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The Friendship of Lou Payn.

The President has suppressed Lou
PAYN before, but will probably overlook
the third term ebullition. AS for Mr..
PAYN, he is determined to go to the next
national convention as a Roosevelt dele
gate, and nothing will swerve him from
his choice.
After a visit to Washington in the
summer of 1904 Mr.. PAYN gave the Pres
ident a certificate Of party standing.
"The President, said he, 4has broadened
wonderfully in the last two years, and I
found him a better Republican
But the appreciation did not sink in
verydeep. When Columbia county gave
President ROOSEVELT only 1853 plurality,
as compared with 1,525 received by
WILLIAM MCKINLEY in 1900, Mr.. PAWN
resented the charge that he had not
worked Loyalty for the President. "You
will remember, he said, that for twenty
years l fought ROOSEVELT. AS recently
as the national convention l publicly
declared against his nomination" AL
though he had broadeued wonderfully?
So, even if Mr.. ROOSEVELT were a
candidate for a third term, he would not
expect Mr.. PAYN to pull him through in
the convention. AS he has emphatically
told Lou" that he would not be a a n
didate, he will be amused rather than
angry at this unsolicited championship.
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total popalaffon. Il would be q benefit TO
Brazil and 10 the rest Of the world Il this
number were several times multiplied.
The German settler is q thrifty and indus
trious soul. who contributes to both the
local development and the foreign COM
MERGE Of any land In which he sets up his
home. The menace TO American supremacy
in the western hemisphere through Ger
man colonization in Brazil Is not worthy OF
serious ~atteption. Arrivals from Portugal
and from Italy vastly outnumber the ar
rivals from Germany, and the more rapidly
Brazil's vast unoccupied area is filled by
industrious workers and home seekers from
anywhere the better will 1t be for all.
Year by year Brazil is getting to be q
better neighbor and q more important
factor In the industrial and commercial
world. 1t Is quite our own fault II we fail
to take advantage OF the opportunities
which grow put Of her development Per-
haps before the close Of the century Brazil
will have 100, 900 miles Of railway instead OF
her present 10000, and a population OF
70, 600, 900 instead Of her present IT 900 900.
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the Senate has probably ut least ak
weeks of hard work before adjournment
would be possible.
Public interest in this matter is dying
out, and there is good reason for the
subsistence. The country is beginning
to understand that the Hepburn bill is
not directed against those evils OF which
complaint was made with a demand for
remedy. 1t is beginning to realize that
the measure about which such a pother
has been made is not a response to the
demand that the highways Of commerce
be ';ept open to all on equal terms 1t
is beginning to see that the bill is not
calculated to remedy known and recog-
nized abuses. There has been NO proof
Of the occasional individual charge that
the country is robbed and it's interests
stifed by extortionate freight rates, n
there is a growing appreciation OF the
fact that the Hepburn bill does little else
than provide relief for individual shippers
who may think themselves o~veroharged
on their shipments. The interest Of the
country was excited in the beginning
by a demand for fairness and q square
deal, but that interest fades when tits
knownthat the present struggle involves
little more than a doubtful question
about the price to be charged and paid
for certain work and service.
As the days 60 by the temptation will
grow stronger and stronger to pass some
bill, any bill, for the sake of getting it
out Of the way. This should not be done.
We do not believe it will be done, even
though no decision is reached before
next December.
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y,ctimizins Public school teachers.

To THE EDITOR OF THB SUN-!Str: It was very
refreshing to read your editorial In this mornings
paper with reference to the action OF the president
OF the Board OF Education in preventing the COL
lection OF money for the San Francisco sufferers
through the public schools. OF course there arc
some reasons why this would be a good thing TO do;
but there are so many reasons for not doing II that
the action Is q wise one.
But there is a neld for action on the part OF tho
board that would be still better for them to take
COMPLIANCE OF; and that is the getting up OF sub
s~cr1ptions among the teachers for loving cups, 49,,
for principals, superintendents. DC.
1t occurs frequently that some self constituted
committee Of one or more takos II into his, her or
their minds that It would be q nne thing to give a
testimonial to q superior. and to this end imme-
diately circulates Q subscription list, We may
easily Imagine that many teachers give for fear
that a failure to do so may operate TO their dlsad-
vantage later on.
Suppress the miserable custom with q sttong
hand, and let such busybodles give " they want 10,
but not make II obligatory for others TO do so,
who may be unable, or who may prefer 10 spend
their money es they desire, and not through fear
Of being thought mean and stingy. II Of nothing
worse, 7. X.
NEW YORK, Apnl 20.
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Pan-America.

