Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 23, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN ESDAY, APRIL 23, 1902. —-———————_—_—_— THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE. BE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION {ly Bee (without Sunday), One Year.$4.00 ly Bee and Sunday, Une Year [ ustrated Bee, One Year 10 unday Hes, Une Ye 2.00 turday Bee, One Year 1o ‘wentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. L0 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2¢ Iy Bee (without Bunday), per week. .l fly Bee (Including Bunday), per week.1ic naay Bee, per copy.... A . o0 vening Hee (without Bunday), per week.10c vening Bee (including Sunday, per week Complaints of should be addressed t: tment o OFFICES. Omaha-The Bee Bullding. $outh Omaha—City yall sullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M sireets Councll Bluffs—10 rearl Street. 01640 Unity Bullding. ork—Temple Court. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and editorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS, Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, yable to The Bee Publishing Company. mly 2-cent stamps accepted in_payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, D Omaha or eastern exchange, not PUBLISHING' COMPAN ilarities in delivery City Circulation De- THE BEE STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County George B, Tzschuck, secretary of [ Publishing Company, being duly sworn, r of full and plete coples The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of March, 1902, was as follows: B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3ist day of March. A. D, 1802, GEORGE RASMUSSEN, (Seal.) Notary Public. —_— A BULL IN THE CHINA SHOP. Popocrats all over Nebraska are pray- ing fervently to be saved from such fool friends, as ex-Attorney General Smyth and the Omaha World-Herald. The un- exampled prosperity of the live stock industry bas' already done much toward the disintegration of the fusion reform forces in central and western Nebraska, where popullsm was rampant a few years ago. The viclous war waged by the World-Herald and the former attor- ney general under pretext of champion. Ing the cause of the meat consumers is naturally calculated to drive every pros- | perous stock ralser who has up till now affillatqd with the fusionists Into the re- publican camp. The business depression following the crash of 1803 and the distress among producers on account of the drouth in 1804 and 1805 attracted thousands and thousands of Nebraska farmers to the Bryanite standard. With low prices for farm products and empty corn bins it was easy to persuade these people that the money power was trying to crush them by making them pay off their mort- gages in 200-cent dollars, but now that the nightmare of 1895, 1896 and 1897 has happily passed, a new light has dawned upon them. In 1896 the average Chicago price of corn was 25 cents a bushel, of oats 18 cents a bushel and beef steers and hogs $3.70 per hundred. Now corn sells at Chicago for 60 cents a bushel, oats at 42 cents a bushel, beef steers from $6.50 to §7 and hogs $G.90 to $7 per hun- dred. And these prices are paid in 200- cent dollares. Does it stand to reason that the farm- s would look with favor upon any scheme that would bring down the p: of their products by breaking up the concerns that have established such a profitable market for them? What does the farmer care about the consumer so long as he is literally reaping a golden harvest? In view of the fact that there are 80,000 voters on the farms of Nebraska and less than 20,000 workingmen em- ployed in Nebraska mills and factories, the attempt to drive the wedge between the workingman and the farmer would strike any politician with a thimbleful of brains as foolhardy and absolutely ruinous, but Attorney General Smyth el The organization of an American beef eaters’ trust is In order. ——— If you failed to plant a tree on Arbor Day plant one on any other day. —— Colonel Crowder's inspection of the Missouri mule camp at Chalmette has proved a flasco. What is the matter with the weather clerk? First he blows hot, then he blows dust, and then he blows cold. EEE—— The National Embalmers’ association s now in session at 8t. Louis and we shall not be surprised to hear of the formation of a mummy trust. i With blizzards in Montana, Nevada and Utah, hurricanes in Oklahoma and hot blasts in Kansas, Uncle Sam fis catchin’ it both a-comin’ and a-goin’. Judging by the record of real estate transfers, there will be more home building n Omaha this spring than dur- ing any previous year since the collapse of the boom. The Transatlantic Steamship Octopus will enjoy the royal prerogative. On the high seas it will be supreme and above all law and on land it will be out of reach of anti-trust law, state and na- tional. When the editor of the government crop bulletin tells us that Nebraska win- ter wheat is in condition to stand more hot winds than that in any state in the ‘west it Is to be hoped that he Is not giv- ing us hot air. SEsmm—— In his very