Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 20, 1895, Page 4

e - 3 o o e e AR DALY BE® T OMAHA TR nosmwaten, PUBLISHED EDITOR. = e EVERY MORNING. e = TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. ¢ ‘ 800 Pally Dee (Without Sunday), One Year 44 Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year ‘b 2 ix Months... o ooy g iree Mon i 19 Bunday 1w Baturn; 4 Weekly Tea, OFFICES, The Ree Bullding inger Blk., Corner N and 24th 8ts. 2 Pearl ftre f Commerce. ms 13, 14 and 15, Tribune F 407 I sireet, N. W. cor DENC nw relating to news and el ol o addre 1: To the Editc tortal matter should b mittances should he i N COMPANT. T OF CIRCULATION! . Taschuck, secretary of The 1iée Pub. Yishing company, being duly sworn, says that the actunl number of full an: oples the Dally Morning, and Sunday I rinted during the month of May, 1805, was ollows: z .vs 10,074 } L1908 20,160 Leas de coples Not Daily av *Sunday. nales. 5 fbed in my pres- ) Notary Publie. “The lot of the offic a happy one. o A It seems to have taken the supreme Cleveland has just now been trans- formed into a hot house for sprouts of The st weekly crop bulletin s again entirely satisfactory. If this thing keeps up people will lose all in- terest In crop reports. The Kentucl democrat who {8 not committed on either side of the silver question is the fellow that will get the sugar plum this time. The oty treasurer had the city funds parceled out among nine banks in this ‘eity. A pretty good idea under the - circumstances, any way you take it. When it comy to the Kentucky democratic state conven- _tion the results of Secretary Carl work in his home state will become ap- parent. The city I has within the past eighteen months furnished two very startling sensations. Every citizen will hope that no more will be sprung for eighteen years. punting noses In sle's Judge Sanborn has given the Union Pacific receivers authority to expend $150,000 in Kansas on repairs to tracks and bridges. But of what benefit is that to Nebrask 8o our mayor and council will cele- brate the Fourth In the Missouri woods? This being the case our people may as well abandon all plans for a celebra- tion of the glorious anniversary. If putting West Leavenworth street in shape for state fair traflic will cost the city but $1,100 the work ought to be commenced immediately, whether the car line is to go out that street or not. The policeman who arrested Congress- man Mercer in Japan seized him by the coat tail. Mr. Mercer will avoid sub- Jecting himself to another such Indig- nity by leaving his coat tails at homé® the next time he wanders in the Orient. Dr. Hay might have avoided much un- complimentary criticism and been no ‘worse off than at present had he grace- fully accepted the Inevitable and re- tired when he knew his presence in the Lincoln asylum was no longer de- sired. The Civil Service commission, If we are to judge by its annual report, is quite convinced that it is the most im- portant branch of the federal govern- ment. But then every office holder, na- tional, state or local, is imbued with a similar sense of his own lmportance. English athletic critics do not like the costumes, or rather lack of costumes, in which the visiting Cornell oarsmen row. ‘What do the English crities want? Do they want the Americans to wear ul- sters and rubber boots when they un- dertake to race with their British cousins? The supreme court, after mature de- liberation and careful consideraticn, _has come to the conclusion that eighteen years of service on the public pay roll ought to be enough to satisfy any ordi- nary man. On this point the court is unquestionably in accord with populdr sentiment everywher The Board of Public Works will go before the august presence of the rail- way managers and notify them that they must pay for repairing the Six- teenth street viaduct. The king of France with full ten thousand men marched his bold warriors up the hill and then marched down again. The crop reports of no state are more encouraging than those of braska. The farmers of this state have genuine cause for satisfaction with the weather conditions thus far. Let the remainder of the year be as seasonable as that already past and the harvest will make all Nebraska overflow with prosperity. South Dakota’s defaulting gx-treas- urer, Taylor, returns to his state to dic- tate terms of settlement with the taxpay- ers he has robbed, In eompounding the felony the state authorities are setting a beautiful example for other defaulters who may afflict the state in the future. As a precedent for action in like cir- _cumstances hereafter the arrangement “eannot be defended. . AT KIEL~AND AFTER. The ceremonles and festivities which are to make memorable the opening of the Kiel canal begin today. For months past the German government has been preparing for this event, which will be the most notable thus far in the reigi of the present emperor. The principal nations of the world are participants, There will be the grandest naval dis- play ever made, in which