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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-05
NEWS OF RAILROADS
CONFERENCE IN REFERENCE TO
LAKE AND RAIL RATES AC-
COMPOSITES NOTHING
TO MEET IN CHICAGO AGAIN

The Matter of the Delay In the De-
livery OF Live Stock for the SOutl,
ST. Paul Yards the Subject of In
formal Consideration Before the
State Railroad COmmtssiOn-LO-
cal Railway News.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
A RESB or CLAIMS.

A Washington dispatch states that the
claim agents all over the country, real
izing its prosperous condition. are try
ing to get share of the increased in
come of the government. Evidence of
this is seen in the fact that large num-
Der of bills calling for appropriations
to pay claims of all sorts have already
been introduced in the house, n single
member from Tennessee having, it is
said, introduced about 300. This gives
promise of more than the usual food
of claims during the present congress.
1t is needless to say that these at
tempts to get money out of the national
treasury are all based upon the alleged
destruction of property by the union
army in the south during the civil war.
All the claimants ask is that their cases
be referred to the court of claims, which
is obliged to decide on the evidence
placed before it and the government is
unable TO get evidence to prove the
falsity of many of the claims. 1t
would seem that now, nearly thirty-fve
years since the close of the war, there
should be an end of southern claims for
destruction of property during that con-
tiict yet not only are new ones being
presented. but old claims revamped. 1t
goes without saying that Il considerable
proportion of these are manufactured
by claim agents and backed by false
testimony, but such claims have almost
as good a chance of getting through
as those that are valid. Members of
congress cannot be prevented from in
PRODUCING claim bills, but it is practica-
BILE for congress TO refuse to send to
the court of claims such bills as are not
supported by evidence which in the
Judgment of the committees having
them in charge is sufficient to give
them standing in court. There are
now pending in the court of claims
vast number of cases which will oc-
cupy the attention of that tribunal for
years and some of which will probably
not be settled for generation or longer.
The court should not have loaded upon
it any new claims that are not sup
ported by the most satisfactory evidence
of validity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
KENTuCKYS VIEW GOYERNOR.

Today Hon. William S. Taylor will
be inaugurated governor of Kentucky,
thus completing the republican victory
and assuring an administration which
should strengthen the party in the state
and make certain it's electoral vote
next year for the republican presidential
candidates. While on the face of the
returns General TaylOr's plurality was
small, there is no doubt that he re-
ceived larger vote than the figures
show and that consequently the returns
do not accurately indicate the repub-
lican strength. But however this may
be. the party ought to grow within the
next year. The course of the Goebel
democrats, in their unscrupulous at
tempt to steal the election, must, it
would seem, lead thousands of fair
minded men who have affiliated with the
democracy to leave that party and unite
with the republicans Many democrats
supported the republican candidate at
the late election and it is to be expected
that most of them will be arrayed on
that side next year, when the democratic
leader who endorsed Goebtl and hast
ened to congratulate him on the demo-
cratic claim of his election will again
present the free silver issue for the
verdict of the country.
Kentucky is to be congratulated upon
the result and the two members of the
election board who conscientiously per-
formed their duty merit the heartiest
commendation of every Kentuckian who
values the honor and good name of his
state
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
Personal AND OTHERWISE.

