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Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

tionable that the senate has In recent
years very greatly dcteriorated In popu
lar respcdt aud confidence. It Is nc
longer regarded as the great bulwark
Of the peoples interests and welfare,
but rather MS the stronghold of the In.
%terests of corporations and monopolies.
The masses of the people no more re.
gard the Senate. as 1t was formerly re-
garded. as The august arena where con.
servativei wisdom, unselfsh patriotism
and a profound concern for the general
good controlled. but rather AS n tribunal
for the Safeguarding of corporate power
and privileges, The election of United
States senators by the people would,
there is every reason to believe, improve
the character and the usefulness of the
senate by sending to that body men who
would command the popular confidence
by reason of their worth and by imbu-
ing senators with n higher sense of re-
sponsibility to the people. 1t might
not wholly do away with corrupt prac-
tees, but it would greatly reduce the
chances of success through such prac-
tices. 1t is not easy to buy up conven-
who should undertake it would be much
greater than in the case of legislatures.
Besides a nomination bought sfrom n
convention can be repudiated by the
people, while one bought from n legisla-
ture is secure. However fragrant and
corrupt the deal, the people have no
remedy.
h majority of the senate committee
on privileges and elections does not In
the least overestimate the Importance
of this question. The founders of the re-
public were not all agreed as to the
wisdom or eXpediency of creating a sec
ond house. 1t was a matter of pro-
longed and earnest controversy in the
convention which framed the consti-
tuition. British example and the de-
mands of the smaller states prevailed.
Subsequent experience justified the de-
cision and for nearly three-quarters of
n century the senate of the United
States was the greatest deliberative body
on earth, commanding the confidence
and appealing to the pride. of the Amer
lean people. 1t was the arena where
the highest craftsmanship and the lofti-
est patriotism of the republic found OPP
portunity and illustration. The senate
will remain. 1t is a branch of the leg
islative department of the government
which cannot be dispensed with. How
necessary, then, that it be restored to
its former prestige, that it be rehabili-
tated in the respect and confidence of
the people. We. believe the only way
by which this can be done is to elect
senators by the direct vote of the peo-
,>Jn .4.--
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
WOMENLAWYERS IN NEBRASKA.


The symposium presented in The Bee
today upon the subject of Women
Lawyers of Nebraska should be in
teresting reading. for bench and bar,
lawyer and. client, man, woman and
child. The woman lawyer is supposed
to be one of the manifestations of the
new woman, yet under the liberal legis-
lation of Nebraska women have been
admitted to practice at the bar of this
state sinceof1SS2 and the only reason
they We're notiearlier admitted is that
none applied for that privilege. Since
the recognition of the first woman
lawyer in the state nine others have
taken bar examinations upon the same
terms enjoyed by men and each of them
has successfully withstood the usual
tests generally applied to applicants.
1t will, however, at once be noticeable
that the reasons that have actuated
these women lawyers in seeking IN en-
trance into the legal profession are not
the same as those which determine men
to study law. Only n minority of the
women lawyers of Nebraska turned to
the law because they saw in it the field
for their life work and only three or
four are actively engaged in the regular
practice Of law. The pioneer woman
lawyer in Nebraska admits that she
decided to enter the legal profession in
response to the wishes of her husband.
Another mi took up the study of
I =, ,. 81, np1nt. thnf c1,n nffn1t nY,.n,t,tN
the work of her husband and discuss
~intelIigently the topics that We're upper
most in his mind. Another wanted
to know the substance of the law in
order to protect herself in the admins
tration of an estate. Still another
frankly admits that she ''Once had a
dream that women themselves would
prefer to consult with a woman and
thought she saw an unlimited field of
action in their behalf for an energetic,
ambitious woman" The inference con-
veyed is that 1t was only a dream and
that when the stern realities of legal
practice were encountered it was dis
covered that of all clients women are
the least disposed to entrust their affairs
to the woman lawyer.
Whether m will continue to APP
ply for admission to the bar under the
new law requiring uniform bar ex-
aminations is n question which cannot
be answered in advance. The woman
lawyer is no longer unique in the profess
sion and there is no more notoriety to
be gained from the mere invasion of n
profession previously monopolized by
men. This much at least has been
established, that the men lawyers have
nothing to fear from women competitors
more than from men competitors, nor
can the women rely upon securing prac-
tice merely because they are women.
And finally, thtoa %perceptible change has
thus far been wrought In the standard
of the legal profession in Nebraska by
the injection y, ten women lawyers into
the body of the bar.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
rALIacrDrrs ABGruENrS

