THE OMAIIA DAILY IlEE: TnUKSDAT, FEimUAIlY 20, 1003.
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That groundhog expects to remain
two weeks longer in cold Btorage.
These new volcanic eruptions In Mex
ico indicate that the Internal affairs of
mother earth are still awry.
If there is anything at Lincoln the
railroads want that Is not In sight all
they bare to do Is to ask for it.
John N. Baldwin and his mercenary
cohorts are trying to rub It pretty hard
Into Omaha, but Omahn Is not in a
frame of mind to turn the other cheek.
The proposed new Nebraska revenue
bill Is now up to the printer. When the
printer gets through with It the law
makers will have another chance to get
busy.
Having thrown a few bouquets at Chi
cago In bis Washington birthday' ad
dress tbereY Senator Hoar can have him
self enrolled among Its patron saints If
he will only give the ward..
Senator Carmack vouches for nil tlint
Tillman says about the vlclousness of
the president's negro policy in the south.
When Senator Carmack has a pet pro
ject be can call on Tillman for Its en
dorsement Railroad men now declare the Elklns
ntJ-rebate bill will do them little good
unless the anti-pooling clause of the In
terstate law is knocked out Who said
the Elklns bill was passed to do good to
the railroads? ,
If the great pardoner of Nebraska,
who Is detained lp Seattle on important
business, could only be induced to re
turn he might give some interesting In
formation concerning the contents of
the Bartley cigar box.
The Douglas delegation to the legls
lature has thrown some sops to Omaha
policemen in the charter revision bill,
but Omaha taxpayers will get very lit
tle comfort out of the reform charter
by the time the revised salary and ex
pense lists are footed.
' From now on municipal ownership
will be the slogan In Omaha. If we are
to vote from three to five million dol
lara lu city bonds for the acquisition of
water works we can readily add half a
million more for the erection of a plant
that will supply Omaha with light and
power at first cost.
, The democrats accuse tho republicans
of playing the statehood bill fur politics
and use that as au excuse for not play
ing at the game longer themselves. If
a suspicion existed anywhere that there
was anything but politics In the demo
cratic position from the tint this final
backdown makes it clear.
Altogether too many bills have been
Introduced "by request" during the
present session of the Nebraska legis
lature. Why the taxpayers of Nebraska
-should be put. to the expense of print
ing bills which the Introducers do not
want to father Is a mystery no fellow
isu find out.
The revised charter as originally de
signed would have given Omaha fifteen
councilmen, which Is by no means too
many for a city of Omaha's pretensions
nd dimensions, but the franchlsed cor
porations objected to any increase In
the number of councilmen. It is so
much easier to hypnotize five council
wen than eight.
The postoffice authorities have discon
tinued, at least temporarily, the rural
mall delivery along a number of Indiana
routes because of the impassable condi
tion of tho roads us notice to the people
that if tr.ey want regular mall service
they "must see to it that the roads are
fit for travel. The rural mall service
promises to be tbe most potent factor In
the good roads movement,
MAKIKQ FOOLISH THREATS,
The iKilitiml rtortrrndnra employed
by the rnllronds to overawe aud luill
do7.i the Nebraska legislature nn- in a
fair wav to bring on a rate war that
will cost the railroads million where
they nre now acko-1 to pay thousands
In the shape of taxes. The thrent tliut
the railroads will, if compelled to pny
their Just share of taxes its contem
plated by the constitution, retaliate by
raisin their freight rates. Is most fool
ish as well as Idle.
John X. Baldwin of Iowa p.iid his as
sociate bulldozers may not lie aware
of the fact, but It Is nevertheless true,
that the freight rates lu Ncbrneka nre
more than 30 per cent higher than
freight rates have been In Iown these
many years. When the legislature of
1801 passed the Newbury bill, estab
lishing the Iowa freight schedule for
Nebraska, the bill was vetoed by Gov
ernor Boyd on the ground that It was
unreasonable to require the railroads ;o
carry freight In Nebraska as cheaply as
they did lu Iowa, where the population
was more- dense and commerce much
more extensive. In this position Gov
ernor Boyd was sustained by ' public
sentiment.
