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Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
AN OBNOyTOUS ORDINANCE.

The passage of the ordinance to
license wagons used for the delivery of
bread or bakery products man ufactured
outside of the city limits for the pur-
pose of excluding the competition of
Council Bluffs and South Omaha bakers
is a species Of sumptuary legislation
which will do more harm to Omaha
than good. If the Omaha bakers need
protection against the Council Bluffs
bakers, and the council of this city is
short-sighted enough to grant it, what
is to prevent the g~rocerymen, the mar
ket gardeners, the laundries or the
butchers of Omaha demanding of the
council similar protection against the
competition of the merchants of our
suburban cities? The truth of the mat
ter is, however, that the bakers and the
butchers of Omahaare sharp competitors
for trade in Council Bluffs. 1t would
be not at all surprising if the council
of that city would retaliate by order
ing them off the streets, in view of the
unfriendly ordinances in Omaha.
Legislation to protect home industries
in the manner proposed by the Omaha
bakers is consequently at variance
with common sense aud business
principles. The building of the wagon
bridge between Omaha and Council
Bluffs was for the sole purpose of max
ing the interchange of business
between the two cities as free as
possible. The growth and Importance
of Omaha depends upon the close rela-
tionship and unrestricted trade between
itself and every city, town and village
in the country which finds it profitable
to buy and sell within her gates. 1t is
inexplicable therefore that the very
men who assisted in the marriage" be-
tween Omaha and Council Bluffs should
now try TO divorce their relations by
discrimination. 1t may we'll be ques-
toned moreover if such a tax on Coun-
Gil Bluffs bakers would stand the test of
law. 1t clearly operates as duty on ar
ticles exported from n state to an
other and therefore unconstitutional.
1t behooves Mayor Broatch to veto the
obnoxious ordinance, and the council
should never again lend its aid to pass
such an u~nwarranted and discriminate
ing measure.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
PROMISED.

The provision made among the last
acts OF the Fiftieth congress, and APP
proved by the president. for the OPEN
ing OF Oklahoma and the Sioux reserva-
ton, was only second in importance to
the law providing for the admission of
four new states. The proposition to ere
ate a territory Of Oklahoma and estab-
fish a territorial government failed,
but the provision inserted in the Indian
appropriation bill covers nearly every
thing else that the original measure
sought. 1t empowers the president by
proclamation to throw open to settle
mGnt what are known as the Oklahoma
lands in Indian Territory, and also the
Seminole lands, comprising about four
thousand square miles. The Cherokee
outlet, lying north Of Oklahoma and be-
tween that strip OF country and Kansas,
is not to be opened, but provision was
made for negotiation with the Cherokecs
for the relinquishmentof this tract, and
its purchase can doubtless he affected.
1t is believed that when the Oklahoma
lands are opened they will be taken up
so rapidly that by the time congress
meets again it will be found desirable to
PROV ide n territorial government.
The bill for opening the Sioux
reservation is not essentially diff
ferent from that passed last
year, except that it increases the
amount to be paid the Indians for their
lands. 1t requires their consent, to be
obtained under the forms required by
treaty, so that the same course will have
to be pursued as that gone through
last year.. The better price offered for
the lands, however, and the fact that
the Indians have learned that it is the
determination of the people to open the
lands on fair terms, are expected to
induce them to accept the
new proposition. The promise
is hat before the close of the year
about twenty million acres of excellent
land will be ready for settlement in
Dakota and Indian Territory.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
A WARMING

