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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TR1BOMB: TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER'S, 1896.
lEAL. BARE, Editor and Pbopeietob
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THE WINNERS OP 1896.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President
WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vice President
G. A. II OB ART, oE New Jersey.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN H. MacCOLL.
For Lieutenant-Governor
ORLANDO TEFFT.
For Secretary of State
JOEL A. PIPER. -For
Auditor Public Accounts
P. O. HEDLUND. .
For State Treasurer
CHARLES E. CASEY. 1
For Sunt. Public Instruction
HENRY R. CORBETT.
For' Coin. Lands and Buildings
HENRY C. RUSSELL.
For Attorney-General
ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL.
For Supreme Judgo.Ijong Term
ROBERT RYAN.
For Supreme Judge, Short Term
MOSES P. KINKAID.
For Regent of State University
W. G. WHITMORE.
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
For Congress, Gth District
E. A. CADY.
For Senator, 30th District
J. S. HOAGLAND.,
For Representative, 51 District
J. H. ABBOTT.
COUNTY TICKET.
For County Attorney,
T. C. PATTERSON.
For Commissioner, Third District,
JAS. S. BOBBINS.
An eastern writer facetiously re
fers to Bryan as "the mouth of the
Platte."
And now it is announced that
Samuel Marsh Elder, the one-armed
populist soldier, and ex-populist
speaker of the Nebraska legislature
is out for McKinley and Hobart.
McKinley's epigram in regard
to the mills and the mints has thus
been metamorphosed by John Nol
len, ofPella, Iowa: "It is better
to open the mills to the millions
than to open the mints to the mil
lionaires. The thought could, not
-be neater expressed.
Four years ago when Grover
Cleveland was elected president
over 5,000 democratic clubs assisted
in that work. To-day there are
but a trifle over 800 duly accredited
Bryan clubs engaged in a desultory
skirmish to win the presidency. Is?
aivy comment needed?
Whenever occasion presents
popocrat papers and orators, in
order to stir up a spirit of resist
ance o what they fain would pre
tend is a desire of Great Britain
to interfere with American affairs
they quote from some English
paper or speaker. Here is an ex
tract from a three-page article upon
the political situation here, in the
London Truth, by Henry Labou
chere, one of England's foremost
friends of labor: "I am one of the
warmest admirers of the United
States in Europe. I am a democrat
. of-democrats in the true sense of
the word. But, as a democrat and
one desirous that the cause of de
mocracy should prevail everywhere
and as an admirer of the sterling
common sense.of the Americans, 1
sincerely trust that Bryan will be
defeated."
M. S. Hayes, corresponding sec
retary of the Cleveland Central
Labor Union, and late delegate to
the St. Louis populist convention,
is now out circulating a petition
among union workingmen securing
signatures pledging the subscribers
to refuse to vote for Bryan and aid
the socialist. He said he had de
cided upon that 'course "because
the populist party had disintegrat
ed on the free-silver rock, and a:
the party was now practically a
silver-shouting movement without
organization, he and all 'middle
of-the-road' populists of Cleveland
would desert it." Next week the
bolters expect to hold a meeting i.
that city, when they will mak
arrangements for an active cam
paign among the workiugmeu i
Cleveland, lhe bolt is a senou
bivw to the free silverites of thu
city, as. the workiugmeu had beet
depended upon to vote for Bryan
Here ;ii Nebraska R G. Bigiiu, oi
GIvJi. nil alternate totheCliK&
convention, is now out working tor
Palmer and Buckner, the ludian
auolis straiirut democratic nou
inees. JLu Oregon Senator John H
Mitchell, who has been advocating
free coinage of silver at the .ratu
of 16 to 1 last Friday in a speech at
VYoodburu, Ore., recommends al.
-his friends to vote for McKinley a
he believes that the move can only
be successfully established through
international agreement, and that
with the success of the republican
party, the prospects for this con
summation grow exceedingly
bright. Thus the bolt again
Bryanism goes bravely on, and by
the middle of October there will be
: none but those willfully blind who
do not see that he does not stand
the show of being elected president
tljatIorace Greeley did in 1872.
HIS IDEA OF 16 TO I.
One of the Nebraska followers of
Mr. Bryan borrowed $2,000 upon
his farm a few months ago. He
gave the necessary - mortgage, and
also agreed to carry fire insurance
for the full amount of the loan.
This condition he failed to observe,
and the company from which he had
borrowed the money called his at
tention to the matter in a number
of communications. The farmer
became wearied by such importuni
ty, and addressed the following rer
markable note to his creditors:
"Dear Sirs Yours in reference to
insurance on loan No. 4028 at hand.
I wish you would not bother any
more about this matter. 1 expect
to pay this loan in free silver, and
expect to buy silver enough to pay
it for 512o. In gold tnat wouia oe
16 to 1. I am sure the security is
rrnnA frr tlmf fit ifc r1-Qf1lt TlttCe.
