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TIIE OMAItA D AIL'S BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1008. Tim Omaha Daily Dee. FOUNDED BY EDWARD ROSEWATER. VICTOR ROBE WATER, EDITOR. Entered at Omaha Postofflce eecond class matter. TERMS OF Pf BSCRIPTION. Daily Be (without Sunday), one year. .MOO Dally Bee and Sunday, one year Sunday B, one yMtr Saturday Bee, one year - D ELI V ERKD BT CARRIER: Dally Fee (Including- Runday), per wwk .JSd Daily Bee (without Sunday). per week..loc Evening Be (without Sunday), per W"-ko Kvenlng Bee (with Sunday;. per wek..lOc Address all complaints of Irregularities In delivery to City Circulation Department OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Bluffs 16 Scott Street. Chicago M0 University Building. New York-uV-U Home Ufa Insurance Building. . a M w Wanhlnrton-728 Fourteenth Street N. W. CORRESPONDENCE. Communlcatlona relating to newt and edi torial matter ehould b addressed, Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment 01 mall accounta. peraonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dougiaa County. .' George B. TxsohUrk, treasurer of in Bee Publishing Company, being duly "worn' says that tho actual number of full ana complete copier of The Dally. Morning. Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of December, 1907, waa as fol- ,0!:....:.. n J S7.160 II I 37,370 II 88'" 4 37,810 it 36,580 t 37,33 II M-380 SAMO it a30 T 37,00 II 8'400 1 3,900 14 86,B0 ae,93o 21 3a'600 it 37,030 l 38,680 XI 37,000 21 38,690 It 38,740 21 38,380 II 37,630 21 36,600 14 36,610 10 38,110 15 36,660 II 36,610 It 36,660 Total 1,133,980 Lee unsold and returned copies. 9,804 Net total 1,139,776 Dally average a,444 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. ' Treaaurer. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me this 2d day of January, 19u8. ROBERT HUNTER, Notary Public. WHEN OCT OF TOWN. abecrlbera leavlnsl the city trm porarlly ahoald have The Be . 'nailed to them. .agrees will be chanced aa aften aa reqaestea. "MIsb Gladys Vanderbllt took the count," 68 the sporting editor would lay. "The Hughes boom is no infant," ays the New York Sun. Certainly not. It has whiskers. The daughter of a wealthy Detroit man eloped with her father's hostler. Evidently she wanted a real groom. . John Sharp Williams, has been for mally elected to the United States sen ate, but has not yet picked his sparring partner. Mr. Bryan shows some indignation In declaring that ha is not a quitter. He would be more popular in some cir cles if he were. Efforts are being made to organize a lawyers' union in New York. The only way for the plain citizen to get along in that burs is to move out. An eminent authority has written a book on the "Psychology of Live Ani mals." Take it for granted, from that, that dead animals have no psychology. There is no answer to Congressman Hitchcock's speech. He presents offi cial figures to prove that the demor cratlo vote grows smaller in every sue- ceedlng campaign. Wall street ia ebowlng prospects of cheering up, but it will probably be a long time before "the street" can re sume its old pastime of high rolling with' other people's money. v The democrats are now charging that the recent panic was caused by the tariff. ' This will be cheering news to Secretary Loeb, wjio had doubtless expected to be blamed for it. This talk that Editor Watterson will be made secretary of the treasury if Mr. Bryan is elected president is all nonsense. The Kentucklan is the logi cal candidate for director of the mint. The St. Louis street car companies have dismissed a lot of conductors be cause the receipts did not tally with the number of passengers carried. In other words, the conductors who failed to ring up have been rung off. Evidence has been offered to prove that during the siege at Port Arthur, Mrs. Stoesael, wife of the commanding general, sold eggs at $1 each and milk at $4 a quart. Mrs. Stoessel ought to be running a hotel in New York. "Charles Frohman chats on the eve of sailing," bays the New York Mall la these days when everyone is talking politics and finance it la a real relief to find a man willing to chat on such an interesting subject as the eve of sailing. The Kentucky situation is peculiar, Colonel Watterson ia for Bryan and against Beckham. Bryan ia for Beck ham and against Watterson. Beckham is for himself, The fitting solution would be the election of a republican senator. Tbe Nevada legislature, called in special session to consider the labor troubles at Goldfleld, adjourned in or der to allow its members to attend a prise fight at Reno. President Roose velt took the proper measure of Gov ernor Sparks when he ordered the fed eral troops withdrawn from the Gold- TBAT VNASSWE nro qvestiox In the defense of Bryan and Bryan Ism Injected Into the congressional pro ceedings by our only democratic con gressman from