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THURSDAY. MAY 26. 1910.
Tiiis newspaper is owned and pub
lished by The Tribune Association, a
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The address of the officers is the office
of thit netcspaper.
THE WEWg TBTZ 3f^r?vrV7.
f' I CONGRESS.— Senate: The session as
devoted to consideration of th*> railroad
- bill. Mr. La Follette speaking in support
of the Cummins amendment -
House: The bill providing a new form
■ of civil g^v^rpmerit for Porto Hlco was
considered.
FOREIGN.— It was reported from
•JClcarafroa that the insurgents had been
defeated at Bluefields Bluff: advices from
Bla^fields said that the Venus had held j
up a vessel under th? American flag, and
that the fighting outside the city contin
ued . .-— " Mr?. Roosevelt was received
by the Queen Mother, Alexandra, at
Buckingham Palace, the audience lasting
over an hour; the President went to
the Zoo. and also received a delegation
from the Peace Society. ===== Unusual
••spring heat has malted Norwegian snows,
causing floods in many parts of the coun
try. An issue of 50.000,000 francs
of Big Four railway bonds was sub
scribed in full at Paris. ■ ■ . Russo-
Japanese negotiations regarding • China
have narrowed to the question of the
Jlanchurian Railway, it is believed that
Japan will not annex Corea. but will re
place all Corea n officials by Japanese.
.—- France and Great Britain have
proposed to Russia and Italy to ask
Crete to admit Mussulman deputies to
the Assembly. ===== A dispatch from
Manila said that the drydock Dewey was
slowly sinking, but that the structure
can probably be raised; the damage is
' generally - attributed to carelessness on
the part of Japanese employes. _
DOMESTIC.— The Senate at Albany.
hy a bipartisan combination, passed the
Phillips primary bill by a vote
of 2S to 21. -■■ By a vote of 75 to 64
the state Assembly defeated a motion of
Assemblyman Murray to suspend the
rules in order to consider the Davenport
resolution ratifying the proposed income
tax amendment to the federal Constitu
tion. ■ The Hotel Champlain, at Bluff
Point. X. V., was totally destroyed by
'fire at a loss of about $300,000. - At
a recess in the trial of Lee O'Xeil Brown
in the legislative bribery cases at Chi
cago, an attempt was made to force the
door of the courtroom, apparently for
-the purpose of stealing important papers.
George Frederick Barker, emeritus
professor of physics at the University of
Pennsylvania and a well known scientist,
died at Philadelphia. == The National
Association of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers, in convention at Phila
delphia, adopted a resolution commend
tea: Representative Sereno E. Payne for
his tariff work. ■ The General As
eemblv of the Southern Presbyterian
Church, in session at Lewisburg, W. Va.,
adopted an amendment to the "elect in
fant" clause of the Confession of Faith;
the doctrine has stood for 250 years. ;
— Stocks were weak. --" '■'. Oliver ;
Spitzer, on cross-examination at the
sugar trial, said he made his confession
on account of his conscience and that he
left Atlanta -without any hope of a par
don. - ■ " The Mayor named 'a commit
tee of fifty-seven, which includes three
women, to arrange for an old-fashioned
celebration of the Fourth. -'■ - Testi
mony taken in Paris in the contest of
the will of Benjamin Hart, who had
amassed wealth by peddling- in America,
was filed in court here. ===== The ac
countant for the Public Service Com
mission, at a hearing on the Third Aye- ;
nue road, furnished additional details of
large fees paid to lawyers from the pro- i
ceeds of the bonds sold by the company.
THE WEATHER— lndications for to
day: Clearing. The temperature yester
«ay. Hijbest. 71 degrees; lowest, 63.
A TAyiSHFS'G mm mi ii i
.. The suggestion from Washington that
tbe Interior Department be submerged
sc a bureau in a new Department of
Public Works is one which is likely to
ripen slowly. It takes time and a good
deal cf agitation to accomplish such a
change in the machinery of administra
tion. The newest department, that of
Commerce and Labor, was created only
after many delays and discouragements,
rlrb»ugh • there was for it an obvious
field Inadequately covered by bureaus of
various existing departments. A sudden
Change in the status of the Interior De
jwnment is therefore not probable.
There can be no doubt, however, that
Pc functions of that department are
Ing rapidly circumscribed. It was
en :i'oi' clitetiy to deal with the public
lauds, preparing for their sale and trans
fer to Individual ownership. <Mlicr
Cadet have been put ui*>n it, Basse oon
flptent and some inconsistent with that
original |.'Ur|K>M«. Thus it has exercised
control of Indian affair* and still has
aapetrWaai of the Geological Survey and
the raclasaafSdsj serrloa. It h:«s also
charge at present of pensions, education \
and patents. Tin- work of tin* General
Land Office would properly l*» continued !
. by a bureau created Is take the place of
Use present department. The Geological
Survey nnd th* reclamation service
would naturally be included with {he '
forestry and conservation services, the
' Pi -.op of the Panama Canal and simi
lar activities under the proposed Depart.
•'■SB* of. Public Works. The staff Of la*S
. Pension Bureau is dwindling "very
- j-<?ir. Id five or tea years th' nippiy'of
clause fpcnsfss ant of tie Chil War j
't.'IU hi ... ■ ■•'--;• ..-■: The bu-,
reau belongs naturally to the War De
partment.'which even, now" maintains a
record and pension division. The Indian
Bureau will soon have little or nothi??
to do. The small Bureau of Education
can easily be transferred to the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, as can
the Bureau of Patents. The Census Bu
reau was ho transferred when the De
partment of Commerce and Labor was
created.
