Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 23, 1895, Page 4

T OMAHA DALY B 1. ROSEWATER, Editor PURLISHED MORNINC — RY CERMS OF SUBECRIPTION. (With Datly Tiee Daily 1 Bix Mont Thres Montha Bunday Hee Baturday 1 Weekly Dee Ol Omata. The Tes B Bouth Omahn Bt ¢ To the Editor, LETTERS, 20 remittances should be iiahing Company it ihe NG CO. ny PA CICULATION, { The Ioe Pub. n that smiplete coples of and Sunday Bee July , was as th printed follows fur month of 19,088 vesons 19,123 19127 15,519 19167 596,121 and’ raturned 7|ty TZSCHUCK soribed in my 189 The men who held up a Union Pacifie express train took mighty big risks for awfully small mone This talk about new window glass trust rveally overwhelms the consum ers with painful sh Quecr. political deaths shonld be so persistent in refusing to remain in an inanimate condition. No, thoss ers wore the expross Platte. lonest penitent nowhere near the train hold-up near pprais rene of North Democrats seem to be having difficulty tn prevailing upon eandidates to accept nominations for office in nearly every state in the union. The early bivd eatches the worm and the carly frost the corn. The early frost is the only thing that King Corn still has to fear catehes The engagement of one of the Vander- bilt daughters is announced. Wonder it she can't be allowed to be married as other mortals are married? We are being treated to a few exam- ples of the effic of paint in making prominent business blocks more present- able to the state faiv visitors. The more the mervier Now that the | on the one has been laid ederal building it is to be hoped that the contractors will expedite the work and get the structure enclostd be- fore winter sets in. The man who abandoned his farm in Nebraska on ount of one drouth- ridden erop now wishes he had weighed the prospects more carefully before tak- fog the illadvised step. The Chicago Record asks why vagrant astride a bicycle should be treated any differently than the vagrant afoot. We repeat the query. The wheeling teamps are becoming alto gether too numerons, more democratic state con re for lonest currency Cleveland will be en Kk from his sum Let a few ventions decla aad President couraged to move b, mer home at Gray Gables to his winter mansion in Washington, wnd Avmy of fhe Republic encampiuent this year does not com- pare favorably with all the previous en campments held in vecent years it will certainly not be the fault of Hasting at which this year's reunion is to ta pli If the G ke The State Bas been s street property Union Depot Mason st bit of farce tlayor. The fact t a railroad is in the hands of receivers because it has de- faulted in the payment of interest due on its obligations might be expected to act ent upon train robbers looking hauls. But it doesu't. Board of pealed to by S Transportation uth Tenth to compel the to finish the This is another with exquisite owners mpany utrap. comoedy for Denver wants a representative ner'’s jury to investigate the caus the boiler explosion that resulted fatally to 8o many victims. Denver ought to send for the Omaha coroner’s jury that made Seljan murder himself and throw his own dead body into the river. coro- s of Olio democrats are for sound money. Some people will say that that signi fies nothing, because Ohio onght to be for woney, Yet Ohio was not many years ago the very hotbed of fintism. A declaration of an Ohio con- vention for sound money thing. sound means some- It would be int the intelligent and bavd-headed demc crats of Omaba really think of the future prospects of the party, If the future holds out the slightest promise of comfort to the farsceing democrat it would be mighty interesting to know Low and why. resting to know what The report of furthet outrages by the Chinese, coming on the heels of the assurance from Minister Denby that all danger had passed, shows how little confidence can be placed in the prom Ises of Chinese officials. The that hate of the foreigner pervades all classes in China and Christian govern ments must take some other measures than those hitherto adopted in order to protect their subjects in that country. | complete aceord, truth is | THE OMATA DAILY BRE: FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895 THE KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN. he tepublienn and democratic forees of Kentucky are In battle areay and from now until the day of eleetion there promises to be the most vi wnd [ Interesting politic algn that state | has ever known. A sories of joint de- bates between the republican and dem oeratic enudidates for governor, Colonel Bradley and General Hardin, was be gun last Mon Both are good | speakers and very popular with their | followers, so that their debates are cer- | | [ trol of the canal, who also held that | by the action of Great Britain since the negotiation of the treaty the United States had acquired the right to abro gate that convention. Of the British government opposes these con tentions, claiming that every part of the treaty Is in full operation, and putting a construetion upon it which is hostile to any plan for the control of the Nic gua canal by the United States, It to see that there is in this the possibility of an exceedingly inter esting