In various ways the fact is continu-
ally cropping out that there is a good
deal OF distrust in the east respecting
western farm mortgages. In the last
issue of a publication of a we'll known
commercial agency the president OF an
eastern trust company is quoted as pre-
dieting a big panic in these securities
within the next five years. In most OF
the eastern states legislation Is con-
templated for restricting the employ
ment OF savings bank deposits in this
class of investment, while notably in
Massachusetts, it is proposed to provide
state supervision for trust companies
having their headquarters in that
state, and handling the money of its
people chiefly in western Investments.
There has undoubtedly bee a great
deal of more or less loose and careless
tinanciering by these co mpanies which
may give a degree of justification to the
demand for a closer supervision of their
business. but the main purpose is re-
strictive, the fact being that the drain
made by the trust companies has made
it difficult for other monetary concerns
to hold their own against the COMPETE
ton.
1t will not do to put en-
tire faith in the idea that this is
a matter which will speedily settle
itself. Investigation will unquestiona-
bly, prove that there have been no safer
and more profitable investments than
western farm mortgages, but those who
are compelled by the facts to admit this
still claim that within a few years the
business has been greatly Overdone and
that the time is come to restrict it, IL a
practicable way can be found TO do so.
There is very powerful influence be-
hind this view.
The warning conveyed is against iniu-
Gicious legislation affecting invest
ments and against representations
which depreciate the condition OF the
western farming interest. Nothing is
more sensitive than capital. Extremely
slow in acquiring confidence, it is quick
TO lose 1t. The west requires capital,
and 1t cannot afford to 40 anything TO
drive it away. Its people should pro-
tect themselves against usury and undue
exactions, but there should be no obsta-
cles III the way of capital hat seeks in
vestment here. On fair terms. 1t is not
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE packing interests of South
Omaha are growing with a rapidity
that few people realize. The trade in
dressed meat has grown to such proper
tion that additions to buildings and
machinery are necessary to supply the
demand. This demand extends from
British Columbia to the Gulf of Mexico.
The people of the south are generous
patrons Of Omaha products, and trade
in that direction is growing at "A cheer
full rate. Idaho, Oregon and Washing
toni territory consume several car loads
each week, while Nebraska and adjoin-
ing states and territories supply the
raw material and take the dressed and
cured product in exchange. The in
dustry is on u solid foundation, maua-
ged by energetic, expert business men.
and It's future is as secure Us the eter-
nal hills.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
BEYOND the Rockies.

There are 3 900 head of cattle feeding in
the vicinity OF Reno, kev.
The Cuyamara railroad track is nearly laid
to San Diego, Cal.
During the year 1888 Washington territory
raised 1914 1893 bounds of hops on less than
1000 acres.
The revenue service in Washington terri
tory shows n large increase iii cigar factories,
breweries and distilleries.
A mattress factory to cost 3d. 900 and en-
ploy thirty men Is to be started at Tacoma.
A halibut factory is also contemplated.
Rev. DIR. George Atkinson, one of the
Oldest pioneer Congregational ministers, died
at Portland, Or, after a brief illness. The
deceased was aged seventy years.
A contact vein has been struck in the To-
ledo mine, Madison county, Montana, which
gives assays of 40 ounces In silver and SIS
in gold. A strong company has been formed
TO work the mine.
The Reno reduction works employs a force
OF forty men. Extensive improvements have
been made during the past few months, and
the works are now capable OF handling be-
tween thirty and forty tons OF ore'per pay.
The property known as the Tenth Street
Hotel, at Los Angeles, has been purchased
by George M. Pullman for about $3.50, 00O,
and it is said he will continue the contem-
plated improvements and build q hotel TO
cost 81, 500, 600.
The Oregon legislature, which has Just ad-
journed, fixed the license on spurious liquors
at 800 u year, and malt liquors at 500. Gov
ernor Pennoyer, while refusing, although
hard pressed, TO veto the bull, lacked the
courage To sign il, and allowed 1t 10 become
q law without his signature. Tho act will
take effect ninety days after its passage.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
brasko are three bills in the waste bas.

