Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1903, Page 6

TH E OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED TERMS8 OF SUBSCRIPTIO Dally Bee (without Sunday Dally Bee and Sunday, Une Illustrated Bee, One Year Bunday Bee. One Year ........ Baturday Bee, One Yeaf.. ... Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 3¢ D-ly Bee (without Sunday), per week...13c | Laily Bee (Including Sunday), per week..17¢ Bunday Bee, per copy .... [ Evening Bee (without Sunday Evening Bee (Including 8 week " EVERY MORNINI partment. | OFFICES. | Omaha—The Bee Building. South Omana—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. Counctl Blufts—10 Pear] Street. Chicago—164 Unity Bullding. New York—2328 Park Row Bullding. Washington—1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communieations relating to news and ed- ftorial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Departmen REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, able to The Bee Publishing Company, Bhly Becent atamps accepted in payment of mall sccounts. Fers nal checks, except, on Omaha_or eastefn exchange, no X THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, George B. Tzechuck, secretary of Bee Publishing company, belng duly aworn, that the actual number of full and comple! coples of The Dally, Morning, kvening and | Sunday Bee printed duiing the month of | January, 1%8, was as follows 1. Eomumnasnic~ gEENRREEERSE e sales..... GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn (o before me this 3ist day of January, A. - 1008, M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public. _— That groundhog expects to remain two weeks longer In cold storage. These new volcanic eruptions in Mex- ico indicate that the Internal affairs of mother earth are still awry. If there is anything at Lineoln the raflroads want that is not In sight all they have to do is to ask for it. John N. Baldwin and his mercenary cohorts are trying to rub it pretty hard into Omaha, but Omaha s not in a frame of mind to turn the other cheek. The proposed new Nebraska revenue bill 1s now up to the printer, When the printer gets through with it the law- makers will have another chance to get busy. S —— Having thrown a few bouquets at Chi- cago in his Washington birthday ad- dress theré, Senator Hoar can have him- self enrolled among its patron saints if he will only give the word. FErp— Senator Carmack vouches for ail that Tillman says about the viclousness of the president’s negro policy in the south. When Senator Carmack has a pet pro- Ject he can call on Tillman for its en- dorsement. Rallroad men now declare the Elkins anti-rebate bill will do them little good unless the anti-pooling clause of the in- terstate law is knocked out. Who said the Elkins bill was passed to do good to the rallroads? If the great pardonmer of Nebraska, who is detained In Seattle on important business, could only be induced to re- turn he might give some interesting in- formation concerning the contents of the Bartley cigar box, e <The Douglas delegation to the legis- lature has thrown some sops to Omaha policemen in the charter revision bill, but Omaha taxpayers will get very lit- tle comfort out of the reform charter by the time the revised salary and ex- pense lists are footed. —— ‘From now on municipal ownership will be the slogan in Omaha. If we are to vote from three to five million dol- Iars 1 city bonds for the acquisition of water works we can readily add balf a million more for the erection of a plant | that will supply Omaha with light and power at first cost. The democrats accuse the republicans of playing the siatehood bill for politics and use that as an excuse for not play ing at the game longer themselves. If & susplelon existed anywhere that there was anything but politics in the demo- cratic position from the first this final backdown makes it clear. —_— Altogether too many bills have been introduced “by request” during the present session of the Nebraska legls- lature. Why the taxpayers of Nebraska ‘should be put to the expense of print- | tng bills which the introducers do not want to father is & mystery no fellow ean find out. SE— ' The revised charter as orlginally de signed would have given Omaha fifteen councilmen, which I8 by no means too wany for a city of Omaha's pretensions | and dimensions, but the franchised cor- porations objected to any increase In | the number of councilmen. It 18 so much 2asler to hypnotize five council- mwen than elght. E——— . The postoffice authorities have diseon- tioued, at least temporarily, the rural mail delivery along a number of Indiana Toutes hocause of the fmpassable condi- | the railroads MAKING FOULISH THREATS. The political by the rallronds to ove doze the Nebraska legislature