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THE SEWS THIS MORMSG
FOREIGN —Intense Indignation warn caused
among the members of the lower house of the
: Russian parliament by a note sent from Peter
h.->f to President Mouromtseff, saying that the
Emperor would not receive the deputation ap
pointed to present the reply to the speech from
the throne, and that it must be presented
through Baron Fredericks. the Minister of the
Household == President Palma was Inaugu
rated at the Palace in Havana; the diplomatic
corps and practically all the leading Hoc rates
of. Cuba were present; no Liberal members of
Congress attended the ( tnony. - The Aus
trian Crown and Council of Ministers have oe
cided to refuse the Hungarian demand -a
e'parate tariff. ±= The Mutual Life Policy
holders* Protection Association in London has
tent a circular to policyholders, strongly urging
them to accept the offer of the North British
ann Mercantile. ===== Fifteen Turks were Killed
and twenty-three wounded by Christians in
three Macedonian villages. ===== Advices from
Rome said that the Pope was better and that
bis speedy recovery was expected.
DOMESTIC— Orders were received in Phila
delphia for the cruiser Columbia to sail for
Santo Domingo to-day; she will carry about six
hundred marines, = ■- It was learned in San
Francisco that work on the rebuilding of Stan
ford University was under way and would prob
ably be completed by fall. — - — - A dinner in
celebration of the fourth anniversary of Cuba
Independence was given by Minister Quesada in
Washington. == One woman was killed and
several persons were seriously injured In an au
tomobile accident at Erie, Perm. ■ Three
canoeists were drowned in the Merrimack River,
rear Lawrence, Mass. — Twelve persons
were hurt in an accident on a park coaster in
Chicago — ■ It was learned at Catskill that
the steamer Kaaterskill was afire during her
trip up the rive, from this city; the damage was
plight. = An ettempt to kidnap a nine-year
oli boy was frustrated at Edgemoor. Del.
CITY. Many funerals were held up and wed
ding arrangements were disorganized by the
strike of the coach drivers in the lower part of
Man ana ii. - ■ Shot^ were fired from an
automobile and a streetcar in Broadway at a
negro escaping from a policeman, and an at
tempt to lynch him v.as made by a mob. . ■
An automobillst who was put under bonds for
Injuring a man at Jamaica denied that his
machine had ruck the injured man. ===== Two
Kirls were seriously burned in White Plains by a
lamp exploding after it had been knocked over
by a cat. r■■ i i Reserves were called out to
<jue!l a stabbing affray in WUliamsburg; two
score arrests were made. = Drinks were
served freely at Fort George, without any pre
trnee at observation of the excise laws. ==
There was a lively wrangle at the annual meet-
Ing of the Young Men's Hebrew Association.
: '■ . A man ami a boy were drowned In Union
■ 1.: ke. near Milvill". N. J.; the exact cause of
the accident is unknown, as no one has been
found who saw It.
THE WEATHER. — Indications for to-day:
Fair and warmer. The temperature yesterday:
jhest, 73 degrees; lowest. 54.
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17 TTc desire to remind our readers who are
wahout to leave the city that The Tribune will
be sent by mail to any address in thin country
or abroad, and address changed as often as de
tired. Subscriptions may be given to your reg
ular dealer before leaving, or, if more conven
ient, hand them in at The Tbibune Office.
See opposite page for subscription rate*.
ONE MAX, OXE VOTE, ONE VALVE.
The British government has promptly moved
for the expected measure of franchise reform
by Introducing a bill to abolish plural voting.
Hitherto many voters in the United Kingdom
have been able to vote each In a number of con
stituencies, as though a Sew Yorker were per
mitted to vote for one Congressman In Brooklyn,
where he had bis city borne ; for another in Man
hattan, where he had bis business establishment;
for a third in VTestcheeter County, where he had
it country place: for a fourth In Wyoming, where
lie had a stock farm, and for a fifth in St. Law
rence, where he had an Adirondack lodge. Of
course, there is a certain argument in favor of
Fuch a system, based upon the fact that a man
may have large interests In each of a number
of districts or constituencies and thus apparently
be entitled to representation in each. But that
argument, carried to Its logical extent, would
piv«? men plural votes in a single constituency in
proportion to their property interests, a system
which doe* prevail in some countries, but which
Is generally on the way toward abolition. The
sounder principle, adopted In this country, is
that of franchise based upon manhood and not
upon property— principle of "one man, one
vote." for the landlord and tenant, for the mill
ionaire and wage earner, alike.
This scheme, which has long been favored by
Liberal statesmen in the United Kingdom, is
commendable, and will presumably be adopted.
Some surprise and regret are expressed, how
ever, erenanong supporters of the government
that there 'has not been coupled with it, or intro
duced simultaneously with it, a companion meas
ure for equalizing the value of votes, or at least
per minimizing the gross Inequalities which now
exist. There Is little difference between giving
one man five ballots to another's one and giving
one man one ballot which counts for five times as
much as another's one. This latter inequality
np:>ears to be at least as prevalent in the United
Kingdom as the former, and probably exerts a
considerably larger influence. We have cup
posed a ea*e In which one man's ballot would
have five times the electoral value of another
man's. In fact, there are cases in which the
disproportion Is not only fivefold, but twenty
sevenfold. In Rome constituencies there are
populations of from only 13,000 to 16,000, while
In others they are from 180,000 to 'J17.000. If
there — as there — In one constituency only
| 1,500 voters and in another 41,000 voters, and
I each constituency has Just one Member of Par-
I liament, then the representative value of a vote
f In the one is more than twenty-sewn times as
I great as in the other. Practically ea< jj voter ia
j,'ihe one has twenty-seven ballots, against only
J one for each voter in the other.
