Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 26, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1903 THE OUMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. > TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally Bee (without Sunday), (ne Year. 4480 Duily Bee and Sunday, Une Year 600 lilustrated Bes, One Year. 200 Bunday Bee, One ¥ear ! Saturday Bee, One Year. 160 Twentleth Century st'armer, One Year. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Bunday), per oopy.. Daily Bee (without Bunday), per week. . Daily Bee Unciuding Sunday), per week unday Bee, per copy Evening Bee (without 8 nd-y: . per week 6o | Evening Bee (Includin per week Complaints of 'irregularities oy ahoud b addressed (5 City Circulation De. partment OFFICES. Qmaha_The Bee Bullding, Bouth Omaha-— Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Stre Council Blufts 10 Pearl Street. Khicago—ity Unity Bullding. New Jork-#2 Park Row Bulding. Washington—01 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. 12¢ Aie . be STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.: George B. Taschuick, secretary of The Bee Pubiishing company, being duly sworn, sava that the actual numbce of full and complets The Daily, Morning, Evening and nmm during the month of wu as follows: RARBEEEREEES Less unsold and returned coples Net total sales .. Net average sales GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK, Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to pefore me this 3ist day of Decomber, A D. A908. TE, (Beal) Nawy Publln. THINKS SHERMAN LAW SUFFICIENT. Ex-Sepator Edmunds, who was chalr- man of the senate judiciary commit- tee when the Sherman anti-trust law was passed @nd had much to do with the framing of the act, Is of the opinion and his opinion is entitled to great welight—that the law is “entirely cap- able of putting an end to such so-called 1% trusts and such combinations as inter- fere with or restraln commerce among the states” He thinks that the only difienlty with it lles In faulty admin- Istration. In a just published letter Mr. EAmunds says that the act was re- garded by the senate judiclary commit- tee that reported it in 1860 as in re- spect to its general scope an exercise of the whole constitutional power of congress, “which could only legislate for the freedom and regulation of com- merce with forelgn nations and among the several states Mr. Edmunds says that the law only needs to be fully enforced to put an end to the combinations to which it ap- plies and expresses the opinion that the attorney general and his assistants “will ind ensy means, If supplied with the necessary funds, to arrest the ‘prog- ress and undo the mischievous work of such great and Injurious combinations as have so largely come into ‘recent ex- istence.” Attorney General Knox, Sen- ator Hoar and other able lawyers do not belleve that the limit of the con- stitutional power of congress was reached in the anti-trust law of 1800 and the attorney general has pointed out, In the judgment of many very con- clusively, how congreas may further ex- ercise power for the supervision and regulation of combinations engaged in interstate and forelgn commerce. It is very probable that more could have been accomplished under the Sherman act than has been, but we believe there are few who regard it as the final leg- islative word on the subject. There is especially a demand for additional leg- vision of the work. There Is now In the county bridge fund $20,408.07 and it may confidently be predicted that this large sum will be dumped into the | bridge trust hopper unless the brakes |are put on and a new poliey adopted by the bosrd of commissioners in pro- Jecting and constructing bridges. e——— CAN OMAHA TRUST OMAHAY The city of Omaba Is a corporation owning tangible property valued at more than $120,000,000. The right of the owners of this property to manage the affairs of the corporation has been lestablished by precedent, usage and law and up to this time has never been questioned, denied or abridged. To make it plain, the city of Omaha ever since it secured its first charter has en- joyed the same rights that are conceded to semi-public or private corporations, ramely, the right of Its owners or stockholders to control the affairs of the cosporation through directors, trustees or managers of their own choosing and responsible to them for the efficient and honest administration of corporate affairs. In other words, all the charters ever enacted for Omaha by succeeding leg- islatures have recognized primhrily that the taxpayers, who are stockholders in the corporation, had a right to desig- nate through the ballot box the men who were to conduct the affairs of the corporation. And now it is proposed by a man who is not known to be the owner of a foot of real estate in Omaha and has not paid a dollar of personal taxes in Omaha to Invoke the charter-making power to constitute another man, who is not a stockholder in the corporation