On May "a, 1888, the United States
Congress authorized President CLEvE-
LAND to invite the Governments Of Mex
leo, Central America, South America,
Haiti and Santo Domingo to hold a con-
ference in conjunction with the United
States for the purpose Of discussing
such matters Of common interest as
might be submitted for consideration.
The first Pan-American conference
opened in Washington on October 2,
1889, with the Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE,
then Secretary of State, occupying the
chair. Delegates to a second conference
assembled in the city Of Mexico in 0c-
tober, 1901. During the coming month
Of July Rio Janeiro will be the meeting
national conferences.
The purpose Of these gatherings was
concisely stated not long ago by his Elk
cellency JOAQUIN d, CAsAsUs, the Next
can Ambassador to the United States.
They are intended ito strengthen the
bonds which are to unite the nations Of
this hemisphere" Since the first con
ference our commerce with Latin Amer
lea has expanded, political relations
with our neighbors have become more
intimate, and our knowledge of them has
somewhat broadened. But busy Ameri-
cans have little time for the extensive
course of reading necessary for wen a
fair acquaintance with these twenty diff
erent countries.
With that fact in mind, THE SUN has
prepared a series of outline sketches Of
the republics of the Western Hemisphere,
giving as briefly and as oomprehensively
as seemed possible a summary of their
political history, their physical geog-
raphy, natural resources, industries and
commerce. The first of the series APP
pears in another column and relates to
the great republic of Brazil.
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The Woodbury. Investigation.

On Friday, April 20, the Aldermanio
investigation Of Major WooDBURY's adj
ministration of the Street Cleaning De-
partment was adjourned until Monday,
April 80, at the request of Mr.. WILLIAM
NJ. WINS, the chief counsel Of the ip-
vestigators.
Although the original attack OIL Major
WOODBURY. was heralded and announced
with great vehemence and with some
abuse of that official, the investigation
thus far has absolutely failed to develop
any evidence whatsoever against the
head of the Street Cleaning Department.
II would even seem that this adjourn
ment in the middle Of the investigation,
without any plausible excuse, has been
taken in reality to enable Mr.. WINS to
fish around and see if he cannot dis
cover something against Major WOOD
BURY. Some people have ventured to
suggest that the real motive of the adj
iournment was to have the investigation
drag along until the newspapers could
devote more space to the pyrotechnical
display of the recent Republican candi-
date for Mayor. However that may
be, the present situation seems to indi-
cate clearly the wisdom of obtaining
some evidence before you attempt to
frame an indictment or to conduct an
Aldermanic inquiry.
The principal attack thus far which
Mr.. WINS has made upon Major WOOD
BURY is that the Major has permitted
the work at the %incinerators to be done
by Italians employed by an Italian con-
tractor and by men not members OF any
recognized union. In answer it may be
said that this class Of work has been
done for many years by Italians, and
that Italian contractors or Italian fore
men are apt to employ Italian laborers.
We imagine that there cannot be any
strenuous competition for the control Of
this peculiar field of labor.
The progress Of the inquiry will prob
ably throw more light on the real motive
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Manifestations of Odell.

When q bill intended to confer lasting
benefit on the State without expense to
the taxpayers meets with mysterious
opposition in the Legislature, investi-
CATION is likely to disclose ODELL in the
background, working through his agents
against the measure. When a bill dis
tinctly inimical to the States welfare
shows unexpected and unnatural strength
in the Legislature, CLOSE scrutiny dis
covers ODELL vigorous in its support
and active in promoting it.
The Grocery learns nothing, forgets
nothing, and changes in no particular.
It will change in no particular until its
doors are closed forever and its sign is
taken down.
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The PAY Of Cabinet omcers.

