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THE OMAHA DAILY BEK : SATURDAY , MAY 10 , 1894. v 'II1 ! ? OM AJH AH/VILYBEE. K. IloIiWATGH , Kdltor. _ nVKUY MOUN1XO. TintMS OP Dully Iti-c ( without BunitAjr ) , One Year . * jl j T ) < ? lly nn.l Kumlny , Una Y ir . . ' 2 S filx Month * . . . . 5J2 Thr < > < Month * , ; Hunrtn } ' n . On Ywir. ? IS Putunlny tlo , On * Y a ' Weekly flee. One Ywir orricns. Oinnln Tim n * > nulMlnir. - . . . . , . , m Pnuili onmhu. rfincr N nn < l Tnentyfrtiirth ! fnnnm IUIIF * , 1Z IVnrl str t. flilrnirn Ortliv , r,17 C'linmtuT of Cnmnwci1. NPW Vmk ir.Kinra 11. II nn-t 15. Tribune HUB. WAihlnxton , HOT I * Mred. N. W. , All pnmmun'cntlnn * rMAtlnir to now n"1.1" " ' tnrtnl milter Khciul'l lx < niMn > wl : To the RJItor. un.'i.iU r.tnrnns. , . hualnn * letter * nnd remittances idiotild lie itiMremnvl to Thi > Hoc I'uMlnlihiit company. Oni-iln. Dram , check * nnd t > ' "nl ( ' ' > > r l > to lie made pntnMit to the order of III" < "nmnn.ny , ' , , . Tin ; lint ; i-mihiHiiiNQ COMI'ANY. 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Nebraska will be saving about $100 per day when her floating Indebtedness Is cleared away. It's a consummation to be wished for. Bryan will not stand for re-election for congress. The house of representatives has become too circumscribed to hold his ex panding ambition. t It will take something more than a com mittee of five to vindicate the dignity of the senate from the well defined rumors of Sugar trust stock jobbing. Will Bryan become a populist , or does he expect the populists to swallow the free trade and silver democracy will the whale swallow Jonah or will Jonah swallow the whale ? . The sixty-eighth annual meeting of the Congregational Home Missionary society Is the next national assembly which Omaha will be called upon to entertain In early June. No preparations should bo omitted to make Omaha's part in the meeting one entirely creditable to our city. It will cost members of congress Just about $13 a day to go home and fix up their political fences for the fall campaign. Still it is hardly probable that many fences will go to ruin. There are good reasons for believing that the sergeant-at-firms is a poor bookkeeper when It comes to keeping track of congres sional absentees. Senator Morgan Is now taking his turn In prodding Attorney General Olney about his failure to enforce the anti-trust law. He wants the attorney general to tell him whether , In his opinion , there is any defect In the Iqw. A superfluous question alto gether. The defect Is In the attorney gen eral , but that functionary Is unable to see It. Congress proposes to protect the public from false weather prophets by prescribing a penalty of fine nnd imprisonment for any one who knowingly- publishes false weather forecasts or warnings. But how 'can a p r- son know that a forecast Is false until after the period covered has elapsed ? Does the government weather bureau lay claim to a monopoly of the privilege to make a guess at the state of tomorrow's weather ? The engineers who declined a ten days' trip through the Yellowstone as the guests of the Northern Pacific displayed.a laudable Intention to remain frco from obligations to railroad officials with whom they might some time have to treat as representatives of their brotherhood. But , by the way , how does It como that the Northern Pacific , which Is now In the hands of receivers , offers a Junket to the delegates to an engineers' meeting ? It seems to us that the receivers and their subordinates arc abusing the con fidence of the court for which they are acting. The report that extensive frauds have been perpetrated upon the government In connection with the Indian depredation claims Is yet to bo verified. Still the con firmation of the report will occasion no great amount of surprise. It is not a difficult matter to manufacture a bogus claim against the government and bolster It up by false testimony. The Indian depredation field has long been successfully and profitably tilled by unscrupulous lawyers , who consider It no crime to rob the government. A strict In vestigation should follow the present report nnd the punishment Indicted without regard to the prominence of the parties Involved. A Nebraska farmer now a candidate for admission to the state Insane aiylum Is "laboring under the hallucination that ho has received a commission from God to march on Washington and expel President Cleveland - land from his place In the whlto house. The delusion of this unfortunate man consists chiefly In mistaking the agent and In antici pating the tlmo when his dlvlno commission Is to bo carried out. If ho had only been wlso enough to wait until the next presi dential election and to allow the people of the whole United States to assist him In his work ho would have como out of the contest with flying colors , The execution of that dlvlno mission to oust the present president from the whlto house Is necessarily pon- poncd , but none the less Inevitable. There will probably bo fewer people solng away from Omaha for the summer this year than there have been for several seasons past. The effect of hard tlmoi is generally to cut