Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 15, 1902, Page 2

/ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MAY 15, 19092. to call attemtion to, and that s the ch acter of the machinery and equipment which at the present day is much superior and more costly than it was. Five or six years ago the ordinary freight car had a e ity of from ten to twenty tons. There are freight cars now that have acity of ity tons. The locomotives of six years Ago were pigmies compared to those of the present day, and as | understand it, they range in value from $5,000 to $15,000; some | may even be higher than that. “Now, let us' #ee about these discrepan- eles just & moment, in order to show you the remarkable differences between the valuations: The Unlon Pacific values its box cars at $50. The Omaha values them at $276. The Ufilon Pacific valued its ca- boose ‘cars in 1865 at $100 and now at a lower rate. The Omaba road at §875. Flat ears are valued at 345 by the Union Pa- eific and at $200 by the Omaha ry. “These remarkable discrepancies in val- uation est the necessity of the board fixing a standard of value through expert en that could give you a rational and onable valuation. Now, 1 o not know whether the Omaba engineers refurned théir equipment at what they believed was its present cash value or whether the Unlon Pacific returned its equipment at wbAt they belleved to be one-fitth or onp-tenth of its value, but at any rate I cannot see how the board can arrive at 4 reasomable appralsement of this property without finding out what these propertles would sell for in the mar- ket at the present time. “Golng into other directions we have the same remarkable discrepancies all along the line, and surely the board must realize that real estate or rights-of-way have dif- ferent values in different countles accord- ing to location, 1t certainly must be ap parent that a side-track in the city of Omaha or outh Omaba is worth a great deal more money than a side track in Cheyenne county. The ground requisite for & slde-track or for a right-of-way is worth thousands of dollars In ome place where it is probably worth dollars in some of thess gut of the way localities, and yet destracks are returned uniformly as Indiana’s Method. “Now, 1 desire to call your attention to the mode that obtains in the state of Indiana, where I belleve they have arrived at a very equitable and just system of appraisement, You will find here county by county, each county being credited with the improvements that are located in the lcounty, that different valuations haye been placed upon the varlous side-tracks and different valuations upon tho lands, ac- cording to the location. Side-tracks in | Indiana are valued all the way at from | $1,000 to $5,000 per mile. Agaln they | make a -vast difference in valuing the tracks of & union station or great railway depot, to what they would out on the road. The valuation of the Union depot tracks in Indlanapolis {s $2:800,000 a mile and the valuation of the Jefferson bridge across the Oblo river by the Indiana board is $2,000,000 per. mile. There might be some road that s merely & streak of rust. It might run through some out of the way ‘place where there s no trafo, and it would be right and proper that the board should reise 1f8' fudgment and assess tn, where the road rung » densely populated sectién of the atate you say to me that the s is worth:the same as it would o sandblije. |\ Thke the Omaha road, 1t apprafses” all“ its_depot §10 ‘per ‘mcre from Omaha h tion of the Omaha depots. -rr_uam‘m Towns pelteve that anys’ of [t 2 @ e Wfi“ o and e Wi a 8 ree Al n- red dollars an’ aére. - Now #m 8¢ its appfelesment. - ‘Take, for instance, the | Omabs “gtation on Welricl ptreet; It lss twenty-éight acres of fand and it returne 1t ot this time for $200 per acre. For years it relurngd it at $100 per acre. I have & ocertifichte from the tax commis- sloner 'of Omabe . #fating that the land adjacont to the Webkter street station s sewsed at $4.000 per acre and that repre- sents 40 per cent of its value, So that at 50 per cenfelt aibula have been $2,000 fn- stead of per agre. . Waton Pagine Briage. “Take 'thé . Unlpn Pacific rallroad at Owaba, begitinlng with its bridge and go- Ing ‘Westward,’ u will discover some amezing dis so. In the state of Towa the two and six-one-hundredths miles of the Unjon Pacific, which is exactly what it returned, is assessed at $100,000 per mile, and lowa is assessed very low. 1 have a letter hers.from Governor Cum- mins of lowa, written only a few days a in which he says that the lowa raliways Gre assdssed altogether too low and that they are used by rallway attorneys to bear down the valuation In other states, but he says the time is coming, although he c not make a positive prediction when, as he 1s but cne of the members, that the rallway