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The Satisfaction The Steinway Piano Gives Is lifelong. The Steinway is a?Stein? way. Arid a Steinway is piano royalty. Let us send you free cata? logue. Walter D. Moses & Co., 103 E. Broad Street, Oldest Music House in Vir? ginia and North Carolina GOVERNOR URGED NOT 10 SIGN BILL (Continued (rum First Page.) ? tutioiial and wrong lu theory: lie ; could conceive of no good reason, he j ?".id. why Hie roadbed should be taltcn I ac a unit for u division of taxes on such a tiling as lolling stock... The ' two. he said, bear no relation to eacli 1 other, a.tid cannot be correlated. Au I'nbeard of Anomaly. "In the Jl.-u tax rate of ltouuokc" ?aid Attorney Graves, "i- included 3.'. cents for the public schools of the . city. The bill proposes to levy this rate upon the rolling stock of the entire Norfolk and Western system,; and to distribute it then among the counties, cities, towns and school dis? tricts of the State on the bnsls of the value of the roadbed they contain. it| proposes, in othor words, the unheard of anomaly of a Stnto school tax levy I lor local distribution, which is in ylo- i lation of another section of the Con- I ?titutlon forbidd'ng general taxation] for local purposes." on the ground of expediency, thought Mr Graves, the law is likewise open! to serious objection. More than one fourth of the entire revenue of the | city of Roanoke, he said, would be *iped out if the bill became luw. lie] went over the arguments presented htt'oro the Houso and .Senate cumuilt ??es to show that the counties are al ady receiving- the lion's share of the 'come from the railroads, and that. cities are entitled to the rolling eck lu_x because of their service as | dera to the roads, and becuuse they nlsh practically all the lire and iice protection to tiie rolling stock V :i on sidetrack. i mi. .Meet Argument. lieaU. r Richard lSvolyn Byrd a gg toi the enactment of the bill ft law. admitted at the outset that Ri'ii> unable to offset the constl i Jo""' point raised by tho opposl i j-i . ' i was present, he said, on be ?^vf-..i iff Martin Wlltlums, who was very much interested In the passage of the bill in the Mouse, and had come un? prepared to argue its constitutionality. It seemed to him that the State could ?lie'p in, ,and by virtue of Its sovereign power validate any scheme of colic lion and distribution It chose to pul | Into ettcct. Sine..- It was generally ad? joined that the General Assi ritbly of 391!! was given power by fli i Consti? tutional Convention, to frame a law reupportlonlng the rolling stock tax, I It seemed to Mr. Byrd, that it might | with equal propriety select Its own I Plan r levying and distributing the tax. "1 am not in a position to answer the constitutional objections raised by 1 the opposition," said Mr. Byrd. "It would be useless for mc to attempt It. and I may as will admit it." Veto Would Hurt Norfolk. Att rnoy .1. Mnssle, of Newport News, directed the Governor's atten? tion to the /? louse, in the bill whi' h rxtrnds its,pr.ovJslffhs to electric rail? ways operating suburban lines. To v.>to the bill because of its uh coiistttutlonailty as regards tfie rall foada, he said, would mean of course the deatli of the clause touching >d( c trie railways, against which no oh Section had been entered. This would mein, he said, that t"ne city of Rich? mond would eon.tlnne to enjoy lite taxes on the rolling stock used by the (Traction Company in Norfolk, since LEGISLATIVE COMMENT By LEWIS H. MACHEN. THE AFTERMATH I The hulls of tho State Senate and the ; House of Delegates yesterday looked as . though both bodies had been in tho ? throes of u free tight, in which waste j baskets full cf loose bills hud been em ; ployed. As a matter of fact, both : houses held lw<> nominal sessions yes i tordtty to dispose of routine mutters. At one time the Lletttcimnl-Govcrnoi'i land two Senators constituted the up? per house, and the Speaker und two j Delegates wore the whole of whut the I Constitution calls the more numerous i branch of the Slate Legislature. At .other times a dozen or so members of 'both houses straggled in and out of I thy desolate.chambers, that so recent? ly resounded with the reverberations of Wordy warfare. Amtfhg other reasons for this nomi i nul extension of the session Is the ne? cessity that the Lieulenant-Goveriiori and tlic?Speaker of tho House should sign