer they become, the less willing they are to pay their debts-—-but congress has to deal with an artificial, not a natural condition of things. There Is really no more excuse or apology for the beneficiaries of the Reilly bill than for an individual who, as a member of a firm, has accumulated an immense private fortune, and yet, when called upon to aid in making good the liabilities of his firm, demands an extension of half a century, with a reduction of Interest, and with no security except his individual promise to pay. New York Tribune: A republican congress will not be found paltering with_that issue or leaving it as one of the complications cf the campalgn of 1896. It will be promptly met; will be treated as a business proposi- tion' in a business way; and its settlement will furnish another proof of republican capacity for conducting public affairs in strik- ing contrast with the confessed incompetency of the party which has for the last two years been making a muddle of everything it touched. It was the republican party that built the Pacific road after the democrats had wrangled over it for years without being able to agree upon the route to be followed, or the means to be adopted. And it is proper that the same party should effect a settle- ment of the debt, after a demccratic congress has attempted it and made such a wretched failure. Springfleld (Mass.) Republican: Thus the aim of those In favor of government opera- tion of the roads will be assisted by pre- venting legislative action looking to the security of the debt, and forcing foreclosure, Such is the outcome of ten years of special inquiry and effort in the direction of extend- ing and securing the government subsidy. The roads have meantime been plundered to make a few millionaires and innocent parties hold the securities from which so much of their value has been squeezed. The next cougress may have more regard for the in- terests of these people, but the crimes of the men who built and plundered the roads and robbed the government of its just due will still_stand powerfully for summary actfon on the part of thie United States against the roads and against the men and estates that have so profited from the enterprise. g PEOPLE AND THINGS, It is much easier to predict a surplus than to make one. It was the wise ground hog that pulled the hole in after it. While Dr. Parkhurst Is doing the gesticu- lating Tom Platt is cornering the spoils. From Reed to Richards is quite a leap. The former could count a quorum; the latter can- not count a_vote. Emperor William has a wine cellar of vast extent and varied stock and is himsel? an expert sampler. Very little of the wine spolls inthe bottles, Augustus Stanwood, recently appointed ac- countant In the Brocklyn pollce department at a salary of $2,500 a year, is a cousin of the | late James G. Blaine. Ignatius Donnelly and Henry George are contemplating a joint debate on the aboltion of poverty. The success of the debate will not be known until the returns from the box office are in. The chaplain of the New York senate re- cently uttered a prayerful appeal “that all crooked things be made stralght.” The suc- cess of the appeal depends on the boss to whom it was directed. Ex-Queen Lil's abdication is likely to com- plicate the Hawailan difficulty in this coun- try. If she should carry out her intention to lecture, the Honolulu revohition won't be a marker to the uprising here, Under the Minnesota law as interpreted by the courts, husbands are held responsible for libels committed by gossiping wives. The inalienable right of life, liberty and the pur- suit of gossip, is sadly abridged in the pin- erles, Prince Bismarck has a curious superstition In connection with the number three, and ap- parently not without reason, He has served three German emperors, he has fought in thres wars, ho has signed three treaties of peace, he arranged the meeting of the three emperors and established the- triple alllance. Some secrets are coming out of the judiclal end of the administration. Ex-Solicltor Gen- eral Maxwell, It seems, was a railroad attorney while in public office. With that lofty regard for the integrity of the public service char- acteristic of Attorney Geperal Olney, he re- moved the cdium and Maxwell at the same time. In his opinion none but an Olney ca serve two masters, The richest man In congress at present Is Representat've Sorg of Ohio, He s sald to be worth about $15,000,000, and has an income of fully $1,000,000 a year. Nearly all of it came out of his plug tobacco factory at Mid- dietown. Mr. Sorg is an unobtrusive man who has few acquaintances In Washington. He had no particular desire to go to congress, but was elected In ®pite of his passive protests, Ho has introduced a few bills, but has made no speech, Colonel W. Seward Webb's uniform as aide- de-camp on the staff of Governor Woodbury of Vermont is sald to be something that eclipses anything ever attempted by the vain- est and most gorgeous Saracen warricr in the most glided days of Saracen glory. The clothes alone cost $1,570. The bra'd on the dress parade coat is of gold, and the lace which festoons the outer garment came di- rectly from Paris. Cclonel Webb's sword Is from Damascus, hav a diamond in the hilt and cost a cool $2,700, New York and New Jersey aroused to the necessity of checking the Qestruction of the famous Palisades of the Hudson river. For a long time past greedy quarrymen have blasted and destroyed por- tions of the majestic rock walls of the historic river. Public indignation and protests only served to stimulate the wreckers. Governor Mertz of New Jerzey, in his annual message to the legislature, callad particular attention to the subject, and the New York general as- sembly is glving the matter sericus consider- ation. Prompt action s reasonably certain, Al Timea Change and Nourbons, Too. New York Tribunc. The same old emaciated and moss-covered party that opposed the issue of bonds to provide means for carrying on the war is fow in favor of issuing bonds as a means of bolsteris up the public credit in time of peace. The most conspicuous expression on the countenance of such statesmanship is that of lofty scorn for the lessons of his- tory. have been ODOR OF MUSTY DOCUMENTS fouros of the Pad Smells Which Offend the Logislators’ Noses at Washington, VITIATED AIR AT THE NATION:L C!PiTOL Senators and Representatives Hreathe the Fames Off Rotting Papers Stored for Years In tho siasemont of the Bullding A Nieo Kitohon. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.— The investiga- tion of the methods of the architects of the capitol Is furnishing considerable occupa- tion and some surprising revelations have come to light In the committee on ventila- tion and accoustics which is conducting it. The prime movers In the inquiry are Chalr- man Schell of the committee and Repre- sentative Walker of Massachusetts. Every morning they make a tour of the subterra- nean passages under the capitol, accompanied by a stenographer who records the questions which are put to employes and their answers, as well as the comments made by Mr. Walker and other members, some of which will make decidedly spicy reading when the report is printed.” It has been generally understood that the sanitary condition of the capitol was not good and It is certain that the atmos- phere pumped into the house is deficient in oxygen, but all the causes which affect the health of the members have not before been realized. A conspicuous factor in the vitia- ting of the alr has been discovered to be storage of old public documents which fill the basements. There are hundreds of tons of these books and papers printed at the government printing office and assigned to members for circulation among their con- stituents, but never used. They have been accumulating for years and are rotting in the dampness which pervades the lower cellars of the great building. Colonel Richard Bright, the sergeant arms of the senate, told the committee that in some parts of the senats basements decay- ing papers were piled four feet deep, while the board floors under them are also rotting. So dense was the odor from the piles that workmen could not stay longer than half an hour without becoming sick. One member of the house testified that when a load of documents which had lain in storage for some months and which he sent for, was dumped in his office the ofor from them was 50 intense that it compelled him to leave. Perhaps the most startling facts brought to light were in connection with the house restaurant, which was investigated this week Mr. Thomas Murray, the keeper, has com- plained of the limited kitchen facilities al- lowed him and the establishment, so the com- mittee visited the Kitchen. They found it in the subcellar underneath tne house, ad- joining the Turkish batfis, which are used by the members regularly. The vapor from these baths fills the kitchen constantly, keep- ing it at such an intense heat, Mr. Murray says, that the employes are often ill. The restaurant_keeper said, in reply to a ques- tion from Mr. Walker, that he would not eat food himself which stood in the kitchen three minutes after being prepared. It is expected that the new printing bill now in preparation will provide for the dis- position of the documents so they will not accumulate as In the past Fraudulent Land Claim. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The story of a claim for land that has been hanging over the Dbest part of the territory of Arizona for over a century s told in a communication sent to the house by Attorney General Olney, who asks for an additional appropriation: of $25,000 for fees and expenses arising thereunder, The case i that of James Addison Peralta-Reavis and wife against the United States, pending in the court of private land claims, for the confirmation of 12,750,000 acres of land In Arizona. An accompanying letter from M. G. Reynolds, United States attorney for the court of ‘private Jand claims, says, a. large amount of testimony has already been taken on behalt of the government as to the forgery of rec- ords from which certified copies of the muni- ments of title were taken, showing conclu- sively that the grossest frauds are being per- petrated against the government to secure a confirmation of the claim. The ramifications extend through the arch- ives of the City of Mexico and Guadalajara, Madrid and Seville, Spa'n, and to California and Arizona, “We have taken sufficlent testimony,” said Mr. Reynolds, “and made sufficient investiga- tions to prove that forgery, perjury and subornation have been committed in almost every form.” The letter sets forth that the claim is enormously large, the land Is with- drawn from sale and settlement initiated under the public land laws have been sus- pended. The largest and best mines and the irrigaticn prizes in the Gila and Salt river valleys are covered by it. The capital of Arizona and its most flourishing towns and most thickly settled portlon of the territory has been beld back and today stands waiting for the government to speedily and success- tully defeat, not only the claimant if possible, but the claim itself. The grant carries all minerals and is absolute and unconditional, If, continues Mr. Reynolds, the clalm is not fully and completely defeated, it will subject the goveroment and its citizens who are try- ing to develop the country to continual ha- rassing and will stand as a menace to every enterprise inaugurated for the development of the mineral and agricultural interests. The case can, he asserts, be won before trial by its careful preparation, THE COMING SURPLUS, Chicago Tribune: Secretary Carlisle soos A rainbow with $22,663,023 at_the foot of ft, He is prepared to name the odd conts also If anybody Is particular about it, Courler Journal: Of course Secretary Care lisle's estimate that there will be a surplus of over $20,000,000 in the public revenues by the close of this year will be ridiculed by the republican organs, just as Mr, Wilson's plain statement of a fact in the house the other day has been ridiculed, Globe-Democrat: Secretary Carlisle's es- timate that the government's revenues will exceed expenditures by $22,600,000 in the calendar year 1895 will bo taken by many person with a grain of salt. The secretary's forecasts of this sort in the recent past have been o uniformly and conspicuously falsified by the facts that his latest prediction will 1ot attract the attention which he desires or arouse the hope which it would otherwise croate, Dertolt Free Press: There Is pleasant reassurance in the letter of information sent yesterday to the senate by Secretary Carlisle, Estimating upon the basis of laws now in force he reaches the conclusion that the rev= enues of the government will meet its ex- penses for the current year and net a sur- plus of over $22,000,000. ~ His showing is one to beget confldence and to allay the fears aroused by calamity howlers who have been pleturing the country as upon the verge of ruin, Chicago Herald: The fact that the customs revenues last month amounted to about $17,» 000,000 is an Indication that Mr. Carlisle’s estimate is conservati This s more than has been received for customs in any one month since March, 1893, It {s more than twico as much as was rocefved last July, $6,000,000 more than in December and $7,000,- 000 more than in November, These are facts which go to support Mr. Carlisle’s estimate and the president's declaration that the de- pletion of the gold reserve was due mnot to lack of revenue, but to bad laws relating to polis Tribune: One theory is that 'y Carlisle’s letter to the senate con- taining the estimate of $22,500,000 surplus 13 a little scheme of his and President Cleve- land’s to head off revision of the tariff, for the purpose of strengthening the revenus, by the republicans at the next sessfon. It is a very shallow policy, however, to attempt to deceive the public, for the facts will coma out from month to month, and If the deficit continues there will be a universal demand for revenue legislation. An adequate rev- enue would break ‘“the endless chain’ de- scribed by the president, which is draining the treasury of its gold it I TRITE TAKE-OFFS. Boston T clgan)—~The: mend. George- one that you self. necript: Robert (extending & e is a cigar that 1 can recoms “Thanks; but I should prefer would care to smoke your- Atlant. oing for uh | titutic iiving n hat 1 ¢ gittin’ a my home ¢ ain’t none er yo' feathers in my yard, Marse John!" Chicago Tribune: hen T was In your line of business, my fiiend," said Mr. Fel- laire, glving the greasy tramp a half-dollar and kicking him off the front steps of his mansion, “1 always had sense enough to go round to the back d Philadelphia -Record: Customer (who has just been cut by a barber much given to strong drink)—There, you scoundrel, that's what comes of too much drink. Barber— Yes, sir: it does make the skin tender. Washington Star: “Don't you think there is a great deal more peril In coasting than there s in sleigh riding?" she asked. “Tt_depends,” he replied reflectively, ‘on which kind of peril you mean; physical or financlal.” Indianapolis Journal think,” asked the Inquisitive young person, “what would vou think if Bob Ingersoll were to get rellglon and die converted?’ “What would I think?’ echoed,_Deacon Podberry, with much warmth. “I would think it 'was a darn swindle, that's what T'd think! ‘What would you AS TO WOMEN, Detroit Free Press. The brand-new woman, who surely is here, May be all right in her self-imposed sphere, But the same old woman, who shrieks at a mouse, Will continue, the boss of the house. THE RUSBAND. as ever, At a Sorosis dinner rccently the lady who responded to the toast ‘‘Our Husbands" gave the following verses: Who weds because we are o dear, And then forgets—when it 18 here— The anniversary every year? The husband, Who when he's donning evening clothes, Would with an_angel come to blows. And lets the whole house hear his woes? The husband, Who sometimes makes us quall and quake With tales about the bread and cake His mother used to make and bake? The husband, ‘Who calls the landlord with a frown, And then slips out and goes up town While wifey talks that landlord down? The husband. But when the clouds are dark and gray And ruln seems not far away, Who takes the helm and saves'the day? The husband. Who grumbles lots, as well we know, That here no wine'shall ever flow, Yet in his heart is glad 'tis s0? The husband, And 5o, n water pure and clear, Fit emblem of our sisters here, I drink the health of those 8o’ dear— Our husbands. heuneue CLOTHIERS G Your Moucy'a‘* Worth or Your Money Back, We Blowed Ourselves Once for some cloth and tailor's wages to make us up a lot of overcoats to sell for g10— we'll never do it again——It was the biggest mistake we ever made-— but we're going to remedy it by selling them all—Saturday-—~the one day only—at $4—an overcoat ~=They are meltons--cheviots — all wool overcoatings, with plain or velvet colors— worsted lined—silk sleeve lined—most of them every thread wool—$4—our trade don’t buy gro overcoats much—and we'll never make any more §10 overcoats. For ¢4, Saturday only. Then to give those who want to pay more, a chance—we have marked several lines of Kerseys— Meltons—Chinchillas—some silk, some serge lined— black, brown and dark colors—Overcoats that were sold up to today for $18—g20—s22.50—¢25—and §30 Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8, Gov't Report RoYal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE the higher priced ones being in small sizes and short lengths—the rest long and lots of sizes—at $14.75—for Saturday only-—But that $4 overcoat— there’s the bargain, if there ever was one—g10 over- coats for $4—one day—Saturday. BROWNING, KING & CO., Reliable Clothicrs, 8. W Cor, 15th and Douglas.