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THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLI TRIBUNE TUESDAY: EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1896. IRA Li B ARE, Editor and Pboprietor SUBSCRIPTIOK BATES. One Tear, cash in adrance, $1.25. Six Months, cash In advance 75 Cent. Eatared at the KorthPlatto (Nebraska) postofflce as secoad-classmflttcr. THE WINNERS OP 1896. NATIONAL TICKET. For President WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio. 'For Vice President G. A. HOBART, of New Jersey. STATE TICK ET. 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 Judge, Long Term ROBERT RYAN. Por Supreme Judge, Short Term MOSES P. KINK AID. For Regent of State University W.G.WHITMORE. LEGISLATIVE TICKET. For Congress, 6th District E. A. CADY. For Senator, 30th District J. S. HOAGLAND. For Representative, 51 District J. H. ABBOTT. COUNTY TICKET. For County Attorney, T. C. PATTERSON. For Commissioner, Third District, JAS.S. ROBBING. -If "Robbins charged his school district $7.50 for coming to North Platte and fretting the school money (less than $100) from the county treasurer, how much would lie charge if he handled the county levy of S2, 400? Era. . The editor of the Era has been wrongly informed or else he is guilty of a malicious falsehood The 57.43 which Mr. bobbins as treasurer charged up to District No. 59 was for money which lie paid out of his own pocket in order to avoid suits acrainst the district growing out of unpaid school orders. These orders were issued to teachers of the district, but as there was no money in 'the dis trict treasury the teachers dis posed of the orders at a discount Later these orders were placed by the purchasers m the hand of J. S. Hoagland and Grimes & Wilcox tor collection with instructions to bring suit arrainst the district. To avoid the expense of a civil action Mr Robbins came to town and succeed ed in affecting a settlement which averted the suit. Jde presented a bill to the district for the expense he had incurred and it was al lowed without a dissenting voice. That transaction was during Mr. Robbins' first term as treasurer; he was re-elected to the same posi tion almost unanimously. Had the people of the district thought Mr. Robbins not entitled to the S7.43, or that he was attempting a gouge game, it is not at all prob able they would have re-elected him treasurer. A majority of the voters in the Second commissioner district know Mr. Robbins to be an honorable man; a man of business ability; and they are fully deter mined that he shall represent them on the board of county commission ers. In a recent letter to a friend Tom Watson, the populist candidate for vice-president, scores the fusion ists in the - following language: 'The middle of the road populists all over the Union have my sympa thy and admiration. They haye been sold out and their party made a door mat for democratic politi cians to wipe their feet upon under hypocritical pretense ot patriotism. The fusionists have abandoned principle and gone into a mad scramble at the pie counter. If Bryan is defeated it will be the tault of the traders in his party and ours who have ignored the St. Louis compromise and tried to force populists to vote for Sewall, the bondholder, the national banker corporation plutocrat and gold clause millionaire." The couuty commissoners vir tually control the expenditure of the tax-payers money. Since 1891 the populist have had control ot that branch of the county's business, and we would be glad to have some populist show us, how ard where the taxes have been lessened or the floating indebtedness of the county reduced. During, that time the general fund levy has been up to the limit and the floating in debtedness has rapidly increased. The fr3e suvente who ignores the law of supply and demand is at a loss to account for the rise in ,the price of wheat. He utterly re fuses to believe that a shortage of anything to do with the increase from sixty-three cents in August to seventy-five cents in October. A leading populist of the city acknowledges that Mr. Beeler has a hard fi"ht on his hands and admits that the chances for his election are acrainst him. Other DUDulists. were they as frank would make the same admission. McKinley puts the case clearly arid forcibly when he says the peo pie of this country do not want a thing which they must take for a dollar. and have it taken from them at its commercial value. which would be only about 50c under the free coyiage policy. On the contrary, they want dollars that are always and everywhere worth 100c apiec. The tact is worth noting that the large amount of foreign gold received in this country in the last sixiy days has not caused any de cline in the price of that metal. whereas, if the same amount o foreign silver had been received, i big slump in the price of the white metal would certainly have ensued. It is by such lessons that the money question is stupified. Ex,. The Chicago "Record's" canvass of Chicago, which Gov. Altgeld ap proved by lettter before it began, stood on the 16th inst: McKinley, 61,716; Bryan, 13,306; Palmer 1451; Severing, 554; scattering, 82. It is a remarkable fact that the major ity indicated for McKinley in Chi cago is considerably over 200.000. The Palmer percentage would give the Indianapolis ticket a total vote in Illinois