THE TEIBUNE.
V. M. & E. M. K1MMKIX , Pub .
McCOOK , NEB
NEWS OF NEBRASKA.
' Inn CATTLB ISTEUEST. Senator McSbano
introduced the following preamble and reso
lution In the etato senate , which was adopted :
Whereas , Tbo events of the past year have
ahown the danger to the cattle Interests of
.Nebraska and or the entire west from con
tagious diseases , and have proved the neces
sity for and wisdom of the animal industry
bill passed at the last session of congress ,
and ,
Whereas , A committco appointed by the
Rational Cattle Growars' association of
-America ( which association secured the en
actment ol the above law ) , is now in Washing
ton endeavoring to obtain the passage of such
amendments as will make the law more efTeo-
tivo.and , '
Whereas , TheFO amendments are in sub
stance , first , to so regulate the employment
of persons by the animal Industry bureau as
to secure greater ability and usefulness while
at tbo same time reducing the expense , and.
second , in the case of disease In states which
thn executive authorities cannot co-operate
"with the commissioner of agriculture to
etamp it out , to give power to the president
of the United States to prevent the transpor
tation of nnlma's ' from the diseased districts
out of that state into another. Now , there-
lore , be it
Eesolved. That we cordially endorse the
amendments proposed and recognize the
necessity and wisdom of these measures ; and
further , we recommend them to the consid
eration of our senators and representatives
in congress , with the mjuestthat they give to
the committee of the National Cattle Growers'
as-oclatlon all possible aid and assistance in
securing tbo passage of said amendments.
HOHB OP THE FBIKNDLESS. A Lincoln
Omaha Republican special says : The propo
sition discussed at the recent meeting of the
society of the Homo of the Friendless , look
ing to the merging of that organization into a
state board of charities , who should control
all of the charitable institutions of the state ,
having been found impracticable , a meeting
was held this morning at the residence of Mrs.
O. N. Humphrey , at which a largo number of
the ladies of the state , prominently identified
-with charitable work , were present. The ob
jectof the meeting was to take steps toward
the organization or a society to be known as
the associate board of state charities , to bo
provided lor by act of the legislature , and to
which the society of the Home of the Friend
less and kindred organizations are to bo
auxiliary. An organization was formed with
a president , vice president , secretary and
treasurer and a board of directors , composed
of fifteen members. A committee was also
appointed to confer with the committees of
the legis'ature on public charities. An ad
visory committee of gentlemen , consisting of
Messrs. E.E.Brown , O.N.Humphrey , C. H.
Gere and John M. Thurston was appointed to
assist the committee on constitution and by
laws. A bill will bo prepared and presented
to the legislature incorporating the society ,
inakinR-it one of the permanent institutions of
the state.
THE STATE IN BRIEF.
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Hastings , too , will have its charity ball.
Grand Island received 14 votes for the state
The postofflco at Scater has been discon
tinued.
There is talk of a new morning journal at
Lincoln.
A creamery is being erected at Columbus by
John Miller.
A now time table went into effect on the B.
& M. last Sunday.
Beatrice's new barb wire factory Is fast
neaiing completion.
In distribution of offices in the legislature
Trnnklin county took five.
A Gibbon hotel recently had four different
landlords in three days.
Arrapahoe ii counting on large improve
ments the present year.
It is understood an effort is to bo made to
get a land office located at Sidney.
The new elevator at Cedar Creek , Just fin.
ished , has a capacity of 40,000 bushels.
Mrs. Colby has been elected president of
the Nebraska woman suffrage association.
Omaha having lost the state fair , is now
talking of a permanent exposition on its own
account.
3 Sixty-five thousand dollars is the amount
that Fairbury expenCed for improvements
last year.
There is growing opinion that it Is time for
permanent and lasting organization of the
county of Sioux.
J. B. Dickey , of Pawnee City , fell from a
scaffolding- twenty feet high , sustaining quite
painful injuries.
The Beatrice canning company is about ; to
put several men to work making cans for the
current yea r's crop.
Tramps are not allowed lodging in the jail
at Beatrice unless they work'on the Btieet to
pay for the same.
Gage county hog-raisers held a meeting to
take steps toward preventing the spread of
disease among the swine.
The contract has been let for removing the
Iron bridge near Waterloo. The work is to be
completed in tiilrty days.
1 The Horticultural society , "at its recent an
nual meeting , had a fine display of fruits , ag
gregating about 200 plates.
The diphtheria is still claiming many victims
In and about Fullerton. Several fatal cases
nave also occurred in Kearney.
Mrs Colby , of Gage county , attended the
National Woman's Suffrage association meet
ing In Washington on the 83th.
The Juniata Herald learns that Mr. Signcur ,
living three miles west of that place , has lost
thirty head of hogs by cholera.
Lincoln's bid fo'r the state fair was accom *
panicd by a bond of (50,030 for good and
faithful performance of its contract.
The stste board of agriculture has located
the state fair at Lincoln for five years. Omaha
and Grand Island were competitors.
