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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION,
fitate of Nebraska, Douglns County; as.:
George B. Tsschuck. secretary of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
says that the actual number of full and
' complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Bunday Bee printed during
the month of December, 1903, was as fol
low! :
l aosao 17 o,6ko
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I bd.oto i ai.oa
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t UW)0 21 31,37"
6 no,10 22 SO,77
7 JWUWO a 3,!MO
mjnto 24 ai,8K
31,110 25 31,0KI
ID 80,330 26 3I!H
11 30,400 27 aoj-ioo
12 31 1,44 M) 28 3t.7flO
13 27,010 29 :iO,OHO
14 80H0 30 :3,OI()
1 ..ao,To 31 a:i,4;u
It 81,100
Total 047,3(13
Jss unaold and returned copies.... 10,41
Net total sales f3tl,!34
JNet average sales 30,u:m
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! M. B. HI NGATK,
(Seal.) Notary Public.
In 1904 look before you leap.
In the language of Bob IngerHoll,
Jsrbere wts Molse when the light went
ut?
Leap year protection might possibly
lord a new and lucrative field for the
variegated insurance companies to oc
cupy. Put it down that the year lin)4 will be
A year full of politics. It does not take
seventh son of a seventh sou to pre
dict that
Alleged fireproof theaters are not fire
proof so long as. they are filled with
combustibles on the stage or In the
auditorium.
All of which Jrerulnds us that It Is the
upreme of danger to block theater
isles with chairs, as is altogether too
often done right here in Omaha.
The birth of the Webster vice presi
dential boom antedates the birth of
the new year a trifle. With this handi
cap in its favor, it ought to keep In the
race.
Bouth Omaha begins the new year
under very heavy auspices. It has a
very respectable surplus in the city
treasury and a certificate of health from
Dr, Towns.
When it comes to promotions Jn the
army, Nebraska always has a full quota
of captains, majors and colonels willing
and competent to serve as brigadier or
major generals.
Some congressmen are insisting that
the present land laws must be modified.
Perhaps so, but the changes must be in
the Interest of the bona fldo settler and
stock raiser rather than of the lawless
cattle syndicates.
With the horror of the Chicago theater
fire before It, the council would scarcely
be Justified in closing the city electri
cian's office Just because the mayor de
clines to appoint its preferred candidate
aa city electrician.
It's a good thing to take block at least
once a year. The individual can find
an Inventory of his assets, mental, moral
and physical as well as material, us
useful as a merchant finds his inven
tory of goods on, lmud and bills re
ceivable. According to the back-caster of the
Dun commercial agency, lixxi was a
year of irregularity in speculation, dis
tributive trade and industry, In some
cases of severe strains variously applied
and as differently withstood. With
sacb a diagnosis before him, the patient
afflicted with a contraction of assets
and an inflation -of liabilities will feel
much easier.
The Missouri state republican com
mittee has been called to meet January
0, to fix a date for holding the con
vention to uomlnate delegates who will
represent Missouri iu the national con
vention. The forecast made by repulv
llcau leaders is that the convention to
elect delegates will be held during the
early part of February. Why should
not Nebraska do likewise?
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad
is about to erect u fourteen story head
quarters building, with foundations
strong enough to carry four additional
stories. Omaha would be satisfied if
the Union Pacific would erect a seven
story headquarters building In the Jubl
lee year WH. We feel sure we cast no
unkind reflections upon the management
when we say that the dilapidated old
rookery that serves as Union Paetn
headquarters Is now sadly out of Joint
with the pretentions and needs of the
great transcontinental railway.
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XtBRASKA FVH ROVSKTLT.
Governor Mickey struck the keynote
of the impending campaign when he de
clared that the republicans of Nebraska
propose to send a delegation to the na
tional convention unequivocally pledged
to support Theodore Uoosevelt's nomi
nation to the presidency first, last and
all the time. The rank and file of the
republican party are overwhelmingly
In favor of Hoosevelt and resent the In
timation recently disseminated through
the eastern press that widespread dis
satisfaction exists in Nebraska with
President Roosevelt that is liable to
culminate In the selection of a delega
tion to the national convention antag
onistic to the president.
For this report there is absolutely no
foundation. It goes without saying that
the republicans of Nebraska who favor
the nomination of John I Webster for
the vice presidency will not tolerate any
Intrigue by which his candidacy for the
vice presidency could be turned to the
disadvantage of President Koosevelt.
The delegation to the national conven
tion will be for Roosevelt for first place
and Webster for second place. While
the delegation will doubtless labor ear
nestly and enthusiastically to secure the
nomination of Mr. Webster, their para
mount duty will be to represent the
practically unanimous sentiment of the
party that favors the nomination of
Koosevelt in preference to any other
man suggested for the presidency or
any dark horse whose name has not yet
been sprung.
When it comes to national Issues and
national candidates Nebraska repub
licans nre not made of willow. This
has been repeatedly exemplified when
ever attempts were made by party lead
ers to repress or defeat the popular
choice. In the coming campaign Ne
braska will occupy no equivocal ground.
