Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DALY Bn. E. ROSEWATER, "'DITUR. PUBLISH D LVEI\Y M\}RNINO ’I'ERIIB l)l" !LHBCI\!PTION Daily Bee (without Bunday), One Year.. Dally Bee and Sunday, Orie Year. illustrated Bee, One Yea Bunday Bee, Utie Year.. Baturday Bee, One Year, ‘Twentieth Century Farme DELIVERED BY CARRIBR. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per cop! Daily Bee (without Sunday),pér wee! Daily Bee Uncluding Sunday), per week..l7e Bunday Bee, per copy . (] kvening Bee mnhauv. gunday), per week.10o Kvening Be ludi unday), per 50 .l in delivery aHould be nadresssq 5. Cats: Circulation De: partment. & or-'ncsa mahaThe Bes Bulld South Om: Goity | Ml *Butiaing, Twen- k% Htth ang M. St ‘Council 1/afts 1o bearl Street. Chie Unity Building. rk—Temple Court. A-hlnuon-flu l-ourulnul llrnL CORRESPONDE! Communications relating Gows and adt: torial matter should be addressed: Omaha HBee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Company, Omaha, » REMITTANCES. e omit by draft, express or postal oner, > The Bee Publishing Company, ot atamps accepted in payment of accounts. ersonal checks, except Ol'l OF eastern exchanges, not accepte E BEE PUBLISHING COMPA ol i STATEMENT OF cmcucu.-nou Btate l Nebraska, ou! o .'A‘":ehuok. secretary nt‘fn- Bee Publum pany, being duly swol Says tha nu -v.luu ul gomplets coples of The Dally, y mo was ll foi- Bunday th of Decem! EEURNRRRERREEERS Less unsold and returned coples GEO, B. TZ R B B B 8 iyt AONGATE WiEiear "Notary Pubile. e——————————— The canal controversy is simply the old question of the long and short haul. e—— Remember that a penny saved to the taxpayers 18 a penny earned whether it is saved In the court house, city hall or school bullding. A city tax rate of 30 or 31 mills would read a good deal better as an advertise- ment of Omaha than a repetition of the 84-mill levy of last year. E— Our friends of the noble Elks do not seem to be acting very vigorously on the suggestion that they l’lvlde up the profits of their benefit falr with the auditorium. —— Some of the members of the Commer- clal club seem to think that the Indian supply depot is a good thing for every- body except those who have w pay the rent for Uncle S8am. S——————— Denver has organized an ofl exchange on the strength of the recent oll dis- coveries In that part of the country. Denver people could not resist an op- portunity to speculate, — The commission men are raising the iery that strawberries are to be scarce next summer. Possibly, but the average citizen has other troubles which are occupying him at present. Senator Stewart h gone into the milk business in Washington. As he has abandoned the silver issue, he will probably not insist on the ratio of six- teen parts water to one of milk. y e If South Omaha will only continue its contentlons over the management of ity prospective new public library Mr. Car- negle may change his mind and conclude to plant his benefaction in some other soil, | —— The new postmaster at Lincoln' will have to vacate the position of chief oll inspector to take possession of his new office. Now, who wants to enjoy a good salary at the expense of the Btandard 01l monopoly? Don't all speak at once. e—e——— The sheriff’s fees growing out of the grand jury inquisition will amount to upward of $600. Sherif Power would not object to having a continuous per- formance in the grand jury room in- stead of merely a perlodical appear- ance, e The assurance has now been given offi- clally that the auditorium will be ready to accommodate the €hristian church convention in October, but somehow the convention people do not appear to be satlstied unless the nssurance |s repeated at least once each week. Septr——— Objection is raised In some quarters to the delegates to King Edward's coro- nation following the customs of such events. When foreign diplomats come to this country they have to conform to the usages which prevail here. When in Rome, do as Romans do. L ] The very folks who hollered loudest for a grand jury to ¢lear the atmosphere are now nfost distressed becduse the atmosphere has been cleared. « Clear atmosphere takes away from them their chief stock in trade of political capltal upon which they have to draw for well- feined rumors to keep in business. ESmpe——— That student court-martial does mnot seert to have had the desired effect of banishing thievery from the High school and some new preventive will have to be introduced. To a man up a tree it would seem that there Is something rad- fcally wrong with the moral training of the members of the student body, ‘Whether the remedy must be applied at bowme or at school ls the open question. AN IMPOTENT TRIBUNAL. Councils of war never fisht and rail- road commissions rarely do any fighting except with thelr mouths. When the Interstate - Commerce commission was created under the compromise Cullom- Tegan bills it was apparent to those who had given the subject of rallroad regula- tlon serious study that the commission would be powerless to afford the relief which was sought