international controversy, It by no means improbable that the Fifty- | fourth congress will be friendly to the i]-ruxm\iiinn of 0 government guarantee of the capital to construct the canal, carrying with it the control of that enter ;pl'i\q' by the government, and if such [should be the case the British govern {ment undoubtedly will demand guaran for the rights it the | Clayton-Bulwer treaty is obvious, therefore, that the Nicars become, indeed is very a bone of ardent contention Great Britain and the United EXPEDITE THE WORK. Superintendent Hunt of the water works company assures The Bee that e is very anxious to proceed with the en largement of the water mains and other necessary improvements which have been recommended by the fire chief and the city engineer. Mr. Hunt says the only obstruction in his way is the mayor and council, who have withheld the propriations for hydrant rental out ¢ which the expenses for the improve ments are to be defrayed. If Mr. Hunt is veally in dead earnest there should be no ditliculty about get ting the appropriation through the conn- cil, and, if necessary, over the mayor's veto. In view of the fact that a number of conncilmen have secured leaves of absence for the Cincinnati junket next week, The Bee wonld suggest that Mr. Hunt exert Limself to induce five coun cilmen to sign a call for a special meet ing to pass the appropriation ordinance. With the proper guaranties that the water works company means husines: we venture to predict that Mayor Bemis will not interpose a veto. There is no good reason why the work should be under way by September 1. rous conrse is ¢ tain to arouse a great deal of enthu siasm. The democratic candidate has the disadvantage of being a free silver man on a sound money platform sand he adheres to his views, whi'e the re publican candidato and platform are in 1 this situation 1l ate fn favor of the lat gn will be fought on was shown in the opening debate, and this gives an ad vantage to the republican eandidate which he has the ability and sagacity to | make the most of. In his opening ad- dress e devoted a great deal of atten tion to the democratie tariff and made some very good points, while his talk against free silver pointed and forceful. It is perhiaps too much to ex pect that Kentueky will eleet a repub- sy but there is said to be a very confident feeling in the party and it ainly scems that it has a fair chance to win. Last year | the republies ained four represents in congress and there is good rea son to believe that the strength of the party has increased since, while it Is veasonably expected Hardin will lose the votes of a many sound money democratic wen. not fail to ope! ter. The | nfitional issue: ms under 1t gua canal may sure to b | tee e, between ates. was | | | | | | liean governor tl ce ns MUST ANSWET The country will heartil, information that our decided to make a peremptory demand Wpon ler. It is stated that the intention is to ask his release and also to require satisfactory indemnity for his imprisoument and there appears to be no good reason why this should not done. Indeed it ms the only course our government an now take with a due regard for its gnity. The rench government 18 paid no attention to the repeated re quests for information regarding the trial of Waller and to make any further efforts in this direction would be at the sacrifice of national self-respect. What our government asked was entirely legitimate and proper and should have been received in a friendly spirit and promptly responded to. It was not so treated and our government is now fully Jjustified in taking a decisive course to secure ice for this im- prisoned Americ Our govern- ment can properly make a demand for his release pending the arvival of in- formation said to be promised from Madagasear, under conditions that will | not remove Waller from the jurisdiction of the I'rench government until it shall be determined from the official infor- mation whether or not he was fairly tried and convicted. There is plenty of course which it is said Seeretary Olney has decided to A number of his distinguishied predecessors the head of the State department left on record opinions regarding the duty of the gov ernment toward 1 citizens in foreign lands by which he may safel be guided, There is but one sentiment among the people of the United States in reference to this matter, and that is that our government must firmly insist upon the recognition by Irance of our proper demands, and if that country will not do so then we should decline | to maintain diplomatic relations with it. We did this in the inf: of the government and can certainly venture to do it now if there be adequate justi welcome the government has be not PLEXIBLE POLICE And now we are semi-officially noti fied that the civil service rules which the Broat board has promulgated with such a great flourish of trumpets are not to apply to the members who al- ready have places on the force and to members who have been discharged from the force. This reform as is reform, One of the rules adopted by the Broatch board reads as follows: “No one will be examined who has made false statement intended to deceive or who las been guilty of crime or notori- ously disgracetul conduet By