Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 9, 1901, Page 6

THE ©OMAHA DALY BEF_ E. ROBEWATER, Editor PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Bee (without Sunday), One Year .$5.00 Bee and Bunday, One’ Year .00 | Iilustrated Bee, One Year { Bunday Bee, One Ye w | Baturday Bee, One Twentleth Century £, One OF 2] The Bee Bullding South Omaha: City Hall Building, ty-fth and M strects uncl Bluffa: 10 ifeago: 164 Unit ‘ew York: Tem Vashington: 51 rourteenth Street CORRESPONDENCE Communications retuting to news and edi- torial matter ghould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Kditorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances be addressed: The Hee Publishing pany, Omaha, REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, poyuble to The Bec Publishing Company nly 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall nccounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or Eastern exchanges, not accepted THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY Year Omaha e wen- rl Street Bullding Court should Com CIRCULAT County tary of being duly number of STATEMENT OF Blate of Nebraska, Douglas George B, Tzschick Publishing company, #ays that the actual complete o The Daily, Morning, Evening gnd Sunday Bee printed during the month of February, 191, was as follows 1 26,2 15. 205,080 206,180 20,020 20 410 20,540 26,150 25,070 25,81 25,910 26,01 205,470 26,270 26,840 26,760 25,770 26,1390 20,110 26,610 20,0605 25,760 20,8380 265,640 20,4380 25,770 20,200, 25,760 20,680 Hee worn full gnd 2 781,160 1202 Total ' Less unsold and returned coples TIH,086 25,070 TZSCHUCK and sworn to A D, 1901 Net total sales 't dally average GRO. B Kubseribed fn my presence before mo this 4th day of March (Seal.) M. B_HUNGATI Notary Public. mth Omaha taxpayers are not eu tively satistied with the charter fixed up by South Omaha politiclans, but the politiclaus seem to have the winning combination The report of the legislative Loldup Investigators recalls the man who shook his clenched fist under the ne his antagonist and then hit him the soft end of a feather duster. ot a e o with number of heads dy to duck took a sud den brace when the last of the hold up commijttee report was read. The shot did not scatter half as badly as expected. It 18 evid which were George Gould 15 on lils way to Omaha. Omaha has been receiving notable at tention of late from the other great rallroad systems and the Gould lines would do well to cultivate this terri- tory, just to hold their own against competitors. The falling of the penitentiary walls indicates that little Is to be gained by re- building the burned structure on its present site. The penitentiary should be located at some point where the con- vict labor ean be applied to farming as well as to the workshop. Carrie Nation has no sooner subsided than the Kentucky feudists break out again. ‘The people of this country are never without something exclting to keep the blood in circulation, and when all other resources fail Kentucky can always be relied upon to furnish an antl-soporifi —_— The saddest thing about the close of a congress 1s the statesman out of a job, Officeholding with some men become 80 chronic that when the time comes to part with official salary they are completely at a loss to know what to do for a living and their pleas for ap pointment are often really pititul. A great many street iwprovements are on the bourd for Omaba for the coming scason, but the preliminaries must awalt the action of the legislature on the bills pending before it relating to wethods of making special assessments, The legislature should hurry up these Dills to expedite the work that will give employwent to many men, City bank advertises its deposits for a number of years back, which shows that the mou entrusted to it by depositors, which bad fullen down to $56,000 in December, 1896, hus now reached over $200,000, increasing almost four-fold since the first election of President McKinley, Another Ject lesson in Nebraska prosperity. ob- Nebraska courts and juries are meas uring up cousiderably in the public esti mation .by the nuw of convictions and stiff sentences meted out to mur- derers who have been indulging the homicidal mania in different parts of the state. After reading this record of convictions dangerous criminals will not teel like tempting fate with a Nebraska Jury. —_— Officlally compiled figures show the floating debt of Nebraska to have been tncreased regularly by excessive legis lative appropriations above the revenue brought in by taxation. Nebraska's constitution contains an express provi- sion against incurring state debt ex- cept for specitied purposes. The business firm or corporation which constantly expended more than it took in would soon come to the end of its rope, the state treasury Is not different stituted, The decision of the senate not to undertake the rearvangement of the committees at the present