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Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
TIE cHIkrER 1MENDMENrS.

Assurances are given by members of
the Douglas delegation that the charter
amendments which are being prepared
by them are solely in the interest of the
taxpayers and will in no way be
perverted to promote partisan advantage
or personal ends. 1t is furthermore
given out that the delegation con
templates the Introduction of an entirely
new charter, simple in form and clearly
defining the powers, duties and limita-
tOnS of each officer and department of
the city government lnasmuch as the
legislature will convene within Il week
it would seem proper and timely to
have the chief features of the new
charter made public to enable all who
are concerned to give expression to any
objections they may have TO any material
change in our municipal government.
While it is not to be expected that any
law can be framed that will satisfy
everybody. the representatives of this
city and county owe it to their con
stitucnts to take them into their con
fdence If the proposed changes are
in the interest of the citizens and tax
payers they will have the backing of
public opinion, however obnoxious the
reforms may be to parties Interested in
perratuatng existing abuses. 1t stands
to reason, however, that some suggcs-
tions may be elected 10y public discus
sion worthy of consideration and mis-
takes or defects should be pointed out
in time to have them corrected before
tho charter is introduced into the legis
lnture.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
NO ErRorEAN INrhRrERsNcE.

The London Chronicle Is undoubtedly
correct In the opinion that anything like
concerted action 10y the European powers
regarding Cubn Is out of The question.
The vague statements and conicCturCs
that are being sent out from Paris have
been shown to be largely the inventions
of tho fertile correspondent of the Lon.
don Times. Not only has 1t been author
itatlycly stated that our own
government has received no init
nation from any European gov
orumcut in regard to Cuban af-
fairs, hut Trustworthy advices from
abyoad say that 10 government of Eu-
ropr has had any thought of intervening
or OF making amy suggestion or recon.
mcndotiou either tn the United States or
Spain Tho statement that Austria is
hnhipd Spain gets color Of plnusibilty
from the fact that the Spanish queen
regent is Of the house of Austria, but in
what substantial way could that country
bc Of any help to Spain? 1t has no
money to lend. being itself borrower,
aud there is not The slightest reason to
believe that # would lend to- the Spanish
cause soldiers or ships of war, since 1t
needs MI II has of these for its own Sc
rmity 1t is not improbable that Austria
Svmpathiscs with Spain, but it is not
likely that this sympathy is so strong
as to induce her to take any step dis
tinctly hostile to the United States.
1t would be simply impossible to ef-
feet Il concert Of the European powers
against this country, whatever the policy
the United States should adopt toward
Cuba. In the first place England could
never be induced TO take such position
and her refusal would prevent Il union of
the continental powers, assuming that
concert of those powers would be posi-
bic under any circumstances. But is II
conceivable that Germany and France
would unite against this country in the
interest of Spain, or that Russia and
Italy could be brought together for such
II purpose? No one ut ali familiar with
European conditions will have any ap.
.prehcusion of Intervention from that
quarter in connection with Cuban af-
fairs.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
personal AND OTHER

Lord Salisbury turns the scale at 259
pounds. Mr.. Gladstone weighs less than III
pounds.
1t Is suggested in Alabama that Miss Mary
Page Jones, the daughter of the late com
mander Catesby r. Jones of the confeder-
ate navy, be requested to name the new
battleshp Alabama.
Joel Chandler Harris says that his Uncle
Remus" is a composite of three or four old
negroes whom he knew as a boy and that
his "Brer Rabbit" stories are for the most
part plantation tales.
When Mr. Gladstone confeases that he
has bought $4,000 books even his greatest
admirers will want to know how much his
intellect was affected by the strain of at
tempting to read them.
Dollar gas which, under municipal con-
troll, paid Philadelphia net profit Of more
than $l5O0O0 last year, besides furnishing
more than 5000 goo worth OF free gas for
street lamps, is likely to yield s.ill better
"esu!.s next year On account of a reduction
Of "a cents a ton in the price Of coal en-
Sagcd.
The supreme court Of Michigan, like
Homer has been found guilty Of nodding
IL has just discovered that a judges charge,
which IL sharply criticized as too fully cX-
pressing his opinion of the merits OF the
case, proves to be an exact repetition Of
former charge by the same court which Il a
that time found fault with for not going far
enough.
Nine. Nordica POSSESSES several tlaras,
but the last one which was recently pre-
sented to her, contains 233 diamonds. which
range in size from one and a half to one
eighth of a karat, There are about a dozen
of the larger stones, and the total weight
OF the diamonds In the tiara Is about 2O3
karats. Its cost is In the neghborhood Of
$1,000
Flitdjof Nansen. the artic explorer Is
man OF extraordinary physical strength At
TroIso, the other day, when at the feast of
Welcome he was proposing the health OF
Captain Syerdrup, he suddenly lifted his
shipmate up and held him aloft with one
arm so that everybody In the crowded han
could get a sight Of his comrade lie viii
not wear his great cross OF the Order of St
Olaf because his crew received only a paltry
silver medal apiece. 1T might At least
have been gold,' he says.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
WHERE PROTECTION Is WANTED.