Nebraska, one of the Interruptions Is noted, as follows: Mr. Kelfer I would like to ask the gen tlemanhe may have stated It, although I failed to hear It what the vote for Bryan waa In 1900 as compared with his vote In 1896 In Nebraska? Mr. Hitchcock In Nebraska? Mr. Kelfer Yes. Mr. Hitchcock I think I can furnish the Information. After the speaker had continued for some little time he was Interrupted again, as follows: Mr. Kelfer I did not understand the gentleman to answer my question about the relative vote for Bryan In Nebraska In 1896 and In 1900. Mr. Hitchcock I assure the gentleman from Ohio that I am not afraid to answer the question. Mr. Kelfer Tou can answer It In a word. But a fellow democrat kindly came into the breach and the answer to the question was lost in the shuffle. Al though the information is reasonably accessible, The Bee ventures to furnish the answer which our only democratic congressman so carefully avoided. The official election figures for Nebraska, taking tho highest vote polled on pres idential electors for the last three presidential elections, is as follows: 1896. 1900. 1904. Total TOte 830,795 851,006 333,407 mepnbllcan ....103,064 131,835 138,658 rttaloa 115,899 114,013 S53.931 Pa0,618 The answer to Mr, Keifer's question n a word is that while the total vote of Nebraska increased by 20,000, com paring 1900 with 1896, the vote polled by Mr. Bryan decreased nearly 2,000, comparing the same years. In 1904 there was no fusion in Ne braska on presidential electors, the re sult being that the populists voted for their own ticket or for the Roosevelt ticket, leaving Parker only the demo cratic vote, which showed up in the returns aa 52,921. In the same year fusion on the state ticket gave the fusion candidate for governor 102,568 votes, which would represent the max imum Bryanite strength and still a falling off of 10.000 from the vote polled by Mr. Bryan four years before. It should also be recorded here for the benefit of the congressional de baters -that at the last election in Ne braska the republican candidate for supreme Judge, running on a platform endorsing the Roosevelt policies and indicating a preference for William H. Taft to succeed him, carried the state by the largest plurality in fifteen years with the single exception of that given to Theodore Roosevelt in 1904. WARNING AGAINST EXTRAVAGANCE. Chairman Tawney of the house com mittee on appropriations has informed congress that the greatest economy will be necessary to keep expenses within probable revenues for the en suing fiscal year. Mr. Tawney de clares that if the appropriations asked by the different executive branches of the government were allowed by the present session of congress there would be a deficit of at least $100,000, 000 by June, 1909. As a measure of the economy he is urging, he recom mends that no public building bill and no river and harbor iriprovement bill be adopted this year. The warning of Chairman Tawney is timely, but the treasury condition is far from being as serious as his re marks would Indicate. A deficit of $100,000,000 for the next fiscal year would not mean that the government would have to go in debt to that amount to meet expenditures. It would mean simply that the estimated ex penditures exceed the estimated re ceipts by that amount and that the defi cit, so-called, would have to be paid out of accumulated funds in the treas ury. Tbe treasury now holds something in excess of $250,000,000 in idle money. the accumulation of re publican administration of national affairs. While economy is always advisable and desirable in the ex penditure of public money, the needs of the country may be better served by an expendltur of sora porying-ei-win( an expenditure of some portion of this surplus than by paring appropriations to tne point of declaring needed public Improvements. There 16 a vast difference between creative and negative expenditures by the government. Money judiciously ex pended in the improvement of water ways, in reclamation projects, in forest preservation and like objects returns to the government in increased ' rev enues. Large appropriations for bat tleships and army fortifications, as essential as they may be, come more under the negative classification. They return ' nothing and form a drain rather than a source of replenishing and increasing the revenues. No fault can be found with Chair man Tawney for his appeal for econ-t omy. The method of accomplishing it is the point at issue. It is evident, too. that economy in expenditures is be coming urgent, even if the necessity is not immediately pressing. This need Is not confined to congressional ap propriations. Nearly every state and municipality in the union is taxed about to the limit. New York City has a bonded debt almost aa large aa that of the United States and nearly all local governments have apparently been spending public