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RiU'UiiMCA.vs in the legislature
flhould atantl up for Nebraska and help
the honest men of all partiog.to clean
out the state house.
THE only salvation for the republican-
party In Nebraska la to disown , re
pudiate and turn out every official who
lias boon guilty of malfeasance In oflleo.
TlIK gai'bugoquestion is apparently as
far from a satisfactory settlement as
over. If any change from tlio present
Hystom is to bo adopted it should bo done j
nt once In order that the city may receive
the benefit this biiminor.
Tun new supreme court commission
is composed of lawyers of moro than
uvorago ability. The members are all
in their prime and will bo in position to
expedite the business of the supreme
court and reduce the docket , which has
become extremely voluminous.
THE penitentiary contractor is under
criminal indictment. The contract
under which ho was operating is pro
nounced by the very best of legal au
thority to bo void , because the legis
lature had no authority to enter info
any contract. In any uvent the state
Hhould rosiuno control of the peniten
tiary and arrange for properly hous-
7ng , feeding , clothing and working the
yrlsonors. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Tun conscience of the Honorable Mr.
Sheridan was smitten in a very tender
spot when ho heard the rumor that
llosowator had been consulted by mem
bers of the investigating committee concerning -
corning its report on the cell housn
ficandal. But the tender conscience of
tlio gentleman from Red Willow ex
perienced no shock when ho tried to
hold up ox-Ueprosentativo Stornsaorff
on the insurance bill.
IT WAS to bo expected that all the
pang of oil roomers and political pro
curers now congregated at the state
capital would rally to the defense of of-
licinls ' who have connived nt the plunder
ing o'f the state by the penitentiary
gang. The question is , will any decent
member of the legislature , republican ,
democrat or populist , disgrace thorn-
solves by playing into the hands of this
gang ? Stand up for Nebraska and turn
the rascals out.
THE action of the republican house
caucus cannot bo binding on any honest
republican who is not a railway poli
tician. The impeachment resolutions
ivro reaching after the men who form
the majority of the State Board of
Transportation , and the railroads are
desperately in earnest to keep thorn
wharo they are , no matter if they were
guilty of burglarizing the state treas
ury. Republicans should stand up for
Nebraska and not for railroad corpora
tions.
THE corporations who own and con
trol the three mombora of the State
Board of Transportation who are mixed
up In the cell house ombo/.zlomonts will
B- inako n dosporata effort to keep thorn
from resigning and to protect them from
impeachment. In all such emergencies
the ropuollcana are dragooned Into do-
fondlng corruption and upholding ras
cality through the machinery of the
caucus. Any republican who allows
"himself to bo used for Mich a vllo pur
pose digs his own political grave and
drives a nail Into the oollln of his own
party. Republicans must stand up for
Nebraska and quit lighting the battles
of the railroad corporations and dis
honest olllclals who have betrayed tholr
trust.
TUB organ of the penitentiary ring
solemnly warns the legislature against
secret "star-chambor proceedings and
pompously demands that every man have
his day In court before ho IH condemned.
If every thlijf and swindler who has pil
laged the btato treasury had his day in
court the criminal docket of Lancaster
county would nil several volumes nnd
the dimensions of the penitentiary would
have to bo doubled , but tlrtr cry of
star-chambor judgments is a mere sub
terfuge to shield faithless and dishonest
ofllclals from censure. AVhon it comes
to impeachment and criminal prose
cution they will 10iy
have tholr day
In court the same as any ether
culprit charged with crime. They will
bo tried in open court by judges ant
juries sworn to do justice according to
the law and evidence. They will bo
givun amplu opportunity to confront and
cro-examino the witnesses and raaka
any defense they may sco fit to justify
their conduct. Tha Htar chamber inves
tigation of tha committee in a grand
jury proceeding , and grand juries do no
permit parties charged with critno .0to
browbeat and cnws-oxatnlno witnesses
and sot up sjHicIoud picas of innocence.
I.r.T Til KMIK.SOiV AT ONCK.
The Ihroo mi'inborn of thoStato Board
of Public Lands and Utilh11npn who are
implicated In the cell IIOIIPO frauds
should tender tholr resignations at onco.
The Hovcro indictment which the IIOIIHO
has voted by an overwhelming majority
in adopting the report of the investiga
ting committee deprives them of all
further public confidence. There Is no
doubt whatever that tholr conduct con-
Btltutcs an impcachablo misdemeanor ,
whatever may bo said to the contrary by
certain eminent legal lights. Concjsoly
stated the cell house investigation has
disclosed these facts :
The IcglHlaturo of 1801 voted $10,000
for the erection of a cell hoiiso at the
penitentiary. The Board of Public
Lands and Buildings was by law made
the custodian of this fund and charged
with Its disbursement. How did they
discharge that trust ? They did not
hire an architect to make plans and
specifications ; they did not determine
the dimensions of the building and they
invited no builder to make an estimate of
the cost or submit u bid. They simply
entered into a criminal conspiracy with
Mosher to have the whole appropriation
absorbed , and in pursuance of this con
spiracy tlioy hired William Dorgnn ,
Mother's superintendent , to take charge ,
of the construction nnd gave him full
power to buy material , hire workmen
and pay what prices ho pleaded ! Before
a stroke of work was done they took
8o,000 out of the state treasury and put
it in the hands of Dorgan to expend or
pocket as ho might % co fit. This
was roixrated from time to time
until all but 31,700 had been drawn
out of the funds. They had no
check upon Dnrgan tuid did not try to
have any. They allowed him to fix his
own price on the convict labor and
cashed his fraudulent vouchers when
they could readily have found out that
the state was being robbed. When they
vauted to take a junket at the state's
expense under pretext of inspecting
n-isons they requested Dorgiin to put
ijOO of the cell house fund at their dis-
and used up or pocketed the whole
amount.
