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

o TuE. OMAHA DALY BEE B. ROSEWATER, Editor. FUDLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUDSCRIPTION. Daily Bre (Without Sanday), One year % Pen d & il ix M nths . Omaha, The Ree Bullding. Bowth Omaha, Singer Dik., Corner N and 24th Sts. Qounctl e, 18 Doart Shrect, e jengo Office, 317 Chamber of Cot ) New York, 1tjoms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune Blig. Washingion, 407 F Street, N. W, CORRESPONDENCE. All communieations relating to news and el toriml miaticr should be widresasd: To the Baitor, BUSINESS LETTERS, Al busines: W remittances should be addresscd to Th Publishing company, Omaba, - Dratta, checks and postoffice orders (o wnde pos 7 the order of the company. e SUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CTRCULATION George B cy of The Tee Pub Hishing coripu sworn, says th the actun complets cop of the 1 Sunday I ry, 1895, was auly number of full_and Iy Morning, Evening 2,195 RIS .. ¢ -5 19,560 ! 20550 0,520 0190 19,001 1040 10400 L 10,79 Tetal Less deductions for unsold coples Net sales, X Dafley averige Sunduy. ZSCITUCK. cribed in my prese ty Public The way to reorganize the police force 1s to reorganize it. of the upper house of Ature are rapidly coming to the conclusion that it is better to work in harmony with the governor than to invite open warfare. The memb the state le The woman suffragists have just hoen once more repulsed in Massachusetts, that supposed stronghold of feminine pow, Massachusetts is willing to let Wyoming and Colorado have a monop oly of woman suff The eats that don't cateh mice on the Qetective force want a special appropria- tlon for work by “unknown” detectives If the known detectives can’t or don't accomplish anything why not supplant them with “unknow 11 around? Kate ield is being quoted as saying that instead of wasting time over di- vorce Iaws our legislation should be reversed so as to make marriage mdve difficult. More diflicult for whom? A great many of Kate's spinster sisters think marriage is quite difficult enough alveady. Not the least among the calamities which the last congress has Dbrought upon us is an en ed supply of travel- Ing lecturers, who propose to inflict the ‘public in person with the same tales of woe that they have been daily pour- Ing forth through the columns of the Congressional Record. Town has no ambition to rival Okla- homa as the home of bank robbers and highwaymen. The people of Towa do pot care to encourage exploits of the kind witnessed at Adel, nor will they wuste any hero worship on the reckless dare-devils. Speedy and certain pun- shment will put a damper on bank rob- bing in Iowa. The New York Evening Post seems to think the worst feature of the adjourn- ment of congress is the fact that the assembling of its suc n not be staved off any longer than December mext. Before that time, however, there avill be lots of things upon which the Post will be calling for congressional action. Congress is an institution that we would not dispense with if we could. | The wealthy property owners are able fo hire lawyers to represent them at Lincoln and to assist in mutilating the elty charter. The great body of tax- payers are represented only by the men whom they elected to the legislature, If the latter do their duty they will stand up for the interests of the ta oIS a8 @ whole as against those of the few who manage to shift their own burdens upon the shoulders of others less able to bear them. The complaints of cruel treatment and bratality filed with the governor by two discharged counviets call for a thorough investigation. While the stories told by convicts are not always found to be truthful, they should not be dismissed a8 incredible beeause they come from in- mates of a penitentiar; If the report of barbarism and brutality arve true the, can readily be verified. If not, the wvarden is entitled to a clean bill of ex- oneration, The Board of Health has lost no time In registering its objections to the re- trenchment plan proposed by the finance committee of the council. This is quite natural and was only to be expected. Every other department and official who will be affected if the committee's ree- ommendations are carvied out will ob- Ject with equal vigor to retrenchment within their own bailiwicks, Everybody wants retrenchment, provided only it hits the other fellow. The prospects are encouraging for the passage of Senator Sloan’s bill to legal Mge settlements made under the dece- d_el!tu law of 1887, recently declaved constitutional by the supreme court. This law ought to pass without oppos! tion. 1t seeks merely to aflivm what was done by many administrators under the old law to the satisfaction of all parties concerned. Without the pas- sage of this bill or one having the same objects in view all these cases will have to be reopened and readjusted, in some instances to the utter ruin of the administrators and the heirs, Vali- g the settlements made under the 1 that the decedents law was valid 18 Bo wmore than justice to all parties' @emands. CLEARLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The