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La Follette's Maximum Rate Bill.

| Governor LA TOILETTE of Wisconsin
continues to lambaste the railroads for the
benefit of his political ambitions. At
his instance bill was introduced into
the State Assembly making the lowest
published freight rates in force on June
Is, 1902, the maximum freight rate. This
was curious proposition, but it excited
no curiosity among the Governors faith
! full henchmen in the Assembly. The
Committee on Railroads gave no OPP
portunity to directors. there was no
hearing. The bill was promptly re-
ported and passed obed emily, without
discussion 1t is now before the State
Senate. Possibly the Assembly expects
or even hopes that the Senate will be a
little slower and let the dill die so far as
the present session is concerned.
The Milwaukee Sentinel, which does
not venerate the Wisconsin PINGREE,
describes this bill as = political measure
pure and simple, designed to make po-
ltical capital and not to benefit shippers
or consumers Of products transported
over the lines of freight carriers No
attempt has been made to ascertain II
the rate arbitrarily selected is fair or not.
The State has Railroad Commissioner,
elected by the people. 1t would seem
to be his business to examine existing
rates of freight charges and propose
new ones, if upon investigation he is
convinced that the rates fixed by the
Wisconsin railroads are excessive COM
pared with the tariffs in force in Michi-
gan, Minnesota and Illinois. If the
Commissioner has not power to do this,
why doesn't the Legislature give 1t to
him? Where is the justice to the rail-
roads, tho shippers or the consumers OF
fixing q maximum rate without inquiry
or knowledge of the reasonableness or
unreasonableness Of that rate?
The giving Of rebates to favored
shippers is one Of the complaints made
against the Wisconsin railroads. The
Maximum Rate bill does not try to pre-
vent rebates. What does Governor LA
TOILETTE care about rebates or rates
either, for that matter? He means that
there shall be no rebate on his reputa-
ton as a clubber Of corporations and
friend OF that mysterious class described
by Mr.. DEvERY as . the downtrod.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
King Edward and the British Con-
stitution.

In British Parliamentary circles there
are signs Of a growing uneasiness caused
by the apparent disposition Of King Ed
WARD VII. to exercise an amount OF
political activity irreconcilable with the
theory that under the British Constitu-
ton the sovereign Is mere figurehead.
There is some ground for the misgiving.
In bis recent visits to Lisbon, to Rome
and to Paris, EDWARD VII. conferred
not only with the Kings Of Portugal and
Italy and with the President Of the
French Republic. but also with their
respective Ministers, although he him
self was unaccompanied by any member
Of the British Cabinet. Nor has any of
those Ministers contradicted the reports
current on the Continent that in those
conferences questions OF moment bear
ing on the relations Of their respective
countries to Great Britain were dis
cussed. Is it proper for British sover-
eign, when travelling in foreign parts, to
90 beyond expressions of courtesy, and
to announce his opinion respecting i'm
portant international affairs? If the
opinion subsequently proves to have
been entirely without influence upon
Great Britains policy, his foreign audi
tors will have been deceived. If, on
the contrary. Great Britain's policy
shall eventually conform to the views
previously expressed by her ruler, he
will naturally be supposed to have super
seeded his Prime Minister as regards the
power Of initiative and control.
The assumption that British sover-
eign reigns but must not govern is, like
every other feature of the British Con-
sttution, the outgrowth OF precedent
and custom. WILLIAM III. not only
reigned but governed, 80 far as foreign
affairs were concerned. His successor,
ANNE, was not merely a woman, but a
woman Of mediocre intelligence and
plant character; yet even she did som,
high-handed things, and vetoed an
act Of Parliament, proceeding which
has never since been repeated by British
sovereign. OF the two kings who fol-
lowed her. one could not speak English
at all, and the other could speak it only
imperfectly Under the circumstances,
they recognized the folly Of interfering
with the domestic affairs OF England.
Scotland, Ireland and the colonies. and
left these to be directed by Sir ROBERT
WALPoLE and the PELHAMs. Their
hearts were bound up in their Hanover
ian Electorate, and for that very reason
they insisted upon shaping Englands
foreign policy, and until the elder PITT
became Prime Minister they did shape it
to considerable extent. From that day
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
Diogenes In Kansas.

