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ADDRESSEE THE CHICACO CONFERENCE.
Nebraska Orator Points Out the
Evlla of.Monopoly and 8ug
IMtii Remedy.
Chicago. 111.. Sept. 16.-The Civic Fed
eration rust conference at Central
Mualo hall was addressed today by Col
onel W. J. Bryan. The hall was packed
In anticipation of Colonel Bryan's re
ply to W. Bourke Cockran on tbe trust
question.
It waa reported that Colonel Bryan
bad a set of resolutions to present, pre
sumably antagonistic to trusts as they
now exist He, however, denied this,
saying: "I have none prepared and I
am not sure whether I will prepare any
for presentation."
The speaker was introduced by Gov
ernor Stanley of Kansas, who acted as
chairman of the opening- session.
Mr. Uryan spoke In part as follows:
TRUST QUESTION GROWING.
"The trust question has grown In
Importance. Within the past two
years more trusts have been r.rnr,!,,.,!
when we come to consider the capltal-
tiuii mm me magnitude or the inter
ests Involved, than were organized In
alt the previous history of the nunim
vnd the people now come face to face
wun mis question: 'Js the trust a bless
ing or a curse?' If a curse what remedy
can be applied to the curse?
"I want to start with the declaration
that monopoly In private hands Is In
defensible from any standpoint and
Intolerable. One trust may be leap
harmful than another. One trust mag
nate may be more benevolent than an
other, but there Is no good monopoly In
private hands, and I do not believe It
Is safe for society to permit any man
or rroup of men to monopolise any
article of merchandise of any branch
of business.
"The defense of the monopoly Is al
ways placed on the ground that If you
will allow people to control the market
and fix the price they will be good to
the people who purchase of them. The
entire defense of the trusts rests upon a
money argument. If the trust will sell
to a man an article for a dollar less
than the article will cost under other
conditions, then In the opinion of some
that proves a trust to be a good thing.
In the first place I deny that under a
monopoly the price will be reduced. In
the second place. If under a monopoly
the price Is reduced, the objections to a
monopoly from other standpoints far
outweigh the financial advantage that
the trust would bring.
THE WARNING- OF LINCOLN.
"In the early days of Lincoln's ad
ministration he sent message to con
gress, and in that message he warned
his countrymen against the approach
of monarchy. He said It was the at
tempt .to put capital upon an equal
footing with. If not above, labor In the
structure of government, and In that
attempt he saw the approach of mon
archy. Lincoln waa right. Whenever
you put capital upon an equal footing
with labor, or above labor. In the struc
ture of government, you are on the
road to aid a government that rests
not upon reason, but upon force.
"Nothing Is more Important lhan
that we shall In the beginning rightly
understand the relation between mon
ey and man.
"What ts the purpose of the trusts or
the monopoly? For when I use the
word trust I use It In the sense that
the trust means monopoly, and what
Is the purpose of monopoly?
"The first advantage of a monopoly
Is to lower the price of the raw mater
ial furnished by the people to the com
bination. WHAT TRUSTS MEAN TO LABOR.
"The next thing Is after you have
bought up all the factories, to close
a part of them and turn out of employ
ment the men who are engaged in
them, and if you will go about over the
country you will see where those en
terprlses. having come under the con
trol of the trusts, have been closed up
and stand now as silent monuments to
the wisdom of the trust movement. In
case of local strikes and fires, the work
foes on elsewhere, thus preventing se
rious loss. What does It mean? It
means that If the people employed in
one factory are not satisfied with the
terms fixed by the employer and strike,
they close down that factory and let
the employes starve, while they go on
In other factories without loss to the
manufacturers.
"When a branch of industry Is en
tlrely In the hands of one great mo
nopoly, so that every skilled mm In
that Industry has to go to one man for
employment, then that one man win nx
wages as he pleases and the laboring
man will then share the suffering of
the man who sells the raw material.
"When the monopoly has absolute
control brains will h at a discount and
relatives will be necessary to fill these
positions. There Is no question about
It. A trust, a monopoly, can lessen the
coat of distribution.
A ONE MAN POWER.
"There will be no need for com
mercial travelers because when any
body wants goods all he has to do Is to
write to the one man who has them for
ale and say. What will you let me
have It for today?
"He cannot only fix the price of what
he sels, but he can fix the terms upon
-which he sells!
