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THE NEBRASKA LEGISLATURE A Synopsis of Proceedings in Both Branches of the Twenty-Eighth GencreJ Assembly. 8KNATK. In lh senate on th ISth S. F. 1T7 Vatr tights ami IrrlRktlon t:isMd. H. V. 49. providing that city treitsiirr shall ! ex -it1Trt) trpaturrr of mhoul Ihih nl and providing for hoards, passed. S. F. fio, rH;itlnz to marks anil lirnnds. passed. H. V. 124, providing that state supnrln-trnilt-nts shall presrrlbo K"nT;il roiirsi; of study, whlrh nclioiil hoard may fol low. Amended that no h.jni?e In text books l r-"lr-.l. It'll paed. Senate went Into n rmnniltti-r of t ti whole with lonn of Flllmorf In the eliiiir. H. K. I -JO, realtlng to hi-IhmiI land, uti-l provMInc when thfjr shall rrvirl to the state npot non-pa yment f I;ix-m or Interest, umend anil ordered engrossed. H. K. l'JI, ly Young "y re'iA-st- Joint resolut Ion fl x Ing thi amount to le set npnrt f-c the erection tt a sodhoiisn and modern farm building, showing the progress of Ne braska, as an exhIMt at t Ii Louisiana I'urrhas exposition. Mrs. I.ouMe I!ow ser winlD the state to give her $'-'.000 out ef IotilMlarin exposition appropriation. She agrees to erect a two-r.tory sodhotise, with a restaurant In lower story, upper story to tie open ami puhlle. all to cost tUO.ttiO. S. F. 192, hy Sloan of Fillmore (by- request) Re-enacttng representative feature in fraternal societies. 3. F. 193. tiy Marshall of Otoe (by rerpiest) Defin ing the name an) purpose anil providing for the government ami maintenance of the Nebraska School for the Wind. 8. F. ItM. by Marshall of Otoo (by reipiestt Ieflnlng the name ami purpose ami pro vlillng for the government ami malnten ar.ee of the Nebraska School for the 8. F. 113. by Howell of Douglas, had rough sailing In the senate on the 19th and after a long discussion In the com mittee of the whole no action was taken, the bill to retain Its place on general (lie. The bill provides that before unincorpor ated mutual companies sh ill have power to Insure outside of the members of tho company or to pay officers more than 13 per day or to employ solicitors, the com pany shall deposit with the state a surety bond for $loi.nio. Standing committees re ported the following li!ls for general file: ivflning des:rtln of wi.'e, husband or minor child; regarding game and fish commission arid get: son for killing game; no claim for subscription to news paper or magazine shall 1 valid except for time ordered; providing that courts may order Judgments paid In Install ments; providing for the supersedeas of cases appealed to suprerie court; provid ing for bonds to lie given by parties sell ing liiiuor; II. K. 114. irovlding for the printing of the report of state superin tendent, amended that printing be let by state printing board recommended for passage; II. It. 4X. providing for cost of bonds of school board treasurers to be paid by districts recommended for pas sage. The following bills were reported back by committees In the senate on the 20th. with the recommendation that they be placed on the general tile for passage: S. F. I".3. providing that the deposit of a check or draft In a bark shall be deem.-.l evidence of due diligence In col lecting the same; S. F. 12S. providing that judge, sheriff, clerk or consta ble sh ill be allowed to practice as an attorney in any court of the county In which they hold office; S. F. 1!. pro viding when an injunction may b. grant ed by the court: S. F. 1.11. providing for a commission to revise the statutes: S. F. ST. providing that heads of families shall have exempt from attachment t-V&i S. F. 1H. providing a prinvedlnfc to re ive a judgment can only be brought within five years after the judgment becomes dormant; S. F. 1 '1. providing the- articles of incoriratlon of a corpo ration may be amended by a vote or three-fourths of the capital stock: S. F 1.1.1. providing when a defendant is found guilty the court shall render judgment. Including riM-ts; S. F. MS. providing it shall not be necessary to serve notice of suit on a minor child to be adopted. "The following bills were read 'the third time and passed: Senate tile No. 3S. de fining conditions of child dependency, jrescrlbing methods of protection and penalties for neglect; senate lite No. !S. to prevent the mutilation of horses by docking; senate file No. 1:. legalizing Vonds for the construction of irrigation canals anil works; senate file No. 12f. providing If any lessee of educational lands shall le in default of payment for six months or any purchaser shall le in default for one year th lands shall be declared forfeited by the board of edu cational lands and funds; house roll No. 33. providing for district ownership of text books In cities; bottle roll No. 279. appropriating $1 . from the fund f the hospital for the insane at Norfolk, for , vse of the hospital for the insane at Lincoln; house roll No. 42. providing for the organization of sehiol board, salary of secretary, etc. In the senafe on the 22d notice was re ceived from the governor to the effect that he had signed senate file No. 3. which empowers county boards to en force quarantine regulations to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. In committee of the