assessment in Towa will be considerably higher. Now then, on the lowa side the Unlon Pacific Is assessed for Its mileage st $100,000 a mile, and the bridge is as- sessed separately for $84,000. The Unlon Pacific has come before the board and piaced its bridge across the Missouri and its main line to be assessed—i® it is as- sessed according to last year's estimate. &t $9,800 per mile. That would give Omah: An Honest Tired Feeling There is an “honest tired feel- Ing,” caused by necessary toil and cured by natural resf. But very different is *that tired tfeeling,” from which so many com- ‘plain and which may even be classed as a disease. That tired feeling ‘takes you to i bed tired and wakes you up tired. You have no appetite, have bil- fous taste, dull headache, are ner- | Yous and irritable, blue, weak and discouraged. ! _In such conditions Hood's Sarsa- parilla does & world of good. It begins in the right place—in the biood, pusifying it and impart- ing vitality, thex its tonio effect is "felt by the stomach, kidneys and liver; appetite comes back, all waste is removed naturally, headaches cease, that tired feeling departs and you feel like a new person. This has been the experience of thousands. It will be yours if you take Hood’s Sarsaparilla BT e D ower, B or would give Douglas county, for the twest | balt of the Unlon Paciffe bridge an ashess- ment of about $1,800. ~ THe eoumty of Dous- las issued $250,000 of bonde as a donation, or a subsidy, for tise ‘Gomwttuctiofr of that bridge, and at this time. I have a certifieats with me from the country treasurer oftne | amount paid out by the taxpayers of Doug- las county, amounting to §750,000, and yet the west half of the bridge is to be re- turned for assessment at $1,800, and the total tax, If it paid ‘it, would amount to about $63. Omaha Depot Groumds. “The depot grounds At OmAha cohtuih 280 acres. The depot grounds were donated originally to the Unign Pacific and tho | city of Omaha fesued $150,000 of bonds and the citizeus donated $50,000. The bonds anl interest paid. theréon agregate $510,000, and yet the depot grounds, if they were sessed at the rhte tHat Is returned by the company, at $300 per acre, would ag- regate about $10,700in value, wherens the terminal facllities of the Unlon Pacific rallway at Omaba, according:té the testi- mony taken by an expert Who was before the United States cgurt 5" fte maximum Tate cases, are between $5,000,000 and $6,- 000,000 valuation. The yalue of it.can be judged by the fact that.the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul' rallway pays to the Union Pacific Rallway company for the use of terminal facilities $45,000 per abnum. The Rock Island raflway pays $45,000 per annum, and all the, dther railroads, I pre- sume, pay as much {f not mare merely for the use of those depot grounds and fact- itles. But the depot.and {hoke grounds are dumped into this great dump at $300 per acre.” Question by the guditor: its report?” Mr. Rosewater: “Yes, sir: T want té call attentlon to it 80 you can arrive at some Just conclusion, and you cannot do it with- out glvirg serlous thought to all of these matters. | “You mean in Value of Adjacent Property. “Now, the tax comuilésioner of Omaha certifies here that (he lands’ adjacent to the depot, or In that -nelghborhood, #re as- sessed at the rate of 00 at the present time, being 40 per cent. Assume that you would only assess at one-fifth, that would be $3,750 per acre (nstead of $300. And surely when you come to cansider ihe: value of the improvementa, and that figure: right Rere in the report—tHe honest figurés and not the dishonest ones. We have been to that the depot cost $400,000 or $500,000, b its own showiug 1o the stockholders shows it cost a littfg over $260,000." Now that fact, it seems o me, would show that there should be an' ‘apprdfsement of that property somewhere néater of a great dea nearer to its producink value: than you have today. I do not belleve that the pre- vious boards have taken those matters un- der consideration; I do not belleve they have been presented-properly for ‘thelr con- sideration. : One of the Barlington Lines. “Now, we will take another road. Take the Omaha & 8cufhwektern.. The Burling- ton system has seen ‘fit—I say ystém be- cause all of the ‘todds ‘fhat'are owned by the Burlington' or qperated. in this stats dre one system now and are capitalized together—it has seen. fit to divide up its different roads to make the showing for taxation the smallest ble. Look at the Southwestery. "Ha¥ taken the road from Omahs-to fir fiud thon part in Saline a s counties and couplad them togefher and’ cs it the Omaha & Southws Now {He ‘original owners have ‘1ittT# or npthihg to do with It, ‘but 1t ‘ls the ‘BurHngton’ system and contains fifty -nd_; hty-eight . one hun- dredths miles. Tt “feturns the Omaha & 0 ern’ road