Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 17, 1895, Page 4

A s PUDLISHED EVERY MORNING —— = = TERMS OF SURSCRI Daily B (Without Sunday), One Yea Daily Tiee and Bunday, One’ Year Bix Monihs Three Month Bunday Tiee Baturduy Weekly IDiee, One Ye: OFFICH Omaha, The Tes Bullding. Bouth Omaha, Singer Dik., ¢ 38288 mrenSe rner N and 2ith Sta, Council Bufts. 12 Pearl Sureot. Chicago Office, 317 Chamber of Commerce, New Yok, Ttooms 12, 14 and 15 Tribuse Bldg. Washington, 1407 I Street, N. W. CORRESPONDE news and edi- AN communlcations relating to y and torial m should be nddr s the Editor, BUSINESS 1 « should be tts, checks nnd pe orier of George 11, Tz Hshing company, the actuni numb flv_Morning, Evening during the month of Februaty, 159, was 105 16 Lt 18 1 2) 21 2., 23 it GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Sworn 0 before me and subacribed in my pres- ce this 24 day of March, 5, efl(fiflnl.] e NP L, Notary Publi “Another silver congress is now in ses slon in Salt Lake City threshing over old straw. Now prepare for another flood of free sliver 16 to 1 resolutions from the neighborhood of the Great Salt I South Carolina does not take much more kindly to United States judges in 1895 than she did to United States troops in 1861, It costs the taxpayers of Omaha $20,000 a year to run the city treas- urer's ofl Is there any rational ex- cuse for such reckless extravagance? Colonel Cockerill's conditions of the China-Tapan treaty ave slightly incor- rect. He ought to have known that cable telegrams will outrun a Pacifie mail steamer. The keynote of New York municipal reform is, break up the sinecures and retive the taxeaters. This would an- swer as well for Omaha as it does for the Awmerican metropolis. The Chicago Times-Herald ealls upon the grand jury to indict the city hall thieves. Who does that refer to? This Is altogether. too general. The grand Jury will want particulars. If the reported impending consolida- ton of the Northern Pacific with the Great Northern proves true and goes Into effect within thirty days there will be a small army of railroad officials looking for jobs. Several prominent democrats have been recently mentioned as possible cabinet officers in case of possible resig- nations or deaths in the oflicial family of President Cleveland. In this, how- ever, history will repeat itself. Few die and none resign. And now it is proposed to do a little more tinkering with the Eleventh street viaducet and spend $5,000 ip bracing up the stilts on which it is pos- ing. Would it not be better to raise enough money to reconstruct the via- duct so as to make it permanently safe for traffic? The United States supreme court is expected to render a final decision on the Income tax cases next Monday. A good many of the Wall street star gazers are looking toward Washington for a sure sign that will enable them to turn a trick or two on the stock ex- change on the result. l The Great Northern railroad, other- Wise known as the Jim Hill line, Is about to swallow the Northern Pacifie, recelvers, geueral managers and all. This Is only a repetition of the experi- ence of the days when the father of all blacklegs, Pharaoh, dreamt a dream that he saw his herd of fat cows liter- ally absorbed by a herd of lean ones. The general conference of the Meth- odist denomination in session here . ruled, after a protracted debate, that women were not eligible to seats in that body. Now the Catholic Knights, assembled heré, take similar action. The burning question is, Can Omaha be a hoodoo to the wave-tossed cause of woman's rights? Perish the thought. ‘We are told by grapevine telegraph that the bombastic General J. 8. Clark- son has held a meeting with himself at ‘Washington recently, preparatory to the opening of the quadrennial bi-metallic harvest which he expects to reap in 1806, For a man who has no visible means of delivering anything at the next election except his own vote Clark- son Is doing a very heavy political op- tion business on very small capital. —_— The new police board of New York City, of which Theodore Roosevelt is a prominent member, recently made the following response to a petition signed by a number of citizens in favor of a young physician who desired the ap- pointinent of police surgeon: ““There Is no vacancy at present among the police surgeons and no vaeancy will be made to suit any one; that is, no one competent to fill the position will be dismissed to give a place to anybody's friend.” This terse statement was coupled with the general declaration of the board's attitude in the matter of appointments: “Any one whose ap- plication or nomination for a place in this department Is supported by repre- sentatives and in the name of any political or religious organization will r’vl.lm this board against him.” This ded by the citizens of New York as &8 the citizens of Omaba. Wit fL ¥ TEXAS LAND SWINDLE: A Wisconsin attorney has J arrested In Chieago charged with being concerned in one of the most extensive land swindles operated in this country In years. The lands were presumed to be located in the state of Texas, and hundreds of thousands of dollars have been filehed from the pockets of eredu- lous victims under false representation. The swindle was carried on systematie- ally“in Tlinols, Town, Missouri, Kansas and Nebrask The parties Implieated fn these fraudulent