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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER. 1, 1896.. IRA. Ii BARB, Editor akd Pbopkietok SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Oae Year, cash in advance, $1.25. Slr.'Montbs, cash In advance Cents. Entered atthoNorthPlatte(Kebra8ka)postofflcea8 eecond-clnss matter. THE WINNERS OF 1896. NATIONAL TICKET. - For President WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio. For Vice President G. A. HOBART, of New Jersey. STATE TICKET. For Governor JOHN H. MacCOLL. For Lieutenant-Governor ORLANDO TEFFT. For Secretary of State . JOEL A. PIPER. For Auditor Public Accounts P. O. HEDLUND. For State Treasurer CHARLES E. CASEY. For Supt. Public Instruction HENRY R. CORBETT. For Com. Lands aud Buildings HENRY C. RUSSELL. For Attorney-General ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL. For Supreme J udge, Long Term ROBERT RYAN. For Supreme Judge, Short Term MOSES P. KINK AID. 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. ROBBING The estimates of the sound money democratic vote of Califor nia is ffiven as 15,000. If Nebras ka's vote of last year upon supreme judge is any criterion the sound money democratic vote in this state will surpass those figures. o--o One of the most satisfactory signs of the times to republicans, is the fact that to-day popocrats are beginning to admit that "if Mc Kinley is elected. Three weeks ago in their estimates of the outcome of the presidential struggle there was no doubt ot Bryan's election. The republicans ot the Third dis trict have nominated Ross Ham mond, of the Fremont Tribune, for congress. Mr. Hammond is a brain' man, and the nomination is a fitting recognition of the ser vice he has rendered the people and the party. He has a -pretty hard combination to beat, but it is a task in which he will score a vic tory. 'Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad" was never more forcibly illustrated than dur ing the present campaign, and it presages the early doom of the free silver fallacy; for invariably when a sound money advocate effectually smothers a silver statesman with unanswerable statistics the latter becomes madder than a March hare and generally undertakes to resort to personal abuse. The free silver fellows are now asserting that the director of the Mexican mint states that the Mexi can money now so generally in cir culation iu this country as an object leson in the fallacy of free coinage under present conditions, is a counterfeit production. Yet in the face of this the United States has an extradition treaty with Mexico which permits of the extra dition of counterfeiters." At the soldier's state reunion in Lincoln last week a poll was taken of the old veterans as to their pres idential preferences, with the follow ing result: For McKinley 961; for Bryan, 19. Still do we hear de luded demopops frequently allude to the lie that the old soldiers have a knife up their sleeve for the re publican ticket. It will only be drawn against thosevwho oppose their interests. From reports so far receiyed by the Railway Age, it is estimated that niuety per cent of the railway men are for sound money, three per cent for free silver, and seven per cent undecided. This leads the Globe-Democrat to remark that a Bryan dollar, coupled with his as sertion that railway rates should 11CL V C LUUIUIU laoiWIf 13 K.J OllU I medicine for a class wlio have had their full share of hard times. I Now comes the cheering news . m it -r- a i - r r- I that Terence V. Powderly.of Scran ton. Pa., ex-grand master work r -r , , man of the Knight s of Labor has announced his intention of support ing Maj. McKinley for president It is said that practically Mr. Pow derly has been a life long demo crat, and the change is a signifi cant one. With the conservativ( element of this once great organ Zatiott Mr. Powderly has a reputa-J tion for honesty never enioyed by its present lieadt Jim Soverign xhe ex-Texas cowboy and general ex tremist. The Lincoln Journal's corres pondent at Brewster, Nebraska, writes as follows: "The populists are feeling pretty sore up this way on account of having been sold out to the democratic oarty. It hits them pretty hard to see Bryan styled the great democratic lead er. They are listening very in tently to bear Bryan say something about the populist party, but the listen in vain. It is hard for them to realize that after all their mid die ot the road buncombe they are effectually bottled and delivered over by Windy V: and Shylock Si to one of the parties that they have been so industrially kicking for the past few years, and all on account of the free sivler fake. If Bill dosen't say a word for the populists soon he'll hear something drop in November. ". During the great famine in Russia a couple of years ago when thousands were suffering from starvation in that land, and a char itable Americans had donated to them stores ot subsistence and sup plies, William Jennings Bryan arose in his place in congress, and by speech and vote opposed the passage of a bill carrying an appro priation for the transportation ot those stores to the suffering Rus sians. At the same time he knew, if well posted in the history of his country, that it was the attitude ol the Russian government during the civil war which prevented England from going to the assistance of the south. Upon the 3d da' of