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Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

THE Wabash company have at last
secured an eastern outlet. An ar
rangement has been entered into be-
tween Jay Gould and the Pennsyl-
vania company by which through
line will be sec ured for the Wabash
from Youngstown, Ohio, to New York
city, The intention is to use the Cen
tral railroad from Jersey City to n
point at or near Milton, Pa, not def
nitely determined on as yet, thence
over the Philadelphia and Erie rail
road to Driftwood, and thence contin-
uing over the low grade division of the
Allegheny Valley railroad, which is
controlled by the Pennsylvania rail
road company to Red Bank. From
this point the Wabash interest pro-
poses 10 construct line to Youngs-
town, o., where connection will be
made with the Wabash system, whose
western headquarters are at Toledo,
o., with lines diverging to the south
west and as far west as Kansas City,
All the Pennsylvania railroad com
pany agreed TO do is to take the traffic
at Milton and carry it over its line to
Red Bank, furnishing the track and
motive power and receiving as com,
penSation pro rate portion of what
ever the freight will bring,
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The Chicago Tribune says that towns
in the western states are at last COM
ing to their senses in refusing to vote
aid to every railroad scheme that is
organized. Elections were held in the
north tier of townships of Wayne
county, Indiana, last Saturday for the
pupose of voting tax to the Indian
apolis, Bloomington & Western rail-
road. But one of the four townships
voted in favor of tax, and in this
township unfairness is claimed, and
the election will probably be con-
tested.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
Floods in Pennsylvania,
National Associated Pre- IS.

PITTsBURG, June l0.-Rain fell
steady last night. The river is higher
than known for years in June. Gel
lars in the lower part of town are
flooded. The water is seven feet in
the Times engine room. The Allegheny
river is twenty-five feet and rising
6 inches per hour, In the lower part
of Allegheny City the inhabitants are
moving into the upper stories Many
mills are forced TO quit operations.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad
is covered with water, At Beaver
Falls, Pa, slide covered the track
for fifty feet. No trains run on the
Allegheny Valley railroad. A pas
senger car on the Pittsburg and West
ern railroad floated from the track.
Guests Of the Robinson house have
to use boats to get to and from the
hotel. Before the food the Allegheny
river was full of RATS, awiting sale.
All are lost. Some loss of life is re-
ported, Two men came down the
river on log crying murder,
but they could not be helpe ed.
Five men went by on raft which
they succeeded in steering clear
of the bridges, and went on their way
to the gulf. About noon house
went by, Furniture and bedding
could be plainly seen. A number OF
houses on Harris Islands, were swept
away. The damage to the property in
and around the city is estimated al
800, 900.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11


Recent developments in the case of
the Manhattan company in New York
show that the elevated railroad in
terest is not, and never has been, a
legitimate business enterprise, looking
to bona fide transactions, aud depend
inc upon fair and honest earnings,
but a scheme OF mere speculation, in
which rapid transit" figures simply
as device for swindling the pub,
lie through the widest and most
cxtravagant watering of stock.
The fact as to the Manhattan compa-
ny seems to be that it has undertaken
to pay to the Metropolitan and New
York companies stockholders 10 per
cent dividends upon their respective
stocks while the earnings barely suf-
flee to pay B per cent. The necessary
result is to pile up mountain of
debt. Watering the stock by unlimi-
ted issues of certificates follows, and
ultimately comes the inevitable col
lapse, which is the golden opportuni-
ty of the railroad wreckers.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

OMAHA merchants should take i'm
mediate action in the matter Of sprink
ling the streets. The dusty season
has begun and the inconvenience Of
the dust is already making itself felt
The relief experienced last summer
from having the streets wstered by
private subscription should induce the
business men on our principal thor
oughfares 10 repeat the experiment Of
last year. 1t viii prove a profitable
pne, not only 10 the public but also TO
our merchants whose stocks are often
seriously impaired in value by the
clouds Of dust which sweep into stores
apd settle on goods Let the streets
be wateped.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The ReoieW has been favorable to
the bill introduced by Reagcn of Texas
in 1879 for national regulation of
transportation. Like measures were,
and are to-day encouraged by Mr..
Conking. Did the BEE then utter a
word Of encouragement for that meas
urel No. Does il to-day No. -
Fillmore County Review.
The impudent blatherskite who
penned the above Mas evidently labor
ing under the impression that he
could pile slander upon slander and
falSehood upon falsehood about
the BEE, uncontradicted and
unpunished because we have for years
ignored him Nobody knows better
than this brazen liar that the BEE
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