whole senate file No. 1.1. repealing the law which provides for three days of grace on notes, drafts, etc.. was considered. Senator Marshall, who introduced the bill, explained that the law allowing three days of trace be longs to the time of stage coaihes. and tiat such a law Is now ohs-iKte. The 1 iw has been repealed in twenty-five states. Senator Jennings and Anderson rpoke In faor of repealing the law, and Senators "offe. Wall and Way against Its repeat. Senator Ilrady called atten tion to the fact that only the bankers and money lenders In the-senate were In favor of the repeal of the law. The tdll was reported back for Indefinite post ponement by a vote of 13 to 12. The re spects of the senate were paid to the memory of Washington by a recess of five minutes, during which Senator Wall spoke on the life of the first president. Among bills introduced were the follow ing: Changing the period of order of sale of mortgaged premises from nine to twelve months. Regulating the sale, the exposition for sale, or the offering for ale of any article made, manufactured or produced in any Jail, work house, prison, penitentiary, or other penal in titutlon. protecting persons purchasing juch articles and providing penalties for the violation thereof. Providing all art icles manufactured In the penitentiary shall be marked prison-made, except in cases where such action would conflict with national law. To compel school di rectors to make an Itemized statement ef what money Is to be Mpent for when annual levy is made. To inge meth-sl of apportionment of state hooI funds. This Is practically the same as the Too- ley bill Introucecl In the house some time go. HOUSE. In the house on the ISth II. It. 263 by Ilurgess of Iancater. providing for on appropriation of $8.1.000 to erect a mm eum und library building by the State Illstorleul society In Lincoln, was rec oiiimendcd for IridePu.te post pi nement. as was also II. It. 237, by Gilbert of Douglas, providing for a commission of engine und boiler Inspectors. The house took up a special order, the report of the committee on public lands and build ings that the fiirls" Industrial home at Jetieva, be closed, on the plea that there are not enough Inmates to Justify Its maintenance, and that he Inmates be re moved to the Hoys' Industrial school at Kearney. After discussion the report of the committee was tabled. Sweezy moved that two Items In the bill approved by the committee be stricken out. These Items were $110 for blue books furnished by the State Journal company and $137.30 for bills furnished by Harry Porter. Sweezy claimed that In the first place, the contracts for these supplies . ought to be made by the house Instead of the secretary of state. He tjtsputed the fair ness and justice of both bills, and de clared as to the files that, while they cost the house $1.75 each, they were worth not more than 30 cents. The mo tion was carried. New bills were intro duced as follows: To license and provide against the extortion of pawnbrokers and to fix the maximum rate of Interest charged by them at 10 per cent per an num, and to provide that pledged articles must be advertised In a newspaper of general circulation for four consecutive weeks before they can be sold. Penalties from $.10 to $G00. To declare void sales, trades or other disposition of entire stock of goods or merchandise, wholesale or retail, or portions theref. In bulk or otherwise than In the ordinary course of the vendor's business. The house convened at 3 o'clock on the I'.'th anil immediately went Into commit tee of the whole, considering bills on gen eral file. Among the important bills acted on was II. It. 13(5, by Davis of Buf. falo. providing for a Jecrease of interest rate county funds In banks from 3 to 2 per cent and that counties may deposit money within 50 per cent of the capital stock of tho bank instead of 30 per cent, a! now. and thit where banks located in the county refuse cr neglect to bid on said money or where there are no banks In the county or none having suf ficient capital Mock, then any surplus over the 50 per cent that ine county may receive shall be deposited in banks out side of t"ie county having sufficient cap ital stock. This bill was recommended for passage, as was also II. R. 7, by Jahnel of Washington, changing the method of appraising the damages in cc ndemnation proceedings by railroads, and H. R. 51 by Cassel of Otoe, compell ing road overseers to op?n ditches in April and October, and 11. R. H8 by I'erry of Furnas, allowing uniform fees for sheriffs for service In justice, district and county courts. H. R. 96, by Warner of Lancaster, precipitated the house into a brisk discussion in which Douglas county members, especially Kennedy, figured prominently. It provides that the county supervisor shall be made the coun ty engineer and have charge of all the work devolving upon the latter. It like wise brought up the old bridge hill dis cussion and Kennedy opponed the bill, anil finally secured the adoption of an amendment excluding Dougala county fr m the operation of the measure, which in Its amended form, wa3 recom mended for passage. Two eventful proceedings occurred In the house on the 2'Hh. one an appeal from the decision of the speaker