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Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
CAN CHANDLER GET BACKS
Possibility of a Change in the New
HRmpHhire Senatorship.
washington Herald.

washington tteIaiu.
The press representatives at the capitol,
to say nothing of other groups Of persons
whose business or pleasure is to follow
the proceedings of congress, hope there
is solid foundation for the report that in
the queer scrimmage now going on in New
Hampshire over the United States senator
ship Hon. william Eaton Chandler will
emerge with his scrawny form enveloped
in the toga. At present Mr.. Chandler is
chairman Of the Spanish Treaty Claims
commission. He vas appointed to this po-
| sition by President Mckinley soon after he
went down to defeat in the battle which
for years he had waged against the rail-
roads in his state. and has been continued
in the Office by President Roosevelt. In
spite of the sharp question of veracity that
arose last spring between him and the
president over certain negotiations for sup
port OF the administrations railroad rate
program, Mr.. Roosevelt only a few weeks
ago commissioned Mr.. Chandler for an
other six months term as chairman of the
claims commission. The newspaper men
want him returned to the senate, because
they know that II he should get back
to that august tribunal there would be
something doing just at those dull times
when the conscript fathers are least in
cnned 10 strenuous activity Mr., Chandler
had a way about him when a member of
the senate of stirring up trouble and ex-
| citement at the most unexpected moments.
| When it pleased his mood for the senate
not to be quiescent or dull, he knew how
to create a debate that led to turmoil
At the height Of the excitement and when
the senators were threatening to pull
hair and do other unsenatorial things to
one another, the New Hampshire states
man usually glded out TO the cloakroom
and there held his sides to prevent them
from splitting with laughter. No two men
/ in public life are warmer friends than
are he and Senator Tillman, but they have
had some of the liveliest rows In the senate
that have been witnessed there in modern
times. The South Carolinian never seemed
to realize that his New Hampshire chum
stirred him up only to have fun.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
ANOTHER DEPARTMENT SCANDAL.
Operations of Coal Land Grabbera
Coming 90 Light.

Pittsburg Dispatch,
There are two Investigations going on
at Salt Lake City into the relationship
existing between the railroads and the
coal companies in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming.
Nevada and Colorado which promise i'm
pOrtant results. One of these is by the
federal grand jury; the other by Inter-
state Commerce Commissioner Clarke In
dictments are rumored, but are said to
be withheld pending the completion of
Mr.. Clarke's inquiry which struck what
looks to be a rich lead recently.
Michael Myendorh, a special agent of
the Land department, offered an anidavit,
charging that influential men had en-
deavored 10 dissusde him from continu-
ing his inquiry into the coal land frauds
in Utah. He was transferred to Los
Angeles and later to Portland before he
could finish his work. One assertion
he makes is that Senator Warren OF wy
oming warned him not to go after the
Union Pacific. as he would incur that cor
poration's enmity. Warren's colleague,
Clark, and Commissioner Richards OF the
land ONCE are also mentioned, and Myens-
dorm says that charges filed by him with
the Land der Iartment at Washington were
suppressed.
1t has been publicly asserted that the
Union Pacific and RiO Grande have es-
tablished a coal monopoly in the states
mentioned so absolute that an actual
famine OF fuel is now existing in Ehe
far west. In Utah II IS charged that
through dummies who obtained grants
OF what were classed as Agricultural
lands, but were in reality coal lands, the
railroad corporations acquired large tracts
legally. 1t is with these charges that the
federal grand jury has been dealing. Com
missioner Clarke Is looking into the dis
elimination that has kept independents
out OF competition. If Myendorf"s am
davit is established It must develop a
scandal as startling as that In the Post
once department. The senatorial and
| congressional interest disclosed in the
oregon cases was hardly peculiar TO tina,
state, and other members may yet be
called upon 20 answer equally grave &C
cusationH. II there Is foundation To-
the serious reflections made by Myen
dorff the disclosure must prove still NOR
strikingly the value Of the services ren
dered by Secretary Hitchcock in COINS
/ after frauds whose manipulations seem
TO have extended even into the Interior
| DEF artment itself
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

