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First lo Last?(he Truth: News?Editorials
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TRIBUNE f-tsarantees t.. ??-?> )o?i moitej
b:'rk upon rc?,tiest. Ne toi lape, ??"' HU?S
hlinf*. Ha nuk?' f>.'<i proMptl) if i'"?- .i?l
r ?lor?, nol.
That Long "Short Ballot."
There II an argument, consistent an?'.
logic?], for having an elective head ?>f the
new Department of Audit a:.?I Control pro?
posed by *?? ? Convention
Committee on Governor ai d Other State
Officers. IftheGov? to have greatly
increased power of appointment conferred
on him, - very administrator
in the state's service is to be a direct
rrabordinat? of the Governor, it is just a
wrll to have the Controller, who mus?
examine and I their accounts and
cheek up the state's finances, independen,
of the ' as he would he if elected.
??here under the sun is the argument
lor making the Attorney General an
elective official when effort ?s being made
to shorten the bal
The report of the committee merely
tayi that the Control!? r and Attorney Gcn
( ra] *.*??? ? lective officers by a
compromise, the basis of which '
found in the peculiar relation which tl
tw ? ?.id to the people of the I
as a whole." What peculiar relations to the
propio . f thi state as a whole ?lues th?
Attorney General bear? He is the
law officer. He brini in the name
of the ppople. to be sure, but thej
department actions, relating to depart?
ment activities, to the enforcement o?
{??ate laws or the r?ecovery of n
the state. He it a ?ser; -.
department attorney. There is precisely as
little reason for electing him as there
would be for electing the Corporation
Counsel of New York or the Attorney
General of the United States.
If the people oujrh' to have the right to
choose their lawyer, they outrht also to
have the right to choose their engineer.
Yet the committee has mad'- the Ftate
Engineer an appointive officer, leaving
the Attorney General elective. This is a
serious flaw in a scheme for th
panization of governmental machinery
?which is admirable in many other ways.
The committee would strengthen its plan
greatly if ?I were amended to eliminate
this flaw.
Lower Anthracite Rates.
In the spring and early Bummer of 1912
The Tril une repeatedly called the public's
attention ? of al
ready exorbitant freight rates on anthra?
cite coal. The case seemed a peculiarly
flagranl example < f public extortion.
There had been a brief strike 'if miners.
resulting :n an increase of their waget?
or, roughly, to
1,000 a year. To recoup themselves
the eight railroad operators, controlling
80 per cent of the anthracite output,
! their rate? on the domestic sizes ?of
their product approximately lT. cents a
ton, or, roughly, $15,000,000 a year. The
entin was immediately
on by the coal merchant to the consumer.
A comprehensive investigation of the
charge.-, set forth by The Tribune, begun
on June 10, 1912, by the Interstate Com?
merce Commission, resulted Thursday in a
decision cutting the anthracite freight
from all three anthracite fields to
tidewater from 5 to JO ci nti a ton, or,
roughly, $8,000,000 a year. It will be
pointed out, perhaps, that this decision, to
be a complete vindication of The Tribune's
stund, should have lopped off $9,000,000 or
more, liut such a view would be inaccu?
rate, because it was acknowledged at
the time that the operators were being
compelled to pay $.',,000,000 more a year
for their equipment than was the case
when the last general readjustment of
rates had gone into effect ami that, conse?
quently, their net profit from the arbi?
trary increase of $15,000,000 was not
$9,000.n0l>, hut $6,000,000. Hence the re?
duction ordered of $8,000,(100 not only
actually wipes out the whole of this net
profit, but in going further upholds thi,
paper's contention that the rates were
exorbitant even on the old basis before the
strike.
But consumers shoul1 not expect to see
the whole, or even a large portion, of this
reduction in freight rates reflecte.) in then
coal bills. It seems probable that enough
will be added to the price of anthracite at
the mines to offset or nearly offset the rate
reduction, and there is the more likelihood
of this from the excuse for it the anthra?
cite railroads will find in the enforcement
of the commodities clause of the Sherman
act. Though the Interstate Commerce
Commission plainly indicates its belie:'
that these railroads .-till completely domi
nate the coa! companies they have been
ordered to divorce, ye! the railroads ?rill
be incline?! to say that, having ?i
the^e companies in compliance with the
law, they are no longer able to prevent
the latter putting up their prices.
A? a matter of fact, the coal comj
will have a strong case themselves. The
Interstate Com?* Immission points
out. what has been commonly undent.?.
that the former railroad owners of these
companies were in the habit of "skinning"
them and taking their profits m :
rau.. Thil worked to nobody's disadvan
tnpc except that of th?4 independent Op
tors. But, theoretically ?it least, all
operators ara bow? m ?art shortly t<?
in(ici?(4?i.l(4iit. and therefore they mast si
? profit before oyot their coals
dumped aboard the .gondolas. They m
in other Words, raise th? if prices at
mine.
The chief .beneficial ics from i his decii
of the Interstate Commerce Commis*
promise to be not the consumers, bul
\ ind? i ' ? dent operati
Kultur in Africa.
A characteristic example of ?Gern
met ho.I .-uni foresight was discovered
! Botha in the course of his
torious campaign in German South?
