The farmers' alliance. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 1889-1892, April 05, 1890, Image 1
I Sit "TIIERH. IS NOTHING WHICH IS HUMAN THAT IS ALIEN TO ME." Terejjce. VOL. I? LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SATURDAY, APBIL 5, 1890. NO. 12. i - ; ' ' i ' ' i i v t 3t. Notice to Subscribers. EXPIRATION. As the easiest and cheapest mean i cf notl- S ring subscribers of the date of thHr xpira ona we will mark this notice with t blue or red pencil, on the date at which their sub scription expires. We will send the paper two weeks after expiration. If not renewed by that time it will be discontinued. NEBRASKA NEWS. Arbor Day Proclamation. Governor Thayer has issued the fol lowing proclamation in reference to Arbor day. Statk of Nebraska, Executive De partment, Lincoln, March 31, 1890. To the people of Nebraska: The day is Bear at hand (the 22d of April) which has been set apart by the statue as arbor day. I therefore respectfully call the attention of the people of this tate of all conditions, laboring men, tradesmen, men of all pursuits aud professions to this subject, and most urgently recommend that each and all devote the 22d day of April of this year to the planting of trees, ornamenting the grounds around y)ur dwellings with them and with shrubbery; plant them along the highways, adorn the borders of your fields with them and plant them in groves. In no way can you confer a greater blessing upon the present generation and those which are to follow. I entreat the people of this commonwealth not to neglect this pleasant duty, the faithful perform ance of which will add so much to pleasures of life, and will largely en hance the value of your property. I especially invite the schools, both teachers and pupils, to devote this day to the purpose named. Let Arbor day be universally ob served. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto st my hand and caused to be af skal.J fixed the great seal of the state. Done at Lincoln, this 31fct day of March, A. D. 1890. By the Governor. John M. Thayer. Bem. S. Cowdehy, Bec'y of State. By O. C. Bell, Deputy. State Teachers Resolve. At the conclusion of the State Teach ers' association the following resolu tions were passed: Resolved, That we have had a profit able and enjoyable session, and as we will return to our homes with fresh inspiration for the work, our thanks Hire due the members of the executive and reception committees for their ef forts; to Superintendent Edwards for his most excellent address; to the mu sical department of the univerity and to the Conservatory of Music for ser vices rendered ; to the faculty of the university for the use of their build ing, and to the press of the state for the courtesy shown the association. Ilesolved, That the interests of edu cation as regarded by the State Teach ers' association and as represented by all of the teachers of the state requires the unqualified support of the state to the State university, and furthermore said interests demand that the policy of said institution be definitely out lined by the state legisluture. Resolved, That we believe that the adoption hi the prohibitory amendment to our constitution will greatly pro mote the cause of education. The last resolution created a furore. M. B. C. True of Edgar, A. B. Man lux of Hastings and others opposed it on general principles, and especially "oecause they thought that the associa tion convened to exchange ideas on ed ucational topics and school room work and not to consider politics or political issues. Tvise of Pawnee City, however, pressed the question, and not to be outdone the opposition moved that the yeas and nays be t:tken. This was too much. It was getting into unalterable record, but despite the protest of the friends of the resolution President Grady declared it carried, and the roll call was ordered. This wa3 a horse of another color and there was a general scramble for "great coats" and for a few moments it looked as though a majority of the teachers present would vacate the room before the "good bye work" of the session was through with. This, too, M as too much and a point of order was raised, and by some un known rule of parliamentary practice the chair decided that the motion put and carried for roll call was out of order and it was therefore railroaded through viva voce. "I tell yon, Mr. Reporter," said a prominent Fillmore county teacher, "if that roll call had been persisted in there wouldn't have been twenty male teachers m that room. All Over the State, The Odd Fellows association of Fill more county will meet at Fairmont, April 2(5, to celebrate the anniversary of the order. More than a quarter of a century ago the undersigned held the faith that forestry would flourish sooner or later in Nebraska and advised friends to plant walnuts on these plains. Many black walnut groves were planted and from them today srood cabinet lumber can bo sawed. Among the largest plantations are those of Dr. L. Miller at Seymour park and Deerfield in the suburbs of Omaha, but all over east era Nebraska can be found walnut trees fit for ties and lumber which have grown from the nut in thirty years Tiie demand for walnut lumber out grows supply. It has more than doubled in value during the last twenty years. All the civilized world wants walnut furniture. From the Chicago Herald of March 15, 1890, I clip the following : "One hundred and twenty walnut trees standing in the forest near Delphi, Ind., were sold lately for $10,000." And in view of the anniver sary of Arbor day on the 22nd of April I wish that given to the thousands who live in treeless komes on the frontiers of Nebraska west and north. Ten thousand dollars can be found, forty years hence, in the bushel of walnuts planted