Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1895, Page 4

STERTNE LS NOSEWATUR, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIX 5 OF SUBSCTUITION, Dajly Bee (Without Sunday), One Year.... One Year.. bune DIg. ws and edl- » the Editor. Al communieations relating to torial mutter whould be addresamd BUSINESS L s letters and remittances should be o The Mee Publishing eompany, Drafts, chiecks and postoflice orders to o payable to the erder of the company. THI) DEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. ULATION, of The Rea Pub- snys that unday Bee 1805, was STATEMENT OF CIR George I Tzschuck, Nshing company, being duly . the actual number of full and co of the Daily Morning, Evening and printed during month of January, as follows: s 10,505 » Lee 10200 20,711 D198 20,1 10,612 15490 ) ) L 10668 10,0 L1078 19,441 19,478 203 L1068 10613 110,348 Do oy Total. ., Toss unsold Total sl Datly average *Sunday. nd retnrned copls GRORGE T, T s Sworn to before me and subscribed in my pres ence this 24 day of Februnry, 15 N. P. FEIL, Notary Public. s upon which “the ature could achieve greatnes: by emulating the example of cong and simply doing nothing. Lengthy Petition Lawler of Chieago Is the man who is in a position to sympa- thize with the disappointed applice for the Omaha postmastership. Another marine dis s fatal as the loss of the Elbe would have been a Dblow to ocenn travel from which it would not have soon recovered. The time was when a change of post- master meant a change for ¢ ry em- ploye in the postal service under him. appily, that time has long sinee ident Cleveland conld employ his Titerary talents in the production of messnges to congress it is just possible that he would be compelled to case hi mind by writing poetr. ssed. 1f Pre rogne will do much to counterbalance the bad effects of the Blbe disaster upon people | frightened n voy When it comes to fine financiering the county commissioners will, in order to meet the exigencies of the situation, have to adjust their receipts and ex- ]mu(l]iurn;\' with a hair balance. who might be templated oce out of con- A plan has been formulated by the friends of the Associated Charities whereby the usefulness of that institu- tion may Dbe maintained and.aug- mented. The charitable people of Omaha may be relied upon to respond liberally to this appeal as it deserves. The Woman's club has now tackled school board finances. Tis convolutions can bave little effect, but whatever the measure of its influence may be its present agitation simply speeds the day when teachers’ salaries m be ma- terially cut. Most of our teachers are women. The legislative bill for an act to put commission merchants under bonds is designed by its promoters to inspire or restore confidence in such merchants upon the part of country shippers. The bill has some commendable features. The question is, Will any legislation compel an unscrupulous dealer to be honest? Mayor Strong of New York will find, now that the enactment of the power of removal bill has given him absolute control of the municipal government of that city, that the difficulty lies not so much in ousting bad men as in sup- planting them with good men, There ave always plenty of office scekers wherever there arve offices, but the right kind of office seckers are usually pretty scarce. Mr. Hill wants congress to again de- clare the policy of the government to be to maintain the equal value of ever; dollar issued by authority of the United States. We have already had such a declaration, and we have seen three issues of bonds made ostensilbly in pur- suance of it The prs fied with the e law, an, dent seems satis. pression in the existing My, Hill's plan would not give him stronger ground to stand on. Why doesn't ey press his claim 1 alleged defieit of fo penses of his office? that the inspection of gasoline, for which he collected 10 cents a rrel during a period of two years, was with out warrant of law. But a considerable portion of the expenses which he has certified to the audior was ineurred for the very purnose of inspecting gaso- line oils. Proceeding on his own con tention, then, Mr. Hilton must have charged up to the state the expenses of illegal inspeetion. The further the Hil- ton shortage Is probed the worse it gets. Oil Inspector Hilton fust the state for the compared with ex- Mr. Hilton elaims Secretary of State thousands of dollars wi supplies before his retivement from office. His ¢ ivogance is known to all. Repeated attempts have been made to learn who furnished these supplies. No bills have as yet been vendered for A large share of them. The legislative committees whose duty it is to pass upon them are at a loss to understand the delay. The probability is that these bills will turn up toward the end of the session, when an attempt may be made to railroad them through. But they will be watched with great inter- st by those who believe that the state has been wulcted. . Allen purchased rth of legislative which was recently sent | former dangerous character, It