an4 the other a call of the house to note absentees and members present and not voting. Roth came as a result of the fight over H. R. K3, by Jones of Otoe, the bill providing for the election of the county commissioners by vote of the en tire county, which had been denominat ed a party measure. Jones, the author, was absent and an effort was made to huve the bill passed over until the au thor could be present. Sweezy and oth ers opposed this. Sweezy. who was against the bill, agreeing to pair with Jones. The speaker ruled that action on the bill should be taken, and Spurlock o. Cass moved to appeal from the de cision of the chair and was seconded by McAllister of Deuel. The speaker was sustained. The other remarkable Inci dent was when the bill was put to a vote. Several members present refused to vote, whereupon Douglas of Rock moved the call of the house and the motion carried. The bill was finally lost, fifty-one votes being necessary for pas sage. The house then took up the bridge bill. H. R. 112. and voed to recommit it. It passed H. R. 79, by Loomis of Dodge, requiring teachers In district schools to keep school the statutory term or make report showing the tax levy has been made and Is exhausted. The house In committee of the whole recom mended for passage H. R. 127, by Mere ulith of York, as amended by Speaker Mockett. providing that no intoxicating lienors shall be sold on the premises or within two miles of any federal army post or fort: also II. R. Ifi7. by Weborg of Thurston, providing for a memorial to congress for a constitutional amendment permitting the popular election of United States senators. The entire time of t,he house on the 22d was occupied by the reading of the revenue bill, save for the introduction of a number of other bills and the re ports of standing committees. These lat ter reported th:rty-six bills back to the house, of which twenty-six were placed on the general file. The following bills were Introduced and read for the first time: Repealing that section of the In surance law providing that the agents premiums shall be paid by the purchaser of a short-rate policy. A bill for an act to extend the boundaries of all cities, villages, school districts and other mu nicipal Incorporations bordering upon navigable streams which constitute state boundaries. For the relief of Lieutenant Governor McGilton. to pay the cost of his official bond furnished the state, amounting to $S1. Providing: that state board of equalization shall consist of six members and shall be elected one from each congressional district, and the providing for method of election and ten ure of office. Providing the clerk of the supreme court shall pay all fees in ex cess of $1,000 per year Into the state treasury- Providing that no liquor li cense shall afford protection to any one except the person to rbom it ts granted. his employes, etc., and Increasing the penalty for selling adulterated liquors. A bill for an act to provide for the color! tig of all kerosene or coat oil for illuminating purposes, und to provide a penulty for the violation thereof. MSISLATIVK NQTKS. H. R. by Itacon of Dawson, providing for an aprpoprlation of $.10,000 for the purpose of determining whether petrol eum, coal or ga exists and can be ob tained In paying quantities In Nebraska, has been recommended for passage In the house by the committee on internal Improvement. The plan of the bill Is to sink six wells as a means of getting at the desired Information. In .the house Weborg Introduced a bill to provide that the Hoard of Kquallzatlon sball consist of one member to be elected from each congressional district of the state, to be elected at the November gen eral election. Three members shall be elected each alternute two years there after. The first terms of those elected In even numbered districts shall be two years and those in odd numbered dis tricts four years. Thereafter each term r.h ill be four years. The board shall ha ve power to raise or lower county nssessmi tits. i-'enate lile 203. introduced in the senate by Fries of Valley, Is a second edition of the Tooley house bill, which was killed In the house last week. It is n bill for the rearrangement of the apportionment of school rnoirey. It provides that one fourth of the money shall be given to counties according to the number of school district and the remaining three fourths shall be divided pro rata accord Ing to the number of pupils. Senator Fries said he believed the bill was not thoroughly understood In the house, hence he Introduced It In the senate. It seeks . to take from the larger school districts money that they now get under the apportionment law and give It to the smaller districts. The revenue bill introduced In the house on the 23d is entitled: "A bill for an act to provide a system of revenue and to repeal articles 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of sections 4. 5, C. 7. 