land deals have wanaged to carry on thel fic in fmagiunry land titles and paper town lots for years and the recent arrest is only the beginning of the breaking up of the confidence game that eaused such a brisk movement in the direction of the Gulf region from this section of country two years ago. The requisition for the arrest of members of the who are supposed to be in Hlinois r as follows: Hon. John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinols, Springfield, 1. Dear Sir: 1 beg herewith to hand you copy of letter recently received from the commissioner of the general land office of this state, from which you will see that there is a well organized gang of land sharks located in Chicago who pretend to deal in Texas lands. You will readily ob- sorve the injury done fo this state and to the people of Illinols who are imposed upon by these swindlers, and this letter is sent for your information and such action on your part as may be deemed necessary to protect the people of your state against the imposi- tion. I have the honor to be very respect- fully your obedient servant, C. A. CULBERSON, Governor of Texa According to the Chicago Inter Ocean, a number of civil suits are already pend- ing in Nebraska against the Wisconsin attorney whose arrvest was made by Chi- cago detectiv and startling develop- ments about the Texas and swindles may be looked for. It is to be hoped that the Texas authorities will keep on in the good work they have begun and run down the fraudulent land deals so they may be fully exposed and justice may be meted out to every man who has been knowingly implicated. THE AGE OF CONSENT. Nebraska is not the only state which has recently by law raised the legal age of consent. The legislature of New York has just passed an act making » of consent of girls in that state instead of 16 ye , a8 at pres- New York law will not go but The ent. into effect until September next, owing to one peculiar provision it has called forth from one of the judges of the superior court a w. men and magistrates t would not be amiss elsewhere. The section to which reference is made provides that any person who shall take a female un- der the age of 18 without the consent of her father, mother, guardian, or other person having charge of her person, for the purpose of marriage, is guilty of abduction and punishable by fine and imprisonment. The law does not declare in terms such marriage void, yet, being in viola- tion of law, it may be voidable. The judge, therefore, announces that no magistrate or clergyman should after September 1 perform the marriage cere- mony where the female is under 18 without the consent of her parents or guardian, If he does he may uncon- sciously become accessory to a criminal offense. He furthermore learnedly de- clares that the age of a female is al- ways problematical. The polite way to determine it is to let the woman speak for lerself and to accept her state- ment, but this will not satisfy legal re- quirements, and no official will be safe in performing the ceremony under the new law without first consulting the bride's parents or guardian unless age has made its impress in such a manner as to defy deception. The new Nebraska age of consent law Is materially different from that of New York, yet a timely caution to clergymen nacting in this state is not out of order. It is a question still to be de ermined how far the jena’ties therein preseribed will apply to a person who marries a minor female without the consent of her parents or guardian. The marriage laws of Nebraska permit the marriage of females over 16, but re- quire, to make the contract perfectly valid in the case of minors, that the persons legally responsible for them sig- nify their approval of the union. Should marriage with a minor without the nec- essary consent be adjudged under the new law to be a crime, the magistrate or clergyman negligently aiding in the ceremony without reasonable inquiry to ascertain the ages of the parties may have rendered himself liable as an ac- cessory. Clergymen eannot be too care- ful in exercising their authority to sol- emnize marringes. rning to clergy- A MOST PROMISING MOVEMENT. The sound money movement in the south appears to be making vigorous progress. The conventien to be held at Memphis next week, to give expression to the sentiment of the business inter- ests of that section in favor of a sound curvency, promises to be very largely attended. The commercial organiza- tlons of nearly every southern city will send delegates to the convention and the fact that Secretary Carlisle is to de- liver the principal address will attract a popular attendance which cannot fail to make the occasion a notable one of its kind. Representative Patterson of Tennessee, one of the very few mem- bers of congress from the south who took a firm stand against free silver coinage, has been speaking in a number of cities to large aundiences and doing excellent service in the cause of sound money. The most influential southern newspapers, such as the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Atlanta Journal, the New Orleans Picayune and the Charleston News and Courier, are zeal- ously and ably championing sound money and showing up the fallacies of the advocates of free coinage. The task of converting the people of the south to the principles of a safe currency, after