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Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
WASHINGTON.

From Under the Elm Tree" by James
Russell Lowell.
Soldier and statesman, rarest unison;a
High poised example of great duties done
AS lifes Indifferent gifts to all men born;
Dumb for himself, unless II were to God,
But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent
Tramping the snow OF coral where they
Held by his awe in hollow-eyed content:
Modest, yet firm as natures self; I'M
Save by the men his nobler temper
Not honored then or now because he
The popular voice. but that he still with
stood; ID" f-f
Broad-minded, high-souled. there is but
Who was All this and ours. and all mems
Washington. .r ~t's'.
Minds strong by fits. irregulariy great,
That flash and darken like revolving lights.
Catch. more the vulgar eye unschooled TO
On the long curve of patient days and
Rounding a whole life to the circle fair
OF orbed completeness9 and this bananced
soul .. ..... "a, ..
50 Simple in its grandeur coldiy bare
OF adrhperies theatrfe, standing there
In perfect symmetry Of self control,
Seems not so, great. at. first, but greater
stim as we look, and bv experience learn
How grand this quiet is, how nobly stern
The discipline that wrought lifelong throes
This energetic passion OF repose.
nature too decorous and severe,
Too self-respecting in its griefs and Joys
For ardent girls and boys,
Who find no genius in mind so clear
That its grave depths seem so obvious and
near, .,-r ..,.r4 -.fr
Not soul great that made so little noise,
They feel no force in that calm cadenced
phrase, '' ~. 49,
The habitual full-dress Of, his well-br9d
mind. ..
That seems to pace the minuet's' courtly
maze 20 v-i Hi.'
And tell Of ampler leisures. rOomler
length OF days.
His broad built brain. to self so little kind
That no tumultuary blood could blind.
Formed to control men, not amaEe,t
Looms not like those that borrow height
of haze:
It was world OF statlier movement then
Than this we fret in, he a denizen
OF that ideal Rome that made man for
men.
Placid completeness, life without a fall
From faith or highest aims, truths breach
less wall ~
Surely II any fame can bear the touch,
HIS will say "HereW at last trumpets call,
The inexpensive man whose life eK-
pressed so much. -..
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
SMOOT HOLDS HIS SEAT.

The senate of the United States in
exercising its right to pass upon the
qualifications of its membership has de-
cided that Senator Reed Smoot of Utah
shall not be deprived of his seat simply
because he is a member Of the ruling
body of the Mormon church. The
vote for his expulsion fell far short of
the two-thlrds necessary for that con-
summation of the wishes of petition
ers, nearly 100000 in number, who
have waged a most persistent cam
paign against him since his selection
by the Utah legislature in 1908.
Much misinformation has been
printed throughout the country in con-
nection with the Smoot case. The
general impression has been given out
that Smoot himself las been guilty %
fact, his most bitter opponents have
not made that charge against him and
the committee of the senate whicS
reported in favor of his expulsion
stated specifically that no such charge
had been made and that the senator
stands before the senate in personal
character and bearing above criticism
and beyond reproach."
The only question before the senate
was whether Smoot, as an apostle and
member of the governing body of the
Mormon church, had given aid and
support to that hierarchy in its def
ance of the laws of his own state
and of the government, 1t was
urged by Shoots opponents that his
patible with his oath as a United
States senator. This charge was not
strongly substantiated as there was
but little testimony offered as to the
nature of the oath. Mr.. Smoot de-
clared before the committee and in his
address before the senate that the zen
dowment house" oath does not bind
him to any obligation incompatible
with his oath as a United States SEN
ator. but that he could no more dis
close the wording of the oath than
could Mason divulge the secrets of
| his order.
After a hearing extending over two
years, in which every. effort was made
by the advocates of expulsion to make
a case against Smoot, the senate has
decided that 1t has no ground upon
which to base his exclusion except the
fact that he is member of the Nor
mon church The vote on the motion
to expel Smoot is simply a notice that
the senate of the United States will
mot allow religion to be considered
among a senator's qualifications for
membership.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
POPULAR GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY

POPULAR GOVERNMENT IN GERMANP.
Emperor Williams address to the
new Reichstag is at once congratula-
tory and conciliatory. The results of
the election assure him that his CO.
lonlal policy will stand, as the Issue
in the campaign hinged on that prop
osiuon, the former Reichstag having
been dissolved because it refused to
vote supplies for the army in South
west Africa. The overwhelming de-
feat of the socialists, who secured the
defeat of the army budget, was suf-
cient cause for the self-congratulatory
note in the kaiser's speech from the
throne, but, according TO the cabled
reports, he made no effort to urge the
victory as a vindication of the auto
cratic idea of government, going,
other direction by bespeaking and in
yiting the cooperation Of the Reiehstag
in support of the national sentiment
and the common welfare of Germany.
The German people have been
growing more and more FESTIVE under
absolutism, coupled with miltarism
and Daternalism. and the kaiser APP
parently has a keen appreciation OF
this feeling. In most diplomatic
terms, in his address to the new
Reichstag. he put in word for his
constitutional rights and promptly
I followed It with an expression of con-
fidence in the popular branch of the
government. represented by the
Reichstag. Just as / am willing,
said the emperor. Ito observe con-
scientiously all my constitutional
rights and privileges. so am l coma
dent the new Reiehstag. composed OF
intelligent men, will acknowledge
that its highest duty is to preserve
and strengthen our position among
civilized nations"
The Reichstag is about the only
heritage the democratic government OF
lS4S left to Germany II represents
The voice of the people of the empire
as expressed by secret ballot and man
hood suffrage. although its powers in
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
NOPE pAY FoR POSTAL CLERKS.

MOhE RI rOh rus TAD CLE mas
The postoffice appropriation bill
passed by the lower house of the con-
gress contains a provision which at
fords deserved relief to about $4,000
overworked and underpaid clerks in
the postoffices of the country. The
development of the postal service in
the last decade, particularly in the ex-
tension of the rural free delivery SER
vice, has caused a continual and per-
sistent demand for greater compensa-
ton for employees charged with the
duty OF delivering the mails by rail-
ways and on suburban routes. Con-
gress has yielded to pressure for more
pay for the railway mail clerks and
the city and rural delivery carriers,
but until now has failed to recognize
the claims of the loyal workers In the
clerical departments of the postal SER
vice.
Attention was called by The Bee
more than a year ago to this unjust
discrimination against the postoffice
clerks, with an urgent appeal for a
recognition of their services in keep
ing with the treatment accorded en-
ployes in other branches of the postal
system. BY an order of the postoffice
| department, employees are prohibited
from working through any organiza-
ton for increased emolument and the
maintenance of a lobby at Washington
is strictly prohibited. The movement
started in Omaha for the relief of the
postoffice clerks attracted attention
throughout the country and the in.
creased pay provided for them in the
pending bill is undoubtedly due to the
campaign of publicity in behalf of q
merited claim
BY the terms of the bill which. ha:
passed the house, clerks in postofficei
of the first and second class are to BE-
divided into seven grades with salaries
ranging from 5000 to $1,000 per an
mum. The present system of pay GOV
ers about the same range. but the plaT
of promotion is so restricted that bu
a very few clerks in the first class Of
fees have any prospect OF receiving
more than about $500 a year. Thu
proposed law will permit the advance
ment in offices of the Omaha class II
the course of few years. until tn,
average pay of clerks will be abou
$1,000 a year instead Of $500 as a
present. Under conditions heretofor,
existing competent clerks, necessary I,
the proper conduct of the postal work
have been drawn from the service b
better offers from private concerns o
have remained in the service with
iustiAable feeling of belng underpaid
The 9ostoffee clerks are TO be con
graduated aud congress congratulate
that scale of salaries and a system
for their adjustment has been devise
that will place the question of com
pensation fo- tire clerks on a NOR
satisfactory basis.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Our rope-throwing mayor has now
constituted himself a moral censor for
the community, trying to determine
by personal inspection whether a di-
vorce court with a salacious trial in
progress is a proper place of amuse-
ment for the populace. Mayor
"Jim's" verdict as handed down is as
follows: ION seeing the crowd which
is in here at present l have just about
changed my mind. 1t would take a
pretty heavy Jolt to Tease that bunch. Z"
No danger, certainly, of any divorce
trial Teasing our cowboy mayor.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The Introduction of a bill into the
Nebraska legislature for a maximum
rate on express company charges sug-
gests another abuse that should be
reInedied by law. Express companies
should be required, when they accept
prepaid packages, to deliver the same
without extra charge to the place of
address anywhere within the limits
OF the municipality in which the party
resides. The present practice is for
express companies to deliver packages
only within a narrowly circumscTNbed
area and to notify people outside of
that district by telephone or postal
card to call and get the package
which the sender had paid the COM
pany to deliver. In other words. the
express companies should be prohib-
tied from collecting at both ends for
the same service.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The appearance of a delegation
from South Omaha before the legisla-
ture in behalf of consolidation must
have opened the eyes of some of the
outside statesmen to the fact that
there Is a healthy annexation senti-
pent in South Omaha among those
who have the substantial interests of
the city at heart and at the same time
tend to confirm the statement that the
great majority of the "antis" rep
resent the influence Of the Office hold
ers, present and prospective, fearful
of being pried loose from the payroll.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
A Sensible Change.
Kansas City Star

