THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE FRIDAY: EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1896.
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- THE WINNERS OP 1896.
3JATIOSAI TICKET.
For President
WM. McKINLEY, of Ohio.
For Vice President
G. AT HOB A KT, of New Jersey.
STATU TICKET.
For Governor
JOHN H. MacCOLL.
For Lieutenant-Governor
ORLANDO TEFFT. c
For Secretary of State
JOEL A. PIPER. :
For Auditor Public Accounts
P. O. HEDLUND. .
For State Treasurer
CHARLES E. CASEY.
For Stint. Public Instruction
HENRY R. CORBETT.
For Cofn. Lands and Buildings
HENRY C. RUSSELL. -For
Attorney-General
ARTHUR S. CHURCHILL.
For Supreme J udse. Long Term
ROBERT RYAN.
For Supreme Judge, Short Term
MOSES P. KINK AID.
For Recent of State University
W. G. WHITMOBE.
LEGISLATIVE ticket.
For Congress, Gth District
E. A. CADY.
For Senator, 30th District
J. S. HOAGLAND.
For Representative, 51 District
J. H. ABBOTT.
COUJTTY TICKET.
For County Attorney,
T. C. PATTERSON.
For Commissioner, Third District,
JAS.S. BOBBINS.
A LAST "WOBD.
The great battle of this campaign
is over, the almost superhuman ef
forts of both parties are ended, and
a parting- word of advice to the
readers of The Tribune andlhe
voters of Lincoln county is but the
proper finale to the greatest politi
cal contest ever conducted by the
people of this country since I860,
when the battle of the giants was
on, and a Lincoln and a Douglas
were the imposing" central figures,
towering- far above their fellows in
intellect, and to whom all eyes
were turned as the people prayed
the rig-ht might prevail and calam
ity to the people might be. averted.
The people of this country have
passed through a campaign ofedu
cation and the thoughts advanced,
the arguments made, have sunk
deep into the minds of an intelli
gent and thinking people who will
treasure the lessons learned, es
pecially on the financial question,
and in the future be better pre
pared to meet a similar heresy and
snow it under as the present free
silver heresy will be buried under
the millions of votes of public dis
approval. "With iii three or four daj's of elec
tion, when the minds of the vo
ters are fixed, and very lit
tle, if any change can be made,
looking over the great field, and
gathering from all available ave
nues of information, the indications
point to a magnificent victory for
the supporters of sound money and
sound legislative enactments, and
an overwhelming defeat for fiat
money repudiation and Bryaueese
free Trade ideas. The last note of
warning has been chirrioned forth
which should echo and re-echo till
it finds a response in every loyal,
patriotic heart that the path run
ning back to prosperity leads not
by the way of dishonor, - not by the
"Avay of repudiation, but by meeting
the- difficulties which now exist
with true American spirit a spirit
which actuated our fore-fathers
i it x i. i. . 1:1 1 - 3
independence, a spirit which per
meated every loyal soul when a
Lincoln came forth to- direct the
people, a spirit which is now con
troliug the people and a "Win.
McKinley is leading the hosts of
voters- to triumph and prosperity
-which will surely come through the
principles advocated and upheld by
so gallant and noble a leader.
Every argument of the Bryan
forces has been met and shattered,
every effort they have made to mis
lead the people has signalty failed,
and now our gallant leaders, Mc
"Kinley and Hobartt, with banners
,flying, with flags unfurled, come
marching home bringing with them
sound monev, protection and reci
procity, those harbingers of pros
perity, contentment and joy.
The farmer who wishes to have a
home market for his surplus com
modities, the laboring man who
wants as good a dollar ass the plu
tocrat, the provident man who has
saved something for a "rainy day,"
the contractor, the merchant, the
professional man and the minister
of the gospel are all in line, follow
ing where their great leader points
the way, - back to the conditions of
Jt rr. asm r -
1892, back to open factories, and
whirling spfndles, and flying shut
tics, and blazing furnaces and an
vils ringing clear; back to tariff
dinner pails and work 'for laboring
men; back to the happy home and
smiling wife and crowing babe;
back to the smiling countenance,
and happy look and lightsome
and glad song; back to Mc
Kmlevisni with him who is
the true exponent of American
principles in the presdential chair;
back to our true position as the
most prosperous nation on earth,
when the sun of republican pros
perity will lend its effulgent rays
to light up all the scene, and show
to the world the intelligence'of the
American people has triumphed
over free silver, tree trade, repudia
tion and dishonor.
