The sun. [volume], September 13, 1913, Image 6

About The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916

Image provided by: The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundation

                
THE SUN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1913.
SATURDAY, SKPTKMBER 18. till.
Kan-ted i the NM office at New Vora as Secoad
Class Mall Matter
Aabirrlptleas br Mall, Feitpate.
DAILY. Prr Month .ft M
DA1I.V. Ptl Year
CROAT, Ifr Year ft M
DAILY AND SUNDAY. Per Year ft M
DAILY AM) M'NDAV. lit Month IS
THK. BVRRIRd SI S, ler Month 1ft
THK VBNIM) SI N, Per Year ft SO
peatate, n forrlrn countries added.
All checks, money order. c to be made pay
able to TUB Mt'N
Published dally. Including Sunday, by the Sun
Prlntlnc and PubllsMns Association at 170 Nassau
street. In the Borough of Manhattan. New York.
President and Treasurer, William 0, Itelrk. 170
Bassausiret-i: Vice-President. KUward P. Mitchell.
I7n Nassau street; Secretary. (.'. K. Luaton. 170
Nassau ireet.
London offlre. KfAninam House. I Arundel
atreet. Strand.
Paris offlre. a Rue de la Mlrhodlere. off Rue du
(lustre Srptembrr.
Washington offlre, Hlbba Rulldlai.
Brooklyn offlre. ton Llvlnfiton street.
It our rnnUU uio for hi irlin manuscript-' and
lUuiiraffimj for publication iron to rtjfctf
meats returned iiuy mail in all rases send stamps
for lAat purpose.
Kot Exactly n Mare's st.
It Is unplciisn tit to have to do vio
lence to the prejudiced convictions of a
iielKhltor, hut we tire obliged to point
out tin error of ilie World", That Jour
nal hit been at pataa to describe ns a
inniv'M iMftl tin1 HllJgftBlloil made by
Tiik Sim on Thursday that the Atl
mlnlat ration hanking bill bud Iteen mo
Bryftnlsed In 'its note Issue provisions
as to threaten the country with an
other contest for Mound money. The
only trouble with the criticism visited
upon us is that It Is wholly mistaken
about the facts.
We spoke of the proposal In the bill
to make the projected note Issue a
tioveriimeut liability payable "either
in gold Of in fateful money," The par
ticular reason for directing attention
to this ominous phrase was the state
ment of Representative QbaM In re
portlni the bunking bill to the House
this week "that the country Is defi
nitely committed to the Immediate re
demption of all existing puicr cur
rency in lawful money on demand."
In rapport of Its allegation that
Tnr Si n has discovered n ruare's nest
the World says:
"It happens that while the Class bill
Originally admitted 'lawful money' along
with gold to the reserves of the reserve
banka against their circulating notes, the
Democratic caucus "truck out the 'lawful
money' phrase at the suggestion of the
bankers' conference and limited these re
serves to gold alone "
The caucus did nothing of the kind.
The note Issue section of the bill as It
stands today reads Just as we said It
dltl. We have before us an official copy
of the bill as reported back to the
House of Representatives on Tuesday
of tills weak, and the second ami hist
sentences of the first paragraph of Sec
tion 17. dealing with note issues, say:
"Tlif said no tag shall be obllgationa of
the United States and shall be receivable
for all taxes, customs and other public
dues. They shall be redeemed In gold
vr tau-fitl etOWSg on demand at the
Treasury Department of the United
Statee. In the city of Washington. Ila-,
trlot of Columbia., or at any Federal re
serve bank.''
The reserve against the notes pro
vided for which, by the way, are not
circulating notes of the hunks as the
World imagines, but liovernment notes
.-Is Met forth III the third paragraph
of Section 17. the first sentence of
which reads In part :
"Whenever any Federal reserve bank
shall pay out or disburse Federal reserve
notes issued to it as hereinbefore pro
vided, it shall segregate In Its own vaults
and sliall cam to a special reserve ac
count on its hook, gold or Inuul money
final in amount to 33 1-3 per centum of
the reserve notes so paid out by It, auch
reserve to be used for the redemption of
said reserve notes aa presented."
That Is, (Invert) inert! promises to pay
real nmucy may be secured by a re
serve Don elating of other Government
promises in pay real money and may be
redeemed In Govern tnanl promises to
pay real money !
So much for our neighbor's notion
that lite "lawful money phrase" has
dlaappeared from the note Issue sec
tion of the hill. The World should
have known better. If It had paid
much attention to the progress of hank
ing legislation it would have remem
bered the letter which William J.
HkYVN sent to Representative Clash
on August "I: last, in which Secretary
Hkyan said:
"The provlalon In regard to the Gov
ernment issue of notes to be Issued by
tlie banks is the first triumph of the peo
ple In connection with currency legisla
tion In a generation. It is hard to over
retlmate the value of this feature of the
bill."
According to Mr. Hryan this was one
of three provisions in the measure "of
such irauacendent Importance that i
nm relatively very little concerned us
to the details of the bill." It Is not
hi I'd to imagine the agonized shrieks
Which would have gone up from Wash-
Ington or the Chautauqua circuit, wher
ever tbft present Secretary of State
happened lo be, if the len ratio cau
cus In the House had changed the note
liiaue section of the bin us the Worli
thinks it did. Indeed, it was the Hryan
1 iter .from which we hae Jusl quoted
which uas Hit' llrsl public notice that
the forces of Intelligence might have
to array themselves fr si niggle to
prevent the country's currency from
pelni debased liy a movement under
the leadership of Hie man whose ipiack
rry was repudiated In 1896.
