Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1895, Page 4

THE S— OMAHA DALY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. — D BVE MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Tee (Without Sunday), One year. Daily Bes and Sunday, Six Month Three M, Sundny Be Saturday Omaha, Houth Omah Counell Blu fhe Tes Building. m inger Bk, Corner N and th Sts. 12 Pearl Street 317 Chamber of Commerce. , 14 and 15, Tribune BIg. N. W o news and edls To the Editor, tould be blishing company, s and postoffice orders to arfler of th: ILISHING * CIRCULATION s y of The Bee Pub lishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full_and of the Dally Mornin printed during the m as follows: ANl business addressed to Omahn. Draft bo made pavalie ters and ro e T ¥ ¢ L1900 0,600 Total Loss ded coples nday. Sworn to Statesmen out of a job are once more a drug on the market. The sajary of the late congressman- elect now begins to acerue, Will the police commi take prompt action to carry out the . recom- mendations of the grand jury? There certainly is abundant room for police reform. The superintendent of police of the clty of Brooklyn has Just resigned his position. He is setting an uple which several police officials in this city might follow with profit. We all want new cit house, an emergency other Dbuildings, but owing to the financial stringency we shall have to wait until the city is in a position to ercct these structure: il, a work hospital and The Washington correspondent will now be permitted to indulge his fertile brain in a much needed r He will soon scatter to all parts of the country, making his presence known from time to time by the disclosure of startling political plots hatchied in every state in the union. Washington society is very much dis- appointed in the substitution of Mr. ‘Wilson for Mr. Bissell in President Cleveland’s cabinet. Mr. Wilson is a poor man. He couldn’t entertain on the snme seale as his predecessor if he would, and he probably wouldn't if he could, wherefore Washington society mourns, The regents of the State university in their biennial report ask for a deficiency appropriation of $19,590 out of the already exhausted general fund of the state to meet the difference between the estimated expenditures and revenues of that institution. The regents should be asked to revise their estimates with the limit of university revenue in view. Mr. Wiley and his associates will without question be unanimously in favor of the grand jury’s recommenda- tion for the substitution of electric lighting for the coal oil 1amps now used on the county poor farm. No poor man ought to be compelled to put up with oil lamps in these days of modern inven- tion—particularly when the additional expense for electric lighting is paid by the coun The reported attendance at the State university has grown from 570 in 1891 to nearly 2,000 in 1805, or more th: tripled in five years, when the popula- tion and wealth of the state has been nearly stationary. This mushroom growth can only be accounted for by the extension of the institution's work to fields that properly do not belong to it. By lopping off the side shows and technical schools which the taxpayers ought not to be called upon to support the attendance can be brought down to a reasonable number, easily accommo- dated with the existing buildings and maintained within the university rev- enue, The proposition of the Chicago and St. Louls Boards of Trade to assist the des- titute farmers of Nebraska and Kansas * 10 put in seed for o new crop seems to be received with favor ev where, Nelther are the motives which prompt the action being assailed—something that goes to show that the efforts are properly appreciated. As sowing time 18 no longer very far distant it is of the utmost importance that all the prelim- Inary arrangements be completed as soon as possible and the seed grain dis- tributed without delay. That done, the success of next year's crop will depend on the industry of the farmers and a favoring Providence, The Chicag imes, after forty years' publication, has been absorbed by the Ohicago Herald, its pushing and enter prising rival, and the mammoth con- solidated organ of Chicago democracy now appears under the name and title of the Times-Herald. The marvelous success of the junior paper under the management of James W, Scott affords & guaranty that the Times-Herald will under his control eclipse all rivals in the race for public favo The con- solidation was a master stroke from & business standpoint and we should not be surprised if the venture would yleld an income the next five years equal to the greatest daily of the American wetropolis, ~ THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRES: It were an casy matter to write the record of the Fifty-third congress if only its affirmative action were referred to. The congress that went out of existence vestorday will be remembered