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PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
. The following proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, ns hereinafter set forth in full,
are submitted to the electors of the
State of Nebraska, to be voted upon
at the general election to be held Tues
day, November 3, A. D. 189G:
A joint resolution proposing to
amend sections two (2), four (4), and
five (5), of article six (6) of the Constitu
tion of the State of Nebraska, relating
to number of judges of the supreme
court and their term of office.
I3eit resolved and enacted by the Legis
lature of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section two (2) of article
six (6) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol
lows:
Sections. The supreme
court shall until
otherwise -provided bv law, consist of live
(.) judges.a majoritj'. of whom shall be
necessary to form a quorum or to pro
nounce a decision. It shall have original
iurisdiction In cases relatinpr to revenue.
civil cases in which the state shall be
part3 mandamus, quo warranto, habeas
corpus, and such appellate jurisdiction as
may be provided by law.
Section 2. That section four (4) of article
six (6) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, be amended so as to read as fol
lows:
Section 4. The iudees of the supreme
court shall be elected bv the electors of
the state at larce. and their term of Office
excent as hereinafter provided, shall be
for a period of not less than five (5) years
as the legislature mav nrescribe.
. Section 3. That section live (5) of article
six (6) of the Constitution of the State ol Ne
braska. be amended to read as follows:
Section 5. At the first general election to
oe new in tne year lb'Jo. tnere snail oe eicci
ed two (2) iudees of the sunreme court one
of whom shall be elected for a term of
two f2) vears. one for the term of four (4
vears. and at each ceneral election there
after, there shall be" elected "one judge of
the supreme court for the term of five
(5) years, unless otherwise provided "by
law: Provided. That the ludsres or tnesu
prcme court who.e terms have not expired
at tne time or nomine tne irenerai eiec
tion ot 1893. shall continue to hold their
office for the remainder of the term for
which they were .respectively commis
sioned.
Approved March 29, A, D.18C5.
A joint resolution proposing
amendment to section thirteen (13)
an
article six (6) of the Constitution of the
State ot Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of supremo and district court
judges.
Be it resolved by the Legislature of the
Sstateot .Nebraska;
Section I. That section thirteen (13) ot
article six (6) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska be amended so as to
read as follows:
Section 13. The judges of the supreme and
district courts shall receive for their ser
vices such compensation as may be pro
vided bv law, payable quarterly.
The legislature shall at its first session
after the" adoption of this amendment,
three-fifths of the members elected to
each house concurring, establish their
compensation. The compensation so es
tablished shall not be changed oftener
than once in four vears, and in no event
unless two-thirds of the members elected
to each house of the legislature concur
therein.
Approved March 30, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section twenty-four (21) of article
five (3) of the Constitution of the State
of Nebraska, relating to compensation
of the officers of the executive depart
ment Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture oi tne state oi .weurasKa:
Section 1. That section twenty-four (24)
of article five (5) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska be amended to read as
follows:
Section 24. The officers of the executive
department of the state government shall
receive for their services a compensation
to be established by law. which shall 'be
neither increased nor diminished during
tne term tor wnicn tney snau nave ceen
commissioned and they shall not receive
to their own use any fees, costs, interests.
"upon public moneys In their nanus or un
der their control, perquisites of office or
other compensation and all fees that ma'
nereaiter ue payaoie ay law ior services
performed by an officer provided for in
this article shall be paid in advance into
the state treasury. The legislature shall
at its first session, after the adoption of
this amendment, three-fifths of the mem
bers elected to each house of the legis
lature concurring, establish the salaries
of the officers named in this article. The
compensation so established shall not be
changed oftener than once in four years
and in no event unless two-thirds of the
members elected to each house of the leg
islature concur therein.
Approved March 29. A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section one (1) of article six (6) of the
Constitution of the State of Nebraska,
relating to judicial power.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section one (11 of article
six (6) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska be amended to read as follows:
Section 1. The judicial power of this state
shall be vested in a supreme court, dis
trict courts, county courts, justices of the
peace, police magistrates, and in such
other courts inferior to the supreme court
as may be created hy law in which two
thirds of the members elected to each house
concur.
Approved March 29, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section eleven (11) of article six
(G) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, relating to increase in num
ber of supreme and district court
judges.
Beit resolved and enacted hy the Leg
islature of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section eleven (11) of ar
ticle six (C) of the Constitution of the State
of Nebraska be amended to read as fol
lows: Sectiond I. The legislature, whenever two
thirds of the members elected to. each
house shall concur therein, mav, in or
after the 3ear one thousand elg"ht hun
dred and ninety-seven and not oftener
than once in every four years, increase the
number of judges of supreme and district
courts, and the judicial districts of the
state. Such districts shall be formed of
compact territory, and bounded by count'
lines; and such increase, or an change in
the boundaries of a district, shall not vacate
the office of any judge.