the United ites will oceupy @ conspleuous place, md the most lavish preparations have been made for the entertainment of Germany's guests, There will be no k of imperial pomp and splendor to distinguish the oceasion, German hospi- tality will be put to the strongest test, and the event will serve the double purpose of strengthening the friendly relations of Germany with other pow and of inspiring the patriotism of the German peopl The enterprise the consummation of which is to be thus elaborate and anificently celebrated is commerelal in its ch weter, although military con- siderations had no little to do with prompting the undertaking. The Kiel canal is sixty-one miles in length and extends from Brunsbuttel, on the mouth of the Blbe, In the North sea, to Holte- nau, three miles north of Kiel, on the Baltie, It shortens the distance be- tween the German North sea and Baltie ports by from 300 to 500 miles, besides avoiding the passage of a dangerous sea. A great saving is therefore made in time and distance by the canal, the importance of which to German com- merce will be very great. The military consideration is in the fact that in the event of a war with France, for in- stance, the effectiveness of the German would be negrly doubled by the canal, for instead of having to support what would almost amount to sep- arate s to protect the coasts of the Baltic and the North seas a squad- ron can now be transferred from one sei to the other in a few heurs. Thus both commercially and strategically this waterw the construction of which has occupied nine years and cost £39,000,000, is of great importance to Germany. European correspondents suggest the possibility of international disturbance to follow the Kiel celebration. One ground for this is found in the I'rench ministerial explanation that France is represented at Kiel only from the stern necessity of diplomatic etiquette, which is interpreted as at once an apology and a deflance. That France has no real sympathy with the event Is not to be doubted, but there is nothing in the ministerial explanation which can lead to any change in the relations between Germany and France. It is hardly litable to the latter that such a E ement should have come from the ministr but it seems to have been forced by the popular sentiment against France taking any part in the celebra- tion. Another fact which seems to war- rant apprehension of international dis- furbance is the feeling in Germany against Russia, growing out of the suc- cess of the latter, in conjunction with France, in securing the Chinese loan, but how this could be made a cause of international trouble it is not easy’ to see. If Germany has been outwitted by Russian diplomacy the only thing for the former to do is to improve its diplomatie fol where it has been shown to be wealk. One LBuropean correspondent says: Ien feel in their bones that it is a bad year, the air is full of forebodings, and one looks instinctively for evil portents in the sky.” The real reason for this is the Franco-Russian alliance, but there is no apparent reason for believing that this threatens the peace of Lurope or that it contemplates any demonstr: in Asia inimical to the interests of any other European powers. There may be interesting political developments after Kiel, but the tendency of the celebration ought to be favorable to the strength- ening of friendly relations between Germany and the other European powers. STATE BANK ISSUL The next democratic national conven- tion will probably renew the declara- tion of the last one in favor of the re- peal of the 10 per cent tax on state bank issues. The southern democrats who fare not favorable to the free coin- age of silver very generally believe that this tax ought to be removed and the state banks thereby be allowed to issue notes under such regulations as the states should provide. The demo- cratic party being already committed to repeal there doubtless will be no difficulty in securing from the next national convention a repetition of the recommendation contained in the last platform, and especially will it be an easy matter in the event of President Cleveland recommending such legisla- tlon, which it is quite possible he will do, as a councession to the demand for more money. The tax would have been repealed by the last congress but for the inability of the democrats to agree upon a measure authorizing state bank issues. A majority of the rep sentatives of the party were in favor of abolishing the tax unconditionally on the ground that it is an unconstitu- tional interference with the rights of the states, but there was a strong minority which would consent to re- peal of the tax only upon the condi- tion that the issue of currency by the state banks should be safeguarded by governmental supervision. This di- vision in the party prevented any ac- tlon bellg taken, although a score or more measures providing for the re- peal of the tax were introduced. It is quite possible that the question of enabling state banks to issue cur- ren will