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THE OMAJIA DAILY BEE: _MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1895, NOSEWATER, Editor | A - — PUBLIEHED EVERY MORNIN — RIFTION One Year.. Ye TERMS OF Dailly Dee (Without Sunday), Daily Ten and anduy, One Eix Montha Three Months Bunday 1 . vl Baturday Tice, One i Weekly Bee, One Yent . OFFIC The Tee Buildin Mo Bouth Omalia, Kinger Lk, Corner N and 24th Sts, Counefl 1 ! vl Sirect, Chicago Office, 217 Chamber ot ¢ New York, ltoon 14 and_15, Tribu Washington, 1407 t, N. W CORRESPONDEN i All communications relating to news and edi- | torial matter whould be nddressed: ‘o the Bditor. | BUSINESS LETTERS | ANl buginess ) and romitiances should be ai. hing company Omaha. Draft » orders 10 be made pa SUBSC { ,.$800 10 8) 50 270 ) [ Omana, Blag. CIRCULATIC ary of The T oF 10 L 19 an | 19 | 17 043 | Al Fiatsiny and returned copics. tal salc e Daily avera *Sunday Eworn to before me and su ence this scribed 1595, Notary N my pres- Publle. The hope for an international bime- | tallic agreement now centers on many. Tt is to be hoped that Mr. Martin's modesty will not be permitted to keep an anxious public much longer in sus- pense, Congress will have all it 1 to in its two remg without wasting Liliputian republ attend ning weeks of life W more tine on the of Tawai Tt takes China almost as long to make up her mind to agree to peace as it did | to make up her mind that she could not fight after the war with Japan de was Is it too much to ask the financial question it is plain that it anything in the s lation congress to leave alone so long as mot upon medial legis- Tor the time being, Afric supplanted the north jol ite field for explore The situation may summer time, has again as the favor- s and discoverer: be reversed in the Sinking fund money constitutes a trust fund. The legislature will do well to go slow about dissipating the county sinking funds to provide seed grain for the drouth sufferers. Ex-President Casimiv-Perior scems to have found a position in France very simflar to that cccupicd by ex-presidents of the United States. He is hidden un- der a mantle of surplus honor. The state treasury paring for another ight In the legislature this week. Every true repre- sentative of the people will be expected to stand up for rigid economy and re- trenchment. are pre- Bill Dorgan is the most accomodating man in the state. He is willing to do anything the legislature may require of him providing only nothing is re- quired that has not previously been approved by him, Recretary Ludden of the State Relief commission has accounted for receipts, but not for expenditures, The people would like very much to know for what and to whom the money collected by the commission has been paid out. There 1s no doubt that the easter delegation will exert all its ingenuity and teading capacity to pull the bill through to loeate the state fair perma- nently within two wmiles of the Lincoln postoffice. This is perfectly legitimate 80 far as they are concerned, but it re- maing to be seen whether a majorit the legislature can be enlisted to the scheme. The new university appropriation bill proposes to set aside $73,000 to complofe the unfinished library building. The estimate contained in the last report of the regents, including generous sums for stem and sewer connections, added up only $72,100. Competent builders e mate that it ean be finished for le; than §50,000. Why should the legisli- ture approprinte $23,000 more than is needed? Every tub should stand on its own bottom. The proposition to permanently locate the state fair at Lincoln stand or fall upon its own merit. All the threats and talk abont relocating the university from Lincolu to Omnha are stupid and preposterous, The univer- sity Is a fixture at the stte capital and should so remain for the next hundred years. Omaha has no reason to be jeal ous of Lincoln on that score and Lin coli should not be permitted to dragoon Omaha into voting « appro- priations for the university by threats of monopolizing the state must The State uniy nts the legisla- ture to appropriate $10,590 out of the state general fund in addition to the | gjon from G usial three-eighths mill levy to cover the difference between estimated ex penditures and revenues during the com- fng biennium. In other words, the uni- versity regents propose, notwlithstan 1i the unprecedented distress and insol- vency of the state, to keep up all their extravagant and unnecessary fads, even to the point of creating aunother defleit in their funds. Isn't it about time for the university to conform its operations 1o the resources at its command? Why should not the State university be com- | vontormity | is cmphatic THAT PENIT! Attorney € pended conside in endeavoring argument in teaded elafm in possession VTIARY CONTRACT. neral Churchill has ex- able labor and Ingennity to frame a plausible support of the pre of W. I. Dorgan to be of a legal contract as of the state penitentinry. In his formal opinion, just made public, he maintaing that ever act of the legislature in connection with the penitentinry lease and extensions has heen in with the provigions of the constitution, and ends by putting the state under obligations to the present claimant of the contract, but leaving him absolutely free from any counter obligation to the state. The whole question powers of the 1 isting The arisin, is one of the gisluture under the ex constitution of Nebraska. citation