Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1895, Page 4

Y THE OMAHA_DMLY BE! e - B. ROSEWATER, Bditor. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TIRMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Tee (Without Sunday), ORe year.. Duily Bes and Sunday, One Year. Ble Mot i Tty Three M 8 s . Bunday | One Year Eatariny Gne, Yo Weekly Tiee, One Y OFFIC Omaha, The Nee Tullding. Bouth Oma’ Singer 1Mk, Corner N and 24th Conmedl Bints, 18 Peant Sireet, " Chicags OMce. 317 Chamber of Commerce. rw York, Rox W and 15, Tribune Bidg. Washington, 147 reet, N. W, NCE. Al communica to news nnL\ edl- Wrial matter sho 1: To the Bditor, BUSIN N8, All business fotters and romittances ahould be addressed to The T Dubliehing company. Omaha, Drafts, checks and postoftice orders 10 be made payabla (o the order of the com FHiE TRl PURLISING COMY seszses B¢ ste, == STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION George B, Tzachuck, scoreary of The Bee DPub, 1shing company, belng duly sworn, says that the aetual nun £ full and complete cop of the Daily ) %, Tvening and Sunday Dee printed during the month of February, 1595, wis follows: 19,669 10,850 10,70 20,600 L 19,660 110,816 B % Total ... s deductions for coples 0 Not sales.. Dafley aver *Sunday. anon Sworn to hefore mo_anid ence this 24 day of Maich. 150, (Seal) N. P. L, Notary Publie. R R RE A ST Bven the dog has his day in the Ne- braska legislatur BN, TZSCHUCK. seritied I my pross A few mor the senate will sine die. poctical be driven petitions and to adjourn It telephone in South Omaha, wh other Nebraska eities? ites are to come down | not also in some Pennoyer of Oregon has heen unusu- ally auiet for several months past. Ts it the calm t precedes the storm? ten da fortunately to continue President Cleveland’s ended, and still remain species. few | the Governor Holcomb's first veto will stick. The veto power conscientiously used is generally able to effect the pur- pose for which it was conferred upon the executive, Joe Sibley Dbears his honor He has not yet taken that presidential nomination seriously, and if he doesn't take it seriously he certainly ecannot expect others to do so. Police Commissioner Strickler's last grandstand play has elicted a resolu- tion of endorsement from the local Young Men's Christian association. As that is probably all it was intended for, Mr. Strickler ought to feel quite satisfied with his effort. Live stock receipts at the Omaha market are far below the average of previous years, while prices are strong and firm. The stock raiser who has cattle and hogs ready for the market is indeed fortunate, for he can sell them in Omaha and take home with him a bag of gold. According to Mr. Wiley, it is the poor corporation that is seduced into a career of municipal corruption by a wicked and designing eity councilman. The first advances, he thinks, are always made by the alleged representative of the people. Perhaps we ought to have an age of consent law for corporations. The treasury has not yet made public any statement showing how much it suved by the sporadic enforcement of the docking law upon the members of the late house of representatives. It is safe to assume, however, that the sum is not quite large enough to make up for the deficit which that congress made in the revenues. Mr. Wiley told some very interesting things about corporations and the public in his talk Defore the Young Men's Christian association, but he held back some of the most fmportant informa- tion in his possession. He forgot to tell Just how a city contract is procured, as also how much profit there is in it for the city councilmen and for the corpora- tion. Is the legislature going to make the usual appropriations for the Home for the Priendless without providing against @ vecurrence of the trouble of last year between the officers of that institution and the State Board of Public Lands and Buildings? Is that private, insti- tution fed on public pap to be left alto- gether without adequate control by the state officers? Rumor has it that Bill Dorgan has made arrangements to sell his prison contrac Sell what? Dorgan owns part of the manufacturing plant out on the prison grounds, the machinery, materi- als and prison equipment. He has a right to sell these, eitner to the state or to a private party, but he has no legal rvight to possession of the prison or to the labor of the prisoners, People can now go through slaughtering establishments at .Omaha, witnessing the whole process from beginning to end, even hearing the dying squeals of the doomed porkers, with accompanying explanations, while comfortably seated in a lecture room. There is ouly one thing missing and that s the odor, For the genuine article ¥you wust go to the packing house itself, the South The proposed tramway is by feasible outlet to the interior of the county. The Omaba Street Railway company will of course build a line to the state fair grounds. From that point & line could be run to Millard, opening up that portion of the county. To the south a line must soon be constructed between Albright and Fort Crook, which would be the means of increased traffic between Omaha and the rich contiguous Bennington no means electric the only THE SIFTING COMMITTEE. As the legislative session nears its close it is quito probable that the propo sition for a sifting committee, broached for the first time in the senate about a week ago and