Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1903, Page 7

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, MARCII 19 1903 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE E, ¥ ATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Bee (without § Daily Be nday, illustrat Une Year Bunday Bee, Une Year aturday Bee, One Year Cwentieth Century Farmer DELIVERED BY paily Bee (without Sur pally Bee witnout Bur ally Bee (neiuaing Bunday Hee, per copy Svening Bee (without Sund Evening bee (ncluding Sunday), per week ... 100 Complainte of irreguidrities in deilvery should be addressed to City Clreulation De- partment. per week 6c C ICE Omaha—The Bee Buflding A South Omaha—City Hall Building, Twen- ty-nfth and M Htre Councll Bluffs—i0 Pearl Street. Chicago—1640 Unity Building New York-— ark Row Bullding. Washington—w1 F rteenth Stree. CORRESPONDEN( g relating to ne and edi- Omaha RE Remit by draft, payable 1o The | Only 2-cent stamps mall_accounts. b Omaha_or eastern exchange THE BEE PUBLISHIN BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, George B, Tzschick, secretary of T Publishing’ Company, being duly says that the actual number of full end complete coples of The Daily, Morning Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tn month of February, 188, was as follows express or postal order, Publishing Company ccepted in payment of sonal checks, except on not aceepted COMPANY Bee sworn, 130,640 (80,640 80870 Total Less unsol: 10. 1. 2. 1, u and returned coples. Net total sales,,. H44,008 Net average sales.. 4 30,145 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in my presence and sworn to betore me this Z5th day of Febru A. D. 1908, M. B. HUNGA (Seal.) Notary Publie. e ——————— The teamsters won out in their Kan- sas City strike. 1n team work, they evi- dently excel. —_— Mayor Moores' veto pen has seen some bard usage, but it has not yet lost its diamond point. It 18 to be noted that the railroads always revise their freight rate sched- ules up—never down, —— To listen to those Interested, an im- perative emergency exists for every bill on the legislative files. Emp—— Is it not about time for the Washing- ton papers to ring off on that “promi- nently mentioned” Nebraskan? For ways that are dark and tricks that are valn the pald corporation lobby- ints at Lincoln beat the heathen Chinee. e ] With & street to-be named for him ‘n the city of Lincoln, Governor Mickey 4 certalnly ¢n the highway to enduring T—— The report of the coal strike commis- dlon {s about to be made public but the uear approach of warm weather has slackened the consumer's interest in it. If the value of an electric light fran- chise pipe-lined through conduits is to be measured by the gross recelpts for one year, why not the same pipe line for water and gas? It's a sorry day when the rallroads have not a good excuse for delayed trains. If it isn't a snow blockade it's a bridge washed away, and in a pinch it's merely too heavy traffic. When King Edward acknowledges that St. Patrick’s day resolution adopted by the upper house of the legislature, how. the hodlu] will turn green with envy. In the protracted game of chess played before the supreme court by Bishop Bonacum and Father Murphy the ordinary rules of the game are re- versed. Pawn takes the bishop. It i8 currently reported that “Our| Dave” is coming back home by the limited to pay Postmaster Etter of South Omabda the $800 he generously borrowed to defray penses. part of his campaign ex- Judging by carnival, the appear to their plans for the next gove disagree with and other “hot time features. in the old town" —— The, rallro: not -be able agree on the meaning of the El%ins law but they have no trouble in agreeing on the meaning of the legal share of taxes. Well defined rumors in circulation on the streets of Seagtle credit ex-Governor with receiving the following Bavage message: Fathar, oh, Father, come home to us now, The clock in the steeple strikes twelve The legislature is about to adjourn And the cigar box is still on the shelf Missouri's leglslative bouse. Nebraska's legislative in gators have not succeeded in ge 225 | e Nebraska other lawmaking nors of Ak-Sar-Ben Governor | Mickey as to the propriety of dancing o loopholes through which they evade their fair investigators bave spccecded In, getting a couple of refractory witnesses in contempt of the CANAL QUESTION DISPUSED OF. The ratification of the treaty with Colombla disposes of the canal ques- tion so far as the United States is con- cerned. The convention has yet to be ratified by the Colombian congress and there Is no doubt that this will be done, although some opposition to the treaty been shown in Colombia. . I8 not likely to prove at has This, howe all serious. The aet authorizing the