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The S25.OOO.OOO Deficit.

The United States Treasury accounts
for the fiscal year ending with yesterday
show deficit of approximately 25,000,-
600. This balance on the wrong side is
not the result of decreased revenues.
The revenues for 19Oi-O5 were 81 900. 600
in excess of those for 10000. Increased
expenditures account for the loss shown
by the Treasury. 1t took in s543, 900, 900
in the year and its expenditures were
about s56s 100000
This showing is worse than Secretary
SHAW predicted, and it is better than
some less optimistic prophets foretold.
1t is not particularly alarming but con-
scrvative business administration would
br pleased to see receipts and expendi-
lures practically balance. How can
this be brought about? The Washing
ton dispatches say:
Various plans for increasing receipts have been
proposed. and in the Treasury at least they have
been seriously considered. One suggestion was
70 revive the stamp tax on bank checks and other
negotiable paper. Several million dollars could
be raised from this source. Another proposition
is to impose tax coffee. A ive cent tax on
this commodity, It is estimated would yield about
a3s.0oo.OGo year stu another Is TO Increase the
tax on beer"
While some persons believed the
deficit would be from s35 100000 to
$40, 600, and Secretary SHAW thought
1t would be only s1s,oOO,OOO, all hands
we're at work thinking up new schemes
Of taxation. The old fashioned idea of
making expenditures meet income, in
stead of making income meet expendi-
lures, has not received thought.
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Rate Regulation.

When the Ohio Republicans met In
State convention, with Secretary TAFT
Of the War Department to guide, con-
troll and illuminate their deliberations.
they spoke up in their platform for the
enforcement of the statutes prohibiting
railway rebates. They steered clear
OF the proposal to clothe the Interstate
Commerce Commission with power to
make railroad rates. Not one word on
this subject was included in their plat
form.
Now the Democrats OF Ohio have held
their State convention, with the Hon.
Tom L. JOHNSON Of Cleveland and the
circus tent in possession. They, too,
are in favor OF the enforcement Of the
law against rebates. Besides this, they
urge the passage of Federal statute
granting to the Interstate Commerce
Commission power to annul "unreason-
able" rates and impose on transporta-
ton corporations reasonable" sched-
ules Of charges.
The Ohio Republicans are united, sue
cessful, intrenched in popular favor.
The Ohio Democrats are torn by internal
conflict. discredited, defeated. From
the latter comes the cry for Government
rate regulation.
Is this the demand of the American
people" for Government management
Of private business?
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There Is not In all Grub Street a more

There Is not In all Grub Street a more
meritorious person than Prof. HARRY TRIP
LET PECK, L. H. D., the compiler. II his
compilations abound in absurd misstate-
ments OF fact, it is because the dire emer-
genoies OF breadwinning leave him no
time to be accurate. II you find him fur
nishing to the yellowest Of the yellow jour-
mails certificates Of character and testi-
monials Of his admiration, signed by him.
self as Professor Of Columbia University
be not surprised, for square meals cost
cash If you catch him splicing his COM
pilations with some of those horrible scan
dals of sexuality, affecting the names OF the
great dead, which the rest OF Grub Street
refuses to touch at any price. restrain your
inclination to go and kick the poor devil.
Picture to yourself the industrious hand,
writing at desperate speed while all the
hungry little TRIPLEr PECKs are tugging
at the tired elbow. All! there is pathos yet
in the life 10 the third story rear In Grub
Street, within a gunshot Of the dome that
covers the great reference library on Column
bia Heights. Pity. and don't kick TsIPLET.
What truth OF statement what breadth OF
philosophic view. what compilatory intelli-
gence. what dignity Of judgment in the
selection or rejection Of material, what self
respect even. in the observance Of the lit
erary proprieties and decencies can you
reasonably expect Of = compiler working
under the awful pressure that makes the
faithful right hand Of Prof. HARRY TRIpLET
PECK, L. H D., race wildly after bread across
page upon page Of middle class and low
class compilation?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01

Details Of the operations in Yemen in
Arabia that resulted in the fall Of Sanaa, the
capital, and the surrender of the Turkish
garrison show the leader Of the rebels, all
Imam, to be a man OF considerable military
ability. The force under his command COM
prised about thirty thousand men. but he
wasted no time in attacks on the CITY, his
policy being to keep up strict blockade
and reduce the town by starvation. When
the relieving column sent up in April last
from Hodeida on the Red Sea was approach
ing Sanaa he disposed his force SO as to
allow the greater portion Of the troops COM
posing it to enter the place, and then fell on
the rear guard with its CONVOY Of supplies
and ammunition, which, after a fight in
which some five thousand men fell on both
sides. was captured. The arrival OF reen-
forcements without supplies Of any kind, as
result of this victory precipitated the sur
render which has caused so much anxiety
at Constantinople.
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EXECUTIVE CLE.NENCT.
Gov. Higgins PArdOns Three Men and
Commutes Sentences OF Four Others.

