Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1901, Page 6

x | 1 | THE OMAHA DAII WY BEE: WEDNESDAY o JANUARY 1901 THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. ROBEWATER, Editor, Y MORNING, TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION. Dutly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$6.00 Daily Iee and Sunday One Year 800 Ilustrated | Yoar. . zo !unfln? Bee r . 200 Baturday Bee, One Year L18 Weekly Bee, One Year............... & OFFICES, Omaha: The Hee Byllding Bouth Omaha: City Hall Building, Twen- ty-fAfth and N atreets Councll Blufts: 10 Pear] Stre: Chicago: 1640 Unity Buildin New York: Templa Court New York: Temple Court Washington: 51 Fourteenth Street, Sloux City: ‘611 Park Street. CORRESPONDENCE. s and edi- Communications relating to nev Omaha torial matter should be addressed: Bee, Bditorial Department BUSI 8 1 RS, Business letters and remittances sheuld addresged Com- pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES, Remit by draft express or payable to The fiee Inly 2-cent stamps o yment of | mafl accounts. Personnl checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exch 1ot accepted. THE B PUBLISHING COMPANY The Bee i'ublishing 1 order, Company por ublirhing cepted in § STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss George . Taschick, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn save that the actual number of full and | complete coples of The Dally, Morning Fvening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 190, was as follows 1 27,750 17 27,510 2 avaus 18 27,780 2 27,860 19 27810 | iy 27,200 28,210 | 13 27,4860 27,4870 ] 27,420 27,440 7 27,080 L] v 27410 0 20,505 25,040 | 10 27,510 27,500 ) HTTTTTN 27 27,170 12. 27,140 1 27,250 " 27,725 16, aran0 ol 26,070 16. 26,965 Subscribed in my presence and swe before me this 3ist day of December 100, M. B, HUNGATE (Seal.) Notary Public If the opening hours are any eri- terion the new century Is going to make things crack. the popocratic office Nebraska to holders: ke your clothes and go, and I don't care If you never come back. Smiling faces are a sure sign of a contented people. And mighty few people in Omaba pulled a long face yesterday. If Oom Paul bad done his part in lurope as well as Dewet is doing in Afriea n peace treaty would be ready for signature by this time. There is little comfort for the crim- inals in the announcement that Hon. Ben 8. Baker is to preside over the criminal court for another year. Making the punishment fit the erime has always been one of Ben Buaker's strong points. That is one reason really guilty men do not like to face him, Grover Cleveland says the president’s term of office is too short. Now listen for an answering shout from silver dem- ocrats that it was long enough for Grover. Don't forget that Omaha's interest in the to Omaha's interest in Ak-Si Auditorium and a few othe; projects, twentleth century is not paramount Ben, the Omaha Omaba was blessed with a wonder fully bright and cheerful New Year's day-—bright even for Nebr Let u )t the omen and hustle to make whole year as b kit to Omaha people have little to apolo gize for in the balance sheet shown by the last year. New Y day was all the brighter for the showing of ma- terial prosperity made by the city, The popocrats deny that smoking was indulged in at the recent banquet at Lincoln. The popocratic pipes went out election night and there has been no materinl at hand to fre them up since that date. —y Mrs. Nation ean be depended upon to break out as a lecturer after her al- leged martyrdom. When it comes to a matter of attracting the public atten- tion the Kansas wowan Is unique and without a pee —_— rank James, the once noted bandit, 18 a candidate for the position of door- keeper of the Missouri legislature, Should be be elected and anyone should question his authority Frank is amply able to show them, It is just about now that the annual recurrence of school board politics breaks out. There is much indication that the present Board of Bducation will indulge in less politics and more business than any of its predecessors, — The Chinaman who murdered Baron von Ketteler, the German ambassador, has been executed, but at last accounts Prince Tuan and the other high per sonages who instigated the ontrages were wearing their heads in the usual place, ———— Now that there is $50,000 in sight some of the people who are so confident the police have bungled the Cudahy cuse and that the perpetrators of the outrage could be apprehended in twenty-four hours or in double thut time at the farthest, ean afford to lay ir regular emplo, earn a off from tl a day money. for pin or two aund little One of the sigus of the season is the announcement by a capitalist and pro. moter that he is not working to s cure an additional consolidation of tube manufacturing interests. On the con trary, he has enlisted capitai to embark in the Industry on a new pro a larger seale, and promises to open new factories. Thus does the “octopus” ess and | PRAISE FOR THE (ONSULAR SERVICE Hon, John 1. Long, secretary of th navy, was the guest of honor of a din ner given last Friday by the clal club of Bos In bis speech Long referred to the consnlar s cordinlly comuending it for tl it is doing in promoting the mmeree of the United States He sald that while our mannfactories have been absorbed In production the consular officers of the = dep ment stationed alrond have their