When the rank and file was for Blaine
It stood for Blaine, when It was for Mc
Kinley It pledged Its delegation to Mo
Klnley without inentnl reservation. Its
delegation to the national convention of
194 will Im Instructed for Koosevelt
and will stand as loyally by Koosevelt
as the delegations of 1890 and 1900
stood by McKlnley.
AltTAOO.XlZlNO THK COAL TRCST,
Coal consumers will find some satis
faction in the fact that the Independent
producers in the anthracite coal region.
or some of them, are no longer disposed
to submit to the oppressive dictation of
the railroad operators who control most
of the mines and whose policy hitherto
has been such as to operate to' the dis
advantage of the Independent mine own
ers. A recent report Btates that one of
the largest Independent producers in the
anthracite field has refused ab.wlutely
to obey the edict of the four big produ
cing companies. The dispatch says: "Up
to the time of the strike in 1002 the big
companies ruled the smaller producers
with a rod of iron. When they ordered
a shut-down not a pound of coal would
be shipped during the prohibited period.
Since the strike, however, the independ
ents have struck out for themselves and
now refuse to take orders from the
trust."
While the Independent producers con
stitute only a small part of the anthra
cite production, they are still sufficfent
of n power to make themselves feK. If
they will persist in refusing to allow
the big companies to rule them as they
have hitherto done. The Independent
producers are at a disadvantage because
of the fact that the railroads are under
the control of the big producers and can
deny the independents transportation,
but it may be possible to find a remedy
for this. At any rate, if the independent
producers will hold out in their opposi
tion to he oppressive policy of the big
companies they are certain to enlist pub
lic sympathy and this will be no small
help to them. The position reported to
have teen taken by the independent
operators in the anthracite region gives
promise of better conditions in the inter
est of consumers.
A DEMOCRATIC HARUUSY DINNER.
Next Monday evening the democrats
of New York ill have a banquet which
is expected to have an important in
fluence in harmonizing the party and in
indicating the candidate for the presi
dency this year. While ostensibly this
dinner is to celebrate the victory of
Tammany hall in the November election,
its real purpose is to get together the
democrats who represent the factional
divisions of the party and to endeavor to
bring about a realignment that will ef
fect n unification of the democracy and
an agreement hi. to a' candidate for the
presidency.
It Is a most interesting movement that
the organizers of this dinner have in
stituted, tiecause the effect cannot bo
otherwise thau most pronounced upon
the future of the democratic party. Dis
tinguished democrats are expected to
participate In the oecuslon. Mr. Cleve
land will make the principal speech,
thus attesting that while he has declined
to be considered as a candidate for nomi
nation by the democratic national con
vention of this year he Is still willing to
be among the advisers of his party. Mr.
Olney. who was secretary of state In the
last Cleveland administration, will at
tend the dinner and undoubtedly will
have something to say by way of en
couraging the democracy. Judge Parker
of New lork, Mho Is at present most
prominent in democratic thought, will
be there and undoubtedly will indicate
what in his Judgment Is the proper
course for the democracy to pursue .In
this year's campaign. Senator Gorman
will he there and the democratic leader
of the house of representatives, Mr.
Williams of Mississippi, and David B.
Hill, with a number of others more or
less known as democratic leaders.
This event has been called the "presi
dential dinner" and undoubtedly it will
have souje influence In determining who
Is to lie the democratic candidate. It is
an interesting fact that no one prom
Inently Identified with the Bryan ele
ment of the democracy Is to participate
In this banquet. A few men who sup
ported Bryan will be there, but they
will be entirely overshadowed by those
who have been conspicuously opposed
to Bryanlsm. The most significant fact
In connect Ion with this event, and cer
tainly the one which will most incense
the supporters of he Chlcngo and Kan
sas City platforms, is the prominence
accorded to (Jrover Cleveland. That
single circumstance. It Is safe to say,
will nullify and render abortive, with
the people who still lelieve In the prin
ciples and doctrines advocated by Bryan,
whatever may be said at tht so-called
harmony dinner.
The utterances of the distinguished
democrats who will be present at the
banquet in New York next Monday
night will be read with profound Inter
est. It is a safe guess that they will all
counsel harmony, but it is most un
likely that they will contribute anything
to that consummation.
Congressman Mondell indulges In in
vidious comparisons between the land
laws of the United States and those
of the Dominion of Canada as an argu
ment in favor of a radical change in
the homestead laws. Mr. Mondell points
to the fact tbst homesteaders can take
up 200 acres of land in B' itish Columbia
and after an occupancy of two years
may purchase it at the rate of $1 an
acre and lease adjacent lands on reason
able terms, while homesteaders In the
United States are limited to 100 acres,
with an occupancy of five years. Mr.