Approved March 30, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section six (G) of article one (1)
of the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, relating to trial by jury.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section six (6), article one
(1) of the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska be amended to read as follows:
Section 6. The right of trial by jury shall
remain inviolate, but the legislature may
provide that in civil actions fiye-sixths o"f
the jury may render a verdict, and the leg
islature may also authorize trial by a jury
of a less number than twelve men, In courts
inferior to the district court.
Approved March 29. A. D. 1895.
A . joint resolution proposing to
amend section one (1) of article five (5)
of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat
ing to "officers of the executive depart
ment. Be it resolved and enacted by the Legislature
of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section one (1) of article
five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska be amended to read as follows:
Section 1. Thecxecutive department shall
consist of a governor, licutenant-yovcrnor,
secretary of state, auditor of public accounts,
treasurer, superintendent of public instruc
tion, attorney-general, commissioner of public
lands and buildings. -and three railroad com
missioners, each of whom, except the said rail
road commissioners, shall hold his office fora
term of two years, from the first Thursday
after the first Tuesday in January after his
election, and until his successor is elected and
qualified. Each railroad commissioner shall
hold h's office for a term of three years, beginning-
on the first Thursday after the first
Tuesday in January after his election, and un
til his successor is elected and qualified; Pro
vided, however. That at the first general elec
tion held after the adoption of this amendment
there shall be elected three railroad commis
sioners, one for the period of one year, one for
of three vears. The irovernor, secretary of
state, auditor of public accounts and treasurer
suaii re.siae ai me capiiai uuiiiik men icim u
office; they shall keep the public records,
books and papers there and shall perform such
. .
amies as mav oe rcquircu uy law.
Approved March oO, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section twenty-six (26) of ar
ticle five (5) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, limiting the num
ber of executive state officers.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture of the state if Nebraska:
Section 1. That section twenty-six (2G) of.
article five (5) of the Constitution of the State
ol ivebraska, be amended to read as iouows:
Section 26. No other executive state officers
except those named in section one (1) of this
article shall be created, except by an act of the
legislature which is concurred in by not less
than three-fourths of the members elected to.
each house thereof:
Provided. That any office created by an act
of thelegislaturo.may be abolished by the leg
islature, two-tntrds ot tne mcmoers elected
each house thereof concurrinjr.
Approved March 30, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to
J amend section nine (9) of article eight
(8) ot the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska, providing for the invest
ment ol the permanent educational
funds of the state.
Be it resolved and enacted by the Legisla
ture of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That Section nine (0) of article
eight (8) of the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska be amended to read as follows:
Section 9. All fnnds belonging to the state
for educational purposes, the interest and in
come whereof only are to be used, shall be
deemed trust funds held by the state, and the
state shajl supply all losses thereof that may
in any manner accrue, so that the same shall
remain forever inviolate and undiminished,
and shall not be invested or loaned except on
United States or state securities, or registered
county bonds or registered school district
bonds of this state, and such funds, with the
interest and income, thereof, are hereby sol
emnly pledped for the purposes for which they
arc granted and set apart, and shall not be
transferred to any other fund for other uses;
Provided, The board created bv section 1
of this article is empowered to sell from time
to time any of the securities belonging to the
permanent school fund and invest the pro
ceeds arising therefrom in any of the securi
ties enumerated in this section bearing' a
higher rate of interest, whenever an opportun
ity focbetter investment is presented;
And provided further, That when any war
rant upon the sta'te treasurer regularly issued
in pursuance of an appropriation by the "'legis
lature, and secured by the lc y of a tax for its
payment, shall be presented to the state treas
urer for payment, and there shall not be auy
money in the proper fund to pay such warrant
the board created by section 1 of this article
may direct the state treasurer to pay the
amount due on such warrant from money's in
his hands belonging to the permanent school
fund of the state, and he shall hold said war
rant as an investment of said permanent
school fund.
Approved March 29, A. D.1895.
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska by adding a new
section to article twelve (12) of said
constitution to be numbered section
two (2) relative to the merging ot the
government of cities of the metropoli
tan class and the government of the
counties wherein such cities are lo
cated.
Be it resolved nnd enacted bv the Lesrisla
tare of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That article twelve (12) of
the
be
Constitution of the State of Nebraska
amended by adding to said article a new sec
tion to oe numbered section two 121 to read as
follows:
Section 2. The government of any citv o
the metropolitan class and the government o
the county in which it is located mav be
merged wUfvy or in part wheibosopasUloii
so to do has been submitted bv authority of
law to the voters of such citv and county and
received the assent of a majority of the votes
cast in such city and also a majority of the
votes cast in the county exclusive of those cast
in such metropolitan citv at such election.
Approved March 29, A. D. lS&n
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to section six (fi).of article
seven (7) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, prescribing the
manner in which votes shall be cast:
Be it resolved and enacted bv the Legisla
ture oi the Mate ol .Nebraska:
Section 1. That section six (6) of article
seven (4) of the Constitution of the State of
Nebraska be amended to read as follows:
Section (. All votes shall be bv ballot, or
such other method as mav be prescribed by
law, provided tne sccrcc3 ot voting be ore
served.