While the finger boards in the
national campaign all point with a
unity of significance which no man
can mistake to the success of the
republican party throughout the
country, the voters, yea all the, men
and women of Nebraska, should b.
vitally interested in placing thi
state in the McKinley column. Tt
permit this state to give its elec
toral vote to Bryan, means drivirg
away millions of dollars of capital
which, wheu confidence is restored,
will ome out of its hiding -place
and seek investment in those states
and among those people who stand
up for the integrity and honor of
the country. A state such as ours,
with great possibilities before it.
inhabited by thritty, persevering,
energetic and intelligent people
must not, for the sake of our own
Nebraska homes, dare' not for the
sake of our wives and children
and all we hold most dear, let oui
state .go for repudiation and dis
honor. Viewing the situation from
a business standpoint, knowing
that foreign capital is especially
desired to develop our state and
quickly place her where she is om
day destined to be, among the fore
most of the states of the Union,
every man regardless ,of former
party affiliations should constitute
himself into a committee of one t
place Nebraska where she shoul
and we believe will staud for M
Kinley and prosperity.
It is necessary to remember that
not only must we have a republi
can president, but it is indispens.--ble
that we send to his support a
congress wliich will earnestly work
for the return of prosperity to the
now suffering people. There is no
congressional district in this state
to which all eyes are turned w:lh
such ardent desire for republican
success as the 6th district. Co -sideringthe
fact that oh the one
side a man is before the people
whose every act whose whole courci
in life is such that it were chant
to draw over his public and private
record the veil of silence, while the
candidate of the republican party,
A. E. Cady, is a gentleman abovt
reproach, in whom confidenct
would not be misplaced, whose
faults are virtues compared with
the most redeeming features ot his
opponent's life is it any wonder
that all those who desire to see
bility, sobriety, - honesty and true
manhood triumph have a deeper in
terest in the election of Mr. Cady
than in any other candidate for
congress. Every man, regardless
of party, should be tireless in hi
support ot a man who if elected
will faithfully work to bring pros
perity to the homes of the people of
the Sixth congressional district of
Nebraska.
Then too our .efforts should b
equally as great, our zeal as arden
for the success of the state ticket
every may of whom, from hones
Jack MacColl at the head to W. G.
Whitmore at the foot, is worthy of
our support, and every effort known
to human intelligence should be ex
erted to place these gentlemen in
the positions to which they aspire.
Success be with them on election
day one and all for they ai e
royal good fellows, and if elected,
will give us a state adminjstratio
forceful and clean ot which all oui
citizens can feel justly proud.
Not only do we want the stat
ticket from top to bottom, but w
want the legislature-Tn both of it. "
branches, We have no desire fo;
a repetition of the scenes of 1892
when Geo. Meiklejohn matched his.
courage and his indomitable .wilt
againsF.the populist hosts, neither
do we desire to be placed where Kan
sas has stood through populist in
capacity. Then we want Thos. C. Patter
son elected county attorney, know
ing that hejs a capable lawyer and
will discharge the duties or" the po
sition without fear or favor. Be-
' lieyimj that Ire will tiphbjd' aw and
fairly and honestly try the cases
wherein the dignity of the state is
involved, we ask for him the sup
port of every republican voter and
of every lover or law ana oraer.
To those in the Third commis
sioner district we say for the last
time before election vote for J. b
Robbins and thus make it a victory
in nation, state, congressional dis
trict, legislature and countv, and
beinsr victorious in all we shall
share in the abundant prosperity
that will surely follow so grand a
triumph.
CAMPAIGN NOTES.
"Wo are informed from Michigan that
"this week and next Bryan exepcts to
be busy; he proposes to stampede the
middle western states." He will find
that returning common sense and old
wheat are ahead of him, and the stam
pede is not along .and toward his road.
a
Up to October the deficit of the Wilson-Bryan
tariffs amounts to upward
of S30.000.000. Bryan, however, avers
that "protection is a crime." That Is,
it is "a crime" to feed and protect mill
Ions of workers in their homes. He
prefers to build free soup houses rather
than protect laborers.
Candidate Bryan asserts that gold
Is worth twice as much today as it was
worth twenty years ago, and yet he
can borrow it, on fair security, at low
er rates of interest than ever before
in his life.
a
Iajcr McKinley was nominated by a
tremendous protection sentiment. That
sentiment has been faithful to him
throughout. It is faithful to him to
day. And that sentiment will elect
him.
Is there anything more ridiculous and
undignified than the wild flight of the
talking candidate with broken plat
forms in his wake? Happily it will be
all over in a few days and he will
drop back into the - oblivion from
which he sprung.
a .
There is a man in the New Jersey
state lunatic asylum who is possessed
5f the delusion that he is 100 fe5t high,
though In reality his stature is but G
ft This shows what the 1G to 1 craze
leads to.
Every tramp would like to vote in
free silver and continued free trade.
It means more free soup. The meat
won't be so fat, but there will be just
as many soup bones as ever.
First sive men a chance to earn
money, and then, second, give them
honest dollars In payment for their
labor. Dollars ever so good will not be
sufficient if labor is not in demand.
Under Republican rule the national
debt was reduced $2,000,000,000. Under
the present Democratic administration
the public debt has been increasedS500,
000,000. Such, in brief, are the practical
results of protection and free trade.
Twenty-two cents is a big bulge In
wheat and 5 cents is a good-sized
slump in silver since Bryan began
swinging around the circle.
If Mr. Bryan is spoiling for . debate,
possibly Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll
could accommodate him.
