Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 16, 1903, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY MARCH 16 1903, e e e e e THE OMAHA DALY BEE B, ROSEWATER, EDITUR BLISHED MORNIN EVERY TERMS Daily Pas (wigho Dally Bes and Sunday, OF Ll ustrated, Hee Year Sunday Pas, Une Year Fi r U RS A RIPTION One Toar A0 | Year & | b1 por_week per week 5t Sunday), per week 8 & Sunday), per 10 shouid be addres De partme , ES OmahaThe Bes Bullding Houth Omaha—City Hall Bullding, and M Htreets 1| Bigfts—i0 Pear Ago— 100 Unity Filal w Tork—28 Park Row Bullding Washington—#1 Fourternth Street CORRESPONDENCE wieations relating to newa an soer 83 fronsed: Om express or postal order, | » Pubilshing Company. | accepted In payment of | mal checka, except o | exchanges, not acespted. : PUBLISHING COMPANY Remit by 4raf: ayabia 1o Inly 2-c mall ace Omaha o THE STATHMENT OF CIRCULATION. tata of Nebraska, Douglas County, as Gergn B Taachuck, secratary of The Bes Company, being duly SwWorn, the actual_number of gull and mplets copies of The Dally, Morning. ering and Sunday Bee printed during ths s Fébruary, 198, was as follows 20,160 15.. 18 in. 1. .. ‘31,320 2 30,570 Total Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales - Net average sales........ GEORGE. K. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to vefore me (his 28th day of February, 4. D. 1903, M. B HUNGATE, (Heal )y Notary Publle. ————— The people of Nebraska bave asked for bread, and the legislature responds by a shower of stones. — Up to date the work of the Omaha delegation to the legislature may be summarized principally as an effort to “get even.” —— When councilmen whe ate up for re- election begin to explaln thefr record it | that any amendment which may be pro- | | ready som | politicians ebject to may be taken for granted that their record needs explaining. — Nebraska Bryanites will have to be less nolsy in protesting their fealty to Bryan or the reorganizers down east will think they really have them scared. — The public library board evinces a disposition to cut Its garment to'fit the cloth furnished it by the city council. Other branches of the city government will do well to emulate thg example. P Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago has carrled the democratic primaries there for his candidacy for a fourth term practicalty without opposition. The Chi- cago republican battle cry is “Three times and out!” e—— If the rallroads of Nebraska have heen paying all the taxes they ought to pay, what need of revenue revision at all? Certalnly the farmers, business men and small home owners bave been paying all that is due from them. ————— Omaha was greatly disappointed last fall in not belng able to entertain Pres- tdent Roosevelt, but it will try to maka up for lost time with a warmth of cor- diality If the president puts Omuba on his itinerary for his forthcoming spring tour. —— The Torrens land title project, to ex- ploit which Nebraska paid the bill for a special junketing commission, seems to have been lost in the shuffie. Even the commissioners seem to have lost interest in it since they cashed in thelr puy checks, . —— - 3 Discoveries have been made In Ni braska rom time to time of coal mines as well as gold mines, of smokfng vol- oes a8 well as spouting ofl wells, but up to date the best paylng Nebraska mine 1s the one that plants the yellow corn In the spring and gathers In the wolden ears in the fall Ep—— It's only a question of time till the governments of Omaha, South Omaha and Douglas county will be merged In part If not in whole, There is no ne- cessity of wasting the taxpayers' money In maintaining duplicate offices that can be more efMciently managed under one head. When the taxpayers fufly realize what the cost of separate machinery of government is, they will unite force a demand for consolidation. ——— Early in the prellminary campalgn for the congressional pomination last year The Bee declared In so many words that David H. Mercer was demanding a renomination pot with any hope or ex- pectation of being elected, but for the purpose of using the prestige so gotten as the basls of a elaim to federal ap- polntment atter his defeat. The course of Mr. Mercer could not have been o aceurntely vutlined. to en- There Is not a city nor town in Ne- braska that Is not belng cheated out of taxes It sbould have from the rallroads by the ‘pretended distribution of term Inal valpes. The people of the Interlor towns are beginning to have thelr eyes openedl; AM they have to do to convince themsélyes that the so-called “Omaha schewg” I as much for their benefit as for the benefit of Omaha is to look up the fuets and figures bearing on thalr own logal situation, and to remember that every doller of municipal taxes evaded by the raflroads must be pald by the ewuers of the other property in the towR, . TREATY PROSPECTS By agreement made In the senate last week the treaty with Colombia will be voted on tomorrow and there appears to be no doubt of it ratifieation. Today amendments that may be oftered wii be comwide red and a llmit has been piaced time of speeches om amem! After