of Omaha, to appoint for Omaba a board of directors with exclusive power to negotiate, acquire and supervise and manage property of the corporation of millions of dollars In value. It' is proposed further that this irre- It Nebraska telephone !ub‘fl"hfl‘fl will | islation that will do what is not done | SPonsible board appointed by an out- put in a ground wire they may hear|by the law of 1800, provide for pub- sider shall have the right to appoint a something interesting on the Lincoln |licity and supervision of the organiza-|general manager for this property at circult. tion and workings of the combinations. The Sherman act will stand, but it cin such salary as it may see fit to fix for any length of time without the consent Nebraska dairymen are to be given |, ;040 more effective it supplemented | Of the stockholders or the officers of the speelal permission by law to color their by some such legislation as is now pro- | Corporation. butter. Why can't they also be given special permission by law to chalk thelr milk? —— Senator Teller of Colorado says he ex- pects he will have to defend his election agalnst a contest. The chances are good, too, that the semator will not be disappointed. ——— Omaha Is forging to the front among the clearing house cities and if it keeps up Its gait to the end of the year it will rank as the sixteenth clearing house city in Ameriea. temm—————e. The woman who has been playlng wetnurse to the royal family of Italy seems to have struck the most lucra- tive mpm yet opened to the sex. posed. BRITISH UBJECT T0 CUBAN THBATY. The first thought of Americans gen- erally in regard to British objection to the reciprocity treaty with Cuba is likely to be that it is an Impertinént attempt to interfere with the unques- tionable right of the United States and the Cuban republic to enter into a com- mercial agreement which they deem to be of mutual advantage. It is easy, bowever, to understand the great con- cern manifested by the British manu- facturers and merchants, since with the treaty in operation most of their trade with Cuba would be lost and trans- ferred to American manufacturers and merchants. This trade is mow consid- Now, suppose that any- body should propose to the legislature to enact a law that would authorize the governor to appoint a board of direct- ors or trustees for any other corpora- tion whether its property was assessed at only $1,000 or $1,000,000. Who would dare stand up and justify such a meas- ure under pretext that the stockholders of the corporation could not be trusted to select honest and capable men to manage its affalrs? What would be thought of a proposition that the direct- ors appointed by the governor to man- age the affairs of a corporation should be clothed with the right to appoint their own successors without the con- sent of the governor or of ,nybody else, and should moreover have the right to appoint a high-salaried general manager But will the club woman who has been |erable. Another effect of the treaty [f0F the corporation before it had ac. slamoring for new mouy-m;!u VO~ cations follow sult? would be to serlously injure the sugar industry of the British West Indian pos- sesglons, which have been seeking a quired any plant or property to manage? Surely such a proposition would not be countenanced by any legislature and ————— The adverse actiom, of Governor reciproeity arrangement with this coun- would not receive endorsement by any Mickey and the Nehruh legislature on the Dietrich land leasing bill is taken &t Washington to sound the death knell of that measure. Congress is not apt to do something for Nebraska which Nebraska does not want. e sond Jobn N. Baldwin of Iowa has taken upon himself the patriotic duty of pro- viding Nebraska with new revenue leg- islation. The Iowa statesman feels per- fectly safe from any of the pains and penalties he would impose upon de- linquent Nebraska taxpayers. e The board of university regents bas figured it out that they will be able to spend the entire fncome of the Institu- tion from government aid, endowment returns and proceeds of state tax to a penny, There is no flaw in the mathe- matics of the university financiers. ——— 1 Minister Bowen gives assurance that the pending controversy between the three allied powers and Venezuela may be settled soon and satisfactorily. There 1s'no good reason why this controversy should not have been sent to an arbl- tration tribunal without first indulging In acts of war. SSsompeege—y According to all reports, the Kansas state government is worse railroad rid- den than the Nebraska state govern- ment ever was. That explains why the mallroeds are so anxious to have Ne- Braska copy after Kansas in all matters of lawmaking in which the rallroads are directly interested. —— ‘The output of Nebraska beet sugar fac- tories for the year just ciosed is almost 23,000,000 pouads, according to figures compiled by Deputy Labor Commis- sloner Watson. It will be remembered that beet sugar