Interesting lecture Prof, Rudd made the assertion that liquid air could not be corked. That may be true of the liquid alr that he brought with him. It was prepared from the cougres- slonal spouters at Washington. There is a bright day dawning for the high-priced cigar smoker. It is pre- dicted that the attempt of the tobacco combine to secure control of the retail clgar trade in Chicago will lead to a war of extermination by which the best Havana cigar will sell for the price of a cheroot. According to cable advices from Rome the man who may succeed the present pope was never a child. The in- ference Is that he was born with a full set of teeth and’ was immune from measles, whooping cough, scarlatina and all of the other allments to which ordi- pary infants are subject. The dfteen wmilllon dollar omnibus bulding bill which will be rushed through the house within the next few days opens the way for a few mor sinecures in the supervising architect's office. The 5 per cent allowance for office work on fifteen million dollars will mount up to three quarters of a million. has tiled a written ob- Jection with the secretary of the State Board of Irrigation based on the pre- sumption that the Platte river canuot be dammed. In view of the fact that the Platte river has been blanked so many thousand times long before there was such a thing as a State Board of Irriga- - tlon, Mr. Riley's position would seem untenable. They do things differently in Milwau- kee, A Milwaukee brewing company has offered to give §$100,000 toward the pro- posed Milwaukee building to be devoted to music and art on condition that it be allowed a rathskeller in the basement and the local popocratic organ in their zeal to do up the republican party seem to forget that they are playing bull in the china shop. They are moreover playing with a two-edged sword. Close up the South Omaha packing houses and 5,000 work- men who are now employed at fair wages would be turned into the streets, and, having no employment In South Omaha, they would either have to move away altogether or crowd the labor market in Omaha. Close the packing houses in South Omaha for any consid- erable length of time and owners of real estate in Omahka would be unable to give it away for the taxes. Fortunately, however, there is no im- medlate or remote danger of any such contingency. People don't generally cut off their noses to spite their faces. They know that the high price of beef I8 chiefly, if not wholly, due to the scarcity of cattle and the high prices of corn, hay and other feed. They know also that as soon as another big crop of corn and hay has been raised the prices of meat will go down and the Beef trust will not be able to keep it up, even if all the cattle dealers and cattle ralsers should combine with it. E——— THE COLOMBIAN PROTOCOL. The resubmitted Colombian canal protocol is hardly satisfactory in the character of its terms and is not likely to be accepted by our government. The chief difficulty in the way of making a satisfactory canal treaty with Colombia Is the fact that the con- stitution of that country does not permit the government to make cessions of territory to a foreign power, nor can It lease natlonal territory to allen governments for periods exceeding 100 years. It can, however, grant fran- chises Iu perpetuity. It is sought to avoid this constitutional dificulty by providing that the United States shall pay to Colombia $7,000,000, which will represent a rental of four- teen years at $500,000 & year. At the end of that period the price which the United States shall pay each year Is to be fixed-by mutual consent of the two countries and in case they cannot agree upon & sum it will be left to an arbitra- tor selected between the two govern- ments. The protocol also proposes a Joint commission to arrange and pro- | vide for all matters pertaining to the admiunistration of affalrs within the proposed canal belt, including the mem- bership of the mixed tribunals for the administration of justice and other steps necessary to the joint occupation of the belt. While it is perhsps possible that an arrangement of this nature would work smoothly, it is manifestly not what the United States waunts. This government | must have, wherever it shall decide to coustruct an inter-oceanic canal, a grant in perpetuity of territory within the | canal belt, such territory to be under | the absolute control of the United States. Our government should pay for the grant when made and there end the transaction. The plan of leaving the amount to be pald, after a specified term of yeurs, to be adjusted by mutual con- sent of the two countries, Is objection able for the reason that before the end complete and unquestioned jurisdiction of the United States, subject to such fair and reasonable obligations In re- spect to the administration of affairs in the territory as our government may as- sume. Mixed tribunals and policing by both American and Colomblan consta- bles could hardly fall to be productive of trouble. If{ Colombia can offer no more acceptable terms than are sub- mitted In this protocol