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

THE OMAHA DAILY BEEr THURSDAY, DALy BEE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. TEIMS OF HUNSCRIPTION, Dully Pee (Without Sunday), One Year.. Dally 1eg nml Sunday, One Year...... Bix Moiths (Fro Three Bunda, unet! s, Chleagn €iliee, Tew Yerk Rocs Waahington, 1407 ¥ N, . NBSPONDRNCE, Al commu tlons relating to turtal miatter shoutd he addreed PUSINESS LITTF i AN husiness, Inttors_and remittances should be addresecad b The D Tubl wy:q 1m;\‘vvm:;‘ Tl "prafua, el snd pratatics, S, fads paynbie (o the order of the company B RER PURLISHING COMPANY == - - BIATEMENT Qaorge B, Taschucik lishing company, bein the actual number of 1 the Daily, Morning, F printed during the monih of May, o Tuliding. swa and edl To the Jditor OF CIRCULATION f The Beo Pub. yrn, says that Aplcte copies of Eundn 199, L 43,000 . 3800 19,004 s 101m 19,08 1889 110083 © 20,009 10,07 o0 10165 19 151 10,215 » 0 o 021,55 returned and’” " ansold Not eal Dajly aver GEORGE B. TZ5 and subscribed tn my pre 1905, FEIL, Notary Public Sworn to before me ence this 1st day of June (Seal.) N. T 'I‘iu- Cornell crew need not have all the way to England to make such an exhibition of itself. \ — 1t is to be feared rone that internations college athletics will not be so popular on this side of the Atlantic for a little while as they have for a few months past. Comptroller Olsen has been given an indefinite leave of absence by the coun- ell. Does this also take Mr. Olsen’s name from the eity pay voll for an in- definite period? Calls are out in several counties for conventions to select delegates to the republican state convention, which has not yet been called, and may not be held until the latter part of September. his fs putting the cart before the horse. ] Members of that Cornell crew will have made a place for their names in the world of college athletics even if every one of them fails to pass the ex- qunination necessary to successful grad- uation from the institution which they attend. And now it is reported that so soon as the price demanded Is produced and pald over amother Fair will will be forthcoming. The late millionaire James G. Fair must have had his time pretty well occupied making and revising his numerous t wills and testaments. —— The local Sunday school association proposes to mass all the Sunday school children of Omaha in a grand parade some time during the state fair week. If the proposition is carried out the Sunday school parade will not be the least interesting of the many state fair demonstrations. Beeause the delegates to the Christian Pndeavor convention at Boston have yun against some rainy weather ought to cause no extraordi comment. Didn’t the great Methodist conference at Omaha endure rain for nearly a month? There Is no discrimination in distributing the favors of the weather man. It ought to be an easy matter for county commissioners to determine reasonable time required to assess the property of a given district. There are ex-assessors whose opinions on the mat- ter could be obtained. This should be done, not only in order that exorbitant claims of deputy Dbe turned down, but that a fair basis may be reached for similar work next year and thercafter. Parliament is dissolved one week, the parlinmentary elections held the next week, and the new Parliament con vened in another week. The newly elected members are not given time before entering upon their duties to forget what the them expect them to do. This is one point where the British practice has the better of the American system, which prevents a congressman from acting as a representative of his constituents until a year after they have given him thelr suffrages. the the SSOIS Ay If Land Commissioner Russell wants to undertake the laudable task of knocking out all the fraudulent leases and sales of state lands he does not want to confine himself to the contracts which were left to be sanctioned and completed during his term of office, A thorough overhauling of the leases and sulos of state lands for several years back would doubtless disclose many ansactions so steeped in fraud that thelr anuulment and the recovery of the lands for the taxpayers would fol- low as a matter of course. opportunity for Commissioner Russell to make a record for himself that would commend him to the people of Ne Dbraska. We see that another penitentiary conf- vict runuing at large under the new parole-prisoner law has been sent to Jail in Beatrice for resisting an officer. Here is another opportunity for the governor to enforce the conditions of the parole and recall the conviet to serve his unexpired sentence. Why should men be allowed to avail them- selves of this law unless they really intend to reform their lives? A 1w who can not keep out of Jjail when given his freedow has evidently not learned the lesson of his original im- prisotment, The recall of the paroles of such conviets is no more than fair to those comvicts who make the best use of their conditional liberty. NS w0 2 | | people who elected | Here Is an | | phrey through WE MUST ERADICATE THE CANCER. Corraption and bribery have always {been the bane of popular self-govern- ment. It was so In the republies of the ancient world, it has been so