In his advocacy of the bill introduced
in the senate for establishing additional
regulations concerning immigration to
the United States, the chief of which
is to exclude persons who cannot read
and write either their own or some
other language, Senator Lodge of Mas,
sachusetts submitted some arguments
which are distinctly fallacious. Refer
ring to illiterate immigrants, he said
that this low, unskilled labor is the
most deadly enemy of the American
~wage-earner and does more than any
thing else toward lowering his wages
and forcing down his standard of liv-
labor come into competition with Amer
lean wage-earners? Everybody who is
at all familiar with the matter knows
1t is hardly appreciable. This labor,
supplied almost wholly by Italians,
Hungarians and Poles, is of the lowest
grade, which exceedingly few Ameri-
cans can be induced to do, at whatever
wages may be offered. AS the phila-
delphia Record says. without this i'm
migration from southern Europe there
would have been serious difficulty in
recent years in obtaining the requisite
labor for digging canals, grading rail
roads and sweeping the streets. "Obyi-
ously," says the Record. "this kind of
labor does not come into competition
with the skilled American wage-earners.
If the immigrants who perform this
coarse but necessary work should be
prohibited because they cannot read
and write there would be less comfort
and less remunerative employment for
skilled American w~orkingmen. These
illiterates have come to this country in
be kept out neither native Americans.
nor Irish, English, Germans or Scandi-
navians would take up their occupa.
TONS If Senator Lodge were more in
the habit of looking at the practical
side he would have seen this.
Senator Lodge dwelt learnedly upon
racial conditions and urged that there
was grave danger to the American peo-
pie, physically and morally. from mix
ture with the peoples whose immigra-
ton he objects to. "If a lower race
mixes with a higher in sufficient num-
bers," said the senator. 'history teaches
us that the lower race will prevail. The
lower race will absorb the higher. not
the higher the lower, when the two
strains approach equality in numbers"
1t would trouble Mr.. Lodge to establish
the truth of this proposition, but if it
be admitted, how very remote is the
time when the lower races which come
here from Europe will prevail over the
American people. The immigration
question is n practical one, to be treated
in Il practical way. This is outside the
craftsmanship of the Massachusetts
senator.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
cnnrp Ann CONSTITUTION.

Philadelphia Record. Not satisfied with the
constitution as the fathers made II. the rest
less reformers, IN prayerfulness OF spirit,
ayo once more distressing themselves with
their chronic effort TO put the Deity into
that instrument. After they shall have nc-
complIshcd this Interpolation they will prob
ably desire TO continue theie goodness by
advocating the insertion into the basic law
OF a dark blue curse upon the ab0mination
OF selling ice cream on Sunday.
New York Sun: IL Is a subject which can
not thus be referred to popular discussion
into politics, thus making one Of the most
explosive Of mixtures. The wise way Is
to leave 1t alone. II the people attest their
faith In God by actual obedience to his
law there will be no necessity for such a
formal proclamation OF It: and II they do
not render such obedience the declaration
will be hypccrltical only, or nothing moro
than mere lip service.
Brooklyn Eagle: An act like this accom-
pllshes no good. Those who are Christians
are not more so than before. and those
who ara not Christians are not won to the
faith by any compulsion in our constitution;
rather, they are rescntful that such a clause
should be enacted and that their own views
should be disregarded. The constitution Is
admirable IN its present form. In that 1t
puts no prohibition on the recognizing OF
any and every creed by all who adopt those
creeds. There is no likelihood. however.
that the constitution will be amended. An
attempt was made to change 1t about twenty
FIVE years ago, but 1t fell fiat. The oppo-
sltion now would be stronger than II was
then.
Springfield (Mass) Republican,: There are
no new or stronger reasons advanced in
favor Of putting a few perfunctory pious
phrases into the constitution by the people
who are advocating this change before con-
gress. and until there are the matter is not
worth much further consideration. 1t Is
a Sufficient answer to this demand to say
that 1t calls for a wholly unnecessary change
in our fundamental law, which smacks
strongly of Phar'seeism, and that the coun-
try would be no more religious nor Christian
after the constitution had been amended as
these zealots want it. More than this, TO
affirm Christianity in the constitution would
be to attack the fundamental principle OF
religious liberty.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