for having passed a tariff bill which the president wotld not sign and which satisfled no- v, and the very fear of the passage of which caused hundreds of mills to close, turning hundreds of thousands of people out of employment. That meas- ure, with its income tax and its sugar duty, the Ilatter involving one of the greatest scandals that ever brought re- proach upon the legislative department of the government, is the one thing that will cause the last congress to be thought of and referred to hereafter, for it effected a change in the economic policy of the country which has had results not soon to be forgotten. The extent to which the industr and the business interests generally of the coun- try suffered in consequence of the polic of the Fifty-third congr can never be computed, but it will always stand as one of the severest lessons in democratic principles the American people evor been taught. Aside from the taviff law and the ap- propriations, the record of the Fifty third congress is chiefly of what it did not do. Perhaps the country ought to be thankful that such is the ease, but none the less it evidences the incompe- tency of the party that was in control of con; In no pect was this more strongly shown than in the consid- eration of financial questions Upon these the party was hopelessly divided, and it is to be remembered, for this will led in the national campaign of year, that a majority of the party in favor of a financial policy hostile to a sound and safe currency. It is not to be regretted that the democrats in the last congress failed to get together in support of any of the numerous finan- cinl measures proposed by them, since none of them was free from serious ob- jections, but the people must not be al- lowed to forget that in this matter the democratic party demonstrated its inea- acity to give the country wise and sound finaneial legislation and showed that it is the y of inflatibn and fiat- m. One of the most serious faults of the Fifty-third con was that it per- mitted an increase in the public debt of 162,000,000 and made no effort to pro- vide for the relief of the treasury by in- creasing revenue, as might have been done. And when the treasury W com- pelled, in order to maintain the credit of the government, to borrow gold, con- gress refused to save the government $16,000,000 in interest by simply chang- ing the word “coin” in the: bonds to “gold.” The most damaging fact in the record of the Iifty-third congress was the deal with the Sugar trust. 1t is doubtless safe to say that in the history of the country there has been no congress with so poor a record as the one just closed. It did nothing of which the American people can be proud, but it gave an exhibition of democratic di- vision, antagonistic policies and general incompeteney which ought to have sat- isfied the people that the party cannot be trusted to legislate for the nation. 1t may be useful as a minority, but in control of the legislative department of the government it always has been a failure and probably always will be, a any rate so long as it is dominated b, its southern element. We have probably tad the last democratic congress for a good many years. have ILEA FOR MUTILATING THE CHARTER, Mr. Alva J. Grover, ‘who claims to have begun civil engineering when he was 7 years old, has ventured into print with an appeal to keep the profession of engincering clean by making the city engincer an employe and subordinate of the Board of Public Works. Mr. Gro- s appeal was given publicity through The Bee several days ago and has now been republished in the columns of the World-Herald. The manifest object of Mr. Grover Is to induce the legislature to revise the charter amendments framed by the citi- zens' committee. Why Mr. Grover and the parties whose interest he appears desirous of promoting - did not present thelr views to the charter committee when it was in session is inexplicable except upon the theory that they pre- ferred to take their chances of success with a legislative committee that is not conversant with the wants of Omaha and the relations of contractors and franchised corporations to the Board of Public Works and city engineer. The main question at Issue before the charter committee was whether the city engineer shall be made ex-officio chalr- man of the Board of Public Works. The charter committee, after full discussion and with the advice of Chairman Win- spear himself, decided that it would be advantageous to have the city engineer made the official head of the board with- out assmhing any of the functions of the board. On this point there may be hon- est divergence of opinion. When the proposition was made fourteen years ago to create a Board of Public Works The Bee was decidedly opposed to the funovation, believing that the council and the city engineer could and should carry on and supervise public works and be held responsible for the making of