When the Newbury bill ' was passed
for the second time by the house In
1803 the fusion members of the senate
were admonished that the re-enactment
of the Newbury bill would be futile lie
on use the governor would be compelled
to veto it as unreasonable and unfair
to the railroads. Thereupon the demo
pop, sennte revised the Newbury bill by
giving a margin of 30 per cent In favor
of Iown. In other words, the maximum
freight rates In Nebraska were placed
at 30 per cent higher than the maximum
freight rates established. In Iowa by the
republican commission and sustained
by the republican courts. In this nhape
the maximum freight bill of 13 wns
approved by Governor" Crounse and still
remains the law of Nebraska.
The decision of the supreme court of
the United Stntes does not Invalidate
this law. It merely declares that under
conditions existing in 1804 and 1805,
when Nebraska had been devastated by
drouth and the Nebraska railroads hnd
scarcely nny traffic, the reduced rate
wns unreasonable. But the supreme
court distinctly Intimated thnt under
clinnged conditions with heavv traffic
the maximum rate law of 1803 would
be sustained as valid. The foolish
threats which Mr. Bnldwln and his fol
lowers are now making to raise Ne
braska freight rates will simply rouse
this state to a fever heat against the
outrage to which they have been sub
jected for all theae years, and when the
people of this commonwealth are fairly
aroused they will find a wny of forcing
the public carriers to treat them with
fairness.
The threat of raising freight rates In
case taxes are Increased was made In
Michigan last yeas, but up-to date has
not bad the desired, effect. The rail
roads In Michigan paid In 1002 more
than $1,800,000 above the amount of
taxes paid by them the year previous
and yet they have not retaliated. In
Michigan as In Nebraska they have
charged all the traffic will bear and
with that they are content
As a general proposition the barking
dog does not bite and the yelp of the
railroad canine at Lincoln Is not likely
to frighten Nebraska farmers.
ARE RAIL tiO ADS CAKKFCU
That is n question which the grent
number of railroad accidents recently
suggests. The New York Sun of last
Monday prints a list of a score of rail
road accidents during the previous
week, resulting In a number of deaths
and injuries, and concludes tbe state
ment by saying: "It is recorded that
the total number of persons killed on
railroads in this country during tbe year
ending June 90, 1001', was 2.819. while
tbe number Injured was 39,800. In 1901
the number of tbe killed and Injured
was even greater than this."
It seems evident from these facts that
the railroads of the United States do
not exercise proper care for the safety
of passengers and that there Is urgent
need of reform in this respect. Esje
tlally is this emphasized by the fact
that on all tbe railroads of England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales during the
fifteen months ending March 31. 1002,
not a single passenger was killed by a
train accident. It may not be practi
cable for the railroads of this country
to manage their operations with the
same care as do those of the United
Kingdom, but It Is certainly possible for
them to do better than has lieen done.
The record of railway casualties during
the last few months Is appalling and It
Is largely duo to the overworking of
employes, a fur too ecumion fact with
most of the railroads.
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OHJCCT TO COMMISSIOSERS.
The objection made by the Cauadlau
government to, two of the American
commissioners on the Alaskan boundary
court Senator Iodge and Senator Tur
nerwill probably have no effect. It
is n-it at all likely that the British gov
ernment will assume to gie such heed
to the Canadian protest as to ask the
pitsideut of the United States to select
other men to represent this government
on th.- comm'ttslou; because to do so
would be obviously an affront to the
president, who must be assumed to have
strictly compiled with the treaty in mak
ing the appointments. It Is true that
both Mr. Jjodge aud Mr. Turner are on
record as opposed to tbe British conten
tion In regard to tbe treaty of 1825.
Both have expressed themselves In tbe
si i cutest possible terms as believing
thut there is uot the slightest founda
tlon for tbe Cauadian claim In regard lo
territory In Alaska. Y'et neither of these
gontleuicu Is Incapable of Itelng con
viu t-d If tbe Canadian government or Its
repiffciitatives on the commission to in
terpret the treaty between Russia and
Qrvut Biltaln are able to show that tbe
ecntentlon of the United States Is wrong
ami Unit the CaiiiKliau claim Is Just.