of about 25,000. The populists are concentrating all their energy on a campaign for Mr. Garrison. They know, as do all others, that with a minority rep resentation on the board of county commissioners the 4pap" which has fed the populist party of Lincoln county will be cut off. They real ize that with two republicans on the board all work will be be let to the lowest and best bidder aud not given out regardless of price to some partizan. Wheat sold in Chicago last Sat urday for 75 "cents an advance of twenty-two cents, over the price in August last. We presume our free silver friends will claim that the money power is simply attemp ting to bribe the farmers into vot ing for McKinley by paying them an advance of nearly fifty -per cent on their wheat. Wheat is going up in price and bar silver is going down, thus proving the fallacy of the Bryan statement that depre ciated prices are due to depreciated silver. In one of his recent speeches ex- Senator Ingalls said: "While the republicans were in power from 1891 to 1893, to make it plainer, every time the clock struck, day or night, Sunday or week day, when republican policy prevailed, this the national ledger. Yet they tell us republican policy caused bankruptcy, and the only cure is tree silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 Don't forget that we had the same financil system through that per icd that we have now. I'LL VOTE FOR BILL M' KIN LEY. 'I guess I'll sell the farm, Jane Ann, And we will move to town; McKinley 'ill be elected, And the Wheels will all go round, And I will work in them thar mills Oh, now, won't that be nice? You can wear "bloomers, ride a wheel, And skate upon the ice." Now, Silas Jones, you make rrie tired A-talkin' thet ther way; You'd better think before you jump You mind thet, now, I say. Don't you 'member 'bout a year ago When them prospecters wuz out here A-spadin" round ther in them hills Don't you think thet mity queer? And one of them, I heerd him say, They wuz full of silver ore, And if he owned thet land, he said. He would not want for more. And now you had better get a pick And go diggin in them hills, Instead of talkin' like a fool 'Bout workin in the mills. Now you want to vote for Bryan, SI, For Dave Binkley, he told me If Bryan was elected Why you could plainly see How you could dig your silver out And cart it to the mint. And they would mold it into coin And not charge you a cent. "Then we would soon "be millionheirs And then we would not care For anything in this wide world Except our own -welfare." Now, Jane, I've heerd enough of this, I am a Christian man; And as for Bryan, I will do Him all the dirt I can; For who would want to dig out ore And cart it to the mints. And get it turned into dollars Thet would be worth only fifty cents? Do you want to see this country thrown Into a panic and hard times, Just for the sake of a favored few Who own the silver mines? It can never, never, be, my Jane, I'd not rest in my grave; I will not vote for Bryan, But this coutry will help to save. And I will tell you just how I'll vote, I mean this coming fall; I'll vote for Bill McKinley, Come, help me, one and all." Burlington Hawkcya. Buoklen's Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, teter, chapped hands, chilblains corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay -required, It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac tion or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. Por sale by A, P. Streifcz THE SILVER TRUST. MONSTER COMBINE OF THE WHO OWN MINES. MEN SUrer Orators Havo Nothing to Say About the Big Trust Which Is Behind the Silver Standard Movement, Kor of the Mischief It Has Worked. The free silver orators have a great deal to say about trusts and combines and monopolies, as in some vague and unexplained way illustrating the evils of the gold standard. But they are careful to say nothing about that gi gantic trust in whose service they'are enrolled many of them as Its hired tools and agent3. They say nothing about that monster combine of silver mine owners which is behind the silver standard movement. Between thirty and forty men control the great bulk of the silver output of America. But their aggregate realized wealth from their mines Is computed at not less than $500,000,000, while they are the possessors of many times more po tential wealth in the hidden stores of their silver mines. For twenty years, or since the first sharp decline in silver aroused them to the Importance of uniting to procure legislation which would raise the price of their product, this colossal trust of multi-millionaires has been engaged in an unceasing conspiracy to make the government of the United States their instrument in forcing their product upon the American people. To this end they have filled the lobbies of congress with their paid agents. They have sub sidized all men of oratorical ability who were approachable to their seduc tions. They have organized literary and lecture bureaus supported by their contributions, and have kept them- at work deluging the country with free silver speeches, booka and pamphlets. While the business classes were asleep on the subject, utterly unaware of what was going on this monster com bine of multi-millionaire mine owners has been busily at work, with an or ganized silver propaganda in their pay, disseminating