sus- pending this rule for the benefit of men who have been dismissed from the old force the doors thrown wide open to the very men who were denounced by the grand jury for criminal prac and disgraceful conduct. It throws the doors wide open to the very men who have scandalized the force and vio- Iated their obligations officers by false reports to the chief and the mayor concerning the condition of the b 1 evil in Om: It throws the doors wide open to the detectives who couldn’t detect a thief with a label upon him if he had something with which to stand them off., Another rather unique feature of this vel-service reform the rule that pplicant shall be asked what his ion or his politi Who ever rd of such questions in any fireman's or policeman’s application blank? And what object has the Broateh board in announcing what questions will not be 1?7 Why not also announce that the applicant will not be ked to state what newspaper subseribes or where he buys his clothing il his groceries? On the very face of it the anuouncement that no questions will be asked about religion or politics bears |the stamp of Pharisecism, No such questions ever have heen asked by any board, and could not be without lating the law under which the commis- sion was originally created. Right here it way as well be stated that the rules governing applications for appointment to the police and fi departments, now in force, cover all | the necessary requirements. Tivery ap plicant is requirved to fill out the blank and answer all questions in his own handwriting. He is required to give his nativity, age, length of residence, and general res for secking appoint- ment. It naturally follows that mis- representation on points would subject him to dismissal. And any officer who, after being sworn in, makes false reports concerning any official in- quiry should not only be dismissed in disgrace, but L orever ineligible for reappointment, There will an active competition between half & dozen or more cities for | the al political of next year. Thus far-Buftalo has made the most gen offer, having pro posed to raise $300,000, the greater part of it ithority for the ke, as 5 D THE CANAL. The utterances of the St. zotte regarding the Britain to the Nicaragua canal will com mand attention in this country as well as in England, for while that journal may not speak as an organ of the pres- ent government, it is not to be doubted that it reflects, so far as this matter i concorned, the predominant British sen- timent. “The feeling indicated in the Ga- zette's articl that of apprehension that Great Britain, by neglecting 1o in- sist upon the recognition of ler treaty vights, will enable the United States to control and authority in Cen- 1 Ameriea that would be inimical to Rritish interests there, The strained view of the London paper is that the ultimate object of the proposition that this government shall guarantee the whole capital for the construction of the canal “is not o much the cutting of the chnal as the firm and final establish ment of the United States’ authority in Central America.” In other words, the projected enterprise, in the opinion of the Gazette, is simply an expedient for enabling this country to obtain control in that portion of the hemisphere, and this the London er evidently gards with a keen feeling of anxiety. That such a feeli X in official rters in England is by no means in- | probable The gove sl James relations of Great he for is sons these lqu nation conventions nment enforee desires that the RBritish Clayton-Bulwer | treaty, urging that the guarantee by this government of the eapital of the canal | company would be an infraction of that | heard from, but there is a feeling that treaty. - This poiat has not escaped con- | Doth the republican and democratic con sideration in and the advo likely. to e hold $n cates of government guarantee have been praetical’y vnanimous in the opin- fon that it would net contravene the | treaty. T a speech detivered in the sen- to be used in eNestruaeting a soit {able building. Chicazo has not 1 congress very An eastern banker who made a tour‘of the west declared on Lis return that the I gold question and the silver question te last December by Senator Dolph he | gink o insigniticance: in comparison {sald: “The Clayton-Bulwer treaty as |\ith the magniticent veturns which the been a bughear in the minds of some | crons of this year will give, Cortainly people in the way of congressional ald [ ppe corn of Nebraska alone will be to or control of the Nicaraguan canal by | worh more than the silver produced the United States. Nearly™a balf cen- | from all the mines of this country tury has elapsed since that treaty was —_— made. The then conditions have greatly Pacific ex) officals say the changed. The changes in conditions in robbers secured but little more this country have devolved new respon- | than $100 as the net results of the sibilities upon the goveramont. ‘The par- | Brady Istand holdup. From the condi | ticular and principal object of the treaty | tion of the express car, however, was the then projected interoceanic ¢a- | would think the robbers \ nal by the Nicaraguan route. This [everything of yalue in it, scheme, the then projected canal, tailed, | and the