The bill introduced by Representative
Champ Clark which provides that 10 cents
worth of any kind OF American stamps
placed on a letter In addition to the
cents postage will guarantee its delivery
by special messenger II the words special
delivery are written on the envelope, is
a sensible one. There Is no good reason
why a particular style OF special delivery
stamp should be required any more than
there Is reason why the government should
insist that 10 cents postage should De evil
denced by a 1O-cent postage stamp rather
than 1--WE twos. The bill has passed the
house without objection and IL Is to be
hoped that the senate will not hunt around
for q reason TO defeat IT,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
BLOCKED ron A TINE
Bill Cutting Out Watered stock "a .
Rate Making Asset.
rphuo a.f,bfa nor,~A

hAN NuNNthA WV WaNeFtd stock n
Rate Making Asset.
Philadelphia Record
AS Is well known, a darling project OF
Senator LaFollettet r. 50 to amend the
railroad bill as to empower the Interstate
Commerce commission TO fix reasonable"
freight rates on the basis Of the actual
value Of the capital. and not on the
watered stock Of a carrying company His
bill for this purpose has been slumberinE
In the Interstate commerce committee OF
the senate since last session. At length
the bill ives called up in committee last
Friday, when nine senators were present,
five OF whom voted for reporting II favora-
bly,. But when two senator's, Messrs. TILL
man and Clapp, left the committee room
the vote was reconsidered, and the bill is
where II was before. II makes no differ
ence. however, whether II had been favora-
bly, reported or not there was no pros
pect Of its passage in the brief remnant OF
the present congress against powerful
opposition. In the next congress this
measure OF so much Importance to most
of the railroad corporations will be brougs.
up with the strong approval OF President
Roosevelt and his Interstate Commerce
commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
END THE Jan FEEDING GRAFT


The bill introduced In the leglsla-
ture by Representative Tucker to end
the Jail feeding graft in Douglas
county ought to be passed by the leg,
islature without opposition. The bill
provides simply that in counties hav-
Ing more than 100000 population the
board of county commissioners shall
advertise for bids for supplying meals
to the prisoners in the county jail ac-
eOrding to definite specifications set
forth in the advertisement and let the
contract, annually to the lowest aud
best bidder.
The enactment of such a law would
enable this county TO save from 80 to
so per cent of what the jail feeding
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

legislative matters are not large. The
body has been dissolved four times by
the present emperor for failure to sup
port his policies. and in each of the
three cases previous to the recent
election the new Reichstag has done
the emperor's bidding. With each
election. however, the Reichstag has
improved its standing as a parlia-
mentary body of power and has be-
come more fairly representative OF the
people. The kaiser evidently appre-
ciates this growth and recognizes that
in order for him to push on in the
path he has marked out he must COM
mand the support of the Reichstag for
his policies and purposes.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Former State Treasurer Mortensen
has some pretty sturdy ideas as to
how public money should be handled.
His demand that the same safeguards
surround all funds whether spent for
the State university OF for the State
Reform school is entitled to attention,
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
The Usual DIscOvery.