As other departments have expanded
their activities those of the Interior De
partment have been contracted. Were
no chanse of status to occur the depart
ment would in twenty years shrink to
the very modest dimensions of three
moribund" aud four moderately active
bureaus.
THE DEAL FETE Air"
In passing the Mes de-Phil lip? P r ir
mary bill the Republicans who aim re
sponsible for the insurgent-Democratic
combination in the state Senate did the
worst thins '" the worst possible way.
That bill makes the least concession to
public opinion of all the bills before the
Legislature, and the trick by which Re
publicans were prevented from holding
the caucus agreed upon and determin
inz to support the Cobb compromise
bill and by which a "deal" between
William Barnes, jr.. Speaker Wadsworth
and their allies and the Tammany lead
ers was substituted for the proposed
party action -was The most barefaced
defiance of public opinion possible.
The bipartisan agreement which dis
graced the closing sessions last year
Tea* again in evidence. The leadership
of the Senate passed over, as it did last
year, to Grady and the quid- pro quo was
not concealed. The Ward bills for the
purifying of elections in New York City,
which ficured as a consideration in 'last
year^s deal, evidently enter into this
year's bargain. For good measure
Speaker Wadswortb'e Rules Committee
is evidently coing to attend to the anti
gamblin? bills in the way that -will
please Murphy end Grady. Yet Messrs.
Barnes and Wadsworth and the others
who arranced this affair and took the
leadership of the Senate away from the
Republican leader and turned it over to
Tammany are great sticklers for party
loyalty and regularity! Their stock ar
gument against the Hinman-Green bill
hup been that it broke down party lines.
What regard has Mr- Barnes : for party
lines when, in order to carry out . his
arrangements -with Tammany, he inter
feres with the agreement, by an ample'
majority, of a conference of Republican
Senators' to hold a caucus and bind the
party to support the Cobb bill? What
an example of party loyalty and regu
larity he exhibits when he delivers a
minority of the Republican .Senators
over to* the leadership of Grady! If
he and Speaker Wadswcrth. had re
spected the majority sentiment of the
Republicans in the Legislature there
could have been real primary reform,
for the Hinman-Green bill would have
passed. It was beaten only by a com
bination of the bosses with Tammany
Hall, a sinister combination whose ex
tent and character were revealed when
Barnes, from the Senate clerk's room.
with Grady as his leader on the floor,
forced through the Men de-Phillips bill.
Danger made those who preach regu
larity insurgents, and they found Tam
many ready to enter into the customary
I alliance.
Thus the Republican opposition to di
rect primaries is stripped of all. its pre
tence. It is an opposition that rpcojrnizes
its community of interest with Tam
many Hall. The prospect of the passage
of even a tentative direct primary
re. which all who had honest
doubts about the reform applauded as a
reasonable experiment, brought its Re
publican foes into open alliance with
Tammany. Nothing that could have
happened would have given" greater
vitality to the direct nominations issue
in the coming- campai.cn than this reve
lation of the close relations between the
bosses of one party and thos* of the
other and of how those relations work
to defeat useful legislation. Much of
the spread of the demand for direct
nominations has been due to the tactics
of Messrs. Barnes and Wadsworth.
They have now fairly outdone them
klvcb.
SPHERES OF IXFLUEXCE AGAIN.
Germany in her attitude toward
Persia again raises the important in
ternational question whether the world
is to be divided into spheres of influ
ence for individual powers or groups of
powers or the rule of open-door and
equality of opportunity is everywhere
to prevail. She finds, herself aggrieved
or at a disadvantage under the old sys
tem because of historic circumstances.
She came into existence as an imperial
power too late. The world was already
largely apportioned into spheres of in
fluence. Three or four great powers had
already acquired possessions abutting
upon the minor and decadent countries
and consequently had established a
pretty well recognized reversionary
claim upon the latter. Thus more than
a generation before tbe German Empire
came into existence France had acquired
Algeria and had thus denoted Morocco
as a sphere of influence for herself and
Spain. Also Great Britain in India and
Russia in Transcaucasia . and Central
Asia had marked Persia for their own.
Now. Germany, having come into ex
i?t»»nce and having in her rapid growth
acquired some colonial possessions and
a vast foreign commerce, and having
easily taken rank among the foremost
of the powers in both diplomacy and
armaments, requires that these sphere
of Influence shall be opened to her as
freely as to those powers which years
ago pre-empted them. In Morocco she
has commercial interests and therefore
demands political and police influence.
She Is building a railroad through
Mesopotamia toward the Persian fron
tier. ond therefore she wants the latter
empire to be opened to her as freely as
to Great Britain and Russia, so that
l>orhaps she may extend her railroad
system into it.
There is doubtless something to be
Mild on encb »=lde of this matter. Tbe
principle upon which France tad Spain
sought to uH in Morocco and that upon
which Gnat Britain and Russia are
acting in Persia is that powers are to
concern themselves with only those
other countries with which they are
connected by geographical propinquity
or by predominance of commerce. The
German proposition, on the contrary, is
that any power- at nny rate, Germany —
lias a legitimate concern in the nifalrs
of any «nd every other land. The former
Is the principle upon which the United
States- has always oon&lstently acted
and is likely to continue to act The
latter Is the expression of a new "world
politics* which is dear to the German
imperial heart and ie a principle to
wjjich, to far at we hart $«en, Gei'ciaay
alone Is committed, ilf the German
\EW-VO17« DAILY TRIBUTE. THTRSDAY. MAY 26, 1910.
principle should generally prevail, there
would be some interesting changes in
the political conditions of three or four
continents.
xew AUTOMOBILE RULES:
The automobile . bill which has ■ now.
passed both branches of the Legislature,
and which it is expected the Governor
will sign, contains a number of excel
lent provisions which will doubtless be
appreciated by automobilists and the
general public \ alike. The speed per
mitted is least fifteen miles an hour
everywhere except in first class, cities,
but nowhere, more than thirty miles an
hour, which seem to us limits suf
ficiently reasonable to deserve* a careful
trial. It is difficult to understand how
any one.wltu an ordinary 'sense of pru
dence and regard for hi-> own /welfare,
or any one wishing to ride for pleasure,
could wish to run a car at a more rapid
rate than ■ mile in two minutes, nor
could it be regarded as an intolerable
hardship if cars in some' places were re
quired to spend as much as four min
utes in going a mile. .
