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

T B OMAHA DALY BL,fl ROBEWATER, Editor, PUBLIBHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBRCRIPTION. 1ly Hoo (without Bunday). v By Beo and dunday, One ¥ Adlusirigd Beo, Om r nday Bee, Une turany Bee, One Year Twentielh Century Farmer, One Year OFFICKS. Omaha: The Bee Bullding Bouth un.-E City Hall Hullding, Twen- 00 5 % (3 Lk 2 i 1 -Arth an at My 1640 Unity Bul Tem| reety 10 Penrl Street. 1aing rt h Btreet. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news Lo/ o) e Id be addressed and odl- Omaha Pusinesy lettery apd b ed: b:n;.‘;" ane: e i . express or postal order, e Publishing Company army 0 oni xchunge PUBLIBHING oun or Eastem o Bl STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Bggte or Nebraskn, Douglas County, e0rge 1. Tanchiick, tary of T Publinhing con ayn Uat the omplets o Daily, Morning Vaning and Sunday Hee printed during the month of Junuary, 1901, was as follows: L B0 4,800 20,080 #0720 L8000 ..26,410 26,420 .40, 180 and " zezzsEns 6. Total v . Laws unsold and returned coples Net total cales. ..., Net dally average GHO. ed (n my presonce 4 e et A L. i iy JBN:: ry Pu bofore me (his Wienr That hard, anti-cignrette bill dies mighty 1n appointing its sifting committee the sennte gives signs of early closing, Mureh comes in with a most lamb-like aspect. Lot us hope the llon does not develop later. Now the state needs those 320 cells that Bl Dorgan did not install in the east cell house, flumes wrote “finls” to one of the urkable chaptors in the history of Nebraska when the penjtentiury burned. ——— Abolishing the Missour! river commis- slon doesn't cut off the appropriation for the work. The commission ean be spared, T If it is really true that General Boiha has surrendered and Dewet is cornered the Britlsh caunot complain that they have pot had a run for their money. Governor Savage's military staff may not be as ornamental as Governor Dietrich’s, but It I8 just as numerous and will doubtless serve its purpose just ns well, ‘The Cubans have informed the United States that while they can never be- come one of thé family they are per- teetly willing to be a sister to the great republic, Count Castellane Insists that e can- not live on the allowance of $250,000 per year. If he was forced to earn his own living he would be compelled to exist on much Jess, —_—— Local architects agree that the coming season 18 to witness much bullding in Nebraska. This evidence of growth is another answer to the people who have arped at the state since the publication of the census tigures. —_— If the English writers have any difi culty In remembering who the late Willlam M. Evarts was and what he dld, they ean refer to the Alabama award, 1t is a lasting monument to the ability of Evarts and his assoclates. FE———————— Ordinarily people regret to seo or hear of the burning of what has one time been thelr home, but in the case of the Llaze at the penitentlary few former dwellers will heave any sighs on account of pleasant memories which cluster around s grim walls. Right-of-way for the Omaba & North ern across the Omaha aud Winnebago reservation seews to have encountered serlous opposition fn the national house of representatives. Just at present the Vanderbilts control the only line across the reservation, One Nebraska boy has decided that he would rather be a business man than an officer in the navy., He may not bave as brilllant a soclal caveer ip a country bank as a nmaval commission would afferd, but he will find other things to take its place. \ The members of the cabinet have all tendered their reslgnations to take effect March 4, In accordance with cus. tom. There are a few days left ip which the correspondents can Indulge in cablnet making and then the presi dent will take a hand. The governor of Ilinels has shewn the proper spirit in the watter of pro- tecting @ prisoner from a mob which threatened to lynch him. After the would-be Iyuchers have cooled off they will thapk the governor for preventing them from fndulging in such a Jawless act. As usual, the lawyers in the senate, who would never advise a litigant to seek A cheap counselor, are urging that the state hunt out the cheapest news- paper 1y which to do its advertising. They overlook the fact that the yery objeet of advertising Is to gain publicity and that & newspaper's advertising rates are based on its abllity to reach the people. REVENUE REDUCTION The revenue reduction bill finally 'd upon I8 on the whole n satisfac measire, though it is not to he ex «l that all interests will be plensed with it The tobn nd beer interests, tor example, do not get as much reljef from taxation as was