their arguments and ap peals for opening the mints to the free coinage of silver. Their missionaries have controlled the Populist party. They haye enlisted many of the lead ers of labor organizatoins. Their hired agents have been incessantly employed for many years among the labor un ions, among the farmers, among the rank and file of both political parties, in the effort to make them believe that the free coinage of silver was the sure panacea for all the real or imaginary evils or misfortunes they were suffer ing. With untiring perseverance they have been working through all these agencies to obtain control of congress and the government, in order to force the opening of the mints to the unlim ited coinage of silver. Twice -they came near accomplishing their conspiracy, and the country was only saved from this calamity by tht two successive compromise measures known as the Bland and Sherman bills, both of which, were dictated by the sil ver combine. In both cases their con fidence that this wider artificial market for their silver would raise Its price was disappointed. Under the latter act silver declined more rapidly than ever. The enormous purchases of silver for three years had brought the govern ment to the brink of insolvency and of a forced descent to the silver standard. Then came the panic of 1893 and the re peal of the purchase act in response to the universal demand of the country. Then the work of the silver propa ganda was renewed on a far larger scale and with greater energy and ac tivity than ever "before, with a view this time to capture not only congress, but the presidency and the supreme court. To accomplish this purpose they allied themselves with all the forces of Populism, of anarchy and discontent. They organized the Bimetallic league. They flooded the country with specious and plausible silver literature of every sort. They multiplied their legions of hired orators and missionaries and re doubled their efforts to obtain control of the organization of the Democratic party, as they had already obtained control of the Populists, and of a num ber of leading men in the labor organ izations. As the final result of their twenty years' crusade this colossal silver com bine has succeeded in dictating the Democratic nomination for president of one of their servants, William J. Bry an, backed by a fusion of the Demo cratic and Populist parties. Confident that as the result of twenty years of industrious propagandism they had sufficiently befuddled the reason and debauched the consciences of the rank and file of the American people, they have dared to risk their cause upon a final appeal, not to the reason, but to the supposed class hatreds, to the prej udices, to the discontents, and to the dishonesty of the masses. The Amer ican people have accepted this insult ing challenge and they will give their answer next November. And yet these men have the impu dence to talk of trusts, these men who are enlisted in the service of the most monstrous trust that ever reared Its head In any country In the world. For all other trusts and combines and mon opolies that were ever organized by- human selfishness sink into insignifi cance beside the colossal rapacity of the combine of the silver miners.. Oth er trusts and combines are satisfied to rsise in some not too exasperating de gree the prices of their wares. But this monster silver combine deliberately proposes to make money for themselves out of the financial ruin and dishonor of their country. They propose to make their profits through a more stu pendous scheme of fraud and robbery than was ever conceived In the mind of the worst tyrant that ever afflicted the human race. For to find a market for their silver they propose to drag the country down to the silver stand ard, and thus swindle every working man in the land out of half his wages arid his savings, every owner or depos itor of money out of half its value, ev ery creditor out of half his debt, every beneficiary of an insurance policy out of half his dues. To carry out their scheme would cost the wage-earners and the pepple .of small means in this country probabjy not less than $10,000, 000,000. While they are talking about trusts, why are they silent about this monstrous trust Avhlch they are assist ing to bind its chains upon the people of this country and to accomplish this stupendous conspiracy of fraud and spoliation? Talk of trusts, Indeed! Why, this one infernal silver trust even If the people should rise In their might next November end crush It so utterly that will never show Its brazen head again has already accomplished a hundredfold more mischief than all the other trusts, combines and monopolles- that ever existed. During the last three or four years it is safe to say that through the apprehensions caused In business and financial circles by the threat of the free coinage of silver, the silver combine has cost the American people more than the entire money cost of putting down the rebellion, Trusts, indeed! r Look to your own 1 trust the trust whose rapacious ppllcy has dragged the country more than once during the last four years to the brink of bankruptcy and dishonor; the monster silver trust, whose dark shadow has blighted all the confidence and credit which are the life of bus!