change of venue bill which ha passed both houses of the legislature and is now In the hands of the governor violates one of the cardinal principles in onr organic law and therefore is beyond | doubt unconstitutional. It is in dircet contravention of that clause in the Biil of Rights which guarantees to each per- | son aceused of a capital erime the right to a trial in the county or district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed. The framers of this bill have sought to strain a point by interpreting the word “distriet” to Imply any portion of the territory comprising the judicial distriet | in which the offense was committed That fnterpretation will not bear log analysis. Any district judge may pr side at trials of persons charged with crime in any part of the state and no- | body will contend that the state could under any possible contingency take a | person charged with crfme from ihe county In which the erfme was com- mitted to any portion of the siate in which it believed convietion would be the most feasible. But there is veally no ground on which the change of venue bill can be upheld In view of the several decisions rendered by our own supreme court on this subject. One of these decisions was in the famous Olive which involved a crime more heinous if anything than the tt Scott lynching, In that victims, Mitchell and Ketehum, w tured and slowly roqasted to death and their bodies horribly mutilated. The perpeteators were known and the people in the county in which the murders were committed were y all involved. A more recent decision by the present supreme court reaffirmed the constitu- tional right of every person charged with crime to a trial in the county in which the crime was alleged to I been committed. This decision was ren- dered in the Barrett Scott habeas corpus se when Scott was on trial for em- bezzlement. With these decisions staring it in the face we cannot comprehend why the ure ventured to override the con- stitution and the supreme court in one act. Bvery aw-abiding citizen of this state desires to see the dastardly murderers of Barrett Scott prosecuted and made to expiate their erime on the gallows, but these criminals must be accorded the same rights and defense which the con- stitution has thrown around every man or woman charged with the perpetration of crimes and misdemeanors, Even if the change of venue bill did not conflict with the constitution the policy of en- acting such a law to meet a special case would be open to serious objection. It is an innovation that might, in the hands of unserupulous prosecutors, become a dangerous destructive of the most sacred rights for which liberty- loving people have struggled for genera- tions. GREAT BRITAIN'S DAMAGE CLAIMS. It is possible that some unpleasant- ness may result from the failure of congress to make provision for the pay ment of the claims for damages grow- ing out of the seizure by the United States of British sealers in Bering sea. The matter has been brought up in the British Iouse of Commons, and while there has come from that quarter no expression that can be r rded at all unfriendly the refusal of con- gress to comply with the desire of the administration to settle these claims is undoubtedly displeasing to the British government, which was given good reason by Secretary Gresham to expect that there would be no delay or difficulty in having the claims paid. The alleged damages were incurred prior to the arbitration proceedings of the Paris tribunal which passed upon the Bering sea controversy and the claims presented by the British gov- ernment amounted to $439,000, much the greater part of which were for con- sequential damages. Since then the amount ¢ anded was increased to nearly $G00,000. The Paris tribunal declined to make any award of dam- ages, referring the matter to the gov- ernments of Great Britain and the United States for negotiations upon an scertained basis of faet, relating to the number and names of ships that were taken and the points at which th were taken. Negotiations were had be tween Secretary esham and the British ambassador at Washington, which resulted in the former reeing to pay on behalf of our government an amount somewhat less than the British claim first presented. In sup- vort of this agreement it was urged that the arrangement was a favorable one for this country, for the reason that if the question were submitted to arbitration we should probably have to pay a much larger sum than that azreed upon. The president and seere- tary of state earnestly sought to im- press this view upon congress, but it met with vigorous opposition in both the sennte and house, one of its most vigorous opponents being Senator Mor- gan, who w; member of the Parvis teibunal of arbitration, Mr. Morgan insisted that the amount proposed to be paid was excessive; that on the strongest point in the claim, on the strongest view of the question, there cannot be due to Great Britain more than 596,000 and some odd dollars, and he urged that the watter should be given a thorough investigation, Others