Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 11, 1895, Page 4

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It's a poor day when Towa can't supply the world with some Kind of a sensa- tional shooting serape. In the language of the theatrieal an- nouncewment, the show at the state house In Lincoln has now arrived at its “last week but one” — The number of gubernatorial booms In Towa in the nursing stage is still in advance of the number of presidential lightning rods thus far set up. Every assessor in Omaha is working against the proposed single plan. This in itself s cnough to com- mend the new system to the favorable consideration of the legislature. ASSeSSOr How comes it that e that pro- fesses so great anxiety to assist in the conviction of the Barrett Scott murvder- ers is at the same time under the senti- mental spell that rebels against capital punishment. If the oleomargarine people had been endowed with as much foresight as hindsight they might have choked off the prohibitory bill by introducing a substitute creating half a dozen in- spectors of oleo at §100 a month, The story of ex-convicts always has to be taken with a grain of allowance, but it looks mighty suspicious when ¢ they make counter affidavits and de- camp to keep out of the reach of in- vestigating committees. The natural in- ference is that somebody has paid them for recanting. Delaware may bave until next De- cember if necessary to come to a choice on the selection of United States sen- ator. There is no immediate danger of an extra session of congress, and the services of a senator can be spared without inconvenience during the nine months’ recess. The most remarkable stretch of leg- slative power is the attempt to convert the bill providing for the execution of eriminals in the penitentiary enclosure $uto a bill to abolish capital punish- ment. This would almost obliterate the difference between a horse chestnut and a chestnut ho) ‘Women registering for municipal elee- tlons in Kansas will have the privilege of withholding information as to their exact ages, but will have to take onth that they arve “over 21.” This solves only half of the delicate problem. It promises to play havoe with those wo- men whose birthday anniversaries move backward, Advices from Chicago are to the ef- fect that twenty-three carloads of seed wheat will be shipped to twenty-thre Nebraska counties during the present week at the instance of the Chicago Board of I'rade. That quantity of seed wheat will not go very far in some counties to satisfy the demand, but after all wheat is comparatively a sec- ondary staple in Nebraska. What the farmers of this state most need in the way of seed grain is corn and it will take a good many carloads for the very Bmallest and least populous county, “The penitentiar igating com- mittee will take the state ts of the original complainants at what they are worth, But they should also allow a margin of discount for the testimony of the keepers and assistants whom the charges of cruelty divectly affect. It will be impossible to secure witnesses who are not interested on one side or the other, so that the evidence will all of it require verification and corrobora- Mon. If the committee goes about its work in an intelligent and businesslike avay it will soon learn whether there exist grave abuses in the conduct of the institution or not. I Dr. Parkburst is coming out to St. Louis to assist in the redemption of its fnbabitants. When Dr. Parkhurst vis- ited Chicago n few months ago he ex- pressed his opinion of the World's fair eity in terms that raised up no small amount of indignant protest. Now, if he will ouly tell what he thinks of St Youls, and think less of her than he of Chicago, he will be able to galn the affections of the people of the latter place, and all his former offenses Qill be cheerfully forgiven. 1If Ohicago morals ave only better than those of Bt. Louis she may be resiguned to the yeputation of being worse than New Fork. PILING IT UP RATHER STEEP. In the face of a $300,000 deficit in the state treasury by reason of the Mosher bank robbery, and a quarter of a million overdraft for relief of the drouth suf- reventie by reason of the terrible shrink- age in property values, the legislature | has been beset by a horde of political | spolismen and taxeaters who have racked their fertile brains to hatch out sehiemes that will afford them a chance for making a living by their wits. Some of these schemes are decidedly unlque and ingenions. It is proposed in one of the bills now pending to create a Lexow investigating commis- slon for cities, which is to employ a s 1t $2,000 a year to help them ferret out all the erooks and boodlers and frame new cit arters that are to be made into law by the legislature of 1807, Whether the commission would trap the boodlers or the boodle would trap the commission is problematie. It is certain, however, that the $2,000 lnw- yer would be open for several retainers if there was really any power vested in the commission to dislodge or discom- mode the boodle g and ringsters, especially if the source of boodle was traceable to the headquarters of fran- chised corporations. With a paternal eye to the health of the people an effort is being made to check the inroads of dyspepsia by the crention of a pure food commission, with an analytical chemist to wrestle with gern 1 