Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 31, 1902, Page 6

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Although a potent factor in the South African fray, the American mule seems 1o be unrepresented In the peace nego- tations, The British ultimatum of uncondi- tional surrender seems to have been grafted with ‘seyéral conditions during the peace negotlations with the Boers. Before executing his threat to ex- propriate produce belonging to Ameri- cans, General Herrera, the Colombfan in- surrectionist, will do well to take an fnventory of his resources. ooy nr” ERETIEC, Clty Treasurer Hennings Invites “large property owners” to hand in their lists for city tax bills at the earliest possible moment. What taxpayers of ordinary physical dimexsions with greater or less property qualifications are to do is not stated. —— Competition is keen between inquisi- tive sclentists to see which can get pearest to the crater of Pelee while it s in its present state of activity. Most of us, however, will prefer to let our clrh-lk: cool off um. along with the yolcano, If the damofi rats are hankering for an §ssue, why not' raise the cry that Secre- tary Shaw's order requirlng customs in- #pectors to wear gloves while examining Xhe contents of tourists’ trunks is de- pigned to prop up the glove-making in- H dustry? . When we get down to business we will that most of the volunteers who ed. in the Philippines have come « Bome and ave eligible to vote, and they Hll not take the word of long-distance f cugreumen at Washington to ‘hether the work of the army has been or bad. Bt. Louls fair managers are perplexed Pecause bids for construction work pxceed architects’ estimates. The man- pgers of the exposition should study up architects’ code, which makes it un- gthical and unprofessional to give esti- Tutes that turn out to be higher than gontractors’ bids. _—————— . The local tax burden is measured by the sum of all the tax rates Imposed— , county, #choel district and city. ‘Reduce all or any one of these tax levies and the burlen of faxation s lightened. The campaign inaugurated by the Real ite exchange to relieve overtaxed owners must not'stop with the wity tax levy. et * The first question with which Ne- fusionists will be confronted be- gore they can accomplish their annual r 18 the old one of division of the . It the democrats can only cap- tie head of the ticket again this pr as they did last, the plan to swal- Jow the populists will bave made ma- erial progress. y ’muwuum that the stock ! paw sugar stored in Cuban ware- and piled up on Quban planta- tions 1s mortguged why Mr. Havemeyer and other trust small quantity of the sur- MERUEN'S OMNIBUS BILL. Congressman Mercer's omnibus bufld ing bill has passed both houses of con gress and is now in the hands of the president. The bill carries over eighteen million dollars of appropriations for public building sites and construction in towns and cities scattered over the entire country. The patent for the omnibus feature of the Ml belongs to Mr. Mercer. The in- vention was for the first time introduced two years ago oa a moderate scale and has siready expanded into colossal pro- portions. From the standpoint of the public wel- fare it Is most pernicious and danger- ous. It is a merger on a community-of- interest plan of the public building schemes and real estate deals with the deliberate design to dump all the pork Into one barrel and roll the barrel through both houses with a whoop-lh. For more than 100 years every bill ap- propriating money for federal bulldings had to stand or fall upon its own merits. Whenever any such federal bullding ap- propriation was in the judgment of the president in excess of public needs or tainted with jobbery, the presi- dent was free to defeat it with his veto pen. The merger of the public bullding appropriations In one omnibus Dbill forces the president to approve the bill as a whole or take the responsibility for defeating all the meri- torfous items in the omnibus, Although Nebraska bas not fared badly in the deal, Mr. Mercer's innovation is to be deprecated as tending to extend the fleld for legislative trades and jobs that must demoralize congress and degrade epresentatives to the level of spolls broke! it unythlnx emphasizes the necessity for a speedy revision of the federal con- stitution to safeguard the treasury from such raids it is the Mercer public build- ing merger, which was heretofore rank enough when confined to the river and harbor bill. In every state of the union under modern constitution the chief ex- ecutive can veto any separate item of each appropriation, The president can- not exercise that power. It is impera- tive that such power be conferred upon him at the earliest possible moment either by specific amendment of the constitution or by a geueral revision through a national constitutional