Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 14, 1895, Page 4

P C TR S st b 1 W, v THE OMAHA DAILY B OwANA_ DAILY BES — . ROSEWATER, Baitor e PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TH Dally Dee (Without Sun Daily Bec and funday, On Bix Monthia +........ . Three Months Bundny Tiee Baturday Hee Weekly Dee, One Year OTFIC Ormalia, The es Building. Bouth Omaha, Singer 11k Councit Tiiufts, 18 Pearl Strect, " 5 Clilcago Offica, 317 Chamber. of Commerce, ew Yok, Jooms 13, 14 ana 1, Tribune Bidg. ashington, 1407 ' Street, N. W. COMNEEPONDENCE, inications relnting to news and edl- "-n!l!fin\v'L To ditor, BUSINESS LETTERS ¢ fetters and remittances should b he die Tublishing compan falts, checks and pestoffice orders 16 pavable to tha arder of e compan {1 i PUBLISHING COMPAN T OF ¢ ATION. George 1. Trschuck ehing company. being duly the actual pumber of full ar of the Dally Marning, Jvonin printed during the month of i ANl com torial matter ANl busines addressd Omatn be i STATEMF ROULL rears of 20,195 8 20,850 20,190 20,012 19,901 10/660 10,850 10,700 20,600 10,660 19,816 L 10,750 8 © 19,700 119,692 Total shay woasreesanassnnsese 661,688 Yom deductions for unsold and returnc Net Datey a Bworn (0 hefore me and s ence this 20 day of M (Seal) N. P. P ————— Y Let the Nebraska lumbermen Know that they are welcome to come again to Omaha and to come often. ORGE B, T ribed in my prese Spain should be given to understand that firing upon American merchant- men is a4 yery serlous matter., Fortune spares Omaba one afllietion t is overtaking many of ler nelgh- She will have no spring munici- al election The income fax law is paradosical to this extent, that it will increase-the in comes of the lawyers retained to contest its constitutionalit We that the scttlement of the war en China and an will finally come down to the question of the single zold standard. fear betw The present city council is not as bad as it might have Deen. Its stand against any paving monopoly will com- mend itself to property owners, A man who introduces a bill “by re- quest” does not thereby commit him- self to the support of the mensure, as séveral people in the vicinity of the state house have recently learned by sad perience, The Spanish government will doubt- less promptly disavow the act of her man-of-war in iInterfering with an American mail steamship and thus de- prive the jingoes of their gleefully wel- comed sensation. The paving contractors are knocking each other out in turn, but there won't be much paving to do this year or the next year if the charter is mutilated 80 that the assessment rvemains just where it has been. Chaivman Wilson is just having a taste of private life in the interval be- tween adjournment of congress and his accession to the postmaster generalship. He will learn more about its attractions about two years hence. & Governor HolcomD's first veto message has distinct traces of his training on the bench. Tts language and logic are unmistakably those of a court decision. It would not appear out of place in published volume of judicial reports Good resolutions that are in high favor in the city council at the commencement of the year apparently begin to lose popularity with the councilmen before the expiration of the third month, It is only another illustration of the new broowm. Lix-Senator Manderson talks about the income tax being a hardship upon the officers of the army during the war of the rebellion. Has anybody ever heard of any tax anywhere that is not a hardship upon the people who really bear its burdens? The State Fish commission wants only $15,000 to indulge in piseatorial experi- ments during the coming two years. The disciples of Izank Walton are very moderate indeed. If thelr skill at augling is as successful in the legislative nquarium as it is in the state fish ponds they will regret not having asked for twice $15,000, Everyone should scrutinize closely the changes made in the chavter bill when it is reported to the two houses of the legislature, On former occasions clauses have been stricken out and new provisions inserted in such a furtive manner that the mutilation has often been discovered only months after the measure has become law and some ocea- slon arises to appeal to the letter of the charter. The only way to expose and block charter mutilation Is to watch every step and smash every scheme so Bsoon as it shows its Phe Louse voted the appropriation to continue the three useless secre- tavies of the State Board of Transportation without opposition. So long as the money to pay the salavies is at hand of course there will be three secretaries ready to draw it. There is, however, no more necessity for two of those secretaries than for a fifth and sixth wheel to a wagon. Every cent devoted to the support of the board as now organized is money wasted. Until we enact the constitutional amendment providing for an elective state rallroad commission not less than two of the existing seeretaries should be suspended without pay. Corner N and 2th Sta. | OCAUTION T0 NEBRASKA REPUBLICANS In politics nothing Is more dangerous than over-confidence. That lesson has been time and again taught through political disasters that might have been averted but for the common