t DAD The corregpondence betwween our gov- ernment and that of Germany, relative to the discriminating duty on sugar, 0 the senate in response to a resolution requesting it discloses the fact tl there exists in fecling that this country d faith in fmposing a duty on fter having obtained concessions from that country on the | understanding that its sugar should be exempted from duty. The German am- | bassador, in a communication to llm; State department, said that “the excite- | ment which prevalls in German agrical- | tural and manufacturing circles on ac- | count of this inequitable treatment of German production is the more vehe- | ment and the less easily resisted inas- mueh as it is generally believed that the United States, in the agreement of August 22, 1891, guaranteed exemption to Germany from the duty on sugar, In turn for the conversion of the conven- tional duties on American agricultuy products, and the removal of the restrie- tlons on the importations of swine.” This was written while the tavifi bill nnder consideration in the senate, and it | clows that the German government | was not influenced altogether by the fact that the proposed duty could not be veconciled with treaty stipulations in force between Germany and the United States, Th is substantial ground for the view that this country did not act in od faith in this matter. While it eannot be said that our government, in the negotintions which resulted in the removal of the restrictions against the importation of American hogs and pork products into Germany, committed itself to an absolute assurance that German sngar should be exempted from duty, at any rate heyond the term of the admin istration then in power, still there ¢ be no doubt that the representations made by our minister, with the anthor ity of the government, were of such nature as to warrant the German gov ernment and people in believing that the reclprocity effected was to have some permanence, and that respect for it would last longer than a couple of yvears. It may be admitted that the German government ought to have un derstood, if it did not, that in the event of the transfer of the poritical control of the government to anafliy party a change of policies was to he expected, but it might very naturally reason that mutual interest, iy rate, wonld probably maintain the agrecment. It remains to be sesn whether the cor- vospondence on this sunject <ent to {he senate by the president wil have any influence upon that body. The hoase two weeks ago passed a bill to repe the duty of one-tenth of a cent on su. imported from countriss which p: port bounty on suzar, the m receiving a majority of 208, Noth has been heard of the bill sinee it went to the senate and was veferred, and ther <on to avprehiend that noth- ing further will be heard of it in this congress. In that event it is Lighly wrobable that there will be a renewal of exeitement in German agvienltaral and manufacturing cl which the government will be forced to give heed to by additional discrimination agaiust American products Germany acted in 1 German sug was | LA GASCOGNE SAF The safe arrival of the Freneh line steamer La Gascogne in New York harbor sterday more than a week overdue shows that there was no cause for the thoughts of shipwreck that were beginning to take hold of people with friends or ives aboard. It would have been nlmost impossible for a ve sel of that size and strength to founder without leaving some one to tell the tale, Dbut the successive reports of incoming stenmers they had seen nothing of La Gascogue unavoidably led to the fear that some serious if not fatal ac- cident had occeurred. The remein- brance of the too recent frightful Elbe disaster sed up horrible pictures of a repetition of t eat ophe. No wonder then t the progress of La pe up the river to her pler as- sumed the character of a grand ovation by an exultant people, The record of the voyage is peculiar, perhaps unique. The trip that ordi- rity would have been completed in eight days at the mo s protracted 1o seventeen days by reason of repeated mishaps to the machinery and impedi- ments of the weathel During all that time,- strange to say, the vessel was sighted by but a single ship, and that only on the third but last day out. For not one moment did the passenger show any signs of active discontent, their confidence in the ability of the captain and crew and in the construe- tion of the ship infusing their minds with o cheerful, though impatient, resiz nation. In spite of the disabled condi- tlon of the machinery the vessel sue- ceeded in finishing the voyage entirvely with her own vesources, and aft a few renairs will be in condition to re- swe her regular schedule, The happy outcome of the alarming delay will do much to dispel the growing dread of the s of transatlantic travel. Modern ocean steamships divest vaveling by water almost wholly of its is sel- dom that anything worse befalls pus- gers than delay, which, although as in the case of La Gascogne exasper- ating and annoying, involves