Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-19
COUNTING OUR POPULATION.
Rapid Progress Being Made in the Work
by the Census Bureau.
THE GATHERING OF MORTGAGE STATISTICS.
Reports from Supcrv isors Already Re
ceiyed Indicate ThatVery Little
Diniculty Was Experienc.
in That Particular.
WAsnrxcrox BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE, !
5l3 FOURTEENTH SrREEr,

The progress of the Gov" mt Of the population
of the United States is being pushed more
rapidly than ever, and day after day the ca
pacity of the counting division is increased,
until now, with night force on every even
ing, the division is enabled to tabulate the re-
turns at the rate 100000 names day. This
rate, if kept up, will secure the count of the
to'al population within the next three weeks,
AID preparations are already being made for
She introduction into congress of an appor-
tionment bill, In this connection Superin-
tendent Porter stated today that he has re-
ceVed from every supervisor in the country
reports relative to the question of mortgage
statistics and he is gratifed to find that
throughout the entire country the cnumera-
tors experienced very little difficulty in Sc
curing the information in this line against
which there was such protest from various
financial newspapers for some time Now
the whole outlook is for u very complete and
satisfactory census and III spite of the Crlti-
csms which have been heard from time to
time, there is really no reason why the de-
partmtnt should not con gratulate itself upon
the result of the work, which was done more
promptly than ever known before.
NEBRASKA LAND DECISION.
Assistant Secretary Chandler of the in
terllr department today decided that the COM
test of John G. Pike against the homestead
entry of William S. Atkinson for the south
quarter of the northeast quarter and the south
half of the northwest quarter of section 30,
township II, range II west Grand Island,
Neb., district. 1t appears that Atkinson
made homestead entry for this land March
g. 1885, and in March, 1886, James Hunter
instituted Il contest. March % of the same
year Atkinson a relinquished the title
and gave it to one Roe, at
1856, Pike filed contest t against the entry,
alleging abandonment and that the Hunter
contest was n colluson between Atkinson,
Hunter and Hunters attorney and was for
speculation. On July | Hunter withdrew
his contest and it was dismissed On the day
for Pixies hearing he appeared with counsel,
and Atkinson being in default, Roe appeared
and moved postponement until final dis
position of his (Roe,s) appeal from the re
fusal to reinstate. Hunters contest motion
was overruled and the case passed for
decision. On February 81, 1885, Dan
lei Sullivan filed the REIMBURSEMENT
of Atkinson and filed an application for IA
homestead for the land, subject to the rights
of the contestant, Pike. March 2, 1887, the
local officers found in favor of Pike and al.
lowed thirty days preference right of entry,
! Sullivan's entry to be cancelled if Pike
| should make application to enter. Sullivan
| appealed and the land commissioner Decem-
| ber f. 1888, held that there was no ground for
awarding ''preference right of entry" to Pike
and dismissed his contest and allowed Sulli-
vans entry to stand intact Pike now appeals
| to the secretary and he decides that alt hough
Roe, as attorney for Hunter. bad expended
some money for his client, yet he has not suf-
! fcient interest to enttle him to appeal. Roe,
he says, was evidently holding the lelinquish-
| ment Of Atkinson tor speculation. While it
| was true the contest of Pike was not the
cause Of Atklnson's REIMBURSEMENT, yet it is
apparent that the fling of said relinquish-
| meut was the result of contest, and at the
| hearing evidence had been submitted which
| must have resulted in the cancellation of the
] entry and the only opportunity Roe
| had Of obtaining mon ey for REIMBURSEMENT
| was to sell and file 1t and procure the can
ceiling of the entry beforeit was cancelled on
the evidence submitted at the hearing, the
| cancellation thus being the result of Pixies
contest. The secretary decides that he must
have preference right of e. try and Sullivan's
| entry must be cancelled, should Pike still as
| sert his rights
| TRANSPORTATION OF GOODS IN BOND.
| Senator Cullom's res olution for an investi-
cation of the transportation of goods in bond
| through Canadian territory destined to ports
| in the United States was not intended by its
| author as Senator w ashburn said he feared
was the case, TO be the initiative for an at
tack upon the Canadian Pacific railroad, and
| he therefore willingly accepted the latter's
amendment to include the Grand Trunk road
in the Investigation. But the alleged abuses
of the revenue at which it is
| aimed have their origin largely in
the commerce carried on by the Canadian
Pacific road from the Pacific coast. 1t is
| loosely conducted, Senator Cnllom says and
he believes that an investigation will show it
to be not only injurious to American lines Of
rail road, but detrimen tai TO the customs reve-
nues of the country. A paragraph of the
original resolution which was stricken out by
the senate Senator CulOm afterwards had
adopted as "a separate matter under it. The
secretary of the treasury is required TO state
whether or not, in his opinion, the interests
of the United States are being sacrificed
and those of Canada advanced under the pres.
ent system of placing United States custom
house officers at Canadian posts in order that
elevator and other business connected with
the shipment of grain may be done on foreign
soil instead of in the United States, where it
is asserted it properly belongs, 1t is said this
practice has grown up without authority of
law and that if abandoned it would result in
a considerable increase of business at Amer
lean ports ON the Canadian frontier.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE MATTERS.
1t is not probable that any legislation will
be accomplished at this session of congress
having Tor it's purpose the amending of the
interstate commerce act Members of the
senate committee in charge of all propositions
affecting this act are conhning Their attention
to one of the several schemes suggested by
Senator Vest as an outgrowth of the investi-
cation by his special committee on the
transportation of dressed meat pro
ducts AS introduced. by Senator Vest,
it proposed to require railroads
to receive from shippers, palace or improved
stock cars in which to transport live stock
The committee it is said are not willing to
make this requirement OF the railroad CON-
panies, thereby compelling them to let their
investments in cars be idle, but will probably
report substitute forbidding companies who
may conclude to receive such cars from dis
eliminating between shippers and their ac.
ceptance of their cars.
MINERAL WATER REPREsE NATIVE.
MIR. A. NJ. Jones' president of the Bethesda
mineral water company of Waukesha, whose
appearance in Washington caused an unjusti.
fable hutter among Illinois politicians here, is
not on political mis- sion this time. His visit
is ''strictly business - Representing the min
eral water interests in the country, Mr. Jones
today presented arguments TO Messrs Ali
son. Sherman and Jones of the senate
finance committee in support OF his
request that the duty on imported min
era waters imposed by the Mckinley bill
be restored 10 the bill in the senate, The
finance committee put mineral waters on the
free list but an Incidental protection is af
forded by the duty on the bottles The Me
kiney bill imposes a duty of 80 cents {
dozen on quarts of effervescent mineral
waters and % cents a dozen on pints. Mr.
Jones thinks this is about the right thing IL
order To protect American bottled tiZZ but i