activity in reporting trade litlons nided largely In torr our surplus produects into foreign ¢ nels, While the consular its defects, sald the secretary of the navy, yet its officiuls, without special previous train ing or experience and choseit from the general body of the public, have been marvelously quick and efficient in pointing ont not only the opportunities but the hindrances to an inereased commeree and alding In the establizh wment of trade, farnishirg not only gen el information but minute detalls, and accomplis®ing so much that foreign na tions, especially Great Britain and Ger many, awakening to our outstripping them, have recently taken steps to glve a more practical character to thelr co sular reports and to insure their speedier publication. Mr. Long said that at the very outset of the present adwministration the im port this service was recognized and steps taken to stili further facill- tate the commereial publications of the Department of State and to distribute them more promptly for the benefit of the business community There has certalnly been very great lmprovement In thix respect and unguestionably the consular at very much more efticient @ud useful than it m foreign by service lLas . of service s went was four years ago. ‘Chere ean be no assurance, however, of maintaining the high standard that has n reached until the consular service shall be ab- solutely divorced from politics. The next change in the political character of the national administration might undo all that has, been accomplished in fmproving the efficiency and elevat ing the standard of the consular ser- vice, THE LAW VINDICATED. Results have fully vindicated the cur rency law of last March, It was freely predicted that the refunding provision of that act would be a failure, but on the contrary it has proved quite as snccesstul as its most sanguine advo cates anticipated, more than one-half of the bonds bearing 3, 4 and 5 per cent interest and maturing within the nes eight years having been exchanged for the per cent bonds authorized by the act. As was expected, by far the grenter part of this refunding has hee done by the banks. The net saving of interest to the government Is stated to be over $10,000,000, which is not the least important point in the transac- tion. While the secretary of the treas- ury stopped refunding at the close of the year he can resume it at any time, but It is probable this will not be done until there shall be a demand for it, since there is no doubt the treasury will be able to pay off the remaining high-interest bonds as they shall ma tu Marked success has provision of the currency act ating to national banks. Of the 305 banks organized siuce the law of last March went into effect 280 have a canital less than $30,000, the principal ineréase 50 attended that in this class of banks being in those st sections of the west and southw where national banks could not be ganized under the old law, owing to the eapital required. Ve great benetit to these sections must come from the banking facilities they have thus ne- quired. Under the operation of this act the bank note circulation has been increased over $85,000,000, The law has fultilled all that was prowmised for it. 1t strengthened finan- cial contidence, improved the national « a large saving to the government in interest, relieved the treasury of the problem regarding the payment of bouds maturing during the next few years, supplied banking facili- ps where before the were none and tevially increased the volume of paper currency LIVESTOCK MEN'S PROBLEMS. The coming meeting of the National Livestock assoctation, which convenes in Salt Lake January 14, will in many respects be the most important gather- ing of the kind ev held. The live- stock industey is at present in as pros perous o condition as it has ever heen, but it is equally true there are problems ahead which, unless they are promptly and correctly solved, the range live stock man will be facing ruin. Condi tions have changed since the day when lurge herds roumed at will over wide expanses of territory and the restri tlons are growing Prono with each succeeding ye * The introduction of of sheep Into what has i the past been bands e led the enttle country has compli cated the problems, Sheep and cattle caunot oceupy the same range, aud the growth of the sheep industry Lus driven the eattleman from many sections where he was formerly supreme, The dvent of the sheepherder has provoked quarrels funuwerable, resulting in the Killing of his flocks and in many in tances also of the Hockmasters, Some cquitable method of settling these differ- ences must b devised. One industey must not be allowed to deive another | out of existence, Neither wmust per soual violence and the destruetion of property be tolerats Theoretieally the solution 1s casy, bat practically it will tux the best minds in the two industeies. 1t s ensy enough to say that all trouble wiil be averted Ly each class respecting the rights of the other. Man is selfish, however, and always fixes the line where his rights end and the other ones begin o con siderable distance beyond the poiut 1 opponent i wililug to concede, long, thercf as the land range, the property of the government, Just so long there will be differen sg o s open lssue suffer another setback, Private ownership of the land offers [ chants and home manufacturers by gi for the me seek to ine or danger and realize now more than ev edge that gives the hidd one this range country it ing sections land 18 divided up small tracts, but on the range, to of value, must be held fn large bodi & sntively small portions of the vast stretehos of territory control the value of all. The range ry I8 semi-arid. The ownership of the minor portions which contain the water car ries with it the control of all, provided title i« absolute. 