"You have to trust to that, man's
generosity and his decision upon what
Is fair, when he is on one side and you
on the other.
"What Is the first thing to be expect
ed of a trust? That It will cut down
expenses. What Is the second? That It
will raise prices. We have not had In
this country yet a taste of a complete
trust, a complete monopoly, and we
cannot tell what will he the results of
complete monopoly by looking at the
results that have followed from an at
tempt to secure a monopoly, berause In
the attempt to secuie a monopoly the
monopoly has been lowering prices In
order to rid Itself of competitors; but
when It has rid Itself of competitors,
what la going to b the result? My
friends, all you have to know Is humtin
nature. God made men selfish. Selfish,
ness la merely the outgrowth of an In
tlnct of self-preservation. It Is the
abnormal development of a man's de
Ire to protect himself.
"We must recognize selfishness and
we must so make our laws that people
shall not be permitted to trespass upon
the right of others In their efforts to
secure advantages for themselves, I
believe that society Is Interested In the
Independence of every citizen.
"Society Is Interested In this because
If a man dies and leaves no provision
for his wife ani children the burden
falla on society.
"I believe that the principle of mo
nopoly finds Its Inspiration In the desire
f men to secure by monopoly what
thejr cannot secure In the open field of
competition.
"Another thing that to my Judgment
has aided monopoly Is a high tsrlft.
Nobody cm dispute that tariff law.
an Import duty, enable S trust to
charge for Its product the prto of a
similar foreign product, plus the tar
iff. THE KFFECTS OP A TARIFF.
"Now, some have suggested that to
put everything on the free list that
trusts make would destroy the trusts.
I do not agree with this statement, as
It Is made so broadly. I believe that
the high tariff has aided the trust to
collect more than the trust otherwise
couia collect. But I do not believe
mat you could destroy all trusts by
putting all trust-made articles on the
iree Hat. Why? Because, If an article
proauceo. in this country as
cheaply as It can be oroduced a.hron(1
then the trust could exist without the
oenent of any tariff at all, although It
couia not extort so much as It could
with the tariff, and while some relief
may come from modifications of the
tanrr, we cannot destroy monopoly un
til we lay the axe at the root of the
tree and make monopoly Impossible by
law.
"It has been suggested that dlscrim
ination by railroads has aided the
'rusts. There is no Question that dis
crimination, favoritism, secured by one
corporation against another corpora
tion ana a rival, has been largely In
strumental In enabling a desired mo
nopoly to become practically a complete
monopoly. Now that can be remedied
by laws that will prevent this discrim
ination, and when we prevent the
discrimination still monopoly may ex
ist, the remedy must be complete
enough to prevent the organization of
a monopoly. Now, what can be done to
prevent this?
NEED CONCURRENT REMEDIES.
"We have a state government and a
federal government, and while this
dual form of government has Its ad
vantages, yet both state and nation
should have concurrent remedies. In
the first place every state has or should
have the right to create any private
corporation which in the Justice of the
people of the state is conducive to the
welfare of the people of that state. I
believe that we can safely entrust to
the people of a Btate the settlement of
a question which concerns them. If
they create a corporation and It be
comes destructive of their best Inter
ests they can destroy that corporation
and we can safely trust them both to
create and annihilate, If conditions
make annihilation necessary. In the
second place the state has or should
have the rip-lit to prohibit any foreign
corporation fiom doing business In the
state and It ought to have, or has the
right to Impose such restrictions and
limitations as the people of the state
may thing necessary upon any foreign
corporation doing business in the state.
FEDERAL REGULATION.
"I believe, in addition to a state
remedy there must be a federal reme
dy and I believe that congress has, or
should have, the power to place such
restrictions and limitations, even to the
point of prohibition, upon any corpora
tion organized In any state that wants
to do business outside of the state.
"Now, I believe that these concur
rent remedies will reach the difficulty,
that the people of every Btate shall first
decide whether they want to create a
corporation, that they shall, secondly,
decide whether they want any outside
corporation to do business In the state,
and, if so, upon what conditions; and,
thirdly, that congress shall exercise the
right to place upon every corporation
doing buHlnc.HS outside of the slate In
which it Is organized, such limitation?
and restrictions as may be necessary
for the protection of the public good."
THE DELAWARE CIRCULAR.
Colonel Bryan at this point read the
famous circular letter advertising the
Incorporation laws of Delaware. He
commented sarcastically on advantages
set forth In the letter.