Brvan will have a chance after Nov.
3 to read up on "ships which passed In
the night."
WHITHER FREE SILVER LEADS.
In these closing weeks of the cam
paign, the animus and purpose of the
active spirits in this free silver cam?,
paign are more evident. The' mask is
off. The free coinage of silver is but an
incident of their programme. "What
they want is a general reorganization of
society. If they should accomplish tree
coinage, they would count It but one
slen toward their purpose, and they
would hurry their motley organization-
on to the next.
It Is needless to tell any one who has
rend historv that the free coinage of
silver will accomplish none of the bene
ficial results which are promised irom
it. Money will not become more plentU
ful, on the contrary money will be
scarcer in the United States than any
one now in business has ever seen it,
That is certain because capital shuns
a country which has any uncertainty
about its money standard. The store-
box financiers who talk about the size
and wealth and exchanges of this coun
try will discover that our own people
will take to uncertain money no more
kindly than foreigners. They will find
that a system of money independent of
value is ruinous to the trade and enter
nrisp of anv country. Then when the
failure of free silver becomes apparent
there will be raised another howl
against the "idle holders of idle capital."
It will be said that gold passed out of
circulation, reducing the volume oi
money, through a conspiracy of the
goldbugs. When times grow naraer
and money scarcer the cry win e mat
the eoldbucrs have combined to make it
so. When every foreign investor hastens
to convert his property into casn ana to
take the cash out of the country It will
be said that the foreigners are trying
to coerce the people ot tne unueu
States. And as business stands parar
lyzed with frisht and for want of
money the cry will go up that the gold-hne-s
are trvincr to enslave the country,
and that the only recourse is to an
issue of paper money. That will follow
as surely as the present leaders remain
in the saddle. Most of them are fiatists
now. None of them would ever confess
amid the wreck and ruin which would
follow the free coinage of a 50-cent dol
lar that they had caused it. J. no
'money power," the '-plutocrats, me
froMbutrs ." "Wall street," and "Lornr
bard street:" these would be the scape?
goats, and tnere would be a grand
rallying cry to sweep on and wipe out
the "eonsnlrators" who had defeated
the great and beneficent scheme which
they had planned.
This is no Idle picture. R is a sober
prophecy of the possible future. If
Bryan should be elected mark the trutn
Of
it. It requires no prophet to write
for history tells . the same story.
it,
The debasement of the currency 13
commonly followed by strictures upon
those who discount it, perhaps by
penalties and often by confiscation, not
And revolution. That is the path along
hich Bryan leads. He is not the kind
) stop short of all expedients to carry
his Doint. He is a fanatic, a zealot.
His brain is aflame with the idea that
he represents the poor and that the
rich are his enemies. Nothing more de
structive of the peace, enterprise and
prosperity of a community can be done
than to arouse the class hatred to
which Bryan makes his daily appeal.
Capital will not engage in production
while fearful of its own safety. Labor
cannot engage in production without
the aid of capital. And -yet labor- is
asked to enlist -in a. war; not for a
specific gecd lor. itself, but to- "down
c&nital "-andi-the -farmeri Is- asked to
ajd lira strif vJiicb wJiile it. lasts in
evltably destroys-, his, market. Dei
THEIR EYES OPENED.
WHEAT RAISERS WILL .NOT BE DE
CEIVED LONGER.
Bryan Made Ridiculous la the Eyes or the
Farmers and His Creed Has lost the
Power to Beraddle or Deceive Ad
' vaiices la Wheat.
The price df wheat in Chicago rose
the other day .to 79 cents a bushel
and closed about 2 cents less than this
figure. This advance followed further
verifications of the reports of a short
crop in foreign wheat-producing coun
tries. It means Vnore millions of dol
lars for the farmers and other hold
ers of cereals, and dollars, moreover,
that are worth 100 cents the world over.
Bryan has been made ridiculous in
the eyes of the farmers of the wheat
raising states and his creed has lost
the power to befuddle or deceive. The
one point he has harped on to them is
that tlje low price of wheat has been
caused by the demonetization of sil
ver and that wheat could not rise
again until silver should be rehabili
tated. .This ingenious falsehood has
been expressed In every conceivable
phraseology and scattered broadcast
over the northwest in the expectation
that the exposure would not be made
effectively until after the election Avas
safely over. The coincidence that the
prices of wheat and silver were both
at a low ebb helped the crusade, and
there is no doubt the theory gained
a vast amouht-of credence among peo
ple who were not able to see through
the fallacy of the argument.
But the whole lying fabric so labori
ously, and shrewdly woven has been
torn in tatters. Wheat,, depending ex
clusively as ever on the law of supply
and demand, bearing no special rela
tion whatever to silver, suddenly
jumped up in price, leaving the Pop
ocrats wallowing in the. muddy ditch
they had dug for themselves. The
farmers have been presented with the
plain and unanswerable proof that sil
ver and wheat are in no way connect
ed. They have watched wheat rise in
price steadily day by day, bringing up
with it the other products, until at one
point it had reached 79 cents a bushel.