The scheme of graduated fees strong
ly commends itself- If the fees' are to
be regarded as taxes on the cars, then
surely the more powerful ■ and . more
costly cars should be taxed more highly
than others, while jf they are to be con
sidered contributions toward repairing
the damage which the cars do to the
roads, then it certainly is only fair that
the cars which do the most damage
shall pay the largest contributions. For
cars of not more than 25 horsepower a
fee of 55 a year does not seem extor
tionate and probably will not pay more
than a small fraction of the cost of
repairs to the roads ' which are made
necessary by the car, while people who
can afford cars of more than 50 horse
power will probably not be . put into
financial straits through being required
to pay fees of $20.
The penal features of the measure are
also generally to be approved. The
abominable conduct of some persons who
have hurried away and abandoned on
lonely roads the victims of their lawless
driving, no matter how great the need
of succor may have been, is ample cause
for declaring such action a felony, while
it is more lenient than severe to. regard
it as merely a misdemeanor for a
drunken man to run a swift and pon
derous locomotive along -a frequented
public highway. If the Governor signs
this bill and it thus becomes Jaw, it is
to be hoped that it will be consistently
and strictly enforced, and that The re
sult will be a radical abatement of gome
of the conditions which, now make pub
lic highways unsafe and deprive the
people of the state of the right and
proper use of their own property.
THE roiIET'S VITALITY.
Recent observations indicate that the
head of the comet has divided into two
parts and also that It has projected
toward the sun a long Jfet of glowing
vapor. Possibly both phenomena are
due to semi-explosive activity In the
comet's head. Yet, if tbe nucleus is
really beginning to disintegrate, the only
wonder is that dissolution did not come
sooner. Astronomers are inclined to be
lieve that, this comet is nearly or quite
two thousand years old. They would
not have been surprised if on the occa
sion of its latest appearance it had dis
played much less than its former brill
iancy, if. indeed, it came back at all.
Wonderful a? is the comet's longevity,
however, the inquirer can easily hit on
what looks like a rational theory to ex
plain it, if not on the true cause. On
all comets a wasting influence is exerted
by solar heat, which is intensified as
the comet comes in from the outer end
of its elliptical orbit toward the sun.
Other things being equal, therefore, a
comet which is exposed to such a roast
ing only once in three*quarterß of a
century would last longer than one
which completes its journey in a period
of four or five years, as a considerable
number of these bodies do.
Acr-ording To a cable dispatch from
Paris, astronomers in France now ques
tion whether the comet which has
been under close scrutiny for several
months is really Halley's. Without fur
ther details this statement should be
regarded with- distrust. If it has any
basis in truth, it probably grossly exag
gerates the proportion of doubters. At
least one distinguished professional star
gazer in France. Flammarion, has re
peatedly referred fo the comet without
giving evidence that he doubts its iden
tity. The latest return has occurred
after an interval of only seventy-four
years, or two years less than was for
merly customary, but the shortening of'
the period was predicted by experts who
reckoned the effect of Jupiter's attra<-i
tion when the comet last passed near!
that planet. Besides, the comet not only
turned up at the exact time when It
was expected, but also in the right place.
Months before it was actually discov
ered calculation indicated where to look
for it. In that precise spot Wolff, the
Heidelberg astronomer, detected it by
photography, and Buruham, of the
Yerkes Observatory staff, found it with
his eyes.
So great are tbe differences m the
paths of comets that it is practically
impossible to confound one of these
bodies with another, especially after
three or four observations have supplied
the dsta for computing its orbit. What
is more, the cornet now under discus
sion has manifested one of the charac
teristic traits of Bailey's comet — pxcep
tional freakiness. There is probably not
one chance in many millions tbat a mis
take has been made in the present in
stance.
THE TARIFF BOARD MIX-UP.
In dealing with the appropriation in
the sundry civil bill for the continua
tion of the work of the Tariff Board the
House of Representatives. showed little
courage or firtnnesi of purpose, (lodging
the real Issue with acrobatic celerity.
Many of its members Heenied relieved
not to hnve to go on record either for or
ngaiust the original Tawney provision.
cheerfully assenting while Mr. Mnnn,
the rliHinnan of the committee of the
whole, acting on behalf of the other
C!K> members as well us on his own re
sponsibility, determined just what in
nocuous form the proposition ought to
assume before being voted upon. Mr.
Ifaan rose to the occasion and permit
a division of the sort which left both
the advocates and the opponents of the
paragraph as originally framed free to
claim ■ victory.
The advocates of the original Tawney
provision could say that they had ob
tained the money asked for by the
President for continuing the work of
the board along lines winch he bad a!
ready laid down. Mr. Tawney. and bis
friends did not expect to broaden those
lines: for the Tariff Board has been do
ing and will continue to do exactly .what
it was authorized do in the paragraph
in the form In which it was declared out
of order. But the other side could as
sert that it had prevented the House
from formally sanctioning the broad
construction view of the functions of
the board, taken .by the President— n
view which they had publicly con
demned "as unsound and ■ ' usurpatory.
