Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1895, Page 4

TERMS O Dally Bee (Withoot Daily Dee and Sunday, 8ix Months . . Thres Montha Bundny Baturdny Weokly SURSCRIPTION nday), One One’ ¥ Omana ] ; Bouth Omaha, orner N and 24th Penrl Street, 7 Chamber of Commerce. g, AN communicationa relating to news and ed torial matter should be andresacd: To the Bdit i 8 L) addresscd Omalia to T Vublishing company, nd postoflicn orders 1o pmpany e coples nday 1ea 1 di 1895, was an folloy of January, 19.201 19,159 19,179 e SN Sen me and s £ Febiu N rter without the 'y Stult and L ITascall would hs the bill Providence did more irvigation yes- terday than the Nebraska legislature ean do in a year, When doctors disagree as to the phy- sical qualifieations of applicants for po- sitions on the fire department who shall decide? The belated Dill that failed to be in- troduced into the legislature v will now have to remain an outeast in the wo Count appointment 1 been ratified and confirmed by his con- stituency. He is the only real, live count in all Nebraska. No one ought to object to rain when business improvement depends on a good crop, and a good crop depends upon plenty of moisture. Those North Carolin only anim: in the country that are wishing that congress might remain in session longer than March We may next see a Lincoln states- man introduce a bill for an act to per- manently locate Omaha within the. confines of Lancaster county. ducks are the It's the same old story. A salary grab i8. ever popular-in a congress the ma- fority of whose members have no ex- Ppectations of seeing public life again. It looks mowias if the war In codl rates will bring the prices of coal down Just about the time that summer puts an end to the necessity for using coal. Two of the three secvetarfes of the State Board of Transportation should be turned out to grass. Abolish the offices and stop at least one transparent example of false pretense, Walt il those “heavy taxpayers” get down to Lincoln to appear before the charter committee. The floors of the state house will have to be propped up to sustain the unaccustomed weight. Governor Holcomb has the exclusive power to introduce bills into the legisla- ture after the fortieth day of the ses- sion, but he may be relied upon to exer- eise that authority sparingly and only in behalf of measures of the utmost importance Perhaps Omala is expeeted to submit the plans and specifications of her pro- posed market house to the legislature. And then it might be well to make the approval of the legislature necessary be- fore a contract for its counstruction can be entered. D. H. Wheeler wants the legislature to extend the term of the city comp- troller one year. Mr. Wheeler would better refer this matter to the voters of this city. They are competent to se- Tect their city officials—for short terms or long terms, South Omaha is doubly fortunate, Her friends in congress are making sure that the approprintion for the site of the federal building will be forth- coming without delay. Property OVgn- ers who have suitable sites to offer will now get into line, Prosident Cleveland instituted an- other little surprise in the appointment of a judge for the newly established elreuit Judgeship for Ilinois, Like most of his surprises this latest one threat- ens to leave all of the avowed candi- dates disgruntled, proposed to appropriate for the « nation of the gypsy moth In Massac setts has been saved there Is longer any a federal appropri for the drouth suff to ason for refu tion for seed grain rers, It is not the duty of the legislatur to pass laws of doubtful constitution- ality merély to annoy people and lum- ber up the courts with litigation. The legislature is expected to keep striet within the liwits of the powers con- ferved upon it by the constitution. While 1. Dundy, jr., special mas- ter in chancery and stenographer by proxy in the trial of the maximum frelght rate case, is sunning hiwsell upon the shores of Hawail an unfeeling legislative comimittee turns down his claim. A cog must have slipped sowe- where, e M ET AN POR s | seem to prefer to go bac THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: W ESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1895. THE BANKS AND TRE DEPOSITORY LAW, 1t is anthoritatively reported that cer- tain banks and bankers are among the mogt aetive forces working in favor of the bIN now before the leglslature to repeal the depository Inw. Instead of acquiescing in a law that secks to fu- | sure to the public the proceeds of the small rate of Interest exacted upon de- posits of public money these banks to the old order that gave the income from the loan of te and connty funds to the respective state and connty treasurers. But the deposita law is not intended merely to throw safeguards around the public funds. If enforced according {0 its spirit it ought to be as weleome to the bankers as to the gencral public. Under the present depository law an; bank that can furnish satisfactory and adequate security can secure the desig- nation