Mondell falls to explatm however, why
homeseekers have given preference, at
least up to a recent period, to lands
located in the United States over latids
in the Canadiau dominion, which are
going begging at $1 an acre, and the
only reason why any considerable num
ber of homeseekers have of late taken
up lands In Manitoba and British Col
umbia is because Uncle Sam's farm Is
very nearly all occupied and what Is
left will be eagerly sought for when
they return after a few years' freezing
and thawing in the hyperborean regions.
A battalion of the First infantry, sta
tioned at Fort Thomas, is to furnish the
subjects of an experiment with a new
kind of canned hash for three days
next week, and if the test proves sat
isfactory another test will be made the
following week at Fort Sheridan, near
Chicago. We feel sure that we dlvnlge
no secret in assuring the commissary
department that the battalion stationed
at Fort Crook draws the line at hash
mixed with kinky hair, even if it is
certified to by the army medical de
partment as healthful and nutritious.
At the annual love feast held by the
republican leaders of Indiana at Indian
apolis Wednesday, Senators Beveridgo
and Fairbanks delivered addresses, both
strongly endorsing President Roose
velt This straw foreshadows that In
diana does not propose to project a
republican candidate for the presidency
this year. -
It is now practically settled that the
movement to confer statehood upon
New Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma
will not get beyond the congressional
committee during the present session
and aspirants for senutorshlps from
those states will have to possess their
souls In patience a while longer.
The Mighty Gtne of Grab.
Philadelphia Record.
The earth hungerers of Russia and Japan
are threatening each other with war over
the possession of regions to which neither
of them has the least shadow of honest
title.
Gold Mines Outclassed.
St. Louts Globe-Democrat.
Between April and November a corn crop
was raised in the United States valued at
$952,000,000. Digging gold Is a alow business
compared with plowing corn.
Looking; Oat for Number One.
t Chicago News.
With Uncle Barn's bonds in demand the
world over It Is not wholly surprising that
some financiers should have become con
vinced that a bond Issue will be needed to
make the payments for the canal.
Cold Proposition Getting; Warm.
Kansas City Journal.
nitirri Olnev has been regarded as a
r.ihpr enld nroDOBltlon. but since the Judge
Parker boom' has been skating about the
country Massachusetts reels Justified in In
viting the democracy to cuddle up to Olney
and get warm.
Old Heads for Counsel.
Indianapolis Journal,
i iinlniie Jaoanese cuatom In times of
national crlsea haa probably had the effect
nf uvlne the nation from many a false
step. At such times all the leading public
men of the empire are summonea to ttjkio,
where a conference la held. This is called
"the council of the elder statesmen." The
men have outgrown the rash Impulsiveness
of youth and exert a conservative influence
upon popular patriotic fervor. Such a coun
cil has recently been summoned in Toklo.
Tko Asphalt Swindle.
Philadelphia Record.
The list of stockholders of the Asphalt
Company of America shows that the or
ganisers of the gigantic financial swindle
were too clever to have any amount of
shares worth speaking of when the con
cern went to pieces. Hence they escape
liability to any extent upon the 80 per cent
assessment upon the company, while Inno
cent Investors deceived by grossly false
representations are as usual the chief vic
tims In holding on to what haa'llttle or no
substantial value.
Gambling; nnd Storks.
Leslie's Monthly.
The very fact that the professional gam
bler la to s large extent a social outcast,
plying his craft at night and behind steel
doors and only then with the purchasable
connivance of the authorities, Is in Itself a
warning that not even the stupidest can
fall to observe. .Stock speculation, on the
contrary, hangs out the banner of respecta
biUty which a great many ' unthinking
persons have somehow come to confound
with morality and. under its protection,
carries on Ita traffic night and day, In city
streets and village lanes. In parlor and
boudoir. In store and In factory In short,
wherever It can find a single human being
possessed of thia mania for getting some
thing for nothing. Men who would scorn
to cross the threshold of a gambling house
gamble openly In stocks and are not
ashamed to discuss their ventures in the
presence of their own children. When
Wall street ruins a man It strips bint of
everything that ha possesses flea troys bis
THE ANIMUS OF
Demand for His Removal Was Made Two Years Ago, Based
duct, Without Reference to the Dietrich
From the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, December 29.
To the Editor of The Republican: My
attention has been directed to the follow
ing paragraph that appeared In a recent
issue of The Republican:
Doubt of the advisability of Mr. Roose
velt's nomination Is beginning to And some
expression west of the Missouri river. The
chief spot of disaffection might easily be
guessed Nebraska, where one of the re
publican enators is under Indictment by a
federal grand Jury and the president has
refused to remove the district attorney
who had been obliged to prosevute the cane.
Mr. Rosewater of the Omaha Uee and
others are salii to be much Incensed be
cause the president declined to assist In
shielding Senator Dietrich and other promi
nent party men in the state from the con
sequences of alleged "grafting" In riation
to local pos to (flees.
