TIIE OMAItA D AIL'S BEE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1008.
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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
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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-
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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.
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'Ilut I thought her i father was a
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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
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Chicago Tribune. -
"Willie," said his mother, "aren't yov.
ashamed to be caught stealing jam?"
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be ashamed of anything that ain't hiy
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how to make your paper more Interesting,
Have you carried out any of my Ideas?"
Editor Dirt you meet the office boy with
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stairs? Ves. Well he was carrying out
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"A feller asked me dl morn n' " a i 4
Dusty Rhodes, "if 4 u (Junk ...fining una
I said 'No.' "
"Aw, come off!" exclaimed Weury
WHlker.
"Sure! I wasn't goin' ter say 'Yes,' wat
I. 'Anything' Includes soda water an'
truck like that." Washington Star.
"That girl I am going to marry Is thi
cleverest girl I know."
"How Is she clever?"
"She Is clever to have been born rich: If
she had not been I should not have vr
posed lo her." Cleveland Plain Doalc.
"It's rather curious about those two for
eigners. Isn't It?" .
"What is remarkable about ihem?"
"The tali 0110 talks low Dutch and tin
short one uses only high German." Chi
cago Record-Herald.
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Denver Republican.
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And she's doln' murder cases, and a-doln'
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She's the leader of a sob-squad In Pop
Knickerbocker's town.
She jest piles the woes on heavy, till
'twould make an Image weep,
Fer when it comes to pathos she makes
all the rest look cheap;
And me and maw are cryln' every night
we read her stuff,
Since Mary Joined the sob-squad and deala
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ell In white.
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with the dope thst she kin write;
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fallln' at the public's feet,
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