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hJ. A . * * - * ' * ' - " THE OMAHA DAILY BfcE : FRIDAY , JANUAUY 20 , 1893. THE PATViY BElfl. 1T.IU1S OK BtmsCIUl'TION. Hnllyneo ( without Siiwlityl Ono Yonr. . I fl 00 DnI v unit Pnndity , Ono Year 10 OO Six Month * . . g Thrco Mnnilm 360 Sunday Hoe , Dun Yonr J/J' / ' Haturiiay lice , Ono Year J { } Weekly Hoc. On Your * 00 OKI'-IOKtf. Oinnlin , Tim Ilci'IlnlldliiR. Houlli Onmlin , cornt-r-N and 2(1 ( Hi Stroeti Council WIDTH. 12 IVnrl Htivot. Clilrnim Ofllns 817 Chamber of Commorfio. Now York , Ilooins 13. 14 and 10. Trllmno Building. WmhliiKlon , fi3 I'onrtornth flu-cot. rOHUEril'ONDKMCE. All cninntunlrattoiK relating to news and Pdllorlnl manor nhnuld bu addressed lo tlio Editorial lopartiiiont. . nr.HiNK.ys LETTKUS. All bitslnOM It-Item nnd remittance Miotild. bn addressed leThe lloo Publlshlnc Company. Omnhn. MraftHrlievlM mid postoHlcn orders to be inadu payable lu " ' " ortlur of tlio com pany. THE nEr ; punugiiiNo COMPANY. SWORN BTATEMKNT OK CIUOUI-ATION State of Nchmika , I County of DOHRMI. I Ororcolt. Tzsi'hnck , srcrotary of TnK IJp.n rubllniilnijcompany , dopi solemnly swnar tlmt tlinaetuai < : lrc'iiiiitroiiof TUB DAILY HUB for the week ending January 14 , 18U3 , wai as follows : Sunday. Januarys 20.060 Monday , .Inunary U. aa.Oun Tuesday. Jammr/lO 23,743 Wcdnnulay. January 11 23,873 Tliiir.sdav..liiniiarv 12 23,842 rlday.Jai.Uiiry ia 23,871 ( Saturday , January 14 24,305 ( JK.OKon 1J. TX.SOHUOIC. Bworn to before mo on.l Mlhscrlhod In my prewnr.o this 14th day of January , 1803. N. V. VKl\t < Notary 1'tibllc. Avnrnco Clmilittlnn for Dncombar , 24fi30 SPHINO is not yet very nuar at hand , but rcul estate negotiations arc already GltKAT bodies move slowly. That is probably why the legislature is not dis posed to wear Itself out with work at this stage. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IT IS no longer , plain Ed Murphy that Is interfering with Mr. Cleveland's "per sonal comfort. " Senator Murphy is on deck now. IT is the intention of Whitelaw Reid to spend ti few weeks in California. Adlai K. Stevenson has his oycs fixed in exactly the opposite direction. * PRANCE shows signs of interest in England's Egyptian affairs , but to most people it Kcoins as If Franco had a few affairs of her own to look after just now. W. L. GKBISN and Charley Green are running neck and neck for United States Bonator. If this is a green legislature why can't they toss coppers on which Green the vote is to bo consolidated ? IT IS related that Governor Matthews of Indiana spent his first 25 cents for a olreus ticket. If ho had only been clouted governor of Kansas but jwr- liaps ho has outgrown his fondness for circuses. TUB report that u largo jobbing concern - corn from Now York City contemplates locating in Omaha is by no moans Im probable. It is as easy to see a good opening from that distance as from a nearer point. THE Argentine Republic has some an- nrohy to look after now in ono of her provinces. It was high time for another outbreak'In South America. There ha been a lull in that part of the world for several weeks. FINANCIAL , dlllloultloa in Europe con tinue and Italy ia now threatened with a monetary crisis. The United States is about the only country on earth at pres ent that is free from serious difllcultios and complications of any kind. THE health olllco record shows but very few canes of contagious disease in the city and the deaths from such dis- .oasos this winter have boon fow. Lot this gratifying state of affairs bo con tinued by the exercise of duo precau tions. EIGHT persons killed and six injured by a grudo crossing accident in Providence - donco Is the latest occasion of popular protest against ono of the most frightful causes of human slaughter known to civ ilization. Why the grade crossing Is allowed to exist in any center of popula tion is a 'nystory. THE Wyoming legislature has mem orialized congress to admit the terri tories of Utah , Arizona and Now Mexico into the union. The Wyoming legisla ture is only wasting its hroath. There is no prospect of admitting any more , now states , at least during tlio brief life Of the present congress. NEBRASKA is glad to note the lm- proved prospects of extensive building operations within her borders this year , but her jealousy is not aroused by the 'fact that similar progress Is promised all over the west. It looks 0.3 if the west ern country during 181)3 ) would surpass uny previous year's record. THE National Board of Trade has rec ommended the passage of the Torroy bankruptcy bill now pending In congress. In view of tlio fact that this desirable measure has boon earnestly advocated by almost every business organization in the United Stated and by business men generally throughout the country , it uocms unreasonable to delay action upon it . longer. _ _ _ T\VEU'K years ago when Paddock was on the ruwi track for a second term Orlando TelYt voted from start to finish for Van Wyck , and Van Wyck , who was then n monitor of the state senate , voted for Orlando Tefft from first to last oven on the ballot by which ho was trans ferred to the United States senate. Now Orlando Tent is voting for Algernon S. Paddock , but nobody has as yet returned the compliment. THK south lias rarely experienced such cold weather as has visited that section this winter. It Is believed that the In jury to crops will prove to bo great and that the prices of many southern pro ducts will to/advanced this year In con sequence. It Is much better to expect cold weather