Like all American Cabinet officers, Mr..
CHARLES j. BoNAPARTE, who protests
that the amount is inadequate for the
services rendered, draws $1,000 a year
as Secretary of the Navy. In England
the salary Of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, the Secretary Of State for
Foreign Affairs, the Home Secretary, the
Secretary for India, the First Lord OF the
Treasury, the Chancellor Of the Exchequer
and the Secretary of State for War Is
$3.50 0 in each case, and the Under
Secretaries receive $4,000. why, asks
Mr.. BoNAPARTE, do really first class
men, as a rule, shun public employment
in its higher grades?" Because, he de-
olares, they are generally and grossly
underpaid." A very little thought, he
says, should serve to show that the
trusts and the multi-millionaires get
what they pay for, and WI get what we
pay for likewise; the only difference is
that they are sufficiently sensible to
know they must pay for what they want
in order to get it, and we are sufficiently
silly to think we can get what we want
without paying its fair value
Mr.. BoNAPARTE, of course, will have
to admit hat first-class men are some
times found in the Cabinet-often, in
fact; and as in practising their profess
sions, or in business pursuits, they could
earn more than a thrifty Government
pays them, it must be the dignity Of high
place that attracts them, A great name
in statecraft is more to be desired than
a fortune made in glue, or oil, or any
product the trusts" deal in; and to be
known as a Cabinet officer, deferred to,
honored and distinguished from the
mere herd Of money makers, is a pleas
ant thing to contemplate. Therefore
public employment in it's higher grades
should not be regarded only from amer
oenary point of view. 1t is obvious that
the Government cannot bid as high as
a trunk line or a great manufacturing
company.
The question is not whether a Cabinet
officer is underpaid because his salary
is less than the income, of a trust man
ager, or of a grand opera tenor. or Of a
winning jockey; the question is whether
s 5000 a year is fair compensation, con-
sidering the fact that it is a distinction
to be a Cabinet officer. If the salary
were large enough to be a temptation,
weight of money would put inferior men
into the Cabinet. But when English
Secretaries are paid three times as much
as American Cabinet officers, and New
York Supreme Court Justices twice as
much, and Governors more, the United
States is not giving its heads Of depart
ments a square deal when it keeps their
salaries down to a sum which was not
enough for the support of an establish
ment in Washington when fixed by Con-
gress, and is wofully mad equate now.
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THE JAPANESE LESSON.
Its Essential Meaning Seems to Have Been
Overlooked.

To THE EDITOR or TEE SuN-Sfr: The
ridiculous suggestion that wa employ japanese
sanitary experts to superintend the reluge
camps and the like in San Franclsco 10 the
high water mark Of the flood OF senseless
edulatlon we have INDUCED In over the yam
KEGS OF the East since the beginning OF their
Russian war, and illustrates most clearly how
completely we have missed the lesson their
conduct should have taught US.
In knowledge, even In the science OF sani-
tation, the Japanese have nothing we have
not. They know no more about the preven-
ton Of disease than We, no more about the
methods to be adopted II ~epidemics are to
be averted. Our authorities in medicine and
hygiene nave laid down time after time the
health is to be maintained In time, OF emeT-
gency and under normal conditions. In
theory We, can learn nothing from the Japar
Jspan's record Of army health was made
s nst sy Prl 6sdss vie bSs rules BE o aaa dGE@ui eIaes
authority. / have. read that these regulations
tSs 3s 4S%essat and I f sfss this H i 20 e true a%YSe or
the Japanese are trained to obedience rom
flon 6f Ine T6s srf 4 dIre Of e large EseE pc 81 pa:
rental authority is a standing disgrace and
reproaoh, in American homes. The, spirit Of
o aaHHS59inA and With V no. in saqaHfnS'; years. SHsSf t be-
comes the married. characteristic Of the Amer
lean citizen, Trained to regard himself as
the equal of every other man. In many cases
he assumes an attitude Of hostility toward
laws, not because they, offend or irk him per
sonally but merely because they are the
expression OF a superior. authoritative VIII
which he has never learned to respect or Tear.
II enjoined not to do a certain thing he re-
pendence and personal liberty, to do just that
thing, as q child insists from sheer perversity
on doing the thing it's mother prohibits.
As weakness in parents produces spoiled
nately are at least a majority OF Americans.
Our legislation, while not faultlees. Is excel
lent In the main. but on the executive side
the administration Of our national, and State
ment fails to punish the yiolators adequately
or at all. The governed observe and regulate
their conduct accordingly. What are enact;
mentso Of legislative bodies worth. why should
they be obeyed, Il the snastins bSg 6Ss the the
consider it worth while to Insist on their
enforcement? Thus reasons the naturally
insubordinate American. applying the system
to every condition Of life and winding up by
doing as he pleases, with the utmost con-
tempt for law Of all kinds.
We need no lessons in science from the
Japanese. What We do need Is TO learn and
practice the virtue of obedience to authority
and the necessity Of authority's eniorcement
law is well displayed in the quest ion put to
every new appointee to the New York Police
Commissionership. Are you to allow a wide
open. town, or are you gong to put the lid
on'?'-a question that shows how trivial and
nnimportant the law, in itself; has become
NEW YORK, April 20.
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The Prospect of Adjournment.