The old maids of Blfiir recently moved for
theformation of an old maids society , but for
come reason the scheme fell through.
More than 800 timber claims and 500 home
steads have'been taken up in Cheyenne coun
ty thus far during the fall and winter.
If the funds are judiciously "managed the
poor of Omaha will be benefl tted to the ex
tent of about $3,500 by the charity balL
Beatrice is talking of a canal project wnich ,
if carried into effect , will moke that place
take front rank as a manufacturing city.
Editor Rosewater , of the Omaha Bee , was
called to give testimony before the school
land investigating committee at Lincoln.
There is plenty of good beef around Colum-
IDCS , but citizers complain that butchers of
that town slaughter nothing but old cows.
The colored men of Omaha will have a rep
resentative in the industrial conference of
colored men at New Orleans , February 12th.
The Blair Pilot denies thercporttbatanew
hog disease has appeared in Washington
county and is carrying on Bwine by the whole
sale.
Joseph ZolU a B. & M. brakcmaa , had hia
lejr badly crushed at Ashland by the can a
icwdays ago. Physicians ' hope to save the
limb. *
Quito a number of Ncbraskans have gene to
tbo New Orleans exposition and others ar
preparing to take in the great show at on ear
yday.
Heldt , on trial at Schuyler for attempted
( rain wrecking , was put on the stand , bu
made a lame story. Ho is almost certain to
be convicted.
There was fifty-nine thousand dollars on
hand for the Kearney county supervisors to
count at the last annual settlement with the
county treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Purdum , of- Seward , eel
obrated the 26th anniversary of their married
life. A large number of guests participate
in the festivities.
Tbo school district officers of Mindcn have
purchased 143,000 brick toward building their
new school building which the district expect-
to build in the spring.
A brace of expert confidence kids or enoak
thieves are operating in the'towns along the
Una of the U. P. They wound up a jewelry
store in Bchuyler to the extent of $12.
Henry Parks , of Blair , was slugged by some
unknown person while passing the track op
po'site the old freight depot. A bad gash was
out in his head by the cowardly assailant.
NelEC Olve , a farmer living four miles from
Minden , was shot by Nels Johnson , his hired
man , in a quarrel over a settlement. Tbo
wound is thought not to bo fatal. Johnson
has fled ,
Morria Smith , of Sidney , was handling a
loaded pistol , when it was accidentally dis
charged , the ball taking effect in the right log ,
making- flesh wound. It was a close call for
something more serious.
A young man at Lincoln was confidenced
out of $25 by a couple of traveling rascals.
They were threatened with exposure , and
rather than get into the hand of officers gave
up their Ill-gotten wealth.
Frank Hcldt , convicted of train wrecking at
Schuyler , escaped from the jail , but was sub
sequently recaptured in the cellar under his
father's house. He will be immediately hand
ed over to the state authorities.
Sam Corry , a Columeus stock denier , was
assaulted by would-be robbers at Omaha last
week. Corry knocked one of'his assailants
down and the other took to his heels. The
wealth they were after was not secured.
The state board of agriculture society
chose D. H. Wheeler as delegate to the na
tional trotting association meeting at Chicago
next May. It was also decided that the state
fair be held from September llth to 18th , in
elusive.
The state board of agriculture , at its recent
meeting , passed the following resolution :
: That this meeting disapprove of the organ
ization of more than one agricultural society
in each county as being detrimental to the
best-interests of agriculture in our state. "
The county superintendents of the state
met in convention at the office of State Su
perintendent Jones , at Lincoln. The object
of the meeting was the general promotion of
educational interests of the state and the dis
cussion of some proposed amendments to the
school law.
The state board of agriculture elected offi
cers for the ensuing year as follows : Presi
dent , J. B. Dinsmore , of Sutton ; first vice
president , R. Daniels , of Sarpy county ; second
end vice president , Frank Holt , of Gage ;
secretary , R. W. Furnas , of Nemaha ; treas
urer , Christian Hartinan , of Omaha.
Rev. James Pateraon , secre tary of the diocesan
cesan council , has received word that the
consecration of Rev. Dr. Worthlngton as
bishop of Nebraska could not take place be
fore February 24th. owing to the inability of
the bishops who are to officiate as consecrators -
tors to go to Detroit before that time.
At the meeting of the State Horticultural
society R. N. Day , of Burt , was elected first
vice-president ; W. W. Watson , of Johnson ,
second vice-president ; C. Hartman , of Oma
ha , treasurer ; J. T. Allan , of Omaha , secre
tary ; W. J. Hesser of Casa , G. F. Warren of
Clay , and Peter Toungerj of Fillmore , di
rectors.
The State firemen's association elected offi
cers as follows : President , J. C. Cleland , Fre
mont ; first vice-president , J. H. Butler , Oma
ha ; second vice-president , G. Babson , Sew
ard ; secretary. I. L. Lyman , Lincoln ; treas
urer , McAllister , Grand Island. The next
tournament was located at Grand Island. The
next annual meeting will be held at Seward.