made a similar contention and while there were some who urged that it would be better to pay the claims and dispose of the question the very gen- 1 opinion developed was that the claims are unjust. At the last moment the secretary of state asked an appro- priation toward defraying the expenses of a commission to examine into the claims, but even this was refused, an intimation of want of confidence in the secretary. Of course this issue will not ma the British government any better dis- posed to enter into arrangements for the better protection of the seals, and it would noi be surprising if the pres- ent efforts of our government in this divection result in failure. The British government has shown little disposition to co-operate in more efficient regula tions for protecting the seal, and the 80 ’X\IA‘ us ne course of congress can hardly be ex- pected to fmprove its feeling in this respect. If no better regulations than now exist arc established the slanghter of senls in the open sea this season, soon to begin, will doubtless equal at least the enormouns ecateh of last year, which if continued for two or three would, according to expert authority, exterminate the herds in the North Pacific and Bering sea. —_— THE COST OF GOVERNMENT. The exact amount of the approprin- tions made by the Fifty-third congress cannot be known until the treasury offi- cials have gone thoroughly through the various bills passed at the last session, iy an be determined now it s a fraction over $000,000,000. The appropriations of the first and second sessions were, in round numbers, $49: 000,000, while those of the third and last sossion are estimated at $408,000,000. Tt is not unlikely that the total appro- printions of the last congress will he found to amount to fully $1,000,000,000, greater sum than was ever appropri ed by any congress except the Pifty- second, the house of which was demo- cratic. 'I'hus in two congresses the dem- ocrats have allowed appropriations ex- ceeding in amount those of the Iifty first against which the polit- ieal ery was made that it anthorized ex- penditures to the extent of a billion dollars, though in point of fact the ap- propriations of the “billion dol- lar congress,” republic in both branches, did not amount to that sum. It was a serviceable cry for the democ- racy, however, and they made the most of deluding the people into giving them power which they have abused to the great detriment of the nation and in the exercise of which they bave shown less economy than the republicans. What the next congress, under re- publican control, may do in the mafter of expenditures it would be idle now to predict. It may be able to drop back inside the billion-dollar and it may find it necessary to go beyond it. congres But in any ovent the fact has got to be rec- ognized that with the practice of the closest economy the cost of earrying on this government will hereafter he heavy and is pretty certain to Increase from year to year. In some items of ex- penditure, notably that of pensions, there will be a steady decrease, but this will be offset by necessary in- creases in other divections. A few sta tisties will illustrate. The sundry civil appropriation bill, which ten y carried $22,000,000, has grown to §$47,- 000,000 in the session just ended. The agricultural appropriation bill, which in 1885 was only a little over $500,000, is now over $3,000,000 every year. The appropriation for the postal service v only a little over $50,000,000 ten y ago, and is now almost $00,000,000. All these increased expenditures have been demanded by the growth of the country and are necessary to the efficiency of the public service. It may happen that in some years 2 part of them can be re- duced, but it is pretty safe to say that the cost of running this government will never again fall materially below a thousand million dollars, and, of course, the time will come when that amount will be considerably exceeded. A Dbillion dollars is a large sum of money. It means about §15 per capita of the population. Added to what the people have to pay for the support of state, county and municipal govern- ment and the total constitutes a he: drain. But the American people do not complain of the cost of their govern- ment so long as it is wisely adminis- tered for the promotion and advance- ment of their interests and welfare. Tt is only when, as has been the case dur ing the past two years, its administra- tion brings public distress and losses to all classes of the people, with declining revenues to the government, that Ia expenditures become a matte lar criticism. of popu- THE SHORT CUT The police commission should retrace its steps and call off the investigation of crookedness in the police department. The commission has no authority to compel the attendance of w ses and no authority to compel witnesses to answer their questions, and the police- man’s club over the heads of witnesses that have been blackmailed, imposed on or given protection for pay will effectu- ally prevent these witnesses from put ting in an appearance or telling what they know. On the other