Now technical lawyers will pretend
hat this is only n case of gross neglisi
gcnco. Suppose the manager of a pri-
ate corporation should bo found * guilty
f such -conduct would it bo called
gross negligence or would not the
nan bo guilty of ombe.loment either ns
u-inelpal or as accessory ? Each of these
non must have known that Dorgan's
ouehcrs were frauaulont and they cor-
.alnly did know that more than half the
nonoy was being criminally squandered.
3ut a public ofllcor stands in a different
elation from a private manager and
such an ofllcor docs not need to commit a
downright felony to bo impcachablo for
nisilemoanoi-B in otlice. Ono of the
articles of impeachment against David
3utlor was for sending false information
.0 the house of representatives over his
own name as governor.
It was an impcachablo offense In the
iicmbors of the board to lot the cell
liouso work without plans , without nn
estimate and without competing bids.
They certainly laid themselves liable to
mpenehment for taking $5,000 out of
the treasury bsforoany service had been
rendered or any material furnished.
They committed an impeiichublo misdemeanor
meaner when they approved vouchers
labor that had never been rendered.
They committed a misdemeanor in olllco
when they took SoO&outof the cell house
fund for traveling expenses.
Each and nil of those acts were mis
demeanors in oflleo contemplated by the
constitution ns proper subjects for
retting rid of dishonest or unfaithful
otllcors , and wo have no doubt whatever
that an impeachment would hold against
each member of the board now in olllco
who was connected therewith. It seems
to' us , however , that the odium under
which these men now rest should prompt
them to retire. Lot thorn resign nnd ro-
llovo the republican party , which is
justly hold responsible for the honest
administration of the atTuird ot the state.
If they decline to stop down they should
bo impeached nnd removed.
A VKItr LAMK DKFKNSB.
The members of the Board of Public
Lands and Buildings whoso criminal
nogllgonco and connivance with the in
dicted contractor of the penitentiary in
the cell house frauds have boon mnda
the subject of legislative investigation ,
have given publicity to an authorized
statement concerning tholr complicity
in the frauds perpetrated by Dorgan and
Mosher. This so-called defense would
within itself constitute an unanswerable
arraignment of the bsard. It Is admit
ted at the outset that on the -1th day of
May , 1891 , within thirty days nftor "tho
legislature had made the $10,030 ap
propriation for a now cell house
they appointed W. II. D.irgan
as superintendent of the building.
Now Dorgifn win notoriously for
years Boss Stout's boodle lobbyist
and was employed in the same capacity
by Moshor to tamper with the peniten
tiary committee of 1891 nnd pull through
the 10,000 appropriation for a cell house
in the face of the fact that the peniten
tiary contractor was obligated by his
contract to erect the cells at his own ex
pense , which of
part the contract re
mains unfulfilled oven to this day.
Every man on the board knew that Dor-
gun was Mosher's lioodlo man , nnd yet
they chose him of all others to superin
tend the building.
The next line of defense Is a' general
denial of fraud In the price of labor and
building material and thq assertion that
all the vouchers endorsed by the board
and paid the
by treasurer wore
absolutely correct and every dollar
represented thereby wni actually pnld
and honestly expended. What a mon
strous falsehood ! Competent builders
and material men testify that the
wretched ! shod called n cell house , for
which over $ . ' 13,000 have boon paid out
already , could have been built for from
$15,000 to $18,000. Tlio price paid for
stone , sand nnd other material was moro
than double the market price , and the
price charged up for convict labor to
the ' Htato was more than double that
paid ' Moshor by sub-contractors in the
j'J | . Dorgan himself testified that the
vouchers which the board endorsed as
straight included charges for ton days'
convict labor during a tlmo when the
convicts did not do n stroke of work.
The defense about the tumble-down
wall Is too flimsy to bo worthy of notice.
, j
The board was guilty of criminal negll
genco when It permitted the old worn
wall which forms the enclosure of the
penitentiary to bo used ns one of the
walls of the cell house.
The embezzlement of $500 from the
cell house fund for a two weeks' junket
Is sought to bo justified on th
that the board desired to inspect prisons
in different states In order to bo able to
model after them. If thiswas true why
did they not make the tour before they
had begun building the cell house with
out plans and without specifications ?
What benefit did the state got out of the
$500 , and why did they not take the
money out of the treasury directly in
stead of paying it over to Dorgan for
cell house construction and taking it
back from him as a present ?