Chicago Record-Herald.
Connecticut bank failed a few days
ago. and the bank examiner has just made
the discovery that 1t did business in an
irregular manner. Perhaps the examiner
fancies that his report will be comforting
TO the people who would have taken their
money out II they could have been ap-
prised of the banks unsoundness before
the collapse came.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Chief Engineer Stevens reports that
dirt is being removed from the Pan
anna canal at the rate Of 200. 900 cubic
yards a week. II the authorities
wrangle over the contract little
longer Mr.. Stevens may have chance
20 complete the job.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
Lese Maiestc.
Baltimore American.


The Pennsylvania house OF representa-
tives actually made merry over the mes
sage sent II by Mr.. Baer OF divine
right" fame. This act of audacity is apt
TO give a sudden boom to the popularity
Of lese majestic throughout the country
and vastly to stimulate its commission.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
state Gives Up Booze Business

The South Carolina legislature has abol-
ished the state dispensary. Lack OF conf
dence In the expert knowledge and BUSH
ness capacity of the dispensary board was
followed by lack of confidence in the tonic
quality of the fluids it dispensed TO the
public. Now every county is to have It's
own board II It wishes, and local ideas and
prepossessions are to triumph against CEN
tralized taste and management.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The proposed law making members
OF the Omaha Police commission in
eligible to run for other offices during
their terms on the police commission,
which seems to be on a fair way to
the statute book. may relieve the
pressure somewhat for future police
commissioner appointments.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

r President Roosevelt informs Massa-
chusetts revisionists. in effect, that
the tariff pitcher is to be carried TO
the we'll again in the campaign next
year.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

A new telephone directory is being
distributed to patrons OF the Omaha
exchange, but the telephone by which
Police Commissioner Broatch is
reached at his home is still scheduled
under the name Noise"
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The Nebraska editors cut the name
of Third Assistant Postmaster General
Madden out of their resolutions. but
he will have no dificulty in identity
ing himself as the man referred to.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

1t is asserted that the investigation
Of Senator Bailey's record will cost
the state OF Texas $4,000. but the
senator should not be blamed. He
did everything possible TO prevent IT.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

"A wife must train her husband and
keep him trained, Just as one trains a
young mule" says Mrs Carrie Chap
man Gait. We take It for granted that
Mr.. Gait was properly trained.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

A st. Louis Judge says the law has
nothing 10 say about how or when a
woman shall spend her husbands
money. Even judges occasionally
realize the impoteney Of the law.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Senator Bailey says he advised the
Standard OIL company to keep out of
Texas. Doubtless he wishes they had
followed his advice.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Congress has authorized two battle
ships of the Dreadnaught type, so II
will be difficult to convince ship
builders that the Japanese war talk
did not serve a purpose.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
spot-Lighting the Truth.

h St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
General Kouropatkin has told us what was
behind all OF the Russian defeats in Man
churia AS we recall those stirring events
the Japs were always behind, and very
close behind, every one of them.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

In the language of Mayor Jim"
Lieutenant Governor Hopewell ought
to stand ace high with the woman's
suffrage brigade from now on.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22
Activity of Noise Makers.