In the trial at Schuyler of Heldt for at.
tempted train wrecking , the jury , after being
out ten minutes , returned a verdict of guilty.
The criminal was sentenced to the peniten
tiary for ten years at hard labor. The sym
pathy , a special states , is with the prisoner , as
a poor , ignorant man , who did not compre
hend all of the consequences of his act , but
the verdict was undoub'tedly just.
The young man from'New York , heretofore
mentioned as having shot himself , at a point
eight miles north of Kearney , seems to have
taken his own life. It was at first thought to
be accidental. The coroner's jury found that
ho came to his death from a pistol'wound
caused by himself while laboring under a tem
porary fit of insanity. This insanity is
thought to have , been produced by over re
ligious excitement.
The Lincoln Journal says that the bill in
troduced into the legislature prohibiting the
sale of tobacco to minors is discussed by the
public generally nowadays. It is a question
upon which the people seem to bo divided ?
Many are of the opinion that it would work
great good morally , physically and finan
cially to to the youth of the state , and advc
cate the passage of the bill very violently.
Others bold to the opinion that 'Iboys will be
boys" still , by thinking that it looks manly
for them to use the weed , and will persist in
puffing the nauseating smoke and squirting
the offensive saliva , even If they are com'
polled to gather up the snipes and utilize
econd-handed quids on the sly.
House rolls 49 , 50 and 51 , introduced by
Brunner , of Douglas , all relate to the regula
tion of railways. H. R. 49 is an act to estab
lish , a board of railroad and warehouse com
mlssioners , and prescribes therein powers
and duties , the board to consist of secretary
of state , auditor of public accounts and treas
urer , and their successors in office. H. R. 50
is a bill to regulate the receiving , transporta
tion and delivery of grain by railroad corpor-
r.tlons , and defining the duties of such cor
porations with respect thereto. H. R. 51 is a
bill to prevent extortion and unjust discrimi
nation in the rates charged for the transpor
tation of passengers and freights on railways
in the state , to punish the same , and to pre
scribe a mode of procedure and rules of evi
dence relative thereto.
The Ponca Journal says : On the Nebraska
side and about half a mile down the river
from Bigley's ravine is an immense bluff , 200
feet high. The bottom of the bluff is washed
by the liver , and the result has been that fre
quent parts of the bluff which are undermined
by the current would break off and fall into
the river. Last summer , at the time of the
June freshet , the currant mode an extensive
inroad on the bluff and carried a large elide
into the river and thereby exposed to view
the rock and Jn It two layers of coal , of the
existence of "which there had been no knowl
edge. Mr. William Porter , who owns the land
and who made tbo discovery , tolls us that the
two layers of coal are each about ten inches
thick and nro two -feet apart. Between the
layers Is a slaty formation interspersed with
thin deposits of coaL It is thought that this
slaty formation will disappear as the bluff is
penetrated and that coal will take place of the
elate. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
BEEEITiY TOU > .
The Emperor of Germany is ill and confined
to bis bed.
Edward 8. Bragg has been elected senator
from Wisconsin.
A famine is prevailing in the governments
of Archangel and Vologda.
German colonization is making rapid pro
gress on the west ro ist of Africa. .
Gen. Hateh has surrounded the Oklahoma
boomers with the 'mention of starving them
out.
out.Clara
Clara B. Colby , of Nebraska , mode an ad
dress before the woman suffrage association
in Washington.
Seven barges of coal , containing 84,000
bushels , sunk in the Onto river near Evansville -
ville , Indiana.
A bill has been introduced in tuo Dakota
legislature for removal of the capital from
Bismark to Pierre.
Richard Worthington , of New York , made
an assignment with preferences for $300,000-
Liabilities , 6409,000.
D. W. Voorhees. of Indiana , has been ro
nominated for senator for six years from the
4th of March next.
Since the recent victory of Colonel Stewart
numerous Arabian tribes have declared alle
giance to the English.
The New York Centrartas teen selling first
class tickets to Chicago for $8. The Erie is
selling at the same rates.
The insane asylum at Kankakee , 111. , burned
a few days ago and seventeen of the forty-
five inmates perished in the flames.
Mrs. Mary W. A. Matthews , wife of Stanley
Mctthews , associate justice of the supreme
court of the United States , died on the 21et.
At a logging camp near Metropolitan , Mich. ,
an old trapper and Indian hunter named Tom
Budging- , returning from hunting , was killed
and eaten by wolves.
Thomas Chapman , the murderer of Nicholas
Hubbard , in Humboldt , Coles county , Illinois ,
last August , was hanged recently , having
pieviously confessed his crime.
All the democratic members of the Illinois
general assembly united in signing a memo
rial to President Cleveland , asking the ap
pointment of Springer as secretary of the
interior.
The Wheeling nail manufacturers have ad
vanced the card rate on nails to $2.15 , less 10
per cent for carload load lots , and the usual
discount for cash. This is a virtual advance
of 20 cents per keg.