enrolled bills in the presence of the bodies over which tlitiy respectively] preside. All during- the session, what-; ever may have been the business before j the two houses, it was necessary for| it to bo suspended from time to time, to enable these presiding officers to sign the bills, while the clerk solemnly! teat! out the titles. After each per-! formttnee of this kind, it was Impossible for any member to sny exactly what bills hud been signed. This constitu? tional provision was inestimably in? tended to pre-empt the possibility that *u bill which the Legislature had not , passed would be slgm d. It is not known that such a tiling over occurred in the history of Virginia. No tail ever supposed that the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House would be utility of such u wrung In? tentionally and. if ho were so in? clined, he could commit the crime as well under the new system as nndei' the bid. if it was an unintentional i.iist.ikc that was sought to be avoid? ed, It Is apparent that there la a great; e1 likelihood of its occurring under the present plan than if the bills could first be examined by the presiding of? ficers in private and at leisure. How? ever, this is only on- of many inex? plicable things to be found In the leg i Islntivo chapter of the new Constitu? tion. < While only a few of the members of the two hous'\s remain to sop the finishing touches put upon their work;, these tew are generally in trepidation lest they may have disclosed to their bewildered gaze some joker that had crept Into an apparently innocent measure, or some fateful omission ? j which might render some important ! law inoperative. For example, alter | the Legislature adjourned in 1900, it j was discovered that a bill which tin- ' I dertook to fix the commencement of tho terms of oourt tor tho various judicial clroults of the State was un? constitutional because of a defective title. It was then too lato to remedy the defect. It Is a groat wonder that In the short session and the hurry Incident to Its dose, there arc not more such instances. Even as we go to press. It Is rc | ported that tho Gov?rnor is consld [ erlng the veto of the rolling stock j bill, which passed both bodies by a large majority, because of Us alleged unconstitutionallty, arising principally from an amendment put on the bill by a committee of conference If it should turn out that the bill is un? constitutional for lhls reason. It will demonstrate the liability of conferees, pressed by hundreds of other matters, however good their Intontlons may be, to commit errors.of a fatal nature In preparation of their reports. A groat number ol -bills, passed dur? ing iho cloning days of tho session, go to the Governor after the cessation of active work by the Legislature, though the Until adjournment may not occur until six days later. Itt that event, it h ? should veto a bill, even though there should bo a iwo-thlrds majority in its favor in both houses, It would lie impossible to call u sufficient num? ber of' tin members back from their homes to take the notion necessary to override the veto. The last sentence of section 76 of the Constitution is as follows: "If any bill shall not be returned by tho Governor within five dais (Sunday excepted) after It shall have been presented to him, the same shall bo a law in like manner as tf he had signed it. unless the Genera] Assem? bly shall, by filial adjournment, pre? vent such return, in which case It shall be a law If approved -by tho Gov? ernor In the manner and to the extent above provided, within fell, days after such adjournment, but not otherwise.'* Thus it appears that the Governor may son.j a ydlo to a Legislature which has not llntilly adjourned, btit Which may have adjourned for all practical purposes, Also It Is appa? rent that if there Is final adjourn? ment within le>5s than five days after any bill shall have been presented to the Governor, he may let It die by the simple expedient of withholding his signature. It would, therefore, seem that the only way for any Legislature to enjoy the full exercise of Its constitutional pgtyers would be for It to remain In full session until after the Governor shall have given final consideration to every bill enacted by the General Assembly; under the recent Gould consolidation the car lines In both cities are operated by one company, whose home office is in Richmond. An