They have realized that this immense
appreciation means to them millions of
dollars, hundreds of millions of dol
lars, and dollars of the kind that Alt
geld says are worth 200 cents each.
They realize, moreover, that all the
talk about silver and wheat being
chained together was a fraud, that it
was a device to trick them, to cheat
them, to rob them.
This is the. burden of the dispatches
that are pouring in from North Da
kota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Indi
ana, Illinois, Iowa, and every other
state where wheat is raised in abund
ance. The Dakotas are new states.
The farmers owed money. Their prod
ucts were bringing small returns. It
i3 not strange that thousands of these
men were duped by the promise of le
gal repudiation and higher prices. But
their eyes have bean opened, the scales
have fallen away; they see prices
mounting up in great strides without
any free silver and, in fact, in spite
of the - overwhelming probability that
there will be no free silver; and they
see that then hopes of prosperity are
no more allied to silver than is the
price of wheat. They will have noth
ing to do with 50-cent dollars when
their wheat bringing in more anl
more 100-cent dollars every day. The
farmers of Minnesota have awakened
in the same way. Many of them
doubtless were blinded for a time to
the truth, but the rapid rise in the
price of wheat has cleared the "politi
cal atmosphere and never again can
they be deluded into a willingness to
substitute debased currency for whole
dollars and the prospect of jilenty of
them. Illinois, Indiana and Iowa have
the same story to tell, and the last
weight to remove these states from a
possible place in a doubtful column
has fallen Into the scale with the rise
In wheat.
The farmers will vote for sound
money and that means the electoral
vote of these states will be given to
McKinley. Chicago Tribune.
ADMITS T W JULD PRODUCE A PANIC.
Sir Moreton Frewen is another o'f
those benevolent foreign gentlemen
Who is willing that the United States
should try risky experiments with sil
ver in order to furninsh instruction
and object lessons to the European na
tions. Frewen resides In London, and
is vice president of the International
League of Bimetallists. He arrived in
New York a few days ago and an
nounces that he has come to this coun
try to watch the -campaign and the
progress of free sliver. He expresses
the hope that Bryan will win, because
he believe?, that the whole world will
be benefited, but he frankly admits
that Bryan's election would be follow
ed by a panic in the United States.
Our British visitor maintains, how
ever, thht the United States should un
selfishly incur such a panic, with all its
terrible consequences to our people, for
the general good that would grow out
of It.
Isn'thekind? He reminds us of the boy
who asked his father to help train his
pet bulldog, and when the dog got the
old man by the lip the boy exclaimed
with delight: "Don't stir, dad, let him
hold on; it is rough on you. but it will
be the making of the pup!"
Sir Moreton Frewen, like Prince Bis
marck, holds out the delusive hope that
f the United States will try the exper
iment of free sijver coinage, the Euro
pean nations may follow the example.
But they cannot be sure pf this, and If
questioned they will acknowledge that
it would' all depend upon the result of
the experiment here. If it should
prove disastrous then the European
nations would have an example which
would teach them to avoid the mistake.
The risk Is to be all on our side and
In the meantime it might afford our
Epropean friends an oportunity to un
load some pf theJr surplus silver. Ger
many is said to have abput $100,000,000
of old discarded silver cofnage" whicli
she would like to sell; Austro-Hungary
has about $30,000,000; Italy about $60,
000,000; Belgium about $70,000,000; etc.
In a speech delivered In congress In
1S92 George Fred Williams, who is now
the leader of the free silver party In
Massachusetts, declared that $500,000,
000 of silver was ready for the market
out of the coinage system of -Europe,
and that it would be unloaded upon
this country if the free coinage bill
then under discussion became a law.
Very little of this silver has since been
cold, because ths silver market has
been demoralized. It is mostly locked
up in vaults waiting for the stronger
market which, it is calculated, will be
furnished, at least temporarily, by the
United States, in case this country
ever adopts the policy of free silver
coinage.
To those persons who think it would
be a good thing to act on the advice of
Prince Blsmrack and Sir Moreton Frew
en and adopt free sliver coinage in, the
United States for the benefit of the rest
of the world, we would like to quote a
few' sentences from Mr. Wlllama'
,SReech, above refered to, which is one
.of;the'aDlest presentations of the cause
of sound money thatrhas -been made
eltneV bjgore or sHse. wihiamfe' h&"
since shifted his position, but the facts
and logic which he then arrayed on the
side of sound money have not changed.
He said: "Are we ready to have that
$500,000,000 sent over here to be ex
changed for the gold that Is in our
treasury, -which is circulating among
our people, and which measures the
daily business of this vast country?
What would be the result? Either this
government must issue bonds to buy
gold to exchange for that silver, or our
silver dollar wll go down, and it will
be no object to send their silver here."
Thus either Mr. Bryan's prophecy of
the restoration of the price of silver to
$1.29 per ounce would be falsified, or we
would be made a cat's-paw of by the
European nations, and would take
their silver junk and let them out of
the losses which they have incurred.