at the modest 2,000 a year. ate Board of Dentistry, organ- ized under the State Board of Ilealth, is to look after decayed and disloeated I, with three dental secretaries to ord of a generation of politi- that is becoming toothless from shawing” the quid of disappointment. Another scheme of reform is the pro- position to create state boiler inspection under pretense that it will save life and property. The fact is that the most effective boiler inspection is done by the inspectors of boiler insurance compan- jes which assume the risk of accidents. It rties who fail to insure their steam plant were made doubly liable for all dams to property and injurie: to persons there would be greater safety and no need of political boiler in- spection, Several bills are now pending for an immigration commission, with se taries, agents and Dill poste: ostensibly to advertise Nel lity to provide jobs for politi patriots who hanker after the fleshpots While there m; be some need of ad- vertising Nebras there is no need of jon, secretary or agent. The secretary of state or land commissioner could detail one of their clerks to do all the advertising and correspondence that may be required to promote immigra- ti The irrigation bills that will doubtless become law will ereate an opening for a chief secretary, two assistants and one state engineer, although the prospect for their being kept busy is not very promising at this time. Although the federal government has made ample provision for live stock and meat inspection, the legislature is asked to provide for a few live stock inspect- ors, who probably do mnot know the difference between a yearling heifer and a bovine gelding. A very promising field for place hunt- ers is In sight in the penitentiary, if the Dbills now pending are enacted the state takes charge of the convicts, are to be a score of penitentiary sinecures, all, of course, at the dis- posal of the Board of Public Lands and Juildings, which is to assume all the executive functions and relieve the gov- ernor from further responsibility, ex- cept granting pardons and issuing no- tarial commissions. A soft berth is also being provided for some éxpert printer by the bill that creates a commission of printing with a supervisor of printing at $1,500 a year. These various and ingenious devices for increasing the taxes do not, of course, include the five oil inspector- ships, which are to be hereafter ladled out by the omnipotent Board of Public Lands and Buildings to the omniverous horde of spoilsmen, but there are also in stove for future suction several sugar inspectorships and insurance in- spectorships, bank examiners, and inei- dentally also three fire and police com- missioners for Omaha. With a state that is confessedly in terrible straits to make ends meet and finds itself in the position of mendi- cant for public charity, can any party or set of men justify or defend such legislation at this time? PUSH THE RELIEF BILLS. Whatever is to be done by the legls- lature for the relief of settlers in the drouth stricken region should be pushed through without delay. Iour bills covering this subject have been passed through the house and are now awalit- ing the action of the senate, These bills should be given preferen: over all other legislation, and their consideration should be deliberate and circumspect. They really should be treated as one measure and so amended as to meet all the demands of the hour liberally, with- out waste. One of these bills grants authority for local self-help In providing seed grain and another makes approprintion of $200,000 of state funds for the pu hse of seed grain and its distribution through the State Relief commission. This bill was passed by the house by only three votes more than the requisite constitutional majority, Consequently it passed without the emergency clause. That means that the appropriation will not be available until thr months after the adjournment of the legisla- or about the 1st of July. The op- of 1his bill . would doubtless given it sufficient support to pass it with the emergency clause had the friends of the bill yielded to the de- mand for reducing the amount. This leaves the bill in bad shape. Ivasmuch a5 o warrants can issue before July 1, moneyed men who would be willing to invest in the warrants will be in position to exact a heuvy bonus it they advance the money three months before the war rants can be placed in their hands. That means a heavy discount in excess of the discount at which warrants will ferers, and the great slump in state | be salable this summer. With the ap- propriations hundreds of thousands of dollars In excess of the revenue, the re- demption of warrants will be way off, and warrant brokers will govern them- selves accordingly. Manifestly the proper course for the senate to pursue under the circum- stances Is to reduce the appropriation by at least $50.000 and append an emer- geney clause to the bill. With the $50,- 000 already appropriated and $150.000 more placed at the disposal of the relief commission for seed grain, the legislature certainly will not be chargeable with want of liberality in voting state velief. The fact is that, under a strict construction of the constitution, the state has no au- thority to advance its eredit for the pur- chase of grain or any other commodity, but nobody will be mean enough to con- test the