president to acquire the property of the Panama inal company and to negotiate with Colombia for the acquisition of terri- and the concession to the United States of certain rights and privileges in connection with the canal, provides that when these things shall have been accomplished the “president shall then cause to excavated, constructed and completed, utilizing to that end as far as practicable the work heretofore done by the new Panama Canal comnany of France and its 1 recently tory lecessor company, ship canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific ocean.” For this and ofher specified purposes the president is au- | thorized to employ such persons as he | may deem necessary. The act creates an Isthmian eanal commission of seven members, “who shall be nomi- nated and appointed by the president, | by and with the advice and consent of the senate, and who shall serve during | the pleasure of the president” At ast four of the commissioners shall | be learned and skilled in the practice ! of engineering and at least one must be | an officer of the army and one an offi- | | cer of the mavy. In addition to the ‘{'vnmn)fi«'lvm the president is authorized to employ in the canal service any of the englneers of the army at his discre- tion and likewise any engineers in eivil life, with any other persons necessary | for the proper ‘and expeditious prosecu- tion of the work. It is yet to be determined under what conditions the canal shall be completed. The president Is to decide whether the waterway shall be built under the supervision of the government or whether it shall be iIntrusted to private capitalists and completed by contract. It 1s the impression that the profect will be taken care of by a number of separate contractors, it being under- stood that the plan under consideration is to divide the route into a gumber of sections and call for bids for the work to be done in each division. This plan Is proposed as a precaution against Jjeopardizing the whole structure by giv- ing the entlre work to a single con- tractor or syndicate of builders. It is sald that several syndicates have al- ready been formed with a vlew to ob- taining the contract for the construc- tion of the canal. The Spooner act authorizes the secre- tary of the treasury to borrow $130,- 000,000, or g0 much thereof as may be necessary, for canal expenditures, this being outside the $40,000,000 to be paid the French company and the $10,000,000 ito Colombia, which sums will come ai- rectly from the treasury. The act provides that appropriations for the construction of the canal shall not ex- ceed in the aggregate $135,000,000, but it is very doubtful if that sum will be sufficlent to complete the work. Tt is more likely to . reach $200,000,000, for undoubtedly difficulties will be met with the cost to overcome which can- not now be estimated with any degree of ‘accuracy. But once undertaken by the United States the construction of the canal will be completed at whatever cost. sen also TARE NU STEP BACKWARD. The attempt to pipe-line through the new revenue bill an ingenious scheme that would nullify the ruling of the supreme court on the assessment of the franchises of public utility corporations should be resisted and defeated by the legislature. T'hese corporations ap- pealed to the supreme court from the assessment of the tax commissioner of Omaha and the court laid down .as the basis of franchise taxation of this class of corporations the value of their stocks and bonds after deducting therefrom the assessed valuation of their tangible property. This ruling was on all fours with the decision rendered by the circuit and supreme courts of the United States and should by rights be applied to the valu- ation for taxation of .the properties of all corporations enjoying franchises as common carriers. The proposition to set aside the supreme court decision and adopt a new basis for the assessment of the property of one or more of these public utility corporations is wrong in principle and wrong in practice. The taxpayers of this city, as repre- seuted throu the Omaha Real Estate exchange, were foreed into the courts by ll{l' franchise-holding corporations and tér nearly two years were compelled to carry on the contest at great expense and an immense amount of hard work. It was cobfidently expected that the legislature would extend the principle laid' down by the supreme court de- cision for the taxation of public utility corporations to the ailrond eompanies, telephone companies and public carriers of every description in the assessment of thelr properties for state, county and municipal purposes. Whether the legis. lature adopts or rejects this mode of taxation for rallroad and telegraph com- panles, it certalnly would be