analogous result would follow In Newport News, he said, The electric lines of that city arc owned by a cor? poration, the home olnce of which I? located in Elizabeth City county. To veto the law. said Mr. Mnssle, would mean that the county 6f Elizabeth City would continue to enjoy the ta\ on rolling stock policed and protected from Uro, by the city of Newport News. To 1,'et the Courts Decide. S. If. IS vans, tncmhe,f of the Ileus?; from Caroline county, took the stand that most of tho points brought out at the hearing were sufficiently aired at the committee me.tings and on thy floors of both houses, anil that tin Governor should therefore sign the bill ami leave it to the colitis to de? cide as to its. constitutionality. To this It was objected by the op? position that a decision could not be secured In time to prevent the loss of ti year's revenue.. Secretary William M. Martin, of the Petersburg Chamber of Commerce, was a member of the deputation appearing ugulnsi the bill. Governor Mann admitted that the I bill would place the State in the pps} . lion of levying taxes on the same class of subjects at different rates, but re j served decision until lie has had time I 10 examine further into the matter. I He will probably deliver an opinion on the bill to-morrow. Cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Heartburn GOc PACKAGE DEEPLY REGRETS ! FOOLISH RUIV3QR! (Continued from First Page.) s patently level ai-.-a with a slight slope I away southward shown by the in- ] struinouls, but not perceptible to tlit bye. y "In a general sense it is of course part 01 the same ele-vatol urea us that ' named by Sir I-Vrne-t Shuckletou, but ] , ii is certainly not the Bnnie plateau.] I We hud every rltrht to name the] ; phi tea u at fhe iiole. I " I consider the place where- wo I crossed the mountain range much ] > easier than the Beairdmorc Glacier, I which has been found to have man;.' ! I dangerous crevasses. Wie crossed ere- I ! vasscs, but they were not numerous I nor Were they particularly dangerous, j ''Beyond the Devil's Glacier, as 1 1 have already said, we came to a place, which wc called the Devil'.- Dancing Hall, owing to the fact that the hollow lee echoed strangely underfoot. "In determining the position of the pole we took the greatest precautions. Five miles short of the pole we stopped and took reckonings and then ad? vanced and took observations to de? termine the exact, position. These ob? servations were taken both by my? self and by my companions. Naturally we could not determine the position With Hid exact certitude poSslbll to :i man in an observatory, but 1 am con? vinced that the error, If any, was yery slight and of course any error in the instruments can he corrected." Lieutenant Front rude'* Story. Lieutenant Prostrudc, who command? ed the party detailed to go eastward 10 visit King Edward VII, Land, gave Is Your Wife Musical? Docs she get "hungry" for the oppor. tuhity to play?to relax from the house, hold worries while playing some lie.\r!_ thropbiiig old melody?or a lilting popu l.ir refrain.'' " A Piano in a necessity not a "/u.YurV. " iff!. ?-^J-v -> ? -0; .?-i?x\ . J ??? ? fSvoBS ms ansa -."KriiTs.^usAV?i-ii'ttD^ Read Flow We Save You 20% on Any Piano: We ore makers, not dealers*. These factory wa'rerooms are as much a part of ( has. M. Stielt factory as though they were in Baltimore. We hell direct to you. There is but one profit?the makers'. No dealers' profit and big adver? tising bills to needlessly increase the cost of your piano. No matter what your.idea of a piano, lU'il find your idea) he-re, whether it .1 magnificent gold medal piano like ? Stiff! and the Shaw, or the lowest Ltd piano made. VVe have tlieiii all I.) per cent, underprice. pi; Xoi ready yet ? Perhaps saving to? ward a piano.' Why wait, each day tlepriving yourself ol the luxury of hap piness and music when our easy-pay? ment plan puts the piano in your homo now and let- sou pay while yotl enjoy its use. st is 'M$cMm^ 19$ "^W^m^M You don't believe it?but it must be true, for the house is filled with the pleasant aroma of something good to eat. You don't believe any one could prepare breakfast in so short a time. Of course it's a the kind that's so easily and quickly prepared and so appetizing and nourishing. Shredded Wheat is ready-cooked, ready-to-serve. For breakfast heat the biscuit in oven to restore its crispness,. then pour hot milk