validity of the appropriations. It should be further borne in mind that the railroad companies of Ne- braska must supplement these appropri- ations as a matter of sclf-proservation. The railroads have a more vital interes in this year's crop than the farme grain speculators or merchants who de- pend on the farmer's prospe 1f there were no crops to transport out of Nebraska the Nebraska railroads would go to the wall. Their managers are, therefore, as much concerned about an abundant supply of seed grain as the people who cultivate the soil. Whatever is to be done by the state should be done within a week, Al other measures and interests are sec- onda to the question of placing the farmers in condition to put in their crops in season. WHERE 1S THE REPOR Section 20 of the act establishing the University of Nebr s amended D the legislature of 1877, under which the regents of that institution are now gov- erned, provides for an annual report to the governor in the following language: The board of regents shall, at least ten days prior to the meeting of each regular sesston of the legislature, transmit to the governor to accompuny his message a printed report of all their doings since their last report, giving in detail all receipts and ex- penditures of money and furnishing an esti- mate for future income and expenses; a catalogue of professors, officers and students for the year, with such other information and recommendations as will apprise the legisla- ture fully of the condition and wants of the university. ‘Where is this report? A printed docu- ment was issued on the 1st of Decem- ber last, purporting to be the “Twelfth Biennial Report of the Board of Re- gents of the University of Nebraska,” but it is not the report contemplated in the 1te. This document sets forth the changes in the personnel of the faculty, includes a roster of university employes, enumerates the repairs and improvements of the past two years without stating their cost, discusses contemplated changes of curriculum, furnishes a few summaries of attend- ance and ends with a plea for extraor- dinary appropriations and an estimate of the revenues and expenditures for the coming biennium. Not a word as to the receipts of the university fund dur- ing the preceding two years! Not a word as to the uses to which these funds have been devotedl Not a line as to ries paid, nor as to cost of improvements and repairs! Instead of the detailed «statemenf on these sub- Jeets, which under the law should en- able the legislature to make its estimate for future income and expenses, the regents present their own estimate, per- haps with the idea that they are doing the legislature a favor by relieving it of this dut To be sure, the letter of transmittal that accompanies the document says that a “detailed financial report of the secretary and steward will follow this at the earliest moment.” This report has not yet come to notice. It was not incorporated in the governor's message for the reason that it was not in the governor's hands ten days before the meeting of the legislature. Moreover, the statute does not call for a supple- mentary report of the secretary or steward, but for a report of the regents. Have they intentionally ignorved the plain letter of the lay THOSE POCKET VETOES, When the hour of 12 o'clock noon arrived last Monday, at which moment congress stood adjourned by reason of N ition of its constitutional term, there were almost 100 bills in the hands of the president which had received the necessary assent of both houses of congress and only waited his signature in order to secure places on the statute book. Some few of these Dbills were doubtless either viclous or unwise, but among them were numerous important and meritorious measures, such, for ex- ample, as the act to protect the insignia and name of the Red Cross society and the act for the relief of telegraph opera- tors during the war of the rebellion, All these bills, however, have been killed by pocket vetoes. President Cleveland is reported as justifying his refusal to sign these bills on the ground that they were not received by him in sufficient time be- fore 12 o'clock to permit of careful ex- amination, In this he is proceeding upon the theory that he could not con- stitutionally sign them after that hour, This would perhaps have been a good excuse for previous presidents, but it cannot relieve President Cleveland of the responsibility for administer- ing the death blow to these bills. It must be remembered that about & year ago the United States court of claims, through an opinion delivered by Judge Nott, held that the president is not prevented by the ad- journment of congress from signing bills at any time within the constitu- tional limit of ten days. This decision was hailed at the time as putting:an end to all further necessity both for signing bills under pressure at the close of each session and for the employment of the pocket veto, If the president were to have ten days n which to sign every bill, without regard to whether corgress is sitting or not, he ecould take his leisure in examining measures rushed through at the last mowent and a pocket veto could only mean that he would have vetoed the bill anyway. The Bee at that time pointed out the fact that q‘: ston would work a change only in; gonnection with the bills passed at the close of the short session of evi #pcond congress. As there Is no consiftutional time limit to the length sof Jong sessions there Is no rush of bils A thelr closing hours. The end of the otlier short session ter- minates with the tarm of the president, and of course no president would want to give his swecessor an opportuni to defeat legislatian which he favors. But this 4th of March marked the end of a short sesslon in the middle of a presidential — térm, Had President Cleveland wanted, therefore, to take advgntage of the Nott decision he could hate signed such of those 100 bills as commend themselves to his judgment: An appeal is said to have been taken from that decision, but it stands as good law until reversed and there Is no question as to its soundness upon this particular point. Every one of the measures just defeated by pocket vetoes could have become law with the ap- proval of the president, and that with- out compelling him to sign a single one of them under pressure of time or with- out full consideration. A BETTER BUSINESS The New York Tribune has published during the past week Interviews with s large number of the representative business men of that ecity regarding business conditions, and without excep- tion they were of an encouraging and reassuring character. One of these ex- pressed the opinion, after observing that times are alres better and that there is move confidence on the part of business wen, that from now on the country is likely to have five as good business years as it has known within fif1 rs. He said the time has come for improvement and a protracted period of solid prosperity. All the others in- terviewed talked in a stmilar vein, ¢ pressing confidence in a gradual return stivity and prosperity which could reasonably be expected to continue E al yer Nothing in the nature of a boom is looked for by these men of commerce, but a steady recovery along conservative lines, which will have far more satisfactory results for all legitimate interests than would come from a resumption of aclivity more or less speculative in its character. There ean be no doubt that a feeling of relief came with the ending of the last congress, and that confidence is stronger today than it has been at any previou time for the past two rs. The is a sense of security throughout finan- cial and business eircles from any violent change in the currency system of the country in the near future, and strong faith that nothing will be done to debase the money of the country or disturb the standard of values. An- other fact which has a decided in- fluence in strengthening confidence is the improving condition of the national treasury, both thé gold reserve and the cash balance of which are now at a point which places the treasury in an easy anpd comfortable position, which there 1§ reason to believe will continue at least during the current year. Still another cause of improved confidence is the fact that there is a less distrust- ful feeling abroad regarding American securitie These signs and promises of a resump- tion of business activity and a return of prosperity to the country at large are most welcome. Of course there are sections in which the recovery from depression will be slower than in more favored portions of the count but when the reaction shall have fully set in it will be felt with greater or less effect everywhere. Once the great hoard of long idle capital is let loose in investments and the creation of new enterprises or the enlargement of thos already established, every part of the country will realize something of the beneficial effects. It may appear on the surface that the failure of the seed grain bond law will redound chiefly to the benefit of the state treasurer and of those bankers with whom he has the uninvested money of the state school fund on de- posit. Under the law the state board would be compelled to invest the school money in these bonds and thus reduce the sum at the disposal of the state treasurer. But the present idleness of the school fund should be nothing more than temporary. There is a bill pend- ing In the legislature providing that it be invested in government bonds until more favorable openings present them- selves. This bill should not fall to pass. It was recommended by Gov- ernor Crounse in his message and is the only practicable way of relieving the treasury of these accumulations. If the legislature does Its duty the ad- vantage derived by the bankers from the failure of the seed bond law will be shortlived. robab ¢, Very, Hoston . (Hobe, greal many prophets just now who are predicting the disruption of the two great political partles, and the political ment of the people upon new and dis- issuest There may be new Issues, for y generation hasiits own peculiar prob- lems, but it is vrobable that the two old polltlcal parties will Continue to exist as usual, J There are a e — Governed 100 Much, Minneapotis Times. The most popular political party just now would be one that declared outright’ for fewer public officgs. Half as many con- Bressmen as we ndw have would be enough. Cut the legislature down 50 per cent. The party that will make this change a cardinal lank ‘in its platform. will have a great uture. It is perfeclly safe to say that the American people nuy at least two prices for their governmenta) bengefits, Fral chitration. Minneapolis Tribune. Mr. Wilson's bill to authorize the exter. mination