cen- vention. THE NEW REPUBLIC'S DIFPICULTY. The chief difficulty that now confronts the Cuban republic is financial. Presi- dent Palma pointed this out in his mes- sage, when he said be did not know how the money to meet the ordinary ex- penses of the government was to be raised. American officers who have re- turned from the island predict that Ouba will be bankrupt within the next nine wonths and that an appeal will be wade to the United States government for financial assistance long before that period expires. One of them is quoted as saying that the proposed reduction of 20 per cent in the duty on Cuban prod- ucts would be only a drop-in the bucket and would not serve to stave off the financial crash that is certain to come sooner or later. The expenses of government will ma- terially increase and Cuba has no re- serve resources to draw on. The tarilf rates are already high and to add to them would reduce importations, with the result that the revenues would fall off instead of increase. Tle whole coun- try is mortgaged right up to the limit of its value and the people cannot stand further internal taxation. Interest rates on loans are already enormous, being as high as 156 and 18 per cent on good real estate security, Pawnbrokers charge 10 per cent a month, or 120 per cent a year, for loans and do a thriving business &t that rate. No new capital is being in- vested in the Island and the present prospect of capital going there is not very favorable, owing to distrust of the success of the new government. It 1s a hard problem that Cuba bas to solve in making provision for carrying on its government and it is by no means tmprobable that the United States will be called upon to in some way finan- clally assist the new government, though Just how this could be done is not clear. One of the conditions imposed upon Cuba by the Platt amendment is that no public debt shall be contracted for the payment of which, after defraying the current expenses of governwment, the or- dinary revenues of the island should be Inadequate. This restriction may oper- ate to prevent the government negotiat- ing a loan, at least to uny considerable amount, until the ordinary revenues of the island can be increased, which as already indicated cannot easily be done. There is a condition that the government of Cuba shall sell or lease to the govern- ment of the United States lands neces- sary for coaling or naval stations and Cuba can in this way obtaln financial assistance, but it is lmpossible to say how long it will take to conclude the Decessary negotiations. A good deal will depend upon the disposition of the Cuban government in vegard to the amount to be paid for the sale or lease of such lands, but it seems reasonable to assume that ynder the circumstances that government will not be incllned to be exacting ln its terwms. The situation is ope that may become very troublesome to:the new republic, whose people are pot; in condition to have the burden of taxation materially Increased and who are likely to demand more of the government than it can do with its present financial resources. A serlous disappointment of popular expec- tation in this regard might be daugerous. Mr. Harriman has corrected his Omaba interview .to the extent of saying that, while railway pools are not a thing of the past, they have been outlived, and the objects they sought to accowplish must be secured by combinations and mergers. He repeats that in his opinion state and national legislators ought to do all they can to promote the combi- nations rather than to obstruct them, or rather leave the rallway magoates free to promote them by refrailuiug from any \ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, legisiation affecting rallroads until the raflronds ask for it. If Mr. Harriman's logic were good, it would apply to all other Interests against whose abuses the people have sought legislative protec- tion, but we find the rallroads seeking legislation against the scalpers, for ex- ample, without firdt getting the consent of the scalpers. It's a poor rule that does not work both ways. Very earnest efforts are being made by certain business interests to secure amendments to the bankruptey law, the measure for this purpose known as the Ray bill being much favored. A large delegation of eastern business men was in Washington a few days ago seeking to have a special rule made for consid- eration of the bill and urging the im- portance of action at the present ses- slon. Speaker Henderson, however, would promise nothing more definite than that the bill would be duly consid- ered. It was understood that he favored the measure and desired its adoption, but he was not disposed to give any assurance that it would be taken up at the present session. There Is opposition to the bill in the south and west, some of the representa- tives from these sections belng