fair wav to bfing on a will the rallroads they now asked to pay in the shape of taxes. The will, it compelled to pay their just share of taxes contem plated by the constitution, retaliate by raising their freight rates, is most fool- ish as well as idle John N. Baldwin of Town and his as sociate bulldozers may not be aware of the fact, but it is nevertheless true, that the freight rates in Nebragka are more than 30 per cent higher than freight rates have been in Town these many years. When the legislature of 1801 passed the Newbury bill, estab lishing the Iowa freight schedule for Nebraska, the bill was vetoed by Gov- ernor Boyd on the ground that it was unreasonable to require the railronds %o carry freight in Nebraska as cheaply as they did in Towa, where the population was more: dense and commefce much more extensive. In this position Gov- ernor Boyd was sustained by public sentiment. When the Newbury bill was passed for the second time by the house iIn 1803 the fusion members of the senate were admonished that the re-enactinent of the Newbury bill would be futile be- cause the governor would be compelled to veto it as unreasonable and unfair to the railroads. Thereupon the demo- | pop senate revised the Newbury bill by | ziving a margin of 30 per cent In favor | of Towa. In other words, the maximum freight rates In Nebraska were placed | at 30 per cent higher than the maximum freight rates established.in Jowa by the republican commission and sustained by the republican courts. In this shape the maximum freight bill of 1893 was approved by Governor Cronnse and still remains the law of Nebraska. The decision of the supreme court of the United States does not Invalidate this law. It merely declares that under conditions existing in 1804 and 1805, when Nebraska had been devastated by drouth and the Nebraska rallroads had scarcely any traffie, the reduced rate was unreasonable. But the supreme court distinctly intimated that under changed conditions with heavy traffic the maximum rate law of 1893 would be sustained as valld. The foolish threats which Mr. Baldwin and his fol- lowers are now making to ralse Ne- braska freight rates will simply rouse this state to a fever heat against the outrage to which they have been sub- Jected for all these years, and when the people of this commonwealth are fairly aroused they will find a way of forcing the public’ carriers to treat them with fairness. The threat of raising freight rntevL in cage taxes are increased was made In Michigan last year, but up:to date has not had the desired effect. The rall- ronds in Michigan paid in 1902 more | than $1,800,000 above the amount of taxes pald by them the year previous and yet they have not retallated. In Michigan as In Nebraska they have charged all the trafic will bear and with that they are content. As a general proposition the barking dog does not bite and the yelp of the railroad canine at Lincoln Is not likely to frighten Nebraska farmers. desperadoes employed and bull are in a war that nwe rate millions where thousands thr that cost are ARE RAILKOADS CAREFUL? That s a question which the great number of rallroad accidents recently suggests. The New York Sun of last Monday prints a list of a score of rail- road accidents during the previons week, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries, and concludes the state- ment by saying: “It is recorded that the total number of persons killed on rallroads in this country during the year ending June 30, 1902, was 2.819, while the number injured was 39,800. In 1901 the number of the killed and injured was even greater than this.” It seems evident from these facts that the rallroads of the United States do not exercise proper care for the safoty of passengers and that there is urgent need of reform in this respect. Espe- clally is this emphasized by the fact that on all the rallroads of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales during the fifteen months ending March 31, 1902, not a single passenger was killed by a train accident. It may not be practi- able for the railroads of this country to manage thelr operations with the same care as do those of the United | Kingdom, but it is certalnly possible for them to do better than has been done. The record of rallway casualties during the last few months is appalling and it is largely due to the overworking of employes, & far 100 ecwmon fact with | most of the rallroads. OBJECT TO COMMISSIONERS. | The objection made by the Capadian government to two of the American commissioners on the Alaskan boundary court—Senator Lodge and Semator Tur- ner—will probably have no effect. It 1s not at all likely that the British gov- ernment will assume to give such heed to the Canadian protest as to ask the president of the