It is, of coarse, practically Impossible to se
l cure absolute equality among all constituencies,
J "3 we well know from our own experience with
r Ocagresstonal and legislative districts, but it v
certainly easy to secure a much- nearer approxi
mation to It than is found to-day among many
constituencies of the United Kingdom. The late
Unionist government had in mind a measure for
correcting some of those inequalities, aud such
a reform of the electoral system has been <*on
sldered a part of the Conservative jwlicy. just
as the abolition of plural voting is a Liberal
policy. Each party probably supposes its own
interests, as well as the ends of Justice, would
be promoted by the adoption of its policy. There
seem lo he many thoughtful and farseeing ob-
Bervers of affairs in the United Kingdom, how
ever, who look beyond party lines, who regard
both of these reforms as desirable, and who are
convinced that not only the public welfare would
be served, but also the popular favor and prestige
of the party enhanced, by bravely uniting the
two reforms in a single measure, and establish
ing the principle not only of "one man, one
vote," but alw of "one vote, one value."
SALARY BY OOTSBTKUCTIOB.
The Hon. John Sharp Williams is conducting
a filibuster in the House of Representatives for
tactical purposes of his own. He is equally
willing for the present to obstruct the passage
of a good bill or a bad one. Yet he had luck
with him on Friday when he made his main
fight of the day on a measure which has ac
quired unenviable notoriety arid on its merits
certainly deserved defeat. The bill referred to
authorizes the payment of $10,152 to the estate
of Samuel Lee, in setisf action of a claim for two
years' salary and allowances as a Representa
tive in Congress. The fact that he never sat in
Congress and never had a right to 6it there is
dismissed as unessential by tbe promoters of
this peculiar piece of legislation.
Lee was a negro and was a candidate for
Congress in one of the South Carolina districts
in 18S0. A certificate of election was given to
his opponent, and Lee made a contest. The
House Committee on Elections did not make a
report on his case until 1883, at tbe very end
of the second session. A majority of the com
mittee decided that the sitting member, John S.
Richardson, had not been elected, and that Lee
bad been. A minority report was submitted
sustaining Richardson's title to his seat. The
Democratic side* resisted consideration of the
Elections Committee's resolutions, but on the
last day of the session the case was taken up and
a vote was secured on substituting the minority
resolution for tbe majority resolution, following
the regular parliamentary order. This motion
was defeated. A filibuster was then undertaken
by the Democrats aud no vote was had on the
majority resolution declaring Lee entitled to the
seat. The House adjourned sine die with this
resolution still unacted on.
Lee subsequently asked Congress to give him
two years' salary on the plea that the House had
virtually expressed its opinion on the validity of
his title by voting down the minority report
from the Elections Committee seating Richard
son. He drew an allowance for the expenses of
his contest as every contestant does, and then
settled down to prosecuting his deductive claim.
Since his death his heirs have prosecuted it. A
bill allowing him salary for an office he never
filled, and never was legally entitled to fill, has
been reported nine times by the House Commit
tee on Claims and has failed of passage eight
times. On Friday the House approved this
grant of constructive salary. The amount in
volved is small, but the precedent involved is
obnoxious. If everybody who "nearly" got into
Congress can claim compensation for service be
was ready to perform and would have performed
If accident or some other providential dispensa
tion had not prevented, the heirs of any de
feated statesman with a hard luck story can run
to Congress for indemnification. It is better In
all such cases to be governed by facts as they
are, not as they "might have been."
AXTI-TIPPiyQ LAW EyFORCEMEyT.
It te encouraging to see that a test case is to
be made of the Anti-Tipping law. The custom
of paying commissions to servants and em
ployes purchasing on behalf of others is becom
ing so ingrained in our mercantile system that
it will probably take some drastic enforcement
of the law, even after its constitutionality Is
established, to put an end to the evil.
That it Is an evil we think no one can doubt
Its inevitable result Is to promote waste and
make the employe unfaithful to the interests
of his employer. Wise housekeepers do not
intrust their marketing to servants if they can
help it, but they are, nevertheless, victims of
the commission habit. Dealers do not take the
commissions out of their own pockets. The
purchaser pays the commission. Some house
holders pay their own servants for buying their
supplies In extravagant quantities, and all
other consumers pay a correspondingly high
price for their goods. The system is nothing
but an extortionate charge on business, and
nobody gains by It but dishonest traders and
dishonest servants. The District Attorney can
not tco promptly or too effectively enforce the
law on this subject.
GERM Ay MARITIME DEVELOPMENT.
Germany has taken a leaf, or a precept, from
an American book. Captain Mohan has written
that "the necessity of a navy springs from the
existence of a peaceful shipping,'' just as. we
might add, the necessity of a police force springy
from the existence of a populous community.