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of articles vll of chapter Ixxvil Compiled Statutes of Nebraska for the year 1901." It was Introduced by J. A. Douglas, George L. Loomis. W. T. Thompson, W. G. Sears. F. A. Sweezy, C. J. Warner and W. II. Wilson, the special house committee appointed by Speaker Mockett to act jointly with Senators Brown, Pemberton, Fries, Saunders, Day, Ander son and Reynolds in the framing of a revenue bill. The committee has been at work about a month. TO COMPEL. MEN TO VOTE. Representative J. A. C. Kennedy of Douglas county may introduce a bill providing for compulsory voting in cities. e is known to be interested in the sub ject and Is said to be collecting data and information with a view of drawing up such a measure. A bill to compel every qualified elector In the country districts to vote already has been introduced into the legislature by Representative Ellers, and Is known as H. R. 159, being now In the hands of the committee on elections and privileges. It provides a voting tax of $3, a receipt for which shall be given by the judges of election when each man casts his ballot, the receipt to be ac cepted by the cou,nty treasurer in pay ment of the tax. The only other alter native than paying the amount is a sworn statement decalring physical dis ability on election day. Mr. Ellers also has introduced H. R. 158, which seeks to make the general election day each year a holiday, on which the schools and all places of labor shall be closed. To City Engineer Rosewater Is given the credit for originating the compul sory voting idea for cities. He says: 'It is one of the reforms that I would make to improve citizenship. If citizen ship is good for anything it is worth earning. I do not believe in sending carriages variously labeled for people on ehction day. 'I do believe, however, that If every man is compelled to ote or pay a fine we will get an honest expression at all times, either in special or general elec tions. I would have a board of regis tration like a census board, to check over the list of registered voters to see wheth er euch casts a ballot and to keep close tab on the eligible voters of the city. The fine that should be administered in cose of failure to vote should be enforc ed bv the board, and $-1 for each offense would be the proper amount." TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION. The telephone Investigation. Is is prom ised. wHl be under day soon. The first testimony the committee hears will prob ably be that of C. II. Judson. general manager of the Twin City Telephone company of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Mr. Judson is in Lincoln, and it is an nounced he will remain until he has had chance to appear before the commit tee. It Is expected to be shown by his testimony that in Minneapolis and St. Paul an Independent company makes rates littlo more than half as high as they are in Omaha; that the company has several thousand more subscribers than has the Nebraska Bell company in the Nebraska metropolis, and that it has complete modern equipment, such as the Nebraska company has for some time been promising to put in, and which gives it a much superior and more satis factory service. The house renewed consideration of H. R. 143. by Gregg of Wayne, providing that no one shall be eligible to hold the office of county superintendent of schools who does not hold a first grade teacher's cer tificate. Mr. Gregg moved that his bill be engrossed for the third reading. Doug las of Rock opposed the bill, arguing that many of the counties in the western part of the state were without first grade cer tificate teachers and therefore, If this bill was passed, it would Impose the neces sity of importing persons for county su perintendent. Bartow of Valley thought this was an argument for the bill. Spur lock of Cass made a forcible speech in favor of the bill. Urging the importance of raising the educational standard. Gregg's motion finally carried by a vote of 50 to 25. These bills were passed: Ap propriating $10.00) from the unexpended board and colthing fund of the Norfolk asylum to the maintenance of patients re moved from that to the Lincoln asylum. Permitting the small printer to bid on any state work in separate items he can furnish, instead of as at present, letting the printing out in bulk. This is the so called anti-printing trust bill. Strength ening the powers of county commission ers and supervisors in the suppression of contagious and infectious diseases. To provide county treasurers with a seal. Providing the school teachers, principals and superintendents shall not receive their full term's pay until they shall have made the full report required by law. Longest Beard in the World. Alexander Wllkie of upper Craigie, Perth, N. B., is believed to possess the longest beard in the world. His exceptional growth of hair began when he was about i5 years of age. From that time it re- rapidly and it is now seven fee two and a half inches long and stil growing. The cover Is often the best thing about the book. NEBRASKA IN BRIEF, f Thexo is mtich tlrkness in and about Rxeter, with some fatal terminations. Judge Geo. G. Bowman, a well known lawyer, dropped dead on the utrcet in Omaha from heart trouble, Tho W. S. A. club of Table Rock celebrated the 83d anniversary of the birth of Miss Susan B. Anthony. There Is an epidemic of measles and scarlet fever In the vicinity of Taylor, but as yet no fatalities have been re ported James R. Alexander and wife have sold to Edward Andrews 320 acres of land in township