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Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
rHE PAsarNeER FARE PRoBLEM.

The widespread demand for a reduc-
ton in the rate of passenger fare
chargeable in Nebraska is sure TO be
met by the present legislature. The
Scent maximum was established In
this state twenty years ago and no APP
probable reduction in the charge for
transporting passengers has been
made by the railroads in all that fime.
The necessity for a reduction Is fully
realized by the legislature, the only
open questions being how far and in
what way.
A considerable public sentiment Is
backing the contention that through
the abolition of the free passes and
the exaction Of fare from all passen-
gers transported the railroads can
well afford to make fiat 2-cent rate
On the other side, the possibility of a
court ruling that 2 cents is not COM
pensatory for branch lines and poorly
patronized roads must be kept in
mind, and the constitutionality of
whatever measure is enacted pro-
tected by some elasticity through APP
peal. One proposition is to establish
a maximum passenger rate OF "
cents mile, with power vested in the
state railway commission to reduce
still further upon proper showing that
a lower rate would be justified. An
other is to establish a 2-cent maxi
mum with power in the state railway
commission to increase the same upon
proper showing by the railroads that
2 cents is not reasonable compensa-
ton.
The one plan puts the burden of
proof that the rate is too high upon
the public and the other puts the bur
den of proof that the rate is too low
upon the railroads. A still different
plan has been proposed in some other
states, to which we have already al
luded, by which the rate is to be fixed
on a sliding scale according to the
average receipts of the different roads,
being higher for the roads with small
earnings and lower for those with big
earnings.
Whatever plan should be finally
adopted for Nebraska. the legislature
should not make the mistake of pro-
mitigating an inflexible rate without
providing some means of adjusting it
by review or appeal to the peculiar
conditions that may exist on particu-
lar lines or roads. Unless this is done
the whole law will be In danger of be-
ing upset in the courts to which the
railroads will have no hesitancy in ap-
peahng.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
SENATOR oARrrR.s ATTACK.

Senator Carter's speech in the SEN
ate vehemently arraigning the Interior
department, and by inference the pres
ident, for precautionary measures in
the issuance of patents under the land
laws is unwarranted and unjust. A
system of frauds and abuses under the
homestead, desert, timber and mineral
land statutes had been VIGOROUSLY es-
tablished, imperatively calling for
additional safeguards In administra-
ton and stricter enforcement Of the
laws. The emergenky became SO grave
that the senator's unqualified denun-
citation of the means successfully en-
ployed to meet it practically lends aid
and comfort to the conspirators who
have been plundering the public do
main,
The executive precaution which Is
singled out for the special outpours
ing of the Montana senator's wrath
is the departments order of last De-
cember, which prohibits the issuance
of a patent to land under any of-the
land laws until after examination on
the ground by a special agent. 1t is,
however, only one among a number OF
carefully drawn regulations, all clearly
within the administrator authority
and all designed to protect the peo-
pies land heritage from spoliation. 1t
is poor public service to attempt to
excite prejudice against such meas
ures, the benefits of which have be-
come so manifest.
The senator does not allege that any
honest homesteader will be injured in
his substantial rights by this order or
any of the other restrictions. The
most necessary public rule, of course,
may occasionally cause individual in
convenience. But the aim and the eff
feet of the Administrations policy are
to conserve the public domain for
bona fde settlers. And these regula-
lions, If they had been in force and
backed by the energy which the
Roosevelt administration has brought
to bear, would have saved to the peo-
pie millions OF acres that have already
been irretrievably lost.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Personal NOTES.