no real hazard. WOMAN'S LOGIC, he Woman's club has seen fit to adopt a resolution endorsing the move ment of a few alleged moralists to de prive the school fund of the proceeds of fines and licenses that are now by con stitutional provision applied to the sup- port of popular education. We might expect women ordinarily to display a distinet leaning to mawkish sentimental. ity, but we have been led to look for sowething higher from the intelligent body of women ‘who compose the Woman's club of Omaba. The only pos- sible explanation is that some of the more ignorant wewmbers have been led to propose the present action and that the others who voted with them did so without consideration or reflection. The | bear this wording of the resolution, which asserts @ bellef that fines and licenses “is" al crime and favors an amendment to the constitution “deflecting the funds from their present source into other channels,” strongly argues in support of this theory. What little discussion the women in- dulged in over the question appears to have been a peculiar mixture of sense and nonsense 1t fov example, that the police court fines come from people who could iilly afford to burden of supporting the hools. As if “deflecting the funds” would in any way relieve offenders of the necessity of paying fines or make the burden uny les Agzain, the present method of raising school money in part only from direet taxation was deprecated because so exceedingly un certain, when as a matter of fact the revenue from fines and licenses has for years annually exceeded the cstimates adopted by the school board in making up its regular budget. Finally to show a keenor and womaniy of morality the suggestion s ven tured that it would be entirely appropriate and desivable that mone derived from fines and licenses be applied to a hospital fund to pay for ministering to the physically id mentally diseased, Dbecause the tendency of such expenditure would be to lessen vice. As if the pubiie school system were not the powerful ageney for the restraint of vice and the suppression of erfme that was ever yet | devised by man! If there is a taint upon the fine and license money that | renders it unfit for the support of the public schoo any taint when it is devoted to hospital purposes or to the maintenance of the government? Nearly nine-tenths of the employes of the public schools are wonen nstead | of abetting a plan to cut off their source of income the women of Omaha should be found upholding the constitution, which guarantees to them beyond the | reach of legislative encronchment the money that enables them to prosecute the greatest moral work of the age— universal education. TO PUNISH LY NCHING The legislature of has under consideration a bill to impose penaitios upon lynehing. It provides that the connty in which the erime fakes place all Be beld pe urvati y responsib'e rnd | shall pay to the legal veprescntatives of the vietim a sum not less than $3,000, It also decrees that the sheritt who lets a prisoner eseape, unless he is wounded and disabled in the effort to vetain him, shall be at onece deprived of his office. as has not so bad a vecord for lyneh ings as some of the other sonthern states, and there has been 1 fested there a strong povular sentiment against th wethod of disposing of persons charged with certain erimes, so that there is r son to expect that the proposed law will be enacted. In that event Texas will set o good example to other southern states. It is certainly time that the legisla- tures of the south waked up to the duty of providing more stringent laws for the | punishment and repression of Iynehing, the prevalence of which has long heen a reproach and a deawbs to that sec- tion of the country. We I not at iand the data showing the extent to which t wmiline southern practice has been carvied on in recent years, but it is entively safe to say that it has grown from year to year, encouraged by the immunity from punishment of those who in this way outrage law and civili- ation. It has very rarely happened that any one engaged in a lynching in the south has been brought to justice, the rule Deing that the authorities, if not in sympathy with tire lynche manifest no desire to have them punished. This state of affairs has naturally created a general impression, not confined to this country, that the people of the south have little resnect for law, or that the lawless element dominates therve, It has been shown t this is the feeling abroad, and it has been urged that the lynching brutalities in this country made n much stronger demand upon the attention and concern of the Amer- jean veople than the atrocities in Ar- menia. That the pr ence of lynching is a damage to the south the more intelligent of the people there unquestionably un- derstand, That section wants immig tion, and it ean offer favorable oppor- tunities for the industrious and thrift Dbut people who respect law, and parti ularly those from abroad, will not go south because they have not contidence in the law-abiding ¢ cter of the peo- ple there. They have learned from the frequency of lynchings and the fact that those who are guilty of it escape all punishment to think that law is not so supreme in the south as elsewhere, nor Justice so certain, This impression will not be corrected until the southern es adopt stringent laws for the pun- ishment of lynching, preseribing severe penalties, and which shall also hold the authorities to their strict enforcement, was suggested, sever more sense most is there loss gene An unscrupulous lobby may cause the introduction of legislative Dbills whose provisions are in the interest of the people, The lobby, however, does not operate for the benefit of the people. Its sole purpose is for the envichment of the lobby. Its bills are put up with but one aiw in view—that is, to vequire in- terested parties to pay for the defeat of proposed legislation. Honest members, recognizing the merits of these measures, are disposed to support them, and do support them, only to find that the bills have been smothered and that their support has laid them personally liable to suspicion for the duplicity vracticed by the lobby. Such a condi- tion of things is dawnable, but it will exist just so long as dishonest men sue- ceed in ereeping into the legislature, And now ex-Oil Inspector Hilton's bondsmen claim that they ave not liable to make good any loss sustained by the state by reason of the failure of the principal to perform the duties of his | several | very favorable terms, and | Be [has just been office. They intimate that the bond upou which they became sureties is in- tended only to cover damages which private consumers of oil might suffer from any neglect of the inspectors to apply the prescribed test. This is de- cidedly novel—a state officer entrusted with the colleetion of state money with out any obligpfipn to account for and torn over that money to thé public trensury. W flght expect the bond to be contested on the ground of some legal technieality, #The purpose of an official hond to inst falthful performance of duty Is too plain for auibbling. It is thowght that the project of a cable to H:\‘ i, 16 be constructed 1 the government, which has received the approval of the senate, stands small chanee of being endorsed by the house. Perhaps the sgrongest argument in of thiglfeheme is the fact that a trita® wants to lay a cable to the istnds from Vaneouver aund is un- dorsto d to 1o scoking o <o jcession from the Hawalian government for this pur pose, but this is hardly a sufficient rea- son why the United States should spend millions of dollars in making ¢ connection with Hawail. 1f British government should lay a there can be no donbt that our ment conld arrange for its use on there is no any eirenm se o deprive us tolegrap! the cable gover reason to yreliend that nees would ever @ of this channel of communication. If national treasury were in better mdition and the revenues keeping up with expenditires the proposition to lay A cablo to Tlawaii might be popular, but it is safe to say that a majority of the people do not favor it under existing circumstances, It is havdly nece to say that it has the hearty support of all who are in favor of annexation. sar The United States marshalship for the distriet of Minnesota seems to be giving President Cleveland no end of trouble. surprised the politiciang originally by appointing J. Adam le to the place, but Bede conld not abide the stringent rules against electioncering by leral office Lokders, and ned his wee just, before the last election. s proposed suece Willinm Canphell ccted by the senate, the president in as great a ndary as ev Bele was the butt of innumerable jokes, but he managed to got nlong in the ofice. It may be that M. Cloveland oxit is by, put ting bim baek without solicitation, just as he did in the resi teaving ensiest irst instance, Some of the cities and towns of Ne braska impose an oceupation tax the rvepresentatives of outside mer- chamts. The Omaha charter empowers the mayor and council to regulate and fix the tolls on bridges and transporta- tion lines enfering the city. But the Pullman car company escapes all such just and re: e excises and yet stubbornly refu pay the general city tax levied against its property in this city. It has the means with which to contest all such levies. Omala is a corporation it $100,000,600 of assets, yet it seems to De powerless to compel this and othér corporations to pay their lawful taxes, upon s to The Bo! work figuriif bty it ¢an secure a la appropriation, thgn is allowed it by the new tax levy-ordinanee. If the board put as mueh“work at keeping its ex- penses withiii its resources as it does t trying to get more funds it would greater satisfaction to the whole body of taxp t Heads for Globe-Democrat. a melancholy fact that a democratic congress pever misses a chance to lose an opportunity. ness. 1. ought to s'md Mrs. Domin! marked coples " of papets containing tailed nccounts of the Llizzards raging in this country. Somebody Perhaps Japan Wil Objzet. Denver Republican. The report to the effect that several Euro- pean powers will unite to put a stop to tilities between China and Japan should v £rairs of allowance. 