just renewed and adopted by that body, will also be presented and acted upon in the house. Of course, under the pressure of impending ad journment, when the time for law-mak- Ing is Hmited and the number of bills un acted upon legion, it becomes absclutely necossary to sacrifice the greater nam ber of measures that have been favor ably reported from the committee, There are some bille, guel as the appro- priation bills and the bills for the sub mission of constitutional amendments, that have a first and almost exclus claim upon the consideration of legislatures, There are others of local importance, such as the varions charter bills, that are havdly sccond in impor- tanee There are numerous bills of general scope that would ordinarily de- serve attention, and there are hosts of bills that cither ought never to have been introduced or ought to have been killed outright when reported. How to sift the wheat from the chaff is the question. In congress this is done by psort to . steering committee | sifting committee, and it is the fashion for legislatures to follow congressional metlods. The power exercised by a sifting com- mittee is practically dietatovial. To its members is eoufided the whole legisla tive power of the honse which they vepresent. They hold the declsion whether a bill is to be advanced or re- tavded. They say whether or not speelal hour is to be set for the ¢on- siderntion of any particular mensure, This is really the power of life and death over every bill on the calendar. | 1t is highly essential that such pow entrusted o any set of men, be given to men who will wield it solely for the public good, who will not pervert it to re partisan ends, who will turn a A ear 1o every argument of personal sueh a committee in theory represents the majority of the membe and it should not in practice misrepre sent them. It will have it in its power 1o make or break the reputation of the present legislatiy The sifting committee must not be converted into a financial speculat for the lobby. session TilE SAME OLD TACTIC Just as The Bee predicted ago, the Omaha charter amend- ments ave encountering the same old tacties at the hands of the gang that infests the state house. There is five in the front and fire in the rear. The membe of the legislature who have other pet measures or delicate jobs to engineer prefer to hold hack the legisla- tion requested by Omaha until after their little bills have been considered. This is particularly true with refer ence to questionable items in the apy priation bills. If important measures are yet to come, for whose enactment the vote of every member is desirved. the chances of slipping an increased appropriation in here and a new build- ing in there are enhanced several fold. But the members of the legislature would scarcely have the hardihood to pursue such a cour unle: they re- ceived secret encouragement nd sup- port from the local corporations and individual tax shirkers who hope to de- rive special advantages from mutilation of the charter. These interests, by their attorneys and lobb, , have been telling the committees in charge of the bill that it would be better to have no changes at all rather {han those agreed upon and recommended by the charter revision committee and endorsed almost unanimously by the whole body of our citizens. They have been- trying to undermine various provisions, particu- larly that for a single tax assessor and revised methods of tax valuation, and while doing this have been digging their knives into the whole measure. The danger is that these tactics may prove at least partially suceessful now, as they have in the past, and that in- stead of an improved charter Omaha will find herself with her charter punc- tured with additional loopholes. Under the present conditions, when they must apply to the legislature for every alte ation of this fundamental law, the great majority of the people are practically lelpless. Home rule or the privilege of framing their own charter is the only way out. weeks JAPAN'S DEMANDS. The report that Japan has sent a floet to the island of Formosa in order to make sure of possessing that valuable territory, which is included in her de- mands as the price of peace, is probably correct. It has been understood from the beginning of the war between China and Japan that in the event of the suc- cess of the latter it would probably de- mand the cession of Formosa, so that there was no surprise when the Japan- 8¢ government announced that in ne- gotiating terms of peace the transfer of this island to Japan would be one of the conditions. It is understood that China is willing to make the ces- sion, but it is quite natural that pending a settlement Japan should tuke the p cantion of having a force at hand ready to tnke possession of the ceded tervitory as soon as the treaty of pe shall be coneluded. What is this territory that Japan de mands as part of the war indemnity from China? The island of Formosa is one of the richest portions of the Chinese empire. 