braska are three bills in the,waste bas-
ket?
The only way the members Of your
legislature can enjoy the needed rest"
you seem to think their arduous duties
require, is to take these bills out of the
waste basket and act on them in q cour-
ageous manner, by securing to their
mothers, wives and daughters all the
civil and political rights they them
selves enjoy.
From your words of sympathy it must
be a very solemn aud faithgiving opera
ton to throw bills into the waste bas-
ket, as great a tax on the physical
strength as on the chivalry Of the per-
former. How lost to all the tender sem
timents OF the human soul must those
gentlemen have been who voted those
worthy documents to such unhonored
obscurity.
Only think OF the lily fingers that
prepared these rose scented bills, of all
the fond hopes bound up in these logical,
yet tender missives, Of the eloquent APP
peals of Mrs. Gaugher and Mrs. Colby,
echoed from day to day within the walls
of your capitol: think of the soft blue
eyes, moist with tears, that watched the
passage of those bills through the
house and senate to that mausoleum of
human rights, the legislative waste
basket.
| wonder how many members acted as
pail bearers at the o~bsequies OF the
slaughtered %innocents. 1t is to be hoped
they lowered them tenderly into their
resting place and dropped a tear owe
the fate of the unfortunate trinity, and
sent their letters of coincidence broad
cast to the mourning daughters of Ne
braSka. Il. C. 8
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
MALTREATING THE P1UpERs

IHE fitf EuS'
The disclosures which have recently
been made by credible witnesses o n
corning the treatment of the inn ates
at the county hospital and poor farm
cannot fail to create profound indigna-
ton in this community. The charges
are not trumped up for political ends or
out of personal spite. They emanate
from parties that have no feeling
against the superintendent or
the matron of that institution.
While it is true that the inquiry was
brought about by the report which
originated with a servant girl at
work at the hospital, great care was
taken to corroborate the stories of
cruelty and maltre atment.
|. While the facts presented by our re-
porters warrant a demand for au imme-
diate change in management, they are
by no means the only evidence that the
poor farm management is radically
wrong.
The chapter of maltreatment and neg
lect of invalid inmates. which we pub
lish, touches the inhumanity of the
matron. Testimony now in our posses
sion warrants us in charging systematic
fraud and peculation in the handling
of supplies and materials purchased by
Superintendent Mahoney for the use of
the county hospital and farm.
These reports will be given to the
public within a few days.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

are in a deplorable condition. The an
* of the former sway with every
breeze, compelling the teachers to re"
move the children for safety, while the
basement rooms are conceded to be foul
and unfit for occupancy. The surround
lngs Of the Leaven worth school are
equally disereditable. The grade of
the streets endanger the foundation,
and no effort has been made I wall the
bank and protect the front Of the build
ing, which is within a few fee Of the
bank. a few hundred dollars spent
in improving these buildings would be
greater benefit to education than thou
sands squandered in the short hand
system of music.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

TIE alarming reports of n shortage in
the wheat crop OF Dakota, recently tele-
graphcd over the country, we're based
on erroneous statistics. The monthly
report of Territorial Statistician Sheri-
dan for March shows that fully 80 per
cent of the crop of 1888 remains in the
hands of the farmers, while the ele-
vators of the territory are we'll filed,
most of which will be held for seed.
The only ground for the report of a
shortage is the belief that the cultivated
area will be largely increased this year.
ana will require eleven million bushels
for seed. With over eight million BUSH
els held in reserve for this purpose, the
wheat ~raisers of the territory are in
first rate condition for the years bust
npSS
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

TIE pork packing season has evil
IDENTITY reached its height and compares
very favorably with the corresponding
period of last year. Within the past
three weeks the average packing in the
leading western centcrs has exceeded
two hundred thousand hogs per week.
This just doubles the record Of II year
ago. which was a phenomenal year
in the packing industry. If the market
ing be maintained near the present
figures until the opening Of the summer
season, there will be not cause for COM
Dlaiut.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
CARE-AWAY SEED.
Ncn York World.

Ncip York World.
When Nero fddled at the burning of Rome
it was a-Nero of ~in-fiddlety.
The mule is an animalgamation.
Pomme de terrier, Irish potatoes.
There are no married dudes because then
they are sub-dued.
A fly leaves his specls and when he comes
back after them he leaves his re-specks.
The grounding is a kind of sage, sausage.
Pegasus was the first horsefly mentioned
in history.
The Calumet is the pipe of peace; the
stovepipe is the pipe of pieces.
chameleon changes its hues when dy-
ing. What a chameleon-choly sight that
must be!
IT'S said that the sun never sets on Eng
lish territory. That must be da%y-lightful.
England is called the mother of this coun-
try, and it is a step-farthcr to India.
The needle is an cye-sewer.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

questionable that Nebraska has been
financially damaged by the law that
shuts out foreign capital from invest
ments involving real estate. 1t cannot
be doubted that such statements as have
recently gone abroad regarding the
condition OF the farming interest of the
state will do harm in supplying just the
sort of argument wanted by those in the
east who are predicting disaster from
investments in western farm mortgages.
1t ought to be obvious to all intelligent
people that we cannot continue in a
course OF this kind without doing ire
parable damage TO IL material well
fo,a
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

