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Dismantllng the states.

In the Senate, Jan H. the joint resolu-
ton of the Hon. FRANCIS q. NEwLANDs
of Nevada for commission to frame a
national incorporation act for railroads
engaged in interstate commerce was
taken up for discussion. The character
of the gifted measure proposed may be
judged from its first two provisions:
For the construction OF Interstate railroads
throughout tie United States The amount OF the
bonds aud siJrs 10 be Issued by such corporations
TO BE- determined hy the Interstate Commerce com
mission. aud roi TO exceed in any event the actual
cost OF such railroads,
For The consolidation OF railroad, nov engaged
In interstate commerce tAe amount OF stock and
bonds issued for sncn consolidation 10 be approved
b, The Interstate Commerce Commission aud not
10 exceed 20 any event the actual value OF the Tal
roads consolidated such vsluc to he determined
ny the Interstate Commerce Commission
We hasten to say that Mr. NEwLANps
has no ironical intention He is not
satirizng the bill or recommendations
of any other statesman or economist. He
is not trying TO reduce 30 absurdlty the
many schemes to eXalt the horn of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
or To make he Federal Government
bestride the corporations like a colossus.
MIR NEWLANDs is ~ serious as Il grave
stone His draft oil a national iucor-
poration act is the result OF his mature
consideration OF a plan for the simplli
cation and unihcation. under one national
taxing power and one national rate regu-
latng power. OF the railroad systems OF
the country.
Mr. NEwLANDs is drawer more thor
ough and more logical than most Of his
rival rate regulators Yet, radical az
he is, in one respect he is more conserva-
tive than Commissioner GARFIELD.
"Will the Senator go so far. asked he
Hon. JoHN CoIT SPooNER as to say that
Congress has the power also TO provide
that no State corporation engaged in
production shall put its product into
Interstate commerce unless it becomes a
Federal corporations"
Mr.. NiwLANDs was not prepared TO
20 that far.
We need not concern ourselves with
he dcrails Of Mr. NEwLANDS's plan; and
ot Mr. SPooNER's acute questionings
and criticisms of it in its constitutional
aspects we content ourselves with Just
his one:
But the point 10 which Wish % cali .ne Sena
tors attention and which is troubling me- Is this
great proposition so olsmanue the states one
romes out every das IN some phase OF gulse
Propositions to dismantle the States.
We hope that Mr.. SPooNER will remem-
Der his phrase when e-dismantlng
more insidious than those
Of Mr. NEwLANDs come before the Senate
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Piscatorial Reciprocity.

The United States Commissioner Of
Fisheries reports that during the last
fiscal year the relations between his
bureau and foreign potentates remained
cordial and friendly
Reciprocity exists between him and
the Province of Ontario in Canada
The provincial Department Of Marine
and Fisheries allows the bureau to col
lect whtefsh and trout spawn in the
Canadian waters Of Lake Superior and
Lake Erie, and in return the bureau
makes plants Of fry near the interna-
tional boundary or in nearby Canadian
waters. The fish themselves are free
traders. They seek food indiscrimi-
nately on each side of the line, regardless
Of tariff regulations
In Argentina the artificial culture OF
fish has just begun, and Commissioner
GEORGE NJ BOWERS congratulates the
bureau on the success Of shipmen; of
eggs made TO that -enterprisins coun-
try. The eggs consisted of 10000 Of
the steelhcad trout, 1000 of the brook
trout, 5000 of the lake trout. 100000
of the whiteGsh. and $1,000 Of the land
bureau took charge Of them in transit,
the trip occupying forty-si1 DAYS. The
eggs were hatched with loss of less
than 10 per cent They We're trans
ported a greater distance than any
others had been in the history of fish
culture They crossed the line and were
carried 200 miles in wagons over the hot
sands Of the territory Of Neuquen. to
be Matched at the season of the year
just opposite to that in which they would
naturally have been Matched in their
home waters.
To New Zealand went 900 900 white
9Th eggs and 200, 900 eggs Of the Quinnat
salmon The whitefish eggs travelled
> 600 miles by rail and 5000 miles by
water The salmon eggs had rail trip
of only $50 miles All of the eggs were
transshipped eighteen times in wagons.
railway cars and ships before reaching
their destination When they were de-
livered at Auckland TO the New Zealand
Inspector OF Fisheries there had been
loss OF less than one-half OF per
cent among the salmon eggs and of
about 10 per cent. in the whitefsh eggs
The eggs were shipped from Auckland
10 Wellington in a steamer that had no
cold storage facilities. The high tenn
perature caused further loss Of 10 per
cent. of the whitehsh eggs and fraction
Of per cent. Of the salmon eggs The
bulk Of the consignment reached the
streams and ponds of New Zealand in
good order, and there is prospect that
the diet Of the New Zealanders will be
Americanized. in part at least.
England. Wales. France and Japan
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DISMISSED LETTER CARRIERS.
The Correspondence shows Them Guilty OF
pernlcious Political Activity.