Novem ber our Russian-American citizens, as well as the charitable-riative-born, will remember and revenge this broad minded philanthropy of the popocratic candidate for presi dent. DANIEL WEBSTER'S VOICE. It Was Raised For Sountl Currency An Honest Dollar For Honest Work. The very man of all others who has the deepest interest in a sound currency and who suffers most by mischievous legislation in money matters is the man who earns his daily bread by his daily toil. A depreciated currency, sudden changes of price, paper money falling between morning and noon and falling still lower between noon and night these things constitute the very harvest time of speculators and of the whole race of those who are at once idle and crafty, and of that other race, too, the Catilines of all times, marked so as to be known forever by one stroke of the historian's pen, those greedy of other men's property and prodigal of their own. Capitalists, too, may outlive such times. They may either prey on the earnings of labor by their cent per cent or they may hoard. But tho laboring man what can he hoard? Preying on nobody, he becomes the prey of all. His property is in his hands. His reliance, his fnnd, his productive freehold, his all, is his labor. Whether he work on his own small capital or another's his living is still earned by his industry, and when the money of the country be comes depreciated and debased, whether it be adulterated coin or paper without credit, that industry is robbed of its re ward. He then labors for a country whose laws cheat him out of his bread. I would say to every owner of every quarter section of laud in the west. I would say to every man in the east who follows his own plow, and to every me chanic, artisan and laborer in every city of the country I would say to every man everywhere who wishes by honest means to gain an honest living : "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing. Whoever attempts, under whatever popular cry, to shake the stability of the public cur rency stabs your interests and happiness to tho heart" From a Speech of Daniel Webster. Some Democratic newspapers hold that It is unwiso to try to strike at the Demo cratic party through the mine owners. The fact is tho free silver agitation was kept alivo by the paid agents, of tho mine owners, and tho peoplo ought to know that behind this movement is a purely commercial speculation. A gospel based on dollars and cents will not have many followers if its character is understood. An Object Lesson From Mexico. Wo take The Areus, and I havo read your editorial in today's (Saturday's) issue, 'The Mexican Dollar as an Ob ject Lesson," where you say: 'There was a time nnor to 1857 when tho Mexican dollar was a legal tender in this country by act of congress, and, strange to say, tho Mexican dollar at tnat timo went hand m hand with our silver and gold dollars." This is fill very true, but at the time you speak cf the Mexican dollar, with out any act el con cress, was worth $1.05 in gold, not only iu this country, but in every country m the world. Prom the Revolutionary war up to 1857 there was less than 1,000,000 of silver pro duced in tins country. In 1895 alone there was 36,000,000 produced in this country at its bullion value, and were it worth as much as it was from the Revolution to 1857 the production of 1895 would have been over 72.000.000. If yon will ask some of your old mer chants m Albany, they will tell you that up to 1857 the only silver there wns mr- culating in this country was Mexican O vuuia.j 11 10 jLUUAlUttU dolIars. Spanish mill dollars aud Span- A r -O" v ua-a..UI.3 and a small Spanish coin called the pis- ' 2'M-JX'Vk -vr. u UU11U1 The production of gold in the United fifnfps from flip Rornlniinn i-n 10sr ... rennc, six ot winch passed for a dollar. . States from the Revolution to 1857 was $y30,000,000 as against less than$l, 000,000 silver during the same period. uuw,uuMiw uuiiiiK uib same pcriott This is the reason why the Mexican sil ver dollar was worth more than gold those days. Since 1857 the bullion value of the silver produced in this country was $370,000,000. This" is the reason the Mexican silver dollar is now worth only 54 cents. Letter From Hon. H. G. Burleigh to Albany Argus. France owns her railroado. and Tinivan cracy flourishes In that country. Govern Bient ownership of railroads means mil lions of dollars of the people's money spent for the biro of Incompetent clerks, selected through favoritism. It means poor service at high prices. STEWART WAS SENSIBLE, He Talked Sanely About tho Currency Twenty-two Years Ago. Here 13 what Senator Stewart said on the currency question in the United States senate Feb. 11. 