of a state or county depository, as the ease may be. It s then cn- titled, so long as its soundr is un- questioned, to demand a fair sharve of the current doposits of public money for which it must dit the state or county with interest on the average balances at a rate not less than 3 per cent. 8o long as there are depository banks sceured by approved bonds in double the sum of money on hand in the treasury the treasurer cannot law fully place the public funds elsewhere, The bank that wants to be sure of a constantly large deposit need only offer o 1 higher rate of Interest than the others. When the public money was entively at the beek and call of the treasurers it was cither loaned out to favored banks in liquidation of politi- cal debts or it was used to accommo- date needy friends at exorbitant rates of interest. The banks were either at the merey of the treasurers or, vice versa, the treasurers at the mercy of the banks. What one bank might gain, therefore, by going back to this wstem would necessarily be another bank's loss. If one bank is unduly favored with deposits of public money it means that another is being dis- eriminated against. If we should investigate opposition to the depository law we should probably find that it consists chiefly of those Dbanks which were specially favored under the old and who expe to be rticularly vored in the future. These are holding up as the one convincing argument for repeal the various sums of public money that have been lost or tied up by the failure of depository bank: They profi to believe that there is greater v of loss with the depository law than without it. The fact remains, however, that every one of these los; of public money is really a bank's gain. Banks that fail usually prefer to fail with a goodly sum of public money in their posse sion. But if the provisions of the law with reference to the bonds given as security were strictly enforced and no one accepted as a surety who is an officer of a bank the public deposits would be amply protected. The banks that are working for the depository law repeal are standing in their own light. the bank THE SENATE RULES. In view of the fact that a number of new men will sit in the senate of the next congress, the possibility of a change In the rules of that body is again being canvassed. A change can rdly be brought about by a party vote, but it is said that the members of both parties who are responsive in any degree to publi¢ opinion are be- ginning to realize that the senate muse assume the power to legislate or be- come absolutely discredited. The very fact that neither party will have an absolute majority in the next senate may, it is thought, make the progressive members of both parties the more will- ing to try a change of rules which will enable something to be aecomplished when a - majority of senators wish it Efforts have been made at the present session to have a closure rule adopted and some. converts have been made to the necessity for such a rule, but of course the minority party was solid in opposition to it, while it was also an- tagonized by members of the majority party. It has also been proposed to change the rules so as to provide for dividing the various appropriation bills among the different committees, but this has been abandoned for the pres- ent session, with the understanding that it will be brought forward at the next session and pressed until a vote can be had. 1f any change in the senate rules shall be made at the next session it will un- doubtedly be of a conservative charac- ter, for the democrats, who will then be in a minority, are generally in favor of reserving to the representatives of every state the right to be heard if they desire it. They may be counted upon, therefore, to vigorously oppese any proposition for a radical change in the rules of the senate that would ena- ble the majority to curtail or cut off debate. It is possible that some com- promise plan may be adopted, whereby in emergencies closure could be in- voked and an end put to factious oppo- sition to measures having the support of a big majority of the senate, but the probability is that nothing will be done in this direction at the next session, or until public sentiment in favor of a change can be brought to bear upon the senate with greater force than has yet been the case. Un ricted debate has been allowed in the senate from the beginning of the zovernment, but it is only in recent years that the demand has sprung up for a ¢l ' 1huse of the <hit by dem; treme parti- In the , and down to perhaps twenty years ago, senators weie satistied with a full and fair dis cussion of uy question. Certainly this was the case in the period when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and other dis- tinguished statesmen made the senate the most diguified and illustrious de- liberative body in the world. 