provided for in the senate biIL but they have no renson able ground of complaint, since public opinfon was largely against any reduc tlon of the taxes on heer and tobacco The chief fssue between the two honses was In regard to the treatment of the Interests, resulting in a compromise, The provisions of the mensure that will be most widely a) ed are those repealing the taxes on hank checks, iicates of deposit, money orders, ex Apts, telegraph and telepho messages, These affect a grent number of people and if not generally burden more or less annoying. The nferees secured quite a trivmph in having the tax repealed on all kinds of Insuran the senate confefees re ceding on all senate amendments. It was apprehiended when the bill was sent to conference that an agreement could not be reached, such was the feeling of resentment on the part of the house at the radieal actlon of the senate i en tirely recasting the bill, but the repuly Henn conferces - Messrs, Aldrich and Al Hxon on the part of the senate pud Messrs, Payne and Dalzell on the part of the house evi a proper apprecti tHon of the demands of the publie and of the Interests of the party and the meas ure agreed upon untered no opposi- tion In either house, The estimated reduction of revenue under the bill, which will go into effect ut the beginning of the next fscal year, July 1, 1s $41,000,000. This 1s §11,000,- 000 1n of the amount recom- mended by the president and se of the treasury as a safe reducti It is not too large If the next does not very materlally Increase the expenditures of the government, which It I8 not likely to do unless conditions arfse tmperatively requiring It. There i mow a large eash balance In the treasury and there will be a consider- able surplus at the end of the current fiscal year. Assuming existing conditions of business to continue without impor- tant change and no new demands upon the goyernment arise, it can be con- fidently expected that the surplus at the close of the next fiscal year, June 30, 1002, will be nearly as large as for the present year. At all events there (s every reason to expect that the revenues of the government will be ample, it expenditures are kept within conservative bounds, after the reduction pow provided for goes luto effect, The republican party bas fulfilled its promise to reduce the war taxes as soon as It was found practicable to do so. The reduction is less than the opposition to that party profess to believe should have been made, but it is as much as prudence and safety dictate at present. It Is possible that the next congress will find jt expedient to make a still further reduction, but it would have been unwlise at this time to cut off more than $41,000,000 of revenue, exXCess URGING PORWARD NEGOTIATIONS. It I8 stated tbat the Amerlcan special commissioner at Pekin bas been in- structed to inform the forelgn minis- ters that President McKinley deprecates any action teuding to delay or check negotlations with the Chinese govern- ment and that he is especlally desirous that theve shall be no further unneces- sary bloodshed, The attitude of a majority of the forelgn ministers on the question of punishment of Obinese officials, as re: ported & few duys ago, warrants the belief that the A an representa- tive will have their co-operation fn his efforts to put a stop to executions, for the fact of this government expressing its opposition to the bloodthirsty policy of some of the powers cannot fall to have great influence. As we have heretofore sald fu referring to this mat- ter, the course that bas been pursued {8 anything but creditable to western clviligation and it ought to go uno fur- ther. The danger that if continyed it might drive the Chinese to desperation and cause armed resistance on thelr part 18 one to be considered, but bardly less dmportant 18 the question of the moral effect upon the civilized nations, The position taken by President Mc Kinley will be heartlly approved by the American people and ought to have an tmproving effect on the Chinese situas ton. PROVIDING FOR THE NAVY, There I8 an issue between the two branches of congress over the naval bill and it s sald the measure may fufl. It 1s probable, however, that as usual o such cases a compromise will be effected. There I8 n disposition to reduce the appropriations carried by the bill and the senate amended it to this end. This | I8 opposed by wmembers of the house who think that the work of bullding up the navy should be pusbed with all possible vigor, but not all the repub- lican leaders tuke this view, Mr. Cannon, chairman of the house committee on appropriatic expressed the opinlon & few duys ago that no harm would he done If the number of ships provided for in the pending bill should be reduced aund it be left for the next congress to determine whether they should be authorized. He sald we have & navy of 254 vessels and we have BO vessels in the suxiliary navy, making 810, There have Just Deen placed under contract § battleships and G cruisers, Various other ships, amount ing n round npuwmbers to B0, are in course of construetion, There arve al ready in course of construction great naval ships that will cost $65,000,000 W complete, this being wholly apart from the $TT.000,000 wpprepriated Ly the pending bill, w,” sald Mr. Cannon, "I belleve that with & naval bl carrylog $77. 