1 of that kind of talk shortly after the war began, and all anted to nothing. Tt would be difficult for two or more of th® great Euro- an powers to unite upen a line of action én regard to Chinese matt , and to this would be added the cbstacle that all at- tempts to interfere with Japan would be res nted by that country’ - ‘Waunted u Popular Loan. Boston Glabe, We regret that the administration did not take occasion to authcrize a popular loan. It is undoubtedly easier 1o deal wilh syndicates then = with indi . and, of coul the forsign bankers wiil send back in paymert for the honds enough goid to form an amply sufiicient reserys of the yéllow metal in " the t ¥ ricans in general are mot par however, to financial ‘methods that inurd to the profit of syndicates, when our people only ask opportunity to assist their government, and would gladly take up low rate bonds of small denom/nations, had the authorities at Washington se:n fit to offer them to the public. iy Conspiracy of the Pawers, Chicago He But Japan herself is with. Her military and nay shot no sign of exhaustion, people have supplied the sine She has struck upon the once Chinese pavy a most stasgering bl the destr of t twén ships, the Chen- Yuen the “Ting-Yuen, both German built and stoutly defended. While winter may defor further advance toward the Chinese capital, Japanese forces are fo intrenched “at strategic points that the outcome of revived operations in the & is easily fc en, At this juncture the conspiracy will doubtless deem Its ‘‘right moment” has arrived, Japan will not sur- render to the conspirdtars without a. sturdy fight for the fruits of victory. Germany S not yet #poken as to the game. The emperor mayiahink his moment will come about that time also, own war, rous Presidentinl Schemérs. St Paul Ploncer Press. What the Ameérican people want today and all the #ime, ubove all other things, is men of courage. The man who stands the best chance -of being nominated and elected o the pregidency 18 the man who s not afraid o déclare "what he thinks is right and stand by it let the lightning strike where 1t Will. If there is anything that can fili7he people with more intende disgust and wrath than that which they feel toward congress it will be the sparring between” possblepresidential’ candidates o see who can get the advantage of position at the saerifile of nationul lll‘ior slj. o Presidential - aspirants who are fixing their eyes on,dher votes of the silver states are making agvances to incalculable folly What figure did "the votes of those states cut in 18927 Where were they in 18047 The next_election 15 not going to be decided in the Rocky mountaln region. It is not going to confer honors on a man who cither has no opinion or dare not express it HILTON'S LITT Nebraska City News: Bx-Oil Inspector Hil- tonm collected fees for inspecting gasoline which he says {s not used for illuminating purposes, and now refuses to turn the money over to the state treasurer. Hilton's own confession wakes him no better than a self-confessed mbezzler Ord Quiz: Get after the al the public funds n get after him all the bharder. This the advice of the Quiz to our state legisla tur T higher his position and the more influential he may be, the more searching and unfiinching let his investigation be. We have no toleration for o public thicf, no matter to at party he belongs, but we are doubly pposed to him when he Is a republican, be- cause he not only wrong: the commonwealth, but alds in bringing reproach upon the party whicly alone is able to bring the country out of the slough of despond into which it has fallen. If reports are trus it would be well to investigate a fow of the chief ofl inspec- tors, for instance Lineoln News: If it is true, as he claims that Oil Inepector Hilton has been collecting fees which he is not. by law collect, then he ought o be bran about as dishonest as if ke had been fzed to collect the fun and failed count for them. 'Ab the only difference appears to be that in the « instance he can cltim the right to kecp the money he says he has extorted from people by ans of the anthority of his office. It matters not that may lock just as dishonest, so long as he can snap his fipgers at the state and the law In these latter days a geod many men get into office who care not that the people may know them to be dishonest as long as they can profit by it and escape punishment. It would be the rankest sort of a farce to allow Hilton to escape an accounting with the state on the flimsy pretext he has alleged. It Is marvelous that any man conld have the hardi- hood to stand before the public in the lght that he has thrown around himself. It does eom as if an honest man who should find himeelf in the position that Hilton =ays he is in onght to feel a good deal like a se'f-con- fessed embezzler. ofMc ho and if he Is a_repub- —_————— PEOPLE