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Tribune Association, a ycir York corporation; office and' prin cipal place of business. Tribune Build ing, Xo. 154 fossa xtrccl, Xctc York: Olden if ' Us. president; Often M. Reid, tccrctam; Javws at. Barrett, treasurer. The address of the officers fa the office of ii<i* newspaper. mi: KBWB this ttoasiva. FORKI^N.— Indignation is shown in Franco over the report that Turkey will plac* the SJfcOOO.OOO Joan in England; Tho Frt-neh Foreign Office regards the Forte's attitude as little, short of Mack m-'il - — — Pr Crippen and Miss Lw«v« v-cre committed for trial ut IBM close of the hearing before a magistrate in the r...w strc-et police court: further testi ir.onv tending to inculpate the prisoners -ivas* given. === The. Tokio • Hochi rays that a plot ... kin the Emperor has been discovered in the capital, end that a number of arr-sts have been made. -__— ■■ ■'■■. deaths? from cholera and i- •" new eases were reported from Italy; the disease if said to have appeared at Koj. 1 Japan — ■— John Hendry, president '' the Canadian Manufacturers' Associa tion, strongly opposed negotiations for reciprocity between Canada and tn« Tnited States. ==: Secretary Dickin son was entertained at dinner by the Chinese Foreign Board at Peking, and Tva«* received by the Prince Regent. — — A widespread plot to overthrow King fvianucl has been discovered In Portugal. •DOMESTIC— Denouncing the <'•■•" cref^io^al "pork barrel," President Taft. in a rpeech at Cincinnati, urged a re ror.Ftruction of the method of dealing with waterways improvement- — Tony-two persons were killed and seven v.-er*' «--eriousiv hurt in a head-on colli sion" between two hiterurban electric < 6 rs neat Btaflton. md. ===== Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, m a speech at I>an viile."lll., eaicl the Payne- Aldrich tariff law needed no defence. =--— Congress man laasss A. Tawney. in ■ statement at iasfiTi^ Minn., declared that the Democratic vote. ar.d not his critics, v.-as responsible for his defeat in Tuesday's primary elf ctibn. == The special mas ter in* chancery reported a decision »cainpt the state of Minnesota in the •■•ommoflity freight and . two • Tit pas f-^nper rate case. — ."■■ The President withdrew 1.327 acres of land valuable for power purposes in California and C9Or.r. acres of coal land i:: Colorado. acrordins to an announcement at Wash ington. - Representative J. Sloat Vassett was . . mated without OPP° pition in the 53d New York district con vention held it Watkins, N. Y. ClTY.— Blocks were dull at net ad vances. ■■' The legislative investigat ing committee revealed a new way by which ftreet railways covered up their iiayments for legislative work. = The 'tepchildr^n of Oeorgre Crocker attacked Ills will, by wJiich he left £1,000.000 to <"o]umhia for a cancer research fund. :.■ .. ■ Th* 1 line-up, as conservatively est| inated. cave Roosevelt a majority •■! 71) over Sherman in the state convention, although the Progressives claimed more. — : — Eighteen thousand Grand Army «^f the Republic veterans marched in pa rade at Atlantic City. :_:^_. At great rj?k to himself a policeman -• ned a man who had fallen into a tank in the basement of Andrew Carnegie's house. : It was said thai Ihe grand jury tiad ordered indictments to be drawn Jicainst four men in connection with a poolroom in the Tenderloin. TIiE WEATHER.— lndications for to «!ay: Fair. The temperature yesterday: Hiph^st. 70 degrees at C p. m.; lowest. (»!> vx <j a. m. MR. TAWXETS DEFEAT. Representative James A. Tawney's fail'.ir.f to secure a renomination in the Ist District, of Minnesota is regrettable I>ecause it ends tLe service of a legis lator at marked ability and exceptional usefulness. He hi undoubtedly the beat chairman the House Committee on Appropriations has had since Samuel J. Rsnctall. The country owes largely to liira the advance made in recent years toward rational siethods of budget mak ing. II" secured the enactment of legis lation forbidding ■ department and bu reau .chiefs to make overdrafts on the Treasury, cither through expenditures or authorizations, and compelling them to apportion payments so that a full year's appropriation could not be used im Ju a few months and the service rrippled for the rest of the year unless Oansress consented to make deficiency appropriations. A wasteful habit anas Urns checked and tho deficiency account <>f the Treasury has now been reduced to reasonable proportions. Mr. Tawney also championed the law l«y wbioLi ■ more direct responsibility for tbe size of each year's budget is thrown <>n ibe Executive. The President Is now required to submit estimates which bear a closer relation than formerly to the BbUltJ of til.- Treasury to pay, and. if tbe estimates exceed the prospective rerenae for any year, to suggest new forms of taxation to make good the de ficiency. President Taft has gone to work energetically to keep the annual •-'! natcs within th' 1 government's Income, and the new system baa already saved Millions of dollars. That fear, for the first time within the reobUectloa of this genera lion. Congress appropriated less than il appropriated for the year preced ing. Next year's appropriation* promise M Ik* less than this .wars, and Ha- gain ib ib« government through lenuticfafi tin* budget «ii' probably amount before J 'resident Taffs term closes \o at leaf-t H00.000.000 annually. Mtteb of the credit of j.uat accorupJithiaeat should go ■o Mr. TWney, who showed how the teas*' 1 rcrrli be • pad, and vrh~<, as '__jß»^.. of the House Appropriations Committee, has labored valiantly to stop it. It is unfortunate that a legislator **• ceptionally useful to •' . ■,.