at $6,500, per ml{e pat |- begtis wekt of thé Bifiridton Repdt, onthe other side of fhe viadéet ¥n Tenth stegot at Omaha, takes'fh the depot and depot groudds at Omaha and'tikes the road in clear to Oreapolls, and then’wgain down in Saline and thesé’ ofher ‘coulities. The total of $6,500 per mile, 1A my judgment, would scarcely be pepresentsd in Omaha It is terminal facilities ®hd " depdt “aléne. not an extravagent estimate td the Burlington dépot 3 grounds at Omaha; With il their ‘terminal facilities and trdcks, ‘dre worth $1,000,000. Now, ‘at one-ifth ot that' you ‘weuld have $200,000, for ‘assersink’ purpogés, and divid- ing that by fifty and distributing’ it along you get $4,000°a ‘mfle’ for your road, but you have the ridiculously low estimate of $234,000 far the ehtfre firty mmes, and you have included in this the entire equipment, passenger and freight depo d includes 1 don’t know how MRny acrés, but- quite & large acreage of depot grounds between Omahs and Oreapolis,and dawn in Saline And Gage countfes. Now, does it stand to reason that Douglas county, with four and elghty-two-one hundredths. miles—that is All we should have—gets but about $34,000 of d valuation out gf that Omaha & Southwestern road, when' we have over $1,000,000 worth of tangible, property within the city limits of Omaba? It does not seem to me to be just and reasomable. It is not reasonable as compared with the assess- ment on all other classes of property in thie state. We must always, as I sald at the ‘outset, bear in fnipd the relative value of the ground or right-of-way of a rail- road in the locality it occupies. It s mot to be strung out promiseucusly and be con- sldered worth $10 an acre from one end of the road to the ol but it must be valued according to the relative value ot the adjacent property wherever it may be located. That alone could give any just conception or tsh & bagls for computa- tion of the value of tangible property. “It stande to“reason .that the depot grounds at Gragd.Jsland are worth more than the depot grounds at North Bend, and the depot grounds at West Polut are worth more .than they would be at some small watertank station. The value of the prop- erty must be assgased according to its rela- t able value in the neighborhood of its environment Comparisons Are Startly “Now the thing that has struck me very tor¢ibly has been a.comparative exhibit ot the valuations of rallways between 1800 and 1880, and I Rod this state of facts: 1 find that in 1890 the Burlington road was assessed—that ls.the .main line_was a sesaed—3$288,708 more than it was In t year 1900; the MNebfabka. zatlway, «3160,96 the Republican - Valley s at' $498,825; the Atchison & Nebrasks, . $120,238;, the Lin- coln & Northwestern, at. $126,446. These are all in the Burllugton system. The Nebraska & Colotado, $586,766;- the Union Pacific, $766,240; the Omaha & Republican Valley, $620,961; the Kansas City & Omaha, which s another Union Pactfle line, $192,- 795. The Fremont, Eikhotfp & Misouri Val- ley rallway w at $961,230 -le 1n the year 1900 than it was in 1890, nearly 1,000,000 shrizksge in the valuer of that road. 1 will nat pursue this apy further, but what | bave called attention to ought 10 set you to thioking. Is there ‘smy rail- road in Nebrasks today, is there a mile of railroad anywhere tbat is_ worth than it was In-the year 18007 Havwe not all the roads beep materially improved? Have not their tracks, their equipnfent and their rolling stock beei mp! "xlx,‘ increased, cen anxbody, ing the matier b the. fae clare upon honor that these rodds ate Worth less to- | pe the line running up from Ashl day than they 10 1880, twelve y ago? Surely not. Whatever may have pened within the interkm to lessen vale of property in the state of Nebraska, there has been an élasuicity andf's grafual restoration of conditfens, and today there is not & ratiroad in tHe state, ‘§ba I make bold to sa¥, at WAy Tate nop. K line, that s not worth deuble the . Judged P~ the {mproved and | ern, via in the markets of the world, than It was in 1890 Not Ex Change a Now In 1890 we had 5,157 miles of road and today we have 5,704 miles. In 1901 we had, if I remember right, something over 400 miles more of rallways to assess than we Bad in 1900, and yet the difference in the valuations on these railroads was over three and one-half millions, that is to say, the assessed valuations of the rail- rodds in Nebraska in 1900 was three and one-balf millions lower than in 1860, with four hundred and fifty odd miles of rallroad less than we had last year. Conceding that there has been a fluctuation in the valuations of city property, and we know there has been a general shrinkage, there has also been an upward tendency, and the ralironds have had the very best of it. It thers has been an advance in lands, and we grant It, their lands have