1If the range country is to prosper permanently this must never be allowed and any law for the passing of title of large tracts of land n the range country must protect the ght of free access of all to the water, The small owner of live stock and also those, however few in number, who are I @ position to cultivate the sofl, must have thelr inte e he forwulation of a bill which will accomplish the results outlined, work an injustice to nelther Individual nor any industry, Is a most difficult prob- o, which will tax the ability of the sections in the solution. 1n <y agricultural problen, but is different s anea into e co! wisest and an accomplishment which any man or set of men con well b proud of if they achicve the result, The ax<oclation at previous meetings has de- voted much time to the discussion of these subjects and they will be the 1most vitul ones before the coming meet- ing. If the measures prepared for sub- mission to congress are fair to all p ties there will be comparatively little difficulty in securing thelr enactment into laws. If they are narrow and de signed to further the wnterests of auy particular industry or any partieular class engaged in the stoc it will simply be inviting opposition which will nder the passage of any meas ure improbable i not fmpossible, SOME GOOD RESOLUTIONS FOR OMANA Omaha and its people have an in viting field before them to cover with good resolutions oun the opening of the new year. It may be ditficult to put them n any order resembling their importance, but among them will be found: A resolve o expand the auditorium fund to the necessary figure and make the auditorium materialize in stone, steel and wortar, A resolution to have the new High school building in shape to receive the pupils at the beginning of the next school year, thus relleving the dang from overcrowding under the present accommodations, A resolution to plant at least a dozen more factories and mills in the city, of- feriug remunerative cmployment as the incentive to continued population growth, A resolution to cement closer relations between Omaha and fts suburban neighbors through tl nstruction of a network of suburban electrie lines, A resolution to encourage home mer- ing them the preference in making pur- chases of all Kinds, Last, but not least, a v The Bee, as th newspay slution to read best and most relinble published in these parts. THREATENING One of the wol 1E CUDAHYS, st features of the Cud- ahy kidnaping case is that just now co- & to the front. The eriminals, secure it in comparative obscurity, sase their Gumunity by pre ing on the parvental feelings of Edward A, Cudaby and his wife. Not satistied with having extorted a g sum money as o ransom for a stolen boy, they now threaten murder, It is likely the threat is empty, and would be so treated under normal conditions, but it is not possible that either Mr. Cudaby his excellent wife can look on the matter cally. They have felt the T what it means. It is th cow feeling th fidence to threaten, they may shake the father's resolution | to hunt them down. The Cudaly fam- iy has not only been subjected to an unusual mental and physical strain, but the miscréants engaged in the kidnaping seem determined to make the condition permanent. In the meantime nothing is to be gained by the abandonment of the senrch, and it is certain that there will be no relaxation in the efforts heing made to apprehend and punish the kid- napers, The United States starts the new cen- tury with the best credit of any na tion on earth, its people are the most prosperous, enjoy more of the worldl blessings of life than those of any othe mntry and have better opportu nitics to fmprove their position than those of any other. The government | of the United States is not perfect, nor ave the pleasures unalloyed, but for all the rantlngs of the pessimist and ca lamityite conditions are hnproving and the United States and its people ar doing more to solve the problems of lite than are those of other tlon of the globe, any see Mrs., Nation of Wi talnty i hita has of a cer- proved on the nineteenth con tury unotion of a crusade. It Is not altogether unlikely that she will be found too far in advance, even for Kan say, aud that the gentle restraint of a padded cell will be uscd to curb zeal in behalf of “temperanc The fusion papers which have filled columns of space telling great tight and bitter teeling th to result from the selection of prosid ing officers of the state senate and house are doomed to disapppointment. But fusionists must Le getting used to dis appointients by this time, about the wils to The publishers and working printers | of the country have sturted the year right by promulgating a plan of arbi- | tration which will avoid strikes and | 159 lockouts, The sooner all teades and all | iss7 cuwployers adopt the plan the better | 1 it will be for both classes, :ex e 1892 Oue thing 15 certaiu. 