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Impeachment by n Squeak.

Dec 10, 1904. tho House of Representa-
tives had without careful examination
of the facts, 30 strong an impression that
Judge SwAYNE OF the Federal Northern
District of Florida ought TO be inn
peached that his few friends did not
dare to ask for yea and nay vote on
the general resolution for impeachment.
In the ono test vote Of that day tho i'm
peachers were 1903, the anti-impeachers
el The general opinion OF the House
sustained the Committee on Judiciary,
which had unanimously recommended
Impeachment.
Jan. IS, 1905, the strongest charge
made against Judge SwAYNE, that OF
overcharging expenses, was sustained
by a vote of 1875 to 50. The majority for
prosecution had sunk from 1877 TO 9, and
without hot craftsmanship, pride OF opinion
and reluctance to confess being IN the
wrong that majority would have been
turned into minority.
The Committee on Judiciary had made
hasty report. The House had acted
precipitately Respect and credit arc
due to members who, like the Hon.
CHARLES EDGAR LITTLEFIELD of Maine.
had rather be right than consistent in
the wrong. Mr.. LITrLEFIELD, who had
joined in the report OF the Judiciary
Committee became convinced OF lis
error and made powerful and convinc-
ing argument against his earlier con-
clusions. Other members showed tho
same spirit Of fairness. The weakness
of the case against the Judge became
clear The remarks OF Mr.. BEDE Of
Minnesota, a gentleman who seems I'M
fortunate when he leaves his accustomed
sphere of humor, illustrate the tenuity
and insncerity of the reasoning, or want
of reasoning, by which some of the anti
Swayne men were influenced. Mr. BEDE
said ne was mot lawyer but just
plain American. Apparently plain
American who is wrong must stay
wrong AS a plain American Mr.
BEDE asked Mr.. GILLETT Of California
if he wasn't in favor of impeachment
when the resolution was reported Mr..
GILLETT made this manly reply
II the gentleman Is plain American let him do
VIVA, be would want another plain American to do
20 him II havo madc mistake thank GoD
have the courage and manhood TO do what can
TO repair the effects Of that mistake
Consideration of the national dignity
and honor demands that impeachment
proceedings should not be undertaken
lightly They have been OF extreme
infrequency in the history Of the United
States. and they have seldom been
successful.
The most serious charge made against
Judge SwAYNE is ridiculous and trivial
That it should have been entertained
shows curious ignorance Of custom and
a pragmatcal and provincial spirit No
body expects that Judge SwAYNE will be
found guilty. The country is to be put
to considerable expense just because
certain Representatives will not own that
they have made a mistake.
In short, the Impeachment Is not
serious. 1t is essentially a humbug.
Viii it produce another crop of i'm
parchment eloquence'?
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Sr0P TEMPTING mr.. GROUT.
Is the Suggestion the c. y. Reform Asso-
cIatlnn Arrives Al.

When Comptroller Grout appointed to
place in the Finance Department e1-Civil
Service Commissioner McCooey, who was
dismissed by Mayor Mcclellan for violating
the spirit of the Civil Service law, the Clyil
Service Reform Association condemned the
appointment as public scandal and ap-
pointed committee TO investigate this and
other appointments made by Mr.. Grout.
The protested purpose was TO prepaSf
charges against him OF using his Office Tor
political purposes
The report of the committee was made
public Yesterday. 1t is in the form Of q
Communication to the Municipal Civil
Service Commission and in effect recon-
mends that as far "a possible the exempt"
positions in the city service should be done
away with There is no suggestion that
charges should be brought against MIR.
Grout Mr. Grout wrote 10 the committee
defending his action in appointing men
who were in political sympathy with him.
Tho committee dlsagrees with this view
and says
Removals BY one head Of city department
followed by prompt appointment OF the
DISCHARGED officials to p bile place by the head
10 public dccencY. and are likely also TO be
in fact " hat they naturally seem TO be Incl
dents ~ "a personal or fractional political
quarrel IN Whic the good OF the public service
either side OF the contest The spirit
animating tho letter Of the Comptroller Is but
an additional iink in the chain OF te9iimony
TO tho demorHi1inR enect upon the pubic
exempt nlaces at the disposition oil any Sp-
pointing OIL pr.
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AN. wren HAZEL co. FAILS.
Minority Stockholders Get Possession and
IL Goes Into Bankruptcy.