hand, there will be no lack of testimony from men and women who will come to the rescue of police boodlers and swear that they did not see them steal a sheep. The investigation is bound to be a farce and everybody in the community will so regard it. The only way out is the short cut of dismissals for ineflicien The grand jury, which had authority to cite witnesses and probe rottenness, has publicly denounced the police as now organized as honeycombed with corruption and inefficient, and the police commission has been censured for pe mitting this state of affairs, The com- mission ean set itself right only by de- cisive action. Investigation is simply procrastination. «I'he dismissal of the heads of police and their substitution by competent and veputable officers Is expected and’ de- manded, and nothing less will prove satisfactory. The legislature proposes to enact into law a provision that no person shall be allowed to remove from either branch of the legislature any supply or fixture belonging to the state. This means that no one shall steal state property. Of course, that is already the law, al- though the close of every legislative ses- sion sees the legislative halls stripped of articles of value by the departing solons or employes with not muech as a protest from those supposed to look after the state's property. Re enacting the declaration that theft is not excusable because the article stolen belongs to the state can do no harm, but what is wanted is the enforcement of the law, 80 We presume the looting of the Peo- nle's State bank at Litehtield its entire assets, including the mouey held as a county deposit, will be immediately charged up to the depository law and used as an argumeunt in favor of its MARCH 8, 1895, repeal. Of gpupse the law has had no more to dobmwith the bank wrecking than the myfy jp, the moon, and the county depogif amight have been made | away with jest g easily, if not more ensily, in the. absence of the law as with it. Veryilikely the bond which this bank gd¥l "to secure the public money will prove to be worthless, but that only mehnd' that the law has not been propesdy jenforced. Were it strictly enfofced, and a bond enacted that was reglly good for the amount the county treasurer would have been amply protegted, These failures are N argument, not for the repeal of the depository law, but for strengthening it. Rejuvenation ol Kentucky. Globe-Democrat In the coming election for the governor- ship in Kentucky the democrats will have the fight of their'life to hold the state. The congressional contest la Noy ber shows that Kentucky will to be put in the doubtful column h The ¢radio of Retorm. v York Sun. much_soil in Massachusetts, bigrest crops of reform are known to the census r makes no nee whether a thing is good or bad, Change it! We must have reform! Perhaps one-third of the population spends most of its time in mind- g the business of the other two-third: 'he result fs often very clammy and un- pleasant, but it s reform. If a knot of Masesachusetts reformers should manage to slip by the doorkeeper of paradiss they would organize a Landscape Reform and Moral Improvement society there as soon as they got in. Mocts of the Depression. Philadelphin Press, cears 1800, 1801, 180 billion-dollar_yeats in’ gross a earn- ings. Last year the gross earnings on i3 000 miles of road decreased $122,000,000 and the net fell off $10,000,00. The depression caused the roads to reduce expenses $82 000,000, or at the rate of $,500,00 per month These figures Indicate clearly how seriously the transportation interests have felt the great mistakes that have been made in Washington, There are hopes that the t half of this year will wilness a re- overy from depression which has already lasted too long. — - Will They See the Point? Times-Herald, officials seem to be stran the fact that great numbers this country entertain a legislation which railroad lobbies hor a luously to secure must necessarily be bad. If they were not they would do less | lobbying. Senators and r tives in W ington may not themselves share in the notion referred to, but m £ their constituents do, nd that is fact they look at. They will not, if ently help it, give an opportunity There is not but it ralses th the hill_that por 1t Banefal The 1893 were Railroad blind to people in that any. of notion constitue e up in political meet- say that Senator Hobbs and Rep- tive Dobbs are owned, body and soul, by the grasping railroad ‘moncpolists. Railroad men may just now see the point. Improved Naturalization Laws. PhiladelphiaPress, The legislature of Nebraska is the to move in the matter of better natur: tion laws. It has before it a proposition to amend the constitution of the state pro- viding that no manican vote unless he has received his final papers as a citizen of the United States ninety days before election, has been a regident of Nebraska for one year, and can read his ballot in the English language and cdn write his name, It {5 to be hoped that the &mendment will be su mitted to a vote of the electors and ratitied at the polls. At the present time a foreign