of the swals of the Pribyloft islands and the sale of their skins for the benefit of the United States, In case England and Russia would not agrée upon some ef- fective means to protect them from poach- ers, passed the house, but failed in the senate. The bulk of the seals will now robably g0 to the Canadian seal pirates. o much for arbitration which gives Uncie Bam the worst of it. —_——— Gllded Naughtiness. Chle The Vanderbilts have which the saints be has a taste for scandafs its appetite has been glutted, and it will be relieved when the last of these nasty affairs has been removed from the courts. It requires a change of diet, and it will be content if its rich folks for & while degrade themselves to careers of the commonplace, unpicturesque morality which the poor and lowly practice becausé they know no better, diyorced, for The public in high life,” but FOICK OF THE STATE PRESS, Seribner News: Tho bill to repeal the valued policy Insarance law has been knocked out, but there aro other bills introduced that are expected to accomplish the same result, though they appear to be different. The law 18 a good one and should stand. Columbus Argus: The people of Platte county are without doubt opposed to a re- peal of the valuded policy law, They are also opposed (o class legislation which will crush out of existence mutual insurance companies | and surrender the people entirely into the hands of the insurance trust. Norfolk Journal: Thero ought to be at least five new sugar factories contracted for in Nebraska this year. The very fact that a bounty is to be given will attract capital to the state that would not come otherwise. The silver lining of the financial cloud hang- ing over the state is already beginning to appear. Madison Reporter: The republican legls- laturo is defending Hilton's acts, or at least is trying to draw the fire from him. The legislature also refuses to fmpeach Judge Scott of Omaha because Scott I8 opposed by Roscwater, The present legislature would whitewash the devil if it thought it would spite Rosewater, Holdrege Progress: 1Tt is not probable that his physiclan would prescribe nervine or any other similar tonic for the legislator who Introduced the bill providing that the state pay the cxpenses incurred by the defense in tho infamous impeachment trial. His gall may be slightly enlarged, but his nerve is in first class conditlon, Blair Courier: The governor has signed the anti-oleomargarine bill and thus made a law that kills one of Nebraska's leading in- dustri While the law in some of its features Is wise and just, wo think that at least the law should have allowed the manu- facture of oleomargarine for export purposes and thus keep alive a leading industry. Red Cloud Golden Belt: The oleo bill which has passed both houses of the legisla- ture looks to us like an unfair thing. Manu- facturers of artificial butter are already com- pelled to brand their packages containing thelr product, which is right and sufficient. It any one desires to eat oleo and desires to have it colored s0 as to resemble butter he ought to be granted the privilege. The bill practically prohibits the manufacture of oleo, which is superior to much of the butter on the market. Cedar Rapids Commerclal: It is humiliat- ing enough to the self-rcspected citizen of Nebraska to have car loads of provisions and sccond-hand goods brought to the state through the charity of the east, but it is more humiliating to seo this everlasting wrangling over the distribution. It would be better to abandon the state to the jack rabbit and coyote than to agein advertise ourselves as a commonwealth of clamoring starvelings, fighting over the crumbs that fall from the rich man's table, Platte Center Signal: The state fair should be held at Omaha for the next five years, and then if it is to be permanently located it would be no more than just to allow every citlzen in the state the right to express his choice in the way of a vote. Five years hence Fremont will be as large in population as Lincoln, and that thriving, bustling city will rise up and claim recog- nition for some of the permanent state in- stitutions, and she should be awarded the state fair. Lincoln has already the peni- tentlary, the capitol, the asylum for the i sane and the salt well, and she should be satisfied, Fremont Herald: The proposed measure to prevent legislators from removing from the capitol any property of the state savors some- what of class legislation, since it is plainly aimed at thoso members of the legislature who had confidently looked forward to the long winter evenings in the years to come when the statesman's souvenir chair could be brought forth for the edification of acquaint- ances or old-time friends, whose ordinary talents had kept them -in the ranks of the common people, while the possessor of this badgo of greatness had been forging to the front. The* Herald suggests that the ten commandments be stamped upon an alumi- num plate and the plate inlaid in the top of the desk of each member. Blair Pilot: The Omaha charter bill has come to be among the greatest nuisances in the state. Every session ot the legislature it bobs up serenely, and like the rolling snow- ball, gathers by accretion as the session pro- gresses, until the intensity of the fight over it dominates to a great extent every other inter- est. The fight begins of course