of decisions in cases in New J Massachusetts, Arkansas and Tennessee back in the 30's and 40's are no more relevant than the constitution of the late southern con- federacy Ex-Attorney General Leese furnished the committee on penitentiary of the last legislature with an opinion on the law and the facts in the case of this so-called contract, which is printed in th and which reaches pre- cisely opposite conclusions, Mr. Loeese that in attempting to ex- 1 lease of the peniten tiary the legislature plainly excecded its authority, Other eminent legal authori- tiog, whose opinions carry even greater weight, have expressed themselves of the same view. The original contract with Stout was not entered by the I lature, but by the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings, and that after asking proposals and passing on com- petitive bids, This was in exercize of anoexecutive power, The legislature cannot constitutionally exercise execu- tive functions, and o when, in extend- ing the Stout contract, it altered the terms, it rveally attempted to make a new contract—something entirely b vond its jurisdiction. The same is true with respect to the second extension. If the legislature can make such a con- tract without inviting competitive bids it can usurp all the executive powers of government and make contracts for every state institution with favored in dividuals by special legislative act. The constitution, of course, contemplates nothing of the kind. The legislature can’ authorize the exccutive officers to enter into contracts with successful bid- ders, but it has no constitutional author- ity to enter into them itsel So far as Dorgan is concerned, the result is the same as that arrived at by Attorney General Churchill. Dorgan is under no special obligntions to the v except as temporary occupant of ate property, because he never had a valid contract of any Kind. The bonds- men of Mosher are not bound because the alleged Mosher contract was illegal and the bond given to secure its enforce- ment likewise worthless. On she part of the state, however, the result is quite different from what the attorney general would ve us believe. An executory contract involves mutual obligations. If Dorgan is under no obligations to the state, neither is the state to Dorgan, and for the same son that there is no binding contract to which cither is a party Dorgan has possession of the penitentiary by sufferance only. All the state has to do to regain possession is to go ahead and take control. The state is, however, in honor bound to’ reimburse Dorgan for such of his property as is now part of the peniten- tiary plant. The state would have no more right to confiscate the property of Dorgan thian that of any other man who may have succeeded in squatting on state lands without a valid title. 10, issue tend the origin SILVER IN GERMANY. The cause of silver is again com- manding earnest attention in Germany. The adoption by the Reichstag of a reso- lution instructing the government to in- vite an international mone! confer- ence to take action for the rehabilita- tion of silver as a circulating medium is very significant and will have the effect of renewing interest in this ques- tion throughout Xurope. While the German government has not given any indication of a willingness to depart from the financial policy Inangurated more than twenty years ago, and which was in fact the initial blow at silver, the disposition manifested favorable to an international conference must be re- garded as very encouraging to the ecnuse of Dbimetallism. What it evidences is that the element which demands the rehabilitation of silver, and which Is chiefly made up of the rming and laboring classes, though there are also manufacturers identified with it, is gaining in influence, and what is true of this element in Germany appears to apply to it in other Iuropean countries, The expediency of reverting to the double standard is be- ing serfously discussed in France and there ‘s 1o be no reason to doubt that bimetallism is gaining ground in England. Nothing is to be pected for the advancement of the cause from the present government, which is irrevo- cably committed against it, but when- ever o conservative government again comes into power there is every reason to believe that a larger recoguition of silver will he a feature of its policy. 1f this question were submitted now to the voters of the United Kingdom it is not to be doubted that it would re- ive a very large vote and probably a majority of the agricultural and work- ing classes. That it will be a prominent issue in the next general election is con- ceded on all hand: he United States will undoubtedly make a favorable response to an invita- nany for an international conference to consider the rehabilitation of silver, and this country can be counted on to do all that is practicable to bring about such a rvesult. All parties her in favor of bimetallism, but the rveal friends of that policy are opposed to the country attempting to es- tablish that policy single-handed and without the concurrence of the other great financial and commerelal nations, because they know that this would bring us to silver monometallism. The pelled to keep within the bounds of its wegular appropriations? debate in the senate on Saturday dis- closed the real purpose of the silver men, which is not to obtain bimetallism, its | perfect | but to establish the doctrine that the government may pay its obligations