contracts, inspection of public works and final settlement with contractors. Whether the views of The Bee were correct or not Is now immaterial. The Board of Public Works has become a fixture, and the only question that we have to deal with is, Who shall consti- tute the board and what shall be the qualification of its members? In most of the large cities the supervision of public works is in the hands of expert enginecers, and these boards are en- trusted with the sole responsibility which in this city has been divided be- tween the council and Board of IPublic Works. Under that system the city engineer has occupied the same relation to the board and the council that the comp- troller occupies to the treasurer and the other departments of municipal govern- ment in holding checks and balances. To the men who have vested interests in Omaba it is immaterial whether the l city engineer s made ex-officlo chalrman of the Board of Public Works or whether he is restricted within the do- main prescribed by the present charter, But when Mr. Grover under flimsy pre- texts advises that the engineer shall be made an employe of the Board of Public Works Omaha property owners and tax- payers generally will most emphatically protest. It is a palpable scheme to throw down the bars which for years have been an important safeguard against dishon- est and rapacious contractors. The Board of Public Works as now consti- tuted and as it probably will continue to be for years to come does not possess the requisite qualifications either for planning public works or making speci- fications for pavements, sewers or other improvements, It is a semi-political body, while the engineer should be en- tirely free from political interference and contention, Without entering into a further dis cussion as to the specious comparisons between railroad superintendents and engineers on one side and boards of public works and engineers on the other, The Bee earnestly remonstrates against any change in the charter that will weaken or displace the safeguards which have heretofore been embodied in all our charters and through which alone it has been possible to train tampering with specifications and pre- vent collusion between contractors for public works. The fact that the con- tractors and corporate manipulators in the legislative lobby are urging the change that Mr. Grover advocates af- fords ample proof that it is not in the interest of the taxpaying property own- ers, and therefore should ceive no countenance or support at the hands of their representatives in the legislature. LEFT T0 HER OWN RESOURCES. The failure in conference of the Petti- grew amendment to the sundry civil appropriation bill, setting aside $300,- 000 for the purchase of seed grain, to be distributed among the destitute farmers of the drouth-ridden states, leay ka to her own resources. The 1 to grant federal aid in ced grain was perfectly 1d ought to have been adopted ss without begrudging the measure of relief which would 1 been thus extended out of the national treasury. We cannot but be- lieve that the amendment would have been adopted had it received that at- tention from the representatives of the states affected which the subject de- manded and deserved. When first of- fered by Senator Allen in the form of an amendment to the agriculture appro- priation bill the project encountered a shower of cold water at the hands of Senator Manderson, and was ruled out on a point of order sustained by a vote of the senate. It was reintroduced shortly after by Senator Pettigrew as an amendment to the sundry civil ap- propriation bill, referred to Senator Allen’s committee, reported back favor- ably, and finally incorporated into the measure. When, however, the bill reached the conference committee, that amendment seems to have found itself without friends, and to have succumbed for want of support in the struggle for survival. Had the whole Nebraska delegation united to secure an agree- ment on the amendment from the con- ference committee it is very probable that their efforts would have been suc- cessful. But there Is no use crying over spilled milk. The appropriation bills have all become law, congress has adjourned, and even were a special session to be summoned it would be too late for ef- fective action. Nebraska will try to get along the best it can without fed- eral assistance. In fact, the greater number of our farmers will try to get along without outright donations of any kind. What they want now is an op- portunity to obtain seed grain by means of notes secured by next year's crop. With half way favorable conditions they will be able to regain the lost ground, and at the same time repay the loan represented in the advance of seed grain. The members of the Chicago and St. Louis Boards of Trade are showing their confidence in Ne- braska's resources by co-operating in this plan of relief. Since congress has refused all federal aid