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Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

subject or bankruptcies throughout the
United States, and in giving this
power TO congress the wise men who
framed the constitution knew that such
laws would be necessary. In the last
two congresses this opposition was en-
bodied in an act which provided for
voluntary bankruptcy and practically
left the administration of the law TO
the states. Such Il measure would have
been of no service. even if 1t did not
make the situation worse. but ii was
approved by Il large majority of the
democrats in the Fifty-second and Fifty
third congresses. and there Is reason
to apprchend that the democratic sena-
tors in the Fifty-fourth congress will
be found still faithful to this view.
1t is true that experience with ma
tional bankruptcy laws has not been
altogether satisfactory and that the OPP
Grafton of the last law was especially
Objectionable, but there can he no
doubt it is practicable to devise II law
that will deal justly with both debtor
and creditor. The subject ought to
command the attention of the ON
mercial bodies of the country in order
that their views may be early i'm
pressed upon congress.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

Your head is level as we'll as handsome,
Pauline. Well talk about something else
after Tuesday.
Holmes and Durrant affect the Hayward
sheer. The parallel should continue TO the
end Of the rope.
The new queen Of Corea has concluded to
keep out OF politics and thus avoid getting
the AK in the neck.
Great Britain has 1000, 900 total abstainers,
but the balance Of the population struggle
bravely to make UP the deficit.
Not q war scare or a boundary crisis for
three days. Washington correspondents are
probably on the way home to vote.
The discovery of a surplus instead of a
deficit in the Milwaukee celebration fund is
proof Of mistaken devotion to Tome inspira-
ton.
There is som advantage in the prolonged
struggle to pull of the fight. A number Of
low-browed aldermen are kept out of munic-
ipal mischief.
Miss Vanderbllt's wedding bouquet will be
twelve feet in circumference This is in
keeping with other arrangements for the
wedding, which are quite pulled up.
1t is said that Wolseley has gained promo
ton more rapidly than any other living Brit
ish soldier. Just forty years ago he was a
captain and the youngest man of that rank in
the army.
A Madrid paper complains that children in
hl'hAA fa' NNNA'AAA W. 'ANN -
Of IL smoke and play cards, and girls of the
same age abandon their dolls, go to the the
aters and read love stories.
Notwithstanding the excitement of the
campaign, some Kentuckians find time to
pray for rain. This does not impeaCh the
reputation of the old state, as it is explained
that farm stock only is suffering.
A ST. Louis restauranteur tried to coerca his
waiter girls into wearing boomers, and a
walkout was the result. The hash dispensers
ought to know that San Francisco's hot pace
would severely scorch the self-esteemed town
at the end of the bridge.
Mr.. John w. Foster, the eminent peace
maker of Ohio, views with some alarm the
strained relations Of the powers in the east.
1t is no violation of confidence to say that
MIR. Foster could be induced to settle the
matter on the basis of China's retainer.
Reports from the scene of disturbance in
Arkansas wildly recall the historic words of a
pugnacious terror of a past generation. When
at a safe distance from his opponent and in
the hands of friends he exhibited the ferocity
Of an agitated lion and roared, Let me at
him., I'll eat him"
What amazes England and strains its del
icate notions of the comfy of nations, big
and little, is the astounding greed of Russia
in the landgrabbing line. There never was
anything like it-no, never. Unless the
Crammed bear tenders a slice of the pie to
the famished lion. his hoggishness will at
tract the finger of scorn till the crack of
doom.
Frederic Remington was a clerk in Mr.. T.
G.. Platt's express office before he essayed
art, and the first products of his pencil were
purchased by the Century Magazine, which
'discovered' him, though he is now more OF a
Harper man. Mr.. Remington is by birth a
New York country boy. He lost in sheep
r~anching the little fortune his father left him,
but the knowledge he gained Of frontier life
has paid up for the loss.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
BANKRUPTCY LEGIS L1TION