Rut tbla In not all of the HaWd'a fal
lacious argument that the gold standard
act of March 1 1, nasi, which clinched
the victory won in 1808, is uol uicu-
aoed by the Administration hanking
bill dow Bryanlted. We are told
that even If the Mil provided for re
demption of the proponed Treasury
note In "lawful money" other than
(old no violence would he done to the
I established Mound money policy. The
I Worfrf says:
"The greenbacks aa 'lawful money
I would remain aa now redeemable In gold
and protected by a large sold reserve.
They would figure In the reserve, of the
proposed Federal reserve banka precisely
as they now figure In the reserves of the
national banks."
This Is quite true and troial as far as
It goes, but the H0ffd seems to Ite tin
kler the Impression' that the $348,000,-
000 of greenbacks outstanding are tne
'only lawful money In the country In
I addition to gold. It forgets the $56.
I 000,000 of silver which Is legal tender
land according to official definition la
also lawful money. It forgets that
to-day. on a gold reserve of $150,000,
000, the Treasury Is charged with
maintaining at a parity with gold a
total of $1,672,000,000 of currency,
consisting of greenbacks anil silver,
plus $761,000,1)00 of national bank
notes. Without any provision for
larger Treasury reserves the pending
hill would enormously Increase the
(iovernment's obligation through the
' proposed unlimited note Issue unless
l, ,r.,l.l .tnndamt set of 1900 should
In effect be nullified by the bill.
If anything were needed to show
the danger of the note Issue section of
the Administration measure Mr. Bay
an'm letter of August 22 would suf
fice. If that Is not enough tlie as
tounding statement of Mr. Class that
j "the country Is definitely committed
' to the Immediate redemption of all es-
Istlng paper currency in lawful money
may be cited to prove the extent to
i which the Bryan virus of unsound
1 money notions has already Infected the
Sixty-third Congress.
Overruled at Onec by the Astral
hlef Judge.
Mr. Justice HAsaaorca a decision In
the Robin case concerning the consti
tutionality of tiovernor IPUBgPa Im
peachment and the validity of his sus
pension from office pending trial con
firms at every oltit the Interpretation
of the law in the Attorney -General's
opinion tfttd the views previously ex
pressed by this newspaper.
It Is only fair to observe that Mr.
Justice Hasbboltk'b decision has been
promptly overruled by Chief Judge
Umn J. Aasoi.n of the Astral Court of
Appeals In the Bulner State Govern
ment nnd Press Agency.
"The ruling of Mr. Justice Has
bbotck." remarks the Astral Chief
Judge with pardonable severity, "sus
tains the contention of Mr. Mvbphy.
the contention of Mr. Rash tea. and the
contention of Mr. Glynn. It la the
most remarkable decision that has ever
lieeu rendered by any court of any
Jurisdiction in the clvllljsed world. The
Nople of the State of New Tork will
lie surprised to learu that settled rules
of construction of the Constitution aud
statutes exist no more."
This Is the third overruling by the
Chief Judge of the Astral Court of
Appeals.
He overruled Tne frit, pointing out
with great clearness and learnltsg that
DANA was dead.
He overruled the Attorney-General
of the State of New York, on the
ground that wheu the Attorney-General's
opinion awteared Mr. Cabmopv
was on hli wedding Journey.
He now overrules the Supreme
Court's decision because It violates
"the settled rules of construction of
the Constitution and statutes."
As the "settled rules of construction
of the Constitution and statutes" to
which the Astral Chief Judge refers
were originally laid down by him In
the columns of our esteeenid content
jstrary the Knlckerhockee Press, and
as even he cannot overrule himself.
It is manifest that, the Ilasbrouek de
cree from the bench of the Supreme
Court fulls with a dull thud.
What the Real New York Should
Have.
The people of New York should have
an opportunity to pay their tribute to
thelV dead Mayor.
His voice and pen were ever enlisted
In the defence of the maligned and ex
ploited citizens of this town.
He never failed to say the truth of
their good morals, their good nature
and their good conduct.
He resented for them with all the
determination and talent of his nature
those libels, those calumnies, that rill
tiers delight to circulate.
He appraised at their proper unlm
srtance the frivolities of the unwise
and the vices of the degraded, but he
never was misled Into the error that
Xew York was made great by crlml
ualM and maintained by fools.
He knew and ever smke for the
decent and Industrious men and women
who make the city he nerved, and those
' millions must have fitting opportunity
! to display In public the grief that
I William J. Gaynob'b untimely death
j brought to them.
Senor Zamarona's Mission.
Seftor Zamacona, the special repre
1 sentiitlve of the Huerta Government In
this country, admits that bis business
Is "of u very delicate nature." Ah he
has no diplomatic mission his business
is apparently the negotiation of a loan
to tide the provisional Administration
over Its difficulties, the greatest of
which is the puclHcatlnu of the country
by the Federal commanders. In fuct
It Is an oou secret that Seftor Zama
toNA Is here to borrow money on the
proMMvts of Gcueral Hcksta and bla
associates, wnfadaratea and aympa-
Ihlzers, who may or may not be able
. to hold a national election In the end
of October aatlsfacttiry to the Adminis
tration III Washington ; t'tlilt depends
1 UDOO Ibet progress of pacification.
The announced refusal of a prnml
, Deal hanking house lu New York to lend
Jnoncy at this time to Mexico will be
discouraging to lienor Sasucoju. It la
a question for ench hanker or capital
ist to decide for himself an Injunction
would not He to prevent the lending of
money bo the Huerta flovernment. The
following reason la given by a member
of the Arm which serves notice that It
will not make a loan :
"The United States has Issued an edict
of absolute neutrality. The sending bf
arms and munitions of war to Mexico la
prohibited. Money Is certainly the most
valuable of all munitions, and In my
opinion comes strictly under thla prohibition."