tod xj by the poster ity of the man who plants them. There is no chance of loss in the planting. During the first half of the twentieth century Nebraska can and will be a timber shipping state. I wish the commander-in-chief of the Nebraska national guard would issue an order that the" officers of that or ganization compel the planting, each Arbor day, by the privates and non commissioned officers, of walnut trees equal in number to the dollars which that valiant multitude of militiamen cost the taxpayers of Nebraska each year. J. Sterling Morton. Arbor Lodge, March 16, 1893. Perfectly Terrible. Loujsv ixe, Ky., March 28. The tornado which struck this city last evening en terel in the southeast portion at Eigh teenth street and swept over part of five olocks diagonally, reaching in a ragged line to Seventh street, and leveling every nuilding in its path, probably two hundred nd fifty houses. A rough estimate puts the killed at 500, with 1,0(10 injured. The city 1 filled with a crazed mass of people wildly seeking friends. A large force of men is at work on the ruins, and about one hundred bodies have been recovered. The buildings on Main street from Eighth to Fourteenth streets, are in ruins, not one of the handsome wholesale bouses being left, and ail the tobacco warehouses were swept awpy. On Market street Falls City hall, a four efory building, was blown down while sev erai'Mtsonio and Knights of Honor lodges were in session, and 100 men and women w re buried in the reins. Every houe on Market, Jefferson and Walnut streets from Tenth to Sixteenth atroet is in rums. Parkland suburb is swept away. At the Union depot, at the foot of Seventh street, a Caespeake & Oiio train for Wash ington was just starting out filled with pas sengers. The building was prostrated, crushing in on the train. All the passen gers, however, were rescued except one newsboy. Every building, tree and tele- graph pole in the district was levelled. The district laid waste comprises an area three miles long and nearly half a mile wide. The work of rescuing the mangled dead goes bravely on. Hundreds of anxious men are working as they never worked be fore for the bodies of friends and relatives that lie bulled In the mass of brick and mortar that covers the 'site where yester day stood the Falls City hall. The cries of the men, women and children are heard on every side and a surging crowd of It ,000 people blocks the streets for squares. Ic is a sight to strike anguish to the soul. The pen is powerless to express the awful scenes that at each succeeding minute roll through the ghastly panorama. The bodies of the dead and wounded are being Dragged from beneath the ruins all around the district, and men, women and children linger about, filled with a dread anxiety lest they recognize in the shapeless masses he remains of some relative or friend. A thrilling experience was that of George H Cipito, who was present at the meeting uf the Knights of Honor in the lodge room on thi top floor. He says: The first inti mations cf danger were two distinct rock ings of the building about which time a window was blown from the casings and immediately after the plastering began to drop from the ceiling. A wild rush was made for the ante room which carried me with it and I just reached the door when the entire flour gave way and we were pre cipitated to the basement, blinded and al most suffocated by the cfoud of dust and crushed and jammed by falling timbers. In some way the door frame fell with me and maintained an upright position when it stopped, and I was enabled to extricate m.vH If from the debris and make my exit to the street throvgh the adjoining houses, whose doors 1 kicked in. I at once re turned to the ruins with several men and began extinguishing the fire that had be gun. By this time the rain was falling in torrents. The lightning flashes only gave momentary views of the position of the ruins and blinded everybody. The entire building collapsed in the front and renr. Of the east and west side walls nothing was eft Branding above the second etory. There were nearly a hundred members present at our lodge meeting, fudy two- thirds of thee were ladies. Besides our lodge another order was holding a meeticg on the same floor with us. A band was re hearsing on the tecend floor and a party of decorators was at work in the large hall preparing for an entertainment. So far as I could judge there were less than a dozen who got out unhurt and the cries for help and groans that issued from t'se broken and twisted heap w ere proof that the scores still there were unable to escape." Probably the greatestlofs of life occurred at Falls City hall, which was in the center of the tornado. In the lower rooms of the hall were fifty or seventy-flve children, with their mothers and relatives, taking dancing lessons. There were at least 125 persons on tne lower noors ana seventv- five more among the lodge meetings on the upper floor when tne terriDle wind swooped down on the building. The entire struc ture in less than five minutes was a shape less mass of brick and mortar, burying 260 people, of which number few escaped un injured. Conservacive estimates place tne loss of life at this point at 100, while other reports indicates the number is nearer 200. At 3 this morning thhty-five dead bodies had been taken from this ruin and fifteen wounded and dying. Only those on the third floor have been rescued. The room containing the dancing school pupils and visitors baa not yet been opened. Jefferson ville. across tne river, was Btruck by the cyclone at 8 o clock. It was very distinctly heard two miles in tae country, where the people wondered what it meant. Fortunately not a person was killed in Jeffersonville, though some vere badly