Africa. He found ? set of man- '??.
nil* the map of Africa as the Germi
have determined to establish it by
treaty which, it appears, i to b c
eluded next year in Rome. According
this important promet, the wh i
tient south of the Equator is to be <.'
man, with ? minute fragment of tern',?
set apart and labelled "BoeT R?
General Hot lia made some furt her (
coveries of interest. He learned tl
MariU's intriguing began in 1913 i
that when on the outbreak of war Mai
requested Germanj ti? provide him
munitions and a promise of support,
Kaiser with great generosity replied w
?he following me. age: "I shall not o
acknowledge the independence of Soi
Africa, but even guarantee it, provi?
the rebellion starts immediately."
His curiosity concerning Gem
i.-e and German performances led tl?
>ral Botha ultimately to an investigati
into the history of the Hereros uprisii
which was supposed to have resulted
the massacre of many white women a
children. "What ? ;i.- my astonish men
.-ays (?encrai Botha, "'on reviewing t
monument at ?Windhoek to find that 01
one child had peri hed. On th? otl
according to their own figures, t
Germans had killed 21,000 Hen
Remembering Louvain, it is difficult
account for the astonishment of the r;
lai ? Boer. In comparison with
man. of what value arc twenty thousa
of any other race'.' If there is a
for astonishment it is in the simplicity
LVlaritz, who apparently put his faith i*.
guarantee made in Germany.
Substitutes for Cotton.
!? est mated by the president of t
Master Cotton Spinners' Association
Great Britain that the consumption
ton in the war amounts at present to n
less than 1,000 tons a day. Obviousl
then, it is a commodity of inestimab
importance to the Germans, and a questi?
of vital interest is whether, if it is to I
declared contraband, they can tin?! a sui
able substitute. Sir William Ramsay hi
always insisted that the more promis?
titutes should also be put on the li
of contraband, bul at a meeting in Londc
esday he reiterated what he h<
??{'ten said before namely, that none ?
the substitutes could be turned to accoui
without incredible inconvenience. In shor
satisfied that one- the (?.
been totally deprived of cotton the wi
must I ' an end.
There is nol the slightest doubl thi
cth( r sut?.-' ton may be us?
in the manufacl litro-cellulose, bi
?man chemists have made grei
progress in the practical adaptation r
such subst) ?ne of them can tak
the plac? of cotton. Any change in th
charge will upset the ballistics o
which the calculations of the artillera
are based, and an inferior substitute, s
Sir William Ramsay points out, must ir
evitably involve alterations in the poini
ing and sighting of guns and probabl
litate modifications in the chamber i
which the charge is fired, to say nothin
of changes in the weight of the projectile!
Adaptations of this kind in the middle o
a war would clearly be a little embarrasf
in?*, to say the lea '
It can hardly be questioned thai th
Germans have foreseen the possibility o
finding themselves -non of cotton, l?u
the certainty that th?-y have been buyin
all the cotton they can lay their hands oi
shows that they have nol as ye1 foun?
anything that serves their purpose :
well. In short, there is very little doul?
i
that cotton is still essential in the m a mi
?facture of a useful propulsive explosiv?
?and it is for this reason that Sir Willian
Ramsay maintains that by cutting off th
cotton supply it will be possible to deal :
knock-out blow to the Germans.
More and Better Horses.
There arc other things besides m?
munitions in which this country would tin?
itself deficient should it ???.. to war On
of them is horses. Even be ore the Euro
pean war, due to the shipment of thor
loughbreds abroad, the lack of proper ol?i
remounts here had be? ome almost r
scandal. Since the war ou efforts to sup
ply both horses and mules to the Alliei
have deprived us not only of what scant]
material there was available for officers
remounts, but to a large extent abo of the
reserve of horses suit .? 'e for draft
animals.
The war demand for hor?*ei abroad
however, has greatly stimulated the breed
ing industry in this country, and so to a
loss degree, perhaps, has 'he revival of
racing here, also due to the w;.r. 'lij-hly
significant was the importation yesterday
of twenty famous thoroughbreds from
England, the most costly consignment of
shipped westward across th?
tic in live years. They will be distributed
to different parts of the land t?? improve
and h output.
More consignments of ire sor* will un?
doubtedly follow. The 'lescet'dar;.- of
these imported stallion.- will, of ecu: ?
lilable for militar) "m r poses for a?
least four years, ..'ni by that time, i? t us
hope, the conflict in Europe will
burnt itself out. We shall, in thai
tain i">. -? -.-um of a fii e general
superior m numbers ami braeding to those!
now being shipped in such quantities to
Prance, it i eon-celvable, even that,
thanks t?, the European war we shall
gradually pr?paie ourselves for cventuali
ti. I not only in the inalt?*i ?>*" men ami
munitions, but ais?? i" the matter of hoi I
a most important military ?Meni.
Publishers' Devices.
Ii i?, a well known far! thai th?* pub
lisher'l name Is the least COnSpicUOUS
feature of the I.kl ll< publishes. It ap
pe.u modestly at the foot ?if th?' back of
the binding; it i- repeated, unobtrusively
again, at the bottom of the title page; and
it may be found a third lime, in smallest
type, in the copyright notice. That is nil.