1€ the twentieth | 183 centary brings about all the wonderful | 1 things that are being prophesied for it | ::_j'; the dweller on earth fn the year 2000 | i will look back ou we poor wortals with i In farm- | | stant control and steerage w | | collisions. 1 much of the same condesconding pity we are now wasting on our forbears of the dark ages It is comforting to | know that we will he spared the humili ation of having our ignorance paraded .| before us in the bright light of the glorious day the prophets see, Farming in Nebraskn pays in spite of the elaborate figures made by the departing labor commissione Mr. | Kent probably realizes by this time | that the man who woeks the soil will | harvest more crgps and less failures | than the man who trles to work the rmiers, Apologints Always Around. Globe-Democrat Thero never yet was a system of brutal- at West Polut or elsewhere, but that | apologists for it could be found. Slavery and duelling were formerly defended by the same class of “reasoners.’’ York World. cssness of prolonging the African war is shown by the fact that the squadron of British cavalry captured near Pritston on Tuexday last was perforce r leased by its Boer captors the very mext day. —_— Working the Wolves, Cleveland Leader. The fact that a boy with only $20,000, which he had secured from dupes in va- rious cities, was ablo to pose as a mil- lionaire in Wall street, is pretty good ev dence that all the suckers are not outside of that gamblers' paradise. A Little Galety in War, Francisco Call. The Boers are not deficient in humor, Their milltary operations sometimes take lon a turn of that kind. For instance, two wagenloads of Christmas Juxuries, destined |tor Lord Methuen's forces, were captured and duly appreciated by the captors, who evidently know a good thing when they seo it Clalms at the Wr Door. Springtield Republican The sta nent thrown out from Washing- | ton that the United States government will not pay the claims of Buropean gov ernments against Cuba for losses sustained by forcigners during the insurrection geinst Spanish rule is entirely proper. | Nor should the government of Cuba be made responsible for such losses. Spain manifestly is the power those claimants should turn to for compensation for losses suffered under Spanish rule. General Alger at ome, Detrolt Journal General Alger's defense is that of a man who is conscious of having suffered for no fault of his own. He did all that man could do to provide the soldiers with arms, rations, clothing and transportation. The | war, under all the circumstances, was one of the most brilliant in conception, execu- tion and triumph the history of the world records. The master mind of it all was hounded from his exalted position into pri- vate life while the chief traduc matchless service to his countr warded with undeserved and honors. unearned Equal Thts the Ronad. New York Tribune. It is the duty of a pedestrian to keep upon the sidewalk save when it is neces- sary to cross the roadway and then to cross at an opportune moment and with reason- able expedition. It is, nevertheless, equally the duty of those in charge of vehicles, however propelled, to restrain them within sonable speed, (o keep them under con- y and to ex- possible diligence in avolding They are as much bound to look out for pedestrians at the crosswalks as pedestrians are to look out for them. They are as much bound to slacken the speed to avoll collision as the pedestrian is to quicken his. It is in fact, far easier | for the men on the vehicles to keep their on the pedestrians and avold run- ning them down than it Is for the ped. trians to keep theirs on the multitude of vehicles which may be converging upon them from different directions. Simply ringing the gong is not enough. “Caveat pedes” is not the only rule of the road. ercise all es ted States Again 1 Othier Natlons. St. Louis Globe-T The United States scems likely to stand at the head of the world's list of export- ing nations in the vear 1900. One by one the great nations have fallen hehind in the race for this distinction, until during the last five years only the United Kingdom and the United States could bo considered as competitors for the distinction of being the world's greatest exporter of articles of home production. In 1804 the United Kingdom led the United States by nearly 250,000,000, and in 1897 the United States had so rapldly gained that she was but $60,000,000 behind. In 1898 the United States took first place, our exports in that year exceeding those of the United Kingdom by nearly $100,000,- 000. In 1899 the United Kingdom again stood at the head of the list, her exports oxceeding those of the United States by nearly $35,000,000 In the eleven months of 1900, whose fig- ures have been received by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics, the domestic exports of the United States exceed those of the United Kingdom by $5.473,670 and should this rate of gain be maintained in Decem- ber the United States will in the year 1900 show a larger expdrtation of domestic products than any other nation in the world. Even this distinction, however, of lead | ing the world's list of exporting nations but partially tells the story of the won- derful growth of our export trade as measured by that of other nations. Com- | paring the growth of our exports during the | last quarter of the century with those of the other great whtions of the world, we are able to better measure the wonderful progress shown. I'rance shows no increase | in her exports of domestic merchandise