that is the only practicable way left. prope by cong all RECEIPTS NOT IMPROVING. The treasury report of the fiscal operations of the government for Feb- ruary does not verify the hopeful as- surances given by Secretary Carlisle a short time ago regarding revenue, The report shows considerable decreases in both customs and internal revenue ¢ ceipts compared with the preceding month of January and an excess of ex- penditures over receipts last month amounting to about $3,000,000. The cash balance of the treasury was in- creased during February by more than $33,000,000, due to gold received on ac- count of the last bond sale, while the gold reserve is within $12,000,000 of high water mark., But the showing as to receipts is not encouraging. These were less by $4,000,000 from customs in February than in the preceding month, while from internal revenue the falling off was nearly $500,000 as compared with January, and fully $2,000,000 less than in February, 1804, Revenues from sugar duties during the last two months have disappointed expectation, They are likely to inerease during the remaining months of the rent fiscal year, as the six months rom January to June, inclusive, are ordinarily the heaviest cane sugar im- porting months of the year. But it pointed out that even with the aid of this duty from a new source customs receipts last month were only greater than in February, 1804, and for the eight months of the current fiscal year ending with last month were only about §8,000,000 greater than for the corvesponding perfod of the preceding fiscal year, when the depression was at its worst. The treasury estimate of $43,- 000,000 from sugar for the current fiscal yeur cannot be realized, because even if there should be no reduction in the amount iwported the lower price of raw sugar will cause a material diminu- tion in the revenue from this source. : THE OMANA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, MARCH s 5, 1895 Sugar avernged about 8 cents a pound when Secrefagy, Carlisle made his esti- mate, whilast 4& now worth only about 214 cents, P 'gbems probable that the revenue froml’ §ugar in this fiseal year will not exeeed half the amount esti- mated by thé secretary of the treasur The recelptd’ thom the tax on whi are also disappeinting, falling consider- ably short of the department estimate. In the last fi&cal year the government derived nearly. $79,000,000 from the whisky tax, but the outlook for the current fiscal yoar is that receipts from this source will not exceed $72,000,000, although the tax has been increased 20 cents a gallon. nator Gorman, in advocating an amendment to an appropriation bill authorizing the secretary of the treas ury to issue certificates of indebted ness to meet a deficiency, ealled in ques- tion the correctness of the department estimates and it would seem that he was fully warranted in doing so. The deficit at the close of the current fiscal year, June 30, may not be so large as the Maryland senator predicted, but it will undoubtedly considerably exceed the figures of Secretary Carlisle. Thus far the operation of the new tariff law has utterly failed to fulfill the prophe of its supporters that it would large increase the revenues of the govern- ment and insure an ample supply of money to the treasury.e When the gov- ernment begins to get receipts from the income tax it is possible that the revenues will equal expenditures, but this cannot be regarded s assured, for as to the yield from this tax the esti- mate of the department is more than likely to prove to be exaggerated. There must be improvement in the business and prosperity of the country before the revenue of the government will ineres and while the general indications appear favorable to improve- ment it will come on gradually. It is probable that the secretary of the tre ury will not find it necessary to ne- ate another loan before the meet- t congress, which may se o plan for inereasin the revenues at that time they still below expenditure: S0, 20! 4 SFIT'S KOADWAY BILL, One of the most important and merl- torious Dbills now pending before the legislature is Senator Tefft's bill re tive to the government and coustru tion of roads and bridges. The scope of this measure extends over the en- tire state, excepting only counties of over 100,000 population. It contem- plates a complete reorganization of the prevailing syStom of laying out, main- taining and ¢onstructing roadways, and the location and construction of bridg and declares’ arate and di ¢h county to be a sep- inct v rtment, and the office of road! overseer or supervisor now existing s abolished. Under the second section of the bill the county board of each county is vested with’sole’ and exclusive power to govern, manage, regulate, lease, es- tablish, vacate, alter, relocate, widen, narrow, improve, pave, macadamize, construct, purchase and repair all pub- lic roads and’bridges within the road department