in the republics of the middle ages, it is so in in our own time. The most dangerous of all forms of corruption is the bribery of lawmakers. It Is an established fact that our national and state legislatures are hotbeds of venal- ity. Few important measures affect- ing corporate interests and eapital in general are enacted without the whole- sale bribery of the men who are chosen to represent the people in their law- making capacity. The disclosures that have seandalized nearly every session of congress and every legislature have become so common as searcely to ereate any surprise or popular resentment. This is doubtless true of the latest of legislative seandals which has been ex- posed at Springfield. Governor Alt- geld, whose integrity has mnot been called in question, openly charges that cortain members of the Ilinois general assembly were paid large sums for thelr support of what is known as the Hum- racing bill. “That boodling and attempted boodling have marked the progress of nearly every important bill the assembly,” says the gov- ernor, “is common report, and there is plenty of evidence on the subject. Whether the senate and the house will notice the charges and inquire into them I cannot say, but the two houses owe it to their hounor to make a thor ough investigation. Unless something is done to break up the practice of boodling in the legislature it will resnlt in the breaking down of our state in- stitutions. If some of the members who make a practice of selling their votes for maney could be sent to the penitentiary it would be the best thing that could happen to the state. The convietion and punishment of legis tive boodlers would free the legislature from such practices for years to come.” Governor Altgeld hits the nail on the head. What has recently happened in Springfield is only a repetition of what happened in our own state capitol last winter. If it were possible to send legislative bribe takers to the peniten- tiary as conviets and not as bogus in- vestigating committees there would be an end, for a while at least, to the shameless hold-ups of vulnerable in- terests by political rond agents who oc- cupy seats in legislative halls. The call at Springfield is for an investiga- tion and a special grand jury. The in- vestigation is almost certain to be a whitewash and the special grand jury to be a favce. Sooner or later the peo- ple will have to settle with reereant representatives as they used to do with horse thieves and highwaymen. A leg- islative boodler is much more danger- ous to free government than any band of thicves ever was. When legislative bribery is made high treason and punishable as a capital crime we may possibly be able to eradicate the cancer that is eating out the vitals of the republic. OUR INTERNATIONAL BALANCE. That the United States is a debtor na- tion everybody knows who is at all familiar with our business relations with the rest of the world, but a great many are misled into the belief that such 1s not the case by seeing the s ment repeatedly made that the balance of trade is in our favor. As between the exports and the imports of mer- chandise and specie it is a fact that for years the international balance has been on our side, but a different condition is presented when there is taken into con- sideration various debtor items which are not embraced in the statistics sup- plied by the government. With these items included in the inte tional ac- count it is shown that not only Is the United States a debtor country, but its indebteduess has been steadily growing. The New York Commercial Bulletin presents, as the result of a careful in- vestigation, highly interesting figures of the various debtor and ereditor items other than merchandise and specie. It finds that the debtor items, which in- clude investment account, traveling credits, inward freight charges per for- clgn vessels, outward passenger per foreign vessels, and underyvaluations of iwmports, amount annually to $175,- 475,000, while the ereditor items, which include money brought by immigrants, outlays of foreign ships in port, port outlays of passenger steamships, and outward earnings of American vessels, amount to §26,750,000. It thus appears that the various items of the interna- tional aceount, outside of imports and exports of goods and specie and of the movement in securities, yield a net debtor balance of §145,000,000. This re sult affords an indication of the course of the foreign exchanges during recent years, and selecting the seven fiscal years, 1887 to 1803, both inclusive, it Is shown that the exports of merchandise and specie exceeded the imports to the amount of 4,000,000, but during that period the debtor items above noted amounted to $1,015,000,000, so that for the seven years the debtor or ady balance was $491,000,000, or an average of $70,000,000 per year, which it I8 pre sumed has been settled by the trasmi slon of securities. It Is quite possible that the estimates of the Commercial Bulletin are some- what too consérvative and that we have been inereasing our foreign indebted ness at o much greater rate than $70,- 000,000 per year, but that amount is enough to suggest serlous consideration of the question whether the country is not drifting towawrd a dangerous situa- tion, especially in view of the fact that at present our imports of werchandise are increasing and our exports falling off, as compared with previous years, while the debtor items of traveling credits, inward freight charges and out. ward passenger fares are larger than ever before, According to the estimate of the Commercial Bulletin, the amount of the traveling eredits annually, that is, the money taken out of the country by Awmerican travelers abroad, is $47. 