7 men were content to debate subje on their merits, and, having done so, to stop the They did not prolong dis- cussion needlessly and introduce vol umes of extrancous and irrelevant mat ter, They did not waste the time of congress by wordy and windy ha | will enable rangues. They knew nothing of talking A measure to death, or if they did they | mever practiced it. These men recog- nized the right of the majority to act and to embody its will in leglslation, and full and fair discussion having been had, they allowed this vight to be exercised. It is different now, and the change has had no little to do with discrediting the senate as a iegislative body and weakening its claim to the popular respect. It is hardly to be hoped that the principle and practice which obtained in the bet- ter days of the senate will be restored by the voluntary abandonment of the abuse of the right of unvestricted dis- cussion, and hence public sentiment must be brought to bear to compel, if possible, the adoption of a rule which it to act upon a question that has received full and fair consid- eration, AN ACADEMY, NOT AN ENCAMPMENT The senate committee on military af- falrs has reported back the memorial to congress asking that Fort Omaha be donated to Nebraska for use as a state military academy, with the purpose changed to that of a site for the annual cncampment of the militia. The change is a change for the worse. There is little probability that congress would consent to transfer the Iort Omaha property to the state to promote such an object. The militin en- campment occurs but once a year and continues for two or three weeks only. Shall the grounds and buildings be idle all the rest of the year? Of what use, too, are buildings to a militia encampment? The chiet merit of the encampment is that it gives the militia a taste of real camp life, and this is only to be obtained by camping out. On the other hand, the buildings at the fort are most admirably adapted for a military academy. The state would have to spend but a few thou- sand dollars in repairs and remodeling. The federal government would detail two or three army officers to perform the work of teaching military tactics and discipline. The only regular ex- pense borne by the state would be the salary list of a small corps of instrue- tors. And the result would be the training of a nucleus for the militia that would be of more value to the peo- ple than a dozen militin encampments. The memorial to cong should be adopted by the legislature, but in its original form, requesting the donation of the Fort Omaha site and buildings for a state military academy. AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT. The assistant secretary of the treas- ury, Mr. William E. Curtis, who had much to do with the negotiations for the new loan, in an address a few days ago made a statement of the conditions which forced the government to enter into a contract with the gold syndicate upon the best terms which the latter would offer. There is nothing essen- tially new in the statement, but it is worthy of reference because coming from a source that gives it official au- thority. Mr. Curtis said the govern- ment found itself in a position that might be likened to that of*a bank on the verge of a run without sufficient funds to meet it. From carly in the year every. effort d been jnade by the treasury to gather gold coin and collect it at New York and Boston, the principal points of withdrawals for shipment abroad. At the beginning of Iebruary all the gold coin which could be collected with safety was deposited at these points. At that time the total amount of gold coin owned by the United States government was ex- ceeded by the demand certificates out- standing against it and the govern- ment was practically borrowing gold coin from the owners of these demand certificates and substituting gold bul- lion in its place in order to carry on specle payments in gold. On January 30 the assistant treasurer at New York reported to the depart- ment that he could hold out not more than three days longer. Here was pre- sented a most eritical condition, de- manding Immediate action, in order to avert the imminent danger of a sus- pension of ‘gold payments. Gold was going out of the treasury as rapidly as it could be withdrawn and there was no way to check the outflow except by borrowing gold. As everybody is aware, as soon as it was known that the government had decided to do this the withdrawals were greatly reduced and when the negotiations were com- pleted the outflow of gold from the treasury practically ceased, With these facts understood can any practical man doubt that a delay of a week in negotiating the loan would have brought about a suspension of gold payments, and is it not equally certain that with the conditions then wvalling it would not have been pos- to dispose of the bonds to our own people? The plain fact of the situ- ation was that the people had about lost confidence in the government and were getting aud-hoarding gold as fast as they could. Is it at all probable that under such elrcumstances they would have exchanged their gold for bonds payable in coin? It may be a little humiliating to have to ronfess that for- eigners