the work that has been done by the free silver propaganda, is not an easy one, but there are abundant indi- cations that a change of sentiment is taking place, justifying the belief that if the campaign of education in the in- terest of sound money is vigorously pushed the majority of the voters of the south will a year hence be uncom- promisingly opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver by this coun- try. A letter is published from a southern cotton merchant, said to be perhaps the most extensive dealer in the country in the great southern staple, who says that } will If congress should pass a free coinage or silver bill it would be impossible to keep on n gold basls, because this coun- try could not keep silver on a with gold. Referring to the assump- tion of the free silver advocates that the low prices of commodities are due to the demonetization of silver, this practical man of affairs declares that they are due to the supply and re- stricted demand. “As to cotton,” he says, “the decline was due to the enor- mous crop of 1804 ers should desire only the best money for their crop, that which has the great- est purchasing power, which is gold or its cauivalent, It is practical men of this kind who are making the fight in the south for sound money and there can be no doubt that they will exert a great influence. Th will listen to the view and counsel of men having business interests in that section and directly concerned in its development and prosperi when they wonld turn a deaf ear to the . opinions or advice of north- ern men on the currency question. It is therefore reasonably expected that the Memphis convention will have a most important and salutary effect and the result of its deliberations will be regarded with very general interest. WRINGING OUT THE WATER. Dispatches from Milwaukee announce the impending transfer of the street railway system of that city from the control of its owners into the hands of receivers. The reasons given for plac- ing the corporation that owns the Mil- waukee street railways under the guardianship of the courts and leaving it to be exploited by expensive lawyers embody the same old story. The street railway company is insolvent because it is stocked and bonded for three or four times its actual cost. The bonded debt alone exceeds $11,000,000, when the plant probably could be duplicated for less than half that sum. In this respect the Milwaukee street railway wreck is only the counterpart of ¢ other corporation that has been placed in the hands of receivers. The corporation was a huge balloon, inflated by fictitious capitalization. Every dollar honestly expended for labor, materials and equipments Is represented by $3 to §5 of fraudulent evidences of indebted- ness. The corporate balloonists who floated its debt abroad played a con- fidence game that has reacted dis- astrously upon American securities and credits. In the first place the actual outlay for building the road was exag- gerated and in the next place its future earning eapacity and value of its franchise were magnified, The con- fidence men who negotiated the bonds at a discount doubtless pocketed the usual handsome commission and the proceeds of bond sales were divided amoung the rapacious speculators who held the stock, after reimbursing them- selves for the money advanced for con- struction and equipment. What should be called a gigantic swindling scheme, punishable with involuntary service in the penitentia is regarded and treated under our peculiar system of financier- ing as simply a shrewd piece of Ameri- can financiering. The punishment merited by the promoters of such legal- ized rascality is visited upon the whole American people Instead of falling upon the heads of the guilty offenders. The penalty has been sure and severe if it has not been swift. It comes in the shape of periodic panics and financial distress, as a consequence of the destruction of confidence and witl drawal of credits. The crash of 18 was brought on by the stock jobbing swindles of giant corporations that had been exploited by Credit Mobilier con- struction rings and confidence sharps who had flooded thie money markets with worthless securities. The crash of 1893 was brought on by colossal mort- gage frauds, perpetrated by corporations engaged in every specles of speculative enterprise. Like the Milwaukee street railroad company, each of these cor- porate promoters had borrowed millions upon the future, with nothing with which to meet their obligations. When the knife was inserted into their in- flated balloons and the gas and water rushed out there was a smashup. The wringing out of the water by liguidation and foreclosure is the inevitable conse- quence of widespread commercial dis- honesty fostered by our fast and loose corporate system. Unfortunately the common people suffer, while the rob- bers and plunderers who brought about the disaster live in grand style upon the proceeds of their corporate ventures. Councilman Taylor defines and de- fends his views regarding the prero- gatives of the council to negative the appointment of members of the police commission by refusing to approve their bonds, even though the sureties were more than ample. This position is certainly untenable, The functions of the council are confined by the char- ter to the approval or rejection of the bond, and that