/ Il
The people Of California are hoping for
Il liberal degree of protection from the
new tariff. That state was carried by
the republicans chicly ON the protection
issue and it now reasonably expects
that its interests will receive Just con
sderation from n republican congress
and administration. California has Il va
liety of products that are affected favor
ably or unfavorably by the tariff. The
san Francisco Chronicle says that the
northern portion of the state is region
of lumber and dairy products and must
be safeguarded against Canada. Central
and southern California raise sheep, tim
Der, fruits. sugar bects and other prod
ucts. besides manufacturing Il variety of
articles. These sections are threatened
directly by Canada, Mexico, Hawaii
and Japan, while their eastern market is
competed for by Europe and the West
Indies. "California must have protcc-
ton" says the Chronicle. "havc plenty of
it and get it soon" and it urges the gath
ering of Il tariff convention to present
the demands of the state to congress.
Other far western states want protoc-
ton as earnestly as California. Idaho.
Oregon. Montana. Utah and Washington
are all deeply interested in what the next
congress shall do for their various in
tcrests in the new tariff ana undoubt-
cdly they will make their wishes known
at the proper time Although some of
these states did not give their electoral
vote to the republican party, but mis-
takenly cast 1t for the cause of free sill.
yer, the special interests of none of them
will be ignored by the republican con
gress. The tariff bill which ii will frame
will in the broadost sense be Il national
measure, intended to encourage the in
dushial development of all parts of the
country. The far western states have
suffered even more relatively than other
sections from the operation of the exist.
ing tariff. Nearly all their more impor.
tant interests have been severely injured
by it. They have learned better than
they ever knew before the value of the
principle of protection and it is safe to
say that nowhere will that principle he
in the future more firmly adhered to than
thprp
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

RcnI Character or the wori. OF rnriT
Revision.

Washington star und. rcp)
There is a disposition in certain quarters
I to misrcprosent aud give PARTISAN color to
the hearings on the tarin question ap-
pointed by the ways and means committee.
Some old snpcrs are revived, and made to
do duty again about the focking TO Wash
ington OF interested parties and agents of
trusts bent upon realizing on campaign con-
tributions and all that one might suppose
indeed, that congress must be utterly with
out scruple, and the American people given
to pillago by law.
Talk Of this description Is utterly without
excuse. 1t Is slander both on congress
and the country, The tariff Is purely
business question. when the people decide
at the polls as they have Just done, for
revision Of the schedules on protection lines
their will must be carried out. And there
is but one way by which this may be done,
and that is by a close study OF the problem
from business standpoint The info'ma-
tion desired must come from those most
familiar with the business situation; In
other words from business men them
selves.
The ways and means committee does nc
mans bidding In the premises. II hears
representatives Of all the different indus
tries, and so collects a great deal OF valu-
able information bearing on the work II
has In hand. This then is carefully sifted,
and tho new bill grows out Of the Win
moved data. There is no other way hy
which a new tariff bill could be so incl
ligently or so satisfactorily prepared.
Much is always allowed for partisan eX
aggeration during hotly contested fight
stump speakers on either side are apt to
draw on the superlatives in their vocabulary
in characterzng the policy Of the opposi-
tion. But all of that should cease when the
campaign closes The most absurd thing
s to go on employing the language of the
stump after the excitement is over When
the people have rendered their decision, and
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
Faith In the Future.