THE JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION
The Japanese school question in
San Francisco, though temporarily
lost sight Of, is now known to be big,
with serious possibilities, and to in
volve serious difficulties that our gov
ernment cannot evade. Popular feel
ing in Japan appears to be simply
waiting in expectation that President
Roosevelt will promptly see to it that
all discrimination at San Francisco
shall cease. But the matter cannot
be so summarily disposed of, because
public opinion in that locality is prac-
tically unanimous, and the president
has been notified that summary exer-
ton of national power would provoke
dangerous disturbance and probably
riots, of which Japanese would be the
victims and which would make the
situation a thousandfold worse.
1t is a delicate matter, involving
the pride of the most sensitive nation
on earth, which has just been victor
ious in war with so powerful an en-
pire as Russia. 1t is as dangerous,
too, as delicate, for the Japanese can
not be disposed of as the Chinese have
been. The contingency of war, though
it be regarded as a remote one, is not
one for even the United States to con-
slider lightly, but it is only one among
unopu orraya onnf{pnonnfaa
The serious fact is that continua-
tion of the discrimination which local
sentiment at San Francisco and gener-
ally on the Pacific coast demands, II
the national government should act in
harmony with it, would inevitably pro-
woke intense bitterness in Japan and
cause retaliation. Japan unquestion-
ably Is in position to strike back moss
effectively to our hurt, without show
ing greater prejudice than we are
showing against the japanese. japan
holds the gateway to the far east, over
which 1t is of incalculable importance
that we have a friendly keeper.
The advices from Washington may
well be credited, that the government
has in hand no other foreign question
which causes so much concern, and
that President Roosevelt is giving Il
his closest attention. 1t is a discourag
ing circumstance that the local au
thorities and local sentiment in Calf
fofnia, upon which so much depends
for q successful settlement, do moi
seem to realize how critical the situa
ton is or disposed to take a broadly
patriotic view of 1t.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
cHAIRHAN BuRroNs srANp.

In making public thus early his
hostility to appropriations for river
Improvements, either on the Missouri
or on the Mississippi above st. Louis,
Chairman Burton of the house rivers
and harbors committee merely reiter-
ates with emphasis the position he
has held for years, going so far as to
declare that the Missouri should no
longer be regarded as a navigable
river. And Mr.. Burton undoubtedly
represents an influential although nu-
merically not large element in con-
gress which must be reckoned with
in the movement to restore our in
terror river system as an efficient fac
tor in transportation.
The subject is complicated by the
wastes and utilities which have char
acterized so large a proportion of the
national expenditures for so-called i'm
provement of rivers and harbors, 1t
| is notorious that unnumbered millions
have been worse than wasted, public
money having been apportioned as
work" in response to mere local
greed and not for any substantial pur-
pose of navigation. 1t will be better
to realize first than last that II the re-
opening of the Mississippi and its
main tributaries is to be accomplished
it will have to be as a great national
undertaking. before which mere local
interests, grabs and electioneering
schemes must give way.
1t will be necessary, therefore, for
the people of the interior states sub
stantially to agree on some specific
plan demonstrably fttest for the great
public purpose, some part of which
can be undertaken and completed. On
this basis, which presupposes subordi-
nation of merely local projects, their
representatives in congress by combin-
ing could even now proceed hopefully.
The very first step must infallibly be
to eliminate the jobs, absurdities and
local schemes from the rivers and
harbors bill.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
FEATURES OF THE LOCK CANAL.
Varying Width, Depth and Locks of
Panama Ditch.