UNDER the new school law, as it
has been interpreted, all our public
school teachers will be required to un-
dergo a re.examination in the branches
for which they already hold certiti-
Gates. This is a hardship to many of
our most efficient teachers, but we
presume they will have to bear with
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
THE situation at Albany shows that

The situation at Albany shows that
u crisis in tic ballOting is near at
hand. Thursdays break in the ranks
of the stalwarts was increased by two
descrtions to the opposition. Mr.,
Platt is evidently doomed, as the ad-
ministration party have polled seven
ty seven votes and need only one adj
ditional and concentration on single
candidate to elect their man. With
Platt's defeat, Conkling will also 60
by the board.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

THE Standard Oil Company con-
tinues to flourish. The Free Oil pipe
bill was defeated by the Pennsylvania
legislature and the oil regions are
boiling with indignation over the open
faced bribery of legislators in the in
terests of the great monopoly.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The Pennsylvania Equal Rights
League has won victory at Harris
burg by the passage of the bill pre-
pared by it for the abolition of the
color line in the public schools of the
Commonwealth. When the bill was
first introduced few people imagined
that it would pass. Now it only needs
the governors signature to become a
law
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

state boundaries are not included
within the operation of the law so
that through rates on products and
merchandise, coming or going out Of
the state, remain entirely at the dis.
cretion of the railway managers.
What is there unjust in such law
we prayl
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

A NEW organization, entitled the
international Telegraph company, has
fled articles Of association under the
laws Of New York. The capital stock
IL fixed at ten million dollars, and the
line viii extend from New York
through the southern states to the
RIO Grande riyer II will also take
in the western states, and have line
through the eastern states, which will
also extend " Montreal and Quebec
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

A DARING attempt was made ycster-
day to blow up the town hall in Liver
pool. Two Irishmen were arrested
charged with the offense. 1t is init
mated that O'Donovan Rosa and the
Irish American nationalists instigat ed
and furnished means for the affair.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

In 1870 the center of population of
the United States was twenty-three
miles east of Baltimore, Nd. In 1880,
ninety years later, the center of popu-
lation had moved 457 miles, being at
the rate of over five and half miles
q wear
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
IMPIETIES,

The strawberry glows in the cocktail
with Just as much heavenly abandon as it
does in the Sunday school plate made to
hold about five.
Elijah Startling, of Monticello, Iowa,
claimed TO be q son of God. Finding a
reluctance on the part OF his wife to admit
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

There il mania - it amounts, in
deed. almost 70 disease = for invest
Inent m railway properties, +" said Jay
Gould in Chicago Wednesday, "and
any kind Of scheme can be Aoated
now. sometimes think that the
more worthless the scheme the more
certain it is Of success This sort Oi
thing is breeding a serious financial
crisis for this country ] am afraid. "
This is very good, coming from a
man who has made his millions by
batting ms lines with WORTHLESS,
schemes 10 catch foolish gudgeons
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

CoUNcn BLUFFS holds her river
convention on the 2lst of June. The
subject of barge lines and river in.
provement will be taken up. st.
Louis merchants have signited their
intention of sending delegates.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
THEIOwA CONTEST.