tenden f parties and party leaders to over ate thefr own strongth and under rate that of thefe opponents. This Is the danger that menaces the republican party in this state. the advent of the present legislature reckless over: confidence has Dbeen rampant at the capital to an alarming degree. fact that the republicans must | three-fourths of both hiouses inspires re publicap members with the delusive Idea that the party Is invineible and fnvulnerable no matter what conrse | the dominant majority in the legisls ture may pursuc. Nothing can be further from the truth e state In the legislature is no eriterion of the relative strength of parties in this state. Careful computation of the legis ive majorities shows that a change of less than 1,600 votes seattered in the varions districts would have gi populists the legislature. In number of these distriets rvepublican members secured certificates onma Jorities ranging from six to twenty-five | votes, which goes to slow how readily | the republican majority in the legisla ture might have been overcome or re- dueed. We must not lose sight, also, of the fact that the ageregate republican of last year was swelled enor mously by fmportations that are not likely to be made in an off year, when no e fssue at or in a prosidential year, when the voters ¢ not be safely railronded out of Wyom ing, Colorado and Montana, even if such a thing were possible. That Nebraska still remains a strong- Lold of populism may as well be con- ceded. The last election returns leave 1no room for doubt on that score. 'The lowest populist candidate on the state ticket, who was endorsed by no othe party, received 70,000 votes in round number Inasmuch as more than 10,- 000 populist voters had migrated f the state last fall these figures are very nificant. They cannot fail to fmpress thonghtrul republicans with the fact that their candidates this year and next vear will be in jeopardy if the legislature does not desist from the suicidal policy whieh spoilsmen and place hunters have sought to inugurate through a short-sighted and over-confi- dent party majority. It I8 Y ng strange, indeed, that the instructiy erience of the past 1wo years seems to have been entirvely lost sight of by men who pride them- selves on their political sagacity. The elections of 1802 and 1804 afford sty ing illustration of party cohesion on na- tional issues and discriminative voting on state and I issues. Two years ska gave Benjamin Harrison 700 votes more than she did to the re- publican candidate for governor, and 5,700 more votes than she gave to the highest candidate on the republican ite ticket. What do these figures teach? Simply that from 5,000 to 7,500 voters who believe in republican prin- ciples refused to support the state ticket for one reason or the other. Most of these voters were so-called malcontents, who took that method to administer a reprimand to the republicans of Ne. braska for failing to redeem platform pledges and for misgovernment in the state house. What took place in the last presidential clection year liable to occur n. The mass of republicans support the national candidaies, whoever they may be, but thousands will set thelr seal of disapproval upon ean- didates whose record will not bear ven- tilating. Such a break in the es is sure to be promoted by foolhardy at- tempts to deprive the populist governor of the state of powers and prerogatives that have been enjoyed by his republi- can and democratic predecessors in office. Sueh a policy is very pertly designated as peanut polities. It is small business which is always sure to party quite a vote Is stake, m is a will react to the detriment of the that fosters it. The creation of new exec e offic at a time when the state treasury i almost bankrupt cannot fail to react disastrously upon the party. Whatever advantage might be gained individually by a few political barnacles who are out of meat would be offset tenfold by disappointed applicants for the same places, and thousands of votes would be lost to the party by public resent- ment among the rank and file, who ex- pect retrenchment and economy. This is not all. The creation of more sinecures like the $2,000 secretaries of the State Board of Transportation and the distribution of these tax-eaters among the four state oflicers that com- prise the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings will be the source of more Hiltonism and boodlerism. It will contaminate the board, which con- fessedly is overburdened with duties and responsibilities which they cannot discharge satistactorily, and it is sure to promote state house rings and split the party when it needs above all things a vestoration of larmony and good feel- ing within it ranks, With such breakers ahead hooves the republicans of the leg: to haul in sails and get their be: before they strike the rocks upon which the old ship is sure to founder, IN POLITICS FOl THE PUBLIC HEALTH. In his veto of the resolution of the council preseribing the pay of certain designated officers employed by the Board of Health May Bemls makes the following comment: I would suggest to the council that, aside from the fact that it has no power in this matter beyond the function of providing funds, I believe the Board of