The most pitiful pica of all Is that the
board has too much work to do to do
anything honestly. They cite the many
different duties they have to perform
and ask indulgence for-deliberately
opening the doors to systematic fraud
and embezzlement of state funds.
With such n himo defense the mem
bers of the board stand self-convicted
before the state and no man who has
any self-respect in or out of the legis
lature can condone their conduct ortl
give them any countenance or support.
TIIK I.L'MIIHlt DKALKHS.
The convention of the lumber dealers
of Nebrtisica now in session in this city
l.s the largest and most important ever
hold by the association. The great quostl
lion for the lumber dealers is that of
railroad rates , and in this the general
public has a deep interest. Reduced cost
of transportation would mean lower
prices for the consumer , and as there are
thousands ] of farmers throughout the
state who must build houses und barns
and other buildings , to say nothing of f
the growing demand for lumber in the
.
cities and villages , it needs no argument
to prove that the cost of lumber is a
question of great importance to the
people of this state.
An era of building among the agricul
turists ! of Nebraska must soon begin.
Thousands of fanners who have practi
cally no barns or outbuildings of any
kind are now getting into a financial
condition that will permit them to ns
sumo the burden of expense incident to
erecting farm buildings. This will
create a lively demand for lumber , which
will increase from year to year. If the
dealers can secure such a reduction of
transportation rates as they have long
contended for , the baneflt will be felt by
the consumer. That ought to bo ono of
the chief aims of the Nebraska Associa
tion of Lumbermen.
SUWRESSIOX OF TliUSTS.
It is evident that the suppression ol
trusts and similar monopolistic com
binations must bo largely the work o !
the states. The federal anti-trust law ,
which is perhaps as complete and com-
proheisivo as it is possible to make
such a law , has failed to accomplish
anything. The combinations which it
declares unlawful enjoy absolute im
munity and flourish as prosperously ns
though they were not obnoxious the
law and the public policy. It may bo that
it is not practicable for the general gov
ernment to deal with these combination !
as the law contemplates , or pos
sibly the federal authorities charged
with the enforcement of the law have
not boon as earnest and zealous as they
might have been , but in any event it is
obviously necessary to an olTectual sup
pression of the trusts that the states shall
legislate 1 against them. They would
speedily go down under the operation ol
a general system of hostile state laws
and there is no assurance that they can
bo suppressed without such laws.
Anti-trust legislation has been pro
posed in some of the states. A compre
hensive measure for the punishment o
portions engaged in trust combinations in
Illinois is before the legislature
of that state , the terms of whicli
may furnish Suggestions to ether logls
latures. The bill dolines u trust to bo r
combination of capital , skill or acts by
two or moro persons or firms or othot
associations for any or all of the follow
ing purposes : "To create or carry otit
restrictions in trade ; to limit or reduce
the production or increase or reduce the
price of morchandlso or commodities ; to
prevent competition in the manufacture
transportation or Halo of the same ; to fix
any standard or figure whereby tlio [
price to the public shall bo in any man
ner controlled or established , or to es i-
tablish any pretended agency whereby
the sale of such article or commodity
shall bo covered up or lo
to appear to bo for the ll
\ ender or manufacturer ; to enter into
any contrncl or agreement not to poll below -
low u common standard liguro or in any
ether way to preclude u free and unre
stricted competition Miiong themselves !
or others in the Mile or transportation of f
any artlolo or commodity , or by which
they shall agree to pool or unite any in
terest so that the prlco may in any man
ner bo nlTected. " It Is provided that ia
corporation violating the act shall for
feit Its charter hold iinilur thu laws rf f
the state , and proceedings may bo
Instituted by the attorney gen
eral or prosecuting attorney. Any '
foreign oDrparatlon diing Innlirju
in the Htato and violating the
act Is to bo prohibited from doing busl-
II
liens In the Htato. The act declares violation
lation of Hi provisions t-i IM no mi piracy
agalnsl trade and a mlstloimmiior , and
idnt
every person who as principal , agent
or employe , or In any other capacity
knowingly violates the nut shall bo pun-
Ulioil by u line of not loss than $2,000 nor
nero than M.rm Any contract or
igroomont madd'Jiii ' violation of the act
hall be void and not enforceable either
n law or equity , lint the provisions of
ho not are not t j&xtoml to agricultural
irodticts or llvo sjfjpk.
If the states generally wore to adopt
ogtslatiou of this "Rind there would bo
in early end to trldGts and all eomblna-
ions of like chat-actor , and It Is the
only certain wnyb which to crush out
! (
hose consplracb against trade. At
my rate an oxpej-jlpnco of throe years
inco the onnctiiu ijt of the federal antirust -
rust law has shown It to bo without of-
ccl and there is little reason to expect
any bolter results from it In the future.
The pointed condemnation by Mr. Clove-
and of "Immense aggregations of kin-
Irod enterprises nnd combinations of
nisincss interests" cannot bo regarded
ns necessarily assuring nn earnest effort
on the part of the administration lo sup-
n'css such combinations.