000,000, but there can be little doubt that this is an underestimate, and the same is to be said regarding the esti- mate of import undervaluations, the amount of which Is placed at $5,000,- |000. But even that sum serves to show A e A S the mistake of substituting ad valorem for specific duties. Another item which clearly seems to be underestimated Is that of freight charges per forelgn ves- sels, the amount of which is placed at only $24,000,000. But at any rate the figures are Inter- esting and instructive, and what they most strongly suggest I8 the necessity of an economic policy that will curtail rather than encourage the fmportation of foreign goods which can be produced in this country. AN IMPRACTICABLE PROPOSITION. The proposition to supplement the bond of the new city treasu: guarantee company bond at the ex- pense of the city is of doubtful ex- pedien The treasurer has furnished a bond in the sum of $550.000. That bond is presumed to be good. If it is insufficient in amount or if the sureties are not responsible for the whole sum the bond should have been either in- creased in amount or rejected. To add $25,000 to the aggregate of the bond would not materially strengthen the city's security. It is also questionable whether the aceeptance of a guarantee company bond would not invalidate the personal bond. The city has no authority to expend public money for guaranteeing the honesty of any of its officers. The premium must be paid either by the offi- cer himself or his sureties. If the sureties of the new treasurer desire to protect themselves against possible Josses they should take out a guarantee company bond on their own account and pay for it themselves. is CANNOT CIRCULATE SILVER. All the efforts of the Treasury de- partment to push silver into eirculation are unavailing. The amount of stand- ard silver dollars now out among the people Is about 52,000,000 and it has never exceeded 60,000,000, When the treasury has on hand any free silver, that is, silver in excess of the outstand- ing ilver certificates, the United States treasurer, at the request of any banker, business house or private individual, will ship to any point of the country, free of charge, standard silver dollars in exchange for other kinds of money and the .government pays a large amount annually for expressage on silver, Still the amount that remains in circulation does not increase, A Washington dispatch gives an il- lustration of how difficult it is to force the silver dollar to circulate. Every week the cashiers of the big manufac- turing establishments near Boston send to the subtreasury in that city and have expressed to them free of cost some- thing like 25,000 standard silver dol- lars to be used in paying off the em- ployes. These dollars the following week find their way to the banks through the medium of the merchants and from the banks they find their way back to the subtreasury. This is repeated every week, and it is the same with other subtreasuries. Very gener- ally the banks in the larger cities are overloaded with silver dollars which they cannot dispose of to their patrons. There is said to be talk of the govern- ment paying a good portion of the sal- aries of its employes in silver, as a means of inereasing its cireulation. It is very evident that the vast hoard of standard silver dollars which the government has stored away in its vaults will never all get into circula- tion. Regardless of the question of free coinage, it is most fully demon- strated that the people do net want a great volume of silver dollars in active cirenlation. They are eumbersome and in large amounts inconvenient to han- dle. Yet under a policy of free coin- age as proposed by its advocates, when every owner of bullion would have the ght to take his silver to the mint and have it coined into doHars for his own aceount, the people would be com- pelled to take such dollars, beeause they could not get gold or paper re. deemable in gold. Manifestly the country already has a most abundant supply of overvalued coined silyer. A PERNICIOUS PRECEDENT. ‘When Mayor Bemis asked Acting City Attorney Cornish for advice as to his duty in relation to the city comp- troller, wh gross negligence or in- competency had jeopardized the safety of the municipal treasury, the mayor was given to understand that it would be improper for him to take action looking to the removal of the derelict officer until after the city council's in- vestigation of the comptroller's office had been concluded. 