Health Is fully qualified to look after all matters coming within its furisdiction. There has been, in tho past, eutirely too much politics in con- nection with the affairs of this board; if matters could be so arranged that the board could act independently of political consid- orations I believe better results could be attained, but I do not think any attempted interference on the part of the mayor and council would be conducive to this end There is a good deal more truth than poetry in what Mayor Bemis says, but who s to blume and where is the emedy? According to the mayor's standard the board is fully qualified to Yook after all matters coming within it Dbe- Hure rings The overwhelming republican majority | ' the | | 1ts * Jurisdiction. has the board shown such lamentable lack of efficiency? Is it because it has not had money enough to do better, or because it has allowed itself to be tampered with by contractors and de- | voted a great part of its time in dab bling with the affairs of other depart ments with which it has no concern? It is a matter of common notoriety that the health office has been a political hatchery, where all sorts of schemes have been incubating for the control of ward politics and the distribution of gpoils among political vagrants and hangers-on. Instead of confining em ployes to the business for which they are pald the head of the board has en couraged thelr pernicious aetivity in politics and granted them leaves of ab sence to attend conventions, hoss harbe. cues, primaries and manipulate membe of the legislature, Very naturally the employes have be- come demoralized and worthless so far as protecting the public health is con- cerned, and if this system is permitted It this be true, why |Germany during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, pggrogated $143,000,000. Undoubtedly: this country could do without a lafgh phrt of the merchandise imported from ance and much better thatt those countries conld | fermany . THURSDAY, MARCH | live to fight another day,’ | @0 without (§6 produets of the United | | drink v | to continue every dollar expended for | Board of Health will be a dollar squan ‘body concedes that it is essential to keep the police and five de partments divorced from politics, ow much more is it essential that the health officors and ingpectors should keep out of political contention and attend strictly to their legitimate duties, GOVERNOR HOLCOMI'S FIRST VETO. Governor Holcomb has vetoed the Watson change of venue bill. He could not well have pursued any different cour; That the Dill is clearly uncon- stitutional was pointed out some days g0 in The Bee, and it is solely to its questionable constitutionality that the Zovernor confined his veto message. Every person accused of crime is gua anteed by the organie law of Nebraska “q speedy and publie trial by an im- partial jury of the county or distviet in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.” Governor Holcomb proves hevond contravention that the term “county or district” as nsed in that instrument is vestrictive in mes and that the defendant in every case has a vight to demand trial in the county in which the information or in- dictment is filed. Governor Holcomb refrains from dis- cussing the bearin of the bill upon any partienlar person or any particular o It is well known, however, that the measure was originally -designed and passed with special reference to the prosecution of the men charged with the murder of Barrett Scott in Holt county, and that the intention was to appeal to its authority there for the first time. « its application to this case is concerned, where the erime was alveady committed and the preliminary hearing had before the bill was even introduced into the legislature, it s to effect ex post facto legislatic is doubly unconstitutional, if there can be such a thing. A law need not alter the definition or penalty of a crime to to effect ex post facto legislation and it alters the position of a person cused of crime to his disadvantage in t degree, in other words, it it easier to secure conviction than where the erime was committed, it is ex post facto legislation. The professed object of the Watson bill is to make the conviction of the Barrett Scott mur- derers less difficnlt. There s, moreove nother feature of the bill which the governor's veto nasses over in silence. When, on its i in the house, Representative tobinson of Holt county said in explan- ation of his vote that while he was opposed to the measure on principle, yet he would vote for it because it contem- plated the assumption by the state of the costs of prosecution in what prom- ised to be some very expensive trials. By Inducing the attorney general, there- fore, to take charge of n eriminal prose- cution and to apply for a change of venue to an adjacent county, any county could shift the expenses of a case that proverly belonged to it upon the people of the entive state. If it is f for the costs of one trial in one count to be taken, out of the state tr why not the costs of all trials in all counties? Ench county s supposed to defray the expense of administering the eriminal laws of the state within its own borders, Why should a few coun- ties be specially favored? Governor