all amendments shall have u the menta. been diapowed of two hours will lowed - for - genefal debate, dfvided | equally between the supporters and op- ponents of the treaty. It Is not probable | posed will be adopted, since that would | be tantamount to an invitation to Col There I8 al- | it that he Colombian vice ombia to reject the treaty opposition to in country. T Is reported as saying that some infterps pres of the station which the United States p upon | certaln terms of the convention, while there is a feeling against this country growing out of the actlon of our gov- ernment In conpection with insurgent hostilities on the Isthmus. In view of this sentiment amendment of the treaty, particnlarly In the matter of more strongly and fully defining American control would be extremely likely to eanse its rejectioa by Colombia. This| being well nnderstood the assurance is that it will be ratified without any change. Consideration of the Cuban reciprocity treaty will promptly follow action on | the canal convention. That treaty has been ratified by the Cuban senate and indications seem to be favorable to 'ts ratification at Wadhington. It is pro- posed to add a provision requiring the approval of the house of representatives before the treaty can take effect, the ground for this being that it is really legislation affecting the tariff and ther- fore eannot be adopted constitutioaslly | without the consent of the house. Should this be done it Is possible that President Roosevelt would call an extra session of the house of representatives. | Tt is the contention of most members of the honse that as to treaties of this| character the approval of that bhody Is necessary, but most senators do not en- dorse this view. However, a concession | inay be made to it In the present case. At all events the prospe:t is that the tustness for which the senate was called fa specinl messlon will soon be dls- posed of. the ces FROM LAKES TO TIDEWATER. The legislature of New York has un- der consideration a bill for canal Im- provement calling for an expenditure of $101,000,000, and its passage is probable. This measure proposes the construction of a waterway connecting the lakes | with th> seaboard which will aecom modate large vessels, or In otier words a ship canal. The subject has been un- der discussion in that state for years. Several million dollars were appropri- ated a few yeurs ago for the Improve- ment of the Erie canal, but what was @one proved of no great value and served to strengthen convietion that nothing short of a ship canal will en- able the port of New York to retain its corumerce. Within the last few years a considerable amount of trade has been diverted from that to other ports and the people .of the state of New York have been forced to realize that some- thing must be done to check this, If It be possible to check it. Referring to the Increase in the ex- ports of leading domestic products for the month of February, which amounted | to more than $20,000,000 over the same | month last year, the New York Journal of Commeérce points out that Baltimore, New Orleans and Galveston shared more largely In this increase than New York. The gain of the Gulf ports has been partly due to congestlon on the rafl> roads to the east, which also donbtless caused some diversion of trade to the Canada route. That paper declares that “nothing can counteract the growiag di- version of the graln traffic to the Gulf and the 8t. Lawrence but an adequat~ waterway from the great lakes to the Hudson river. This would not have di- rect effect In the winter months, but the large provision it would induce for handing export trade wounld tend to hold it the year round. The rallroads would have to keep up their facilities for handling and the L:rminals would help draw the traffic.” Western producers have a very direct interest In the projected ship canal. Its construction would be Important to them beth in the marketing of their products, which has been much delayed the pres- ent season, and In keeping freight charges within reasonable bounds dur- ing a large part of the year. THE PROBLEM CONFRONTING OMARA It is an open secret that almost as many people have moved away from Omaha within the past two years as have located in Omaha during the same period. The most indubitable proof of that fact is furnished by the attendance in our public schools, which Is now practically the same as It was two years ago. A city caunot very long stand still any more than a business house. It elther moves forward or falls backward. Omaha must elther ‘do something de- cisive within the next twelve months to keep up with the procession or prepare for Inevitable reaction and retrogres- slon. This is the situation thut con- fronts it and should be seriously con sldered by every man and woman futer ested In s progress ayd prosperity. Omaha would doubtless be benefited greatly by the construction of suburban electric motor lines over the various roads leading to the villages and towns within & radius of 100 miles, but elec- tric suburban lines will not supply Omaha's greatest want—cheaper power and cheaper