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THE OMAHA DAILY BKK: TTESUAY. PECEMHER 20. 1WU4. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. K. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. rCBLIKHED EVEnY MOBNIN'O. TERM OF BrBHCRirTION. Mallv Fee (without Sunday), one yr--,!-5 lelly Bee and Sunday, one rr ' Illustrated Bee, on year rl 8'irrdav Be. one year r LJ Saturday Bee, on nr J'JJJ iwentletn I entury urmfr, on - DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Pally Fee (without flundn) h per r"fy,JS Hally Bee (without Sunday!, per eek.,.uo bally Bee (Including Sundayi. per wees.-io: S'lirdey He, per copy ' Tl Ha 1 Dal n'limBT rt", pfr cnLtT L . Kvenlng Bee (without Sunday), per " Evening Be (Including Sunday). P,r week J"'ii".V. Complaint of Irregularttiee in ahould bo addressed to City Circulation U partment. OFFICE. rVnaha-The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall building. Twenty, fifth and M streets. Coiini-ll Bluff 10 Pearl street, (.'hleaao ltf40 fnlty building. , New Ynrk-23 Park Row buPdlng. Washing ton 601 Fourteenth atreet. CORRESPONDENCE. Cotnmunli atlona relating to news and eoi torlal matter ahould he addreaaed: Oman Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, ezpreae or poatal order, tayable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cent stamps received In payment 01 mall ac-ounta. Personal rheeks. ezcept on Omaha or eastern esrhangea, not ecreptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Slate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.t Oeorge B. Tzarhuck, eerretary of Tha Be Publishing Company, being duty aworn. saya that the actual number of full end Evenlnr and hnnday Bee printed during tha month of November. 1VH VII v.- Sf.8ft0 X0300 S.80 SS.SOO 30.20 , S9.BOO Z9.600 S9.480 V. KiO , a,TUO sa.soe 80,1(00 SV.TOO , ,sao 8.SOO sss.oso xoaw lowl: 16.... 17.... II.... 1.... K. ... 21.... a.... 2a.... 24. ... 26.... M. ... .... It.... a.... .... I.eu uneo'.d copies Net total tales 4.S14 Dally average l.Bif GEO. B. TZ6CHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and a worn to before me tbla Kith day of November, D04. tSeaJi U. B. HUNOATE. Notary Publlo. With all the alleged rivalry among the weather prophet, none hna entered the Hats against the ground hog. No matter how the war In the eaat may end neither aide can complain of liavlnif been beaten by an Insignificant titO. From now on until after New Vear'a the Fire and Police eotnnlsslon will be the busiest let of public officials In Onisba. Otil.r two weeka more until the open ing of the legislature and the charter revlaion commlttev; hare aa yet to hold their first aoaalon. When fJIflagow haa aucceerted In Iso lating Its topers there, will be an opening for some enterprising soda fountain man on the laland aaylnw.S . . The ccar'a naiiie day waa the invasion for granting prouiottona In the army. Japaneae gunnerc will now have more ahinJng marks. Having decreed Finnish to be the lau Riioge of government the czar baa taken the atep which will be the moat aevere blow to "carpet bag" government. It la to be feared that the reception of Bernard McGreevey, who haa been ap prehended in Arizona, will be warmer than comfortablo when he reathea O'Xelll. i . - The owner of the new wteanmliip which la to lte equipped with passen.!rer elevatore wonld work a more startling Innovation if they would provide In fallible life prPHervera. The only conclusion to be drawn from the reort of 'Engineer Wallace of the Panama Canal commiaalon la that the commission doea not know what It does not know, but la going to find out. City hall officials intimate that the lUtiTt tnunlclpil ' tax rata will be In proximity to 11 mills. Tax Commla aloner Fleming promised better than that and be ahould l held to his prom ise. Omaha'a atreet railway aystem haa mad another extension by pushing lta line down to the north boundary of Harpy county. The next move ahould ba on vto Bellevue, 1 Fort Crook and Pla turnout h. Mexican merchants art congratulating themaelvea upon the stability of the nilver niarket-anotber good result from the declalou of tha United Btatea to stick to a fixed program with refereuce to tlm white metal. ' a i . All that remains to be shown In the Knioot hearing la the ghost of the tra ditional "Da nites," and then tha com mittee may be ready to hear evidence aa to the personal actions of tha ac cused vena tor from Utah. u .- . J Congressman lluU'a statement regatd lug artillery for state guards ahould bring a volley of relief from Wyniore where the old guna used in the civil war have been on active duty with Ne braska militiamen ever since. Cut out the duplications In city arid county government and the taxpayers W'ill be aaved not only the mouey need lessly expended, but the atill greater waste of time reaultlog from belug com )Mflle4 to transact the aame business two or three times with two or threw aefa of city and county officials. l ITS We- note with dlstreaa that the ap propriation for the Indian supply ware house at Omaha will have to be rescued again In tb pending session of congress from the brink of the abyss Into which such appropriations are alwaya threat ening to fall. Perhaps It would be w!e for us to organize a rescuing expedition sit ouce while the trail Is jl fresh. 