had more confidence in our government than ou own people, but the facts clearly demon- strate it. The offer of bonds last No- vember met with few responses from the people, which furnished an excel- lent reason why tha government in the ater and greater exigency should not ve taken the visk of a popular loan. There has bheen a at demand for the new bonds and they have sold as high as 119%. The sy e has made the transaction, but it is a ow view of the matter which not take into necount the general benefits that have rvesulted. The im- proved contidence and the greater sen: of security in financial civeles is worth to the country incalculably wore than the profits of the syndicate will be, even should they reach the wmost extravagant estiy Deputy O'Brien of Council Bluffs lies mortally wounded by the bullet of a bighwaywan, He fell at the post of duty, but it is dificult to see why he ventured upon the street with three outlaws n'l hout first disnrming them. The sheM¥ ‘of Pottawattamie county may yet_have to explain why he did not detail at least three deputies to make thethiefest of men who must have been coubldbred desperate characters and could_easily have been landed in jall withouy, difficulty had they been in the custhdy of enough deputies. The discussion of Omaha charter amendmemds «before the legislative com- mittee tewfinated with little or noth- ing acconfpiahed in behalf of this city. In this respect the mecting was not unlike many that have gone before. Represenigtives of particular interests suceeed 1 precipitating a wrangle and bringing about an adjournment for a week. ne old tacties are being emplo e opponents of needed veforms in the charter hope to accom- plish by indirection what could not be attained by direction. The purpose Just now seems to be that of delay. If final consideration of the amendments ean be put oft until the closing days of the session they can force the advo- cates of needed and sound provisions to submit to compromise, if not to utter defeat. The trouble is that the people whose interests are most affected arve indifferent to the vital importance of some of the amendments proposed, and are willing that such Yegislation shall #£0 by default rather than turn a hand in support of their enactment. The proposition to comypel roads doing Dbusiness in Nebraska to maintain their general offices in Lin- coln, just because it happens to be for the present the capital of the state, is just about as absurd a production as the most hairbrained legislator could s Of course, no one will take the matter serfously or waste any time upon it. The next thing the Lincoln enthusiasts ought to do Is to compel by law every business house in the state that sells a dollar's worth of goods to the people of that city to v coln its principal place of busin And then if they will force every news- paper which cirenlates at the eapital to establish its publication office there, they may finally succeed in making a metropoli i of their idol. But e not these wonderful efforts to build up & community by forced tribute upon the whole state a confession that the desired result can, with difficulty, be accomplished in a legitimate way? all rail- Some members of the legislature seem to be inclined to believe that the cause of the Hilton shortage lies in the oil inspection Jaw that requires the inspec- tor to make'an accounting of his fees only once’in- fwelve months, Perhap: Hilton would ‘not have gotten aw; with as mueh cpublic money as he did had he setfled;up with the state tr urer every nioith, but is there anything in the present kiw that would have pre- vented him from deing so had he so desived? If Hilton had wanted to be honest there was certainly nothing to hinder him. Reports of the general prevalence of yesterday's» vain will be hailed with unalloyed | safisfaction. Everybody knows how much the soil of Nebraska needs it and-what adequate rafnfall means to this state the coming sea- son. If the fair promise of favorable crop conditions thus so early in- augurated shall continue to its fulfill- ment the hopes of farmers and mer- chants will be revived and the begin- ning of the end of business depression will have been reached. Here's Hoping. Globe-Democrat. Apparently the financial clouds have been dispersed, and a slow but continuous and certain recovery from the financial pros- tration will set’tn. ———— What the Country Prays For. Courfer Journal. Senator Chandler undertook Wednesday to tell what the next congress will do. In mercy's name; let us not borrow. trouble. The country is not praying for the time when we shall have another congress, but when we shall have no congress. B Fatalities on Lund and Sea. Globe-Democrat. It is estimated that each year 2,000 vessels are lost on the seas of the world, and that 12,000 people g0 down with them. This shows the great risks which attend naviga- tion; but the records show that the casual- ties 'in land trayeling are still greater. On the raflroads of the United States alone’ dur- ing 1803 the number of persons killed was 3,036, and