The House, according to the opponent?
of the i'.r-vp?y paragraph, allowed itself
to be put in the attitude of falling to
sustain the President's interpretation of
the. Payne law. Yet they had. also to
admit that it gave the President an in-.
creased appropriation to be used in ap- ;
plying the. Payne law la accordance
with his liberal interpretation.
' The most important development of
the debate was the disclosure by Repre
sentative Dalzell that he- and the other
House conferrees on the tariff bill last
summer had forced the emasculation of
the Senate's amendment providing for
the creation of an out-and-out ..tariff:
commission. That, responsibility had
not hitherto been frankly acknowledged.
Mr. Dalzell thus - described the situa
tion in conference: "The conferrees
"said! v 'You hav"e a provision iv here
"that, looks to the creation of a tariff
"commission; the House is opposed to
"a tariff commission and will never
"agree. to the bill in that phape.' " It
was no wonder that Mr. Stafford, of
Wisconsin, interrupted the Pennsylvania
leader at 'that point to suggest: "You
'do not mean to say th House was op
"posed. but : that the House conferrees
"were opposed: "the House never voted
"on /the proposition."
The House never had a chance to vote
on the tariff commission project, be
cause the leaders did not Tbink it ad
visable to allow- a vote To be taken. Mr.
Dalzell sr>oke in conference as if he
represented the Houße. when, in fact,
he was representing only the Speaker
arjfl tbe. little coterie of leaders in con
trol in the lower branch. We do not
tbink that the House -would havp voted
last summer against a tariff commis
sion. Nor would it decline to give the
present Tariff Board all the authority
which the original Tawney amendment
carried, if it had an opportunity to deal
with the question directly. Its leaders,
in so far as they have staverl off such a
vote, have only once more used the
fetters of the House rules to deny to
that body the self-government to which
it is entitled.
If Professor "Robert A. Milliken. of
Chicago, may be believed, he has per
formed a feat resembling- one which cre
ated a sensation In The scientific world a
few years ago. When Sir Joseph J.
Thompson, of Cambridge, reported find
insr particles very much smaller than
the atom was supposed to be, he esti
mated their size by measuring the elec
tric charges they carried on their sur
iaces. Professor Milliken's method of
isolating a particle seems to be different
from that adopted by the British
physicist, but it is for his professional
brethren in America and Europe to say
whether the operation he describes .is
practicable and also whether it proves
anything.
A Holstein cow has ben presented to
the President. If any one fears that the
quality of the milk to be supplier! to the
White House is likely to be Inferior he
is- at liberty to provide an animal of
some other breed.
This year's Legislature is trying to
make as unpopular a record as last
year's.
And now Chicago, which has a very
small city debt, is unable to sell even it 3
4^ per cent bonds at par. The short
ness of the term for which the securities
were to run. however, had something to
do with the low prices bid.
The acceptance of Mr. Knox's plan for
mediation between Peru and Ecuador
and the widespread popular and official
commendation of it in other South Amer
ican countries appear to have put a
pretty effectual quietus upon the chatter
about the peacemaking work of the last
few years having been undone. The
policy of this country toward its south
ern neighbors remains unchanged and it
is beinj? pursued with efficiency and tact.
It is all very well for the powers to
'"invite" Crete to restore the state of af
fairs which prevailed prior to ISOS and
thus to remain under Turkish suzerainty,
but how if the obstreperous islanders de
cline the invitation?
Assemblyman Murray seems to be
making a record at Albany as the pro
ponent of motions and resolutions which
fail of passage by a single vote.
It -would be an inappropriate and In
glorious end to the career of the dry
dock Dewey If after buffeting the storms
of a record making trip from this coun
try via Gibraltar to the Philippines it
should stay sunk in the comparatively
peaceful waters of Manila Bay.
THE TALK OF THE DAT.
The Heidelberg: correspondent of trie
"Berliner Tageblatt." in answer to many
questions as to King George's life at the
university, says that Prince George* never
took part In the real student life of the
old town. He spent several months thera
in 1886 as the guest of his father's friend.
Privy Councillor Ihne, whose picturesque
home- was situated on a cliff overlooking
the Neckar Valley. One "beer evening"
was arranged for him there, but It was
not ■ lively affair. He sat at the guest
table at the kommers which was one of
the features of the 600 th anniversary of the
university, but before the evening was over
he slipped away from th« big-wigs and, sat
with the younger men. "and this," the
correspondent say*, "was the only real
bier.-gesprech— beer bout—in which he ever
took part at Heidelberg."
Mother— So you are to be Queen of the
May?
Uttle Girl— Yes; but 1 think the other
girls will be insurgents.— Judge.
THE LETTER CARRIER'S PHILOSOPHY
'Twas a graybankPd letter carrier
I met on the street on© day, :
And I said to him,
So pray and crini.
, As li* plodded his weary way:
"My friend," I said— and I spoke him fair
"Are not your burdens most heavy to
be3r?"
'Twas a praybacked letter carrier
Who replied to mo that day.
As 1 spoke to him.
So gray and grim.
And he said In a cheery way;
"They are heavy enough when I start, you
bet; . --
But the farther I go. the lighter they get."
W. J. LAMPTON.
The pen may b« mifhtier than the sword.
but any «>ii"->r will tail you that, it isn't a
marker to the blue pencil.— Philadelphia,
Record.
"People have l93rn«d to lock "with sus
picion on medical bulletins as to the- health
of royal per«oria£as. -This feeling is not
another uar.aturaL"-. . nay* . ILs> British.