The American Witch Hazel Company OF
22o-240 Broadway, which was organized
In February, 1908, with a capital stock OF
81 900 600. Is in financial difficulties. Deputy
Sheriff Murray put a keeper in the store
yesterday on two executions aggregaung
sos 4P. NJ Lesser Bros. filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy against the company
for the following creditors, Eugene W.
Dunstan. So Schiefeln 4 Co.. s870. and
Orlando II. Jadwin, S2il, all for drugs,
II was alleged that the company IA in
solvent, suffered the Whiting Paper Com e
pany 70 obtain preference by a judgment,
paid 81 900 TO former officers of the com
pany and paid 800 10 /. Huhn.
Judge Holt Of the United States District
Court appointed Ferdinand A. Hoyt. Jr
receiver of the assets. with a bond of 5000.
Mr.. Hoyt will continue the business for
the present.
The company took on the business OF
the American Witch Hazel Corporation,
and Charles G. Dickinson became presi-
dent. The trouble in the concern is said
20 be the elimination OF long fight among
the stockholders, which has been III the
courts President Dickinson was finally
ousted and new president was elected
few days ago J.. T.. Hand the former
treasurer said yesterday that the liabilities
are between $4,000 and $50 eco and tho
assets probably from $1,000 10 SIS. 600.
Theodore Prince. attorney for the com
pany, said that the minority stockholders
who had now got possession Of the com
pany had found on making an ,eXamina-
ton Of its affairs that II was bankrupt.
The company's plant at Chester Commons
was damaged by fire in February, 1904. Mr..
Hand said $40 600 insurance had been COL
lected and the stockholders wanted to know
what had been done with the money.
creditors petition in bankruptcy has
been filed against Harris and Nathan
LAnetzky, composing the firm Of II. Linetzky
4 Son, Wholesale dealers in paper, paper
bags and Irvine, at SO Bowery
Herbert Hall Winslow, q playwright
residing in New Rochelle, has filed petit
ton In bankruptcy with liabilities $3.50
and assets sls cash in bank. Most of the
debts were contracted as a partner in tho
late firm of Miner, Winsow i Wilson.
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LamcntabIe "Commonncss OF Common
Sailors and Soldiers.

To THB EDITOR or The STUNT; Your editorial
on Soldiers, Sailors and Snohs- dcvotes entirely
too much attention to some mythical common
ness Of the non commissioned uniform In the eyes
OF the people and altogether 700 little attention to
the very non mythical "oommonness" OF the wear
ers OF the uniform.
Brother Klpllngs declaration that the black
guard is the hes, possible material for the pro-
ducion OF the perfect soldier viii ever stand ~ the
opinion Of an expert, and think may extend the
assertion far 70 declare that no "genilemanly"
man. wars man ever existed outside the covers OF
the Dab Ballads"
The noblcst hero that ever pulled the tongue out
OF some accursei Spanish mouth might stArtle a
LADY on thr other side % the Old Point Comfort
hotel dining table ny Invading the onnce In his
own countensnce with pea loaded knife blade
and quick non b, role guest might acquire In the
hotel pAror mos, awful pain in the head from the
recital. In rum scented cNplctives and tobacco
unctured profanity. Of deeds OF doing and daring
that might well turn the tide Of any war
The writer encountered a heroic sailor once.
II was In q parlor on the way from Washington.
II was IN tre administering days before the Spanish
war and he was petty officer He knew no fear.
and his life at his adopted eounirys call
AT moments notice yet he took or his shoes
In the paror car and put his wooen stock
nged feet up on the back OF the easy chair Of the
passenger In front OF him. No SNoB.
NEW NOHK Ian. 10.
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DIPLOMATIC STATE DINNER.
The President ana Mrs. Roosevelt Enter
tain the Foreign Representatives.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 1e-The diplomatic
state dinner, given by the President and
Mrs Roosevelt at the White House to-
night was attended by sixty guests. They
included the Russian Ambas 'ador and
Countess Cassini, the Mexican Ambassador
the Italian Ambassador and Baroness
Mayor des Planches the French Ambas-
sador and Mime. Jusserand. the British
Arnbaesa Tor and Lady Durand. the Minis
ters of Sweden and Norway, Costa Rics.
Nicaragua. Japan. Spain. Portugal. China,
Guatemala Turkey and Brazil. the Haytian
Minister and stme. Leger, the Belgian
Minister and Baroness Moncheur, the Gillian
Minister and Madame de Walker Martinez
the Cuban Minister and Madame de Que
sada the Netherlands Minister and Madame
de Mares van Swinderen, the Bolivian Nil
of Panama and Madame de Obaldi the
Charge d'Afrares Of Germany. the Charge
d'Afaires Of Colombia and Madame de Perez
Tnano and others OF Charge rank. the Sec
ie'ary Of State and Mrs. Hay. Senator and
Mrs. Cuilom the Bishop of Massa chusetts
and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs Cornelius
Vanderbilt of New York. Col. and Mrs. A
c. Tyler Mrs. w. s. Cowles. Miss Roosevelt,
Miss Isabella Selmes Miss LorTain Roosevelt,
Miss Eleanor Whteridge. Miss Corinne
Robinson and Miss Laura Chanler. who
are house guests Of Miss Roosevelt, and
Major Charles l.. McCawley.
Mrs. Roosevelt's dress was Of black net
pal.etted with smoked pearls. Miss Roose-
welt wore yellow silk trimmed with lace
and chiffon.
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Folly Som c times Incxpcdient.