off the luxuries and most dlspensahlo enjoyments of life and hard times will doubtless - loss bo the oxcui > o offered In more than onu case for the absence of the usual summer season In the mountains or at the sea shore. Thofo who remain In Omaha during the heated months will bo surprised to find how comfortable they can make themselves with out leaving homo If they will only make the effort. They will bo ablo. to amuse them selves and enjoy the company of their friends right hero In Onmha at a consider able less expense than at their customary summer resort. Qlvo Omaha a fair trial and the out-of-towu vacation will lose half Its attraction * . During the progress of the preliminary hearing of th" flennett-Hosewatcr libel cases the charge was openly made In court that the prosecution had been Instituted at the Instance of conspirators for political pur poses and personal revenges. Later on the editor of The Ilee charged , over his own name , that the decision of the police Judge was known to nnd foretold by a prominent court ofllror two weeks before the taking of testimony had been concluded. In fact , the plot had become town talk days before the findings of the court had been made public. And now Judge Scott lias unwittingly un masked the plot by .a public declaration that stamps him with Indelible Infamy , In explaining why he had concluded to waive his alleged prerogative to preside at the trial of this case Judge Scott used the fol lowing language , word for word : Before the case caino into this court , In fact when there was talk that a criminal proceeding would bo Instituted against the defendant before the police magistrate , I then opened up a correspondence with one of the Judges of this state , not of this dis trict , stating that I apprehended I should want to change dockets with him nnd have him take my docket nnd I his. This was agreed upon. Now that was before Iho preliminary examination. Since then , after the preliminary examination was had and before there was an Information filed , I renewed my request to have a change of dockets with the judge. Now this Is on my own motion ; not a mat ter that the law requires at all. Was there ever a more scandalous confession made by any Judge from the criminal bench ? How did this upright and Impartial Judge como to talk about a criminal case before any charge or complaint had been formu lated , and to whom did he talk If not to the conspirators who hatched and Instigated the prosecution ? How did this most upright judge como to the conclusion that ho would want to exchange places with another judge In the trial of this case If ho did not know what conclusion the police court would reach ? How did he know what Would be the nature of the testimony and whether or not the defendant would be able to Justify his publication ? What right has judge Scott to Insult the six other judges of this district by publicly declaring them to bo unfit to take his docket In the trial of a case In which they are not known to have any In terest or bias ? Does he not by his own confession leave the Inference that he was a party In a conspiracy Into which no other member of the bench of this district could be drawn under any conditions ? Was there ever a more scandalous exhibition made from the bench ? THE ItKLIKVDKI'AIITMKXT Ift COURT. The decision Just handed down by the supreme court of Nebraska In the case of the Chicago , Burlington & Qulncy railroad company against Wymore will open the eyes of the railroad officials to the fact that their cleverly constructed relief department Is not an Infallible device to stave off suits for damages suffered from Injuries Incurred by men in the employ of the company. This suit Involves a ruling upon the validity of the pretended contract of release which every railroad employe Is compelled to enter If ho wants to secure the benefits of the Insurance and sick funds of the relief de partment , but It goes only half way to the core of the matter. It deprives the railroad of a part of the alleged Immunity from lia bility for Injuries to employes and leaves the remainder of the question to be decided when It shall como up. In this case It appears that the widow of an employe who was killed In the service of the railroad company was suing for dam ages In her own behalf nnd In behalf of her children , although the deceased had , as member of the relief department , signed a contract of release and she herself had ac cepted the insurance benefit due her and had receipted for It "In full satisfaction and discharge of all claims or demands on ac count of or arising from the' death of said deceased which I now have or shall here after have. " The company , of course , set this up as a bar to recovery , but the court holds that , by accepting such payment , the aggrieved party does not necessarily waive her right of action ; further that neither the contract of the deceased as a member of the relief department nor the acceptance * of the money or release of liability on the part of the widow operated to bar an action either for her own benefit or for the benefit of her children. In other words , the rail road company cannot force Its employes