Approved March tS. A. D. HQS.
A loint resolution proposing to-
amend section two (2) of article four
teen (14) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, relative to dona
tions to works of internal improve
ment and manufactories.
Be it resolved and enacted bv the Leirisla
tureof the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That sect:on two (2) of Jirticle
fourteen (It) of the Constitution of the State
of Nebraska, be amended to read as follows:
Section 2. city, county, town, nrecinct.
municipality, or other subdivision of the state,
naii ever maiic donations to any works ot in
ternal improvement or manufactory unless a
proposition so to do shall have been first sub
mitted to the qualified electors and ratified by
a two-thirds vote at an election by authority of
law; Provided, That such donations of a
county with the donations of such subdivis
ions in the ajnrretrate shall not exceed ten per
cent ot tuc assessed valuation ol sucu county
jf rovided turther, in at any city or county
may, by a three-fourths vote, increase such in
debtedness live per cent, in addition to such
ten per cent, ana no Donns or evidences ot in
debtedness so issued shall be valid unless the
same shall have endorsed thereon a certificate
signed by the secretary and auditor of state,
showing- that the same is issued pursuant to
law.
Approved March 29, A. D. 1893.
I, J. A. Piper, secretary of state of
he state of Nebraska, do hereby cer-
ify that ths foregoing preposed
amendments to the Constitution of
the State of "Nebraska are true and
correct copies of the original enrolled
and engrossed bills as raised bv the
Twenty-fourth session of the legisla-
ure of the state of Nebraska, as ap
pears from said original bills on file in
this office, and that all and each of
said pronosed amendments are sub
mitted lo the qualified voters of the
state of Nebraska for their adoption
or rejection at the general election to
be held on Tuesday the 3rd day of No
vember, A. D. 1890.
In testimony whereof, I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the
great seal of the state of Nebraska.
Done at Lincoln this 17th day of
July in the year of our Lord, One
Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety
Six, of the Independence of the
United States the One Hundred and
Twenty-First, and of this state the
Thirtieth.
SEAL J. A. PIPER,
Secretary of State.
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THE WINNERS OP 1896.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President-
WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vice President
G. A. I10BAKT, of New Jersey.
STATU TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN H. MacCOLI.
For Lieutenant-Governor
ORLANDO TEFFT.
For Secretary of State
JOEL A. PIPER.
For Auditor Public Accounts
P. O. HEDLUND.
For State Treasurer
CHARLES E. CASEY.
For Supt. Public Instruction
( HENRY R. CORBET
For Com. Lands aud Buildings
HENRY C. RUSSELL.
For Attorney-General
ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL.
For Supreme Judge, Long Term
ROBERT RYAN.
For Supreme Judge, Short Term
MOSESP.KINKAID.
For Regent of State University
W. G. WHITMORE.
LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
For Congress, Gth District
E. A. CADY.
For Senator, 30th District
J. S.HOAGLAND.
For Representative, 54-District-J.
H. ABBOTT.
COUNTY TICKET.
For County Attorney,
T. C. PATTERSON.
For Commissioner, Third District,
JAS.S. ROBBINS.
As the campaign progresses, the
laborers of the country will certain
ly grasp the important fact that
under the free coinage policy, dol
lars would not be distributed by
the government like garden seeds,
but would have to
be
worked for
the same as at present
California packers of salmon are
demanding a gold clause in con
tracts ior the coming season. The
example of Altgeld in securing
rrnl A for liimcnlf liofrktv f nrri n rr -frrr
silver on others is more jreherally
followed in California and Nevada
than in any other states.
The republican national commit
tee have organized a traveling
men's bureau. It is estimated
there are 120,000 of these trade
emissaries in the country and that
ninety per cent of them are sup
porting sound money and McKinley.
It is a vast army that will be a
power for carrying on the crusade
for good government and sound
patriotic principles.
Laboring men, are you so anxious
to have all commodities double in
price, but your wages go up only
about half way on the scale, that
you will vote for Bryan and free
silver in November Rest satisfied
it Bryan and a free silver congress
should be elected the price of living
will double, but vour wacres will
remain about the same.
"Vote for free silver and sret
SI. 00 per bushel for your wheat,"
says the free silver advocate to the
farmer. This has a very 'familiar
sound and with a slight chansre was
reiterated ap-ain and again in 1892.
Then it was, "Vote for Cleveland
and get $1.25 for 3'our wheat."
What they are advocating now
would come just as surely as S1.25
per bushel followed Cleveland's
election in 1892.
The Inter-State commerce law
and different state laws regulates
in a orreat measure, the carrvinjr
trade of the country, prohibiting
the railroads from making over
charges in the transportation of
freight, and tabulating the scale at
which passengers shall be carried
Under these conditions the differ
ent roads of the country would not
be permitted to change their sched
ules of charges, and consequently
would not raise the wages of their
employees on a par with the higher
priced living which must inevitably
follow the success of free silver.