Bis dictum Is quite true and judicious, and It is
being acted upon effectively by the German gov
ernment. The German Naval Department has
been making many arguments and appeals for
an increase of its fleet, among which probably
the strongest is found in a detailed exposition of
the development of German maritime interests.
Its strength lies in its indisputable truth, in the
logic of its deductions and in the entire pro
priety and, indeed, the necessity of the processes
Involved in such development. If Germany had
been engaged in wars of foreign conquest or in
any artificial acts of expansion, an appeal for
support of their results with increased arma
ments might easily be answered. But such has
■not been the case. Her development has been
singularly natural and legitimate.
The union of the various German states into
a federal empire was, of course, an irreproach
able thing, involving, as It did, merely the com
bining under a single general government of a
number of states of identical race, speech, tradi
tions, sentiments and aspirations. It was as
fitting as the union of our forty-five states into
a nation. Nor is it a matter of criticism or re
proach to Germany that her population has been
Increasing and is Increasing rapidly— rap
idly than that of any other great nation save
the United States. Growing from 40,000,000 In
1870 to more than G0.000.000 In 1905, the empire
has necessarily enlarged Its Industrie", especially
since, because of its natural characteristics and
the traditional genius of its people, it is essen
tially an industrial nation. Growth of Indus
tries necessitates expansion of commerce, and, to
come back to Captain Mahan, the existence of a
peaceful shipping makes necessary a navy— the
larger the shipping the larger the navy. That
Is the German argument, and it seams conclusive.
It cannot be answered that Germany has un
duly expanded her industries and her commerce
She has not. Her expansion of both has been
enormous, it is true, but then she Is an enor
mous empire. Germany la m population half as
! large again as the United Kingdom, yet the lit
i ter's foreign commerce is half as lar e again as
: Germany's. The comparison with some other
I countries, such as Belgium anil the Netherlands
: would be still more striking, to the same effect'
indicating that Germany's commerce Is a legit
, imate one, no greater than .ho is naturally en
titled to on the basis of her population and re-
I sources. She cannot reasonably be expected to
i lint fetters noon her own industrial or eouuu«*r
NEW-YOKE DAILY TRIBUNE, MONDAY. MAY SL ltttft
clnl progress, nnd she docs not consider it rea
sonable or prudent to maintain her vast aud rap
idly Increasing comment' without tint accom
paniment of naval guards which Captain Mahan
rightly denotes a% essential. Neither docs Ger
many soot!) to be expanding her navy at an undue
rate, compared with other nations. Her ocean
borne shipping is the second largest in the world,
yet her naval expenditures In the last dozen
years have heen only fifth. Her rate of com
mercial growth has perhaps I»een largest of all,
yet her increase in naval expenditures has been
only fourth. Her navaL.c\|>endlture for each
head of population is also fourth.
These facts and considerations are to be ob
served, not so much as an argument in justifica
tion of German naval expansion, which is not
needed here— unless, indeed, to lay still more
that German bogle whioh some have conjured up
as the supposititious adversary of mankind — as
to point a moral of justification and, indeed, of
necessity for our own naval pacekeeping with
our growth in population, industry and trade.
Upon tljf sole basis of enlightened population
America would he entitled to the largest nuvy
in the world. Upon the basis of our present
mercantile marine we should have the third
navy of the world, and upon that of our mer
cantile marine as it should he and could be in
the very near future we should have the second
navy in the world. At present we can probably
claim to have the third navy, but nothing better.
Cogent and convincing as are the German argu
ments in favor of German naval expansion, there
is not one which does not apply with equal fit
ness and force to the United States.
HISTORIC CAMPUS.
The announcement that New York Univer
sity Is about to enlarge its campus by the»ac
qulsition and addition of a considerable tract
of land adjoining it at the south will be re
ceived with pleasure not only by the constitu
ency of that institution, but arso by the gen
eral public. To the former it will be gratifying
to know that the university Is able thus sym
metrically to round out its already fine grounds
and to acquire the increased room which the
growth of its various departments makes nec
essary. The wisdom of the removal of the
two undergraduate colleges of the university
to that site was long ago recognized, and will
be further confirmed in this expansion of their
plant, with its assurance of a perpetual main
tenance of tho best combination of rural and
urban conditions in college life.
To the general public tho interest of the inci
dent will be twofold. It must be agreeable to
every New Yorker to mark the progress of tho
institution which has tilled a worthy place in the
intellectual life of this city, state and nation for
nearly fourscore years. It will also be gratify
ing to have that particular bit of ground thus
secured and made accessible for public visita
tion, seeing that it Is a spot of intfeh historic in
terest. A part of "Battery Hill" Is already In
cluded in the university campus. The acquisi
tion of this new tract will ptit Into the campus
the whole of that hill, with its Revolutionary
associations and relics, and will make the place
a resort of patriotic devotion as well as of
scholastic quest.
WATER PL B APPROVED.
The State Water Supply Commission has
approved New York's plans for extension of
the local supply, and the city may now, we
assume, without further delay, uncertainty or
misgivings, proceed with the execution of that
urgent and Indispensable work. For this there
hs cause for profound and general gratification.
