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the national assembly shall have been
dissolved. That was the history Of the
French States-General, up 70 the time
when that body met at Versailles in 1850.
theoretically, it had never possessed
any hut consult alike t4Ret+etsfi got there
had been critical conjunctures when It's
desires were osiensibly needed. Never,
however, had the French sovereign hest
tated subsequently TO modify or recall
the concessions extorted from him by n
transient necessity
We have no doubt that the Car him
self and his reactionary advisers expect
and design to confne the promised as
9embly to the merely advisory role to
which the French States General were
restricted for centuries, and which
LOUIS WI had in mind when he con-
scented 10 convokc that body. Every
thing depends upon the question whether
the assembly, once convened, will con-
sent 20 play the impotent part which
has been assigned TO il in other words,
upon the question whether Russia IL as
in l7S9, We have heretofore given
reasons. drawn from the internal con
dltion of Russia, for answering the ques-
ton in tho affirmative We would now
direct attention to the tremendous eN-
terror encouragement that the friends
OF liberty in Russia viii derive from the
public opinion OF the European world.
No such encouragement was forthcom-
ing 10 the advocates of free institutions
in France l18 years ago. Outside of
England and Switzerland, there was
then no example Of self-rule in Europe,
and even in England and Switzerland
the share of the people in admins
tration was very much smaller than
it is now At the present time, on
the other hand. the stimulating example
of representative government is pre-
sented in every country which adjoins
Russia on the west. in Sweden and Nor
way, in Prussia, in Austria Hungary and
in Rumania. The Russian patriot now
knows what the French patriot of 1889
was very far from feeling, that the whole
world is on his side. 1t is
to overrate the electrifying
influence Of such knowledge.
Under all the circumstances, it is the
hope and belief of sympathetic onlookers
that if NICHOLAS II. is persuaded to con-
woke a national assembly of any kind
he will have sounded the death knell OF
The autocracy. He will have let loose
an avalanche that nothing can arrest.
Blind and bound though the captive
SAMSON was, it was unsafe for the lords
of tho Philistines TO let him wreathe his
mighty arms around the pillars of the
emple
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The Eli to Transfer Wall Street to
IIobOkcn.

The outrageous Stock Transfer Tax
bill pending at Albany ought to be de-
scribed bv its real name.
II is bin to transfer the business of
buying and selling stocks from the pres
ent national mart in this town 10 some
other state where the conditions shall
be less oppressive 10 New Jersey, for
example
such would be the natural effect Of
the enactment OF this SPECIAL tax upon L
single form OF business
For what purpose do the machine
Republicans at Albany propose TO give
yet another turn To the screw of indirect
and unequal taxation which ODELL de-
yiscd and vnuntcd2
For revcnue3 The prctence is diaph-
auors Al the needful expenses OF
the state Government can al any time
lie provided for easily and equtably by
,ho old method of an infutesimal direct
tax falling evenly upon all the States
property.
Governor HfGGNs did not recommend
this stock transfer tax in his message.
The measure must come from the brain
of some legislator who thinks that the
Mohawk Valley will grow more grain if
the financial supremacy of New York
city can be destroyed by taxing Wall
Street on Manhattan Island and driv-
ing it across the North River
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The Treaty on Its Merits.