WARRINGTON. Jan. 6.-Postmaster-Geu-
eral wynne to day sent to the House copies
Of the correspondence relating 10 the die
missa of James c. Keller Frank Cunning
ham, Warren lumber and II. w. Tumber.
the former president of the City Letter
Carriers Association. and the Others officers
Of the Association of Rural Carriers. The
correspondence shows political activity OF
the most pemicious kind. Keller, when
ordered to return TO work. from which he
had been absent for "A year. said he could
not comply with the order
The rural carriers the correspondence
showed sent out circular letters advising
rural carriers 10 support Democratic candl-
dates for Congress because Representative
Overstreet secretary of the Republican
Congress committee and chairman of the
House Committee on Post Offices and Post
Roads. refused to give the desired pledge
that he would vote for an increase OF salary
for them, although advised by Chairman
Cortelyou to do 40. The rural carriers
interviewed Chairman Taggart and he
gave them fair words. leading them 10
believe Democratic House would grant
the increase.
Mr. Wynne sent the report in answer to
n resolution adopted by the House on Jan.
IA. offered 10y Representative Hearst oil
New York.
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Cru.ltr at III, stockrard..
,HIAisHAH

70 TIN EpTror or TH8 Sun Sir, ! desue 10
ihanl, You for your correct and extended report OF
Mrs James Speyer's investigation ofthc New York
stockyards and Incidentally tn say that while Dr.
n-nscl is no doubt correct In his remark mat you
can't handle a steer as son would a rabbit. This
does not explain nor justly handling young cAivrs
by selling the can with one hand and twisting
the tail tii II forms loop with the other. and iu
this way ning The calf fro m the ground and throw
ing II into wagons
believe It IS considered The proper way 20 hit
rabbits by the ears by some. but anlr It Is not
the way 10 handle steer az Dr BerseI very Justly
remarks
How about me suffering COW which Stood FOR
hours a sigh, To- all bchoders. bloatcd out OF all
shape unable 10 move II President flaincs s
agents we're Ia the stOckysrd. - understand they
claim 10 hnvc beer. why were they moi attending
10 their duty Why not that poor creature In
santy and humArely DESTROYED Instead OF being
left to live and suffer and umed into the bolognN
pen" 10 feed some meat caters
Mrs Speycr and tho Ossinlng branch OF the s
p \, have undertaken this as a very obvious
and unpleasant duty not from choice, or any per
sunal feeling toward an one
! an for man aw against no man hut I
am for the rurch suffering min nj creation first.
last aud always. ConNELIA MRoH ARNoip
ScARBoFo .AS -rHR hudson lsn Is
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MEMoRrAL ro ". n. nALDWIN.
SIX Contributors Have Already Given
STa,BOO TO Fund 10 Endow Tuskegec.

A general committee has been organ
lied to collect money for a memorial TO the
late William II. Baldwin Andrew CarDe-
gle has contributed ;i2 500, Jacob II. schlh
$40 900, and four Brooklyn friends Of Mr.
Baldwin who do not wish their names pub
lished have given SIPS each
The money Is to be applied to add to
the endowment OF Tuskegee Institute, OF
which Booker + Washington il presi-
dent
The family u Mr. Baldwin believe =
Oswald g. Willard said Yesterday that
II he could speak. that is what he
would wish the money used for. A part Of
the money will probably be devoted to
some memorial on the East Side, the
form of which has not Vet been determined
The committee wishes II known that
as. the large ones. Al present the com
mittee consists OF the following.
President Roosevelt, representing Wash
ington; Jacob II. Schh, Alfred r White
Oswald g Willard, Felix Adler, v, Eyerit
Macy Mac Cleveland H Dqdge, A. $. ,,o o ,sn
sor a. president Of the Long Island Rail
road. representing New York, and Pres dent
Eliot of Harvard and Charles Francis
Adams, representing Boston. Other mem
beers are Congressman Henry Kirke Porter
Pittsburg; Mayor Thomas NJ. Osborne
Auburn. n. Y; II NJ. Atkinson, Atlanta,
Grover Cleveland Princeton II. II. Hanna
indianapolis Stanley Brown Of New
York Is secretary Mayor Henry l.. Hlg-
censor of Boston, though not on the com
mittee. will receive contributions. The
committee will be increased from time
10 time. and ii will have it, first meeting
next Saturday afternoon to select chair
man and a treasurer.
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New Way Of Promoting Spelling
Reform