The proposed change in our mone
tary system places before the rail
road men of the countrv a most
cheerful prospect. If offers them
ring at double cost and wages at
the present standard.
In a lecture before the Illinois
Chautauqua last Tuesday, Rev.
Sam Small said in part: "We have
had no day in the world's his-
ory when there "was a
greater
need for men. The
government
has never had more manifold and
mighty problems to solve and
society never needed such crystal-
ization as it does to-day. There
never was a time when the domes
tic life needed a more thorough
ourging. If we elevate unsafe
men at the head, of our government,
we have been remiss of our duty.
I want to see religious men and
men of courage rule things, for the
men who rule the saloon are like
rats when you turn a calcium
irht on them. We need to show
he power of individual manhood.
The man who is to govern our pub
he affairs should be a man or per
sonal character, a model for the na
tion. We go, therefore, to a hum
ble home at Canton O., much more
humble than many of your homes
where the Bible is read and where
the morning prayer is said, and we
find that colossal character, "Wil
Ham McKinlev. the model man o
to-day."
THE DISHONEST DOLLAE.
The free silver advocates
grow
indignant when told that they are
seeking to substitute a dishonest
dollar for an honest one: but the
fact remains, nevertheless, that such
is their purpose, whether they al
realize it or not. An honest dollar,
of course, is a dollar that comes up
to the inscription on its face and is
worth 100 cents. We have dollars
of that kind now, including those
made of silver, which is to say that
the promise of the government to
maintain the srold standard makes
all forms of currency as good as
gold. But under the free coinage
oolicv this promise could not be
a. a
kept. The silver miners could take
their bullion to the mints and re
ceive stamped dollars in return.
They would not be honest dollars,
however, in thesenseof being worth
100 cents each. The government
would not undertake the impossible
task of holdinir them at par. It
:ee to redeem them in
rrrdi-l nnrl in 1ip nhcpnrP nf Klirll
gurarantee, they would pass only
at their intrinsic value, which
would be about 50 cents apiece
nt would merely act
as a coinage agent, assuming no
responsibility beyond that ot re-
turning a
given
amount of silver
dollars for a jnven number of silver
bullion, as the miller takes wheat
and converts it into flour for his
customers.
At the present time, all silver dol
lars are coined on account of the
(rnvprnmpnf. nnrl is;iiff1 hv flip crnv
j- - r ' J S '
ernment in payment of its expen
ditures and obligations: but in the
event of the adoption of free coinage.
situation would be very different
'The dollars would be coined," as
Secretary Carlisle says in a recent
letter, "on private account, and de
livered to private Individuals and
corporations as their own property,
the government having no niterest
whatever in them, and being, there
fore, under no obligation to sustain
them by guaranteeing their value."
Thus, the prop of government credit
beinir removed, the silver dollar
would drop to the level of its bullion
value. It would bear the stamp of
a dollar, but it would not be a dol-
ar in fact. The quality of dis-
lonesty would attach to it by
reason of its not being what it pre-
euded to be. This aspect of the
matter is a most important one, in
volving not only a question of busi
ness prudence and safety, .but also
a consideration of morality. Under
the existing system, our dollars
are all honest dollars, and the re
publican party proposes to keep
them so. instead of trying the ex
periment of free coinage, which
means depreciation, discredit and
general misfortune. Intelligent
citizens shonld have no difficulty in
seeing that it is their duty to vote
against a change that would flood
the country with dishonest dollars
and drive the better ones out.
Globe Democrat.
NO REPUDIATION.
Massachusetts Set tho Whole Country s
Good Example In 1892.
It becomes from time to time my offi
cial duty to sign bonds issued by the
commouwealth of Massachusetts for
loans of money. Some of those bonds
read, "Interest and principal payable in
gold coin. " Some of these bonds have
no such provision. "Why is it? It is be
cause, in the first place, the legislature,
in authorizing some of these great loans
for tho abolition of grade crossings, fcr
the metropolitan water system and for
such other important matters as the
suppression of the gypsy moth, has seen
fit in its acts to specify that they be
paid in gold coin. In those cases these
bouds bear that provision, and yet that
is wholly unnecessary. If not a word
was said about tne payment m gold
coin of any loan that the commonwealth
of Massachusetts makes they would
still be payable, principal and interest,
in gold com, because by section G7 of
chapter 10 it is provided that the inter
est and principal of all scrip or bonds
of the commonwealth are payable and
when due shall bo paid in gold coin or
its equivalent. That is a general act
covering all issues of bonds by the com
monwealth of Massachusetts, and when .
was that act passed? Was it in a time
of great prosperity, when it seemed easy
to meet such obligations in gold? No,
gentlemen. The commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts, through its legislature,
placed that act upon its statute books
in the dark and dubious days of 1862.