and got it than not to ox- poet It and get It. When n cold wave dooa swoop down upon the sunny south it ia apt to provo very destructive. TIIR The Douglng county contest has from Itn very inception Ix cn a high-handed attempt to frustrate the will of the poo- pic , tut axpreflfii'il through the ballot box by decisive majorities. Not a single ) ono of the contestants has n plimlrw of n tltlo to n seat In the legislature. Thorn Is no legitimate basis for the content and no judicial tribunal would give counte nance to the spurious claims that luivo been Bet up on behalf of the contestants. The more fact that the clerks and judges of election wore not equally ap portioned among the three parties can irnvo no bearing upon the main question whether or not the men who wcro awarded certificates received iv plurality of the legal votes cast. The election in every voting precinct in Douglas county was peaceable and orderly. No loj-ul voter clr.hns to hr.vo boon deprived of his right to cast a free ballot , under tins safeguards which the Australian system of voting throws around the elector. There is no proof whatever that any of the ballots cast were not counted and there Is no proof that the canvass of the votes was fraudulent or incorrect. The whole claim rests upon the absurd assumption that the election is void bu- cause the election board was not properly apportioned among the parties. Such u claim would not hold good in a justice's court. All the decisions of supreme courts uphold the principle that majorities when properly ascertained through the machinery which the law provides for canvassing elections must bo respected. It matters not by whom the votes were counted or canvassed , HO long as the re turns represent the expressed will of the voter. Our courts , when invoked to de cide as to irregularities in election boards , have always hold the only ques tion at issue to bo an honest summing up of the votes cast , and in every instance the will of the majority has been pro nounced as paramount. , regardless of technicalities and legal quibbles. Any other ruling would simply make popular elections a farce and leave the legally elected members of our legislatures to the tender mercies of partisan oppo nents. IIASKHUl'TCY Tlio outlook for the passage of a uni form bankruptcy law by the present con gress has apparently improved within the last few days. The advocates of the Torrey bill scored a decided success in getting the endorsement of the mem bers of the executive committee of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial union , and they arc being aided also by the influence of the National Board of Trade , in Hcssion in Washington. Colonel II. C. Dcmming of the executive committee of the Alliance and Industrial union said ho was satislled'tho provisions of the bill will provo satisfactory to the members of the farmers alliance and that they will bo individually benoilted by the enactment and administration of such a law. Ho suggested that if the sub- alliances would consider and pass upon the subject , and forward to their con gressmen the conclusions reached by them , it would greatly enhance the probability of favorable action upon the bill. It has not been gen erally supposed -that the farmers of the country wore especially in terested in this proposed legislation , but it appears that they aro. since ono of the provisions of the bill is that suits in bankruptcy cannot bo brought against these engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil , or wage earners. There appears to bo no doubt that a largo majority of the house is favorable to a bankrupt law , and the question is simply whether a vote can bo obtained. That depends largely upon whether the committee on rules will sot a day for the consideration of the bill , and this it cannot well refuse in view of the fact that it has boon asked to do so by a majority of the democrats of the house. Of course , this would not insure its pas sage , but it Is believed that If brought forward , for consideration its chances will be good. In the senate not much interest has been manifested in the measure , but it is the opinion that if it goes through the house it will bo very promptly reported to the senate and that there would bo no great dilllculty In passing it in the latter bo < ] y. The course of congress regarding this legisla tion implies n want of coulldonco in the judgment of the business interests of the country , for never have these in terests boon more nearly unanimous upon any subject than they are in favor of the enactment of a uniform bank ruptcy law. Commercial bodies and business men In every section of the country have asked for such legislation , and while there has baon some scatter ing opposition to it the expression In its favor has been overwhelming. It would certainly scorn that a demand having such support from the clasa of people most directly concerned in the proposed law , and who are quite as capable of in telligent judgment regarding its nooo- ) . ity as the politicians in congress , ought to receive moro consideration than has been accorded It. 8TA.TR HOAIIDS Of Alt'J/T/MT/OA' . In sovorul of the legislatures now in Bossion , an on ? them that of Nebraska , billy have boon Introduced providing fern n btato board of arbitration to consider controversies arising between employers and employed. Tlioro has boon during the past few years a growing popular sentiment favorable to legislation of this kind , In order to supply a way for tin amtcablo settlement of liibjr disputes