The protest of ('numbi ngnlnst the se
lection of these senators, who thoroughly
tiiKlersltitiil the iMiundary question and
av? therefore competent to present It
with cMiiT'lctenes. Is slm'ily a confes
sion of the wetknes of the Canadian
contention. It It virtually nn admis
sion that there Is no case so far as Can
ada is concerned. It is nu unpleasant
fact that some American newspapers
have i.jipioved the protest of the Cnnn-
diuu government against Mr. Ixulge and
Mr. Turner, but It may confidently lie
assumed that this will have no efft-ct
upon I're!dent Koosevelt. He hns ap
pointed those gentlemen with n full re
alization of thell cannbilitles for 'the
duty 8nd they will serve on the com-
nissioii if thev do not themselves de-
cl'ue.
CVXOUK8S' CUSTRUL OUR CUMMkHCK.
The declsiou of the supreme court of
the United States In the lottery cnsen
Is of the greatest Importance. The
scope of Its effect will uot be readily
understood, but It Is very grvut and lu
order to a proper understanding of It
the character of the cases decided must
be known.- These lottery cases Involve
peculiar questions. In the first place
there Was the novel proposition that a
person taking a lottery ticket from one
state to another was engaged lu a com
mercial transaction uud therefore was
Mibjcci to the power of congress to
control und regulate interstate win-
Uii'ito. This was stiMch't'd by the
court. In the second place the propo
sition was made that the power of con
gress to regulate Interstate commerce Is
so nearly unlimited fiat It can be ap
plied -to anything, regardless of the
rights of the states.
This latter Is really the important fact
In the decision. It meuns that the au
thority of congress, under tbe constitu
tional provision relating to interstate
commerce, is practically unlimited, so
that congress can exclude from com
merce among the states and with for
eign nations whatever it may think
proper. It follows absolutely that con
gress can control without restraint the
entire commerce of the country, except
thut which Is within the states, and It
Is needless to say that this is not very
great In other words, the great bulk
of our domestic commerce, estimated to
amount to more than two thousand mil
lions of dollars a year, Is absolutely
subject to the control of congress.
That Is the inevitable conclusion from
the decision of the supreme court of the
United States In the lottery cases and it
opens up a new and much enlarged
view of the power and authority, of con
gress in regard to interstate commerce.
In fact it removes all limitations from
that ' power and makes it absolute.
Whether or not this is desirable la a
question, but the framers of tbe con
stitution probably meant Just what the
supreme court of tbe United States has
decided. The states are not deprived of
their rights in regard o corporations.
They enn continue to create corpora
tions and regulate their conduct within
their own boundaries, as they have been
doing, but when those corporations step
over the state lines and undertake to
do business in other states, no matter
what that business mny be, they be
come subject to national supervision.
Tho Importance of this decision of the
highest Judicial tribunal It would not
be possible to exaggerate.
Members of the council who voted to
submit the open door power and light
franchise to the vote of the people at
the coming election are simply playing
ostrich. Everybody in the community
knows that the open door scheme was
concocted by the manager of the
Thomson-Houston Electric Light com
pany to bond off competition. Nobody
knows better than the astute manager
of the electric lighting company that
capitalists will not venture to Invest
money in an enterprise that can be
raided by anybody who may see fit to
threaten a competing power canal. Tbe
submission of the ordinance is an Insult
to the intelligence of the community
and emphasizes the popular demand
for municipal ownership that will put
an end to corporation misrule in mu
niclpal government
An effort will be made at the World's
Congress of Science aud Arts, to be held
In conjunction with the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition nt St. Louis, to outdo
everything of the kiud that has gone bo-
fore. Each successive congress of this
kind becomes more comprehensive be
cause the field of science and art is
steadily widening. If the congrejs at
St. Louis dealt only with developments
that have come since the great con
gress in connection with the Chicago
Worlds fair it would still have an Im
mi use scope.
y conrormmg to tne new water
works purchase law that repeals the
section of the charter authorizing the
levy of a water tax, the council has
been able to reduce the levy for 1903 to
8i mills. But while this low assess
ment will afford some relief to taxpay
era this year, it is sure to give them a
double dose of taxes next year, when
the water rent has been couverted into
a Judgment against the city that will
have to be paid with 7 ier cent Interest
added.
The Hartley bondsmen are liberal
They offer to pay tbe costs of the suits
instituted to secure Judgment, on the
forfeited bond. Except for this gen
eroslty the taxpayers of Nebraska might
i a
uhtb io ray me coata lo addition to
losing the stolen money which the
bondsmen undertook to make good.