in gilver. They are for the white metal alone. While the failure of past mone tary conferences to bring about any practical results may somewhat dis- courage the hope of anything being ac. complished by another conference, still the action of the Relchstag holds out a promise which the real friends of bi- metallism can regard with much satis faction, CHEAP CAMPAIGN THUNDER. There is no doubt whatever that the | great mass of the people of Nebr | republicans, populists and democrats, are in accord with the people of the Pacific const and the Rocky Mountain states in opposition to any funding scheme that would legalize the fraudu- lent debts and over-capitalization of the Union and Central Pacific railroads, be- eause such a measure wonld entail upon this generation and many generations yet unborn the burden of paying this colossal debt, interest and principal, It is equally true that the election of John M. Thurston as United States senator does not commit the republican party of Nebraska or its representatives in the legislature to the Pacific railrond funding scheme. Thurston was elected not because he w the general solicitor of the Union Pacific, but in spite of the fact that he was the general attorney of the Union Pacifie. He was clected as a republican upon the platform of his party and the pledge e would serve the people in the e as faithfully as he has served his corporation, client and employe The attempt to make political capital against the republican party by the in- troduction of resolutions in the legisla- ture that would seemingly commit it to the championship of the Reilly funding bill, which was Kkilled ten day: 0 by the aid of the votes of the Nebraska republiean delegation in the lower house of congress, can deceive nobody who has taken note of the subject. Had a simi- solution been introduced in good ith and without partisan ear marks we feel certain that it would have ear- ried by the votes of a good majority of the republican members. manifestly a thrust from political minority that wants to manufacture campaign thunder instead of divesting themsel of party bias, that the senators and congressmen from Ne- braska would be positively directed what Nebr: desires them to do in the settlement of the Pacific railroad debt, the whole matter has been sidetracked at le: for a time. It 1s to be hoped, however, that the republican majority in the legislature will leave no vulner- able spot in the party record by dodging an ue which is bound to become con- sequential in the next eampaign. Being S0 THE CHARTER AND THE WOLVES. Curses, like chickens, come Lome to roost. This adage réceives striking illustration in the periodic recurrence of charter mutilation at every session of the legislature. When the charter for cities of the metropolitan class was first framed in 1887 by a committee of city officials and leading taxpay it was torn up and mutilated by a gang of legislative wolves. The charter had passed the senate as it had been framed by the Omaba charter committee, but when it reached the house it was taken out of its proper course from the hands of the committee on cities and grabbed up by the committee on judiciary, of which *“Colonel Russell,” now commis- sioner of public lands, was chairman. This action was a part of a conspiracy fomented by managers of franchised corporations and boodling contractors who were dissatisfied with its provisions. In collusion with this gang was the South Omaha combine, which wanted to be exempted from city taxes while en- joying all the benefits of Omaha's municipal government. These various interests were in turn also supported by a gang of land speculators who did not want the city to exercise the right of eminent domain in Ilaying out a system of parks. All these elements found in Colonel Russell a willing and pliant tool. The charter was held back up to the last days of the session and placed in the hands of the governor in mutilated form. The loss inflicted by this piece of scoundrelism upon the taxpayers and citizens of Omaha can scarcely be com- puted. It could not be replaced by millions of dollars. In the first place the creation of a park system was delayed several years and when the city did buy the parks we had to choose such tracts as were left after the sub- division of lands adjacent to the city into scores of additions, Had the charter not been mutilated the tracts that were converted into additions would now constitute a chain of parks and boulevards, and the lands abutting would have been valuable residence property. Thousands of people who were ruined by investing in additions miles away from the business center would have made safe investments in property within easy veach. Instead of paying $400,000° for out-of-the-way farm lands the park commission would have secured lands in line with Hanscom park for half the money by eminent domain condemnation, Other changes equally damaging were engrafted in the charter, while pro- visions vital to our growth and pros- perity were cut out by the charter mutilators. This is not the worst of consequences, Once the wolves of our legislatures had been given a taste of boodle through the Omaha charter their successors in evel legislature have sought to the biennial contention over amendments and the appropriation com- bines usually join with them in making the Omaha charter an article of barter and holdup. This is the dead sea fruit inherited from the charter mutilators of 1887 and the curse