1874: "Let everybody know what a dollar is worth. The farmer will then know now 10 measure the difference in price between his wheat in Illinois and the wheat in Liverpool. The wheat will be measured by the same-standard gold in Illinois as it is in Liverpool, and any man can figure it. np. But now it is a mystery; the whole subject of finance is a mystery, and what do we see every day? Wo see those who devote attention to it making fortunes out of this mys tery. "Let us do as all the people of the world have been doing from the begin ning measure our -values by gold, adopt the standard that all can under stand and get rid of this mystery." Mr. Logan What does the senator want? Mr. Stewart I want'the standard of gold and no paper money not redeemed in gold, no paper money the value of which is not as certain, no paper money that will organize a gold board to spec ulate in it. Who pays for this gold board? Who pays these immense for tunes? How is it that millions and mil lions can he rolled up annually there? Did anybody ever calculate who paid for it? It comes out of the producers. How do these men exist? By the lati tude which your depreciated currency gives to speculation, and nothing else. Persons who are speculating in your de preciated currency are making the mon ey, aud they will continue to do so as long as you have a depreciated currency. "If the farmers would get rich, they have got to become skilled in this fluc tuating currency and make corners and manipulate the market, and if they do that they cannot farm. " Congressional Record, Forty-third Congress, Last Ses sion, Volume 2, Page 1392. Bryan says tho statement that the silver production would be increased under free coinage is "conjecture." If tho covcra mcnt offered :i dollar a bushel for wheat, is there any doubt that the wheat crop would bo increased? Thcro aro mines all through tho west which aro idlo because their oro is low grade and cannot bo mined profitably at the present prlco of silver. With the market price of silver almost doubled, every one of these mines would run overtime, and the mints would be flooded with silver. MAKING RELIGION COSTLY. How the Election of Bryan Would Affect the Church. The census of 1890 enumerated 111, 036 regular ministers in the United States, not including lay preachers. The salaries paid to them are, on tho aver age, small, amounting to less than the wages of mechanics. With the proposed free coinage of silver their stipends would be reduced in purchasing capac ity by nearly one-half. All the great and considerable churches maintain religious and charita ble and educational institutions and en terprises upon which the aggregato ex penditure is many million dollars annu ally, and much of the income so em ployed is derived from mortgages and other investments, against which the Bryauito policy of repudiation is espe cially directed. Monasteries, convents, asylums, protectories, colleges, schools, and missionary organizations would all suiter from the blow which the Populist combination proposes to strike at prop erty. The cost of the maintenance of them all would be nearly doubled under Bryanism, and hence they would have to curtail their activities greatly or in duce the pious and the charitable to double their contributions. Which is the more probable? Are they likely to get in silver money twice the amount of the gifts they receive now? It appears, therefore, that religion has a new and a peculiar interest in pol itics this year. The dishonesty, the re pudiation, of which Bryan is tho repre sentative, threatens every church and every minister. New York Sun. Chairman Jones of the Democratic com mittee has given np everything east of the Alleebanics and north of tho Potomac. The sound, good sense which makes New England so sure a supporter of the sound money standard will be felt in some of the western states, which have drawn their best blood from New England. A Question of Honesty. No honest man wants repudiation. Dishonest speculators may, but honest men do not. If a man. has speculated and failed, if he has borrowed more money than his business or the value of his laud warrants, if he has been grad ually eating into his principal instead of curbing his expenditures, he must suffer. He ought not to expect to bo coddled by government. Ho must not place his lack of success at the door of an honest financial system or indict a syndicate of goldbugs for something with which it has nothing to do. Most of the people of the United States aro honest and that is why the present standard of money will bo maintained and why Major McKinley will be tri umphantly elected. Hartford Post. It is estimated that the profit of free silver coinage to the mine owners will be 310,000,000 or 815,000,000 a year. This will come chieiiy out of the pockets of the wage earners. Capturo of a Slave Caravan. Baron von Eltz, tho German com missioner, made a plucky attack on a slave caravan on Nov. 21. For several days he had heard of a big caravan on its way to the coast from Mlozi's strong hold. Ho had native allies as spies all over tho country bringing him in news of the movements and whereabouts of tho caravan. At last they were camped in between two large native villages, allies of the Germans. Von Eltz imme diately dispatched messengers to the chiefs of tho two villages, telling them to stay the caravan from passing through their territory either to advance or re treat. Tho caravan was over 700 strong. There were 7 owners of ivorjPand 53 owners of slaves, and a host of slaves and somo followers. When Von Elts had the caravan blocked, ho embarked in his boat, proceeded posthaste to tho spot, at once surrounded tho whole car avan with native allies and compelled all to march down to his station at Par ambira. He had only fivo Zanzibari soldiers, a noncommissioned officer, a few native recruits bearing rifles and a host of native allies, but without firing a shot he captured the caravan. Diary of the Lato E. J. Glavo in Century. HISTORIC TRAGEDY. CONVICTION OF JOSEPH LESURQUES AND THE SAD SEQUEL. Ah Unfortunate