Secretary Taft in the Century.
The lock canal. beginning on the north
shore line. has a width of 500 feet for three
miles to Gatun. At Gatun there Is to be
duplicate night of three locks, which will
lift the vessels up to a lake to be formed
by a dam constructed at that point The
lake thus formed contains us square miles,
is thirty miles long, and at places is eight
miles wide. The steamer channel in this
lake is about twenty-three miles long. For
ten miles the lake is several miles wide,
with depth OF water, beginning at the
dam. Of seventy-hve feet. and gradually
reducing and shelving back to a depth OF
forty-five feet. For sixteen miles the pas
sage In the lake, which we shall call Gatun,
has a nominal width OF 1000 feet, though
It Is In most places very much wider than
that. Il then 10 reduced to a width Of SOJ
feet for nearly four miles as 1t approaches
the higher land; It then narrows TO 600 feet
for nearly four miles; for nearly three
miles more Il has a width Of 800 feet, and
then for four miles a width OF 200 feet.
This carries II through the Culebra cut.
Then for two miles It has width OF 800
feet. when a lock with lift ana descent OF
thirty feet is reached at Pedro Miguel, from
which there 10 lake navigation at hfty-hve-
foot level for Ave miles to sosa Hill, in
which there are two locks, carrying the
vessels down to the Pacific ocean.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
PASSING PLEAsANTRIEs.

"I did not suspect that your purpose IN
attaching me to yourself was a fell one"
said the shirt reproachfully to the sewing
You should remember what the poet
says" retorted the sewing machine;
Things are seldom what they seam,"-
Baltimore American.
THE first day he went out with his new
auto he got pulled"
For going fast?"
No; quite the opposite"
II don't see"
For stopping fast; he had to hire
farmer to haul him home. Houston Post
"she has postponed her marriage date
until MI, late in January"
"she wants TO make sure OF Christ
mas, present from him"-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
"she dotes on heroes.r
Then she should adore her husband"
why, did he ever do anything heroicT'
He married her."-Indianapolis News.
Pluto was boastIng of his three-headed
"well, 1t will get left" answered his
Daughters suitor II have only one pair
Seeing that there ~as not enough work
TO 90 round the o.d man stopped brag-
ging.-New York Sun.
Before you unfold your scheme" said
the cautious capitalist and prospective In
yestor' you will have TO promise to let
me IN on the ground floor"
"Why-er--as to that" answered the pro-
moter, visibly embarrassed, there isn't
going TO be any ground floor This is a
flying machine enterprise. Chicago TTib-
une.
II don't know what she meant, y know"
well, l was saying that I didn't feel
like myself today, and by Jovel she con-
graduated me eartily!'-Brooklyn Eagle.
II wish / had money enough to buy an
automobile"
What kind Of one would you getT'
I'D get a spanking team Of horses
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
How free and easy that girl is in her
conversation"
Yes she talks like married woman
illustrated Bits.
Lady" said Plodding Pete. ARE you
one o. desc people dat hates tramps7"
II am" was the prompt and decisive
answer.
''Weii, wouldn't you like to show your
feelins by temptin me to overeat myself
an putin de curse OF dyspepsia on meT'-
Washington Star
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

out the gas in my room every night at
$50, and I either have to go 70 bed or sit
In the dark"
You're a fool" interrupted one Of the
men, savagely. II wouldn't live In such a
place two seconds when New York Is lit
orally running over with good boarding
houses. why don't you leave?'
'I can't" sighed the man. TN her huH-
band" ....
Health Commissioner Bosiey Of New Yorh
City sounds a note OF warning TO auto
mobllists. He declares that speed mania
and the danger attending travel at high
speed are undoubtedly responsible for a
condition which he describes as the auto
heart and which is liable to cause death.
Automobiles with hearts that have the
slightest tendency to weakness should be
cautious" says Bosley. The excitement
OF rapid travelling out in the open causes
an overstrain on the heart and n this or
gan Is weak the condition OF the auto
mobilist is most dangerous one. Some
thing slightly out OF the ordinary. like q
narrow escape from collision OF the rum
ming down OF a man, might give the nnish-
ing touch and death might result"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The beet sugar campaign in Me-
braska, drawing to a close, has been
one of the most profitable in the his
tory of the industry, although the fac
tories have been hampered, as have
all other industries, by a shortage of
competent help. The sugar beet has
not occupied so prominent a place in
Nebraska affairs of late as 1t once did,
but the industry is on a very solid
basis.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

In acknowledging the donation OF
the Schiller monument by the united
German societies the Omaha Park
board indirectly calls attention to a
Deglected feature of our parks When
the Schiller statute is set up in River
view park Il viii be the frst Of its
kind In the city Omaha has some Of
the most beautiful parks in the world.
but they are woefully lacking in this
sort OF ornamentAtion.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
Did YOu Get Your shareE

