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THIS OMAHA DAtLY BEE : FRIDAY , APRIL 27 , 18M. ? I IB OMAHA DAILY HKK. 1 ! llOSinvATKH , Mflor 1't HtilflllKD KVKItV MuItNINO. TIIIIilH OK Inly | lli > < - ( wllltnut Hntidny ) , Oni ) "Venr . I 8 W > I n\\y \ \ mid Hunilitr. Olio Vcnr. . . . . . IJ JJJ Hit Mwurin . BJO Tlirw ! Mnnlh * . . J 5 ? K'indny llw , On - Y HI . 5 * ' KnMiniHX Itff , On" Vcnr . I * > AV.Phlv ) ! * . Or. Vonr . OKKIPHH. r > innim Th llw ritillditiK. K- nth omnhn , rmiipr N nnd Twenty-fourtli 8tt. r 'incll Itliiffn , 12 r irl Ktrot. . I'fi'onito ' nitlnc. 517 Olwmlier nf Commerce. K r Vorit. lloonw IX II nnd IJ , Trlliunt lllilg. Wi. i' nxtiin. no ; r fit. , N.v. . ( OUIlBHI'ONtlJJXCIt \tl ntmmmli nitons relntliiK In n < - nnt o < lt- I' i 'ill ' nmtlcr nli'iiiM IKJ inlilrpMnlt To Uio lUllor. All liinilnm loiters nnd r.-mlttnno ii utiould tw n.llrc.wd tn The llco I'ulilinhtnit company , Oi mlin. Draft * , flitfloi nml pmlnllleo ntdi-M to In Hindipnvnlile Iti tlt onlcr of llio cotnniiny. 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The consensus of opinion Is that tlio ran- tanUcrous Scott 1ms sentenced himself to one term In public office. The town of llrccklnrldge. Minn. , lias naked the postmaster general to change Its name. Can any ono blame It ? Chairman Wilson of the house ways and means committee Is sorely needed In the senate to show the snnatorlal leaders how fo whip the democratic majority Into line on his tariff bill. "Any court that makes differences in the administration of Justice bt4we'n criminals Is an abomination and Is unworthy the respect of anybody. " This Is what Judge Scott said In passing sentence. The friends nnd admirers of the colonel who never wore a uniform say that he cannot help acting as he does because ho has wheels In his head. That might bo a good pica In mitigation If there was not so much method In his madness. Of course Senator Stewart couldn't resist the temptation offered by the tariff debate to Inflict a free silver coinage speech upon the senate. A silver speech from Stewart Is a fixed appendage to the discussion of any and every subject that may come be fore the senate , An eastern paper entitles a weighty ed itorial "Democrats nnd Diamonds. " Why the ono should bo coupcdwlth | the other it does not venture to explain. If , however , the democrats remained long In power none of us would bo wearing diamonds after the lapse of a very short period. The worklngmen at Lynn , Mass. , are agi tating a proposal for the establishment of a co-operative shoo factory , In which they ex pect to furnish employment to themselves. There is certainly an open field for co-opera- tlvo enterprises at this particular Juncture , when capital Is timid as to venturing In now undertakings. Citizen George Francis Train has hired n hall In Washington and will speak , on the Coxoy movement. Ho has Invited seventeen senators to hear his speech. When the citizen spoke In Omaha in 1872 , and again last year , ho predicted a revolution , and Is entitled to the distinction of being the original Coxeylte. Hotheads In the Central Labor union will liavo gone a step too far when they decide to arm their members against the encroach ments of the capitalistic foe. Their remedy 1" In the ballot box. Fortunately the men who Indulge In such wild talk are not the true representatives of the better clement of organized labor In this community. The Dee is In receipt of a number of al leged poems whoso themes nro predicated upon the march of the Ooxeyites upon Wash ington. Ono of these spring-born efforts makes "Omaha picrhynio with "Iltibbard's yo" very well , but In other respects it would , If published , tcrrorlzo the Iowa militia , nnd for that reason It has boon consigned to the oblivion of the wnsto basket. It Is to bo presumed that the democrats among the representatives of those forty business houses at Council niuffs who passed resolutions so laudatory cf Governor Jackson burled all partisanship In their eager efforts to ilvo cro.Ilt to so praise worthy n public official. H Is clear that no political motive actuated this spontaneous outburst of heartfelt gratitude. Ilallroad beneficiaries In Council niuffs omitted censure of the Union Pacific railway for dumping Kelly's swordless nrmy upon that iiulet city , preferring to saddle the whole responsibility upon Onihha. It nerved tha Interests of their business better to make u scapegoat of Omaha rather than offend the general freight ngont of u rail road over which they ship merchandise. Proceedings nro to bo begun under the laws of Illinois to have the charters of the various companies comprised In the Chicago Gas- trust declared forfeited. The trust's trust In the righteousness of Its cnuso will not prevent It from entrusting Us defense to the best lawyers It can obtain anil fighting for existence to the last tribu nal to which It can appeal In case It loses the suit In the first Instance. Alderman Keller of Council Illuffs protests 'with these words against Governor Jack son's conduct of the recent military fiasco lit connection with Kelly's nrmy : "Wo have been Ignored by the governor right from the start. Wo wore not oven allowed to be In the room where the consultation was hold on the first night of his visit , ( f this bill ( for supplies ) Is to bo paid , let llio governor pay It. " For all of which the good citizens of Council Illuffs "commend the wise , vigorous and humane course of Governor Jackson. " TIII IttitllT r on TO ti The ircniul clatixo tit the resolution Rtibmlt * ted by Senator Allen to HIP senate with ref erence to Hip current reports that unarmed , law-nbldlns and ji-aceably disposed but unemployed - employed Rltlxcnn ot ihoL'nltcd States are about to | ) < iru.ibly asicmblc tn Washington to pnlltlon the government for n redress of their grievance- * reads as follows : "That cncli persons have nn undoubted a right to visit and ns.icmblo In the city of Washing ton for any nnd all purposes as In any portion tion of the territory belonging to Iho Juris diction of the United Stales , nt all times being amenable to the law for any violation thprcof. " Doth press nnd pulpit that have been hurl ing the epithets "tramps , " "cranks , " "vaga bonds" and "criminals" upon the members of the various Industrial armies that nro making their way toward the federal capital seem to have forgotten that the mere lack of employment docs not operate to deprlvo any citizen of the United States of Ma rights tinder the constitution. The rights of citizenship do not depend upon wealth or poverty , upon Idleness or steady work at one's occupation. They purport to Inherit In the citizen In whatever part of the coun try ho may happen to bo. So long as ho violates no laws ho Is entitled to their pro tection , nnd statutes Intended to deprlvo him of any constitutional right are themselves Illegal nnd without validity. The very first of the ten amendments to the federal constitution , amendments which were proposed and adopted In order to Incorporate n bill of rights Into the fundamental law of the land , provides that congress shall make no law "abridging the right of the people peaceably to asscihblo and to petition the government for a redress of grievances , " and almost every state constitution Includes a similar clause with reference to the state legislature. No ono will deny the right of citizens , whether employed or unemployed , to assemble for lawful purposes wherever they may be. Many have , however , Inti mated that this right stops with the flrst assemblage and that there Is no right to move on AVashlngton In order to present the petition In person. But the right of as semblage would bo but a shadow of a right If It did not cover the delivery of the peti tion to the government to which It Is di rected. Any group of citizens certainly have n constitutional right to send one of their members to Washington to lay their com plaints before congress , and if they can send one they cart send two or three or go them selves. But wo are not compelled to rest the right of the citizen to go to Washington upon the Implication to bo drawn from the right of assemblage guaranteed by the drst amend ment to the federal constitution. That right has been expressly afflrmed by the supreme court of the United States on moro than ono occasion. In the famous Slaughterhouse case reported In 1C Wallace , referring to the pro hibition contained In the fourteenth amend ment against any state making or enforcing any law which abridges the privileges or Immunities of citizens of the United States , Justice Miller , speaking for the court , said : "Lest It should be said that no such privi leges and Immunities are to bo found if those we have been considering are excluded , wo venture to suggest some which ewe their ex istence to the federal government , Its na tional character , Its constitution or Its laws. Ono of these Is well described In the case ol Crandall against Nevada (6 ( Wallace , 36) ) . It Is said to bo tlio right of the citizen of this great country , protected by Implied guaran tees , of'lts conbtltutlon , 'to como to the seat of government to assert any claim , ho may have upon that government , to transact any business he may have wliJi It , to seek Its protection , to share Its offices , to engage In administering its functions. ' " And the three Justices who dissented from the decision of the court In this famous case did so not be cause they denied the rights of citizenship enumerated by Justice Miller but because his enumeration did not extend far enough. No ono , of course , is In this country priv ileged to do violence to person or property or to disobey the laws that have been en acted to preserve peace and * good Border. But every citizen has a constitutional right to wend his way peaceably toward 'the seat of government. Ho may go 10 Washington by rail , by wagon , or afoot , as ho may prefer. Ho may go to Washington alone or In com pany with other peaceable citizens. Deprecate - cato the fact of the existence of the Indus trial armies as wo may , ridicule the pur poses of their march , deny the possibility of their accomplishing any good , their right to go to Washington under guarantee of the constitution Is undoubted and they are en titled to the protection of the laws while ex orcising that right In peace. FOll T1IU CrtXTKST , Notes of preparation for the contest of next November , which Is to determine the political complexion of the next house of representatives and possibly of the senate also , are beginning to bo hoard. The repub lican congressional campaign committee. Is getting ready to enter upon the work that devolves jm It , and as shown In the recent Interview with Its chairman , Representa tive Babcock of Wisconsin , the committee Is fully alive to the character of the task It has before It. While the republican vic tories throughout the north within the last year have tended to raise republican confi dence to the highest point , It Is said that the leaders of the party do not conceal from themselves the fact that In order to regain control of congress vigorous and per sistent v.