The father of Augustus st. Gaudens, the
sculptor a shoemaker in New York
The son went to work for a cameo cutter
when he was only 13 years old.
Henry Clay Sulzer and James D. Richard
son vie with each other as to inches among
democratic congressman, but neither comes
within a head of reaching the altitude COM
manded by Cy Sulloway of New Hampshire.
Two sons o. noted sires are assistant door
keepers in the national house of representa-
tives. The father of one was the late Rich
ard P. Bland Of Missouri the other is Griffin
Halstead, son of Murat Halstead, the news
paper editor.
Mexico thinks the United States owes her
5000 900 for water absorbed from the Rio
Grande, and anybody who has seen that
| stream at its ordinary stage will agree that
its aqueous contents must be valued at about
dollar a drop.
Somebody has discovered that the slang
| Talking through his hat" did not originate
in America, but was first used by Moiere,
the French dramatist, who in his "Miser'
makes one of his characters say: ITO whom
speak? l am speaking to the inside OF my
hat"
Champ Clark of Missouri has a fad. He
collects every story which has a biblical
quotation as its chief point and for years
has made a study of the effect which the
bible has had upon law and custom He has
prepared lecture in which all this infor-
nation is Interestingly presented.
Speaker Henderson's gavel is quite a curl
osity. The head is of rosewood from Mon
tejo's flagship and the handle of native Usage
grown in Polk county, Iowa. 1t is decorated
by an eagles beak bearing a scroll inscribed
"E Pluribus Unum.' On the upper ferrule
are doves and a garland on the lower pic
lures OF the United States ships Iowa and
Des Moines Iowa's arms and Mr. Hender-
sons monogram are on the side of the head.
Though Mr.. Beveridge, the new senator
from Indiana, is the youngest looking MEM
Der OF "the millionaires' club" he is really
a year older tran Mr.. Butler of North Caro-
lint Od-timers in the senate were pre-
pared for an appearance of juvenility in the
member from Indiana, but Beveridge sur
prised them all by his boyish look. why.
thought he was one of the pages" said
Hoar Of Massachusetts,, as he beamed
through his spectacles at the young Hoosier
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
COOPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPING.
ProGressive Step Toward an Ideal
System of Living.
Chicago Tribune.

An experiment in cooperative housekeep-
ing is to be made by the trustees of the
Girard estate in Philadelphia the outcome
of which will be regarded with great inter-
est block OF dwelling houses, to be
erected in the southern part OF the city, will
be furnished with light and heat from a
central plant for a small monthly addition
to the rent. The houses will also have small
garden plats in front, the care of which
will be assumed by the estate.
The prospects for the success OF this
economical scheme are perhaps more ia
vorable in Philadelphia than in most Ameri-
can cities. for the reason that it is well
adapted to the Philadelphia plan of build
ing houses in long blocks of uniform design
In addition to this the trustees of the
Girard estate, who are building the houses
for rent instead of for sale. have a large
capital to work with, which will insure a
complete equipment Hence they have un-
usual advantages for trying the experiment
In Chicago we have nothing exactly re-
sembling It, the nearest approach to it being
the furnishing of light and heat from the
same plant to the tenants OF large apart
ment houses, and in some cases OF meals
and laundry work. In other words, the
apartment house is minor hotel. We are
not aware ho"eHei' 'hal lHe experiment
has been tried in blocks OF dwelling houses
Cooperation is undoubtedly an ideal plan
OF housekeeping for the mass of people who
rent houses and It might be extended with
advantage beyond the furnishing OF light
and heat A cooperative kitchen and laun-
dry would be a blessing to many residents in
blocks, They would reduce not only the
cares, but the expenses OF housekeeping, and
make life much easier and more enjoyable
than II is under the present system.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

WHEN HITCHCOCK BECOMES 4. S. $.
When Hitchcock becomes L. S. S. his
first official act will be to cable his Paris
halter to send him new head ornament
Of the latest slken hue two sizes larger
than that sent on his last order.
When Hitchcock becomes L. S. s. VIII
liam Waldorf Astors chef will have to
move post haste to Washington and
strain his most artistic talents to pro
duce delicate morsels that will tickle the
senatorial palate.
When Hitchcock becomes L. S. S. an
order will be issued under a silver seal
of the state commanding every man who
meets him TO uncover and humbly bow
as he passes by.
When Hitchcock takes his seat in the
American House of Lords he will i'm
mediately direct the p. NJ. G. to exclude
The Bee from the U. S. malls.
When Hitchcock hangs his fur-lined
coat in the senatorial cloak room he
will order the secretary of war to re-
move the army headquarters from The
Bee building instanter and issue a proc
lamation for the relocation of the city
hall and court house out of sight of
Seventeenth and Farnam.
When Hitchcock is given free run of
the famous marble room lobby he will
instruct the federal courts to keep a
special grand jury in constant service
with Jim Winspear as permanent fore
man to return daily indictments against
every officer and employe of The Bee for
cracking jokes at his lordship.
When Hitchcock has the password to
the free chair in the senatorial tonsorial
parlors he will share with Web as V. F.
the glory of setting the style in hair
dressing and monocles for the prince of
Wales and the duke of York.
When Hitchcock connects with the
senate pay roll all the railroad com
panies will be compelled to equip and
maintain a special palace train for the
exclusive use of Nebraska's greatest
nobleman and his retinue of liveried and
unliveried lackeys.
When Hitchcock becomes L. S. S. the
odious telegraph monopoly will be re.
quired to keep him in constant com
munication by free wire with the sane
tum-sanctorum of the great hyphenated
sheet which will enlarge its farfamed
staff by the addition of artists phOtog-
raphers and mirror-makers to keep the
public regularly familiar with all the
poses and studies reflected from the
haloed seat of Nehraska's junior senator.
When Hitchcock becomes U. S. S.
Bryan will be waved to back bench
torical flights will monopolize the ozone
of Nebraska and leave room for no COM
petitors.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
TeuE TEST OF PROSPERITY.