also ad- vanced. They have on each side of the track a right-of-way which has doubled and trebled in value, as well as the farm- ers' land, and today, if they were to try and get that same right-of-way that they now have they would have to pay two or three times as much for it. Take the Unlon Pacific, for instance, It has changed its rails from ffty to elghty pound rails; It has put millions of dollars into its road- bed and jmprovements and it is one of the best roads in the world; it is equal today to the Pennsylvania, the Lake Shore or the Michigan Southern, and the Michigan Cen- tral is assessed in the state of Michigan at $80,000 a mile. Now, I wouldn't say that our roads should be assessed at any- thing like that, but I am only calling at- tention to the contrast. Assuming that those two roads that I have mentioned have double tracks and ours only a single track you will find in the state of Indiana the second track has been ap pralsed at an average of about $10,000 per mile and the first tracks are valued at anywhere from five thousand to fifty or sixty thousand dollars per mile. As I stated, Indiana perhaps has the most per- fect system of railroad assessment I know of. They assess every station, handcar house, coal house; even the outhouses appear on their lists. I have It right here: Take Wabash county, Indiana, station, $400; handear, $20; coal house, $20; closet, $10; Logansport, station, $1,200; baggage room, 475; freight house, $1,000; two handear houses, $40; car repalr house, $26; yard jeftersonville ed at they as- offices, $25, and so forth. In they have the freight house a: $3,000; passenger station $1,200; sess the water tank $500. Earnings a Basis. “I have dwelt upon the radical differ- ences between the valuation of twelve years ago and last year to indicate that even. it no value Is to be placed upon the intangfble property, which I consider all wrong because, as you will note, the con- stitution makes the roads report their earnings, I mean the statute does—and the statutes would not require the earnings to be reported unless the earnings are to be considered as an index of its. intangible or earning capacity. “The tangible property of the roads is assessed way below what it ehould be, assuming that it were assessed proportion- ately to all of the property returned. I insist that property that is not returned cannot be considered as an element by your board. There might be millions, and there are undoubtedly many millions of property, mortgages, notes and securiti of every description not reported, but no assessor can take that into consideration nor no Board of Equalization; all they can take into consideration ia the assessed val- ,uation of the property returned, and the relative value of one class of property re- ‘turned ‘to all other classes of property. mple of Diserimination. ,“I now desire to call the attention of the Board to the marked discrepancy, or per- haps you had better call it discrimination, in the assessment of certaln parts of the five railroad systems, beginning with the Burlington and Missouri River .ralroad. That road wae originally chartered from Plattsmouth to Kearney. Kearney was its western terminus. Today the western terminus of the Burlington road is Den- ver, and its traffic over the main line passes westward from Hastings, not touch- ing Kearney; the road so far as its earn- ing capacity is concerned is to all intents and purposes as good west of Hastings the Union Pacific is west of Grand Island. Now you will find that the assessment of the Union Pacific is uniform at $9,800 per mile ‘from Omaha to the western bound- ary of the-state last year, but the Burling- ton line was assessed only at the first for class rate of $10,580 for a distance of 191 miles, from Plattsmouth to Kearney; that portion of the road between Hastings and Kearney doubtless is worth less, and I no reason Why the extension of the main line of the Burlington road from Hastings to the Colorado line should not be ap praised at the same valuation that the line from Plattsmouth to Hastings is ap- praised at; that is, if it is just and proper that the Union Pacific should be appraised at thé same rate from Omaha clear to Cheyenne county at one rate, the Burling- ton should surely have the same appraise- ment. You will note that the Elkhorn road is appraised at a uniform rate from Blair to the western boundary of the state, and Do distinction is made no matter by what name the road may go. Injustice Made Apparent. “It seemis to me that this is an imex- cusable discrimination in favor of one system and against the other, and fnel- dentally does Injustice to the state at larg It the policy of designating an imaginary line or a connecting polnt for a difference n sement is to hold good on one line then you might with the same propriety appraise the Union Pacific