where both parties do- tilro It , and undoubtoilly It will in tlmo bo generally adopted. Several - oral states now have boards of arbitration and they proved useful aids in settling labDr oantrovorslos. Tills lias boon especially the case In Massa chusetts , whoso board has made a record of excellent service and has grown steadily in popular favor. In Now York the experience has been less satisfac tory , yet the board has boon of con siderable value , fully vindicating the wisdom of its creation. The principle has long boon recog nized In European countries. England has had an arbitration law on her statute books for nearly three-quarters of n century. It is rarely appealed to bo- cuuso each trade lias n permanent bou d nf arbitration and conciliation , volun tarily organized , and thoao voluntary boards have been depended upon for years by the various traded with excel lent re < mltfl. In Franco cjurti of arbi tration and u inciliatlon were odtabllshad moro than ot/jhty / years ago , and the tes timony N that they have boon very bone- flclal to French Industry , more than 00 per cent of all eases coming before them being settled. There are at this tlmo m-jro than 100 such councils or courts in Franco , and thousands of disputes are adjudicated by them every year. It may not bo prac ticable in this country to institute a system of arbitration on European lines , but tlio states can at least estab lish n tribunal to which the parties to labor controversies can appeal t'or a set tlement , of differences with reasonable assurance of a fair and just adjudica tion. tion.There There arc spine who contend that ar bitration , in order to bo of any value , must be compulsory. The llrst objec tion to this idea is that compulsory ar bitration Is incompatible with the spirit of our free institutions. It cannot bo rec onciled to the principles upon which this government is founded. Compulsory arbi tration would liitvo to work both ways , and on neither side would it be toler ated or capable of enforcement. It is the right of every man in this country to work or not to work , according as the compensation offered Is or Is not satis factory to him , and no law can compel him to surrender this right. To attempt to do so would bo to put u restraint upon the exercise of one of his nnst valuable prerogatives as a free man. On the other hand the employer has u right of which ho cannot justly bo deprived to employ whom ho pleases , at such wages as he is willing to pay and these em ployed to accept. These propositions are so obviously sound , in their applica tion to the great body of workiugmon and employers , that no argument can bo needed to enforce them. No law could bo enforced which should under take to compel a man to carry on his business involuntarily , or another to work involuntarily , nor would such u law stand. Its interference with the rights of both parties would nrotiKo a resentment that would speedily wipe out such legislation. The proposition to establish a board of arbitration in Nebraska should receive careful consideration. It stands to reason that a board composed of state officers would merely be a cogwheel in the political nmehino. Our experience with the state railroad commission does not justify the belief that men who are subservient to railroad corporations could bo depended on to stand up for the rightful claims of labor. Arbitra tion between railway companies and their employes would be a jug-handled affair. And this would bo the tendency of arbitration by any permanent board. Tlio corporations and capitalists would always have their car unless the appeal for arbitration came just before a state election. THK retirement of Mr. Cleveland to Lakewood is construed as an intima tion to the politicians that ho docs not desire any further sug gestions or recommendations con cerning the makeup of his cabinet. Ho will probably not decline to consider whatever may be sent to him bearing upon this interesting matter through the mails , but the inference is that ho has had quite enough of personal inter views and believes ho can get on very well with the information al ready in his possession as to the merits and qualifications of cabinet aspirants. It has boon reported that just before going into retirement the president-elect begun to exhibit a good deal of impatience at tlio way in which ho was being pursued and hounded by the politicians , and that some of them had expressed indignation at what they regarded as shabby treatment. Proba bly this was so , for Mr , Cleveland is notable for his blunt way of disposing of people ho doesn't care to see , but the offended politicians will go to him again at the very first opportunity. As to the cabinet the probability is that most of its members have been selected , though only ono is known to have been chosen Senator Carlisle of Kentucky for secre tary of the treasury. THE starving workingmcn of Belgium deserve the sympathy of the world , and moreover they deserve and must have from some source immediatp aid. Two hundred and fifty of them walked from Ghent to Brussels last Tuesday , a dis tance of thirty-one miles , to call the at tention of the government to their wretched condition. When it is consid ered that this journey was made in cold weather and deep snow , the urgency of their case becomes apparent. They were joined by hundreds of idle workingmen - men of Brussels , and the crowd paraded the streets singing revolution ary songs. Who can blame them ? Hungry men with wives and children perishing for bread are