A special to the News from Colorado says
a heavy snowstorm is in progress. The
weather for a week post has been very severe
on cattle , If the storms continue the lose of
live stock will be very great.
The steamer San Palo is now thirty-five days
out. She sailed from SanFrancisco for Yokohama
hama and Hong Kong December 19 and had
900 Chinese aboard. The Paciflo Mail officials
say there is no cause for anxiety.
A committee of the St. Louis chamber of
commerce called on the local municipal as
sembly and took that body severely to task
for lack of Interest in the efforts to improve
the sanitary affairs of the city. *
TTnan'mous consent to the passage of the
bill to provide for the construction of a rail
road from Sioux : City , Iowa , to some point on
the Union Pacific railroad , west of the hun
dredth meridian , was refused in the house.
A life size portrait of the late President
Garfled has been purchased and will be placed
In the rooms of the house committee on ap
propriations , of which committee he was
chairman while a member of the house.
Greenfield , of Boston , has accepted the
proposition from Pat Sheedy to fight Charley
Mitchell with bare knuckles or kid gloves for
$1,000 a side and gate receipts at New Orleans
after the contest with Kilrain in Boston Feb
ruary 9.
John L. Sullivan , the Boston bruiser , has
been on a large spree since his late match in
New York was stopped by the police. Ho has
grounded several men and in turn has re
ceived some pretty rough usage.
East bound freight rates from Chicago to
Now York are reported to be completely de
moralized. The withdrawal of the Pennsyl
vania road from the pool has precipitated a
cut of 10 cents per hundred on groin from Chicago
cage to New York.
The treasury department ha ? issued special
instructions to collectors of customs < md its
other agents in the vicinity of the gulf coast
to be on the alert to prevent any violations of
international obligations in fitting out filibus
tering expeditions against Cuba
It is said at Philadelphia that organized
movements have been begun to prevent the
Liberty Bell from being sent to New Orleans.
A number of gentlemen were added , havln *
subscribed a large sum of money to take lega
measures to keep the bell in Philadelphia.
The Erie railroad has defaulted on the in
terest due the holders of bonds of the road
since it leased the narrow gauge system. It
Is uncertain when it will be paid. The ques
tion of what shall be done is being debated ,
but no satisfactory conclusion has been
reached.
The public printer's report says the printing
by order of the senate cost $149,143 against
$64,464 , and the house printing $278,333 against
$175,267 for the previous year. On a possible
introduction ot cholera to this country audits
relation to this office , the public printer says :
"I am advised imported rags are largely used
by the contractor who supplies our paper. "
Through mutual suggestion there bos been
established in the senate a southern advisory
board , whose business it is to confer with
President-elect Cleveland all matters
- upon re
lating to the south. The selection of this com
mittee is for the purpose of simplifying mat
ters. It embraces the representative elements
of the south , and will doubtless save much
time to the president-elect.
CRTTVTTNAIi.
Two chicken thieves at Coansville , Indiana ,
were fatally shot by officers while resisting
arrest ,
4. nephew of Sir Alexander Campbell , of
'
Canada , charged with being concerned in a
conspiracy to rob the postoffice department in
Canada , was taken back to Canada from Chicago
cage last week.
The chief of police of Montreal , has been
notified by letter that if ho does not stop in .
terfering with tavorri keepers in Hochelaza ,
for keeping open Sundays , the city hall will be
blown up with dynamite.
*
Dr. John Buchanan , of Philadelphia , notorious
rious three years ago by issuing medical di
plomas , has been again arrested , charged with ,
having again issued bogus diplomas , and with ,
forgery in appending the names of prominent'
physicians thereto.
In the United States district court at Wichi
ta , Kansas , Nellie C. Bailey was acquitted of
the charge of the murder of a wealthy Bng-
J S ,
lishman named Bothamly. with whom she
was traveling in the Indian territory , abou
ono year ago. The defendant maintained tha
Bothamly shot himself.
Henry W. Colson arrived at Boston under
arrest , charged with obtaining produce , etc.
under false pretenses from parties In New
York , Ohio and other western states. Colson
is a member of the firm calling themselves on
their letterheads SI. Sf. Iturbank & Co. , of
Somervllle.
Wright Lcroy was hanged at San Francisco
ast week. On August 13th , 1833 , he decoyed
Nicholas Skorrett , on aged capitalist , whom ho
had personally known for a long time , into
ono of Skerrett's empty houses on the plea
that ho wanted to rent. While inside ho told
Skerrcttho would kill him unless he gave him
a check for a large amount of money. 8ker-
rett refused. Leroy then knockedhim down
seized him by the throat , and while contlnu
Ing his threat choked him to death.
OAFITAZi BRIEFS.
The number of appointments made in the
war department under civil service rules
from July 10,1883 , to date foot up 87.
The jury in the case of James D. Cum
mings , indicted for presenting fraudulent
vouchers to the bureau of medicine and sur
gery of the navy deportment , brought in a
verdict of gui ty.