treaty so far as it related to that particular scheme was termiuated,” This view was held by Senator Morgan A The train 088 one taken There would seem to be a first rate opportunity for setting wp another Spanish republic, but it is ot likely to | town | and other advoentes of government con llu- Improved,imithough there have boen reports of a pogeible attempt on the part of Spanish vepublicans, The trouble Is they have no leader, most of those who o fdentified with the | shortlived repulilic of twenty-s wu“ years ago, including the eloquent | telar, being now in sympathy with the monarehy. might have intercepted some ople who have been attending sus national conventions he'd | in Denver this summer if the proper effort we mnde, There are two three national associations still to hold their meetings in Denv this fall and Omaha may yet L few delegates to stop enroute if it sets about n the right way. wo Omaln of the y the nume it it Condensed. much of the Chicago is an ageressive, plucky and en with great potentialitics, in abiding faith Appronching Death, uls Republic. most _eloquent _indic of 16 to 1 is on the down grade in Indiana is that Dan Voorhees has quit whooping it up. Dan is a flexible statesman never out of a job. - Mueh Testy Cincinnati 1 Omaha has spi rprising which | has an Symptoms of 8t L Ona of the the fact that tions Too in Ohio e We know of democrats right hers in Ohlo (observe the plural number) wh want to be president, and who are entitled to considera- tion in that line, who are “sh about travel- ing over the only practical route to the pres dency. AW i peaking of the i ns, the democratic somehow overlooks the fact that no increase was mad un#il th country had put it out of the power of the democrats in congress to do any mo; mischief, Souvenirs of the Lost Cn Philadeiphia P The holders of confederate bonds in Los don are keepin the account alive in their ledgers and their oill is now about $37,000,- 000, The commi which represents the holders are in earnest, and when the oppor- tunity offers it will no doubt be proposed to apply all the power of the financial center of the world to #queeze the money, or a por tion of it, out of this government. All this seems very absurd at this time on this side of the water, but it is a really serious mat- ter in London. & L Receding Waves of Chicago Record The new immigration statistics justify the belief that a climax has been reached, and | that a decline in the number of aliens com'ng hiero Is in progress. The reason for this is many immigrants are going to Australia America and to the colon posse of the various European countries in 1 and Asis. We are also getting a bet ter class of foreigners generaily, the criminal and pauper classes secking countries where | the | of immigrants is less rigid that it ome i this country. Steamship lines are more ¢hary of bringing those whom the officers know they will have to take back free of cost. This is,qui e as powerful a check as our own rigid inspection. ——— Procrastination in the Waller Case, New York Sun Tho case of ex-Consul Waller 1s dragging rather strangely. Months have passed since ho was brought as a prisoner from Mada- gascar to Marseilles and since Mr. Eustls was instructed ‘to fnqnire into the matter, That our ambassador Is likely to look after American rights may be assumed, but up to the- latest accounts he has not seen a copy of the court martiel record, although one has been promked. The whole performance is singular. There is a strong impression in some quarters. that Mr. Waller did not do- libe: y aet the spy, and that if he was indiscreet in describing the proposed French movements In letters to his wife, yet he must have dealt with matters of common knowledge, and that the sentence pronounced on him was harsh, not to say preposterous But, just or unjust, the facts on which it was founded should be made known, we. migration, DENVER'S CALAMITY, Sioux City Times: The D ror is another of those tirely to carelessness or an effort to economize worse than wastefulness, Kansas City Star: The terrible cata he which resulted in the death of so many peo. ple in the Gumry hotel in Denver is only what might have been expected from the loym as engineer of a boy 17 years age who was in the habit of drinking whi He was drunk at the time the ex plosior occurred. All fatalities of this na- | ture proceed directly from careless nd | no warning has ever been sufficiently im- pressive to prevent their recurrence. Chicago Post: Inspectors whose duty it is 1o look after such matters should take wa ing from Denver and see (o it that no cheap men are employed to tend the engines in buildings and that only regularly licensed inesrs are intrusted with these responsl- | duties. In this city no man can follow | an engineer's vocation without an_engineer's lic Whatever the law may be in Den- | ver, il is not likely that young Loescher had | a license. A boy of 17 canuot possibly get | experience necessary to entitle him to nver hotel hor- which are due en- incompetence and where cconomy s of icago Tribune: The loss of life and ty was increased by the interference of electric wires. They obstructed the fire- men This is only one of many instances of inconvenic arising from electric wires