to contract away the rights of their wives and children , nor will the acceptance of an In surance benefit , to which the beneficiary Is entitled , serve to release the railroad from all further liability. So far as this decision goes , well and good. It protects the widows and the orphans from the rapacity of the railroad and the weak ness of the railroad employe. Let the court go a step further nnd throw Us shield about the employe himself. Let It say that an Injured employe still has a remedy at law for damages against the company , In spite of the Iniquitous pretended contract which the relief department forces upon him. Let the court do this nnd the relief department will bo relegated to Its proper place as a mutual benefit nnd Insurance association , In stead of as n cunning device to deprive sick nnd crippled employes of their rights nnd to keep the widows and the orphans from re covering the Indemnity which the law allows them. QUKST10XIXO That was n timely resolution which Sen ator Morgan of Alabama Introduced calling on the attorney general for Information as to whether any proceedings were pending against the Sugar Jrttst , and , If so , what stage they had reached ; If not. whether , In the opinion of the attorney general , there is any defect In the anti-trust law. The Ala bama senator , If wo are not mistaken , sup ported with his vote the anti-trust law passed by the Fifty-first congress , and ho has al ways been regarded as one of the able law yers of the senate who believed that legis lation would prove effective , If properly en forced , In suppressing the trusts nnd com binations at which H was aimed. He Is also familiar with the fact that the last national democratic convention declared for the en forcement of existing laws against the trusts and that the present administration came Into power pledged to do this. There was no equivocation or ambiguity about the lan guage of Mr. Cleveland In reference to this subject In his Inaugural address. Ho char acterized the trusts as being generally con spiracies against the public Interests and declared it to bo the duty of the federal government to protect the citizen against their exactions nnd oppression. The promise of the democratic party and tha pledge of Ita president have not been kept. Moreover , no serious attempt has been mudo to redeem them. Proceedings wcro Instituted against the Sugar trust In connection with Its purchase of refineries in Philadelphia , and the decision In the lower court wv- adverse to the government. So far as known Attorney General Olney was satisfied to drop the matter there , when ho should hare taken It to a higher court. It U desirable to obtain the opinion of the highest tribunal upon the anti-trust law , am hero wai a most favorable opportunity , but the public has no Information that the at torney general availed himself of It. The most rapacious and unscrupulous monopoly In the country was permitted to enjoy Its victory without further question. This Is the only Inttanco of any effort to apply the anti-trust law under the present mlmlnls tratton of which the public has any knowl edge. Early assurances were given througli the medium of newspapers friendly to the administration that the law would receive a thorough test , but these , like the promises that preceded them , have amounted to nothing. Undoubtedly Senator Morgan read the an nual report of Attorney General Olney , OIK If so he Is aware of the fact that that official does not have a favorable opinion of the anti-trust law. He regards that act as being defective and Inadequate , but while offering an Ingenious argument to show this he avoided any suggestion as to how It might bo Improved and made to meet the pur pose for which It was passed. The plait truth Is that Attorney General Olney Is not In sympathy with legislation of this kind Ho Is the friend of corporate power , whether In the form of monopoly or not. The coun try will await with Interest the response to Senator Morgan's resolution. PLANKS LUOSK. There are a great many planks loose In the sldewalkvdepartment that need hammer ing down very badly. We have ordinances that require the laying of permanent side walks of durable materials on paved streets The ordinance not only prescribes the quallt > of the material , but also requires the owners of adjacent property to construct their side walks of a uniform width. The enforcement of the sidewalk ordinances has been most shamefully neglected. Stingy or penny wise property owners have been permitted to con .tract for bogus concrete Just to save a few dollars and the Inspectors do not seem to take any exception to such evasions of the requirements of the law. In the very heart of the city , on the cor ner of Fifteenth nnd Farnam , a plank walk raised at a foot above the curb Is a constant eyesore as well as n positive obstruction to travel. A plank sidewalk on such a busy corner might be temporarily endured If there was a building being erected on the abutting lot. But as there Is no Immediate or even remote Intention of constructing such a building the owners should be required to conform to the same conditions that are en forced upon other