money recklessly. The wlesest statesmanship will be that which, in national as well as local affairs, effects a proper adjustment between Income and outgo and applies Intelligent economy to the manage ment of tbe public business. "I want to be a member of the Sixty-first congress." said Congress man Kimball of Kentucky ,1a a speech on the floor of the bouse, "for then William J. Bryan will be president, Champ Clark speaker of the house and Henry Watterson secrets ry of the treasury." There Is no prohibition law in the District of Columbia. THE CENSVi AfiD CIVIL SERVICE. Congress promises to have a pretty fight over plans now being made for the taking of the 1910 census. Provi sions for that enumeration must be made at the present session and it ia estimated that 4,000 additional clerks will be needed on the work in Wash ington. The president, it is announced, will insist that these clerks be selected by civil service examinations, while the congressmen would like to repeat the process employed in 1890 of hav ing these additional clerks selected by "non-competitive examination." In other words, each member of congress Is to be allowed to designate a certain number of persons for examination. The examination, under such plan, would be purely formal and the per sons designated by the congressmen would be placed on the rolls of the classified service and be eligible to transfer to any other branch of the government service. ' There are now about 24,000 govern ment 'clerks in Washington, practically all of whom have secured their posi tions by the test of public examina tions, in competition with thousands of other applicants for every position in sight. The proposal to add 4,000 names to this roll, without examina tion, is denounced as an Injustice to the employes already on the roll and as carrying with it a practical cer tainty of weakening the efficiency of the forces. If the employment were temporary and the persons added to the public payroll were to be dropped with the completion of the census, the method of appointment of these clerkB would not be open to such serious objection. But the records show that persons once placed on the public payroll usually remain there, espec ially if they are in line to be trans ferred from one place to another. At the close of the last session, congress made a determined effort to have all the temporary employes of the census bureau placed on the per manent civil service roll. President Roosevelt protested so vigorously against the plan that it was finally abandoned, after a compromise had been reached by which the census bureau was made permanent, with a minimum force of regular employes. The president will evidently have to stand out again against this attempted violation of the principle of civil ser vice. Under the pending proposition, each member of congress has the at tractive prospect of appointing ten persons in his district and placing them in the way of securing perma nent positions on the government pay roll. The spoils spirit is not dead and it is nonpartisan. A PARDON FOR CALEB POWERS. Petitions asking Governor Willson of Kentucky to grant a pardon to Caleb Powers, charged with being an accessory to the killing of William Goebel, then governor of the state,, are to be circulated in every state in the union. Under ordinary circumstances. the general public would be slow to evince keen interest in the conviction or acquittal of a man charged with crime in any community, but the Powers case has achieved a national significance, owing to the peculiar de velopments at the different trials, tending to show that the murder has been used as a means of building up and perpetuating a political machine in Kentucky and that the entire course of the case has been directed In the Interests of politics Instead of In the interests of Justice. Powers has been in tbe jails of Ken tucky for eight years. He has been convicted at three trials and the court of appeals has each time reversed the verdict. The fourth trial resulted in a disagreement and he is still in jail awaiting a fifth trial. The jury in the fourth trial stood ten for acquittal and two for conviction. It waa shown in the course of the laat trial that the political bosses of Kentucky had in sisted that none but democrats be allowed on the Juries at the preceding trials and that the entire prosecution was planned and conducted' for politi cal purposes. The movement for the pardon of Powers has assumed state wide proportions and some leading democrats there are now asking for his release. In the petition for the pardon appears this paragraph:. For eight years this man has lain In the jails of Kentucky, lie has endured much. Patiently he has awaited In the hope of final freedom by a Jury of his peers. He has made a -brave, manly fight, asking no quarter, seeking no favor other than that guaranteed by the law of the land. Hla fight for