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news for us from the actual seat of ali
the trouble.
What's this-what's this" con-
tinues the Senator, taking up another
letter. Bless my soul: here's a young
lady in New York who wants my good
services to- find her a husband. Want
10 get married, DiCk?" and he losses
the note to his secretary.
do / look like a marrying man, sir?"
asked Dick
well, no. Dick, I wouldn't say that
matrimony WIS exactly in your line.
But you can't always tell how far a
frog will jump by looking at him.
Write the young woman that leap year
is due year after next. and give her
my blessing and the Senator plunges
a gain into his mail. He thoroughly en-
joys these few moments with his sec
rotary every morning before the Office
is besieged with visitors.
How many communications are
there from loyal Americans calling me
a coward because l refuse to let the
eagle scream and generally make a fool
Of himself"
only six this morning, bat one of
them calls you q liar and n thief, too"
They are calming down. It was
sixty day before yesterday, wasn't
it?" The Senator chuckled. His
chuckle comes from far down in his
throat and gives the impression that
he needs patting on the back. Suddenly
his eye was attracted to a plain en-
velope bearing only his name written
in an Enthusiastically foreign hand. 1t
was not lying with the rest of his mail.
1t had apparently been placed on his
desk by private messenger. The Sen
ator took It IN and read the fnscrip-
ton again. With his sharp paper
knife. stiletto taken in New York by
the police freRl member Of the in
famous Black Hand, he cut one end of
the envelope deliberately. Opening the
letter, which was in the same foreign
hand as the address. he read it slowly
once, then a second time. THIS is
what no read:
If the Senator Banghorne would learn
what 1t is 10 his benefit to know and
the benefit of the country he serves, let
him walk at 3 o'clock today on street
In the southeastern section of Washing
ton whose name is single number
which when inverted reads the same. At
its southern terminal is a Government
institution. Let him walk slowly along
this street between the points where Il
IL cut by two avenues one named for
the State In which was fought the most
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the Flames. +"

There was no doubt about his big
ness Even his political opponents
said he was the most influential man the
Senate chamber had held since the
days of Daniel Webster He was not
the brilliant debater, nor did he have
the classic style OF oratory for which
the grea Senator from Massachusetts,
was famous. But when he spoke others
listened. And what he said was to the
point
Ever since the close of the Chinese
ports Senator Langhorne had steadfast-
iy opposed any action on the part of the
United States in the east. The coun
try Is in no position to become en-
tangled. We must stand pat" he had
said to a frantic New York merchant
who saw his profits vanishing into thin
air. when an American ship had been
seized by an English cruiser and her
cargo taken as contraband Of war ana
thousands of men in the United States
were ready 10 go off at half-cock, he had
said wait, 1t was a mistake, England
can pay. And the country had obeyed.
As he put his gloves into his pocket
after carefully folding them his secre-
tary entered the room.
Good morning, Dick" said the Sena-
tor, "a little late, l take 1t, or an. !
early?"
You are early, sir, answered Dick
Hamlin, a tall. lank. lantern jawed EEL
low with a half quiZzical half humorous
face. Even as he spoke he had hung
up his coat and hat and slid into his
desk chair. He moved in jerks like a
marionette ~ overheard Senator King
discussing you when L sat In the lunch
room, yesterday He insinuated that you
would be FIVE minutes ahead of the rest
OF the crowd when the angel Gabriel
blows the trumpet on Judgment Day"
The Senator smiled slightly. He had
already seated himself at his desk and
was running quickly over his private
mail AS chairman or the oeuate Cum
mittee on Foreign Relations his mail
was even more voluminous than IL would
otherwise have been. He left nearly ali
Of his mail to his private secretary. But
there were a few letters whose appear.
ance showed plainly that they vert
private letters. How easy II Is TO deter
mine the character OF letter without
opening il The lean and hungry bill
does not need the letterhead in the up
per Ieft-hand corner OF the envelope to
explain Itself. The blue-tinted letter
with q back-handed scrawl the size Of
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century before. be was Still deliberate
even in trifies To be sure, it is in tri-
fles that man dscloses his real self.
unless he be q constant play actor. In
his deliberate way Senator Langhcrne
was swifter than most men Of action.