•■• at larpe t-hould have so antagonized the senti ment of his district M to make defeat Inevitable. Mr. Tawney sacrificed him self through his inability to see that his own work bad constituted him a power in the House and bad assured him free use of his abilities and judgment. He preferred to think that he owed what be was to the favor of the Speaker and the House organization rather than to his own capacity and the support of his constituency. The people of his district end state had shown that they wanted the House rules amended and the exces sive powers of the Speaker moderated. But Mr. Tawney mistakenly cast his lot with the old system, defying the pro gressive sentiment of the voters at home, and that defiance was fatal. In spite of. his high qualifications his dis trict set him aside because of a flagrant error of political judgment. N,> other member of the House had a talker opportunity than was offered last winter to Mr. Tawney. He could have put himself at the head of the move ment to liberalize the rules and do away with Cannonlsm and could have got a large share of the credit for the im portant political reform which was ac complished against his opposition. It is I pity that he could not have seen then what everybody sees to-day and thus have avoided paying the penalty which an affronted constituency has just exacted. THE RESULT tV OXEIDA. The humiliation of tains rejected In lis own home district and ward in Oneida County, foreshadowing his coin tag rejection by the state convention, is the natural and inevitable consequence of Vice-President Sherman's allying himself with the discredited Barnes- Woodruff crew and permitting his name to be used for its purposes. Mr. Sher man suffer* worse in the party clash than' any of the "old guard" members who are shielding themselves behind him. Hewn*. Barnes. Ward. Woodruff and Wadsworth were- not rejected by iheir own districts and have not suf fered as yet much damage from any re volt occasioned by their stand. Mr. Sher man HI not only defeated by his own neighbors, but Che hold of his organiza tion upon his comity is damaged" beyond repair. And the Vice- President will have to bear the brunt of what is going to happen in the coming convention. Some surprise baa been felt that the Vice-president permitted himself to be Involved in the way in which he has. In the preliminary line-up during the legislative session lie was not associated with the "old guard." pat exerted some Influence In support of the Hughes poli cies and appeared to cast in his lot with Senator Root and the Representatives bom New York in Washington who sought to have Senator Hfaman elected leader of the Republicans in the state Senate and who aimed to effect a reor ganization of the state committee, in volving, with Mr. Taft's approval, the retirement of State Chairman Woodruff. His position at that time was perhaps intermediate between the two faction % with an apparent leaning toward the reorganizes. The most plausible ex planation we have heard of the circum stances which swept him into his pres ent position at the head and front of the "old guard" campaign was that he took the nomination for temporary chairman in the honest belief that har mony would thus be best promoted. He saw. so it is asserted, that the "old guard" was. determined not to accept Mr. Roosevelt for temporary chair own, and hoped that his own selection would be more acceptable to the Progressives that that of any other man whom it was likely to name. If be hoped to effect harmony he was speedily disillusionized, and his friends must agree that he made a mistake in not declining to serve as soon as he saw that harmony would not result and that he and bis office would be drawn into a factional fight. The Tribune, as .soon as the situation developed, urged him to decline to serve. It is sorry that he did not see tit to follow its advice. It is glad that he has been beaten at home, and yet it cannot withhold a cer tain admiration for the grin* way in which, without explanations or crying for quarter, he has is li .n the shots meant for the "old guard" skulking be hind him in a fight in which he had nothing to gain and a great deal to lose. DR. WILSOS ASD Tin: QONBTI TUTIOX. lac preafdentof Prlueeton University, who is. now al>o the Democratic candi date for Che governorship of New Jer accla;:ne<l by his f-ieuds «nrid sup portera as pre-eminently a student of i-'ii^e of |,»u niawilf and us a su preaM authority anon public affairs, it v,i,;<j be folly to ''halk'njro his scholar ship or to deny that he baa in recent ed many atterancefl to dis i of cMc Intereste. Bat these oanse us to ragard with the more ■arpri ne of the most recent utter anon aothoritntlvely imputed to him. In The Newark Star," a paper which aright almost be regarded as hit ispre scitativf organ, ao intimately are it and tta proprietor aaaftcaltad with his candi da«y, w. and Dr. Wilson reported as sayl: I would put in the power of the prose cuting attorney the privilege of altering indictments to include officials who. crawl to cover and might be located were the laws of evidence more elastic. If those words mean anything— and Dr. Wilson is not given to speaking idle words— they certainly seem to mean that a prosecuting attorney should be empow ered at will to include in an indictment persons whom the grand jury which and the indictment did not thus in clude. Thus, if the grand jury indicted Smith, the District Attorney might In clude Jonas and Robinson in the MUM Indictment, although the grand jury had failed and refused to do so. . The Fifth Amendment to the Constitu tion of the United States, forming a part of the commonly called Bill of Bights, and regulating the exercise of federal authority, provides: HO person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime im- Kss on a ijrfsr entment or indictment of a grand jury. The constitution of the Slate of New .Jersey, regulating the exercise of state authority, in Article I. Section V, pro vides: N«» perron shall be ht-ld to answer for a criminal offence unless on the present* tdent or Indictment of a grand Jury. 