receive consideration from the Fifty-fourth congress and it is not to be assumed as a foregone conclu- slon that nothing will be done. There are many republicans who believe that it would be good policy to allow state bank issues under such conditions and restrictions as would make them en- tirely safe, supervision by the general government being a most e ntial feature of such legislation. There are practical financiers, also, who favor doing this, urging that there need be no difficulty in creating an entirely safe system for state bank issues and that such a system might have very good results, perhaps the most per- suasive arguwent in support of It being that it would provide a more elastic currency than we now have—a bank currency which wonld always be re- sponsive to the conditions and demands of business. It is contended by such advocates of state bank issues that under a plan which, secured through governmental supervision, there is no renson why they would mot become one of the most popular forms of cur- rency. If the necessity for a bank currency be conceded, and few practical men will question it, legislation on this sub Jeet cannot be much longer deferred. In a few years there will be no gov ernment bonds to furnish security for the national bank notes. Before that time comes provision will have to be made for another kind of security for bank issues, if they are be con to tinued, and while the demand for this ur may not be immediatel nt it s a matter worthy of early consideration. It will be the business of the republican party, as the signs now indicate, to deal with this subject and determine the policy regarding it. With but one branch of the next congress in control of that party it may not be able to at once accomplish anything, but the next house of representatives can at least formulate a bank currency plan for the consideration the count pending the election of a republican president and congress. MU MEET THE E. NCY, The irregularitios and defaleations of City Treasurer Bolln compel - decisive action by the mayor and council. The emergency calls for not merely a thor- ough investi; 1 checking up of the books and tax lists in the treas- urer's office, but also an overhauling of the comptroller's books, the police court records and every other office that elther handles municipal funds or keeps account of disbursements. There has been gross uegligence in the comptrol- ler's office that would almost justify the suspicion of collusion. The office of comptroller was created as a check upon the treasu The comptroller has power to inspect the books and records in the treasurer's office at a Had this supervision been exercis systematically it would have been next to impossible for a shortage to exist in the treasurer’s account for any length of time. While the comptroller may not have had absolute knowledge of the diversion of public funds to private use and speculation, Le could not possibly have been ignorant of the irre | of the treasurer and his subordiy It would not have been possible for Mr. Bolln to carry from $10,000 to $20,- 000 in memoranda slips in his cash drawer if the comptroller had ealled a Alt on such lawless pract While it is due to Mr. Bolln and his bondsmen that steps be taken for the recovery of the misapproprinted funds. it is also due to the taxpaye: A citi- zens that every dollar unaccounted be ascertained and the deficit made good. Under the law the mayor and council have no discretion as to the course to be pursued. They must {de- clare the office of city treasurer vacant and designate a new cuswdian for the municipal funds. Section 99 of the charter reads as follows: The treasurer shall keep all money in his hands belonging to the city or school dis- trict of the city separate and distinct from his own moneys; and he is hereby expressly prohibited from using any such money, or any warrants or other securities in his cus- tody or recelving any Interest thereon either directly or Indirectly for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of any other person or corporation except sald city or the school district therein. Any violation of this provision shall subject him to immediate re- moval from office by the city council, who are hereby authorized to declare such office vacant; and the mayor, by and with the consent of the city council, shall appoint a suc: cessor, who shall hold his office for the re- mainder of the term unexpired of such offi- cer so removed. That Mr. Bolln has violated the pro- visions of the charter relating to the separate keeping of the public funds and thé use of such funds for private purposes is now mnot even disputed. His removal from the office of treasurer is a duty devolving upon the council no matter what the sureties on his bond may desive. It is equally incumbent upon the mayor and council to fill the vacancy as soon as a competent sue- cessor can be found who is in position to furnish the required bond. A GRIEVANCE AT COUNCIL BLUFFS Whenever a broken-winded newspa- per hack gets out