freedom will live In history- Caleb Powers has no private fortune. The expense of those trials has been enormous, the last one coating over I10.00O. We are reliably Informed that the recent trial has exhausted what funds had been gathered by public contribution for his defense. Therefore, he is entirely with out means to atand another trial. Kentucky's disgrace occasioned by the prostitution of the judiciary to purely partisan purposes can never be wiped out, but a pardon for Powers might help people to forget it. Our amiable democratic contem porary is deluding itself with1 the idea that republicans are "exceeding anx ious to furnish the democratic party with some other candidate than Mr. Bryan in the coming campaign." We do not believe it. All real republicans have from the start conceded Mr. Bryan's nomination at Denver by ac clamation. The ouly anxiety to fur nish tbe democratic party with some other candidate than Mr. Bryan is manifested in certain democratic quar- ters that do not like to make a fight they have no hope of winning. Tbe building of the Ashland cut-oft by the Great Northern to take business away from Omaha by a rear route, which was regarded aa such a wonder ful piece of railway strategy at the time, would not be cause for boasting if it were held to make the Great Northern and the Burlington com peting lines and furnish the basis of a successful suit by the government to divorce these two benevolently assim ilated systems. The big job which County Assessor Shriver will have to tackle, almost without precedent to follow, is the as sessment of railway property for taxa tion under the new terminal tax law. The taxpayers of Omaha do not want the railway terminals over-assessed, but at the same time they Insist that everything that Is taxable be included and that everything be listed at fair market value. It ia intimated that a test rase is to be brought to question tbe pay-in-advance rule which haa been promul gated by the new clerk of the district court. Won't some one please tell us why lawyers should object to paying court fees in advancj, especially when they use their clients' money to make the payments? According to the report of the city clerk, tbe Omaha city council had 1,752 more documents and motions submitted to its consideration in the year 1907 than It did in the year 1.906. It should be remembered, however, that the 1906 council was a republican body and that the 1907 council is made up exclusively of democrats with one exception. The British government has finally agreed to pay $100,000 for the ran som of Sir Henry MacLean, held a prisoner by Bandit Ralsuli. As the original demand of Ralsuli was for $1,000,000, the reduced price must make MacLean feel like a bargain counter remnant. There are some other letters in the series written by the ex-lobbylBt re former when trying to connect with a payroll, but which he has not made public. Why not? Is it because one of them might tend to strain the cor- dial relations maintained with the Lin coln Journal? An Omaha automoblllst haa been actually fined for navigating the streets after dark without lights on his machine. A few more surprise par ties like this might convince the auto autocrat that pedestrians have some rights which they are bound to respect. The spectacle of Mr. Hitchcock deco rating the Congreaelonal Record with a panegyric on the-source of "the sting of ingratitude" deserves underscoring with fed ink. According to the Lincoln Star's size up of the democratic gubernatorial sit uation, "Dahlman stock seems to have slumped off." Ia that all? ' Is the Lid OnT Chicago Tribune. Mayor Dahlman of Omaha is another rugged and tumultuous statesman with an unspoken speech in hlB system. (Advance Information. Brooklyn Eagle. People like to know what they must ex pect. Senator Aldrlch says that if his finan cial bill Is not accepted, none shall be passed ! Two Fine Accomplishments. Philadelphia Record. It cannot be denied that Secretary of War Taft Is an astute political general as well as a polished and tactful gentleman. These two accomplishments are not always worn under the same hat. Explaining Bryaa Psychology. New York World. We fear that Judge Parker does not un derstand tho Bryan psychology. When a democrat bolted Mr. Bryan's nomination in U96, that waa "treason to Jeffersonlan principles." When Mr. Bryan knifed Judge Parker In 1904, that was "maintaining true democratic doctrine." Unfortunately there seems to be only one democrat In all tho country whom Mr. Bryan considers wholly trustworthy. Hall the Ileal Optimist. Baltimore American. The pessimists have been saying so many dreadful things and predicting such dire possibilities that the prophecy ot a Missouri professor to the effect that the United States is destined to become a heaven on earth In tin century Is cheering, even though the c mat low will receive It a little dubiously, remembering