1In other words, the mayor was officially advised that he must await the outcome of the pending investigation in order that he might have a basis for specific charges. In view of the fact that the had abundant material for specific charges in the reports of the comp- troller concerning the condition of the treasury, and in the acknowledged fail- ure of the comptroller to discharge the duties devolving upon him, every in- telligent person must have read be- tween the lines of Mr. Cornish's re sponse n desire to shelve the whole affair and condone the offense. On the heels of this supplement to the extra- ordinary letter on the defaulting tr urer, the couneil has granted Comptrol- ler Olsen an indefinite leave of absence. This is tantamount to sidetracking the investigation into the slipshod methods that have prevailed in the comptroller's office, and thus barring Mayor Bemis from procuring the information on which the specific charges of malfeas- ance were to have been based. This Is setting a most pernicious precedent for all city officials, It a declaration that men sworn to pro- tect the taxpayers may close their eyes and ears to embezzlement and corrupt practices without exposing themselves to even a vote of censure at the hands of the city council. It is virtually a proclamation that a betrayal of trust will go unpunished so long as the cul- prit has the assurance of support from the municipal ringsters who coutrol a majority of the council. There never can be and pever will be honest busi ness methods in the management of the city's finances so long as embezzlement, defalcation and reckless neglect of duty mayor is NS T3 22 ot T are winked af, and glossed over as trifling mattersiby the very officers who are expected Wforte Integrity and fidelity by making examples of dishon- est and untrustworthy officials. Five years havdfelapsed since the na- tional census wag taken and Omaha was credited '$ith a population of 140,000, The, ity directory of 1804 contained 47,860, names. Multiplied by threé, to inclide women and chil- dren, the population of the city last year was found to be 143,580, a gain in four years of only 3680, The city directory Just issued contains 46,306 names, in- dicating a population of 139,188 and a loss the past year of 4,392, These fig- ures cannot be said to be absolutely correct, but they stand for the approxi- mate variations of our population the past four years and obviously are not far out of the way, That Omaba has been hardest hit of any transmissouri city during recent years of business de pression is explained by the fact that she is the distributing peint for a terri- tory that has suffered from crop fail- ure to a greater extent than any other. It is also worthy of note that the crop conditions in this territory are better today than in regions east and north, 80 it may reasonably be expected that this city will soon recover its lost pres- tige and forge rapidly ahead. Nobody who knows the native recuperative powers of this city and state doubts for a moment that Omaha will pull through all right. Councilman Prince comes to the front with an ordinance granting per- mission to the street railway company to extend the motor line to the new fair grounds with the privilege of run- ning trains only during fair time and race meetings. What the object of such a permit may be we cannot divine. If the council has a right to grant the right to suspend street railway traffic during part of the year over a particu- lar line it must also have the right to withdraw that privilege. Inasmuch as the street railway company does not pre- tend to operate a great many miles of its track, laid without suspensory priv- ilege, the company is in no danger of being “compelled to oper: the pro- posed line to the state fair grounds all the year round. The seeretary of the State Relief eommission that the commission will turn back into the treasury some of the money tippropriated for its use. It so, very well. And the sooner the office of the commiission is closed and the clerks employed discharged the | larger will be the sum turned back. A Worthy Mebeaskan, Sloux City Journal, The death of<Gengral Joseph Hollman at Emerson, Neb., last week removed from earthly activities one who had been prom- inent in the development of the state of Nebraska and ever a good citizen, . The Casé th Ronnd Numbers, Glybe-Democrat. Japan's wholé ' army employed against China numbered only: 80,979 men. Perbaps the ‘best Way ‘t#‘steté ‘the ‘casa historically would be to say that Japan made a recon- nofssance of a nelghboring nation of 400,000, 000 and found that they wouldn't fight. B e Are You Sure Courier-Journal. Governor Boles seems to have missed the free silver train which was making such a pufing a few weeks ago. A poll of the press of Iowa shows that every democratic paper in the state, with only two exceptions, is opposed to free silver colnage at 16 to 1. s e A Mistake Somewhere. Chicago Journal. If Minister Eustis said what he is reported in the Paris Figaro as saying, he must have been gazing too often on the absinthe when it was green recently. Only through the cracked ice of that beguiling French beverage could the vision of himself as a candidate for the presidency of the United States have tickled his fancy. The idea of James B. Eustis as a presidential possibility had not oceurred to mortal imagination, drunk or sober, on this side of the Atlantic. psia il o sl T The snarling Bear. Boston Herald. Russia is in a chronic condition of discon- tent and seems ready