in favor of the repeal of the bankrupicy law, but it is not believed that the number desir- Ing repeal is formidable, Whatever ob- jections there may be to the law as it stands, it is not easy to understand how any one who has given intelligent atten- tion to the matter can wish the law re- pealed and a return to the old order of things, Experience with the operation of the law has demonstrated that some changes in it are necessary, but the best opinfon is that on the whole it has worked well and that it would be a very great mistake to abandon it and go back to rellance upon the various state laws, which no one pretends were generally fair and just in their operation. A Washington digpatch of a few days Ago says that there are not many mem- bers of congress who are willing to take 80 extreme a stand as this, but most of them think that the law should be amended and that the Ray bill provides the required changes. It appears evi- dent that it is a question of choice be- tween that measure and a repeal of the law, No less than five bills have been introduced during the present session providing for the repeal of the law, and while there is some uncertainty as to how the contest will turn out, it seems most improbable that the demand for repeal will succeed. The present bank- ruptcy law was enacted in response to the earnest solicitation of a very large majority of the business interests of the country represented in commercial bodies. For years congress was peti- tioned to pass such a law, as being necessary to the proper protection = of both creditors and debtors. No law on the statute books received more careful consideration or more thorough discus- sion. It is mot perfect, but its defects cun be remedied and this should be done, If the law were repealed there would in a few years be as general and earnest an appeal to congress to enact another bankruptey law as there was before the present act was passed. The World-Herald believes that an air- line railroad to the gulf would be a great boon for Omaba. That depends. Building two roads where one road can do all the traffic the tributary territory can develop for years to come simply means that the products of that terri- tory will be taxed to pay fixed charges, operating expenses and dividends for two roads and forego the prospect or hope of reduced tolls which existing roads would be able to make voluntarily or could be compelled to grant by legis- lative regulation. It goes without say- ing that railroads cannot be built with Lot air or by resolution. To build and equip an airline from Omaha to the gulf would require all the way from twenty to thirty millions. e———— Faster time is promised for through passenger traffic from Atlantic to Pa- cific with the inauguration of new train schedules by July 1. There is no good reason why the vast betterments re- cently made in roadbed and the large sums expended by the railroads in im- proved rolling stock and motive power of greater capacity should not show up in faster time. If the public were to reap no advantages whatever from these improvements, of what use would the investments be, except perhaps to reduce operating expenses or to increase the fixed charges? The railway speed limit has not yet been approached. Eee— of Equalization is correct in asserting that railway franchises have never been assessed for taxation in Nebraska, although thie con- stitution expressly provides that they shall be taxed. That is no reason, however, that this valuable property should be forever exempt. The same plea was made for the frapchised pub- lie utility corporations in the Omaba tax case, but it proved unavailing. The State Board A Serious Accusation. Philadelphia Press. The latest complaint seems to be that the army in the Philippines actually uses bullets t lable to kill. Ca - Baltimore American. From the number of congressmen who are quoting poetry nowadays it is evident that they are making a shrewd bid for a bitherto neglected voting element. puitibbri S No Chance- fo » Angument. Chicago Record-Herald. Only one person who was in St. Plerre at the time-of the destruction of that city sur- vived. He was & criminal who had been confined in an underground dungeon for trying to asasult his keepers. There is no likelthood that he will be used as & proof that virtue is its own reward. Reservation Joke- Halted. Philadelphia Record. Friends of the Indians will have ad- ditional confidence in President Roosevelt's integrity, because of his firmness in hold- ing up the Indian -appropriation bill until fts objectionable features had been amended. Practical politicians, of whom both houses of congress are full, will see In this episode a demonatration of the presi- dent’s power in influencing legislation. He may not be able to effect the best, but he can halt the worst Small Per Cent of Guilty. Boston Transcript. In the