It is a truism that nothing is more essential
to the welfare of a community than a copious
and pure supply of potable water, and it would
not be extravagant to credit a certain share of
this capital's growth and prosperity, and the
favor with which it has long been regarded as
a place -of residence and resort, to the excep
tionally fine quality of the water which, down
to a few years ago, was served to its two
chief boroughs. The deterioration in that
quality in recent years has been slight and gen
erally innocuous, but it has been sufficient to
cause discomfort and disquiet, and to empha
sise the urgent need of further supplies, a need
which the state commission evidently appre
ciates and which it declares with no less di
rectness and emphasis than the city authori
ties themselves have employed.
Upon the other points involved it will be
observed that the contentions of this city, as
they have been repeatedly set forth in the col
umns of The Tribune, are amply confirmed by
the state commission. The Catskill region Is
recognized as the best available source for the
immediate extension of the city's supply. The
Hudson River, as we have frequently indicated,
might be used, but its use is decidedly unde
sirable save as a last resort, to which it is to
be hoped the city will never be driven. Dutch
ess and Suffolk counties and the Ten Mile
River are regarded as desirable sources of sup
ply, which unfortunately are at present ap
parently made unavailable by adverse legisla
tion, and the state commission urges, as The
Tribune has so often done, that steps should
promptly be taken to modify or to remove the
legislative barriers so as to give the city's en
gineers entrance to those fields. This can cer
tainly be done In the cases of the two counties
mentioned, though there may be some doubt
concerning the Ten Mile River. The need of
stopping all preventable waste in the process
of distribution In this city Ib also noted. That
is a matter in which The Tribune may justly
claim to have taken the lead, and to which we
are now assured practical attention is being
paid by the local authorities, with gratifying
and encouraging results. It may be added
with approval, as auxiliary to the general
scheme of water supply extension, that the
project of a system of salt water supply from
the harbor, for fire engine and street flushing
purposes in the lower part of the city, is now
being put into effect. V
The question of the terms, as affecting the
Inhabitants of the rural counties, upon which
the city shall be permitted to take the water
it needs has really been the crux of the whole
case, and for it the city Itself, it must be con
fessed; has been largely responsible. The
scandalous shuffling and delay of the old Aque
duct Commission and of some former water
commissioners In their dealings with Westehes
ter and Putnam counties unquestionably and
not unreasonably created a strong prejudice
against the city throughout the rural region*,
and we do not hesitate to say that fo long as
they bad reason to fear they were in danger of
like treatment the people of Dutches* and Ul
ster counties were justiaed in resisting in the
strongest manner the advances of New York.
Moreover, the unfortunate refusal of the city
authorities to accept Governor Odell's proposal
of suitable guarantees to Dutehess County not
only caused a year or two of delay, but added
to the suspicion and distrust of the city which
was felt in the country. Happily, an equitable
arrangement has now been effected, under
which this city gives terms so generous, with
guarantees so ample, that the . communities
which* formerly strove co vigorously to exclude
It from their watersheds are now trying with
no less zeal not only to induce It but to compel
It to go thither and to perpetrate the "spolia
tion" which they once decried. It Is to be
hoped, indeed, that the terms will not be found
to be too generous and to set a dangerous
precedent for extortion.
The state commission takes an optimistic
view of the quantity of the new supply, though
perhaps not too much so. If its estimate! and
those of other competent authorities are rea
sonably accurate, the contention of The Tribune
will be confirmed, that a sufficient water supply
for thin city for all time can be secured in the
suburban regions without resorting to any susb
desperate expedient as drawing upon the HwJ
son River or going to the Great Lakes. With
tbe Catskill, Dutrhess and Suffolk regions prop
erly dpveloped. New York will have a secure
daily supply of nofbre than a billion and a quar
ter and perhaps of a biUlon and a half, gal
lons of potable water of the best quality. With
a reasonable prevention of waste and tbe use
of salt water for the fire and Rtreet depart
ments that supply will b9 sufficient for a rlty
of from twelve to fifteen million people; and it
does not seem to us that we are called upon to
consider the requirements of any larger <* J ty
than that. As to the complaint that in taking
the suburban water the city is depopulating
large areas, there is simply nothing in it, or if
there is anything, it in pood and not evil. The
present example of such villages as Kntonah
and Mount Kisco does not indicate depopula
tion. Bight in the heart of the Croton region
they are growing and prospering at a rate
scarcely surpassed by Western "boom towns."
But if extensive areas are transformed into
lakes, as they have been and must be, and If
other areas are depopulated and transformed
into rural parks or are permitted to lapse
into the condition of vrlldwood, we certainly
cannot regard that as an evil. On the con
trary, It will be a most desirable thing to have
precisely such areas in the suburbs, for the
pake of the beauty and the health of the
metropolis— so desirable that if they were not
created primarily for the sake of the water
supply they should be created for their own
sake. From every point of view, therefore, we
must regard with deep satisfaction the assur
ance of the prompt fulfilment of the city's de
signs for the extension of its water supply.
MONEY AND BUBIXESB.