kansns" CITY star.
The officials or the Carnegie Steel c5m-
pany show their faith in the dawn of
brighter times in the business world by
announcing to tn ir employees that a 10 per
cent con,jngent bonus. which they have
been receiving, will be continued. The an
nouncement saws: The present condition
CT business does not warrant the payment
Of -his bonus, but We hope thai early in
1897 there viii come such improvement as
20 do So" The Judgment OF men who CON
troll such vast Interests as the Carnegie
steel works is worth more, on the subject
Of business prospects, than ths opinions of
Gny Of the confirmed pesslmists who see
nothing ahead but a prospect of dull times.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
Progress In civil Service Reform.

when MI. Carl Schurz, inEeeaKing of the
progress OF civLL service reform. declared
that the cause won its Gettysburg under
pomattoN under President Mckinley he not
only expressed opinions and hopes in which
most good citizens concur, but he set an ex-
cellent example in the use OF metaphorical
language. The popular synonym for defeat
is Waterloo. Mr. Schurz might have said
that the enemies of civil service reform
would meet their Waterloo under Mckinley
instead Of which he rung in a cOntemporanr-
Gus, homemade Americas word Uwo of them,
indeeO, which IS even more conclusive in
sound and suggestion than its Belgian rival,
and carries its idea viydly into every An.-r-
lean ear. We have excellent battles in our
history, with resOunding names, 1t is well
that we should be taught to Use them more
freely in our daily business OF conveying our
IDEAS
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The fist cargo OF corn ever sent from this
country to India is about to De shipped from
Philadelphia.
To meet the impending famine in Hin
Gu5tan the British government has pur-
chased 10000 bushels of corn in this coun-
Try, and it will be loaded for one of the
ports of India.
This experiment, backed by a government
like Great Britain's has much promise in It.
The corn will be distributed by agents, and
not only will much OF it be utilized i'm
mediately as food but much will be planted
in the hope OF producing a crop to alleviate
prospective want.
II this country can ever market its corn
abroad it's revenues will receive an enor-
nous lift. Great Efforts have been made to
overcome eastern prejudlces against one OF
the most wholesome and valuable of foods.
These prejudices removed, "A new career will
begin for the western farmer.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
Tilden's puzzling VIII.

There is an old saying that the physi-
clan who prCscribes for himself has a fool
for doctor. Something similar might be
said regarding men who draw their own
wills. The case Of the late Samuel ]. TIL
den is one i'm point. Mr. Tilden was one OF
the most acute and able lawyers of his day
but he has formulated will which has been
constant puzzle to executors and attorneys
and courts ever since his death, and now
the supreme court of New York has pro-
nounced certain provisions of it invalid and
imperative. Mr.. Tildcn would never have
drawn such a document for any of his
clients
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

G. NJ. Hitchcock is certainly an ap.
propriate toas,master for free silver
travelling mems banquet. Didn't Hitch
cock travel all over the silver states
to see Bullionaire Marcus DAILY. Banker
Moifat and the other diSinterested sill
yer mine owners last fan for the pur-
pose Of raising wind for the Bryan cam
paign barrel? If that does not make Il
free silver travelling man, what will?
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The proposed travelling libraries would
without question bc a useful innovation
1t is merely question whether the
state should b2 expected to furnish
reading matter to different communities
within its borders or whether the local
at the local expense. So far Nebraska
has regarded public libraries as purely
local institutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The Americana Economic association
in session at RNtimorc includes within
its membership nearly all the real
students of economic theory in the
United States, yet it is safe to say that
among the whole number there are not
staunch advocates of Mckinley
and opponents of free silver and Il de
based currency.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The latest argument advanced in favor
of II crrfew law is that the practice was
originated in the reign of William the
ConquerOr and that the present epoch, in
view of the recent election, is another
reign of William the Conqucror. This
is not worthy of serious consideration.
The present is the era of William the
Conquered as well and neither of these
modern Williams would be likely to have
anything to do with Curfew Bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
Mystery of Corporations.