by the advocates of the government regulation of railroads. For nearly sixteen years the Interstate Commerce commission has tried to keep the rallronds within the bounds pre- seribed by law, but every effort in that direction has proved a fallure and a farce, The primary object for the creation of the commission was to provide a means to check and suppress fate discrimina- tion and the giving of rebates to favored shippers. Hut in spite of perlodic scold- ings and threats of prosecution the com- mission has been unable to suppress the evil. The very latest remonstrance of the Interstate commission against the rate- cutting practices of the roads and their conspiracy with the big meat packers Is only a repetition of the periodic scold- ings. The commission has been aware of these law-defying practices, but has done nothing to stop them and could do nothing if it were so disposed. According to the Chicago Tribune Chairman Knpapp exacted a promise from the'railroad presidents a year a; that they would at once restore rates and maintain them. Two weeks later Mr. Knapp was informed by the chief traffic officer of one of the largest rail- road systems that the agreement with bim had been violated and that his com- pany had been compelled to make a large contract at cut rates with a promi- nent shipper, yet no cognizance was taken of the matter until two weeks ago, when the commission began the hearing in Chicago. Why any officer of a railroad com- pany should be compelled to violate the plain provisions of the interstate com- merce act and break his word of honor to the commission is a mystery that no- body will be able to explain satisfac- torily to the patrons of the roads who are paying regular tariff rates. Why the community of Interest organized ex- pressly to maintain and enforce uniform rates and stop rate-cutting 18 not able to prevent the secret concessions to fa- vored patrons at the expense of the stockholders and to the detriment of the public is also inexplicable. The conclusions of the commission as to its lack of power to exact compliance with its orders and enforce the law are eminently sound. But it is doubtful whether even congress could materlally strengthen the act without a constitu- tional amendment that would authorize 1t to confer judicial as well as executive power upon the commission. Congress can, however, strengthen the commission and bring to it a cordial obedlence to the provisions of the inter- state commerce law by clothing the com- mission with supervisory power in con- Junction with an interstate commerce court organized expressly for the ad- Judication of all causes arising under the interstate commerce law. Such a court could supplement the findings of the commission by judicial orders that rallroad magnates and traflic managers would have to obey. With power to exact publicity and enforce its rules and regulations through a court of competent Jurisdiction organized expressly for deal- ing with transgressors of the law the Interstate commission would be some- thing More than a cyrtain lecture bu- reau. E—— WORK OF THE GRAND JURY. After ten weeks' contlnuous session the grand jury called by the district court to investigate alleged corruption in local governmeént has completed Its work and recelved its discharge. The. report made by the grand jury is ex- haustive and covers 'all the subjects embodled in the instructions given by the court. The inquisition of the grand jury effectively dispels the rumors of syste- matic blackmall of the viclous classes for the benefit of city officials and shows the originators and circulators of these reports up in an unenviable light, The only proofs of corruption In local gov- ernment that warranted indictments ap- pear to have been found In the manage- ment of the public schools of South Owmaha. The members of the Omaha Board of Education who had adopted resolutions calling for the grand jury recelve a merited rebuke for sendimg the grand Jury on a fishing excursion without offering any tangible evidence to sustain thelr charges. As a matter of fact, it has developed that at the time the school board passed its resolutions pone of its members had any ground to warrant such action and only tried to gather material to bolster up thelr charges after the call for the grand jury had been 1ssued. Four-fifths of all the Indictments pre- sented are for violations of the laws agalnst gambling, and especially against keepers of places malotaining slot ma- chine devices, The grand jury very properly recommends the suppression of all slot machines and the more rigid enforcement of the laws and ordinances prohibiting wine rooms and disorderly resorts. By far the most important action of the grand jury is the Indictment of former State Treasurer Meserve for ap- propriating to his own use the interest on school funds deposited in one of the South Omaha banks. It Is to be re- gretted that the grand jury did not take mere time to look thoroughly into the relations of custodians of public funds' with the depositories of public