Holcomb might have dis- cussed these aspects of the proposed bill in his veto, but so flagrant is its violation of constitutional provisions that he evidently came to the conclusion that objections beyond those of uncon- stitutionality would be mere surplusage, A POLICY OF RETALIATION. It Is intimated that the administration intends to take up the question of meet- ing the diserimination of European countries against the agricultural prod- uets of the United States by a policy of retalintion, Just how far the govern- ment could go with such a policy with- out further legislation is to be deter- mined, but what may be done under existing authority would be felt with damaging effect by the Buropean inter- ests reached by the retaliation, The inauguration of this policy would result, of course, in n considerable loss of reve- nue to this country, though this would not be so.great as might be supposed. The Washington corvespondent of the Philadelphia Ledger points out that the aggregate value of the merchandise im- ported into the United States from Ger- many and France during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1804, was less than $118,000,000, though the importations were abnormally small last year, owing to the tariff agitation. Perhaps $140,- 000,000 would more corvectly represent the normal value of the merchandise annually received from IPrance and Ger- many. In a tariff war those two coun- tries would suffer to a greater extent than the United States, except in the matter of revenue, The value of the wines annually received from France is ver $5,000,000 and from Germany about $2,000,000. From France we get in silk goods, ready-made clothing and gloves about $0,000,000 and from Germany bout 5,000,000, We get, also, from rinany about $4,000000 in knit goods. The exports of domestic merchandise from the United States to I ning, se. s ac- uce and l States which 'constitute the bulk of our exports to these countries, v small proportion of the American people shut out entitely nobody would suffer, while the effect would be to largely in crease the use of California wines, the best of which are very nearly as pala table and quite 4& pure as the wines of France. Our people could get along very well, also, without the gloves and ready-made clothing of Irance and Germany. The serions ques tion for us is not whether we can without these things which w but whether the government ean afford to lose the revenue that is de their importation, and which to a considerable sum. It would amounts cor- tions to cut off any source of revenue, and in the event of the supreme court deciding the income tax to be unconsti- | tainly be unwise under present condi- | | neh wines, and if these were | silks and | do | import, | ed from tutional the situation will he still more | embarrassing. So long as the receipts of the government run behind the ex- penditures no proposition for further re- ducing receipts ought to receive serious consideration. Under the circumstances it is not prob. able that the admin ation will take any steps in the direction of a policy of retalintion. President Cleveland, there is reason to believe, takes a very con servative view of this matter and he is more concerned about the condition of the treasury than he is about punishing foreign countries for their diserimina- tion against American products, It Is to be expected that the administreation will give the subject the consideration it merits and will spare no effort to show Buropean governments the injus tice of their course, but there is very small likelihood that a policy of retalia- tion will be adopted unless conditions Dbeeame much more serious ) at pres- ent. A Dill before the Ilinois state legisla- ture aims to prevent transients in the population of any large city, Chicago in particular, from acquiving franchise rights while mere students in eduea- tional institutions. The argument urged in favor of the measure is that the students pay no contribution to the gen- eral revenues, have no permanent in- terest in the city and ought therefore to have no voice in its local government. In direct contradistinetion to this theory the franchise in England is sp conferred on graduates of the gr versities without reference to residence or rate paying, and the universities re- tain representation in Parliament with a smaller constituency than the other representative distriets. The difference between the English and the American point of view could not be better illus- trated. The police court that has never had more than one clerk sinee it was estab- lished is now, according to the police Judge, suffering from the want of an assistant clerk. Of course, the busi- ness of the police court is no greater now than it has been for several years past, but if it can provide a berth for some one with a pull the opportunity is not to be neglected. Crime is not on the increase in Omaba. On the contrary, there has been a ed decrease in the criminal eclasses within the past two years may be more grants by reason of the prevailing industrial depression, but that should not overtax the police clerks’ energies. There is a general demand for retrenchment, and no money in the treasury for more tax eaters. A city subscriber propounds