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Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

commercial interest, there n hardly
be two opinions az To the expediency OF
having its completion accomplished
under distinctly American auspices.
Nobody will contend that any foreign
power should be permitted to have any
connection either with its construction
or control. But the president does
not necessarilydsmean in his refor-
encc to this project that the
government of tho United States
should take any financial interest in the
project, as has been proposed. and yet
from the Experimentation of the UNDER
taking the prospect Of its completion APP
rears very remote unless it shall receive
government aid in some form. The
effort to make the United States respon-
sible for the interest on a proposed
Issue of canal bonds TO the amount of
800, DOC, 900, although having the unani-
nous endorsement of the finance com
mi,tee of the senate, failed in conse-
quence of public disapproval and there
is little probability that the people can
ever be induced to favor any PROPOSE
tion that would involve the government
in the financial affairs of the Nicaragua
Canal company.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
PEOPLE and THINGS.

Remember, we kickers, what comfort ice
Will be next summer.
The greatest show on earth at this time is
the holiday show window.
Senator Hill has dislocated his silence for
the editication of his old chum IN the white
house.
Colorado papers are nothing if not inter-
estlng these days in chronicling Bloody
Bride blunders.
Virginia raises 5000, 900 bushels of peanuts
annually, but they are not perniciously
active in politics.
1t is reasonably certain that free coinage
bills will be allowed to accumulate a large
crop of mold in congress. =.
Van Allen evidently agreed with the coun-
try that in declining to sacrifice Il first-class
swell to make a poor minister.
The new congressional library building
has already cost 3,O65,5 500. AS much moro
will be needed to finish it.
The Nashville coal combine has the nerve
of Its convictions. 1t has asked the courts
to punish Il membe for cutting under the
combines price.
1t is told by %envious partisans in Ohio that
Governor Mckinley sent his gift eagle to the
Cincinnati 200 because the bird showed n
fondness for free raw material.
"Register before you Sleep" shouts a Chi
cago paper. Good advice. Under the re-
viyed Curfew law Chicagoans must give an
ACCOUNT oA tueiiSelNeS ii ABROAD altef II. IN.
Mr.. Morton describes n political farmer as
a man whose pillow is his tongue and whose
tillage Is TO get a crop of votes in the fall,
and as the result of his efforts garner an
office" Mr.. Morton Is n ''pratical" farmer
and speaks from experience. He has gar
nered a crop.
The most amusing figure in the next Ken
lucky assembly will be jeremiah ". Cren-
shaw, a republican from Bullitt county. He
has been a candidate biennially sine time
whereof the oldest inha Ditant has no distinct
recollection, but this is the first time he has
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

como in a winner tie is q country magis-
tratc, 20 years old, o farmer, lawyer and
politician.
The Danse du Ventre" was outlawed In
Now York. There was a flavor OF Chicago.
esque morals In its capers, which proved too
strong for the delicate sensibilities OF
Nowcrv graduates.
Chicago aldermen have q novel way OF
doing business. They recently allowed q
contractor Sl,hI2.S2 for extra work without
having been requested to. do so by him or
any of his friends, When no went to claim
the money, however, he found that II had
been drawn and divided up among the alder
men.
No one would suspect by his everyday
looks that Adam Badeau had ever been a
general i'll the army. He is too short and
rotN-poly TO have u martial appearance. His
face is almost devoid of hirsute ornament,
and is round and lorid. He wears gold
riinnled glasses and u solemn. heavy weight,
philosophical expression.
The convalesceucc of MIR. Eugene Field
brought from the pen Of Edmund Clarence
Stcdman this beautiful and happy sentiments:
Death thought to claim you In this year OF
years,
But Fancy cried, and raised her shield boz
tween
still let men weep, and smile amid their
tears
Take any two beside, but spare Eugene"
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
REPLENIsHiyG EXHAUSTED FUNDS.