pre- Lensible for it to deprive the rank and file of taxpayers of Omaba, Lincoln aud every other town of the beuefits that have accrued to them by reason of the supreme court's decision. | prediction hold of any ome who kuows anything value of these corporations is unwar ranted and absurd. The most conservative estimate of the loss which the ecity of Owmaha alone would sustain by a change from the basis lald down by the supreme court to the basis proposed by the public utility corporations would be $50,000 a year In taxes and that amount would be saddled upon all the other taxpayers, The loss that South Omaha, Lincoln and other towns and cities in Nebraska, that do not own gas, electric lighting water supply plante, or street railways, would be proportionate, but even if the loss was trivial the prineiple is wrong and should be resisted at all hazar( It 1s equally’ wrong with regard to on class of franchised corporations as with another, equally wrong whether applied to telephone, gas, water or street rail- way companies. If the citles of Nebraska are compelled to bear the burdens w or to be hoin | Justice should be borne by the railroads they certainly should not be made to bear alse in addition thereto the burdens that have been justly imposed by the supreme court upon public utility cor- vorations whose profits all come from special privileges they enjoy in the pective cities, EFFECT ON THE MONEY MARKET. A good d of interest is being mani- fested in eastern financial circles as to the possible effect upon the mouey 1 ket of tne coming paywents on Panama canal account. The amount iuvolved is $50,000,000, of which $40,000,000 will go to the French owners of the canal und $10,000,000 to the Colombian govern- ment. It is not yet certain when these payments will be made, but it is thought the time Is near enough to give them claim to consideration as a factor in the money market. This moeney is to be taken from funds In the possession of the treasury, in the form either of cash or of bank deposits, It is not to be ob- tained by a sale of bonds, the author- ization given by the Spooner act to the secretary of the treasury to borrow re- | lating wholly to supplying the money for constructing the canal. It is pointed out that to withdraw the 2,000,000 from the cash in the treas- ury would not leave a safe working bal- ance and a part of the amount will have to be taken from the government de- posits with the banks. There has been some fear expressed that in the present condition of the money market any con- slderable withdrawal from the banks of government deposits might have a bad effect, but the Financial Chronicle does not take this view, saying that the mar- ket's cash resources should be strength- ened, at least temporarily, by what the treasury pays from Its cash on hand, since this would be held and used by the domestic banks receiving it until gold exports shovld absorb it. It seems quite certain, however, that the pay- ment of this money, if it shall require a large withdrawal of the government's deposits, must somewhat aggravate the existing rather unfavorable conditions. A4 SUIL AGAINST TRADES UNIONS. The strike of street car employes at Waterbury, Connecticut, has attracted very general attention chiefly because of the lawlessness that marked it, which made necessary the calling out of the militia. There {s another phase of the conflict, however, which Is of interest and this is the civil suit for $20,000 dam- ages brought by the street railway com- pany against the union of street car employes and the several trades unions that aided the strikers, principally in the way of a boycott. We believe this is the first suit of the kind in this country, but there is Eng- lish precedent lu the recent famous Taffvale case, in which a rallroad com- pany obtalped heavy dawmages from a | labor organization om account of injuries | to it resulting from a strike.- In that case judgment was rendered against the labor organization on the ground that its agents had caused acts in themselves unlawful to be committed to the injury of the company. The English court de- clared that a strike in itself was lawful, hence no damage could be claimed sim- ply because of a strike; but if lu prose- cuting a strike the union or its agents carry it on by unlawful means, the union may be sued and mulcted in | damages if the charges of unlawful con- | duct be proved. It was also held that a conspiracy to !njure an employer by unlawful means exposes strikers to re- | prisals of this character in the courts. | It appears evident that thé suft brought | by the Waterbury street car company is an attempt to establish the English precedent In American jurigprudence, therefore the result will have great and general irterest. It is probably