No wonder that many lover.- of literature
an- hazy as t>> the publishers of the books
they cherish. How many ?>f them, spend?
ing a happy desultory hour among them,I
ever bethink them elvei of examining their
title pages closely? Mow many of them
know the devices of our leading publishing
houses thai adorn them? Ami yet they are
worth studying. Let us take a passing
look.
There is. tirst of all, the lamp of the
Messrs. Scribner. It does net shine on
their title pages; but under its radiance
they have begun to announce then ware?,
an inviting measure "At the Sign of the
Lamp." Light, indeed, is a favorite sym?
bol ?if th?-? devices. Perhaps we shouldI
have begun, therefore, with the Century
Company's open torn?' in a flaming sun.
A- ?tin:- arrangement of .-un ami hooks is
found in the vignette of Messrs. Dodd,
Mead m\ Co. Tin- ?even-branch^ candle?
stick of Mr. 1'.. W. Huebsch is a striking
suggestion of the light that reading
; and the Ml Mrs. Hai per pass on
the torch of knowledge from hand to hand
in their title pages.
A Greek pastoral design, with the mot?
?n Totti II"? mi Rien, distinguishes the
books of the Houghton Mitliin Company.
Minerva's owl perched "ii a tome !"'
us with unwinking wisdom from the device,
of the Me sr . Holt; acorns entwined form'
the design of Messrs. A. C. McClurg _I
Co. The Messrs. Appleton tel! us, beneath
in bloom, that ?n't r folia j?
Very sagely the vignette of Messrs. Little,
Brown .?. '< ??. preaches, around another
leavy tree, that quality not quantity snoultl
bo our aim in collecting books. ?Voll refert
d i/iitnii bunny habeas. The
symbol of the leaves ami the fruit i.-. found1
again beneath the branch-laden book on I
lay, Page <??? Co.'a title
page: Fructu? qua m folia. Hut the most ]
ambitious of all these devices is that of
.Messrs. Small, Maynard _ Co., with its'
motto, Sein '/- I ??*'. making all
knowledge our province. Sun and '
light and fruition are **ombine?l in the!
vignette of the Lippincotl I ompany and
?irait ei avant.
Mr. John Lane i.-? located at the Bodleyl
Head, bul he displays no device upon his
title pages. Neither does the Macmillan
uy. which contents itself with cov?
ering its slip covers with its well dei igi ed
monogram. The Georg? II. Doran Com?
pany contents itself with announcing that
novels hearing its name "have a great \
and definite distinction," another way of
the publish?"' with the sue-,
if the books he publishes.
Look for the devices on the title pages
?' the books you value- it is an int?
ing pastime, and it is far from unprofit?
able. I.?am to identify the author with
his partner, the publisher. This a.
tion of the two in the minds of booklovers
was not .-o rare in the days before the
multiplicity of publishing houses and the
deluge of books. .Nowaday.-, we are told,
novels, ?if least, are often chosen for their
? ?over.-, or their illustration , or the
amount of dialogue a hasty examination
reveal.--. A safer guide bj far is the devio .
the name of the publisher, especially in
e .-erious literature.
? rnor Whitman is to pardon thi
I at Matteawan if thi y
!.. Italy to tar.- pari in the war.
'?f reducing .?tato es
tun ?, loir it may be 1.? Id to Ik- unn?
?
Worth i.? to elose his London -!.**>;. b?
'" ecoi ? ' ?/omen aro buying no
new ?I.-? es, America'? desire for e?
' yel reached that stage.
a
?
fatal ' ? hat - tu? .
? night air.
Feathers at a Discount.
t . ?
Paris, a- 'lie great .?eat of fashions for the
, has received a teaching petition from
? ? in the -
f.-ather trailc. It teems that ?ince the war
there hai been little or no demand for ostrich
: that, in consequence, fs
who rely upon ostrich breeding as their main
? source of profit have been severe loners.
Those who rule the fs ?lions in Paris arc Im?
plored to revive the popularity of the ostrieh
? i. and are also ssked to make more
f-enerally known the fact that *.here is no
more cruelty in relieving the ostrich of it?
? rs than the sheep of its wool. The
feathers prow again, and the bird i., no worse
:'cr an operation conducted skilfully and
Ipainlessly, It is unfortunate, however, that
plumage il distinctly a luxury, and
that luxuries are not being encouraged while
ele >-T?-at conflict, with all t)..- lacriflce it
need , continues.
Smoking Soldiers.
'
It is interesting to note in refejenc? I
la:. Hamilton's appeal tor cigarettei "f"r my
brave fellows in Gallipoli" that th<- last war
in which Britain was engaged in that part ?if
i-.urope resulted in a new fashion m smoking.
Smoking before the Crimea - -led as
irreptitioui habit to be indulged in
:i the out-of-the-way places, and it is re
: that both ' ? merston
? ?
ol like to hau- ipi ? ? ? then "ho
:eh smoking
i the trend utopol Sol
. rai et the ei pis
?
smoking with m?: reedou than in ?he
ired in the ?treel !:.
? - - moked
? i elal ? ? .
iliar in-'
.nil-..- t.. i..?;' smoking within bounds.
NOT YETTERS'
Sonic Anti Suffragists' Arguments
Against Woman's Voting.
To Ihr K.liter .'f The Tribune.