production is another of the industries which it was predicted could never be developed to substantial proportions In this country. X ——— Several Nebraska legislatures have successively gone on record in favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people and it would not be out of the way for the members of the present body to give expression again to this demand, which volces the practically unanimous sentiment of all their constituents without regard to party affiliations. When It comes right down to busi- mess and brass tacks, the state senate bas no real prerogative to mix in the work of formulating the proposed new revenue measure. ' The Nebraska con- stitution expressly declares that all revenue bills shall originate in the house and whatever participation is accorded [ 1902 the expenditure for bridges was the senators in jolnt committee is purely | $25,227.54, or a total In two years of by courtesy. Under the circamstances’ it might be proper for the senate end of try that would be favorable to their . Of course with a 20 per cent re- | ® duction in the tariff on sugar imported from Cuba the British islands cannot profitably compete In the American mar- ket aud this would doubtless be disas- trous to their sugar industry. That is a matter, however, which the United States is not bound to consider. In negotiating a reciprocity treaty with Cuba our government has had the interests of its own people in view. Great Britain must look after the inter- ests of her colonial subjects as best it can. The British cabinet will consider what can be done. Retallating with an increased duty on grain has been sug- gested. Existing conditions in the United Kingdom are such as to make exceedingly unpopular a .course that ‘would increase the price of bread. There are hundreds of thousands of uaem- ployed people and much destitution and distress. A London dispatch of a few days ago stated that the depression is spreading steadily among the principal trades .and the number of workless, starving laborers was increasing. In such circumstances it would be a griev- ous mistake to Increase the grain duty and it scems most improbable that this will be done. It appears that the British ambassa- dor at Washington has been informed by Secretary Hay that In negotiating the reciprocity treaty with Cuba the United States bas done no more than had been promised and had no inten- tion of modifying the treaty. It will certainly not be modified in the inter- est of the British possessions in the West Indies, which have enjoyed the advantages of the American market for their products and done the greater part of their purchasing in the British mar- ket. The treaty with Cuba should cause no serious controversy, as it is sug- gested it may, between Great Britain and the United States. Our right to make the treaty is unquestionable and its negotiation was prompted as well from a sense of duty to Cuba as from a conviction that it is essentfal to the maintenance of such close relations with that republic are manifestly desirable for the mutual Interests and welfare of the two countries. There are svund reasons for favoring Cvba and in dolug so our government is un- der no obligation to cousider what the effect may be upon the British posses- stons. The conclusions of the British cabinet will be awalted with much in- tevest. Sm— In the year 1901 Douglas county ex- pended $78.366.91 for vew bridges. In $108,594.25. Competent engineers ex- press the opinion that a saving of $25,- the combinstion to sit in the back seats 000 might have been effected in the | only answer that body of business men or property own- rs whatever its promise of advantage might be. And yet this is precisely what {8 proposed by the water works bill. Is there any other city in America that would not protect its right to self- government? Has any other city in America éver been placed in such a hu- miliating position as to stand self-con- fessed of dishonesty, imbecility and moral cowardice that it would mnot re- sent the attempt to take from it its inherent right of self-government? Grant that municipal ownership of the water works has become a para- mount necessity, why should not the people of Omaha have the right to elect the water commission and why should they be compelled to pay a high-salaried commissioner before they bave pur- chased the works? Cannot Omaha trust Omaha? —— The endorsement of the Howell water bill by the Real Estate exchange shows how easy it is to pipe-line a measure vitally affecting the Interests of the community through a body that is not familiar with the subject and whose members have not studied the problems involved or the questionable features of the proposed act. The bill in question was first referred to a committee, a majority of which was In close touch with Mr. Howell and is said to be very anxious to assist him in getting a sub- stantial foothold in Omaha. The com- mittee heard Howell in behalf of his own measure and then asked the