a safe | that the company will not then | w Assistant Attorney his argument for the government in the | Northern Securitles case makes It plain | that the merger de | cone al is sliply a cleverly | cted ruse to get around legal ob s in the way of absorption of com- peting railway lines. It would be inter. esting, shmply as a matter of informa tion, to know what lawyers worked the scheme out for the e magnates and how long it took them to perfect it sta Members vote ¢ the city couneil reckl rerlaps In spite of the' plain p vision of the charter that renders them and their bondsinen liz tures In exc of avallable funds. Sooner or later the taxpayers will muster courage enough to protect their Interests le for expendi- s | reviv | not have that | philosophy of progress | etgbth more sure they will be to join in the demand for local assessment of railroad property for city and town purposes. According to Semator Money sissippl, the Postoice department has made the people of the south hate the administration by reviving the race issue he fact §s, however, that the democrats of the south have themselves 1 the race fssue and If they did as a pretext for antag- onizing the administration they would devise some other excuse. Spppe——— Having put the canal treaty through the senate with such dispateb, the sena- tors will be wondering why they didn’t do it before the regular sesslon ad- Journed without necessitating a call for an extra sitting, Small Chunk of © Philadelphia Press. If anybody imagines the proposed tax on coal would be paid by the operators he Im- agiues a vain thing. The tax, like any in- crease in the miners' wages, would be paid by the consumers A Few Needed Lessons. Chicago Record-Herald. It s claimed that the rallways of Great Britain didn't kill a passenger last year. If this is true it might pay some of the Americans who are running railroads to go over there and take a few lessons. Truth, Plenty of Fun at Home, Detroit Free Press. Frankly, we do not belleve the reports that the president is greatly annoyed be- cause the special session of the senate is delaying his hunting trip. It is just as mauch fun for Mr. Roosevelt to tree a senator as'to tree a bear. Division of Property in Banks. Indianapolls Journal, In 1876 there were 208,486 owners of the $505,000,000 capital of national banks. The average share being worth $100, the average number of shares to each holder was 24.1. Only 767 persons held more than $50,000 ot stock. The report this year shows that there are 330,124 shareholders and $673,000,- 000 of capital, or 20.4 shares to each share- holder. That is, while the capital stock has fncreased 34.6 per cent the number of shareholders has increased 58 per cent. This means that the division of property has gone on faster than the increase in amount. Have You Got Your Sharet New York Tribune. A current circulation of $30, barring a tiny fraction, for every mad, woman and child in the commonwealth is probably the best showing ever made by any nation— the price of a cow or a spring overcoat for everybody. Its distribution is a trifle ir- regular, but that is like the sea’s level, always in a state of disturbance and rectifi- cation. Those who haven’t got their share of the $30 are not forbidden to hustle for it, and for those who have more the get rich quick concerns stand ready to redress their balance with neatness and dispatch when- ever they are so minded. Standing for the Full Cradle. London News. No ruler, ancient or. modern, has ever hazarded so audacious an utterance as President Roosevelt's ehirt-sleeve lecture to American women on account of the lazi- ness which leads them to eschew matri- mony and the rearipg of families. Only those who are awage what a woman citizen of the United Statsh can be when she likes will appreciate the recklessness of a states- man who, not content with fighting bears in the Rocky mouhtains, must needs pile the Pelion of the black problem upon the Ossa of the trusts, with a view, apparently, to attacking the goddesses in Olympus itself. The divinities of Dana Gibson have already remarked that President Roosevelt at any rate practices what he preaches. Judging by photographs, his family seems to be as lusty, and in the case of the boys, as untidy, as any philosophic backwond: man need desire. It {s, moreover, remark- able that most of the more strenuous per- sonalities in the political arena have been of recent years men of domesticated tastes. Gladstone, Disraelf, Chamberlain, Lord Sallsbury, the kaiser and the czar are only a few of the nomes which immediately sug- gest themselves to the advocates of “Home, Sweet Home," as opposed to the club for women of celibate aspiration: But It is not against the men that Pres! deat Roosevelt brings hle