There is no truer test of prosperity
than advance in the wages of labor and
within the past year wages have been
increased in every department Of indus
try During the period of business de-
preston there was a large reduction in
the wages of labor employed in the New
England cotton mills. Probably no
other class of labor suffered to the eX-
tent that this did from the hard times.
Many thousands were thrown out of
employment and those who had work
received the smallest compensation in a
number of years if not in the whole
history of the industry.
Now the cotton mills are running to
their full capacity and employing more
labor than ever before. Consequently
wages rise. AS recorded in the dis
patches an advance went into effect yes
terday affecting more than $4,000 en-
ployes, whose increased earnings will
aggregate $5,5O0,OO0 year. Next week
10000 more cotton mill employees will
get 10 per cent increase in wages and
later still others will obtain an increase
of pay. Assuming that the advance will
be maintained for the ensuing year as
there is every reason to think it will, the
aggregate earnings of the operatives in
the cotton mills of New England will be
about $1O,OOO.OOO greater than for the
past year. This will be most Important
addition TO the purchasing capacity of
these people, which will benefit every
branch of trade. A large part of this
increased income will be put into circu-
lation and what is not will go into
savings banks and building associa-
tions. The workers will have more OF
the comforts of life and some of the
luxurles. In common with workers in
all other industries whose wages have
been increased they will consume more
than formerly of the products of the
farm and factory. They and those de-
pendent upon them will be better fed
and clothed than heretofore Thus the
home market will be further improved
and the general prosperity enhanced.
The country is realizing the promise
of the republican party. That party
declared that the true policy was TO
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
PIPE Trust DECISION.

Philadelphia Record. The effects OF tha
supreme court opinion will be far reaching
and immediate in the business world. The
corporations may possibly evado or ignore
it, but only al a tremendous industrial and
financial risk
Baltimore American: part OF the de-
cson reads as follows: "The direct and
immediate result OF the combination was
necessarily a restraint upon Interstate COM
mercc, in respect Of articles manufactured
by any OF tho parties to It to be transported
beyond the state in which they were made"
1t will scarcely be difficult to ft THE o.
any trust which is engaged in interstate
commerce.
Buffalo Express: The courts position does
not necessarily affect the business OF tho
corporations that have been chartered hy
New Jersey. The decieion which comea
most nearly to defeating the operations OF
such companies Is that Of the Illinois SUI
premo court in the case Of the American
Glucose company. That decision prevents
a New Jersey corporation from doing busi-
ness in Illinois, because 1t was formed for
the purpose OF monopoliziug the glucose
business
Philadelphia Ledger: Whether a consoll-
dation Of all factories In any one industry
by sale TO one corporation is or is not in
ICSiTdlul Ol commerce INC SulItlue Nuuit
has not yet held, though it has that one
factory may be bought by corporation
owning two thirds or so of the reineries.
In the present decision it holds only that
a combination between separate manufac-
turing corporations is Illegal, and this all
have held as beyond queston-if 1t could
be found out. Mr.. Justice Peckham's lam
guago would cover the consolidation OF cor
porations-if it's complete character and ef-
feet on prices could be proved.
New York Sun 1t was as plain as pike
staff that the 'Addystoh Pipe" pool viuiated
both the letter and the sprit OF the Sher-
man antitrust law and the justices of the
eupreme court could not do else than find
against it, as they did unanimously. To
have imagined however, that the supreme
court OF our country could, in this or in
any other case, declare that an actual con-
solidaton OF corporations or a bonafde
transfer Of company to another was
illegal would be to think of them main
tanning that business partnership is un-
lawful Probably if it had not been for the
exctements OF Wall street, the case OF tha
government against the Addyston Pipe and
Steel company would never have been
heard OF.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