not to bo hold tea a strict accountability for such demon strations. The government officials have promised to give them all the work possible on public improvements , but this is not expected to Ixi sufficient to afford the relief that is needed. The laboring people of Europe are indeed ' having a hard winter. How they will got through it without libaral aid from public funds is hard to determine. j Europe should take care of her suffer ing poor to the extent of keeping them from actually starving and freezing to death. A MEETING of the American Bimetal lic league Is to bo hold in Washington in February. It is expected that about that time congress will bo In the midst of a debate on the silver question , and the members of the league can perform a valuable service in stiffening up the backbone of the free silver men , which is liable to weaken under the Cleveland pressure. The league may do something in this direction , but there is nothing else it can do. The obvious fact is that the free silver Bontimont in the country is declining. A proposition for the free coinage of sil ver would not receive as many votes in congress today as it did at the last ses sion , and in the country at largo the free silver forces have lost strength. L The intornatlOTOt tMnforonco had sotno- Llilnfr to do with thin , as It showed that Europonn coitnMfles do not want anymore moro Hllvor , wlllo they would llko to liavo the UnlU'l States insunio thu whole burdcn'of aioldln r up that motnl , The peiplo wh > 3n'o ) nblo t'j glvo the question tinpik ultoed eonstdcration < now that this would bo disastrous. THE experiment of employing elec tricity in capital punishment has boon entirely Biteeo lfhl in Now York , and there Is no loifior hoard there any de mand for a return to hanging. A bill lias boon Introduced in the legislature of Nebraska providing for "electrocution , " and It ought to receive intelligent con sideration. The chief objection to Ihls method when it was Introduced in Now York wad on the score of cruelty , but It has been demon strated that it is far loss cruel than hanging , for while with the latter pr.occss many of the unfor tunate victims are slowly strangled to deaththe application of electricity under the prescribed conditions produces In stantaneous unconsciousness and death in a comparatively short time. Elec trocution costs more than hanging , but it Is far less barbarous , though its ter rors for the criminal may bo equally great. The old method will ultimately be abandoned generally , and Nebraska may as w < ; H fall Into line now as later on. THE Chicago Inter Ocenn says : "Tho liealth authorities should see to it that iec houses are not stored from ponds of impure water. Death lurks in impure ice. There is no excuse for impure ice this year , and yet tons of it will be doused and marketed if not watched. " This touches the situation in Omaha as well as that in Chicago , but millions of people who expect to visit the World's fair arc interested in the ice question in the latter oitv. THE ecal shortage in Illinois , Indiana , Ohio and some other parts of the coun try is becoming rather serious , and it is a singular fact that the greatest appre hension exists among the bituminous coal consumers who are not at great dis tances from sources of supply. In some cases the railroad companies are blamed for not furnishing adequate transporta tion facilities to meet the consumption , but the hand-to-mouth methods of deal ers and large consumers are chielly to blame. Canto mid iil''ct. ; Chicago Aicics. Mr. Edward Murphy , jr. , has been duly elected to the sonata from Now York. Mr. Cleveland's smlto ns ho takes his medicine is expected to bo ono.of the masterly efforts of his administration. Ilrnrl the I'npulnr. Kansas City Journal. If the United States senators were elected by n vote of the newspapers , Colonel Henry Watterson would bo unanimously chosen to represent Kentucky * for the remainder of Mr. Carlisle's term. h to Dlttcrncss. lloslAil Ulnljc. The man who orttyliyear or two ago an nounced that the gulf stream' had turned to ward the coast of Now England and that our climate was speedily undorgoinK tropicaliza- tion has not bctjn heard from oblate. I low . ) o ! > ny I > c It. Now Jersey imposes no state tax except for public school purposes. The revenue last year was $1.873,83-1. 15 , 9f which 81,600- 000" was derived from 'the railroad tax and the tax on corporations. The collateral in heritance tax yielded $31,51)4.80. ) Now Jersey makes very ( .food use of her corporations if they do sometimes run her legislature. A 1'lon for the llrnlcciniiu. Cincinnati Commcivlaf. White pity pees with them who go down to the sea in ships when cold winds blow , the kindly heart bleeds for tlio poor brakcmen on their windy parches or icy runways on top of freight trains. In severe weather the life of the freight brakeman is probably tlio hardest and' most perilous ( if nil the toiling trades. His danger and suffering are , however - ever , much diminished on some roads by the adoption of modern contrivances for coupling cars and braking trains. These improve ments , when ttioy are real , practicable im provements , greatly facilitate the operation of trains , decrease' dangers and losses , and are , in the long run , economical. - - 1 Valentlno'H .Mission. H'lis/itJiydjii / Dl i > ateh to the ( llobc-Dcmncrat. Scrgeant-at-arms Valentino of the senate has been sent out to Nebraska by the repub lican "steering" committee with the hope that ho may bo able to untangle the sena