this conundrum to The Be “Is Police Commissioner Strickler crazy, or what?" This is presumed to have reference to Mr. Strickle mental condition when he introduced those social evil resolu- tions in the open session of the fire and police commission. We opine that a commission of lu would pronounce Mr, Strickler perfectly sane. It would say the is too much method in his madne It must be conceded, how- ever, that he is making a beautiful grand stand play for the benefit of the anti-viee crusaders while laughing in his sleeve over their eredulity. And the State Pald the Fine. Norfolk News. Ex-0ll Inspector Hilton was in the police court at Blair one day last week, charged with assault, He was f) 1 dollars and costs, which he paid—out of the state funds in his possession, most likely. R —— Suspended ine Slaughter, Chicago Tribune, A great many excellent persons are grieved because the President spent Sunday pleasuring in his little steamboat. They ought to give him credit for holding him- self in check In one respect. He didn't mur- der any ducks that day. f ———— Proof of Japan's Clvilization, Chicago Herald. Japan has glven a remarkable proof of phenomenal progréss' In the employment of native Christians ug @rmy chaplains, T missionaries and sixtetn workers have be pointed for spegial duty at Hiroshima his is the first incldgnt of its kind in the history of civilizatiop. i Omaha und the State ¥ Pletra Leader, deratfon” of honesty, right and e demands that ‘Omaha should have the state the next five y Omaha secured its,location in an open test, according to law, and would not sur- render its right without prolonged litiga- tion. The legislatire’ had better employ its timeé in the considération of some less ful and useless medsure ——— Relieving 1}is Biricken Island. New ¥iirk "Tribune The arrival at SL.'Wohns of a steamer laden with provisions knd the pathetie en- thusiasm with which:it was welcomed call attention anew to the misery existing in the island of Newfoundtamd. There are nearly 200,000 people there, a large proportion of whom have been in the utmost need ever since the financial crash occurred. Some idea of the extent of the destitution can b formed from the announcement that 5,000 sons in St Johns are being fed daily m soup Kitchens. ed sevel ir. | cent | erly |is willing 14, 1893, AND THINGS, ““The man that fights and rune away may unless he Is a PEOPLE Chinese officer. The administration has shocked another in- dustry. Electricily imported from Canada is declared dutiable. The Sibley and Coxey presidential booms are running wild in the mining districts of ennsylvania and Ohio. St. Louls 1s moving for the state capital. Let her move. Exercise will lend her a passing glow of health. The New York World votes In the state legislature “unavoldable” absence, $ Among the joyous harbingers of peace and spring, the talk of a legislative sifting com- mittee ecasily takes front rank. It pipes the beginning of the end Statistics of the fncome fax levied in 1880 show that a multitude of rich men lived at quotes telephone at $1,000 each, a $20,000 a year galt and swore their incomes | | were 1 than $5,000. When a New York woman fires five shots at a recreant lover and puts three of them into his carcass, it is an ocult demonstration that the coming woman has com: Considering the fact that a barrel of di turbance was on tap in the Indiana capitol buflding, the wonder is that the gislative serap was deferred tiil the last hour. A Connecticut corset factory gives the in come tax as an cxcuse for cutting wages. Dut while the government haul is only per the employes are taxed 8§ per cent. M. Ritt, the new governor general of the gambling principality of Monaco, was form- | treasurer general of the Department of Aude, France, and is a_brother-in-law of Theodore Roustan, late French minister at Washington, A Missouri statesman proposes a law tax- lors from $10 to $75 a year, according A bachelor himself, he appreciates the superior advantages of his condition and to pay a reasonable tax for the priceless boon.' Buck Kilgore Judgeship in Indian territory. The position will enable the gentleman from Texas to Kick a few holes in legal precedents without sending the crimson to the cheeks of the bandaged goddess, Colonel Roland G. Usher, who died at Lynn, Mass, last week, left an unbrokca public office record of thirty-six years. The secrot of his pull did not die with him. Tt can be summed up in three words: integrity, efficiency, popularity. Chicago has concluded, after an exhaustive amination of foreign pedigrees, that it es superior to New Yerk in planting heir ses abroad. Anglophobia is as plentiful in Chicago as in Gotham, only the former lacks the opportunitics of the latter. Cleveland's sudden departure from Wash- ington has oked criticism from congress men who had a few deals to close up be- fore returning home. These pouting states- men forget that the true sportsman seeks live game. Dead ducks are a drug in Wash- ington, said to be slated for a s ey NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS, Fire at Hardy destroyed the Garmon house, the flnest residence in the town. Eight horses were killed in a bunch Lodge Pole by being struck by a train. There never was such a demand