Bills introduced by request into
Congress and into our Legislatures gem
orally, rest lightly on the shoulders and
consciences of their nominal sponsors.
A constituent is gratitied if his PROPOSE
ton for the repeal of the law OF gravita-
ton appears in the dignity Of print at
Government expense.
Senator BoIEs PENRosE Of Pennsyl-
vania is the victim OF a spelling retormer
whose ambition is TO club the British
public into adopting the American way
of spelling through the medium of the
copyright laws.
This ingenious Individual has pre-
vailed upon Mr.. PESRosE TO introduce
a bill providing that after July I, 1906, it
shall not be deemed an infringement of
copyright for any person TO reprint and
repubsh any book magazine, news
paper OF periodical in which words like
harbor. 'candor, ormor and honor
are spelled with the insertion of u
before the r. or where such words as
traveller ieweler' and 'enameler' are
spelled with two Is or where such
words as recognize, antagonize and
authorize are spelled with an 3 in
stand Of a q, or where such words as
inquire, 'inclosc' and indorse' are
spelled With the initial letter e, or where
such worda as stories and tories are
spelled IA to the final syllable vs.
provided that IN the reprint the Ameri-
can way OF spelling IS adopted.
The Senate Committee on Library is
administering narcotic to this proposed
law, and its death will be painless. Mr.
PENRosE probably grinned when he
forwarded the manuscript TO the clerks
desk. It's author doubtless feels that he
has performed a duty imposed upon him
by patriotism and the demands of litera-
ture. The Senate lost no valuable time
over the bill, and the only person who can
complain with any show of reason is
Uncle SAM, whose printing bill is in
creased annually by the flood Of fool bills
that are introduced not to be considered.
but merely 10 satisfy the desires Of his
cranky nephews TO do something
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
ENGINEERS NEH HONE.
Plans Filed for n Half Million Dollar Club
house In West iOth street.

Plans were filed yesterday for the new
home of the Engineers Club 70 be built at
81 and 81 West Forteth street It, present
quarters are at 374 Fifth avenue. The
new house is to be a thirteen story structure
with frontage of 30 feet on Fortieth street
and extending back 1871 feet to Thirty
ninth street. The building will be of colo
NAL design with facade of brick trimmed
with marble and ornamented at the fourth
and twelfth stories with decorative cornices
supported by pilasters and engaged col
lImns II is TO be fitted with broad stair
cases and will he also provided with two
passenger elevators besides n freight
elevator
The main floor will contain a reception
room and cafe. The main club room
will be on the second floor, opening on the
library There will he a banquet room
on the eleventh floor The fourth to the
ninth inclusive will be fitted a. sleeping
apartments for the members. The roof
will have covered and open summer gardens
The building is to cost $500, coo
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TO iHE Enron or TIE SuS-sr- cuba At pres.
rat. On account OF the money paid ou' 10 tile
army. TOT one hing. which is being put In general
circulation. and to good purposes. as can attest.
Is yer. prosperous We have farm nfN miles
from Havana, and the number OF cattle and AMI
mails In that section Is RAPIDLY incrr aslng owing
20 the fire. circulation Of money and the number
OF abandoned farms Is growing less.
You can travel In perfect security from one rud
of the Island 30 the other Tfc Rural GUARD Is
eycrywhefc aud extremely erlclcu'. The cities
are oule' Seldom do you meet drunken man.
drunkenness. am sorry 10 say, where It exists al
ell having been larEely introduced by the American
army Thtre arc no atrocities such as you read
N In the south lynchlngs few strikes and ihose
OF short duration.
The nrst impression OF Sew Yorker landing
In Havana is OF the difference Ia favor ~ thai riy
over the streets ot New Yor In point Of cleanliness
The water supply IS one OF The nnosi In the world,
The beautiful reservoir, IKE crystal lake, Is a
revelation 20 visitors
With the education Of tho children and me influx
OF Americans. Cuba Will gradually learn our meth
DDS. let Ms have patience and give them time.
BBooyLIS, Jan. 10. WOMAN.
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Economy In the War Department