hurt. A 6core of business houses and residences were more or lees damaged, some stores being nearly demolished. Dozens f people had marvellous escapes from instant death. According to the lat est reports this evening it is hoped that none of those injured will die. The damage to steamers on the river front was considerable. Ic is believed to night that the loss and damage to prop erty in Jeffersonville wih aggregate fully half a million. Among the many incidents reported from there is the singular story of W. A. Dorney, whose residence is half a block from the river. When the tornado struck the river front it picked up a skiff moored there and carrying It along dashed it through a second-story window ot Dor ney's residence. The Southern Cyclone. Louis viiXE, Ky., March 29. A special from Gallatin, Tenn., says: The nev-.s of the terrible storm of Thursday night is slow to obtain, and it will be tomorrow before a full list of the dead and injured can be had. It is positively known that every house and building between Bledsoe and Eula in the path of the storm is blown away, and hundreds of people are injured and without food, shelter or raiment. It ia reported that the whole town of Dixon Springs, in Smith county, thirty-five miles distant, was swept out of existence by the angry cyclone. Dr. Alexander's residence at that place Is known to have been de molished and Is reported an entire loss. Those injured by the storm near Gallatin are doing well and all may recover At Boganna everyone is badly crippled, but no one except Mr. Woods, the postmaster, is now in a dangerous condition. Between here ani Bledsoe the trip cannot he made and return in a day, and peepie cannot be induced to leave town and go to the help of the ruff erers. In Gallatin business is suspended and people standing in the streets in knots discurring the fearful disaster. In the path of the storm are to be found horses and cattle lying upon the ground in great numbers, killed by falling trees and mis sies of flying timbers. The Chesapeake & Nashville road suffers more from loss of property than could hardly be imagined. In two places about six hundred feet of high trestle work was destroyed and two three hundred-ton iron bridges were blown from their pillars. They were broken and twisted into thousands of pieces and are a total loss. A mile of track was torn up by the cyclone. The loss to stock and other property In this district Is estimated at $2,000,000. Loss Beyond Computation. Louisville, Ky March 1 29. A special to the Times from Kopkinsville, Ky., says: Reports of a most distressing nature con tinue to be received from the section of this and adjoining counties that was swept by the cyclone. In some places en tire farms, houses, bams arid fences were laid waste. The loss on property is be yond computation. The town of Cale donia was entirely destroyed. A freight train was wrecked by a tree being blown across the engine and Peter Burns, the engineer, and William Powell, a brakeman, were both killed. A great deal of valuable stock was killed in every section ot this county. There are also reports of a num ber of persons being injured by falling trees and houses. Eighteen Lives .Lost. Louisville, Ky., March 39. A special to the Post from Marion, Ky., says that a large portion of that town was destroyed anst eighteen lives lost. A family consisting of Mr. and Mrs Jacob Montague, living in the country eight miles from Marion, were crushed to death by the falhng of their dwelling. A Water Famine. Louisville, Ky., March SI. It has been snowing here since last night, and it is feared this has greatly damaged goods in the tobacco stores. The heavy snow has also interrupted the work of repairing which was actively pressed all day yester day, and has otherwise inflicted hardships on the homeless and destitute, A water famine is now threatened. The river is already at such a high stage that the in jury to the pumping station at the water works could not be repaired, is going up. and so long as floods continue nothing can be done. It is estimated that the reser voirs now barely hold three day's supply for the city. The Latest Reports. LouisvnxB, jftarch 31. A late special from Henderson, Ky. , says the total num ber of killed in Webster county is forty and of the wounded eighty, nearly all in the poor section known an Blackford. A relief corps has gone from Henderson. In Louis ville the total number of dead so far is ninety-three and the wounded about 150. Of the latter between twenty and thirty are not expected to Jive. Possibly more than that number will eventually suc cumb. The Big Storm. Lincoln, March 28. Oat over the state the storm ran riot also, especially to the northwest. Coming as it did In the day time when people were abroad and not ex pecting a blizzard, there is some possibility that loss of life resulted. The wind played havoc with the wires on the western lines of the railroads leading into the city and trains were delayed sev eral houra. Freight No. 32 from the west reached this city in the coarse of the after noon and laid over, not attempting to cen tinue the run east last night. At half past two ail telegraphic communication west from York was cut off. With the exception of intense cold the storm was one of the worst that has spread over the state in a number of years. Boone County Farmers' Alliance. Albion, Neb., April 1. Delegates from the different farmers' alliances of Boone county met in tne court room at Albion Saturday last and organized a county alli ance. .Hon. W. D. Pointer was elected president. Much enthusiasm was mani fested. Farmers were present from all parts of the county. The court room was more than crowded. Af ter the ordinary business of the alliance was transacted a public