for land to rent in Nuckolls county as there is this year, The merchants of Niobrara report that they are doing the best cash business known for several year: Grandma Gardner of David City, aged 90 years, fell on the church steps the other day and broke her wrist, besides cutting a severe gash in her head. She will recover, in spite of her age. August Lundholm, the Saunders county farmer who shot himself because there had bacn no rain, is now on the road to recovery. The damp weather of the past few days has given him a desire for life, Strike Feather, a Ponca Indian, was burned to death in his tepee in the Niobrara valley the other night. It is supposed that the wind blew the flames of his fire against the side of the tepee and caused the conflagration. The 3-year-old son of P. Donnelly, uear Colon, found a bottle of carbolic and drank a portion of the poison. Antidotes were promptly applied and the little one's life was saved, though he was badly burned. The people of Broken Dow are very indig- nant beeause the Postoffice department has changed the name of their office to “Broken- how.” They are about to send a poem to Postmaster General Wilson, accompanied by a petition, in the hope that he will change the name back to its old form, Farmer Suydam, an 80-year-old resident of Jefferson county, fell and broke his ankle. Tustead of lying down and dying, the old man set the bones himself and later went to a surgeon for examination. The doctor ex- amined the fracture and =aid it was set all right and there was nothing to be done, Lambert Neumann, a Cheyenne county young man, started out to give his best girl a ride, but before he reached her home the horse ran away. Neumann was thrown from the buggy and fell in the wheel, his leg being broken just below the hip. When found he was supposed to be dead, but later he recov- ered consclousness and the doctors believe he will pull through all right. The program for the ninth annual meeting of the North Nebraska Teachers association at Norfolk April 3, 4 and 5 has been iesued. Many subjects of especial interest to educators will be ably handled by experts. State Su- perintendent Corbett will preside. The $50 silk flag now held by Madison county will b> awarded to the county having the largest percentage of its teachers present at the meet- ing. Farmer Miller, restding near Daykin, was attacked by two unknown men in his home and knocked senseless, The etrangers then ransacked the house and secured about $20 in cash, leaving Miller in an unconsclous condition. The injured man did not recover his senses until the next day, when he man- aged to crawl to a neighbor's house and glve the alarm. The men have not yet been cap- tured. near living acid A Poor, Overworked Board, Lincoln News. The legislature, in enacting laws to take away numerous functions of the governor to lodge them in the Board of Public Lands and Boildings, should not forget that during the impeachiment proceedings two vears 4o great stress was laid upon the alleged fact that the Board of Publlc Lands and Build- ings was already shamefully overworked It 1s not likely, However, that the present members will complain i’ the e endowed with many new dutles, provided they bring with them additional patronage to be dis- tributed and additional power in the regula- tion of the state's affairs. —————— nelusion Arrived At Globe-Democrat Mr. Wilson c¢laims that the failure of th late congress in dealing with financial « tions wis due to the fact that under our system of government congress is the mir- ror of the people’s views, and the people have not yet made up their minds about these matters, But they appear to have made up their minds not to et the den cratic party do any more tinkering with such things, at any rate. ——— Taking Ity New York Tribune, In estimating the character and the unlamented Rifty-third congres might not unfittingly “employ the language used by “Sut Lovingood'' i his eulogy of apting Simon Suggs of the Suggsville Gyards": “He had ved liguor, an' he drunk it; he had horses, an’ he druv ‘em; he had dogs, an' he fit ‘em. Let us remember his virtues, if he had any, an’ forgit his vices it we Kin The C A Cha ge Buffals Secretary Morton says the sentiment for the gold ‘standard 13 growlng amoni the Dusiness men of the west. It Is a pity Mr. Cleyeland does not order Morton and ¢ lisle to change places. Carlisle cannot know less about agriculture, and Morton appar- ently Knows i good deal more about finance than he does about agriculture. Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, 8, Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE N COLOMBIA 1§ SORE STRAITS| ) Reports of the Collapse of the Rehellion faid to Be Unfounded, LEVYING FORCED TAXES ON MERCHANTS All Ablo-Hodied Men Not Already in the Revolutionary Army Ieing Prossod Into Government Servico—Gold At a Big Premiun, COLON, March 18.