accusation. WHO'S WHO IN CONGRE! “Historial” Document of Unique Im- portance. Philadelphia Ledger. A recent refined criticlsm of the tendency of contemporary literature discerns that the writing of bistory, properly so described, has ceased. It has been supplanted by blography. That {8 to say, there Is now- adays little interest in the large currents of events; no ome is occupled with the men, rather than epochs or movements, are studied, and his- tory has become an elaborate curiosity of personage. Viewed in the light of this tendency, the Congressibnal directory is an historical document of unique importance, containing as it does blographies of the notable figures who wrestle in the arena of national af- fairs. A new edition of this invaluable | compendium affords the student access to sources at once {lluminating and enter- taining. Biography loses nothing by being self-indicted, and when the autoblograph- ers are Ingenlous with the fresh candor of the American politician we may reason- ably expect a series of memoranda rich in elements of the pleturcsque—which ac- cordingly we find in this little regarded publication. The Congressional Record may furnish the text of am occasional act, display the motive and intentlon of legislation and even trace the politica¥ history of the nation, but what fact noted in its pages shines with the interest attaching to the infor. mation, now first imparted to an eager world, that the wife of the member from Carrollton, IIl, is interested in philan- thropy? The touch of reality is laid upon an event which might, on a merely casual view, be passed as of slight significance in: the broad course of human history, when the fact emerges that an “all-day downpour of raln” fell in Arkansas on the fateful day that seated a mew member from that commonwealth In the Fifty. congress. Vast illumination falls upon large questions of mational policy when it 1s learned thav another new mem. ber was Interested in athletics when he was in college; international affairs are trans. figured in the great white light of the fact | representatives. BITS OF W/ HINGTON LIFE, Selection of Gorman as Lender Puts Crepe on the Bryan Door. Major John M. Carson, the dean of Wash- ington correspondents, in a letter to the Philadelphia Ledger sketchos the trend of sentiment among the democrats in congress on Bryanism as manifested in the election of Senator Arthur Pue Gorman as leader of the minority in the United States senate Mr. Carson is thoroughly posted on political events at the national caplial, is an ac curate and unbiased chronicler of events and his statements will prove instructive it not pleasing to the bourbons of the west He writes as follows: “The selection of Arthur Pue Gorman, immediately upon his return to the senate, as the democratic leader, had been heralded as a heavy blow to Bryan and Bryanism, and as indicating a change of feeling on the part of the senators of his party. It does not indicate that. It is a matter of course manifestation of a sentiment which has long existed. “Senate democrats are not and have not been for a long time. Nat- urally, in the interest of party harmony they have refrained from giving public ut- terance to thelr feelings, and hence it may have been assumed that they were still Bryanites. The average democratic sena- tor wants harmony, and, while he is rad- tcally opposed to Bryan, he does not think it necessary to drive Bryan's friends out of the party by saying unpleasant things about their leader. Yet, when the occasion arises, as when Gorman was chosen for leader, the democratic senator does not hesitate to take action which is highly disagreeable tc the Bryanites. “When the Fifty-seventh congress ad- Journed there was hardly a Bryan man in the senate—certainly not a single out- spoken Bryan man. It remains to be seen whether among the new senators there are any who are irretrievably committed to Bryanism. One or two of them come to Washington with the reputation of being devoted to the Nebraska man, but it has been observed that a very short experience in the senate {8 all that is needed to trans- form a Bryan man into an opponent of Bryanism. Bryan men, “When it fa said that the democrats of the senate have nmot for a long time had any use for Bryanism, it must be remem- bered that among these senators are some who were formerly noted as among the most rampant defenders of the Chicago platform of 1896, if not of the Kansas City platform of 1900. Senator Balley was one of the strongest defenders of free silver a few years ago. Senator Carmack, even after his election to the senate, was under- stood to be violent on the subject of Bry- anism. Senator Danfel is the man who was put forward as the silver candidate for chairman at the Chicago convention, when