AND THIN ident Casimir-Perier Hence his fall. be consistent Denver should repudiate bill for a mint. It is a gold measure. x moths hence the now spurned ice fac- tory would command the lion’s share of popu- lar affection Down in the blizzard belt the suggestion “If you sce what you want, go freeze to it," is entirely superfluous. We can afford to be g-nerous toward unfortunate of the blizzard belt. brethren, and thaw out The report that a cigar- that the Come west, legislative employe neg- lected to draw his pay for a whole week is an uncalled-for reflection on patriotism. Busincss cannot be as bad as the croakers wssert, when §600.000 worth of silk sells at anction in one day in New York at fair price The only adequate punishment of treason Hawaii is to compel the traitors to read il the speeches the islands provoked In the American congress. One of the tall characters of the next con- gress will be Cyrus A. Silloway of Man- chester, N. H. He stands six feet in lis stockings and his voice has a genuine 16 to 1 silver ring. The Mexicans do not believe a scrap with weaker neighbors will prevent them from mak- ing an attractive show in more peaceful line A great international exposition of industri and fine arts is to be inaugurated on the 2d of April, 1896, in the City of Mexico. This will be the first exposition of the republic. Tians Christian Andersen, the Danish story writer, fond of the stage from a boy, and el singing and dancing to prepare for a theatrical career. Once his name was printed on a program in the part of a spirit in a ballet, but the talent he showed in writ- ing a play secured him opportunities for a literary educatien, and he abandoned acting. Wil'iam H. Hill of Hill's Station, Pa., died last week at the age of 100 years 2 months and 22 days. Mr. Hill's chief elaim to fame rests on the statement that he was a con- sistent democrat, but the claim is modified Ly the further statement that he was a tem- perate man. He died in the house he was born in, and chewed tobacco for eighty-five yoars The municipal election in Philadelphia takes place next Tuesday. Despite the low tem- perature there is considerable heat in the campaign, and several investigations into the conduct of various city departments supplies an abundance of political fuel. The manner in which franchised corporations absorb water was brought to light in connection with the charter granted the Mutual Te'ephone com- pany. This concern was capitalized at $1,000,000, but_the total cash paid in was only $4,000. The watered stock, however, proved effective bait, and being handled in liberal quantities by men with a pull, a val- uable franchise was procured from the city. NEBRAS| About 150 people have been converted at Milford as the result of revival meetings conducted by Rev. A. E. Arrington. A defectivo fluo caused the destruction by fire of the farm house of David Jones near Tablo Rock. But little of the furniture was ved. M. W. Haywood of Grand Island was se- vorely injured by being kickel by a cow. Orn rib was fractured and his arm was broken. Lewls Glenn, who was lost in the sand hills of Keith county for six days without food, has had seven toes and a part of one foot amputated. The State Board of Pharmacy will hold a mezting at the Grand hotel in Lincoln today for the purposo of examining applicants for rezistration as pharmacists. The exami- nation will begin at 9 a. m. While Mrs. Laura C. Simmons of Arapahoe was prepering some medicine containing tur- pentine on a hot stovo the mass suldenly ignited and was thrown over one of her hands, fairly cooking the flesh, The G-year-old son of Mr. Campbell of Har- risburg was lost during the blizzard and all tho people in town turned out to hunt for nim. While the search was in progress the boy reached the steps of his father's house and fell exhausted on the porch. He was badly frost bitten, but will recover without sustaining any permanent injury. e ING OF PULLMAN. Mr. Pullman may have mistake into one of the upper THE P4 Chicago Tribune crawled by berths. Chicago Record: Mr. Pullman and the ground hog seem to have adopted a com- mon view of the requirements of the situ- ation, St. Louls Republic: Judge Grosscup of the Chicago district federal court intimates that George M. Pullman is in contempt. Certainly he is, and has been ever since last summer. Chicago Times: The subpoenas issued for George M. Pullman and some of his prin- cipal assoclates in the Debs trial seem to have driven these genelemen hastily out of town, If this is the Invariable effect of such subpoenas on magnates, we would be pleased o furnish Mr. Debs' attorneys with a list of names of gentlemen whom they might thus affright with profit to the community. B Ruank Discrimination. Park sburg ipse The fast mail trains from Chicago are all right, but lowa people ought to be accorded equal privileges with Chicago. If a fast train 18 necessary to get Chicago mail into | why not reverse the operation and maintain a fast train for lowa mall into Chicago and the east? Then there