TIIK STATK Of TlltlDE.
The" financial disturbances have begun
, o effect general business unfavorably ,
and uneasiness Is not confined to fluctuat-
ng securities An Wall street. Merchants
mil manufacturers are beginning to fool
some apprehension on account of the
jontimianco of the gold exports' . It Is
.infortunato for the business interests of
, ho country that the last congress did
lot dispose of some of the moro impor
tant questions that pressed for solution ,
mil thus relieve the country from the
incortainty that Is so fatal to business
expansion.
An important feature of last week's
business1 was the lively trade that was
carried on in the Stock exchange in
Now York. The stock gnmblors hold
liigh carnival and many thousands of
dollars worth of stocks changed hands.
Various interpretations are placed
upon the government report showing
irain in the hands of farmers , some
brokers regarding it as bullish , while
others think it bearish , and there is a
third class which says that the report
was what was expected and should have
no effect ono way or another. The only
thing that can bo positively said is that
the report has not determined the
future of prices , and if the market is
to < advance sharply the advance must bo
the result of a corner or of extensive
damage to the growing crop.
They may bo crazy out in Kansas , but the
ponulist legislature lias had the wit to head
off an invasion of the state by the endow
ment companies with } is moro than Massa-
chusetts can say fo , jts governing body.
Tlio HnuirJiiy MlSHourlnn.
/vdiiRfii Gtu ( Journal.
Ex-Governor Francis spunklly says that
ho i , doesn't want anything of this administra
tion That's the beauty of a Missourian.
As soon as ho finds hojcan't get anything he
always has the pridu to stand up and de
cline to want it.
Orajrf * Snug Ilnrtli.
Before you poke : fun at your Uncle Isaao
Pusey Gr.iy , who has just been sentenced to
four years' oxllo In Aloxico , remember that
Adlal's salary Is fWU a year , whllo the
salary of the minister to Mc.xlco is $17,001) ) ,
with several largo , Juicy i perquisites on the
side. There are worse things than escaping
n vice presidential nomination.
. < '
lljcprtas.
The Nebraska legishituro has. found bit ;
scandals in the management of tha state
penitentiary and of the Lincoln insane
usyluni. At least it. thinks .it has. There
has been so much uncertainty during the
last few yc.irs as to who were the rcsjKmslblo
ofllclals in Nebraska that it is small wonder
if ropucs have taken advantage of the situa
tlon to plunder the stato.
Party MUCK Should llo Obliterated.
Gmnil lil'tiiil IiultiKittlcnt ,
The charges of Nebraska railroads are on
the average twice as high as these of other
roads. A reduction of ' . ' 0 per cent consequently
quently will leave the Nebraska charges by
threo-llflhs higher than the Iowa rates , a
sufllclcntly large margin. Wo hope that the
house committee's railroad bill will become
a law by the united efforts of the independ
ents and anti-monopoly republicans.
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Inflections on Cleveland's Stylo.
The New York Independent calls attention
to some literary blemishes in President
Cleveland's inaugural address , especially
his tendency to tautology. "lie speaks , " it
says , ' -of 'unreserved and complete devotion
to the interests and welfare' of the people ,
of 'growth and expansion,1 of 'fru
gality and economy , ' of Jprodigality and
extravagance , ' of 'economy and frugality , ' of
'strength and sturdhiess , ' of 'right and jus
tice. ' Ho says that a certain thing should
bo 'Justly and fairly conceded , ' that we
should have a 'Just and equitable system of
federal taxation.1 The use of these synony
mous terms in pairs is ouo of Mr. Cleveland's
literary sins ; and wo notice , also , that he
uniformly separates the sign of tlio inflnl
tivo from its verb : for example , -to con
stantly watch , ' 'to honestly and consider
ately regard. " This Is a very common fault
among American writers. It U very rarely
Kvoiiniiilutil 1'iilno I'rotoimo * ,
AVio I'oift Tribune.
The retrenching , reforming , economical
congress called in to cut down the "billion-
dollar" appropriations and stave oil national
disaster has lived its life , done its work and
passed Into history. It reformed the ex
penditures by Increasing them moro than
KtS,000,000 over tlio appropriations of the
wasteful "billion-dollar congress" It was
elected ' to rebuke. Queer , Isn't It ? Dut is
anybody bothered to understand it ? Hero is
tiib explanation of it. fresh from the Now
York World of Saturday morning : "Ono of
the effects of such a congress as the Fifty-
llrst was is the transmission of the spirit of
extravagance and the infection of its suc
cessors with the Invidious and antl-ropub-
Hcan disease. " That Is , elected to rebuke
extravagance and lotbrm abuses , It took the
infection instead of furnish In , ; n euro , and
increased the oyil It promised to reform.
Oh. Humbug ! hufnltyig ! thy utinio is do-
mocraeyl ' ,
mUrtict Obligations.
.