moneys on which luterest is ewrned, but not turned back Into the respective treas- uries. When the agitation for the convening of a grand jury was at fever heat The Bee entered remonstrance against the necdlops expenns it would saddle upon THE OMAHA DAILY Blll SATUBD Y, JANUARY 25, 1002, the taxpayers. But the men who were loudest in thelr cry for purifying the atmosphere pretended to see in the at- titude of The Bee a sinister motive to cover up corrupt practices by public officers. The outcome will, we belleve, fully sustain the position of The Bee. Every bill brought by the grand jury could have been filed as an information by the county attorney If he were a vigilant, fearless and competent officer. The chief advantage gained Is the knowledge that the ugly rumors and scandal storfes that have caused so much acrimonious discussion are without foundation, — OPPOSITIUN TO PARCELS POST. The Nebraska retall grocers and coun- try merchants propose to remonstrate in a body against the enactment by congress of the parcels post bill now pending in the lower house. Under existing postal laws parcels of merchandise welghing not more than four pounds may, under certain restric- tions, be carried in the mails. The parcels post bill provides that sixty pounds of merchandise or other matter that the postmaster general decides is mailable may be carried through the mails for 20 cents and that every twenty pounds thereafter, W to 200 pounds, may be carried at 5 cents for each twenty pounds, until the maximum:of 200 pounds is reached. This is simply an effort to enlarge the scope of the postal service and destroy the monopoly now enjoyed by the express companies in the carriage of merchandise in small packages weighing not to exceed 200 pounds. The retall grocers and country mer- chants contend that the parcels post s a scheme introduced in the interest of the mail order or so-called cat-houses which will, if successful In their con- spiracy, crush the small dealers out of existence. In this respect the opposl- tion to the parcels post of the country merchants and retail grocers differs very little from the opposition of the Omaha retall grocers to the public' market Nearly every large city in the and notably the city of Mil waukee, where the National Retail Grocers' assocfation is about to hold its annual convention and will fulminate Its protest against the establishment of the parcels post, enjoys the advantage of market houses without materially dimin- ishing the number of its retail grocers or seriously affecting their prosperity. The assumption that the parcels post would ruin the country merchant and retail grocer or that they would be wiped out of existence by the mail order houses is fallaclous. 1f this were true it would simply be an argument in favor of the parcels post, because the chief aim of government is to promote the welfare of the largest mumber of its people. . If it were possible for the mail order house to crush out the country store and retall grocer it would be an indictment, not only of the retail mer, chant, but also of the jobber. The proof of the pudding 1s In the eating, ' Every commodity handled by Chicago and eastern mail order, houses can be bought Just as cheaply, if not more cheaply, in Omaha from the retail dealers. While it is true that millions of dol- lars worth of goods are being shipped by mail order houses direct to the con- sumers on the farm, at the village and in the city, these purchases are usually made because of the bellef that the mall order house sells merchandise in small quantities at the wholesale price. The mail order house is doubtless enabled to slightly undersell the retail merchant on some classes of goods because it sells for cash, while the country merchant who sells on credit must get a higher price. This is precisely why the country merchant and retaller cannot be crushed out by the mail order house, whether the merchandise is delivered by express or by mall. The great majority of the patrons of the country store and retail grocer buy on credit and pay their bills from month to month. THe parcels post, like the postal sav- ings bank and postal telegraph, s a modern appliance which nearly all civ- ilized governments have adopted as part of their postal systems in the interest of the masses. The United States is the only civilized natlon of any importance that has not yet established the parcels post. Every country in Europe, includ- Ing Turkey and even Egypt, enjoys the benefit of parcels post under inter- national postal treaties, and the United States would have long since jolned the other nations in the introduction of the parcels post were It not for the in- fluence exerted In congress by the ex- press companies, which would suffer a great deal more from the competition of the parcels post than would the retall grocer or the country merchant. The remonstrance of the grocers against the parcels post is about as sensible as would be a protest against rural free delivery or against suburban electric roads, which place the