course of our occupation of the Philippines we have had at times as many s 72,000 officers and men in the falands. The proportion of our officers and soldiers who have been guilty of crfmes or charged with them is to the whole number so small that it would require a string of decima to express ita percentage of the whole. Leave the Ralliromds Alon: Chicago Chronicle. E. H. Harriman views with pain and sur- prise the action of some state legislatures in enacting laws to prevent rallroad con- solidations and declares that “raflroad men are in a better position to know what the course, is conclusive. The legislatures will hereafter make respectful inquiry as to the wishes of the railroads before initiating any legislation affecting them. It may be said, incidentally, that most of them do it al- Minneapolis Times. The way Secretary Shaw is bringing the precedent worshipers of his department to time is bighly refreshing. In a great de- partment of the government there is red tape and circumlocution that is necessary and then there is a vast amount that is unnecessary. The latter sort Secretary Shaw is trying to do away with. The secre- tary has a wild, western notion, too, that the men and women employed in de- partment should work during the six or seven hours they are on duty and that is a most heart-breaking affair to many of them. If the gentleman succeeds in introducing business methods in the Treasury depart- ment from top to bottom, and smashes a tew precedents established for the purpose of showing what cannot be done, he will perform a service worth many times his salary. WATTERSON'S BATTLE CRY. Let Bygones Be Bygones and Rally for Pie. Loulsville Courler-Journal. Let none of us be too critical and fas- tidious about platforms. There were parties before platforms. Nothing should 80 into the platform which would “tend to drive any one from the party who supported it in 1896." Nor should anything go into it tending to drive off the thousands whose votes are Indispensable to victory. To those democrats who cling to the idea that we are under some obligation in the interest of consistency to repeat the ad- mitted mistakes of other campaigns, let us say that there is nothing sacred either about platforms or about consistency. Each presidential campaign at least must stand as each has always stood, upon its own bot- tom. So, in the main, must each state campaign. In public life men must often do as they can rather than as they would; in practical affairs, both public and private, the rule that circumstances alter cases is above all law. He is the best leader who, to the Jeffersonian requisites of capability and fitness, unites and exemplifies the genius for success; because in politics, hardly less than in war, success is the ultimate stand- ard of measurement. Why should we agitate ourselves over the platforms of 1896 and 1900, on which we lost two successive presidential battles? If it be insisted that we turn back for a platform, why not that of 1892, on which we won our last presidential battle? The truth is, we should retrace no footsteps, saddle ourselves with no handicaps, but, turning our backs upon the past, our faces to the future and the foe,.we should gather the ample shelter of the old democratic camp- ground and rekindle the fires that once blazed there, saying to ourselves and to one another—saying im reverence and not in profanity—bygenes shall be bygones—by the eternal and through the grace of God—by- gones shall be bygones! A USEFUL SOCIETY. Tree-Planting Promoted by the So- clety of Arboriculture, Boston Transeript. By the death of Hon. J. Sterling Morton the International Society of Arboriculture is bereft of its president and the secretary, John P. Brown of Indiana, well known to tree lovers In this city and New England, has issued a call for the election of his successor. It is the present purpose to bold the election in Indianapolis, probably July 5. It strikes us that it will be a matter of some difficulty to get a large number of members together for such a purpose, because the soclety is what it professes to be, International, and they are scattered all over this and various other countries. There are about fifty members in Boston alone and a hundred or more in New England. The European states have many hundreds and there are large con- tingents in both Canada and Australla. Not only is its representation a wide one, but it is a soclety that does some- thing. Its late president succeeded in establishing an “arbor day" In most of the states, for the purpose of awakening a definite interest in tree-planting, especially among the rising generation. Whether the new Institution accomplished as much as be hoped we do not know, but it has ac- complished something, if only to remind the people of this country once a year of the importance of arboriculture and fix their at- tention, even