It is hardly necessary to say that
the reply included a notification of
the foreclosure, and that the politi
cal outlook now appears less rosy
to the farmer than before. Har
per's Weekly.
HOW STEWAET LOVES LABOR.
From the Chicago Record, Ind.
The grievance of Columbia typo
graphical union against Senator
Stewart is that he deceives the pub
lic by using a Washington date line
on his paper, the "Silver Knight,"
and giving out the impression that
it is published at Washington,
where wages of printers are $18 per
week, instead of, as it is. at Alex
andria, where wages are only; $9 a
week. The difference is explained
by the fact that Alexandria has no
union. Further than that, and
much more important, is the fact
that the populist handbook and
great quantities of. campaign liter
ature have beon published at Alex
andria and sent out without bear
ing the union label. It has been
the special effort of Columbia union
to have all campaign literature to
bear the union label, and its efforts
have been successful with all but
Senator Stewart and the populist
committee. The Senator said, when
asked about paying his printers
more than' $9 a week, that he was
"engaged in relieving the general
distress of the county, and to pay
more to printers would not do much
toward that." That is all very well,
but most people""will believe that if
he would pay his employes union
wages he would do his full share in
the relieving business. The mil
lionaire Senator's proposal for a
penny subscription is right in line
with all his actions to date. Union
printers have votes in November,
and they will prefer those who pay
union wages now to those who
promise to pay them after election.
. Compositor.
Washington, D. C, Aug. 27.
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The followins paragraph arfpearou in iito
Omaha World-Herald when the name of
W. J. Bryan, editor, was still at the head
of its editorial column:
"Every one who has money at his dis
posal can protect himself agaimst loss
through free silver by converting his
money into land, houses and merchandise
of various kinds. If, besides, he borrows
inoro money and uses it for the purpose,
he -will make a profit on the transaction
at the expense of tlio man from whom he
borrows."
A more dishonest proposition was never
made by a newspaper. It illustrates clear
ly tho totally demoralizing influence of the
silver craze on its followers.
WHY WALLACE WENT OUT.
Democratic Committeeman Resigns Be
cause of Eryau's Platform.
Ill resigning from tho Democratic na
tional committee, Hon. Hugh C. Wal
lace of Washington wrote to Chairman
Joues :
To enact free coinage at 16 to 1 would
be to overvalue silver by nearly one
half. The consequences of such a change
would he catastrophic. Suoh violent
alteration of contracts and credits, of
debts and values, carrying with it re
duction of the purchasing power of
wages, could not tako place withont
general disaster. The mere thought of
the consequences of such transfer of our
money from one metal to the other,
upon a ratio so false, cannot be enter
tained without deepest alarm.
Results of the change of standard,
thus forced, would be repudiation,, pure
and simple. Hostility to property is
made the basis of this appeal to tho peo
ple. 'Moreover, tho Chicago platform
proposes to abolish the Democratic and
constitutional right of private contract,
by declaring that no one shall stipulate
to pay in present standard money.
Prom the disorders that would attend
the loss of tho present standard I shrink
with apprehension and alarm, and I
must, as a Democrat, condemn that de
parture from the principles and practice
of the party which threatens so dire a
result.
Mr. Bryan "believes" a great deal and
'thinks" a great deal more. He proves
nothing. If Stewart and Altgeld really
"believed" all they said, would they put
gold clauses In their business contracts?
Bryan's Ignorance.
An allusion made by Mr. Bryan to
France is noteworthy. The Democratic
candidate sajs that the Bank of France
reserves to itself the right of paying its
notes in either gold or silver, and, for
all that, he adds, gold and silver have
the same value in France. Mr. Bryan
omitted to say that if the French 5 franc
piece has a value equal to that of gold
it is because, since 878, 5 franc pieces
are no longer coined in France. It would
be imppssible to do in Paris that which
Mr. Bryan would like to see done in
Washington. One cannot bring to the
mint pieces of silver worth 2 francs 50
centimes and have them transformed
into 5 franc pieces. Bimetallism exists
in name only in France. In reality gold
is the only metal that the public can
get coined in the French mints. Cou
rier des Etats Ohis, .
GREAT COMMANDER.
THE JOY HE BROUGHT TO A BRAVE
BOY AND HIS FATHER.
Maurice Terraine's Interview With Wash
ington "Let Ua Be Merry, For This My
Son Was Bead antl Is Alive Again; He
Was Lost and Is Found."
In St. Nicholas Sara King Wiley has
a romance of the American Revolution
entitled "Maurice and His Father."
A brave little English lad is separated
from his father and falls into the hands
of tho Americans. His father afterward
embraces the patriot cause, and his son
is restored to him through the medium
of Washington, as shown in the follow
ing extract :
Maurice was informed that General
Washington was there showing the
works to General Lafayette, and his
heart began to flutter and thump within
him.
Barney was sitting beside him, look
ing at his master with bright and loving
eyes, his little black nose quivering.