Sir: I wai glad t?> ata the way Mrs Fei
nandei answered the "Not Y?-" authoi In
The Trlbon? ef Jal? M. It nmiaded me ef
the story of "The Three Piggy-W im: "
thai I often ?HI my aehoel children tha
ton ol tha Piggj Wlfgi ?he had to hattl?
with B fearful gnome. The way Mrs. Parnan
?1er. poo? after th?* argument., of the "Nat
, atiera" in suffra-p is bkc that of Big P
VVigg when ho went after tha gnon*? "
cnoma in Mrs. Pernan?-|es'i r*" being ant!
suffrage iMfica). "And h? jumped on thai
gnome, and he thumped thai gnome, Bad h?
, ;,?,i he pranced ??11 over thai gnotn*
till there ara nothing left of him but the
buttons "n In coat."
In eanva ting for anfrage I have me? man'.
"Nol Vettere." Among the women and? 'In \
rare tha km,I that put their feet apon ??
cu ilion .nol km? ?dl day, saying: "I'm com.
i, ruble and happy. Why should I bothei
ubout other people ?'"
Among tha men thr "Not Vetter" are the
kind thai think women should not vote yet
?,,.,,, ,. many, of them .-till have Uttla fall
,,,| fall slmrt of perfection. They fnr
et thai if we held the raen t.. the .-?une
standard moat of them would never be voting
. i tli er.
The greatest arguments for uffragi II
argument we must have ar? Ih? ? ame cea?
-?.us of the antia. I keep a li I of t'"'?-.
,n canvassing, and in compiling them found
the) make a moal intereating r.rd. "Women
?i?, bu in? is voim' fool buaini I
don't know why it is, but it ia."
"Women in ghl run the men ?hen "
"Women might 'wear the breeche
??I..' '. m i| ij home an' ?rash their dlah*??."
"Women migh. ha??- to.? much to ay then."
"A.ii't they got enough? Why ain't th"?
? .1 ?"
"Votin* is the poor man'.- on? great privi
Nope, it ain't gol not h in' to do v-i*'-?
.?-omen."
"Tins Is a man'.? country what did the
ever do?"
"What :iir they Koine to do with 'he rot?
ti i way '.'"
But ?he vaal majority of antis when
to their ipposition answer: "I
? knoa whj ! fu it don'1 helieva in It."
STELLA CROSSLEY.
I.ynbrook, ?Long Island, Aug. ~, 1916
What Italy Is Fighting For.
? i he Tribum
Sir: Allow me through your valuable paper
? . thank Mr. Arthui Benington for hii an.--.ver
to Mrs. Boiaaevain'a letter on Italy. As a
reader of The Tribune I had tend Mrs. Hois
levain's articles ?.bout Italy joining in this
Europeai wai Bnd knew ?ha? her vole? was
that of the minority. From many Italian
I hardly heard or? protest against
Italy for having joined th? Allies They all
agreed that Italy could postpone the ron?,?"
? rer. That the time wa? ripe to reilccn
.Trieste and all other ancient Ital?
ian possessions, espccinlly where the major?
ity of the p? ople ..r.- Italians. Th?
?,alian patriot Mazzini said that Italy should
not rest until diplomatically oi otherwise -he
was wholly united from the Alp? to ?he to.
peninsula, including the islands around
about it; 'hat this constituted Italian
| ft,
Italy, like other warring nation-, is light
. tenee. If she did not join
ii< tins war h? would be compelled to fight
later. And if her people can be treed now
? lit until later? She has never loved
Austria much, because Austria never lov.-d
her. She was her ally through policy of
She has ofti n been aba ed by Austria,
and the break would have taken place mo?*
? me if it were nol for Germany, who
? i up th?- wound somehow-.
There will be wars and rumors of war a.
long ai men are gr.ly, selfish and haughty,
'io avoid war men must love each other, no
? : of what race, color or kind. Atheists
? . hypocrites, mon?;, loset.-, must
muai be tauch? and th ?>?
train their will and restrain their hahi'
i.ihI think of things more sublime than hu?
man mind can -,ive. And only when men
thai they are made for a worbl better
than this will war cea-e. Otherwi e, after
this w,r there will be another. May God
K?-! us from ni JOHN MAZZEI.
York. Aug. 11, IP]
Russia's Hopes in Turkey.
tor o! Tha Tribune
Sir: Kindly permit me to qualify the
made in your aplaudid editorial, "Gar?
la and a Separate Peace." and
winch ?uns in these Words: "if they [the
eapture Co itantinople . '.
r will go to the Czar." I feel bound to take
? on that point, because, bav?
in*! live years In Constantinople and
the Balkan States, I think I know their senti
.'??-pert to Russia's political plans
in that the world.
If Bulgaria, Rumania ami Greece -hou?-ht
- Csai wa? to ?"? master
of the .-'nuts .the BoBporus and the Darda?
. they would not move a finger in he
half of the Quadrupla Entente, and perhaps
a and Rumania would feel like hu?
moring the Germanic purposes. Grateful
though the Balkan State- fee] to Russia for
her co-operation in their emancipation from
Turkey* int lerable yoke, they all know full
well that Russia's disinterestedness in so do
ing wai exceedingly questionable.
Where you are right ??. a degree is when
you say that the present war i.? Russia's war.
Mo diplomal can deny that.
CHARLES RIV1ER.