The street lighting fund has been ex-
hausted and So, 800 have been taken out
of the general fund to replenish it. This
brings up the question whether the
council has any right to replenish the
street lighting fund out OF any other
fund. The charter fixes the amount of
levy for street lighting purposes. If the
cost of street lighting exceeds the levy
it should be curtailed within the legal
limit. IL the council has the right to
draw from any other fund in order to re-
plenish there would be no use of having
a levy for street lighting.
And this calls up some suggestive
figures. On tho basis of last months
bills for street lighting the city is now
paying S6I 900 a year for illumination.
This sum is divided as follows: For gas,
Eli. 900; for gasoline, 800, 900; for electric
lights, $50, 900. In other words, we are
paying nearly twice as much for electric
arc lights a we are for gas lamps. and
the gasoline lamplighting exceeds the
gas lamp expense by over $3.50 a month.
With W and four-arm gas posts on our
principal thoroughfares our streets
would be better lighted than they are
with arc lights hung at such distances
as to make one-half of the area pitch
dark and the other lighted by fits and
starts. When one of these electric
lamps burn out or break in the night
several blocks remain in dense dark
ness for the balance of the night,
whereas the gas lights seldom go out,
and if n gas lamp should be ex-
tinguished /. does not affect beyond half
a block.
In any event it is manifestly wrong to
replenish the lighting fund out of any
other fund. Such juggling with public
funds promotes extravaganza ana job
berry. ,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

ALL talk about sending Father Me-
Glynn rs ambassador to Italy is rather
ill-advised at this time. The govern
ment of Italy has something to say in re-
gard to the person which it is willing ~
receive as ambassador, and the appoint
the Roman church would hardly be &C.
ceptable, however obnoxious he might
be to the pope and the College Of cardi-
nails. II the friends of Father McGlynn
var President Cleveland to provide
him with a diplomatic berth there are
plenty OF desirable places to be had, ex-
GLIDING the mission to Rome.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
NEBHASKa AND NEBRASK.INs.

Cholera Is prevalent among hogs in the
nelghborhood of Plattsmouth.
Kearney has n new paper, the Buffalo
County Sun, edited by George j. Shepard.
A lodge of Good Templars has been organ
lied at Fairfield, with sixty charter MEM
bers.
j. B. Ogden Of Elk Creek, a prominent
Knight of Pythias ard church worker, is
dead.
The till of the B.. & Nj. depot at Ong was
tapped by unknown parties, who secured
S34 in silver.
w. A. Dalton of Table Rock is under ar
rest at Humboldt on the charge of forging
creamery checks.
The Beatrice Times has enlarged its plant
and will soon add four more pages to Its
daily, making it ons of the best in the state.
The Kenrney Journal has improved its
looks by enlarging to an elght-page paper.
If it wasn't for its 'sown-broadcast" drivel
the journal would be a model paper of its
class.
The biggest heifer ever received at the
South omaha yards Is attracting a large
| share of attention OF stockmen, over 800 peo-
pie going out to gaze at her size. She was
brought IN by II. & b.. j. Tirney of Broken
Bow, who have been feeding her for a year
and a half. She Is of shorthorn breed, 4
years old ana weighs 2,400 pounds. Tho
heaviest heifer ever received ut the yards
previously weighed 9, 100 pounds. 1t is prob
able that the monster will be sold to some
local market for Christmas beef.
About six weeks ago Ida Gibbon, a Kear-
ney girl IL years of age. was sent on an
errand by her mother while home from
school during the noon hour. She did not
return, and although her parents have
searched for her all the way between Kear-
ney ana Grand Island, no trace of her eau
be found. IL is reported that she was seen
riding in a farmers wagon toward Shelton,
but nothing definite can be ascertained. No
| cause can be assigned for her leaving home,
| unless it IS that she did not want to go to
| school.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
THE HOME FOR THE FhIENDLESS,