man- ager and lawyer of the water company to state thelr objections. The manager declined to talk. The lawyer declared that his company had no objections to the proposed purchase, providing it could get a satisfactory appraisement, but the taxpayers and heavy property owners of Omaha were not consulted. The committee reported back to the members of the exchange that In its judgment the bill was all right and the exchange took it for granted that it was all right and endorsed it with- out knowing to what extent it would involve the city in needless expense and costly litigation. In other words, | they were willing to go it blind so long as it beld out the prospect of municipal ownership of the water works. ‘ — Now that the city election has been postponed two months there is no good In the packing plants at Omaha was, “Well, there is a big difference In talk- ing for advertising purposes and in talking for taxation, you kmow."” A comparison of the tax assessments re- turned for these big meat packing and stock yards corporations with the stockholders' reports will quickly verify the truth of this sage pronounce- ment, —_—_— The secretary of the Omaha Board of Education is said to be very much wrought up over the audacity of | Speaker Mockett in Introducing a bill ‘that will have a demoralizing effect upon the educational institutions of the state and should it hecowe a law would place the achools under the direct power of politiclans.” The offensive measure denounced by the secretaty authorizes the appointment of school boards in cities by the mayor and council. There is nothing so absolutely audacious or revolutionary in the proposition, al- though it may shock the nerves of the well pald and not overworked secretary. School boards are appointed by mayors subject to confirmation by boards of aldermen or city counclls in Chicago, St. Paul, Albany and quite a number of other American cities. The character and standing of the members will com- pare favorably in those citles with that of Omaba school boards and their re- lation to politics and politicians differs very little from the nonpartisan Omaha board, whose members are not barred from participation in active politics. What the secretary evidently dreads is a reversion that might leave him out in the cold when fuel is so scarce. We apprehend, however, that he is unneces- sarily alarmed over the Mockett bill and the audaclity of the speaker, at least so far as Omaha is concerned. Et————— Ex-Senator Allen thinks he sees in the Sears resolution, which pledges the legislature to enact 4 new revenue law which will insure the payment of out- standing debts and deficiencies before appropriating money for new departures In state institutions, “the master hand of the Hon. Edward Rosewater.” Sen- ator Allen is decidedly complimentary, but In this case ex-Speaker Sears is en- titled to all the ‘credit for his course, which has the hearty approval of The Bee. Smyme——— A free distribution of copies of the Kansas commission’s revenue bill has been instituted, with the palatial quar- ters maintained by John N. Baldwin at the expense of the Union Pacific as the distributing point. The railroads may be able to fool legislators who want to be fooled, but they cannot fool the taxpayers. Two of the scholarships established by Cecil Rhodes to provide education at the English universities for students from the outside English-speaking world have been awarded for South Af- rica. As yet there has been no visible scramble among- American students to connect with the Rbodes’ benefactions. EEre—— A Pertinent I iry. ‘Why are not the flags halfmasted over the death of his royal majesty, the sultan of Sulu? The bosses do not like Roosevelt; neither do the tru These are two and sufficient reasons why he will be elected president in 1904. Ctvilisation’s Rocky Road. Chicago Record-Herald. The army of the sultan of Moroceo s |. armed with flintlocks and muzzle loaders, and his people believe that the devil in- vented the cannon. How can eivilization be expected to flourish in such a pitiful country as that? Differences in Men. Chicago Chronicle. John Mitchell has refused a $10,000 resi- dence tendered to him by the miners’ union ~—a circumstance which will deepen Deacon Faer's conviction that Mitchell is a vision-*| ary and a crank. So far from refusing any- thing that is offered to him, the deacon 13 in the babit of reaching forth and acquir- ing anything that he wants whether it is submitted to his acceptance or not. Better Late Than Never, Philadelphia Press. Aguinaldo says that he is sorry to emerge from his quictude ‘and retirement, but he felt that it was his duty to ask the United States for $20,000,000 in gold and a credit for $80,000,000 more for the development of the Philippine islands. Aguinaldo had bet- ter thought of this matter before he began his rebeilion and destruction of property. If he is anxious to develop the islands he had better work out some other method of doing it, or