THE IOWA CONTEST.
The Hon. James +. Wilson, of Iowa,
evidently feels that he has rested long
enough under the imputation of being
railroad man and an advocate Of
monopolies He is now avowedly in
the field rs candidate for the United
States senate for the term beginning
March s, 1888. The legislature elected
this fall will choose the senator. Gov.
Gear is also candidate, and has many
elements Of strength, not the last Of
which is his entire freedom from rail
road connections. Mr.. Wilson has
been known for years as the attorney
of the Union Pacific railway,
and Of the other railway cor
porations in Iowa, and it has been
supposed that he entertained ex-
treme views on the subject of the
rights Of the companies to regulate
their own affairs without interference
or dictation from congress. The sup
posed attitude Of Mr.. Wilson on these
questions has injured him politically
i'll Iowa, though his personal popu-
larity, always very great, has not suf-
fered materially. But it was essen
tial il he desired to be elected sena-
tor in an anti-monopoly state that he
should declare himself boldly in favor
of the right and duty of the govern
ment to regulate interstate rail
road commerce. Mr.. Wilson dis
CHARGED this duty well in his
speech before the Hennepin
canal convention, which afforded him
precisely the opportunity he needed
of getting hearing in court. He
went much further than anybody ex-
pected, not only asserting the power
of the government to control inter
state railroads, but denying the right
of the roads themselves to realize
larger profits than should be necessa-
ry to make Improvements, pay a
fair interest on the investment, and
keep the property in repair He
wholly condemned the practices of
watering stock, pooling, discrimina-
tion. and all the other devices known
to railroad corporations to extort un-
fair rates from the public. The Iowa
State Register says that Mr.. Wilson
has gone further in Jere Blacks di-
rection than Black went himself, and
that he has "outgranged the Grange
itself Whether he has done this or
not, he has given new turn to the
senatorial canvass, and it will be a
long time before anybody in Iowa will
care again to charge him with being a
railroad "monopolist, - Chicago Tri-
bune.
Apostates are always more Jealous
than men born and raised in the faith.
Jim Wilson protests altogether too
much and his rampant anti-monopoly
speech shows him to be demagogue
and hypocrite. 7 1he fact that Wilson
goes farther than Jere Black in his
TRADE against monopolies is within
itself enough to raise grave doubts as
to his sincerity. And when monopo-
ly and ring organs like the Council
Bluffs Noapdreil, make sham attacks
on Wilson, because of his extreme
anti-monopoly news, we are more than
ever convinced that that Wilson and
his trained strikers are playing
a we're deep game, Ito hood
wink the Iowa farmers.
Conscious that their praise would only
damn Wilson in the eyes of honest
men, they are bombarding him with
Quaker guns i'll order to create sym
pathy for him. We apprehend, how
ev1a, the Hawk-eye farmers have had
their eyeteeth cut and can't be de-
ceived by such transparent humbug.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

IN view OF the increasing interest in
river improvement, the report of Ma
jor Sutcr, of Chicago, upon the Mis-.
souri, river is especially interesting.
According to Major Suter, ten feet of
water at low water mark may be Sc
cured from the mouth to Sioux City,
a distance of 800 miles, at an expen-
diture of $8,00O,O 900. Major Suter
proposes to begin the work insections,
beginning at the mouth of the river
and working upwards. For the sum
named, proper security to the banks,
he thinks, could be assured, and
permanent improvement made in
confning the channel within set
bounds. Several river conventions
are soon to meet for the dis
cussion of this important question.
Incidentally the conventions should
take into consideration the obstruc-
tions to navigation which now imperil
property and lives on the river. They
should take steps to bring before con-
gress the necessity of such action as
will insure the safety of boats and
barges passing railroad bridges across
the streams. These bridges have
been built under law of congress
and are subject to its action. A very
small expenditure at each bridge will
insure comparative safety and render
barge transportation comparatively
safe.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

Mr.. BLAINE has no intention of re-
signing, Notwithstanding the frantic
efforts of a number of Washington
correspondents to make it appear 80.
He is building magnificent residence
in Washington, where he will receive
his friends AZ secretary of state for the
next four yerrs.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The demand for ocean cable facli-
ties, it is understood, is becoming 30
great that several new cable lines are
projected, and already application has
been made by the American Rapid
Transit Company, of Boston, to Pres
ident Garfield for permission to land
two cables on our shores - one from
England and the other from France.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The English government has now
in Ireland seven regiments of cavalry,
eleven batteries of artilly and twenty
FIVE battalions of infantry. The whole
force consists of 10000 men.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

TALMAGE attacks the new revision
of the Testament in the most irrever-
ent and blatant manner. Talmage
knows the value of advertising and
doesn't propose to have his pew rents
drop if he can help it.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
RESISTING THE POPULAR
WILL.

