Omaha daily bee., 1890-05-26

was brought up by her mother The mother
soon after the death of her hus-
band removed to Providence, II. t.
where little Lucy was educated.
she was beautiful child and at the early
age Of sixteen attracted the attention Of
Charles II. Luce Of Milwaukee, They were
soon married and the young husband took
the sun younger wife 10 his western home.
Here he engaged in the lumber business,
Duilt up large trade and aftcrNard removed
to Chicago, where he ama,sed Il fortune. in.
yesting much Of it in Iowa lands. He died in
Iowa, leaving Mrs. Owens with two sons.
one OF these Is prominent banker at Logan,
Iowa, and the other, young man of seven.
teen, lives in Washington with his mother
MIR. Owen married Mrs. Luce
in Omaha two years ago, since
which time she has resided in
Washington and enjoys the prestige of being
the only lady in the Indiana republican col
ony to represent the great state socially at
the capital. She is much admired by her
husbands constituency, in the departments
as well as at home She has lovely home in
Omaha and one also in LoVanspOrt, Ind
Mrs. Owen is fond Of society and enters into
it with all the.zest:of Onewho is fttedi for it
by nature and culture At home she has
been very active in children's hospital work
and savs she misses it from her life in this
gay capital. Mr.. Owen is a member of the
Garfield memorial church and is one of DR.
Powers most efficient de-de-Camps in the
mission established on Capitol Hill and for
which he acts as superintendent Mrs.
Owen takes great interest in this mission
and she often assists her husband and inter
ests herself in the women in the depart
mcnts often proving valued friend to those
from her state seeking positions or promo
tionSn
RECIPROCITY TREATIES.
1t is very probable that Mr.. Blaine will re-
new his attempts to secure authority to make
reciprocity treaties with the South American
nations, and that his suggestions will meet
with greater favor in the senate than they re-
Ceivcd in the house. Mr. Allison and Mr.
Aldrch, who will be on the subcommittee,
are both outspoken in favor of the policy Mr..
Blaine advocates, and Mr.. Sherman is com
mitted to il in the strongest terms. During
the past week the president had cOnverSa-
tion with prominent diplomatst, at which
he expressed the opinion that it was Il great
mistake for congress to remove the duty from
sugar when it was easy to obtain reCipro-
cal concessions from the sugar growing
nations i'll favor of American merchandise,
and he also deprecated that feature of the
Mckinley bill that increases the duty on car
pet woods, which are almost exclusively i'm
ported from the South American nations,
with which we are trying to increase our
trade. No one who is familiar with
to see strong message from him on this sub
jcct before the tariff bill is disposed of.
A CONFEDERATE AFFAIR.
Notice has been given that the dedication
of the monument to General Lee at Rich
mond this week, is to be purely Il confederate
affair The militia regiments that take part
in the parade will be ranked in the order in
which the states from which they came passed
the ordinance of secession. No flags will be
carried but the flags of the several states and
the Richmond newspapers already report
liberal display Of confederate bunting on the
public and private buildings of the city. The
Washington papers have for several days con-
taincd calls for all confederate soldiers resid-
ing in this city to report themselves at certain
headquarters to be organized for participate II
in the ceremonies, and several hundred nave
already made their arrangements to go to
Richmond The refusal of Sccretary's Proc
tor and Tracy to permit the Army and Navy
band to attend is still the cause of great in
dignation to the survivors of the lost cause
but their action seems to have been well CON
sidered now that the character of the az
rangements has become known.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The senate committee on finance will take
up the tariff bill at it's regular meeting on
Tuesday night and refer it to subcommittee
which will probably consist Of Senators Alli-
son, Aldrich, Hscock, Harris and Carlisle
This committee will then decide whether to
givea hearing to the representatives of in
tcrest affected by the bill, but ii is not prob
able that they will do so for the subject was
exhausted at the last session of congress and
there has not been any change i'll the economic
condition of the country since then. Those
VINO desire 10 be hCHru VIII he asked 10 SUB
nit their arguments in writing. Protests
have already been received from more than
fifteen hundred of the largest importers in the
country against the increase of duties on
certain articles, and the mails of the senators
from nearly every state contain arguments
against the provisions of the bill as il passed
the house 1T is therefore safe to say that
most of the schedules in which the duties
have been increased will be cut down again
to the present rates, or even lower.
MISCELLANEOUS
Senator MandersOn is not so well tonight as
he was yesterday. He has considerable fever
and suffers more or less all the time. His
sleep is not sound or refreshing either The
principal difficulty is in the bullet wound
which he received in his back about the.
spine, and from which he has suffered from
time to time ever since the war. He sat up
for awhile this morning, but it is feared he
will have to keep to his bed for some days.