will continue to plague us 80 long as there arve wolves and blac wmalilers in our legislatures. charter What is the use of asking the attorney general's opinion of the constitutionality of the seed grain bill? Why not apply to ‘the supreme court for an ex-parte opinion? Such opiniors have been given to former legislatures under extraor- dinary emergencies. The opinion of the attorney general would settle nothing; that of the supreme court would be clusive, — SENATORIAL DEADLOCKS. The senatonial deadlocks in Idaho and Delaware continue, is beginning tb be feared that the legis- Intive terms, will expire without an election, thus, making three vacancies, all on the republican side, in the senate of the next congress. In Oregon Sena tor Dolph has for some days had within one vote of a re-clection. The fight against him on the part of some repub. licans in the logislature is because of his position on silver. He has been a consistent opponent of the free and un- limited colnige of that metal, express ing himself unreservedly on this ques- tion whenever it has been before con- gress and voting according to his con victions, For this the free silver repub- licans are arrayed against him and they seem determined to maintain this atti- tude even if as a consequence Oregon shall have but one senator in the sen ate of the nest congry In Idaho there is o neck-and-neck race between Seng tor Shoup and Representative Sweet, the having been going on for five weeks, According to the latest ad- vices the populists in the legislature old the key to the situation, but there is no intimation ns to what they may do, though it is not thought that the seat in the will be left vacant. In Delaware there are three republican candidates, with Senator Higgins in the lead for re-clection. His principal com petitor is o man named Addicks, who seems 1o have nothing o commend him but great wealth, gained mainly through profitable gas franchises. e spent money freely in some of the legis- lative districts and in this way bound some of the members of the legislature to him as a senatorial candidate. Hig- ginsg ought to be re-elected. Ife is a man of ability and has made a good record in the senate. It is said that republican senators are considerably exercised over the deadlocks in these - states, as the politieal control of the next senate hinges upon the result of these contests. In the senate of the Fifty-fourth congress the republican senators, including those to be chosen from Oregon, Idaho and Delaware, will number 43, which is two less than a majority. Of the seven populi and silver senators who will be in the senate after March 4, it thought that at least two ean be relied upon to vote with the republicans to control the organization. But if the three states where there are deadlocks should fail to choose | successors to Dolph, Shoup and Higgins the complication of the situation would be increased. 1In that event the republican strength in the senate would be 40, and the total membership of the senate 85, of which 43 would constitute a majority. he democratie ‘strength will be 88. These figures show thé importance of the pres- ent election of successors to the republi- can senators from Oregon, Idaho and Delawar Oregon, and it 88, senate Senator Hill showed exactly where the responsibility for the inaction of congress on ‘the financfal question lies when he said during the debate in the senate Saturday that although the demo- crats no longer have a majority in both houses of congress they put off action while they did have it and procrasti- nated until the power passed out of their hands. The necessity for a law empowering the treasury to issue low ate bonds to maintain the gold reserve is not a new one. The president's last financial message would have been al- most as timely months ago. Yet demo- cratic organs continue vo intimate that it is the fault of the republicans that the president's recommendations have not been heeded. Those who honestly believe so are respectfully referred to Senator Hill. Because nearly a half million dollars of state and county funds have been tied up in failed banks since the enact- ment of the depository law is no argu- ment against that law. Just as many, if not more, banks might have failed without that law as with it. Just as much public money might have been tied up and more probably lost alto- gether without that law as with it South Dakota lost over §300,000 by the absconding of her state treasurer, which might have been prevented had a de: pository law been on her statute books and enforced. Coincidence is not to be leld up in this rough fashion as cause and effect The legislature wants to remember that the maximum freight rate case is not yet finally decided and that the only way to secure a final decision is to carry the pending appeal up to the court of last resort. To prosecute this case will necessitate in the first place pay- ment of the expenses of litigation up to the present point. The people insist on knowing whether or not they have a right to preseribe and enforce maximum freight rat Mensaring the Damage. . @lohe Democrat Speaking of the damage done to public credit by the present cong should not be 8tdted as three a cent on the dollar, but as th of a cent on 3 cents, which 18 25 per cent. e That Long Deluyed Funeral, Washington Post. As soon as things are suffi out_ground will be broken fo, burial of Senator Gorman. These fun arrangements are in charge of the gen- tlemen