1 81,.H( J... 2tl,4(Ml I an. inn 4...., an.4Sn t O.BIfO 6 BT.4O0 7 40.10X1 t an.sso 1 4A.11) 10 .14.10 II KO.KA-? 11 HIAB 13 no.ooA 14 Stll.iMM 1J Total BAMSH THE Mdrrs.lIOXAL tOBBT The bane of all legislative liodies la the professional lobby by, which . law maker! are besieged and manipulated from the beginning te the end of every eeaalon In the Interest of iorporttionp, jol bora and claimants of every de scription. To this malignant Influence may be traced the defent of much whole some and commendable legislation, and all the steals and joba that run throuch the legislative wicket. While mistakes and bad breaka are alwaya liable to be made by the ln.v irnfcers, even when they nr. actuated by the best of intentions, the criming legislature cannot poealbly hope to dis charge lta cnmpulgn pledges and meet the expectatlona of lta constituents tin leas It shall banish from the halls of legislation the pestlferoua corruptlonlsts thfit have swarmed in the state bouse during every session. This can lx done effectively by the adoption and enforcement of the moat stringent rules and regulatlona and by the appointment of sped si committees in each bouse, whose business It shall be to keep up a continuous Inquisitorial supervision over all men and women who approach members of the legisla ture with corrupt pronoaala. There can be no serious or rational ap prehension that the coming legislature will willfully and maliciously enact laws to the Injury of any particular corpora tion or Individual, and there la no good reason why any corporation or Interest affected ty legislation shall maintain a single paid lobbyist at the state capl tol. It ban alwaya leen ih . prartlee for every legislative committee to give a fair henrlng to every Interest that may be affected by proposed changes of law. or by new lawa referred to It, and we feel anre thst the 'legislntlve commltteea of the coming legislature will not vary In their custom from the commltteea of preceding legislatures The professional lohby should, how ever, not merely be banished from the halls of legislation, but the doors of every department In the state house should be closed In the faces of the professional lobbyista whenever they present themaelvea. With the lobby banlNhed from the state capltol by the republican party a far-reaching step will have been taken In the direction of genuine political reform, legislative scandala will le avoided and sessions of the legislature will be curtailed by many days. If not weeks, with a corre sponding saving to the taxpayer of Ne braska. VXDF.R rF.DKRAL CHARTERS. According to certain Washington re ports the administration la iu favor of legislation that will provide that all corporations engaged In interstate com merce shall organize under federal char ters and thua pass under control of the general government so far as their cor porate capacity and conduct are con cerned. It is auKgewted that this course will be the result of long study and ex haustive inquiry Into the conduct of in terstate corporations and their effect on the public in the matter of trade, prices, supply and demand, transportation and distribution. That Is exactly what the people want In the matter of Inquiry and If It Is properly prosecuted there cannot fail to be good results. The trouble In the past has been that whatever Investiga tion has been made in regard to public corporations has been to a large jxient of a perfunctory character and conse quently haa not accomplished what was expected or desired of It. Whnt Is needed Is a more thorough examination of the affairs of the -or-poratlona and this i what Is suggested by the prenldent. Give us, he says In effect, a more careful Inquiry aa to whnt the great corporations are doing and how are they dealing with the public. In order that we may know how we tha!l deal with them. It la not a war or. tfco corporations that tho president proposes, tut almply n notice to them thnt V e public Interest la the great interest fti-d inuat be cared for before every oilier. 1 he Idea of the president is ery clearly expressed In hla annual message ni.d Its unmistakable meaning Is thnt the power of the government pver the corporatlona engaged In interarile eom nwrce Is absolute. We bellere that there la no longer any question In re gard to this. It has teen determined by repeated decisions of the supreme court of the' United State and is now universally accepted ris established hiw. Tint there are certain points which me atill In controversy and eoc.ie nf these are capable of settlement throngh a Inw that would admit corporation engaged m Interstate commerce to an existence under federal charter. It Is not an Im practicable arrangement, but on the con trary I one that would relieve auch cor porations of whatever disadvantages they may experience under existing con ditions and