I trust you will permit me to correct the
false assumptions on which this comment
Is bused. There are no signs of disaffec
tion with President Roosevelt west of the
Missouri river and no audible expression of
doubt in Nebraaka of the advisability of his
nomination. There is absolutely no foun
dation for the assertion, or Intimation,
that I have ever been, or am now, much
Incensed, or Utile Incensed, because the
president refused .to remove the
United States district attorney In
order to shield Senator Dietrich and
other prominent men In the state from the
consequences of alleged grafting In local
postofllces.
My reputation as an editor haa been es
tablished by consistent and unrelenting
warfare against bribe takers, boodlers and
embezzlers, and my ardent support of
President Roosevelt has been chiefly be
cauaa he has been an uncompromising
enemy of Jobbery und dishonest practices
in public office. I am not an apologist
for or defender of Senator Dietrich and
other prominent republicans who have re
cently been Indicted by the federal grand
Jury, and have not even suggested to the
president that he should Interpose to
shield them from prosecution.
I am under no personal or political obli
gations to Mr. Dietrich, and there is noth
ing in common between us, except that ws
are both republicans. Mr. Dietrich has
always been Identified with the corporation
wing of. the party, while I have been s
pronounced anti-monopolist and was notori
ously defeated by the railroads In my
candidacy for the United States senator
ship when he was elected.
Thero nre peculiar circumstances sur
rounding the Dietrich case that Justify the
belief that he la the victim of political in
trigue and personal malice, and yet I
would be the laat man to condone the of
fense with which he la charged If his guilt
should be established by Irrefutable proof.
At long range, my call at the White House,
In company with Senator Dietrich, prior to
his indictment, urging a change In the
United States district attorneyship, very
naturally created the Impression that we
were both actuated by a desire to get rid
of a prosecuting officer who had rendered
himself obnoxious by hla unyielding de
termination to prosecute violators of the
law.
So far as I waa concerned the contrary
was true. I had filed specific charges with
the president against District Attorney
Summers on March 1. 1902, and asked for
his removal on the ground that he had
scandalized the public service by his in
timate relations with former State Treas
urer Joseph 8. Hartley, sentenced to twenty
years In the Nebraska penitentiary for the
embezzlement of .more' than half a million
dollars of state, funds, and had, moreover,
been a prominent factor In procuring the
pardon of Bartjey. This complaint waa
supplemented In July, 1S.02. and again In
the spring of 1903, by the charge that
District Attorney Summers waa using the
machinery of the federal court for the
protection of parties whom he was In duty
bnund to prosecute for violation of the fed
eral statutes. A citation of two or three
examples in point will suffice:
In February, 1901, charges were filed by
me with the commissioner of Indian af
fairs, and subsequently with the president,
against the agent of Omaha and Winne
bago Indiana and the trader at the Win
nebago Indian reservation for acting in col
lusion with a syndicate of land speculators
who had procured between 3,000 and 1,000
leases to Indian lands which they were
sub-letting to tenant farmers at s profit
of from llOO.ono to $150,000 a year, thus
defrauding the Indian of their legitimate
Income.
In support of my charges, I filed with the
secretary of the Interior an Itemized ex
hibit of the land leases procured by the
members of the land syndicate; about
twenty-five affidavits from Indians and
white settlers, charging fraud and collusion
on the part speculators with the
agent; charging the trader with selling
gambling privileges on the Winnebago
reservation, charging the agent with being
frequently Intoxicated, bringing liquor on
the reservation and tolerating debauchery
of Indians on the Winnebago reservation.
By direction of the president. Inspector
Churchill waa detailed by the Interior de
partment to Investigate these charges. In
stead of making an Impartial Investiga
tion, this Inspector allowed the land lease
speculator to select his stenographer and
Interpreter, and conducted the Inquiry in a
most shamefully partial manner to shield
the agent and speculators. He was ably
seconded by the United States district at
torney, who secured an Indictment against
a member of my reportorlal staff, who had
made a thorough and Impartial Investiga
tion of the conditions then subsisting on
the Winnebago reservation, on the charge
of "personating an officer." He also had
the federal grand Jury indict an attorney
who had assisted the reporter In making
the investigation aa an accessory and also
with giving liquor to the Indiana a charge
trumped up by the conspirators Interested
In fleecing the Indiana and defrauding the
government.
At the Instance of United States Attor
ney Summers the same grand Jury pre
sented an Indictment against another re
porter of The Bee, who had made an affi
davit charging him (Summeni) with admit,
ting to him that he had actively Interested
business, places a mortgage on his home,
eats up the trust funds of which he was
custodian and leaves him naked to the
world.
ROVTIJQ IMMIGRANTS.