1t is already announced that one of
the nonpartiSan measures which will
be pressed for consideration in she
coming congress is a national bank
ruptcy law. This subject has been be-
fore several preceding congresses and il
has received Il great deal of discussion.
but probably the whole question will
have to he again thoroughly considered,
because in the Fifty-fourth congress
it is to be presumed, know very little
about it. SO far rs the business in
terests of the country are concerned, a
very full expression of sentiment ia
vorable to n uniform system of bank
ruptcy was obtained several years ago,
and there is no reason to uDpos
that there has been any great change
since. Indeed, it is probable that
there is even greater unanimity now
than ever before among business men | in
support of such Il law, for the expert
enCe of the last two or three years has
been a good educator as to the neces-
sity for Il uniform bankruptcy system.
W UNI lllN per lou lHt llliittIUltN OF
varying state laws has been strongly
demonstrated, so that the urgency for
II national law, fair and equitable in its
operation, is undoubtedly more gener-
ally realized now than at any previous
time. 1t is to be expected. therefore.
that the business interests of the coun-
try will again be heard invoking cou-
gresS to take action in this matter and
to enact a law that will be just. both
to the debtor and the creditor.
1t is expected that the republican
house of representatives will frame and
pass n law probably similar to the meas
ure that passed the house of the Fifty
first congress, which was II moditica-
ton of what is known as the Torrey
bill, but there appears to be uncertainty
ms to the fate of such a measure in
the senate. Opposition TO this legisla-
ton has been chiefly ON the ground
that bankruptcy should not be made
involuntary, thereby enabling creditors,
and especially the banks, to force debt
ors into bankruptcy, but there has also
been democratic opposition on the
ground that the matter is one which
should he left with the states and that
a national law would somehow be an
invasion of the rights of the states.
This was not the view Of the trainers
of the constitution when they desig-
that of making uniform laws on the
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
SECULAR SHOTS At THE ruLr,r.

Chicago Tlmes-fIerlld; Babies must havo
been ~fcarfully addicted to bawling about the
time that the creed Of infant damnation was
formulated.
Kansas City Journal: Rev. jonathan
Meyers OF Chicago probably doesn't know
that half of his conservation 20 to Church to
hear the choir instead Of tho sermon. But he
will make somo useful discoveries before hs
IL a month older.
Springfield Republican: Rev. pr. Talmagc
Enthusiastically chose The text "All Heaven
is Looking on for his first sermon at wash
ington. lie probably thought 1t was. or ought
TO be, but the president was not there.
Louisville Courier-Journll: After the pull
pit antics of HoeTer, the reverend Ohio
bribe-seeker, Sunday. zone OF the de3CoEs
prayed that God would show the church what
to do The Lords help does not seem to be
needed in this case. a jury Of ordinarily in
telligert men ought to be able to decide
whether the thing to do is to commit the Rev.
Hoerfer to a penitentiary or a lunatic asy-
lum.
Boston Traveller: A Roman Catholic priest
devotes nearly two columns OF tho Herald to
proving that a good Catholic may alao be a
good American patriot, in the best sense.
He might have spared his mental powder.
Nobody but a nlrrow-minded bigot believes
otherwise. Every battlefield Of the revolution
and Of the civil war proved the truth Of what
he contends for. And there is no higher
proof than this.
indianapolis Journal. It is becoming In
Creasingly difficult to know where we are at
in religion. Here, for instance, is a Metho-
dist brother down in Pennsylvania advocating
the doctrine of a second probation for sinners.
He hedges a little by denying any intention to
advocate universal probation after death. but
expresses a belief in a limited post norton
opportunity. 1t is to be noticed that there
is a great reluctance. even In the most liberal
theologians, to open the doors Of hope too
wide. but with the present very evident ten-
dency to give some sinners another chance,
there is no telling where the matter will end.
There is some reason to suspect that the
opening now made will be enlarged until II
is wide enough to admit tho greater number
of us, even If a general amnesty is not de-
| p1a rod
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1895.