the number Injured was 34,938, in- Cluding both employes and passengers. e Regaining Popularity, Chicago Times, The senate has lately been doing some things which will tend to reinstate it in popular favor. ~Yesterday it killed the abominable pooling bill by a vote sufficiently strong to be emphatic. This measure, which proposed to eliminate from the inter- state commerce law all that was left in it for the protection of the people, passed the house of representatives with a celerity al- most unprecedented in the history of legisla- tion, It was urged by the strongest rail- road lobby ever sent to Washington, and its course was doubtless expedited by the fact that a very great proportion of the repre- sentatives voling for it had been defeated and were no longer accountable to anybody for their votes. Its defeat now In the senate is a fortunate thing for the country and a new proof that good may sometimes | come out of Nazareth. e — Pretense and Practice. Chicago Tribune, Just about this time four years ago the democrats began grieving over the inigui- tles of the “billibn-dollar congress.” They kept up i expressions ~ of ~ sorrow through thatwear and the following one, and they had something to say In. the national plat about ‘‘the ‘republican policy of proffigate expenditure.” The con- Bress whose 8 50 near an end is one which the rats have run to suit themselves. They have also had a presi- dent of thelr-0wn to assist theni in carry- ing out theirzpoliey of economy. The lite of this congres has coincided with a period of hard times- when economy be- came o necessity as well as a virtue, It was not 50 Basy {0 be parsimonious in 1850 when theleswas a surplusin the treas- ury, and wi ery industry seemed to be ‘prospering: 1€ should have been easy last year and this year when everybody Nevertheless of the was economigin; ent congress. 18 kind, At th $503,000,000. sion will not mark, This and on the * pr billion-dollar session 1L appropriated propriations for this ses- ar belaw the half billlon s that while in theory ya 18 are zealows economists, ks of tens of millions i they are put into office, When thoy ket (here' they spend as much 'monoy in hard times as thelr predecessors did 1 flush ones. ne ke Lin- ¢ THE BISHOP'S 04818, Chicago Post: Bishop Fallows' home salon should be called a life-saving station, for does not its crew rescuc men In peril from schooners? Stoux City Tribuno: The “home salon," advocated and promoted by Dichop Fallows, opened in Chicago last Thursday and if the opening day was any criterfon it will he a great success. The snlon has all the out- ward marks of an ordinary saloon, the bar and fixtures, with suspicious looking bottles and faucets visible, tho fres lunch counter, tables for games, a cigar case and the saw- dust covered floor; but the pletures of pugllists and _actresses are supplanted by portraits of Neal Dow, Frances E. Willard and others, and the drinks are free from intoxicants. If the salon Is a siccess others will bs established in the city and the bishop is confident much good will come from the movement. New York World: 1Is this reform? It it is, there {s reason for belleving that hades will be the most thoroughly reformed pla in the universe, for there, according to the version of a sacred poet, whose scriptures have the authority of venerable antiquity, men as shadows will Indulge the shadows of thelr unmastered habits, drinking charch re- form beer and smoking patent reform pipes forever and ever without the possibility either of satisfaction or satiety. And after having tried this for only a short time one of the greatest dignitaries of the place declared that he would rather be a tramp or a Chicago broker on earth that the most respected and honored potentate in all sheol. The mocking reality of such pinchbeck imitations of allur- ing vice as the patent plpe has something infernal about it. Homer was not mistaken on that point. There can be no virtue in pretending to be delightfully viclous. The way to reform is to reform. There is no other way. P — NEBRASK D A RASKAN The York county fair will be held Septem- ber 10 to 13. The only drug store at Steinauer has been closed on a chattel mortgage. The new Methodist church at Plum Grove, Johnson county, will be dedicated April 7. After a long wrangle the electric plant at Pawnee City will gonn b2 purchased by the city from the creditors of the original com- rany. Joshua Worley, one of the ploneers of Butler county, died at his home in Ulysses as the result of an attack of paralysis, aged 68 years, Au Kee, a Chinese laundryman at Fort Niobrara, died last week and was buried at the post cemetery. He was a naturalized citizen of th? United States. While Frank Anthony of Hebron was ren- dering tallow, the boiling grease popped into his face, scalding him in a terrible manner. The doctors think they will save his sight. Two York women attended charch the other night only to engage in a fight after the services were ended. The disgraceful procedings were the outgrowth of a scandal of some