It Is noted that Queen Lll has landed
with an item for 200,000 in the sundry
civil bill as reported by the senate com
mlttee on appropriations. No statement
accompanies telling bow much couimia-
i
sion was promised to the promoters In
the lobby for her late roynl highness.
The clause requires the warrant to be
drawn and paid to the queen In ierson,
but there Is nothing to prevent her be
ing liberal with her attorneys and agents
after she gets the proceeds in cash.
The suspension from the New York
Stock exchange of the mnn Mipposcd to
have been the uuthor and Instigator of
the legal attacks on the Northern Pa
cific railway merger Is doubtless In
tended to be an object lesson for those
who might be tempted likewise to Inter
fere with the plans of the great trust
magnates. With a penalty like this in
flicted without any way open for re
dress stock broken" nre moved to be
inore careful In the future.
The fusionlst lawmakers are still
looking for a lender who has the cour
nge and Integrity to stand up for what
Is right and oppose whatever may be
wrong regardless of political conse
quences. The democrats and populists
of Nebraska have been scouring the
woods for Just such a man for, lo, these
ninny months.
Where Snoel l "At Home."
Baltimore American.
The daring of Reed Smoot can only be
appreciated when ft is mentioned that
his arrival at Washington was coincident
with the convening ot several woman's
conventions. ,
Worklnx Overtime,
Washington Post.
By devoting Sundays to the eulogies on
the dead, the gentlemen In congress are
showing a disposition to work overtime
which will sooner or later attract the at
tention of the legislature walking dele
gate. It'a a May We Have.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ,
An Inspired Austrian newspaper remarks
that the United States has gained "great
political success in the Veneiuelan trouble."
Did you ever know the United States to
gain anything but success whenxlt buckled
down to business?
The Discriminating Heathea.
Buffalo Express.
The representative of a Korean firm baa
ust arrived In the United States for the
purpose ot placing an order for a large
stock of Idols. Thla, undoubtedly, means
that the Koreans believe American-made
Idols can do more and better work than
those of any other make.
Approach of the Mtllentam.
St. Louis Republic.
It dreams of the scientists should ever
be realized death will become only a mem
ory or a superstition, In order to live
forever it will only be necessary to keep
formalin -and salicylic solution In the bouse
and have a surgeon In the neighborhood, so
that operations for appendicitis may .be
performed on demand. It will-. then be jp
to the railways to make this world an
Elysium. "t
Protecting? the President.
',' Ne'w 'york World.
A conference agreement has been reached
at Washington and accepted by the bouse
on the bill to protect the president, vice
president and officers In line .of succession.
The death penalty Is provided for actual
assassination f deh or Imprisonment for
at least tea yesfs -will fall to one who
attempts to kill. Protection Is extended
to ambassadors or ministers accredited to
this government."- Penalties are provided
for teaching the "duty of necessity" of as
sassination. A special section prohibits
the entry ot apostles of anarchy by vio
lence, or the naturalization of such apostles
as may be found here. The bill should
become a law without further delay.
The Typewriter Trust.
New York Press.
The Typewriter trust has maintained
prices a long time, and It is said that Tim
Woodruff is no trust buster. No hope,
therefore, since he has been elected presi
dent of a big company. The same old song
$100. Manufacturers tell me that while
it may not cost more than $14 to $19 to con
struct a machine. It costs $20 to sell it
Even at $39 here Is an enormous margin for
profit. Great fortunes have been made In
tbe business and greater ones are yet to be
made. One company two years ago re
ceived an offer of $1,000,000 to sell out to
the trust and refused. It would not sell
today for $2,500,000. If prices were reduced
80 per cent tbe machines would sell them
selves, thus doing away with the agent and
his commission. The high prices hurt the
poor clerk and stenographer, to whom a
typewriter Is as necessary as a saw it to a
carpenter.
Ol'TGOIXG CLASS OP SENATORS
Unimportant Changes la Individuals
and Polities.
New York Bun.
The thirty senators whose terms will ex
pire next week were elected on or before
18&7, and their terms began on March 4,
1897, which was the date of the first in
auguration ot President McKlnley. The six
years Intervening between 1897 and 1903
have been even more remarkable for sweep
ing political and economic changes than
tbe coresponding period between 1R91 and
1897, and the changes In senate member
ship, confidently predicted as likely to oc
cur this year, were expected to make seri
ous alterations In party membership.