of a job in Omaha he hies himself across the river to re Jjuvenate and regenerate the old Council Bluffs Nonpareil, which was founded and foundered in the good old days of the stage coach and ferry boat. All these peripatetic seribes appear to be afllicted with the same distemper. They imagine that the only way they can vivify and galvanize the asthmatic con- cern over the river Is by an onslanght upon The Bee and its editor. They all have the same terrible tale of woe, of horrible conspiracies to cut off their meager supply of news, of the attempted sandbagging of their news- boys and of double-distilled animosity to everything and everybody that breathes the air of Council Bluffs. Just now our transmissouri neighbors are belng treated to another daily jere- miad about the tyranny of The Bee and the outrage perpetrated by its editor in refusing consent as a member of the Associated press to the application of the Nonpareil for the full daily news report at $40 a week for which The Bee has been paying $300 a week. To this terrible indictment the plea of guilty Is entered. It takes sublime cheek for anybody to demand that The Bee shall carry the Nonpareil on its back. The Nonpareil was offered equal privileges for equal | That cer- tainly was all the concession that could be reasonably asked or expected. This is not all. Although the Non- pareil claims for the twentieth time to be getting ready to drive The Bee out of Towa by a superior news service and improved machinery that will enable it to rival anything this side of London, the foreman of the Nonpareil was given access to The Bee composing room to familiarize himself with its typesetting machines and other appliances of a metropolitan daily. That ertainly showed no disposition to hamper the Council Bjuffs sheet in its efforts to re »—8_1_—-,-.?. o vise itself from g handbill into a news- paper. The most contemptible thing about the recent.srade is the fact that the Journalistie engn milliner who talks about driving Wt allen sheets has no word to say fbodt the alien sheet for which he wroté ‘democratic and popu- listic editorials w{th the same pen he is now using to digh up good republican doctrine to his few Council Bluffs readers. Information 'ditect from - Lincoln reaches us to the effect that J. W. Johnson, H. Mi Bushnell, Tom Benton, the Capital Cif§ spaun of the B. & M. rond, state pap suckers and members of the state central committee, are hold- ing periodie conclaves at which is being shaped the plan of campaign in Douglag county this fall. The howl- ing dervishes ticket is to be elected if it takes liberal contributions from outside sources to do it. Tom Majors is active in the movement, but has not yet promised any money. If Uncle Barney Johnston fails to get that secretaryship of the State Board of Transportation, as indications point, we shall have another ease where re- publics are worse than ungrateful. Uncle Ba he would ruey wouldn't care except that 1te to have gone back on his own party in return for the promise of a luerative sinecure and then learn that the promise Is not to be fulfilled. It would not be the disappointment but the mortification that would fall hard. Birds of w Feather, Globe-Democrat. The Memphis free silver convention was chiefly remarkable for a preponderance of repudiated politicians Minneapolis Tribune, summer season is approaching The dull and something of a lull may be expected during the next two or three months, but the country appears to be in excellent shape for a lively fall trade. Punish Uteh has complied amicably and in good faith with all the conditions necessary to its becoming a state, but Mrs. Gougar of Indiana is about to go there to lecture and may upset the whole arrangement. JPHCRAY ey The Mustachio Forgiven, New York Sun. In noticing this decision, it affords us much pleasure to acknowledge the growing stinction of the chief justice of the su- preme court of the United States as a con- stitutional lawyer. He has really come to be a leading figure in every sense in the great tribunal over which he presides. EEA i A Snub for an Oliver, N York Tribune. What an amazing thing that 137 mem- hers of the British House of Commons could be found willing to put themselves on record as opposed to gjving Oliver Cromwell a memorial among thosé of the other rulers of England! Of the whole line of them, from ghert to Victoria, there are not half a dozen more worthy of the kingdom's highest honors than sturdy old Noll. P e R T How the Tari Works. Globe-Democrat. During the eleven months ended with May our exports “decraased; about $74,000,000, and by a significant goinejdence our’ imports in- creased in that time about the same amount. The average citizen can readily see that the effect of the new tanft law is favorable to more buying than. selling, or, in other words, to the advantage of foreign countries at the expense of the United States. A Manopoly of Fun, St "Louts’ Republic, No partisan of ‘either of the old parties Is capable of extracting out of a campaign what