1t bas an area of about 15,000 square miles—less than one-ifth the size of Nebraska—and the whole population is estimated at from 1,500,000 to 3,000,000, China has never yet subjugated the whole island and there are probably 60,000 natives who refuse 1o admit Chinese rovereigaty. These inhabit the clevated region of the east coast, which is covered by forests of great value. Not more than half of the island has been subjected to cultivation, but such is its fertility and productiveness that it is called the granary of China. That it would be come far more productive and prosper- ous under Japanese rule than it has ever been there can be no doubt, for it would be given a better government, with order everywhere established and maintained. The natiy population e sountry w the south, which bas refused to acknowledge the ‘!m’on'lm'_\' of China wounld be com- pelled to submit to that of Japan and the island would speedily undergo a change from which other natfons than Japan would find benefit, while to th ruling country the advantages wounld be great, It lins been thought the demand of Japan for the cession of Formosa would Dbe resisted by Russia and possibly some of the other Kuropean powers, but there has been no intimation thus far from any of them of an Intention to interfore with this feature of Japan's demands, certainly the most significant in its bearing upon the interests of Buropean countries in that quarter of the world. 1t is still possible that some of them may object to the transfer of Formosa, but as they probably conld not unite, owing to conflicting interests, in 1 effort to prevent Japan taking pos- | session of the island there seems to be no reason to doubt that Formosa will pass under Japanese rule and become one of the most valuable of the island empire. As to the other demands of Japan, so far as they have heen announced, it seems assured that they will be unhesitatingly allowed by China and consequently that no dith culty will be found in effecting a settle ment and bringing the one-sided con- flict between the nations to a close. The situation appears to afford no oy portunity or excuse for outside inter ference and it is safe to that Buropean nations will stand aloof. Possessions THE ALLIANCA INCIDENT. The country will approve the stand taken by Secretary Gresham in regard to the firing on the United States mail steamship Allinnea by o Spanish gun- boat on the high seas off the island of Cuba, There are well-settled regula- tions respecting the vight of inquiry on the sea as to a vessel's nationality, and it appea from the statement of the captain of the Allianea that thes wera violated by the Spanish gunboat, which he claims fired on the steamship with the evident purpose of hitting her after he had twice made known the nationality of his vessel by sing the colors of the United State Accepting this statement as correct there can be 10 question®as to the culpability of the Spaniard. Secr v Gresham gives no considera tion to the question whether the Alli- anca was within or outside of the three- mile shore limit, thus cutting off the only plausible plea which the Spanish government could offer in justification of the course of the commander of the gunboat, namely, that the steamship vas in Cuban water: His insistence is that the s in the natural and usual highway for vessels plying between ports of the United States and the Caribbean sea, and that forcible in- terference with her was not justifiable whether she was within three miles of the Cuban coast or not. The secretary is explicit in declaring that such inter- ference with vessels flying the American flag will be regarded as a belligerent act and can under no circumstan be toleated whien no state of war exists, and the Spanish government will have no difficulty in understanding the mean- ing of what he ys in regard to a disavowal of the act of the gunboat, an expression of regret, and immediate orders to Spanish naval com- manders not to interfere with legitimate American commeree lawfully under the flag of the United States. The Svanish minister Washington professed to be greatly surprised at the character of the dispateh from the sec- retary of state to the American minis- ter at Madrid and sought to belittle the incident. But it is not to be supposed that Secretary Gresham decided upon the course to be taken without having fully satisfied himself that it was war- ranted by the facts. Very likely the Spanish government will also be sur- prised and it may even feel some cha- grin at what the minister calls the se- verity of the language used by the sec- retary of state, but none the less it will probably send, without unnecessary de- lay, a satisfactory response. Spain can- not afford under present circumstances to be on any but the most friendly terms with the United States, and it is therefore to be exvected that she will recognize the expediency of avoiding any controversy in connection with this incident which might disturb or impair friendly relations Shopkeepers in Chicago protest against the great department stores and have appealed to the legislature to sup- press them, In other words, the little fish, finding it impossible to cope with the larger fish, invoke the law-making body to restrain their competitors. It seems to us that this is a subject with which the legislature has absolutely no concern. It is strictly a matter of competitive business, brains, eapital and low prices. The masses buy where goods are sold cheapest. The depart- ment store has developed an attained success through (he medium of the bar- From the view poiut of public policy these stores might reason- ably ask protection as against any effort at legalized restraint, They afford the best market places for the common people—the greatest good to the greatest number, Their growth cannot cause a veduction in the