Politically, these changes have turned
out unimportant. A majority of the present
senators have been re-elected. In Wiscon
sin, John C. Spooner; In Indiana, Charles
W. Fairbanks; In Ohio, J. B. Koraker; In
Connecticut. Orvllle H- Piatt; in Iowa,
William B. Allison; In Colorado. Henry M.
Teller; In New York, Thomas C. Piatt; In
Alabama, B. W. Pettus, and in California,
George C. Perkins have been re-elected.
The other states which have re-elected
their senators are Pennsylvania, Mr. Pen
rose; Georgia, Mr. Clay: Louisiana', Mr. Mc
Enery; South Dakota, Mr. Klttrldge; Ver
mont, Mr. Dillingham; New Hampshire,
Mr. Galllnger, and North Dakota, Mr. Hans
brough. The Florida legislature la com
mitted by the vote at tbe democratic party
primary of July to tbe re-election of Sena
tor Mallory. He had no opposition.
In seventeen of the thirty states which
will have senatorial vacancies through the
expiration of the term of the Incumbents
on March 3, the present senators have been
or will be re-elected.
In the eight states, namely. Kentucky,
Kansas. Idaho, Nevada, North Carolina,
Utah, Maryland and Washington, the legis
latures to All vacancies were, or are, of
different politics than tboae of the retiring
senators. In Ave states only has there been
s change of Individuals without a change
of parties, Senator Jones of Arkansas and
Maaon of Illinois being two of tne senators
who have aa successors men ot tbelr own
party, Clarke and Hopkins respectively.
The three other statea are Missouri, South
Carolina and Oregon.
The election In Oregon of Charles W. Ful
ton, an Ohio man now resident at Astoria,
leaves Delaware aa tha only state the sena
torial representation of wMck la undetermined.
BITS or washijgtOs life.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
on the Spot.
Colonel John P. Irish of Iowa and Cali
fornia, formerly an honored member of the
Jacksonlan club ot Omaha. Is down in
Washington looking after his job na naval
officer of the port of San Francisco. Cali
fornia senators have been unable to classify
the politics ot Mr. Irish and delicately Inti
mated lo him that his resignation would be
appreciated. Mr. Irish responded with
equal grarlousness, expressed tender solici
tude for the health of the senators and
their families, and Informed the anxious
statesmen that tbe climate of California
suited him to a dot. Notwithstanding these
assurances of distinguished consideration
Mr. Irish hiked to Washington to "view
the prospect o'er" and examine the extent
of the senatorial pull. He Is said to have
the backing of Senators Allison and Dolll
ver and stands In with President Roosevelt.
With possession and such a three-cornered
pull back of it, the Callfornlans have a
harder task on band than tbe Jacksonlans
of Omaha encountered in wiping his name
off the slate.
Colonel Irish enjoys a political fight. He
Is a man of wit and eloquence and has a
voice of thunder. In a San Ftanclsco con
vention at one time he was pushing a
measure which awakened some bitter oppo
sition. His opponents began to hiss, where
upon his followers shouted rebuke.
"Silence!" commanded Irish to his co
horts. "I have always stood for absolute
liberty' of expression. I believe that all
persons and creatures should be permitted
to voice their feelings according to their
endowments. There are two animals that
hiss the snake, out of Instinctive venom,
and the goose, out of Its natural stupidity."
And then he sdded, turning to his disturb
ers: "Gentlemen, if hissing be the ordained
method for expression of your sentiments,
continue to hiss."
At this the opposition gave way to ap
plause.