the populist can. This may be owing to anxioty. The average partisan wants to win, and the possibility of winning, combined with the doubt of it, gives him a grave and serious expression and demeanor even when he tries the hardest to put on an air of ex- treme confidence. With the populist it is different. He has no idea of winning, but he goes in for the fun of the thing and lets himself loose with all the enthusiasm of a man who has made up his mind to be heard, no matter whether people want to hear him or not. S e VOICE OF THE STATE PRESS. Blair Courler: The venality of the late, un- lamented legislature, which inhabited the state house at Lincoln last winter, grows more apparent every day. Stuart Ledger: The Omaha papers are after the Union Pacific and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley railroads for a better mail service. If they are successtul they will receive a vote of thanks from west- ern Nebraskans. Grand Island Independent: Ex-President Harrison will be invited to be present and to deliver a speech at the state fair to be held at Omaha next fall. The fair at Omaha will be a considerably grander festival than it has ever been at Lincoln. Platte Center Signal: Frank Hilton, the defaulting ex-ofl inspector, is now out of sight and out of the mind of the authority who is behind the throne. If he had been a common horse thief he would ‘ere this be ready for a second striped suit, furnished by the state. Loup City Times: John C. Watson of Ne- braska City has been appointed general at- torney for the Missourl Pacific railroad The corporations are getting him ready to send to the United States senate. They have kept him in the legislature until he got big enough to go up higher, and now he will be the South Platte republican candidate for the United States senate during the season of 1899. Kearney Sun: Those republicans who are trying to manufacture sentiment among re- publicans in favor of the free colnage 16 to 1 craze have tackled a slow job. The re- publican party has never been rash; it has always been equal to the emergency. When the time comes it will map out a course and a plan that will at once mec. the needs of the hour. The republican party never chases rainbows. Auburn Granger: The Hastings Democrat is asking: ‘‘Where's that money that Oil Inspector Hilton _didn't turn over to the state?’ It {s best that nothing more be sald about it, or the next step will be to run up a bill of $1,000 against the state for money expended I finding out that Hil. ton’s bond was n igned, never approved or never filed, or is, by somo carelessness or cussedness, utteplysvalueless. Blair Pilot: the monied men of Omaha ought to s to promptly go to work and put in ‘thft pipe line from the Wyoming ofl fields qown to that city. It will do Omaha mnddall eastern Nebraska more good thamha fwhole aggregation of canals and pipe linel on paper. They can aftord to build a gpe line without the usual scheming to gets s or In some other way to secure afafd¥ance of the necessary stuff to build it,“But“just go right on with their own money, and look to results for adequate returns. This s legitimate busi- ness, and If the Omaha fellows adopt it for once, they will display commendable enter- prise, distance all competitors and securo a prize worth having, Py Educational 8ystem of Manitoba Will Not Be Ohanged. MUST BE SATISFIED ALL RELIGIONS Cone'uslon of the Extendod Debate on the the Subject of Keturning to Separate Institutions of Former Years. NIPEG, Mé#n., June 19 was a field day of the opposition in the Mani- toba legislature, A. I, Martin occupying the afternoon session and continuing this evening in reply to Premier Greenway's defense of Manitoba's national schools. He congratu- lated tho premier and attorney general on their secrecy during their last trip east. As to the opposition being afrald of an appeal to the country he suggested in reply that the government was afraid to appeal. It was a wrong insinuation that the Catholies wanted Inferfor schools. He claimed that the Cath- olic schools were equal to the Protestants and In some instances far superlor. The Catholic school in Winnipeg had more than half its pupils Protestants and in a Catholic school in Brandon more than two-thirds were Protestants. In support of his contentions that injustice had been done to the Catho- lics by the chango in the school system in 1890, he quoted from the correspondence of a Methodist minister. Mr. Martin maintained that the public schools were really Protestant schools, and in suppert thereot he read from the repogt of the Department of Education for 1893, showing that there were religious exercises in the publlc schools, but that the Catho- lics were not allowed to héive their religlon in the schools, There was a horor of Catho: lic teachings. He read from the Catholic catechism to show what some of the teach- ings were. If he were to live up to one particular clause he would be on his knees all the rest of his 1¥e praying for the atior- ney gereral. He quoted from