A person In the audience Inquired:
"Delaware and New Jersey are both
democratic states, are "they not?" To
which Mr. liryan replied: "They Were
not 'in 1SD6."
He continued:
"I have read this letter In order to
show you that where a state can gain
an advantage fro mthe Incorporation I
of these great aggregations of wealth
it Is not safe to place the people of
other states at the tender mercies of
the people of such a state as may de
sire to secure Its running expenses from
the taxation of corporations organized
to prey upon people outside,
"One method for the annihilation of
trusts has occurred to me and to me It
seems a complete method. It may not
commend Itself to you. It Is this:
A COMPLETE REMEDY.
"That conRifchS should p,iss a lav
providing lout no corpoiuilin oig .niz -t
in any state should do buxiiieys outside
of the state In which it 1b organized
until It receives from some power cre
ated by congress a license authorizing
it to do business outside of Its own
state. (Applause.) Now, If the corpor
ation must come to this body created
by congress to secure permission to do
business outside the state tr.cn thai li
cense can be granted upon condition
which will, In the tlrst place, prevent
the watering of slock; in the second
place, prevent monopoly In any branch
of business, and third, provide for pub
licit' as to all of the transactions and
business of the corporation.
"If It Is unconstitutional and so de
clared by the supreme court, I am In
favor of an amendment to the consti
tution that will give to congress power
to destroy every trust In the country.
The first condition which I suggested
was that no water should be allowed
In the stock. I do not believe that any
state should permit the organisation of
any corporation with a single drop of
water In tne slock of that corporation.
Why should the corporation be permit
ted to put out stock thut represents no
real value?
ON WATERED STOCK.
"No man can defend stock that does
not represent money Invested, and only
In the case of a monopoly can you se
cure dividends upon stock that does
not represent money Invested.
"We had a case In Nebraska where
we tried to regulate railroad rates, and
one railroad In our stale was -capital
ized and bonded for more man nve
what it would cost to duplicate
the road, and yet the Judge held that In
fixing rates we hud to consider the
watered stock as well as the actual val
ue of the road. When the case went
t,, the sunreme court a decision was
rendered which was, In substance, that
In determining what was a reasonable
rate, we hade to take Into considera
tion a number of things besides the
present value of that road, measured
by the cost of reproduction, and you
m find that If the watering of the
stock Is permitted then the cry of the
Innocent purchaser Is raised, and you
will be told that you mum proieci
man who bought this stock.
"My Judgment Is that no man can
stand In the position of an Innocent
purchaser who buys slock In a corpora
tion, If that slock Is not represented by
actual money Invested, because he can
And out what the stock stands for If
he will only '-ivestlgate.
BTOCK MUST HE BONA FIDE.
"If this license Is granted then th
first conditions can be that any cor-
.,,.tl,.n ,lelrln to do business OUtSlde
of the state In which It Is organized
that that stock la bona Ada and thai
tiers is no water In It In my Judg
ment, when you take from monopolj
the power to Issue stock not represent
ed by money you will go more thai
half the way towards deatroying mo
nopoly in the United States.
"You can prolvde for publicity, and
uiai annually or at such other tlmei
the corporation shall make returns ol
Its business, and when you provide foi
publicity so that the public shall know
just wnat there is In the corporation
you will go another long step toward!
the destruction of the principle of mo
nopoly. "A third condition: I suggest that thli
license shall not be granted until th
corporation show that It has not had s
monopol yand Is not attempting a mo
nopoly of any branch of Industry or any
article of merchandise, and then pro
vide that If the law Is violated the li
cense can be revoked.
A CREATURE OF THE LAW.
"Now, I may be mistaken, but II
has seemed to me that this method ol
dealing with the trusts would prove an
effective method. I do not say there
shall be no private corporations, but 1
say that a corporation is created by
law, it Is created for the public good
and it should never be permitted to dc
a thing that Is Injurious to the public
good.
UNJUST TAX IS LARCENY.