Representatives who want to go home
and look after their political fences, and
Senators who are tired and bored with
the seemingly hopeless confusion of the
rate bill, are wondering when it will be
possible to wind up the session. Few
look for an adjournment before July.
The railway rate bill is the direful
spring of unnumbered woes. Some
threescore amendments are now at
tacbed to the Hepburn bill, like the
"bobs" on the tail of a boys kite. The
immediate problem concerns the dis
posal of the "bobs.' These amendments
have been introduced in good faith.
Their purpose is constructive and not
obstructive. Each is entitled to a fair
hearing and a full debate if debate is
demanded, Expeditions disposal is pos
sible only through an agreement to vote
the amendments without debate, and the
prospect of securing consent TO such a
plan seems remote. Adjournment with
out action seems impossible. Yet if each
of these amendments must be fought out,
discussed, considered, debated, there is
work for many weeks and perhaps for
many months.
Approval of the Hepburn bill by the
Senate without amendment is almost
inconceivable. The Senate is not in the
habit of giving its approval to measures
simply to see what the Supreme Court
will say about their constitutionality,
and while there are a few Senators who
think that they think the Hepburn bill
constitutional, the majority are either
certain hat it is not or seriously doubtful
about it. There are very few who be-
lieve that in its present form the bill is
calculated to accomplish the ends de-
sired. Should the Senate pass the bill
unamended, that body would lay itself
open TO charges of having acted in bad
faith, Should approval be given to
some C the many amendments, the bill
must 90 back to the House and probably
into conference. There is little prob
ability that the House would oncur at
nee in any radical change in the meas
ure, and still more time would be con-
sumed in reaching a ground Of neutral
agreement. Assuming the rate bill tenn
porarily or permanently out of the way,
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Jersey City has narrowly escaped the
shame and humiliation of having a sanitary
expert on her Board Of Health. 1t is to the
humble undertaken on the board that she
owes her deliverance. He alone stood out
AGAINST the four other members Of the de-
partment, who, with shame be it said, are
doctors, and by walking out solemnly from
the meeting on tiptoe and with hands
clasped beoomingly the patriotic under
taker buried the, measure by spelling the
quorum. Few cities OF the size OF Jersey
City have gone 60 far as to have doctors
on their health boards, but to the extent
of a sanitary expert she shall not, must not
degrade herself.
Now let the voters take heart and have
an ideal board, made up altogether Of
undertakers.
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pErTER PRTCEs ron MUGS.
Day at tho MumfOrd Sale Brings in saj :.
3AS-OI 300 the Highest Bid.