000,000 apd with $65,000,000 to be pro- vided in the future for vessels under THE OMAHA printing dollar for them 1 beliova existing condition, we can with to the national « walt until next winter before we authorise the truction of any other ships.’ Undoubtedly theve are many who wil coneur in this view, even among those who desire that the navy shall be o croased Mr. e Cannon, on th committee, the ars to be no urgent necessity for the present congress authorizing all the ships provided for in the naval bill, There is unguestionably a very general popular sentiment in favor of further strengthening the sea of the United St , but this should be done without undue haste and it scems that we are making quite satlsfactory prog ress, authority of the cortainly ap power —_— FOR A NEW PRISON. I one respect the burning of the state prison at Lincoln is not so deplorable calumity as it might be, While the money loss Is a serlous v the effect of the destructive fire will be to compel action along lines that will provide Ne braska with what has long been needed, wostrietly modern bullding for use s penitentiary. The penitentiary st Lin coln was an obsolete type of prison house It was a continnal source of ex pense the state on account of re puirs that had to be made, and even with this provision It was never in proper ulition, either as to safety or sunitation, Recently the senate's committee vis fted the prison unexpectedly and re ported finding matters in wretched con dition. In its report to the senate the mmittee set out fn detall the defects of the bullding, showing how unfit it was for the uses of a penitentiavy, and made ymmendations for extensive re- pafrs, These repairs will now necessa iy tuke the form of a vew building. Out of the enlamity Nebraska should derive n model state prison, one in which the physieal and moral well- belng of the prisoners can be glven at tention, as well as their detention and sequestration from society at large. Sr—— PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND. One of the proposed amendments to the constitution of Nebraska has for its ohject the loaniug of the permanent #chool funds on farm land and other real estate security. The provision of the constitution for the inyestment of the permanent school funds was drafted at a time when the rate of Interest on United States, state and registered county bonds was high, and the cer- tainty of the income made the Invest- ment a4 most attractive one. During the last few years the refunding of the government debt at a nominal rate of interest and the cheapenlvg of the cost of money In other directions has re- duced very materially the income or chance for income from the permanent school fund under the restrictions of the Nebraska constitution. It Is this condition that suggests the form loan proposition. At the present time farm loans, made under proper conditions and with prudential safe- guards, are undoubtedly profitable, but there opens up the wide vista of pos- sible manipulation and collusion, to the extent that the careful citizen must hesitate before glving consent to the plau proposed. No more sacred trust is imposed upon our administrative officers than the care’ of the educational funds. The framers of the constitution recognized the im- portance of this when they adopted the provision thut the state should maiu- taln forever ipviolate the permanent school fund. . With this view of the sanctity of the fund and the weo- mentousness of Its care, it will be well for the legislature to deliberate well on the proposed amendment to the con- stitution before submitting it. Business judgment would rather sug- gost the investment of the permanent #chool fund in the lands on which it Is to be loaned, to the end that the com- mon schools of Nebraska will not enly own the principal, but will enjoy the lncome that wise management of the property is certain to bring. At any rate, let us thoroughly consider the question in all Its phases before we divert the permanent school fund from its