strung ebove ground in the cities, and it | ought to furnish another argument for placing all such wires underground There has been no lack of arguments thus far, but they have not bee effcetual to put the wires where they b To the more simple telegraph and e wires of a few PArS A0 we now have added the cables which carry far | more powerful currents for electric lighting and trolley wires for the transmission motor force to street railway systems, all are very much in the is to be dealt with. Buffalo Express: The terrible loss of life In Denver seems to have been due to the fact that ¢ 0w s of the hotel that was blown up had hired as night engineer a cheap boy, who got drunk. Too many own- ers of stationary engines take these desper- | ate chances in order to save a few dollars New York World: The explosion of the | bollers of the Guwry hotel in Denver is per- haps the first accident of the kind on record | in hotel histor view of the increasing frequency of a of all kinds the aver- citizen is for consolation to the Kismet do Emerson, who held that | on two da s not to run from thy grave, and the unappointed | days; first neither balm nor phy nor thee on the second the prope of | and way when a big fire t for on the siclan can save universe slay." K warr This should he a ¢l proprictors and owners in which heating or me- | necessitate the use of 100 often the case that | are addicted to lnte mistakes while under | the influence of.ligyor. ich men rarely | hold a position jorg, but wander about from | | nsas C ° to all i of largs buildings chanleal requireme steam plants. It ¢ t men perate habits, e wha one place to another, keeping a position until some bunder of thélrs necessitates their dis charge. Again' seeking employment, they | offer their services at lower w u order to obtain a position. A proprietor may think that he has done a good day's work in reducing expenses by employing them. | That this is not so is sometimes rarely ap- | clated by whose business It is to look | Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U, S. Gov't Report Rl ABSOLUTELY PURE | used during his term as police judge to keep | ana | bitity. { pocke are Postmaster General Wilson cul Comptrol- LOCAL CAMPAIGN CHATTER, The roll call of Counell 125 and the distance between Omaha and Brady Island relieves several patrlots of a suspicion that might otherwise attach to them Judge Berka dropped into poetry at the meeting of the Young Men's Republican elub and reeled off a lot of stuff that has been hard characters out of the city. It was a mean advantage of the julge to inflict It upon the candidates, but then most of them desetve severe punishment. There is apt to be a lot of pneumonta in town next November it election day happens to be wet or chilly. Twenty sandidates | ke at the Patterson hall meeting last | night premised to take off their coats on elec. ‘ tion day and work for the other it they didn’t get the nominations themselves, iree who & fellows H. E. Cochran has announced himself aw a candidate for police judge.. With Broatch as | mayor and Cochran as police judge lite would loliday for some people In lave a faculty for “getting next" ble officials be a town who | to suscepti- “I have a few notes in my pocket—" com- menced John Westberg in his speech at the | Young Men's Republican club last night “Fives or Sam Macleod in tone, the speaker tens and asked an anxions hie subject, changed Charley Unitt warns Campaign Chatter if it don't stop poking fun at him he will 'it h'it Wover the 'ead with a ‘ickory h'axe ‘andle, 1. vish M. Macfarland has broken into the der- ranks as the mouthpiece for his law Mr. Saunders cf the council. Mr Macfarland thinks the present council is the best that ever ruled in the city, with the ex- ception of four or five members who refuse to dance when his partner and other dervish leaders pull the string. partner, Judge Scott is going to stump the district He will take his friend Babbitt as a body- guard when he speaks at Editor Raker's home at Gretna, What was the need of Broatch et al rub- bing salt in the sores of the dervish appli- cants for positions on the police force by turning them down and then requiring them to pass an examination in reading, 'riting ‘rithmetic before their applications would be considered? That's what C. Ranter Scott would call adding insult to injury. Editor Hitchfake has offered the use of his “Public Pulse” column to the democrats in the coming city campaign. The *Public Pulse” column is the part of the editoral page for which the editor denies responsi- That's the kind of support the local democrats have been getting from their al- leged organ right along. Colonel Akin has not hurrah for several wee still a candidate for clerk of the district court, but he retired in good order before the advance of the touching committee, and will hold his forces in reserve until timié for the final charge. attended a dervish The colonel is Charley Bruner says that the republicans who are dissatisfied with both Livesey and Jacobsen and are looking for a good man for commissioner in his district, are im- portuning him to attract their attention, “‘We must meet every night and go through the motions of doing business,” said Paul to Wm. J. So they