Senators who attempted to take a fall
out OF the president discovered too late
that the man in the White House eats
hard-boiled eggs for breakfast.
Congressman Butler Ames of Massa-
chusetts is said to be already In training
as an aspirant for the seat of Senator
Lodge, whose term has still four years to
run
A score of expert investigators and the
federal courts at ST. Louis have about
given up the job of locating some $6l, 900
missing from the local subtreasury cash
pile. The only fact clearly in the lime
light is that the money is gone.
King Edward draws more revenue In in
terest on American securities than George
III ever extracted from the American
colonies. King Edwards holdings in the
United States are typical investments here
Of thousands Of British capitalists
II. H. Rosseau recently appointed head
Of the bureau Of yards and docks Of the
Navy department, is the youngest man
ever called upon to fill this responsible
Office. He is only SO and ranks as a rear
admiral. His rise in the engineering world
has been phenomenal.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin told a
friend the other day that he had made
$4,000 clear during the last lecture season,
which was a short one because congress
did not adjourn until July and the political
exigencies in Wisconsin demanded much
of the senator's time in that state.
James ]. II. Gregory of Marblehead,
Mass, is a rival of Andrew Carnegie in
the giving away of libraries. He has been
doing this for years. His libraries are
smaller than Carnegie's gifts, and are given
to small communities, to ministers and
educators who cannot afford to purchase
them.
Former United States Senator CockreH
of Missouri, who has been Ill at his home
In Washington for three months, has gone
to Florida for three weeks rest. He Is
going on the advice OF his physician to
spend most OF his time fishing and will then
resume his active duties on the interstate
commission.
The Carnegie institution Of Washington
has made a grant of $500 a year for a
period of four years to Dean w. F. NJ.
Goss of Purdue university, for the pur-
pose of determining the value OF super
heated steam In locomotive service; first.
in connection with single expansion en-
gines; and. second, in connection with COM
pound engines. This Is the second grant
which the institution has made to Dean
Goss.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
THE EXTRA SESSION SCARE.

1t would, of course, precipitate an
extra session of congress If some of the
main appropriations, and especially
the postal bill. should fail. The dan
ger may at least cause both houses TO
stop the waste of time. The supply
bills are unqueEtionably in an un-
precedentedly backward condition for
the stage of the session that has been
reached, and 1t is demonstrably neces-
sary for congress to hasten its pace If
the essential ones are to be disposed Of
In time.
/ The fault rests with congress itself,
and particularly with that element
which is more than suspected of hav-
ing entered upon the session with the
deliberate purpose OF consuming time
and so bringing things about that i'm
portant measures of Affirmative legisla-
ton, of which there were not a few
left over from the previous session or
recommended by the president, could
be baked. The senate manipulations
OF the Smoot and the Brownsville sol
der cases were In line with this pun-
pose, but it now looks as If the anti
administration msnipulators had over
played their hand.
The bare possibility OF an extra ses-
sion is as obnoxious to them as the
merltorious progressive measures that
should have had serious attention from
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

The Interior department is asking
bids for live stock to be furnished In
dams on the reservations. Practi-
cally all of this will go to reservations
where grazing is the only industry
that can be successfully carried on.
1t is an interesting and not altogether
creditable comment on the work Of
civilizing the red man that he should
be periodically supplied with live
stock which, under even adverse con-
ditions, should multiply much faster
than the needs Of the Indian. A little
proper care would relieve the govern
ment of this one item of expense. at
least.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
RAILROADS AS COAL MERCHANTS.
Need of Legislation TO Restrict
MOnOnOlN.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.


Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There is nothing new in the report OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission condemn
ing the ownership Of coal companies by
railways but it is certainly to be hoped
that If the recommendations shall be acted
upon, the proposed federal legislation will
prove more effective than the measures to
the same end which have been tried by
the states. The commission has been in
vestigating the situation In the eastern
bituminous fields, but the abuse complained
of is we'll known to exist in the anthracite
fields as well and to be the root of many
of the evils there existing. It has en-
trenched an already powerful monopoly
by enabling the transportation companies,
which are at the same time coal merchants,
to hamper seriously and often completely
strangle the Independent operators who
seek a share of the business. There can DO
no objection to allowing railway companies
to mine coal for their own purposes, but
to permit them also to traffic I'm It is
perversion of the purpose for which they
were chartered and an abuse of their cor
porate privilege. Pennsylvania has tried
I'm vain to cope with the evil The federal
governments arm should prove longer and
its grip more tenacious.
The practice complained of is very close
to the root of the railway evil and it's abol-
ishment would go far to solve the railway
problem. Manifestly this is not to he
solved unless the railroads shall become,
voluntarily or otherwise, what they were
intended to be- once were, and even now
are supposed to be-neither more nor less
than common carriers, serving all ship
pers alike. This contamination is not to
be expected as long as they are allowed
to mine and sell coal. Their own interests
are certain to be given the preference.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01