ALBANY, June 3O.--Gov. Higgins to-day
commuted the sentence of Antonio Reg
who was convicted in Syracuse in 1885 of
the murder of a man named McGowaT.
whom he stabbed in street fight He
received a life sentence in Auburn Prison,
but Judge Churchill, who presided at the
trial, recommended to the Governor Some
time ago that cemency lie extended in his
case. The sentence Is committed 10y tho
Governor to thirty-five years. which, with
the reduction Rego can earn by good corr
duct, would cause his release from conflnc
ment in al out a year.
Pardons were granted to-day by tho
Governor to three men convicted Of play.
ing policy in Kings county, Charles All oft,
Joseph Melville and William Warren who
were employees of the policy shop of Ste
phen O'Brien and We're used as witnesses
TO convict O'Brien. The pardons were
recommended to the Governor by District
Attorney Clark
Communications OF sentence were granted
by the Governor in the following cases;
William c. Wilson, convicted in New
York in March, 1904, for forgery, second
degree, in indorsing. a small check. He
was sent to prison for three years, Though
it was his first ofTense He has served
a out a year and four months.
Louis K. Molina. convicted in 1902 Of the
theft Of a watch and chain in New York
and sentenced to the Elmira Reformatory.
He had cen transferred to Clinton Prison
Ernest Mueller. convicted in New York
in 1903 Of forging small checks, and sem
fenced to prison for an indeterminate term.
Mueller had been endeavoring to support
wife and family on salary of So a week.
and there were extenuating circumstances
in the case.
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NEW PRIESTS GET PLACES.
Farley Announces Appoint.
menty OF the Nineteen Newly Ordained.

WeHtS OF tne Nntlecen NcWiy OTuaWlcu'
Archbishop Farley has assigned places
to the nineteen newly ordained priests
of the archdiocese to take effect tomorrow.
The Rev. John j. Coogan and the Rev.
John j. Hopkins 20 to st. Raymond's
Church, West Chester, as assistants to Mgr
McKenna. The Rev. Daniel NJ. Dougherty
has been sent to st. Josephs, Kingston, N. Y
The Rev. Cornelius j. Ftzsimmons goes
to Holy Trinity, Mamaroneck, to assist
the Rev. Isidore Meister. The Rev. David
c. O'Connor goes to st. Peters Rosendale,
and the Rev. Terrence F. McNulty will be
an assistant to Mgr Okeefe at Highland
Falls.
The other young priests will take up
ouraoies in city churches. The Rev.
James H. Flood goes to st. Catherine e,
In West i53d street: the Rev. Jsmes M,
Kilroe Ia appointed to st. James's, near
eoes o West f.
street: the Rev. Thomas p Iarkin is to
be assistant at st. Aloysius's, in West l32d
street; the Rev. Justin j. Lyons goes to
All Saints, 10th street and Madison avenue;
the Rev. Joseph F. Maxey will be assistant
Rev. David J. Morley goes to Mgr. Burt
sells old church, the Epiphany, in East
Twenty first street; the Rev. John j.
McCahill goes to the, Annunciation, at
lslst and Broadway; the Rev. Vincent P.
Farley's old church, St, Gabriel's, in East
Thirty seventh street; the Rev. Daniel p.
Mcpherson goes to st. Paul's Church. in
East li7th street; the Rev. Joseph T. Hol,,
land to st. Mary's. in Grand street, and
c Che in ' Rast iish street, to molly
The Rev Ignatius Szudrowicz, the first
Polish priest ordained by Archbishop
Farley, goes to the Polish Church of st.
Adelbert, in East l5eth street, The Bronx.
Promotion, and transfers Of priests were
ton with the vicar,.gen.ral Mgr. Mooney
and Mgr. Lavelle. In the city these curates
were tran7ferred
The Fsy F. Frs Ma? J. p Pro from ra g.
the Rev. John J. Byrne, from St. Gabriel's
to St Leo's; the Rev. F. NJ. Rafter, fro m
st. Leo's to the Holy Name Church; the Rev.
NJ p: O'Gara, from st. Paul's to St. Jo.eph's,
on Sixth avenue, and West Washington
st: Mary's, on Grand street, to st. Charles.
are: The Rev. J. J. Mcnamara from
Middletown to St. AIMS; the Rev. p. a.
O'Meara. from Highland Falls to st. NAL
straw to st. Jerome's; the Rev: John j:
Dormody. from kingston to the Mission of
the Immaculate Virgin.
The Rev. NJ. j. Larkin comes home from
the Catholic University, Washington. to
comes in from st Raymond's in Vest
chester to St Mary's. The Rev. John NJ
Kenny goe, from Rosendale to Port Jervil,
and the Rev. John b. Weber comes in from
kingsbridge to ST. Bonifaces.
This is the largest number of transfers
ever made at one time by an Archbishop
of this diocese.
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A Splendid BenefactiOn.