Protestant ministers in the United States who held that the public schools had been used there to sap Christianit He had testimony regarding the education of girls in those schools which he did not consider fit to read in publ'c, but he would show it to any of the members who might desire to seo it. Ho spoke of the sarly difficultics experienced here by both Protestants and Catholics, owing to lack of funds, in making their schools efficient, He denied that the Catholics had received, or that it was possible for them to get for their schools, a cent more than they were entitled to. CATHOLICS WERE IGNORED. Mr. Martin read a long extract from a speech by Hon. Edward Blake on the ques- tion of education and then proceeded to dis- course on the shortness of time and vanity of earthly ambition and advised the attor- ney general strongly against being ambitious to be the McCarthy of Manitoba. He com- plained that notice had not been given when the official use of the French language was abolished in the Manitoba leglslature, and contrasted with this the course pursued in one of the other states where twenty yeurs' notice was given. He complained also that the Cathol'cs had never been told that their schools were ineflicient and had never been asked to make them more efficient Mr. Martin was followed late this evening by Mr. Fisher, member for Russel, who ad- vocated the adoption of the Ontario system of schools in Manitoba. Hon. Mr. Prender- gast, who resigned his seat in the Manltoba government some five yea ago, owing to the abolition of separate schools, had the floor at 11 p. = Mr. Prendergast con- cluded his speech by moving an amendment that the federal government's order to re- store sepurate schools be complied with, Meyers (Minnedosa) moved an adjournment of the debate. The debate in the legislature on separate schools was kept up to a late hour last night. Mr. Prendergast was the last speaker be- fore the house adjourned. He champloned the cause of scparate schools In a forceful address. It was very childish, he said, to say the house was not commanded to restore practically the same privileges as existed be- fore 1890. If not what would be the use of all this struggle? It was not meant that a reproduction of the whole machinery was wished. He did not regard the division of the moneys as the most rational. But the abuses could have been wiped out. It was sufficient evidence that the Catholic schools were not 50 bad as stated. He held that the dominion government had power to levy taxation, also that this matter was under the Jurisdiction of the Parliament of Canada. He submitted that it was unpatriotic to keep the country in a state of agitation. The true nature of the memorial, which it was in- tended to send to the governor general In council, was that of an emphatic and unqual- ifled refusal to comply with the remedial order. The members of the government must take the responsibility of their action. Mr. Prendergast concluded by moving an amend- ment as follows: MINORITY'S RIGHTS. “That having regard to the judgment of the judicial committee of the privy council, and the imperial order issued by her majest in council, confirming the same, as well a the hereinbefore recited remedial order passed by your excellency in council, this house begs to assure your excellency in council that we are deeply consclous of obligations that rest upon this legislature under the constitution to do justice to the minority, and will with- out delay supplement the school act of 1590 with such provisions as may be necessary to restore to the minority the rights and priv- ileges of which they have been deprived, as stated in your sald order, and to modify the existing law in so far as it may be necessary to give effect to such supplemental pro- visions.” As the debate progressed today there was more evidence of a fight on both sides. Re- ports from Oitawa that the French members there were trying to force the Dominion goy- ernment to re-establish separate schools did not tend to relieve the strained relations be- tween tho two factions. Mr. Prendergast's ameniment to refect Premier Greenway's entire reply of refusal was debated this after- noon. It was in effect a proposal that all the privileges held by Catholics under the old laws should be re-established. Mr. Meyes was the first speaker. He claimed that the House had always been conciliatory and open to reason, still they of- fered no compromise; they said that what they had done was just and right, and they did not intend to recede from it. He illus- trated his position by saying that the minor- ity had been given seed grain, and, after twenty years use, it was to be mixed with French weed and thistles, and the province had resolved to take it from them and g them good seed instead. He was convinced that in all the negotiations in Manitoba sepa- rate schools were not discussed and were not provided for, and he held that Manitoba was within Hs constitutional right in passing the school act in 1890. CATHOLICS FINALLY DEFEATED. The