nine, in Otoe county. for 119,200. The York camp of the Modern Woodmen has passed a resolution op posing any change in the present syS' tern of assessment. The fight for the rural telephone system in the vicinnty of Murray be tween the Bell and independent com panics is on hot, with the .independ ents in the lead. Farmers in the vicinity of Vestra re practically starving in the midst of plenty by not being able to get cars to ship out wheat and corn to market. This condition has existed since last September. What appears to be a very rich de posit of lead was discovered in a quarry a few miles west of Barneston, Gage county, and considerable ex citement prevails in that neighbor hood as a result. Alonzo Wymore, a widower, aged about45 years, living with John Lar son, on the George Joyce farm near Alma, was found dead in bed by Mr. Larson. Heart disease is supposed to have caused death, William Webber, while working with i a Vfc la a gang or men on me uuniDgion bridge which spans the Missouri river at Plattsmouth, fell to the ice below. a distance of about seventy feet, and was injured so badly that he died. H. A. Cheney, president of the Se curity bank of Creighton, has been named as receiver of the Bank of Ver digris, after a fruitless effort on the part of the owner to furnish a suitable bond to guarantee Its liquidation by himself. W. J. O'Brien, superintendent of tho state fish hatcheries near South Bend, received large consignments of trout eggs from Bayfield, Wis., Manchester, la., and Leadville, Colo. This makes over 500,000 trout eggs now in process of incubation at the hatcheries. C. W. Kiser met with a singular ac cident at Howe. He and W. B. Cooney were digging the grave of Mrs. W. A. Wright. The ground was frozen liard. Cooney was using an ax to cut tho soil and struck Kiser on the hand, splitting the hand open - almost the length of it. Cyrus Kelley, aged fourteen, was out hunting near the home of his half- brother, Jerry Kelley, on the Loup, Garfield county line. The gun he car ried was discharged accidentally, the charge striking him on the right side Df the chin and ranging through the head. Death was instantaneous. Mr. Hellfly, a traveling man, in York, met a little girl near the post office who was not dressed very com fortably, and on questioning the girl she told him her feet were cold. Mr. Hellfly at once took the little girl into shoe store and bougnt her a new pair of warm shoes. Rev. E. E. Wilson, who has been pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Nebraska City for the past Bve months and who, before coming, was a missionary in South America, has been selected by the Methodist Episcopal missionary board of New York city as missionary to Porto Rico. After being out five hours the jury in the case of the State of Nebraska against Charles Cain, charged with robbing a Rock Island freight car at Beatrice last fall, returned with a verdict finding the defendant guilty of petit larceny. Judge Letton sentenced him to the county jail for thirty days at hard labor and ordered him to pay cost of prosecution. At Long Pine after driving his wife and stepson from the room with a revolver, Fred R. Ingalls turned the weapon on himself and inflicted a probably fatal wound In the head. Th,e family was at dinner when the tragedy happened. Ingalls is the official watch maker for the Elkhorn and has long been in business at Long Pine. An uncontrollable appetite for drink. which has ruined his health, was the cause of the deed. John Shoemaker, living one mile east of Bertrand, while working with corn sheller at William Karstens, was caught in a shaft, breaking both bones of his right arm, causing a ompound fracture and other bmises. Governor Mickey has paroled Chas. L. Sharp of Papillion. Sharp lias been serving a sentence at the penitentiary for car robbing, committed on the Rock Island. The parole was granted at the request of several prominent Papillion people, who have taken an Interest in the man. - Swan Swan son, of Arborville, was found dead in bed In rooms over Al Haag's restaurant in York. Swanson was 36 years of age and a single man. He had been troubled with heart dis ease and dropsy for three years. The seventeenth annual session of the North Nebraska Teachers asso ciation will be held at Columbus,, com mencing Wednesday, April l, and con tinuing throughout the week. Boards of education are requested to so ar range the spring vacations that teach ers may be able to attend. CHILDREN IN A WRECK. Eight Killed and Thirty or Mors Wounded. NEWARK. N..J. A fast express on the Lackawanna railway cut througn a trolly car crowded with school chll dren at the Clifton avenue crossing Thursday. Sight of the children were killed and thirty or more injured. The motorman of the car, who stuck to his post, will die, and the engineer of tho express was so badly hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Both the express and the trolly were on steep grades, going at right angles. The express was signalled, and cross ing gates were lowered while the street car was yet only half way down the hill. The motorman immediately turned off the power and applied the brakes, but the car slipped along the icy rails. It gained tremendous mo mentum, and at the