Beware of Jimmy Langhorne when he
is most deliberate. had said the law
yers when as a young man he practiced
before the New York bar Ease up
when Jimmy Langhorne goes slow was
the advice of the manipulators OF the
stock market when he had entered tie
realm of finance. So said his colleagues
in the United States Senate when he
never said q word for whole days on the
floor, but sat with an intent look on his
face while the most trivial matters were
discussed.
The sunshine fell directly on the Sena-
| tors face, his square chin and large
kindly mouth gave the impression that
he had gone through the world square
ly, with an honest deal for everyone
with whom he came In contact. AS a
loyal Langhorne mana New York
wharf rat-had said
"By the piper that played before Mos
es, the Odid Man couldn't steer moth
in bat a straight course with a bow Of
that cut.
The oid man" was the nickname his
friends delighted to give him. But the
| Senator was not old. not even elderly.
Tall and broad shouldered, not fat. bit
with comfortable covering to his bones
as BELTS every United States Senator, he
was still quick of foot. His iron gray
hair-a mop as the newspapers describ-
ed twas kept carefully trimmed, show
| ing his Eastern training. From over
| hanging shaggy brows his blue eyes
looked frankly out upon the world
Those blue eyes Were his youngest fea-
ture They looked rs innocent as the
eyes of a four-year old. There were
| times, however, wnen they changed 20
a steely gray. and it took a bold man
| to meet them squarely.
| The Senator might have been hand
some man, had it not been for his nose,
Dame Nature was up to her old tricks
when she planted on this otherwise al
most perfect man a nose with a decided
snub 1t was not a small nose, but il
certainly tilted upward. and was the
| delight of the cartoonists in the coun-
try. AS leader of his party in the Sen
| ate, and out of 1t, Senator Langhorne
was naturally mark for every cartoon
| ist who put pen to paper.
No matter how atrocious the sketches
We're, he had never been known to be
made angry by them. when you are
big enough to be caricatured, let the
boys have their fun he had said
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famouS battle of the civil war and he
ether for a State one of whose bounda-
ries is the Potomac river.
If he has not forgotten an experience
he had in the ST. Petersburg when he
was ambassa Tor TO Russia he will know
from whom this letter comes
There was 40 signature. But down II
one corner was neatly drawn @ Maltese
cross.
All said the Senator to no one in
particular so they are in this Coun-
try" Crossing to the open fire place
on which log fire burned cheerily he
slowly tore the strange letter into small
bits between ais strong fingers and
cropped them into the flames.
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a house IS beyond doubt from a modern
girl. If the address is entirely illegible
it is dollars to doughnuts that the letter
is from the family physician or possibly
the family attorney.
"Humphr exclaimed the Senator as
he chances at letter written in "a
clear, round hand Billy Hale is due
in Washington tomorrow. You re-
member Hale. Dick. He has been in
the Philippines and Japan for the last
six months. He'll have some fresh
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Continued on Page Eleyen.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS.

The commission appointed by President Roose-
welt to Investigate the business methods in vogue
in the departments is paving the way for many
reforms and economies in administration. 1t
has already uncovered mismanagement and
waste in the Public Printers office, and it's final
report will doubtless contain recommendations
for curtailing the governments overlavish and
overcostly printed output. In another direction
the commission finds an equally inviting OppOr-
tunity for retrenchment. 1t has been lnvesti-
eating the supply accounts of the various de-
partments and has discovered that no two pur-
chasing agents pay the same price for ink, sta
tionery lead pencils, typewrters and other office
materials. The supply bureau giving the largest
order has usually made the best bargain; but
the bids accepted proposals for a stated artt-
Gle have fuctuated widely and sometimes al
most unaccountably. To stop these variations
and standardze the purchase of supplies the
commission will probably recommend the estab-
Iishment of a single central bureau to act as
purchasing agent for all the departments. Buy
ing material In large quantities and at the most
favorable rate possible, such a bureau would
save the government hundreds OF thousands of
dollars annually. besides avoiding the useless
MULTIPLICATION of labor encouraged by the pres
emf system of individual department purchasing
accounts.