born male, If he has lived in Nebraska six months and declargd his_intentions to be- come @ citizen (thirty days before election, can vote. This isiunjust to other states and it ought to be gorrected. If Nebraska will lead 'in this matter and states with loose naturalizajion:laws follow, there may be no need of passing a general law on the subject, as has been proposed in congress. T DT fquanaering, Puntic oney. Springfiell (Mnss.) Republican. - The, Mouse, hasibren guilty of a con: temntihle littlersalary ‘grab in ithe appro- pridtion of $100 ab. extra pay tol the clerks of members, which®it votsd a few days ago. There are no such .employes of the house officially recognized as membeérs’ clerks.. Each member is voted a certain sum aft each - session of congress for clerk hire, but it is optional with a member whether he hire a clerk or not. If he choose to draw_the money and put it in his pocket he can do so. This appropriation of an extra £100 each to the members’ clerks was therefore a gift of $10 to each member to be used as he pleases, and was really a petty salary grab. The present house is said never” to have been equaled in the recklessness with which it gave away pub- lic money to employes and In gratuities to members. It has not quite equaled the sen- ate. which spends almost a quarter of a million a year in luxuries for senators, but it is a good second. P OWED TO CONGRESS, first liza- Toston Advertiser, March 4th; march forth, O congress, and take a has flight, while all the nation chuckles with infinite delight. No saline, selfish tears are shed on the auspicious day. From Maine to California the people s ‘Hooray!” ' No weary eyes grief; no heads are hung through the country y are red with in woe; but ar and wide the glad- some tidings go. “Why should the joyful people mourn or wring their hands in grief, when this bright day_brings In its train such happlest relief? " No need to sit in si- lence sad like some funereal urn. At last the blessed day has come when congress must adjourn. But oh, what woeful, weary months the people had to wait before this time, this gladsome time, which now we celebrate; what months of dismal, doleful gloom when business was depressed and congress was the only thing that would not take a rest! What idle mills, what empty shops were seen on every hand, whife slow stagnation settled on the trade throughout the land, Low prices ruled; but even wheat or wool was not so cheap as that cheap talk that kept a nation's industries asleep or dull and idle while the men at Washington droned on, or wondered where the sur- pius and the gold reserve had gone. And S0 for bitter, gruesome months the nation could but yearn for that glad day, now here at_last, when congress must adjourn. Greaf miseries this land has seen in somo few former years: some cyclones, locust storms and wrecks, that woke a nation tears; tornadoes, freshets, Coxey's band, the wicked lottéry slip, the Trilby craz and dress reform, and e'en the dreadc “grip;'’ but these’ slight evils fade before the burden of that woe, which came upon | this sorrowing land just two long years ago. The congress that a president had thrust upon his hands, was worse than any other ill that frisky fate commands; for in the light of all the things that con- gress since has done, one wonders whether greater ills exist beneath the sun. But now, today, a chegring flame of hope be- ging' to burn. Fate has at last brought sweet rellef. for congress must adjourn. Tach pledge Its party plainly ‘made lled, and * men djgvere only duped fe platform is t congress wis trusted to its d not a single nlank party's faith. “Free gulled, The de a shaftered wral mong the ariff eifts | Gorman il their | remains lul Im'u . raw materinls" 3 ot i ed fourfold, The | denounced | by who | and | foretold, but duties ' were trusts were vigol cratic speech, b gobbled all that ch, A t| has eaten un thedn 1d, and only on a Shylogittsferms four ver | cents" been sold now at last the tide of fate has fust to turn, and better times must comag for congress must | adiourn. Thanksgiving nine more months: somehow, but still spirit of that dav 3§ with us even now sky today should 'be'bright blue. the sun should shine owt) e on this “the maddest, merriest day of all the glad new year.” The il that we've borne patiently last must 2 ptgelr flight, and all the future seems aslh th hone's enchanting light. The natign~#&hs with glad relief, the president Bites his 1lip and seeks releage from drearv thought in a duck hunting trip. In all the thankrul now no henrts,are worn by woe. except th hearts of t who. from th 1 must w0, because nation o r party | forth to spurn. These only weep and wall | today when congress must adjourn | not be due for h REFLECTIONS ON YHE DEAD, Philadeplhia Press: Thank heaven, we shall at last with thie day be rid of this unap- proachable congress, Buffalo Bxpress: But why prolong the tale? The Fifty-third congress 1s dead at laet. And it rotted before it died. New York Times: The people of the United States should wunite in devout thanksgiving to the God of nations when this scourge I8 