President Cleveland's haste to extend
the application of civil service rules so
as to protect in their positions in the
government employment as many of his
appointees as possible does not indicate
any very great degree of confidence on
his part that his successor will he a
democrat. If President Cleveland had
the faintest hope that he would serve
another term in the white house. or
eve that the mex president would be
of the same political faith as he is,
there would be no necessity for increas-
ing the classified list at this time.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

preme court commissioners for terms
of three years each makes possible The
contingency when we might have n Sill
preme court of five judges and three
supreme court commissioners in addi-
ton. In other words, by reason of n
bungling piece Of Legislation it is posi-
BILE that the pending constitutional
amendment enlarging the supreme curt
may be adopted and the new judges
elected under 1t take their seats Janu-
airy. 1897, nearly two years before the
terms of the supreme court commission
ers shall have expired.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Charles A. Dana has paid his tribute
to Abraham Lincoln as "the greatest
man of modern American history, per-
haps of all mankind" The memory of
Lincoln grows stronger with those who
knew him as years pass, and, as n better
perspective is obtained of the period of
his presidency, a better idea is obtained
pied. Lincoln's claim to true greatness
will not be among the subjects in dis
pute with the historians Of the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

If the eastern states object to the in
coming European immigrants they
should not be bashful about directing
all that are ambitious to better their
conditions to head toward the setting
sun. Nebraska has broad and fertile
p~rairies that will furnish support to all
the new settlers who may come for
years. The invitation is constantly ex-
tended to every Industrious person who
can contribute labor or capital to the
upbuilding Of the state. Other states
west of the Missouri are also willing to
take the risk of harboring all the in
dustrious people that may seek new
homes In this country.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

The light earnings of the principal west
ern roads are explained on the ground that
the country they serve "has raised too much
corn" According to government statistics
about half the crop is still 'unmoyed' In
the hands OF the producer. Hence 1t is ar
gued that the railroads fail to make money
because the seascn was a good one and the
crop phenomenal.
A good deal Is said In support OF this view.
but nothing can be said to change the great
central fact that the money the railroads are
not making Is now locked up In the corn
they are not hauling.
The corn crop of the United States is It's
greatest single product. No other source of
wealth at all compares with the good average
corn crop. II this crop were marketed as 1t
ought to be the western roads would grow
rich and eastern seaboard cities would have
no further reason to complain Of lack Of
ability to keep money In the country.
Marketing the crop surplus is a problem
of foreign trade--the most important com
mercial problem the country has to deal with.
The railroads cannot be expected to solve 1t.
but they can look after their own dividends,
which are now largely represented by corn
that they are not moving to market.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

The congressional committee to which
the bill reducing sleeping car charges
has been referred has announced with
all seriousness that il will grant hear
ings to the various interested parties.
That means that the sleeping car COM
panies will be represented by their at
torneys, who will plead in behalf of the
poor, overburdened corporations. The
travelling public, which pays the freight,
is such an indefinite body that 1t will
have no paid representative to speak
for it. 1t must rely on the congress
men supposed to stand up for their con-
stituents to see that the arguments in
favor Of reduced sleeping car charges
are not altogether overlooked. Under
the circumstances, the prospects of the
pending measure becoming law are not
flattering.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
II LENTEN
Washington Capital.