-. ness prosperity, and before the awful menace of whose possible success in thisjelection all business stands still awaiting the verdict of the American people. Trusts, indeed! St. Paul Plon eer Press. GOVERNOR BOIES' OATS. Queer Argument Made by the Iowa Dam ocratio Statesman. Ex-Governor Boies made a queer ar gument at Ames Friday night. He took oats at 10 cents a bushel and tried to prove .that the gold standard had cheapened everything. The governor's argument falls to the ground when we recollect that two years ago under the same cold standard oats were so expensive that ve who live in town were compelled to sell our cows and horses because we could not afford to feed them. If the gold standard makes oats low now what made them high two years ago? The governor might have picked out any other thing to have established his point- Boots and shoes are cheap; newspapers are cheap; calico, pins and needles are cheap. How can the governor prove that the gold standard has anything to do with these prices when we prac tically have -the same amount of money in the country now that we had in 1873? The governor knows that under sliver Inflation that we would all just simply play that we were getting more; we would not be getting more in fact. We would be like the boy who got a 50-cent piece converted into pen nies In order to make his poSket stand out and create jealousy in the minds of the other boys. He had not in creased the purchasing power of his money "though he had enlarged its bulk. When the governor explained that it took thirty bushels of oats at 10 cents a bushel to pay his night's lodging at the Savery House, he seemed to lose track of the fact that if he inflated the currency to Increase the price of oats he would probably pay sixty bushels of oats for his night's lodging and neither he nor the landlord would lose or maku by the so-called change In the value of oats. The same rule would apply when the governor should go to buy any other thing. The only way that he could be benefited would be in the payment of debts already contracted. Debts to be contracted in the future would be no more easily paid by inflated money than at present, for the debt would be larger. All this jug gling with the value of currency to af fect prices is simply foolishness on the part of honest men and rank dis honestly on the part of those who know better, yet continue to advocate it. It could not help the laboring man and for a long time, at least, after it should go into operation It would give to what he buys a fictitious price be fore it gave his labor a fictitious value. Finally, if his labor got the same amount of inflation that the currency had, he would be relatively in the same condition that he Is today. Two dol lars reduced to the purchasing power of $1 would be practically to the la boring man no good, nor would it ben efit the farmer. We are surprised at Boles standing up and solemnly dis cussing a grave political question bas ing his argument on the low price of one crop which next year may be high. In this connection we want to ask Gov ernor Boies why it is at the present time wheat is increasing in price while silver is decreasing in value? We have been told that silver and wheat are inseparable; that they always went up or down together. They seem now to have been to Dakota or Oklahoma, where divorces are within easy reach. At any rate, a separation has taken place Des Moines Capital. Waiting for the Word. The American Economist says that probably there never has been so much business waiting and -wholly depend ing upon future events, as there is at this time. In answer to inquiries. 550 manufacturing establishments have re ported to The Economist that they em ployed In July 78,700 hands, against 114,231 in July four years ago, and paid during that month $2,469,712 in wages, against $3,927,200 in 1S92. There has been more decrease since July, but these returns Indicate a decrease of 22.3 per cent. In number of hands em ployed, and 37.1 per cent, in the amount of wages paid per month, and, adds The Economist, while it can never be- certain that such returns properly represent the state of all industries. they suffice to show why the consum ing power of the people has been much reduced. There are not many impor tant labor disturbances, and there is not wanting a definite increase of confidence among business men, but an enormous business is deferred until the prospect is more clear. Absurd Inconsistency. One of the absurd inconsistencies with which Mr. Bryan's speeches are honeycombed is the cheap-dear money doctrine. According to his teachings the poor man is to get his money cheap ' under free silver coinage and sell it . dear. That is to say, it will be cheap, J 53-cent money when he works for it, I hut when he epmes to spend it some I miraculous alchemy is to make it ster ling lOOrcent mopey. This Is the sort ol clap-trap by which Mr. Bryan hopes tc ensnare the minds of men who are not sufficiently trained in logical methods to see the inconsistency and absurdity of it. If money is cheap. It will be just as cheap to spend as It is to earn. Mr. Bryan must have a mighty pool opinion of the intelligence of the work-, ingmen of this country if he thinks he can trap then with this sort of bait Columbus Dispatch. Some Light Thrown ou tha Discovery of Hoi comb. Previous to the nomiuntion of Silas A. Holcomb for district