strengthen them In public confidence. All things considered it would seem that the corporations themselves would be not favorable to auch nn ar rangement, aa contributing to their own claim upon public confidence and there fore to their stability and security. PAXAMA VASAL PROBLEM That the construction of the Panama canal la a great problem, even mor seri ous than the American pt-ople conceived of when the great enterprise va tm. dertaken, I shown by the report of the chief engineer, which haa been rHeti to the public. According to the report of (hi expert, everywhere recognised as one of the greatest of living engineer, there haa evidently been some mit.ike on the tart of hla predetvsHori lu esti mating the cost of the construction ()f the waterway. HI Investigations, ac cording to report contemplate h much larger expenditure than ha been pro vided for and lu the eveut of a aea le canal, which It is quite povslbl - oiitvss will decide upon the most deliaMe. the coat will be Increased to the extent of at least I.V.0iiO,O0i and ierlrijs be yond that. ' TUU la a proiKltlon which UJ cmue a great many people to reflect tnd tc.ny Induce a widespread Idea whether ome serious mlotake was not made l.t ,o-i-nectlon with this enterprise before it was entered Into. It seemed that a very careful calculation waa nude In advance and there will I natural as tonishment that the very able engineers who after careful Investigation made the estimate of cost should be s. far astray aa they appear to be by the later estimate. The American people are deter lined to construct the Panama canal. Yhat I almolutely settled and the worK will le consummated. But they will le n good deal surprised to find that after auch thorough Investigation that Ins been mode by commissions supposed to be composed of the moat competent en gineers and after the most diligent re search, there should atill Ie a question aa to the ultimate cost of the canal amounting to many million beyond Hie greatest estimates of engineer of the highest repute before the treaty wa en tered Info with Tanama. It la most natural that the American people should ask why this Is and that they should feel some little distrust of the wisdom of the men who have had charge of the great duty of estimating the cost of tills vast undertaking and cfjmmittlig the government to it at a specified .-spendl-ture. The fact appears to 1h, according to the reiort of the chief engineer of the canal, that n decided mistake has la-en made in the estimates of cost. The con struction of the canal will amount to many million more than have been fig ured and will take a much longer time than has been supposed. The fact seems to be that It is In all respect a much greater undertaking than ia generally conceived of and that however benefi cial Its result mar be In a commercial way It will be a very long time befo-e the United State will bo compensated for It enormous outlay. ty YELLOWEST OMAHA. The Imposture to which local news paper fakir resort in their attempt to secure advertising patronage is almost boundless. Whenever a pu'.jlic test has been made within the past twenty jeara before police Imards, city -ouiiclla mid board of county commissioner, irre spective of political compiex'on, The lite haa never failed to dlsl.m.e all Its competitor. In the last official test mad before tl.e city council and in the courts in tl.e widest for city advertising, the World Herald failed to ahow that it bona fide carrier delivery aubacrrptlon list waa up to the requirement of the charter, namely 5.0(X, while The Bee made a showing of more than 40 per cent In ex cess of the requirement by carrier de livery. No material change lu relative circu lations has taken place since then. If anything. The Bee has gained In pro rata circulation over It legal com petitor, but that doe not feaze the fakirs. They atill keep on claiming the largeat circulation and brazenly publish statement that are deceptive by every reliable test. The funniest thing of all 1 that the World-Herald, which is printed with the old perfecting presses discarded by The Bee, clalma to have a larger circu lation, although the machinery of The Bee, with more than double the capacity of the World-Herald, la fairly taied to do tho service of The Bee. But what more can you expect of fakirs and yellow journals? Members of the city council on the charter revlaion committee may natur ally be expected to oppose the proposed compulsory increase1 of Omaha city wards from nine to twelve and the pro posed addition of twelve ward council men to the present membership, but that should not seriously influence the other member of the charter revision committee. Under the present charter, the council haa for nearly two year had the right to reaubdlvldc the city Into twelve wards, but that provision of the charter haa nof found favor with the members, manifestly because they do not want to lessen their own influence. Iu a council made up of nine members, five are a majority and six can pass an ordi nance over the mayor' veto, while In a council of twenty-one