Quebec (P. Q.), Canada, Aug. 11, 1915,
"Real Americanism."
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Once more we are indebted to The
ne for a masterly and timely editorial,
thai of to-day; with every word of which, I
am sure, every thoughtful and unprejudiced
American must agree. The editorial column
of The Tribune "rings true" every time. Keep
up the good work. Never have the sentiment
avl spirit of real Americanism been better
represented aad expreaaed since this war
L? .-an than by you.
I should also like to expr?s ray entire
ithy and accord with the letters pub
: to-day from Mr. Artiiui Benington
rl r. William T. Hornada]
A SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
Haledon, N. J , Aug. 11, 1915.
Concerning the Grand Republic.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The inclosed clipping from "The Daily
of fonkera, N. Y.. describing groa
exaggeration ?n r.-port.? of the (?rand Re?
public dently written by a penen
? - ng notoriety, will serva to
r Mr. Edlund'fl letter, which B|
in tht .. Also inclose?]
n statement til .ptain,
. ? ? t little damage ?vas done and no
one h r with an article which ap
n "Th? N? v 1 on the 4th
rting
by th? thorit
panic thai , fa and
PRED A H Is Ht IP,
I ? ? nt Iron St? ,::iboat Comp in;..
New York. Aug 7, ltlS
Monthly legislative sessions
A Way to Ptovida OpP,.,.un,.y fo. eUaqaeie Con,id?ra?ion of Bill, and Approp?.?i?n. 9_k ., Pr,m
Systf-m Does Not Afforrl.
j To Ihr Editor ?f The Trihi.ne.
.^ir: The Constitutional Convention
' Struggling with the effort to formula?'- ? ?
under which the affairs of the itate will
eeive ? greater degree of attention than
present, and under which the legislative t
?f?lure will lie better ?alculated to prom
ir-'ilfs ?lit I.; factory to the state. It ?.."i
he thought that because of the eoaditi?
which have prevaile?! for many years i
which have hern growing worse from year
year it is necessary to impose rastrlctil
upon the power ?>f the Legislature, parti
larly in the matter of legislation provid
f'.t appropriations from the state", tres U
T'> that nul it is suggested that the CI
stitution contain a provision for the pre]
ration of a budget, so-called, by tin? (,i
trnor "f the state. I am one of those w
believe that the Governor's power should
limited i" 11" 'luty ?f passing upon legia
? fion submitted to him for hi? approval or ?1
! approval. I am opposed to conferring Up
I the Governor the power to pirpare and subn
a budget for legislative approval. I do n
however, propose to discuss this phase of t
situation at this time. I .peak of it on
i>cr;n.f the tendency disclosed t<> limit t
power of in?' Legislature, which propo ?
idically wrong.
Instead of limiting the power of the Le
[stature, provision should be made m tl
constitution foi a system under which it mi
he possible for legislation t., receive mo
??arefti! consideration at the hands of tl
I members of the Legislature. Under pr? ei
conditions deliberation i impossible. Thei
ha? grown up in this state during the la
twenty-five years a feeling that the Leg!
lature should not remain in session for
period greater than three or at the moi
four month?. Fifty years ago legislatot
?vere secustomed to sit from three to fou
months for th? purpose of considering the ir
terest:? of the stat?. and providing lUltabl
legislation for the protection of those intei
ests. During the last fifty years the interest
and business affairs of the state have in
creased probably several hundred fold. Th
annual exp?-nditures of the state have quad
mpleri The various lines of aetr I
turned bj the st^te have expanded and en
laigeil biynnd the dreams of any one in ex
istence even thirty year.} ago. With it al
there has been no effort ma?le to encourage
?he Legislature to take sufBelent time for th<
consideration of the enormously importan"
matters which ?hotild have had their atten
lion. The salarie.- of members of the Legis
tature have remained at the same figure foi
more than thirty years, and the -ame allow?
ance has been made during all of that period
for expenses of the members.
During the first two months of the -?
little, if any, work of value ha.s been accom
I pushed. Committees have been appointed,
bills have been introduced, a few hearings
have been hat!, but the real work of the Leg?
islature has not been taken seriously until
about the time that members were beginning
to think of the date of final adjournment.
With that thought in mind, the work of dis?
posing of the accumulated mass of bills in?
troduced and referred to committees has b? en
undertaken and accomplished. The resuil
has been a conglomerate mas? of ill consid
I ered and undigested legislation and ;
' in many cases without even a rollcall on the
part of ?other house and left, with ?he G
ernor to deal with during the thirty-i
period after thi final adjournment of the L
Islature. Th" Governoi moler such cor
ti'iti hi- tint h rally aegtandi/ed himself
vetoing a large number of bills which
m ni d for him to cos ider, an?! by doing
bai brought th?- members of the Legislei
Ibis for 'he pas-age of such bills i
dl i' ; ate
'Ibis is wrong. The Legislature is mi
up of men choaen dirertly from the peo
who are to a' large extent fairly represen
tivc of their constituencies. Under a ?i
and proper system th?'> might be depen'
Upon to give fair consideration to the i
portant problems of sta*.' government. I
der the present system it is impossible I
the men who now compo ?? and have h'-re
fore composed the Legislature to give su
con ?deration to thi business before the
and it would be equally impossible for a
body of men of whatever average intel
I to do very much better work than h
been 'lone by recent legislatures. As a i
lull of the lystem legislatures have final
adjourned usually the latter part of Ap
or early m M.-.-,-, and subsequently, in rece
real . frequently been foun?l Dec?