meeting was held in the opera house. Mr. Powers, the president of the Nebraska state alliance, spoke to the peo ple for more than two hours, showing by his arguments the necessity of the farmers combining and working together for their own personal benefit. "Mr. Powers claims that the government was not composed of the people; neither was it working for the interest of the farmers. Six Bays Killed. St. Louis, April 2. While six boys of R H. Parkerville and K. P. Woznmack, rang ing in age from eleven to nineteen vears. were playing in a sand cave yesterday neas Vernon, Tex., the bank caved in on them and all were killed. The Farming Situation. Washington, March 30. The weather crop bulletin issued for the week ending today says: The weather conditions for the week were generally reported as favor able in Dakota, Minnesota. Iowa and Ne braska. Although the storm of the 27th interrupted seeding, it furnished much needed moisture. The general weather conditions were also favorable in Michigan. inoiana, Illinois, Missouri and nanras, but the deficiency in rainfall in the last named states was unfavorable, while some iBjury was caused by heay rams in southern la diana. Reports from the entire winter wheat belt indicate that the recent freeze during the present month injured the crop less than was at first estimated, and the appearance of wheat has improved during the past week. Reports from the south west indicate that the weather during the week W48 especially favorable and plant ing is progressing rapidly in Texas, Arkan sas and in the unfiooded districts of Missis sippi and Louisiana. , In the gulf states much of the ground is too wet to plow and farming is not as far advanced as usual at this date. In the south Atlantic states and Virginia gener ally fair weather improved the condition of crowing crops, except in some localities in Virginia and North Carolina, where ex. cessive rains resulted in some damage Early vegetables were much improved in South Carolina. The excessive rains in New Jersey and Pennsylvania have eener- ally interruj ted farm work, but wheat is reported m good condition in Pennsvl vania, while fruit has been Injured in New Jersey and New York. Unfavorable weather continues in New England, where but little progress has been made in farm work. Reports from Oregon show that the season is very backward and the ground is generally too wet for plowing, but winter wheat is in good condition. CONGKESSIONAL The Senate. Washington, March 6. In 1 1 ee r at e to day Sherman presented a substitute for the first part of the meat Inspection bill, which was ordered printed. The committee on naval affairs reported a joint resolution authorizing the secie tary of the navv to remove the-naval mag azine from Ellis island in New York harbor anp to purchase a site for and to erect a naval magazine at some other point, and making an appropriation of 975,00 for the purpose. It was amended making a farther appropriation of $75,000 to enable the secretary of the treasury to improve Ellis Island for immigration purposes. The joint resolution then passed. The anti-trust bill was then taken up and various amendments were made after some discussion, and the committee of the whole then rose, reported the bill, and after the executive session the senate ad journed. Washington, March 27. In the senate to day the house bill to amend the census act of March 3, 1889, was passed. The amend ment allows special agents $3 per day for subsistence when travelling Hawley, from the committee on military affairs, reported back the house bill author izing the purohase of 2,500 tents by the secretary of war for the use of people driven from their homes in Arkansas, Mis sissippi and Louisiana by the floods, and appropriating $25,000 for the purpose. The bill passed af cer some discussion by Haw ley and Edmunds. Among the bills reported and placed on the calendar was tte senate bill to amend the act constituting Lincoln, Neb., a port of delivery; the house bill letiring General Fremont, with the rank of major-general. The antl-trust bill was then taken up. Senator Edmunds spoke bitterly against the laborers' and farmeid' organizations. Senator Piatt also attacked the bill. A motion by Walthall to refer the bill and amendments to the judiciary commit tee, to report it back in twenty days was then agreed to. After soma discussion on the pension bill introduced by Senator Plumb the Benate adjourned. Washington, March 29. The house went into committee of the whole, after the transaction of some unimportant buBiness, on the army appropriation bill. Morse said the provision appropriating $ 10C ,000 for canteens at army posts showed that among the things to bo sold at these canteens were beer ana light wines and the government beer saloon was to be con nected with the library and reading room. He protested against this as an outrage against the temperance and Christian peo ple of this countr y. Morse's amendment that no alcokolio liquors be sold to enlisted men in any of the canteens was adopted 62 to 45, many democrats .who were op posed to the proposition voting for it in order that there may be a yea and nay vote in the house. Pending further action the committee rose and the house adjourned. Washington, March 31. The dependent pension bill was taken up, the first ques tion being on Plumb's amendment, which, after some discussion, was rejected. The amendment by Mr. Call to include those who served in the Indian wars prior to 1870 was rejected. Amendment by Mr. Vest providing that the money to meet the appropriation under the bill be raised by income tax was laid on the table. Amendment by Mr, Plumb to pay a pen sion of $8 per month to all who served ninety days In the late war who are eixty-ty-two years old, or