United States to select other mwen {o represent this government on the commission, becuuse to do so wonld be obviously an affront to the presideut. who must be assumed to have strictly ecinplied with the treaty in mak- ing the uppointments. It is true that both Mr. Lodge and Mr. Turner are on record as opposed to the British conten- tion In regard to the treaty of 1825, Both Lave expressed themselves in the sticugest possible terms as believing that there is not the slightest founda- tlon for the Canadian claim in regard Lo tlon of the roads as notice to the people that If they want regular maill service they ‘must see to it that the roads are Bt for travel. The rural mail service pu_.h\uiqhsth-nqflpnunttmln the good roads movement. territory in Alaska. Yet neither of these contention of the United States ls wrong aml that the Canadian clalm Is just The protest of Canada against the se lection of these senators, who thoroughly understand the boundary question and to present It is simply a confes the weakuness of the Canadian It is admis #lon that there i« no case go far as Can ada s concerned. It is an unpleasant fact that American newspapers lave spproved the protest of the Cana dian govermment against Mr. Lodge and Mr Turner, but it may confidently be asstmed that this will heve no effect upon Prestdent Roosevelt. He has ap- polnted those gentlemen with a full re alization of theh for ' the duty and they the com 1ission if they themselves de eline ar: therefore competent with conpleteness slon of contention. virtually an some capabilities will serve on do not CONTROL OVER COMMERCE. The decision of the supreme court of the United States in the lottery cases 18 of the greatest importance, The scope of its effect will not be readily understood, but it is very great and in order to a proper understanding of It the character of the cases decided must Le known.. These lottory cases involve peculiar questions, In the first place there was the novel proposition that a person taking a lottery ticket from one state to another was engaged in a com wercial transaction and stibject to the power contro! and werce, This susteived by the | court. In the second place the propo- | sitfon, was made that the power of con- | gress to regulate interstate commerce is | 0 nearly unlimited that it can be ap- | plied to anything, regardless of the rights of the states, This latter is really the important fact in the decision. It means that the au- thority of congress, under the constitu- tional provision relating to interstate commerce, is practically unlimited, so that congress can exclude from com- marce among the states and with for- eign nations whatever it may think proper. It follows absolutely that con- gress can control without restraint the entire commerce of the country, except that which is within the states, and it I8 needless to say that this is not very great. In other words, the great bulk of our domestic commerce, estimated to amount to more than two thousand mil- lions of dollars a year, ls absolutely subject to the control of congress. That is the inevitable conclusion from the decision of the supreme court of the United States in the lottery cases and it opens up a new and much enlarged view of the power and authority of con- gress in regard to interstate commerce. In fagt it removes all limitations from that “ power and makes it absolute. Whether or not this is desirable is a question, but the framers of the con- stitution probably meant just what the supreme court of the United States has decided. The states are not deprived of their rights in regard to corporations. They can continue to create corpora- tions and regulate their conduct within their own boundaries, as they have been doing, but when those corporations step over the state lines and undertake to do business in other states, no matter what that business may be, they be- come subject to natlonal supervision. The importance of this decision of the highest judicial tribunal it would not be possible to exaggerate, —— Members of the council who voted to submit the open door power and light franchise to the vote of the people at the coming election are slmply playing ostrich. Everybody in the community knows that the open door scheme was concocted by the manager of the Thomson-Houston Eleetric Light com- pany to head off competition. Nobody knows better than the astute manager of the electric lighting company that capitalists will not venture to invest money in an enterprise that can be raided by anybody who may see fit to | threaten a competing power canal. The submission of the ordinance is an Insult to the intelligence of the community and emphasizes the popular demand for municipal ownership that will put an end to corporation misrule in mu- nicipal