the chances of the Panama route being selected will be very materially diminished. THE MERGER PROCKEDINGS. The state of Washington has been more fortunate before the United States supreme court than was Minnesota, in being allowed to file a bill for an in- Junction against the Northern Securities company and the rallroads merged into it. Minnesota was not successful, as pointed out by Chief Justice Fuller, because of the want of certain indispen- sable parties who could not be brought in without defeating the court's consti- tutional jurisdiction. The decision of the supreme court to assume original jurisdiction will doubt- less expedite a determination of the questions involved, chief among which is that of the scope and power of the state laws forbidding the consolidation of parallel and competing lin>s of rail- road. It is stated that the laws of Washington in respect to this are very similar to those of Minnesota, so that whatever the supreme court decides will apply to all laws like those of the states in question and a number of other states have such laws, doubtless in their gen- eral terms very similar. The country will awalt with great in- terest the hearing of this matter by the supreme court and the determination of it by that tribunal. The issue is of such commanding lmportance that it is safe to assume the court will give it early consideration. TRR PROPOSED *PUST CHECK." Considerable interest Is being taken in the proposition to issue what is desig- nated a “post check” in place of some of the lower denominations of paper money now outstanding and a com- mittee representing the Treasury and Postoffice departments will inquire as to the public opinion on the proposal. A bill introduced in the house of rep- resentatives in January provides for replacing a large amount of paper cur- rency of the various kinds with post check notes of corresponding denomina- tion and size with the currency and this measure is now before the treasury and postoffice committee, though somewhat modified from its original form. The advocates of the proposed note urge that it would be a very convenient currency for transmission by mall. It would do away with the custom of sending postage stamps as a form of remittance and would obviate the in- convenience experienced in getting money orders for small amounts, Hun- dreds of millions of dollars in small sums are annually sent through the mails, of course with more or less risk of loss, but it is claimed for the pro- posed notes that stealing from the mails would be practically impossible. On the other hand sowe objections to the proposition are pointed out. It is sald that there would be an immense amount of labor involved in the prepa- ration of the uotes and should they attain the popularity anticipated for them it might happen that the amount of such currency in circulation would have to be enormously increased, thus entailing the necessity of reorganizing the bureau of engraving and printing. This, however, does not seem to be a particularly practical objection, nor Is it a vital matter that the banks would be hostile to such a currency. The con- venlence and advantage to the people is the matter for primary consideration. Whether or not it would be wise, from an economlc point of view, to issue a new form of currency in addition to those we already have is the question of first Importance and should have careful consideration. Another point worthy of attention is the fact that the proposed legislation would push the government still further into banking operations. If there is a general publie demand, however, for the post check the objections made will not be lkely to prevent its adoption. The inquiry of the treasury and postoffice committee will develop to what extent there Is such a demand. — Mr. David H. Moffatt appears to be the whole thing in Denver. He is presi- dent of a big bank, great mogul of sev- eral big mining companies, chief pro- moter of & number of rallroads and has just become the proprietor of a daily newspaper in the Colorado metropolis. The next thing we hear of Moffatt will be that he has annexed the whole town. —_— Try Something Else. Brooklyn Eagle. Why this waiting and wringing of hands over the price of beef? There is & plenty of other things to eat. Heyday of the Poel Milwaukee Bentinel Colncident with the appolntment of Mr. w as pension commissioner, came the discovery of a new comet in the constella- tion Pegasus. What Are We Coming To. New York Tribune. The postal receipts in this republic are now so large, and have shown such en- couraging percentages of increase, that the prospect of 1-cent stamps for letters looks of fourteen years the canal would bave been completed and Colombia might be exacting in its terms. It is true that arbitration is provided for, but the United States does not want any dicker- ing in this matter, Our government is able to pay at once whatever price shall be.agreed upon for a graut in perpetuity of canal territory and the matter should be settled at the outset and not left to and a palm garden on the roof. This is a hint for the