That is the way in which the credit of
this commonwealth has been maintained
as the foremost among all her sister
states, and tho eqnal well nigh of any
civilized community or aggregation of
men anywhere in the world. Speech of
Governor Wolcott of Massachusetts.
The only persons who would benefit
by free silver coinage would be those
who were in debt by their ability to
pay their debts at 50 cents on the dollar.
Exchange.
This is the first political campaign
since 1804 in which all the business in
terests of the country are all arrayed on
one side, Exchange.
H0LC0MB TO LEAD.
MADE POPUUST STANDARD
BY ACCLAMATION.
BEARER
NctnaliaMan "Receives Unanimous Indorse
ment Democrats "Withdraw Their Ke
qnest For Representation on the State
- Ticket J. C. Uarrls Gets Second Place.
Governor Silas A. Holcojib
Lieutenant Governor John C. Harbis
Secretory of State "W.P. Porter
Auditor John P. Cornell
Treasurer J. N. Meserve"
Hastings, Aug. 6. Chairman Arthur
Edgerton cf the state central committee
called the convention to order at 11
o'clock, and prayer was offered by Rev.
Mr. Isham of Hastings. Mayor G. J.
Evans briefly welcomed the convention
and evoked applause by his reference to
the administration of Governor Hol
comb. This -was appropriately answered
by "W. A. Poynter of Boone county, who
then proceeded to discuss Populism in
general. A mention of Bryan's name
was followed by prolonged applause, in
which the middle-of-the-road delegates
failed to participate. The convention
then proceeded to business. The secre
tary read the call and ex-Mayor A. H.
"Weir was unanimously named as tem
porary chairman. On motion of Sena
ator Allen the convention adjourned un
til 1 o'clock.
Ou the reassembling of the conven
tion, and after tho committee on rules
and order of business had reportedt
Captain P. H. BaiTy offered a resolu
tion authorizing the state central com
mittee to name an electoral ticket. It
provided that in case no understanding
should be reached" between the two
parties, at least four of the electors
named should be Populists. This was
clianged to five and the resolution was
passed after some opposition.
Porter of Merrick objected to leaving
so important a1 matter to so small a
committee and moved to amend by sub
stituting the central committee for the
executive committee. The amendment
was accepted and after some warm dis
cussion, the resolution was adopted.
Proceeding with the regular order of
business, Governor Holcomb was nomi
nated by acclamation, under suspension
of the rules.
The rules were again suspended and
John C. Harris of Nemaha county was
nominated by acclamation for lieuten
ant governor. Governor Holcomb was
brought in and spoke for half an hour,
telling of the efforts he had made to in
vest the state school fuuds, the oppo
sition he had met, of the penitentiary
troubles, and savings he had effected in
running those state institutions where
officers were appointed by him.
The convention reconvened at 9:30.
The committee appointed to confer with
a committee from tho Democrats re
ported that the Democrats asked that
the nomination of candidates for treas
urer and attorney general be left va
cant. The committee reported without
recommendation.
After an hour's discussion C. J.
Smyth, chairman of the Democratic
state central committee, sent in a com
munication withdrawing the demand
for representation upou the state ticker.
TV. F. Porter of Merrick county was
nominated for secretary of state.
On the second ballot J. F. Cornell of
Richardson county was nominated for
aulitor.
J. B. Meserve of Red Willow county
was nominated for state treasurer.
The platform, as adopted, indorses
the action of tho St. Louis convention;
approves the course of Senator Allen in
standing up for the masses; approves
he administration of Governor Hol
comb; favors national aid for irrigation;
schemes for redeeming arid lands;
favors mutual aud fraternal lire, life
aud accident insurance and also favors
the valued policy law.
Fight for Trcslilent.
Likcolx. Aug. 6. The convention of
the State League of Republican clubs
was called to order at 2 p. m. yesterday
by President Collins. President Col-
ius said that the secretary had in-
brmed him thaMhere were represented
59 clubs in the convention by 1,455
delegates. He urged the league to
adopt as its motto, "Eternal Yigilauce."
He said that the order of business would
be the election of delcgates-at-large and
district delegates to the national con
vention which meets at Milwaukee
Aug. 27, followed by the election of
officers of the league.
Messrs. Beemau L. Dawes and -John
L. "Webster were elected delegates-at-large
by acclamation.
The fight of the day came on the elec
tion of president of the state league.
G. M. Lambertson of Lancaster
nominated George J. "Woods. Father '
Laughlan of Clay couuty and a delegate j
from Richardson seconded Woods
nomination.
Dr. M. O. Ricketls of Douglas nomi
nated C. F. Winters of Omaha. Logan
of Lincoln seconded Winters' nomina
tion. Judge J. B. Cessna of Hastings nomi
nated W. P. McCreary of Hastings.
Seth Moberly of Hall seconded Mc
Creary 's nomination.