extra session indicates that an early adjournment is contemplated, This means that the session will simply be a perfunctory one for the contivmation of presidential ap pointments and that e of the rect procity treaties arve likely to be consid ered. everal of these have been negotiated with considerable difieulty and afford opportunities for the exten- sion of American trade, and their strangulation Is uu!ur(:mule. A S TO SENATORIAL VACANCIES. much misinformation is being cir culated with reference to the conditions arising gout of the expiration of the terms of Nebraska's senators that view of the law and practice governing the i not out of 8 vacancies plice Under the federal n state I8 entitled to represcutation i the upper branel of congress throngh senators elected ) the legislature to terms of six years ench. The members of the senate have been classified that one-third of the meniber ship Is 1 two ye and from one state in senite constitut each two ewed every ™ no two of the senators go out at The situation with reference bras| is that the term of John M Thurston expired by limitation on the 4th of Mareh of this year and the seat formerly occupied by him is therefore vacant. The term for which the late M. L. Hayward was elected would not @ explred until March 4, 1905, Upon the death of Senator Hayward a vit ey was created which the governor was authorized to fill by appointment and Kenator Allen holds his position by reason of the gubernatorial commission The practice of the senute recognize. such to Ne has been to commissibn on titling the holder to retain his seat until the pest legislature following the ap pointment should huve chosen o sue ,or should have et and ad Journed without reaching a choice. The officinl term of Senator Allen will there fore. continue until the nt legisla ture cither elects a succ ad Jourus without an election. Under the constitution and practice of the senate, furthermore, the power of a governor to appolnt to senatorial va cancles is rest «d to those which oc cur by death, resignation or disabiltty during the recess of the legislature, and no appointment cogulzed to u va made during a leglslative ses slon, or which remaing by reason of the failure of a legislature to effect a cholce, "he power of a legislature, however, to fl such vaeancies is continhious, not- withstanding adjournment, and the leg slature of braska could be recon vened at any time during its officlal ex istence and proceed again to ballot for United States senator, Several governors have of late years attempted to commission appointees to fill vacancies resulting from Inability of the legislatures to agree upon a candi- date, but the senate has steadfastly re- fused to admit members upon these credentials, The vacancy created by the death of the late Senator Hayward has been the onl vacaney thus ereated in Ne- braska's re entation since the state was admitted to the union. The ele tion of Senator Hayward two years ago was not accomplishtd until March 8, so that four days elapsed after March 4 with Nebraska represented by only one senator, which presented the same con- ditlon in which the state is today. n as ssor or caney i CONSERVATIVES IN CONTROL The conservative element, according to the latest Havana advices, 1s in con trol of the constitutional convention and disposed to give due consideration to the conditions submitted by the United States. This does not necessa® rily promise that all the conditions will be accepted, but it does carry the as surance of their calm discussion and the avoldance of any action of a revolu. tionary nature in regard to them, advices say that nothing in the nature of an uprising is any longer feared, al though there are radicals who, perhaps | would fot hesitate to encourage disor- der, by way of protest against th American terms, if they could be sure of a cousiderable following. It is needless to say that the Cubans could make no greater mistake than to follow the advice of the radical ele- ment, yet there are many Amerlcan newspapers and public men who are practically counseling them to do this by their unqualified condemuation of the action of congress. They tell the dissatistied element in Cuba that our governwent is acting perfidiously and that there is an ulterior design against Cuban Independence and sovereignty, The effect of this is to stimulate the spirit of dissatisfaction and to play into the hands of politiclans like Sanguilly, who are more concerned for their own political gain than for the inter welfare of the Cuban whole. It is exce servat people as a lingly fortunate that con Judgment is in the ascendant and It is very much to be hoped that it will continue to asse itselr, It represents, in the main, the substantial interests of the island, the men of prop erty and business, who want the indus tries and commerce of Cuba to develop and who understand that in order that this may be attained there must be the strongest possible assurance of