torial snarl in that stnto and bring about the election of a republican senator. Mr. Valentino tine was formerly a member of the house of representatives and upon his failure to bo reelected - elected his friends , Senators Manderson and Paddock , succeeded in having him elected sergeant-at-arms of the senate. Ho has an idea that he may have moro strength in the Nebraska legislature than cither Senator Paddock or John M. Tnurston , both of whom are struggling to got a majority of the votes by a combination with the populists. Outraging 1'nlilln Patience. Clilcatjn Tribune. Railroad managers have shown themselves on many occasions utterly indifferent to pub lic sentiment and ignorant of its strength until the lightning struck them. Another experience of that kind will befall them if they do not look out. Their contempt for tlio rights of all others , their .shameless dis regard of the sanctity of human life , the proprietary airs they assume regarding the public streets , the control they oxcrcisoover venal councils , the use they make of the ma chinery of the courts in order to escape pay ment for the wrongful acts of which they are guilty , are fast wearing out the patience of a community which Is usually so engrossed In business cares theft' none but gross and re peated outrages attract its attention. Colorado .Iiwtlen Ilovlewod. Deneer , llei > utiUciiu. On a few technical errors , which to the lay mind look very trivial when considered In connection with tie vast volume of con vincing testimony showing the guilt of the defendant , the supreme court of Colorado yesterday granted > a now trial to Dr. T. Thatcher Graves , v.l was convicted in the district court of Arniwhoo county a llttlo moro than a year ago , pf the murder of Mrs. Josephine Barnaby , i There is no appoiriifrom this decision , and , as a now trial is imuwbate , the result of it will ho that the crliniv in question , which in many of its phases.X'is ' certainly ouo of the most diabolical in thejhtstory of the country. will forovergo unpunished , because It would bo a practicable impossibility , owing to the extraordinary cxpnisus involved and other obstacles , to over ( jot the witnesses for the prosecution together again. It is not surprising that the people are losing faith in tlio oflleaoy of the machinery they have established for the administration of Justice in thU country when they see the deliberate Judgments of so many of their trial courts and Juries sot aside every year by the courts of last resort on hair-splitting theories regarding mere niceties of vorba definitions and strained constructions of old decisions or doubtful text books , in open and often apparently willful disregard of the plainest requirements : law and Justice. lc > i * < r\\icf. Dr. Graves may bo guilty , and as the result of the decision heinay go unpunished , yet ho may bo innocent. Many another guilty man has escaped the meshes of the law , but this U no reason why a slnglo ono of the safo- gunrds of the law-tho growth of centuries of humane thought and bitter experience should bo broken down. While ! > v ir.alulaln * Ing thorn Intact n rutMiandod murderer may ti.iwipo today , tomorrow they may IK > tlui moans of pnn'euthiif Judicial murder. ItU batter that ninety and IIIIOKIIU.\ | | men -ihonUl ire unnnnlshod tniiii that ono innocent man should bo put to death. run OIL itnvn i.unnr. Nob. Jan. IDTo the l&lltor of TUB Hun : Tun Ilnn has not mildly denounced the venal lobby that Infests the capltol corridors riders and throngs the hotels of the capital city. Nor docs Tun lints expect over to spool : In uncertain Imu-s rc.tpootln this or any other evil to the publlti Wi\\l of which it becomes - comes cognizant. Tlio moro sensitive of the vile herd that have received Till ! BKB'S de nunciation already crlugo under the lash. Tm : BUB'S excoriation of the ganx in Mon day's Issue caused sovora1 of the most promi nent of their number to slink llko whipped ours to the secroey of thur rooms. They no longer p.irado thomsohvs pretentiously in the corridors of the hotels or appear brazenly on the lloors of the leglslatl vo halls. Novcr- thcless , ensconscd in their sumptuiiusly fur nished parlors , they yet as surely pursue their nefarious railing , using their runncro and cappers to inveigle , by sueh sinister in fluences ns they understand , the legislators with whom they would deal Into their pres ence. It is now behind locked doors and often after the hour of midnliht that these mun do their dirty work. But whore oilo has disappeared from the public ga/.o a half a do/en others appear In his stead. Kvury train that arrives at Lin coln adds increase to the number. The floors and the corridors of the capltol have been thronged during the p.ist .few days with this ilic great-bellied pachydermatous , hide-bound , shameless fellows. And they go everywhere. They are seen in the various executive rooms in consultation with the respective officials and their subordinates. They wander about the lloors of the legis- latlvo halls when these bodies are in session and supinely sit bcsldo members in their seats or liomiob with them in the retired al coves of the convict-built odillco and yet the rules that govern cither body of the legislature forbid anyone on the floor , save by the ukase of the respective presiding ofllcers. It is easy enough , however , for these mercenary vote-procurers to suborn indigent doorkeepers. And why should the latter bo invidiously censured , with the examples before them I Ono of the most humiliating spectacles