who get together annually for the purpose of dispesing of the senator. lerson’s New Job. City Star, As general attorney for the Burlington rallway system in Nebraka, General Man- derson will draw & much larger salary than he received while he was in Washington, and as United senates go in these degenerate 5, there will be quite as much honor aftaching to his new position as to the old one. —— Kesponsibility of Drugglsts. Tipton Advertiser. A case was doecided at Clarion in which a woman sued a druggist foi damages and obtained The drug gist had sold liquor to her husband, had done it continuously and when he knew the man was in the habit of getting drunk and was spending the money needed by his family. By reason of this drunkenness the man lost his position on the railroad and the wife and family falled to be sup- ported. The obtaining of damages in sim- lar ciroumstances was said to be without precedent, but it is not likely that the people of that part of Iowa will mourn much with the drugeist because of his financial 108s, neither should they. the ently thawed the political recently NERVE OF AN OIL INSPECTOR. Kearney Hub: So far as known, ex-Oil Tn- spector Hilton fs not losing any sleep nights | about that $4,000 or §5,000 that ft fe claimed | he owes the state Hebron Republican: Bx-Oil Tnspector ton couldn't find a single barrel reject under the prescribed test, careful to reject the claim of Nebraska for some $5,500 in and withheld by him Emerson Times: Ex-Oil Inspector Hilton is the latest state official, £o far as known, that | needs suing on his bond for a deficiency. | Wo sincerely trust the time is not far dis- | tant when honest men will bo elected and | appointed to Al public positions Bloomington Echo: Ex-0il Inspector Hil ton is a defaulter to the state of over $5,000, and he refuses to make settlement. It is, in- deed, a wonder that he even left the capitol building when his successor appointed. He should be made to disge illgotten gains by the strong arm of the lnw Cedar Bluffs Standard: Ex-Oil Inspector Hilton &hould never have collected that for inspecting gasoline it he did not in turn it over to the state. The claim that he is personally responsible to the parties from whom he ‘collected this money s only a scheme to protect him In his dishonest methods Nebraska City Independent. Ex-Oil Tn- spector Hilton is now posing us a mind reader and law interpreter. He Is certain that t minds of the persons who paid for testing gasoline will ask him to pay them back, and then the supreme court might declare the law unconstitutional! Come down, you putrid rascal, and pay over what you owe the state, Such brazenness is assinine. Geneva Journal: Governor Crounse appears to have made one of his few mistakes of that kind in Hilton's case. The governor and the attorney general's office are working on the case, and Hilton's bondsmen have been noti fled that suits will be brought promptly it they do not settle the deficiency, and it fs probable that a criminal prosccution will soon be brought against Hilton also, Hartington Herald: “Upon what meat doth this our Caesar (Hilton) feed that he hath &rown so great?” Verlly he hath collected excess fees to the amount of $5,000 or more and put them in his pocket. Now that he is no longer permitted to fill a dummie's and findeth that he hath squand | the dough, he swelleth up and p chip on his shoulder, and saith, “dare ye to knock it oft.” The state should punch him one in the region of the gizzard and make him disgorge. Platto Center Signal: Ex-Oil Inspector Hil- ton is the first person, masculine gender, we have thus far heard of. who fears the eredit of the state is ruined, and he tnerefore is hold- ing back from the treasury $5,000 which he collected for the inspection of gasoline, and which he fears he will be called upon by the owners of gasoline to return to them, but this is not all. Hilton clalms that the state is indebted to him a thousand and an hundred odd dollars for services rendered, and is desirous that the state at once liqui- dato the debt. Minden Gazette: The oil inspretor appointed by Governor Crounse is having a circus with Governor Holcomb on account of fees he ‘laims as his own for his inspection of gaso- line, which he fails to cough up. Crounse ot square with Hilton on an old account by appointing him oil inspector, and that is probably all the interest he had in the mat- ter. The republican party of the state will probably have to bear the odium of Hilton's cussedness, and Crounse will polish up his lightning rod and get it ready for more repub- lican lightning to strike. It may strike him from behind next time, ' Lincoln News: Perhaps It the authorities would take criminal action against the de- flant Mr. Hilton, for embezzling public funds, he might be induced to come down off his high horse very rapidly. There is a growing sentiment that the reason why he doesn't turn over the money is because he hasn't got It, and the mere fact that he is a protege of Governor Crounse, who is openly accused of having kept him in office so that he could ac- quire enough money to pay off an obligation to the ex-governor, should be rather an in- centive than otherwise to prompt proseou- ion. Oakland Independent: Ex-Chief Ol In- spector Hilton's long looked for report has been made, and while the state should have received $5,000 from him he has the bold effrontery to assert that the state owes him. It took hard work to even get this