The refusal of the board of managers
OF the Home for the Friendless at.Lin-
coin to abide by the regulations laid
down by the state officials and their
threat to vacate the buildings assigned
to their use are things that were not even
dreamed of by the legislature that gave
that institution a share of the public
funds devoted to charity. Certain parties
Interested in the care of homeless
children organized a society and ap-
piled for state aid in 1881, which was &C
corded with the distinct understanding
that the money derived from the state
treasury should be expended under the
supervision Of the managers, but &C.
cording to the rules and regulations
provided by the State Board of Public
Lands and Buildings. The buildings
and grounds occupied by the homo be-
long to the state. No opportunity has
been missed to apply to each succeeding
legislature for the grant of public
moneys, with what SUCCESS may be in
ferred from the fact that since its or
%ganization it has secured appropriations
amounting to q total of over $l75,-
900 during a period of twelve years.
After having had the benefit of
this large amount Of money its
managers imagine that they are
at liberty to withdraw from the state
buildings and operate a purely private
corporation just because of some minor
differences with the officials whose duty
it is to watch owe the expenditure of
public moneys so appropriated.
Nothing so we'll argues against the
granting of public aid to private chari-
ties as this threat of the of
the Home for the k~riendless. The state
can never be sure that it is to
have proper results from the insti-
tuition which it supports unless its
conduct and management is subject
to government control. 1t places itself
at the mercy of a coterie of private per-
sons who may withdraw their services
at any moment and leave q necessary
charity in a crippled and helpless con-
dition. The managers in this instance
talk about taking the 100 childreni in
their charge away with them, as il they
had secured a vested right in their GUS
tody, for whose support they draw about
$l5, 900 annually from the state treasury.
But when they are required to conform
to the same rules that govern other
state institutions in the purchase of sup
plies they object that such action would
take from them the management OF the
home.
AS a matter of fact the original act of
1881 reserved state control in the clause,
provided that nothing herein contained
shall be SO construed as to prevent the
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
from establishing rules and regulations
for the government of such homo in any
manner" AS to the merits or necessity
of the rules laid down we have no oc-
casion to take sides in the dispute. But
If the managers do not intend to con-
form to the law the state, which sup
plies the funds for its maintenance, will
be compelled to take Owes the entire con
troll Of the institute II and pat an end
once anu for all t. the inevitable fric-
ton between state officials and private
managers. Our experience with state
subsidies to quasi-pyivate charities is not
proving very satisfactory,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE Law.

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Ia W.
The Interstate Commerce commission
is certain to be heard from once a year,
hen it makes its annual report. For
the rest of the time it does not command
so much Of the public attention AS might
be expected of q body upon which is de-
volved the highly important duty of re-
quiring the railroads of the country en-
gagged in interstate commerce to con-
form their conduct to the provisions of
the law. 1t must not be inferred from
this, however, that the commission is
either neglecting its duties or has very
little to do. There is reason to believe
that it is giving faithful attention to its
duties and that in doing this it finds
enough to keep 1T fully occupied. That
the commission has succeeded in stopping
all abuses and violations of the law is
not to be supposed. Unquestionably
many of the railroads of the country are
not complying strictly with the require
ments of the law. That prohibited
determinations are being practiced, re-
bates to favored shippers allowed, free
transportation unlawfully granted, and
other violations ofthe statute committed,
is not to be doubted, and whether these
evils can ever be wholly done away with
is still a problem. But as to those pro-
visions of the law which cannot be in
sidiously evaued, the railroads appear
to be complying with them very
generally and fully, and it is
to be observed that there have
been fewer complaints of serious
violations of the interstate commerce
law during the present year than in any
previous year since the act went into
effect.
The annual report of, the commission
shows that the law a still be improved
and it suggests several amendments.
1t appears that the law Is defective in
the matter of proceedings to enforce the
orders OF the commission and in the
opinion of the commission it should also
provide for the indictment Of corpora
tons for its violation and fix a penalty
for failure on the part Of carriers to file
their annual reports within u specified
time. Other suggested amendments are
TO give the commissi n power to pre-
scribe minimum as we'll as maximum
rates TO competitive points; 10 provide
for the adoption Of a uniform freight
classification, and to provide for estab-
fishing through rates ana joint through
rates. The practicability Of one or two
of these proposed amendments is de-
batable, but the adoption Of most OF
them would undoubtedly strengthen the
law and render it more effective for the
prevention CT determinations. The con
struction given to the word Zine" II
the statute by the courts, which differs
wholly from that of the commission ant
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

JUDGE DUNDY Is quoted as saying
that experience and special qualifica-
tions of Union Pacific receivers should
have some bearing upon the amount of
salary to be allowed each receiver. 1t
stands to reason that the services of
Messrs. Clark and Mink are much more
valuable than the services of the three
other receivers cohldpossibly be. Mr..
Anderson has for some time been re-
ceiver of a southern railway, which
Office, of course, viii require a share of
his time. The two remaining receivers
are not known to be experts in railroad
ing, and, of course, their time and capa-
bilities as Union Pacific receivers can
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

THERE was much rushing to and fro
among democratic aspirants for federal
office in this city yesterday. THE BEES
dispatches stating that Pap Dispenser
Castor had reached Washington indi-
Gated to the stay-at-home patriots that
the time for action was at hand. A fat
government salary just at this particu-
what some of these democrats assert,
that il Cleveland was a better democrat
han he is the federal flesh pots would
long ago have been in possession Of the
faithful.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
TIE BUCK IGEST.

Sam Waiter FOss.
lam not deaf, my fellow man,
And | can hear you shout,
Your words are audible enough,
Don't want your book. Get out!"
Don't want my book. 1t cannot be,
There's some mistake, forsooth,
Don't want my great Compendium
or Universal Truth"
O, I can plainly understand
How some dull-minded thing
Might scorn my book; but you! but you'll
An intellectual king.
A mammoth-mlnded man. like you,
When once the book Is bought,
VIII revel I'm its intellect
And wallow in its thought!
Why. all your board OF sclectmen
Have bought the book, and they.
Why, they all said, BE sure to call
On Mr.. John Z. Ray;
We cannot understand II all"
Said they, but Ray knows beans.
When John c. Ray has read that book
He'll tell us what IL means"
On mediocre men for sales
] place no firm reliance,
This book was written and designed
For intellectual giants,
For men whose skull caps bulge with brains,
Who know n thing or two;
For men of towering intellect
And so I've called on you,
you'll take the book" ] knew you would-
or course you'll "ant the best,
You'll want morocco back, gilt top,
One that will stand the test.
I'm glad I've met you, Mr.. Ray,
Though ignorant and untaught,
l love to meet MAJ of brains,
OF intellect and thought.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

AMONG the interesting incidentals in
the appropriation ordinance for Novem-
Der is a bill allowed to the poundmaster
amounting to $210 for dispatching and
appropriating go dogs. This may be
cheap, but it strikes us as a costly
luxury. AT this time of the year go
dogs would make n great feast for the
whole soup tribe. Joking apart, the
question is a we afford in these hard
times to tax the people S270 a month for
the dog catcher?
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

LAWRENCE II. NEAL, late candidate
for governor in Ohio, has finally pulled
himself out from under the avalanche of
votes by which he was buried last
month and ventures the suggestion hat
the protective tariff had nothing to do
with II. He lays his defeat to the atti-
tude of the democratic administration
on various important topics. All ex-
plantations leave little comfort for the
Cleveland democracy.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

WHILE the question Of supplying the
city with ice for the coming year is
pending before the council it may not
be inappropriate to call attention to the
fact that the city paid 1925 for ice in
the city hall offices during the month of
November. 1t must be a very cold day
when they do not want ice in the city
hall. If the thermometer were down 20o
below zero they would still want their
water cooled and their butter kept from
melting.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

IL WE are to believe the Lincoln
Doodle organ it is costing the people of
Holt county 81 to 80 a day to keep Bar-
rett Scott in custody, and this is held up
as evidence of the extreme folly of not
lowering Scott's bail so that he may
walk of ard avoid trial. Scott is prob
ably the only prisoner, or one of u very
few, being held in Holt county, and by
attributing to his keeping all the ex-
penses OF the jail it is possible that the
IS a day figure ha, bcon ob.ained. when
in fact the real daily cost cannot be as
much as 81. The county expenses would
be almost the same II tho Jail were
empty. II SCOTS friends have to invent
such statements as this they must be
getting to the end OF their rope.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08
Waite's Wierd Ways.

Governor Waite of Colorado, it is said,
has arranged for the coinage of a sort of
hybrid coin for circulation in thai state.
Or one side is to appear a Mexican motto,
and on the other the coat of arms of the
state of Colorado is to be emblazoned. The
coins are to be made in Mexico in order TO
escape the penalties of the United States
laws for coming money, and, presumably,
will be made of Mexican silver. They will
cost more than our standard silver dollars,
and just where their utility TO the silver
men of Colorado comes in no one can find
out. Besides, They would possess no legal
tender value whatever. The scheme is q
wild and impracticable one.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

THAT north and south railroad will
undoubtedly come in time, but the pro-
ject 30 have it built and conducted "bv
the people" will have to be hung up
until the people have more idle capital
to invest in railroads. If n subscription
list had been passed around among the
members of the late railroad convention
the number of shares taken would have
given a fair index OF the real strength
OF the present movement.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

THE French president of the Chamber
of Deputies and the French premier
have merely changed places as a result
of the recent ministerial crisis. 1t does
not appear to take long for an ex-premier
to regain the support of the chamber,
which, by electing him as its president,
shows the shifting character of the
ministerial support in France.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

THE subject of irrigation in Nebraska
is growing in Importance from year to
year. Actual results attained in the
arid districts ON II western border
have shown the value of irrigation
bitches. The convention at North
Platte December 10 ought to prove Of
immense advantage to those interested
inthe development of the state. The
mayor aud the Board of Trade can
readily name delegates 70 this conven-
lion from among citizens of Omaha who
are vitality interested in the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

UP TO the hour of sunset yesterday
the officers of the Railway Employees as
ISOLATION had not raised their voices in
a movement for the restoration of the
old scale of wages On the Union Pacific
system. These officers, it will be re-.
membered, in the state campaign of
1892, uttered flaming manifestos to the
rank and file calling every. employee to
arms against the maximum railway
freight bill on the sole ground that the
enactment of the law would result in a
wholesale reduction of wages on every
line in the state. The specter of low
wages was ever held up before railway
employees to brighten them and prevent
them from voting for candidates who did
not bear the railroad brand. But the
law has never gone into effect. For rea-
sons foreign to the statute books the
wages of Union Pacific employees have
been scaled down. There was some
justification for the reduction, perhaps,
but that has nothing to do with the point
in hand. Employees will not concede
that their wages should have been cut
while the newly appointed receivers are
seeking princely salaries with a chance
of ultimate success. If the Railway
Employees association is what it claims
to be, and not a political bureau for rail-
way managers, its responsible leaders
willlose no time in making application
to the court for q restoration of the old
scale of wages paid by the Union Pacific.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

The senate has passed a bill tt reim-
burse Nebraska for the outlay made in
running a militia skirmish line along
our northern border in the winter of
lS90-l, This was the campaign, it will
be remembered, wherein General Colby.
mounted on Linden Tree, captured a
Sioux pappoose, for which gallant and
meritorious service he received a bronze
medal at the hands of a gracious and ell
thusiastic people. 1t was worth all it
cost
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

AN OUTBREAK OF internal di~ssensions
within the German empire would be
what the enemies of the empire have
been waiting for ever since its formation.
over twenty years ago. The forces re-
q%uiring united action on the part of the
commonwealths comprising the empire
are too strong to permit the trouble with
Wurtemburg to invite the interference
of outside powers.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

FEDERAL court officials resent the
criticisms made by Omaha newspapers
upon the work of the United States
grand jury in two or three notable cases.
1t would be difficult indeed for a news
paper to pass by without comment
the action of Attorney Bake" in causing
Editor Howard to be put upon the fed
eral rack. When Mr.. Baker did this
he must have known that it would prove
a boomerang and would not accomplish
the desired end. Howard has the
past year published most scathing
criticisms directed against the officers
of the federal court, including Mr..
Baker, and if the district attorney be-
lieved that the editor had laid himself
liable to Indictment thereby he ought to
have included the offense in his bill of
complaint. Any man with a grain of
gumption ought to have known that an
editor could not have been indicted for
the publication of an item which was
neither malicious nor libelous. Mr..
Baker ought to go cunning for bigger
game,
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-08

THE time is certainly propitious for a
reorganization of the Humane society,
and its members will have no difficulty
in finding worthy objects for their as
sistance. The prospects for a hard win
ter counsel systematic work by all who
are engaged in the alienation of suf-
farinQ.