CAlSfhbO ShAbihNiNs
The secretary Of agriculture, Mr.. Wilson,
places the value of this years farm
products at s67s4.OOOOOO an increase of
S4S5. 900 over last year, which surpassed
any previous year. The total is not much
less than $s5 for each man, woman and
child in the country, and the excess over
last year is not far from Sc per capita So
Il would not make any Of us rich II di-
vided equally, but altogether It will suffice,
no doubt, to keep up the boom for while
yet
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Mr.. Hartman is undertaking to in
gratiate himself with Illinois people
by promising to pay Ss.OOO,O 900 in
taxes which the Illinois Central owes
TO the Sucker state. II Mr.. Hartman
would only take steps now to have the
Union Pacific pay the taxes It owes in
Nebraska much would be forgiven.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
siEhs of the Weary Consumer.
Kansas City Star

Prices for food continue 10 rise so steadily
with the volume Of production in this coun-
try that with another bumper crop like
that of this year It seems doubtful whether
people Of moderate means would be able
to exist at all. Not that a crop failure is
prayed for, but the weary consumer would
like some kind OF a change mighty we'll.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
A Remote Prospect.

NHICdbU HeCOTu-HeTdIu.
If the Waters-Pierce OIL company were
TO be found guilty on all the counts in
the indictments now standing against It
and fined to the full extent Of the law
the penalties would foot up 31,59oOOO. That
would help some-but II has been estab-
lished that the Waters-Pierce company is
a part of the Standard oil trust, and 1t
seldom has to pay the maximum penalty.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

State Treasurer Mortensen has the
permanent school fund all invested.
While he has not yet been dubbed
Honest Pete" he has given the af-
fairs of his office such attention that
his administration will stand as a
model for a great many years.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

matter has been presented 70 the
Union Pacific authorities, and by each
department is pronounced "a good
thing" but as yet no steps have been
taken to re-establish the service. A
midnight train out of Omaha on the
Union Pacific Just at present would be
one of the most popular moves that
railroad could make.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The legislature is to be asked to
take up the matter of state reports
and make some provision to guard
against duplication. Experience indi-
Gates that a properly equipped blue
pencil would save the state a great
deal Of money If judiciously welded.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Nebraska schools are to share in
the prosperity which the state enjoys,
the value of school lands for leasing
having been more than doubled, with
a corresponding increase in revenue.
The wisdom of the founders of the Ne
braska school system is being exhib-
tied in the wealth of the magnificent
heritage they secured for the children
of the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

A slight decrease noted in the
Omaha bank clearings reported for
the week is not due to a cessation of
but can be charged to the
fact that one of the leading banks of
the city was closed on one of the bus
lest days of the week owing to the
death of it's president.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
Tnrdv LnnfIrc-
st. Louis Republic

~ LUUIh HepuDIIC,
The allowance by the War department of
claims for pay due members Of Bryans
old Nebraska regiment is an act Of tardy
Justice to body Of gallant soldiers who
were badly treated by the studious holding
OF them back from the firing line during
the war with Spain. Volunteers who are
not allowed to fight ought at least to be
fully paid
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The persistency with which hogs
cling to the six-dollar mark is most
encouraging to the farmers, many of
whom can easily recall the day when
they were glad to get SO. And this
prosperity has come to them under re-
publican administration and repub-
llcan policies.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The decision OF Cuban conservatives
to hold seats in the insular congress,
In the face of possible request for
their retirement proves that there are
some people who do not realize the
fun scope OF the Platt amendment.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The Guggenheim interests have set
a new precedent in the matter of float
ing mining stocks, but all promoters
do not have a United States senator
ship for the family at stake.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The report that Prussia may re-
establish tolls for trafic on the Rhine
is scarcely to be believed, considering
the difneulty with which the "robber
baron" was exterminated a few centu-
ries ago.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

South Omaha merchants are enjoy
ing the benefits of the interurban line
which has made Bellevue and Fort
Crook available as patrons. The time
will come when Omaha's retail trade
will be given a boost by similar means.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
The Ysnkee in German Eyes.