Kesemblance and a Fatal Combination of Circumstances Caused the Execution of a Man Whose Inno cence Was Afterward Established. Although Lcsurques was executed as far back as 1796, though his innocence was established in 1801, though his property was restored to the family in 1824, the corps legislatif, after the fam ily had tried for over half a century to have his memory judicially rehabilitat ed, definitely refused in 1869 to per form this last remaining act of justice. Tho pedantry of French law forbade tho questioning of -a jury's verdict by any one save the person directly interested. But though the law has failed to re move tho stigma on tho name of an in nocent man, literature and the drama have made him a popular hero. "Tho Lyons Mail," in which his honor is thoroughly vindicated, has been one of tho most popular of all French melo dramas, and the combined genius cf Charles Eeado and of Henry Irving have made it one of tho great successes of the modern English stage. Poor Lcsurques, who, when he perish ed on the scaffold, was but 83 years of age, was a gcod husband, a good father and a good citizen. Ho married, in 1790, Mile. Campion, a lady of respect able family in Douai and possessed of a hands smo dowry. Their children there 'fore were very young and it was in or der to givo them tho benefit of a supe rior education that he relinquished a public appointment at Douai and came to Paris, thero to live on his own private fortune, which amounted toabout7,n00 francs a year. He had but just arrived in the capital and was superintending tho furnishing cf his now homo when tho thunderbolt foil. On April 27, 1890, the mail coach be tween Lyons and Paris was attacked and plundered and tho postilion and courier wero murdered. There were no witnesses to the crime, but it was re ported that a party cf horsemen had been seen in the vicinity at about the time it was committed. These horsemen had taken dinner at an inn at Mont gerou. Ono of Lesurques' friends nam ed Guenot was arrested on suspicion and his private papers wero seized. Thero was no evidence to held him on except that ho answered the description of one of tho supposed murderers, and he was dismissed. Next day ho was told to call for his papers at the central bureau. He was accompanied thither by Lesurques, an' act of madness on tho part of the latter had he teen guilty. It happened that just at that timo the judge was taking tho depositions of wit nesses who lived in the neighborhood of the scene of tho murder. Among these were two maidservants of Montgeron, who uttered simultaneous screams at tho appearanco of tho two friends. They were put into tho witness boxaudsworo positively that two of the horsemen wero present in tho audience. When confronted with Lesurques and Guenot, they positively identified them. Both were arrested and thrown into prison. At the trial four other witnesses cor roborated their testimony with equal emphasis as regarded Lcsurques, but wero doubtful about Guenot. The latter succeeded in establishing a satisfactory alibi and was released. The former's at tempted alibi 6eeined to break down badly when the daybook of the jeweler, Lagrand to whom he swore ho had sold a bill of goods on tho very day of the murder was produced in court and tho date of the charge was found to havo been altered. In vain the jeweler pro tested that the first date was a mistake, which ho had immediately corrected, and he and all tho other witnesses for Lesurques wero looked upon as self con victed perjurers. Lesurques was found guilty and executed, together with ono of the real murderers, named Courriol, who, on mounting tho scaffold, confess ed his own guilt, but declared the in nocence of Lesurques. Doubts began to arise as to the justico of Lesurques' sen tence and finally it was discovered that ho had suffered through an extraord?- naiy resemblance toouoDnbose, tho real criminal, who was brought to justico in 1801, convicted and executed. This deplorablo case had mostdeplor ablo sequels. Tho unhappy Mine. Le surques went mad on hearing tho news of her husband's condemnation. The children were as yet too young to under stand their trouble, bnt as they grew up one thought alono possessed them that of vindicating their dead father. It is easy to understand how brooding over this purpose drove one daughter to tho madhouso in which her mother had been confined. It is curious that one of the witnesses against Lcsurques the woman Alfroy also went insane from grief and re morse at her error. Still another victim was another daughter of Lesurques, who, worn out by the fruitless struggle with the pedantry of tho French laws, drown ed herself in tho Seine. His son left France, took service in tho Russian army and courted and found death there. As regards Lesurques' fortune, which had been confiscated, his unhap py family were more successful. In 1824, just 28 years after their father's death, they obtained a grant of 244, 000 francs, supplemented in 1835 by another grant of 252,000 francs, Loudon Pub lic Opinion, Seasickness, Remedies for seasickness are so nu merous that one need never be at a loss for something to try. They rauge from an empty stomach and a stringent diet to a few bits of ice, chloroform or lau danum, or sugar, tr brandy, or cham pagne, or porter. One of the most novel is based on the theory that seasickness is due to nervousness. To allay it, people ou going aboard are recommended to bandage their eyes with a handkerchief, thus to avoid seeing the motion of the ship. New York Journal. Did Ton Ever Try Elactric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not. get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and curt- of all female complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving streDgth and tune to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipa tion, headache, faintmg spells, or are nervous.