A Railroad Pool Having Government
Snnctlon.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Despite the recent Investigation of the
Interstate Commerce commission, the west
ern railroads have again reorganized the
Immigrant bureau, by means of which
they maintain a pool on Immigrant traffic,
dividing more than U.OOO.OiiO worth of busi
ness annually among themselves according
to agreed percentage. Through the opera
tion of this pool every Immigrant, or nearly
every one, who goes west of Chicago U con
trolled, and ths money hs pays for his
transportation goes into the general fund,
where It Is divided by the agent of the bu
reau. Although the law prohibits railway pools,
and although the commission mads a rigid
Investigation Into the organisation and
working of ths bureau, during which Chair
man H, XL Mafilond of ths Western Paa
DISTRICT ATTORNEY SUMMERS
himself In procuring the pardon of Hartley,
the embezzling state treasurer. The charge
preferred against this reporter Is alleged
perjury, said to have been committed two
years prtvlously In giving testimony about
the condition of a postoitice safe that had
been burglarized by unknown parties. Four
successive grand Jflrlcs had been In ses
sion since the reporter had testified In the
postal case without having their attention
called to the alleged perjury by the dis
trict attorney.
These Indictments of my employes were
procured in May, 1902, but up to date no
effort has been made by the district attor
ney to have either of the cases tried.
Their manifest object was to discredit the
testimony of the parties with the Depart
ment of Justice or In case they were called
Into court. The indictment of the reporter
who Investigated the Indian land conspiracy
also served the purpose of intimidating the
Indians and whites who were disposed to
testify against the land speculators and the
Indian agent
Although subsequent exposures fully con
firmed every charge I had made. Special
Agent Churchill made a whitewashing re
port. In which he not only exonerated
Indian Agent r Mathewaon, but also char
acterized the charges of conspiracy and
fraud by the land speculators as baseless
and inspired by personal malice and polit
ical bias. In spite of this perversion of
Justice, I continued to hammer away at
the Indian land frauds and was effectively
seconded In my efforts by the Boston In
dian citizenship committee, with which I
was in constant touch through their chair
man, James W. Davis of Boston. Writing
to me under date of Boston, December 15,
1902, Mr. Davis says:
I congratulate you on the grand measure
of success secured in the cancelation of the
Iniquitous leases and in behalf of our com
mittee. I have renewed our vigorous pro
test against the continuation of the nfcnt.
The commissioner stated that the reports
of the Inspectors on this cane do not agree
In being against him only another instance
of whitewashing on which point I re
minded him of two other recent cases, re
newing our earnest appeal for purification
of the inspection and special agent branch
of the service. Is It possible for you nnd
other friends to name a true and reliable
man as successor to Mathewson on whose
nomination we can concentrate effort and
with which meet, any nomination of the
harpies still greedy for spoils?
In June, 1903, Mr. Davis, writing from
Newton, Mass., says:
I have written to the president again,
transmitting a memorial and remonstrance
from Mrs. Dr. ricofte, and certifying to her
thoroughly Christian reliability. It is un
certain whether It will avail or no, but we
want the president to know that the case
will not stay down.
In my warfare on the Indian land r!ng I
also had the co-operation of George Ken
nan, who made a vigorous exposure in the
Outlook of the abuses prevalent In the In
dian bureau with reference to western In
dian reservations. Including the Winnebago
agency. The outcome of the campaign
against the Nebraska Indian land ring waa
a revision of the rules governing the leasing
and sale of Indian lands that effectively
prevent speculative subleasing and the can
celation of Indian land sales made on col
lusive bids.
In response to the remonstrances of the
Omaha Indians and the Indian Rights as
sociation the Fifty-seventh congress re
fused to appropriate money to pay the
calary of the agent at the Omaha and Win
nebago reservations. The backers of the
malodorous Mathewaon managed, however,
to secure his appointment as superintendent
of schools at the Winnebago reservation,
with practically the same authority he had
formerly exerted as agent, but when It be
came too warm for him to face another
investigation by an honest Inspector he re
signed under pretext of bad health. An
other sample of District Attorney Sum
mer's serpentine ways was furnished dur
ing the closing months of lost year, when
the federal grand Jury was Instructed ex
pressly by the court to Investigate the pub
lic land frauds in western Nebraska. The
fencing complaints were brought in early
in the session and after hearing Special
Agent Mosby and other witnesses the
United Slates attorney asked the Jury to
postpone final action and Introduced other
cases that monopolized the time of the
Jury until two or three days before Christ
mas. All the members of the grand Jury,
except those residing in Omaha, were fur
nished railroad passes on a requisition from
the district attorney and were allowed to
draw pay for mileage going and returning
to and from their homes. Having made
himself solid with the grand Jurors, Dis
trict Attorney Summers managed adroitly
to distract them after the holiday recess
from discharging their paramount duty.
The public land fencing cases never came
up again. The Inquiry was smothered, and
on the last day Summers got up a smoker
and entertained the Jurors with funny
stories and a shower of compliments on
their splendid work.
After this fiasco I again called the atten
tion of the president to the utter unfitness
of Summers as a federal prosecutor and hs
assured me that another attorney would be
appointed at the earliest possible moment,
but the change waa not made because the
two Nebraska senators failed to agree on a
succeasor. My recent Insistence that the
change be made whether the senators
agreed or not waa based upon my knowl
edge that District Attorney Summers is un
truthful, unprincipled and crooked, conse
quently a dangerous man In his position.