right among Omaha people and by the “influence’ of their conflicting interests the other fellows are enlisted for the war. This charter bill at every session is not only a nuisance, but it costs the state at large lots of money. It should be abated, and the best way to reach it would be for the legislature to relegate the whole business back to Omaha, by a provision of law that she can fix her own charter to suit herself. That will relieve the state of the expense of the biennial cat and dog sceno and give the Omaha fellows a subject for a permanent scrap. Wisner Chronicle: The State Board of Agriculture, acting under the authority con- ferred upon it by the statutes of the state, at the regular annual meeting located the state fair at Omaha for the ensuing five years. A portion of the bonus which Omaha pledged to secure the location of the fair has been paid to the board and s already expended. The bill now pending before the legislature to locate the state fair per- manently at Lincoln is therefore in the na- ture of an ex-post facto law If it shall be put into effect before the expiration of the existing contract with Omaha. To say nothing of justice, the proposed legislation is a most impolitic measure from a party point of view. If the republican majority in the legislature inflicts this stab upon Omaha and Douglas county it may as well be prepared to see its action resented at the succeeding elections, Some of the re- publican members of the legislature may be influenced by the friends of Lincoln to seek to punish Omaha for its past inde- pendence at tho ballot box, but it is to be hoped that they will learn to be just in this business transaction rather than par- tisan in a political scheme of revenge. Fremont Leader: The Omaha Bee has prepared and published an elaborate article in regard to the expenditures of the State university. Now, the Leader believes in all necessary and judicious expenditures for public school purposes, but it does not believe in the lavish expenditure of the money of the people. The per capita expenditure per pupil in the Nebraska university and that of lowa was so marked that the Leader cannot pass. it unnoticed. The University of lowa has maintained, in addition to its literary and sclentific curriculum, a college of medicine and a collge of law for nearly twenty years. The University of Nebraska, which, since 1871, has spent $1,393,211, has graduated up to the present time 438 students, The University of lowa, which, since 1860, has spent $1,045,783, has graduated 3,726 students, Since its founda- tion is has cost the University of Nebraska $3,000 for each student graduated. Since its foundation in 1860 it has cost the University of Towa $280 for each student graduated. Such a difference would indicats that there Is a looseness somewhere. The difference is too glaring, and the people naturally wonder why there is such a difference. Yet, we find the faculty and their friends asking for more and larger appropriations. Fremont Leader: The Leader notices that a Mr. Lamborn of McCook has been very active In the attempt to remove the state fair from Omaha, where it s fixed for five years, and locate is permanent at Lincoln. This paper took no part in the controversy between the Omaha and Lincoln parties over the state fair location; but the fair having been located at Omaha, and as they have made some considerable expenditure of money, and have secured grounds that are sald 10 be equal to any In the west, good faith requires that the legislature keep its hands off this matter; otherwise the asso- ciation is liable to be Involved in litigation and make the fair a complete failure. In a controversy of this kind the public at large have an interest, and they desire the success of the state fair. The fair has been held in Lincoln about ten years, and the assoclation leaves there somewhat in debt. The truth is the principal advocates of a fair for Lincoln depend too much on the state pap, while at Omaha it depends on the public for success. A fact that must not be over- looked, there are over a quarter of a mil- lion of people within twenty miles of Omaha and some of the best frult farms in the Missouri valley. Then the rallway facilities of Omaha are excellent—far superior to what they were ten years ago, and we pre- dict the exhibit of fine stock will be the best ever shown in the state. The Leader says to the legislature—keep your hands off the tair, “while they bope o maie | THE TELEPRONE DECISION. Indianapolls Journal: 1t fs by far the most Important decision a ‘court ever Issued, destroying monopolies In which hundreds of millions of capital are interested. New York Advertiser: Justice Harlan sent a hello into the telephone monopoly that must have melted the wax in the ea of the anxious gentleman at the receiver. Philadelphia Press: This deciston is a long stop in_the direction of ending the monopoly of the Bell Telephone company, since it termi- nates at once five patents which that eompany hoped to control exclusively until 1910, Chicago Herald: The declsion of the su- preme court ends this colossal imposition and cheat. As a first step toward the rec- tification of the notorious and criminal abuses of the United States patent system it may well be hailed with acclalm. Cleveland Plain Dealer: Now that the supreme court has spoken the last word on the telephone and electric