Thirty-eight years after the civil war,
says the Washington Post, there are four
teen men In the United States senate who
served In the confederate army and thir
teen who served In the federal army dur
ing that great struggle. There are two
others who took an active part In the civil
war. Senator Allison of Iowa, who was an
aid on the governor's staff and assisted In
the organization of tha Iowa troops, and
Senator Vest, who represented Missouri in
the confederate senate. Tbe senators who
served In tbe union army are: Hawley,
Connecticut; Burrows and Alger, Michigan;
Nelson, Minnesota; Foraker and Hanna,
Ohio; Quay, Pennsylvania; Proctor, Ver
mont; Elklns and Scott, West Virginia;
Spooner and Quarles, Wisconsin, and War
ren, Wyoming. Those who served in the
confederate army are: Morgan and Pettus,
Alabama; Jones and Berry, Arkansas; Mal
lory and Taliaferro, Florida; Bacon, Geor
gia; Harris, Kansas; Blackburn, Kentucky;
McEnery, Louisiana; Money and McLaurin,
Mississippi; Cockrell, Missouri; Bate, Ten
nessee, ana Daniel, Virginia. While a
number of men In the last list are well
advanced In years, yet there is quite a
number ot comparatively young men who 1
entered the army when boys of 15 to 18. In
the case of union officers who are now
senators, most of them were quite young
when they entered the service. If all the
men of the senate who were soldiers on
one side or the other during the civil war
were gathered in a room. It would be
notlded that with few exceptions . only a
few could be called old men, while several
senators would be In a class of compara
tively young men. One senator, Pettus of
Alabama, served in both the Mexican and
civil wars.
A recant Interchange of fire between
Colonel Herburn ot Iowa and General Gros
venor of Ohio on the floor of the house:
"General Grosvenor The gentleman from
Iowa does not believe that any public man
was ever sincere or honest In his advocacy
of a proposition and always looks around
for a selfish motive. That is because the
gentleman himself has no other standard
of morality that that. Colonel Hepburn I
draw tbe line somewhere; I draw It at Ohio
people. I do not propose to hold the
gentleman from Ohio responsible for what
he has said. I recognize the fact that I
myself am getting old and that some day I
will be senile."
Mrs. Cortelyou, wife of the secretary of
commerce, was asked at a reception given
by Mrs. Depew bow she liked her part in
official life.
"My part does not amount to much," she
said, "and I do not like the official life ot
my husband. The best position he ever
had was Just after we were married, when
he was a clerk In the Postoffice department.
He went to work at 9 and quit at 4. I knew
him pretty well then. Since he has been
at the White House he goes to his office
soon after breakfast. If he comes home to
luncheon at all It Is in a great hurry, and
when he comes home to dinner it Is very
late. At 10 o'clock he' returns to the White
House and frequently remains until after
midnight. The children hardly know htm
by sight."
This was before he became a cabinet offi
cer. Now he will have the conventional
hours of the department employe, which
extend from 9 until 4, with a little addi
tion to thi latter hour to give time for
signing letters.
The district commissioners have had a
good deal of fun over a suggestion that
comes all the way from Kallspel, Mont., in
regard to a new hotel for Washington. As
an evidence of good faith the writer sent
his photograph, and in order that bla Idea
should not be lost entirely he duplicated
his communication to the president.
The suggeatlon Is that the government
erect a national hotel In Washington, to
cover a whole block, and with each side
so constructed of red, white and blue bricks
as to look like a huge national flag. To
Increase the realism of the scheme, the au
thor proposes that the outline as shown
In brick should be wavy, as If the flag
were tossed In the breeze.
Senator Hanna wa recently entertaining
some friends In the marble room at Wash
ington when It occurred to him that he
had been a long time absent from the sen
ate chamber. "I must see what Is going on
Inside." he explained, and hobbled to the
door. Senator Beveridge was speaking on
the statehood bill and the Ohio senator
smiled and remarked as he returned to
his friends: "It's all right, tbe Wabath
Is still overflowing Its banks."
Half a dozen congressmen were In the
democratic cloak room, the talk being of
strange bequests. Congressman Fitzger
ald said the oddest be ever heard of was
that left by a Brooklyn man to an orphan
asylum. "What was It?" asked Congress
man Ryan. "Ten children," replied Fits
gerald. Then they all went to luncheon
and Ryan took tbe check.
Presidents and Their Families.
Boston Herald.
Incidentally, Prealdent Roosevelt reflects
on bis Illustrious predecessors when be
Inveighs against small families. They
have left either no families or small ones.
Of tbe twenty-five men who have held this
post In 114 years, ten bare today no de
scendants, and of them sit the Adams line
Is tbe only proline one. And yet ail our
presidents were msrrled men except
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THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
CANADA FILES A KICK.
Philadelphia Press: The Canadians are
said to have protested tilths British gov
ernment against the appointment of Sena
tors Lodge and Turner 46 the commission
to investigate the Alaskan boundary. This
Is a strange proceeding. Tbe Canadians
have set up a claim without warrant, and
cow want apparently to fix up the American
commission to decide on the claim.