Pat Ruddy seconded Woods' nomina
tion. After a lively squabble over the vote
of the Lincoln McKinley club Winter
aud Wood both withdrew and McCreary
was elected.
LATE RETURNS IN ALABAMA.
Johnston and the Democratic Ticket Car
ried I'orty-One Counties
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 6. Further
returns from Monday's election show
that Johnston and the Democratic ticket
have earned ai counties, while Good
wyn, Populist, has 22. Three counties,
Pike, Cullam and Tallapoosa, are close
aud in doubt. It is about a standoff in
these. Johnston's official aud estimated
majorities amount to 48,843, while Good
wyn's majorities are 9,205, leaving
Johnston's net majorities at 39,608.
Tho official canvass of the vote Satur
day will, it is thought, not vary from
thesa figures.
Shall it be government of the people,
by the people, for the people, or govern
ment of the people by tho Populists for
the silver mine owners?
Salt on the Popnllst Tell.
Yes, glib Populist, you talk of money,
but will you first please define your
temi? Money is a medium of exchange :
money is a measure of value. In Abys
sinia salt is money, but the world at
largo does not recognize salt as a medium
of exchange or measure of value. Bos
ton Journal.
PROMISES SENSATIONAL RESULTS.
Interesting: DeTclopmentg Regarding Graia
Sate' SlanipalatioBS Expected.
Chicago, Aug. 6. The inquiry of the
interstate commerce commission regard
ing grain rate, manipulations at Kansas
City promises some sensational results.
At the day's session, Vice President
Truesdale of the Rock Bland and Joint
Agent Maegley of Kansas City were the
only witnesses. The investigation has
resolved itself into a battle royal be
tween the local roads not
running
through Kansas City and the through
lines. President Stickney of the Great
Western tried to prove that the western
connections of the Indiana, Illinois and
Iowa and the Elgin, Joilet and eastern
belt lines around Chicago had author
ized these roads to pay heavy rebates to
heavy grain shippers and that the
treasurers of the different through lines
had turned over money to their at
torneys to be paid shippers as rebates
Mr. Truesdale denied cognizance of
these eals during the period covered
uy me inquiry. Mr. Truesuale prac
tically charged competing roads with
giving rebates to the Anglo-American
Packing company. The officers of this
company have been subpoenaed to ap
pear before tho comnjission. The in
terest of the day centered around the
evidence of Joint Agent Maegley of
.Kansas City. Maegley's evidence
proved that the manner of recousign
iug grain from Kansas City to the east
is very loose; that expense bills are
traded in and the identity of the grain
lost. When asked to produce the ex
pense bills of the different roads, Maeg
ley said he had tnmed them all over to
the interested roads, which will be
asked to produce them in evidence.
Chicago Exchange Is Closed.
Chicago, Aug. 5. Nothing in years
lias caused such a flurry iu commercial
circles as the collapse of the Moores in
their efforts to maintain the control of
the Diamond Match stocks and New
York Biscuit. It has been the talk of
every man connected with the stock ex
change aud the board of trade. Another
striking feature of the failure, and one
which, in a measure, shows its extent
and breadth, is the fact that the stock
exchange for the first time in its his
tory adjourned indefinitely without
doing a dollar's worth of business. The
following notice was posted on the
door of tho exchange:
The Chicago etock exchange has ad
journed subject to the nc.ion of the gov
erning ccinmittee. J. R. Wilkixs,
Secrctaty.
Chicago banks and bankers who hold
approximately $4,000,000 worth of Dia
mond Match stock as collateral for
money leaned will, not press the bor
rowers for settlement. To do so would
be unwise, and might precipitate a
panic. This the bauks are bound to
avoid at all hazards just now. Another
thing the banks have decided to do, and
it is to accept the stock of the Diamoud
Match, owned by Moore Bros., at a cash
value of 170
More niotingr at Cleveland.
ULE v ELAND, -AUg. -J. All tUC UUIOU
men employed at the Brown Hoisting
and Conveying works again went on a
strike this morning aud a boycott against
the company declared. It is claimed
thnfc the Brown company has failed to
keep its agreement in reins a ting strikers
and tdat a number of new bauds have
been employed since the strike was de
clared off. At noon today, while the
nonunion men were being escorted to
the works by the police, a tremendous
crowd of strikers aud their sympathizers
gathered and hooted aud threw stones at
the nonunion'sts. The police repeatedly
charge:: the crowd and made nnmerous
nrresls, but were unable to disperse it.
During the excitement and confusion,
John Prince, a union man employed in
the Forest City foundiy, was shot by
some unknown nonumonist and will
probably die. Prince is 28 years old and
has a wife and two children.
xnres companies or mintia and a
large force of police have been sent to
the Brown works this afternoon.
Ex-Governor Anthony Dead.
Topeka, Aug. 6. Ex-Governor George
T. Anthony died at 10:35 last night. He
had been ill about three weeks. He
was governor of Kansas from IS77 to
1879, and was appointed superintendent
of insurance by Governor Morrill, which
office he held up to the time of his
death. He leaves a widow and one
child.
