Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-04
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Legislative Stimulants Will Not
Give it Life.
1T IS A MISERABLE FAILURE
The Percentage of Sacharine Sub
stance is Too Small-The Otah
Marshaiship Fight-other
Washington News.
WASHINGTON BUREAU, THE OMAHA BEE,
bl3 FoURTERNTa STREET.,

Will Nebraska try the beet sugar expert
mentl inquired The BEE correspondent sf
General Van Wyck to-day.
"Some inducements" he replied, "were
offered by the legislature, among them
bounty of 3 cents per pound for beet or sor-
ghum sugar.
"Will it prove successful"
ut never has wherever attempted, in Della
ware, Maine or California. The reports OF
the agricultural department claim that the
conditions Of the soil and climate in the
northwest are antagonistic. While tile beet
will grow, the percentage of sugar is small
and not profitable"
"Will it prove more successful than sor-
ghum."
III do not know as to sorghum. The same
agricultural department., after testing many
years and spending vast sums in experiments
and machinery, in the report of 1885,
after detailing failure in many 10 calities
says, The expectations which were enter
tained and positively advocated a few years
ago. of the establishment of successful
sorghum industry in the great maize field
of the country must now be definitely aban-
doned. He who would now advise the
building of a sorghum sugar factory in
northern Illinois, Indiana, Iowa or Wiscon-
sin would either betray his ignorance or
malignity.' In many climates and SOIL"
continued the general. "there is not much
more sugar in beets and sorghum than blood
in turnips."
How will the people get cheap sugarl"
I'm one way" replied the ex-senator.
Mako sugar free. Its parent is the
cane, and its home is in the tropics.
Even in Louisiana, within the breath
of the tropics where the cane thrives reason
ably we'll n handful of planters can not sue
cessfully cultivate it without protection that
costs the people 800, 600, 900 annually paid into
the treasury, and three times as much in the
increase of the price paid for foreign sugar.
Now don't you think it u cruel mockery to
amuse the people by Offering them cents
per pound TO raise sugar when and where the
government has demonstrated it can nog
protitably be done!
THE UTAH MARSHALSuIP.
! Probably the sharpest fight for Office
under the present administration has been
that for the marshalship for Utah. 1t is
still waging, and there are no indications as
to when it will terminate. Seven active and
open candidates have entered the field from
time to time since the 4th of March, and
how many more have secretly sought the
appointment only the president and attorney
general can tell. Messrs. Mcbride, Connor,
Ireland, McGregor. O'Shaughnessy, Parsons
and Nebeker are the well known aSDrants
The first two and the last two are said to
have come to the conclusion that they are out
of the race. ALI of these candidates have
been here at the same time and all but two
are here now. President Harrison did think
the territory, but it is stated that he has
come to the conclusion to select one who un-
Gerstands the local situation and is a resident
of Utah
GORMAN's NEW RIVAL.
II is very probable that Ex-Governor Nc
Lane, who has just relinquished the mission
at Paris, will be nominated by the democrats
at Baltimore. Senator German will try to
prevent this. McLane's success in this di
rcctton would make him a powerful quantity
to succeed the senator from Maryland, and
German prizes his seat in the senate about
as high as his life.
THE FLOOD IN WASHINGTON.
More inconvenience and loss are occasioned
in Washington by the blockade in the mails
than anything else in connection with the
flood. Tie danger at this point has been
passed, but there are no incoming or outgoing
mails between here except to New York. 1t
causes almost complete suspension of Off
| cial business southwest and northern. No
western mail has been received since Friday.
| The railroads promise both outgoing and in
| coming western trains by Wednesday at the
farthest. And now the war department is
| unable to do anything with its
! soldiers tents and munitions that
| were to help the food sufferers.
l The almost complete destruction of the
! Chesapeake & Ohio canal, the property be-
| longing to the state OF Maryland, and all
| canal connection between Cleveland, o., and
| Washington and Baltimore, is lamentable
because it is not self-sustaining and will not
| therefore be restored. The state of Mary
i land has kept IL up for years at loss. 1t is
the longest, oldest and most popular canal in
| the country. There are no more Venetian
! scenes in the national capital. The water
| has receded from the most thickly populated
| portions of the city and the gondolas, canoes
| and rowboats navigate the streets no longer,
| but there are no wharfes in Washington,
| They have all been swept away. A portion
| of the historical long bridge is a wreck, and
| a fight will be made to prevent its rebuild
| tnt nj nnl hat hn 70
| is q hindrancc to navigation. 1t is the only
railroad bridge over the Potomac hero. The
| millions of dollars put in the work of re-
| claiming the Potomac flats is probably lost
| because congress refuses to appropriate
| enough money to protect the work. An
| epidemic of fever is feared from the over
| flow of South Washington. The streets are
| covered with muck, the cellars filled with
| water, and thcre will be n stencil when the
| warm sun comes out, which will breed the
! germs OF several varieties OF fever.
COMMISSIONS DELAYED.
The floods which have stopped the running
| of trains in every direction from Washing
| ton have added new feature to the causes
| for delay in the issuance OF commissions to
| postmasters, and those already appointed
| will, in many instances, not be commissioned
IN time to take charge of their offices before
| the middle, IL not the latter part, of this
| month, The clerks under the first assistant
| postmaster general to-day began to make up
the bonds for the postmaslers appointed on
| the 3lSt ult. IheSe ponds VIII nave 10 DC
| mailed TO the postmaster, filled OUT and re-
| turned here when they will be approved and
| directions given for the issuance of commits
| sions and final Instructions. If it were not
| for the delay in the mails the work would not
| be more than week behind hand. and post
| masters appointed from day to day could
| have their commissions within from one to
| two weeks.
| ARMY MATTERS.
The leave OF absence, on surgeons certih
| cate of disability, granted First Lieutenant
| William X. Abercrombie, Second infantry,
| April 20, 1889, is extended four months on
| surgeons certificate of disability.
Captain Thomas G. Troxel. Seventeenth
| infantry, having been found incapacitated
| for active service, will proceed to his home,
aud report by letter to the adiutant-general
| OF the army.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
| A. j. Cratzenberg was, to-day, appointed
| postmaster at Burr Oak, la.
The commissioner of pensions, to-day, ap-
| pointed the following pension board at
| Wapello, Ia: Drs. ii. Cowden, L. B. Pow
ers and Frank l.. Darrow.
PERRY S. HEATH.
Arthur Redmond's Examination.
PIERRE, Oak, June 3,-[Special Telegram
to The BEE. .l-To-morrow Arthur Redmond
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