Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
TWO MINISTERS TO RESIGN
Borin2 IL Tired OF Portugal and Pal
mer VIII Quit the Castles of
Spain - The Dakota
Destitution.
wAsmseroy BUREAU TIE OMAN, Bas,
5l3 FOURTEENTH STREET,
NNAaurNnrnN Ii T. NM q

number of blacks received at station houses,
sent to the work house or jail ana the peni-
tentary from the District of Columbia is in
the same proportion to the number of whites
sent to these places.
The question is being discussed by the local
newspapers whether the increase of the
black population and the consequent increase
of crime is becoming sufficiently alarming to
warrant either congressional or police action.
lis believed that the census of 1890 will
show that the District of Columbia has 250,00
population and that there is of this number
1O0, 900 blacks. Senator ingalls, is quoted as
having said recently that the District of
Columbia is public reservation for civil,
military and political purposes, set apart by
the people for the central seat of government,
and that congress and the president could
order off, and remove by force, If necessary
at days notice, every resident.
The fact that there are better school privi-
leges and church accommodations for the
negroes in Washington than in any other sec
tion of the country is pointed out la the face
OF the statement that the colored individuals
are continually retrograding, and that
whereas ten years ago but ten or twelve
colored persons were annually charged with
murder in the first degree the
and that the number charged
with manslaughter and criminal assault is
three or four times larger in proportion than
during the past decade. After the colored
boy or man Is educated in Washington, it is
said, he refuses TO learn trade or go to
work upon farms or in gardens, but is con-
tented to stand about the streets blacking
shoes, holding horses, carrying boxes, sell
ing newspapers, driving carts and doing
other odd jobs. After this condition of af-
fairs is pointed out and the question raised
whether congress, in view of the situation,
would not be warranted in taking some kind
of action in the matter, 10 remedy is sug-
gested.
The trend of the agitation is simply to
raise the race question. The old inhabitants
are from the ancient families of Maryland
aud Virginia with all of the race prejudices
held by the bourbons,
TWO MINISTERS TO RESIGN.
Hon. George B. Lorng, minister to Portu-
gal, will resign, to take effect about next
March. He does not like Portugal, and
wants to live in Washington. He was Presi-
dent Arthur's commissioner of agriculture,
and was at one time q member of congress
from Massachusetts.
Ex-senator Palmer, of Michigan, will re-
sign the ministry to Spain and return here
next autumn. He said he promised his wife
not to remain in Madrid over sixteen or
eighteen months.
CASTS NO SHADOW BEFORE.
Congress will assemble four weeks from
tomorrow.
At this time the closest observer fails to
discover the least hint of the meeting. A
week hence, however, the situation will be
materially changed. The candidates for
speaker and other offices IN the house will
have begun to arrive and open quarters, and
life In congressional circles will begin to
grow interesting. AT present there are not
two dozen members of both houses of con
gress in the city. They are nearly all in
stumpng in the impending campaigns which
close tomorrow.
Preparations for the meeting of congress
are not complete at the capitol. The paint
ing is about finished, but the carpets are not
all down, and the committee rooms,
turvy. A very few of the employees
are on duty. A dozen of the fifty or sixty
policemen lounge drearIly around the broad
corridors, tell stories, smoke, poke fun at
verdant visitors and talk of the 'tiffs"
which are anticipated In the organization
and the battles everybody expects over pro-
posed legislation in the house, where the re-
publican majority is small and the minority
contrary and strong,
None of the speakership candidates are
here to-day, put they are all expected within
ten days Messrs. Mckinley, Reed and
Burrows are hustline-tne first and last
named on the stump in Ohio and Virginia,
respectivcly-wth the gentleman from
Maine around the states Of New York and
New England trying to make the delegations
as nearly solid for him as possible.
Two weeks from to-day the city will be
full OF people who have come to engage in
the work of congress, and there will be such
a scene of buttonholing for votes on the part
of the candidates as never was witnessed
before. 1t is estimated that the number of
department employees who are out OF the city
to vote at the elections on Tuesday is less
than eight hundred, about one-half as many
as went 10 thelr homes to vote in 1856 The
extension and enforcement of civil service
reform is believed to be the cause Of the de-
crease OF interest.
DAKOTA DEsTITUTIoN EXAGGERATED.
Senator Moody, who will represent South
Dakota with Senator Pettigrew in the upper
branch of congress this winter, and who is
feeling very fine to night over the admission
OF his country into statehood, says that the
reports of destitution among the settlers in
any part of Dakota are exaggerated, ana in
many instances circulated for the purpose of
doing harm. He says that in the extreme
northern part of North Dakota the drouth
made crops short, and that there is suffering
among comparatively few families, but
that it does not extend to South Dakota.
Speaking of his own state the senator said
to-day:
"When we open the great Sioux reserva-
ton 10 settlers, and immigration begins to
pour in early next spring, the lower part of
| South Dakota will develop beyond all
| conception. l expect to see loo, 900
| people come in before the end
| Of the year in the lower part of South Da-
Il w
raise as good corn as Iowa. Our farmers
| made the mistake of combining their crops TO
| wheat for many years and they suffered by
| having TO sell at low figures. owing to the
| very large crops of wheat raised. A few
| years ago they began 10 raise corn aud
| learned that they could be very successful,
| and that they could make Dig money by put
| ting their corn into hogs. They are now
looking in that direction, and OF course are
| making money.
IAN immense pork packing establish
| ment, as large as any west of the Mis-
sissippi, will be in operation in
| South Dakota in time TO catch the
crop of hogs next fall. Then our people Will
have home market for both corn and hogs
and their prosperity Will receive new im-
| petus.
take q cigar; cigar made from TO
| bacco grown in South Dakota. IL may no,
be like one that comes from Havana or Key
| West but IL Is a good cigar all the same.h
The South Dakota delegation now IL
Washington are all proud Of the rapid de-
velopment Of their country, ana are enthusi-
astic over the outlook when they will begin
TO receive the benefits of the Legislation
which Is incident TO statehood.
| WILD SPECULATION.
n Attention Is to-day called Dy local news
paper 10 the era OF speculation reigning II