The gift of one million dollars to the
endowment fund of Yale University by
Mr.. JOHN DAWSON ROCKEFELLER, an
nounced on Wednesday, was followed
yesterday by the gift by him of ten mil
lions of dollars Ito promote compre-
hensive system of higher education in
the United States" and especially in
colleges as distinguished from the great
universities. Moreover, it is announced
that if the fund proves as useful as is
now anticipated Mr.. ROCKEFELLER will
undoubtedly make large additions to il
in future years
Mr. ROCKEFELLER therefore has made
himself the most munificent contributor
for the higher education in the history
of mankind. Mr.. CARNEGIE's pension
fund of ten millions for the benefit of
retired college professors was given for
practically the same purpose; but his
gifts for public libraries, SO great in the
aggregate, serve rather the ends of popu-
lar instruction specifically. Mr.. ROCHE
FELI.ER's contributions, apart from those
which were for distinctively religious
purposes. have been for college and uni
versty education almost wholly. His
theory seems to be that the best and
truest benefit that can be bestowed on
society is to provide for it teachers COM
petent to lead it by reason of their SUI
perior education, BY teaching the teach
ers he would teach the public.
His gifts to the Chicago University
especially had already aggregated ten
millions of dollars before his contribu-
ton of million to Yale and, yesterday,
of ten millions to the General Education
Board, to which body he had given a
million at the time of its organization two
years ago. Besides these the aggregate
of his gifts to colleges is large.
Ten millions of dollars is large en-
dowment, but relatively to the demands
which will be made by American colleges
it will yield an income which will seem
small. Consequently there is good reason
to assume that the Large additions in
future years" will be required.
The more or less silly discussion about
tainted money" which has been going
on does not alter the splendid fact that
JOHN DAWSON ROCKEFELLER is the most
contributor for the spread of
the higher education in the history of
mankind.
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In an article in the current number Of the
Proceedings of the Naval Institute, Lieut.
Commander JOHN HOOD has a most inter-
esting article on assertions from the navy.
He points out what many lay observers Of
naval affairs have suspected, that prime
cause Of desertion is the enlistment in the
grades Of coal passer, landsman. fireman
and messman of men having no experience
in seafaring life. Many Of these find the
work and discipline irksome, and as there
Is among them the normal percentage OF
vicious and weak characters, desertion,
which is extremely easy and never ade-
quately punished, ensues. Nevertheless,
the number Of assertions in 1904 was not
more than 1915 per cent Of the enlisted
force, and it was composed chiefly Of men
of whom the navy was we'll rid.
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JEWS AND COUNTRY HOTELS.
A Discriminat ton Denounced a. Un.Amcrl.
can and ILLEGAL,