of ‘the county. It is furth- ermore provided that all public roads and bridges of any road department shall be maintained by the county board as a county charge, and the county surveyor is given general super- vision of all public roads in his county under direction of the county board. He is also constituted the custodian of all the materials, machinery and im- plements used for county road pur- poses. It is made the duty of the county engineer to divide the county into suitable road districts and report the same to the county board for its adoption, which district may be changed from time to time by the en- gineer, acting under the divection of the county board. The bill makes exhaustive provision for raising the road funds and their e penditure, under a system which, when carried into effect, would save millions | olcomargarine of dollars which are now wasted with- out benefiting the public, and it would, moreover, establish roadways on scien- tific principles and shorten distances in many places where the roads now com- pel travel by the section line roads. In view of the fact that the whole country s now agitating the improv ment of public highways and building of good roads, Senator Tefft's effort is timely and commendable. The various drouth-ridden countles in which the proposition to Issue bonds for the purchase of seed grain has been sub- mitted to a vote of the people have for the most part been nearly unanimous in opposition to such procedure, law authorizing seed bonds was before the legislature its supporters urged that there was a very general demand for its enactment and that it would be taken advantage of in every county In the drouth district. It proves not to have filled any long felt want. In fact it is a failure, and the two or three counties that may attempt to make use of its provisions will probably find difficulty in doing so ow account of its question- able constitutionality. —— Is the Omahi} charter to be mutilated in the interest of the contractors for public works and franchised corpora- tions or is 1t to be framed for the protec- tion of the taxpayers and property It 15 sald the real Feason why Postmaster- general Bissell resigned was that his oftl- clal duties seridusly interfered with his work as counsel (of the Lehigh Valley and other railroads, which afso baid ‘him 8- aries, and he could not consclentiously re celve pay from cogporations and neglect th duties of the position. 1f common repo i5 true there Is another member of M Cleveland's cabinet who 1s not £o consc entious, When the | PEOPLE AND THINGS, The ground hog 18 & prophet without honor in this section. The president’s hands will much needed rest Tomorrow's shipment of gould will disturb the treasury balance. Congress and calamity are unhorsed eral prosperity is in the saddle. The Western Union and the Missourl Pacific have acquired a fresh grip on the aristocracy of France. The suspicion is abroad in Lincoln that the State university is still loyal to the old flag and an appropriation, Phitadelphia papers, which recently went into hyaterics over the distress in Nebra: now report a case of death from starvation in that opulent city. The library of the late General Pleasonton, of blue glass fame, contains 15,000 volumes, and Is to be sold at auction. Some of the books are a century old. For some inexplicable reason a recent French duel resulted fatally. The culprit deserves severe punishment for his cruel in- difference to the traditions of the code and the country. An incombustible statue of justice is to re- place the burnt one on Brooklyn's city hall The bindage and the scales will be con- tinued as an outward symbol that all things are fair and square at that altitude. The retiring postmaster general is believed to have an eye on the supreme bench, and is watching prospective vacancies, Mean- whila a few fat railroad retainers tends to soften the path from public station to private life, Whatever now enjoy a ot Gen may be the drawbacks of Mexico in other respects, the republic Is thorough in the matter of railroad wrecks. The last disaster did not beat the record of 1881, when 161 persons were killed outright and 112 wounded, There is some encouragement for Gasman Addicks in the fact that a persistent eandi- date for congress fn an Illinols district stuck to his guns and captured the nomination on the 1,476th ballot. But in the latter caso the successful candidate is a Prince, The Brooklyn trolley lines added three victims to their death roll last week, bringing the total fatalities up to 102, with several hundred maimed and injured. The record en- titles them to admission into the under- takers' trust without a formal application. Prof. Lucien I. Blake has succeeded, it is said, in establishing electrical communication by ‘wire between the land and a vessel anchored several miles out in the ocean. Prof. Blake Is a Kansas man and occupies the chair of physics and