Omaba auditorium, but we feel that no Omaba liquid barley coucern would be willing to step up to the captain’s desk with a certified check for $100,000. future negotiations, after a vast sum of money has been spent in coustructing a canal. Neither is the plan of jolut adminls- tration, with mixed tribunals, accept- able. Caual territory must be under the less like the baseless fabric of a vision n it did a few years ago. An Int Minneapolis Journal President ingalls of the “Big Four," says that one-man ownership of railways is in- Election of Senators Chicago Chronicle (dem.) rhe objection which is urged to the very Insistent demand of the people that United States menators be chosen by popular vote is at length openly avowed. Various sena- tors have publicly stated of late that ““the proposed reform would remove one of the two bulwarks set up by the fathers against hasty and ill-advised action by the people.” The senate is one of these bulwarks and the supreme court is the other. It the opponcnts of the suggested change will hold this ground there will be no occa- slon for complaint, for the issue will then be plain, and it will be possible to reach a decision understandingly and without un- necessary complications. The reason why some people wish to retain the present sye- tem s the very reason why many others seek to do away with it. Fear of the people was a consideration which received altogether too much atten- tion at the time when the conatitution of the United States was adopted. It found expression in many ways, but it was per- petuated chiefly in the federal judiciary and in the obstacles which were thrown in the way of amendmente to thé constitution. While the senate Is a continuous body, and, whether elected by legislatures or by popu- lar vote, is not immediately responsive to the popular will, it is hardly to be main- tained that the manner of its election is e #entlal as a check upon the populace. The scnate represents states and the house represents the people, but the people are the etate, and the manner in which they Eive expression to the voice of the state cannot be objectionable so long as it accu- rately registers its will. The main thing is to accomplish the result desired as directly ¢ possible. Senators of the United States would retain their characters as represen- tatives of states quite as Indisputably it they were chosen in the same manner that governors are. In the beginning more stresa was lald upon the continuous existence of the senate and the ambassadorial character of its members than upon the method of their election. In practice of late it has been found that senators are as likely to represent great pecuniary interests as they are to represent states. This was a condition of affairs which some of the members of the constitutional convention who feared the people wanted to bring about, but they failed in their af tempt. It has been accomplished by pop- ular neglect and by trading political m chines. If the aristocrats of 1787 had had their way the senate would have been ap- pointed for life and there would have been a property qualification for {ts members which would have made it a check upon the masses indeed. The most that could be accomplished by this element was the provision that meme bers of the senate should be elected, as it was sought to elect the president, by rep- resentatives of the people exercising dele- gated powers. In the case of the presidency the people found a way to enforce their will in spite of the cumberseme electoral machinery which had been provided by the men who doubted their capacity for self- government. They reduced the electors to mere clerks, having no discretion, and com- pelled by their force of public oplnlon to exercise their constitutional powers merely A8 agents of a sovereign master. It the electoral system had worked as it was intended to work we should have had the same scandals in the selection of our presidents that have lately attended the election of so many senators. The mem- | bers of the various electoral colieges would have been traders And bargainers only, and not a few of them would have been cor- rupted and debauched. Even now, without a constitutional amendment, it would require no greater change to bring about the election of sen- ators by the people than was necessary to take the election of presidents out of the hands of the electoral agents of the states. Long practice would make the reform more difficult, but if it were accomplished ft would npot be more significant than that which was long ago established as to the presidency. If the various political parties were to agree to nominate candi- dates for senator and to vote for them at the polls nothing but a gerrymander could defeat the popular will, and that sometimes now happens as to the presi- dency. There are a good many reasons, however, why the movement for an amendment to the constitution covering the proposed change in the manner of electing senators should be pressed with vigor. One of the most important of these is to be found in the fact that there is some doubt as to the