The motives of our friendly foreign
advisers are too transparent. Min
neapolis Tribune, i
THE DOG IN THE MANGER.
Mr. Bryan Is trying very hard to
pose as a humanitarian and a lover of
his race. His claiwis to that are as
hollow as his pretensions to enlighten
ed statesmanship. He Is narrow In all
his ideas and all his speeches show it.
When a man aspires to the chief mag
istracy of thi3 republic, he should aim to
rise above all prejudices, which Is ask
ing a little too much of Bryan. He is
"not built that way."
The Northwestern Miller, published
at Minneapolis and devoted to the In
terests of the flour traffic, narrates an
incident which shows what a conceited
political coxcomb this Bryan really is.
While he was a member of congress
from Nebraska a terrible famine arose
in Russia and some charitable citizens
of the northwest, remembering Rus.
sla's good and inalienable friendship
for the United States during the civil
war, suggested the idea of getting up
an errand of mercy similar to that of
the Macedonian in 1847, which vessel,
taken from the British in 1813, carried
over 1,812 tons of wheat and flour to
the starving peasantry of Ireland.
That cargo of flour was given by the
New Yrk merchants, the largest
donor being Charles H. Marshall,
founder of the "Black Ball" line of
sailing yesseis.
The question of an American cargo
of flour sent In a man-of-war, with all
her armament taken out to assist her
In a better fulfillment of her peaceful
mission, was one that went home to
every heart among the big-hearted
-wheat growers and millers of the
northern Mississippi valley. In less
than ten days over 1,500 tons of wheat
and flour was guaranteed for a single
shipment. The next thing that came
up was the question of transportation.
A bill was introduced in the senate to
authorize the secretary of war to give
the use of a disarmed war vessel for
the transportation of this supply. The
bill passed the senate without one dis
senting vote, but when It came up in the
house, objections were made to its
passange, and among those who rec
orded his vote against it was William
J. Bryan, the "Boy Orator of the
Platte." Thus was a noble national
charity balked of its errand through
the instrumentality of a microscopic
country politician.
Mr. Bryan has had a great deal to
say in his speeches about "soulless cor
porations," "grinding monopolies," and
all that sort of cheap fustian. But.
later on in the history of this noble
work, the Atlantic Steamship company
of. New York (which we presume to be
one of those "soulless corporations")
gave the free use of one of their steam
ers to do what Mr. Bryan and other
picayune statesmen of his class would
not permit the government to do. The
poor Russian peasants got the good of
the northwestern wheat, but they don't
blame Mr. Bryan for any part of it.
Los Anireles Times.
When lirjan Talks.
When Bryan talks the wheels
'round;
go
Misstatements, errors, fakes abound;
There's not much sense, buf lots pf
sound',
When Bryan talks. -
Kansas Cjty Journal.
The first few minutes of a fire Is the
critical time ; a quarter of a minute is
worth saving. Millions may be lost in
that time. When anyone is sick even
instant is precious, particularly ct the be
ginning before disease gets any.headway.
When you first begin to feel "below
the mark ' ; when you are not getting all
the strength you need out of your food,
when you are languid and indisposed, it
is time to try the- toning, strengthening
effect of Dr. Pierce's Golden "Medical
Discovery. It "extinguishes" disease
by making rich, healthy blood, full of the
life-giving red corpuscles which drive out
disease and flood the vital organs with
freJi vitalit.
Every disease which has its seat in the
blood is cured by this marvelous "Dis
covery" after all other remedies haVc
failed. Its effects seem little shcrt of
miraculous in curing obstinate, chronic
throat and bronchial difficulties and even
consumption.
"Run-down" people, delicate women,
pale and puny children gain flesh,
strength, color and nerve force bv using
tin's marvelous "Discover)'." it docs
not make flabby fat like so manv " emul
sions," but hafd, healthy, muscular tis
sues. At all medicine stores.
- PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
The follor":ng proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Ne
braska, as 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, Novembir 3, A. D., 1896r
A joint reaolution proposing' to
amend sections two (2), four (4), ana
fiya (5,) of article ix (6) of the Consti
tution, of the State of Nebraska, relating
to number of judges of the supremo
court and their term of office.
Bait resolved and "enacted by tha. Legisla
ture of the S.to of Nebraska:
Section I. That section two CO of article
six (3) of tho Conlitntian or tha state
of Nebrtiskn bo ujttoiiiled so ai to read as fol
lows: Section 2. t Tho supremo court shall until
othorv.se Rrovi by law. casist of fiva
C5) judges, u mjj -rity of whom shall b- no-oj-ary
to form a quorum or lo pronoanci
a decision. It rfnli have original jmi3ili tion
in cases rt'latius to revenue civir cases in
wlii-h the state shall te a party, uiandamtn.
quo warranto, habeas corpm, and su h
appellate jurisdiction, aa may be providol by
law.