supreme court and the judiclal com- mittee of the privy council had held that the clause of the British North American act respecting separate schools in any province daid not apply to Manitoba. The same au- thority was conclusive as against the claim that Roman Catholic school property had been confiscated under the act of 1890., He held that Joseph Martin was responsiblé for promises made during the bye elections in 1890 and not the province. The political power of the Roman Catholic church was a standing menace to the freedom of Canada and the stability of the government, He claimed that the executive committee at Ot- tawa, while bound to hear the appeal of Catholics, was not bound to make any reme- dlal order. They had power to dismiss the appeal, but had not heard and decided the question on its merits. The decision had been rendered on account of influence exer- clsed by Quebec members and the power be- Highest of all in Leavening Power.: al Re —Latest U.S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE Sl ooty el M ¥ NATIONAL SCHOOLS STAND bind them. Manitoba government had wisoly held that it the Dominion authorities for tholr own eatisfaction and at thelr own expel wanted information, the local gov- ernment would be ready to give It. Ha hoped that the Dominion Parl'ament would not deal with the question this sos slon, but secure all the information pos sible. A vote on the question was reached at 10:30 this evening. Al the amendments wore voted down, and Manitoba's answer re. fusing to re-establish separate schools was adopted. P—— SIXTEEN 10 ONE OR SECESH. Chloago Tribune: Al Editor Bryan of Omaha lacks of being a great orator is sound judgment, deep convictions and a righteous burpose. He has the voice. Washington Post: Those Mississipp! demo- crats did a shrewd bit of work when they forced Hon. Bill Bryan to declare that he would bolt the ticket unless he could have things his own way. Minneapolis Tribune cretary Curlisle says he wAl not dignify W. J. Dryan, the Nebraska wind-bag, by meeting him in joint debate. The secretary is quite right. an is unworthy of sericus notice, Indianapolis Nows: Ex-Congressman Bryan says that if the next democratic convention does not adopt a double standard he will die in his tracks before he will support the nomince. In other words, the dle is cast. Sloux City Tribune: No painter hs yot dopicted the consequences of the withdrawal of ex-Congressman Bryan from the demos cratic party, if ever he should withdraw, and that gentleman’'s modesty forbids him even to suggest the result. Kansas City Star: Mr. Bryan of Ne- braska reasserts that he is a democrat, al- as been a democrat and always will be a democrat—as long as the party goes to suit him on the financial question and other matters. There were a good many democrats of this stamp in evidence last fall. “Indian here; wigwam lost!" Indianapolis Journal: The picture of ex- Congressman Bryan standing up and rehea; ing his democratic pedigree, magnifying his love for the party and dwelling upon the amount of Jacksonian serum that courses through his veins, then declaring in the same breath that he will die in his tracks before he will vote the ticket it the party does not declare for a double standard, pre- sents an Interesting and dramatic spectacle, i PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Last year Massachusetts carried $050,000,- 000 of fire insurance. It did not take nine Taylors South Dakota to its marrowbones. a sufficiency Philip Phillips, the famous singing evan- gelist, 1s dylng of consumption at his home in Delaware, O. Formerly South Dakota achieved fame for celerity fn divorces. Now the state com- pounds felonies while you wait, Tiwo thrifty members of the last legisla- ture of Colorado are sald to rake in $15 a month each for the use of their annuals over to bring One was the Rio Grande railroad. Mrs. Stowe's “Uncle Tom's Cabin” still commands a ready sale. It is said to have been translated into more languages than any other book except the bible, The late clasping of hands across the bloody chasm in Chicago has had a de- moralizing effect on war museums. The im- ported sale. Mr. Olney's first act as secretary of state was to hang a placard on the front door of his private office with the inscription, “Next Door.”” This was significant, for “‘next door” leads to his secretary’s office. Judge Gres- ham had a breezy way of keeping his office door open to the public, who sometimes got a glimpse of the secretary in his shirt sleaves, puffing away at a cigar and up to his cars in work. Owing to insurmountable difficulties in the way of arranging the biographies of new members of congress, assurances are given that an extra session will not be called. An extra session of congress without the biog- raphies of members printed at government expense would b2 a waste of Sweetness on a desert air and a rude shock to the country. The administration displays wonderful far- sight in dodging pitfalls dug by the enemy Henry Jefferson Aldrich, the