The Hon. ED or EDGAR WATSON
HOWE, now the DIoGENEs Of the Atchison
Globe, is transplanted Hoosier who won
literary glory as the realst Of tho Kaw.
Mr.. HOWE is known as most sarcastic
man, and loves to chaff, not merely his
fellow man, but his sister woman. The
other day Mrs. CORA G. LEWIS was
elected president Of the Kansas Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs. Whereupon
the Atchison DIoGENEs composed this
perfdious congratulation:
MI LEWIS. husband Of this brany woman. Ia q
quiet unobtrusve man. who lives only for his
x1fes success Devoted TO homo life In Kinsley.
which Is a model one. be cares nothing for society
or politics. His patient tenderness when II has
seemed to Mrs. LEWIS, In her club ambitions. that
the world is against her. has done much to keep up
her courage and TO help her reach the lofty summit
where she now stands. Mr.. LEws Is few years
his wlfe's senior but Il was love match. and had
the usual touch Of romance. Although surrounded
by business problems, he manages to keep In touch
with his wife's literary flights. and II has been his
custom ever since he married to refresh his inner
life every day with bit Of poetry. The influence
Of such man upon the life that Is welded to his
cannot be overest!mated. Mrs LEWIS owes much
to her husband. The Globe regrets that II has no
picture OF Mr.. LEWIS 10 print In connection with
this modes, tribute to his worth. Women would
amount to more II there were more helpful hus-
bands like Nj Lewis OF Kinsley. Kan"
Perhaps Mr.. LEWIS will resent this
intrusion into his household. but Kansas
is genius and all things are permissible
to it. Certainly Mr.. LEWIS will shudder
at the adjective brainy." deliberately
chosen by the Atchison DIoGENEs as the
most irritating Of words. But, after all,
what has Mr.. LEWIS to complain Of?
Why should q husband not rejoice in the
successful public career OF his wife? Man
is on the down grade, woman is on the up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

until the death Of Prince ALBERT the ira
dition survived In the royal family that
a British sovereign might exercise q
moro direct and personal influence upon
foreign than upon domestic Affairs.
We know from the memoirs OF baron
Won SToCKMAR how firm was the position
which, at her consort's suggestion, queen
VICTORIA took with relation TO this point
She insisted that foreign despat' hes
should DO submitted to her, which prac-
tically meant to Prince ALBERT, before
they were answered, and, Of course, she
gave Ministers to understand that In the
replies she expected Difference to be PAID
to her views. In the winter OF 1s5l-os
she seemed to have established this pre-
negative, for she virtually forced Lord
JOHN RUSSELL, then Premier, to dismiss
Lord PALMERsToN from the Foreign
Office, because the latter, of his own in
itiative, had instructed the British AM
bassador at Paris to recognize the au-
thority derived by LOUIS NAPOLEON from
the coup d'etat. Some three years Later
however, the Queen had to recede from
her position, for Lord PALMERsToN be-
came Prime Minister, and though he
treated Prince ALBERT with due respect,
he did not permit him to usurp functions
which, in the Minister'S opinion, were
unconstitutional. Had Prince ALBERT
lived there Is do doubt that, after PAL
VERSIONS death restored RUSSELL to
the Premiership, the attempt to invest
the Grown with some independent au-
thority in foreign affairs would have
been renewed. As it was, the question
lapsed, and for forty years has never
been revived.
The arguments against the exercise
Of personal influence by the sovereign
in foreign affairs are just as strong to-day
as they were in Prince ALBERT's time.
The fact that King EDWARD VII, like his
father, is a man of more than ordinary
intelligence, and Of exceptionally thor
ough acquaintance with Continental
politics. does not constitute an adequate
reason for TIE establishment Of a prece-
dent which, in the hands of an ill-in-
formed and stupid sovereign, such as
was WILLIAM w., might have disastrous
consequences. 1t Is also as true Of Ed
WARD VII, as it has been Of any British
sovereign Of the House of Hano,e r. that
man all Of whose family relationships
is foreign ought not to be intrusted
with any influence in shaping Great
Britains foreign policy. The Stockmar
Memoirs show that Prince ALBERT, with
the best intentions in the world, could not
help taking German rather than a
British view Of Continental politics. Now,
80 far as family relationships are con-
cerned, EDWARD VII. is even more e1-
clusively German than was GEORGE l.,
for he has very much less English blood in
his veins. The tiny stream which GEORGE
I. derived from his grandmother, tho
daughter of JAMES L., has since dwindled
to drop.
There can be no greater mistake than
to suppose that the English people would
be pleased to see the Prime Minister su-
perseded in any department, or to any
extent by the sovereign. Let il be once
suspected that such q superses sion is
threatened, and King EDWARDS popu-
larity will Immediately vanish.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
MANUAL TRAINING FOR ADULTS.
Hyde Park Residents TO start shop to
Make Useful Things.