This la the law or practice In the
case of a Government that has taken
up a neutral attitude toward belliger
ents; that Is to say It Is Inhibited from
making loans to either. If It lie ob
jected that the Insurgents In Mexico
have not been recognized as belligerents
then a banker who has decided not to
advance money to the Huerta Govern
ment because President Wilson's pol
icy Is one of non-recognltlon and strict
neutrality has made his decision as a
supporter of the Washington Adminis
tration and from a patriotic motive.
It may be added that the description
of money as a munition of war nan stti
port In the treatises on International
law. It can be seized as contraband.
The effect of the withholding of
funds from the Huerta Government by
American bankers would of course Is
restrictive nnd embarrassing, for the
military campaign against the Con
stitutionalists must he pressed If It Is
ever to Ite sncceaMful. Such a financial
pollay. however, Is In keeping with the
Administration's course of letting the
cotnbntantM tight out their rpmrrcl to a
finish with such resources as they may
possess.
Who Are the Congressmen?
It Is almost exactly two months
since David Lamas was indicted In
New York for his impudently avowed
achievements In impersonating Con
gressmen over the telephone. We do
not regard ns Incredible the report that
the -Administration desires to hasten
his extradition from Washington for
prosecution here. I. amah's present ac
tivity In fomenting sentiment In Con
gress against the Attorney -General for
his approval of the Union and Southern
Pacific dissolution plan must be ex
tremely annoying to the President.
But what we cannot understand Is
that any seif respectiug member of the
Satiate or House should l willing
to lend his ears for one ten-rallllonth
Irt of a second to anything that
I.am ar wanted to say on nny subject
whatever.
Who are the Congressmen that the
Indicted Impersonator of Representa
tive a. MnvHgu Palm an has suc
ceeded In Interviewing? What are the
names of the Senators or Representa
tives willing to listen to what thla man
had to' say about Mr. McRtCTNOUsST
The St. Paul Ptonrrr Press make an
unmanly fling at "cheap oratory In the
Senate." IWs this Gopher critic hold
that the lion. Moses BftWtN Clapf Is
cheap at $7',soo a year?
The commitment to Jail of the Rus
sian Lieutenant NgsTORorr for looping
the loop with hia aeroplane a la Pegoud
was excellent military discipline and
sound policy. Russia is spending a
great deal of money to acquire an avia
tion corps and she can't afford to lose
officers In the process.
We heard one of our friends say re
cently that Keats was a minor poet.
llayton Journal.
Cherish that friend. Ite is the para
gon of paradoxers, the flower of humor
ists. The House conferees balk at the
banana tax, as was to be expected. No
party consecrated to reducing the cost
of living could afford to raise the price
of the cheapest food of all.
Tammany Hall may usually be relied
upon for extraordinary Incidents, but
when we see It procuring the Impeachment
of a Governor of ita own political rolor
and on h charge of electioneering corrup
tion, the record of political Irony must
surely have .surpassed Itself London
7illie.
It may be a case for Irony, but It Is
also a duty to carry out the sentence of
the law If legal evidence from even a
Tammany source is forthcoming to
prove the charges made. No one bo
comes an admirer of Tammany Hall
methods by requiring a tiovernor of the
great State of New York to demon
strate his Innocence.
Colonel itoosKvKt t condemns "the Invis
ible government." Knntnn City Journal.
All right; what the country pines for
is a little Inaudible government.
"The lights are out between Korty-flfth
and Forty-seventh streets, In Oreenwood
avenue, and I nm afraid my husband will
not be able to find hia way home." said
a woman over the telephone to Operator
Ht'NT at the Hyde Park station last
night. Chicago Tribune
Where Is patient Crireums after that?
"Ah, woman, woman, what a sex you
are": and how pathetically superior to
the voting brute In trousers!
A boy ran learn to read and apeak
Herman or French or Spanish or Italian
with considerable fluency In a year If the
work Is gone about In the right wuy.
Hartford Timet.
It Is a curious and unprofitable little
eccentricity of these United Stales that
the work Is gone about In the wrong
way.
Why not Iowa? )r tfofnes ttrginler
anil l.railer.
That's what the Hon. Ai.hbrt Haiku ,
Ccmmins has been saying long, oft!
and bitterly: and no man regardeth him
and Battle Hon flouts nnd buffets him.
ICvery rhlladelplilan gets 200 gallons
per day. I'hUailrlpMa I'rru.
As a far heard baseball partisan of
this town used to split his lungs and
everybody else's cars with yelling:
Well. weUJ
Mot Ice to Book Borrowers.
To thb Koitor or TUB Hun Sir; Bor
rowers who forgot to return hooka at ill
have to be reminded, despite the pasted
slips intended to keep alive their ment
or). I have Juki contrived a plan which
ahould prove morn effective than the slip.
On a piece of cardboard with a crayon
1 have printed In large letters and hung
upun the bookcaae Ihla Inscription :
"The Bphlnx says:
'He who lenda his books
Will soon hsvo none himself.' "
KlIANg MONBOB BBVBBLT.
Fbbsmnu, Vs., tMtptember 10.