New York Sun: We understand that Ca
nadian objection to Senator Loage and Sen
ator Turner as members ot the Alaska
Boundary commission rests solely upon the
fact that these statesmen are supposed to
believe at present in the soundness of the
American case. It would be strange U the
fact were otherwise. It would be equally
strange If our friends la the Dominion
should now be heard demanding that the'
three commissioners representing the Brit
ish government be.Canadlans or English
men who have( absolutely no opinion on
the subject. Jt
Philadelphia Ledger: While it - II not
clear how such a protest can be maintained,
the grounds of objection are easily under
stood. Senator Turner, In particular, has
been rather offensive in his denunciation
of tbe Canadian claims, and neither
senator belonga to that class of "jurists"
presumably contemplated by the treaty
whose dispassionate consideration ot the evi
dence before them would carry conviction
to the Impartial mind. Mr. Root will prob
ably have to do the work and the senators
will wave the flag. With a Canadian tory
or two cn the other side, the proceedings of
the Joint commission will at least be In
terring, even If not conclusive.
Montreal. Gazette: Washington .dispatches
Indicate that the United States members of
the commission on .the I Alaskan boundary
dispute will be Mri'Root,. the secretary of
war, with Mr. Lfdge'; a' senator from
Massachusetts, and Mr Turner, a senator
from the state of Xyashtagton. Mr. Root Is
an astute lawyer, Upurid 8 his position to
give up nothing. Mr. Lodge Is a jingo New
Englander, who w)uld'give up nothing In
any ease. Mr. Tujftier represents a, com
munity Interested In Alaskan trade, who
would probably destroy his political future
If be consented to a retreat from the ex
tremist contention Ot his country. They
represent the take part of the combina
tion. If there Is any give It will be on the
British side.
PERSONAL NOTES.
President Roosevelt easily surpasses all
former presidents In tbe matter of a family
turn-out.
President Mitchell of the miners' union
refuses to lecture. He seems to have the
singular notion that bis time belengs to
his employers.
Booker T. Washington's advice to tbe col
ored race Is to buy land, raise crops and
save money. This kind of advice Is equally
good for whites as well ss blacks.
The sultan Is preparing to transport
troops to the Balkans. He should remem
ber the maneuvers of the king of France
and his 20,000 men on a memorable occa
sion. t
Previous to his death, which occurred last
week. Policeman O. W. McNally of Phila
delphia obtained from his wife a promise
that she would keep bis body In tbe house
ten days without burial, mourning his loss
meanwhile. Mrs. McNally Is religiously
keeping her promise.
With the probably unrivaled record ot
having traveled 1,600,000 miles, Jacob M.
Zebley will be placed on the pension roll
of tbe Pennsylvania railroad on March 1,
after fifty-six years of continuous service
as baggage master. Zebley, who is TO years
old, began his career on the railroad In
1847.
Several of those formerly claased as "en
ergetic business men of St. Louis" just
find the local atmosphere dangerous to
their health and are tespondlng to hurried
calls to move to more congenial climate.
The activity of the grand jury In probing
into fake corporations accelerates the pace
out of town.
Mrs. W. H. Bradley, tbe chief actreas In
a sensational deathbed marriage ceremony
at Milwaukee, by which she became the
wife of the eccentric capitalist whose name
she now bears, has been swarded $500 a
month pending the settlement of disputes
over her husband's estate. The property
left by deceased Is appraised at $700,000.
C. S. Darrow was lately announced as a
candidate for mayor of Chicago on account
of bis championship of labor unionism and
his leanings toward socialism and Henry
Georgeism. In order to head him off Mayer
Harrison Is said to have made an alliance
S3.50 and $4.00
That's what you can buy Odd Suit Trou
sers for now, that are worth up to f 6.
Siiea36 to 42 waists.
yO CLOTHING
RELIABLE
with William R. Hearst, In accordance
with which Hearst will help Harrison to
a fourth ter.m, and HarrlHon will back
Hearst's ambitions In national politics,
whatever they may be.