Washington Capital.
She was a wee, bewitching, fairy-footed
winter girl;
She was tired of balls and dinners and the
dizzy social whirl;
So, though she firted on the sly each Len
ten time before,
To each subtle sweet temptation quoth the
maiden,
"Nevermore!'
She looked so dear and charming in her
gown OF holden gray,
She carried little prayer books in such a
winsome way,
The rector fell in love with her-he never
loved before
And he said, do you refuse me?" Quoth
the maiden.
"Nevermore!"
The Lenten time was ended, and In rain
bow garments digit
Each maid emerged Respondent, as dawn
from darkest night.
The rector met his fiancee-a Paris gown she
He said, when may I see you?" Quoth
the maiden.
"Nevermore!'
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, SUNDAY, MARCH 90, 1890.

tecturally and otherwise, so that what
ever works of art are given n place in IL,
where they will receive the attention and
be subject to the criticism of people
more OF less conversant with art from
all countries, should be selected with
great care and judgment by persons
thoroughly qualified to pass upon their
merits. A national art commission will
be an innovation. for which there is
valid reason, and 1t will be a good
thing il properly constituted.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
Popular Election of Senator's.
Philadelphia Enquirer.

Attempts have been made in some states
now and then to give the voters the oppor-
tunity Of naming a senator. 1t has been
done in Ohio. Foraker was selected by the
republican state convention at GAINESVILLE
last year and the legislature has since ratified
the choice. Senator Palmer of Illinois was
put in nomination by a state convention and
his party's candidates for the legislature
ran with thar understanding and with a
pledge to support him. These instances have
made it plain that the election of United
States senator's by the direct vote Of the
people would prove popular, and If the plan
were adopted the scandals concerning pur-
chased seats would disappear.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Happiness IL not found by looking after II,
1ndecIsion destroys more souls than love
Of evil.
the latest sheep.
Let the wicked hold Office. and the devil
viii run the town.
The man who lives only for himself, robs
his God and wrongs his %neighbor,
The church member who never smiles,
shouldn't talk very much in church.
The sermons that do the most good are not
always the ones that come from the pulpit.
The man who enters upon a life Of de-
ceit. will soon be able to lie and steal with
out hurting his conscience.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

German beet sugar is going to pull millions
out OF Uncle Sans pocket this year.-Chl-
cago Inter Ocean.
That is just the reason why American
capitalists should invest in American
beet sugar factories and American
farmers should cultivate sugar beets
and keep the millions of dollars of
American money annually spent by
American consumers of sugar at home
In America. With proper encourage
ment, the American beet sugar industry
will In n few years render 1t altogether
unnecessary to send money to Germany
to pay for imported sugar.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

The Union and Central Pacific rail
roads, r~eorgapized as one through line
from the Missouri to the coast and OPP
Grated under a single management and
on a basis or. actual present money
value, would solve the rate problem for
the west as nothing else would. What
ever congress may decide to do with the
Pacific railroads debt the union of the
bond-aided roads according to the de-
sign of the original act of congress
should be made the primary condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

The congressional appropriation to
cover expenses is altogether too big to
expect the Venezuelan boundary com
mission to finish its work and end its
existence p~rematurely.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

At no time in it's whole history has
Omaha had more important measures
pending in congress whose passage is
vital to he prosperity OF the city and
state. At no time have our people stood
in greater need Of constant active work
IN their behalf at Washington by the
entire Nebraska delegation.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

The report that a circus trust has
been formed to crush out the small tent
shows is Indignantly denied. Each
greatest show on earth has no rivals.
The formation of n circus trust would
be a humiliating confession that there
was competition in a business where
each circus boasts that it stands peer
less, unequaled and alone.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Chicago physicians are to have the
right of way assured them in the streets
when answering professional calls. Now
watch Chicago undertakers demand the
same privilege. The physician may
keep ahead Of the undertaken, but tile
latter will not let him have too great Il
Jn,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

At last accounts the resolution intro
duced by Governor Holcomb into the
Funds for the investment of idle school
moneys in interest-bearing state war
rants was still quietly sleeping, await
ing the opinion of the attorney general,
for lack of which action OH it was de-
fnrrnd
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Senator Allison has been wearing n
eleven out of twelve of the newspaper
pictures you see of him represent him
with his upper lip smooth-shaven. This
IS an instance of the dangers of copying
~back-number portraits.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
Is Imitation Flattery.
pAnArl