Chicago Record-Herald.
Three hundred thousand pianos were
made in this country last year, notwith-
standing the fact that societies for the
suppression of useless noises were organ
lied in several places.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Members of the legislature should
remember that they are all pledged to
keep the appropriations within the
lines of the most economical admins
tration of the state government and
that this pledge of economy extends
in spirit, If not in letter, to the whole
sale raising of salaries OF public ofi-
cers-state, county and municipal.
II the state were out of debt and had
a good surplus in the treasury, sal
airy boost all around might be excusa-
BILE, but under the circumstances, with
a special levy needed to make good the
deficit caused by successive overlaps,
1t should require mighty good reasons
to Justify salary raises at the hands
OF our lawmakers.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The designs on gold coins are to be
changed by order of the president.
No order from Washington can change
the designs we all have on gold coins.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Champ Clark of Missouri says the
democrats are beginning to sit up and
take notice. Heretofore they have
been satised to sit uD and take their
medicine.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Only 1862 new novels were pub
lished last year. Cyrus Townsend
Brady must have been indisposed part
of the time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

He had a Weighing and balancing mind
His intellect was like a pair OF accurately
adjusted scales. He did not often. espe-
ciaily in civil affairs, originate the policies
upon which he acted. But he listened care
fully and patiently to every counsel from
which me could get instruction, and then
brought Il In the end 20 the sure test OF
his own uneTring judgment He weighed
the advice OF his great councillors, the
claims of contsnding parties, and Of Jefrer-
son and Hamilton and Adams and Picker
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

80, in the time of framing the constitu-
ton and in administering the government
for the first eight years, Washington had
nowhere to look either for example or for
instruction. All the paths he trod had to
be broken out by himself and his great
companions and associates. We who find
our path broken, macadamized leveled,
blazed by the sure and safe presidents Of
l25 years can hardly understand the diff
culties which beset Washington. And yet,
in his whole life, from the time when, but
a youth of "a, he gave his wise but vain
counsel to General Braddock, and brought
home all the laurels of that most disas-
trous expedition, to the time when, full OF
years and honors, he left to his country
men his farewell address-that almost in
spired political bible, the adherence to
which ever has brought and ever will bring
to us safety. prosperity and glory, the de-
parture from which Is the path to danger,
ruin and shame-he never made a mistake
and never gave unwise counsel to his coun-
trymen. .
'There are some characters, unhappiy
few. of whom we never think struggling
with or conquering temptation. Sin did not
beset them. l suppose this was never yet
literally and perfectly true of any man or
woman. Yet It was as nearly true Of
George washington as Of any man or
woman. Integrity. unselfsh and unambi-
tious service, industry that sought no re-
pose while 1t remained to be done, unhesi-
tating self-sacrifice, purity not only unsul-
lied but untempted. were all his. The temp
tation TO evil never seems TO have beset
that lofty nature. nor besieged that i'm
pregnable fortress. The devil is an ass.
But he never was such en- ass as to waste
his time tempting George Washington.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Senator Shoots opponents will be
slow to forgive him for having only
one wife.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

1t Is to be noted that the trainman
who is killed is usually shouJdcred
with the responsibility for the wreck.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

The sale of mileage books at higher
rates is likely to go slow until the
2-cent rate law becomes a certainty.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-22

Washingtons virtues were the cornerstone
virtues. They were the virtues which lie
al the foundation OF all civil society as well
as OF noble individual character. The viz
tues OF Washington are the virtues which
we ascribe in our humble. imperfect and
faraway conception to divinity.
Think Of his absolute veracity! He con-
Quoted with his own hand a vast corre-
spondence enough to tax to its uttermost
the strength OF mind and brain and body
of an athlete even II he had had to bear
no other burden Of public care His pub
lished correspondence fills many large
volumes. and there is a great deal, / sup
pose, still unpublished But there is not a
trace OF duplicity, Of concealment, OF say
ing one thing TO one man and another to
another. of assurances Of respect or good
will that no doubt come from the heart.
such as / am sorry to say, dishgure the
correspondence of some OF his famous and
honored contemporaries. The little fable
invented by Weems his enthusiastic biogra-
pher, mas become the standing jest Of many
a generation OF irreverent boys. But no
body ever doubted or ever will doubt that
George Washington could not tell lie,
could not act a lie. could not think a lie;
! that a lie could not live In his presence,
or that all falsehood and discrimination
] would stink abashed and COMPOUNDED from
the gaze OF those eyes and from that per-
/ feet witness.