'X cept in cases of Impeachment or in ou:»es cognizable by Justice* of Hi. ■ peace, or arising in tlu; army or navy or in tbe militia, when in actual service in lime of war or public danger. Without conceding precedence to any one in New Jersey over Dr. Wilson in scholarly familiarity with these two in ttruments, we cannot repress a feeling YEW-YORK DATLT TRIBirTO. TIrTRSDAY. SEPTFAIBER 22, 1910. of curiosity concerning his harmonizing of his own words with the sections which we have quoted. It Is quite obvious that the offences which he had in mind as demanding punishment were not such as were to be dealt with by impeachment or by I justice of the peace, or such as had arisen in the military services. In deed, a conspiracy against the laws of the United States might well be regarded as an infamous crime. It is difficult to escape the conclusion, therefore, that Dr. Wilson would have persons held to an swer for serious criminal offences with out presentment or Indictment by a grand jury, contrary to the explicit pro visions of the constitutions of the Stale of Xew Jersey and the United States of America. We should add that thus to empower a prosecuting attorney, who is often an intense partisan, to arrogate to himself the functions of a grand jury and to place under indictment at his personal discretion and pleasure any captives of his individual dragnet would be a revival of the lettrc dc cachet sys tem to which the citizens of New Jersey would not give their approval. AWKWARD. In his new role of "bolter" Mr. Bryan will expose himself to the shafts of those whom be has denounced for years as deserters and faithless Democrats. His heart has never softened toward the Gold Democrats, who split the national party in 1886, and only recently, when it was proposed to nominate for the Presidency in 1012 a Democrat whose record on free silver coinage was not straight, Mr. Bryan asked why it wouldn't be safer and better to prefer a Democrat who had never wavered in loyalty to the ratio of 10 to 1. He has just announced that he will not support James C Dahhnan. the Democratic nominee for Governor in Nebraska. That puts him in the category of the ir regulars and backsliders, for Mr. Dahl man was fairly nominated in a Demo cratic primary and is entitled to *he support of those whose sole and all- BOfflcing test of tru3 Democratic char acter is fidelity to party nominees. How can Mr. Bryan again rebuke the dissi dents and rebels of IS9G or 1900 or 1008, when.he has himself in 1910 repudiated a regularly chosen Democratic nominee? It is to Mr. Bryan's credit that be op poses Mr. Dahlman openly instead of working against him in the dark. The Democratic candidate has become an open champion of the liquor Interests and has conducted a campaign so offen sive both to the county optionists nnd to tho supporters of the present 8 o'clock closing law as to leave little choice to Democrats who do not approve his "uidc.'-open" views. He has been tell ing "hem (hat they ought to support the Republican candidate if they believe in restrictions on tbe liquor traffic. He has therefore forced an issue which breaks down partisan lines, and to that extent Mr. Bryan can justify himself in refus ing to be tied up with a candidacy which has practically only one object— nameiy, the removal of all existing re strictions on the sale of liquor. Yet it is an embarrassing and incongruous po sition for the great apostle of Demo cratic regularity to. be driven into, and thai through the obstinacy and hot i ended indiscretions of one of his for mer bosom friends. THE CASE OF SEXATOR WAIN WRIGHT. It is a hopeful sign that the plan of the Westchester County machine to deny a renomi nation to Senator J. May hew Wainwright should arouse the indignant protest now making itself heard in the Hudson River towns. The time was not so rery long ago when a machine like William L. Wards could "discipline" an independent and honest public servant, and that was the end of it. But it will not be the end of it if the Ward machine carries out its present purpose to punish Mr. Wainwright for his refusal to be subservient.^ Already there are signs of a revolt, an) the machine in Westchester may expect in tbe near future what tbe machine in Onieda County got Tuesday. Mr. Wainwright's only fault in Tbe rtew of the machine is his independence. Be has consistently supported Governor Hughes, while the man with whom the machine proposes to displace him has been a persistent Opponent of the Gov ernor and s serviceable adjutant of Speaker Wadsworth. His nomination and the enforced retirement of Mr. Wain snight will be an affront to the best sentiment of the district Senator Wain wright deserves the support which is coming to him. not only because of the progressive spirit which he has shown .