abllity of the people to amend the constitution. With reference to any sharply contested point it is probable that a change in the fundamental law is impossible. To become effective two-thirds of the members of both houses of congress and a majority and three-fourths of the state legislatures must favor any proposition to change that instrument. In a gov- ernment where the most {important and far-reaching measures are usually carried by narrow majorities, or by mere pluralities, it will be seen that amending the constitution in regular fashion can be accomplished only when there is practical unanimity on the part of the people. The history of the existing amendments is & record of coerclon so far as they were resisted, and the only ones which were regularly adopted were the very few which did not excite antagonism. The proposition to change the method of electing senators 1s favored by the great mass of the people. Very few men in pub- lic life who aspire to a future will oppose it. It would be worth while to see if the people, when praceically agreed upon the desirability of an object can bring it to pass without violence and in the manner laid down In the constitution {tself. It they shall succeed they may be moved to | experiment in some other direction. rule here was that if the tariff was in- creased 00 cents a dozen paira on gloves, the retailer should raise his price 50 cents for each pair. But that sort of game will not work permanently. Pleading for Thelr Own. Chicago Record-Herald. Three million people have signed a peti- tion to congress msking for a reduction of the tax on whisky, It would be interesting to know If any of these 3,000,000 really be- lieves he would get more for his mony if the tax were reduced than he does at pres- ent. Tree Planting a Duty. Philadelphia Record. It is every man's duty, sald Renan, to bulld a house, raise a family and at least once in his lifetime to plant a tree. The recurrence of Arbor day should be the op- portunity of every citizen who has hitherto neglected to do the latter to perform this much of his duty to mankind. ng Must Be Done. Detroit Free Press, Two of Mr. Bryan's constituents have been buncoed out of $500 aplece by a New York gentleman who sold them a process for tranaforming maple sugar bricks into gold bricks. Isn't it about time the gov- ernment established a parity between gold and maple sugar, and prevented such out- rages? Somet Our Trade with the Pi Chicago Chronicle, A still later report is made of the com- merce between the United States and the Philippines. Corrected returns for the last year show the trade to have been over $4,000,000. This was an Increass of 30 per cent over the previous year. In the mean- time the commerce of other nations with the Philippines Is more than $30,000,000 & year, with a percentage of increase about equal to that of United States commerce. Shall we ever catch up with the commerce of other natlons seven times greater than ours and Increasing in about the same ratio? PERSONAL NOTES, Since the president's visit to Charleston the Tillmans bave no words with which to express their feelings. Ex-Senator James Smith of New Jersey has gone to Kurope. The senator goes to Dresden to bring his wife and son home. Prof. Brander Matthews of Columblia uni- versity is to go to London next month to lecture on the development of the English drama and on the dramatist's art. Frank Lashaway of Montague, N. Y., whe dled recently, wore petticoats the last forty years of his life and was buried in them. He was once a “bearded lady” in a show. The late R. D. Hawley's collection of violins, the most famous in the world, and displayed at his home in Hartford, Conn. has been sold to & firm in Chicago for a sum exceeding $30,000. Giosue Carducel’s library and manu- scripts have been bought by Queen Mar- gherita. The poet will retain the use of them while he lives and will receive an annuity of 2,000 francs. The Wyoming National bank of Warsaw, N. Y., claims the youngest bank president in the country. He is Wolcott J. Hum- phrey, 24 years old and graduated from Williame college in 1900. Becretary Shaw has taken up horseback riding in Washington and hopes to be able to join President Roosevelt, Secretary Root and Senator Lodge in their afternoon can- ters over the country roads Recent storms have done much damage to the beautiful South Carolina monument on the Chickamauga battlefield, but it is not beyond repair. The momument con- sists of & large bronze palmetto tree on a marble base. tolerable, And still there are advocates of the merger idea who can't see why com- mon people without & share of railway stock should be afrald of the one-man & New York Tribune. Shrewd British trademen have adopted the trick which prevalled here whi McKinley tarlff was adopted, namely, of putting up prices about ten times as high s the imcreased duly ralses . ibem. The General John C. Black of Chicago, ac companied by eighteen citizens appointed by Governor Yates, have arrived at Vicks- burg, Miss., where they will mark the posi- tions occupled by the Illineis commands during