CHICAGO, May 17.-Hyde Park residents
have started Workshop where they can
make their own pottery and furniture
and other household articles after original
and artistic designs. The South Park
Works Association Is the new or ga nization's
name. 1t was decided to build model
Workshop which will be equipped with all
the needed tools and machinery and where
professional craftsmen can work and In
struct the amateurs
This workshop will give to men and
women exactly the same advantages in
training the hand that modern educators
are providing for children in the schools,
The members are to design and execute
useful things wherewith to ornament their
homes and to replace machine-made goods
of ugly design and poor workmanship.
Equipment for weaving, pottery. metal
work. bookbinding and other crafts will
be added as rapidly as the means Of the as
ssociation will allow.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
The Twenty.six Thousand white Republic
cans Of Alabama.

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sh: was
pleased to see the communication from this
State. published in THE SrN OF April l2 with
reference to the conditions that exist in the
Republican party here. The article was
bold, frank and truthful In every particular.
Tho attempted destruction of our party in
Alabama is nothing short of political murder.
No matter what is done to discourage, de-
stroy or intimidate US through Administra-
ton channels. it will be seen when the next
convention meets that the men who. as your
correspondent trlthfully says, made up the
convention which assembled at Birmingham
In September, 1902. cannot and will not yield
to outside influences. and that our party
cannot be destroyed by such brutal methods
as are being used.
Tho 20. 900 white men who voted the Repub-
lican ticket In this State in 1902 will absolutely
control the next State Convention, for the
State Committee has already fixed the basis
Of representa- for that convention. and
provided for the qualification of those who
participate In the county conventions. using
the same language which was used in the
call for the convention Of September. 1902.
The old conditions can never be restored
and the white Republicans Of Alabama will
never again submit to negro pow-wows, as
they have done in the past. The $500 quail
fed negro voters In this State, nearly all Of
whom are Democrats and boast that last Sep
TENDER they voted the Democratic ticket.
State and national, cannot and will not be
factor In the politics Of Alabama.
have been a reader OF The Sun for years.
and am gratifed to know that your paper
seems to understand the Southern situation.
from Republican standpoint, better than any
newspaper published In the North For the
sake Of the truth Of history in general, and
In particular for the sake Of the truth of the
history Of the white Republican movement
In the South. l trust that you will continue
to take an interest in the affairs Of the South
ern Republicans. WILLIAM VAUGHAN.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, May IA.
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WHO FOR MORRISS PLACEr
Job r. Hedgcs?-J. Van vechten Olcott ?
Guess Again.

The s5-per-cent. fraction Of the fusion
vote Of New York county appears to want
Job E. Hedges orator, funny man, lawyer.
to become president of the Republican
County Committee to succeed Robert c.
Morris, resigned. Fifty-three per cent. OF
the New York Republican county leaders,
thirty,-seven members all told, say job
would be Jack to take the place"
A contingent spoke OF j. Van vechten
Olcott, but then the terrible discovery was
made that Mr.. Olcott Republican organi-
zation man, was member OF the Manhattan
Club, the spiketail -coat Democratic or
ganization OF America.
Guess again!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
THEIR GIFT AHEAD or TIME.
Was Intended to Mark Mrs. Reins's 80
Years as . Principal.

The teachers in Public School 90, at
Eagle avenue and 18Sd street, The Bronx.
planned last Friday to give to Mrs. Sarah
M. Rens a pearl and diamond pin to mark
her fiftieth anniversary as a school prin-
cipal. The teacher learned after the pre-
sentation that the anniversary does not
come until Oct. 25. Mrs. Reins received her
license Oct. rs, 1858.
While Mrs. Reins was absent from her
Office last Friday one of the teachers slipped
In and laid large bouquet of roses on the
principals desk with the sunburst inside
When the principal learned the meaning
OF the gift she told the teachers that theil
arithmetic was bad.
Mrs. Reins is the oldest principal in the
city, 1t is said. She first taught in the old
school at Tooth street and Third avenue
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
The Rish. to spoon in Public Places.