fugitive pro- moter of Denver, was a reformer from way- The ‘“desecration’ of the Sabbath by ryile labor or diverting amusements har- | Libby prison and its site are for ro up his soul and with vis; 4 monious he led the crusaders against backe door saloons and day theaters. His con- fence was so delicately poised that he could not resist regulating the conduct of other people, meanwhile getting his crooks on their dollars. He will probably turn up soon with a proposition to compromise. A district in the edge of the Black Forest in Germany, where flocks of plovers made their home, Is now infested with crows, and the natives are cultivating an appetite for them. They find that the young crow, when properly fed, is a dainty ‘morsel, the flesh white and tender and of fine flavor. The dis- covery is mighty interesting to that large and growing multitude of Americans who have been fairly contented with old crow in the past. Now is a good time to begin the fattening process for the fall feast. After two years wasted in the courts the officers of the Iron Hall charged with loot- ing the treasury out of millions have been discharged. The court agreed with the attor- ney that as they practically owned the funds they could not embezzle from themselves. While the thousands of victims who paid assessments on a promise of §700 net profit in seven years may not agree with the court, the officers have demonstrated that a per- funds 1s safer and far more profitable than tropleal flights and subsequent compromises. Dr. D. Frank Powell bas the unique dis. tinction of being mayor of the town of La Crosse, Wis, and chief of the Winnebago Indians, His Indian name Is “White Beavor.” For many years ho was a surgeon in the United States army, and he is & man of fine perronality, \ SP— Cheoking ters, Washington Tost It was quite fit and proper that our gove ernment should take vig us measurss to prevent the embarkation of bodies of armed men leaving this country to take pagt in the 1 Cuban revolution. No doubt our people, as & [ rule, sympathize with the revolutionists, - though ~ chiofly, perhaps, on sentimenta grounds, but we have no right as a natlon to connive at any practical demonstration of that fecling. We are on terms Of triendship ‘ with Spain, have no grievance or cause of animosity against her, and nothing could be more Indecorous than' to encourage or even { to wink at the organization in this country of expeditions hostile to the Spanish govern- | ment. The administration has acted none toa | promptly or too positively in the premises. - POINTED REMARKNS. Chicago Times-Herald: Into tician’s life some mud must fall, ner cach poll ife: Ho (o to be married soon cy mo! To whi me; I came toda sulting An! cup) you to tell on purpose to It is bet door after the hors lock It at all. It may lock the tolen than ave the cow. stable not to >ress: Hoa Somebod roit Free out there that s car- -\ andlady's Husband--No, it's o beat his board bill, and my him. | Indlanapolis Journal: ing along on a bicycle is just where you a barred. You have manage one of ‘em Bowling 18 WIONE. o be plumb sober to Life: “I hear that your congregation ine tends to pra for rain' sald a n to a member of the Quohosh Methodist church. “Well,” was the reply, “we have decided to wait ‘twenty-four hours more before pro- ceeding to extreme m ures.” York of a New W account bourn—I 1dier, read an who drank s r and then died. as too much for him. There was no more beer. s Washington Star: “Do you think that an ‘erence to popular opinion will make a reat?’ she inquired on't know,” he answered, thought- “Would you call a base ball umpire N fully. a great m Cincinnati Tribune: Political—"How politics down your way, major?" Wal, some of the voters is committed fer free silver, some fer the gold standard, and a right good smatterin’' is committed for hawg stealin’ an’ the like." Detroit ' Press: Painter nity)—I am an artist, madam, M am (effusively)—Oh, you poor man, Here's a quarler to buy you something te eat. (with dig- AN OLD SAW RESET. New York World. A rolling stone gathers No moss, it is said; An expression quité true, As you know. But to be up to date You must change it and say That a rolling pin Gathers no dough. - RNED BOSTON LADY. N THE I Drummers' Yarns, Boston maid of high degree, that shone like incandescent She w With lights, And just such pouti Th. s lips, as seems to me, kiss invites. I met her on the Common’s grassy sod, Near where the fountain plays in squirt- ive mood; She stood reflecting, while a passive wad Of gum she chewed. “It_does one “When * w £ood to ¢ ry of the this spot,” said I, o city's hum and : pastime to reply: s what it doe “This sylvan spot,” then softly T averred L) The foot of man seems almost to defile.’ Her volce came sweet ns notes of any bird: Well 1 should smile!” 'he balmy breezes whispering overhead, With henchanting softness kiss the brow. In tones of lang: “You're melody she said shoutin’ now “And have you noticed, Seems h gem? 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