bottom of the hill crashed through the gates directly in the track of the oncoming train. Tho locomotice ploughed its way through the trolly, throwing the children in every direction. Child Saving Institute of Omaha. The month of January was filled with interesting work in connection with this Institute. The number of children on hand January 1st was 39; number admitted during the month, 15;;. number re-admitted, 2; while number, 56; number placed in homes during the month, 6; number returned to parents or relatives, 6; number of small infants who died, 2;. making a decrease of 14. This left in the home on February 1st 42 children. Several cases were taken into the courts in order to rescue children from immoral surroundings. A great many appeals have recently come to this institute for admission of children. It will be impossible to respond to all these appeals which are coming week after week, unless additional funds are provided to meet the expenses. '- Any. one desiring further informs tion . is requested to write to the su perintendent for the annual report. It is hoped the readers of this ar ticle will respond to the needs of this work on behalf of the little ones by sending whatever sum of money can be spared. HOUSE HAS CLEAR DECKS. Practically All Sessional Work Dis posed Of. WASHINGTON The house enters the last full week of the session with the recks practically cleared of evry thing except appropriation bills. Only one of these, the general deficiency, which was reported Saturday, remains to be passed. Several Interesting contests are ex pected on a number of bills in confer ence. Especially spirited would bo the fight over the proposition to ac cept a statehood amendment if one should come to the house as a rider on an appropriation bill. It would command the solid support of the dem ocratic side, and it is believed enough republicans to accept it, although it would be strongly resisted by the re publican leaders. The Philippine cur rency bill has been set for Tuesday. The suspension day, which, under the rules, precedes the expiration of each congress, begins on Wednesday, and by means of the parliamentary ex pedient of making motions under sus pension of the rules parliamentary knots can be cut and legislation ex pedited. Preparing to Trek to America. OGDEN, Utah George E. Owens, the ticket agent of the Lackawanna railroad at New York City, is in Og den with the intention of meeting a delegation of Boers, who are on their way east over the Southern Pacific.' Mr. Owens states that these Boers will make a tour of the United States as the guests of the various railroads and will reach here Monday. He says the Southern Pacific has sold the delegates a large tract of land for settlement within 100 miles of Ogden. It is un derstood that the tract lies in the Bear river valley, to the northwest of this city. Francis Pushes Fair in London. LONDON D. R. Francis, president of the St. Louis exposition, spent a busy day at Claridge's hotel conferring with the St. Louis fair commissioners to the various countries who have come to London to see him. A private dinner was given in his honor at the Carlton hotel Sunday night. Ambas sador Choate, Prince Radziwill, Lord Grey, Admiral Fisher, Lieutenant Gen eral Sir Ian Hamilton, Arnold Morley, Sir Clinton Dawkins and Colonel Hun- sicker of Pittsburg were among the guests. - . Carnegie the Best Rich Man. NEW YORK. Addressing a meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul society at Carnegie hall Morday night, Bishop John Lancaster Spalding of Peoria re ceived great applause when he declar ed that great wealth is'almost certain to degrade the possessor of it, and, out of all the men who are known to reckon their possessions in the mil lions, he named only one Andrew Carnegie as a man able to rise axve iis surroundings. . Turkey Makes It Clear. SOFIA, Bulgaria In her recent note to Burgaria, Turkey declines to ac cept the Burgarian government's dec laration as to the non-existence of rev olutionary bands in - Macedonia and warns Bulgaria that explicit instruc tions have been sent to the Turkish authorities to prevent the disturbance. This note is regarded as being intend ed to justify Turkey's military activ ity. "V . . EYlLOFJlEClPIlOClVy ' - .' I . TRUE REASON WHY THE IDEA IS UNSOUND. (t Favors Producers in Other Coui tries at the Expense of Home Con- -sumera - Soma Cases In Point Which Prove This Truth. The American Protective Tariff league has Issued Us "circular No. 185" in the form of a resolution of that singularly altruistic association adopted at some annual meeting which seem 8 to have been held in New York about the middle of January. The resolution declares that "reci procity in competitive products by treaty is unsound in principle, perni cious in practice and condemned by all experience. It is neither ethical nor economic, since it seeks to benefit some industries by the sacri fice of others", which is the essence of injustice." It is not often that the American Protective Tariff it-ague tells the truth even by accident, and when it does it should receive a measure of credit proportioned to its good intentions. It is true that "reciprocity in com petitive products" or any other prod ucts "by treaty