lifted from then at noon today. New York World: It can be sald of cor- gress, at any rate, that ft might have done a great deal worss If it had not been ham- pered by an almost complete lack of ability to do anything at all. New York Sun: The Fifty-third congress, inspired and abetted by the democratic ex- ecutive, has preserved McKinleyism, adopted populiem, and brought widespread disaster upon the nation. Exit the congress of dis- honor! Cinelnnati Bnquirer: Any catalogue to the sins of the house of representatives, now hap- pily dead, would be incomplete it indicted from memory. The record is full of evidence that every member of that body might well wish expunged. Brooklyn Eagle: When we say that the record of the Fifty-third congress cannot be reviewed by any self-respecting democrat without feelings of shame and indignation we but emphasize the conclusion that the party will have to disband or reorganize on new and better lines, Globe-Democrat: Just as the Fifty-third congress has expired the sefentists come fore ward with argon, the newly discovered ele- ment in the air, which is described as “sin- gularly inert, proof against the attack of the most active substances, as well as all at- tempts to induce chemical union.” Perhaps the trouble at the national capitol for the last two years has been vast accumulations of argon. Philadelphia_Ledger: The Fifty-third con- gr was one of the most extravagant that was ever assembled at the capitol, and some of its most flagrant and indefensible appro- priations have been mads by the senate since that body ceased to have a democratic ma- jority. 1If no more serious offense than that of extravagance could be laid at the door of the senate iv would be well, but it is no- torious that some of its most prominent members reasonably incurred the suspicion of having been guilty of venalty in respect to iniquitous trust legislation. PP NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, The Tecumseh Journal seventeenth year. The Commercial hotel at Sterling was dam- aged by fire to the extent of $300. The Loup Valley Medical assoclation will told its ninth session at St. Paul March 12, The big circle hunt mear Germantown, Seward county, resulted in the slaughter of five wolves. The Leftwich circus, which has been win- tering at Norfolk, is preparing to start out on the road May 4 Rev. Mr. Fries has terminated his pas- torate at Gering, and will go to Alliance to take charge of the Baptist church there The revolver with which Harry Hill shot Matt Akeson has been presented to the Grand Army museum in the court house at Platts- mouth, There have been sixty-one additions to the membership of the Baptist church at Weeping Water as the result of the winter's revival meetings. The gas and electric light companies at Nebraska City are at war, and the county and the city cfficlals are taking advantage of the state of affairs to have the public build- ings lighted cheaply. Reports from several of the western coun- ties state that farmers are sowing wheat on the prairie without plowing, and the local papers are giving warning that a crop can- not be raised as long as such shiftless means are employed in putting in the seed. Major J. V. Hoover died at Humboldt as the result of a peculiar accident. While playing with some children he fell and struck his head against the corner of a bench, cut- ting' a long gash, He became unconscious and died in fifteen minutes, in spite of the efforts of the physicians in attendance. Ma- jor Hoover served on General Grant's staff Quring the war, and was a thirty-second de- gree Mason. While a man was standing in a Nebraska CTlty saloon the other day waiting for some one to come in and ask him to take a drink a woman entered and proceeded to the bar. Turning to the wayfarer, she asked: “Won't you take a drink with me?’ For a reply the man took the lady by the arm, and said: “Let's go home,” and the man and wife walked out of the saloon, without indulging in intoxicants. The roaring well in Platte county that has been a curiosity for some years is still dofng business at the old stand. The Colum- bus Journal says that George Henggler, the proprietor of the well, states that It still holds to its custom of roaring some twelve hours before a wind storm from the north, and quitting when the storm has fairly be- gun; of freezing down to the depth of forty cight feet and breaking the cap to the cylin- der, although there is a frost hole in the pipé at a depth of thirty-five feet, and at such times, when hot water is used to thaw it out, the steam is pulled downward instead of coming upward. Before the recent storm the water gurgled up in the pipe and made quite a roar twelve hours ahead of the storm, and continuing through the night. George's spring, in the side of the bluffs, has never failed to provide water for the past thirty-seven years and during the driest seasons, has started on its —_— BRYAN AND HIS PARTY. Indianapolis Journal: The overeloguent Mr. Bryan of Nebraska, who will go out of public life today with the house, is organiz- ing a free coinage parly inside the demo- cratic