else e mon Language. New York Tribune. Secretary Shaw in & carefully considered | speech expresses the earnsst hope that within a reasouable time Ruglish will be the common language of all the countries in both the Americas. The advantages of such a change almost surpass imagination, but it cannot be doubted that they will be | enjoyed by after generations. Perhaps not at any time in this centurr, however, for the obstacles and difculties will be ex- ceedingly hard to surmount MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. Large Stock of Momey in the Treas- uries of Tr Cleveland Leader. The public will be astonished to learn from the annual report of the treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America that the organization has on hand more than a million dollars. Coming so soon after the great anthracite strike, when the miners of the bard coal reglon seemed to be reduced to extreme need, the condition of the treasury of the union of mine work- ers is far better than outsiders could bave reason why the primary elections for ¢ity nominations called by the re- spective county committees should not also be set ahead sixty days. A city caupnign of three months would be an aboginatic nuisance as well as an un- heard of thing. When Manager Kenyon w witpess stand Dbefore the Cowmerce on the Interstate commission last week the could be elicited and let the house members occupy the | coustruction of these bridges had there | from him in response to the question been fair competition and houest super- | what amount of money was imvested frout places on the platform. guessed. The big figures simply show what power there is in vast numbers united for & com- mon purpose. It only takes $4 or §§ from every member of the miners' union to mpke $1,000,000, and the American Feder- ation of Labor could raise $10,000,000 by a tax of $4 on every member. The labor organizations of the United States have become giants worthy of com- parison with the buge business corpora- tions of the times. Both labor and eapital are being welded into such immense masses that the citizen who stands alone, as a worker or as an investor, s consclous of his littleness and his precarious position whenever there are storms brewing in the business aad ladustrial worldy ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. the Current of Life in the Met The blg skyscraper opposite the Fifth Avenue hotel, known as the Flatiron, and which is one of the sights of the big city, | e pronounced “a public and private nulsance” in a complaint filed in court by Gibson W. Vincent, a clothing merchant | doing business within wind range of the | bullding. Mr. Gibson swears the Flatiron | 80 deflects the air currents that hie plato | glass windows have been crushed like egg- shells, and he wants $5,000 fqr damage to his stock and apxiety of mind. To cor- roborate his contention Mr. Vincent eets forth in his bill of complaint that the Flat- | iron “is of an extremely pecullar and un- usual shape,” and for this reason the air currents eweeping around the structure perform some fearful and wonderful tricks. According to Mr. Vincent's bill, so flerco | has become the disturbance at times that ‘x pedestrians have been hurled violently to | the sidewalk. Occupants of bulldings in the neighborhood tell of being eyewitnesses to some of the frightful and alleged unlaw- ful acts of the wind after Its natural course Mas been changed by the Flatiron. There have been days, they say, when persons in trying to board street cars at the corner of Broadway and Twenty-third street have | suddenly found themselves blown ten feet | away, while the car moved on. “They con- tend that it is out of the question for a woman to walk down Broadway and retain her hat in proper shape, and that among men the habit of profanity has been la- mentably increased since the Flatiron be- gan to interfere with the alr currents. Ex- perts on wind, air currents and the like will figure in the trial. Ripples on A party of Brooklynites returning home from a theater in Manhattan the other night walked down the east side of Broad- way to Twenty-third street, relates the Brooklyn Eagle. At a point nearly oppo- site Twenty-fifth street one of the women stopped suddenly and, throwing up her hands, uttered a plercing scream. Conster- nation solzed the other members of the party and they gathered about her with a rapld fire of solicitous questions. When she could gasp the words she said: “Oh, T thought it was falling ove In time she explained that “It” was the Flatiron building, that marvelous slice of architecture which splits Broadway and Fifth avenue apart at Twenty-third street. She had chanced to look up at it just as a flock of clouds was flylng rapldly south- ward through the moonlight and at first glance the illuston was perfect. The bulld- ing 4id eeem to be pitching forward. It is worth a trip to that point to see this remarkable structure by moonlight, es. pectally if there be clouds