as far, we will say, as Kearney, and then reduce its rate from there westward, pro ‘rata with the character of the country and its traffic. You will aleo have to do the same with {he Elkborn road west of O'Nelll, perhaps, but you have a uniform rate for each of those lines clear through from the Mis- souri river to the western boundary of the state and you do not have a uniform rate for the Burlington, Why that should have been perpetuated is incomprehensible. It was all right originally, when the Buriing- ton did have its western terminus at Kear- pey. We come then to two lines that are also in a very pecullar contrast with the malin line of the Burlington. I refer to the Omaha & Southwestern and the Omaha & North Platte, so called. The Omaha & Southwestern from Omaha to Oreapolls is certainly as valuable, considering the fact that it includes the terminal facilities at Omaha, as is the road from Plattsmouth to Lincsin and westward. and yet the one assessed at $6,500 per mile and the Burlini ton at $10,580. The road from Omaba to Lincoln, that portion of it that runs far as Ashland abd connects there with the main line of the Burlington, ls called the Omaha & North Platte for convenlence and also for taxation purposes, and gets the ame rating that is given the Southw $6,500 per mile, when it should be rated at the same ratio as the main line of the Burlington. I do not comtend Schuyler sbould be assessed the same because It is nOt used as & part of the 2ein line of the Burlington. Question by auditor: “It has ali got to be assessed together as the Omaha & North Platt .y tence for th - Rosewater: “Assuming that to be Mr, by its earning capacity and its salable value | true, is there any reason why it should mot be assessed higher. You ‘could link the main Ifne of the Unfon Pacific to the Colum- bus and the Boone county line up to Alblon and then call {t another name, and de- crease its appraisement proportionately. This is simply a matter of convenience in the Burlington system. They should have started their line from Ashland north and called It another line, but they start with the west sids of the viaduct on Tenth street in Omaha, 8o as to avold getting their depot into it and theh run it up and throw it In there as a sldé Iine which fs not of the same value within $4,000 per mile. When the Burlington was transterred to the Northern Pacific in the recent deal they paid no attentiod to the Imaginary boundary line; they took the stock of that company, whether it represented the main line or the slde lines, and allowed two hundred cents for every dollar of stock in 4 per cent bonds, and 1 don't See why at any rate that portion of the road from Omaha to Ash- land should mot be appralsed at the same rate and the other at a lower rate, and then a line drawn between the two at a dffferent rate, of course, that would make it some- thing less than the maln line, but still at & higher rate than a line that runs nowhere. The line from Omaha to Oreapolis and the line that runs to Ashland should be ap- praised at the standard rate of the Bur- lington main line, Two Ot “‘Now we get to the two other lines that to all intents and purposes should rank as first-class railroads. The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolls & Omaha road, which wi sessed last year at $5,200, should rank with the Burlington main line. It does not seem to me that there is any material difference between that road, running between im- portant traffic centers, and the road from Plattsmouth to Lincoln, or from Lincoln to Hastings, or the Southwestern, or tho Omaha & North Platte; the Southwestern and the North Platte and Omaha and North Platte are both assessed at $6,500 and the Other at $5,200, Why such a dlscrepancy should be made I cannot comprehend. Thon Wwe come to another question. Why should there have been a reduction equal to about 30 per cent on the Elkhorn system between 1890 and 19007 That is very unreasonable, and ought not to have been perpetrated That road {s appraised at $3,600 now, and twelve years ago It was appr d at $5,000, The Elkhorn road was certainly repre- sented before the board of 1890, all those roads were, and if that board did mot do them an finjustice then—and 1 do not be- leve it. dld—I do not belleve they have been unjustly treated at any time so far as the appraisement of their property fs concerned. They certalnly have no reason for asking that you should take off one- third of their value at the present time, when they are so prosperous and the road is improving censtantly, increasing its traffic and Increasing in its general market value. Not Debating Franchises. “1 am not discussing the franchises, but simply discussing the physical properties. Everybody that travels over that road knows it {s a better road today than it ever was; that the population along it