depart- ment stores of the larger cities at the threshold of the farmer. There Is, how- ever, no serious danger for the present from the parcels post, nor is there lkely to be so long as the express companies coutinue to maintain the influence which they now wield in the national legis- lature. e The Chinese emperor has received the ambassadors of the powers for the first time as representatives of sovereigns equal with himself. A few more trips of wandering in the wilderness may cons vince him that the child of the sun i much less important than he had rated himself. ——— Mr. Millard Funkbouser's well-defined rumors huve been sifted by the grapd Jury at an expense of from $3,000 $4,000 to the taxpayers, but the detined rumors proved a good e Morgan to land Mr. Funkhouser three-year term in the Board of _lfl- cation. p ‘S.x." S A financial paper is autbority for 1 statement that western pald during the past fifteen years mort. gages amounting to $6,5600,000,000. It any one Is In a position to know what the western farmer has pald It is the eastern money lender, who has been having both caplital and interest thrown back at him without walting for him to call his loans in, a Gouvd Thi Chicago Post. The Colomblan government appears to be willing to do almost anything to it the United States short of actually digging the Panama ditch Wait Till the Claims Are In. Louisville Courier-Journal, We shall not know fully the disastrous results of that maval battle in the harbor of Panama until we learn how many heroes have survived to claim the glory of it. —_—— er Fellow, Journal. It was Artemus Ward whose patriotism took the form of willingness to send all his wite's relatives to the war. Almost every protected Interest is entirely willing reci- procity shall be tried on some other one. —_— There Are Others. Chicago Post. Toere {s sald to be more or less confusion In congress over the problems involving greonbacks, asset banking and other finan- clal matters. But if it is any comfort to our lawmakers we might remark that this contusion {8 not restricted to Washington. Greed for Gold and Its Cure. Boston Globe. What a tragedy could be written on this Boer war. greed of gold inspired it, and many are hoping that the curse of gold will follow it. It ajms not at building up an empire that may shine in posterity, but at securing a huge pot of gold on the ruins of two once prosperous republics. Playing Polities. Chicago Chronicle. As was to be expected, Germany denles the unauthenticated assertion of Lord Cranborne that its government was hostile to the United States at any period of the war with Spain, The utterance of the under secretary for forelgn affairs was so transparently “politics” in relation to the present aspects of European trade and self- esteem combined that it has not been taken seriously anywhere, © Money De Minneapolis Times, There is a campaign started by which clean money is demanded from the United States government, and it deserves to suc- ceed. Recent deaths from smallpox of a banker of Montrose, N. Y., and his wife, the infection coming from soiled national bank bills, has accented popular demand that the United States be as decent about its money as is the Bank of England that refuses to relssue a note, replacing it with a clean one whenever it is returned to the fountain- head. Natlonal banks can be made to ob- serve the same rule and the additional ex- pense would be well justified in the lessen- ing of the danger from igfection and in the appeal to the love of cleanliness that is, or should be, Inherent in a decent and a Godly people. POOR LO IN HIS GLORY. Pulling Him to the Level of the Squaw Men of the East. New York Tribune. < Are the untutored tribesmen of the pluu to be compelled to give up the wearing of long halr, the palpting of their faces, thely traditional raiment of skin and of blankets, thelr savage ariories of tomahawks and hunting knives, their moccasins, their im- memorial imeés and dances, thelr prime- val habits, the shelter of the tepee and the wigwam, the gatherings around camp- fires, the smoking of pipes of peace, the banquets on the flesh of fat young pupples, the chanting of death songs, the keen-eyed following of trails, and all the customs and characteristics which have come down from the dusky ages whem the red men roamed from to sea and had never seen a paleface or heard the sound of powder or known the taste of firewater? Is Lo to be shorn of every last, lingering touch of the picturesque, the romantic? So the commissioner of Indian affairs seems to be planning. Are there no genuine, fashioned barbarians to be left among the college foot ball team: warriors of pendulous tresses? Are the sachems and braves of anclent lineage and long descent to be reduced to the ignominy of shedding their typical attire and of en- casing themselves in Baxter street ‘‘hand- me-downs” and “Plymouth Rock trousers?" And must their lofty brows be crowned with second-hand ‘‘stovepipes?” comm! ner of Indian aftalrs base the unfettered wanderers of the prairies to the