The house notntnittco on rivers and harbors
have decided to make the following addition
al recommendations : Now Orleans haibor
$150,000 ; Big Mussel ehoal , 5350,000 ; Tennessee
river , above Chattanooga , $ -50,000.
Members of the bouse who are anxious for
tbepassage of some measure which will tend
to the preservation of the national banking
system are casting about try n ? to devise
some plan by which the SIcPh won bill and
the Potter bill maybe combined and broughi
to a vote In the house.
The Indian appropriation bill agreed upon
by tho' bouse committee on appropriations
provides an appropriation of $5,604,131. The
estimates amounted to 9,329,019 , and the ap
propriation made at the last session of congress
gross for the present fiscal year , was $5,589-
G03.
G03.The Jiouse committee on postoQlces and
postroads has appointed a sub commltteo to
recommend to the appropriation committee
that legislation bo embodied in the postofflco
appropriation bill providing for a Deduction
of postage on newspapers from 2 to 1 cent
per pound.
In an interview with Colonel Lament , the
president-elect's private secretary , published
in the New York World , the colonel denies
that there is any marked scramble for office
under the new administration. He says the
number of applications for office is quite
email , and indicates that Mr. Cleveland bos
made no pledges of any sort.
It has been said at different times and in
many different ways that Senator-Elect Payne
was disposed to oppose the selection of any
Ohio man for the cabinet. John G. Tbomp
son says that Mr. Payne told him in Cleveland
the other day that ho was not disposed to sug
gest or oppose any Ohio man who might be
.named. He had no desire to take port in the
matter in any way.
Crittenden , a member of the Cherokee
council , testified before the senate , committee
on Indian affairs. Ho said he was informed
money was paid to secure the passage of the
lease bill. Indian Agent Milon , of the Osage
and Kaw Indians , testified those Indians
leased about 850,000 acres of land to seven
lesecs for ten years at a yearly rental of 3 to 4
cents per acre. The witness had never been
paid anything to secure the leases. He said
he advised the Indians to lease the border
lands of their reservation in order to protect
themselves from incursions of cattle from
Kansas.
POLITICAL NOTES.
D. W. Voorhees has been chosen senator
from Indiana and Don Cameron from Penn
sylvania.
John A. SInrtin was inaugurated governor
of Kansas on the 12th in the presence of the
state officers and members of the supreme
court.
Z. B. Vance was re-elected United States
senator from North Carolina , receiving 128
votes. Senator Call has been re-elected from
Tennessee.
The San Francisco chamber of commerce at
their annual meeting passed a resolution pro
testing against the confirmation of the Span
ish-American treaty , and strongly urging the
ratification of the Nicaraguan treaty.
William J. Gallagher , recently indicted for
complicity in the forging of election returns
in the Eighteenth ward , Chicago , has been
placed under bonds by the federal authorities
on further charges of conspiring in connec.
tion with the same fraud.
The executive committee of the natlona
bankrupt law convention and the committees
of the New York chamber of commerce ,
board of trade and bar association held a
joint session and passed resolutions urging on
congress the passage of the senate bankrupt
cy bill before the close of the present con
gress.
FOREIGN NOTES.
The VictoriawoolenmillsatBartley burned.
Loss $150,000.
The Paris Gaulois declares that the special
instructions sent out by England enforcing
the foreign enlistment act constitute an act
of hostility to France.
A party of men were surprised at Cork in
the act of lighting what is supposed to be a
box of dynamite , in the rear of the Mill street
police barracks. One of the men , Patrick
Leary , was arrested.
The British forces under General Wolseley
were attacked by ton thousand rebels. The
latter were repulsed with a loss of sixteen
.hundred In killed and wounded. Gen. Stew-
tart was in command and bad his horse shot
: from under him.
i Terrible accounts continue to be received
'from the region of the Pledmontes Alps of
.casualties caused by snow storms and ava-
lanches. Twenty houses were destroyed and
forty persons' killed at Pargarito. Fifty
houses were demolished at Trossinio and a
number of fatal casualties occurred there.
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' Hassan Tehmi Pasha , Turkish minister of
justice , in England on a special mission con
cerning Egypt , drove in state to the London
foreign office on the 19th. Musurus Pasha ,
Turkish ambassador , introduced Tehmi to
Granville , foreign minister. A long con
ference ensued. After the conference the
'Count Munster gave a long explanation to
Granville of Germany's views on the Egyptian
question.
It is said the English government has de
cided to resist any attempt on the part of
Turkey to occupy any portion of Egypt or
land troops in that country. There Is excite
ment at the war office. Orders have been
sent to Chatham , Portemoutb and Woolwich
which caused much activity at the great naval
stations. Another installment of troops was
ordered to embark immediately to Alexandria |
and'other troops were ordered to be in readiness - ,
ness at any moment. Indications all point to
stirring events In Egypt.
According to the doctrine of the survival of :
the fittest'the'last man will undoubtedly be a \
tailor. I
STATE XEtllSLATJL VE JJOnfOS.