It will takeeleven vote to ps an ordinauee and fourteen to pas it over the veto. It Klands lo reason that the taxpayers' IntcleHU would be better protected by n larger than by a smaller nurabor. In recommending full publicity of railroad necident the Interstate Com merce commlaslou ha taken a long atep In the direction of preventing them. No railroad official likes to admit that travel 1 dangerous, hence the general attempt ito auppresa the facta when such mishaps occur. General Greeley la said to be very anxious to have the signal corps post at Fort Omaha established and In working order. No nioro anxious, however, than the people of Omaha, who have had to see this valuable piece of government property standing Idle for o many year. That wa undoubtedly an expert writer employed by the democratic parly In Deuver If the report of the expert 1 correct, for o far It appear he wrote name ou ballots at a rate which would Indicate that he waa employed ou a piece work scale of wages. Now that Nebraska ha won the suit for laud taken to the Missouri aide by the Missouri river, the inhabitants have the aatlsfactlou of knowing that they are Mill to vote lu a state that will surely star hi the republican column. Mouth Omaha will do well to settle all prcllti'tnaries for Its promised new city ball bulMiiu; before aeiliug the ltonds. Selling bonds bearing 4a per rent In tvre.t urn depositing- the proceeds in bank that pay only 2 per cent to the city while the aelecrion of the site I being fought nut ami pcrhap hung up Indefinitely In the courts, Is a losing venture, from the business point of view. Kradaatea ml the Simple Mfe. Baltimore American. Both Mrs. Chadwlck and Mme. Humbert were born on a farm. Now. what Is the matter with the simple life or with the poor farmer, untutored in wtrked city WIJI? Sanont Forgotten. New Totk Sun. The question of the fitness of Hon. Reed Bmoot to be a senator In congreee from t'tah seems to be a rood many mile away from most of the testimony at the so-called Smoot heating. Xo Arbitration Waated Here. Ki;0xvli.' tie.) Express. A !"s M iiea doc tor sot away out In the country when his nutomobite caught Are and burned up and came very near burn Intr a bridge slsi. Now he Is suing the Standard Oil company for selllrg Inferior gasoline-. Out here In a rural community we 1,-ok upon contest between an auto nihilist and the octopus with about the same feeling tb eld woman expeiience.1 when the old mnn and the bear engaged In mortal combat. Debta Created by Fraod. Philadelphia Press The decision of the United States aupreme court that no debt created by fraud may be discharged by proceedings In bankruptcy ill prove of great benefit. Tho particular case wa that of a large loan secured by a mortgage on timbered land In thla state and In New York. The land waa found to be without timbr, the borrower having mlarepreented tho facta. He haa been pre vented from getting discharged of his debt by bankruptcy proceedings. That will be a lesson to others engaging in auch work. Pattl's "Laat Farwell." New York Tribune. Patti. at the cioae of a concert In St. Petersburg for the bereflt of the Red Croaa. announced that, as her first success waa achieved In 8t. Petersburg, It waa fit ting she ahould close her career a a vo calist there. The great ovation she re ceived, a well aa the fact that the concert netted more than 137.000. made a brilliant ending for a notable career. If. Indeed, her career 1 ended at last. Pattl'a "last fare wells" have furnished the occasion for many jests for a decade or more, but, all the same, those who have heard her know that she can atill coin her notes Into gold. laeoaalatency In I, awe. Chicago Chionlcle. Prof. Wiley of the bureau of chemistry at Washington, who Is conducting the adulterated food experiments, complains that he la utterly unable to procure for his purpose any unt-olored butter. He also denounced the use of the coal tar dyes with which butter Is colored, saying that they "overburden the kldneya." Tills Is an Instructive comment on the United Statea laws which prohibit the coloring of artificial butter, even with palm oil. which la perfectly wholesome, but permit the col oring of genuine butter with coal tar dyes or anything else. - When criminal statute are passed In. tho interest of special Indui tries It aeema superfluous to reform the tariff; CLEAN MOINBY WANTE1J. Load Call for ISew Rllla aad Pleaty f Them. .Philadelphia, Press. The paper moaey In circulation In the United Statea la to a, very large extent dirty, and, aa physicians and chemist have often shown. Is loaded with microbes. No other great nation permits th use of auch filthy paper money. In England, a paper note la nut allowed to be issued a second time, though It may have been very clean when returned to the bank for redemption. There ahould be some such provision In the United Statea. A bill la now pending In congress pro vlding for the destruction of all paper money that may come into the treasury or any of lta branches, and the Issue of freshly printed bills. It la an old ques