The Yankees are a joyous people They
are before everything optimists. Why
should they not be7 They dwell In
spacious land full Of treasurers OF the
earth. They are not Oyerladen with knowl-
edge, but learn for practice, and during
the greater part Of the year a blue heaven
stretches over them. For all those reasons
the Kankses may well laugh The Ameri-
cans are, however, bora humOTiSts
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The liberal party OF Great Britain
seems to have decided that Ireland
should have home rule on the Install
ment plan and from all appearances
the United States will set 1t an object
lesson in the Philippines.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Russia may find its highest purpose
is supplying arid and frigid America
with seeds OF grain that will grow
without the minimum supply of water
and heat.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

IN denying the existence OF a
'"Three-Kaiser league" Austria shows
that even fear of danger to the royal
prerogative is not strong enough to
allay national distrust.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
FfrtnE KnocI.s Afar.

II is very ereditable, OF course, for those
New York minister to do what they can
toward the reform OF the Congo Free State,
but are they perfectly sure that they have
done everything they can In this line that
is called for in their own city2
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The mikado has undoubtedly given
Russia real assistance by announcing
that Japan viii borrow no money at
this time. Investors may find 1t better
to buy Russian bonds than nothing.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

In comparison with total deficit, Mr
Heinze's donation OF 100000 to
Aetna Trust company deposltors
makes the value of his reputation
look like 80 cents"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Buyers can help themselves and the
clerks by taking first pick of the holi-
day offerings, and they will then have
time to put their minds in a proper
state for Christmas.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
TImman at His worst

His infammatory Chicago lecture is an
exhibition Of Senator Tllman OF South
Carolina, at his worst In his public dis
cussions OF the race question he is a are.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
CuItivatinE the orient.

- @@eNAAa NlNUt-AJElnNNIhA
American agricultural machinery Is in
lively demand in Manchuria. The world
has learned where to buy the best plows
reapers' mowers and threshers and must
hold the door open to the American prod
uct or get along with something inferior.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

The decision of German aristocrats
TO raise hogs BODIES i'll for the pending
conference for a new trade treaty with
the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
Rebate. NInrkeh nnnn

The Sugar trust has been fined for ac-
cepting rebates, but the hne only amounts
to about one-half Of the rebate. II seems
that the stock Of rebates instead Of being
closed out has simply been marked down
90 per cent
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Revival of piracy in China proves
that strong men exist in the empire,
though their efforts are directed in
the wrong channel
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
indifference breeds TroubI,

The British Soap trust has been forced TO
dissolve by public opinion. But In this eoun-
try our trust magnates are Indifferent to
public opinion until It takes the form OF in
dictments.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
Toe the Mark.

After seeing what can happen to an entire
battalion In the way OF discipline, It may
be assumed that the United States army
will take even greater pains than before TO
observe the most punctilious decorum.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Testimony at Chicago would indi-
cate that certain union labor leaders
had taken lesson from frenzied hnan-
ciers.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

1t now develops that guards were
used at Panama to prevent coal pass
ers from working themselves to death.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
sympathy for City DweIleFs,

After reading Secretary Wilson's annual
report, the liberal-minded farmer must feel
more sympathy than ever for the misera-
BILE dwelers In cities.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

that In his private dealings and inter
course with black men no man Is more fair
or tolerant
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

WHEN OUT OF TOWN.
Subscribers leaving the city tenn
porariIy should have The Bee
mailed TO them. Address viii he
changed a. often a. requested.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03
sTATEMENT oF CIRCULATIoN.

State Of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss:
Charles G. Rosewater, general manager
Of The Bee Publishing company, being
Of full and complete copies OF The Daily,
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month OF November, 1905, was
a.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-03

Net total sales. ....-..s........'s 'sHA'OSS
t,aiIv average 31,4ol
CHARLES c. ROSEWATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn TO
before me this 1st day of December, 1905.
(seai) M B. HUNGATE,
Notary Public.