The corporation must give up its mystery.
Its business must be better understood. Its
officers must cease to bleed it. Its stock
holders must be protected from the tricks
of those who manage only nominally for
them. Tho familiar spectacle of officers get
ting rich and corporations going into bank
rdptcy must pass away. Corpora lions must
be as FREQ to 30 before the legislatures as
are individuals and must have the same
treatment
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Treasurer BARLEY is more convinced
than ever that the depository law is II
vicious piece of legislation based on
wrong financial principles that in prac-
tice work nothing but loss TO the state.
And he seems To have neglected nothing
to make the law Il failure and to throw
upon it responsibility for loss which,
lad the treasury officials been vgilant
ana conscientious, the state would never
have sustained.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The attention of our legislators is
called to the fact that the constitution of
Nebraska is most explicit in disqualify-
ing members of the Legislature for ap-
polntment to civil office under the state
during the term for which they may
have been elected, Legislative place.
hunters may as well, therefore. spare
themselves the trouble of preparing bills
intended TO create official slnecures for
their own benefit
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Nearly all the defeated republican
candidates FOR reelection to the house
of representatives are said to have
strings out for some Gppoln,ive o,lice
at the hands of the incoming republican
administration, II is indeed hard to be
an ordinary, plain eX-congressman.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

If the next legislature shall succeed in
enacting revenue law which will com
pei every man and corporation, without
favor or discrimination, TO pay an cquit-
able assessment on property actually
owned it will have done much to bring
prosperity TO the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Philadelphia Record.

The failure of the Illinois National bank
seems to have been case of too much SON
I'm law The president of the bank, it ap-
pears, had one sOn-n-law in the banking
and another in the brewing business, and he
loaned each of them $5OOOOO out of the
banks funds. Another loan of 81, ,4750O0 was
made on Calumet Electric bonds, which
are, perhaps, worth half the amount loaned.
This illegal loan was concealed from the
bank examiners by false bookkeeping. This
swirdling business may be called magni-
fCent. .r
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The ancient body of Andrew Jackson
is likely to give one more emphatic turn
in Its grave next month, when William
J. Bryan, posing rs II Jacksonan demo
crat, launches that 1900 boom for the
'steenth time
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The new Board of Education will
have the opportunity to make thor
ough investigation of the cost and re-
suits of our expensive kindergarten
system, n subject which the old board
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

City Engineer Howell need not wait
till January ! to make his good resolu-
ton not to importune another fran
chised corporation for mutual
friend" until he knows the holdup is
sure to work
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Ior 'ie ~ olopment of the great west
mat Is why th"- good roads movement
and the TranSmississIri Exposition fit
In so well with one another.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

When will the school children of Ne
braska get that Sl2.GOO of state school
money swallowed up in Cadet Taylors
bank? When will the millennium be
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Resolutions passed simultaneously and
without collusion by commercial bodies
In Baltimore, st. Louis. VickSburg, Miss.
and Boston condemnatory of the atti-
tude of the senate on the Cuban question
show that anti-iingoiSm is not confined
to any one section of the country.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

tion to thclwnrld and inviting foreign
nations to Participate, hut II Mr. Clevc-
land does not want to issue It a procla-
nation signed by President Mckinley
may serve the purpose
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Auditor Moore declines to see any
thing good in the valued policy law.
The law, however, is based simply on
the principle of requiring fire insurance
companies to do what they contract To
do and what they are paid to do. If
there is anything wrong with this
principle it is strange the people have
not long ago found it ont.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
hnl1ni,.rnlnnl

Our bOunty-rDpcNI contemporary
wakes enthusiastic over the poSsibli-
ties of chicory growing at the present
factory price of 50 per ton. 1t fails to
intimate, however, that the present fac
tory price is 50 per ton because of the
bounty law. The way to encourage
new industries is 10 enconrage thom.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The collapse of Mr. Brynn's lecture
tour, foreshadowed by recent events, is
not likely to surprise anybody. Greater
men than Bryan have failed to get
remunerntive hearing.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
NOCTURNAL WAR.
N.,,s N,,Is T,,sypuN