passing south- ward over {t. Not much imagination is re- quired to make the spooky-looking build- ing ecem to do all sorts of strange things. It is no trick at all to make yourself be- lleve it is a twenty-story steamboat, rush- ing, stem on, straight at you. In his wierdest dreams, the most enthu- slastic ple-lover on record never saw such | a construction as was served at the annual ball of the Consumers’ Pie Baking company in Brooklyn one night last week. It was a ple, but it defles classification. It weighed 110 pounds, was three feet wide, two feet deep and seven feet long, and these things were in it: Two hundred eggs; fifteen pounds cf co- coanut, six pounds of cranberries, six pounds of mincemeat, six pounds of pimd- apple, six pounds of plums, twelve pounds of lemons, six pounds of peaches and fifty pounds of sugar. It took six men fifteen hours to make this ple. Each one had a section and he had enough to do to keep him busy all of one day. A half ton of coal was used to do it to a beautiful brown and the ple was in a huge oven for an hour and a half. A special steel plate had to be made to bake it and this alone cost $18. Until midnight this deliclous ple was on exhibition in Saengerbund hall, with a special guard to protect it from the hun- gry. When the signal was given more than 200 ple-lovers attacked it in a body and it was all gone in the course of a couple of hour; It was the biggest ple ever made and those who ate it say it was also the best. Pepsin was in great demand at the Brook- 1yn drug stores the next day. A certain Broadway restaurant, known for the Parisian quality of its cooking, is also acquiring for its cafe a flavor of smart Bohemianism, which is profitable in the | extreme. “Half of New York wants to be thought recklessly and spectacularly giddy,” the proprietor says. At any rate, he has solved the sicret of | success, reports the Evening Post. Every night the small marble-topped tables are plentifully occupied. It is especially good | Bohemian form to loll upon the leather cushioned windowseats and call for a writ- | ing portfolio, inkwell and pen. After all, those whe look on may imagine one as dashing off a rondeau, or even such a dif- ficult verse form as the villanell The proprietor does not begrudge his guests the papers and pens. They are valuable as | theatrical properties, and he kno The air is heavy with 'l'.:hllko'lky, the bouquet of liqueurs and the fumes of Egyp- tian cigarettes. Onme is consclous vaguely that the women talk very loud, and do not know it. B — PERSONAL NOTES. Wagner still makes & g0od deal of noise in the world; the royalties on his operas ylelded $115,000 last year. The citizens of Carlinville, IlL, have started a movement looking toward the erection of a monument in that city over | the grave of General Jobn M. Palmer. | Half of the English statesmen were made | prominent by thelr American wives, but | you mever hear of an English woman doing | anything for an American husband. A chemist employed by the New York Board of Health to analyze various pre- pared foods sold in the groceries of the city obtained 373 samples and found that 315 were adulter His report is sald to have been “startling The Isle of Pines, south of Cuba, s the original of Robert ~Louls Stevenson's “Treasure Island.” Prof. Jobn Finley has been visiting the island and in writing of the experlence says that, even at this late and uoromantic day, he found men digging for treasure there. The new governor of Pennsylvania seems to think that libraries and universities, when given away to the citizens of other states, are Dot as useful to the inhabitants of Pennsylvanis &s would be good roads He would like to see & fow Carnegle pikes and a Rocketeller boulevard or two. Little Dog, Curly Bear, Mountain Sheep, Young Bear, Two Horns and White Grass, Indians of the Blackfoot reservation, have petitioned the federal government for work. It thelr names count for amything, Uncle Sam can settle this problem quickly by turning them loose upon one another. D. O. Mills, the New York millionaire, owns a $1,000 overcoat and the fact omly became matter of public knowledge when the costly garment was stolen. Mr. Mills attended a dinner in the house of a rela- tive and found on preparing to return home that the overcoat had disappesred, having probably been carried off by an expert hall thief. The owner offers a reward of $100 for ita return. | business sense TIPS FOR THE LEGISLATUR Stanton Picket: Ex-Speaker Sears s right. Let ways and means be provided to pay off the presant state debt before more debts are contracted. There is good in the resolution. Record: Speaker David City Mockett | seoms to meet with & good deal of opposi- tion in the legislature and the big appro- priations may not go through so easy at Lincoln as the organization of the house scemed at first to Indicate. Emerson Enterprise: The indications are | that the present leglelature 1s made up of intelligent and business-like men and that they