-ork will have to be done. In the present house the republicans have 12S members 121 from the north and seven from the south. The house consists of 35C members , a majority being 179. In order to secure n majority of the next house the re publicans must therefore win fifty-one seats In addition to these they now hold , and these must bo won In the north , ns there is no certainty that any gain can bo made In the republican representation from the south. There are ninety-six congressional districts In the north represented by demo crats In tlm present house , so that the re publicans will have to 9apturo more than halt of these , assuming that the democrats will hold Uiqlr own In the south , to obtain control of the next house of representatives , It Is quite possible , of course , that the re publicans will make gnlns In the south , but U Is not safe to count upon any , nnd the ftsht must bo made to recovnr the districts In the north that wore lost In 1890 and 1S92. Thpro Is certainly reason to bcllovo that this can be done and something more. If the popular feeling that now prevails shall con tinue until November , and the probability Is that It will be Intensified In the meantfmo , the republicans ought to regain not only what they lost In the last two congressional elections , but capture districts where the democrats have hitherto been Invincible , Ono obstacle that Is to bo taken Into ac count Is tlu democratic gerrymanders tn several of the uorthorn states , but this may nqt prove so formidable as U seems. Jn the present house the states composing the solid south have 121 democratic representa tives. It 'they rctnln this representation In the ttoxt IIOIIBO they must clod fifty eight member * In the nothorn ntntcs In order to sreuro a majority , or considerably mow than half llio present number of democratic representatives from the north. It would seem prttty safe to say that under existing conditions they will not bo nblo to do this. The democrats evidently do not Intend to allow the contest to go by default. The lenders show n determination to make the very best fight they can. The democratic congressional campaign committed Is a strong organization nnd Is said to be backed by almost unlimited moans for campaign purposes. U Is also getting ready for the work It has to do. The National Associa tion of Democratic Clubs , to which Mr. Cleveland n few days ago sent n loiter of nd- vice nnd encouragement nnd n money contribution , Is nlso preparing to take nn nctlvo part In the campaign. It Is said that the democrats In congress ore more anxious now about the possibilities of the elections next November than they nrd nbout legis lation , nnd nrc directing nil their energies toward an early adjournment. They want to get back to their constituents and ex plain to thorn the democratic policy re garding the tariff and the finances , which they assume the people they represent do not understand. A great many of these .representatives . will bo astonished to find that their constituents have a most Intelli gent comprehension of that policy. The situation Is undoubtedly very greatly In favor of the republicans securing control of the next house of representatives by a largo majority , possibly almost reversing the position of parties , but there are two conditions necessary to nchlcvo this. Ono Is the selection as candidates of men of first rate ability nnd character , nnd the other Is to make the flght for their election aggressive a'nd persistent. ASSRSSQttS SHOULD DO TlIKlll DUTY Whenever anybody urges the nssessors to discharge their sworn duty without fear or favor the men who have had the benefit of n pull by which they have evaded their just proportion of taxes raise their hands In horror ror over the danger that the levy for city and county taxes will swamp everybody. "Walt till the .levy Is limited to 1 per cent on actual values. Walt awhllo longer and things will adjust themselves. " We have been waiting for years and years , but the same crowd always sings the same old tune , "Just wait a little longer. " And the same crowd Invariably blocks every' effort to get the charter amended so as to provide for a city or county assessor and limit the levy with a view to compelling the raising of the assessment. If the assessors do not do their duty this year the same Jugglery and trickery will bo resorted to when the legislature meets next winter to prevent n change In the charter that would limit the levy. The only way In which the change can be effected Is after the assessors have done their duty and brought the assessment up somewhere near actual value. Just as soon as the assess ments have been raised the men with a pull get together to Induce the legislature to limit the levy to the lowest possible notch. They will not bo able to help themselves In any other way. As a matter of fact the big gest kick against raising the assessments comes from parties whoso fortunes are chiefly In personal property ; the men who own bonds , mortgages and chattels and have money In bank. So long as the real estate assessments continue at extremely low valu ations they manage to get off with listing a very small part of their holdings and having them returned at ridiculously low figures on the plea that you cannot rightfully list the'm except at a mere nominal figure. The result is that the men who own real estate , and particularly the middle class of homo owners , have to carry the bulk of the burden of local taxation. A mere glance at the assessment roll In this city must con vince any rational man that the personal property listed Is out of all proportion with the real property returned by the assessors. In ftct there are millions of personal prop erty In this city owned by capitalists and corporations that does not contribute a penny Into the city or county treasury. Every body admits that this Is all wrong , but the beneficiaries of this Inequitable system will still keep on protesting against any change. "Havo patience. Just wait a little longer. Don't ! Don't ! Don't.or ! everything will goto smash. " It strikes us that wo have been waiting too long already. If the assessors had done their duty years and years ago wo should have had the levies cut 'down and taxation made more uniform and equitable. Let the as sessors do their duty now and leave to the commissioners and the council the responsi bility of adjusting the levy within the limit of the estimated needs of the county and city during the coming year. There is no very serious danger of a 0 per cent tax after this year If the assessment is Increased ma terially. In any event the legislature will bo In session next winter and the limit will doubtless bo fixed so as to enable us to raise no more by local taxation .than wo shall actually need. By all means lot the nssessors do their duty , let consequences bo what they may. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TRYlNti TO GET TOOKTIWlt. There appears to be substantial ground for the statement that the democrats of the senate nro trying to effect a compromise on the tariff bill , the extremists making con cessions to the conservatives , In order to unlto the party In support of the measure. In the course of the debate In the senate on Wednesday upon the question of fixing a date when the bill should go Into effect , Senator Aldrlch made the point that no one know the form In which tlio bill would bo presented finally for the vote of the senate , for it was reported that negotiations were In progress on the democratic side for the purpose of catching votes for the passage ui mo uiu. aonaior vest denied tlio state ment , saying that so fur as ho know It was absolutely Incorrect. Mr. Aldrlch adhered to the statement , saying that ho knew changes arc being made In the bill from day to day to secure votes on the democratic sldo of the chamber. The announcement of an effort at compromise was made on the authority of Senator Brlco of Ohio and verification of k appears In a published letter of the senator to the democratic loader In the lower branch of the Ohio legislature , written a week ago. In this Mr. Brlce clearly Implies that ho has been active In endeavoring to bring nbout an arrangement by which the full democratic vote In the senate could bo secured for the bill/ The particular senators .to be placated are Hill and Murphy of Now York nnd Smith of Now Jersey , all of whom want a number of changes In the tariff bill and are strongly opposed to the Income tax proposition. According to trustworthy reports the senators of the dominant party are seriously concerned over the- prevailing discontent throughout the country among the working classes , and surely It Is tlmo they were. If they have really come to a realization of the full significance of the situation , which Is doubtful , Jnslci ( Lof nnxlnty to IMS * the pending bill AS soon as possible they would cither drop U or recommit It with Instruc tions that It bo rerlscd throughout to ac cord with the evident demand of n large majority of the people. The passngo of the pending bill would not remove the prevail ing discontent among the working classes nor materially relieve the business depres sion , ns the supporters of that measure profess to believe- would. It contains no promlsp of restoring prosperity to n single American Industry , jk'hlo It would certainly do great Injury to iujny. In Its present form Its effect wouTdibe not to foster homo liidintrlts , but to durtroy them. That being the case , how could depression be lellovrd nnd the discontent of , labor removed by the passage of the bill ? The Industrlea of the country , It Is assured , would speedily adjust themselves to the now conditions. Doubt less some of them would , but not nil , nnd such as did uould bo nblo to do so only by further reducing the wages of labor , thus aggravating nnd Intensifying the discontent of the working classes. As was said by Senator Lodge In his very able speech against the pending bill , "tho reductions of wages thus far made'are trifling to what will como If this bill becomes law and men seek to ndjust themselves to the now con ditions , " nnd this must bo apparent to everybody whose mind lu open to convic tion. It Is ImpoislblH to gay with any degree of certainty what will bo the result of the effort making by the senatii democrats to "got together. " Senators Hill nnd Smith have declined against nn Income tax In the most unquallflud terms and It Is not easy to see how they could justify themselves In voting for the tariff bill with that tax In cluded , whatever concessions In the customs schedules might bo made to them. Still It Is possible that they may bo Induced to vote for the bill by satisfying their de mands other than for the elimination of the income tax. In any event , however , It Is highly Improbable that the dominant party can pass the bill by the date at which Its supporters desire It to go Into effect. The republicans sppm more detoi mined now than ever to prolong debate , and , as nt present Indicated , will refuse to enter Into any ngreement to > fix a date for reaching a final vote. They propose to thoroughly dis cuss every paragraph of the bill , till all Its provisions are laid bare , ns Senator Hale declared , nnd no man In the country , what ever may bo his party or his employment , will be left without a 'full knowledge of all Its defects and enormities. If that purpose Is adhered to It will be Impossible for the sonnto to pass the bill before Juno 30 , though every democrat should bo committed to Its support. When Kelly's contingent landed In Iowa the railroads centering In Council Bluffs spirited away nil their empty cars and switch engines , abandoned their trains , both freight and passenger , and bottled up the traffic of Council Bluffs for nearly a week. This caused a great deal of confusion , an noyance and actual loss to the shippers of that city , for which there was In fact no excuse. When Kelly'quietly marched away the railroad ofTiclals-acrfiss the river had to Invent some sort of justification for their treatment of Council Bluffs shippers. They could not throw the blame upon the Union Pacific , because It 4s' a powerful feeder. They could not forcq the responsibility upon Governor Jackson , because ho had acted upon