that heaven In peo pled with angles ami saint, and that -the investigating c'ummUUtt'S here below have not 'ceased .from troublllng, nor are the muckrakt-ra yet at ret. What Wilt Ma Do With II f New York World. An Iowa bricklayer by the reversion of the Shurtleff college endowment fund has Inherited this ancient Institution of learn ing. What will he do with it? As Shurtleff U a Baptist college, will he dispose of It to Mr. Rockefeller? Or will he embrace his unique opportunity to become a college president, to don a silk gown, add an IX. D. to hi nuuiu, take up the burden of co educational problems and foot ball and contribute his advice to the social and economic regulation of the nation? Senate Repablleaa for Many Years. Boston Transcript. There are forty-two republicans In the senate today who are already elected for terms which expire as late as 1911 or later. In detail, exclusive of Oklahoma, which haa recently furnished two democrats, and of Rhode Island, which maintains a republican vacancy, the three classes of senators stand as follows. That which expires on the Inauguration day next, eighteen republicans to twelve democrats; that which expires March 4. 1911, when the constructive work of the new adminis tration will be practically over, stands twenty-four republicans to six democrats; that which expiree In 1111 with the close of the next presidential term, stands eighteen republic ids to eleven democrats. For the naxt four years a republican sen ate Is aa well assured as any future condi tion can be. Knocks and Boosts Tea "mall Game to Itaat. Omaha P.xaminer. Vic, next time you go a-gunnlng, go after bigger game. Get a bear Instead ot a Jack rabbit. f No Kteveath Hoar Reform t'oavert. ' York Times. There Is no man In Nebraska who more thoroughly and surely represents the pro gressive spirit of republicanism In Ne braska than Victor Rosewater. While It Is "the new Idea" to the eleventh hour reformers It la old as the world to Mr. Rosewater, for he was born under Its spell and raised In Its atmosphere. His sturdy father, after fighting for It with his whole Soul, sometimes almost alone, for a third of a century, died Just aa the eastern sky proclaimed the dawn, falling, aa Lincoln did, when the work was accom plished, but deprived of the fruits of vic tory. His mantle! fell on worthy shoulders and Victor Rosewater could not be ree reant If he could. To fight corruption and monopoly, to stand for the people, la the sixteenth element of his Hody, stronger than all the others. Ills love and respect for his father Invito hltn and tho very success of his great business, built upon that theory, compels him to be faithful to the traditions he has Inherited. The elder Rosewater made enemies, needlessly sometimes, but never wantonly, and ene mies are sometimes a hereditament, but the enemies of Edward Rosewater are nearly all converted to his views and will hardly hold It against the son. Political Mountebank fthotrn I' p. LINCOLN. Jan. 23,-To the Editor of The Bee: I want to pat you on the back and thank you for going after tho political mountebank as you did In your signed editorial of January 22. It is most humili ating, and a disgrace to the republican party and our state, to have such a man as he attempting to dictate the policy of our party and attempting to beemlrch the character and motives of honest men. There Is no language of condemnation strong enough to fit his case. V. Good Service (or the State. Waterloo Gazette. Victor Rosewater, editor of The Bee, pays his respects to one F. A. Harrison of Lincoln In a manner not calculated to heal the broach apparent between the two men. Harrison Is tho man who Is credited with being a LaFollette booster (In the In terests of reform) and his past connection with the Union Pacific as a paid lobbyist and pass distributor la established beyond peradventure by the editor. In this work Mr. Rosewater has done a good service for the state and the party. Verdict of a Spelling Reformer. Albion News. ' Vicky Rosewater Is selecting aid thru correspondence thruout the state for his ambition to be selected one of the delcgctes-at-large to the national convention. He is exhibiting the same tendencies that marked his much abler father, in wanting to be tho dictator and tbrlce-illustroua boss of the party. He lacks both years and ability for such a position, even if the party was in need of such a functionary. Fodder for the Democrats, FALLS CITY, Neb., Jan. 21. To the Editor of The Bee: I enclose you within a copy of the local democratic paper giving Harrison's unique republican (?) platform, minus the referendum, which possibly was an oversight. It shows his evolutlng politi cal affiliations. We all like your strong stand for Taft and thank The Bee for the victory last fall, and feel Its editor de servos ' some recognition at the party's hands. M. N. When It Cornea to