—~The recent reports of repeated victories by the Colombian govern- ment troops over the revolutionists challenge surprise when they get back here from Qistant parts in printed form. These re- ports are misleading, because the revolution is only stamped out by reported victories It is still progressing and the government of Colombia s in reits for men and money The congress at Dogota has just passed a bill for a forced loan. This meas- ure provides that $1,000,000 a month shall be collected from the merchants throughout the republic. The method of its collection, no than the loan itself, will cause bitter dissatisfaction. It is believed that the officers will apportion the amount to be col- lected from each merchant and individual, and as the amounts to be collected are not based entirely on the actual capital of each mer- chant, but on his supposed capital, it can be plainly seen how sympathy for tne revolu- tionists may be cre rd, There is no equal assessment and the tax must be paid on de mand or property equaling the tax levied will be confiscated to its satisfaction. The Interests of the countr as the government is conscripting soldiers down to the age of i years, and those who are not in the army already or in the with the revolutionists are hiding in mountains. The premium of gold has risen to 142% per cent, and that, with the inercased cost of living, owing to the recent advances in the tariff and the low price for labor prevailing. is cansing great distre Merchants are ex- ceedingly apprehensive that their places of buginess will be fired for pillage. Three at- tompts were made on the night of February 28 to burn Colon and but for the prompt discovery and suppression of the fires Colon would have been in ashes. The merchants of Colon are doing night patrol duty, as sore the most of the police force of the city are now | in the regular arm: The latest news fro rebels have retreated and that General Royes, commander of the Colomblan forces, has oc- d Cucuta, in the province of Pamplona, | with 7,000 men. A detachment of 1,000 troops is expected to arrive shortly at Panama from the Department of Caucua. Martial law has been declared in the Department of Panama. TORPIDOES ARE GIVE Destruction of the Chinese Work Entirely. VICTORIA, B. C., March ship Empress of India, with vices to Mavch 1, has arrived. Nothing new had devcloped in the Japanese-Chinese war up to the time the Empress left. The sur- render of Admiral Ting and his fleet after the attack by the Japanese torpedo boats, and the suicide of the admiral after the surrender, are told in an amplified way, but no new facts are given. The credit for the victory is awarded to the torpedo boats exclusively. The Japanese forces in Shantung have done very little sinco the forts were taken at the beginning of February. Scouting parties have pushied westward as far as Ning-Hal. THE CREDIT, oot Was Thelr he steam- Yokohama ad- treating braves, and the few who resisted extortion were cut down without mercy. General Oyama sent a letter to the foreign consuls at Che Foo announcing that in case ho takes possession soldiers will be allowed to enter the Buropean and American quarters until the police force shall have been posted there to maintain order. AUSTRALASIAN FEDERATION BILL. Conterence of Premiers Results in the Draft of u Measure. VICTORIA, B. C., March 13.—Advices re- ceived by the Miowera state that a confer- ence of premiers at Hobart, Tasmania, has re- sulted in the drafting of an Australasian fed- eration enabling bill, which, by arrangement, 15 to be submitted first to the Parliament of New South Wales for adoption. The confer- ence adopted a reselution favoring the appor- tionment of the cost of a Pacific cable among England, Canada and the colonies of Austra- lia, and the naming of a joint commission made up of representatives of all to consider the project. By a reciprocal trade treaty entered into betweeen South Australia and New Zealand the latter colony can send into South Austra- lia free of duty barley, oats, horses and hops, South Australia can send to New Zealand free wine, salt, olive oil and fresh and dried fruits. It will affect American trade, Ex-Khedivo Buried with Great T CAIRO, March he remains of Ismail Pasha, ex-khedive of Egypt, who died recently at Constantinople, arrived here from Alex- andria and were conveyed to the Rifa Mosque, where they were interred with much pomp. are paralyzed, | field | the front fs that the | | The | people had been ruthlessly pillaged by the re- | COMMENT ON 10WA MATTERS. Davenport Democrat: Tn Tows, at least, honesty s the best policy. The list of her eriminals of the dishonest sort is not longer than In reason it ghould be, but the number of pension sharks, bank wreckers, bank rob- bors, train wreckers and all around rascals in places of trust sent by her to the peniten- tiary, or killed outright, is as long ns the delinquent tax list of a Kansas county. Sloux City Journal: Wao want for governor, elther In quiet or {n nolsy times, a man who shares the conservatism of Lincoln, and especlally who has no progressive policies te introduce. Ordinarily the duties of the governor are not difficult, but thers may arise at any time emergencles which re- quire a high degree of Judgment and ability. The office of governor, therefore, ought to bo presentative of the highest and best Judg- ment and all the best qualities of the people of lowa. Louisville Courler-Journal activity in mining circles, freely commented on for months past, has manifested ftselt in an unexpected manner at Sloux City, Ia. Two young men have pre-empted a strip of sand bar