will énact some good laws. The press of both parties should give them a chance and walt until the end of the session to offer criticisms. Alblon News: The legislature seems de- termined to enact a revenue law compo- tent to raise money sufficient to pay off the floating Indebtedness of the state be- fore making any appropriations for further state bulldings. This is in harmony with the wishes ot a large majority of the people. St, Paul Phonograph-Press: Our legisla- ture should pass a resolution for a United States constitutional,amendment and send a copy of it to every state where the legis- lature is in session, asking for the direct election of United States semators, as that is the only way we can accomplish this much needed reform. Chappell Rogtster: A bill has been intro- duced in the legislature by Hon. G. C. Me- Allister éstablishing an experimental irri- gation station at or npar North Platte, and appropriating $10,000 for same. Should this bill go through it will be the first time the extreme western part of the state has been recognized by an appropriation. Stanton Reglster: Conflicting interests In the legislature are fighting for supre- macy and it s becoming plain to all the citizens that a continuation of the present fights i liable to cause the failure of meri- torfous measures. We will venture this prediction, and believe that it s true: No law will be placed on the statute books this winter unless its passage ig secured by trades and combinations. . Aurora Republican: One of our legisla- tors has introduced a bill to prevent the wounding and crippling of pigeons for the amusement of eportsmen. Loomis is his name and he has our unqualified approval. We have been hoping sonie lawmaker would introduce such a measure. Certalnly the wholesale slaughter of helpless birds for the idle amusement of misled sportsmen is against the laws of God and self-respect of mankind. The bill should pass, Benkleman Chronicle: About the biggest Job the present legislature has on its hands is the enactment of a ctory revenue law, or the amendment of.the law we now have to make it fair to all and effective in the collection of the taxes. It cannot be overlooked in framing such a law that de- linquent taxes accumulated under crop failures, which bore heaviest on the wost, and created conditions differing from the eastern counties, where the present law was | fairly effective. David City Record: Sears introduced a resolution providing that mo bill should come up In the house for.a third reading calling for appropriations for public build- ings until after an adequate revenue bill should be formulated to raise money suf- ficlent to get the state out of debt, which was adopted by a large majority. It was amended so as to permit appropriations for rebuilding or repairing bulldings, to open the way to complete the penitentlary and rebuilding the Norfolk asylum. This will give the lobby a short rest. Grand Island Independent:. The pass: of a bill enabling the farmers to own and operate elevators, thus to handle, sell and ship their own grain, s urged, it being al- leged that the farmers would receive from 3 to § cents more per bushel for their grain if they could sell and ship for them- selves. Really it ought mot to require a bill. Any man or number of men ought to be given the opportunity to erect elevators if they see it and receive the same tre: ment by the ralroads as are given to any other owners of elevators. Such appears, from the statements of the friends of the proposed legislation, not to be the case. Where there are independent elevators it is stated that there is dificulty in secyring cars Columbus Telegram: Every member of the legislature has taken An oath to sup- port the constitution of Nebraska. That constitution expressly states that the su- preme court of the state shall consist of three judges. The Telegram and all men know that three judges are mot emough to transact the business of the court. But no matter. There stands the constitution. Every citizen has sworn to support that constitution. The creation of a supreme court commission is an insult to the consti- tution. A bill is now pending to give new life to the present supreme court commis- sion. The Telegram Is aware that the com- mission is In popular favor, and that in oppasing it we are regarded ae a bac)-num- ber. But there stands the constitutisn, and we had rather be true to that comstitution than to win the approval of men by being false to it. Fatrly Pardon Pride. St. Louis Republic. Without arrogaticg to itself any of that ABOLISH THE £5,000 LIMIT, Nlinots Moving to Repe: Limiting Death Chicage Tribune | Fitty years ago next month the Illinois | legislature liberalized the common law by permitting damages to be recovered for the benefit of the widow and next of kin where the death of a person had been caused by the wrongful act, neglect or de- fault of another. When the legislature | made this desirable change in the law it | provided that the “fair and just compensa- tion” for the pecuniary Injutfes to the family of the deceased should not exceed $5,000. That limitation on the damages which a jury may award has remained un- changed to this da: Half a century ago $5,000 was @ large sum It earned for its owner when he loaned it more than twice as much as it will today A merchant who had made $50,000 then was considered to have accumulated a for- tune and to be in a position whebe he could afford to retire from business: The aver- age earhing power of the man who works with his head or his hands—his value to the family of which he is the mainstay is far greater today than it was half a century ago. For that reasod verdicts in sults to recover damages for personal in- juries which do not result in death are so much larger than they were. There are cases where $5,000 is ample compensation in case of death. It may mare than make up to the recipients the loss pceasioned by the death, but in an increasing number of cases it does not. A bill has been Introduced to raise the limit from $5,000 to $15,000. Its passage will be a long ctep in the right direction, but it will be better to go still farther and to have no limitation. The general sembly should complete the work begun in 1853 by providing that where a person has been killed by the wrongful act or neglect of another those dependent on him shall recover what they prove to be fair and Just compensationi for the pecuniary injury inflicted on them by his death. This is the law now in the state of New York. Un- der it verdicts were not long ago returned against the New York Central awarding damages for twelve times the amount that can be awarded in Illinois. The damages were not punitive. They represented simply the value of the decedents to their families. The influence of railroad corporations and other corporations which are liable to pay damages for deaths occasioned by their negligence will be exerted to defeat an at- tempt to raise the limitation or to do away with it. “The legislatire should rise su- perior to that influence and make the law read as it should read. Then it will be for the railroaus to protect themselves by exercising greater care in the operation of their lines, thus minimizing the number of persons killed or injured through the wrongtul acts qr neglect of their employes. LAUGHING GAS. Willle—Pa, some words called “Jaw- breakers,” arn't they? What kind of words are they? Pa—1 guess, my son, they're the kind a man is forced to eat at times.—Philadeiphia ress. Sympathetic Listener—In these dreary, desolate wastes, Mr. Dashp I puppose You grew fond éven of your ’%..g. cioturaed Arctic Explorer—Heavens, no, We bad plenty of pemmican’ and Salrus meat—Ch ribupe. Sezso—Ruyter s not an’ author; born chemist Tlllor\\ he's a ery novel he writes becomes & arug on the market.—Brookiya Eagle. W, hly‘ don't you get rid of that mule?” Wel sub,” answered the colored ma one been a-tradin’ all my lite, an nebher ohee ot de Dest ot a bary holdin on to dat mule, ‘case trade "im off, I' jail or a case ton Star. “‘You were telling l(lu Gaussip this morn- ing that you were going to be married again, weren's you?” said the shrewd man. Yes," the widower gasped in sur- "how dia oy know e beg ia wif a lllnnl in O ROl fever W ashing: se, PTiAtter you left her on her Angers.’—Philadeiph Mr. Brighton has a faint streak of down on his upper lp. “When 1 get to be a man, little 4 ol 'm going' big mustache like yours." Frat boy has been feeding on candy ever since.—Chicago Tribune. to count .. " said his & Bave s great “I want my phomln h to be a natural likeness, without any xch ng or embel- lishing. " I suppose you Iwill chafge less fof it “On the charge more. “More? Why is that?" “Madam, to let an exact likeness of you g0 out of this gallery without any work upon it would cost us a hundred customers at least.'—Cleveland Plain Dealer. LULLABY. Hush baby, my darling, the sand man is nigh— Rock-a-by-baby-o- And he will soon & s contrary, madam, we must Rock- by-o-by! 8o cuddle up in your fond mother's May ':uul; watch o'er you and keep you arm, And when bright morning dawns may your first loving coo at shall greet me and call W Rock-a-by-baby-o-by! Your sweet honey lips let me kiss, precious one— Rock- y-baby-o-by! Yourhugmlu re ended, your day's work Rock-a-b; Qisagreeable, pharisaical superiority which its own recent crusade for clean govern- ment might naturally inspire, St. Louls may tender a recipe to gang-ridden cities. There 18 no startling novelty or originality in the recipe—a determined, fearless grand jury and a prosecuting officer with honesty and courage. Now mamma nlords” ym."!m. loving em- While smiles of sweet tnnocence halo your May our life be unclouded, ad bright as May l)nur troubles be few and real sorrows not one. Rocl-lvby ‘baby-o-by! Talmage, CORYDON ROOD. very well-posted doctor today knows all about Ayer” Ty Pectoral. Most doctors orde{ it for coughs, eo;dl, bmcmm. and even for consumption ) A -