electrical engineering at the Kansas State university. Ex-Senator William Pitt Kellogg, who now resides fn Washington, says the Philadelphia Ledger, was one of the seven gentlemen who, at the outbreak of the war, boarded at the Herndon house, in Omaha. Fach of these seven men in after years occupled a seat on the floor of the United States senate. Justica Stephen J. Field's health is said to be failing, and he will not probably long con- tinue on the supreme bench, notwithstanding his reported determination mot to let Mr, Cleveland name his successor. Justice Field has seen the personnel of the supreme court change entirely, with the exception of him- self, since he has been on the bench. James E. Blethen, once mayor of the city of Oakland, San Francisco's Brooklyn, is a flagman on the Southern Pacific railway with a salary of $40 a month, Blethen was a prosperous mill owner when he was elected mayor and high in the public esteem. A secret meeting of the city council over which he presided bartered away the city’s water front, and this brought about the mayor's downfall. His old friends cut him, the public boycotted his business and he went into bankruptey. ——— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. B. C. Maynard has established the Weekly News at Arlington. The Loup and Elkhorn Baptist assoclation will hold a meeting at Tilden March 13 and 14. Uncle Billy Green of Diller died at the home of his son last week at the age of 65 years. A resident of Howells offered $76 for a wife from 18 to 26 years of age. He hasn't secured a prize as yet. Charlie Daily, a Butler county farmer, was buncoed out of his land a while ago, and last week he went insane as a consequence and was sent to the asylum. John A. McMurphy, the old-time newspaper man, who has been out of the harness for somo' littlo time, has purchased an interest in the Beatrice Times and will become asso- clate editor of that paper. A halt witted boy and a match started a firo at Stuart that caused the destruction of a lot of hay, considerable farm machinery, a number of the Standard Oil company’s bar- rels and a building belonging to John Skir- ving, ———— In Re Oleomurgarine. Philadelphia Record. In the celebrated case of Butter vs. Oleo- margarine, In, the court of public opinion, Secretary 'of Agriculture J, Sterling Morton has just filed a striking niew brief for the defendant upon appéal. The secretary i justly indignant over the foolishness of the Nebraska legislature, which has by the pas- sage of a prohibitory law doomed one of the most flourishing and valuable industries of that state. His argument in the case should be perused over and over agaln by every farmer and dairyman in the United States, for it conclusively demonstrates that the industry fs every whit as profitable an industry as the manufacture of butter. “During the last vear,” Secretary Morton states, “‘we exported from this coun- try 118,195,049 pounds, or $11,265,010 worth, of oleomargarine to foreign countries, and the year before (1893) $11,834,720 worth, of which @ considerable portioh was furnished by N brask Germany alone took 20.217,527 for which she paid us 32,857,406, At me time the total exports of butter ‘e only 10,088,152 pounds, valued at $1.730. 210. In 1893 ‘we exported less than 7,000,000 pounds of butter, and received for it $1,347,- 12, Germany took only 705,465 pounds of butter last year, and paid us only $108811."" These statistics are an emphatic indictment of the commercial decriers of the oleomar- garine traflic. As to the second count—the value of oleomargarine as a table article— an equally striking answer was made by Congressman Willlam D. Bynum {n the house of representatives yesterday, when he had read an account of a little joke recently played upon the Pennsylvania State Dairy- men's association at its Meadville meeting, According to the testimony of the Meadville Star, Editor A. J. Palm of the Messenger, who has been vigorously opposing the exist: ing state law on the subject, entered three ordinary packages of Chicago butterine In the regular butter contest. The treasurer of the association informed "Mr. Palm that the committee—consisting of Prof. Wat- ers of the State college, John C. McClin- tock, a prominent dairyman near that city, and A, L. Wales, a n,rr{ alryman—had awarde e premiu to the one- pound package, and the third premium to the five-pound pa of his butterine What reasonable objection, indeed, can be urged against the outlawed dleomargarine? —_———— Wilson Tariff a Penefit to th Andrew Carnegle in March Forum, Tariff duties as follows were collected in 1802 on forcign importations of the luxu- ries of the rich: e 609 ich Only, Wool manufactures Silk i ton lax Glass and china Wines, liquors, et Tobacco and clgars.. Here are $106,02,000 of classes of luxuries, and here ar ted mor: than 3, , carriages, artific papery per{umerl ing $114,000,000 re 3 ected from imports out of the