open the mills rather than the mints ana
events have justified it, The vast in
dustrial enterprises Of the nation were
never more active than now and the
Increase in the earning power Of labor
within the last two years has greatly
increased the consuming capacity of a
very large body of the people. Well
employed and we'll paid labor is an es-
sental condition of prosperity and this
we have. The assurances given by the
republican party three years ago are
verified. The democracy Is hoping
for Il larger support from the
workingmen of the country next
year than it received three years
ago. The leader of that party has re-
Gently so declared. But the great ma
iority of American workingmen are in
tellgent and thoughtful They know
what produced the industrial and busi-
ness depression of a few years ago and
they understand what brought about
the change from that most unfortunate
condition. They do not want a rcpeti
tion of the experience under democratic
policies. 1t is an imputation upon the
common sense of the workingmen who
have constant employment ut good
wages and are paid in money equal to
the best in the world to assume that
they will generally support party that
would overturn the policies which made
a market for their labor and increased
:heir earnings and which have given
the country unparalleled prosperity.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

1t is pleasing to read in the local ca
lamity organ that the mill employees in
Fall River have just had their wages in
creased 10 per cent, which is equivalent
to an addition to the pay of each en-
ploye of 20 cents per week, or for the
whole total of $1O5,000 weekly, or
$5,5OO,OOO year. After this announce
ment it is to be hoped its insinuations
that the prosperity the country is en-
joying is simply sham will cease.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
CHARGE OF GATAcRE's BRIGADE.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Several leagues, several leagues onward,
Into the Boerish midst marched forty
hundred.
Beers to the left of 'em,
Beers to the right of 'em.
Beers to the back of EN-.
Volleyed and Numbered
Into the jaws of Jail marched forty
hundred
Bravely they fought and well,
Caught in that circling hell,
Fought though they knew that Gatacrs
had blundered.
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to quit or die:
Wave the white flag on high,
Wise forty hundred.
Flashed all their blades in air,
Held out in grim despair,
Caught in that Boer trap there,
Poor forty hundred.
Yielded their arms in pain,
Saw all their glory wane,
Then they marched back again-nitl
Jugged six hundred!
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

A Record Complimentary to Army
Management and Discipline.

The secretary OF war reports the number
of deaths from disease among the soldiers
in the Philippines to have been 366 during
the first ten months of the present calendar
year. Presumably this figure does not in
clude the considerable number who have died
on transports and hospital ships after eav-
ing Manila or shortly after arrival at San
Francisco, but as it stands the figure repre-
sents an annual death rate of 1920 per thou
sand. The significance of this rate, says
the secretary, may be better appreciated
by the following comparison:
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

in the Philippines ..,

This is certainly an army death rate which
must be accounted very complimentary to
the discipline and management of the force,
considering all the circumstances, That men
in so large numbers could be hurried from a
northern cline into the hot and malarious
zone of the tropics with no more deadly re-
suits than are witnessed to by the rate of
1920, is matter for remark II might seem
that the islands are more healthful and that
the life OF northerners therein is more toll
erable than had been commonly supposed.
Still the rate given is very high one.
II is higher than the death rate in the
British army In India, which is 16 to the
thousand. 1t is a rate, moreover, which at
tends practically the first year of the armys
life there, and authorities agree, while ex-
perience has proved, that the tropical climate
Is gradually debilitating In its effects and
that it is much better resisted by northern
ers or those from the temperate zones in the
first year than in the second, and In the
second than in the third. And 1t is to be con-
sidered in this connection that the American
force in the Philippines has been very
largely renewed during the sixteen months
OF the American occupation. The state vol
unteers In that time have practically with
drawn and many regulars have returned
whose times of enlistment had expired, and
their places have been taken by fresh levies
It is the opinion of Chairman Hull OF the
house military committee that the army in
the Philippines should be subjected To fire.
quent renewals that it may the better with
stand the deleterious effects OF the climate.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12
nrsrn1crInN or TREES.
Protest Against the Needless waste
ut Christmas Time.
]. sterling Morlon,s Conservative.

