Omaha daily bee., 1891-01-23
GOOD WORDS FOR NEBRASKA.
What Secretary Rusk Has to Say in His
December Crop Report.
MANY PEOPLE JUMP AT CONCLUSIONS
The Senate Committee on Commerce
Agrees co REPORT Favorably the
Omaha Bridge Bill With
Amend inents.
WARRINGTON BUREAU TaE ON Ana BEE, !
5t3 3FoURTEENTu SrREEr,' 7
WARRINGTON. d. C., Jan. %, J

ASHIN6TON, ~. ". Jdu. So
Secretary Ruslx has Just issued his Decem-
Der crop report. 1t cont tains no report from
Nebraska, but has some general observ ations
of importance to the farmers Of that state.
Speaking of corn, the report says: "The
November return Of the yield for some states
was criticised in few quarters generallyby
panic-stricken dealers, who insisted upon the
necessity of counting out large areas as
abandoned and further discounting the loss
by mentally including the whole area in the
calculation necessary to determine the
average yield. This was especially true
in the case of Ne braska, where the carefully
made and considered estimates from CORE
spondents, which showed about 60 per cent
of the rate of yield of the previous year, were
discreGited by these lightning calculators.~
who generally based their estimates upon
Knowledge of the result in a few of the worst
counties and hastily assumed that the whole
state was as bad. For the satisfaction of
this office an additional Investigation FOR this
state was made after husking gave better op
portunity for mature judgment These
later returns from our correspondents,
every producing county in the state being
covered, reduced the first estimate
by about two bushels, making the rate
eighteen bushels instead of the ten which
critics insisted upon A striking verification
of this final estimate is the fact that our re-
turns from nearly sixtyeight thousand Me-
braska farmers make almost the same
average for the state, and the county by
county show but little variance tits a strik-
ing tribute to the care and accuracy of our
Nebraska county correspondents. The error
which those not accustomed to crop reporting
fall into is hasty aggregation. One critic,
who was especially emphatic in his assertion
that the estimate was double what
it should be, was asked to give his
own estimate in detail for all counties with
which he was personally familiar. He did
So and it was slightly higher than the re-
turns from correspondents from the same
coUnties.n
Nebraskans interested in the sugar crop
will read this from the report; 1.-THE sugar
crop has been large one, the output
of cane sugar in Louisiana being evil
IDENTIFY in excess OF that OF last
year. The year marks an important
forward stepin our experiments with other
sugar providing plants, the making of sugar
| from beets having been a commercial success
| in Nebraska, Kansas and California. The
! results of this campaign give promise that
the time when this country shall be less de-
| pendent for this staple article upon the
| plantations of foreign countries is at hand,
| and it may be that within q few years the
| the pockets Of our own farmers.'
aHE OMAHA BRIDGE A CERTAINTY. -~-7
The senate committee on commerce today
| agreed to report favoraDly Senator Mander-
| sons bill providing for low railroad bridge
| across the Missouri between Omaha and
Council Bluffs. The committee made some
amendments to conform to the recommends
| tions of the secretary Of war and that official
| now endorses the measure. The amendments
are to the latter part of section 2, which
| is made to read as follows: ",rhe saia bridge
shall be constructed without interference
with the security and convenience of uaviga-
| tion of said river beyond what is necessary
to carry into effect the rights and privileges
hereby granted; and in order to secure that
| object the said corporation shall submit to
the secretary of war for his examination and
approval design of and drawings for
said bridge and map of the proposed
location giving for the space of
one mile above and one mile below
such proposed location the high and low
water lines upon the banks Of the river, the
direction and strength of the currents at all
stages OF the water, with soundings accurately
showing the bed of the stream and the loca-
tion of any other bridge or bridges, such
maps to be sufi ficiently in detail to enable the
proper location Of said bridge, and shall
furnish such other information as may
the subject, and until the said plan and loca-
.tion of the bridge are approved by the secre-
tary Of war, the Construction of said bridge
shall not be com menced." The last part OF
section is made to read thus: This act
| shall be null and void if the construction OF
said bridge shall not be commenced within
one year and be finished within three years
| from its passage" "
These amendments cover all the sugges-
tons of the secretary of war, who saws in his
| letter, which was written by General Casey,
| chief of engineers: ''The interests of navi
| CATION in my opinion are sufficiently pro
| tected by the terms of the bill, and If amended
as recommended l SEQ no objection TO its
passage by congress"
It is the general belief now that the bill
will bc passed by both houses at this session
IL this bridge bill becames alaw-and there
is every reason to believe it will-Omaha, il
is stated, will get boom in railroad business
as some roads will run branches into thai
city. 1t will also be the first bill congress
has ever passed providing for low bridge
over navigable river. The perseverance o
due to his personal efforts tha
General Casey and the secretary of wal
endorsed the bill aud the committe,
on commerce favorably reported 1t to thesen
to get the b Il passed before rival companie.
get in their work, and Mr.. Connell says h,
| will have the bill taken from the desk o
Speaker Reed and passed without reference
to committee as the committee on commerc
has already reported favorably a duplicate
Senator'S Paddock and Manderson are con
sideraby vexed over the appon ntment ofProf
| Warner of Lin coin to be superintendent o
charities for the District of Columbia yester
day without their consent. They yer,
earnestly urged the appointment OF Gov
ernor Thayer and believe that he wa
| especially fitted for the position. They bot
say that they want 1t distinctly understoo,
that they did not even consent to the appoint
, ment of Warner because they did not beiev
that the republicans of Nebraska are espeC
tally Interested in this gentleman, as he ha
been in the state but short time and the
wanted an old wheelhorse like Governo
Thayer. The place will OF course be take
, | out of the state patronage.
, INGALLS, ABSENT on IMPORTANT BUSINESS.
A very signifi icant and amusing announc ct
ment was made in the senate this morning
When the roll was being called Mr., Aliso
, arose aud stated that he was paired with tn
senator from Kansas, Mr.. Ingalls,, upon a
questions affecting the oloture resolution an
the federal election law AS MIR, Allison i
a in favor of these propositions, of course Nh
, Ingalls, is against them. MIR Allison create
J asmile when he stated that Mr.. ingalls, wa
: | absent at his home on important business
affecting his personal interests. Very fey
people supposed that Senator ingalls, wout
oppose the coture eresolution, although 1t wa
4 understood that he was against the eleetio
!, bill. Senator Washbum OF Minnesota II