property owners. Another striking divergence from the re quirements of the sidewalk ordinance Is the want of uniformity. In several of the blocks within a stone's throw of the court house and city hall there Is a variation of from four to eight feet In the width of sidewalks , an evidence of either favoritism or lack ol efficiency on the part of the Inspectors. If tha city has any authority to compel the laying of sidewalks and to prescribe the ma terial , the ordinance should be enforced with out fear or favor. If the city has no such authority the ordinances are a mere farce. Omaha has a right to feel proud of her pave ments , but people should not be compelled to use the middle of the street. OF THE COAL CONFERENCE. The conference of mine operators and miners failed to effect a settlement of the Issue It was called to consider , and the promise now Is that the continuance of the coal strike Is simply a question of endur ance on the part of the miners. These people are Individually poor , their scant earnings not enabling them to make any accumulation. The funds of their organi zation do not amount to enough to provide for them for any length of time. Under different conditions they could hope to ob tain assistance from other labor organiza tions , but as It Is few such organizations are In position to extend a helping hand , and probably none will bo disposed to do so to any extent because they cannot tell when there will be a demand from their own mem bers for every dollar they have. The coal miners will , therefore , have to fight their battle without any material aid In a finan cial way from other labor. It Is needless td say that the operators fully understand the situation In this respect. The failure of the conference Is very much to bo regretted for a number of reasons. A prolonged strike , such as appears probable , must entail great hardship upon the miners and their families , whoso meagre resources will bo soon exhausted. The "consequences to the Industrial and transportation Interests of the country will bo very serious. Already many manufacturing establishments have been compelled to shut down for want of coal and railroads have been forced to re duce their train service , thus adding largely to the army of the unemployed nnd Increas ing the general distress. There Is a coal famine at many places and It Is only a mat ter of a few weeks , If work Is not resumed at the Idle mines , when the famine will be come general , causing Incalculable trouble and Inconvenience- millions of consumers. Finally there Is the danger. In the event of the operators attempting to force matters , of conflicts that may Intensify the gravity of the labor situation. The striking miners constitute a formidable host If they should hold together , and while they have thus far generally shown a disposition to carry on the contest In a peaceable way there Is no as surance that they might not under exasper ating circumstances prove capable of caus ing a great deal of troublci. The blame for failure to reach a settle ment seems to rest chiefly upon the oper ators , Only a small number of them at tended the conference and these were mainly the smaller class of operators , who It ap pears have made contracts at prices consid erably below those of last year and therefore went to the conference with no Idea of mak ing any concession that would bo acceptable to the miners. Most of them did not remain to tha close of the meeting , thereby Indicat ing the absence of an earnest dcslro to adjust differences and effect a settlement upon what disinterested persons could regard as a fair and reasonable basis. The only proposition submitted on the part of the oper ators was admitted by some of them to offer too low a basis for mining. It ought to have been possible , It would seem , for the two Interests to have agreed upon a compromise , but It appears to have been the unanimous sentiment among the representatives of the miners , as expressed by President McBrldo of the national union , that "there could bo no compromise along the lines of starvation wages , " There may be an honest difference of opinion as to whether the miners wcro wlso In Insisting upon a restoration of the rates for mining before the reduction ot last year , In view of the continued business depression , but there can bo no doubt as to the unfairness of the proposition submitted by the operators. Future developments In this very serious controversy , which affects all Interests and every portion ot the country , will be awaited i with anxious concern. The Injury already done suggests the disastrous consoqucticos that a general coaj _ famlno would produce nnd such a condUlbn teems not to ba re mote. There should , be no delay In making further efforts to bVlhl ? I'IB ' mine owners nnd the miners to an.agreement. No one will question the right of or ganized bodies o ( JabarltiB men to study mil itary tactics. Thlsjs a tolerably free coun try. But at tlifljSino time the laboring men should conslljor seriously the proposal before adopting 'iJ&hc ' lawnof many states now prohibit thuXmploymcht | ot the odlou Plnkerton soldlerjfjHind within a few year at most they wlilSbo prohibited In every ntata In the nnfgn. Public sentiment I doing that much at least for labor. Tha courts are also rapidly coming to the point where sympathy with corporation Interests will no longer bo tolerated. The cause of labor Is steadily advancing , oven If the on ward strides cannot bo discerned for the tlmo being. The laboring men will find the ballot more potent than the musket , bu they must use the ballot with the same cotir age that they would use the musket If callei upon In defense of their country and Its flag. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The United States grand Jury will soon bo grinding away on the usual batch of com plaints. The same old Indians that have been on the list of witnesses from time I in memorial will be on hand again to testify that fire water was furnished to them n exorbitant prices by bad squaw men on the reservation. The man who forgot to put a stamp on his cigar box will bo cinched end brought up standing to pleau guilty. And the fellow who cut a twig from a tree on the NIobrara will be re minded that ho has laid himself liable to indictment for foraging on Uncle Sam's preserve. Incidentally there will bo the usual amount of spring medicine making for the fall campaign , the season's compliments to the district attorney , the presentation o gold-headed canes , watch charms and cats eyed scarfplns , with pledges of cterna friendship. . The good work of J taking up Nebraska's floating Indebtedness 'should not bo allowcc : to falter Just because a firm of Lincoln war rant brokers proposes1 to hold up the law for a "test" case. The case should bo treated as an Individual case. But very few people wll object to receiving their money. The mer chant who sells supplies would rather have the cash than the 7 per cent Interest for , In trying times like these , money to do business with cannot bo had at the banks for that rate. The laborer will prefer the ready cash to n warrant. It Is only the men who have grown rich In the speculation on state warrants who will raise any objection to the enforcement of the law. Let them object , and , In the meantime , the people will expect the board and the treasurer to do their duty. " ( We shall soon sojo whether Mr. Wiley's written promise to reduce his charges for electric lighting ; to' ' the city Is worth anj more than his word lo the same effect. Whj should ho offer to supply lights at a lower price than his lastjjld when ho has com plete control of the city council and can dic tate his own terms ? Confining the pro posals for electric lighting to the one com pany that already lias a monopoly of the local field Is not calculated to bring relic ! from extortionate charges. Will the people of Omaha confess that they must awfllt. the .jjleajuro ofJtbo. Burlington railroad in the" matter of viaduct repairs' Must persons u lng those viaducts place themselves in dally Jeopardy of their lives because that railroad defies the law and the authority of the city officials ? It Is about tlmo that the Burlington railroad be told that there Is a limit to Its privileges and ex ceptions. If it does not want reciprocity , let It have retaliation. Painful l.uck nf Courtesy. Chicago Tlmca. Investigate the senate ? Nonsense. Abolish It ! Sign of tlio Times. . Globe-Democrat. Building operations nre picking up In New York City , where seventeen ofllce buildings , from eight to twenty-four stories high , have been contracted for. The low price of bulldlncr materials will help business this sunimer. Tlio Throbbing Question. Chlcajjo necord. How much la a college degree worth ? A student of the University of Nebraska has sued for $25.000 damages because the uni versity declined to grant him the degree of bachelor of laws. At this rate what ought the degree of half-back on the foot ball team be worth. Sntlsfiirtory Ilxpliiimtlon. Denver News. "By far the most remarkable political phenomenon of the day , " says the Toronto Week , "Is the rapid growth of democracy. " This Is spelled with n lower case d , and has no reference to the party that Is now- repenting In sackcloth and ashes the elec tion of Mr. Cleveland. Importation of Ideas. PhllnilelpMa Ledger. Wa nre becoming liberal borrowers of foreign Ideas. The Australian ballot has been legalized by many states. The re publican nnd democratic state conventions of lln pnchusettr have recommended a trial of the Swiss Initiative nnd referendum. The same state Is seriously discussing the Nor wegian liquor license system , and resolu tions favoring It were unanimously adopted at a mabs meeting In Springfield on Sutur- duy. . , llronklng Up the Tailing Tendency. ClilcaRO Dispatch. In Helena , JMont. , General Hogan , who led the Commonweal nrmy which stole u Northern liiclflc train nnd wns captured two days later by United States regulars nt Forsythe , was sentenced to six months In lall. The Commonweal engineer , fireman nnd forty captains nnd lleutenantH were sent to Jail for 8xty | days each. This Is the right sort of treatment for lawbreakers and It should have u tendency to make the iresent pastime Rf train stealing somewhat ess popular. i . Curing' ! * Chronlo ICvlI. IMillatalpl'Ha