4 lir RXlXfl Qt ESTWX.
Mheaidthe Penkhurat Brood Be tdntlltetl
Into This Country?
I To m Eoitor or Tan St'N Kir: l
' It not time that a stop should be put to
the entrance of convicts Into the united
(States" 1 read that Mrs. Emmellne Pank
1 hurst la coming here In October.
I Thla country does not need women of
j her type ; we have excellent women wqek
' Ing here who are making great strides in
the woman suffrage movement, whose
motto la onward and upward : whose
, lives are beyond reproach, and when they
Iask for the help of good men and women
of this blessed country the response to
. their call la simply magnificent.
nns. i-Hnsnurat is a gallery player
she organised an arson squad nnd her
evil advice to burn the homes and tlie
mall of the citizens of London hrnunht
her Into notoriety. I have been told by
two ladles who recently vlalted Ixindon
that Mrs.. I'ankhurst'a followers In Ion
don were a crowd of hysterical fanatics,
that thousands of pounds were collected
from thoae people, and that the Pank
hursts have nothing whatever to show
for the money except a trail of burned
buildings. How long do you suppose
the Coveriment of this country would
tolerate the crimes committed at the lg
stlgatlon Of tbia woman and her daugh
ters'.' Now that the people of Kogland
and the British Oovernmenl are glad to
be rid of them they are going to come to
Amerlcn to appeal for more money to till
their infTers. Moth Mrs. Pankburst and
her daughters who are to follow her
here are fugitives from Justice. They
should not be allowed to land : and the
Woman's Social arid Political Cnlon
should be notified that the organiser of
their union. Joan Wlrkham. who la com
ing here on the Cedrle to make arrange
ments for their arrival, will not ho per
mitted to do so
We women of this country do not nev1
Mis. I'ankhurst. She nas made a fisxle
of her work In Kmcland. therefore we
ahould shun her and send her back to
When she belongs and where, sooner
or later, she will meet wrth punishment
meted out to nil law breakers, of whom
tlie arson fiend Is one of the worst. By
all means keep her and her brood out of
this country. Vox Porct.i.
BaOORLTM, September 11.
tt English Mhsionar).
To TUB Koitor or Thb SUM Sir. What
have law and Pnlted States statutes In
tended to exclude from our country per
sons guilty of the crimes of arson.' bomb
throwing. C to do with tlie ethical pur
I oscs of Mrs. I'ankhurat and her gentle
followers? Such common notions are for
men only.
It matters not by what m.ana wrongs
are righted, and the killing of people and
destruction of property are nothing com
pared with the inestimable benefit that
will result In teaching the people that
women demand equality before the law.
Mrs. Piinkhurst, who la the personifica
tion ,if equity and Justice, will welcome nn
opportunity to prove the sincerity of-l.er
teachings and will not let our offlcla s
permit her to land without auch a hear
Inr, as a man with her criminal record
would have. Jambs D. IJbwri.i.. Jr.
New Haven-. Conn.. September It.
Nagging In Municipal Polities.
To thb Koitor or Thb gVN Sir:
Modern "commerrlallBm" is Just awaken
ing to the fact that the way to cet the
ls-st service out of employees is to quit
nagging. Hold them to strict account
ability, but don't nag.
Mr. Oaynor. carrying In his throat an
assassin's bullet, which dally was sapping
his life polities and rella-lon persisted In
nagging him to hia death. Isn't thla
lesson enough? Doesn't It appeal to each
man's conscience?
Why can't New Tork have a business
administration along the lines of personal
efficiency without being nagged"
Why not a committee of inn Important
business men to protect the city's interests
against naggers? , Wht?
Brookltn, September 12.
The Heeretary In Eyre.
To tub EntTOB or Tug Sr- Sir: If
Mr. Bryan should devote his energies to
becoming an efficient and useful Secretary
of State, and should then find he had the
time and the Inclination to tour the coun
try as a lecturer. It would make little ir
no difference whether he spoke in a tent
or In a church, or appeared In company
with acrobats or with Senators : for the
dignity of his office, and of his . ffort ti
full!! Its obligations, would lend Itself to
any company In which he might appear.
If the salary his office carries witli It
will not permit him to do Justice to Its
obllgationa) he should not have accepted
It unless lie was willing to sacrifice hia
private Interests. F. S T.
BALBMj Mass., September 12.
Charlie Jones's Hlstnrlc Heme Una.
To tut. LntTOB or Tub Srs sir. Jiim now
there ts much talk Bboaf the Inngesl hit In bnse
btU, The tilslnry of the noston Nsttonsl 1 eagBfl
ground! eoers practically the entire history of
professional hall.
Many years Sffo Charlie Jones knis-keil a ter
rific homer over the centre field fence of those
grounds, a feal which tin one had hitherto per
formed and which has not since ben repeated
so far as I am aware. The ball ua never re
rnvered and Is said to have gone clear to the
ChirkcrtnK piano fartorv. I s'iw the lilt, hut
cnulil not fotlow ttie ennrse of the hall after It
went over the fence. If memory serves, John I,.
Sullivan was a spectator also.
I'p to this lime there hail lonir hcen a sort of
tradition that years previously the same feat
had been performed by l.lntve of nnff.iln. hat I
never found any one who could give any definite
Information as in this. 0, A. It.
Now Yobb. September IS.
The Source of a Famous Phrase.