organization. That organization has a very tough constitution, but it may be doubted if it can stand the knocks which will come to it in trying to reduce fuil-value dollars hoarded in savings banks and loan associations to dollars with the purchasing power of half dollars. Philadelphia Times: Congressman Bryan is right in believing that the money question will be the paramount issue in 1896 and that it will remain so “‘until settled by the in- telligence and patriotsm of American voters.” If Mr. Bryan and his associates believe that a majority of the democratic party are in favor of free coinage of silver, they are guite right in trying to get the idea into the party platform; and if their beliet is correct, we hope that they will succeed. Tt will split the party, but it will show those who believe in honest money how to vote, or at least how not to vote, The thing to be dreaded is that both parties will straddle this question, as they have done so often | before, and then nothing will be settled, ——— Tho Cheek of & Trust, Sprin The United Stat=s L erwise known as the a capltalization of $1 this a sets valued at of which §55,315,208 represents the “good will'" of the concern. That is about the best exam- ple of trust “chiek' extant. Tt will b Seen that they have the value of the “good Wil figured down almost to the fraction of a doliar, and up to an unheard-of figure for this lnd of an asset. The truth is, of course, that fully one-half of the stock is water, and the “good will” has be:wn ln- flated to dimensions large enough to fill the gap in the 5. For tricks and dark ways the av rust 18 Lot 10 be beaten. Neglected the Necessary Philadelphia Record. The course of congress, which has money enough for gratuities for its employes, but ot enough to hire a sufficient force of sea- 1 Lo man the new crulsers, has appar- ently been modeled upon the 'plan of the high-rotling individual who declared = that he cared nothing about the necessaries of life 50 long as he could have the luxuries mpany, oth- orts inst Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 8, Gov't Report Ro Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE s e i e 2 e e i 3 TARGUING THE INCOME TAX Highest Court in the Land Called to Pass Upon the Law, GREAT ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT Opening Speech for the Appellants Not Con- cluded When Court Adjourned for the Day—Clalin the Tax is Not qual and Theretore Void. WASHINGTON, March 7 court did not reach the income tax wuntil 3 o'clock today, when W. D. Guthrie was recognized (o open the case for the appel- lants. He appeared cspecially for Messrs. lock and Iyde, who appeal the cases against the Farmers' and Continental Trust companles of New York from the decision of the United States court of appeals for the | southern district of New York. Mr. Guthrie devoted himself to an outlino of the argument proposed to be made by the counsel for the appellants and had not concinded when the court, at 4 o'clock, adjourned for the day. He stated they would depend prineipally upon showing that the present income tax law was unconstitutional because of its want of uniformity and quoted at length from the provision-of the law to show that the tax is not uniform, contending that congress had no right under the constitution to levy a tax for duty, excise or import which was variable or lacking in uniformity as to individuals ~The supreme mental rule thai burdens in these shonld be equally upon all. Mr. Guthrie said the two cases against the trust compamies were very similar, but that he would devote himself principally to the Pollock case, becanse In that case the in- terests imvolved were greater than In the other, but while this company conducts an immense business its business Is one which might be carried on as well by a private partnership as by a stock company, in which case it would be exempt under the laws from the income tax. He said Mr. Pollock was a shareholder in this company, the net incomes or profits of which during the past year, subject to the income tax, exceed $300,000, of which §50,000 represents rents of real estate and about $60,000 investments in municipal bonds, which latter investment could not, he claimed, be taxed under a f mer decision of the supreme court, Mr. Guthrie asserted the provision of the law exempting all_incomes under $4,000 would cause it to fall upon less than 2 per cent of the population of the United States, and the law was therefore class legislation. He also showed the tax was not uniform as re- gards corporations, of which a favored clpss were exempted, as, for instance, mutual ‘in- surance companies and bullding associations, as well as partnerships and religious and benevolent institutions. As to the exemption of churches, benevolent concerns, etc counsel would have nothing to say, as th was enough in the other exemptions in cases where the exemptions were in the interest of shareholders, though called by another name, to afford sufficient text for all they could say. EFFECT OF THE LAW'S OPERATIONS As illustrative of the effect of the operation of the