as they attain that ago was rejected by 19 to 39. The bill then passed yeas 42, nays 12. Yeas Allen, Allison, Blair. Call, Casey, Chellar, Davis, Dawes, Edmunds, Faulkner, Frye, George, Gibson, Hawley, Hurst, Hin firins. Hoar, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, Mc Pherson, Manderson, Mitchell, Moody, Mer rill. Paddock. Payne. Pettigrew. Pit re. Piatt, Plumb, Sawyer. Sherman, Sweever, Squire, Stewart, Strowbridge, Teller, Tur pie, Voorhees, Walthall, Washburn, WilBon of Iowa. Nays Bate, Berry, Blackburn. Cockrell. Colquitt, Daniel, Harris, Jones of Arkan sas, Pugh, Reagan, Vest, Wilson of Mary land 12. The Montana election case was called up anc the senate adjourned. Washington, April 1. The experiment of the 11 o'clock meeting of the senate did not prove a success, as roll calls were made before a quorum was present. The house bill authorizing the Mississippi river commission to purchase or hire such boats as may be immediately necessary to rescue the inhabitants oi the overflowed districte and to use the boats for that pur pose was laid before the senate and passed immediately. Among the bills reported rrom commit tees and placed on the calendar was one directing the secretary of agriculture to cause to be made all the necessary field ex aminations, surveys and experiments with reference to irrigation by the overflow waters 97 degrees west longitude and the foot hills of the Rocky mountains. Then, at 12:30, the Benate proceeded to the consideration of executive business, and when the doors were reopened, ad- ourned. The House. Washington, March 26. Cannon of Illi nois, from the committee on rules, re ported a joint resolution making the Wyoming admission bill the special order for today, a recess to be taken at 5:30 this afternoon until 11 o'clock tomorrow, and the previous question to be considered as ordered at j o'clock. Tne resolution was adopted and the Wyoming bill was then taken np. After considerable opposition to the bill. the house took a recess until 11 o'clock to morrow. Washington, March 27. The house met at 12 o'clock today In continuation of yes terday's session and the Wyoming admis- eion bill was again taken up for considera tion. After considerable opposition from the democratic side the bill was passed by ft strict party vote, the only republican vot ing with the democrats being Dunnell of Minnesota. Washington, March 29. In the senate to day the senate bill appropriating $3,748,000 for the improvement of St Mary's river in Michigan, and $1,684,C00 for the Hay lake channel, in Michigan, were passed. Tue senate bill for the completion of the entrance to Galveston harbor, appropriat ing $6,200,000 in the aggregate, but the ex penditures of any year, not to exceed $UXX),000, was passed. The conference report of the urgent de ficiency bill was agreed to. On motion of Voorhees the senate bill ap propriating $14,685 for the purchase of the Capron collection of Japanese works of art. . j now in we national museum, was passed. Aujuuxiieu. - Washington, March 31. Mr. Henderson 1 - or lowa presented tne conference report . XL ' t r on tne urgent aenciency oiil and it ias agreed to. Only one amendment remains in dispute, the one appropriating $23,000 to enable the secretary of agriculture to locate artesian wells. A further confer ence was ordered. A bill was passed depriving United States judges of the authority to give opinions on Questions of fact. The house then went into committee oi the whole on the army appropriation bill. After unimportant action the committee rose and reported the bill to the house. The action of the committee in adopting an amendment providing that no intoxi cating liquors shall be sold at any canteen was reversed by the house. The bill then passed. Mr. Springer then introduced a joint res olution to retire N. P. Banks with the rank of major general. Referred. Adjourned. Washington, April L On motion of Mr. Payson of Illinois the senate bill was parsed creating the offices of surveyor general in North and South Dakota. The bill passed ermpting from the pro visions of the law ic quiring steamers to carry life lines steamers plying in the waters of the United States. The bill passed authorizing the construc tion of a bridge across tho Iowa river at or near Wapello. I k Also a hill transferring from Galeca, III, to Dabuqae. Ia, the office of inspector of hulls ana boilers. The house then went into committee of the whole, Mr. Payson of Illinois in the chair, on the fortification appropriation bill. After some debate the committee rose and the bill passed without division, the amount appropriated being $4,521,678. The national zoological park bill, pro viding for a park in the District of Colum bia, passed. The naval appropriation bill was report ed and placed on the calendar. The death of Representativa Wilber was then announced and the house adjourned. She Would Stand No Foolishness. Fobt Dodge, la., March 31. Bertie Todd and Nina Summers of this city were mar ried here under peculiar circumstances to day. The young people had been engaged for several months without their parents consent. Two weeks ago Todd aeked Miss Summers If she was ready to be married, and the day was set. Todd procured a marriage license on the eve of his wed ding day, and prepared for the ceremony. Right here the young1 man's parents inter fered. They objected to Mies Summers as daughter-in-law. and threatened to dis own their eon if he married her. Todd yielded to their entreaties and agreed not to marry the girl. He broke tho news of his decision to her next morning as she wa3 dressing for the wedding. Miss Sum mers said the ceremony would have to take place Todd refused to listen to her and left hef to explain the situation to her mends as best she