in the clcsing quarter of the century: G | many shows during the same period an in- crease of about 50 per cent and the United The Un ads Al mocrat Kingdom shows from 1875 to 1900 an In- | crease of nearly 40 per cent, while the United States shows during that time an increase of practically The following table, compiled from offi- clal eports, shows the exports of domes- | tie merchandise from the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively, in each calendar year from 1875 to 1599, and eleven months of the year 1900 0 per cent COMBINE AGAINST UNCLE SAW, our Standard of cleney W Furope at Ita Own Game, | Philadeiphia P | Confromed with P paramountey of the United Western hemisphere the recent Spanish- American congress at Madrid talked of combining all Latin-America in a moral, ocial and economic zollverein to the “pretensions” of the United It was quite clear at the congress the economic combization could not effected and as the spiritual and moral leader of Latin-America Spain Is likely to gain more in the matter of idle compli tacle of the States In the the oppose States. that | ments than {n substantial results. Un | impressed by the futile character of the Latin-American anti-Yankee mo Paul Leroy-Deaulleu, it seems, has written to the Vieuna Tageblatt advocating an eco- nomical federation of all Europe in oppo- sition to our own commercial development in order to protect Europe from becoming the Industrial vassals of the United States While the project seems even more fan- tastic than the sentimental campalgn Initiated by Spanish publicists it must be remembered that M. Leroy-Beaulleu fs a celebrated economist and not a visfonary. It what he suggesis largely _imprac- tleable, at least it indicates the appre hension felt in Burope over our industrial advance and should open our eyes to the kind of etruggle that we are in for in the contest for the world's trade. The wars which we shall be called on to wage in the coming century will be industrial. Armed as we are by the higher intelligence of the human factor and the greater natural re- put forward all our best efforts it we are to confront a united Europe. Mr. Leroy- Beauliew's scheme carnot be realized in full for generations, but the slightest ap- proximation to a tariff arrangement which would unite European countries and shut out the products of the United States might prove a serlous embarrassment to the even development of our commerce. I will tot do to borrow tiouble nor to cross the bridge of a hostile economic Bu ropean coalition until we come to it, but at the sama timy it will not do to ignore tho ohwvious drift of things abroad. Our own industrial advance cannot be too sed ulously watched. Everything t Eive |4 force and increases its possibilities | shouta be ¢ efully cultivated. We are doing mucl in the way of general educa- tion, It is not true, as Stanton Coit has | sald, that our working people are ilit erate. He looks through Latin and British glasses. Great Britain, in fact, only be- gan to realize the value of a common cducation for all clasees about thirty years ago. We have an advantage here and can keep 1t, just as we are ahead of England. it not Germany, In our technical and com- mercial edvcation. But we cannot rest where we are. We must ralse our standard of efficiency and beat Europe at its own game. | 1900, | BIG CROP OF ernl Average Note 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat country has no right to The complain According to the of Agriculture, 505 bushels of wheat and 2,105,102, 516 bushels of corn were produced in the about the crops of 1600 report of the Department year. This is a slight loss in the case of wheat and a slight gain in the case of corn, as compared with 1899, when the yield of ths former was 047,303,846 and of the latter 2,078,1 This year's wheat crop has been beaten only four times—in 1891, 1867, 1895 and 1899—the highest yield, that of 1898, being 675,148,705 bushels. This year's corn vroduction has been exceeded three times only—in 1880, when it was 2,112, & 000 buehels; in 1895, when it was 2,151,138, 580 bushels, and in 1896, when it was 2,- 283,875,165 bushels. Oats was also a large crop in 1900, the yleld being 809,125,989 bushles. Only once has this been exceeded, in 1805, when the crop was $24,443,537 bushels. In potatoes also the nroduction was large in 1900, amounting to 210,926,897 bushels. The year 1899, with a yield of 228,783,232 bushles, beat this record, but no other year did. In some of the other important agricultural products the figures are not so high. Barley's vield | was a fraction short of 59,000,000 bushels, and that of rye was about 24,000,000 bush- els. In each of these prodwets the output for 1900 has been surpassed several times In the last ten years. On the general average, however, the agricultural vield for 1900 has been good. Corn and wheat, the two greatest of the cereal products, scored high figures. Prices, 100, in the last few months, have been higher (han the average of recent years. The farmer has been doing well, and fis lkely to continue in this condition at least until the next crop comes in. The pres- ent fairly high prices stand a chance to prevail for many months vet, despite the abundant yield, for the demand in exporta- tlon continues to be large. The farmer, like all the other members of the communily, s enjoying prosperity. When the balance for 1900 i struck it will be found