"Barney," said the boy, "we're
afraid, but we're not going to stop if
wo are." '
And, picking up the dog, ho took his
way through tho rustling leaves that lay
like heaps of gold toward the house,
which ono of the soldiers, from whom
Maurice ventured to ask for directions,
had pointed out to him.
"Yes, General Washington is there
and alone, " he was told.
Could he seo him?
"Sure, no, ye littlo bye," Eaid tho
Irish sentry. "It's wore out tho poor
gintlemau is, already, and it's mosilf
wouldn't bother with all thim jabber
ing Frinchmen!"
Maurice was desperate.
"Oh, please!" he said. "Bog, Barney;
you beg too."
The little dog sat up at once, with
drooping paws.
' 'Sure, mo own name's Barney. And
is your dog's name O'Reilly, too?" said
the sentry.
"Oh, if he is your namesake," ox
claimed Maurice, "you must let him
in! Oh, see, you can hold him while I
go in!" Maurico thought no one could
resist snch an offer.
"I'll see," Kaid tho soldier, and he
stepped within, and, returning, said,
"Go on."
Maurice yielded up Barney and
stepped into the hall, went along it and
paused just inside an open door. He
was trembling. A voice said, "What is
your errand?" a voice even, gravo and
rather severe.
Maurice raised his eyes. Just before
tho fireplace stood tho great commander.
To tho boy's excited thought-he seemed
even larger ihan ho was. Washington's
hands were behind his back, his hand
some head bent a little forward.
"What is your errand, my lad?" said
he again, with a note of command in
tho tone.
"Oh, my father, my father!" ho said.
"I have been lost from him so very
long!"
Somethiug in tho thrilling child's
voice, something in tho piteous and for
lorn expression of his face, went straight
to tho warm heart that tho general car
ried beneath his calm exterior. He
crossed the room in quick strides, and,
laying his hand on the boy's shoulder,
said kindly:
"My poor child!"
This. was too much. Maurico had
borne bravely tho long strain of wait
ing, tho repeated disappointments, but
tho unexpected sympathy broke down
his self possession. Ho put his head in
the crook of his arm and sobs came fast
sobs that shook him fromhed to foot.
The general drew him aside, sat down
in an armchair, and, taking the little
hanging head in both his own, said,
"There, there, stop crying and tell me
all about it!"
Maurico ohoked down his sobs and
told his story. At his fathei's name the
general rose quickly.
'Colonel Terraine's son! Why, then,
your father was here a short time ago.
He may be up stairs novj"
Maurice forgot even tho great chief
and sprang for the door. But Washing
ton caught him by tho arm.
"My dear boy he does not know I
will go."
Maurico stood still in the center of
the room and pressed his hands hard to
gether. Tho general went out and up
stairs. It seemed to Maurico that ho
stepped very slowly.
Colonel Terrain sat in an up stairs
room writing. Ho laid down his pen
and roso as the general entered.
"Colonel," said Washington, "Ihave
some wonderful news for you." Ho
paused. The officer took a step forward
and opened his lips, but did not speak.
"Comedown stairs with me," con
tinued the general slowly, "and remem
ber as you go that passage in the Scrip
tures, 'But tho father said, Let us bo
merry, for this my son' " Colonel Ter
raino caught the back of a chair " 'for
this my son ' v went on tho sweet,
grave voice, ' 1 'was dead, and is alive
again. He was lost and is found. ' "
Colonel Terraine stood an instant,
with wide, questioning eyes. Then ho
rushed through the doorway and down
the stairs. The general followed him
quickly. There was a loud cry as the
colonel entered the room, and Maurico
sprang iuto his fathers arms. General
Washington closed the door and stood
guard over it himself. Barney, having
escaped from the soldier, tore in, and
tho general stooped from his great height
to pat tho little dog. If Barney had
been a man, ho would have seen that
there. wero tears in the bright blue eyes.
To Tako a Kaw Egg.
Egg oysters are very good if swallowed
like a "native" and form an excellent
way of taking raw eggs. Arrange them
thus: Break a new laid egg into a glass
containing half ateaspoonful of vinegar
and season with pepper and salt
Attack of the Silver Maniacs.
The stocks and bonds of Wall street
are tho medium of investment for tens
of thousands of laboring men and wo
men. Tho fact that they are used as a
medium for speculation does not make
them devices of the devil any more than
trading in futures makes vicious corn,
wheat and cotton. There are more ' 'cou
pon clippers" among the poor and
moderately wealthy than among the very
rich, and the dividends of corporations
go to tens of thousands of men and wo
men who have put their little savings
into stocks. The attacks of the silver,
maniacs on securities do more harm to
peopla of modest means than to those of
great wealth.
A GREAT HISTORIC TABLET.
Professor Petrie Finds a Record of tho
Crushing of Israel by Egypt.