|
10 III. Ep!roA OF HE nuN-on. oo'elvlhs
| IN TIE SuN OF Inursday communication agneo
hooeH NOV. conoemn'nR ioHe"ek'he ny couples
| 10 Cen'lA fsrk ano o'hei puonc pleasure slounus
pelnl' me W Nhe 'ne oeiehS'e anu say ioi VII.
pslAS snas 'noy Afe 'ne siee'eS' pie'ehuIes VI
| ca'y POSSESSES a. ialee cty a NC" ioiA Pre-.
sents soeisi problem among inc pam people tnAt
'ne "'ses' o' uo oonho' P'opeiS Soi'e, o'en WIN
tne parks open 70 young person" a. ooufHnR places
ana w'nou' 'hen'' 'ne LOU oh'y Ano"s "nA' w
snouio ooi
Your correspondent evidently does not Know the
situation among tnese people or ne would not oo'
jec' 70 PARK courting. Inc mAJohty OF them i've
IN NnemenN Wnero 'nere IN neitnof ugnt. coolnoss
comfort nor auie'' ana they cannot make love IN
sucn surrounones' nor can uey S'' AROUND on
stoops ana steps: nor can they hk over TABLES 10
saloons: nor arc 'ne cnulones open 70 the ror tnei
senoef momenS DOT can 'hey meet IN mo s'rees
cars on CUPID Ievel nor can tney n.ve zoe proper
conaewv On sns s".ess' noi w 'ho .eoIoesou =
piers presen' tne neeoeo nor are 'ney asked
70 come S'h voc au,e' oI eeeen' note,s'
noI arc 'he nousos " 'no i.Vn ope' '" 'nern VINO
'he'i ownes orc a"ay LOT une sun'lnel. taore 10
no1nsn IA tne c.y Io' .ne,n 70 .rys' e.cep' ~ 'ne
paIAs. usee '. 'no ss. ~, .o so' ".
VIC t"vu o, w.. Su" , ne' anu VIZ snH. uony
planned OF ov your correspondent 70 W.T. tne pup
hclIy OF 'neir performances. ~ 'he oes' evidence
tna' 'ney arc nohes' ana mean no Marin. POSSIBLY
vac con'p'.han' .ouu NINA ~ inoio eonuuciVo
70 puohc morals II tney eouIo n,oe away ID 'he oark
corners OF inc PARK SO 'nat inc 'asuo'ous TASTES
OF 'he rcnned ~ouio NOV DC snoekeo oy seeing
the natural ou'pounnss OF '~o heai's mat peat as
one ana nave no o'nef Spot IN WINCH 70 pour 'nefn
except inc PARKS. .,,,,
10 my opihion' tne Guy perXs arc pubic promoters
OF prVa'e mofai's ana 'ne Ieiy pest form OF en-
eouraeemen' 70 marriage tna' tne Guy mas or can
nave. unnI some nch pniiahtniopist. risen from
'he ranks OF 'ne negiec.eo, os'aohsnes AZ Var1ous
points private PARKS ana summer sneters Tor love-
makers In whch no iasualous raut hinder can
enter and De shocked AZ nature taxing us course
The lovers In the PARKS are as honest ana sincere
though somewhat less ooscrvant OF the prophecies
In their love-maklng-as are the best people we
have-and they should not De nterfered with because
they Indulge In DEMONSTRATIONS which, 10 some
moro fortunately situated, arc proper only In tho
sancthed Seclus,on OF nome.
Tho park lovers arc all .rght-or most OF them
are-snd II Is known fact that the dissolute and
bad among women arc never TO he found there.
am not betting man. but would he willing to wager
With your complainant that more marriages are
tho result OF the iove.maklng In the parks OF New
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
The Boston Style OF Re gistration

inc Boston Stylc OF NcglStfatlOn.
The new Registration law, which went
into effect in Boston on May 1, does not
appear to have been as great a success
as Boston innovations sometimes are.
Prior to the election OF last year, which
was Of more than usual importance in
Massachusetts,, the rival candidates for
Governor being JOHN L. BATES and
WILLIAM A. CASTOR, the total number
of registered voters, as ascertained in the
ordinary way, was Ill, 4s7 in Boston.
The number actually voting was 9o,l42
and the plurality for Mr.. CASTOR in Bos-
ton was 1900.
By some Republican partisans, to
whom the name OF CASTOR is of no sig
nificanoe, this plurality was ascribed in
part to election frauds through colonial
ton. Although the Republican plural
ity in the State, 1000 last year, would
seem to be proof against such a result
the fear was expressed that under the
old Registration law in Boston, which,
in the person Of the Hon. PATRICK A.
COLLINS, has Democratic Mayor, the
Democratic majority this year might be
so increased as to effect the election
Of Democratic Governor.
Under these circumstances, the Legis-
lature adopted and the Governor signed
what is known as Senate bill 1852, pro-
viding for a new method of registra-
ton in Boston only, A vast number of
pasteboard cards we're prepared, con-
tanning space for answers to such ques-
tons as the name, age, and occupation
Of each citizen, his residence on the LIST
Of May, 1902. a year ago, the name of
the informant, and his or her residence.
Equipped with these cards, one for each
house, store, factory, hotel, stable and
club in Boston, the members OF the Police
Department have been for twelve days
making domiciliary visits in order to
report the precise number Of qualified
voters over the age Of 20 in each
house, together with such other informa-
ton a. was available and interesting
The work has been carried on with great
dill igence. Heavy penalties, one of them
imprisonment for not more than three
months, were prescribed for citizens or
householders who refused to give to the
policeman full and true information
within his knowledge, relating to all
persons residing in such building" 1t
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