"Every unjust tax law Is an Indirect
form of larceny. If we can secure a
government whose foundations are laid
In Justice and laws exemplifying the
doctrine of equality before the law, and
then, under such government and such
laws, wealth Is accumulated to a polnl
where It becomes dangerous, then we
can meet that question when it arises,
and I am willing to trust the wisdom ol
FILIPINOS WELL ARMED
NATIVES NOT LACKINQ IN MU
NITIONS OF WAR.
escaped Prisoner Relates Surpris
ing Sto rlea of the Supply of
Mauser Rifles.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 19. News
concerning Lieutenant Gllmore and 14
of the enlisted men of the Yorktown,
who were captured by the Filipinos at
Baler, over six months ago, has reach
ed Washington In letters to military of
ficials from their fellow officers In the
Islands. The latest information comes
through a Spanish planter by the name
of Garza, who was Imprisoned by the
Insurgents and subsequently escaped.
uarza described Lieutenant Gllmore
and his companions to officers In Ma
nila. He saw the officer and fourteen
men at Bigau, where they were sub
slsting on a meager quantity of rice
valued at not more than one peseta per
man per day. Theallowance was more
liberal than that for the Spanish pris
oners, every one of whom was allotted
one-half peseta per day.
There were fully 2,000 of the Spanish
prisoners at Bigau, Garza says, and all
prisoners, Spanish and American, show
ed the effect of the confinement and the
HANNA ON THE SITUATION
poor and insufficient food. He Is quot-
society to meet every question that I e(J a "aylng that the captives could not
ariBes, and remedy every wrong. stand such hardship and fare much
"I have fa th that these Questions will longer.
be settled and settled right, but I want trarza also described the extent of the
to protest against thiB doctrine that the tores at Bigau, where fully 8,000 Fillpl-
truat is a natural outgrowth of natural no" are unaer arms, borne of the wea
laws. It Is not true. Pons are Mausers, with which troops
"The trust Is the natural outgrowth on tne ,me are being equipped steadily.
of unnatural conditions created by The sources of supply evidently amazed
man-made laws. I Garza, as It has those in authority in
'You cannot hide behind the dectrine Manila. He said the old weapons were
that it is here and you cannot get rid
of It. I believe that the American peo
ple can get rid of anything that they
don't want and that they ought to get
rid of everything that Is not good.
"AN INDUSTRIAL ARISTOCRACY."
"I believe that the Declaration of In
dependence was the greatest document
ever penned by human hands. The
being distributed to the troops In the
Interior, and that the arming of the in
fantry goes on to an alarming extent.
Garza also reports that the Filipinos
In some Instances were equipped with
uniforms of Americans, Including the
cork helmet. These articles evidently
came from the steamer Centennial,
which went on the reef on the north
western coast of Luzon and was very
truths of that declaration are con- prornptly Iooted Garza witnessed also
densed Into four great propositions
that all men are created equal; that
they are endowed with inalienable
rights; that governments are Instituted
among men to preserve these rights,
and that governments derive their Just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned. Such a government Is Impossi
ble under an industrial aristocracy.
Place the food and clothing and all that
we eat and wear and use In the hands
of a few people and Instead of being a
government by the people, It will be a
government of the syndicates and for
the syndicates. Establish such a gov
eminent and the people will soon
the destruction of the Saturnus, of
which he furnished a vivid account to
the authorities.
Navy department officials say that
steps have already been taken to re
lieve Lieutenant Gllmore and his party.
TO WORK AGAINST TRUSTS.
powerless to secure a legislative rem
edy for any abuse.
"I am not willing to place the labor
ing men of this country absolutely at
the mercy of the heads of monopolies.
When you control the price that a man
is to receive for what he produces, you
control the price that he Is to receive
for the labor in the production of that
thing
"Homo people have tried to separate
the laboring man who works in the
factory from the luborlng man who
works on the farm. I warn the labor
ing men In the factory that when they
loin with the monopolies to crush the
farmer as soon as the farmer is crushed
the laboring man will be crushed, and
his ally will be destroyed; and in a test
of endurance the fanner will stand It
longer than the laboring man.
"The fanner was the first man on the
scene when civilization began, and he
will be the last un to disappear.
"Hut, my friends, why should we
try to see who could hold out the longer
In suffering? For 100 years all nations
have looked to this nation for hope and
Instruction. Let us settle these great
questions that we have; let us teach
the world the blessing of a government
that comes from the people and let us
show them how happy and how pros
perous people can be.
At the conclusion the orator resumed
his seat, facing a volume of wildly
waving arms and a storm of cheers.
Three-quarters of the audience left
when he had finished.
G. W. Northrop, Jr.. of Chicago, spoke
on "Practical Federal Remedies for
indut-u ial '1 rusts."