I was permitted to excavate along a
part oi the ruin strewn desert at Thebes
and to examine tho sites of temples
which stand there. On these few fur
longs I found that there bad been seven
temples of the kings of the eighteenth
and nineteenth dynasties, abont 1450
1150 B. C. Most of these I entirely
cleared out, tho largest piece of all
the great buildings aiouud the Ramese
um being tho clearance of the Egyp
tian research account worked by Mr.
Qui bell. Each site gave us some return
in information or objects, but the most
valuable of the sites, a3 it proved, was
one of the least inviting. A field of
stone chips showed where the funeral
temple of Merenptah had stood, and,
left in tho ruins I found the great
granite tablet bearing the long inscrip
tion of Merenptah about his Libyan war
and his Syrian war and naming Israel.
This tablet is over 10 feet high, over
5 feet wide and over a foot thick, of ono
flawless block of very fine grained gran
ite, or rather syenite. It was first cut
by one of tho most sumptuous kings of
Egypt, Amenhotep HI, brilliantly pol
ished as flat and glassy as a mirror and
engraved-with a sceno of the king offer
ing to Amen, tho god of Thebes, and an
inscription of about 3,000 hieroglyphs
recording his offerings and glorifying
the gcd. His sou Akhenaten, who
strove after a higher faith, erased all
figures and inscriptions of Ainen, and
so effaced most of his father's fine
carving on this great tablet. This, how
over, was all re-engraved by Seti I,
about 50 years later, as a restoration.
Then, some two centuries after it had
been erected in tho temple of Amenho
tep 1H, Merenptah cast an envious gaze
on the splendid stone and stole it for
his own purpose.
Not taking tho trouble to rework it,
ho simply built the face of it into his
own wall and engfaved on the compar
atively rough back of tho block. At the
top he figmod a sceno of the king offer
ing to Amen, and below an inscription
very nearly as large as that of Amenho
tep III on tho other side. The painting
of tho sculptoicd figures still remains as
fiesh as on tho day it was done, for, as
tho tablet fell face forwaid when the
temple wa destioyrd, the side belong
ing to Merenptah lay downward, whilo
that of Amenhotep IH was uppermost.
In the runis, then, amid tho frag
ments of columns and foundations,
heaped over with a foot or two of stone
chips, this grand block had lain since
about tho t:mo of the Trojan war. All
Greek history, Roman and mediaeval1
tho prophets, Christianity and Islam
have swept along whilo this was wait
ing unsuspected, with its story of the
wars of Pharaoh of the Hard Heart and
his crushing of Israel. Professor Flin
ders Petrie in Century.
When Cod Become Blind.
Several largo ccd are kept in ono of
tho tanks of tho Amsterdam aquarium,
necessarily near to the surface, and
thoreforc exposed to a strong light from
above. Now, the cod, though not a
"deep sea" fish, is not a surface swim
mer and lives at depths where tho sun
light must bo very much modified by
passage through tho water. It lives in
what to us would bo semidarkness. Ev
ery ono of these cod exposed to tho
strong light is suffering from an extraor
dinary hypertrophy of the eye. Tho
whole organ has become overgrown, as
if in the effort to adjust itself to the use
of more light rays it had become over
equipped and then useless. The cod, in
fact, are blind.
Tho most interesting feature in this
change is tho extraordinary rapidity
with whicii increased supply of light
rays has overdeveluped the organ for its
use. It has taken place, not by slow de
grees from individual to individual, but
in a course of time to be measured by
months and in every individual in the
tank. Jf this example is a measure of
the rapidity with which such changes
take placo among fish, the adaptation
of thoso creatures which have migrated
from tho shallow waters to the deep
seas, shown by the total loss of enor
mous development of their eyes and the
growth of illuminating organs to light
the abyss, may have been as rapid as it
is marvelous. London Spectator.
A Bog's Patience.
In The Ladies' Kennel Journal there
is printed a story of George Eliot's fa
vorite spaniel, which Mr. Robert Buch
anan tells. One day when the novel
ist, George Lewes,, and Mr. Buchanan
were engaged in earnest conversation
they were disturbed by a sudden yelp of
pain from beneath the table. Examina
tion revealed tho fact that a child of 3
years of age or so had been amusing
himself by snipping at tho animal's ears
with a pair of scissors, and the mangled
condition of the dog showed how much
torture he had borne before giving way
or uttering a sound of 'protest. George
Eliot was, naturally, violently angry,
and was about to punish tho child, but
the dog, divining her intention, licked
his little persecutor's faco and mutely
begged him off the whipping he had
richly deserved.
They Fear Nothing.
The followers of Menelek, king of
Shoa, while not so largo as the fierce
Zulus of the south, are about tho tough
est warriors in the world. They do not
know physical fear. I have seen a man
jab a burnt stick several inches in his
flesh without wiuciug, declares a writer
in the New York Press. This apparent
insensibility to pain is accompanied
with a religious frenzy in battle that
renders tho soldiers unconscious of bod
ily harm. They havo no fear of death,
and .heir happiness is to kill.