The President sent to the Senate yes
terday brief message urging the rnti-
fication Of the Santo Domingo treaty,
chiefly on the ground that the measure
is regarded by the Administration "a
necessary for the avoidance of danger
Gus complications with foreign Powers
over the Monroe Doctrine.
The statements and wishes OF the
Pre- should have even more than
usual weight with Senators in this par
ticular instance The manly fashion in
which the Administration corrected its
initial mistake of attempting TO proceed
in Santo Domingo without the Senate's
concurrence, and the frank abandon
ment of the old Observation-Disclosures
agreement, or protocol. so-called, seem
To us to enutle the Executive recon-
mendations to peculiar consideration
now that the Executive is proceeding
in strictly constitutional manner.
The question now before the Senate
and the general line of national policy
which is indicated for the future by the
proposal to administer the finances Of
Santo Domingo for the benefit Of credi
tors, both European and American, are
business Of tremendous Importance.
Fortunate it is that the other and
unnecessary question OF the respective
powers of coordinate and coequal de-
partments of the United States Govern
lnent has been eliminated
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upper lip The mouth is ample and
firm. The eye Is the true Speaker 8
orb, seeing what II will, closed when
seeming open, godlike yet capable of
innumerable twinklings and compan-
ieEable- y iftka-,fi,ift beard Is imposing.
The chin is statesmanike. The cheek
is solid. The jaws are powerful. The
upper head is well developed. The eX-
tremities are massive Mr.. CANNON is
essentially sculptural
Mr.. WILLIAMS, with his wild scalp
locks and love locks flowing; with
his blown, dishevelled, extemporaneous,
neglected, surprised appearance; with
his strange, second hand clothes OF the
mound-buildng period, his picturesque
CATERS his mysterious and melancholy
eyes, his general air Of ncognto, artis-
tic disguise, Wardour street and Baxter
street Mr.. WILLIAMS is Gothic, though
no Goth. He is the Stranger. He is
the Orphan. He il Melodrama. Queer
properties muffie and surround him. A
patina grows on him while you wait.
a wandering minstrel he, a strummer of
guitars. Gothic? No, Visigothic, Span
ish Don Qmrote, Rug Bias, the Spanish
Stldent. He must have been at Sala-
manca.
WILLIAMS is Night on the Yazoo.'
CANNON is Winter Afternoon on the
Nerniion Each is beautiful. Each
should concede the others loveliness.
Mr. WILLIAMS is q good fellow, too,
and deserves the loving cup which he
got. The Hon. CHAMP CLARK talked of
Mr.. WILLIAMS black plume The
love feast mood Of the House may be
guessed from Mr. CLARK's retelling of
a story that seems somewhat maudlin
TO this generation Of vipers
JOHN ". FoRNsr relates Ono aneedots Of
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS and BRvEHT TUCKER One
DAY DorolAs sat down on fuckers knee, threw
his arm about his neck. and said DEv ! love YOU
TUCKER replied; DouoLAs. when you get to DO
President don't want any once, but win have
ample reward H. in tina, great day, you win sit
on my knee. hug me. and say. Bsv. love you.
TUCKER expressed tho universal yearnlnE OF the
human heart to DO loved
In this afrectionate disposition, not
often felt so early in the day, the CAUCUS
adjourned.
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MI,tnke, OF Anthors.

To rHE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Sh: To the IN
stances Of the errors OF authors which have at times
been mentioned. allow me 10 add the following
In Wauens Ten thousand Year" where tho
author describes tho nrst dinner given b. Mr..
Quirk in honor OF Tltiebal Ttmouse, be says that
Mr.. Alderman Addlehcad escorted MrJ. Curk
downstairs 70 dinner whereas, Mr, Quirk being a
wdover, he doubtless Intended 10 mention MIS-.
Alias. the sister OF that eminent lawyer.
II Is probably not matter OF general knowledge
tina, when Robert Louis stevenson wrote Tho
Master OF Baanirae" he stared, IN his original
manuscript. that some "yulturcs" hovered over tho
grave ia the Ad!rondacks IN which the no'er do
weel had been laid TO await his rcswAkenlug by
Secundra Dass. On my pointing out 10 the pub.
fishers that vultures arc not found 50 far norlh.
they authorized. In the absence Of AR. Stevenson.
the substitution OF birds o prey"
Many years ago the manuscript OF some Indian
dramas By an aged New Hampshire lawyer. well
Nened In Indian lore. passed through my hands Tor
revision. The scenes were laid In the New England
mountains, and about the middle OF the seventeenth
century. and male to one OF the the author
described an Indian chief az standing on peak OF
rock. silhouetied against the Hky, and with r..
voIyer In each hand" deiying his white enemies.
The necessary correction was. however, made be-
fore the pages went on the press.
NV YORK, March O., Z, z. TREYyEr.
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Firty Years n Faithful Servant.

