Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-29
POLITICAL DRIFT.


Young Mr.. Croker contends that in the
matter OF achieving success a robust pull
beats luck nine times out Of ten.
Congressman Dockery Of Missouri in
sinuates that free coinage Of silver will be
the b%attlecry OF democracy next year. That's
the stun. Who ever heard Of a Missouri
democrat willing TO give up the ghost?
At a recent election in Hayes City, Kan.
a ticket composed OF boys was run against
the old men, and the boys won. Fred Hana-
mier, the mayor, is barely II. and only one
OF the councilmen is older than %. Hafta-
mier was born on the town site.
Hon. "Hinky Dink." alias Alderman
Kcnna OF Chicago, has acquired such a robust
condition OF prosperity that he is about to
break into the aristocratic circles OF
Michigan boulevard. The name on the door
plate will read III. Dynek Kennah.'
The gross expenses OF the state Of New
York in the year 1899 will, IL is computed,
amount to S25. 900, 900, of which nearly 10 per
cent will be necessary to pay the deficits Of
departments which exceeded in 1898 or in
previous years the appropriations made for
them.
The governors of California, Utah and
Delaware are likely to follow the example
Of Governor Stone OF Pennsylvania in APP
pointing a senator. Their appointments with
that Of Matt Quay will make a quartet OF
strong men knocking at the senate doors
for admission.
The salary of the sheriff Of Philadelphia is
$4,000 a year. He has the cooperation of a
real estate deputy, a personal deputy, an
executive clerk, an appearance clerk and a
solicitor. The sheriff's name is Crow, the
solicitors assistant is named Grew. The
chief of the deputy sheriffs is named Hogg.
The Arkansas legislature has passed a bill
for the erection of a new state capitol at a
cost of 81, 900, 900. The new capitol is to be
erected on the site of the state penitentiary,
The republican majority in the next
United States senate will be sixteen and in
the next United States house OF representa-
tives it will be the samoa larger proper
ton majority in the senate than in the
house-something unusual in a republican
congress.
The funded debt of the city of Chicago at
the beginning of the present year was s16,-
900, 900, exclusive of the 81, 700, 900 water GER
t~ifcates, $4,000, 900 for school and drainage
funds and 81, 300, 900 for revenue bonds, a
total of $50, 000, 900. The estimated value of
municipal property, land, buildings, water
works, parks and water rights at the same
period was 500, 900, 900. There were $12, OOO,-
900 of unpaid taxes and 81, 400, 900 cash in the
treasury.
The authorities OF Washington have
notified Congressman ~Showalter that the
practice Of hanging his weekly wash in his
front yard mars the beauty OF the neighbor-
hood. and must be stopped. There are some
phases Of expansion which Washingtonians
cheerfully tolerate, but the exposure of con-
gressional lingerie on the front lawn is not
one of them. For all practical ends, moral
and aesthetic, the biennial exposure in the
home 'deestrict" is sufficient.
The New York Society for the Prevention
of Crime, of which DR.. Parkhurst is presi-
dent, is torn with dissension because Of the
Mazet Investigation. DR.. Parkhurst is un-
alterably opposed to having the society help
the investigation in any way because he
thinks 1t is in the nature of partisan poll
tics. e. A. Newell, who has been treasurer
of the society for the last thirteen years,
takes precisely the opposite view. He has
resigned his office and left the society and
other members and officers are talking of
following his example.
Theobald Chartran has gone to Washington
at the request of President Mckinley, who
is to sit for him for a large picture upon
which he is now at work. 1t will represent
the signing Of the protocol, and all the per-
sons who took part in that interesting event
will be depicted in life size. Besides Presi-
dent Mckinley there will be ex-senator
William r. Day, Jules Cambon, the French
ambassador; NJ. Thiebaut. fret secretary OF
the French embassy and Messrs. Moore,
Cridler and Adee. NJ. Chartran will finish
the picture when he returns to Paris, and
it will be exhibited next autumn.