-it Albany, out also because he has been an exceptionally useful legislator, who could be relied upon to rote intelligently and conscientiously upon measures before th*> Senate. Hi« greatest public service Mr. John Mitchell, the labor leader, called attention to in a letter published in yestei day's Tribune. That is bis work as chairman of tbe commission which in yestigsted the question of the employers' liability and drew up the present statute upon the subject and Mr. Wainwright's displacement in the face Of his good rec ord would undoubtedly make the labor rote of Westchester County resentful. Failure to iiiiomlnntf him will weaken the Republican party In Westchester County in a year when it will not be well to take chances. SIGNS OF WINTER. Hardly had the last straw hat been reduced to a shapeless muss at Coney Island, or in the seclusion of the dress ing room exchanged for something more appropriate to the latter half of Sep tember, than signs of the approach of winter became visible. From Winnipeg cornea the report that the wild animals there are making unusual preparations for the sietre; from other sections we learn that the heavy covering of husks Ivor the ears in tbe farmer's cornfield presages I heavy demand upon the coal supply. The New Yorker is not fa miliar with these portents, but there are others which he knows all too well. For with the approach of Indian sum mer begins the trek of the "hobo" from the highways and byways toward that great haven for the mendicant, the metropolis. It ssenw tint the larger the city the greater the opportunity for the man who will not work and whoso sole purpose in life is to collect the living which the world does not owe to him, but which it cannot w«'ll refuse, to Impose upon the generosity of his fellows. Already the report comes that along the Erie Railroad swarms of tramps may be found with their faces set toward the morning. Not only are they making trouble for the railroad employes, stealing rides and plundering nicrchandi-e cars, but the farmers in some sections Bra in a condition ap proachlnaj terror. Th«se knteht* of the read not only make themselves free with poultry bouse and larder, hut they now and then told up travellers on the highway and relieve them Of their vnl tin hies. Before lens: New York win liavc its large share of these iucumbrances with in its gates. The resources of the city, both in the matter of finance and In that of law and order, will he taxed to the utmost. Nickel* and dimes will be lured from the unwary native or the unsophisticated visitor on the plea that "the members of my union are out on strike and my family are starving," or, "I came here from Ohio to pet a job. "but found there was nothing doing. I "haven't had anything to eat for two "days." And sufficiently often for bis imposes, in spite of the fact that the odor of liquid refreshment lingers, the coin will be forthcoming. Winter with its problems is not far distant, and the gain of the farmers alone the Erie, when the last of the varrant army has passed, will be New. York's loBS, Among the eccentricities of the Metro politan Street Railway bookkeeping the concealing of a payment for political purposes by Its entry & s a loss in a damage suit is a trivial one. "Well. Mr. Barnes may take a certain comfort from the knowledge that in Al bany County there was no opposition. Nobody dares offer to'lay a violent hand on the Constitution in that territory. 0 The deer and near-deer season In the Adirondack^ is only a few days old. but already two victims are reported of mis taken identification on the part of the wilderness nimrods. Deer hunters ought to equip themselves with cow bells or automobile horns so as not to mis take one another for stag*?, does and other untutored denizens of the forest. The capture by the Progressives of two of the four Queens County Assem bly districts leaves Richmond County the. only portion of the city in which r^ac tionrry control is uneontrsted. It is an Isolation of Which Republicanism on States Island can hardly be proud. "The World" tries to impeach our statement that the Congressional appor tionments in most Republican states are exceptionally generous to the minority by pointing: to the fact that only ten Democratic Representatives out of a total of seventeen were fleeted from this city in 1008. Mr. Taft carried the city In 19061 yet the Republicans got only seven seventeenths of the representation in the lower branch of Congress. No Dem ocrat can justly complain of the illiber ality to the minority of an apportion ment Which produces such a result. Mr. Barnes says it would be "political weiching" for a majority of the dele gates to the state convention to" ques tion a recommendation regarding the temporary chairmanship made by the statp committee. That is extraordinary doctrine. A state on vent ion has full power to accept or reject the commit tee's recommendation. It can substi tute a temporary chairman of its own choice for tiie chairman suggested by the committee. Otherwise it would ab dicate one of its essential functions — that of governing itself and controlling its own procedure. Mr. Barnes's idea seems to be that the convention is a creature of the 6tate committee, instead of the state committee being merely the holdover agency of a previous state convention. THE TALK OF THE DAT. Miss Natalie White, w'no has secured a license to drive an automobile in New York, is nearly two years behind an enter prising young negro woman in Paris, who passed the necessary examination in that city and became a taxi cab chauffeuso. She took her stand near ona of the popular hotels, where her smart light blue cloth suit and jaunty hat with a gilt band at tracted immediate attention. She was idle and a target for the eyes of the inquisitive at first, but after she had served her first fare business boomed and her taxicab is said to be one of the most remunerative of its kind in that city, because of the popularity of the black chauffeuse. At first glance the novel's title. "The Rainbow," seemed to be lacking in sig nificance, but a3 It afterward developed that the he:o Blushed crimson. Was blue with the cold, Had his lips grow gray, Was seized by a black rage, Ffil into a Lrown Study, Grew green with envy. Pur ple with indignation, Livid with fear, Tel lo-v with chagrin and Scarlet with embar rassment, the title proved to be entirely apt.