fuel, which are so essen tlal to the enlargement of its industrial growth. Steam rallroads and electric rallroads slone do not make a great city. The backbone of great population centers are mills and factories that give steady cuwploywent to working men and worklng women, The great problem ’v).nr Or | tuminous aha must solve in the near fu- Row to increase Its manufactur Ing facilities that will induee eral thousand skilled and unskilled bread winners to locate permanently this While Omaha Is an important dis tributing center and its facilities reaching its trade territory are s surpassed by those western city, Omaha the most essentinl expansion The extra Indianapolis is due t an abundant sapply fuel. supremacy a8 water power ha to fits great flouring mills and reconverted into triefty for illuminating and mant turing purposes. Kansas ( great advantage over Omaha the matter of cheap coal, which is being mined almost in front of its door. What is true of these citles is true of nearly every other growing tewn America whether Inland or on th lantic or Pacific seaboards. Manl Omaha’s future depends npon its abllity to solve the cheap power problem. The opportunity for solving it has been pre sented, but the perverse and supremely selfish interference of corporate inter. ests has blocked the way through the subservieney of members of the ecity conneil, wha refuse to submit the prop osition to the people at the coming elec tion. If these agenctes suceeed the pros. pect of any material improvement In Omaha for the next year or two Is very dublous. tare i, in eity. ely lamentably lacks factor of Industrial cheap power. ral gas and low-priced of of Minneapolis 4al center owes its an indus ac ty enjoys in In At- DISREGARDING THE Law. It appears that for years the southern rallroads have refused to publish their rates on freight shipped to and from th seabonrd. All efforts by the Interstate commission to compel them and these tariffs Commerce to publish have falled. have wufficlent proof that under the cover of this secrecy there Is no end of diserimination in the rates in favor of certaln shippers. The commissioners also say that the secret charges afford a means for exacting unjust rates from shippers in sections of the country where there are limited transportation facilities, but it has never been felt that the law was explicit enough to warrant taking these cases into court. It 1s proposed to Institute proceedings, malntain under the recently enacted law, against | oue of the roads that has ignored past orders ot the commission in regard to g'ving publicity to its rates aad to push the proceedings so that a judiclal de- cixsion may be had as soon as possible. This assurance of aggressive action on the pact of the commission I8 most wel- come and can hardly feil to have good results. It is even probable that the rallroads which have ignored the com- t:isslon’s ciders may see the expedienry of tinmediately complying with them and thereby avold prosecution. Republican members of the legisla- ture who expect to justify themselves with the people in voting against the taxation of rallroads in proportion to the known value of their tangible prop- erty and franchises because the fusfon- ists in the legislature are voting for such taxation will discover before they are much older that their course will not meet with the approval of the repub- lican rank and file. If every democrat and populist in the legislature should vote for any measure that is right and just. the republicans cannot afford to vote agalnst it merely because the dem- ocrats or populists vote for it. As a matter of fact the people of Nebraska regardless of party are a unit in favor of equitable raflroad taxation just as the rallroads are a unit in favor of the undervaluation of their property. e Journalistic mind-readers are com- mon, but it has remalned for a Lincoln newspaper to produce a journalistic sec- ond-«ight medium. To make his de- scription of the legal execution at the state prison Friday more graphie, the reporter undertakes to tell how the murderer would have looked In the final moments had the black cap been re- moved and his features exposed to view To quote a bit of his fantastic language: The point of the cap rested jauntily on one side, the head was twisted by the fatal knot until it turved upward at an ua- natural angle like that of a deformed dwart making a sickly grimace for the pleasure of & company. The cap added to the clown- feh posture and covered what ome might {magine to be the grin of a murderer who thogit he had cheated death, Lincoln certainly offers too small a fleld for this journalistie prodigy. When young Mr. Morsman was a can- didate for the legislature he took pains to assure the friends of equitable taxa- tion that, barriug Lis known relations to the telephone company, he would enter the legislature absolutely free from all obligations to and entanglements with the rallroads or any other corporations. Yet Mr. Morsman made a speech in favor of the Thompson amendment to the revenue bill, and his declaration that the railroads bave paid more than thelr share of