To THR EDIroA or The sus--Sir: In this day Of
agitation about the difficulty Of obtaining and
keeping good servants II gives me pleasure TO bring
to your attention case OF long service and faith
fulness that Is worthy OF notice. over nifty years
ago my grandmother engaged young Irish gin.
Catherine -. who had just arrived from the old
country She was continuously In the service OF
this household until her death few weeks ago.
She watched over three generations OF children.
loved them as II thtY her own and her slnd .
nee5 OF heart was manifested In thousand WAYS
She was frugal and with her sayiags made life
easy for her parents in Ireland until they died
The end Of this faithful friend. for she had long
ceased 10 he regarded as anything else. was char.
sotelIed BY iaiihfulness and sinEeness Of purpose
One day while alone In the house for short time
her clothes caught nre. and she died from the In .
iurles sustained. She made brave hight 70 81.
tnEush tho flames. and It was evident her INST
thought was 10 prevent the house burning, which
afier struggle she succeeded In doing. regardless
Oh mr. own suffering. s. o..
BRooKLrN March g.
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Tho FlsbcrR Bill.

Senator ELsBERo's bill for the extern
sion of the powers Of the State Superin-
tendeut of Elections-whose jurisdiction,
under the Metropolitan Elections District
law of 1898, extends over the counties of
Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond and
Westchester-is the most vicious Of all
the proposed enaotments by which the
Odell political machine intends to punish
the people of New York city for their
continued opposition TO the methods and
practices of the Grocery Gang. The
other schemes TO exclude qualified resi-
dents of tho municipal area from the
ballot which arc being urged upon the
Legislature would prove annoying in
operation, but they would affect only
those individuals who presented them
selves for registration. The Elsberg bill
proposes to unlatch the door Of every
residence and dwelling place in the five
counties to the State Superintendent and
his deputies, and 10 destroy the privilege
Of privacy TO which every man is enti-
tied so long rs he obeys tho law and
behaves himself
The Elsberg bill empowers the Super
intendent of Elections and his deputies
from time to time throughout the year"
to visit every building or any
other premises where one or more persons
reside and interrogate any individual
dwelling therein ito tho end that there
shall DO n complete record of
all persons over tho age Of 81 These
inquisitorial visitations might be made
by the deputies under orders from their
superior. ION their own motion, or on
complaint Of any citizen, and any vic
tim who refused to answer the questions
put to him would be liable to prosecution
for a misdemeanor The deputies would
have power to arrest without warrant
any person who refused to reply to
their interrogations.
From years end to years end the
residents of New York city would be in
danger Of annoyance and insult in their
own homes, and their wives would be
liable to arrest If they neglected to keep
AN accurate list and count of all male
persons claiming 10 be or apparently
over the age of p" who resided in their
houses. Under such a law the gratifi-
cation Of private grudges would become
the work Of the State. and the machinery
established ostensibly for the protection
Of the ballot could be turned into an
engine for the destruction Of the rights
of the citizens.
1t is easy to forecast the result OF an
attempt TO exercise such powers as this
bill would confer upon the State Super
intendent of Elections 1t would lead
10 conflicts between householders and
the deputies, in which the former. de- |
Tending what they conceived to be the
sanctity of their homes, would not hest |
tate TO use force III the protection Of their
rights. The sympathies Of the public
would be unanimously with the house, |
holders. 1t is not too much to say that
serious disturbances would spring from
any effort to enforce 50 odious statute.
Does the Legislature want to incur
tho responsibility of placing such law
on the statute books?
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The Anpeal to God for sunnnn-

We print to-day another letter from
the Schenectady correspondent who has
kept US advised as 10 the progress of
the wave Of religious emotion which ia
passing over that busy and prosperous
community. 1t will be seen that he
writes still as one who is deeply and even
passionately stirred by ths revival spirit
about him, though he is a man Of affairs
peculiarly concerned with the practical
side of life. He seems, too, TO be a rem
resentative Of a prevailing exaltation
among business men and workingmen
of Schenectady, and so far that state Of
feeling, according to his letter, con-
tinues undiminished
Elsewhere, in several widely scattered
towns at the West moro especially.
like religious enthusiasm is manifested
so strikingly that the denominations OF
Christians known IA Evangelical are
looking forward hopefully 10 the DOS
sibility Of stirring up another Great
Awakening like that OF 1857. Accord
ingly a delegation has gone to study the
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Tint. for The Use Of cold nnt.r.