report, Ho figures it out this way, by saying that ho has collected fees on gasoline by which no authority in the statutes ts granted. Mr. Hilton is a man of bad record, and Gov- ernor Crounse, who was in. nearly every way a model executive, made a great mistake when he appointed him. Mr. Crounse knew him well, and it is said by giving him this job he had hoped to get a $5,000 judgment of several years standing cleared up. Tekamah Herald: Frank Hilton, ex-ofl in- spector, is trying to run a bluft by keeping $5,600 out of ‘the state treasury on the pre- text that there is no authority in law to in- spect gasoline. That excuse is too flimsy to be worthy of thought. The only honorable way out is for ex-Governor Crounse or Hil- ton's bondsmen to make the amount of shortage good to the state. We believe that Governor Holcomb and Attorney ~General Churchill will see to it that Hilion or his bondsmen are made to cough it up, or insti- tute criminal proceedings against Hilton for embezzlement. Al his predecessors ac- counted for these fees and why should he be permitted to pocket them or blow them in at the gambling table? Seward Reporter: Probably no official act ever performed by Lorenzo Crounse during his many years of public service occasioned more criticism than his appointment of L. F. Hilton as ol inspector, and recent develop- ments In the matter of Mr. Hilton's accounts make it appear that the criticisms were very well founded. Tt Is stated as a fact that at the time of Hilton's appointment Crounse held a judgment against him for several thousand dollars, which has since been paid. If this statement be true, and it has so far been uncontradicted, it puts Governor Crounse In the very unenviable position of having used his appointing power as a col- lecting agency, even at possible risk to the state. We had thought better things of Crounse. Columbus Telegram: The ex-chief ol In- spector, Hilton, having been charged with be- ing a defaulter to the amount of about $5,000, pleads that he did collect this money from oil men which he has not accounted for, but as the collection was clearly illegal, the state has no right to it; and, that, as he is lisble to the men from whom he wrongfully collected, he proposes to hold on to the swag whils the state holds the bag. As it is well known that Hilton has blown in all the money, and some sort of a defense was ab- solutely necessary, we think he has hit upon about the best in the box. We would not be surprised later on to learn that Mr. Hilton has secured the services of that prince of all | lawyers in getting a man out of a tight place, | M. B. Gearon, of Greeley, Greeley county, | Nebraska, Fremont Leader: L. Hilton, the late | ofl inspector, is bolding back a little over $5,000 that he collected on gasoline, which hie says is not subject to inspection, because not included in the enumeration of the stat- ute. It is evident that Mr. Hilton is mis- taken, for gasoline is subject to inspection, although a different test is applied to that than kerosene, and that has been the con- struction of the statute by all state officials | and oil inspectors from the time of the pas- | sage of the act until now. Mr. Hilton's pre- tense that he collected the money unlaw- fully and therefore he is personally respon- sible for it is a mere subterfuge. He col- lected as ofl inspector, and, having done so, it is his duty to turn it over to the state. | If the law should finally be declared not to | cover gasoline the state would reimburse | those from whom money was received, and as the additional ten cents per barrel was | collected from the people by an advance on the price of gasoline, therefore the state is the best representative of the people, and it would appear to the Leader that the money | would be much more safe in the hands of | the state than in the hands of Mr. Hilton. | Another remarkable thing about Mr. Hilton's | report, viz.: the number of barrels inspected, all of ‘which passed muster, not a single bar- rel was rejected. It makes the Fremont peo ple laugh, for many of them know that 150 | and 175 (est-branded barrels are filled from | the same tank, and many, if not all of the | barrels, are from three to six gallons short in welght. One house in this city re- turned over @ carload of ol for the latter | reason, after weighing the barrels. It s also been known that barrels containing 110 have had the heads painted over and sten- ciled over as 175. With such evidence before us, it is evident that Mr. Hilton was not removed too soon, and it is to be hoped that the new oil Inspectors will perform the duties assigned them fearlessly, Hil- of oil to but he is the state of | fees collected | was all ‘th VARIED PIEWS OF CONGRESS, Courler Journal (dem.:) sixteen resignations from gress. It s unfortunate of that aggregation before congress evor Qlobe-Democtat (rep.): The republicans do | not want an extra session of con but 1t Cleveland concludes to call one they will cheerfully co-operate with him tn the work of correcting the mistakes of th ¥, Indianapolis Journal (rep.:) Wh oeratie party went out of power government was_horrowing money cent a year. After the war the party re-established the public cr the government was able to plac steadily improving rates unt iring Prost dent Arthur's administration, it was offered all the money it wanted at 2 per cent. The offer was declined because it did not need the money. Now a democratic administration borrowing again at 4 