the forty-five days' siege in 1363. The late Charles G. Sower, publisher, of Phll phia, bequeathed $25,000 in cash to various religious, charitable and sclentific assoclations and provided for the erection of & hall for the Germantown academy. He also bequeathed many volumes to the Li- brary compasy of Phbiladelphia. CUSHMAN'S HOT TALK. Congressman Attacks R the Ironclad A of the House. Kansas City Star. The speech of Mr. Francis W. Cushman, representative from Washington, delivered in the course of the house debate on the Cuban tariff bill, furnished the best reading that congress has supplied at this session. It was at once breezy, humorous, caustic and daring. It has revealed Mr. Cushman as a man of good temper, keen wit and courageous spirit, and his utter- | ances hereafter will be awalted with a cer- tain Interest that has not attached to those RITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Inel Sketched om the Spot. Owing to the precarfous tenure of the office, very few senators establish homee in Washington. One half the membership live in hotels and apartment houses. Thr fourths of those who reside in hotels, the Washington Star, “are uptown, thq balance being southern senators who have quarters in downtown houses that have be- come famous in the past as stopping places for southerners, and which still have mem- ories of great statesmen clinging to tlem that form an attractive feature for many of those who continue to give them their patronage. All the senators except two live in the “northwest,” the venerable Senator Pottus of Alabama being one of those who has taken up his domicile in another part of the city. He s located on “The Hill not far from the Congressional Library building and the capitol. A considerable number of those mot in hotels or apart- ments have rooms and board iIn private houses. “The popularity of hotels and apartment houses as abodes for senators is enbanced for several reasons pecullar to the lives of public men. A house carries with it social responsibilities which are mot always easy to avold, however agreeable it might be for the senator to rid himsel? of them. But a life in a hotel does not mean that a sena- tor is taking but a small part in social at falrs. Some of those whose entertalnments are the most lavish patronize hotels, espe- clally since during the last few years all the large houses have made extensive im- provements in which the idea of lavish en- tertalnment on the part of guests has been a prominent factor. A hotel affords ideal conditions for those who wish to provide India rubber conditions for entertainment which will do for a small party or for a great gathering at dinner or otherwise." Mr. Amzl Smith, superintendent ot the senate document room, has a memory that 18 famous all over the capitol and has been carrled far throughout the country by the senators. He rivals Assistant Librarian Spofford of the Congressional library, says the Washington Times, in his ability to re- member everything that occurs in connec- tlon with his establishment. The other day the senate committee on Public buildings reported a bill favorably for a building of very minor importance in a New England city. A reporter who hap- pened to be interested in this particular bill asked a member of the committee if any re- port had been made at any time this ses- slon or in an earlier session. The senator appealed to did not remember and neither id one of the clerke of the committee and there was nothing surprising in this. The newspaper man then went to the document room and was proceeding to have an inves- tigation of the records made, when Mr. Smith volunteered the information that such a report had been made during the first sesston of the Fifty-sixth congress. “The number of the report,” eald Mr. Smith, “le —"* And when the clerks had hunted up the report with that number for the first ses- slon of the Fifty-sixth congress it proved to be exactly that report and no other. | Since that time there have been many | thousands of reports and many thousands of bills in each session. ““I love to see the rosy early morning eun- shine kiss the dome of the capitol, paint 1t | golden and make it look glad,” declaimed | Representative Robinson of Indlana in the house recently. “Bet you ten you never saw it,” broke in Representative Shattuc of.Ohfo. “My son,” replied Robinson, ‘“‘this is a poetical, not a bookmaking proposition.” Some new engraved cards which recently have been furnished to the mistress of the White House read: ‘‘Mrs. Theodore Roose- of any member of congress for some time. What Mr. Cushman had to say on the! Cuban bill becomes secondary to his at- | tack on the rules of the house and the| dictation of the speaker. Some protests have been made agalnst the arbitary sys- | tem to which the members of the lower branch of congress are obliged to submit, and other victims of tyranny have had their | say; but objections heretofore have been | made along conventional lines, and have been answered by conventional arguments. | It remained for Mr. Cushman, who saw the farcical, as well as the serious