number of employes in any particular line of trade, for they cmploy small avmies of clerks. The people of a city will consume and use a certain amount of the necessarvies of life and no more, If they buy everything at home the money is cireulated there and the community cannot be injured by patronage of department stores. It is a case of the survival of the fittest. A great constitutional lawyel writes articles for a Lincoln news has discovered that the objections urged by Governor Holcomb against the change of venue bill are all poppy- cock, The governor says that the bill of vights guarantees to every person ac cused of erime a faiv and fmpartial trial in the county in which the act is alleged to have been committed. This wonder ful expositor of the constitution says that the restriction to the county is of no force because, under existing law, a prisoner can, by setting up prejudice that prevents a fair trial, secure a change of venue on his own account to an adjacent county. There is, howev slight diffgrenge between a state tak- ing a changs ‘& venue and a pris- ter takingea: ehange of venue. In the latter cfisp he right to a trial inthe county i voluntarily waived in order td, iikure the right to a trial by a fale and impartial jury. Should the stafe, attempt to change the Mace of trigl against the will of the prisoner it would be depriving him of a privilege mdde inviolable by the con- stitution, — President Peéeking of the Burlington simply voiced. public opinion when he said that a rewtval of business in Ne- braskn depended solely on the fruition of this year's erop. Men who are peer- ing into the Dusiness horizon can see but one ray of promise and that is the early indieation of a nountiful crop. Our people are intensely concerned in the watter. They look forward to the nest harvest with the most anxious expectanc, Tt passing strange how all the ehanges made by the legislature in the appropriation bills ave in the direc tion of fncreasing the items ag veported from the committee on fi and means, 1ee, ways Dodging the Issu Hobe-Democrat. that most of the who are trying to commit to the free silver policy were last November detracts much from influence with the party and fthe in general, The democracy dare lare squarely for free coinage. Call Dow pstart, Kansas City Sta As usual when a Cuban revolution is an- nounced to have broken out, the Spanish authoriti e overdoing it. A Spanish war vessel has fired upon a peaceable American ship and chased the same twenty-five miles. Spain must be brought up with a round turn and instructed to fight the revo- lutionists and not the United States. The fact congressmen thelr par beaten their people not de democratic Pablie ¢ A Peivate Snaps. York World ery commission finds that 9 federal employes in Washin, ton only have been selected as a T sult of competitive e nations, while 610 have from one rel in the service of the government, it is a reason- ably comprehensive history of the rise, progress and existing condition’ of the civii ‘e reform under which public office is theoretically a public jrust. When the 1) out of 17 The Colt Ineident Closed. deiphia who commanded the Ohio at the Washington, O., has had h nduct en’ dorsed by the military board of and Govirncr MeKinley has approved report, He is still to undergo trial, ever, before a county manslaughter growing out of the firing of the troops upon the mob. The verdict of the military tribunal meets with the ex- pectation and satisfaction of the country at large. Colontl Coit had his duty to 0 in a erave emergency and de- praise rather than censure for hi which ‘weré marked by both d and courage. Colonel National & court house inquiry, the how- An Apostrophe to st. Andy. New York Sun. What said Andrew Jackson, exemplar of true democ in his first inaugural ad- dress as t? ““The management; of the public revenue 18 among the wost delicate and important trusts, and it will ‘demand no inconsider- able share of my official solicitude. Under every-aspeet inwhich it is considered it would appear that mdvantage. must result from the obsergance of a strict and faith- ful econcmy. It will counteract that ten- dency to public and private profliga which a profust expenditure of money the government s but too apt to engende: Sage words of ai democrat, a spendid fighter, couraggous against thé enemies of his_country .m& of his party, and indiffer- éent‘to ducks, At Carlisie and the Pacific Rallroads. New' Yerk World, Mr. Carlisle has now issued an order the substance of which is that all these moneys, except ich as are earned on the main line between Omaha and Ogden, shall be paid in cash by the government to the roads earning them—that is to say, to the Union Paciic railroad, The order releases the company from the only payments it has been required to make on its debt. It d. vs the only resource the government has had for collecting any of its dishonestly misappropriated money. It tobs the trensury and gives the money to the treasury robbers. It surrenders to the wreckers the smallest remnant of right the government had retained to recover its own again. Why is this don e The End Justified the Means. Washington Star That was a sensible decision rendered by the supreme court which announced the rule that it is morally and legally justifiable for the roguc-catching department of the community to resort to decoy letters in order to capture and convict violators of the