The Sweet and Sentimental Murderer.
There is a story that the most fa
mous of all Japaueso robbers, Ishlkawa
Goemon, once by night entering a house
to kill and steal was charmctl by the
smile of a baby which reached out
hands to him, and he remained play
ing with tho little creature until all
chance of carrying out his purpose was
lost. It is not hard to believe this story.
Every year tho polico records tell of
compassion shown to children by pro
fessional criminals. Some months ago a
terrible murder case was reported in the
local papers the slaughter of a house
hold by robbers. Seven persons had been
literally hewn to pieces while asleep,
but the polico discovered a little boy
quite unharmed, crying alone in a pool
of blood, and they found evidence un
mistakable that the men who slew must
have, taken great caro not to hurt the
child. Lafcadio Hearn.
"AN ARTFUL APPEAL.
A Mendicant. Who Succeeds In Extracting
Silver From Passersby.
An illustration of the depth to which
one woman has sunk (or risen) in the
art of begging may be seen any evening
after dark on tho down town streets of
Chicago. This woman has no favorite
street. She simply plays them all, usu
ally side streets, where the young man
with his best girl as often glides
through because the crowds are not so
dense or tho lights so brilliant
This woman has two confederates
who dress and act like laboring men.
Each carries his littlo tin pail, and each
shows evidence of . having been hard at
work. A young society man and his girl
walk slowly along, indifferent to the
world. Neither hears the almost inau
dible appeal for help. As the young cou
ple pass tho mendicant the men with
their tin pails and grimy hands stop
short and block the way.
"Let's chip in a nickel apiece and
help that poor, starving creature," says
one of them.
"All right, Joe, I'll do it. I earned
an tfxtra quarter today, and I can just
spare a nickel."
This not only attracts the attention
of the lovers, but it brings tears to tho
eyes of the girl, and involuntarily the
thought flashes through the young man's
mind that if two laborers can give up a
portion of their hard earned money he
can part with at least 25 cents and of
tener more, owing largely to what sort
of an impression he wants to make upon
his companion.
And so a bright silver coin drops into
the cup held by the poor, starving crea
ture, a few muffled sounds of ' 'Bless you,
my children, bless you," come from the
bunch of rags sitting upon tho raised
step, aud the littlo crowd of laborers,
sweethearts aud object of charity dis
solves, each feeling happier and more
contented. .
The young man never knows ho has
been "worked," so to speak, and neither
loes tho next victim or the next, for
be it known that the programme related
above is repeated until there are no lov
ers parading up and down tho side
streets at night Chicago Times-Herald.
A THRIFTLESS GENIUS.
The Hand to Mouth Existence That Was
Led by Leigh Hunt.
Leigh Hunt had no senso cither of
time or of money a grave fault, per
haps an unpardonable vice, in a man
who had a wife and children depending
upon him. As long as he lived he was
thriftless and needy, a lender and a bor
rower, so generous that he could never
afford to ba just, briugingupon thoso
whom he loved sincerely a constant bur
den of debt and care. How reprehensible
this was ho seems never to have felt,
though he blames himself freely and
light heartedly, and if tho reader of
his autobiography is disposed to feel
sorry for Mrs. Hunt it is not becauso
her husband sets him the example. This
was Leigh Hunt's one vice, never
amended nor actively repented of. Yet
he had had his warning It is pathetic
to compare with each other the two fol
lowing passages and to see how clearly
Leigh Hunt foresaw his danger and
how incapable he proved of escaping it:
"Ihavc seen," ho writes in 1808, "so
much of the irritabilities, or rather tho
miseries, accruing from want of a suit
able income, and the best woman of her
time was so worried and finally worn
out with the early negligence of others
in this respect that if ever I was deter
mined in anything it is to be perfectly
clear of tho world and ready to meet
the exigencies of a married lifo before
I do marry, for I will not see a Avifo
who loves me aud is tho comfort of my
existence afraid to speak to me of money
matters. She shall never tremble to
hear a knock at tho door or to meet a
quarter day. "
Aud in 1832 :
"I never hear a knock at the doer
but I think somebody is coming to
take me away from my family. Last
Friday I was sitting down to dinner
9 a -when I was called away by a man
who brought an execution into my house
for 40 shi llings. ' 'Temple Bar.
How tho Air Is Purified.
Motion, mechanical and molecular,
the great law of the universe, is first to
bo considered as a natural method for
the purification of the atmosphere. Its
power as a purifier of the air is shown
mechanically in the flow of rivers and
in the ocean currents. Molecularly it
serves the same purpose in tho form of
heat, light and electricity.