A week of Irregularity in the stock market
was to be expected after the continuous decline
for about two weeks ana the subsequent almost
uninterrupted advance for about the same pe
riod. During the violent fluctuations there waa
no important change in the general condition of
the country, nor has there been since, and the
situation in Wall Street is largely dominated by
speculation in which the financial position is a
prominent factor. During the recent erratic va
riations it is generally believed that a consid
erable short account developed, and the prices
at which these contracts are covered will depend
upon the resumption of public buying or the
manipulation by strong interests. A sustaining
feature of no little importance is the extent to
which foreign investors have absorbed stocks of
late, although much of this business may prove
to have been In the nature of speculation for a
quick turn. Although the average for the week
shows a moderate advance, this is largely due to
wide changes on small sales of a few high priced
issues, such as Lackav.anna, and vigorous
manipulation of the copper stocks, Reading and
similar specialties. While the strong market for
the metal may be used as an argument in favor
of the copper securities, these operations are
more attractive to speculators than to investors.
Financial conditions appear to be a little more
settled, elight declines In rates having occurred,
but there is still evidence of general confidence
in a strong money market throughout the year.
When no currency was transferred t. Jan Fran
cisco through the Sub-Treasury last Tuesday a
mistaken Impression prevailed that the move
ment hr.d ceased, and there were many predic
tions that the tide would 6oon turn In this direc
tion. But the westward movement was soon re
sumed, and it is evident that it would be a
mistake to underestimate requirements on the
Pacific Coast. Large sums of gold arrived from
abroad, without changing tho local situation,
however, as the specie went directly into the
Sub-Treasury. This operation has restored dally
record breaking by the government report as
to gross stocks of gold, which threaten to touch
$800,000,000 In the near future. No definite
change can be discerned in the foreign relations
with this money market, "The London Econo
mist" estimating that our borrowing on finance
bills amounts to $400,000,000. In the face of this
condition the recent weakness of foreign ex
change would bo incomprehensible were it not
known that a considerable part of the new
Pennsylvania short term loan was placed
abroad.
As to the general trade situation, develop
ments are satisfactory, particularly In regard to
the comparatively few labor disputes and the
seasonable weather that has brought out a
somewhat tardy consumption of summer wear
ing apparel, etc. Even more Important is the
better feeling that prevails in agricultural com
munities, which deferrred placing contracts for
merchandise and beginning work on many im
portant undertakings until it was possible to
eecure more definite Information as to crop
prospects. Normal conditions are gradually re
turning In the anthracite coal region, although
it will be some time before monthly production
makes new records, as many miners left the
region during the strike, either temporarily or
to seek work in copper mines and elsewhere. The
longshoremen's settlement at lower Lake ports
has also encountered complications, and the
strike of mouldera at Milwaukee has extended
to many other cities. New strikes have started
in the brick making industry and some minor
branches of business, but, on the whole, there
Is no cause for alarm regarding tho industrial
outlook. Official returns of foreign trade in
April show exports $15,916,535 larger than in
the same month of last year.
Fairly good progress on plantations and re
ports of irregularity in the drygoods market
failed to prevent an advance in the price of raw
cotton. Spot quotations have the support of a
steady decrease in visible supply greater than
in recent preceding years and a movement to
market at the South scarcely more than half
that of the same week of 1906; but, on the other
hand, foreign buying is steadily declining. Ac
cording to the official report for eight months
of the current crop year, tho outgo *Aas been
1.181,963 bales less than In the previous season.
yet the average advance in price of $11 50 a
bale makes the total value $ia.'J54,722 larger,
and it will require only a monthly average of
about $17,<X)0,<»00 in the remaining four months
to establish a new record for the season. It
is customary at this time of the year to cir
culate reports of injury to the growing grain,
and tho supply of thia information is, about
normal. It is well known that weather con
ditions delayed planting at many points, but
the lapt week removed this ilifficulty, and the
outlook is generally favorable, except that moist
ure la needed. AVhfat had the wholesome sup-
P<>it of a largely Increased flour output, and
exports continue to make favorable compari
sons with the same time last year.
Manufacturing returns me generally satisfac
tory, except that textilo mills are not receiving
new orders freely. Unseasonable weather has
probably retarded the distribution of cotton
Roods, and the high price of raw cotton natu
rally tended to prevent buying tn advance of
n<eds. But those who are delaying In the hope
that raw materials will decline havo received
little encourage merit In the last week. Foot
wear producers find no difTlculty in maintaining
quotations, new contracts constantly appear
ing, and .shipments ure gradually rising further
In excess of all previous years. Leather is quiet
without evidence of weakness, and the onjy
concessions obtainable in the hide market are
on those grades showing the usual deterioration
in quality because of Halting in January and
February. Stocks of these hides are somewhat
larger thun usual, owing to the small conces
sions that packers wire willing to make. Uni
formly good report* are received from the steel
rail mills, large contracts being constantly un
der negotiation, despite the impossibility of se
curing dellvertea In the near fotur*. AUhoagh
orders for structural material have de«r«a*«4
somewhat. th«r« Is still so heavy a tonna«« In
sight that little new business Is require* to
keep the plants active until 1907.