statutes. Willlam Grimm was convicted in Missouri for using the mails to sell ob- scene pictures, He uppealed to the supreme court, alleging that the letters upon which he was convicted were written by a gov- ernment det ve, and that the replies were sent to fictitious addresses The claim was that Grimm had done person. The court very properly held that this was no adervate defense, and Justice Brewer, in delivering the opinion, probably voiced @ strong sentiment when he said that the method of his capture did not detract from Grimm'’s guilt from either a moral or a legal point of view, In such a case it would surely seem as though the end justi- fled the means. - THE PRICE OF PEACE. by Chicago Tribune: The civilized world will hail with joy the cessation of hostilities be- tween Japan and China and will then settle down with what resignation it can command to await the inevitable squabble among the New York papers as to which was the first to announce the news. Chicago Herald: Civilization, as well as Japan, is the gainer by the treaty of peace whose terms are not oppressive upon China, while China itselt will be the gainer in the long run in being compelled to submit to international law to a degree hitherto unat- tempted, and in being forced to respect the principles of humanity in both peace and war. Chicago Record: It will be seen that Japan will come out of the war with some- thing more substantial than the glory of her naval and military successes, for she will be the dominant powen: of eastern Asia. Her possession of Formosa will give her a place to locate her rapidly {ncreasing population and will enable her, ®ith a foothold secured at Port Arthur, to.qxest a powerful influence over the whole western Pacific and its grow- ing commerce. Ste will have between her- self and China a power whose independenc she has secured dnd'whose support she can depend upon, while' thy indemnity of $2: 000,000 will ‘g0 fan taward liquidating war debt of the empiro, Washington Stazi-—No one will be sorry to hear that China and Japan are about to kiss and make upbi® #he news from the far cast has been very monotonous of late, and even the lcvers of strife and accounts of sensational happeninj }, ave tired ot the one- sided struggle, . CbiAathas been thoroughly humbled, and Japan has been cleverly per- sistent and punctilious about peace negotia- tions until it has got just what it wanted, There can be no doubt that the sympathies | of the western w nwnw generally with the more. prddkddive nation. and by the great majority the result will be hailed as @ victory for modern idess. The next thing will perlidps bs tho establishment of loug trousers and frock coats in conserva- tive China, and the world will not have lost by the struggle that now seems ready to end. | — the been that Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. 8. Gov't Report Royal court on charges of | o harm to any real | Tt may be sald withont seeking to throw discredit on the abilities of Lord Rosebery as a statesman that another leader would bot- ter serve the cause of liberailsm in Groat Britain. He is undoubtedly handicapped by the fact that he represents a part of the very things that are sought to be reformed. He is himself a hereditary legislator, and yot the vparty which he leads has pledged itself not only ts demand the abolition of hereditary legislation, but the disestablishment in Wales of the church which has so long been associ- ated with the very class that he represent As established church may be an anomaly in modern practice, and is a survival of the time when the relations between church and state were far different from what they are now. But an anomaly s sometimes loss dangerous than fs an fll-timed attempt to disturb it, and the peerage, of which the premier was born a member, would certainly view with alarm the entering wedge that might bring about a greater upheaval. But whether Lord Rosebery resigns or waits to be released from office by defeat in Parlia- ment, dissolation and a general election must follow. With their present slender majority the liberals would never undertake to go on with a changed ministry. e Emperor William must now bitterly regret having spurned the advice of General Caprivi when he warned him in the strongest manner cgainst submitting to the Reichstag tha so-called anti-revolutionary bill, and pre ferred to resign the chancellorship of the empire rather than to have anything whatso- ever to do with the measure. Certain it is that no bill ever been proposed to the national legislature which has called forth such universal condemnation, both in and out of Parliament; and in view of its inevitable rojection by the House, the government according to the Borlin dispatches published recently, decided upon its withdrawal. The most serious featurc of this defeat is the in- calenlable injury that it has inflicted (o that popularity and prestige of the overeign upon whi , more even than on the support of his army, the throne of William 11 is based. The young monarch hax so publicly identified himeelf with this bill, has gone to such extreme lengths to secure its legislative sanction, appealing to each political party in turn and in vain for its support, that the ill will which it has excited in every part of rmany and among all classes of the peo- | ple has; unfortunately, extended to his own person. The era of blind obedience and un- questioning devotion