could be no talk of a discrimination, which cer- tainly exists now. Tow: Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 8. Gov't Report Baking Powder t have a peculiar idea of honesty, as e | FOREST B PRESERVATION Senator Teller Reports a Substituto for the One Passed by the House, NOTHING BUT THE TITLE RETAINED Secrctary Hoke Smith Introduced n Meass | ure Which Was Mut d in the House and Re the Senate Commitiee. ected WASHINGTON, Teb, 12 people one of the most interest problems they have been called upon to consider is the management of the forest reservations that have been created during the past years by idential proclamation, and the protection he preblam has been puzzle to Sceretary th of the In department, who has no authority to employ men to look after the forest re- as they were created through his department and lands, they are still under his Jurisdiction, They subject to his control with nothing to con trol them with. A bill prepared in the land office was sent to congress by the secretary, but it did not meet the approval of the west- ern men. After being amended in many particulars and made to conform to the wishes of the western men it passed the houss and was sent to the committee on forest reservatfons In the sonate, Senator Teller of Colorado, a member of the committee, has recently reported the bill to the eenate, but it is not the measure which passed the house, and bears only the name of the bill. 8 rikes out the entire bill s one which I thinks will meet the wants of the people and carries 17,000,000 acres of timber now set | in forest reservations in different states and territorios. Mr. Teller's substitute provides that no forest resorvations ehail be established ex- cept to fmprove and protect the forest within the reservation or for the purpose of se- curing a favorabla condition of waterflow and to insure a continucus supply of timber for the people of the etates wh such forest reservations are located, but it Is not the purpose of this act to authorize the in- clusion within the reservations of lands more valuable for the mineral thereon or for | agricultural purpises than for timb The sceretary of the Interior is authorized to make regulations for the protection of the | forests from fire and depredations, and their | occupaney and use under such rules as will in- sure the objects for which they were created He Is empowered to sell dead and matured trees, but particular care must be exerclsed in making such sales. The money to be used s a special fund for the ecare and management of the reservations. The secr tary is authorized to permit the use of tim- ber and sicne on the reservations free of charge to bona fide settlers, miners, residents and prospeciors for minerals, for firewood, for feneing, building, mining or prospecting pur- poses. Settlers are also to be allowed to pasture their cattle on the reservations if they live within the bounds and the building of roads when necessary is not pro- hibited. The sccretary is alio authorized to sell timber from lands not within the reserva- fon and unfit for cultivation, and which may be cut without injury to the public interest, and uss the proceeds for forest reservation and protection. The secretary is also authorized to grant permits free of cost to cut and usa timber for tha construct'on of bridges, school houses or other structu for public use in the vicinity of such timber, and that bona fide residents cn the public lands and prospectors for minerals may be permitted to take tim- ber from the public lands, under regulations to be preseribed by the sccretary of the interfor for firewood, fencing or building purposes upon their claims, but not for sale or_speculation. Provision s upon land in western sorves, and yet are public are made ‘for a settler who is a reservation to secure other land and receive payment for his improve- ments, Settlers may maintain schools and churches within the reservations, and are granted two acres of land for each school house and one acre for each church. Each state within which a forest reserva- ton is located shall have civil and criminal jurisdiction over persons in such reserva- tions, The secretary may restore to the public domain lands in any forzst reservation which have been found better adapted for mining and agricultural purposes than forest acres. Lands, the mineral character of which may be shown in accordance with the rules for explain'ng mining lands, shall be restored to mineral location and entry. Prospectors and mineral claimants shall have access to the reservations. Secretary Teller thinks that this substitute for the house bill unites all the requirements, and that it amply protects everybody con- cerned. Gen-ral Bussey Recovering. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.—General Cyrus Bussey, formerly assistant secretary of the treasury, who was seriously injured in a runaway accident yesterday, passed a very good might and is reported to be resting easily today. 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