that may bo readily witnessed has occurred at the west end of the c-apltol with the opening of every day's session ever since the assem bling of the legislature. Daily , ns promptly as the hand of the. clock marks the hour for the assembling of the body , a bevy of frayed and faded women , with cold , hard faces , follow In the wake of a prominent oxecutlvo officer and enter the senate cham ber by the private entrance- that leads to the room of the lieutenant gov ernor of the state. Ono of these is the most notorious female lobbyist that over dis graced the capital city. She has not been able to gain entrance to the iloorof the house this session and yet she is permitted and , forsooth , invited to parade her brazen pres ence in the face of the senate day after day. So don't blame the subordinate doorkeepers. When ono sees the influence with which they would have to contend in any attempt to enforce the rule it is patent how impotent their effort would prove. And thus it is that day after day this flock of hungry cormorants that would fatten on their greed poluto the eapitol. Thoshamcof it is humiliation to honorable men. . The dan ger of it is the possibility that they may con taminate son.e with whom they force them selves in contact. Human nature is at best weak. Constant vigilance is the prlco of honor. Why then not down at oneo with the pernicious lobby ? Hero is a splendid opportunity for the populists to show the metal of which they are composed. Let them take stops at once to disKrso [ ! this mob of miscreants by the same vigorous means that they would use to disperse any other gang of outlaws. THE BEE believes that there are honest , un impeachable republicans and democrats who will act with them in this commendable un dertaking. At least the ix > pulists can obhgo every senator and representative to place themselves on record in the premises. Let them dcmnnd si commUtco at once to ferret out tlio scoundrels to ascertain what they have already done , are doing , and hope to do. The party wliion succeeds in driving the rotten lobby out of the capital city will merit and receive the gratitude of the whole people - plo of the state. It can and must bo done. "To your tents , O , Israeli Now s'eo to thino own house , David. " ANTl-Moxor. SJliaASlC.IJfS. There Is talk of erecting a canning factory at Brownvillo. The editors of Ouster county propose to or ganize a press association. Captain J. II. Culver of Milford is a candi date for adjutant general of the state. It is reported that a twenty-inch vein of coal has been discovered in Banner county. Mrs. D. C. Dogger , a well known resident of Liberty , died of pleuro-pnoumonia after a brief Illness. The Pawnee County Farmers institute will bo held in the Presbyterian church in Table Hock , February 13 , 14 , 15 and 10. Five hundred Tlmyer county people went out and chased wolves the other day and succeeded in capturing two of the varmints. The Krarnoy Hub company has been re organized and is now frco from debt. Now capital has been added , but M. A. Brown continues to act as manager. County Clerk Siegel of Franklin county has surprised the oldest inhabitants by turn ing into the treasury $000 in fees in excess of his salary. A burglar in jail at Plattsmouth made a break for liberty , but before ho had got a good start the deputy sheriff had his clutches on him and landed him once moro behind the bars. While enjoying a Sunday buggy ride with a lady friend , Thomas Castor of Arapahoe let his team secure too much of a start and both the occupants were thrown to the ground and seriously injured. The Blue Valley Blade of Seward has started on its sixteenth year with every in- .diuatiou of prosperity. For thirteen years and a half it' has been under the efficient management of J. II. Botzor & Son. J. O. Brown of Strang , while on his way frow Geneva with a heavy load of flour , wa , thrown from his wagon by a runaway teams ono wheel of the wagon passing over his head. His recovery is doubtful. Martin Kanaly , residing at Itulo , returned homo at a late hour at night and satisfied his hunger by devouring a huge slice of broad that his wife had covered with rat poison and left lying on tno table. The mistake was soon discovered and a physician sum moned , who made a thorough application of a stomach pump and saved the patient's life. T11K 11KIXS. Somcrvllle Journal. The night was clear , tin ) sleighing good , Tlio cutter heat nut w ldi > , ghnsnii' Klcd close beneath the robe To hur fond lovor's.sldo. The IIOTMI was Nplrltud uiul Jumped With frcqiiunt tile's and traln- > , Until slut Innocnntly milil : "Do.let mo hold the reins ! " Thny'ro married now , porluips because- tilio was M ) helpful tliim. Bhn loves him well , and ho lores her Well , In tlio way of men ; And yut In nil their Mweut delight OntiHud thought makes him wlnco ; Shu held the ruins that wlntor'd held them ever since. NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Vanilla Of perfect purity Lemon Of great strength- Orange Economy In their uia. Flavor as delicately and dellcloutly as the fresh fruit. TO REGULATE THE BUSINESS Praaltlcnt Harrison's Vigorous Stand In Invor of Homo Industry , INTERESTS OF CANADA THREATENED Hnr ItitllnmOii Mint Comi.ljlth tlio Itttlo * iiK All Int'THtuto Column' In Till * Country or I.OAO 1m- I'ortiint WASIIIXOIO.V Bruiutr OP Tun linn , i Mil Foi'nrir.XTit : STIIICT : , > WASHINGTON , D. C. , Jan. 10. | President Harrison will send to congress within a few days a special message which may have an important bearing on the possi ble annexation of Canada to the United States. The message Itself , while dealing with a mere detail of commerce ncro.