that until recently char- acterized the relations of the Germans toward their empercr is at end. They appear to have awakened to the fact that he is not infalli- ble, and their opposition to his anti-revolu tionary laws, which he himself devised for their protection, and for his own, shows that from henceforth they will no longer submit to his rule without due reflection and careful consideration, von s, e Austria scems to bs other ministerial crisis Prince Windischgraetz cabinet appar- ently numbered. Not alone has the attitude of the working classes become threatening in consequence of the failure on the part of the ministry to move a single step forward in the direction of that electoral reform which it promised on its advent to office some four- teen months ago, but the premier is practi- cally assured of defeat in the Reichsrath on the question which has arisen with regard to the establishment of a Slavonic school in the Styrian town of Cilli. The ministry had pledged itself to the conservatives, who con- stitute the most fmportant fhction of its working majority, to found this school. But its_establishment is bitterly opposed by the German contingent in the legislature as an attack on their nationality, and the Germans will possess an overwhelming majority in the house, if thos2 who belong to the ministerial coalition and those who are opposed thereto unite, as they seem about to do, upon this is- sue. Should the cabinet be thus defeated, it would involve not only the formation of a new administration, probably under the premiership of Count Thun, now governor of Bohemia, but also the breaking up of the somewhat unnatural ministerial coalition which is composed of parties that have noth- ing in common excepting the dread of ac- cording electoral franchise to the working classes. on the eve of an- nd the days of the are s Emperor William's project for an interna- tional congress to bring about some definite agreement with regard to the rights of pri- vate property in time of naval warfare Is due to his conviction that it will be utterly impossible to provide Germany with a navy of the first rank without crushing the coun- try under a burden of absolutely intolerable taxation. Germany, however, has a large merchant marine and the young monarch fears, not without reason, that in the event of a war under the conditions at present in forde sha would suffer enormous losses, and that her commerce would be crippied in consequence of her inability to afford the proper protection to her merchant ships. The emperor is therefore desirous of securing in- tornational recognition of the same rights of private property in naval warfare as prevail in warfare on land, a doctrine which Great Britain categorically refused to admit at the congress of 1856, Prince Hohenlohe is now engaged in a confidential exchange of views with the various foreign governments on the subject, but it may bo doubted whether Eng- land and France will be willing to accede to a_proposition which deprives them of one of their principal means of exercising armed pressure, for the mere satisfaction of insur- ing the safety of Garman commerce in time of war, e Germany has responded to the acceptance on the part of France of the Kaiser's invita- tion to participate in the naval fetes at Kiel by a promise that the empire will be officially represented at the Paris World's fair of 1900. It has been hinted that the Riechs- land, which has until now been governed as a conquered province by a semi-military stadthilder, may be granted a constitution and legislative control over its local affalrs and be admitted into the federal empire on equal terms with the other German states. The kaiser is stated to be contemplating the bestowel of a new and great honor upon Prince Bizmarck at the celebration of the cighteenth anniversary of the birth of the architect of German unity on April 1 next. Is it possiblo that the aged statesman is to be constituted sovereign prince of a new principality beyond the Rhine? That the people of the new principality would welcome Prince Bismarck as their sovereign, and that all Germany would enthusiastically indorse the choice of the Iron Chancellor for the position, can scarcely be doubted. The recon- ciliation of the people of Alsace-Lorraine and the unqualified acceptance of the union with Germany would also deprive the party of | revanche in France of all excuse for further | agitation; the flery Germanophobia of the Chauvinists would die out for want of fuel while sensible Frenchmen would rejoice that a source of perpetual irritation had at last been dried up. The fetes at Kiel may turn out to be a celebration of peace in more ways than one. The boom of the naval guns may not merely announce the opening of a new waterway to the peaceful commerce of the world, but also testify to the fact that the Rhine had been bridged and that the I'rench and German peoples would hereafter live in nelghborly amity and goodfellowship. Per haps the kaiser may go to Paris in 1900, after all, ———— SENTIMENT, NOT PUETRY, 0 the Editor spring HAMBURG, Ia., March 14 of The Bee Enclosed please find | poem The a land that is fa r than day, The land of the dim fi way, But thire's one not .