Ifedlcal Journal." "for such bulletins have
oft?n prophesied smooth* things when a
sovereign's life has been known to >*"
trembling: in the balance. Bulletins should
tell the. truth an.l : nothing POl the truth;
there are. it need hardly be said, cases in
■which they need not tell the whole truth.
But they should not b© wlltully misleading,
and in ibis respect no fault can bo found
with the bulletins relating to the list Ill
ness of Kins; Edward VII."
"That boy of mine," said Nupopp proudly,
"Is going to be a great baseball enthusiast
seme day." „
"I'd like to know how you can ten. re
joined his friend Bleechfir. - "He's only two
weeks old." • .'
"Yes."- said Nupopp. "but' he can yell
louder than any chap of his ase and wlsnt
I ever saw."— Chicago Daily Newa. • '
Street traffic In' Chicago is , now being
handled by the 1 police- according to an
elaborate code of rules recently promul
gated. Under the new regulations a driver
before stopping or flowing up must signal
hy raising the right htyirl Horse drawn
, vehicles have the right of way over all
others, streetcars excepted. An important
rule requires . drivers of vehicles to use
great caution -when passing streetcars, bo
as not to injure* passengers alighting or
getting on th^ car Another stipulates that
"No vehicle shall emerge, from an alley,
stable or garaga at a pace faster than a
walk; at the. latter place an attendant
should precede the vehicle to give warn
ing."
"Going to carry water fer de elephant.
Chimmy?" :> i ;:'-> -
"Nix De elephant can't I6BMM In to
see de circus. I'm solng to srlt a scuttle- of
suds - far de doortender."— Washlnjfton
Herald. . ■
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
THE COMET OF 1853.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Can you give -me any information
concerning the comet seen so long in the
northwestern sky in th* fall of XSSS?
As a schoolgirl at that time I remember
it well. I also remember my parents com
paring it with Halley's met of 1535 to the^
detriment of th* latter, which was "less
brilliant and had not so fine a tail."
The 1855 comet, was a deep color, more
resembling Mars. I hays heard this latter
called Dona tl's. Any information concern-
Ing Its past, present or future will b«> very
welcome. MAINE TEACHER.
New York. May 24. 1910.
[Yes: the comet of ISSS was discov
ered by the Italian Donatl and bore his
name. Its tail did not begin to form
until aft«r the head had made its closest
approach to the sun — a rather unusual
circumstance but when fully developed
had a length of 54,000,000 miles. The
appendage was curved like a scimitar
and plumy. Careful scrutiny through a
telescope showed that there were" several
tails, one superposed on another.
• The comet was visible to the naked eye
for 112 days. It could not be identified
with any comet which had been observed
before, but its orbit is such that it
should reappear In two thousand years
if nothing happens to it in the mean
time. The outer . end of the elliptical
path it follows reaches five. and a half
times as far from the sun as Neptune,
at present regarded as the most distant
member of the planetary family.—
INDUSTRIAL INSURANCE.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: For the information of Jame^ Mac-
Phereon. who writes you under datft of May
13, permit me to say that my letter of May
10 was In reply to the "Policyholder" of
"West Point, who stated a specific case.
Furthermore, permit me to state that the
letter was not written in the office of any
company, but in my home. Neither was
there any shop talk in my letter, but facts
which were based on policies which have
actually matured for their face value during
the lifetime of the assured.
At the suggestion of Mr. MacPherson, tlr?
writer called at your office and obtained a
copy of his letter of May 2, which appeared
in yourissue of the 3d inst. The following
few remarks are in reply thereto:
The money that is in the treasuries of tha
different companies that sell industrial in
surance is being rightfully, morally aad
legally held by these companies to pay
claims as the policies mature. Does our
mutual friend, Mr. MacPherson, think that
the companies should violate their contract
with the assured and pay claims before they
mature? I hardly think so.
Why should not the policies revert to the
companies in the absence of any proof of
the death of the assured? An insurance
company is not a charitable institution.
Wliera does Mr. MacPherson think th?
money comes from to pay a claim of $200
: on which perhaps only one premium of 10
cents has been paid 0
Industrial insurance is nothing more or
less than a provision mads to pay the un
dertaker or the funeral expenses. To be
sure, it is expensive ; it is like buying coal
by the pailful. I believe that parents who
take out policies of this nature on their
children should discontinue paying pre
miums as soon as their children become
self-supporting or leave the parental roof.
Mr. MacPherson must also bear in mini
that the agents who do the soliciting and
collecting receive half the premium, and
they certainly earn it. Industrial insurance
is a necessity and a godsend to a certain
class of people, especially that class that 13
unable to save a larger amount of money
that would enable them to invest in tl.-j
regular form of contract. No doubt this
class of Insurance could be issued at half
the present cost if it could be sold direct
or without the expense of the agent.
Over-the-counter life insurance business
has b<=en tried in the 6tate of Massachusetts
for about two years. The trial lias con
firmed the experience of the past that men
will nr>t carry the life insurance they nee.l
without the intervention of the soliciting
agents. CHARLES R. STEELE.
New Tork. May 23, 1910.
ONE VIEW OF INCOME TAX FIGHT.
To the Editor of The. Tribune.
Sir: A most significant battle is now on
at Albany between the party bosses, who
are fighting for th* trusts and corporations
to defaat the income tax amendment, and
the masses of the workers, who agree with
the stand taken by President Taf t and ex-
President Roosevelt. if the bosses win the
right against th© wishes of the people It
means only the beginning of a fight to the
j finish on the part of the masses to secure
their' rights through the ballot next No
vember. The ultimate result will be that
In 1012 full control of the government will
be in the hands of _ the people and bossism
will be buried so deep that it will never rise
again.