function is purely min- isterial. If the sureties are good for the amount specified in the bond they must so certify by their votes; if not, they must certify that in their judg- ment the sureties are insufficient. The law does not contemplate that the council shall pass upon the qualifica- tions of the commission. The gov- ernor might appoint an idiot wholly un- fit for the place, but the council could not veto the appointment by refusing to approve his bond If the sureties were good. The remedy for incompe- tent or bad appointees is, under the law, vested in the executive. He is required to remove such appointees for cause upon proper showing. Any other interpretation would give the council co-ordinate power of appoint- went, just as it has by charter in the appointment of officers by the mayor whose names are to be sub- witted for confirmation by the council. Omaha has always been partial to the army officers located in this city, and the commanders of the Department of the Platte, from General Augur to nr e slant- | Our cotton plant- | = “iie ke the present, she will prove southern people | General B Joyed the m‘u have each and all en- hospitality of her best citizens and received the most courte- ous and generons treatment at the hands of ebtishlictals of the city and state. Gemddal Coppinger, he new commander_of the Department of the Platte, may vest assured that the good whichAliad’ been shown upon all oceasions teward his predecessors will not be withield from him, S — The Wihezle Tightened. Wiobe-Democrat. The ablie-bodied liars in Havana who were manufacturing Spanish victories may have been drafted into the army to fight the vic- torious rebels. They have been silent of | late. PO — A Superfluons “16." Chicago Post. the grace of self-possession It Japan show: even more effectually than by uny previous achlevement her right to membership in the family of civilized nations. —— Analyzing n Sonorous Solo. Loutaville Courfer-Journal As near as can be made out, when young Mr. Bryan of Omaha makes a free silver oration it sounds like nothing so much as a sonorous solo on the name of his own city: something like Omahaw-hee-haw-bee-haw i seodsfiicion Sold His t ows and ¥ Lincoln Journal, Church Howe has sold his big home farm to & Chicago man and will build a residence in Auburn. He leaves the farm to prevent his fish from annoying Tom Majors’ cows and to get out of politics. He is no longer Farmer Church Howe. —_——— He Wil Takn Both, Minneapolis Times. A man Brownsville, Neb., is ripping mad. He says bad luck has pur:ued him all his life. Here he had been digging for water for three weeks, and instead of striking water has struck gold bearing ore. It means wealth, but what he wants is water, i Tho Star of Emplre, Chicago Times-Herald. Senator Thomas H. Benton, on a notable occasion, when a transcontinental highway to the Pacific wa: being projected, pointed westward, exclaiming in a fine impulse of prophecy: “This way lies the east!” One incidental result of this war, now happily ended, bas baen to teach us, when we think of Japan and China, to let the geographical imagination look forth westward. Fr s Amorean Nerve. Indianapolis Journal (rep.). The supreme council of the A. P, A. has resolved to make its organization worldwide and at the same time will seek to influence the polities of the United States and of every state in the union. The principles of the A. P. A, may be very well, but to have men in Canada, Great Britain and elsewhere shap- ing a political policy to be enforced at the polls in the United States is not in accord with the American idea. — Famous Old Man. 180, Times-Herald., Hugh McCulloch, now on his deathbed, has for many years been the oldest all the famous old persons of America. Neal Dow alone of the eminent old men of the United States s his senior. Dow is now 90, while McCulloch is three and a half years yourger. Gladstond, Casaius M. Clay and ex- Secretary of the Nivy Thompson are of the same age as McCulloch. Pope Leo XII, ex- Senator Payne of Ohlo and Senator Morrill of Vermont are a year younger. Until quite recently Mr. McCulloch has been a familiar figure on the streets at the national capital. He has always been an ardent horseman, riding into town every day from his place wt romantic old Bladensburg, a place whereon he has a little vegetable and fruit garden, which for several years he has lovingly tilled with his own hands, With his saddle horse, hig. garden, his:books and many friends, the faircus financier and political economist has passed his declining years in contentment. e A Spliton the Ratio. Globe-Democrat, The division which has revealed itself among the democratic silverites on the ques- tion of the ratio is significant. It is a break in the free coiners' line which is bound to extend, and which will demcralize and de- feat that element fn the national convention. Of course, the only ray of sense that can be found in this free silver project Is on the side of ex-Speaker Crisp and others, who want to cut loose from the 16 to 1 absurdity. In 1893 Senator Vest proposed a 20 to 1 ratio, but the bulk of the free coiners re- fused to accept that change, and, as the sound money men rejected it, it dropped out of notice. Crisp and the rest of his fac- tion, who see the impossibility of forcing the 16 to 1 ratio on the democratic conven- tion, may or