-sleepless, excitable, melancholy or troubled with dizzy srells, Electrie Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and strength are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and SI. 00 at Streitz's drug store. 3 THE SOUL AND' SORROW. Ah, slay mo not, O sorrow, in '.April days, For when tho skies arc warm. I fain would sing; ' - When mounts the bluebirds' song 1, too, would praise And lift nij heart with every living thing! The weight thou bring'st yea, tern thy face away And journey from mo yet a little while, But leavo mo bright faced joy in April's day To wander with mo. through tho forest aisle. Ono day, O sorrow, will I go with thee And learn tho strength that thou alono must give! Yea, 0110 day thou shalfc come and call for mo And I will walk thy way and learn to livol But not In April days when I would sing. When south winds roam the ever greening earth And joy tumultuous in my heart doth spring O'er every wildwood hlooin that springs to birth 1 Boston Transcript. ETIQUETTE IN SPAIN. There tho Fcoplo Aro Punctiliously Polito at All Times. Spaniards have some rules of etiquette that would prove surprising to tho av erage easy going American. Take, for instance, the rules' governing visits. When tho first call is made by a lady, she is expected to arrive in a carriage, that being considered a mark of high re spect. Shonld tho person called upon be absent from home, the visitor is expected to leave her card with ono ond turned over, and in ono coiner is to bo written the initials E. P., meaning en persona, or in person. CTpon ringing tho bell the visitor is usually greeted by an unseen person with the words, "Quien es?" or "Who's there?" to which should be re plied "Gento do paz," or persons of peace. Entering, the visitor is conduct ed to tho best room in the house, led up to a sofa and placed to the right of the hostess. On rising to tako leave the proper form is to exclaim, in the case of a lady, "Senora, I place, myself at your feet." She will answer in a sim ilarly figurative way by saying: "I kiss your hand. May you depart with God and continue well !" Feminine visitors arc saluted with a kiss, both upon their arrival and departure. It is considered an unpardonable breach of good man ners for a gentleman to offer to shake hands with a Spanish lady. Another decidedly objectionable proceeding, in Spanish eyes, is to offer a lady one's arm when walking with her. Should a Spanish gentleman so far forget himself as to offer lis arm to his wife, ho would be looked upon as lamentably ignorant of the laws of etiquetto governing good society in tho laud of his birth. Another noticeable custom is that when walking with a Spaniard in Spain it is considered tho height cf ill manners to walk on tho inside. This is tho place of honor and should always bo given to tho native. When a well bred Spaniard meets a lady on the street, he always passes to the outside, thus making way for her, but with men this rulo is not observed. Whoever has the wall on his right hand in tho nar row streets is entitled to keep it. These aro' some of tho most noted pe culiarities of tho rigorous rules govern ing Spaniards of polite breeding. They are puuctilions almost to the point of absurdity in most things, but their po liteness is of a kind that wears well. Detroit Free Press. A Story of Tvro Bis Diamonds. Marie Magnicr of tho Gymnaso has the two largest diamonds now in Paris. Ono day she received from her jeweler ( a telegram asking her to como at once i to his shop. Thero she found a tall wom an, thickly veiled, who held in her hands a case with two superb diamonds in it. "Mademoiselle," she said, "M. F. tells mo that your fancy is to possess a pair of exceptionally beautiful ear t rings. Those are all that yon can desire. Gould yon pay down for them before 5 tonight tho 100,000 francs which I ask for them?" Mme. Magnier was startled. . "Hum, my gcod woman," she said, in a brusque manner, "you are very cool over tho matter; you ask for 100,000 francs just as yen would ask for a busliel of onions." The jeweler put his fingers on his lips .and nodded deprccatingly. "Oh, very well," said Magnier, "if she is a queen." "Sho is a queen," an swered the lady proudly, shutting the caso with a snap. But Magnier had been touched by the bkzo of light which had just disappeared 'from before her eyes, so she said meekly: "All right. 