government. CONGRESS' was to theref of congress regulate interstate was com- An effort will be made at the World's Congress of Science and Arts, to be held In conjunction with the Louislana Pur- chase exposition at St. Louls, to outdo everything of the kind that has gone be- fore. Each successive congress of this kind becomes more comprehensive be- cause the fleld of science and art fs stead!ly widening. If the congress at §t. Louls dealt only with developments that have come since the great con- gress In connection with the Chicago World's fair it would still have an im- mense scope. By conforming to the water works purchase law that repeals the section of the charter authorizing the levy of a water tax, the council has been able to reduce the levy for 1903 to $% mills. But while this low assess- ment will afford some relief to taxpay- ers this vear, it is sure to give them a double dose of taxes next year, when the water rent has been converted into a Judgment against the city that will have to be paid with 7 per cent interest added. new The Bartley bondsmen are liberal. They offer to pay the costs of the suits instituted to secure judgment on the forfeited bond. Except for this gen- erosity the taxpayers of Nebraska might have to pay the costs in addition to losing the stolen money which the bondsmen undertook to make good. —r———— gentlewen is incapable of being con- viceed if the Canadian government or its representatives on the commission to . terpret the treaty between Russia and Great Biitain‘are able fo show that the slon was promised to the promoters In the lobby for her late royal highness. The clause requires the warrant to be drawn and paid to the queen in person, but there is nothing to prevent her be fug liberal with her attorneys and agents after she gets the proceeds in cash, The suspension from the New York Stock exchange of the man supposed to have been the author and instigate the legal attacks on the Northern Pa- fic rallway merger Is doubtless in tended to be an object lesson for those whe might be tempted likewise to intec- fere with the plans of the great trust magnates, With a penalty like this in- flicted without any way open for re dress stock broker are ruoved to he wore careful in the future The fusionlst lawmakers are still looking for a leader who has the cour- age and integrity to stand up for what 1s right and oppose whatever may be wrong regardless of political conse- quences. The democrats and popullsts of Nebraska have been scouring the woods for just such a man for, lo, these many months, Where Smoot is “At Home." Baltimore American. The daring of Reed Smoot can only be appreciated when it is mentioned that his arrival at Washington was coincident with the convening of several woman's conventions. Working Overtime. Wasbington Post. By devoting Sundays to the eulogles on the dead, the gentlemen in congress are showing a disposition to work overtime which will sooner or later attract the at- tention of the legislature walking dele- gates. It's & Way We Have. 8t. Louls Post-Dispatch. An Inspired Austrian newspaper remarks that the United States has gained ‘‘great political success in the Venezuelan trouble.” Did you ever kmow the United States to gain anything but success when it buckled down to business? The Discrimin Henthen. Buffalo Express. The representative of a Korean firm has just arrived in the United States for the purpose of placing an order for a large stock of idols. This, undoubtedly, means that the Koreans believe American-made idols can do more and better work than those of any other mak Appr 8t. Louls Republic. It dreams of the sclentists should ever be realized death will become only a mem- | ory or a superstition, In order to live forever it will only be necessary to keep formalin -and salicylic solution in the house and have a surgeon in the neighborhood, so that operations for; appendicitis may performed on demand. It will.then be to the rallways to make this world Elysium, Protect A conference agicement has been reached at Washington' and accepted by the house on the bill to protect the president, vice president and oficérs in line of succession. The death:penals is provided for actual assassination{ deafl or tmprisonment for at least ten yeats 'will fall to one who attempts to kill. Protectidh is extended to ambadsadors or ministers accredited to this government. Penalties are provided for teaching the “duty of necessity of as- sassination. A speclal section prohibits the entry of apcsties of anarchy by vio- lence, or the naturalization of such aposties as may be found here. The bill should become a law without furtber delay. The Typewriter Trust. New York Pre: The Typewriter trust has maintained prices a long time, and it is sald that Tim