Government by the consent of the
governed, is one of the axioms of
American Political institutions. This
consent of the governed is manifest
by an expression of the will of the
majority and peaceful submission to
majority rule becomes at once the
policy and duty of every loyal citizen.
Mr. Conkling, however, in the contest
which he is now waging at Albany to
secure the seat in the senate volun-
tarily vacated by him a few weeks
ago, has placed himself above the will
of the majority of his constituents.
With n minority amounting
to only one fifth of all
the votes of the legislature,
and slightly more than one-third of
the entire republican votes he has
steadily defed public opinion and
used every effort to push candidacy
which he must know is obnoxious, not
only to his constituents but to the
vast majority of republicans. through
out the country.
For the past four years Mr.. Conk-
ling has been a consistent resister of
popular opinion within the ranks of
his own party. His determined oppo-
sition to President Hayes was carried
on against the wishes and votes of
large majority of republicans, and
failed to receive the endorsement of the
leaders of the party in his own
state. The campaign in New York
state, which preceded the Chicago
convention, was marked by the same
defiance of popular opinion which SEN
ator Conkling exhibited in his contest
with Mr.. Hayes administration. All
the resources of an immense federal
patronage aud the state administra-
ton were used to send to the national
convention delegation packed in the
interest of the third term doctrine.
The "unit rule, which was opposed
by large majority of New York re-
publicans, was the lever by which Mr..
Conkling proposed to force the nomina-
ton of General Grant upon the country
and the independent attitude of dele
gates like Mr.. Robertson who repre-
sented the overwhelming sentiment of
New York republicans was stigmat-
lied rs treachery and treason to party
principles. In the Chicago convention,
Senator Conklings opposition to ma
jority rule is matter of history. His
subsequent tactics in congress over
the nomination of Judge Robertson
was only a renewal Of his previous at
tempts and failures to ride over the
pronounced will of the major
ity by obstruction and po-
litical trickery. Mr.. Conkling
is in hopeless minority
in the present contest at Albany. He
has failed to persuade New York re-
publicans of the wisdom of his politi-
cal course during the past four years
in his selfish contests with two admin
istrations. He has still further failed
to wiring from majority of his con-
stituents an endorsement of his cow
ardly action in deserting his post at
Washington.
Mr.. Conkling has failed to learn the
lesson of majority rule. The voice of
the people legitimately expressed d
without bribery or coercion must be
the exponent of American politics.
Any citizen, whatever his rank or po-
sition, makes serious mistake when
he opposes, for factional or selfish
purposes, his own personal preferences
to the known popular will.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

IT's lucky thing that our laboring
people are not dependent for their
sugar upon the department of agricul-
ture. lie Dues sorghum costs $50 a
mound
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The Pennsylvania legislature has
adjourned, after passing fifty-eight
bills and electing United States Sen
ator. The legislature was in session
15S days
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The London Miller gives despon-
dent forecast of the crop prospects in
England and the continent, and fore
shadows large deficit at the close of
the seasons harvest. Europe will
look to America to make up the de-
ficit
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

A COMBINATION against Gould has
been formed in Texas. If it stands,
it will prove the first combination
which the railroad king has found
himself unable to pick.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
was at every stage of the Reagan bill

was at every stage of the Reagan bill
through two congresses an outspoken
advocate of that measure, and the
member who represented his district
in the senate in the legislature of 1879
will tell him that the resolutions in
favor of the Reagan bill, which he in
troduced in the state senate, were
framed by the editor Of the BEE.
But why does this wretch whose so ul
and body have for years been mort.
gagged to the monopolies, prate about
his sentiments on the Reagan bill at
this time. Isn't he the same scamp
who in 1876 fraudulently changed the
ballots cast by the Fillmore county
delegation for congressman, in the
republican state convention, from the
recognized anti-monopoly candidate to
Jay Gould's choice. That rascally
trick has been condoned, but it is by
no means forgotten; and the tolerance
of that infamous trickster by Fillmore
county anti-monopolist's, may even
some day be exhausted.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