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SuN-Sr: The
action OF certain proprietors Of summer resort
hotels in sending out pamphlets. circulars and
other advertlsino matter in which announce
ment is made that Jews are not desired as
guests. or containing what Ia equivalent.
that "gentiles only" are welcome, raises again
the question whether this discrimination
against class of citizens by persons who
receive the right to carry on their business
from the State should not be made an offense
punishable by law. Such a suggestion is
made the more plausible by the fact that
hotelkeepers have asked and received from
tho State special laws comforting extraordi-
nary privileges upon them and that without
these privileges. granted by all the citizens.
including the Jews. they would find II next to
impossible to conduct their bushes sue
cessfuly.
That those hotelkeepers who indulge In
this practise are not. "a a rule actuated by
personal feeling, but only by the sordid COM
mercial instinct which leads them to believe
that Haunting the flag of prejudice will bring
to them the patronage Of the prejudced snobs
and pharisees who unfortunately exist in
every community. docs not affect the issue.
Neither does the fact that some Jews may be
obnoxious persons devoid of manners and
unpleasant to meet The law should grant
the hotelkeeper the right to expel all persons
whose conduct renders them obnoxious: it
should make 1t a misdemeanor. punishable by
fine and Imprisonment, for him to refuse &C.
commodation to any well behaved citizen or
to make any announcement OF discrimina-
ton based upon any grounds whatsoever.
1t Ia the duty Of the State to exert every
influence which will tend to bring together
the various elements OF which II Ia formed
and to put down wherever possible anybody
who seeks to keep them apart Prejudice
cannot be allaycd or regulated by legislation.
but the legislator can at least prevent the use
OF the States license for the profit OF those
who would turn the existence OF prejudice
to their personal advantage. This lie a subject
which certain Senators might well ponder
during their summer vacation.
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
NEW YORK, June 80.
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While the United States busies itself
discussing the most effective means of
excluding the surplus laborers of China
the Transvaal is experimenting with
their admission on a somewhat extensive
scale More than 10000 have been
brought into that country during the
last year, under contract, to enable the
mine owners of the Witwatersrand to
drag more gold from their mines than
they could get if restricted to the employ
ment of the native haffir labor
Those who read and believe South
Africa will be convinced that the expert
ment has been an almost unqualified
success. Those who follow the London
Spec tator will perhaps entertain meas
ure of doubt. But the fact stands that
there has been a notable increase in out
put of gold from these mines, and also
that the value of the output is now about
what it was during the months imme-
diately preceding the Boer war, when
the maximum yield was reached. 1t is
also true that the total yield of gold
for 1904 slightly exceeded that of any
other year in the history of the mines,
although it was somewhat less than the
yield Of 1890 would have been had it not
been suspended in October Of that year
by the declaration Of hostilities. Advo-
Gates of the coolie labor contend, APP
parentlv with reason. that without the
coolies such results would not and could
net have been shown.
For the twelve months ending with
June, 1904, the average monthly output
wss valued at approximately 81, 00O, OO0
During that time the average number Of
men employed was about 1900 whites
and 1879 kailirs. The output for Feb
ruary of this year was 81, ZOO, 900, produced
by force Of 1912 whites, 90,l7S native
blacks and 3l,424 Cinnamon. If the
mine owners are satisfied, it is not for us
TO find fault, but rough calculation
from the figures available indicates that
the monthly output per man for the open
Ing months of last year was about $50,
while for the same months this year it is
about $40 We are unable to say whether
this is due to the extraction of lower
grade earth or to decreased efficiency on
the part of the extracton.
The important feature for the world
,at large is the constantly increasing
quantity of gold which is coming from
the Transvaal. Taken in connection
with our own considerable increase the
fact has set good many people at work |
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Aocuracx in Ouotatinns.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuS--.Sfr: Mr. George
Mason. In your edition of this morning suggests
by Implication that he believes the form. as well
as the sense, OF a quotation should be carefully
preserved by lovers bi good English. He will md
many to agree with him. But how easy II Is for
ones way 10 slide among bad company The very
quotation which Mr.. Mason places upon pinnacle
that we may see It's beauty and then shrink back
from the hideous picture OF what II would become
should It fall to the depths OF present day speech
this very perfect ngure OF language stumbles awk.
wardy upon the edge OF the abyss Mr. Mason would
warn us from approaching. "Murmur OF innlmer.
able bees In immemora elms" lndccd--has Mr.
Mason strayed SO for from the sweet dominion OF
Tclnysons princess" that he no longer hears dis.
t!nctly the
"Myrads OF rvulcts hurrying through tho lawn.
The moan OF doves In mmcmorlal Gins
And murmur OF Immune rable bees,
What should the innumerable bees be doing In
the elms, anyhow! q,
NEW IoEK. June 20
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THE SEAGOERS.
Big TIN sullivan and Sim Ford Among
tho vOyagers.