To Tats HDtToa ee Tub sum 5ir Perudi me
to point nut that the true sour'v of the phraM
open attributed to Lincoln, which your cor
respondent "it. v.. R " aoggeati ortrtaated arlth
President HaaroOi is to tie found in the preface
to WyclU ami Hereford s translation of me Bible
Issued In US. The paiasga I refer to ts cited
liy tlie New Standa ol Dictionary ns follows:
This llllite Is for the tovernnient of tha people,
hy the peoplBi "nil for the pcoplr "
There Is. I tiellevr. a ropy of this Mltac n thr
New York Public l.tlirary. JIB. stntai.
Nrw York. Scptemhcr lie
W here Is .leremy t oilier I'anrakef
To tub Konoa or TBS BCM .sir: What has
tin nine of "Pancake"' A few months ago he en
livened the town by set tin k up n frightful wall
that traaedy was no lunger seen en cur statre.
I have picked up TBS srs Bach niorolnx expeet
Inff a new DttlbOfSI front "Pancake." Has he
lost heart? IL'is he cavcii la 1 come forth. "Pan
cake," and let us hear from you.
it may be, noftetror. mat you eon aider some
f the ciinilc plays on our stage as nothlBg else
than the direst trit grille, aud so are BBtlBflSd,
Anyway. Hurrah for "Pancalie"! P, A.
Nbw Yobb. September 12.
Coney Island's Holiday.
To tub KntToB or Thb sun .sir: I attended
the feaey Island festival last nlghi. I was Had
to get home.
There was a rough rrowit. who smashed straw
hats. My straw hat was broken and I am nurs
ing a heavy cold.
Kven Ihe rniiieitl was misused. I got in the
face a handful mixed with snuff. Victim.
Hboobltn. September .
The Nutritive Novel.
Novels dealing with problems of fond would
be more true tu life than those dealing with love.
bgrMrS sate,
in ooveis 11 Is now a great mistake
To write of peachy cheeks and dreamy eyes,
Urlat out thr fan your heroine can make
Mince pies
Don't rite about Hie languor of a look,
Of kisses, sighs and haarls that ever break.
Say If those fascinating hands ran cook
A steak.
Before your hero his adored oan win
And on her linger place a (olden Innp.
Do not forget to say what site puis la
The soup.
And to this good advice I taader you.
from love give us a temporary reel.
rood novels are, you'll nud, much
a . taietu .4
... ai U Teeofta
1
MIX MOXTIIH Of WIU0N.
Home of the High Lights of Hie Notional
Administration.
Albxanmua, Vu., Sept. 12. -Fresldent
Wilson's flrst elx months In the White
House coincided almost exactly with
the history of the tariff act's passage.
Work on that mensure Itegan before
the President took office, and it has
not received his signature yet, but the
Schedule were written and the fight
for them was made in his first half
year, ending In a victory for him which
has brought him a great pile of con
gratulatory messages.
The fight was not the less bitter be
cause It was bloodless. It han left 111
feeling. It mtiMt hnvc convinced Mr.
Wilson. If he needed convincing, that
Jeneral Hancock was right when he
called the tariff a local issue, and so
local Is It that all Mr. Wilson's per
suasiveness, all the cumulative force of
the as yet undistributed patronage
failed to drlvn the Louisiana Senators
to Join in ItM support, even when the
passage of the bill aa amended by the
Senate committee Was assured. Free
stiKtir was a local Issue In their Stato
which they con id not Ignore.
When the bill cornet from confer
ence and has been passed the homo
geneity that Mr. Under WOOd has suc
ceeded In maintaining among the Dem
ocrats of the House is likely to show
SeriOUS impairment. This unity of ac
tion has been a tribute to the acknowl
edged necessity of revising the tariff,
to Mr. I'nderwood's Influence among
his colleagues, to the hunger and thirst
of various loyal Democrats through
out the country, Neither affection for
I 'resident Wilson nor fear of him. ex
cept as a dispenser of patronage, brought
It about.
Mr. Wilson's formal visits to the
Utilise to read his messages, pict ureSQIM
and the.itriciil though they were, did not
endear him to the membership. They
regarded him as one unnecessarily de
parting from modern customs, though
acting wholly within his legal and con
stitutional rights, and, putting it gently.
Inconveniencing ihem not a little with
out la-neflting anybody materially.
Timid BOUlt who feared the Representa
tives and Senators might be cowed by
the Iresident's procedure may calm
themselves. The lawmakers were Irri
tated, or amused, or bored, as their dis
positions led tborn They were not
frightened. Likewise his conferences
In the Capitol have had nn effect that
might not have been ns well produced
in the White House.
n the currency bill Mr. Wilson will
not have the same comparatively easy
victory he takes credit for In the tariff
legislation. A law may he enacted lie
fore January 1, aa the President desires,
and then again It may not be. If con
fusion as to the needs of the nation In
this matter exists In the popular mind
the popular mind differs In no way
from the legislative mind. There are
wild men In Washington, full of PopU
llstic projects, and conservatives of the
stand pat variety, and there is n Woful
lack of leadership. Mr. Wilson does
not know exactly what he wants; Her
ri tary McAdOU is not a fountain of
llcht: there Is a growing recognition
of the Inexpediency of disturbing exist
ing conditions wltotit a clear procrnmmc
of Improvement. Meantime, the Repre
sentatives and Senators are tired and
mighty cross.
Ho far as the House Is concerned Mr.
Wilson will be put to it to And a leader
to replace Mr. 1'nderwood. although Mr
I'nderwood does not cause the Wilson
heart to throb with deep affection. The
situation Is made more difficult by the
fact that the Democrats of Northern
States feel that the pie is being cut
with all the big wedges for their South
ern brethren and the thin ones for
themselves.