Mr.. Allison, having lately grown a mus
tache. Is now 1.-THE man who looks like
Grant," Mr.. Cullom is 1.-THE man who looks
like Lincoln and Mr.. Mckinley, as all the
world knows, is 1.-The man who looks like
Napoleon" But, as for the genial Mr..
Thomas b. Reed of Maine, his motto is "the
Man who looks like Me-"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

"No presidential possibility without a
campaign button," is what the boomers
of the eastern candidates are crying.
AS if there were anything in the law or
the constitution that made the distri-
button of a campaign button one Of the
prerequisite qualifications to the presi-
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
bringing Courts Into Contempt.
Springfield Republican.

Subornation of perjury by a counsel in
an important case seems to be regarded as
a comparatively trivial offense by the judges
presiding over the court of oyer and terminer
at Philadelphia. Shoemaker, senior counsel
for Holmes, the multimurderer, induced a
woman to sign a false affidavit in Holmes
interest, and the court let's him off with sus-
pension from its privileges fer one year.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Postof1ice receipts continue to show
constant and gratifying increases
ton of improving business conditions
the growing volume Of postal traffic
can be relied upon without qualiiica-
ton or reservation.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary is now n full-iedged colonel
in the British army. Should any little
misunderstanding arise between Great
Britain and Austria, the new colonel
might be sadly perpleXed as to which
he would w military allegiance.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Judging by the length of time DR..
hansen is tarrying there, the vicinity
of the north pole must be so attractive
n spot that visitors are loath to leave
it, either summer or winter.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Every one who places capital In legiti-
mate irrigation enterprises in Nebraska
will find 1t a profitable field for invest
ment. On the other hand, wildcat ir-
rigation schemes and dry ditch ven
lures are bound to react disastrougly
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

Chauncey NJ. Depew is coming west,
we suppose, to see whether the border
towns are really as wicked as Mr..
Cleveland would have him believe.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

HfT11TfVTpUTf5 JUuTTIaI
The Iowa legislature has passed a bill
which explicitly states that "a chicken Is
an animal" People who have assaulted the
boarding house chicken with felonious in.
tent had begun to think it was a mineral.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22

both on their promoters and the com
munities that are induced to contribute
to them, The way FOR the state board
to keep irrigation In good rcpute Is to
frown down aud expose all fraudulent
undertakings that come under its no
Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-22
IDYLS.

Roxbury Gazette: Bert can't think of
marriage Just yet; you know I'm not rich;
Bert-None, providing you are.
Chicago Records: Roses marriage is Off"
How embarrassing! Her wedding invi-
tations were out"
Eyes, but she can call them in and make
II a s o'clock tea"
Boston Courier: Mr.. Buggy Casualty
MIR. Buggy. I never objected to the name,
but this Is $3.50 unexpected.
Judge: Louise-How do you come on
with, that leap year proposal? nina
my letters of recommendation.
Texas Strings: Hell can't find words
to express my love for you, said a New
s 81 then. You write it out in
hgureS-in a check.
Detroit Free Press: MY daughter
when the young man Interrupted her.
What What :. a P advs, such Veg 2 giri sb is in sw tasse the ds,
if eor'H With her ball dresses. while / stay
at home to WELD the broom"
indianapolis Journals: Matches were
made in heaven" she said pensively.
wa aYes;,% .n6 he replied dand t II his o mai5eroof-f and
South Dakota are half thankful enough.
just think how it has doomed the divorce
business
Cincinnati Enquirer: He knelt at her
feet, while she regarded him coldly. This,
then. Is the last?' he asked. despairingly.
yes"
well, 1 will do the best / can he said,
but it is going to be a, tough job. to fit a
Sd foot with a shoe made on a 3AA.'
Chicago Record: "Only one thing makes
a woman madder than to have her husband
stay down town to lunch when he had
said that he was coming home.'
"And what is that?"
ut is to have him come home to lunch
when he had said he was going to stay
down town"
Chicago Journal.
Hail, gentle spring!
Or any old thing.
/ don't care what I hail,
But 1 want this town
To get onto my gown,
Also my up-to-date veil.