constitutional channel. e A coastguardsman at San Francisco, who was on watch when the Rio de Janeiro was wrecked, now admits that he heard the distress signals, but pald no attention to thew, because he did not think they meant anything. ‘The incldent attracts attention no more from the faet that it indirectly cost many lves which could have been saved than from the fact that it is so rarely that these mep are found derelict in their duty. No occupation is more dangerous than theirs and no class of men are more uniformly faithful fu the per- formance of duty. em—— Now that the auditorium project has advanced far enough to permit the dis- cussion of plaus, It appears that The Bee's suggestion that it be confined to the uses of the public, and that only the Knights of AK-Sar-Ben be allowed lodg- ment therein, has ample support. 1t is not a departure from the original pur- pose to allow an essentially public en- terprise such as Ak-Sar-Ben to come into the auditorium, but it would be a mis- take to tuke i organizations more or less private and exclusive in their na- ture, to e ¥rom the tenor of the debates in con gress one might be led to think that dewoeracy could furnish statesmen who would settle the Cuban, Philippioe and Chinese questions, to say nothing of the perplexing home problems, without speclul effort. Those who remember democratic performance when that puety had the opportunity to direct the affairs of govermment will be in clined 1o take democratic prefense at a large discount, Sermme— Jumes Dablman states that bhe will clalm salary as seevetary of the defunct construction—the naval bill merely au thorizing four vessels to cost $25,000, 000 lp the pggregate, without appro- State Board of Transportation until the time when his appointment would have expived If the court bad wot kuockea DAILLY BEE; From the statement made by | SATURDAY, ont [ the law creating the offic sons that the objeetion that | | done hothing to earn the salary since the law Inred invalld will not | lie, as the geeretaries never did (o any | thing to earn their pay and ™ rendered the same service sluce as be fore the decision was ren Hie has was he 1t of Industry. Minn polls Journal The “ofice boy of 1566 1s the presid of the Chicago, Burlington & Quinoy ra | foud today. Reason? He did not soldier Getting Used to the Burden, Indianapolis News. On the whole, the country takes the In- corporation of a billion dollar trust her calmly. It s not turned out in the street vet What Pu Youns America, B Transcript It 1s & puzzle to the modern youth how so many old duffers managed to get along in the world without the knowledge of things In geveral possessed by the modern youth Pittsburg Chronlel Gunner Morgan discreetly rofuses to bhe interviewed, but his wite, at home in Erie, does not hesitate to say that Admiral Sampson's treatment of her husband s a shame. 8he told of her husband’s studious habits. “He has worked hard for this pro- motion wnd I beljeve that he will win," she said. Good for Mrs, Morgan! Vast Military Kxpen. Philudelphia Ledger Our statesmen and publicists have long bousted, and with truth, of the moderate oumbers and the great efciency of our rex- ular army, and have triumphantly compared it with that of the enormous standing armies of the old world, which have laid upon the people such heavy, erusbing loads of taxes. ~ But now, says Senator Hale, who knows whereof he speaks, the military ex- penses of the United States are nearly double that of any country on the face of the earth, As we extend our territorial boundarfes by force of arms the expense must, necessarily, fnevitably Increase, AR t Size of the Steel Combine, Minneapolls Times, Here 18 a brief summary of the properties constituting the r ntly ory ized United States Steel corporation: One hundred and forty-nine steel works; seventy-elght blast furnaces and six finishing plants. In- cluded in the list are bar mills, structural 1 and plate mills, tinplate works, sheet mills and wire rod and wire pail mills. Nine million tons is the annual capacity in finished material. The Lake Superior iron mines, owned by this gigantic combine, pro- duced 11,000,000 tons of ore last has 18,300 coke ovens, 70,830 acres of coal lands and about 30,000 acres of surface lands in the coul regions. Its lake fleet will number sixty-four vessels, When the Rocketeller ore and vessel interests are ab- sorbed it will have 125 ore carriers. This company will employ 125,000 men. v How Speculators Thrive on Wi Philadeiphia Times, The government wanted some vessels for transports and to be turmed into cruisers at the beginning of the Spanish war. When the war was over these vessels, In as good or better