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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
DRIFT.

Oregon's new senator answers to the
name OF Levi Ankeny. He halls from Walla
Walla,
There are sixty-one counties in New York
state and only nine of them have demo-
cratic sheriffs.
A New York legislator who travels on a
railroad pass is liable to forfeiture Of ONCE.
This will oblige the railroads to hand out
prepaid tickets.
Names receipts from fees for the organ-
ization of new corporations were nearly
500, 900 last year. The corporation fees are
doubling annually.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay is closing
up his forty-sixth year as a public oficer.
A consultation Of physicians is not neces-
sary to determine that Matthew has the
grip.
Some members Of the Pennsylvania leg
~islature, in their haste to sell the 800
worth of stamps allowed to each Of them by
the state, accepted $3.50. Now the market
price has risen to $3.50.
The territorial debt Of Arizona is 50, 100
900, Of New Mexico 81, 100, 900 and of Okla
homa 1921, 900. The assessed valuation of
these territories is: Arizona SOS, OOO, 900,
New Mexico sS6, 900, 900 and Oklahoma $751;
900, 900.
Lee S. overman, the new senator from
North Carolina, is 40 years old. He is a
lawyer Of ability, a native Of Salisbury, and
in 1874 graduated from Trinity college,
North Carolina. He was private secretary
to Governor Vance and has been a member
of the state house OF representatives FIVE
times. having been speaker once.
A defeated candidate for oflce in Wiscon-
sin, complying with the law respecting cam
paign expenses, filed al temized bill con-
tanning several specifications calculated to
provoke a COB Of sympathy from the de-
Expenses within two hours after receiving
nomination. s24; organizing the Barta du
Rudd club in the Third ward Il never saw
the club. s.; seeing people and being
showed, $3.50; beer, ginger ale, brown pop,
etc, $45; cigars, good, bad and Indifferent,
$50"
Under the Massachusetts, law the legisla-
ture may interrogate the supreme court as
to the constitutionality Of proposed laws.
The system is exceedingly convenient and
useful, and tends to prevent the passage of
bills Of doubtful constitutional validity. A
series of questions was recently addressed
to the court by the house OF representatives
respecting a bill giving cities and towns the
right to establish municipal coal yards and
to sell coal. The full bench sent in the
reply. 1t was held that only in times of
extraordinary e~xigency does such a right
exist. One of the justices dissented.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
ANTITRUST LEGISLATION.

The house Of representatives passed
without debate the Elkins bill providing
against rebates and determinations by
common carriers and charging the pow
ers Of the Interstate Commerce com
mission. We have heretofore given an
outline Of the provisions Of this meas
ure, which relates principally to rail
roads and is really supplementary to the
interstate commerce act. IL will I'M
doubtedly be approved by the president
and its effect will be to render the ex-
listing law more effective. While some
of the great combinations, as the Stand
ard Oil company, for example, are no
longer asking rebates because being
more or less interested in the railroads,
yet the new law will afford protection
to the numerous small shippers who are
now at a disadvantage by reason of the
discrimination in rates in favor of the
larger shippers-a condition that 1t has
seemed impossible to remedy under ex-
listing law. A good feature Of the bill
is that it applies to persons or corpora
lions who solicit or receive any rebate
or discrimination as well as to corpora
tons that grant them, the penalty being
the same for each.
Whether or not anything more will be
done by the present congress in the way
of antitrust legislation is uncertain.
The bill creating a department Of COM
| r,a-,o now g., ,orforanan annfotpu nm
antitrust provision added by the senate
and 1t is expected that this will be &C
cepted by the house, in which event It
is thought that nothing further will be
enacted. This amendment provides for
publicity and it is said that together
with the Elkins act goes as far as the
party leaders and the administration
propose to go at this juncture. At all
events some progress will have beer
made toward meeting the public de-
mand for legislation to put a stop to
railroad discrimination and the super
vision and regulation of the combina-
tons engaged in interstate commerce,
and with this lone there should be less
difficulty In taking what further steps
shall be found necessary to the carry
ing out of a comprehensive policy of
trust regulation and control. If the at
torney general is given authority to ex-
pedite proceedings against corporations
amenable to the law and is provided
with adequate means to carry On prose
c%utions there is every reason to expect
good results in the not remote future.
The administration can be depended
upon to make every effort to enforce the
laws to the extent Of the authority
given it.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
A WISE JUDGE.
Proprietary Rights I'm Circus Posters
J~udiciaIIy Upheld.
MlnneapolIs Tlmes.