a stable government, capable of preserving do mestle peace and order, protecting life and property and fulfilling international obligations, They know that capital will not go into the island until these conditions for its safety are established, They also know that it is of the first lmiportance to the welfare and prosper- ity of Cuba that it shall bave the clos- est commercial rvelations with the United States and this will depend to a very large extent upon the political relations. The attitude of the conscrvatives wise and practical. The Cubans should cousider calmly and dellberately the conditions asked by the United St and when they have done this, if un willing to accept them, state thelr rea sons In a spirit that will give no offense and will command the careful attention of the American government and peo ple. Threatening revolt will accomplish nothing. Cuban independence will not be promoted in that way, nor the world be better convinced of the capaelty of the Cuban people for self-g ment, There Is no purpose on the part of the United States to employ coerclon, Noth Ing in the conditions proposed contem plates this and President MeKinley has sald in his latest public utterance that “the declaration of the purposes of this government in the resolution of April 20, 1808, wust Le wade good,” The The | ts and | | tes outlook will | servatives trol of now fav generally hoped that the will to retain the situation seems very ahle be able con MORE PEACE RUMORS I'he latest negotiations reports regarding ene peace Kitch he mor between Is ener and to trustw them, with e 1t fact Botha he fs i serfous if not utterly hiopeless It not appeat from the latest information, that 18 quite so unfortunately situated and that resourceful commander may refuse to be a party fo surrender. It fs the understanding that Botha is in supr command. but the B divided that it is doubtful if he bas the authority to muke a complete surrender Tudeed, this s implied in the report that Kiteherer has granted an armistice il enable Botha to confer with the other generals, What causes mistrust of the ments is the fact that only a short tine fgo Kteyn ahd Dewet fssued o proelamn tion in which they declared that the war wits far from being ended and indi that the B sotha rthy but tire that may prove than those which preceded they not fved contidence, so far are to be i« perhaps a is concerned 0 | position dovs however. Dewet orees are seven days state rs were not ouly as deter mined as ever to go on with the con flict, but were well supplied for the pur pose. They have not met with any serious disaster, though it is pos sihle that the failure of their expectation to Induce an uprising “f the Dutch of Cape Colohy has disconraged them That seemed to be their last hope and not having realized it perhaps they will decide to give up the struggle. since STILL FOR RECIPROCITY Although the United States senate failed to ratify the reciprocity treaties which we negotinted with much labor, r this republican policy as o means of ex tending our foreign trade. He said in his inaugural address that “our diversi fied productions are increasing in such unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the necessity of still further en larging our foreign markets by broader cial relations, For this purpose reciprocal trade arrangements with other nations should in liberal spirit be care fally cultivated and promoted.” The obvious inference from this is that the aduinistration Intends to continue the efforts to enlarge our commercial relations by reciprocity treaties. Mr. McKinley manifestly belleves as earn estly a8 he has ever done that this re publican principle, first incorporated in the tariff bill which bore his name, is as wise and sound now as when originally proposed and even more necessary than then In view of our great industrial growth in the meandme, A great deal of work has been given to the negotia- tion of reciprocity treaties, to be ren- dered of no immediate value by the non- action of the senate, but the president is not hopeless of results in the future and the senate of the Fifty-seventh congress will undoubtedly feel the influe of the adminiration in behalf of ipro- cal trade arcangements, perbaps with better chance of success, though the in- terests which were able to prevent rati- fication of the treat the senate of the last congress will continue active in their opposition. If we go on increasing our produce tiveness, as no one doubts we shall, we must enlarged markets, The | reciprocity policy will enable us to se- cure these and any interest which stands in the way of this obstructs our com- ntereial expansion and material prog- ress. comme Some idea of the temperament of the Porto Ricans, and in fact all Spanish- Amerlean peoples, and the difficultios of governing them, can be gained from an incident which happened in San Juan. The teacher In one of the public schools punished slightly one of the girl viot