Press. This docking thL' siflarles of congressmen 'or nbsenco seems rather a small business , jut If persisted In nnd thoroughly done t would do much to correct the evil of chronlo absenteeism , , There nro very few members who wo.uid.be indifferent to the cutting down of tm lr salaries , nnd the formal notice convt'ytil to their constituents iy this process of Ihfllr tnnttcndunce at the sessions of congreBsjund neglect of duty would have a wbowspme effect. There nro members of both , hpuso and Hennto who Iraw salaries for which they return almost no equivalent. Tney are chronic absentees given over to pleasure or business other than that wliloU'they tire paid to perform. This Is n fraud onu in. wrong , nnd even if locking salaries , fc Abandoned Homo other dniHtlu remedy , fthould , be found for this abuae. ' great , , ornitit t. I.VD.S TJM.V ounn. Lord Rnscbcry has not fulfilled the expec tations of his friends In his leadership of his party. He has been conspicuously lackIng - Ing In dignity nnd seriousness. Succeeding a statesman who wns always profoundly In earnest and who never divested himself of a marked statollncsa of manner In discuss ing public questions , Lord Rosebery has dis played a Jockeying and flippant habit In dealing with factions and In meeting pplll- Ical crises. Ho has made n series of speeches on the vital question homo .rule , each ot which lias produced a different effect and two of which have required strained and labored Interpretation. A prime minister who startles the Lords one night with his stark , naked candor , and then labors to convince with flippant sophistries n hardheaded - headed Scotch audience that he has been generally misunderstood , Inspires distrust and suspicion rather than confidence. Per haps U Is the contrast between Mr. Glad stone's stately dignity and Lord Roscbery's jocular banter that places the present prime minister at n disadvantage ; but ho has cer tainly lowered the tone of Ilrltlsh politics since he has been In ofllce. His speech at the National Liberal club was below the high level of English political leadership. It was jaunty , light-hearted and not without dex terity , but It was the speech of a prime minister who regarded n political crisis as something like a horse race that might be won by a neck. Sir William Ilarcourt hat appeared to much better advantage than Lord Rosebery since Mr. Gladstone's retire ment. Indeed , he has done so well that many liberals no longer attempt to conceal their regret that tlio succession did not fall to him. When the government was placed In minority on the opening debate on the address It was through Sir William Harcourt's brilliant tactics tlmt the situa tion was transformed. HeJias led the homo rule party In the Commons with consummate skill , and the government's triumph In the budget debate was mainly won by his strong defense of his financial proposals. While Lord Rosebery has been Imitating Lord Pal- merston nnd Lord Beaconsfield. Sir William Ilarcourt has taken Mr. Gladstone's place as a government leader , capable of giving sledgehammer blows and at tno same time bent upon maintaining the dignity and deco rum of English public life. # * Slgnor Francesco Palsserra , in his report on the Italian war budget makes very In teresting comparisons between the military expenses of the principal nations. In case of war Austria can arm 1,350,000 men , Ger many , 1,890,000 , Franco 2,112,000 and Italy 1,010,000 that Is to say , Austria has 32,900 soldiers and sailors for ever/ million of In habitants , and. In the same proportion , Ger many has 38,600 , France 55,000 and Italy 32- GOO. The value to civilization , or oven to the national Interests of the different European countries , of this enormous expense Is problematical. The excuse always given for It is that one nation must have big armies In order to preserve Its autonomy from. assaults by the others. Europe Is called an armed camp and the present con dition an armed peace. It would be nearer truth to say that the nations are afflicted with a military mania. If the matter were less serious It might almost be called a fad. Any of these warlike nations would be quite as well prepared for war If It substituted mere volunteer mllltla for Us armies and saved its money. A full treasury Is a bet ter protection than a drilled army with weakened finances behind it. The Franco- German war Is , of course , responsible for this great spread of the military Idea. Ger many demonstrated In that contest the ad vantage of having an army ready to throw Into an enemy's country Immediately on the declaration of war. France was held to have shown the folly of lack of adequate prepara tion. Yet It was the weakness of govern- ernment and lack of skill In the command ers rather than the poor preparation of the soldiers or Inferiority of weapons which cost France her defeat. Success In war depends on generalship more than anything else , and great generals , like all other geniuses , arc born , not made. * * It seems likely tha't fresh trouble Is brewIng - Ing In France between the government nnd the. , clericals In consequence of the law de claring that all church accounts , Including