to summon 'he Legislature in extraon
ri.ry BC
Harold .1. Mmtnan. for six years a R
publican member of Assembly from Albai
County, ha^ been ?lunng the greater part
that tun?? the Republican lead-r m the A
bembly. He ii now- a member of the Coi
titutional Convention. Me has prepared ar
ueed into the convention a provisic
for the amcndnv'nt of the constitution i
i to provide f?.r monthly se
I Cure. His propositio
contemplates a meeting of the Legislature i
Januars for the purp'jse of organization an
?h" tnr.enl of committees. At sue
meeting the members would be permitted t
introduce bill, to be printed and referred t.
the committees. The January session woul
'bub- ? *.d to a period of four o
live ?lays at the most. Adjournment woul
be taken until February, and m th
meantime the bills introduced would b
1 rinted, and under the rules of the
. 'ii.' might be sent to the members at thei
fot . uch consideration as such mem
might be able to give thereto. In Feb
ruary hearings might be had at which thi
general public might be present and actioi
taken upon ruch bills by committees to whicl
they had been rife: red. Perhaps some bill:
might be passed and sent to the Governor
Additional bills might be introduced ir
February and be referred in like manner tc
committees, but no bill should be passed by
house i.urmg the month in which it is
introduced anless to meet a real emergency
which emergency should be set forth in de
t;'i! upon the journal of each house, and the
fact that, such emergency existed should be
certified to by the President of the -
and the Speaker of the Assembly. If neces?
sary it might be desirable also to have an
emergency mi lags from the Governor,
which should specify in detail the character
of the emergency and the reasons for im?
mediate action.
Appropriation bills should be introduced
by April 1, and shouM bo in the form of a
legislative budget. No appropriation of
from the public treasury should be
??o.l until the adoption of the budget
to moot an emergency. The budget
when prepared -hould lie over un*:l the May
m, should be printed in full and a copy
'hereof mailed to every diily new n-p?r ,
1 th? state desiring a ropy ?hereof <^r-mii
tee? in which ?he budget would he -ons-dcri
should be required to hold open leinoni f?
?i- ? '.nsiderafion of th? v-rio-i? it*m, ,
?urh budget at which all per-on? inter??-?,
might be present and 'he art.?*.! . lo?
tion of such it**ms should be required i
open *e--ion and action upon each itetn b
the committee ?hould be r??i-}.iircr1 jn 0p.
Uession. 1'pon the final passage of th? ba4
p-r.i th? eor.stitatlen should r??-utr? that tg
bill be read through in detail, nr.d fu?* ?ft
! complete opportunity should he afforded fo
; debate thereon. Every memher of tac
hou-e -should he recorded e:tr,P -0f 4
Bgaiaat 'he bill, if present, and if absent t?
't fact of such ah anee should he ,., Urr*4 ..pa,
the journal.
By this method, ar.d by tl r*-?*ho. os;.
.vi 11 it be possible to obtain for the tat
' ??deration of the appropria'!?-,!-.? of mon?,
from the state treasury that sttenti?
'which the importance of such appropr;-..--,
requires. "Pitiless put- b?*n t*i<
?., be 'he gre-.'.'-' "eorreetiva agency.** Th?
metho?l lUggi ted by the plan of Mr. Hi?.
'man provides for "pitiless publicity." jj
eoupled with this plan there he added, a?
Mr. Hinman proposes, a provistos : ?
payment of the salaries of tha m?mh?r? o!
the Legislature in equal monthly ins*--.
and ?t m additioi l ;4? ?..
ex] - ? ' ? -.
?Legialatura while in a*tend~.-?
nionthly sessioi upon vou
'*nu *;
such expensas properlj by th?
Pr. ildont of th? - of th?
Aaeembly, and inl . -- -:?-<t
of the 'wo branches of th? Legulatnrt, ss>
rlifd by ?he Controller and paid |
Treaaurer, there can be ? - for ?
failure on the par' of a member of ?i?
Legisla'ure to perform hit full duty i? -
delibera'?' and
The adoption of the system a.? p-ipo.-J.
by Mr. Hinman would undoubtedly lead -.,
the enactment of a very much -mailer Mk
Of legi?!ation annually tha ?-????<?
The leg'slation enacted would not go to th?
inor until after It had received th?
careful consideration if an -f ?-.
Leg, tal ? the general public ???'
[t would fairly expri
people, and rarely would I ?.-?*>? for
a Governor of the ?.? ?,- - .,? or.t
hundred and fifty or t
?
The adoption of the - - I ! likewise,
? leema to me. ?er.,i to ? - ?
and conservative men te ','r. - themaehta M
candidates for meml l.egiiU
ture. I do not mean to
gent men have not her-'*
selves for such me::;' ? . do b?--i;ev?
that a more experieneed ? ? ,-.;pp?d
class of men would V? ? to -en-? their
respective districts and th? the rep?
resentatives of such diatri l tha Leg*?
lature if it were poaaible for luck men to
ensider properly the problem- -ubmi'ted to
them and act upon the--. ..?-ntly
than is now possible.