The creation of such central bureau would
have another notable advantage. 1t would
bring the governments purchases of supplies
under the direct supervision of one responsible
official Hitherto no department has interested
itself in the bids Of another department. Each
has gone its separate way and made its own
terms with contractors. with the result that
might be paying twice as much for It's ink and
stationery as its fellow in the same block or
under the same roof No opportunity given
10 compare prices to regulate bids 1t was
under this system that Machen and Beavers be-
came for time the most powerful factors in
the Postofice Department. directing the pur-
chase of most of its supplies and managing its
business 10 their own profit. Isolation and indie
pendenCe gave them undue authority and nj
lowed them TO prosecute their schemes unde-
tected. In central office subjected 10 proper
control and inspection such manpuIations would
have been. if not impossible at least difficult
Our Washington dispatches suggest that the
new joint purchasing agency-If authorized by
Congress-will find its headqua rters In this civ
New-York is the natural market for most Of the
supplies the government needs and is also n
convenient centre of distribution for the terri
tory east of the Alleghanies. Under the old svs
TEN. II is charged. postoffice and other sunnlies
purchased here We're shipped III ousntities 20
Washington. only to be reshpped TO New-yorl,
and other points at needless double freight ond
express charges. Hundreds of thousands az
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
TIE BRIT1sHJAPAyEsE TREATY.

Lord Lansdowne is right in declaring that the
new treaty between Great Britain and Japan,
epoch making as it may SEEM rs an inter
national instrument to which no exception
'can be taken by any of the powers interested
lin the affairs of the Far East Or, II that
sweeping statement is to be qualified in any
way, it must be by adding that exception, II
taken must be upon n ground which it is diff
cult to imagine any well disposed power de-
string or being willing TO occupy.
For what are the provisions of the treaty.
The instrument is so brief, so direct and eX-
piclt in phrases and so free from the equivocal
circumlocuti0n in which some treaties have
abounded that there can be no mistake as to
its purport Great Britain and Japan are under
it allied for certain specific purposes. The first
is the maintenance of peace in Eastern Asia
Surely there is no power that will object TO
that; not Russia. which has just been glad to
make peace after finding her breach of 1t so
disastrous: and not America, which has taken
the initiative in the restoration of peace; nor,
indeed any of the powers which have so re-
Gently Signified their readiness to meet at Inc
Hague in another Worlds Peace Congress
The second purpose is the maintenance of the
integrity of China and the open door. We can
not Imagine that any power will dissent from
that policy. which under American leadership
was a few years ago formally approved by
them all. We cannot imagine any power de-
claring that it objects to this treaty because
of a desire to despoi China or to exclude other
powers from equal privileges in Chinese mar
kets. The third and final purpose is to pro-
tect the existing territorial and politically inter
ests of the two signatory powers in the status
quo. That surely is reasonable and just-for
these two powers to desire to keep their pos
sessions undisturbed and to form an alliance
TO that end
There is in the treaty a scrupulous avoidance
of ANYTHING that could be construed as
menace to any other power. Indeed. there is
one of the strongest of guarantees against such
menace and against any wanton or rash aS-
erosion For each of the two is fully pledged
TO take the other into its confidence in all for
eign relations affecting the subjects of this
treaty and to take no action. whether for war
or for alliance without consulting the other.
If there is still any one who imagines Japan
Is about 70 begin a course of wild aggression,
let him consider how slight would be its
chance of getting British assent thereto The
constrained unity of action between the two
powers almost UNNECESSARILY decreases the
possibility of others taking any serious ac-
ton on injudicious or insufficient grounds IL
is the strongest possible guarantee of cOnserva-
tism and of Justice We shall expect TO see
the treaty greeted with approval by the world.
AS for the United States it enters into no such
alliances. but, since its neighbOrs do so. 1t !
profoundly gratif1ed TO see them make treaty
SO admirably designed to promote the ends of
peace, of international justice and Of humane
civilization.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
An,uSenleTfS.

ACADEMY OF MUsIc-s:i5-'way Down East
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
SELASCO-S-Adree.
BIJOU-S:15-The Music Master.
BRoADwAY-S:16-T Pearl and the pumpkin
Vaudeville.
C7sITE,RION-S:2o-lTer Great Match
DAILY s-S:15-The Catch of the season
EDEN NUSEE--World in Wax.
EMPIRE-S:20-De L.sncey.
GARRICk-S:1 5-You Never Can Tell.
HAMMERSTEIN'S NICDOSlA--2-S:Ao-- suSeNl,Ie;
HARLEM OPERA -Hiegiedy-Pisgledy ana
The College Whoever. -,
aIPPODROME-Day Evening" Yankee circus on
Mars The Raiders.