Prof.Davld Klnley followed Mr.North-
rup with a reading of the statistics
and opinions gathered In the answers
sent to questions propounded to busl
ness and professional men the country
oi-r In regard to the effect of trusts on
Wi.os and the prices or trust com
modules.
T. H. Walker of Minnesota followed,
sneaking on "Trusts from a Buainese
Mans' Standpoint."
NO RESOLUTIONS
The conference then took a recess un
til 3 u. m
At a meeting of the resolutions com
mlttee today, it was decided that no
resolutions should be adopted by the
conference. Edward Hosewater ol
Omaha and ex-Senator Blair of New
Hampshire pleaded that the sentiment
of the meeting be voiced In some way,
but even the resolution proposed cy
Kensbev of New Jersey, that the con
ference had been productive or good
had given a better understanding of the
subk-ct of trusts ana comDinations,
weie drowned In an affirmative cnorut
answering a motion to adjourn the
committee sine die.
National Organization Formed by
Delegates at Conference.
Chicago, Sept. 19. Action looking to
ward the formation of anti-trust organ-
be izatlons in all sections of the country
was taken at a meeting of delegates to
the trust conference opposed to trusts
ifter the adjournment of the trust con
ference!
The meeting, which was largely at
tended, effected a temporary organiza
tion and an executive committee was
appointed to build up the organization
in all parts of the country and to ar
range for an early anti-trust conven
tion. The organization which, It was
Announced, Is to be national In scope
and nonpartisan In character, is to be
swialga-mated finally with the national
anti-trust league.
The executive committee is as fol
lows: M. L. Lock wood, Pennsylvania,
-hali-man; William Prentiss, Illinois; A
M. Tortd, Michigan; P. E. Dowe, New
York; Dudley O. Wooten, Texas; A. P.
Mi-Quirk, Iowa; W. B. Fleming, Ken
tucky.
This committee was authorized to In
Tease Us number by the addition of
ovi mors of states and prominent an
il-trust leaders of all political convlc-
;ions. The organization was the result
f an adoption of a recommendation of
l commit tee appointed for the purpose
m Thursday.
"The purpose of the organization Is to
n'iiig new timber into the present Na-
io rial Anti-Trust league, said Chair
i.mi. Lock wood. "We propose to carry
jut the work against trusts begun by
us at the conference. We will organize
In nil sections of the country, and we
hope to have a national convention
within a few months."
A meeting of the executive committee
ill be held and plans for perfecting
the organization discussed.
Thinks Trusta Not an Issue-Refuses
to Discuss Roosevelt.
New York, Sept. 19. Senator Mi A.
Hanna arrived here on the 8C Louis
from Southampton on Saturday. He
said to a reporter that his health had
Improved while be was abroad, and
that he had had a good time.
"My observations of England,' said
Mr. Hanna, "are that It Is a country
with a political system fully as good as
ours and England has built up a gov
ernment' full of stability. I was de
lighted with the outdoor life In Eng
land. "I suppose the English all have their
opinion as to our Philippine policy, but
I did not discuss the matter with any
one. Of course, I believe that President
McKInley will be renominated, but then
I have given my opinion on that matter
so often that It has now become rather
a chestnut. As to Governor Roosevelt
for vice president, I certalnl will not
discuss that possibility."
Speaking of the coming campaign.
Senator Hanan said: "1 think that In
dustrial conditions and the Philippine
war will prove factors In the coming
campaign. The Philippine war will be
made an Issue by the democratic party,
but we have nothing to fear. I would
as soon have so-called anti-expansion
made an issue as I would have the sil
ver question. Silver Is an old man of
the sea. I am not afraid of the out
come among the people. I have reas
oned out that the sound Judgment of
the people la that they do not want
to bring about a change. They will not,
I believe, by their own act, change the
conditions of th country.
"The United States has entered on an
era of prosperity. The promises of the
republican party have been kept. The
commercial conditions of the country
are sound and this prosperity is baaed
on confidence. I am confident of a re
publican victory.
"I am of the belief that there will be
some difficulty in making the trusts
political Issue. The republican party is
Just as much opposed to the amassing
of wealth in a manner to Injure the
public as Is the democratic party.'
Mr. Hanna would not discuss Ohio
politics, but when McLean's nomina
tion was mentioned he said:
"That's good."