condition than when they were purchased, were for sale. The following table shows the difference between the pur- cbasing and selling prices: ¥ Purchase Selling Vessel, Price. Price. Niagara .. Badger . Rew Sciplo Hector ot This loss of mearly 60 per cent upon the purchase price of seven vessels Is not & very large amount in itself, but it bears incidental testimony to the costliness of war in general. i r————— POLITICAL DRIFT. Congressman Dougherty of the Third Mis- sourl district {s the champjon newspaper reader of the house of representatives, The supplies needed for the several mupicipal departments of Greater New York for the current year are estimated at $5,000,000. Pittsburg papers are kicking against a 17-mill eity tax levy as though it was an extraordinary thing. Pittsburg does not know when it is well off. ‘Though 75 years of age, S8enator Hoar of Massachusetts recently journeyed from Washington to Worcester for the purpose of voting at the city election. For the first time in a quarter of a c tury Worcester, Mass., has a democratic mayor. His name is Philip J. O'Connell, a descendant of the great Dapiel. “‘Cy” Sulloway, the giant congres D from the First New Hampshire district, has served three terms, has been re-elected to the Fifty-seventh copgress and now an- nounces that he is a candidate for the Fifty-eighth. ¢ A New York paper turned loose a corps of reporters on comgress the other day seeking answers to the question; '‘What would you do with $75,000.000?" Senator Mason of Illinols replied: “I would build asylums for fool editors Ex-Mayor Josish Quiney of Boston s re- ported as saying that be is not seeking to boom anybody for the democratic pomina- tlon for president in 1904, and that, in his opinion, it Is altogether too early to be bothering one's self or the party about that “Fifty years ago, come March 4, said Representative Grow of Pennsylvania, “1 Was sworn in as a member of the house of representatives. I served continuously for twelve years, then retired to priyate life for a third of a century and was re-elected to congress In 1894." Mr. Grow is now 76 years of age. ; Serator Hansbrough of North Dakota has true western contempt for farming down eal Some one was talking to him a few days ago about the success with which Maipe farmers overcame the difculties of poor soil. Mr. Hansbrough remarked “*Oh, they don't know anything about farm- ing down there Why, they tell me that Maine farmers have to shoot the seed into the rocks." Among the early fruits of self-govern- ment harvested by Hawailans is a bumper crop of territorial taxes. And the roar of the American settlers in the paradise of the Pacific 18 as loud and vigorous as that bedrd at tax-kicking conventions on the malpland. The Honolulu Republican points out that while the territorial tax rate is $1.80 and $1.00 per capita, respectively, in New Mexico and Arizona, it Is $23.90 in Hawail. Evidently the powers that be are not in Hawali for their health alone. Binecures at the oational capitol are as thick as peas in a pod. “For instance,” re- Jates the Washington Post, “the clerk of one committee, who was called upon to read proof of the testimony taken’ before the committee, actually claimed and will receive $1,000 for extra work. Pension office clerks, who happened to be detailed to help the congressional pension commits taes, are presented with $500 aplece, in ad, dition o the regular salarics which the government pays them. Other clerks, whe ‘compile’ & few pages out of the Congres. sional Record are given from $300 to $2,000 tor ‘extra work,’ although they do the work in ofice hours. And all this, too, when they are at the capitol mever more than six months out of the year.” MARCH OTHER LANDS THAN OLRS, | The census which has just been taken In Italy shows a growth entirely unexpected | No general enumeration had been made 1o | Ita since 1861 In that year the total population was little under 25,500,000 | The gain from 1871 to 1881 had been only | about 1,700,080 and in forty years the in- | crease had been hardly 6,000,000, Al of these figures refer to the territory now in- cluded the kingdom of Italy. It was thought, therefore, that the population at the beginning of the present year would be about 32,000,000, The growth of the last twenty years was nowhere estimated ut more than 4,000,000, for emigration from Italy has been very heavy in that period and country has long heen much crowded. 