— Puck Much significance was attached to the launching a day or so ago of the tank steamer Currier, at the Fore River ship j yards in Quincy. Mass. Many larger and more- costly vessels have been built by the i concern. Including a . number of United States war vessels, but the Currier is the first vessel built In the Bay State in half a century for foreign trade, and the Cuban company which owns her is planning an other vessel for use in the same business between Cuba and the United States. PRESENT AND . PAST. Among the shadows strange that come Our smiles to overcast The one which wrings a mood most glum Is thinking of the past. For instance, if you say "I bring," You later Kay "I brought." But if perchance you try to sing You cannot say "I sought." No matter where a man may go You tell us that "he went." But if the gardener should boo You never cay, "he hent." If on an airship you should fly You write us that "you flew." But If some time again you try Don't tell us that "you trew." And if a huntsman goes to ehoot You say next day "he shot." But if a bugle he should toot You'd never say "he tot." And so perplexities I find Where pleasures should be found: Because my verbs I cannot mind Just as they should be mound. —Washington Star. Hand-painted hats are the latest millinery fad, according to "Popular Mechanics." These hats are being sold In large num bers not only to women who are opposed to the destruction of birds for their plumes, bat to many persons who are Inspired sim ply with the desire of obtaining a pretty hat. The prices charged for them vary with the artistic merit of the painting and the quantity of It displayed on the hat. Duluth has started In to save a portion of its waterfront for city uses with an appropriation of J15.C00. and the "Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas" has hopes that the venture will bo profitable not only financially, but In other ways. "Jako" Heringsdorfer is a popular sales man for a ladies' neckwear house. A short time ago a customer from the Middle West called ut the salesroom to look around, and "Jake." after showing him all the novelties and desirous of keeping him from going elsewhere to buy his fail stock, asked him to luncheon. The Invitation was accepted, but the customer never came back and It was learned later that a hated competitor bad landed the order. v.-x.-i at being "thrown down," the salesman sent the merchant ■ bill which included "one cocktail, one soup, one entree, one roast, one dessert, one coffee ana a cigar," besides time charge.-: of two hours at $10 A day. In return he received a letter stating that the bill was correct, but that the mer chant had a counter chart* of two hour* at SSO a day, besides $10 for having to listen to fix Etorlts of th« vintage of 19O«, an<J^ added: "The balance In my favor you may gives to any non-sectarian charity. Com ing to sec your line after the holidays. ' One thousand peasant families will soon come from France to settle in Southwestern Louisiana, wh*re fifty thousand sen* have been reserved for them by gustave Camoin. a French citizen who holds title to the land.— Hartford Couraat. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. SEES GOOD TIMES AT HAND. To The Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I am very old— a soldier of the Civil War. I have voted for the Republican candidates for officers of the government from Fremont's day to date. The older I get the more of a reformer I am. I have seen them come and go all these years, but more of them came to stay by us In the last four years than In all the time pre vious. Who started th« reform ball roll- Ing at Washington and Albany? Two men who have made history of reform very rapidly within a few years. Having suffered for the country— be ing reminded of it constantly— l cannot fail to possess a deep Interest In its welfare. I wish to ask If you don't think the rule of the people themselves is pretty safe? Look back a little while and see how the Tammany tiger had to swallow Reformer Gaynor whole and keep its mouth shut ever since. Once grafters ruled across the river. To day they are nominating Woodrow Wilson for Governor of New Jersey. Tour space Is 6o full of new reforms hatched overnight that one's head swim? with visions of glorious times coming. And the Republican coop cannot hold half t..e brood. Is It net in tha air that Just ordinary voters shall have a chance for a say so about who shall administer the govern ment? V.*. P. EDDY. Brooklyn. Sept. tt. 131". "PURE AMERICAN PRINCIPLES." To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: In connection with the letter of Louis A. Rappaport in a recent issue of The Tribune permit me to ask why it is that the persons ■ who write letters. In which "pure American principles" are de fined and announced, are generally for eigners? Why is it that these foreigners ar* always so ready to declare that thera are no real Americans at all? There is something savoring of Impudence and high handedness in the remarks of these per sons. Did Mr. Rappaport, or his ancestors, help to build this Republic? If not by what right docs h* presume tb tell us what "pure American principles" are? There are thousands and millions of American citizens who were born under the Stars and Stripes, and whose grand fathers were born here also. By what strange process of reasoning Is the theory evolved by which the foreigner is entitled to more free speech than the native born? Why is It "intolerant" for an American, who cannot legally claim to be anything but an American, to- wish to restrict immi gration? These foreigners, whom wo are to tol erate and help, gather in groups and, In stead of adapting themselves to our Amer ican standards, ihcy attempt to force their ideas and institutions upon our unwilling popnlation. They have introduced "Vlass^s" or castes. .