Senator Hill was defeated. Senator Du- bols came over to the democratic party on the free silver question, as did Senator Teller. Senator Money claimed the honor | of being the original Bryan boomer. A year or more ago Mr. Bryan came to Wabhington, as had been his custom, to instruct the party leaders on his views of public policies. He had often done it be- fore, and had always been listened to with attention. In 1900 when he paid his regu- lar visit to Washington the senators of his party deserted the chamber ard swarmed out into the marble room, eager to shake him by the hand and assure him of their devotion. But in 1902, for the first time, Mr. Bryan met with a distinct shock. Some of the democratic leaders in the house re- ceived his Instructions as of old, and there was little, if any, change there. But when he went over to the senate he met with an entirely different reception. “Democratic senators refused to listen to him. It was not only the men who had supported him simply for the sake of regu- larity, such as Pettus and Clay, who took this attitude, but even his former stalwart supporters, such as Dubols and Carmack. Mr. Bryan went back to Lincoln and never since then has he held a levee in the marble room. “Almost at that very time leading sena- tors were conferring with New York demo- crats, with a view to reorganizing the party, dropping Bryanism and carrying the state. It was in these conferences that the Parker boom originated, in consequence of the impression that Judge Parker would be the gubernatorfal candidate thap year. When the congressional campaign was or- ganized Senator Carmack secured the selection of James M. Griggs of Georgla as chairman. ““This move was rather a surprise to some who had watched the steady repudiation of Bryan by the senators, for Griggs had the reputation of being a Bryan man. The selection was K made advisedly, however. Griggs conducted the campalgn, as far a: he could, on the tariff and trust issues, and showed as strong a desire to get away trom the issues which had wrecked the party as any senator could have wished. He went even further than Carmack, for he. dropped the Philippine issue as well as ‘the silver {ssue, much to the Tennessee sena- tor's surprise and somewhat to his disgust. “Bryan was ignored throughout the .amr‘, paign and such speeches as he made were | delivered, not at the Instance of the com- | mittee, but the the invitation of private clubs Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE A BIOGRAPHER'S BLUNDERS, Assault on Good Name of s Western ©Character Vigo! 1y Resented. Philadelphia North American, The sister of J. B. Hickok, alias Wild Bill, a noted frontier fighter of the last century, has written a letter to a Chicago paper, taking strenuous exception to sev- eral statements in a blographical sketch of her picturesque brother, written by a per- eon pretending to have been his intimate friend. The writer of the sketch appears not to have known even the right name of the untamed hero of the Wild West, but his errors in that matter are of little impor- tance. What the sister resents most sharply s & gross misrepresentation of Wild Bill's disposition and fighting method. Evidently the biographer rehearsed one of the old tales of Bill's handiness with a pair of six-chooters and plctured him in the act of putting twelve bullets through some nefarious person’s left eye in two seconds, for the late Mr. Hickok's sister declares with some asperity that there are plenty of people fn Illinols who knew him and ‘“‘who would not for one moment belleve that he would shoot a man twelve times when once was sufficfent.” The natural presumption is wholly against the biographer and in favor of his critic. No man was so destitute of judgment as to empty both his guns unnecessarily, and leave, himself practically disarmed at any stage of the proceedings in a frontier de- bate, could have achieved the eminent posi- tion which Mr. Hickok occupied at the Round Table of the Wild West. Like the gentleman referred to in California’s eple poem, it would have been sald of him: , In his bloom he went up the flume In the days of Forty-nine. The late Wild Bill pervaded the frontier from the Rio Grande to the Cheyenne for fitteen years, the crack of his gun wae equivalent to a notification to the coroner wherever it was heard and it s not recorded of him that he was a squanderer of ammunition. He was an efficient agent of moral regeneration in Abilene and other tough towns and it is self-evident that he never could have effected any of the mu- nicipal reforms which history attributes to him had he been so shiftless as to ehoot. a man twelve times when once was sufficient. PERSONAL NOTES. Dr. Willlam A. Munn, former president of the Colorado State