get up rules and regula- tions and proclaim them in force. All of which is only a choice bit of low comedy. RSONALITIES, oung Mr. Thurma definitely the self-impo: ing the kinks in Cal Brice's locks. Lawyers have the lab.es turned on them occasionally. A Chicago barrister had his bi- cyclo stolen while sonorously defending a cro. has deferred in- task of straighten- Indiana prohibitionists find nature ranged | against their efforts to enforce the Nicholson law. The average rainfall is seventeen inches short this year. No one can fully appreciate the depth of indignation prevalent in New York on Sun days who has not tarried for a drink in Jersey City or Hcboken, In figaring cn American home manufacturers run sgainst the ineur mountable difliculty of competing with the 5 and 10-cent wages of the celestials, Captain John Hinman, a Coney Island life guard, has saved 113 lives. The last was cn Sunday, when the rescued party presented the rescuer with a $5 bill in token of his grati- tude : Lewlis Baker, formerly publisher of the St. Paul Globe and now minister to Nicaragua, is said to be negotiating for the purchase of the Washington Evening News. Mr. Baker ap- preciates the uncertainties of '96 and is on the lookout for tho future. John 1. Blair, the New Jersey railroad ma who is said to have mcre than $25,000,000 in. veasted in western railroads, bo. that he has never hought a road merely for specula- tion, and that none of his money has been made by building or bearing stocks, Of the prominent republican candidates for the presidency there is one, excepting Governor Morton, who has not too much stomach. Harrison, Ree!, McKinley and All'- son weuld be in better shiape physically for a little banting. Feeding on the honey begotten by a presidential bee seems to conduce to o pulency. Mr. John Blakel man, who died in New York a few da had a curious method of disposing of money during business hours. He had seven in his clothing, and in each pocket he kept a spectal denomination of coin, and bo made change by diving his hand into this or that pocket, whichever was necessary. Two of the warmest chums in Washington trede in China a_successful busir They breakfast together at t ton, dine together in the evening and invariably drive together until bedtime. They are kunown to the cabmen and hostlers about town as the “light we!ght statesim: their combined avoirdupois being a little over 200 pounds. John Wesley Hardin ruffians of Texas, d'ed recently with his boots on. Hardin achieved d'stinction s a Killer on the Rio Grande and had nine notches on his rifie stock when he ran up against a pugnacious sheriff who plugged him pientl fully. Besides promoting frontier cemeteries. Hardin had put in eighteen years of his life in varicus Jails, Jerry Simpson, when twitted for drink'ng champagne at Tcpeka the other night, sald “It is part of my purpose to secure some of the luxuries of life to the common people.” John Fiske, the scholar and historian, who read Latin while yet in pinafores, and Greek before he had left off kuickerbockers, has an infantile rival in Richmend Benn of Wich'ta Kan., who is not yet 5 years old. Richmond reads elementary French and Latin with ease, and has a familiarity with methematics that would do credit to a boy of 14 one of the eminent Baking Powder | not REVIEW OF WALLER'S CASE First Reports Looked as Though Nothing Oould Be Done For Him. PROVED TO HAVE BEEN DISTORTED Ambassador Eustis, After Repente Urging, Scoures the Right to See the Ex-Consul in strueted to Confer with WASHINGTON, Aug glven In officlal circles as a the Walier far as r State department: Thera Iy while in a country occupied by Mr. Waller wrote letters to the French were opposin traced to him and wese made for his arrest and conviction and convletion were irregular, His trial was fair and during his imprisonment, both betore and after conviction, he was treated with great harshness. He was brought to ¥ chained to the deck of a steamer and, though 1l and suffering, he was fm prisoned without proper eare. The Frenc government has not explained in auy satis faclory manner the frregular arrest and trial. It has been attempted to excuse it by saylng that in time of w are different from civil proceedings in time of peace, but this explanation, in the opinion of the United States, does not meet the case and in the opinion of the State department there is still a strong probability that Waller's treatment was due to the conces- sions he claimed in Madagascar. When the case was first pres Department of State it appeared as little that could be done for Che first evidence furnished by the French government of Waller's indiscretions made his case look doubtful, but later develop- ments, including the failure of the French government to explain the Irregular proceed- ings of the trial and the unnecessarily harsh and Inhuman treatment of the prisoner and the demonstrated fact that Waller had some equity rights, at least, in Madagascar, made his case appear in a far better light, In view. of what has come to light as & result of later Inquiries it is held that the United States has good ground for demanding Waller's relesse and indemnity for his wrongs PERMITTED TO SEE WALLER. Acting Secretary of State Adee