AMONG the appropriations made by
congress is the item OF thirty-tive thous-
and dollars inserted at the instance of
Senator Paddock, which represents the
S per cent on sales of public lands dur
ing the past few years. This thirty
five thousand dollars will go into the
permanent school fund and only swells
up the aggregate of the fund that will
unless the legislature provides for it's
investment in district school bonds, lay
in the treasury-for the use and benefit
Of bankers and the state. treasurer.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

MAYOR GRANT, OF New York City, is
%cultivating a double-iointed, ~three-ply
backbone. A few days ago he secured
the passage Of a N order that all wires on
Broadway should be taken down and
the poles removed within thirty days.
The order was supplemented by a
warning that ''thirty days means thirty
days" If Omaha could cure a small
fragment of that backbone for exhibit
tion in the couu Gil chamber il would
have a tendency to limit the extension
of pole. lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

AN APPROPRIATION of sixty thousand
dollars Tor Forts Robinson and Niobrara
was passed by congress in the last hours
of the session. These sums will be
ample for all needed improvements at
those points. So long as the Sioux In
dian reservations exist II is judicious for
the government to maintain these posts
for the protection of the farmers of
northern Nebraska and southern Dakota
against the depredations OF horse thieves
and marauders. 49,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
CHIEF SEAvEY's demand that the

CHIEF S~EAvEY'S demand that the
council pass an ordinance requiring
p~awnbrokers to keep for daily inspec-
ton a record containing the name and
going Il little too far. Such "A regula-
ton will not break up the fence or
assist the police materially in tracing
stolen goods. But it will operate in hui
initiating hundreds of rcspectablo Deo-
pie who are from time to time compelled
to obtain loans on their household
effects.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

LOOKOUT for the legislative manual
grab. AT the last Legislature fifteen
hundred dollars, a clear printing steal
OF over twelve hundred dollars, was
struggled through for the publication
OF the manual in the rush of appropria-
tion bills,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

EVERY interest seeking legislative
advantages and benefits in Lincoln is
well represented on the floor and IN the
lobby. The taxpayers, as usual, are in
a hopeless minority.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
Gould Is the Prosecutor.

New YORK, March 7~.-[Special Telegram
to THE BEE. jay Gould is the man who is
said to be behind the prosecution Of Ives and
Stayner for their connection with the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton railroad deal. This
fact 10 made clear by the statements of q
prominent stakeholder and Ives counsel.
They throw a good deal of new light on the
transaction, and seem to prove that the pres
ent prosecution is an effort of some people
connected with the original deal 10 now reap
what Ives and StaYner lost.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
Above All, a Gentleman.

IITTITVU ITWINs
As General Harrison was riding down
Pennsylvania avenue he espicd among other
inaugural decorations a banner bearing an
uncompllmentary ~allusion to the outgoing
president, He sent a polite request to the
owner of the banner asking its removal,
The request was granted. Bravo, general;
do not let Mr.. Cleveland Guido you in polite.
ness aud manly courtesy. Noblessc oblige.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

PAT FORD is very much exercised
over a s~tar-chamber session held by
members Of the council over Mayor
Broatch's hardware store. Pat was in
vited, but he Indignantly declined.
He never attends a star-chamber coun-
Gil conference unless it is held in a re-
sort where there is plenty of beer and
whiskey to go round.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

department buildings is going Oh in
Washington. Four years in the saddle
did not sufficiently harden their joints
60 endure the republican boot.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