the receipts for the letting of chairs , must bo audited by the prefects. The most recent opposition to the edict comes from Mgr. Co- ulllle , the archbishop of Lyons , who has directed the church councils In his diocese to prepare their accounts In the same man ner as heretofore. For this Insubordination the payment of his stipend has been sus pended. The bishops themselves are not all agreed upon the effects of this law. Some of them think It harmless , or at least capable of being made so by slight amendments , but others strongly condemn It as an encroach ment by the state on the province of the church. The cabinet meanwhile has decided to appeal to the council of state to annul Archbishop Couillle's pastoral. M. Spuller Is likewise to request all the bishops to in form him of any pastoralstissued by them on this question. As for the 1,100 church coun cils , which , out of 40,000 , have refused to obey the new law , the government threatens them with dismissal. Each council consists of the parish priest nnd the mayor , as cx- offlclo members , and of a handful of- parish ioners , some chosen by the bishop and others by the prefect. It Is regarded as peculiarly unfortunate that this source of discord should have arisen Just at this time , when the moderate party , In church and state , Is anxious for peace , and M. Spuller has been preaching the "new spirit of mod eration. * * * According to the reports published In the Vienna newspapers , it seems that the recent riots in Hungary , at Hod Mezo Vasarhely , were the outcome of a rather serious btato of affairs. It seems that not alone In that neighborhood , but throughout the whole dis trict of Alsold , there Is widespread dlscon tent among the agricultural population. They are well organized under the leadership of a former police agent named Kavacz , a man of herculanean frame and intrepid character , who has secured great Influence over the peasantry. The local society Is understood to have 0 000 members , and Is affiliated with the International social democratic party at Buda-Pesth. The object of this local organi zation Is said to bo redistribution of the land among the people. At the festival , on March 15 , In commemoration of the granting of the constitution , Kavacz declared at a public meeting that he and ills fellows would join In the celebration , ns they were lot Magyars and had no fatherland. Only those who possessed something had a father- and They themselves owned nothing , nnd were accordingly International. It Is now stated that the attack on the town hall was nado for the purpose of rescu ng Kavaw. According to an official report , half the ) ollco force made common cause with the socialists and refused to obey orders , fho eaders of the social democratic party In lluda-Pesth strenuously deny all responsl. illlty for the disturbances , for which , they say the conduct of the local authorities was chiefly to blame. The party , they say. re pudiates all violence , and advocates legal mil peaceable propoganda for the extension of Its principles. \Vhoro Tommy Wataou U At. Kansas City Star. Kx-Coiit'ressman Tom Watson of Georgia , - vholVnow Presiding over the populist con- volition of that state , declares that If the domocruts hail followed out the principles f the Chicago platform there would now , e no southern populists. Watson Is about ? lKht for once , and many a congressman vho uees retirement before him after next ilarcli will Borrow-fully endorse his declaru- lon. Highest of all in Leavening Power Latest U. S. Gov't Report. ABSOHJUTEDf PURE WILL KEEP IT AT DES MOINES United StnU s Pension Aecnry is Not t ) Ho Htnmeil from There , WHAT JUDGE HAYES SAYS ABOUT IT Cliiltim to tfnn * AMtirniirr * from tlio l'rr < t < ( lent tlmt the Locution Ulll Not llo Cliiingod anil tlmt mi limit Will Ho Mnilu WASHINGTON UUUKAU 01- ' Till : linn. 1107 F Street , N. W. WASHINGTON , May 18. JuilRO llnycs of IMvcriport , the only demo cratic member of coiiRress from Iowa , nr- rlvcil hero this morning. lie says : "I called on the president In company vlth Toho Cns- tor of Nebraska mid National Cummlttce- man Richardson of Iowa about two weeks ago and the matter of the petition agency was laid beforu the president. Mr. Klclmnl- BOH and myself were Informed by the presi dent that ho was not ready to make an ' appointment yet , and that ho Is not entirely satisfied that Mr. llrlce Is the proper man to appoint. He Rave Mr. Castor to understand positively that ho had no Intention of removing the pension agency from es Molnes to Omaha , and I do not think Mr. Castor had any foundation for the belief nor any warrant whatever for sending word to Nebraska that the president was Inclined to change the location of the pension agency I am perfectly confident that an Iowa man will be appointed In a very short Unitnnd that llio agency will remain where It Is at Ues Mollies. National Commlttceman Richardson Is expected hero , anil I presume ho will arrive not later than Sunday evening , and we will liavu an opportunity to sue the pres ident upon this subject some d.iy next week. There Is not n shadow of doubt In my mind that the pension agency will remain at