Smoothness. Lincoln News. When It comes to smoothness nobody questions the right of Victor Rosewater to occupy the front seat. Still Seelir Things. Alnsworth Star-Journal. There has always been, and we presume always will be trouble with the Rosewaters. The thing that bothers and always haa bothered is the overweanlng ambition of the various members of the family. The Star-Journal Is not doubting but Victor Is smart for a boy, but he has not the age nor the rental caliber that should be used In the making of United States senators. A Declaration of Independence. Norfolk Press. Victor lacks several blocks of being In the big man class. Republicans who have minds enough to do their own thinking do not need nor want a boss, and will not tolerate one. A Deserved Trimming-. OMAHA, Jan. 22.-To the Editor of The Bee: Allow me to express my gratifica tion at the manner In which you trimmed down one Frank A. Harrison, at the pres ent time self-constituted reformer for the state of Nebraska, formerly paid lobbyist and all round hireling for the Union Pa cific railroad. At Lincoln I ad ample opportunity to watch his cat-like movements In the different departments and what you handed him today was only part of what was coming to him. A. IVot Disturbing- Republican Serenity. Beatrice Express. The war of words between Victor Rose water and Frank Harrison, because the former did not happen to agree with the latter, will prove Interesting without dis turbing the serenity of the republican party of the state. I'KHSOXtl, 1MOTKR. Augustus lleinze threatens to go back to Butte, Mont., and stay there. The strange feature of the meeting of Tillman and Rockefeller was that the lat ter did the talking. Chemist Wiley might do the public a good turn by formulating a list necessarily brief of the foodstuffs fit to eat. Herr Bebel, the socialist leader of the Gern.au Reichstag. has Informed the American socialist party that his visit to the United States must be indefinitely postponed, because the state of his health will not permit him to take on any ad ditional work. He had pianned to deliver a series of addresses In the rrincipal cities. One of tlie devout Christians in the house of representatives is Mr. Houston, of Tennessee. He has Introduced a reac tion requiring the prayer of the chaplain, delivered each day, be printed In the Con gressional Record. If that bill goes through Mr. Houston Is going to Intro duce another resolution for the scattering of biblical texts through the reading mat ter of the Record. Ex-Congressman William J. Coombs of Brooklyn has been elected president of the Municipal Art society of. hla city, suc ceeding Charles R. Lamb. Mr. Coombs was appointed by ex-President Cleveland government director of the Union Pacific railroad, wit hspecial commission to devise a method to collect the debts of more than fl24,6ue,000 due the government from the various roads. He was continued In office by ex-President McKlnley and succeeded in collecting these dVbls In full. H ALTO In Fod and strictly prohibits the sale ot alum baking powHcr So does France So docs Germany The tale of alum foods has been made illegal in Washington and the District of Colum bia, and alum baking powders are everywhere recognized as mjunous. jQ protcct yourself against alum, Sop piainly and be very sure yoa get Koyal is the only liakmg rowder made from Koyal Grape Cream of Tartar. It adds to the digestibility and whole- J. .L- t i someness of the food. ARMY GOSSIP I WASHINGTON. Carrent Brents Gleaned from the Army and Navy Register. The senate military committee on Thurs day decided to report Mr. Warren's bill "to fix the pay of tho army." Certain minor changes were made, one fixing the Increase of the pay of lieutenant generals at S, In stead of 10 per cent. The only other change was that which has the effect of authoris ing the president to increase, instead of "to fix," the pay of enlisted men of the army. The text of the bill, as amended and as It will be reported, la as follows: "That the pay of officers of the army Is hereby Increased as follows: Of lieutenant generals 6 per centum, of major generals 10 per centum, and brigadier generals 15 per centum; of colonels, lieutenant colonels, and majors, 20 per centum; of captains, first lieutenants, and second lieu tenants, 25 per centum; and the pay ot cadeta at the Military academy is hereby Increased 26 per centum. Provided, that section 1267 of the revised statutes of the United States Is hereby repealed. Sec tion 2. That the provisions of section 1569 of the revised statutes of the United States, which authorises tho president to fix the pay of enlisted men In the navy, are hereby extended ao as to authorize the president to Increase the pay of all enlisted men of the army. Provided, That the aver age pay now established for enlisted men of the "army shall not bo increased by more than 40 per centum. Section 