judge by the Populists of the Twelfth judicial dis trict he was nuknown outside of Broken Bow, where he Lad hung up a lawyer's shiugle.but was engaged in the more lucrative occupation of loauing money to Coster couuty farmers at rates of interest that were not only usurious, bnfc exorbitantly so. The judicial convention was held at Eddy ville, on the new line of the Kearney and Black Hills railway, aud somebody's manipulation had secured the location there to prevent too much local pressure op. the part of the friends of a couple of Populist candidates from Kearney. In: dications pointed to the nomination of John Barnd or W. L. Greene. Holcomb ras unknown and nnthonghS of. Ho had npyer, at that time, been identified with the Populist party and was pnly known politically as a Democrat of the old school, holding none of the modern ideas of the embryotic Demopops of that day. "When the convention met it -was easy enough to engineer a deadlock. The convention continued nearly the whole of one night, over 80 ballots being taken, and at the conclusion Holcomb, the dark horse, won the nomination. Who was responsible for Holcomb's candidacy? John H. Hamilton, presi dent of the Kearney and Black Hills Railway company. Hamilton was a Virginia Democrat. He had made Hol comb's acquaintance and there was an affinity between them. Moreover, Mr. Hamilton was building a new railroad through Buffalo, Dawson aud Ouster counties, all in the Twelfth judicial district, and no one knew better than himself tho advantage to accrue from having a "friendly Injun" on the bench. So the loau agent aud the creat ure of a railroad president, became the candidate of the anti-monopoly party in the district. Judge Hamcr had incurred the hos tility of the loan agents of the district through his partiality for the farmers in mortgage foreclosure cases. The result was that every real estate loan agent in i j- l - i. i. j tt i -l i the district supported Holcomb, who was elected by a small majority, not- j10?,?- A nt jcction live q) oi artio'e i j i, , . i- t six (6) of tho Con3titution of tho State of Ne Wlthstanding the large Populist major- braska, l e ame-ided to read as follows : ity in the district, and - he owed hi? vJl0?. At tho first general oiection to , .. . , a be hold in tho year 1SOT. thero shall be elected election to the good omces Of a corpora- two GQ judges of tho supreme court one tion Official and the support of his ' of hm sna11 elected for a term of , i. t ii i- tvv" C2) years, one for tha torm of four (4) brother loan agents in the conuties Of years, and at each general election there Buffalo, Dawson, Custer and Sherman, j fter thJro shall be elected one judge of . ' ', , . -j tho supreme ourt for tho term ot five AS attorney and loan agent, as judgo (5) years, unless otherwise provided by I law: Provided, that tho indues of tho sn- ... . . . . ca i i Of the State, enjoying official position by virtue of Populist votes, he has ever been a Democrat, has given as little as dossi ble in return for Populist friendship, has shown his preference in nearly every essential instance for Democrats, and has conspired from the beginning of his official career with members of the Democratic party to turn the Popu list organization of the state over to the Democracy. This is virtually Mr. "Wolfe's arraignment. Thiss the sum ming up of the evidenco in his case. This is the logic of the situation at this moment. THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS Necessity for Adopting the Amendment Enlarging the Supreme Court. Of these there are twelve in number. Provision has been made by statute so that a vote may be cast npon these amendments as a whole or with refer ence to each separately, The first amendment on the official ballot is to increase tho number of supreme judges of this state from three, its present number, to five. The necessity for this increase becomes clear when we reflect that in the supreme court there are now nndisposed of 1,675 cases and that the very highest average rate at which cases have heretofore been disposed of is 660 per annnm. To clear the docket of pending cases would reqnire the court as at present constituted, to work more than two years. The cases being com menced in the supreme court are at the rate of 740 annually, so that with a clear docket to commence with it would be impossible to dispose of cases as fast as they are filed. There is no danger that a majority of those voters who vote upon this amend ment will vote against it. An amend ment to prevail must receive a majority of all votes cast at the election at which it is submitted. For example let it be assumed that at the coming election there will be cast the highest nnmber of votes for governor. If the aggregate nnmber of votes cast for all the candi dates for governor equals 300000 a con stitutional amendment to bo adopted must receive 150001 votes, for the re quirement is that the amendment must RECEIVE A MAJORITY OF ALL THE VOTES cast at the eleotiox atwhichit is sub mitted. From the figures as to the conr dition of the "business of the supremo court above given, it would seem that this particular amendment will meet with no opposition. But this is not enough. A majority of the entire num ber of electors who vote in Nebraska on November third next must express them selves in favor of this