which the police were unable to handle forea time, Several hundred people were involved and the trouble subsided about as suddenly as it arose, It will require rations to educate such a people into the American idea of adjusting their differences and the officfals will find their patience and their abilities sorely taxed. While it 15 not the most pleasant prospect, there | is no renson to believe thas the United States will not solve this problem as it has hundreds of otbers more difficult and dangerous, followed the elected a the session, Moutana Oregon and last hour of the Oregon turned back long the session of the example senutor in in fact went vecord a little better and the clock in order to pro untl the result could be accomplished, The rmi- nation to accomplish a result would have elected a senator long before that time, Nebraska Is still struggling along, but with these examples before It should not, despair of reachipg a conclusion. Mr. Meiklejohn f offic sime (e nl ) tenure assistant secretary of war prolonged by a deadlock between the president and the senators from New York over the identity of his successor. | In that case he will be almost as lucky | as Senator Allen, who I8 having his term prolonged by the deadlock iu the logislature over the selection of his suc Ko, tary Wilson annouuces that he has discovered a way of wireless tele graph communication which will jump over greater distances than the Marconi system. As the distance is regulated lurgely by the height of the pole from which it is transmitted, the secretary has probably scored a beat by substitut ing & Nebraska cornstalk for the short poles at the disposal of his competitors, Ne The people of Nebraska ave proud of the State university and ave willing to pay liberally for its maintenan but that is no reason why the management should extravagant The amount asked this year is equivalent to $277 for each person in attendance. While Nebraska generons with its univer. sity, us with all other educational in | and | ident McKinley is still in favor of | pupils, and this was the incentive for a | stitutions, the regents should be modest con- | in thelr demands, in view of the many | the | The honrd o ut the schools for electioneet ing purposes it it does not want to in vite attempts o vepeat the performanee ry ¢ 'he schools should not be used for soliciting, advertising or working up tleal sentiment. A strict divorce the schools from re Higlonzand polities is the best safeguard to their eticiency and progress And the Surprise Foll Chicago Times-Herald When those Irish members of Parlia | ment started to go up against Speaker Gully they probably forgot that his grand father was a champlon prize fighter Facts Shatter Assertlo Indlanapolis Journal Those unhappy Americans who have been charging that Uncle Sam pays an cxcessive pprice for armor plate may be surprised to learn, on the authority of the finance com mittes of the Relchstag, that the government pays $80 a ton more than United States _—_— ¥ Murely in the Indiunapolis Journal The republicans in the last congress gave a sufficlent demonstration of the fact that they are better politiclans than the demo. crats. They covered the minority with ignominy by gaining its consent to cut the ple and then got out of passing it. Ask Senator Tillman about it D — tation Slightl A Indianapolis Press excellent result of the War taxes will probably from congress the temptation such extravagances as character last session. Without an im Burplus revenue we are less likely to have a $50.000,000 rivers and harbors bill and a $180,000,000 ship subsidy bill —_— Words of Great Value, Minneapolis Times, A little while ago some people found amusement in figuring out the cost per word of Senator Towne's great speech, but the price of that effort was a mere bagatelle in comparison with the $50,000,000 represented by Senator Carter's thirteen hours' siege of the rivers and harbors bill. The Montana gentleman's effort was worth about $3,800,- 000 an hour, Professionals Burn Their Finger: Chicago Chronlcle. One does not need to be a dark and gloomy pessimist to realize that fallures in Wall street like those of Tuesday are nat- ural consequences of prices ballooned be- yond all reson. It s significant of American common sense that the public is not in the stock market these days. The people who are getting their fingers burned are all professionals, —_—— ok Coming? Minneapolis Journal Have you “denounced” anything today? A doctor the other day denounced the mati- nee habit. A clergyman last Sunday preached against the euchre party. A lec ture at a woman's club session a few weeks ago made the rafters ring with his de- nunciation of ice cream soda. Now s your time to get up and “denounce' or take the opposite and now rather obsolete tack of minding your own busines: Flood of Bills In Congre Philadeipbia Ledger. There is food for {hought in the compila- tion made by the tally clerk of the house