In 1885 an elaborate system Of coast
and harbor defences was devised and
recommended by what is known a- the
Endicott board With the aid of liberal
appropriations by Congress. the work
has since proceeded, largely on the basis
Of those plans but according TO the
report of Secretary TAFT for 1904 it will
take nearly another decade to bring it 10
completion, at cost, as estimated By
him, of a little more than $65 O0o, 600.
Last week President ROOSEVELT is-
sued an order providing for the organi-
zstion of a board. and naming its mem
bers, for the purpose II reviewing the
plans and projects upon which the work
is now being carried on The order recites
that two-thrds of the land armament
recommended has been installed or pro-
vded for but that since the report made
nineteen wears ago so many conditions
then existing have been materially modi-
fed. and the engines or implements Of
war have been so greatly improved, hat
it ia confidently believed our harbor de-
fence can be completed effectively and
satisfactorily with a much less expendi-
mre of money Than has been heretofore
estimated
The present board is instructed 10 con-
slider the subject in this new light and
recommend plans for the completion
of the system, with the most econom-
ical and advantageous expenditure of
money.
This order !, based on a memorandum
submitted to the Secretary of War bv
Brig Gen }. p STORY, Chief Of Artillery
OF the General staff, in which that officer
reviews the existing conditions in detail,
points 10 the results of such recent ex-
periences as the maneuvrcs in Portland
harbor m 1903, and reaches the conclu-
sion that modern invention in coast
armament electrical communication,
range finders, searohhghts and other
devices makes II possible 10 revise the
present plans Of coast armament and
defence with great advantage. He
notes tho influence of modern naval
vessels, and comments on the fact of tho
limited efficiency of navy forced to
operate on the defensive IN vulnerable
ports The order Of the President shows
hat Mr.. ROOSEVELT and Secretary TAFT
share Gen. SToRY'S conviction that our
navy can be almost entirely released
from defensive operations by an adjust
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ing international law by allowing Rus
sias Baltic fleet 70 remain about a
fortnight in Madagascar ports, insteud
Of restricting it4 scjourn to the normal
twenty-four hours. The truth of the
charge has not been proved however
and IL denied at the French Foreign
Office However ardent may be his
personal sympathy for Russia, it is inn
probable that in his official capacity NJ
DELCAssE would oountenance breach
of the neutrality which up to the present
time he has studiously observed. We
scarcely need point out how grave would
be the consequences of an act that might
justify Japan in asserting that, practi-
cally, she was undergoing attack by more
than one great Power and that the con-
tngency had thus occurred which, un-
der her treaty with Great Britain called
for the latters interposition
In one particular only is NJ. DELcAssE
likely to be overruled in the new Cabinet
as he was in the last 1t is understood
that he tlssented with much reluctance
to the rupture Of diplomatic relations
with the Vatican, and that be fears that
the influence hitherto possessed by
France throughout the East as the pro-
tector Of Catholicism will be seriously
impaired by an abolition of the Concor-
dat 1t il difficult, indeed, 10 see on
what pretext the French Republic. after
doing lis utmost 10 e1terminate the
Catholic religion within its borders,
could continue TO pose az its champion
in foreign parts.
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fOR NIAGiRA SHIP c4NAL.
Gov. Higgins Asks the New York DeleEa-
ton 10 Secure an Appropriation.

WASHINGTON, Jan, III. Members of the
New York Congress delegation have re-
ceived letter from Gov. Higgins asking
them to aid in an effort to secure an ap-
preparation for upper Niagara River. The
Governor says the River and Harbor bill
should include an appropriation for build
ing a ship canal and lock along the upper
gorge of Niagara River from Lake Erie
TO the quiet waters below Black Rock.
thus opening the entire upper Niagara
a. hRrbor where Lake vessels and canal
boats can meet and transact business TO
the greatest advantage such an inn
provement he says. will be Of great benefit
TO the canals OF the State whether the pro-
posed barge canal is built or the canal
remain IN tAer present condition
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
NO CIGARETTES IN JOH.i.
The supreme Court tphoids the Anti
Cigarette Law Of That state.