patent cases that were in litigation, perhaps there will be a reduction of cost to the public using tele- phones and electrical contrivances. A large reduction is not likely to come very quickly Denver News: The court held after an elaborate review of the different acts of congress that the patent expired in this country at the same date that it expired abroad: In so deciding ft broke down the guards about millions of dollars of monopo- lized Inventions and threw them open to general use and competition, Minneapolls Tribune: Happily this court decision has broken down the monopolistic walls, and it the public is properly in- formed no congress will ever dare to bufld them up again, The owners of the tele- phone patents have been reimbursed a thou sand times over for all their outlays, and have received a princely reward for thelr enterprise and business skill in handling the patents. Tt is time now for the public to receive a benefit. Philadelphia Ledger: This corporation has not treated the public, ta whom its service has become a necessary of business life, in such generous or fair fashion as to commend it to popular favor, and if, by the decision of yesterday, competent competitors should be admitted to the fleld which it has practically monopolized to its own great profit wrung from the public, there will be little regret felt by the community that has suffered from its too sordid exactions, Baltimore Sun: The parties affected ad- versely by the decision include the American Bell Telephone company, the General Electric company and many others. The three Edison patents for the carbon transmitter, owned by the Bell Telephone company, and Edison's patent on the incandescent lamp, the muitiple arc system of distribution and socket for in- candescent lamps are thus vacated, and these devices are given to the public. The “‘Ber- liner patents,” about which so much has been said, are among those that become public property. Cincinnati Enquirer: The United States supreme court, with malice toward none, and having nothing in the line of charity to warp its reasoning, did its duty, and the people are satisfied, especially as thelr confidence in the Integrity of the judiciary 1s increased and more firmly established. Let us be thankful that we live in a nation where justice is meted out, and where monopolies cannot im- properly override public interests and make fairness subservient to avarice. These de- cisions need not discourage inventors; the latter, whenever they bring forth something valuable, are sure to be rewarded, but they must always be satisfied witn reasonable re- turns, e PEOPLE AND THINGS. Senator Shoup of Idaho saved his “h” by a scratch. There is nothing unusual in putting up the price of whisky. The trust deals largely in high wines. In the Pennsylvania house speeches are limited to five minutes. The state cans its tongua for export to Washington. The sultan of Turkey treated the visiting Americans to cigarettes. Still our relations with the sick man continue peaceful. The expenses of the Princeton college foot ball team last year were $23,000, exclusive of private contributions to the palnt fund. It is computed by an international observer that if a South American republic had on its hands a congress like our Fifty-third it would average a revolution a week. A member of ‘the Fifty-third from Missouri_confesses he was not cut out for a congressional career. His constituents ex- pressed a like sentiment at the polls last No- vember. The progressive territorial leglslature of Oklahoma_believes it is good policy to run things wide open. It has declared for suf- frage regardless of sex, divorces while you wait, and now proposes to legalize prize fighting. Great chunks of congealed harmony are clinging to the whiskers of the democracy of Missouri. A representative of the party organ at Kansas City recently serenaded Governor Stone and was doused with a shower of cxpletives that would rout the famous army of Flanders. The Navy department complains that the men-of-war sent to Panama to protect the property of the Panama Railroad company, an American corporation, taxed the govern- ment three prices for coal. “Tnat is character- istie. Corporations protected when driven into a corner usually exact compensation for “anxiety of mind." Thomas W. Hall of Philadelphia, whose 100th birthday has just been celebrated by Lis friends, does not appear to be more than 70, and is in full possession of his faculties. Ho has lived under all the presidents of the United States, has been a republican from the beginning of ‘the party's existence, and took an active part iu the “Underground Rail- road." THE STATE OF UTAR. Globa-Democrat: Utah s arranging matl- ters so that she will be in the unfon of states early enough to add her guota to the republican candidates’ big total (n the electoral college (n 1896, Now York World: A more important point fs the fact that Utah ranks third among the silver-producing states, coming next after Colorado and Montana, Her twe senators will accordingly be found on the silver side in the coming financial strugsle. In population Utah will rank above Del ware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Di kota and Wyoming. Minneapolis Tribune: The Utah conven- tion to form a constitution for the mnew state s In session, and Is said to contain a majority of republicans. This may