The gain in business of the Omaha
banks during the last year is not es-
pecially surprising. but is a gratifying
exhibit of the advance made by the
city in all lines of material prosperity.
The thrift as we'll as the industry of
the citizens is reflected in the in
creased deposits, while commercial
and industrial enterprise is shown by
the growth of the use of money as in
dicated by the increase in loans and
discounts. In a large way the banks
are the best guide to the business con
ditions of a community and Omaha is
certainly to be congratulated on the
excellent showing made by the local
institutions.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

the outset. There is no telling what
might happen after the new congress
had freshly organized, as Il would
have to do for an extra session. The
president would have more trumps in
his hand than was possible in the short
session. From this time forth, there
fore, there will be more serious work
in order to get through the measures
for appropriating more than three
quarters of a billion Of revenues which
must be passed for the governments
support 70 avoid an extra session.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
BE MY SWEETHEART.
Eugene Field.

Sweetheart, be my sweetheart
When birds are on the wing,
When bee and bud and babbling Mood
Bespeak the birth of spring;
Come. sweetheart, be my sweetheart
And wear this posy ring.
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart
In the golden summer glow
OF the earth afiush with the gracious blush
Which the ripening fields foreshow;
Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,
AS INTO the noon we go.
Sweetheart. be my sweetheart
When falls the bounteOus year.
When the fruit and wine OF tree and vine
Give us their harvest cheer;
o. sweetheart, be my sweetheart,
For winter II draweth near.
Sweetheart be my sweetheart
When the year Is white and old,
When the fire OF youth il spent. forsooth.
And the hand Of age is cold;
Yet. sweetheart. be my sweetheart,
Till the year OF our love be told
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
TIp for Omaha Court.
Milwaukee Sentinel

II the courts of Omaha are so anxious
to preserve the purity Of the populace II
might be suggested that certain alleged
variety theAters and similar establish
ments which now flourish as the green
bay tree in the city by the Platte. be given
some judicial eOnsideration.A beautiful pic
ture, whether IL depicts the human form as
the creator made IT, OF eonceals IL In an
Client or modern drapery, can have no in
furious effect on a pure mind. The mind
that can derive salacious delight from such
a picture is essentially dirty and will revei
in nth no matter how strenuous the efforts
that are made by benevolent but futile per
sons to uplift IL
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

United States Ambassador Thomp-
son is coming home from Mexico for
a short visit at Lincoln. The fact
that the new senator has been elected
and other important matters provided
for will relieve him of any suspicion
of "pernicious activity" or undue in
fluence."
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Governor MagooH has given a ball to
1000 Cuban guests. and the report
says that 1.-THE leaders OF all the po-
litical parties were present" II may
be accepted. then. that there are not
more than 1000 political parties in
Cuba.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

A New York man claims to have made
100000 by finding new use for
eottonseed oil. He's probably the
man who devised the scheme of put
ting Italian labels on II and selling It
for pure olive oil.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