To THB EDnoR oP rHE SuS-.sir ] mink ! can
give two good hints; one will save money AMI tlnc.
and the other pain A:ter washlng the hands In
warm water. dip them In cold water. dry thor
ouEhly. aud they won chap.
Now for the other hint suppose II Is usual FOR
most people 70 draw cold water for their tea kette
although my mothers cook drew Il from the hot
water tap supplied from copper boiler which when
discovered caused a ructlon LIT the water be
drawn and kept, say over night, IA dcmljohn or
other vessel that can be kept coTied. and when
wanted its temperature viii be considerably above
that Of the water freshly drawn from the cold water
pipe ana Il viii take less gas and les time TO heat
Than water freshly drawn from the cold supply
The vessel containing the water should he kept
In uarmish place thus losing some NJ tho coldnoss
that would otherwise have to be expelled by the
heat FRD
NEW YohL. March o
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An Example OF the Religious EnthusiAsm
Aroused in Schenectady.

To THE EDITOR or THR sUN-,sfr. In the past
year" said the Rev, Henry W. Mailer OF the Union
Presbyterian Church in his ermon on Aggressive
Evangelism" yesterday morning, schenectady
shipped nf,y million dollars worth OF electrical
apparatus. employing 10000 workers for nfty-nvo
hours each week. total for the year OF 2s 600 600
hours tic city also sent out 05S locomotives, made
by 400 men. working 4s hours weekly a total for
the year OF II .2a2 900 hours Aggressive evangelism
the calling out BY the clergy OF the lay ele
mcnt OF tho Church 10 work for the evangellkstlon
OF society just Christ called out and sent forth
the Seventy. II a 1.-THE OF the volume OF work and
energy used In the manufacture OF the nifty million
dollars worth OF electrical apparatus and tho oss
locomotives was brought TO the aid OF the clergy
in the wor, Of aggressive evangelism, how few days.
nay. hours, would elapse before Schenectady was
completely captured FOR Christ"
That" said the speaker is the who OF AgKres-
slve evangelism II is new thing, but the bring
ing OF factor, the help Of the laymon into tho
Work OF saving souls. lettering lives and purifying
cities"
The speaker was right John Wesley did that
years ago, and the great Methodist Church. With
all Il is and has been is the result. Gen. Booth did
the same thing later. and the Salvation Army Is
the result
THE opportunity OF the clergy for getting near
to the hears and lives of tollng. anxious. world
Neaned men and women has It's limitations" said
Ar. Msier. but laynen do not suffer any such
limitations. You" said the speaker, stand Shout
der 10 shoulder with these day after day and week
after week, year in and year out. You can Join
their clubs. their fratemM societies and their
unions. You can do work for good that no min
isier can hope TO accomplish. You be tho
seventy and tho seventy times seventy sent out
20 work FOR the Master and The good of His people.
You can nll our churches 10 overnowing. You can
be. you are, the aggressive evangeiisis OF these
dAwnlng years OF the twentieth century. That is
the what OF aggressive evangelism The entire
sermon was unique and striking. Il struck The
renewed work OF revival opening In Schenectady.
The First Baptist Church thronged Sunday
evening By men and women OF all classes oreeds
and conditions. when Its pastor. the Rev. g. T.
WhltcmoYe. held the INST OF the two more weeks
OF aggressive evangelism services which he Is TO
conduct. with occasional help from the other city
ministers. His sermon. or rather his appealing
address. was heart warming and soul Inspiring,
Everybody seemed 10 know and everybody seemed
anxious TO sing the old Gospel hymns mothers
used 70 sing. Hearts were melted by ths pAthos
and uplliicd ~ the hope set forth In the words OF
the speaker and OF the hymns
The afternoon meeting for also success.
ful Tho work here Of aggressive evangelism win
not stop. OLD DoRP.
SCHENECTADY. March Q.
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What Does the Cars Concession
Amount To?