Section 2. That section four (-0 of nr'ic!o
eix (0) of tho Constitution or tho Sate
of Nebraska, be amended so aa to read as fol
lows :
Section 4. Tho judges of the supreme
courE shall bo eloctaa bv the electors of the
state a5 large, nnd their term of office ex
cept ns hereinafter provided, shall be for n
period of not lcr thnn five (3) y ars as tho
legislature may prescribe.
Sctrtion a 'lhat sei-tion five CO of nrtio o
six (6) of the Conititutioa of tho Scate of Ne
braska, l e amo-t'Sed to real a f allows :
Section 5. At tha first scneral election "to
be hold in tho year lSW. there shall be elected
two CO jutlgc3 of tha suurem court one
of whom shall bo elocted for a ttrm of
two CO years, una for tin term of fonr CO
years, nnd at each genoral election there
after, therj fclmll bo elected one judge of
tho supreme ourt for the term of five
(5) years, unless otherwise provided ty
law; Provided, that tha judges of tin su
promo court who-io term J hava not expired
at tno tmo or Homing mo gsnomi eiec
tio'.i of 1S93, shall continue to hold their
office for the remarnler of the term for
which thoy were respectively commjs-
sionod.
Approved March A. D 1833.
A joint resolution proposing au
amendment to section thirteen (13) of
article six of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of supreme and district court
judges.
Be it resolved by tho Legislature of tho State
oi .Nebraska:
Section X. That section thirteen (13) of
article six (d) of tha Co istitntioa of tha State
oi iSebrailci be amendea so as to read as tal
lows: Sec. 13 The judgoi of the smremo nni
district courts shall receive for their services
Buch compensitioa as may bo provided by law.
payablo qunrcorly.
Tho leisiaturo shall at its first session
after tho adoption of this auienlmout,
threo-fifths of tha members o;ee.ed to
ea"h house concurrin r. establish th ir
compensation. Tho cuninon nation so o
tabtished shall nut be ehaiued often it
than onco in four years, and iu no event unless
two-thirds o? thi memb ;rs elected to
each honso of tho leiialuro Tcoacur
therein.
Approve 1 Maroh 33. A. D 1803.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section twenty-four (24) of
article five (5) of the Constitution of
tho State of Nebraska, relating to com
pensation of tho officers of the executive
department.
Be it resolvo! anl enacted by the Legislature
of the Stat of Nebraska:
Section 1. 'J hit section twatvfour C--0
of article fiVe ,.) of thj t'oas i.utio i ot tho
State of Uj.raiKaba amend xl to sod as fjl
lows :
Section 2L Tho o2l?ers of tho executive
department ot tho s.ate government shil.
re.-eivo foe tinnr sjrYieoj a ompcniation
to bo establish d by law. whi h shall be
neither mcr aiedndr dimlnishxl during the
term for which thv shail hive ueeu com
missioned a u.l tiny shiit not rccifc'o to thoir
own use any fee. eoss, interests, u ;on pu -lie
monoys in their hands or tinder th ir control,
perquisites of ofil'o or otlu.- compen
sation and all fees tht mty here
of ccr be pashle Ixr law fr services
performed br an ofii er provi.tel for ia
this arti lo shall be paid in advan w into the
state ti-oasuiy. The legislature h ill t itj
first session attcr the ad jption of this amend
ment, th'oe fifth of, the members uiC-tol to
each hooso of the legislature con
curring, fs.ablish the siiarijs of tho
officers named in th s article. Tho coni-p-n-ation
so smblished shall not boclruigel
of toner th in once i i four years and in no
evens uul- Hi two-thtrd-j of the memb ;rs
elected to each housj of the legislature conjur
March 29 A. D. 1S03.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section one (I) of article six (6) of
tho Constitution of the State of Nebras
ka, relating to judic al power.
Bait ro'O'vcd and enacted by .ha Legisla
ture of Ih ' St i e f Na jra .k i :
Section 1. Th it cjii o i ou ( ) of arti ;lo six
(6)of tho Const. t.Uio'i of theSta oof Nebraska
bo amended to oud a fo. ows :
S -ution 1. The jndi im po wer of this state
Bhali be vested in a supremo court, district
contfcj, county eour.s juities of ihe
tea o poi o magistrates, and in su. h other
coar s inf-'rijr to th -npro uu co.n t as may
bo c o.ited by law in which two-thirds of
the menibc s elceted to e.ioh house
concur.
Approved March 29. A. D. 1835
A joint resolution proposing to
ameud section eleven (11) of article six
(6) of the Constitution of tho State qf
Nebraska, relating to increase iu num
ber of supremo and district court
judges.