might. The girl had Todd arrested for trifling with her affec tions, and the case against him was so strong that he 8 greed to marry her. Tho original marriage license was produced and the ceremony was performed under the auspices of the sheriff here today. Fatal Convent Fire. Milwaukee, March 31. Fire broke out at o'clock this evening in St. Joseph's Cath olic convent and the entire building and contents were burned. Sister Blanker, finding ail escape cut off, jumped from a fonr-story window and sustained fatal in- uries. Two young candidates. Rose Minet and Mary Werrener, jumped from third story windows and were seriously injured. wo firemen were also badly hurt by fail ing walls. All the other inmates, nearly seventy-hve in number, succeeded in get ting out safely under the guidance of the sisters, who prevented many of the young girls from throwing themselves from the windows in their frivht. The loss is S7i- (.00; insurance $25,000. No More Official Quotations. Chicago, April 1. At 1:15 this afternoon the board of trade market quotation de partment went quietly out of existence. At that hour the official reporters filed their last official dispatches and the busi ness came to an end. There will be no destruction of wires, cutting of communi cations, or removal of instruments, nor any of the sensational features which have attended previous similar steps in the war on the bucket shops. The board of trade will simply stop sending out clhclal quo tations. A Physical Impossibility. Washington, March 30. All th's talk about an increase of the ratio of represent ation in the house under the new appor tionment after the returns of the eleventh census have teen received will amount to nothing. It is undoubtedly the proper economical thing to reduce the number of members of the house of representatives instead of increasing them, but this ques tion has been sufficiently discussed in past congresses to show that it is next to a physical impossibility. Under the presant law each member of congress is supposed to represent 125,000 American citizens and a representative is given to each iraction of this number in the various states. It is now proposed to increase the number of persons whicn each representative shall represent to 175,000 to 200,C 0. Undoubtedly the returns trom the eleventh census will entitle the house of representatives to from fifteen to twenty additional representatives, as the census will give an increase of population in the neighborhood of ten millions of -people. Each state, of course, will ba entitled to an additional representative for every 2.-,uot) additional population, and also an addi tional member for the fraction of 125,0( 0 souls. When you ask a membsr of congress to vote for a decrease of representation in the heuse of representatives, you eimply aek him to decrease his chanceH 1 or his continuation in public life, and also to add to his duties by assuming the work fcr an increase of population. Members of con cress now transact from 50 to 100 per cent more business than they did two years ago. It cannot be said that this increase of labor is altogether representative of the pro gress of the people. It means that each member has a greater number oi people to work for than formerly, and members for several years have been looking forward to the reapportionment with a view to reiier in the way of additional membership. The question or public economy and pro priety does not enter into the question at issue. Each member has the right to do as he pleases when he comes to vote upen a proposition of this kind, and although there are a great many public spirited men in the house each will naturally look to his personal interests and ' personal cemforts. If the number of members in the house was reduced to 250 instead of increased from 330 to probably 350 the people would be as well served and there would be au enormous saving in the way of expenses of government There have been efforts made periodically by almost every repre sentative government of the world to re duce the membership, but tnese enorts have always failed. The house of repre sentatives is probably the hardest worked and the smallest body, considering the peo ple represented, to be found in any legisla tive body in the world. Three hundred and fifty men to represent over sixty-five millions of people U after all not an over production of statesmen. I make the pre diction now that the number of members in the house of representatives will not be decreasca. - Extraordinary Resolutions. St. Paul, Minn., April 2 The executive committee of the Minnesota farmers' alii ance, representing 300,000 tillers of the soil, met here today and passed one of the most important sets of resolutions of mod ern times. The causa of this action was the recent decision of the United States su preme court in the granger railway oases, whfch practically takes from the states of of Minnesota and Iowa power to regulate railways within their borders. After de nouncing the supreme court for making this second Drd Scott decision," and urg ing that "in our anxiety to protect tne rights of property we have created a ma chinery that threaters to destroy the rights of man," the resolution proceeded as fol lows: Resolved, That copies of these resolu tlons be sent to the alliances of the several states of the union with the request tat they unite with us in an effort to so amend the constitution as to abolish this new slavery of the states and nation estab lished by and for the benefit of corporate wealth, and to make it eo plain that the people are masters in this event that no court shall ever again attempt to sulect them to the domination of the artifiolal personages they have themselves created. Resolved. That we recommend the