If ?he Constitutional ? -. which
has the Hinman preposition before I
sufficiently in its er1*:*-- 'o eure sil
of the ills to which its memher- believe th?
to be at pre?? ,-.ve a
brief period of time to the at
Hinman propoaition il eems torn?,
by the ?doption of thai I a, ?i? t
larger and better work for | of th?
and for all of the pa - ?tit?
than it can do by the adoption of any other
single proposition now per ling before that
body. MERTO.N E. LEWIS.
Rochester, Aug. I, 191'..
BARNES STILL HAS POWER
A Factor in Republican Nationa
Committee and Can't Be Removed
T?. the Fditor of The Tribune.
Sil : May I ask sufficient of your space t
publish the following comment on your edi
torii-1 of this morning, "In the Matter of Ml
Barnes," and the Utter published on the sani
page from Mr. George R, Bishop?
I am a constant reader of your paper, an
have boon most favorably impressed with th
\<ry courageous, straightforward policy yo
i ?ire pursuing in regard to the shortcoming
? of the present Republican organization in th;
I cannot help but feel that your cours
in fhif respect will have a very iar-r
and beneficial effect on the minds of th
young oncoming voters. You say that Mi
Maines "ha- made his effort to thwart, to re
fan!, to destroy all efforts at progress" am
th-U "happily the jury at Syracuse were abli
t.- complete the picture, and that he is closini
an interesting and instructive public career.
D? i btless the jury at Syracuse completed thi
; ici ire so far as public opinion is concerned
but may I call your attention to the fact th..
M?-. Raines is at this moment the Repubhcai
| National Committeeman from the State o
; N'.w York? This important office ha
I hold until after the next Republican Nation?
? ution. I know of but two ways b\
which he can be separated from this office be
foie the great political struggle of 1916 take
place. One of these ways will be for him ti
rrign. Do you or does any one else in th?
stale believe Mr. Barnes will resign this im
portant office, with all the power that goei
with it? Second, for the present Legislatur?
I to legislate Mr. Barnes out of office next win
ter. Do you or does anybody else, believ?
that this Legislature will do any such thing
gi.itited that it has the power? Of course
neithei one of the^e two events will occur.
We are told that there is a third way, viz.
fo.- th. Progressives to return to the Repub?
can party in this state and then call on Mr
Barnt-s ar.?l demand his resignation. We have
been recently told by two or three Progres?
sives that this was the thing to do, and that
it could be done. If laughter produces good
uigestion I can think of nothing that wouH
more effectually promote Mr. Barnes's diges?
tion than such a programme as this.
The great issues before this country to-day
lire national and international issues. The
elections of this fall aie unimportant com
: pared to getting ready for t?ie struggle ol
I next year. No man can tell at this time what
the issues of next year will be, but '>'. 01 ?
.? we can be certain, viz., the tariff In
my judgment, we cannot even wait for next
y ai to make a determined effort to have our
Bt tariff readjusted. With the el
'his war we are bound to be confronted \.ith
serious industrial depression unless some?
. thing is done to change the presen' I fl
? meanwhile. The one immediate way that this
? done is by all uniting, regardl?-^ ? *
. affiliations, in an effort to secure th>
? n ne\t winter of a non-partisan, sci?
entific, permanent tariff commission. It mat?
Ol that the Democratic party is m power
m 1 would have to do this. The question il
t?-. serious to gi iBsideration ?hit
? ? who does it. Th?' th.ng la to get :t
? i' ne, and get it done at on
Mr Bi-hop, in his letter which you publish
i -ails me for not bo -
; ?? ,th Mr. Taft, saying that he wa for a Tariff
n during hi.s administration. Mr.
Blihcpdoei BOl .-a;, ?.hat became of Mr F at'*'
tai S commission :de? Permit me to fell h.n?
ith&t it went where Mr. Taft's promise in re
?Jid to the trust question and the tariff ques
t.on went to, viz., a place that is paved with
? i id intentions. I call Mr. Bishop's attention
to the latest, ami what we must regard aj
thi official, announcement of the Rep?blica!.
party a- to whai it intendl to do regarding
? iriff, which : found in a formal stat?.
mont made by Mr. Penrose in Philadelphia
last wick, wherein he said he was working on
. bill v ; ch he proposed to introduce next
winter, which was a revision of the Payne
Aldiieh bill.
Mr Penro.-e i:. to be the leader of the Re
publican forces in th(- Senate next winter.
'? Cannon, of Illinois, will be the leader of
the Republican folios in the House. We
therefore know in advance just where the
Feniblican party :- going to stand on the
taiifi and how much progress it has mad'1,
and it is all summed up in the statement
tha1 in place of a Payne-Aldrich bill they will
give us a 1' bill. These men
I is good for one more Presi?
dency, and they propose to go to it with all
the lo| ipecial privilege methods
which they i su perfectly and have
; racliaed so long. They have no intention of
trying to i.oip 'he country next winter by try?
ing to work with the Progressives. Democrats
..r any one else to give us in this hour of
?ore need th?- right kind of a permanent tariff
cot imisi
Mr. Bishop leemi to po:n- with pride to
sui.-i Republican leaders of to-day as Mr
Wickersham. May 1 call his attention to the
fact that only day before yesterday Mr. Wick
crsham ha.I the ?ery, while .-peaking
?u?on.il Convention at Al?
bany, to say of Mr. Barnes's proposal: "The
I ropesal advanced by *he delegate from Al?
bany embodies principles which he has ex
i frequently. They bubble up from the
m-'lit of an earnest conviction that we ill
recognize, and they are, I think, the by-prod
? that magnificent fight which he con
,';.". <! three years ago and which laid the
American people under everlasting obligation
;o him."