line has been Increasing; that the arable lands have been increasing in thelr production and that they have carried a great many car- loads of freight and a great many more pas sengers -than they did twelve years ago. Now I do not want to do any of the roads an injustice, but simply suggest to the board that these dlscriminations seemed to have been repeatedly made because they were made origitally; various boards seem to have continded these abuses, probably because no 'oné has' appeared béfore them to object; I cannot’ comprehend any other reason. I/Yesl ®ire, as I'said before, that the roads were'Mairly treated in 1890, and it réductions ‘were made during the drouth period and following that'a change has come; prosperity-ls here and they ought to share the burden of taxation with the bal- ance of the people of the state, and they ought to share it willingly, without grudg- ing because there has been no war made upon thefr rates; they charge all the traffic will bear and ‘Jones pays the frefght.” We will all pay back this tax. It seems to me the state and county government must be Oftenders, carried on and the people are bear- ing about all: the hardships they are able to bear in this atate, and the rallroads ought to. now voluntarily as- sume their due proportion of the burdens. I know that there has been a material shrinkage in.the appraisement or ass ment of other property following the eris| of 1898 and the drouth years of 1894 and 1805. - While the lands in this state have materially Increased In value within the last six or seven years the town lots that constituted a very large percentage of the valuations before 1853 have not correspond- ingly increased. In fact, they have shrunk millions in Omaba and Lincoln, and a very large proportion of those outside town lots never will. reach the boom 'prices agal That accounts for the difference between former appralsements and later. Appeal Taxpayer: “In conclusion I desire to appeal to the board on behalf of the great maes of the taxpayers and trust that they will give very serlous and careful consideration to the points I have ralsed here and take the physical improvements aud properties of each road into consideration and the betterments they have made and compare them with the former appralsements. That Is to say, endeavor to ascertaln whero and why there has been such a shrinkage, and certainly there can be no good ground for assuming that the railroad companies re- turned more property for appraisement twelve ye: 8go than they do now. They bave a very much better equipment, heavier ralls, improved stations, their right of way has doubled and trebled in value and I can- not comprehend why they should not be appraised very materially above what they bave been when we were at high water mark in 1900." e — MUST EAT SUGAR. Why People Have a Strong Appetite That Way, When food is properly digested and ab- sorbed into the system diabetes, d: and such diseases do not: ocewr, 4 after these diseases have attacked the stomach and kidneys, the right kind of food is used, it will generally cure unless the disease has gmade t0o much progres A merchant ig Youns, 0., E. D. Leedom, says: “Last August when I was in miser- able bealth T was visiting at my daughter's up in Indlana. She prepared Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food for me, the first I ever tasted. “I had disbetes and dyspepsia, with sour stomach, from almost everything I ate. Of course the doctor kept ms from sating sugar, but I had an almost ungovernable appetite for it. After I had been using Grape-Nuts every day for & short time my appetite for sugar was satisfied. I got the Grape Bugar from the food and it sgreed with me perfectly. “My dyspepsia left and I began to sleep well at night. I have kept up the use of Grape-Nuts and feel like & new man all over. I liked it so much and It agreed with me so well that I sald nothing to the doctor for fear he might mal stop fit, 88 he bad most everything else I tried to eat, but one day I told him it was the food 1 was using that Improved me so much. He' asked what it was and when I told bim ‘Grape-Nuts’ he sald there was no better food made. You are at liberty to make use of any part of this letler you @esire, for I am more than grateful the good the food has dooe - PUSH MAZ00N FOR A PLACE Nebraska Senators Urge Lincoln Man for | ¢ Judge of Oourt of Olaims, COMMITTEE CONSIDERS A GRAZING BILL Present Measure Designed to Favor 1 Herd Own- nst the Big Cattlemen, (From a Staft Correspondent.) WASHINGTON., May 14.—(Speclal Tele- am.)