it only for a brief period, on an interest that is rapidly becoming vital. It 1s only by steady and organized effort, however, that definite progress can be made and large results obtalned. There must be knowledge as well as zeal. As a matter of tact the knowledge must come first and then zeal Is almost sure to follow. Secretary Brown has been Indefatigable in his labors to promote those interests which the soclety is organized to advance. His missionary efforts have been put forth north, south, east and west. He has worked to a considerable extent for the soclety through the rallroads and has awakened an interest that is very gratifying. The Illi- nols Central has planted 110,000 trees on a plantation & few miles from New Orleans and 21,000 near Kankakee, Ill. The Big Four planted 40,000 trees two years ago and they are now strong and thriving. The Boston & Maine has planted recently 10,000 and the Boston & Albany a smaller num- ber. The Southern Pacific is about to en- gage in the enterprise on a large scale. The Rio Grande & Western has 65,000 young trees to its credit in Utah and the Michi- gan Central has established a regular de- partment of tree planting. The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis road has gone most extensively into the business, having planted 2,500,000 trees in 1,200 acres of land purchased for that purpose. Responsible capitalists have authorized Mr. Brown to purchase and plant 5,000 acres in the west, so that the movement is tak- ! on larger proportions all the while, As the railroads run everywhere their ex- ample is likely to be contagious. Of course they grow trees for the benefit of their property, but If that policy will benefit their property it will benefit the property of all other land owners. It does not seem easy to awaken a lively public interest in this subject through direct appeal. More cap be accomplished by object léssons such as the rallroads are giviog to the people. The secretary is to a large extent the working factor in the soclety; but it is highly desirable that & man of high stand- fog ib the service of arboriculture should be selected as its president. MAY 31, 1902. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS. The parliamentary elections in Belgium are over and the ministry, which refused to yield to the demand for the abolition of plural voting and the introduction of the system of one man one vote, which prevails in most countries where the principle of representative government has been estab- lishgd, has been emphatically vindicated and materially strengthened at the polls. In the new Chamber of Representatives out of a total membership of 166 the con- servatives or Catholics number 96, which gives them a clear majority of 26 over the united opposition. The latter is com- posed of 34 liberals, 34 soclaliste or rad- fcals, for those who are called soclalists on the continent of Europe would be con- sidered radicals in England, and of two Christian democra It s only on rare occasions that these parties act together, but in any case the conservatives will e ily control the situation. In the Senate the ascendancy of the latter is, as might be expected, also strongly marked. There are 109 senators, and of these 62 are con- servatives. The remaining membership is composed of 41 liberals and 6 soclalists, 80 that the control of the government in both branches of Parliament is complete, How far that countrol represents the senti- ment of the country is, however, more than can be said in the light of such infor- mation as is accessible King Edward |has conferred upon the duke of Marlborough the membership in the Order of the Garter made vacant by the death of the earl of Kimberley. “The Most Noble Order of the Garter” was in- stituted by King Edward III in the year 1348. By a statute passed in 1831, the order is to consist of the sovereign and twenty- five knights companion, together with such lineal descendants of King George I as may be elected, always excepting the prince of Wales who 1s a constituted part of the original {nstitution. Extra knights and soverelgns have since been admitted by spe- clal statutes. The associates of the duke of Marlborough in the order are the king and queen of England, the Prince of Wales, the duke of Connaught, duke of Cam- bridge, king of Denmark, king of the Bel- glums, king of Greece, emperor of Germany, king of Sweden, king of Saxony, king of Roumania, czar of Russla king of Portugal, king of Italy, reigning grand duke of Meck- lenburg-Strelitz, grand duke of Hesse, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holsteln, Prince Henry of Prussia, crown prince of Denmark, crown prince of Germany, the earls of Fitzwilliam, Cowper, Spencer, Leicester, Cadogan, Rosebery, Derby, Rob- erts, Elgin and Kincardin, the dukes of Richmond, Grafton, Norfolk, Rutland, Dev- onehire, Abercorn, Buccleuch, Northumber- land