b nominally true, but the statement fs some: what misleading. For policy’s sako, the Mormons divided up, some acting with the democratic and somo with the republican party, but before all else they are Mormons. Thus the Mormons have a three-fourthe majority in the convention, which is nom- inaily republican by fifty-seven to forty-five, The republicans can hardly be held respons sible for the action of the conveation upon matters affecting the peculiar Mormon doo: trines. —— SPRING BRERZES. Philadelphia Record: A wheelwright does not necessarily make a gool spokesman. What are you glving it the inquisitive patient, as the physiclan poured out the medicine. Washington Star: “S his good points,” remarked the charitabla Yes," replied the man who speculates \d hils good pointers,™ “well, have a gall" ro Bono \What 18 the ible?"" asked Veritas. ‘“Hore is su{nellmly writing to the papers over my signature,” nator Sorghum had ple Boston Courler drops In oc many total deprayity man, asionally, says he knows people, but’ not many good rd: The Physician—Youg ems to leave you when 1 ably)—Ca : Bank zate the third ass teller. Cashler—Have you any reason to uspect him? Bank President—It may be only imagination, but when 1 spoke to him this morning he Seemed short in his replies, come in, The Patient (irrl you blame it. Dbetter inve Indianapolls Journa Regular Visitor— Where is that contortionist feller with the veller janders? M pager—You mean the human . he's makin’ some four or five dred a ek posin® fer these new school ellers, delphia Enquirer: Traveler—I wag shipwrecked once in the middle of the nd didn’t have a drop of water for Hans Swiller—Dot's noding. ecked in one of dose prohibition ,und got mot a drop of beer Dink of dot! Atlanta Constitution: “You made a slighf mistake in my poem this morning’ sal the poet. 3 replied the editor, “What was Well, T wrote: “The clouds hang murky o'er the west,’ and you make me say: ‘The crowds hang turkey o'er my desk!' " She—T wonder_ why Eve was not creafed before Adam? He—The son for that is | ugh, The Lord knew if He made woman firs, and then tried to get a man to suit her, He might aa well quit and go fishing. Texas Sifting: Chicago, Record: “That boy of yours, madame,” remarked the conductor, as ha punched’ the half fare ticket, “looks res markably well developed for a’ child under ““Thank you,” replied the lady, very calmly, “It's %o gratifying for me {o hav one notice Tommy's remarkable precocity, DOUBTFUL, ~_ Truth, “Man wants but little here below," Now, I'm inclined to doubt It; He gets but little; wants a plle, And has to do without it. ——— BURIAL OF THE FIFTY-THIRD. New York Sun. Not a tear was shed, not a funeral vote, 5 its corse to the finish they hurried; Not a soldier discharged a farewell shot Oer the grave where the Bumbum was buried. They buried it sharply at stroke of noon, The galleries watched them through it, And some one remarked: “By the great horn spoon! We thought they would never do it. No_useless coffin enclosed Its breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud they wound it; But it lay like a beefsteak taking its rest, With the gravy all around it. Few and short were the prayers they sald, And they spoke not a word of sorrow; But they steadfastly gased on the face of the dead, And bitterly thought of the morrow. They thought as they hollowed its narrow ed, . And_smoothed down its lonely pillow, Tom Reed and his rules would tread cer its head, And they hung their harps on the willow, Lightly they'll talk of the Bumbum that's one, And o'er its cold ashes upbraid it; But it won't care a damn if they'll let it sleep on In the grave where the people have lald it, By Slowly and sadly they laid it down, From the ficld of its shame, fresh and gory They carved not a line and they raised not a_ stone, But left it alone in its glory, It’s the Little Things spection. department 2oy whera now. in charge, BROWNING, Reliable Clothiers trimming, for four best in the world for $10,00 and up. started out to talk about little things. Well, we've just got iin scme of the nicest little things in the way of boys' hats and caps that we've ever seen. and low priced. C.m/y‘. RELIABLE CLOTHIERS il Your Money’s Worth or Your Money Back, The picking out of the cloth, the preparation of it, the cutting, the even the buttons and the pocket linings—it's the little things—that go to make the perfect goods. Every care im- aginable is taken in making up our goods, everything is thoroughly inspectod. and then—-when you get 1t of us it's good, and we are no higher priced than dealers who pay no attention to quality and buy of who- ever is cheapest, Wo can't sell you a-suit or five dollars,but we'll give you the But we furnishings and Pretty Our children’s department is repleto with noveltics selected for spring. and we invite an early ine The many styles we are showing in gentemen's shirts and neckwear seem to be just the thing, judging by the many praiseful ex- pressions we hear on all sides— and hats, well we just have the best bat All the new spring arssotment is 80 varied in both style and price, that you will bave no trouble in finding just what you want. ask for our Mr. Arthur, he'sa practical hatter and has this department blocks are in and our If you don't see the hat you want KING & CO, . W, Cor.15th and Douglas Sts. s Miis. PORTER KING, Ohairmen. | 4 i’