law, he pointed out that an individual owning real estate bringing an income of $8,000 would pay $80 tax, while a corporation would be required to pay double that amount He also instanced the case of a partnership of five persons doing a business amounting to §20,000, which would bs required to pay no tax, while a corporation composed of the same persons would be compelled to pay $400. In a word, he said, the application of the law would vary according to ownership. The corporation was only an aggegation of individuals, and in most corperations a part at least of the stock was owned by the mid- dle_classes. Referring to the exemptions made in the interests of mutual insurance companies, he asserted that in the United States there were 1,900 such companies, and that of these 1,600 were doing business on the mutual plan, and he sald in New York alone the wording of the act exempting such companies would re- lieve $1,000,000,000 worth of prcperty from its operation. The leading mutual insurance company would secure the benefit of an ex- emption on its income amounting ot $200,000 per year, while its rival, organized on the stock plan, would have to pay an income tax This advantage was given In the law, he as serted, simply because some one wanted to fayor some particular mutual company. Mr. Guthrie dwelt upon the exemption in the interest of the building and loan asso- ciations, who were, he said, relieved of the annual payment of $600,000, and whose as- sets, it had been asserted, were greater than the combined capital of all the mational banks. All men would have to do to evade the operations of the law would be to or- ganize building and loan associations, He ar- gued if tho present law should be held to be censtitutional congress would levy a duty of 25 per cent on the fmports of individuals and 50 per cent on those of corporations, or it the ecntiment in congress should change it could as easily reverse the process and favor the corporations. The principle would be the same. “If you are going to discriminate at all” said he, ‘“you cannot say ‘Thus far shalt thou go and no farther’ If the power to discriminate exists, the power (o destroy also exists.'” He argued that even the mutual companies respeets and corporations, because it was the funda- | and other favored classes would rt : e cure, for they and the ben t tlons might become so powerfal under the favoritism &hown that congrass would next turn upon them. He declared, therefore; the Power of congress to make such éxemptions should be resirioted. Taking up the pian of the constitution requiring uniformity in levy« ing Imports, taxes, ete., he refuted the argus ment that the word uniformity waes ‘meant to have only geographical application, to pres vent discrimination in favor of cne state as against another, but contended that it was meant to secure oquality of taxation. The present arrangement of the conduct of tho argument Is for Mr. DeWard to follow Mr. Guthrie on behalf of the appellants, and for Assistant Attorney General Whitney to speak for (he government, to be followed by ex-Senator Rdmunds, who will represent Mr. Moore fn his suit for an injunction against Commissioner of Tnternal Revenue Miller. 1. C. Carter will follow for the trust companies, and Joseph H. Choate will close for Pollock and Hyde, but this order of pro- ceduro may be changed rio wil resume his argument at 12 o'clock tomorrow. - TIN R of a New York Ulergyman Out n Strange Stor JACKSONVILLY, 1la., March 7.-A spe- clal to the Citizen fi n 8t Augustine says: Miss Blanche Chapman has fallen heir to a million through the death of Rev. Boyn- ton Crystal In New York last Sunday, The Chapmans came (o this city from Galnes- ville, Ga., about ten years ago. Mr, Chap- man was a brick mason by trade, but ob- tained a position in a grocery store of 8. F, Bennett, where he remained five years, To a few inttmate friends Mr. Chapman con- fided the secret that Miss Blanche was not the daughter of himself and wife, stating further that they never had a child. He sl arlosity by saying he adopted a . Blanche went to the publie but was always considered a_dull She was 10 yvears old when Chap- man came here, and ‘IS now about 20, She always dressed fashlonably, and, bang a pretty girl, attracted much attention in her stylish gowns, Bhe had no chums or close friends. While it was not generally known where ‘the Chapmans got their money, a8 they spent much more than Mr. Chapman carned, one or two intimate friends were informed by him that Blanche had rich relatives, who sent money to her, and that through the death of a relative she would be wealthy, Mr. Chapman was last em- ployed by the Hotel Supply company, Seve eral months ago he gave up hl position and soon after went o Jacksonville, and has served as a juror in the U court. Not long " ago Mrs, Chapr che left here to join Mr. Chapman onville. While thy mily lived made few acquaintances,” and no one has known anyihing of the mystery or romance ‘surcounding the life of the sup- posed daughter. GMENTS OF FUN, HEIRESS KED TIREMENT. 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