that the year has yielded a fair share of favors to all the workers of the United States. PERSONAL NOTE! Twenty-three men dug $297,000,000 out of Wall strect this year—and yet miners will go all the way to Nome and the Klondike! Mayor-clect Jobn K. Hurley of Salem, Mass., declares that, when in his office, he will give the whole of his salary to the poor of that city. The widow of a man whe was lynched in Indiana three yvears ago has just been awarded $4,000 damages, payable by the bondsmen of the sheriff, who failed to prevent the lynching. The shortest blography in the new con gressional dirgctory is that of Congress- man Allan Langdon MecDermott, demo- crat, of Jersey City It is three and a halt lines long. The sketch of Senator Depew is the longest—Afty lines New Jersey is again to the front, mod- estly calling attention to a tale of a case | ot dynamite taken in mistake for pre- serves (o a cellar in her bounds, placed near a hot furnace and opened with a ham- mer—all without hurting anybody or the dynamite A bowl of milk and a couple of crackers or an apple is the extent of Senator Fair- banks' luncheon. The Indianian, who, by the way, is already an avowed candidate for presidential nomination in 1904, holds that no man can do good work after #lling himself full of food at noon. Senator Wolcott of Colorado the other afternoon tok a long look at E. H, Keller, one of the senate doorkeepers, who strongly resembles “Billy" Mason. Then he sald in un awe-stricken tone: “Truly the ways of Providence are past finding out. To think that Senator Mason should have a double!” John W, kes, commissioner of Inter- nal revenue, says that before the recent election, when he was a candidate for the governorship of Kentucky, one of his a quaintances among the mountaineers in- sisted on calling him “governor,” and when {asked why, replied that it was because after election he wouldn't have a chance to call him that A number of enterprising automobile makers have tried to get the president to dd a horseless machine to his stable | equipment. They have offered him es- pecially constructed and elaborately deco- rated vehicles and have used all their com- merclal wiles on him and Lis representa- tives. A great many Washington officials use automobiles, but the president sticks to horses. sources of the country, we shall have to| STAT CAPITC GOSSIP OF THE LINCOLN, Jan. 1 The contest this yoar re called that of two years ago chiefly by the difference. This year the caucus pa circulated by Dr. Andrews and ‘ apeakership was .lvr«-mhlh sigaed without the slightert besl tation by everyone to whom it was pre sented. Every republican member attended as a matter of course and an agreement was reached with scarcely a contention Two years ago the struggle was all the republicans into the caucus | republican margin was still smaller then llh.ll\ now, being fifty-one altogether and it | was absolutely necessary to have a cauct | agreement {f any cholce was to be reache | and a deadlock avoided on house organiza to ge The | tion. Then even more than now the sena | torship was the disturbing factor. Iear | that the success of a Thompson man for spoaker would be used to antagonize other candidates for senator held five men out of the caucus until long past midnight. In the interval they received varlous propo- sitions from the fusionists to cast th solid fusion vote for one of the five recalcl- trants, but gradually the pressure became so great that a conferepcs was effectod and terms agreed on between Speaker Clark and his opponents. The price of the full cauens complement was the chairmanshi |of the most important committecs which were named for the speaker by the live republicans who stood out agafnst nim This year Speaker Sears boasts (hat did not have to bargain away elngle prerokative and the best of feeling prevails ns contrasted with the long standing wentments of the last session | pwid The choice of the house chaplain precipl tated the only real contest in the house caucus. Douglas. county had put forth a candidate for this place—the only thing the delegation asked among the elective { legislative positions. To keep the wagon running over smooth road a slate had been fixed up by the friends of the priacipal candidates for the chief places and en | dorsed by the signatures of members pledging their support. When it came to the ballot on chaplain only twenty votes emerged from the hat for the agreed chaplain, whick goes to show that promises {are just as easily broken when in writing as when made by word of mouth Douglas county, having been left out en- tirely in the elective positions in the two houses, is looking for adequate recognition [in the distribution of committee places Senator Baldrige is a likely chairman of the senate judiclary committee and each of the seven house representatives expect to be accorded committee chairmanships. ‘Well, I have put up $3,000 and bought my official bond for one year,” said Treas- urer-elect Stuefer this morning. This means that the bond company combine has come out on top and that rather than | bother his friends to go his surety the new | trensurer has acceded to the bond com- | pany's exorbitant demands. As the treas urer's salary is only $2,500 a year it is readily seen that he will have a red letter | balance on his personal account ledger when the year Is evened up unless retm- bursed by leglslative aporopriation. | 0. W. Armstrong of Nemaha struck a responsive chord in the house of representa- | tives today when he introduced a resolu- tion authorizing the employment of two additional clerks to compile daily the record | of house proceedings. The real object of the resolution is to reduce the expense of preparing the house journal for the printer. 