As forshadoieed { it a Condensed Report of
tlte Nebraska Zegixlatitre.
SENATE. In the senate on theWth , bills were
introduced from senate files 78 to 91 Inclusive.
Bills on second reading from senate files W to
70 inclusive.
Nichol Introduced a resolution asking that
the Nebraska senators vote for the Reagan
bill , which , after considerable discussion , was
referred to the committee on railroads.
Among the most Important bills which will
soon be brought up f or consideration , and
which will be the source of much discussion ,
are the following : A variety of bills relative
to the regulating of rnllwavs ; bills having In
view a change of revenue laws : a bill provid
ing for the leasing and selling of school lauds ,
a bill cutting down saloon license to $500 and
making it uniform throughout the state ; a
joint resolution providing tor a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufacture , im
portation and sale of intoxicants ; a number of
bills relative to social relations of men and
women ; and a bill relating to Insurance and
insurance companies. Many of the hills Intro
duced are duplicated and are of no special Im
portance. Committee work has now fairly
commenced , and a number of bills will be re
ported back during the week.
HOUSE. In the house bills were Introduced
from house roll 175 to 1S8 inclusive. Bills on
second reading from house rolls 170 to 173 In
clusive. Several petitions were presented and
read. One hundred and seventy-three bills
have been introduced in the house , IG9 of
which have been read a second time and re
ferred to committees.
House roll 145 , which relates to the appro
priation of $1,500 to defray the expenses of
Nebraska exhibits at New Orleans Is made
special order for Wednesday. Opinion Is gen
eral that It will b6 favorably considered. It Is
conceded that Nebraska takes first rank at the
exposition , that Its exhibits are complete In
every detail , and that the state will receive
benefits directly and- indirectly on this ac
count
Johnston , of Lancaster , has Introduced a
bill providing for the dedication of a block In
the city of Lincoln , owned by the state , to the
German Evangelical church of this city.
SENATE. In the senate on the 20th Clark1
offered a resolution directing the commissioner
of public lands and buildings to report to the
senate the names of all persons who have
leased school lands since 1SSO.
Hazen presented a petition from eighty-four
citizens asking that Nebraska representatives
vote for the pending pension bill.
Wright , of Lancaster , Introduced a bill rela
tive to the regulation of Insurance companies
organized in other states , and doing business
in this state. It provides that all such insur
ance companies shall pay two per cent of all
monies received for premiums to the treas
urers of fire companies in the towns or cities
were policies are issued.
Newcomer introduced a resolution relative
to taxes , asking that the committee haviug In
iiharge the various bills relative thereto report
favorably upon some one of them at an early
dav.
dav.HOUSE.
HOUSE. In the house a. bill was Introduced
by Cornelius , providing for the construction
and maintenance of an insane asylum in the
central part of the state , the exact location to
be established by the board of public lauds
and buildings.
Nettleton , of Clay , Introduced a bill which
makes provisions for an enumeration of the
inhabitants of the state , during the present
year , pursuant to section 2 , article 3 of the
constitution. The bill provides for the ap
pointment by the governor of a superintendent
of the census whose duty It shall be to divide
the state into convenient districts , appoint
enumerators for the several districts and to
compile their returns. The general plan of
enumeration Is substantially the same as pro
vided for by act of congress relative to taking
the census of the United States.
A number of petitions were presented con
cerning the township law ; also one from citi
zens of Jefferson county asking for more strin
gent laws relating to houses of prostitution.
SEKATE. In the senate on the 21st house
roll 84 , relating to the payment of ofilcers ,
members and employes of the senate and
house , was reported back to the senate by the
chairman of the ways and means committee ,
with recommendation that it do pass.
A resolution was adopted requiring the sec
retary of the senate to make a list of all em
ployes of the senate and the situations they
occupy.
Clark offered a resolution askinc that the
commissioner of public lands and buildings
furnished to the senate the names of al per
sons who have leased school lands since De
cember , 1SSO , and also the names of all per
sons who are delinquent and for what length
of time they have been delinquent.
The school land investigating committee
met In the afternoon. The refusual of Morton
to respect the subpoena was considered aud
referred to the house. Rosewater was called
to the stand and sworn , and protested against
persons being present other than members
while his testimony was taken. A motion was
made to proceed with closed doors , which was
arried by a vote of 8 to 5.
HOUSE. The house went into committee of
the whole on consideration of the resolution re
lative to the exposition appropriation. The bill
under consideration calls for the approptiation
of $15,000 to cover expenses at the exposition.
The bill was amended so as to make the appro
priation conditional by adding the words : "So
much as may be necessary , " etc. It was also
amended by adding the words "exhibits. " and
the words , "and his vouchers therefor. " The
bill was ordered engrossed for third reading.
Taggart , White and Sutherland were appointed
as a committee to examine New Orleans
vouchers.
House roll 138 , Introduced by Neligh , of
Cuming , provfdes for the location and erection ;
of an insane asylum at West Point , condi
tioned that 160 acres of land within two miles
of that town be donated.