per cent Cincinnatl Enquirer (dem.:) with the country now is cala ut The monometallists, led by the president of the United States, represent that there is a condition of great d to our credit, and that the most extraordinary les safeguards are necessary alarm purely artificial. The dangerous peoy those who are erying that the ship is on fire and searing impressionable and timid people into a watery grave. There is no danger of a conflagration; and scares Itke the present one will not be possible after silver is fully re habilitated ew York Evening precious senate rules were delightfully in evidence on Saturd All the parliamentari- ans wore agreed that senate rule xvi was ab- | solutely fatal to the incorporation of the cable amendment_ in the consular and diplomatic bill. But Senator Manderson cynically safd that the “‘principal merit of the rules is that wo can 0 quickly get rid of them when we desire,” and so the vice president obligingly put it to the senate whether the amendment in order. It was voted, 36 to 25, that it was, and away went the rules. But they came back a moment later in full .dignity Senator Lodge proposed his consular-reform bill as an amendment to the same act. This certainly appeared as ‘‘germane” to a con- sular and diplomatic bill as a $3,000,000 cabl line, But no, it was “new legislation," and a chorus of voices called for its rigid exclu- sion. The rules revived and the Lodge bill died. St. Louls Republic (dem.:) Neither —the democratic majority nor the republican minority could do anything to increase the public contempt at their weakness in the preserce of financial and monetary problems Democrats and republicans alike were im- potent to unite on the Springer bond bill as | it came from the committee, or to amend and pass it or to present and carry through a substit The people have had too many previous examples of impotence to be prised, and the inertress of politicians | become o chronic that anger has wearied into indifference. Hope folds her wings. Collective action of any kind from this con- gress is no longer worth talking about. No- body cares whether the Ismg and discords d turb Washington air again, or pass into quietuds for the few remaining days of the on. Business understands that the presi- dent will do the best he can to protect the financial standing of the government with the antiquated means at his disposal. Thera have been the present con for most members that they did not resign assembled 0 the dem- n 1860 the at 12 per republican Nt so that e bonds at | The trouble The Post (mug.:) The il as PEOPLE AND THINGS. Energetic Georgia captured a severe cold among other northern enterprises : The youngest bunco steerer in New York's record is a 9-year-old. The youngster's suc- cess converted his parents into a daily tank show. The inventory Oliver Wendell as worth $72,117. put at $80: Government office 'way back in clates tha sentiment Detween commission: In view of Georgia's generosity toward Nebraska, this state should couple with its thanks a cordial invitation to all Georglans to secede from the blizzard belt and move west into sunshine and gladness. Galusha A. Grow, for all his three score years and ten, is one of the sturdiest and most vigorous men in the house. He s more regular in his attendance than almost any other member except Reed, and he is as much in evidence as any of those who are no more than half his age. Members of the Illinois natfonal guard, who saw service in Chicago last summer, put in bills for uniforms destroyed, but the legls- lature refused to allow them. As a sort of consolation murse the legislative patriots agreed to pay the railroads for transporting the militia without reduction. The Hon. Thomas Platt and Mayor Strong of New York City are not as closely linked as the Siamese twins. The former recently rebuked and rejected the leadership of Wil- liam Brookfleld. Through the intervention of Mayor Strong Brookfield becomes chief of public works, at a salary of $8,000, besides holding 1,626 places directly tn his gift. W. W. Stow died in San Francisco Tuesday. Ho was the ablest lobbyist tme Southern P: cific company ever had on the Pacific coasl Ho managed for thirty years all their legis- lative business, and If a dificult man was to bo persuaded to agree to the raflroad’s terms Stow was the chosen diplomatist to under- take this work. He postessed more damag- ing secrets of California politicians than any other man, but he was noted for his reti- cence. For over thirty years Stow was the real power behind conventions which nom- inated governors and other state officials, and nearly every state senator who has been elected owed his seat to Stow’s influence. of the estate of the late Holmes gives his property The value of the books is ‘Director Patrick held a federal '57, and doubtless appre- “It's a darn long time | in Nebr EUCLID MARTIN, POSTMASTER. Beatrice Democrat: Euclid Martin 18 one of the strong men In Nebraska, and his aps pointment will be universally received as & recognition of straight democracy over the | halt-baked element olton Clipper (rep): The appointment of nclid Martin as postmaster of Omaha I8 ev- idence that while Bryan and his followers may be able to control the democratic state convention, they can't get within reach of tho pie counter. Columbus Argus (dem.) been appointed by at Omaha. Mr. € Euclid Martin has Mr. Cleveland postmaster veland has the extremely impudent habit lately of disregarding his