their client which they were unable
TO successfully combat, the prosecution
every day growing stronger. There has
rarely been a more perfect chain Of cir
cumstantlal evidence than that upon
which Durrant was convicted.
This brutal and cold blooded murderer
Of innocent girls whose confidence he
had won will pay the penalty on the
gallows and tire only cause of regret
is that this may be long delayed. An
appeal has been taken to II higher
court and it Is said that n year may
clapSe before the case is reached. In
the meantime Durrant will he tried for
the murder of Minnie Williams. in
which case 1t is said the prosecution
will present even stronger evidence
than in the one just concluded. so that
his conviction on the second charge
may be regarded as Il f%oregOnc Conclu-
sion. Few murder trials in this country
have attracted such general interest as
this me of Durrant. due to the unique
character of the crime. and it will I'M
dOubtcdly long occupy a distinct place
in the history of criminal Jurisprudence.
For the parents of the criminal there
will be Il general feeling of sympathy.
Only mothers may fully appreciate the
anguish of the mother of Durrant when
she heard the verdict that condemned
him to death on the gallows. But all
right-thinking people will agree that the
verdict was Just and will hope that the
infliction of the penalty it calls for may
not be unnecessarily delayed.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
TU-O A GROWS.

Two terrible tales concerning Charles
4. Coe have found their way into the
subsidized organs of the A. Z. A. can
didate for clerk of the district court.
One of these is Il story backed by tele-
grams from Minneapolis to the effect
that the MorSe-COe Shoe company of
Omaha had last veal purchased an in
voice of convict made goods and sold
them in the Omaha markets. This
story has some Semblance of truth with
Il slight foundation of fact. 1t appears
that the American Shoe and Leather
trust had ut one time raised the price
of coarse leather 300 per cent. This
enormous rise in prices affected the
boots and shoes worn by the poor man
only, but did not touch the class Of
leather used in the manufacture of the
lighter grade shoes worn by the rich. A
few weeks after this raise had been
made Il representative of Il Minnesota
firm offered to fill an order at the old
prices. claiming that his house had Il
very large stock of these goods on hand
which it desired to dispose of. The
Morse-Coe company accepted the offer
and forwarded an order. This order
vas. however, never filed, and the
goods never came to the Omaha market.
But if the order had actually been filed
and the leather trust had been beaten
at its game nobody would have found
fault with Mr.. Coe.
The second tale of woe is that Mr..
Coe had in last years campaign at
tached the name of his firm to the bus
mess mems protest against the candi-
dacy of Governor Holcomb. In that
case the facts touch Mr.. Coe Just as
remotely as does the story about the
convict made shoes. At the time the
Business Mems association was organ
lied Mr.. Zoe vas in New England on
business connected with his firm. He
knew nothing about the protest. and we
are assured further that no other MEM
Der of the firm knew anything about it.
The firm name was attached by parties
who assumed the responsibility of act
ing for it without authority to do so.
But even if Mr.. Coo had signed this
document that fact would not make
Allyn Frank the preferable candidate.
Mr.. Frank doubtless would have signed
it had he been asked. A man who has
the free use of railroad passes for
everybody who IS willing to support
him would have had no conscientious
scruples about joining the railroad man
ayers in their efforts to control the state
through the election of the tattooed can
didate for governor.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The report from Paris is that the MEM
bcrs of the new French cabinet are not
popular. Nowhere in the world more
than in France does the personal popu-
larity of the members of Il cabinet have
so much to do with their tenures of
official position. In the United States
a cabinet officer may be ever SO unpopu-
lar, yet the president alone can remove
him. In France IL popular within against
II minister may result in the down
fall of an entire cabinet. No wonder
cabinet crises are nothing strange in
the French republic.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
Fraternaii-m in the Right Place.

S@f''7 N'A : 'eAH
Whatever criticisms may have been JUS
tilted by Miss Wizards proposition to effect
a union Of reform forces nothing but com
mendation is due to her for her splendid
victory over all opposition to the extension
Of the hand Of fellowship, by the Woman's
Christian Temperance union, TO the Catholic
and Hebrew temperance organizations. This
does not imply or call for any surrender or
compromise OF religious opinions. 1t does
not bring the Catholic and Hebrew temper
ancs societies into the organization OF which
Miss Willard is the honored head. II does
not menace the autonomy Of either OF the
three reform bodies affected. But II wipes
out sectarlan lines in temperance work,
where such lines ought not TO exist. In
various parts Of the country Protestants,
Catholics and Jews have for some years
been heartily cooperating in just such work
as that In which the WOman's Temperance
union is engaged. Each has been helpful to
the others, and the-results OF cooperation
have more than Justified expectations.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The latest is that Senator John VI.
Palmer of Illinois Is to mark his retire
ment from public life by the publica-
tion of Il book containing recollectionS
OF men and measures during his long
career. The monuments of memoirs of
public men are fast increasing in mum
her. and soon Il collection of them will
be II small library in itself. As ma
terlals for the future historian to draw
upon they are really invaluable. and
their production ought to be encouraged
by an ~appreciatiye public.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