their fldvlce. They could not make a scapegoat of KeJIy , because he had decamped. It finally transpired that Omaha was the arch offender ; - and as such must suffer the consequences. Frank G. Carpenter , who Is now penetrat ing the heart of China as the representative of a few leading American newspapers , contributes a letter to The Sunday Ben of great interest to all classes of readers. Dur ing his visit to Shanghai ho gathered much Information in fields hitherto unexplolted. His story of a visit to the office of a Chinese newspaper will attract the attention of American newspaper men generally. He pictures high life In the great Asiatic me tropolis in a manner that will cause many to revise their Ideas of how the human family exists and moves in the Celestial kingdom. The manners and customs of the Chinese are treated of entertainingly. Our readers cannot fall to appreciate this valued feature of The Sunday Bee. Notion has been served upon the city of Omaha , the state of Nebraska and the United States of America that no more Kelly armies will be permitted to invade Council Bluffs from the Nebraska sldo under penalty of being hamstrung and quartered. Dur ing the Franco-Austrian war of 1SC6 the late John Gllpln , territorial governor of Colorado rado , s > ent a cable mcsago to Emperor Louis Napoleon warning him that no Interference with Bohemia should bo allowed by Colorado. What the emperor said on that historically memorable occasion has not transpired. It Is suspected , however , that ho made Just such an exclamation as Cambronne Is credited with when Napoleon's guard was asked to surrender at Waterloo. A Cuncoiloil Condition. Indianapolis Journnl. The worklngmen who nre staying nt home und holding down jobs aru a thousand times UK numerous as those who utu trumping to Washington. A Dlx nt Ihulcl'H Kiln. Globe-reniocnvt. When Cleveland spenlcs of "petty nnd ignoble jealousies" In the democratic party , ho means to Kuy , of course , I hut David 13. Hill Is a very provoking person. Tli I'opnlur Dciimml. Cincinnati Commercial. The pet5plo demand n policy that will de velop our natural resources ; thnt will give employment to those who labor ; that will furnish opportunities" for their energy nnd rnteiprise. This explains their determina tion to iclegate thaidemocratlc party to the eternal shades. . , , The Itcnioily'for tlm Kvll. Philadelphia1 Press. Why not postpone1 action on the demo cratic tariff bill until tile beginning nf the next session of conKrctM.ln December ? Thut would give the peopler'qf ' the whole country a chnnco to record n"yea and nay vote on It nt the polls In NoVpnlder. Nobody could object to thnt course/except those who are afruld to trust the pQple. Cnu8 anil , Knoet. New Yo/lt Reorder. Strikes , mobs , disorder nnd rlotlnp are reported from all oyr iho country. These things are larnentofde , but unavoidable. They are all part fftlie ) , hnrvest of tariff reform of which thqj wqrklngmen , who nre now gathering It In , bitterness , sowed the Heed In Joy on November- , 1892. They will know better In .November , ISM. The IteKftiiurntlou of Colorado. Denver Republican , Ono thins U certain , nnd that la that Colorado , through the possession of nmny piwmlnliiK' gold mines. Is In a better posi tion than almost any other Htnte In Uiu union. Tie ) depression In tlie silver mining Industry corresponds to the depression which exists all over the east In nearly every line of business. There Is nothing In the east that correspond ) ) In activity to golil mining In this state. Uold mining lias been stimulated rather tlittn depressed by the hostility of the ndmlnlBtiutlon to Oliver. Uold has appreciated , und thus It liua become - como practicable to work many mines thnt u few years ago could not have been worked , owing to the coat of production In proportion to the vuluo of the cold when extracted. ASSAILS LIBERTY'S ' BULftABK Decision In tlio Oontompt Cnso a Nov Ity in Tyrannical Procedure. SUBVERSIVE OF INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS Motntrotn Diictrlnn Kmiiiclntrd from the llrnch IlrlMilicd by tlm 1'ri'M of the Country lUlltor * IliprrM Their Contempt for the tluilgo. Schuyler Herald : It Is n question whether Judge Scott of Omaha Is crazy or n case of small man trying to fill n largo place. The public , as well as the bar of his district , ore disgusted with his vagaries. He ought to IIP lockcp up before ho docs serious harm , Scott's autocratic persecution of The Bee and Uosewater Is his latest eccentricity. Fremont Herald : Kdltor Itosewater of The Boo was sentenced by Judge Scott to $300 and thirty days In Jail for contempt of court. 'Rosy" promptly took his medicine and took dinner on prison fare yesterday , saying that Moshcr's menu was good enough for him. If Scott Is going to Jail everybody that calls him a crank they will have to en large the jail. Chicago Dispatch : The whDlo country Is Interested In the arrest and temporary im prisonment yesterday of IMItor Hosewatcr of The Omaha Bee on a charge cf contempt of court. The affair Is n hl h-lunded out rage In the name of the hw , nnd cannot fall to exert n powerful Inflmmca upon the future status of free i.pecch nnd the llrcrty of the press. * * Judge Scott Is n dis grace to the bench and should be iHired to the obscurity ho has c-irncd. Plnttsmouth News : Judge Scott , the Omaha Jurist , tried Edward Hosewater for contempt , and after a farcical exhibit flnml him $500 , with a thirty-day Jail s < mtonc thrown In for good measure. Fortunately for Omaha and the state generally , Judge Scott's court Is not one of last resort , nnd an appeal will bo taken to the supremu court at once. Four years Is too long n term for the Infliction of such a man as Scott on n community. The constitution should bo amended that " " so n "rotten" Ju diciary could be cleaned out In less tlmo. Lincoln