In speaking of the Dreyfus trial the
senator said: "I heard no expressions
of opinion as to the Dreyfus trial while
abroad, except those made by Amer
leans. Every American whom I met on
the other side Is heartily in sympathy
with Dreyfus, but at the same time it
appeared to me there was no disposition
on the part of Americans to protest or
interfere in the matter. All this talk
of boycotting the Paris exposition or
of the president interfering is nonsense,
This affair Is one which concerns the
French nation and is purely their busi
ness. Wre have no right to interfere.
NEBRASKA NEWS.
"Hie Blair canning factory has closed
lown for the season after canning ovei
1.100,000 cans of corn.
The Dixon schools are closed because
f an epidemic of diphtheria. One
leath has thus far resulted from th
liseaae.
The Webster county fair closed a very
luocessful four days' program Satur
lay. The show of stock and poultry
was the best exhibited here for years.
Tbe curfew ordinance at Creighton.
which prescribes that children under
:he age of 16 years are liable to arrest
it found on the streets after I p. m.,
jnleee accompanied by parents or
juardlans, went into effect last week.
raramra r flRan com mi ilea suiciae.
tt his farm three miles northwest of
Newport In Rock county, by hanging
almself. His body was found Saturday
,n his barn. Fagan was a bachelor and
same here from Colfax county three
years ago. He had been In poor health.
Saturday afternoon, as a son of Geo.
Hoctel, a farmer near Harvard, was
oming to town, in some way he acci
dentally slipped from the wagon seat
nto the hind wheel of the wagon, and
before the team could be stopped his
eg was bent over toward the body, re
sulting in a compound dislocation of
he knee joint.
While George Hicks was crossing a
bridge with a traction engine five miles
ast of Cedar Creek Saturday, the
Bridge gave away and the engine was
precipitated into a ditch twelve feet
aelow. Hicks was struck by a plank
lust above the ankle and left leg was
broken.
EX1 RA SESSION RUMOR.
DOUGLAS COUNTY IN LINE.
Best
Most Complete Fusion and
Feeling Prevails.
Omaha. Neb.. Sept. 19. Douglas coun
ty is conceded by all political partlom
and factions as being in one snse oi
ihe word the ground upon wnicn tni
campaign will wage the fiercest, and
therefore Douglas county and Omahf
politics are matters of state concern.
The democrats or uougias county am
ihelr fusion allies, me populism am
silver republicans, assembled In theli
respective county conventions naiur
day afternoon, and before adjournlnf
placed In nomination ine mion
county ticket that has been presentee
to the voters of this county within tin
memory f the present generation. Anc
this too, without a nitcn or engenuer
i.,r . m., re snot, while adjournmen1
came In a fever of enthusiasm on the
part of active, earnest ana aeierminec
workers .unanimously ucuv
tinn of the entire ticket.
The convention of the democrats wai
In some respects a remarkable one. Tin
contest for several or me more impor
,.. itii,n. was hotly waged, thi
convention being keyed up to concer
nltrh several times by the devoted fol
lowers of opposing candldates.yet whet
the choice of the majority wss recarde
and announced the defeated candldatei
cordially Indorsed thai cnoice, uecittr
Ing unreservedly tneir approval oi in-
President Said to Have Determined
on Having One November 1st.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 19. It Is re
rud on what appears to be good au-
ihojlty that the president will call an
extia session of congress to meet No
vember 1. It is said that the session
will be called In response to a wide
spread demand among republicans all
over the country, including Representa
tive Henderson, the next speaker. The
argument in favor of an early sesslnn Is
that a great deal of preliminary work
In organizing the houwe and In forming
policies with regard to leading ques
tions can be accomplished without the
loss of much valuable time on account
of the holiday recess which would be
the case if congress met at the usual
time.
It Is also expected that by the time
ongress gets down to a working basis,
the Philippine situation will have de
veloped sufficiently to enable It to de-
flr.e a policy and to pass such legisla
tion as shall appear necessary.
Iowa postmasters appointed: Illy ria.
Fayette county, Mary Humphrey, vice
J. T. 9. Humphrey, resigned; Potter,
Tama county, Charles A. Lee, vice L.
(. Merrill, resigned.
Charles T. McCoy nnd Charles M.
Cooper have been designated as mem
bers of the civil service board lor tne
postoflice at Huron, 8. D .
The contract for carrying tne man
from O'Neill to McCaffrey, Neb., hai
been awarded to C. C. Call.