Our forefathers, struggling against great
odda, won the War or the Revolution, and
then after another bitter struggle suc
ceeded in establishing the Constitution un
der which we are now governed. The foun
dation stone of that Constitution is that
the" will of the majority of the people
Should rule. If. then, as it now appears,
the bosses, trusts and • corporations have
united to prevent the adoption of the in
come, tax plan the masses should also
present a united front to repel the attack
which Is being rmirie upon their rights.
The Hlgns of the times all point to an
other revolution, not through the sword,
however, but through the ballot. The cam
paign in 1312 will bo fought out with the
trusts and monopolies arrayed on one side
and the people on the other Right M
bound to prevail in. that conflict, although
the capitalists pour forth their money like
water to defeat the* peoples 'will.
New York, May 23, 1310. J. W. I*
MATHEMATICAL RULE DISPROVED.
From The Cincinnati Times-Star.
A Pennsylvania doctor h*« been arrested
for piecing gather scraps of old i 5 notes
and DSMJrir ..them oft. Here Is one. case
of it* 1101 * ww vot e to the Bum
tPeople and Sociai Incident*
AT THE WHITE HOUSE. /
• (From The Tribun* Burtaa.J -
Washington. Hay 5.-Th? Pr«W«t
spent the early morning- discussing l *- *'
latlve and political affairs with S-nite -•"■'
House leaders- ; Many of. them believe tn«
tariff will be the. main iaaua in the coming
campaign., and that, the slojran 'at the Bs
publican party -should be an out-and-out
defence, of. the' tariff/ and the policy of
protection. „ . V -V. - : '■.•,-
John Barrett, president of th«s Esperanto
Society^ of. North. America, .and Edwin
Reed, the •--••■ have Invited the- Fresl
dent to, attend Us convention, to be held
In Washington. Auyust 1* to 20-
Representative Douglass Indorsed Pro
fessor J» A. llplci»s, of the United- SUtea
Geological Survey, for head of th* Bureau
of Minea r : ~; : 'Y-'.
Senator -, Dick Introduced a. d«lesation
from Ohio. -including A. B. CrlebfleM. ■•«
publican nomine* for Congress in the 17th
District, and Jesse Taylor. Republican
nominee in th 9 6th District.
. Amon«r the President's callers ware the
Secretary of State, the Postmaster Gen
eral, Senators K-a:i. Crane, Curtis, Dv
Dont, Burkets! Foster and Stephenson;
Representatlveis ■;<(!■; " •!:'."•■. - Madison.
Barnhart. Stafford, Bennett, of Kentucky;
Groff. Wilson, of IUlnoi?; Miller, tl Minne
sota; McGulre, of Oklahoma: McLaushUa.
Gregg. Madden. . Currier. Foas. Dousa33.
Davidson, Brownlow. Aifeen. Miller, of
Kansas; McCredle. Sterling . Martin. of
South Dakota: Burnett. Hayes. Kendall.
handler. Loud. Estopinal and Kennedy,
and a delegation of Indians from th«
Warm Springs Reservation. In Oregon.
Trie President, the Secretary of th*
Xavj't General Edwards and Captain Butt
played golf this afternoon.
. THE CABINET.
: tFrom Th« Tribans Bar**, a 7
Washington. May 25.— Mrs. IfsTSJ BBci th-
Misses Meyer entertained guests at lunch
eon to-day They are preparing to go to
their summer horn* in Hamilton. Mass.,
early in June.
Mrs. Dickinson has returned from Clif
ton Springs. If. T.. -where she spent several
weeks resting.
The Attorney General and Mr? TVick?r
sham will close their Washington home
about June 2, and go to their home on Long
Island for the rest of trie season. Lord and
Lady HadfleW, brother-In-lars- and sister of
•'-<■ Attorney General, will visit th*m th«°re.
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.
- [From The Tribune Bureau.}
Washington, May 25.— The Charge" d"Af
faires for the Argentine Republic and
Sefiora de Villegas were hosts at a tea thl3
afternoon In celebration of the centennial
of the Independence of Argentina.' Th«lr
home was gay with flowers, and their
guests Included a large number of diplomats
and prominent members of official and
resident society. Seflora de- Villegas -was
assisted by her daughter, Sefioiita llarle
Helena de Vill»?as. and Miss Sherill at the
tea table.
The Minister from Spafn and Seflora d<i
Riano. who were presented to the Presi
dent yesterday. ar<* rapidly settling in the.
legation, at No. MB New Hampshire ave
nue, and by the time their period of offi
cial- mourning for the King of England 13
over they will be ready to receive visitors.
They will probably establish the summer
legation on the Massachusetts north shore.
Vicount d'Azy. French naval attach*,
went to Philadelphia to-day for a short
visit to his children, -who are at Eden Hall,
near that city.
The Minister from Honduras and the
Minister from Salvador have left the capital
for Buenos Ayres as delegates from their
countries to the Pan-American conference.
IN WASHINGTON SOCIETY.
[From The Trtbur • r >'<»i i ]
TVashington, May 25.— Among the N-»tv
York guests who will arrive here to-mor
row in a special car for the marriage of
Miss Mathilda T Towns°nd and Peter
Goelet Gerry are 3lr. and Mrs. Elbridg" T.
Gerry, Robert Livingston Gerry, Miss An
gelica L. Gerry, Mr. aM Mrs. Mabel M.
Gerry, of the bridegroom's family: Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Goelet, Mr. and Mrs. Reg
inald Ronalds. Mr. and Mrs. Ogden Mills.
Ogden Mills, jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick
Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt. Jr.. Miss Vanrierbllt. John R.