News : Judge Scott of Omaha has onci- more distinguished himself by prosecut ing , trying and sentencing Kdltor Hose- water to Jail. If Judge Scott has any friends left In Omaha they ought to take him out Into the pale moonlight and beat some Judg ment and fairness into his head. Without entering into the merits of the case , It Is patent to every ono that Judge Scott Is using his position as Judge to revenge himself In an unmanly and unfair manner upon men who have been his private enemies. Mr. Koscwatcr was doubtless speaking by the card when IIB said that "If he had been guilty of contempt It was contempt of his fellow citizens for helping the late Colonel Scott to become Judge of this district court. " Chicago Herald : The day has gone by for punishing newspaper proprietors or anybody else for contempt of court In using language , verbally or In print , criticising , censuring or even libeling the Judges. Contempt of court nowadays consists only in disturbance of proceedings In court while In session. In terfering with the court's processes , the juries or witnesses ; conduct In the imme diate presence of the court calculated to bring It Into disrepute or In resistance of Its authority and disobedience to Its lawful rules and orders. It Is not contempt of court to publish a vituperative newspaper article about the judge , even criticising his judicial acts , nor to steal the Judge's pockctbook , nor to assault him on the street , unless the assault Is an actual Interference purposely with his discharge of his official duties. A judge Is not a consecrated person. If be Is the victim of a libel , or a larceny , or an assault nnd battery , the offender must be arrested on complaint , tried and punished like any other criminal of the same degree com mitting a similar offense against any other individual. The Judge cannot take the law Into his own hands and punish the llbeler , thief or ruffian summarily for contempt of conrf. The statutes In many of the states accurately define "contempt , " and provide for Us punishment. Judge Scott should be prosecuted for false Imprisonment and should bo Impeached. So should all other judges who wantonly exer cise usurped power , or u'e the powers of thalr office unlawfully , vindictively nnd op pressively against individuals. Divinity does not hedge about a Judge. His powers and duties nre prescribed by law , and he must keep within the law while exercising and pjr- formlng them. Topeka Capital : There Is in thn minds of American people a profound respect for the judiciary. It is based upon Its hlsu legal nnd personal character , nnd the purity nnd Justice of Its decisions. This li true of nil our courts up to the supreme court of the United Stntos. No force or power has done so much to maintain a high public fcntlir.cnt regarding the Integrity and learning cf the courts as the press of fhe country. The newspapers of every btato , nt least S5 per cent of them , are strongly and distinctively the advocates of law and order , conferva- tors of the public peace nnd supporters of the Judiciary. We believe that every fair- minded judge who has been long upon the bench will say that the judiciary has no more efficient co-workers than the pub lic press , and thai , the action of the courts is only criticised upon very rare occasions. These criticisms have been Indulged In so seldom , In fact , that some judges have been led to the erroneous conclusion that their" acts are different from those of other public servants and not amenable to examination and discussion. We nre aware that some judges hold that a newspaper that undertakes to discuss a case In court before , during , or after trial Is a proper subject for commitment for contempt. That , how ever , Is n ponit that has never been settled , nnd but few newspapers nre half ns anxious to try cases ns the lawyers are to have them tried In the papers , and but few news papers have the bad taste to attempt to prejudice public sentiment during a trial. As to criticism upon the general conduct of a court or a Judge , there can bo no doubt It It Is done In the Interest of justice nnd fairness that Judges have no special rights In law protecting them from such observa tions of the public press other than govern ors nnd presidents havo. Dubuque Telegraph : Judge C. R. Scott of Omaha sentenced Editor Itosowntcr of The Bee of that city to Imprisonment In Jail for thirty days and pay a fine of $300 for alleged contempt of court. The "con tempt" consisted In the publication | n The Bee of a local article In which It was Inti mated Unit Judge Scott discriminated in favor of Influential persons charged with crime and against the friendless an uninflu- cnttal. For writing this the reporter was committed for contempt ; but , not satisfied , Judge. 'Scott , ordered the arrest of the editor , who knew nothing of iho nrtlclo until It had appeared tn print , and nlso committed him. Mr. Hosewator was taken to jail nnd locked up , but ho did -not long remain in dtiranco vuo , ror six nours inter he was released on n supersodcns Issued by the supreme court of the stato. Inas much as Mr. Hosoxvator was not aware that the I reporter had written the offensive nrtlclo , nnd he had no knowledge of It what ever until after Its publication , It Is , of course. Impossible that he could have In tended an affront to the dignity of the court. In the circumstance * , ho was no moro guilty of contempt , legally or morally , than the benighted denizen of mid-Africa , and his committal to jail was , therefore , a IhlKh-hnnded , arbitrary judicial outrage. The moral right of any judge to a&sumo nn offense against himself , and , when the alleged offender has been brought brfore him , to act ns accuser , witness , prolocutor nnd < jury , nnd to pass condemnation , Is ex ceedingly doubtful ; and , In vlow of the declaration of