Everett offered a resolution requiring the
state treasurer to furnish a statement for the
use of the legislature , showing the amount of
moneys received from the 5 per cent sale of
school lands since the organization of the
state.
SENATE. In the senate on the 23d Buck-
worth , from the committee on school lands
investigation , notified the senate that J. Ster
ling Morton had ignored a summons to appear
belore the committee , and that he would not
come unless his mileage and per diem was
paid in advance. ,
On motion to adopt the report of the com-
mtttee , Spencer moved that S. F. No. 7 be
amended so as to include the superintendent
of public instruction as a member of the board
of commissioners. The amendment was
agreed to and the bill was so amended. i
Senate file 23 was up for a third readintr ,
but a mistake being discovered , it was recom
mitted.
Clark called up his resolution relating to the
employment of convicts and moved Its adop
tion. On motion of Hastings it was referred
to the committee on penitentiary.
HousE.In the house Olmstead , from the
school land Investigation committee , submitted
a report relatiing that J. Sterling Morton had &
been subpffinaed to appear before the investi-
gatlng committee , and refused to comply with
the same.
Lee , of Furnas , offered a further amend
ment to the effect that the secretary of state
furnish mileage and fees for all witnesses who
mieht demand them. Adopted.
Bills were introduced from the house ro.l on
first reading from 254 to 251 , on second read
me from 213 to 216.
Lee , of Furnas , chairman of the committee ,
on ways and means , reported favorably upon
the exposition appropriation bill.
SEXATE. In the senate on the 23d bills were
Introduced from files 120 to 123 inclusive.
Senate file 41S and house roll SO were read a
third time and passed.
S. F. 24 was read a third time and passed.
It provides for a change of venue from county
judges In cases which are cognizable before
justices of the peace.
S. F. No. 23 was up on third reading but a :
mistake was discovered , aad Durland moved
that it tie recommitted to the committee on
highways and bridges. '
Howe presented a petition of thirty-one dt-
Izeuo of Nemaha county , asking tie legisla
ture to pass a law giving the mayor and coun
cil of each city , or the president and trustees
of each village power to pass ordinances tore-
strain , prohibit and suppress houses of prosti
tution within the corporate limits or within
five miles thereof.
Houss In the house bills were Introduced
from house roll 152 to 268 Inclusive , by Mor
ton , Stephensoo , Brunner , Wollbach , Lieb
hirdt , Robertson , Williams , Holt , Newcomer g [
ancIJohnson. House roll 3 , relating to rCTC'
nue taxation , was reported and mauo special
order for Tuesday.
A petition from seventy citizens of. Colfax
county asking that physiology anrthyglncbu
taught In common schools , was proaeutcu by
Tbomas , of Colfar , and referred to commlttca
on common schools.
A petition from thirty-eight citizens of Clay
county , presented by Howard and relating tc
the suppression of houses of prostitution , was
read and referred to commltteo on cities ana
towns. , ,
A resolution came'up Instructing the school
land Investigating committee to keep open
doors , and upon motion of Rice It waa tooled.
LOJfa AND SHORT HAULS.
Outrageous Discrimination as Shown lu Dis
cussion of the Inter-Stata Commerce Eul.
A Washington special says : In the discus
sion of the Inter-stnto commerce bill Senator
Van Wyck said $300 is the through rate to
San Francisco from New York city , and if
car stops COO miles this side of Son Francisco
It is charged $300 , the through rate to San
Francisco , though it is carried (500 miles tess
distance.
This is discrimination enough against a
city. But they do not stop there. Not only
do they charge a man $3)J for his car loud , buc
they also charge the local frolxht baoli from
San Francisco OX ) miles eivt. The local freight
Is S500. So the man who lives 60J miles this
hide of San Francisco Is actually punched by
being compelled to pay not only the rate uhlcn
the San Francisco merchant pays , but | 500
more. Could anything- more call for the Intor-
posldon of leg Million than that statement ?
When tboNorthfrn Paciflo railroad was finish
ed It was to bo a computing road , wo utt ) told ,
and yet after this government had gixou mil
lions of acres of land to build u competing-
road its managers come in and t-xcrclse pre-
oiboly the same ucts of 13 r.tnny , of despot
ism and outrage upon the people living along-
the line of the rouu , and in the end make u
combination to keep up through rates.
The Central Pacific , which was supposed to
bo in competition with the va orwayo around
the capes , act uully made a combination , and
nays out the proceeds oC its earnings to the
Pacific Mall Steamship line. When tnoNorth
ern Paciflo comes into competition , it Is said
that it actually contribute * a proportion of
what was supposed to be Between tbo rail
roads an equitable proportion of money to
pay the bonus given to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company.
In the west our legislatures have been
threatened our people iiavo been threatened ,
their representatives In the national capital
have been threatened , that if they doro put u
provision in either of these bills , which they
believe to bo right , then they ore to suffer inJury -
Jury Irom it.
VXIOX PACIFIC PASSES *
The Government Directors Think That the
Issue is Still Too Heavy.