GENERAL GARFIELD has insured his
life for s25, 900. Mr.. Conkling can
proceed, the administration is all
fixed.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

THE Buffalo Commercial thinks
President Gar6elds s administration
has been a failure. So do Messrs.
Conkling and Platt.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The dark horse is regarded as the
animal safest to bet on in the Iowa
gubernatorial race.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

The merchants and manufacturers
of Omaha, should take an active part
in the proposed Missouri river i'm
provement.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., PrOp'rS
E.ROSEwATER, Editor.

John II. Pierce is in Charge of the Circu-
,.tion Of THE DAILY BEE.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

CORRESPONDENCE CE-All Communi.
cations relating to News and Editorial mat
tiers should be addressed to the EDITOR OF
The BEE.
BUSINESS LETTERS-All Business
Ietters and Rcmittances should be adj.
dressed to The OMAHA PUBLISHING Con-
PASY, OMAHA. Drafts Checks and Post
Office Orders to be made payable to the
order Of the Company.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

ST.. LOUIS is just now wrestling
with the paving question, and Omaha
will have 10 grapple with it before the
end Of this year.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11
The Omaha Bee

Published every morning, except Sunday
The only Monday morning daily.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

OVER 1912 900 emigants have land
cd on our shores since 1871.
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

TERMS BY MALL
One wear. ... 5000 Three Months. .S3O 90
Six Months. 800 One lVO
Omaha daily bee., 1881-06-11

THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev-
ery Wednesday.
TERMS POST PAID
One Year. 80. $500 Three Months. 20
Six Months ... leo One ~
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-15

THE Law IN MAINE.-The st. Louis
Globe Democrat thus has its say about
Maine: "The light penalty for drunken
ness in Maine is 80 days in Jail. They
have law that no medical student shall
be allowed to graduate and practice med
icine who has not had regular practice
in the disseoting room. Then ther pas
sed law that no bodies, save only the
bodies of executed criminals, should be
cut up in disseoting rooms. Then, as a
climax to all this, they abolished capital
punishment. That's the kind of a coun-
try Maine is" AS an offset to the above
it can be stated that the authorities OF n
certain county in Missouri before the
''wah" adopted the following resolutions,
and they were officially promulgated:
Resolved, that we build a new
Jail.
2.-That We build new Jail out of the
materials of the old Jail.
3.-Resolyed, That we use the old iail
until the new Jail is finished.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1881-09-15
THE FUNERAL OF SPOTTED
TAIL.

A letter to the Omaha Bee from Rose
bud Agency gives the following inter
esting details of the burial of Spotted
Tail, the famous Sioux chieftain: '.The
body of Spotted Tail lay in state at the
agency for two days, at the expiration of
which time it was placed in a rough
wooden box, the best that could be OBJ
tanned at the agency, and taken to the
church in lumber wagon, one of his
wives sitting on the coffin holding one
line while another walked beside the
wagon holding the other line. The
women to the number of twelve or ff-
teen, all naked and unarmed, followed
the wagon. On arriving at the church
the mourners took the first seats and lis
tened to the Episcopal burial service in
their own language. Spotted Tail was
buried on the summit of hill overlook
ing the agency. Already 500 has been
raised by the half breeds and white men
toward procuring suitable monument
to mark his last resting place. The
monument will cost $3.50. A short time
before his death Spotted Tail said to the
agent at Rosebud agency: 81 never
fought the whites except to secure JUS
tice 20 my people. have never killed a
white woman or child, nor allowed it to
be done by another when in my powe. to
prevent it..