His latest performances In securing the
indictment of several cattle barons who
have unlawfully annexed public lands to
their domain are mere grand stand play.
After the exposure I had made at the De
partment of Justice of his efforts to block
their indictment a year pgo he had to
make a semblance of showing. I am Im
pressed also with the belief that his prose
cution of Senator Dietrich has been Insti
tuted to satisfy his ambition for notoriety
and Indefinitely extend hla own term which
expired more than eight months ago.
His statement to Attorney General Knox
that he had sought to shield Dietrich be
fore the grand Jury last summer when it
was probing the charges of alleged bribery
senger association and F. A. Wadlelgh,
agent of the bureau In New York, openly
admitted the existence of the pooling ar.
rangement, no steps have been taken to
ward disrupting the organization or pun
ishing ths railroads for being parties
thereto. The conclusion Is therefore war
rantable that the commission has decided
to Ignore the exlstenoe of ths pool and by
lack of action tacitly give approval to Its
operation.
If such Is the case, this course is un
doubtedly largely due to the testimony of
Edward McSweeney, assistant commis
sioner ot Immigration at New York. When
asked his opinion of the pool he replied:
"From the standpoint of the Immigration
commissioner the presence In New York of
these responsible concerns, the Immigrant
Clearing house and ths Immigrant bureau,
doing business In a manner approved by
and at the original request of the com
missioners of Immigration, Is of the great
est assistance to the government In the
proper transaction of business, and Insures
the safeguarding of Immigrants to their
destination,"
The testimony showed that prior to the
organisation of the pool In 18M Immigrants
were handled worse than cattle. As soon
on Charges of Official Miscon
Case.
1903.
In postoffieo appointmunts is flatly contra
dieted by members of that grand Jury, who
asserted that the attorney did all he could
to get Dietrich Indicted, but failed to con
vlnco them that there was testimony suffl
clent to convlt t. The natural Inference Is
that Mr. Summers wrote the letter In order
to be In position to assure Senator Dietrich
on his return from Alaska that he owed
him n. debt of gratitude that could only be
repaid by an endorsement of his reap
polntment.
With these facta before the Republican I
trust that my motives In urging the di
missal of District Attorney Summers in the
Interest of better government will not be
misconstrued. E. ROSEWATER.
Omaha, December 26. 1901.
An I nmltlatnted Oatrase.
(Editorial In The Bee, May 23. 1901)
At the Instance of United States Attorney
Summers the foderal grand Jury Is said to
have returned indictments against two re
porters of The Bee. One of these, 11. II.
Claiborne, la charged with having given
false testimony In a cose tried In the
United Stutes court two years ago. Too
other, C. J. Beet, Is charged with person
ating an oflicer while recently making an
Investigation of the conditions prevailing
upon the Winnebago Indian reservation.
The attempt to place a stigma upon these
men Is manifestly a deliberate effort on
the port of Lnlted States Attorney Sum
niers to destroy their credibility to shield
himself and other federal officials over
whom charges axe hanging at Washington.
The spirit that animates the action
against Claiborne Is so transparent that to
amount of palaver can conceal It. If Mr
Claiborne were guilty of a crime two years
ago there Is no valid reason why he should
not have boon prosecuted within reasonable
time after the alleged offense was com
mitted. Four federal grand Juries have
been In session In the time Intervening, but
neither Attorney Summers nor anyone els
saw fit to present accusations. Even
without a grand Jury, Mr. Summers could
havo readily preferred his charges before
a United States commissioner and had the
offender bound over.
The true reason why Mr. Summers has
suddenly awakened to the gravity of Mr.
Claiborne's alleged offense Is that an affi
davit signed by Mr. Clalborno has beer
filed at the White House some weeks ago
relating to an Interview between himself
and Summers on the Sunday following the
pardon of Baxtley from the penitentiary.
In this Interview Mr. Summers boasted
that he had been instrumental In Inducing
Governor Savage to grant the pardon; that
in his (Summers') opinion Bartlcy was still
the great political power In Nebraska,
whose Influenoe would make Itself felt In
the future. Incidentally, Mr. Summers ad
mitted to Claiborne that ho had invited
Bartley to come up to Omaha for a confer
ence, whloh took place In the wine room of
Flynn's saloon at the corner of Thirteenth
and Douglas streets, lasting from 8 o'clock
In the evening until 2 o'clock the next morn
ing. The facts set forth In this affidavit were
verified by the direct and Indirect proof. It
la a matter of notoriety and has been a
scandal that District Attorney Summers
has been closely affiliated with the rottoi.est
element of the republican party In Ne
braska and he made no bones of his Inti
mate relationship to and championship of
Bartley. At the state capital he has been
given the credit of writing the lame and
Impotent explanation that was attached to
the pardon over the signature of Governor
Savage. The conference In the Flynn
saloon as verified by affidavit of witnesses
has, as we understand It, been admitted,
but with the assurance that Mr. Summers
confined his thirst to apolllnarls, while the
liquors served were consumed by his com
panion. This Is not Intended as a reflec
tion on Mr. Bartley. It is safe to say that
had not the Claiborne affidavit been filed
with the president the grand Jury would
never have heard of Mr. Claiborne.