KUDSON-S Conan ano Superman.
KNICK ERBOCKER-S:l S-Miss Dolly Doliafe .,.- ,-i,h
LEW FIEIsDS'-S-The Music Master, IN conneS""h "'
Il Happened in No-dlan6 ,,.-z
I.IBERTY-S:15-The Rogers Brothers In lrslaho
LYCEUM-S:SG-JuSt Out Of College
IYRIC-S:Ib-Fanans
MADISON SoUAPF-s:I6-The Prince Chap. -
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN-l1 a m 10 ~ p III"
Exposition.
MAJFSTTc-s:I5-The Duke Duluth.
NANHAT~r AN-S:1S-Leah Kleschne
N-AAISTERDAk--S-The Proosa son.
>Ew-yORK-S:I5--The Han Tree.
PEINCsEsSS-S.l5-Zira
PRocToR's SFIFTH AVENUE The Sporting DHcREsS
FIFTY EIGHTH STREET-YandeylIe sTta+ros,
DRED-AND- TNENTY-FIFTH SlftF1ss1 a., Ni''-
Nesf-TWENTY- THIRD STESEEI-NahoeNiAe-
SAEQY-2-S -20-WaliS Of Jericho
NALI4ACR' IS: 20-Easy Dawson.
WEST END-S-The Errand BOY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
PARTY POLICY ON RATES.

Just why should Mr.. Bryan's support of rate
1egisation be an obstacle to straightforward
and sound treatment Of the subject by the Re
publican party, some Republicans fear 1t may
be? The Republican party does not abandon
wise measures merely because some political
ppponent is clever enough TO see their wisdom.
It is to be hoped that we have got by the con-
-eption of craftsmanship which enabled Van
ruren to walk out Of the Senate after having
vainly endeavored TO defeat President Adams's
roIicy of sending a mission to South America
cvuicaIIv boasting that II the administration
had taken the opposite course and refused tho
mission he would have succeeded in beating il.
-rhe Republican party does not take its instruc-
lions from Mr. Bryan or from Democratic state
platforms. II it did. all Democrats would have
=, do to run the government would be to pass
asolntions commencing the policies they did
al ike and the Republicans in control of the
,vernment- according TO this theory would
reeI obliged 10 avoid them as Of Democratic
origin.
Senator Foraker 20 whom is attributed re-
s,onsibilJtv for this doctrine Of contraries does
not saw any such thing. In asserting his right
n independent judgment on so important Il
measure he saws: 1.-The question is not party
..o,,estion. or If it is it is Democratic propo-
..sition which has had Mr.. Bryan for its chief
s.advocate for number Of years. That is
o,,ite different from saying that Republicans
must rot favor il because 1t has Democratic sup
mort II is not a party question concerning
,rbich Republican sentiment is so settled ana
penuhlican policy so explicitly and authorize
lively declared that support of any definite line
of LEGISLATION is a test of party loyalty. Every
lawmaker should study the question and reach
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h,s own conclusions and freely express them.
Senator Foraker deserves credit Tor MS sCaight-
forxxard course n is much better for the party
and much more friendly TO the PRESIDENT IMAM
the policy of pretended support or some meas
,,,o of ratio LEGISLATION which he is supposed TO
favor sccomDanfed by secret efforts TO block It,
Nobodv who believes in the desirabilty or
rate legislation thinks that the perfection OF
r,,sdopo hoe been reached. What we want IS
nor nsrticnlar hill because some Republican
nronosed II or because a Republican platform
contained resolution forecasting it. we want
hill which. after discussion, seems best
sdspted TO the needs of the country, and there
fore wins the confidence of Republican law
makers. Certainly legislation along that line
cannot be made un-Republican by democratic
endorsements IF 80, the Republicans should
have repudiated sound money principles as soon
as Democrats in shoals flocked to their support
At the last session of Congress all but handfW
of the Republicans in the House supported the
Esch-Townsend bill and their action gives such
a measure as much title to be considered Repub-
lican in character as the expressions or Mr..
BRYAN and the Ohio Democratic convention
give authority to set it down as exclusively
Democratic.