Woodruff is no trust buster. No hope, therefore, since he has been elected presi- dent of a big company. The same old song ~$100. Manufacturers tell me that while it may not cost more than $14 to $19 to con- struct a machine, it costs $20 to sell it, Even at $39 here is an enormous margin for profit. Great fortunes have been made in | the business and greater ones are yet to be | made. One company two years ago Jye- | celved an offer of $1,000,000 to sell out to | the trust and refused. It would not sell | today for $2,500,000. If prices were reduced 30 per cent the machines would sell them- | selves, thus doing away with the agent and his commission. The high prices hurt the poor clerk and stenographer, to whom a typewriter is as necessary as a saw 18 to a carpenter. OUTGOING CLASS OF SENATORS Unimportant Changes in Indivi and Pollties. New York Sun, The thirty senators whose terms will ex- pire next week were elected on or before 1897, and their terms began on March 4, 1897, which was the date of (h_e first in- auguration of President McKinley. The six years intervening between 1897 and 1903 have been even more remarkable for sweep- ing political and economic changes than the coresponding period between 1891 and 1897, and the changes in senate member- ship, confidently predicted as likely to oc- cur this year, were expected to make seri- ous alterations in party membership Politically, these chabges have turned out unimportant. A majority of the present senators have been re-elected. In Wiscon- sin, Jobn C. Spoomer; in Indiana, Charles W. Fairbanks; in Ohlo, J. B. Foraker; in Connecticut, Orville H. Platt; in lowa, William B. Allison; in Colorado, Henry M Teller; in New York, Thomas C. Platt; in Alabama, E. W. Pettus, and in California, George C. Perkins have been re-elected The other states which have re-elected their senators are Pennsylvania, Mr. Pen- rose; Georgia, Mr. Clay; Louisiana, Mr. Mc- Enery; South Dakota, Mr. Kittridge; Ver- mont, Mr. Dillingham: New Hampshire, Mr. Gallinger, and North Dakota, Mr. Hans- brough. The Florida legislature is com- mitted by the vote at the democratic party primary of July to the re-election of Sena- tor Mallory. He had no opposition. In seventeen of the thirty states which 'will have senatorial vacancies through the expiration of the term of the incumbents on March 3, the present senators have been or will be re-elected. In the eight states, namely, Kentucky, Kansas, Idaho, Nevada, North Carolin Utah, Maryland and Washington, the legl latures to fill vacancies were, or are, of different politics than those of the retiring senators. In five states only has there been a change of individuals without a change of parties, Senator Jones of Arkansas and Mason of 11l{nols being tWo of tne senators who have as successors men of their own party, Clarke and Hopkins respectively. The three other states are Missouri, South It is noted that Queen Lil has landed with an item for $200,000 in the sundry civil bill as reported by the senate com- mittee on -wwpflguon. No statement accompanles telllng how much commis- L] Carolina and Oregon The election in Oregon of Charles W. Ful- ton, an Ohlo man now resident at Astoris, leaves Delaware as the only state the sen: torial representation of which s unde- termined. of | | appreciated BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketehed | on the Spot. | Colonel John P. Irish of Towa and Cali- fornia, formerly an honored member of the Jacksonian club of Omaha, is down in Washington looking after his job as naval officer of the port of San Francisco. Cali- fornia senators have been unable to classify the politics of Mr. Irish and delicately Inti= mated to him that his resignation would be Mr. Irlsh responded with equal graciousnes expressed tender solicl- tude for the health of the semators and their families, and informed the anxious statesmen that the climate of California sulted him to a dot. Notwithstanding these assurances of distinguished consideration Mr. Irish hiked to Washington to “view the prospect o'er” and examine the extent of the senatorial pull. He s sald to have the backing of Senators Allison and Dolli- ver and stands in with President Roosevelt. With possession and such a three-cornered pull back of it, the Callfornians have a harder task on hand than the Jacksonians of Omaha encountered in wiping his name off the slate. Colonel Trish enjoys a political fight. He i a man of wit and eloquence and has a voice of thunder. In a San Francisco con- vention at one time he was pushing a measure which awakened some bitter oppo- sition. His opponents began to hiss, where- upon his followers shouted rebuke. “Sflence!" commanded Irish to his oco- horte. “I have always stood for absolute Iberty of expression. I belleve that