When not in motion, air stagnates as
water does and becomes offensive and
bad, because it is easily impregnated
with fine animal and vegetable dust as
well as noxious ga?es.. Certain physical
conditions are always necesary for the
continual movement of the air. We
know that the diurnal motion of land
and sea air brings tho warm days and
cool nights as well as the rain and
wind. In the tropical regions as the
run rises the heat of the day increases,
and the breeze sets in from tho sea to
tho land. As the sun goes down tho heat
diminishes, and at sunset the tempera
tures of sea and land are equal. At night
again the breeze is from land to sea
until morning, when tho temperature
may become equal and the sea breeze
return. Chautauqnau,
Velocity of Insects' Wings In Flight.
E. J. Marey of The Science Recoid
has been studying the flight of insects,
with the object in view of ascertaining
the wing strokes per second in tho dif
ferent species. Those upon which tho
record is complete .are as follows : Wing
strokes per second in the honse fly, 330 ;
drone bee, 240 ; working bee, 1 90 ; wasp,
1 10 ; hawk moth, 72 ; dragon fly, 28, and
cabbage butteifly, 9.
PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
The following proposed amendments
to the Constitutiolfof the State of Ne-;
braska, as hereinafter set forth in full, '
are submitted to the electors of tho
State of Nebraska, to be voted upon '
at the general election to be held. Tues-1
day, NovembJr 3, A. D., 1896:
A joint resolution proposing th
amend sections two' (2), four (4), and
five (5.) of article six (6) of the Consti
tution, of the State of Nebraska, relating
to number of judges of tho supreme
court and their term of office.
Be it resolved and enacted by tho Legisla
ture of the S:ate or Nebraska: .
Section 1. That section two (2) of article
six 0Q of the Constitution of the State
or Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol-
Section 2. Tho supreme court shall until
otherw.so provi loci by law. consist or flvo
(5) judges, a majority of whom shall ba neces
sary to form a quorum or to pronounca
adecision. I; sh-dl havo original jutisdi-tion
in cases relating to revenue, civil cases in
which tho state shall be a party, mandamus.
quo warrnnto. habeas corpus, aud such
appellate jurisdiction, as may be providoi by
Section 2. That section four (4) of article
six (6) of the Constitution of the State
of Nebraska, bo amended so as to readasfol-,
lows: , , .
Section 4. Tho judges of the supremo
court shall bo elected br the electors of the ,
state at largo, und their term of office ex
cept as hereinafter .provided, shall bo for a
period of not less than flvo (5) years as the
legislature may prescribe.
Section 3. That section five () of nrtic o
six (6) of the Constitution of the Stato of Ne
braska, l:o amended to read as follows :
Sections. At tho first general election to
be held in tho year lS9ti. thoro shall be elected
two CO judges of tho supreme court ono
of whom shall be elected for a term of
two (2 years, one for the term of four (4)
years, and at each general election there
after, there shall be elected one judge of
the supreme cmrt for the term of flvo
(o) years, unless otherwise provided by
law; Provided, that the judges of the su
preme court whose tercu have not .expired
at tho tine of holding tho general elec
tion of 189(5, shall continue to hold their
office for the remain lor of the term for
which they were respectively commis
sioned. Approved March 29, A. D- 1333.
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to section thirteen (13) of
article six of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of supreme and district court
judges.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of tho State
of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section thirteen (13) of
articlq six () of the Constitution or the State
of Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol
lows: Sec 13 The judgoi or the snnremo ana
district courts shall receive for their services
such compensation as may bo provided by law,
payable quarterly.
The legislature shall at its first session
after the adoption of this amendment,
three-fifths of the members elected to
each house concurring, establish their
compsnsation. Tho compensation so es
tablished shall not be changed ortoner
than oaco in four years, and in no event unless
two-thirds of th-i members elected to
each house of tho legislature concur
therein.
Approvol March SO, A. D 1803.
A joint resolution proposiug to
amend section twenty-four (24) of
article five (5) of the Constitution of
the State of Nebraska, relatiug to com
pensation of the officers of the executive
deportment.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Legislature
of the Stute of Nebraska:
' Section 1. 'Ihic section twentr-four C24)
fof article five (.-) of thj Constitution of the
btate or NeurasKa be amended to rc-tu as fol
lows: Section 24. The officers of the executive
department or tha state government shall
rejeive for their services a compensation
to be etablibhtfd by law, which shall be
neither increased nor diminished during the
term for which they shall h-ivo been com-missioae-i
and they shall not receive to thoir
own ue any lev-, costs, interests, ucou pu die
moneys in their hands or under thr con;rol,
perquisi:es of office or otlwr compen
sation and all feos th.it may hare,
after be payable ! law for services
pet formed b an offiior provided for ia
this arti.'le shall bo paid in advance iuto the
state treasury. The loslature shall at its
first sessioa,attpr tho adoption of this amend
ment, three-fitths of the members eloted to
each houso or the legislature con
curring, establish tho salaries or thy
officers named in this article. The com
pensation so established shall not be changed
otteaer than oiicu iu four years and in no
event unless two-thirds of the members
elected to each houso of the legislature concur
therein.
