Omaha daily bee., 1890-11-11
A Prominent Politician Prognosticates
Blaine and Cleveland Fight.
CLERICAL OPINION OF THE SILVER BILL.
Two Faces Which Wore an Express
sive Smile - Free Coinage OF
Silver Comes Next-Farm-
ing of the Waters.
WASHINGTON BuREAU The OMAHA BEE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov 10.


in the United States, and the result makes
them the necessary candidates for the presi-
dency in 1899. Cleveland represents the ex-
treme of the opposition to the Mckinley bill,
and Blaine the popular idea of tariff revision;
am not a betting man, but If 1 were I would
stake all have got, that they will be the
candidates Of their respective parties in
1922
TWO EXPRESSIVE SMILES.
In q sermon OIL foreign missions yesterday
morning, Rev. DR.. Hamlin, pastor of the
church of the convenant, where the president
attends, declared that the passage Of the sill
yer bill had increased the expenses of the
Presbyterian foreign missionary board more
than $4,000 this year by increasing the value
Of silver in the heather nations of
the world. Secretary Window as well
as the president was in the congregation
and an expressive smile was seen upon the
face of each after this declaration. After the
services Secretary Window remarked to a
friend that he thought the silver pool ought
to contribute enough to make the Presbyter-
ian board of foreign missions win.
sTANToRD's REELECTION.
I asked Senator Stanford's secretary If the
secretary would have any trouble in securing
his reelection. ~ should say not" was the
reply. ''He has already got seven-eighths of
the legislature behind him and it looks as if
we would have its solid support and an unan-
lmous election. In many of the districts the
democratic conventions instructed their NOM
inees for the state legislature to vote for
Stanford for the United States senate. The
governor was not intending to be candidate
again, He wanted to devote his entire time
to the new university he has founded in men,
ory of his son, ,and it was not until Huntington
made an attack upon him that he consented
to be a candidate at all. Then his friends
told him he mmst run because If he withdrew
E.xl1 lN,A
Huntington had scared him out so he went
in and he played to win, and there is not the
slightest doubt about it.
FREE COINAGE COMING.
1t is the prevailing opinion among the poll
ticians here that the next congress will pass
a law authorizing free and unlimited silver
coinage. In other words, they will place sill
YER upon an eqauiity with gold. The senate
already has majority In favor Of such
proposition and would have passed it last
year IL it could have secured the concurrence
of the house. In the next congress there Will
be no doubt about it,
SWARM OF sHAD.
Colonel Mcdonald of the United States fish
commission dropped million little shad into
the Potomac yesterday. Shad fishing today
is on an artificial basis, as thoroughly as the
grain fields OF the west IF you don't plant
wheat" said Colonel Mcdonald, "you won't
have wheat, and it is the same with shad.
All our rivers are so completely blocked up
with nets every spring that very few shad
| can come up the river to spawn, and If it
were not for artificial culture and the seed
| ing of the rivers by the government every
spring the shad would disappear. But as
| it IS, the shad catch this last spring was
| double in size what it was in 1880 and it is
constantly increasing. The Potomac catch
| this year was 100000. Today we put back
| three times that many, and remember these
| shad that go back are not fry, they are well
grown fish. Hitherto we have only put in small
| fry, but our plan now is to keep the shad in
ponds until as late in the fall as they can be
| kept safely and then to turn them out into
the river. The plan now Is to have big ponds
| on the side of each of the shad streams of the
country and turn out lingering shad in the
| fall instead of letting them go as soon as they
are hatched in the spring. In my opinion
| this is one Of the most important moves the
| fish commission has ever made. We are
| making arrangements now for operating a
| i00-acre pond on the Delaware next spring
| and we expect most valuable results. The
| expense is practically nothing and the num-
| ber of shad that can be raised SIMPLY depends
| on the size of the pond. One hundred and
| fifty Thousand to the acre can be
raised without any trouble on the natural
| food of the water and with artificial
| feeding this summer can be greatly in
creased. There is no doubt that in order TO
| keep up the fish supply OF the country the
water must be farmed by the government
| just as the land is by individuals. The agri-
| cultural department aids in many ways, but
| the farmer does the work on the land, but on
the water the government has to do all the
| work, even to the Matching and distribution
| of the fish. This work is of inestimabe
| value too, for wherever any edible fish is in
| troduced into the waters of this country, or
| the number of those already existing is in
creased, the economic resources and the ma
| terial wealth of the country are increased To
that extent.
uoNoRs TO COSTA RICO.
| Diplomatic circles tonight are discussing
| with great deal of interest the arran gemen IS
made for the funeral of Senior Federico Volio,
charge d. affaires of Costa Rico, who was
buried this afternoon. A gentleman
who for nearly thirty years has been
| identified with one or another of
the legations said, that in all that time he
has seen a number Of diplomatic funerals in
honor was paid to the deceased by the United
States. 1t has been customary for the diplo
matte corps 10 attend in a body on occasions
Of this kind, and the state has always been
represented either by the secretary or some
unofficial. Today Senor Volio's remains
Were borne to the grave by platoon of eight
sailors from the United States navy. Honor
| ary pallhearers from the state, war ana navy
| departments were in attendance and the
| United States marine band accompanied the
| cortege, as did two companies of cavalry
| Secretary Blaine himself was there and sc
| was Chief Clerk Browne of the state depart
| ment. Never in the history Of the diplomatic
service of the United States has so much
| pomp been shown at the obsequies Of the rep
resentative of foreign government dying In
this capitol. Even when the French minister,
| who committed suicide some years
ago was buried, there was ne
such, display, and the United State:
comparatively insignificant little republic
like that of Costa Rica is unaccountable anc
leads TO the impression that it is one result o.
the pan-American conference and is in tn,
line of Secretary Blanes determination Il
show TO the sou thern American countries tina
this government will do all in its power to ce
ment the friendship which that gathering
newly initiated.
| NECESSARY CHANGE
The death Of General David B. McKibbei
will be likely to cause congress TO change thu
army regulations promptly this winter. /
seems that the friends of General McKibbei
who had served for more than twenty years
in the regular army before he was retired
fifteen years ago, desired that he SHOULD
be buried with military honors, bu
the commanding general decides that he car
find neither law nor regulation authorizin,
him to order the necessary detail Attention
is called TO the fact that if this is good Law
General Sherman will have TO be buried witt
a military escort. Consequently a movemen
Is to be made at once to induce congress h
make the necessary change in the law.
BATTLE ROYAL
One Of the results of the late election vii