The postolllces at Cuba and Dunlap,
Neb., and Abbott, la., will become do
mestic money order offices October 2.
To Consult wltn President.
Washington, D. C (Special.) It Is
said at the war department that the
return of the two members of the Phil
ippine commission remaining In Manila,
Messrs. Denby and Worcester, has been
ordered that they may advise the pres
ident respecting the very latest aspect
of affairs, so he may use the informa
tion In his message to congress.
There is an intimation conveyed that
the advice brought by President Schur-
man and Senator Beverldge and other
persons recently returned from Ma
nila are not at all points In strict ac
cord, though the items of divergence
are not known beyond the White
house. It Is said that as Admiral Dew
ey Is nearlng the United States the op
portunity to have a full meeting of the
Philippine commission, of which he Is
a member, should not be lost, and the
report that may be expected to sum up
their work will be Indispensable to
congress in its efforts at legislation for
the Islands.
No statement can be had officially as
to the future of the commission, but it
Is not regarded as probable that It will
return to the islands, at least not with
out a considerable change in person
nel. The recall of Messrs. Denby and
Worcester will leave General Otis the
sole representative of the commission
in the Philippines.
Weekly Record of Trusts.
Sept. 9. Reported that a great cor
poration Is being formed to control all
the trolley systems In the world. W. C.
Whitney and John Jacob Astor are
conspicuous names In this undertaking.
Sept. 11. The street railways of Bir
mingham combine In one corporation,
which now owns every mile of road In
the city. There are 125 miles of track
In the city and suburbs.
Sept. 12. The beef trust branches out
into butter, eggs and poultry. Agents
n-i going through all the western states
arranging for the product of these ar
ticles, and the trust proposes to mo
nopolize the market. It is said that the
trust has already cleared a mlllion--net
profit In this trade.
The- trust conference called by the
Civic Federation opens In Chicago.
Tbf candy manufacturers supplying
Missouri Irver points meet at Chicago
to raise the price of candy. The Na-
ljnal L'-iscult company was represented.
Sept. 13. A big combine Is proposed,
t) include the thirteen big printing
pi'.-ss factories In the United States,
wlih a capital of $20,000,000.
Sept. 14. The beef trust raises prices
once more.
ept. 13. Rumors of a combine of
publishers of bibles. There are 6,000,
M0.C0C bibles sold annually In the Unit
ed States and Canada and the combine
proposes to corner the trade.
The validity of the Sioux City & Pa
lfic railroad bonds of Washington
!ounty will be tested in the supreme
:ourt. Last spring the county super
visors attempted to refund these bonds
it a lower rate of Interest than they
ire drawing and at a reduction of $76,
100 from the amount now due. Objec
tions were filed and the question of refunding-
was taken to the district court
efore Judge Baker, who ruled against
:he road on the ground that the bonds
wrr void, having been Issued without
luthorlty of law. The county board will
:ake the matter to the supreme court
to determine finally whether they have
:h9 right to refund the bonds.
Monday morning the American Beet
Sugar company at Norfolk began sile
nt beets and working up the crop of
S99, and In from thlrty-slx to forty
sight hours granulated sugar ready for
:he table will be the product at the op
joslte end of the factory. During the
summer Important changes have been
nade In the factory at an expense of
ibout $40,000. Improved machinery for
shortening the process of sugar mak
ng has been added and the laboratory
us been greatly enlarged. It is in the
aboratory that defects in any stage of
he process of manufacture are detected
md righted.
TERRIBLE FIRE LOSS.
ticket and their determination to sup
hall bring to that board or body proof port It from top to bottom.
Used a Condemned Vessel,
San Francisco, Cnl., Sept. 19. Th.
transport Belgian King, with tronps;th
hospUil ship, Relief, with surgeons
members of the hospital corpB, nursei
and medical supplies sailed Saturday
Tho ticops which embark on the Bel
glan King are seven companies of th
T'veruy--fourth Infantry and a few re
crnlls. In addition to her regular staf
tiM Killef will carry 20 women nursei
and I0U members of the hospital corps
notwithstanding the fact that the loca
Insrer-tors of steamship have con
demned the vessel In so far as carrylni
passengers across the Pacific la con
oertied. The Relief will coal at Hone
lulu and again at Guam.