There was a larger crowdand more spirited
bidding at the sale Of the Mumford collec.
ton Of Oriental carpets and rugs yesterday
at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries than at
any Of the previous sales. The 12i piece,
sold brought better prices, but some II the
women buyers snapped up bargains as
low as $l2. Chinese weaves seemed In
bring the best prices of the day. The total
sales were $27, 9I7, 25, which makes the total
for the three days $50, 794. rs.
The top price, o. 900, was paid nv T,
MoFadden for a Persian silk rug, 10 feet
8 inches by Q feet 8 inches, in delicate greens.
yellows, blues and white. Been in shadow
the rug becomes a study in yellow and green
tones, the blue appears almost imperceptlble
and the whites In the border become rosv
pomegranates.
Charles Bradley bought for 81 Lilo a Nns
old Kirman carpet with a central design
and medallions on q light background
What was considered by the experts the
best bargain of the sale was a great S~ultana.
bad carpet twenty-five feet long, Of solid
red with simple adornments in the corners,
border and medallion, which went TO an
anonymous buyer for $3.50. A tiny old
Meles prayer rug brought spirited bidding
from the collectors and was bid in by Harry
Woods for $500.
At the last sale this afternoon eight of
the plate originals from Oriental Rugs"
will be sold-and the small red centred prayer
rug, the famous ~S00-year-old piece for which
Mr.. Mumford has been offered many thou
sands of dollars, will also be disposed Of.
Among other important sales yesterday
were.
Kali Of Ghayn. q feet 9 inches by 8 feet; L.
old Kali OF Kurdistsn, is feet q inches by 7S''-'
feet Q inches; G. J, Higgins. !. 100
A, p. Henderson y. - ...... l.oo
IL feet 5 inches; H. d, Wilson H.. ......... go
FeraVhan kali, Ia feeto inches bye feet 9 inches
Tdciinium carpet Of Kurdlstan, 20 feet by IL ""
feet; c. S. Hawkins ......,., $40
Typical old Feraghan carpet, is feet ! inches
by II feet 0 inches; anonymous. ........... T25
Antique Feraghan mosque carpet. Is feet 10
inches by 10 feet 4 inches; anonymous. ..... Gao
Modern carpet Of RlrmAn. Is feet by Q feet s
inches: W. r. Thompson. ...,..,,u..... $50
Pine carpet Of Gorevan. 10 feet 10 inches by
IL feet 9 inches; B. Alexander. .,.....-.. $50
Karabagh kali, 20 feet Inch by 6 feet ! inch .
old rug Of Feraghan, is feet inches by ! feet.
Fine GoreVsn carpet. ID feet inches by 10
p, iees . inches 1es N ~, 1a !, noS.s nv Zee, o,rcbc.. "o
Persian SILK prayer rug. s feet s inches by 4
feet . Inches; e. pSrlHs. . ;.,,Y 40
by feet II inches; i. Carpenter. g.. ...... $40
Old Ghlordes prayer rug. s feet II inches by
4 feet inches: Z. Materius sS
Inches; anonymous. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. s5
Heavy Bijar carpet, IL feet 8 inches by S feet
s INCHES; 1. Townsend $40
Inches. u. 70. llttlG 300
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CHALLENGE no THE POLICE.
A Methodist Minister OHers to Help Them
DO Their Duty,

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir; The
position which the Rev. Cortland Myers
assumes In relation to the Police COMMISSIONS
10 quite q proper one. II 10 taken, I am sure,
as a result Of experience with ths Police De-
partment. The willing blindness Of the police
Is scandalous. I have always borne an atti-
tude Of kindness toward the saloon proprietor
apd dlvekeeper and sought rather to win with
love, and do now. bat I have found that when
one approaches many Of them kindly they
regard hun as an old woman and ohuokle to
think they have oalmed him 30,
Does the Commissioner mean to say that
he cannot get evidence that will c~onvioti Poor
Commissioned The saloon keeper Is pro-
tected by the police in Sabbath violations.
The conditions Of our civic life are miserable.
when the very officer employed to suppress
A poor italian dHS '' psd fsrN Is tSrestsnaed With
arrest Il be stands Aye mlnYtes In the one
S %RSS t Sith hls pSSiS @ %di s but the st s tSs do ofacs sf
a den Of Woe and converge spLinely With the
smashed right and left In the building where
Here IN woodhavsn and Ozone Park the
police are no better than. 30 many posts.
police. Our children are compelled to pass
q crowd of half drunken loafers on the COR
ners daily, and especially on the Sabbath; The
OF o 6ic WI be talking with the CROWD ana
have reported the matter Of Sunday vio-
Richmond Hnl, but. no notice Of it ls taken
whatever. The police here are afraid, to
Close UP the saloons OF Sunday because they
or some other such place three hours from
home.
cannot remain as they are. The police viii
not help us. The captain at Richmond Hill
has just been changed. but that matters not.
their duty. would like to see DR.. Myers
Police Commissioner. I think things would
be different.
pense OF procuring conyicting evidence. ! will
be glad to do II.
DUDLEY OLIVER OsTERHRLp.
Pastor Methodist Episcopal Church
OZONE PARE, April "a.
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President MITCHELL, after giving out
the scale committees latest proposals to
the operators, declined we are told, to say
whether he expecte1 -tls increased labor
cost OF coal Of 10 cents a ton, which the
acceptance Of his second proposition would
neoessitate, to be paid from the profits OF
the operators or be added to the price Of
coal to the consumer" Mr.. MITCHELL
must DO credited with enough gumption
to know that some questions do not call
for answers.