amendment or it will not be adopted. You have to go to the bottom of things in this world if von wish to accomplish much. It does not pay to merely sKim over tne suriace. Tins is true of disease as well as of everything- else. It is the popular belief that headache and sleeplessness are due to some trouble confined to the brain. Nothincr could be further from rt the truth. These troubles are merely I signals that the digestive organs are J disordered and the blood impure. It I does no permanent good to treat them with sedatives. In order to produce a cure, a medicine must be used that goes to the bottom of things, that corrects tne nrst cause " of the trouble. Dr. Pierce's Golden Med ical Discovery does exactly this. It is the greatest ot all known blood- makers and purifiers. It is the best tlesh - builder. It fills the arteries with rich, red, tissue -building blood, in vigorates the nerves, stim ulates digestion, brings back the healthy ap- . n.,'f. i wi-un, nun luiuica " Nature's soft nurse." sleep. Thousands have testified to its value. B. F.Holmes. P.O. ,Box 173. Gafihcy, ijpancnuurg- Co., S. C writes: "I was a sufferer for six vears from indi gestion, sore stomacn. ami constant Headache. I tried several of our best physicians and found no permanent relief. 1 commenced the use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and 'Pleasant Pellets' whish kits me nrnmnt rrttff Wlir-n T commenced using- the meoici nes I could not sleep. nau a restless, uneasy iceung au the tunc, and mv skin was yellow and drv. I weicrhed onl v nR pounds. I now weigh 170 pounds. Have a good color, rest well at nisht. have a good appetite, ind can cat almost anything I wish For two vears while under treatment by a physician I ale lounng cui granam cieaa. PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. ThefolloTing proposed apaendmentp to the Constitution of the State of Net braska, as hereinafter set forth in full, are submitted to the electors of the State of Nebraska, to be voted npon at the general election to be hold Tues day, November 3, A. D., 1898: A joint resolution proposing to mend sections two (2), four (4), ana BCU""" v w nve (o.) Of article SX (6) Of the Uonstl- tution of tho State of Nebraska, relating to number of judges of the supreme court and their term of office. Be It resolved and enacted by tho Legisla- Sectlon 1. That section two f2D of article ot Nebraska bo amended so m to read as fol lows: Section 2. Thi supreme court shall until otherwise proviled by law. consist of flva (5) judges, n ma j irity ot whom shall be necea- i sary to ionn a quorum or to prononnca a decision. It shall have original jurisdiction in cases relating to revenue, civil cases in whi'h the state shall be a party, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas "orpu, and such appellate jurisdiction, as may bo provided by law. Siction 2. That section four (4) of ar'icle six (6) of the Constitution of the State ot Nebraska, be amended so as to read as fol lows: Section L The judges of tho supremo court shall be elected bjr tha electors ot tho cePi "8 hereinafter provided, shall ba for a period of not le&j than five (5) years as tha legislature may prescribe. I Preme court whose term hava not oxpired at tho time of holding tho general elec- tlon of 1S93. shall continm to hn'rt thair office for tho remain ler of tha term for which thoy were respectively commis sioned. Approved March 29, A. D. 1833. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to section thirteen'(lS) of article six of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relating to com pensation of supreme and district court judges. Be it ro3olvod by tho Legislature of tho Stato of Nebraska: Section 1. That section thirteen (13) of article six (tf) of the Constitution ot tho State of Nebraska be amended so as to read as fol lows: Sec. 13 The jndgoa of tho supremo and district courts shall receive for their services Buch compensation as may bo provided by law, payable quartorlv. The legislature shall at its first session after the adoptiou of this amendment, tbreo-fltths of tho members elected to each house concurring, establish their compensation. Tha compensation so es tablished shall not bo changed oftener than once in fpur years, and in no event unless two-thirds of the members elected to each house of tho legulaturo concur therein. Approval March 30, A. D 1893. 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 pensation of the officers of the executive department. Bo It resalvod and enacted bv tho Legislature of the Statu of Nebraska: Section 1. Thit section twentr-four CM") of article five (o) of thj Oonstitutio i ot the btate ot xieurasua ueammded to read as f j1 lows: Section 21. Tho-officers of the executive department ot tho state government shall rojeiFe lor muir survicus a compensation to be establish! br law. whii-h shall be neither incr a ted nor diminished during the term lor which they shall hive been com missioned and they sh ill not receive to th-)ir own use any fee-i. cos's, into -ests, uuon pu die moneys in their hands or under their control. perquisites of offijo or oth-jr compen sation and all fees thit may hero nferr be payable bv law for services pe.frmed bv an offiior provllol for in this arti -le snail bo paid in advance into tho state treasury. Tho legislature ah ill ut its first session alter tho adoption of this amend ment. three-fiUhi of tho members eio tod to each house of tha legislature con enrrin?, establish thj s Maries ot tho officers named in ths arti.