In dairy lunch rooms pics are cut
with mathematical precision, a tin im
plement being used f,i mark their sur
faces before the knife la applied. This
is not a dairy administration in the pla
department. Of course there la no
longer a Mason and Dixon's line, hut
the Northern msmbefS of Congress find
that some subtle essence of superiority
for Federal Office imparts a high dis
tinction to applicants who hail from a
district lying nearer tho equator than
does 'blcngo.
Tile mechanism of the House itself Is
giving trouble, Despotism is terrible
thing when the other fellows choose the
despot. So Cannonlam was dreadful to
Itemocrats. Ftut the Democrats have
been obliged to do some regulating even
in their own family. The end of tins
is not yet. Mr. I'nderwood's popularity
ami mental superiority which is freely
acknowledged by most of ills colleagues
-his tact anil his sincerity have con
tributed more to the majority's good
conduit than any amendments of the
rules could. When he Withdraws B new
leader must be got, and no man of Mr.
rnderwrind'H capacity is In sight.
And Mr. Underwood Is going. The
Senate attracts htm. His State needs
him there, for A latin ma has no other
public man of his qualifications for the
Office, Ills term Will I"' six yens,
against two in the House, aud wliile the
popular election of Si natora may make
an active canvaaa for reelection neces
sary, and it must cover the Slate, n.
Representative must make three can
vaasea of his district in the same period,
each Involving about as much labor
all t'hat a man can put into it.
Vet it mual not he auppoaed thai Mr
Underwood or any Senator looks for
ward to a pleasant time in thill tlls-
tlngulehed chamber. Only with Its
official proclamation did the full Blgnttt
ounce of the constitutional amendment
providing for the popular election of
Senators force Itself on the fortunate
members of the smaller body, Thes
are learning now that with statewide
rampalgne to make the importance of
Kxecutive support lo llielr political pres
ervation has greatly Increased. Only
lli most exceptional man, H man like
Mr. LTnderWOod, among to-day's states
men could hope for success without
the friendship, or at 'east neutrality, of
tin President, The average senator
would bo destroyed by one outgiving of
Kxecutive displeasure. ,',, atiactm nt
of recent years has done more to In
crease the importance of the Kxecu
tive at the cost of the Congress than
has this amendment,
In the Senate Ml'. I'nderwood would be
as well off with regard to his future us In
the House. His term would extend be
yond 1011. He would not be in a less ad
vantageous position with regard to Sec
retary Hryan than he now is. Mr. I'n
derwood does nol like Mr. Hryan. Mr.
Bryan charged him with gross miscon
duct In office With allowing Ins pri
vate financial affairs to influence his
conduct aa a Representative, Tins
charge fell heavy on Mr. 1 tide r wood's
honor. He resented and repelled it suc
cessfully. The manner of his self-defence
aroused In Mr. Hryan every atom
of distaste that Minlling Cliautauiiiau
la capable of a. measure not small.
Mr. Hryan particularly disliked Ihe ex
perlencj of) being proved, out of tlie
mouths of his own frlende, a reckless
mlsstater of facts, and the further hu
miliating circumstance thut Mr. Un
derwood st defended himself as to make
nny defence ot Mr. Bryan Imposstble.
The gentleman now busy beneath the
big top has neither forgotten nor for
given Mr. t'nderwod.
Mr. Bryan'! position Is interesting.
President Wilson has not changed his
opinion of the Nebraska lecturer since
he wrote that embarrassing message
wishing Mr. Hryan With B COCkod hat.
When the makeup of the Cabinet was
the task Wore him Mr. Wilson did I t
rush mentally to Mr. Hryan to beg him
to he Secretary of State. Mr. Wilson Is
not Impulsive. He considered his posi
lion, bearing In mind the Daltlmore plat
form declaration on Ihe subject of a
single term, which he holds, in common
with numerous others, dooM not apply
to him. He felt that he must choose
between a Mr. Hryan relentlessly an
tagonistic, captiously critical, through
out his term and a Mr. Hryan more or
less Committed through personal par
ticipation In the acts of his Adminis
tration to Its support.
Mr. Wilson intended from the be
ginning to be his own Foreign Minister.
The Secretary of State is called the pre
mier of the Cabinet: If the Secretary of
State wiis to OS a lay figure, but premier
of the Cabinet. Mr. WilRon lielng the
Foreign Minister, why not tickle the
vanity of Mr. Hryan -a notable ingredi
ent of his make up and tie his hands
for a time at least'.' No sooner thought
than done, and Mr. Wilson earned an
additional period of repose.
The fact is Mr. Wilson has tried the
effect on Mr. Hryan of choking him
With butter. Mr. Hryan may discredit
himself in every way he can Imagine;
Mr. Wilson Is his pained friend, but
will survive. Should Mr. Hryan not dis
credit himself then Mr. Wilson Is his
gratified friend, who has faithfully
stood by him. While progress Is making
toward the disclosure of Mr. Wilson as
the friend of u Mr. Hryan nelf-forced
from the nlTections of thousands of
voters, or toward tlie revelation of Mr.
Wilson as the friend of a Mr. Hryan en
throned In the affections of new thou
sands of voters. Mr. Wilson is running
the foreign department It is true that
Ihe Department of State Is, Internally,
In B condition of chaos, but this is
equally true of other departments, and
causes no alarm to Mr. Wilson, who
probably dues not know it, or Mr.
Hryan, who certainly does not. Mr.