Townsend, Mr Budd, Creighton Webb and
Mr. Iselin. Miss Townsend will be given
in marriage by her uncle. Charles Hamot
Strong:, and her only attendant win be
Miss Katherine Elkins. daughter of Sena
tor and Mrs. Elkins.
Miss Mabel Boardman returned to Wash
ington to-day from a Western trip, in
which she made several addresses on the
Red Cross.
Miss Janet Fish, daughter of Representa
tive Hamilton Fish, will sail from New
SAYS COMET'S HEAD IS DIVIDED
Arizona Discovery Not Confirmed at
Yerkes Observatory.
Tucson. Ariz.. May Cs— That the head, or
nucleus, of Halley's comet has divided In
two parts is th© discovery of Dr. A. E.
Douglass, of the University of Arizona,
made last nlsrhr. According to Dr. Doug,
lass, the brighter part is in advance of
the other about 30 seconds, -which is equiva
lent to 2,000 miles. Dr. Douglass calls at
tention to the fact that a parallel ca«*» was
that of the comet of ISS2. which divided Into
four parts, separated and entirely disap
peared.
Chicago. May r. -Th* division of th*
comefs head reported from Arizona waj
not detected by observers hers last ni*;ht.
"What we did see, " said Professor Edwin
B Frost, of Yerkes Observatory, "was that
th? head was much brighter than It had
been and there was rvanog?n ga-t }n the
tail, along with ordinary hydrocarbons. Tf
the head is divided, as reported, tt tnll
probably show in photosraphs which w#
took last night, but which have not yet
been developed."
BOYS TORT TO THE CHTTprTT
Sunday School Worker's Statement
Astonishes Conference.
Washington. May -Sfv»nty-llve per
cent of all th« boys over thirteen years old
in the. Protestant Sunday echoola of th»
United States are lost to th« Church and
never make profession of faith. This state
ment by Kugena C. Foster, of Detroit. In
one of the workers* conferences to-day,
which followed the World's Sunday School
Convention, astonished Sunday school
workers from all parts of the world.
•That is the most astounding statement
I have heard In this country." exclaimed
an English delegate. There must be some
thing radically wrong with the system
which permits It. in England we do not
los«> more than 3 per cent.'"
"I have, made that calculation after
study, observation and experience." replied
Mr. Foster. Practically an th© delegates
In the meeting agreed with him.
The workers' conferences v.-tll continue
to-morrow. They are in the nature of ex
perience meetings following the convention,
which adjourned last night.
MEMORIAL TO J. S. MORTON
jy a , Shl tOtl * May 3.-S<- , Burketf.
bill for th* establishment of an institution
of agriculture and forestry at Nebraska
City. Neb., as a memorial to J. Sterling Mor
ton. Seeretarv nf A f r\(vjtture In President
Mfa nJ. ab net ' was "Ported to-day
SJ,, "'.*,„"*'* Committee on Agricultur*
Purpose l 3l 3 to train f^estry expert •!
I^braska City was the home- of Sir. Slc-
ton.-who founded Arbor Day. The cost of
York on Jun? 1 tr> spend the snaaer h
Europe. Miss Rosamond Fish, whose ea»
■aceraent to John Cutler, ef Breafeaw
Mass.. was recently announced wilt spV^
the summer at C-»rrt3oa'»-on.the-Hadso*a
with her father and other members of {£-
family. Representative Fish will clog- feU
home here on June I.
Dr. and Mrs. Fremont Smith rtosea tttear
house yesterday and Mrs. Smith has asaa
to Bar Harbor to open their summer hem*
Dr. Smith will leave here to-morro-^tV
Join her.
NEW YORK SOCIETY. '
j Miss Mary HarrimsLn. daughter 'of lirj,
I H*nry Harriman. will fee marries} te
Charles Carey Ramsey at noon to-day t^
the little church ac Avil .V. y.. near
which her father Is burled, ft. will fc« %
very small and Sjalal affair r>wtn{ to tat
<!»»p mournlns of the family The cere
mony will be performed by the Rev. rjj.
MacGuinnes3. the rector of the chores"
who Fives In Ctrester and who comes OT «
to Arden every Sunday to comtuct.the *a»»
vtcea. Only the members of the two ca a .
Ille3 will be present
In Washington Miss Mathilda T ~ih*jih.
; daughter of Mrs. Richard Townaent wfj
lbs married to-day to Peter Goelet Gerry,
gen of Mr. and Mrs. Elbrkir* T. Gerry, c!
this city. Mr. Gerry's brother. Robert L.
Gerryi who Is a. broth*r-tn-.»^ of liljj
Mary Harrtmaa. will be. in Washington l<^
the weddins; and will act as b*jt man. Mrs,
Gerry will attend her sister's marriage **
Ardsn.
■ Mr?. Georm» Griswold Haver. Tftl jo to
i Lenox to-day to remain the greater part
|of the summer.
I Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss Ha*e
rom to their country eia-* at r>eaaa\
N. J.
■ Mr and Mrs. Newbold Edgar wfj c;«a
their country Place at Southampton. -Lncg
' Island, within the next thr-e or four days.
I Mr. and Mrs John & Alexandra w«nt ta
! Spring Lawn, th«ir country place at Lrmq,
yesterday.
Mr and Mr? William Manic*. tH! 53 to
Southampton, Lcn£ Island, about th« mid.
'die cf June for the summer.
•
Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Hartdee. jr. baa*
taken a house at Seairight. N. J.. for ta»
summer. : v. ■-
Miss Mai E. Hackstaff. dau?ht(«r sf
Charles I* Hackstaff. will M rr.ar-?#4 t»
Dr. John B. Walker at Easthaaptos. Loss;
Island, on June 22.
Mr. and Mrs. M Orme Wilson wCI aal
for Europe about the. middle of J-^ne.