-u the borders. Involves some vast commercial In terests that , hi the opinion of members of the committee on foreign all'alrs of the house , and of a similar committee of the senate , cannot fall to make an immediate impression upon the growing sentiment In British Amer ica in favor of extending the northern boun dary of the United States to the frozen limit of the continent. Tun llm : correspondent is able to state upon the highest authority that the message of President Harrison to congress will point out a plan by which the discrimination in favor of the Canadian Pacific railroad against railroads of the United Stistcs may be effectually prevented without violating the treaty of Washington. That treaty pro vides for the shipment of goods under consu lar oeal from one place in Canada to another across United States territory , and vice vors.i , but the same treaty provides , also , that goods thus transhipped across the ter ritory of cither country must bo from a con tiguous nation. Can ICnully lln Controlled. Now at least nine-tenths of all the nier- chandiso shipped over the Canadian road and admitted across the border into the United States under consular seal and with only a nominal examination since it is a physical impossibility for the consular agent at the border to examine moro than a minute fraction of this great volume of commerce- is cither from Asia or from Europe. It is evident that the contiguous clause of the treaty of Washington makes it within tlio power of the United States government to insist iu > on a rigorous examination of these goods at the port of original entry , and to prevent their transhipmenfnnderconsular seal. seal.President President Harrison's message will also deal with another phase of the question which will provo ombirr.isshig : to the sub sidized military road of Canada. The presi dent will declare , in reply to Mr. Hitt's reso lution , that this government has the right to require inspection by its customs ofilccrs , of poods received from a territory not con tiguous , at an American port ami scut by the high se.s to another American port for transhipment. For example , the greater bulk of the silks and teas sent in English bottoms from the orient for importation into this country are delivered in bond at San Francisco and then sent by vessel to Columbia , in the state of Washington , whence * under seal they are carried over the Canadian Pacific railroad and thence across the border to cither New York or Boston or whatever other United States port to which they may bo consigned. Under the view which President Harri son will take , such importations would hereafter receive examination by United States ofllrers upon arrival at San Francisco , and the duty upon them would bo imme diately levied and collected. The effect of this would bo to throw their transportation across the continent into the control of American railways instead of the Canadian military lino. These will be the chief points of the much heralded retaliatory message soon to bo transmitted to congress. Itcmomburril 1IU Hocrotnry. President Harrison's nomination of his private secretary , Mr. Elijah W. Halford of Indianapolis , to bo a paymaster in tho-army , with the r.inlc of major , which was foretold in these dispatches last week , was received at the capitol today with much satisfaction. It is the custom of the senate to confirm without delay any nomination which the president may make as an evidence of per sonal friendship , and had not the senate to day been occupied until a late hour with the discussion of the anti-oution bill , Mr. Hal- font's name would probably have been taken up at once and his nomination confirmed. The position to which Mr. Halford has been nominated pays a salary of ? ,500 a year for the lirst five years , then $2,750 for flvo years , and then for live years $3,000 each year. In addition to this three are com mutations in the way of fuel , quarters , etc. , which aggregate a total of about $10,000 a year. Mr. Halford is fully familiar with the j duties , having served in the pay corps of the I army at a time during the late war. It Is expected that Mr. Halford will remain in his present position till March 4. The following pensions granted are re ported : Nebraska : Original Joseph Cranford , Benton Cotterman , Eugene W. Inghram , George W. Bates. Samuel Warren. Addi tional Samuel N. Skccls , Lcvi F. Gardner , William Mergcn Thaler , John M. Whitt , John W , Hiirpon , William M. Heed. Ko- issno John Dempsey , Alexander /ike , John H H. Sutton. QrlKtn.il Widows , Kti % John Wheolcr ( father ) , Hllw Sawti'll , Murv F Tucker , Survivors Indian WnrsJuuim Cunnlnghnin , niowa : Original -Wlltlnm O. Garnett , Charles Terrence , Conrad Weinberger , Wil liam Taylor. William Welsh , Jnmcs M. Thlrkleld , George Wilson , James M. ( 'ass , Additional -'cargo W , Tlvls , Frederick FoU per , Francis Leonard , Auaustim Un-ohi , James P. Mttle , George W. Hooper , William C. ' Horner , Henry Fiuno. Increase Udwnnl Vail. Frederick N. ICellogg , Uanforth I. . Hare , itamc.1 Board , John Q. Crnbtive , Ixjtmiel Manly. William Grace , William II. Kennedy , James F. Brown , Hubert II , Jones , Washington Tharn. Heissuo Alex K. Fin. lo.v. James W. Smith. Original widows , etc. Nancy Van Bnsklrk. Kllen D.uighorty , IJaehel M. Garnett. Nelllo Hare , Martha A. Webb , mother : Kaohol Davis , mother : Samuel I > wls. father ; Moses