1t has been customary in the past | for the house to employ either the chie | clerk or one of the assistants to do the work after adjournment, usually at a cost of $1,000 or more. Speaking of his motion Representative Armstrong said: “Two extra clerks, regularly employed, could keep the record up to date and hava it completed and in condition to be sent to the printer the day after the legislature adjourns. They would cost not over $i00, | and besides saving the state ahout the same amount, they would enable the printer 10 have the journal ready for delivery a few weeks ofter adjournment. After the lnst | session there was a long d:lay in furnishing | the copy and then just hefore the books were completed the printing establishment was destroyed by fire and the State Print- ing Board had to relet the contract. All | of that trouble and expense would have been eaved if the record had been kept up to date during the session. Mr. Armstrong made an eloquent appeal for the adoption of his resolution, but owing to the lateness of the hour the house ad- journed without voting on it. This astion, will | however, is not an indication that it be defeated, for Mr. Armstrong voluntarily agreed to allow it to go over until to- morrow. 1t is understocd that another motion with a similar object will be introduced in the senate. Among the interested spectators In the gallery of representatives' hall during the first session was Chairman J. H. Bdmisten of the populist state certral committee, who led the fusion forces in Nebraska to defeat in the last campalgn. It was his first appearance in public since the re sult of the eclection was determined and the expression on his countenance plainly denoted his bitterr disappointment, Mr. Edmisten left Lincoln a few days aficr election, leaving over $1,800 of unpaid bills against the committee, and his presence today was the signal for a gathering of a large number of the creditors. One of these was waiting for him as he emergod from the house gallery at the close of the session. t was a bad day for ‘Jim' Edmisten when we lost the state,” said a fusionist today as he noticed the painful expression worn by the late director of fusion des tinjes. “If he had won that battle he would be the biggest man on the floor at this time, but he lost and nobody thinks of him any more. I don’t suppose there are five fusionists on the floor of the house who know that he is in the gallery and I'll venture to say that none of them would go out of their way to speak to him." EMBE YEAR, Evidence the Line of Doing" Other Although the embezzlements of 1900 show a decided increase over those of 1809, it is to be considered that tho total of last year was the smallest in twent hree years. The figures for 1900 are $4,602,134, as compared with $2,218,875 in 1899, an increase of $2,383,- 1 Large as this sum appears, it is far below the average of the last twenty-three | years, which is §7,39,500. | The losses for the year are distributed s follows: Stolen by public officials, $1,183,- 678; from banks, $1,857,761; by agents, $271,- §78; forgeries, $166,900; from toan assocla- tions, $125,100; by postofiice employes, $24,- 427; miscellancous stealings, $952,350, Bank employes bave the unenviable reputation of heading the list, and more than three- | tourths of the bank total was taken by six employes, in Newport, Ky., Fort Worth, Tex., Elizabethport, N. J., Buffalo, Y. Rutland, Vt, and New York City banks, under conditions which would not have existed had the embezzlers been under proper surveillance and the banks been conducted upon safe business methods. There is nothing discouraging in the in- crease for the year, however, as it is still far below the average. The comparatively small sums embezzled are an evidence of the general prosperity of the country. In 188384 the totals were $26,604,000 and in 1803-04 8 714, and these were hard times years. twenty-eight | .. v . . . s 3 . . by . ‘ 3 ‘ 4 . . + ‘ 3 3 . . + . ‘ + 3 . + i + H tessssssssssssccsces OUGHT TO WIN - Nebraska Enterprise We believe that Bd®ard Rose water is the man who will make Nebraska an ideal senator. He has the ability and eapacity for the position. He I8 a man of broad, statesmanlike views. e has done herculean service for the republican party, not only in but also in national, affairs. The eredit of swinging Nebraska back Into the republican column is due largely to him. He lo Nebraska, and its Interests are a8 dear to him as the apple of the He is in tonch with the com mon people and has their confl- dence and esteem. Personal abil- party state interest a triple alliance which ought, and we believe will, bring victory to Mr. Rosewater's candidacy, state N rvice, | | | | i cesoee wHen CROWE? Hot Rival ¥ St Question “Whao 3 Pattersont” Hanapolls Journal Years ago It was “Who struck Billy Pat- tereon " Lat Have you seen Tom Col- 1ins 2" might be heard on the “levee” and other like resorts. Now it promises to be ‘Where's Pat Crowe?" And where Is Pat Crowe, anyhow?"" 1s he a myth ora reality? Did he kidnap Millionaire Cudahy’s son and receive $25,000 gold as a ransom? 