is unsound in prin ciple." It is not only unconstitutional as an invasion of the province of Congress by the treaty-making power, but, as the resolution affirms, it is "unsound in principle." As the reso lution further affirms, it is not con ducive to friendly relations with other countries, because it favors some of them more than others. But. what the resolution does not say, it is unsound chiefly because it favors producers in other countries or importers of their products at the expense of home consumers. For instance, we reduce the duty on sugar imported from Cuba 20 per cent, leaving the duty on all other. im ported sugar the same. The effect is not to reduce the price of sugar to American consumers in the least. The duty on other Imported sugar Is added to the price of every pound that goes into consumption in this country, whether produced in Germany, Cuba, Louisiana or Michigan. The American consumer pays Just the same on Cuban sugar as on Ger man sugar, but the government does not get the money. It goes either to the Cuban producer or to the Have- meyer sugar trust or they divide It be tween them. And it is the same in any other case of reciprocity dicker. The American protectee, however, should be the last man to complain, He gets his pound of flesh just the same. The only thing he has to fear is that the same reciprocity terms will be made with all countries, which fould be equivalent to a lowering of rates all around by the direct process of legislation. But there is no dan ger of that under itepublican rule. The league tells the truth also when it says that reciprocity seeks to bene fit some industries by the sacrifice of others, but this is true only when reciprocity in the case of any article is carried to the extent of reducing the duty on that article from whatever source imported. The league gets down to the bed rock of truth, though unintentionally, when it says that the benefiting of some industries by the sacrifice of others is the essence of injustice." This is precisely what protection seeks to do in every case. It fastens the protected industries as parasites on those which are and necessarily must be self-independent. What the league says of reciprocity is strictly true of the whole scheme of protectionism. It "opens the door to the grossest favoritism in legisla tion, promotes the growth of a cor rupting lobby and increases the power of debasing bossism." The league did not intend to tell the truth about itself and its system when it used this language, but it hit the nail squarely on the head. Secretary Shaw and the Surplus. Mr. Shaw, as secretary of the treas ury, knows what an abnormal national surplus means. He knows that it is dangerous. Although it may represent a high state of prosperity it involves possibilities that cannot be contem plated without an effort to avert them. If a great surplus In the national treas ury, which is capable of administra tive manipulation, ' creates a danger ous condition Is it not even more dangerous to foster a system that accelerates the accumulation of the nation's wealth in a comparatively few private hands, where it cannot be manipulated by governmental agen cies? Yet the system that Mr. Shaw upholds, and which he would not modify "merely because it is imper fect," is constantly and rapidly center ing a vast portion of the money of the country in the hands of the great trusts. Somebody Should Be Punished. All organs of public opinion in con gress, the press and the bar ought to take notice of the Doblin-Quigg case at Washington and not allow it to pass off as a mystery, still less as a matter for Jest or sarcasm. It is perfectly certain that perjury has been com mitted of a peculiarly brazen and dam- aging Kino. n. is prouauie mai corrup- 1 1 1 1 At A. I tion of a congressman was attempted in order to get money from the public treasury. Moreover, the dignity and authority of congress have been in sulted and flouted in the most glaring manner. If such things can be done without somebody going to the peni tentiary . there is not much use in having laws and a system of juris prudence. Specimen of Yankee Protectionists. The fishermen of Gloucester, Mass., who are decided protectionists and have much Influence at Washington, are not, it appears, fishermen at all, as a rule, but traders who go to New foundland to buy fish and then bring them to Gloucester or Boston and enter them free- of duty on the pre tense that they are "American caught." They enter the fish as caught by American fishermen, as- sisted by natives of Newfoundland," but it is a fraud. The fishing fraud is often supplemented, it is stated, by smuggling. Opium is got ashore In tea , caddies, expensive drugs are oacked in pickl bottles, liquor comes in herring burn-In mid chnnipiurn In various wnys. HoiikUhuh tlio "purl tans" are caught at thc-lr trick, but not often. WHAT AILS THE SUGAR TRU8TF More Trouble In One of Our Highly, Protected Industries. What is tho matter with the sugar trust? Recently when tho 5,000 em ployes In the liavemeyc-r sugar refin ery In Williamsburg th largest of the trust's plants called at the cash ier's window for their pay they wer bluntly told that the works wero closed Indefinitely. There was no warning not a