Admitting for the moment that the
present Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is TO be clothed with the rate-maldns
power and that the plan now before Con-
gress and imputed to President RoosE-
WELT is enacted into law, it is entirely
permissible 20 inquire whether any ade-
quate provision or any provision at all
ID made therein for the rights Of labor.
Admitting that it is just and equitable
ethat the rights Of property should be
ignored and that the welfare OF the
savings banks and OF kindred vehicles
Of the thrift of all the people should be
dismissed as Of no concern, IS it wise to
ignore and wholly disregard the wage
Garner?
II ia all very well for an intelligent
press imperiously to demand cheap coal
and TO advocate the hanging of coal
operator for refusing to raise the pay oil
his miners. The principle is admirable,
and we arc now in the full enjoyment
of its application That is, we, the pub
lie. having taken q warm and sympa-
thetic interest in the coal agitation, and
having had n controlling effect on its
adjustment. are now paying for the same
out of our own pockets. That this is so
is perfectly right ard logical. but of ar
gument most improbable. When the
owner of the coal refuses to part with
it unless he ia paid for it, and the man
who mines It has to have his price, the
function of the public is to pay.
-. .. 80 l,, flrNaIo r-bn
10 pay? Assurcdly it is not the public
When Mr. ROOSEVELT establishes the
rates that the public is to pay for trans
portation and organized labor demands
more wages, whore is the money to come
from? There is no public in sight to pay
for its sentimcntality in hard cash as We
now pay in hard cash for every ton of
coal we burn. Organized labor can
whistle for its wages, 1t will obviously
be impossible for the railroads TO comply
with labor's demands, because they will
no longer have the money at their com
mand The rates hich the shippers
OF freight, who in the proposed legisa-
ton are the whole public, have had
created for their benefit will absorb all
the profits of heretofore, and there will
be nothing left for tho coming require
ments of labor.
From this it must appear that tho
legislation demanded by Mr.. ROOSEVELT
is essentially class legislation and Of a
kind that will surely produce the most
embarrassing results. The men who
work for the railroads and who depend
on them for their living constitute very
large class If the public pays the rail-
roads a billion of dollars in the next
twelve months six hundred millions Of it
will go, directly or indirectly, to labor.
We do not dispute the proposition in
the light of the law or the Constitution,
which all sensible men regard as obsolete,
but we do most ,trenuously object on the
score of eXpediency.
Would it not be moro expedicnt to
enforce the laws we have than to ly to
others that we wot not Of?
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S. c. r. DODD RESIGNS.
Standard OIL Company AFTER Many Years
Has New Solicitor.

new sign was painted recently on the
glass OF the door Of the main entrance to
the Standard OILS legal department on
the fourteenth floor of its building at 30
Broadway The sign says that NJ. F.
Elliott is the general solicitor. Lee w. Dodd,
the assistant attorney and 5. c.. T. Dodd
counsel for the company.
This means that s. c. T Dodd has desk
in the Office Of the company and may be
called upon at any time for advice, but
that he practically has retired from bust
ness. Until few weeks ago Mr.. Dodd was
the general solicitor but he resigned be-
cause OF i'll health, due to his ceaseless
activity and his age, which will be 90 next
month.
Mr. Dodd's resignation took effect on
Jan. !. but the public was not officially in
formed OF 1t until yesterday. Mr. Dodd
has been with the Standard Oil Company
forty years. siK Of hich were spent in the
oil regions Of Penns 'lvania and the rest
in New York. He organized the Standard
Oil Trust in 1882. At a later reorganiza-
ton under his direction the trust assumed
its present title.
His successor. Mr.. Elliott. like Mr.. Dodd,
il a native OF Pennsylvania. He served
a term a. CouErsssInan-nt- iHrge from that
State and was a member Of its last con-
stitutional convention. he mas been
fifteen years with the company in this
city and was until recently assistant attor
new TO the company. His place ia taken
by s. c. 7 Dodds son. Lee ". Dodd, who
has been with the company about two
years.
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TRIP OF FURNACEyILLE'S HEAD.
Gone to South America With n Yachting
Party to Open a street Car Plant.