party’s wishes In all things, it matters not whether they be great or trivial. _Lincoln (rep): The democracy of raska parfakes of 4le same general chars eristics: as the general party— a disors ganized rabble, every leader jealous of the other's ascendancy, backbiters and offico mong No wonder It has ceased to be & factor of any considerable importance in Ne« braska politics when such conditions exist. Kearney Hub (rep): It is more or less paint note that Hon. James B. Boyd tak a pessimistic view of the democratio outlook in Nebrask since his factional en- emy was appointed to the Omaha postmasters £hip. And this is politics. When the other fellow s in, the country is for the time be ing on the high road to the demnition bow- wows, Mr. Boyd's attack is severe, but he will get over it Central City Democrat: Mr. Martin only got his thirty picces of silver. is nothing serious the matter, Th popular president that this country had_has appointed the most ka to the best po It is a disgraceful appoin but what else could you disgraceful administration? Kearney Democrat: Mg, Martin 1s a meth- odical and successful business man, and will glve Omaha an exceptionally good postal service, He is also chatrrman of the straight' democratic state committee, and his appointment as postmaster undoubtedly carries with it information that Mr. Martin's committee s the recognized organization at Washington, and that its delegate to the next national convention will be given seats to the exclusion of the other fellows. RTINS TRIFLES LIGHT AND GAY, Tnquirer: ns to wonde 5> poor. News has Thero most un- has ever unpopular man toffice in the state, ient, of course, expeet from this Thiladelphia man soon b he knows is & The borrowing why cveryone Household Words: The more you puff a cigar the smaller it becomes; and that is the case with some men. Philadelphia not a ¢ men lie th Record Tndependence metery, hall and yet some councils is Pittsburg Telegraph: “You don't tell me that 1 am the prettiest woman at the recep- 15 vou used to.” pouted Mrs., Snaggs. replied her husband; “you must re meniber that 1 joined the church only two weeks ago.” “Don't you find ft— pulling to make n living asked the disagreenble Chicago Tribune: ouch!—pretty at this busin man. “Yes, sir,” sald the dentist, apply forceps agal I live principally—} —from hand to mouth.” White became ¢ to_have Museum Manager—She's doing six months in jail for not paying her board bill, g the d still! Plains Weekly: Reporter—What that fasting girl that you used Harper's Bazar: last evening and that frighten. Mildred—Charley called told me a ghost story 1 me nearly to death. Kate—Did you scream or faint Mildred—Worse than that; I had to ask him to turn up the gas. Atlanta_ Journa “Did vou hear that Shorter has been losing heavily at the Stock exchange?' “Has he been bullin the market?" “Well, no, I rather thin since he has lost so heavily he has been trying to bear it the best he knew how.” reeman: ‘“‘Young man,” said the “you are in a bad wa: 11 on y Che sufferer raised himself on his elbow, looked at her tenderly, and said: “I've no objection, but I would advise you first to see papa.’’ Washington Star: “Trimmins has a first- te voice,” sald the critic at the concert, he always comes in behind time. Yes,” replied the man who lends money, “T guess it's force of habit, notes are always overdue.' Trimmins Philadelphia Record: Pickpocket—T would like to have me trial put off till I kin git a lawyer. Judge—Why, you were caught red- anded. ~What could your lawyer possibly say? Piekpocket—Dat's what T'm curious to know. WHAT HE SAID. Clothier and Furnisher. He put his arm around her walst, And_closer drew her head Unto his own with tender clasp, And looking downward said: “You have'nt got the right man, dear; He's not quite onto it. You should have had my tallor, for Those bloomers do not fit."” ————— DOUBT. Chicago Dispatch Two years ago We roared and cried: Protection, go! Protection hied. Three months agone We roared and sal Free trade, begone! And Freé he fled, In ninety-six We'll roar and—oh— esticks— ‘damfino."” Your Money's Wort! “Out of a Job”— Sy, « Ay 2 - of fine seamless socks for 25e. Two Shaw-knit socks, 40¢ grade, for 2ic, dress shirts, T5¢. American Hosiery for $3.50 per suit. American Hosiery grade for $3.00. Besides, our 15th sur BROWNING, Reliable Clothiers. N. W, : OQH\NC,II’[” <" RELIABLE CLOTHIERS Natural merino sox, 25¢, or six pairs for $1.35, Our regular 81 unlaundered white or Your Monzy Bask, In view of the fact that a dollar now looks as big as the bottom of a bucket, and that five of them make a bushel of money, we have de- cided to start the spring aright by sell ng the new spring block of the “‘Stetson Special,” the best 85 hat on earth, for #4.50—this for the Stetson Fedaras, too. 1t takas but #3.50 to get the spring shape “Browning - King Special,” & hat equal to the best, and one that is backed by our guarantee for quality and wear. , If it doesn't wear and give as good satisfaction as any hat on the face of the earth we will replace it with another hat. We will also make some extra cuts on furnishing goods this week, such as three pairs pairs of special tan socks for 25, Cotswold merino genuine Co's underwear, regular 85 grade, Co's fine ribbed form ftting $4.00 et window where these wonderful bargains are displayed should becarefully watched this week. KING & CO,, Cor, 15th and Dougla:

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