President Cleveland is already at
work on his annual message to be de
livered to congress when II meets II
month hence. 1t Is safe to say that by
far the greater part of it will be given
oven to II discussion of foreign affairs.
In fact, little else than foreign compli-
cations has happened since congress ad-
journed, excluding the financial difficult
ties of the treasury. We may there
fore expect n discourse on the relations
of the United States with the European
and eastern nations.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The denial of Albyn Frank that he
is n member of the American Protective
association is in keeping with the per-
slstent Justification practiced by other
members of the ~star-chamber order.
The original membership roll certified
by the secretary of the A. Il. A. council
contains The name and correct address
OF A. L. Frank. This document is in
the possession of The Bee and its
genuineness can no more be called into
question than the ~genuineness of the
A. p. A. letters of which it has published
fnC.SimiloS.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The election of a legislature in Iowa
this year is of more national interest
than would ut first appear. The lcgis-
laturc which is to be elected will in
January next choose a successor to
Senator Allison and undoubtedly will
r~e-elect him. The Iowa republicans
have in addition placed Mr.. Allison's
name before the country as Il possible
presidential candidate and are anxious
to have n republican governor, so that
should their favoritc son be chosen the
standard bearer of the republican party
his place in the United States senate
will be filled by a republican. Whether
Mr.. Allison is promoted to the presi-
dency or not republicans and democrats
alike, irrespective of state lines. would
like to see him returned to the United
States senate. where he is considered Il
safe and conservative statesman.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

At last the Interstate Commerce COM
mission is about to hear and determine
the Scent bridge arbitrary which has
veXed the shippers of omaha for ovcr
ten years. Our people have worn them
selves out in futile efforts to secure
simple justice in the premises. There
is hope, long deferred, that the palpable
wrong will soon be righted.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

Exon Inspector Hilton's paper has
apparently failed of its mission. Hilton
has been told by the district court of
Lancaster county that he must account
for all the money he received as state
Inspector of oils, and the prospects are
poor for him to raise the necessary
$1,000 to square himself with the tax
payers unless his bondsmen advance
the sun to escape their own liability.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

1t is reasonably certain that when
the republican national committee meets
in Washington in December it will have
several very attractive offers for the To-
cation of the national convention. If
any city thinks it has the r~ight-of-way
without opposition it will find it
self nightly mistaken. The different
cities of the United States have dis
covered that Il republican national con-
vcntion is worth having and worth going
after.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
HOnOrs to the Elder Hugo.

1t is a thousand pities that Victor Hugo is
not living to witness the honor which France
has conferred upon his father. the General
Hugo who led a charge against the British
cavalry in the battle OF Waterloo and was
never again heard of. The name Of the gen
eral has been added to the list of Napoleonic
heroes on the Arc de Triomphe. There is
room for but two more names, and it is ex-
pected that the space will forever remain
vacant, 1t was one Of the dearest hopes of
Victor Hugo that his father might receive
his deserts in this way.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
THE NEW PACE.
Mary Lowthron Henderson.

Mary LOwthron Henderson.
I've seen the coming woman-yes,
She's here, | seen her come,
And though so long prepared for her,
She really struck me dumb.
When dreamily distracted once,
The street I'd nearly cros't,
l heard n cycle bell ring loud,
And then my balance lost.
The coming woman'd hit me with
Her wheel, and, full of dread.
With streaming eyes was wailing now,
pray tell me, are you dead?"
I felt her soft arm stealing meath
My neck, then opened wide
My eyes. to see her kneeling. fair
And sweet, close at my side.
l felt great trepidation and
Quick pulsing of my heart
And ~throbbing at my temples, for
She gave me such a start.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

1t Is a proud honor to be an Ohioan. From
the Buckeye soil has come a galaxy of illus,
trlous men. No other state In the union has
contributed so generously and so richly 10
the annals Of statecraft. The state that gave
us Grant, Sheridan, Stanton, Chase, Sher-
man, Garfield, Hayes, Pendleton, Thurman,
Waite, Ewing, Harrison and Mckinley ought
to be ashamed of Brice. Ohio does not need
to go to New York for senatorial timber.
Having furnished more than her share OF
statesmen who have adorned our history in
war and in peace, the great state should
scornfully and even emphatically repudiate
the millionaire railroader from Gotham,
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
THE DI-RRaNT VERDICT.