1 will drive to my banker, and in an hour I shall bo back with the money, madame." And within the hour she possessed the most marvelous jewels which ever adorned first night in Paris. But she never discovered the identity of the veiled wdinau. Paris Letter. Disappointing Information. "Dear me, is this tho ticket office!'" exclaimed a peevish little woman with a face liko a hatchet aud a voice with nicks in it as she hurried up to tho Central-Hudson ticket window the other morning. "No, madam," responded the calm and imperturbable agent, "this is a blacksmith shop, and wo shoe horses here. Anything in our line wo can do for you this morning?" "Yes," she snapped, "you can give me a ticket for Schagticoke; that's what you can do, Mr. Blacksmith," and she darted a look at the courteous and ur bane agent which ciacked tho glass in her spectacles. Utica Observer. Sho Knew tho Feeling. Harry She has jilted me, and I know I shall die. The disappointment will kill me. Aunt Hannah I know how disap pointments affect one, Harry. But you will get over it I felt just as you do now when I set that yeller hen on 13 eggs and only just got one poor chick out of the lot. London Tit-Bits. PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. The following proposed amendment to the Constitution, of the State of Ne braska, as hereinafter set forth in full are submitted to the electors of tin State of Nebraska, to be voted upoi at the general election to be held Tne day, Novembjr 3, A. D., 1893: A joint resolution proposing to amend sections two (2), four (4), ana five (5,)- of article sx ((5) of the Consti tution of the State of Nebraska, relating to number of judges of the supremo court and their term of office. Ba it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture of tho State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section two (2) of article six (6) of tho Constitution of tho State of Nebraska be amended so an to read as fol larws: Section 2. Tho supreme court shall nntil otherwise p.-r.vi led by l3w. consist of flvo (5) judges, a uu Jority of whom shall b3 necei snry to form a quorum or to pronounca a decision, it snail nave original juiisdi.-tion in cases relating to revenue, civil cases in which the state shall be a party, mandamus. quo warranto, habeas corpm, and such appellate jurisdiction, as may bo provided by law. Section 2. That section four f4) of article six (J) of the Constitution of the State of .Nebraska, bo amended so aa to read as fol lows : boctlon 4. Tne jaage3 or tne supreme court shall be elccttu 0 tno electors ot the state at large, ana tneir term or oinco ex cept as hereinafter provided, snail be for a period of not lesj thnn five (a) ye ars as the legislature mav Drescribe. Section 3. That section five (5) of artie'e six (6) of tho Constitution of iho Stato of Ne braska, le amonded to reaa as follows : Section u.- At the first general election to be held in tho yt ar 1S1KJ. thero shall be elected two 09 judges of the suDrema court ono of whom shull be elected for a term of two (2) years, ono for the term of four (4) years, ana at eacn general election there after, thero shall bo elected one judge of tho supremo ciurt for the term of five (6) years, nnless otherwise provided by luw: iToviaea. mat xne juages ot tne su preine court whoo torm hava not expired at ino line 01 noiuing me general eiec tion of 1890, shall continn'i to hold their office for the remainJor of the term for wmcn incy were respectively commis sioned. . Approved March 29, A. D. 1835. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section thirteen (13) of article six of the Constitution of the btate or JNeorasKa,.. relating to conu pensatiou of supreme and district court judges. Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State 01 .Nebraska: Section 1. That section thirteen (13) of article six ) of the Constitution of the State of ruebraka bo amended so a3 to read as fol lows: Sec. 13 The judges of the snnreme and district courts shall receivo for their services such compensation as may bo provided by law. payable Quarterly. The legislaturo shall at its first session after the . adoption of this amendment, three-fifths of the members elected to ca-h house concurring, establish their compensation. Tho compensation so oj- tab;ished shall not bo changed oftener than once in four years, and in no event unless two-third of th9 members elected to each honso of tho legislature concur therein. Approve! March 33, A. D. 1S33. A joint resolution proposing to amend section twenty-four (24) of article five (5) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to com' pensatiou of the officers of the executive department Be it resolved and enacted by the Legislature 01 1 no statu 01 .nebrasica: beet ion 1. 'lht section twentv-four (24) ot article nve lo) or tnj uousutntio 1 ot the State of Neorasita be amended to rcul as fol lows: Section 24. The officers of the executive department ot the siato government shall rejeivo f jr. their servicej a compensation to bo established by law. whi-h shall be neither incn-ased nor diminished during the term for which thav shall hive been rom missionod and they sh ilt not receivo to their own use any fees, co.sts, interests, uuon nu ilic moneys 111 their hands or nnder their control, perquisites of oflloi or othir compoa- satiou ana nil ices tnat may here atc-r 00 pay&blc v law r.r services performed by an officer providol for in this article shall be paid in advance into the state treasury. The legislature shall nt Its first session alter tho adoption o this amend ment, three-fifth of the members elected to each honso of the legislature con curring, establish the s-ilaries of tho oincers named In this article. The coin pi-n-ation so established shall not be changed oftoaer than oncb iu four year3 and in no event unless two-th.rds ot tho members elected to each housa of the legislature consur therein Approved March 29, A. D. 1S95. A joint resolution proposing to amend section one (1) of article six (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebras ka, relating to judicial power. Bj it resolved and enacted by the Legisla ture of th St ue of Nebraska: Section 1. That ..ectio iou ( ) of article six (6) of tho Constitution of iheStu.eof Nebraska bo amenaeJ. to eaa n loilows : Section 1. The judicial power of this state sh ill bo rosted in a supreme court, district courts, county courts justices of the pea e. po'i e magistrates, and in such other cour.a inferior to thi supremo couit as may bo c eated br Inw in which two-thirds of the" mcmbc s elected to each house concur. Approved M irch 29, A. D. 