Moore could inform Mr. Hryan on the
Subject, but Mr. Hryan is so busy lec
turing he has no time to listen.
IIowcmt, absenteeism on the part
of the Secretary Is not new In the State
Department. Mr. Knox was Secretary
for four years, and away a good deal
of ths time, but be made adequate pro
vision for the transaction of business,
and never during his term was there
talk of tlie kind now beard among tlie
representatives of foreign Powers: of
delayed routine business, of the Impos
sibility of getting information, and of
similar vexations.
Can Mr. Hryan be choked to politicnl
Ineffectiveness with butter? Mr. Wil
son is not sure. The returns so far
available are unsatisfactory. To be
sure, prisons of delicate sensibilities in
all parts of the country are sinsked
and horrified by the conduct of the
Lecturer-Secretary j the foreigners who
have business with the State Depart
ment are getting Into a bad humor: the
situation ,s amusing that portion of
Europe that is Informed of it. These are
obvious details. On the other hand per
sons of delicate sensibilities have al
ways been Shocked and horrified over
Mr. Hryan. The foreigners having busi
ness with the State Department must
keep their lips sealed, and there re
mains a parochial contempt for outside
opinion that renders It negligible, Mr.
Wilson lias not received any reports
that indicate disgust or even annoyance
among the Democrats of the South and
West over Mr Bryan's performances. If
it exists among those with whom Mr.
Bryan has always been strong it is
dumb, and Mr. Wilson's repugnance will
not rise until It has a popular support
that is now not in evidence.
Bo far aa the Republicans in Congress
are concerned they are adjusting them
selves to the new conditions with skill
and rapidity. The disappearance from
House and Senate of several of the old
i imers has permitted acknowledgment of
new conditions that bad the personnel
of the party remained unchanged would
have been Impossible, Personally many
Republicans were sorry to bid farewell
to Uncle Joe cannon, but politically they
hope he will not come bsok. The
minority is fortunate In Its leadership,
Mr. Mann never gives the Democrats
a rest, and holds his support together
without too mui h friction.
The Maine election heartened the reg
ulars amaslngly, confirming, as it did,
their belief, derived from town elections,
enrolments and confidential inform. i
lion, that ihe Progressive party la s
balloon thai Is losing its gas. They
tremble a little at the often repeated
declaration that Mr. Roosevelt intends
to return fn 'heir party and demand the
nomination for President in ISIS, Some
of them say he cannot get It. and will
run wildcat again. Hut there arc others
who look at their hungry partisan
friends and say :
"if ii must he Roosevelt or. a Demo-
crat, gVllson, Itryani l.'nderw i. whom
soever be may be, we will submit to
R iiisevell for the sake of these starv
ing soldiers."
Of Mr La Collette's future the we'l
Informed refuse to make a prediction,
because, they assert, he. is likely to blow
up again as he did at the publishers'
'iinncr In Philadelphia last year, "He
Is an unknown quantity," they add.
"and Ii la no pusslble to figure out his
place to-pirn row. or what it will be ev en
an hour drum now ."
n Irish Imperial Triangle
To tub Rnreos or tub son sir. i
would nol it I could contribute a word
to "Tlie Decline and l.ill" of the "Irish
Umpire." which s. cms admitted as well
ii s lamented hy the descendants of its
sons and daughters, but would like to ask
this queetioni Why is it that none of
these -.nits unit daughters ever refers to
ihe relations between Dcrmot Mac Mor
tough. King of iteinster, and his wife.
I lovei 'gilds, and the Prince nf Brelfnyf
i hHve 'never seen in print the name
Dovergiide, unless unci namely, In an
old boos published In the eighteenth cen
tury, wherein it gppeara thai without
even a rc.s,,, i in (he Iteno of thai period
lahout lilts 70) ilie "ran away'' with Ihe
Prince of Breffny,
Immediately Oil recovering from the
slunk King Pernio! militarily attacked
the Prince and was beaten, und lie was
beaten in a second attack, Thereupon he
went to Knglai i I sought the Influence
of StrongboW to persuade King Henry II
to mediate In the affair Breffny, which,
after much persuasion, Henry did. and
this mediation was the beginning of the
politicnl relations between Bngtand and
In land.
The subversion of the Irish Umpire,
fortified hv so much virtue. Intelligence,
learning and valor, still continues to me
a catastrophe as Incomprehensible as it
ia deplorable i ami from youth to uid age
I have niarvallrd aa to the extent to
which POverglldSi SOI a woman of the
Sassenacl.s, might lie responsible for it.
MoHTIMKK TUuUI'HuN.
New Toik, September 1.
HOUSE YIELDS TO
SENATE ON TARIFF
Cttttt and Sheep on Free Mfij
and ''Market Basket"
Is Taxed Low.
GOOD FEELING PREVAILS
So Much Progress Is Mado That
Bill May Be Reported
September 22.
Washinotost, Kept. II, Remarkable
progress was msde to-day with the tariff
bill by the Democratic members nf tha
conference committee. Up to this tlma
the Republican membera of the com
mittee have not been Invited In, Ths
method of treating the tariff bill dur
ing Ita legislative progress will be re
peated In conference. The Democrats
will reach a conclusion nn all enntrn
verted questions and then the Republi
cans will be Invited to view the exhibit.
The day's progress Indicated that It Ii
reasonably certain that the conference
committee will be ready to report the bill
back to the two houaea about September
22. When the conference stopped for
the night It had disposed of the chemical
schedule and the schedule embracing
earths, earthenware and glassware, prac
tically all nf the Itema In the agriculture
schedule, woods, sugar, tobacco and ag
riculture products.