hint bad been dropped that any such thing was in contemplation. What does It mean? Is the market overstocked? Is it necessary to curtail production In order to maintain trust prices? if so the facta must have been known to the trust officials for a conslderablo time, and there was opMrtiinlty enough to give wurnlng to the em ployes. The attorneys for the protectees do not forget to remind iih every day that the protective system Is ull for the benefit of those who work for wages. That It makes waes IiIkIi, keeps them high and gives workers plenty to do is their continually reiter ated assertion. It makes the Indus tries prosperous. It makes prices high and It makes everybody able to pay the high pric es und buy more than he wants. But somehow it generally happens that whenever trouble comes it comes in some protected industry. Now It is the sugar industry, which Is protected to the extent of 75 per cent or more of the value of untaxed sugar. It is mysterious. No government action Is threatened which can hurt the refining interest. The only pending measure is a treaty reducing the duty on raw sugar from Cuba 20 per cent. It is by no tnfcans certain that this treaty will be ratified. But if it should be the only possible ef fect upon the Havemeyer trust would be to enable it to get its raw material that much cheaper without in the least diminishing its protection on the re fined article which It sells. It is instructive to note that those who attribute all our prosperity to the miracle-working tariff never have any explanation to offer of these strange freaks of their prosperous tariff -sheltered trusts. Growing Tired of Trust Rule. Many manufacturers who have .sold out to trusts have grown weary of In action or a salaried place or Kuhrnirt siob t board of direr-tors and have gone back into their old business with the capital which the trust paid theni for the works almout Invariably nioru than the works are worth. Titus tho combination to suppress competition has resulted in more competition. Ono of the chief members of the type writer trust has withdrawn and Incor porated a company with $.1,000,000 of capital to manufacture writing ma chines. It is explained that the profits of his company were larger In pro portion than those of other members of the trust and he has made up his mind to use his own business ability for himself instead of for other peo ple. Poor Material in the Senate. It is increasingly harder for high minded statesmen to pass into the senate. That body under the present conditions draws to itself 'chiefly the more presentable bosses and the mediocre sort of successful business men who fill the party chest, and do the boss' bidding "Wealth unguided and uninformed, untempered by a pa triotic and statesmanlike regard for the general welfare." When the real power of the senate oligarchy is fully understood by the p-aln people wo shall probably have a constitutional amendment and popular election of senators. This will be no sovereign remedy for the ills we have spoken of, but it would at least Improve the per sonnel of the senate. Who Has Held .Up the People? The strike commission has permit ted the operators to present testimony against the miners and has delivered incidental lectures to the miners on the subject of their responsibility to the public and their duty to mine all the coal possible. The miners deny that they have limited the output of the mines and assert that the opera tors have done so. Fair plar demands that the miners have their opportun ity to question the men at the head of the coal combine. Whether the miners have been misrepresented is a question of minor importance, how ever, compared with the right of tho public to know who has been working the hold-up game in the coal market True Jeffersonian Doctrine. Jefferson's whole theory of govern ment was based upon the impropriety of the government's doing anything for the citizen that the citizen could do for himself, or to its assuming any duties which could be performed by individuals cither alone or in associa tion. It was a root-hog-or-die republic that Jefferson believed in, founded up on the everlasting equality of oppor tunity. It is not equality of oppor tunity that the populists believe in so much as in tho emialitv of achieve " ments. which is at variance with everv- thing that Jefferson conceived as free dom and liberty and life. The Insidious High Tariff. Extortions that are possible as the result of. a duty are not to be meas ured by the siza of the duty-any more than the ravages of a disease may be estimated by the 6ize of the bacillus that causes it. The duty that is high, enough to protect home producers while they are forming a combination to control distribution is all they need. Once in control of all the elements of distribution they can fix prices to suit themselves and laugh at all attempts at competition. Where the Blame Belongs. It is said that enforcing the law for tne removal of the fences illegally erected on the public domain in the cattle - raising district would work a hardship disproportionate to the bene fits that would accrue to the public. The nonenforcemnnt of the law to which the illegal fencing of the lands is due is wj-at has worked the hard- shin. j