1t is a land mainly depending upon agriculture which has a smaller ares than the British fsles and not much more than half as much space as there Is in France. But the census shows that the population 18 more than 36,000,000. De- spite the large losses by emigration, eatl- mated to have been 5,000,000 in the last twenty years, the growth of the population has been about 7,000,000, or no lexs than % per cent. The actual increase and the vate per cent of growth have exceeded the gulns of the British isles in the same twenty years. in An ambitious dream {s that cherished by the British colony of New Zealand, if the suspicions of the Australlan pregs are to be credited. Instead of being minded to join finally the Australlan federation, as was supposed 1o be ber Inevitable destiny, and her desire, It is now thought that the will try to form a separate Pacific federation, and udd to the British imperial system another congeries of ultimately solf-governing states, such as has been grouped under central rule in Canada and Australia, and s 18 scheduled for South Africa. Lylng as it does 1,600 miles from the Australlan coast, the colony ke rather to form afliation with the varion groups of Melunesia—with the Samoan islands, ¥ijl, the New Hebrides, as it has already done with the Cook istands. Such stringing hundreds of islets, like upon one lmperial system, is daring and chimerfoal and it is apocryphal in its origin, but it 1s no more (kan repeating, in the littie, both what has been done and what has been dreamed of for the United Kingdom.. And it 1s credited to a people having in New Zeuland a base of operations uearly equal territorially to the British isles, a population half that of Wales, and an originality of initiative that in domestic matters has attracted the profitable study of the world. 8ir John Aird, M. P, and Sir Benjamin Baker, the well known British engineer, who last fall were sent to Egypt by the Forelgn office to Inspect the great engl- neering works on ghe Nile, which, w completed, will go fer toward rendering famine in the valley impossible, are now on thelr way from Calro to London with their report. Before leaying Egypt they refused to talk for publication except Inso- tar as to make a statement as to the pres- ent extent of the work accomplished. But this s given with so much detall that it is belleved to preclude the possibility of an adverse report. The total extent of the Assugn dam, which will hold back the waters of the Nile, s one mile and a quar- ter, of which one mile and an elghtb of the foundation is fuished. All the granite masoory required for the dam is cut ready to be laid in its place, and when the commissioners left Assuan temporary dams had already been constructed throughout for this purpose, and pumps were about to bo placed at work. The dam fs plerced with 180 openings, about twenty-three fect high and seven feet wide, which are con- trolled by steel sluices, their number and sizo being determined by exact mathemat- fcal caleulations based upon the records of floods extending back for more than twenty- five years. The discharge through these sluices at high Nile may reach 15,000 tons of water per second. e The telegraph line from Cape Town South Africa, to Calro, Egypt, is in ope tion to a point fifty miles north of Ka- tanga and 100 miles north of the southern extremity of Lake Tamgapyike. It has been constructed under the terms of an agreement which was entered Into in 1899 between the German government and the Atrican Transcoptinental Telegraph com- pany. As the crow flles the distance be- tween Cape Town and Katanga is nearly 1,300 wmiles and the entire length of the line will be considerably more than 2,000 miles, the distance between Khartoum and Cairo being roughbly estimated at about 1,000 miles. The lne, according to. the agreement in the contraet, must be com- pleted by 1904 and the most dificult part of the construction work remaips to be dope. It was promised last June that the line to Katanga would be completed by the end of July and an idea of the diMculties of copstruction be had from the fact that it took over four months to carry it fifty miles farther porth, When the Uganda railway reaches a poipt pear Lake Victorla Nyanza, close enough to make such a plan practicable, materials will be sent over from the coast by way of Mom: basa and wjll thus greatly faellitate the work. o There is a little of a complimentary ebar- acter to be found In the European com- ments upon the career of ex-King Milan of Servia, but the writer of a letter from Vienna to one of the London newspapers says that it s generally recogniged in mil- itary” circles in Vienna that Milan really did do a great deal toward the reorganiza- tion of the Servian army during his ocou- pancy of the post of commander-in-chiet and that he left it in & condition of con- siderable efficiency. His efforts were seconded very heartily by the superior of- ficers, with whom he was exceedingly pop- ular. It wae this popularity, indeed, which seems to have excited the jealoysy and apprebension of King Alexander and the civil authorities, the latter complaining that the army and the gendarmes were the only branches of the public ico that ever got their pay regularly. There was, therefore, no hesitatiod over the accept- ance of the ex-king's resignation, which seems (o have been offered in s moment of pique upop the apmouncement of his son’s marriage.’ This alllance, it fs -said, was peculiarly distasteful to bim, because he hed almost comcluded negotiations by which a German princess, with a large dowry, would have been sceured as @ bride for Alexander. —— Aguinaldo’s Smooth Atchison Globe. There are two bhases of the struggle in the Phillppioes. About once & year we bear that our armies are having a clean walkover. It transpires that the Filipinos are not standing up to be shot down; that they are scattering and hiding, the yeoman exchanging the rifie he had hid and taking up the hoe. In short, everything begine to look lovely, and peace seems to be near at hand. But more careful scrutiny of the situation discloses the fact that there is method in all this. Aguinaldo Is playing bluff with MacArthur. It is the dry season and the Filipinos are not wasting their forces in an unequal contest. They wait till the wet season begins, when the roads become impassable and the climate sickly, and then they begin hostilities, with al) the natural advantages, agalnst the Ameri. cans. Those who take Aguinaldo for a fool make & mistake. His apparent weakness is his streogt He plays pesce when it is pecessary spd digs out his guns when they will preve most effective. At least, such appears to be the case to an observer of regular recurring Piipine tactics. - VICTORY FOR T HoUs Notahle Trin Stamp il apolis Press The revenue reduction bill has fnally come from a conference committee of the two branches of , substantially as it passed the hou tax goes off bank checks, it stays on beer where the house fixed it, the slight difference on the tobacea tax ls compromised And the tax on proprietary medicines, lifted by the bouse and put back by the senate, stays ofl. The conference has been golug on for more than a month now, which is ample evl- dence that the fight was one of the most stubborn that has ever come up between the two branches From every point of view the country I8 (0 be congratulated on the viotory of the house. It Is an important success for popular government. The utterly unwar- ranted assault of the senate on the oon- stitutlonal prerogative of the pepular branch is repulsed and iis effort to usurp the taxing power defeated. That branch of the congresss clected direotly by the peo- ple and directly responsible to them, re- | talne the initiative In saying wha of the people shall be. The result 1s searcely less important as a victory for common sense and economic principles. The heaviest burdens of taxation will be borne by luxuries of very widely distributed u “the poor man's doctor’ is released from an onerous burden and the viclous tax on the payment of small debts by check Is re- moved. We trust that this latter will be revived in future taxation Ity result has been a sharp currency expansion along per- factly natural lines. The bank check is ane of the most valuable instruments of modorn times in facilitating commerce and Industry, and it is an absurd economie proposition te load it up with a tax INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS 1N FIGURES, Marvelons St f the Nation's Ir- It is not in the nature of news that the United Btates has definitely assumed the leading place among the exporting natio In these columns the fact has been suffis clently emphasized and explained, But figures are elusive, though impressive for the moment. 1t will not be superfluous to reproduce certaln data comylled by a con- temporery from official reports and show- ing where this country now stands and where it stood a dq e ago, or even ear- Her. The figures tell the marvelous story of steady and Irresistible (ndustrial ad- vance. First, take the calendar year 1900. Our exports of domestic products are greater than those of any of our leading rivals, and by no inconsiderable margia. Here is the showing actually made: are not in the sams ass, and they will remain outside of the hard, strenuous fight tor trade which this little table portends, Only a quarter of & century ago France ond, Germapy third and United States fourth on the 1l In 1875 the fig- ures were respectively as follow United Kingdom, $1,087,497,000; Fran $747.489,- 000 rmany, $607,006,000; the United States, $497,263,737, Sloce then France bas remained stationary, her increase being not more than 5 per cent. Germany has made splendid progress, in spite of her militar. ism, and thanks to her sclentific methods and hard work. The United Kingdom has Increased her domestic exports 34 per cent, while the United States has gained not than 192 per cent Du the period 1876-1806 there were fluctuations and mset. g the figures for each of the years since the opening of the last decade: United |zn“ed Germuny. $ 772,679,000 718,808,000 763,361 ¢ 720,807,000 1328000 857,745,000 £84,486,000 894,063, 000 3 £ 1,001,278,000 1900. 