The 100 foot ocean going yacht Mar
garet, owned by Isaac T. Emerson OF Bal
timore, the bromo settler man, left the
Battery last night bound for Rio Janeiro
with a party headed by w. j. Van Brunt,
president Of tho Furnaceville Iron Com
pany and the St Joseph and Grand Island
Railroad Accompanying him were Otto
Won Schrader, n st. Louis capitalist. and
E. I. Robinson OF the ST. Louis Car Com
pany.
While the trip is partly for pleasure, Mr..
Van Brunt will represent George II kc-
BUSCH president Of the st. Louis Car Com
pany. In opening up a street cur manu-
featuring plant in Rio Janeiro, to handle
the compenys business in South America
The St. Louis company at present controls
the bulk OF the South American trade in
street cars but has become dissatisfied
with the present plan Of building the cars
here and shipping them to points where
they are TO be used.
Last summer Mr., Van Brunt represented
Z. II. Hartman as chairman Of the New
York State Commission at the st. Louis
exposition, and there became acquainted
with the members OF the Brazilian COM
mission. Through Commodore Carvalho,
one of the members Of the commission,
an invitation has been extended TO Mr.
Van Brunt and his party 10 visit President
America. President Alyes is greatly in
terested In the opening OF car manu-
featuring plant in Brazil.
DR.. Dahne, a Brazilian mining engineer,
who has been in st. Louis, is returning
home on the Margaret. and DR.. Thurlow
w Reed late house surgeon at Bellevue
Hospital is accompanying the party. The
trip will last ten weeks.
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nIonrR TUITION Ar YALE.
Increase TO he Asked TO Overcome tn
Deficit In the Cost OF instruction


NEW HAVEN, Jan. io.-Presldent Hadley Of
Yale said to-day that an Increase in tuition
at Yale seemed to be certain and that this
increase would 60 into effect soon, Yale
1t was said unoffioially, had not been re-
oeiving in tuition fees within good many
dollars from each student what his tuition
cost the university, and the problem OF
making up this deficit had been under con-
sideration for some time among the Yale
officials
President Hndlcy said to-day that there
had been an exchange of letters between
Yale and Harvard officials on tho increase
OF tuition. Harvard5 deficit last year for
tuition was about $4,000. Yale was short
about the same amount. Yale has raised her
tuition fees twice during the last twenty
FIVE years. once in 1855, when the charge
was raised $40. and again In 1855, when It
was raised IS more.
Last year Yale paid ont in the academic
department about $1,000 per student N
salaries OF instructors The same students
paid back for tuition an average 81 slb2i
In the scientific school sl3s.o2 was paid to
instructors and Sl3j.7S for tuition
A report FROM an apparently authoritative
source has it that there will bo reductions
in some Of the salaries Of teuchers and that
these reductions. coupled with the Increase
IN tuition fees, will undoubtedly be sufficient
to prevent further deficit in the teaching
work at Yale
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4 Lamcntable Event.

Every Republican who loves his party,
every lawyer who honors his profession.
every Judge who glorics in the unsoiled
crmine of the bench, every patriotic
and law abiding citizen will deplore
The action of the State Bar Assoc
citation, which by bare majority of
four votes decided on Wednesday not
to proceed further against Supreme
Court Justice WARREN r. HOOKER
though it's own subcommittee had
recommended that further invcstiea-
ton be had by the Legislature before
n tribunal having compulsory process ."
To be precise the vote 10 send the SUBJ
committees report against Justice
HOOKER TO tho Legislature for further
investigation was beaten by lOl noes to
o. ayes.
Few citizens Of New York arc so blind
rs not to view with apprehension the
consequences Of this action by the lOl
members of the State Bar Association.
1t matters little whether the friends of
Justice HooKER packed" the meeting
in his interest, as charged Neither ia it
OF BTpdA IupIltHL l44dl dtllNe IuctnDcTS
OF tho Republican State organization
turned the meeting into political gath
ering and by their course prevented
calm and deliberate decision concerning
the recommendation OF the sub-com-
mittee to tho association. The wrong
that has been done has been done 10 the
people of the State of New York. to the
great Republican party Of the State, TO
the upright Judges and lawyers of the
State to tho great profession OF tho
law; and as to Justice HOOKER himself,
to the end Of his days he will be unable
to escape the consequences Of tho igno-
minous vote OF the l0l
On Nov. 20. 1908, JOSEPH L. BRIsTow,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Generalu I'M
der President MCKINLEY and President
ROOSEVELT. submitted report charg-
ing wholesale corruption and fraud in the
Department and duplicating many well
known officeholders.
Gen. BRIsTow's report directed atten-
ton to Justice HOOKER 5 connection with
the Post Office Department because Of
the increased rental from $3.50 to 81 900
year on the Dunkirk, y. Y, post Office
building, owned by the Justice and
HooKER's friends, including LESTER +.
sTEARNs. Gen. BRIsTow added that no
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Tic ExtensIon of Our Cotton Trade.