taxes during the past ten years would seem to contradict Mr, Morsman's ante-election pledges. This 18 only another case of before taking and after taking. It emphasizes the fact that it_is not safe to send a cor poration lawyer to the legislature make laws for the people. —— Omaba gets an increase In clerical force at the postoffice as well as promo- tion of some of its clerks as a result of the rearrangement under the new post office appropriation. Defects in local service have been charged up to inade quate office help, andhe patrons ought therefore to share in the benefits of the improved conditions, The Nebraska house of representa tives 1s mad® up of 100 members and 51 members constitute a working ma- Jority, This explains why just 51 votes for | of any other inland | bi- | tly | " | The ¢ommission claims to [ were pionked down for the railroad | company amendment to the revenue | btil. Joha N. Baldwin may be reckless in his distribution of passes; he may | be profuse with rafnbow promises of | beflliant political futures; he may be extravagant in his expenditure for leg tslative Tefreshments, but Jobn N. Bald win does not waste any substance on men he does not need. Just 51 is what he wanted and he had them Eepp— The sction of the Treasury depart- ment dispensing with the women spectors recently attached to the imm! gration burean may be expected to aruse a vigorouws protest from the woman suffrage agitators, who will in sist that the women would have been retained on the payrell If they only had | votes to contribute to the support of po- litical parties. No matter what repre | sentations may be made that the work | | of inspection is net sultable for women or that the women Inspectors have not given satisfactory service, it will make | no difference | m—————_————— | Down in Missourt a special grand jury | will investigate the charges of attempted | | bribery in the legislature. The usual | | system of tracing down such charges Is | through a legisiative investigating com | mittee. which seldom finds any diffi- | eulty in awarding ftsef a clean bill of | | health. Whpther an inquiry by a grand | | Jury composed of men who are mot| | members of the legislature will be any | | more eftective remains to n Should grand jury sessions on legisla | tive bribery produce tangible results in | Missouri other states may acquire the | habit. be s Canse and Effect. 8t. Louls Globe-Democrat The American ice trust lost money last year. Probably it had too much watered stock. | —_— | Forbearance Apprec Chicago Tribune. With a forbearance worthy of all praise the Missouri river has refrained thus far | from butting in. | Remains Wide Open. Philadelphia North Amerfcan It may be that the national sénate will | change the rules to Mmft debate. The | shutting of the mouth there has been an open question for years. —_— Any 014 Job Goe Boston Transcript. Six good men have turned up at Wash- iogten who are willing to catch snakes for the government at fifty the momth. Now | this seems absurdly fnadequate compensa- tion, considering the risks of the occupa- tion; why, it is hardly eufficient to man in snake-bite cure. Tempting an Parly Frost. Cincinnati Enquirer. Judge Parker's boam is in danger of getting out of breath before it reaches the last lap. The papers are printing pic- tures of the members of the judge's fam- fly. This is en extremely advanced stage of the presidentiai-vegetation and there is lability to maxny frosts between now and the summer of 1%04. of Hallroad C. Springfieid. Republigan. The Pennsylvania. Rallroad company, with its authorized additlon of $150,000,000 to an existing capital stock of $250,000,000, is certalnly a great corporation—great enough to have caused world-wide remark three or | four years ago. But the existence of the United States Steel corporation, with its stock capital of over $1,000,000,000, still | keeps the Pennsylvania corporation in a | secondary place, notwithstanding it pres- | ent rapid expansion and vastly expensive | schemes of improvement which have been planned. In extent of mileage, as well as | in magnitude of trafic, the Pennsylvania continues to be the first of railroad cor- porations; but the Rock Island company is in the way of surpassing it in point of mileage. With the projected acquisition of the St. Louls & San Francisco, with nearly 5,000 miles of road, the gock Island com- pany will control something like 18,000 miles. PERSONAL NOTES. One of New York's get-rich-quickers will now have a year In prison to think up new schemes to make people think he can show them how they can live without working. President MacLegn of the State univer- sity of lowa, when in Washington during the holidays, extended an invitation to Senator Hoar of Massachusetts to deliver the commencement address at the univer- sity. The senator recently accepted this invitation. Parke Godwin, the veteran editor, a son-in-law of William Cullen Bryant, has just celebrated his eighty-seventh birthday. He resides the greater part of the year at the former home of the poet, Roslyn, Long Island. Still disbursing the wealth of, the late Dr. Thomas