When night let's down her curtains gray
And shrouds the earth i'm sweet rcposu;
When balmy evening 2ephyrs stray,
All scented with the fragrant rose:
When nature lies in voicolcss rest,
Close folded meath nights cbon wing;
When to each weary troubled breast
Sweet dreams their consolation bring
Al! then how fierce, how wild the wratl
That emanatcs from every pore
As through the mortar, brick and lath
You hear some fellow boardcy-snorel
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

There is not likely to be any serious
commercial war with Germany. Neither
nation can afford to persist in n policy
which is equivalent to cutting off their
nose TO spite their face.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

The tariff hearings before the com
mittec on ways and means are now in
progress at Washington. The people
were heard last November in an over
whclming demand for n new tariff
along protective lines.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

Southern senators favor Cuban indie
pendencc. but are opposed To annexation.
They draw the line ut grcascr or mulatto
senator's from Cuba and ut Kanaka
senator's from Hawaii
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
SOFT Berth for n JournnII.t

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec, Ex-Governor Nor
ton has appointed Colonel Ashley w. Cole,
his private secretary and former New York
Clty newspaper man. as a member OF the
State Railroad commission The salary is
$4,000 per year and one OF the best bertbs In
the STATE service.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
II Was Loaded.

The democratic senators who hate Cleve-
land have attacked him in many different
ways, but they always retire with an eX-
preston like that Of a man who has kicked
hat with chunk of granite under it.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
CURRENT CoMICAIIrus.

Detroit Free Press Arue-- Darling, you
have no idea how anxious | was while you
were coming down the rope ladder |
was so afraid you had not fastened ii See
CurClN above,
Susic--Nou needn't have been alarmed,
dcar PuOa tied the knot FOR mo.
Cleveland Leader "why do YOU think
that Billings IS amassug wcnlthH"
He has begun TO be eccentric in tho
matter of clothing. \ man must be upon
pretty sure ground before he can AFFORD TO
do that"
indianapolis Journal: II have to help
Johnny with his mental arithmetic every
evening" said. the young woman, and II
il a nuisance"
"Do you-er-nnd that celebrated prob
lem about one plus one equals ore"' asked
the young man.
II said mental arithmetic not scntimcn-
tai" said the young woman, with great
dignity
Cincinnati Enquirer; II want to tell
you that | gave that sleeping car porter
a talking to that he will nor soon forget"
"Ahi Another Davy Crockett"
"Eh?'
another Davy Crockett. l said. Wasn't
1t Davy on whom the story was told about
calling down coon?'
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE
Our NNNT LEGIsLATURN.

Dave Mercer has called on McKin.
ley. That makes the new president
solid for the exposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-12-30

We would Ike very much 10 have n
proclamation from President Cleveland
announcing the Transmlsslssippl Exposl-
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-02
The Maine Historical Society.

The annual meeting of the Maine His
torical Society was held in the Cleveland
lecture room at Bowdoin College, june
24th. The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year: President, Hon.
James p. Baxter, Portland vice president.
Rufus X. Sewall Wiscasset; correspond
ing secretary and biographer, Joseph
Williamson, Belfast recording secretary
and librarian, II. w. Bryant, Portland
treasurer, Fritz p. Jordan, Portland,
standing committee, II. S. Burrage, Port
land, H. L. Chapman, Brunswick, J. NJ.
Brown, Falmouth, L. P. Burnham, Saco,
S. G. Belcher Pennington, Henry ingalls,,
Wiscasset, c. f. Nash, Augusta.
The following were elected to member
ship: Resident members, Frank w.
Hovey, Pittstield; J. 0. Patten, Bath
Herbert Payson, Portland. Correspond
ing members, r. H. Gardiner, Boston
Benz. Vaughn, Cambridge Robert c.
Winthrop, Boston; J. W. Hines, Windsor,
n. S.: Robert G. Carter, Washington,
d. c.
1t was voted to hold the annual field
day at Castine on July 9th and 10th ano
F. H. Jordan, II. S. Burrage and Joseph
Williamson were appointed a committee
of arrangements.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1896-07-02
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