The Kansas house or representatives has
passed u bill which d6blares to bo null and
void nil contracts in that state that provide
for payment in gold. Undauntedly the mom
hers wl\o \ voted for it , incluJIng s > omo repub
llcans who came to tho- support of the popu
lists , may have thought they were doing a
good thing for the doblor class in Kansas ,
and equally it cannon-bo doubted they la
bored under a great mtsuko. The time oo-
cupletl In preparing anrtdlscussin ; , ' the mcas
uro nnd voting upon U , is simply so mucl
tlmo thrown away , * nfar as the people of
the state are concornuJ. It is worse thai
thrown away , since it has to bo paid for U >
the people an 1 to no purnoss. I'or. If the
senate should pass the bill and the governor
sign it , the monstrosity would not become i
law caplblo of enforcement The constltu <
lion of the United States expressly provides
that "no state shall pass any law impairing
the obligation of contracts. " This is a stem
'
wall on 'which the rascals in Kansas , win
waul to j-optiJIato juymont of ono-thlrd o
their indebtedness , will butt their heads ii
vain.
llrfiiHril l > ) < iontir.il slorum.
HUOOKI.V ; . NY. . , March 15. Genera
Henry W. Slocum was Interviewed this i
afternoon upon tno subject of the recent dis
patch Irom Washington which intimated
that ho would have been ofifured the position
of coinmissionor of pensions if ho had been
imvslcnlly a bio to psrform the duties of that
oftleo. The general s.ildIf I was twenty
years younger I would bs glad to accept the
Mltlon , but nt my HRO I do not fee I cnllod
iHii | ) to tnko such heavy work upon myself ,
do not need the nnico nor tlio snlnry , but t
vould accept tht oflleo If I Avero n younger
nnn for the snlto of Retting the fraudulent
mines on the pension roll and casting them
ut. "
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T..IMKSTN OK TIIK fKFT.
Kansas City .Touriml ; The president li
right. Kdltors who told tin pinto lies all
hrough the campaign don't deserve any
> ork from a consecrated administration.
Olobo-Uemocrat ! The rule excluding cd *
tors from the sorvlco of the government
vlll materially curtail the circulation of
Jlovoland's future speeches and messages.
Indianapolis Journal : As there are ox-
coptlons to all rules , 00 per cent of the demo
crats who hold oftlco under Mr. Cleveland
before ' will now cling to the hopa that they
vlll bo the exceptions to the rule which was
a death warrant to so many thousands ,
Washington Post : A careful anil candid
analysis of the motives governing Mr. Clovo-
"and in his opposition to bestowing ofilcltil
: ircfurinunt upon the editors of the party
icwspapors leads directly to the conclusion
: hat 1m has no use for merely personal
organs.
Minneapolis Trlliuno : "Orovcr Cleveland
is the most popular man In the world , "
writes the editor of the Nashville American ,
'and the preatest who speaks the English
anguage , " ho adds in the ecstasy of his en
thusiasm. And yet that man c.in never bo
postmaster of Nashville.
Plonocr-l'rcss : The heelers nro wonder-
1 ng and scratching their heads and wonder-
ngsoino moro hofnGrover came by the Idea
, hit : ho is the only democnit ill to hold of-
llco twlco. Ho is determined , however , to
: io the only donhlo-ex man In the aggrega
tion. and that's all there is about it.
Ulobc-Datnocrat : When Washington was
selecting his llrst cabinet he said : " 1 want
men already of marked eminence before the
country , not only because they nro moro
likely to bo serviceable , but becaubu the pub
ic will moro readily trust them. " Cleveland
looks at the matter In another light.
This Is the story of "L'Abslnthcur , " the
iilay produced for the first time in Omaha at
the I3oyd last evening. Gaston Beauvais ,
the son of a Parisian banker , loves and is
afllanced to Pauline do Channlllos , daughter
of n rich count. Sllvlon Guidel , a Uroton
lioasant educated for the church , comes to
Paris to bo ordained a priest and is Intro
duced to the Cliarmlllcs. lie promptly falls
In love with Pauline and his love Is mot by
lovo. Thov keep their attachment secret
until Paulino's family Insists on hurrying
her prearranged marrhigo with llonuvnis.
P.iullno confesses her liaison with Guide 1
" and asks her rtanco to release horj ho
"Is forced to refuse , when she tells
him she will break the betrothal bonds
herself and marry Gulilcl. She does not
know Gulitul has Just been ordained a priest.
Beauvais reveals the fact and then rejects
her before the family council The blow-
kills the old count and maddens his daugh
ter. who leaves homo and disappears. Beau-
vais seeks solace in absinthe and becomes an
abslnthcur. He meets Guidel while under
the influence of the liqueur and kills him.
Then ho meets Pauline and tolls her ho has
killed her priest-lover. She suicides In the
Seine. The morgue receives the bodies of
both , and there they are seen by Beauvais.
While Un the morgue a door accidentally
closes on him , and ho dies alone locked up In
the room with the lifeless body of his old-
time ll.incce.