tion. The evil Is recognised, but nothing has yet been done to provide a remedy. Disease may be and probably Is spread by dirty bank bills. They form a good place for the lodgment of disease germs. B'lla are In circulation which ara In appearance most objectionable to handle. The expense and trouble of issuing new bills In place of the old ones haa been the objection offered to legislation providing for auch a change. But that ahould not prevent action. There ahould at leaat be a limit to the uae of paper money without renewal. Congress could not do a wlaer thing than to provide for the deatructlon of all dirty bank bills, making their circu lation In aome way Impossible. DOIMUSG THE 1HAI POINT. Why Railroads Favor the Machinery of Delay Faablosed by t'oarta. Boaton Transcript. One trouble with court regulation of rail way rates Is thst they generally provide machinery for delay, and an Inequitable or discriminating rate maintained for two years, before a court decides an appeal, may serve to put the complainant Into In solvency. President Roosevelt, In hla mea aage. Is not so murh making an appeal lo the American people to give the Interstate Commerce commission power to fix rates because the rate-making power should be taken out nf the hands of the railroads, aa he la asking that It shall have power to make ratea which ehall be of Immediate application and which ahall stand until they are overturned by the courts. He rhangea the burden of proof to the ahouldera upon which It should rest. This, It seema to us. I the crux of the whole matter of rate making. With regard to the special railroad courts It might be well to consider that England, after trying an experiment with them, gave them up becauxe they did not directly rem edy the evlla which prevailed. In England there la a mora direct system, prompt In its application. The railroad companies make their rates, but these ratea must be sub mitted to the British Board oT Trade, which haa a special department of railway and canals. The Board of Trade advertises for objections to the ratea, and If there ara none puts them into force at onoe. If there are objection! efforts are made to bring about an agreement, and the agreed rate are adopted. If it Is Impossible to reach an agreement the board aubmlta recommen dations to Parliament, which haa In Its hands the full and final regulation of rates on the rallroada in Great Britain, and Par liament appoint a committee to give hear. Ingf. The report of this committee to Par liament almoat alwaya determines Ihe rates. If Inetiuulltlea in rates are shown the com panlt. muat prove that auch Inequalities do not constitute an undue preference. Tills method, which has been applied In the I'nited Kingdom for acme years, has gen erally worked well. English ratea are higher than those In this country, to be sure, but the rates are more equitable be ing the aame for all competitor, and not at the mercy of corporatlona, or "big men" such a', by the giving of uudeihand prefer-, em re (iirlch business In which they are In terested, at the eipouae vt ll small ship, pers. J STATH Pfir lOMSRIT. Central City Democrat: Up to date Judge Monger has not Issued an Injunction re straining the railroads from charging the people 1" centa for slx-blts" worth of srv Ice. Niobrara Independent: The case agalnat Father 8. hell, who haa been fighting the grafters around the Winnebago Indian res ervation In Nebraska, waa dismissed for want of prosecution. There should now be another case In which the persons who secured the Indictment would appear In the prisoners' box. Fremont Tribune: The Bee haa discovered that the last legislature made a mistake In providing for another slate normal school. All Interests In that direction should be centered In one place. It de clares. That Is what theTrlbune endeav ored lo impress on the legislature two years ago. but It waa rerverse and wicked and would not take heed. Blair Pilot: In a recent 'ecture delivered In Iowa. Governor I.a Folleite of Wiscon sin criticised the state for having so many small colleges and no large ones. He could say the same for Nebraska, and the last legislature made It Worse. They spent an enormous sum of money to establish a aec ond normal school at Kearney, Inatead of selling the Peru properly and building on school centrally located. At first It waa aupposed that the Kearney school was be ing built becauoe of the need of a aecond school but now It Is suspected thst It wa built for a soft snap for Slate Superintend ent Fowler. He Is liable to light In the nest. St. Paul Republican: Senator-to-Be Bur kett has written several lettera to popu list newspapers thanking them for the sup port given hla candidacy in the recent cam paign. While Mr. Burkett doubtless acted under the impression that he was address ing republican editors only, and without a thought of adding Insult to the Injuries of Ihe opposition, he struck cloaer to the truth In ome Instance that If his mlaalves had reached the papers for whom they were Intended. Th campaign of mlarepresenta tlon and abuse waged by