tho NOyaSers.
Aboard the Cunarder Campania, which
sails to-day for Queenstown and Liver.
pool:
Capt and Mrs Alexander Burgess. Mr..
and Mrs. Philip j. Britt. George J. Brewer,
Mr.. and Mrs, Frank C. Bostock. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. i. Cumming. Capt the Hon, Gerald Cado-
gan, Henry Dodge Cooper, Mr.. and Mrs.
John 4. Hoffman. Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. +. Leth,
John c. Hershey, Capt. Andrew Laurie. Mr..
and Mrs. G. A. Powell. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
=. Platt, Valentine IIecksher. the Hon. Tim
othy d. Sullivan. II. c. Winant. Mr. and Mrs.
George II. Taber, DR.. ". A. Converse. R. A,
Saalheld, George W. Smaley. the Hon Samuel
X. Thayer. Mr.. and Mrs. W. q. Warmsley,
W. A. Noyes. Walker Bowman and Prof. H.
" Wiley.
,Voyagers by the American liner St. Paul,
on to-day for Plymouth. Cherbourg and
Sout hampton:
=, DR.. and Mrs, v. T. Alexander, Prof. and
M BAKER Or raTpbf Capt eto g.
Mr.. and, Mrs. James +. Butterworth, Mrs
st2r M anS Mrs. bst
Gould jennings, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis P. Lamo.
r rsH Mr. land, And Mrs Il s MIoffstt. the Rev
Ts Mo Pane cSa Henfy Nj Ps a Mr. Mr
r. II, Townsend. Mr.: and Mrs. Richard Trim
bic, Mrs. Harriet Evans Vaughn and Mr..
and Mrs. Orme Wilson.
:, Among the passengers aboard the Anchor
liner Caledonia. which sails to-day. with a
larger saloon list than any vessel that has
departed solely for Great Britain this sea-
son, are:
NJ Mr. ana pd hr, Mrs h, Ghsrs; su1bns9Ssm
Wiliam n GSin. br. and "' Mrs. "S W lila vi" +
MMrshs sor Mrs. Srah L sjnd H.. NJ and
i. Clement. MIR and Mrs. Frank c. Clark and
William Geddes.
Sailing yesterday for Queenstown and
Liverpool by the White Star liner Celtic:
H Maitland Alexander, Mr.. and Mrs George
and Mrs: Clement. Brown Mr.. and Mrs. g; B,
Bruce Webster, Mr., and Mrs, j. A., Burden,
GuntheI, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Hamill, Lady
and Mrs; Josiah T. Marean. Frank H: Plat.
and Mr and Mrs E. A. MoAlpin.
Passengers by the Red Star liner Iceland,
which sails to-day for Dover and Antwerp:
Y bns4 A. aT"Sd d s* s1d Ns 4n Gfosfe
ko5srt : Gosid. DR. pr sPa Mrs A leonard ?
S i|s. Dr. Anna y locke, Col, ana Mrs Frank All
Mrs J Moore Richardson Mrs Reginald W.
Riyes. Mrs W. A. Slater, Dir. Raymond Spear.
T:S, n. Mr. and Mrs, Seth 7. Stewart. Mrs;
Mrs. II: Mather Warren. Palmer York and
DR., j. n. Warren.
Aboard the Atlantic Transport liner
Mesaba, of to-day for London:
Mrs. George $. Alden. the Rev. pr. E. G.
Bass. Or. Charles K. CASTOR. the Rev. and
Mrs. A. A. Farrant, Mr. and Mrs Edward
H, Jewell. DR.. and Mrs. Charles F.. Nammack
and Norman Thorpe.
Sailing to-day for Dover and Hamburg
aboard the Hamburg American liner
Pretoria:
MIR and Mrs. Edgar A. Bates, Maurice
Chester Boyd. Mr.. and Mrs. James II. Cal
lender. DR. and Mrs. A l.. Converse. Mrs
Frederick Dingley. Mrs. Samuel o.. Van
Dusen, Dr. and Mrs. Hartland Law. Charles
+. Thwing and Dr. and Mrs Richard W.
Muller.
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SHERIFF DEWEY CALLED DOW v.
Gov. Higgins Reminds Him That II Is Hts
Duty to Enforce the Raines Law.

ALBANY, June 3o.-Gov. Higgins to-day
read Sheriff William Dewey of Rockland
county lesson on his duty with reference
to violations of the excise law. There
had been filed with the Governor q COM
plant alleging that people had been going
by the carload every Sunday to Rockland
Lake, where liquor was sold to them openly
in violation of the law, and that riotous
performances were the rule. to the injury
of people living in that part Of the county.
The Governor forwarded the complaint
to Sheriff Dewey who replied that he would
look after the matter Immediately, but that
he could not find any evidences Of riots or
unusual disturbances other than that
drunken men were accustomed to 60 to
and from the grove, the resort at Rockland
Lake. He said he supposed it was the duty
of the Excise Department to see to 1t that
the excise law was not violated, at least
that it was more in the province OF that
department than it was his duty.
his peculiar view gave .e the opportunity
letter. which reads as follows:
DEAR SIR: am in receipt of your report
dated June IS in response to my request for
Information as TO alleged, violations Of, the
obliged to YOU for your prompt reply.
take ths opportHhnty to correct an i'm;
In your report, that violations Of the liquor
tax law are more directly under the. charge
Of the. State Excise DEPARTMENT, You are
enforcement Of the lay. 1t, is your dn,v
as it is your duty to prevent any breach OF
the peace or other act of disorder in your
county The. existence, of a State Excise
Trusting Hat this suggestion may lead
awful sale Of liquor remain, yours truly.
FRANK w. HIGGISs.