From the Northwest comes the report that Jtho
scarcity of labor promises to be a MT ™* m JJ"
lem during- the coming summer. The «w
counties of Montana and Idaho are calUnf ror
men to assist In the lambing- season at 5*u tmau
$45 a month "and found." Railroad I**°«" a ;
$225 and $250 a day find ready employment
and the construction of at least one railroad l in
the mining country is seriously delayed for lack
of men. In some instances the roads are offer
in free transportation and Guaranteeing two
years' work. The late summer months will prob
ably see a higher wage schedule in force for un
skilled men In the harvest fields than ever he
fore in the history of the Northwest. All this
should bo good news for the Incoming tide of
sturdy immigrants. May they push forward to
the work that awaits them in the open air and
not huddle together in our cities!
General Blngham's ideas about the unsani
tary police stations are now confirmed by tho
Board of Health, which orders him. tinder pen
alty of law. to make the necessary repairs forth
with. As the general has never served an ap
prenticeship in making bricks without straw. th#
onSer is somewhat embarrassing, especially as
failure to comply with the law Is a misde
meanor. The general probably will lose no time
In passing the order higher up.
"Heads we win. tails you lose." seem* to be
the principle governing the seven thousand
painters, decorators and paperhangers who
have gone on strike because the umpire's award
on their wage demand waa against them. It's
a pretty poor kind of arbitration that won't
work both ways.
The busy bees that improve the shining hour
in Cortlandt street proved to be an aid to rapid
transit.
Among the changes adopted by the Dominion
Parliamentary Committee on Election Laws In
its revision of existing statutes is the provision
that an elector who neglects to discharge his
duties as a citizen by voting shall be deprived
of the franchise for six years unless he shows
on oath good reason for his failure to go to the
polls. Another change which Is expected to have
far reaching effects is the prohibition of carriage
hiring on Election Day. Any one demanding
or receiving payment for the use of a horse or
team on Election Day is made liable to a fine of
$100. It will be interesting to note the working
out of these reforms, which seem a little drastic
on this^ide of the border.
PBRSOyAL.
Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden, envoy of tbe Repub
lic of Liberia to France, is one of the ablest colored
men. He has rendered distinguished service to his
racs, both in Liberia and In the British West Afri
can colonies. The special object of his mission in
France is connected with the delimitation of the
frontiers between Liberia anJ French territory.
French territory touches Liberia on two sides and,
with British, nearly surrounds the republic.
Captain T. Bentley Mott, for many years the
American military attache at Parts, advocates a
radical change in the American plan of training the
urmy. With Aldershot as a model. Captain Mott
advises concentrating large bodies of troops to
give the general officers experience In handling bri
gades and divisions.
Lord Curzon, late Viceroy of India, In a recent
speech before the Society of Authors, said that
when appointed viceroy he was about to publish
a book on India, but had to cancel the enagement
because of the objections of Lord Salisbury.
Dr. Esther B. Van Ecmen has been appointed
holder of the Carnegie fellowship of classical re-
Bearch work for one year In the American School
for Classical Studies in Rome.
There are two Blacks In the new British House
of Parliament with the same Initials— A. W. Black.
the member for Blggleswade. who is a lace manu
facturer from Nottingham, and A. W. Black, the
member for Banffshire. who is "writer to The Sig
net,' " in Edinburgh.
The Rev. J. R. Mover. of Monessen. Perm., has
seven sons, all of them clergymen. In five different
denominations". They have one sister, who Is mar
ried to a minister.
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
The Vienna Fancy Dog Club has established a
novel <i<Jg market. Persons with dogs for sale are
invited to send the animals to the clubrooms every
Wednesday. vihfr« they will be exhibited. Each
an'.mal •will be examined by a veterinary surgeon
and also appraised by experts. Purchasers can
therefore be assured that the dogs are quite free
from disease, and also worth the price demanded.
And all this service will be performed entirely free
of charge: neither buyer nor seller will be asked to
contribute a penny. The club will bear all the ex
penses, as Us only object in Instituting the market
is to promote the breeding and traffic in dogs of
good race.
LITTLE THOMAS GREED.
I*ll never take a rebate; no;"
Said little Thomas Greed.
"The courts are getting funny, so
It must be wrong, indeed.
"Now, there Is Jerry Octopus,
He thlrks a rebate great-
He always makes an awful fuss
If he must pay for freight.
"The prosecutor's after him;
The sheriff has a writ.
And Jerry, m the twilight Aim.
From home was forced to flit.
"I would not take a rebate!— Why
It Is against the law.
I would not play a trick— not I;
I'd have no 'man of straw.'
"I'll never take a rebate; no;
I'm very sure of that.
But there is more than one way. though.
By which to kill a cat."
—The Reader.
A miner who lost his life two thousand years
ago has been taken from a copper mine in Chill
recently. Copper oxide had mummified h!a whole
body. The mummy is In a fine state of preserva
tion. Coarse Backing, evidently the clothing of the
ancient Inca workman, was found with tha body,
as were also two mallets, one fashioned out of
granite and the other out of Ironstone. These Im
plements were tied with thongs into bent sticks
made as double handles. Both the hide and the
sticks were as fresh looking when found as if they
had been In use only the day before.
Gave the Direction.— Jean Gerardy, the well
known 'cellist, at a dinner In Philadelphia, praised
American wit.
•You are all witty." he said. "From your mill
ionaire down to your gamin, you are quick, nimble
and sparkling In retort.