Medical society and recently the head of the Board of Health, of Denver, 18 dead. 1srael Zangwill, when asked recently what special outdoor pastime he loved the most, replied characteristically: “All forms of locomotion except balooning.” “Prince Albert Kakailimoku Kumulakha, Jast descendant of King Kamebameha of Hawail, 1s dead.”” Peace to his name, which 1s safe from the obituary poet, anyhow. A girl in New York saved a man's life by snatching him from in front of a locomotive. Then she violated all the traditions of romance by disappearing unidentified, in- stead of falling In love with and marrylng the man. 1t is of current note that every man who sat at Lincoln's council table has been dead for years past but John H. Reagan, Jeffer- son Davis' postmaster general, who s get- ting along toward the 90-year mark and is one of the briskest of Texans A fund is being raised in Tennessee, at the suggestion of Col. Jeremiah Baxter through the Nashville News, for the pur- chase of the Andrew Jackson rellcs at the Hermitage. The Ladies’ Hermitage so- ciety has made the first contribution of 250 to the fund. The public reception to ex-Speaker Hen- derson on his return to Dubuque is to be of a non-partisan character. The date has not been set as yet. Colonel Henderson will be met there by a committee composed of leading members of both parties on his “It 18 not too much to say that for a year | past there has not been a single out and | out Bryan man in the senate. Even such | men as Senator Tillman, while undoubtedly | olding their old opinions, have acquiesced | ?n the elimination of Bryan from senatorial lcouncils, and have made no protest against | it. Such men as Bailey, formerly among Lis strongest supporters, have taken the lead in his elimination. The determined attitude of the senate democrats has in- fected their collgagues in the house to a considerable extent “All this s not to say that Bryan's n- fluence among the pe who followed him is in any respect Senators do not always repre rank and file | and among the western supporters of Bryan the old sentiment may be as strong as| ever. It certalnly Is as Stromg as ever among some of the men In the house of | But it is a certainty | that Bryan cannot control the senate, or | even secure its attemtion. He knows it and he stays away “The election of Senator Gorman to the leadership, therefore, did not represent any change in sentiment or policy. He would have been the leader a year ago if he had been in the senate. What It did represent was a desire on the part of the democrats to secure a capable commander.” as Defining & Philosopher, Philadelphia Ledger. A correspondent asks us what a philos- | opher 1s. We can't define the thing, but | we know one when we see him. A citizen of six | Day idvmh of Thomas Nast arrival from New York The state of New Hampshire still re- tains the anclent custom of an annual day of fasting and prayer by the governor's appolntment. Governor Bachelder and bave this year designated Thurs- day, April 23, as the day. Saturday, May 2, has been appointed by them as Arbor in the same state. Consul George Sawter went to Guayaqull, Ecuador, o take the post left vacant by the Arriving there, he discovered that yellow fever was raging and immediately took passage back to the United States. On landing in New York he counell | found that another office had been seeking him in his absen: While still at sea he had been nominated by President Roosevelt as an assistant appralser of merchandise at the port of New York. SMILING REMARKS. De Btyle—Was Eve & Summer girl? Gunbusta—Well, not exactly: but she was b 17 prominent 'in the Fall.—New York mes. Bings—What are you golng to do with that stick of dynamite old man? Bangs—I'm going to blow a porus plaster off my breast.—Indianapolls News. “Well, T see the New York police gets it in the neck this time." “What do you mean?" *“The latest order obliges them to wear a fresh collar every day.”—Cleveland Plain Mr. Meekton. ing up and she can sent of her dress oing to the polls to vote when me."—Washington Star. need,” the doctor told him, “is more sleep. % “1 know it.” said the haggard man, “but how am I going to get {t? 'There's a baby on the floor above us that's cutting teeth and a family with a phonograph on tho floor below us.”"—Chicago Tribune. “Pshaw!" cried the newly arrived spirit; “you anclents had no great :-nruum of in- dustry. Take our Beef trust for instance See what it has done, “Oh, I don’t know,"” replled the Shade of Noah, quietly. “T cornered all the live stock’in the world at one time.”—Philadel- phia Press Aunt Fanny—And you can spell lots of big words now I suppose? Gracle—Yes, but I can’t always spell them the right way.