all persons and creatures should be permitted to volce thelr feelings according to their endowments. There are two animals that hiss—the snake, out of Instinctive venom, and the goose, out of its natural stupldity.” And then he added, turning to his disturb- ers: “Gentlemen, if hissing be the ordained method for expression of your sentiments, continue to hiss.” A At this the opposition gave way to ap- Dplause. Thirty-elght years after the civil war, says the Washington Post, there are four- teen men in the United States senate who served in the confederate army and thir- teen who served in the federal army dur- ing that great struggle. There are two others who took an active part in.the civil war, Senator Alllson of Iowa, who was an ald on the governor's staff and assisted In the organization of the Iowa troop: Benator Vest, who represented Missouri in the confederate senate. The senators who served In the unlon army are: Hawley, Connecticut; Burrows and Alger, Michigan; Nelson, Minnesota; Foraker and Hanna, Ohlo; Quay, Pennsylvania; Proctor, Ver- mont; Elkins and Scott, West Virginia; Spooner and Quarles, Wisconsin, and War- ren, Wyoming. Those who served in the confederate army are: Morgan and Pettus, Jones and Berry, Arkansas; Mal- and Tallaferro, Florida; Bacon, Geor- Harris, Kans: Blackburn, Kentucky: McEnery, Louisian: Money and McLaurin, Mi ppl; Cockrell, Missouri; Bate, Ten- messee, ana Danlel, Virginia. While a number of men in the last st are well advanced in years, yet there is quite a number of comparatively young men who | entered the army when boys of 16 to 18. In the case of union officers who are now senators, most of them quite young when they entered the sfF¥ice. 1f all the men of the senate whb Were soldiers on one side or the other during the civil war were gathered In a room, it would be notlded that with few exceptions only a few could be called old men, while several senators would be In a class of compara- tively young men. One senator, Pettus of Alabama, served in both the Mexican and clvil wars. A recent interchange of fire between Colonel Hepburn of Towa and General Gros: venor of Ohio on the floor of the house: “General Grosvenor—The gentleman from Towa does not belleve that any public man was ever sincere or honest in his advocacy of a proposition and always looks around for a selfish motive. That is because the gentleman himselt has no other standard of morality that that. Colonel Hepburn—I draw the line somewhere; I draw it at Ohio people. 1 do not propose to hold IhnI gentleman from Ohle responsible for what he h id. I recognize the fact that I elf am getting old and that some day I will be senile.” Mrs. Cortelyou, wife of the secreary of | commerce, was asked at a reception given by Mrs. Depew bow she liked her part in | official life. ¢ My part Goes not amount to much,” she said, “and I do not like the official lite of | my husband. The best position he ever | had was just after we were married, when | he was a clerk in the Postofiice department. | He went to work at 9 and quit at 4. T knew | him pretty well then. Since he has been at the White House he goes to his office #oon after breakfast. If he comes home to | luncheon at all it is In a great hurry, and | when he comes home to dinner it is very | late. At 10 o'clock he’returns to the White House and frequently remains until after | midnight. The children hardly know him by sight. This was before he became a cabinet offi- cer. Now he will have the conventional hours of the department employe, which extend from 9 until 4, with a little addi- tion to the latter hour to give time for slgning letters. The district commissioners have had a | good deal of fun over a suggestion that regard to a new hotel for Washington. As an evidence of good falth the writer sent his photograph, and In order that his idea should not be lost entirely he duplicated his communication to the president. The suggestion is that the government erect a national hotel in Washington, to cover a whole block, and with each side 80 constructed of red, white and blue bricks to look like a huge national flag. To increase the realism of the scheme, the au- thor proposes that the outline as shown in brick should be wavy, as If the fl were tossed in the breeze. Senator Hanna was recently entertaining some friends in the marble voom at Wash- ington when it occurred to him that he had been a long time absent from the sen- ate chamber. “I must see what |s going on | inside,” he explained, and hobbled to the door. Senator Béveridge was speaking on the statehood bill and the Uhlo senator smiled and remarked as he returned to | his friends t's all right, the Wabash | 1s still overflowing its banks." [ Half a dozen congressmen were in the | democratic cloak