For him, the kitchen, the domestic chores;
for her, public life. the platform, politics,
reform, the rostrum and tho nostrum.
The philosopher, even II he be OF the cynio
school, will not kick against the pricks.
Woman must evolute and man must
devolute, roll down.
In vain does Mr.. HOWE jab at Fate
Where will his gbes be when the quick
coming Abdication Of Man Is accom-
plished? We can see him, little older
and great deal meeker, collecting Facts
and Fancies of Interest to Men for the
Atchison Globe, become the property OF
the ruling sex and kind enough not to get
rid Of its one male reporter. Then falls
darkness. The Abolition Of Man, that
strenuous measure mothered by a Sun
flower prophecies, has come.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
Chair for the Rev. p. NJ. Rhinelander.

The Rev. Philip Mercer Rhinelander Of
Washington, son of Frederick Rhinelander
OF this city, has been elected professor of
ecclesiastical history in Berkeley Divinity
School. at Middletown, Conn He sue
ceeds Prof. F. j. Kinsman, who will take
the history chair in the General Theo-
logical Seminary, Chelsea Square.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
NEW HAvEN's IMPROVEMENTS.
o. .OOO, 600 to Be Spent for Rolling Stool
Eighty New Locomotives.

-FIButy NOV LOCOMOTIVES.
BosToN, May 7.-Large additions are
to be made to the motive power and pas
senger equipment of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad, the total
amount to be expended approdmating
$1,000 900. An order has been placed for
eighty locomotives, az this number it Is
expected, will be necessary to meet the
growing demands of the freight and pas
senger departments.
1t ia not intended to pay this bill OF
$4,000 900 out Of earnings, but to issue
stock to that amount.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

Good Friday. according 10 the Church Times, Is
less strictly observed in London than formerly.
Where business Is suspended the occasion 10 apt to
be seized for the work OF painters. cleaners and
whitewashers. "One could walk down street AFTER
street In London and sec everywhere paintpots and
ladders and leHion Of Horkcrs.-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
An Artist to be Envied.

FTofn he TaN0T and CVfftr.
We know OF no one more 10 be envied at the time
than well dressed cutter on fashionable prone
made. walking behind stylish. artistic, night
hitting coat that he cut. glohousy and beau ufnily
adorninE the back OF q weu.snymsd man
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
May Immigration Larse.

For the first seventeen days of May bo, TOT
immigrants landed at Ellis Island. In the
same period last year ~ ,7s0 arrived.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
Not ENOUGH.

Advertiser--what experience havs you hAA WITH
an automobile
chAunsur-rhirty days in &c prison.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
TO LOSE ITS FREsNAL LENS.
Montauk Point to BE Reduced to . THIRD
Order Light.

MoSTAUK. L l., May Flowing to the
fact that not enough vessels pass the point
at this place at night to warrant the Govern
ment in maintaining a first order light
here. the Fresnal lens. which is Of high
quality, Is to be replaced by new third
order lens which has arrived here and is
ready for installation
For years this Fresnal lens has done
duty in the old Montauk lighthouse. The
lens was sent over from France in 1859
and was exhibited in the Crystal Palace
In New York and from there it was sent
to the light here.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

Readers OF TIE SrS leaving the city can have the
Daily and Sunday editions mailed to their addresses
(which may be changed when necessary for 10
cents month. Order through your newsdealer
or THE SUN, ITO Nassau street
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

n our frends rho fdror US nth manuseripfs for
publication irish hare ,ejected articles returned fhtp
must In all cases send sanps for nat pur2o1.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18

PARIs-Klosque No ~. near Grand HOTEL and
Klosque No. TO- Boulevard DIES Capucincs,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-18
A Bulion.Dollar Diathetic Philanthrop,.t.

LONDON, England. May 0.