]. Sterling Mortons Conservative.
The largest tree recorded in the history OF
the world was found in California, near the
Tule river, in 1874. When discovered the
top had been broken of and the standing
trunk which remained was 2l0 feet high,
while the diameter at the place OF the
breaking of was twelve feet The age Of
this tree was estimated to be 4,S4O years. At
its base, within the hollow Of its trunk, l5O
persons gathered
Some heather in the infancy OF that tree
might have chopped it down for a barbaric
festival and we then should never have
known its majesty and worth. How many
possible giants among the trees growing in
the young forests of the United States are
to be destroyed this year for Christmas
celebration? The Conservative insists that
some other method OF observing that ami
versary than that one which requires the
destruction Of millions OF beautiful and use
full trees should be adopted by all sensible
and provident people
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

The French are making further de-
mands upon the Chinese because the
man who murdered Frenchman has
not been executed according to program
The next move will probably be the de-
mand for a further slice of Chinese ter
rltory. If the subjects of the celestial
emperor only continue numbering Euro
peans at stated intervals they will soon
segregate him from most of his domin-
ion
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

Few people realize the difficulty expert
enced nowadays in securing Christmas trees
for the holidays. Millions OF trees are used
every year in this country and each sue
ceeding year finds it more difficult for the
merchant to secure choice trees for the
market, owing to the rapid advance in
clearing the forests Of the west. 1t is esti-
mated that nearly 100000 trees are shipped
every year from this state to eastern parties.
Theodore Hoffman, is probably the most
extensive dealer in Christmas trees around
here. He makes speciality OF the business
and says that he will break all records this
year in regard to the number of trees ship
ped east. Already he has several crews OF
men at work in Marinette county, about
seventy miles north Of Green Bay, and also
in Florence county Mr.. Hoffman, says
that in years past he has had no trouble in
getting all the trees he desired in the
swamps above Green Bay and near Mari
nette, but now he is obliged to send his men
into the backwoods a considerable distance,
as the trees cannot be secured now without
a great deal of trouble.
The great difficulty now is getting the
trees to the railway stations, much time
being lost in this work He figures out
that he will get close on to 1000, 900 trees
this winter, more than half OF this number
going to the east.
"At the rate the trees have been disap-
pearing of late years l figure there will be
a scarcity of them within five or ten years"
remarked Mr.. Hoffman, while discussing
the question. "There are few persons maxi
ing speciality OF raising them for the mar
ket, but 1t is probable that some one will
take it up before it is too late 1t is really
a hard matter to get good trees, my men
hn of pF
size and quality However, there are many
swamps where the trees grow in abundance,
and the owners will probably realize that
they are worth the holding after all, espe-
cially when they learn how valuable they
NAV Drove to he
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

With Bailey of Texas occupying seat
in the second row back and Johnson of
Indiana remaining at home the present
session of congress does not promise to
be so replete with sensations as the last
one. The member from Texas can be
counted upon, however, to wake up
often enough TO prevent members from
suffering from ennul.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12


President McKinley's suggestion OF a
joint commission to investigate the exporta-
tion of American food products to Germany
has been cordially received in that country
If there is genuine desire among Germans
to place no unnecessary obstacles in the
way of food products sent from the United
States, the only problem is to remove mis-
conceptions. The commission plan should be
eminently serviceable for that purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-12

County Attorney Shields put himself
on record n week ago to the effect that
he was fully informed that open gam
bling was being carried on within his
Jurisdiction. When he entered upon his
office he took mighty oath that no
lawbrealiing of that kind would he toll
Grated while he was invested with Off
cial power, but, like the individual re-
ferred to in the German adage, 'he
simply rolls his fist in his pocket"