W. Eyans! The celebrated American dentlet appears to have left al- most a8 much gold to his heirs as in the course of his busy professional experience he ever packed Into the teeth of royalty. Senator Depew s now more firmly es- tablished than ever in his right to be called “silver-tongued.” Capitalists who heard the senator tell at a dinner of a miner who asked him to “grub-stake” a claim in California took the tip and in- vested. The claim has just been sold fof $1,600,000. Next in size to New Hampshire's leglsla- ture, which has 417 members, is Connecti- cut's, with 279, The Massachusetts legisla- ture has 277 memberw, Georgia 219 and Illi- nois 201. The pay of members of the New Hampshire legislaturo is $200 & year, ex- clusive of mileage, and $3 a day for attend- ance at a special session, the limit of which is Ofteen days. The owners of 35000 tons of anthracite coal, tled up in the Erie basin in New York, tried to sell it at $4.50 per top on Satur- day, and were unable to do so. All this coal 1s sald to have cost the buyers between $9 and $10 per ton and a single firm Is sald to have lost $100,000 In its attempt to fleece the public during the past winter. Soon after her marriage to Napoleon II1 Emprees Bugenle began to collect and file important letters from soverelgns, states men, soldiers and other men of note. She aleo gathered a great many souvenirs of Marle Antolnette. Before the siege of Paris she had much of this property sent out of France and now has in her posses slon materfals for many Interesting vol- umes of Inside court history. Twenty-six German titles are worn by American girls who have married abroad and twenty English peerages. There are and | wails and a rolt in-| | haa sold three French duchesses and five French countesses of American birth. Seventeen Italian noblemen and six “Russians of title” have laid their coronets at the feet of American brides. Holland bas two baro- nesses, American born; Bavaria, one coun tess, and the sovereign urincess of Monaco closes the lst. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in th WMetropolis. Marriages performed in the ball of New York in the future are Bave architectural imitation of church-like sur- roundings. Heretoore the cersmony lacked the dignity and solemaity which usually goes with the unlon. The marriage room was commonplace In appearance and equip- ment—bare beuches running arousd the top desk as [ts sole orfia- such unconventional sup- roundings the »ad epoch in human lite was performed, oftentimes witnessed by the mocking habitues of the city hall. A changs for the better has been ordered. In the plans for remodeling the bullding the architect has provided a marriage bureau, ment Amid | whieh will resembie in some degree a ea thedral massive piilars erypt. It 1s have namerous supporting am arched roof, and a raised marble dals. Behind this the wall has been curved so as to resemble the embrasure of A church chancel. And to carry out his idea of supplying a marriage burean which will have to some degree the ppearance of a chapel, it will even have table resembling an altar table placed thin the curved wall at the rear of the | plattorm A mew line of industry has been profit- ably worked by Jacob Hoffman. He could have made a large sum, doubtl # the laws of New York had not been in his way. | He has been interrupted by a three years' term In the state’s prison. Hia specialty was widows who were feel- ing wealthy by the collection of insurance upon the lives of their recent husbands. Jacob had an insinuating way and began the wooing of the woman before he hinted at the monmey. There were twenty-seven of these in the court room om the day he was tried, each ready to tell what she knew. Each of the company glared at the other twenty-six, then they all glared at Hoffman He made acquaintance through a marriage broker, who does a thriving business on the east side. This gentleman keeps books after the manner of a real estate agent. He has bearts, affections, conjugal happi- ness for sale instead of land; that is the only difterence. He is called upon by a man who wants a wite. A bill of particulars is asked for and entered upon his books. A woman desires 1o be mated. What and who shall he be? She describes her ideal. He is entered. In most of these eases one essentlal qualification goes down. The party of the other part must have money, or there can be no trade. A commission Is charged In every ca: Hoffman came back so often that the agent must have suspected something or decided that his clien! was a hard man to suit. In every case he wanted widows. 0 matter what might be the claims of a spinster specified In the books she made no appeal to his fancy. In each of the twenty-six cases he had borrowed money, in greater or lesser sums, from the womao. He finally wooed Mrs. Kummisky, and with such success that he ot into trouble. One day he sald to her: Weill, goodbye. It's to the river I'm going.” 