Des Molnes. " "I have no news , and am making no no\\s , nor la anybody making news at this end of the capital , " said Senator Allen this after noon. "I am an Interested on-looker hero , trying with Christian fortitude nnd patience to await the slow nnd tedious process of 'getting together , ' in which my democratic friends are engaged. It seems to me that It Is almost Impossible for them to agree upon a tariff bill ; certainly they are not making progress In the formation of a bill Which Is In accord with the pledges given In their national platform In. ISO. . I hope that they will bo able to accomplish some thing , no matter what , for they canijot get the country Into much worse condition than it Is now. " Second Lieutenant William J. H. Home of the Ninth cavalry at Fort Hob In - son , Nob. , Is transferred from troop H to troop F nnd Second Lieu tenant Law son M. Fuller , also of the Ninth cavalry , Is transferred from troop F to troop II. Representative Bryan , In reply to an In vitation from the house committee on Inter state and foreign commerce , will , next Fri day morning , apepar before that committee in the Interest of his bill to amend the act to Incorporate the Maritime Canal company of Nicaragua. N. S. Harwood of Lincoln and Dan W. Cook of Beatrice arc in Washington for a few days. Secretary Morton has recommended a re duction of ? 30,000 In the appropriation for the distribution of seeds under the agricul ture bill. An amendment has been offered by Representative Plckler making the ap propriation $160,000 , which is exactly the amount appropriated last year , and this amendment was adopted. B. F. Douglas has been appointed post master at Dysart , Tnma county , la. , vice Joseph Ferron , removed. The scnato committee on agriculture has requested the secretary of agriculture and the secretary of the treasury to give their official opinions concerning the ndvlslblllty of the passage of the Manderson bill to amend an act to define butter and Imposing a tax upon nnd regulating the manufacture , sale , Importation and exportation of oleo- margerlne. _ teil the Floor. Kansas City Journal. A sensation was created In congress on Monday by a crank attempting to address HIP bouse from the gallery. Cranks nre only permitted to address the house from the floor. JlK.tL AX1 > irtKAL. Madeline S. Hrldups In New Yoik Advertiser. I took my worshiped one to see "C.unllle" the piny that so attracts Intending , incidentally , To breathe my love between the nets. But from the moment Armand stepped Upon the stage , her earnest eyes Their yearning gaze upon him kept With fin live tears and stifled sighs. And each time that the drop scene dropped Until It rose again , her talk Was nil of him ; she never stopped About his smile , his voice , his walk. Camllle , she thought , might prettier be , Hut he was splendid , noble , great. "Oh. I could love him ! " This to me , Who trembled for my own sad fate. Strange ! That the mimic lover , tried And tortured thus iihouli ] give her pain , While the ical lover , at her side , Ignored and silent , chewed his cane. Tlllt SVNtAl' 1IKK. Among tlto loading features of The SUndur llee will bo : "Lourdes. " the llirlllliiR story by M. Eola , the preceding chapters of which have so licM Iho Interest of the readers of The Hoc. Carpenter's letter from China , telling of the financial system of the Celestial empire , which dates back a couple of thousand years before the Christian era. A few mmlnt and pleasing customs nro detailed , such as beheading n bankrupt. "Heredity and 1'olltlo.i. " by 1'rof. David Starr Jordan of Leland Stanford university , dealing with the chronic pauper nnd crimi nal , and briefly touching on the problem aa It presents Itself to the political economist. "Tales of the Wartime , " relntliiR the terrifying experience of some of the hoys In blue , nnd revealing why Meado's division was not supported nt Frcderlcksbiirg. A review of the biennial gathering of the women's clubs at Philadelphia , together with many mutters of peculiar Interest to the feminine reader. History of the first newspaper over printed In Nebraska , nnd what the editor said In his first edition. The society page will contain a faithful chronicle of doings In the smart world ; the sporting department will treat of all timely topics and recent events , \\hllo the secret societies and musical societies will nnd adequate representation. Tin- reputation of The Dee as n newspaper will bo fully sustained by the Sunday Issue. Special cablegrams from the principal European news renters ; full Associated press service by leased wire , covering the entire continent ; bpcclal telegrams from all points In The DCO'H territory , Washington , Chicago and St. Louis ; complete local news reports , Including the most reliable nnd com prehensive market reports published west of Chicago. In fact , the news of the world la contained In The Sunday Dec. rti'Ki.tun Lowell Courier : A dllllcult place to keep one's balance nt the bank. Detroit Tribune : A Friend I hear your son Is Rowing his wild oats. Mr. Way back Dinned If the farmer In him ain't bound to show. 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