3. That nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to reduce the pay or allowances now authorised by law for any officer or en listed man of the army; and all laws or parts of laws Inconsistent with the provi sions of this act are hereby repealed." Army officers having claims for longevity Increase on their pay as aida to general officers will be disappointed with that portion of the decision of the supreme court rendered on the 6th Instant In the case of Lieutenant Commander Miller, of the navy, relating to this question of Increase. The court of claims decided In this case that the $200 a year allowed t y law to an officer serving as aid to a major g-neral was a proper subject for longevity increase so that an officer of more than twenty years' service In the army would have been entitled to four longevity Increases, making his total pay for service as aid $240 a year. The supreme court, however, failed to agrue with this view, and said: "The allowance of 1200 a year under aectlon 12T.1, revised statutes, in 'addition to the pay of his rank,' Is manifestly not the yearly pay of the grade. The purpose of the additional allowances Is to compensate the officer dur ing the time he Is designated for a special service as aid. His longevity pay too Is to be computed on the yearly pay affixed Ty law to the grade or rank to which the officer belongs." This view of the supreme court affects the $150 a year allowed to aids to brigadier generals as well as the COO a year allowed to acting assistant com missaries. All these are held by the su preme court to be In effect flat rates of pay, not subject to any increase for length of service. The next national match will be held at Camp Perry, Ohio, beginning August 24, by which time 1t Is hoped to have tho en tire national guard equipped with the new model of the service rifle, which will be used by the competitors. This may be the last time the national match fill be held at Camp Perry, aa other ranges are here after likely to be available. The ammuni tion will be the service cartridge Issued by the army ordnance department and provision will be made to Insure each team receiving the ammunition It brings to the match by having It brought there In orig inal sealed packages. The distances and order of fire for the national team match are to be as follows: one, 2U0 yards slow fire; two, 2u0 yards rapid fire; three, 6u0 yards slow fire; four. 800 yards slow fire; five, one skirmish run; six, 1,000 yards slow fire. In the national Individual match the distances and order of fire will remain the same as at t tie lust competition. In the national Individual match prizes have been Increased to twelve gold medals, twelve silver medals and twelve bronie medals. Cash prises In the national Individual match will remain as they were last year, namely, cash prizes for the first twelve men; the first man to receive a cash prize of . each next lowest to receive 15 less to the twelfth man, who will receive a cash prise of SS. In the national pistol match the new target known as "A 1" will be used. The matter of ammunition has been widely and thoroughly discussed and It was finally decided that the competition would be more fair if all the contestants were obliged to fire ammunition of the same make. Salable l.ou sf Grip. Cleveland Leader. The Aldiiili currency bill meets with just about as much favor In the west as If Den Tillman had written it. Senator Aldrlcn appears to carry considerably less conviction than In other days when, he gave orders Instead of advice. CllacalnsT the C lech. Chicago Record-Herald. . It Is said that the price of anthracite coal is not to be reduced. Tills will hardly cause much astonishment among ' people who have studied the bablts of the coal barons. wnen oiucnng ocuung powucr. BAEirno Royal. WHITTI.KI) TO A POINT. "Oil, yes, they are among our most aria tocrntlc people." 'Ilut I thought her i father was a butcher." I "What of that? They spent flto.Ofiil on flowers alm when their riHURii(t,-r had her coming-out party." Chicago Kerord Hcrald. Her Mr. IMffy. do you think leap year justifies a, girl in popping the quest ion to f young man? Him -I beg pardon. Miss Quick, but tlmt'i a if adlng question. Her (after a pauHel Still, It doesn't seem to lead you anywhere, does It, Mr. Diffy? Chicago Tribune. - "Willie," said his mother, "aren't yov. ashamed to be caught stealing jam?" "No, ma'am; 1 ain't gut any reason to be ashamed of anything that ain't hiy fault." "Not your fault?" i "No; It's your faultjtliat I got caught. " Baltimore American. "I went you some suggestions telllhg yoa how to make your paper more Interesting, Have you carried out any of my Ideas?" Editor Dirt you meet the office boy with tho wastepapcr basket as you came up the stairs? Ves. Well he was carrying out your Ideas! Philadelphia Inquirer. 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