Heirs to a Big Fortune.
Sioux City, Aug. 6. By the'death of
William McNamara, a Butte, Mont.,
miner, Catherine, Joseph and Daniel
Cannolc, to whom he is a half brother.
and ins brother, John McNamara, all
small farmers near here, fell heirs to a
fortune of $400,000.
IRREGULAR
WHEAT
MARKET.
September
Opened Stronjr,
Iteacted aud
Closed AVeak.
Chicago. Aug. o. There was an irregular
wheat market tcdny. September opened
strong, reacted and closed, weak at 58c. or
ivi ueiow yivsteruay. Corn gained and oat
were nnchangeJ. Hog products coded steady
aau lower.
WHEAT Sept . c8c: Dec.. &?4'e.
COEN-Sapt.. 2.-,J4a25.;; May. '23.
OATS-Sept., 18HaiSMc; May, 2jc
PORK Seps, C8; Jan.. $7.35.
Sept.. ?3 47J;!,50; Jan., ?3.82J.
BIBS Sept.. Jan.. .72,
Cash, quotations: No. 2 red wheat. 615 63c;
No. 3, 50.Si0c: No. 2 spring, .8; No. S corn,
ZAAs; No. 2 oats. 18)i&
South Oinaha Live Stock.
South Omaha. Ang. 5. CATTLE Receipts,
1.2:0: stroag; native beef steers, J3.50S4.20;
western steers. $2.S0a3.CJ; Texas steerj, f2.00
cows nna neuera, z.uu!iJ.i.U: cannery.
$1.22.03; stockers and feeders. 2.75&3.50;
calves. $3.00(fJ3.23; bulLs, stags, Ha. ?1.752.75.
HOGS Receipts, 2.2X5; 531 c higher: heavy,
2.8)&3.00; mixed. $2.9032.03; light. ?3.0.3.1iJ;
bulk of sulc3, $2.9&u:.
SHEEP Receipt3.2.4J0; strong; fair to choice
natives. J2.5XSTJ.U0; fair to choice westerns?
J2.502.7o ; common and stock sheen. J2.0i)2.5i):
lainbj, J3.WXS5.2.J.
Chicago Live Stock.
CaiCAGO. Ang. 5. HOGS Receipts, 14.000;
active, averaging lUc higher; light, 3.303.65;
mixed, ?3.10&3.55; heavy, 2.8J3 45; rough.
2.80a3.00.
CATTLE Receipts. 7.500; good natives 10
20c higher; others iiSlOc higher: beeves, rd.35
3.00; cows and heifers. $1.4O4.O0; Texas
steerj, f2.50Q3.2a; stockers and feeders, $2.80
Robbing the Foreign Born.
Voters of foreign birth will do well
to remember that among them are
many men and women who are in the
habit of regularly sending money to the
old folks across the sea. Under the pres
ent monetary system the wageworker
receives his pay on a gold basis, and his
dollar sent from hero is a dollar there
too. But with free silver his dollar over
there would be only 53 cents, and he
would therefore have to take nearly two
dollars to pay one dollar in gold bills of
exchange. In other words, a remittance
of $10 would cost the sender $20. Bos-
QET LOSS OF LIFE.
FORTY-SEVEN KILLED IN NEW JER
SEY RAILROAD COLLISION.
Some of Those In the Hospitals May 7ot
Recover yrom Their Wound Of the
Dead Forty Have Been Identifled He
vised Uflt.of the Victims.
ATT.Avrm Crrr. N. J.. Aug. 1.
v, . AanA j Afl-4ninrerL These-
TZT 7h annaUin
are the latest figures
vu v
disaster on the meadows Thursday
evening. Of these 40 have been identi
fied. Three of the unidentified were
men and three women. The odd ne
consists of an arm, to which no body
has been found. The official list of the
dead follows: v"
Charles MtjtA, Bridgeton.
John Griver, Bridgeton.
Charles Eckler, Salem.
Charles P. McGear, Bridgeton.
Mr. ant Mrs. Trexchard, Bridgeton.
S. P. Murphy, Millville:
Joseph Petus, Bridgeton.
J. D. Johxsox. Bridgeton.
Chas. D. Burroughs, Bridgeton.
Charles Soly, Bridgeton.
H. F. Bell, Bridgeton.
W. C. Looper, Bridgeton.
Mr. and Mrs. P. Goldsmith, Bridgeton.
Samuel TnoRXE, Atlantic City.
Fbaxklin Dubois, Clearfield, Pa.
J. Earnest, Bridgeton. - rv
Miss Jennie Sjiepard. Bridgeton.
Mary Wentzell, Alloway, N. J.
Lidie Barr, Bridgeton. i
Pearl Muta, Bridge? on.
Mrs. Eljier May, Palatine, N. J.