IN THE BERKSHIRE*.
f5«.- Te!e«rraph 'a The ~rn****>. }
Lenox. Hay 23- — Mr. and Mrs. Davil X.
Dana, who have been at th? Curtis Here!
since their arrival, hire leaned Osceoli
House.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel W. Woodward >-,<
Miss Ellen P. King, of Washington, are at
I their country places in SteckbrMge.
Mr. and Mr-. Robert IT. Johnson, or Tfsw
York, will arrive ;at KorJtapc-t Vina, ta
Stockbridge. to-morrow.
William Pollock Is at " Holraesdale, ti
Pittsfleld.
i Frank K. Sturgls ha 3 arrived at Cllpstaa
j Grange.
Mrs. Alexander G. Sedgwlcfc has gone ts
New York.
j Henry A. James and M 133 Dorothy Jaaea
; of New York, are at th* Red; Lion Tna. b.
Stockbridgo.
Paul Tuckerman. «f Tuxedo, who has
been visiting his sister. Mats Emily Tucker
man, has gone to New York.
. Mr and Mrs. Robert W. Taft. of Frmi
dence: Mr. and Mrs. Edward D. BurrtlLti*
Misses Burrfll and D. Townsend, oC IXmt
i York, are at the Curtis Hotel:' --
SOCIAL NOTES FROM NEWPORT.
[By Teteirrsp*? to ~-« TribaaeT
Newport. Slay 35.— A luncheon In ho^orol
Miss Mariaana Fullam and. Mis? JaCi
Sands, who are soon to be married, was
given this afternoon by Mrs. Newtoa
Adams, at her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C Havemejej;
after looking: about for a summer Beast
have returned to Kew York.
Amor HolHngsworth. of Boston, has takes
th© cottage of Mrs. Harriet S. Hale, to
Greenough Place, for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Rollins Morse are ex
pected in a few days to make an isspeetiee
of their summer home.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss asf
family have returned from New- York. ,
Mrs. Walter N. Eldridge has retired
from a visit to Mr. and Mr?. T. Shaw Ba*
at East Greenwich-
Mr and Mr?. Lorillard Spencer. Jr.. aad
Baird Ledyard arrived from New Tori tW«
evening.
PATNTDTGS tv HIGH SCHOOLS
| Municipal Art Society Starts Mots*
ment to Raise Funds for Purpose.
The Jrunidpal Art Society has started «
movement among 1 the alumni at the Tl'ad
lela;h Hl£h School to raise a fund of JltXtX-J
for mural paintings for that lnstitatloa.
The society is also trying to hiva tt ar
ranged so tha: the "Washington Trvin«r E!^i
School will have a hall for the- exMMtto*
of arts and crafts, paintings and sculpt*"**
In that event th» society nil! provide »lo*»
exhibition.
A. A. Stoujchton. chairman of tit cc=
alttea on school decoration, has beta m
thorized to consult ■with the presides! «
the Board of Education with special 'ref
erence- to the Washington Irviss ■**
School, so that It can be erected wH»f«»*>
er accommodations ft art exhibitions.
NEBRASKA PRESS PROTEST.:
Lincoln. Neb.. Hay 22. -Tha NeW**
***•> Association to-day passed a»»*'
tlon condemning the rultsjs of t±i^ f -'
offlc<* Department relating to the ■#•
of supplements. The Nebraska Hip— "
tives in Consrej-s were reT:e#r*d to «►*"
to President Tart.
| NEW YORK FROM THE SU3UK33. I
Fifty thousand bad eirsra w«r- &£& I
seise.l in New York, feut th»re ar* *«».* I
number out of jail In that clty.-C*?" 1 - I
Free Frees. f» I
The- hop waits •> now th<« eras* *^2![ I
i Tork. It ought to bo an un '.;ualiiMg aß r II
! c«s also In Milwaukee— Waterbtiry ■••* ■
| lican. - - ' I
I Chin* may send gomo mi.«sJonar|e9 » I
New York after the --white .slave" y!U32"» |
are exposed— Bidtimor* livening *■*• E
Contractors are »eartn«: down £ j*^ I
twenty story building in N«* TM"JgW
i order to erect a modern structure. VJJIS ■
' sea why such mart--.' aitairs are p»-» I
lin the tirst -Phitmtelptila. In*** 1 X
r Another man has been arrested for £?*?* I
: in;? in the street in N>w York. \eu f,*" ■
| swear all you like in Gf>thanj. but J^. m
| «cot to be mUhtv careful about »2-ataaT
where anybody ml«rht hear you.— t3DU * > m
Gazette-Times. M
The news reports sar John V- Ssm^am
feller. Jr.. has assumed the task of P*"9^B
«n?r New York. If so. he has •« If* E
tackled a man's Jotx— Omaha Bee. *-\ X
A church on Murray Hill. New Tort. «-*j 1
supplied itself with a street number w j^ ar
podmtbi^ searcher*. It would be interest-^ ■
■ to learn whether or not this tacr ***^^B
attendance. It appears that, as » .Z&wk
New York churches dc not e^fTf,..:^ ■
names on the outside. Is thta an ine^asaaaj
that outsiders are not -wanted.— «*■ ;*s
H*r*!d. ' |p
TROY WEIGHT AND NEW. YORj^H
From Th* EochaiMr Pest Eatress. *-;AB
The practice of adjustlnr scales 3»?51
tweh* ounce* <<aake i acund i*.* l^!
fee q?:tt» common ta yw Yors, '-»^g
pUc* in tha country wfcet* sucii a J'* ll^!
La i<?jr» -.a '.a U Troy. , "~**~<^H