Approved Man h 29, A. D. 1S93.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section one (1) of article six (6) of
the Constitution of the State of Nebras
ka, relating to judicial power.
Bs it roiolvcd and enacted by the Legisla
ture of tin St no uf Nebraska :
Section 1. That soclio i on C) or article six
i (6) of the Constitution of the Sta c of Nebraska
be ameudcu to cut as touowa:
Section 1. The judicial power of this state
Ehult bo vdstcl in a supremo court, district
courts, county courts justices of the
pea.c. po'i- c magistrates, aud in such other
cour; a inferior to th snpre.no couit as may
be cicated liv Jaw in which two-thirds of
the mcmbc s e'ected to each house
concur.
Approved Mirch 29, A. D. 1805.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section eleven (11) of article six
(C) of tho Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, relatiug to increase in num
ber of supreme and district court
judges.
Bj it resolved nnd enacted by the Legislature
of the Stato of Nebraska :
cectio.i 1. That section eleven OO of
article six 03) or tin Constitution i.f lhe Stato
of Nebraska bo amended to rea I as fol
lows: Section 11. The legis'ature. whenever two
thirds of th? members elected to each house
shall coiii ur therein, may. in or fter tho year
one thouiuml iht hundred and ninety -saven
and not oftener thin onco in every lour years,
increase tho number of judges or su
premo and district courts, nnd the judical
districts of tha state. Such districts thrill
be formed of compact territory, and
bounded by county lines; nud such in
crease, or any change in the boundaries
of a district, shall not vacate the office of any
judge.
Approved March 3J, A. D. 1803.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section six (C) of article one (1) of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska,
relating to trial by jury.
B It r.wolved and enacted by tho Legislator
of th Slate of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section six 00. article one
(1) of tha Const:tution of tho State of Ne
braska bo amend d to iid as follows:
Sectioa 0. The right of tiial by jury shall
remain inviolate, lm the !egfc ature may pro
vide tht in civil action-. flvK-sixtlts of the jury
ma.- render a verdi ;t. an l th j legislature may
al-oau hor.7.i triai by a jury of nTtess nunibir
man twelve men, in coups interior to tho dis
trict court.
Approved Ma-ch 23, A D. 193.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section one (1) of article five (5)
of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat
ing to officers of the executive depart
ment. Be it resolved and oaacttnl by tha Legisla
ture of lhs Sta'e of Nubraska:
Section 1. Thai section one (1) of" ar
ticle five GO of the Coasti.ution of the fctato
or Nebraska be amended to read as fol
lows: Section L Tha executive department shall
cousfst of a governor, lieutenant-governor,
secretary of sta t. nu iitorof pubij acecunts,
treasurer, su eriutendent of public in
struction, attorney general, commissioner
of public lands and bnildhigs, and three
railroad commission jra. ua h ot whom,
except tho sail milroai commissioners,
shall hold his office for a term of
two years, f'-om tho first Thursday after
the first Tuesday ia January, after
his election, an 1 until his successor is
ele;tcl aad qcalificd. Ea-h rxiiroad com
missioner shall hold his office fur a term of
three ears beginninsr on the first Thursday
after the first Tuesday in Ja-inary a tor
his election, and until his ancces
sor is ele-.tel mil qus iflod: P.oviJed.
however, lhas at the first general e.cc
tionhstdater tho ado.tioi of this amend
ment there x be electea three railroad
commissioners, ono fo.- tho peridd of oue
year, one lor lha period of two years, aud
ono for the priod of throa years. Tho gov
ernor, secretary of stute, auditor of pub
lic accounts, and Treasurer eball rcsido at
tha cboltnl. durinT thir lerra. i.f Qffi,c;
they sfiall keep the public records, books
and papers there and shall perform such du
ties a3 may be required by law.
Approvei March SO, A. D. 1S03.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section twenty-six (26) ofari
tide five (5) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, limiting the num.
ber of executive state officers.
Be it resolvol and nac:cd by tho Leg
islature of tho Htato of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section twenty-six of
article five (a) of tho Constitution of the
Stato of Nebraska be amended to read as
follows: , . .
Section 215. No other executive state offi
cers except thoso named in sction ona (1)
of this article shall ba created, except
by an act of tho legislature which is
concurred in by not less thnn threa-f jurths
of the members elected to .each house
thereof: , .