showing the busiWees brought before the congress that ha just expired. There were 14,336 bills, 2,000 reports, 345 public acts, 1,250 private acts and 395 joint resolutions all to be considered and acted on in the 197 days the congress was in session! Is it any wonder that we sometimes have hasty and Improper legisTation? he World's Workshop. w Yo ribune, Whenever the British war office wants supplies iu post haste and finds that im- perial purveyors and manufacturers cannot supply 1ts needs in a hurry it turns to the Yankee for relief. King Edward's troops in South Africa called for 3,000 axes to rough hew the future of the veldt and re- quired them at the carliest possible mo- ment. British axe makers hemmed and hawed. Yes, they could furnish the axes; give them time enough. It was tHe story of the Atbara span, the Uganda bridges, over agaln. Up rose Brother told John Bull that he should Bave those axes just as soon as he could use ‘em; and the Yankee got thejcontract. The axes will be in the Trausvaal on the day appointed, and no later. An American electric plant is 10 be set up soon in Mysore, India. nations of the world must march at double quick if they hope to keep with Uncle Sa. other pressing needs of | staty school shov g0 slow [ using on ey ension I wed, man the Minor| One very tion of the remove commit ized the mense reduc be to to Coming the HE HOLSE, Over the Senate Louils Globe-Democrat, One of the most important -measures passed by the recent congress was the one cutting down the war taxes. That measure will touch mora pereons directly than al- most any other bhill whicn was enacted Among the iaxes cut Off It are ih.se gn money ordars, hank checks, telephane and telegrapa CXDIBS pecespis, proprietary 1 nes, perfumery und cosmetics, certificates of deposit, promissory notes, charters, leases, manifests, mort- Egages, warehouse receipts, insurance pol- icies and chewing gum. The taxes on beer tobacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff are re duced, An important fact connected with the fight between the two branches of congress on this act is that the house won. The bill which the house sent to the senate was o thoroughly altered in that body that the measure which it passed was virtually a new one. Naturally the house resented this course. The senate in making a new bill usurped & prerogative of the house. The senate has often done this. Often a con- test has occurred between the two cham- bers on this account. The fight which took place In 1894 on the Wilson-Gorman bill between house and senate was memorable for \ts length and (he bitterness of (he foellog Which it caused. Usually the house loses in those deadlocks, as it did In 1894 In the oue which took place recently, how- ever, the house won, as the bill in the shap it had when it was siguned was more like the one which the house passed than it was like that which the senate framed The senate's bill would make a larger cut than the one framed in the house, Bas ing the surplus for the coming fiscal year on estimates of appropriations which had been furnished, the secretary of the treasury placed the safe limit of surplus reduction for the yoar at $30,000,000, The bouse bill provided for a cut of about $40, 000,000, which the senate's bill*increased to £50,000,000. In the shape which the, bill hud when it was signed by the president the reduction is likely to be in the neighbor hood of $40,000,000. Perhaps it may exceed that amount. slightly. It may fall below that figure. There {8 always considerable uncertainty as to the precise effect which reduction or an Increase in taxes will have on the aggregate amount of the revenue. The law will afford relief to a very large number of persons and will be highly acceptable to the country on this account. It the surplus should continue In the next fiscal year another cut will un doubtedly be made in taxation. Jomathan and | The | | [3 LANDS THAN ns, approaching departure of the duke of Il and York, the heir apparent to the 1sh throne, has revived the old inquiries | #s to what would happen if his father, King | Bdward, should happen to die during his | absence. Tho same question used to be ralsed periodically during the latter part of the reign of Victoria in relation to prop u\]‘ | journeys of the then prince of Wales a matter of fact, the public empire would not be interrupt throne should for One of the ecarliest statutes after Victoria's accession to the throne was making special provision for carrying | on the goverament of the country in case | | of such an emergency. By (bis enactment | | the archbishop of Canterbury, the lord chi the lord keeper of the great seal, the lord high treasurer, the lord presi dent of the council, the lord privy seal the lord high admiral and the lord chief | Justice of the queen’s bench were appointed | to act of lords justices ““to exercise all the powers and authorities of the successor to the crown until his or her arrival in this