authorizes the statement that information has been received from Ambassador Eustis in respons to urgent instructions cabled him some thre weeks ago, that the record of the proceedings and evidence in the court martial of Mr. Waller at Tamatave fs expected to reach Parls toward the end of this month, Mr. Eustis also reports that access to Mr. Waller has been accorded to him after repeated and urgent request made on the reiterated orders of the Department of State. The departmen not hayving been advised whether Mr. Eustis has taken advantage of this permission to delegate a competent deputy to visit the prison near Clairvaux, where Mr. Waller is at present confined and confer with him, Mr Adee has instructed him by telograph that he should do so at once, if he has not al- ready done 0. Mr. Adee adds that this result was reached after repeated telegraphic instruction: which shows the constant ac- tvity of the Department of State in Mr. Waller's case, and it is hoped that the production of the evidence before the court martial will enable the department to form a judgment touching the conviction of Mr. Waller. The” international right of this government to demand the evidence upon which convic- tion was reached, in order that it may de- termine its action in the case is ungues- tionable, and is fortified by abundant pre- cedent. Tn the case of the American citizens lately tried by court martial in Honolulu on charges of treason to the government of the Hawaiian republic the proceedings of the court were asked for and the documents were promptly forthcoming. The delay of the French government in responding to the first demands of the United States in Mr. Waller' case has not been fully explained, although it was alleged that the record of the pro- | ceedings of the court which tried him re- | mained, in fact, in Tamatave, notwithstanding that our consul at that place was informed on April 17 that it had already been sent to | France, and the delay had been occasioned by the necessity of sending for it The department has no later information of | the movements of Mrs. Waller and her four children since the dispatchi of Consul Camy bell of Port Louis, Mauritus, announcing that under the department’s cabled ins‘ruc- tions to provide them with passage home they were to sail from that place for France on the 20th of this month, on their way to the United States. Mr. Eustls has been in- structed to meet them on their arrival and | provide them with passage to the United States by first steamer. PARIS, Aug. 22.—A semi-official note was issued today saying it Is inexact that the Unlted States government has demanded the release of Mr. John L. Waller and the pay- ment of an Indemnity on account of his sen- tence to twenty years imprisonment by a court martial on the island of Madagascar. where Mr. Waller was formerly United State: consul. The following Is falr review of eported to the loubt that the people the letters the pretext The arrest case as no s were ance, r military cour nted to the Waller. ench | t that there | | And she's off e e e THE NATIONAL FARWER, Seoretary Morton's en tomologieal department might render some appreciative servico by doing something to check the ravages of tha prosidential beo Washington Post: Let us hope that Secre- tary Morton will not attempt to carry this thing to such an extent as to offer to pay off the colored employes in watermelon seeds. Philadelphia Record: Secretary Morton, with some sense of humor, caused (he wages of the free silver employes In the Agcicul: tural department to be handed to them in Bland dollars on pay day. This was, how- ever, but n small hardship compared with that” which the free colners would infilot upon the country. 1f they could have thelr way the silver dollars wonld only buy cents worth of meat, bread or rainient Philadelphia Press: Mr. Morton, the gar- | rulous secrot of agriculture, has per- formed feat in tho way of demon- strating the soundness of his views on the money quest He had the paymaster of pay all subordinates who do Mr. Morton's views on the sitver coln. Over $16,000 in coln was used for that purpose tho other {day. It Mr. Morton were paid his $8,000 salary {n gold coin, does any one suppose that he would accept the heavy load with | Kood grace? Fortunately the cause of sound | money does mnot depend on such quack { methods to sustain it | - | PASSING PLEASANTRIES, | Life: Spinner the time fly. | t { day T made’ a century Washington Star > with All, it 18 oasy to makae Ves; only tho other run, No, Mand, alled b | Philadelphia Record | o1a settlers are not so | wiways pay thelr bilis denr, ause the they “I'N sy Mrs. MeSwat always put Tribune | Holm observed | he built a house he closets in 16" Chi this for “When plenty of a0 Boston Transeript: Mr an_ exquisitely lovely creature seasons 5! Miss Twoseasons remarkably well preserved Richfello—What Miss 1Five Yoo-8, 8 “1_hear that under the bed She Mrs, the Indianapolis Journal Wixton found ‘a man other night “It was her husband there herself.” chased him Roston Courler: Physiclan—And you have felt this way for several days? H'm. Let me see your tongue. Datient—It's no use, doctor; 1o tongue can tell how I suffer. 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