—8enators Dietrich and Millard had an interview with the president today to urge the appointment of Charles E. Ma- goon of Lincolu, law clerk of the fnsular division of the War department, for the VAcant position on the court of claime bench. A week ago or more the Nebraska aenators presénted Mr. Magoon's name to the president as ome especfally fitted for the position. It Is understood that Secre- tary Root is inclined very favorably toward the Nebraskan's candidacy. Senators Elk- Ins and Scott, however, have presented the name of ex-Gevernor Atkineon of West Virginia for the same position, while Sen- ators Hanoa and Foraker of Ohlo are urg- ing the nomination of D, K. Watson, former attorney general of that etate and at pres- ent & member of the codifying commission. | When Mr. Magoon's name was presented by the senatorial delegation from Nebraska some days ago it whs thought that he stood little chance of securing the nomination, but the senators have been so persistent in urging the Lincoln man it is now belleved that the position will either go to Mr. Ma- 8oon or ex-Governor Atkinson. Another Grazing Bill Up. The committee on public lands, of which Representative Lacey of lowa is chairman, had up for consideration today Mr. Lacey's bill granting grazing privileges to home- stead settlers and holders of emall farms In arld and semi-arid regions. Members of the committee generally expressed themselves as favorably disposed to the bill, which seems to meet more nearly the wishes of the small cattle growers and homeéstead settlers, so far as the opening of the public domain to grazing is con- cerned, than any other measure which has been introduced during the present session of congress. The bill aims to Jmprove the use and protect the grass upon the. public domain in the vicinity of lands owned by homestead settlers and farmers, and to prevent monopolization of the range by owners of large herds of live stock. Major Lacey, in speaking of his measure, #ald that he had recelved hundreds of let- ters commending the bill and only one eritiefsing it, which came from an owner of a very large herd of cattle. discuesion in committes today It was de- cided to make the Lacey bill a special or- der for May 28. While it is not expected that the bill will pai gress at this session, it fs the desire of the committee, 8o far as can be ascer- tained, to get the bill in position for pas- sage at the short session of congress. Valentine Wants Land. The committee on public lands of the house today ordered a favorable report on Benator Millard’s bill selling to the town of Valentine 720 acres of land coutiguous to the town and which s now the part of the site of the Niobrara military reser- vation which is not used for that purpo The bill provides that the government shall accept $2 per acre for the site desired. Representative Mercer appeired betore the committee this morning in behalf of the measure. o Representative Burkett was informed by the Postoffice department today that two rural free delivery routes had been ordered | established out of recelved Information from Superintendent Machen of the rural free delivery eervice | that Columbus, Neb., has been designated a rural free delivery route with three car- | tlers, effective July 1. A petition signed by 100 or more business men and firms in the vicinity of Tenth and Howard streets, Omaha, was recelvea today by Senator Millard, asking him te | have the substation of the postoffice which | is ordered located at Tenth and Farnam | changed to Tenth and Howard, and that | B. M. Bemrose be made manager of this | station, In view of the fact that Mr. Bem- | rose has been furnishing stamps to business | men’ and ‘firmé in that viclnity for the | last two years without profit. The senator | said that the petition properly belonged to | Postmaster Crow and would be sent to him for such action as he desired. Senator Gamble, from the committee on | Indian depredations, of which he is chair- man, reported favorably today a bill for the rellef of John Hornick of Sioux City and sending it to the court of claims for an entry of judgment amounting to $1,600. Postal Matters. Postmasters appointed: Nebraska—Wil- conville, Furnas county, W. W. McGaw, vice D. F. Smith removed. Wyoming— Dana, Carbon county, W. D. Asire. Rural free delivery routes will be estab- lished July 1 as follows: - Nebraska—Co- lumbue, Platte county, three routes; ares covered, elghty-elght square miles; popula- tion, 1,840.. Dawson, Richardson eounty, two routes; area, fifty-five square miles; population, 1,000. Firth, Lancaster county, one route; area, twenty-elght square miles; population, 600. Marquette, Hamilton county, three routes; area, eighty-two square mlles; population, 1,415. lowa~- Garden Grove, Decatur county, two routes; ares, forty-six square miles; population, | 858: Keota, Keokuk county, one route; Ares, thirty-six square miles; population, 536. A postoffice was ordered tablished at Galbraith, Kossuth county, Ia., and Willlam C. Bissell appointed postmaster. The postofMces at Huron, Jay, Kingston, Northdeld and Smyroa, Des Molnes county, lowa, have