With the opening of another large
tract in the great Sioux reservation to
settlement we have further promise
of the future expansion of Omaha's
activity as a supply department for
the west Local jobbers should keep
close track of this.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Jim Hills son says everything posi-
BILE is being done to get coal to the
freezing residents of Montana and Qa-
kota. In the meantime. he advises
them to keep cool.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Texas proposes to arrange a monster
jack rabbit hunt. 1t will probably re-
suit in a bigger bag than the octopus
hunt which has been on in Texas for
some months.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Thirty-fve Omaha letter carriers
will get neat little sums of money for
overtime work. In the meantime the
clerks in the postofice keep on work
ing all sorts Of hours for single time
pay.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Reports from Washington indicate,
however, that he Is getting very little
sympathy in his effort to establish a
clear back track between a congress
mans pocket and the national ex-
chennar.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Washington reports that 100000
men are available for military service
in the United States. Washington
fails, however, to furnish any figures
showing the difference between avail
ability and efficiency.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Iowa legislators are having trouble
over the anti-pass question: being un-
certain just where to draw the line
A good plan for this is to copy the Sec
ton from the Hepburn bill referring
to the pass and let the railroads dc
the rest.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

The president insists that the United
States will retire from Cuba as soon
as conditions there warrant 1t. Eng
land made a similar promise when 1t
took possession OF Egypt in 1881.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Oklahoma is arranging its constitu-
ton in response to hints from Wash
ington, with a mental reservation that
when II gets statehood 1t will fix up a
constitution that win suit Oklahomans.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
HOT TonIcr 60 HnndIe.

81. LOUIS Nlope-OeiiOCidts
The Gridiron club raised a squall by dip
ping into the distant future. and row has
been stirred up In clerical circles by the
story of Jonah. Only prehistoric or post
mundane topics seem cool enough to handle
at the present time.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Under the pending Indian appropria-
ton bill. white children may be adj
mitted to Indian schools in the Indian
Territory. In other words. white chill
dren are as good as Indians. IL they
behave themselves.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Carmen sylvia asserts that the heart
is like a fountain pen, filled but once,
but writes forever. II Carmen has a
fountain pen of that kind. 1t Is the
only one ever made.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

1t appears that the speeches at a
Gridiron dinner in Washington are no
longer kept a secret any better than
the proceedings of an executive ses-
sion OF the senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
square Deal in Local option.

Local option is one of the fairest things
in the universe. Great injustice is done all
the time by dealing with large communi-
ties In the mass. This Is necessary In some
things. but the smaller the population leg
islated for the better opportunity there Is
OF adapting the law TO its needs.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
A Painful Discovery.

When Mr.. Rockefeller finished reading the
Interstate Commerce commissions report
on the Standard Oil company he must have
been panied to think that his edfying ex-
ample had had so little effect upon its
morals.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Enlarge the MegaphOne.

We cannot believe the report that Mr..
Bryan. Unsuitable of expression and find
ing himself uhreleved by his weekly. is to
start a magazine. He needs a morning
and an evening daily, all editorial, to utter
even small part Of the thoughts that arise
In him
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
warning telephone companies have

Warning telephone companies have
at last gotten on a proposition that
they do not want to get together.
Physical connection between the rival
systems would so far destroy the
rivalry as to render one OF the other
of them. useless. Public interests are
not considered in the present attitude
of the telephone magnates.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

1t is predicted that alcohol will soon
take the place of gasoline as a motive
power for automobiles. A denatured
automobile will help some.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Prizes of the Peacemakers

The president will get no Nobel peace
prize for having put down the Foraker
rebellion. but a tape line stretched from
his right ear to his left would show that
his facial expression is the same that It
was when that trophy was handed to him.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Shocks Here and There.

Nebraska has recently been shocked by
some pictures OF Rubens, New York has
been shocked by 'salome." Texas has been
shocked by Bailey. and several other places
have had to be content with mere earth
quake.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Unnatural AIIies Come to Grief.