level of the “squaw men” ot East Fourteenth street? e THE RICHEST NATION. Py Comparisons of the Weéalth and Debt of Le Countries, Cincinnatt § ercial-Tribune. The great ic has reached that as- sured and pl¢ position in the ranks of nations where it can sit back complacently and let the other fellows do the figuring as to which of the leading ones among & select tew stand pre-eminent, overtopping all the rest. The figures, are not home-made, but from M&’Dflk for 1902, just issued by the Dally Mall, and they show the following results: Under various chapters it gives the relative standing of five leading natipns in wealth, as follows: United States, £16,850,000,000; the United Kingdom, £11,806,000,000; France, £9,690,- 000; Germany, &£8,052,000,000; Russia, £6,- 425,000,000, As to mational indebtedne t glves the standing of the same five natlons as follows: The United States, £221,000, 000; Germany, £651,000,000; United Ki dom, £706,000,000; Russia, £711,000,000; France, #1,289,000,000, while the percent- age of debt to wealth in the same countries stands: The U.M States, 14; United Kingdom, 6; Germany, Russla, 11.1; France, 1148 Then' the figures dip into some agricul- tural products wheat we lead eleven nations 80,000,000 g! rs for the year 1901. Russia bad 42,000,000; France, 6,000,000; ; Italy, 17,000,000; Hungary, “Mm. Mumunln und lll head of “The Fight for the Iron Trade,” the plg iron product for 1900 of the five leading natlons is given as fol- lows: '\The United States, 13,789,242 tons; the United Kiogdom, 8,908,570 tons; Ger- | many, 8,494,852 tons; , 2,699,494 tous; Russla, 2,321,000 tons. the product is given: The United States, 10,087,322 tons; Great Britain, 4,901,054 tons; Ger- many, 4,799,000 tons; France, 1,624,046 tons; Russia, 1,104,000 tons. The United Kingdom lost ground last year in pig iron and steel, producing 396, 749 tons less in 1500 than in 1899, and, while that country imported more iron u;d 1 than {n any previous year, the :J‘"lfid States exported more than in any year, The figures given seem to doubt their exact patiently now for the showing and sco bow they compare OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. An American observer in Spain says the domestic politics of the country fore- shadow a revolt. The whole country, he claims, is on the verge of revolution. It is as it its home Impulse toward overthrow of dynasties were the forbear of the faver- ish temper of the factions that make puny, though sometimes tragic, civil wars in the republics of South America. All testimony goes to ehow that in in parllamentary divisions in the Corts re of less real im- portance than the cleavage between aristo- crat and peasant, between merchant and noble, that runs throughout the kingdom. It would appear that in Spain the hour s ready to strike whenever the man may ap- pear. The has not displayed him- selt. The man s not Don Carlos, idling in Venice; he ot Weyler, chief of the army and professed adherent of the boy king; it has not appeared that the man is the young Alfonso, or that he will ehow the personal capacity to maintain his seat upon the throne. It s only certain that Spain, once mistress of nearly all the civilized world, 18 face to face with [ts time of adversity. It has lost Its last hold in the new world; it has surrendered ite outpost in the Orfent. It trembles on the brink of industrial and commerclal collapse and flnancial ruin, It is one of the problems of Europe whether the statesmen of Madrid, the merfhants of Barcelona, the peasantry of the vineyards and flelds, the laborers in the mines and the bold Basque men can join to maintain a nation In its integrity, or whether it shall be dismembered into provinces. . The memorial which the Berlin Central Assoclation of Merchants has addressed to the federal councll, praylng for a bill for the regulation of all trusts and syndicates, suggests that all be cempelled to enroll th “fegister of cartel that their statutes should be submitted to the approval of the authorities, and that they should by law be obliged to make a public statement of their accounts every half year through the medium of the Imperial Gi te. The me- morial refers to the sugar and spirit rings and the linoleum trust, which, it mali tains, have exercised a prejudicial influence on the welfare of the community at large. It is, for instance, highly detrimental to the interests of the nation that German sugar should be sold for mext to nothing in foreign countries, thanks to the exist- ence of heavy bounties which come out of the pockets of the German taxpayer. At home, too, the sugar manufacturers have it in their power to burden the German con- sumer by artificially raising prices to suit their own Interests, a proceeding, more- over, which often exposed the retail dealer to serious loss and inconvenlence. In a somewhat milar /manner the so-called spirit ring could diétate to the retatl d ers the prices which they should and had imposed such terms that the deal- ers found it impossible to realize a profit. The wholesale