Provided, That any offlca created by an
act of tha legislature- may be abolished by
tho legislature, two-thirds of tha mem
bers elected to each houso thereof concur
ring. Approved March SO, A. D.. 1803.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section nine (9) of article eight
(8) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, providing for the investment
of the permanent educational funds of
the state. '
Beit resolved and enacted by tho Legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska:
. Section 1. That sectioa nine (9) of article
eight (8) of tho Constitution of the State
of Neb.aska be amended to read as fol-
Section 9. All funis belonging to the state
for educational purposes, tho interest and
income whereo' only aro to be usod, hill
be deemoi tru-st funds hold by tha state,
and tho stato shall supply all losses there
of that may in any manner accrue, so that
the same hnll remain forever inviolate
and undiminished, and shall not be in
vested or loaned except on Uuitcd States
or state fecurities. or registered county
bonds or registered scho 1 district bonds of
this state, and su-h funds with thi inter
est and income thereof are hereby solemn
ly pledged for tho purpose i for whi' h thoy
are granted and set apart, and shall not
bo transferred to any other fund for other
uses
Provided. Tho board crealel by section
1 of this articlo is empowered to sell from
time to time any of the securities belonging
to the permanent s-hool fund and invest
the proceeds aridng therefrom in any of tha
securities enumerated in this section bear
ing a higher rate of interest whenever
an opportunity for better investment is pre-
And provided further. That when any
warrant upon tho state tressmer reg
ularly issued in pursuance of an appropri
ation by tho legislature and secured by tha
levy of a tax for its payment, shall
bo presented to the state treasurer for
payment, aud there shall not bo any
money in the proper fund to pay such
warrant, tho board created by section 1
of this article uiny direct the stato treas
urer to pay tho amonut duo on such wnr
rant from moneys in his hands belonging
to tho permanent school fund of the state,
and he shall hdd said warrant a.s an in
vestment of said permanent school fund.
Approved March 29, A- D- 1895.
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of tho
State of Nebraska by adding a new
section to articlo twelve (12) of said
constitution to be numbered section
two (2) relative to tho merging of tho
.government of cities of the metro
politan class and the government of
the counties wherein such cities are
located.
Be it resolved and euacted by tho Legis
lature of tho Stato of Nebraska:
Section 1. That articlo twelve (12) or the
Constitution of the State of Neur.iska be
amended by adding to said artifle a now sec
tion to 1 e numbered section two (2) to read
as follows:
Section 2. Thi government of any city of
the motropo tan class and tha gov
ernment of the county in which
it is located may be merged wholly
or in part when a proposition so to do has
been submitted by authority of law to the
voters ot such city nnd county nnd re
ceived tha assent or a majority or tho
votes cast in such city and also a majority
of tho votes cast iu the county ex-iusive
of thoso cast in such metropolitan city at such
election.
Aoproved March 20. A. D. 1S93.
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to section six (6) of article
seven (7) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, prescribing the
manner in which votes shall be cast.
Be it resolved aud enacted by the Legislat
ure of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1 Thst section six (0) of nrtielo
seven CO of the Constitution of tho Stute
of Nebraska bo amende! to read as fol
lows :
Section 6. A'l votes -h ill ba by bnl'.ot. or
such other method a3 may bo prescribed
by law provided thi secrecy of voting bo
preserved.
Approved March C9. A D. 1S93.
A joint resolution proposiug to
amend sectiou two (2) of article four
teen (14) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, relative to donations
to worlds of internal improvement aud
manufactories.
Bj it resolved and ntacted by thn Leg
islature of th State of Nebraska:
Section 1 That tectiou two CO oforticle
fourteen (14) ot tha Cons:itu.iun or thi
State or Kebiaska, be amended to real as
follows:
Sec. 2. No city, county, own, precinct,
municipality, or other subdivision ot tho
state, shall ever make donations to any
works uf internal improvement. or
manufactory, uulesj a prup:-ition so to
do shall havo been first submitted to tho
qualified oiectors and ratifioi ty n two
thirds vote at an election by authority of
law; Provided. That tmch donutions of a
county with the donations of snch sut di
visions in tho aggregate shall not ex.-ced
ten per cent of the assessed valuation if
such county; Provided, further. That any
city or county may, by a three-fourths
vote, increase such indebtedness five per
cent, in addition to such ten per cent au.l
no bonds or evidences of indebtedness so
issued ehall be vaiid unless th same sh 1
Inve endjrsol thereon a cerufleatu Hignod
by the secretary and auditor of state,
showing that the some is issuol pursuant to
law.
Approved March 29, A. 1803,
I, J. A. Piper, secretary of state of
the state of Nebraska, do hereby certify
that the foregoing proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska are true and correct copies of
tho original enrolled and engrossed
bills, as passed by the Twenty-fourth
session of the legislature of the State
of Nebraska,, as appears from said
original bills on file in this office, and
that all and each of said proposed
amendments are submitted to the
qualified voters of the State of Ne
braska for their adoption or rejection
at the general election to be held ou
Tuesday, the 8d day of November, A.
D., 1890.
In testimony whereof, I have here-
unto set my hand and affixed tho great
seal of tho State of Nebraska.
Pone at Lincoln this 17th day of
July, in the year of ourLrfl, Due Thou
sand, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six,
of the Independence of the United
States the One Hundred and Twenty
First, and of this state the Thirtieth.
(Seal) T. A. PIPER,
Setrctary of State.