There will be no difference of opinion
among intelligent and unprecedented
people. who have read the evidence in
the trial Of Durrant at San Francisco
for the murder of Blanche Lamont, as
to the absolute justice of his conviction.
The fact that the jury, a more than or
diparily intelligent body of men, meas
ured by, the common standard of Grim
inal jurieS. delibcrated only twenty
minutes and reached Il verdict of guilty
on the first ballot. shows how over
whelmingly the evidence, albeit circum-
staptial, vas against the accused. In
deed, the prosecution had made n
stronger case than ut the outset it
promised To do, while the defense, start
ing out with bold assurance. fell far
short of what was expected of it. Its
main reliance was upon establishing an
alibi, but in this it utterly failed, while
the feeble effort to involve another in
the terrible crime was not only futile,
but injured the cause of the defense.
From beginning to end Durrant's law
yerS. unquestionably able men, were
met by evidence showing the guilt OF
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

1t appears from Labor Commissioner
Wright's figures, showing the wages paid
to women in employments where they COM
pete with men. that what appears to be
a discrimination against them, Is mainly
due to the fact that a great many Of them
use these occupations as makeshifts, in
tending to abandon them as soon as they
get married. This overstocks the market
and naturally lowers the price.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

Pending the decision of the supreme
court on the validity of the prison con-
tract claimed by eX-Warden Beemer.
Colonel Russell will kindly waive the
point as to who shall furnish the neces-
sary supplies for the penitentiary con
yictS. This is one of the colonel's ways
of yielding gracefully when irretriev-
ably cornered.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

Bcechcr Highly is not ut all bashful.
He asserts on his campaign card that
he has beer Il more efficient city clerk
than any one of his predecessors. We
are sorry for his predecessors.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03
IDNIS.

wealth, Marie; my brains are all the for
tune [ possess. Marie-Oh, Harry, IL you
are as badly off as that | am afraid papa
| will never give his consent.
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Chicago Tribune: Mrs. Phunnel's Sister
hard as John does ia make him buy a plas-
ter and stick It over his. mouth.
Mrs. Phunnel-lt wouldn't do any good,
Jennie. He'd buy a porous plaster.
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Detroit Free Press: Applicant-What does
a marriage license cost?.
Clerk-Well, really, it's hard to tell till
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

Our government is nOw in possession
of a copy Of tine record of the French
military court which tried and con-
demned ex-Consul Waller and it will
at once be given careful consideration.
According to Washington advices there
has not at any time been serious differ
ences between the two governments in
reference to this case, the only real
controversy being between the news
papers. the effect of which, it is said,
was to seriously embarrass Ambassador
Eustis and the French foreign Office. 1t
is hardly to be doubted, however, that
the active interest taken in the case by
American newspapers had Il great deal
Of influence in stirring up the author
tiles at Washington and also the am
bassador, and in this respect was serv-
iceable, while 1t is not apparent how it
should have embarrassed anybody who
was really anxious that justice should
be done 10 an American citizen believed
to have been unjustly dealt with by a
foreign government. 1t appears that
the State department is entirely sat
isied with what Ambassador Eustis
has done in the matter and nobody will
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The heavy crops are bound to send rail
road earnings in the next few months up
to the highest point ever touched. This
Is one of the cheerful business indications.
Large crops, even though the prices for
the producer are necessarily lowered, al
ways benefit the country. The producer,
Notwithstanding the price shrinkage makes
more than he does on a short yield, the
railroads secure more traffic and the con-
sumers get cheap food.
Omaha daily bee., 1895-11-03

The Iowa state census Just taken
shows an increase of population in that
state of only 1851 since 1890. Per-
haps it is just as we'll that the last
legislature of Nebraska neglected to
provide for Il new census in this state.