minneapolis IlmeS,
Justice Holmes OF the United states su-
preme court has come bravely to the de-
Tense Of the circus poster. He has de-
clared, in a formal opinion. that the pic
lures Of gauzily and abbreviatedly clad fe-
males on the show bills are as much en-
titled to protection by copyright as any
other work of art. When they are drawn
to order and printed in many colors at
great expense, they should be the property
Of the circus company wherever they may
stick, whether on the side OF a country
barn or on a city billboard. As property
they are entitled to protection the same as
any ether advertising device.
So rules the court and so say we all of
us. One OF the sweetest pleasures OF the
springtime is the contemplation OF the
bright new circus bills. They are as well
come as the dandelions and the cowslips.
They cheer one even as the chirp OF the
early robin cheers. They even seem to
have a fragrance of their own-and perhaps
they have II the paste is sour-but be their
perfume what 1t may, they give promise OF
returning summer and that is SUFFICIENT.
Let them be protected. We cannot all
view the creations OF the masters, but we
can all see and enjoy the showbills and we
want them defended 80 that they shall be
better and brighter with each returning
summer.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
BLOOD.
Juliet w. rompklns in scrlbner'

Juliet w. Tompkins in Scribner's.
nv tower faces south and north,
And east IL opens wide,
But not a wiudow-pane looks forth
Upon the western side.
I gaze out north on city roofs, @
And south on city smoke,
And to the east are throbbing hoofs,
Tho rush of city folk.
But not a ray of western light
May fen across my work,
No creviCe opens to the night
Where western eyes may Turk.
My crowded days are spent in quest
OF eager city things,
And when the little birds fly west,
1 would not hear their wings.
But they Who once have climbed the TowL
When daylight fingered late,
And watched the western sun go down
Athwart the Furnished Gate.
And felt the rolling fogs descend,
And seen the lupin blown
CAnd know what things a western frieno
May offer 9 his own),
All, they can never still. for long
He knows what would he best
Who built my tower high ana strong,
And closed II to the west!
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
WILL CONTINUE INVESTIGATION


The congressional committee charged
with an investigation of coal t~ransporta-
ton, and as TO whether there was a com
bination or conspiracy between the rail-
roads and operators, has been author
lied TO continue its investigation and to
visit such cities as might be necessary.
This is the proper course. The testi-
mOny taken by the committee at Boston
pretty conclusively demonstrated that
there was a understanding between
operators and railroads in regard to
the transportation OF coal, the effect of
which was to deprive the New England
markets of the supply they might have
had.
There is not a doubt that a similar
state of affairs existed elsewhere and it
is most desirable that the fact be fully
ascertained and exposed. We do not
know what can be done in the matter
whether those guilty OF such a CON
spiracy, involving suffering TO many
thousands OF people and serious injury
TO Industries, can be punished, but at
any rate a thorough and searching in
vestigation should be made and an
doubtedly the committee can be trusted
to do this. II what was disclosed at
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The Minnesota legislature has ap-
pointed special committees to investi-
gate personally into conditions at St
Louis before taking action on an appro-
priation for the states participation in
the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
With this brilliant example before them
it will devolve upon some of our enter
prising Nebraska legislators TO work up
a junket of their own to st. Louis at
the joint expense of the state and the
exposition management.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The insurance companies are very
strenuous in their opposition TO any
change in the revenue laws that will
make them pay more taxes thar they
have been paying. That is perfectly
natural, but the representatives OF the
insurance companies win nave to ex-
plain why Nebraska should not levy in
suranee taxes on the same basis that
obtains In Illinois. Iowa and Missouri.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
Prize in the Alaskan Dispute.
Kansas City Journal.

Kansas City journal,
Canada is much in need Of a port on the
Alaskan Pacific. Lynn canal is a magnih-
cent body of water, as important in a
strategic way as any on the western coast
Of this continent, and should it become
possessed of this great land-iocked harbor
it could place its goods and merchandise
into the Yukon valley without paying
duties to a foreign nation. it would be
hundreds of miles nearer to the Orient and
might be able to defy and threaten our su-
premacy in the Pacific at some critical time
when least expected.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
wiling to Pay the Price.
New York Tribune.