total of $117, 0:0,0%, ' To reduce duties upon art cles which are all luxuries of the rich, fu thirds of the whole tarift' revenue, chief result of the Wilson act, from' seven a few oth 3,000 addi- ishing two- Is the Ciicago Timen, Judge Wilson of one of the back coun- s 0f Nebraska has resigned. His exam- ple is cited to Judge Scott of Omaha with @ favorable recommendatio Hlighest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S, Gov't Report Ro al VEATHS Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE T0 ADOPT A CONSTITUTION Another Star Will Soon Bo Added to the Field of Blue, UTAH MOVING ON TOWARD STATEHOOD Conventlon Called to Order This Morning Aud Adjourned the Parties to Cnucus on OMecers—Republie- ans Haves Majority. SALT LAKE, March 4.—The day for the opening of the constitutional convention was hailed with delight by the inhabitants of this valley, whose aspirations and constant en- deavor for statehood have extended over a period of more than forty years. The six previous conventions which met and did their work, adjourned only to see their hope shattered and statehood deferred. This convention, unlike the six which preceded It, enters upon its labors under the inspiring assurance that statehood will speedily follow the completion of its work. The history of Utal's forty-year struggle for statehood fs of special interest at this time. The strug- gle began in less than two years after the settlement of the Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley, the first constitutional conven- tion being held early in 1849, After the adoption of a constitution and the election of a provisional government was held and Brigham Young elected governor, the con- stitution was forwarded to Washington and was rejected by congress in 1850, Utah was, however, at that time granted a terri- torial form of government. After a lapse of seven years a s convention was held and dele; sent to Washington to present the petition and con- stitution as adopted to congress. This petition shared the same fate as the first, and it was not until Januury, 1862, that the thirl convention was called. On January 22 of that year a constitution was adopted and George Q. Cannon and W. H. Hooper chosen as delegates to present the same to congress. On the third of the following March the constitution was almost unani- mously adopted by the people, and Brigham Young was again elected governor. The people were a third time disappointed, as no action was taken by congres Ten years later, on February 19, 1872, the fourth convention was convened at Salt ake City and organized by the election of B. M. Barnum as president. At this convention a congtitution was agreed upon and forwarded to Washington, but was adversely reported upon by the committee to which it was re. ferred. The fifth constitution was adopted in 1582 and ratified by the people, and again de- nied by congress. Undaunted by continuous the sixth convention met in on June 30, 1887. A constitution was then adopted carrying a clause which declared bigamy and polygamy to be incompatible with a republican form of government. Con- gress having rejected this appeal, the state- hood question practically dropped out of cight until after the division of the people on national party lines in 1890. The recent_enabling act provides for the clection of 107 delegates, and they were elected in November last. Owing to irregu- larities in returns from the Third precinct of Salt Lake, and judicial decisions affecting the same, five delegates from that precinct have no certificates of election. In the adoption of a constitution, prohibi- tion, woman suffrage, mining, irrigation, dis- position of public lands and legislative ap- portionment, are the questions that will be the most prominent before the convention. The seventh constitutional convention was called to order by Delegate Crane at noon today in the mew city and county building with 102 delegates present, 57 of whom are republicans_and 45 democrats. Prayer was offered by President Woodruff of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Secretary C. C. Richards then called the roll, and the oath was adminstered to the delegates by Chief Justice Morritt. A congratulatory address was delivered by Governor West. A _temporary organization was then effected by the election of the following officers: Chairman, James M. Kimball; secretary, Heber M. Wells, ser- geant-at-arms, J. F. Chidester. The convention then adjourned until to- morrow, and a caucus was immediately called for the selection of permanent officers. Apostle John Henry Smith of the Third precinct, who has not yet received his cer- tificate of election, is the choico of the re- publican members for permanent chairman. The democratic members had a caucus this morning, -at which Hon. Moses Thatcher was complimented with a vote for chairman of the convention, ————— Constable Shot by un Escaped Prisoner. NASHVILLE, March 4.