Kkingdom, or until he or she shall otherwise order.” During the passage of the bill through the upper house Lord Brougham moved an amendment designed to ecure the addition to this list of some member of the royal family of full age and ca | pacity resident in the United Kingdom and, being defeated thercon, he handed in a written protest, which was duly entered in the journale. business of the 1 even if the fow be vacant weeks to an neellor o It was agnounced recently from Cairo that the number of vessels passing through the canal had 80 gred that the Suez Canal company had resolved to pro- ceed without dvlay to the further widening and deepening of the waterway and that experiments were in progress with a new dredger, under the personal observation of Prince d'Arenberg, the president of the company, and Sir Willlam Garstin This announcement, according to a correspond- ent of the London Standard, is completely misleadiag. Some months ago an American, who hud [nvented a new dredger and who has received an order for two of his ma chines from the government of Queensland, applied to the Suez Canal company for per- mission to show what his machines would accomplish. As they were to pass through the canal, it was agreed that the inventor should, at his own expense, show them at work certain points indicated by the company. These experiments were wit nessed by Prince d'Arenberg, who happened to be in Egypt at the moment, and this seems o e the sole foundation of the wid- ening and deepening story. become The Russian state draws an annual net profit of 45,000,000 roubles from its forests, mines and agricultural property. It re ceives annually 80,000,000 roubles from its communities of ex-serfs for the use of land it ceded to or purchased for them. It Is building by far the longest and most costly rallway in the world and it owns and works over 20,000 miles of railways, the net reve. | nue on which is equal to one-seventh of the net revenue of all the rallways of the Urited States. $ In 1508 it received £1580,000,000 into its coffers, nearly one-half of which sum was not produced by taxation. Its budget Is greater than that of France by more tha $200,000,000, In 1890, when one of the banks of Lon- ['don was unable to meet its obligations, the Russian government had with it on current account a balance of so many millions of peunds that when the Bank of England come to the rescue @ request was im mediately made to Russia not to disposc of her balance before a certain date, since to do %o would be to precipitate a financiai crisis of the utmost gravity. Finally, bes side being a capitalist and a bauker of this magnitude, the Russian state 1s also a metallurgist and a spirit-merchant In a word, the proud claim is made for it that it is the greatest land owner, the | greatest capitalist, the greatest constructor of railways and carries on the largest busi- ness in the world. e Berliner Correspondenz, which after a s of articles showing that an uprising ierman Poland was inevitable this spring, suddenly became silent, has again recewed its attacks, this time dealing with statistics. In the meantime the police have been making elaborate Insestigations, par- ticularly in the province of West Prussia, and although few arrests have been made many books and papers have been confis- cated. The Correspondenz is astonished that the authorities fn Russian Poland have not | heeded their warning, for, according to this |organ, Warsaw is nurturtng a volcano | which at any moment may set all central | Burope afiame, According 1o the most recent anti-Polish article in the Correspondenz, Poles have | not only increased in numbers in the east- [ern provinces of Prussia, which once | formed part of the Polish kingdom, but have | established large Polish celonies in Silesia aund in the west of Prussia. It declares that between 1540 and 1508 the Polish speaking population of Westphalia in- creased from 27,000 to 130,000; that of the Rhine province from 6,000 to 23,000; that of Silesia from 994,000 to 1,028,000 The cen- sus of 1890 gave 3,000,000 as the number of Prussian subjects who spoke Polish as their native language, while the recent cei- sus will probably show a great increase over this number. On the other hand, the paper points out that the German colonics in the Polish districts have gradually da. clined in strength and energy and that many towns the administration of affai is entirely in the hands of the Poles, who are thus able to devote the local tunds to defraying the expense of teaching the Polish language in schools, which, while desig- nated as “private,” are in reality supported by the community. The paper places the number of Polish nationalists at over 100, 000, while the nationalist societies have in- creased in the last ten years from 500 to more thun 994, The disposition of Hungary to cut loos trom paralyzed Austria complicates the situation. Hungary is comparatively unite and prosperous. As respects