price of the same spirit sold at Trieste for 1414 kronen by the German spirit ring was in Germany no less than 20 marks. Nothing except the impossibility of ¢ ing the manufacturers who did not belong to the ring forced the monopolists to lower their prices. o The press of Rome devotes considerable space to & strange personage who made his first appearance in the Kternal City on Christmas day and sprang straightway into fame. His nai is Richard Jannssch, and he was born at Frankfort-on-Oder. Till the age of 26 he followed the trade of a glazler, Then, having caught consumption, he uflnma to change his mode of liv- ing, and for the last four years be has wan- dered up and downm, ping on the bare ground and living on the fruits of the earth. He is to some extent a man of education and he writes poetry. Moreover, in’ Ger- man-speaking lands he gives lectures, h object being to imduce men to follow his example, and thus cure themselves of thelr diseases, or prevent them. Without ehoes and stockings, his hair reaching to his shoulders, and clothed in a cotton tunlc, over which he throws a gray woolen cover- jng, he walks the streets of the Eternal City, followed by a gaping crowd, and hailed as the Man of the Woods and a mew Mes- slah. Several days ago, while passing through Florence, he was arrested as a vag- abond, but after being detalned for some hours he was released, his papers being in perfect order. Thie singular man, whose worldly goods consist of his scanty cloth- ing and about 25 lire, or $5, In money, and who s sald to bear triking resemblance to Garibaldi, confesses that he cannot re- main for more than half an hour In a closed room. o ‘The medical reports presented to the local Russian authorities by the doctors of the different districts reveal an alarming state of things with regard to Infant mortality. It appears that in many of the govern- ments the proportion of the children who dle during the first year is as high as 40 and even 50 per cent. In isolated cases it is even higher. The reports ascribe this terrible mortality mainly to the ignorance of the peasants and to the fact that the mothers have frequently to neglect thelr children in order to work in the flel support of this view it is noted thi death rate {s conslderably highe: mer than in winter in spite of the of the climate. Another cause appears to be the growing practice of employing wet nurses, with the result that the nurees' own children have to be fed by artificlal means. This explanation is supported by the fact of Infant mortality is much the Mohammedan population. the law obliges every mother to nurse her own children, In one of the governments, for example, the rate of in- fant mortality among the Mohammedans le only 140.4 per 1,000, while among the Christlans it is 342.1. oo The good-will of the Negus of Abyssinia is of considerable importance to Great Britain just now, and much will depend upon the nature of the settlement regard- ing the boundary lines between his King- dom and the Soudan. If it be true, as posi- tively asserted, that the water supply of Egypt and the navigation of the Blue Nile are at the mercy of the ‘power that con- trols Lake Tana and its nelghborhood, it Is plain that England cannot afford to be in- different, It {8 sald that a reservoir of 182,000,000 cublc meters of wi could be formed by a dyke, which would raise the level of the lake fourteen or fifteen feet, and that the work Is a comparatively tri- fling affair, presenting no great engineering difficulties. A letter from a correspondent at Jibuti to the Paris Debats says that the English are rapidly increasing their influ- ence and their rights in the reglons abut- ting on the Abyssinian border, and areina falr way to secure all that they des! He adds that the country south of 8 naar—which includes the now historic spot, Fashoda—had always been supposed to be a mere waste of no value to anybody, but that now it is reported that it is really full of gold, and that perfidious Albion is quite as eager to secure it on that account as for the right of way of the much-talked-of Cape to Cairo rallway. —— ™ ¥ of a Grab, 8t. Paul Ploncer Press. Every alternate ten miles on each side of the proposed railroad from Cook's Inlet to St. Michael, in Alaska, is the modest subsidy demanded of the government by the projectors of that road. If it is granted it will be one of the richest gifts ever be- stowed by the government om any of its citizens. POLITICAL DRIFT, The first clean-up of the reform ax In New York City aviog of $100,000 & year in salaries, ores of sinecures have been chopped off, Charley T. Ellie of Belleville, 11, 93 years of age, made a record that is a rec- ord. He held unremunerative offices, one or two af a time, for nearly seventy year: With the {lluminating experience of New York and Pennsylvanla brightening the path the legislature of Kentucky thinks a million-dellar eapitol building will do for a starter. A Boston vligrim, while in Washington recently, suggested Richatd Olney as the proper man for the democratic