on the Mis- ourl, near there, and gono actively to work. are not searching for gold, but for an article which {n_that prohibition state Is rarer and more highly prized. A steamer with 100 barrels of Kentucky whisky was souttled and sunk at that spot during the war, and these enterprising prospectors are KOINg to get 1t if they have to sink a shaft to China. At last accounts half the adult popu- lation of the city were flocking to the river bank to wateh the operations, Already there i talk of organizing companies and floating shares of common and preferred stock, and first and second mortgage bonds, me long-headed financlers have even begun cal- culating that there may bo whisky buried points, and if the first enterprise essful hoth banks of the Missourl will be pre-empted clear to the borders of the state, and the able-bodied citizens of Towa | Will be digging on them like muskrats till long after harvest timo. In this favored state it is painful to think what a thirst Sioux City has been acquiring during all these years, 1f those prospectors strike a rich lead we may expect to hear of | a mining fever that will discount Cripple | Creelc and South Africa combined. The Towan is for free silver, anyhow, but there isn't & man In Sloux City who wouldn't gladly unite on a platform of free drinks ot forty-year-old Kentucky whisky, Prohible tion' be hanged! —— CURRENT RITS OF F Iveston News: Almost with @ few friends can sure, but this does not certain, | The general which has been N G any mike make candidate his calling his election Philadelphia Record: When o man re- to a woman as an old flame of his, you can generally gamble that he has been fived, Brooklyn Tife (seeKing to impress the necessity of faith)— And what was the only thing Jonah needed him safe? Scholar—The Sunday School acher earth, Podner ‘h. Lane nothing in I've wot a Walker— mine to Iphia_ Inguire Enawing my You're luc y Buaw. Atchison Globe: All of us howl s0 we can be heard outdoors in our pain and imagine we suffer in silence. Yonkers Statesman bringing up a family— She—Never mind your views. the family. You g0 He—My views on 'l bring up nd bring up the coal. Indianapolls Journal oracular boarder, ey other people’s buisiness, >robably you are tlght,” assented the Cheerful Idiot, “but I Know one man who 15 muking a fair living at it. He is a mer- chant policeman.” said the minding Washington Star: “Well,”" sald the ex- 'm back to my native home “I hope the members of the community will be glad to see me." “T can assure you of that, sir. wishing for you back months ag They were THE CARTWHEEL ROUTE, St. Louls Republic, If you can’t reach Fame at a single bound,; Build up a ladder by which you can rise; Let it Test on the earth and point to the es, Then climb up to glory round by round, 1t's an old-fashioned way, and some it will suit, But the modern soubrette has wise s She just stands on her head, points her tocs to the skie And rolls up to glory by the cart whec) route. grown more —_————— DOWN IN FRONT, Boston Globe. O, woman, you are very sweet And man ‘will gladly yield his seat To spare your pretty, tired feet, And gladly tip his to you, Since admiration prompts him' to; And lots of other things he'll do His high esteem for you to show And make you happy_ here below, But one thing you should surely Know= Just think a bit when e'er your at The play—pray but consider that; Despite “that he esteems you so, He can’t see through your hat, Though high aloft your headgear towa With pompom plume and tropic flowen Which, worn by you al proper hour, Accentuate Thu good instead of harme— ‘ou can neer disarm Till you can fearn to see arlght And view the matter in our llght Since we have only mortal sight). st remember that While at the play you it and chat, Though we bezridge you no delight, We can’t see through your hat, started is replete with noveltic spection. selected for The many sty neckwear seem to be just the thing, pressions we hea 25 WO are department anywhere now. All the in charge. BROWNING, Reliable Clothiers, w + QUG <b$m|m: cmmzfs our Money's \V;lrlll or Yu\; Money Bas! It’s the Little Things— The picking out of the cloth, the preparation of it, tho cutting, the trimming, pocket lininge—it’s the little things—that go to make the perfect goods. aginable is taken in making vp our goods, everything then—when you get it 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 cheapost. for four or five dollars,but we'll give you the best in the world for 310,00 and up. we've just got hats and caps that we've ever seen. and low priced. 2~ even the buttons and the Every care im- is thoroughly inspected. and We can’t scll you a suit But we out to talk about little things. Well, in some of the nicest little things in the way of boys' furnishings and Pretty Our children's department spring. and we invite an carly in- showing in gentlemen’s shirts and judging by the many praiseful ex- ¢ on all sides— and bats, well we just have the best hat new spring blocks are in and our arsdotment is so varied in both style and price, that you will have no trouble in finding just what you want. ask for our Mr. Arthur, he'sa practical hatter and has this department If you don't sce the hat you want KING & CO, . Cor.15th and Douglas Sts