—New York Times. Angrily the agriculturist glares at the ram Swhich has® butted him' through the side of the barn. y “Drat ye!” he exclaims; “drat ye! T'd sell ye to the butcher this very day if it wasn't 1 could walt another week and get 40 cents a pound for ye as spring lamb. Judge. m——— MORGAN'S ADDRESS TO THE SENATE. 8. B. Kiser In the Record-Herald. .ome not here to talk. You know too w !K':e story 1 would tell you. But this ditch; The bright sun rises to his course and lights, Yon ditcis banks! He sets and his last beams i Fall on that ditch—not Nicaragua's ditch, Of which I would that T might say a word, Tf 1 had but the time and gift of speech— But that ignoble hole of Panamay . () That reeking, foul and fever-haunted rut, Dug past some dozen Itry villages, ' Strong in some hundred odors, only great In that strange spell—a debt. Each hour gray ghosts Of its dead victims haunt the thing, Cry out against it! But this very day An honest man, my neighbor—I name no names— Cried: “Rise! or two Again this crime—this shameful thing! Sit not In servile silence! dumb, That rightul protest may mot pass your 87 I know & better course—I that speak to ye— 1 told you of it once. A pleasant way Full of all beauties and of easy grades, Of sweet and quiet scenes, with here and there A tall volcano throwing ashes out In graceful showers. How I loved That glorious scheme! years Than you behold me now, I took it yp To descant on its falr advantages And win your favor for it. In one short session That pleasing fad of mine was slain! The friends that I had won desert! here 1 rise, at last, from silence to cry Shame! Have ye good vars? Then 1 will open my mouth wnd speak! A I have few words, but 1 can say them o'er and o'er; You shall not stop me ere 1 say my plece, For 1 can sleep and talk if needs must be, And eating still declaim! Yet here I stand And here ye sit and read the while I talk Of that which. needs no honest pralse of mine— Why, but its very name should be & charm To win you to its favor! Rise, Morgan, say & word Are you speechless, Younger by forty 1 saw But And once again Hear me, ye walls that echo back the words I've #ald and still will say: Again I swear That Nicaragua shall be ditched! RAIN- THE PURE GRAIN COFFEE Even children drink Grain-O because they like it and the doc- tors say it is good for them. Why not? It contains all of the nourish- ment of the pure grain and none of the poisons of coffee. TRY IT TO-DAY. At grocers everywhers; 18¢. and ¢, per packsge. OUR HAT LABEL We don't find. Made to hold their color and give We label make Hats, have in co but we get them. That makes them as good as the best the best we can by the best makers, and guaranteed by them satistaction enough confidence in these Hats to put our they a dollar or so less however. It is couceded on all hands that the frauchises of corporations that enjoy the monopoly of supplying eitles with gas, water, electric light, street railways of New Jersey takes a vacation months every year. Asked the reason sald: “Well, you know, when a dead, he stays dead so long."” by instituting sulits against the bonds men, thus putting an end to the periodic raids on the city treasury in the inter- he refuses to tell. That's the differe | that a modest gentleman from lowa was {mportuned for years to run for congress, but persistently refused;.while the colossal he man's $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. The Commercial club committee en- gaged 1n pushing the telephone rate bill two glas county on the measure expresses coufidence wewbers from Do semate sifting committee the will be properly looked after. that with But wha about the house sifting committee, on which the telephone company has half of the Douglas county representation? aud telephoue eonstitute by far the most valuable asset of these corporations, which are stocked and bonded nny- where from five to fifty times the value of their tangible property. The assump- tiou that the gross receipts of these corporations for a slugle year would represent as Dear as gan be the franchise t ests of franchised corporations be interfor Nebraska cities and towns are gradually awakening to the iniquity of raflroad exemption from wunicipal taxation. The tax-shirking of the rail- interests of epoch-making treaties shrink into insignificance beside the consideration that Ohio now sends as a congressman a man who since 1582 has been engaged in the manufacture of Hannclette undergar ments at Sandusky, Clyde, Fremont and Tifmn roads piles the burdens up on the other property owners in every one of them, The wore they lovk luto the facts the These are the original sources to which the future historian will turn to fll out, adorn and vivify the barsh outlines of his country's story, ~MAKES PROPER DIET", PLEASING Prowning Hinga o R 8. Wikea, Manager.