—Constable Eugene Lynch was waylaid and shot and mortally wounded at Soddy, a mining town in Hamil- ton county, today by John Leomon, whom he arrested yesterday and who escaped last night. Leomon, after firing three shots from a double-barreled shotgun into Lynch’s body, mado his escape. Officers with bloodhounds ars in pursuit. ——— Circus Owner Dying from Pneumonin, JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 4.—W. C. Coup, the well known circus owner, is dan- gerously Ill in this city with pncumonia, nd disappointment, It Lake City RLOW UP A RORBERS' CAVE, Marshals Getting Atter Bill Doolln's Gang with Dynamite. PERRY, OKl, March 4.—Considerable ox citement exists over the news of a fight be« tween A large posse of deputies and Bill Doolin's gang north of Iigalls. News WA recoived here last night that Deputy Marshal, WIIl Nix of this city, with fiftoen or twenty deputies, had surrounded a cave in which the gang was located and were attempting to blow Doolin and his gang out of the eave With dynamite. A posse went from here to the marshal’s aseistance, All kinds of rumors are afloat of fights botween the gang of out= laws and the marshal. A raid has been in contemplation for some time on the locality. It was near there the fight in which four marshals and several bandits were killed, June, 1893 ———— Two Crows Re In Midatlantie. NEW YORK, March 4.--The Anchor line steamer Anchorfa, which arrived this morning from Gla rescued at sea on February 25 the crew of the British brigantine Cons foderate, which was in a sinking condition, The Confederate salled from St. John's, N. I, January 8, for Bristol with a cargo of fish ofl. On February 21, after having experls enced a season of hard storms, the 8hip sprang a leak. The water gained steadily and had not assistance come when it did the crew would have been obliged to desert th brigantine, The Suevia brought into port Captain Ware and crew of the schooner Mary K. Amsden, from Calals, Me., for Barbadoes, with lum= bor, wrecked February 16 In latitude 35, longitude 64, The crew saved nothing. - Sent Food to the Starving Sallors, LIVERPOOL, March 4.—The British steamer St. Pancras, Captaln Young, from Port Royal, February 15, has arrived here and reports that on February 18, in latitude 86, longitude 71, she epoke the steamer Aetna, with decks swept by severo gales, hatches, boats and main boom gone and the crew in & starving condition After supplying the schooner with provisions, the St. Pancras res sumed her voyage. w, RIPPLES OF MIRTR. Galveston ence hetwe financial flus! News: n o There I8 a sad differ- financéal strait and & Wiggles—Why did neert, do you think? . Possibly because ssary (0 be charitable tos ward the performe Chicago Inter ( very gifted won Monumental lars—a good H ture is g ch, solemnl. indeed,” returned Miss Jocose, ok at all the capes she has scattered ng the cold latitudes of the north coast!® cat pro Have but my Syracuse Post: baby vet?”" “No for three sots of e arrive at one befo you named the husband has sent lius, and we may Dot a pre He. You t count value, ot 1°r I fous note That's only in your imaginat Ke it to a bank and try to ge d If you want to get at its actual Tribune: “Sorry to disappoint said the turnkey to the voun, called with the basket of haven't any murderers in ago miss, an who Boston Uncle George—It 18 really absurd fo L woman to understate her age for the sake of getting a husband, Kate—Uncle George, when you sell any- thing in your businets don't’ you make & time~ allowance? Tran: vashington Star: *'I am afraid,” sald the languishing sentimentalist, ““that your being is not attuned to welcome sweet spring LAt replied the practical man. ok fifteen grains of quinine this morn= SAD FATE. Indianapolis Journal, The poet wandered through the fields, He thought the birds would sing to him; The balmy air, the rippling rills, Were pieasant signs of spring to him— Just then a cold wave came along And didn’t do a thing to him! s BASEBALL BALLAD, Chicago Inter Occan. Oh, captain, my captain! Again you take the fleld; I see you go to smite the foo And make contestants yield, Again you seek the balmier air, And for the stirring strife prepare, May you in glorious triumph share, A husky stick you wield. Oh, captain, my captain! The winter days were long, The snow did leap, the days did creep— Like bravos in a 'throng. The blizzard blustered every hour, And nipped the timid, tender flower, And brought the sleet and searching showes To do the season WrOng. Oh, captain, my captain! Comes now the jocund spring; The sun {8 shy, he wheels so high, But bound to have his fling. The leaves are sprouting on the trees, And wave their banners to the breez:; The swallow takes his lordly ease, The thrushes soon will sing. Oh; captain, my captain Tor goodly strife prepa Be bold and strong and sweep along, And bloody war declare. 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