Austria, it is aggressive and wishes to solve all ques tions vith exclusive regard for her own economlc Interests, taking no account of in- | jurles likely to be inflicted upon her part ner. M. Szell, premier of Hungary, re- « tly created sensation by discussing publicly Hungary's adherence to the triple alliance apart from Austria. Severance s | calmly proposed as economically expedient, | | without attention being given to the peril | ous nature of the political problem gever- | ance would create. The outlook Is any- thing but reassuring. Yet the empire bas survived so many apparently fatal cris that many persons believe it will survive this one also. “'An empire,” says the Lon- | don Speaker, “which has outlasted defeat | by the Turks, by Frederick the Great, by | the first Napoleon, and, latterly, by France | and Italy and Prussia, is not an empire | to crumble lightly away. In spite of sur- face appearance I'appalsement, not disru tion, is the goal of the warring nationall- tles."" to Complicating Trouble, Philadelphla Record 1t is proposed to print and distribute the correspondence of Thomas Jefferson in favor of the anuexation of Cuba. Thomas Jeffer- son was the most far-seeing of statesmen and political philosophers, but he was not prescient enough to foresee the coming of universal suffrage which would put the ballot in the inept hands of multitudes of ignorant persons utterly unfamiliar with the simplest notlons of political self-govern ment. 1t would be unwise to complicate the problem of universal suffrage in the south ern portion of this country by fresh au pexations of Ignorant peopl |1t was a far better day than March 4, 1803, noson Willls 1. Moor Sunday night Chicago Inter Ocean chief of the weather bureau. the following bulletin Th tomorrow (Monday) will the experienced on the inauguration esident. The sky surely will be and the temperature warm and Dispatches from Washington give {seued weather be finest of a clear balmy the crowd, which was while witnessing Mc- Kinley take the onth of office. A well-fed and prosperous people are good-natured Cleveland Leader: The weather in Wash ington Monday came far short of justifyivg the predictions of the head of the weather bureau, who had promised, confidently, the | best sample of balmy spring climate and | bright sunshine that had ever been enjoyed in the capital on an Inauguration day. But the part of drenched with rain when Grover Cleveland's second term be gan. So there is an augury, at the start, of much brighter fortunes for President McKinley than his predecessor experienced during his last four years in the White House. Springfield Republican: Prof. Willis Moore of the weather bureau will be more cautious next time. He staked his repu tation as a forecaster on the announcement that Washington would have the finest weather known at an inauguration This was what the bureau gave out Sunday night: “The weather tomorrow will be the finest ever experienced on the inaugura- | tlon of a president. The sky surely will be clear and the temperature warm and balmy No probabilities there; only cer tainties, which the event proved to be as uncertain as most weather guesses. As great public demonstration that meteoro logy is still in a state of hapless infancy the performance was a striking success. Pittsburg Chronicle: Prof. Moore's shat- tered reputation as a weather prophet is one of the inaugural exhibits. He had staked Mis professional record on the kind | of weather he intended to fssue, and he failed to deliver the goods as promised The day was damaged by rain. He said | the weather would be the finest ever ex- perienced on the inauguration of a presi- dent. He said the sky would surely be clear and the temperature warm and balmy, | The sky was clear in spots and at t/mes, ani reports from Washington during the morn- ing held out the hope that noon at least would find the conditions of the prediction tulfilled. aln hope! It rained and sleeted. The weather went on a strike. It defled the weather boss. Prof. Moore hereafter will confine himself to the usual “probable” form of weather forecasts, hut his reputation is rain-soaked and shattered. ever | POLITICAL DRIFT. Light and heavy editorial commentators agree that it was the grandest inauguration of the century. St. Louls and Chicago are wading ankle deep in municipal campaign gore, mixed with spring mud. The Hoosier legislature surprises the na tives and jars similar bodies in other states by appropriating $400,000 less than two years ago, The editor of the esteemed Washington Post leaped into the inaugural bandwagon loaded with beautiful chromos of the vice president. The warmest kind of a campaign is on in St. Louis, the prize being the World's fair mayor. The contest began at 90 de | grees in the shade and the temperature is steadily rising. Carter H. Harrison and Judge Hanecy are rival candidates for mayor of Chicago. Party papers in the town declare the other | tellow s a