"Your gamins' wit la somewhat cruel. It caused a
friend of mine to Hush and mutter an evil oath one
day last week in New York. My friend. in a hurry
to catch a train, ran out of his hotel toward a cab.
and a raggM little boy opened the cab door for him
and handed in his valise. He gave the boy nothing.
In his hurry, you see. he forgot.
- "The disappointed urchin smiled sourly and called
this order to the driver. 'Nearest poorhouse,
cabby.' "—American Spectator.
A Berlin paper tells of a new device that makes
herring fishing easy. A microphone, which mag
nifies sounds, is plunged Into the nea to ascertain
If nah are passing that way. A wire connects the
submerged microphone with an ordinary receiver.
with whicU one listers to what Is going on In the
depths of the sea. Excellent results have been
obtained In the North Sea by the Invention tor
signalling tho passing of the herring shoals.
Not To Re Played With.— Mrs. Jones and Mrs.
Brown were bosom friends. They passed a sootl
deal of their time In discussing the affair* of their
neighbors. It was astonishing what a lot they
knew about other people's business which didn't
concern them In the least.
They were hammering away at the latest scan
dal, when the conversation turned In the direction
of a Mrs. TUtlesay. a new arrival in the next
street
"I hear she's suffering from appendicitis." de
clared Mrs. Brown.
"Buffering!" echoed Mrs. Jonas contemptuously
"Why. yes; didn't you know that?" asked Mrs.
Brawn.
"Tee. I heard she had got appendicitis/ replied
Mrs. Jones, "but. Lor*! Judging by the way they
bragged about It I thought it was some sort of
piano playerl What Is it. anyway r '-Answers.
PRO V I >in\Toß AUTHORS
Speech of Ambassador Reid at ths
Literary Fund Dinner in London.
At the dinner of the Royal literary Fund, ol -
which Lord Tennyson Is president, held in London
on May 10. the American Ambassador. Whttela^
Reid, presided, and spoke as follows:
I rise now to attempt the main duty of m
position, in proposing the special toast to which
yon or your predecessors have done honor
successive annual dinners, for the last one hun
dred and fifteen years.
For at least two reasons I am a palpable ralssl
in this position. You will remember that y.->~*
chairman last year was a man of distinction end
authority, the honored Master of Trinity. la tha
admirable speech with which he made that din!
ner memorable he dwelt on th» practice £.«,«
Indeed the duty of having Prime Ministers ft
chairmen. He even referred to a possible chaast
of government before the present meeting, m
remarked with precision and emphasis thath
that case the new Prime Minister had his wot'
cut out for him — he was to nil this chair it Z
therefore or.iy the prematurity of the commit.
tee. entangling itself a few weeks too soon la
less desirable arrangements, that compels voa
to wait a year for your Prime Minister. Mean.
time you will have to put up with me as a tori
of misfit understudy for a part that belongs to
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
There Is another reason for the misfit then
may be a hundred, but I'm goisg to tell yoa c '
only one more. V seems to t» de rigueur that
every chairman should make prompt and poblia
profession of his unfltness and Incompetence to
this great position. One hundred and flfteea
speeches, made by one hundred and fifteen chair.
men, one for each of the last on* hundred tad
fifteen annual dinners, all say the same thins.
This statement, in spite of Its mathematical ap
pearance, may not after all be mathematical!?
exact, for I haven't read the whole one hundred
and fifteen speeches, though the secretary <£ <"
me the favor to send them. But In the twelve
or fifteen I did read the chairman says just that
and there is some old tag of Latin caught some*
where In the cobwebs of my memory that seeoia
to Justify my mathematics, — ' Ex uao discs
omnes." which means, being translated for the
benefit of those of you who have forgotten all
your -Latin, "from twelve or fifteen, you can
safely guess as to a hundred and f*.
teen." Q. E. I>.
Well, gentlemen. I am not going to follow that
settled practice. I have admitted being a misfit
but I will not proclaim that I am unfit. To«
may find that out for yourselves:
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S DOUBT.
There Is one reason, however, for my bsfessi
here, a good English reason; there Is a precedent
for it: in fact, there are two or thre* of them
Though this society dates back to the century
before the last, its very beginning was under
the chairmanship of one of my distinguished
predecessors, the first of the long line of Amer
ican diplomatic representatives in London to
whom you are always too good. And yet it can
hardly be said that you were always too good
to him, for he was that agent in London of
the American Colonies, named Benjamin Frank
lin. whom your Solicitor General of the day a
Mr. Wedderburn, once haled before the Lords
in Council and lectured, as the benignant old
man stood meekly at the bar, in terms— in
terms almost undiplomatic!
It lias been said that this first chairman off
the Royal Literary Fund, in spite of his chair
manship, was not wholly sympathetic with the
purposes or prospects of the society. I would
like to persuade you that his attitude should be
regarded in a different light. Let us not say
that he was unsympathetic, but only that he
was incredulous, and *i»*t history has shown he
had some reason. He did not believe much wa»
going to be done in this way for authors. Now.
however well the experiment may since have
prospered here, it Is true that to this day hi
Franklin's own country no provision is made for
broken down men of letters. There 13 a better
provision for broken down bricklayers. As for
what we do for those men of letters who are
not broken down, those to whom we are only
In debt, perhaps the less said the better.