the federal constitution that no person shall be deprived of life , liberty or property without duo process of law , his legal right Is also doubtful. Kqulty suggests that , at least In cases In which the alleged contempt Is by publication , an as sumed affront to the dlgnltof ono judge should bo tried by another judge and not by the accuser. But all this aside , the sen tence pronounced upon Mr , Rosow.Uer was wholly unwarranted. There was no excuse - cuso for It , and \ho \ deportment of Judge Scott leaves room for no other conclusion than that ho was animated 'by a spirit of vlndlctlvonoin , and that he abused the authority of his ofllco to gratify personal malice , He has certainly demonstrated his nnfltness for tbn place he fills , .and Mr. Hosowater will render the causa of justice a service It be shall uao his personal In fluence nnd tlip Influence of tils J mrnnl to effect Scott's Impparhmrnt nnd rctnov.ll , Chicago llccord Them Is n JiHUfl.tblo nnd an tmjiistlilnblo way of criticising ix public official , and oven n judge on the bench Is not no sacred n personage that n MOWN- papnr Is debarred from cxpros-ilng nn honest opinion as to the wisdom or honrsty of his nct.i. If there Is now a greater freedom on the part of the press In criticising n judge than there formerly was , It Is In a great in ens urn due to the conduct of Iho judges themselves Whatever apparent nanctlty used to bo felt for the Judges uf our courU , much of It has bcon sacrificed by the judges In the unseemly scramble too nmny of thum go Into to secure their oinccs , When n can didate for a jtldguslilp rcHorts tn the sntito tactics to secure his nomination und election that n village constable employ ! ) to secure his position the former must not feel hurt If the public regards ) the two as about on a par personally. If n judge once elected1 uses his position to secure a continuance In office , or to "make himself solid , " ho must expect the contempt which the public may fool and the news papers express. Contempt of court nnd contempt for a man who happens to be a Judge are by no means the same thing , and oftentimes n judge may do a thing that will bring the whole judiciary system of Che Rtnte Into greater obloquy than will all that any news paper could say of him Individually. When a Judge holds that any fair criticism of his nets is n contempt of court ho has mounted n higher horsa than ho can ride. SALT LAKE , April 20. ( Special Telegram to The Boo ) Under thu caption , "Hose- watur vs. Scott" the Tribune publishes the following editorial from the pen of Judge Goodwin : "If wo mlMnUe not , Mr. Rosewater - water of Omaha will give Judge Scott his day In court yet before ho gets through with him. It Is evident by the dispatches that Judge Scott Is not a real good man to have on the bench. It Is evident that ha has n temper which , when aroused , steals away what little reason may bo naturally In his head. Wo take it further that ho Is a very small man. If ho was u real manly man , he would ask Mr. Rosewater Into court nnd make n public apology to him from the bench. We nro glad that Rosewater got In that last lick. It was beautiful when he told the judge to his teeth : 'If there Is anything I am guilty of , If I have been guilty of any contempt at all. It Is the contempt of my fellow citizens for helping Colonel Scott to become judge of this dis trict.1 Rosowntcr Is not bigger than a pleco of chnlk , nnd his health has been most dell- cnto for several months , but ho Is ns smart as a whip , nnd Inherits the pertinacity of his rae ? , nnd wo predict that before Judge Scott gets through with him ho will bo callIng - Ing on the rocks and the hills to bo falling on htm , for he will bo stung worse than the gad files stun ? lo , and It will erve him right , too. No Judge over had to establish either his Integrity or his fitness to servo on the bench by nn nrbltrary exorcise of his power , and Scott's determination to send Mr. Rosewater - water to Jail without giving him even a nearIng - Ing shows that he Is a nonpareil judge on n long primer l > nch , nnd that the white wash which he selected for himself only brings out more fully the stains on his char acter. " KKLLY , COXKV CO. Chicago Times : The advice of the com missioners of the District of Columbia to Coxoy and all other Commonwealers to stay away from Washington would be regarded with moro respect If It was less palpably Inspired by self-Interest. Sioux City Times : It was not enough for Omaha to shove the Kelly army over onto Council Bluffs. Omaha abused the people of Iowa for the manner In which they met the burden which Omaha shunted upon them , and then en mo across the river to make the matter worse. Chicago Tribune : Whatever else Kelly may or may not accomplish ho has suc ceeded In raising a first-class row between Omaha and Council Bluffs. Ths anger of the latter at Its treatment by Omahn Is en tirely natural. The latter has made n shameful exhibition of itself. St. Louis Republic : Congressmen who talk of driving the Commonwenlers out of Washington after they get there may find law for that course. Next March there will be- law for driving a great many congress men out of Washington' for not belonging to that larger nrmy of true commonwoalers who vote ns'they think. Minneapolis Times : The spirit of bravado assumed by the Industrial gentlemen Is be coming too pronounced. They throw them selves on the charity of the cities through which they pass ; they- expect to be fed and clothed and transported free because they belong to a so-called army. There Is no army. There Is no means of telling who belongs to It and who does not. New York Journal of Commerce : One rea son for placing the national capital In the forests on the uank of the Potomac instead of In Philadelphia , or New York , or ono of the southern cities , and the sole reason