1,418,348, 1,050,811,000 Statistics sometimes lle, but there can be no misconstruction of these figures. They are well understoood abroad, as we know from plentiful evidence. ‘The advance of the United Btates exporter is frresis- tible, but it will have to practice reciproe. ity to a greater extent than now, for we cannot increase our sales continuslly with- out adding to our purchases. NTROL, e e——— LACK OF FINANCIAL esses and Some of t tion. One reason why I party responsible for the government is less able, if not less willing, than it used to be to keep down apgropriations has often been pointed out in these columns. Our system does not lend itself to rigid finaneial eontrel. Un- like all other governmemts In the world, the American has no man, or committes of men, to make up a yearly budget, to de- termine income d fix outgees. Our method is & bappy-go-lucky plan of allow- ing one set of men to make laws for reve- another to frame bills for expendi- ‘That we have mot gone to sma under such chaotic mamagement is d partly to our traditional good fortune, partly to our expanding wealth—which has operated In the same way that robust health enables a man to order his life recklessley, for a time—and partly to the fact that we have had & rough system of financial control. But this has been badly broken down. One serlous aspect of pational extrava- gapoe {8 commoply overlooked, People do not see how one spendthrift congress makes the next ene almost ineyitably as prodigal. The reasen Is that the extrava- ot legislatjon fixes a permanent charge Spendthrift C the l"l‘ Signs of S Our windows are taking who are interested in the new things for man's adorn- ment that are being shown here, ought to walk around the Bouthwest corner of Douglas and 15th streets at least once a day from now on. the | No step backward 18 the rule. There was loud outery against a “bllllon-dollar congress,” but its suc- cessor was able to save little or nothing. Now we are rapidly approaching a bil lon-dollar session, apd no dam for the rising flood is In sight. Bach succeeding congress inherits & legacy of extrava gance from its predecessor. Its own hands aro partly tied by anterior legisla- tlon committing the government te cen- tinuing appropriations for this and that scheme, this and that enlargement of the public service and creation of mew offices. It fs this whioh makes retrenchment &o dificult, if not practically impossible. To abolish places, to consolldate ofices, to cut down regular expenses—why, this is almost treason, from the party point of view, It Is flat villainy io the minds of men whose sineeures are threatened, So that extravagance always tends to perpet- uate itself. The lavish appropriations of one congress become a kind of angual fu- terest charge which must be pald upon a capitalized extravagance, The point Is that flush times are setting a pace which will have to be kept up in the lean times. If economy is disregarded now, it will be declared impossible then It is casy enough to let the jinn of ex travagance out of tie bottle, but to get him back in again—-that is the labor. Thus we see that the evil which an ex- travagant congress does lives after jt; and the good, it good there be, is interred with its bones. —— POLISHED TO A POINT. on the treasury. Detroit Journal: *“He Is evidently & man with the bark on.' y? {hing, he goes about so oat off." Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I notice that Justice Brewer says our gravest deubts are often the effect of a disordered liver.” i \h, T see. Vhen in doubt take a liver Puck: M 80 many lu; Lowerton-- them ,f:‘ufin-aut the rich enjoy o ome do; others merely have Chicago Record: I suppose you some- ;I‘;‘:v‘:‘:hl&ul It trifle lonely out in® your Why, “Lonely! we all run t when & dog Koes by, b Detroit Free Press: Miss Swansdown has 3 tened to & sermon In her life " ht she was a regular attendant But she h i > snShe ls. | as always belonged to Philadelphia Press: Horroughs—Hell Markley, iven up ‘anything for Leni? 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