may not be willing to adopt the Vest compromise. This is a matter of detail on which probably there is no agree- ment as yet among the chlefs of the bolters. * % ¢ With a division in their ranks they will be powerle:s to accomplish anything, and the conservative element will be master of the situation, as It was always in the past. The convention of 1896, like every other dem- ocratic natlonal gathering which touched the silver question, will make a straddle. This will be dishonest, to be sure, but it will save the party from annihilation. The democracy will be beaten In 1896, no matter what atti- tude it takes toward free silver, but in re- fusing to indorse that folly it will at least secure itself a future. Reason has not en- tirely abandoned the democracy. The party will refuse to commit suicide, B THE FIGHTING DON, St. Louis Republic: It should be remem- bered, by those who may be inclined to deprecate Don Dickinson’s defiance of the British llon, that it was hurled in Detroit, which is just across the river from one of the lion's lairs. Courler-Journal: Our anti-administration Jingoes are so infuriated against John Bull because he evacuated Corinto before Unole Sam declared war against him, that unl Uncle Sam at once declares war against John Bull for evacuating Corinto before Uncle Sam declared war against him our Jingoes will promptly start a_campalgn for the re- peal of the Fourth of July. Cincinnati Commerclal: Have Don Dick- inson and President Cleveland fallen out? If not, why does the foremost of the cuckoos wildly cry out for an American policy? Can it be that Don thinks it time to get out from under the fafiing timbers of the admin- istration building. inew that he has secured much patronage and foisted the immortal Thurber upon Mr. Cleveland? That would be sad indeed. New York qu(dq; Don M. Dickinton, President Cleveland's first postmaster gen- eral, sees no palfiotism or good statesman- ship in anything bat the increase of our navy, extensive,cosst defenses and “‘a large standing army, that “we may have peace with dignity in these later days and extend and hold the wbtld‘wide commerce that we need.” 1Is the kind"of peace that Germany, France and Italy enfoy with great standing armies and grinding taxes “peace with dig- nity?" If so, haw dges it compare with the cheap and peacgfu} Immunity from foreign insult or outragy that we enjoyed for sev- enty-five years, when our defensive arma- ment by land amt Sea was less than a tenth of what it is now? Did our smaller army, Scattered among the remote outposts of our western wilds 10 prétect settlers from sav- age tribes now extinet, or did our little old wooden navy have anything to do with the spread of the commerce which gave us be- fore our civil wak the second largest com- merclal marine in the world? | @ppropriation for the op:ration of the labor but one of | FOICK OF THE STATE PRESS. Tecum:eh Journal: The spoils system In Nebraska, it seems, is dividing the populists worse than the silver question does the dem- ocrats. York Times: The populist party is rapldly drifting away from Governor Holcomb, but the old democratic ship is dragging its anchor over his way. Fremont Herald: In appointing Dr. Greene to the position of assistant physician at the Lincoln asylum Governor Holcomb seems to have frectually epiked the guns of one Hay. Tecumseh Journal: If balf we read about the Twenty-fourth session of the Nebraska legislature is true—and we have no doubt it is—that body is not only dead, but it has the foulest smell about it that ever offended the nostril of man. Superior Journal: One of the fool things done by the late legislature was to create a state board of irrigation, with a clerk to do the work, at a salary of $2,000. The reason that it ever passed was that fully one- half of the republican members each ex- pected by creating this office either he, or his son, or some intimate friend would be appointed secretary and draw this nice little salary. Lincoln News: There is food for thought in a reflection upon the action of the governor of New Jersey in_ declaring forfeited the charters of some 500 corporations in that state because they had not paid their taxes. There are some corporations in this state that are not in the habit of paying their taxes. 1f they can be coaxed to pay up by the method suggested by the action of Gov- ernor Wertz the fact may be profitably re- membered in this state. Lodge Pole Express: Those who have in- vested in frrigation outfits, however small, are the ones who are ahead so far this The dry weather has no terrors for season. 