The plot has the elements of power of it ;
touched by the genius of a Daudet or a do
Maupassant , treated oven by the cleverness
of an Edgar Faweett , It might make in
tensely Interesting reading as a short storv ,
hut 1 as a drama and bound within stage
1s limitations 1 It has defects insurmountable to
success. Miss Marie Prescott is the author
of the play as presented at the Boytt List
evening. Her work has many excellences
the dialogue is often as boldly direct as
Ibsen's , character is not unsuccessfully sug
gested but without subsidiary interest
"L'Absintheur" can never be n popular
stage play With n perfcci cast , however , it
might satisfy many for whom the subject
matter of the story way have a morbid in
terest. That perfect cast the play does not
have.
Miss Prescott Is an admirable actress ; her
method is marked by a line distinction ,
though her desire never to overleap the
lines of her art too often leads her to let , .slip
opportunity for entirely paulonablo "stage
effect. ' Ab Pauline her ( -.notions are Ju'st a
trillo too much repressed to gain her the ap
plause of an average audience , but her per
formance has features worthy of the highest
praise. The part as it stands at present
can never gain the sympathy of tno onlooker ,
and haplv that is all that needs be said.
Mr. U. D. Macl.can plavs Boauvals. Ills
work hero , as in most of the character in
terpretations he has ever assumed , lacks
dcfinttoness of expression and fails entirely
of effect. His renunciation scene was fairly
well tilled , yet oven here his strivings fell
short of coipploto expression. Then the
antithesis between the happy , virtuous love
of the early scenes and the sup
posedly debauched abslntho drinker
of the later was entirely lost , did
not seem indeed to bo attempted. Dress
has comparatively little to do with the char
acter impression , and his Beauvais lying
drcnche/i and drunken In the bols looked
much healthier physically than the Beauvais
who brought roses to his sweetheart in the
opening scene. As n whole Mr. MacLean's
Beauvais last evening was unsatisfactory
and entirely unworthy of the book.
Mr. Barry Johnstone was fairly successful
in the part of Ges > sonncx , the absiuthour , a
character that at times reminds of the men
Mursrert has immortalized. The other mem
bers of the comiuny have much yet to learn
of the art whoso profession they have as
sumed. The really line part of the passion-
plagued priest suffered most. The llnal im
pression left by the performance is that Miss
Proscott's play is handicapped by the inca
pacity of the players engaged in its presen
tation.
OMAHA'S CASH ACCOUNT.
City Treasurer Ilollii' * Id-port of the
Collected mill livpcmlixl.
City Treasurer Bolln has Just completed
his statement showing the condition of the
various funds of Jho city March 1. The fol
lowing table shows the amounts received
and ' paid out during the month of February
and'tho balances the llrst of thu present
mouth :
Gmiornl fuml
Sinking funil
Water rent fund
JiiiiKtimnt fund
l.llirarr futul
Hro fuml , .
1'ullcu fund
Curblnu i , oto
Fuwer ] maintaining. . .
1'nrk
DOC
I'avliu lionil
Mllliulols
Sloping lilts . . . .
Tenth nt | vlftiluct. . . .
Klovonlli t viaduct
Mxleentli st vliuliict.
Sewer cimnoctlon
-pecUl at ry. purlntf
1'nllco ncririlon . .
I'luinbcri inulntulu tf
City Iinll . . . . ' .
Mrtoivnlk
onialui timer
Special clninnBOB
Cltr rend
In addition to the nbavo the school fund
shows a collection of flil.ISS 1M. that sum being
turned -over to thu Hoard of Education.
Holdlem Ciinnot KappTlinni Out oftlm Ohor-
tiliuu Strip.
GuTiiitic , Old. , March 15. The Cherokee
strl | > Is being invaded by boomers. Hun
dreds of them were socn there today en
camped along the line of tno Santa Fo road
A troop of cavalry has boon stationed nt
a point twenty-six miles south of Arkansas
City , which Is twelve miles from the Kansas
lino. Movers tire halted. The grass through
the strip has been burned and hardships to
.settlers with their stock Is apparent. There
is every evidence that an invasion of the
Cherokee outloti is tnioatenod. and. in all
fairness , yout correspondent Is of the opin
ion that the soldiers cannot keep the homo
seekers out. Moil with tholr wives nnd
children , with some stock , Intend to invade
the promlsod land , nnd from indications it
seams If the land is not thrown open to set
tlement trouble is Inevitable.
TO REWARD INDEPENDENTS
Third Party Senators ( Hvon a Shtvro of Fed
eral Ptitroungo.
OFFICE SEEKERS ALMOST DESPERATE
Kioctitlro Moii4iire § of the Srtmtc Ncci i\rr
to ( live tlio Mrmlu-rn n Kent trout
the Armjr of Pine *
lluntnrit
BtmiHU OP TUT. DBS ,
513 FouiiTitnxrn S
WASHINGTON , D. U. , March
So many oftlco seekers , many of whom are
from Nebraska and surrounding states , ap
peared in the corridors of the capital today ,
that when a roccss of the senate wat taken
shortly after 13 , till 3 o'clock , the doors lead
ing to the lloor of the chamber wore kept
closed "undor executive orders. " Thus thu
senators had a retreat free from callers.
When the doors of the senate nro closed In
executive session n senator cannot bo com
municated with by any ono on tha outsldo.