Mr. MCLAURIN's argument for an in
crease Of our sales Of cotton to China
is sound China now imports S43, 100000
worth Of cotton yarn and thread
and $50 100000 worth of cotton cloth.
She ought to import very much more,
and our sales to her should greatly ex-
coed the present total Of only sl3,0OOOO0
year But other fields for cotton sales
also lie open in which there is less re-
sstance to be overcome.
Philippine imports of cotton cloth
and other cotton wares amounted TO
total of .33 ,slO99S in the last five years,
yet our share OF this trade was only
N.1s4,s78 Cuba imports between &c.
100000 and 100000 worth of manu-
featured cottons yearly, and American
merchants secured last year only about
10 per cent of that trade under tariff
rates virtually dictated in their interest
by an American expert.
1t is true, as Mr.. MCLAURIN says that
we sold tho raw cotton to people who
sold the manufactured goods in fields
which should be our own. England
sold one-half Of the total purchases Of
the Philippines, and the remainder of
the trade was divided among dozen
other countries. We sold last year a
little more than $50 600 coo worth of cot
ton goods. In competition with Cana
dian mills and with England we sold in
Canada nearly three times az much
manufactured cotton az we sold to the
Philippines in five years and about four
times as much as we sold to Cuba under
a reciprocity treaty specially framed to
our advantage We sold nearly sl9, OO0.-
600 worth to China in open competition
with all corners. We sold from $4,000
to 81 600 900 worth to the Argentine, 10
Brazil, Chile and Colombia, and smaller
amounts to other South American coun-
tries We sold 100000 worth to Cen
trail America and $500 900 worth to South
Africa. In none of these countries, eI-
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A Protest From q Prominent Citizen OF
Washington County.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SrN--Sir: Your
many friends here In Washington county
are always Interested In the articles that APP
pear from time n time in your paper.
The site for thu hospital for the insane,
wAi.h. through tho manipulatious Of our
noble Governor and the Hon. Y Baker
and. as We suppose the Delaware and
Hudson Railroad. seems TO be for the present
located at Comstock. most desolate place
away 10 one side aud without any attrac tons
or convenienccs. distant from any city or
village a number Of niles. OF all the sites
that have been under consideration here In
our county every one admits this 70 be the
poorest OF all.
our people are stirred up and hope that
war may be waeed upon this movement and
Il change brought about whereby the State
and tho public and Rensselaer,. Washington
and Saratoga counties may be the better &C
commodated.
We hope you will DIR this subject in order
that the people may know that this gigantic
fraud upon the taxpayers Of this state and
upon this community. all for the benefit Of a
few individuals. shall be shown up in It's
proper light JEROME p. RICE.
CAMBRIDGE. " Y. Jan. 49,
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oepting Cuba, have we any treaty ad-

oepting Cuba, have we any treaty ad-
vantage over our competitors.
During tho fiscal year, 1908 England
exported cotton goods OF all varieties
70 the value of 1858, 23l 800. During the
same year tho United States exported
1872 ,2l8,304 worth, which is 81 $4,000 less
than was exported by Switzerland and
s25OO,oOO less than the export of France
Germany exported tSo,OO0Oo0 worth.
Out OF total trade of 800, 100000 worth
Of cotton cloth alone the United States
sold little more than $4,000 900, or
about 81 per cent.
Mr.. MCLAURIN's argument that 70
extend our cotton markets we need TO
improve our transportation facilities
and develop our maritime carrying trade
is also sound, and doubtless it will be
repeated at the New Orleans convention
of cotton growers with an emphasis
which will command the attention of
Congress