Omaha daily bee., 1890-02-25
Whether Railroads Can Refuse to
Exchange Cars.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR CONVENE.
The State Assembly In Session at
Lincoln - Secretary sutton Ar
ratgns Father Cronin-State
House Matters.
A Complaint Filed.

against the Is. & NJ, the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy railroad company,G G. w, Holdrege.
George III. Crosby, John Dwyer and G. g.
Baker before the state board Of trausporta-
ton today.
The complaint is the outcome of the war
between the Kansas City, Wyandotte &
Northwestern and the Burlington road at
Beatrice, full telegraphic reports OF which
were made by THE BEE Saturday morning.
The main features of the case were correctly
reported by TnE BEE of that date and need
not BIZ repeated here. IT is sufficient to say
that the complainants intend to test the case
thoroughly, and IL will be shown whether
or not the railroads are to be
able to deprive the people of the
upon them by the recent action of the board
OF transportation in compelling n reduction
OF the distance tariff rates for the transpor-
tion of coal. If one road is to be permitted
to refuse exchange OF cars with another road
then the tariff promulgated by the board is
of no avail. The state is without coal mines
OF her own and consequently the low rates
by the board, since they are necessarily con-
fined within the boundaries of the state, can
in NO way benefit the people except through
a compulsory interchange OF one road with
another, and so bring the many qualities OF
coal, mined near the state, into direct and
active competition,
The Burlington road is interested In Iowa
hiioS. ~ iiailpy VI u COdl lTUm uncet
mines is about the same as that mined at
Leavenworth. The distance from
the Iowa mines to Nebraska
consumers is much greater than from
Leavenworth, and since the item of trans
portation is the principal factor in the cost
OF fuel to the consumer, the Burlington
road refuses to admit the Leavenworth coal
to points of consumption on its lines on any
other terms than joint tariff rates, no lower
than the rates prevailing from the Iowa
mines, These terma are Drohihitiva IN tho
introduction of the Leavenworth coal. The
conditions of mining are d%issimilar. 1t costs
but about $l.1O per ton to mine the Iowa
coal. The cost to L~eavenworth operators is
about Sl.5O. The Riverside Coal company
has control OF the output of the Leaven-
worth mine. They have secured from the
Kansas City, Wyandotte Il Northwestern
concessions and rates from Leavenworth to
Beatrice, which enables them TO allow the
burlington full distance tariff rates to about
ninety stations, and place their coal on the
market in competition with the Goals
heretofore introduced exclusively by favor
ties of the Burlington.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR IN SESSION.
The state assembly of the knights of Labor
convened at Union Labor hall this morning
at IL o'clock, but the organization was not
completed until this afternoon. Fifty six
delegates were enrolled during the days ses-
sion. 1t Is confidently expected that this
number will be doubled on the morrow. The
session will continue four days ana the uues-
ton OF questions in hand is the means to OBJ
tain the eight-hour system of labor. Local
Knights are active and it is evident that they
expect the most satisfactory convent ON ever
held in the state. John Dew lin, United
States consul at Windsor, Ont, and Richard
Irevellck of Ann Arbor, Mich, addressed
the boys at Bohannan's hall, and q large ana
enthusiastic audience greeted the speakers.
SUTTON ARRAIGNs n cRoNIN.
This morning The BEE representative
called the attention OF Secretary Sutton to
some language quoted in the New York Her.
aid as the utterance of Father Cronin of
Buffalo In reference to President Fitzgerald
IN his recent appeal for aid for the cause.
The secretary read the extract, which is as
follows, and smiled:
Speak out. eloquent f1gurehead Of the
Chicago influence, and tell us who are those
priest revilers, in order that they DC MUIR
dered, even as your supposed masters had
that other alleged spy, the late DR.. Cronin,
slaughtered. In the name of the priests of
this country, who from the first have la
bored SO heroically to keep the eague from
the harpy claws OF petty bosses, politicians,
secret societies, thieves and thugs, we de-
mand the names of those members who are
thus set down as Lord Salisbury's paid re-
tainers. MIR. Fitzgerald knows well that he
can not accept this challenge. He has sim
ply permitted himself to become the mouth
piece OF that murderous and scoundrelly in
1uence that secretly consrires to destroy
those whom 1t can not control. We there
AOio oNiS ipei II . lllE IL cow
ardly, lying and libellous."
Yes" he said, ''thls is the poor man who
failed to get up a little notorlety on the plea
OF receiving alleged threatening letters from
some rawhead and bloody bones member of
the Clan-na-Gael. My dear sir, the sacra-
dotal robes do not invest the wearer with
the angelic virtues, aud poor Father Cronin,
like the rest of us, has his share of human
frailty. Possibly he is the dupe of som
lying knave, but deceived or not, his Ian
guage is as repellant to ordinary d~eceucy as
his statements are devoid of truth. Place
his billingsgate ebulhtiou of a bilious tenn
permanent side by side with any document
that ever ISSUED from the executive OF the
league, and no severer condemnation of his
diatribes need be asked for. 1t was LIE Caron
who swore that the league was controlled by
the Clan-na-Gael. Father Cronin Of Buffalo
Is the sacrad0tal endorSer of LIE Caron's
statement. Parnell, Davitt and O'Brien
swore to tho contrary, and they testified to
the truth. None of the factionists who
are striving to destroy the league
for their W yiilainous purposes
e~ralities to plain fact, ana put their fingers
on one single act of the administration that
has not the endorsement OF the Irish leaders.
l am sorry for Father Cronin, but his case is
only an exemplicaIion of a saying by a dis
tingu,shed bishop that when a priest edits a
weekly newspaper the sacredotal or the
journalistic profession gets mixed to the
detriment of both. AS TO the statement of
~SS " sc On ttaobN
as the rest. My name IS not James. ] was
not imported from Canada by Alexander
Sullivan or any other man, and | am not an
employe of Mr.. Fitzgerald"
LANCASTER COUNTY POLITICS.
IL Is reliably announced that Jesse ID.
Strobe, ID. G. Courtnay, w. S. Hamilton and
j. q. johnson have SHE'D their castors and
entered the race for county attorney, all of
whom seek the nomination at the hands of
the republican county convention next fall.
Four of the candidates reside in the Fourth
ward. and between them the battle Will
practically be fought at the primaries. The
announcement Of these candidates leads a
prominent republican to cast the legislative
ticket, or rather the candidates for legisla-
tive honors. According to hs prognostica-
tons General j. Z. Mcbride aud Charles h.
Severine will enter the race for r%enoinina-
ton aud election. Caldwell and Dickinson,
however, propose TO retire upon their hOnors,
and IL is said that j. II. Westcott of Malcolm
and W.. ii. Woodward, esq, will seek to sue
coed them. j. N. Raymond, IL is safe to say.
will seek to succeed himself TO the senate as
will s. w. Beardsley of Cheney,
MATTERS AT THE CAPITAL.
Governor Thayer today appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the interstate cattle
mems convention TO be held at Fort Worth,
Tex, March II, 1890: Elijah FIlDey Of
Gage county, /. B. Erwin and A. g. Dayen-
| bort of Douglas county. G.. III. Gould and