side of the “'gag rule,” to present the whole subject | in a brief but couvincing form. The rules of the house have made it al- most impossible for any member to secure the consideration of a bill on its own mer- its. The fundamental idea of popular leg- islation has been almost destroyed through | the arbitrary restrictions imposed on the | representatives of the people. A degree of | power wholly unwarranted by traditional | conceptions of congressional processes has been given the speaker and the committee on rules. The system has been especially tyrannical in its application to the pend- ing bill. Democrats have been prevented | from making amendments to the measure. Republicans who are not in sympathy with the principle or the terms of the bill have been coerced into submission with the al- | ternative of seelng their own measures go | into oblivion in the committee room or die | on the calendar, which Cushman declares | ought to be called the cemetery. The congressman from Washington stated the case when be sald that after a bill had been reported, its author did not con- sult his own desires, the demands of his constituency, the will of the cemmittee Te- porting it or the majority of the house, but that he either consented to let the measure | die, or he put his manhood and his individ- uality in his pocket and went trotting down the little pathway that led to the speaker room, and that “all the glory that clus- tered around the holy of holles in King Solomon’s temple looked like thirty cents— yes, like twenty-nine cents—compared with that jobbing department of the govern- ment!" “I say to you, my friends,” continued Mr. Cushman, “that the system is rotten at both ends, It is rotten at one end be- cause it robs the individual member of the house of the power that the constitution of the United States and his credentials | as & member of this floor entitle him to; | it is rotten at the other end because it vests power {0 men who have Do right to it and oftimes places on them duties that | they have no capacity to fulfil.” With merciless sarcasm he likened the members of the house to performing Lili- putians and described the practice of pay- ing money to see such performances in a theater as a sinful waste, when better per- | formances could be seen free in the house. Force is added to this attack om an In- defensible system by act that Mr. Cushman is & republican, and that he was o as deferential as the circumstances would | permit to the speaker personally and to the members of the committee on rules It was the system that he attacked. Just such & speech was needed to clear the at- mosphere of the chamber—an -atmosphere that had been clogged with resentment, hopelessness and a certain species of cow- ardice. It required some such unusual line of attack to fully expose the very serious contraversion of the original design of a great legislative body, and also the almost farcical position of many of its members. It i to be boped that Mr. Cushman will prove to be the rallying champlon of pop- ular rights in the house. He ought, at velt." The president's wife has taken this means of showing her disapproval of the fad which Is raging among the soclety women of Washington for using cards which bear only the last name, with no| initial, address or anything else to identify them. Mrs. Roosevelt's old cards were In line with this fad, but recently there has been so much discusslon of the annoyance caused by such cards that she showed her approval of the movement to abolish them by changing hers, though, of course, in her case her name alone is sufficient to identify her. Mra. Knox, wife of the attorney gen- eral, started the fight agalnst the fad by writing a note to Mies Kean, sister of the New Jersey senator, asking if she was the lady who bad left a card which bore only “Miss Kean," glving no address. Mies Kean Is said to have responded epiritedly and then the move for the overthrow of the fashion was decided upon. Representative Ruppert is a great theater- goer, says a New York World letter. A A YOUNG MAN'S LAND, | Diaty shed Men in Middle Life at the Columbia Inmaguration, Baltimore American. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, & young man who has hardly reached the age of 42, was Baturday inaugurated president of Columbla college, in New York City. The gathering was a noteworthy one, and in the large audience were many of the most | prominent educators of the country. Dr. Butler takes charge of the metropolitan college at & time when the institution is fn @ flourlshing coafiition, with a large number of students and with a faculty in which are some of the leaders in American scholarship. This condition was brought about by the man whom Dr. Butlor suc- ceeds—Hon. Seth Low, now mayor of New York. When Mr. Low became presidont of Columbla he was but 40 years or age, and in the ten years he remained at the head of the college brought it from a moribund state to the vigorous prosperity wh now enjoys. Among the dlstinguished guests at the in auguration were President Theodors Roose velt, & young man of 