nomination in 1904, Go to! Nebraska holds a mort- gage on that job. Y Perry Belmont, the defeated candidate for congress in the Seventh district, New York City, certifies that the campalgn cost him $14,837.78. Besides he got a poor run for the money. Mayor Harrison of Chicago, who knows a political machine when he sees ome, has a wholesome dislike for other machines than his own, Chicago police formed an assoclation for the purpose of protecting themselves, but the mayor thinks the move is an attack on the merit system. There- fore the police machine goes to the junk pile. The chaplain of the New York assembly oice the other day and prayed Lord, we thank Thee for the great riches and beauties of this great Empire state, We thank Thee for the great lakes, with their argosies of ships, our broad rivers, with their mills and industry and for the eleepy canals, " Laugh- ter and applause followed. Senator Platt of New York is to be hon- ored on March 28 by a dinner at the Fifth Avenue hotel in New York City, where he bas made his home for twenty-five years or #0, at which President Roosevelt, Governor Odell, “many United States senators” and other politicians will be present. It will be known the “Amen Corper’ dinner, for Mr. Platt is known as the original “Amen corner” man in this famous hostelry of republican politicians. ALLISON OF I0WA, Linke Twe .l(. Louls Globe-Democrat. 1t 1s an unusual honor Which has been extepded by tHe people of Towa to Wil- B. Allison. For a sixth term he is returned td the senate. chamber in 1873 and has been kept there ever. since by successive elections. Hlg present term will expire in 1903 and he bas been chosen for another six years. At the end of his present term he will be 74 of age. He is in good condition phys- fcally and mentally, however, and will enter upon his sixth term with a fair prospect of living to complete It and of doing good Work through the whole of the period, a8 he has been doing for the past twenty-nine years. When Willlam B. Allison went to th in 1873 to succeed James Harl ond term as president. vice presidemt, Matthew H. Carpenter of ‘Wisconsin was president pro tem of the | wenate and James G. Blalne was serving hiy third aod lest term as speaker of the house. The republicans at that time were strongly in the ascendant, but some dark days for them were closc at hand. They lost the house in the election: year later. 1874, for the first time since the canvass of 1856, the year of Buchasan's election. They almost lost the presidency in 1876, and the senate beoke mway from them for a brief time shortly afterward. The dynasties of Bayard and Salisbury were still in the as- cendant in Delaware when Allison first tered the senate and both had re nta- tives in that chamber. Sumnes lin and Lot M. Morrill from Maine, Conk- ling and Fenton from New York, Simon Cameron from Pennsylvania, Antbony and Sprague from Rhode Island, Edmunds and Justis 8. Morrill from Vermont, Sherman and Thurmas from Ohlo, Logan and Oglesby from INinois, Morton from Indiana, Bogy and Schurz from Missourl, Ingalls from Kagsas, Zach Chandler and Ferry from Michigan, Ramsey and Windon from Minnesota, “Parsqn”” Brownlow from Ten- nessee, and Flanagan of Flanagan's mills was there from Texas. Eight states from the pratrie and mountain region have been added to the mational roll since then. n unusual honor which is extended eminent son. Only ofie other in B8, Morrlll of Vermont—was ever elected to a sixth consecutive term in the senate, and Marrill dled early in his last term., Allison served elght years in the house before he entered the sen- He entered that | m: ate, so only Morrill, Sherman snd & few others ever had a longer tenure of Nigh political station in this country. As he takes his place in the senate these days he sees enly two men in that body who were there when he first emtered ft— Jones and Stewart of Nevida Many t measures have been before congress since 1873—resumption of specle payments, groenbackism, the tarift, silvef in vatjous phases and the legislation Iudln to and growipg out of the war with Spais in 1896. Alllson got his pame linked with Bland's in the silver act of 1878, which was passed over President Hayes' veto, Allison chang- ing it from a free colnage measure to & limited coinage bill, the profit to go to the government and not, as in the Bland bill, to the owners of the bulllon. Willlam B. Allison has been & sane and conservative force in natlonal legislation, and be de- serves the distinction which bis state has conferred upon him. e SMILING REMARKS, o) Cleveland Plain De chaplain of the_senate is blind, I-nt he' “Then that accounts fof nlc praying for the newspaper cormpond Washington fltu "!cmn people,' Unelo ben, gite de reputation & von t n mu’:le M:- 1 y to :ll ollt an’ “‘ow Whut dey kip do. Chicago mhuna- "’W.‘ 4 . p|rola=-or. N y::ur cook has bnn I’“‘fl, o?‘ on. 2AR, e plianntly replied she watbet, who had feen botter daye. 'k undone a steak that he ought to h-v, done. 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