\‘;v lllu\‘ Fherd they never cut ice, Where SheX Rewill ket an awtul big slice land of the (WO years {I'nln n ;l‘« A N author hopes you will consider the e T IMent Of th> po.m, rather than its poetical construction. [ the A SPRINKLE OF SPICE. That, paw GUESSING 0N INCOME TAX Importance of the Interests Involved May Delay the Decision Somewhat, Buftalo Courier llow 1 can hardly bear," mutte upp, as he reached for his water, guess 1 wil few weeks, Good News: my little dear, t a nice, lovely littl gl you are!l Tell me why yoit are %o foi of that cat. Little Girl-~'Cause when sh purrs I know she means it, roker 18 & Hards “but T have to put up with him for & Sourface~Come here, VIEWS OF THOSE WH) WATCHED THE CASE parent every day that the successful bank robber Is the one who draws a salary from the institution, No Oue Able to Say Whethor the Supreme Court Has Any Leanings in Favor of the New Law or Against 1t | | Chicago Post: Tt 1a becoming more ape | Yonkers Statesman know anything that Barber—Did you e Customer--Do_you good for buldness? wy a wig, sir? WASHINGTON, March 15.—Now that the supreme court has concluded the hearing in the Income tax case and all the light which the supreme court can expect to receive from outside upen the speculation the it | Detrolt Froe Press: Professor—Napoleon ']lnnnp‘ul-‘ was the terror of all Burope in i And the terror in thelr day, of all magazine reade Journal: She~You never muriied me had 1 not been Hek. Certalnly not. 1 loved you too much. sources has been thrown questions involved considerable has arisen on the two points as to wha decision will be when reachel and is likely to be reached. Naturally no one would attempt to defi- nitely settle either question, and the opinions to con- { | Indianapotis would have | He { Somerville Journal: Lawser-Has witness who has just testitfed a good tation for veracity Witne 1 think perhnps he has, sir, but overybody says that he's an awful Har, hen Detrot I'ree Press in_the littie turned his trousers turned him down. A soclal town, until then they e became wes(ern up-and ot thoso whose opinfons are entitled sideration are much at varlance both points. There substantial ag fn the beliet that the court will make W effort to reach a conclusion at the earliest possible day, and, at any rate, before the timo set for the law o go into effect, which | is the 16th day of April next. The court is at all disposed to accommodate the government in such matters when it can do 50 without stretching the propr and it| Washington Star s taken for granted that the judges In the | SR LU Tunk Phange wheb he st i nt instance appreciate the importanc 1” ] |‘ |||:|“:-- \\ulr|| lnu? t ||~4| well p:t\‘ n Hetaths - L goods togethier and start over for an Amere Treasury department of having the valid- | E00ds together and star ity of the law finally scttied before the ma- chinery for its exccution snaii be put into complete operation. That the necessity for ancarly adjudication for this and other reasons is understood by the court s demonstrated by its advancing the cases on | She wore the docket for argument out of their order. | —looked queer, It is also ll-"Hr\'mlgun the part of many that | S0 hushaby, baby, your papa is here, the recess announced until the 25th inst. is — e largely for the purpose of permitting im- | AN ARRIVATL AT BILLVILLE, mediate consideration of the cases, and the suggestion has been made that a decision | may be expeeted upon the first sitting of the | court after tiwe recess. Those who are most familiar with the methods of the court do not, however, ac- cept the suggestion of so early a decision as well founded, and they say that, on the other hand, it may be delayed for a consider time, cven despite the anxiety of the ¢ itself to reach an carly determination. base this opinion upon the responsibilit which the court will feel in finally disposi of such momentous questions as are in- volved, upon their knowledge of the chara ters of the members of the court for mature deliberation and upon the fact that the judges will each and all consider it incumbent upon them to make very thorough investigations and to weigh carefully the questions pre- sented by tho counsel and by one another before passing judgment. Furthermore, in the absence of Justice Jackson, there is a probability of a divided court. While no one can have any basis for an opinion as to the character of the decision when it shall be reached, the general belief is that it will nol be unanimous ono way or the other, but which side of the controversy will sccure the majority of opinions is every- where recognized as one of the questions that cannot be determined until the document itselt shall be read from the bench. There are those who profess to have seen indications of a leaning one way or the other by the suggestions made and questions put by the members of the court to counsel while the argument was in progress, but the purport of these suggestions was generally colored by the bias of the persons mearing them. There can, In fact, be no substantial basis for any proguostication as to the result. The opinion is ventured by some that in spite of previous decisions sustaining the tax the law would surely be declared unconstitu- tional, but those who make the suggestions are the first to admit the force of precedent in the court. very is ment Atlanta Journal: An old hen |s the most exclusive of all fowls, Slc doesn't allow any chicks about her that don't belong to her Vogue: that 1 Yeos, Why? Phil--Would you be sorry to hear im going to muiry Iithel? Priscilla indeed 1" should. 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