The case of Mr. Best is if anything a
greater and more Inexcusable outrage. Mr.
Best was dispatched to the Indian reserva
tion a few weeks ago to run down and
verify reports of maladministration on the
part of the Indian agent and abuses to
which the Indians on the Winnebago res
ervation were being subjected by a land
lease ring In collusion with the agent and
trader. In the discharge of this duty Mr.
Best took pains to get at the truth as well
as he could, notwithstanding the obstruc
tions put In his way by the parties who
have despoiled and debauched the Indians.
Mr. Best made no secret of his connection
with The Bee and resorted to no decep
tion. To assure his Informants who had
been victimized and terrorized by the ring
that they would not be punished for telling
the truth, he said that their complaints and
any disclosures made would be forwarded
to Washington.
For daring to discharge his duty as a
reporter and to counteract the damaging
effects of the affidavits be gathered and
the affidavit he made he is to be perse
cuted and smirched by the misuse of the
power vested In the district attorney, who,
while pretending to be anxious to punish
the rascals who have been robbing the
Indians, is pursuing a course designed to
protect them. Fortunately there Is a
higher authority than District Attorney
Summers. That authority, we feel sure,
will not be distracted In Its purpose to get
at the true Inwardness of affairs on the
reservation and to discharge the obliga
tions the government has assumed toward
Its wards regardless of the beneficiaries.
The Bee has up to this time refrained
from giving publicity to the facts in Its
possession relating to the discreditable con
duct of Mr. Summers In connection with
Bartley and the rottenness on the Indian
reservation, preferring to allow ths depart,
ment to right the wrong and deal with the
recreant officers. When the attempt Is
made to wreak personal revenges on Its
reporters It Is compelled, however reluc
tant, to defend them and expose ths animus
of their persecution.
as they arrived In New York, beyond which
they were not ticketed, tbey became the
prey of the middlemen, who rounded them
up, herded them Into noisome boarding
houses, where they were robbed, until the
middlemen finally sold them to the highest
bidder among the transportation lines. Not
Infrequently they were stopped at Chicago
or St. Louis, where the robbing process Was
repeated. Accordingly If the unfortunate
seeker after a home In a free country
finally landed at destination, to which he
was not Infrequently sent by circuitous
route, he found himself fleeced of his last
penny. Very often, however, the Imml
grant never left New York, where he be
came a public charge after having been
robbed by the middlemen and boarding
hou-e keepers. Under the bureau this is all
changed. All Immigrants are kept at Ellis
Island, where the middleman cannot pene
trate, they are ticketed through to destina
tion from Europe, are examined aa soon
as they arrive at the Island, are routed by
the agent of the bureau and started upon
their Journey the same day on through
trains which make fast time and afford
them the common comforts of travel. It
la evident that ths commission believes
that the law should not disturb such a pool
OTI1KR I.Ar THAN OlBft.
The tide of Irish Immigration has beer
nowlng during the past year in I'MSf v
volume than It showed In 1901. Twits
expected that the high hopes, railed by
the new land act would tend to check
the popular exodus, but ths returns of
the British Board of Trade, which are
Issued monthly, show that ths outflow
continues unabated. According . to (hose
returns for the first eleven months of
1903, the total number ot persons of Irish
nationality that emigrated from porta in
Ireland and Great Britain to oouotries
outside of Europe waa 44,809, bains; an in
crease of ! SS over the corresponding period
of last year. Of this Increased emigration
the United States has received t7M more
than last year, Canada 1,184 more. South
Africa 649 more, while the number going
to Australia and New Zealand has de
creased by 224. Of ths total nun.ber of
emigrants for ths eleven months, 39.000, or
R7 per cent, came to ths United States;
2.00, or 6 per cent, went to Canada, and
2.000, or nearly B per cent, went to South
Africa. About SB per cent of these emi
grants were between the ages of 16 and 45
years. And It may be bonis In mind that
the returns quoted from do not embody
the grand total of emigration for the period
referred to, as they do not Includo the
Irish who emigrated to Great Britain and
various European countries. It may be
noted that Ireland has lost by emigration
during the eleven months a population
equal to that of the city of Limerick,
and more than the population of at least
one Irish county, as Carlow. And the
awful drain by the outflow of the young
and virile of both sexes continues, notwith
standing the allurements of the land act
and British promises of further remedial
legislation. Economlo forces am In opera
tion which must be controlled or diverted
before the Irish exodus can be checked.