a considerable portion of the fusion preea contributed in no small degree to the election of an almost solidly republican legislature. Butte Gasette: It Is reported that a vigil ance committee has been organised In east ern Keys Paha, which. If true, will prob ably bring old Keya Paha to tho front again as the "dark and bloody ground" of the border. The reason for reviving the rope court la aald to he the wholesale steal ing of horses, and the ghosts of Kid Wade Maupln, Barrett Scott, old man White, tha Hills, and other men who Incurred the vengeanoe of the old vlgllanter gang are aaeiy to have company In their nlahtlv rambles along the Niobrara. But, If tha w committee is like the old ono. It wnuM be well for the honest members to Invoice the committee and do some judicious hang ing berore they atart out on the war path. PERSONAL XOTK. The secretary of the treaaury a report snows that the sales of playing cards fell off last year 1,500.000 packs. And every ono was playlig bridge, too. Richard Strauss haa received ,000 for the rights of hla mw symphony. "Sin fonl Domestics.,- th highest sum ever pa' 5 In Germany for a musJce.: compoaltlon C. F. Larr&bee, who la to be assistant commissioner of Indian affair, ha had a long experleru.) in field work among the Indiana and his name haa never been con nected with failure in any of his enter prises. Samples of 1,000 gonoebonea gathered In New England and the central atates fur- nleh assurances that winter la to be u mild one. Meanwhile the rcaldent are digging paths through the abundant anow pilea. When the senate opened the other day each senator found upon his desk a neat volume, presented by Rev. Dr. E. E. Hale, the chaplain. The hook contains all the prayers which hav been delivered by Dr, Halo before tho senate. long Ialajtd has a young aea nymph named Molly Canning, who haa been taking a plunge In the surf dally for the last two months. Even tho bllssard did not deter her, and when she emerged tho cold wind almost converted her Into a pillar of salt like Lot's wife. Street railway managers of New York are "chortling With joy" over a decision of the courts establishing the right of the pub lie to transfers. The managers would have granted the concession long ago were It not for the fear that generosity might pro duce heart failure among patrons. Count Casein!, Tho Russian ambassador, on December 2 will celebrate the fiftieth year of his service In th diplomatic corps. Ha entered tho service when a little over 17 years of ego and has since then con stantly served his country In some capacity In that department of government. Baron Kaneko declarea that "well-to-do Japaneae do not live ao very differently from Americans. For breakfaat they have coffee from the Philippines, condensed milk from Chicago, sugared ham from Omaha, bread from flour milled In Minne apolis. They Smoke a cigarette of Vir ginia leaf and read the newa printed on paper made In Wisconsin." CXOSUtt 1 OH THE TRISTS. Slgaa of the Time Clearly Point In that Direction. Kansas City Star. The prediction that Prealdent Rooaevell will aend a special truat message to con gress, accompanied by the reports of the Bureau of Corporations on the beef, Stand, ard Oil and tobacco trusts, la entirely plausible. Ita verification should not be a surprise to the country aa a whole, nor to thoae who .have been most active In obstructing the president's fight for the people against monopolistic Impositions. It cannot be accepted that tho president's recommendations have been correctly fore told, but It ia not at all Improbable that he will urge atrong national supervision over thoae great concerns engaged In In terstate oommerce and in league to control great 'Industries and lines of business In which the public is vitally concerned. This control may bo secured through the re quirement of federal charters, through some auch supervlalon aa la now exercised over national banka, or through apociflc laws defining limits and privileges. That something more than specific laws may be aaked seema probable for th rea aon that It Is ao difficult to make auch lawa Invulnerable to the technical evai lons of the trtiata. It Is gratifying to note that Prealdent Roosevelt meana to lose no time In preea Ing hla truata policies. The country has believed ho would continue to make prog, resa toward the regulation of Induatry and commerce In the Intereats of tho nation. Thla faith accounted much for the over- whelming vote of confldenoe received by Mr. Roosevelt. Hla record In tho coal strike, on the Northern Securities case, on the eatahlisliment of the Department of Commerce and iAbor, his action agalnat railway combinations, his Investigation of the Beef trust, ma intervention in the anth. radio coal strike, his absolute independence of truata and corporatlona In his political canvas, together with the contlnuoua study he waa Known 10 given to the truat nrobleni all these things assured tho peo ple that ' here waa a tnan-the man on whom they c-oum leiy n.r at least a de termined, energetic and honest effort to break th