hold ing of a convention day by the alliances of the United StatcB at an early date to con sider the very grave and momentous ques tions arising ou: of this extraordinary de. cision. Resolved, That we herebv exm-ess the gratitude of the farmers of Minnesota to Judges Bradley, Lamar, Gray and the other judges of the supreme court who dissented from the said decision and stood by the people upon the qusstion. To Tax Adulterated Beer. Washington, Atiil 2. Senator Stewart today introduced a bill regulating the man ufacture, sale and importation of lager beer for the purpose of sale. Liger beer isdtfiaedasa beverage made exclusively from hops, malt and water. Anv olhsr fluid is designated as adulterated lager beer. Tee bill Imposes a tax uuon brewer and dealers in adulterated lagei beer, with heavy penalties for failure to take out the license. AU packages containing the bev erage shall be branded "Adulterated." Adulterated lager beer imported shall, pay tne same duty imposed upou lager beer. Nebraska's Public Lands. Washington, April 1. Senator Paddock has been busily employed in stirring up the interior and treasury departments for a statement of the amounts due Nebraska on account of the Bales of public lauds He received today a tabulated statement from the land office which contains figures of interest to the state. The most important item is that which shows that there is due Nebraska $324,823. being 5 per cent of the sales of lands previ ously unaccounted for. The comptroller of the treasury, in an nouncing the correctness of this state ment, sSya: "Of the above amount only $113,443 is now available for payment and has this day been certified for the ttate. The remainder will be reported co congress for a special appropriation." . A review of the figures shows that from February, 1856, to June, 1889, the total pro ceeds of sales of public lands in Ndhraska amounted to $8,260,471, of which $1,179,99 only was for Indian lands. Daring tnai period the smallest Bales occurred in the year ending June, 1 87, when only $40. 632 worth of lands were disposed of, and the largest ten years later, when $1,301,424 poured into the treasury from Nebraska soil. Nearly $6,C00,000 of the $8,000,000 were said since July. ISS1. In other words three-fourths of the total amount of sales in Nebraska have been made in less than nine years past No more pregnant com mentary could be made upon the growth of the state, its rapid settlement and the probabilities of the coming census enum eration. The 5 per centum act under the laws of the Nebraska enabling act was made retroactive so as to include all sales of lands prior to her admission. By this fortunate and exceptional clause $10,000 in round numbers accrued to the state, the per cent on $218. 0&0 worth of sales The stimulus of statehood and the buildlrg cf the Union Pacific road in the next three years raised the amount to $1,700,00 . From 1871 to 1881 the sales steadily de creased, when they leaped to the figures before quoted. Last year they dropped $400,000 to $964,000 and are likely to be still further decreased during the present fiseal year. The Perils of Gotham. New Yobk, March 30. Among the many passengers who came over from Jersey City on the 7:30 ferryboat last evening was a handsome woman, richly dressed, appar ently about thirty years of age. She en gaged a cab to take her to Fifth avenue and Forty-first street. No one noticed the number on the cab. Another man was riding with the driver. At 10 o'clock last night the attention of Detective Jacobs of the Hoffman house was attracted to a woman who was walking on Twenty-fourth street, between Sixth and seventh avenues. Her handsome drens was torn, her eyes were swollen with weeping and there was blood upon her face and bandp. ,Sho seemed to be in a dsz?,d condition and her left ear was torn and the diamond earring that had been in it was missing. Jacobs conducted her to the hotel and placed her in one of tfee la dies' parlors. AUheugh nervous and frightened, the lady coon recovered sufficiently to narrate a startling story of assault and robbery. 8he said she wes Mrs. Eiward M. Jordan of Pittsburg. She was on her way to Boston to join her hueband, who was there on business. She said: "The cabman drove up a side street and stopped. A man opened the door and jumped In. 'Give me that pocketbook,' he said, and he snatched fcr my purse. I screamed and struggled, but he placed his hand over my mouth and stifled my cries. Then he pulled out one of my ear rings, and I fainted with pain. I remember the driver opening the door above and pushing1 me out into a dark street and then driving rapidly away. I walked up as far as Twenty-fourth street. hardly knowing where l was gotng, out striving to find the residence of my friends." She f urnishod the address of her friends and was taken there and placed under the care of a physician. The police are trying to find the rascally cabman. Elected to Kill the Czar. London, March 31. The Telegraph's cor respondent at St. Petersburg says a man committee', suicide there today, leaving a letter confessing that he had been chosen by ballot to kill the czar, but found him self unequal to committing the deed. His confession contained the names of his ac complices, and several of them have already been arrested. A Southern Road. Cm cf Mexico, March 31. A contract has been made between the government of Gnstemaia and representatives of a French-syndicate for the construction of a northern railroad of Guatemala extending frcm the capital to Atlantic ocean. FOREIGN AFFAIKS. BETURN1NG HOME. , Rome, March 31. The govern mont Im advised that l,f 00 Italians are returning to Italy from Rio Janeiro, owing to their ina bility to procure employment In Brazil. B10T1KO BENE WED. London, March 31. 4. dispatch from St. Petersburg says that rioting on the part of the students at Kleff aud Khar to It has been renewed. ron MOBS MONEY AND LESS UOUBS. Vienna, March 31. The atone and brick mason of Vienna went out on a general . strike today for higher wages and shorter hours. " " 1 In Southern Illinois. Bt. Louis, April 1. Information from the tornado that swept the region of southern Illinois and Kentucky is to the effect that the seventy-five families in Bay bottoms, near Goloonda, III, were rendered home less end most of the members injured. The storm literally swept growing wheat from the ground. Two dwellings were utterly wrecked and all tarns and outhousf were destroyed. Several hundred head of cattle were scattered and mont of them killed. In Livingston county, Ky., directly across the Ohio river from Golconda, one maa was killed and about a dczen injured, be sides houses, etc., being demolished. Pnblic Debt Statement. Washington, April 1. The following i the public debt statement: Iiterest bear ing debt: Principal, $812,122,52; interest, 8,9 0,025; total, 1811,026.557. Total debt on which Interest has ceased since matur ity, principal and interest, $1,1$ 1.1 44. To tal debt bearing no interest. $7S6,85,$4'2. Total debt: Principal, $l,f.91.Hi 8,48); In terest, $9,C54,C61; total, $l,59J,fc62,r4. To t.Hl debt lers available cash item. $1.C.V. 773.514. Net cash in treasury, $33,615 812. Dbh less casli in trees'irv Aprill, $l,l2:i, 157,672; March 1, $ 1 ,034 547 f2). Dskstcsh of debt for the month, ll.IiSO 857; dccr an .f debt since June S, 189, $53 4b8,.M". Total cash In treatury as shown by treas urer's genernl account, $628,704,791. Wfso Words from Gladstone. New Yobk, March 31. The phoncgTaph sent by Mr. Gladstone to tho American co operative building loan association, which arrived too late to be heard at the recent convention of those associations in the Cooper Union, was heard today by a dis tinguished company, who had assembled for that purpose at the law library in the Equitable building. General W. T Sher man presided. The mestago from Gladstone Is fol lows: "Dear Slrp: The purpose of the meeting on the 14th day may I conceive, be summed up in two words, sUf-Aelp and thrift, and I cannot, though much occu pied, refuse to eend to It a few words of congratulation and good will. It Is self help that makes the man, and man-making is the aim which the Almighty has every where impressed upon creation. It 1 thift by which self-help for the masses, depend ent upon labor, is principally made effect ing. For them thrift Is the symbol and the instrument of independenoa and of liberty indispensable conditions of all perma nent good. But thrift is also the mother of wealth, and here cornea a danger into viiw, for wealth is the mother of tempta tion and leads many of Its possessors into a new form of slavery more subtle and de basing than the old. From this slavery may all lands, and especially oil lau a of the English speaking tongue, hoM them selves forever free. I reman, dear sirs, your very faithful and obedient servant, W. E. Gladstone. After this message had been heard, reso lutions were adopted cxpresslrg admira tion for Mr. Gladstone and pl:auro in having been permitted to hear bin vdlca " and his encouraging words Uncle Sam Must Pay. Washington, March 31. Congressman Connell, in company with almost every other member of the house, without any regard to party, had a good word to say for Congressman Crane, a democrat from Texas. Crane was the most popular man in the house all the morning. The reason was that some weeks ago he instituted a suit in his own behalf agalatt tho Unite! States in the court of claims to recover the salary which be lost tnrouh tho defalca tion of Silcott. Crane's i-U'.t was decidttl in hia favor today, the court holding that the sergeant-at arm-t is a dipbarcing t iUer of the government and cons ;qaniiy that he is not the disbursing ajrent ot the mem bers of the house of representatives. This means that the treasury department will have to make good the lo?s occasioned by Siicott's defalcation and that thf member from the First Nebraska district will b-; able to draw his sa'ary, which amounts to something like $2,590, after aU. For a while it looked as if he was pretty badly in the soup. Cattlemen Must Move Out. Washington, April 1. Acting on the de cision of the attorney general that in the absence of law Indians canuot lease their reservations, tho commissioner of Indlau affairs has issued notice that all cattle ou Indian land in Indian territory for grazing purposes must bs removed not later than October 1. Several Persons Killed. Litcbfiexd, Ky., April 1. News of the damage done in the northwestern part cf this county and the southern part of Breck inridge county by the recent tornado l as just reached here. At Falls ot Rough sev eral nouses and bridges were blown down and Mrs. Edwards was killed. At McDan iels eight or ten houses were damaged and the wife of John Jarbes killed. Two child ien of John Tucker are reported killed and several other persons more or lees injured. THE MARKETS. Ltnooi-n, Nea. CATTLE Batchers' steers.. $2 75 Cows 2 CO HOGS Fat 3 f5 Stackers 8 25 SnEEP 3 00 WHEAT No. 2 spring. 5 OATS No. 2 11 RYE No. 2 25 CORN No. 2. new 15 Ct2 5) (cf 3 8i ($ 5) Jii 53 3 is (d) 27 C$ 18 20 (tf4 00 (g4 5'J FLAXSEED 1 00 POTATOES 18 APPLES Per bbl 3 15 HAY Prairie, bulk. 3 CO Cwuu, Neb. CATTLE $3 IK) (24 25 Cows 1 75 25 HOGS Fair to heavy 3 93 (.4 (X) Mixed 3 90 (f3 15 Chicago, III. CATTLE Prime steers $3 CO tO Stock ers and feeders. 3 35 HOGS Packing 4 (0 SHEEP Natives 5 CO WHEAT CORN .... ($3 C5 4 23 7VV 2tX Kansab Crrr, Ma CATTLE Corn fed $3 23 (4 60 Feeders 2 40 C3 "0 HOG S Good to oh oice 3 75 43 C5 Mixed S 3 60