8he urged him and he explained. He was in debt, and unless he paid up he would £0 to Jail. “How much must you bave?" she asked. “Two hundred dollars.” But he compro- mised on $35, and the poor woman pawned some of her furniture to get it for bim. The judge sald he was glad to sentence him. “You are the meanest man ever brought into this court,” he sald. And each of the swindled widows looked as It it would do her heart good to say “Amen!” Two preity girls from Illinois have taken Wall street into camp with the newest get-rich-quick scheme. They hall from Champalgn, but their name is Forest— Marie, aged 18, and Belle, 20. Bright and early on a recent morning they began to canvass the brokers' offices with tickets entitling the bearer to “one shine” at the Eagle Tonsorial Parlor. The street, after it recosered from the shock, fell to this proposition with promptness and assiduity. By closing time Marie and Belle sald they 1,000 tickets, and exhibited the coln in evidence. By this token the wgirls have undertaken to polish 1,000 pulrs of boots, beginning next Monday morning, with their own hands. Wall street went home in some doubt as to whether the shines would really be forthcoming or it had played the come-along to a couple of falr female farmers. The doubt still stands, but, in elther event, Wall street will never squeal, especially as it claims to have had value received for its $100 in the form of a new game imparted by two really pretty girls. Only a few weeks ago, you may remember, a velled woman appeared on the Wall street curb with a shise box and timidly asked for business. But after a few obviously palnful minutes she ylelded to the entreatles of a man and disappeared with him in a cab. It appeared she was only winning a bet. Whether Belle aud Marie got their idea from this incldéht may neve> be known. They say they came here for work, looked In vain for three weeks and then concelved the shine scheme. Also they eay it ls the very best they know, so far. The courts of New York have bravely taken up a question too long left unset- tled, and in their conclusions, the gentle- men of the mortuary trade do not have the better of it. The question is: How much has an undertaker, who has been told in a general way to go ahead and “do the proper thing,” a right to charge for his services? The judge who has gone over a bill, cut out 325 the undertaker had charged for his own attendance. The reason was that the party to whom the services were rendered should not be made to pay a business man for running his own business The next ftem was a charge of $25 for flowers or- dered by a friend of the deceased. The court held that if this friend wished to send flowers, she should pay for them. Nor did the judge consent to $10 for the use of a casket which the undertaker had brought along and laid down by the grave. It w not meeded in the first place, and in the second the charge was excessive MYSTERIOUS COAL SURPLUS, Sudden Uncovering of Vast Heaps of Black Diamonds, Philadelphia North American. One of the objections urged by the oper- ators to reduction of the number of hours in @ miner's workday was that the amount of coal mined under the proposed condi- tion would pot be sufficient to supply the market demand. It is but & few weeks since the operators also were denouncing the miners with much virulence for their alleged unwillingness to co-operate in re- lieving the fuel famine and asserting that the shortage of coal was duc mainly to their refusal to work overtime. Now the supply of coal In storage yards is so great that collieries in the Schuyikill reglon are reducing the working time to a three-quarter day. The irresistible infer- ence is that the winter shortage was exa gerated, If not created for the double pur- pose of puuishing the public for sympathis- ing with the strikers and enabling specu- lators in coal to fill thelr own pockets and the coffers of the combine. It is remarkable that a surplus should apoear 8o early in the season as the result of the Tefusal of mine workers to respond to Mitchell's request that they exert them- selves to relleve public distress. THAT BARTLEY CIGAR BOX. Pawaes Pres The Bartley “cigar box™ Is emitting some smoke to the people who want to borréw maeney but not to legielative commit s that want | him to tell where he got it. | Broken Bow Republican: The much talked of**cigar box™ of ex-State Treasurer j Bartiey now under favestigation by & com- mittee of the house at t“is writing has | the appearance of belng a myth } Crete Vidette-Herald: It is pretty late in the day fo ezamine that “clgar box Bartley has been out long emough to bave | “smoked” up the entire contents, and the ‘mv--v."'lun is 80 bazy that it will end ’lfl smoke Nelson Gaszette It doesn’t matter so much who has that historie cigar dox. but the tazpayers of Nebraska are interestel ’ln knowing what became of the money | | sted to Bartley and whether any of | | 1t can be recovered | | Wisner Free Press: The letter of Mr. | Savage in which he stated thdt he would | | show up the comtents of the eigar box | was a joke says his then private secretary The whele political course of the esteemet | governor was & huge jest. Elm Creek Bescon: Now is It possib'e that the pardom of Joseph S. Bartley is | void. The seal on the document 1s not the