months’ standing. While Henry and John Baker were driv- ing across a bridge near Ewing with a load of brush, the wind took an under hold on the load and upset it into the river. Rack and load struck on the ice twelve feet down, but the two men escaped without injury There is trouble in the Methodist church at Beaver City as the result of revival mestings that have been in progress there recently, and as a consequence the revival- ist is now holding his services in the court house instead of the church. Outside re- ports are flying thick and fast to the effect that Rey. H. M. Manuel, the evengelist, was aiming his sermons too straight at the pro- verbial rich man to sult all around and that for this the support of the church as an organization was withdrawn, in which event he took the meetings to the court house, where he is being assisted by the regular pastor. A leading member of the church board says the hub-bub has grown up from very little cause, that the evangelist came there without the authority of the church and that the board resolved, in consideration of the prevailing hard times that collections in the church should not be diverted from the regular channels of the church work. pte R PEOPLE AND THINGS. Ash Wednesday. Bring forth the sack-cloth and ashes. From this time on Nebraska solons will glve their attention to appropriate legisla- tion. Many people like the French count, con- sider Miss Gould’s $15,000,000 figure as irre- sistibly charming. Now the festive paragrapher will joyfully brush away the cobwebs from the stock of tired penitential gags. No less than 25000 letters went to the bottom of the sea with the Elbe. An attempt will be made to recover them. B. F. Bachman, a California pioneer who died the other day, was one of the party that discovered Yosemite Valley in 1851, The Texas legislature declined to class razors as deadly weapons. In the bright lexicon of Lone Star statesmanship there is no rival of the gun. The microbe agitation has abolished “kiss- ing the book” in Pennsylvania courts. Leathery osculatjon, however, rarely menaces a healthy imaginatton. Congress has passed a bill appropriating $40,000 for the erection in Baltimore of a monument to the memory of the Maryland soldiers in the war for independence. An order supplying 15,000 fur coats to the Chinese army indicates a temporary ces- sation of hostilities. Heretofore the Japs have kept the Celestials in a delighttul de- gree of perspiration. Rear Admiral Greer, senior officer of the navy, was retired from active service on Monday by operation of the age clause. The admiral has headed the active list of the service since the retirement of Admiral Gher- ardl last November, and was displaced by Admiral George Brown, commanding the Nor- folk navy yard, who will be the ranking ofi- cer for a number of years. A bill is being considered in the Illinois legislature to provide for the transfer of the Lincoln monument from the assoclation to the state, the purchase of nine acres of ground surrounding the burial place, the ap- propriation of $30,000 to carry out the trans- fer and $50,000 to repair the historic pile. The sale of relics, etc., is to be prohibited, and the state commission is to appoint a union veteran custodian at a salary. Several legislatures have attempted to regulate the breadth and helght of feminine headgear and check somewhat the tendency to appropriate—nay, conflscate—the raiment which distinguishes the lords of creation, so- called. It remained for a Massachusctts genfus to evolve a measure which, if en- acted, will place the Bay State in the fore- front of reform and preserve unsullied the priceless heritags for which our forefathers anged a few buckets of gore. Briefly, the Massachusetts genius proposes to limit the wearing of trousers to persons of the masculine g:nder. Now this is reform as s reform. Evidently masculine patience has reached ths limit in the domain of cult. T Rellef for (o nrations. Phil; Iphla Record. Some of the managers of corporations will heave a sigh of relief because of the Modification of the income tax law releas- g them from the necessity of giving the names and salaries paid to all their em- Dloyes. There are some corporations who Would not like to go into these details; and some employes of corporations who would prefer not to have the facts known. For Ways that are dark and tricks that are vain the corporate body s peculiar. ol H Disappointed the Suflrazists. Philadelphia Ledg Woman suffrage has recelv in South Dakota through the t the carelessness of the alley the measure in the legislature, admittedly a majority, though a for the bill, but when the time roa final Vote arrived it was found that two or Uhree ‘Of 1ts avowed SUDDOTers were sus piciously absent. all one. Highest 01 ail in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 5. Gov't Keport Ro Baking Powder | General i university, OITY MOURNING THE DEAD! Emblems of Sincers Public Sorrow Dis- played cn Every Hand, FRED DOUGLASS EURIED AT ROCHESTER Wik Reémalng Wore Carrled Through the Clty and Lay State for Several Hours In tho City Hall Te- fore Interment. ROCHESTER, N. 20.