Washington special : The Union Pacific
management has the reputation of being ono
of the most conservative in tbo matter of is
suing passes. Applications for free trans
portation are Ecrutinizod with such oaro that
the average would-be dead-bead has long ago
put this corporation on his black list. Such .
beinjc the general character which the road I
has , it is worthy of note that one of the chief
subjects of criticism which the government
directors dwell upon is the "pass" : eak. In
their report to tne president they say : "A
statement of the passes .BSUOU dnrin ? the
year last past , being only 'trip' passes aud not
including 'annuals , ' shows that the lowest of
one week's issue was ? 13,773.7tJ and the hten-
est JUU52. The computation is upon the
basis of regular passenger tariff rates. Here
is an item 01 nearly $1,000,000 per annum. Of
course a large portion of these pas-es are is
sued on account of employes. The specific
amount could bo ascertained only by on ex
amination which it would be impracticable at
tbis time to make.
After referring pointedly to the fact that
the transportation given in free "trip" passes
amounts to one-thirtieth of tho'entire gross
income , the directors say it has "only the sin
gle element of gratuity in it. and is apparent
ly n feature regarding which measures to
correct ore demanded. " They odd that such
measures , "it is gratifying to say , hare been
inaugurated. "
XJie Presidential Succession * '
t
A well-known New York representative ,
says a Washington dispatch , has prepared a
bill which may assume the shape of a consti
tutional amendment providing for tbo suc
cession to the presidency , in the event of va
cancies securring in the offices of president
and vice-president of the United States. The
plan is as follows : That instead of ono we
have three vice-presidents , named first , second
end and third vice-presidents , resinctively ;
aad it might constitute a part of tb unwrit
ten law of the land that they should t > 3 eelect-
ed from the three great divisions of iV / country
try east , west and south. In this way not
only the succession will be amply and surely
provided for , but even the possible contingency -
gency of an epidemic disease prevailing at
the seat of government , and sweeping- the
president and vice-president simultaneously ,
would bo guarded against , inasmuch as the
other two vice-presidents would actually be
residing-in other sections of the country not
likely visited by such epidemics.
An executive session of the Woman Suf
frage association was held at the TUgga house ,
Washington , on the 20th , Susan B. Anthony \f \
presldinff. Among those present were Clara i
B. Colby , of Nebraska ; Dr. Alice B. Stock- \
ham , of Illinois ; Mary E. McPherson , of
Iowa ; Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton , MM. Lil- t
lan ! Devereaux Blake and Mrs. Amelia B.
Post , of Wyoming- . The first open session was
began in the afternoon and was well attended.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton presided. Various-
reports were made and _ Mrs. Shattuck pre
sented the responsibility invested in the
question of woman suffrage. At the nvenlng-
session addresses were delivered by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton , Matilda Joslyn Gage and Laura
Deforce Gordon.
A Sleeting of Teteranl.
Gen. M. R. 31. Wallace , president of the Na
tional Veteran association , publishes a notice
to the effect that a meeting of the officers of ,
the association will be held at Lincoln ball , *
W shington , D. C. , March 2d , for taking such | <
action as may be necessary to perfect the organization - J
ganization of the association. Each branch 1
of the association is requested to send one 1
delegate for consultation. All members of j
the association intending- take part in the I
inauguration ceremimies of the president- ?
lect will , on their arrival , report at headquarters - |
quarters at Lincoln ha . J
A Hill by Senator Tan TFj/cfc.
Senator Van Wyck , of Nebraska , has intro
duced the following in the senate :
That all railroad corporations heretofore or
hereatter created by acts of congress forcon-
struciion of railroads in any state or terri
tory , Bholl , in all things , be subject to the con
trol and legislation or any such territory or
&tate to the same extent as if suoh corpora
tions had been organized by the legislatures
of any such state or territory.
Section . That the provisions of the1 above- * '
sect o.i shall apply to corporations having-
railroads in anv territory which shall subse
quently be admitted as a state. , , .
Patrick F. McNally , the Nebraska Hercules-
± ampion heavy-weight pugilist of Nebraska ,
who has arranged a hard glove contest with
Ed. Miller , of Omaha , Is 23 years old , six feet
jne Inch In height and weighs in condition 19G
pounds. In a glove fight with Jim Perry ,
ilias English Jim , at Kingsley , Iowa , Novem-
ser 10,1SS3 , he knocked Perry out in the first
round. The following month , at the same
place , he fought Tom Allen , an Iowa pugilist ,
or $50 a side , and won the fight in the oeeowl
onnd. Time , 38 seconds. In January , 18S4
le was matched against John HarpJey , an
Illinois knocker , and knocked him out in the
'ourth round. McNally is a modest , unmeani
ng fellow , but a heavy hitter.
The second prize for butter at the
Calcutta exhibition was awarded for a
ine sample of American oleomarga-
ine. Some one spoiled a good JQjje ,
md the judges recdnsidered their
iward.
Electric lighting of trains is proposed to En
land.