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section eleven (11) of article six (0) of tho Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to increase in num ber of supreme and district court judges. B i it resoivod and enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : e'eciij.i 1. That section clevon (II) of article sc (6j of ,lu Constitution of the btater of Nebra ka be nmcnuea to rea l as fol lows : Section 11. The legis'aturc. whenever two thirds of ill? members elected to ench house shad con. ur therein, may. in or f tor the year one thousjiud . iht hundred and nLiety-savcn and not oftener th u once in every lonrycars. increase the number of Judge 4 of su preme and tUstrict court u and the judical districts of the state. Such districts iall be formed of compact territory, and bounded by county lines; and such in crease, or any change in the boundaries of a district shall not vacate the office of any judge. Approved March 3J, A. D. 1S33. A joint resolution proposing to amend section six (G) of article one (1) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to trial by jury. lie It r.Bolvod and enacted by the Legislature of th SUto of Nebraska: Sectioa 1. That section six (j). article one (1) of tin Constitution of tho State of Ne braska be !i 111 ond d to i id as follows: Section C. 'Iho righr. of tital bv jury shall retnai'i inviolate, bit tho ieais ature mar pro vide th it iu civil actions five-sixths of the jury ma render a vordi -t. an 1 th legislature may also an horiz triat by a jury of a :ess nunibar than twelve men, iu cou s inferior to tho dis trict court. Approved Ma-ch 23, A D. 195. A joint resolution proposing to amend section one (l)'of article five (5) of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat ing to officers of the executive department;- . Belt rowlvvd and enacted by tho Legisla ture uf tho S:ase of Nebraska: Section 1. Tha't section one (1) of ar ticlt five () of th- Constitution ot the state of Nebraska be amended to read ai fol lows: Section 1 The execuiivo department shall coas-st of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, nu.iitorof pnb-ic accounts, treasure r, su- crintendent of public in struction, attorney general, commissioner of publis lands and buildings, and three railroad commissioners, ea h ol "whom, except tho eai I nilroal commissioners, shall hold his office for a term of two years, f'om the first Thursday after the first Tues;la iu January, after his election, and nntil his successor is electel and q call fled. Ea-h railroad com mi.sijjer shall hoi I bis office for a. term of three years beginning on the first Thuralay alter the first Tuciiay in Ja inary a ter hi-s e!eition. and until hu sueces F.or Li elcted unl qui ifind: Proviicd. however, 'Ihat at the first general oicc tion held after the adotio 1 of this amend ment there t-h-ut be electea three railroad commissioner, ono fo. the period of one year, ono for tha period of two years, nud one for tho period of throe years. The gov ernor, secretary of state, auditor of pub lic accounts, and treasurer shall reside at tho capital . during their term, f Qffi.g; they shall keep ths public recordf, books and papers there and shall perform such du ties as may be required by law. Approvol March SO, A. D. 180j. . A joint resolution proposing to amend section twenty-six (26) of ar ticle five (0) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, limiting the num ber of executive state officers. Be it resolved and enacted by the Leg islature of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section twenty-six (26) of article five (3) of the Constitution of the Stato of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 28. No other executive state offi cers except those named in se.-tioa onj (1) of this article shall be created, erepc by an act of the legislature which is concurred in by not less than three-faurths of the members elected to each house thereof : Provided, That any office created by an act of the legislature may be abolished by the legislature, two-thirds of the mem bers elected to each house thereof concur ring. Approved March 30. A. D.. 1893. A joint resolution proposing to amend section nine (9) of article eight (8) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, providing for the investment of the permanent educational funds of the state. Be it resoivod and enacted by the Legisla ture of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section nine (9) of article eight (8) of tho Constitution of the Stato of Nebiaska be amended to read as fol lows: Section 9. All funis belonging to the state for educational