In view of existing Conditions, some of
?vhicli I have referred to above, will you or
Mr. Bishop, or anybody else of a fair, sound
mini, give the voters of this state any hon
est, convincing reason why a Progressive
:'m uld return to the Republican party?
! believe there is but one thing for every
Ptogressive, every independent voter, every
-.ote.- who has the real interests of this state
at heart, to do, arid that is to enroll thi?
.'all as a Progressive. If they do not, all they
. .-en working for il worse than lost.
GFaO. W. PLRKINS.
New York. Aug. 14, 1915.
When Michael "Stands Up"!
To the Kditor of The Tribune.
Sir: Since matching prowess has become
such *. live topic among the nations to the
extent that every device and dollar possible
? - being consecrated for instant armament,
we are bold in drawing from the prophetic
?heath the sword of the Lord and of David.
Here we have the keen edge of inspiration
'elling us that Kurope's hordes of Gog and
? will eventually abandon leadership to
*he degree that "every man's hand will be
neighbor." At such juncture an
- to loot Jerusalem is planned. Here
Scripture calls "Jacob's trouble" will
call forth Michael's invisible artillery "as in
the ?lay? of Ifidiaa.*1 *
Mr. Editor, can we not ,-,ee that such action
:.' the exact moment of disintegration will
?ne weak remainder left on earth from
of anarchy and forever crush the
I ?.h hand of the usurpers" ""Behold! He
lometh m r\, . . no idle itatement? since
.n- wax more ominous with even pres
her phenomena.
JOSEPH (.REIG.
hlyr.a. Ohio, Aug. 7. *.*"?15.
"WATCHFUL WAITING"
A Policy Which Allows Too Much
Freedom to Sharks and Buzzards.
To th?> E liter of The Trib?:?
S:r: On the editorial pag? or' "Tht Houston
Po.-:" a few da; - ? yo?f
editorial in which you a pleia that
our duty in tin-.?- to ? a.- coun?
try mil secondarily to |
'?'hir impressed ma si one of 'he noblest
i (-'-paper e\pr- il I have ever see?
ii print. It atriki with i I itraaN
the irtriotic chord to which the people |
1 earxtn ami .- I ' '
Cttliarly forcible eon.
time-honored journal whicl undc
vu *ing fidelity, party.
It is true tha*. according to our government
al system, our President ii amenable to crit?
icism and his acts are subject t0 set-'
but at such a time as this, when there :? even
a suspicion of conflict, il i- meet that in th:i
country, as is th? I '?'her nation?. ?'?
should hold that our Mata il ??th?
out blame, and ascribe ? r. ?' mSSS
existed or do ex:.-?, to the (
counsellors.
Acting on this nob. ' si re?
ferring to our able President ia
?atlur to the governi i sbatrsct. -t
is possible to point ou* wl ?' ,n'r*
exists a well defined opinion all over aw
country that a little : ?nd ? '"'-?*
negotiation WOUl : -.-erici'l
lives more sacre?! in I ' the n?t:o:i
of tht world. We have beei ? i tarerai no*.
to do anything until we CO lid be sure whit
would happen as a result of our 3?"-on trat
the policy has resu!' .
I re.?tige.
Why should we be SO solicitous s bout ti?
Mexican or German humanity which is wron**
i'lg us? All other Bat
people first, and it la I. ' '?"?'* ?*?*?
essential for the stability - ' ?* **
v.e ihould make it go hi- : ?'?
hurl our people. Has it come to ?uch s P?>?
that the loss of American live? when it
is at peace may be atoned for by neSot#1'!
tient? ?tur watchful wa.' "T'.Va
to nothing, but the watchful waiting o?
sharks in the ocean I -.ard? ?" ?*?.
Mexican plain, ha. been "'*
Amirican flesh and blood. Aga?B, *?*- **
taken the stand that we are A *?*?
'!,. Monroe Doctrine we r ' 'r!i.'
the world as the coc? nal*. ???
then, should we call in n ?'*"
beeide for us what wo -' ?
BfclvCB? _.
1 believe that the men of th? ' ?????-'?
w.ll valiantly uphold the government m ^
tinted Stares in whatevei
do toward increasing the prestige *tiJ, *n'fl.
cf our great country. But men sre bu* '
to feel they are doing -' * h<n . t4
realize that their brothet * -^
been unjust 1'. attacked an
riced they must be moving ?Th?
waver when then r tt
pait of those who are con.i . -ft
A man who would others
become? s critic. "How can ?
van?i of a nan \?ho does not move
the witts King Louia in ?
and blood h..? ? rail
l'an * yg
\alian.ly uphold a government which
?e merely .
and deliberating w I
Baas? ?. KI? HAK
Blue Domed H?.use of the One I'--'?'?? n?
ton, Tex. Aug. 9. 1315.