for giving congress exclusive Jurisdiction over the capital city and Its surrounding ? , was to protect It from just such mob demonstra tions as Coxey and Fryo are leading. Con gress may ooi fit to encourage this sort of thing now , but the people of Washington are certainly entitled to some protection. All power of protecting themselves has been taken from them by the people of the United States. They have no municipal or terri torial government that they have any voice In creating or Influencing. They have not even a delegate In congress , as Oklahoma has. Is It a decent thing for the rest of the country to unload Its vagabonds on the people of Washington ? tut tftr'n riiiK tlm closing day , when Oencn I N. Grunt sum iinnblo lo use his voice , ho hml - constantly nl his head n memorandum pad and ft pencil. These ho employed to write massages to tlioso nbout htm. In the Inter vals of writing upon his "Memoirs" ho would address upwards of a dozen notes n ff day to Dr. Douglas , Ono of the most notnbUi f * of these communlcnllon.i , nays n writer In J' MrCluro's , \ \ IHrltleii on the 2d of July , tlm month In which ho died. It shows ( Jen- i oral Grant's full knowledge of what ho wu.s facing , nnd his regard for these about hlta. It Is Is follows : "I ask you not to show this to any ono except the physicians you consult with , until the end. Particularly t want It kept front my family. If known to one man the impel * will get It , nnd they ( the family ) will got It. It would only distress them , almost beyond ondiiranno , to know It , and by rollcx action would distress mo. 1 have not changed my mind materially since I wrote jou before In the aaniB strain. Now , however , 1 know that I gain strength some days , but when I do i go back It Is beyond where I started to , Improve. I think the chances nrc very da- ! cldcdly In favor of your being nblo to keep mo nllvo until the change of Weather toward _ winter. Of course there are contingencies ' that may arise at any time that would carry ' mo off suddenly. The most probable of theno Is choking , Under the circumstances life la not worth living. I am very thankful ( "Kind" was first written , but scratched out and "thankful" substituted ) to have boon spared this long , bccauso It has enabled V mo to practically complete the work In which I take BO much Interest. I cannot stir up strength enough to review It. and make additions nnd subtractions thnt would suggest themselves to mo and nro not likely to suggest themselves to any ono pise. Under \ the nbovo circumstances I will bo the hap piest , the most pain I can avoid. If tlu-ro is to bo any extraordinary cure , such ns some people bcllovo them Is to bo. It will develop Itaelf. I would say , therefore , to you nnd your colleagues to make me ns com fortable ns you can. If It Is within God's providence thnt 1 should go now , I am ready to obey his call without a murmur. I should prefer going now to enduring my present suffering for n single day without hope of recovery. As I hnvn stntcd , I nm thankful for the providential extension of my tlmo to enable mo to continue my work. I nm fur ther thankful , and In n much greater degree . thankful , because It has enabled me to see for myself the happy harmony which ho suddenly sprung up between those engaged ] but n few short years npo In deadly conflict. . , It has been nn inestimable blessing to mo A , to hear the kind expressions toward mo r < * -J In person from all parts of our country , from x - - people of all nationalities , of nil religions , nnd of no religion , from confederates nnd of national troops alike , of soldiers' organiza tions , of mechanical , scientific , religious and other societies , embracing almost every citi zen In the land. They havu brought Joy to my heart if they have not effected a euro. So to you nnd your colleagues I aeknowledgo my Indebtedness for having brought mo through the valley of the shadow of death to enable mo to witness those things. "U. S. GRANT. "Mount McGregor , N. Y. , July 2 , 1SS3. " 3'1IK , liA1131V. . Boston Bulletin : A relic of n lost race the empty poeketbook. Indianapolis Journal : "You will never got nloiiR , " sneered the clarionet , "In hplte of your two bonds , " "Why not ? " n ked the bass drum. "Ilopause everybody beats you. When nnyiiody tackles mo I make him blow him self. " < Gnlveston News : A hint to the wise I" sulllclent , provided the wise are dlsposedt tnkf It. Dnnsvillp Rrcezo : The small boy with tlio punt of bis tiousers torn Is not n landlord , but he frequently rnlsc.s the rent by stand- \ lug on his head. Tld Bits : A well known colonial Judge , who Is an Irishman , recently told n witness who wna somewhat verbose In his answers to "hold his tongue nnd give his evidence clearly. " Judge : JTrs. Noxtdoor I hnvp found out onp thingnbout that Mrs. Ncwcomo. Who ever she Is , shn has ncvpr moved in good society. Mr. Ncxtdoor How do you know Hint ? Mrs. Nextdoor She ahnkes hands us If she meant It. Somervllle Journal : A debating society In n ro-educatlonnl college out west got all broken up over the question : "If a glr ) really likes a young man , Is It possible for him to kiss her against her will ? " The members 'of the society stopped debating the question finally und went to trying It to see. Washington Stnr : "It seems too bad , " said Mr. Easywell , "Hint authors and re- vlowors do not got on together better. " "Yes , " replied his wife ; "the world seems to be quite wrong. Judging by what ono reads , the critics should nil bo novelists und the novelists nil critics. " Indianapolis Journal : Mrs. Youngpop Willie swallowed n J5 gold piece today. Jfr. YounBpop That proves what I was saying to Watts this evonlnpr as wo came home on the car. I said thnt the boy liao ! good stuff In him. QUID NUNC. Life. 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