1t might be supposed that the prevailing
high prices for meats of all kinds would
cause vegetarian societies to prosper and
expand as never betore-in fact. to flourish
like unto green bay trees. But in some
things this is undoubtedly a perverse gen.
Grafton, and total ~abstainers from flesh
food are still few n far between, except
among infants and invalids. The consump-
ton Of beefsteaks and chops continues to be
enormous. Americans want hearty meals,
even at high prices.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The Bees position relative TO the
Howell Gilbert water works bill is not
the ground of opposition to municipal
ownership Of the water works or any
desire to Obstruct the purchase of the
plant. 1t has objected TO the bill mainly
because it overrides the principle Of
home rule, not only in providing for a
governor-appointed water board to per-
form purely local functions, but in legis-
lative prescription of what Omaha must
do in a strictly municipal matter. On
the same theory that the legislature
undertakes to make the purchase of the
water works compulsory, IL can make
the purchase of the gas works, the cleo
trio lighting plant, the telephone system
or the street railway compulsory. If it
can make the purchase of the water
works compulsory irrespective Of the
wishes of the people who must pay for
them, 1t can later make their sale COM
pulsory. overturn the principle Of home
rule and the legislature can direct the
use OF property belonging to the munich
pal corporation in any way 1t sees fit.
II it can compel Omaha to buy the plant
that supplies water TO South Omaha, IL
can compel South Omaha to buy the
plant that supplies gas to Omaha. De
part from the principle OF home rule
and there are no limits to legislative
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Congress has just agreed to legislation
that will grant moderate increase of pay
to all the federal judges, so that the
federal district Judge, who is lowest on
the list, will hereafter receive $4,000 a
year instead Of $1,000. In Nebraska we
are still paying our judges of the state
supreme court $4,000 a year.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The speedy adjustment of the threat
ened strike among the job printers and
pressmen Of Omaha shows what can be
done to avert labor troubles when all
parties go at it with a spirit of mutual
confidence. If the Union Pacific strike
could now be settled on some plan
satisfactory to both employees and en-
ployer, the labor situation here would
be completely relieved.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The governors of three states, Illinois,
Indiana and Iowa, will participate as
stellar attractions at a Washington's
birthday banquet at Peoria. This will
present an opportunity to repeat three
times over what the governor of North
Carolina said to the governor of South
Carolina at their famous meeting.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

II seems that the tangle in the Della
ware senatorial contest is not to be I'M
raveled forthwith upon the mere offer
of Addicks to withdraw. especially when
there is a well-deined suspicion that the
withdrawal has some kind Of an invis-
ible string attached TO 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

After sitting all the evidence adduced
in the investigation into the Lessler
bribery charges the conclusion is forced
that the brides were all offered without
any bride givers behind them, just as
Topsy grew up without any father or
mOthar
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Omaha will be .gratifed to see the
walls of the auditorium building rise
from the foundation with the opening of
spring, but a good many people in
Omaha are from Missouri-they want to
see the last bricks laid before they
1ubilate.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

That Nebraska City railroad organ
must have got an extra order to turn
over its whole editorial page to the rail-
road tax bureau and send the bill for
the cost Of setting and inserting the
readY-made stuff.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Montana law makers have had the
discourtesy to turn down the demand
for oma suffrage by a decisive vote.
The suffrage brigade will not be saying
such nice things about the Montana men
from now on.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

President Roosevelt has so Car shown
remarkable ability in steering clear Of
pitfalls in the Venezuelan matter and he
may be depended oil to continue to
avoid embarrassing entanglements.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Democratic leaders are exerting them
selves to bring the ace problem to the
front, north as well as south. But they
can not square their demands for equal
treatment Of the brown people in the
Philippines with their denial OF civil
rights to the black people of the south.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The question presents itself that If the
fees OF the sherif's office have fallen so
that they will not pay the salaries Of
the deputies and office help, why has
not the work Of the Office been reduced
enough to permit Of a reduction of the
sherin's force?
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Hobson Of Spanish war fame thinks
that his efforts TO secure retirement
from the navy have been frustrated by
a political conspiracy that fears his pro-
lection into the political arena in the
Alabama district in which he resides.
A man with his fighting reputation
ought not be abashed by obstacles of
this kind.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
Actually Down 20 shooting.
Chicago Chronicle.

Intelligence from Honduras is to the eff
feet that a civil war is in progress, but the
proceedings Indicate that II is really an I'M
civil war. At least the opposite factions
are shooting at each other Just like the
participants in the recent "peaceable"
blockade down in Venezuela. There ap-
pears TO be a good deal OF confusion in the
use OF adjeetives In these matters.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

The marquis of Castellane thinks the
United States and France should get
together on a commercial alliance. We
thought that is what the two countries
did when his son, Count Boni, married
the daughter Of Jay Gould.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

U. P. Baldwin does not propose to
take n chances with a public debate
on the question of railroad tax-shlrking.
He has been admonished before that his
weakness lies in talking too much.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

1t seems that the fraternal insurance
bill endorsed by the state convention Of
fraternals as just the thing for Ne
braska does not satisfy all the frater-
nails. 1t will be in order now for the
friends of the measure to charge the
opposition with being stirred up by the
jealousy of the old line companies.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
A Bright Prospect.
Washington Post.

We have made a start in the right direc-
ton in the matter Of providing adequate
pay for the judges of our courts. Some
day they may be as well paid as our base
ball players and vaudeville artists.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Boston is found to have existed in New
York, Philadelphia and elsewhere, It
will at least suggest the e%xpediency Of
devislng a way to prevent the recur-
renee Of such a condition.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Latest advices from Morocco are to
the effect that the pretender has es-
capped. He always escapes in all the
comic operas.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
A SENATORIAL %surprise.
Indianapolis Journal.