Pnllov , father ! Mathlew Slnkey , father ; Luelnda bailoy. South U.iuotn : Additional-William W. Daniels. Original widows Susan Sands , Anna S. Whitlow. All < Fourth-class postmasters appointed today : Nebraska ,1 , U .Suitor at I-arco , Mcl'hersou county ; II. 1) . llemlrick at Cushion , York county. Iowa -I ) . S. Thompson atDoman , Fn.vctto county. Hon. Uiii T. Nettloton o f Spring Kauch , Clay county , is hero us messenger , bringlnt- the presidential election returns for Ne braska. W. W. Baldwin of Burlington , In. , is at the Arlington. Alexander C. Coble of Wyoming has been appointed a principal examiner in the gen eral land office at S-.OOO a year. Mrs. Senator Manderson having b.'cn and continuing to bo Indisposed necessitating confinement to her residence has not been able to receive this winter and probably will not be able to do so at least not until the weather becomes propitious. Lieutenant Bernard Abort Byrne , llrst lieutenant Sixth United States Infantry , mid wlfo are stopping for a few weeks at the Ebbitt house. In the case of Kufus B. Thompson against Edward A. Gerrard from Grand Island , Secretary - rotary Noble today dismissed the contest , Ho dented the application for a now hearing in the case of Itufus W. Thompson against Charles W. Xcigler , from the same place. Assistant Secretary Chandler has affirmed the judgment in the. contest of Eric Iversou against Alfred B. Kobin.son , from Yankton , S. D. . in favor of Kobinson. P. S. II. K M' | ) Tlirm at Home. While the Graphic does not believe In drawing the sex line too taut in tlio emploj - incut of public servants , yet wise discretion would dictate that the state legislature should not debase the moral status of female purity by bringing it in contact with the Im moral microbes that swarm in the state ImiiHO at every session , of the legislature. Manhood Is debased enough by such associa tions without dragging womanhood into the infected mire that biennially impregnates the moral atmosphere at the state capltol , A i-'i\\ \ \ ' j-'ti.\ . Indlnnnnoll.i Journal : "I see you have a new typewriter. " "Ve.s. The other ono and I quarreled MI much that I was afraid it would end In nmr- rlaso. " rhlcngo Inter Ocean : "How li It that your sister Is M > much moro skillful In using bur left hand than you ? " "Gracious ! Iion't you son thu diamond en gagement ring she wears on thai hand ? " Atchlson nioho : A boy never looks In tlio glass to HCO If his face N clean , utter ho bus washed it ; ho looks at the dirt on the towel. Washington Smr : "My old aunt out. In Ilrown county lias sent me a jur of brandlrd penelii'H , " said Air. l.ushfortli to a row of his friends. "Now , while I don't llko ponchos , still I fully siniireclato the spirit In whlclithoy were tendered. " Puck : "Now , this house , " said the native of Allegheny county , I'onnsylvanlu , pointing out a log cabin to the stranger , "Is the most won derful structure of Its kind In all this coun try. " What's wonderful about lt " "It'xtlio only lot ; cabin west of thu Allegheny moun tains that Washington hasn't slept In. " UhloiiKo Tribune : "Why don't you eo homo for your noon lunch ? " Inquired thu c.lty mini , "Iteeanso , " answered tlio Kiilmrhniiltii , "I don't roach my olllco soon enough lo bo ulilo In return home Milllclenlly early to get hack again lu time to start home for my dinner. " Clothier and Furnisher : Shu I thought you might not bu able to come tonight on account of vour leg. Ho Why , what do you mean ? There is noui- ' Inu tlio mutter with my log. Hhe How stranj-o ! Jly brother told mo that at the card party thu other nljjht some of thu boys pulled It awfully. I'uck : Billy Kroiitrow Then you think yon have a good company this mwson ? KnUiiislastlu Managur A good company Why , they're all stars , hlr ! Kvery lady In tfiu cast Is a colubrated divorcee , and every man has won his prize light. Washington Star : A man named Hamlet ot Lexington , Mo. , committed suicideon Tues day. Everybody In town was In the habit of Haying to him , "f am thy father's ghost , " and he just couldn't stand It any longer. Indianapolis Journal : "Walter , " said a trav- elliiK man In a small Kentucky town , " 1 wish a class of water. " ' Oan'lslt It , sab , " was the answer. "Onoo1 dem tank fthows wall boah las' week an' dona used up all do watiih duy was In town , sab. " TIIK IMl'OSSllll.V. . Chtcayo Kcws. Walt , oh. wait till coal U cheap ; Walt till love Is trim : Till proml.soH are iimdo-tn knop And notes itru paid when due ; Walt till thn MIII grows leaden cold ; Walt till ; your ship comes In ; Walt tilt unwed maids grow old And vlrtnu cnminers hln ; alt till llfo Is a happy dream And men aru deceivers never ; Walttlll tlihiCH are what they seem Walt and you'll wait forever. Largest MnmifauturpH anl KotUlorj of Uloililug In tno World. . I Odd Pants. We are going to have the oddest pant sale of the season some of these days. Justwatoh this space and you will see something to in terest you if you want pants. In the meantime - time we continue to sell our overcoats and suits at January prices -way down to bed rock for the best styles guaranteed to be of our usual standard qualities. So are the pants. Watch for 'em. You need have no hesitancy in purchasing your hats or furnishing goods of us , for wo pride our selves on these departments as much as on the others and we have styles and prices to suit all tastes. And don't forget to watch for the pants. BROWNING , KING & CO , Btoro on over * * eypnlnj till a j g , W , COf , 16th and DOUglaS St