Be it resoTvol nnl unacted by the Legislature
of tho State of Ne'irak.i z
Section 1. Ilia; section oljvon (11) qf
arti'-le six 00 of h3 Conssitutiou f tho state
of Nebraska be amended to real ai fol
lows: Section 11. Tho legislature whonover two
thirds of ihcmcraoers elected to each house
sha.l con v therein may. in or . fior tho ear
ono thou -md i.ht hunlroc? nnl ninety s ven
and not of ten-'r th in ss.U- overy lour years
lucrea.-o tho nttutcr of jadgu of su
preme and district court i. and the juifcai
districts of the statu. Su h di.tnon -hid
be formed of compact territory, and
bounded by county lines; nud suh in
crease, or any cbanso in the banndjrijs
of a district, shall not vacate tho offije of any
judge.
Approved. March 3J, A. D. 1895.
A joint resolution proposing to amend
section six (0) of article one (1) of the
Constitution of tho State of Nebraska,
relating to trial by jury.
Be it r.Holvrd nnd iuactod by the Legislature
ot th- State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That section six (G). nrticlo one
(lofthe Constitution ot the State of Ne
braska be amend d lo i id as follows:
Section 0. The riht of tiial bv inrv shall
remain inviolate, bn tho legis ature xoav pro
vide th-it in civil ai-tiens five-sixths of the juiy
ma.- render a verdi -t. and thi iOiislatnre may
al-o au horiz trlai by a jury of a .oss number
than twelve men, ia couis inferior to tho dis
trict court.
Approved March 2J, A D. 1S33.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section one (1) of article five (5)
pf the Constitution of Nebraska, relat
ing to officers of the executive depart
ment. Beitroiolved and enactd by the Legisla
ture of thSta- oof Nebraska:
Soction 1. That bection- one (1) of ar
ticle five f) of ths Consii-ution ot tho Mate
pf fcebraata Le amended to read m fol
lows: Section 1 The executive department shall
consist of a governor, lientennnt-govomor,
secretary of atJto auiitorof pub It ac-. unta,
treasurer, Sn oiintondent of puhi,- in
struction, attorney general, commissioner
or public land-i and buiidin-ja. and three
railroad, commissioners, eaih ot ihum.'
except tho eai I railrca I commissioners,
spajl hold bs offlco for a term of
two years, from tho first Thursday after
he first Tuesda iu January, niter
nts election, end until his successor is
electol and qcalified. Ea'h r.-iiroad coin
mHsioaer shall holl his office for a term of
three years beginni-ison tha first Thurelay
after tho first Tuesday in Ja .nary a ter
his elet-tion. and until hi sutccs
tor '3 clo tol nnl quiifial: P.-ovlicd.
bowQvcr, 'that at tho first general elec
tion hold atter the ado tioi of ihis amend
ment thoro t-h'Ul be elected three railroad
wmBUioner. ono lor tho period or one ;
VOO,. AM, f n ma ,1... . : , " . .
vuu iui lii-j irrnMi ut iwo year, and
one for the p -riod of thred years, 'th cor
ernor, Becretory of st.-te, audi'or of pub
lic accounts- nnil trmvunt-a, ct.nl u lL
tie cupiial djirins their term ot QSi;
tHey- shall keep the public record V;-book3
and papers there-an.i sha.l perform; suuh du
, tles.as may be requirea t li w. -
Aparovea JUaren WJ. A. U. ISUj.
A joint resolution proposing to
amend section tweuty-six (26) of ar
ticle five (5) of the Constitution of the
State of Nebraska, limiting the uum
, ber of executive state officers.
I Bo it resolve 1 and nacted by the Les-
I islature of the State of Nebraska:
t Section 1. That section twensy-six C26) of
i article five CO of the Constitution of the
Stato of Nebraska be amended to read as
follows:
Section 23. No other executive stato offi-
cers except those named in se tion on' CO
I of this article shall b created.- -xuep6
' by an act of the legislature which is
concurred in by not less th in thre-f urths
of the members elected to each' house
thoreof:
Provided, Th.it any offica cre-Ud hy .an
act of the legislature may be abo ishe&W
the legislature, two-thirds of tha 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 tho investment
of tho permanent educational funds of
tho state.
Bo it rcsqlvo'l and enacted by tho Legis!a
ture of the btate of Nf bnuka:
Section 1. That sec.ioi nine (9) of. arti-le
eight CO of the Coos imii n of the Suite
of Nobiiiika lo amenued to read as fol
lowsj Section 9. All fonls belonging to the stato
for educational purposes, tho intwnt nnd
incomo whereo' only are to be u.o t, -h 11
be deemed trust funds held by the ttto.
and the sat shall snpptv all' losses there
of that may in aav manner accrue, so that
the same fhnll remain forever inviot te
and undiminished ana sha 1 nor bo in
vested or loaned except ou TJiit-d States
or state securities, or rods ered county
bonds or registered scho 1 dissii't bond of
this state, nnl su h funds with th inter
est and income thereof are hereby solemn
ly pledged for tho purpose lor whi h hoy
are granred and set apart, and shall not
bo transferred to any other fund for other
uses;
Provided. The board creaiel by section
1 of this article is em ower-d to sell from
time to time auy of the securities brlngMii;
to the pennment s hiol fund nnd invest
tho proceeds ati-ia theri-from in any orth
securities enumerated in this section letr
in:r a hisHer rate of interest whu-iever
an opDortumty for bettor investment is pre
sented; And provided further, That when an
warrant up n the stare trssu er r
utnrly issued iu pursuan o of an appmp. i
atiou by the losislaiure and eecnrwl by th
levy of a tax fr its pavment. "-hill
bo presented to .he state treasurer for
payment, and thero shU not ie any
munay in the proier fund to pny. -uen
warrant, tho board created by so -tion I
of this artic o m y direct the stte treas
urer to ray th amou it duo on su h war
rant frpm moneys iu his bands l-longing
to the per nanont scho l fund of h amm.
and no snail mid sam warrant as an In
vestment of s-ai t permanent school fund.