purposes, the interest aud income whereo' only aro to be used, shtll be deemed trut funds held by tho -state, and the state shall supply all losses there of that may in any manner accrue, so that the same shall remain forever inviolate and undiminished, and shall not bo iu vosted or loaied except ou TJuifc'd States or state securities, or registered county bonds or registered scho l district bonds ot this state, and such fundi with ths inter est and income thereof are hereby solemn ly pledged for the purpose! for which they are granted and set apart, and shall not be transferred to any other fund for other uses : Provided. The board createl by section 1 of this article is empowered to sell from time to time any of the securities belonging to the permanent s hool fund and invest the proceeds aridng therefrom in any of tho securities enumerated in this section bear ing a higher rate of interest whenever an opportunity for better investment is pre sented; And provided further. That when any warrant upon tho state treasurer reg ulnrly issued in pursuance of an appropri- r ation by the legislature and secured by the levy or a tax tor its payment, snnu be presented to the state treasurer for payment, and there shall not be any money in the proper fund to pay such warrant, the board created by section 1 of this artie'e may direct the state treas urer to pay tho. amouut due on such war rant from moneys in his hands belonging to the permanent school fund of the state, and he shall hold said warrant as an in vestment of said permanent school fund. Approved March 29, A. D. 1S95. 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 sectiou two (2) relative to the merging of the government of cities poli tan class and the the counties wherein of the metro government of such cities are located. Be it resolved and enacted by the Legis lature of tho Stato of Nebraska: Section 1. That article twelve (12) of the Constitution of the Stato of Neumska be amended by adding to said article a new sec tion to I e numbered section two (2) to read as follows: Section 2. Tha government of any city of the metropo 'tan clas3 and the gov ernment of the county in which it is located may be merged wholly or in part when a proposition so to do has been submitted by authority of law to the voters of such city and county and re ceived the assent of a majority of tho votes cast in such city and also a majority of the votes cat in tho county exclusive of those cast in such metropolitan city at such election. Approved March 29. A. D. 1E95. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section six (G) of article seven (7) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, prescribing the manner in which votes shall be cast. Bo it resolved and enacted by the Legislat ure of ths State of Nebraska : Section 1. Tint section six (6) of article seven CO of the Constitution of the Stat of Nobraska bo amended to read as fol lows: Section 0. AU votes shall be lr ballot or such other methoJ as may be prescrilud by law. provided thi seoreer of vo:ing bo preserved. Approved March 9, A D 1895. A joint resolution proposing to amend section two (2) of article four teen (14) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relative to, donations to works of internal improvement and manufactories. Bj it resolved and exacted by tho Leg islature of tho State of Nebraska: Section 1 That section two (I) of nrticle fourteen fll") of the Constitution of Iku State of Nubiaska, be amended to real as follows: SiC. 2. 2k o citv. eonnrv. own. nrrrinnL municipality, or other subdivision or iho state, shall ever make donations to any works of internal imnrovemHnt. or manufactory, unless a proposition so to do shall have been first submitted to tho qualified electors and ratifiel hy a two thirds vote at an election lv anth law; Provided. That such donations of a county with the donations of such wuldl visions in the aggregate shall not ex.-cml ten ner cent of tho assessed vninntinn of such county; Provided, further. Thttt any city or county may. 'by a three-fonrthi vote, increase such indebtedness fivo ner cent, in aadition to such ten per cent ami no bonds or evidences of indebtedness so issued shall be valid unless tin flmrio .fc 1 havo endorsci thereon a certificate signed ujr mo aecremry anu nuuitor or atate. showing that the samo is issucl pursuant to law. Approved March 9, A. D., 1S95. I, J. A. Piper, secretary of state of the state of Nebraska, do hereby certify that the foregoing proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of Ne braska are true and correct copies of the original enrolled and engrossed bills, as passed by the Twenty-fourth session of the legislature of the State of Nebraska, as appears from said original bills on file in this office,- aud that all and each of said proposed amendments are submitted to tho qualified voters of tho Stato of Ne braska for their adoption or rejection at the general election to be held on Tuesday, the 3d day of November, A. -D., 1890. In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed tho great seal of the State of Nebraska. Done at Lincoln this 17th day of July, in the year of our Lord, One Thou sand, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six1, -of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Twenty Krst, and of this state the Thirtieth. (Seal.) t. A. PIPER, Secretary of State.