proper one, and the secretary of state has not signed it. The matted is In charge of | the “eigar box™ committes for investiga- | tion Taylor Clarion: The legislature has ap- pointed a committee to “investigate that Bartley cigar boxr.” Some people are al- | ways wanting to “Investigate™ lflm!!hl.’l!.l | but 1n this case no one will “kick™ provided | they knock the bottom clear out and do a | | good job of cleaning up. But, we opine, | it there (s anything “in it” some one will | wish they were not “In It.”" | Winside Tribune: And mow it is sald there mever was a Bartley cigar box. This will make one Edward Rosewater writhe in agony to think that Savage has mde game of him, but Rosy's misery will be more than offset by the rellef it will give a whole lot of fellows with borrowed atate money who really thought there was a' cigar box lurking around ready to expose them. ' Howell Journal: Ex-State Treasurer | Bartley is sald to be making a good lv- | ing at the present time in loaning money. Ot course it is neediess to say that his capital was stolen from the state. The republican governor who pardoned Bartley said that when he gained his liberty he would at once commence putting back the tunds he had stolen, but up to date he has shown no inclination to do so. Holdrege Citizen: A Bartley investiga- tion committee has been appointed by the | house to find out about the contents of that cigar box we have heard so much about ever since the Baftley defalcation occurred. The people for a long time have wanted to know something about the mystery con- nected with this matter. The investigation mittee is after that matter red hot and ia getting in ehape to find out something. Bartley was very brave a few weeks ago, even deflant. Now he is in Chicago or some other good wheres. And Savage, who sprung the cigar box threat s on the other side of the coptinent. The committee has plenty of witnesses, though, to get many of the facts of the case, perhaps to tho bottom. ‘Wayne Herald: The committee appointed to investigate the Bartley “cigar box" story have discovered that the “cigar box" deal is a myth,. that ‘ the father ot it, claims that he coined the ex- pression when telling the story of check- ing Bartley up. The examination thus far has not disclosed the whereabouts of the lost cash nor the contents of the mythical cigar box. An effort has been made to get Bartley and Savage before the com- mittee, but so far all efforts have been of no avail, Scribner News: A fact emphasized by the attempt to prove the Bartley affair in the legislature this week is that the pardon of the defaulting ex-treasurer was unconsti- tutional, as far as ex-Governor Bavage is concerned. Men throughout. the state who had been his beneficiaries were compelled to chose bDetween the alternative of bring- ing about his release or being exposed. They naturally preferred the former course. Bartley, in keeping affairs in relation to his defalcation a profound secret and slyly evading the lair laid for bim by a legis- lative investigating committee, is merely keeping his end of the bargain. Mead Advocate: Joe Bartley has a little box that's full of stolen “dough,” and every place that Bartley gges that box is sure to go. He takes it when he goes to bed and when he goes to sup, and T don't think that he intends to ever divvy uj For Joe's an awful slippery cuss, a rascal, too, no doubt, and where he keeps that lit- tle box will never be found out. Unless, some day, when conscience smites or death o'er Joseph steals, and he at some un- guarded time its hiding place reveals. That box will never see the light and none will ever know who helped to cover up the steal and shared the swag with Joe. North Platte Tribune: Ex-State Treas- urer Hill appeared before the legislative investigating committee the other day and under oath declared that when he turned the office over to Joe Bartley there were no I. O. U.'s; that the funds were in cash or in the shape of bank deposits. This statement will tend to disprove the theory that prior to Bartley taking the office of treasurer the former treasurers had been passing down from one to another a lot of T may fill a long felt want and it may be a farce. Walt for the outcome with pa- tience. * Elm Creck Beacon: And Bartley—s com- And it sl Just one dose at bedtime, w! will stgp all future trouble. We wish you would ask anything better for colds, ave used Chi Pectoral Ayel know nothing cou(yd be ~ Bartley !s at home | ortolk Press: Joe y | worthless paper, Bad to sufter tor the care 1 in m better for the coughs :m | worthiess paper supposed to represent state funds, and Bartley, Being the end of | the steing when the office passed into the | bands of & treasurer of a Mifte politieal party &nd cowld therefora not the pass on lessness or crime of his predecessors Hill's statement makes it quite plain the detaleations which turned op ac end of Bartley's term wers of his own making, Yt we for one believe that he was the pliant tool of friends whe wanted a whack at the state funds—and got them Chappell Register: It was generalls sup- posed when The Bee waa Agitating the