Approved March 29. A. D 1893,
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) relativo to tho merging of the
government of cities of tho metro
politan class and the government- of
the counties wherein such cities are
located.
Bo it resolved and enacted by the Legis
lature of the State of Nebraska:
Section 1. That article teive (12) of -thi
Constitution of tho btuto of Nu r ska be
amended - a :di i? to said arti le n-wr.ee-tion
to e numbered section two CO to rad
as follows:
Section 2. Th government of any city of
the metropo" tan class and the gov
ernment oE tho county m wh eh
it is lo-atd mnv bo m ged whott.
or in part wh?n a proposition so o do hs
lean submit: ed by autho ity of .law t the
voters of such cit and county mid r
ccivol ha nss-nt of a m j irity of ihe
votes cast in such cit and al-.o a minority
of he votei -at iu the county ox .ujjtv
or thoie cast in sn -h mettopu. nan "city ataUk.b
eleod in.
Approved March 23. A. D. 1S93.
A joint resolution proposing an
amendment to section six (6J of article
seven (7) of tho Constitution' of the
State of Nebraska, prescribing tjie
mauuer in which votes shall be casf.
Be it reolv. d and en ictd by tfas Legiilatr
ure of ths State of Nab rusk i :
Section 1 Tht section six (G) of nrtWe
scvii 0) of "'be CoiiMtiuitiou u( the State
of Nebraska be amendal to rnl as -follows:
Soction 6. A I vo'as h 11 bi ljr bnKoti. or
su:h other method a3 may be p-pcri 1,
by law vrovided tlu se.-recy of vo.hijr be
preserved.
Approved March i0. A D 1893.
A joint resolution proposing tp
amend section two (2) of arficlp fmr--
teen (14) of the Constitution of tjie
State of Nebraska, relativo to donations
to vor!t3 of internal improvuiout and
manufactories,
Ri It r.Jti'.4.1 nn'1 A nn'od Vtt I Via To.
ishunrc of th Stato of Ndbriiskn :
Section I That tec ion to CO f rtlcJ
fourteen (1-0 of iji COhs i-u wU of
Siatoot Nouiaska. be amend--! to rum iw
follows:
Sjc. 2. No city, county, iown. prcel
ninnR-inn.lit.i-. nr i.iW -luikV.ri .i.m .., -ibat
state, shah oyer mke l. naii w.s lo nj
wuncs. oi int rual ini;.riveui :.t. or
mnmifnpf iimt miu-u i o ... . Iri..-. .
........ . . j 9 . 1 . fr" r l ' 3 .
do sha l havo been flrt ?n; mKt.-d v vb
qua ineu o.o iors an i la.iilJi v h tt
law; Provided. Th.t -u. h donut ns of 8
county with thu donations of sue i no di
visions in tho apRrosate ha:l no. -x
ten per cent or th-? nsscsd vahi ton f
such county: Provided, fun her. ih t n
t'.itv nr i?iimir.v innv Iw lki .A.n
vote, increase sn h in loLt- dn -ss fiv - pwr
cent, iu addition to such t n p r cunt aa'
no bonds or evidences of intte.xe .-.e-s .
issued shall I e va.id unless ih same k I
hive nnil irsn 1 thr.uvi i i flm. ai,. v
by the secretary nd audi or of st--.
i. i .t fc i
"io in-jb iuo sume is issuer pursir.v w.
law.
Approved March 29. A D.. 1593.
I, J. A. Piper, secretary of state "oi
the stato of Nebraska, doboreby certifj
that the foregoing proposed amendment
to the Constitution of the State Qf 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
pf Nebraska, as appears fronj said
original bills on file in this office, and
that all and each of said proposf'd
amendments are submitted f.o thf.
qualified voters of the State of Ne
braska for their adoption or rejpciion
at the general election to bo hold oh.
Tuesday, tho 3d day of Noyembor, A,
D., 1890.
In testimony whoreof, I havo here
unto set my hand and affixed the great
seal of tho State of Nebraska. ,
Done at, Lincoln this 17th daysof
July, in the year of our Lord, One Thou
sand, Eight Hundred and Ninety-Six,
of the Independence of tha United
States the Ono Hundred and Twenty
Krst, and of this state the Thirtieth.
(Seal.) t. a. PIPER,
Secretary of State.