That a policy of such far reaching Importance
should be adopted without differences of opin-
ion which cross party lines is not TO be ex-
rected Every issue raises such differ
ences But the Republican party has hitherto
been able and doubtless will now be able, to
meet such issues in "A sane and progressive
spirit without any split. Debate is not division.
and divergence of views in discussion is not
factionism.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

From Tho Tribune BuTeauI
Washington Sept 27-Baron Rosen' the RUSSIAN
Ambassador accompanied by Baroness Rosen ana
Baroness Elizabeth Rosen. their daughter VIII ar
rive in Washington on Saturday from Coohuse
Point. Magnolia. Mass. where they spent '''e
summer. go. L..
Nine. Quesada, wife of the Cuban Minister' mas
reached washington. accompanied by her chLiol on
She was seriously iii during her absence III EuIope
this simmer and is still in delicate health thoueh
much improved by some weeks spent In the CA'S'4i
Mountains since her return to this country
s C1urgeI do Amaral, newly made secretary Oh liie
Brazilian Embassy has arrived in Washington TO
assume care Of the affairs of his country until the
arrival Of the Ambassador, Joaquin NaDuco' anu
his wife which will be in the near iu'uie
Amaral is accompanied by his wlfe.
Senior Don Jorge Munoz, the Minister AiO'i-
Guatemala has returned to his legation heauQn" a-
ters at the Arlington from visit to Atlanuc Cits'
General Morteza Khan, the Minister from FeiS'A'
has returned to Washington from his summer Vace
tion He has changed his legation 10 NO, 80
1otb-st a house much better adapted to the display
NJ hfs clrios
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-28
Netu:}1nrk DAILY 0ribn1te
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER IS, 1905
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREIGN.-About fifty persons were injured
In rioting between Socialists and members OF
the Coalition parties at Budapest - Inc
committee of the Hungarian Coalition party
issued a manifesto which maintained that
parts Of the King-Emperor's programme were
Unconstitutional - The Zemstvo Congress
demanded sweeping reforms in the Department
of Justice and discussed proposal for auton-
or1y among all nationalities in the empire -
Advices from St Petersburg say that alarm Is
shown regarding the new treaty Of alliance pc
tween Japan and Great Britain - Inc Aush
Line has decided to suspend temporarily It's SER
vice to this city, owing to inability TO get pier.
- Damage estimated at $4,000 done by
q fire at Colon; no property belonging 10 the
United States was destroyed - NJ LoeVlahu,
Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs, SAID that
the nation would soon ask recognition from lne
powers; he discussed the possibility Of a repuo-
Iican form of government.
Observation-Disclosures Taft and party ar
rived at San Francisco from their trip to the
orient: he spoke at length OF his observations
while abroad. = Speaker S. Fred Nixon was
no worse, and physicians at Westheld. \. u
held out some hope OF recovery. =. Mrs Inc
odore Roosevelt left Boston for Oyster Bay
- Cincinnati woman was ordered 10 pay
aIimony to her husband. who sued for divorce
- Carroll D. Wright, Commissioner OF La
Dor, said, at Atlantic City, that he did not ex-
pect q strike Of the coal miners next spring
- NO progress was reported by the Boston
police in the investigation Of the dress suit case
mystery.
CITY-stocks were dull and irregular. -
Testimony before the insurance investigation
committee showed that the Equitable had sew
eral yellow dog funds. that officials of the
society participated in the profits Of syndcates
for which the society advanced the money, and
that loan was made in the name OF a 5000 q
year clerk. 80 Wheeler H Peckham. the emil
1lent 1urist died in his Office at No. so Broadway
from apopfexy. N. White and Baron Ko-
rnura received the degree Of Doctor of Laws
from Columbia University. - Postmaster
Wilcox sent a sharp letter TO the contractor re-
Eponsible for carrying the mails. - j. May
hew Wainwright was renoninated for the As
senbly by the Republicans at White Plains.
- Chancellor MacCracken made the address
at the opening of New York Universitys year
- DR.. Parkhurst. home from Europe, decried
political graft" and raped Messrs Depew. Nc
who will sail for Panama to-day. told of his
plans. - The Episcopal Convention OF the
Diocese of New-York voted against division.
- All efforts to find Girard accused Of muir
dering girl in the Bronx, failed.
THE WEATHER-Indications for to-day:
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest, So
degrees; lowest, IS