Judge Shlras, who has just retired as a
justice of the supreme court, gains $2,600 a
year by the passage of the bill increasing
the salaries of the members of that
tribunal. He wished to retire some months
ago, but the death of Justice Gray delayed
the acceptance of his resignation. . Mean
time the Increase of salary became effective
and he. will receive $12,f00 a year during
the remainder of his life.
The New Orleans Picayune loving cup,
which Is annually awarded through" the
New Orleans Progressive union for tho
most meritorious public benefaction In that
city during the year, has been given for
1902 to Mr. Isidore Newman,' bead of the
banking firm of Isidore Newman, sr., A
Sons, becsuse ot his donation of a 'manual
training school to the Jewish Orphans'
Home. The- amount -he gave was about
$40,GOO. His other publlo benefits to the
city have been many and generous-
PASSING PLJBASANTRIES. ,
To you keep rubber hoset" '
"Well, nuulam. we have some In light red
and green which are almost sure to attract
attention." Princeton Tiger.
Dusty Daniel Pleaee, air, will you lend
me a dime to get something to eat?
Swell Wliy you've got a quarter iti your
hand now! What'sithat for?
Dusty Daniel That's to tip the waiter
Boston Globe.
"You think 1 make some pretty bad
breaks, don't you, Fred?" asked the young
wife.
"Yes. dear," replied the husbandklndly,
"but they're not like the breaks mother
used to make." Yonkers Statesman.
' An Episcopal clergyman of Cincinnati was
being shaved by a barber who was addicted
to occasional sprees. The razor manipu
lator cut the parson's face quite consid
erably. , . ,
"You see. Jackson, that comes from tak
ing too much drink," said the man of Qod.
"Yes, Hah," replied Jackson, "It makes da
Bkln very tendan, sabu It do for a, faok'
Sa-xby'a Magazine. '..
Smith So you're .going to get a divorce
from Dinah? On what trrounas7 . . . l
Kastua Incombustibility of temperature,
sun! In other words,. Dinah malu).l3M
hot fob me. New York Times. .
"They're after you," said the first dog,
"and they're, going to shoot you for- biting
that bank cashlei. '
"I know," replied the alleged mad dog,
"and I'm trying to lay low In the . hope
that they'll examine his accounts and find
some extenuating circumstances." Phila
delphia Press. .
"South America Is ahead of all the rest of
the earth," said the boastful patriot.
"I don't quite see tbe Justice of so broad
a claim."
"The rest of the earth claims oply one
revolution a day, and It's nothing umisual
for us to ring up Ave or six before break- .
fast." Washington Star. ;
"They thought he was dead, ybd know,
and all the papers printed obituary potlces.'
"And then?" . ...
"Why. then he turned up, and since he's
read those notices he's too proud to speak
to anyone." Chicago Poet.
SINCE WB GOT THE MORTGAGE PAID
R. F. Greene In Wall Street Journal.
We've done a lot of scrtmpln' an' llvtn'
hand-to-mouth.
We've dreaded, ton, wet weather an' we've
worried over drouth,
For the thing kept drawln tnt'reat, whether
crops were good or bad.
An' raisin' much or little, seemed It swal
lowed all we had.
The women folks were savin' an' there alo't
a bit of doubt
But that things they really needed Iota ef
times they done without,
Bo we're breathin' somewhat easy, an'
we're feelln' less afraid ...
Of Providence's workln's, since wa got the
mortgage paid.
I wish I'd kept a record of the things thai
mortgage ate.
In principal an' lnt'rest from begtnnln'
down to date!
A hundred dozen chickens, likely fowls with
yellow legs,
A thousand pounds of butter, an' twelve
hundred dozen eggs.
Some four or live good wheat crops and at
least one crop of corn,
An oats an' rye It swallowed tn ltd life
time aure's your born,
Besides the work an' worry, ere its appe
tite wns stayed!
So we're feelln' mora contented since we
got the mortgage paid. .
We've reached the point, I reckon, where
we've got a right to rest.
An loaf arutin', an' visit, wear our go-to-
meetln' bent
Neglectin' nothln' urgent understand,
ubout the place.
But simply aluwln' down by bits an' reattn'
In the race!
In time I'll get the windmill I've been
wantln', I suppose;
The girls can have their organ, an' . we'll
all wear better clothes.
For we've always pulled together, while
we've saved an' scrimped an' prayed,
An' it seems there's more to work for since
we got the mortgage paid.
FITS LIKE OURS.
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