over it, adding a little cream. Salt or sweeten to suit the taste. Nothing so warming and satisfying and nothing so easy to prepare. A Shredded Wheat Breakfast Lets You Sleep Made only by THE SHREDDED WHEAT COMPANY. NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y. mc the following account of his ex? plorations: "On leaving Km iiklin. our winter camp, wo went 'south to SO degrees, following the track of the pole party. Then we turned east for sixty miles. On reaching- the meridian at Cape Col-' heck, we went north 120 miles. W'c' tuw no trace of land liiere, nothing but! Ice and snow, level with the top of the Ice barrier 1G0 feet above the sea. It| was splendid, easy running for our two] sledges and our skis. Atter covering twenty miles, wo cniuc' to the boundary of King Edward VII.j Land, laid down by Captain Scott at j 7S degrees south. There we mounted I 1,000 feet In fifteen miles, and on No? vember 21 overlooked Itoss Sea. It Mas free of ice, except drift Ice, and easily navigable. "Golnt; north seventy miles over the plateau, wo came to bare rocks about 1,900 feet high, exactly ua Scott de; scribed. Ituhning away eastward was a low-range of hills, calltV by Scott the Alexandra Mountains. "Wo returned to our base camp on Christmas eve, and on January 11, the Kram appeared, the most welcome sight we had seen for a loiiir time. "The pole party returned on January 2?, but the Kram was driven off the toast by bad weather, and wo did not get away until January 30. "Captuln Amundsen Is a great leader, with wonderful energy, foresight, and organizing ability. The way he work? ed was wonderful, and every detail was the outcome of careful thought." One of Lieutenant Prostrude's two companions was .lohannaon, who wont tvitia Nansen furthest North. Chat linn with me he said: "Captain Around? ?sen Is a great explorer und has done wonderful work." llolmer Hansen, one of the four men who ncr.ompanled Captain Amundsen to the pole, Is described by Amundsen as the best dog driver ho ever saw. DJanlnnd is n wonderful ski runner, and with I-Iansen, contributed much to the success of the expedition. "It wus not very cold," said Oscar Wlsting. Wore Ordinary Clothes. "I have fell it as cold In Chrlstianfa. We started with furs, but soon laid them aside, and except at night .wort only our ordinary clothes. Still, we should never have got through with? out plenty of dot's nor without Cap? tain Amundsen." Sverre Hassel, another of the men who a'ccompanli d Amuntlsen to the pole, fully hon out listing's state? ment. He said: "It was not very cold und neur tiie pole Itself we experienced fine weather. 1 have known it colder In Christlania Without the dogs, however, we could not have got through and kept up our food supplies. Dog flesh Is not the worst kind of food. The dogs arc very ready to eat each other; indeed, they are sometimes fonder ai their com? panions dead than alive. "Captain Amundsen is a wonderful man. We could never have accom j pllshcd tliu Journey without him." As an example of the perfection of i Captain Amundsen's organization may I be mentioned ti,e arrangement he ! planned for Unding th i food depots, j On each side he erected for some dls ! tanee a line of snow cairns bearing I numbered lla..-,.-. so that if the party ! were off the proper track it would ! know, on striking ouc o? the cairns, I which way to go to find the depot. To-day I have seen Captain Amund ? sen's chart on which a thin red line a ' few Inches long across, the sheet of ; paper represent.- the permanent record ! of the S?ll miles over which the , party made it:, way to the pole. Starting from the base camp at ? Framhelm, the line runs straight south I ward over the vast ice plain lying be , hind the great ice barrier until It ! reaches the spot whore the ascent was i begun to the nigh land toward the : pole. There iht red line suddenly ; Hends eastward and indicating the place where the lljs.berg Glacier of? ten ?I a g.1 route over the mountain j blirrier. Then the line runs duo south j again til! a litt!.- dot shows the goal I of the long voyage from the far north of Europe ano of so much toil and ! heroic endeavor ? The Tram i- still anchored in tho j river?a comfortable, roomy vessel; ! heavily laden an i drawing eighteen I I ict of wate,. \ m liking feature is ; the ship's absolute cleanliness, though ? the dogs?largo, powerful ahimais, with lurry noses, pointed ears and of mos;. tvarled color?have lite free run of t.tn. I d.