-lo. Tha corn pen ation so established shall not bo changed oftener than once iu f ur yoars and in no evens unlrs two-th.rds ot the members elected to each houso of tho legislature con our therein Approved March 29 A. D. 1893. A joint resolution proposing to amend section ono (I) of article six (0) of the Constitution of the State of Nebras ka, relating to judic al power. Bi it resolved and enacted by ihe Legisla ture of tha St no f No ira k i : Section 1. Th-:t soctioa ou (0 of article six (C) of the Coust.tation of tho Sta o of Nebraska be amended to . eadns follows : Section L Tho jndi.-ial power of this state shul: be vested iu a supreme court, district courts, county courts justices of iho pea e, po'i -e magistrates, and in sui h othor conns inferior to th .-nprcsno com t as may be created by law in which two-thirds of tho menibe s elected to each house concur. Approved March 29, A. D. 1835. A joint resolution proposing to amend section eleven (11) of article six 1 (6) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relatiug to increase in num ber of supreme and district conrt judges. B3 it rosolvo land enacted by the Legislature of the State of Nebraska : fectio 1 1. That section eleven (10 of article s.x (f) -A the Constitution of tho Stato I of Nebraska Le amended to real ai fol lows: Section 11. The legls ature. whenever two- thirds of ihomemoers elected to each house shall con ur therein may, in or tfrer the year one thuuand i .ht hundred and ninety-seven and not oftener fhan ujo in every tour years. increase the uu.uucr or judges ot su premo and dutri'.-G courts, and the judical districts of th.' state. Sui-h districts thiil be forincl of compact territory, and bounded by county lines: and such in crease, or any chanse in the boundaries of a district, shall not vacate the office 6f 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 Nebraska, relating to trial by jury. Be tt r-Bolved and suactsd by the Logislaturp of th SI to of Neb.aska : Sectiou 1. That seotion sir (6). article one (1) of tha Constitution of iho State of Ne braska be nmend d to i d as follows: Section 0. 'Iho rhjhr- of tilal by jury shall remain inviolate, but tho legis'ature may pro vide th t in civil actions five-sixths of tho jury ma' render a verdict, an i thi iogislaturo may nho au horiz trial by a jnry of a less number than twelve men, in con ps inferior to tho dis trict court. Approved March 29, A D. 1895. A joint resolution nmnnsinp fn i D amend section oue(l) of article five (5) of the Constitution of Nebraska, relat- ing to officers of the executive depart- ment. Beit roiolyd and enacted by ihe Legisla ture c.f ths Sta o of Nebraska: Section L That section ono (1) of ar c r fCOof th Constitution of the State pt .Nebraska Le amended to read as fol lows: Section 1 Tho executive denartmnnf. Btn.it 3iafc 01 a governor, lientenant-goveruor, secretary of st:it nu Jitorof pubiic accounts! treasurer, su Ciintendent of publij In fraction, attorney general, commissioner of pubila lands and buLdins, and three raUroad commissioners, eah ot whom, except tho said railroal commissioners, shah hold his office for a term of two years, from the first Thursday after C7e ,ax5t Tuesday in January, after His election, and until his successor is electel and qualified. Ea-m railroad com mIjsloaer8halJ hold his office for a term of three vas beginning on the, first ThursJay after the fhvt Tnlv in .Tnirtii-. his eleition. and piitil hl3 sneers ear -jj elosted and qmified: P.-oviaed. however, 'lhat at the first general elec tion held after the adootioa of ihU nnnmt. ment there fhall be elected threo railroad conimltiiojer. one for the neriod ot one year, one for the period of two years, and one for tho p.-riod of throe years. The gov ernor, secretary of state, auditor of pub lic accounts, and treasurer shall reside at mo capital ouring their tern Qf office; th7 85311 cp praue record, boora I and papers there and shall perform susidu- ues as may 00 requires ny law. Approved March 30. A. D. 1S33. A joint resolution proposing tr amend section twenty-six (26) of ar- Hclft five of tha Constitution of tha State of Nebraska, limiting the nam ber of executive state officers. Bo it resolvel and enacted by tho. Lef islature of tha State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section twenty-six 28) of article five (5) of the Constitution of tho Stato of Nebraska be amended to read as follows: Section 26. No other executive state offl cers except those named In se.