«o«.ia.lism. anarchy, the "Conti nental Sunday" and a host of un-Ameri can ideas, which they label "American principles." There are thousands of vof»s which will be cast for any Congressman who will fight for the restriction of immigration. Nothing would be of more benaflt to our country than an absolute stoppage of all immigration for a period of ten years. Give us time to digest this mass of hu manity 1 JULIAN I GREGORY. ilontclair, N. J , Sept. '21, 1910. ADVICE FOR THE LEGISLATURE, To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: I would like to advise a postpone ment of the direct nominations measure— which you say the. Legislature has al ready shelved— until after that Legislature has passed upon the suffrage issue, the reason being that direct nominations would be very expensive, as would also equal suffrage, and it seems inadvisable to have both drains on the exchequer when one might suffice. That one Is equal suffrage, for it would overcome the apathy that is the. bane of our politics to-day and es tablish American principles at the same time. H. S. H. Ottawa, Canada, Sept. 18, 1910. THE VETERANS AND PENSIONS. To the Editor of The Tribune Sir: The veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic gathered at Atlantic City are raising the cry for a dollar a day In pen sions for life. When Uncle Sam has shown an unparal leled generosity to the veterans of the Civil War and the annual appropriation for pensions is now $155,000,000. forty-five years after the close of that conflict, and the diminution of this great sum, naturally ex pected as the years go by. Is so slow to show itself, can the old soldiers insist with good erace that the present appropriation be greatly Increased? So many old soldiers have passed away that a steadily diminish in? annual appropriation is most reason able. JAMES .MKNIfJHT. New Brunswick. N. J.. Sept. a, 1910. RCOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. To the Editor of The Tribune. Sir: Walking through the more or Jess obscure neighborhood of 101 st street and Columbus avenue this morning I saw a filthy tramp lying on the sidewalk, loat to the world in a stupor, where he had evi dently fallen in his drunken tracks, and two neatly gloved and uniformed officers within a few hundred feet of him gazing in other directions. In about ten minutes I was in Central Park witnessing a fine display of ma noeuvres on horseback performed by a squad of natty mounted police ted by a magnificent bugler, drawing much atten tion by his blasts.. I could not banish the thought of what enormous expense must be thus Imposed on tha taxpayers in order to support show at the expense of utility in the ranks of tha "finest. If Mayor Gaynor only knew: New York. Sept. 20. 1910. DAY HAWK. GOOD PLACE POR THE PFARLS. From The Rochester Herald. A woman returning Xrom abroad was found In posse«Fion ot a pearl necklace which looked good for $20,000. But she proved that the pearlx were phony and ooat $100. It I? not surprising, therefore, to hear that she Is going on the stage. CERTAINLY LOOKS THAT WAV. From The Philadelphia Press. Chicago is a great city, with a country of exceeding fecundity and wealth on all sMoj of her. She will always be one of America's greatest cities, but New York's primacy M the dominant American me tropolis for all time seems U secure as anything of human creation can be. New- York is so far ahead of all possible com petitors that the only question which her growth still leaves debatable is at which period will she secure the rank of the larg est city in the world. NOT AN UNMIXED EVIL. From The Washington Star. "Poverty has its blessings," said the philosophic friend. "That's right." replied Mr. Suddcnglft. "It was* annoying to be wiped out in Wall Street as I was last week. Hut it put an Immediate atop to two threatened breach of promise raits. ** GRAFT IS NO "SMALL MATTER." From The Providence New,-. The present administration in New York City la attending to small matters us well ac big ones. . Police Commissioner Baker hah Just i£su«d an order that prisoner* at fetation* may have free- stamps and free u»e of th« telephones to call for assistance. Up to this time »iien arrested had to tend out for 6tamps an.i hava - ■:■.!.«• one e's^ do th« telephoning for them. Such errands had to bs -well said for by sereoxu detained. People and Social Incident NEW YORK SOCiE'Tr. New York society, especially thO mem bers of the I-ong Island set. will be exten sively represented at the Mineola horse show, which opens to-day and will last until Saturday evening. It will be made tho occasion of much entertaining on the part of those owning country homes In the district, and there will be many, house parties over the week end. The exhibition this year will be very interesting, as there are fifty-four classes to be Judged. and the competitions promise to be particularly keen. Mr. and Mrs. F. E«erton Webb and Miss Laura Webb ?iave taken possession ot their new horne 1 at No. 9O Park avenue. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Harknaaa arrived tn town yesterday from New London, Conn.. and are at the St Regis. They will leave the city within the next few days for Lenox. Mrs. R. Livingston Beeckman has arrived in town from Newport and la at tho Plaza for a few dayi Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. Harden will re turn to the city from Seabrigh?, N. •*■• on October 7, and take possession of their house, in East 76ta street, tor the winter. Mrs. Paul Tuckerman has arrived In town from Tuxedo, and 19 at the Gotham. Mr. and Mrs. Jobs S. Phipps are at th* Plaza, where they will remain until the end of the month. Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Berwind have arrived in town from Ne-vrwrt. Nicholas Longworth, who was In town the early part of the week, has gone to Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Edcy are in town for a few days, and are staying at the St. Regis. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick tV. Vr.nderbilt and Harold S. Vanderbllt sailed for Europe yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Lydlg are booked to sail from Europe for New Yorfc on November 2. IN THE BERKSHIRES. [By Telegraph to The Tribune.] Lenox. Sept. 21.— The cool of autumn and the hunting have brought about a revival of riding. On horses this after noon were the Misses Charlotte and Cor nelia R. Barnes, Miss Helolse Meyer, Miss Klizabeth Turnure and M.3S Icabelld Shot ter. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Hobby, Jr.. Mr. and .Mr?, G. 11. Nevill and Mr. and Mrs. C. 1* Colton, of New York, have arrived, at the Maplewood Hotel. In Pittsfield. Mrs. Henry S. DeShon and Miss A. E. Lit tle, who have been at the Hotel Asplnwall for the. season, returned to-day to New York. Mrs. Robert Mallory and Mr*. Edward W. Bigelow, of New York; Mr. and Mrs. F. Dm-yea, Mr. and Mrs. F. V. Jnrden, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mitchell and Mrs. Robert Marshall, of Fall .River, are at the Ifotti Aspinwall. A concert for the benefit of the Lenox ward in a hospital was given by Jeanne Faure and Eugene Bernstein this alternoon.- In the audience were Mrs George West inghouse. Mrs. Hamilton Fish Benjamin. Mrs. Richard C Greenleaf, Mr. and Mrs Richard C. Dixey. Mrs. Frederick D. Tap pan. Mrs. Harry L. Lee, Miss Margaret TVadsworth. Miss Ethel Brooks. Miss Aleid Schenck and Miss Charlotte Cram. Alexander Sedgwick will be a candidate for tha nomination of Representative tn IRISH MAYOPS COMING HEBB Delegation to Discuss Setention of Queenstown as Port of Call. Southampton, Sept. 21.— A delegation of well . known Irishmen embarked on the steamer Oceanic to-day for New York. Their mission is to discuss with officials at Washington the- question of Inducing the Cunard Line to continue Queenstown as a port of call for its larger mail steam ers. While in this country recently. Frank H. Hitchcock, American Postmaster Gen eral, premised to receive the deputation. The delegation includes the Lord Mayor of Dublin and the presidents of the Cham bers of Commerce of Dublin and Belfast, the Town Clerk of Queenstown, Sir Edward Fitzgerald. Lord Mayor of Cork, and Sir James Long. al3o of Cork. OSCAR S. STFAUS'S REFUSAL Ambassador Declined to Accept an Ordinary Passport for Russia. London, Sept. 21.— dispatch from Con stantinople- says that Oscar S. Straus, the American Ambassador to Turkey, aban doned a proposed visit to Russia because he refused to accept the privilege of a passport from the Russian government. Ambassador Straus left Constantinople on September 3 for a holida> in the United States. At an earlier date dispatches from St. Petersburg said that the Russian Min istry of the Interior had published an order permitting: the diplomat to visit the Russian capital. The passport. ho»ev< r, was in the regular form of those admitting Hebrews, and contained no reference to Mr. t'traus's post. TAFT WITHDRAWS 70,382 ACRFS Part In California- Valuable for Pour; -Rest Colorado Coal Lands. Washington. SepL 21.— President Taft ha? withdrawn from entry approximately 70,332 acres of land In California and Colo rado under the provisions of the act of Congress of June 23. 1910. The California lands, approximating 1.327 acres, are sit uated along the East Walker River. They are believed to be valuable for power pur poses. Those In Colorado are in the Glen wood 'Spring* land district, and amount to «).053 acre*. They are coal lands and were withdrawn to permit the Geologic Survey to classify the grades of coal con tained in them. This makes the total of cca! land withdrawals in Colorado approxi mately 6.295.13S acres. INCREASES IN POPULATION Five Pennsylvania Cities Show Marked Gains in Ten Years. Washington. Sept. 21.— Population statis tics of the thirteenth census were Issued to-day by the Census Bureau for the fol lowing cltlen: Johnstown. Perm., G5.457. an Increase of IJ.SR or 54.4 per cent, over 35,&£ In I?<X>. Erie. Perm., 0C.;.'.:.. an Increaso of 13.79?, or 1V..2 per cent, over 52,733 In 15K». Altoonu, Pcnn., 52,127. an lncrfa««» of 13. 154. or 33.3 per cent, over 33,973 in X9OOL .sp<irt, Perm.. 42,fi»1, un Increase of 5.467. or 21.7 per cent, over 31.227 In 1900. WllUamsport. Perm.. Sl.St*. an increase of 3,103, or 10* |H-r cent, over 25.757 In 1900. TSAI HSUN TO ARRIVE SEPT 30. Word was received at the City Hall yes terday from Hm State Department at Washington to the effect that Ms Imperial highness Tsal llsun. who was expected in this city on September M will, because of his Illness, be unable to get to New York be fore g-ptember SO. The prince will remain in the city on October 1. matin? a tour ct astala at th* navy yard and a trip to •• :■■- Point. ! the Republican convention from the Baal • * bridge district. "** Mr. and Mrs. William O. Roeasanaa. Percy Rockefeller and Mrs». E. W. McClaV arrived la PimHeld last night from Gre««l wich. Conn., and started this morning aaV Manchester. Vt. Mr. and Mrs. Carlos De HertOa g»«a -. dinner to-night at Wheatleisjh. " * Mr. and Mrs. Henry Holtlster Psa3alnvt gone to New York. Mrs, Richard C. Dixey (art a luncbeoa at Tangl«woo4 this afternoon. Mrs. S. Paricman Shaw has lssa;d {antj. tions for a luncheon on Friday j n jjg^--, of Mrs. Julian James. Mr. and Mrs. Arson P. Stokes, jr., vt p. return to their villa on Chi lake the ant of the. week. They wit! ke*p th« eoanaj open well Into next month. ' " Miss Eleanor Crosby has Joined Hr». p£ Maunsell Schieffelin at the Curtis HoisL Miss Elizabeth O«?ood gave a brita^ pa r _ at the C«rt:» Hotel this afternoon. . . Mr. and Mrs. Frank TrumbuU. -rao atss been guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim«s trolls, have gone to New York. Mr«. Stokol wjj give a reception on Friday arteraaaa _ Chest*rwood. in Gl»ndA!e Surgeon General W. K. * in R«ypo» <r%. ' tired), and Mrs. Van Reypen, of Was&3> ton. have arrived at Heawa Hall in a«aa> bridge. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Grann&i a% guest* of Mrs. Oscar laslgt, at Clov«rcr<«. In Stockbndare. Mr. and Mr 3. L. B. tnnianu. zSt. «Sf Mrs. Ralph Bark-r and Mr*. J. R. Btoska; of New York, have arrived at Heatca Haft* In Stockbridg* SOCIAL NOTES FRO.V. NEWPORT. [By Telegraph to Th» Tribune. J Newport. Sept. 21.— John Gates andjosaj Gatea, Jr.. of Cincinnati, are regist«re4 at the Muenchinser Kin? cottage. /^-^ Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Howe have jor.e to New York for a short visit. Richard Peters has dad fits visit intk Clarence ST. I>olan and retTircpd to X«v York. Mrs. J. Fred Plerson has gone to Daaai Ferry for a vfslt. Mrs. J. J. Wyaona- and Mrs. Alexander $, Clark have returned from New York aad Reynolds H. has returned from TCasataa* ten. .... .. _'.v 3 Mrs. Thomas J. Emery ha» closed her season and gone to Bar Harbor. Mrs. E. H. fJ^ Slater, who is to rnaats until November, entertained a 4fnn«r com pany at her summer home thU evejaa?, and Mrs. Clarence. Pell entertained at luncheon to-day. Henry IT. Ward, treasurer of fAI New port Clambake Club, has plar.n*d to-es tertaln the members of too club en OctJ-" ber 9. .-.-.'!: : Mrs. Belle Beach Bain has gone to tha Mtneola Horse Show, where she will rMa and drive the entries of George VTat3C2. Nathaniel Thayer. who Is 111 at »>,& soa> mer home, was reported to-day as "onasa> atfly Improved. it has not as y»t ■"«•». cided when Mr. Thayer will be movwt to Boston. Mrs. William S. Patten has reraraed fraa WelJesley. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Jay bars plairei to sail for Europe oh October s. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilts ana returned to New York > Mr. and Mrs. R. Livingston Beeeknaa «SJ not close their place here until the BBtna of the coming month. Mrs. Beeekmas a making a short stay in New Tork. Sir. sal > Mrs. J. Laurens Van Alen are also la 9m York- Lorillard Spencer, Jr., and James X Vat Alen have returned from Nstv Tart Mr. and Mrs. "William Starrs "Cells sat Mr and Mrs William Gammel! ttdi etna their season on Saturday. Dr.' and Mrs. R. V. llattlson departs*! fte Ambler, Perm.. to-day. r^vvT^ FOB ME, DICKUfSOJr Secretary Entertained by Farcin Board at Peking— Sees FrineilajMi Peking. Sept. a.— Officials of ths CWbsh Foreign Board gava a dinner w-ssj&t ia honor of Jacob M. Dickinson, tie AOMricsa Secretary of War. Genera! Clarence B. Edwards and other members of llr. Dick inson's party, W. J. Caltoss. ASMfteaa Minister to China, and the stas? of th» American Legation were present. Responding to an address of wslacn;. Mr. Dickinson said that the United Stata»«snl* look only with sratiacation on tUs shMbi which China was making In tis tufut ment of her commerce. In strwiftßadßl her people and in thm maintenance of Ist national integrity. Some of the prrosise* Casasst seemed disappointed becaoss O» Secretary did not make stronger attafUßHS concerning Chinese affairs. H« Mat mention Manchuria. Secretary Dickin?or> iras received la ss» dienee by the Prince Regent today *■* presented a letter from " President Tali. The message- was simply one of cordial greetings and expressions of satisfaction Si the continued friendship between t!Je twj countries. T INER WAITS FOR ARCHBISHOP The Mauritania Sails Eight «&■>• Late, with Many Notables Aboard Archbishop Francis Bourne, of he CWB» lic See of "Westminster. London. lelaj** the sailing of the. big Cunardcr 3sfSS» tania eight minutes yesterday jnOWSBt through some trouble in gettin; bis ta3-. gage aboard. The hawsers tad »t434r been cas off when ho ran ap to Cftarss R. Sumner. general agent- of the l!s& sal explained that if his six trunks were ■* put aboard he- wcuJd not have any *•• linen en arriving In England. Tha C 2" culty was remedied with pleasur*. 1* Archbishop had been attending the Eoca»« ristic Congress In Montreal. ,"'**' Frank Jay Gould and hfs wife. wW«ai Jliss Edith Kelly, a member of^Ci* 11 * 11 Havana" company, were fellow •:•»*»• gers. Mr. Gould took pains to MSB* "* false- tht report that hs intend*.! -» *•*• up a permanent residence In Franca *■=* become an expatriate. Ha explains* &*■'* ha was soing abroad to see Ms !*•■• race anfl would return in December. The. Earl and Countess of Granard •>• sailed on the Mauretania. •« M ilr- a* Mrs. F. or. Vandertllt and Harold ** derbllt and Oscar llammerst?in- *»• Hammerstem is going to London r» O*"" plete arrangements for th-» buildJns °* w new opera house there. Other 3 ****! wer*» Sir William Grey- Wilson. O#*Bna? of the Bahamas, and Lady PavD. : NEW YORK FROM THE SUSOfIS 3 " A pure- food exhibit Jon opened la *?;« York City Saturday evening, at ■Jim* was displayed on a special table * •■^S tlon of daniierou^ly impure food. '"j2tsn> ; managers had the table t>rou*bl ••^3 tor «\p!.mation of Its contents It **3 I that sample hunters had stcjen ana «SS or carried away nearly tho tntire "*" — Utlca Press. _^ The his snake In lh»< Bn:ni Zoo &*' ■ *£ I suffering from sore thrcit and th* *»VL » tie.'* hay*» be*n trying to discover "vVj-i ! .-ink.- throat ends ami tlif rest «» w starts in.— Minneapolis Journal. New York has tmport<?l t* osl^"^; stork*, but surely that namciT i- aY , enough in a c-.ity -«hat conttilns Be f;VH^* mtmous of niiii— fcai AWt aid. How evanescent is all human Just as K*W York TO *%*}*£*2Spa!l that it Is ih seruml city In t!i" ' '• tin* prospect.-' of soon becoming ';, fim»* ni»d.s ttself facing a servant £« v Even the world's homage cannot : ""..jgior* isfactory substitute- for cooks— American. • _ . .«.» . The New Yorkers who sneer •^•IgW census figure* add aodilag «*£?. +■* J common sens* of tn^r % (^,UiWt* tha.T >«ad« w«rs e«aat«d.-CB»«s«o i* .Hjrala > ;t •«*■*?•