—Rachester i in mourning today 1 Douglass. The entire city shows in every possible way the respect in which its formes distingulshed resident s held, and pays fitting (ribute to his memoty. The train bearing the remains of Mr. Douglass reached the city a fow minutes late, and it was 10 o'clock before the cortege started from the depot. Duriag the interval of waiting the station and train houss were crowded with officials and those who had heen selected to act as escort to the funeral party. Just befors the trala pulled into Rochester there marched Into the train house the funeral cortege, including the Douglass League of Rochester, bearing the league banner draped in mourning. The mayor, members of the common council and other city officials came in carriages. The honorary pallbearers accompanied the party | which came from Washington, which con- sisted of Mr. Donglass’® widow, Lewls and Charles Douglass, and Mrs, Frederick A. Sprague, dau a Sprague and Hattis Spragu ughters, and Joseph Douglass, grandson of the deceased John A, Iaton, ex-United States commissibner of cducation, and Prof. G. Cook of Washington, represented Ho and J. 8. Shelleut, represented the Ashbury Methodist church of Washing- ton. The funeral party moved up North Clinton ~ street to t Main, and thence own Main to the city hall, where the body f Rochester's famous son lay in state for several hours. Handsome wreaths and other floral tributes, sent by sympathetic friends | from Washington, lay on the coffin. The | teachers and students of the Washington | High school gave an claborate offering. = A sty and appropriate tribute was sent by Scnator and Mrs., Pinchback of Washing- ton. The procession formed at the city hall at 1:30 o'clock and procceded to the Central church, Arrived at the church the proces- | sion_proceeded down the malin alsle to the pulpit, in front of which the casket was placed upon the bier. The organ meanwhile poured forth a funeral march. The invoca- tion was made by Rev. H. H. Stebbins. The culogies were by Dr. Stebbins and Dr. Tay- lor. Miss Mary Anthony read a poetical tribute, which was followed by another by Sherr D. Richardson. A male quartet sang “Hide Thou Me,” of which Mr. Doug- Iass was especially fond, and which he sang the day before his death. The organist played an adaptation of the negro melody “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” As the cor- toge left the church Beethoven's “March Funebre” was played. DENOUNCED THE WHITES, Memorial Meeting for Frod Douglass Brings Out Raée Speeches. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 26.—A sensation has been created here by a negro mass meeting held last night at Big Bethel, the largest colored church in the city, which was ad- vertised as a memorial meeting In honor of Frederick Douglass, but which was turned into an indignation meeting against the whites. As speaker followed speaker the addresses became more and more unbridied, until the affair broke out in spots, with “Jim Crow cars,” *racial equality” and “calls for revenge” as the texts for fiery outbursts. Proctor, the pastor of the col- ored church, was recelved with applause when he announced ho agreed with Douglass when he told the southern people to beware or they would find ‘“fire brands’ under their houses and poison in their coffee.”” R. Cheeks, pastor of the Big Bethel church, was cheered when he told how the North Carolina legislature had put Douglass first, Washington second, Lee third. Carter, the pastor of the Friendship Baptist church, de- clared that he would marry a white woman it ho could, and said the negroes only envied Fred Douglass because he had succegded where they had failed. He mado the b}t of tho evening. Morris, a grandson-in-law of Fred 'Douglass, devoted most of his time to a eulogy, and advised his hearers to carry their cases to the supreme court, and finally declared that Fred Douglass ranked next to Jesus Christ. —_———— Deuth of Judge Blake of Wyomin LARAMIE, Wyo., Feb, 26.—Judge John W. Blake of the Second jud'cial aistrict of | Wyoming s dead at the age of 49 years. He was sick but two days and dled of heart failure. He was a native of Maine, served in the civil war and came to Wyoming in 1875. ¥atal Gas Explosion in Phiiadelphin, PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 26.—Frank Robin- son was Instantly killed, and Frank Duffy fatally injured by the explosion of a cylin- der charged with gas this morning In the laboratory of Smith, Kline & Co. of this | the “sen | public concer INQUEST OF THE ELAE VIOTIMS, Counsel P'resont Mefore the Coroner Reproe senting All Partios Interestod. LOWESTOFT, Feb, 26.