tutr uf eiganlsed eatortiun. S11T GOMir II WASHICTOV Army aad avy Register. There will be nj opposition to the detail of Lieutenant Oneral Nelson A. Mile. V. S. A., retired, to duty with the Msssa rhusetts volunteer milttls. The newly elected democratic governor of the atate hs announced the appointment of General Miles a hi adjutant general, and the question arose, considering th rank of General Miles, whether It would be "pos sible" to detail him to mltltla duty. Inas much as there ere sow on mllltla duty nine brigadier generals of the twenty-eight officers of the retired list detailed with tho organised mllltla. there did not seetrt to be any reason why a pointed exception ahould be made In the case cf General Miles. It has been decided to Issue sn order from tb War department formally detailing General Miles to mllltla duty at Boston, where he may become adjutant general or serve In any other capacity aa aults the convenience and needs of the governor. I'nder these circumstances Lieu tenant General Mllea Is In a position to draw the full pay of hie grade. A new slgnsllng kit will be practically tested at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and Fort Wood. It la In the form of a col lapsible rod, which extended may be used as th stsff for the signal flags. The roil la of Calcutta bamboo and In three sec tions, each twenty-three Inche In length. This makes a compact bundle, the sticks being held together In a canvaa case sup ported by a leather carrying strap. The rod la equipped with swivels, by means of which the flag may be attached and have so free a motion that It will not become wrapped around the staff In signaling as now so often occurs. It great advantage Is In the economy In weight, a quality which will be appreciated by the enlisted men of the algnsl corps. Arrangements are being made to the end that married men who are of the recruiting partlea at permanent army recruiting ata tlons may board where they pleaae on an allowance which shall not be greater than that of the contract price pold for each member of auch a party. It haa been found that In the case of married men who are on that duty that they are desirous of living with their famllle Instead of at a boarding house where are quartered other members of the recruiting psrty. The Wsr d artment holds there Is nn objection to allowing thla privilege. Those who are Intereated In the medal of honor, principally by belonging to the exclusive claaa of poaseasors, are enter taining a sense of an Imllsnty Imposed upon them or their rightly coveted emblem by the adoption of something possessing all the characteristics of s cheap bauble. In the first place, the new design of the medal la of braaa, although Ita baseness of coin position is somewhat gloaaed over by It description as Of "gun metal,' Just as the thing Itself Is absurdly plated to give it the appearance of value. The medal of honor might better be made of iron, without at tempt at veneer or decoration; lta signifi cance gives It a value which ia not im parted, of course, by any Intrinsic worth. But It Is naturally the subject of remon strance and criticism when the brass medal I tinseled over with gilt and otherwise gewgawed wllh allegedly decorative en amel. This degeneration of the medal la hot the only object of protest. A patent ha been granted by the United State patent office to G. L. Gillespie as inventor of "a badge," found to be no less than the medal or honor Itself, judging from the ds slgn on file. Moreover, this design, offi cial! known aa No. 3723. has been as signed to the Medal of Honor Legion, a body of gentlemen who have received the medal and who hav: formed themaelvea Into an association The recorda ahow that all that I lacking to complett the transfer la the elgnature of the patentee. It will not be surprising If this transfer lead to an Interesting atate of affaire in the War department. It will be asked at once why the Medal of Honor Legion should own th? patent granted on account of the highly respected emblem, which ahould be in the poeaesslon, aa It ia In the control, of the government without restriction or hin drance. It will probably he anawered that the action ia taken to protect the design from the pirates, but thla object could be attained quite aa effectively by trans ferring the design to the government, after the manner of other patenta granted ti auch offlcera aa General Crosier, to name no more In the long list of army and navy officers whose Inventions are of value to the country and who have presented their patents to the government. The difficulty will be that the legion will have aome control over the distribution of the medal or exert some Influence over Its award. This la easily conceivable, and It la per fectly proper that any such situation ahould be regarded aa intolerable. The general staff of the army I pulling the flnal touches to the general order pre scribing the uniforms of the service. That order has been pending a long time and haa been the subject of many changes, a few of which of minor Importance were made during the preaent week In the last revlaion of the proof of the order. It ! possible that the completed order Will not appear for two weeks or by the first of tht new year. Hoota of tho lloodloni. Chicago Chronicle. Tho gang of men and boya who hooted and jeered at Mrs. Chadwlck when she ar rived In Cleveland must be the lineal de scendants of the hypocrites who brought the woman to Christ, but did not even men tion th man. It la disgraceful to kick anybody who Is down, especially If a woman, and most especially if the man In the case does not get his share uf the kicks. Why did not the Cleveland hood lums visit Irl Reynolds? He haa been In dicted aa particepa crimlnls with Mrs. Chadwlck. 