-tlon ons (1) of this article shall bo created, rxceps by an act ot tho lezislature which'- Jls concurrel in by not less than three-f jurths of the momber3 elected to each houss thereof; Provided, That any office created by an act of the legislature may be abolished by. the legislature, two-thirds of tho. nemV bers elected to each house thereof concur ring. Approved March 30. A. D.. 1SXL 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 tho permanent educational funds of the state. Be it resolved and enacted by tha Legisla ture of the State of Nebraska: Section 1. That section nlno (0) of artiola eight (8) ot the Constitution of the Stato of Nebiaska be amended to read as fol lows: Section 0. All funis belongta? to tha state for educational purposes, the interest and Income whereof only are to be uited, ahill be deemed trust funds held by the iUto, and the sista shall supply all losses there of that may In any manner accrue, so that the same shall remain forever inviolnto and undiminished, and shall not be in vested or loaned except on United States or state securities, or registered county bonds or registered schort district bonds ot this state, and such funds with thj inter est aud income thereof are hereby solemn ly pledged for tho purposes for whi-h thoy are granrcu ana sec apart, ana snau uos be transferred to any other fund for other uses; Provided. Tho board created by section 1 of this article is empowered to sell from time to time any of tho securities belonging to tho permanent school fond and invest the proceeds arising therefrom in any of the securities enumerated in this section bear ing a higher rate of interest whenever an opportunity for better investment la pre sented; And provided further. That when any warrant upon tho state treasurer reg ularly is-tued in pursuanco ot an appropri ation by tho legislature and secured bjr the lovy pf a tax for its payment, shall be presented to the state treasurer for -payment, and there shall not be any money In tho proper fund fp pay such warrant, tha board created by section 1 of this articfe may dfreut the atate freas nrer to pay tho amount due 'fin su -h wn'r. raut from moneys in his &ands botrgfn to tho porinanont schtnl fflud of the state, and he shall hold said warrant as an in vestment of i-aid permanent school funcj, Approved March 29. A. D- 1835. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of Nebraska by adding a new section to article twolve (12) of said constitution to be numbered section two (2) relative to the merging of tho government of cities of the metro politan class and the government of the counties wherein such cities are. located. Be It resolved and enacted by the Legis lature of tho State of Nebraska: Section L That nrticlo twelve (12) of the Constitution of the State of Neor.iska be amended by adding to said article a new sec tion tote numbered section two (2) to read' as follows: Section 2. Thi government of any city of. tho metropo tan class and the gov ern men tr of tho county In - which'5 It la located may be merged wholly or In part when a proposition so to do has been submitted by authority ot law to the -voters of such city and county and re ceived tha assent ot a majority of tho Votes cast in such city and also a majority of the votoi case In the county exclusive of thoio cast in such metropolitan city at such election. Approved March 23, A. D, JB95. A joint resolution proposing an amendment to seotion six (0) of article seven (7) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, prescribing the" manner in which votes shall be cast. Be It resolved aud enacted by tho Legislat ure of the Suato of Nebraska: Section 1. Thst eoction six (G) of article seven (7) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska be amended to read as fol lows : Section 0. A'l votes ah dl ba by. ballot, or Buch other me tho J as may be 'presented by law provided tho secrecy of voting be preserved. Approved March 9. A D. 1893- A joint resolution proposiug to amend section two (2) of article four teen (14) of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska, relntive to donations to worlts of internal improvement and manufactories. Be it rvsnlved and exacted by thn Leg islature of th 1 State of Nebraska: Section 1 That scc;ioa two (2) of nrtlcls fourteen (14) of thj Constltu.ton of th-j State ot Nebraka, be amended to real as follows: See. 2. No city, county, town, precinct, municipality, or other aubuivldon of tho state, shall ever nriko donations to any works of internal improverannt. or manufactory, unlcsi a prop.) ition so to do shall havo been first jubniiitwl to tho qualified electors and ratified t.y a two thirds vote at an election by anthirlty of law; Provided. That surh dunat; ns of a county with the donations ot such subdi visions in tho aggregate shall not exceed ten per cent of the assessed valuation if such county; Provided, further. Th.t any city or county may, by a three-fonrihi vote. Increase nu- h Indebtcdn.-ss five per cent, in addition to such ten per cent nn.l ho bonds or evidences, of indebtedness so Issued shall bevvali4 unless h same Shil havo endorse! thsroon a certificate signed by the secretary aud auditor of state, showing that the same is issue 1 pursuant t& Approved March 9, A- D., 1803. I, J. A. Piper, secretary of stato 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 coi-rent tne original enrolled and eugrossed bilI? 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, and that all and each of said propose'd amendments are submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Ne- braska for their adoption or rejection at the general election to be held on Tuesday, the 3d day of November, A. D., 185KJ. In testimony whereof, I have here unto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the State of Nebraska. pone at Lincoln this 17th day of July, in the year of our Lore, Qjia Thou sand, Eight Hundred, apd Nincty-SJxu 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.