The more we learn concerning the cir
cumstances under which the Cars
rescript to his Minister of the Interior
was issued, on March 3, and the more
carefully we examine the text of the
document itself, the less importance
are We likely to attach to it, 80 far os
the authors purpose is concerned. Evil
IDENTITY the real sentiments OF the Car
are expressed in the reactionary mani
festo which, at the suggestion of NJ.
PoBIEDoNosTsEFP Procurator Of the
Holy Synod, was put forth some hours
earlier on the same day. The rescript,
which is said to be substantially identical
with the suppressed clause in the proc
lamation made in December at the
request Of Prince SvfAToPoLK-MIRsKY,
does not read like the embodiment OF
any sincere conviction on the writer's
part that the time has come for the crea-
ton of genuine representative institu-
lions in Russia, but rather as an after
thought engendered by panic, and in
tended temporarily to allay the popular
irritation, which is already widespread
and is daily gaining ground.
Admitting admission which, in
view of the abortive promises of March,
1909, and December, 1901 requires
large stock of faith-that the Cars
present assurance has some chance Of
fulfilment, what, as matter of fact,
does he pledge himself TO do? He says
that, at some date not fixed, he W Il con-
woke the worthiest men possessing tie
confidence of the people, and elected by
them, 10 participate in the elaboration
and consideration Of legislative meas
llres He does not say how they are to
be elected, whether by universal or by a
restricted suffrage nor how they are
to sit, whether together, or in the tradi-
tlonal four orders or estates into which
the Zemsh Sober was distributed He
does not say that the peoples represen-
tatiyes are 10 be intrusted with the
framing Of an organic law or Constitu-
ton, which could only be abrogated or
amended by the power which called it
into being. He merely promises that
they shall participate in the considera-
ton Of such legislative measures as
heretofore have been formulated by
executive fati that is TO say, they are
to constitute a consultative, not law
making body. They may advise, but
not decree. Every law will continue TO
derive its exclusive sanction from the
sovereigns will.
II follows. or il is presumed TO follow
That what the Car may consent to do
to-day, in compliance with the counscls
or wishes Of the Peoples representa-
yves he may undo tomorrow, when
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The Star spanrled Banner.

Resolutions p0ised unanimously ~ re 'r'''i
House o. RtprSsenidftSr
Whereas In certain school books c'r.4sf-
use In the public schools OF the State tle nh' '-
anthem. This star Spanged Bannsg. ia' Yfs"
changed and mutilGtcd 10 suit me v-'A Ah4
caprices Of certain critics and
whereas the immortal verses of Fran. Is 't
Key are dear 10 the American hear and
forever tnshrined In the hearts 90 t.r A.
people and the children OF or schools
noble sentiments inculcated into u- f''r: t1
erauon: therefore. be Il
Rcsarrd ~ the House Of Reprrsr-'h'
Senate conouuing. that none OF tbe rt' '9-,
alluded 10. which contain the mu'Nats1 -f'' '
the national anthem, be permitted " ~ ''
TO circulate In the public schools Of indiana 1.'
that the state BOARD OF Education Q, hereby
stmoted to take proper action 10 Zoe ls'''
prevent the use OF such booA, IN iue p-t.
Of thu State and that the CLERK 90 %
hereby Instructed 70 furnish crr''.
this resolution to the chairman OF %.
OF Education
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INTERPARLIAuENTARY rNIoy.
American Members to Present Propositions
10 the Brussels Conferences

WASHINGTON, March e-The American
group Of the Interparliamentary Union
for the promotion OF international arhtra.
ton to-day directed Representative Richard
Bsrtholdt of Missouri, its president, to
select representatives to attend the general
conference TO be held in Brussels next Ser.
TENDER. 1t was also decided that the
American representatives shall present thfea
propositions to the union:
First. that the South and Central Amed.
can States be in yited to become participants
in the Interparliamen'ary Union.
Second, that the Hague Court shall be
granted jurisdiction through international
treaties over certain questions Of arbltra.
ton.
Third, that n basis OF representation in
the international congress shall he decided
upon.
President Bartholdt will this week
announce the names and number ~ the
American Delegates TO the Brus,e', con.
ference.
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The most important diplomatic Office in
tho gift of the Presldent-that Of Ambassa
dor Extraordinary and Plenipotenuary 70
Great Britain-was bestowed yesterday uph
the Hon. WHITELAw REID.
We believe that The Sun was the first
newspaper, months ago, TO indicate the
probability and proprety Of this appoint
mcnt and we wish to be among the first TO
felioitate Mr.. REID upon his opportunity to
exercise again in this special field Of public
usefulness the distinguished talents which
made him one of the notable figures in the
long line Of our Ministers 10 France.