Mrs. H. F. Bell, Bridgeton.
Anna Freis, Bridgeton.
Edward Farr, engineer; Atlantic City.
CnARLES Sebert, Bridgeton.
Charles May, Palatine, N. J.
D. E. Wood, shipping clerk; Camden.
G. B. Taylor, nddrcss unknown.
James M. Batteman, Bridgeton.
A. Peters, aged 12 years.
Reva Looper, aged 12; Yorktown, N. J.
Part of a shirt found with name stamped;
"A. H. Fox."
Tillie Leeds, Bridgeton.
Lydia Carl, Hancock Bridge, X. J.
Mrs. Hattie Loper, Bridgeton.
Nance Cheney, Bridgeton.
Unknown woman.
Unknown boy. '.T
JIizael May, Bridgeton. VT
Wm. Spauldino. Philadelphia. '
Elmer Wentzel. Bridgeton. "
Henry Hughes, Bridgeton.
Unknown woman. ;
Mrs. Mary Frease, Bridgeton.
Mrs. J. D. Bateman, Bridgeton.
Wm. Pricket, Bridgeton.
Joseph Cheney, Bridgeton.
Unknown man.
Samuel Thorne, Atlantic City.
Charles P. McGill, Bridgeton.
Unknown woman.
Unidentified arm, unknown woman.
The Reading express train was the
5:40 from Philadelphia due here at 6:50
o'clock. The West Jersey train was the .
6:30 special excursion carrying seven
coacheo filled with excursionists frorn
Bridgeton. Salem and neighboring vil
lages in south Jersey. It was an excur
sion of the Improved Order of Red Men,
and five tribes were well represented,
The first car on tho Rending- train and
the 5eco ;d o i th West Jersey were up
set, but t':e third car on tho latter
caught the full force of the impact, and
was literally cut in half and each half
shivered to splinters. When it is re
membered that this car, as well as every
other, was jammed with human freight,
the horror of the situation can be re
alized.
Collision on the Santa Fe,
Topeka, Aug. 4. Santa Fe passenger
train No. 1, which was due in this city
at 4:!i7 yesterday afternoon, collided
with the eastbound local passenger
train Kb. 1H near Dean Lake, Mo.,
shortly before noon. One person -was
killed and eight injured. The dead:
Fred Heady, Topeka, engineer on train
No. 1.
The injured:
John McConnel, Bosworth,Mo., slightly.
John W. Mudcc,. Rotlgers, Kan., nots
seriously.
Mrs. Smith, Oklahoma, head badly in
jured.
W. J. Morgan, Emporia, Kan., seriously
injured.
Leads Burjway, Wells-Fargo messenger,
seriously.
Curtis Barber, Pullman porter, Chi
cago, slightly.
James Hickcy, San Jose, Cal., fatally.
Four Thousand Drowned.
Shanghai, Aug. 2. News of a ter
rible disaster with great loss of life has
just reached here. A tidal wave, esti
mated to have been about five miles in
length, swept in from the sea ou Sun
day last and inundated the coast of
Hayehau, iu the northeast of the pro
vince of Kiang-Su. The damage done
was vary great. Many villages were
destroyed and it is estimated thataf;
least 4,000 people were drowned. In
addition an immense number of oattlo
perished, the rice fields were submerged
and almost totally destroyed, with the
result that a famine is feared in that
district duriug the coming autumn.
Kecord-lJreakcr at Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 6. At y p. m. yester
day the thermometer registered hotter
than it has been at auy time, for two
years, when it was 9C degrees. This
figure has only been equaled twice since
18fc7, when it was 100 degrees in the
shade and the rate of mortality was
greater than the undertakers' could
handle. The only death reported was
Joseph Lapham, shoe dealer, of 227
West Lake street, who dronoed dead
near the Chicago Beach hotel.
Cash For Nebraska Indians.
Washington, Aug. G. Commissioner
of Indian Affairs Browning has in
structed Captain Beck, agent of the
Omaha and Winnebago Indians in Ne
braska, to make a cash payment of $10
per capita to the Indians in lieu of the
usual issue of annuity goods. This is
the first time the annuities have been
supplanted iu this way at the agency
and the action is allowed in case of ex
pediency by congressional enactment.
Irficey Unanimously Renominated.
Ottumwa, la., Aug. (5. John F. La
ccy was nuauimously renominated foi
congress by the Republicans of the Sixth,
district.
Something to Know.
It may be worth something to kDow
that the very best medicine for restoring
tired out nervous system to a healthy
vigor is Electric Bitters. This medi
cine is purely vegetables, acts by giving
tone to the nerve centres in the stomach
gently stimulates the liver and kidneys,
and aids these organs in throwing off
impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters
improves the apetite, aids digestion, and
is pronounced by those who have tried it
as the very best blood purifier and nerve
tonic. Try it. Sold for 50c or S1.00 per
bottle at A. F. Streitz's drug store. 2
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