1s he on the ocean, speeding toward Europe, as Bos tonlans assert, or is he in Chicago, mas- querading in female attire, as Windy City people fear? Again, can it be possible he is lurking somewhere fu Indiana—at Demo cratic-ribbed Fort Wayne, where he was supposed to be a few days ago, or at Mun- cle, trylng to steal the “Gem’” from that prosperous gas belt ity with the intention or holding it for a fabulous ransom? And still again, is he in Laramie prison, cbuck- ling over the search that is being made for him, or ix he hiding in Des Moines, St. Joseph, Denver, Kansas City, Catlettsburg, Springfield, 0., What Gheer and other cities where news ‘‘fakers” reside? Or is he quictly “lying low" in Podunk or Tailholt, safe from the inquisitive reporter, waiting until the excitement blows over and legis- latures begin enucting laws making death the penalty for kidnaping? all, Perhaps, after he is like Eugene Sue's “Wandering doomed to wander over the earth and appear at unexpected places at unseason- able times, If Pat Crowe s as ubiquitous as (he press dispatches indicate, what protection has the public against him? May not his ways be as devious and divers as his ubiquitariness” Who knows when or how he will swoop down on some Indianapolis multi-million aire’s home, rob it of its heir, hie himselt and prize to a lonely place on White river, Fall Creek or Pleasant run, and then send a letter back to the city demanding $100,000? Who knows fn what guise he will appear? Smooth-thaven and husky-looking as he did at Omaha? Wearing a heavy black mustache, as some of his friends say he does? Dressed in the garb of a widow, as Detective Gothim saw him in Chicago, or, perhaps, as a buxom girl wearing a nurse's cap and seeking employment at the home selected to be despoiled? Verily, Pat Crowe, mythical or real, is a menace to the community. 1f he be merely a bugaboo, created to terrorize fond par- ents, who will atone for the nerves he has shattered? If he be flesh and blood, cun- ning and heartloss, and escapes the sleuths who are trying to earn Mr. Cudahy's $25,- 000 reward, what possibilities in the fleld of crime are open to him! And if he be innocent, how the country will be tortured when he stars in the thrilling drama that is sure to have him as a villain, or when the museums begin advertising him as the only real, living Pat Crowe! Taking all things inta consideradon it is well to ask “Where's Pat Crowe?" And if he be fovnd there should be no hesitancy as to the course to be pursued. As Governor Dix once said, “Shoot him on the spot!™ RE Chicago Record: “Man never gets too old arn.” but he has to be old enough to dia he will admit that he doesn't know Harper's Bazar: He—Ias your father any objections to my ealling n Yo She (an helress)—No; vut he sald you couldn’t call on him “averything whicih o Pr : n done hefore a man has just been done over again.” Detroit Fr 15 done_ has he “Oh, no; wh you can't’ do veland Plain Dealer: — “Those cautions sted 1o a new prima w York crities oby donna hecause she is ton fat. They sall she but one pos that wasn't gra ““Objected to her adipose, eh elphia Press: Mrs. Henpeck—I hy they inslst calling woman weaker vessel?” 8he gen- Mr. Henpeck—1 can't Imagine, erally carrles the most sall "M Somerville Journal Wiggles—Dou't vou think Mize Watkyns 18 a very pretty girl? Mr. Waggles (after waiting long enoug to look wuroun and locate Mrs. \\ul(.ltl"i iting across the room)—-She's a peach Indignapolls Press: Mr. Dlugore—I've en- gaged a4 box at t apera for this evening, Mrs. Blugore -How =1l hiless of you! t me s0 hoar g, You know that cold hax | [ can't speak above i whisp )enver News “1 swee so much in the newananers about subsidios. What does & ibsidy mean, John? A subsidy, Mary, 1s where T glve you 120 Tor Wi to see your mother thatend of having her come to see you™ Cleveland Plain Dealer: Don't drag my ame into print_ in - connection with chis urd affair,” erfed the indignant eltizer it you do, he sure to spell out m; name in full.” Press I n ird and inaj al hut middle ver saw priate.” Indianapolis nny. thing more b SThan what? “Why, here s a pugilistic column headed gmall Talk of the Flehters! and everyona knows that they indulge in nothing but big talk.” Pitts Cl cle: “A monkey in (he Philadelphia zoo has died of tobacco heart, remarked the observant boarder fow humun!" exclaimeld the eross-cyed boarder. Chicago "Tribune I recognize th i of course,” the young man sald, ‘“‘that 1 15" handicapped I divers ways by X, Under stress of emotion & man | can relleve the pressure by going out ind | getting drunk, but there is no such safety Bhe must suffer and do valye for woman nothing.” Not necessarily,” replied Miss Flyppe. “She can go and eat o pi A NEW ¥ RAYVER. who am only human, can but pray: ot mine to add lour to your duy; Not mine to shield your soul from sorrow's night Nor Tirn your straying footsteps tow'rd the right May God, whose love is tender, comfort you May He, who is omnisclent, gulde your foet; v His ‘strength hold you when your own force falls To bear the meet He direct v all th M burdens of the hurts you May Fhrough 1 ev'ry passing hour, lessons. of this untried year, May His ‘smile helghten ev'ry buoyant Joy, ay His Peace soften ev'ry bitter tear. This strong desire of my stendfast heart Is of God's love & very Iittle part, And 1f, through death, your soul goes on fta way, 1, who am only Winslde, Neb, human, ean but pray, BELLE WILLEY GUE,