to quarrel with every- body about anything and everything. She wants to question the right of Germany to control the new canal; she is making herself disagreeable toward China in regard to that empire changing its mind regarding the loan, and she is threatening Japan with war be- cause that plucky little nation wants reap the full benefit of its victory over the Chinese. The Russian bear is evidently eager for a fight with somebody. PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE. Call Not much. only 58. Senator Stewart’s Silver Knights are appro- priately named. -Nights and silver beams are inseparable. The New York World, New York Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer furnish occult evi- dence of “‘broad” editorial poliey—15 or more pleas “to the line. Senator Blackburn has acquiesced fn_the muzzle placed on his mouth by the Ken- tucky state democratic committee. Could party loyalty do more? The new weather clerk New York. He supplies too much external wetness on the Sabbath, while the natives put up with an internzl Sahara or go to Hoboken. C. W. Owens, who defeated Breckinridge in Kentucky, Was 3, week ago bitten by a spider and it is now feared will lose his arm. It is terribly swollen and threatens to invade the whole body. For ten years Mr. W. I Smith, a White Plains, N. Y., businéss man, did not take a single holiday. But last week he was induced to stop work for otte day and enjoy himself at the seashore. 'He Went in bathing and was drowned. i ‘The signal failuré of a sea serpent to ap- pear at Asbury park ‘is accounted for by the fact that Parsow’Bradley enforces prohibi- iton, even to (he drug stores. Even the bikers are not pérmitted to gaze through the glass darkly. 1o o ‘The Boston Fést difers an explanation of the superlority df Yale over Harvard in ath- letics. Accordia®! 10 the Post the trouble with Harvard is ‘"the pernicious clique sys- tem,” whereas the temocratic spirit of Yale accounts -for itswictories. At Yale, if a student can row, he is found in the university boat without any question as to the bank ac- count-of his father or the tinge of his blood. It is the democracy of sport at Yale that triumphs usually over the aristocracy of sport at Harvard her Omega? Grover s is discredited in JULY 11, 1895. WORRIED AROUT THAT INTERVIEW Spain Wants the United States to Fxplam Minister Eustis' Alleged Interview. WASHINGTON, July 10.—The Spanish foreign office has cabled to the Spanish min- ister hers, Senor De Lome, concerning the alleged interview with Minister Bustis In the Paris Figaro, with a view to having the State department disavowing the re- ported utterances of Mr. Eustis, The exact nature of the cable from the Spanish govern ment cannot be learned, but it is believed to be, in the first place, an inquiry as to the facts, with the supplementary instructions to make due representations of disapproval to this government should it be establishel that such an interview was glven by the am- bassador. Tt 19 thought, however, the cable from Spain is conservative in charaeter, with a view to securing action only in case the RBustis interview is shown to be autheatic. It was eent before Mr. Eustis had miven a disavowal of the interview in a statement fo a London correspondent. Naturally enough this doubt as to what reflection Mr. Eustis had made on Spain or whether he has made any reflection has prevented aetion by the Spanish minister until the facts could be es tablished. Up to this time the matter had not been brought to the attention of the State depart- ment in any official shape, although the offi- clals have taken note of the interview as cabled to the American newspapers. Even without the reiterated denfal of the authen- tielty of the Interview given out by Ambas- sador Eustis, it is generally dlscredited here. It Is unfortunate for Mr. Eustis that this particular story should be published at the present time, even though he succeeds in stamping it as baseless, for it is well calen- Iated to affect his future. It may be stated that he h not found his post to be particu larly attractive to him, and some time ago he made it known that he would like to relin- quish it. Now, however, it is probable that he may have to remaln at Paris against his inclinations for the sole purpose of showing that his relinquishment of his post is not in any way to be connected with the publica- tion of the interview, for to o otherwise might cast a cloud over the bright reputation he has earned while representing the United States at Paris as first ambassador. LIBRARY ACUOUNTS ARE IN A MUDDLE Auditor Declines to Hovor Any Further Requisition for Money. WASHINGTON, July 10.