'm, because simply lifting the floodgate of their reservoirs turns the life-giving fluid on thelr crops, and the way they grow Is a caution. We must all come to the fact that irrigation is the only sure means of growing a crop every year, and the sooner we make ;:‘) our minds to this the better off we will Lincoln News: The rumor that ex-Warden Beemer is to become superintendent of the penitentiary aft:r a short vacation may be taken as an indication that the Board of Public Lands and Buildings intends to take charge of the penitentiary contract labor at an early date. The state control of the peni- tentiary convict labor contemplates the ap- pointment of a superintendent in behalf of the state. The framers of the law for the pur- chase of the Dorgan plant provided that the board could, if it so wished, lease the labor for two years longer, and therefore made no by the state during the coming two years, but perhaps the Board of Public Lands and Buildings knows what it is doing In arrang- ing to take charge of the penitentiary with- out the funds deemed necessary to operate the plant during the next two years, Perhaps they imagine that the institution will be self- supporting from the start under Superintend- ent Beemer. Paplllion Times: braska is a chump. cover:d a_single The great state of Ne- It has never yet re- dollar stolen from it by crooked public servants, and today the scores | of thieves who have looted the state treasury in various ways walk the streets unmolested and breathe fre: air as regularly as their more honest fellow men. th Men can even steal funds set aside for the unfortunate in- e, and the voters of the state applaud the and re-elect members of the same gang A state ofl inspector dips his hand down into the public crib, extracts a half dozen thousands of money paid by the tax- payers and laughs at the boyish efforts of the state to make him put it back again. A Lincoln banker plays horse with the state treasurer, holds him up for a quarter million of the public funds, and the treasurer’s bonds- men wink at th> childish efforts of the state to recover the stealings. Perhaps the state can go on indefinitely putting a premium upon rascality by failing to ferret out and punish public thievery, but a business man wouldn't last long if ‘his business principles were not better. The time is ripe for the appearance of a public servant who will em- ploy the last resource of the state to hunt down and bring to justice the man who be- trays a public trust and steals the people's money. —— NEBRASKA AND NEBRASKANS. Hebron i helping on the business revival by establishing her fourth weekly news- paper. Nebraska City will extend her street car line from the business portion of the city to the cemetery. A 4-year-old son of Godfrey Nasel was bitten by a rattlesnake six miles from a doctor. He is dead. Gage county has gone to law to collect $4,260 from the depository bondsmen of the defunct American bank. The eity of Norfolk is all torn up over the fact that a wild mountain lion, life size, is prowling in the vicinity. A newly crganized company at Hebron will manufacture a patent wagon dump and shoveling board invented by a citizen of that place. Farmers in the vicinity of Wakefield are cultivating 500 acres of sugar beets and are endeavoring to induce the location of a fac- tory at that place. The city of Kearney has collected $350 as the first result of an assessment of $5 upon every fire insurance company doing business in the city. Twenty-three tramps were found in one Missourl Pacific freight car at Nebraska City and the police authorities claim that they have broken the record. John Day, living near Elk creek, had him- self bitten with a rattlesnake and the doctor gave him the usual remedy. He is all right now if the Keeley cure will do him any good. After a long legal battle the Western Union has decided to pay the occupation tax as- sessed against it by the city of Fremont and the first check for $150 has been paid into the hands of the city clerk. Mrs. Charles Tyler of Sterling went out buggyriding last Sunday and during her ab- sence her husband packed up his personal effects and decamped. He left word that he had gone to Minnesota and was not coming back. A Columbus hired girl filled the kerosene can with gazoline and when she started the fire in tbe kitchen stove the next morning the usual results followed. In attempting to save his house W. A. McAllister was severely burned. The hired girl escaped. MONEY TALKS. New York World: Mr. Bland says that the democratic party must adopt the free silver policy or go to the wall. If it does adopt this policy under present conditions it will go over the wall and into the last ditch with a broken neck. Globe-Democrat: Not a_ republican paper can be found in Ohlo to advocate fres silver at the 16 to 1 ratio, and the platform to be adopted at the state convention week after next may be counted on to support a 100-cent dollar as the corner-stonz of bimetallism, Indianapolis News: The task before us Is to double the value of silver, and not merely cannot be done. Reduced to its simplest terms the problem s how to make sixteen ounces of silver worth one ounce of gold when they are in reality worth only a half ounce. That is all there is to it. . Indianspolis Journal: The assumption that there is not sufficient money in the country for the transaction of its business is without foundation or reason. We have never had more money per capita than now, there never was a time when there was more idle money in the banks or when the rate of interest on good security was lower. But if the volume of currency were quadrupled no person could get his per capita share unless he had some- thing to exchange for It or good collateral on which to borrow, Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder that, but to tie gold and siiver permanently together at the ratio of 16 to 1. The thing PEORIA LAUGHS AT THE CHARGES. Report on Feading *1ops to OCattle Causes Indignation wnd Amusement, PEORIA, May 16.