political rascal, and utterly unfitted for the exalted oM The man in Mississippi who does not pay A poll tax cannot vote or serve on jurles | and official returns show that 29,371 white citizens have neglected to pay up this year. This neglect disfranchises them for two yéars. Missouri's legislature is now wrestling | with a primary election law. The bill is | fashioned on the system tested at the re- cent democratic primaries in St. Louis, and 1s confidently believed to be a knocker from Knockerville Ernest McGaffey, poet and fisherman, and | Honore Palmer, society man, comprise a strange combination of candidates for | aldermen on the democratic ticket in Chi- cago. Something desperate had to be done | to give a picturesque shade to an other- | wis€ dreary campaign. With two exceptions, Vice President Roosevelt fs younger than any member of the body over which he presides. There was one vice president younger than he-— | Breckinridge, who was elected on the ticket with Buchanan. Daniel D, Tompkins and John €. Calhoun were the same age Roosevelt when they assumed the office Chief Justice Webster Street of Arizo was the orator at the dedication of the ter- ritory’s new capitol in Phoenix on Febru ary 25, the thirty-eighth anniversary of the establishment of a territorial government there The tol bullt entirely Arizona products #nd the people clalm that It 1 the best public bullding in the United States costing so little money. The fr legislature f Arizona held lons n log eabin in Prescott Propinquity counts tribution of political Maryland, which is for much in the d spoll. The 3 far behind st Penusyl | vania i population and area, has a larger A% [ no intimation of any hostile demonstration | pumber of ofccnolders in the federal em | upon ploy at Washington than has the Keystons #tate. Virginia bas 1,252, against 1,256 for Pennsylvania. Over $1,000,000 a s pald out citizens of each of the states who in the natfonal and whos are on the governmen pay rolls vear to reside name capltal BREEZY CHAFF, “The box a person 1 Journal mukes Detroit cont which barrel fs the like @ nt ok Cleveland Plain great grandfather wealth With a plonect's ax “Ax? No. He burned barns and got the Insurance Dealer blazed “yes his ailr, my way Indlanapolis Press 1= an optimist? Mr. g An optimist, my won, | that will start out with a new dram troupe without providing himeelt with return ticket Tommy - Paw, what \ man I N Pittsburg Chronicle: ¢ imperialiste regarded it as a ¢ remarked the Observant Ronrder ‘Well, there was somo relgn, you know replfed ‘the Cross-Eyed Hourder the ant natior Riess Chieago moral i the feminine He Khe nine Tribunc: She-1 ol superiority of woman | language itself Thers for “raseal,” 18 the OFf e not, but that* That's ause there are rascals! recogil tsn't no Washington Star back on your life portunities you have melancholy ‘man sir wered would be just my while I was br helped.” “Do_you and refloct missed ever look on the op. " nquired the the hustler luck to misx somo more oding over what can’t be Philadelphia money order from Markley ing's mall Graphter muck Borroughs to me at one month, m ughs-1 in this DId you, really? I the $10. 1t reads ‘tenner “Forwa I Toaned you DIFFEREN 1.0, Montague in the Oregonfan, If Mr. J. P. Morgan should awake, some summer day, To find his recent SWept away, He'd have to spend a year or twa Nk up the cost everything, before what he'd’ lost rallroads reaching st the sea, shops mills and have to be and listed at that J. P might know heavily he'd suffered xus blow purchases had all been in count or he knew exactly The everywhere, (he The nd factories, would its price, How by this solar It Mr. J agaly To et that fellow likely he Of making good things come his way come both fast and thick But it would mke a lifetime spent and strife and care, even then a fickle him in the afr, If he Jald his plans full well ar L Strove 0 make them win, He'd get his fortune just as hé was ready to “cash in.” P. Morgan were to go to w property away from sundry 1 He'a in the end, for has in toil And fate might land And If T awg me summer day, _earthly pile Was scattered to the four winds, I probably should xmilc And, while J. P'. was co: mting up the stock of one n He'd lost, I'd go t. fortnight earn As much as 1 had had before, and still ra have, forsooth, The buoyancy and hopefulness and he aith and strength of youth. You'd think that I, with all of tae vantages In view, Ought not to envy Morgan, admit, 1 do. GOLDEN ROD OIL COMPANY Producers of Fuel Ol in Califo Owners of 2000 Acres of 011 The secretary wired garding Well No. pleted. to find my work, and In u single but, I must the fleld nearly com from now Bakersfield, Call., Feb, 26, 1901 “Well flowed tw! recently; once some elghty feet over derrick. James G. Cortelyou.” OUR PROSPECTUS with names of officers and directors and full particulars, will be sent you the asking. JOHN G. 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