44; President Arthu Twining Hadley of Yale, a young man of 46, and President William R. Harper of the Chicago university, another young man of exactly the same age. These are but a few of the youths who, before they have reached the half-century mark have become promi- nent in American affairs, and who were yesterday brought into close and Intlmate fellowship with such aged men as Lord Kelvin, one of the greatest of the world's scientists, who has now nearly reached fourscore. There were many gray heads In the assemblage, but the younger men car ried oft their full share of the honors and proved that they are playing a conspicuous part in the great work of higher education The same is true in every branch of the world's work—in the church, in the law, in the medical profession, in fournallem, In great business enterprises, in mighty In- dustrial establishments, in the manage ment of corporations, with capital of mil lons of dollars. It is mot that the young men are crowding out the older one that age, where the brain fe active and tho body strong, has become a bar to high or responsible positions. A glance at the names of the leaders in any occupation will show that the older men have not been re tired. Rather it 1s true that the wonderf development of this country—a marvel of the world—has made the demand for uch men 8o much greater that the younger find here abundant opportunities and prepa themselves for the places which they will be thelrs just as &oon as they prove themselves ready to fill them. This s a great land for young men. 1 offers them honors, fortune and even fame it their ambitions tend in that These it will not, however, give unless the Young man makes it a fair return. Ii must prove himself well equipped, capable honest of purpose and trustworthy. I every young man keep this fn mind and de termine that he will so prepare himse.f that when the great opportunit of his 1it comes ho will not be found wanting MIRTHFUL REMARIKS, hoit directton Somerville Journal It is a Adam far ery frem to the shirtwafst man Philadelphia Press: “In sald Goodart, ‘“our’ friend Hackrite | dulges a great deal In frony, doesn’t he? “Huh!" exclaimed Wryvell, “most of h's stuff s cold steal.” hig writings Cleveland Plain Dealer: cheese has gone up, to “But it has been’ about body could stand.”” “Yes, I know. Stil added to it yesterd “Limbur as high as It had another scent Detroit Free Press: Jane—Judy 0 back _to the rest-cure, Kate—What for? Jane—Oh, she got a collapse, telling everybody how her. had g0 much’ good it round did Atlanta Constitution: 12 blow his trumpet ter-morrer, some er fault-finders would rise en tell ‘tm his musical eddication had been neglec brul wuz ter dat ted “They say he's an eco- her. Why, he ng man who was engaged to his daughter that if he would elope with her he'd give him half what the wedding would cost.” omical! Well, rd Washington Star: “Where's asked the neighbor. ne to the city, Hiram answered Mrs. Corn- never dec me a gold bric vdust, or somethin he'has been.” me. Te or'a val full of to prove ex- actly ARE WOMEN SCAH Chicago News. ‘Twas a voice from the west, and it spoke In a plaintive and femining tone: “Oh, the matter I8 passing = joke And we wish you would let it alone. “In our own matrimonial affairs No assistance that's eastern we need; We can match up our owrf little pairs night or two ago he went to a ten-twen'y- and-thirty house to see a western melo- drama. He got in at the end of the second act. “The stage was pitch dark when I found my seat,” eaye Ruppert, “and two men were fighting a duel. I could hear the knives clash together and hear the men stumble around the stage, but I could only faintly distinguish the forms of the actors. After a while there was & thump on the floor and the villain hiesed “‘Ab, ha! Rudolph Tetherington, 1 have you now, and no one nigh to sce me do the deed.’ “Then the drummer hit the bass drum a belt and the calcium man turned on the light, and away up on a rocky pi the beroine was seen standing. *‘Coward!’ she shouted. is here! ‘Me and heaven C $7 And the negligee ness of quality. NEW least, to receive the profound gratitude of bis colleagues. | When the parties are sort of agreed. “Time was, and it's not long ago, When our men who were hunting a wife Would have scorned to have sought your ‘bureau’ To secure a sweet partner for life, “Temptation they never had felt From charms occidental to roam, But with due devotion had knelt To what they could find around home “But now, since you're helping to find Each poor, fickle creature a mate There is nothing, it seems, to their mind But a woman from some castern state “Thefr excuse Is that But_somehow we al And we think that they There were more tha round. women ure few, ys have found, the time knew enough to go *“We therefore implore you to elose Your ‘bureau’; the fond wedding knot Can be tied up Fight here, gaodness knows, And we need all the men that we've got. UNDERWEAR HANGES Can be made to advantage at this store —About time to take off the heavy and on with the light. 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