room, the talk being of strange bequests. Cougressman Fitzger- ald sald the oddest he ever heard of was that left by & Brooklyn man to an orphan asylum. “What 1t? asked Congres man Ryan. “Ten children,” replied Fitz- gerald. Then they all went to luncheon and Ryan took the check Thelr Pamilies. Boston Herald. Incidentally, President Roosevelt reflects on his illustrious predecessors when be invelghs against small famill They have left either 00 families or small ones. Of the twenty-fve men who have held this post in 114 years, ten have today nmo de- scendants, and of them all the Adams line is the ouly prolific ope. And yet all our presidents were married men except Buchasan \ ~ | troops to the Balkans. THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE CANADA FILES A KICK, Philadelphia Press: The Canadians are sald to have protested tfithe British ernment against the appntment of Sen tors Lodge and Turner 48 the commission to investigate the Ala boundary. This is & strange proceeding. The Canadlans have set up a claim without warrant, and row want apparently to fix up the American commission to decide on the clajm. New York Sun: We understand that C nadian objection to Senator Loage and Sen- ator Turmer as members of the Alaska Boundary commission rests solely upon the fact that these statesmen are supposed to belleve at present in the soundness of the American case. It would be strange if the fact were otherwise. It would be equally strange it our friends in the Dominion, should now be heard demanding that the' three commissioners representing the Brit- 1sh government be’Canadians or English- men who have abglutely no opinions on the subject. Philadelphid Ledger: While It.l{nn! clear how such a protest can be maintained, the grounds of objection are easily unde stood. Senator Turner, in particular, has been rather offensive in his denuneiation of the Canadian clalms, and neither senator belonga to that class of “furists presumably contemplated by the treaty whose dispasaionate consideration of the evi- dence before them would carry conviction to the impartial mind. Mr. Root will prob- ably have to do the work and the senators will wave the flag. With a Canadian tory or fwo en the other side, the proceedings of the joint commission will at least be In- teresiing, even it not conclusive. Montreal Gazette: Washington dispatches indicate that the United States members of the commission on . the 'Alaskan boundary dispute will be Mrs'Root, the secretary of war, with Mr. Ledge, a' senator from Massachusetts, and® Mr; Turner, a from the state of ington. Mr. Root 1s an astute lawyer, Bourd By his position to. give up nothing. Mr. Lodge 15 a jingo New Englander, who wjuldgive up nothing in any case. Mr. er represents s com- munify Interested® In Alaskan tradls, who would probably déstroy his politieal future it he consented to a retreat from the ex- tremist contention of his eountry. They represent tie take part of the combina-| tion. If there is any give it will be on the British side. PERSONAL NOTES, President Roosevelt easily surpasses all tormer presidents in the matter of a family turn-out. President Mitchell of the miners’ union refuses to lecture. He seems to have the singular notion that his time belengs to his employers. Booker T. Washington's advice to the col- ored race is to buy land, ralse crops and ave money. This kind of advice 18 equally good for whites as well as blacks. The - sultan is preparing to transport He should remem- ber the maneuvers of the king of France and his 20,000 men on a memorable occa- slon. ; Previous to his death, which occurred last week, Policeman G. W. MeNally of Phila- delphia obtained trom his wife a promi that she would keep his body in the house ten days without burial, mourning his loss meanwhile. Mrs. McNally fs religlously keeping her promise. With the probably uorivaled record of having traveled 1,600,000 miles, Jacob M. Zebley will be placed on the pemsion roll of the Pennsylvania rallroad on March 1, after fifty-six years of continuous service as baggage master. Zebley, who is 70 years 0ld, began his career on the railroad in 1847. Several of those formerly classed as “en- ergetic’ business men of St. Louls” just find the local atmosphere dangerous to thefr health and are responding to hurried calls to move to more congenial climate. | The activity of the grand jury in probing | comes all the way from Kalispel, Mont., in | into fake corporations accelerates the pace out of town. Mrs. W. H. Bradley, the chief actress in a sensational deathbed marriage ceremony at Milwaukee, by which she became the | wite of the eccentric capitalist whose name she now bears, has been awarded $500 a month pending the settlement of disputes over her husband's estate. The property