-.-ks. wlo-re th y feed on StOCk ash and quarrel to their hearts' content: L ?vsry rnun on the. Frank has hia own, cabin, a little box six feet by nlx'fect. The' officers and men have separat! quarters, Well warmed anil lighted and made very comfortable. In the officers' quarters ir a piano, | decorated with stencil work repr.'sent- i lug flowers, presented by the women of Horten, Norway, Captain Amundsen's birthplace. There arc also other touches of home. Captain Amundsen's own room, which formerly was occupied by Captain Nan sen, is very mttell a ruplleu of the oth? ers:, but o little larger. It contains charts showing the route to the pole and sketches of how the depots and cairns were laid down and how the observations of fixing the polu wer/ carried out. I limit . Made Journey. In tho seamen's quarters there Is a canary named Fridtjof. Which accom? panied the Pram all through the voy riga since the vessel lift Norway. The Pram's motive power Is supplied by an eighty-horsepower Drexel pctro I leum engine. Chief Engineer Sudcrek j says It has not once gons wrong In the course of the voyage, several vis? itors from shore wer?: allowed on board the Kram to-day for the first time olv.ee I the vessel's arrival. The ci iw will hove a chance of getting a run ashore In the next few days. None seems to j have suffered. The four men who ac- | companled Captain Amundsen arc all bronzed nnd healthy and do not np poar to hnve suffered any 111 effects. The dogs which returned from the pole trijj also look well. A dinner was given In honor of Amundsen to-night by the Norwegian I consul h -re. Admiral lilng-Uall, rep- I rriscntatlve of.'the government and the,! Royal Sociotyl und the consuls for) France, the United States, the Nether- j lands, Sweden and Gornyniy wera alao>j present Much enthusiasm was dis? played. I Mlfjb DOCK TO TALK AT StTi'ItAGE HEADQCAB1XHS Mlssci n:ols? and Cornlie Johneton and Mit'. It. B. Valentine left ia?l nljht for Lynehburg, where the annual convention of th<: ntut? .Nurses' Association t? btln* hold. The party Will return to Richmond to-mor? row ovfn.nt; In company with Mit? Lavlnls L. pock, of Henry Settlement. Now Tor's City, who will address members of th? Bqiia] yuffras' I.casue of Vlrslnii In a ?ure lid mft'liift In I??que headquarters, SC-> Ilast Broad Mrni. Thursday evening at s o'clock. Mlrs Dock 1? our of the first irrlteri Of il;'- day on sociological questions. r.rM It famous for her success as n settlement worker and n lecturer ou social and scien? tific qjmsihms. Members of the league ur'i gl.id to si"' others an opportunity to hear lib Airt'rrtdin woman ?? im i* ofn autuovity In t.rr profession!). ..." As a result of visit? nal<I Frederlcksbtirs ?r..1 Alexandria Ift.u -seek excellent Icokii.:. ?. . ? formed ??>t both places, M!?s Janettn ntsbugh..of FrederleksboV*; and jrri. Km. voller Barr'eAt being presidents of these lutcM formed nurtruno organization*. specially Good Number of The Times-Dispatch Magazine The Best There Is in Sunday Reading The Green-eyed Lady's efforts to marry Mary White to Johnny Black, at Redport, form the basis of one more of the stories in the series, "I Can Many Anyone," by Gelett Burgess. Read it Sunday. Every Man in America likes to read about the Great Men whose beginnings were no better than his. Next Sunday we learn of a distinguished Congressman who was a humble school teacher at 15, and of Dutch Fred, who once handled a pick on a railroad, who is now worth two hundred millions! Russell Janney's thrilling story, "A Case of Suicide," is dramatically concluded next Sunday. The second part is even better than the first. Appropriate to March 17th, next Sunday'? Magazine will contain some interesting facts about St. Patrick, and a very clever poem by "Jack" Ormsby, entitled, "The Marching Tunes of Ireland." How Automobile Racers drive like demons until the race is done?what chances they take on dangerous tracks?by what narrow margins they escape death?are described by Edward Lyell Fox in his stirring article on "The Road Race" in next Sunday's TIMES-DISPATCH. Who was the Actress that even Paris repulsed? And who was the King who made love to her? To find out read next Sunday's article in the series, "Love Affairs of Fa? mous Men and Women," by Deshler Welch. 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