been ordered discontinued after June 30. Otto Kohler of Westphalla was awarded the contract for carrying from Weetphalia to Earling, la. ST. VINCENT LOSS BIG (Continued from First Page.) today mail from this port. It will arrive at its desti- nation Monday. Never, even during war time, did the army subsistence department make such a record in collecting & shipload of food sup- plies. It dome In twenty-four hours’ time, Colonel D. L. Braigard briuging from Philadelphia thiee carloads of supplies needed to make up the shipment and pur- chasing the rest here. The Dixie's cargo will comprise 900,000 rations. It contains' Two hundred thousand pounds of bread, 86,000 pounds of flour, %00, pounds of rice. 20000° pounds of codfish, 200 ca of chickenn and beef soups, 100 cases of evap- - 10 cases of condensed 08 L8 arge quantities of jgar, pepper. and, in the way rge amount of calico under- sfm morth of medicine in the ree army surgeons, S5 Boras v . \nstrimen HINGTON, May 4.—~The N," de- After some | both houses of con- | Dawson, ‘Richardson | county, and one route out of Firth, in Lan- | caster county, effective July 1. | Senator Millard stated today that he had | rtfent this mqraing received a’ number | of Mésgages oearing on the Martinique | Measter. “Lieufenant B. B. McCormick thandmg Potomac, sent the following Fort de France, dated yesterday intg of St. Plarre and sixteen ves. # destroyod. Surrounding villages ble. felund covered with destruc- five miles of Fort de needed for 50,000 within ten days. Donated extra tores. Inform commandant at San Juan [ nder McLean of the Cincinnati cabled from Fart de France under today's date as follows Arrived at §t. Plerre this morning. Came here on message, nsslating government at Martinique, Newn disaster 8t Vincent; have sent Potomac. Will follow If neces: sary K Admiral Barker, commandant of the Brooklyn navy yard, telegraphed as fol- lows Bulk of frejght removed from Buffalo, It can sall at any time with two hours' notice. Sécretary Hay today received the follow- ing cablegram from Corsul Ayme fn an- ewer to 'the ‘#écretary’s inquiry as to whether fresh ~water and supplies are heeded Water not needed, but food imperative for 50,000 refugees. #-have cabled this to the €overnom, ofs«Poro Rico, answering his query as to what was wanted. I shull stay hers to distribae supplies. The Cincinnafi is here. “To Delny the Appropriation. Members of the house appropriations committee ate averse to calling a special meeting' of 'the ‘committee for the purpose of: Gonsidertng-ah additional appropriation | for #tha relfet:of the people of Martinique, They say that-until it is demonstrated that the sum of. $200,000, already appropriated, is not :suficlent - to meet the needs of the suf- ferers it woull not be advisable to appro- priate an additional amount in view of the widespread dommtions now being made and the rellet .work that Is being done to succor the ljving and care for the dead Practically afl_of those who were ramed by (te president ta serve on the Martiniqua rellef committée have wired their ac- ceptance and have indicated a willingness to enter heartily into the work of raising and_récelving “contributions in ald of the sufterers,” Already large amounts are re- ported as having been recelved and the president 1s much gratified at the prompt response to his appeal Major D. L. Brainerd, commissary of subsistente, United States army purchasing | comnriséary,” Artiy building, New York City, is*deslgnated by the secretary of war tor'take charge of any contributions that may be made'by citizens of New York and other citles for the sufferers in the French West Indies and- which the citizens’ com- mittees may wish forwarded through the War department. ~All stores will be turned over to Major Brainerd, who will prepare the same :for shipment, glving receipts ana rendering ccount to the commissary gen- eral - of. subsietepce of all stores received and disposition made. _ROME, ‘May 14.—The pope has contrib utéd 20,000 lire to the fund being raised for | .(he'reliet of the sufterers from the Mar- tinique’ dfsaster. PARIS, May 14.The meeting today called by ‘the Amérfeah Chamber of Commetce to ! raise finds for’the relief of the West In. diaf stifferers’ was ‘well attended and over 12,000 francs was subscribed in'a few min. |utes to ald the destitute people at Mar. | tinlque. Henry Vighaud, the United States | enariee: ‘Presided. o This fitme mist appear on_every box of thé gentifne’ Laxative Bromo-Qulnine Tab- Teté, tHie ‘remedy that cures a cold In one 4y 2 cefits. ;fill CURRI‘I" cash of Stomaoch Trouble - Chronio Dyspepsia serdndigestion, no matter bow se- vere thecase may be, 1t goes tothe rootoftheevil. Hundredsofchron. %6 dywpepiics who have sufered for T8 have n completel Y DYSPEPSIA CURE. 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