and Portland, and the marquises of Ripon, Salisbury, Abergavenny, London- derry, Breadalbane and Lansdowne. o In his recent address to the Austro-Hun- garian delegation announcing the impend- ing renewal of the Triple Alllance, Count Gouluchowski dwelt at considerable length upon the international benefits resulting from that instrument. A great point he sald, in compacts of this kind was that they did not offer the slightest obstacle to special agreements' between individual powers in relation to specific interests which affected them alone and the settle- ment of which was in no way opposed to the general principles which bound them to their allles, but were more likely to forti- fy the guarantee of peace. . This was proved by the confidentlal relations now existing between Italy and France, and by the thor- oughly satisfactory nature of Austro-Hun- gary's relations with Russia resulting from the St. Petersburg agreement of 1897. He described that agreement as one of tho happlest features which had made its ap- pearance In the sphere of recent politici it had checked perils which caused perma- nent anxiety on the continent. o The bishop of British New Guinea has authorized the publication in the London press of a statement showing that the worst element with which he has to contend in his African dlocese is cannibalism. He declares that even the children in the mis- slon schools during the Intervals between lessons play at being participants in a can- nibal feast and perform the dances which accompany that awful practice. In Febru- ary, 191, two white diggers were killed and eaten, and two months later the mis- slonary named James Chalmers, a white assistant, and twelve natives met a similar fate. Later in the year a great rald oo- curred in the Waria river, when twenty persons were murdered and devoured. Sim. {lar cases on a smaller scale are constantly occurring. The area is so large and the government staff so small that It is im. possible to mete out punishment to the guilty parties. The natives, however, says the bishop, are Intelligent, and often thor- oughly amed of themselves when their fatal outbursts are over. GIVING AWAY INDIAN LANDS. Crooked Schemes Balked by the Vigi- lance of the President. Philadelphia Record. Delay in afixing the executive signature to the Indian appropriation bill h re- sulted only in directing public attention to the legislative methods employed in sad- dling upon this item of the public budget all sorts of schemes for private advantage. The bill is now a law, al- though not, It 1s to be trusted, without some sort of assurance that the tricks and devices to which the president objected shall not be renewed in subsequent &ap- propriation bills. The great west is rap- idly filling up. Its mineral wealth on Indlan reesrvations is known to many shrewd speculators and energetic pros- pectors, who have in recent years sought refuge in the Indian bill when pressed or hampered by the present statutory limita- tions of their holdings. It this sort of thing Is to continue un- checked the annual act making appropri- ations for the Indian department must be- come eventually a cloak for public scandal. When valuable concessions are to be granted to minjng companies and other corporate enterprises in the Indian reser- vations the authorization should be by special enactment and not hidden away in a clause of a general appropriation bill The particular instance to which ob- jection was made by the executive—the parceling out of the Ulntah reservation— is but a type of legislation likely to be- come all too familiar at Washington unless checked at the outset. This reservation is in the northeastern section of Utah, a broad and fertile valley surrounded by mountain peaks and terraced hills in which rich mineral deposits are stored away. Many mineral leases have already been obtained from the Indians and numer- ous mining corporations have been or- ganized to work rich flelds of valuable deposits. Under the clause of the Indi bill referred to these companies may pros pect at will for minerals for a year and & half, and thereafter may locate under the mining laws a square mile—840 acres—of contiguous mineral land. In the meantime each Ulntah Indian is to receive from forty to elghty ncres of agricultural lands with about $70,000, loss expenses, to compensate the tribe for mineral wealth that would purchase an empire. Deed of an Inwane Mother. NEW YORK, May 3.—Mrs. Rose Flege now, wife of & news dealer, killed her §- "‘x’.""‘n’ dion ‘and- thes Comimitead. ation an: By taking carbolic acid. The womat Dena sumerer (rom & hervous G several years and it is ) she was temporarily insane. Dr.PRICES Crgam Baking Powder The difference of cost between a good and a poor baking amount for a family’ The poor powder would lar a year. powder would not s supply to one dol- cause doctors’ bills many times this. Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powd the most economical in the end, becau:: it goes further in leavening and insures perfect, wholesome Used always in food. making the biscu : and cake it saves both health and mon«;: Made from pure, grape cream of tartar, most healthful of fruit acids. Nore.—You cannot, if health, afford to use cheap, low- bakmg powders. n?lle of the pure food laws, made rom Price Baxina Powpen Co., CHicAao. ou value good dc ‘They are mostly, in lum, which endangers the health. All icians will tell you that such pows 5:2 in food are ln]u);'lons, L POLITICAL DRIFT. Chicago estimates it will take $20,000,000 | Barnacles have | to clean up the city hall. & powerful grip there. It is generally understood that the quar- antine rules proclaimed against Indiana by Kentucky will be suspended if former Gov- ernor Taylor agrees to come home. There I8 much walling and gnashing of teeth in the office of the Chicago Inter Ocean. Senator Willlam B. Mason, a distinguished “‘old subscriber,” stopped his paper. Fred J. Landis, congressman from In- diana, who kicked the canteen out of the house recently, is not unusually popular at home. It took 1,012 ballots to re- nominate him. Governor Jeff Davis of Arkansas has been read out of the Baptist church for drunk- enness and gambling and the pennant of joy snaps deflantly from the flagstaff of Andrew Jackson Kendrick at Fort Smith. Judge Willlam T. Woods of Lexington, Mo., who died the other day, was rooted to the soil of Missourl. He was county clerk of Clay county for seventy-two years. Death was the only power that could loosen his grip. After two years' struggle a bunch of bal- lot box stuffers in Philadelphia managed to escape conviction. Between the com- mission of the crime and the trial the legislature passed an act governing the selection of juries, which fitted the case admirably. In all but eleven of the fifty-two states and territories the male outnumbers the female population. These eleven states are along the Atlantic seaboard. California contains the greatest excess of men, the recorded number being 156,000, Minnesota comes second, with 113,586; Texas third, with 109,000, and Pennsylvania fourth, with 160,367. Nine of the elghty-elght United States nators were born between 1820 and 1830 and Pettus of Alabama, born in 1821, Is the oldest. His colleague, Morgan, was born in 1 Hawley, Hoar and Bate first saw the light in 1826. Of the old men of the senate four are southern born, Pettus in Alabama, Morgan and Bate In Tennessee and Hawley in North Carolina, The total vote of Oklahoma, the most populous of the territories now seeking admission into the union of states, was 73, 000 in the election of 1800. In the same contest Delaware cast 41,000 votes, Florida 88,000, Idaho 57,000, Louisiana 69,000, Mis- sissippl 59,000, Montana 63,000 Nevada 10,- 000, North Dakota 57,000, Rhode Island 56, 060, South Carolina 50,000, Vermont 56,000 and Wyoming 24,000. As a lecturer, W. J. Bryan is not a blooming success down south. Regarding his last tour, the Nashville American says: “Mr. Bryan had 150 persons to hear him lecture at Gallatin. He had less than 300 by actual count in Nashville, although the American reporter was liberal and gave him 500. Several months ago he offered to lecture at Union City and he had less than eighty in his audience. He refus to lecture and refunded the few persons their money. Mr. Bryan's audiences are dwindling over the country, still he manages to pick up several do! at the business. He is working the mine for all it is worth as long as it will hold eut."” ELECTION OF SENATORS. Members of the Upper House Oppose Selection by Direct Vote. Chicago Record-Herald. A dispatch from Washington glives the impression that there is a sudden and grow- ing hostility to the election of United States senators by the people owing to the developments at this session of congress. The house, which is chosen by direct vote, is said to have shown itself responsive to public emotionalism, public prejudices and {ll-considered public opinious. An inevitable inference is thal this fault is due to the method of Its election. Ergo, we should stick to the old plap with the senate and not expose it to the same danger. The statesmen who are making use of this argument are singularly obtuse to a tew facts which leaye it without any force whatever. Take, for example, the difference between the terms of senators and repre- sentatives. This will not be affected by the proposed constitutional amendment. The senator would still be elected for six years. Unlike the representative he would not have to plan for a mew campaign the moment the old one was finished. He would bave the full period that s granted him now for calculating on the variations in popular passions and prejudices, and so he might exercise