left by deceased 1s appraised at §700,000. C. S. Darrow was lately announced as a candldate for mayor of Chicago on account of his champlonship of libor unionism and hie leanings toward socialism and Henry Georgeism. In order to head him off Mayer Harrison is sald to have made an alliance | with Willlam R. Hearst, with which Hearst will help Harrison to & fourth tegm, and Harrison will back Hearst's ambitions In uational politics, whatever they may be. Judge Shiras, who bas just retired as a justice of the supreme court, gaina $2.600 a year by the passage of the bill Increasing the salaries of the members of that tribunal. He wished to retire some months ago, but the death of Justice Gray delayed the acceptance of his resignation: Mean- time the increase of salary became effoctive and he. will recelve $12,600 a year during the remainder of his life. The New Orleans Picayune lovisg cup, which is annually awardeéd through® the New Orleans Progressive union for the most meritorious public benefaction tn that city during the year, has beet given for 1902 to Mr. Isidore Newman, head of the banking firm of Isidore Newiman, sr., & Sons, because of his donation of a ma training school to the Jewish Orphans' Home. The amount .he gave was about $40,000. His other public benefits to the city have been many and genero in _accordance PASSING PLEASANTRIES, Do Jou keep rubber hose? “Well, madam, we have some in light red and green which are almost sure to attract attention."—Princeton Tiger. Dusty Daniel—Please, sir, will you lend me a dime to get something to eat? Swell—Why, you've got a quarter i your xul;m now! «'lnn_nl-m-x tor? usty Danlel—That's (o $ip the waiter.— Boston Globe. § ' “You think I make some pretty bad breaks, don't you, Fred? ukeapth:’mn. wife. m&ci “Yes. dear,” replied the husband, “but they're not like the breaks used to make."—Yonkers Statesman. An Episcopal clergyman of nat! was ViR thaves by & RaTBeE Whe ol Addigted to occasional sprees. The razor manipu- tng:‘ cut the parson’s face quitd comsid- ly. ‘You see, Jackson, that comes frot) tak- ing too much drink,” said the man of ‘G Yo h, t makes de lied Jackson, sah. It do for a faok.''— Smith-o youre golng to from Dinah?” On what gtoun Rastus—Incombustibliity of suh! In other words, Dinah hot foh me.—New York Times. ‘They're after you," sald the firsf dog, nd they're going to shoot you for biting that bank cashier.” 1 _know,” replied the alleged mad dog, “and I'm trying to lay low in the hope that they'll examine his accounts and find some extenuating circumstancs ~Phila- delphia Press. ‘mperature, make it £oo “South America {s ahead of all the rest of ' sald the boastful patriot. quite see the justice of 80 broad The rest of the earth claims oply one revolution & day. and it's nothing upusual to Ting up five or six before break- —Washington Star. Aoy They thought he was dead, ybu and all the papers printed obituary notices, 'And then?" AP , then he turned up, and aince he's se notices he's too proud to speak to anyone."—Chicago Post. SINCE WE GOT THE MORTGAGE PAID R. F. Greene in Wall Street Journal. We've done a lot of scrimpin’ an’ lvin' hand-to-mouth, We've dreaded, too, wet weather an’ we've worrled over drouth, For the thing kept drawin' int'rest, whether crops were good or bad, An’ raisin’ much or little, scemed it swal- lowed all we had. ‘The women folks were savin' an’ there aln't a bit of doubt But that things they really needed lots of times they done without, Bo we're breathin’ somewhat easy, an’ we're feelin' less afraid Ot Providence's workin's, since we got the mortgage pald. 1 wish I'd kept a record of the things that mortgage ate, In principal an' 'Int'rest from beginnin' down to date!— A hundred dozen chickens, likely fowls with yellow legs, A thousand pounds of butter, an’ twelve hundred dozen eggs, Bome four or five good wheat crops and at least one crop of corn, An’ oats an’ rye—it swallowed n its life time sure’s your born, Besides the work an’' worry, ere its appe- tite was stayed! 8o we're feclin' more contented since we got the mortgage pald. Know, urgent, an’ we'll ‘We've reached the point, I reckon, where we've got a right to rest, An’ loaf aroun’, an' visit, wear our go-to- meetin’ be Neglectin' nothin' understand, about the place, But simply slowin’ down by bits an’ restin’ in the race! In time Il get the windmill T've been wantin’, T suppose; The girls cin have their organ, all wear better clothes For we've always pulled fogether, while we've saved an' scrimped an’ prayed, An’ it soems there's more to work for since we got the mortgage paid. $3.50 and $4.00 That’ what you can buy Odd Suit Trou- sers for now, that are worth up fo $6. Rizes 86 to 42 waists. NO OLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS.