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Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
PEOPLE md THINGS.

Washington has entered the race for the
national political conventions.
Spain's apology for the Allanca affair is
evidently afflicted with that tired feeling.
There is nothing strange about the advance
in OIL That is its natural tendency under
fire.
Mr.. Croker won two victories last week.
His horse won in England and his friends
fixed the Tammany election for him. Rich
ard is boss again.
A man named Jones fathered the proposal
to make Chicago an indsp 'ndsnt state. H.
like his Binghamton namesake. he is some
what dfldent about paying the freight.
Notwithstanding his public professions In
favor of the cartwheel dollar, Schoolmaster
Harvey makes no distinction in the legal
tender that is handed in at the box office
Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave,
achieved all that any white man could. He
acquired an education lived by the work of
his brains, and has his last will contested in
the courts.
Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, now resid-
ing in Ammendale, Md, has been elected a
Commerce in recognition OF services he rem
dered to California while he was stationed
on the Pacific coast
The pension roll of the revolutionary war
closed last week with the death of Mary
Brown of Knoxville. Tenn, at the age OF 81
She was the widow of Joe Brown. a revolu-
tionary soldier. whom she married in 1924
at the age of 20 years
Historian McMasters knocks the stufing
out of the Jackson cotton bale story, but that
does not dim the glory of New Orleans. Not
by a jugful. Besides the Omaha disciples of
Old Hickory long ago discarded cotton as
an element Of enthusiasm at the annual jolli-
lcation
After wrestling with the living picture
maintains, in the interest of art, of course
that suit of bronze paint is preferable to
tights. That's what the managers thought
when the box office receipts materially in
creased as a result Of their advanced enter
prise
Recent events justify the claim that things
are picking up in old Missouri. Two bloods
Of st. Joe fought with bare fists for the
smiles Of a local belle, and two Kansas
women fit and clawed for the love of one
man. These incidents give a shade of truth
fulness to other evidence of returning life
among the Pukes.
DR.. Antonin Dvorak director of the Ma
tional Conservatory of Music of America,
sailed from New York for Europe on Tues
day by the Saale. AS to his plans for the
summer he said it was his intention to con-
tinue his work on the American OPERA "Hia-
watha." which he hopes to have produced in
New York next year. %
A significant feature of current political life
is the general, hearty rejoicing that is mani
tested in the afflicted states over the ad-
journment of the legislatures. Wisconsin
emulates Nebraska in hailng with unfelgned
pleasure the death of a legislature which
harassed public and private interests for a
period Of 101 days. at is fortunate for Wis
consin" says the Milwaukee Evening Wis
cOnsin. that the legislature meets only BIZ
ennially, and therefore it cannot perpetrate
as much mischief as could be done by annual
sessions. Some think it would be better for
the state If the legislature met only once in
three years"
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

this time, for there can be no doubt that
the expression of the monetary conyen-
tlon that has been called will exert some
influence, not confined to that state,
upon the democracy. II would be haz-
nrdous to predict now what the outcome
Of the convention will be. There Is n
great deal of free silver sentiment
among the democrats of Illinois, as there
Is In the party In every state west of
the Allegheny mountains, and this ele-
ment of the party is the more aggres-
sive one. 1t would therefore be no
great surprise to find a democratic con-
yention there declaring for the free and
unlimited coinage of silver, notwith-
standing the fact that Illinois is having
Il higher measure If Industrial and bust
ness activity and of general prosperity
than most of the states of the union.
But in any event the silver fight that is
going on there within the democratic
party is commanding the attention and
interest of the country, because every
body realizes that the result cannot fail
to have more or less important influ-
ence upon the future attitude of the
democracy toward silver.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBoR.

Serious difficulties confront the Cana
dian people. The Dominion Parliament
| began it's session last week and it is
quite probable that before it ends there
will be developed political crisis which
may eventuate in giving the control of
the government to the liberals. The ad-
| ministration of affairs by the tory party
has certainly not been successful. The
| national debt of Canada is very large
| for a country of not more than 100000
population and it is steadily growing.
There will be a large deficit for the
fiscal year which ends June 80, and in
| addition to this the public debt will be
increased by extraordinary eXpendi-
lures. How to remedy this situation
is one of the problems, for the people
are not disposed to stand any more tax
alton in any form, so that if the party
in power increases the tax burden it
will invite defeat at the general election
| to follow the dissolution of Parliament.
Another issue which is causing no lit
| the trouble relates to the school Ques-
| tion in Manitoba. One hundred thou
sand Protestants in that province pro-
pose to force the 10000 Catholics to
pay tax to n common system of non
| sectarian schools, instead of being at
liberty to pay taxes for Catholic schools
as formerly. The Catholics resist and
the highest legal tribunal has sustained
| them in their position, while they have
many Protestant sympathizers The
| urgent question is. shall the Dominion
government force the province of Mani
| toba to restore to the Catholics their
right to a share of the public taxes to
support Catholic schools? The majority
of the people of the province stoutly re-
sent Interference with their local self
government and threats are freely
| made of secession in the event of the
general government persisting in its
position. The issue has been injected
| into politics and the indications seem
| to be that the government is likely to
| lose rather than gain by it's Interference.
1t is said that the school issue will
make or mar parties during the session
| of Parliament and in the general cleo
ton.
AS the political situation now appears
it is favorable to the success of the
liberal party, but the conservatives are
well intrenched and will make Il vigor-
Gus contest to retain power. The man
ufacturing interest, the railroad inter
est, and every interest that partakes of
the character of monopoly, is with the
government, and with the powerful sup
port of these various interests together
with the favor of the British govern
ment, it will be no easy matter to dis
lodge the conservatives from power,
albeit the record the party has made
is about as bad as it well could be. The
contest that is going on has some inter
est for the American people, since in
the event Of liberal success the CONNER
cial relations between the United States
and Canada would probably be i'm
proved.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

According to the secretary of the
are still experiencing difficulty in dis
posing of the relief appropriation war
rants allotted them pursuant to the
emergency act passed by the legislature,
and many of those which have found
purchasers had to accept offers of .
per cent discount This is an outrage
upon the people who contributed the
money for the relief of the drouth suf-
ferers. 1t was the intention of the legis-
lature, and in this it had the support
of citizens of all classes, to furnish i'm
mediate and timely aid to the destitute
farmers In the way OF seed grain for
spring planting. Every cent of the ap-
preparation could have been trans
formed into cash had the State Board
of Educational Lands and Funds been
disposed to follow out the letter of the
law, which requires it to invest the idle
money in the school fund in such regis
tered state warrants as are offered for
sale. At the very moment when needy
counties are hawking their interest-bear-
ing warrants about without takers or at
discount there are hundreds of thou
sands of dollars of state money idle in
the school fund on which the state is
getting no return of interest whatever
There is no excuse for this state of af-
fairs
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
THE VIADUCT DECISION

Judge AmbrOse's decision in the Elev-
cnth street viaduct case is entirely in
| favor of the contentious of the city and
| against those of the Burlington rail
road. The city has the same authority
to compel the railroads to maintain the
viaducts erected over their tracks that
| it has to compel them to erect the via
ducts in the first place. When this au-
thority was originally exercised it was
with the cooperation of the railroads
concerned. AT that time the Burlington
! road bore the burden of the expense
assessed upon it without contesting the
right of the city to act. 1t was to have
| been supposed that, having invested it's
money in an Improvement of this kind
the road would prefer to have some
good come of it, even if for that pur-
pose the additional expense of occa-
sional repairs were to be met.
This does not seem to have been the
attitude of the Burlington. Having
possession, practically free of cost, of
most valuable rights of way through
the streets belonging to the people of
Omaha, it has endeavored to evadc
making any return even in the way of
making the passage over it's tracks safe
to the public. For nearly two years
its obstinacy has forced the people
using the Eleventh street viaduct to
use 1t mt the risk of their lives. And
the chief support to its position ad-
| duced in the court was the old worn
out claim that the charter of the rail
road is contract precluding the public
from ever imposing any special burden
or regulation upon it.
If the Burlington wants to carry this
case on appeal to the supreme court.
that appeal ought not to be permitted
to further delay the work of restoring
the vinduct. Let the repairs be made
and the road fight out the question of
paying for them afterward, If it insists
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
A Farty without "a Leader.
Il Globe Democrat.


There is manifest force in the declaration
of a prominent statesman that the supreme
misfortune Of the democratic party at the
present time is the want of a leader. The
members of the organization are like an
army that has lost its commander and
scattered in all directions for lack of a
master spirit TO unite the various fragments
and make them practically effective, In
the nature Of things, President Cleveland
should be his party's leader, but he Is not
recognized as such. On the contrary he
is regarded by the majority of democratic
voters as man who has abandoned the
principles upQi. which he was elected and
forfeited his claims to confidence and sup
port. He is strong with a certain element
of the party. but 1t is not the element that
counts for most at the ballot box Almost
all of the conspicuous democrats of the
country are against him for one reason and
another, and he gets more praise from re-
publican than from democratic newspapers
1t is obviously impossible for him to bring
about Conference and harmony in the broken
ranks of his party. He is more of a dis
turber than coalescer, so to speak, and
every step that he takes tends to increase
the discord and uncertainty.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
s4MBO WAsHING4ON's VISDICArIoN

Sam Walter Foss in New York Sun.
He stood before the church committee
In calm, complacent bravery
Though charged with many heinous crimes
And various kinds of knavery.
New, Sambo Washington" they said.
you're charged with great obliquties,
With sundry crimes at various times
And many grave iniquities."
Yes, sah," said Sambo Washington,
Use done some frauds pardgious,
But, bress de Bawd! for ebery fraud
Was pious an religious. ....
Use done kermItted various crimes
An sins er great variety,
But cherry sin dat | has done
done for troof an piety."
Also his gold penholder?"
Then Sambo grew the size of two
And answered frank and bolder:
"A pious feslin' TUX me, jedge,
An | could not control 1t.
VIII dat pen. jedge, l signed de pledge,
An dat was why / stole it."
But Enoch Hardy's watch and chain3>
Befo' dat date Ise allus late
To Sunday school, an tardy.
But bress de, Lawd, dat ar gor watch
Am berry akkerit, berry;
No mo- 1se late an after date
In His great sanctuary.
reach In time de house OBJ prar.
No. mo- is l baated,
An bress. my soul, dat watch stole
To troof am consecrated."
But how about that suit of clothes?"
Dat SCOT" said Sambo. rising,
II stole dat SCOT TO serve de Lawd
An wear at my baptizin'."
But how about those two fat foWR3'
Il TUX dem fowls. yo' honah.
FUN OF John Bell, a infidel
A scoffah, an a scornah;
Fun dat bad, unbelievin' man,
Dat unregenerit sinner
Dem fowls stole fun dat lost sou,,
For Elder Putnam's dinner"
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
ADvANrAeg OF A REBEdRfNe.

The United States supreme court is
expected very soon to return m answer
to the petition which has been filed ask.
ing for n rchcarlng In the income tax
cases. one reason advanced in the petit
ton Is that question of such grave
importance merits before final adjudi-
cation the careful and mature consider
ntion Of the full bench Of judges. where
as In the former hearing one of the JUS
tees was prevented by illness from par
ticipating in the proceedings. Another
reason is that the recent decision is
alleged to have been reached only by
a tie vote, and still another that there
are many important points involved
and requiring elucidation which are not
touched upon at all IN the opinions in
our possession. Each Of these reasons
doubtless has considerable force, but
the purpose of each could he attained,
not so soon, OF course, but eventually,
by carrying new suits up to the supreme
court as well as by rehearing the ones
already brought
This raises the distinction between a
rehearing and an entirely new case.
Aside from the economy of time, the re-
hearing has its chief advantage in saw
ing the dignity of the court In case of
n rehearing the decision already pro-
mulgated is regarded as again under
adviscment, just as parliamentary
action is brought once more before Il
Legislative body upon motion of re-
consideration. The decision itself is re-
called, and if, after the new considcra-
ton, the result is the opposite, or even
different in minor details. the final
judgment is the original and only judg-
ment of the court.
on the other hand, If a question once
decided is again brought before the
court through subsequent litigation the
recognized Interpretation of the law
cannot be changed without reversing
expressly or impliedly the previous rul-
ing of the court. All courts, and above
all the United States supreme court
dislike exceedingly to reverse prece-
dents which they themselves have set.
A large part of the opinion in almost
every case of more than ordinary mo-
ment is devoted to an attempt to recon
cile the decision with what has been de
Cided in former cases and in proving
that it is not in conflict with the de-
ciSion in any other similar case. The
majority opinion in the income tax
cases is no exception to this rule, and
the sensitiyenesS of the court to the
charge Of reversing its own position is
shown in those sentences which insist
that never before has the court made
Il contrary ruling in the matter of recog.
niZing taxes on the incomes from the
rent of real property as indirect taxes.
Let the recent decision become part
of the court record as it's final Judgment
in the cases and it will always be a
powerful obstacle in the path of every
effort to have it changed. In a rehear-
ing this particular decision will have no
standing as n precedent to be followed
and the courts dignity would be unim-
paired whether the revised Judgment
be the same or different from the first
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

The Board. Of Public Works Is inspect
ing pavemepts in order to ascertain
needed repairs. Omaha has maintained
paved streets long enough to have
learned that the item of repairs is of
utmost Importance Eastern cities have
long since provided for pavement re-
pairs at the least possible cost to the
city. In New York 30 per cent of the
contract price is withheld under fif-
teen years guaranty and paid out after
the expiration of the first five years at
the rate of 3 per cent per annum pro
vidtng the pavement Is kept in repair.
Upon failure of the contractor to keep
up necessary repairs the city pays for
such work out of the 30 per cent re-
serve. Even under these conditions II is
found that the fund thus maintained is
inadequate to pay for necessary repairs
on streets that must bear heavy traffic.
In Omaha the per cent of contract price
reserved for the repair fund has never
been fixed at so high figure, yet there
are reasons for advancing it. The time
has come when Omaha must lay as
much stress upon pavement repairs as
upon provisions for n perfect system of
DayementS
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

The falsity of the report of a week or
more ago, given out upon official author
ity, that the Cuban insulrection had
been suppressed is shown by subse-
quent events. Not only are the insur-
gents still active, but there is no indi-
cation that they are any less deter
mined than at the beginning to carry on
the contest, though they are said to
have met with serious reverses. The ar
rival of Campos has, it appears, had
the expected effect of inspiring the
Spanish forces and more vigorous
campaign is being prosecuted. The
odds against the patriots, as their sup
porters term them, is very great, and 1t
is not to be doubted that their cause is
hopeless, but it would seem they are
still capable of giving the Spaniards a
great deal of trouble.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

Ambassador EuStis made n pretty
diplomatic point at the London banquet
In his remarks upon the traditional pol
ley of the United States government in
Its diplomatic relations with other pow
erS Conscious of its own strength. this
nation carries the principles of eternal
justice into every controversy with
other nations, be they weak or power
fuL No higher encomium could he paid
the intelligence and integrity Of our peo-
pie Mr.. Eustis chose n most happy
means of conveying to Britons the con
sensus OF American opinion upon the
predisposition of the British lion to
pounce upon impotent nations that may
or may not have given offense.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
Aggressor and oppressor.

II. IaUI IIONetr Tfcss.
Great Britain is true to her record in
her dealing with Nicaragua, 1t is an
nounced that the proposition OF the latter
country for settlement by arbitration Is
not satisfactory and there can be little
force her demands by main force unless
the intervention of the United States, or
rear of It, should stay her hand. There is
no country in the whole world that has
acted the bully as consistently as Great
Britain. 1t strikes the student of history
as singular thing that n nation with so
many admirable characteristics should
have been from first to last the aggressor
and oppressor wherever she came in con-
difference between her and this country she
is always ready to arbitrate. This, say her
TO the world of how disputes should be
settled between civilized nations But let
Venezuela that has a grievance and John
Bull is the most insolent and clustering
creature on the globe.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

Two manufacturing establishments
have abandoned Omaha and propose to
transport their business elsewhere. They
have heretofore employed over 200 op-
eratives. Various reasons are given for
their removal. One is the unfavorable
attitude of organized labor in this city
This may be fact or fancy, but it is n
subject that might legitimately claim
the attention of the Central Labor
union. If untrue, organized labor will
not hesitate to proclaim it untrue.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22


The decision rendered in Chicago in re-
gard to the power of a municipality to re-
strain or prohibit a telegraph company
from using its streets Is rather sweeping
in its effect, If 1t goes as far as the Asso-
ciated press report indicates The right of
an interstate telegraph company to use the
post roads of the United States may not be
questioned but it cannot be said that every
street in a city is a post road. A tele-
graph company might Insist upon and es-
tablish a right to enter city. If IT were
would not entitle II to construct its lines on
all the streets of that city. The most that
it could claim in justice is the right to
follow the street leading most directly to
its office.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
THE SILVER FIGHT IN 7

THE SILVER FIGHT IN ILLINOIS.
The storm center of the silver fight is
in Illinois and the attention of the coun-
try is concentrated upon the conflict for
supremacy soon to take place there be-
tween the democratic advocates of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver by
the United States and those democrats
who are opposed TO such a policy. Both
factions are actively organizing and
there is every promise that the struggle
between them when they meet in con-
vention in June will be vigorous and
bitter. The sound money democrats,
those who believe it would be most
hazardous and dangerous experiment for
the United States, alone among the
great commercial nations of the world,
to open its mints to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, are preparing
for the contest with great earnestness.
There was organized in Chicago on Sat
urday "The Honest Money League of
Illinois," pledged to unalterable opposi-
tlon to the establishment, without in
ternational cooperation, of the unlim-
tied coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to
l. 1t is distinctively n democratic or
ganization and invites to membership
all democratic voters who believe in the
policy for which it stands. The purpose
of the league is to inaugurate n cam
paign of education against free silver
and undoubtedly its work will be of
very great service to the sound money
cause. Meanwhile the free silver advo-
Gates are by no means idle.
Thus the silver fight assumes special
interest and Importance in Illinois at
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
A IhraShinG Good for the Thrashed.

All that China has lost will in the future
seem small when compared with its ulti-
mate gain and the development of It's vast
territory and immense resources. All civil
lied nations will owe debt of gratitude to
little Japan, for what all their diplomacy
could not effect has been secured by the
bravery and skill OF its armies and the
astuteness of its government. There can be
little doubt that, If the truth were known,
1t would be found that Iii Hung Chang.
whom General Grant pronounced one of
the greatest living statesmen and who sym
pathiZes with modern progress and feels
its necessity for his country, not alone cor
daily sympathizes with this particular part
of the treaty, but had hand in urging its
adoption. 1t marks the beginning of new
industrial and commercial epoch for China.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22
Tho silyery Fictionist.
Minneapolis Journal.

In his desire to show that more money is
needed to do the business OF the country
Schoolmaster Coin Harvey was obliged to
show in his lecture how enormously the
commerce and trade of the country had in
creased during the last twenty years-up to
the time free trade democray undertook to
suddenly reverse the wheels of commerce
and set them running the other way-but he
failed to call attention to the fact that this
country seemed to have been getting on
splendidly, despite "the crime of 49," until
the free traders and the free silver men be-
gan to tinker with the machinery, and IT
is only since the tariff and financial tinker
ing was stopped that 1t has begun to re-
cover again.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-04-22

seed grain, cHplng as lt does from other
states. viii btote more productive than
Nebraska seed. These theories may be
accepted for what they are worth. Yet
no claim has Been made heretofore that
the soil of'Ncbraska needed n rest or
that Nebraska seed was not highly pro-
ductive under proper cultivation and
proDitious wenth