The first time I ever had the honor to meet
the late Mr. Gladstone he asked me. among a
multiplicity of other things: "V.'hat does your
Republic do to reward distinguish i public ser
vices from private citizens?" After some cogi
tation I was compelled to answer: "There are
only three things we can do: If they live at
the North, we can Invite them to lecture; if they
live at the South, we can call them Colonel or
General: wherever they live, if they can get
votes enough, we can send them to Congress ana
let them take the consequences."
Franklin's estimate of probabilities then was
correct as to his own country. Happily, how
ever, as to this country he was mistaken. In
spite of his forebodings it does do a good deal
for authors. I venture to count it indeed a
chief distinction of the Victorian age that It
formed the habit of recognizing the duty of the
state to acknowledge and reward that spiritual
service, which, after all. Is the highest. The
Victorian age considered that men of letters also
served the state— some of them almost a* weU
as members of Parliament. It made tue first
poet of bis time Lord Tennyson, and it made It
possible for the first actor of his time to be
buried in Westminster Abbey as Sir Henrj Ir
ving Let us gratefully remember for leadership
In this wise direction of government regard,
among others, at least two statesmen wtio wcri
also men of letters-Benjamin Disraeli. Lord
Beaconsfleld. and Archibald Primrose, Lord
Rosebery.
REWARDS OF AMERICAN AUTHOR?.
We have hardly yet reached that srage of
advancement in my own country which naturauy
brings official recognition by their government
to artists and men of letters as the consummate
flower of their time and chief ornament of the
state. Still, one may say that In that **?»«
land they have got on fairly well. If they were
without official encouragement from their great
Republic, they have not wholly missed tha non
ore of an even greater republic, that repuouc of
letters of which this society itself is so impor
tant a member. Some American names wUlt«
sure to occur to you— Motley and rKn J*T
leading a line of historians that is honoraw
continued even to this day by Henry A<Jams
and Rhode 1 and many another: with Lor;«i ell <>'
Emerson. Bryant. Poe. Whittier and Holmes
amons the dii majores of our early days, an
with a younger generation among whom iitana
prominent, but alas! young no longer. Aia.u.*,
Howells. Henry James. Crawford. S.edman.
William Winter, and a whole army of novelists
and essayists, men and women— but I dare wx
single out names or prolong the list. Tnei
government may have seemed to them st • tun ""
a somewhat harsh faced stepmother. me at
titude of their public men was certainly to»
often that of the Senator who complained a»
being disturbed while evolving great nat -MW
policies and even— would you believe -—•"}}£
choosing agents for their execution by i tne^cnu
dams and suggestions of the "damned I«*r»ry
fellows." Nevertheless, their country has town
occasion to seek the services and gather rrew
laurels from tho records of "literary f el ** )W 1
like Washington Irving in Spain, >- atn * B
Hawthorne at Liverpool. George Bancron »
Great Britain and In Germany. John
Motley in Austria and Great Britain. «*>*?*
Taylor In Germany. James Rus?e.l l™ «"" {"
Spain and Great Britain, and Bret Harte i» #
Glasgow. I may. perhaps, make so boiaM *»
say of that Senator himself, whose soul was^
vexed within him by the "damned litera "L£w
lows." that even his service will not outwewj
or his fame outlast that of the young literary
fellow who was at that moment prt^te -""^rr/
to Abraham Lincoln, whom you knew a-^mber
sador and whom the world wmito***""^^
as Secretary of State, the lamented friend ot *
all. John Hay.
THE REAL. WEALTH OF A NATION-
The appeal of this fund seems year by yea' *•
reach a wider audience an.l to command l •
broader response. It Is an open secret t nat j°"
officers cherish the wish that this response cay
be made broader to-night than ever before. *™
appeal is In specific terms in behalf of "men l""
havo written good ami useful books" ana iw
their families in distress. Have you ever re
flected how poor you would be without »•
men? Which would you like to lose out of your
life, out of your character, out of your **™
and better nature— what good book* hji»u
brought it, or what the triumphs of ***** 2JL
diem and great statesmen have brought It . *"•
the highest wealth of a nation Is not In its "**
terlal prosperity, which It Is the duty of » t * l ?r
men to secure and of the trained services ,» »
fend: hardly even m its morality. which "Jl
the duty of its clergy to promote. You m ?'.lT
prosperous and moral, yet spiritually blind aw»
deadly dull. „._ to
Tho highest permanent wealth of a n*"3;*.,l!n * " 3 ;*., 1 !
In its emiurlne- literature. This and this i oruy
Is now "the glory that wa«« Greece ana in*
grandeur that was Rome." What .does any a^
pawlonate and competent critic say &•****'£
the highest glory of the Victorian era? I Jio • J»«
depreciate Its war*, or its widening • tn »*tT
or its efforts for >he well-being of all lt> _Jv*aa
or Its great ex i»-slons of the suffrage. » u VVr;
highest glory of the Victorian age. only •* C "J\
Ing its constant efforts to preserve P^fjj. V~
glory by which it will be chiefly remembered rar
on In cummers that v.» shall not see am*
throughout the generations of men. Is surely »=•
Victorian literature. tki« ,
Well, gentlemen, let us come to h«»" toes *
fund does not plead for men of letters becau^