Fhyslcally, ths Corenn Is a fine, stout
fellow, with vigor enough, but his apathy
and cowardice and impotence are beyond
belief: he Is the hrother fn t Hat nrlonn Un
has animosity, but no action. A little Jan
.in . . .
iimuresi a score or stout Coreans, and
they will cower and shrink A Kl r ..r..,. n
walking along the street who lias been
josuea ny a Jap will fall down and cry,
so great Is his innate feeling of helpless
ness. The people impress the foreigner as
Indomitably or senselessly patlont, dumb
with the callousness of aires of rinsmiir-
and they have a bit of Joyousneas. too,
and care not what fate befalls. The Corean
naa been the plaything and the spoil of
the nations of the far east from tim im
memorial, and Is destined to more 111 usage
nu oppression, ir the Japanese win their
case, the Coreons will be vassals; If
Russians prevail, they will be sUvesfho
cumber the earth, or, at best, beasts of
burden in the hands of relentless task
masters. Senor Salmeron. the Eoanlsh renubnean
leader, who In response to a request from
a leading newspaper at Berlin for the ex
pression of hut hopes for the futuro, de
clares that he "Jonas for a sne.ndv p.vni.,.
tlon at Madrid to clear away the present
regime there." which, he Says. "Is an un
interrupted series of accidents, disorder
outrages and suppressions,'- has been a
president of the Spanish republic und Is
the most eloquent and eminent lawyer nf
the entire Spanish bar. Whlln Rq
the shrewd liberal leader, was alive ha
succeeded In keeping Salmeron and through
mm uie enure republican party' from any
antl-dynastie agitation and aggression by
promises of liberal reforms. So friendly
were the relations In those days bttween
Salmeron, the recognized reDibllaari lir
and the reigning family that cntll Uiee
years ago he actually had charge c.f all
the legal Interests In Spain of old Queen
Isabella, who makes her home in nH
drawing her civil list from the royal treas
ury ror ner and acting In her thalf In all
questions, both with-ths tvmi faSAlr with
the stafe and In connection with her pri
vate property In the kingdom. All this has
ceased since the death of Sagasta. - The ad
vent to offloe of Senor Maura who la lha
most reactionary of the conservative party.
aosoruiaiy opposed to every kind of teform,
political, 'administrative and financial, has
stirred Senor Balmeron and his followers
to Inaugurate a very active warfare against
the throie.
Ths dismissal of four more Gorman army
officers because of the revelations In Lieu
tenant Bliss's book, "In a Little Garrison,"
shows again that the author Is not being
punished because hla book gavs an inac
curate picture of army life. But the min
ister of war Is evidently trying to live up
to his promise that there shall bs no more
such garrisons In ths service. In sll prob
ability, there are but few, yet the code of
morals under which they flourish extendi
throughout ths army, and la responsible
for any amount Of misconduct. If It Is Im
possible to keep Anglo-Saxons m barracks
and have them saints. It Is all the mora
difficult to keep young Teutons In order
when fhsr think themselves,' because of
their uniforms, of a higher order of so
ciety than any olvOasn, and not bountVby
ths moral laws whloh apply to ordl
mortals. What the German army Is suf
fering from la merely what must happen
to a ay troops whan their officers are made
detnigods and overlords, when they may
Ml at leisure airy one who displeases, and
go practically unpunished. What la needed
Is to znaks ths army feel that It is the
servant of the German people, and not
that the nation exists for Its benefit. The
remedies are obvious. They could be put
Into operation at ones by the emperor, but
that commander-in-chiefs Influence ha
thus far merely strengthened the caste fuel
ing and the abominable military code which
Is a direct Inheritance from the middle
ages.
The International Sanitary Conference.
which has Just conoluded Us sessions In
Paris, accomplished some Important work.
Practically It perfected the plans of pre
vious conferences held In Venice. Dresden-
and Parte. Among other things It resolved
that the period of surveillance In case of
plague shall bo five days Instead of ten.
Greater facilities will be gtven to com
merce without diminution of sanitary pre
cautions. The representatives of the differ
ent powers will take collective action t
compel Turkey to obey the stipulations
agreed upon. Some of theso affect the San
itary council In Constantinople. Hitherto
the porta has been represented by eight
members. Hereafter It will have four, on
the other hand, the appointment of the In
spector general of the sanitary service, as
also thst of the Inspector wUl bs subject
to the ratification of the Turkish govern
ment. The decisions of the council voted
by a majority will be definitely binding.
Roumonla, which is recognised as a mari
time state, will now be represented on the
council. The international council at Tan
gier will be invited to attend to the rigor
ous application of the sanitary regulations.
The new convention provides for the man
ner In which any outbreak of cholera or
p'ague Is to be proclaimed by the country
where It occurs; in what ctrcumstancej
the locality Is to be considered as In
fected and afterwards as free from in
fection, and ths measures to be tukeu
against Infected countries by such coun
tries as are free from infection, it contains
special stipulations for those countries sit
uated outside Europe. There are regula
tions for pilgrimages, and very ample and
practical provisions for marillmo sanita
tion. Hlcht Klemrnt for Snips.
Boston Transcript. ,
The United Htates Shipbuilding comix. u.
was logical, after sll. It meant to be sura
of plenty of water befurs It began to build
the ships.
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