—The accounts of Ainsworth R. Spofford, for many years tibrarian of the Congressional library, have been held up for about three months by the auditing officers of the Treasury department and fnvestigation Is making by the officers of the library. There is no allegation made so0 far as can be learned of any wrong doing on the part of any library employe, but there 1s a discrepancy In the accounts and it is the opinfon of the treasury officlals that the financial aftairs of the library, which handles a considerable amount of money received from copyrights and other sources, are not conducted in a business-like manner. About forty-five people are employed at the library and the pay roll amounts to about $45,000 per quarter. The Treasury depart- ment has not given any money to the library pending the investigation, but the employes have received their salaries regularly. Mr. Spofford personally advanced the money. He was not disposed to say much today, save to state that there was discrepancy in the accounts and that they were being investi- gated. It is likely that new methods of keeping the accounts may result from the affair. The law provides that if the accounts do not reach the auditor within ten days after the last day of the quarter for which they are rendered, they shall not be approved. but shall be referred to the secretary of the treasury for his action. In some cases it is impossible for accounting officers to make the returns within the time specified and an extension has always been granted readily In_such instances, Librarian Spofford's accounts for the quar- ter ending March 31 should under the law have been in the hands of the auditor on or before April 10. They have not yet been recelved by the auditor. Mr. Spofferd's ac- counts for the quarter ending June 30, should under the law have been in the hands of the auditor on or before today. They have not been rendered. Meanwhile the auditor of the treasury, having charge of the librarian’s accounts, has declined to approve any re- quisition for money and there has been a sort of deadlock. NO KULING ON TONN\GE AGREEM 18 Interstute Commission Tssues & Cireular on the Sabjret. WASHINGTON, July 10.—Numerous state- ments of tonnage agreements entered into by various railroads, and allegations that the agreements were sanctioned by the Interstate Commerce commission, have resulted in the issuance of a circular letter, in which the commission calls the attention of all roads to the statutory prohibition of pooling agree- ments. The question whether tonnage agree- ments are actually embraced within the lan- guage of the act relating to interstate com- merce s an unsettled one, and the question has not yet been raised, and accordingly their logality ‘has not yet been decided. No com- plaints of violation of the law through the making of tonnage agreements have been fled here, but the commission has sent its letter to the railreads in order to dissipate the Idea that such agreements were officially approved or have been under consideration in eny way. The majority of the members of the commission favor certain amendments to the interstate commerce act and regard the pooling _prohibition provisions as interfering materially with the enforcement of the act. At least several members of the commission personally are in favor of authorizing pooling and depreeate its prohibition. Respecting reports that the eommission would bring criminal actions against rail- roads parties to tonnage agreements, it i stated that it is not within the province of the commission to take action in criminal cases against roads further than to refer mat- ters to the Department of Justice. This will be the procedure in cases of traffic com- plaints to the commission, that the law Is be- ing violated by tonnage agreements. It is denfed there is any intention of making a test case to settle the legally of the tonnage agreemnts. COREAN MINISTER FORCED TO FLY Fact that He Was Related to the King Could Nos Sive Him. WASHINGTON, July 10.—The Department of state has been advised by our minister at Seoul that there is much excitement In that capital over the flight of the minister of the Interior, Pak Yong Hyo, the practical dictator of Corea for the last six months. The king issued an order for his arrest on the charge of treason, which gave com- plete satisfaction to the Japanese, but the latter, fearing the effect on Japanese public opinion of the arrest of the minister, who was supposed to be strong Japanese in his views, abetted his escape to Japan. Pak is a brother-in-law to the king and has the title of prince. His relationship to the king debars him by Corean law from holding office. On December 17, 1894, when the new Corean cabinet was formed, Pak was brought forward by the Japanese and his appointment to the office of minister of the interior was forced upon the king. He soon became the practical dictator of Corea, but according to the State department advices showed but little poiitical wisdom, quarreled with all his friends, and alienated the friendship of the Japanese, who for some time past have been anxious to see him relteved. Severe Karthquakes in Rossia. ST. PETERSBURG, July 10.—Severe earth- quake shocks have been experienced in the Casplan and Ural districts. Many houses have been destroyed at Usunada, Astrachan and Krasnoyodsk. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Royal Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE D T ——————— DEFIED GOVERNOR ALTGELD. Democrats Nominate Crafts tor Spe: the 1ilinols Legistature. SPRINGFIELD, 11, July 10.