—The coroner's e quest on the remalus of Friedrich Ernst of Magdeburg, Prussia, one of the drowned pase sengers of the North German Lioyd stea p Blbe, whose body was landed hero the fishing smack Verona an February & was reopened this morning. The North Gota ' man Lloyd steamship company, the owners of the British steamer Crathle of Aberdeeny which sunk the Eibe, the German governs ment, Captain Gordon of the Crathie, and the Board of Trade wero represented during the proceedings by counsel. Captaln Donnes of the German navy was present in order o watch the inquest on behalf of the Gers man government, and Captain Wilson of the Board of Trado assisted the coroner in the examination of witnesses who {ncluded nautls cal experts, the pllots of the Kibe, Miss Anna Brucker, the only female passenger eaved, the crew of the Crathie and others. THE PAR ING BILT, Minneapolis Tribune: The defeat of the railroad pooling Lill In the senate renders nugatory all the hard work done by the rafl- road lobby in the house during the present congress. The prospects of such a measurs in the next cong re extremoly problom= atical. The big republican majority in the house will fight excoedingly shy of anything which looks like truckiing to rallroad fn= fluences, because the presidential election 18 = approaching and they do not want to risk losing any of the rural vote. We do not believe any bill to legalize rallroad pooling will be passed before Chicago Tribune: lobby which has besieged congress can now pack up and go home. sessfon and probably for this year there will be no occasion for their services in Washing= ton. The railroads will not have to put up to defray the cxpenses of this costly army of lobbyists who have been trying to induce ate to put on one side matters of in order (o take up a measure for the gratification of corporate greed, So utterly indifferent to the proprieties of legl lation and to public sentiment were the friends of this pooling bill that they asked the senate Saturday fo take it up and sit right through Sunday for the purpose of cons sidering it. vIT Indianapolis Journal: “I sur soft,” mused the fresh paint that comes along tries to touch n Thiladel policy to be polite to the Al cunk Philo! holds good in the ¢ must be n Record: “It is always good our fellow men,” says opher, “and the same se of mul Atlanta Constitution doin’ now?" " fer sunshine." the brethren?* “What's Deacon " snow, Dramatic Mirror: An actress appearing in Johnstown, Pa., recently was referred to by .. the local 1 a favorite in that city, The. paper rer he appeared here just before the flood.” The actress has erased Johnstown from her map. West Union Gazotte: Some men are Hke clocks—they run down because nobody takes enough intercst in them to keep them going. Hamlet—I had a_funny road recently. Yorick— Why, ‘the man= regularly every, Syracuse Post: experience on the What was that? Hamlet agement gave us our salal week for two weeks. i Tribune: “T wouldn't swear said the kind looking old lady, your soul, ma‘am, —you years of truckdrivin” to es mnear it,” responded the hose team had balked across G t Divide: Tred say, Jack, do you Kknow that fine-looking girl we just passed?, . Jack (moodil ; e ;‘:l{d]i”‘)y { did n‘ :e! m5 sister, Fred (doubtfully)—Your. sister, Soma’ off! | Since when? Jack—Since last night. Harper's Bazar: T{‘n_yr"hm‘ (scribbles)—My aear fellow, couldn’t U lend me a “Wigging (scribbles below)—My boy, You must think that T am a J! INQUISITIVE. Truth. There was a sign upon a fence— That sign was ‘“Paint,” And every l’gflrfl:l :hl\l went by, Sinner and saint, Put out a finger, touched the fence And onward sped, And as they wiped their finger tips— “It is,” they sald. SIETAs R HER N. E. Philadelphla Times, “T'm losted! Could you find me please?* Poor little 3r|ghmio;|l babyl o eece d had tossed her gol cece, e Wi P Geratched her dimplo kneem I stooped and lifted her up with ease, And softly whispered, ‘May bel “Tel our name, my little mald, 1“‘23:\""? ind you nglo\ll""."" a '\ is Shiney-Eyes," she )y e Sour 1ast 7 She shool her head, “Up to my house ey never sald A single fing about it.’ . Qear.” T sald, “what ls your name?" “\Why, didn’t you hear me tell you? Dust Shiney-Eyes.* A bright thought came; “Yes, when youre good; but when blame tile one—is't just the same "W'h.”n mamma has to scold you? “But, “My mamma neber N‘callln." sghe moans, blush ensuing, I :‘Cel]\.)‘(‘lsvhe: T've been a-rowing stonca And fthen she says" (the culprit owns), “Mehetable Sapphira Jones, city. What have you been a-doing —_— He Had a Hat, He Wanted & NEW “Stetson Special” Spriug Block $4.50. This marking down of Stet- son's 85 hat $1.00 s done to call your atten- tion to the best hat department in the city. 1Us £4.50 for a while Ths Is the new “Liow We have just opened a as most people want, but more money. BROWNING, Reliable Clothiers, S. W. NNINC. iy, QQ‘?:um: cmrm:fi"’q Your Monzy's Wurth‘ur Your Monzy Bask, But he didn’t care for that. He Wanted a NEW “Browning-King Special” Spring Block $3.50. There's no quicker way to make o good department known than to sell o fivst-class article at & vidiculous price. That's why we sell this guaran- teed hat for 0. ning-King Special.” new line of spring §Lyle Mackintoshes. The lowest priced one—$5.00—is as good we have ‘them finer for KING & CO, Cor. 15thand Dou glas, very o [ig} Y