—~The report of the state senate committee against the feeding of die- tillery slop to cattle is received with mingled Indignation and amusement in this city, which is the center of the industry and where as many as 25,000 head of cattle have been fed at distillerfes at one time. The past poason there have been 8,000 head fed at the Distilling and Cattlefeeding distilleries and 5,000 at independent houses in Peorla To prohib:t feeding of the cattle would largely reduce the revenues and profits of the dis- tilleries, and Walter Barker, manager of the Peoria distilleries of the 'Distilling and Cattlefecding company, said this morning it would drive the distilling business out of the state. He stated that slop feeding had been hammered at now for five years, and in his opinion somebody wanted to make fome money, but within his knowledge no one had attempted to get any inoney from distillers. Anothe: distiller was asked if he knew of any such efforts being made, and he replied that he did not, “‘But in former years,” he sald, “we were able to fix the things. Mr. Barker voiced general opinion in Peoria when he said that the meat from dis- tillery fed cattle is considered the choicest and finest there is, and it commands the highest price paid. ' It is sold in the east and abroad, but not around here, because it costs too much. He said he would like to feed on it every day in the year, Milk s not sold from the cows fed at the distilleries, but it is not contended that good milk {o produced from slop, it being thin and watery. Feeding of lop to cattle at distilleries should not be confounded with carting the refuse from breweries for feed- ing purposes. Except lumpy jaw cases a fow years ago, most of which were dis- puted, there has been no disease among the cattle fed at Peoria distilleries, and out of every 3,000 not more than ten have died dur- ing a season, and some of those from break- ing their necks. The cattle have room to lie down, and it is denied that they suffer from confinement. They are fed hay as well as slon. The pens are cleaned out every day and are well ventilated. When the senate committeo paid the first visit to Peoria they came without warning and an Associated press reporter accompanied them to the pens at the Monarch, where over 3,000 head were being fed, and, although the day was warm, there was scarcely any odor at all, and the pens looked as clean as cattle pens could. The charges of the committee are regarded in Peoria as ridiculous. ot erdiad iy LLINOIS GRAND ARMY IS NEUTRAL Retuses to Take Any Part in the Con- federate Memorial Dedication. BLOOMINGTON, Iil,, May 16.—A business meeting this afternoon terminated the en- campment of the Grand Army of Ilinois. Cairo was unanimouely selected as the place for the next encampment. The resolutions adopted are considered conservative and digni fled, that regarding the administration and Secretary Hoke Smith especially so. The whole pension matter is referred to the national encampment at Louisville. The dedi- cation of the confederate monument at Oak- wood cemetery, Chicago, Memorial day, was discussed at length. Many hot speeches were made in regard to the selection of the holi- day for such a purpose. The resolution adopted dpreciates such a_disposition of Decoration day, declares that while the Grand Army of the Republic cannot presume to deny the right of individuals to participate in the ceremonies, the Grand Army of the Republic organizations as such can have nothing to do with it, adding that had any other day than the nation's Memorial day been chosen for the dedication no notice of the affair would have been taken by the Grand Army. The delegates to the national encampment at Louisville will be voted for this afternoon. Mrs. Flo Miller of Monticello was re-elected state president of the Woman's Rellef Corps; Miss Emma Weaver, Spring- fleld, of the Ladies' Aid society, and Mrs, Arthur Quinton, Chicago, of the Ladies' Grand Army of the Republic. A B Poter Morrissey's Prayeriess Faneral. ST. LOUIS, May 16.—The funeral of State Senator Peter R. Morrissey, who was shot and killed Monday morning by his mistress, took place today from the family residence. Interment was in Calvary cemetery. There were no prayers over the remains and no services of any kind at either the house or cemetery, owing to the refusal of the Roman Catholic 'clergy to conduct the same, His family are heartbroken at the action of the church. A large crowd of the friends of the dead politician and saloon kesper were pres- ent at the funeral, among whom were the senate committee appointed to attend it. While the r mains of Morrissey were b Ing borne from the home ud Lewis, his slayer, was being removed from the hold- over to the jail on a warrant charging her with murder in the first d-gree. The process was somewhat more expeditious than usual, as the authorities were desirous of removing the woman to the jail as speedily as pos- sible for fear of trouble, e YTresented Harclson with a Medal. NEWARK, N. J.,, May 16.