—~In spite of tho fact that Governor Altgeld roquested the democrats of the house to refraln from nominating ex-Speaker Crafts for the speak- ership, they went ahead and did it. It was not done without the protest of twenty-six out of the sixty-oue representatives on the minority side, however. Whether this will end now, no one can toll, to a certainty, but if what Governor Altgel's followers say Is true, it will not. They say with a good deal of acrimony, that under no ¢ cumstances will they recognize Crafts as the minority leader, The followers of Crafts, however, smile at this, and assert that the disgruntled fellows will fall Into line as soon as thelr wrath cools down. The democratic party lash will be applied to those who remain out of the fold too long. Secretary of State Henrichsen, chairman of the democratic state committee, s with Crafts, it is sald, and will use the ma- chinery of the state organization to move things their way. Acting Speaker Needles called the house to order, and with all formalities announced that the house would proceed to the election of a speaker to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Meyers. White of Whiteside placed In nomination W. G. Cochran, the choice of the republican caucus. Iu a lengthy speech ho extolled Cochran, told of all his good points and none of his bad ones—if he has any—and concluded with a few remarks as to what he belleved the new speaker would do if elected. Jones of Green then took the floor, and In open deflance of Governor Altgeld’s’request nominated Clayton B. Crafts, “in obedi- ence,” as he sald, “to the unanimous man- date of the democratic members in caucus assembled.” Davis E. Stranahan then nomination of Cochran, and then Curley seconded the nomination of Clayton K. Crafts, “‘the unanimous choice of the demo- cratic caucus.” A roll call was taken after resulted In the selection of W. over Crafts by a vote of §7 to 3 When the result was announced Acting Speaker Needles formally declared Cochran elected, and appointed Berry, Muir and Crafts a_committee to notify the speaker- elect and escort him to the speaker's chalr. This was done amidst loud applause, and for the second time W. G. Cochran became speaker at an extra session through the death of his predecessor. Shortly afterward the house adjourned. The senate proceed- ings were brief and routine. —————— KE CHARLIE MOSHER. seconded the this, and it G. Cochran JUST LI Nebraskn Bank Wrecker's Syst fully Imitated. URBANA, 0., July 10.—More speculations of Z. T. Lewis, the bond broker, continue to come to light hourly. E. B. Hutchison of Indianapolis has today turned up $11,000 more of forged bonds. They are Tippecanoe school bonds. The $20,000 of these bonds held by the German National bank of Cin- cinnati are declared to be bogus. A Spring- field bank has $12,000 more. The total amount of fraudulent bonds fo far known to have been hypothecated by Lewis aggre- gates over $100,000, and may reach double that amount. Great excitement prevails and people here talk of nothing else. Lewis left here Monday. and went first to Mich)- gan, where his family is spending the sum- mer. From there he went to South America, to get beyond reach of the law, but there is no clew to his route. SPRINGFIELD, 0., July 10.—It is learned today that the First National bank here holds $2,000 of spurious Mechanicsburg bonds, bought of Z T. Lewis of Urbana. The Shelby County bank at Anna and the Citi- zens' bank at Ansonia, O., which Lewis is president of, are closed and_ runs are re- ported on other concerns in which Lewis was interested. The fugitive was a prominent candidate for treasurer four years ago. HAMILTON, 0., July 10.—Butler county bonds of $500 each, series of 1803, were pre- sented for redemption today and the signats of Auditor Durr and all the county commis- sioners were forgerics. Z. T. Lewis bought $40,000 of these bonds and how many he forged In addition is not known. The bonds presented today were bought from him. b ey Mextean Cattle Must He Inspected. DENVER, July 10.—The State Board of Cattle Inspection has decided, in view of the fact that a 'movement of 25,000 cattle is expected from Old Mexico within a short time, that all such cattle must be inspected before they can be admitted to Colorado. This new order will take effect at once and will continue in force until December 1. Suconss- Denver Alderman Wants Damages, DENVER, July 10.—Alderman John B, Emery today instituted suits against the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Re- publican for $50,000 damages from each for alleged slander. The newspapers intimated pretty broadly that Alderman Emery was corrupted by the Denver Union Water com- pany. e ¢ harged with Stenling I'lamonds. TACOMA, July 10.