Cards are never sent to n senator when the
senate Is In executive session. So the cor
riders were thronged with olllco seekers
today for two hours and n half aiid not a
senator could bo seen.
To UUtrlhuto I'AtroniiRC ,
It Is evident now that the populist sen
ators are to have n hand In the distribution
of patronage. The formation of the com
mittee proves this fact. Senator ICyloof
South Dakota has been matlo chairman of
the standing committee on education and
labor , which gives him a clerk who Is paid
fci.HOO a year with a messenger at $1,000 and
other perquisites.
Senator Peffer has been bountifully sup
plied with committed positions , whllo Sen
ator Allen of Nebraska Is made chairman of
the committee on forest reservations. All
of them will get their share of thu senate
patronage.
Every democratic nnd straight populist
has been made chairman of a committee.
The democrats have also taken two special
committees and made them standing com
mittees , which increases their importance
and gives them annual clerkships and mes-
sensrcrs , Increasing their patronage. Tlio
raising of the standard of the committee on
Pacific railroads , with Calvin S. Urice as
chairman , means that an uflbrt is to bo
made to refund the Union Paclllc railroad
indebtedness. It is stated that thesamo
committee in the house Is to bo formed \ \ 1th
that viow.
Senator Allen Is well pleased with his
committee assignments.
Scliumu ofOIIIi-o.Scc'korii.
In oflico-sccking circles the report wag
circulated today that Hughes East of Ynnlc-
ton , S. D. , who was private secretarv to
Vice President Ilendrleks , had employed
tuo attorneys for the p'irposo of appearing
before the supreme court \\ith an applica
tion for an order "removing his disabilities
as an cx-ofllco holder " Ilnglics was
register of the land oflleo at Ynnkton
four years ago and is consequently
haired out of another place by the Cleveland
rule. An ex-confederate colonel from Vir
ginia went to Mist , It Is reported , and told
him that ho succeeded olglu years ago In
securing an order from the supreme court
which removed his political disabilities.
there being a federal statute which barred
ex-confederates out of certain places under
the government. It is related that East
came to the conclusion that ho could by the
same process have his disabilities removed ,
nnd that ho has employed attornovs for that
purpose. The laugh is now on the citizen of
Yaukton.
In the homestead contest of Elsworth D.
Urown against Perry 11. Dim-oil et al , from
McCook. Assistant Secretary Cnandler has
afllrmed the decision of the commissioner in
favor of Uurrell.
Assistant Secretary Chandler today
affirmed the commissioner's decision in the
timber culture contest of Albert Watson
against the heirs of Joseph Warren , from
lilackfoot , Idaho , which dismissed the con
test In favor of the defendant.
Secretary Smith of the Interior depart
ment today told Marls Taj lor of Huron , S.
D. , that no ono but a lawyer would bo ap
pointed commissioner of tlio trenoral hinil
olllco. As Air Taylor is not , a lawj er ho is
out of the race for that olllco. It is under
stood that .ludgo Uartlott Tripp of Yankton
has as good as been tendered the commls-
sioncrshlp. U K. Church of South Dakota
has also applied for thisonii'o.
Mr. W. Anderson of South Dakota has
matio application for the commisslonorship
of Indian affairs. Mr. U. II. Drown of Sioux
City , an attorney , is in the city and hopes to
be made a member of the Missouri river Im
provement commission. p , 53. H.
-
A Kortminto Senator.
n'aslitn-Jnn Post.
There Is ono advantage In not being a dem
ocratic senator just now , which William V.
Allen of Nebraska seems to thoroughly
preciate. No sooner was ho elected than ap ho
was beset with applications from all over
the state relative to the distribution of
patronage , and it soon became evident to
Mr Allen that if ho undertook to give them
consideration ho would have his hands moro
than full , besides running the risk of being
summarily turned down by the administra
tion nt Washington
As the new senator is not n democrat , but
nn independent , ho holds that ho has nothing
whatever to do with the democratic patron
age , and that ho would bo trespassing
upon
'
other people's pro-sen cs were ho to luterlcro
by way of recommendation or dictation.
position relieves Mr Allen of vrlmt
would ottionvlin bo n most uuploassint nttd
burdnn omo responsibility , and loaves him
nt liberty to attend to hlslrgltlmato business
ai joimtor iinomhnrrasscd
As the administration Is democratic , mid
the patrotmgo belongs to the democratic
party , the Nebraska democracy must hustle
for It as best they can without the assist *
nnco of their truly Independent .senator.
Hitter U llnnmpit.
As the recent spueoh of Mr. Uladstono
holds out no prospect of bimetallism It Is not
probable that the Drussols conference will
rcstimo Its sessions In May. The conference' ,
or some of the delegates , may meet in order
to adjourn formally j but no plan of bimetal
lism will bo discussed , for the simple rea
son that Its advocates have no plan. Mr.
Gladstone sais of the blmetalllsts that "not
ono of thorn has given the faintest , itho most
shadowy indication of the kind of change
they would bo prepared to discuss or adopt "
This remark was designed to describe the
English and continental blmotnlllsts , nnd
probably did not refer to the free silver
statesmen of this country. It Is possible
that Mr. Oladstono has never read the pen
derous treatises of Senator Jones of Nevada ,
In favor of universal coinage of silver at the
ratio of 10 to 1 with gold.