a certain temperance in his resorts to demagogy if such were his de- sire. *The method of election bas no bearing worth considering on this phase of the question. For a candidate before the legls- lature s quite as apt as & candidate before the people to assert his claims to popular backing, He will do 80 if he Is the mere agent of a corporation or a money-bags who I8 purchasing legislators exclusively op his own account. The theory of a remote- ness from the electorate which was to pro- mote indepeudence of action and fidelity to principle has been completely falsified in practice, and the rare instances in which men like Senator Hoar defy a party policy would be just as likely to meet with toler- ance from the people as from a legislative caucus. Agalnst the wholly imaginary evil of the change are to be set divers benefits of great | importance. It would free us from the pur- chase of seats by bribery of legislatures, from long legislative deadlocks which waste the people's time and money to no good purpose, and from a connection between national and local politicse which is both illogical and demoralizing. With the elec- tion of senators out of the way legislat- tures could tend strictly to legislative busi- ness, and their members would be chosen with no other object in view, to the great improvement of gtate and municipal poli- tics. A reform that counts for so much can- not be discredited by irrelevent talk con- cerning the demagogy of the house. FLASHES OF FUN. Philadelphia Press: Mr. Hauskeep (at dinner)—This 1s a particularly delicious meal, my dear. Mrs. Hauskeep—Yes, the cook expects fome of her friends (G visit her this even- Chicago Tribune: laynor—Don't vou think a bn) only 16 years 18 Ta 100 young to be a r% Shyne—} ! A[c i no!hlng We've got an absolute monarch at my house that's only 2 years old. Puck: Doctor Adjutant-Bird—So you havi taken the whole bottie, eh? Well, 1t's very strange that you don't’ feel any better. The Ostrich—Do you know, doctor, it has )uui(slru«k me that 1 forgot'to remove the Detroit Free Press: Jack—Was the church garden party a success? Julla—Well, T worked hard enough; I ate ice cream with every young man on the grounds. Chicago Post: The little game had been in progress for some time, and the heaviest loger let out the customary roar. “I'll be broke in just about another fif- teen minutes,” he declared in ennrlullon “'Never mind, old man,” sugges the others. “You'll have the pi ‘kicking,’ you know." Detrolt Free Press: Hojack—Here's an account of how a mm\' wrol and got Into trouble kil e d ‘Tom d‘ll'%v, cmrx‘ sym| l&lllfi Wl:’; that fel s how I ha marrled.” o . Cleveland Plain Dealer: 0 lateat novels 15 called ‘A Remedy for Wgnmelhlnz about house cleaning, I sup- Cleveland Platn Dealer: of meat couldn't h fayorable time.” VAL three of my old maig fanoy they are in love and ci Smart Set: Auorn»y 1nr Dchnu—‘rou are a blackguard a bluf Aunrney omnl(oo—Ana you sir, are a shyster and a rogue! The Court—Come, come, gentlemen. us get down to the disputed points of e case. “The high price ave struck me at a more dlu'hbfl‘l Harper's Magaz! A well known udge on a Virginia circult was recently bd very forcibly of his Apprmhln‘ "Daldn by, one of hls rural noqunlmmcu “Jedge,” drawled the farmer, it won't be so very long 'fo’ string around yer heas to wash yer face." you'll hev to tle & to tell how fer up e —— SERVING THE WRIT, Ohlo Weekly Bulletin, Bhe was & widow, graceful, young, “'Ilh = n«;lk\ery nknal d 1 swan-like neck and rosy lips, AAn "d Ihnly Illllle {sde‘ - n attachment issued from - She'd falled to pay her ren gors And to her lodgings, with' the writ, The constable was sen The constable—ifke all his flk— Vas & man of tender heart; Who strove s gently as he could His business {o impart. He bowed and stammered; “Madam, dear, An attachment I've for youi It grieves me sore to (ell you ko, t ne'er the less 'tis true.” do not grieve,” the widow cried, s Very fortunai For this same passion you avow 1 do reciprocate “But, madam, dear,” he stammered forth “You do ot understand: Ygu must proceed to court forthwith, For stich is the comman “But, my dear sir, I much That'you would take the For wamen are ko very yes, they are. Indeed.’ 1 Ol e erank “Fli mot setuse If you the courunl do, But, ‘pray, do not exact from me The part which falls to you.” Amazement sat upon his brow, He gasped to catch his breath; And never will he paler grow, F'en in the hour of degt (toke my words, Erlhl' must, forthwi Te !qu!ro David Bi She threw her arme gbout his neck, And seemed 08! taint, And o i Callar ot Mis 08 Left_coplous streaks of I {&; there, like ivy vine rdy oak, Her volce the silence broke, “How could you be so very bold As to engage the squire, Apd even gel the license, oo, Without knowing m, ¥ With glant nun.m, away an azell And re h. d anE' l.m M Ao ‘Tatter what betell “