—L:onard Osborne, & Chi- cago soclety man, is under arrest at Hope, Idaho, on a charge of stealing $800 worth of dlamonds from E. M. Hunt of this city, a prominent society and business man, with whom Osborne stayed two weeks, Osborne came here from San Francisco. THRER OF A KIND, Minneapolis Times: Most Americans wish it had been @ boy at Gray Gables. Minneapolls_Journal: Ruth, Esther, and now shall 1t by Naomi of Groveretta? St. Louls Republic: Why dw Mr. Cleve- land want a boy when the new woman owns the earth? Globe-Democrat: We feel it duty to caution Mr. Cloveland against the free cofn- age of girls, as a thing likely to destroy the parity of the sexes. Chicago Record: As to the new woman, the best thing to do with her is to marry her, love her and add her intelligonce and Drogressive notions to the conforts of home. o family should be without one,” as the advertisement says, Chicago Tribune: The large, fat man at the Gray Gables end of the telephono wire wiped his perspiring brow nervously and shouted into tho ‘phone: “Is that you, Dan?" - “It's another gir D Give me a good seripture name for her Cineinnat! Commercial: The whole natlon watches the white house bables with tender love. They are its children, It thinks, whom they have committed to the affeetion of your mamma and papa. There is not a boy in the country that would not give you his last plece of candy, and not & man but would fight for you. You have seventy millions of defenders, and everybody will love you fust as much as if you were & boy. Now go to mamma, and be a good little girl MENTS, SMILING INDUCE Chicago Tribune: “If you want a sensa- tion for your outside’” buzzed the wasp, flying into the eity editor's room in a busi ness-like way, “I can give you a pointer.” Tudge: diction say? come honest. Cawker—Barlow made a rash pre- just now. Cumso--What did” he Cawker—He said that the time would when it would be respectable to be So much is the bleycle supplanting the in time his only rep- ative may the convention dark and the nightmare Springfield News tmaster—Is there a col- 1ck 18 there. Postmaster—Send him in—I want him to deliver this special letter with a mourning border, Indianapolis Journal: Tommy—Paw, what is the difference between a pot hunter and a sportsman? Mr. Figg—One can kill enough game to mike a living at the business and the other can't, Tndianapolis Journal: Mrs. Winslow—Are you perfectly ‘sure that there will be no men around If you go wading in the brook this morning. (sadiy)—Oh, yes, mother, we are perfectly sure that there will beé no men around whether we go wading or not. Harlem Life: She—I was playlng whist also last night, It was the first meeting of our Young Ladies'’ Whist club. He—I won- dered what made you so hoarse. New York Weekly: Caller—Your coat-of- arms is very pretty, but couldn’t any one else use it? ~American Hostess—No, indeed, We paid the designer $10 extra to have it copyrighted. ity Young Mr. Hangoun— Which do you like best, winter or summer? Young Miss Weerie—Summer by all means; the nights are so much shorter. Boston Cou Chicago Tribune: Mrs. McSwat—The rea- son 1 object to you spending so much time at that club of yours, Billiger, is that T am t is nothing but a resort of loafers . McSwat—Great Scott, Maria! What's any club? Indlanapolis Journal: “Sir,* sald the in- dignant alderman, ““are you not aware that Were I to vote for your measure I would be exposed to the condemnation of all good citizens in my ward? And that sort of thing,” he added, lowering ~his voice “comes pretty high, you know.' SONGS OF THIS SEASON, New York World. The man who paddies In the surf, Disporting cool and free, Is not the chap who writes the verse ‘About the beauteous sea. The fellow who gets off the rhyme, So breezy, airy, light, tory flat, ave in sight. THE MICROBE FIEND, New York World. O these doctors! Yes, these doctors Make me weary day by day With their everlasting warnings wear we must obey. Ah, microbla! microbia! Thou art a thing of fame; But what crimes are now committed | In thy Inoffensive name! With his microscope the health fiend, With most scientific car Goes a-gunning for bact And he finds them eve Yes, he bags them in the horse car, In the foyer and saloon; The free lunches he calls “‘deadly As a corking day in June.” | In the corner soda fountain, In the keg of foamy beer, On_the very nimble nickels That buys thirsty souls a cheer; In our hats and shoes and pockefs He finds snakes and bugs and things Tiat, when magnified, are monsters Wiih ten thousand legs and wings. O these doctors! Yes, these doctors! Is it then a fact most true That, with all these warnings, men live Longer than they used to do? Nay! Our ancestors lived longer their ignorance sublime, While these howling health flends scare us ¢ to death before our time. “Little Girls”’ They are darlings and a joy, But Grover wishes 'twas a boy and so do we, Boys make men—Men wear ‘clothes—perhaps ours—we hope so. Anyway, we are after the men to advance their interests in life, to give them contentment, ease and luxury. We can tell you how: lot of remarkably fine suits do it; ¢ There is a whole in our store, that are being sold very reasonable. This is the time of the year we reduce that quantity, and assortment we always carry. WE ARE HAVING A BIG CUT SALE, DID YOU KNOW IT? Would like to have you drop in; if you can’t, take a squint at our windows. You will see a fair assortment of the many bargains we are offering, It's all Browning, King & Co.'s own make—that is recommend enough. ail respects. Every piece is guaranteed in You take no risk when our salesman pronounces it perfect. TO TAKE IT. If it don't suit you YOU DON'T HAVE We leave all to you and the virtue of our suits. A great line on sale at $8°°, $10%, $13%, $14%, $15%, $17° and $19°. From $3.00 to $5.00 saved on every suit you buy at this cut price mid-summer sale. We'll trade back if you'd rather have the money. Browning, King & Co,, Largest Makers and Ritallers of Fine Clothing in the World, S. W. CORNER 15TH AND DOUGLAS STS.