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In so far aa It affects the Intereats only of the litigants, (he decision of the United States Supreme court In the case of tlia Western I'nlon Telegraph company agalnM the Pennsylvania railroad la not of public. concern. The principle for which Justice Harlan contended lu his minority opinion, however, would have been so conducive to the general welfare that Its rejection by the majority of tho court Is to bo regretted. By the act of congress of July 24. lStt. tele graph companies accepting the provislone of the law were authorised to put their wires and poles along any post road. The provisions Included one permitting th United States to limit rates for telegraph ing and another authorizing the government to take over any telegraph line on an ap praised valuation. The objects of the law were the ex tension of facilities for Interstate com munication, lo prevent restrictive Inter vention by the states and to enable th federal government In case of war or other emergency to obtain possession and control of the lines. The railways of the country are post roads no lean than are the county and state highways. The counties and states may not prelude telegraph companies from the use of their public highways, and. In the opinion of Justice Harlan, railway companies should not have greater privi leges. Says this eminent JurlBt: "The railway companies looking to their own Interests and caring little for the gen eral welfare of Interstate telegraphic com munications, while the states are prohib ited from so doing. Thus a railroad cor poration Is recognised aa having more power than a state." The majority of the court based Its opinion ou the proposition thst a railroad right-of-way is private property and, there fore, cannot be entered upon by n tele graph company nor by anybody elae with out the consent of the owner. But If congress can Impress upon these privately owned roads a public character for the purpose of rarrylng communications ' by mall, why not for the purpose of carrying communications by electricity? SMILlMi l.lES. Bonthlet What 1o von mean by saying I'm the worfc actor you ever saw? Coolly Well. I've no oVuht it dirt seem rather harsh; but, then, you know, there are so many actors I have never aeen! Boston Transcript. "Naaletone s the worst bore I ever knew, but he Is :ie-er out of a Job." "That's right; he's a bill collector, and everybody pays up instnnter to get rid of him." Detroit Free Press. "I want to marry you," said the rising yoiin author, bluntly. "Why?" coyly asked the great heiress, preparing to revel ;n the Impassioned poe try of his confession. "Well." he replied, "it would be a great 'ad' for me." Philadelphia Press. Francis I had Just sent his message: "All Is lost save honor!" "Thank heaven!" cried the queen; "ir the diamonds are gone, we can be right In the swim!" She at once telephoned to her press agent. New York Sun. "How ia your boy doing at college?" "First rate." answered Farmer Cointos ael. "He knowa more than anybody around here. All he needs now la sense enough not to make people mad by his way of show-in' it." Washington Star. (jtilverfullTliat boy of mine will drive me crazy. Knoltawon What's his latest? Quiverfull Wanted to know how many teams there were in the Kpworth league Cleveland Leader. . "What does Sklmmerhorn want to go to congress for'.'" "Well. It's because he's sure Uncle Sam ia the only employer he can ever find that'll think he's worth a salary of $6,0Mu a year." Chicago Tribune. SOSU FOR THE SKA SOX. ('Union Scollard In the Housekeeper. A song for the holly bough For the Yule-tide beckons now. And our harvest-garnered aphere Silo wet li the white o' the year! Brightly the berries burn IJke the embers In the urn Of the day ere It dec.llnee Behind the crest of the pines. Green a glory of green Are the leaves of vernal sheen, None of their shimmer lost I'nder the touch of the frost. Burnished berry and leaf Symbol the soul's belief In tho fadeless love of Him Who altteth. In heaven, above The saints and tha eeraphlm At the right of the throne of Love. Center our faith and hope We who yenrnyand grope In the love they typify, (Glisten the garlands now! I 8o, under the Yule-tide sky, A song fur the holly bough! Label WATER Sj Still and sparkling. SHERMAN i. VeCONIELL DRU: CO., IfTH AMD DCjObV MBTAIX AOEITfc J i 4 ii