WASHINGTON, Jan l6-The Anti-Cgar-
cite law of Iowa was to-day affirmed by
the Supreme Court in the cases brought by
agents of the American Tobacco Company.
on the ground that It was an attempt on the
part Of the State TO interfere with interstate
commerce. The cigarettes were shipped in
the usual small boxes containing ten each,
which it was asserted covers original pack
ages and were shoveed into the car in
bulk and unloadcd in the same way. On the
basis of the court = decision in the Ten
nessee law. which it affirmed il held that.
like that case, this was too palpable an effort
to evade the law to invoke the interstate
commerce clause. Besides, the small boxes
were not the original packages in which
cigarettes were usually shipped from State
10 State Justice White concurred in the
opinion. and Chief Justice Fuller and jus
tices Brewer and Peckham dissented
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ment Of our system Of coast and horbor
defence in accordance with the latest
scientific and military developments.
Moreover. Gen. STORY "a convinced,
not only that our system of defence can
be strengthened by the adoption of new
plans, but that this greater efficiency
can be secured by means which will
save in cost at least s30,OO0OOO
Secretary TAFT may rest entirely con-
fident that there will be no public cutlery
against any system which ENSURES II
greater protection while reducing ma
tional expenditure by so plump sum.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-17
\ Change of Ministry In France.

There is no doubt that NJ CoMBEs has
announced an intention to resign, al
though, owing TO the death of the mother
OF President LoUBET the resignation
has not vet been rendered officially
Ostensibly, the resignation, like that
of the late NJ WALDECK-RoUssEAU. is
voluntary After the long and violent
debate which took place in the Chamber
Of Deputies on the night Of Jan. l4-l5,
the Ministry secured a vote Of confidence
by a majority Of 10. in view of the fact
that the Combcs Cabinet originally had
a majority Of about so in the present
Chamber. which was elected in the
spring Of 1902, it has evidently lost the
good Will of many former supporters,
and only with the utmost difficulty could
carry on the Government under its pres
cnt head Had il waited until formal
vote of want of confidence drove it from
power it probably would have been re-
placed. for while al least bv a Minis
try representing the Opposition, which
might have gained the assent of Presi-
dent LOUBET TO a dissolution of Parlia-
ment There is reason 10 believe TINT
if general election were held at this
time the Radicals would find themselves
materially weaker than they are now in
the lower house Of the national legis-
lature, and the fulfilment of the projects
with which the name of VI. Comics is
associated might have TO be postponed
BY renouncing tho Premiership OF his
own accord VI CoMBEs has pursued a
course calculated 10 allav the disafTec-
ton which of late has been disclosed
in the Ministerial ranks and 10 bring
about reconstruction, rather than the
demolition. of the Cabinet Under the
circumstances he is likely to exercise a
good deal of influence Oh the selection
OF "A successor, and il is reported that his
choice has fallen upon W. RoUyIER. the
present Minister of Finance 4 Ministry
headed by NJ. RoUvIER would probably
reattract the republican groups by the
secession of which VI. CoMBEs has been
weakened, but it could be trusted 10
carry out most Of its predecessors poll
cies; that is TO say. it would 20 on with
7
and State and, as VI RoUvIFR himself
introduced the proposal for an income
tax, he stands committed to that meas
ure. The spy system, on the other hand,
in all it- Iainihcations. would be repudi-
ated So much at least the Chamber
would gain by a change OF Premiers, and
the substitution Of a reorganization for
a dismissal of the Cabinet would relieve
the Deputies from the unwelcome neces-
sty of facing the risk and cost Of an
appeal to the electors
As was TO be expected, IL is settled that
VI DELCAssE will remain undisturbed
in the Foreign Office. This is a matter
Of much moment to the financial and in
dustral interests of France SO long as
VI. DELCAssE is permitted to shape the
relations of the French Republic with
other Powers the chance Of his coun-
try's being involved in the Far Eastern
war IS manifestly minimized. 1t is true
that he was recently accused of vioIat-
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Br,ton Recognize, Greatnes,

T0NI ~ TU7TVV 'FTIT--
As NtN Nork now clearly stands scconc Ia the
world In point OF population. II Vain probably boo
another decade have passed London IL Is safe tu
say. at any rate. that b. 1919 NcN Work viii rans
the largest city In ihr world Nan. estlma
{, TO hs ALREADY the Anatciai centre.
OF course, II New Nors rcacl,- this position ~
the population OF the world cities It viii be la-sr,
due TO immigration. though none ihe less matter
OF local pride
Carthage. Rome. Vienna. Antwerp. Amsterdam
and London have csch been IN heir tnui tho M
'ropoi, oi the world II IS bat natural that N.W
YORK should SO; hold tue pacr. and perchsnre IL
win mail! he some great city Of the West