As We ventured to predict the unnat-
ural alliance between socialism and cler-
icalism in Germany has come to grief thus
showing that even in politics sacrifice OF
principle to expediency is a fatal policy.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Members OF the Thaw jury are al
lowed to read New York papers from
which all references to the Thaws and
the trial have been cut out. This
leaves them the department store ads.
real estate transfers and tia mOrtuary
statistics.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
seed. Go with salary.
Chicago News

Free seeds will continue to be distrib-
uted by the congressman, who cannot af-
ford to cut them of just when they have
to explain the increase in their own sal
aries
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

III Mr.. Shonts makes a success of his
few job on Wall street he will have to
ret water flowing more quickly than
he did on his Panama Job.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
Troubles of Hanging On.
washington Post.

The truth of the matter is that entirely
too many members of the senate are spend
ing their time trying to prevent some one
from pulling their seats out from under
them. -..-
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Congressman Pollard proposes that.
IL he San help it, no congressman in
the future will have as much difficulty
In putting 1t back as he encountered.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

It now develops that Mr.. Hartman
owns number of steamships, thus as
,uring him water supply for his rail-
yay stock
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Jim Hills operating department
an blame the weather man now.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01
wn wonderr Erer cea.et

Indianapolis News.
Railroad rates reduced 10 per cent. with
out reducing wages? Why. this is nothing
less than reform running amuckl
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Railroad attorneys are little slow
with their claim that the car shortage
Is due to the operation of the Hepburn
act.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

The Tombs is the most modern and best
constructed prison in the world. The great
massive pile of white stone with it's towers.
from an architectural standpoint can be
surpassed only by n few structures In the
city. The Tombs is really cherry place
well lighted and ventilated. and persons
possessed of wealth may obtain any reason
able luxury and comfort while in prison.
The Bridge of sighs." over which Harry
X. Thaw walks from the prison to the SUI
preme court building twice a day, does not
strike terror to the hearts OF persons. The
exterior OF the bridge is painted brilliant
white and contains four large windows on
either side. It's interior is bright and cheer
full and but for the absence OF a box ONCE
uninitiated persons while passing over its
mosaic tiled floor would readily take Il
for an entrance to a first class theater.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Prospects are good that the Thaw
ortune will be removed from the
swollen" list.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

1t is about time for the ground hog
exhibit symptoms of insomnia.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

The hardest problem ever put up to a
bachelor judge is before Judge Edward j.
Lauer OF the municipal court. The question
is whether SS7 each is an exorbitsnt price
for four pairs Of corsets and whether they
arc a proper fit. Suit was brought by Mrs.
Rose Scognamilo, for the payment of four
pairs OF corsets ordered by Mrs John s.
Woodruff in January, 1906. Later Mrs.
Woodruff obtained a divorce. and the bill
for the stays was presented to Mr. Wood
run. Mr.. Woodruff said in court, that Just
before separation his wife spent more than
$l1,0OO for clothes, for which he has been
receiving bills ever since. During their
married life he allowed his wife $40 a
year for wearing apparel He said his wife
refused to accept the corsets, because her
figure had changed Judge Lauer reserved
decision until he could get some light on
the subject.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

The Lumber trust is to be investi-
ated for taking to the tall timber.
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

Alarmed by the determination OF Corpora
ton Counsel Ellison and Attorney General
jackson to institute active proceedings to
collect back franchise taxes, the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company and the
Manhattan Railway company turned in
S,17o,1A.n to the comptroller in settlement
of unpaid franchise taxes from 1900 when
the law went into effect to 1904. inclusive.
There have been no payments on the trac-
tion lines of Brooklyn, Queen or Richmond.
Comptroller Metz ordered this afternoon
that all the property OF the companies OPP
Grating traction systems in these boroughs
be sold. This order would result in another
payment into the city treasury Of an amount
nearly as large as that collected The
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company also owes
the city $1.7926SS19
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

IT have Travelled all over the world and
seen all kinds and conditions Of men, and
the most sensible and far-seeing man 1
ever met was an English duke"
I'm what way did ne show t?'
HE was fairly decent to his rich Amen-
can wife. philadelphia Press
Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-01

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