TIIK COMlV.tt. VltKH' .
Philadelphia Hocord ; The | > oor fellow who
\TIIS Idllccl liy tlio fall of an rlovulor ftmbly
moaned In Ins last inomuiitM : "I look a drop
. "
too much.
Indianapolis Journal : "Do vnu really bo
lloxu tliiit slio dlcil of u broken heart after the
dl\orco wnsKriinti'd ? "
"I boni'sily do. You ion , ho failed n short
tlmo after and could pay no moro alimony. "
Slftliics : "This Is a call to alms , " as the
man said aftur a charity sornum
Troy Press : The psiwtiuroUIng business may
mil bo tint bust In thutoild , but It has Its ru-
features.
Philadelphia Times : A ClileitRodi'trctlvo Is
announced as having caught a Hindu ot In *
ciudullty on a lUtcm'i-.s fuoo.
Cincinnati Times : ] ' \ cry man , says a I'lill-
adujphla pit-iu-lier , Is twii-xlilnil. AH aiulolie
lulu's the best earn of lilt Inside.
Chester News : Hot llond Then I'm a liar ?
Cool Head On thn contrary , my ilc.ii- follow ,
you ha\o just spoken tlio truth.
Dotiolt Pico 1'ross : Mis. I'lutnpleljrh ( before
her iiilmmWho said I Imiln't a good Hjjuro ?
Mr. I'I didn't , I'm sum ; but the glass nuaiu *
to 1)0 ca llni ; a iclluctUm.
Indianapolis Journal : Weary Wtitklns Ily
the way , \\ltnt Is your politics'/
Hungry Illiri-'liis I giitKs I am a sort of n
munMumi ) . .Mo appetite Is democrat , but mu
\\lilskerslspopullsl.
rlilcaeo Trlbuno : "Talk about iilr brim ?
fico' " siilil dm young man In KnlcKri dockers
Immllm ; flOOovor tutltn bli-yclo dealer and
taking tht ) machine , "ll'.s the most cxpenslvo
tlilni : on cnrtb. Yon'ro innkliiK a clean prollt
of . W7. GO on Hit- air In HIUMJ pneumatic tlics ,
by gum , anil I know It ! "
< .ntiM > .
Jlfniint I'fnii ? ! Kelts.
ln emptier deessel Is
Do more It makes oil scnin' ,
Whar de blgiies' Kind nb Kinokc Is
Do leustcst Hie Is foun' . ' '
In louder dat yo' hnro do cry ,
Do less you'll llml ob wool ,
An' do man linl talks du niiHtcst
Is do blgKus * kind ob fool.
III.VT.
A VllALLlMUO ,
Tnitli.
Such a dnlnty Ilttln wltclil
In each c lie ok tbtvllinplcd nlrha
Soeniotl a virgin shrlnu beguiling
IMlgrlinllpstiiltsdutlllng ,
And thu saucy gluam of pearl
TliioiiKb hnr moist mouth's ruddy cu 1
Heomod a slrcti hliiKlng tburu ,
"Como and Iclss mo If yon daru ! "
Such an aggravating nuildl
I'rom an cyolld nmbusciido
TJntlcrnpatli bur ( hooping lasbos ,
Mlsclilof hlmt nllui Ing Hashes ,
Saying In each launhliigoye ,
"UDpoitunlty " 111 lly ;
1'alnt beiirt no'er won lady fair ;
t'omu and klis mo If yonuiiiol"
Kvory look and every tone
hcmniMl ti > wliNpor , "U'o'io alonnj
I am moro limn piiRsliig fair , filr !
( 'oinuiind kl/is mu If you ditru. wlr"I
Oulck I canglit linr lit inn iJotir ,
Klssi'd lior twenty times or moio ,
Wbllo sliu liuiulied and crowud with gloo-
I wts : thirty ; sbu nus tlireu.
ea
Largest Manufacturer ! an I [ tat Ulori
of UlothliiE In tha WorU.
Speaking of Robins
Reminds us that when geese fly north
In paries anil orntiinuntal trees
Tlio rod b roast robins elni ; !
And busy little bonoy buos
I'roeliilni the coming spring.
Other signs proclaim It , too.
As tbu wcMithar warmer crows !
And you must do as otliuri do ;
Hbud all your winter olotlius.
tiafcly , tlion. lot thn old dud a go ,
We'll Ut you out In style ;
Then Illto tlio robin ) , don't you
know ,
You'll bo Ringing nil the whllo.
lit. lluiTTON , Walnut , la.
Our styles this season are more.variegated than
ever both in overcoats and suits for boys and men
and in spite or our torn up condition , occasioned by
the remodeling1 of our store , wo head the list for
quantity , quality , style , fit and price. You'll find
it so when you look us over. Don't be a goose.
BROWNING , KING & CO ,
6toroTtnUra0R7tm i3lnzUI1 on ! S , W , Cor , 16th and DouglasSt