—Many proml- nent citizens of this state were attracted here today to the celebration of the fifth an- niversary of the New Jersey Historical so- clety. Ex-President Benjamin Harrison is the chief guest of the society. He arrived this afternoon over the Pennsylvania rail- way. Ex-President Harrison was presented with a gold medal. The medal was struck by the soclety to commemorate the formation of tie constitutional government of the United Stages and the centennial and inauguration of Washington as first president on April 30, 1789. The medal is inscribed: *‘Presented by the New Jersey Historical Society to Benja- min Harrison, Centennial President of the United States in 1889." = PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE, New York lacks the courage of its census, The New York cat show served to show A reasonable dcgree of cult among the purrs. proud. The susplelon Is growing that furious fight. ing is raging in Cuba. War correspondents are mot saying much. There 1s rcason to belleve the ranking ad- miral of the United States navy will not receive the customary meed of praise on his retirement. It js evident Minneapolis has not enough mills by a dam site, and the contract has been let for another, which will supply clec trie power, Although a weok has passed since the legls- lature adjourned, Gasman Addicks psvsist- ently refuses to throw light on the Delaware senatorlal situation, The mercury tumbled 20 degrees in ten minutes in New York one day this week, In the matter of temporature changes New York Is an winner An illustrious Austrian physician who ac- cumulated a fortune said the poor wero his best patients because God paid him for them. The physician belonged to the old school. According to Boston estimates the bulld- ers of the Defender are spending $200,000 on the craft. This looks as if they had d clded to supply the yacht with gold ball Bismarck says he cannot spell because he was lazy at school. This deficiency serves to explain the difficulties experienced by all Europe in getting on to his orthographical curves, Gustav Freytag, the German novelist, dled almost unnoticed in America, yet his “Debit and Credit” had immense vogue in this coun- try about 1855, and he was as famous as the author of “The Heavenly Twins” was a year ago. “It was hard to believe in Boston,” says the Globe, “that it was snowing in braska yesterday (Saturday).” And it would be much harder for a resident of Nebraska to believe a statement that has no visible means of support. Ann O'Delia Diss de Barr, alias Vera Ava, has turned up in Chicago again, and under a new allas dup:d a family out of their spare cash and locked them out of home. Ann is a fraud and swindler of superior attainments, not the least of which is her ability to dodge the penitentiary. Just now she Is endeavor- ing to work a Chicago court with a long tale of woe, i TICKLISH TALK. Galyeston News: After a man loses his ante he goes out into the world to find his uncle, Star: ob'ry man,” cle Iiben, “dat pride hisself on pessimist, am er walkin' his wife's cookin sald bein' a denunciation ob Washington Ul Cinelnnati Tribune: Oldun—The girls are not so attractive as they were when I was a young man. Youngun—Don't you mean they are not o attracted? Boston Transcript: “No,” sald Fogg, “I wouldn't go so far as to call Kranker an odd character, but I will say that he is so_unconventional that he wouldn't take the measles in the regular way.” New York World: “Doctor, I have an fmportant physiological question to ask you. When I stand on my head the blood rushes ) my head. Now, when I stand on my . Why does it not rush into my feet?" “Becausé your feet are not hollow." Life: Dashaw Jagway has just in- vented a new cocktail. I saw him® yester- day, and I guess il’s going to be a sucoess, Cléeverton—What did he say about it? Dash: away—He couldn’t talk. Boston Courler: They have Invented a machine for picking boues out of shad. Now if they would only produce something that would raise the fish from the plate to the mouth we would consent to do the chewing and try to be satisfied. Printer's Ink: As rivers to the ocean flow, to spend their gathering prizes, so do the streams of buyers go, to him who ad- vertises. Chicago Tribune: Young Hankinson— Been buying a fine, new bicycle for a young lady, have you? ‘And I suppose you pal about $6 a pound for it? Young IFerguson (with some flerceness)— That's all right. The girl that's going to ride it is worth $6,000,00 a pound, and don’t you forget it, Indianapolis Journal: Tommy—Paw, what 1s an egotist? Mr. Figg—He Is a man who thinks he is smarter than any one else, Mrs. Figg—My dear, you have that wrong. The egotist is the man who says he |8 smarter than any one else. All men think that way. CURRENCY IN KENTUCKY. Washington Star. Speak not of our coinage With bother so fraught; Let's share in the treasure The wood nymph has brought. ‘Who cares for the color Our money’s shall glint, S0 long as the julep Comes tresh from the mint? B — LET HER ROLL. Atlanta Constitution, What's the use in growlin’ 'bout the weathe er? Let her roll! We'll all get home together If there's sune shine in the soul! 8o, never mind the blizzard; soon the sum- mer winds will sigh, And we'll strike a warmer climate, and we'll get there by and by! What's the use in growlin' 'bout the weather, day or night? We'll all get home together If the heart is beatin' right! 8o, never mind the blizzard—there is still a brighter sky, And we'll strike a warmer climate, and we'll get there by and by! BROWNING, KING & CO. Neckties, 25c. Sold more Neckties than all the Necktie stores in town—50c and 75¢ neck- ties for 25c — Flowing ends— Tecks— Four-in-Hands—Band Bows—all and rare—until choice, 25¢. they're rich one—you're g Y. ROWNINCKING C (0 Reliable Clothiers, S,W. Cor. 15th and Douglas Sts.