If the senate did not surprise itself in
passing the Elkins anti-railroad discrimina-
ton bill 1t surprised the country. Just
how that body got at the bill is one of the
things which is not explained.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
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that the actual number of full and complete
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Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
LINES TO A LAUGH.

That's a beautiful rug. May 1 ask how
much IL cost your"
"Three hundred dollars worth of furni-
ture to match it."-Chicago Tribune.
Photographer-How was it that woman
refused PeaTS bt to s tsKe t6 hsT R dSSsS IKE b thought /
Clerk-It was her friend who said that
N. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Henpeck-I read this morning about
a mar who was arrested twenty minutes
after his wedding and sent to prison for
fifteen years. Isn't that awful?
Mr.. Henpeck-Oh, / don't know. The law
doesn't compel him to take his wife to
prison with him-Baltimore Herald.
whats the matter2 What are you shiv-
ering about?" demanded the first rabbit.
There's a dude out there with a gum
replied the other.
well, he doesn't see us at all"
That's just II. He's aiming at some
thing else ."-Philadelphia Press.
Harry.You and Tom appear to be the
Dick-Why shouldn't we be2 We never
say what we think of each other.-Boston
Transcript.
Merehant-Did you find out what that
gentleman wanted?
Merchant-what? How dare you
New Clerk-And 1 sold 1t to him.-Phila
delphia Catholic Standard.
What you need, my dear sir, is exercise"
Exercise? Why, doctor, I'm the floor
walker in a big department %store!"
II know IL. / repeat II, sir; what you
need is exercise ."-Chicago Tribune.
'They tell me your son is a close
student"
He has to be; ! don't allow him but a
dollar a month spendin' money."-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
IT tell you" said the proprietor Of the
mountain resort hotel. there's no life like
that in the mountains. It's good living in
this glorious air"
1T guess there is a good living for you
In this air." replied the disgruntled guest.
That's about all you appear to feed to
your guests. Philadelphia Press.
Fadds-A dentist ought 10 have a regular
training as a physician.
Fidds with a dentists bill for $50 I'm his
pocket-Oh, / don't know. They seem to
know how pretty well as It is. A dentist
can generally pull IA mans leg as well as
he can pull his teeth, and quite as well as
a surgeon.-N. Y. Sun.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
WORKING the Elevator.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Germany is trying to raise the blockade
and Venezuela is trying to raise the money.
In the meantime Uncle Sam is expected to
give both Of them a friendly lift.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07
Correct Diagnosis.
New York World.

New York World.
The best thing about our IL. 900, 900 fight
ing men is their practically unanimous de-
sire to make fighting the very last resort.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

In the meanwhile the alleged local
coal trust is enjoying a peaceful arms
tice.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

intrusion and confusion in our munich
nal government.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

whats the matter? What are you shiv-
ering about?' demanded the first rabbit.
There's a dude out there with a gum
replied the other.
well, he doesn't see us at all
That's just II. He's aiming at some
thing else. "-Philadelphia Press.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Harry-YOu and Tom appear to be the
best of friends.
Dick-Why shouldn't we be2 We never
say what we think of each other.-Boston
Transcript.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Ofcial reports of the French government
on sociological matters are always very
late. but whether they have any bearing
on the question of Frances dwindling pop
uIation OF not, these reports, as they re-
late to the Industrial work Of women from
1865 to 1896, are still interesting, In 1865
there we're 4,642, 900 women workers In the
republic, and in 1896 $685. 900. In com
merce 2es. 900 women we're employed In
1895, as against 15s, 600 in 1866, or one
woman to two men. The increasing num-
her Of women employed in the post, bank
ing. carrier trade and transportation busl-
ness is still more striking, being from 5000
an 1865 TO $4,000 in 1896. whilst in several
Independent callings the numbers have
increased nearly fourfold. 1t appears too
that the trades and industries from which
women are excluded are declining.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

What you need, my dear sir, is exercise"
Exercise? Why, doctor, I'm the floor
walker in a big department store!"
IT know It. / repeat IT, sir; what you
need is exercise. Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

They tell me your son is a close
dollar a month spendin' money" -Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

DECENTRALIZATION was it that woman
refused to take her pictures? l thought /
heard her say they looked like her.
Clerk-It was her friend who said that
N. Y. Herald.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

That's a beautiful rug. May 1 ask how
much II cost your"
"Three hundred dollars worth of furni-
ture to match it.'-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-07

Merchant-Did you find out what that
gentleman wanted?
New Clerk-No, but 1 found out what he
didn't want
Merchant-What? How dare you
New Clerk-And / sold It to
dalDhia Catholic Standard