This brought the conference committed
to the apirlta, wines snd beverage s.-hei-ule.
designated In the bill alphabet'
loalty na Schedule H. The only two Im
portant amendments tn thla schedule,
which Involve the restorstlon of tlie tax
on wine apirlta used In the sweet wine
industry of California and a duty of Jf,
cents h gallon on a class of wines pro
duced In northwestern Ohio, were passed
over for the time being.
These matters have been the source of
much worry to the Democratic Senators
Roth amendments originated in the Sen
ate. Something like !8.ono.noA In
revenue Is believed to be involved In
the amendments. Aside from these para
grapba the wine schedule was approver)
Date for Satgar Dalles.
Among the Important matters disposed
Of was the sugar schedule, and the Hntj,.
agreed to the Senate amendment flxine
the date when the sugar duties will go
into effect. Free sugar was not In dis
pute, having been passed by both houses
The House accepted the Senate amend
ment as It was written.
The Senate conferees receded from the
higher duties placed on mica and reache!
a compromise with the House. On nearlv
every Important amendment settled ths
House yielded to the Senate.
The House accepted the lower duties
given by the Banate on arglculture prod
nets., particularly as to live stock. Nn
agreement was reached on wheat,
bananas or on the countervailing duty on
wheat, all of these being Senate amend
ments These matters were pur BSlds
for future consideration.
The flret serious clash between !'.
Senate and the House was over the metal
schedule. It became tiecessarv after dis
cussiiiK the matter for several hours to
postpone action on the schedule, and It
may tiot be referred to until tlie rest of
the bill has 'iceii completed
While the disagreement was principally
over pig iron and ferro manganese. ;ne
entire metal schedule was more or lesi
Involved In the controversy, for a read
Justment of the tariff on tbeee basic
proiluctM will necessitate the chance of
many duties on products produce,' fr im
pig Iron and other primary produ of
iron.
rntnprnnilae la Kspeeleil.
The HoiiHe placed a duty of s per
cent on pis: iron and IS par cent, ot
ferro manganese. Tlie Senate transferred
both tn the free list. It is not unllkel!
that in the final agreement -i sin., 11 rei
enue duty will be laid on both and r'ia'
'here will ie a readjuotment of dutlei
on all steel products at rates some
where between the higher range carrle
by the House bill and the lower In the
Senate bill.
There was only one important amend
metit In the wood schedule, This did nol
involve h change of rates, but a recasting
of the language of the paragraph, wh I
Is 171, On this the House yielded tn the
Senate
The most important result attained h
tlie conference committee was probabb
tiie completion of the agriculture sched
Ulo, Ths senate made many changes It
the schedule Cattle were transferred t
the free list The House had made then
dutiable at If) per cent. She p also ve
on the free list, the 1 Inline having yielded
to the Semite on the amendment, vv1 t
struck out the House duty of If) per cent
The Senate alao re, lined tlie duty 81
oats and mods an amendment flvng s
rat,, of :t:; cents a hundred pounds on oat
meal and rolled outs nod nine cents
hundred on na! food These were agreed
lo, The Senate made reductions In the
duties on teas, beans, peas, meat extract
and other articles that enter Into ,v'
dally cost of living On nearly all n
tie-se amendments the Houss Becepti I
the lower rates fKc.l hy the Sen. ite
so satisfactory was the progress ihat
the conference committee derided n it '
bold a night sseelon to-night nr to nti
row night, and there will probably bs B0
session on Sunday
The conference thus far has been ' u
acterlsed hy the best feeitnc t it
progresses it is evident that the cl ir.s
roads In the bill by the Senate comni ttee
and ratified by the Semite caucus were
made after consultation with Ihe House
lenders and with the President, at
has served to simplify the work of the
conference
Ml'LLIVAS TO SAXTO noMlXt.tf
MOW Minister tn llnrry on I. n titles!
lo leette of n, ,oii
WSaNINwtOM, Sept. I? fhe K'o
Pes Moines has been ordered
Puerto Plata to Santiago, Cuba when
she win rake on hoard Mlnlstet Hull
who has been rushed tn bis post m Sal
Domingo because of the uprlslns n '
, republic. This announcement vv a Ii
J by the state napartmenl to-day H
also announced thai the gunboat S'a
jville will I save Puerto Cortes, Honduras
I for Puerto Plata to assist the pea M
j Meagre advleea to the state pepari
incut indicate that activity hai i't
I i. nporarily on both the Cloverumenl
h v iiutlnnary sides of thr troubb
rebels under Horatio VaaqUCI held Hi'
town of Puerto Plata and other northern
ports.
II IhL WATCH TIIK XFMt EAST.
I Mbert II. Pfttftsp I. CIS Post In '
Rrpartiurat.
WaSHINOTONi Sept 12 - Albert II
. iic.v of Chicago has been nptiomt.il
of the division Of Near Kistern sffal
the stab' Department This dlvlsim
charge of relations with Russia, Tt
, and the HhIkhii States. Mr Putnej
j lawyer, now dean of the Vt ehstci
I School in ChleSSO, He is said la
Specialised on International low,
j it has been the custom in ihe
Department since this division
luted tn put at the load of it lotne
I of the diplomatic service w ho has
late
havl
g- ite
esperlence In 'he particular
ruuped under Ihla division. Mr P
will succeed John Van A. McMiirra
has boon appointed First Secretary .
Legation at I'l-kin.