WHEN William Walter Phelps goes
20 Germany to confer with Bismarck
over the Samoan complication he had
better brush his hair straight back
from the forehead. Prince Bismarck
does not like bangs.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

WHILE the United States is extend
ing the hand OF commercial fellowship
to Canada, two thousand farmers are
pleading for the exclusion of American
hog products, n the millers of the do
minion demand a tax of one dollar a
barrel on -four The dominion is under
mined to spurp all tenders of friendship
but the legal tenders which forgers and
fugitives bringin their gripsacks.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

TIE press of Germany is not particu-
larly pleased with President Harrison's
firm and aggressive foreign policy out
lined in his inaugural address. This is
cause for regret. The purpose OF the
United States to protect her struggling
neighbors will throw a dark cloud on
Germany's title to her Pacific possess
sipnG
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE movement of the Union Pacific
to consolidate all branch lines center
ing at Ogden under a separate corpora
tion is an indication that the company
has not much faith in the final passage
OF the government extension bill. The
evident intention is to strip the main
line of all feeders, and when the time
comes for the mortgages to take the
road, they will find it a proiitless ruin.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE s~low-going metropolis Of the
Kaw is to be placed on an equal footing
with Omaha in the matter of fast trains
to Chicago. Kansas City is gradually
catching on.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE board OF education does not stop
to consider expense when an addition
TO the professional bric-a-brac OF the
high school is needed, but when the
health and lives of children in some of
the schools are In danger, a spasm OF
economy and .retrenchment Is visible.
The Hartman and Leayenworth scho OILS
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
In Justice to Both.

chicago IftDttlc,
The DIR. Tanner who was arrested in Lon
don last Friday was not the illustrious Amer
lean of the same name. The latter is still in
Chicago gathering orphans for his New Mex
lean home, and preparing his mind and body
for an experiment in hibernation. These two
DIR. Tame must not be COMPOUNDED.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

the report that she intends 70 write n book
We hasten to give prominence to her denial.
Mrs. Cleveland now has the respect and
esteem of the American people to a remarka-
BILE degree, and a book might spoil it all.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE reports of wonderful gold dis
coveries in southern California should
be swallowed gradually in small doses.
Some movement is necessary to give a
temporary semblance of life to the ceme-
terry Of buried booms.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE probabilities are that ex-Gover-
o Furnas will be United States
commissioner of public lands. That
will compensate him for the effort made
to get into the cabinet.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

THE passage of the county seat bill in
the Legislature will make the carting of
county seats from one rival town to an
other an uphill job.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

AS AN informer Mr.. Morrissey has
shown himself to be n failure, notwith-
standing he had the advantage of being
chief prosecutor and prosecuting wit
ness in a closed-door investigation.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

DEMOCRATIC otficeholders dread Pres
ident Harrison's habit of walking. They
naturally fear he will induce them to
take a walk for the the good OF their
health.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

IT is doubtful if South Omaha will
recognize her charter when it comes out
of the legislative mill. The giant
young suburb is likely to secure u misfit.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
The SAD" Was Answered.

Kansas CITY Journal.
For the past four years the citizens of this
country ave hung out the sign; "Wdnted
"A Foreign Policy" Now they'll have one.
The people generally get what they adyer-
tise for,
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

TIE throne of Servia goes begging
for a trusty occupant while Paul Van
derbum chases a delusive hope and a
spotted record in Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

AT last accounts Virginia had but
three governors and one Riddleberger.
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08

BRIGHT, bracing spring weather
gives vigor and elasticity to the move
ment of Omahans. Two confidential
bill collectors jumped the town yester-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
THE WASTE BASKET.
A Few observations by Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton.

With three woman suffrage bills thrown
into the waste basket, il is to be hoped that
the suffragists will give the present legisla-
ture a much needed rest-THE BEE.
Why, Mr.. Editor, that Is the very
reason they should not have rest. OF
what possible use TO the women OF Me-
Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-08
Would SUIT Indiana.

DEVILS Lake, ID. r., wants the state cap
ital. Now, il it were the Indiana legislature
instead Of that of Dakota there would be an
eternal fitness in having 1t meet at Devils
Lake.