Bartley cigar box investigatien that the favestigation, If ever attempted. would ba a farce and that no good would result to the people of the state. But it begina to Jook now that the committes ‘means buai- fesa, and an investigating fever pervades the capitol. Maserve and Stuefer ate to be called to account for misappreprintion of state funds. Secretary of State Marsh ts asked to explain why he paid mmreason- able prices for supplies and where some of the valuable carpets is that was pur- chased for the state with state money. The populists, not to be outdone, propese to bring impeschment proceedings against ox. Secretary Porter if he does not at 1t back.” A thoreugh sweeping withowt par- tiality to republicam, demoeratlc or pop- ulist cormers would mo doubt loosen up 2 g004 many cobwebs. . Columbus Telegram: The legislature has appointed a special committee to &t the lid on that famows Bartiey “efgar-box which I8 supposed to contaln the due bills of the bankers and politictans who bor rowed state money from ex-Treasurer Bart ley. Bartley and Govermor Savage knew which way the wind was blowihg, Asd both left the state before the date of the meeting of the committee. The investiga- tion will be farcieal, buk 1t should not be s0. The people of the state are entitled to know the names of Bartley's partnars in crime. It is noticeable that some very prominent bankers and polititians are j pow almost sweating coal ofl. so feartl are they that their comnection with th Bartley shortage will be discloséd. Thess men are not all republican politiclans. At least three prominent so-ealled “‘fusionists” are on Uneasy street. A democrafic thiet i& no better than a republican tfef. The Telegram hopes the Imvestigation may bring the names of the thisvés to the surface. We confess there s mot much foundation for the hope. Mr that, the A Combine that Failed Philadelphia Press. The “Elkins law” appears to be a much wiser measure than many of the rallroad managers thought It to be when it passed congress. It has just saved the govern- ment a large sum in the transportation of military and naval parties between Chicage and the Pacific coast. Beford the passage of the bill an agreement of “understand. ing'’” was In process of formation among weastern railroads as to the rates to bu charged the government for this work The Elkins law scared soms of the rail- roads out of the “arrangement,’” and as a result the bifs are away below eflsting prices, less than ome-half. These low bids followed the supreme court decision, which indirectly affirmed the constitutionmality of the law. v PASSING JESTS. The Youth-~You say a terrible trial awaits me. Tell me what it is. ’i‘onllne ‘Teller—Prepare for ‘:1.11 ‘worst, The cards say you marry 33'::‘. cooking school graduate — 0 Ne Esther—I suppose you would eall the Brewsters a perfect natch. They always act ke a pair of lovers. » Cm’lltl.le.—\vly‘h they are quarrelsome e moRy han h.ur. vh:ltme'l . N f: Thal [ “mean.—Bosttn ““The I I live, hed the sage, “and the more I learn the more firmly am [ convinced that I know absolutely nothing." “I could have told you that twenty-five years ago,” sald his wife, “but I knew it would be of no use."—Chicago Tribune. began the young poli- 1 Jove you. I udden,” she exclaimed. “But surely you must have guessed. I haye been calling here so much of late.” “Ah, yes, but since you are a politiclan I thought vour visits’ were ‘without sig- nificance.’ "—Philadelphia Press. “I hope,” sald the girl's mother, after th: young millionaire had deparied. “that you gaye him proper encouragement. ‘(:1. es.” she replied. T told Bim 1 was en, 0 & Man Who was crazy to magy me the minyte got throagh college” — Chicago Rm‘:‘ord-'gm . The old gentleman steadily him. Well.” B saids it 18 eviaent soat. my daughter did not pick you out for your personal attractions. Hemce I must ‘con- aud‘- mu:‘yo:‘ have nn;‘md points at are value. boy, 3 yours—Cleveland Piain Deater. 7 "¢ Mrs. De Style—One of those ¥ ht here this morning had a chlek‘t:.ln bn‘,‘ Grocer—Vell, madam, dit you oxshpeet to find a mocking pird in {t?—New York Sun. She—What would you think of a tax on bachelors? r He—Oh, pshas wedding presents’ SPRING FLOWERS. Martha Day Fenner in The Outlook. The Spring will bring another flower, Yea, one of richer Dame Nature knows no meager dower, When Spring would wed with yoo The garden of your last-year love ilied by droutneand waste Remorse bas set a blight above ‘The gate, then fled in haste. The flower of richer hue will bloom Yea, flaunt its color rare. A _crimson blotch upon the gloom That «vcr lingers tr Your nsi-year love will look and grieve To see the flower apart. Then turn with sient tread and leave The garden of your heart A bl Tivtig 1 i clothes, wet feet, colds, night coughs, the croup—a part of school life. hould be a part of home life to keep on hand a bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. hen the cold is threatened, your doctor if he knows coughs, bronchitis, weak throats and lungs. Taeesses: 25, S, 000 & G AVERCO. Lowell, Mass. for eight years, and | of children."” Mrs. W. H. Brymer, Shelby, Ala.