Bu8 War Material Here.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 19. The war
department has been approached by
representatives of the British govern
ment, who wanted to buy at once 1,000
mules for shipment to South Africa for
army uses. The department, however,
had disposed of all Its surplus stock.
The Englishmen will buy the mules In
open market In the south and ship
them to South Africa as fast as they
can be obtained. Great Britain has
also awarded several large contracts
for army wagons for South Africa to
the principal wagon makers of this
country.
The war department has found Eng
Innd buying war materials of almost
every description In this country of late
ind In several Instances has had to
wait for the work being done for Eng
land to be finished before this govern
ment could be supplied. Great Britain
and the United States are both eager to
charter available vessels for army
transports, and there has sprung up
keen rivalry between the two countries
on this score.
The army In Cuba is short of many
supplies, and every transport leaving
New York Is loaded to Its full capacity
without being able to meet the grow
ing demand for stores of all kinds.
There Is only about one week's supply
of forage on hand In Cuba, and the
commercial lines will have to be utlllz
ed to carry forage and other supplies to
the garrisons there.
fwo of Finest Blocks of Nebraska's
Capital Burn.
Lincoln, Neb. (Special.) Fire which
jroke out at an early hour Saturday
norning caused a loss of over a quarter
f a million dollars. The fire started In
:he Jacob North block, occupied en
tirely by printing firms, and spread so
-apimy through the building that it
.vas soon apparent that the structure,
A-ith all its contents, would be a total
oss. From there It spread to the Ma-
ionic Temple, Methodist church and
Webster block, which were also totally
lestroyed. Several small buildings
A-ere also burned.
The North buildlpg, a four-story
Drick. was occupied by Jacob North.
look and Job printer, whose loss on
jullding, machinery and stock will
imount to $100,000, and by a branch of
:he Western Newspaper union, $35,000,
a-nd the Nebraska Independent, $6,000,
whose plants were entirely destroyed.
The Masonic Temple, which stood
icross the alley, was a three-story
orlck with a high tower. Besides the
Masonic lodges, which lose everything,
his building contained the city public
lbrary of 10,000 volumes, the Woodruff
rinting company's plant, $7,000, and
he Evening Dally Post, $9,000, the loss-
? being practically total.
St. Paul's Methodist church, one of
he most beautiful structures In the
lty, was totally destroyed, entailing a
oss of $25,000.
The Webster block was burned, val-
jed at $20,000; value of contents not yet
earned. The Elite studio s loss Is plac-
d at $10,000. and that of the smaller
buildings and contents of others not
lsted above will bring the total up to
ully a quarter or a million.
From the very first the firemen were
jnable to check the flames and save
- of the property In the block. For
i time It appeared as If Helpolshelm-
r s big department store would go, but
by hard work It was finally saved.
The Jacob North company waa a
heavy contractor with the state. The
senate file and house Journal were al
most ready for delivery, as was also
he new election laws. Many thousands
it dollars had been paid out for labor
ind material, all of which will be a
total loss to the contractors as the state
iocs business on the C. O. D. plan.
The Insurance carried by all parties
will be Inadequate to cover the losses.
Carpenters Strike,
New York, Sept. 19. As the result of
receilng no satisfaction from contract
ors and builders In this city, through a
circular sent them by the Joint carpen
ters' organizations, demanding wages
of $4 per day and a Saturday half hol
iday, 10,000 carpenters laid down their
tools Saturday and quit work.
A meeting was held and addresses
concerning the strikers' position was
made and a letter was read from Sam
uel Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, congratulating the
men on the stand they had taken and
offering them the assistance of his or
ganization. If necessary. Letters were
read from a number of contractors and
builders, acceding to the demands of
the carpenters. One of these was from
the firm which is building the Dewey
arch. The carpenters threatened to
send a petition to the mayor, offering
to erect the arch without cost to the
'lty, If the contracting firm did not
agree to the carpenters' terms .
Committees were appointed to worn
on the contractors not heard from and
get their decisions. It Is believed by th
leaders that all the men will be back
to work soon.
Jackson, Miss. Charles O. Summers,
ex-Plnkerton officer and escaped con
vict, Is again behind the bars of the
Mississippi penitentiary. He returned
from Klondike and surrendered, be
cause he said his conscience would nol
let him rest. He made full restitutio?
to the Southern Express company
which he robbed at Meridian, and hi
also paid the state 1300 for ths espenst
Incurred In following him.